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No. 93,887
Before a trial court revokes the probation sanction of a defendant whose crime and criminal history placed him or her in a presumptive nonprison block or a border block on the sentencing grid, the court must clearly indicate on the record that it first considered placing the defendant in the Labette Correctional Conservation Camp, another correctional conservation camp, or a community intermediate sanction center, as required in K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 21-4603d(g).
Appeal from Norton District Court; WILLIAM B. ELLIOTT, judge. Opinion filed January 6, 2006. Reversed and remanded with directions.
Sarah Ellen Johnson, assistant appellate defender, for the appellant.
R. Douglas Sebelius, assistant county attorney, and Phill Kline, attorney general, for the appellee.
Before MARQUARDT, P.J., PIERRON, J., and BUKATY, S.J.
BUKATY, J.: George D. Williams appeals the revocation of his probation. We reverse
and remand with directions.
Williams pled guilty to five counts of giving a worthless check. The trial court then sentenced him to an underlying prison term of 24 months and placed him on probation for 12 months. The State subsequently filed a motion to revoke the probation. At the hearing on the motion, the court found Williams to be in violation of the conditions of his probation. The court revoked the probation and ordered Williams to serve his underlying prison sentence.
Williams argues the trial court erred when it ordered him to serve his underlying prison sentence without first considering placement at Labette Correctional Conservation Camp (Labette). He refers us to the record and argues that it fails to reflect that the trial court at any time considered placement at Labette.
The State argues that the record is sufficient to establish that the trial court did consider placing Williams at Labette. Even though the State does not point to any reference in the record where the trial court indicated it had considered such placement, the State contends that the court had before it the affidavit of Ray G. Dreher, the intensive supervision officer for Williams. That affidavit states that Williams does not meet the general eligibility criteria for Labette because of his age and prior incarceration in a penal institution. The State argues that the affidavit was presented to the court and Williams cannot assume the court did not consider this evidence.
This issue involves interpretation of a statute. "Interpretation of a statute is a question of law, and an appellate court's review is unlimited. An appellate court is not bound by the district court's interpretation of a statute. [Citation omitted.]" State v. Maass, 275 Kan. 328, 330, 64 P.3d 382 (2003).
K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 21-4603d(g) states in relevant part:
"[P]rior to revocation of a nonprison sanction of a defendant whose offense is classified in the presumptive nonprison grid block of either sentencing guideline grid or grid blocks 5-H, 5-I or 6-G of the sentencing guidelines grid for nondrug crimes or in grid blocks 3-E, 3-F, 3-G, 3-H or 3-I of the sentencing guidelines grid for drug crimes, the court shall consider placement of the defendant in the Labette correctional conservation camp, conservation camps established by the secretary of corrections pursuant to K.S.A. 75-52,127, and amendment thereto or a community intermediate sanction center. Pursuant to this paragraph the defendant shall not be sentenced to imprisonment if space is available in a conservation camp or a community intermediate sanction center and the defendant meets all of the conservation camp's or a community intermediate sanction center's placement criteria unless the court states on the record the reasons for not placing the defendant in a conservation camp or a community intermediate sanction center." (Emphasis added.)
Ordinary words are to be given their ordinary meaning, and a statute should not be read so as to add that which is not readily found therein or to read out what as a matter of ordinary English language is found in it. GT, Kansas, L.L.C. v. Riley County Register of Deeds, 271 Kan. 311, 316, 22 P.3d 600 (2001).
Simply put, K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 21-4603d(g) mandates that a trial court consider Labette in certain situations and note its consideration on the record. State v. Schick, 25 Kan. App. 2d 702, 704, 971 P.2d 346 (1998), rev. denied 266 Kan. 1114 (1999). One of those situations is present in this case.
Williams' criminal history and crime severity level placed him in a presumptive nonprison block on the sentencing grid. In such a case, K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 21-4603(g) clearly specifies that the trial court shall consider placement in Labette prior to the revocation of the defendant's nonprison sanction of probation. The record here does not reflect whether the trial court afforded Wilson that statutory consideration. We cannot assume that it did absent a clear indication on the record.
Although the trial court may find that Williams does not meet the placement criteria because of his age and prior incarceration in a penal institution as stated in the affidavit offered by the State, we must remand this case for the trial court to note its consideration of Labette on the record in compliance with K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 21-4603d(g).
Reversed and remanded with directions.


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The lost bulldog being sought in West Hollywood ought to be hard to miss.
It's pink. It's wearing sneakers on its front paws. It has a water bottle strapped onto its back.
Oh, yeah. And it weighs 200 pounds.
Authorities say the bulldog is actually one of six sculptures placed last week in a Santa Monica Boulevard median in advance of last Sunday's gay pride parade. They said the pink pooch was stolen early Monday, perhaps as a prank.
The bulldogs — three pink ones and three red ones — were cast in resin by Belgian artist William Sweetlove. The boulevard installation was scheduled to remain in place through September.
"They're so fun that people might not take them seriously," said Andrew Campbell of the West Hollywood Economic Development Division. "Maybe somebody didn't realize they were stealing artwork."

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MOUNT BALDY, Calif. (AP) — They came with shovels, hands and heart to dig out their neighbors in the aftermath of deadly Southern California flooding.
Dozens of muddy volunteers attacked tons of muck left after flash floods sent dirt, rock and mud roaring down on the tiny mountain towns of Mount Baldy and Forest Falls east of Los Angeles — in some cases burying homes up to their roofs.
Joo Hwan Lee, 48, of El Segundo, was driving on a road on Mount Baldy when his car was smashed by a wave of mud and debris Sunday that swept the Toyota Prius 200 feet, authorities said. It smashed it up against boulders and a tree, with its windshield shattered and the inside filled with dirt. Lee died at the scene.
The floods stranded thousands of people, washed away and inundated cars and damaged about 30 homes, including a dozen that were uninhabitable in Mount Baldy and Forest Falls.
Roads to both places were ruled by bulldozers and other heavy equipment working under sunny skies Monday to clear mud and rocky debris.
But it was boots and backs that helped Gloria Flickinger dig out after a river of rock flowed into her Mount Baldy backyard. Two bearded men ferried wheelbarrows of stone and grime out of her backyard Monday.
Her rear entrance was buried nearly 2 feet in muck and her garage basement with laundry and school supplies for her special education class was flooded in ankle-deep water.
"I almost had a heart attack when I came home," she said.
She was up until 3 a.m. trying to clean up the mess.
Pat Marks sat in the dirt and rock covering her driveway and dug her white Mini out of the muck with three helpers. She was trying to clear enough room so a loader could come remove the rest. She had been working since the rain stopped late Sunday afternoon.
"I hope to get the mud out before it turns to concrete," she said.
Brief but fierce storms dumped nearly 5 inches of rain on Mount Baldy and as much as 3 1/2 inches on Forest Falls some 50 miles away, the National Weather Service said.
George Smith of San Diego had been hiking up Mount San Gorgonio with a friend when they came to a wash that had been dry earlier in the day.
"We were just kind of deciding should we make a go of it, to cross or not, when there was a 10-foot high wall of water and debris and logs coming toward us," he said. "It sounded like thunder coming down the river. Me and my friend had to scramble up a cliff to get out of the way of it."
Doug Roath, a 48-year-old tree trimmer who has lived in Forest Falls for 15 years, lost his chain saws and other items to a swollen river while his rented house was uninhabitable and his mountain bike was bent in half.
Friends on Monday went looking for his lost goods in the now-dry river, while a neighbor gave him $200 to fix his chain saws, another donated $300 and yet another shoveled mud, the Riverside Press-Enterprise reported.
Martha Foster, 60, brought burritos from a restaurant, El Mexicano.
"When I found out everyone was here digging, I went to the Mex," Foster told the paper. "I know these guys and I know they weren't eating. I'm not good at digging, but I'm good at food."
"When the (going gets tough), they all help," Roath said.
The week's forecast called for sunny skies in Southern California but showers and thunderstorms were possible Tuesday in Nevada and New Mexico.
Dillon reported from Forest Falls. Associated Press writers Christopher Weber in Los Angeles, Susan Montoya Bryan in Albuquerque, N.M., and Annie Knox in Salt Lake City contributed to this report.


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Ohio Street's rebirth is rowing on the river
In 1912, Buffalo had 14 rowing clubs, attracting many West Side and South Buffalo mill and factory workers who wanted to blow off some steam after a long day at work, almost the way softball teams do now.
The newest of those 14 clubs, the West Side Rowing Club, which was born that year, still survives more than a century later.
But Buffalo now boasts only two clubs, and fewer people know about the new kid on the block, the Buffalo Scholastic Rowing Association, which operates largely out of the limelight, along the Buffalo River on Ohio Street.
Not only is the new association part of the renaissance of the Ohio Street corridor, also home to the fairly new Buffalo River Fest Park, but it's also part of the anticipated rebirth of the rowing culture in Western New York.
The association hopes to open its new glass-and-steel 16,000- square-foot boathouse, part of a $2.2 million project, sometime in the next year as it helps rowing regain a foothold in the Buffalo area. Fewer than 500 people in the region now row.
"We want to expand rowing and make it more accessible to city and suburban kids, especially those with any disadvantages," said Mark B. Kostrzewski, president of the Buffalo Scholastic Rowing Association. "Our goal over the next 10 years is to have 2,500 adults and youths rowing in Western New York."
The association now has about 215 youth rowers from Maritime Charter School, Canisius High School, Bishop Timon-St. Jude and Buffalo Seminary, along with about 35 Masters rowers.
Kostrzewski wants to develop five or six satellite rowing locations – on the Buffalo River, the Union Ship Canal and in Niagara County.
"We have about a dozen schools on a waiting list that would like to start a rowing program," added Kostrzewski, a businessman and former rower at Cornell University.
But the story of the 3-year-old association is more than about rowing. It's also the story of renewed activity on the Buffalo River, on Ohio Street and along the city's waterfront.
"We are the first entity that's bringing large numbers of people back to the Buffalo River," said Craig Thrasher, the association's vice president of buildings and grounds. "We're putting people back on the river for recreation."
The river creates plenty of advantages for local rowers in a cold-weather city; the ice clears early in the spring, the locale offers more shelter from heavy winds, and the water tends to be smooth. Rowers from the four schools already have been out on the river for about a month.
"We've managed to plant our flag in the ground on Ohio Street," Kostrzewski said. "We have hundreds of people rowing there. In the next 12 to 15 months, we're going to have a beautiful new facility that we feel will encourage more development in the Old First Ward and along the waterfront."
Kostrzewski also emphasized that the association enjoys collaborating with community groups, including the Old First Ward Community Center and Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper.
Association officials hope to break ground for the new Patrick Paladino Memorial Boathouse between May and August. The organization has raised about $1 million and hopes that by breaking ground this summer, it can raise the rest of the funds in the next 12 to 15 months.
The 10,000-square-foot first floor will have five boat bays, capable of storing about 75 rowing shells. The top floor will house training equipment, offices and ergometer rowing machines.
Thrasher and Kostrzewski pointed out that their organization, at rowbuffalo.com, is an association, not a rowing club. That's a key distinction, because the association doesn't hire the coaches or schedule the regattas.
"The schools will run their own programs, buy their own equipment and become autonomous," Thrasher said. "The association will be here to foster that growth."
In its first three years, the association already can boast a few student-athletes who have earned college rowing scholarships from schools with new rowing programs.
As Kostrzewski said, "We're preparing kids for rowing and life, one stroke at a time."
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Temporary Traffic Control, Work Zone Safety and MUTCD
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Many of the same questions keep surfacing in different form over and over again and I figured it would be useful for users to have a singular reference to answer (mostly) all the security needs of your average computer security neophyte.
1. Firewalls
1.1q. Do I need a firewall?
1.1a. If you find yourself in the position of needing to ask this question, odds are the answer is Yes, you do need a firewall. The reason being that your knowledge of computer security isnt sufficient to determine your needs, much less establish alternate means of security. Everybody has to start somewhere, and while a firewall may or may not be the best solution for you, it is better to error on the side of what would be considered an industry best practice.
1.2q. Does every system need a firewall?
1.2a. No. While it is true that nearly every system will find its security enhanced by using a very high assurance, bi-directional proxying firewall appliance, frequently the added cost is simply not justified. Other firewall types are more frequently useless.
1.3q. What is the best firewall?
1.3a. For the type of user asking this question, I would recommend the filtering functionality that is included with Windows 2000/XP since that is probably what you are using. Other third party firewalls do not, in my opinion add anything significant in way of functionality and are invariably of a lower assurance.
1.4q. What are the different types of firewalls?
1.4a. There are generations of firewalls and firewall architectures, do not confuse these very real, and correct terms for the casual, useless, and downright incorrect software vs. hardware firewall types. (The proper term for a hardware firewall is either a dedicated firewall or firewall appliance.)
There are five generations of firewall:
1. Packet Filtering: A basic ACL firewall operating at the Network or Transport level.
2. Application Level: These are typically proxying firewalls and run in level seven of the OSI model. Circuit Level firewalls are a variation on the application level that maintains a virtual circuit between the client and the firewall server
3. Stateful Inspection: These operate at the network level and analyze traffic at all OSI levels. By using a state table and operating at a lower level than the application firewalls this firewall is able to offer better performance, a more complete scan of the packets and tracking of "connectionless" protocols like UDP and RCP based applications.
4. Dynamic Packet Filtering: a dynamic firewall that enables real time rule changes, mostly used to provide UDP support. It remembers all UDP traffic for a short time and makes judgments (based on rules of course) on what to and not to allow.
5. Kernel Proxy: a modular, kernel based, multi-layer firewall that runs in the NT executive and utilizes dynamic and custom TCP/IP based stacks to inspect traffic and enforce applicable security policies.
Architecture Terms:
ACL Based Routers (ABR) are considered 1st generation firewalls
Bastion Hosts (BH) can be providing any firewall from generation two to five
All firewalls exist between the Untrusted Network (UN) and the Trusted Network (TN)
There are four different firewall architectures:
1. Packet Filtering Router: UN > ABR > TN This structure provides simple packet filtering for the trusted network.
2. Screened-Host: UN > ABR > BH > TN This structure provides both network-layer and application-layer filtering
3. Dual-Homed Host: UN > ABR > BH > ABR > TN This structure provides network-layer filtering at both sides of the application-layer filter. This is ideal for translating between multiple network access layer protocols.
4. Screened-Subnet (w/DMZ): UN > ABR > BH > DMZ || ABR > TN This works like the dual-homed architecture, with an added network segment for public servers. This ensures that the external ABR and the BH protect the public servers, while the TN is protected from the DMZ with the BH and internal ABR. This can greatly reduce the risk to the TN in the event of a public server (on the DMZ) compromise.
2. Anti-Virus Systems
2.1q. Do I need an anti-virus system?
2.1a. If you find yourself in the position of needing to ask this question, odds are the answer is Yes, you do need an anti-virus system. The reason being that your knowledge of computer security isnt sufficient to determine your needs, much less establish alternate means of security. Everybody has to start somewhere, and while an anti-virus system may or may not be the best solution for you, it is better to error on the side of what would be considered an industry best practice.
2.2q. Does everyone need an anti-virus system?
2.2a. No. As a systems assurance level goes it, it is better able to mitigate the effects of malicious software.
2.3q. What is the best anti-virus system?
2.3a. It is my understanding that at the consumer level most anti-virus systems function largely in the same manner. I suggest you try some of the links below to get a feel for each systems support and functionality at removing viruses or offering online scans and make your decision based on these impressions. If you stick to a major name brand, you will find not a huge difference from vendor to vendor in thei capacity to protect you.
2.4q. My system has a virus, how do I fix it?
2.4a. If you have an anti-virus system, refer to it to correct the problem. If you lack an anti-virus system, but you know what virus you have several sites offer specific virus removal tools to the general public:
If you suspect that you have a virus, but are not sure which and you have no anti-virus system try an online anti-virus system like:
3. Networking
3.1q. A pop-up window said I am broadcasting my IP address, is this bad?
3.1a. No. This is most likely an advertisement attempting to sell you bad software that you dont need. While using the Internet it is imperative that the systems you attempt to connect to have your IP address (or that of a proxy), without this they cannot send you any information.
3.2q. How do I hide my IP address?
3.2a. The simple answer is to use an anonymous proxy server (APS). The APS accepts your request and forwards it on to the intended destination as its own. When the destination server receives the request, the APS IP address is attached. The destination server than sends its response to the APS, which then forwards this response back to you. Only the APS can see your real address.
View http://www.tech-faq.com/anonymous-surfing.shtml for more information.
3.3q. How do I find my IP address?
3.3a. http://www.whatismyip.com/ will show your IP address as others see it, which may be useful if your system is behind an APS or on a non-routable network. To find your actually systems IP address: http://support.dlink.com/faq/view.asp?prod_id=1372
4. Operating Systems
4.1q. What is the best operating system?
4.1a. This question is entirely based on the use of the system. Windows is great for office workstations, gaming systems, and servers. Linux is great for computer science students, gaming systems, and servers. UNIX is great for engineering workstations and servers. Mac OS is great for media workstations.
In my opinion Mac OS 9 and AIX are the best standard operating systems. Why? They really feel like finished systems to me. Windows, OS X, Linux, and other Unices all feel like works in progress I suppose this is rather intangible. I also like a number of high assurance operating systems, but few of them are what Id call the best general-purpose systems.
4.2q. What is the most secure operating system?
4.2a. Over the years there have been many exceptionally secure operating systems developed by or through the US Department of Defense. The very most secure examples include:
- Kernelized Secure Operating System (KSOS) developed by Ford Aerospace
- Secure Communications Processor (SCOMP) developed by Honeywell Federal Systems
- Secure Trusted Operating Program (STOP) a descendent of SCOMP
- Logical Coprocessing Kernel (LOCK) developed by the Secure Computing Corporation
All of these systems utilize advanced security models, enforce least privilege over the entire operating system via a security kernel, and utilize a reference monitor.
4.3q. What operating system should I use?
4.3a. If youre a total novice to computers with gobs of money, Id suggest a Mac.
If you are a total novice with little money Id suggest Windows.
If you are a total novice with next to no money Id suggest a beginner Linux distribution like Mandrake.
If youre an intermediate user with lots of media requirement, Id suggest a Mac.
If youre an intermediate user with lots of standard office/student type requirements, Id suggest Windows.
If youre an intermediate user with lots of computer science requirements, Id suggest Linux (Linux is a big world http://distrowatch.com/ might help you navigate it).
4.4q. How do I secure my operating system?
4.4a. I would start with:
http://www.nsa.gov/snac/ for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003, OS X, and Solaris 8/9.
http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/usc20_full.html for UNIX
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Security-HOWTO/index.html for Linux security
Other documents exist, but these are simple and will get you by.
5.1q. What is DRM and TCPA?
5.1a. DRM stands for Digital Rights Management (Not Digital Restrictions Management as many claim) and TCPA stands for Trusted Computer Platform Architecture.
DRM is a technology based that allows intellectual property owners to license their property in a very finely grained manner.
TCPA is a new type of system that uses a hardware based DRM key management system to enforce DRM at all levels of the system, including the operating system kernel.
5.2q. Is DRM or TCPA a good or bad thing?
5.2a. This is a very complicated question, to make matters worse it seems that very few people really have much of an idea as to exactly how TCPA/DRM work.
Opponents say that TCPA will take control of the system out of the system owners hands and place it into software and media corporations hands. This is partially true, software and media corporations will be able to exert significantly more control over how users are able to use their DRM protected products. The fear is that malicious software would be afforded the same level of control and that the operating system vendors and hardware vendors would be able to pick and choose what they will allow to run on their systems.
Proponents cite the power that DRM/TCPA gives them, for example Allowing users to rent songs or movies or even do things like creating technical drawings that can only be viewed on a particular vendors system for no more than the duration of the project. This alleviates the vendor of much of the responsibility to protect the drawing. Internal memos that can only be viewed within the given organizations systems for a limited amount of time. They also cite that TCPA systems will give users greater control over what is installed.
5.3q. Will DRM or TCPA kill open source software?
5.3a. No. TCPA provides systems with an untrusted ring specifically for DRM-free software (including if they wish, the entire operating systems and all applications). Additionally TPM extensions already exist for the Linux kernel.
6. Management
6.1q. How many characters is enough for the password policy at my work?
6.1a. Eight, with basic complexity requirements and a reasonable life-cycle (30-90 days). Any less than this and you are failing to meet industry best practices. Any more than this and you are putting unfair pressure on your employees consequently increasing the likelihood of them writing the passwords down or calling tech support all the time.
6.2q. What kind of resource monitoring policy should I adopt at my work?
6.2a. Employees should be required to sign a terms of use policy indicating that they will not misuse their work resources (personal activities) and will not abuse their work resources (offensive/illegal material). The former policy can be very lax, but enforceable if a user spends entirely too much time on personal emails or shopping eBay. The latter must be enforced at all times in accordance with the policies disciplinary guidelines. This protects the organization from legal action related to the system abuse.
As far as enforcing the policies, users must be notified that their activities can be monitored at anytime and for any reason and any information gathered may be used against them in accordance with the policy and strictly at the managers discretion. Mandatory policies such as blocking some sites shows a lack of trust by treating the employees like children. This will damage morale and lead to bored, listless, and overall unproductive and resentful workers.
6.3q. What is the best way to develop and maintain a secure work environment?
6.3a. Review the links in 8.2 for ISO 17799, as well as ISO 21827 (SSE-CMM), and x-CMM (including the IDEAL model). These should set you on the right path to accomplish the often very nebulous task of consistently improving complicated process enviornments.
6.4q. How do I keep morale high while keeping the environment restrictive?
6.4a. Remember that employees are people and whats more adult people. Dont apply senseless filters to their web access, dont require them to remember overly lengthy or complicated passwords. In fact dont require them to do much more than what common sense dictates. Draconian policies tend to do little more than harm morale and lower employee willingness and eventually reduce compliance.
6.5q. What is the best way to get users to report policy violations?
6.5a. An anonymous whistle blower website is the best method. Provide the users with a list of free/free trial anonymous surfing websites and provide the users instructions on using this account to report infractions. Users provided with external assurance of anonymity are likely to be far more honest about problems that might make them politically unpopular otherwise.
6.6q. Who should Information Security report to in my organization?
6.6a. Ideally your organization will have a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) or Chief Security Officer (CSO) most importantly, yet most commonly the InfoSec department must not report to a department that should fall under its jurisdiction, like the IT department. In these instances IT will avoid spending money on security recommendations and instead focus on fulfilling its project schedules and when a breech occurs InfoSec will take the blame since they failed to enforce the security requirements (even though they just plain lacked the power to do so). Politics get very messy at this point.
7. Hacking/Cracking
7.1q. What is hacking/cracking?
7.1a. Hacking (as referred to by the world at large and cracking by people who take themselves way too seriously) is the malicious act of exploiting or attempting to exploit a flaw in an automatic data processing system (computer/ATM/etc). Basically forcing a system to do something it shouldnt either for personal gain or to harm the system owner.
7.2q. How do I become a hacker in six easy steps?
7.2a. Since hacking is illegal (see 10.1) this question is not likely to be received with warm fuzzies from pretty much anyone you ask.
Your best bet to quickly become a hacker is to join the ranks of the script kiddies. Script kiddies are noted for having the lowest level of knowledge and the highest level of effectiveness. Why? Because script kiddies dont tend to target specific systems, they target specific vulnerabilities.
1. Monitor your favorite computer security news website or mailing list for new exploits.
2. Once you find one that you like search for systems that utilize the effected software.
3. Attack the vulnerable system with your packaged exploit (script).
4. Find an IRC network (irc.fbi.gov) is a popular one.
5. Brag about your hack to everyone you can find.
6. If the system from step 2 was important enough or you repeated steps 2 & 3 enough times the government and then the media will declare you a hacker to the world.
7.3q. Ive been/am being hacked, what should I do?
7.3a. Read http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/win-UN...ompromise.html and come back with specific questions at any point.
7.4q. What is the difference between White hat and Black hat hacking?
7.4a. Ideally White hat hacking would be non-malicious hacking (which seems to fly in the face of the original definition of hack I listed above), in that the white hat hacker will attempt to compromise a system without damaging it and report the vulnerability to the system owner (see 10.1). This of course has great legal risks and is an infrequent use. Normally a white hat is someone who lacks the resources to actually compromise systems and as a method of saving ego, they claim this is for moral reasons and not lack of ability. White hat hacking may also, but not typically include penetration testing, where an organization pays the hacker to trying and compromise their system and report back the findings.
8. General Information Security
8.1q. Where can I learn about security standards and regulations?
8.1a. Non-Official Sites (NOS) are sites that I have found to be the most useful on a subject though not strictly a 100% trustworthy source, e.g. they may be selling a related product or service.
http://www.radium.ncsc.mil/tpep/libr...bow/index.html Rainbow Series
http://niap.nist.gov/cc-scheme/index.html Common Criteria
http://www.17799.com/ (NOS) ISO 17799
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cmm/ x-CMM
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cmmi/ CMMI
http://www.sse-cmm.org/index.html SSE-CMM/ISO 21827
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/ NIST 800 Series
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/hipaa/ HIPAA
http://www.aicpa.org/info/sarbanes_oxley_summary.htm (NOS) Sarbanes-Oxley
http://www.isaca.org/Template.cfm?Section=Obtain_COBIT COBIT
http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/glbact/ GLBA
8.2q. Between programming language X and Y, which is more secure?
8.2a. The question of secure programming languages must be one of assurance. Since all the programming languages eventually get turned into the same machine code language, all the high level language can offer is tools that ensure bounds checking, garbage collection, type constraints, synchronization/serialization checks, object reuse checks, etc. However such a language isnt really anymore secure, it just allows for the simpler development of secure code. (This of course assumes no significant flaws in the compiler/interpreter.)
8.3q. Between application X and Y, which is more secure?
8.3a. Since applications are not capable of enforcing the level and type of system resources they can access the idea of relying on applications for security is a foolish one.
That said, you want to seek applications that require minimal access to system resources, this ensures that it can be locked up in the smallest compartment by the operating system, which is ultimately responsible for all system security functionality.
9. Industry Certifications
9.1q. What certification should I get?
9.1a. For my money I would have to say that the CISSP is the most universally useful security certification. It is known by everyone, it is respected, it includes experience and education requirements giving your resume more overall assurance.
9.2q. Will X certification get me more money or a better job?
9.2a. Your best bet here is to search sites like dice or careerbuilder (they more frequently list the rate of pay) for the certification you are pondering. Keep in mind that geography typically plays a part in the value of a given cert. As a rule, most of the big name certs will give you better potential for higher paying jobs, but depending on the rest of your resume, your mileage will vary.
9.3q. Where can I learn about the different certifications?
9.3a. https://www.isc2.org/ for CISSP, SSCP, and CAP
http://www.isaca.org/ for CISA and CISM
http://www.comptia.org/ for Security+
http://www.giac.org/ for a whole slew of G* certs
http://www.iatrp.com/ NSAs IAM certification
10. Law
I am NOT, I repeat NOT a lawyer. I do, however work with many lawyers and have seen the following questions addressed many times in many different situations. My advice is based on these observations and should be used for nothing more than potential topics of conversation to have with your own lawyer should you find yourself in any of these situations.
10.1q. Is X illegal?
10.1a. A major component of illegality is does the action incur undue cost on the victim? and sadly this is nearly impossible to predict. The important part is the undue part. If you click the buy it now button on the victims website and this kills their webserver, clearly the cost is not undue as their faulty system has incurred the costs upon them. However if you use nMap to fingerprint the webserver with malformed packets and it dies you may well find yourself in court.
The difference is normal use and as a rule of thumb ANYTHING outside of normal use could, in theory land you in court. Cyber-law is a new and still developing field, but if you dont wish to be an example I would say your best bet is to use common sense about what normal use might be.
10.2q. How do I report a cyber-crime?
10.2a. http://www.cybercrime.gov/reporting.htm Should have all the information you need.
10.3q. How do I fight a file sharing violation?
10.3a. The simplest way to fight the RIAA is to make one or both of two claims:
1. My system was compromised and I had no idea it was being used for such things, thank you for reporting this, I have contacted my local law enforcement agency.
2. I was using that file sharing application to download music, which I am legally allowed to do. As to the sharing, I have been told the application does that by default and I really dont know enough about computers to change this. Ignorance of the law is no excuse, but unless you are willing to train me how to not only use this file share application, but also to secure my computer in a usable manner that prevents my files from being shared, I am not legally responsible for not being a computer security expert.
I have personally used the latter with good success.


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The day before US missiles began raining down on Muammar el-Qaddafi's Libya, hundreds of miles away—across the Red Sea—security forces under the control of Yemen's US-backed president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, massacred more than fifty people who were participating in an overwhelmingly peaceful protest in the capital, Sana. Some of the victims were shot in the head by snipers.
For months, thousands of Yemenis had taken to the streets demanding that Saleh step down, and the regime had responded consistently with defiance and brute force. But on March 21, a severe blow was dealt to Saleh that may prove to be the strike that sparked the hemorrhaging that ultimately brought down his regime. That day, the most powerful figure in Yemen's military, Gen. Ali Muhsin al-Ahmar, commander of the First Armored Division, threw his support behind the protests and vowed to defend Yemen's "peaceful youth revolution." Other senior military figures soon followed suit. Senior civilian officials, including scores of ambassadors and diplomats, announced their resignations. Important tribal leaders, long the most crucial element of Saleh's grip on power, swung to the opposition.
Saleh, known in Yemen as The Boss, became the country's leader in 1990 following the unification of the north, which he had ruled since the 1970s, and the south, which had been run by a Marxist government based in Aden. Saleh is a survivor who has deftly navigated his way through the cold war, deep tribal divisions and the "global war on terror." Under the Obama administration, the United States committed increased military funding for his regime. Though he was known as a double-dealer, Saleh was tacitly viewed as Washington's man on the Arabian Peninsula.
Throughout his reign, Saleh regarded the Houthi rebellion in the north and a secessionist movement in the south as the greatest threats. For the United States, the concern was Al Qaeda. In the end, it was an autonomous mass of largely young protesters who proved the most potent challenge to Saleh's power.
The prospect of Saleh's departure is a source of great anxiety for the White House, but the United States has unintentionally played a significant role in weakening his regime. For more than a decade, US policy neglected Yemen's civil society and development, focusing instead on a military strategy aimed at hunting down terrorists. These operations not only caused the deaths of dozens of civilians, fueling popular anger against Saleh for allowing the US military to conduct them; they also fed Saleh's corruption while doing nothing to address Yemen's place as the poorest country in the Arab world, which proved to be major driving forces behind the rebellion.
A serious case could be made that the stakes are much higher for the United States in Yemen than in Libya, yet its response to the repression of protests in the two countries has been starkly different. While Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other US officials condemned the violence in Yemen, they stopped far short of calling for an end to the regime or for international military action. Instead, the US position was to call for a "political solution."


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September 03. 2013 10:13PM
UPDATED: Barrington man charged with negligent homicide after crash that killed Maine couple
By JOHN QUINN
Union Leader Correspondent
Maine couple perish in Barrington collision, local man seriously injured
ROCHESTER — A Barrington man was charged Tuesday with four counts of negligent homicide — two for each victim — in a head-on crash that claimed the life of a Maine minister and his wife on their way home from a religious retreat.
John Shaw, 48, is being held on $25,000 cash bail. State police say his westbound 2002 Ford Ranger crossed the center line and struck an oncoming 2007 Ford Edge on Route 202 Saturday at 11:35 p.m.
Joel McLain, 77, who served as a pastor at Victory Chapel Church in Biddeford for three decades, died at the scene, while his wife and passenger, Maxine McLain, 77, died later at Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester.
Shaw, who suffered serious injuries after he was thrown from his truck, was also transported to Frisbie.
During Shaw's arraignment in Rochester District Court Tuesday morning, a judge entered no plea to the four felony charges while the state decided not to prosecute two counts of aggravated driving while intoxicated, according to court records.
After reviewing the case, Strafford County Attorney Thomas Velardi said the DWI charges were upgraded to negligent homicide, which could be a result of Shaw allegedly causing the fatal accident or being an impaired driver.
"It is alternate theories of the same collision," Velardi said, adding the state will decide which charge or charges to pursue and a jury will weigh the matter based on the evidence.
The McLains, who were married in 2012, were returning from a week-long retreat in Canterbury.
"We're so sad and upset, but on the other hand, we're joyful because we know where they are — they're in heaven," family member Alberta Vance told Maine's WMTW News 8.
Shaw, who is being held at Strafford County Jail, is scheduled to appear at a probable cause hearing Sept. 12 at 1 p.m.
The investigation into the crash is being handled by Trooper Thomas Conlon of New Hampshire State Police Troop A in conjunction with the Strafford County Attorney's Office.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Conlon at Troop A, 223-8490.


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SecureCRT for Linux 8.1.1
Tab groups allow you to compare the output of two sessions and group related sessions in the same SecureCRT window so that you can get more done in less time. You can organize sessions in tabs and switch easily between them. Or you can work in one tab while monitoring the output from a command in another tab and then go back to a single tab group when the command has finished.
SecureCRT SSH client for Windows, Mac, and Linux provides rock-solid terminal emulation, secure remote access, file transfer, and data tunneling with advanced session management and automation. Access an array of network devices via SSH1, SSH2, Telnet, Telnet/TLS, Serial, and other protocols, with authentication via password, public key, X.509 certificate, Kerberos v5 (via GSSAPI), and keyboard interactive. Ciphers include AES-CTR, AES, Twofish, Blowfish, 3DES, and RC4. A high-productivity UI saves time with multi-session launch, tabbed/tiled sessions, cloned sessions, a dockable session manager, a button bar for repeated commands, and mapped keys. Session customization options include named sessions and firewalls, fonts, cursors, and color schemes. A personal data folder allows separate storage of logon credentials. Other features include auto logon, printing, Emacs mode, SOCKS firewall support, and file transfer via SFTP, Zmodem, Xmodem, Ymodem, and Kermit. A built-in TFTP server provides additional file transfer flexibility. VT100/102/220, ANSI, SCO ANSI, TN3270, Wyse 50/60, Xterm, and Linux console emulations are supported most with ANSI color and color schemes. Unicode support includes character sets from multiple languages, multi-byte characters, and right-to-left reading order. Scripting capabilities include a script recorder, login scripts, and support for ActiveX scripting languages, and embedded Python. A 30-day, fully-functional evaluation includes access to technical support.
SecureCRT 8.0 improves productivity with an updated UI and enhanced smart card (PIV/CAC) support. On Windows, tab groups allow you to compare the output of two sessions, group related sessions, and switch easily between them. On all platforms, you can apply colors to button bar icons for easy-to-see visual cues. TN3270 emulation support expands the range of systems you can use with SecureCRT. Other improvements include Command window Send characters immediately mode, host key fall back, and new TFTP server connection options.


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Come one, come all and treat your eyeballs to a visual feast courtesy of Chef TOKYOPOP's Cosplay Friday, your one-stop shop for the latest and greatest cosplay around the web.
We don't remember Char Aznable (Mobile Suit Gundam) being so fluffy, but then again, it's been a while.
We want to go to a con with deviantART.com's Cyril-Sneer and party like it's X/1999.
Is there a cosplay portion of the Kentucky Derby? If so, this Pokemon duo is sure to take home the blue ribbon. Although, why they didn't go with Rapidash is beyond us.
Mirror mirror on the wall, who's got the fairest cosplay of all? Easy: VeronicaCosplay.
Sakura season is upon us, so let's celebrate with some awesome Senbonzakura Hatsune Miku cosplay.
Regardless of who you think played Selina Kyle best, we've got to give up for Rei-Doll's Michelle Pfeiffer costume.
If you haven't played Bioshock Infinite already, stare at this cosplay, go play it, then come back and gaze upon the majesty of AngelaBermudez's Elizabeth.
RomaiLee shows us why you should always perform a background check on your butlers, especially if they're Sebastian Michaelis (Kuroshitsuji).
Considering that Morrigan is a soul-sucking succubus, she looks awfully pleasant in this picture. Maybe we can chalk that up to ThelemaTherion.
Think you can pull off a better Stocking (Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt) cosplay than Pandori? Your move, creep.
What do you think? Quemment below and let us know! Got some hot cosplay tips or someone you think should be featured? Quemment or drop me a line on Twitter! Want even more content like this? Get the TOKYOPOP newsletter delivered to your inbox!…


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Today, it's not about directly pushing the sale on your customers but rather about making a valuable connection with them. It's less about overtly promoting your product or service and more about sharing relevant, useful information. This helps you build a significant following that translates into greater website traffic, higher quality leads and more sales. Use your blog to maintain a consistent voice with your target market via articles, videos, tutorials or product reviews.
No matter what ecommerce plan you choose, the Shopify system automatically comes with a built-in blogging software that is powerful, comprehensive and easy to use. Through your very own custom dashboard, you can write articles, imbed videos, promote open discussion among your visitors, and moderate comments quickly and effectively.
Shopify helps you use your blog intelligently to build practical, valuable and shareable content that builds your business and strengthens your brand.
When it comes to Internet marketing, there is no more powerful way to attract links, likes, tweets and shares than through a compelling blog with consistent posts. Keep your audience coming back for more by creating exciting blog content that stands out from the pack.
How? Start by reading these helpful articles from the Shopify blog.
For the last three months, I've been focused on one question: How do I publish at least one high quality article every single day that will increase sales? Read more
When it comes to online sales and customer conversion, connecting with your potential customers and describing your products persuasively is one of the most important parts of selling online.
Marketing is undoubtedly one of the most crucial success factors for new online businesses and should be a primary emphasis early on. But if you only focus on traditional traffic generation strategies like link building you're missing out on lots of potential customers.
This is the story of how I stalked the writer of this blog, convinced him to let me write regularly for Shopify and generated thousands of visits to my site – all as a blogging newbie.
Life can be pretty intimidating for small ecommerce stores. There's a lot of tough competition out there. Sites like Amazon generate crazy money every day and have better brand recognition than you could ever dream of – how exactly can you compete with that?


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The King University men's basketball team faced their first road trip of the season and fell behind Trevecca Nazarene University early in the first half. However, the Tornado came back and turned a two point halftime lead into an 83-67 win.
The game couldn't have started any better for Trevecca Nazarene (1-5) as they hit a triple to start the game and followed that with a 7-0 run to take a 10-3 lead more than three minutes into the contest. James Scales and Shamarae Watts hit back-to-back triples to pull King back within one before responded. Trevecca Nazarene earned their largest lead of the game at 31-20 before the Tornado (2-2) started their comeback.
Malcolm St. Louis sparked a 13-2 run with a layup, and Logan Lyle followed with a three-point basket. Lyle hit another triple before Hunter LeVeau made a layup and C.J. Good took a pass from LeVeau and evened the score at 33 all with a fastbreak triple with just over four minutes remaining in the first half. The score was again tied at 39 before Lyle hit a jumper with three seconds left in the first half to give King a two point advantage at halftime.
King shot 45.5 percent from the floor and 40.7 percent from three-point range in the first half while the Trojans shot 46.2 percent from three and 44.8 percent from the floor.
The Tornado defense clamped down on the Trojans in the second half as they made just seven field goals and shot 29.2 percent from the floor. King's three-point shooting also picked up in the second half, making nine of their 19 attempts for a 47.4 percentage.
Trevecca Nazarene took an early four point lead in the second half, and held a 50-47 lead before Michael Fortune sparked a King run with a triple five minutes into the second half. St. Louis followed with a layup before Lyle hit a three-point basket and LeVeau made the run 10-0 with a fasbreak layup. The run was capped at 13-0 following another Lyle triple with more than 12 minutes remaining in the game.
King's lead grew to as many as 19 points on two occasions, both following Lyle three-point baskets, the first with 6:49 remaining and the other with 1:41 left as King went on to take the game 83-67.
Lyle led King with 23 points, going 7-for-16 from long range and 8-for-18 from the floor. Good followed with 15 points, all coming from beyond the arc where he went 5-for-9. LeVeau chipped in with 12 points and grabbed a team-high 11 rebounds for his second double-double of the season. Fortune dished out a team-high five assists to go along with six points and four rebounds.
King will be in action again on Friday when they travel to the Bill Joergerns Memorial Classic hosted by University of Southern Indiana. The Tornado take on the 18th ranked hosts on Friday night at 8:30 p.m. ET before facing fourth ranked Bellarmine University on Saturday.


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GEN Roundup: Multiplexed Immunoassays: Small Samples, Big Pictures
Taking in "Everything All at Once" Can Reveal Meaningful Biological Patterns and Drug Targets
In the mAb Race, Don't Stumble at Characterization
Researchers Adapt Existing Techniques to Deal with Challenging New Monoclonal Antibodies
Vertex's David Altshuler Humanizes Drug Discovery
Lessons from Vertex's Small Molecule Drug Development Program for Cystic Fibrosis
Bioprocessing Companies Push Limits of Upstream Technologies
Goal Is to Maximize Efficiency in Bioprocess Operations
The 10 Biggest Events of 2013
Find out which stories shook the world of biopharma this year.
Big money, big data, and some big layoffs made the biggest headlines in biopharma during 2013. So did big layoffs by big pharma, and a big political squabble that resulted in NIH and FDA closing most of their doors for 16 days. Below are details of these and more of the biggest biopharma developments of the past 12 months.
DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER TESTING: FDA Calls Out 23andMe
The FDA laid the proverbial hammer on direct-to-consumer gene testing pioneer 23andMe in November, ordering the company to stop selling its Saliva Collection Kit and Personal Genome Service (PGS), while obtaining agency approval to market the $99 "spit kit." The company promised to comply, while adding it will continue to provide consumers both ancestry-related information and raw genetic data without interpretation, continue conducting research using its database of genetic and phenotypic data, and maintain its educational efforts.
In a warning letter to 23andMe, FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) said it considered PGS as being "intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, or is intended to affect the structure or function of the body." The enforcement action drew sharp criticism from free-market advocates who echoed 23andMe and its CEO Ann Wojcicki in arguing the tests were not diagnostic in nature, but intended only to furnish data upon which health decisions could be based. In responses posted on the company's blog, critics also accused FDA of attempting to stifle innovation for the benefit of big pharma and doctors—an argument denied by Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D., who contended the agency's sole focus was ensuring patient safety.
Both sides have reduced their rhetoric in recent days, with Wojcicki acknowledging her company had not communicated proactively enough with FDA, and the agency insisting it's not trying to kill DTC genetic testing. That's usually the first sign of a meeting of minds, but whether that happens won't be apparent until next year at the earliest.
DRUG DEVELOPMENT: Hepatitis C, Diabetes, Respiratory, and Cancer Approvals
Hepatitis C saw a few new drugs approved by FDA—including Olysio (simeprevir) from Johnson & Johnson's Janssen Pharmaceuticals unit, while Gilead Sciences' treatment Sovaldi (sofosbuvir) could boast that it was the first drug to ever show sufficient safety and efficacy to treat certain types of HCV infection without the need for injection of interferon at the same time.
Olysio was approved in combination with interferon and ribavirin, and Solvadi, with ribavirin or with ribavirin and peginterferon-alfa. AbbVie reported positive Phase III results for its genotype 1 Hep C drug candidate, three direct-acting-antiviral (3D) regimen plus ribavirin, namely 96% sustained virologic response after 12 weeks, or SVR12.
Earlier this year Janssen won FDA marketing authorization for Invokana (canaglifozin) tablets, the first sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor approved as a diabetes treatment; the drug is indicated for adults with type 2 diabetes. FDA approved three Takeda drugs for type 2 diabetes in a single day in January—Nesina (alogliptin) tablets, Kazano (alogliptin and metformin hydrochloride) tablets, and Oseni (alogliptin and pioglitazone) tablets.
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Theravance won the agency's nod for the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) drug Breo Ellipta, a once-daily inhalable drug that is expected to rack up blockbuster-level sales of more than a billion dollars—sales GSK will need in order to recoup losses expected in a few years once generic versions of its best-selling product, Advair, reach the market.
Among cancer drugs approved this year were Celgene's Pomalyst (pomalidomide) for multiple myeloma, while Roche's Genentech subsidiary won authorization to market Gazyva (obinutuzumab or GA101), in combination with chlorambucil chemotherapy for people with previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)—the first drug on which FDA bestowed its "Breakthrough" designation. Genentech also won FDA's approval for the Herceptin-DM1 combination drug Kadcyla (T-DM1 or ado-trastuzumab emtansine), for patients with HER2-positive, metastatic breast cancer. GSK hit the proverbial trifecta in May, as FDA approved two of its melanoma drugs—Tafinlar (dabrafenib) and Mekinist (trametinib)—and a companion diagnostic designed to detect the gene mutations expressed by the tumors each treatment is designed to fight. Bayer and Algeta won FDA approval for their prostate cancer drug Xofigo in May, six months before Bayer offered to buy its partner for about $2.4 billion.
Cancer drugs account for 22% of Phase III pipelines among top-25 drug companies, and 30% of Phase II, according to a Decision Resources report released in November.
GENE PATENTING: Myriad of Lawsuits
Companies looking to patent human genes won a mixed verdict from the U.S. Supreme Court in June, when the justices unanimously ruling that Myriad Genetics' claims for seven patents related to breast cancer susceptibility genes BRCA 1 and 2—but also holding that companies can patent composite DNA (cDNA) and other synthetic genetic material that does not meet the "Product of nature" exemption from patentability.
While some experts predicted a rush of competition leading to plunging prices for genetic tests, Myriad refused to roll over, instead vigorously defending its remaining 17 BRCA patents by suing, one-by-one, several of its rivals on infringement grounds: Ambry, Gene by Gene, Gene Dx, Quest Diagnostics, Invitae, and most recently, Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp). "It seems that the Supreme Court's decision has really spurred Myriad to defend its perceived IP as much as possible against these companies," much as Amgen successfully held off rivals for its erythropoetin products a decade ago, noted George Yu, an attorney with the law firm Schiff Hardin, told GEN.
"There isn't a case that comes to mind for diagnostics, and maybe that's somewhat due to the ability to diagnose conditions and diseases in certain ways. It would seem you would need some portion of the BRCA gene to diagnose susceptibility to breast cancer due to your BRCA genotype," Yu added.
Myriad also rolled out new tests. In September, the company launched its myRisk Hereditary Cancer™ test, a 25-gene panel covering eight major cancers (breast, colorectal, endometrial, gastric, melanoma, ovarian, pancreatic, and prostate) at an average selling price of $3,700. In October the company introduced myPlan™ Lung Cancer, which carries a $3,400 list price; followed in November by myPath™ Melanoma, which has an average selling price of $1,500. By 2015, Myriad has said, it expects to discontinue several current tests, including the BRACAnalysis test at the center of the Supreme Court case.
IPO MARKET: Revival at Last
The initial public offering (IPO) market finally delivered on years of revival hype by roaring back in 2013, with no less than 55 therapeutic, diagnostic, and industrial/agricultural biopharma companies going public this year as of December 10. According to data by Burrill & Co., they raised a combined $6.236 billion, one third of which came from the year's single largest IPO, Zoetis, Pfizer's animal-care spinout, with more than $2.2 billion raised. Zoetis was followed by CRO Quintiles ($525 million raised); and eye disease drug developer Ophthotech ($167 million).
"A lot more money is coming into the sector," Edward Ahn, Ph.D, managing director and CSO of MedCap Advisors, told GEN. The revival of the overall market was definitely one factor, since it brought more generalist investors back to make investments, he said. Yet investors also responded to FDA's quickening pace of review and decisions on new drugs, aided by last year's enactment of the 2012 Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act; and what Dr. Ahn said was a scarcity of quality companies in which to invest.
He said another factor in the IPO revival was the Jumpstart Our Businesses (JOBS) Act, whose provisions include a five-year exemption from the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and confidential IPO pricing for smaller companies issuing their first public shares: "The regulations have really helped some small companies take their company public."
JOBWATCH: Layoff-Go-Round Continues
Round and round big pharma cost-cutting goes, and where (and when) the layoffs stop, nobody knows. Merck & Co. wielded the sharpest axe in 2013, when it said October 1 it will eliminate 8,500 jobs worldwide by the end of 2015, as part of a restructuring that will include shrinking its real estate footprint in New Jersey and moving its headquarters within the Garden State.
Not far behind, AstraZeneca announced it was shedding an additional 3,900 additional jobs—2,300 selling, general, and administrative (SG&A) employees plus 1,600 R&D staffers. Those layoffs brought to 5,050—roughly 10% of the current workforce—the number of positions to be jettisoned through 2016. Also eliminating large numbers of jobs were Eli Lilly (1,245 U.S. sales reps due to expected patent-cliff revenue losses); Novartis (nearly 1,000 jobs at Ciba Vision, a consumer drugs plant in Lincoln, NE, and most recently 325 R&D staffers); and Endo Health Solutions (about 700 jobs, after failing to stop a generic version of its Opana ER [oxymorphone HCl] moderate-to-severe pain drug from reaching the market).
The biggest layoff wave not to occur was the 5,000-job elimination announced by Teva in October. Israeli officials reacted with thunderous criticism, and the company withdrew its plans some three weeks later—a factor speculated as leading to the CEO's resignation (See NOTABLES, on page 2).
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Boursin Cheese Duchess Potatoes
4 large russet potatoes
1 package (5 ounces) Garlic & Herb Boursin cheese
¼ cup freshly grated Parmesano reggiano or pecorino Romano cheese
1 teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon nutmeg
2 Tablespoons butter melted
4 egg yolks
2 tablespoons fresh parsley chopped
Peel and chop potatoes into bite-sized chunks. Add potatoes to a large saucepan and cover with salted water; boil until fork tender, about 12-15 minutes. Strain in colander to remove all water, and add potatoes back into pan.
Using a hand-held masher utensil smash your potatoes until lump free. It is important to remove all lumps or you'll have difficulties piping the mashed potatoes through the piping tip. Add cheese, salt and nutmeg and stir to combine. Let cool for 5 minutes and then add egg yolks. Stir to combine.
Trim ¼ inch off the tip of a pastry bag (or a large plastic bag). Secure a 1M star tip to the trimmed corner of the bag with the large coupler (see note). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Heat oven to 400 degrees.
Fill the pastry bag two-thirds full of mashed potatoes. Remove air as you twist the top of your pastry bag. Using circular motions, begin piping the mashed potatoes onto the parchment paper, the same technique is used when frosting cupcakes. Make the outer edge of a circle shape, and continue piping the potatoes in one continual motion making your circles smaller and smaller until you end in the middle. Refrigerate for 10 minutes.
Once cooled, lightly brush melted butter onto potato rounds and bake 20 minutes or until edges are beautifully browned. Remove from oven and sprinkle with parmesan cheese and fresh parsley. Serve warm.
Serves four to six.
Cook's note: Look for pastry bags and tips at hobby and cookware stores.


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John L. "Jack" Ingold, 79, of Bloomington and formerly of Flanagan, passed away at 4 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012, at Martin Health Center in Bloomington.
A Celebration of Life service will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Wesley United Methodist Church, Bloomington, with Rev. Vaughn Hoffman officiating.
Burial will follow in Funk's Grove Cemetery.
Friends may call from 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday at the church.
Calvert & Metzler Memorial Home, Bloomington, has charge of arrangements.
Jack was born June 5, 1933, in Pontiac, a son to John D. and Vira (Meils) Ingold. He married the love of his life, Ann Hunsaker, on Sept. 17, 1955, in Vienna. She survives in Bloomington.
He is also survived by his three sons, Michael Ingold, Cobden, Peter (Julie Smugala) Ingold, Columbia, and James (Martha) Ingold, Bloomington; one brother, Paul (Lola) Ingold, Flanagan; 10 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Jack grew up in Flanagan and graduated from Flanagan High School in 1951. He then attended and graduated from the University of Illinois College of Pharmacy in 1955.
Jack served his country in the United States Army from 1956 through 1958, serving in the Rodriquez Army Hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
After his discharge from the service, Jack returned to Illinois and was employed as a pharmacist with Biasi's Drug Store, a locally owned pharmacy located on the square in downtown Bloomington. Jack bought an interest in the pharmacy in 1973 and purchased Smith's Pharmacy in 1976 and combined the two stores. By 1980, Jack was the sole owner of Biasi's Drug Store and remained in the original Griesheim Building location until a fire destroyed the property in 1984. A second fire destroyed the store's Unity Building location in 1988. After a couple more moves, all on the square, Jack retired in 1997.
Jack was a very active member of Wesley United Methodist Church, serving on numerous committees and as the church's treasurer for several years. His love of sacred music was unparalleled in the church and a fund has been established in his honor to ensure such music will live on in the church.
Jack had a long-time affiliation with Community Players in Bloomington. He was in the cast of "Death of a Salesman", the first play performed in the theater's current location. He was in many shows and served several terms as President of the Board. He was later a Trustee and finally a Trustee Emeritus.
Education was probably his most passionate interest and he showed this by being very active in serving District #87, first as a member of the Oakland School PTA, then as a member of the Citizens Advisory Board, followed by 15 years on the District #87 School Board (1972 through 1987), nine of which as President of the Board. In 1990, Jack was honored as the recipient of the "Those Who Excel — Award of Merit", awarded by the Illinois State Board of Education.
Jack was also active in and past president of the Friends of the Arts and the McLean County Art Center. He also served on various boards and committees for local organizations, including the MARC Center, the Children's Foundation, Beyond the Books Foundation, and the Westminster Foundation.
After retiring, he loved to volunteer as a pharmacist in the Community Health Clinic and in 2007, was named the United Way Community Health Care Clinic Volunteer of the Year.
The family wishes to extend their gratitude to the staff of Martin Health Center, the Hospice volunteers, and Mark Carmody for their wonderful support, friendship and loving care of Jack. They exemplified a quote he always carried in his billfold and lived out each and every day of his life: "I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I ought to do. And what I ought to do by God's grace, I will do." A true servant of God, Jack lived out every syllable of his favorite Bible verse, Micah 6:8, and will be sorely missed by his family, friends and the many people in this community that he served with love and selflessness.
Memorials may be made to the Wesley United Methodist Church Jack Ingold Fund for Sacred Music or The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.
John L. Ingold
John L. "Jack" Ingold, 79, of Bloomington and formerly of Flanagan, passed away at 4 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012, at Martin Health Center in Bloomington.


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Here we bring a good news again!
We just received an confirmation from Perfect Effect regarding a release of a MINI PE-11 Camera mode!
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin, a book by Randolph C. Henning, is a unique journey through the iconic architect's work at Taliesin. Wisconsin-born Wright (1867-1959) designed Taliesin in 1911 to use as his personal residence, architectural studio, and working farm. The author has assembled a collection of rare vintage postcards and images of Taliesin at various stages. 2011 was the 100-year anniversary of Taliesin located in the hills of Spring Green, Wisconsin. 112 pages, illustrated, paperback.


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I'm going to try to expand a bit on the posting that I did last month describing different definitions of "Cloud BI" and what that means in Microsoft-speak.
Starting here in part 1, I am going to walk through a complete example of building a Cloud BI solution using only Microsoft technologies from SQL Server, Azure and Office. By then end of the series, I will probably not be able to put a complete solution "in the Cloud". If I want to build an analysis cube around my data, I can store the data in SQL Azure in the cloud, but my cube will have to be on-premises in SSAS or PowerPivot. But I can build a Cloud-based application and dashboard in Azure that is using data from SQL Azure, in the cloud, and I can now create cloud-based reports using Azure Reporting Services (CTP).
- Part 2: Microsoft Cloud BI Pieces
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Let's start with the assumption that we've built a data mart in the Cloud using SQL Azure. We have transactional data from our stores in Adventure Works stored in a centralized data-center based SQL Server 2008 R2 database. This is the classic starting point of a business intelligence solution: move the data from transactional systems into a data warehouse or data mart for analysis and reporting.
For SQL Azure, you can get your data and schemas to the cloud with several different tools. The newest CTP of the Data Sync framework will now move SQL databases from prem to cloud, back & forth, cloud data centers, etc. The classis Codeplex project called SQL Azure Migration Wizard moves data & schemas from on-prem SQL Server to SQL Azure. It's a great free tool, very simple, very engineer-based. Works great, using BCP and takes care of lot of the SQL Azure-specific house-keeping things like creating clustered indexes for all tables that you are transferring to Azure that do not have clustered indexes. SQL Azure requires1 for each table. I give this entire discussion much more attention in my MSSQLDUDE blog here.
What I am going to use is SSIS because if you are doing serious ETL work, you are not going to rely heavily on a simple data movement tool like BCP or a migration wizard. You need to transform, modify, integrate, etc. The funny thing is, I always argue that SSIS may be more used by database administrators for SQL Server maintenance jobs and simple data movement that it is used as BI tool for ETL to load a data warehouse. I have no empirical data to back up this claim. I just hesitate to blanket SSIS as a "BI tool".
Anyway, I digress. SSIS works just fine & dandy using SQL Azure or SQL Server together in a data flow as a source or a target. As you can see below, I've created connection managers in ADO.NET for my SQL Server on-prem and used OLEDB for my cloud-based SQL Azure connection:
And when we run it, we successfully load, transform and move that data into a data mart table on my SQL Azure database:
Nothing fancy or tricky about this. Just remember that SQL Azure connection are SQL Server authentication, not Windows authentication. To me, this is one of the clear benefits and advantages that Microsoft has built into the Azure platform. Azure is truly a platform as a service (PaaS) offering that does not require much, if any, retraining. If you are already using SSIS, SSRS, SQL Server and .NET, then you will quickly and easily transition to the Azure world.
When we get to the presentation layer in SSRS & .NET apps, you will see that we can transition and re-publish work that you've already accomplished against the classic SQL Server into Azure.
Now that we have loaded data into SQL Azure for our BI solution, part 2 will focus on preparing that data for analysis, reporting and publishing.


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The Daily Word in shady dentistry, bear bile and riding a Ferris wheel for way too long
New Mexico's at the top of the list! Of worst droughts in the country!
And pumping water out of the ground just isn't working like it used to.
"El Dentista," an unlicensed dentist in Santa Fe who performed his "services" out of a van, left a trail of mouth infections and unnecessarily removed teeth in his wake. The New Mexico Department of Health is offering free counseling, blood testing and referrals to his victims. But remember, it could be worse.
Developers in Oklahoma are resistant to the idea of including tornado shelters in their homes because it costs too much money. Sad trombone.
Clinton Shepherd of Chicago just finished riding a Ferris wheel for two days straight. "I was thrilled and honored to be able to have all the love and support I did," Shepherd said.
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"U.S. embassies are closed all around the Middle East this week due to a terrorist threat. What happened was the U.S. intercepted a conference call of 20 Al Qaeda operatives. Twenty on one conference call! Who is their carrier? I go under a bridge and my cellphone drops the call, but they can get 20 people in one call from a cave?" –Jay Leno
"I guess you all heard about this terrorist threat the president warned us about. One of the reasons Al Qaeda is upset with the United States is because we are giving aid to Yemen. We didn't have a choice. When life hands you Yemen, you give them Yemen aid." –Jay Leno
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I just moved to Texas and am temporarily staying with some family in middle-of-nowhere Midlothian, which is about half an hour south of the DFW. Right now, all we have is SUPER sucky dial-up, so they asked me to find a good high-speed service for them.
Did I mention this is out in the middle of nowhere?
So it looks like Comcast and SBC are no-nos, as they don't extend out in our area. So no DSL, no cable, which is what I'm familiar with. So what should I look into? They're thinking about satellite, but I know very little about it. Do keep in mind this is strictly for standard home use, so upload speeds aren't so much an issue.
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Take the hassle out of cooking, drop into one of four BurgerFuel restaurants for great no-fuss, crowd-pleasing dining experience.
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Akron and Duquesne, both postseason teams from a season ago, highlight the squads coming to Valparaiso as the Crusaders' men's basketball team hosts a subregional round of the 2K Sports Classic Benefiting Coaches vs. Cancer at the Athletics-Recreation Center on Nov. 18-20. It marks the first time Valpo has hosted part of an in-season men's basketball tournament since 1977.
The Valparaiso Subregional begins at 5 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 18 as Duquesne faces University of the District of Columbia. Later that night at 7:30 p.m., the Crusaders take on Akron, which won 23 games last season and appeared in the NCAA Tournament.
Saturday evening's action starts at 5 p.m. as well, as Duquesne and Akron play the early game. Valpo returns to the court at 7:30 p.m., matching up against IU Kokomo.
The Valparaiso Subregional of the 2K Sports Classic concludes on Sunday with two more games. The Crusaders play Duquesne, which advanced to the quarterfinal round of the 2011 CBI, at 3:30 p.m., with IU Kokomo and UDC closing tournament play at 6 p.m.
Valparaiso opens the 2K Sports Classic with a previously announced game at Arizona in the Tucson Regional. The Crusaders will take on the Wildcats on Monday, Nov. 7 at 8 p.m. CT in a game that can be seen live nationwide on ESPNU.
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Friday Five: April 2nd, 2010
Phew! It's been a busy week. We've had two good sequels to two amazing games, as well as quite a few peculiar titles that piqued my interests. To top things off, we even have an iPhone app that's meant to work alongside its new iPad brother! Here's a quick sampling from this week's new releases. As always, our Friday Five doesn't represent all of the fantastic new apps that have hit the App Store in the past few days, so feel free to chime in with your own suggestions.
Bounce On 2
The sequel to one of the App Store's first great platformers, Bounce On 2 is another fun romp through a 2D land populated by enemies, obstacles, platforms, and power-ups. Taking on the role of a red rubber ball, you have to roll and jump through the levels, many of which contain creative twists. You'll find tons of new features: Plus+ integration, gravity switches, brand-new power-ups, and even the option to use touch controls. If you're a fan of old-school platformers, be sure to check out Bounce On 2.
Zenonia 2
Zenonia, Zenonia...I think it's safe to say that Zenonia was also a "first-of" title, though this time I'd call it the first good RPG in the App Store. Zenonia 2 improves upon the original in almost every way, and features a similarly epic storyline, fun real-time battles, and tons of quests and abilities. Plus, it now features four different characters, each with their own storyline and character class, and the new Hard and Hell modes are also slated to come in a future update. The resulting game is fast-paced and deeply satisfying. Zenonia 2 is a great RPG, and once again raises the bar in the App Store.
Poetry Everywhere
In celebration of National Poetry Month, Poetry Everywhere with Garrison Keillor (pbs.org/poetry) is bringing its free poetry performances back to TV, the Internet, and now the iPhone. On TV, the project airs short poetry performances during unexpected moments in public television—personally, I think it's a really cool idea. Now, you can download the free app and have access to numerous poetry readings. Poetry probably isn't something that most of us think about every day, which makes the opportunity to carry around a bit of poetry in your pocket all the more valuable.
Babo Crash
We've all seen match-3 games before—you know, Bejeweled and its ilk—but Babo Crash brings some fresh new twists to the table. It's fast-paced, frantic, and features tons of crazy power-ups, which in turn create ridiculous chains of multipliers. It doesn't hurt that graphics are awesome, either. If you think you're tired of match-3's, don't let that deter you. Babo Crash is incredibly high-tempo, which makes it a great departure from the ordinary lethargy of Bejeweled.
Scrabble Tile Rack
I had to include this one, even though it won't be of use for most of us, just because it's a fantastic idea. Meant to work alongside the iPad's Scrabble app, the tile rack app allows you to play a true multiplayer game on the iPad without revealing your letters to your opponent. You use the iPad as your game board, and then your letters appear on your iPhone, safe from others' prying eyes. You can then "flick" them onto the board to have them appear on the iPad's screen. I know, I know—hardly anyone has an iPad yet, right? Still, it's a really cool idea, and I'm dying to see how close to the "real game" this will bring Scrabble's app. Can you tell that I'm a Scrabble fanatic?