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Here are the 3 books I am reading right now;
- Honey I Wrecked the Kids – Alyson Schafer
- Corporate Trust Program – The Trust Institute / The Institute of Canadian Bankers
- The Follow Through Factor – Gene Hayden
At the completion of these books I will better be able to…
- Raise my kids
- Do my job
- Do what I say I will do
Oh, and last night I read my son 9 chapters of Captain Underpants. He is… and interesting character, that underpants guy… I don't remember reading silly books when I was a kid – well, I didn't really read at all until I was 6 or 7. I do remember reading tons of Archie comics and the sports section of every newspaper I could get my hands on. From there I graduated to the Choose Your Own Adventure series, while my sister raved about Judy Blume.
Now kids read about Professor Poppy P. Poopypants…
Cool, eh?
I'll let you know how this works out. 🙂


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By Andrea Shalal-Esa
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Air Force Lieutenant General Christopher Bogdan jolted many when after just five weeks on the $396 billion F-35 fighter jet program, he said ties between Lockheed Martin Corp and the U.S. government were the "worst" he had ever seen.
Three months later, Bogdan's trademark straight talk and insistence on accountability seem to be paying off.
After a year of often tense negotiations, the Pentagon last week reached a deal with Lockheed to buy 32 more F-35 fighters. The jets already produced just exceeded 5,000 flight hours and the Air Force is poised to approve the start of full training efforts at a Florida air base.
The agreement is worth $3.8 billion to Lockheed, but it also marks what many experts see as a new era for the F-35, the Pentagon's biggest weapons program, which is finally delivering results after three major restructurings in recent years.
Pentagon officials strongly back the restructured program, but its massive size means it will remain a possible target amid mounting U.S. budget pressures.
Maintaining funding for the program may be the biggest challenge for Bogdan, a former B-2 bomber test pilot and long-time acquisition expert who moves up from being the deputy director of the F-35 program to the top job on Thursday.
He received his third star last Friday, the same day the Pentagon announced its deal with Lockheed. Bogdan will succeed Navy Vice Admiral David Venlet, who is retiring.
While his blunt talk may have shocked some, it may have been just what the government and Lockheed needed to kick-start the stalled negotiations about a fifth batch of fighters, said a former senior military official.
"It got the senior leadership involved and that was just what was needed," said the official. "At some point, only the adults can make the decisions."
Venlet, a soft-spoken realist and three-star officer, was brought in by then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates to head the F-35 program after he fired two-star Marine Corps Major General David Heinz in February 2010.
Venlet also helped rebuild trust in the program on Capitol Hill while getting a better grip on the vast and complex challenges internally. While he would have given a different speech in September to Bogdan's, officials familiar with his thinking said Venlet fully supported the wish to issue a stern wake-up call.
Defense officials say Bogdan's more forceful style may be just what is needed now. His candor is already winning points among military officials and industry executives alike.
"He's a very competent professional and very candid - a very strong manager," said Frank Kendall, the Pentagon's top arms buyer, when asked about Bogdan at an event in New York last week. "I'm looking forward to working with him on the F-35."
Bogdan graduated from the Air Force Academy with a degree in aeronautical engineering in 1983, moving on to fly the Air Force's aging KC-135 refueling planes and many others, logging more than 3,200 flight hours in more than 35 different aircraft.
He later earned two master's degrees and spent a year working on missile defense programs before moving into the complex and arcane world of Pentagon procurement in 2001. He also worked at Air Force headquarters, and served as the senior military assistant to former Pentagon arms buyer John Young.
"Chris was extremely helpful. He's very straightforward, open and direct, and I think that's what's needed across acquisition programs right now," Young said. "There's too much of the lawyers and other people tempering and silencing people."
Bogdan stayed on at the Pentagon for several months after Ashton Carter - now deputy defense secretary - replaced Young, but Carter soon named him to lead the Air Force's decade-long effort to buy new refueling planes.
There were some ups and downs, but Bogdan ultimately won kudos for awarding a contract to Boeing Co and locking the company into a fixed-price development contract that analysts say could well result in narrow losses for the company.
"The Air Force has focused heavily on improving the culture and practices of its acquisition people, and Chris Bogdan is exhibit A in the case that they've succeeded," said Loren Thompson, chief operating officer of the Lexington Institute. "This is the guy who finally got the Air Force tanker contract awarded after a decade of trying."
A second former military official lauded Bogdan for taking responsibility when an inadvertent data swap threatened the Air Force's third to buy new tankers. "Even when things didn't go perfectly, he took responsibility for fixing what was wrong."
Bogdan emphasizes accountability in every speech he gives these days, underscoring that he and everyone involved in the F-35 program need to take responsibility for their part in what he has called an "incredibly complex" program.
"Take the program construct and the concurrency we have, put those together and boy, you have got one monster on your hands. It is a very complicated program," Bogdan said.
He has also been known to cite the case of the legendary General George S. Patton, the gruff World War Two general, who missed the chance to lead the D-Day invasion of Normandy and was forced to apologize after he slapped two sick soldiers.
Former Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne said Bogdan's experience with tough negotiations on the tanker program would serve him well on the F-35 program, which faces big challenges in coming years as the U.S. Marine Corps gear up to start using the new planes and international partners firm up their orders.
He said Bogdan would need to develop strong ties with top Air Force and Marine Corps leaders, as well as ground commanders who would rely on data gathered by the new warplane.
Kevin Killea, who oversees aviation requirements for the Marine Corps, said Bogdan's arrival had led to noticeable changes at the F-35 program office.
"Whether you like his approach or not, there comes a time in any organization when you heed a change of pace, or a change of attitude," Killea said, noting that the F-35 office had clearly become more aggressive about maintaining the program's schedule.
More changes are likely afoot.
Bogdan ran a lean operation on the tanker program, priding himself on having the smallest staff of any major acquisition program, and he has already spoken with reporters about shedding excess baggage in the much larger F-35 program office.
Bogdan must also establish good ties with the international partners, some of whom have grown frustrated by Washington's repeated moves to slow its own production orders since that slowed progress in driving down the cost per airplane.
"He's going to have to be a very astute politician because of all the emotions and sensitivities that surround the program in this country," said the second former official. "Just as important is going to be talking to the international partners and keeping them informed."
Bill Greenwalt, a former Pentagon official who now works for the Aerospace Industries Association, said Bogdan would be a great asset for the F-35 program, despite his blunt talk.
"He's incredibly sharp, not afraid to speak the truth. He's not going to shoot first and ask questions later. He's going to ask a lot of questions and make the best decisions he can."
(Reporting by Andrea Shalal-Esa; editing by Ros Krasny, desking by G Crosse)

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Linde LLC (Linde), along with BASF and the Electric Power Research Institute, will design, build, and operate a 1 megawatt electrical (MWe) equivalent slipstream pilot plant at the National Carbon Capture Center (NCCC) to further refine a post-combustion capture solvent technology developed by Linde and BASF. The technology incorporates BASF's novel amine-based solvent, OASE® blue, along with Linde's process and engineering innovations. The post-combustion capture technology offers significant benefits compared to other solvent-based processes with the capability to reduce regeneration energy requirements by using novel solvents that are stable under the coal-fired power plant feed gas conditions. The project objectives are to design and build the 1 MWe pilot plant; conduct parametric testing to confirm that the pilot plant meets the performance targets and to obtain appropriate design information; perform a detailed data analysis to assess and develop the design basis for scale-up; and operate the pilot plant continuously under stable conditions to confirm the solvent stability and key material compatibility. The long-term test results will be used to update a techno-economic analysis for a 550 MWe coal-fired power plant incorporating the novel amine-based post-combustion CO2 capture technology and confirm that it can meet the Department of Energy's carbon capture performance goals.
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I was born in a small town near Moscow, but now live and work in Moscow. I like to shot landscapes in interesting and beautiful places, like to explore maps, search for a good location, planing sunrise direction and time, and imagine that light will change the view of nature. I'm a freelance photographer (mainly landscape and travel photography) for 6 years, and have publications in travel magazines, sites and advertisements.
I'm a fan of sunrises and ready to wake up at 3'o clock in the morning and drive over 200 miles from home to get to the beautiful place.


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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to allow a quota deer hunt which will include unlimited take of feral hogs on about 6,000 acres on the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge in Titusville, Fla.
The public is invited to comment on the Draft Environmental Assessment of the proposed hunt. Comments received from the public scoping meeting on July 8, 2013, and the three-week comment period in July were incorporated into the Draft Environmental Assessment. This is another opportunity for the public to comment before the Final Environmental Assessment is developed.
The document can be accessed at this website and hard copies are available at the Merritt Island NWR headquarters on SR 402, Titusville, FL 32796.
Comments must be received by Oct. 21, 2013, to be included in the Final EA and Upland Hunt Plan for the Merritt Island NWR. The public may submit comments via mail: Merritt Island NWR, Attn: Upland Hunt, P.O. Box 2683, Titusville, FL, 32781, or via e-mail to:
The hunt area being proposed is north of Haulover canal on both sides of
State Road 3 within the refuge boundary. While waterfowl hunting has been
a traditional use on the refuge since the 1960's, the proposal expands the
hunting program to include deer and feral hogs.
Feral hogs are a nuisance, invasive species on the refuge causing damage to roads, dikes, and trails and occasionally destroying sea turtle nests. Wildlife vehicle strikes are
common along major roads on the refuge and half of strikes involve feral hogs. The proposed hunt will not eradicate or control feral hog populations, but will remove some animals and possibly lessen the amount of damage and vehicle strikes.


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Southwest Farm Press has launched a free, online continuing education course for licensed, certified applicators in Texas and Oklahoma.
The course is now available on www.southwestfarmpress.com and www.farmpressuniversity.com
The course subject is "Spray Drift Management" and has been accredited for 1 CEU each in categories 1A-Ag Plant and 10-Demo and Research by the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture Food and Forestry and 1.5 credits (.50 credits for laws and regulations and 1 credit for Drift Minimization) by the Texas Department of Agriculture.
"This new project by Southwest Farm Press is part of our continuing commitment to serve the informational needs of our readers," said SWFP Editor Ron Smith.
"We know how busy licensed, certified applicators are and this new online CEU course is designed to provide what we think is excellent information on minimizing spray drift, but also to help in meeting the continuing education requirements of licensed applicators," said Smith.
The Texas Department of Agriculture and the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry have been very helpful in guiding Southwest Farm Press through the course accreditation process in launching the first-ever free online continuing education course offered by a farm publication in the Southwest, said Smith.
Quick and easy
The course is quick and easy to complete. Just log onto the course at either the Southwest Farm Press or Farm Press University sites. There is a "Spray Drift Management" button identifying the course.
There you will find information on how to minimize spray drift followed by a series of questions. Answer the questions correctly and you will earn continuing education units.
Upon completion of the course, a check out page will appear that will ask for your name and license number along with other information. Fill that out and e-mail it with submit button at the bottom of the page and the Southwest Farm Press staff will notify Texas or Oklahoma departments of agriculture that you have completed the course.
The final page of the course is a verification of attendance form for your records.
"That's it, and it's free," said Smith.
The course was written by the Southwest Farm Press staff with input and assistance from: Jim W. Wells, president, Environmental Solutions Group, LLC; Richard Stoltz, aerial application consultant and NAAA Operation S.A.F.E. analyst; Ken Giles, professor of biological and agricultural engineering, University of California, Davis. Also providing background information: Reports and other materials issued by the Spray Drift Task Force, available online at www.agdrift.com; "The Safe and Effective Use of Pesticides", second edition (ANR Publication 3324), written by Patrick J. O'Connor-Marer and published by the University of California's Integrated Pest Management Project; the "Proceedings of the North American Conference on Pesticide Spray Drift Management (1998)"; and numerous on-line sources.
'Excellent course'
"We think it is an excellent course," said Southwest Farm Press publisher Greg Frey.
"A similar spray drift management course was developed for licensed pest control advisers in California and Arizona and launched last October. It has been well received," said Frey.
These online continuing education courses are part of a new online initiative developed by Farm Press, a division of Primedia.
So far a total of three CEU courses have been launched by Western Farm Press which serves the California and Arizona agricultural markets.
In addition, 2 of those courses have been accredited by the National Alliance of Independent Crop Consultants.
Plus, the American Society of Agronomy has accredited the spray drift management course for online continuing education credit for the nation's 14,000 Certified Crop Advisers (CCAs). It will be rolled out later this spring.
"Since we launched this effort less than a year ago, 1,200 continuing education courses have been taken online in California and Arizona through the Western Farm Press Web site," said Frey. "We have received many positive comments about this new online effort from those who appreciate getting the information and the convenience of getting CEUs online.
"This has been an exciting and obviously welcome addition to the efforts of Farm Press to provide information and service to our readers," said Frey.
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Ursula (Sproul) Pimentel
(Sproul) Pimentel of Jamestown passed away peacefully April 17, 2012, surrounded by family, to be with our Lord.
Ursula was born in Windsor, Maine, on Nov. 2, 1920, the daughter of the late Adelbert and Inez (Cookson) Sproul. She attended schools in Windsor and graduated from Cony High School. She received her student pilot's license in 1938. She was a graduate of the Sisters of Charity School of Nursing in Waterville, Maine, in 1944.
She was night supervisor of nursing at Providence Hospital in Washington, D.C.; New England Baptist Hospital in Boston, Mass.; and night supervisor of nursing at Sister's Hospital in Waterville, Maine. Ursula also worked at Gardiner General Hospital in Gardiner, Maine.
She married and moved to East Providence. She continued her nursing career at R.I. Hospital, Roger Williams Hospital and Health Haven Nursing Home in East Providence, and two other nursing homes in Smithfield. She worked as an industrial Nurse at Okonite and Washburn Wire Company of Rumford.
She is survived by her daughter, Karen Moniz; son, James Pimentel, and grandson Gregory Pimentel, of Jamestown; and one grandchild, Kearston Pimentel, of New Fairfield, Conn.
Ursula was one of eight children: Madelyn York, Ruth Brann, Norma Robins, Alvas, Eleanor, Arnold and James Sproul, all of who predeceased her.
At her request, there will be no visiting hours or funeral service.
Memorial contributions may be made in her name to St. Mark Church, 60 Narragansett Avenue, Jamestown, RI 02835, or Odyssey Hospice, 2374 Post Road, Warwick, RI 02886.


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- The Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques has published its first accepted article: "Importance Sampling of Reflection from Hair Fibers". Free for download, of course.
- Mauricio Vives pointed out that the thirteenth article in a series going back to 2010 is now up: Fluid Simulation for Video Games. Not my particular interest, but my gosh this collection is impressive, it's practically book-length at this point, and includes code snippets and a demo with source (you'll need to install TBB to compile).
- A new book has been announced, coming out in October: The CUDA Handbook. The author, Nicholas Wilt, was a software architect at NVIDIA who worked on CUDA since its inception.
- John Owens pointed out an interesting way to search Google Scholar, by publications with the word graphics. This gives an interesting weighing of influence – no real surprises, and note that some conferences are not included (I highly doubt that EGSR, I3D, and HPG don't make the cut).
- Sebastien Lagarde gives an in-depth analysis showing how the Phong and Blinn specular highlight models are related by a factor of 4 in the power. This is an old result from Fisher & Woo in Graphics Gems IV, but it's nice to see an independent verification and analysis.
- Thinking of Graphics Gems, I wanted to mention this old piece of news now: Jim Arvo (editor of Graphics Gems II) passed away back on October 19th of last year. He did seminal work in ray tracing, Monte Carlo sampling, light transport, and many other areas, and was also just a great guy. See his homepage while it still is there.
- There are mutant women who live amongst us with a fourth type of cone cell. There's more information on Wikipedia.
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Main Site - :: Why Won't God Heal Amputees? ::
Hey brother, I would watch this latest episode of Sid Roth's "It's Supernatural!" Sid interviews Tommy Welchel, the last living witness of the Azusa Street Revival because one of the main things he shares is how God healed amputees and people who were missing limbs. You need to check it out.


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Arrr, me mateys. Arrr.
It seems that there has been a "genre bender" trend in strategy gaming recently.
Mob Rule, a combination of RTS and simulation, couldn't
seem to decide on being either. On the other hand, Majesty,
an RTS with some sim elements, turned out to be a great and well thought out
1602 A.D. is the inverse of Majesty, a sim game featuring some
RTS elements. But while combination works pretty well, the actual battles are
awfully tame by today's standards, and feel out of place with the rest of the
Like many sim games, there isn't much of a storyline. You're the leader of a small group of pioneers who are trying to eke out a living in the New World. You have to settle on an island, give the people what they want, and try to make their lives as comfortable as possible.
I'll get this out of the way right now: This game can be confusing. Really confusing. First off, the tutorials are nearly no help at all, giving you just three minutes of cursory information. That's hardly enough to keep your head above water (or your enemies' below water, for that matter). It took me at least four tries to create this world before I finally got the hang of it.
The real time system used to simulate the world is actually pretty interesting. You lay out roads, build houses, and then build businesses. These aren't contemporary businesses, mind you. They have to get material from somewhere, and need somewhere else to send it. Each business can only "reach" a certain distance to get raw materials for their products. In order to keep everything running smoothly, you have to keep all the businesses in close proximity, as well as make sure they are working at full efficiency. As you build more things, your population will grow and ask for more stuff, which will then in turn require you to build more things (Isn't that a George Carlin joke? – Ed.)
Add to that diplomacy between different nations, buying and selling goods
on the free market, and trading goods around the whole map, and you have a satisfying
However, it is in the battle system where the game goes sour. You're very
limited in your choices of fighting units, with only four available. Add to
this only two types of ships, and the grand total is a paltry six battle
The battles
amount to a bunch of guys standing still, firing at each other as their health
bars go down. Boring. It's infinitely more interesting to try to wheel and deal
with your opponents, rather than try to beat the crap out of them.
The worst thing about the game is the interface, which consists of a bar on
the side of the screen that contains all the buttons you need to play. As you
go from building to building, the buttons change around on this panel. But unlike
games like Civilization, which has a pretty obvious interface, buttons
in 1602 A.D. don't show up in logical places, nor do they always look
like buttons. This is particularly noticeable when you're setting up automatic
trade routes with other countries. Selecting whether to load or unload a particular
resource is also confusing, since it's not really clear if a left facing arrow
means to load a resource, or if it means to unload it.
After you've learned the interface, you can use it without too much of a problem. Again, it's just the learning process that is a pain.
The game's presentation is reasonable. Although in 2D, the graphics are quite
well done, with a distinct 17th Century flair that fits in nicely with the subject
matter. Your townspeople and buildings are animated smoothly and are drawn well.
Sounds from butcher shops, grain fields, and blacksmiths add nicely to the atmosphere,
while selections like Pachelbel's canon in D finish it off.
Although plenty of thought went into the internal workings of 1602 A.D.,
the interface, combat and tutorials are left somewhat unfinished. If you have
the time and patience to learn the game, you'll probably have fun. Otherwise,
full to starboard out of here.


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A coalition of environmentalists and water users floated yet another alternative to Gov. Jerry Brown's Delta tunnels plan last week, calling for a much smaller tunnel and billions of dollars of investment in other sources of water.
A coalition of environmentalists and water users floated yet another alternative to Gov. Jerry Brown's Delta tunnels plan last week, calling for a much smaller tunnel and billions of dollars of investment in other sources of water.
The new plan recommends a single tunnel one-fifth the combined size of the two larger tunnels currently being considered.
Downsizing the tunnels would free up money for other strategies, such as water conservation and recycling, as well as new water storage south of the Delta to reduce the state's reliance on the estuary for drinking and irrigation water.
"These ideas themselves, when you look at the list, there aren't a lot of things you haven't seen before," said Barry Nelson, senior policy analyst with the Natural Resources Defense Council in San Francisco. "What no one has done, however, is put together a coherent package that might be the start of a plan."
Of particular interest to the Delta, the plan includes $1 billion to shore up levees - a significant investment, though at the lower end of the $1 billion to $4 billion range that the Delta Protection Commission says would be needed to raise levees to the highest standard.
The new plan also calls for restoration of 40,000 acres of habitat in the estuary as opposed to the 100,000 acres proposed under the governor's plan. Habitat restoration is controversial in San Joaquin County since it involves taking farms out of production.
Under the governor's plan, the tunnels alone have been estimated at $14 billion. The smaller tunnel and all of the other improvements could cost $14 billion to $16 billion, the groups say.
Signing on were a number of environmental groups and water agencies representing both Northern and Southern California.
Nelson said the groups met Wednesday with state and federal agencies and "urged them to analyze this seriously." A draft of the governor's Bay Delta Conservation Plan is due out in February.
Stockton-based Restore the Delta issued a cautionary statement Thursday, saying it welcomed the proposal but questioned whether water contractors would be willing to pay for a smaller tunnel that would deliver less water.
Instead of a tunnel or tunnels, Restore the Delta supports the improvement of levees, better screening of the south Delta export pumps, and making various regions of California more self-reliant when it comes to water supply.
Yet a third alternative, by Bay Area engineer Robert Pyke, calls for building large tunnels but moving their intake from the north Delta to an area near Antioch.
Contact reporter Alex Breitler at (209) 546-8295 or email@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/breitlerblog.


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Happy Fifteenth Anniversary, Friends' Trivia Episode
You remember. The one with Miss Chanandaler Bong. And transpondster.
Fifteen years ago today, Friends aired the twelfth episode of its fourth season, "The One With the Embryos." Or, as you might remember it, the one with the trivia game. A favorite if ever there was one.
Of all the Friends lines and phrases that have lodged themselves in the collective pop consciousness, "Miss Chanandaler Bong" is the best. ("One Yemen Road … Yemen" ranks pretty high, too.) "Transpondster" is the perfect blanket term for any job you only marginally understand or care about, and animals dressed as people really are horrible. Dangerous Liaisons shouldn't be anyone's favorite movie.
There are more romantic episodes of the show and more surprising episodes, but "Embryos" is the quintessential episode. It's Friends at its Friends-iest.


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Investing in the Million Dollar Room
Millions of Yellowstone visitors have browsed the Old Faithful Lower Hamilton Store, or enjoyed views of Geyser Hill from its famous knotty pine porch. The vast majority, though, have never heard about a special enclave inside called the Million Dollar Room. The former office of a larger-than-life figure from Yellowstone's history has a unique feature that the National Park Service wants to preserve before it's too late.
The Million Dollar Room project, funded by the Yellowstone Park Foundation, will complete documentation and conservation of the interior of Charles A. Hamilton's office at the Old Faithful Lower Hamilton Store. Charles was a well-known personality who is historically significant in the development of concessions in the world's first national park.
In 1905, Charles began work as a purchasing agent with the Yellowstone Park Association. The following year he served as secretary to Harry W. Child, president of the Yellowstone Park Company, and then as assistant to T.E. Farrow, Superintendent of Hotels. Charles became friends with Child's son Huntley, who backed Charles's 1915 purchase of the Klamer Store, which had been built in 1897 at Old Faithful.
Charles lived in a six-room apartment on the store's upper floor; of that apartment, only his office remains. Charles wrote two checks from two different financial institutions to purchase the store and these, along with hundreds of other cancelled checks totaling $1,839,105.60, paper almost every inch of the walls of his office in what became known as the Lower Hamilton Store.
Through the years, Charles created and ran all the general stores throughout the Park. He died in 1957 and his family continued to run the business through 2002. The Hamilton store is a historic structure and Charles' office still retains original furnishings such as light fixtures and his wet bar, in addition to those original checks documenting the financial history of the Hamilton stores from 1915 through the 1930s.
Documentation of the interior of the room will soon be underway using traditional photographic methods plus a 3-D Laser Scanner which will create a high-resolution 3-D model of the interior of the room.
Next, a paper conservator will clean and stabilize the checks for preservation. Conservators will also create a special Plexiglas covering to protect the checks from contact and rubbing of furniture.
Completion of the project is set for the end of next year, and eventually the project will be available for viewing on the Park website for public learning and enjoyment.


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Older hunters and anglers in Kansas will be paying for licenses starting in January, ending an exemption that has been in effect for four decades.
The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Tourism & Parks is ending the exemption for free licenses to hunters and anglers ages 65 or older. Beginning in January, hunters and anglers ages 65 to 74 will be required to purchase a license.
According to this story, KDWTF officials estimate a revenue boost of $900,000 to $1.5 million. Like many states' agencies, the department is funded via license sales and federal excise tax returns instead of through the general fund.


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Even untrained users can produce high quality drawings with ProfiCAD. The program generates a netlist, bill of material and list of wires. Electrical symbols are numbered automatically. Diagrams can be exported to DXF format. The drawings created by the program can be easily pasted into Microsoft Office and other programs. Thanks to the Unicode technology, texts in any language to be inserted. The program includes an extensive library of electrical symbols and it is easy to create your own symbols. The program comes with a title block corresponding to the standard ISO 7200 and it is possible to customize it to your company's internal requirements (by adding a logo) or to create your own title block. For private use, the program is free and can be used indefinitely.


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Is cracking your knuckles bad for you? If so, how?
– Marco*
You may have heard people say that cracking knuckles leads to arthritis. There's no medical evidence to support that, but it is possible that cracking knuckles a lot over a long period of time could cause problems like swelling or reduced grip strength.
Knuckle cracking is probably a good habit to break. Besides the chance that it might cause future problems, joint cracking can annoy other people. Why risk turning off a crush, a job interviewer, or someone you're trying to impress?
*Names have been changed to protect user privacy.
Note: All information is for educational purposes only. For specific medical advice, diagnoses, and treatment, consult your doctor.
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When: Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Time: 4:00pm – 6:00pm
Where: Buccaneer Softball Field
Tryout Requirements (must be completed PRIOR to the tryout):
- A medical physical performed within 6 months of the tryout date and signed by a doctor (on letterhead or with an office stamp).
- Complete & sign a tryout waiver. If under the age of 18, a parent or guardian signature is required.
- The copy of the signed (and dated) medical physical and waiver must be received by noon on Monday, September 3, 2013. You can send this information to Coach Penner via one of the following:
- Attn: Softball (HSC 135)
Barry University Athletics
11300 NE 2nd Avenue
Miami Shores, FL 33161
- Fax: 305-899-3556
- E-Mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Please contact Coach Penner at firstname.lastname@example.com or 305-899-3564 to express your interest & be placed on the tryout list. If you have any questions, please e-mail using the same e-mail address.
- We do not provide the following during the tryout: athletic apparel (for ex. shorts, t-shirt), tennis shoes, gloves, and cleats or spikes. You are responsible for bringing these items to the tryout.


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LocationDuluth, MN
4956 Miller Trunk Hwy.
Duluth, MN 55811
New 2017 Keystone RV Outback 332FKMust Go!!!! Last One!!
Come enjoy camping in your very own triple slide out double entry door travel trailer. The 332FK Outback by Keystone RV also features plenty of room to entertain a few guests while you are away from home. This travel trailer is ready to set out to new destinations, are you?
As you enter through the front most door, you will find yourself in the kitchen area. Along the front of the trailer there is a u-dinette where you can enjoy your meals, and at night use this area for additional sleeping space. The slide out along the door side features a large pantry and theater seating. On the opposite side of the trailer you will find that the slide out has a refrigerator, three burner range, overhead cabinets, and a sleeper sofa. There is also a L-shaped counter with a large sink. Adjacent to the slide out, along the interior wall there is an entertainment center for your enjoyment. Here you can watch movies or your favorite shows.
The bathroom has a toilet, corner shower, linen cabinet, and a sink. A sliding door also leads from the bathroom into the rear bedroom.
Retreat to this room at night where you will get a good nights rest on the king bed. For added floor space the bed is on a slide out, and above there is an overhead cabinet. Across from the ed you will find plenty of storage thanks to the dresser and wardrobe. Near the dresser is the second entry door which leads you outside.
Now you can bring along all of your necessary items and have plenty of storage with all of the exterior storage areas, and more!
Stock# 19805
Interior Color: CARAMEL
|33 ft
|Ext Width
|8 ft
|Ext Height
|11 ft 4 in
|Interior Color
|Hitch Weight
|1105 lbs
|Dry Weight
|8475 lbs
|Cargo Weight
|2025 lbs
|Fresh Water Capacity
|53 gals
|Grey Water Capacity
|76 gals
|Black Water Capacity
|38 gals
|Tire Size
|Furnace BTU
|30000 btu
When Cole Davis founded Keystone RV in 1996 his vision was clear: Build a quality RV loaded with features priced thousands less than other RVs on the market. To accomplish his goal, Cole would recruit and build a strong team, focus on keeping overhead low, and empower the people closest to the customer to make decisions.
Within a few short months after opening the doors, Keystone produced its very first camper. Delivering big on quality, features and value, the public fell in love with it. A star was born! As the appetite for the camper increased, new Keystone models were added to satisfy growing customer demand. Along with this tremendous growth came the need for expanded production. To meet this need more manufacturing plants were built and staffed.
From new floor plan designs to patented inventions, Keystone leads the way in product innovation. One reason is our mission to stay close to the customer. When talking with campers or visiting dealerships, our sales, product development, and service teams, are always looking for ways to improve the camping experience. And we don't stop there.
Every member of the Keystone family is encouraged to contribute to making our campers absolutely the best possible. Through something we call Kamp Keystone, our employees camp free of charge at local campgrounds in the Keystone trailers we supply. Each year hundreds of our production workers, administrative staff and service team enjoy a day (or a week) at Kamp Keystone. Their evaluation of the experience and the feedback they provide results in continued product improvements. Ask us if we use our RVs...the answer is YES!


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Tuner drops diesel into BMW Z4 for 63 mpg sports car
Conundrum alert gearheads! Does your lust for diesel outweigh your desire for speed? Is a sexy BMW drop-top more or less sexy when you drop in a more powerful motor for a top-o-the-line diesel fourbanger? Would you rock AC Shnitzer's 99d concept car?


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NIP 28 Short Course SC23-T2 : Free-Volume Effects in Imaging Systems, by MiKe Molaire, MOLAIRE CONSULTINGSubmitted by mmolaire on Sun, 07/01/2012 - 12:00
NIP28 28th International Conference on Digital Printing Technologies, Society for Imaging Science & Technology http://www.imaging.org/ist/conferences/nip/NIP28DF2012%20PreliminaryProg...
Tuesday September 11, 2013 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM (2 hours)
Free-Volume Effects in Imaging Systems by Michel (Mike) Frantz Molaire Principal, Molaire Consulting
The majority of imaging systems consist of dispersed and /or dissolved image-active molecules in polymeric matrixes. The glass temperature Tg of the polymeric matrix, the characteristic of the imaging mixture (compatibility, miscibility, thermal history), and the operating temperature critically influence the imaging process. The free-volume theory provides a framework to analyze and describe the impact of various manufacturing processes on the imaging process.
This tutorial will review the free-volume theory emphasizing the key and important concepts. Examples of free-volume imaging effects in photopolymerizable dry-film systems, photoresists, photoreceptor drums, sol gel overcoats and photochromic systems will be presented. We will further propose general imaging mechanisms that are susceptible to free-volume influence and techniques to overcome and minimize those effects.


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Read the introduction by guest editor Bret Anthony Johnston.
The graffiti reminds me of the tangled electrical cord I often use to jumpstart my father's heart. An orange criss-cross of arcs, loops, squiggles and dots. The graffiti is scrawled across the repair shop wall as I arrive to begin my shift at the gas station this morning. Who knows what it says if anything at all. Of course, it will be me who cleans it up. Here, downtown, the high-rise buildings—offices and apartments—tower over; these troublemakers have left their mark on every skyscraper. The vandalism used to make me mad. It's better to paint over and forget, until it happens again.
I roll open the garage door, bring out the paint and rollers. After three coats of crème the orange disappears and I've added another square to the patchwork of squares on the shop wall.
By the time the paint dries, it's late in the morning and not a single car has passed by. Dressed in my attendant's uniform—white coveralls starched crisp and a matching vinyl-billed cap—I mop up the skid-marks along one of the islands. The gas dispensers, hung with a nozzle off each side, stand akimbo like impatient fat men. The operations here are simple. One side of the single-story building is the attendant's office with a huge window that looks in on no more than a counter and advertisements for timing belts and oil filters. Beside the entrance stands a pyramid of oil cans. The other side of the building is the single car repair shop. That's everything: gas, quarts of oil and a number of car services. I spend my days here alone, the only one to open and lock up.
The phone rings from inside the office. I lean the mop against a dispenser and trot across the two islands. Inside, I answer on the fourth or fifth ring. It's the owner.
Before I can say anything, he yells, "What took you so long?"
"I was mopping," I say.
"Have you fixed those pumps?"
"Not yet."
"You get them fixed. We need them by tomorrow." He hangs up.
I go out to finish mopping. Like most days, it's quiet. This station, these streets, these buildings, were once upscale: busy, busy. The owner tells me about it all of the time. The station ran at all hours, non-stop. Big money back then. Just before I was hired on, everything went down hill. Now, this is the crumbiest part of the city. My boss believes that with a little initiative and the gas dispensers working we'll get this downtown jumping again. I'm equally anxious about his big plan and returning things to their former glory.
With the last of the skid-marks cleaned up, I hose down the cement and driveways. The dirty water runs out into the gutter and down the street. A city bus, the first vehicle to pass by all day, stops at the light on the corner. It idles loudly. Given enough time, I could tune it up nice. The light changes green and the bus turns uptown where everything is booming. Jumping off the back bumper into the wake of exhaust, a couple of older boys run off toward the blocks of decrepit skyscrapers and apartments. They and their troublemaking friends ravage these buildings.
Farther up the street, my mother has begun her shift on the high-wire slanted across two skyscraper roofs. All day long she walks back and forth dressed in a gold evening gown and four inch stilettos. For balance she holds a thin pole bowed by bags of money tied at either end. They are filled with her wages which our boss adds at the end of each shift. But she can't collect until this downtown starts booming and the station profits some money. Sometimes for laughs those troublemakers go up to the roof and shake the wire.
My boss has her up there as an attraction, hoping the people will come out to see her. While they're down here, well, they might as well fuel up. She's the crux of his big plan. He got the idea from when everything went south around here. People had crowded in the streets to watch the suited businessmen, newly bankrupt, leap from high-rise windows. That was the station's best day for business, ever. In hopes of repeating that lucrative day, the boss sets my mother out on that wire. Once, I suggested that she might be given a net or bungee cord before she smacked pavement. He only laughed, then said, "Nobody will come out to see that."
As of right now in the late morning, she appears okay. I begin winding up the hose, wondering how to go about fixing the gas dispensers, when a car pulls up to one. The guy at the wheel toots his horn. I drop the hose, exaggerating eagerness, and run over to his window.
He says, "Fill 'er up."
"Can't do that," I tell him.
He looks at me as if I'm insane. "Ain't this a gas station?"
"This pump doesn't work."
"What about these others."
I shake my head and feign regret. Before I can offer other services in the garage as compensation, he screeches off and leaves skid-marks where I just mopped.
I turn on dispenser three from inside the service office then go back to test its nozzle. All of these dispensers, numbers one through sixteen, have the same problem. They stand here, these fat men, proud but impotent. The underground tanks are full, have been for weeks, the hoses are clear and, according to the manuals, should work fine. As I squeeze number three's handle, the digital display clicks off the correct price per gallon as if gas were pumping out. The nozzle only farts. No gasoline. Not a drip. I hang up the nozzle and open number three's belly. Inside: a tangle of wires and hoses run to the heart of the machine—the cylindrical pump. Inside this pump, the hydraulic pistons and chambers are supposed to siphon gas from the ground, through the hoses, to the nozzles and into the cars. For some reason, though I've flushed them countless times, the pistons remain gummed up, unmoving.
As I'm squatted down, disconnecting the hoses and wires, hoping to get the pump free and out into the open, that familiar tick-tick-tick sounds in the street. Sure enough, when I turn from my work, my father, dressed in a tuxedo, shuffles up the drive, pulling his wheeled suitcase behind him. No matter how many times I've cleaned out those little wheels, they muck up and make that ticking. He shuffles over and stands above me. The cord of clear tubes from his throat runs down into the suitcase.
We greet one another, discuss what a wonderful day it is and casually watch my mother on the high wire. She's little more than a speck above as she budgets her steps and carries those sacks of money as much for balance as for motivation.
My father says, "I'm taking your mother out tonight. We're going to reconcile."
He and I share this mutual dream. There was a time, long ago, when my parents were amicable and happy. They got along for more then a week at a time without an argument. Honestly, what that was like has faded from my memory. That it once was and could be again is something my father reminds me of every time we meet. When he does it's like a voice calling from out of the blue to reminisce and fills me with joy. Only, my father's voice has an undertone of desperation.
I go back to removing wires and unscrewing clamps from the hoses into pump three.
As I work, my father says, "Did your mother ask the owner about finding me a job?"
I don't turn from the pump to answer him. "He doesn't have any others besides the ones he's offered you," I say.
"You know I can't do those jobs." He pats his suitcase and grins. "My heart isn't up to those jobs. What if I helped around here? You could talk the boss into that couldn't you?"
Instead of answer him, I pull a small flashlight from my pocket and shine it into the guts of this dispenser, looking for what this pump is caught up on. It seems that this one and all the rest are simply old, rust having stuck them in their ways. It wouldn't matter how many times I flushed out their systems. I give the pump a little tug, but it's caught on something.
My father asks again. "So will you ask about me helping around here?"
I tell him, "I'll do it," even though I won't. I can't look at him with that cord of zip-tied tubes running from the hole above his Adam's apple and not feel sorry for him. At every word he speaks, they slide forward then back as if at any moment they might pop out. I have to keep myself from reaching for them. Through the clear tubes the blood, fluids and liquid excrement travel up and down. It's not these juices that noticeably stream along, but the air bubbles trapped inside.
I run my hand across the back of the pump and feel one last screw keeping this all in place. With some contortion of the wrist, I fit the screwdriver back there. With the head in the groove, the screw won't turn. Frustrated, I sit on the curb in front of the dispenser with the screwdriver loosely held in my hand.
My father says, "I can't understand how he can't want me around."
"Mom has told him enough," I say.
He appears embarrassed by what that might mean.
Not wanting him upset, I say, "We'll get you working again."
The embarrassment doesn't last long before he pats his suitcase and asks, "So can you help me get ready for tonight?"
He follows me over to the repair shop, where he rolls the suitcase onto the H-shaped lift in the floor. I throw the switch and with a hum the suitcase raises level with his waist. He sits in a chair next to it and closes his eyes, allowing me to do my thing. I pop the suitcase locks and raise the lid the same as I would a car hood. Inside, that cord from his throat into the top of the suitcase disperses into several tubes that each connect to one of his organs. Before me are his bladder, kidneys, lungs, liver, stomach, intestines, each of his organs, including his heart, all strapped down.
First, the bladder and kidneys. I disconnect them and carry them over to the sink for a good rinsing. Once they're cleared out, returned to the suitcase and fastened into the appropriate tubes, a yellow liquid siphons from his throat down along the tubes and drips into the kidneys. He sighs as if this brings great relief. Next is the liver. Its bile has such a strong odor of rot that I have to take it out into the street, hose it down and wring it into the gutter.
While I'm out here, with my nose turned away, an alarm sets off from out in the blocks of run-down buildings. Up on the roof of a high-rise, those troublemakers torch a couch and push it off the ledge. It tumbles, leaving a trail of smoke, and hits an abiding apartment building, chunking off plaster. As those troublemakers jump and cheer the tumbling fireball, I'm doubtful of my boss's plans.
A couple of buildings over, the sudden commotion does nothing to alarm my mother. She keeps her balance, only now on a unicycle. She swings like a metronome as she crosses the wire and holds tight to that pole tied with money. The most difficult thing isn't the balancing and the weighted pole, or even when the troublemakers come up to the roof with rifles and take shots at her sacks of money. It's her stilettos. They have no traction and, especially up the incline, often catch in the slots on the pedals.
Back in the repair shop, I reconnect the liver. It's nice to see my father sitting here away from my mother with his eyes closed. From one of the toolboxes I remove an extension cord that I've adapted. It's the heavy duty kind: thick, orange and tangled. A long time ago I cut off the socketed end to expose the wires. I plug the pronged end into the wall and touch the live wires to my father's heart in the suitcase. It shivers. But it won't beat, neither on its own nor after such a shock. It lays still.
I clean out the intestines, the lungs, the pancreas, down the list of organs, remove the dirt from the suitcase wheels, then start again on the most troublesome organ—his heart: the reason he's here.
He has always had trouble with it and wants it running properly for tonight. In fact, if I could somehow jumpstart it and get it running on its own, then we could put all of his organs back inside and get rid of the suitcase. Otherwise, he's empty inside.
After disconnecting it from the tubes, I cup the heart in my hands and walk it over to the counter. I don't know if it has ever worked properly. He's told me that a long time ago it worked fine, when he and Mom were on friendlier terms. He means all innuendos of friendlier.
I insert a finger into one of the valves, trying to wiggle open the chamber. According to the anatomy books and the manuals for the dispensers this heart supposedly works the same as the gas pumps. As it beats along, the right chamber opens and draws up blood from the rest of the body the way the gas pumps draw up fuel from the underground tanks. The blood passes through the lungs, where it's oxygenated, then the left chamber pumps it into the body in the same way the gasoline passes through the monitor, where it's tallied on the display, then the nozzle pumps it into the car. But that's all hypothetical. I've never seen the pumps (those stubborn things) work according to the manual or, for that matter, my father's heart (that clinched fist that won't open) according to the anatomy books.
Gently, I massage the heart, trying to loosen it up, open the valves, relax the muscle, when the phone rings in the office next door. It might be better to allow the heart to open on its own. I run out the garage and into the office.
It's my boss again. "Are you working on those pumps?"
"Yes," I tell him. "I'm working on a pump as we speak."
"Good," he says. We have never met. The interview and hiring were done over the phone. My first day on the job, the manuals sat on the desk with a note that read, "Get started!" I taught myself everything about pumps. Whenever he and I speak, I imagine a man as fat as one of the dispensers and his lip hung with a cigar that smokes like a locomotive. "We need those pumps running soon as possible. That means tomorrow." He hacks. A flake of tobacco probably sucked back against his throat. "Your father isn't there is he?"
"Good. He'll scare off the customers. Those pumps will be running tomorrow. Got that?"
"Got it."
"Good," he says. "I have an idea." I can imagine the cigar rolling across his lips as the idea culminates. "I was thinking of a pogo-stick for your mother."
Standing behind the counter, where I'm on the phone, I say, "A pogo stick?"
Out the window my mother walks up the drive. She's dressed in her evening gown and high heels. She carries the balancing bar tied with sacks of money over one shoulder and the unicycle over the other. Her dress fits snug around her hips and legs so that she waddles. Like any fine gown or cocktail dress the back is open. Her skin sags and any year now it will begin to crease, then turn to rolls. Nobody with skin like that should be pogo-ing on a high wire.
"Yes," the owner continues over the phone. "Imagine her up there with one hand on the pogo stick and the other on that balancing pole. The people will pack the streets wanting to see it. They'll line up for gas. If some of those troublemakers take shots at her, oh, all the better." That cigar of his is probably soaked with saliva at the thought of the money. He goes on talking, but I don't listen. I can't. Instead, I watch my mother meander around the lot. There has to be something that will get her to take back my father. She might have been better off never having met him. Although that leaves me non-existent, it would have left her in better circumstances. For whatever reason, she remains in this limbo, not necessarily leaving him, but not getting back with him either. She balances those two choices evenly, and I'm holding my breath wondering when she will choose or if anything can tip her in one direction. My father seems to believe he has her leaning his way. I'm all for it, but troubles usually break in and foil his plans.
She looks at pump three with its guts open. She shakes her head in disgust. Rather than fix the pumps, she often advises me to muscle the gas out of the underground tanks myself, bucket by bucket. Collect my money, she often says, all she want is to collect her money.
She looks around, sets down the unicycle, hitches up her dress, that balance bar still over her shoulder, and stomps down on the inside of the dispenser. I have to stop her, but this phone, like everything else around here, is old and won't allow much range; plus, my boss won't hang up and goes on and on about his ingenious pogo stick idea. How it will bring in the crowds. I yeah-yeah him while keeping an eye on my mother.
"Are you listening to me?" he asks.
"Yeah," I tell him. I cringe every time my mother's foot comes down on the insides of the dispenser. After one good stomp, she shuffles back, almost falling. The bags of money spring at the ends of the pole. The destruction to the inside of that machine must be awful.
"Are you listening to me?" the boss asks.
"Yeah," I tell him. The last thing I can remember is about the pogo stick, so I say, "Why not put up a net?"
"Don't tell me how to run this show. Worry about those pumps. In fact, if they're not finished by the next time I call, you're out of a job. Your mother, too. Got that?"
"Got it." Before he can say anything else, I hang up and run out to stop her.
The unicycle back over one shoulder and the weighted balancing bar over the other, she points her chin toward the pump and says, "I got it out for you." The pump lies there with the bracket torn from where it was welded to the dispenser's insides now stomped to hell.
"Now where's your father?" she asks.
I'm afraid of what she has planned. This dispenser seems her warm-up.
"Aren't you supposed to be on the high wire?" I ask.
"I talked the boss into a break. Where's your father?"
Above the slits that reveal her toned, but vein filled, legs, I point to the seam running up the side of her gown. It is torn and frayed. "What happened?"
She wriggles a finger in the hole, gentle enough to keep the hole from growing. If only she would handle my father's heart with the same care. She could open it more than I can.
"Those troublemakers were taking shots at me," she says.
"I didn't hear anything," I say.
"They're using silencers. If they hit me before I get my money I'll be so mad. Now, where's your father?"
"Let me work on him a little longer."
She walks past me to the garage, where, from the inside, she rolls down the door and locks it. I put my ear to it and hear nothing, so stack quarts of oil, balance atop and peer through the small row of windows along the top of the door. My parents stand around the open suitcase and talk. Still, I can't hear them. My mother walks over to his heart on the counter, but then I can't se what she does. I shift like crazy, back and forth, trying to see around her. The top can shoots out from under my foot along with the rest and I go tumbling. The quarts of oil roll all over. I'm jealous, considering my problems with the pumps, at how easily one can punctures and spouts a golden stream of oil without the aid of any machinery. How freely it flows. If only it were that easy.
I chase down the cans. At the gutter, I pick up one and pinch it between my fingers, careful not to get oil on my uniform. Up in a high-rise a window bursts open, glass shattering. At first it's difficult to tell, but out shoots a desk, tumbling in a beautiful arc, arcing as if from a dispenser nozzle. Those troublemakers stand at the hole in the window and—I can't help but feel I join in their success—watch the desk smash in the street. They pump their fists in the air.
I've never been up in those buildings, but the view, compared to down here, must be all together different. Something wonderful. To describe it must require another language, not unlike the tangled mess of graffiti all over these buildings. Even if illegible, the graffiti communicates on that unspeakable words-don't-explain-my-frustration sort of level. In fact it doesn't matter if it communicates anything at all. That some of that inner tangledness got out matters most. I have enough of that tangledness to understand. Picking up the last of these cans I wonder if I need to make more trouble. All of this time, my entire life, I've been allowing the troubles to make me.
With the oil cans picked up, the decent ones back in a pyramid by the door, I return to dispenser three and cradle the cylindrical pump into the office. At the chair and desk behind the counter, I hunch over and dismantle the pump. The murmurs of a pleasant conversation between my parents seep through the wall. At one point in time, they must have untangled something in one another. I imagine my father's heart opening, the first time in a long time. When it last worked at its best, I was very young. I only have my parents' stories about that time. At some point everything in him failed, then they separated. In diagnosing this pump, I check the manual for how each component should ideally work. All of the troubles lead back to a pair of pistons that need a prime, a nudge, and if they're not broken down and set with rust, then they'll be off and running harmoniously. Only, I haven't yet figured how to do that.
The garage door throws open and rumbles like a revved engine. Through the window I watch. My mother storms out from the garage and across the lot. I run out and catch up to her between the two islands of pumps. "Where are you going?" I ask.
"Away from that man," she says. "I have to work."
"But you were getting along. You had his heart going by itself."
"It's a trick," she says. "He'll play on your sympathies until he gets what he wants."
"That's not true. He tells me all of the time how he wants to reconcile."
"It's a dream. He's worse than the troublemakers. At least they don't hide their intentions. I know what they want. If your father truly wanted to reconcile, he would put himself up on that wire and share some of the danger. Until he's in harm's way he's only using us."
She appears bewildered by that or some other thought, then trudges off, the unicycle and balance of money weighing heavy as ever on her shoulders. She limps off and, like a car with a flat, leans because one stiletto has snapped. Maybe I should have been a cobbler.
Once she's gone, I turn to find my father framed in the garage doorway, clutching the suitcase to his chest. More then ever, I want to get working on that heart. I run back to where I left it on the garage counter, but it's gone. I try to take the suitcase from my father. He only clutches it tighter.
"We can do this," I say.
"It's impossible," he says, as we walk out toward the pumps. He looks up at the wire slanted between the crumbling buildings. For the moment it's empty. He swallows hard and those tubes, I swear, will soon jostle from his throat. I pity him. He looks down at the guts of dispenser three all stomped to pieces. He says, "I know what that feels like," then looks back up at the empty high wire.
"I'll get it put back together," I say.
"It's never going to happen. It was one good day a long time ago. It's over. He's just towing you along."
For the first time, ever, I understand that I know my father's insides better than him. For so long, too long, I've nursed them, unable to realize they were beyond repair. It's not my boss that's been towing me along, but my father. He's never given me anything more than a daydream. For the first time in my life, that inner tangledness, not all of it but a piece of it, straightens and I understand what my father is and why my mother hesitates to be with him.
"You're a piece of shit," I say.
The bubbles inside his tubes stop in place and reverse. Any other day I would have taken back what I just said, if I had said it at all, afraid it might deter his dream of reuniting with my mother. But he needs to hear this. It's time to start making trouble.
Without a word, he walks off in the opposite direction as my mother.
I meander around puddles of oil all over the lot to where the guts of dispenser three are opened and mashed to pieces. It feels as if I should follow one of my parents, but then that I should follow neither. Rather than stick around here, I have an inclination to get lost in the surrounding downtown, have some fun with those troublemakers, or look for work uptown. At some moment today, unknowingly, I've wiped my hands on my uniform. The crisp whiteness is wrinkled and smeared with oil, grease, and my father's blood. Again, I imagine myself up where the troublemakers gather, not only me, but me with my parents. We have found and taken up in an elegant top floor apartment not yet vandalized. We eat together and look on the city skyline cut out of the red horizon. My mother has been paid. My father has a working heart and the rest of his organs inside of himself. The table where we eat is round and small, with a crisp tablecloth, still with the fold lines, shaken open and set with the finest accommodations. It's almost as if I'm a child again. My mother asks for the serving dish of peas; and I pass them. My parents glow with happiness. The pulse of our hearts beat in harmony. We sit and eat and talk as never before, and then, as the phone begins ringing from inside the office (and I haven't fixed a single pump), the troublemakers break in, mess up the dinner, light me on fire and toss me out the window of my daydream.
Ryan Mecklenburg holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. His fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly and elsewhere. Currently he is at work on his first novel about The Harvey-Johnson Pickle Company. He lives in Victorville, CA with his wife.


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Securing an ASP.NET application with a SQL Server back end is an enormously complex task. People have written books about building secure ASP.NET applications and about securing SQL Server systems. However, relatively little has been written about protecting data by stepping back and looking at the entire application ecosystem. Thus, I'll discuss how to secure that ecosystem, including the communication channels between the ASP.NET application and SQL Server, with the aim of protecting data both in motion and at rest in the database. This is still a large topic, so I'll concentrate on what I think is most important, and what developers and DBAs often overlook.
A Secure Starting Point
SQL Server databases and servers are remarkably secure when you first install them. Unfortunately, most DBAs insist on actually doing something useful with SQL Server, which involves punching all kinds of holes in the security of a server or instance. They add logins, add databases with code in them, grant access to users and applications, and do other things that make SQL Server useful but far less secure than it started out in its pristine, newly installed state.
Because ASP.NET provides a blank slate for an application, it doesn't start out secure. However, it provides plenty of features that let security-aware developers create secure web applications. Security starts with application conception and continues through the entire span of its life.
I'm going to assume that you've already hardened your ASP.NET application, your SQL Server installation, and any intermediate tiers, including the servers on which they run. In other words, I'm assuming that you're protecting servers to a degree appropriate for the sensitivity and value of the data in the system and you have policies and procedures in place to constantly review and evaluate your security in the face of changing environments and emerging threats. Microsoft has made an enormous amount of free information available on how to do these things on MSDN and TechNet, and there is even more on third-party websites. If you haven't done this step yet, go do that right now because your data and servers are probably already under attack. Here are a few good places to start:
- Microsoft Safety & Security Center
- SQL Server Database Security & Compliance
- ASP.NET Security Tutorials
- SQLSecurity.com
Secure Communications and Connections
There are plenty of ways to secure communications and connections from an ASP.NET application to SQL Server to make the database server both harder to find and harder to connect to. One way is to use a port number other than default port 1433 or a port determined at system startup for named instances. You can use SQL Server Configuration Manager to set the port for all IP addresses listed in the TCP/IP Properties dialog box, as shown in Figure 1. Be sure to delete any value for the TCP Dynamic Ports property for each IP address. You might want to disable the SQL Server Browser service as well or at least hide the SQL Server instance so that the Browser service doesn't reveal it to any applications that inquire which ports the server is listening to. (One reason to not disable it would be if you have multiple instances of SQL Server on the host because it "maps" connections to instances.) You can hide an instance in the properties page for the instance's protocols, as shown in Figure 2, although this just means that SQL Server won't respond when queried by client applications looking for a list of SQL Server machines. Making these kinds of changes is security by obscurity, which is arguably not very secure and shouldn't be your only security measure. But they do place speed bumps in the path of attackers trying to find an instance of SQL Server to attack.
An even better option is to create an application-specific endpoint that listens on a nondefault port, with the connection permissions set to the Windows login under which the application is running. This way, a specific application connects to SQL Server through a dedicated port, which implements a kind of application-specific firewall around the SQL Server instance.
Listing 1 shows sample T-SQL code that creates an application-specific endpoint and assigns connection permissions. You can download this code by clicking the Download button at the top of page. Before you run it, you need to configure a SQL Server instance to listen to port 9450, change Puppy to your machine's name, and add the User1 and User2 Windows logins. Then, run the code in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) as User1 and User2 to explore how each can connect to the instance. User1 will have to connect as Puppy,9450 to use that port and won't be able to connect directly to Puppy (where Puppy is the name of your machine or instance). Conversely, User2 can only connect to Puppy through the Public role and can't use the port number. As this example demonstrates, by using an endpoint, you can use multiple ports and limit who can connect through specific ports.
Using IPsec or SSL when using HTTP protocol
When data is in motion between the application and SQL Server, you can protect it using IPsec or SSL when using the HTTP protocol. IPsec is best used with internal network communications, but that works for ASP.NET applications because it's likely that your web and database servers are local to each other. If you have to communicate data externally over the Internet, you should configure your network to use SSL. Either way, your data will be encrypted as it moves across the network. You can generate a certificate or key in SQL Server or use an externally generated certificate or key, such as one from a trusted Certificate Authority (CA).
With SSL, the data is encrypted within the protocol layer and is available to most clients, except for clients using DB-Library or Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.53. You can also use SSL for server validation when a client requests encryption. To do so, you need to set up the web server to trust the root authority of the certificate used by the server with the SQL Server instance. After you've installed the certificate on the server, configure the SQL Server instance to use it in the properties page for the instance's protocols, as shown in Figure 3. Afterward, you can set the Force Encryption property on the Flags tab to force encryption for all clients (a setting of Yes) or make it optional (No). Be sure to check SQL Server Books Online (BOL) for the requirements of the certificate you want to use for SSL to make sure it complies.
IPsec is another option for encrypting data in motion. IPsec is a set of security protocols for transferring packets across a network. It provides in-depth protection against various network-based attacks, data corruption, data theft, and user-credential theft. IPsec is provided by Windows on both the client and server ends of a connection, and it doesn't require any configuration by the DBA to use it. Typically, Windows systems administrators configure IPsec using the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in, which is available from the Administrative Tools section in Control Panel. IPsec takes some expertise to set up correctly, but TechNet provides documentation about what to consider and what to do.
If you use a storage area network (SAN) for off-server data storage and SAN communications to access it, you might want to encrypt the data as it moves across the network. It's possible to transmit that data in the clear, which poses a security risk for highly sensitive data because it is susceptible to sniffing by people in the SAN network.
Extended Protection to Prevent Credential Forwarding Attacks
SQL Server 2008 R2 introduced a security enhancement, Extended Protection, for one particular type of attack. Extended Protection isn't really a feature in SQL Server. Instead, it takes advantage of the Extended Protection feature that Microsoft introduced in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
Extended Protection is designed to prevent credential forwarding, which is used in man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. (It goes by other names as well, such as credential relaying.) Credential forwarding isn't an attack on its own but rather a technique used to take advantage of other types of attacks when they succeed, such as spoofing and luring attacks. Phishing often takes advantage of credential forwarding after the victims respond to the phish and click a link in an email message that looks like it came from a legitimate company, such as a bank.
Here's how credential forwarding works in general Web terms. It involves three participants: a client (you and the client software, such as a browser or custom application), a legitimate server, and an attacker. Let's say the attacker uses the website attack.com and your bank's site is mybank.com. The attacker uses some kind of attack, such as a phishing email, to lure you into accessing the attacker's website, thinking it was your bank's website. The attacker then sends a request to the legitimate bank website.
Being a secure site designed with reasonable Internet security in mind, the bank website responds to the attacker with a WWW-Authenticate header, essentially asking the attacker who he or she is and to provide proof of that fact, most commonly by providing a username and the password associated with it. The attacker doesn't have a legitimate account at the bank, so it turns around and passes that same authentication request header back to the client. Thinking you're on the bank's website, you dutifully enter your username and password. Then the attacker sends your credentials to the bank website and can do whatever you can do in the online bank. The bank thinks it's dealing directly with you, as "you" transfer the account's balance to some other country. Figure 4 shows a simplified version of the interactions.
MITM-attack interactions
I used a web interaction as an example because that's the easiest way to explain what happens during credential forwarding. But the same kind of MITM-attack interactions can happen when you're using any software to access just about any kind of server, including a SQL Server database. These kinds of attacks are even scarier when the whole attack process is automated. You, as the victim, don't even have to be involved.
When a client application (often a browser) authenticates itself to a server using SSL, the server creates a Transport Level Security (TLS) channel and uses it to perform the authentication. This process results in two session keys: one generated by SSL to protect the transmissions between the client and server, and another key used by the authentication process. There's no binding between the two types of keys. This lack of binding is what enables the credential forwarding process.
Looking again at Figure 4, notice that there are two SSL channels created: one between the client and attacker, and another between the attacker and bank. The client's credentials transmit over the first SSL channel, and the attacker retransmits them over the second channel. The bank's server verifies the credentials without ever knowing that the channel over which it received them came from the attacker and not the client. Again, there's no binding between the two types of keys, so there's no way that the bank server could know that the attacker rather than the legitimate bank account holder was sending the credentials. So, SSL alone isn't a solution to this problem.
Microsoft's solution is Extended Protection, which is used to authenticate by means of Windows Authentication. Extended Protection sets up an outer channel secured by TLS and a client-authenticated inner channel, passing a Channel Binding Token (CBT) from client to server. This token binds the outer channel to the client-authenticated inner channel, merging the CBT of the channel between the client and attacker with the authentication information that's ultimately sent to the server. A server with Extended Protection enabled (in this case, the legitimate bank server) compares the CBT of the inner channel with that in the authentication information in the outer channel. Because the CBT is specific to the channel destination, the CBT that the server gets from the attacker won't match the CBT in the client credentials. When they don't match, the bank server refuses the authentication.
The technique of using channel bindings to secure channels of communication is described in the Internet Engineering Task Force (EITF) document RFC 5056, which you can find at tools.ietf.org/search/rfc5056. You don't need a detailed understanding of the protocol's details to use Extended Protection, but the information is there if you're interested.
One nice aspect about Extended Protection is that Windows handles most of the messy details for you. All you have to do is use a version of Windows that supports Extended Protection, mainly Windows 7 or later and Server 2008 R2 or later. For earlier versions of Windows, you need to install a Windows Update patch and enable Extended Protection by changing a registry setting. The Microsoft article "Extended Protection for Authentication" provides the details.
Authentication is the process of verifying that a principal-such as a user or process that needs access to SQL Server databases-is who or what it claims to be. A principal needs unique identification so that SQL Server can determine what permissions the principal has, if any. Correct authentication is a necessary first step in providing secure access to database objects.
SQL Server supports two paths to authentication: Windows Integrated authentication and SQL Server authentication. Windows Integrated authentication relies on Windows to validate users' identities when they log on to Windows. Permissions to access SQL Server objects are then assigned to Windows logins and groups. This type of authentication is available only when SQL Server is running on a version of Windows that supports Windows NTLM or Kerberos authentication, which is all versions starting with Windows 2000.
SQL Server authentication has SQL Server take care of authentication entirely on its own. In this case, you can create unique usernames and passwords. A user or application connects to SQL Server and supplies those credentials for access. SQL Server then assigns permissions to that login either directly or through membership in a role.
Frankly, if you want to implement strong security for the database and application, you need to implement Windows Integrated authentication using Kerberos. It's far more secure than SQL Server authentication, even with the enhancements introduced in SQL Server 2008 to support Windows password policies. Windows Integrated authentication is much more robust than SQL Server authentication because Windows transmits login credentials over the network in hashed form only. If you're going to use Windows Integrated authentication, make sure that you have the SQL Server instance configured to Windows Authentication mode, as shown in Figure 5. Besides relying on Windows for authentication, there's another reason to use this mode: the dreaded sa login.
The sa, or system administrator, login is included mainly for backward compatibility with older versions of SQL Server. The sa account is mapped to the sysadmin fixed server role, so anyone using sa is a full system administrator, with irrevocable rights over the entire server instance and all the databases in it.
You should never use the sa login for access to a database in an application. Doing so could give attackers administration-level control over your database server if they were able to get control of the application. This has been an easy way to attack servers, so you shouldn't enable SQL Server authentication. If you ignore this advice, at the very least give sa an insanely long and complicated password, and rename and disable the login using code like that in Listing 2. But it's far better to not enable it in the first place. Although it takes more work to use applications with Windows Integrated authentication, the security benefits are dramatic.
The Principle of Least Privilege
Starting with SQL Server 2005, Microsoft made permissions far more granular than in earlier versions. It used to be that an administrator often had to assign a user to a fixed server or database role to enable the user to perform a single type of action on specific objects, which usually granted the user a far too broad set of permissions. This violates the security principle of least privilege, which means that you give a user exactly the permissions required to accomplish a task-no more and no less.
By adhering to the principle of least privilege, you take a major step in securing a database. If a user is allowed to only read product information in a database, the user won't be able to intentionally or accidentally delete the contents of the Product table. You're essentially building a tight container around what the user can do. Similarly, you need to define what permissions an application needs to perform its work, and grant the application only those permissions. You can also create a custom database role to grant the application what it needs and no more.
When defining the application's permissions, you need to answer one crucial question: When (not if) an attacker gets control of any aspect of the application or SQL Server, what will the attacker be able to do? If the application has the role of database owner, the attacker now owns your data. If all the application can do is read the product table-and only the product name and list price-then the attacker really hasn't gained much through the attack, particularly because that information is probably already publicly available on your website. It can be a pain to assign explicit permissions to the various database objects used by the application, but this is probably the most important action you can take to protect your data.
Check Security Continuously
The hardest thing about securing an entire application, front to back, is that once you've put in all the time and effort to make it as secure as possible, you're still not done. Over the entire lifetime of that application, you have to continuously check and monitor its overall security to make sure it's still secure and address new threats that didn't exist when you first deployed the application. You have to guard against new developers or DBAs changing the application or database in insecure ways, such as deploying new features that are poorly implemented from a security standpoint or taking insecure shortcuts.
You can make ASP.NET applications secure, but it takes a lot of work and vigilance. I've touched on only a few ways to secure your applications. In addition, you always have to customize security for your environment. What constitutes a threat for the applications I work on might be irrelevant for the applications you work on.
Listing 1: T-SQL Code to Create an Endpoint and Assign Connection Permissions
-- Create logins in SQL Server. CREATE LOGIN [Puppy\User1] FROM WINDOWS; CREATE LOGIN [Puppy\User2] FROM WINDOWS; -- Create the endpoint. CREATE ENDPOINT AppEndPoint1 STATE = STARTED AS TCP ( LISTENER_PORT = 9450, LISTENER_IP = ALL ) FOR TSQL(); -- Resulting message: Creation of a T-SQL endpoint will result in the revocation -- of any 'Public' connect permissions on the 'T-SQL Default TCP' endpoint. -- If 'Public' access is desired on this endpoint, reapply this permission using -- 'GRANT CONNECT ON ENDPOINT::[TSQL Default TCP] to [public]'. -- Set connection permissions for Public. GRANT CONNECT ON ENDPOINT::[TSQL Default TCP] to Public; REVOKE CONNECT ON ENDPOINT::AppEndPoint1 TO Public; -- Set connection permissions for User1. GRANT CONNECT ON ENDPOINT::AppEndPoint1 TO [Puppy\User1]; DENY CONNECT ON ENDPOINT::[TSQL Default TCP] TO [Puppy\User1]; DENY CONNECT ON ENDPOINT::[TSQL Named Pipes] TO [Puppy\User1]; DENY CONNECT ON ENDPOINT::[TSQL Local Machine] TO [Puppy\User1];
Listing 2: T-SQL Code to Rename and Disable the sa Login
-- Rename sa login. ALTER LOGIN sa WITH NAME = Floyd; -- Disable the renamed sa login. ALTER LOGIN Floyd DISABLE;


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3 adults, juvenile arrested in Edgewood burglary
3 adults, juvenile arrested in Edgewood burglary
Authorities in Harford County have arrested three adults and a juvenile in connection with a burglary in Edgewood early Friday morning.
Sheriff's deputies were called to the 1900 block of Edgewater Drive shortly after 3:45 a.m. Friday, where they found a door pried open and the assailants inside.
Investigators said Cassandra Gary, 19, and Kanasia Rollins, 20, both of Edgewood, are being held on $15,000 bail. Dominque Williams, 20, of Columbus, Ga., is being held on $20,000 bail.
In addition to the burglary, Williams and Gary were also charged with leaving a child unattended during the time of the incident. The juvenile was released on home detention.
No one was injured.


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My point was that fans in other cities are even harder on their star players. The notion that Vancouver is somehow less tolerant of a player underperforming is IMO completely false.
My other point was that the criticism of Luongo is at this point (again, just MHO) valid. A couple seasons ago fans and media may have been jumping the gun when they called him a headcase or questioned his ability to perform with any semblance of consistency in the pressure cooker that is the playoffs. After three straight bewildering performances, those questions are reasonable. In fact, it would be strange to the point of denial if those questions weren't posed at this point.
The good news is that all Lou has to do to silence his critics is win a cup! Or at the very least have a fantastic playoffs to the point where the blame doesn't fall as heavily on his shoulders, a la 2007.
I oh so respectfully disagree. Osgood was an average player who elevated his game in the playoffs. He made the big save when he had to. Cloutier was the exact opposite, and his colleage Mr. Robert Loo unfortunately shares some of Cloutier's post-season shortcomings. Luongo might have been able to win it all with the Wings but there's no way Cloutier would have held the fort in all those 1-goal games Detroit won.Osgood, as mediocre as he is, was never thrown under the bus like Luongo is here. Yeah he won a couple of cups, but even Dan Cloutier could have won a cup with those teams he had in front of him.


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