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http://www.alwayson-network.com/comm...P11025_0_1_0_CGilder: And in computers. I think all desktop computers will have an imager for video teleconferencing and functions of that sort, and they will need to be cheap and high quality. I think it has a shot at that application, and it embodies a new generation of semiconductors in general. The first generations of semiconductor triumph were in the personal computer and then in the cell phone. And this is yet another generation that makes the semiconductor more ubiquitous. And this analog technology, mixed with digital functions of course, which Carver has pioneered, is also probably going to be [in the] RFID tagyou know the radio frequency replacement for the bar code.
Another of Carver's companies is Impinj outside of Seattle. One of his students, Chris Diorio, is the chief scientist there. You hear all these stories about the failures of RFID technology; that's how difficult it is to perform those functions. Those difficulties are an opportunity for Impinj, which makes these fabulous little chips with outside powerthe propeller comes from the radio frequency beam and the chip absorbs the beam, modulates it to transmit it back. As it reflects it, it modulates it. It has crude CMOS floating gate memory on it. It has a power processor that converts this incident electromagnetic radiation into a DC, direct current, power supply that can support this memory. It operates between four and eight microwatts, and it's a tiny, miraculous single device that can be produced for pennies.
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Tar-sands oil concern prompts letter from Congressional delegationBy JOHN KOZIOL
Union Leader Correspondent
April 21. 2014 10:28PM
SHELBURNE — The possibility of the Portland Pipe Line Corp. reversing flow on its pipeline across the North Country to bring tar-sands oil from Canada to Maine has prompted a call from New Hampshire's entire Congressional delegation to require the company to seek a new presidential permit.
In a letter last Friday to Secretary of State John Kerry, the delegation — U.S. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Kelly Ayotte and Reps. Carol Shea-Porter and Ann McLane Kuster — told Kerry they wrote him in response to constituents' concerns. PPLC currently sends light- and medium-crude oil from South Portland, Maine. to a refinery in Montreal.
The lawmakers noted that PPLC's corporate parent recently received permission from the National Energy Board of Canada to bring oil sands products, also known as diluted bitumen, through the Canadian portion of the pipeline, with the expectation that the material would be ultimately transported to Maine.
The Portland-Montreal pipeline, the delegation said, was approved under a 1999 presidential permit and passes through Shelburne, Gorham, Randolph, Jefferson and Lancaster.
Under executive order, they said, "the Secretary of State has the authority to issue presidential permits for the construction, connection, operation, or maintenance of certain facilities, including pipelines, at the borders of the United States."
Last month, Jim Merrill, a PPLC spokesman, told the Union Leader that "there is no plan proposed, pending or imminent, to reverse the flow of the Portland pipeline."
But should PPLC make such a request, the delegation told Kerry that "... it is important for the State Department to conduct a transparent and thorough environmental and safety review of the proposal as part of a new presidential permit process."
Reversing the direction of flow, the delegation summed up, "... would be a substantial shift from the pipeline's current use. Such changes also pose risks to our constituents' health, the environment and wildlife, which is why we believe the proposal should warrant a comprehensive review as required by the presidential permit process."
Sheridan Brown, a Grantham attorney who serves as New Hampshire Audubon's legislative coordinator, said that two bills that might help prevent or mitigate the effects of a spill from the Portland-Montreal pipeline continue to advance in the Legislature.
Senate Bill 325, which would give the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services rule-making authority to impose state-level spill preparedness requirements on oil pipeline operators, and whose primary sponsor is State Sen. Jeff Woodburn, D-Dalton, passed the House Recreation and Development Committee last week. It will be considered by the full House Wednesday.
A separate bill — House Bill 1224 relative to state inspection of oil pipelines — has already passed the Senate and is now on its way to Gov. Maggie Hassan, Brown said.
The two bills, he added, "will complement each other nicely, with HB 1224 working to keep oil in the pipeline and SB 325 making sure we're prepared in the event oil is released from the pipeline."
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Hello! In this tutorial, I will show how I created the Rainbows wallpaper. First, create dark sky in the background. For that, set forecolor to dark blue and back color to black, switch to Gradient tool (G), change gradient type to Radial, and create gradient from bottom to top of document.
To add some highlight, create new layer, and use large soft white brush to add a spot. Then, transform it (Ctrl-T) - stretch it horizontally.
Change layer blend mode to Overlay.
Next step is to create a cloud. Change forecolor to light blue, switch to Shape tool (U), select Ellipse, switch to 'Add to shape area' mode (2nd button in top row, so that all shapes you create are in single layer). Then, holding Shift, add several circles, overlapping each other a bit.
Add the following layer effects:
- drop shadow (black, mode = overlay, opacity 30-40%, distance 3-4px, size 10-15px)
- inner glow (white, overlay, size = 5-6px)
- gradient overlay (black-to-white, mode = overlay, opacity 75%, angle 90)
- bevel and emboss (size 30px, soften 5px, highlight white 75% screen, shadow multiply 40% blue)
- satin (black, mode = overlay, distance 6px, size 14px, try different contours)
Our cloud is ready!
Add another small cloud in front of bigger cloud. When you add layer effects to smaller cloud, decrease all sizes and percents accordingly.
And then, more and more clouds!
Next, we need a rainbow. We will make rainbow with shapes, each color in one shape layer. Create new layer (behind layers with clouds). Set forecolor to red, select ellipse shape tool (U) and make a red circle (as always, holding Shift to preserve proportion)
with Path selection tool (A), select the circle you just made, copy-paste it (Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V), scale down a bit (hit Ctrl-T and resize with your mouse holding Shift). Then change path mode to Substract.
Switch to Pen tool (P), change mode to Substract, then carefully add a shape that hides unnecessary part of circle.
I wanted that the rainbow is cut 2-3 pixels before it connects to cloud. It is very easy to do: select layer with cloud, switch to Path selection tool (A), select the circle that touches the rainbow, copy it (Ctrl-C).
Then go back to the layer with rainbow, click a rainbow path to select it, paste (Ctrl-V), scale up a bit (Ctrl-T, then resize with the mouse holding Shift), and finally, change path mode to Substract.
Now that one color is ready, repeat these steps to create another color.
And another and another, until the rainbow is ready.
Now you know how to create rainbows - why not add some more?
Here goes the trick. I wanted one of my rainbows to 'dissolve' into separate lines, each color flying in separate direction. Here is how to do it: for each layer with color, select the shape with path selection (A) tool, then switch to Pen (P) or Rectangle (U) (does not really matter), change shape mode to Substract, and add a shape that hides part of the circle. Repeat with each color of rainbow - it will look nicer if lines are cut in different locations.
Now we need to add 'flying' lines of colors. We could do that with Pen tool only, but unfortunately Photoshop does not have curved lines with fixed width, or path offset (as Illustrator). And I wanted the lines to have fixed stroke width. So we will have to add paths and then transform them into pixels.
So, open Paths palette (from Windows menu), switch to Pen tool, then on bottom of paths palette, click New button. New path will appear (called Path 1).
Start your path by clicking exactly the middle of where red line is cut, and dragging (and releasing) the mouse continuing red line direction.
Continue your path until it is outside document boundaries.
Switch to brush tool (B), set forecolor to the same red color as the raibow red, then carefully choose brush size that matches size of rainbow line (in my case, 3px). Then, hit Stroke button on bottom of Paths palette (2nd in the row). You can click Stroke button several times to make line wider. If line does not match, undo and change brush size. You should be careful and patient doing that :-)
Next step is to blur edge of line, to add some depth to our artwork. Turn on Quick Mask (Q), then switch to Gradient tool (G), select black-to-white gradient, and apply gradient as shown here.
Turn off quick mask (hit Q again): you should see the selection similar to this.
Go to Filters menu - Blur - Gaussian blur, and apply 3-5 pixels blur. You can also try Lens blur - it may look better (or not) but take much more time to apply.
Now the red line is completed! Repeat the same steps for each color.
Next step: in new layer, add some very small spots with white hard small brush (add some 1px dots, then 2px and 3px)
Next step: stars. I thought that it it would be more romantic if the stars glow with horizontal and vertical rays. To do such star, switch to Shape tool (U), choose Polygon, set sides = 4, then open Options dropdown window, check Star, and set Indent sizes to 90-97%
Add a shape (hold Shift to preserve proportions), then transform (Ctrl-T) to squeeze horizontally a little bit.
Set shape layer blend mode to Overlay, then in new layer, add a dot with white soft brush....
... then set its blend mode to Overlay too!
Add more stars in similar way.
Next step: a fairy! A fairy consists of several shape layers, with layer effects applied to each layer. Here is the shape of the body (made with Pen tool).
Add layer effects:
- inner glow (white, overlay 30-40%)
- Gradient overlay (black-to-white, radial, overlay 30-40%)
Next layer: arms. (made with Pen tool too)
Next layer: head (made with Ellipse tool (U) and then another shape in Substract mode, made with Pen). Add the same layer effects as to body layer.
Next layer: hair (behind head layer). Add the same layer effects, but change gradient type to Linear.
Next layer: eyes. Made with Pen tool. Change blend mode to Multiply, no layer effects.
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After one man suspected in Sunday's Bourbon Street shooting was arrested Friday in southern Mississippi, authorities were asking for help finding a second man.
The second, unknown gunman is believed to have run along Bourbon toward Esplanade Avenue and then turned toward North Rampart Street after the shooting, Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas said.
People or businesses in that area that have surveillance cameras are asked to review their footage from around the time of the shooting. Anyone with video that might be of assistance to police is asked to email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Trung T. Le, 20, of Belle Chasse, arrested Friday, faces one charge of first-degree murder and nine counts of attempted first-degree murder.
The other gunman remained unknown and at large.
The arrest was the first major break in the case that had seen police interview two "persons of interest" who were later booked on unrelated outstanding warrants.
Serpas said investigators believe Le fired the first shots in an exchange of gunfire that killed 21-year-old Brittany Thomas and wounded nine other people about 2:45 a.m. Sunday near Bourbon and Orleans streets.
Serpas said detectives do not yet know whether Le — who also goes by "Joe" — and the other gunman knew each other. He declined to provide details about what evidence led police to identify Le as a suspect.
U.S. Marshals Service spokesman Garrett Hawk said Le was arrested in unincorporated Gulfport, Mississippi. He will soon be extradited to New Orleans, Serpas said.
Marshals and a New Orleans police warrant squad found Le at a friend's home, Hawk said. That friend did not know of his wanted status, according to Hawk.
Le was taken into custody without incident a little after 3:30 p.m., Hawk said.
While police continued their hunt for the other gunman, Serpas said they also are searching for associates of Le who might have information about the incident.
"I strongly urge those people to come forward, because an accessory-after-the-fact (charge) is a serious charge," Serpas said.
Mayor Mitch Landrieu reiterated a vow to find and arrest anyone associated with the shooting.
"We owe it to the families who have been decimated by this horrific event. We owe it to the community," the mayor said. "Today is a great first step. We are not finished ... and we will not stop until we make sure that everybody is brought to justice."
Le has no prior criminal record in New Orleans, but Serpas said he has a record in Plaquemines Parish. Details about arrests there were not immediately available.
He has several arrests in Jefferson Parish for minor traffic and theft violations.
He pleaded guilty in January 2013 to marijuana possession and traffic charges that stemmed from a traffic stop in Terrytown in November 2011, according to court documents.
Earlier Friday, police said they had questioned a second "person of interest" in connection with the Bourbon Street shootings.
According to Officer Frank Robertson, a spokesman for the department, the man was arrested on outstanding warrants and transported to Orleans Parish Prison.
Robertson declined to name the man, citing "the complexity of this ongoing investigation" in an emailed statement.
He said the man was not charged with the shooting.
The man was one of two persons of interest that police released photographs of late Thursday.
Robertson said the second man, who had dreadlocks and was wearing a cap, is no longer a person of interest.
The incident has garnered national media attention and put the thinning ranks of the New Orleans Police Department in the spotlight.
Landrieu on Tuesday requested 100 Louisiana state troopers to increase police presence in the city. That plea was met halfway by Gov. Bobby Jindal, who assigned 50 troopers to patrol the city until Labor Day weekend.
Justin Odom, 20, was interviewed by detectives on Wednesday. He was arrested on outstanding theft and traffic warrants and released Thursday from the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center.
He was not charged in the shooting. According to his attorney, Gregory Thompson, he is not a suspect.


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SKF launched New range of SKF Nautilus bearings at EWEA 2012
SKF was one of the exhibitors and speaking parts at the annual EWEA conference, that took place in Copenhagen 16-19 April. This year SKF took the opportunity to launch an extended range of SKF Nautilus bearings at the event. The conference with its additional trade show is the major meeting point in Europe for the wind industry.The SKF Nautilus bearings provide designers the freedom to develop a wide variety of turbines and a possibility to customize their solution. With increased customization, service intervals can be prolonged and reliability enhanced, something that the market demands.
Customers and journalists were invited to attend the launch that took place on Monday afternoon at SKF's booth. Many were gathered to watch and listen as Kent Viitanen, Director SI Renewable Energy uncovered the SKF Nautilus model and talked about the market needs and the benefits of the new product. Andreas Urban, Business Development Engineer and project manager for the extended range explained the new features of SKF Nautilus and how the new solution has been developed in close cooperation with customers.
In fact, some customers have already started working with the new SKF Nautilus.
"The response has been very positive, says Kent Viitanen. The market is demanding bigger and more demanding turbines and the new SKF Nautilus is fulfilling the demands."
SKF has a large product and service portfolio in the wind industry and can offer products and services that serve the whole life cycle.
"The need for energy will continue to grow. I believe the wind market has a bright future, since wind is the most competitive renewable alternative today," says Kent Viitanen.


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STOCKTON - It takes a small army to feed a large army.
STOCKTON - It takes a small army to feed a large army.
On Thursday, an army of elves fed the homeless and hungry at the Emergency Food Bank in their annual holiday box giveaway.
Santa also helped out, greeting many of the 1,500 people in line one by one. The Christmas distribution of food was conducted in polar-like conditions, with temperatures hovering in the 30s most of the morning.
The weather did not chill the spirits of those waiting in line or those waiting on them.
About 100 people - 70 or so volunteers, 25-30 staff members and several Food Bank board members - helped hand out the holiday boxes. Many were dressed in elf costumes or with reindeer antlers on their heads.
"This is one of my favorite places to help out," Santa said. "There is real value in seeing all the smiling faces. They're so happy somebody is taking care of them."
Santa, also known as L. Dennis Duffy, retired CEO of Financial Center Credit Union, came with a full head of white hair and real whiskers.
"Isn't this what the season is all about?" he asked.
Duffy, who lives in Lodi, is a frequent Santa at holiday events in San Joaquin County.
Those receiving the holiday dinners - meat, potatoes, vegetables, canned goods, fresh fruit - agreed with Duffy's assessment of the season's purpose.
Also Thursday, the U.S. Conference of Mayors issued a report saying requests for emergency food assistance rose in 21 out of 25 cities surveyed in 2012. More than half the cities reported that homelessness increased.
Stockton was not part of the survey, but local hunger experts have said for years that hunger and homelessness are on the rise locally in the wake of the economic downturn and the rise in foreclosures.
Clarence Crawford, 54, recently moved to Stockton from Austin, Texas, and was impressed by the food bank's efforts. "It's a blessing," Crawford said as he transported the food to his van. "I have three little kids at home. Oranges are important. Anything you can do to help is appreciated.
"This is pretty cool."
Things were humming on Scotts Avenue within minutes of starting the free food distribution.
"We've streamlined the process since Thanksgiving," said Federico Navarro, nutrition manager at the Emergency Food Bank. "There had been a lot of congestion. Now, there are not as many stops."
He was helping his small, festive army move the line briskly, register recipients and distribute the overflowing boxes. Elves assisted many people in getting to their vehicles.
Navarro and others at the Food Bank have spent recent weeks seeking donations and assembling the holiday boxes.
"The gratitude we see in the faces of families today far surpasses the challenges of getting to this point," Navarro said. "People are being fed. They're getting a nice holiday meal."
Contact reporter Kevin Parrish at (209) 546-8264 or email@example.com.


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REDISCOVER A MASTERPIECE The Magnificent Cuckold is a new translation of the classic farce written by Fernand Crommelynck in 1920. It is a study of sexual jealousy as a young man, unable to calm his suspicions about his wifes fidelity, forces her to betray him. Presented by East River Commedia. Sept. 14 Oct. 6; Wed Sat. at 7:30pm. CONNELLY THEATER, 220 E. 4th St., bet Aves. A & B. 212-868-4444. www.smarttix.com. www.eastriver.org. $18, $10 students & seniors. Pictured above are Troy Lavallee and Morgan Lynch.
33 to NothingA downtown NYC garage band is on the edge of breaking-up as the lead singer and his boyfriend are also breaking-up. With the incessant pull of adulthood becoming harder to ignore, is it even worth staying together? Open run. THE WILD PROJECT, 195 E. 3rd St. 212-352-3101. $25.
Buckle My Shoe, or Terror FirmaA musical presented by Theater for the New Citys Street Theater. It will tour City streets, parks and playgrounds throughout the five boroughs and confront complex social issues through childrens allegories with children as the heroes. Thru Sept. 16; Sat. & Sun. at 2pm. 212-254-1109. www.theaterforthenewcity.net. Free.
Concord, VirginiaA monthly series in which Peter Neofotis unfolds the saga of one Blue Ridge Mountain town from the end of the 19th century thru the 20th. There is a gypsy story, a sodomy trail, secrets and more. Tues. at 8pm, call for details. DIXON PLACE, 258 Bowery, bet Houston & Prince Sts. 212-219-0736. www.theatermania.com. $12.
The Further Mis-Adventures of the Mystic Renaldo TheOff-color humor and stupidity mixed with a flawed search for the meaning of life meet art house musical cabaret and film noir with no pretension about being totally pretentious. Fri. & Sat., Sept. 7 & 8 at 8pm and Sept. 14, 15, 21, 22 at 10pm. DIXON PLACE, 258 Bowery, 2nd floor, bet Houston & Prince Sts. 212-219-0736. www.dixonplace.org. $12, $10 students & seniors.
Measure for Measure: Provide Your Block & AxeA fresh look at one of William Shakespeares most mysterious plays. Part of the Straight from the Source Festival. Thru Aug. 25; Fri. & Sat. at 8pm; also 7pm & 9:30pm on Sat., Aug. 18 & 25. MANHATTAN THEATRE SOURCE, 177 MacDougal St., bet W. 8th & Waverly. www.theatermania.com. 212-352-3101. 212-501-5741. $18.
Pandora20 international variety acts with live music. Open run. THE BOX, 189 Chrystie St. 212-352-3101. $15-$75.
Removable PartsA theatrical series of love songs about voluntary amputation that asks the question: In the name of love, how far might you go? The songs and banter, inspired by psychiatric case studies and online research, take a sideways look at amputees, devotees & wannabes. Sept. 6-9 & 12-15 at 7pm. HERE ARTS CENTER, 145 6th Ave., one block below Spring St. 212-352-3101. www.here.org. $20, $15 students.
Smith IslandA multi-media, rock, docu-drama featuring Zelda Zardoz, a paranoid schizophrenic running away from her innermost demons. Zelda aspires to reach redemption, but she gets lost along the way until she is finally imprisoned by her own tragic existence. Thru Sept. 14. BOWERY POETRY CLUB, 308 Bowery. 212-614-0505. $10.
WalmartopiaVicki Latrell, a single mom and Wal-Mart employee, speaks out against her companys working conditions and finds herself and her young daughter jettisoned to 2036, into a future where Wal-Mart dominates the entire world. Open run. MINETTA LANE THEATRE, 18 Minetta Lane. 212-307-4100. $65.
And Somewhere Men are LaughingIn 1955 Brooklyn, as the Dodgers and Yankees battle in the World Series, one family is on the verge of literally coming apart. Thru Aug. 23. CONNELLY THEATRE, 220 E. 4th St., bet Aves A & B. 212-279-4488. www.FringeNYC.org. $15.
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Regents endorse successful graduation initiativeUniversity of Hawaiʻi
Assoc. VP External Affairs, University Relations, External Affairs and University Relations
Jodi Leong, (808) 492-0597
Director of Communications, External Affairs and University Relations
The University of Hawai'i Board of Regents formally endorsed the Hawai'i Graduation Initiative (HGI) and the university's strategies for achieving its goals at its September board meeting.
The HGI's primary goal is to increase the number of UH graduates by 25 percent by 2015. This would mean awarding 10,500 degrees/certificates in 2015 compared to the 8,804 awarded in 2008-09.
The University of Hawai'i has already seen significant increases in graduation rates since the initiative was formally launched in 2010:
In 2010-11 8,988 degrees awarded 8.4 percent increase
In 2011-12 9,628 degrees awarded 7.1 percent increase
In 2012-13 10,001degrees awarded 3.9 percent increase
Source: Banner Operational Data Store (ODS) IRO_DEGREE
Increasing the number of graduates in Hawai'i is critical because it is estimated that 65 percent of jobs in Hawai'i will require some college education or more by 2018, according to the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.
"This was recommended to the board by the board's Academic Affairs Committee which thoroughly examined all strategies the system is employing. This is the sort of strategic effort that a public university should be making toward the future of its state, and a perfect example of the board's role in setting broad policy to benefit future generations," said Board of Regents Chairman John Holzman.
"The campuses have been committed to increasing the number of graduates and have been meeting the goals. The Board's formal endorsement is a validation of the path we are already on and the good work that has been accomplished to date. The HGI was put in place because the state of Hawaiʻi needs more educated citizens and the university is committed to meeting that need," said Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs/Provost Linda Johnsrud.


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The C.O. saw some men lounging around nearby and asked them to help him get it unstuck.
"Sorry sir," said one of the loafers, "but we've been classified dead, and theumpire said we couldn't contribute in any way."
The C.O. turned to his driver and said, "Go drag a couple of those dead bodies over here, and throw them under the wheels to give us some traction."
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Kit Harington's big movie
Pompeii opens today. It's Kit Harington's first time as the lead in a movie. And as much as I like him, as much as I hope he'll be successful, I'm not sure it's happening here, with this film. The reviews aren't great. And, worse, they're saying that Pompeii will probably be "crushed" by LEGO. Still, these days it's all about foreign box office. And they're expecting that Pompeii will do much better overseas. Why do foreign moviegoers keep redeeming bad movies? Why do North American moviegoers keep condoning Adam Sandler movies?
As for Kit, after he's finished promoting Pompeii, he'll have to turn around and start over again for Game Of Thrones Season 4. And that's great timing. Because if Pompeii doesn't do well, he can come right back to a major hit. Game Of Thrones is about as close you can get to a sure thing.


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Second in a two-part series about notorious murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner and the gradual change of heart he experienced in the final years of his life as he reached out to Dan Bradshaw, a Salt Lake City banker who served as an LDS prison bishop. Bradshaw told his story to Deseret News writer Doug Robinson because he thought it contained a valuable message about people's ability to examine themselves and make changes in their lives, even in a hard case such as Gardner's.
I met with Ronnie in what is called a "contact visit" booth where we were separated by bars instead of glass. I was able to shake his hand for the first time in the 16 years we have been meeting. He was pleased and so was I.
He brought a few computer copies of boyhood photos of him and his family. He said he ran away when he was 17 with a girl to California. He talked about robbing a coin store when he was 18, which resulted in his first prison sentence after a long history in the juvenile system. Ronnie worked his way up the inmate hierarchy. He was housed near Arthur Gary Bishop, an infamous pedophile who killed five young boys in 1983. Ronnie described how he took every chance to torment Bishop because he despised the crimes Bishop had committed. Ronnie would throw hot water, or hot oil or wax at Bishop through his cell. One day he invited Bishop to come to the cell door to talk. "If you got out, would you do it again?" he asked. Bishop answered, "Yes, I would. I'm a sick man." Ronnie asked if he had repented. Bishop said he thought he had done all he could. Ronnie respected Bishop for his honest answers and never again bothered him. He said that when Bishop dropped all his appeals and went quietly to the death chamber, Ronnie gained even more respect for him.
Ronnie also discussed his relationship with the "Hi-Fi Killers" — Dale Pierre and William Andrews. They had taken five hostages in an Ogden audio store and eventually killed three of them after a night of torture and rape in one of the state's most high-profile crimes ever. Ronnie thought Pierre, the older of the two, had a hold on Andrews. Andrews expressed his regrets to Ronnie many times. On the night of Andrews' execution, Andrews asked the other death-row inmates to forgo the tradition of causing a ruckus to disrupt the officers. Ronnie promised he would cause no problems and purposely slept through the entire event.
There seems to be a certain amount of respect among those on death row for owning up to your crime, expressing remorse and regret, going as calmly as possible to your end and preparing yourself and the rest of the men in your section for that final walk.
Ronnie talked about the courthouse killing. A female friend was supposed to place a small handgun under the drinking fountain where Ronnie had made a habit of stopping for a drink each time he came to court. He planned to use the gun to take one of the officers as a hostage and escape. When he got to the drinking fountain, the gun was not there. He saw his accomplice by the doorway; instead of a small handgun, she had a large, Western-style pistol. The girl handed Ronnie the gun, and one of the officers shouted, "Ronnie has a gun!"
Ronnie was shot between the neck and right shoulder and stumbled into a room. He was dazed and could barely hear or see clearly. Someone pushed open the door, and Ronnie saw Burdell and another man. Ronnie pulled the trigger. "If only the cops would have shot me again, and the girl, when they saw the gun, this thing would have been over and no one else would have been hurt," he said. Ronnie talked about seeing Burdell's father on video at his last hearing. The elder Burdell asked that the death penalty be commuted to life without parole.
"The man is 86 years old and is asking for mercy for me," Ronnie said. "I can't tell you how humbled I was by that man."
Ronnie discussed his impending execution. He hopes he will be able to control his emotions; otherwise, he said he might need a sedative. He said he might need the warden or me to read his final statement for him. I told him my goal is to have him so prepared for his last day that he will look at it as a great adventure, not merely the end of a long incarceration and a tough life. We read the last chapter of 3rd Nephi in the Book of Mormon, where it talks about repentance and forgiveness. "Man, that is powerful stuff," Ronnie said. "Read it to me again." I read it again and then we talked about how the atonement of Christ can be applied to all men. I told him that if we try to limit the power of the Savior and the Atonement, we are taking a very serious position that will be difficult to defend at some point.
I finally got in to see Ronnie at 6:30 p.m. I asked Ronnie about the Otterstrom killing. "Oh, that was awful," he said. "Otterstrom was a big guy, and I could tell by the way he carried himself that he was the real deal. Otterstrom came over and told me to leave. I told him I was there to collect some money. I didn't like the way he was talking down to me. I was young, cocky and wiry back then, and I was well armed, with two pistols. Mel started toward me, and I pulled my gun. I expected him to stop, but he didn't. He rushed me and grabbed my gun hand and raised it in the air. I was able to bring my left fist up, like an upper cut, and caught him under the chin. He went down and I pointed the gun at him and told him not to try anything like that again. I demanded his wallet and he gave it to me. While I was looking in the wallet, he kicked me between the legs so hard that it raised me off the ground. I was able to keep control of the gun and told him again not to be so stupid. I told him, "Now I'm going to rob the bar, too." I told him to get over to the till and open it. He walked on his knees to the till, but he wasn't about to give up. He was a tough, brave man. He made another move at me, and I pushed the muzzle of the weapon into his face and as I slammed it into him, it went off. I really didn't plan to pull the trigger. The other times we scuffled I could have shot him, but I didn't. He lay on his back, and I looked down at him and said, "Are you OK, pal?" He didn't answer. I nudged him with my foot and saw the blood."
All of this led to a discussion of pre-mortal life, repentance, the resurrection and the Atonement. We spent an hour or so reading about these things in the Book of Mormon and Bible. We had talked about these things many times the previous 13 years. He has given a great deal of thought to these principles and feels that he has done everything he can to repent. He understands that he cannot make restitution for his crimes, and that is one reason he is so focused on the youth facility.
Ronnie said he has spent many hours trying to recall all of the sins that he has committed and repenting to God silently and vocally. He said he feels good that he has had a bishop to "open up to." He gave me permission to use my notes and our conversations in any way I think might be of value to someone.
Ronnie told me one of his dreams. He was walking into a dark room and opened a door on the far wall and saw Mel Otterstrom lying on a bed. The room was very bright, and Mel was dressed in white and the bedding was white. Mel didn't move or speak, and Ronnie was not sure if Mel was dead or asleep but the room was full of peace and comfort. Ronnie said he hoped the dream meant Mel had forgiven him.
Ronnie also described a dream in which he was driving a Cadillac convertible with several friends and Burdell. They were all laughing. Ronnie hoped the peaceful feeling in this dream was another indication of some sort of forgiveness.
As I stood up to leave for the night, Ronnie said, "I'll see you next week right? I love you, man." I said, "I love you, too, Ronnie."
When I arrived tonight, Ronnie was upset and agitated. Corrections officials continually ask if there is anything he needs but always ignore his requests, which included new shoes, colored pencils for drawing, an additional hour out of his cell, additional phone time to take care of his personal and legal matters, and a CD player with audio versions of the scriptures. He has had no write-ups for 10 years and feels he is being treated more harshly than necessary.
Ronnie has decided to have his last meal on Tuesday evening so he can fast on Wednesday and Thursday, the day of his execution. He explained that he wants to have a cleansed body, and so he will have only liquids. Besides, he said, "Isn't fasting something that (the church) teaches?" I told him it was, and that I would be fasting on Thursday as well.
The warden came by earlier to ask what he wanted for his last meal. Ronnie said steak, lobster tail, apple pie and vanilla ice cream. He told the warden that one of the officers had volunteered to grill for him in the yard, but the warden said he would have no input in the choice of a cook. He also requested the clothing he will wear to his execution — a long-sleeved maroon dress shirt and black slacks — but he was told he will wear a dark blue jumpsuit instead.
"If they aren't going to give me anything, why do they keep asking?" he said.
I told Ronnie he should shave his wispy white goatee; that it didn't improve his looks. He laughed and said he would do it if I would shave off what remains of the hair on my head.
I met with Ronnie tonight. He said he had talked to prison officials about the cremation of his body and what witnesses will attend his execution. He can't decide if he wants family there that night, or even if he wants them to claim the body. He asked if I would be willing to claim the body and take care of the cremation. I told him I would, if it comes to that. He asked me if I would be there for him during the hours leading up to the execution, and if I would be there as a witness. I agreed to this; however, he is not sure if he wants to put this responsibility on my shoulders. "I don't want to put anyone through it," he said.
Ronnie said prison officials had called the families of his victims to see if they wanted a chance to meet with him. Ronnie hopes they will do this. Only one person has responded positively (I will not mention any names here). Ronnie is excited for the opportunity.
We read about King Benjamin in the Book of Mormon regarding "the change" that needs to take place in one's heart.
I wrapped up tonight's meeting by telling Ronnie something I had been withholding from him. "Ronnie, before I leave, I want to tell you something," I began. "I was in the 19th Special Forces with Mel Otterstrom. I have never mentioned it before because I didn't want it to affect your feelings in talking to me about anything you wanted to say. But now that we are getting close to that day, I just wanted you to know." Ronnie was shocked. "How could you ever spend time with me knowing what I did to Mel?" he asked.
I told him, "I remember very well when the event took place. In Special Forces, there is a tight bond. But when I was called to serve as bishop at the prison, I knew my calling was to serve all of the inmates, not just the ones who made me comfortable. It has also been a blessing in my life to help me learn the principle of forgiveness."
Ronnie thanked me and said he hoped that this experience would help someone else. I shook his hand and told him I would return next week.
The Third District Court denied Ronnie's request for a stay of execution. I have a call in to the warden to ask about visiting more often as the day draws near.
The warden called. He said I will be allowed to stay with Ronnie until 9 o'clock the night of the execution. He also told me that Ronnie wants his family to pick up the body, but Ronnie is not going to allow them to view the execution. Ronnie told him he is still vacillating on whether he wants me in the witness room. I will talk to Ronnie about it tonight.
When I arrived to visit Ronnie I learned that he had refused to put on a jumpsuit to come to the visit. The jumpsuit is required, but the rule hadn't been enforced lately. I asked the officers to ask him to please put on the jumpsuit for just a few minutes because I needed to talk to him. He told the sergeant to tell me he wasn't coming.
The Utah Supreme Court denied Ronnie's appeal.
I met with Ronnie. He apologized for not showing up last week. He is anxious about the commutation hearing tomorrow. He wants to apologize, but has heard the families don't want to hear it. He also worries about showing emotion. If he expresses regrets, people will think he is just trying to gain sympathy; if he doesn't express regret, he will be seen as cold and uncaring. "If the families get any relief out of facing me and unleashing hate, anger or pain at me, I understand and hope that it helps them find peace."
Ronnie has changed his mind again. He wants the state to claim his body and have it cremated, then give the ashes to his daughter, Brandy. He also wants no one at the execution. He got tears in his eyes. "Dan," he said, "I could really use you being there, but I love you too much to put you through it."
I told him that I will ask the warden to arrange for more frequent visits. He has already told me that I am supposed to be out of the prison by 9 o'clock on Thursday night, but that we will play it by ear. Ronnie said he would like to play chess or something that night to keep his mind occupied. I told him I would request a chessboard.
I asked Ronnie if he was still comfortable with his choice of a firing squad. He said he was. The newspapers don't seem to understand his decision. Ronnie thinks the firing squad is quicker and less painful than the lethal injection and less likely to have something go wrong.
I noticed that he had shaved his little goatee. He said that he was looking in the mirror the other day and said something like, "It is a little stupid looking."
He shook my hand and told me how much our time together helps. Counseling with him has been an all-consuming effort that has taken priority in my life. But having him say it has been helpful makes it worthwhile.
The Board has denied clemency. The vote was 5-0. I feel anxiety building up. The warden called. Starting tomorrow I can visit Ronnie from 4 p.m. until whenever the administration needs him or we are bored with each other.
The son of one of Ronnie's victims called me today – let's call him Mike. Prison officials arranged for Mike to visit Ronnie face to face yesterday, and Ronnie gave him my phone number. Mike wanted to know about my relationship with Ronnie and how I felt about his confessions, repentance and sorrow. During their visit the previous day, Ronnie told Mike that he had tried to contact Mike's family years earlier to apologize. Mike asked me if this was true. I said it was true, and that I had been told by a family member that they wanted no contact with Ronnie. Mike told me that he had doubted Ronnie's story, but now that I had confirmed it, he had to rethink his feelings.
"Oh, how I wish they would have let me know," he said.
He is understandably skeptical of some things Ronnie told him. We agreed that over time Ronnie may have told himself some version of events that, even if untrue, he might very well believe. We'll never know for sure. I assured this young man that I think Ronnie is sincere, at least in his regret.
While I was visiting Ronnie this afternoon, a prison official came by and said he had arranged another conversation between Mike and Ronnie, this time by phone. Ronnie was left alone so he could talk in private. The conversation lasted about 20 minutes. When I returned to the visiting booth, Ronnie was higher than a kite. He said that Mike had talked about several issues and at the close of the conversation he told Ronnie, "I accept your apology and I forgive you." Ronnie was very emotional as he expressed how grateful he was for that opportunity and how kind and gracious it was of Mike to make this extreme effort.
A short time later, the warden brought in Ronnie's last meal: a steak, two lobster tails, a large slice of Marie Callender apple pie and a pint of Haagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream. As Ronnie ate, his eyes lit up. He said the taste and flavor were overpowering. He teased the warden that the pie was cold, so the warden asked an officer to heat it in a microwave. Along with a couple of corrections officials, I stayed and talked and laughed with Ronnie while he finished his meal. Afterward, we talked for a few minutes about the arrangements for tomorrow.
Ronnie presented white handkerchiefs to the officials. On each handkerchief he had drawn in red a traditional, Valentine-like heart with four bullet holes in it. There were drops of blood coming from the bullet holes and written in black letters under the heart was the statement: "Live by the Gun Die by the Gun." He had signed and dated them. He requested that they remind the youth that living a life the way Ronnie lived his can affect their lives the way it affected his.
The officials thanked Ronnie for the gift and one of them told him he was going to put it in his office. Then he said, "Ronnie, I want you to know that I personally selected each member of the firing squad. They are sober men who are taking this assignment very seriously and with the correct spirit." Ronnie thanked him and told him he hoped the men would not suffer any emotional problems because of the assignment.
After the officials left, Ronnie said how much it meant to him that these two men had treated him so respectfully.
"I am not happy about dying, but I am ready," he said. "I don't plan to be a problem for anyone that night."
He has asked them to let him walk barefoot across the lawn when he is moved to the holding cell. "It has been 25 years since I have felt the cool grass beneath my feet," he said. "People may think that I haven't missed much being in here, but little things like this are an example of the small things I have missed."
He said he has asked the inmates in his section to be quiet and respectful when he is moved to the holding cell and up to the execution. There have been times when the inmates have acted out during an execution.
Ronnie has a visit scheduled tomorrow with his brother, daughter, son and maybe his granddaughter. It will be the last time they see him.
I had only a short visit with Ronnie because his family was coming, but he asked me to stay until they arrived. We discussed the possibility of my giving him a priesthood blessing in which I lay my hands on his head and offer up a prayer. We had discussed it several times over the years. I told him that we would need to do it tonight because once he gets in the holding cell there will be a solid door. As I reached through the bars and placed my hands on his head, Ronnie looked up at me with a smile and said, "I don't suppose you can bless me out of here, can you?" Among other things, I blessed him with peace and comfort in the coming hours. As I removed my hands, he turned to me and grabbed both of my hands. "Thank you, Dan," he said. "Thank you for the patience and love you have shown me over all these years."
Ronnie's family arrived, so I left for the evening. I met Ronnie's family in the check-in area. They were sad and emotional. I gave them each a hug and told them they had to be strong in this situation. This is Ronnie's last visit with them; they needed to make it a pleasant one for all of them.
As I was leaving, several officers expressed appreciation for my visits with Ronnie. Some of them have known Ronnie for 25 years; this is a difficult time for them, as well.
When I got to my car, I had voicemails from two TV stations, a newspaper and a radio station. I had previously agreed to talk to the Deseret News and (KSL's) Doug Wright when this was over. That is all I will do. I don't need or want publicity.
When I tried to tell my wife later about the experience of giving Ronnie a blessing, I got so emotional I could hardly finish describing it. All of my daughters have called today to express their concern and support. I am a blessed man.
I headed to prison for my last visit with Ronnie. I have been fasting today and hope I will be inspired to know the things that need to be said and done. As I approached the prison, there was heavy security. There was a large crowd already gathered across the freeway from the prison and a number of media vehicles. At the check-in I was led to holding cell No. 3. It was about 7 p.m. There were about seven officers gathered there monitoring Ronnie. He was lying on his bunk. When he saw me he stood and smiled. He had been watching a DVD.
"Did you get to walk barefoot through the grass?" I asked.
"Oh, man, that was great!" he said. "I walked all the way down here barefoot. Even with the arthritis it was unreal."
Ronnie was doing fine and commented again on how well everyone had treated him. I asked where our chessboard was. One of the officers appeared with one, but Ronnie said, "You know, I think I would rather just talk."
Ronnie's attorneys came by to say goodbye. A prison official came in and offered Ronnie a couple of DVDs – "Avatar" and "Invictus."
"If I come out of this alive, I want to come work for you," Ronnie told the official. "I could give you some ideas on how to run this place. First thing you need is some younger guys." The official replied, "If you come out of this alive, you've got a job."
A short time later, Ronnie asked for something to calm his nerves, and he was given a mild sedative. He didn't want to go to the chamber looking panicked. By 9:45, Ronnie was obviously sleepy and wanted to lie down in spite of the events that would shortly come. I asked if he wanted me to stay. "No," he said, "you can go." I spent the next 10 minutes reviewing things with Ronnie, asking if he had any questions about the principles and ideas we had discussed. He asked me to pray for him and to tell anyone who might ask, "I am so sorry for the tragedies I have caused."
He thanked me again for our friendship and the kindness and patience he had felt. "I love you, man. I'll see you later." I said, "I love you, too, Ronnie, and I will see you later."
As I walked out of the prison at about 10:30, it occurred to me that this was the closing of a major chapter in my life. It was a relief in some ways because it was stressful, but sad too because there was something going on there that I felt honored to be a part of. Ronnie was one of many I worked with. He was the culmination of my work there.
As I reached my car, I received a call from the guys in our band. It was Thursday night – our practice night. They wanted me to join them at Denny's. I wanted to go home, but they were persistent. That's where I was during the execution. We could have gone home sooner, but we waited. When midnight came, one of the guys asked, "Do you think it's happened?" I told him, "It will probably take them a few minutes to do everything." As I pulled the car out on the freeway to go home, I turned on the radio. They reported that Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by firing squad at 12:17 a.m., Friday, June 18, 2010. I sat up in bed talking to my wife about it late into the night.
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After an agency laptop PC was stolen from an employee's car on Halloween, NASA is requiring that all laptops containing sensitive information be protected by full-disk encryption as soon as possible. The agency has ordered CIOs at its facilities to have as many laptops as possible encrypted by Nov. 21, and all of them protected by Dec. 21, according to a notice from NASA headquarters.
After Dec. 21, no laptop without full-disk encryption will be allowed out of a NASA facility if it carries sensitive data, including personally identifiable information, International Traffic in Arms Regulations and Export Administration Regulations data, procurement and HR information, or other sensitive but unclassified data, NASA said.
The stolen laptop was password-protected but not encrypted and contained personally identifiable information, or PII, "for a large number of NASA employees, contractors, and others," NASA said.
To meet this rather rapid turnaround, the agency's Information Technology and Communications Division will have to hustle. IT staff won't have time to physically replace drives with ones that do the encryption on the hardware level, so they will have to use software to do the job. Software encryption is measurably slower than its hardware counterpart, but most users shouldn't notice the difference.
Disk encryption, which encrypts every bit of data on a hard drive, is a good additional level of defense. However, unless biometric or smart-card authentication is used on the device, it is simply one more password for a hacker or thief to crack. NASA is acting on the assumption that the documents on the laptop may be compromised because they were protected only with a password. Adding data encryption raises the bar, but users open their encrypted drives with passwords, so that would just mean two passwords to crack.
Disk encryption is definitely a valuable weapon in an IT administrator's arsenal. But it needs to be supported with biometric or smart-card authentication and remote device management to make it as effective as possible.
Nevertheless, encrypting laptops is a good step. Lost laptops have long been a bane of agency IT administrators. Earlier this year, NASA's inspector general reported that the agency had lost 48 laptops from 2009 to 2011, including one -- unencrypted -- that held control codes for the International Space Station.
After the latest incident, NASA also instructed its employees to use a loaner laptop when teleworking or traveling if their regular laptop contains sensitive information, to purge any unnecessary information from their laptops and to keep sensitive data out of smart phones or other mobile devices.
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"NASA is acting on the assumption that the documents on the laptop may be compromised because they were protected only with a password." No, they are acting on OMB guidance M-6-16 which requires it and does not require the controls recommended here. Before telling others what to do, the author should read the literature of controls for NASA. This is not corporate america, the same rules do not apply.
Honestly if it was that confidential what the h... is she or he leaving it in the car for. It the users again that fail to think. Really need to think before you leave any electronic device in a vehicle, unless you are in a Armored vehicle. Sorry, but here is your sign, as those comedians say.
Remember that NNSA owns the word "Encryption." I bet their software encryption will be very hard for any hacker to get past.... time will tell.
Last time I checked, Hackers were not trolling parking lots looking for laptops sitting in people's cars. Still NASA should have known better to use encryption on all laptops.
I will comment that there are two types of encryption available--first, most laptops sold in the last few years have native hard drive encryption available on the drive and configurable from the BIOS. This is significantly harder to crack than "just another password". Secondly, use of dual-encryption via TrueCrypt, again, is significantly more secure than "just another password". Whether NASA is aware of and will use such secure methods, I can't say, but they *are* both available and relatively quick to implement.
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Buffer overflow, cross site scripting and sql injection have had their share of the spotlight,
I have recently decided to give more attention to layer two issues and share my findings.
Some of the reasons that attracted me to layer two security is that there is a high percentage of
insiders attacks by employees, the threat is under estimated and what is within the LAN is
considered "trusted". Also more broadband providers deploy network access based exclusively on
layer two (for fast recovery, the average convergence time for RSTP is far greater than OSPF and EIGRP ).
A DOS attack takes another damaging dimension in the data link layer than network layer.
The OSI layer was built to allow different layers to work without
the knowledge of each other, that means that if a layer is compromised the other layers will not be aware.
It is finally worth mentioning that the boundaries of the LAN are no longer physical as wireless networks
are used in the environment.
The first attack time that you might be familiar with is MAC flood A.K.A CAM table overflow,
(do not confuse CAM table <MAC Vs port> and ARP table <IP Vs MAC>) using tools such as macof
(available since 1998) it can generate 155,000 MAC/min. the average switch CAM table range between 16 to 128Kb,
even with a auto refresh of the CAM table the default in most switches is generally around 5 min.
Mitigating this attack would be limiting the amount of MAC addresses learned per port.
ARP spoof (ARP poisoning) this attack targets the ARP table and basically takes advantage
of the fact that any machine can claim to be any IP, ettercap tool is very easy to launch
this attack.Mitigation of this attack can be using static arp entries (an administrative burden for large
networks) or using DHCP snooping and dynamic ARP inspection that builds a binding table and when new gratuitous
arp entries are received they are compared to that table.
VLAN Hopping -- Switch spoofing this is a straightforward attack for ports that are configured for trunking
or negotiate trunking and yet users are connected to them, the attacker can spoof a switch using ISL or 802.1q
and as trunk ports have access to all VLANs Voila!, a tool that can enumerate a switch is Yersinia or if you are familiar
with brctl. Mitigation is secure configuration disabling unused ports, setting used ones to access mode only.
VLAN Hopping -- double tagging this attack is more complex and requires specific setup and has its limitations
It only works on 802.1q trunking standard it works even if the port is set to access only, as the switches do only one level of untagging when the attacker double tags a packet the switch forwards it to the other switch with a tag, the attack is limited to being unidirectional, and cannot work on a target on the same switch as the attacker and the attacker and trunk must have the same native VLAN.
STP manipulation the spanning tree protocol prevents layer 2 loops from being formed when switches
are interconnected via multiple paths for redundancy, switches exchange BPDU messages to elect a root bridge,
elect a per VLAN designated bridge and in the case of topology change.
The pitfalls of STP/RSTP is the lack of authentication in the BPDU messages, if an attacker impersonates a switch and keep sending topology change BPDUs the other switches will enter an infinite loop of recomputing the algorithm.
Mitigation of this type of attack is by enforcing the placement of root bridges in the network (Root guard) or disabling the use of priority zero on users port (BPDU guard).
Private VLANs to create multiple LANs on the switch VLANs was the solution, to restrict communication between ports in the same VLAN, Private VLANs was the solution is uses port roles (Isolated, Promiscuous and community) to restrict communication between ports. this can be bypassed used a layer 2 proxy attack in which a packet is sent with the destination of the target IP address and the MAC address of the gateway, since switches are working in the MAC level and routers are on the IP level.
this attack is unidirectional and can be prevented by configuring an access list on the router to prevent communication between the IPs of its LAN.
DHCP starvation is done by sending DHCP requests with spoofed MAC addresses to exhaust the DHCP server IP pool, according to RFC 2131 a hacker can introduce a rogue DHCP server assigning IPs to clients while the real DHCP server is up and running,
allowing a MITM attack.RFC 3118 defines DHCP authentication but there has not been an implementation of it.
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1. Re: interested in contributing ?Ivan Koblik Jul 26, 2006 3:01 PM (in response to Tom Baeyens)
I work in a software development company. And we currently are very interested in jBoss jBPM. But it has to be improved many ways before we can use it. So I'd like to be able to contribute. I read much info on how to gain committer access, but I didn't get it clear.
I've posted some sources, where I've partly tuckled problem of localization and also gave a russian localization(not full yet). This is the premier task that I've got to fullfill before going further. All that is under feature request "Localize GPD to other languages." (GPD-1)
So what else should I do to gain access. It's written that what I've done has to be evaluated and approved, only after this I'll be able to request access.
Thanks in advance.
Ivan Koblik.
2. Re: interested in contributing ?Tom Baeyens Jul 26, 2006 3:31 PM (in response to Tom Baeyens)
is localization to russian the first thing you would like to contribute or are there other things you consider contributing as well ?
Koen, what is the status on GPD localisation ? Is that possible to update the gpd for that or does it require a restructuring ? Have you got an idea how localsation should be done in the GPD ?
3. Re: interested in contributing ?Ivan Koblik Jul 27, 2006 5:17 AM (in response to Tom Baeyens)
Hello, Tom.
That is the most important task for me now, but there is something more that I have to do. My company produces electronics, and usually production workflow is quite dim. So I have to provide some facility to SWITCH process instance from one definition to another. This is completely new development branch and doing this we could use GPD taht you already have. But there should be an interface to connect running server with GPD, for it to read information of all the processes instances and their definitions. And here comes new question: "What if we start developing Eclipse like client for jBPM which would incorporate it?".
Maybe later I'll post some thoughts on it in jira.
BTW: I've almost finished localization of the GPD, it uses standart resources algorithm, all the interface text data is kept in "messages[_??].properties" files, where ?? corresponds to language. I've posted it at GPD-1.
Best regards, Ivan
4. Re: interested in contributing ?Koen Aers Jul 27, 2006 8:26 AM (in response to Tom Baeyens)
Hi Ivan,
Thanks a lot for doing this. I will return back to you shortly. I am busy with a jBPM training in London for the moment. Tomorrow I'll be back in the office again.
5. Re: interested in contributing ?Ivan Koblik Jul 31, 2006 4:43 AM (in response to Tom Baeyens)
Hello Koen,
I've posted a final version, I hope so. I had some difficulties with making a seperate localization plugin for jBPM, so by now all the locale specific data has to be in GPD plugin JAR file. I hope you could help me here.
Will it be included to the next release? It may help convince programmers to use exernal resources insted of hardcoding data.
Best regards,
6. Re: interested in contributing ?Ankit Kakkar Apr 1, 2008 2:29 AM (in response to Tom Baeyens)
Pls go through the following post and advise me as appropriate.
ankit kakkar
7. Re: interested in contributing ?Matthias Grossmann May 14, 2008 9:51 AM (in response to Tom Baeyens)
Hello Tom
in our company we use the jBPM Workflow Engine to run our Business Processes. In order to adapt it to our requirements we made several enhancements that could be interesting for the community. So we would like to gain committer access to the jBPM Project to publish our changes.
Furthermore we have to make additional increments to the jBPM so committer access would be very helpful.
Some examples we improved in the version 3.2.3:
- Users can change their own passwords in the console
- The processdefinition xml file can be shown in the console
- On suspending a workflow, the signal is now cached to be able to resume the workflow
- In the Designer Plugin we made changes to allow custom configuration of elements under action nodes via the properties page of a node
we have many more ideas to improve the jBPM so what do we have to do first to get a committer access and how can we contribute our changes?
any help would be appreciated
8. Re: interested in contributing ?Bernd Ruecker May 14, 2008 11:29 AM (in response to Tom Baeyens)
Hi Tom!
I know these guys. I would say, they know what they are doing ;-) So worth giving access...
9. Re: interested in contributing ?Ronald van Kuijk May 14, 2008 7:07 PM (in response to Tom Baeyens)
up until the time you have commiter access, you can file jira issues and attach patches there.
The thing you can do in the meantime is mentioned at http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/ContributorAgreementManagement
btw, there is work going on to make a new webconsole which is seam based, so do not put to much effort in the current console
10. Re: interested in contributing ?Ronald van Kuijk May 14, 2008 7:08 PM (in response to Tom Baeyens)
oh... and btw, it is *required* to come to dublin on june 6th ;-)
11. Re: interested in contributing ?Swati S May 25, 2009 12:44 AM (in response to Tom Baeyens)
I made few changes in jbpm console war (version 3.2.3).
Changes are:-
1) Make group Task avaliable to each user's personal Task List.
2) Added "Avail" link to the group task so that user can by clicking on this link assign the task to himself and then this task will not be visible to the other members of group. This way there wont be parallel task updation by members of group problem. Group task will be visible to all members of group until one of the member of group avail this task. (by "avail" link)
3) If task is not yet stated still examine, suspend links were available. So made this change.
12. Re: interested in contributing ?Caleb Powell Jun 27, 2009 8:41 AM (in response to Tom Baeyens)
Hi Tom,
I'm responding to your inquiry about the tool we wrote:
I would love to contribute this. I'm confident that my http://www.intelliware.ca would like to as well, but I will need to ensure that there aren't any issues first. I will look into this first thing on Monday.
In the meantime, please send me any relevant information about the contribution process.
Caleb Powell
13. Re: interested in contributing ?Bernd Ruecker Jun 27, 2009 8:46 AM (in response to Tom Baeyens)
Hi Caleb,
did you have a look in the ChangeProcessInstanceVersionCommand? I haven't read thorugh your blog completly, but at least it tries to solve the same problem. maybe not that sophisticated yet.
And a hint: It may get hard to commit such functionality in jbpm 3 by now, since it is switched to "maintenance mode", because new development effort goes in jbpm 4.
14. Re: interested in contributing ?Tom Baeyens Jun 27, 2009 9:18 AM (in response to Tom Baeyens)
yes. in terms of contribution, i was only considering jbpm 4.


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Third Culture Kid
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The idea of the Third Culture Kid, or TCK, is often relegated to the realm of wealthy expat brats or international jetsetters, and therefore ignored in many reports about young people. However, with the number of refugees and asylum seekers rising, TCK's are becoming more and more common as displaced youth are forced to grow up in foreign environments. Regardless of economic status, the parents of TCK's often worry about their children losing their roots, and it is true that after a time, the traditional definitions of 'culture' and 'citizenship' are almost redundant to TCK's. However, they don't cease to exist – they are simply redefined, and there is much to be learned from this generation of young people.
My own experience as a TCK has allowed me to integrate the cultures of my homeland, adopted country and friends' countries to create a globalised culture. Many other TCK's have done the same, giving us a unique worldview that changes the way we relate to society. Continuous exposure to an international environment in our formative years results in multiculturalism on such a deep level that by the time we reach adolescence, even our thought processes are cosmopolitan. This not only endows us with a chameleon-like ability to fit in with people regardless of nationality, but also with a greater tolerance of others.
I have personally gained a wider spiritual perspective through my exposure to multiple religious systems. Being born Hindu in a predominantly Buddhist country, I was raised in the Middle East, and have experienced just as much wonder eating shuwa during Eid as I have making mooncakes for Chinese New Year or lighting oil lamps for Divali. Rather than be threatened by different belief systems, I have taken something from everything because having grown up seeing so many different variations of doing one thing, it is easy to question the idea that any one way is absolute.
Naturally, being a TCK has its own challenges. After being woven into the weave of so many different worlds, the question of identity is baffling. We don't know where we come from and feel incomplete because we haven't experienced a single place fully enough to call it our own. However, all cons carry seeds of pros, and the TCK who can transcend rootlessness feels at home no matter where they are. We are different parts of all the places and people we have lived with. The idea brings with it a feeling of unity, because the world becomes 'ours' rather than 'yours' or 'mine'.
By the time we reach adolescence, TCK's realize more than anyone that we are all different. However, we survived our childhoods by developing a belief system based on mutual understanding and acceptance, one that allowed us to see beyond the petty things that drive people apart. We belong everywhere and nowhere. And if we have to 'lose our roots' to discover that we are all part of the same tree, maybe it is not such a bad thing after all.
– 18-year-old from Oman (female)
This entry is part of a series of essays and messages from the publication "Adolescence - Beyond the Stereotypes" - written, compiled and edited by adolescents and young people themselves with support from Voices of Youth and UNICEF.


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The young actress Noelle Evans needs a new agent, fast, and not just because youve never heard of her. Blond, stacked, good-looking in an 80s, David Lee Roth music video sort of way and capable of line-reading clichés without a speck of self-consciousness, the actress has appeared in Hellraiser: Inferno and the straight-to-video Dangerous Proposition. In her latest, 15 Minutes, Evans plays a prostitute named Honey, whose entire reason for being is to show us her big tits before shes stabbed to death and, in a morbid echo of Marilyn Monroes red-velvet calendar shots, artfully arranged in a puddle of blood. Evans looks as delectable playing dead as she does playing living, which gets at just how repulsive a movie this is. The filmmakers dont see that theres any difference, because for them the character is meat prime-cut pinup.
America likes to watch is the advertising teaser for 15 Minutes, but its a good bet America wont like to watch these two hours of carnage and cynicism, at least beyond the opening weekend. Robert De Niro, the main attraction as well as one of the executive producers, plays New York City detective Eddie Flemming, whose fame is enough to rate the cover of People magazine. The title of the film and the People cover spill the conceptual beans as freely as the trailer, but in case you werent watching, in the first minutes theres also a tabloid-TV anchor looking to bump up his ratings and a pair of unshaven Eastern Europeans looking for trouble. Soon after landing in Times Square, one of the tourists rips off a video camera, though not before he reads aloud a sign in the display case: Make your own movies.
Dubbing himself Frank Capra, the video thief, a Russian named Oleg (Oleg Taktarov), proceeds to realize his American dream of celebrity by taping the violent exploits of his companion, a crazy Czech named Emil (Karel Roden). They kill and kill again, with Emil playing butcher and Oleg playing auteur. Meanwhile, when Emil is not thrusting knives into warm bodies in front of Olegs lens, the pair watch television, soaking in the ritual of confession and forgiveness that constitutes daytime programming. I love America, says Emil as he lounges in a fleabag hotel room and plots his ascendancy as Americas favorite reality-television personality. No one is responsible for what they do. Yup, and no one is less responsible here than writer and director John Herzfeld, who apparently read the same display-case sign that Oleg did, and with nearly as unwatchable results.
As 15 Minutes goes from bad to worse and then briefly teeters at the edge of full-blown self-parody, much as the similarly apocalyptic 8MM did, Herzfeld proves himself an equal-opportunity hater, or maybe just a hateful opportunist. Everythings grist for his cynicism: immigrants (You think I came to America to work? Emil asks with a sneer), women (tarts, helpless or dead), lawyers (Bruce Cutler as himself!), the law and, perhaps most revealing, anyone with a video camera, professionals and amateurs alike. Ours is a world of too many civil liberties and video cameras, Herzfeld insists, a violent, celebrity-obsessed culture that, in classic dumb Hollywood tradition, hes opted to take on by making a movie in which every death is as choreographed and art-directed as a fashion shoot.
15 Minutes isnt just rotten badly acted, badly written, badly conceived its dead inside. The best films, as well as some of the more purely mediocre ones, come alive through the force of the personalities behind the camera or of those in front. Its why some two-dimensional images seem like three: not because of any technical wizardry, but because in these films there are traces of life in gestures, bits of dialogue, even the animated curve of a teapot. 15 Minutes is a charnel house of filmmaking. Herzfeld steals a little from Seven and Taxi Driver, but leaves out the vestigial human qualities from both, as well as, more obviously, the genius. Its depressing that De Niro, who delivers a monologue in front of a mirror, is so willing to parody himself for trash like this; its more depressing still to see him take credit for it not once but twice.
The question to ask about the relatively new, unfunny comedy Company Man isnt Why did it take two years to release? Its Which industry genius thought the time was ripe to unload this dud? The film was reportedly shot in early 1999, snapped up by Paramount Classics and taken to court shortly thereafter, with co-directors and co-writers Doug McGrath and Peter Askin filing a lawsuit against the productions two finance companies for breach of contract. Daily Variety reported that According to the complaint the two directors agreed on June 8 to show a rough cut to Intermedia in order to get feedback. Intermedia execs made no comments to the directors after seeing the film, the complaint asserts, adding that two days later, Intermedia demanded that McGrath and Askin ship all the film materials to Los Angeles, where Intermedia began to re-edit the pic.
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The dispute was settled in August of that year, but no details were announced, so its impossible to know who to blame for this botch. Set in 1962, the film stars McGrath as a schoolteacher named Allen Quimp, who, rather like Graham Greenes man in Havana (though with neither wit nor good writing), becomes an accidental operative. Quimp testifies before a pair of senators trying to get at the truth behind the Bay of Pigs invasion, and it turns out that Cuba was lost for a wifes want of a fur stole. It sounds like a Henny Youngman joke and plays like one, too on and on, a swamp of silliness and subpar shtick through which wade and wallow a Soviet defector (Ryan Phillippe), a lunatic agent (John Turturro), a CIA chief (Woody Allen, uncredited and who can blame him?), Batista (Alan Cumming), Castro (Anthony LaPaglia) and the Quimps (as the wife, Sigourney Weaver doesnt just wallow; she sinks).
Nearly everyone is terrible except for Cumming, who just does what comes naturally and steals his every scene. In the films best moment, Batista turns lounge lizard and sings a woozy Diamonds Are a Girls Best Friend, a glimpse of satiric madness and good timing that, unlike the rest of the film, is over too soon. Could there be a better movie in here somewhere? In the age of the director as auteur, thats not something youre meant to ask. Forget their legal rights for a moment, Nora Ephron was quoted as saying around the time of McGrath and Askins suit. Lets just ask the question, Will they get a better movie by removing the people who created it and whose vision inspired everyone to come aboard, and replac[ing] them with people who are not writers or directors? Thats like replacing a pilot with a passenger. The thing is, for everyone who knows the Zucker brothers, losing the pilot isnt always a bad idea especially when youre looking for laughs.
15 MINUTES | Written and directed by JOHN HERZFELD | Produced by DAVID BLOCKER and HERZFELD | Released by New Line Cinema | Citywide
COMPANY MAN | Written and directed by DOUG McGRATH and PETER ASKIN | Produced by JOHN PENOTTI, RICK LEED and JAMES SCOTCHDOPOLE Released by Paramount Classics | At selected theaters


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About the National Medal for Museum and Library Service
The National Medal for Museum and Library Service is the nation's highest honor bestowed on institutions that make significant and exceptional contributions to their communities. The National Medal awards are made every year by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an independent government agency that is the primary source of federal support for the nation's 123,000 libraries and 17,500 museums.
Recipient institutions receive the National Medal at a ceremony held in Washington, D.C., and a $10,000 award in recognition of their extraordinary civic, educational, economic, environmental, and social contributions. This is the second year that IMLS has awarded medals to 10 institutions; in previous years, the National Medal was known as the National Award for Museum and Library Service and was awarded to three museums and three libraries. Including the 2009 winners, 82 institutions have received the award. All types of museums, from anthropological to zoological, fine art to folk art, urban and rural, large and small are nominated for this award. Public or private nonprofit libraries are eligible to receive this award and nominations of libraries of all sizes are encouraged.
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Any individual may nominate a museum and/or library in the United States and its territories for the National Medal for Museum and Library Service. Members of the National Museum and Library Services Board, the Institute's presidentially-appointed policy advisory board, review the nominations and make recommendations to the Institute Director who selects the winners. To view nomination information, please go to www.imls.gov/medals. The deadline for 2010 nominations was February 16, 2010.


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