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Most of us know that vitamin D is essential for bone strength, especially for the elderly who are prone to falls. But as Go Vita explains this amazing vitamin actually has a whole host of other health benefits.
Why Vitamin D Is Important
Although we have known for several decades that vitamin D is important for calcium absorption, its more extensive role in the body had not been identified until recently. Scientists have now determined that most organs in the body respond to vitamin D, and researchers are discovering that many illnesses and conditions, ranging from autism and the common cold to cancer and chronic pain, are associated with low levels of vitamin D.
Factors Affecting Vitamin D Production
- Latitude
- Seasons
- Altitude
- Time of day
- Air pollution
- Cloud cover
- Sun block and protective clothing
- Skin pigment – the darker the skin, the less vitamin D produced
- Age – elderly people produce less vitamin D
- Weight – people who are overweight produce less vitamin D
The Cancer Link
The results of a study, led by vitamin D expert and Adjunct Professor at the University of California Dr Cedric Garland, projected that women who have vitamin D levels above 52 nanogram/ml have a 50 per cent less risk of developing breast cancer than women with levels below 13 nanogram/ml. This is because vitamin D excels in its ability to rein in rogue cells. Instead of continuing to multiply, vitamin D helps cells that are turning cancerous to die. Vitamin D also prevents the growth of blood vessels that feed these tumours, thus halting their spread. The presence of vitamin D helps to protect healthy cells from cancer, helps to repair cells that may be mutating, and helps to slow the growth of cancer cells that may be present.
Like breast tissue, the prostate also has receptor sites for vitamin D. According to one study, men with prostate cancer who were given 2,000 IU of vitamin D daily for 21 months had up to a 50 per cent reduction in prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels, linked with a lower incidence of prostate cancer.
According to Dr Garland, if the worldwide vitamin D deficiency was corrected, "The first thing we'd see would be a reduction in the incidence of type 2 diabetes by 80 per cent. The next thing we'd see is a reduction by 75 per cent of all invasive cancers combined, a similar reduction in colon and breast cancer, and probably a 25 per cent reduction in ovarian cancer."
Other Benefits
Heart Health
High blood pressure, the most common precursor to heart disease, improves when patients are exposed to UVB rays, since vitamin D relaxes the blood vessels and reduces blood pressure. It's not surprising then that vitamin D levels in patients with congestive heart failure are 50 per cent lower than those with healthy hearts.
Muscle, Joint And Bone Pain
Dr Soram Khalsa, author of The Vitamin D Revolution, recommends that any patient who experiences unexplained muscle, joint or bone pain should be checked for vitamin D deficiency. A 2003 study found that of 360 patients with lower back pain of unknown cause, 83 per cent had abnormally low levels of vitamin D. After supplementation 95 per cent of patients reported improvement in their back pain.
Blood sugar levels
An Australian study found that sun avoidance could be increasing the risk of type 2 diabetes because lower levels of vitamin D in the blood may be associated with higher blood glucose levels.
Mental Health
Since there are vitamin D receptor sites throughout the body, it makes sense that there are also receptor sites in the brain. Low levels of vitamin D have been linked to an increased risk for depression and schizophrenia, and one doctor, John Cannell, has been developing a theory that links vitamin D deficiency to the rising incidence of autism in children.
Sorely Lacking
Given that the best source of vitamin D is the sun, and Australia is one of the sunniest countries on earth, most of us believe that a daily multi will provide all the vitamin D we need. Yet, according to the Medical Journal of Australia, nearly a third of men and women have mild to moderate vitamin D deficiency.
The Sunshine Paradox
The 'Slip Slop Slap' anti-skin cancer message has been so effective over the past 25 years that many of us now are not receiving enough vitamin D through daily sun exposure. Despite the fact that spending 30 minutes in the midday summer sun may produce up to 20,000 IU of vitamin D, it can be a very complex business ensuring that adequate vitamin D is produced by the body while avoiding skin damage: UVA rays don't prompt your body to produce vitamin D but cause premature ageing and wrinkles; UVB rays also cause skin damage, and only launch the production of vitamin D if they are within a certain wavelength (see box).
Dietary Sources
Unfortunately, there are simply not enough foods that naturally contain amounts of vitamin D to raise your blood levels to an optimum level. For example, you would need to drink a 250 ml glass of milk 10 times a day to obtain 1000 IU of vitamin D! A study of healthy people in Boston, Massachusetts, demonstrated that despite drinking milk, eating salmon and taking a multivitamin, 32 per cent were still found to be deficient in vitamin D.
Determining Deficiency
The consensus of all vitamin D researchers is that the only reliable way to evaluate vitamin D levels is the 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25D) test, a blood test that is available through your doctor.
They also agree that an optimum normal blood level should be between 30 to 40 ng/ml or higher, however this number is likely to increase as new research emerges.
Recommended Levels
The recommended daily intake of vitamin D is largely based on the minimum required to prevent rickets – a disease rarely seen today! The current RDI is 1000 IU, but this is likely to increase. If the average person takes 1000 IU a day, this will generally result in a 10 ng/ml increase of their serum vitamin D levels after 3 to 4 months. However, factors such as weight, age and skin colour need to be taken into consideration.
Who Is At Risk?
Consider supplementing if you spend a lot of time indoors or frequently wear clothing that covers up your whole body. Breastfeeding mums should also be aware that human breast milk contains as little as 20 IU of vitamin D per litre.
Many healthcare professionals are now routinely checking vitamin D levels in all their patients due to the widespread nature of this deficiency. Given some of the ground breaking research that is emerging on Vitamin D, it seems a wise idea to have blood levels checked and to add a vitamin D capsule to your daily supplement regime.
Adapted from Go Magazine March 2010


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Tyler Childers wears his eastern Kentucky roots with pride on his debut album Purgatory (out Aug. 4). The Lawrence County native pays tribute to his homeland, taking cues from the washed-in-the-blood ballads that have emanated from Appalachian hollers for centuries.
But while Childers' music is rooted in tradition, his lyrics speak to the experience of the modern American, particularly those in the rural areas similar to where Childers was raised.
There are tales of Southern vices — pills, tobacco, mason jars of moonshine — and all they entail. Songs of redemption, heartache, loss and romance. And when you start wondering if you've stumbled onto a lost record from Bill Monroe's heyday, Childers' pulls you into the 21st century with a line about a conversation thwarted by modern technology. ("Up in Pocahontas in the Cranberry Glades/ I ain't got bars nor the charge to call her anyway," Childers sings on "Universal Sound.")
Residents of the Bluegrass State are already familiar with Childers. He's been a regular on the Kentucky circuit for several years, playing county fairs and dive bars with his band, the Foodstamps. But it was another proud Kentuckian who helped introduce the 26-year-old southern wunderkind to the rest of the country.
Americana hero Sturgill Simpson co-produced Purgatory along with veteran Nashville producer David Ferguson. But make no mistake — this is Childers' album. And he deserves the credit for helping create one of the most authentic and original albums of the year.
Whiskey, Religion and Country Zen
Purgatory fittingly kicks off with a song about good old fashioned sinnin'.
"I been ramblin' around and led astray by the paths that I've been choosing/cutting paths like a forest fire/ pupils wider than backhoe tires," Childers sings on the tongue in cheek come to Jesus tune "I Swear (To God)."
"Tattoos" finds Childers seeking solace in the wake of a breakup.
"I am now an old headstone/to her grave I'll die alone," Childers sings. "A testament to how she's grown/ forever she is sleeping."
"Whitehouse Road," a backwoods Southern rocker that sounds like a pool hall conversation between Billy Joe Shaver and Guy Clark, is a standout on the 10-track collection.
"Get me drinking that moonshine/ get me higher than the grocery bill," Childers sings. "Lord it's a mighty hard living but a damn good feeling to run these roads."
Childers' hardscrabble tales stand in stark contrast to the carefree ditties that rule mainstream country radio. If bro country songs are about living for the party, Tyler Childers' songs are about living with the consequences of your vices.
Childers tips his hat to the macabre bluegrass tradition of the murder ballad with "Banded Clovis," a tune about a "broke ass and busted" man who shoots his friend on a scavenging trip gone bad.
But Purgatory's most ambitious and joyful moment is "Universal Sound," a meditative track about finding peace in the moment and the beauty of shared experiences.
With Purgatory, Childers joins the ranks of Sturgill Simpson, Angaleena Presley and Kelsey Waldon as a Kentucky export doing the Bluegrass State proud. The rest of the country music- loving nation should be lining up to give thanks.
Tyler Childers is currently on tour throughout the U.S.

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Here is a 8 page comics section from the Detroit Free Press and dated August 12, 1928
* Color comics from the prohibition era
This comic section is in color and measures 22 x 16 inches. The comic strips include: "Moon Mullins" "Little Orphan Annie" "The Gumps" "Smitty" "Gasoline Alley" and more.
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The night was cold and wet. It was raining heavily. There was Sara, laughing over what I had just told her.
"Oh my gosh, Khadijah is it true? You were never so naughty during our school days."
"Ofcourse I was, but the only difference was that I was not daring and was always frightened of getting into some trouble."
Sara was still laughing uncontrollably. "But that was seriously mind blowing! I wish I was there to witness it live rather than getting it to hear from you."
And all I did was to look at her smile.
"Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar!"
I woke up from the call of the Fajr prayer. Amused at my dream, I was drifted towards the memories of my school days. Those were the most delightful days of my life, the most carefree moments. And to spend them together with me was my best friend Sara.
The dream I just saw was so vivid. I thought.
"Ammi always says that dreams before Fajr prayer comes true," I said to myself, "I really wish it does."
"Whom are you talking to dear?" It was ammi. I was so engrossed in my thoughts that I never realised when she entered my room.
"Nothing ammi, I was just wondering whether dreams before Fajr have some connection with our real life or not…"
"Well, I have heard they do. But who knows, probably it must have just been a myth."
"Hmm. But I hope it is not."
'Dear Sara,
How are you? I still remember our fun filled times at school. I doubt if you even miss me now…'
"Khadijah are you ready? We are getting late."
"Yes brother, I am coming in a minute."
I quickly closed the lid of my laptop, grabbed my bag and left for university.
While on my way to university, I recalled that chilled winter night when it was raining and, Sara and I had sneaked out just to get wet in the rain. That night we had talked for hours, pouring out all our sorrows to each other. After that we had felt so relieved and light hearted like as if there was nothing more to trouble us. The dream I saw today morning had so much resemblance to that night.
"Alright class, before you disperse, I would like to assign you all a project. Make a presentation on any disease, its symptoms, treatment etc, and submit it to me by next week. In addition, I would like this project to be done within groups. So better start working from today." That was Sir Arshad. He teaches us Biochemistry and is one of the most motivational teachers I have ever come across.
Ms.Pushpa was one such teacher at school and every student looked up to her. Sara and I were one of her favourite students. Ms.Pushpa was impressed with the way we both worked together.
During lunch break, all my friends were busy chattering. But I was unable to stop thinking about Sara. I was awing about what kind of person she must have turned into now. Would she be the same Sara I once knew or must have transformed in to a totally different person.
'Zoom, zoom!' My cell phone buzzed loudly.
I excused myself from my friends to answer it.
"Walaikum Assalam! Khadijah be there at 5 'o' clock sharp."
"Don't worry, I'll be there before five in the evening."
"Good! So see you at the other end. Allah Hafiz!" And with that the call was disconnected.
That was Bushra, my schoolmate, ex-classmate and a really good friend. Despite being busy with her studies and her university life, she is always there to lend me a listening ear. It was Sara's birthday today and all of my school friends had decided to throw her a surprise party.
I left university early in order to reach the party on time. I got into a taxi and headed towards the surprise birthday party for my dear friend. On the way I stopped at a gift shop to get Sara a present.
"Khadijah I want you to gift me this locket on my sixteenth birthday. You know how much I love chains and locket," Sara's eyes were sparkling with excitement.
"But I'm giving this to you right now. Your birthday is months away and I can't wait till then!"
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" And she suddenly hugged me.
"Ma'am would you like this chain and locket to be gift wrapped?" The salesman inquired.
"Yes, please."
While getting back into the taxi, I wondered if Sara still had the same taste and will she treasure my gift just as before.
Almost all of my friends were already at the party when I reached. Seeing that I assumed I was late and felt nervous and anxious at the same time. Once inside the party hall, I looked around in anticipation to see if Sara was already there. She was nowhere to be seen. Glad to not miss the surprise part, I walked over to my other school friends.
Sara arrived after several minutes and was stunned to find us all there. She was not alone but was being accompanied by two girls who were walking side by side beside her. They were her university mates and they had given their utmost help for executing our surprise plan successfully.
I walked towards Sara to wish her and present her the gift. I was looking forward to getting a warm hug but was instead greeted with a handshake. I asked her for her well-being, she did the same and that was it. She was then led towards the cake by her newly found friends. I felt ignored and was utterly disappointed. And that was when I knew I won't be able to stay any longer. I left the party smirking and telling myself that she has got really caring friends with whom she is happy.
At home, I was done with my studying and was now planning for the assignment. I will talk to my friends tomorrow about the assignment. I thought.
It was already eleven and I was feeling tired and sleepy after such a long day. I lied down on my bed, and was running my thoughts over today's events when my cell phone buzzed. This time it was a text message.
'I'm very cross with you! How dare you left the party without eating my birthday cake? I was so badly longing to talk to you. Now you better meet me tomorrow. There is so much awaiting to be told to you.
Your best friend Sara.'
I couldn't help but beam with happiness. My best friend still valued me.
'At times we may not be in contact with the closest of our friends. It never means that they have forgotten us but rather, we have just lost them among the crowds of this world.'
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Liberal: So what's the secret of world peace?
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Conservative: So what's the philosophical definition of a Liberal?
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Liberal: But that does not make any sense?
Wiseman: Precisely.
Conservative: But I don't know what you mean?
Wiseman: Exactly.
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Conservative: Wait, I think I am getting it…The Conservatives already use the secret, so are on the winning end of arguments, but don't know why? Right?
Wiseman: Correct.
Conservative: So tell me why?
Wiseman: Wrong question.
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George Osborne 'risking national security by failing to guarantee Transport, Military and Civil Nuclear Police will be saved from cuts'
Terrorism fears as Chancellor's pledge excludes forces which protect railways and military bases
In the Autumn Statement, George Osborne announced the Government would "protect overall police spending in real terms" over the next four years Getty
George Osborne has been accused of risking national security by failing to guarantee that the three forces which guard railways, military sites and nuclear installations from terrorist attack would be protected from spending cuts.
The Chancellor won plaudits in last month's Autumn Statement for exempting police forces from a fresh squeeze on government budgets, promising they would receive an extra £900m over the next four years.
But the British Transport Police, which patrols railways in England, Scotland and Wales, was not covered by Mr Osborne's pledge, it has emerged. Spending by Ministry of Defence Police, which guards military bases across the UK, and the Civil Nuclear Constabulary, which protects nuclear sites and nuclear waste when it is being transported, has also been excluded. The three forces have more than 6,000 officers between them.
The Government said it was "ridiculous" to claim it was not fully committed to keeping Britain safe and pointed to the Chancellor's planned £500m boost for counter-terrorism. It also argued that the three forces received money from other sources such as industry.
But Labour claimed the Government's failure to ring-fence the three forces' budgets explicitly was "deeply alarming". It pointed out that Britain's last two attacks took place outside an army barracks – the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby in Woolwich – and, more recently, at Leytonstone Tube station where a man was stabbed.
In the Autumn Statement, Mr Osborne announced the Government would "protect overall police spending in real terms" over the next four years, which he said was the equivalent of an increase of £900m in cash terms over the period. He told cheering MPs: "The police protects us, and we're going to protect the police."
The announcement took the Commons by surprise as he had been widely expected to order further reductions in police spending.
Critics say it's dishonest for George Osborne to claim he's protecting police spending when his pledge does not include policing public transport (Getty)
But Mike Penning, the Policing minister, disclosed in a Commons written answer that the commitment related to the 43 police forces in England and Wales for which the Home Office provides funding.
The shadow treasury minister, Rebecca Long-Bailey, said: "It's fundamentally dishonest for George Osborne to claim he's protecting police spending when his pledge does not include policing our public transport system, guarding our military or protecting nuclear installations and materials.
"This is deeply alarming given that the last two terrorist attacks in Britain were in a tube station and outside a military base, and nuclear facilities are an obvious target. He said he was protecting the police but he was really just trying to protect himself."
Labour claimed the three forces would be dependent on other Whitehall departments – the Department for Transport, the Ministry of Defence and the Department for Energy and Climate Change – to protect their budgets. The transport and energy departments are among those which have agreed to financial squeeze, facing budget cuts respectively of 37 per cent and 16 per cent.
British Transport Police officers were among the first to respond to the attack at Leytonstone station. The previous week, the force, which has almost 3,000 officers, said it was launching extra high-profile patrols designed to "identify and deter terrorism". It said it wanted to reassure the travelling public that it was taking measures to ensure their safety while using the rail network.
A government spokeswoman said: "It is ridiculous to suggest the government is not committed to funding the forces that keep our country safe. At the spending Review we protected overall police spending in real terms with an increase of £900m cash by 2019-20 to maintain strong frontline policing and further strengthen police firearms resource to protect UK citizens. This is on top of an extra £500m extra funding for the counter terrorism budget, to protect the UK from the ongoing threat posed by terrorism.
"Funding for other specialist police forces is not provided by a central government grant and comes from other sources, including industry. We are committed to funding our police forces across the country to protect Britain's national security."
The fine print of the autumn statement promise on police funding has already run into criticism from police and crime commissioners. Theresa May, the Home Secretary, has written to chief constables advising them that to receive a share of the extra £900m they will have to raise more money locally.
She said police spending would be protected over the next four years "when local income is taken into account".
Her letter added: "Total central Government resource funding to policing, including funding for counter-terrorism, will be reduced by 1.3 per cent in real terms over four years.
"Taking into account the scope that you have to raise local council tax, this means a flat real settlement for policing as a whole."


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I love this skirt. It's perfect for work, but just edgy enough to not cramp my steez. I found it over at Cupcakes and Cashmere, and think it would make an easy DIY with leather pieces, simple black pencil skirt, and needle and thread. When I get around to it, I'll be sure to share a how-to!
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Former Hoggard standout Jonathan Cooper is dealing with another injury.
Cooper, who now plays for the New England Patriots, was carted off to the locker room on Saturday.
NFL reporter Ian Rapoport reported that Cooper has been diagnosed with a plantar fascia strain and will be off his feet for some time.
Following an MRI, #Patriots G Jonathan Cooper was diagnosed with a plantar fascia strain, source said. Will be off his feet for a bit.— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) July 31, 2016
Cooper has dealt with injuries since being the No. 7 overall pick by the Arizona Cardinals in 2013. He broke his leg in the preseason his rookie year.
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FFA Friday: Colorado
August 29, 2014 | 9:08 am
Today we have another FFA Friday post spotlighting great projects from the state of Colorado. The Helping Communities Grow program in Colorado had six participating FFA chapters this year. Congratulations to the top three chapters, Plateau Valley FFA, Boulder Career and Technical Education Center FFA and Fort Morgan FFA!
Plateau Valley FFA won first price for using personal hydroponic systems to teach middle school students about the three main nutrients all plants need – nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus. Together the chapter and middle school students did experiments with different types and rates of fertilizer. They found that plants grown with fertilizer were lusher, bore more fruit and grew quicker compared to plants grown without.
Boulder Career and Technical Education Center FFA won second prize for providing an educational event called Our Lands to Your Hands for over 300 elementary school students. The chapter focused on changing climate effects on agriculture and the ability to grow food. The chapter even created a short video on the topic which included interviews with local farmers and climatologists.
Third prize went to Fort Morgan FFA for teaching eighth graders about how fertilizer makes it possible for farmer to feed the world. Their program started with feeding the group pizza and proceeding to teach them about how the pizza ingredients relate to agriculture.
Congratulations to all of the Colorado FFA chapters that participated! The Helping Communities Grow program in Colorado is supported by the program's founding sponsor, Intrepid Potash, Inc. FFA chapters, remember to complete step 1, by November 14, 2014, to participate in the 2014-2015 program! Details can be found at (link).


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Performance Management is an effective process that has specific steps designed to maximize employee performance to help achieve organizational goals. The process includes setting objectives that align with organizational goals, monitoring progress, evaluating outcomes, recognizing and rewarding performance.
Performance Management is the link between organizational strategy and outcomes. It is a useful, tested management practice that has numerous benefits for employees and managers. It is much more than performance appraisal, a fact which has to be put across to the employees in a proactive manner.
As an Instructional designer, the challenge we face is getting across this message to employees in an effective manner dispelling their doubts, and making them receptive to the topic. In this blog, I will present 3 guidelines which will ease this mammoth task of designing the subject at hand in an easily presentable, acceptable format.
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- Chunk the content into easy to understand, manageable parts
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Employees grudgingly accept the idea of performance management. They perceive it as a necessary evil. This makes our job challenging. We find ourselves in the situation of serving a hostile topic in an engaging way which perks up their interest, sustains it, and keeps them anticipating the things to come.
The primary requisite is to break down the topics in to a logical sequence which will flow seamlessly and keep the learner informed and interested in what is happening. The recommended strategy is to introduce the topic to employees, emphasizing the fact that performance management is broader in focus than performance appraisal, and has many benefits in store for them, thereby dispelling their fears and apprehensions.
This should be supported by a detailed section on what performance is all about, its objectives and benefits to both employees and the managers. The stages in process can be dealt with next, followed by a clear explanation of the roles and responsibilities of both employees and managers in the process. The course should conclude with a well-defined, streamlined simulation on the Tool used by the company to facilitate the process.
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As the issue of performance management is viewed skeptically by employees at large, the emphasis should be on busting their misconceptions and making it more relevant to them.
The best way to do this is to follow a real-life based scenario approach, where employee concerns are addresses and solutions provided in the form of employee-manager discussions, peer discussions and by engaging in a dialogue with a facilitator.
These sessions project a sense of reality in clearing concerns. This can be backed by using appropriate visuals such as office settings, to reinforce learning.
3. Demonstrations
Once employees are comfortable with the idea of performance management, they should be provided with a comprehensive demonstration of how to use the tool so that they get familiar with its features and functionality.
Keep these guidelines in mind, and get cracking when you get those Performance management courses. Just focus on the content flow, approach, and demonstration.
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Who is Bill Benter?
Bill Benter born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Bill Benter is the founder, International CEO and Chairman of local medical transcription services company Acusis, Pittsburgh PA.
Bill Benter is a visiting professor at the Southampton Management School as part of the Centre for Risk Research.
Bill Benter is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and has delivered lectures at Harvard University, Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, City University of Hong Kong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of Southampton and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Bill Benter founded the Benter Foundation in 2007 to support the leaders, organizations and ideas that help communities and individuals thrive. The Benter Foundation is continuing to evolve.


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Meet Katie Lowe aka Fat Girl PHd. who is one of my favourite people.
She's proof that determination, a plan, consistency, drive, pig headedness (I'm sure she'll be cool with me saying that), overcoming the lows with the highs and every other such terminology that surrounds the topic of GSD – Getting Sh+t Done!
I always liked the saying that goes something like;
There are three types of people in this World, those that makes things happen, those that watch things happening and those that say 'what happened?'…. Katie is the first!
From over 290 lbs to sub 160 lbs and falling, she is literally half the person she used to be.
We've been working together to reform that 160lbs into a lean, not that mean, fighting and loving machine……..
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The Edgecomb Community Church
Edgecomb Community Church existed as Edgecomb Congregational Church as early as 1783, according to early town records and the journal of Moses Davis, an original member. The first meeting house, now the Edgecomb Town Hall, was built in 1794, and the church held its first services there until the time of the American Civil War. Subsequently, services were held in the central hall on the second floor of the Old Eddy School. The present building, begun in 1877, was dedicated on February 15, 1882. It is in this historic structure the church has met ever since. Our church is on the National Register of Historical Places.
Worship at the church is held on Sunday mornings at 9:30; and is led by Reverend Katherine Pinkham. Sunday School is also held at this time.
The church serves as a gathering place in the community. In addition to holding Church Suppers for Mission Programs and to finance church needs, Edgecomb Community Church also holds community suppers in the fellowship hall to raise money for the local volunteer Fire Department, and families that may be in need due to accident, illness and fires.
The church is also home to a Thrift Shop where every Tuesday afternoon a community meal , for which there is no charge, is served to any who desires good food and good company. Proceeds from the Thrift Shop are put back into the community. In it's first years, the Thrift Shop was able to donate $10,000 to agencies that help children, elders and teens as well as to the local food pantry, area homeless shelters, Good Shepard Food Bank and the local Fuel Assistance Fund.
Other events held in the church building include Bible Study classes, Summer Suppers, The Greens Luncheon, Yoga Classes and monthly meetings of the Edgecomb Historical Society
Edgecomb Community Church is a very busy place and is mission focused. To address the needs of high fuel costs, in addition to raising money for the local Fuel Assistance Fund, the church has held workshops twice a week to help folks in the community to build window insulation inserts. These and other workshops are free of charge with only a minimal cost to cover materials.
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B&N Summer 2017 Discover Picks
Barnes & Noble's Summer 2017 Discover Great New Writers program includes five Macmillan titles!
ONE DAY WE'LL ALL BE DEAD AND NONE OF THIS WILL MATTER by Scaachi Koul
One of Buzzfeed's "Most Exciting Books Coming In 2017!" For readers of Mindy Kaling, Luvvie Ajayi, and Rupi Kaur comes a debut collection of fierce and funny essays about growing up the daughter of Indian immigrants, addressing sexism, cultural stereotypes and the universal miseries of life by rising star Scaachi Koul. "Simultaneously uproarious and affecting…." — Publishers Weekly, starred review
THE CITY ALWAYS WINS by Omar Robert Hamilton
A Library Journal Debut Novels pick and one of Buzzfeed's "Exciting New Books You Need To Read This Summer!" A vivid, powerful portrait of Egypt's failed revolution in 2011 shown through the eyes of Mariam and Khalil, two young people fighting at the front lines of the revolution in the streets of Cairo and its political underground. "Cofounder of the Palestine Festival of Literature, Hamilton turns in a relentlessly readable work that both informs and humbles." — Library Journal, starred review
THE MIGHTY FRANKS: A Memoir by Michael Frank
A psychologically acute memoir about an unusual and eccentric Hollywood family. "Complex and fascinating… Readers will be enthralled by the affecting portraits of the two central figures: the aunt whose drive and charming idiosyncrasies concealed an impulsive cruelty, and the child struggling to make sense of the complex, damaged woman trying to control him." — Publishers Weekly
HAPPINESS: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After by Heather Harpham
"An award-winning writer, performer, and teacher of physical theater/improvisation, Harpham tells a heartrending story of young love, getting pregnant, her partner's lack of interest in having children, returning home alone, then discovering hours after giving birth that something was dangerously wrong with her baby. There are terrible choices to make and a crooked little road to follow toward some kind of radiant happiness." — Library Journal, pre-pub alert readmoreremove
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Barnes & Noble's Spring 2017 Discover Great New Writers program includes four Macmillan titles!
A HOPE MORE POWERFUL THAN THE SEA by Melissa Fleming
An extraordinary portrait of Doaa Zamel, a Syrian refugee who managed to survive the horrendous September 2014 Mediterranean shipwreck that claimed almost 500 lives, from the Head of Communications and Chief Spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
INSOMNIAC CITY by Bill Hayes
A moving celebration of what Hayes calls "the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected" of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks.
MARLENA by Julie Buntin
An electric debut novel about love, addiction, and loss; the story of two girls and the feral year that will cost one her life, and define the other's for decades. "Buntin's prose is emotional and immediate, and the interior lives she draws of young women and obsessive best friends are Ferrante-esque." — Booklist, starred review readmoreremove
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CHILDREN OF THE NEW WORLD by Alexander Weinstein
An ABA Summer/Fall 2016 Indies Introduce selection! "[A] mind-blowing debut collection of stealthily speculative stories… Weinstein's brilliantly original, witty, and provocative tales explore the malleability of memory and self, the fragility of intimacy and nature, forging a ravishingly powerful, cautionary vision." — Booklist, starred review
THE ART OF WAITING: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood by Belle Boggs
A September 2016 Indie Next pick! "So much more than a memoir about trying to conceive. In her reporting, researching, and sharing, Boggs has performed a public service for those in a similar position—and for anyone interested in the implications of parenthood or in a story well-told and deeply felt." — Kirkus Reviews, starred review
B&N Fall 2015 Discover Picks
Barnes & Noble's Fall 2015 Discover Great New Writers program features 4 Macmillan titles!
BLACK MAN IN A WHITE COAT by Damon Tweedy
A BEA 2015 Editor's Buzz Panel Selection! Memoir at its finest: beautifully composed, firmly anchored to a larger world, engaging, accessible, and profound. "Tweedy, an African American psychiatrist at Duke University, expertly weaves together statistics, personal anecdotes, and patient stories to explain why 'being black can be bad for your health.' In all, a smart, thought-provoking, frontline look at race and medicine." — Booklist, starred review
HOME IS BURNING by Dan Marshall
A BEA 2015 Editor's Buzz Panel Selection! This hilarious, profane, and heartbreaking story of a madcap family's struggles with catastrophic illness had us laughing out loud and quietly crying on all kinds of public transportation. "Horrible. Hysterical. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Just like life." — Jenny Lawson, #1 bestselling author of Let's Pretend This Never Happened (and the forthcoming FURIOUSLY HAPPY) readmoreremove
LJ's Famously Firsts
Library Journal shared their "Famously Firsts"—recently published or forthcoming debut novels that they are most excited about. Check out their Macmillan picks!
NIGHT OF THE JAGUAR by Joe Gannon
A freelance journalist in Nicaragua during the Sandinista Revolution, the setting of this book, Gannon introduces police captain Ajax Montoya, a revolutionary hero who served in state security but has been forced into homicide investigations. At least he recognizes the execution style of an old enemy at the latest crime scene. "Readers will eagerly await Gannon's next book" (PW).
NINE DAYS by Minerva Koenig
Living in the witness protection program in Azula, TX, Julia Kalas is surprised to discover that the buildings near the bar where she works are mostly owned by a shell company; she ends up investigating the sheriff's murder. "Atmospheric and entertaining"; an LJ Mystery Debut of the Month by an architect who once worked as a librarian. (LJ 9/1/14)


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Tesco is seeking "special damages" for "loss of profits" from The Guardian over its story alleging that the supermarket giant avoided paying £1 billion in tax. According to a High Court writ seen by the Telegraph, Tesco is claiming that The Guardian published the allegations despite knowing that they were "false, malicious and defamatory".
According to the writ, Tesco chairman David Reid contacted Guardian Media Group chairman Paul Myners in December to try to shut the story down angering Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger.


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|Summer 2003
Outsiders Destroyed Muslim Freedom
Alvaro Vargas Llosa, the Latin American journalist and co-author of Manual of the Perfect Latin American Idiot, is working on a book about Latin American reform in the 1990s.
San Francisco—It was outside interference that destroyed freedom in the Arab lands. First, it was the Turks. Then, after the long hiatus brought about by the Ottoman Empire, it was the European democracies carving out colonial states. A little later, when those lands, including Iraq, were given independence, it was yet again the liberal democracies—this time the United States was at the forefront—propping up certain corrupt and authoritarian factions against others. By that time, Soviet imperialism was actively engaged in the Arab world, which not only introduced communism into the equation but also provided the perfect alibi for democracies supporting what John F. Dulles once called, in the context of Latin America, "our sons of bitches". Among the many offshoots of this history of outside interference in the Arab world was, of course, an increase in Islamic fundamentalism—and the likes of Saddam were propped up as a bulwark against it.
The Judeo-Christian tradition believes that Abraham—whether he existed or not is irrelevant—was the first to say there was only one God and that God did not dictate the affairs of men, who were free. He was a shepherd from Ur, that is, ancient Iraq. A few centuries later, Moses took up the message in Egypt. Later, Jesus repeated that men are free in Palestine. That is the origin of the tradition. Even more ironic from today's perspective is what happened next.
In the 7th century, Mohammed, a traveling salesman, preached the message of his predecessors in what is today known as Saudi Arabia, stating that men are free and that religious and political organization had corrupted the relationship between individuals and God. His word traveled across the bazaars of the East and the Middle East. Arabs from the Red Sea to the Euphrates absorbed his teachings. One century later the Muslim civilization had spread from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic. The gate of the West bore the Arab name of Gibraltar!
The history Europeans and Americans are taught ignores the eight centuries of Muslim civilization before the Ottoman Empire was born. Only Europe's Dark Ages are mentioned, as if history had stopped at the end of the Roman Empire and restarted with the birth of the nation state and the cultural Renaissance. But history did not stop. The Renaissance and the "discovery" of America are the children of the Muslim civilization.
It is actually misleading to speak of a "Muslim" or "Arab" civilization. Although both were major components, the principal characteristic of that civilization spanning across three continents was diversity—all races, cultures and faiths coexisted peacefully. A better term is "Saracen," the old one used by Europeans.
There was no central authority, therefore not really an empire. There was no politically organized religion, therefore freedom of cult. People went about their business, whether in agriculture, industry, commerce or science. Under no political mandate, farmers were constantly fertilizing and irrigating land and rotating crops. The result was an abundance of food. The towns produced everything from tempered steel and porcelain to cotton and leather goods. Entire cities thrived on commerce, from the Far East to Saracen Italy (the southern tip) and Saracen Spain.
Universities blossomed—no academic divisions, no curriculum, no exam, only contracts between those who knew and those who wanted to know. From Baghdad to Saracen Spain, people went to college to learn rather than to be taught. The result of academic freedom was science. The classics were taught in Arabic. The use of zero opened the way to magic in engineering, astronomy, chemistry. The Saracens discovered local anesthetics, and medical schools and hospitals proliferated. Baghdad, Damascus, Alexandria and other emblems of today's "Arab problem" were the pinnacle of civilization.
It is from there that the modern world sprang. It is no accident that the two Western European countries most in contact with the Saracen world—Italy and Spain—were also the seat of the Renaissance, in the first case, and the major power in the "discovery" of America in the second. Italy traded with the Saracens intensely and its southern tip was under Saracen rule. No surprise, then, that capitalism surfaced in that country very early on and that the classics, reintroduced in the continent by Arabs, experienced a revival—what is known as the Renaissance. Spain was under Saracen rule for eight centuries. The material and scientific legacy of that culture allowed the Catholic monarchs, after expelling the Saracens, to expand the boundaries of the known world. Because this was an authoritarian monarchy that spoiled the legacy, Spain eventually decayed. Freedom moved elsewhere in Europe, and, finally, to the US!
Outsiders destroyed Muslim freedom. The Crusaders were the first to try it, but they did not quite succeed. Tragically, in the 15th century, the Turks took over. They were very recent converts to Islam and not really an organic part of Saracen civilization. Empire and authority replaced individual freedom for centuries. The result was disaster all the way to WWI. New outside interference then took place at the hands of the heirs of the European Crusaders—this time called "democracies." In the 1920s, Britain and France carved up that continent and created artificial colonial states that subsequently became independent monarchies, that is, corrupt dictatorships (I dare not even mention that one Winston Churchill was the British colonial secretary in charge of the mandates). The obsession with oil and other strategic considerations were more important than Arab aspirations of freedom. Putrid governments were sustained in order to facilitate Western influence—with the result that "Western" liberal values lost prestige.
It cannot be guaranteed that, left to their own devices, the Arabs would have reverted to their great Saracen tradition after centuries of Ottoman rule. What is certain is that Western European—and, later, American and Soviet—intervention made sure we would never know.
The lesson is clear—the essential factor driving the Arabs away from the value of freedom all the way to the present situation, with no Arab state being a free country, has been the outside world, not their own, inherent tradition. An awareness of this should give sobering pause to anyone sincerely inclined to think that the Americans and British will bring about the liberty they once took away.


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I made these adorable cards at Shawntel's house last night. She always comes up with the cutest ideas. I love all things Halloween. I put up my Halloween decorations earlier this week. Now, if the weather would cooperate and the days would get cooler it would really feel like fall. I have another card and a cute project to post but it will have to wait until I get back from Syracuse. We're flying up tomorrow for Greg's grandmother's 80th birthday.
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Inside "Hellboy In Hell" #2 With Mike Mignola
SPOILER WARNING: Major spoilers below for "Hellboy In Hell" #2, on sale now.
Mike Mignola's Hellboy has been Hellbound -Â or maybe we should say homeward bound – for a while. But now that the Dark Horse "Hellboy In Hell" series is well underway, there's more to talk about with the big red guy than ever before.
This week, CBR is back with a regular looking inside the series with the cartoonist and creator as "Hellboy In Hell" #2 hits some of the biggest mythological elements of Hellboy's entire career. His birth, his birthright and his army have all been teased over the years Mignola has drawn the character, but on Wednesday, fans got to see those ideas in new, expansive detail.
Below, Mignola explains to CBR how the issue broke down as the most important early stop on HB's tour of Hell, why this is as close he'll come to doing something Dickensian in the series, what secrets still lie behind the face of Hellboy's father and how he'll be keeping things short and sweet after this first arc.
CBR News: The thing that I thought of when I started reading this issue was a practice Frank Sinatra ascribed to where you're always supposed to open your set with three numbers the audience already knows. It warms them up for the show to follow. In "Hellboy In Hell," your version of that warmup seems to be coming out the gate with some depictions of kind of classical, Biblical Hell. Did you "play the hits" a bit here to get those ideas on stage and out of the way early?
Mike Mignola: Not really. This was more about the fact that Pandemonium was mentioned once before in "Hellboy." We saw it in one of the books that Duncan did, and I felt that we had to address it. It is part of this idea that we're acknowledging things from Hellboy's past, so we weren't trying to tap into Biblical stuff. It was tapping into Hellboy mythology stuff that we'd mentioned and getting it behind us. So I guess it's kind of like what you're saying. I did want to get certain things out of the way so we could get on with other stuff. But it just felt like if he's on some kind of a tour, this would be a good first stop. And it would be the thing where the audience had the most familiarity and would most go, "Oh shit! What's going to happen when he goes there?" kind of thing. Address the elephant in the room sort of.
With Pandemonium, I loved the detail where the broken statues that make up the major monuments all wore their own crowns. This is one of your occasional visual signatures, but I wondered what your thinking is on the design here? Is this a way of showing that in Hell, any of these types can aspire to be King?
My idea of Hell royalty would be that first batch of angels that fell when Satan fell -Â his original gang. These are the guys who to me would be personified in these statues with the crowns. It's not like anybody can go there and say, "I'm dead. I'm bad. Put a statue of me up!" This is one of those societies where you have to be born into it. They're not big on new money. [Laughter] And that also, I think, makes for a very inbred, decadent, out-of-touch-with-the-people society.
Hellboy reach's the throne room his father has left for him in the start of the issue, and it made me want to back and try and figure out what we've actually nailed down about "dad" up to this point. Have you really revealed a lot of salient facts about Hellboy's father?
I'm trying to think. I think other than the Hellboy origin story that was originally done in "The Chained Coffin" where you saw Hellboy's father really early on, we didn't see him for a really long time. In Duncan's work on "The Wild Hunt," we got to see Hellboy's mother, and in a little flashback there we named Hellboy's father. So we don't know much. We know his name [Azzael], and we know that he kind of grabbed Hellboy's mother out of her coffin. Other than that, we don't know much, but we will find out more.
A lot of this was setting the feel of Hell and calling back to previous moments. When it comes to the crown, the sword and the ring left for Hellboy, should we see those as items with bigger story significance to come, or are they just set dressing in a way?
Again, it's my way of dealing with all these things that have been mentioned before. Somewhere in Duncan's books, the demon Astaroth said, "You're going to go to Pandemonium, and you're going to take these things. These things are waiting for you." So I wanted to make sure we saw Hellboy, saw those objects and saw that he didn't take them. I wanted to say, "He was right. Those things are there. But he was wrong about Hellboy." I felt it was nice. If it was mentioned, let's go see them. It's part of the tour. I can't say definitively that we'll never see those objects again, but things are definitely moving in a different direction for Hellboy.
You've said that you didn't start with a plan to have Hellboy have some grand destiny, but that grew out of the telling. If you plot him out on that Joseph Campbell hero's journey, I think we've seen several times where he's denied his fate. But isn't the next step usually a character accepting their fate? Is the whole point of Hellboy that he never takes that next step?
That's where things get real blurry because there are certain things that he denies, yet there are certain things he does have to do. He does some things that he doesn't necessarily want to. By denying them, it just means that he might not take one route to get to an end. With certain things, if you don't go through one, it just means you'll end up walking through a different one to do the same thing. I'm not even sure that there's a specific thing Hellboy would do if he picked up that crown and that sword. Maybe that's my problem as a writer. I'm going, "If he did that, I don't know what the hell he would do with that stuff!" [Laughs] But I just find him much more interesting being a guy who says, "I'm not going to do this stuff. I'm going to go my own way."
It's very strange now. It was strange enough when he was on earth and said, "I'm just going to deny everything and go for a walk." Here, he really has nothing to do. And that's part of the struggle for me -Â to keep it that way to a certain extent. I want to keep him in a place where you can say, "You're dead. There's nothing for you to do now." I don't want to turn this into a big epic where he's got a gigantic purpose. I want him to be so cut lose from these other things, so I can do little stories where he just wanders into a place, meets a guy and then they have an adventure. Then he meets somebody else, and they have a little adventure. What I want to avoid is having every person who shows up going, "Oh! You're Hellboy! You've got to do this and that." I like the idea that people don't know who he is or at least don't attach any significance to who he is. It's a trick to cut him loose from all that baggage. I'm trying.
We've got to talk about Satan because when I saw him I really went, "Awwwww." We're never supposed to feel bad for Satan, but I did here. He's just sitting in a basement, and no one will come to kill him. It's sad. What was your conception of including him but not letting him be a major presence in the story?
I really feel like Satan is pretty ill-defined, but I do feel like I've mentioned him previously in "Hellboy." Again in "Wild Hunt," we said that Satan's been down there for 2,000 years. I figure the whole Jesus thing probably was enough for him. [Laughs] He just went downstairs and took a nap after that. Since then, other guys have been running the show. I don't know if he's just sleeping or waiting for something to happen, but when we set up the fact that Hellboy has come to Hell and all the major demons have fled, nobody really bothered to tell Satan they were leaving. It's kind of like an empty house except for one guy sleeping in the basement, and nobody said to him, "We're making a run for it." Also, they all have somewhere else to go, but this is his house. So there's really no place for him to run to. And I do kind of feel bad for him!
We get a callback to Dickens in the story. "You will be visited by three ghosts." It seems that that idea is just a great story structure – to show someone three facets of their own life.
Yeah. I didn't adhere to Dickens in that we had the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. I certainly didn't want anybody else yacking about Hellboy's future. But I did think it was fun as an artist to use this structure and use three different spirits. You can make it a little more subtle when one spirit changes to another spirit. Is it three different guys, or is it one spirit who changes into three incarnations. Visually, that was fun.
I don't remember what came first - that Christmas Carol gag, the three spirits or the puppet show? It was probably the puppet show. I think I'd come up with the idea of doing a "Christmas Carol" puppet show, and then it was a matter of saying, "Let me futz the guide into three different personas." And really there are three different things for him to see. Those things tend to pile up on each other.
What I'm really happy about – well, I'm not happy that the book took so long to get done, but because it was originally supposed to come out in August, it was nice when I told Dark Horse "Don't just put it back a month. Put it back a whole bunch of months to December!" My first thought wasn't tying the release to "A Christmas Carol." My first thought was, "Put it really far back so I won't have deadlines breathing down my neck." But that ended up happening anyway. [Laughter] It worked out well in the end, though.
The tour overall takes us to see the army Hellboy is meant to lead and then his actual birth. The army has been mentioned for a long time, and the idea of him being given the right Hand of Doom has as well. You've talked about discovering the story as you went. How much of this specific imagery did you have from way earlier, and how much did you break out while doing the script?
Everything that's in this issue is something that I had. Other than the part where they discuss the soul, which I had to come up with on the fly, the origin of Hellboy and what the army is I've known for a long time. It's the kind of stuff where when you do a story that mentions this stuff in general, I don't want to stop the action and explain, "The arm is blah blah blah." It doesn't help the story to stop things and have some guy give a bunch of details.
This story's structure being between a tour and an explanation gives you an opportunity to hit the nail on the head and get it out of the way. I'd like to think that this is the end of the discussion around this army. I've trotted it out, mentioned it a few times, and now we've seen it and can move on. I also just like the idea of the fish getting banged into soldiers. That's a nice thing to do. And at this point, people expected something big, some of the answers. It's my return to the book. He's going to Hell. They want some answers to stuff there. There are a whole lot of questions coming up, so I wanted to answer as many of the old questions as I could to make way for a whole new set of problems and questions.
What can we say at this point about next issue? We know we've got an important player skulking around a bit here. What does that hold for the rest of this arc?
That's the demon Astaroth who we saw first in "Box Full of Evil." I don't think I'm giving too much away with the teaser for the next issue that says, "Family Ties" with Astaroth who last figured into Duncan's "Wild Hunt" story where he'd whisper over Hellboy's shoulder. He's been nudging Hellboy along quite a bit – the one demon who shows up to tell Hellboy, "This is what you're going to do. I know what your father wanted for you." So it's time to have it out with him.
How are you breaking down the series as a whole in terms of arcs or mini series or what have you?
It's not going to be mini series. The first four issues are monthly, and they make the first arc. There's a certain kind of ending with issue #4 which I just finished. Then issue #5 will come out I'm not sure when – it depends on when I start it and finish it! But from here on out, there will only be one-issue stories or two-issue stories. If it's a two-issue story, those two issues will come out monthly. But my goal is to do as many self-contained stories as I can. Though, I do keep coming up with two-issue ones. Still, I don't plan on anything longer than that.
Why is that? Why do you love the short format so much? Does it just help you get more ideas out quicker?
I can polish it a little more. I can see both sides of it. To me, four issues gets a bit unwieldy. It takes too long, and there's too much space between the beginning, middle and end. If I do one issue, I can see both sides of the story and work them towards the middle if that makes any sense. It's just easier to wrap my brain around a smaller thing. At the same time, the beauty of doing the small things is that while they seem to stand alone, they do fit together into a great piece. So I've roughly structured at least the first three trade paperbacks worth of material. They're standalone stories, but they stack together in a specific way that gives the sense of an ongoing story.
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Site engagement can be gamed by tricking the user into many navigations
Reported by ma7h1a...@gmail.com, May 16 2017
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VERSION Chrome Version:58.0.3029.110 stable Operating System: Windows 10 enterprise VULNERABILITY DETAILS chrome version 58 disabled flash execution by default if user want to use flash,he must click the flash area and confirm the notice window to open it. but this bug shows a way to make a redirection between two pages without any notice to open it and make an attack. need user iteract --- click jacking(make a small game) click about 300 times and the flash could execute REPRODUCTION CASE please put them on a local webserver, i used apache + php and use the new.html to performance this attack the result.png shows the attack result
May 16 2017,
Issue 722726 has been merged into this issue.
May 16 2017,
I /suspect/ this is a result of the fact that we don't really disable Flash by default, we instead disable Flash for most sites based on the site engagement score. See Issue 699300 .
May 16 2017,
Site engagement score is specifically, by design, not a security barrier, so this is not a security bug. The site engagement folks might be interested in addressing this gaming of the metric though, so leaving as a bug for now.
May 16 2017,
if the "engagement score" is used to do those things,then it is actually a security barrier and once the attacker use it on a "low engagement score" he could even only use a remote file with any extension(.jpg,the most common) to make a flash-cross-domain-csrf and stolen user's important information
May 16 2017,
Maybe what we should talk is the flash player is being enabled without any notifications to the user. This is the point, since once the flash player is enabled, payloads other than a CSRF is available to be deployed. Personally I think this is a security vulnerability since it performs like a "primer" in the bullet. Waiting for a warhead to come is not a good idea.
May 16 2017,
Issue 722941 has been merged into this issue.
May 16 2017,
it might be a functional bug to be able to game the site engagement service but this is not a security bug as the design for site engagement specifically states: "Site engagement will never be used to silently grant privacy or security sensitive permissions." [1] Flash might be running but the fact that Flash is running is not a security issue per se, since it's still running inside the Chrome sandbox and would require bugs to gain execution and escape that sandbox. [1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GQE9gguqVMgXvR68jZyIsBhHVoAJb9m4fTn6omfqj4M/edit#heading=h.k4pjrzlnm098
May 17 2017,
ok,thanks for handle this problem. although it just block some attacks by accident hope it could be fixed
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Jun 20 2017,
Navigation from link clicks does not generate any site engagement. The user needs to explicitly type in a URL in the omnibox or some other kind of more direct navigation in order to earn engagement from just visiting a URL. If a site manages to get the user to interact with it sufficient, engagement will naturally go up (that's the whole definition of engagement really). So this is really working as intended: a site that manages to get a user to stay on it and interact it with for a while will naturally gain engagement. If there's no other comments here, I'm going to WontFix this since it's working as intended.
Jun 20 2017,
wait. who renamed this issue? the original issue seems "chrome flash default-disabled bypass (was: Security: chrome flash default-disabled bypass)" rename it to something totally unrelated to security, and then WontFix it? Boring.
Jun 20 2017,
As mentioned in #3, "Site engagement score is specifically, by design, not a security barrier, so this is not a security bug."
Nov 6 2017,
WontFixing as per c#12. Please reopen if there are any more comments.
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