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Taoiseach Enda Kenny intervenes on behalf of Scottish government in their bid to stay in the European Union
Taoiseach Enda Kenny has intervened on behalf of the Scottish government in their bid to stay in the European Union.
Mr Kenny said that Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon asked him to raise the Scottish referendum result - which saw people vote to remain in the EU by 62pc to 38pc- at last night's European Council meeting.
He said that he met Ms Sturgeon at the recent British Irish Council meeting in Glasgow and that she asked him in the case of an overall leave vote in the United Kingdom to raise her country's "very strong belief that they should not be dragged out of the European Union having voted to stay".
Mr Kenny said he spoke to her again yesterday and that "she wanted that repeated which I said on her behalf last evening".
He was meeting with the 27 other EU leaders, including British Prime Minister David Cameron who was there to officialy explain the Brexit vote to other EU member states.
Ms Sturgeon is in Brussels today where she met European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.
She said she is there to "make sure Scotland's voice is being heard".
She said she welcomed Mr Kenny's intervention on behalf of Scotland and that she is "very grateful" to him.
"Ireland is a great friend to Scotland," she added.
Irish Independent


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Scientific name: Porodisculus pendulus (Fr.) Murrill
Derivation of name: Porodisculus is the diminutive of
Porodiscus which means "a little, poroid disk"; pendulus means
"hanging down."
Synonyms: Polyporus pocula (Schw.) Berk. & Curt.; Peziza
pendula Schw.
Common name(s): Pendulous-disc polypore.
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Order: Polyporales
Family: Polyporaceae
Occurrence on wood substrate: Saprobic; solitary but
occurring in large numbers on freshly dead deciduous branches
and logging slash.
Dimensions: Fruitbodies 1-5 mm wide, pendent from a stalk-
like base 3-5 mm long; August through October.
Upper surface: Whitish to brown; hairy.
Pore surface: Whitish or brownish; pores minute, 8-10 per mm.
Edibility: Inedible.
Comments: This is the smallest polypore species. The
Peziza pendula Schw. was published in 1822 and is a
reflective of an ascomycete cup fungus!
Figure 1. Porodisculus pendulus
on a small twig. Note the
pendulous habit and stalk-like base. Photo © Gary
Figure 2. The twig in Figure 1 is turned to reveal the
cup-like fruitbodies. Photo © Gary
Figure 3. By getting really close, you can see the
the pore surface. Photo © Gary
Figure 4. This is a small polypore, not even 3 mm wide.
Photo © Gary Emberger.


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I use pass phrases:
Easy to remember, and very secure.]]>
But this is the problem: especially for a mobile phone, which could easily be stolen and find its way into a hacker's hands, it is dangerously insecure to store the Master Password anywhere. Even if it is encrypted, since the program must have the decryption key somewhere. So what I was looking for is a mention that only a secure hash of the Master Password is stored. But I cannot find this, even for the Password Managers recommended by this article.
So that is my $64000.00 question: which of these Password Mangers implement a protocol so secure that they are willing to admit what it is?
"The same applies even if he is randomizing his search order, because entries that he has already tried now could be possible passwords again and he must try those again."
I can't answer for what Roger ment by "randomize" but I have seen a similar problem before and it always causes confusion 8(
If you have a set of passwords there are two ways you can randomly select to do searchs,
1, from the whole set.
2, from the remaining set.
That makes a fundemental difference in that the first search will only end when a match is found. And the second will stop either on a match or when the remaining set reaches zero size.
The second major difference between the two is the first search may never try all passwords in the set, and will try some passwords over and over again. Where as the second trys them all once, just in a random order.
From the way you and Roger have worded things I suspect he was thinking of search type 1 and you are thinking of search type 2.]]>
They /only/ cause problems when people who can't remember their passwords pick their new password to be the same as their last one, or otherwise choose it to be dumbed-down and easy to remember. But you shouldn't be doing this in the first place; instead rely on an OPEN SOURCE password manager to remember your passwords for you.
@Roger: I don't follow your logic. The first rebuttal you give against this argument is that changing your password does not defeat a brute force attempt, it merely causes it to start over. I maintain that these two are one and the same. The same applies even if he is randomizing his search order, because entries that he has already tried now could be possible passwords again and he must try those again.
For example: Assume a password of complexity N is being attacked with computing power of attack rate r. Assume that P is 100% after a period of 1 year. Now if we institute a password change every 30 days, using your formula which is correct, we reduce the probability of a successful attack to a mere 8.33% for the same period of time.
Your second reason does not make much sense to me either. The formula you gave is still true. I agree with you however that password complexity is at least as important, if not more than, password lifespan.
Another reason why password changes are good tho is that they cover possible leaks that are difficult to account for, such as cookies, use of public computers, use of open wifi, etc.]]>
Using a Live CD is a good but slightly paranoid idea. Hashing is a nonsense. How could any malware tamper with CD-R (not -RW)? And nothing stops any malware tamper with the RAM copy of running software - if the software proves defective.]]>
To secure your on-line banking or other high security password setting, use a LiveCD which you can hash against the original image's hash before and after to establish it hasn't been tampered with, or at least you're just as borked as everybody else. Unless someone has borked your hash function too.
Myself, I just have roughly three categories of passwords:
1. Very important passwords: bank accounts, credit cards' PINs, passwords used at my workplace, passphrases to a few SSH and GPG keys I use, password-manager password etc. I use strong but easy to remember passwords, and I keep them in my head. I change them according to the applicable policy or just occassionally when no policy is in place.
2. Important passwords: email/shell accounts, paid services of various kinds (like my domain registry password, online newspaper access etc.) and one or two social networking sites. In this category I use random-generated passwords and keep them in a home-grown 'password manager'. I rarely change them, if at all, unless I feel one could have been compromised.
3. Marginal passwords: forums, web shopping and other sites that require a password for no reason at all. I have two or three not-so-strong passwords that I reuse between sites. I also store them in the 'password-manager' but rather as a record of which unique email address I give to what site, so I could kick their butts (or blacklist the address at least) if they happen to leak it or give it away.
Some exceptions: infrequently used PINs that I am sure I am going to forget are written down and kept in a (relatively) secure place. Some web shops that are stupid enough to store credit card details are sometimes promoted to Category 2 (but I use a secure 'virtual' card for online shopping so the promotion is rather useless anyway).
For the Category 1 I use two methods of choosing passwords. For ones that are to be typed in frequently (like a main work account password beeing also the screen lock password), I choose a dictionary word of 8 to 12 characters long (sometimes with a spelling error) and apply simple substitution cipher (with several variants) that is easy to perform in my head thus getting a string of letters, digits and/or symbols (I stick to those symbols that are easily typed on a keybord, unshifted). Most often than not I am able to choose a word with all 8 characters different or only one of them repeating. This is hardly different from generating a random alphanumeric password, but easy to recover if I happen to forget it. The dictionary word + mental substitution method is actually useful only a few days or weeks after a password change; after that I just get to memorize the resulting string and even forget what word it was based on.
For passwords that are typed infrequently (like once a day for an SSH agent) I choose long passwords that are a complete sentence or two - often a couple of lines from a little known work of literature along with due punctuation and a few spelling errors thrown in, sometimes in foreign or exotic language. These are easy to remember (in the same way you memorize a poem or a song's text), yet in case I forget them I know where to look them up. Try to brute-force them!]]>
The argument presumes a cracker who has somehow stolen some sort of hashed credential (whether a copy of /etc/shadow, an NTLM hash sniffed off the network, or whatever.) The attacker is proceeding to grind into these hashed credentials with some sort of brute force or dictionary attack. The attacker has some probability per unit time of success, depending on the entropy of the passwords, and his number of trials per second. His total probability of success is the life expectancy of the password multiplied by this rate, i.e.:
P = Tr/N
where P is probability of attack success, N is size of password space (here assumed uniformly distributed for simplicity), r is the attack rate, and T is the maximum permitted password life.
Now the argument goes like this: obviously we want to minimise P. We have little control over N: users will be given advice on choosing passwords, and perhaps we will even do some password strength checking, but there will always be some guy who chooses his car registration number. We also have little control over r: we can make password hashing slow to reduce this rate a bit, but we can't make it too slow or else it will annoy users, and we simply have no control over how much iron the attacker can throw at the problem. Thus to minimise P, our best bet is to minimise T.
Obviously we can't make it too small, or it will be really inconvenient to change passwords so often, so how small should we go? Well at some point in the past people threw some guesstimated numbers at the problem and came up with various figures from a week to a year or so, depending on what parameters you guessed, and a lot of folks settled on a month as being not too inconvenient yet not too risky.
Unfortunately, the whole line of argument is baloney, for two reasons. The more important and cuter reason is that if the attacker can still gain access to a hashed credential (and we've done nothing to stop him), then he is not "defeated" by the password change, he just has to start again (or if he is already randomising his search order: he changes nothing, just keeps going!) That might seem like a lot of extra work but actually it turns out that on average, all these password changes at most double his time until success, no matter how frequently they are done. Even if the hapless user is forced to change his password at every login, he achieves at most a doubling of the time until the cracker controls his account! This is really not very helpful.
The second reason it is baloney is that the calculations are now totally dated (that is, the calculations that people once did to come up with a month as the right order of magnitude.) If your users are still choosing 6 character dictionary words as passwords then be warned, they can be cracked not in a month but in a fraction of a second. Changing it once a month is useless because it will be broken again somewhere between hitting "Enter" and lifting the finger off the key. If you are a paranoid bastard like me and use 16 character random strings then you were immune to dictionary attacks back then and you still are. But most users need to have graduated from 7 or 8 character pronounceable non-words up to *at least* 10 character random alphanumeric strings (e.g. "ZY1L5QKA9D"), or 14 character pronounceable nonsense (e.g. "sotrebtapmundo"). For many people this is simply too much, and so the reality today is:
a) if system security prevents the cracker from getting a hashed credential to chew on, then all of the above is moot; but
b) if the attacker can get a hashed credential, then it is still moot, because most users will be dog meat in minutes.
"...in hearing, from anyone, how frequent password changes increase security."
Well you have to stand back from the issue and ask,
"Why where password systems developed this way?"
To which the answer is another question,
"Who's security is being protected?"
And this is where historicaly on a batch or multiuser system there are three heirachical players to consider,
1, The System Owner.
2, The System Admin.
3, The System Users.
The System Owner makes money by making a service available to users and to ensure that the owner and users can do their "business" and not bother with "system things" there is an administrator to keep things running.
Traditionaly money was made on resources be it CPU or System Time, Storage, or Output.
The Owners accountants want to maximise income and the users accountants want to minimise costs...
So from an accountants point of view it is important to have "acountability" for the resources used. Part of this is ensurimg that all use is "valid use" which means strict user acount control.
The more frequently the user account passwords are changed the less the window for illicit use by either users or others (ie crackers in more modern parlance). In some companies the password was changed at close of business at the end of the week and the new password given by the Owners Admin to the users accountant first thing on the Monday morning, the users would que up at the acounting departments "admin desk" to get the password along with any stationary...
Some 40 years later this legacy viewpoint of changing passwords frequently still remains.
The only security value in changing passwords is on shared accounts and as we (should) know shared accounts lack accountablity via auditing and this due to SabOx etc is most definatly a no no these days.
So the need to change is at best marginal in an out of date insecure usage model that by and large does not exist any longer.
The only place it still has value is in OS's where there is only one "admin" account and it is difficult or impossible to provide role based access or delegate specific actions in a controled and audited fashion (and I would politly sugest if you have such an OS you should stop working with museum pieces).
There is a residual security value in suspending accounts that are either not used or have changed usage patterns but providing the password is sufficiently random etc there is very little point changing it.
So as far as I can see it is tradition and not a lot of other reason to keep it, oh and the likes of MS build it in so it gets used by "box tickers" as a method of policy...
I'm sure that there are people out there who hold strong views on the subject one way or the other but then people put mustard on their steak or eat vindalo ;)]]>
I've wondered about this for years: Even if you change your password daily, once it's compromised the bad guy would have an average of 12 hours to work his nefarious plans. Seems to me that should be ample time for most purposes (e.g., running to the liquor store with your debit card, sending nasty emails to your boss, etc.).
Am I missing something? I'm genuinely curious.]]>
Is it that certain rules above fail the Schneier Sanity Test? (For instance, there are some very clever people who think that changing your Unix password every N days can introduce more risk than it mitigates, such as through SSH keystroke timing attacks.) Or is it just that he's purposefully demoted himself a la Twelve Monkeys such that his accounts now no longer have much value to bother defending?
Come on, people! We need to petition our guru for the real wisdom!]]>
Then there are the passwords I use for banking and credit card stuff. Very strong and changed regularly. I use them for nothing else.
Lastly, there are passwords I use to access my PCs and servers at work. They have strict password policies which force changes and deny the recycling of passwords.
If I need access to my PCs or servers at work, I VPN in and then remote into my desktop. I do not access my banking or cc websites from anywhere but home. About the riskiest thing I do is access my email from wifi networks not under my control, such as hotel wifis. I should probably use the VPN for that, although my email is boring as hell. Not much of interest to anyone there.]]>
Well there are some flaw in ssl (see last black hat archive for example).
https over open wifi shouldn't be trust. Prefer usage of VPN (or ssh tunnel).
I'm going to guess you also wrote the passwords backwards. Or transpose the pairs of letters. I do the transposition trick myself, sometimes, when I have to write one down. abcdef would be written as badcfe.
I still think it's reasonably secure that way, to write down passwords if you've got a trick. You know there's an extra letter at the end that you have to remove, or there's one at the start you have to add, or anything like that.
Given a lengthy list of encoded passwords and lots of time they might eventually be cracked, but it's probably not worth the effort for most would-be intruders.]]>
-- obfuscated perl one-liners that are silly enough to stand out in your memory
-- diceware (10 words)
[ (7776^10) > (2^128) ]
-- an acronym string of some outrageously memorable bit of designer prose
'As i walked down the streets of the West Village, i was quite taken by the pulchritude of the denizens thereof; many of whom were of not readily determinable gender ' ->
'AiwdtsotWV,iwqtbtpotdt;mowwnordg' )
--equations as root
here you have a particlar luxury, in that the equations don't have to be valid, just memorable ;-)
e = mc^2
but as we all know ;-)
in crypto, RSA
c = m^e mod n
so e = mc^2 becomes:
e = m [(m^e)^2 mod n]
= m [m^2e mod n]
= [e = m^(2e+1) mod n]
(not being 'picky' about squaring the mod n in the nonsense
equation :-))
-- combined longer pronounceable nonsense words as root
(somewhat similar to an obscure Minbari cursephrase of the Warrior caste, but the cracking software is probably restricted to Earth language dictionaries ;-) )
there are probably many other schemes that would be effective
That would be nifty, but of course to access a remote server you'd probably want to track things client-side (if only for accurate timing across the internet). And then, of course, you'd need some way of representing/encoding the advanced information.
You'd probably have to combine it with the password text to create some sort of Unique Identification Key bitstring, which to the untrained would seem a lot like a password, but obviously it wouldn't be because it would be a UIK.
What exactly is the difference between
password1 and password1^H1 ?
It does offer a new dimension to the password space, but at the cost of extra complexity for the user.
And that's the true problem - as users, we can't even mentally handle the complexity of the passwords we already have.]]>
Commonly, password managers will encrypt the passwords you store in them, so you will need one "master password" to access the others anyway.
There's no real need to put the already-encrypted database file of the password manager into another encrypted container.
It also doesn't require you to submit your password before checking it, though. It is client side.
It still isn't very good, however. It rates an eight character password that includes symbols, numbers and letters higher than a random hundred letter password.
Step 2) Sell newly compiled list of passwords to 'the usual suspects'.
Step 3) Write another article about passwords and password lists...]]>
Yep. Password Safe, hereinafter "PS". Used for everything except my work and home Windoze logins (password manager not running yet when logging in!), and my cell phone unlock PIN, plus the PS master password itself. And yes, I have backups!
> DO change passwords frequently. ...
I don't generally follow this, because nearly all of my PS generated passwords have approximately 105 bits of entropy, and so it is pointless. There are 2 special cases I change once a year. Plus I might login to something low-grade at a riskier PC, like say, IMDB at the library, but then I change it as soon as I get back to a trusted machine.
> DO keep your passwords secret....
> DON'T use passwords comprised of ...
Yep. Follows trivially from using PS.
> DON'T use the same password for different sites.
Yep. Follows trivially from using PS.
> DON'T allow your computer to automatically sign in on boot-up and thus use any automatic e-mail, chat, or browser sign-ins. Avoid using the same Windows sign-in password on two different computers.
Yep, I follow this. Logon passwords are two of the four passwords I actually have memorised. Everything else bootstraps off PS.
> DON'T use the "remember me" or automatic sign-in option available on many Web sites.
Yep, I don't do this. In fact Firefox is set to delete all cookies at the end of every session. (Contrary to various claims, I have never found this to be an issue with anything at all.)
> DON'T enter passwords on a computer you don't control — such as a friend's computer —
I sometimes violate this for certain proverbial "low value accounts", such as accessing IMDB at the library, but then I change the password when I get back to a trusted PC. If I'm expecting to be using untrusted PCs for a while, e.g. email access whilst travelling light, I'll actually create a couple of "disposable" accounts beforehand, change the password everytime I login, and cancel them afterwards. In principle the owner of a key logger could get to the password quickly enough to take over the account before it's changed, but it's never happened yet, and all I need to do is use the backup account to tell everyone to stop using the compromised one.
> DON'T access password-protected accounts over open Wi-Fi networks —
Yep, I follow this one. Actually I rarely use an open Wi-Fi link for anything except general interest browsing, or checking e-mail over an account that SSLs the entire session.
> DON'T enter a password or even your account name in any Web page you access via an e-mail link.
I also follow this - which is arguably the most important rule on the list!
I'm a little surprised that Bruce says he violates so many. It's true that they are a PITA to obey without a password manager, but using PS -- which he designed! -- solves 99% of the problems and enables you to be this strict quite easily.]]>
Hmm how about,
"Any phrase from any published work"
"Any known or predictable numerical sequence"
I guess the real question is "when do we give up on passwords for something better".
Or are they like Sir Winston Churchill's comment about democracy (see Hansard, November 11, 1947),
"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
Let's see a quick,
s/democracy/a password/g
And Churchill becomes a "man of the times" again 44 years after his death...]]>
Password Security
From now on all passwords must obey the following security rules
1. You must not use words that are in the dictionary.
2. You must not use keyboard sequences eg qwerty
3. You must not use repeated letters eg zzzz
3. All passwords must contain at least one digit and one non-alphanumeric character.
4. You must not use common acronyms.
5. You must not use proper names.
6. You must not include numeric squences that are memorable dates eg 1066.
7.You may not use valid postcodes.
8. You may not include car registration sequences.
Our security experts have now determined that there is only one passwords that satisfies all of these rules. It will be issued to all staff in the next security bulletin.]]>
P.S. I'm sorry, but my English is not so good as I want...]]>
"Recording your password is nothing more than keeping your keys on a keychain."
Err no it's not quite the same. If I lift your key chain I cannot make "easy copies" of the keys on it. That is there is a degree of "preventative security" involved which puts a "work factor" on the person trying to make copies.
A simple "recording" such as writing down on a piece of paper does not add any "work factor", you can still lose your wallet or let the piece of paper become visible inadvertently (whilst you are asleep in the shower etc etc).
Therefore you need to add the extra "work factor" to make it equivalent to a key chain.
If you do, do that then yes you are correct when you say,
"Recording allows you to maintain genuinely secure passwords for those cases when secure passwords are appropriate."
As a general point "key management" is actually a much much harder problem than other aspects of security.
Most solutions are either not robust or insecure.
A classic example of this is with PKI where a root private key becomes lost or compromised.
There is a recent example where a Hardware Security Module (HSM) failed and the root private key was lost in trials of a prototype health card system,
"Hint: iPhones seem to be designed to forget passwords to quickly and securely wipe data."
I guess you haven't heard about the little problem with Blackberry's in the United Arab Emmerates?
Put simply Blackberry has handed over some of it's PKI "code signing rights" to another organisation (Etisalat a UAE-based carrier). They sent out a software update to all the phones on their network.
Unfortunately for the users this "trusted code" contained malicious code (rogue-ware) in the form of "ET Spyware", that intercepts the Blackberry users plaintext emails and text messages and sends copies to a central Etisalat server...
As the rogue-ware had a "command element" to it, it could potentially have been made to "push" any user plain text up to the server including the output of a password safe...
Fortunately for the users the code was sufficiently ham-fisted in the way it worked, that it drained the Blackberry phone battery in a matter of a couple of hours and the resulting investigation found the rogue-ware.
You can read more at,
Oh and for those with a short memory Blackberry made a lot of commercial ground over the fact that US President Obama uses a Blackberry and the NSA passed it as being secure.
There are two points to note from this,
1, There is no such thing as "trusted closed source code" signed or otherwise (think about that next time you download the latest app for your computer or iPhone etc)
2, For whatever reason somebody will always do an "end run" around any security you put in place.
There is a third point (PKI is brittle and useless) but the Moderator will give me a "yellow card" for "Off Topic" if I'm not careful ;)
The upshot is as I have said for many years a "security token" must be "immutable" except under some very specific conditions involving a "physical interlock" that is effectively "inaccessible to the user" and extremely "tamper evident" (ie the token stops working entirely).]]>
I mean, why does my Blackberry password expire? Only I know it. If I leave my company, the blackberry is useless without the service they pay for, and if I was trying to get any confidential data off it I've had years of prior time. Additionally password expiry encourages bad behavior from users, which is far more troublesome, and opens up repeated and predictable attack opportunities during password changes.
In addition, focusing on short password complexity has been a losing game for over 10 years, as illustrated by some of the earlier posters. Passphrases in the 20-50 character range not only offer substantial resistance to brute force attacks but they're a hell of a lot easier to remember than line noise jibberish at comparable risk level.
The best password advice out there is not following directions on those silly "Secret questions" and using another normal password there, and keeping at minimum different groups of passwords as mentioned. I may reuse or do slight variations on random forums I don't care about, but all my financial and mail accounts have unique and long pass phrases.
All these "password advice columns" seem to be largely games of one-up-manship comparable to version-number races between vendors. Most of makes no sense, but you better come off sounding tougher and more authoritative than the last guy!
Hasn't Bruce recommended that in the past, based on the reasoning that any average person knows how to (and more importantly, practices) keeping their wallets secure?
Plus you can add a little obscurity in the way you write them down so their usage isn't obvious to a garden-variety thief.]]>
low: Sites I just don't care about. They all use the same password, 6 random lower-case letters that was assigned to me when I opened an account on tripod many, many years ago.
medium: Sites I have some slight interest in keeping private, but wouldn't really cause me too much trouble if they were discovered. These all use the same password as well, but it's longer and more complicated.
high: These are sites like my email and banks. Each gets its own, unique, randomly-generated password using the best standards the site will allow (e.g. my email password is much stronger than my bank password because of the stupid limits Bank of America places on passwords). With the exception of my email password, which I've memorized, I can't access any of these sites except when I'm at home where I have a program for keeping track of my passwords. Hence it's a tradeoff between security and convenience.]]>
I thought linux /dev/random was (truly) random. Am I wrong?]]>
Who cares?
Dictionary attacks might have been the only practical attack circa 1999 for persons lacking government level resources.
Today, Rainbow tables handle that need quite nicely upto some length that starts becoming more "passphrase" then "password."
If you don't have a system that locks out after a few bad attempts -- something that was fairly resistant to dictionary attacks already, it doesn't matter. Say a hacker who snags an entire security database so they can rainbow table it offline.
I wonder if any botnets have been configured to do due distributed rainbow table analysis yet a la SETI?]]>


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August is about preparation. This is the month that we realize how much our children have grown, we stock up on new school supplies (which seem to be getting more and more expensive) and we hit the back-to-school sales. This is when we make sure we have plenty of food in the pantry for all of the lunches that we will soon be preparing.
Bedtimes are reinforced and we squeeze in the last of our vacations. August is when we get ready for the next nine months of activity.
Some of us establish new patterns and routines that will be put into place for the school year.
In our house, I have created a schedule for our entire day, personalized for me and my girls. I introduced them to our new schedule (which will be enforced once we officially start school) at the beginning of summer. I typed them up with fancy font in their favorite colors (I just knew thats all they needed to jump right on board). If my girls cooperate and life goes by smoothly and perfectly, our new schedule will work out great!! HA!
Someone once told me that the best way for a schedule to work is to expect hiccups. In other words, stick to the schedule but accept that LIFE HAPPENS. Some days will be great and everything will go as planned but a lot of days, something is going to come up. A sick child, a whiny and uncooperative child, the SNOOZE button, rainy days which equal lazy days, _____________________days will all put a hiccup in our schedules-but its not the end of the world!! The next day we start over.
I look forward to sharing our new schedule and routine with you in the coming months. The things that work and the things that don't. The things that we need to incorporate and the things that maybe aren't as important as we thought.
What are your patterns or routines that will be starting back up or maybe just beginning in the coming days?
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Los Angeles, April 12, 2014 – Diesel and i-D presents 'A-Z of Dance', a dynamic new video showcasing 26 of the world's favourite dance styles from krumping and twerking to rumba and bangra, revealing the movement potential of Diesel's JoggJeans.
Diesel is now inviting fans across the globe to dance their way into a one-of-a-kind follow up film – upload your moves to Instagram, Vine etc using the hashtags #joggjeans and #iDdance. For more information please visit: www.diesel.com/joggjeans
Directed by Jacob Sutton and shot against the beautiful LA skyline, 'A-Z of Dance' shows break-out stars performing the cult dances that made them famous. All wear Jogg Jeans, Diesel's hybrid clothing that combines denim and sweat, proving that movement and style are perfect partners for successful living in this energetic and vibrant video.
'A-Z of Dance' presents a host of talent making waves in pop culture today: Nicole 'The Pole' Williams, star performer in Rihanna's 'Pour It Up' video; Northern Soul teen sensation Levanna McLean fresh from performing with Pharrell Williams at the Brit Awards; and Atlanta's Twerk Team finest, Mizz Twerksum and Lady Luscious.


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Tania is a registered Occupational Therapist, with over 25 years experience in working with adults and children both locally and internationally. She has delivered training and consultancy services to individuals and groups, within business, education and health settings. She is deeply interested in how the processing of sensory information impacts across our lives, affecting both work performance and wellbeing.
While providing education and training to school staff to support children with special educational needs, Tania quickly realised that the strategies she was teaching were being used by the workers in the school and had a much wider application for the general population. Using her specialist knowledge of sensory integration, Tania began exploring how this primal brain system can be used to improve productivity, performance and staff wellbeing in the world of work.
Tania and Annemarie met in September 2015 while they were both presenting at a European Congress. It was an instant connection between two like-minded people, who were pioneering new and innovative ideas in this field. Since this 'meeting of minds' they began to explore avenues for possible collaboration, ultimately leading to a business merger. Tania is delighted to have joined with Sensory Intelligence ® in May 2016 and is now Director of the UK branch.
Hailing from Australia, Tania currently lives with her partner in the beautiful Chilterns area, where she continues to chase that elusive work-life balance…
Registered Occupational Therapist with the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC), UK
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Yahoo News : Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has taken to Twitter as a self-styled "freedom fighter" as he waits to find out if the United States can extradite him from New Zealand to face online piracy charges.
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Published: December 25th, 2013 at 9:26 am ET
Mother speaking at Fukushima Collective Evacuation Trial Team press conference on Dec. 4, 2013, transcribed by Kiiko and translated by Fukushima Voice, Published Dec. 22, 2013:
[…] I still remember how it was very hard for me and my children to breathe due to strange smell […] Every day the government and specialists said […] "There is no immediate health effect." […] we ate local vegetables and drank tap water. […] I began to have dry coughs of unknown etiology. When I went to a hospital, I was told "An increasing number of people had the same symptom." […] My son [and] many others around us, at all ages, also complained of bone pain in the soles of their feet. […] Health of all the family members quickly deteriorated during the period awaiting evacuation. […] My dry cough got so bad to the point of nearly choking in the middle of the night […] arm bone pain was so bad that I could barely open and close doors. […] My grade school age son continued to have nausea and headache […] they found blood in his urine […] he often had diarrhea. I also began to have continuing nausea, headache and diarrhea. […] my son's blood pressure had gone down to 82/50. […] [We] went to a hospital in Tokyo for thyroid examination. […] all of us had results which were totally different from the results in Fukushima [son diagnosed with thyroid adenomatous goiter and lymphadenopathy with over 10 lymph nodes involved]. When I took him to a hospital in Yamanashi, he was diagnosed with "autonomic nervous system disorder." […] More people who remained in Fukushima are suffering from the same symptoms as mine. More people have died. There are more children who got leukemia, who began to have bloody noses and who have thyroid cancer. […]
Watch the press conference here
Published: December 25th, 2013 at 9:26 am ET
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European shares closed lower on Monday as the partial government shutdown in the U.S. continued, and as investors worried that the impasse could lead to the country defaulting on its debt.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 provisionally closed down 0.3 percent at 1,40.08 points, off earlier lows that saw it slip to its lowest in around a month.
There are growing fears that the budget deadlock in the U.S. could run on, potentially hampering attempts to solve a greater challenge, that of raising the debt ceiling limit. That must be agreed upon before October 17, if the country is to avoid defaulting on its debts.
On Sunday, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said that Congress was "playing with fire," and warned the U.S. could default in just over a week.
Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner vowed not to allow a vote on raising the debt ceiling to take place without a "serious conversation" about what was driving the debt.
Speaking to ABC over the weekend, Boehner also warned the U.S. was on the path to a credit default. Democrats reposted that it was reckless of Boehner to raise the possibility of a default.
"Comments yesterday by House Speaker John Boehner that he would not facilitate bills to reopen the government or lift the debt ceiling in the absence of an agreement to wide-reaching talks on fiscal policy suggest that we should not anticipate an early resolution," Chris Scicluna, an economist at Daiwa Capital, said in a research note.
The FTSE 100 closed unofficially down 0.3 percent; the German DAX closed down around 0.4 percent. Meanwhile, U.S. stocks were off lows in late morning trade, after the Dow touched a one-month low.
Greek stocks higher
In Greece, a draft budget for next year was presented to parliament by the Finance Ministry on Monday. Greek stocks were the standout gainer on Monday, closing up 2.5 percent, helped by the bullish tone set by U.S. hedge fund managers such as John Paulson.
(Read More: Paulson leads hedge funds charge into Greek banks)
Monte dei Paschi shares surge
Shares of Italian lender Monte dei Paschi surged to close 6.26 percent higher and lead the Euro Stoxx 600 index. After the market close it unveiled a strict turnaround plan aimed at regaining profitability and fending off nationalization.
In stocks news, shares of European airlines firm Air France KLM closed 1.18 percent lower after it reported weak cargo traffic for September. After the close on Friday, the group said 1,800 of its planned 2,800 job cuts would target ground staff.
Shares of luxury goods maker Burberry closed 1.2 percent lower after CEO Angela Ahrendts warned Les Echos newspaper of slowing sales in China, although she added that the firm has done better than forecast.
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A24 is on a roll. In 2016 alone, the young indie production company released critical hits like The Witch, Green Room, and American Honey, and as Oscar season heats up, releases like Moonlight, The Lobster, and 20th Century Women have all earned major awards buzz.
Now, the studio has given us a look at its next mysterious project, and the first teaser raises a lot more questions than it answers.
A one-minute video posted to A24's Youtube and Twitter introduces a peculiar new project, mixing strange sci-fi images with cryptic messages like "beyond reality" and "realize feeling." The only clue is the video's tagline: "In our future."
So let's get speculating! This video doesn't seem to match up with any of A24's previously announced films (like Chance the Rapper's secret feature film Slice or the upcoming Neil Gaiman adaptation How to Talk to Girls at Parties), so this looks like a surprise announcement of something brand new. Watch the cryptic teaser above, and let us know if you have any ideas.


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Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Yoga for Back Pain / Vinyasa Yoga with Wrist Injuries
Please check out the blog of the fabulous Nadine Fawell for another detailed, photo-illustrated sequence of therapeutic yoga stretches for low back pain.
And then, head on over to Nobel's ever-philosophical Ashtanga yoga blog, Yoga in the Dragon's Den, for a post on how I maintained a vinyasa practice with a wrist injury.
Enjoy, comment, share, and keep the yoga blogsphere buzzing!
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If you have injured your back then it is better to rest for some time rather than doing other activities to heal itReplyDeleteReplies
Yes, that's very true! But for many people who suffer from daily backaches, yoga can provide much-needed relief. :)Delete
- bberensJanuary 23, 2013 at 7:28 AM
i have back fusions done a decade ago, arthritis, and a degenerating spine, 3 more discs that are badly herniated. The entire reason i can still stand up straight, i did the exercises that my physical therapist recommended, and do yoga at "my level" every day. It is alarming how many people just go to the doctors, then do not do what they can at home. There is a learning curve after a severe injury, but you do begin to "know thyself", and walking and yoga will keep you immersed in this big world for a while longer! namasteReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks so much for sharing your inspiring story!! I am such a believer in the therapeutic power of yoga, and stories like this just deepen my faith. Thanks again for sharing. :)Delete
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I'm pretty confident I should know this, but here it goes. Do the joinder rules apply only to "claims" or do they also apply for "causes of action."
For example, if a dude files a complaint and lists 5 causes of action with several different parties, do the joinder rules need to be met at this time? Or, do you only apply the joinder rules if another claim/party is added after the initial complaint?
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Is the plaintiff trying to bring all five causes of action in one claim? If so, Rule 20 would likely cover this sort of thing. Atleast as far as I can tell...Its like joining defendants. I don't have my rules in front of me at the second but if they arise out of the same facts, I think you can do this sort of thing as long as it doesn't screw up your SMJ.
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Look at FRCP 18(a) and 20(a)(2)
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Thankfully he was home for Christmas Eve. The kids and I had dinner at the Hulse's and then we caught up with dad that night at 6:30pm. We had hot cocoa, listened to our family Christmas stories and let the kids open one gift. Their one gift is Christmas PJ's and here they are:
Christmas day the kids had to wait until dad got home to open the gifts under the tree, so to keep them occupied the sister missionaries dropped by and played battleship with Jack and helped me get ready for John to get home. It was a blessing to have them drop by!! John got home at 7:30pm, we ate our Christmas dinner of Ham, cheesy potatoes, homemade rolls, etc. and then we sat down and opened the rest of our Christmas gifts. The kids didn't get to bed until close to 11:00pm!


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God is at work in Queensland, Australia! Thank you Sue and Glen Taylor and Beth Nicholls for your Regional Coordinator support in this huge part of the continent.
Calling people who have a responsibility for training in their district, diocese, denomination or other department.
If you're offering any training on Messy Church, we'd like to help you make it as informed, up to date and linked in to the centre as it possibly can be. That way more people get to hear what Messy Church really is instead of a Chinese Whispers version. It also means they have access to the most recent resources through you.
Trish Hahn writes:
I have a question related to Messy Church and Makaton. As you know our Messy Church is for kids with SEN and we are using Makaton more regularly at each session to include it during worship and story time. I am on a closed Facebook site called Additional Needs Alliance which brings together parents and youth workers within church setting to discuss ways to include those with disabilities/additional needs. So far several people have said that they think use of Makaton within worship would be beneficial to those who are limited in communication.
Pete and Andy's vision for this spring/summer is to make a training tour around the Diocese. They'll do Messy Fiestas with a difference at three venues, culminating in a Messy Eucharist (like you've never experienced before!) for everyone at Romsey Abbey in July.
Sunday 7 July at Romsey Abbey, 3.00 - 5.30pm with craft/celebration/tea and cake for all ages and whole families.
Come and share in a Eucharist like no other.
Pete and Andy's vision for this spring/summer is to make a training tour around the Diocese. They'll do Messy Fiestas with a difference at three venues, culminating in a Messy Eucharist (like you've never experienced before!) for everyone at Romsey Abbey in July.
All Messy Fiestas run from 9.30 to 12.30, are free of charge, and will take this format:
9.30-10.30 training for leaders and core teams
10.30 open the doors to families and wider teams, when Pete and the core teams will lead Messy Crafts
This DVD tells the story of Messy Church and explores the issues it raises through conversations with leaders from around the UK and meeting the children and adults who make up the congregations.
A real privilege and joy to share last weekend with 30-odd fellow Messy enthusiasts and to have another fun time exploring Messy themes and enjoying learning from and with each other. We had a Father's Day theme this year and enjoyed the Prodigal Son story for our final Messy Church session.
As before, the feedback was overwhelmingly positive and included these comments:
Jane writes: They came from Scotland, North Yorkshire, the Midlands and Cambridgeshire, Durham and Oxfordshire; adults and children, singing, praying, getting messy; listening to each other's stories, sharing worries and concerns. They made crafts, made new friends, created dramas, played games. They laughed, hammered nails, learned skills, wrote in clay. They met with God in the Mini Retreat, were affirmed and blessed before God in the Messy Church session consultations and heard about the worldwide Messy Church.
Did we really do all of that in a weekend? Yes and more!
As part of BRF's commitment to developing discipleship of people who belong to Messy Churches, we're delighted to announce an exciting day for teenagers in association with the Methodist Church:
Are you a young helper at Messy Church? Would you like to help Messy Churches internationally to be better at welcoming teenagers?
A day for teenagers who help at Messy Churches across the UK and their accompanying adults
Hope 2011 is a corker for you and your Messy Churches!


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How to Build Email List? Where to Find Email Subscribers?
You have a website. Perhaps it's a brand new website, or perhaps it's a website that's existed for a while but you haven't focused on collecting email addresses. Your website has content, products, or services that you want to communicate with individuals about. To do that, you want to combine a social media strategy with an email communications list. However, you're a little stumped as to where to find email addresses and subscribers. In this section, we'll walk you through all of the locations that you should utilize to build email list and to maximize finding email subscribers.
Why Build Email List?
The most obvious reason to build your email list is to maximize the value of your customers and your company revenue. However, it's also important to remember that your email list is a company asset. In the event that you want to sell your company, a high-quality email list can increase your company's overall valuation. Additionally, a high-performing email list can give your company additional revenue opportunities by giving you the chance to sell advertising space in your email products or send sponsored emails on behalf of partners or advertisers. You're not just building your marketing channel when you build email list. You're also building your company's total value. That's why it's worth your time to build a quality email list over time.
Quantity versus Quality to Build Email List
One of the first dilemmas that you'll need to deal with when you begin to build email list is the quality versus quantity debate. Obviously, the larger your email list is, the more potential you have to generate revenue from it. However, as with most marketing activities, the quality of your leads is equally important. If you create a large email list by porting over old contacts or by buying or renting a large list, you may have a great number of email addresses. However, you may have very few email addresses that are actually leads who are interested in interacting with your product, company, or brand. That's why it's often a better idea to start slowly and build email list over time. Focus on getting the best quality leads on your email list and then let the numbers grow as your business grows. While you ultimately do need to grow the largest email marketing list possible, you also need to grow a quality list that will respond to your offers and increase your company revenue.
Build Email List Location 1: Visitors to Your Site
The most obvious and logical place to find interested email subscribers is on your website itself. If users are visiting your website (regardless of whether they purchase or make a transaction), they have an interest in the information or content that you're providing. Every page of your website should include an email sign-up box that allows users to join your mailing list. We'll discuss the best practices for creating that email sign-up box later in this section. However, every visitor to your website is a potential email subscriber.
Build Email List Location 2: Customers Who Purchase Goods or Services
Customers who visit your website but don't make purchases or transactions are important email marketing leads. However, customers who do make a purchase or transaction are even more valuable email marketing leads because they've shown a willingness to purchase from you or entrust you with personal or financial information. Ensuring that you make it easy and inviting for users to opt-in to your email program when they purchase or transact with you will help you build not only a large email list but also an email list of valuable users with proven purchasing history.
Build Email List Location 3: Your Social Media Outlets
Social media is becoming an increasingly prominent form of customer retention and brand awareness. With the right motivation and a properly designed email sign-up box, social media leads can often be solicited to become higher converting email marketing leads. When we discuss the best practices for designing an email capture box, we'll discuss specific practices to use when encouraging users to sign-up for your email marketing program via social media outlets.
Build Email List Location 4: Websites That Have Similar User Demographics
Growing your email list can be quite similar to advertising your business as a whole. Websites that have similar content or user demographics to your website can be great places to prospect for potential email list leads. You can do this in a number of ways. Ideally, you can cut a deal with the website on which you want to collect emails to promise them advertising space in any email that you send. This will save you from having to pay to advertise for your email list. You can also pay to advertise for sign-ups to your email list on other websites. You can do this by purchasing an impression-based or click-based advertising campaign, or you can offer to pay per valid email sign-up. Both are acceptable industry standard ways to pay for email advertising. However, if you are going to pay to advertise your email list and recruit email sign-ups on another website, you'll need to ensure that you have a firm understanding of what you can afford to spend per email sign-up is. To do this, you'll have to assign a value to an email name. The best way to do this is to keep it simple. Take a look at your last email send. If you had an email list of one hundred people and your email generated $100 in revenue, then you can spend $1 per email sign-up.
Advertising your email list on websites other than your own site can be a great way to grow your email list. In fact, it can often be more profitable than simply advertising your website. If you can give users a compelling reason to sign up for your email (such as free offers or discount codes), it is a much lower barrier to entry for most people to sign up for an email list than to make an initial purchase. Just be sure that you understand how much you can afford to spend per email address and that you have a plan in place to identify which emails came from which advertising sources.
Build Email List Location 5: Search Engines (Organic and Paid Search)
Similar to the process of advertising to build your email list on other websites, using search marketing to build email list can be equally effective. Build email landing pages specific to your email list and then optimize for organic search engine placement or paid, click-based search engine advertising. Again, however, if you do this, be sure that you have a handle on how much you can afford to pay per email sign-up as well as a way to track where email sign-ups came from. If you're not well versed in the marketing areas of search engine optimization or search engine marketing, you may want to consider hiring a professional to help you since both of those areas can be complicated to learn. However, many successful email lists have been built using search engines as the primary method for recruiting subscribers.
Build Email List Location 6: Offline Locations
Just because your email list is an online marketing tool, it doesn't mean that you only have to solicit emails online! If you have a retail location, you can collect emails when customers purchase or visit the store or other location. If you market by attending festivals or concerts, you can collect emails at those locations. Offering to raffle off a prize but requiring an email on the raffle ticket can also be an effective way to grow your email list. Of course, you'll have to dedicate the time to retyping all of the emails that you collect into your system, but it's often worth it. Don't overlook offline opportunities to grow your email list.
Build Email List Location 7: Purchasable or Rented Lists
If you need to grow your email list quickly, there are a number of services that will allow you to rent or purchase email names. However, doing so comes with several risks. Most list purchases or rentals are somewhat expensive, and you may not make your money back as quickly or as regularly. Additionally, a rented or purchased list means that you are buying email addresses of individuals who have not been exposed to or shown and interest in your brand or product. This may mean that they are less likely to respond to your email, and may even mark your email as spam. This could create domain reputation problems for you with future email sends. Finally, if you do choose to rent or purchase a list, be sure to use a credible agency. If you rent or purchase a list that includes a high number of bad email addresses that will bounce or be undeliverable, you will incur sender reputation penalties that will impact your ability to email market moving forward. While buying or renting an email list can help to quickly grow your email list and show returns, proceed with caution when soliciting and buying lists.
Black Hat Techniques to Build Email List
There are also a number of black hat techniques for gaining emails, including spidering websites for registration forms. We cannot emphasize enough how much of a poor idea it is to participate in any black hat email techniques. Not only do you risk breaking privacy laws, you also risk your sender reputation and email future.
Growing your email list can take time and patience. However, a good quality email list not only gives you an opportunity to grow revenue for you company, it also increases your company's value as a whole. Take your time and build a solid email lead recruitment process. It will pay off in the long term.


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posted by Thom Holwerda on Wed 25th Oct 2006 15:50 UTC, submitted by jayson.knight
This week the Mozilla Foundation released Firefox 2.0, and that occasion did not go by unnoticed at Microsoft's Internet Explorer team. "The Microsoft Internet Explorer Team sent us a cake for the
upcoming release of Firefox 2! A big thanks to Redmond, Washington!" What's next, Stallman on a dinner date with Ballmer?


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Who Cares about High School Rankings?Educators, Parents and Real Estate Agents!
How Graduation Rankings Determine the caliber of Public Great Schools – The caliber of high schools and also importance of twelfth grade rankings to be able to gauge this approach quality is actually a never concluding debate with the help of varying items of observe. Educators, parents and also the media bring differing views for this. Newsweek magazine for example, publishes a very high school rankings listing of the prime schools in line with the participation regarding students for college stage tests. There are those people who are of the fact this sort of high institution rankings report is to get to determine the caliber of great educational facilities with encouraged and devoted staff.
Other people aren't because enthusiastic. They criticize that through ignoring standard test totals as required through the NCLB (Basically no Child All but abandoned) conduct yourself, Newsweek's senior high school rankings checklist ignores a substantial section of your school inhabitants. Other education factors that can come into play also needs to be taken into consideration, they say. This tussle between your media and graduation official's gifts two applicable points just for determining the foundation for twelfth grade rankings. But there's another list of people who are as curious as father and mother in local twelfth grade rankings – real estate agent. These brokers enthusiastically observe the escalate and slide of faculty fortunes like outlined for Newsweek's senior high school rankings.
Senior high school Rankings could Rate On top of a Combine – The discussion surrounding Newsweek's annual senior high school rankings list are not denied. An incredible number of students and numerous schools delay with anticipation to determine if most of the school should make it to the particular elite checklist. This even though Newsweek functions only university level examine participation as the basis meant for ranking high schools and ignores try scores. Real auctions are not bothered by the truth that Newsweek's twelfth grade rankings record is for no reason comprehensive. Its common using regions to locate real est. brochures the fact that proudly advertise the truth that a class, whose section of enrollment reduces within which region, may be featured within Newsweek's top level list. Actually, more normally than never these pamphlets will discuss this basic fact very plainly before other property is actually detailed!
The benefit of these senior high school rankings that use college checks is which usually even lower income colleges which have trouble with the extra burden the fact that poverty places on the place while in the scheme involving things, have an opportunity to make a cut. Actually, several this kind of low salary schools will be beginning to locate a place about the Newsweek twelfth grade rankings directory. It is interesting to check out how real estate agent tackle all these developments. The setback of such senior high school rankings is they will don't strategy the will try being produced by a college district to increase matters for their schools.


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Grateful Dead
Just like your favorite jam, things are going to get a bit funky on Dead.net over the next week or so. Community accounts will be temporarily closed October 16th-17th and may be under further maintenance through October 22nd. But rest assured, we will be back up and better than ever shortly thereafter. Stay tuned!
Blair's Golden Road Blog - Santa Cruz GD Archive Set To Open!
By Blair Jackson
After years of painstaking work and many months of preparation, the much-touted Grateful Dead Archive at UC Santa Cruz is set to open to the public with a celebration on Friday, June 29, between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Hallelujah!
The Archive's first exhibition, A Box of Rain: Archiving the Grateful Dead Phenomenon, will be on display in McHenry's Library's custom-built 1,400-square-foot space, known as Dead Central, and that afternoon only, the popular Bay Area jam band Moonalice will play a free show outside the library building. A Box of Rain — and all exhibits at Dead Central—is free, as well. June 29 also marks the first day that a big chunk of the Archives' holdings will be available for public viewing at the Library's Special Collections and Archives.
"The opening day itself is going to be pretty low-key and casual," says Grateful Dead Archivist and exhibition curator Nicholas Meriwether. "The highlight of the day is going to be Moonalice, who are going to play two sets at the base of the south lawn of the library. There will be light refreshments, a modest amount of speechifying, and people will be able to tour the exhibit."
Back on April 21, I was part of a lucky group of folks who enjoyed a preview of the exhibition at a pre-opening donor thank-you dinner at the McHenry Library that drew an impressive crowd of Grateful Dead family, Dead Heads and Archive supporters. Among the guests that night were Trixie Garcia, Mountain Girl, Ice Nine Publishing head Alan Trist, Rock Scully (who gave a warm and witty keynote speech during the dinner), poster artists Stanley Mouse, David Singer and Gary Houston, Eileen Law (whose collection of Dead press clippings, photos and other fan-contributed artifacts formed the backbone of the Dead's own archives), former manager Cameron Sears and Grateful Dead Hour host David Gans, among others.
The exhibition presents pieces from every era of the Dead's history, including posters, photos, handwritten lyrics, fan art—literally hundreds of items, all beautifully displayed with clear and detailed explanatory labels; more than 10,000 words' worth. It's amazing how much Meriwether has managed to put into such a compact space. My favorite single item is a heartbreaking letter from Pigpen's father, Phil McKernan, written to the band and GD management shortly after his son's death. In it, he talks about his difficult relationship with Ron, and the healing he was fortunate to have experienced before Ron's death—healing he attributes to the power and positiveness of the Dead, who were truly another family for him.
"That's the most powerful piece in the entire exhibit as far as I'm concerned," agrees Meriwether. "Although I have to say in the same breath, I loved also being able to put out, a few feet to the left of that, the letter that the band wrote to Richard Nixon when he was mired in Watergate difficulties. It says something to the effect of 'While we don't share anything at all in common politically, we've decided your removal would actually create serious difficulties. Therefore we've come up with a brilliant idea which we are not entirely sure you're going to follow through with. But your problems would probably disappear overnight, as if by magic, if you were to chrome the entire White House!' So it's a combination of the sublime and the ridiculous, which is very Grateful Dead."
More generally, Meriwether notes of the exhibition, "Part of the function of this show is to present the story of the Grateful Dead phenomenon, but it's also the story of the Grateful Dead Archives. And those two themes sort of coil together and inform each other throughout the exhibit. So people who go through the exhibit get a very real sense of the band's entire history, from their beginning in Palo Alto before the Grateful Dead all the way through their cultural diffusion out into the mainstream—it's how they go from subculture/counterculture/hippie milieu to mainstream success."
The Dead Central exhibition space was made possible by the generosity of the Brittingham Family Foundation (whose name adorns the space), spearheaded by Scott Brittingham, a Santa Barbara investor and philanthropist who was largely responsible for the renovation of the beautiful concert venue the Santa Barbara Bowl. "One of the centerpieces of the Santa Barbara Bowl refurbishment is the Jerry Garcia Glen, which features an enormous Jerry Garcia hand sculpture by Tom White," Meriwether says. "Scott had Tom cast four smaller versions of the same hand, and we have one of them on display permanently outside of Dead Central."
The Box of Rain exhibition will be in place for the next several months, at least, so if you're in Santa Cruz, check it out! Its hours are the same as the McHenry Library hours, which vary day to day and week to week in the summer (and beyond). Unless you're taking public transportation to get onto campus, you'll need to purchase a parking permit, but the exhibit is free.
As for access to the Archive, "We split the original bequest of the archive into 12 sections, and we're now at a stage where four of those 12 sections have been fully processed and can be made available to researchers," Meriwether says. "That's a good enough percentage to say, 'Hey, we're open for business.' In the same breath, we explain to people that we get more donations every single week, so there is a lot of work still to be done. But in those four sections that are going to be accessible are press, photos, tickets, decorated fan envelopes, and backstage passes and posters. And once our website opens, people will be able to access about 45,000 digitized images from the archive." As other sections and collections are processed in the coming months and years, they, too, will be made available to users and researchers in Special Collections.
On a personal note, I'm pleased to announce that the first batch of viewable offerings includes all 27 issues of my former labor-of love, The Golden Road magazine, which my wife, Regan, and I published between 1984 and 1993. I can't think of a better digital home!
Lastly, on a somewhat related topic, Nicholas Meriwether has also put together a new book of mostly scholarly writings about the Dead called Reading the Grateful Dead: A Critical Survey, published by Scarecrow Press. "Starting in 2001, I edited a series of books called Dead Letters," Meriwether says, "and what this does is it pulls together some of the best and most representative of the articles and features from those four volumes, plus the successor to that, which was the Grateful Dead Scholars Caucus conference program, and also from the peer reviewed journal I now edit, and which is published under the auspices of the Grateful Dead Archive here, called Dead Studies. The book is s snapshot of that developing discourse. You begin with pieces by Dennis McNally and John Perry Barlow and how that carries on through the years and a wide swath of disciplines. It's like a kaleidoscope. There are a lot of different ways of viewing the Grateful Dead phenomenon."
Indeed, the 24 pieces are divided into four sections—"Studying the Dead," "Music and Lyrics, Medium and Message," "The Deadhead Experience" and "Society and History, Contexts and Currents"—and within those there is an incredibly broad range of topics. A handful that caught my eye (though I have not yet read the book) include "And Closed My Eyes to See: Buddhist Resonances in the Grateful Dead," "Terrapin Station, Postmodernism and the Infinite," "The Psychedelic Experience, Contemporary Music and the Grateful Dead: A 1969 Study revisited," "Deconstructing Deadheads" and "The Grateful Dead Religious Experience." Just a little light summer reading!
For more about the UCSC Grateful Dead Archive go to their cool and informative website.
I think the index finger error has been fixed on some of the online pages at least, but ay-yi-yi.
...in that otherwise fine article was in the caption in the newspaper version under a trio very colorful envelopes sent to GDTS: "The Grateful Dead Archives in Santa Cruz includes thousands of decorated envelopes sent in by fans hoping to receive free tickets."
Notwithstanding the howler about the index finger, it's pretty interesting.
I think a great article would be Blair and Dave: The Golden Road Interview. Many fans would enjoy our beloved archivist's perspective and insight. I just read an interview with Dave (from 2002) and it would be great to hear some more. And if this idea doesn't fly, it was worth a shot.
My interpretation of the imagery is that that it appears to be a circle of life theme. You have the Earth, a skull and a baby. Life and death. I don't know what the snakes and roses would represent in this context, if the artists intention was for there to any special meaning at all.
Looks cool. I would be interested to check out the exhibit someday when I make my way towards that part on the country. I had an opportunity to go to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum in Cleveland in 1998 or '99, and to my surprise, they were just assembling a Bob Dylan special exhibition. Wish I could have seen it when they opened it to the public. Lots of cool memorabilia.
...at Lieberman's class a few weeks ago; that was fun! My daughter is going to be a Slug in the fall...
As an alumni of UCSC (College 5 (Porter)) and witness to the Deadness of the university, while I was a student our Proctor (Fredrick Lieberman) disappeared, only to find out later he was working with Mickey Hart on his Drumming at The Edge of Magic book.
Guess those sessions of Truckin' at 10 melted his mind enough.
Go BANANA SLUGS
The library site gives a date of "July 2012" for the opening of the GDAO...I assume that is the Grateful Dead Archive Online :)
45,000 images.
I have about 1,000.
To the conspiratorial fundamentalists demonic artwork can pretty much be found anywhere that isn't highlighting the Holiest of any organized religion.
It is silly shadowboxing of the apocalypse.
Roses!! Snakes!!! Earth!!! Babies!!! Eggs!!!! SKULL!!!!!!!!!!
Ooooooh Scary!!
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Hey all,
Firstly I'd like to say that this thread is run on the assumtion that you see the shoulder strike and have time to counter it.
What would you do to defend against such an attack? I have just downloaded a video from bullshido.com, and a practioner of Bajiquan uses shoulder strikes to down his opponent, I was just thinking what an Aikido responce would be to such a commited and powerful attack.
I was thinking something like a classical kokyu from a strong enterance, or similar foot work as kokyunage but with atemi.
Drop down for a good ol' fashioned aiki nage.
Tenkan irimi-nage, but you'll need to use the head -- watch out for that pesky crunching noise in the neck.
Oops - I wrote a really long thread assuming that it was attacks to the shoulder, but now I see what you mean.
Yep, very powerful attack. In Taichi usually the concept is - if they avoid the fist use the elbow, if they avoid the elbow use the shoulder. I think aikido has a lot to learn from Taichi and vice versa. In aikido we generally like to keep the distance between us and uke (through extension) whereas the shoulder strike is likely to occur from a short distance. If someone does come in with such a strike the body should be moved around to their back whilst blending. Due to the close contact if this occurs, irimi-nage seems ideal since you just slip to their back. Inside throws could involve koshi nage (esp. the one with the arm between the legs!). Ideally you'd not give them an opportunity to get in close enough for a shoulder strike (at this distance elbow strikes could also be used, and these can be extremely dangerous).
This may also be a question worth asking taichi practitioners since they have sets of counters for each technique. In aikido however, I think we tend to not consider specific technique 'counters' but blending motion which automatically results in an appropriate counter. (the attack technique is often less important than the attackers body motion).
How would you get the arm for a tenkan irimi?
Ghost Fox
I practice with a 5th dan in Kendo, who also practices Aikido. Whenever we do a Katatetori Waza he does a shoulder strike/block immediately afterwards. Very good motivation to get out of the way, very fun too.
Isn't there something about the shoulder strike/block in the Book of Five Rings?
How would you get the arm for a tenkan irimi?
I'd take a more traditional approach, one hand pinning the head to my body, the other blending with the striking arm as if it were there.
Iriminage is a play on balance, I don't think I'd need the arm there to help uke fall -- using the head is a place I'd start looking at.
Wait a minute, now I'm confused. Could you describe the shoulder strike? I assumed we were taling about someone dropping one shoulder and charging you, rhino-style.
I'll find a link to the video for you so you can see what I mean, the big guy in the video uses it to hit the little guy on his ass.......
http://www.bullshido.us/ its the first video on the page.
That technique does look impressive when you have a 250 pound guy slam into a 135 pound guy who stands there and takes it (interesting defense)!
Many years ago, my sensei was asked by the newbie of the day (they always ask funny questions), Is Aikido powerful enough to stop a train?
My sensei responded with, Stop a train from hitting you? Yes, its called tenkan.
But you are confusing sport with self-defense. I strongly suggest that in real life you do not stand there and put your fists up (ala boxer style) and wait for his next strike!
And if your assailant out weighs you by a 100 pounds, you have to seriously assess his intent. Is this a scrap at the local bar, or are you in a back alley? Real danger is going to warrant something more serious. You either run (chances are youll outrun this guy) or make vital area strikes (to the knee unfortunately) with a guy that size; he wont feel many other atemi.
Sport and self-defense are two different things. What kind of defense are you looking for: One for the MMA sport (which disallows anything effective against jumbo opponents), or one for self-defense (where your objective is to live)?
No offence Bruce, but I'm not looking for a Sport vs TMA debate. Just good counters to such a technique.
No offence Bruce, but I'm not looking for a Sport vs TMA debate. Just good counters to such a technique.
Point well taken Chris, not trying to start that :)
Drum technique. Best defense...no be there.
Tenkan into his shikaku, or irimi into his shikaku - distance and timing (maai) would be essential to make it work. Same defense as a hundred other attacks. Concentrate on the principle not the technique.
And in seeing the whole video, I wouldn't even worry about that technique - the big guy could have finished off the little guy 100 times, but he was just practicing that neat little shoulder check on a willing particpant (he just stood there and took it).
Lyle Bogin
I have had the opportunity to receive many shoulder strikes on the streets of Brooklyn and Manhattan (I call them "bumps"). Once I was knocked clean on my rear end in a crowd crossing the street in Times Square, ha!
The best thing to do, IMO is relax your knees and take it as far to the outside as possible (away from your heart). Then the bump will spin you instead of topple you, which is fine. It's calming down that's the hardest part.
Bruce, the 2 gentlemen you see fighting are actually MMA fighters. They post frequently and intelligently at Bullshido, they wont give anything away.
But aside from the character of the 2, thanks for the suggestions.
Drop down for a good ol' fashioned aiki nage.
Personally, thats one thing I wouldnt do with a guy who outweighs me by that much.
Chances are hell just topple on you then your toast. Just lying on you he has the advantage of weight.
While the shoulder check is a committed attack, only his side is facing you not his front. Remember the shikaku (dead angle). I see this attack as a standard linear thrust, no different than tsuki. His stance is very strong to the front (as demonstrated from the impact), including his footwork so his sides are weak (shikaku). You need to go inside (tenkan) or outside (irimi) then accelerate him forward once you are off the line of fire.
Thats just me though, I am not saying you are wrong I just wouldnt want that guy on top of me with me prone.
Ushiro-ate any size.
Shime-waza if the person was comparable or smaller.
L. Camejo
Ushiro-ate any size.
Shime-waza if the person was comparable or smaller.
Just what I were thinking, you beat me to the punch again Peter. Aigamae/Gyakugamae ate shime waza comes to mind as well.:)
Gedan ate works quite nicely with a shoulder strike, with the arms down, they get pinned as you throw.
Also, a well timed shomen ate across the weak line would work well. In fact, we sometimes train to do shomen ate (without using the hands) in a similar fashion to that shoulder thrust in the video to practice the legwork and get the same degree of penetration. When the hands (sho tei) are applied, the range is increased while generating the same level of power.
All good in my book.:)
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Hey all,
Firstly I'd like to say that this thread is run on the assumtion that you see the shoulder strike and have time to counter it.
I'm having some trouble seeing stuff on bullshido. Which clip exactly are you refering to? I can see Asia vs. Luan and Skummer vs. Osiris on the first page, but I can't see to d/l them.
Or is it another clip altogether?
It its the Asia Vs Luan one. They should download, as I understand it, the website is having a lot of work done on it, so thats why they might not download.
It its the Asia Vs Luan one. They should download, as I understand it, the website is having a lot of work done on it, so thats why they might not download.
Ok, got it. But I'm still somewhat confused. There are at least 4 types of "shoulder strike" that I see.
The first one occurs at 14 seconds in. The guy in the white shorts two hand pushes on the other guys shoulder to get him out of clinch.
There a shoulder push and trip at 25 seconds in. Mr No shirt does a ok rear roll (better than I would under the circumstances!)
A nice one at 1:18 Guy goes flying. Looks like a 1 inch punch.
A shoulder butt at 1:57
I'm guessing you mean the last one?
Frankly, it's all academic for me. I have no idea what the appropriate aikido response at that point is. Personally, I'd try to latch onto his neck (elbow collar tie), then switch to a one-on-one wrist grab while still encircling his head with other hand. I'd try to keep the head control by wrapping my fingers around his occuput and drapping my arm down his neck, so that my elbow was into his solar plexus. That puts my bones against his muscle.
By that stage, I'd imagine you could insert a few choice projections of your own. Kaiten nage, ude garamai, shiho nage and irimi nage all seem possible in theory. All I can see are judo throws based on imbolizing a limb and standing within the guys triangle point ;-(
I'm curious. Do any of the aikidoka here actually go at it like these two during their training sessions? If so, could you share your experiences with us?
Actually, yesterday was my first full contact session. Ofcourse with Aikido attacks, but it was excellent fun.
I got caught alot with those subtle tsuki's to the gut. But I got the hang of them eventually. We were studying a change from tenchi nage into a kokyunage on the other punch arm and maintain good arm to arm contact ala taichi sticky hands.
Also forward break falling from Yonkyo's and then changing into kokyunage variations in Hanmi hatachi waza and as you come out of the break fall turn strait back at them for Tsuki. Also lots of counters to Ikkyo, Nikkyo and Sankyos and putting all that together into Jiyu waza.
You know when you get pushed to that point when you think your chest it going to implode, explode and implode again, that being said, I loved every minute of it.
I've also done contact with out strikes against Judoka, ie Judo Randori, with my Aikido. Seemed to work better sometimes than others, but I wouldnt wanna win all the time, poor Judoka..... lol... please dont let any of them read this. :D
But dont you find how easy it is for everything you've learned to just disappear. I havent been doing Aikido all that long at all, so I shouldnt be suprised, but its strange how quickly you try to grapple someone instead of moving for Irimi or Tenkan.....
But dont you find how easy it is for everything you've learned to just disappear. ...its strange how quickly you try to grapple someone instead of moving for Irimi or Tenkan.....
Maybe there's some wisdom in that, you know....
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