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Revisions are named ''alpha'', ''beta'', ''release candidate'' and ''stable''. Stable versions with even minor versions are always named ''stable''. Development versions are first called ''alpha'', then when stability improves, ''beta'' and finally ''release candidate'' when the application is close to stabilization.
Revisions are named ''alpha'', ''beta'', ''release candidate'' and ''stable''. Stable versions with even minor versions are always named ''stable''. Development versions are first called ''alpha'', then when stability improves, ''beta'' and finally ''release candidate'' when the application is close to stabilization.
=== How to ask for help or submit a bug report or a feature request? ===
=== How to ask for help or submit a bug report or a feature request? ===
Revision as of 11:45, 7 February 2008
- 1 General
- 2 Installation
- 3 Configuration
- 4 Security
- 5 Troubleshooting
- 5.1 I have Postfix on my system but no "mail" command. How can I get e-mail notifications?
- 5.2 Why do my CVS users using SSH getting blocked?
- 5.3 I get the error "Please check the format and your locale settings"
- 5.4 How do I increase verbosity?
- 5.5 Fail2ban is running but not banning SSH bruteforce
What is Fail2ban?
Fail2ban scans log files like /var/log/pwdfail or /var/log/apache/error_log and bans IP that makes too many password failures. It updates firewall rules to reject the IP address. These rules can be defined by the user. Fail2ban can read multiple log files such as sshd or Apache web server ones.
Is Fail2ban free software?
Fail2ban is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
What do you need to run Fail2ban?
Take a look at Requirements section
What does the version number of Fail2ban mean?
The structure of the version number is major.minor.revision. Currently the major number is 0. The policy for minor is:
- odd numbers (0.5, 0.7, etc) are development versions.
- even numbers (0.6, 0.8, etc) are stable versions.
New features, code refactoring, configuration or API changes are done mainly in development versions. Stable versions contains security fixes and small improvements that have few chance of breaking something.
Revisions are named alpha, beta, release candidate and stable. Stable versions with even minor versions are always named stable. Development versions are first called alpha, then when stability improves, beta and finally release candidate when the application is close to stabilization.
What is the purpose of having the client and the server separate?
Since 0.8, Fail2ban has two separate processes: a client and a server. Here are some advantages of this client/server design:
- Better separation of the concepts. The server has no knowledge of the configuration layout (/etc/fail2ban/). Thus, it would be possible to write a new client with e.g. XML configuration files without having to change a single line in the server code.
- It is possible to interact with the server while it is running. You can change the configuration without having to stop and restart the process, ask for statistics, etc.
- Using an INET socket (not implemented (yet)), it would be possible to remotely control the server.
Of course, they are some disadvantages too:
- More complicated. A protocol between the client and the server is required.
- Can only run in standalone mode. It is not possible to start the server periodically using e.g. cron.
How to ask for help or submit a bug report or a feature request?
First of all, try to find an answer on this website. Read the FAQ, Manual and visit HOWTOs. Search the mailing lists archives and look at the trackers. If you did not found any answer, subscribe to this mailing list and ask your question there. Registration is required in order to avoid spam.
If you are convinced that you found a bug, you can directly create a new ticket here.
If you want to submit a feature request, create a new ticket here.
In both cases, please check first that no similar bug or request has already been submitted.
In any case, when asking for support, please provide the following information:
- The version of Fail2ban you are running (use -V or --version)
- The version of Python
- How you installed Fail2ban (sources, .deb, .rpm, etc)
- Relevant parts of the configuration files of Fail2ban
- Logging output of Fail2ban using the DEBUG mode (-vvv and loglevel = 4)
And of course, do not forget to describe clearly your problem.
Are there RPM/DEB packages for Fail2ban?
Sure. Please take a look at Downloads section
How can I install Fail2ban from a RPM/DEB/gentoo package?
If you are using rpm:
rpm -Uvh fail2ban-X.X.X.rpm
If you are required to install a src.rpm (source package) please follow these instructions:
rpm --rebuild fail2ban-X.X.X.src.rpm
After that, binary rpm will be placed at /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/ix86
rpm -Uhv /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/ix86/fail2ban-X.X.X.rpm
Please check that your PATH is /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/ix86/ before doing anything else.
If you want to install Fail2ban from a .deb package:
dpkg -i fail2ban-X.X.X.deb
If you want to install Fail2ban on gentoo:
emerge fail2ban
How can I run Fail2ban without installation?
It is possible to run Fail2ban without installation. Fail2ban is written in Python and does not need to be compiled. If you want to quickly test Fail2ban or if you have it already installed and want to test a new version, please follow these steps (for 0.7.x and above):
- Download a source tarball (release or nightly).
- Unpack it somewhere on your system.
- You should have a directory named fail2ban-*. Go into this directory.
- Edit the configuration in config/.
- Change the option socket in fail2ban.conf.
- Change the option logtarget in fail2ban.conf.
- Do not forget to edit jail.conf too.
- Use fail2ban-client to start fail2ban-server. Do not forget to tell it where to find the configuration:
./fail2ban-client -c config/ start
- Always use the -c option for other calls to fail2ban-client. Do not forget the ./ before too. Here is another example:
./fail2ban-client -c config/ status
- Shutdown Fail2ban with:
./fail2ban-client -c config/ stop
People who wants to hack on Fail2ban can also use this procedure in order to quickly test their changes.
What is the main configuration file for Fail2ban?
Fail2ban configuration process is rather simple. There is only one configuration file, where Fail2ban can be fully configured, this file is located at: /etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.conf
You are able to edit this file using any editor you want: vim, emacs, joe, ae...
Configuration file must be edited by root.
How can Fail2ban be configured?
This step is fully detailed at HOWTOs chapter
Can I exclude failed logins for selected users from resulting in a ban?
(I don't know, perhaps that's a feature request.)
Edit: Cause fail2ban didn't know anything of the username format logged in the specific file(s) (if usernames even get logged), it is only possible to exclude selected users in the regex of the service section.
What do I have to consider when using Fail2ban?
Especially on systems which provide SSH/CGI/PHP services to unknown users, it is possible to block other users from ssh and probably other services. How would a user do so? The user could issue:
logger -p auth.warning -t 'sshd[123]' 'Illegal user user1 from 18.104.22.168'
Or the malicious user may write via PHP's openlog()/syslog() to syslog.
Solution #1: This security hazard can be handled via ownership/permissions of /dev/log, which allows logging to all the users by default. Just add a group log, add all daemons and root to that group and be happy.
What about log injection?
Fail2ban parses log files of other services and thus it can be vulnerable to log injection. Daniel B. Cid describes this kind of issues in Attacking Log analysis tools. I strongly suggest that you read this article. We will always try to provide safe configuration files. However, you can use fail2ban-regex to test your configuration files against forged log lines.
I have Postfix on my system but no "mail" command. How can I get e-mail notifications?
As of version 0.8.1, "mail" actions are deprecated. Please use the "sendmail" ones instead. E.g. sendmail-whois instead of mail-whois in your jail.[conf|local].
You probably have the sendmail command. Copy /etc/fail2ban/action.d/mail-whois.conf to /etc/fail2ban/action.d/mail-whois.local, edit this file and replace mail with sendmail. Here is an example:
actionban = echo -en "From:root <fail2ban> To: <dest> Subject: [Fail2Ban] <name>: banned <ip> Hi,\n The IP <ip> has just been banned by Fail2Ban after <failures> attempts against <name>.\n\n Here are more information about <ip>:\n `whois <ip>`\n Regards,\n Fail2Ban"|sendmail -t
mail.conf can be modified too.
Why do my CVS users using SSH getting blocked?
If you are using the Eclipse CVS integration with SSH, then each access of the CVS results in a failed access before a valid one is done. As a consequence your CVS users get banned from time to time.
I get the error "Please check the format and your locale settings"
The error looks like this:
ERROR: time data did not match format: data=Mar 21 10:00:50 fmt=%b %d %H:%M:%S ERROR: Please check the format and your locale settings.
This is a known bug. Since 0.6.1, Fail2ban uses your locale settings for date and time format. However, some daemons do not take care of locale and write their log messages using the POSIX standard. Please look at this bug for more details.
You can try to override the LANG variable:
# LANG=en_US /etc/init.d/fail2ban restart
You can get all the available locale with:
# locale -a
How do I increase verbosity?
In order to increase the verbosity of Fail2ban, use the command line option -vvv for fail2ban-client and fail2ban (only for 0.6.x). Set loglevel to 4 in /etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.conf (only for > 0.6.x).
Fail2ban is running but not banning SSH bruteforce
NB:This exemple is based on a Debian system, but can be easily realised on any distro.
The package is well installed:
# dpkg -l |grep fail ii fail2ban 0.8.1-2 bans IPs that cause multiple authentication
The service is running:
# /etc/init.d/fail2ban status Status of authentication failure monitor: fail2ban is running
SSH jail is set up and ready:
# fail2ban-client status Status |- Number of jail: 1 `- Jail list: ssh
SSH bruteforce logs are identified by fail2ban:
# fail2ban-regex /var/log/auth.log /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/sshd.conf .... Success, the total number of match is 30
So, check that all your logs are synchronized: all logs files (auth.log, syslog,..) must use the same time reference (if your server is not very busy, there will probably be an important difference between the output of [1]date command and the last event logged in syslog. You can force to generate a log in syslog using the logger command and check then with the output of date command)
# date Wed Nov 28 13:49:02 CET 2007 # tail -2 /var/log/auth.log Nov 28 13:39:12 <SERVERNAME> sudo: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user roo t by <user>(uid=0) Nov 28 13:39:12 <SERVERNAME> sudo: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user roo t
If time reference is not the same everywhere, then fail2ban won't ban any IP !


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Did Alien Life Evolve Just After the Big Bang?
Earthlings may be extreme latecomers to a universe full of life, with alien microbes possibly teeming on exoplanets beginning just 15 million years after the Big Bang, new research suggests.
Traditionally, astrobiologists keen on solving the mystery of the origin of life in the universe look for planets in habitable zones around stars. Also known as Goldilocks zones, these regions are considered to be just the right distance away from stars for liquid water, a pre-requisite for life as we know it, to exist.
But even exoplanets that orbit far beyond the habitable zone may have been able to support life in the distant past, warmed by the relic radiation left over from the Big Bang that created the universe 13.8 billion years ago, says Harvard astrophysicist Abraham Loeb. [The Big Bang to Now in 10 Easy Steps]
For comparison, the earliest evidence of life on Earth dates from 3.8 billion years ago, about 700 million years after our planet formed.
'Warm summer day'
Just after the Big Bang, the cosmos was a much hotter place. It was filled with sizzling plasma — superheated gas — that gradually cooled. The first light produced by this plasma is the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) that we observe today, which dates from about 389,000 years after the Big Bang.
Now the CMB is freezing cold — around minus 454 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 270 degrees Celsius; 3 degrees Kelvin). It cooled down gradually with the expansion of the universe, and at some point during the cooling process, for a brief period of seven million years or so, the temperature was just right for life to form — between 31 and 211 degrees Fahrenheit (0 and 100 degrees Celsius; 273 and 373 degrees Kelvin).
It is the CMB's heat that would have allowed water to remain liquid on ancient exoplanets, Loeb said.
"When the universe was 15 million years old, the cosmic microwave background had a temperature of a warm summer day on Earth," he said. "If rocky planets existed at that epoch, then the CMB could have kept their surface warm even if they did not reside in the habitable zone around their parent star." [Gallery: Planck Spacecraft Sees Big Bang Relics]
But the question is whether planets — and especially rocky planets — could already have formed at that early epoch.
According to the standard cosmological model, the very first stars started to form out of hydrogen and helium tens of millions of years after the Big Bang. No heavy elements, which are necessary for planet formation, were around yet.
But Loeb says that rare "islands" packed with denser matter may have existed in the early universe, and massive, short-lived stars could have formed in them earlier than expected. Explosions of these stars could have seeded the cosmos with heavy elements, and the very first rocky planets would have been born.
These first planets would have been bathed in the warm CMB radiation, and thus, Loeb argues, it would have been possible for them to have liquid water on their surface for several million years.
Loeb says that one way to test his theory is by searching in our Milky Way galaxy for planets around stars with almost no heavy elements. Such stars would be the nearby analogues of the early planets in the nascent universe.
Constant or not?
Based on his findings, Loeb also challenges the idea in cosmology known as the anthropic principle. This concept attempts to explain the values of fundamental parameters by arguing that humans could not have existed in a universe where these parameters were any different than they are.
So while there might be many regions in a bigger "multiverse" where the values of these parameters vary, intelligent beings are supposed to exist only in a universe like ours, where these values are exquisitely tuned for life.
For instance, Albert Einstein identified a fundamental parameter, dubbed the cosmological constant, in his theory of gravity. This constant is now thought to account for the accelerating expansion of the universe.
Also known as dark energy, this constant can be interpreted as the energy density of the vacuum, one of the fundamental parameters of our universe.
Anthropic reasoning suggests that there might be different values for this parameter in different regions of the multiverse — but our universe has been set up with just the right cosmological constant to allow our existence and to enable us to observe the cosmos around us.
Loeb disagrees. He says that life could have emerged in the early universe even if the cosmological constant was a million times bigger than observed, adding that "the anthropic argument has a problem in explaining the observed value of the cosmological constant."
Edwin Turner, a professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University, who was not involved in the new study, called the research "very original, stimulating and thought-provoking."
Astrophysicist Joshua Winn of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who did not take part in the study either, agrees.
"In our field, it has become traditional to adopt a definition of a 'potentially habitable' planet as one that has a solid surface and a surface temperature conducive to liquid water," he said. "Many, many papers have been written about the exact conditions under which we might find such planets — what type of interior composition, atmosphere, and stellar radiation field. Avi has taken this point to a logical extreme, by pointing out that if those two conditions are really the only important conditions, then there is another way to achieve them, which is to make use of the cosmic microwave background."
Loeb's paper is available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.0613
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== What are the primary uses of this definition? ==
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What are the primary uses of this definition?
There are two primary goals:
- To bring unity and clarity to the growing free content and free expression movements. We believe that a successful social movement must first define its goals and its vision and then communicate these to others. The definition helps with the first part while logos and other awareness materials can help with the second. Finally, while this website is not a community site in the traditional sense, it may help to bring together people from different free content projects, and could lead to new web sites and organizations specifically targeted at the free content movement.
- To make communications with copyright holders more effective. Often, people state that their work is "free", "open content", or "open access", without qualifying this. The Creative Commons licenses are a good example of this: the Creative Commons logo simply states, generically, "Some Rights Reserved", and you have to click on the logo to find out which ones. It is very common for people to simply say that their work is "under a Creative Commons license". This can mean many things, including, in the extreme cases, licenses which restrict the use of a work to certain world regions, or which forbid both commercial use and derivative works. This definition allows you to simply ask: "Is it free content?". When the answer is "yes", you'll know precisely which rights you have.
Aren't you pretty arrogant for wanting to decide for everyone what's free?
We do not attempt to monopolize the definition of "free"; we just define what "free" means according to freedomdefined.org only (not to everyone), and we propose this definition as a "default meaning" in discussions to avoid ambiguity, ease communication and make discussions more productive.
To ensure that this is a reasonable and widely accepted definition, we are basing our work on the existing philosophies of free software and open source, on the existing policies of projects like Wikipedia, and on a strong moral conviction that as many works as reasonably possible should be available to all human beings, as freely as possible. People are welcome to release their works as something other than Free Content or Free Expression. In the short term, most people will. Many will try to use "semi-free" licenses.
Of course, we do not claim or seek a monopoly on the word "free". You are free (no pun intended) to use these terms as you wish, to argue for a different set of essential freedoms, or to attempt to redirect this definition by working with us. You are welcome to create your own term, defined differently, and use that.
Why don't you have any moderators who are professional (NAME PROFESSION)?
It may be that the right person hasn't volunteered yet. More importantly though, it's important to realize that we can't have a professional novelist, and a musician, and a lawyer, and a DJ, and a painter, and a collage artist, and a dancer, etc. There aren't that many spaces for moderators. Of course, we welcome feedback from every individual or group and are especially careful to take into account viewpoints that we think are unrepresented or new.
With that said, everyone involved in this project, and especially the moderators, produces, consumes, and distributes content or expression every day. While some of the freedoms listed here are freedoms designed primarily for the producers, we are also talking about the consumers of content and working hard to blur the lines between the two groups. We are all stakeholders in the process and we all -- creators, consumers, and most of us that are both -- have a voice that should be heard. The moderators have been picked not because they are particular representative of the world of creators as a group but because they respected, principled, in touch with much larger groups of creators, and willing to take into account others' opinions.
But how will people make money under this definition?
There are many ways that people make money distributing free content and expression. They tend to differ based on the type of work and many other factors. Of course, the point of this definition is not to list these (although someone could create a page in this wiki to do exactly that). The point is to describe essential freedom. Once we have challenged ourselves to produce and consume content and expression more ethically, it becomes our responsibility to find ways to do so that are economically sustainable. Unless we challenge ourselves, there is a much lower incentive to ever go out on a limb and try.
We also want to point out that the exact same question can be asked about the current copyright system. Most authors do not make a substantial amount of money from their works (many do not even make money at all). Some authors do manage to make money, but at the price of totally giving up control of their works to large publishers (especially in the USA, where total transfer of all rights by contract is possible and moral rights do not exist practically). Many artists of high value remained poor during much of their life, because their talent was recognized too late. Thus the question of how authors can make money from their work is not tied to the mere licensing model of the work (free vs. not free), but to the economic system surrounding authorship and to the social and cultural conditions of recognition.
What about logos? Why do all open source / free content-supportive organisations currently have copyrighted logos?
Many organisations like Creative Commons, the Open Source Initiative, or Wikimedia like to protect their identity using trademarks and copyrights. It should be noted that relatively few people in these organisations are opposed to copyright per se; in fact, the copyleft principle makes use of copyright to protect the freedom of works. The argument of these organisations is not one against copyright, but one for additional freedoms.
Nevertheless, a case can be made that logos and symbols should be freely shared, and that trademarks should be avoided -- taking the "right to fork" to an extreme. Under this model, the identity of the project is not protected by law, and anyone can try to assume the same identity by adopting it for a different project. The marketplace of ideas is the final arbiter of success. This is true for the free content logo we're trying to create, which will be in the public domain.
What about other kinds of commons, like grains, electromagnetic spectrum, genetic information ? They need a "freedom" definition, too.
The Free Content Definition is about works of the human mind (and craft). This category is legally but also philosophically justified: creation of works - art works, free software works, free hardware design, machine design, whatever - is a well-defined philosophical concept. Various other kinds of commons (like material commons) do not belong to this category.
Since we are not proposing a Manifesto (which can be vague, broad, and very encompassing) but a Definition (which must be based on firm conceptual ground ;-)), trying to find a "one-size-fits-all" ethical message would destroy the meaning of the message and transform it into a meaningless slogan. But staying inside the boundaries of a clearly defined category of things helps us remain meaningful, and powerful.
We encourage other people to try and give a definition for "freedom of genetic information", "freedom of water resources", "freedom of electromagnetic spectrum", etc. But we cannot do it in the framework of this Definition, because the issues are very different and it would be sterile to try to explain them in the same terms as free contents.
Who wrote this? Who administers the site?
Why isn't a Non-Commercial restriction considered free?
Some ideas:
- Why the NC permission culture simply doesn't work
- Non-commercial ShareAlike is not copyleft
- Erik Möller, The Case for Free Use: Reasons Not to Use a Creative Commons NC License


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Data logging, com port troubleshooting software updated
Windmill Software's newest version of the ComDebug data logging and com port troubleshooting software allows users to quickly identify and correct communication errors.
Windmill Software has announced a new version of the ComDebug data logging and com port troubleshooting software. The new version works with Windmill 7 64-bit, as well as Microsoft Windows, lets users enter and display data in hexadecimal code, ASCII code, or binary format, and logs data from serial instruments such as PIC Microcontrollers, RFID readers, PLCs, and data loggers.
The software collects data from devices connected to the PC's com port over RS232, RS422, RS485, and Modbus. A terminal emulator lets users troubleshoot serial port connections. When monitoring com port communications, users can reportedly see all bytes sent and received, including non-printing characters like carriage returns.
With ComDebug users can quickly identify and correct communication errors, according to Windmill Software. The software can send and receive unsigned integers, single bits, floating points, 16-bit 2s complement integers, and other types of data. It can control the state of the PC's serial port output lines – setting them high or low – and show users the state of the port input lines.
Windmill Software
– Edited by Amanda McLeman, Control Engineering, www.controleng.com
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About the Film
Based on the beloved international bestselling book, this film tells the story of an extraordinary, spirited young girl sent to live with a foster family in WWII Germany. Intrigued by the only book she brought with her, she begins collecting books as she finds them. With the help of her new parents and a secret guest under the stairs, she learns to read and creates a magical world that inspires them all.


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News Story
Low Census Counts Will Cost Big Cities Precious Funds
Atlanta thought its big story for the last decade had been one of urban renaissance. The U.S. Census Bureau had told the city as much. In 2000, according to the decennial census count, Atlanta had 416,000 people. In the Bureau's estimate for July 1, 2009, it was up to 540,000. That figure represented the city's largest population ever-more than the 497,000 Atlantans the Census Bureau found in 1970. It marked an incredible comeback from 1990, when the city had fallen below 400,000 people.
That's why the Bureau shocked the city when it announced the results of the 2010 Census this March. Atlanta, it said, had only 420,000 people. In a decade, it had hardly grown at all. In effect, the Census Bureau was saying that its own estimate just months before had been off by more than 20 percent.
Atlanta provides merely the most dramatic example of one of the true puzzles of the 2010 Census. The Bureau found far fewer people in many major cities than its own estimates had found a year earlier. Now the Census Bureau and cities are debating which numbers are closer to the truth. No one knows for sure-and no one may ever know for sure.
While it won't be easy, Atlanta and other cities are talking about challenging the counts. That's because the discrepancy isn't just a question of civic pride. Atlanta and other cities will have far less state and federal political representation and state and federal aid in coming years than they would have if the Bureau had found more people.
How is it possible that one count for Atlanta's population could be 420,000 and another could be 540,000-that 120,000 people might or might not exist? The basic answer is that the decennial Census and the Bureau's annual estimates rely on very different approaches.
The once-a-decade Census tries to make contact with every person in the country, through mailed forms and door-to-door outreach. The annual estimates start with the most recent decennial count, then extrapolate how the population has changed using a variety of local administrative records.
For many cities this time around, the difference between the decennial count and the 2009 estimates was huge. Nationally, as you'd expect in a growing country, the Bureau's decennial count for April 1, 2010, was about 3 million people higher than the previous estimate, from July 1, 2009. For the 50 largest cities in the country, however, the number actually went down by 1.3 million.
Detroit's population was off by more than 20 percent, or nearly 200,000 people, from its 2009 estimate-an estimate that itself had reflected a drop in the city's population of around 40,000 in the first nine years of the decade. None of the other 50 largest cities had discrepancies anywhere near as large as Atlanta and Detroit did, but Omaha, Phoenix, Cleveland, Dallas, Miami, Houston, Mesa (Arizona) and Chicago all had counts that were at least 5 percent below their most recent estimate.
In the Census Bureau's view, it's clear which numbers are right: those that come from the decennial count. "Obviously, we're doing the best we can with the estimates," says Greg Harper, a Census Bureau demographer, "but they are just estimates."
In fact, the yearly counts for cities are estimates based on estimates. The Bureau uses tax return data, Medicare beneficiary numbers and statistics on births and deaths to estimate the population of each county each year. Then, it divvies up the county population among the county's cities using housing records, which aren't always an accurate guide to a place's population..
Harper notes something else about Atlanta and Detroit: Both cities successfully challenged the Bureau's mid-decade estimates to increase their population counts. When cities don't agree with these estimates, the Bureau offers them an alternative formula to come up with a new number. Among other things, this formula assumes that the housing vacancy rate has remained constant throughout the decade. That's an unlikely proposition in struggling Detroit or in Atlanta, which was hit by the housing bust. It isn't just the Census Bureau that's saying the once-a-decade count is the better guide. Ken Darga, Michigan's state demographer, agrees.
Protesting the Count
On the other hand, the Census Bureau wasn't the only organization saying Atlanta was growing quickly during the last decade. Virtually everyone was saying that. Jerome McKibben, a demographer who has studied Atlanta, says the lowest recent estimate for the city was 480,000, far more than the decennial count. "Just about every data vendor, demographer, city planner, just about every person that looked at Atlanta, everybody else had them above 500,000." McKibben says. "It's not like every demographer got collectively stupid."
McKibben's case is that a variety of records prove there are far more than 420,000 people living in Atlanta. He believes these records give a more accurate picture than old-fashioned enumeration. After all, doing it the traditional way isn't easy. The Bureau has to collect addresses for every place where people live. If it doesn't have an address on file, it won't know to send a form. Even with addresses, not everyone is easy to reach or eager to respond. Places with large transient populations or large immigrant populations-like many big cities-are particularly difficult. McKibben thinks Atlanta was undercounted by 80,000 to 100,000 people.
Yet making that case to the Bureau after the fact is exceptionally difficult. For the decennial count, the Bureau accepts challenges on only three grounds: if a housing unit was assigned to the wrong location; if boundary lines were in error; or if it omitted an address because of a processing mistake. In other words, cities have to find specific errors. A general case that a city was undercounted won't cut it.
McKibben thinks the most Atlanta could add in a challenge would be 30,000 to 40,000 people. Even that would require a painstaking process of hunting for addresses the Bureau didn't include. Plus, it wouldn't come in time to preserve the city's political power in the once-a-decade redistricting process, one of the major immediate uses of the new population numbers. Detroit and Atlanta both stand to lose multiple state legislators in redistricting because of the Census counts.
Despite the obstacles, officials in quite a few cities-including Detroit, Atlanta, New York City, Chicago, Houston, Cincinnati, Miami and Buffalo-have discussed challenges starting June 1, when the Census Bureau will begin accepting them. That's because the financial stakes are so large.
New York City, for example, estimates that it receives an additional $3,000 per year in federal aid for each additional person who is counted. In Michigan, local government aid from the state is tied to population in the decennial count, not the annual estimates. Millions of dollars are at stake for Detroit.
Census counts affect cities in lots of other subtle ways. In Michigan, state law grants cities with more than 750,000 people special powers to assess taxes on personal income and utilities. The laws were designed to apply to Detroit and only Detroit. Now city officials are pleading with state lawmakers to change the threshold because the city suddenly has fewer than 750,000 people-at least according to the Census Bureau's reckoning in 2010.
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Carla Marinucci
(Paul Chinn / The Chronicle)
Richard Lee, director of Oaksterdam University, monitors the growth of a marijuana crop at the school's indoor growing lab in Oakland.
Marijuana has been a part of the American cultural landscape for nearly a century, tried by millions - including, apparently, the last three presidents and the current California governor.
So why has it taken so long to arrive at a political moment of truth - a full national debate about the legalization, taxation and regulation of cannabis?
Experts say an unprecedented confluence of factors might finally be driving a change on a topic once seen as politically too hot to handle.
Among them: the recession-fueled need for more public revenue, increased calls to redirect scarce law enforcement, court and prison resources, and a growing desire to declaw powerful and violent Mexican drug cartels. Also in the mix is a public opinion shift driven by a generation of Baby Boomers, combined with some new high-profile calls for legislation - including some well-known conservative voices joining with liberals.
Leading conservatives like former Secretary of State George Shultz and the late economist Milton Friedman years ago called for legalization and a change in the strategy in the war on drugs. This year mainstream pundits like Fox News' Glenn Beck and CNN's Jack Cafferty have publicly questioned the billions spent each year fighting the endless war against drugs and to suggest it now makes more financial and social sense to tax and regulate marijuana.
(Paul Chinn / The Chronicle)
A budding Mazar Sharif variety of marijuana plant thrives at Oaksterdam University's indoor growing lab in Oakland.
"It's a combination of all these things coming together at once and producing that 'aha' moment," said Bruce Mirken, spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project, who for years has monitored the wavering political winds on the subject. He says so much has changed in recent months that "for the first time in my adult lifetime, it looks possible."
"If you'd asked me 10 years ago - or three years ago - I would have said it will be a long, slow slog," he said. "And now, it looks like it might happen faster than any of us believed."
President Obama recently took a prime-time news conference question on marijuana legalization - and laughingly sidestepped the question. But among the very serious items driving the public debate is California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano's bill to tax and regulate the drug - an idea that polls suggest is no longer out of the mainstream.
The findings of a February Rasmussen poll showed 40 percent of Americans support legalizing the drug, with 46 percent opposed and 14 percent unsure.
54% in state favor legalization
A new California poll by Oakland EMC Research specifically tracked state voters' attitudes on marijuana use, taxation and legalization.
Alex Evans, president and founder of EMC, said his firm has done the same study for years for Oaksterdam University, an Oakland medical marijuana dispensary and education group, but 2009 marks the first time the poll showed that a clear majority of state voters, 54 percent, say the drug should be legalized, compared with 39 percent opposed. (The poll of 551 likely voters was taken March 16-21 and has a margin of error of 4.2 percentage points.)
"Part of the explanation is people's good feelings about medical marijuana," he said. "It's demonstrated that it can work. People are growing in confidence that we can continue to make it more legal."
The shift appears to be driven by aging Baby Boomers' "own personal experience with cannabis," he said, especially their growing belief that "there's not much difference between that and alcohol ... it is leading them to support more of a tax-and-regulate attitude."
Some see pot as gateway drug
Opponents of legalization have long expressed concerns, saying that making marijuana legal will compound substance abuse problems, that it is a gateway drug that leads to use of harder drugs and that legalization would send the wrong message to children.
But Democratic state Sen. Mark Leno of San Francisco, who supports Ammiano's effort, says that in a state racked by a $42 billion deficit - where marijuana is also now ranked as the largest cash crop - it is "completely reasonable and sensible" to take another look.
"To continue to outlaw it and not tax it is really to keep one's head in the sand, as if we can pretend and it will go away," he said. "Minimally, I'm hoping we take a look at the billions of dollars we've spent on the war on drugs: Have we gotten our money's worth?"
Already, some localities are exploring that issue - and whether they can get their money's worth from rethinking cannabis legislation.
Marijuana as industry
Voters in Oakland, a city crippled by a $65 million deficit, could soon decide whether to approve a hike in the business tax of as much as 10 times the current rate for medical marijuana dispensaries, an idea advanced by City Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan.
She co-authored the voter-approved Measure Z, which makes cannabis the lowest law enforcement priority in the city and mandates that Oakland tax and regulate the drug as soon as possible under state law.
Richard Lee, the director of Oaksterdam University, said the keen interest in possible new revenue from cannabis sales was underscored when he was recently asked to testify to Oakland officials on the matter "in front of the finance committee ... not health and safety."
Lee said his own thriving multi-faceted enterprise, a national spearhead in what is increasingly being called the "cannabis industry," dramatizes exactly the potential for those revenues.
Oaksterdam operates four medical marijuana dispensaries and a score of busy related downtown businesses - including an Amsterdam-style coffee shop, an educational facility offering popular 13-week marijuana cultivation courses, a bike rental shop, a gift shop, a glass blowing facility for making pipes, a marijuana nursery and a media company that produces publications like West Coast Cannabis magazine. Business is booming.
'We have to prove ourselves'
Still, politicians on both sides of the aisle have been wary of aligning themselves with marijuana advocates, and "we have to prove ourselves," Lee said .
But it appears the movement's advocates have learned some political lessons since the '70s, when the Woodstock generation thrived.
In the 21st century, Lee said, the message of the marijuana movement is "about less government ... and more jobs, taxes and tourism."
Marijuana use - facts and figures
Some of the studies and statistics being cited in the discussion on taxing and regulating marijuana:
-- A recent World Health Organization study found that 42.4 percent of Americans have tried marijuana. That is the highest percentage of any country surveyed and compares to a 20 percent rate in the Netherlands, where the drug is legal.
-- A National Survey on Drug Use and Health suggested California may be producing a whopping 38 percent of the marijuana grown in the United States. The study suggests there are an estimated 3.3 million cannabis users here, representing about 13 percent of the nation's marijuana users.
-- California's state-funded Campaign Against Marijuana Planting seized nearly 1.7 million plants in 2006 with an estimated street value of more than $6.7 billion, according to the Los Angeles Times. Studies have ranked the state as the national leader in both outdoor and indoor marijuana production, with an estimated 4.2 million indoor plants valued at nearly $1.5 billion, the paper reported.
-- National statistics show 872,000 arrests last year related to marijuana, 775,000 of them for possession, not sale or manufacturing - sparking some critics to suggest that the resources of the criminal justice system, including the crowded state prisons and courts, might be better used elsewhere.


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Dr. Mitchell also makes the 'squalene (Adjuvant MF-59) – Guillain-Barre Syndrome' connection.
You really don't have to be a doctor to make that connection.
Dr. Mitchell also mentions mercury. So how much mercury is in the vaccine?
– Doctor, cited on FOX News as expert on infectious diseases, would not give highly toxic swine flu vaccine to his children:
"I have more concern about the vaccine than I do about the swine flu."
'Vaccine has 25,000 times the level of mercury then would be considered toxic if it was food or water.'
Watch Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to know more about what mercury does to you and your children.
Dr. Roby Mitchell, M.D. (www.drfitt.com) issues a retraction to nurses he originally advised to get the H1N1 flu vaccination. After reading the insert of the vaccine, he retracted his advice.
This video exposes what is actually IN the vaccine our government is so eager to inject into our population.
Added: 13. November 2009
More Information on swine flu and vaccination:
– French Woman Develops Guillain-Barre Syndrome After H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccination
– Poland: Health Minister Says No To The H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine For The Entire Country
– Boy developed Guillain-Barre syndrome within hours after swine flu vaccination, but CDC says no clear link
– 3 Dutch babies die after pneumococcal vaccine, Dutch authorities pull Pfizer's Prevenar batch
– UK government: All schoolchildren may be vaccinated against H1N1 swine flu
– CFR admits false scarcity tactic to get people to take the H1N1 swine flu vaccine
– Twenty Reasons Why Vitamin D Is Better Than The Swine Flu Vaccine
– Protect your child from swine flu vaccinations: A letter for your school principal (and nursing staff)
– H1N1 Swine Flu A National Emergency? Take A Close Look At This Chart
– Dr. Gary Null Speaking Out at the NYS Assembly Hearing on Vaccinations, Fraud, Junk Science, Crimes Against Humanity and Profit
– CDC Guesstimated H1N1 Swine Flu Cases and Refused CBS Freedom of Information Act Request
– President Obama declares H1N1 swine flu a national emergency
– Flu Vaccine Brainwashing by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
– Doctor, cited on FOX News as expert on infectious diseases, would not give highly toxic swine flu vaccine to his children
– Satire: How to be a swine flu vaccine zealot
– New York judge puts hold on mandatory swine flu vaccinations
– Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – Shocking Vaccine Cover Up
– Junk Science And The Flu Vaccine Scam Revealed
– Dr. Leonard Horowitz: The CDC's Vaccination Genocide
– Autism Explodes As Childhood Vaccines Increase
– 'Just get your damn vaccine' America! (The Swine Flu Conspiracy
– Canada will protect swine flu vaccine maker GlaxoSmithKline from lawsuits
– CDC drafts 'ISOLATION ORDER' for swine flu (H1N1)
– Poll: Nearly 2/3 of US parents won't vaccinate their children against the H1N1 swine flu
– Australia: Nationwide swine flu vaccination
– US: Military to get mandatory swine flu shots soon
– Washington State lifts limit on mercury preservative in swine-flu vaccine
– Forced Swine Flu Vaccination Refused By Nurses In New York
– Long Island nurses to rally against mandatory swine flu vaccines
– Seasonal flu shot may increase H1N1 risk
– First wave of vaccine will be mostly nasal spray, a LIVE FLU VIRUS
– Nanoparticles used in untested swine flu vaccines
– China: Mass Swine Flu Vaccination
– US: Governor Baldacci proclaims civil emergency due to H1N1
– EMERGENCY UPDATE: French government document details forced mass vaccination plans from September 28th: GPs and hospitals to be excluded.
– Study: Causal Connection Between Thimerosal and Autism Established
– Historical facts exposing the dangers and ineffectiveness of vaccines
– Exposed: 'The Swine Flu Hoax' by Andrew Bosworth, Ph.D.
– Up to 60% of doctors may refuse swine flu vaccine
– Massachusetts 'swine flu' legislation: A $1000 fine per day or up to 30 days in prison for each day that you do not follow the emergency declaration rules
– Yes, you will! FORCED vaccinations, isolation & quarantine, health care interrogations and mandatory 'decontaminations'
– German health expert's swine flu warning; Does virus vaccine increase the risk of cancer?
– Dr. Russell Blaylock: Harmful Effects of Swine Flu Vaccine
– Swine Flu: The DynCorp 'COINCIDENCE'
– H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic: October Surprise Prevention
– Dr. Russell Blaylock: How to reduce the toxic effects if force vaccinated
– Poll: Only a third of nurses willing to have swine flu vaccine
– Leaked Government letter to neurologists reveals concern about swine flu vaccine
– Untested swine flu vaccine could be given to your children
– £27,000 swine flu bonus for GPs
– Squalene: The Swine Flu Vaccine's Dirty Little Secret Exposed
– NVIC on swine flu and the consequences for you!
– US Military To Work With FEMA During Swine Flu Pandemic
– Former Assistant Secretary of Housing: 'I believe one of the goals of the swine flu vaccine is depopulation'
– US: 12,000 Children To Be Swine Flu Vaccine Guinea Pigs
– Baxter Filed Swine Flu Vaccine Patent a Year Ahead of Outbreak
– UK Government Swine Flu Advisor On Vaccine Maker Payroll
– Swine flu vaccine to be cleared after five-day trial !!!
– Baxter sent out 72 kilos of live bird flu material destined for vaccines confirmed by Austrian Health Minister Alois Stöger
– Baxter: Product contaminated with live H5N1 avian flu virus
– Now Legal Immunity for Swine flu Vaccine Makers
– New Zealand orders 300,000 doses of untested and unapproved swine flu vaccine
– Journalist Files Charges against WHO and UN for Bioterrorism and Intent to Commit Mass Murder
– Swine Flu 1976: Reality vs. Propaganda
– Homeopathy Successfully Treated Flu Epidemic of 1918
– Epidemic Influenza And Vitamin D (Flashback)
– Dr. Russell Blaylock on 1976 Swine Flu and Current Outbreak
Swine Flu and the Microchip:
– VeriChip Corp. Granted Exclusive License for Patents Used in Virus Triage Detection System for H1N1 Virus
– Greg Evenson on Microchips and Swine Flu
– Whistleblower: Forced vaccinations – clear warning
Additional information on Tamiflu:
– Canada ignores Oxford University's warning about Tamiflu
– Swine flu: TV presenter's daughter almost died after taking Tamiflu
– Study: Tamiflu causes sickness and nightmares in children
– Tamiflu drug made with cocktail of chemical ingredients, linked with bizarre behavior


text: When the U.S. Department of Justice shut down MegaUpload and sued its operators for copyright infringement last week, users who were storing files legally on the site became collateral damage. Now, some of them are looking to sue the government over lost data, TorrentFreak reports.The counterattack is being led by the Pirates of Catalonia in collaboration with Pirate Parties International--overseas political groups who oppose harsh laws against copyright infringement."The widespread damage caused by the sudden closure of Megaupload is unjustified and completely disproportionate to the aim intended," a posting on the Pirates of Catalonia Website says. The group has created a form where users can register their complaints, and plans to "facilitate submission of complaints against the US authorities in as many countries as possible, to ensure a positive and just result."At the moment, however, it's not clear what legal basis users might have for lawsuits. The only specific statutes the Pirates of Catalonia mention are Articles 197 and 198 in the Spanish Penal Code, which govern the misappropriation of personal data. Other than that, the group only says it is investigating "potential breaches of law."Furthermore, Megaupload's terms of service stated that users who stored data on the site did so at their own risk, so users may have a tough time arguing that the U.S. government is liable for lost data. (Most online file sharing sites cover themselves in this manner, which is why putting all your eggs in one online basket isn't a great idea.) Filing complaints may be comforting for MegaUpload's former users, but doing so isn't likely to help return what was lost.Follow Jared on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ for even more tech news and commentary.


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By Gideon V. – Sonic Electronix Editor
Living up to their mythical Greek god namesake, Hifonics Olympus subwoofers carry a tremendous amount of power. The Olympus subwoofer line is designed to provide maximum bass with minimal distortion. Beyond the excellent sound quality, Olympus subwoofers are built to handle the power from the largest of amplifiers. These subs feature oversized 3" voice coils to help dissipate heat while handling tons of power. One look at the massive double stacked magnets is all you need to know that these subwoofers are built to handle loads of power.
These Olympus subwoofers are available in 12" and 15" models. The Hifonics OLM1612 is a 12" Dual 2 Ohm Olympus series subwoofer that is rated at 1600 watts of RMS power. The dual voice coil configuration gives you more wiring options. Its special fiber-glass infused FEA structured cone is specially designed for added flexibility and heat dissipation. Weighing in at 33 pounds, this subwoofer is a heavy duty bass machine that will bring enough bass to get your car flexing with the beat.
The next step up in the Olympus line is the OLM2412, which you can think of as the OLM1612's big brother. This 42 pound juggernaut can handle up to 2400 watts of continuous power! It is also designated at 2 ohms, and its dual voice coil configuration makes it easier to find an amplifier that can provide that type of power. It also is fashioned with a special fiber-glass cone, characteristic of Olympus models. With the right amplifier, this subwoofer will notify the entire neighborhood of your arrival.
Why stop at 12" if you have room for a 15" mega subwoofer? The Hifonics OLM1615 is a 15" Dual 2 Ohm Olympus series subwoofer. Rated at 1600 watts, this subwoofer will blow you away with its absolute power. That's a lot of bass! But even the OLM1615 has a big brother: meet the OLM2415. This 15" Dual 2 Ohm subwoofer is the definition of a heavyweight. Its die-cast aluminum chrome speaker frame is one of the reasons this beast weighs in at a scale-tipping 65 pounds! It can handle a jaw-dropping 2400 watts of RMS power. That's enough power to let the whole block know that you are back in town and mean business.
Hifonics recommends housing Olympus subwoofers in ported enclosures for optimal performance. If you hook up these subwoofers with a great amplifier and amp kit, all of your friends will envy your car stereo system.
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Ladahki Dance
Once I had decided on returning to India, my plans and paths where pretty open- except for one goal- to make it up to the incredible unique village of Leh in Ladakh in time for the annual festival of mask's and dance. Having been brought up with a strong influence of Tibetan Buddhism I have dreamed of making it to this magical moon-like mountain land -which is one of the last places left where the tibetan buddhist culture still thrives- for many years. Banned and actively destroyed in Tibet, hidden from the world in Bhutan and increasingly commercialised in America and the west, it's not so easy these day's to find the authentic roots of this incredible ancient culture. Tantric or as it is more often known, Vajrayana Buddhism is a rather more mystical and esoteric form born from a combination of Indian buddhism and indigenous Himalayan spiritual and magical practice. One of the unique aspects to this form is it's Dance tradition which is considered perhaps the most sophisticated, difficult and mystical of it's kind in the Himalayas. Only the oldest and sturdiest of these hardy mountain people (let alone the westerners who are lucky enough to witness such a rare ritual) are able to sit through and entire ritual performance. Performing these dances requires and altered state of mind and the technique and movement is handed down through the monk's ranks with the two days of masked and costumed performance preceded by five days of meditation and chanting and 15 hours of solid rehearsal. 'The dancing itself is difficult to describe because neither its purpose nor its form has any parallel in the West. The twenty-four different dances performed over the two days vary in speed and style. Some are peaceful and fluid; others violent and so fast the monks are unable to slow down or control their bodies' trajectory. Some dances are highly ceremonial and stately; others again depict the wrathful protection of specific deities. In all, the fundamental action is to destroy all obstacles to the purpose of life.' With it's origin's over 800 years old and the choreography over 400 hundred years old the expectations of what this dance should be are high. The specific movement vocabulary is around the same as classic ballet- around 100 movements which combine to shift and meld rather like minimalist music with some so subtle they are almost invisible to the untrained eye and yet to those who know can alter the whole flavour of the performance. The dance is generally accompanied and guided by ancient instruments of rhythm including drums, cymbals and huge ornate horns but more importantly the dances are guided by natural pulsations which are made possible by the collective consciousness formed by the community of monk's living and sharing their lives and spirit. Instructions for the dancer's include: \'Ride like a piece of paper on a crashing wave\' \'Walk gracefully like a tiger through the forrest\' \'Fly like a Garuda, a mythical bird beast\' or \'Move the head like a lion shaking a human victim in its mouth\' Cherished for the karmic imprint the leave on both the dancer and the observer these dances are intended to be the optima of mystical attainment within the Vajrayana mediative tradition which is an extensive process of forgetting the self, identifying with a particular deity and conceiving the very universe as a mandala in which the deity exists. Highly accomplished dancers even mutter mantra's throughout the movements holding a deep mediative state which emanates the state of bliss. Set in an ancient monastery high (over 3800m) in the himalayas…needless to say- this was a dancing experience I will not forget easily. What a blessing <3Read More


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Cubs ban fan from Wrigley Field for 'offensive' hand gesture
CHICAGO (AP) - The Chicago Cubs have banned indefinitely from Wrigley Field the fan that used what appeared to be a racist hand gesture behind an African American television reporter during a game at their ballpark.
The Cubs sent a letter Wednesday to the bearded man who flashed the offensive sign in back of former Cubs outfielder Doug Glanville, who was working for NBC Sports Chicago on Tuesday night. The team said it had been unable to contact the fan by phone, and didn't publicly identify him.
President of Business Operations Crane Kenney said the fan could be prosecuted for criminal trespass if he tries to enter the stadium.
"The individual responsible will not be welcome back at Wrigley Field," Cubs spokesman Julian Green said.
Green said the man purchased his ticket on StubHub. Another fan reported his gesture to the team by text during the game against the Miami Marlins - by the time security arrived, the man was gone.
Glanville, who played three seasons for the Cubs, was standing beside the dugout discussing Chicago's surging offense when the man seated in the background started gesturing.
Wearing a gray Cubs sweatshirt and blue pants, he made an upside-down "OK" sign near Glanville's head during the broadcast. The gesture is associated with the juvenile "circle game," where someone tries to trick a friend or sibling into looking at it, then punches them in the shoulder.
But the symbol has also become a white supremacy sign.
"It doesn't matter either way," Green said. "This was bad judgment on the part of the individual. Whether sophomoric behavior or some other stunt, to use that in connection with a respected journalist, who happens to be African American, and doing his job to deliver enjoyment to our fans is ignorant. It has no place @ Wrigley Field."
Glanville said in a statement he was made aware of what the fan did after the segment. He praised the Cubs and NBC Sports for their "responsiveness."
"They have reached out to me and are supportive of my role in the broadcast and continue to have a desire to uphold an inclusive environment at Wrigley Field," he said. "They have displayed sensitivity as to how the implications of this would affect me as a person of color. I am supporting their efforts in fully investigating the matter and I will comment further once the investigation has run its course."
NBC Sports Chicago senior vice president and general manager Kevin Cross called the fan's behavior "reprehensible."
Kenney earlier said "such ignorant and repulsive behavior is not tolerated" and "any individual behaving in this manner will not only be removed from the ballpark, but will be permanently banned from Wrigley Field."
President of Baseball Operations Theo Epstein called the gesture "truly disgusting" and said it "gave me shivers to watch that."
"We've made clear how egregious and unacceptable that behavior is and there's no place for it in our society, in baseball and certainly no place at Wrigley Field," he added.
The Cubs have been on a roll, surging into the NL Central lead, after a slow start. But they have also dealt with some difficult issues.
Infielder Addison Russell rejoined the team Wednesday after completing a 40-game suspension for violating Major League Baseball's domestic violence policy and spending extra time in the minors to get ready.
Last month, MLB launched an investigation into racist messages sent to Cubs reliever Carl Edwards Jr. on Instagram. Those messages came from several people, agent Lee Long said at the time. Edwards got off to a rough start and was sent to Triple-A Iowa a month ago before getting recalled Monday.
The Cubs also distanced themselves from team patriarch Joe Ricketts in February because of emails written by him that included Islamophobic comments as well as conspiracies about former President Barack Obama's birthplace and education.
"There is no extra incentive to be proactive and take action against racism and hate speech," Green said. "When you see something wrong and offensive, you take swift action period."
The Cubs certainly are not the only team that has had to deal with racial incidents.
The NHL's Chicago Blackhawks banned four fans last season for directing racist taunts toward Washington Capitals forward Devante Smith-Pelly.
The Boston Red Sox banned a fan that used a racial slur to another fan about the performance of the national anthem as it was being sung by a woman from Kenya. That incident happened just days after Baltimore's Adam Jones was subjected to racial taunts at Fenway Park.
MLB issued a statement Wednesday noting it has a policy that bans derogatory language and actions at its ballparks and requires clubs to have a response plans.
"Our inclusion efforts, policies and bullying prevention programming aim to make our sport and its ballparks welcome to all, and we will do everything possible to accomplish that goal," MLB said.