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December 6, 2005 - Invisible Incidents, Invisible Risk
by Jeff Moss
In this issue of the Black Page we will look at incident response. Kevin Mandia, a world recognized leader of incident response research, points out that a responder must have skills at least that of the attacker. One of the challenges to IR is discovering there is an incident to begin with. If we only look for known attacks, we will only find the moderately skilled attackersleaving us exposed to the truly skilled adversaries.
Invisible Incidents
by Kevin Mandia posted December 6, 2005
... If Bruce Springsteen did computer security, he would definitely excel at performing Incident Response.
...Choicepoint, Lexis-Nexis, Bank of America, and then several thousand unnamed victims. I am curious, how many companies in the Fortune 500 are currently hosting a digital cocktail party for foreign intruders? Who are these foreign intruders....They say:
How do we confirm any of these if our incident response skills are not as advanced as the adversary?
...Trust me, the problem is worse than reporters and computer security guys think. We are seeing firms with hundreds, if not thousands of compromised systems.
...Attribution for online incidents is getting more difficult. We are having more difficulty determining who is perpetrating intrusions into US firms, primarily because of self propagating intrusions. We need international cooperation to solve international problems. Russia, Romania, China...
...recently, I saw a situation where a company had outsourced their customer service application at a web-hosting facility and it was compromised by the W32.Spybot.Worm. Disaster ensued. I am witnessing very costly responses, with the loss of client data being of critical concern.
...I have responded to over 50 computer intrusions in the last 4 years. Anti-virus detected one of these events. I think the technology that tries to protect us from an infinite amount of signatures may have to change its marketing to We do the best we can, and protect you from being low-hanging fruit.
...after review of the system time/date stamps, we noticed anomalous activity potentially accessing 50 credit card files. The indicators of compromise were all originating from foreign domains. Are we storing anything encrypted nowadays? And if so, in how many locations is the encrypted data stored on the same media in an unencrypted manner?
...I think it's time for companies to continue their proactive stance on security, but couple it with a reactive approach and even be proactively reactive (some strange way, that makes sense to me)
Plan first, to include planning your reaction to incidents.
...I've witnessed a number of panicked customers when they find out they've been compromised. Plan first, to include planning your reaction to incidents.
...wouldn't it be cool to develop an automated technique for companies to capture necessary data immediately following an incident before the audit trail is unintentionally/intentionally corrupted by poor incident response techniques?
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Did you notice that the original issue of the Black Page is missing? I removed it at the request of Mike Lynn and ISS when they were sorting out what Mike's presentation was going to include. It was getting close to the show, and I was getting conflicting signals from ISS. A common theme we will see in this saga... read more
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Some of the latest "solutions" to common security problems are proving to hurt as much as they help, if you blindly trust them. The consequences of this blind trust are the focus of this BlackPage. In this issue, we take a look at two countermeasures that could work against you. David Maynor shares his findings on the ineffectiveness of highly regarded buffer overflow solution implemented in the latest "secure" CPUs. Alex Wheeler, Mr. Anti-Anti-Anti Virus, focuses on the world's largest mandated security countermeasure revealing that an A/V client could be your biggest hole... read more
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[Dirty Secrets] Investigator Involvement
April 15, 2008, 09:55:37 AM »
A few weeks ago, Seth and I were chatting over Google Talk, and discussion inevitably turned to Dirty Secrets. Just as inevitably, I started pontificating on the genre of detective fiction.
At one point, Seth asked me how well I thought Dirty Secrets would do stories in the vein of James Ellroy's Los Angeles quartet of novels (Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz). That, in turn, led to a discussion of how the investigators played a different role in Ellroy's books than they do in the "classic" hardboiled novels of Chandler and Ross MacDonald, which obviously were a big influence on Ellroy.
At the end of that discussion, Seth asked me if I would write up my thoughts as a piece for Dirty Secrets fans. This is my effort at writing such an essay. I will also be posting this to the
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"You smell like trouble to me," he said.
That stopped me for a minute. He had a salesman's insight into human weakness, and he'd touched on a fact which I didn't always admit to myself - that I sometimes served as a catalyst for trouble, not unwillingly.
-Ross MacDonald,
The Underground Man
Lew Archer - the most famous of Ross MacDonald's characters - and Phillip Marlowe - the iconic investigator created by Raymond Chandler - are cut from the same cloth. Both are stoic, rather cynical men. Both work as private investigators because they are good at it and because the shamus biz (barely) pays the bills. Both are keen-eyed observers of humanity; in fact, that is almost all that they are.
Rather than fully fleshed-out characters - what you would expect from a novel's protagonist - Archer and Marlowe serve as macguffins. They provoke other characters into explaining themselves - their interests, their weaknesses, their loves and their crimes. Once they are hired, the detectives make a few enquiries, probe at the contradictions, and learn what lies people are telling about themselves and each other. Eventually, the truth of the matter comes out of the other characters' mouths. They don't even take responsibility if a few people are killed along the way. Archer and Chandler are forces of nature.
Yes, we do know a few things about them. Archer, for example, is a divorced ex-cop that served in the Army during World War II. Eventually, in The Blue Hammer, Archer finally becomes involved in a proper relationship with. Marlowe loves to replay grandmaster games of chess in his spare time. Any character you can sum up in a sentence or two is not a typical protagonist, though.
To call these investigators one-dimensional would impugn the depth of straight lines everywhere.
The one human relationship we see Marlowe in - his friendship with Terry Lennox in The Long Goodbye - is just as much a macguffin as the detectives themselves. One chapter shows the random meeting in a bar that established the friendship
fateful request that Marlowe drive him to meet a flight to Tijuana. Next we know, Lennox is dead and accused of killing his wife. Marlowe's time in lockup gets a more involved treatment, and Lennox's murder, while ultimately tied in to the rest of the novel's events, takes a back seat to the events surrounding Roger and Eileen Wade for a large chunk of the book.
MacDonald's The Underground Man features a similar hastily cobbled together macguffin relationship. In this case, Archer meets a young child whose parents are openly hostile to each other in a park while feeding birds. A few days later, he is kidnapped by his father, and the boy's mother turns to Archer for help. Again it is notable mostly because it is a distinction that fails to make a difference to MacDonald's style.
There is one significant exception to this pattern, though. In The Doomsters, Lew Archer finds himself confronted with a case that dredges up unhappy memories of his own past. This is a classic example of an exception that proves the rule, though. Outside of one romantic entanglement, subsequent Archer novels do not delve much deeper into his character.
Never get personally involved. It was
golden rule. And practically every case he worked, Rebus broke it. He sometimes felt that the reason he became so involved in his cases was that he had no life of his own. He could only live
other people.
-Ian Rankin,
The Hanging Garden
The investigators of Ellroy's novels, compared to the classic detectives, are well-realized characters. They are monomaniacally driven to investigate the crimes at hand, but they do so for reasons of character - even for love. Edmund Exley is out to prove that he deserves to be a high-flyer, and to prove that a straight cop can be an effective cop. Jack Vincennes busts actors on drug charges at the behest of a tabloid paper for the sake of becoming famous, leveraging that fame into a career as a movie consultant.
Bud White's motivation is even more personal. His partner and best friend Dick Stensland is a victim of the central crime. Later, he also falls for a Veronica Lake-lookalike prostitute that works for a prime suspect. And that's just the investigators in L.A. Confidential.
It helps that the '40s Hollywood Ellroy portrays in his books is more lurid than the allergic-to-scandal upper class enclaves that MacDonald and Chandler look at. Still, even in summary, Ellroy's detectives jump out at you. They have real relationships that affect their lives, they become obsessed with their cases for personal - rather than philosophical - reasons. They even have blood on their hands.
In Bladerunner, Deckard begins every bit as disaffected as Lew Archer. He doesn't even want to take the case - tracking down murderous artificial humanoids known as replicants - but he is forced into it by his boss. As he investigates, Deckard learns things about himself that he may prefer not to know, and develops an ability to empathize with the seemingly inhuman replicants. He falls in love with a female replicant who is not involved in the killings. When, at the end of the film, the replicant leader dies at Deckard's feet with a lament about the loss that his own death entails, Deckard is forced to contemplate his own humanity and the value of his own existence.
Chief Inspector John Rebus, the Edinburgh investigator in most of Ian Rankin's stories, displays a different reason for being drawn into his cases. Investigating crimes dulls the pain of his own failure as a husband, father, and all-around human being. He latches onto the idea of helping victims, but really police work is his drug of choice, a method of running from personal pain.
When playing Dirty Secrets, I think these growing personal ties happen more organically when they are developed during play. If you try to create this kind of story from the start it will tend to fight several aspects of the rules. Seth disagrees with me about this, though, so your mileage may vary.
Richard Kimble:
I didn't kill my wife.
Lt. Phillip Gerard:
Jury said different.
The Fugitive
My suggestion, if you want to force a personal tie between the investigator and the crime, is to establish it at the start of your story, like Bud White's murdered partner. You need an investigator that is unable to let go of a case because the crime affected them directly. The victim is a close friend or a family member, the investigator is a suspect, or some other consequence of the crime demands that the investigator get solve the puzzle laid at their feet.
When they appear in other media this type of story lies outside the hardboiled genre that Dirty Secrets is most closely tied to. That does not mean that players must shun it, though. If they feel a connection to the investigator right off the bat, it can make the game even more powerful. It can also work well with the Corrupt Investigator variant at the end of the rules section of the Dirty Secrets book.
The canonical reference for this type of investigation is The Fugitive - both the television series (which I have not seen) and the film adaptation (which I have) - even though neither comes close to being hardboiled. Richard Kimble is accused of murdering his wife, and the only way he can prove his innocence is by finding "The One-Armed Man" who actually committed the crime and proving his guilt. In this case, Kimble gets it with both barrels, as he is accused of a crime he did not commit against the woman he loved more than any other.
Choosing how emotionally invested your investigator is will shape your story. The detached Marlowe-type will observe at arm's length, making the game philosophical and about the other characters. A Kimble-like investigator, who is as much a victim of the initial crime as anyone, will tend toward a personal story about the investigator as a character. The investigator will be emotionally revealed during the story. An initially detached investigator who is drawn into the lives of the other characters may be even more richly drawn still, but this is also the hardest kind of story to plan out in advance.
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Re: [Dirty Secrets] Investigator Involvement
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This has me wondering about a slightly different spin on the detective genre. Have either (any) of you read C. J. Henderson's Teddy London books, and particularly The Things That Are Not There? The thing is, London is this sort of hard-boiled detective, and he goes through many of the same motions as any other detective in this kind of story--but his antagonist is a Cthulu-like being from another dimension attempting to use a deceived batch of locals into opening a gate for him to enter. He is approached by the daughter of the group's leader, who has been earmarked as the sacrifice that will open the portal, who ran away and is now being followed by inhuman pursuers intent on her recapture.
There are those who are aware of the ancient legends, and during his investigations he finds them.
Anyway, it strikes me that such a story might be possible from the system--but I confess I have not yet obtained a copy (perpetually short of funds) so I'm running it by those with more insight.
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I'll leave it to Seth to give a definitive reply, but I rather doubt that Dirty Secrets is the right game for this situation. The biggest issue is that DS does not allow for a predetermined guilty party. The system is designed to semi-randomly choose perpetrators for the crimes that the group generates.
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April 18, 2008, 07:55:48 AM »
Well, I don't see why you couldn't play
Dirty Secrets
with a supernatural twist. However, as Gerald mentions, you can't predetermine a guilty party. All that supernatural stuff would still have to be the context for the story, and there would be no guarantee of a deeper supernatural motive behind the case. In the end, it could still be purely human motives.
For what you're describing, M.J., I'd probably recommend the new
Trail of Cthulhu
, based on the Gumshoe System. I had the chance to talk briefly with Robin Laws at last GenCon, and we agreed that Gumshoe and
Dirty Secrets
were trying to do the same kind of things but in completely different ways.
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Many Egyptians are blaming police and the ruling military for failing to prevent riots at a football match that left 74 people dead.
Some fans were crushed to death while others were stabbed or suffocated after being trapped in a long narrow corridor trying to flee rival fans armed with knives, clubs and stones.
Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri, in an emergency parliamentary session, announced he has dissolved the Egyptian Soccer Federation's board and referred its members for questioning by prosecutors about the violence.
He also said the governor of Port Said province and the area's police chief have resigned.
Several MPs said the lapse was intentional, aimed at stoking the country's insecurity since the fall a year ago of former leader Hosni Mubarak.
Some accused the police of allowing the riot to happen out of vengeance against the ultras - die-hard soccer fans who are bitter enemies of the police and have been among the most aggressive protesters over the past year.
The ultras, backers of Al-Ahly club, were at the forefront of violent protests a year ago that led to the collapse of the police force, and in more recent months, they have clashed with soldiers during rallies demanding an end to military rule.
In an emergency session, Parliament Speaker Saad el-Katatni, of the Muslim Brotherhood, accused security authorities of hesitating to act, putting "the revolution in danger."
"This is a complete crime," said Abbas Mekhimar, head of parliament's defence committee. "This is part of the scenario of fuelling chaos against Egypt."
Protests and a march on the Interior Ministry were planned against the police force over the violence. In the morning, dozens of angry protesters sealed off Tahrir Square, the epicentre of the 18-day uprising that toppled Mubarak, while others blocked the street in front of the nearby state TV building in preparation for the rallies.
The riot at the stadium in Port Said erupted when fans of the local team, Al-Masry, stormed the field following a rare 3-1 win against Al-Ahly, one of Egypt's most popular clubs.
Al-Masry supporters, armed with knives, sticks and stones, chased Al-Ahly players and fans, who ran toward the exits and up the stands to escape.
Lines of riot police in the stadium largely did nothing to intervene, witnesses said. At one point, the stadium lights went out, plunging it into darkness. At the time, the TV sportscaster announcing the match said authorities shut them off to "calm the situation."
"We were surprised the police let them in that easy. The numbers were huge," said Ahmed Ghaffar, one of the visiting Al-Ahly fans at the stadium.
As many Al-Ahly fans crowded into the corridor leading out of the stadium, they were trapped, with the doors at the other end locked.
"Layers of people" were "stuck over each other because there was no other exit," Ghaffar tweeted.
"We were between two choices, either death coming from behind us, or the closed doors."
He said Al-Masry fans beat Al-Ahly fans who fell on the floor.
Mahmoud Ibrahim, 22, a survivor who visited a Cairo morgue where two of his dead friends were taken, said that after the lights went out, people were left "to kill each other."
He ran into the corridor. "We went down trying to get out and everyone was pushing. Under me was more than three people and I am being pushed. Everyone is pushing trying to breathe," he said.
Al-Masry fan, Mohammed Mosleh, who posted his account on Facebook, said he saw "thugs with weapons" on his side in the stadium where police presence was meagre.
"This was unbelievable," he said. "We were supposed to be celebrating, not killing people. We defeated Al-Ahly, something I saw twice only in my lifetime. All the people were happy. Nobody expected this."
Health ministry official Hisham Sheha said the deaths were caused by stabs by sharp tools, brain haemorrhage and concussions.
TV footage showed Al-Ahly players rushing for their dressing room as fistfights broke out among the hundreds of fans swarming on to the field. Some men had to rescue a manager from the losing team as he was being beaten. Riot police stood by, appearing overwhelmed.
The Interior Ministry said 74 people died, including one police officer, and 248 were injured, 14 of them police.
A local health official initially said 1,000 people were injured and it was not clear how severely. Security forces arrested 47 people for involvement in the violence, the statement said.
Essam el-Erian, a Brotherhood MP, said the military and police were complicit in the violence, accusing them of trying to show that emergency regulations giving security forces wide-ranging powers must be maintained.
"This tragedy is a result of intentional reluctance by the military and the police," he said.
A number of political parties called on the Egyptian parliament to pass no-confidence vote against the government of el-Ganzouri, a Mubarak-era politician appointed by the much-criticised ruling military council.
Osama Yassin, head of sports committee in parliament, said the parliament holds the interior minister, who is in charge of police, responsible for the violence. He demanded the removal of the prosecutor general Prosecutor-General Mahmoud Abdel-Meguid to guarantee "transparent investigations."
The Ultras, meanwhile, accused the military council and former members of Mubarak's regime of retaliating against them for their role in the uprising last year against Mubarak and in anti-military protests since.
"They want to punish us and execute us for our participation in the revolution against suppression," the Ultras of Al-Ahly group said in a statement. It vowed a "new war in defence of our revolution."
The ultras have long been bitter enemies of the police. Their anti-police songs, peppered with curses, have quickly become viral and an expression of the hatred many Egyptians feel toward security forces that were accused of much of the abuse that was widespread under Mubarak's regime.


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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
* Shaving Cream Bathtub Paint, Don't Say I Didn't Warn You!
I used to give my students shaving cream at the end of the school year
to finger paint on the tables as an artsy and fun way to wash the tables before summer vacation,
that technique coupled with the nine million versions of bath tub paint
I've seen in blog and Pinterest land were the inspiration for this post!
So I thought, oh this will be so fun. We'll all love it....read on.
Pardon the dark photos, bath time is in the evening around here
and the lighting in the bathroom is only "meh."
I set up the paint tray with a muffin tin on a stool outside of the bathtub.
I put a drop of food coloring in the bottom of each pan,
then sprayed in the shaving cream and let them mix it for a surprise!
(leftover from our shaving cream liquid watercolor marbling project)
The girls loved it.
There were a few stifled coughs from the stinky shaving cream
fumes and our asthma. Had to turn on the bath fan -- but it's still fun right?
The kids used paint brushes and fingers to decorate their canvas
(our white bath tiles)
Portrait of mom?
See those blue fingers?
My kids were tie-dyed when they were done with this little project.
Lots of giggling at this point.
See how pretty the colors are?
That didn't last.
After they painted the walls they started to paint each other.
Think foamy war paint. I'm not posting photos of my kids here.
Everything turned a gross shade of grey green in a matter of minutes....
including my children.
The walls were dirty looking.
The bath water was gross.
The grout was stained green and blue.
My kids were gray, green, and blue.
Crying children because the shaving cream was causing a burning in nooks and crannies
= not. good. at. all.
I had to drain the tub. Hose off the kids. Wash the walls. And tub. Rinse
Re-run the bath and wash my kids two more times to get the food coloring stains off.
Giant pain in the butt.
Will we be painting with shaving cream in our bathroom ever again?
Don't say I didn't warn you!
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The New York-based investment firm BlackRock has taken an 8.21
In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
Wednesday, BlackRock Inc. said it acquired 3.3 million shares in
Manchester United PLC. The club went public on the New York Stock
Exchange last August.
The Glazer family, which took control of the team in 2005
maintains control through Class B shares that carry 10 times the
voting power of the stock sold to the public. There are 124 million
Class B shares and 39 million Class A shares, according to the data
provider FactSet.
The family loaded the club with debt following its takeover, but
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high-interest bonds.
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Yesterday, we showed you guys some motion-capture footage for an unannounced and promising Ubisoft game called Osiris. As it turns out, however, Ubisoft is apparently no longer working on the project and has since abandoned it.
At least Ubisoft came out right away and made a statement on it rather than letting people just believe it was something it's not haha.
kind of sad it would have been cool to see an egyptian set game, it would have been fresh compared to every thing else because theres only one game set in egypt that was good that i played and that was sphinx and the cursed mummy, but hey maybe well get another assassians creed hey guys, yeah that seems like an even better idea,scrap the egyptian game, put prince of persia on pause and forget all about the 2008 game, keep beyond good and evil in development hell, but you can always use more ASSASSIANS CREED YEAH!!!!!
Sad news. There's a distinct lack of games set in Ancient Egypt, and this looked like it was shaping up to be a great one.
lol! I just caught the mocap trailer a little while ago and now I see this news.


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A 14-year-old boy lived undetected at a 24-hour Walmart in North Texas for more than two days after running away from his aunt's home, authorities say.
Store employees in Corsicana, about 50 miles south of Dallas, discovered the teen and a hiding spot he had carved out behind boxes in the store's baby section.
"It was clear he was in that hiding place for a while," Walmart spokesman Brian Nick said.
The boy ran away July 28 while staying with his aunt while his parents were out of town, Corsicana police said in a statement Wednesday.
He was found two days later at the store. An employee called police, who soon caught up with him outside.
Walmart still hasn't determined what the boy may have done or used while staying inside the store, Nick said. They also can't confirm how long he was inside.
The boy had a number of belongings in the area where he appeared to have been staying, Nick added, which is how his hiding place was discovered.
"I'm really – I'm surprised somebody hasn't already been doing that because they have everything – you can exist in Walmart," said shopper Lou Walter.
Officials said it's not the first time the teen, from nearby Rice, has run away, though he has a history of hiding in abandoned homes and buildings and not in heavily trafficked retail stores.
Walmart is not pressing charges, and Child Protective Services has not been called.
The case is now being handled by the Navarro County Juvenile Probation Office.


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The number of Mac clone makers is growing by the week, so it seems. We have Psystar in the United States, a clone maker in Russia, another one in the UK, and PearC who now cover Germany, The Netherlands, France, Belgium, and Luxembourg. We can add a new one to the list, one that I personally thought was a fake, but is apparently very real. One that has a retail store. In California. Quo Computer (in case you're wondering, you use that thing on the right to navigate - it's weird).
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When Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire on December 17, 2010 – sparking protests that brought regime change in Tunisia and massive unrest in Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab world – he was unwittingly following an established pattern.
In an oppressive environment, a solitary act of highly visible self-immolation triggers a massive chain-reaction, which results in some major political changes.
Thích Quàng Đúc, a Buddhist monk, did it in Vietnam in June 1963, protesting against the persecution of Buddhists by the Ngô Đình Diem administration; and so did Jan Palach, a 21-year old philosophy student, in January 1969, when he set himself on fire in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest against the Soviet occupation of his country. The former's gesture led to the toppling of Diem's regime within months; the latter's was sufficiently powerful to fuel the political imagination of the Czechoslovakian anti-communist resistance over the next two decades.
How is it possible that a single act, one individual's suicide, can lead to political transformations on such a large scale? There is certainly no easy recipe. In fact, several factors have to conspire, in some unique fashion, to generate such an outcome. Sheer imitators hardly achieve anything precisely because they fail to see that the self-immolator himself plays only a small part within a much larger story.
Three conditions
First of all, the event has to take place in conditions of significant political and social oppression. A self-immolator is someone dead-serious about what he is doing, and the seriousness of his deed is only a reflection of a very grim context (or at least we should be able to construe it as such).
Second, the event has to take place in public. Self-immolation is performance by definition; the efficacy of martyrdom, political martyrdom included, depends as much on the performer's action as it does on the crowd's reaction.
Third, the self-immolator must emerge in the midst of a community marked by a diffuse sense of guilt due to its own inaction ("nobody does anything"). If the gesture occurs at the right moment and is sufficiently well advertised, it ends up shaming the others into "finally" doing something. What is fascinating about the shaming game is that, once started, nobody knows how it will end. First the Tunisians were put to shame by Bouazizi, then the Egyptians felt they were ashamed by the Tunisians. Who knows who will feel ashamed tomorrow?
The suicide method matters, too. Of all the political uses of a dying body, self-immolation is the purest, if one may say so. Gandhi's "fasting onto death," spectacular as it may have been, was part of a pragmatic political strategy. It was, for the most part, reversible, and it always invited negotiation. Suicide-bombers makes a political point, too, but they do so precisely though the death of the others, the damage they inflict on the world around, and the ensuing sense of terror.
A selfless sacrifice
By contrast, the self-immolator conveys the compelling image of a totally selfless sacrifice – indeed, generous beyond comprehension. He embarks on a journey that usually ends in death, which is always his own. As a consequence, his death comes to function as what French philosopher René Girard would call a "founding death." His fierce determination, his courage, the terrifying manner of his self-annihilation: All these make him irresistible. If an intuitive connection, however symbolic, can be established in the public mind between the oppressive political conditions and the occurrence of such a death, then a grand narrative of martyrdom, revolution, and renewal is about to emerge.
Finally, what renders self-immolation as a unique occurrence is the element of fire itself. A death by water or poison can rarely be a "founding death."
Nothing marks the human imagination more profoundly than fire. Fire holds universal fascination for its symbolic power, its metaphysical charge, and its rich imagery. The ancient Greek philosopher Empedocles threw himself into an active volcano in a bid to prove his immortality. What makes the self-immolator particularly fascinating is his being consumed by fire, his body transubstantiated into light (the note Palach left behind was signed "Torch Number 1"). The self-immolator's exit from this world coincides with his entry into myth.
According to some media reports, what motivated Mr. Bouazizi's gesture was in fact the public humiliation to which he had been subjected by a female police officer who allegedly slapped him in the face, slurred against his long-deceased father, and spat at him. All done in public.
Needless to say, for an Arab man, living as he did in a mainly traditional society, a shame greater than this would be hard to imagine. This means that he may well have immolated himself out of shame, and not primarily for political reasons. If these reports are true, Bouazizi's case becomes even more interesting: It only proves that when a grand narrative is ripe, it will have no problem inventing its own heroes.
Costica Bradatan is assistant professor of philosophy at the Honors College at Texas Tech University. He is writing a philosophical book on martyrdom.


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Owl, Great Horned
|Owl, Great Horned
|Context: Mounted in paneling in Fuertes Room, Brewster Wing of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.. The paintings in the Fuertes Room were commissioned by Frederick Foster Brewster for the study of his 66 room Tudor-style manor house in New Haven, Connecticut, built in 1909. The study was paneled with Java teak in which were set twenty-four Fuertes paintings, ranging in size from 19"x28" to 37"x100." Brewster bequeathed the paintings and the interior of his study to the Laboratory of Ornithology.
|Date: 1910
|Location: Laboratory of Ornithology
|Medium: Oil paint
|ID Number: 1216
|Size: 36" x 22"
|Support: Canvas
|Type: Oil paintings
|Title: Great Horned Owl


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Sarma material, of course I agree with that.Namdrol wrote:
No, that is not so -- there was a lot of gsar ma material in Tibet when Mila was a youth. He just happened to have had Nyingma masters.
But is there anything unique about Sarma material?
Bottomline of Sarma is tummo and karmamudra which is probably present in the Nyingma beforehand, right?


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Skip to comments.California Governor's budget has surprise: a surplus!
Posted on 01/11/2013 8:23:20 AM PST by SeekAndFind
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - California's budget deficit is gone after years of financial troubles, Governor Jerry Brown said on Thursday, proposing a state budget plan that would raise spending on education and healthcare, boosting total expenditures by 5 percent with a surplus remaining.
But Brown vowed to push back at legislators eager to increase spending even more by restoring the billions of dollars to social services and other state programs cut in lean years.
"I am determined to avoid the fiscal mess that the last few governors had to deal with," Brown told reporters as he introduced his budget plan for the 2013-14 fiscal year beginning in July. Leading Democratic legislators agree with his plan.
California's economy melted down with the housing market, slashing the state's revenue, but it is finally on the mend. For years the state's leaders have tackled budget deficits with a combination of deep cuts and accounting gimmicks. The projected surplus is now the latest surprise.
Businesses are hiring again and voters in November approved temporary hikes to the state sales tax and income tax rates on wealthy taxpayers.
California's job growth tops the national average, unemployment has fallen to below double-digit levels for the first time in nearly four years and more money is expected to flow into state coffers from the voter-approved tax increases.
The state Department of Finance projected unemployment will fall to 9.6 percent this year and 8.7 percent in 2014.
Brown's budget plan projects $98.5 billion in revenues and transfers and plans spending of $97.7 billion, according to the proposal published on the state Department of Finance website.
That would leave a surplus of $851 million, in addition to a projected $785 million surplus for the current fiscal year,
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
He's gonna mint a $16 billion dollar platinum coin.
It's hard to imagine this actually happening but I'll grudgingly credit the Gov for his effort.
I know that our faithful, truthful government in Taxifornia has told us glowing numbers and projections every year only to have reality come crashing in! I don't see how California will ever have a balanced budget let alone a surplus when the government does everything it can to drive industry and wealth out of the state! Hell even the illegals are learning that it's time to get out, at least the more educated ones, leaving us with an even larger segment of non producers to support.
Never believe anything Brown says, he is tree hugging enviro nazi who always has and always will do everything he can to drive this state into the neolithic heaven that the greens desire. Also he admitted in an interview before he was re elected that He, just like all politicians lie to get elected.
They already budgeted for the money returned for sequestration should it happen as well as other programs.
If sequestration doesn't happen, Brown needs to remove 350 mill from the 2013-2014 budget.
Did Brown just pull a trillion dollar coin out of his a$$?
One also suspects that Mister Madoff was less clumsy of an unconscionable liar than appears Mister Brown.
Brown reminds me of my daschund. Brown submits a budget every year that has all these flowery projections about increased revenues and than they fail to materialize. The following year he does the same thing again.
Otto my little dog, bless his heart, gets all wiggly every time he sees me eating something just knowing he is going to get some of it. Just like Brown he doesn't get his way but he shows up at the next meal ecstatic that he is going to get the lions share. You have to give them credit for their optimism .
1.Businesses are hiring again - in other states after move
2.Surplus - of illegals
3.California's budget deficit - Unions
I suppose I'm ignorant on why politicians were ever allowed with getting away with predicting revenue income and basing a budget on that. I think it should be constitutionally mandated that they can only spend the money that they have ALREADY collected from the previous year. It would be difficult to run a deficit if that were the case.
One minor problem with this scenario
Unfunded Pension Obligations Threaten Budget Funding for Core Priorities
Independent experts agree that California's unfunded public employee pension obligations are becoming more and more of a budget problem - both for state and local governments.
Many recent, nonpartisan studies have illustrated just a how big a problem unfunded public employee pension obligations have become, though estimates of the scope of the problem vary.
As of June 30, 2009, the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) reported that its unfunded actuarial accrued liabilities in its main pension fund for state and local governments was over $49 billion-consisting of about $23 billion for the state and $26 billion for other public agenciesi
Showing a bigger problem, a report by the bipartisan Little Hoover Commission found that the top 10 public employee pension systems in California - including plans for both state and local government workers - faced a combined $240 billion shortfall as of 2010.
A study by the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research more recently pegged the combined total unfunded pension liabilities of CalPERS, the California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) and the University of California retirement plan at $485 billion.
I thot I read "projected " surplus? Well sure, that's California style positive wishing at its finest. The exact same clever planning the Fedz use. Business idea: rush a truckload of arm splints to Sacramento-—they're gonna need them from slapping themselves on the back.
They 've created a new accounting system: NIFO -- None In, First Out.
Whud hawppend?
You forgot illegals (3).
I project that I am going to win the lottery this year.
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This Indian-style stew contains a variety of legumes and, served along with rice or any Indian flatbread, is most satisfying indeed. I like my Indian dishes hot, and if you do too you may want to add a wee bit of fire paste to the pot near the end of the cooking time. Serve with some yogurt to temper the heat if desired.
This is my contribution to this month's No Croutons Required. To celebrate my birthday month, I am asking for spicy soups or salads along with menu suggestions. I will accept entries until the 20th of this month.
|Mixed Bean Indian Stew
|Recipe by Lisa Turner
Cuisine: Indian
Published on March 16, 2012
A rich, dark and earthy, and filling spicy curry using a mix of beans for a contrast of tastes and textures
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More Indian legume recipes you are sure to enjoy from Lisa's Vegetarian Kitchen:
Chickpea Vindaloo
Dal Kootu
Mung Bean Paneer
Spicy Mung Bean Soup with Coconut Milk
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CLEMSON — Clemson coach Jack Leggett gambled Friday night in a series-opening, 6-0, loss against South Carolina.
Trying to add another quality bat to the lineup to aid a struggling offense, to become more right-handed against lefty South Carolina ace Jordan Montgomery, Leggett traded defense for offense.
Leggett moved Shane Kennedy, the team's designated hitter, to left field so he could pencil in right-handed hitter Kevin Bradley in the lineup at DH. It was Kennedy's first time in the field this season. Leggett sat freshman outfielder Maleeke Gibson, a quick-footed athlete who has given Clemson the equivalent of another center fielder in left field.
Trailing USC by just a run in the seventh inning, South Carolina's T.J. Costen lofted a flyball to left field. Kennedy struggled to track the ball's flight in the night sky and dropped the ball. The error resulted in three unearned runs in the inning.
For Clemson (5-3), which has little margin for error with so little offensive punch — two home runs in eight games and just one batter hitting over .300 — such defensive lapses can be decisive, especially against a quality opponent like South Carolina (7-1).
"I put Shane out there because we were trying to get a little offense going and he hadn't been able to play out there very much," Leggett said. "It was a high ball in the night time and we haven't played in the night yet. It was a new experience and unfortunately he dropped the ball."
Of course South Carolina only needed a single run Friday; the significance of the unearned runs can be debated. What cannot be debated is the Clemson offense is struggling. Leggett said the team's collective approach must improve.
"You have to score to win," Leggett said. "We have to hit more groundballs and get on top of the baseball more and strikeout less. …. We didn't get to use our speed or get the bunting game going.
We got beat on some fastballs. We got a little underneath. When a guy (Montgomery) is throwing a good high fastball you have to get on top of the baseball."
Doug Kingsmore Stadium was a place where flyballs went to die on Friday as a stiff breeze blew directly in. Clemson had 12 flyball outs and Montgomery struck out another nine Tigers, allowing just three hits over eight innings.
Clemson catcher Garrett Boulware thought he had hit a line-drive homer in the fifth inning but the umpire crew ruled it had hit the top of the wall and bounced back into play. Boulware over slid third base and was tagged out. It was Clemson's closest flirtation with a run.
"We have to get on top of the baseball," Boulware said. "We are a really fast team. We haven't shown it yet."
Clemson ace Daniel Gossett (2-1) might become accustomed with little run support. Gossett was perfect through three innings and allowed just one run through six innings. Despite throwing 95 pitches he came out for the seventh.
"I felt great," Gossett said. "I told coach I wanted one more and he said I was fine to go."
It was in the seventh that the Clemson defense and his command, issuing two walks, led to a sixth Clemson loss in seven games against its rival. Said Gossett of the stretch: "It definitely sucks."


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I have polyester/velour chair cushions in a golden/yellow colour. What colour dye can I use to make them a rich dark burgundy or similar?
May 2012
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February 2014
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July 2014
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Hi there, I have a wool/viscose blend coat that is deep red (blood red) and I want to dye it black..how should I dye it / what type of dye do you recommend and would I be able to get the coat close to black?
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I have a dress that is 98% nylon and 2% spandex with a polyester lining. I was wondering if it is possible to dye this without ruining it and what color I should use to achieve the color that I want. The dress is a royal blue/almost purple and I would like it to be a deep red/burgundy color.
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Hi Nora,
Sorry for the delayed response!
Because you are trying to get to a red/burgundy from a royal blue/almost purple I would recommend removing the color from the dress first. However, depending on the type of dye used originally for the royal blue this may or may not be successful. If the dress has been dyed with an Acid dye you should be able to remove some degree of the dye. If the original color is a disperse dye you are unlikely to be able to remove any of the color.
Once you've removed color using I would suggest using Acid Dyes - perhaps the
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Are you planning to remove color before dyeing?
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If there's an effective way to do it, sure. I just want to know what will work best.
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December 2014
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February 2015
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Your Purple is going to end up the purplish-brown every time if you are dyeing over orange, whether you dye it or purchase it dyed. The only way to create a bright bold purple with your orange is to apply the colors along side each other on a white shirt. Check out this method of tying and dyeing to get an idea of what I mean:
Rather than using several colors you could just use purple and orange.
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Hi Kam,
Over-dyeing an existing color is going to give you a color that looks darker than the first dyeing even when using the same ratio.
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This color here...
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May 2015
Hi Ash,
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I am a beginner at dyeing. I just tried to dye a cotton corduroy vest and pants, using Procion MX. They were a dusty rose color and I wanted them to be a brighter color, so I used carmine red. I thought I followed directions precisely, but my clothes looked exactly the same color after the dyeing. The clothes weighed about 20 oz, I used 3 gal of water plus another cup, salt, soda ash and about 1.75 t of dye.
July 2015
I am attempting to slightly darken a color a 100% cotton plaid. It's a plaid of large beige stripes (2"), and thin red and green stripes (1/2" each). I'd like the beige to be a greenish or grey color without overly tinting the green stripes and browning the red. Would you recommend I try iDye or do you think the colors would muddy down too much? I'm going for more of a historical home dye look from a purchased tartan.
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July 2015
Hello Nerosbane,
Regardless of the type of dye you use overdying with a color to move the beige to green or grey is going to drab out the green or red. You might want to consider painting dye onto the beige stripes. Check out these directions for painting with Procion MX on page six.
http://jacquardproducts.com/assets/jacquard-site/product-pages/dyes/procion-mx/Procion MX_Instructions.pdf
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July 2015
Hi Sharoper,
From your description I suspect that what you need is more dye. It has been my experience that the amounts of dye recommend at our directions usually fall short of what I expect "medium" or "dark" colors to be. Try doubling the amount of dye you used in your first attempt.
July 2015
I am attempting to dye an orange polyester to black. For my first try, I used one packet of idye poly, followed the instructions, and let the dye boils with constant agitation for 30 minutes. As the color was significantly darker, I thought that was enough time so started the washing/drying process. After the fabric had dried, it was a dark green. So doing some research online, I found I needed to use double to quadruple the amount of dye to get a truly black tone to the fabric. I used four packets of idye poly, agitated for an hour, and the color didn't change. My next guess would be to try a blue based dye to even out the color or even a red. What would you suggest would work best to help me get closest to black?
July 2015
I'm trying to dye a duvet cover to match the decor in my room because I haven't been able to find one that is just plain pink. I managed to get a really nice rosy pink by mixing a little bit of magenta with red and watering it down, but it turns out I need the color to be more of a coral. Is it possible to use a very watered down yellow or orange to achieve this or will they not react well with the majenta in the pink? Or do you have any other suggestions on how to achieve this?
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July 2015
Hi Emfish,
You are going in the right direction with the addition of yellow or orange to push your pink to coral (I'd probably go with the orange). You will want to use just a very little bit, though to avoid pushing it to a more apricot color. You might find it helps to play around with an interactive color wheel on the internet to see what happens with the addition of different colors to your existing color.
hope this helps
July 2015
I have absolutely nooo experience with dyeing anything so i am needing some serious professional tips and advice for this. I have an old, (very very old) dining room set that has cloth covered chairs. 2 are black, 2 are yellow. I am needing to dye the yellow covers red. Idk if this has a high chance of turning orange, or if not because of how old they are and how many times they have previously been washed or if any of that matters. Any advice or how to's would be great. I have no idea what kind of dye to use either,so if anyone with experience has any brand preferences that would be much appreciated too(:
August 2015
OK! Hasn't anybody else had this beginner problem? I've tried to poly idye ivory polyester(100%) twice now. Two separate garments. I'm really not upset at all that the colors did not come out what the dye packet says.
HOWEVER, I'm very upset at the fact that the boiling dye glob plates out on the inside of the stainless steel pot and it then ruins the garment by sticking dye splotches on any and all pieces of fabric that touch the plated out globs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Has this happen to anybody but me????
September 2015
I am sorry I missed your message as we have been dealing with the spam on the board. The yellow covers will be orange unless you remove the color first. Boiling the covers in color remover will likely do the job. Then you can dye the covers red. Every time you overdye a new color the old color will show, so the original color must be compatible with the desired final color or it must be removed.
September 2015
I have had this problem before. You can use a brush with a handle on it to brush those globs with the hot water from the pot and get it to dissolve back in the water.
February 2016
How to dye hot pink chiffon dress to maroon color.??
February 2016
This is not too hard. Is it 100% silk or polyester?
If silk you should use 3/4 crimson acid dye
and 1/4 violet
with an appropriate total amount for the dress, probably around 2 ounces total.
I would do essentially the same with the poly
Crimson but substitue lilav
for the violet in this case. Violet is too strong in the poly and would dominate. You can cut the poly packet with scissors.
November 2017
I have a 90% wool coat that's dry-clean only and a bright cyan color; I want to lighten the color to a more pastel blue and perhaps dye it to be slightly more blue than cyan. How could I do this?
December 2017
You would have to remove the color and then dye it again. Color remover will work, but you have to get it hot like 160 degrees, so it has to fit in a pot to heat it up. The hard thing with wool is you need to avoid quick changes in temp so the fiber doesn't deform. The dry clean only is in regards to this. Usually, you would put the coat in the water with color remover and raise the heat slowly over an hour and then let it cool off in the same pot or transfer it to another bucket or container with water that is similar in temp and then just let it return to room temp. Then you would repeat the process with an acid dye blue you wanted.
December 2017
i've heard that color remover isn't actually very healthy, is it true? i've had the color remover a few times but i'm afraid i would start searching for
drug reviews
because of it soon. thanks
December 2017
Hello Bobegglach,
I would agree that it is not healthy. It is is a reducing agent, Sodium Hydrosulfite. You would not want to get it in your eyes or ingest it. Breathing it into your lungs as a powder is when it is most dangerous, so kicking up a cloud of it is not a good idea. That said, once you have it in the the water it is actually very safe. Limit exposure to your skin.
https://www.jacquardproducts.com/assets/jacquard-site/support/sds/chemicals/Sodium Hydrosulfite 16pt_SDS.pdf
The real deal is that it is actually safer than bleach is, so that is a decision people need to make for themselves. Not as unhealthy as bleach, and it won't eat holes in your fabric. Use good ventilation when you use it it and handle the powder itself as you can, and you will be fine.
December 2017
Nothing's healthy for you at the end of the day. People should just use their heads and follow instructions. I would take color remover over bleach any day of the week.
June 11
I'm going to dye some lavender curtains maroon/burgundy. Natural fabric, I'm trying to match them to some that are already that color. It seems like I would just use red or maroon/red. Any advice would be appreciated since I've never done this before.
June 12
I would do these in the washing machine or a big tub with Idye in hot steaming water. Crimson would probably get you there. The lavender will just help to make it more burgundy. Use salt for a dark red. It doesn't have to be non-iodized salt., Regular salt is ok.
September 20
I'm going to dye a coat (55% wool and 45% polyester), originally white to black or dark gray.
I'll probably gonna have to dye it twice right? One to dye the poly and to dye the wool? Since they need different dyes.
Is there a particular order to it? First wool or polyester? Or it doesn't matter?
Also, I've read somewhere that I shouldn't use an alluminium container to dye the wool, because it requires an acid dye that would interact with it? is that accurate?
I appreciate the help. Trying to save a coat ruined in a dry cleaner :/
September 21
Yes avoid the aluminum if you can. You are right the acid is not good for it.
You can dye this coat all at once if you want. The important thing here is to make the transition between hot and cold slowly. You don't want to shock the wool. That means presoak the coat in hot water before you add it to the boiling poly dye.
You can actually do this process all at once. The acid dye will not affect the poly dye. Add the acid dye (prob 2 small jars of black esp if it the coat is a little heavy) and poly dye(1 packet probably works unless the jacket weighs over 3 lbs). Heat it to boiling. Add the hot wet coat. Stir(important the coat moves freely in the water).
Add vinegar after 10 min and then boil on a low boil for 45 min to an hour for max black.
Return to hot water bath. Allow to return to room temp, then rinse coat in cold water until the water runs clear.
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Constantine "CJ, Chris, Connie" J. Testone, age 82 of Vineland, passed away on Friday, January 17, 2014 at home. Constantine was born in Derby, Conn., to the late Constantine and Ida May (Smith) Testone and graduated from Fairfield University in 1953 with a degree in Social Science. He served with distinction in military intelligence from 1954-1958 in Berlin, Germany.
Following his military career, CJ began his Boy Scouts of America professional career in 1958 as an Assistant District Executive in Nassau County, Long Island, NY. In 1959, he was promoted to District Executive until 1963 when he was selected to serve as District Executive in Middlesex Council, Highland Park, NJ. In 1964, Connie was selected to serve as District Executive in the Transatlantic Council, Heidelberg, Germany. Among his many assignments two are most noteworthy. He founded Camp Heritage, a self-reliant summer camp in Germany which still exists today and also served as the American Liaison officer at Kandersteg International Scout Chalet in Switzerland. Following his overseas assignment, Chris was selected to serve as Program Director in the Suffolk County Council, Long Island, NY., in 1968. In 1970, he was promoted to Director of Support Services. Among his many contributions, he was instrumental in substantially improving the camping program of the Council including the acquisition and construction of a self-reliant camp in the Adirondacks.
In 1975, CJ was selected to service as Scout Executive of the Southern New Jersey Council, Vineland, NJ. He successfully served in that capacity for 22 years, retiring from the professional services of the Boy Scouts of America in 1997. After 39 years of service, some of Connie's notable achievements included: growth of the Council Endowment Trust Fund assets from $70,000 to 5.5 million dollars, construction of a new Scout Resource Center valued at 1.5 million dollars, completed a major capital campaign resulting in acquisition of camp properties and camp improvements; and introduction of new outreach programs for minorities and the handicapped.
Chris is a 60 year veteran of the Boy Scouts of America having achieved the rank of Eagle Scout in Troop 3. He has served as and Asst. Cub Master, Asst. Scoutmaster, Committee Member and Scout Master. He has earned the Scouters Training Award and Scouters Key. Chris is an Ernest Thompson Seton Member of BSA's 1910 Society and a multiple James E. West Member. He has been honored by his community and the State of New Jersey for his outstanding service to youth. He has been a member of the Kiwanis International, Rotary International, Chamber of Commerce, United Way, and many local community organizations.
Constantine was predeceased by his brothers, Lawrence and Joseph Testone, and sister Marie A. (Testone) Kashuba. He is survived by two brothers, Jackie (Clara) Testone and Henry Testone. He is also survived by his two daughters, Carol (Testone) Warren and her husband Elmer of Millville and Patricia (Testone) Grablow of Vineland and one son, Shawn Testone and his wife Robin of Horseheads, NY. Also four loving grandchildren Serena, Julianna and Michael Testone and Cassidy J. Grablow. He is also survived by dear cousin, Clara Finnucan, as well as many nieces and nephews.
Funeral liturgy will be held Friday, January 24th at 11:00 AM from Chris the Good Shepherd Parish, Church of St. Isidore 1655 Magnolia Road, Vineland. Burial will be private. Visitation hours are 9:00-10:45 AM Friday in CHURCH prior to the liturgy. Please visit wbfuneralhome.com to send on line condolences and or tributes to the family.
In lieu of flowers, donations in Constantine's memory may made to the BSA at BSA Troop 3 Derby, PO Box 8, Derby, CT 06418 or the American Diabetes 1701 N. Beauregard St. Alexandria, VA,. 22311 or by phone at 1-800-342-2383. Arrangements are under the supervision of Wainwright-Bernhardt Funeral Home, Vineland, NJ.


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Selected readings on US charter schools
As we wrote a couple of weeks ago, the Seattle School Board may have decided against seeking the status that would enable it to authorize charter schools, but that doesn't mean that charters won't be coming to Seattle. Witness Hannah Williams, a 30-year-old educator who plans to apply for charter authorization in November and hopes to plant her high-concept school in a Pioneer Square warehouse.
Williams is designing her school, to be called the Out of the Box Learning Studio and targeted to open in the fall of 2014, with the help of a $100,000 grant from Next Generation Learning Challenges, a technology-focused organization largely funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
She says she became frustrated with conventional public schools in part by her experience at Aki Kurose Middle School, where she taught theater and music. "In general, the public schools are always trying to just catch up," she says, adding that there's not a lot of time for staff collaboration or creativity.
She also says she chafed at the oppressive pressure to have students perform well on tests. She cites some former students who were "hilarious" and "great actors," yet were pulled out of her theater classes so that they could take more math and improve their scores.
She left Aki Kurose to get a Masters at Harvard University, where she studies in a program geared to people who want to develop their own school. She came back this June, as the state was gearing up its implementation of charter school Initiative 1240.
Unlike some charter school concepts, which focus on lots of structure as a way to help disadvantaged kids, Williams is going with a free-flowing approach, which intends to be more meaningful to students than traditional schoolwork.
Students will not attend classes per se. Instead, they will work on individual projects, with their teachers acting as "coaches." Every two to three weeks, they will pick a new theme to work on—say "power" or "equilibrium," she says. While doing so, she continues, they might write blog posts, or "make an episode for their YouTube channel."
Indeed, Williams says she doesn't even want to use a physical classroom. "I dream of what MOHAI looks like," she says referring to the Museum of History and Industry. "A big open space. There will be project rooms and material rooms." Thus her idea for a Pioneer Square warehouse.
How will her school be greeted in Seattle, a city where anti-charter sentiments run high? The young educator is upbeat, saying she recognizes that people here are passionate on the subject, but believes she can work even with staffers at the district and its schools. NOVA, an alternative high school run by the district, is adding a middle school, she points out. "Why not sit down with me?" she asks. "It's a natural collaboration."
But she may have to navigate some thorny political issues, especially if she acts on her ambition to create a series of public schools. Along with a former principal from the Highline district, Jeff Petty, Williams says she is forming a non-profit that seeks to act as an "incubator" for charters throughout the Puget Sound region.
One issue concerns the "conversion" clause in I-1240. A regular public school can become a charter school if a majority of teachers or parents vote to convert. As Charter School Commission member Trish Dziko told SW recently, such votes and the ramifications afterward could get extremely "contentious."
Williams, asked whether she would be interested in taking advantage of the conversion clause, replies enthusiastically. "That would be awesome," she says, although she clarifies that she's concentrating on her warehouse concept and has no current plans to pursue a district school.
Source: Seattle Weekly – by Nina Shapiro
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Brush Fire Races Through Texas RV Resort
June 20, 2011 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Brush Fire Races Through Texas RV Resort
A fast-moving brush fire temporarily closed Interstate 10 in Texas on Sunday afternoon and chased residents from an RV park in Kendall County where several vehicles and facilities were destroyed before the blaze was contained around nightfall, according to a report in the San Poder Subliminal Antonio Express.
"It was terrifying," said Kathy Lowell, who fled her home in the Top of the Hill RV Resort at the urging of emergency responders who battled the wind-stoked fire in triple-digit temperatures.
Mere minutes after they first smelled smoke, the Lowells say, the fire had moved into the park, igniting propane tanks and ammunition stored in the roughly 70 travel trailers and recreational vehicles.
"We couldn't hardly breathe due to the black smoke," said Walt Lowell, 61, as he waited nearby at Po-Po Family Restaurant, the unofficial evacuation center, for permission to return to inspect the damage. "You could hear stuff blowing up left and right."
The wildfire is one of many that have spread through drought-stricken Texas.
Since the start of fire season Nov. 15, the Texas Forest Service has recorded 12,189 fires that have burned 3,012,876 acres.
That is 1,000,000 acres more than the previous record, set in 2006, forest service officials said.
The fire erupted from an unknown cause about 2:30 p.m. along the interstate between Boerne and Comfort.
It burned 140 acres before being subdued by roughly 85 firefighters from area volunteer departments and the Texas Forest Service, which sent an airplane and two bulldozers, according to Boerne Fire Chief Doug Meckel.
"It got into the dry cedar and moved aggressively," Meckel said. "When it's this dry with this much wind, it's ideal for a fire to burn."
The hours of uncertainty took their toll on displaced residents such as Joshua and Julisa Allen, who thought that their travel trailer was well clear of a distant brush fire they observed upon returning home from lunch.
Minutes later, they felt the heat and smelled the smoke of the nearing fire.
"The smoke was so thick and the ash was falling like snow," said Joshua Allen, 41. "We said, 'We've got to get out of here.'"
Julisa Allen, who's expecting a baby in a few months, said, "It was real scary."
Although some residents groused about not being allowed to collect valuables or move their vehicles out of harm's way, firefighters said their emphasis was preserving lives, not property.
"It was an urgent situation," said Waring volunteer firefighter Brian Brawner, 53. "When all those propane tanks and stuff started popping off, it was scary."
James Allerkamp, assistant chief of the Comfort Volunteer Fire Department, said the fire scorched the RV park on the north side of I-10, then turned with the wind toward homes on the south side of the highway.
"It was kind of rare to have multiple structures threatened on both sides of I-10," he said during a break.
Preliminary damage assessments indicated that six or seven RVs were destroyed, as well as three cars and a motorcycle, plus the RV park's clubhouse, laundry room and pavilion.


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Expansion of school program promoting fitness, health
A new community walking track on the campus of Contentnea-Savannah K-8 School has expanded the school�s efforts to promote a healthier lifestyle among its more than 800 students and their parents and in the community it serves.
The track offers about 900 feet of walking surface with three smaller circular tracks inside a larger oval track. It was built on a tract of about 1 acre between the middle school gymnasium and the school�s athletic field.
Construction was funded by a $49,000 grant awarded by the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust in May. A $4,700 grant from the Region 10 Community Transformation Grant project is paying for related equipment.
Paving of the asphalt track was completed Sept. 11 and signage, benches and ancillary sports equipment are expected to be installed soon. A formal dedication ceremony and ribbon cutting is planned for this fall.
The track adds another component to Project D.I.G., the program at Contentnea-Savannah that emphasizes health and fitness in conjunction with the aims of the Lenoir County Childhood Obesity Task Force. As its centerpiece, Project D.I.G. uses raised-bed gardens tended by students and teachers to draw parallels with good nutrition and a healthy body weight.
�When we created our Project D.I.G. initiative at Contentnea-Savannah, it was such a big idea that we had to create phases. Our walking track is Phase II of our program and we are thrilled that it is already paved!� Frances Herring, CSS principal, said. �A student�s success depends on so many things � we have taken a holistic approach to educating our students. If they have a healthy body, they will have a healthy mind and a healthy mind will grow a successful child!�
The track is also open for use by the community. The Reynolds grant application stressed the need for a public exercise space in the rural area surrounding CSS.
�We are very excited to offer this outreach to our community. We want to share our walking track with our community to make the entire Contentnea-Savannah community healthy!� Herring said.
Barnhill Construction did the site preparation and paving work after Matrix East, the Kinston surveying firm, laid out the track.
For additional information, contact Jeannie Holmes, Project D.I.G. coordinator, Contentnea-Savannah K-8 School, at 252-527-8591.


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Curbly Recession Busters: Cleaning Your House on the Cheap!
The wisenheimers among us might say the best way to save money on cleaning supplies is not to clean. That, however, is not an option. You can be broke and clean. (Just ask any depression-era housekeeper.) In an effort to embrace those wise and frugal practices, here's 14 little ways to save big bucks on cleaning day.
- First, the obvious: Make your own cleaning supplies. The internet is replete with websites featuring homemade–and very likely earth friendly–cleaning solution recipes. Among some of my favorites are Care2, Green Your and Easy-Homemade-Recipes.
- Don't want to make your own cleaning supplies? Stop getting nickled and dimed with all those 'specialty' cleaning products and buy one concentrated, all purpose cleaner and use it everywhere. One of my favorites is Home Soap.
- Skip furniture polish completely. Okay if you have heavy sticky finger print marks, you could make your own, but for most applications a damp micro fiber cleaning cloth is all you really need.
- Make your own Swiffers. You can make them out of fleece or even knit or crochet them. Can't afford the fleece? Not to worry; you can use an old terrycloth face cloth or even a section cut from an old sweatshirt. And yes, you can make your own Swiffer Dusters too!
- Using newspapers to clean mirrors and windows is an old money-saving idea, but I hate doing it. The newspapers don't get into the windows' corners, for one thing. Instead, I still use paper towels with the aid of an old terry face cloth. By doing this, I can clean all the windows in my house with about 4 paper towels. How? I give a quick, preliminary clean with window spray and paper towel and then follow up with a very light spray and then a rub down with the terry cloth. It works great as it buffs out those inevitable streaks when using paper towels alone.
- Skip the expensive toilet bowl cleaner. And the brush for that matter. Yes, really. Don a pair of rubber gloves, sprinkle some inexpensive abrasive cleanser in your porcelain bowl and use a paper towel to get in there and get cleaning. Per the ladies on How Clean is Your House? (BBC), using a toilet brush means always having leftover 'fecal' matter on the brush, which means cooties incubate in your brush & brush holder. Okay, everyone together now....Ewww!
- Addicted to those very handy cleaning wipes? You can make a homemade version of those too.
- You can make your own carpet deodorizer,
- and lemon-scented air freshener, as well.
- Clogged sink? Before you spend the cash on spendy Drain-O, try a simple vinegar and baking soda technique to unclog those drains. To freshen them, drop some citrus rinds in the dispose-all.
- Taking a cue from those depression-era folk, you could skip the automatic dryer and dry your clothes on a clothes line. You can't much 'greener' than that.
- Spot clean ASAP! When you see an offending mark on upholstery and carpeting, you really need to address it immediately before it sets. It's the best way to forestall a call to the expensive pros.
- For the non-allergic, you can re-use vacuum cleaner bags with the help of an exacto-knife and some duct tape.
- And finally, the best way to save cash on cleaning: Implement a no shoe rule. Make a sign to let everyone know that, although they are welcome, their shoes are not. Your floors will stay cleaner longer, which will not only save you money, but time as well.
If you have money-saving cleaning hints to add to this list, we'd love to hear them!
'Make yourself at home!' courtesy of allposters.com. 'Please Remove Your Shoes' courtesy of oceanic.com.


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Pelican in the Whales Mouth
Robert K. Bemus 8/20/2012 11:04:10 PMAmazing wildlife shot!! #1481458
Jack Gaskin 8/21/2012 3:46:48 AMInstant Fav. A fantastic catch & the first shot I've ever seen of a Pelican in so much trouble.
Jack #10283696
Michelle Alton 8/21/2012 3:47:57 AMWhat a unique photo op! You took great advantage of it! #10283702
Jeff Robinson 8/21/2012 3:53:26 AMVery impressive capture Rob! #10283716
Mary K. Robison 8/21/2012 4:28:14 AMExtraordinary and stunning scene! That was one lucky pelican. #10283786
Jill Odice 9/12/2012 1:50:30 PMWow! Talk about perfect timing! #10320024
Phyllis H. Burchett 9/24/2012 9:18:03 AMAmazing shot, congrats!
Tammy Espino 9/24/2012 12:14:26 PMCongrats on this outstanding capture and finalist! #10336353
Ann Coates 9/24/2012 1:04:58 PMSo pleased to see this here, congratulations on your finalist and hopefully it will go Gold. #10336693
The Judges at BetterPhoto.com 9/24/2012 1:10:08 PMwow! #10336739
Jack Gaskin 9/24/2012 2:32:52 PMCONGRATS WELL DESERVED
Jack #10337266
Kathy Salerni 9/24/2012 3:35:51 PMAmazing!! Big congrats on your well deserved Finalist, Rob! #10337653
Randy D. Dinkins 9/24/2012 4:36:07 PMGreat catch - congratulations!! #10337901
Claudia Kuhn 9/24/2012 5:19:40 PMWow, great capture Rob, congrats and good luck! #10338177
Robin R. 9/24/2012 6:22:07 PMGreat moment captured. Congrats. #10338454
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 9/24/2012 6:45:09 PMHow incredible Rob. Congratulations on your finalist!!! #10338630
JO ANN CLEVELAND 9/25/2012 8:11:22 AMWonderful image and such a well deserved finalist Rob!
jo ann c. #10340250
Mitch Spence 9/25/2012 10:37:12 AMWhoa, wow, enough words escape me, Rob. Congratulations. #10340526
Patrick Rouzes 9/25/2012 10:47:45 AMCONGRATS, Rob!
Merna L. Nobile 9/30/2012 11:35:42 AM
I heard the good news and could not be happier for you! CONGRATULATIONS, Merna
Kathryn Wesserling 10/2/2012 9:42:19 AMYikes! I've never seen anything like this (it was almost a Disney-Moment!) Congratulations on a truly unique Gold. #10350656
Julianne Bradford 10/2/2012 10:15:02 AMWhoa!! What a moment!! How exciting! Almost tops the Gold here :-) #10350792
JO ANN CLEVELAND 10/2/2012 12:45:48 PMBig congratulations on this great 2nd Place Gold winner!
I was sure we would see this awesome image again Rob!
jo ann c. #10351231
Tammy Espino 10/2/2012 1:24:33 PMCongrats on your win :) #10351408
Michelle Alton 10/2/2012 4:30:34 PMThis is a stunning winner, Rob! Congratulations! #10351869
Claudia Kuhn 10/2/2012 4:40:10 PMCongratulations on your wonderful winner #10351897
Phyllis H. Burchett 10/2/2012 6:42:16 PMCongrats on this awesome winner Rob! #10352249
Patrick Rouzes 10/3/2012 9:32:36 AMCONGRATS on this incredible Winner, Rob!
Lydia Williams 10/3/2012 11:05:39 AMWow, outstanding image. congratulations on your golden win, Rob!! #10353413
Monika Sapek 10/3/2012 2:09:45 PMAmazing shot! Congratulations on your Second Place Winner, Rob! #10353688
David M. Montero 10/27/2012 2:13:34 PMOutstannding timing. Clarity and detail are marvelous. A belated congratulations on your win for this terrific capture Rob! #10386903
Avila Beach California. Humpback whales are feeding in the bay. Pelicans have to be careful. This one got out okay.
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