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The Family Life Project Releases Major New Findings From Its Study of Rural Children in Poverty
New findings from a long-running study of nearly 1300 rural children by UNC's Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG) reveal that parenting deteriorates when families face a number of risk factors at once. As a result, children's intellectual, emotional, and social development suffers.
The findings from FPG's Family Life Project explain why a combination of risk factors like low maternal education, low income, and unsafe neighborhoods is a strong predictor of adverse outcomes for young rural children. "When social challenges mount for families, it's likely this cumulative risk negatively affects parenting, which in turn hinders child development," said Lynne Vernon-Feagans, the study's principal investigator.
According to Vernon-Feagans, a fellow at FPG and the William C. Friday Distinguished Professor in UNC's School of Education, roughly 20% of children in the United States live in rural communities, but surprisingly few studies have looked at poor children from these areas. Since 2003, the Family Life Project has helped to fill this gap by producing integral peer-reviewed articles, while following 1,292 children from birth.
"We're examining a very understudied group of children in rural areas, and the study is sizeable," said Vernon-Feagans, who published the latest findings with FPG fellow Martha Cox and key investigators from the Family Life Project in a special monograph from the Society for Research in Child Development.
In order to understand the effects of poverty on parenting and child outcomes, Vernon-Feagans, Cox, and colleagues wanted to account for the most important risk factors that poor rural families face. They used "cumulative risk" to incorporate measures of maternal education, income, work hours per week, job prestige, household density, neighborhood safety, and the extent to which the parents are consistently partnered.
The study also observed parenting in the home by looking at whether parents were sensitive and supportive or harsh and controlling. Likewise, researchers observed the amount each mother talked to her child during a wordless picture book task, as well as recording the material investments that parents made in their child's development.
In addition, the study examined important outcomes for children at age 3 by focusing on skills that enable children to undertake flexible, coordinated decision-making—a crucial ability for school readiness and academic achievement. Measures of language skills and social and emotional behavior also contributed to a model that revealed how numerous childhood skills are related to cumulative risk, telling a significant story about rural children in poverty.
Vernon-Feagans and her research team determined that cumulative risk, largely due to its effect on parenting, was an important predictor of these children's outcomes. "Overall, our findings indicated that the environment of poverty begins to shape child development very early in ways that have important implications for the child's ability to regulate emotion, attention, and behavior, as well as to use language in ways that school demands," she said.
Vernon-Feagans added that these findings reinforced the potential effectiveness of interventions that support parenting and other aspects of the rural child's social context, such as schools, neighborhood supports, and community resources—all of which can bolster development.
As the Family Life Project enters its eleventh year of data collection, Vernon-Feagans said many more findings and conclusions are forthcoming as the project's children make the transition into and out of elementary school.
According to Vernon-Feagans, an agreement with the University of Michigan ensures that the information the FPG project has gathered will be available to all researchers through open access: "The Family Life Project's broad and deep measurement of rural families in poverty means this data will remain valuable for years to come for scientists looking to answer critical questions about child development."
Dr. Lynne Vernon-Feagans
Principal Investigator, Family Life Project
Fellow, UNC's Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
William C. Friday Distinguished Professor, UNC's School of Education
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A V-Day Snippet
So tell me, Wreckies: was yesterday an exercise in eye-rolling and teeth-gritting and ignoring all those saps on Facebook posting pictures of their chocolates and roses and oh-so-romantic dinners?
Don't worry, you're not alone.
In fact, in the spirit of sweet schadenfreude, here's proof that your day was at least better than this guy's:
No matter how you slice it, that's one cutting take on "V-day."
It's also the only cake that comes with a side of frozen peas.
[Note: If you're not having a hearty chortle right now, you've either a) never known anyone who had a vasectomy, or b) had a vasectomy.]
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Infante on board to help Royals take next step
KANSAS CITY -- Omar Infante, wearing a Royals jersey with his name and No. 14 on the back, looked right at home at Kauffman Stadium on Tuesday.
Why not? After all, Infante hit .375 against Kansas City last season and .500 (10-for-20) in five games at Kauffman Stadium. He missed some games when he was out with an ankle injury or he might have done better. So isn't he going miss playing against the Royals?
KANSAS CITY -- Omar Infante, wearing a Royals jersey with his name and No. 14 on the back, looked right at home at Kauffman Stadium on Tuesday.
Why not? After all, Infante hit .375 against Kansas City last season and .500 (10-for-20) in five games at Kauffman Stadium. He missed some games when he was out with an ankle injury or he might have done better. So isn't he going miss playing against the Royals?
Infante smiled.
"That's baseball, you know. It's like that," he said. "I have to do my job here in Kansas City, and I think we have a great team to win and go to the postseason. I came here to win."
That's what the Royals had in mind when they signed Infante to a four-year, $30.25 million contract to play second base. The deal also includes a club option for a fifth year, 2018, for $10 million with a $2 million buyout.
"We've admired Omar for a long time," Royals general manager Dayton Moore said. "He's always been a winning, championship-type player. We obviously wanted to improve and upgrade at second base and we had our eye on him from the very beginning."
Infante, accompanied by his wife, Yohanna, was introduced to Kansas City in a news conference at his new stadium home on Tuesday morning. Onlookers included, oddly enough, Braves president John Schuerholz and general manager Frank Wren, for whom Infante played from 2008-10. They just happened to be in town, checking out Kauffman's attributes for the new stadium they're planning in Atlanta.
Infante could tell them one thing about Kauffman Stadium.
"It's a great park to hit in. I'm a line-drive hitter and I like this stadium," he said.
Infante's long-term deal left the Yankees looking elsewhere for a second baseman after Infante rejected their three-year, $24 million offer.
"I had the opportunity to see this team up close this year and was very impressed by what they did and they're close to taking the next step," Infante said with a translating assist from his agent, Gene Mato.
Infante will team with a fellow Venezuelan, shortstop Alcides Escobar, in the middle of the Royals' defensively-adept infield.
"I think the tandem of him and Alcides is going to be very, very good, and we're very proud of what they're going to potentially bring to our team in the middle of the diamond," Moore said. "The double-play combination is crucial to the success of your baseball team. Obviously, it helps the pitching a great deal, puts the game in rhythm, and we've got to be able to execute fundamentally and Omar certainly has been a terrific performer in that area."
He's also expected to hit second behind a newly-acquired leadoff batter, right fielder Norichika Aoki, with left fielder Alex Gordon moving from the top to the middle of the batting order.
"I think we always wanted to get Gordo in the middle. That's always been important to us, so I think it sets us up pretty good," Moore said. "The thing about Nori and Omar is both of them give highly professional at-bats. They don't strike out, they battle good pitchers and of course it gives us a chance to put Gordo in the middle and just drive the baseball."
As a No. 2 hitter in his career, Infante's batting average is .279, matching his overall mark, and his on-base percentage is .318, one point below his career OBP.
"With a lot of these guys, it just depends on what you want them to do," Moore said. "I think if we said, 'Omar, we need your on-base percentage to be .360, .370,' he's the type of player that would make that happen."
Infante, who'll turn 32 the day after Christmas, said he enjoys helping younger players, which the Royals have in abundance.
"Oh, yeah, I like that," he said. "We have a lot of young talent and I try to be a good teammate, and anytime I can help them, I'll be there for them."
And he believes his postseason experience with the Braves and Tigers, including two World Series, will be a benefit if the Royals achieve their goal of reaching the playoffs.
"I think the fact that I'm a veteran that's been in the postseason is really going to help these guys in dealing with the pressure that comes with having to perform in those games as opposed to the regular season," Infante said.
The Royals' payroll is now hovering around $90 million, a franchise record, and Moore says he's under no directive from owner David Glass to cut back.
"From day one, our focus has always been to put the best team we can on the field. That's all Mr. Glass has told us to do," Moore said.
With Infante, Aoki and starting pitcher Jason Vargas added to the roster, the Royals may be finished with major moves in the offseason. Or maybe not.
"If we went into Spring Training with this group of players, we'd feel really good. It's a good ballclub," Moore said before adding: "We could get a call today or tomorrow with some proposal or situation that could be very appealing to us and makes us better."
What about those trade rumors that keep popping up about designated hitter Billy Butler?
"It's no different than you hear about other players around the league that potentially are going to be moved. It's just all hot stove rhetoric, really," Moore said. "We think Billy's been a terrific hitter -- Billy is a terrific hitter -- and he's going to continue to hit. That's what Billy does. I know he's having a great offseason with his work ethic and his focus, and we think he's going to have a terrific year in '14."


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It's the last day of our month about Water. My best tip for saving water (it's easy to remember too): drink water.
I come up short in the green department in many, many areas. But in the beverage department I'm doing pretty well. That's because I drink mostly tap water from a drinking glass or my reusable water bottle. My son (standing next to me and reading over my shoulder) wants you to know that he drinks water from a reusable water bottle/ sippy cup too. I drink milk on occasion, juice on occasion, and every now and then a root beer. I avoid any beverage packaged in plastic (my milk comes in reusable glass bottles).
Some surprising statistics:
It takes 37 gallons of water to make a cup of coffee.
It takes 63.4 gallons of water to make a cup of wine.
It takes 54.9 gallons of water to make a cup of milk.
It takes 1.85 gallons of water to make a single-use plastic water bottle.
I'm guessing it requires more than a cup of water to bring a cup of potable water to your kitchen sink, but presumably less than the above.
I got most of the above statistics from National Geographic's Hidden Water We Use. Check out their Water Footprint Calculator, Water Use Game for kids, and Freshwater 101 Quiz. Another cool site: Water Footprint Network.
In conclusion, to save water, drink water.
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51% of the 2002 crop has gone into the grand vin 75% of which is Cabernet Sauvignon – the remainder Merlot. A massive brooding effort, dense sweet blackcurrant, cedar and cigar leaf aromas. Mouth puckering tannins give way to meaty, fleshy pure grape extract. Finishes on long creamy notes of great persistence. Like its neighbour Pichon-Lalande, the Merlot was ripe giving extra richness.
Contains Sulphites.
What is there to say about Chateau Latour that hasn't already been said? Arguably the greatest of the First Growths, Latour has been back on top of its game since the 1980s, and under Frederic Engerer's guidance the estate continues to strive for the ever-changing goalposts of perfection. This hunger comes at a cost. Once the estate used to regularly produce 20,000 cases a vintage. There will probably be less than 10,000 cases made of the sublime 2009. A travesty for wine lovers, but a sad reality of life if striving for the elusive 100 points from Robert Parker.
The grand vin hails from the Grand Enclos, the vineyards which surround the winery. The topsoil is made up of Gunzian gravel, brought to the area from the Pyrenees and the Massif Central during the Pleistocene with a subsoil of marl and clay above a deeper ridge of limestone. Cabernet Sauvignon is the dominant varietal (80%), with Merlot (18%) and Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot accounting for just 2% of plantings.
Sadly the estate has decided to remove itself from the en primeur market, so 2011 will be the last release as a future. The strategy will be to release mature wines from their cellars.
The Cabernet Sauvignon dominates the appellation, in fact some might justifiably call Pauillac the most classical expression there is of Cabernet based Claret. It is sandwiched between St-Julien to the south and St-Estèphe to the north, a stone's throw from the Gironde Estuary. The excellent drainage of the intensely gravely soils are the key to quality, producing some of the world's most long-lived wines. The First Growths of Latour, Lafite and Mouton-Rothschild are found here, while other great Châteaux include Pichon Baron, Pichon Lalande, Pontet Canet, Lynch-Bages and Grand-Puy-Lacoste.
The full complement of permitted Bordeaux varieties (excluding the rarely used Carmenere & Malbec) and the classic left bank Bordeaux blend. The Cabernets and Merlots usually dominate the blend with small percentages of Petit Verdot blended in for colour, structure and complexity. Several producers outside of Bordeaux have tried to emulate this with a Bordeaux style blend of their own, a particularly successful example being Cain Cellars in the Napa Valley and their splendid Cain Five.
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Bleach, boats, and botanicals: The top 13 trends from Resort 2015
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Does anyone remember a time when pre-seasons like resort would pass us by without much fanfare? How naive we used to be.
Resort shows have been steadily rolling out for the past six weeks, and the season continues to prove itself to be one that is simultaneously steady and in flux. Steady, because more designers take part every season as a result of the the season's long shelf life and increasing consumer demand, but also in flux, because there is much debate about what resort actually means.
One designer's idea of resort can be completely different from the next. This isn't necessarily a bad thing. In fact, it can lead to plenty of variety. Some designers stick to tradition by designing for the literal "resort" (you'll notice a fair share of palm tree prints this season). Others prefer not to be bound to the traditions of seasonal dressing.
Despite all that, there were plenty of classic resort trends represented for 2015. Click through to see the which ones rose to the top.
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Dear all,
This is a reminder that authors are invited to submit an abstract for their presentation or poster for the fifth biennial International Statistical Ecology Conference (ISEC2016), to be held 28 June - 1 July 2016 at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. The submission deadline is 11:59pm PST (UTC -8:00) on Sunday, 10 January 2016.
Possible topics for contributed talk and poster sessions include (but are not limited to) abundance, animal movement, big data, biodiversity, capture-recapture, citizen science, community dynamics, disease ecology, distance sampling, epidemiology, evolutionary ecology, fisheries, individual-based models, integrated population models, metapopulation dynamics, multispecies models, occupancy models, population dynamics, spatial ecology, species distribution models, and survey design.
We have a great group of plenary speakers:
Jim Nichols (USA)
Byron Morgan (UK)
Marie-Josée Fortin (Canada)
Ruth King (UK)
Bob O'Hara (Germany)
David Warton (Australia)
There will also be pre-conference workshops taking place 26-27 June:
- Spatially-explicit capture-recapture (David Borchers)
- Analysis of occupancy data using hidden Markov models and E-SURGE (Olivier Gimenez, Rémi Choquet, & Roger Pradel)
- Bayesian model selection and decision theory for ecologists (Mevin Hooten)
- Flexible programming with BUGS models: Using NIMBLE for MCMC and beyond (Perry de Valpine)
- Spatial statistical models for stream networks (Jay Ver Hoef & Erin Peterson)
Please place the dates of this conference into your calendars (28 June - 1 July 2016) and visit the conference website for updates.
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It's so hard to predict what the future of Nashville will hold. The show's last episode of the year on Wednesday (Dec. 5) left the door open to so many good plot lines: Juliette may be growing a heart, Rayna is on top of the music world and Scarlett still has her banjo-pickin' chops. But I see trouble ahead — with the guys, especially. Deacon is leaving the country to tour with the newly-sober Rebel Kings, Avery is still a narcissistic ass, Teddy is getting dragged through the mayoral-race mud and Gunnar may regret that make-out session with Scarlett in the Bluebird Café. But more importantly, I hope the show doesn't forget that the heart of Nashville, the city, really is the music. Not the drama or the scandal. The finale was a little light on music, and the best song of the night came from the church of Juliette's chaste boyfriend. It was Kate York's "For Your Glory," which York describes as kind of a prayer about "rising up out of the dirt and rust of real life."


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Tu/Th 13 and older boys and girls, 12:45p-2:15p
Our summer program is a 9 week program that covers all aspects of the game, from etiquette, putting, chipping and pitching, to full swing and specialty shots found on the golf course. We meet Tuesday and Thursday for 90 minutes, and a typical class involves short game topics as well as full swing topics, and usually concludes each day with some fun contests. The first four weeks of the program are at our AJG driving range where we have a full hitting area with targets, bunker and putting/chipping green. The fifth week we all meet up at the Ranch At Roaring Fork par 3 course to take our learned skills to the course. We then return back to the AJG driving range to finish up the last 4 weeks of class.
Cost: $275 (includes unlimited access to driving range), or $20 drop in fee


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North Star Academy Charter School of Newark
|School Profile: Selected Variables
|Year First Chartered and Authorizer
|1997, state
|Grades and Enrollment
|5–12 and 125 (high school only)
|Student Ethnicity
|85% African-American
0% Asian American
14% Hispanic
0% white
|Special Education
|Free and Reduced-price Lunch
|Graduation Rate
|Annual Cost per Student
* 100% in 2004 and one student did not graduate in 2005 and will finish in 2006.
Source: School records data from 2005–06
North Star was born when James Verrilli, a teacher in Newark public schools, and Norman Atkins, a journalist running a private foundation, set out to better the dismal reality facing Newark inner-city high school students. In the country's second poorest city, only 26 percent of graduating seniors were planning to go to college, only 6 percent actually going, and a mere 2 percent making it all the way through. Verrilli's and Atkins' vision was to create an uncommon public school that exceeded community expectations, with a staff that would aggressively combat the achievement gap, making sure every student was academically, culturally, and socially prepared to succeed in college. Originally North Star Academy was started as a middle school, but as parents saw the poor options for students after eighth grade, they asked North Star to create a high school, and its eight-member board, including two parents, agreed.
It is no surprise, eight years later, that North Star Academy's waiting list is over 1,600 students. Families know that if their children are selected through the lottery to attend, they will work hard, successfully complete high school, and go on to college. The reason, according to one visitor, is that North Star "leaders are determined not only to bridge the achievement gap but to obliterate it."
Currently in its ninth year, North Star Academy has opened a second middle school, adding one additional fifth-grade cohort of 75 students. The plan is to create two middle schools to feed into one high school in order to expand the high school course offerings and curricular program. In collaboration with Uncommon Schools, Inc., the school will open two K–4 schools over the next five years and by the 2010–11 school year North Star Academy will serve a maximum of 1,300 students across five campuses—two K–4 schools, two 5–8 schools, and one high school. The school continues to recruit students from Newark public schools, with staff and others pounding the pavement to spread the word at churches, grocery stores, and local elementary schools, drawing students who are typically performing below the district average and effectively preparing them for college. And while working hard for this preparation, every student pledges to live by the school's core values of caring, respect, responsibility, and justice.
School Operations and Educational Program
North Star now serves 384 students in grades 5–12, 99 percent African-American or Latino, operating on an 11-month school year with an extended day program. One hundred and twenty-five students are in high school. North Star Academy's devotion to preparing these students to succeed in college and life beyond is reflected in its graduation requirements. All students take four years of English, math, science, and history, and three years of foreign language, physical education, and arts, surpassing the New Jersey state requirements. Course offerings include AP-level classes in calculus, U.S. history, U.S. government, and English, as well as honors-level classes in math and science. All other classes are untracked and provide honors-level college preparatory work. North Star Academy students also are required to pass the N.J. High School Proficiency Assessment, complete a senior thesis as well as a senior composition, take the SAT at least twice, complete 40 hours of community service, and apply to at least two colleges.
One of North Star's most innovative features is the level of personalization and commitment to ensuring student mastery of the content standards. The school has developed a set of interim assessments, aligned with state standards and the curriculum, given every six to eight weeks. Results are analyzed by the teacher, department chair, and administrator, who look to see who has mastered specific standards for that unit and who has not. It is then the teacher's responsibility to either re-teach the material in a different way if several students have not mastered it or to provide individual tutoring during afternoon study hall, before or after school, or during lunch, to ensure that each student has mastered those concepts before moving on to new ones. To support student learning, North Star also provides a Saturday school where students can receive extra help.
The school culture is first established in middle school with a morning circle, when all students and teachers gather to the call of the djembe drum. This is a time when students chant affirmations that they will go on to college and apologize to the community for any disciplinary infractions, such as tardies and poor conduct, and when teachers and students share positive stories about students. At one meeting, a teacher related that over the weekend every eighth grader but one had attended Saturday school and worked hard. Another shared that her students created a project of sewing slavery costumes and enacted scenes from a book they recently finished reading. One student thanked her peers for carrying her books while she was on crutches. Another acknowledged the helpfulness of classmates who helped her with homework and, in particular, a challenging assignment.
North Star gives students opportunities they would not have if attending their neighborhood schools. "If you get good grades, you can go on special programs," explains one student, "like I went to New Zealand last summer with 12 students and two teachers." Each summer students participate in special internships and programs, such as a journalism program at Princeton University or the Junior Statesman program at Georgetown University. Another student talks enthusiastically about his summer business internship at Lehman Brothers.
Family Involvement and Partnerships
Communication between North Star Academy staff and families is strong. Typically, teachers are calling home about once a week to stay in contact with families. Every Thursday, students bring home a folder containing notices for parents and things for them to sign and return to the school. Unlike many high schools, North Star does not mail report cards. Parents must come to school to pick them up, at which time they have a conference with their child's teachers. Parents are full of praise for the school. One parent explains that her son was struggling in elementary school, but at North Star he caught up thanks to the teachers and the one-on-one tutoring. She likes the fact that students are kept really busy and do not have time to hang out and get in trouble. The school has a PTA, and two parents serve on the board. Parent committees help to organize schoolwide events, such as a Latino celebration, which was very well attended even though Latinos represent only 14 percent of the student body.
North Star has developed a few partnerships with community organizations and businesses to provide students with exceptional opportunities, often the kind that affluent students would have, that help to prepare them for college and life beyond Newark and high school. For example, students in good academic standing can spend the school's summer-session month off campus in internships or at work sites, or traveling to other countries, or participating in outdoor leadership programs. Deloitte Consulting adopted the senior class and has been providing mentors for these 20 students since their sophomore year. The law firm Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP adopted the junior class and pays for them to take online SAT preparation courses. The school is in the fourth year of a five-year federal GEAR-UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) grant, partnering with Rutgers-Newark, to provide North Star students with tutoring and presentations about college.
Governing for Accountability
North Star Executive Director Paul Bambrick-Santoyo oversees the interim assessment process, develops the school budget, completes all of the bureaucratic requirements, including federal, state, and district forms, and meets monthly with the board. Purposely kept small for effective decisionmaking, the board of North Star Academy meets every two months to oversee the policy and school operations. There are two parents on the board and representatives from the Newark community that include a retired state senator, a former principal, and business community members.
Administrators at North Star truly are instructional leaders. High school principal Julie Jackson holds clearly articulated expectations for teachers. She tells them, "It's not enough to teach the curriculum; it is your responsibility to make sure students master the standards and concepts." In fact, a distinctive feature at North Star is its process for monitoring student understanding and gauging the effectiveness of instruction. Trained in conducting classroom observations, Jackson and her North Star middle and elementary school principal colleagues do a daily walk-through, visiting at least 85 percent of the classrooms in the school and giving informal feedback. With data from these observations and from interim student assessments, teachers use the North Star Assessment Analysis Sheet and Instruction Plan template to draw connections between their instruction and student performance and decide what they need to do to help students master the standards. As Bambrick-Santoyo explains, if a student is not doing well, this process requires teachers to immediately ask the question, "How can I teach this differently or revisit this concept so that the student will achieve mastery?" He sees his role as actively working with teachers, raising questions, observing instruction and providing feedback, supporting curriculum development and lesson planning, and strategizing on an ongoing basis. Professional development is conducted internally and aims at raising student academic achievement.
Ninety-five percent of the 2005 graduates are attending four-year universities, such as the University of Chicago, Mount Holyoke College, Boston College, Syracuse University, and Rutgers University. North Star Academy is keeping track of how its graduates are doing in college. Monitoring how students are doing in college informs practice at North Star. For example, the first class did not do well in college calculus, Bambrick-Santoyo recalls. "That was our problem: we needed to prepare them better." When they learned that graduates were struggling with college math, they promptly reexamined their curriculum to increase the rigor and accelerate learning at North Star.
One reason daily attendance averages higher than for Newark School District high schools and for the state is that students love the small school community and appreciate "dedicated teachers who will come early and stay late to give you one-on-one help. The teachers make sure you understand, they won't let you fall behind," says one student. A sophomore explains, "This is my home away from home." At regular public school, one junior says, "kids give up and there are a lot of fights. Here the teachers don't give up on you. They are working for your future, to help you go to college."
|North Star Academy: Evidence of Closing the Achievement Gap
Over the past three years, North Star Academy students have consistently outperformed neighborhood and Newark district schools on state tests, scoring higher than the statewide average in New Jersey.
One hundred percent of North Star Academy's 12th-grade general education students in the class of 2005 passed the New Jersey High School Statewide Assessment (HSPA), compared to 85.1 percent of New Jersey students statewide, 44.2 percent of the Newark district students, and 19.5 percent from neighborhood schools.
North Star has the highest rate of four-year college acceptance and attendance of any school in the state of New Jersey, regardless of socioeconomic level served.


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On this Follow Friday I want to share an excellent article written by Micheal Hait:
Colonial Maryland Land Patents and Headrights
Michael Hait is a professional genealogist, specializing in Maryland research, African-American genealogy, and Civil War records.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Follow Friday - Colonial Maryland Land Patents
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- Sanjay Maharaj said...
I read the article and indeed it is worth reding. Thanks for bringing this article to our attention
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"In the darkness all men are equal save those that embrace it." Captin kayvaan Shrike Captin of the raven Guard 3rd Company THE SPACE MARINES (shorter version) The 41st Millennium is an age of war, but also an age of heroes, One force stands between humanity and anihilation, a warrior brotherhood by whose valour civilisation endures. They have known betrayel. they have known tragedy. They have fought the most thankless of wars agaisnt the most terrible of foes, winning impossible victories when all around them have fallen. They are mankind's foremost defence agaisnt a dark brooding galaxy, and the beneficent Emperor'sgreatest gift to his people. They are the space Mariens, the Angels of Death and they know no fear.
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Reviews the most important medications used by neurologists. Each drug listing contains the range of indications, tips for dosing and avoiding adverse events, and lists the advantages and disadvantages of every medication.


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Several months after unveiling a beta version, Amazon subsidiary A9 has officially launched its new web search portal. Using Google's search engine, A9 delivers search results in the form of both text and images, much as you would expect from other search engines. Where A9 differs is in its integration with Amazon.com, especially with Amazon's "Search Inside the Book" feature. It also searches the IMDB, and has a "diary" feature for users to take notes on sites if they desire. The notes, search history, and bookmarks are then available to the user from any computer provided the users is logged in and the A9 search bar installed. If you don't wish to leave a trail of information on A9's servers, you can use generic.a9.com which offers nonpersonalized, no-frills searching.
Does the world need yet another search engine? It's the hot area right now. Microsoft's new search engine, a direct competitor to Google, is currently in beta, while Yahoo has long been locked in competition with Google. Given that A9 uses Google for its searches at the moment, it does not bring anything new to the table as far as basic search functionality. While it has sponsored links similar to Google's, it lacks any sort of price-comparison engine. (Since it's an Amazon subsidiary, do they want people comparison shopping?)
Once A9 has been up and running for awhile, there should be some indication of whether the value-added features such as a search diary, bookmarking, and book searches will entice users to switch from Google. Even if A9 does draw traffic away from Google, the fact that A9 is essentially Google under the hood means that the two companies should remain on good terms. If A9 decides to roll its own search engine, that could change.


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Apr 05, 2010
Skyline Releases Softball Report #4
- Aubrey Walker named to Honor Roll -
Clifton Park, N.Y. - The Skyline Conference released the fourth softball report for the 2010 season on Monday, April 5th, including Player of the Week, Pitcher of the Week, Rookie of the Week, Honor Roll and Conference statistics.
Sophomore first baseman Aubrey Walker (West Babylon, N.Y./West Babylon) was named to the Skyline Conference Player of the Week Honor Roll. Walker went 1-for-4 in a doubleheader against Ramapo, driving in two runs in the second game with her conference leading ninth home run of the season.
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Police officer accused of groping handcuffed, pregnant woman
AUBURN, Wash. -- An Auburn police officer is under investigation for allegedly groping a pregnant and handcuffed woman.
The incident happened at 1:30 a.m. on a Sunday morning last month. The alleged victim, Hannah Thompson, said she was so traumatized that she's now afraid to be home alone because the officer knows were she lives.
Thompson said she got an uncomfortable feeling when spotted a police officer as she left the Sports Page Bar in Auburn.
"I had made eye contact with him and I kind of got just a weird vibe," she said.
She drove away, and said the officer followed her the two blocks to her house.
"When I went to get out of the car he was like, 'Get back in the car,' and this whole time I didn't even know he was behind me. His lights weren't on or nothing," Thompson said.
Thompson claims the officer accused her of trying to elude him.
"He asked if I had something to drink, I said I had a glass of wine earlier at the Muckleshoot. I'm pregnant and can't drink," she said.
She said the officer administered sobriety tests, then handcuffed her and put her in his patrol car. Thompson claims the officer said she smelled like pot and he would have to search her.
"He went down my shirt in the front, underneath the wire," she said.
Thompson said the officer never looked in her jacket or back pockets, but did put his hand down the front of her pants.
"He started at the left side and went to the right side, and as he got to the front he kind of went down further," she said.
Thompson began crying and the officer took off her handcuffs, but told her he wanted more information.
"He asked, like, three different times if he could come inside," Thomspson said.
Thompson contacted the Auburn Police Department and the officer was placed on paid administrative leave. The Puyallup Police Department is now conducting a criminal investigation.
"There have been no complaints like this before with this officer, and he's been with us for 4 to 5 years," said Auburn Police Commander Mike Hirman.
Thompson's fiance said she's been stressed out and depressed ever since the incident and she miscarried last week.
"For it to be a law officer protecting to serve, who you are you going to turn to next if you feel you can't turn to them?" said Thompson's fiance, Benjamin Mayfield.
Puyallup police will forward the results of their investigation to the King County Prosecutor.
Regardless of whether or not charges are filed, the Auburn Police Department will conduct its own investigation of the officers.


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Spiced Cranberry Recipes
Pear Cider Recipe
I'm sure you've noticed, but it feels like Thanksgiving already. The girls have been enjoying pumpkin smoothie drinks at Jamba Juice, Lulu recently brought home a pumpkin pie from Marie Callender's and we just bought our first fresh cranberries of the season. With the weather getting colder, what could be more appropriate to the season than a hot cup of cider? But instead of making regular ol' apple cider, I added freshly-made pear juice as well.
I used Bartlett pears (with hints of red, they are much sweeter) which were slightly firm so they would easily pass through a juicer. If you prefer a more intense pear flavor, you could use very ripe, soft fruit but I wouldn't recommend using a juicer as it would get clogged easily. Instead, mix them until mushy in a regular blender, then pass the mixture through a large sieve. I didn't opt for this method as I find the texture a little grainy. You can add whatever spices you like, but I opted for the traditional combination of cinnamon, clove and ginger. It's an easy and very satisfying recipe for the weekend!
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Cranberry Apple Cider
Cranberries and apples are a great flavor combination. In the past, I've made a cake and stuffing with this dynamic duo that both turned out wonderfully. I usually make a large pot of hot apple cider for Thanksgiving, but I thought this year it would be fun to add fresh cranberries to the drink.
The tartness of the cranberries is a nice foil to the apple cider spices. And the color is a glorious crimson, which is perfect for the season. I couldn't think of a better cure for the absolutely freezing weather we've been having here (which in the Bay Area means a 65°F daytime temperature). Don't laugh; last night it got down to 40°F!
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DO NOT DEAL with James Ferreira from firstname.lastname@example.com............EVER!
HE IS A CON MAN. Stole my money and never sent the Friday the 13th "Zaxxon" mask as promised.
Original order was placed in March 28th, 2016.
On Sun, Jan 29th, 2017 at 1:30 AM, james Ferreira <email@example.com> wrote:
> In response to other board members advising me "his a theif!"
"Awwwww that's awesome to hear that I'm being vouched for. To be honest I
thought most were pissed as I had a breakdown in the Jason and "whitey"
community when my wife left and they all gave me a hard time.
Yeah I should have no problem. Just starting a new job shortly. Been
living on a shoes string budget but I found a permanent job now and I'm
pretty happy about that.
I'm actually moving to Edmonton Canada very soon .
January 23, 2017
Hey man that's cool as long as it's not a dispute or claim it's good. I'm still abroad right now and my hands are tied but I'll just send you the money when I can anyway. If the mask does show up you can have it too for all the trouble.
Hey dude,
Sorry for the late replies I have been back and fourth working in Denmark.
But my ex wife shipped that mask in like October...
We haven't spoken since we last did our separation paperwork and she changed her number but I'll try and get a hold of her.
My guess is that between the Canada post shut out a bit ago and Christmas that the package got caught up in the back flow. .
I'll look in to this and contact you soon bro.
Sorry again.
On Mon, Sep 26th, 2016 at 10:57 PM, James Ferreira firstname.lastname@example.com>
"Yeah I'm getting them just need to know what your next move is here coz I've been sitting on this mask
for a while now and I have been super busy trying to find a place to live."
On Tue, Oct 11th, 2016 at 11:01 PM, james Ferreira <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
Yes I did I'm just out of town on set for this show I'm on. Your timing
sucks lol.........Sorry dude I'll get on it as soon as I can and thank you"
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Hey bud,
Yeah I'm so sorry got back from la a few weeks ago and started on a TV
show. Your zaxxon is almost done I truly apologize!
"Hey ya your zaxxon is long done bud.
I thought you bailed on it.
I'm out of town right now but I'll ship when I get home and yes what did we agree one for payment?
You send me a deposit already correct?"


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PLYMOUTH - Hundreds of people attended the third annual Veterans' Fair held at the National Guard Armory in Plymouth Meeting Sunday.
The event was organized by Jay Anhorn, who took over for his father who passed away in 2012, and featured a wide variety of military items, from patches to mess kits to vehicles. The event was attended by veterans from as far back as World War II, including notable guests 'Wild Bill' Guarnere, who was a member of the 101st Airborne, Easy Company, which was the subject of the book 'Band of Brothers' by Stephen Ambrose and of a 2001 HBO miniseries; and Alex Horanzy, who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor and is the president of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association's Liberty Bell Chapter based in Philadelphia.
'In this area, this is the only one. It started in 2011 as a fundraiser for all the local veteran organizations, so they can use it to give back,' Anhorn said. 'It's great because it's seven hours but it's like a free flow of people through. The last two years we saw over a thousand people come through.'
The event featured veterans from all branches of the military, as well as local military organizations, such as the Greater Pennsylvania Military Vehicle Historical Society and the Wings of Freedom Aviation Museum, which repairs aircraft that are then displayed.
'We are trying to educate the public,' said Virginia Brooke, the director of operations for the museum.
For many visitors, who ranged in age from small children to adults, the Veterans' Fair was an opportunity to see artifacts from as far back as World War I and to thank those that served, with some even seeking signatures from all veterans to keep as mementos.
For many of the veterans, however, the day was a time to reflect on their service and share their keepsakes and stories with other veterans, which is becoming even more important as those who served in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War advance in age.
The local chapter of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association had 160 members at one time, Horanzy said, but it now has only a 'handful.' The group has begun to expand membership to others, such as associate members who are related to Pearl Harbor survivors, he said.
What began as a fundraiser for local veterans' organizations has since grown into something much larger. According to Anhorn, the Veterans' Fair may have to take place in the spring next year so that it can be held outside to accommodate the increased interest from both visitors and vendors.
'It's definitely grown each year,' said Anhorn. 'We're growing out of the space. The folks here probably have 10 times the amount (of memorabilia) that you see here. This is just a sampling of what they have.'
Whether or not he is able to secure a larger space for a springtime event next year, the main goal of the Veterans' Fair will always remain the same - to honor and remember those who serve and to raise money for local groups that try to do the same.
'We don't ever really have a goal (of attendees). We just want to thank those that serve,' said Anhorn. 'Anything raised goes all to the organizations, 100 percent.'
Follow Tony Fioriglio on Twitter @TheTonyFiorigli.
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Mark St Leon
Mark St Leon is a direct descendant of the St Leons, one of Australia's major circus families in the period from 1847 until the 1950s. St Leon's Circus was one of Australia's major circuses from the 1870s until the 1920s. Several generations of the St Leons moved to the USA from 1898 onwards and became well established in American circus, vaudeville and theatre.
Mark has devoted many years to the documentation of his family's history in the circus and Australia's circus history generally. He has been widely published in this area and is a longstanding member of the Circus Historical Society Inc, a 1,600 strong US non-profit organisation. He has also documented the history of the other famous circus families which once travelled Australia and the tours of the large American circuses which came here in the 1800s.
Mark is the author or co-author of several published books, articles and encyclopaedia entries. He has served as an honorary board member for several non-profit performing arts organisations including the National Institute of Circus Arts. He was instrumental in the launch by Australia Post of a special issue of 4 postage stamps in 1997 to celebrate 150 years of circus in Australia.
Professionally Mark has lived and worked for extended periods in England and Switzerland. He served as audit senior in the Swiss branch of the international firm Price Waterhouse (now Price Waterhouse Coopers), 1978-80, His pioneering efforts established the credibility of the Australian "CA" designation in a key international financial centre where it was previously unknown. After returning to Australia and arising from his Swiss work experience, Mark served as a founding board member of the Swiss Australian Chamber of Commerce & Industry, 1986-92, and was responsible for the editorship of the Chamber's journal Opportunities, 1988-92.
From 1983-1994, he served as Senior Finance Officer of the Australia Council, the Federal Government's arts funding body. Returning to Sydney, he first served as lecturer in accounting and management accounting at the International College of Tourism & Hotel Management, Manly (now the International College of Management).
He currently lectures and/or tutors at several internationally-focussed universities in Sydney in the general subject areas of accounting and management and specialises in the teaching of international students at diploma, graduate and post-graduate levels.


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Today's closet doors must be a bit easier to open.
With the recent flood of stars coming out and embracing their true sexuality -- Anna Paquin, Ricky Martin -- Hollywood seems to be welcoming them.
Paquin, who's engaged to her "True Blood" co-star Stephen Moyer, revealed that she's bisexual in a PSA video for the the Give a Damn campaign released Thursday, which features stars speaking out for equality.
"I'm Anna Paquin. I'm bisexual and I give a damn," Paquin says to the camera. Paquin's publicist declined to comment on the PSA or the actress' sexuality.
Martin came out in a similarly direct fashion.
"I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man," Martin wrote on his Web site Monday. "I am very blessed to be who I am."
In his online announcement, Martin wrote that the major catalysts for his coming out were the personal memoirs he is writing and his two boys, whom he had through surrogacy.
"From the moment I wrote the first phrase, I was sure the book was the tool that was going to help me free myself from things I was carrying within me for a long time," Martin wrote.
Then, addressing his boys, he wrote, "This is just what I need, especially now that I am the father of two beautiful boys that are so full of light and who, with their outlook, teach me new things every day. To keep living as I did up until today would be to indirectly diminish the glow that my kids were born with."
Is Coming Out Easier Today?
Jarrett Barrios, the president of GLAAD, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, was the first Latino and first openly gay man elected to the Massachusetts state Senate.
Barrios said that coming out in Hollywood "is not as hard as it used to be."
"Over the last couple of years, celebrities both at the top of their careers and at the beginning of their careers have been coming out," Barrios told ABCNews.com. "All the celebrities coming out now are coming out at a time when a generation ago it meant the end of their careers, but now it can enhance their appeal and expand their fan base."
Howard Bragman, the founder of Fifteen Minutes, a Hollywood public relations company, is a well-known publicist who says he has "brought more people out of the closet than anyone else." He agreed with Barrios that coming out in Hollywood is getting easier.
"Every person that comes out makes it better for others," Bragman told ABCNews.com. "But it is still definitely not easy."
Bragman said that it would be hard to prove that coming out prevents actors from getting cast in certain roles, but that he is "sure there is still homophobia in Hollywood."
"In the end, it is called acting for a reason," Bragman said. "You need only look to people like Neil Patrick Harris and T.R. Knight to see that gay people are playing straight and doing it well."
"The single biggest thing anybody can do to help gay rights is to come out of the closet," Bragman said. "And I think every new star that comes out is helping to show that the sky doesn't fall in when someone comes out of the closet. In fact, most of the time that star lives a happier life and is still respected in their field."
Ricky Martin's announcement this week got us thinking about the pressures and the odds that stars have faced in coming out. Here is ABCNews.com's list:
Ricky Martin
Ever since the "Livin' La Vida Loca" era, fans have wondered what team the hip-swinging Latino superstar is playing for.
Just last month, Barbara Walters admitted to the Toronto Star that she was wrong to push Martin to speak about his sexuality in a 2000 interview.
"I pushed Ricky Martin very hard to admit if he was gay or not," Walters told the Toronto Star. "And the way he refused to do it made everyone decide that he was. A lot of people say that destroyed his career, and when I think back on it now, I feel it was an inappropriate question."
Despite the Walters interview, Martin went on with his career. He released another album in 2005, called "Life," that made it to number six on the Billboard chart. Several singles from the album reached number one on the Latin charts.


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The HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Program strives to apply rigorous academic methods to understand how and why Design Thinking innovation works and fails.
The Design Thinking Community are current participants and alumni of the program. At regular workshops project teams present findings of their ongoing research.
Multidisciplinary research teams from Stanford University and HPI work on diverse topics concerned with Design Thinking, its process, method, interaction patterns and tools in order to investigate the phenomena of innovation.
All research findings are published in the volume "Understanding Innovation" as well as in various papers and articles.
Ingo Rauth studied Communicational and Industrial Design and gained experience working as a professional designer in various companies and consultancies around the globe. He joined the HPI Design Thinking Research program as a Ph.D. student in 2009 and is working as a teacher at the d.school since then. His main research interests are in design thinking and business/innovation management.
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We proudly present the eighth volume of "Looking Further: Design Thinking Beyond Solution-Fixation". It compiles the latest research results of the HPI Stanford Design Thinking Research Program.
Here you'll find an overview of other publications.
From March 4 to 6, 2019, researchers from HPI and Stanford University met for the 22nd Community Building Workshop.
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An 18-year-old from North Carolina has been arrested in connection with the vandalism of the iconic Howard�s Rock at Clemson University�s football stadium.
Clemson University Police announced Friday afternoon that Micah Rogers of Pisgah Forest, N.C., has been charged with felony malicious injury to property and trespassing in connection with the vandalism of the rock. He is not a Clemson student, they said.
Capt. Eric Hendricks said the vandalism occurred the night of June 2 and was captured partially by video surveillance cameras. The suspect also was identified by a witness.
Police listed the specific charges as: malicious injury to animals or personal property valued at more than $2,000, but less than $10,000; and one misdemeanor: trespassing, unlawful entry into enclosed places.
Police said the rock � which has come to symbolize Clemson�s football tradition � was broken after the plexiglas housing was removed. It was presented to legendary Clemson football head coach Frank Howard from Death Valley National Park in California. Clemson�s football field has come to be known as Death Valley.
The rock is rubbed by every Clemson player before each home game as the team runs onto the field.
The broken portion of the rock has not been recovered yet, and the investigation is ongoing.
Rogers appeared in Clemson University Municipal Court Friday morning and was released on personal recognizance bond of $5,470.
�On behalf of the athletic department and the football coaches and players, I want to thank the Clemson University Police Department, the State Law Enforcement Division and the Thirteenth Circuit Solicitor�s Office for acting in a swift, thorough manner with regards to the vandalism to Howard�s Rock,� said Clemson Athletic Director Dan Radakovich. �We appreciate the efforts of everyone involved in this case.�


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On May 25, 2017, Representative Tom Graves released the second draft of proposed amendments to 18 U.S.C. 1030 (known as the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act). Representative Graves' bill is known as the Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act (or ACDC Act). There is no universally accepted umbrella term for this, but it is variously called "Active Defense", "Active Cyber Defense", "hacking back," "hackback", and "strike back." You will find the word "active" applied almost universally in these discussions, though it frequently results in establishing a simple (though false) dichotomy of "passive defense" vs. "active defense" and frequently leading to fallacious "straw man" arguments. I prefer the term "Active Response Continuum" to explicitly avoid setting up such binary choices. [Dittrich and Himma(2005)]
Without technical knowledge and a clear contextual understanding of the criminal actions, potentially triggering legal defensive response, two paradoxes emerge. First, the "attributional technology" cited in the draft ACDC Act may not achieve its desired goals. Second, some actions disallowed by the ACDC Act include previously witnessed "strike back" actions that have motivated calls for the kind of amendments embodied in the ACDC Act. [Robinson(2017)]
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In the first part of this two part blog post, the issue of anticipating retaliation during an aggressive battle to wrest control of a DDoS botnet was examined. In this part, the issues of dual standards, taking responsibility, and learning lessons to make positive change over time are examined.
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This blog post is the first of a two-part series in response to the Wired article of Oct 14, 2014, "How Microsoft Appointed Itself Sheriff of the Internet." [McM14] I find some problems with this article that raise questions about the depth of research into some elements of the story, and an appearance of bias in how "unintended consequences" are presented.
[McM14] Robert McMillan. How Microsoft Appointed Itself Sheriff of the Internet. http://www.wired.com/2014/10/microsoft-pinkerton/, October 2014.
On July 31, 2013, Jason Geffner of CrowdStrike discussed a new tool called "Tortilla" that allows incident responders and computer security researchers to hide behind the Tor network as they poke and prod malicious software infrastructure. Were I there, I would have asked Jason this question: What things should I not do while using Tortilla, and why shouldn't I do them? I know Jason and respect his technical skills, but if he and CrowdStrike don't have a good answer, that will say a lot about our field's collective ability to reason about actions along the Active Response Continuum. [D. Dittrich and K. E. Himma. Active Response to Computer Intrusions. Chapter 182 in Vol. III, Handbook of Information Security, 2005. http://ssrn.com/abstract=790585.] Read more »
[This post expresses the personal opinion of the author and is not an official statement representing the Honeynet Project.]
At the AusCERT 2013 conference, Dmitri Alperovich called for debate about, "the kinds of actions that infosec professionals are allowed to take against attackers." I agree with Dmitri, and in fact I made the same call, at the same conference on May 23, 2005! (AusCERT invited me to speak on an emerging topic and I chose to speak for the first time publicly at AusCERT 2005 about the Active Response Continuum research I had been doing with funding from Cisco.) As one of the world's foremost experts on this topic, with over two decades of security operations experience, I welcome Dmitri to the debate. :)
What follows is adapted from the forthcoming book, "The Active Response Continuum: Ethical and Legal Issues
of Aggressive Computer Network Defense," by David Dittrich. I welcome any comments, suggested modifications and/or additions.
There are many challenges facing those who are victimized by computer crimes, who are frustrated with what they perceive to be a lack of effective law enforcement action to protect them, and who want to unilaterally take some aggressive action to directly counter the threats to their information and information systems. This has been called active defense, aggressive [network] self-defense, counter-attack, and even hacking back. Regardless of the reasons why someone would want to take such actions, it is necessary to discuss the options, acknowledge the risk and benefit tradeoffs, and identify how aggressive actions can be taken in a manner that is safe, controlled, and justifiable (as best this can be accomplished). This cannot be accomplished, however, if everyone comes at the subject with their own individual frame of reference and language. (This was pointed out by more than one person at this year's Suits & Spooks DC 2013 conference.) Read more »
On March 4, 2013, a contest was held at the Nullcon conference in Goa, India, to see who could take over a botnet. The Times of India reported that the prize money was provided by an Indian government official and was awarded to the Garage4Hackers team. The co-founder of the Nullcon conference, Antriksh Shah, said "At Nullcon Goa 2013, for the first time in the world the government has come forward and announced a bounty prize of Rs 35,000 to whoever provides critical information on the command and control servers of a malware recently found in one of the government installations in India," and then tweeted, "Dawn of new infosec era. Govt of India announced (and actually paid) first ever bounty (Rs. 35 k) at nullcon to take down a c&c." When asked whether this was a live botnet, or a simulated botnet held within a safe and isolated virtual network where no harm could result, Nullcon tweeted, "it was a live campaign up since a couple of yrs and the malware was found in a gov. Infra." Read more »
For the last few years, I have been participating in a Department of Homeland Security sponsored effort to develop principles and applications for the evaluation of information and communication technology (ICT) research. If you are not familiar with the Menlo Report, you can find a description in Michael Bailey, David Dittrich, Erin Kenneally, and Douglas Maughan. The Menlo Report. Security & Privacy, IEEE, 10(2):71–75, March/April 2012.
I and two of my Menlo colleagues -- Wendy Vischer and Erin Kenneally -- recently taught a didactic course at the PRIM&R Advancing Ethical Research conference in San Diego. (PRIM&R is the conference for Institutional Review Board, or IRB, professionals, with the annual AER conference having thousands of attendees). Our course primarily described the Menlo Report process to date, but we concluded with a mock IRB committee review of a fictional proposed research project in which researchers develop countermeasures to malicious botnets in social network platforms like Facebook using a combination of deception to build a social network of over 1 million users and to then use "good bots" that infiltrate the "bad bots". Read more »
This is a response to a CSO Online blog post by Jeff Bardin ("Caution: Not Executing Offensive Actions Against Our Adversaries is High Risk," November 2012.), which is a rebuttal to a blog post by Jody Westby on Forbes online ("Caution: Active Response to Cyber Attacks Has High Risk.") Mr. Bardin is obviously playing on words in the title and I seriously doubt he believes that it is higher risk to not take aggressive actions than is to do so. His post does not contain a reasoned proposal for how to change or work within existing legal and ethical norms to allow aggressive actions directed at computer network attackers. It is instead a strident endorsement of a vaguely defined "new approach" of counter-attack using simplistic arguments based on emotion and a desire for retribution (an unethical position to take), lacking sufficient discussion of appropriate "rules of engagement," principle-based ethical justifications of any type beyond basic "right of self-defense" arguments, and including no oversight mechanisms to minimize the potential for abuse or collateral damage. This response is quite long, including not only Mr. Bardin's own words for context but also many references to materials apropos to the topic that Mr. Bardin does not provide in his post.
Mr. Bardin's blog post illustrates some of the problems with discussion of this topic that I have seen over and over since the first workshops I attended or lead on this topic in Seattle's Agora security group from 2001 to 2004. I have been studying and discussing these issues for over a decade and have seen the same simplistic arguments repeated in nearly every discussion. Useful analogies in this realm are really hard to find and almost always fail. Part of the problem stems from non-technical people trying to discuss extremely technical and complex issues of computer network attack and defense, combined with rushing to simple "self defense" analogies and appeals to emotion, suggesting we have to do something, anything, to get satisfaction. Frequently left out is any meaningful discussion of ethics, "rules of engagement," responsibility, or accountability.
If my response here comes across as vehement opposition, it is not intended that way. If anything, it shares Mr. Bardin's frustration that we have gotten to the point where intrusions are so widespread and pervasive, but we differ in explaining why and in proposing a viable path forward. Read more »
On March 31, 2012, the Honeynet Project published a draft Code of Conduct and a statement about Ethics in Computer Security Research: Kelihos.B/Hlux.B botnet takedown.
The initial draft of the Code of Conduct was drawn from concepts described in the The Menlo Report: Ethical Principles Guiding Information and Communication Technology Research that was published in the United States Federal Register on December 28, 2011 for public comment. The Code of Conduct was refined through discussion within the Legal and Ethics Committee and volunteer Honeynet Project members to help make it workable within the structure of the Honeynet Project membership for evaluating the ethics of future research activities.
The following FAQ reflects how the Menlo Report principles and proposed Honeynet Project Code of Conduct can be used to analyze and explain an action like the Kelihos/Hlux sinkholing operation. Read more »
On Sunday, March 25, Microsoft announced that for the fourth time, they had gone to a federal court and successfully obtained an ex parte temporary restraining order (TRO) to seize domain names from botnet operators. For the second time, the court has also ordered U.S. Marshals to accompany Microsoft and others to serve search warrants and seize evidence that can be used in future civil or criminal actions. Read more »