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Top 10 Food Brands of 2005
Our picks for those trademarks that have withstood the test of time and forged an emotional connection with consumers.
"Simply put, a brand is a promise," according to one of the advertising greats, Walter Landor. "By identifying and authenticating a product or service, it delivers a pledge of satisfaction and quality." If successful, a brand becomes part of the most valuable real estate in the world: a corner of the consumer's mind, says Landor. But building on that corner is more difficult than ever before. It's a brand new day for iconic brands; they can no longer rest on their laurels. They must have focus, be carefully nurtured and have relevance today. Those are the attributes we used to judge our Top 10 Brands.
What a brand is can be confusing, especially to consumers. "In the consumer's mind, there's no difference between a company or product name and a brand name," warns marketing strategist Al Reis of Ries & Ries Consulting, Roswell, Ga.
For example, the brand can be the company - General Mills - manufacturer of the product. Or it can be Betty Crocker, an umbrella brand and a symbol, personality or image of the brand. These days, food marketers drill branding down to the granular level: Betty Crocker SuperMoist Cake Mix is its own General Mills brand.
Whatever the method, the objective is to "brand," or burn, the brand image into the consumer's mind, to associate the image with the product's quality and promise, and to distinguish the brand's point of difference among its competition.
"Any brand in its truest sense is aspirational and never reaches a destination," says Robbie Vorhaus, founder of Vorhaus & Co., Sag Harbor, N.Y. "A successful brand is dynamic and to its core must seek perfection, knowing it's an unattainable goal, and yet believing that with the help of all stakeholders, one day paradise will unfold." And he adds, "This, of course, sounds mystical, somewhat surreal, and yet every great brand is magical and indefinable. Every great brand seems so real, so tangible, and yet when left with the task of defining Coke, McDonald's, Domino's Pizza, Heinz or Lipton, it becomes an impossible task because of that incredible, indescribable quality that leaves us using empty clichés like, 'wonderful,' 'special,' and 'world-class.'"
Brand managers nurture a specific product, product line or brand, and if they are world-class, they increase the brand franchise or brand equity (which measures the brands value and investment) for the company. "A brand manager understands his or her job is to nurture the light, not the bulb," says Vorhaus. "The uninspired describe their brand as who they are; versus the conquering brand leader, who in true Zen fashion, camouflages the details and simply sells the benefits their brand fulfills."
When Coca-Cola, which has incredible brand recognition and brand equity, uses its own name for a specific product - a bottle of Coca-Cola - that's corporate branding. When it launches products under the Coca-Cola moniker - Diet Coke - it's described as family branding. When it uses its brand equity to launch a new line - Coca-Cola Zero - the intangible attributes and promise of the Coca-Cola brand, which to consumers means great soft drinks, leverages the brand.
"Vibrant brands experience a kind of intimate relationship with their consumers," says Harvey Hartman, founder, chairman and CEO of The Hartman Group, Bellevue, Wash. "But like any relationship, this partnership takes time, effort and patience. Just as nurtured relationships blossom and grow, ones that are ignored can fade and die."
Keeping in mind that brands want a lifelong relationship with consumers, we've chosen our Top 10 for their branding expertise and nurturing - brands that have withstood the test of time and continue to be relevant. Many others deserve to be on the list, so for all the inspired brand managers out there, we salute you.
Betty Crocker: America's first lady of food
A survey published in The New York Times earlier this year to determine which person has the most effect on the buying decisions of the American public found it was Betty Crocker, America's first lady of food. The fact that she's not a real person doesn't seem to matter, nor did it when desperate housewives sent her more than 4,000 letters a day at the height of her popularity. Today, Betty Crocker, the first lady of brands, who resides at Minneapolis-based General Mills, provides recipes, cookbooks and easy mixes for today's busy on-the-go families. Betty's secret: She has connected with generations of American women.
"For almost 85 years, Betty Crocker brands have earned consumers' trust through consistent quality in our products and publications to help them manage their food preparation dilemmas," explains Pam Becker, senior manager of brand public relations. "To do this, Betty Crocker must identify with the consumer and really understand what her key needs are. Then, Betty Crocker must take that need and, using superior technical skill, develop products that work every time under all circumstances to solve that need. In addition to products, the connection is also made by communicating exciting ideas on package, in advertising, publications, and through various other vehicles to our consumers."
Ironically, the first Betty Crocker was Samuel Gale, an advertising executive, who invented the handle in 1921 so he wouldn't have to sign his own name on letters to women seeking baking advice, according to "Finding Betty Crocker: The Secret Life of America's First Lady of Food," by Susan Marks. He chose "Betty" because it sounded cheery, wholesome and folksy, and "Crocker" in honor of William G. Crocker, a retired and much loved director of Washburn Crosby (now General Mills). It wasn't long before Betty grew into a full-blown persona: "a woman who could field questions about a marriage that had gone flat or a bread that refused to rise." Most consumers believed she existed (some still do today); she has even received marriage proposals from male fans looking for the perfect homemaker.
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2008: Appeared in four sets over three matches this season...Distributed 10 assists...Dished out three assists, recorded a dig and had a hand in a block on Sept. 26 at Albany...Tallied a career-best seven assists and notched a kill on Nov. 7 against Columbia.
2007: Played in three games...Made collegiate debut at Dartmouth on Oct. 5 and tallied three assists...Posted three assists and her first career kill in a home win over Columbia (Oct. 20)...Also saw action against Florida in the Baden Thanksgiving Classic (Nov. 23).
Before Yale: Berkeley Prep's Female Athlete of the Year and team MVP as a senior...As team captain, led Berkeley to back-to-back second-place finishes in the Class 3A State Championships...Twice named Class 3A First Team All-State and First Team All-Hillsborough County, and selected First Team All-Suncoast as a senior...Played for the 2004 National Champion Tampa Bay Juniors 16s.


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A sprawling recent thread on Digital Emunction about neglected American poets of the twentieth-century recently culminated in the establishment of a wiki-anthology - The Lumpy Corral - of same. Some of the furrows there, fertile as they are, have been ploughed on other occasions, though. I hope they also lasso some of the fascinating neglected British poets of the twentieth-century, while they're at it: Rosemary Tonks, the late Ric Caddel, Gael Turnbull, Nicholas Moore, to name just a very few (some of whom can be [re]-discovered in anthologies by Keith Tuma (Anthology of Twentieth-Century British & Irish Poetry) and Caddel with Peter Quartermain (OTHER British and Irish Poetry Since 1970).
There are two British poets I never, ever hear about. One is Jonathan Price, whose book Everything Must Go is very difficult to find and ought to be reprinted (more in an upcoming blog post); another is Alexander Trocchi. I'll start with the latter, because you can now read his poems again, introduced by William S. Burroughs, in a new edition featuring a preface by the legendary John Calder - who got hold of the poems "by obtaining unauthorized entry to [Trocchi's] flat and desk drawers" in order to publish them the first time around.
Burroughs met Trocchi, who was Scottish, at a 1962 writer's conference in Edinburgh, where the poet described himself as "a cosmonaut of inner space" and claimed sodomy as the basis for his work. (He was famously attacked there by Hugh MacDiarmid, who dismissed him as "cosmopolitan scum," though they eventually became friends.) Trocchi is best known now as a novelist - many of his books published by the infamous Olympia Press - who crashed on the planet Heroin. (The Situationists International, of which he had been a founding member, had to weigh in on one of his imprisonments.) That journey was chronicled, more or less, in his best-known work, Cain's Book, which outlined an almost Spicerian poetics:
"When I write I have trouble with my tenses. Where I was tomorrow is where I am today, where I would be yesterday. I have a horror of committing fraud. It is all very difficult, the past even more than the future, for the latter is at least probable, calculable, while the former is beyond the range of experiment. The past is always a lie clung to by an odour of ancestors."
Calder collected the purloined poems for an edition, Man at Leisure, that he published in 1972. Trocchi died in 1984 and remains a cult figure, but not for his poems. In his introduction, however, Burroughs clairvoyantly speculated that perhaps "writers are actually readers from hidden books," books that are "carefully concealed and surrounded by deadly snares."
Well, if neglect is a deadly snare, then we are lucky to have the brilliantly useful Oneworld Classics (publisher, too, of Mike Stocks' translations of Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli, about which I've blogged) to thank for bringing the beast howling back to life. What a great press - Man at Leisure is back in print at a cost of less than 13 bucks!
Here are a few samples...
- from "Wind from the Bosphorus"
a young man
stalking a butterfly
found a flare-red skirt, a high-cheeked
and lay with her behind a bush in adultery
still supine, the winds of the East
and of Roumanian Anna
he carried with him
more than a gypsy's fading heat, but was not
much concerned
desire being international, of more significance
than the incidental cum multis aliis
he carried to the clinic
he was treated
by more civilised persons who showed
little interest
in what they called (with an utter lack of
"the source of infection"
as though
nothing else had been carried to him from the East
on the wind of her body.
- from "He Tasted History with a Yellow Tooth"
eggs again.
my aunt laid an egg once, all smooth and creamy
you wanted to stroke it as you want to stroke a woman
but she was ashamed of it
and took it away from me.
I think she buried it in the garden -
anyway, there's a patch of violets there
ten yards from the stair
that goes to the loft where my uncle kept the saddles
and they bleed each spring,
in spring there is a bleeding.
- from "Letters to Contemporaries"
And so, my letter
as we know, no better
all systems "go"
a futique today
is an antique tomorrow.
- from "Man at Leisure"
The first duty of a
young man
without private means
is, as soon as he can
be paid for heart loved leisure
his can of beans
and walk with his head
in the posture of queens
Men who work
in the conventional sense
of the word
are bad at furk
& fr purposes of identity
might wear rings in
thr noses
might have been born
at the time of Moses
Stewart Home's intriguing afterword quotes Raoul Vaneigem's The Revolution of Everyday Life: "Poetry is... 'making' but 'making' restored to the purity of its moment of genesis - seen, in other words, from the point of view of the totality." Home compares this to one of the most famous Situationist slogans: "Never Work," adding that the Situationists, like Trocchi, "gave themselves over to an art of living that was in itself poetic." I'm pretty dubious about things like "totality" (if there is revolution in everyday life, why, indeed, work... write... teach?) and find, reading about the likes of Trocchi and Spicer, something not so "poetic" about their lives. In any case, with all their foibles and tragedies, poets like Spicer and Trocchi are certainly among the very few who can make you question just what it is you're doing. Even at the risk of neglect.
The clip above is from Jamie Wadhawam's 1969 documentary, Cain's Film, which opens with Trocchi trying to talk his publisher into taking a collection of his poems - only to be told by Marion Boyars that poetry doesn't sell.
Here's part of a documentary on Trocchi:
* NB: A correlation has been discovered between economic development and a strong belief in Hell. Talk about "totality!" Click here for more.


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The Law Firm of Levi & Korsinsky, LLP Announces Investigation into Possible Breaches of Fiduciary Duty by the Board of Copano Energy in Connection with the Sale of the Company to Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P.
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2011 National Science Club Month CelebrationActivity by Alyssa ashley Usman | added on Aug 23, 2011 | Philippines
There will be three activities - National Science Clubs Summit (Summit), PSYSC Science Olympiad (PSO), and Math-Sci-A-Ka. The main thrusts of this year's NSCM are the following: interaction of science clubs, recognition of excellence, and active participation of science clubbing in our society
TITLE: 2011 National Science Club Month Celebration DATE: September 2011 IMPLEMENTING AGENCY: Pambansang Kapisanan ng mga Kabataan Samahan ng Agham (PSYSC, Inc.) COOPERATING AGENCY: Department of Science and Technology–Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI) BACKGROUND The Philippine Society of Youth Science Clubs has been celebrating September as the National Science Club Month (NSCM) for six years. Through NSCM, the PSYSC has been encouraging the Filipino youth to get actively involved in the science clubbing movement and, at the same time, promote the public understanding of science, technology, and the environment. As the umbrella organization of thousands of science clubs and its science clubbers, PSYSC conducts relevant activities to further emphasize their roles, their active participation to the issues concerning ST&E today, and to realize the relevance of science clubbing in our society. NSCM provides a venue for interaction among science clubs from various regions and also encourages non-affiliate science clubs to join our cause. BRIEF DESCRIPTION PSYSC, being the frontier of the science clubbing movement, continues to celebrate the NSCM activities to science clubs all over the country. As a new decade enters, the NSCM celebration breaks the conventions of science clubbing and is geared up for more relevant and fun innovations to actively involve the science clubbers in the issues of ST&E today. There will be three activities in this year's NSCM. These activities are: National Science Clubs Summit (Summit), PSYSC Science Olympiad (PSO), and Math-Sci-A-Ka. The main thrusts of this year's NSCM are the following: interaction of science clubs, recognition of excellence, and active participation of science clubbing in our society. TOPIC: Innovative Chemistry THEME: "CHEMERGY: Chemistry and Science Clubbing in Synergy." Our activities are: SUMMIT --> September 3-4, 2011 PSO Eliminations --> September 3, 2011 Math-Sci-A-Ka --> September 17, 2011 PSO Finals - September 24, 2011 SUMMIT: September 3-4, 2011 The National Science Clubs Summit (Summit) is a two-day activity open to high school science clubs affiliated with PSYSC. The activity includes lectures, workshops on popular sciences and the environment, team-building activities aimed to bond the participants, a venue for participants to present the achievement of their science clubs and a plenary session where participating science clubs can elect Regional Council Officers and present their plan during their term. It is conducted in 8 different sites nationwide as a kick-off activity of the NSCM celebration. Target Venues and Estimated Participants
Sites Host Schools Participants Pangasinan Juan G. Macaraeg National High School 800 Laguna Colegio de San Agustin - Binan 800 Capiz Filamer Christian University 1200 Koronadal Korondal National Comprehensive High School 1400 Zamboanga del Sur Zamboanga del Sur National High School 1200 Butuan Agusan National High School 800 Bicol PSHS - Bicol Region Campus 300 Cebu/Tacloban TO BE ANNOUNCED 300 TOTAL 6800 PSO: PSYSC Science Olympiad is an established inter-school quiz competition for students all over the country which is open for both elementary and high school students who are members of science clubs affiliated to the PSYSC. This Olympiad consists of two rounds: (1) the National Eliminations, which would be a written exam that will challenge the students knowledge on various science categories, and (2) the National Finals, which will be composed of two parts: (1) the Theoretical and Practical Round and (2) the Oral Round. Prizes would include cash, plaques, medals and certificates of recognition. PSO Eliminations September 3, 2011 Sites Region 1 Juan G. Macaraeg National High School, Binalonan, Pangasinan Region 2 University of La Salette, Santiago City, Isabela Region 3 Olongapo City National High School, Olongapo City, Zambales Region 4A Colegio de San Agustin - Binan, Laguna National Capital Region Angelicum College, Quezon City, Metro Manila Region 5 PSHS - Bicol Region Campus Region 6 Filamer Christian University, Roxas City, Capiz Region 7 or 8 TO BE ANNOUNCED Region 9 Zamboanga del Sur National HIgh School, Pagadian City Region 10 Corpus Christi School, Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental Region 12 Koronadal National Comprehensive National High School, Koronadal Region 13 Agusan National High School, Butuan City, Agusan del Norte PSO Finals September 24, 2011
Venue: PHIVOLCS - Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Carlos P. Garcia Avenue, UP Diliman, Quezon City
Math-Sci-a-Ka: September 17, 2011
The Math-Sci-A-Ka is a Luzon-based activity which caters to all elementary and high school science clubbers within the region. Math-Sci-A-Ka provides a venue to challenge our science clubbers mentally and physically through fun and educational science workshops and experiments which are relevant to some issues in science and technology today. This year, the Math-Sci-A-Ka will be more geared towards science topics and activities, and thus will embark on the field of Innovative Chemistry, exposing the science clubbers to its basic concepts and direct applications in the society through a series of fun experiments. The Math-Sci-A-Ka will also offer new Engineering Science Challenges this year, which will primarily deal on the concept of the environment.
The Math-Sci-A-Ka is composed of two brackets: Bracket I (Elementary) and Bracket II (High School). These two brackets will have different, independent sets of innovative Chemistry workshops and engineering science challenges. The Math-Sci-A-Ka is composed of three parts: Take Home Project, On-the-Spot Workshops, and Interactive Workshops.
Venue: PHIVOLCS - Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Carlos P. Garcia Avenue, UP Diliman, Quezon City
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Deed transfer for Race Rock planned June 27
New London - The U.S. General Services Administration is expected to hand over the deed to Race Rock Light to the New London Maritime Society at the end of the month.
Susan Tamulevich, director of the society, said the GSA notified her last week that the society, based at the U.S. Custom House on Bank Street, was selected to acquire the two-story Gothic Revival granite lighthouse at the eastern end of Long Island Sound.
It is the second lighthouse the society will own and control. In 2010, the maritime society was given New London Harbor Light on Pequot Avenue.
A condition of both gifts is that the lighthouses be accessible to the public. Access can include tours, videos and educational programs, Tamulevich said. The lighthouse will continue to operate as a light for mariners.
"What's important is that the lighthouses remain in the public domain,'' she said. "Our plan is restoration and eventually preservation."
Patrick Sclafani, GSA spokesman, confirmed that the transfer will take place June 27.
"We'll hand over the deeds and the keys,'' he said.
The deed transfer ceremony will take place at 10 a.m. that day at the Custom House. Robert Zarnetske, administrator for the GSA New England Region, will sign over the property.
The lighthouse will be given to the society at no cost, he said, but generally, lighthouses that are sold privately have gone for $25,000 to about $380,000.
George Sprecace, president of the maritime society who worked for nine years to obtain New London Harbor Light, praised Tamulevich for getting the government to work much faster this time. The process took less than a year.
"This was made easy because of Susan,'' he said.
"With nonprofits, success depends on the willingness of people to support us,'' Sprecace said. "So long as we're not reckless, and we pick the right opportunities, people will be behind us and support us."
The 134-year-old lighthouse, which has helped guide mariners through The Race, a narrow channel where eastern Long Island Sound meets the Atlantic Ocean, is structurally sound but needs interior work. Tamulevich said the society, which has about 800 members, will start raising money and applying for grants for restoration.
"Nothing has made people more excited than lighthouses,'' she said. "So many people have come forward who have wanted to help us."
The society plans to work with the Henry L. Ferguson Museum on Fishers Island and the Fishers Island Ferry to offer periodic tours of the lighthouse. It also will post a "virtual tour" of the lighthouse on its website.
The National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000 gives the government the authority to transfer surplus federal property to nonprofits, among others. If no preservation group or nonprofit wants the property, it goes out for public auction.
Last year, the maritime society was outbid by a private individual in an attempt to purchase another Long Island Sound property with a lighthouse, Little Gull Island.
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More than a year after Hurricane Sandy devastated swaths of the East Coast, the impact of the worst storm in generations is still being felt. Much of Atlantic City's iconic boardwalk, parts of which were crushed by the storm, has been revitalized. Still, many small businesses are still feeling Sandy's after-effects.
With the start of the U.S. hurricane season just days away, New Jersey is still grappling with the issue of who pays for storm recovery—and how much. Some parts of the country have already been walloped by extreme weather, a timely reminder of the devastation a single storm could wreak on a still recovering region.
Sandy was blamed for at least 59 deaths, according to The Associated Press. Meanwhile, some are estimating the economic impact of the storm to be between $30 billion and $50 billion.
In New York, the state legislature passed property tax relief for Hurricane Sandy victims. Across the river in New Jersey, state officials are debating whether millions in federal recovery funds were allocated properly.
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I've got a lot of stuff floating around my head and I started dumping it all into this post last week so that my head would not hurt so much. As such, I was fully prepared to finish and publish this post Saturday night but it got delayed when I realized the amount of work needed to edit it for poor grammar and spelling. Saturday became Sunday, which bumped into Monday, then Tuesday… OY. So I'm hoping you are reading this and today is Wednesday.
So what happened you ask?
I sat down Sunday to work on this post and when I logged onto the Internet, I found the Twittersphere was abuzz with the Grammy awards. I used to LOVE the Grammy's because it regularly fell on my birthday, February 21st and it was the only award show that recognized talent, not just popularity. Quality over quantity. In addition, many of the singers actually sang during their performances, and that made the show much better than other award shows where the artists lip synched and were there to look cool, and not to be respected by the music community. Those shows, ahem, MTV music awards, always looked like a giant scripted video where artists dress in torn jeans, get loaded and swore on stage. The Grammy's, on the other hand, have always had much more class… Until this year!
I still was not going to watch the show, but someone tweeted that Bruno Mars and Alicia Keys shared the same hairstyle, and that peaked my curiosity, so on went the TV and I was hooked. To be honest, the Grammy's and Twitter make for a great pair. I watched, tweeted, re-tweeted and met some new cool people, and got to know some of my contacts better, It made for a very interactive event and I got to share my love of music with others also in the know.
So back to my comment about how classy the Grammy's are and how they failed Sunday night… The Grammy's not only had two performances from Chris Brown, but they also gave him awards, Two of them. Chris Brown.
For those of you not familiar with him, he is the former boyfriend of singer Rhianna and one night he lost his temper and beat her. She went public with the picture of her battered and bruised face and instead of coming clean, Brown put a sour look on his face and carried on with his life.
So he thinks it's okay to hit women.
That's so not cool.
If I'm a woman (which I'm not) and I'm a R&B fan (which I'm not) or a human being who loves music (which I am), I would NEVER EVER buy, or download another Chris Brown song again. But instead of ignoring him, the Grammy's had him perform and man the Twittersphere was not amused. What were the Grammy's thinking??? As a matter of fact, the best R&B award had him and R. Kelly – who videotaped sex with a 15-year-old, and Kanye West is a hot-tempered, spoiled brat and a sore loser and this is the cream of the R&B crop?!? I think this category can do better, don't you?
But what saved this award show was Adele. She was appreciative and she has a magnificent voice. That and she's not 98 pounds means she is a role model for the next generation of woman, now Lady Gaga who looked like she got caught in a fish net on the way into the award show.
LL Cool J called Sir Paul McCartney his "homie". LOL.
Dave Grohl, of the Foo Fighters dissed pretty much every other band by saying they recorded their Best Rock Album in their garage with a tape recorder. I believe he also dissed the performers who were not really singing. Classic.
Other random stuff:
Why do guys have to non-verbally announce the impending of bodily functions in public washrooms. The grunts, groans, "Oh my g-d's" before and "whews" after are so not cool. Entertaining but not cool. Especially when one of my kids asks out loud why was that person grunting before they poo'd, loud enough so they can hear too.
Everyday driving home across Eglinton Avenue in Toronto, I pass a strip mall (pun intended) which has the following businesses;
A XXX Adult video store – tinted covered windows so the perverts cannot see inside
A Ready Lube
Aromatic Sensation "Massage" parlour.
I think the Ready Lube has to go… It's bringing down the neighbourhood. lol. But seriously, do you need the ready lube to visit either of the locations?
Speaking of "massages" has anyone heard the song Pornstar dancing by My Darkest Days?
Or what about I'm Alive by Anthrax? my new favourite song next to "Call my Mamma" the WWE Brodus Clay theme song.
I'm working on a new blog post based on a comment made by TTC Chair and Toronto City councillor Karen Stintz that "Council is supreme". Yes it is… Karen… Yes it is.
Tuesday night the Leafs lost their 4th game in a row and the Raptors lost on a last second 3-pointer from Lin-sanity himself, David Lin – in his 6th professional ball game. All this losing makes me thankful the Toronto Rock play this Saturday at home, and makes me REALLY look forward to next week when pitchers and catchers can report for Major League Baseball (MLB) spring training.
On February 19th it is the voluntary report date for pitchers, catchers and injured players to report to spring training.
February 24th, full squads may report
February 29th, is the first exhibition game between the Philadelphia Philies and Florida State University.
YAY! The truest sign that spring is on the way!
Last random thought of the day: Have any of you seen the show Ink Master? If so, it's crazy, right! If not, let me tell you a little about if from the 20 minutes I caught yesterday.
8 people are competing to find the next best tattoo artist. The "artists" have to tattoo their "canvas" aka human beings in the manner they want. For example, one guy wanted a head tattoo, the other a celtic braid around his flabby bicep with the New York skyline sitting on top of the braid.
The concept seems completely fucked up and then you realize how truly messed up it is when they show the work done by these "artists" such as crooked work, poor shading,and pain. One guy having a head tattoo done needed to be taken to the hospital by EMT. UGH.
The way I see it the "artists" are up and coming tattoo artists and as such are prone to make mistakes – such as crooked designs or poor shading and they have to complete their art within a limited time frame, like 4 hours. So one of the tattoo artists had to do a head tattoo in 6 hours but he didn't finish it. Then in the next competition, he got another head tattoo to do and the poor guy that wanted it must have seen the look of displeasure on his face but still went through with it. Yeah, that's what I want… Some guy doing a tattoo on my head when he a) did one that was brutal and b) doesn't want to do another. Yeah, stick that needle in my head, buddy. NOT.
If the intention of this show is to dissuade kids from wanting tattoos then it worked. Personally I cannot think of anything I would want to get tattooed permanently on my body, let alone by some amateur during a contest for TV. Yikes.
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Greedy speculators in housing and private bankers, financial innovation and failure of risk models, regulators and credit rating agencies were all deservedly blamed for the recent financial crisis. Behind this all is public policy that worsened the problems.
Long before the greed of speculators and bankers went wild and long before there were sub-prime housing loans, there was the US Government involvement in the form government subsidies as reflected in (i) the existing tax-deductibility of home-mortgage interest payments; (ii) Federal Housing Administration programs which provide credit to first-time home buyers and permit up to 97 percent leverage at origination and also permit cash-out refinancing that resulted in 95percent leveraging (take-out of $520 billion each year by households through re-financing); and (iii) government financial subsidies through federal home loan bank lending for owning 'an American dream' and directing credit to low-income communities in line with the spirit of Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 and establishment of quasi-government agencies such as Frannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In addition, there is ever increasing moral hazard in the financial sector over the past century in the form of deposit insurance, reduction in capital adequacy ratios, implicit and explicit guarantees for bank bailouts to all types of financial institutions, including the too big to fail institutions. These policies combined with Fed policy of cheap money by keeping interest rates low to help economic recovery from the dot-com bubble burst of early 2000s only fueled credit growth and exacerbated the speculative bubble in housing market. From Iceland to Ireland to other European countries and USA housing bubbles were spawned in this fashion.
Prior to the global financial crisis of 2008-09, there were rapid price hikes in food grains and fuel during 2007 and early 2008. Again, financialization of commodity markets and role of speculators was blamed for those bubbles. Without healthy behavior of speculators and traders markets would not function efficiently. It is only when speculation is out of control that everything goes hay wire. But behind the wild speculation there is always cheap money in the form of easy fiscal and monetary policies.
The financial reforms underway in a number of countries hardly any mention is made about government policy blunders nor does it deal with continued government involvement in housing. Instead they are exclusively focused on re-regulating financial firms, strengthening watch dog institutions, and restricting speculators. Such reforms will hardly prevent future crises because of 'capture' of all institutions (parliaments, regulators, credit rating agencies, policy making agencies).
Spurred by state directives, banks in China have been providing cheap money since late 2008 and this is now led to a housing and construction bubble in China. Similarly, the recent jump in stock prices in both emerging and developed economies is likely to be a manifestation of public policies of 2008-10 in the form of large fiscal stimulus packages and 'quantitative easing' of the central banks. Similarly, the recent jump in wheat prices is partially due to severe drought in Russia but also a precursor of search for higher yields by the excess liquidity now in place in the world. A bubble is created by the news of 'artificial scarcity' and here is where regulators and government agencies have to step in.
No one can deny that prudential (and not strangulating) regulations and their effective enforcement strengthen market efficiency. Rather than wait for bubbles to develop, regulators and government agencies should prevent the bubbles by raising margin requirements to reduce leverage, raising interest rates to mop up excess liquidity, and with use of 'moral persuasion.' But, governments should also not be involved in housing, land sales, take over of banks, industries, and running commodity marketing boards etc for this role signals a scarcity which exacerbates moral hazard.
How can 'captured' governments implement sound policies? Only if the citizens and media are vigilant, and seek full transparency, while holding government agencies accountable all the time.


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The pre-Columbian Wari built the first South American empire, yet few people recognize their name.
They are not as well known as several of the other great pre-Columbian nation states. Yet what they did, they did without precedent.
On a before-the-Spanish timeline, the Wari are somewhere in the middle. They were after the Olmecs (1500-400 B.C.) and Maya (2000 B.C.-A.D. 250) of Mexico and before the Incas (early 1400-1532) of South America and the Aztecs (1300-1532) of Mexico and Central America.
"The Inca left an artistic heritage, and a great architectural monument, Machu Picchu," says Jennifer Casler Price, the Kimbell's curator of Asian and non-Western art. "But they also continued traditions of the Wari in their textiles, religion, ideas of warfare, keeping records and empire building. The Wari had no blueprints; they did this all on their own."
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The building of the Wari nation began in A.D. 500 along the western regions of Peru and eventually stretched from the high-altitude Andes to the Pacific Coast. It flourished for 400 years but was rubble by the time the Spanish arrived in 1532.
There was no Wari welcome for Francisco Pizarro, who destroyed the Inca. The great Wari civilization was already buried under the fallen walls of its cities.
Centuries later, archeologists found the architectural footprint of Wari strongholds and began excavations. They found a civilization that was rich in textile and ceramic arts, but also one that did not leave a written language. All that is known about the Wari people is what can be deciphered from their accomplished art objects — polychrome ceramics, complex textiles, mosaics and objects sculpted from wood and stone.
"Wari: Lords of the Ancient Andes" contains more than 140 of these artworks. The exhibit, only the second traveling exhibition of Wari artifacts and the first for North America, opens Sunday at the Kimbell Art Museum.
There is no way to decipher Wari history (unlike the Maya, who left a record) and since all of the Wari were dead by the time of the Spanish landing, there isn't even a secondhand account of their religious beliefs or civic structure.
All that can be gleaned must be interpreted from the architectural remains and artifacts, including where they were found and the images on them.
What has been ascertained is that the Wari partied hearty. Their nation-building was cemented on the reciprocity engendered by feasting. Huge vessels that held gallons of chicha (corn beer) were found buried in the city centers. Smaller vessels, or a home-version size, were used for the same purpose and were found in burial chambers. Some of these two-spout vessels are adorable. With feline faces or alpaca bodies, they are reminiscent of souvenir teapots that are sold at tourist destinations. The urns, used for public feasting, could hold as many as 53 gallons of chicha . But there is also a small vessel that holds only 6 cups, perhaps a single serving.
On the ceramic vessels are images of what is believed to be the Wari's chief deity: the staff deity, seen full frontal, and two winged attendants that are usually seen in profile with one knee bent. The threesome are known as the staff deity complex. A fourth personage, the sacrificer, is often used as well. (Yes, the Wari were known to throw a few humans in with their sacrificial offerings, but only for very special occasions, Price says.)
Broken ceramics seem to fill most of the pits. The staff deity complex figures have certain commonalities such as vertically divided eyes, elaborate headdresses and streamers emanating from their mouths, belts, chins and feet.
The staff deity only appears on ceramics; his sidekicks, the attendants and the sacrificer, are used frequently on the textiles. The tunic-type garments worn by the Wari elite were woven in two rectangular lengths, then sewn together with a hole left for the head and room for the arms on the sides. Folded in half, the tunics are about 40 inches square, plenty long enough to cover a 5-foot person from shoulder to knees and over the elbow.
The intricacies of the woven patterns and the quality of the fibers, a combination of camelid wools and cotton, are well beyond the European textile works from the same time period. The Wari textiles were obviously considered very important for the glorification of the wearer, as they were extremely time-intensive to make. All the fibers had to be spun, dyed and woven, and a basic Wari tunic would necessitate about 7 miles of yarn. One extremely complex design required 18 miles of yarn.
The Wari textiles are breathtaking. The geometric interpretations of the figures, which become almost indecipherable in the pattern, look amazingly modern. The quality of the weaving — both sides of the cloth can be the right side — and the intense colors are remarkable.
Even more astounding is the use of distortion. The center panel design is compressed as the panels move to the side of the garment. This manipulated distortion gives the illusion of dimension to an otherwise flat garment. The sides seem to recede and the front panel to advance. There doesn't seem to be any symbolic reason for this other than as an aesthetic contrivance, one that complicated the weaver's art tremendously.
There are some bits and bobs used as decorative accessories — flat plumes made of gold or silver on needles that could either pierce the cloth or be woven into hairdos, and elaborate silver ear plugs. There are personal items from burial tombs — snuff boxes, and two hand-held mirrors, one decorated with a mosaic of stone and shell and the other carved wood with an image of the sacrificer — but these are inconsequential to the glory on the vessels and textiles.
Research into the Wari has been irregular. In the past 200 years, there have been flurries of interest and archeological excavations followed by fallow periods. Without a text record, it is difficult to make much headway in learning about the Wari.
More pots and ponchos won't further the scholarship, but there are interested parties, and work continues, so one day there may be a breakthrough that helps translate their beliefs. When that time comes, the Wari could become as famous as the Incas and Maya.


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Ledyard schools wrestle with how to observe Veterans Day
Ledyard - After several students and parents spoke critically at Wednesday's Board of Education meeting of holding school on Veterans Day, Superintendent Mike Graner gave a presentation on activities planned for the day at all the district's schools.
The Board of Education decided this past spring to hold school Nov. 11, though the town historically hasn't. Graner said the board always invites comments on the upcoming year's calendar, but this year's went through with no controversy until several weeks ago.
Anthony Zinno, a seventh-grader at Ledyard Middle School, said he came before the board a few weeks ago to first complain of having school despite the holiday. He presented board members with a petition signed by more than 100 students asking that school be let out to honor veterans.
Eighth-grader Sarah Masten said she doesn't "really like missing school at all," but would rather spend the day with her father, a 28-year veteran.
Paul Whitman, a 23-year Navy veteran whose 6-year-old daughter attends Gales Ferry School, said he had requested an agenda for the day and was told by board members that it was simply a regular school day.
"I've been pretty upset about this," he said.
One other parent, Meredith Robinson, a retired Naval officer, said she was "initially taken aback" when she saw that there would be school on Veterans Day this year.
But she conceded that because of the many school staff and Board of Education members who have military backgrounds, it's "hard to infer any kind of nefarious intent" - particularly when there will be ceremonies in the schools.
"Veterans Day has real, live people involved," she said. "By allowing those people to come into the schools … I think that's more of a way of honoring them than giving them a day off."
Graner, who served in the Coast Guard, said he was aware of the concerns, and said that when the Board of Education voted to hold school Nov. 11, members began to work with school principals to plan programs for the day. Those will include the reading of essays and poems, performances of patriotic songs, student meetings with veterans, some of whom include school staff members, along with Ledyard High School military alumni, and wearing red, white and blue.
Graner also promised to report back to the school community on how the day's activities went.
"I think the children will get a good look at exactly what Veterans Day is," he said.
Board member Mimi Peck-Llewellyn, a 32-year Navy JAG veteran who said her husband served in Operation Desert Storm and her parents served in World War II, said the planned events are an appropriate way for students to spend Veterans Day.
"I wanted to ensure that those children in our community who do not come from a family of veterans have that same experience but for one day in Ledyard schools," she said. "I don't hesitate to say that I support having school on Veterans Day."
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Interesting interview with McGregor on the magazine OUT.
Ewan tells Out magazine why he thinks the film, a hit at the 2009 Sundance fest, has been delayed in release.
First, there's a lot of sex. A lot of gay sex. And part of the delay may have been due to Carrey's holiday movie, "A Christmas Carol."
"There was talk that Disney fended off the release until after 'A Christmas Carol' came out. They didn't want kids thinking [Carrey's] Ebenezer Scrooge was a bender," he tells Out.
Some have said it's not a gay movie. But McGregor disagrees. "It's about a gay couple, about a man's sexuality, and he comes out. It's not the point of the film, but let's not pretend it's not a gay film."
Gay or straight, it's the love story that fascinates McGregor. "I like playing someone who's falling in love because I like the sensation of it. People do extraordinary things when they're falling in love."
At the end of the article they write a new release date. Wondering if they have changed the date again again again:
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Long Campaign Enters Home Stretch
WSJ reporters discuss the issues that are at the forefront of the final two weeks of the campaign: what swing states are in play, the latest poll numbers, the importance of women voters and how the latest economic forecasts might influence the race.
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Kennedy and excesses that awesome race there were twenty states that were decided by five percentage points for us ... now we're down to mind maybe maybe six by the end of its Mike sexy and if you look at the Obama ... the midnight to weren't you get all six of them forty eight hours and that's it that they agreed to the county to Greenwich to the swings ... at moral essay I think you have ... there's Florida Ohio obviously Florida Colorado ... Virginia and Iowa ... and when the data ... and any may prevent the islands ... maybe in Wisconsin and it's in and they both think that that extra leans more towards Obama wears ... 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Pennsylvania a swing state that the making of play in Pennsylvania or by going oddly enough to Maine where there's one Congressional district made me they keep you awake this main chooses electoral ... votes not statewide the district by district right to different kinds of things I mean if they're going to mean to pick up a couple of electoral college votes there really expecting it ... to thousands kind of style like neck and neck down every last electoral college votes are good thing ... and in Pennsylvania Ohio expanding in App Pennsylvania is either a sign of strength or weakness I mean they they might feel like they're gonna go for it because they just don't think I'll ... get Ohio but ... presumably if they don't win Ohio they would win something either ... it's hard to see it working out the way ... there is a question what's the closing messages which were you're going or what are you saying I think the interesting dichotomy was that ... you would expect that expect the incumbent to be more positive ... view this morning in America again ... in the challenger to be kind of like bashing away it's the reverse and the more positive economic message sex offender from the economic mess ... I think this summer but in the foreign policy today so ... if you didn't know anything you would've thought Romney was income ... Paul Ryan speech in Cleveland ... and he was getting a pretty gloomy and dive into the American economy ... he sounded like some of the left wing think tanks here we have no upward mobility we have more people in poverty ... government as it isn't the solution ... and so that's what we have to adopt the Romney Ryan program so ... I do think that I'm ... Romney's China look presidential ... and Obama risks looking desperate by attacking Romney is much is the ... 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Denver this and and that they're mostly the ones who are still undecided ... well the other thing is that I'd I do think that Romney has to help its consistent advantage among men ... and Obama had this consistent advantage among women but it's the women who seem to have changed their mind after the first thing I was the most dramatic shift in how we'd most troubling one for Obama because ... know it the gender gap among women has been deceptive Iraq right interviews Steve Greenberg who was the pollster for Bill Clinton still a very prominent Democratic pollster said this week that ... that this subset of women voters the news to most of the first debate was unmarried women that that's where the ... erosion in Obama standing among women ... really came ... and it is ... specifically because they've been hard economically by the recession ... and so on social issues still tend to move women more than men ... there's an economic problem in the in the middle of the women selected a lot of it is under one ... roof ... who are more exposed economically and I think you can see that a lot of the Obama arguments while ... 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Joined: 09 Aug 2007
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Posted: Sun 09 Nov 2008, 08:29
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issues with wine running viruses
Subject description: might be a serious issue for Puppy users
ok, I didn't know exactly where to put this post but I think this is a very serious issue for Puppy users since Puppy has us running as root. I found this on the Ubuntu forum after google searching for information on viruses in wine.
on the older versions of wine it seemed that in order to run an .exe file you had to open the wine browser but in the newer versions of wine this is not the case, you can click on an .exe anywhere and it will open.
the issue compounds when you run as root because the virus theoretically has the ability to change anything it likes.
viruses don't run correctly in Linux but to some degree they will run.
my advice is if you are going to run wine run clam av as well and scan everything for windows.
the glaring thing about the article was just how the guys there avoided the obvious issue, that the most common way of getting a virus in wine is pirated software. most of us are kinda used to things being free and Linux users seem to be of the more adventurous ilk but I advise against this type of piracy not only because it is illegal but it seems that it is also possibly unsafe.
for legitimate wine users I can't imagine a way of running into this problem as you would have to be running a browser or mail client in wine for it to open something you didn't want it to, wouldn't you? the simple precaution of not opening something you shouldn't anyway may basically suffice to keep you safe.
could some of you who are more knowledgeable comment on this please.
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Posted: Sun 09 Nov 2008, 08:50
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What I understand from the referenced post is, that it only affects the wine install.
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Posted: Sun 09 Nov 2008, 10:48
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I thought it said it copied files as far as it had permission and only got so far because the guy was running as user rather than root. the one guy found 1300? virus files all over his system. this thing can spread files to any directory that is accessible as root which is every single one in Puppy. the one the guy tested only went as far as copying itself all over the place (which for certain systems could be disasterous, say a dual boot with Windows where it would find the directory structure it expects to find) the other kinds of viruses discussed were the key loggers and other such which could actually do what they were designed to do. the overall threat is possibly small compared to windows but it is still there and also one of the stress points they were making was that the damage was minimized due to the fact that access as root was denied, this however is not the case in puppy.
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Posted: Sun 09 Nov 2008, 12:20
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If you go unprotected at the net, you can expect illness.
I have a dual boot XP/Puppy.
I never had a virus in Puppy.
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Posted: Sun 09 Nov 2008, 13:50
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Hmm well for example wine usually has c:\ and z:\... z:\='\' in puppy to give wine access to the full file system (as root). Now viruses tend to target know windows folders/files eg to use IE to restansmit themselves so would not normally even bother with a z:\ drive as mentioned in the article only the .wine folder would be affected...but that doesn't actually feel very secure.
Another point is the usual way in for windows is IE and open ports like 135...neither normally apply to wine but there is available true IE for wine for testing purposes...the developers themselves say it is risky using it.
As a side note I have deliberatly tried dodgy sites and exe files in puppy and in windows with IE removed and apart from crashing firefox or using 100% cpu until killed no other damage was done....hence my feeling that a 'standard' windows setup is what is normally targetted.
One other point....I never have c:\ mounted in puppy when running wine....there is a known bug that programs run in wine from there (as root) can wipe the mbr and its's true.
I even had one program....a game emulator...wipe it without c:\ mounted.
Wine attempts to mimic windows..bugs and all...so always be cautious with it
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Posted: Fri 14 Nov 2008, 21:29
Post subject: viruses
Subject description: viruses
So what you guys are saying is that there is a problem, with the program Wine and its kind of like a virus that messes with the drives?
And if im right how harmful is it to us puppy users?
P.S. how come bill or other XP users gave us viruses?
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Posted: Fri 14 Nov 2008, 23:52
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the viruses don't really work in Linux but can sort of run in wine.
usually this is safeguarded by the typical linux install running in user and not root. Puppy runs as root which means that linux can't really protect itself.
again the viruses don't really work but what has happened was that the virus started copying itself and other new viruses as far and wide as it could.
if you run on a computer which has windows installed I am guessing that there is at least the chance it could screw things up a bit.
as far as linux is concerned it won't do much except fill up your hard drive with viruses that don't really work, at which time you have to go back through and find and delete them all, and maybe mess with your wine install.
my concern is the viruses that target hardware firmware, or fat tables, etc. could a virus run under wine in linux run as root succeed in attacking my firmware or boot tables and such on fat32 or ntfs drives? of course I understand that the typical virus doesn't really do anything in Linux but is it possible that the combination of wine and running in root leave us vulnerable especially with windows partitions?
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Posted: Sat 15 Nov 2008, 01:05
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there is VERY little chance that a virus running in wine could damage your HW since the HW access in linux is not the same as windows and wine does not implement hardly any of it
it mostly only implements sounds gui and directx apis
which only give access to functions exposed securely by Linux
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Posted: Sat 15 Nov 2008, 01:41
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To put things in proportion the 4 main vunerabilities in windows are IE integration activex, the zone system and open ports...wine does not suffer from these normally..linux is secure by default and the sort of software most use on wine would not infringe on this.
Just bear in mind that you are using a form of windows and are running as root...use reasonable caution and common sense.
P.S. how come bill or other XP users gave us viruses?
I have never been convinced by the competancy of microsoft's programmers...particularily the non business side (95/98/me)..most of the good stuff was written or plagarised from other companies. They created an OS that was wide open to attack and sold it to everybody...irresponsible if you ask me.
And instead of removing the cause they simply patch up the holes...('Are you sure you want to press that key Dave')
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Posted: Sat 15 Nov 2008, 21:19
Post subject: windows problems come with wine
Subject description: virus ms32dll.vbs
While connecting a selection of external hard drives and pens this virus which comes with an auto run file managed to spread itself onto every drive and partition. This was using wine with puppy dingo. Wine version 1. Puppy 4.0. I don't run wine since that experience!
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Posted: Sat 15 Nov 2008, 21:39
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this is exactly the concern I wanted to express, inexperienced Linux users such as myself need to be warned to be careful when using wine in Linux generally, and Puppy specifically. as a root user, wine can allow viruses to do bad things. just because it won't be as bad as it would be in windows, it doesn't mean bad things won't happen. I am currently running Xubuntu as the main OS on my computer but most of my junk is still on a large NTFS drive so it can be accessed by any OS. I fear that this NTFS drive is the weak point in my system as the directory structure is what the virus expects to find. at the very least I would suggest that anyone wanting to run wine should also have anti virus and scan anything with virus possibilities.
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Posted: Sat 15 Nov 2008, 22:04
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auto run file
windows no longer auto runs usb drives...perhaps the wine team need to check the latest security measures coming from redmond.
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Posted: Mon 05 Apr 2010, 07:32
Post subject: wine and viruses
Not involving wine but a friend saved a file onto his usb memory stick at an internet cafe and at the same time picked up a nasty autorun virus. Since I had set up his laptop with Puppy Linux he was not affected. However, problems started when he used his memory stick again to take a document to a friend to print it out. The virus was still there and tried to infect her machine when the usb stick was plugged in. I was asked to sort out the mess. She thought his machine was the source of the virus and was concerned that I was allowing him to pick up viruses using an unprotected linux system.....so perhaps a good idea to scan files to avoid infecting windows pcs by passing malware on.
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Posted: Mon 05 Apr 2010, 12:56
Post subject: Wine & Windoz Viruses -- Build a Chinese Firewall
Perhaps I'm being too naive. As I see it, the problem with viruses designed to run under Windows doesn't effect your Linux Operating System, and seldom Wine, but arises when you --having exposed a partition to viruses--boot into the Windows OS. There's an old Vaudeville Routine, Gallagher & Sheen if my memory serves me: One runs onto the stage, raises his arm above his head and says: "Dokta, Dokta, it hoitz ven I du dis!" The other replies, "Don't du dat!"
One of the advantages of Linux in general is that you don't have to use 50-odd Megs of RAM and considerable CPU to have Anti-malware always running.
Puppy does not automatically mount the drive/partition containing your Windows OS. Windows, unless you've installed the software, can't even read Linux partitions, SFSes, and (if you haven't done a Full install) the compressed Puppy OS files.
Step 1: Build a Chinese Firewall. (The term is used in the legal profession. In the US, when evidence is unlawfully obtained by one group of investigators, neither it nor any evidence obtained as a result of knowledge of it --"Fruit of the Poisonous Tree"--can be used in prosecution. However, evidence obtained by another group of investigators, acting without knowledge of the evidence obtained by the first group, can be used. The Chinese Firewall reflects the rule that the second group can't communicate with the first). Therefore, if necessary, defrag your Windows partition; then resize it to create a VFAT partition for shared data, and any shared portable apps that you'll run under Wine and Windows. Do not install software in Windows enabling it to read Linux partitions.
accessing anything on the shared partition via Windows, scan it using on-demand anti-malware. Bitdefender has a free edition which is reasonably well thought of. After scanning you can move data you won't need while running Linux.
Step 2. Murphy's Law. There's a great program called ERUNT. Free. While I run Kaspersky's and have never had a virus/trojan problem, ERUNT has saved me several times from software installations which caused conflicts or which I decided I didn't want but couldn't remove without jumping thru hoops. ERUNT takes a snapshot of your current Registry and essential files and compresses it. Takes about 1 minute. Unlike Window's Restore, it doesn't eat up 10% of your hard-drive. Later, you can run ERUNT's ERDNT.EXE to return your system to the condition when the snapshot was taken. Executables installed after the snapshot will no longer run. Then you can run ccleaner, Eusing Free Registry Cleaner, and anti-malware to get rid of junk. If necessary, ERDNT.EXE can be run from a Rescue LiveCD.
Step 3: Protecting your Wine Registry. Imitating the ERUNT approach, you can copy Wine's system.reg, user.reg and userdef.reg files and archive them. Move the archive to your .wine folder. If at any time you even suspect wine has been invaded by malware, you can delete your current "wine system files" and extract your archived "wine system files." Immediately Reboot.
Step 4. Protecting your SAVE file. One of the advantages of a Frugal install is that its system files are compressed. Even the SAVE file is compressed until decompressed at bootup. It would take a dedicated miscreant to figure out how to decompress any of those files, edit them, and re-compress them, especially without you knowing of such events. The weak link is the SAVE file as, during operation, it is decompressed and any changes made during operation are saved. With the evolution of SFSes, much of your software need not be included in your SAVE file. Even apps designed only as pets can be converted to SFSes. Therefore, your SAVE file can be considerably smaller than if it had to include all your added software. Once you've configured your settings and installed only necessary pets and created a SAVE file just big enough to contain them, you can boot LiveCD "Puppy pfix=ram", create a folder 2 levels below the root of a partition into which you copy your SAVE file. By default, Puppies won't even offer to load SAVE files more than one-level below the root of a partition. Such "protected SAVE file" will remain compressed during operation. In the event of a problem, you can again boot LiveCD "Puppy pfix=ram", delete your working SAVE file and copy the "protected SAVE file" to the "working" location. Creating a "protected SAVE file" has a benefit beyond the potential malware situation. It enables you to test installations of applications without fear of irretrievably bonking your system.
You'll notice that Steps 3 & 4, which will take about 5 minutes of your time, are prudent precautions even if you never run Windows and malware didn't exit. And Step 2 is a prudent precaution if you run XP. (ERUNT is not currently available for Vista/Windows7).
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Posted: Wed 07 Apr 2010, 22:40
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Anyway, i was about to install wine onto my puppy linux. I run it off a pendrive. I guess i wont install wine anymore, instead, look for alternative softwares for my puppy.
OT: Anyone know a good media player? I tryed out VLC but it still wont read the .srt subtitles...
Also, is it possible to run wine in secure mode? I mean run wine as a user, instead of as root?
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