text:
Coming up in the next {{countdown}} {{countdownlbl}}
Coming up next:
Skip to this video now
Now Playing:
Play Video
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
Beyonce's New Song a Hit With Fans at Paris Show
The singer performed "Grown Woman" which will be featured on her upcoming album.
Beyonce, Jay-Z Take Cuban Vacations: Investigation Launched
Did the superstar couple break the law by spending their fifth anniversary in Cuba?
Gay Marriage in Supreme Court: Justices Struggle With the Issue
The Supreme Court hears arguments for a second day on same sex marriage.
Now Playing: Beyonce's New Song a Hit With Fans at Paris Show
Now Playing: Beyonce, Jay-Z Take Cuban Vacations: Investigation Launched
Now Playing: Gay Marriage in Supreme Court: Justices Struggle With the Issue
Now Playing: Star-Studded Premiere for "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon"
Now Playing: Late Night Comics Slam Justin Bieber
Now Playing: Justin Timberlake, Jimmy Fallon Score Big on 'Saturday Night Live'
Now Playing: Seaworld Battles Accusations of Animal Mistreatment
Now Playing: A&E Receives Death Threats Over 'Duck Dynasty' Star's Suspension
Now Playing: Nigella Lawson's Personal Assistants Acquitted in Court
Now Playing: Beyonce's Surprise Holiday Shopping Trip to Walmart
Now Playing: Rob Ford Shows Off Dance Moves in Toronto City Hall
Now Playing: Glenn Close Uses Star Power to Urge Passing of Mental Health Bill
Now Playing: Binge Watching of Television is Becoming a New Norm
Now Playing: New Beatles Recordings to be Released on iTunes
Now Playing: Obama-Selfie Photog: Photo Furor 'Says Something About Our Society'
Now Playing: Time Magazine Recognizes Pope Francis' New 'Tone' of the Church
Now Playing: Christmas Lights Set to Ylvis' 'The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)'
Now Playing: First Lady's South Africa 'Frowning' Photos Spark Buzz
Now Playing: Hollywood Resident Charged With Felony Eavesdropping For Prank Calls
Now Playing: Amy Adams Juggles Two Men and Two Accents in 'American Hustle'
Now Playing: {{itm.title}}


text:
"Isn't that nice to hear?" asked project manager Scoot Flannery, as the sound of workers was replaced by kids anxious to try out Monticello's newest attraction.
It is appropriate that kids filled the new pool, as it was the collection of pennies by local students that helped the facility be built. The new $2.2 million facility was constructed by Tri-Hurst Construction but the fund raising was driven by a million penny drive. The penny drive caught the interest of funding agencies and the next thing you know, local kids are saying, "Thanks a million" for the new pool.
Lydia Chadwick, one of the 600 students who were involved in the penny drive, was the winner of a drawing and was the first to jump in the new pool. She was followed quickly by more than 100 local children who have waited anxiously for the new pool to open.
A previous swimming pool, which was built in a similar community-wide fundraising drive in 1959, was demolished over one year ago. See the San Juan Record website, at www.sjrnews.com, for more photos and history of swimming in Monticello.
After nearly a year of construction, more than 300 community members walked through the new facility at an open house on July 10. Door prizes were awarded and the drawing for the first swim was held.
It was a great day for the community and culminated a busy first month for Greg Westfall, the new recreation director for the City of Monticello. A crew of lifeguards have been preparing for the opening and had a busy start.
Flannery reports that there are a few finishing touches on the building and project, including signs, climbing wall, basketball and volleyball nets and landscaping.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
This tour has not yet been reviewed, but you can read what other travellers have to say about this operator.
This site uses cookies to improve your experience, to enhance site security and to show you personalised advertising. Click here to learn more or control your settings. By clicking on or navigating the site, you agree to our use of cookies.


text:
Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program
The Wisconsin Legislature created the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program in 1989 to preserve valuable natural areas and wildlife habitat, protect water quality and fisheries, and expand opportunities for outdoor recreation.
The conservation and recreation goals of the Stewardship Program are achieved through the acquisition of land and easements, development of recreational facilities, and restoration of wildlife habitat.
- Program components
- Policy and budget


text:
In the "Insight" segment of my series on the Five "I"s of History, I briefly introduced the idea of a new "Vectors" feature in the PHR blog. The basic theme I had in mind for this segment was that a proper study of history gives us "insight" into how the world around us came to be and the processes that govern how history is unfolding around us.
In that original post I also hinted that the first example of a "vector" that I would be discussing is what I call the "debt aggregation vector." This "vector," in my view, is a key mechanism governing how the ongoing global economic crisis is unfolding. Here is what it is and why it matters, using the obvious and instructive example of Spain–one of the global dominoes that is now falling before the US, and whose fate will be determined by the precise implementation of the debt aggregation mechanism…
Let's start with the official Spanish Debt-to-GDP. This is the number that news agencies usually talk about when discussing the solvency of national governments. As per this article, and countless others, it hovers somewhere around 75 to 80%.
Not bad–compared to the US anyways, which is now over 100%–or Italy, at 137%–or Greece, somewhere around 170%.
The problem with these figures is that they do not incorporate the reality that is debt aggregation.
Every country that has a debt problem–there are no major economies that don't!–has layers of private and public debt residing below those of its federal government, which–when push comes to shove–are being aggregated to the federal level by some mechanism or other.
In Spain, we see the reality of this with recent news about Catalonia demanding a bailout from the Spanish government.
As discussed on Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis (which Powell History recommends) –the federal response has been to propose to collectivize/aggregate regional debt into "hispanbonos," or joint bonds, to facilitate debt financing. This will allow local governments to continued to live beyond their means for some time, avoiding any more "austerity" (in the form of cutbacks in government spending) at a time when the Spanish economy is already in a depression, and where the spending of local governments provides jobs and nominal GDP that no one can accept dropping any further.
But the debt aggregation mechanism keeping the Spanish economy afloat does not just pertain to local governments being bolstered by national ones. There is another axis of debt aggregation. Recently Spain announced it would nationalize the third largest Spanish bank, Bankia. This will add 24 Billion dollars or more to its debt–who knows, the figure increases almost daily. In a refrain that is familiar to Americans, Bankia is considered "too big to fail," and Spain's socialization of its debt is characterized by government officials as an "investment."
Following not long after this bit of news, it became evident that not just Bankia, but rather the entire Spanish banking system was in need of a bailout. The latest of 19 EU emergency meetings on the European financial/debt crisis was focused precisely on the question of debt aggregation. Indeed the entire trajectory of the European Union over the next two-to-three years depends on the answer to the question: to aggregate, or not to aggregate.
That really is the question.
If Germany agrees to issue so-called "Eurobonds" and to supranationalize the banks in the European Union, then the market will be fooled into thinking a solution has been found, and there will be a sense of normalcy returning to the financial world for perhaps a couple years. What debt aggregation buys is time. It is what a lot of commentators call "kicking the can down the road."
Of course, if Germany does not agree, then it's financial Armageddon for Europe. Already, French journalist Pierre Jovanovic (sorry, it's in French!) has been feverishly documenting the aggressive measures being taken by French banks to prevent bank withdrawals in that country. The bank runs in Greece and Spain being well documented already, it will only take the slightest indication that the banks are on their own, for them all to face the kind of mayhem we all remember from the movie "It's a Wonderful Life." It's not just George Soros, who recently weighed in on Bloomberg, who thinks the Euro experiment is at the edge of a cliff.
The entire financial market is begging for debt aggregation. Spain's debt financing, which is the measure of the market's willingness to deal with Spain one-on-one, is becoming untenable. With yields on Spanish 10-year bonds reaching for 7%, Spain needs a bailout of its own. In the EU context national debt must be aggregated into supranational debt.
This is one of the favorite themes of new French president Hollande for propping up the Eurozone. In this theory, all European borrowers can benefit from lumping their debt together with Germany, as the core economic powerhouse whose debt financing capability is (relatively) solid. That way, profligate regions and nations can continue to pile on debt, while not having to pay the rates they otherwise would have to while bankrupting themselves.
Aggregation to this level in Europe is difficult, however, because the United States of Europe are not the federal equivalent of the United States of America. Germans don't want so-called "Eurobonds." Which is why different forms of more stealthy debt aggregation have been used already and will continue to be used. The EFSF ("European Financial Stability Facility") is supposedly morphing into the ESM ("European Stability Mechanism"), which will runs alongside the ELA ("Emergency Liquidity Assistance") and LTRO ("Long Term Refinancing Operation"), and other sundry mechanisms concocted by central banking philosopher kings that the general populace cannot possible keep track of. (Don't think it's just a European problem! How many Americans know the difference between QE1, QE Lite, QE2 and the Fed's "Operation Twist"?)
Regardless, at some point, even though you can fool most of the people most of the time, you can't fake reality. The games governments are playing with the debt they have accumulated and the debt they have encouraged others to accumulate which they are now socializing lead only to one place: default.
Right now this only seems to be a problem for Greece and Spain. But I invite every reader out there to go a little debt comparison shopping between the four largest economies in the world–Europe, the US, China and Japan. If you're American, and you're worried about America's debt, think about what debt aggregation will do to that debt, and how quickly the situation in America could get out of control. California just voted to aggregate its debt to the federal level, by means of a phantom monorail. And America's most cash-strapped cities are now proposing to pay your student loans for you! These and all the past and present debt-aggregation mechanisms that will pile more debt onto the federal government will eventually reach a dramatic end point.
Watch for it. You'll know when the next phase of the financial crisis is coming when debt-aggregation ceases to work.


text:
Every once in a while I will do a tutorial on something totally random, and out of the blue. Drawing food is a concept that has been gaining some kind of ground over the past couple of years. I haven't made anything based on food in a while so I thought that it would be fun to learn "how to draw a cherry", step by step. I know it seems odd to make a whole tutorial on one single cherry, but if you think about it it's not really that odd at all. Cherries probably one of the most expensive seeded fruits to buy during the summer months, and I wish I knew why. Out of all the times I have ever ate cherries there has only been a few times that they tasted sweet. Enjoying a good piece of fruit or food the way they are supposed to taste is probably the best thing about eating something refreshing like cherries. This tutorial will easily show you "how to draw a cherry", and when you are done you can use what you just learned and make something out of it. Thanks for joining me once again guys, and remember to enjoy the drawing day!
DragoArt members upload artwork and drawing tutorials! They are also allowed to leave comments on tutorials, profiles, etc. Many more features, as well; it's way better than just being a boring guest! Register Now!


text:
Is Robert Griffin III the real deal? What did you think of Sunday's performance? Post a comment in this story, comment on WTOP's Facebook Page or use #WTOPTalkback or #Skinsanity on Twitter.
George Wallace, wtop.com
NEW ORLEANS – Who had the Redskins scoring 40 points and totaling 464 yards of offense in the Superdome in the opener?
Not me.
It was quite an afternoon Sunday and a very efficient performance from Mike Shanahan's team. The Redskins were well-prepared and the Saints were out-coached.
Let's be honest, you couldn't script an opener any better for a rookie quarterback. Robert Griffin III threw for more than 300 yards and two touchdowns as the Redskins took down the Saints 40-32. His passer rating in the first half was perfect – the first rookie since the merger to achieve the standing. He came out of the gate firing, completing his first eight passes.
Griffin's first NFL touchdown was an 88-yard strike to Pierre Garcon, a play he saw from his backside after the Saints came with the blitz.
"Pierre was the primary receiver on that, so I had enough time to look back to him and throw it to him. Pierre ran across the middle, caught it, and did a good job finishing the play," Griffin said.
The team gave Griffin the ball from that touchdown, one of many I'm sure he hopes to accumulate.
If a rookie quarterback isn't enough for you, how about the emergence of Alfred Morris? The rookie running back hit the ground running, racking up 96 yards and two touchdowns. He was very impressive in the preseason and it was no surprise he earned a start on Sunday.
I thought the defense played very well against an offense that set records last year. Drew Brees showed flashes of why he is a great quarterback in this league, giving his team a chance all the way to the end. As we all know, nothing can ever be that easy. This one wasn't over until Reed Doughty's interception on the goal line as time expired.
When the clock hit 00:00, the burgundy and gold faithful in the building were singing "Hail to the Redskins" and chanting "RG3!"
The Redskins passed one test in a very tough place to play.
So, what can they do for an encore?
We will find out next week in St. Louis.
Follow George Wallace and WTOP Sports on Twitter.
(Copyright 2012 by WTOP. All Rights Reserved.)


text:
- Products
- Sales
- Support
- Resources
- About
- Contact
|Toll-Free: 1-877-496-2778
The Benefits of Getting Back to Service Basics are Often Overlooked
Experts have long agreed that a common trait in most successful business ventures is careful attention to customer service. In the health and fitness industry, it's interesting that attention to service basics that can spell bottom-line success is often undervalued or just plain overlooked.
Let's look at some of the basic customer service elements that will benefit your business.
Good service practices are part and parcel of a concrete business philosophy and solid business plan. If you don't have a vision or mission you need to get one. Standing firm on your principles is what will separate you from businesses that are in it for the money and don't care about service. Your business plan should include attention to customer service details.
We shouldn't have to be reminded, but good communication is key to the success of any business. You will find that consistent communications efforts in your marketing, newsletters, staff updates and regular staff meetings, will reap benefits for your organization. Everyone will be on the same page and your clients will appreciate it.
Whether it's customer service, cleanliness, phone etiquette, etc. consistency is key when working to attract and retain clients. On again, off again service is the first step to the demise of any well intentioned business.
Be conscious of your response time when serving your existing or potential clients. Whether it's an inquiry waiting for a mailer or a community organization waiting for your participation, being conscious of their time constraints will either garner respect or frustration. Whatever the need, if someone is counting on a response in a timely matter, be conscious of their expectations and exceed them at all costs!
Clients like to do business with intelligent people who ooze success. What's a bigger turn off than making a phone call or "dropping-in" to a club or studio in search of information and encountering someone who isn't informed and excited about the prospect of working with you?
It's important that you pay attention to convenience in all aspects of your business, from your location to the layout of your club, and availability of staff. From the get-go, a client does not want to have to go through all kinds of red tape to find you, get an answer about an immediate question or figure out your facility. Keeping things simple can make the difference between losing a client out of frustration or keeping a client because you are readily available when they need you!
The biggest reason people don't visit a health club is because they often find the staff intimidating. Make a real effort to understand your client's needs, goals and objectives. Break the stereotype and provide current and potential clients with staff that is passionate about client success. Often times a genuinely caring staff is led by a passionate business owner/manager. When potential clients walk through the door provide them with a comfortable environment and a service-oriented staff that makes them want to come back and work with you. KNOW YOUR CLIENTS by their name and make it mandatory that everyone in your facility does the same. Make sure that you handle each client as an individual because they are!
Do you keep abreast of all that is new in the health and fitness industry? Your clients will be the ultimate winners if you are because you will be implementing the latest methods in your gym and studio offerings. You will earn credibility if you become involved in industry associations, and you will find that you are energized by the peer contacts you make.
There is a huge population in dire need of health and fitness education. As professionals we need to re-double our efforts to serve this need by making our product user-friendly through basic customer service tenets. Bottom line, quality customer service paves the road for your clients' success and yours!
Nicki Anderson has owned and operated Reality Fitness, Inc. since 1993. She is the author of Reality Fitness, Inspiration for Your Health and Well-being (New World Library, March 2000). Nicki presents motivational seminars across the country. She is the founder of Nicki Anderson's Real Life Weight Loss, Inc. and the health and fitness columnist for the Daily Herald Newspaper in Chicago.


text:
Simplifying travel for Smart Travellers. At UNIGLOBE Travel, our goal is to ensure that you have access to everything you need for well-planned and cost effective trips.Enquire Online
Our local travel management experts understand your market and deliver friendly, responsive service.Start Exploring
Best available fares. Real time availability. Seamless booking experience. Now book your flight or hotel online, in a few simple keystrokes!Book Online
Today's travel programs have a number of moving parts and an argument can be made that the servicing of these parts is best left to industry experts. Savvy travel managers know a travel program is so much more than booking tickets, reserving hotel rooms and facilitating expenses. Today, the well managed travel program provides proactive account management, data-rich reporting, and technology-driven solutions.
Just as it makes sense for a trained professional to service my new sedan, protecting my investment, it makes sense for an experienced Travel Management Company (TMC) to manage your travel program, optimizing your travel spend.
Today's TMCs are partners with their clients, acting as program stewards to your executives and advocates with your suppliers. More than finding the cheapest fare – and a reputable TMC will always offer the lowest logical fare - a travel program offers technology, analytics, partnership, and a voice at the travel table.
Managing a travel program, like servicing the family vehicle, used to be less complicated. Everyone could do it! But just as vehicles have become sophisticated computers on wheels, requiring a very specific skill set to maintain them, so has the travel program evolved into a complex entity, with numerous moving parts and ever changing inputs.
A travel program touches numerous parts of an organization. The executive team looks for compliance to achieve program objectives; finance looks for savings and reporting; operations looks for efficiencies; the travellers look for service, support, technology, and ease of use and the entire company wants a partner they can trust.
You wouldn't give your brand new vehicle to just anyone to fix or maintain. Why wouldn't you treat a program responsible for your company's travel spend and the well-being of your travellers the same?


text:
Yummi Bears Calcium & Vitamin D
Complete Nutritional System
It`s not a surprise that kids resist most nutritious foods. Great News! Yummi Bears are the perfect solution because kids love the tasty fun and moms and dads appreciate the wholesome nutrition. Your friends at
Hero are committed to delivering the highest quality, all-natural vitamins and minerals that help your kids get the nutrition they need everyday.
Yummi Bears Omega 3-6-9 Fish Oil Free Formula
Gluten, Casein & Allergen Free. All Natural Fruit Flavors & Colors.
"These taste great. They have a better source of vitamins than other brands. They come in a large bottle and last a long time. My son loves them and it is a great way to start a child in the habit of taking good care of themselves and learning about vitamins. His friends ask their parents for them."
-Happy Life
"Great! My picky eater loves it."
"My children love these. I like the fact that they don`t have a bunch of junk in them."
"What can I say...vitamins in a yummy bear...who wouldn`t like them? I always buy two so that I can have a few."
"Wheat free vitamins with all the good stuff needed for growing kids. Plus they taste GREAT."
"My little girls LOVE these. They have no problem eating their vitamins in the morning when they know its yummy bears. A great way to sneak in some nutrients to those picky eaters. I buy these often!"
Q. Can I give this product to my child if he/she is under four years of age?
We do recommend your child be at least two years old, however all Yummi Bears products are safe for children of any age who can safely chew and swallow.
Q. How many Yummi Bears do I give my children if one is 45 pounds and the other is 75 pounds?
Both children require the same daily values and the serving size recommendations for this product should be followed. If you have any concerns, always consult your health care physician.
Q. Is this product safe to take for children with allergies?
All of our products are manufactured in an allergen free facility and contain no yeast, wheat, milk, eggs, soy, gluten, salt, peanuts, tree nuts, shellfish, artificial colors, artificial flavors, salicylates, or preservatives.
Q. Are your products lead free?
Yes! Our products are lead-free. We are a California-based company and our production is governed by California's Proposition 65 which significantly limits the amount of lead in any product, even naturally occurring lead which assures you that we produce our products under stringent guidelines.
Q. What is the source of lactic acid in this product?
The lactic acid in all of our products comes from sucrose.Multi-Vitamin & Mineral
Q. Your Yummi Bears Multi-Vitamin and Mineral has Vitamin C. Is it okay to take it with Wholefoods, Vitamin C, and/or Echinacea, which all contain vitamin c as well?
Yes, these products are designed to be taken together. Vitamin C is water soluble, so if the recommended dosage of each product is taken, your child will be within the normal range of Vitamin C intake.
Q. Can I give my child Yummi Bears Wholefoods and Yummi Bears Multi-Vitamin and Mineral at the same time?
Yes, your child can take both Yummi Bears Multi Vitamin and Mineral and Yummi Bears Wholefood together on a daily basis. However, to avoid surpassing the daily recommended value of Vitamin A, we do suggest giving your child only two of one variety and three of the other. A Majority of our customers switch off daily between the two varieties.
Q. What it the daily intake of Vitamin A?
The daily suggested intake of Vitamin A for children over four years of age is 5,000IU.
Q. Why is there Vitamin D in your calcium product?
We want to make sure your child is getting the most from Yummi Bears Calcium + Vitamin D. To do this, we add Vitamin D to this product because Vitamin D aids in calcium absorption.
Q. What form of Vitamin D do you use?
We use Vitamin D-3, which is the natural source of Vitamin D.
Q. What form of calcium do you use?
We use Calcium Citrate because it is known for being the most absorbent.
Copyright © 2018 Abaco Health. All rights reserved. 3818 Gordon Dr, Kelowna, BC V1W 3G8


text:
Achieving Olympic success sends a powerful message to aspiring young people; to dream big, to fully engage and to work hard to achieve one's dream. This is a model for sport and for life.
As ambassadors, athletes demonstrate that participation in sport contributes to good health, well-being, self-confidence and the ability to attain objectives.
International sporting events draw together people of different backgrounds strengthening our sense of community.


text:
johnprosser1955 on Family Tree Circles
view: full | list
Journals and Posts
I have been researching my family tree since 1991 after taking over from my Great Uncle James William Prosser. The Wharton's are on my mother's side.
I spent many years going round in circles until some of my mother's relations contacted us. They gave me some information that helped a lot. I then subscribed to Ancestry.com and things took off a little.
Then I hit a road block again on all sides of the family. So on 12th November 2006 I joined Genesreunited. Within two hours I had 3 contacts and from one I found my Great Great Great Grandfather Prosser's name- Thomas. I then hit another road block as he went to the USA sometime between 1831 and 1841 when his wife and my GG Grandfather appear on the 1841 Welsh census and then again in 1851 when she had remarried and appeared on both as a widow. After 4 hours I had 79 contacts the just the odd one until late November when I got another 96. What a site. OK many didn't match but quite a few did and have opened new avenues to research.
We have Weatherson's of Hartlepool & Southampton, Paterson's of Northumberland and Eyemouth and Wharton's of Eyemouth and Hull where I live.
It's an expensive business but I love it and the information is mind boggling. I have a GG Aunt who spent 64 years in an institution just for being born out of wedlock.
I have a GG Grandfather who was a Consul to the Columbian Government. Two relations - Tom Elliott & Nan who worked on penicillin with Alexander Fleming. Tom took a position as Nuclear Correspondent at a Technical School in Singapore. He was an adviser to Lee Kuan You, Prime Minister of Singapore until his death in 1985.
Another was a nun for many years and she was one of 17 children.
We do have a Lord Bell married Maria Small in the family although I've had trouble sorting this one out early 1900,s.
That's it for now.
Looking For Whartons
Looking for relatives of James Wharton born 1864 in Bishop Auckland and married Mary Ann Weatherston (various spellings Weathurston, Weatherson, Weatherstun, a lot of confusion).
- Displaying 1-2 of 2 Journals
- 1
- of1


text:
Top 3 Old School Looping Roller Coasters
Most enthusiasts top 10 lists are littered with modern thrill machines boasting the latest technological advances. Many don't even have a single roller coaster from the last millennium. There's nothing wrong with that, it's just important to recognize that there are some gems out there that don't hold any current world records.
This week I'm counting down the top 3 roller coasters that pre-date me. I'm also ashamed to admit that I skipped Space Mountain at Walt Disney World. I was too scared and was far from the roller coaster connoisseur that I am today. I was 8. Here's my list in order of old-schoolness:
3 – Loch Ness Monster @ Busch Gardens Europe (1978)
Busch Gardens Europe's Loch Ness Monster turned 30 this year. Even at its advanced age it still wows thousands every year. Using the Virginia park's natural terrain, Nessie features a steep 11-story drop to the Rhine River and the world's first (and currently only) set of interlocking loops. You really have to give Busch and Arrow credit. Back in '78 most looping coasters were mild loop and corkscrew coasters. Park goers were excited just to be turned upside down, so not much attention was payed to the layouts of these early steel loopers. Nessie also boasts an extra long downward helix in complete darkness. I gave it an 8 out 10. Read my full Loch Ness Monster review.
2 – Mind Bender @ Six Flags Over Georgia (1978)
Mind Bender is one of the acclaimed Anton Schwarzkopf's most popular creations. Like all of the Schwarzkopf loopers, Mind Bender uses a lapbar restraint system instead of the more common over the shoulder restraints. Its terrain layout features two vertical loops, an overbanked turn, a tunnel and a helix. It's a fun and still surprisingly forceful ride that still has trains returning to the station with happy riders.
3 – Demon @ Six Flags Great America (1976)
Demon completely caught me by surprise on my visit to Great America. It opened in 1976 as Turn of the Century. It was one of the first roller coasters to feature two corkscrews. Then in 1980, it was remodeled to include two more loops. Aside from the new, wildly popular vertical loops, the ride was re-themed with a new name, rock formations, tunnels, and a water fall of red blood.
The second tunnel had (at the time) a sophisticated lighting system.The lights are so disco-esque and 70's that it's not even funny. I'm so glad that Great America hasn't updated this ride. It was such a surprise and so much of a fun and fairly smooth ride that it nearly overshadowed the park's signature coaster, Raging Bull. Don't miss the equally corny and dated 'Demon' theme song that plays in the queue.
Check out my new favorite YouTube video. It's a commercial advertising the newly remodeled Demon at Great America for the 1980 season. Note that it was called Marriot's Great America, in the pre-Six Flags days.


text:
Vanessa will always have Karl
Johnny Depp finally confirmed last week that he and Vanessa Paradis are still together. Click here for a refresher. Most of you who've emailed don't seem entirely convinced that it was all fine to begin with. Something was afoot, sure. But they seem to have worked it out now...? Johnny, with all his various expressive necklaces and arty moods is probably a pain in the ass to live with.
Through it all though, whatever drama Johnny's throwing around at home as the third child in her life, through it all Vanessa has always had Karl; she remains loyal to him and he to her. Considering that it's a business, I'd say that's pretty personal.
Pascal Le Segretain/Getty


text:
Today is the Registration Check-Day for the Nashville Fall Open 2018
Today, November 14th, is the registration CHECK DAY for the Nashville Fall Open 2018.
Athletes and professors that have requested a change/correction must check the competitors list to verify that their requests were completed correctly.
Please note: This is not the day to request changes to your events registration. Changes to events registration are not made on this day.
Check day finishes at 5 pm – event's local time!
Please email email@example.com if you have any questions.


text:
English Teacher
Again a problem with "health" vocabulary. Do you use "to keep one's bed" as an equivalent of "to keep to bed"? Or is it just a misprint?
Can I say "I got down with quinsy and the doctor told me to keep my bed"?
If I were a native speaker of English, I would never shut up. :-)
If you saw this, then I would say it's a misprint- at least in BrE.
I had to look up "quinsy" as well. I would say Americans are not likely to say "keep to your bed" but would understand it to mean "stay in bed." The one without the possessive would feel wrong. (Keep it? Compared to what? Selling it on eBay?)
Last edited by Barb_D; 10-Dec-2012 at 18:58.
I'm not a teacher, but I write for a living. Please don't ask me about 2nd conditionals, but I'm a safe bet for what reads well in (American) English.
I only know what a quinsy is as I had one once! A throat infection that becomes so bad you cannot even swallow liquid and have to be hospitalised so that you can be hydrated on a drip.
It's also almost impossible to speak.
On my third day a grumpy old doctor was doing his morning rounds, accompanied by a crowd of junior doctors.
He stopped at my bed and asked if I was feeling better.
"Yes", I replied, "but no one can understand me."
"Someone stabbed you?" he cried, appalled. His crowd of followers all gasped and looked at me shocked. In the end I had to write down "No one can understand me" on a notepad and show them.
It was like a very silly comedy.


text:
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento State volleyball player Janelle Currey and men's tennis player Aliaksandr Malko were selected as the school's recipients of the Big Sky Conference Scholar-Athlete Award for the 2012-13 academic year.
The scholar-athlete award is given to one male and one female student-athlete from each of the Big Sky's 11 institutions. To qualify for the award, a student-athlete must compete in a Big Sky sanctioned sport, have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.2, be a member of the graduating class and/or have completed their last year of intercollegiate athletic eligibility, have completed at least two years of intercollegiate competition at the institution, and be a letterwinner.
Malko, who is on pace to graduate in the fall with a business degree, has been named to the Dean's Honor List in five of his six semesters at Sacramento State after transferring from South Carolina State. The Minsk, Belarus, native is a two-time all-Big Sky selection and three-time Big Sky all-academic choice. A finalist for this year's Sacramento State Male Senior Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award, Malko has helped lead the men's tennis team to Big Sky Tournament championships and NCAA Tournament appearances all three years of his career with the squad.
The lone senior on this year's team, Malko went 14-8 as the squad's No. 2 singles player and was the recipient of second team all-conference honors for his efforts. He finished the season on a five-match singles winning streak, which included winning both his matches in the Big Sky Tournament in straight sets. In addition, Malko posted a team-high 19-5 record at No. 1 doubles, including a 9-1 mark against Big Sky competition.
Today's award for Currey adds to her already long list of accolades which includes being named the Sacramento State Female Senior Scholar-Athlete of the Year. She was also the recipient of the Female Hornet Award, given to the student-athlete that best exemplifies the spirit of a Hornet with their sportsmanship, community service and the intangibles that make them a great teammate. A mathematics major, the Rocklin, Calif., native graduated Summa Cum Laude with a 4.0 grade point average last month, and is a member of the Pi Mu Epsilon honorary national mathematics society.
A three-time team captain, Currey started every match of her volleyball career, a span of 126 straight starts, the second longest streak in program history. An eight-time all-tournament selection and four-time Big Sky all-academic choice, Currey became the fourth player in school history to record 1,000 career kills and 1,000 career digs prior to her senior season. Among Sacramento State Div. I era (1991-pres.) career leaders, she ranks fourth in digs (1,662) and attacks (5,029), seventh in kills (1,418), tied for eighth in aces (127), ninth in points (1,657.5) and 10th in digs per set (3.35).
August 12, 2013 MEN'S TENNIS EARNS ITA ACADEMIC TEAM AND INDIVIDUAL ACCOLADES
July 3, 2013 HORNETS EARN 29 SPRING BIG SKY All-ACADEMIC HONORS
April 7, 2013 MEN'S TENNIS CONCLUDES ROAD TRIP WITH 4-3 LOSS AT IDAHO
April 2, 2013 RAM NAMED BIG SKY MEN'S TENNIS PLAYER OF THE WEEK
April 1, 2013 MEN'S TENNIS WINS FIFTH STRAIGHT, DEFEATS MONTANA, 6-1
March 30, 2013 MEN'S TENNIS PICKS UP A PAIR OF CONFERENCE WINS
March 24, 2013 MEN'S TENNIS POSTS 4-3 COMEBACK WIN AT LOYOLA MARYMOUNT
March 23, 2013 MEN'S TENNIS WINS AT UC RIVERSIDE, 6-1
March 17, 2013 MEN'S TENNIS SPLITS A PAIR OF CONFERENCE MATCHES ON THE ROAD
March 12, 2013 MARKSOO NAMED BIG SKY TENNIS PLAYER OF THE WEEK....AGAIN
March 12, 2013 MEN'S TENNIS CRUSHES PREVIOUSLY UNBEATEN MONTANA STATE
March 7, 2013 MEN'S TENNIS BATTLES #24 CAL, BUT FALLS IN THE END, 5-2
March 1, 2013 MEN'S TENNIS FALLS TO PACIFIC, 5-2
February 26, 2013 MARKSOO EARNS FOURTH CAREER BIG SKY TENNIS PLAYER OF THE WEEK AWARD
February 23, 2013 MEN'S TENNIS ERASES 3-1 DEFICIT TO DEFEAT UC DAVIS
February 16, 2013 MEN'S TENNIS FALLS AT NATIONALLY RANKED SANTA CLARA, 5-2
February 10, 2013 CLOSE MATCH GOES AGAINST MEN'S TENNIS AT USF
January 22, 2013 MARKSOO OPENS TENNIS SEASON WITH BIG SKY PLAYER OF THE WEEK HONORS
January 20, 2013 MEN'S TENNIS FALLS IN CLOSE CONTEST AT HAWAI'I
January 15, 2013 MEN'S TENNIS FALLS AT #10 STANFORD IN SEASON OPENER
July 19, 2012 MARKSOO AND MALKO EARN ITA SCHOLAR-ATHLETE ACCOLADES


text:
Looking to buy a beautiful new condominium in downtown Portland? You have come to the right place. Brad Golik can assist you with the purchase of a new Edge Loft or other fine Pearl District and Downtown condos or lofts.
Our ultimate goal is to make sure that we find your dream condo or loft! We will listen to what your needs are and try to match you to the perfect home. Pearl District, South Waterfront or Downtown. The urban lifestyle is yours for the taking.


text:
प्रभाव शेयर करें
यह प्रभाव क्षवी में उच्च रिज़ॉल्यूशन उत्पन्न कर सकता है
यह प्रभाव एक मुद्रण योग्य दस्तावेज़ उत्पन्न कर सकता है
Celebrating any special occasion with a bang normally involves opening up a bottle of bubbly. No party, birthday or a New Year celebration can take place without a special bottle of Champagne. Whether you're a keen enthusiast or simply a social drinker a quality Champagne is always welcome for any occasion. There are many brands of Champagne available for sale, but what if you were able to create your own brand? With this effect you can create your own branded Champagne bottle with your own logo, name, colours and markings. You can also print the branding on paper and apply it to any Champagne bottle to customise it as you wish. Impress your friends and family with your custom Champagne bottle for your next big celebration.


text:
Every fashionista should own at least one pair of red soled heels and these classic plarform peep-toe pumps are a perfect wardrobe staple. Day or night, accentuate your figure by wearing them with bare legs, or add sleek leggings for instant chic. The pair of Christian Louboutin peep toe pumps will attract your attention. Believe in me, the Christian Louboutin Hyper Prive 120mm Glitter Peep Toe Platform Pumps Gold will bring unexpected feeling, comfortable and cheap sale in our online store. Built with a slightly thicker platform than her gold standard sister, our "Hyper Prive," is the updated version of beloved "Very Prive." She's comfortable, sophisticated, and feminine. What more can a girl ask for? What more can a girl ask for? Order cheap red bottoms shoes online now to make you fashion and comfortable, we offer lowest price and free shipping worldwide!!
Product description:
Color : Gold
Material : Glitter
Heel Height : 4.7 inches approx. - 120mm approx.
Arch Size : 4 inches approx. - 100mm approx.
Platform Height : 0.8 inches approx. - 20mm approx
Signature red soles
Package : Brand new in box with dust bags & original box
Christian Louboutin heels make women crazy, everyone wants to get a pair for themselves. A variety of discount Christian Louboutin shoes for you to choose, such as Christian Louboutin Almeria 120mm Leather Espadrille Wedge Sandals Tan.


text:
Events Calendar
Tell us about your event in Onehunga and we'll add it to this page! Email details to firstname.lastname@example.com or phone 636 8535.
Come and enjoy a free family day out to celebrate summer in Onehunga!
We have a fantastic entertainment line-up including our local Jazam Zumba group, Onehunga Primary School Hapa Kaka group, sweet sounds from Alessandra de Castro, the energetic Potters House Church performers, Cook Island entertainers Anuanua Dance Troupe and not to be missed, White Chapel Jak who bring a fresh and funky approach to songs we all know and love!
Our MC for the day is King Homeboy who will also wow the audience with his beat boxing sounds.
There's plenty of FREE activities for kids including Little Bo Peep's Mobile Farm, pony rides, a climbing wall, bouncy castles, jump slide, cannonball blaster, on-water activities, face painting, balloon twisting and much more!
There'll be a host of community, craft and food stalls to enjoy.Plus, the very popular 'Onehunga Bites' food village is returning to the Festival with a whole new range of local Onehunga food vendors.
Bike parking with an on-site bike mechanic will be available so leave the car at home and cycle to the Festival.
This event is proudly sponsored by Maungakiekie-Tamaki Local Board, Onehunga Business Association, Panuku Developments Auckland, Dress Smart, Denise Lee National MP for Maungkiekie and Suzanne Thomas of Ray White Epsom.
This event would not be possible without support from Onehunga Community Patrol, The 312 Hub, Onehunga Community News and Kiwanis.


text:
Remove ads with our VIP Service
Academy Award® Winner
Sigourney Weaver reprises her role as Ripley as she confronts what happened on the alien planet, and then is persuaded to return with a group of space marines to investigate the disappearance of a... View more >
Starring Sigourney Weaver, Bill Paxton, Carrie Henn... View more >
Genre - Horror
Directed by James Cameron
Opened in Theaters - Friday, July 18th, 1986
This is a rare example of a sequel eclipsing the original.
Save Time by Creating an Account
You can specify the theaters you attend and have your custom settings used each time you visit this site. Register Now Log in
New Movies - Box Office - Favorite Movies - All Movies
Coming Soon - Search
Home - About Us - Ad Info - Feedback
Journal/Blog - The Marquee - Movie Links - News and Events - Now Showing - Reader Reviews
Customize - VIP Service
Journal/Blog - The Marquee - Movie Links - News and Events - Now Showing - Reader Reviews
Customize - VIP Service
|The BigScreen Cinema Guide is a service of SVJ Designs LLC. All graphics, layout, and structure of this service (unless otherwise specified) are Copyright © 1995-2020, SVJ Designs. The BigScreen Cinema Guide is a trademark of SVJ Designs. All rights reserved.
'ACADEMY AWARDS®' and 'OSCAR®' are the registered trademarks and service marks of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.


text:
World of Wonder
Product Code: WK1000
- Drama
- Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
- 3m., 4w., 6 to 12 either gender.
- 45 min.
Min. Royalty Rate: $50/perf
In StockLearn More
Product Code: WK1000
Min. Royalty Rate: $50/perf
In StockLearn More
Product Code: OA8000
Product Code: LK8000
Product Code: PM2000
Product Code: WG6000
Product Code: WG7000
Product Code: CP4000
On a field trip to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Dee, José and Annie accidentally knock George Washington out of his portrait and into real life, turning their White House tour into an unexpected adventure. As they try to get the nation's first president back into his painting, they encounter Jacqueline Kennedy; Abraham Lincoln and his wife, Mary Todd; Dolley Madison; and other famous White House residents. Together, they learn that the White House isn't just a historic building—it's also a home.Learn More
Product Code: E81000
Product Code: E80000
Product Code: CN8000


text:
Valerie Anders
Clip: Season 31 Episode 3 | 1m 13s
Valerie Hoard married William Anders in 1955. In 1968, Bill Anders was one of three astronauts aboard the Apollo 8.
Aired: 04/18/19
Buy Now:
Problems Playing Video?
Corporate sponsorship for American Experience is provided by Liberty Mutual Insurance and Consumer Cellular. Major funding by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.


text:
A Ranch Out Westerly | Westerly Ranch House
Season 41 Episode 1 | 23m 43s
The new season kicks off with a ranch house in Westerly, RI. Inside, Tom and Kevin tour the house and admire the knotty pine paneling. Kevin and the homeowners take a look at the architect renderings. Norm pays a visit to California Ranch style homes. Richard tours the structurally sound basement with Jeff. Jenn and Roger walk property to consider landscape options. Salvage and demo begin.
Aired: 10/03/19
Expires: 09/28/20Video has closed captioning.
Problems Playing Video?
Build It | Reclaimed Coffee Table
Tom Silva and host Kevin O'Connor create a popular type of coffee table out of reclaimed o
A Safe Septic System for Nearby Waterways
Richard Trethewey walks us through a system that was designed for a home built near a pond
How to Perform a Whole-House Energy Audit
TOH host Kevin O'Connor and a specialist perform a whole-house energy audit.
Westerly Ranch House
TOH heads to a century-old New England cottage in Jamestown, RI.
Episode Links
Funding for THIS OLD HOUSE is provided by The Home Depot, GMC, State Farm, Gorilla Glue and Marvin Windows and Doors.


text:
Advisen hosts conferences worldwide for the global P&C insurance industry. Demonstrate your thought leadership, make important connections, and promote your brand at our conferences! We consistently deliver an audience that is comprised of 20% Risk Managers & Insurance Buyers, Brokers (20%), Insurance Carriers (36%), Lawyers (6%), Service Providers (9%) and other insurance professionals (9%).
Chad Hemenway
Feb 12, 2020
Chad Hemenway
Feb 12, 2020
Erin Ayers
Sep 9, 2019


text:
Computer security technology is still in its infancy. Technologies such as firewalls, antivirus, and IDS have migrated from research labs into production networks, and have become required mainstays both as essential defenses and as legally mandated compliance systems. Computer security systems are complex devices that need to meet a variety of conflicting goals: high performance, fault tolerance, easy administration – and rigorous security processing. Some vendors have staked their claim based on speed, others on cost, and still others on the defensive posture and security of their products. Unfortunately, it's extremely difficult for the customer to sort through marketing fluff and dubious benchmarks, to determine which products actually work and which merely appear to work. Few customers are sufficiently sophisticated or willing to take the time to do their own testing and most are forced to rely on published results from trade magazines, recommendations from consultants, or industry analysts. Sadly, few of the trade magazines or analysts have the sophistication or time to perform adequate testing, either.
The author's experience indicates that large numbers of products on the market have excellent and attractive user interfaces, good performance, reasonable costs, rave reviews from loyal fans – and have taken shortcuts in their design that make them significantly less secure than other alternatives. This is not a recent development; it dates back to the early days of the firewall "market." In this article, we examine the evolution of packet filtering firewalls and their current incarnation as "Deep Inspection" firewalls. We compare the fundamental design philosophies of packet filtering firewalls with proxy gateways, and will conclude with a few historical observations regarding the relative effectiveness of conservative design philosophies when compared to their less-rigorous counterparts.
The first firewalls were based on either a proxy design or a simple packet filtering ruleset. The proxy firewall operates by interposing itself in the middle of the application protocol and interpreting it while applying security controls to the application commands and data, where appropriate. The original value proposition of a proxy firewall is that the proxy is essentially a security-oriented reference implementation of the application protocol – in some cases omitting dangerous operations entirely, or providing additional controls on certain security-critical commands. Proxies have always been considered a conservative security design because the proxy reduces the likelihood of protocol backdoors or side-effects since the proxy's designer is effectively performing a security assessment of the application protocol's features prior to implementing them. Early packet filter firewalls implemented a simple policy-table lookup based on { source-ip, destination-ip, source-port, destination-port, SYN-seen yes/no } permit or deny. Consequently, packet filters were extremely fast since they did very little computation. They were also extremely easy to implement since they required virtually no security expertise. The simple compute requirements of packet filters, and the fact that they required no security knowledge-base, made them easy to implement in silicon so they quickly became a feature of most routers. From the beginning, proxy firewalls were recognized as being more secure, because they effectively are implementing a correctness check upon the application protocols they gateway. This is still an important property of proxy firewalls. For example, when the author first implemented the FTP proxy in the DEC SEAL firewall, he simply left out unused FTP protocol commands that allowed users to issue remote commands to the FTP server. Years later, when hackers discovered those commands and attempted to exploit them, they simply did not work against proxy-protected networks because the proxy refused to gateway the command through to the target. Sites behind packet filtering firewalls were vulnerable, if the reachable systems behind the firewall were themselves vulnerable.
In 1993, "stateful" firewalls appeared on the market. The first popular stateful firewall, Checkpoint's Firewall-1, implemented a simple connection-origin table that tracked whether a connection had originated behind the firewall and permitted response packets for that connection. A layer-7 hook to parse FTP PORT commands and update the state table allowed FTP to work transparently through the firewall. Subsequent versions of the stateful firewall added TCP sequence number interpretation, and DNS query/response matching to ensure that return packets were only allowed in response to queries that had originated from the inside. It is important to note that stateful firewalls added these features to overcome vulnerabilities in their design – attacks such as TCP RST flood attacks and DNS cache poisoning. Proxy firewalls never had these kinds of vulnerabilities. Stateful firewalls have continued to evolve; often in response to new types of hacking techniques as they have been discovered. Proxy firewalls have evolved, as well, but mostly in response to ever-higher requirements for performance and transparency.
Intrusion detection technologies (IDS) have enjoyed a spectacular rise and fall. Since Dorothy Denning first proposed the concept in 1986, there were relatively few products until 1997, when a number of vendors began offering commercial network monitoring IDS. The IDS market grew rapidly through 2002, when Gartner researchers announced "IDS is the 'pet rock' of computer security" and recommended their customers focus instead on the up-and-coming new technology termed "Intrusion Prevention" (IPS). According to Gartner analyst Richard Stiennon, IDS was a failure for two reasons. First off, IDS generated too many "false positives" – alerts in which the IDS mistook legitimate traffic for an attack. Secondly, IDS didn't actually do anything but generate an alert when the attack was seen. Stiennon rightly pointed out that, if you can correctly detect an attack, it would be nice to prevent it. By the end of 2003, virtually every IDS vendor was re-branding their product as an IPS, by adding in-line blocking modes to their sensors. Initially, virtually no customers used the in-line blocking modes of their IPS, because they were afraid of traffic interruptions.
Some of the first IPS on the market were not effective security devices: they used simple signature-matching techniques and "knew" how to recognize and block only a few dozen worms and popular attacks. They did not sell particularly well until the massive worm outbreaks of 2004: corporations were desperate to contain worms in their networks, and worms are sufficiently easy to recognize that the IPS did a decent job blocking worm traffic on the network. IPS began to sell. The feature-similarity between IPS, IDS, and firewalls as well as single-purpose spam and anti-virus gateways, has triggered a move to consolidate these technologies into a single platform. A number of vendors have embarked on a course of technology acquisition, with the intent of embedding IPS/IDS/Firewall/AV/VPN termination capabilities into switching platforms. These combined systems offer an attractive feature-set, high performance, and a good price point when compared to having to integrate a series of separate products. The strengths and weaknesses of such systems will depend on the quality of the underlying detection and firewall engines and its IDS knowledge-base.
According to David Flynn, NetScreen's Vice President of Marketing, a survey of 1000 network managers indicated their biggest security concern was "depth of protection" against worms, trojans, email viruses, and exploits against software vulnerabilities. Flynn is quoted as noting that these types of attacks "can traverse a traditional stateful firewall even if the firewall is deployed and working as it should be." Both NetScreen and CheckPoint have bolstered their stateful firewalls by adding application-oriented checking logic into their processing modules – essentially merging IDS signatures into the firewall traffic-processing engines of their products. What is "Deep Inspection"(DI) anyhow? According to NetScreen, DI firewalls "use an Attack Object Database to store protocol anomalies and attack patterns (sometimes referred to as signatures), grouping them by protocol and security level (severity)" Packet processing is typically described as "performing application level checks as well as stateful inspection." In other words, a "Deep Inspection" is just a catchy marketing term for a stateful packet inspection firewall with some IDS signatures and some application protocol anomaly detection rules. It is important to understand that a "Deep Inspection" firewall is going to provide all of the protections of a stateful firewall, as well as whatever signatures are loaded into it.
In the case of a NetScreen (circa 2003) the firewall "is designed to provide application layer protection for the most prevalent internet-facing protocols, such as HTTP, SMTP, IMAP, POP, FTP, and DNS." It is ironic to remember that one of the early complaints about proxy firewalls was that they only supported a small set of application protocols – what good is a DI firewall that only does DI on 6 of the "most prevalent" internet-facing protocols? That may be "deep" inspection but it's certainly not very broad. When the NetScreen product was initially released, it included signatures to detect "over 250 application attacks." As far as an IDS signature set, this does not compare favorably to an IDS such as the open-source Snort, which at that time had signatures to detect over 3,000 attacks. Much like the early versions of the Snort IDS, NetScreen's DI engine uses regular expression pattern matching to specify its signatures – a technique that most serious IDS product designers stopped using years ago because it is too simplistic to represent complex network/application states effectively. Regular expressions, however, are easily processed in silicon, using off-the-shelf regex engines that provide hardware speedups for matching, so it makes sense for a switch-based DI firewall to rely upon them.
Designers of DI firewalls will probably not be able to provide sophisticated IDS engines in their products because of the performance overhead necessary to execute complex signature analysis and state tracking. The history of the IDS market shows that IDS has always been a performance-sensitive proposition – which is why most line speed IDS appliances are using multiprocessor main boards to keep up with the load. The author suspects that, unlike IDS, the DI firewalls will only be looking for a small subset of the attacks that are known at any given time, due to performance concerns. Even the "only look for a few attacks" strategy will eventually fail; Gartner reported that last year that 70 new vulnerabilities were identified per week, or over 3,500 per year. If even 10% of those are vulnerabilities that replicate across network data, the firewalls are going to very quickly have to handle very large signature-sets. Hardware acceleration will help somewhat, but typical hardware implementations in the fast-path of a switch are going to have built-in limitations on how many signatures they can effectively load at one time. DI firewalls will eventually have to deal with all of the complexity issues that caused Gartner to declare commercial IDS a "dead end."
Protocol anomaly detection is an IDS technique in which rules are written that track the states of an application protocol and look for deviations from a proper state. A simple example of a protocol anomaly detection rule for FTP might be "if the user name given during the login process is longer than 45 characters, alert that as suspicious." It is possible to very tightly track the process of a protocol, at a cost of increased computing and memory use. For example, the NFR IDS protocol anomaly detector for SMTP tracked the entire SMTP command series from start to finish and would generate alerts if the client issued a "MSG From:" command before a "RCPT To:" command, or issued a "HELP" command, etc. Such tight protocol tracking is extremely powerful, because normal applications always send a message using the exact same sequence of steps but human hackers sometimes get the order wrong or attempt to trigger errors by issuing commands deliberately out of sequence. Protocol anomaly detection is a very powerful technique that is used to great effect in all commercial IDS and most DI firewalls. For detection accuracy, protocol anomaly detection pales in comparison to the processing that is performed during the normal functioning of a proxy firewall. This is because the proxy, as part of its normal operation executes the protocol. Instead of having to follow along and try to figure out what the application protocol is doing, the proxy is the application protocol: protocol anomalies represent error conditions that the proxy detects. When the author implemented the first proxy firewall, the FTP proxy logged an error and shut down if, at any time, it received commands that were out of sequence or were incorrectly formatted.
Another topic of debate in the IDS and DI firewall community is the question of "detecting the exploit" or "detecting the vulnerability." When "detecting the exploit" the signature-writer develops a signature that will identify the particular attack tool. For example, the TESO mass-rooter for FTP daemons uses a specific set of buffer overruns against a variety of FTP servers. Coding to detect TESO, the signature-writer would write a minimal signature to identify the first steps of a TESO probe and generate an alert. To "detect the vulnerability" the signature writer would research the entire set of vulnerabilities that particular FTP servers might have, and then would develop a signature set that detected any one of them being exploited. Detecting the vulnerability takes considerably more research since it involves a larger number of signatures to develop. For the proxy firewall developer, this is a complete non-issue. If a new vulnerability is identified in an application, the proxy-writer assesses whether the attack vector is "legal" in the protocol, and, if it is not, the proxy wouldn't have let it through in the first place. In the case where the attack vector is encompassed in the protocol, the proxy can be updated with a protocol-specific signature at the exact point of the protocol processing where it's appropriate. In the long run, this approach is much more efficient and takes less work – both in terms of effort to keep the security knowledge-base up to date, but also in terms of processing speed. The proxy only needs to execute protocol-specific checks at the exact part of the protocol where they are needed, whereas a regular-expression based signature engine must compare each expression against each input as it arrives.
Fundamentally, the tension between proxy firewalls and stateful filter + signature firewalls is a reflection of the deepest philosophic division that in security. It is a division that goes back to what we used to call "stance" back in the early days of firewalls:
The default deny stance is the default policy that virtually every credible firewall product executes unless told otherwise. In security, however, there are many places where we do not follow the rule of default deny. For example, antivirus products implement a "default permit" – "if you don't know it's a virus, then it's OK to run it." IPS implement default permit – "if it doesn't look like an attack, permit it." Fundamentally, default permit is not good security. A proxy firewall implements default deny. Unless the application that is talking to the proxy complies exactly with the protocol as executed by the proxy, the traffic is not going to go through. It's not perfect, of course, since there might be an attack that is valid within the protocol, but is still damaging. That is why most proxies also add additional application specific signatures.
For example, the TIS Firewall Toolkit's HTTP proxy not only mediated the entire HTTP transaction it performed URL sanitization and did not permit unusual characters in URLs. Several of the authors' friends who still use components of the firewall toolkit were highly amused when a piece of software that was coded in 1992 successfully defeated worms in 2002 – 10 years before the worms had been written. Similarly, the DEC SEAL's FTP proxy from 1990 defeated FTP bounce scans when the hacker community discovered them in 1995. Peter Tippett, the author of Norton Antivirus and founder of ICSA/TruSecure once famously commented "The current philosophy of antivirus is to know the 50,000 bad things that can happen to you. It's much more sensible to enumerate the 50 things that you want to allow to happen, but the industry just isn't ready to think that way, yet." Perhaps that is true in the antivirus arena, but the proxy firewall's approach has always been:
Rather than:
Security products that adopt the default permit philosophy will always be fundamentally at risk from new attacks. A signature-based DI firewall can only block attacks that are known by its signature set. When a new worm breaks out that takes advantage of a never-before-seen attack, the signature-based DI firewall will let it through. Once the signature set is updated, the firewall will be able to block the attack, however, the time between the release of the attack and the development of the signature might be a matter of hours or even days. While that window of vulnerability is open, the customer will have no alternative but to either patch host software or disable that service.
The history of computer security shows that many customers do not want to take the time to fully understand what they are buying. In the mid 1990's the author was selling proxy firewall products that had a superlative history of resisting attack; yet the market leading products were simplistic "stateful" packet filters that were sold based on the fact that they were faster, cheaper, and more forgiving. Put differently: they didn't perform as rigorous checks, so they could be fast. They were easier to code, so they were cheaper. They were more forgiving, because they were more permissive. There is ample anecdotal evidence that default deny security survives better in the long term than default permit. There is ample anecdotal evidence that default deny security is less susceptible to nasty surprises, and requires less patching. Systems that are based on the model "recognize a vulnerability and block it" inherently require "upgrade to fix the vulnerability of the week."
Customers need to understand their objectives and requirements, so they can best select technology that facilitates their mission. There are situations and circumstances where less-rigorous security systems can get the job done safely. The author believes, however, that few vendors take the time to explain the design tradeoffs inherent in their products to their prospective customers. With security being such a hot topic, it's hard for a customer to make sense of a plethora of products, all of which are asserted to be "secure." Analogies are dangerous, but choosing a security product is similar in many ways to buying a car: the customer needs to have a good idea of what kind of on-road properties are needed. Does it need to be economical and corner well, or does it need to be able to tow a 6 horse trailer safely? Or, perhaps it needs treads and 3" thick armor. What is frustrating to the author is that in the computer security space, there are some vendors asserting that what they offer is a general-purpose high fuel-efficiency sports-car main battle tank. Can you believe that?
The speaker break room, Interop (Mandalay Bay Hotel) and McCarran Airport Gate 33, Las Vegas, May 6, 2005
Table 1: Pros and Cons of ASIC-based platforms V. General Purpose mainboard
Packet Processing speed
Advantage: ASIC Platform
Notes: Generally ASIC-based systems take advantage of off-the-shelf silicon for "fast-path" packet processing. Fast-path processing represents "best case" throughput; real throughput is often dramatically slower when running application logic (such as security processing beyond simple packet-filtering and state table updates)
Matching performance
Advantage: ASIC Platform, up to a point
Notes: off-the-shelf regular expression processing silicon is available and offers dramatic performance speed-ups for simple pattern matching. With most such hardware implementations the pattern-matching engine provides acceleration for a limited number of expressions in parallel; once this number is exceeded performance drops to un-accelerated levels because the higher-level controls need to "swap" in and out pattern-match sets. When this occurs it is usually no longer possible for the matching engine to run in the "fast path" so not only does matching performance suffer, packet processing performance can be degraded as well.
Recommendation: Always evaluate such products using a ruleset that is slightly larger than the expected set of real-world signatures. A realistic test of an ASIC-based packet searcher should include ~3000 rules – approximately ½ the rules in the current Snort IDS signature set. Be extremely wary of performance figures in which the ruleset size may have been adjusted to fit within an optimal silicon space for the processor.
Signature set size
Advantage: General-purpose mainboard
Notes: Devices based on general-purpose mainboards are generally more tolerant of larger rulesets since they can be expanded with additional RAM as necessary. General-purpose operating systems usually include virtual memory management algorithms and paging kernels, which allow virtual extremely large datasets and rulesets to be resident without performance impact.
Signature update
Advantage: General-purpose mainboard
Notes: Devices based on general-purpose mainboards usually can take advantages of the presence of hard disk interfaces or removable media and are not space-constrained when storing administrative configuration data.
Search Space size
Advantage: General-purpose mainboard
Notes: ASIC-based systems generally are designed without a hard-disk-backed virtual memory architecture, and consequently are unable to do long-term storage of information relevant to detection signature logic. This sometimes reveals itself in the form of hard capacity limits in ASIC-based devices that are not present in general purpose O/S-based systems. Such capacity limits might present themselves as hard limits on number of simultaneous sessions that can be tracked, maximum number of out-of-sequence packets that will be correctly re-sequenced, etc.
Advantage: General-purpose mainboard
Notes: Most security products based on a general-purpose mainboard take advantage of the presence of a hard disk to store log data, event records, and security alert information. Persistent hard disk storage prevents loss of event/alert information if a network is partitioned temporarily.
Software Update
Advantage: General-purpose mainboard
Notes: General purpose operating systems usually include a notion of software component architectures, allowing easy update of program logic, installation of patches, and operating system updates.
Hardware Update
Advantage: General-purpose mainboard
Notes: The upgrade path for most ASIC-based systems consists of "buy a new one" while general-purpose mainboard based systems can be component-upgraded with additional RAM, hard disk, or a faster processor. Because ASIC-based systems can seldom be component-upgraded customers may encounter a "hard limit" in which one component of the system reaches capacity and the entire system must be replaced. I.e.: "the signature that broke the camel's back."
Summary observations: ASIC-based solutions are appealing to the customer for whom raw speed is a paramount consideration. Generally, where there is a choice between "doing things fast" and "doing things securely" the design decision of ASIC-based products is to "do things fast." This, necessarily, affects the system's quality from a security standpoint. The author's experience is that custom hardware-based security products tend to look more like "a switch with a bit of security bolted on" rather than "a security product that is really fast."
Table 2: Pros and Cons of Signature Security Processing V Proxy Security
Signature count
Advantage: Signature-based system
Notes: Unlike signature-based systems, proxies do not derive their security through enumeration of attacks or vulnerabilities. Many proxy firewalls support signature/expert rule detection in addition to the proxy's correctness check. Signature counts are, in other words, not applicable to a proxy firewall. However, many customers attempt to make the comparison.
Protecting Against Unknown Attacks
Advantage: Proxy
Notes: Signature-based systems utterly fail to prevent unknown attacks. They may prevent new versions of previously known attacks, or new attacks that happen to trigger an existing signature. Signature-based IDS may detect protocol anomalies, but signature-based firewalls (AKA "deep inspection" firewalls) do not automatically block all the things they prevent; they generally only block things they can be relatively certain represent hostile traffic.
Observation: It is important for customers to understand the difference between "signatures the signature-based firewall detected" and "signatures the firewall was confident enough to block traffic based upon." For example, when the Intruvert IPS first came out, it shipped with only 50 signatures (!) of which none were configured to block traffic. The product's designers were so concerned that false positives would cause the system to automatically shut down legitimate traffic that they only eventually enabled automatic blocking on fewer than 1 dozen high profile and easy-to-detect threats.
Advantage: neither
Notes: As signature-based systems begin to load up on signatures their performance can rapidly degrade. Proxies do not have signature loading properties, so it's difficult to make a comparision.
Recommendation: Customers should perform carefully constructed head-to-head comparisons based on real loads and realistic, useful signature set-loads.
Service Support
Advantage: neither
Notes: One of the historical complaints against proxy firewalls is that they do not support as wide a set of services as a packet screening "stateful" firewall. With the addition of signatures to stateful firewalls, the stateful firewalls do not have signatures that perform meaningful security on any but a handful of protocols (e.g.: HTTP, FTP, DNS) The same complaint that used to be levelled against proxy firewalls now applies to "Deep Inspection" firewalls.
Summary observations: Proxy firewall technologies have proven time and again to be more secure than "stateful" firewalls and will prove to be more secure than "deep inspection" firewalls. The main comparison point between stateful firewalls and proxy firewalls has typically been on performance, which is an orthogonal property to security. High-performance proxy firewalls are available, and some are capable of easily handling gigabit-level traffic. Customers need to be realistic about whether performance is really an issue in the expected deployment, and should be prepared to do operational testing. The author has seen many customers cheerfully settle for inferior security because of "performance concerns" that did not actually apply.


text:
King Pacific Lodge (British Columbia, Canada)
The floating lodge is not uncommon in British Columbia, whose western coast is fringed with thousands of densely forested islands and more than 16,000 miles of shoreline. For decades fishermen have followed salmon runs from floating shacks on rafts, and loggers still access remote swaths of woods from their barge-top mobile homes. But King Pacific is the grandest floating lodge of all.
Vancouver-based Creekside Architects helped design the 17-room, 20,000-square-foot lodge – which was constructed in 1999 from native pine, fir, cedar, and stone – to feel airy and open, with soaring atriums and oversize windows. In the lodge's Great Room, red cedar walls – accented by massive pine columns and fir beams – and floor-to-ceiling windows frame views of KPL's utterly wild setting: a placid harbor surrounded by endless waves of spruce, cedar, and fir forest.
Cast to salmon on unnamed streams, sign up for heli-hiking forays into the Great Bear, or sea kayak pristine shorelines. If it's September, join a guided trek to look for the rare white kermode (or "spirit") bear. Every May a tugboat pulls the navy barge on which KPL stands to the tangled shores of Princess Royal Island, where it remains tethered for the summer. The uninhabited, 568,000-acre island lies smack in the heart of the recently protected Great Bear Rainforest, the largest intact tract of temperate rain forest on the planet. Miles from the nearest town, KPL ferries in all guests on a floatplane.
More information: From $4,800 for three nights, including flights from Vancouver, meals, and activities; May through September [kingpacificlodge.com].
For access to exclusive gear videos, celebrity interviews, and more, subscribe on YouTube!Back to top


text:
There are no items in your Shopping Basket
Enter your email address to receive news, offers and promotions from Snappy Snaps by email. You can opt out whenever you like – for more details please click here to see our Privacy Policy.
Please review our latest Terms and Conditions and our Privacy Policy. By continuing to use the site you accept the use of cookies and agree to both our Terms and our Privacy Policy


text: AMD has just released some preliminary information regarding the company's upcoming Radeon HD 8000M series of mobile GPUs. Based on the naming convention alone, it may obvious that the Radeon HD 8000M series is AMD's second generation of products featuring the GCN (Graphics Core Next) architecture, which debuted in the Radeon HD 7000 series. Like its predecessors, the Radeon HD 8000M series targets gamers with full DirectX 11.1 support and improved gaming performance over the previous-gen, but the architecture also lends itself to GPU compute applications as well. The Radeon HD 8500M sports 384 Stream Processors with an Engine Clock up to 650MHz. Memory clocks will vary based on the use of GDDR3 or GDDR5 memory. The Radeon HD 8600M is essentially the same, but with a slightly higher Engine Clock up to 775MHz. The Radeon HD 8700M is also based on the same GPU, but will be clocked at up to 850MHz, for a further increase in performance over the 8600M. The Radeon HD 8800M series, however, is based on a larger, more powerful chip and will sport 640 Stream Processors with an engine clock of up to 700MHz. GDDR5 memory will be used exclusively with 8800M, at speeds up to 1125MHz. It will be interesting to see how these new GPUs stack up versus NVIDIA's latest GeForce 600M series of mobile chips


text:
27 results
Trusted by over 1,000,000 women! Recognized for its positive results, Keranique offers its clients a full range of effective solutions that actively tackle hair loss and thinning.
The Keranique collection contains a unique set of ingredients that supply the scalp with the nourishment that is required to produce thicker hair follicles, allowing the hair to appear much more lustrous and voluminous. Unlike most other hair loss products, Keranique is specifically formulated to encourage female hair rejuvenation and provides its users with instant and long-term results. Mentioned in numerous blogs, newspapers and magazines, Keranique has earnt its rightful place as one of the best hair regrowth systems for women in the US. Shop now to fight back against hair loss!
Keranique's extensive range consists of a full line of hair care products, including shampoos, conditioners, treatments and styling products. With regular use of Keranique products, you should see fuller, stronger and more beautiful hair within just 2 weeks!
Shampoo and Conditioner
The sulfate-free Keranique Scalp Stimulating Shampoo is designed specifically for thinning hair and will provide your hair with a gentle, yet deep clean. Formulated with Keratin and Pathenol, this shampoo will leave your hair feeling fresh whilst also clearing away any signs of impurities from the follicles of your hair. This cleansing product will also improve your hair's texture, allowing your hair to appear much more smooth and glossy!
For optimum results, follow through with the Keranique Volumizing Keratin Conditioner. This product consists of a cream-gel formula that will protect your hair with a keratin coating, therefore strengthening any thin or fragile hair and providing anti-breakage protection.
Growth Treatment
Keranique's Hair Regrowth Treatment contains 2% Minoxidil, the only FDA-approved ingredient that is clinically proven to assist female hair regrowth that is available to buy without a prescription. If used regularly, this product is guaranteed to make your hair look and feel dramatically thicker!


text:
PBS NewsHour full episode Aug. 2, 2017
08/02/2017 | 54m 11s
Wednesday on the NewsHour, President Trump announces new efforts to overhaul legal immigration and vastly reduce the number of people allowed into the U.S. Also: A breakthrough in gene editing, the tug of war between Congress and the White House, attempts to stop superbugs, an Interior Department official speaks out and right-wing activists confronting refugees in the Mediterranean Sea.
Aired: 08/02/17Video has closed captioning.
Problems Playing Video?
Major corporate funding for the PBS NewsHour is provided by BNSF, Consumer Cellular, Leidos, Babbel, and Raymond James. Funding for the PBS NewsHour Weekend is provided by Mutual of America. For a complete list of funders for the PBS NewsHour and PBS NewsHour weekend, click here.


text:
Search for a local Grotto (caving club)
What's a Grotto?
The NSS is made up of individual members. In many parts of the country, these members have formed local grottos or
chapters and regional organizations. These groups sponsor trips, offer training, teach and practice cave conservation,
and generally provide a framework for studying caves. Most grottos will welcome new members who are interested in caves
and committed to cave conservation.
Select your State or Possession
This information is only for personal, non-commercial use. Any other use is prohibited.
© Copyright The National Speleological Society 1995-2018. All rights reserved.


text:
Check out the "Beautify Your City" campaign; doesn't Lebanon provide the perfect setting for such an initiative?
Given the amount of trash on our streets, it is time for someone to step up and clean it all up; or maybe it is simply time for some companies to get creative.
You can find more details on this campaign here:


text:
Education Avenues @ DPMB
Friday Seminar July 28, 2017 by Dr. Adwaita Prasad Parida
Mediators of DNA methylation mediated gene regulation
Adwaita Prasad Parida
In higher eukaryotes, two major epigenetic pathways play important roles in the regulation of gene expression by modifying chromatin, namely DNA methylation and histone modifications. DNA methyltransferases convert cytosine to 5-methylcytosine. There is a direct relation between DNA methylation and chromatin remodeling. The DNA methyltransferases directly or indirectly involve in chromatin modification. They interact with proteins/enzymes that involve in modifications of histones. Again, there are some proteins which bind to methylated cytosine (MBDs, VIMs, SP1, Kasio, ZBTB4 and ZBTB38). These proteins interact with methylated DNA as well as histone-modifying enzymes and regulate gene expression through chromatin modification. The interplay between methyltransferases, methylated DNA binding proteins and chromatin modifying enzymes determine the fate chromatin state and gene regulation.


text:
The textbook Physics was published by John Wiley & Sons Incorporated in 2012. Written by John D Cutnell and Kenneth W Johnson, this is the ninth edition and you can buy Physics online today at vastly discounted prices. Cheap Physics copies are easier to get hold of than ever, thanks to our buyback service and policy of making previously owned copies available in our marketplace. You can save amazing amounts on Physics at cheap prices, far lower than you'd pay for the cover price. Don't pay more elsewhere - buy Physics online here and now and enjoy the savings when you do. John D. Cutnell is the author of 'Physics, 9th Edition', published 2012 under ISBN 9780470879528 and ISBN 0470879521.[read more]
{{post.questionOneAnswer|unescape}} {{post.questionTwoAnswer|unescape}}[read more]
You can find lots of answers to common customer questions in our FAQs
View a detailed breakdown of our shipping prices
Learn about our return policy
Still need help? Feel free to contact us
View college textbooks by subject
and top textbooks for college
With our dedicated customer support team, 30-day no-questions-asked return policy, and our price match guarantee, you can rest easy knowing that we're doing everything we can to save you time, money, and stress.


text:
Established in 1926, Campo Sheet Metal Works is one of Houston's premier custom metal fabrication facilities. CSMW specializes in custom metal fabrication, water jet cutting, press brake forming, plate rolling and plate cutting with the highest quality. Offering these key services and many others has allowed CSMW to serve various clients in industrial and manufacturing based markets such as oil and gas, architectural, petrochemical and material handling.
Today CSMW is still a family owned and operated company. CSMW strives to keep our family values of honesty, integrity and respect a vital part of the daily client interaction. Over eight decades of satisfied clients can attest to the successful track record of providing quality fabricated products in a timely fashion. Please allow us to assist with your next fabrication project.
For more information regarding our capabilities or to request a quote please contact us by phone at 832-325-6300 or via email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
For our physical, remittance, and shipping address, please visit our Location and Hours page.


text:
Hey guys,
I want to purchase Decibel, but didn't see a post about this. I'm playing Flac, Wav, and Aiff files on my Mac but many songs are at a different volume. Is there a feature in Decibel that allows you to adjust playback so that it's more even?
Same volume on playback for all songs
Discuss Decibel, a high quality audio player.
Post Reply
1 post • Page 1 of 1
Post Reply
1 post • Page 1 of 1


text:
Dianne M. Lynch, Dean
Virginia Mansfield-Richardson, Associate Dean
Diane Gayeski, Professor and Faculty Associate Dean
For full faculty listing see "Faculty and Administration."
Faculty and Administration
The Park School offers the following degree programs:
• Cinema and Photography
• Communication Management and Design
• Integrated Marketing Communications
• Television-Radio
• Film, Photography, and Visual Arts
• Journalism
• Communications; see the Ithaca College graduate catalog.
Graduate Catalog
Each undergraduate program involves students in all aspects of communication, including the history, structure, and function of communication organizations; the technical, creative, and aesthetic elements of media production; and the evaluation, criticism, and analysis of media and communication systems.
Creative expression and experimentation are strongly encouraged, and students are invited to participate in the school's various student-operated media opportunities, including radio stations WICB-FM and 106-VIC; television cable access channel ICTV; the professional production unit, Park Productions; the campus newspaper, the Ithacan; the College's end-of-year publication, the Year in Review; the online magazines iMPrint and In.Sight; and the alternative magazine of satire and opinion, Buzzsaw Haircut. Students may also join the Park Student Advisory Council, the Public Relations Student Society of America, the Society of Professional Journalists, the National Broadcasting Society (NBS), Alpha Delta Sigma (American Advertising Federation), and other student organizations.
In the Roy H. Park School of Communications we continue to build on our tradition of blending and balancing liberal arts and professional, theoretical, and practical studies. We explore, create, and practice communication in its many forms, educating agile, adaptable thinkers, ethical professionals, and lifelong learners.
The Park School does not charge laboratory fees. However, the convergent nature of the communications discipline requires that all students have consistent access to a basic set of multimedia tools. All entering students are required to acquire a laptop computer for use in their classroom and production work. Specifications about the required make and model will be provided to students upon admission to the Park School. Students enrolled in certain courses may also be required to supply their own equipment and/or materials, including computer data storage media. In the cinema and photography program, students are expected to furnish their own light meters and cameras for all still photography courses. In addition, students must purchase materials such as photographic film and paper, motion picture film, and mounting board. Because of the large number of production courses, B.F.A. majors incur additional costs for materials.


text:
6151 State Hwy 12 Norwich, NY 13815
Is this your listing? Update it now! | TestimonialsVisit Website
Arby's is a leading global quick-service restaurant company operating and franchising over 3,400 restaurants worldwide. Arby's was the first nationally franchised, coast-to-coast sandwich chain and has been serving fresh, craveable meals since it opened its doors in 1964. The Arby's brand strives to inspire smiles through delicious experiences. We are on a never-ending quest for the perfect sandwich, starting with the Classic Roast Beef and French Dip to the deli-style Market Fresh line of sandwiches and salads.
If approved, your testimonial will be displayed momentarily.
Click to hide