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T was a rough spring in Bordeaux. Parker had left town after a ten-day stay, during which he had tasted the wines made just a few months before, in the fall of 1999. The early sale of such very young wines, two years before they can be bottled (let alone consumed), is considered to be a prerogative of Bordeaux's top chateaux, most of which now try to sell their entire production this way. These wines are known as "futures." They provide the chateaux with obvious financial advantages, and with the valuable appearance of enjoying a frantic demand for their wines. They provide consumers with the pleasure of playing an insider's role, and with early access to wines that in theory will become more expensive when they mature. The process is extraordinarily complicated. It kicks off each spring with a wild scramble that lasts for several weeks, during which the chateaux sell the fall's vintage in allocations to the traditional traders in Bordeaux -- the négociants, who enjoy exclusive purchasing rights and have maintained a lock on the business for a few hundred years. Each chateau negotiates its own prices -- but as much in jealous relation to the prices that its neighbors are getting as in anticipation of the market. This is more rational than it might seem, because prices help to determine prestige, and prestige is always relative. Each spring, when it's time to start over again, no one wants to go first. One of the smart new winemakers told me that Bordeaux is like barbichette, a schoolyard game in which children hold one another by the chin to see who laughs first. The child who loses gets a slap in the face.
Parker makes it worse. When he is in Bordeaux, he keeps mostly to himself, and though the city studies his every gesture during the tastings, hoping for some indication of his thoughts, he keeps his face neutral and his notes private, and he goes home to Monkton without expressing his opinions. The business then plays barbichette for several weeks while waiting for The Wine Advocate's regular Bordeaux edition to appear, in late April. Last spring, after Parker left, the wait was said to be more intense than ever before. All of Bordeaux knew that 1999 had been at best an average year, and that the market was already flooded with overpriced and mediocre 1997s and the uneven and still more expensive 1998s. Retailers worldwide were rebelling against an allocation system that, rather than being a privilege, felt like a feeding tube shoved down their throats.
Back in Bordeaux the production levels were very high. Chateau Margaux alone was making 440,000 bottles a year -- of what was supposed to be expensive stuff. At a similar chateau in the Médoc, a place called Léoville-Barton, the owner told me he sometimes wistfully considers that if he could just get each person in Bordeaux to drink one bottle of his wine every year, he could sell out his entire stock right there. But of course that would include children, practicing Muslims, and a sizable population on welfare. Short of such reveries, some chateau owners hoped that an economic bridge could be maintained to what was likely to be the sought-after vintage of 2000.
It was obvious to everyone that deep and wide price reductions would soon be needed. It was also obvious that Parker would agree, and that in the coming issue of The Wine Advocate he would advise his readers to stay away from 1999 futures in general. Still ... again ... barbichette. Who would reduce his prices first? Who would give that tactical advantage to his neighbors, allowing them to set their prices higher than his -- if only just slightly? Moreover, who among Bordeaux's natural leaders would ignore the certainty that Parker would celebrate some of the wines and score them, perhaps, merely one point beyond 89 and into the magic 90s? For those wines the prestige would be all the greater in a year of general decline. So Bordeaux waited.
One afternoon I went to a professional tasting at Chateau Pavie, a revitalized winery near the hilltop village of St.-Emilion, where several hundred buyers from around the world were milling about in an elegant vaulted hall, sampling a selection of about forty 1999s, which were being presented by a Bordeaux trade association, the Union des Grands Crus. The buyers kept to themselves in groups of two or three, and wandered among the offerings, spinning and sloshing the wines, tasting them, and leaning forward to spit them into centrally placed porcelain funnels. The funnels drained into buckets encased in wooden barrels. The buckets were carried off by young men slipping quietly through the crowd.
A lot of thought had gone into that setting. The lighting was cool but not cold. The art was bright and modern. The floors were a lovely tile, a shade of desert tan. A few steps away, wide doors opened into a still-larger vaulted hall -- Pavie's lavish temperature-controlled production room, which was three stories high and had double walls and a viewing platform overlooking lines of dramatically lit oak barrels: a fortune in new wine. But the buyers seemed hardened to any such efforts, whether in architecture or in wine. They were not aesthetes. They were not dilettantes. They were professional skeptics, people who made their living by being unimpressed. Now, like everyone else, they were stuck having to wait for Parker in order to come to terms on prices. They jotted disgruntled little notes about the tastings. But mostly they were just biding time.
Our host was the president of the Union des Grands Crus, a vocal Parker supporter named Alain Raynaud, who at his property in nearby Libourne was making some of the best wines in Bordeaux. Raynaud was aware of his guests' frustration, and he blamed the négociants, the traders in Bordeaux. He said, "If Parker has too much influence, it's the fault of the traders. They have the chance right now, while their clients are here, to decide for themselves what they think of these wines. If they want to, they can make the deals. But whether because they are cowards or lack the will, instead they will wait. I find it completely surprising, and I know that Parker does too."
I said, "But Parker is not just some critic. The traders have to take into account that he makes the market."
Raynaud said, "Last year I brought my 1998 right here, to show it to Bordeaux. I was very proud of it. And I said, "Voilŕ! I propose this wine at one hundred francs a bottle, before tax. Everybody said -- everybody! -- 'This is very great wine that you've made! But you've raised your price too much, and we won't buy it.'
"And I said, 'Okay, very good, we'll just wait until Bob Parker gives it a score.'
"Parker scored it ninety-three to ninety-five. That very day I could easily have asked two hundred francs for it, and it would have been snapped up. I didn't do that. I sold it at a hundred and twenty-five francs. But the last I heard is that in the dealing between the traders just here in Bordeaux it's now going for three hundred francs a bottle."
Raynaud was not simply gloating. His point was that the traders had profited more by waiting for Parker than they would have by fulfilling their traditional role, negotiating prices and investing in wines on the basis of their own independent judgments. In other words, Raynaud believed that the traders were shirking their duties. He was probably right, but he was also being unfair. What he left unsaid is that because of Parker -- this one man with so much power -- the terrain has become much less certain for the Bordeaux traders. The critical decisions are made not about the ordinary wines but about the very best, especially those that when tasted young might qualify for a Parker score in the 90s. Yes, there is money to be made by exploiting the advantage that traders have of being first in line and simply following Parker's lead. But there is also money to be lost by moving out in front of Parker. If a trader decides that a wine is very good and agrees with the chateau on a moderately high price for it, he runs the significant risk that Parker might score the wine at 89 as opposed to 90 or 91 -- and that in a generally skittish market the price for it will tumble. That is one of the ironies of Parker's role. He regrets the skittishness of the market. He opposes speculation of any kind. But inevitably he fuels it.
ARKER says that he never intended any of this. When he went home from his first trip to France, he got together with a few college friends and began drinking wines for fun. He read some British wine books, which he found interesting on historical topics but strangely impractical on the subject of taste. What did it mean when a wine had a hint of Russian leather? Worse, what did it mean when a wine elicited metaphors? "This wine is a beautiful lady in the last years of her life, wearing a bit too much makeup, perhaps, who can no longer hide all the wrinkles she has...." What Parker wanted to know about a wine was whether to buy it or not.
He took a class from Gordon Prange, the author of At Dawn We Slept, who taught him the discipline of writing short, clear sentences. He kept tasting wines. When he was twenty-two he married Pat and went back to Europe with her for the summer. After finishing college, he started law school, still at the University of Maryland. The young couple moved into a cheap basement apartment that they kept at a constant 55°, just perfect for wine. Parker was becoming more serious about his hobby. Pat was willing to go along with it because she was young, but she sometimes quarreled with Parker about the money he was spending on wine. She had a job teaching French in a public school. Parker told me he was known as the phantom of law school, because he liked to stay up late watching Dick Cavett and then needed to sleep through the morning. But one class started with a roll call, so he usually managed to show up for it. The class was about conflict of interest -- a hot topic in the early 1970s -- and was taught by the Watergate counsel Sam Dash. Parker thought it was fascinating, and he began to think of wine in these new terms, to wonder why so many famous wines were watery and bland but were written about as if they were not. As a budding consumerist, he began to feel indignant. He felt he had been ambushed too often.
Parker passed the bar in 1973 and dutifully took a job in Baltimore, which soon confirmed his suspicion that legal work would bore him. As often as possible he escaped with Pat to Europe. They concentrated on France, where she could serve as his translator and charm the chateaux into letting them inside to talk and taste wine. Parker was very serious, and he took notes; Pat enjoyed looking after him. With a hobby as expensive as wine, they did not have much money to spare. They traveled light, and in the evenings ate cheaply. They managed Europe on ten dollars a day. It was a simple time for them. They look back on it now with nostalgia.
By 1978 Parker was ready to put his experience to use. He typed up the first issue of The Wine Advocate, including on the front page a consumerist manifesto. He bought a few mailing lists from wine retailers and sent out 6,500 free copies. Six hundred people subscribed -- a disappointment for Parker at the time, but by direct-mail standards a success. In the second issue (the first for which people had paid) he wrote a scathing critique of the industrialization of California vineyards -- a trend that he blamed for producing bland, sterile, and overly manipulated wines that tasted alike and seemed designed to survive the rigors of mass distribution and generally to minimize business risk. It was a battle cry heard initially by very few people, but they must have welcomed it. The circulation of The Wine Advocate began to climb. Parker still needed his earnings as a lawyer to pay the bills, but he consoled himself that the journal allowed him his independence of mind.
Such independence was not a hallmark of most other critics -- a collection mostly of ineffectual men whom Parker in his moral rigidity and his ambition began to despise. The feeling was soon reciprocated, dividing the wine press into camps so hostile that the slick New York-based Wine Spectator has never run a profile of Parker and will barely mention his name. But in the early days, before Parker was known, a British critic came up to him in London and said, "Living in America, how hard is it for you to get your cases of first-growth claret?"
Parker said, "What do you mean?"
The critic looked confused. "Don't you get a case of Latour, Lafite, and Margaux sent every year?"
"No," Parker said. "Maybe I should be insulted."
He meant insulted on behalf of his readers. But he cannot have been surprised. The setup is an open secret. In Bordeaux people say that the critics' car trunks automatically pop open at the famous estates, and just can't be closed until they are full of bottles. Some critics are consultants. Some are importers. Some simply write for magazines that depend on wine advertising. The problem they all have is how to make a living. In English this generally leads to a critical technique known as "varying the degrees of 'wonderful.'" In French the relevant technique is called "drowning the fish" -- a slightly different thing, which contributes to the tendency toward bewildering complexity in French prose.
At one of the middle-ranked chateaux in the Médoc, during the wait last spring for Parker's declarations, an iconoclastic winemaker named Olivier Sčze called most French critics "odious." He said, "They use our wines as a pretext for their writings. 'Look -- what I write is good! Look -- what I write is intelligent!' But you read a full page of it and you say, 'What was that about? About wine? About a car? Perfume?'"
With Parker there was never any question. By 1982, after four years in existence, The Wine Advocate had a circulation of 7,000. Then came the Bordeaux vintage of 1982, whose young wines were unusually dark, powerful, and fruity. When Parker flew home from tasting those "futures" in the spring of 1983, he was so eager to get back and write about what he had found that he worried uncharacteristically that the airplane might crash. This was the scoop of a lifetime, a vintage that he was convinced would become one of the greatest in history, and that the other critics, within their variations of "wonderful," seemed to have underestimated. Parker advised his readers to buy the wines, and many did so -- in large quantities. A lot of money was at stake. The established critics attacked, arguing that the young 1982s lacked acidity and therefore would not age well. They were saying, in essence, that these wines tasted too good too soon -- an argument related to the traditional one that bad wines require age to become better. Parker suspected the opposite -- that the greatest vintages (he thought of '61 and '49 and '47) are so seamless and free of imperfections that they are balanced from birth -- and that 1982 was just such a vintage.
With his career on the line, he returned to Bordeaux and started asking about the past. In the archives of Chateau Haut-Brion he found an old diary that expressed concern about the famous vintage of 1929 -- that the then-young wines were too intense, and would not endure. Parker knew those wines after fifty years, and considered them to be excellent still. He retasted the 1982s and was again astonished by their splendor. He went home to Monkton, and reiterated his earlier judgments. By 1984, when the wines were being bottled, it was obvious to everyone that he was right. Most of the opposing critics began to back down. One who didn't was forced into an increasingly untenable position, and finally lost his job. The Wine Spectator eventually came out with an issue celebrating the 1982 vintage, but by then those wines were hard to find and very expensive. Parker's reputation was made. Some of his readers had gotten rich on his advice. Others simply had picked up good wine at a good price. The Wine Advocate's circulation jumped past 10,000. Parker quit his job as a lawyer. Several weeks later he signed his first book contract in New York. He told me that going home on the train, he felt like Sylvester Stallone in Rocky.
AST spring, when the annual Bordeaux issue of The Wine Advocate finally came out, the Bordeaux establishment lashed back angrily. In a campaign led by some of the large chateaux, people attacked Parker in the local press, accusing him not only of undue influence and technical incompetence but also of cronyism and, by innuendo, of malice. The Bordeaux newspaper, Sud-Ouest, published several articles laying out the accusations, and a wider press spread the story -- through Europe and to the United States. These accusations were for the most part unfounded, but they were serious enough to leave Parker feeling wounded and perhaps genuinely threatened. He took the unusual step of writing letters in his own defense -- but he was hampered by a lack of detail in the accusations, and by the fact that during his last stay in Bordeaux he had indeed not handled himself well. It was a matter of appearances: he had gone for a private dinner with Alain Raynaud at a remote country hotel, and the next day had tasted the wines of the Union des Grands Crus and rated Raynaud's very high.
A well-known chateau called Bouscaut ran a sarcastic advertisement for its 1999 wines, including a defiant proclamation of its score of only 79-82. In the ad a cartoon depicted a retailer saying to a customer, "A good wine with a real terroir? An individualistic wine? No hesitation -- find one with a bad Parker score!!!!" Parker's response was typically blunt. To a query from a London wine magazine he responded, "The cartoon was a splendid idea. Given the wine Bouscaut has made, I would resort to humor, too, if it helped to sell the wine. But purchasers of it will find out who the joke is really on." As a consumerist, Parker naturally is self-righteous and maybe too easily aggrieved. His mother could have told him just to smile and sit tight.
At first glance Bordeaux seemed to be upset about very little. In his April issue Parker praised some producers for their 1999s but reported, accurately, that the year had been excessively wet and hot, resulting in few compelling wines and little reason to buy futures. This was hardly a surprise. But then Parker went further. He wrote a few paragraphs that were unusual for him, in which he expressed his thoughts about Bordeaux's business side and discussed the global glut in its wines. He said the retail trade worldwide would have to cut its losses by dumping the 1997s en masse and skeptically judging each wine from 1998. Then, while scolding the Bordeaux producers for their "egregious blunder" and foolish greed, he called for a reduction in the prices for the 1999s by 30 percent or more. He wrote, "If arrogance prevents them from understanding this, they will see the irresponsibility of their ways ... sooner rather than later."
This was getting closer to a reason for a fight. A 30 percent reduction in prices? The producers choked at the very thought, and they knew that Parker's opinions, once expressed, are not just abstractions: this issue of The Wine Advocate would be wielded by the disgruntled buyers, who were already murmuring about a boycott. Parker had the audacity to claim that he was trying to save Bordeaux from itself. Those few paragraphs of his were going to cost Bordeaux a lot.
But the truth is that the chateaux have the financial reserves to ride out a downturn in the market -- along with the cushion that the 2000 vintage is likely to provide. They are not, in other words, so obviously beleaguered that they need to fear Parker's frank assessment. Their reaction to it, therefore, can only be understood as an expression of a deeper problem: what they are really worried about is the accelerating movement toward the garage wines, those dark, dramatic, small-production wines that are being made with fanatical devotion to detail.
The garage phenomenon began in Bordeaux less than a decade ago as a novelty, but it seems now to be evolving beyond mere fashion, and taking shape as one of the more important changes of the past 200 years. The competitive advantages are clear: the garage wines do not require large vineyards, big crews, a manor house, or a classic patch of terroir -- and they are now fetching the highest prices in Bordeaux. This is extremely threatening to the established families, whose very society requires them to hold stiffly to the idea that price is a reflection of quality. Privately, the families claim that the "garagistes" are cheating -- that because of the ultra-small quantities involved (for any label, typically less than 15,000 bottles a year), the new producers are able to manipulate their prices in the most cynical ways, buying back significant percentages of their own stock in order to stimulate the market, or working through unnamed agents to ratchet up demand artificially at the famous London and New York auction houses. In some ways the big families are right. It is certainly true that many of the garage wines are terrible buys and that if a wine-drinker wanted one rule for Bordeaux it would be to stay away from them entirely. Another rule, however, might be to stay away from the famous chateaux as well. For the established families it's a predicament: after so much market manipulation of their own, they are hardly in a position to complain on behalf of the consumers. Meanwhile, the garage wines are spreading through the cracks and odd parcels of the best wine-growing region in the world, the finite realm of Bordeaux, where rapidly and insidiously they are subverting the structures on which the great families rely.
It's no wonder those families fear Robert Parker. He is indeed the man to blame. He claims to disapprove of the prices for the garage wines, but insists on judging such wines as a purist would, concentrating entirely on their taste. It is true that the garage wines are dense, impressive, and often extremely good. Parker likes the idea of them, and in the new Bordeaux Wine Advocate he said so more clearly than ever before.
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There's an argument now that the garagistes are making wines to suit Parker's taste, and that therefore the world is getting smaller here, too. I heard it many times. Parker is a monopolist, the Bill Gates of wine; Bordeaux must follow the example of José Bové, the French anti-globalist, and fight back against Parker's domination. The image of one American with so much power seems valid from a distance. But up close it tends to fall apart. No two fine wines are ever the same. I moved for weeks among the garagistes, and even I, with my lack of knowledge and my dull palate, would never have mistaken any one of their wines for any other. Parker is making the world not smaller but larger. Bordeaux distrusts him for that reason. After 300 years he is breaking up the terroir.
The leading garagiste is a brash, self-confident man named Jean-Luc Thunevin, who with his wife, Murielle, makes a ripe red wine called Valandraud, one of the stars of the region. The Thunevins are seen in Bordeaux as the ultimate outsiders. He is a "pied-noir," the son of refugees from the Algerian war for independence, an outsider who worked in a bank for thirteen years and nearly went broke in the restaurant business before acquiring a scrap of ground and getting into wine in 1991. Until a few years ago she was a nurse's assistant.
The Thunevins do not have a chateau, though they could almost afford one by now. They live in the center of St.-Emilion, in bright and minimally furnished quarters directly above their wine-production rooms. One evening over dinner there he said to me, "People think our wine is a product of Parker -- but it's not true. Parker is prudent. He didn't know if we were going to keep producing good wines -- if we were serious, if we were honest. He started grading only after four years, when he had tasted our wines in the bottle. For the first few years he gave us scores only in the eighties. But the effect of Parker was to accelerate things. Before, we would have required fifty years to be recognized -- and, of course, we would never have been able to survive. But thanks to Parker, we needed only four years. It was his willingness to taste our wines, and the speed of the information, that mattered."
Thunevin is openly despised by the old families of Bordeaux, who call him "Tue-le-vin," a shortened form of "He who kills the wine." I asked him what he thought about them in return. He said, "I'm not trying to be accepted. People have problems because they absolutely want to enter a milieu that is not theirs. I have the advantage that I don't care. When I started into the business, I had a friend who warned me. He said, 'In Bordeaux they don't like newcomers. They're going to break you.'" Thunevin smiled, as if to say, "And now look who is afraid."
The subversion has spread even into Bordeaux's heart, the Médoc, where Murielle Thunevin in 1999 starting making a new garage wine, called Marojallia, in a neglected patch of vineyard, with a little stone shed, a little tractor, and not much else. Every day through the summer she drove there in her jeans and rough shirts, and worked side by side with two Moroccan women to tend the vines. In the fall, with a slightly larger crew, she harvested the grapes and made the first wine. Her powerful neighbors at the surrounding chateaux were shocked and outraged, and came by to peer into the shed, but they could do nothing about her presence.
During Parker's tastings last spring the current owner of Chateau Margaux, a woman named Corinne Mentzelopoulos, wanted to talk to Parker only about the Thunevins' new wine. Parker later told me that she was resentful, and viewed the innovation as dangerous. She said, "We believe in terroir."
Parker refused to accept the traditional meaning of that word. He said, "Well, it is a terroir. It doesn't have a history of three hundred years, like Chateau Margaux, but it's a terroir. Why shouldn't someone try to improve the quality of wine that comes from this parcel of land?" She retreated to the old answer -- that no one knew how the wine would evolve.
Parker, for his part, refused to budge. In The Wine Advocate he discussed Murielle Thunevin's new wine, which he had tasted as a future. He wrote,
This is the first of what will likely be an increasing move toward limited production "garage" wines in the Médoc (something the powers in the appellation are totally against). An impressive first effort, it has the potential to merit an outstanding rating after bottling. There are nearly 600 cases of this saturated purple-colored offering, which exhibits low acid, sweet blackberry aromas backed by chocolate and toast. In the mouth, the wine is voluptuous, opulent, pure, and harmonious. My rating is conservative since this is the debut release, but this 1999 has enormous potential, and since it is likely to be bottled without fining or filtration, it should merit an outstanding score.
He gave it 89-91, neatly signaling his view of the years to come. The message to the old families was clear.
In the essay accompanying the tasting notes, Parker professed astonishment that anyone might fear the garagistes. He wrote,
There is no stopping this new phenomenon in spite of the hostility it has received from négociants, the Médoc's aristocracy, and those reactionaries in favor of preserving Bordeaux's status quo. These wines are not the destabilizing influence many old timers would have consumers believe. What's wrong with an energetic person taking a small piece of property and trying to turn out something sensational?
But Parker knew perfectly well that a fundamental change was under way -- that a vast industrial structure seemed about to break apart. When I saw him again at home in Monkton, with his dogs snoring in a corner of the office, he admitted that these might be the final years for the old families of Bordeaux. Olivier Sčze, the iconoclastic winemaker in the Médoc, had been gleeful at that possibility. He had said, "If people start to make better wines than the first growths, the whole system falls apart. It becomes a revolution. It is a revolution!" Parker, too, sometimes used that word. The coming vintage of 2000, he told me, would strengthen the great chateaux, but only temporarily. He had a long-term view. He said, "A hundred years from now the garage wines won't be a separate category. They will be up and down the Médoc. Everyone will be making wines that way. And if someone wants to go back over the history, Thunevin will be seen as the pioneer who totally changed the system."
"And Parker?"
"My name might come up too -- maybe as a footnote."
He pretended to have a workman's view of himself in history. He said, "I'm an anti-industrial kind of guy." As if he were just another critic expressing an opinion, he said, "I don't like manipulation, compromise, or interventionistic winemaking -- unless something goes wrong. I believe that the responsibility of the winemaker is to take that fruit and get it into the bottle as the most natural and purest expression of that vineyard, of the grape varietal or blend, and of the vintage." He also said, "When I started tasting wines, in the 1970s, we were on a slippery slope. There was a standardization of wines, where you couldn't tell a Chianti from a cabernet. That's pretty much stopped now." He refused to say it had stopped because of him. I figured he was being willfully modest. His own mother seems to believe he has developed a big ego. But the furthest he would go now was to express surprise that the logo he had chosen for The Wine Advocate had long been overlooked. It is a corkscrew in the form of a crusader's cross, and he admitted almost shyly that at last it has been noticed.
Photographs by Christopher Barker.
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Based on the Euro-spec Passat, the 2014 CC doesn't give up much to the current-generation North American-spec Passat. In the canyons "it manages dips and bumps wonderfully, but the ride gets busy when the street surface is pocked, characteristics that are actually very comparable to our Jetta TDI." The interior of the last CC we tested a base CC Sport also blew us away, "The cabin is spectacular. The entry-level Sport's powered leatherette seats exude higher quality and are softer to the touch and nicer to look at than the leatherette seats in MT's long-term Jetta TDI. The interior color pattern, which combines neutral beige and classy black, plus silver from the brushed aluminum accents, drew praise."
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The 2014 Volkswagen CC gets a few minor trim changes this year as VW focuses on updating the engine lineups of its volume sellers. The 2014 VW CC 2.0T Executive is new this year, and it features standard navigation, sunroof, leather seats, a rearview camera, as well as special 18-inch wheels and an available brown interior. Other 2014 CC changes include the availability of VW's new Car-Net system in the car.
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@schofeld microformats2 drafts are ready to use, many examples of h-card and h-entry in the wild and applications making real use of them microformats.org/wiki/microformats2
@schofeld microformats2 drafts are ready to use, many examples of h-card and h-entry in the wild and applications making real use of them microformats.org/wiki/microformats2
Latest exciting purchase: a measuring thing for measuring things! First application is recording the amount of rubbish I produce daily. #qs
The Vísar Dropbox is 1.35GB in size. 70% of that is photos of a waffle wagon. And now you know about Vísar.
25262 #steps today
RSS enthusiasts are HTML enthusiasts who haven't met #microformats 2 yet. microformats.org/wiki/microformats2
Battle for the planet of the APIs by Jeremy Keith — nice piece of writing, it's worth pointing out that Twitter still includes rel=me links back to homepages, but is increasingly wrapping them with t.co, making them fairly useless.
Whilst I admire RSS as a rallying cry for the openness of data on the web, I don't like it much, mainly due to it's DRY violation. microformats2 is the better solution.
Just pushed latest #taproot changes: using htmlpurifier.org to remove any nasties in reply contexts and comments, hopefully with upcoming php-mf2 changes that'll allow limited HTML comments!
Also using brand new php-mf2-cleaner to parse said reply contexts and comments, find authors, etc. Check it out if you deal with #microformats 2 at all in PHP.
8418 #steps today
Just finished #watching Laputa, Castle in the Sky again. It may not have the strongest plot out of all the Myazaki films, but it does have, in approximate order of appearance:
The robots look like this:
My point being that anyone who demands any more than this from a film probably doesn't deserve it.
Aral Balkan surely use of #tease precludes any use of #open? Have a good time in Cyprus :)
11650 #steps today
@benwerd loving your work on idno! Just had a look at the source, great that you're using #microformats 2, I have some suggestions/corrections:
.h-entry is better off where you've got
.idno-entry so then the author
.h-card can be scoped into the entry
.p-author to the
.h-card for each
.h-entry to explicitly declare authorship
.h-as-* on the same element as
.h-entry .idno-entry
.u-url where you currently have
.dt-published, move
.dt-published to the
time element
Thanks to Aaron Parecki you can see how a page is parsed here, or use my php-mf2 demo sandbox for experimentation by hand.
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The positive displacement pump used to power hydraulic-assisted steering is one of the main noise sources in an automotive steering system. DHB Componentes Automotivos, a manufacturer of steering systems for automotive and marine applications located in Brazil, is using ANSYS CFX software to analyze and understand the flow behavior within their pumps.
Customers are now looking for cars with very low noise levels. As engines are improved for quiet operation, noise from other areas such as the steering system is becoming more and more apparent. Noise level is now the first requirement analyzed when an automotive manufacturer selects a hydraulic steering system.
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Laura Jane Grace came here to chew bubblegum, wear a sundress and chop the rings off a bigot's fat fingers — and she's all out of bubblegum.
But let's not get ahead of ourselves. For the benefit of the uninitiated, let's go back two years, to when Grace was Tom Gabel, frontman of Florida punks Against Me. Scruffy-looking anarchist types harboring a serious Springsteen jones, the band's greatest claim to fame, for many years, was being the smartest, most soulful group to regularly play the Warped Tour.
Then in June 2012, Gabel appeared in Rolling Stone magazine, a towel wrapped around his head as if he'd just stepped out of the shower, his thin, well-tattooed torso sheathed in what looked like a short black dress. In the proceeding pages, Gabel detailed his struggle with transgender dysphoria, a condition described in the article as "a feeling of intense dissatisfaction and disconnect from the gender you were assigned at birth." He was done struggling in private.
"Right now, I'm in this awkward transition period," he said at the time. "I look like a dude and feel like a dude, and it sucks. But eventually I'll flip, and I'll present as female."
Popular music isn't entirely unfamiliar with the plight of the transgendered, but no musician of Grace's stature has begun transitioning in the middle of his or her career. Understanding isn't guaranteed, even in the circles she runs in. Punk might think itself a bastion for outcasts, but in truth, it's no more accepting than, say, the NFL. There's a reason both Grace and Michael Sam were recently given reality shows: There is an intense public fascination with anyone who identifies as something other than "straight white male" traversing a not-entirely-friendly culture. We want to know what coming out will mean for them, professionally and, in Grace's case, artistically.
Released in January, Transgender Dysphoria Blues is the first Against Me album since the singer-guitarist formerly known as Tom Gabel began living as a woman. It is not, as some might have expected, a weepy plea for acceptance. Instead, it's a pipe bomb exploded in the face of intolerance.
It's devastating from the jump. On the opening title track, Grace laments her "tells," the physical signs that she is not a genetic female: broad shoulders, no hips. "You want them to see you like they see every other girl/They just see a faggot," she shouts, leaning into the slur. (For the record, Grace remains married to her wife.)
From there, though, the catharsis comes in the form of sheer bloodlust. Songs like "Black Me Out" and the almost-metal "Osama Bin Laden as the Crucified Christ" read like anti-homophobe revenge fantasies, with Grace promising to "piss on the walls of your house" and do to those who've harmed the trans community what the communists did to Mussolini in Italy. Death lingers throughout. "True Trans Soul Rebel" contains the album's most rousing riff, but it's deployed over a suicide elegy with an "obvious end": "Slit your veins open/You bleed it out." "Two Coffins" is more directly haunting. The album's lone moment of relative quietude, Grace imagines decaying alongside, presumably, the wife who has remained by her. "One day soon there'll be nothing left of you and me," she sings. That's about the record's sweetest moment.
But Grace saves the most brutal laceration for herself: On the scorching "Drinking With the Jocks," Grace confesses that, in her previous life, she hid amongst the tormenters she now dreams of mutilating. "I'm laughing at the faggots," she screams, damn near exploding her larynx. "Just like one of the boys." It makes her other threats all the more grave: If she's willing to throw her former self under the bus, imagine where she'll throw all those other jerks.
Anyone who worried — perhaps more than they'd admit aloud — about how Grace's personal transition would affect the band, can rest assured that all this violence and vitriol is delivered via the same post-Replacements power-pop of the 2007 classic New Wave. Yet there's nothing in the group's catalog that hits quite as hard. Transgender Dysphoria Blues is Against Me's angriest, darkest album yet, but also its bravest, and quite possibly its best.
Against Me will perform at the Ventura Theater on Tuesday, May 27. For tickets, visit www.venturatheater.net.


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Daily log, April 14
Tiffin reports
Derek S. Feasel, 29, of Tiffin, was charged with disorderly conduct April 5.
Clifford R. Wells, 47, of Tiffin, was charged with disorderly conduct, drugs-marijuana paraphernalia, drugs-possession/abuse and refuse to identify self Friday night.
Michael D. Martin, 27, of Tiffin, was charged with drugs-possession/abuse and disorderly conduct early Saturday morning.
A 200-block South Monroe Street woman reported Saturday afternoon someone entered her house and urinated on underwear.
A person in the 100 block of Minerva Street reported an assault Saturday evening.
A person in the 100 block of South Washington Street reported early Sunday morning a motor vehicle assault. A person was taken to Mercy Tiffin Hospital. A Tiffin Police Department spokeswoman said a person sustained a minor injury, and she was not sure whether it was caused by a vehicle.
Walid Boggil-Akamine, 22, of Tiffin, was charged with public urination early Saturday morning.
A woman reported Saturday evening she could smell marijuana coming into her house through her open windows.
Mark J. Lang, 52, of Tiffin, was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated Saturday night.
A large fight was reported in an alley near the first block of Miami Street early Sunday morning.
Trischa C. Lacy, 19, of Urbana, was charged with underage possession/consumption early Sunday morning.
Ahmed A. Al Alhareth, 26, of Tiffin, was charged with disturbing the peace early Sunday morning.
Jacqueline A. Lindsay, 18, of Michigan, was charged with underage possession/consumption early Sunday morning.
Michael L. Taggart, 19, of Gahanna, was charged with underage possession/consumption early Sunday morning.
Eugene J. Cannaday, 24, of Tiffin, was charged with disorderly conduct early Sunday morning.
Brandi R. Brock, 22, of Pickerington, was charged with disorderly conduct early Sunday morning.
Leanne A. Tobin, 18, of Tiffin, was charged with underage possession/consumption early Sunday morning.
Heather L. Mcmasters, 22, of Tiffin, was charged with disorderly conduct early Sunday morning.
A person reported Sunday afternoon a cell phone was taken from Denny's, 315 W. Market St.
A woman went to the station Sunday afternoon to report she got into a fight with her boyfriend and he dragged her down an alley.
A person reported Sunday afternoon the emergency room was treating a man who was assaulted in the 100 block of Madison Street but did not want anything done. The man stated he was assaulted by six men.
A 200-block North Sandusky Street man reported Sunday afternoon his roommate threatened him with a knife. A Tiffin Police Department spokesman said no one had been arrested or charged as of Sunday evening.
County reports
A 7000-block West CR 592 man requested a deputy Saturday afternoon for a breaking and entering to his shed.
A man reported Sunday morning he was fishing under Heck's Bridge the night before and saw bones sticking out of the mud. He thought law enforcement might want to look at them. Further details were not available Sunday evening.
Fostoria reports
A woman in the 1000 block of North Countyline Street requested to speak with an officer Saturday evening about a woman who pulled her pants down in front of her children while she was walking with them.
A 1000-block Beier Drive woman reported early Sunday morning her house was broken into. A television was stolen. An investigation was pending.
A man went to the station early Sunday morning and advised he was attacked by his brother.
Tiffin accidents
Marjorie A. Koehler, 83, of Upper Sandusky, was cited with improper back/start after an accident on Elmer Street Friday afternoon.
Jeffrey L. Thompson, 40, of Fostoria, was cited with failure to control after an accident on West Market Street Saturday afternoon.
A vehicle backed into a cruiser at Main and Circular streets Saturday night. There was no damage to either vehicle.
County accidents
A two-vehicle accident was reported on North Broadway Street Saturday evening.
Culvert damage was reported on US 224 early Sunday morning.
State Patrol
A semi was in the ditch at West US 224 and South CR 19 Sunday morning.
Fostoria accidents
Darrin L. Roush, 48, of Fostoria, was taken by Fostoria Fire Division to ProMedica Fostoria Community Hospital after falling off his bicycle onto the roadway after being struck by a vehicle at North Main and West North streets April 4.
Amie A. Pelton, 36, of Fostoria, was cited with right-of-way at an intersection after an accident at North Countyline Street and College Avenue April 4.
Brian J. Mathias, 35, of Fremont, was cited with improper lane change after an accident on West Lytle Street April 7.
Tiffin Fire Rescue Division was called to an alarm system activation at 158 Miami St. Saturday evening. There was no fire, and it was unintentional.
Tiffin Fire Rescue Division was called to a malicious or mischievous false call at 167 Main St. Saturday night.
Tiffin Fire Rescue Division was called to a smoke scare or odor of smoke at 100 N. Washington St. Saturday night.
Tiffin EMS had one squad run Friday afternoon, one squad run Friday evening, one squad run early Saturday morning, one squad run Saturday morning, two squad runs Saturday afternoon, one squad run Saturday evening, one squad run early Sunday morning and two squad runs Sunday morning. Clinton fire assisted Saturday evening and Sunday morning.
New Riegel EMS, NBS fire and the Echo unit had a squad run Sunday morning.
Municipal Court
Jeremy T. Parlow, 243 Bannister St., Fostoria, assault case dismissed without prejudice for good cause shown, costs to state.
Brook J. Saunders, Celina, pleaded no contest to speed, $292.
Tonya M. Spencer-Whipple, 580 Maple St., Apt. A, Fostoria, pleaded no contest to fleeing/eluding officers, 90 days jail, 87 days suspended, $283; operating vehicle impaired/under influence case dismissed upon plea in companion OMVI case; pleaded no contest to operating vehicle impaired/under influence, 90 days jail, 87 days suspended, six-month license suspension, complete/pay for driver intervention program, $632; pleaded no contest to no operator's license, $50.
Keith G. Sheets, 629 S. Wood St., Fostoria, pleaded no contest to failure to reinstate license, $209; pleaded no contest to driving under suspension, $100.
Tad L. Derr, 111 E. Crocker, Fostoria, pleaded no contest to possession of marijuana, six-month license suspension, $213.
Dakota M. Sharninghouse, transient, preliminary waiver on aggravated robbery, bond reduced, bound over to Seneca County Common Pleas Court.
Zackary T. Spires, 343 Watson Ave., Fostoria, preliminary waiver on aiding and abetting, bond reduced, bound over to Seneca County Common Pleas Court.
Antoine M. McCoy, 1095 Carrie Lane, Apt. D, Fostoria, pleaded guilty to possession of marijuana, one-year license suspension, $247.
Montrice D. Coleman, 203 Columbus Ave., Fostoria, theft case dismissed, costs to defendant; pleaded no contest to unauthorized use of motor vehicle, 90 days jail, 54 days suspended, $621.
Mary L. McBeth, 463 N. Town St., Fostoria, pleaded no contest to personal disorderly conduct, 30 days jail, 25 days suspended, counseling, $406.
Adam R. Ward, Commerce City, Colo., pleaded guilty to obstruction of official business, 90 days jail, 30 days suspended, $261; pleaded guilty to operating vehicle impaired/under influence, 60 days jail, 60 days suspended, one-year license suspension, restricted plates, random drug testing, complete/pay for driver intervention program, $843; pleaded guilty to disregarding safety, $100; pleaded guilty to traffic control light violation, $100.
Carly A. Trimble, 443 Union Court, Fostoria, pleaded no contest to speed, $159, tag/sticker violation case dismissed.


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Worming Their Way In
Cybercriminals have a parasitic side, and it's not to be underestimated. If they can't bust through the network perimeter of an enterprise, they're just as likely to go through the front door aboard an unwitting and trusted customer or business partner.
Enterprises like research information provider LexisNexis, for example, spend countless hours and resources on resolving malware issues, shoring up intrusion defenses and architecting security into the network. But admittedly, LexisNexis had done little to ensure that customer and partner environments with access to LexisNexis databases were secure.
This was the avenue by which hackers last year stole more than 300,000 accounts with names, addresses, and Social Security and driver's license numbers. Granted it took a conflagration of events for criminals to land on LexisNexis' virtual doorstep, but hundreds of thousands were still open to identity theft and LexisNexis' reputation was in jeopardy.
"We were security conscious and aware, but [only] from an internal standpoint of 'What can I do to ensure I don't bring bad software into the company?'" says Leo Cronin, senior director of information security. "We developed a couple of scenarios to deal with autoscript attacks of our apps and denial-of-service attacks, but those focused on our four walls versus us having to worry about the customer. This woke us up--we truly have to be worried about that environment."
The theft at LexisNexis began far away from its walls. A worm bearing a keylogging Trojan was spammed to thousands, promising pornographic images. The Washington Post reported that separate law enforcement offices in Florida and Texas took the bait of the social engineering component of the worm. Law enforcement--and government--makes up a big chunk of LexisNexis' 4.5 million customers.
Soon, the LexisNexis user names and passwords at these two unrelated offices were compromised and criminals had access to a legitimate account and a trove of personally identifiable information. The 300,000 accounts were harvested during 59 separate visits to a database managed by Seisint, a 2004 LexisNexis acquisition. They went unnoticed until one of the agencies reported unusual activity on its bill.
The timing couldn't have been worse. LexisNexis reported the incident in compliance with California's SB 1386 less than two months after the avalanche of 2005 data breaches started with the ChoicePoint identity theft. Senior management decided not to wait for legislators to recommend action, nor wait to notify those potentially affected. Marching orders from Day 1 were to be transparent about what was being done; president and CEO Kurt Sanford testified before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary and explained the breach for legislators.
The first steps toward recovery included a comprehensive review of perimeter defenses, especially at the Seisint subsidiary, as well as a search for anomalies in how customers accessed services. Cronin and his teams quickly realized that more had to be done to batten down customer access. No longer were customer environments inherently trusted.
"No matter what our controls were on our perimeter, [hackers] figured out how to attack our customers directly," Cronin said. "Our password controls and auditing controls needed a facelift. We kicked off a team with a set of requirements and a plan to put new features in place by the end of 2005. It was quite a task. Support from management got it prioritized."
New password protocols were implemented for all customers. Password strength was mandated and inactive accounts were suspended after 90 days. A fixed number of failed logins also resulted in account suspension. Cronin said more than 1 million accounts were strengthened in 2005.
In the future, Cronin wants to get customers closer to two-factor authentication, and cannot dismiss using some kind of federated token for single sign-on to banks and LexisNexis, or even a hard token as a second form of authentication. Some customers with access to sensitive data are subject to IP address restrictions, similar to what some banks have implemented. A profile would track a user's frequently used IP address and limit logins from only those locations. Hard tokens, for example, would then be required for logins away from those locations, like a home computer.
Cronin said LexisNexis is also implementing near real-time anomaly detection systems that score a user's behavior and restrict access if that score is at a level of fraud. Accounts would be shut down and users notified. Also, customers using a LexisNexis desktop interface would not receive the same level of access to data as those logging in fresh from a Web interface.
Policies around education and awareness training were beefed up for employees. A video for new hires, for example, reinforces the sensitive nature of the data LexisNexis stores and employees' responsibilities.
With more than 140 data breaches reported in 2005 and more than 50 million Americans exposed to identity theft, Cronin says enterprises cannot afford to be lax.
"Information security professionals have to do a better job of articulating the security we want in our products and services, and be articulators of the business value of security," Cronin says. "You'd better model those risks and make them understood as business risks."
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A lesson in laptop larceny
Hackers weren't to blame for all of the data breaches in 2005--some were pulled off by old-fashioned, sticky-fingered thieves.
Take the breach at the University of California-Berkeley, where conditions were ripe for thievery on a particular day last March: an unlocked office off a remote corridor, a receptionist on break, a shiny new laptop unguarded on a desk.
The IBM ThinkPad, only a day old, was loaded with the Social Security numbers and other personal information of 98,000 graduate students, graduate and doctoral applicants, and others. A demographic analysis was being conducted on the data, some of which was 30 years old. It was a treasure trove for identity thieves.
Only this thief wasn't so sophisticated; this was a crime of opportunity. The thief was part of a ring that would steal laptops and other devices, scrub the hard drives, and sell the computers on eBay. The laptop was traced to the buyer and recovered. Officials at U Cal-Berkeley don't think the data was accessed.
Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good.
Associate vice chancellor and CIO Shelton Waggener is well versed in campus politics and understands the rigors of instituting change and lobbying for information security funding. The laptop theft was Berkeley's second breach in five months--in October 2004, hackers cracked a database housing account information on people participating in a home-care services program; more than 1 million files were exposed. But that was a nameless server hacked by a faceless criminal. A stolen laptop is different, and the realization that similar thefts could happen to anyone brought information security to the highest offices at Berkeley.
"It used to be perceived to be CIO problem, now it's perceived as a campus problem," Waggener says. "The message has sunk in that it's going to take personal accountability. That's huge in terms of progress."
Progress is the operative phrase. In the 13 months since the laptop theft, information security has been elevated to the point where security audits, policy updates and training are par for the course. Funding remains a struggle, but awareness is elevated, data security is paramount and resources are required.
"Security is really an insurance policy. You have to ask, 'How much are you willing to invest to reduce the possibility of having a security incident?' " Waggener says. "Can you afford to invest money to protect something that changes all the time? It's an uncomfortable investment to make. As it works out, incidents happen in areas you have not invested in. It's not that we didn't know how to protect every laptop, but it's an expensive thing to do."
Like in most security organizations, Waggener focused on areas of higher risk. With visibility heightened to the dangers of laptop theft, Waggener had to change his focus.
Outside auditors were hired to evaluate data exposure points. While they determined security policies to be strong, execution and implementation depended on the financial and technical strength of a particular unit. Policies were difficult to follow in a decentralized environment.
Best-practices audits were also instituted; internal teams of security experts would perform spot audits on different departments and help with recommendations. It was a creative way to provide advice without paying extra for it.
Training modules to instruct existing employees and new hires on their responsibilities around data and security policies in general have been developed. Students also undergo security training at orientation, and PCs and laptops are outfitted with free antivirus software. Centralized scanning tools monitor computers on the U Cal-Berkeley network for vulnerabilities and to ensure patching levels are adequate.
Encryption of sensitive data is a priority. U Cal-Berkeley is in the midst of evaluating products to provide mobile and database encryption, securing data whether in motion or at rest. Some encryption has already been deployed. Printed documents are encrypted from the source server to the printer.
Waggener said the key is centralizing security management.
"We're going to create download sites to autoinstall encryption tools and make it easy to use," he says. "We have the policies and standards around the need to encrypt data, but if we're not going to make it easy to get the software and keys, people are not going to do it."
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Putting the brakes on insiders
Know how fast the concept of a trusted insider becomes an oxymoron? Apparently a few nights and weekends--just ask the Georgia Technology Authority.
Asif Siddiqui had worked for the GTA for four years--and for nine in state government--as a programmer before he was fired and arrested last April for downloading and stealing 465,000 files on Georgia drivers during off-hours. Siddiqui horded the files for close to three years, and investigators still aren't sure what he was going to do with the sensitive data, which included Social Security numbers.
What the breach did for GTA was force the organization, which runs telecommunications and data center operations for the state including Georgia's Department of Motor Vehicles, to re-evaluate its hiring processes, institute pre-employment and periodic background checks on established employees, re-categorize data and accelerate its search for a state-of-the-art data center.
The real casualty for GTA, however, was trust. Even long-term employees now merit inspection. Proper authorization and access controls must be maintained, with particular focus on the revocation of rights once an employee no longer needs access to a system. After Siddiqui's arrest, GTA spent significant time hardening its authorization processes and procedures and tightening access to sensitive data.
"You still have to stay vigilant, even with long-term employees, and do so in such a way that employees understand and appreciate what you're doing," says GTA director of security Mark Reardon. "Employees have to appreciate they are in positions of trust. With that comes extra scrutiny. They have to understand that."
There were many layers to Siddiqui's theft, starting with the fact that it dated to 2002 when he was working on the state's driver's license and state health benefits plan systems. He had no legitimate reason to still be logging into those servers last April when an admin noticed he had recently been on the systems and reported it to management. His access rights had never been revoked, making him the most dangerous kind of intruder--one with legitimate access to sensitive data.
Furthermore, GTA did not have a policy of conducting background checks when Siddiqui was hired in 2001. That was another major policy adjustment post-breach, especially for employees with access to sensitive data. In addition, state agency information security officers now review data on every IT system according to NIST and FISMA guidelines. Data is given a rating of low, moderate or high security. New hires working with data rated moderate or higher must undergo an initial financial and criminal background check, as well as periodic checks throughout their employment.
Employees are also required to sign non-disclosure agreements, indicating they will not share or make use of any of the information they handle.
Reardon said a renewed focus on employee awareness will include intranet sites that educate employees about information security and their responsibilities with data.
"It's a lot of, frankly, unexciting basic blocking and tackling," Reardon says. "From an information security perspective, we have to make sure we have an understanding of what information is where and how it's protected, and make sure agencies responsible for data believe in the controls that are in place."
The theft also put additional focus on GTA's need for a new data center to replace its "ancient" facility, according to Joyce Goldberg of the GTA Office of Communications. The new facility has strong authentication requirements--including biometric access controls--redundant system failover and environmental controls.
"We are looking to be in a mode of constant improvement, and it isn't going to be one person; it's going to be a cultural change," Reardon says.
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Personally accountable
Reparations to ChoicePoint's flawed customer credentialing processes--and, more importantly, its reputation--were well under way in January when along came the Federal Trade Commission with a $15 million reminder that life for the data collector will never be the same.
Survival and recovery may forever be relative terms for ChoicePoint, whose infamous data breach, reported in February 2005, led to its FTC fine. Ironically, the penalty was levied the same day ChoicePoint reported record revenues of $1.1 billion for 2005, a "milestone year" according to CEO Derek V. Smith.
It may be a cold day in Hades before Smith hears any adulation for those numbers. The breach, which exposed more than 160,000 people to identity theft, has led to at least 800 confirmed cases and unprecedented scrutiny.
This is the environment in which Carol DiBattiste operates. Hired shortly after the breach was made public, the former deputy administrator and chief of staff at the Transportation Security Administration leads an independent office that reports to the ChoicePoint board of directors' privacy committee. Her mission is to clean up the means by which ChoicePoint credentials its customers, align security and privacy within the company's four walls, and concentrate on implementing a steady stream of checks and balances to ensure a breach like the one that started 2005's firestorm never happens again.
"I stay up at night thinking about how to beat bad guys from getting our data, and making sure the people who access our data are who they say are," DiBattiste says.
Olatunji Oluwatosin, a 41-year-old Nigerian national living in California, exploited those weaknesses. He posed as legitimate enterprises to set up more than 50 bogus accounts and gain access to ChoicePoint's trove of personal data, including names, addresses and Social Security numbers. He was arrested in February 2005, and was later sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay $6.5 million in restitution.
DiBattiste's first priority was to shore up the lax vetting of customers. She and her team immersed themselves in each of ChoicePoint's business units to learn their security and privacy processes and procedures in an attempt to marry the two disciplines. She hired consultants from Ernst & Young's privacy team to introduce industry best practices to ChoicePoint and tailor them around its business model. Each of these activities came under the umbrella of a new risk mitigation model, which was the focus of more than 50 outreach events internally and externally that DiBattiste coordinated before the end of 2005.
"Customers are thrilled because it's a business imperative for us," she says.
Credentialing procedures for new customers were ramped up, starting with the hiring of more than 40 individuals dedicated to checking customers and verifying who they are, the legitimacy of the companies they represent and whether they are, in fact, agents of the company. Existing customers will also be recredentialed, an exercise DiBattiste expects to continue through August.
Checklists vet customer identities through various sources, including bank references. Site visits are mandated for customers seeking access to the most sensitive ChoicePoint information stores. A quality control board then reviews the credentialing teams to ensure no human error was introduced during the vetting process and that each of the multiple verifications was done properly.
"There are certain things on our checklist that, if you don't pass, it's a hard fail and you're not going to be one of our customers," DiBattiste says. "I think our credentialing process is one of the best out there. It goes through a lot of checking of who you say you are, and whether you are going to use data in a manner that is permissible under law."
ChoicePoint customers can also expect periodic audits of their account activities-- some scheduled, some without notice. Hun-dreds of accounts have already been cut off because of suspicious behavior, DiBattiste says.
Customer privacy training is also a priority for 2006, in addition to mandatory online privacy training for employees.
"We want to get customers aware of what their obligations are with the data," DiBattiste says. "That's a heavy lift. All of this is key to our risk mitigation model. With this combination of site visits and rigorous checklists, we hope to keep another incident from happening."
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Paying the price
Joe Christensen walked in the doors at CardSystems Solutions last July, charged with establishing a program to help the beleaguered payment processing company earn compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) security standard.
Talk about a tall order.
Not only had CardSystems reported two months prior that hackers had stolen 263,000 customer credit card numbers and exposed 40 million more, but Visa and MasterCard threatened to terminate it as a transactions processor. The death watch was on, something CEO John Perry confirmed before Congress where he said his company faced "imminent extinction" because of Visa and MasterCard's action.
Stress, fear and uncertainty were palpable inside CardSystem's Atlanta offices. Somehow, Christensen, the new vice president of security and compliance, didn't high-tail it out the door.
CardSystems, if not doomed, was at least ripe for an acquisition. But that would not happen without information security and PCI-compliant processes in order. In fact, to facilitate an acquisition, Visa and MasterCard twice extended compliance deadlines, first to Oct. 31, 2005, then Jan. 31.
Fortunately, Christensen says, a compliance effort was well under way. CardSystems had hired AmbironTrustWave to perform a forensic analysis and consult on compliance; there was a solid understanding of weaknesses and priorities. Christensen's first priorities were to understand where card data was kept and how it was accessed, and to ensure that the hack could not be replicated.
In September 2004, hackers dropped a malicious script on the CardSystems application platform, injecting it via the Web application that customers use to access account information. The script, programmed to run every four days, extracted records, zipped them and exported them to an FTP site. Its function was to search servers for only track data--the name, credit card number, expiration date and CVV code contained on the magnetic strip on the back of a credit card. Perry told Congress the only time data was successfully exported was May 22. The exported data--records of failed transactions that were kept for research purposes--was in readable form, a PCI violation.
For too long, Christensen says, CardSystems concentrated on delivering its core business to market--routing transaction authorization requests from POS terminals to a payment card network, then facilitating payments to merchants--without enough regard for the way data was kept safe. Security was a function of IT, and the dearth of dedicated security personnel was especially glaring post-breach. "Awareness of the things you have to do to maintain systems securely was not at a level it needed to be," Christensen says. "[CardSystems didn't have] a culture of security, which isn't unusual."
That drastically changed in the ensuing months. Backed by senior management, Christensen and his team fully encrypted the company's backend systems--one of the few transaction processors to do so, he says. They also put in place procedures where all coding was tested against the Open Web Application Security Project's top 10 critical Web application vulnerabilities before being put into production. Monthly vulnerability scanning and centralized patching systems were ramped up. Internal access controls that severely restrict who can get at customer accounts were also set in stone. Laptop security was addressed, and a consolidation security policy was adopted for future acquisition targets.
Going forward, Christensen plans to address a move from tape backup to remote encrypted digital-vault backups. He also wants to beef up employee awareness, with new-hire training, annual refresher courses, security awareness days and fresh policies on how to handle data, especially papers left in the open on desks and fax machines.
All of this helped make CardSystems PCI compliant (avoiding a Visa and MasterCard shutdown) and preserve value in its assets. This made the company attractive to PayByTouch, which agreed to acquire it in October 2005.
"What happened has completely changed the culture," Christensen says. "[PCI] is the bottom line to maintain; that's the floor, not the ceiling."
This was a lesson learned too late for old CardSystems.
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8 tips to ensure Your customers' personally identifiable Information stays safe.
Plan for one layer of your security controls to be bypassed: A stolen employee password should not provide the keys to the castle.
Review and understand data retention rules. Do not retain personal information longer than required; ensure your practices are safe and within policy.
Conduct annual third-party security audits: Audits help you understand gaps and reduce risk. Implement suggested changes. If an audit sounds scary, your security is inadequate.
Employ need-to-know access: Allow access to data on a need-to-know basis; record and audit that access.
More information from SearchSecurity.com
Larry Ponemon, of The Ponemon Institute, explores why companies who ignore data breaches are also ignoring risk management.
Learn how to avoid making headlines due to a privacy breach.
Review the important elements of a data protection strategy.
Protect from the inside out: Often, the same controls that prevent employees from acting beyond their privilege will also prevent an attacker from gaining elevated access.
Prioritize risks: Classify data as sensitive and critical to the organization. Secure the database where it lives.
Encrypt backups: One of the most common losses of data results from missing backups.
Verify partner security standards: Ensure that service providers maintain security best practices in line with industry and organizational standards.
Sources: Jon Orbeton, Check Point Software Technologies, Zone Labs division; Adrian Lane, IPLocks


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It will surprise few people who pay attention to American politics that Sarah Palin is a world-class hypocrite. But her recent foray into the politics of language and disability have proved that her hypocrisy is dyed in the wool, an amazing contradiction of terms: openly disingenuous, profoundly committed to shallowness. She's taken one of the easiest to understand (if not to implement) tactics of social justice activism — avoid using slurs — and turned it into an operatic denial of her last ounce of intellectual integrity.
Here's the background: according to the WSJ, last August, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel called a group of liberal activists "fucking retarded" to their faces. He has since apologized to the head of the Special Olympics and disability activists (who, not incidentally, have rarely been even named in the articles about the apology — but that's another post altogether). Sarah Palin comes into this because she publicly called out Emanuel on Facebook:
Just as we'd be appalled if any public figure of Rahm's stature ever used the "N-word" or other such inappropriate language, Rahm's slur on all God's children with cognitive and developmental disabilities – and the people who love them – is unacceptable, and it's heartbreaking.
A patriot in North Andover, Massachusetts, notified me of Rahm's "retarded" slam. I join this gentleman, who is the father of a beautiful child born with Down Syndrome, in asking why the Special Olympics, National Down Syndrome Society and other groups condemning Rahm's degrading scolding have been completely ignored by the White House. No comment from his boss, the president?
As my friend in North Andover says, "This isn't about politics; it's about decency. I am not speaking as a political figure but as a parent and as an everyday American wanting my child to grow up in a country free from mindless prejudice and discrimination, free from gratuitous insults of people who are ostensibly smart enough to know better… Have you no sense of decency, sir?"
Mr. President, you can do better, and our country deserves better.
Notice, however, that Palin is not actually mad at Emanuel; she's mad at President Obama. Why? Because he has said nothing about an incident that occurred without him, half a year ago, for which a public apology has been issued. Don't get me wrong — it would be amazing if the Obama White House takes this opportunity to make a serious, public effort to commit further to the needs of PWD. But Palin's immediate redirect from Emanuel to Obama smacks of… well, something other than a desire to "stop the r-word," as a recent campaign enjoins us.
Sady at Tiger Beatdown brilliantly analyzed Palin's political performance a few days ago, in a post I cannot recommend enough. Here's Sady's conclusion, which comes after examining her own reasons for eliminating certain slurs from her diction [ed. note: I snipped some of this quote after posting because I didn't realize how long it was till I hit "publish"]:
Because here is the thing: it is the ability to communicate concepts and define the reality of a situation from which the power of words is derived. When they become pure noise – divorced from reality, divorced from concepts, used at odds to the concepts and realities they should be defining – that's when this all gets hairy. I can't say "that's so gay" because it makes me sick, because I know what it means. I started working to eliminate "retarded" from my vocabulary a while back, because I thought about it and now I know what it means. But it's when someone like Sarah Palin can score points by saying that the word "retarded" is wrong, although her career is based on a politics that is measurably bad for a lot of disabled people (and, you know, everyone else) that I start to get worried.
There is no purpose, behind her Facebook post and her call-out of Emanuel, beyond continuing a program of obstructing a Democratic agenda and the current President. It's precisely as duplicitous as the cries of "sexism" in the right during the primaries. Is there sexism in the Democratic Party, and in the treatment of Sarah Palin? Fuck yes, there is. Was Rahm's use of the term ableist? Is there ableism in the left? Was the response to the ableism handled poorly? Fuck yes, to every single one of those questions. But pointing that out when you know that your own party and/or political agenda isn't going to prioritize social welfare programs which would help the disabled, when they're trying to make universal access to healthcare impossible, when you don't have a compassionate stance on the issues of unemployment and poverty to which disability is inexorably linked, when you are opposing abortion rights and charging victims for their rape kits, is just about the most disgusting corruption of these legitimate issues – these issues about which I care immensely – that I can imagine. Palin's response isn't about ableism, or about Rahm Emanuel; if it were, she would be talking about Rahm Emanuel and ableism, rather than sneakily using both subjects to get in a jab at Obama. Palin's response is about Barack Obama and Sarah Palin.
But – again – if she knows how to use the language, she wins. Because she is able to sound, for a moment, like the people who are genuinely engaged in talking about disability, and the structure that punishes and hurts people with disabilities. Which is where language debate gets scary. Because if we put forward, for one second, a language debate that isn't irrevocably tied to structure – if we focus on language apart from the actual change that needs to happen – everything we care about gets stolen and re-purposed in the service of something else. Words have power. For example, they can be used to tell a pretty enormous lie.
Bra-fucking-va, Sady. Sarah Palin has a personal stake in fighting ableist language. So do I. If Emanuel hadn't apologized for calling people "fucking retarded," you can bet I would be writing an angry post about it. But Sady is right: oppressive language is irrevocably tied to oppressive social structures. That's why the language is oppressive in the first place. It's awful to say something is "retarded" because the punch of the word is based on the equation of "disability" and "bad." If people with disabilities weren't systematically devalued in our culture, told that they're less than human, that their bodies are grotesque and their minds pathetic, that they are a burden to able-bodied people and that having access to basic rights is an outrageous affront to hard-working small-business owners — to pick just a few of the abelist messages that are commonplace — then no one would say "retarded" anyway. Because it wouldn't have any impact as an insult. Which is why Sarah Palin's call for President Obama to fire Emanuel rather than, say, hold a summit with disability advocates, is clearly about political one-up-man-ship: it lets Palin look like she cares about PWD, in a broad sense (just like voting for Palin allowed certain right-winger to look like they cared about women in politics), without doing a goddamn thing with her political power and her cultural capital to make our culture less oppressive of them.
So clearly, Palin was already showing her ass and joining the race for Miss Hypocrite USA 2010. But it took a little help from professional evil man Rush Limbaugh to expose how miraculously mercenary she is. Rush Limbaugh, as I'm sure you all know, makes a living by being hateful. So when he got the chance, he upped the "retard" ante:
Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards. I mean these people, these liberal activists are kooks. They are looney tunes. And I'm not going to apologize for it, I'm just quoting Emanuel. It's in the news. I think their big news is he's out there calling Obama's number one supporters f'ing retards. So now there's going to be a meeting. There's going to be a retard summit at the White House. Much like the beer summit between Obama and Gates and that cop in Cambridge.
So. No surprises here, just the usual hate. Limbaugh defends Emanuel because he's bashing liberals via ableist language, and he goes the extra mile, calling an upcoming meeting with PWD a "retard summit." If Rahm Emanuel should be personally fired by the President, Limbaugh should at least retract what he said, right? Or apologize to Palin herself, since she's been a guest on his show? Surely if something is hurtful when it was reported in the WSJ six months after Rahm Emanuel said it, something more vicious is hurtful when Rush Limbaugh broadcasts it instantly to millions of listeners, right?
Sarah Palin, this morning on Fox News Sunday:
"They are kooks, so I agree with Rush Limbaugh," she said, when read a quote of Limbaugh calling liberal groups "retards." "Rush Limbaugh was using satire … . I didn't hear Rush Limbaugh calling a group of people whom he did not agree with 'f-ing retards,' and we did know that Rahm Emanuel, as has been reported, did say that. There is a big difference there."
I'll give you a moment.
Sarah Palin, who posted this on her Facebook page: Just as we'd be appalled if any public figure of Rahm's stature ever used the "N-word" or other such inappropriate language, Rahm's slur on all God's children with cognitive and developmental disabilities – and the people who love them – is unacceptable, and it's heartbreaking, thinks it's fine when Rush Limbaugh did it because he was talking about "kooks" and did not say "fuck." Sarah Palin, who claims to want her son Trig to grow up free from gratuitous insults of people who are ostensibly smart enough to know better, thinks it's somehow not unacceptable or heartbreaking to call someone a "retard" if you don't actually do it to their face.
Sarah Palin is the worst kind of "ally," the kind who uses her own status as Super Special Ally to Oppressed Peoples to make herself look good and her enemies look bad without even pretending to care about the actual effect on the people who are actually oppressed. Sarah Palin, like the proverbial white person who has some friends who are black, is the able-bodied person who has some son with a cognitive disability. She's not advocating for PWD; she's not advocating for anyone but her own damn self and her right to be on TV every goddamn second.
Sarah Palin, basically, has become Michael Scott, except even more self-congratulatory and less kind.
And less fictional, god help us all.


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Orange Hot Cross Buns
Total TimePrep: 35 min. + rising Bake: 15 min./batch + cooling
Makes22 buns
- 2 packages (1/4 ounce each) active dry yeast
- 1-1/4 cups warm orange juice (110° to 115°), divided
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 3 to 4 teaspoons grated orange zest
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 cup raisins
- 6 to 6-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 2 to 3 teaspoons water
- In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in 3/4 cup warm orange juice. Add the butter, sugar, eggs, orange zest, salt, cinnamon, raisins, remaining orange juice and 3 cups flour. Beat until smooth. Stir in enough remaining flour to form a soft dough.
- Turn onto a lightly floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour.
- Punch dough down; turn onto a lightly floured surface. Divide into 22 pieces; shape each into a ball. Place 2 in. apart on greased baking sheets. Using a sharp knife, cut a cross on the top of each ball. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 30 minutes.
- Bake at 350° for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool.
- In a small heavy-duty resealable plastic bag, combine glaze ingredients until smooth. Cut a small hole in a corner of bag; pipe a cross on each bun.
Nutrition Facts1 each: 237 calories, 5g fat (3g saturated fat), 40mg cholesterol, 106mg sodium, 43g carbohydrate (16g sugars, 1g fiber), 5g protein.
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I thought the orange in this recipe was such a nice addition for hot cross buns! Easy and made a ton of buns! But they don't make you feel like a ton! Very light and refreshing.
Mar 30, 2015
The perfect Hot Cross buns for Good Friday! I make them every year now for my family. The orange zing makes them exceptional.
Apr 10, 2011
I made up a batch of these buns yesterday & they are delicious. I've always loved Hot Cross buns & the addition of orange flavoring made these especially good. I'll be making these often. I didn't need quite as much flour as the recipe called for but that may have been my flour or the area I live.
Feb 2, 2010
These were easier than I expected. My friends were really impressed when I served them at supper. I would definately make them again!
Mar 24, 2008
I made these using the dough cycle in my bread maker. It was really quite easy this way. The results were great! Everyone loved them. Kris Countryman, Gladwin, MI


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Microsoft XBOX ONE Preview – 2013
The Microsoft XBOX One is the most anticipated game system launch of the year. Many people want to know what kind of system they can expect to see when it goes on sale, and what type of options and features it will have. Have no fear we have it all here! So down to the nitty gritty-
Microsoft XBOX ONE Preview – BASIC SPECS:
- 8 Core Processor
- 8 Gigs of RAM
- 500 GB Hard drive
- wifi direct
- backward compatible with your xbox 360 games
- 32 meg graphics card
- 1080p display with support for the new 4k resolutions
- bluray / dvd combo drive (most games will be downloadable, but you can still get disc based games which will be ripped to the hard drive automatically)
- 3 wifi radios
- full 3D support for games (this is an un-announced feature, but it is guaranteed to be there, as there is no way Microsoft is not including this feature with this hardware profile)
- USB 3.0 ports
Microsoft XBOX ONE Preview – Accessories-
- cool new wifi controllers
- Kinect 2.0 (it can see you in the dark)
Microsoft XBOX ONE Preview -Conclusion
So what will you be able to do with your new XBOX ONE? Play games, Video Call with Skype, Check out the Internet, Watch movies, Listen to music, interact with Windows based devices, and much more. Think of this as a complete entertainment system. Here are a bunch of great shots courtesy of Microsoft! As you can see the games look amazing… (the most important part right?) You can get more information by checking out the XBOX page. We know the new Microsoft XBOX ONE Preview is a little light, but we have to work with what Microsoft gives us right? They pitched a tent in Redmond, and gave us a tease of the most amazing new gear this year. Are you going to buy the XBOX ONE when it comes out? We will be in line… see you there!


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I'm planning on visiting India in November/December. I'd like to spend 4 days doing the 'Golden Triangle' - Delhi/Agra/Jaipur.
I'm looking to do this on a cheap budget i.e. back packer style. I'm just interested in seeing the sights - not looking for luxury.
There seems to be lots of tour operators for this itinerary. Can anyone recommend one?
Or would it be recommended to simply use trains/taxis and book accommodation myself? I prefer the idea of a tour because it would potentially be less stressful to organise and also means I'd probably meet like minded travelers.