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New member here in Satellite Beach FL. I have a '82 28' Cat Ketch (wishbone booms) that I'm about to begin restoring and have a question for other owners on steering wheel size.
Mine wheel is 32" and steers very easily but take up a lot of room. I'd like to drop a few inches to make it easier to get around the cockpit and locker door clearance.
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Latinos not voting propotionally with their population gains…Sunday, June 10th, 2012
Here's an interesting piece from Adam Nagourney of the New York Times.
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Angry Birds CEO At Peace With Chinese Counterfeit Merchandise
from the don't-get-mad-get-glad deptRecently, Rovio CEO, Peter Vesterbacka attended the Disrupt conference in Beijing. At that conference he walked on stage clutching a bunch of counterfeit Angry Birds balloons. However, he was not angry. He was actually happy. Why is this? Because it showed him that his game is hugely popular in China.
Vesterbacka said that the increase in counterfeit merchandise has influenced Rovio's retail strategy:
There are a lot of Angry Birds products out there, but most of them aren't officially licensed. Angry Birds is now the most copied brand in China, and we get a lot of inspiration from local producers.This line of thinking really flies in the face of most content producers. While other companies are ranting, raving and trying to legislate counterfeiting out of existence, Rovio is working to compete against counterfeiters on their home turf. It recognizes that those who buy counterfeits do so because of an unavailability of the real thing. By bringing authentic merchandise to China, Rovio is hoping to increase its revenue and capture a market that is based around its properties. Not only that, but he even admits that Rovio is learning from those counterfeits, and getting "inspiration." It's a form of free market research, so that Rovio can understand ahead of time what consumers want... for free.
Right now, we've proven that there's demand, and we're going for 100 million downloads this year for Angry Birds, and again the same demand for the physical products.
The way we look at it is, of course we want to sell the officially licensed, good quality products, but at the same time we have to be happy about the fact that the brand is so loved that it is the most copied brand in China.
It's great for us to see the demand, and that's why we're building our own stores here. And actually we're building our first stores here, and not in Helsinki... We hope to have quite a few over the next 12 months.
There's no reason why this will not work. The Chinese people want Angry Birds merchandise. Rovio is providing said merchandise. That is pure supply and demand at work. It's crazy that many other companies do not get that pure and simple lesson. Perhaps it's time for the CEOs and boards of directors of other companies to take a note from the Rovio playbook and put it into action. They might find a world that doesn't need poorly written legislation like PROTECT-IP/E-PARASITE or secret treaties like ACTA, but rather companies who listen to fans and provide them the goods and services they desire.
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BANGKOK (AP) — One of the founders of popular file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has been arrested under an Interpol warrant as he was crossing into Thailand from Laos, police said Tuesday. Hans Fredrik Lennart Neij, who uses the alias TiAMO, was detained Monday by Thai immigration police at a checkpoint in Thailand's Nong Khai province, about 500 kilometers (310 miles) northeast of Bangkok.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday the U.S. and China must work together to stave off a global catastrophe from climate change, as he appealed for greater cooperation between the two world powers despite strains between them over cyber theft and maritime security. Kerry heads to Beijing this week, to set the stage for a visit by President Barack Obama for a regional summit and talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping. That will be first leg of a three-nation swing through Asia, intended to underscore the president's commitment to the region.
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's military-installed government appointed a committee on Tuesday to draft the country's new constitution amid speculation that it will seek to bar former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his allies from politics. The 36-member panel consists of law experts, academics, former senators and others with close ties to the military and traditional conservative establishment. The appointment came more than five months after the military, led by Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha, toppled an elected government headed by Thaksin's allies.
BANGKOK (AP) — A Thai court sentenced a university student to 2 1/2 years in prison on Tuesday for posting a message on Facebook that the court said insulted the country's king. A Criminal Court judge found 24-year-old Akkaradet Eiamsuwan guilty of violating Thailand's lese majeste law, which punishes people who defame, insult or threaten the monarchy.
NEW DELHI (AP) — India on Tuesday ordered that Delhi's legislative assembly be dissolved for a new election after the three main political parties failed to form a government this year for a city of nearly 25 million people. Delhi has been run by the federal government since the city's top elected official resigned in February.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand last month was one of five nations to win elections for coveted seats on the U.N. Security Council. It will serve a two-year term as a non-veto-wielding member beginning in January. Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully says it's an opportunity to boost the South Pacific island nation's profile and contribute to solving international problems such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and long-divided Cyprus. The Associated Press recently interviewed McCully about what the win means. The interview has been edited for clarity and length. ___
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Police in Pakistan say a Muslim mob has beaten to death a Christian couple and burned their bodies in a brick kiln where they worked over them allegedly desecrating the Quran. Tuesday's slaying is the latest targeting minorities in Pakistan who allegedly committed blasphemy.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A big victory by German stallion Protectionist in the Melbourne Cup on Tuesday was overshadowed by the deaths of two horses after Australia's richest horse race, including the favorite Admire Rakti. Red Cadeaux strode to the lead in the last straight of the 2-mile (3,200-meter) classic but was overhauled on the inside by five-year-old Protectionist, which went on to win by four lengths in only its 10th race.
BANGKOK (AP) — Revelers in northern Thailand have been asked not to launch lanterns into the sky near airports to avoid airborne accidents during a popular festival this week, airport officials said Tuesday. The air traffic control center in Chiang Mai province has declared a 5-kilometer (3-mile) zone around the airport where people are advised not to launch lanterns from Wednesday to Friday, when Loy Krathong festival celebrations will take place, said Kiattisak Rienvatana, the center's director.
In this photo taken on a smartphone camera by Leesa Willmott, a fallstreak hole forms in the sky over Wonthaggi, Australia. The bizarre sight seen Monday in the town near Melbourne looked like a hole in the sky, or perhaps an alien spacecraft. Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Adam Conroy said fallstreak holes are circular gaps that appear in high clouds when a section of the cloud freezes. The ice crystals are heavy, so they fall out of the cloud, leaving a hole. It is a relatively rare phenomenon.
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A day after saying a billboard advertisement highlighting climate change was too political for world leaders gathering in the Australian city of Brisbane for a major economic summit, local airport authorities said Tuesday that they had also rejected an ad highlighting corruption problems. Brisbane Airport Corp. confirmed Monday that a World Wildlife Fund ad asking leaders of wealthy and developing countries to put climate change on the agenda of their G20 summit next week had been banned because it had "political intent."
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese engineers have successfully tested a laser weapon that can shoot down low-flying, slow-moving drones, state media reported Tuesday. The Low Altitude Sentinel system can detect a small aircraft within a 2-kilometer (1.2-mile) radius and shoot it down within five seconds, the newspaper China Daily said, citing a statement from the China Academy of Engineering Physics.
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The shooting of a Shiite religious leader outside a Sydney prayer hall appeared to have been influenced by the Islamic State movement, Australia's prime minister said Tuesday. Rasoul Al Mousawi, 47, was blasted with a shotgun in the face and shoulder in a drive-by shooting outside the Husainiyah Nabi Akram Center in suburban Greenacre early Monday.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A cyberattack similar to previous hacker intrusions from China penetrated computer networks for months at USIS, the government's leading security clearance contractor, before the company noticed, officials and others familiar with an FBI investigation and related official inquiries told The Associated Press. The breach, first revealed by the company and government agencies in August, compromised the private records of at least 25,000 employees at the Homeland Security Department and cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars in lost government contracts.
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Authentication schemes such as One Time Passwords (OTP) implemented using a hardware token can also be key in fighting attacks such as CSRF and client-side malware. A number of hardware tokens suitable for MFA are available
Authentication schemes such as One Time Passwords (OTP) implemented using a hardware token can also be key in fighting attacks such as CSRF and client-side malware. A number of hardware tokens suitable for MFA are available the market that allow good integration with web applications. See: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_token].
== Authentication and Error Messages ==
== Authentication and Error Messages ==
Revision as of 03:24, 24 January 2013
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Authentication General Guidelines
- 2.1 User IDs
- 2.2 Implement Proper Password Strength Controls
- 2.3 Implement Secure Password Recovery Mechanism
- 2.4 Require Re-authentication for Sensitive Features
- 2.5 Utilize Multi-Factor Authentication
- 2.6 Authentication and Error Messages
- 2.7 Transmit Passwords Only Over TLS
- 2.8 Implement Account Lockout
- 3 Session Management General Guidelines
- 4 Password Managers
- 5 Authors and Primary Editors
- 6 Other Cheatsheets
Authentication is the process of verification that an individual or an entity is who it claims to be. Authentication is commonly performed by submitting a user name or ID and one or more items of private information that only a given user should know.
Session Management is a process by which a server maintains the state of an entity interacting with it. This is required for a server to remember how to react to subsequent requests throughout a transaction. Sessions are maintained on the server by a session identifier which can be passed back and forward between the client and server when transmitting and receiving requests. Sessions should be unique per user and computationally very difficult to predict.
For more information on Authentication, please see the OWASP Guide to Authentication page.
Authentication General Guidelines
User IDs
Make sure your usernames/userids are case insensitive. Many sites use email addresses for usernames and email addresses are already case insensitive. Regardless, it would be very strange for user 'smith' and user 'Smith' to be different users. Could result in serious confusion.
Implement Proper Password Strength Controls
A key concern when using passwords for authentication is password strength. A "strong" password policy makes it difficult or even improbable for one to guess the password through either manual or automated means. The following characteristics define a strong password:
Password Length
Longer passwords provide a greater combination of characters and consequently make it more difficult for an attacker to guess.
- Minimum length of the passwords should be enforced by the application.
- Passwords shorter than 10 characters are considered to be weak ([1]).
While minimum length enforcement may cause problems with memorizing passwords among some users, applications should encourage them to set passphrases (sentences or combination of words) that can be much longer than typical passwords and yet much easier to remember.
- Maximum password length should not be set too low, as it will prevent users from creating passphrases. Typical maximum length is 128 characters.
- Passphrases shorter than 20 characters are usually considered weak if they only consist of lower case Latin characters.
- Every character counts!!
- Make sure that every character the user types in is actually included in the password. We've seen systems that truncate the password at a length shorter than what the user provided (e.g., truncated at 15 characters when they entered 20).
- This is usually handled by setting the length of ALL password input fields to be exactly the same length as the maximum length password. This is particularly important if your max password length is short, like 20-30 characters.
Password Complexity
Applications should enforce password complexity rules to discourage easy to guess passwords. Password mechanisms should allow virtually any character the user can type to be part of their password, including the space character. Passwords should, obviously, be case sensitive in order to increase their complexity. Occasionally, we find systems where passwords aren't case sensitive, frequently due to legacy system issues like old mainframes that didn't have case sensitive passwords.
The password change mechanism should require a minimum level of complexity that makes sense for the application and its user population. For example:
- Password must meet at least 3 out of the following 4 complexity rules
- at least 1 uppercase character (A-Z)
- at least 1 lowercase character (a-z)
- at least 1 digit (0-9)
- at least 1 special character (!"£$%&...) — do not forget to treat space as special characters (common in passphrases)
- at least 10 characters
- at most 128 characters
- not more than 2 identical characters in a row (e.g., 111 not allowed)
As application's require more complex password policies, they need to be very clear about what these policies are.
- The required policy needs to be explicitly stated on the password change page
- be sure to list every special character you allow, so it's obvious to the user
- Ideally, the application would indicate to the user as they type in their new password how much of the complexity policy their new password meets
- In fact, the submit button should be grayed out until the new password meets the complexity policy and the 2nd copy of the new password matches the 1st. This will make it far easier for the user to understand and comply with your complexity policy.
Regardless of how the UI behaves, when a user submits their password change request:
- If the new password doesn't comply with the complexity policy, the error message should describe EVERY complexity rule that the new password does not comply with, not just the 1st rule it doesn't comply with
Changing passwords should be EASY, not a hunt in the dark.
Implement Secure Password Recovery Mechanism
It is common for an application to have a mechanism that provides a means for a user to gain access to their account in the event they forget their password. Please see Forgot_Password_Cheat_Sheet for details on this feature.
Require Re-authentication for Sensitive Features
In order to mitigate CSRF and session hijacking, it's important to require the current credentials for an account before updating sensitive account information such as the user's password, user's email, or before sensitive transactions, such as shipping a purchase to a new address. Without this countermeasure, an attacker may be able to execute sensitive transactions through a CSRF or XSS attack without needing to know the user's current credentials. Additionally, an attacker may get temporary physical access to a user's browser or steal their session ID to take over the user's session.
Utilize Multi-Factor Authentication
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is using more than one authentication factor to logon or process a transaction:
- Something you know (account details or passwords)
- Something you have (tokens or mobile phones)
- Something you are (biometrics)
Authentication schemes such as One Time Passwords (OTP) implemented using a hardware token can also be key in fighting attacks such as CSRF and client-side malware. A number of hardware tokens suitable for MFA are available in the market that allow good integration with web applications. See: [2].
Authentication and Error Messages
Incorrectly implemented error messages in the case of authentication functionality can be used for the purposes of user ID and password enumeration. An application should respond (both HTTP and HTML) in a generic manner.
Authentication Responses
An application should respond with a generic error message regardless of whether the user ID or password was incorrect. It should also give no indication to the status of an existing account.
Incorrect Response Examples
- "Login for User foo: invalid password"
- "Login failed, invalid user ID"
- "Login failed; account disabled"
- "Login failed; this user is not active"
Correct Response Example
- "Login failed; Invalid userID or password"
The correct response does not indicate if the user ID or password is the incorrect parameter and hence inferring a valid user ID.
Error Codes and URL's
The application may return a different HTTP Error code depending on the authentication attempt response. It may respond with a 200 for a positive result and a 403 for a negative result. Even though a generic error page is shown to a user, the HTTP response code may differ which can leak information about whether the account is valid or not.
Transmit Passwords Only Over TLS
See: Transport Layer Protection Cheat Sheet
"The login page and all subsequent authenticated pages must be exclusively accessed over TLS. The initial login page, referred to as the "login landing page", must be served over TLS. Failure to utilize TLS for the login landing page allows an attacker to modify the login form action, causing the user's credentials to be posted to an arbitrary location. Failure to utilize TLS for authenticated pages after the login enables an attacker to view the unencrypted session ID and compromise the user's authenticated session."
Implement Account Lockout
If an attacker is able to guess passwords without the account becoming disabled due to failed authentication attempts, the attacker has an opportunity to continue with a brute force attack until the account is compromised.
Automating brute-force/password guessing attacks on web applications is a trivial challenge. Password lockout mechanisms should be employed that lock out an account if more than a preset number of unsuccessful login attempts are made.
Password lockout mechanisms have a logical weakness. An attacker that undertakes a large number of authentication attempts on known account names can produce a result that locks out entire blocks of user accounts.
Given that the intent of a password lockout system is to protect from brute-force attacks, a sensible strategy is to lockout accounts for a period of time (e.g., 20 minutes). This significantly slows down attackers, while allowing the accounts to reopen automatically for legitimate users.
Session Management General Guidelines
Session management is directly related to authentication. The Session Management General Guidelines previously available on this OWASP Authentication Cheat Sheet have been integrated into the new OWASP Session Management Cheat Sheet.
Password Managers
Password managers are programs, browser plugins or web services that automate management of large number of different credentials, including memorizing and filling-in, generating random passwords on different sites etc. The web application can help password managers by:
- using standard HTML forms for username and password input,
- not using multi-stage login schemes (username on first screen, then password),
- not using highly scripted (JavaScript) authentication schemes.
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Position statementsClimate Change (2019) Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C (2018) Climate Change (2013, 2014) Ocean (2013, 2014) Brief to the House of Commons (2009) Climate Change (2007) Kyoto Protocol (2003) Natural Hazards (2003) Climate Change (2002) Weather Modifications (2002)
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Creating Dashboard
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Tue, Oct 02
I performed on the L.A. Riot Festival at the Downtown Independent, two Sundays ago. It was an incredibly fun show to close out an incredible fun festival. Before my show, the audience booed a film about cupcakes. I got mad.
Don't worry, this will all tie in to why you should vote.
I was waiting to go on, and the audience – who ended up being amazing, by the way – were forced to sit through a short advertisement for Sprinkles Cupcakes. Two whole minutes of their busy lives – gone! Sprinkles was a major sponsor of the festival – helped to make it happen, really – so they'd hired a talented young filmmaker named Maureen Bharoocha to do some short films for their company. They were funny and creative. The one they screened before my show had a groovy, film noir feel.
People booed it.
I flashed back to when I first started going to the American Cinematheque, back in the 90's. This was before they had the Egyptian Theater on Hollywood Boulevard, and the Cinematheque a seat-of-the-pants, whatever-space-will-have-us operation. A local radio station – the always terrific 89.9 KCRW – would show these groovy, artistic short films about the station, letting the audience know about the shows and music they offered. None of these were more than 15 seconds long. KCRW was putting up money to make sure the Cinematheque got to show classic, obscure, and otherwise neglected films to the connoisseurs who loved them – and the connoisseurs booed.
At a screening one day, fed up with the booing (and the empty pose they represented) I shouted, 'How dare these people put up money so I can watch these movies I love?"
People booed me.
I think I was in my early 30's when I let loose on the booers and hissers. Before then, especially in my early 20's, I would have been one of the booers. Come to think of it, I probably did the equivalent, somewhere in my past – at an all-ages show, or a rep screening back in Washington, D.C., or somewhere. You're supposed to mindlessly, reflexively boo "The Man", even if you don't have the foggiest notion of who "The Man" is; even if you haven't taken the two seconds to maybe think about what "The Man" is doing. It's all part of growing up. It's fine.
It's also okay, once you get past a certain age and, through traveling or reading or just keeping your eyes open, to give the posers a nudge. It wasn't even meant to be mean-spirited. I had people knock my head in the right direction when I was wasting my youthful energy on the wrong targets. I was passing along the favor.
But what bothered me about the booings and hissing at the Cinematheque, and then two Sundays ago at The Downtown Independent, was that they were coming not only from the mouths of 20-somethings, but also 30, 40 and 50-somethings.
There's a line in Sunset Boulevard, where Joe Gillis, the washed-up screenwriter, says to Norma Desmond, the delusional ex-screen siren, "There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five."
I've stopped trying to be twenty-five. It looks stupid on me. I went up, at my show at the Downtown Independent, and said as much. I defended Maureen's films. I gently chided the audience for their lame booing. I applauded the twenty-somethings. I shook my head at the fifty-somethings, in their cargo shorts and ironic T-shirts. Generation X is currently staging a constant, flashmob rendition of Death in Venice. It'd be funny if it weren't so tragic and infuriating.
Maureen sent me 6 pints of Sprinkles ice cream for going to the trouble of speaking out for her work. These will go down nicely; I'm not trying to be slim and young anymore. I can make rumpled work for me. Waist and collar sizes are way more comfortable once you commit to the God of Rumple. And as a bonus, the meal portions are bigger:
Now let's go back to a week before the RIOT Festival. I posted a pic, both on Twitter and Facebook, of he holding a clipboard, with a link to a website called HeadCount.org. It's simply a website trying to get people to register to vote. Look, here's the picture:
They did a pretty good job, in the end, of getting people to register to vote. It was a noble, goofy, hopeful effort. In the face of a lot of fashionable indifference, there was action. It's the reason I cry at weddings. Not because the occasion is so beautiful and touching – it's the fact that, in the face of the insane divorce rate, and all the nay-sayers, there's still two people saying, "fuck it." It's the eternal Huck Finn, tearing up his letter to Miss Watson, and saying, "All right then, I'll go to hell." It's Morris Buttermaker in The Bad News Bears, deciding to coach a Little League team that everyone's given up on. And it's the housewives and hustlers, elders and outcasts, punching a fucking card in a smelly school auditorium somewhere, still believing in this wheezing, broken juggernaut of a country.
There were a lot of comments on my Facebook and Twitter feeds, from disillusioned twenty-somethings and heartbroken fifty-somethings still trying to act like they were twenty-something. "Stalin or Hitler?" "Choosing between Democrat and Republican is like choosing whether I want to be shot or stabbed." "Scarecrow vs. Tin Man?" and blah de fucking blaaaaaaaaaaaah.
We've tried some pretty radical, amazing experiments with our democracy. The constant improvisation, the willingness to roll with the new, is what makes this the greatest country on the planet. Not our gods, or adherence to the ancient words in ink on hemp – it's the willingness to look at how the world is changing around us, and fucking roll with it.
So here's the latest radical thing we should try. I don't think it will cost anyone a penny to try it and, if it fails, fuck it. We at least tried it. We've tried crazier things. Ready?
What if...what would happen if Every. One. Voted?
As far as I can see, that's the one thing we haven't tried yet. Every single person who can votes actually goes out and votes. For whoever they want. Not even necessarily Romney or Obama. Whatever Green or Libertarian or undeclared candidate they truly feel speaks to them. What if every single person who can vote in this country went out and voted. What effect would it have on our elected leaders, knowing that every single adult of voting age made their voice heard and is waiting and watching to see what happens now? Would it change the way we're governed – the fact that, for the first time in the nation's history, our leaders have unshakeable proof that every single one of us is present and involved? What would happen? Wouldn't it be cool to find out? Just once? Believe me, you could roll our eyes and Tweet irony to your heart's content after you pulled the lever, but what would happen if the "I Voted" sticker was on every lapel, like a Guy Fawkes mask or smiley face button with a single slash of blood in the upper left hand corner? What if we didn't boo the two minute film about cupcakes? If we're the most awesome country on the planet, then aren't we awesome enough for everyone to vote on its direction?
We'll never know. I know this, but I can dream. It's the one thing we haven't tried. Maybe someday.
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This brings me, finally, to the debates. And why I could not be more giddily, goofily, unreasonably excited to watch them.
It's the comedian in me. The performer. You can actually change your life with one perfect set, or one flawlessly placed joke. George Gobel on The Tonight Show, and his line about brown shoes and tuxedos – immortality with one tossed-off line. Dick Gregory at The Roberts Show Bar in Chicago, telling an all-white, Southern crowd about spending "twenty years one night" in the South. Lenny Bruce at Berekeley. Sam Kinison on the first Rodney Dangerfield Young Comedian's Special. Bill Hicks in the UK. Chris Rock's Bring the Pain in 1996, and the "black people vs. niggers" routine – launching Chris into infinity and literally moving race relations into the 21st century. Patrice O'Neal on the Charlie Sheen Roast. Tig Notaro at The Largo last month. It can happen. Comedians know it. We see it all the time.
Read Robert Draper's masterful "They Retort, You Decide!" in this month's GQ, about how important these four upcoming debates are. About how past debates – and whole campaigns – have been made or ruined in a single phrase or gesture. George Bush Sr. checking his watch. Reagan radicalizing Carter with a simple, "There you go again." Sometimes, of course, nothing comes from a debate performance, even a brilliant one. Maybe a three point bump. Maybe nothing.
As I wrote this, the HuffPo is reporting how Romney is preparing "zingers" for Wednesday night. Because his campaign is, at this point, an AMC Gremlin on fire on the expressway. His big donors are pulling out their cash and putting it into Senate and congressional races. Peggy Noonan, Bill Kristol and David Brooks are shaking their heads. This is it. And nothing has more potential for disaster and glory than a comedian cornered. Romney is a comedian right now, in the middle of a flame-out set, with half the audience walking out and the club owner threatening to cancel his hotel room and send him packing. He's been flashed the light and he's got five minutes to pull this thing together, to get a laugh, to get over.
Read Sarah Huisenga's Atlantic article about debate expectations. It's sickeningly simple this time. Romney's only advantage over Obama is that Obama can lose an audience, can actually bore the shit out of people, if he sticks to the script. Obama's strength is when he's surprised, when he's forced to think on his feet. It's how he crushed Hilary in 2008.
Romeny's huge weakness is being surprised. It's where he's made all his fuck-ups ("I'll bet you $10,000…"). Romney is in the unique position of having to make sure to make things unsurprising for his opponent, but make sure absolutely nothing happens off-script for him.
The tension's going to be delicious. I've already for the wine picked out, the popcorn ready to pop. It's a verbal Superbowl, a Thunderdome in neckties. I wouldn't miss it for the world.
Because, let's face it, this one is for the world.


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Bucs play waiting game with injured Cutch
PITTSBURGH -- The Pirates continue their waiting game with their star center fielder.
Andrew McCutchen -- who sustained an avulsion fracture of his 11th rib in his left side Sunday -- remains off the disabled list, and manager Clint Hurdle said it was "his understanding" the reigning National League MVP was able to take a few swings of a bat recently. The Pirates and McCutchen said they want to hold off on a DL move for the center fielder to see if he could be game-ready before 15 days are up.
"They continue and try and add different mobility exercises, resistance exercises, movement -- the degree of running he's doing right now, I think it's the minimum," Hurdle said Friday. "[McCutchen is] progressing in a positive fashion as of now."
In addition to McCutchen's injury, second baseman Neil Walker was out of the starting lineup for the fifth time in six games Friday due to tightness in his back. Walker was able to take ground balls and batting practice on the field with his teammates -- an improvement from Thursday -- but Hurdle said he's still only available in an emergency scenario Friday.


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Tooling Article
Embracing and Benefitting from Hard Milling
While hard milling of stamping tooling can be tricky, manufacturers, by following the right protocol, stand to benefit more from this machining practice than if they were to employ grinding, wire EDM or die-sinking EDM operations. Not only are grinding and EDM machines more costly than milling equipment, but they also require significantly more time to set up. When compared to grinding, hard milling can reduce a manufacturer's cutting time by as much as 60 percent.
Cutting Tool Selection Critical
Successful hard milling of die and tooling components requires careful selection of machine tool, spindle, CNC control and CAD/CAM system. But even more important is selecting a high-quality cutting tool during having a clear understanding of how to effectively implement the tool into the machining process. In fact, most manufacturers that fail at hard milling do so because they skimp on their cutting tools, not realizing that the right choice can save money in the long run.
The recommended hard-milling cutting-tool material is cubic boron nitride (CBN), the second hardest material on the planet. It proves ideal for rough- and finish-machining of hard steels to 70 Rockwell, as well as for abrasive materials such as grey cast irons. CBN is harder and more abrasive resistant than the commonly used carbide and ceramic inserts. And, while CBN costs nearly seven times more than carbide, manufacturers will benefit from its adequate balance of strength, toughness, thermal conductivity and chemical inertness that ultimately provides optimum tool life and finishing capabilities.
To take the sting out of the high upfront cost of CBN, die shops should seek to purchase CBN from suppliers as a solid insert—available in various geometries including square and triangular designs, and grades where each corner is utilized. This practice will reduce the price per edge compared to the purchase of tipped inserts, which do not allow for the application of every corner of the product. For example, Secomax CBN products (from Seco) reportedly can outperform ceramics by more than 30 times when machining pearlitic cast iron.
In terms of cutter bodies, the best designs for optimizing surface finish when hard milling tooling components for stamping are shell milling cutters, six-pocketed milling cutters, cassette milling cutters and adjustable milling cutters.
Considerations for Hard Milling
For manufacturers considering hard milling for the first time, or looking to get back into it, there are several variables to consider when selecting the right cutting tools, and ultimately to move forward with conducting a CBN milling test.
First, determine whether the hard-milling operation will involve rough- or finish-machining, as this will help guide the selection of the right insert and cutter for the job. The approach angle also influences cutter selection, so it's important to decide whether square-shoulder or face milling is the optimum choice.
Another consideration is evaluating cutter geometry and setup rigidity, as this helps determine whether a positive or negative cutter works best in a particular application. And, manufacturers should establish whether or not a wiper insert is necessary. Wiper inserts sit slightly higher than the other inserts and wipe down the part to create a superior surface finish. Those seeking a porous finish would not require a wiper insert.
If hard milling is an entirely new approach for a manufacturer, the company should seek an OEM partner that specializes in hard-milling tools. Such a partner can assist in cutting-tool selection, as well as offer a cutting strategy that includes proper setting of feeds and speeds, depths of cut and programming. After all, hard milling differs significantly from conventional milling, and proper know-how is vital to successful implementation, future gains in productivity and profitability.
When preparing to conduct a milling test—in light of the high upfront costs associated with CBN—manufacturers should take steps to ensure they don't invest a significant amount of money during the evaluation. For example, the test cutter need not have every pocket loaded with CBN. An effective test can occur with only one or two inserts and an adequately adjusted feed rate.
Proper Technique
If after much consideration a manufacturer decides to invest in the hard-milling process using CBN, it should keep two very important things in mind. First, while conventional machining processes apply coolant to help disperse heat and effectively remove chips, a manufacturer using CBN to hard mill should avoid the use of coolant. CBN generates excessive heat at the cutting zone, and as heat transfers to the chips the coolant vaporizes on contact. Further, coolant can create instability in the tool since milling involves interrupted cuts—the CBN insert is out of the cut 50 percent of the time, so it's constantly heating up and cooling down. Adding coolant to the process would cause the insert to go into thermal shock. To displace chips, die shops can use compressed air.
In addition, operators will often mistakenly program the milling machine for climb cutting during hard milling. During climb cutting, the width of the cut starts at the maximum and decreases to zero. While climb cutting is the correct technique for milling with carbide and high-speed steel cutters, operators should avoid this method when hard milling with CBN, as it is detrimental to tool life. Climb cutting grabs a thick chip and thins it out during the cut. With CBN, rather than grabbing a thick chunk of steel and slamming into the side of a part, optimum results come from easing into the material and producing a larger chip as the cutter exits the part.While change can be scary, manufacturers that currently perform a lot of grinding and post-heat treatment operations should consider hard milling—it's faster and less costly. Sure there are still some unknowns, but with the right OEM support and a clear understanding of what goes into the process, anyone can be successful. MF
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Back to campus.
Facebook is searching for office space in Cambridge, Mass., where other tech companies have offices in close proximity to MIT, according to the Boston Business Journal.
The $66 billion Menlo Park company already has four employees in temporary office space in nearby Boston's business district, but is looking to add up to 7,000 square feet of office space to its portfolio, the newspaper reported.
Sources told the newspaper the move would allow Facebook to be physically near Microsoft, Google, and Nokia.
This would be a return after an absence of seven years. Back when Facebook was merely a social network and not THE social network, the fledgling company had sales staff at 280 Summer Street in South Boston, the business journal reported.


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Hold 'Em
This story appears in the July 2000 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
How a company raises expansion capital can have profoundly different effects on its owner. Robert Robison, an independent consultant in Sanibel, florida, who works with entrepreneurs getting financing, says, "Most entrepreneurs would choose debt [equity] if they could get it, because they believe they wouldn't have to give up any control. But it's not always a choice. Few new companies have assets to collateralize-like land, equipment or a patent. Entrepreneurs who do often end up leveraging their most valuable asset, and there goes the business if they don't satisfy the debt."
Of course, there's the psychology of ownership. Certain entrepreneurs just don't want to give up anything. According to Robison, "In [my] 15 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers, my biggest task in advising entrepreneurs was getting their mind around sharing control."
A look behind the scenes at two entrepreneurs who made it through the financing process highlights the profound differences between debt and equity financing. Entrepreneur Jane Witheridge reveals what happened when she borrowed money to purchase and expand her small business. Farhad Mohit, on the other hand, opted instead to sell ownership of his BizRate.com to venture capital investors-and has a different story to tell.
Cynthia Harrington, a freelance writer in Austin, Texas, writes about business for a variety of publications, including Bloomberg Wealth Manager and Senior magazines.
An Entrepreneur's Uphill Climb
Road To Garden-ville
Witheridge is what you might call a reluctant entrepreneur. At 41, she was an upper-level executive at Waste Management Inc., a garbage collector in Oakbrook, Illinois. Her perks included limos to the airport and first-class accommodations. Five years later, she's sitting in an unadorned two-person office at the end of a San Antonio, Texas, dirt road. A wood sign bears her company's name: Garden-ville.
Garden-ville sells mulches, composts and fertilizers to landscapers, distributors and individual gardeners. Witheridge's enthusiasm shows when she describes ingredients in her company's compost: "We take animal bedding from race tracks and the zoo: the heavier and wetter the better. Paunch, that's the undigested contents from cows' stomachs, comes from the packing plants. We get guano from the largest bat cave in the world, just down the road. All this organic matter mixed with dirt makes the best compost in the world."
Her trip from Fortune 500 executive to Garden-ville started with the realization that there was money in garbage. As vice president of strategic operations at WMX Technologies, which owns Waste Management Inc., she analyzed numbers and predicted the future. But her advice that sales could be made from garbage fell on deaf ears, so she opted to capitalize on the idea herself.
She quit her executive job to purchase companies occupying unique niches in serving landscapers. "We needed $3 million to $8 million to buy the companies and install the efficiencies," Witheridge says. "Over a hundred capital providers turned me down." But she regrouped. "I looked at the four companies we had letters of intent with and chose the one with the best brand name."
|They've been with you through thick and thin-the "Friends & Family" section will tell you how you can turn to loved ones for financing.
That company was Garden-ville. In late 1998, she renegotiated the deal to buy it. For $500,000 upfront, the seller would hold the note for the remainder of the equity. "Where was I going to get the cash?" she remembers. "I was able to pull in a favor from a friend, who got me a second mortgage on my house for the upfront payment."
After closing the deal, she still faced the balloon on the company debt. "I needed a bank," Witheridge recalls. "A local bank saw the asset base of land and buildings. They took a risk, taking out the balloon and extending us a line of credit. That was a very happy day."
Challenges Of Borrowing Money
Capitally Constrained
After failing to raise equity for one business plan, after moving her family from Chicago to San Antonio, after putting her house up to secure a loan, Witheridge was an entrepreneur. "There's no gentle way to get into the water," she says. "You've just got to get in, but it's cold."
The water metaphor took on a whole new meaning when Witheridge took over Garden-ville-just before a major flood. Everything washed out-roads, phone lines, electricity. "We had to start over with everything," she says.
With an eye on making payments to the seller and the bank, Witheridge and her team feverishly went to work. Garden-ville had over $3 million in sales but had been generating losses and needed to pay debts. They streamlined product lines, ended unprofitable contracts, and trained sales people to focus on products that added to the bottom line. Says Witheridge, "I thought I'd have the time to do all this once the capital was there. But we had to hit the ground running. We had no margin for error."
Three years later, Witheridge is philosophical about financing. "I may own equity, but I'm still paying off the previous owner. Even now, we are capitally constrained. But I have the confidence now we can make it on our own. It could be a 'grass is greener' situation, but I often wonder what we could have done if we'd raised equity financing. I'm sure we wouldn't have found our way to the efficiencies as quickly."
Pros And Cons
Each method of raising capital comes with its own joys and sorrows. Here are just a few:
- Investors share your viewpoint because they take the risk with you. They get their reward when you do when stock price increases.
- If additional equity is needed to grow, early investors usually have extensive contacts and can help raise the needed capital.
- Investor cash can help attract top-notch management teams.
- Founders give up a percentage of their companies' ownership.
- Owners lose some operational control of their companies, and the outsiders even have a say over the founders' salary.
- Companies can get into the "more where that came from" syndrome, always looking for investors but never making a profit.
- There's no dilution of ownership; original owners keep it all.
- As long as the debt payments are made, the original owners give up no operational control.
- The company turns a profit sooner because owners must make cash to serve the debt and have access to additional credit.
- Not all companies have access to debt financing; lenders want collateral in land, equipment, or a patent.
- If the company doesn't make payments, it loses everything.
- Growth is limited to internally generated cash flow, or additional credit based on the company's profitability.
- Lenders want equity and convertible debt dilutes ownership.
An Entrepreneur's Road To Success
Don't Get E-Screwed
What's it like on the e-side of town? BizRate.com surveys e-shoppers and makes the data available to the marketplace. It also signs up vendors to sell on the site. Founder Farhad Mohit, 30, describes the company with evangelistic zeal: "We ensure democracy in e-commerce. Shoppers can access our information so they can make decisions on factors in addition to price."
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Mohit knew he had a big idea with BizRate.com and he'd been working on it for two years when he looked for financing. "The scary part in bringing in venture capitalists is that you've got people in your company you don't even know. And you don't own your company anymore. Your stock vests over time. If they fire you, they get your stock, too. At first I couldn't believe that was legal. But we were one month ahead of bankruptcy so we took the deal."
Mohit had been on track for a lifetime of academia. After five years at University of California, Los Angeles and a job at Andersen Consulting, he was off to get an MBA at University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in Philadelphia. "I'd applied to law school, then I thought a Ph.D., and then teach," Mohit says. "Then the Web hit me. I type in a few keys, and all the knowledge of the world is available to me. This is really incredible."
After graduation in 1996, Mohit and two friends (Dave Schaller and Henri Asseily) spent the summer developing a business plan that had been a class project at Wharton. Setting up in Schaller's apartment, they designed infrastructure, signed up vendors and began collecting shopper data. As the summer drew to a close, decisions had to be made. Asseily's family was pressuring him to take his place in the family business, and Schaller indicated he wanted to return to his job at Boston Consulting Group. "If you've got other options, at some point it becomes irrational not to take them," Mohit says. "I hadn't interviewed anywhere, but if I had, perhaps I would have had an offer to manage a Caterpillar plant in the middle of Idaho, and I would have had to take it."
Struggles Of Selling Equity
No Other Options
Seeing his team disintegrating, Mohit took action. He persuaded David Reibstein, a Wharton professor, to get involved. "With Reibstein on our board, we had validity," Mohit says. "With his investment in the company, we were worth $1 million on paper."
Using the newfound credibility and company valuation, Mohit raised $220,000 in seed capital from friends and family that would last until March 1997. Only Asseily and Mohit stayed on, relocating the company to Mohit's parents' house in Los Angeles. Mohit describes the move: "Here I was, 27 years old, moving back into my parents' house, with $80,000 in school debts. I thought the world had come to an end."
By mid-1997, he had several VC firms vying for the opportunity to fund his company. He settled on two: Mission Ventures and Media Technology Ventures for a total of $4.5 million.
"Suddenly, it became serious," Mohit says. "I had real pressure, because with the money, I have to make something happen. Now I've got guys in suits asking for budgets for putting the capital to work."
When advising clients, Robison warns that one risk of selling equity is managing new relationships. "With selling equity comes requirements to report to someone else," he says. "The entrepreneur has to confer on things like his or her salary."
But Mohit saw the advantages of capital. They had six workers when they got financing and almost 100 just 18 months later. It also accelerated marketing. In 1996, Outpost.com signed up as BizRate.com's Charter Merchant. "We started this thing signing up one vendor at a time. It took us two years to sign up 1,500 vendors." That figure doubled in the last months of 1999, when 1,500 more retailers signed up.
Mohit seems to have dealt with his concern about bringing in investors, having given up his role as CEO to be Chief Technical Officer. "We're just finishing another capital raise of $22 million," Mohit says. "This was a walk in the park compared to the first one. But now we've got even more urgency to create revenues, to make it grow."
Getting It Done
The risk in borrowing money is the potential loss of assets used as collateral-and the end of the business. The reward is continued control. The risks of selling equity, on the other hand, are losing operational control and future dilution of ownership as capital is needed. But the reward is accelerated growth. So although entrepreneurs lose ownership, the value of the retained stock sometimes makes it worth it.
Financing methods differ but entrepreneurs are the same. "There's no real difference in the personalities of entrepreneurs who choose to borrow over those who sell a portion of their company," says Robison. "Both are characterized by a single-minded purpose."
Buddhists say there are many paths to the mountaintop. And as Robison puts it, "You get what you can get, and give up what you need to give up, to get the deal done. The best entrepreneurs mature into successful managers of enterprises they just happened to start."
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The White House claims thousands of jobs are at stake with today's beginning of a federal sequester, automatic cuts in most federal programs.
Here are some cuts the White House and U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan say Minnesotans can expect by September if Congress and the president make no changes:
-- About $7 million in general education funding is at risk, putting 100 teacher and aide jobs in jeopardy.
-- Disabled children's education programs would lose $9.2 million.
-- About 920 fewer low-income students would receive college financial aid.
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