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The passage of DOPA (HR 5319), Deleting Online Predators Act, is
the latest effort on the part of the Congress to manage the unmanageable (and perhaps do some fear-mongering among constituents in this election year?). ALA's objection to the legislation was expressed in Beth Yoke's testimony before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet of the Committee on Energy and Commerce. The position is predicated on three premises:
1. The legislation will limit access to a broad range of essential interactive web applications in schools and libraries
2. It will exacerbate the digital divide, impacting disproportionately those with no or limited computing resources of their own
3. Education and parental involvement are the keys to keeping children safe and helping them to develop judgment that will help them keep themselves safe.
That this sort of legislation would be passed in an election year is not so surprising -- the Internet has become a favorite whipping boy for legislators hoping to evidence their inclination to save us from dangers real and imagined. Who can argue with keeping children safe from predators? In fact, as Yoke's testimony suggests, preventing access in exactly the places where children might be instructed to use such services safely and responsibly will probably leave children less safe. The magnitude of the rejection of this argument (410 -15) is chilling indeed.
A number of discussions on the subject points to it unenforceability, but this is the sort of legislation that enforces itself... or rather, by threatening the withdrawal of funding, 'encourages' affected institutions to self police -- or else. Lets hope cooler heads in the Senate prevail.
Like it or not, the trajectory of increased connectivity is an immutable trend of social and technological change. It pervades our private lives, education, and business. Vague, blunt, clumsy efforts on the part of mostly privileged, middle-aged, white American males will not stem this change, nor keep our children safe from its side effects. Such efforts can, however, further damage our competitiveness by stifling innovation and complicating local decision making and operations in libraries and educational institutions.
thanks to Marshall Kirkpatrick whose blog post on this topic has links to other interesting commentary on this issue.
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- Anonymous12/07/2010
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- At-risk prekindergarteners completing the Nemours BrightStart! intensive educational instruction gain an average of 114 percent on their reading readiness scores.
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Nemours BrightStart! program helps close reading readiness gap in Florida's Duval County Public Schools.
Now in its fifth year, the Nemours BrightStart! partnership with Florida's Duval County Public School District continues to improve the reading readiness scores of pre-K students at risk for reading failure.
During the 2012-2013 school year, nearly 200 kids participated in the Nemours BrightStart! small-group enrichment program. By the end of the year, kids participating in the program saw a 125 percent gain in reading readiness scores, compared to a 32 percent gain by their peers who did not receive the intervention. The intervention helped to close the reading readiness performance gap noted in the beginning of the school year.
The eight-month intervention consisted of scripted, evidence-based, multisensory instruction provided by classroom teachers to promote skills like phonological awareness and alphabet knowledge that set the foundation for reading. The program aims to engage diverse learners as the interactive curriculum stimulates participants to use all of their senses in the learning experience. It also uses a unique approach to target children before they enter kindergarten, as research shows students who have strong reading readiness skills excel in reading when they enter K-12 school systems.
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The results were very encouraging: The children in the capacity-building groups averaged nearly 150 percent annualized gains in early literacy skills, actually surpassing the 114 percent historical benchmark average gain set by Nemours BrightStart! staff over four years of direct service.
When taught by their own teachers using the Nemours BrightStart! curriculum, child outcomes were remarkable. We now have trained hundreds of classroom teachers and paraprofessionals in several states to use the Nemours BrightStart! program. They are also achieving great success and growing the program in their school and child care systems.


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Despite the large cubic foot print volume of the Series Pro, I had to upgrade to an even more expensive and larger 3d printer. The Series Pro is arguably the best printer in its class; very reliable and solid build and comes with a bunch of goodies such as camera and wireless connectivity. The little use I had with it was enough to impress me. I'm selling the printer in its original packaging, still with warranty, and around $300 of extra replacement parts.
This printer is in high demand and being sold for $4,100 before shipping costs. The advertised lead time is 8+ weeks but a bit of research will reveal that they often take longer than 3 months to ship.
Many parts were upgraded to TAM's latest updated parts and all the used parts will come as back-ups. The printer is like-new.
-Latest up-to-date Series 1 Pro printer
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People talk about how increased retail consumption will lead to the trickling down of wealth to the underprivileged. This old, scrap-off-our-table approach to economics not only doesn't work but it's wrecking the planet by wasting its resources.
But one of the priorities adopted by Saturday's Step It Up 2007 national action on climate change--together with 80% greenhouse gas emission reduction and a moratorium on coal power stations--is the creation of 5 million green jobs for low-income communities. With green job initiatives, we can work to solve the environmental problem and the poverty problem at the same time.
As the Step It Up website says: "An economy that relies on green energy needs green jobs. As investments catalyze the growth of a new, clean energy economy, we are finally ready to replace the old debate of "jobs vs. the environment" by investing in "jobs for the environment.""
According to the New York Times's Thomas Friedman, Van Jones, head of Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland, California:
...has been on a crusade to help underprivileged African-Americans and other disadvantaged communities understand why they would be the biggest beneficiaries of a greener America. It's about jobs. The more government requires buildings to be more energy efficient, the more work there will be retrofitting buildings all across America with solar panels, insulation and other weatherizing materials. Those are manual-labor jobs that can't be outsourced.
"You can't take a building you want to weatherize, put it on a ship to China and then have them do it and send it back," said Mr. Jones. "So we are going to have to put people to work in this country — weatherizing millions of buildings, putting up solar panels, constructing wind farms. Those green-collar jobs can provide a pathway out of poverty for someone who has not gone to college."
That Step It Up 2007 has adopted the green job priority as part of its plan to combat global warming is just another reason to join in the local events around the United States on Saturday. New York City's rally will be from noon till 2PM in Washington Square Park. Find your own local rally here.
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An old Roman proverb said: "Variatio delectat"! Change is delightful! The cooperation of the district of the United States and Canada is a great step forward in team work. For several months now both districts have been working hard together on various projects and we are very proud to present the first fruits of our joint endeavor - The new Angelus magazine! It is our fervent hope that the Angelus will open the way to a more universal, a more catholic way of spreading the faith. The completely updated Angelus will be distributed also in Canada and the Canadian district is heavily committed to participating in this work. Convictions magazine will continue as the newsletter of the Society in Canada. It will inform the faithful of all news and developments in our District. A renowned European advertising firm developed a particularly appropriate and distinctive corporate image for the Society. This new style is designed not only for the Angelus but for all kinds of publications including correspondence and revamped websites. I'm very happy to be closely involved in this work and honored to be able to write these lines. The inspiration behind the new look Angelus was to attract our ever increasing younger faithful.
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, founder of the Society: his life, his person and his work.
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Skip to comments.Paris: Muslims riot : Muslim tries to strangle police officer ticketing his wife for face veil
Posted on 07/20/2013 10:49:16 AM PDT by george76
"The law should be applied, and applies to everyone." That principle, so hard-won in the West, is rapidly giving way. "5 injured in clashes at burka riot outside Paris
About 250 people hurling projectiles clashed with police firing tear gas west of Paris, in apparent protest over enforcement of Frances ban on Islamic face veils. Five people were injured and six detained in the violence, authorities said Saturday.
(Excerpt) Read more at jihadwatch.org ...
Paris: Muslims riot, injuring five, after Muslim tries to strangle police officer ticketing his wife for wearing face veil
How dumb are the cops why are they so afraid of those ragheads.
What a mess.
The Strategy of Islam to Infiltrate and Dominate a Host Population
- They seek out nations that have basic social freedoms or areas that our depressed or void of law
- They immigrate to these areas using the laws of freedom or take advantage of those in depressed areas by offering the basic essentials of life
- Once they have merged in the host country, Islam demands respect for its customs by the host population
- They immediately begin to import their own laws into the host population
- They use the minority radicals to spread fear among the host population and enforce Islams code
- They begin to populate large numbers of Muslims through immigration and birth in the host nation
- They do a show of force through large gatherings when outnumbered by the host population and center themselves in urban areas
- When outnumbered, they will appear as the victim. When they obtain the majority, they become the aggressor
- Once they gain the majority, they strike down the host population or drive them out by use of the minority radicals and seize what were the host population properties
- Once Muslims move into an area, they spread into the social fabric through the establishment of mosques, by the economic through stores in every part of the city to bring Muslims into areas once dominated by only the host population, the use the political sphere to get Muslims elected into local, then state, then federal offices by sheer numbers in order to take over the entire social, economic, and political host through the protection of what is defined as a religion
It more commonly fits the definition of a virus: a small infectious agent that can replicate only inside the living cells of organisms. Most viruses are too small to be seen directly with a light microscope. Viruses infect all types of organisms...
'Tis better to give than to receive.
I'm in full agreement with that. :)
Give them a whiff of the grape.
Big problems require rash solutions. Solve a problem early on, or wait until it becomes unmanageable.
Let in wild dogs be prepared to be bitten.
"bowel movement" ???
Double taps, release the hounds, ship any survivors back to the third world.
"Choppez les Ragheads! Vite! Vite!
Arrgh, I just love that expression!
I can trace my ancestry back to Charles the Hammer as well as several crusaders from France and England. Too bad the land of my ancestors have lost their balls. If they attack, kill them and then finish off any who riot in response. Reclaim your countries you twits from the POS sons of pig-f'n dogs.
Natural selection would have kept these people in their homelands and their populations in check. Intervention by the west to endow these folks with western medicine and abundance will be the death of the west and then eventually natural selection will again dominate as modernity is forgotten and folks degenerate back rather then evolve forward.
Liberals infiltrated the populace in an eerily similar manner. They used the schools, the media, and the courts rather than mosques and stores.
If you read early works on the French, Russian, and Chinese communist movements - they work the same - there's whole books dedicated on this - some colleges - depending on what Poli-sci class you get - recommend them...the beginning to subvert the very nation that allows everyone the freedom to seek higher education - once there - they teach the gullible how to destroy it!
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Slow-cooker BBQ pulled pork
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Slow-cooker BBQ pulled pork
Slow-cooker BBQ pulled pork
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I love you. lolReplyDelete
I was just talking today about how much I love pulled pork, but it's hard to get gluten-free. You solved my problem!!!!
looks delish. you really have a talent. have you thought about going to culinary arts school or working at a restaurant?ReplyDelete
Beri- Thanks! I've thought about it, but I don't want the hours of a restaurant, and I think culinary school would be a waste for me. Someday I want to open a bakery or breakfast place up in New England. Or write a cookbook. Who knows!ReplyDelete
this looks delicious! i don't have a slow cooker, though... now I'M jealous!ReplyDelete
what would you suggest for cooking in an oven? :)
Katherine - I'd just cook it all day in a really low oven, like 250, covered in foil.ReplyDelete
We had pulled pork yesterday and it was good, will try this recipe next time though.ReplyDelete


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In the development world, many powerful forces work to push out software before it's ready, but waiting to release complete, well-tested software is really best for both the customer and the developer. I spoke with the customer-support manager of a software-development firm that was far along in its next release's development process. Predictably, the project was running late, and the customer-support manager dreaded the decisions the firm might make to complete the project on time. One of the biggest mistakes that most companies make in software-development projects is rushing the next release out the door.
When talking with end users, department heads, and customers, software-development companies tend to point to the next release as the solution to the problems in the current application. End users and customers develop high expectations for the next release, and they pressure the software-development company to complete the projects as rapidly as possible. In response to this customer demand, the software-development company tries to find ways to bring the software project to completion early. But an early release can trade code quality for time and can require cutting essential features from the software.
Other complications can arise from changes in the development tools that developers are using to produce their software. Each release of software-development tools has a more complex development process than the one before it, which can mean developers need more time to produce well-tested products.
When software needs to be released earlier than expected, the developers must compensate for the abbreviated production timeline by shortening or cutting out processes. The evolving nature of software applications ensures that each subsequent release of a product has more features than the previous release. Plus, as each release is being developed, most firms incorporate new technologies and the capabilities they bring into the development process.
All of this adds time to the software-development process—not just for the code development but also for testing the code for quality, security, and reliability. When projects get pressed for time, this important testing and quality assurance phase is often the first thing that gets cut back.
Although there are many compelling reasons for companies to release software early, there are few worse decisions. Pushing out software that isn't quite ready will have unwanted consequences both for the customer and the development company.
The customers are often the ones pressing for the release, but they're also the ones who must deal with unwanted and unexpected software bugs. At best, these bugs can delay business while the company attempts to find workarounds. In the worst cases, these bugs can result in lost data and data corruption, which must be repaired. The developer has to deal with a flurry of support requests and deploy and manage a series of software updates. As the old adage "a stitch in time saves nine" aptly points out, when software-development companies take their time up front, they and their customers will see the savings down the road.


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CHANDLER, Ariz. - Notes from round 2 qualifying in Funny Car at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, 29th annual NHRA Arizona Nationals listing lane, driver name, elapsed time/top speed this round, position in order following run, best prior elapsed time/speed, and position in order prior to run:
Left Lane: Terry Haddock Runs 7.826/90.42, Now #17; Best prior run: 10.480/90.82, Was #17
Right Lane: Jeff Arend Runs 4.855/165.72, Now #10; Best prior run: 15.886/78.64, Was #18
4:40 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 65 degrees, relative humidity 28 percent, barometer 28.82 inches, adjusted altitude 1,990 feet, track temperature 94 degrees.
Jeff Diehl is on the bump spot at 5.953. It's starting to cool off, as the sun
is starting to get low in the West. Eighteen cars running for the coveted top twelve spots.
Left Lane: Courtney Force Runs 4.064/315.71, Now #1; Best prior run: 8.031/67.64, Was #18
Right Lane: Tim Wilkerson Runs 5.452/136.59, Now #13; Best prior run: 7.023/89.33, Was #15
Tony Pedregon is on the bump spot at 5.499.
Force picks up where she left off last week with a picture perfect pass right to the top of the ladder with top time and a new track speed record.
Wilkerson left right with her and ran close until near the 330 lights. The slicks started to spin and a quick slap of the pedal couldn't catch them back up.
Courtney Force's incremental times: 60ft-0.890 sec., 330ft-2.314, 660ft-3.287/266.85 mph.
Left Lane: Alexis DeJoria Runs 4.157/303.09, Now #6; Best prior run: 7.489/85.81, Was #17
Right Lane: John Force No Time, Now #17; Best prior run: 6.120/109.40, Was #16
Todd Lesenko is on the bump spot at 5.092.
DeJoria chases Force off the line and finally get by right before the finish line. She has her hands busy keeping the car from drifting too far near the wall down track. That will move her into the current top half of the field.
Force was on a strong pass with better incrementals right from the start to near the 660 lights. The car starts to get loose at that point and he drives the Mustang right into the finish line reflectors. His 4.208 would have make him number eight on the ladder, but his times are DQ'ed.
Alexis DeJoria's incremental times: 60ft-0.914 sec., 330ft-2.367, 660ft-3.354/261.07 mph.
John Force's incremental times: 60ft-0.901 sec., 330ft-2.313, 660ft-3.307/245.99 mph.
Left Lane: Tony Pedregon No Time, Now #16; Best prior run: 5.499/129.08, Was #15
Right Lane: Jeff Diehl Runs 4.947/161.69, Now #13; Best prior run: 5.953/122.64, Was #16
4:57 p.m. ...and we are back to qualifying. Jeff Arend is on the bump spot at 4.855.
Pedregon doesn't make the call. Diehl takes a couple of tries to get the car straight before going into stage.
The Camry leaves well and is running hard to near the 660 lights, when the shake and spin terminates the pass.
Jeff Diehl's incremental times: 60ft-0.904 sec., 330ft-2.387, 660ft-3.583/182.43 mph.
Left Lane: Todd Lesenko Runs 5.269/146.48, Now #14; Best prior run: 5.092/155.45, Was #14
Right Lane: Jack Beckman Runs 4.322/215.58, Now #10; Best prior run: 4.445/198.15, Was #11
Lesenko is the last car to try to bump in for this session. No joy, as the Charger shakes and spins right off the line.
Beckman has great numbers down low, but is too strong for the track and he smokes the tires right after the 660 lights.
Todd Lesenko's incremental times: 60ft-0.925 sec., 330ft-2.439, 660ft-3.765/166.23 mph.
Jack Beckman's incremental times: 60ft-0.891 sec., 330ft-2.312, 660ft-3.313/244.83 mph.
Left Lane: Robert Hight Runs 4.359/212.33, Now #9; Best prior run: 4.321/219.58, Was #9
Right Lane: Phil Burkart Runs 8.705/79.86, Now #11; Best prior run: 4.358/278.75, Was #11
Hight powers the Mustang right off the line and runs straight and clean to right before the 330 lights, where the tire spin and the blower bangs hard.
Burkart's tune up is too strong for the track and the tires are up in smoke early.
Robert Hight's incremental times: 60ft-0.898 sec., 330ft-2.313, 660ft-3.325/234.49 mph.
Left Lane: Del Worsham Runs 4.202/294.88, Now #4; Best prior run: 4.140/303.30, Was #4
Right Lane: Bob Tasca III Runs 4.367/219.15, Now #8; Best prior run: 4.280/236.71, Was #8
Worsham and Tasca run together for a long time and then Tasca's tires start to spin first. Worsham gets closer to the finish line before his slicks are spinning too. Neither car will improve.
Del Worsham's incremental times: 60ft-0.898 sec., 330ft-2.363, 660ft-3.375/254.09 mph.
Bob Tasca III's incremental times: 60ft-0.920 sec., 330ft-2.360, 660ft-3.367/239.19 mph.
Left Lane: Johnny Gray Runs 4.034/313.80, Now #1; Best prior run: 4.124/301.00, Was #3
Right Lane: Ron Capps Runs 8.077/84.24, Now #7; Best prior run: 4.167/293.15, Was #7
Gray marches the Pitch Energy Charger right off the line and right on down the track into the new top spot with ease. Good MPH too.
Capps NAPA Auto Parts Charger gets out to about 100 feet before spinning the tires.
Johnny Gray's incremental times: 60ft-0.891 sec., 330ft-2.294, 660ft-3.256/268.22 mph.
Left Lane: Cruz Pedregon Runs 4.407/214.52, Now #4; Best prior run: 4.078/306.40, Was #3
Right Lane: Matt Hagan Runs 4.062/311.20, Now #2; Best prior run: 4.142/293.98, Was #5
The DSR tune up is working well, as Hagan makes a clean and strong pass three spots up the ladder into the final number two spot.
Pedregon was right behind him and running well until near the 660 lights, where the engine starts to drop cylinders and he slows. Capps pass pushes him back to #4.
Cruz Pedregon's incremental times: 60ft-0.889 sec., 330ft-2.347, 660ft-3.379/242.50 mph.
Matt Hagan's incremental times: 60ft-0.884 sec., 330ft-2.302, 660ft-3.278/265.22 mph.
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LAWRENCE — Nick Laboy leads a tour of a former textile factory that is soon to become home to dozens of families in this hardscrabble town. "It's 20 per floor. 60 families will move in," he said.
A pastel mosaic frames the elevator. He goes up to the model unit, which is set up with furniture.
Laboy is the proud building supervisor for this new low-cost rental apartment development called Union Crossing that sits on the banks of the Merrimack River. A father of two, Laboy came to Lawrence from Puerto Rico in the 1980s. He glanced out the window toward the rushing river below.
"I remember the '80s here. It wasn't fun. A lot of violence," he said. "A lot of boarded-up homes, burned-down houses. You know, besides from ourselves, there's a lot of other organizations that made it a point to get in Lawrence and clean it up. But Lawrence is a different place now."
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Some see the river that flows through the city as the perfect metaphor for some of the changes that are taking place here.
Heather McMann has spent most of her life on the Merrimack. She heads up Groundwork Lawrence, a nonprofit that works with Lawrence residents to grow community gardens and to clean up parks, vacant lots and waterways that were once literal dumping grounds for industrial waste.
"We've got mills that are being redeveloped. Vacant lots that are community gardens. Bridges that have amazing lights. We have people that are walking their dogs, there's fishing here. There's fox. There's heron," said McMann. "But I want it to be beautiful so that that is not incidental… I want to be able to see the flowers and the trees and I want this to be something that I enjoy as opposed to something I think needs to be improved."
And that takes hard work, said McMann's co-worker Rosa Pena. Pena is from Venezuela. She recently led dozens of neighborhood volunteers to a vacant lot in east Lawrence.
They found "a lot of tires. We had a lot of trash. Glass. We had an area that was full of dirty diapers. Somebody just used it as a dump place," she said. Sometimes what they found was even more dangerous: "When we find firearms, we call the police non-emergency number. They will come pick it up."
Pena arrived in Lawrence in 1987. Now she is finally starting to see her American Dream come true: the cleanup and transformation of this old mill town and nature's reclamation of the Merrimack.
"We see sometimes ducklings going around, and it is beautiful just to sit down and look at them," she said.
The Merrimack River is what brought tens of thousands of immigrants from Italy, Germany, Poland and Lithuania to this city. The fast-flowing waterway provided power to dozens of job-rich textile mills that were constructed in the 19th and 20th centuries on the riverbanks.
In the 1960s, Lawrence experienced immigrant waves from the Dominican Republic and citizens from Puerto Rico. Today, Hispanics comprise more than 74 percent of Lawrence's nearly 76,000 residents. More than one-third live below the official poverty line, and the median income is a little more than $29,000 per year. See more data about Lawrence.
But hardships have not prevented people from imagining a better life.
"I just submit my paper to become a citizen. So I am in that process. So right now that's my American dream," said Arleen Zorilla from the Dominican Republic.
She is an employee of Lawrence Community Works. If it takes a village to get things done, the hub of that village is here. Every day 200 to 300 people pass through these doors seeking help on immigration status, financial literacy, housing and a host of other issues that might move them closer to achieving their dreams.
Juan Bonilla used to volunteer here. The Bowdoin College graduate now leads a small-dollar loan campaign to counter local loan sharks and confidence men.
"This is our attempt to spread the gospel of good financial management to the community," said Bonilla. "One of the issues we're finding is that a lot of families — out of not trusting the banks, out of the lack of convenience — will find check-cashing places and so forth and they end up paying significant fees for those services. Well, the small-dollar loan program is meant to issue short-term loans that will take care of those immediate needs but at a reasonable cost and reasonable interest rate. It's all about working together."
Immigrant Susan Acepalo from Peru agreed.
"The first time I came here, I was quite afraid and the people that I knew give me bad idea of the city," she said. "And I moved away, and when I came back and I looked around and I realize that it's not that bad. There are things that we could improve, of course, but at the same time I came to realize that getting involved with the neighborhood helps you. You get to know people, and they are real people too."
Acepalo's family was able to purchase a home in Lawrence right before the recession, and to hold on to it with the help of her community. Home ownership remains the centerpiece of the American Dream, said Tamar Kotelchuck, director of policy and neighborhood planning at Lawrence Community Works:
"We want it to be true that people who work full-time — more than full-time quite often — are able to afford a decent place to live [and] are able to save money so their kids can go to college, and we support that through helping people buy homes, to helping people save money," she said. "Fundamentally, it's about helping working poor people make a way for themselves. "
And, if you can't own, you rent. It's moving day for Carolina Hidalgo, a professional hairdresser and mother or two. She's the proud occupant of one of the new three-bedroom apartments at Union Crossing — a dream made possible with help from Lawrence Community Works.
"This is the first time I see a place like this that's affordable, and it's heat-included," she said excitedly. "And they have the original floors in some of the rooms, and I love it!"
Folks here are quick to point out that what we call the American Dream is affirmed by communityas much as the result of any individual effort: from expertise in purchasing or renting a home to neighborhood cleanups of empty lots and the rivers and canal that flow through this city.
The high ceiling windows of Hidalgo's new modern three-bedroom apartment provide a view of the Merrimack that she had never seen in her 17 years in Lawrence.
"When I look out that window and I see those buildings and the river, it looks like I'm in a different place," she said.
For her, and perhaps for all the residents of Lawrence, this could be considered a picture of progress.
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Heather M. Young, Thomas Balsbaugh, Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Garen Wintemute, Thomas S. Nesbitt and Ralph de Vere White were among the 17 award recipients recognized in 11 categories including educator, researcher, entrepreneur and lifetime achievement award. This year, UC Davis Health System received the greatest number of Health Care Heroes awards in the Sacramento region.
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A nurse leader, educator and scientist, Heather M. Young is a nationally recognized expert in gerontological nursing and rural health care. As the founding dean of the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis, she led the launch of the school, development of a thriving graduate program, and the recruitment of the founding team of faculty and staff. She is also a member of UC Davis Health System's executive leadership team as associate vice chancellor for nursing. Most recently, Young has been recognized for her work at the state and national levels, leading efforts to implement recommendations of the recent Institute of Medicine report, "The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health."
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Thomas S. Nesbitt, associate vice chancellor for strategic technologies and alliances, is responsible for advancing the UC Davis Health System's excellence in telehealth. He works closely with leaders throughout the state in developing partnerships with regional hospitals, clinics and centers to expand access to quality health care and create a statewide broadband telehealth network. As founding director of the Center for Health and Technology, Nesbitt oversees UC Davis' telehealth, distance learning and medical informatics programs, and he establishes multidisciplinary collaboratives that are responsible for leveraging new telecommunications technologies to improve access to high-quality patient care, information resources and medical education opportunities.
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February 19. 2013 9:50PM
CONCORD — Supporters of increases in state road fuel taxes and vehicle registration fees told a legislative hearing Tuesday that New Hampshire cannot afford to keep deferring major repairs to state and local bridges and highways.
"New Hampshire is in the midst of an infrastructure crisis which is well on its way to becoming an infrastructure catastrophe," said Rep. David Campbell, D-Nashua, main sponsor of legislation creating a three-year program of increases in state vehicle registration fees and gas and diesel fuel taxes.
The tax increases in House Bill 617 would bump up the gasoline tax from 18 cents to 30 cents a gallon in 4-cent steps over the next three years. Campbell proposed raising the diesel tax by 2 cents a gallon each of the next three years.
Raising the gas tax to 30 cents a gallon by July 1, 2015, would generate a projected $1 billion for road and bridge projects over the next decade.
Vehicle registrations for most cars would increase $15 over three years. Truck fees would increase by substantially more, depending on weight.
Campbell cited state Department of Transportation studies that suggest 1,660 miles of state roads, or about one-third the total, are now rated in poor condition. The DOT also has 140 of 2,100 state-maintained bridges "red-listed," meaning that at least one structural component is considered deficient.
"This challenges our very ability to govern," Campbell said. "If we can't fix something as basic as this, then why are we sent here."
New Hampshire state gasoline taxes have not increased since 1991, he said.
Supporters at the Committee on Public Works and Highways hearing repeatedly referred to the gas tax hike as a user fee, claiming that the more someone drives, or uses the highway system, the more taxes are paid.
"The gas tax is the quickest way to get money into the system and the fairest way because it is a user fee," said Rep. Carolyn Bouchard, D-Concord.
State Transportation Commissioner Chris Clement said his agency is "revenue agnostic" and takes no position on the tax hike, but said the state's road and bridge system needs investment, especially to finish the Interstate 93 widening project.
"This is a state that takes raising taxes and fees very, very seriously, which I love about our state," Clement said. "There is a time to invest."
The bill would place the highway money in a special fund that could not be tapped for other purposes, and would send 20 percent to cities and towns in block grants and state highway and bridge repair aid.
Rep. Edmond Gionet, R-Grafton, said the casino bill pending in the Senate might be a "better way" to raise money for road repairs than raising taxes.
But Campbell argued that the casino bill wouldn't provide enough to pay for roads and bridges, especially since completing the I-93 project will take $250 million.
District 1 Executive Councilor Ray Burton, who is being treated for cancer, sent a letter to the committee in support of the bill.
Opponents of the tax and fee increases were chiefly from businesses involved in trucking.
Saying he felt like "Custer at Little Big Horn" after hearing a parade of supporters of the bill, Robert Sculley, president of the New Hampshire Motor Transport Association, disputed the characterization of the fuel tax increase as a user fee, saying the result would be higher diesel fuel prices that would hit his industry harder than any other segment of the economy.
"HB 617 will have a detrimental effect not only on the trucking industry as a whole, but particularly on New Hampshire's smaller truck owners and operators," Sculley said. "The focus should be on helping small business to grow and expand and providing New Hampshire residents with good-paying, dependable jobs."
Tom Thomson, a tree farmer from Orford, urged the panel not to endorse the bill,saying it would increase the cost of consumer goods, such as food.
"During a recession is not the time to be increasing taxes and fees on either our citizens or our businesses," he said.
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Dr. Omara-Otunnu's academic interests span the areas of jurisprudence and constitutional and administrative law, civil-military relations, Pan Africanism, and leadership in Africa. He places a special focus on the interplay of politics, the military, and human rights in Sub-Saharan Africa, and has received research support from the Ford Foundation, Harvard University, and the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning.
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a surprisingly fair article from Manish.
I was ready to come in here and trash him.
When Rex Ryan walked to the post-game podium on the night of Jan. 23, 2011, his voice was tinged with sadness and optimism, a strange blend for a man whose bravado had captivated the NFL for two years. The Jets miracle playoff run dubbed Mission: Impossible by their fearless head coach was over.
They had beaten Peyton Manning and Tom Brady before being stopped by the Steelers in the AFC Championship Game. For the second consecutive season, Ryan and his young quarterback, Mark Sanchez, had come within one game of reaching the Super Bowl.
It cuts your heart out, Ryan said that night in Pittsburgh. Its supposed to hurt. Im going to keep swinging. Were going to get through this thing eventually.
Less than two years later, Ryans icy stare as he walked by Sanchez last Monday night after a crushing loss eliminated his team from playoff contention for the second consecutive season told an altogether different story.
How did the Jets fall from their perch so quickly?
The franchise has reached the crossroads thanks to a series of costly missteps.
1. Santonio Holmes may have made several game-winning plays for the Jets in 2010, but his troubled history should have given the franchise pause for concern when he became an unrestricted free agent after the season. The Jets gave Holmes a five-year, $45 million contract that boxed them in through 2013 due to built-in, player-friendly guarantees.
When Holmes petulance bubbled to the surface in 2011 Sanchez threw him out of quarterback-receivers meetings late in the season for being a distraction days before the wideout was benched for jawing with teammates on the field in the season finale in Miami the Jets worst-case scenario was realized. They owed Holmes a guaranteed $7.75 million in 2012, and assuming he was on the roster in early February of 2012, he'd receive an additional $7.5 million from his 2013 salary. The Jets were on the hook for $15.25 million, a crippling amount for a player who ultimately missed the bulk of this season with a foot injury.
2. Sanchezs uneven play in 2011 he had career highs in touchdowns (32) and turnovers (26) divided the organization about his future as the franchise quarterback. When it became obvious that Peyton Manning would hit the open market, players and members of the organization wondered whether the Jets should make a run at the future Hall of Famer. The Jets made an inquiry to gauge Mannings interest, but were quickly rebuffed.
General manager Mike Tannenbaum already had been working on an extension for Sanchez in an effort to lock him up at a team-friendly long-term rate. (Those negotiations would have ended if Manning was truly interested in the Jets). The Jets ultimately signed Sanchez to a three-year extension that sparked plenty of debate. The organization didn't re-do the deal to placate Sanchez in the wake of its interest in Manning.
Tannenbaum, who reduced Sanchezs cap charge in 2012, made a critical gamble that didnt pay off. The Jets raised Sanchezs 2013 salary from a non-guaranteed $6 million to a fully guaranteed $8.25 million, a move predicated on the belief that the signal caller wouldnt tank in 2012.
However, Sanchezs regression this season will make it extremely difficult to trade him without the Jets absorbing a bulk of his guaranteed money for next season.
3. Perhaps the biggest myth surrounding the Jets is that owner Woody Johnson was the mastermind behind the trade for Tim Tebow in March.
Johnson called it a phony argument earlier this season. Hes right. The move was driven by Tannenbaum and Ryans desire to add a multi-purpose player to the roster. Ryan realized Brad Smiths value as a Wildcat quarterback after he was gone. The head coach and general managers critical mistake: They viewed Tebows skill set in a vacuum without taking into consideration the adverse affects of having the most popular and polarizing player in NFL history on their roster. Tebowmania had a negative impact on Sanchez, who had the daily distraction of having an inferior, but more popular player behind him.
Bottom line: The Jets hampered Sanchezs development by adding an unnecessary distraction into the equation. Its a faulty argument to suggest that the organization shouldnt want Sanchez if he couldnt handle having Tebow as his backup. No player in this generation of team sports has had such a fervent following as Tebow. The Jets inability to foresee that proved costly.
The Jets, who are 14-16 in the past two seasons, are far from a lost cause. Johnsons decisions in the coming weeks will shape the future of a franchise that has become the most captivating story in the NFL. Starting over isnt the best solution.
1. Keep Ryan:
Ryan, who is signed through 2014, made the Jets relevant with his bravado and penchant for grabbing headlines, but the bigger point is that the players still play hard for him. He deserves to be back.
2. Bolster the talent at the offensive skill positions and coaches around Sanchez.
The Jets will explore trading Sanchez in the offseason, but its unlikely that theyll find a deal that makes sense considering the quarterbacks bulky contract. The organization needs to add a quarterback via free agency or the draft to compete with Sanchez in the offseason, but there must be a marked improvement at the skill positions. In addition to re-signing wide receiver Braylon Edwards, the Jets must add at least two offensive difference makers via free agency and the draft.
For all the criticism that Sanchez has received, the reality is that he tried to force too many throws and make dynamic plays, in part, because of the lack of talent around him. Young quarterbacks with a 3:1 touchdown: interception ratio in the playoffs don't grow on trees. Sanchez obviously took a step back this season, but he can be resurrected with more talent around him and a dynamic new quarterbacks guru and play caller.
3. Supplement the front office
When evaluating Tannenbaums future, its fair to examine his entire body of work rather than just the recent miscalculations that have contributed to the lack of offensive talent on the roster. He drafted cornerstone players such as Darrelle Revis, Nick Mangold and DBrickashaw Ferguson and pulled off high-risk, high-reward trades for Antonio Cromartie and Holmes.
Tannenbaum has been down this road before and proven to be a problem solver in the past. Johnson, who has a great deal of trust in Tannenbaum, may decide to improve the front office infrastructure by adding a personnel lieutenant to work alongside his general manager.
4. Re-sign defensive coordinator Mike Pettine.
For all the Jets recent problems, the defense has been the stabilizing force. Pettine turned down a contract extension offer that will effectively make him a free agent after the season. Ryans trust in Pettine has been one of most important and overlooked elements the past few years. The Jets have finished first, third and fifth in total defense in the first three years under Pettine. Despite playing much of the season without Revis, arguably the best defensive player in the league, Pettines group ranks eighth. Losing Pettine would be a significant blow to the most successful unit of the team.
a surprisingly fair article from Manish.
I was ready to come in here and trash him.
1. Keep Ryan:
Ryan, who is signed through 2014, made the Jets relevant with his bravado and penchant for grabbing headlines, but the bigger point is that the players still play hard for him. He deserves to be back.
I want to see the players play hard as well...... and win.
Tired of the "player's coach" label.
I wait for the day that we have a real NFL head coach.
Pretty good article.
2 things wrong with it. Sanchez has to go and number two Pettine can walk and it would not make a difference. We all know who runs the defense.
Good article, surprising.
I agree with a lot of it, especially about rebuilding the offensive personnel at skill positions and the coaching staff, starting with the QB coach, Cavanaugh must go, and we need to bring in either an entirely new staff, or a passing coordinator to compliment Sparano, I'm ok with both.
I want Sanchez to have another chance, I still think this kid can be a good QB, could care less what the haters think. He's struggled, and he deserves to be benched, and I have no problem with bringing in a vet QB to compete with him, maybe an Alex Smith or a Chad Henne, the Jets probably don't have a choice but to give him one more year to see if he can respond, but he deserves that, AND Sanchez needs to learn from this season.
But, the majority of the problems with Sanchez is the players around him. Braylon coming back would be a great start. We need an upgrade at TE, at RB, and with Holmes coming back, I like a WR unit that starts with Edwards, Holmes, Hill, and Schilens.
So he s suggesting we keep:
Tanny as gm
Rex as hc
Sanchez as qb
What a dope. They will all be gone in 8 days.
Who knew Mehta was actualy SAR I.
If the "solution" is to keep the worst QB of the past 4 years as our #1 QB, thats no solution. Thats a recipe to another 30 turnovers and a fired GM, Head Coach and a total, ground up, rebuild. Probably losing our great Defense in the process.
The problem with Sanchez isn't his O-line, RB or WR's. It's squarely on Sanchez, his lack of vision (he misses open guys regularly), his lack of pocket awareness and presnece (he is not mobile, doesn't see or feel pressure, rarely throws it away and takes way to make bad and untimely sacks) and his horrific accuracy and decision making (he is very inaccuract even on completed balls, and he makes some of the worst decisions I've ever seen a #1 pick #1 QB make). It's excuse making to blame everyone around him for his obvious personal failings. The fact he comes accross as a guy who doesn't give much of a **** about it, doesn't feel the losses, doesn't feel real meaningful poressure to get better, and melts like a ***** under even moderate pressure of competition.....it all spells the truth on Sanchez. He's a bust, and he must be replaced.
What will be will be. Other than keeping Ryan one more year, I find very little to agree with SARMehta about in his "how to fix it" section.
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Why wouldn't I? Same QB and coach took us to the AFCCG twice, in their first two years.
Who else saw Sanchez declining as he did this year? Nobody, but that doesn't stop a-holes like you from calling me out as if you are trying to prove something.
Nobody saw the injuries coming, it wrecked the team all year, and then Sanchez regressed and lost confidence in himself, because he lost the players around him, and the players that were asked to play roles they weren't ready for, or couldn't, didn't step up.
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Do you know Mark Sanchez personally? Are you there in the locker room after the games, in the meetings during the week?
Everyone here is a body language and speech expert. Look at him! He doesn't care! I'm just going to continue using my misguided opinion and state it as fact to discredit a guy I don't know!


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Ben Affleck is thought to have signed on for the lead role in 'Gone Girl', David Fincher's adaptation of Gillian Flynn's best selling novel
Ben Affleck is thought to have signed on for the lead role in 'Gone Girl'.
The 'Argo' actor and director is the best man for the role according to producer David Fincher, who is taking the Gillian Flynn best-selling book to the big screen.
Affleck, 40, is set to play a husband whose wife disappears on the day of their fifth anniversary, with all roads seemingly pointing to him as the killer.
The Oscar winner is set to push back his next project - an adaptation of the Dennis Lehane novel 'Live By Night' - to the end of 2014 in favour of 'Gone Girl' which begins shooting this autumn, according to Deadline.com.
Affleck is reportedly keen on the role and even reached out to Warner Brothers over fourth of July weekend for approval.
Fox and Fincher have been developing 'Gone Girl' since January and reportedly signed a seven figure deal for the right to adapt the novel last July, with Reece Witherspoon's production company Pacific Standard on board as producers.
Affleck will also star in 'Runner Runner', an action drama set in the world of offshore online gambling, co-starring Justin Timberlake, Anthony Mackie and Gemma Arterton, released on September 27.


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Just a few weeks into his new role, Stephen McDonald has some long-term goals for the church, including a desire to "breathe new life" into the congregation.
Moving from the south to the northeast was not a huge adjustment for Arkansas native Stephen McDonald – it was old hat.
Beechwood Congregational Church's new minister, 28, used to live in Lowell, Mass. with his wife, Amanda, before the pair moved back down south. McDonald hails from Springdale, Arkansas while Amanda is from Mississippi; the couple was living in Hattiesburg, Miss. before McDonald landed his new job in Cohasset.
Moving to Mass. "wasn't that big a deal," McDonald says with a slight Southern drawal, adding that he left an ice storm behind just before moving, so even the cold wasn't a major shock. "It's not a big surprise or adjustment, really."
So far the transition has been smooth.
"It's a beautiful area," McDonald says of Cohasset and the South Shore. "The interactions I've had with folks have been very pleasant and kind. I couldn't have had a warmer welcome from the church body here; they're really wonderful people."
This is McDonald's first full-time job as a pastor. He previously attended the University of Southern Mississippi and the New Orleans Baptist Seminary, and spent two years working in Lowell before moving back to Miss.
"We didn't know we'd come back here," he says. "It's just the way things shook out."
McDonald doesn't believe in coincidence, however, explaining that he felt called to come to Cohasset.
"It was a sense of calling from God, first and foremost," McDonald says of applying for the pastor position. "My heart and passion had to be shaped… It now gives me great joy to be able to serve the church and point them to the joy and delight that is found in God and in Christ."
Before he could join Beechwood, McDonald had to make another slight adjustment – going from a Baptist background to a Congregational church. However, the pastor says that the differences are minimal.
Both denominations lean toward the conservative side, which McDonald assures is "not 'fundy,'" or overly fundamental.
"I knew there really wasn't any theological difference I couldn't get over," the pastor explains. "There are a lot of similarities and things we had the same views on that molded us together."
Just a few weeks into his new role, McDonald has some long-term goals for the church, including a desire to "breathe new life" into the congregation.
"We want to see people from all generations be part of the church," says McDonald, adding that he hopes his youth will be an asset.
"My goal right now is to grow the relationship in the existing church body and expand into the community," the pastor says. "Hopefully people will learn there's something going on in this church.
"Beechwood is still alive, and desiring to grow," McDonald adds.
One major facet of the church's community outreach has been the coffeehouse ministry. There is an open mike night for teens and twenty-somethings on the first Friday of every month in the church basement, which was transformed last summer into the chic, colorful Ground Level Café.
McDonald recently attended his first coffeehouse in early March. "I'm all about it," he said of the events, adding that he thinks Ground Level founder Amanda Thompson "has been doing a wonderful job with the coffeehouse, and the church has embraced it."
When he's not enjoying his church's own coffeehouse, McDonald can often be found at the Cohasset Starbucks on Route 3A. He also enjoys French Memories.
He hopes his wife, Amanda, will enjoy the little things about Cohasset, too; she is currently finishing a teaching contract back home but will join her husband in Cohasset in June.
McDonald thinks she's going to love life in Cohasset. "My wife is more of a small-town type person; I think she'll really like the area."
The pastor hopes that he and his wife will stay at Beechwood – and in Cohasset – for a long time.
"I would love to settle down here and raise a family," he says. "Our desire is to pour ourselves in and hop on board for the ride, and to see God change lives and grow the church."
One indication that McDonald will fit in just fine? He already loves the Patriots and the Red Sox, although he admits that he is "also a Cardinals fan."
Perhaps his parishioners will give him a pass.
For more information on Beechwood Congregational Church, visit www.beechwoodcc.org or call 781-383-0808.


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Animal Species:Southern Brown Bandicoot
The Southern Brown Bandicoot is listed as an endangered species in New South Wales and is known from only two areas.
Standard Common Name
Southern Brown Bandicoot
Size range
28 cm - 36 cm
The Southern Brown Bandicoot is found in northern Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, southern Western Australia and Tasmania. In New South Wales, one population is found on the south coast and the other just north of Sydney.
The Southern Brown Bandicoot prefers scrubby habitats with plenty of low ground cover and shelter, particularly areas recovering from the effects of bushfire.
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Other behaviours and adaptations
The Southern Brown Bandicoot is solitary. Males and females establish home ranges, which vary considerably in size depending on the habitat and the individual.
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Conservation Status (NSW): Endangered species
- Species:
- obesulus
- Genus:
- Isoodon
- Family:
- Peramelidae
- Order:
- Peramelemorphia
- Subclass:
- Marsupialia
- Class:
- Mammalia
- Subphylum:
- Vertebrata
- Phylum:
- Chordata
- Kingdom:
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You can't beat a system you can't understand
Everybody seems to think that columnists are allowed to write whatever we want even if our material does not contain so much as a grain of truth. In other words, people feel that we just sit at our computers and lie for a living. A 9-year-old girl once said to me at a family gathering, "You have no credibility; you're a columnist." I, of course, defended myself and told her I was a Libertarian, but that didn't appear to sway her opinion.
I'll have you know that many great fiction writers began as columnists, honing their craft in daily and weekly creations until they were able to string several hundred columns together so that publishers could bind them into one book and call it a novel. You see, "novelists," for some reason that is beyond the comprehension of most columnists, are credible. Writers of fiction are respected in the literary trade. I suppose it's because they are capable of telling longer lies than writers of columns. I don't really know, but it sounds like as good an excuse as any.
Today, I am going to turn the tide by making a profound statement that will enlighten mankind and give columnists around the globe the respect they so justly deserve. Last week, while sitting in my living room reading old Dave Barry and Russell Baker columns, looking for something to steal, it dawned on me why the space guys have never landed.
The truth is, they just haven't announced their arrival. Believe me, they are already here, and I have proof.
A few weeks ago, on March 20, to be exact, Leslie Kean, a highly respected investigative reporter and journalist wrote an article about UFOs. According to Kean, ten years after an Arizona UFO incident known as the "Phoenix Lights," former Arizona Republican Governor Fife Symington III, said that he himself was a witness to the strange unidentified flying objects, even though he originally denied seeing them along despite the fact that thousands of others did. Apparently his excuse was, "that the state of Arizona was on the brink of hysteria," about the UFO sighting and he didn't want the masses to panic.
Several accounts of the incident in different newspapers claimed that thousands of people saw multiple triangular and V-shaped craft gliding slowly and silently across the Arizona sky near Phoenix for half an hour beginning at approximately 8:15 p.m. Awestruck witnesses throughout the state estimated that the eerie, lighted vehicles were bigger than many football fields, up to a mile long.
Symington admitted that the craft were well defined, and that the lights could not have been flares, but were part of giant flying objects. Of the thousands of people who witnessed the event, Phoenix city councilwoman Frances Barwood was the only elected official to launch a public investigation, but she received no information from any level of government. Barwood spoke with over seven hundred witnesses, including police, pilots and former military personnel, who provided very similar descriptions. "The government never interviewed even one witness," she said.
Symington also attempted to find an explanation. He called the commander at Luke Air Force Base, the General in charge of the National Guard, and the head of the Department of Public Safety in 1997. None of these officials had answers, and they were "perplexed," he said. The consensus from the government on every level was that they were not aware of any aircraft in the area at the time other than normal traffic, and that they had no comment on the matter.
To this day, government officials continue to keep the lid on the Phoenix Lights and other welldocumented sightings of mysterious giant triangles and other unexplainable craft.
The reason that the space guys didn't land and make themselves known, and why the government had no comment on the matter or any other UFO matter is because the government is run by the space guys. They've taken over. The government is being run by aliens. They just haven't let us know about it. They use their space-age technology to manipulate us, and I have proof.
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That's just one thing. There are many others. The space guys have made sure of it. If there weren't, I couldn't write a weekly column about living in this system that we can't understand. And that's no lie.


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For quite some time now I have been contemplating the marketing techniques of various businesses and how they toy with our hopefulness. It doesnt appear they respect or even acknowledge any hallowed ground! Some fill the airwaves (or in this case your computer screen) with deceptions, while others use half-truths and the like. The Stealth classification of a firewall is a classic example of leaving out a large portion of the rest of the story as Paul Harvey would say. After all wouldnt you like to be completely undetectable to all the predators on the Internet, Stealthed if you will? Who wouldnt? How many benefits could you enjoy if you were actually invisible while surfing the Net? Thus the gambit.
My objective here is not to necessarily bash those that suggest the claim. But rather, to help clarify the parameters of that classification and illustrate where I believe you really stand in relation to this categorization. Hopefully the follow-on posts will also provide some additional enlightenment where I may have fallen short.
To establish a control of sorts, I employed one home computer with a basic install of Win98SE (it could have been XP, but it doesnt really matter as long the firewall would install), completed a default install with one of the popular MS compatible software firewalls that tosses packets and controls outbound traffic, then installed Firefox with the default settings. No proxies were employed either.
Once that was all finished I pulled the computer out from behind a dedicated appliance (no bias there ehhh ) and hooked it directly to the DSL Modem. It was to be mano a mano. A Stealth rated Firewall versus the Internet. After the usual allow/deny routines were completed, I was off to see if I could receive a TCP & UDP ALL FILTERED No response packets were received from dslreports and obtain a PASSED TruStealth Analysis from GRC. These ratings were obtained with the control configuration so in the next few paragraphs I should provide how they determined that rating
From dslreports.com (may not be an exact replication because of font, special character usage, etc.):
This is a basic TCP/UDP port scan. The TCP (full connect) scan starts first, and results are shown as ports are found.
The UDP scan goes next and must complete, before any results are shown.
The maximum test duration is 60 seconds for the TCP scan and 60 seconds for the UDP scan.. Firewall software or hardware may cause the scans to exceed the time limit and be terminated.
Key to table
From scans done in the last 24 hours, we show the microsoft PCs that export NETBIOS information to the world. These NETBIOS names provide clues to the logged in user or role of the computer.
means we were able to negotiate a connection to the disk of that computer, almost certainly this was not expected by the owner.
means we could see a range of NETBIOS services (disks, printers and IPCs) offered, and although a guest account was not available, it may not be hard to crash or destabilize or guess passwords on this PC.
monitor.dslreports.com scanning XX.XX.XX.XX
does NOT respond to a ICMP ping
does NOT respond to a TCP ping
does NOT respond to a UDP ping
testing TCP ports with SYN packets
data on 0 ports collected
testing UDP ports for echos
Scan complete.
Open TCP port 139 was NOT seen
microsoft netbios check skipped
Press results button.
Your Results for this scan
Conclusion: Healthy Setup! We could detect no interesting responses from any of the commonly probed TCP and UDP ports. It would be difficult for an attacker to know where to start without further information.
From grc.com (may not be an exact replication because of font, special character usage, etc.):
As indicated above, the sites employed TCP/UDP Port Scans and/or ICMP ECHO Requests, etc., to establish the Stealth rating. Although we did receive the rating, they didnt scan all the ports, only the common ones.Checking the Most Common and Troublesome Internet Ports
This Internet Common Ports Probe attempts to establish standard TCP Internet connections with a collection of standard, well-known, and often vulnerable or troublesome Internet ports on YOUR computer. Since this is being done from our server, successful connections demonstrate which of your ports are "open" or visible and soliciting connections from passing Internet port scanners.
Your computer at IP:
Is being profiled. Please Stand by
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Total elapsed testing time: 5.006 seconds
PASSED TruStealth Analysis PASSED
Your system has achieved a perfect "TruStealth" rating. Not a single packet solicited or otherwise was received from your system as a result of our security probing tests. Your system ignored and refused to reply to repeated Pings (ICMP Echo Requests). From the standpoint of the passing probes of any hacker, this machine does not exist on the Internet. Some questionable personal security systems expose their users by attempting to "counter-probe the prober", thus revealing themselves. But your system wisely remained silent in every way. Very nice.
Regardless, off we venture. Both sites provided some pretty convincing suggestions that I was invisible while online! The first stated that I had a Healthy Setup! We could detect no interesting responses from any of the commonly probed TCP and UDP ports. The second stated that the computer has achieved a perfect "TruStealth" rating. What could this lead me to believe? Cant See Me! It is this very assumption wherein the problem lies. When scanned, the firewall drops the packets and does not respond. However, in accordance with the TCP RFC, RFC 793, etc.; you darn tootin there are anticipated responses to those scans! And here are some of those responses for a few of the scan types:
TCP Connect, SYN Packet sent Anticipated Response: SYN/ACK.
TCP SYN (half-open scan), SYN Packet sent to a particular port Anticipated Response: SYN/ACK or RST/ACK.
TCP Xmas Tree, FIN, URG, and PUSH packet to a particular port Anticipated Response: RST if closed.
UDP, UDP packet to a particular port ICMP port unreachable if closed. One of the few that may not respond if the port is in fact open.
Now granted some of the scans over the Internet are just tossed out there with the deviant fishing in the IP pond hoping he/she will land the catch of the day. However dont believe for a moment that your existence isnt known. The dark side is also scanning specific IP Addresses and when they dont receive the anticipated response well Tiger Shark said it best the other day, You know damn well the port is there because you know the computer is there.
At this point we could even toss out the Port Scans and with only a small amount of RECON or Footprinting your presence could be known. How? Folks appear to be pretty good about not revealing too much personal information in the Chat Rooms or Forums. However the same cannot be said about their personal web pages. Its truly surprising what you can learn from them; actual names, photos, and the like! Seems this is where they like to strut their stuff. In some cases you might as well of cooked dinner for them. Did you also leave any critical information in the HTML source? Additionally, if your site is www.hereIam.net, what will a Lookup provide?
On another thread I made the following comment, Most of the time you can't see a fart, however your other senses will appraise you of it's presence. Pretty good analogy I think! Even though your firewall is dropping packets and you believe you are invisible, your computer is broadcasting information. To prove this point, its time for a forum field trip. Open another browser window and lets go visit the following Web Site: Click Here. Any of that stuff look familiar? Heres the information on the Win98 Box:
Info obtained by PHP on the server:
Hostname: XX.XX.XXX.XXX.ima.goodguy.net
Operating System: Win98
Entire User Agent String: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv: 1.7.12)
Gecko/20050915/Firefox 22.214.171.124
Remote Client Port:
Info obtained by JavaScript on the client:
Java Enabled: True
Browser: Netscape
Browser Version: 5.0 (Windows; en-US)
Platform: Win32
CPU Class: Undefined
Mozilla Default Plug-in
QuickTime Plug-in 6.4
Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0
Adobe Acrobat
Resolution: 1024x768
Color Depth: 32
HTML Referring obtained your information. Obviously Irongeek is a good source for the How to with this and I thank him for this use of his site. Also another reference on the particulars of how a Web Site obtains that information can be found Here. It would also be worth your while to review their section on Internet Cookies. Those cookies and your forum sessions can be hijacked which could result in someone logging into your accounts! Now thats even more comforting.
Still feel Stealthed? I dont. Its time to clean that non-sense off the hard drive.


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