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On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:45:23 -0600, "Dan W." <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
>karl levinson, mvp wrote:
>> "Dan W." <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote in message
>> Fewer vulnerabilities are being reported for Windows 98 because Windows 98
>> is old and less commonly used, and vulns found for it get you less fame
More to the point is that vulnerable surfaces are less-often exposed to clickless attack - that's really what makes Win9x safer.
You can use an email app that displays only message text, without any inline content such as graphics etc. so that JPG and WMF exploit surfaces are less exposed. Couple that with an OS that doesn't wave RPC, LSASS etc. at the 'net and doesn't grope material underfoot (indexing) or when folders are viewed ("View As Web Page" and other metadata handlers) and you're getting somewhere.
For those who cannot subscribe to the "keep getting those patches, folks!" model, the above makes a lot of sense.
>> Didn't XP expand on and improve the system restore feature to a level not
>> currently in 98 or ME?
There's no SR in Win98, tho that was prolly when the first 3rd-party SR-like utilities started to appear. I remember two of these that seemed to inform WinME-era SR design.
No-one seemed that interested in adding these utilities, yet when the same functionality was built into WinME, it was touted as reason to switch to 'ME, and when this functionality fell over, users were often advised to "just" re-install to regain it. I doubt if we'd have advised users to "just" re-install the OS so that some 3rd-party add-on could work again.
XP's SR certainly is massively improved over WinME - and there's so little in common between them that it's rare one can offer SR management or tshooting advice that applies to both OSs equally.
I use SR in XP, and kill it at birth in WinME - that's the size of the difference, though a one-lunger (one big doomed C: installation may find the downsides of WinME's SR to less of an issue.
>>> about Microsoft and its early days to present time. The early Microsoft
>>> software engineers nicknamed it the Not There code since it did not have
>>> the type of maintenance operating system that Chris Quirke, MVP fondly
>>> talks about in regards to 98 Second Edition.
>> If the MOS being discussed for Win 98 is the system boot disk floppy, that
>> was a very basic MOS and it still works on Windows XP just as well as it
>> ever did on Windows 98. [Sure, you either have to format your disk as FAT,
>> or use a third party DOS NTFS driver.]
That was true, until we crossed the 137G limit (where DOS mode is no longer safe). It's a major reason why I still avoid NTFS... Bart works so well as a mOS for malware management that I seldom use DOS mode for that in XP systems, but data recovery and manual file system maintenance remain seriously limited for NTFS.
>> I think Chris really wants not that kind of MOS but a much bigger and
>> better one that has never existed.
Well, ever onward and all that ;-)
Bart is a bigger and better mOS, though it depends on how you build it (and yes, the effort of building it is larger than for DOS mode solutions). You can build a mOS from Bart that breaks various mOS safety rules (e.g. falls through to boot HD on unattended reset, automatically writes to HD, uses Explorer as shell and thus opens the risk of malware exploiting its surfaces, etc.).
I'm hoping MS WinPE 2.0, or the subset of this that is built into the Vista installation DVD, will match what Bart offers. Initial testing suggests it has the potential, though some mOS safety rules have been broken (e.g. fall-through to HD boot, requires visible Vista installation to work, etc.).
The RAM testing component is nice but breaks so many mOS safety rules so badly that I consider it unfit for use:
- spontaneous reset will reboot the HD
- HD is examined for Vista installation before you reach the test
- a large amount of UI code required to reach the test
- test drops the RAM tester on HD for next boot (!!)
- test logs results to the HD (!!)
- you have to boot full Vista off HD to see the results (!!!)
What this screams to me, is that MS still doesn't "get" what a mOS is, or how it should be designed. I can understand this, as MS WinPE was originally intended purely for setting up brand-new, presumed-good hardware with a fresh (destructive) OS installation.
By default, the RAM test does only one or a few passes; it takes under an hour or so - and thus is only going to detect pretty grossly-bad RAM. Grossly bad RAM is unlikely to run an entire GUI reliably, and can bit-lip any address to the wrong one, or any "read HD" call to a "write HD" call. The more code you run, the higher the risk of data corruption, and NO writes to HD should ever be done while the RAM is suspected to be bad (which is after all why we are testing it.
A mOS boot should never automatically chain to HD boot after a time out, because the reason you'd be using a mOS in the first place is because you daren't boot the HD. So when the mOS disk boots, the only safe thing to do is quickly reach a menu via a minimum of code, and stop there, with no-time-out fall-through.
It's tempting to fall-through to the RAM test as the only safe option, but that can undermine unattended RAM testing - if the system spontaneously resets during such testing, you need to know that, and it's not obvious if the reboot restarts the RAM test again.
Until RAM, physical HD and logical file system are known to be safe, and it's known that deleted material is not needed to be recovered, it is not safe to write to any HD. That means no page file, no swap, and no "drop and reboot" methods of restarting particular tests.
Until the HD's contents are known to be malware-free, it is unsafe to run any code off the HD. This goes beyond not booting the HD, or looking for drivers on the HD; it also means not automatically groping material there (e.g. when listing files in a folder) as doing so opens up internal surfaces of the mOS to exploitation risks.
Karl's right, tho... I'm already thinking beyond regaining what we lost when hardware (> 137G, USB, etc.) and NTFS broke the ability to use DOS mode as a mOS, to what a purpose-built mOS could offer.
For example, it could contain a generic file and redirected-registry scanning engine into which av vendor's scanning modules could be plugged. It could offer a single UI to manage these (i.e. "scan all files", "don't automatically clean" etc.) and could collate the results into a single log. It could improve efficiency by applying each engine in turn to material that is read once, rather than the norm of having each av scanner pull up the material to scan.
MS could be accused of foreclosing opportunities to av vendors (blocking kernel access, competing One Care and Defender products), but this sort of mOS design could open up new opportunities.
Normally, the av market is "dead man's shoes"; a system can have only one resident scanner, so the race is on to be that scanner (e.g. OEM bundling deals that reduce per-license revenue). Once users have an av, it becomes very difficult to get them to switch - they can't try out an alternate av without uninstalling what they have, and no-one wants to do that. It's only when feeware av "dies" at the end of a subscription period, that the user will consider a switch.
But a multi-av mOS allows av vendors to have their engines compared, at a fairly low development cost. They don't have to create any UI at all, because the mOS does that; all they have to do is provide a pure detection and cleaning engine, which is their core compitency anyway.
Chances are, some av vendors would prefer to avoid that challenge :-)
>> XP also comes with a number of restore features such as Recovery
>> Console and the Install CD Repair features.
They are good few-trick ponies, but they do not constitute a mOS. They can't run arbitrary apps, so they aren't an OS, and if they aren't an OS, then by definition that aren't a mOS either.
As it is, RC is crippled as a "recovery" environment, because it can't access anything other than C: and can't write to anywhere else. Even before you realise you'd have to copy files off one at a time (no wildcards, no subtree copy), this kills any data recovery prospects.
At best, RC and OS installation options can be considered "vendor support obligation" tools, i.e. they assist MS in getting MS's products working again. Your data is completely irrelevant.
It gets worse; MS accepts crippled OEM OS licensing as being "Genuine" (i.e. MS got paid) even if they provide NONE of that functionality.
The driver's not even in the car, let alone asleep at the wheel :-(
>> I never use those or find them very useful for security, but they're
>> way more functional and closer to an MOS than the Win98 recovery
>> floppy or anything Win98 ever had. 98 never had a registry
>> editor or a way to modify services like the XP Recovery Console.
They do different things.
RC and installation options can regain bootability and OS functionality, and if you have enabled Set commands before the crisis you are trying to manage, you can copy off files one at a time. They are limited to that, as no additional programs can be run.
In contrast, a Win98EBD is an OS, and can run other programs from diskette, RAM disk or CDR. Such programs include Regedit (non-interactive, i.e. import/export .REG only), Scandisk (interactive file system repair, which NTFS still lacks), Odi's LFN tools (copy off files in bulk, preserving LFNs), Disk Edit (manually repair or re-create file system structure) and run a number of av.
So while XP's tools are bound to getting XP running again, Win98EBD functionality encompasses data recovery, malware cleanup, and hardware diagnostics. It's a no-brainer as to which I'd want (both!)
>>> that at the bare bones level the source code of 9x is more secure
>> It depends on what you consider security.
That's the point I keep trying to make - what Dan refers to is what I'd call "safety", whereas what Karl's referring to is what I'd call "security". Security rests on safety, because the benefit of restricting access to the right users is undermined if what happens is not limited to what these users intended to happen.
>> Win98 was always crashing and unstable,
Er... no, not really. That hasn't been my mileage with any Win9x, compared to Win3.yuk - and as usual, YMMV based on what your hardware standards are, and how you set up the system. I do find XP more stable, as I'd expect, given NT's greater protection for hardware.
>> because there was no protection of memory space from bad apps or
>> bad attackers.
Mmmh... AFAIK, that sort of protection has been there since Win3.1 at least (specifically, the "386 Enhanced" mode of Win3.x). Even DOS used different memory segments for code and data, though it didn't use 386 design to police this separation.
IOW, the promise that "an app can crash, and all that happens is that app is terminated, the rest of the OS keeps running!" has been made for every version of Windows since Win3.x - it's just that the reality always falls short of the promise. It still does, though it gets a little closer every time.
If anything, there seems to be a back-track on the concept of data vs. code separation, and this may be a consequence of the Object-Orientated model. Before, you'd load some monolithic program into its code segment, which would then load data into a separate data segment. Now you have multiple objects, each of which can contain thier own variables (properties) and code (methods).
We're running after the horse by band-aiding CPU-based No-Execute trapping, so that when (not if) our current software design allows "data" to spew over into code space, we can catch it.
>> Microsoft's security problems have largely been because of backwards
>> compatibility with Windows 9x, DOS and Windows NT 4.0. They feel, and I
>> agree, that Microsoft security would be a lot better if they could abandon
>> that backwards compatibility with very old niche software, as they have been
>> doing gradually.
The real millstone was Win3.yuk (think heaps, co-operative multitasking). Ironically, DOS apps multitask better than Win16 ones, as each DOS app lives in its own VM and is pre-emptively multi-tasked.
64-bit is the opportunity to make new rules, as Vista is doing (e.g. no intrusions into kernel allowed). I'm hoping that this will be as beneficial as hardware virtualization was for NT.
Win9x apps don't cast as much of a shadow, as after all, Win9x's native application code was to be the same as NT's. What is a challenge is getting vendors to conform to reduced user rights, as up until XP, they could simply ignore this.
There's also the burden of legacy integration points, from Autoexec.bat through Win.ini through the various fads and fashions of Win9x and NT and beyond. There's something seriously wrong if MS is unable to enumerate every single integration point, and provide a super-MSConfig to manage them all from a single UI.
>Classic Edition could be completely compatible with the older software
>such as Windows 3.1 programs and DOS programs. Heck, Microsoft
>could do this in a heartbeat without too much trouble.
Think about that. Who sits in exactly the same job for 12 years?
All the coders who actually made Win95, aren't front-line coders at MS anymore. They've either left, or they've climbed the ladder into other types of job, such as division managers, software architects etc. To the folks who are currently front-line coders, making Vista etc., Win9x is as alien as (say) Linux or OS/2.
To build a new Win9x, MS would have to re-train a number of new coders, which would take ages, and then they'd have to keep this skills pool alive as long as the new Win9x were in use. I don't see them wanting to do that, especially as they had such a battle to sunset Win9x and move everyone over to NT (XP) in the first place.
Also, think about what you want from Win9x - you may find that what you really want is a set of attributes that are not inherently unique to Win9x at all, and which may be present in (say) embedded XP.
If you really do need the ability to run DOS and Win3.yuk apps, then you'd be better served by an emulator for these OSs.
This not only protects the rest of the system to the oddball activities of these platforms, but can also virtualize incompatible hardware and mimic the expected slower clock speeds more smoothly than direct execution could offer. This is important, as unexpected speed and disparity between instruction times is as much a reason for old software to fail on new systems as changes within Windows itself.
>I will do what it takes to see this come to reality.
Stick around on this, even if there's no further Win9x as such. As we can see from MS's first mOS since Win98 and WinME EBDs, there's more to doing this than the ability to write working code - there has to be an understanding of what the code should do in the "real world".


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Horizon provides professional ergonomic assessments and education to our client organizations and their employees. These assessments include the adjustment of the workstation for the individual, as well as education for individuals on how to adjust their own work station. We believe in educating the employee about the proper adjustment of their work station because over time, workstations can deteriorate and lead to the re-emergence of musculoskeletal risk factors.
When required, we provide individuals with an ergonomic workbook containing stretches which can be performed at the desk. We can also provide training on keyboard shortcuts and simple guidelines for adjusting various desk components such as the monitor, chair and keyboard for optimal use. Every one of our assessment and educational services are available to clients in remote sites, corporate offices, stations and personnel on patrol if needed.
Ergonomic Assessment Process
First, our Horizon kinesiologists or occupational therapists facilitate the ergonomic assessments and education. Following the evaluation, ergonomic reports are provided to the client. Ergonomic concerns are first addressed by making recommended adjustments to the equipment currently at the desk and if special equipment is required, that need is highlighted in the assessment report.
Ergonomic Training and Education Seminars
Through training and education seminars, the Horizon team of professionals educate our clients' workforce on the importance of ergonomics. This training is conducted by a certified kinesiologist or occupational therapist who brings client employees through a demonstration to teach them how to properly conduct an ergonomic assessment including training on how to set up the work station and the various aspects on ergonomic setup.
Other Ergonomic and Injury Preventions Services
In addition to our ergonomic assessments and education, we provide a broad range of injury prevention services. These services are based on provided or developed job demands analysis information that's used to highlight relevant ergonomic concerns specific to the worker and the environment.
Galley/Cafeteria Training
The Horizon galley/cafeteria nutrition education training was developed, with the support of our Registered Dietitians, to educate and coach clients' food service teams on the theory and delivery of proper nutrition as it relates to fuelling the needs of their workforce. The training includes all the materials galley members need in order to provide healthy food choices during meal and snack times including:
- Guided instruction by Horizon personnel
- Workbooks and videos for all food team members
- Recipe books for all food team members
- Signage to educate workers
- Certificates of completion
Our entire training program and the associated materials were developed in collaboration with food service companies. The training offers applicable solutions even to issues specific to remote environments and large crews.
By understanding the needs of the workforce, galley/cafeteria teams can:
- Create healthy meals for a large number of crew
- Balance nutrients necessary for recovery in various occupations
- Focus on food preparation with health risks of workers in mind
- Maintain food budgets while still providing healthy, tasty options
After years of working towards the improvement of gally/cafeteria menus, our specialists have developed a colour coding system for gally/cafeteria menus so that workers can more easily maintain a diet and meal plan that will support healthy lifestyle changes.
On-site Health Professionals
In order to ensure ease of program delivery, Horizon has the ability to send health professionals on-site. This allows workers to receive support from kinesiologists, dieticians and even physiotherapists. By ensuring our staff is available to go to your site, we provide additional support to your team when needed.


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It took me quite a long time to work my way through the Perdomo Five Card Stud Sampler from Pipes & Cigars. That was because I think I was savouring it. Looking back, I would have to say that the smokes featured in this set were the most consistently highly-rated of any of the sampler sets I've tried thus far! Nothing made five stars, but nothing rated less than a four.
I opened up the set in April of 2015 (so almost exactly a year ago) to start with the Perdomo Fresco Toro. I called it "Quality Without Fanfare":
The first few draws offered sweet sun-grown tobacco, a golden honey overtone, and yes, again that cedar taste. . . . I found it to be a delightful, uncomplicated smoke! It is clear to me that Perdomo isn't worried about bells and whistles; they're just trying to grow quality tobaccos to blend into quality cigars."
I found the Fresco to be a consistently enjoyable cigar from start to finish:
So I puffed away merrily on this smooth, easy to smoke stogie, chattering with the club, and before I knew it I was halfway through the cigar and 45 minutes had passed! So much for an extended cigar; it was just too easy to smoke because it was so smooth! Though I admit that by this time I had started to notice other things, like the faint oils on my lips and again, a hint – just the barest hint, mind you – of nutmeg or possibly cinnamon. This point is where I usually begin to discern "second third bitterness" but there was none. None at all. I peeled off the large label at this point and just kept going."
But it was stronger than I was expecting!
I didn't realize until I decided to find the ladies' room that it was strong enough (or I had smoked it quickly enough) to make me just a little dizzy! So a stronger body than the flavours might suggest, which is often what you'll find with a good light-wrappered cigar. And have I mentioned anything at all about re-lighting, or a crooked light, or anything like that? Exactly."
I gave the Fresco four and a half stars. This one was clearly the Ace in the Hole. "It's simple and uncomplicated and doesn't go in for a lot of fanfare. it just delivers a consistently enjoyable, smooth-flavoured smoke that was so unpretentious that I hardly noticed I was smoking it; and yet I enjoyed it thoroughly and it got my wheels (and my mouth) moving."
I saved the Perdomo Ltd. Reserve 10th Anniversary Champagne Churchill for "Three Cigars and a Funeral Part 2," on August 4, 2015. I was attending a friend's funeral and I brought along a few special cigars because he was the kind of man who advocated celebrating life. Clearly with its gold wrapper, this was a cigar for a special occasion.
The initial draw was like golden hay and a sharp, bitter tea. Really tasty! Though it took me a while to determine whether or not I liked it because it wasn't what I was expecting. Other reviews I have read have described the Champagne as having a hint of sweet, but I found very little of that, although I did detect a sort of honey element."
More specifically, I decided as the cigar went on that it was something "like a creamy orange pekoe that's mostly milk, just like my mother used to give me when I was small." It ashed well and "I began to detect a buttered popcorn element near the conclusion of the first third and progression into the second that was not present near the beginning. . . . The final third lost the popcorn and regained the toast and the honey. Maybe even a faint suggestion of marmalade; which tells me that I must have been detecting a citrusy-orange element that I have yet to acknowledge." With such a pedigree, this beauty was Queen.
My verdict: light-bodied cigars are often good starter cigars. This is not one of them. Most light-bodied cigars are sweet and easy to smoke. The 10th Anniversary Champagne is not one of these. It is complex, and a little bitter in a way that an experienced cigar smoker will deeply appreciate, but might not appeal to the beginner. However, since I am an experienced cigar smoker, I love it, and I can find no fault save my lousy cut, so I must give it . . .
Again, four and a half stars.
I proclaimed that the Perdomo Habano Corojo was "The Next Best Thing to Cuban" on September 12, 2015. I highly recommend this stick to my American friends, at least until trade laws change:
The pre-light draw suggested a faint nut element. I lit it at 9:30 am and was immediately greeted by butter and terroire.
I was surprised; that terroire is unique to Cuban tobacco, it's the thing that makes it so prized and distinctive, and it's what no other soil, no matter how recently a seed was taken from Cuba, has ever been able to imitate. This was pretty close. Really close.
As I continued to enjoy the smoke, I detected distinctive earthy tones: mud, nut, patchouli, and moss maybe. There were some spicy elements near the end. It smoked delicious and cold, producing bilious smoke. It has a strong body and a powerful nicotine jolt. I found little variation between thirds, but it was complex enough that I consider this to be an advantage and not a detriment."
I thought it a sophisticated smoke for the experienced smoker, possibly to be accompanied by an Island scotch, and I also gave it four and a half stars. And quite surprising in that very Cuban flavour. Clearly the King of the hand!
The fourth cigar in the set was the Perdomo2 Maduro 2008 Limited Edition, which I described as "Aromatherapy" on December 12, 2015, when I smoked it for my celebration cigar for winning National Novel . Interestingly this is the one I was the most descriptive of but it got the lowest rating of the lot; only a four-star rating:
What a remarkable first third! What an amazing flavour profile!
When we talk about perfume, there are three types of scents that combine to form a complete perfume; a top note, which is a sharp scent and is the thing we normally smell first, but it fades the fastest. The central pillar of a scent is called the heart note, and that tends to be the more rich and pervasive part of the scent, like roses. Then there's the base note, which is something woody or resinous. That's the one that we smell underneath all the other scents, but it's also the one that we smell for the longest time; it's why perfume that you put on in the morning when you go to work has a totally different character at night.
So this cigar . . . its hear
t note was of dark Turkish coffee. Over that was a top note of spice and black pepper; delicious! And it had a very distinct base note of peat and cumin.
Aromatherapy in a smoke. A few draws in the coffee heart note also revealed elements of vanilla, delightfully sweet. My roommate asked me what I was smoking when he came in the room, because according to him the room note was primarily of that vanilla and coffee.
About half an hour in the flavour profile transformed completely. It blended into an outstanding combination of black pepper, Turkish coffee, nutmeg, and blackstrap molasses. Again, totally unique; I've tasted nothing that resembles it in any way. And it presented a long white ash, though my light was kind of awkward."
It finished just as well as it started. I can't imagine why I only gave it a four star rating; because I remember it clearly, and fondly. I guess I must have been thinking I'd been too generous in my ratings as of late. That makes the Perdomo2 a surprising Knave in this hand.
Last, but not least, was on Beltane; just a few days ago. I smoked the Lot 23 Connecticut Robusto, pronouncing it "A Fresh Served Cigar Even After Long Storage":
There was a unique white pepper and wood scent upon toasting the foot. The first few draws were of rich, delicious tobacco with an undertone of wine and white pepper; a fairly consistent description of the first third. About 20 minutes in it developed a nutty flavour as well, and some of the wine faded. What an unusual flavour profile! I wondered if that was common or if it was just the extensive aging that had allowed the combination to develop.
I also found that it stayed lit easily I almost forgot about it at one point as I worked on writing, and it was still lit. It didn't maintain a good ash, however; the ash was flaked all over my desk.
About 45 minutes in it needed relighting. After that, which I would judge to be about halfway through the second third, it developed a fresh-baked crusty bread flavour. What a pleasant surprise! I really enjoyed it!
It went out again an hour in; which turned out to be a real pain in the rear this time. The dryness of the cigar began to tell. It flaked as I tried to peel off the too firmly glued label.
But strong peppery elements with a very strong nut and wood flavour became apparent in that final third, while a touch of the bread taste remained. I noticed a little bit of a head rush as I got closer to the stub. It fell to pieces near the end; the cap tore off, cracked and shattered completely. But by then I was happy. It took two hours and forty minutes to smoke the whole thing, including about half an hour worth of time spent out and relighting."
Clearly a tasty cigar with some construction issues, probably due to the long storage. And that, along with the four-star rating I gave it, makes this one the bottom of the pack; it's obviously got to be the Ten. But, it's still a Ten, dammit!
Yes; this was among the best bargains I've found for good quality smoke in a sampler yet. I have to give this excellent sampler:
And the price point is right. Only $22.85 USD! Unfortunately it's backordered at Pipes & Cigars because other people also took advantage of it. Try informing them that it's backordered and maybe they'll stock some more.
That's a lady's perspective!


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The Brief
Collective was proud to be LOCOG's social media agency for the 2012 London Olympics. Our brief was simple: capture the excitement of the Olympic Games and spread it well beyond the gates of Stratford's Olympic Park.
The Insight
While they may only be once every four years, the Olympics bring out the unapologetically patriotic in all of us — whoever and wherever we are.
The Idea
We created a world-first Olympic event: Competitive Tweeting. #SupportYourTeam was a country vs. country race for Olympic Twitter supremacy. People were encouraged — whether at the Games or watching on TV on the other side of the world — to use the #SupportYourTeam hashtag to tweet support for their nations and athletes. These tweets were then aggregated and displayed around the London 2012 site as animated infographic races, gamifying the whole notion of Twitter support. Not to mention spreading Olympic excitement throughout the Twittersphere and surfacing the sporting profiles of competing nations in a rich and engaging way.
The Results
• 36 Olympic sports and 24 Paralympic sports covered
• Over 1.5 million #supportyourteam tweets sent
• Tweets were received from every single one of the 204 countries taking part


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FirstTwo is a new real-time people location tool that was developed by Niraj Shah for use by law enforcement agencies. Niraj Shah co-founded and sold the popular people search and public records service site Intelius.
After talking with some first responders who work in the profession, Shah recognized a problem that he thought he could fix with a new data service. FirstTwo is Shah's new data project that will offer real-time location and contact information to law enforcement professionals about other police and people in the area.
Shah said that he wanted to take his background in personal data and information and use it to create applications for professions that are lacking in this area. Shah said that he thinks law enforcement is one of the areas that is in need of real-time location and contact information on people.
When law enforcement officers show up at an accident or crime scene, FirstTwo shows them the locations, names, addresses and phone numbers of people and other police officers who are in the area. FirstTwo gets their information from public record information, social media profiles and Google Maps.
The FirstTwo app offers police departments and officers the following features:
- Real-time GPS mapping
- People's name and contact information
- Public records information
- Smartphone, tablet and PC applications
The app can be used to virtually search neighborhoods for potential witness and suspect locations and obtain information on suspects and potential witnesses
Shah used some of his money from the sale of Intelius to fund FirstTwo. FirstTwo became operational in January 2016, and so far about 60 police departments have signed on to use their location services.
Shah hopes that new location-based information programs like FirstTwo can help police officers make better decisions when responding to potentially dangerous situations while out in the field.


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- Home
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- Volume 20, Issue 17, 30/Apr/2015
Eurosurveillance - Volume 20, Issue 17, 30 April 2015
Volume 20, Issue 17, 2015
- Rapid communications
Emergence of enterovirus D68 in Denmark, June 2014 to February 2015
From June 2014 through February 2015, respiratory samples from 130 Danish patients were screened for enterovirus D68 (EV-D68). Fourteen EV-D68 cases were detected, of which 12 presented with respiratory symptoms, and eight had known underlying disease. The median age of EV-D68 cases was three years (interquartile range: 0-30 years). Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) was not detected although Danish EV-D68 strains showed?>?98% nt identity with EV-D68-strains from AFP cases from the United States and France. .
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- Surveillance and outbreak reports
Chikungunya outbreak in Montpellier, France, September to October 2014
In October 2014, an outbreak of 12 autochthonous chikungunya cases, 11 confirmed and 1 probable, was detected in a district of Montpellier, a town in the south of France colonised by the vector Aedes albopictus since 2010. A case returning from Cameroon living in the affected district was identified as the primary case. The epidemiological investigations and the repeated vector control treatments performed in the area and around places frequented by cases helped to contain the outbreak. In 2014, the chikungunya and dengue surveillance system in mainland France was challenged by numerous imported cases due to the chikungunya epidemic ongoing in the Caribbean Islands. This first significant outbreak of chikungunya in Europe since the 2007 Italian epidemic, however, was due to an East Central South African (ECSA) strain, imported by a traveller returning from West Africa. Important lessons were learned from this episode, which reminds us that the threat of a chikungunya epidemic in southern Europe is real.
Cheese-related listeriosis outbreak, Portugal, March 2009 to February 2012
In Portugal, listeriosis has been notifiable since April 2014, but there is no active surveillance programme for the disease. A retrospective study involving 25 national hospitals led to the detection of an outbreak that occurred between March 2009 and February 2012. The amount of time between the start of the outbreak and its detection was 16 months. Of the 30 cases of listeriosis reported, 27 were in the Lisbon and Vale do Tejo region. Two cases were maternal/neonatal infections and one resulted in fetal loss. The mean age of the non-maternal/neonatal cases was 59 years (standard deviation: 17); 13 cases were more than 65 years-old. The case fatality rate was 36.7%. All cases were caused by molecular serogroup IVb isolates indistinguishable by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and ribotype profiles. Collaborative investigations with the national health and food safety authorities identified cheese as the probable source of infection, traced to a processing plant. The magnitude of this outbreak, the first reported food-borne listeriosis outbreak in Portugal, highlights the importance of having an effective listeriosis surveillance system in place for early detection and resolution of outbreaks, as well as the need for a process for the prompt submission of Listeria monocytogenes isolates for routine laboratory typing.
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- Research articles
Monitoring meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus and its spread in Copenhagen, Denmark, 2013, through routine whole genome sequencing
Typing of meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) by whole genome sequencing (WGS) is performed routinely in Copenhagen since January 2013. We describe the relatedness, based on WGS data and epidemiological data, of 341 MRSA isolates. These comprised all MRSA (n?=?300) identified in Copenhagen in the first five months of 2013. Moreover, because MRSA of staphylococcal protein A (spa)-type 304 (t304), sequence type (ST) 6 had been associated with a continuous neonatal ward outbreak in Copenhagen starting in 2011, 41 t304 isolates collected in the city between 2010 and 2012 were also included. Isolates from 2013 found to be of t304, ST6 (n=14) were compared to the 41 earlier isolates. In the study, isolates of clonal complex (CC) 22 were examined in detail, as this CC has been shown to include the hospital-acquired epidemic MRSA (EMRSA-15) clone. Finally, all MRSA ST80 were also further analysed, as representatives of an important community-acquired MRSA in Europe. Overall the analysis identified 85 spa-types and 35 STs from 17 CCs. WGS confirmed the relatedness of epidemiologically linked t304 neonatal outbreak isolates. Several non-outbreak related patients had isolates closely related to the neonatal isolates suggesting unrecognised community chains of transmission and insufficient epidemiological data. Only four CC22 isolates were related to EMRSA-15. No community spread was observed among the 13 ST80 isolates. WGS successfully replaced conventional typing and added information to epidemiological surveillance. Creation of a MRSA database allows clustering of isolates based on single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) calling and has improved our understanding of MRSA transmission.
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Volumes & issues
Volume 25 (2020)
Volume 24 (2019)
Volume 23 (2018)
Volume 22 (2017)
Volume 21 (2016)
Volume 20 (2015)
Volume 19 (2014)
Volume 18 (2013)
Volume 17 (2012)
Volume 16 (2011)
Volume 15 (2010)
Volume 14 (2009)
Volume 13 (2008)
Volume 12 (2007)
Volume 11 (2006)
Volume 10 (2005)
Volume 9 (2004)
Volume 8 (2003)
Volume 7 (2002)
Volume 6 (2001)
Volume 5 (2000)
Volume 4 (1999)
Volume 3 (1998)
Volume 2 (1997)
Volume 1 (1996)
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Earlier today, Capcom's Yoshinori Ono hinted that a Brazilian character would be revealed soon for Street Fighter V. This could be Blanka, Sean, or a new character entirely, but we've got a different piece of news to share.
Sources have confirmed to Siliconera that Alex and Urien from Street Fighter III will be playable characters in Street Fighter V as well. Look out for the two to be announced at some point in the future.
Street Fighter V is in development for PC and PlayStation 4.
Update: Siliconera asked a Capcom spokesperson to confirm our report and we received a reply saying, "Capcom does not comment on rumors or speculation."
Note: Alex artwork from Street Fighter III.


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Yellow Chair Review is a literary journal accepting submissions of poetry, prose and art. Issues release quarterly. We seek to act as a safe space for both readers and writers from marginalized groups. We are particularly interested to see submissions from POC and the LGBTQ community.
These same standards and practices extend into our Press.
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Outbreak Updates: SARS-Like Virus, Fungal Meningitis, and the Flu
The CDC has issued updates on the SARS-like coronavirus that started in September; the fungal meningitis outbreak resulting from steroid injections; and the waning flu season.
FRIDAY, March 8, 2013 — Human transmission of the novel coronavirus may be possible, according to an update from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the SARS-like coronavirus outbreak that started last September and has claimed 8 of the 14 people confirmed to have had it.
"Three of the confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection were identified in the United Kingdom as part of a cluster within one family," according to the CDC. The first patient of the three was a 60-year-old man who had recently traveled to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. He developed respiratory illness on January 24 before returning to the U.K. on January 28. By January 31, he was hospitalized for severe lower respiratory tract disease, and is currently receiving intensive care. The patient tested positive for both the H1N1 virus and novel coronavirus infection.
The second patient, an adult male living in the same household, became sick on February 6 after being in contact with the index patient. Despite receiving intensive treatment, he died of severe respiratory disease. Officials suspect that his unspecified underlying medical condition "might have made him more susceptible to severe respiratory infection." The third patient, an adult female also in contact with the first patient, developed respiratory illness on February 5. She didn't require hospitalization and has since recovered.
As of March 7, 14 people have been confirmed to have this novel coronavirus, with eight deaths. The cases have so far are in the Middle East and the United Kingdom. While there currently are no known cases in the United States, the CDC is urging people who develop severe acute lower respiratory illness within ten days after traveling the Arabian Peninsula and neighboring countries to get tested for novel coronavirus infection. This respiratory infection can invade the lungs and immune system in a similar way as SARS
Fungal Meningitis
A total of 720 fungal meningitis cases, including 48 deaths, have been reported in 20 states since July 2012, according to a March 4 health alert from the CDC.
While the volume of fungal meningitis cases has decreased from its Fall 2012 peak, patients who originally tested negative for signs of the infection are now becoming sick.
What the CDC describes as a prolonged incubation period raises concerns about the health of those who have undetected meningitis infections. "These infections may be unrecognized because some patients have not continued to receive close clinical follow-up or because they have not recognized symptoms suggestive of a localized infection, which may be difficult to distinguish from their baseline chronic pain," CDC officials said in the health alert.
In October, the national fungal meningitis outbreak was traced to contaminated steroid shots from a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy. Health officials estimated that up to 13,000 people were exposed to the tainted drugs. The pharmacy has since been shut down.
The Flu: Slowing Down After Intense Season
The flu outbreak is continuing to drop, according to the latest figures from the CDC, but it's still on record as one of the hardest-hitting flu seasons. A total of 1,074 new cases of the flu and 940 deaths have been reported between February 24 and March 2.
Experts blame the flu season's intensity on an earlier-than-normal start to the flu season. According to the CDC, the 2012-2013 flu season started in late November, more than a month earlier than usual.


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WRITING A LOVE SCENE IS TOUGH! In this book, the third in my Logan McKenna series, I'm trying to hit the right balance: sensual, but not graphic, and definitely not bodice-ripping romance novel stuff. I'm aiming for enough passion to make you want to go hunt down your partner, but not enough detail to help you pass an anatomy class.
Lovemaking can be playful, quick, searching, fulfilling, frustrating, passionate, soul rocking, or all of the above. I love writing about how real passion often sneaks up on us – happening at odd moments of intense emotions that manifest in our bodies, not necessarily the rose petals on the bed, preplanned rendezvous.
Writing about sex for its own sake doesn't interest me. It's been done to death. If we all don't know by now what a climax feels like, well…see a doctor. And I refuse to throw in gratuitous, graphic scenes just to make my novels seem more 'gritty' or 'real'.
Lovemaking is very real and much more interesting than mere sex.
My protagonist, Logan McKenna, is in her early forties, beyond the flutterings and fumbling of youth. She and her neighbor, Ben, have histories, trust issues, and broken hearts, but they also know who they are and increasingly, what they want. Could they have found it in each other? Will it last?
There's nothing more powerful than two strong, loving people coming together. I'm having fun seeing what happens with these two.


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Bring your advice? No thanks buddy, I'd rather ask Bubba
relationship advice
For years the world population has had to endure problem-page scribblers using faux concern and also the give an impression of self-righteousness hanging regarding the subject like smog. They get mail from people they've got never met and on the foundation of an hundred words, offer life-changing advice.
Such pages are certainly not actually for your sad people willing to go out their dirty laundry on the net in the remote hope of finding a solution to what ails them. They may be instead for the vicarious pleasure of voyeurs among the readership that do not think they've got similar problems so can appear holier-than-thou as they are nowhere close to fucked up as people writing in.
Quite why anyone would ever wish to bare their soul (and their history in some cases) to an individual they don't know, amazes me. Don't these folks have friends to confide in? Physicians to refer to? A bartender they may blubber to, even?
Don't despair. There's great news finally for people tired with all the current crop of lame advice from wooden tops like "'Dear Abby' and 'Ask Amy': Bubba, the antidote to everyone PC, problem page nonsense, has arrived! Ask Bubba is often a liberated to access blog. Do who you are a favor and look it. Just look at health insurance policy before seeing the site because you might bust a rib laughing.
Bubba can be a man with conviction-several convictions I think. When you are a convicted felon doesn't allow you to a poor person, will it? Well, in Bubba's case it doesn't. He offers tips on diverse matters from resignation letters to disrespectful mechanics, sex and spirituality. His selfless concern persons is legendary-he advised one correspondent to sleep around to access her partner. Out of kindness Bubba suggested when she wanted to add one more infidelity to her tally she could visit him imprisonment for many horizontal dancing. Whadda guy!
Bubba is really as welcome as Santa claus on Christmas Eve. The 23 hours of daily cell time granted with the state have given Bubba time to really contemplate the angst-ridden outpourings of his correspondents. But unlike his mealy mouthed mainstream counterparts, Bubba's answers are a slam dunk in see your face. Telling another correspondent purchasing conversations having a partner who got snappy when in a bad mood Bubba tells her the best way her telephone conversations with Joe grumpy-pants comes after Joe says hello:
'Hi darling. Do you think you're in a negative frame of mind?'
Bubba lacks any type of empathy, but provides the party a welcome tinge of psychopathic disregard for that feelings of those he or she is designed to help. As he told one correspondent: 'You're a vulture. Go find another carcass to circle.'
Around the down side to this, putting several of Bubba's advice into practice may leave correspondents prone to prosecution in a minimum of 38 states. He encouraged one correspondent to kidnap your pet dog. Now in San fran dognapping will get you a 10-year stretch on Alcatraz. (Yes, I realize Alcatraz is not open, though the authorities would be prepared to start it down again only to grow it with dognappers.)
Maybe you're fortunate enough to participate in the 1% of humanity without having hang-ups. If you do, my advice for you is some fast-just so you can ask Bubba for advice.


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As I mentioned in my post about Green Goddess Organics (HERE) when it comes to sun safety I am totally "that mom". I carry around sunscreen in my purse, reapply every few hours, and will chase down my daughter to check for any signs of her being burnt. It is very important to me that my daughter spends time enjoying the outdoors, but even more important to me that she does it safely. With the summer approaching quickly it is important to be aware of some sun safety tips. Below are the tips I find most important for staying safe and enjoying the sun!
1. Wear sunscreen: While many recommend wearing sunscreen every day, when you are spending long amounts of time outdoors and during the summertime it is most important. Choose a sunscreen with broad spectrum protection because it will protect against UVA and UVB rays which are the main cause of sunburn. Also search for sunscreen that is at least SPF 30 to be protected against UVB rays.
2. Reapply sunscreen: Try to reapply sunscreen every 2 hours, especially if you are swimming or sweating. Also, remember that just because your sunscreen says water resistant it is not waterproof, you still need to reapply. Read your sunscreen's label to see the amount of time your sunscreen is water resistant.
3. Take breaks and relax: Children's bodies are not able to cool themselves down quickly enough and heat exhaustion can come on extremely fast. If you are spending time in the heat and exercising or running around be sure to take breaks to avoid heat exhaustion.
4. Limit direct exposure: Between the hours of 10 am and 4 pm UV rays are the strongest. Limiting direct exposure during this time helps to reduce the likelihood of sun damage. Also take breaks from the sun and find shade.
5. Don't forget your eyes: Many don't know the importance of children (and adults as well) wearing sunglasses with UV protection. Ultraviolet Radiation has been linked to many eye problems so keeping eyes sun protected is very important. Search for sunglasses with UVR protection and a wrap around frame design.
6. Drink lots of water: When spending time in the sun sweating it is important to replace the water that your body needs. Be sure to stay hydrated to avoid the level of water in your body dropping too low. If you know you will be spending time outside during hot days be sure to pack water bottles.
7. Avoid tanning beds and sunlamps: Direct exposure to UV radiation increases the risk of skin cancer. Indoor tanning changes your skin texture and causes premature skin aging such as age spots and wrinkling.
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It is my hope that by the 21st century we would be more open to the realities of the world and what our bodies are capable of. Unfortunately, in the case of mental illness we may as well be in the Stone Age at times.
There are still professionals who may delay mental illness recovery. There are churches that refer to mental illness as a sin or a demonic possession, or even worse the medical doctors who do not screen for these illnesses or teach the importance of looking at brain illnesses in the same way as other medical problems. Lawyers and judges do not protect the availability to mental health care, and lastly educators do not make available to information on suicides - a single event that claims more than 30,000 lives a year.
How they can refer to brain illnesses in the same way as the common cold. That is not what it is. Mental Illness is developed through genetics, biology, personality, social development, environment, as well as relationships. So many factors are involved, it is nearly impossible to say it will pass and take a pill to make it go away.
In the end what we need is education, education, education. Eliminate the fear. And treat those with Mental Illness like human beings, worthy and capable of medical attention specific to their illness. Many people would be surprised as to how many people they have a mental illness, people who work with them, treat them in doctor's offices, friends they share their lives with.
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As I am preparing for my 5 day vacation in LAS VEGAS I thought I start off my many Vegas posts with what I plan on wearing to the airport. I haven't been on a plane in a minute so I am very excited. I decided to go with a maxi dress, sandals and a light sweater. That way I can still be warm on the plan but ready for that dry heat in Vegas. I'm so excited and I can't wait to share all of my pictures with you all!!


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IMTC is now part of MEF
MEF has transitioned all assets from and continues the ongoing work of IMTC, International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium.
Click here to join MEF to participate in this work.
Please visit: http://www.mef.net/news-events/mef-events for current and upcoming events.
SuperOp! 2017
May 13 – 19
Hotel Corinthia
Prague, Czech Republic
The International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC), Inc. is pleased to announce that IMTC SuperOp! 2017 will be held at the Corinthia Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic, from May 13-19.
The Goal of SuperOp! is to allow companies that manufacture multimedia telecommunications equipment to make their products work seamlessly with equipment from other companies. Because of the diversity of equipment, protocols and vendors, it is not practical or economical for a single organization to duplicate such large-scale connectivity in its own test lab. SuperOp! provides a unique opportunity to any company that produces multimedia telecommunications equipment to test their equipment and services at an unprecedented level. This event will enable manufacturers of multimedia communications products and solutions to test the interoperability of current and future offerings across various networks.
Join us for the 22nd Annual IMTC Multimedia Products and Services Interoperability Testing Event. Testing will include, but will not be limited to the communication technologies such as WebRTC to SIP interworking, ICE/STUN/TURN, H.26x SVC, SIP over IPv6, SIP and H.323 Video Conferencing, Telepresence/TIP, IMS, VoLTE, RCS, Video over LTE and many others.
Member Fees
Participation – $675 / per person (includes lunch, welcome reception and a dinner excursion)
1st Booth – FREE
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Corinthia Hotel
Czech Republic
IMTC Group Rate
€156.40 EURO per night (includes tax and fees)
Includes single room with complimentary breakfast buffet and internet access.
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Impressions: Retail Fireworks
The talk of Creative Director Claudio Wolfring at the Euroshop fair was expected with great excitement. One week after the fair, ARNO is happy to receive a lot of positive feedback to the "peek at future retail" and many new contacts. See below a few impressions of the talk at re.lab – retail future lab.


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From ControlTheoryPro.com
Welcome to the Wiki at ControlTheoryPro.com
1 Newly updated, a work in progress...
Amazon's Principles
So the wiki at ControlTheoryPro.com has been up and running since 2009. It has always been free with the only revenue generated being from sales of text books through my site via Amazon. However, since I live in Colorado I no longer even get the $20 a year that added up to in the best years.
Sometime in late March/early April 2013 the DB for this site was emptied. (I suspect a SQL injection attack is responsible.) ControlTheoryPro.com was running MediaWiki 1.11 (the original mediawiki I installed back in 2009). There were known security issues with it and some of the extensions I was using. I had intended to upgrade the site for over 2 years now. And I'd tried several times to do so. However, none of my upgrade attempts were successful and since this site didn't make me any money it wasn't a priority.
|Latest Additions to the Site
I have always been proud of this site though, even in its neglect. Now I'm rebuilding it, paying special attentions to anti-SPAM extensions and security issues. I hope to get back to creating new content for ControlTheoryPro.com as well but since I haven't worked in the field in a couple of years adding content will take a lot of time.
Hopefully the new ControlTheoryPro.com will be much better than the old.
2 Spammers Killed the old site
ControlTheoryPro.com was humming along well for most of the time since 2009 and then it became popular among Internet Marketers to spam wikis for links. Wikis had been a long neglected set of web properties where users could add content. At first I didn't really mind, the users weren't creating pages beyond their own user profiles. The links were "no follow" so Google shouldn't punish the site for their garbage and they shouldn't really derive any benefit from the links.
Then all of a sudden the site was getting hammered with SPAM. New pages/articles were being created hourly - all garbage. I spent hours manually deleting them and blocking the IPs they were generated from. It made no difference. I just got to do it all over again the next day. So I created a hack that deleted all new users and their articles directly from the DB and ran it every 5 minutes. That meant I didn't have to deal with it anymore but they still hammered the site and drove up the cost of my hosting.
2.1 Don't create a new account yet, it will only get deleted
SPAM Bots & New Accounts
SPAMMERs are relentless. Or more specifically, their bots are relentless. Given that their bots effectively constitute a DDoS attack on my site I'm tempted to put my considerable programming talents to work doing the same to the sellers of these bots.
Unfortunately, the strong indications that the bots will keep coming and keep putting SPAM on the site is forcing me to tell all the real people not to create accounts on the new site just yet. I need some time to figure out how to best deal with this nonsense. (Perhaps I should allow them to create their article, scrape the URL links from it, delete it, and then send my own bot at their links... I'd probably end up getting arrested and put into jail for that - see the EFF's comments on the CFAA.)


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City News
Millbrae City Council Hires Interim City Manager
On Tuesday night, the Millbrae City Council unanimously approved the hiring of Tom Williams as Millbrae's interim city manager.
Williams has served in local government for more than 20 years and comes to Millbrae with a strong background in land use planning and real estate development, expertise that is highly desirable as work moves forward on the redevelopment of Millbrae's intermodal station and the rebuilding of the Millbrae Community Center.
"We are happy to bring Tom on as Millbrae's interim city manager," said Millbrae Mayor Gina Papan. "He comes to us with extensive experience as a city manager and as a land use planner. He is also a Millbrae resident. Of all the candidates, he stood out as the best fit for what we need right now."
After multiple interviews, and an investigation and background check, the City Council approved Williams. He served as the City of Milpitas' city manager for 10 years before retiring in 2017. Before that Williams served as the community development director in the City of San Bruno, and the assistant director of community development in the Town of Los Gatos.
"I'm a 22-year resident of Millbrae, so I have a deep connection to the City and what is going on here. From the community center to Millbrae Station, I understand the complex issues the City is facing and how they impact the quality-of-life of the people who live here," said Williams. "My goal is to keep the positive momentum going and keep the City running smoothly until a permanent city manager is hired."
During his decades of public service, Williams has led numerous planning and development projects. Notably, he led the development of the Transit Oriented Specific Plan for the City of Milpitas, and led the City's building of a 60,000 sq. ft. library and 30,000 sq. ft. senior center. In addition, he led Milpitas through the rehabilitation of the City's water and sewer system.
The formal search for a full-time city manager is ongoing. Bob Murray and Associates was hired to conduct the search.


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Internet Takes on John, Paul, George & Ben
Over at Boston 1775, I've posted my analysis of Lane Smith's new picture book about some American Revolutionary leaders, John, Paul, George & Ben.
To add some fantasy content, here's a link to Snopes.com's discussion of a supposed angelic prophecy to George Washington at Valley Forge, printed in 1880 in the newspaper of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Union veterans' group. And here's a taste of the original text:
". . . 'Son of the Republic,' said the same mysterious voice as before, 'look and learn.' At that moment I beheld a dark, shadowy being as an angel standing, or rather floating, in mid-air between Europe and America. Dipping water out of the ocean in the hollow of his hand, he cast some on Europe. Immediately a cloud raised from these countries, and joined in mid-ocean. For a while it remained stationary, and then moved slowly westward until it enveloped America in its murky folds. Sharp flashes of lightning gleamed through it at intervals, and I heard the smothered groans and cries of the American people. A second time the angel dipped water from the ocean and sprinkled it out as before. The dark cloud was then drawn back to the ocean, in whose billows it sank from view. . ."Naturally, this crazy story has gained a new life on the internet.


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Yesterday for some wild and crazy reason, I searched Amazon for my out of print book, Divide the Child. Now the interesting thing is that most of the books I autographed were to friends and family. Sure enough, there on Amazon were at least six books all of which were said to be autographed or "seems to be autographed" by the author. I only signed "Karen" since they were friends/relatives.
Six people didn't want to hold onto those first books for sentimental reasons or in the hope that I might become a famous writer and the book would truly have some real value--other than being a good story, of course. I don't want to know who they were.
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Posted by Wandering Writer at 4:57 PM
Labels: Musings
2 comments:
- Lori said...
It wasn't us!! Your book still holds a position of honor on our bookshelf, where it waits to be joined by other works by Karen Robbins. (Besides, I would have picked Ebay.) ;)
- Mean Puppies Inc. said...
Well just so it helps you narrow down your suspects, it wasn't us either. At one point we had 2 copies of Divide the Child (and we may still have), I have a vague memory of giving someone the 2nd copy.
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Nora En Pure feat. Dani Senior – "Tell My Heart" – (2016)
Well, we saved the best for last (unless I throw another week in of this next week to try and capture some songs released in 2017). Nora En Pure (real name, Daniela Niederer) is a South Africa/Swiss DJ and her stuff is pretty good. This deep house track is cool, smooth, and matched with soothing vocals. The perfect song for summer.


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