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The Education Forum
JFK Assassination Debate
Controversial Issues in History
Yes, Oswald was an Intelligence agent
By Jim Hargrove,
October 12, 2016 in JFK Assassination Debate
Craig Carvalho
https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-u-s-intelligence-official-russia-has-turned-trump-into-unwitting-asset-172058187.html
This link is not political in any way. I have often wondered how the CIA may have classified someone such as Oswald. If you read this short article I think it may offer some insight into how Oswald was drawn into the agency and then into a conspiracy. I do find it amazing how quickly and easily our government officials can connect the dots and promote the idea of a "conspiracy" when our national interests are threatened.
Craig C.
Edited October 14, 2016 by Craig Carvalho
Chris Newton 62 posts
Paul Trejo 60 posts
Paul Brancato 50 posts
Jim Hargrove 80 posts
Paul Brancato
Interests:Classical musician and author of several sets of trading cards including Iran-Contra Scandal, Bush League, and Coup D'etat JFK assassination.
I have to say I think this whole line of inquiry, or attack, is propaganda. Gorbachev has made some public comments recently about how dangerous the situation between Russia and the U.S. has become. I agree. Since most of us here have read Jfk's correspondence with Krushchev, or at least read about it, imagine what President Kennedy would do now. The Dems have nothing peaceful to say, and Trump at least has one thing right - that our common enemy is Isis. Well, you might start to think that Isis isn't really our enemy, unless we need one during any given news cycle. Maybe it's our creation. I'm pretty sure from all I've read that we helped create the Syrian opposition which Assad and the Russians are currently bombing.
Here is another thing to ponder: where the hell is the CIA? Whatever they are doing, we don't know about it for the most part. I think Americans are being fooled by the lack of news into thinking its some kind of irrelevant historical dinosaur. I'm sure it's not.
So when it comes to wikileaks, Russian spies, unwitting agents, I think a healthy dose of skepticism is called for.
Gorbachev suggests the biggest mistake was the US pulling out of talks with Russia. Can't either side demonize the other without too much difficulty? Isn't this the same old divide and conquer, strategy of tension, mechanism of control of money and both human and natural resources that the 'power elites' on both sides have been using forever?
Craig - how would you apply the article to Oswald and the CIA?
Thomas Graves
Two Posts Per day
Location:La Jolla, California
Tommy,
Do you really think these two men look "almost identical" and have an "uncanny resemblance?"
I don't see it at all.
What do other people think?
Dear Jim,
Not sure which photo you tried to post because they don't "show up."
Did you test the link [WebsterandOswald.jpg?dl=0] after you posted it here?
-- Tommy
PS -- I don't remember saying "uncanny resemblance," but maybe I did.
One of the problems for the research community over the years is the fact that John Armstrong misinterpreted the incorrect descriptions of Lee Harvey Oswald that were intentionally put in "marked cards" to catch "Popov's Mole" (starting in early 1960), and the Mexico City Impersonator (starting in October, 1963).
Armstrong evidently thought these different descriptions of Oswald in the government's documents indicated that there had been more than one Oswald running around from at least when LHO "defected" to the U.S.S.R. in late 1959.
To answer your question, I guess Webster and LHO looked sufficiently alike for Marina to confuse them in her memory.
And for the CIA to base a big-time "marked card" operation upon them.
Edited October 14, 2016 by Thomas Graves
I think they could look similar if they put a little effort into it. But I have a hard time with the Marina story getting them confused in her Russian memories. Is there supporting evidence for Webster's claim that he met Marina, other than Marina saying she thought her husband worked for the Rand Corp when he came to Russia?
Chris Newton
Location:Florida, USA
Interests:solving puzzles
Is there supporting evidence for Webster's claim that he met Marina, other than Marina saying she thought her husband worked for the Rand Corp when he came to Russia?
Paul, There might be information we could glean from whatever the CIA files exist on Webster and Marina. If Webster told his debriefers about Marina, and he normally would if he were part of an operation, then we might have something. I haven't looked into it yet and can't at the moment but someone should take a look at it.
Joe Bauer
I asked this question earlier and no one responded.
If Oswald was working for any intelligence agency, how could he not feel that for whatever he was doing for them he was outrageously under compensated?
I mean from as far back as his arrival from Russia to here in the states he was constantly struggling to support his family.
He moved them from one apartment to another in lower middle class areas. They never had a car and had to depend on others for any need requiring being driven.
Oswald couldn't afford to get his wife's teeth fixed. The White Russians finally brought Marina some nice clothes to wear. Ruth Pain had to drive Marina and her child back to Fort Worth. Ruth Paine made a comment that she had to spend quite a bit extra on food for them.
Marina obviously was very unhappy and resentful and even humiliated living in such a poor and dependent life situation.
It is clear this poverty existence created much friction and arguments and unhappiness in Oswald's marriage. I believe Oswald felt bad that he wasn't providing for his children.
If I was in Oswald's place and working for some powerful agencies, I would demand they provide me with better financial compensation than one step above homelessness.
How do those who propose that Oswald was working for powerful, financially well off agencies explain this poverty stress Oswald and his family went through up to 11,22,1963? That doesn't seem like a logical way to keep the loyalty of employees.
Edited October 15, 2016 by Joe Bauer
IDK.
But let me ask you. If it were true, would you expect to find "supporting evidence" for Webster's claim?
You do know that Marina allegedly told a friend of hers that her American husband had worked for an American exhibition in Moscow in 1959, don't you? But also that he worked in some kind of factory in Minsk?
And that Webster told Dick Russell in 1997 that he had met Marina in Russia in 1959, and that she spoke Russian "Mandarin Chinese" pretty well at that time?
I'm starting to wonder, though, whether Marina didn't meet Webster, and that LHO lied to her when they first met and said he had worked at an American exhibition in Moscow, thereby reinforcing the CIA's "marked card" operation which intentionally mixed and merged Webster's identity with Oswald's. And that Marina believed him.
Regardless, so that you can do your own "research" in the future on questions like this, here are a few hints:
Google Search: webster moscow exhibition marina . That will take you to Simpich's State Secret Chapter 1, and all the other websites that talk about this very issue.
Once on Simpich's Chapter 1, press F and ctrl at the same time and type the word "exhibition" in the little drop-down search box. (Doing so will highlight the word "exhibition" in the text for you, making that subject or issue very easy to find in the longish text.)
There. See how easy it is?
Just think! You, too, can be a "researcher," Paul!
Ray Mitcham
And that Webster told Dick Russell in 1997 that he had met Marina in Russia in 1959, and that she spoke Russian pretty well at that time?
' she spoke Russian pretty well at that time."
I reckon that's a pretty good assumption, Tommy.
Edited October 15, 2016 by Ray Mitcham
Jim Hargrove
Did the Warren Commission Publish Oswald's Intelligence Report?
[On June 18, 1962] Oswald walked into Pauline Bates' office in the Burk Burnett
Building in Fort Worth. He introduced himself and said, "I saw your
name in the phone book, can you do some typing for me?" Bates, a public stenographer,
asked Oswald what he wanted typed and he replied, "Notes I made in Russia of con-
ditions there." Bates told him she would do the work for $1.00 per single-spaced page.
Oswald accepted her offer and handed Bates numerous handwritten notes.
Bates recalled that Oswald was very protective of his many notes, some of which were
written on scraps and pieces of paper and stuffed into a manila envelope. Oswald never
left Bates alone with his notes and took all typewritten pages and carbons with him when
he left her office.
Oswald sat in Bates's office for 3 days and helped her read the notes as she
typed. She remembered the notes reflected Oswald's account of his life in Russia where
he had worked 12 hours a day at a factory in Minsk, with no coffee breaks and no vaca-
tions. He kept voluminous notes on everything, including the price of various foods
which he said tasted monotonous and were not very good.
On June 20, as Bates finished typing the 10th page, Oswald stopped her and
said, "Ten dollars is all I've got," and handed her a $10.00 bill. Bates offered to complete
the work and allow Oswald to pay her later, but he declined her offer and left. She es-
timated that the project was only 1/3 complete.
Oswald then visited the Criner Career School, a business school located in the
Bewley Building in Fort Worth, and asked if someone could do some typing. Virginia
Valle was a former student who returned to the school to practice typing and shorthand,
and agreed to help. After a few hours Virginia had managed to type four or five sheets,
and Oswald gave her a small sum of money and then left.45
NOTE: The Warren Commission interviewed Bates but never gave her any typewritten
pages to identify as the work she produced for Oswald. They did, however, publish a 31-
page typewritten manuscript, with handwritten notations and corrections, on pages 287-
336 of Volume 16.
--from Harvey and Lee, pp. 395-396, Copyright © 2003 by John Armstrong
Many people here are no doubt aware of this document, but if there are any who aren't, it may come as a surprise. In an era before widespread communication and spy satellites, before personal computers and the Internet, it's easy to imagine how helpful to American Intel the information in this report would have been.
The whole Bates story may have been part of a cover story, but Oswald's lengthy manuscript is nevertheless fascinating. Here's the first part of Part I:
The lives of Russian workers is governed, first and foremost, by the "collective," the smallest unit of authority in any given factory, plant, or enterprise. Sectional and shop cells form a highly organized and well supported political organization. These shop committees are in turn governed by the shop and section party chiefs who are directed by the factory or plant party secretary. This post carries officially the same amount of authority as the production director or president of the plant, but in reality it is the controlling organ of all activities at any industrial enterprise, whether political, industrial, or otherwise personal relations. The party secretary is responsible for politiical indoctrination of the workers, the discipline of members of the Communist party working at the plant, and the general conduct and appearance of all members.
The Minsk Radio and Television plant is known throughout the Union as a major producer of electronics parts and sets. In this vast enterprise created in the early 50's, the party secretary is a 6'4" man in his early 40's -- has a long history of service to the party. He controls the activities of the 1,000 communist party members here and otherwise supervises the activities of the other 5,000 people employed at this major enterprise in Minsk, the capital of the 3rd ranking Republic Belorussia.
This factory manufactures 87,000 large and powerful radio and 60,000 television sets in various sizes and ranges, excluding pocket radios, which are not mass produced anywhere in the U.S.S.R. It is this plant which manufactured several console model combination radiophonograph television sets which were shown as mass produced items of commerce before several hundreds of thousands of Americans at the Soviet Exposition in New York in 1959. After the Exhibition these sets were duly shipped back to Minsk and are now stored in a special storage room on the first floor of the Administrative Building -- at this factory, ready for the next international Exhibit.
I worked for 23 months at this plant, a fine example of average and even slightly better than average working conditions. The plant covers an area of 25 acres in a district one block north of the main thoroughfare and only two miles from the center of the City with all facilities and systems for the mass production of radios and televisions; it employees 5,000 full time and 300 part time workers, 58% women and girls. This factory employs 2,000 soldiers in three of the five mainshops, mostly these shops are fitted with conveyor belts in long rows, on either side of which sit the long line of bustling women.
500 people, during the day shift, are employed on the huge stamp and pressing machines; here sheet metal is turned into metal frames and cabinets for televisions and radios.
Another 500 people are employed in an adjoining building for the cutting and finishing of rough wood into fine polished cabinets. A laborer's process, mostly done by hand, the cutting, trimming, and the processes right up to hand polishing are carried out here at the same plant. The plant also has its own stamp making plant, employing 150 poeple at or assisting at 80 heavy machine lathes and grinders. The noise in this shop is almost deafening as metal grinds against metal and steel saws cut through iron ingots at the rate of an inch a minute. The floor is covered with oil used to drain the heat of metal being worked so one has to watch one's footing; here the workers' hands are as black as the floor and seem to be eternally. The foremen here looks like the Russian version of "John Henry," tall and as strong as an ox. He isn't frilly, but he gets the work out.
The plant has its electric shop, where those who have finished long courses in electronics work over generators, television tubes, testing experiment of all kinds. The green work tables are filled high here. Electric gadgets are not too reliable, mostly due to the poor quality of wires, which keep burning out under the impact of the ususal 220V____ voltage. In the U.S. it is 110V.
The plastics department is next. Here 47 women and three physically disabled persons keep the red hot liquid plastic flowing into a store of odd presses, turning out their quota of knobs, handles, non-conducting tube bases, and so forth. These workers suffer the worst condition of work in the plant, an otherwise model factory, for the Soviet Union, due to bad fumes and the hotness of the materials. These workers are awarded 30 days vacation a year, the maximum for workers. Automation is now employed at a fairly large number of factories, especially the war industry. However, for civilian use, their number is still small.
At this plant at least one worker is employed in the often crude task of turning out finished, acceptable items. Often, one worker must finish the task of taking the edge of metal off plastic and shaving them on a foot driver lathe. There is only so much potentiality in presses and stamps, no matter what their size.
The lack of unemployment in the Soviet Union may be explained by one of 2 things. Lack of automation and a Bureaucratic corps of 16 workers in any given factory. These people are occupied with the tons of paperwork which flow in and out of any factory. Also the number of direct foremen is not small to the ratio of workers in some case 1-10, in others 1-5, depending on the importance of the work.
These people are also backed by a small array of examiners, committees and supply checkers and the quality control board. These people number (without foremen) almost 300 people, total working force 5,000 -- 3-50 without foreman.
To delve deep into the lives of the workers, we shall visit most of the shops one after another and get to know the people. The largest shop employs 500 people; 85% women and girls; females make up 60% of the work force at this plant.
Here girls solder and screw the chassis to the frame attaching, transistors, tubes and so forth. They each have quotas depending upon what kind of work they are engaged in. One girl may solder 5 transistors in four minutes while the next girl solders 15 wire leads in 13 minutes. The pay scales here vary but slightly with average pay at 80 rubles without deductions. Deductions include 7 rubles, general tax, 2.50 rubles for bachelors and unmarried girls and any deductions for poor or careless work the inspectors may care to make further down the line. They start teams of two mostly boys of 17 or 18, turning the telvisions on the conveyor belts right side up, from where there has been soldering to a position where they place picture tubes onto the supports. These boys receive for a 39 hour week, 65-70 rubles, not counting deductions. Further on, others are filling tubes and parts around the picture tube itself, all along the line there are testing apparatus with operators hurriedly afix shape type testing currents, and withdrawing the snaps that fitting out a testers card, pass the equipment back on the conveyor, speed here is essential.
The full text of this report can be read at John McAdams' website at this address:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/thecollective.htm
Paul, IMO, the term "unwitting asset" says it all. Joe Bauer has raised some interesting questions. Attempting to answer his questions may help clarify this rather complicated affair.
As I see it, Oswald never knew or had any direct contact with any CIA "officials". His journey most likely began with ONI while in the Marine Corp.This assertion is corroborated by others who came into contact with Oswald both before and during his rather ambiguous defection which was most likely nothing more than an assignment, (dangle).
Nothing overly complicated was expected of Oswald during this period, and in fact Oswald did little other than report to work in Minsk, and spent his spare time chasing the local girls. He never showed the slightest interest in attending communist party meetings, which he had the opportunity to do. Quite strange for someone with such a strong ideological POV.
Some key facts to keep in mind are: Oswald never renounced his American citizenship. Secondly, anyone who wished to hand classified information over to the Soviets would never have told the U.S. embassy this beforehand.
Gerry Hemming, a well known and acknowledged former CIA asset, described meeting Oswalfd prior to his discharge from the USMC. Hemming believed Oswald had been briefed by ONI prior to his discharge. During an interveiw for the documentary, The Killing of President Kennedy, Hemming stated, "I thought Oswald had been breifed". By whom? Hemming: "ONI" Why? Hemming: "Because of the types of questions he was asking, and his obvious knowledge of my background".
Even the U.S. Consul in Moscow later wrote in an internal report that, "It appeared that Oswald may have been coached by someone or others...", "... he seemed to be using words he had learned, but did not fully understand...".
To directly answer Joe's question about "compensation", Oswald was never employed by the CIA nor was he on their payroll. This would have left a paper trail. There is evidence to suggest that Oswald was on the FBI's payroll, even though it would appear to have been little more than enough to cover expenses, ($200-$250/month). Oswald's relationship with the FBI may have taken on a more "quid pro quo" aspect.
That is not to say that Oswald was never rewarded for his actions. After all, it was George DeMohrenshildt, another figure with indirect ties to the CIA through French intelligence prior to and during WWII, who was able to get Oswald, a known "defector", a good job with a government contractor handling sensitive, classified, photographic materials. Quite a accomplishment to say the least.
It was Oswald's flawed personality that cast him and his family into poverty. He had opportunities, but rather than settle in and wait, I believe that Oswald found favor in the type of work/lifestyle that his outspoken political views could generate. Looking at the world we lived in in 1963 there were many avenues one could pursue, and amazingly Oswald appears on the scene almost on cue.
Oswald's failure at Jagger-Chiles-Stovall was probably more of a disappointment for those interested in him than it was was Oswald. But by that time there had to have been enough interest to go around. Enter the FBI. This interest intersected with two very important events in Oswald's life, the attempt on Edwin Walker, and Oswald's subsequent relocation to New Orleans.
It was from there, from an office adjacent to that of retired FBI agent Guy Banister that the FPCC was born. Surrounding this area of New Orleans sat offices belonging to most our countries intelligence community, including the ONI. In fact, Oswald was fired from his job in New Orleans for spending too much time hanging around a nearby garage where the Secret Service and other government agencies there had their cars serviced.
And what was Oswald's great accomplishments while in New Orleans... television and radio appearances. More specifically a televised incident involving an altercation between he and anti-Castro Cubans outside the International Trade Mart. And again a radio interview following the altercation where a rattled Oswald made an unintentional revelation. When asked repeatedly about his defection to the Soviet Union Oswald answered, "... at no time was I ever without the protection of the United States government...". A statement he immediately attempted to reword.
Another key fact to remember is that following Oswald's arrest in New Orleans, rather than pay a small fine and be released, Oswald requested an interview with the FBI and opted to spend the night in jail. Both of these requests were granted.
Was it only coincidence then that at the time of the assassination FBI agent James Hosty had two individuals at the top of his "to do" list... Edwin Walker and Lee Harvey Oswald?
Much has been made of Oswald's trip to Mexico City. I see it as Oswald's end game, or at least what he believed should have been his end game. All of these subjects I have discussed here in this post, IMO, amounted to nothing less than a resume, (emphasis on his attempt on the life of Edwin Walker), carefully engineered and manipulated by the government and carried out by Oswald ultimately for the purpose of getting him into Cuba... or so he was lead to believe.
This is were the government lied to Oswald, and this is when Oswald's attitude towards the government really began to sour.
One last key issue... initially Oswald's anger had been roused by the government's decision to change his honorable discharge to dishonorable. In fact, he wrote former Secretary of the Navy John Connally regarding this issue not realizing that Connally had already resigned that post.
I was wondering if you'd catch that, Ray.
You passed that test with flying colors!
Thanks for not sending me a discrete PM informing me of your incredible powers of observation.
You've really "made your bones" here on the EF.
Now we're actually thinking about inviting you to Camp Perry for the indoctrination program.
PS I obviously meant to say "Mandarin Chinese."
Craig - I gather you don't think Oswald ever met with David Atlee Phillips? Or that the guy with the scar over his left eye, seen with Oswald at the Carousel and possibly in New Orleans wasn't Phillips man - david Morales?
As I see it, Oswald never knew or had any direct contact with any CIA "officials". His journey most likely began with ONI while in the Marine Corp.This assertion is corroborated by others who came into contact with Oswald both before and during his rather ambiguous defection which was most likely nothing more than an assignment, (dangle). Nothing overly complicated was expected of Oswald during this period, and in fact Oswald did little other than report to work in Minsk, and spent his spare time chasing the local girls. He never showed the slightest interest in attending communist party meetings, which he had the opportunity to do. Quite strange for someone with such a strong ideological POV.
To directly answer Joe's question about "compensation", I would say that Oswald was never on the CIA's payroll. Nor was Oswald's relationship with the intelligence community on a "quid pro quo" basis. That is not to say that Oswald was never rewarded for his actions. We must remember that it was George DeMohrenshildt, another figure with indirect ties to the CIA through French intelligence prior to and during WWII, who was able to get Oswald, a known "defector", a good job with a government contractor handling sensitive, classified, photographic materials. Quite a accomplishment to say the least.
It was Oswald's flawed personality that cast him and his family into poverty. He had opportunities, but rather than settle in and wait, I believe that Oswald found favor in the type of work/lifestyle that his outspoken politics could generate. Looking at the world we lived in in 1963 there were many avenues one could pursue, and amazingly Oswald appears on the scene almost on cue.
Oswald's failure at Jagger-Chiles-Stovall was probably not only a disappointment for Oswald, but for those interested in him. But by now there had to have been enough interest to go around. Enter the FBI. There is evidence to suggest that Oswald was on their payroll, even though it would appear to have been little more than enough to cover expenses, ($200-$250/month). This was most likely concerning Oswald's stay in New Orleans where he spent much of his time in an adjacent office to former FBI agent Guy Banister, and just a short walk to the ONI. In fact, Oswald was fired from his job in New Orleans for spending too much time hanging around a garage where the Secret Service and other government offices there had their cars serviced.
And what was Oswald's great accomplishment while in New Orleans... television and radio appearances. More specifically a televised incident involving an altercation between he and anti-Castro Cubans outside the International Trade Mart. And again a radio interview following the altercation where a rattled Oswald made an unintentional revelation. When asked repeatedly about his defection to the Soviet Union Oswald answered, "... at no time was I ever without the protection of the U.S. government...". A statement he immediately attempted to reword.
Another key fact to remember is that following Oswald's arrest in New Orleans, rather than pay a small fine and be released, Oswald requested an interview with the FBI and opted to spend the night in jail. Both these requests were granted.
Much has been made of Oswald's trip to Mexico City. I see it as Oswald's end game, or at least what he believed should have been his end game. All of these subjects I have discussed here in this post, IMO, amounted to nothing less than a resume, (including his attempt on the life of Edwin Walker), carefully engineered and manipulated by the government and carried out by Oswald ultimately for the purpose of getting him into Cuba.
One last key issue... initially Oswald's anger had been roused by the government's decision to change his honorable discharge to dishonorable. In fact, he wrote former Secretary of the Navy John Connally regarding this issue not knowing that Connally had already resigned that post.
Dear Craig,
LHO's altercation with the anti-Castro Cubans on August 9, 1963, wasn't outside the International Trade Mart, but two or three blocks away in the 700 block of Canal Street.
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I Agree! and are you behind me? and gonna eat me?
nah im not hungry right now.
you tell me. shes probably just bored like the rest of us. i have strep throat and theres nothin to do.
u have no less of a reason to leave than i do. this is stupid to argue on a website where we dont even kno eachother.
i quit because of brats like you. quit being mean and find someone else to bother cuz im done with fantage forum. if u keep acting like this ur not gonna have any friends. you cant scan over everything everybody does and search for a problem and thats what you're doing right now. so cut it out. its none of ur business. grow up. geez.
SHUT UP! im no a baby and if you call me a baby i simply have people to tell i have enough friends I HAVE AN ADORABLE LIL SIS who i can talk to when im down when im mean to any of them they just say irdc its ur normal way when your angry or ticked off NOW WHY DONT YOU stop actng like A UNBORN LITTLE BRAT i may get banned for this but anything i repeat anything to DEFEAT you would work YOU BRAT!
How exactly is she a brat? You're the one that needs to grow up. What do you mean she won't have friends if she keeps acting like this? You just can't tell her to bother someone else like you're the boss of here.
look what she just wrote. Do you want a friend who has a problem with everything you say? And yes I can tell her to stop bothering me. Because she's being mean. And she needs to grow up. What mature person would add "poo" onto the end of something. And I'm done reading her nasty little comments.
Maybe, if you don't do text talk and basically do topics that we already had since 2010, maybe we would take you more seriously.
maybe I would take her more seriously if she didn't think adding "poo" made it insulting. Because what she says to me cant get anymore insulting than it already is. And you can't expect me to look over every single topic in history before I create a new one. Your setting your expectations too high for a 10 year old.
I would tell you to get your grammar right and stop swearing, but im sorry about your lung and cough. If your telling the truth which I don't think you are. And you are the one who takes your anger out on me. Im just trying to have fun on this forum. Would it kill you to be nice to a person that has strep throat? Please try harder to be nice to me.
I would tell you to get your grammar right and stop swearing, but im sorry about your lung and cough. If your telling the truth which I don't think you are. And you are the one who takes your anger out on me. Im just trying to have fun on this forum. Would it kill you to be nice to a person that has strep throat? :) Please try harder to be nice to me.
So you want to correct her grammar yet you do text talk. You're good at being an expert at contradicting what you're saying.
Captain Howdy, can you please stay out of this?
And yes it's okay. I'm not exactly sure what I did, and I'm sorry. I would love to meet you on fantage. My username is pomeranian100. Let's meet in the Lime Llama server in the cafe. See you there!
Yesterday, you two were fighting and saying you were going to quit Fantage Forum and commit suicide. But now, you're best friends?? I will never understand you, children.


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Ammar Khammash: Architecture, Topography & Environment in Jordan
Royal Academy for Nature Conservation, Jabal Ajlun, Jordan, 2013 © Khammash Architects
After graduating in architecture, you have studied ethnoarcheology. A key topic in your work is precisely the relationship between architecture and ecology, and the importance of learning from botanists, anthropologists and archaeologists rather than from architects. What is the role of architecture in relation to these disciplines?
I think architectural academia has to leave behind its corruption and obsession with fashion, forms and stardom. If architecture is to survive as a profession, the only way forward is to involve itself in the Earth's issues, problems and threats. Architecture has to team up with politics to help perpetuate the sustainability of the Earth, particularly learning from botany, because plants have more vision than animals. The only future for architecture is to do what trees have been doing for millions of years: harvest energy, trap dust, pollution and carbon, provide habitats and food, work as a cooling system, produce oxygen, improve the general health of other species, and occupy a minimal footprint while providing maximum foliage area. The list is endless. As for geology, hydrology, anthropology, archaeology and other disciplines, I see them all as essential sources that offer serious architects the necessary tools to read the site and the situation before intervening, and also to take responsible, relevant, site-sensitive design decisions that are not just personal fantasies.
You have a dual background as an architect and an artist. How does this influence both your practice as an architect and your relationship with nature?
My artist side definitely influences me positively when I take architectural decisions, but I am also very critical of architects who behave like artists, or architecture that becomes sculpture, celebrating strange masses or making some kind of visual impact based on shocking the viewer and the place. Art is important because it questions the way we see with our eyes and our mind, but in most cases art must not have a direct function. What art can do is give the architect a deeper understanding and greater penetration of a situation where architectural intervention is needed.
Oil Charcoal Pencil Limestone on Canvas, 2007 © Ammar Khammash
Oil on canvas, 2006 © Ammar Khammash
Watercolour, 2006 © Ammar Khammash
"As a painter, I like painting wounded nature rather than pure nature; pure nature is too much for me, too perfect."
So with the tools of an artist—in my case, an artist interested in art related to landscape and earth sciences in general—and as an architect, I like to allow the site to be the lead designer, to protect the product from the gimmicks and fashions that unfortunately prevail in modern architecture. Wounded nature gives me a cross-section of nature, the mind and the might of humankind; it's a complex situation that is rich and contradictory, and therefore exciting, bearing in mind that the entire geomorphological shaping of landscape in geology can also be attributed to a process of wounds that nature inflicts on itself.
Dana Village, Jordan, 2010 © Khammash Architects
In 1986, you pubished the book "Notes on Village Architecture in Jordan", a collection of observations on Jordan's rural living environment. Could you talk about the relationship between traditional rural environments and the topographic conditions of the Jordanian landscape?
One of the examples analysed in the book is the village of Hmüd, located in a rough topography area, 5.5 kilometres East of the King's Highway. The location of Hmüd is significant, for one sees here the last most eastern example of stone architecture before the beginning of the desert. The dry valley east of Hmüd provided a good bit of the basalt stone used to build the village. Not only did both sides of the valley function as a natural quarry, but also, in many places, a naturally shaped, cantilevered layer of rock provided the ceiling and the back walls of human-size shelters, improved by adding one more man-made wall. The village reads as a one-piece complex made of cubes that are similar in size and orientation and characterized by the random mixture of white limestone and black basalt, which help the houses to be part of the natural landscape. (1)
Hmüd village, Jordan © Ammar Khammash
Hmüd village offers one of the lost impressive examples of the traditional "Jordanian" house © Ammar Khammash
The house of Khalaf Khalil Al Halaseh, Hmüd, plan, section and persperctive © Ammar Khammash
Khammash, Ammar, Notes on Village Architecture in Jordan (Arabesque, 1995): 21-24
Since then, you have developed a strong interest on cultural and environmental preservation. How do you credit the importance of these issues in your work?
Cultural and environmental preservation is the responsibility of maintaining the fullest possible record of decisions made by humans in the past, as well as those of living and non-living nature and its self-shaping behaviour since way before humans existed. The central idea here is that responsible architecture should never start by outsmarting, outwitting, masking, corrupting, confronting or dwarfing cultural or natural features.
One example of this approach is the restoration of Dana Village, a community-based hospitality project. Dana is a typical Jordanian village from between 1890 and 1930, which sits on mountainous rocky cliffs parallel to the Great Rift Valley. Its architecture, like that of most of the Jordanian highland, was built with stone, a simple cubic geometry with internal arches. From the 1960s to the 1980s, the village was deserted, like most of those around it. Being on the periphery of a nature reserve that attracts tourism, Dana was subject to negative development attempts as locals felt obliged to forge heritage by adding fake additions. In response, a scheme was proposed to preserve the village from erroneous development or demolition. This project is not an architectural statement for the practice; its real architects were the original builders.
Dana Village restauration, Jordan, 2010 © Khammash Architects
What is your approach towards traditional materials and techniques? How do you envision innovation in this context?
The importance of traditional architecture lies in its strong ties with its specific site, context, regional ecology and social meaning. In the Third World and developing countries, architecture has to be viewed in its socio-economic context, and this means looking at how the construction budget is spent and where the money goes. It's not a matter of choosing between traditional and contemporary architecture, and especially not of seeing these two options as styles. It's all about innovation: coming up with a kind of hybrid solution that offers tremendous benefits, combining traditional construction techniques or materials with the latest possibilities and technological advances.
"Innovation means bringing together global technology with the hyperlocal wealth of traditional solutions that we can rethink and reintroduce in very innovative, contemporary ways."
Royal Academy for Nature Conservation, Jordan, 2013, construction © Agnes Montanari
Your work has a very strong relationship with topography, using different strategies to address landscape. How do the topographic conditions influence your work, and what design strategies do you develop in response to them?
Although I love difficult sites, particularly cliffs, I also feel uncomfortable or uneasy about making additions to them. Complex topography is an elaborate design that surpasses the imagination of any architect in terms of detail. In each situation, I try to keep this natural complexity in the forefront as much as possible, and somehow get the extra mileage from elaborate elements that are way beyond the best of my skills as an architect. Difficult sites are normally complete without any kind of intervention; only very careful alterations may be needed to give them the missing 10% in order for them to function in accordance with contemporary aspirations and needs.
In many of our projects, the challenges of the difficult nature of a site are responsible for design decisions. We regard architecture and structural conception as inseparable aspects of the project. We actually prefer difficult sites, and the market in Jordan has picked up on our excitement. The structural conception involved in enabling a site to perform contemporary functions often guides the course of the overall architecture intervention.
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Royal Academy for Nature Conservation (RSCN)
Jabal Ajlun, Jordan, 2013
Royal Academy for Nature Conservation, Jordan, 2013, construction © Khammash Architects
The Royal Academy for the Conservation of Nature was built using stone left in the abandoned quarry that became the site of the building. The contractor and his team were asked to use traditional Jordanian stone masonry (specifically the rubblework method in the walls of village houses dating from the late Ottoman period), combining traditional methods with contemporary detailing and even structural systems, such as large cantilevers. The construction techniques took the traditional rubblework detail into unprecedented areas, such as the detail of sharp, wedge- or blade-like ends to the stone walls. Construction also involved using straw as a filler to maximize thermal insulation of the outer walls and other parts of the building. This process used unfinished cement blocks with cavities to provide an acoustic-absorbent finish.
Royal Academy for Nature Conservation, Jordan, 2013, bridge details © Khammash Architects
The bridge leading to this building has a very simple construction. The contractor and workers were shown how found and wounded nature can do most of the work. The old quarry holds the arch between its giant jaws, its infinite strength absorbing the lateral thrust of the masonry arch. The pedestrian path over the arch was constructed using the simplest, most basic shuttering method used to build all houses in less wealthy parts of the Jordanian countryside. This produced blade-sharp ends that give reinforced concrete an expression of paper-thinness, accepting the falling edges that might, in time, come to look like frayed, torn paper. In general, we like to design by taking the workers' everyday practices to new orbits. When they see the result, they are often greatly surprised and feel a true sense of pride and meaningful ownership of the overall design.
Processes II
Wild Jordan Nature Center
Jabal Amman, Amman, Jordan, 2011
Wild Jordan Nature center, Amman, 2011, construction process © Khammash Architects
The Wild Jordan Nature Center is located in a steeply sloping site, with a high difference of about seven floors. The structure was designed to allow it to hover above the site with a minimal footprint and foundation, which allowed plants, light and space to penetrate beneath. The building holds tight to the upper street, rather like the decking of a seafront or harbour pier or an oil rig in the ocean. In this part of the world, people traditionally build the ground floor, and then leave the exposed columns sticking out as hopeful sign of one day extending their homes. In the Nature Center, it was an upside-down building sequence, starting by the ground floor and then stucking the columns down, enabling possible infill in the future.
Typical Ammani houses. Photo by Chris, 2010, CC 2.0
We design buildings that can be easily built by low- to intermediate-skilled contractors. We think architecture should have a meaningful cost in general, with an equally meaningful distribution. We also think great architectural qualities can be achieved using more modest and often low-tech or hybrid structural, material and finishing options. The Wild Jordan Nature Center was designed structurally and architecturally using the basic structural system of reinforced post-and-beam skeleton currently used by 90% of Ammani houses particularly in poorer neighbourhoods – a modular proportion of fours and fives, which originally stemmed from the length of the shuttering wood. This allowed us to save unnecessary spending and free up funds for the rest of the brief.
The Wild Jordan Nature Center was also designed to withstand earthquakes; simulation software was used to allow the building to escape the lateral thrust of the cliff in the event of seismic activity. This simulation suggested designing less rigid bridges between the two towers and the upper street to prevent them transferring the lateral load of the Jabal Amman hill to the towers, and allow them to bend partially but not collapse so that they can be used for evacuation.
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Royal Academy for Nature Conservation, 2013, West elevation and section © Khammash Architects
Royal Academy for Nature Conservation, 2013, East elevation and sections © Khammash Architects
Royal Academy for Nature Conservation, 2013, ground floor plan © Khammash Architects
Royal Academy for Nature Conservation, 2013, basement © Khammash Architects
"The project celebrates the quarry instead of erasing it, by taking this man-made cliff and turning it into the real, exciting challenge on the site."
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Jordanian Government decided to close down many functioning quarries for a variety of environmental reasons. The abandoned quarries remained as open wounds in the landscape. The site of the new building contains the ghost of a former quarry. The building design is based on the quarry cut line and follows it closely, creating a linear addition of constructed stone to the bedrock, which becomes the foundation of the building.
After crossing a bridge spanning the 30 metres of the quarry mouth (the longest masonry arch in Jordan), the Academy Building welcomes the visitor at the centre of its two functions: to the left, an environmental academy that offers nature-oriented educational programmes and, to the right, a high-end restaurant and craft shop that fund the academic programme.
The building is constructed in Ajlouni limestone from the site's quarry and others, given a very basic treatment. The massive southern elevation has very small windows with giant vertical blade-like stone cracks that shear into zero width, bringing light into the circulation and facility areas. The corridors are defined by a crack in the ceiling that lets natural sunlight in and guides the visitor into the academy.
On the opposite side, the building overlooks a forest above which it hovers, barely touching it. The building has a minimal footprint as the foundation cantilever tilts at 45 degrees above the forest floor, and cantilevered terraces with blade-like edges float, almost like paper, above the canopies of the trees.
Client: The Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN)
Area: 3500.0 sqm
Wild Jordan Nature center, Amman, 2011 © Khammash Architects
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Wild Jordan Nature center, Amman, 2011 © Khammash
Wild Jordan Nature center, Amman, 2011 © Krunoslav Ivanisn
Wild Jordan Nature center, Amman, 2011 © Agnes Montanari
Wild Jordan Nature center, Amman, 2011, section © Khammash Architects
Wild Jordan Nature center, Amman, 2011, ground floor © Khammash Architects
Wild Jordan Nature center, Amman, 2011, basement -2 © Khammash Architects
Wild Jordan Nature center, Amman, 2011, plans © Khammash Architects
"We had to build a structural base because we needed to hang it somehow, since we couldn't hang it from the clouds."
The topography of the site in the Jabal Amman area, a very steep slope between two roads, was exceptionally challenging. Conceived as a mass hanging from the upper street, the building flies in space like a table or a chair with bare concrete trusses as legs. The light, needle-like columns and the minimum footprint allowed the land to breathe, and, with an abundance of light and sun, the flora and vegetation present on the site cover the natural topography.
In Amman, most of the buildings have a cubic geometry with four main side elevations. Since it is a mountainous city with low-rise buildings, the roof acts as a fifth elevation, adding a third dimension. As a result of hanging the building's mass, the Wild Jordan Nature Center exposes an extra elevation: the bottom face of the cube. The Center comprises two cubes, each 10×10 metres, maintaining the same proportions and speaking the same language as the interlocking mass and void that characterise Al-Balad (Downtown Amman). The building followed the scale and the humble spirit of traditional Ammani houses, recreating the same 'grain size'.
The materials of Downtown Amman are also reflected in the building, with its roughness, its almost-dirty look and its vandalism-proof nature. It is easy to label the result as brutal, yet it is shaped by a more complex, sensual approach to the humble. The Nature Center was not supposed to outsmart the modest context of Al-Balad; it had a bigger agenda of conservation and promotion of nature to young people through its programme, design and details. The building and furnishings were designed to celebrate a very cheap, industrial use of materials, many of which were recycled.
The Nature Center's programme flows easily through the space, with many multifunctional areas. The space houses a crafts shop, an organic shop, a café, and lecture halls to support and promote eco-tourism, as well as offices and exhibition spaces. The highlight of the Nature Centre, however, is the upper terrace, which serves as an urban marketing station where many tourism groups and even architecture students stop to admire the multi-layered city.
View of Amman from the Wild Jordan Nature center © Krunoslav Ivanisn
Amman, a geomorphological city © Krunoslav Ivanisin
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Ammar Khammash
Ammar Khammash (Amman, 1960) is an architect, artist and photographer. He obtained a B.A. in architecture from the University of Southwestern Louisiana in 1986, and later studied ethnoarchaeology at the Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology at Yarmuk University in Irbid, Jordan. Khammash Architects started in the late 1980's. Its methodology and scope encompasses diverse fields such as history, geology, archaeology, ecology, ethnography and socio-economics. Early projects focused on restoration and renovation of historic sites as well as interventions within cultural and natural heritage sites. The office later expanded and became involved in numerous projects in Jordan, Oman, Palestine, Egypt, Syria and the UAE, ranging from master planning and urban design to sustainable tourism design.
www.khammash.com
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The Fold opens its first flagship boutique
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28 Cadogan Place, London SW1 (020-7336 7599; thefoldlondon.com).
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Established just six years ago, premium London label The Fold has established a reputation as the go-to online womenswear brand for professionals who favour feminine cuts for their formal workwear – and a clean, modern aesthetic that takes them effortlessly from desk to dinner party. The brand started out offering a semi-bespoke service from a studio in Clerkenwell (now closed), and its founder Polly McMaster plans to build on this offering at its first Belgravia boutique, which opens on March 2.
The Fold's new store on Cadogan Place
Housed in a Grade II-listed building, the store's new Cadogan Place address is perfectly positioned for the label's well-heeled clientele. "We were very lucky to find this location on the Cadogan Estate, where the local businesses have a real synergy with our brand and meet many of our customers' needs," says McMaster, a former city executive. "We wanted the store to fit around their lifestyles, and the shops, galleries and hotels in the area are very appealing – it feels like a great place to set down roots." Building on the personal service offered at its studio, McMaster aims to create a hub for working women. "Our customers already network with each other and form friendships through The Fold," she says.
The light, contemporary interior of the two-storey boutique was designed by consultancy KKD to conjure the ambience of a private members' club. It also sourced pieces by women artists such as surface designer Stephanie Tudor, who created the store's centrepiece bar.
Visitors who call by can arrange one-to-one styling sessions, meet friends or have coffee and catch up with work, while the space will host regular events for customers. Peruse the full spring collection at the store: from softly draped blouses (£195) through to flattering, often asymmetrically cut wool or silk dresses (from £225) to fine-wool coats (£495) with feminine detailing such as sculpted cuffs. It's planned as the perfect place to work and play.
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Cross the Streams
It's been made pretty clear over the past few weeks that streaming music is not a sustainable business model for artists. Streaming Music is Ripping You Off. Open the Music Industry's Black Box. And the fact that you need to play a song 1.8 gazillion times in order for an artist to earn enough to buy penny candy (which costs a quarter).
In other words, this is horrible. But! From a user's perspective, streaming music has a lot going for it. It's eating away at pure digital sales and has been for some time. In other words, tech got the user model exactly right, and did nothing for the business model.
That's not to say that was a goal of rdio, Spotify, Google, Microsoft, or even Apple. It's pretty clear that the music industry has an entrenched way of doing things, and change – on any scale – is difficult.
That all said, I see one natural conclusion for streaming services: they'll become music labels.
It will be a slow change, due to contracts and deals and the like. But think about it. They've got the distribution in place on the software and, in some cases, hardware side. They can, in time, provide exposure in a way a music label could not. Apple has already been producing music videos for some artists. Contracts aside (and, again, those are a major aside) it's only a hop, skip, and jump to having Drake cut a new single and having it solely on Apple.
That means a very different future landscape if it happens. It means that some services – stores, if you will – get exclusives and artists all to themselves. Or, they get them first. That sticks a very smart wedge in the "every streaming service has the same catalog, more or less" scenario we're in now.
Truth be told, I can only see Apple pulling this off at scale given their current marketing stance. My serious problems with the app and UX aside (again, another major aside), they've very much planted themselves in the "we're for artists!" camp with the Connect feature and initial launch positioning.
Tidal is interesting. Their pro-artist stance hasn't been the #1 focus for them. Apple calls it out as a key differentiator: "We've set out to make music better. ... To deepen the connection between artists and fans." Tidal, on the other hand, focuses on streaming quality which, ultimately, is not enough. (See: Pono.)
Now, this all said, it's entirely possible that Apple is just spending a ton of cash on marketing for a streaming music service that's an also-ran with its own radio station. But its ability to pull in talent, its huge cash reserves, and alleged attitude towards music suggests that they're looking to do something more.
And by becoming a label themselves, Apple could – again, in theory – change the pay equation for artists. Say... 70/30. Or 80/20. Otherwise, it's all looking pretty bleak.
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Alaska Airlines Debuts Inflight Wi-Fi
By Jay Boehmer / May 17, 2010 / Contact Reporter
Alaska Airlines today launched inflight wireless Internet on six Boeing 737s, marking the first planes in the carrier's fleet to flip the switch on the Aircell-powered offering that should be extended fleetwide by the end of the year.
Aircell's air-to-ground network, however, does not extend to the carrier's home state, though the inflight connectivity provider expects to bring the service to Alaska early next year.
Alaska initially was a pilot customer for Aircell competitor Row 44, which uses a satellite-based system to connect air passengers to the Internet. The carrier, however, in February joined many of its domestic competitors in selecting Aircell.
Alaska said it would bring the service to the majority of its fleet by the end of the summer—when it completes installations on all of its Boeing 737-800s and -900s—then outfit the remainder of its fleet of Boeing 737s by the end of the year.
Alaska said it would offer trial of the new service free of charge to customers through July 31 through a promotion with Visa, which offers the carrier's cobranded credit card.


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The Alphas at UCLA got BARS!
To promote their upcoming Alpha Week, the brothers of the Gamma Xi Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha at UCLA released a cypher highlighting their rap skills and focus on social justice issues.
In the cypher, the brothers rhymed about how fly their chapter is but also drew attention to serious topics such as gender stereotypes, the Black infant-mortality rate and the need for community service in a creative way.
Watch their full cypher below!


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This Australian startup is about to trial a system that could see drivers being charged for every kilometre they drive on the road
Jacob Greber, AFR.com
Traffic at a gridlock in Sydney, Australia. Photo: Cameron Spencer/ Getty Images.
Getting motorists to pay their road taxes by the kilometre sounds crazy.
But that's exactly what a new Australian start-up – which has been shortlisted for the world's second-richest economics prize after the Nobel – is trying to do.
Clearways, founded by University of NSW engineering adjunct professor Jamye Harrison and former NSW transport ministry policy director Russell King, is trying to convince government that drivers can be sold on direct road user charging.
The team is proposing a six-month trial with 50,000 drivers to test whether drivers would "buy" into a system in which they are financially rewarded for avoiding peak hours, staying home or using public transport.
Mr Harrison, a former head of Deloittes' transport practice, argues the system won't hurt the federal budget, which relies on more than $15 billion a year from fuel excise, and could even kill off congestion in major cities within a decade.
It's a bold claim based on the idea that if governments continue to let voters believe that driving on roads is "free" there will always be traffic jams.
Using technology that would tap into a car's existing on-board diagnostic system to record distances and roads travelled, drivers would be able to opt out of paying fuel excise – which has risen to 40.1 cents per litre this year.
"Rather than the government creating a new tax to charge everyone for use of the road, we thought about how we could design a product that drivers actually wanted to buy," said Mr Harrison.
Clearways is working to sign up counterparties that would provide benefits to drivers, such as insurers, telecommunications firms, and roadside assistance providers.
"You will never pay more than what you would through fuel excise," said Mr Harrison. "But if you can change behaviour – work at home, catch a bus – you'll see benefits."
Encouraging behavioural change – even small shifts – can have major impacts on congestion. Mr Harrison pointed to research that shows about 20 per cent of people who drive during the morning peak have flexibility about when they drive.
"By getting just a quarter of the people who say that they can drive at a different time to avoid the peak, we can have school holiday traffic levels every day."
Clearways is among a growing number of businesses and policy makers trying to crack the political and economic challenges of introducing transport's equivalent of the holy grail; road-user charging.
While user-pay models have taken over almost every facet of modern life, charging directly for roads remain a sacred cow, including privacy concerns and politicians' fears over how voters will react in volatile long-distance commuter electorates ringing major cities.
But there are also growing risks from a "do-nothing approach". Car buyers' growing preference for ever-more efficient vehicles and the accelerating trend towards electric motors will ultimately undermine the current system of government fuel excise collections. One solution will be even larger hikes in excise.
Sydney-based Clearway's proposal for encouraging government's to adopt a voluntary pay-as-you-drive system was this month chosen as one of five finalists for the 2017 Wolfson Economics Prize, a first for a non-UK entrant.
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Microsoft Releases Patch for ASP.NET Flaw
Microsoft released an "important" patch to address an information disclosure security vulnerability associated with ASP.NET systems.
The out-of-band patch is currently available for supported Windows systems from the Microsoft Download Center page (look for entries dated Sept. 27). Details about the patch are described in security bulletin MS10-070, which was released today. Microsoft explained in that security bulletin that the patch was released through its Download Center to help customers apply the fix as soon as possible.
Dave Forstrom, director of trustworthy computing at Microsoft, stated in a blog post today that Microsoft will provide the patch through its usual automatic distribution channels in a couple of days after first testing those distribution methods.
The patch is mostly aimed at IT pros who maintain servers using ASP.NET, which depends on the Internet Information Services component on Windows Server operating systems. To a lesser degree, some hobbyist users might run ASP.NET on Windows desktop operating systems, and those sorts of installations also are subject to the vulnerability.
According to a blog post by Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of Microsoft's .NET developer platform, "the patch does not require any IIS or ASP.NET code or configuration changes." He said that once the patch is applied, the workarounds that Microsoft earlier recommended in its various blog posts will "no longer be required."
Commenting on the patch release, Wolfgang Kandek, CTO at software security firm Qualys, said that IT pros should keep the Microsoft workarounds in place if they have applied them and then test the new patch. He did not recommend undoing the workarounds.
"Those workarounds that Microsoft had initially specified, those are still valid. [People] should leave those in if they can," Kandek said, in phone interview. "If [users] had to change the error page, maybe they want different error pages for functional reasons, but those were good things that Microsoft provided. They are best practices anyway, where you don't want to give too much information about the errors that happen within the system."
Microsoft's workarounds are aimed at curtailing the details communicated by the server to the client when the server encounters errors. This vulnerability is associated with an "oracle" in the server that has been spilling too many security details, allowing hackers an opportunity to establish access rights after repeatedly sending malformed requests to the server.
"The problem is that applications that have been developed under ASP.NET can be 'convinced' to disclose information," Kandek explained. "I think that's why Microsoft considers this only an 'important' patch. Depending on the application, that information can be very important, even critical."
Microsoft's patch appears to add a digital signature, Kandek said, which may not be a bulletproof solution "but it seems to be the accepted structured way of taking care of that vulnerability." The exploit was recently demonstrated by two security researchers, Thai Duong and Juliano Rizzo. However, Kandek said that the technology to carry out the exploit "was first mentioned in 2002 in a research paper."
One way that IT pros can tell if their servers have been attacked is by reviewing their server logs, Kandek explained. The aim of the attacks is to get enough information to impersonate the administrator of the server.
"Many thousands of requests are necessary [for the attack]," he said, "and all of them end in an error. The demo that I saw took like 38,000 requests, or something like that."
The vulnerability was first discovered associated with the Java Server Faces Framework, so similar client-server setups could be vulnerable. Antimalware could not have helped ward off these kinds of attacks, but some Web application firewalls could help by supplying additional encryption, Kandek said.
Server administrators should apply Microsoft's patch right away, Kandek advised.
"If you run a server that serves Web pages, and the programs are ASP.NET, you should really take a close look at this and I would apply it as quickly as possible then," he said.
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James Sparvero, Reporter
Published: January 16, 2019, 10:18 pm
Tags: News, Local, Brevard County
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COCOA, Fla. – Two years after the Rev. Johnnie Dennis petitioned the city of Cocoa for a citizens police review board, it's happening.
After approval by the council in October, the city is now requesting applicants apply by mid-February and then in April, the city hopes to have the board's first meeting.
The board will have seven members -- six citizens and one former officer who must have retired in good standing.
Councilmembers and Chief Mike Cantaloupe will each make selections.
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Officers George Menendez and Jerry Nava are both now off the force.
The review board is expected to meet four times a year.
Dennis would like to see the committee meet every month.
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See also
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References

Islands of the Kimberley (Western Australia)


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This package implements functions to retrieve the nearest genes around the peak, annotate genomic region of the peak, statstical methods for estimate the significance of overlap among ChIP peak data sets, and incorporate GEO database for user to compare the own dataset with those deposited in database. The comparison can be used to infer cooperative regulation and thus can be used to generate hypotheses. Several visualization functions are implemented to summarize the coverage of the peak experiment, average profile and heatmap of peaks binding to TSS regions, genomic annotation, distance to TSS, and overlap of peaks or genes.