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A Mouthful of Stars
by Kim Sunee
"There is a big difference between traveling to escape and traveling to discover. A Mouthful of Stars is a book that shows the beauty of learning about yourself, the food you eat, the world around you, and the wonderful people at every stop. It's a poignant voyage through the smart writings and wonderful recipes of Kim Sunée."
— HUGH ACHESON, author of A New Turn in the South
"Kim Sunée's food, life, and writing are the stuff of pure genius. When she cooks, I am hungry, craving not just her food but also the essence of her presence and the mindfulness with which she lives. She has taken recipes from near and far, and served them to us with doses of stylishness, honest ingredients, playful spices,and haunting flavors."
— SUVIR SARAN, Top Chef Master and author of American Masala and Indian Home Cooking
"A Mouthful of Stars will immediately draw you into Kim's culinary journey through the stories she shares of cooks and how they connect with their food. Get ready to be transformed into her world of Flower and Ice, Down-and-Dirty Rice, Tipsy Melons, and more. A Mouthful of Stars is a tasty and thoughtful combination of Zen and gourmet."
— SARA FOSTER, author of Sara Foster's Southern Kitchen and The Foster's Market Cookbook
"Kim Sunée is one of the most compelling memoirists writing today, and on top of that, she is a gifted cook. I want to follow her everywhere she goes, reflect on every thought in this moving story, and make a meal of A Mouthful of Stars. I loved being immersed in the context of each recipe, and was impressed by how effortlessly Kim can transport dishes from near, far, and wide to her own kitchen and into ours."
— MARTHA ROSE SHULMAN, food columnist for the New York Times
Bestselling author of Trail of Crumbs and former food editor Kim Sunée offers up her first cookbook. A Mouthful of Stars: A Constellation of Favorite Recipes from My World Travels is a collection of Kim's interpretation of cherished recipes and cooking discoveries from across the globe. From Tuscan crostini di fegatini and Louisiana dirty rice to the flavors of her birth country, South Korea, and favorites from the ten years she spent eating and cooking in Provence and Paris, you'll find A Mouthful of Stars in the cookbook section. However, this book's breadth also extends to travel and food writing. The author's time in many lands and cooking in many kitchens has inspired this beautiful, unique, exotic, and delicious culinary journey.
From the foreword by Frances Mayes:
"Trail of Crumbs established Kim Sunée as an outstanding literary writer, not only about life, but about food. . . . Now, after Kim's brilliant debut memoir, she serves forth A Mouthful of Stars. What an astonishing book. I zoomed through the pages with an increasing feeling of joy. A Mouthful of Stars is original. First, she brings to her recipes zest, energy, and a raucous spirit of fun. Second, she praises, philosophizes, and celebrates . . . She knows that life isn't worth living without friends who know how to eat the heart out of a taco. This sense infuses every bite. How could I help but dash to the kitchen to try Grilled Peaches Wrapped in Prosciutto, Pan-fried Peppers with Coconut and Tamarind, Roasted Cherries with Burrata, and Quick Pickled Fennel. I love her delicate balance of flavors and aromas. Is she alchemist, conjurer, poet, or cook? All of the above. Even the few classic recipes (roast turkey and pizza) include a particular Kim-twist.
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The first distiller's cut at GinGinGin. Obviously that needs a review. The Burgen 2018 version of the well-known Burgen Gin. But this one is a bit different. It does not pretend to be the completely overpriced collector's item. Quite the contrary. It is a bit cheaper than the regular version. What a nice move. If the regular gin is too pricey for someone this one could be a first contact.
A gin that is cheaper than its original despite being the distiller's cut is what we like. It is smooth and comes with 42% ABV and in the typical Burgen 0,5 l bottle. It can be ordered at their Webshop.
Trials with other botanicals were made of course but this combo (plus the botanicals we do not know anything about since Burgen Drinks keeps a bit quite about them) works quite well.
Hello juniper, but a big hello to almonds! The raspberry is there but subtle. My hay fever is to be blamed I guess.
Tasted neat you get juniper and a bit of spice but hey do the almonds come to life. Over ice they come out even more. The hint of raspberry is probably a good counterpart without it something would be missing I guess.
The first serve with Fevertree tonic was great already. A nice almond touch and a nice summer touch to it. It reminds me of one of my favourite gins: Xoriguer Mahon gin from Menorca which features almonds as well.
The serve on the photo uses raspberries and we tried a dry tonic as well. The sugar levels the dry taste out. Works as well. Nice.
But the perfect serve? We are using the Three Cents Aegean Tonic for our perfect serve.What and amazing mixer. It brings out the raspberry in this gin and will be one of my new go to tonics to test a gin if possible. This is definitely the match you have to try!
In summary a nice gin for summer drinks. I'll definitely serve a few more of these in the next weeks. Come over if you feel like trying it. Well done Burgen Drinks.


A new paper involving Environment Institute members Thomas Prowse, Corey Bradshaw (also SARDI), Michael Watts and Barry Brook as well as Christopher Johnson (University of Tasmania), Robert Lacy (Chicago Zoological Society) and John Pollak (Cornell University) has recently been published in the Journal of Animal Ecology.
The paper titled 'No need for disease: testing extinction hypotheses for the thylacine using multi-species metamodels' designed a new population viability approach (PVA) that includes species interactions explicitly by networking species models within a single 'metamodel'.
Population viability analysis (PVA) is used to assess the extinction risk of threatened species and to evaluate different management strategies. However, conventional PVA neglects important biotic interactions and therefore can fail to identify important threatening processes.
This study demonstrates the utility of PVA metamodels by using them to reinterpret the extinction of the carnivorous, marsupial thylacine Thylacinus cynocephalus (Tasmanian Tiger) in Tasmania. In particular, they test the claim that well-documented impacts of European settlement cannot account for this extinction and that an unknown disease must have been an additional and necessary cause.
Read the paper to find out more.
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The supremely confident demeanour and exalted rhetoric of the Democratic nominee at a New Hampshire event betrayed that he is a man convinced he is poised to make history.
Speaking in an apple orchard against the picture-perfect New England backdrop of an red, green and yellow autumn foliage on a stage adorned with pumpkins and hay bales, Mr Obama reminded voters of the dangers of hubris.
Aside from location, the rally bore little similarity to a visit Obama paid last October; size, security and rhetoric were all dramatically bigger. The change in scope was not lost on 10 Londonderry Middle School students attending the rally as a special field trip.
Keegan Smith said he had been to last year's Obama event.
No Obama rally is complete without a few celebrity sightings.
Actor Justin Long, co-star of "Live Free or Die Hard" and the popular "I'm a Mac/I'm a PC" commercials was spotted by the middle schoolers and posed for photos. Actor John de Lance, better known as "Q" from "Star Trek: The Next Generation," was also present.
Not present, or at least not singing the National Anthem at the rally was Londonderry senior Zach Bencal.
Sandra Abrevaya, communications director for the Obama campaign's Manchester office, confirmed the choice had simply been a last-minute scratch from the rally's program, which included the Pledge of Allegiance.
The Nation of Islam, a secretive movement generally closed to outsiders, has planned a rare open-to-the public event at its Chicago-based headquarters in what the Minister Louis Farrakhan deemed a "new beginning" for the group.
America as we know it.
The two party system: A Liberal Supermajority Get ready for 'change' we haven't seen since 1965, or 1933.
Louie Farrakhan remaining in the closet.
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Castalia Consorzio Stabile S.C.p.A. è una società consortile italiana che raggruppa 35 aziende specializzate nelle attività marittime, nell'antinquinamento marino e nel pronto intervento. Opera da 30 anni sia in Italia che fuori per la salvaguardia e tutela del mare, sia per conto del Ministero dell'Ambiente che su richiesta di altri enti pubblici o privati. Il nome è ispirato a quello della ninfa Castalia.

Storia

L'azienda venne fondata a Villa Campolieto a Napoli il 22 luglio 1986 alla presenza dell'allora presidente IRI Romano Prodi, in ottemperanza al Decreto Ministeriale 727/86 emanato dal Dipartimento per il coordinamento della protezione civile che prevedeva la costituzione di una società all'interno del gruppo IRI che si occupasse di eseguire interventi nel settore dell'inquinamento a terra, in particolare depurazione delle acque reflue, smaltimento di rifiuti tossici e nocivi, bonifica ambientale, ricerca e monitoraggio ambientale.

I soci fondatori erano Finmeccanica e Italimpianti (25%), Telespazio (15%), Italeco e Società Italiana per Condotte d'Acqua (12.5%), IRI e Finsiel (5%). Successivamente la società passò sotto il controllo di Italstat, poi di Iritecna (30% direttamente, 20% tramite Italtekna).

Dopo il 1991 viene ceduta ad Italimpianti (IRI-Fintecna) e nel 1995, nell'ambito delle privatizzazioni allora in atto, acquistata da Fiat Impresit S.p.A.. ed incorporata nella controllata Fisia Italimpianti. Sempre nel 1991, Castalia costituì una nuova società specifica per le attività marittime e l'antinquinamento del mare denominata Castalia Ecolmar  (Società Italiana per l'Ecologia Marina) SCpA, consorzio controllato da Fisia Italimpianti (gruppo Impregilo), quale struttura di prevenzione, controllo e contenimento dei fenomeni inquinanti dell'ambiente marino.

Dal 1998 Castalia Ecolmar prese a svolgere attività su disposizione del Servizio Difesa del Mare del Ministero dell'Ambiente e in collaborazione con le Capitanerie di Porto. Il contratto stipulato con tali enti prevede il pattugliamento delle coste, con particolare attenzione alle aree marine protette e alle zone di elevata vulnerabilità ambientale e il pronto intervento antinquinamento, sia da idrocarburi che da rifiuti galleggianti e/o semisommersi.

Il 13 luglio 2011 Castalia Ecolmar venne trasformata in Castalia SCpA, cambiando nuovamente nome il 23 aprile 2013 in Castalia Consorzio Stabile SCpA.

Attività
Castalia opera nel settore del disinquinamento da idrocarburi e delle bonifiche ambientali e svolge il servizio di antinquinamento marino nella acque territoriali italiane per conto del Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Sicurezza energetica.

Interventi in mare
L'intervento di Castalia è stato richiesto in conseguenza di alcuni noti naufragi quali quello della Haven e quello della Costa Concordia.

Note

Bibliografia
Haven mezzogiorno di fuoco di Tina Leali Rizzi, prefazione di Fabio Capocaccia – KC Edizioni anno 2010
 Libano una missione ambientale a cura del Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Tuteta del Territorio e del Mare e  Agenzia per la protezione dell'ambiente e per i servizi tecnici – gennaio 2007

Collegamenti esterni

Ex società del Gruppo Leonardo
Società partecipate da STET
Società partecipate dall'IRI

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Europe | Russia
Uncle Volodya's flagging Christmas spirit
The Russian government is beginning to run out of the goodies that it has traditionally used to buy popular acquiescence
Dec 30th 2008 | MOSCOW
Illustration by Peter Schrank
JUST over a year ago Vladimir Putin sprang a surprise on his country: Dmitry Medvedev, a former lawyer and confidant of his, was his preferred choice of successor as Russia's president. Optimists rejoiced, as a young, marketwise and non-KGB man offered some hope of a thaw. Pessimists predicted that, at best, Mr Medvedev would play a nominal role, with Mr Putin retaining real power. So far the pessimists have won. Nobody, in Russia or the West, doubts that Mr Putin, who is now prime minister, is still the boss.
Mr Putin makes all the main decisions and hands out money. He acts as leader of the nation—and doubles as Father Christmas, making little boys and girls happy. He took on this particular role in a recent televised phone-in session with the Russian public. One caller was a nine-year-old girl from a village in south-east Siberia who asked Mr Putin to be a magician and give her a new dress, like Cinderella's. The speechless girl and her family were whisked to Moscow to meet Uncle Volodya and receive the present from his hands. The Kremlin media added dollops of syrup to the saccharine tale.
Yet on the very day the girl arrived in Moscow, riot police were brutally beating up protesters and journalists in the country's far east. The immediate trigger of the protest was the government's decision to raise import duties on used foreign cars so as to protect Russian carmakers. Selling (and servicing) right-hand-drive cars imported from Japan has long been one of the economic mainstays for thousands of people in the region.
Significantly, the Kremlin could not rely on the compliance of local police (who also drive used Japanese cars). Instead, it had to fly special police units from the Moscow region to disperse the 1,000-odd demonstrators in Vladivostok, on the Pacific coast. Kremlin-controlled television channels chose to ignore the clashes, which only made the protesters even angrier. What started as a rally against a specific economic measure turned into a political demand for Mr Putin to step down. The protest was not the result of the economic crisis but of the government's actions—which, as Vladimir Ryzhkov, a liberal politician, says, exacerbated the distant region's sense of alienation from Moscow.
Russian interior ministry officials admit that the country's worsening economic situation could spark further protests among the working population over unpaid wages or threats of lay-offs. The risks are especially high in "monocities" that depend on a single large factory or industry for employment. There is no shortage of these in Russia. Sergei Guriev, head of the New Economic School in Moscow, says that social discontent across the country is the Kremlin's worst nightmare, which explains why it monitors the situation in industrial cities particularly closely. It has drawn up a list of some 300 firms that could receive state help, many of which are the chief employer in their area. Yet, after watching some $150 billion in foreign-currency reserves melt away in the first few months of the crisis, the Kremlin is now being careful with money, making more promises than actual payments. The government has also averted a banking meltdown, says Mr Guriev.
What Russia's economic crisis certainly marks is the end of an implicit social contract between the Kremlin and the people. This was based on rising real incomes and selective repression. Economic growth, which has averaged 7% a year recently, has now come to an abrupt halt. Indeed, Russia faces a real risk of recession, as industrial production is declining fast. Real incomes, which have been growing even more rapidly than the economy, fell in November by 6.2% on a year earlier; wage arrears have almost doubled. The rouble is steadily losing value against the dollar. There is little doubt that Russia is heading into one of its most difficult years.
Television propaganda, which has portrayed improving living conditions as part of the Kremlin's grand design for lifting Russia off its knees against the ill wishes of the West, has proved helpless when it clashes with cold reality. One recent opinion poll shows that, over the past two months, trust in media coverage of the economic situation has declined dramatically. Only 28% of Russians now think that their media coverage is objective (against 37% two months ago).
As Kirill Rogov, a political analyst, puts it, the Kremlin now has the choice of allowing politics back on to television screens or clearing people off the streets. The violence in Vladivostok suggests that it has so far chosen the second. As if in preparation for unrest, Russia's servile parliament has just abolished jury trials for such crimes as organising mass riots and treason, while also expanding the definition of treason. In a conflicting signal, though, the Kremlin has appointed a former opponent and liberal, Nikita Belykh, to govern the difficult Kirovsk region. It has also allowed human-rights campaigners to gather in central Moscow recently.
It is unclear what a new social contract might look like, but some political shift is inevitable. This does not mean that Mr Putin's regime will simply crumble, as some liberals hope. The Kremlin still has plenty of money, plus a reserve of popular trust in a "good tsar". So far the spin-doctors have successfully insulated Mr Putin from responsibility, portraying him as a benefactor instead. A recent change in the constitution lengthens the presidential term from four to six years, giving him an option to return as president in 2012 (or even earlier) for another 12 years. But if Russia runs out of money before oil prices recover, Mr Putin's magic will quickly run out.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline "Uncle Volodya's flagging Christmas spirit"
Europe January 3rd 2009
From heroic to farcical
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From the January 3rd 2009 edition


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Breakfast this morning( well part of it anyway ): simple Egg On Toast.
Today's bread was Warburtons seeded batch & it was pretty good!
If you had this with just 2 eggs, you'd save yourself around 60-65 kcals.
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Q: Actual power consumption of a smartphone charger When I search on the Internet "How much power does a smartphone charger consume?" it shows "3-7W". I know Power = Voltage x Current. Based on the equation and the input ratings (110-240V, 0.5A) on my smartphone charger if I calculate, the power consumption equals 220V x 0.5A = 110W. Can someone explain this? Note that the voltage in India is 220V, alternating at 50Hz per second.

A: Your charger is about 80-90% efficient, so if you're charging at 10W, it's probably consuming 11 or 12 watts.
You could get an AC power meter to measure power consumption exactly.

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The leadership challenge – the office of the President
These are some of the questions that need to be addressed in the interests of economic, social and political progress.
The majority of African states have republican constitutions with the head of state and government being a President. Under such constitutions, the President is vested with the executive power of the government, the power to "preserve, protect and defend the constitution" and the power to see that the laws are faithfully executed.
The concept of a government and its role in African societies has to be understood in its proper historical construction and context. The nation state as we know it today in Africa was a product of the colonial system whose founding values and principles were opposed to concepts such as inclusivity, indivisibility and universality. The government was set up to preserve, protect and defend the interests of a defined racial group.
The head of state and government had to necessarily come from a defined class of people, as was the right to elect office bearers. The effectiveness of a leader had to be measured against his/her ability to advance the interests of the people he represented.
It was, therefore, necessary to create classes of citizenships based primarily on race informed by an ideology that held the view that black Africans had no inherent interest in a nation state. The right to participate in the nation state had to be restricted and means tested largely because it was felt that so-called uncivilized and non-propertied people could conceivably see no value in a nation state founded on a defined social contract.
The decolonization struggles were informed by a shared view that an ideology that treated human beings unequally was not only immoral but also unsustainable. No state can have legitimate jurisdiction on people without their express consent.
The people who led the decolonization struggle were in part inspired by the kind of noble ideas that led men and women to declare America as a land of the free and brave underpinned by a constitutional order that sought jealously to avoid giving the President or government too much power over citizens.
The citizens and not the government were to be the driver of social and economic change. America, therefore, had a government and not the other way round, as is the case, for example, in most African countries.
The emergence of an executive President in contemporary Africa has to be understood in its historical and political context. The relationship between human beings on the one hand and between citizens and the state during the colonial and post-colonial era only changed at the superficial level.
The founding fathers dominated the political space with citizens taking a subsidiary and residual role in nation building. The expectation informed by an observation that the colonial state was at the centre of social and economic change led many post-colonial states to look to the state and not the citizens for economic salvation.
It is not surprising, therefore, that African post-colonial superstars having mainly been political players. The political kingdom led by a head of state in the form of a President has dominated Africans news to the extent that a lot is expected from politicians notwithstanding the fact that no government can be successful if its citizens are not.
The notion that the success of any nation state is no more than the aggregate of the choices made by its citizens has never been properly understood in contemporary Africa. Most African states look to donors for economic salvation instead of looking to their citizens. The link between freedom and economic success is not just academic but is supported by abundant empirical evidence.
The seemingly lack of mobility at the Presidential level is easily explained by the fact that no consensus exists on what kind of person should be a leader. Although most of the constitutions are silent on the kind of qualifications required for someone to be a President, the expectation is that such a person must be intelligent and capable of solving people's problems.
I have not known of any civilization where another person can be expected to solve one's challenges. If citizens in Africa expect the government to be a fountain of wisdom and knowledge, then Africa's prospects are doomed.
What is striking is that there is an expectation universally in Africa that a President must be armed with super skills and wisdom. Any failure must then be exclusively attributed to the leader as more is expected from the individual who is after all human like all of us.
The President has no more claims on time and life than any ordinary citizen and yet the expectation is that by assuming state office such individual must transform himself/herself into a super human being.
The link between the citizen and the office of the President is at best remote and at worst counter productive. On assuming office, a President becomes a prisoner of the system and each day in office often results in the person losing contact with the realities of life. The life of a President is not so free and rosy as we often imagine.
How well do we know the life of a President? How much have we invested in the knowledge about the office of the President? Many conversations that dominate African discourses focus on the failures of the person who occupies the highest office in the land and not on our collective failure to appreciate and understand the real value or lack of, of the person to social and economic change.
To the extent that the degrees of freedom of the President reduces each day he/she is in office, how then can we expect such a person to know what time it is outside the statehouse? It is not difficult to imagine that the eyes and ears of the President can only be as good as the source and credibility of the information brought to his/her attention.
In a Republic, the face of each citizen ought to be the face of a President and yet real human experience suggests otherwise. After all, the republic belongs to citizens in whom sovereignty is vested. The President should be no more than a representative of the governed and not a super human being. Citizens should know how to use the person in their own self-interest and not the other way around.
Citizens must take control of their project. A good President, therefore, is a person who must realize that staying long in power undermines the state not only because his circle of friends have the propensity to shape and distort his/her worldview but it is important to demystify the office of the President so that many more can aspire to serve and not dictate to the people.
Ordinary people if they are given the space are capable of accomplishing extraordinary outcomes. This is only possible not because the government compels them to dream big but because human beings have the capacity to create and innovate when they are assured that they will be able to reap the fruits of such endeavors.


Application pen testing basics Guide : In our previous tutorials, we have discussed about Application penetration testing and learned lot of Practical methods to perform application pen testing. We received a great response and feedback from users. Most of them showed interest in learning Penetration testing and asked us to write about Basics of Application Penetration testing. So friends, today we are going to learn very basics of Application pen testing basics like What is Application penetration testing? What is a penetration test? and much more. So friends lets learn Application Security Testing from very basics.
Before understanding what penetration testing actually is? One has to understand What is a Security Test or Penetration test? An Application Penetration Test is basically a method of evaluating the security posture of an application by simulating an attack from malicious hackers who would not otherwise have authorized access.
A method of evaluating the security of a computer system or network by methodically validating and verifying the effectiveness of application security controls.
So you can say Application Penetration testing (also called app pen testing) is the practice of testing application to find vulnerabilities that an attacker or hacker could exploit. But what's the process involve in this evaluation and how penetration testers really do this? The process involves an analysis of the application for any weaknesses, technical flaws, or vulnerabilities. Any vulnerabilities that are found at any stage of Penetration testing will be presented to the system owner, together with an assessment of the impact which is usually called Security Testing Report, a proposal for mitigation or a technical solution i.e. how we can overcome this is some patch or technical solution. We will learn more about how to perform a penetration test and prepare a penetration test report in later articles.
Vulnerability : A vulnerability is a flaw or weakness in a system's design, implementation, operation or management that could be exploited to compromise the system's security objectives. By above statement, we mean that issue can present at any stage of application development cycle.
No matter how secure application you will make it will have flaws. Simple reason is audience. Application is usually made by few set of developers, they can try to minimize the risk but when application is published on web, millions of users uses that and this is where users become application testers indirectly.
Threat : A threat is anything (a malicious external attacker, an internal user, a system instability, etc) that may harm the assets owned by an application (resources of value, such as the data in a database or in the file system) by exploiting a vulnerability.
NVD : National Vulnerability Database, If you want to pursue your career in Penetration testing world then you will keep of hearing this term. The National Vulnerability Database is the U.S. government repository of standards-based vulnerability management data represented using the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP). This data enables automation of vulnerability management, security measurement, and compliance. NVD includes databases of security checklists, security related software flaws, misconfigurations, product names, and impact metrics. NVD supports the Information Security Automation Program (ISAP).
CVE : The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system provides a reference-method for publicly known information-security vulnerabilities and exposures. CVE Identifiers (also called "CVE names", "CVE numbers", "CVE-IDs", and "CVEs") are unique, common identifiers for publicly known information-security vulnerabilities in publicly released software packages.
CVSS : The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) is a free and open industry standard for assessing the severity of computer system security vulnerabilities. CVSS attempts to assign severity scores to vulnerabilities, allowing responders to prioritize responses and resources according to threat. Scores are calculated based on a formula that depends on several metrics that approximate ease of exploit and the impact of exploit. Scores range from 0 to 10, with 10 being the most severe. While many utilize only the CVSS Base score for determining severity, Temporal and Environmental scores also exist, to factor in availability of mitigations and how widespread vulnerable systems are within an organization, respectively.
OWASP : The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is an online community which creates freely-available articles, methodologies, documentation, tools, and technologies in the field of web application security. OWASP seeks to educate developers, designers, architects and business owners about the risks associated with the most common Web application security vulnerabilities. OWASP, which supports both open source and commercial security products, has become known as a forum in which information technology professionals can network and build expertise. The organization publishes a popular Top Ten list that explains the most dangerous Web application security flaws and provides recommendations for dealing with those flaws.
That's all for today, we will learn more basics is part 2 of application pen testing tutorials series. Keep Learning!! Keep Connected!!
Metagoofil Tutorial : Extract Information from Docs,Images and more !!
Metagoofil is an excellent Information gathering tool that can be used for extracting tons of Information from Word Documents , PDF's , Excel Sheets , .jpg Images and lots of other formats . Metagoofil therefore can provide a lots of fruitful information during the penetration testing just by scanning the files gathered. Lets learn how to extract information from documents, images using Metagoofil Tutorial.
This will become more clear with the following example : Not very far back , I was conducting a Penetration test for one of my company's client that was a fortune 500 . Now they had certain files uploaded and also some presentations all present over the internet . Well , very common and shouldn't be a problem. But on analyzing these documents we were able to get Email , mobile phone number and some more information of high level employees . These were further used to social engineer our way into the organisation.
Metagoofil already exists in Kali Linux and is an excellent tool to use when it comes to analyzing the files for Meta Data in them . This Meta Data is just some Data about the file and used by the programs . The Meta data is neither ment to be seen by the user nor of any use for the user . Its there to be used by the program.
Metagoofil can be used to extracting the Meta Information from a variety of formats such as word , pdf , .jpg etc including the HTML web pages.
Here is a screenshot of the Metagoofil .
This is one other way of Information Gathering using the available documents in the Domain that we specify . Hope you all have enjoyed Metagoofil Tutorial by Hackingloops.
Man in the Middle attacks are very common while penetration testing and opens path for a variety of other network based attacks namely Password Sniffing , SSL strip and lots of more . Well we have a new framework for MITM Testing called BETTERCAP . Easy to integrate in Ubuntu or Kali (or whatever you use as your penetration testing Linux Distro) Bettercap comes with a lot of Extensible features. This is a Tutorial on the capabilities of Bettercap and How to effectively use Bettercap .
Full and half duplex ARP spoofing.
The first real ICMP DoubleDirect spoofing implementation.
Realtime and completely automatized host discovery.
Realtime credentials harvesting for protocols such as HTTP(S) POSTed data, Basic and Digest Authentications, FTP, IRC, POP, IMAP, SMTP, NTLM ( HTTP, SMB, LDAP, etc ) and more.
Modular HTTP and HTTPS transparent proxies with support for user plugins + builtin plugins to inject custom HTML code, JS or CSS files and URLs.
Why don't I simply use ettercap instead?
Ettercap filters do not work most of the times, are outdated and hard to implement due to the specific language they're implemented in.
Unless you're a C/C++ developer, you can't easily extend ettercap or make your own module.
Ettercap's ICMP spoofing is completely useless.
Ettercap does not provide a builtin and modular HTTP(S) transparent proxy.
Ettercap does not provide a smart and fully customizable credentials sniffer.
Once your dependencies have finished downloading and installing, let's install bettercap using the ruby package manager.
This is all you need to get started with the Bettercap MITM Framework toolkit .
The -X parameter is what enables the sniffer, while the –custom-parser parameter allows the user to pass an argument to match a specific regular expression within the captured packets. this is what makes Bettercap's sniffer so useful.
-T option is for the Target .
#Purely for educational purposes . Penetration testing without Authorization is Illegal .
Android devices are popular among penetration testers and it's very easy to use penetration testing on an Android.
Penetrate Pro is a great, handy app for getting access to the secure WiFi network from Android smartphones and tablets. The app calculates WEP/WPA keys for some WiFi routers and lets you get access by using the password. Unlock WiFi with Penetrate Pro android app.
Note that some antivirus apps think it's a virus because it is a security-related tool. Don't be concerned, Penetrate pro won't affect the regular function of your phone.
Penetrate Pro Android app allows you to decode and access a secure WiFi Network from Android.
Download and install the app on your device, open it.
You will see a window showing available WiFi networks.
If you see a notification saying "Reversible: 0 found" it means you have to change the target (see screenshot).
Keep in mind that reversing Thomson routers requires a dictionary file, or you can use mobile network 2G/3G connection.
Enable "Get keys from the web" from the settings menu. Once you have a reversible router, just tap on the network to get the WiFi keys.
Touch the provided key to copy it, then open the WiFi menu to apply the code to connect.
Penetrate Pro android app also has a manual search option where you can find keys for routers not listed in the main menu.
Penetration testing without authorization is illegal. Use this app wisely, hacking or cracking a WiFi network is not something we recommend you do. Use this app only for testing purposes, with permission from the network owners. The app is aimed to use in penetration testing to improve security setting for wireless networks.
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#NeverAgainIsNow: Why the 30th anniversary of Japanese American Redress matters today
President Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act into law. Looking on, left to right: Senator Spark Matsunaga, Representative N (Photo credit: Wikimedia)
By Guest Contributors: Tsuya Hohri Yee, Co-Chair New York Day of Remembrance Committee (Facebook: @nydayofremembrance); and Joseph Shoji Lachman, Co-founder of Never Again (Facebook: @NeverAgain9066)
August 10th marks the 30th anniversary of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which granted a presidential apology and monetary reparations to living Japanese American families who had persevered through WWII incarceration for simply looking like the enemy. Over 120,000 people were removed from their homes and imprisoned in concentration camps in remote areas of the country. The majority were US citizens and were children. While no amount of money could ever undo the damage to Japanese American families and our democracy as a whole, the Act was a landmark piece of legislation, and represented decades of grassroots organizing across the country. Many Japanese Americans, young and old were inspired to join the Redress Movement by the work of Civil Rights Movement activists of the 1960s, and mobilized our communities to come together to fight for an apology and reparations. Allies in the Black and Latinx communities came to the aid of Japanese Americans, recognizing the commonalities of our struggles, and through this powerful coalition work Japanese Americans finally saw some semblance of justice for our families.
What the Redress movement achieved went beyond the Civil Liberties Act. Our community is not monolithic and there was significant debate about how to "right this wrong," including the view that demanding compensation would bring negative attention to our community. Others felt that creating a Commission to study the incarceration, including prisoner testimonies was demeaning and unnecessary. But those disagreements didn't stop us from moving forward and when it mattered most, we rallied our support around the Civil Liberties Act. Painful divides between individuals and groups who had chosen different paths during the war that had once seemed fixed in stone, now see the possibility of eroding. As part of the healing process the Redress movement started, annual Day of Remembrance programs were organized across the country giving communities an opportunity to reflect, learn, and join together in solidarity around our common history. Japanese Americans also began journeying back to camp sites on pilgrimages to reclaim the stories of their parents and grandparents and to begin piecing together what was lost. Today we look back with admiration at what we fought for and accomplished as a community.
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Tags Tags Guest Contributors, Japanese American History, Japanese American incarceration, Joseph Lachman, NeverAgainIsNow, Redress30, Tsuya Hohri Yee
#DayOfRemembrance 2016: A Legacy of Change Agents
Today is the 74th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 which resulted in the forced displacement and incarceration of over a hundred thousand innocent Japanese and Japanese American citizens under deplorable conditions. Every February 19, the community comes together to commit to remembering the legacy of Japanese American incarceration, and Japanese American history.
Here are some posts and videos to mark today's #DayOfRemembrance.
Part One: 12 Images of anti-Japanese xenophobia
Part Two: 10 images of Japanese American internment
Part Three: 12 Images of Japanese American strength & patriotism
Fred Korematsu and the courage to defend your country by defying it
"Allegiance" Gives Voice and Life to Japanese American History
After the jump is George Takei's full TEDTalk from which the quote above is taken.
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Categories Categories Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders, History
Tags Tags Allegiance, DayofRemembrance, EO9066, George Takei, Japanese American History, Japanese American incarceration


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Hazelbury Boys Football Team Win the League!
Hazelbury Boys Football Team have won the league and are through to the cup semi-finals!
Hazelbury Boys Football Team secured another fantastic win last week, making us league champions! Beating Fleecefield 7-1 and Starks Field 4-0, Hazelbury became victorious in winnng the league after competing for weeks against other schools. The team have played together fantastically and showed real skill throughout their games.
Remaining victorious, the boys team then went on to win the cup quarter-final this week against St.Michaels 9-2. They are moving into the semi-finals with confidence! Well done boys for fantastic teamwork and being brilliant representatives of Hazelbury!


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About Objectivism
making the strike a reality
By henry_cameron,
April 5, 2011 in About Objectivism
henry_cameron
Location:Russia
Here is a question which I've recently sent to Leonard Peikoff, but he didn't answer it in his podcast. Maybe it was asked previously, but I didn't find. In the meantime, the question really bothers me.
So, has Ayn Rand ever thought of making the strike a reality? Of actually stoping publishing books and going with a bunch of businessmen to a valley in Colorado mountains?
And now, shouldn't we all instead of discussing ObamaCare go to strike?
Because if not, then it turns out that all this Atlas Shrugged thing is just fiction, nothing more, and has nothing to do with reality, isn't it?
You know, now there are thousants (if not tens or even hundreds of thousants) people in the world who claim to be objectivists. So what? The first thing one would hope to read on this forum is the discussion of an appropriate place for valley. Yet, I do not see anything like this.
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9thdoctor
Interests:Fiction authors: Umberto Eco, P.G. Wodehouse, Thomas Pynchon, Douglas Adams, Robert Heinlein
Welcome to OL. You're from Russia, wow.
Ayn Rand answered basically the same question in the Q&A period following her talk "Faith and Force: Destroyers of the Modern World". Here's a link where you can listen for free. I'm not sure where in the Q&A it was, but if you're new to her work (I gather that's the case) you'll certainly enjoy the whole thing.
http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reg_ar_faith_and_force
For every one who goes on "strike" there will be a hundred clamoring for his job. The Scabs outnumber everything.
Ba'al Chatzaf
Welcome to OL. Добро пожаловат.
That is an interesting choice of OL name - Henry Cameron.
I have always been a proponent of the strike as a tool and tactic. Yes, as Ba'al stated, in the beginning there would be hundreds taking the vacated jobs.
However, if Ayn's theory is potentially valid, eventually the incompetent would be elevated and the system would collapse.
Your country is a classic example of the brain drain in action. Russia cannot even maintain its population. If it was not for the Muslim reproduction rate, the population collapse would be accelerated.
How did you come to reading Ayn's works and what career are you pursuing in Russia?
Are there any good hidden valleys in Russia?
Mikhail,
Welcome to OL.
What's wrong with a fiction book being fiction?
Are you claiming that just because people are not collectively following a plot device in a fiction work, the individualistic philosophy presented in it is not based on reality?
Isn't that a bit of an oversimplification?
Incidentally, I did go on a one-man strike as a musician. I gave it up even though I was very good at it. This was one of the most excruciating things I have ever done in life.
You should only do something like that if you believe your effort will make some kind of difference. I learned that lesson the hard way. My strike didn't make a difference to anyone but my enemies, who then had a clearer field for them to advance than before.
I now regret doing it.
Notice that Objectivism is not a philosophy of self-sacrifice.
Consider Objectivists Paul Ryan, representative from Minnesota, and Rand Paul Senator from Kentucky, The Tea Party, and others. You could argue for withdrawal and survivalism, political activism, or ever revolution, but don't burn out just yet.
Change is coming.
One of the best things about OL is it doesn't take GG very seriously.
Edited April 5, 2011 by Joel Mac Donald
Ouch! Good one!<< this was to the band post before your edit.
Edited April 5, 2011 by Selene
Anybody seen that Ridley video about Nullification, on OL. It sounds like a succession movement if taken to its extreme.
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Location:Brisbane, Australia
Interests:Austrian and Evolutionary Economics, Objectivism, Electro-Industrial Music (Listening/Composing/ Producing), Synthesizers, Goth/Industrial/ Cyberpunk/Formal Fashion, Makeup (more than my mother), Drinking, Blackjack, Debauchery of Assorted Varieties.
Consider Objectivists Paul Ryan, representative from Minnesota, and Rand Paul Senator from Kentucky, The Tea Party, and others.
About 2/3 of Tea Partiers are conservatives protesting Obama, rather than libertarians protesting an intrusive State. Although yes, the 1/3 remaining are, if not fully consistent libertarians, strongly libertarian-leaning. As conservatives infiltrated and undermined the Tea Party movement it became much lower quality.
Rand Paul is not a libertarian, yet alone an Objectivist. He's religious, socially conservative in many respects as well.
Paul Ryan is a Rand-admirer but hardly an Objectivist since he's a Roman Catholic. However, out of all the people you mention, Ryan is the most likely to be sympathetic to Objectivism.
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Interests:Architecture, cooking, music, philosophy
Does your screen name mean that you're a drunk?
Starship Trooper studiodekadent soberly wrote:
In hindsight, considering her later years, I could (half to three-quarters) seriously argue that Ayn Rand was religious about Objectivism.
She was socially conservative in many respects as well, though not in conservatism's main issue, abortion.
According to The American Heritage Dictionary:
con•ser•va•tism NOUN:
The inclination, especially in politics, to maintain the existing or traditional order.
A political philosophy or attitude emphasizing respect for traditional institutions, distrust of government activism, and opposition to sudden change in the established order.
Caution or moderation, as in behavior or outlook.
Ayn was for keeping, but fixing the American Constitution. Both Ryan and Paul are fans of Rand, and they agree with her.
Without cynicism I can say that election in America currently requires at least infrequently going to a "church" and it requires that you not profess to "being an atheist." Both of these gentlemen belong to churches and they were elected. I can state positively that their religion will no more interfere with their reason, than would Ayn Rand's (arguable) religious attachment to Objectivism.
Paul Ryan spoke at a ceremony honoring Ayn Rand. (was it dedication of a statue?)
Paul is named Rand and is influenced by that choice of descriptive name. During his campaign he quoted her from memory, and even adopted one of her stances to disastrous results (the right of a businessman to serve whom he chooses.)
All in all I will enthusiastically support Paul Ryan and Rand Paul.
Most Social Conservatives in the Tea Party have agreed to put their social agenda on the back burner. Then once elected they will prudently push their social agenda. And other Tea Party members are free to tell them to cool it.
It is called "The Tea Party," not "The Tease Party." I have seen countless sham, class acts throughout my life, and I am rarely fooled. It is the real deal.
And she got abortion wrong anyway.
Philip Coates
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> And she got abortion wrong anyway.
Philip Coates responded:
End quote.
Rand's original stance is expressed in, "Of Living Death," The Voice of Reason, 58–59.:
"An embryo has no rights. Rights do not pertain to a potential, only to an actual being. A child cannot acquire any rights until it is born. The living take precedence over the not-yet-living (or the unborn)."
What many fail to acknowledge is that her stance DID BECOME MODIFIED CONTEXTUALLY. She later wrote in "A Last Survey," The Ayn Rand Letter, IV, 2, 3.
One may argue about the later stages of a pregnancy, but the essential issue concerns only the first three months. To equate a potential with an actual, is vicious; to advocate the sacrifice of the latter to the former, is unspeakable. . . .
I truly think that with what we now know about the growth of a human inside its Mother, that Rand would hold a closer proximity to the position of the brilliant, philosopher and musician, Roger Bissell. Once again, this proves that true contextual change to Objectivism will come from outside The Ayn Rand Institute.
Here is a quote from Roger Bissell's article, "Thoughts on Abortion and Child Support," that appeared in the September 1981 issue of Reason Magazine:
"Much earlier than previously suspected, according to recent findings, Neurophysiologists have made EEG measurements of developing fetuses and prematurely born babies and discovered that the patterns of electrical brain activity prior to the 28th week of development are radically and fundamentally different from those occurring *after* the 28th week.
In, "The Conscious Brain," Steven Rose, a British neurophysiologist, observes that 'before 28 weeks the patterns are very simple and lacking in any of the characteristic forms which go to make up the adult EEG pattern.' Then, between the 28th and 32nd weeks, the theta, delta, and alpha waves of the adult make their appearance - at first only periodically, 'occurring in brief, spasmodic bursts; but after 32 weeks the pattern of waves becomes more continuous, and characteristic differences begin to appear into the EEG pattern of the waking and sleeping infant.'
American neuroscientist Dominick P. Purpura concurs with Rose. In a recent interview, Purpura defined 'brain life' as 'the capacity of the cerebral cortex, or the thinking portion of the brain, to begin to develop consciousness, self-awareness and other genetically recognized cerebral functions as a consequence of the formation of nerve cell circuits.' Brain Life, said Purpura, begins between the 28th and 32nd weeks of pregnancy."
Adam and Phil, and all readers of what I now write, I think that in the contexts of Ayn Rand's life at various times, her positions on abortion were *justified* though they were not *true belief* which is what we also call a *fact*. To this day pro-abortion proponents will argue that Consciousness in a baby that has gestated for 28 week is not a valid prerequisite for the imputation of rights; it must be born. I maintain that the moment a baby becomes conscious is the moment that it becomes a person. From that first moment onward, sensations and perceptions in and out of the womb are experienced, memories are stored, and a unique BRAIN is in existence inside its mother.
THIS NEW PERSON HAS AN IDENTITY THAT WILL REMAIN THE SAME THROUGHOUT ITS LIFE. The baby is thinking as evidenced by the brain wave patterns alpha, delta and theta that are also found in thinking adults.
A good measure of Aristotle's and Rand's law of identity is one that is based on the facts of reality as we observe them. After consciousness a fetus becomes a *person*. There are things in the universe that a person in the womb cannot know because it is not yet aware of them. For millennia humans did not know about the dark side of the moon. That does not affect Mr. Bissell's argument. Omniscience is not required of a *person*.
A study of personal identity is not mysterious if you are talking about yourself. And it is still child's play if we are talking about someone else. To be a bit silly let me posit a case of uncertain identity: "Mom? Is that you? Well, Mom, I can 't be sure. What is the password?"
How do we know a person's identity persists from the 28th week of gestation? And how do we re-identify ourselves in the morning after awakening, or another person if we have not seen them since last month? Human beings have the least trouble re-identifying themselves or someone else, yet once again, pro-abortion rights group say there is no rights bearing entity present until after birth.
If it looks like a baby human, and it thinks like a baby human, it is a baby human. If it can be demonstrated that many of the modes of thinking are present at the age of 28 weeks of gestation, that are also present in a mature, conceptually thinking adult, then it obviously is a human person at a younger age.
To reiterate: fMRI's show that a conscious fetus, sleeps, dreams and can redirect its attention. The fact of personal identity is primary: it is self-evident to you that you exist. You are conscious. You remember. Outside of Science Fiction, personal identity in yourself or others can be demonstrated, through brain wave patterns and physical presence.
Sound is present in the womb and the baby pays attention to the sounds it hears, and remembers them. When my daughter Sarah was born a tray was dropped by a nurse, over to baby Sarah's left. She instantly turned her head left to look at the source of the sound. The nurse assured me that was normal unless a baby was lethargic from anti-pain shots given to the Mother.
The persistence of consciousness from its inception onwards, is self-evident. It exists at some point and does not cease to exist until death (which could also be complete and irreversible mental loss, though the body lives on.) A conscious baby in the womb is the same conscious baby out of the womb, and it will grow into the same conscious adult: this embodies the Law of Identity.
Oh, if I could speak to Ayn Rand today! SHE WOULD AGREE WITH ME! What a wondrous time it would be if Ayn revisited all of her works and within her PRESENT context she could make her writings *justified* and *true*.
Like I said, she got it wrong. No big deal.
I worked in research during the summer that I turned sixteen with a cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon who had just finished working on a project involving intelligence and dolphins and we had long discussions about the nature of intelligence and brain formations.
He was way ahead of his time. This was 1963.
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Peter and Adam,
With fast developing knowledge, Objectivism should stand the test of time and truth, and be adaptable - in application - not, in principle. It has and does, in my opinion.
As science identifies more about consciousness, so should the philosophy adjust, happily, in those applications. (What Peter calls "modified contextually"). In the mean time, before achieving omniscience, it might be wise to give a lot of benefit of the doubt, and enough leeway, to life in all its forms, don't you agree?
It should be the default position for a rational philosophy to preserve life. Agreed.
WhyNOT Tony wrote:
I am standing in front of Trevi Fountain with three coins.
I toss a coin in. I wish for an (Ayn Rand inspired) Objectivist Lexicon based on Ayn's words if they are still justified thinking, at this time, but if her words are contextually muddled or incorrect, they can be changed.
I toss another coin in. The movie "Atlas Shrugged was a huge success. The various institutes of Objectivism unite with David Kelley as their head.
You may toss in the third coin, Tony. Make a wish.
Tony wrote:
In the mean time, before achieving omniscience, it might be wise to give a lot of benefit of the doubt, and enough leeway, to life in all its forms, don't you agree?
I agree. Treat all life-forms with respect, and do it for rational reasons. Especially for all human or sentient life forms, no matter the state of their development, even as far back as just after fertilization. An egg is still NOT a person but I would treat it with respect for its humanity and its potential.
The exceptions in my book would be those life-forms that harm humans. Germs that cause major illness in us, I would eradicate or inoculate against.
Go back to the time of early sapiens and forward to the time of the last ice age. What killed and ate humans? Just in case a catastrophe occurs driving us back into the stone age I would get rid of tigers, Polar and grizzly bears, and most importantly, the leopard. We find leopard bite marks in the skulls of proto humans and in the skulls of homo sapiens quite frequently.
Social Conservatism in politics is characterized by the advocacy of the use of the State to prevent, essentially, gays and abortion. Rand may have been anti-homosexual but she was AGAINST the idea of the STATE being used to ban homosexuality. Thus, even if it MIGHT be argued she had some socially conservative LIFESTYLE OPINIONS, she certain't wasn't a social conservative. She also was polyamorous and an atheist.
Religious about Objectivism? Depends on what you mean by religious.
That said, I'm on record as being a strong opponent of the cultish nature of the early Objectivist movement and I clearly have never endorsed the closed-minded idolatory that some so-called Objectivists engage in.
Has anybody noticed that the person from Russia who started this thread has only made that one post? I mean three days have passed.
I wonder if he is one of those folks who shows up, starts a thread with what he considers to be a gigantic put down and uses it like a glass dome he can set down over a bunch of insects so he can study how they crawl around.
You get all kinds in life.
I think he's pissed LP hasn't answered his question and doesn't differentiate among subsects of Objectivism, the biggest being ARI and everybody else. I'd therefore not go along with this part of what you wrote: "and uses it like a glass dome . . . " He's only 25 and probably an intellectual hot head, not a troll.
Subject: always look for the most benevolent interpretation
Living in Russia under Putin and the conditions he sees in the world, it's pretty reasonable in his context to ask why we are not going on strike, looking for a place to hide or run.
So I'd lighten up on him and not come up with cynical explanations based on not much. (One reason not to post further is not getting his question answered specifically.)
Edited April 8, 2011 by Philip Coates
(One reason not to post further is not getting his question answered specifically.)
Did you notice that by your very observation, you had two things on your mind you could have posted about? Not one, but two. And one you did post about and the other you did not.
Let's start with the "did not."
How about specifically answering the question yourself?
Don't know if the dude's coming back, so no guaranteed attention payoff? Not worth risking the effort?
About the other... well, we already know all about the other...


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While surrounded by his loving family, Robert "Bob" Strozyk, 73, of Canton, PA. went home to join his wife, Joanne in heaven on Friday August 17, 2018 following a brief illness.
Robert W. was born January 14, 1945 in Philadelphia, PA. He was a son of the late Waleryan and Helen (Redwnowski) Strozyk. Bob married the former Joanne Marie Bowes on February 3, 1963. They were blessed with four children and shared their lives for over 44 years until her passing on May 21, 2007.
Bob was employed for over 35 years by the Masonite Corp. in Wysox until retirement in 2008.
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Official land costs in Japan elevated 0.6% in 2021, rising for the primary in two years, reflecting the gradual restoration of the economic system from the pandemic and associated border closure. This was as introduced by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) based mostly on its January 1, 2022 survey of 26,000 plots of land nationwide.
The MLIT's official land value survey (koji chika, 公示地価) is a value index based mostly on land transactions. Within the 2022 survey 44% of the plots surveyed rose in worth, greater than double the proportion (19%) that rose in 2021.
Robust housing demand as a result of rising acceptance of telecommuting has supplied a tailwind to this 12 months's outcomes. Nevertheless, declining values in main metropolis facilities and regional vacationer areas are stopping general land costs from making a full-scale restoration from the pandemic.
Nationwide residential land costs rose 0.5% year-on-year, reversing the 0.4% drop in 2021. The rising acceptance of telecommuting has enabled staff to think about shifting into larger flats and single-family properties. This has juiced the new and re-sale condominium markets and allowed individuals to maneuver into the suburbs, whereas protecting their city-center jobs.
The Tokyo metropolitan space noticed residential land costs improve of 0.6% year-on-year, for instance, with the residential land within the metropolis of Kashiwa, Chiba rising 0.4%, the primary time in fourteen years that the town has skilled constructive value progress. Kashiwa is a well-liked bed room neighborhood for individuals working in Tokyo. Saitama (Metropolis) and Yokohama additionally noticed larger than common will increase in residential land costs, 1.5% and 0.8%, respectively.
Nationwide industrial land values have been up 0.4% in comparison with 2021. This compares to a drop of 0.8% in 2021. Regional variations have been conspicuous within the survey, with Osaka prefecture falling 0.2%, for the second consecutive 12 months of decreases.
The Osaka area is particularly depending on inbound tourism, which was virtually fully shuttered when Japan closed its borders in an effort to regulate the unfold of the virus. In 2021, the variety of guests to Japan fell to a report low of 245,900. This was a drop of 94.0% in comparison with 2020 and 99.2% in comparison with the pre-pandemic degree in 2019 (Supply: Kyodo).
The federal government has maintained its goal of attracting 60 million guests from overseas in 2030 however within the close to future, industrial land costs will probably proceed to face headwinds in areas which can be extremely depending on demand from international vacationers.
Central enterprise districts have additionally been affected by the declining variety of commuters as a result of pandemic. In Tokyo's 23 Wards, the three central wards of Chiyoda, Chuo, and Minato fell into detrimental territory for the second consecutive 12 months. Nevertheless, within the different 20 wards industrial land costs have been constructive, led by re-development initiatives round main prepare stations. Business land values in Nakano Ward, for instance, rose 2.3% in comparison with 2021.
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Of the three important segments (residential, industrial, and industrial), industrial land costs had the strongest exhibiting, up 2.0% in comparison with 2021. This was primarily as a result of growth of on-line procuring, attributable to the federal government's stay-at-home and social distancing suggestions. Ichikawa and Funabashi, positioned within the higher Tokyo metropolitan space and well-suited to logistics amenities, for instance, each had year-on-year- progress charges of about 20.0%.
The strongest progress charges, nevertheless, have been seen in Japan's regional cities. Land costs within the 4 cities of Sapporo, Sendai, Hiroshima, and Fukuoka, that are facilities of their regional economies, elevated by 5.8% on common, taking in account all land varieties (residential, industrial, and industrial). This compares with a progress price 2.9% in 2021. Inhabitants influx from the encompassing space has continued because of re-development initiatives round main stations. This has created a virtuous cycle wherein rising demand attracts extra funding.
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My Uncle Wayne - the stepdad to the Mountain Bike Jedi Master and grandfather to Mountain Bike Jedi Master's son (pictured) - died in Connecticut on Thursday. I live in San Jose, California now - I began the cross-country trip from Connecticut to Silicon Valley a year ago yesterday - and can't attend calling hours today.
Some of you know I traveled back to Connecticut the last week of March to go to my grandmother's funeral. Uncle Wayne couldn't be there since he was admitted to the hospital unexpectedly. Twice-weekly phone calls with my parents turned into regular updates on his condition. When things appeared to be looking up a couple of weeks ago, I reasoned we should rent the man a convertible for a month as soon as he got out.
But then, four days ago, I got the dreaded Phone Call From Mother On Your Cell Phone In The Middle of the Day. I don't remember most of what she said but I remember feeling feeling more sad than I could remember feeling in a long time. He should have lived a lot longer and had a much more fitting end.
Uncle Wayne, as far as I could tell, stopped aging in or around the mid 1990s. When my cousin and I would go to Bluff Point State Park during family reunions in Mystic, he'd often come with us. I was always glad when he did just in case my cousin would need help carrying me out of the park.
A police officer for decades in Connecticut, he was always an entertaining storyteller - especially when it came to his job. After he retired, the stories grew even more entertaining but the subjects noticeably shifted from law enforcement to whatever it was he and his grandchildren had done or were going to do.
I took the picture above during Thanksgiving a few years ago holding his first grandchild without him knowing and meant to give him a framed print for Christmas. I never got around to it.
I can't give him this picture and I can't ever go mountain biking with him again, but I can ask you to do what I just did: make a donation to the Colchester Land Trust - a nature conservation group he was a big part of in the town he's called home for a long time. Also, that thing you were planning to do for someone special but haven't gotten around to it yet? Get around to it now.


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A varied programme of social events is organised by the Association, including barbecues in the summer , family evenings in the winter, bingo, visiting theatres, over 60s Christmas lunch, the Christmas Dinner & Dance and Social Evenings every Friday from 8:30 pm in the Ferris Bar.
The Community Centre is available for hire for club and personal events, full details are available from the Bookings Secretary. The Association will provide a bar for events, details from the Bar Manager.
Each £5 ticket ensures an entry in the monthly draw for a year. The prizes are: £20, £10, £10, £10, £10 each month except at Christmas when the prizes are: £100, £50, £25, £25, £25. Details and tickets from the Membership Secretary.
Tony Horne 681418 bar@wingrave-wca.co.uk. Every Friday from 8:30pm in the Ferris Bar of the Community Centre. A different real ale every week, a selection of wines and single malt whiskies and the usual bar selection of drinks; also free nibbles. Everyone is welcome, just drop in and enjoy some good company. Special events are organised, details of which are in the Communiqué.
John Hawkes 681022. The Village Diary is a central source of information about coming events. Diary entries for the next two months are published in the Communiqué, the full Diary is delivered monthly by email to the secretaries of clubs and societies. Please let us know about new events for the Diary by using the Directory Feedback Form or email diary@wingrave-wca.co.uk.