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Q: How to find a User's Group with LDAP in C# Core 2 I am using C# Core 2 using Active Directory as the authentication method with Novell - I have got the verify user based on password section working, authenticating them if the username and password are correct in AD.
I want to get the user group of the logged in user, to add further security, in the same way [Authorize(roles="*")]would.
The below code is what I have so far, I know the connection is correct, but I cannot get any results in the SearchResults, it always returns as a count of 0.
Where am I going wrong? Not had any previous Active Directory exposure.
Search function :
    int searchScope = LdapConnection.SCOPE_BASE;
    string searchFilter = "(CN = " + username + ")";
    string searchBase = "OU=Users,OU=TOD,OU=Departments,DC=domain,DC=com";
    // folder structure Users/TOD/Departments/List of people

    // reading members of dynamic group could take long so set timeout to 10 seconds
    LdapSearchConstraints constraints = new LdapSearchConstraints();
    constraints.TimeLimit = 10000;

    #region connection
    string host = "mydomain.com";
    string un = "mydomain\\" + username;
    int port = 389;
    int version = LdapConnection.Ldap_V3;

    var conn = new LdapConnection();

    conn.SecureSocketLayer = false;
    conn.Connect(host, port);
    conn.Bind(version, un, pass); //parsed in through function params
    #endregion

    LdapSearchResults searchResults = conn.Search(
        searchBase,
        searchScope,
        searchFilter,
        null, // no specified attributes
        false, // return attr and value
        constraints);
      // always returns a search with 0 count

UPDATED:
I am getting LDAP connection errors intermittently, and on other occasions the search is brought back as empty - I don't know if this is to do with waiting but it will immediately hit the break point I set at conn.Disconnect() rather than any break points in the while loop.
[TestMethod]
    public void SearchForUserDepartentTest()
    {
        var users = new Dictionary<string,string>();
        var count = 0;

        string searchFilter = "(objectclass=*)";
        string searchBase = "OU=Departments,DC=domain,DC=com"; //ou=users, ou=TOD

        // reading members of dynamic group could take long so set timeout to 10 seconds
        LdapSearchConstraints constraints = new LdapSearchConstraints();
        constraints.TimeLimit = 10000;

        #region connection
        string host = "domain.com";
        string un = "domain\\doatemp2";
        string pass = "****";
        int port = 389;
        int version = LdapConnection.Ldap_V3;

        var conn = new LdapConnection
        {
            SecureSocketLayer = false
        };
        conn.Connect(host, port);
        conn.Bind(version, un, pass);
        #endregion
        try
        {
            LdapSearchResults searchResults = conn.Search(
                searchBase,
                LdapConnection.SCOPE_ONE,
                searchFilter,
                null, // no specified attributes
                false, // return attr and value
                constraints);

            while (searchResults.hasMore())
            {
            // doesn't hit in here intermittently
                count++;
                var nextEntry = searchResults.next();

                nextEntry.getAttributeSet();
                var attr = nextEntry.getAttribute("NAME");

                if (attr == null)
                {
                    users.Add("Distinguished Name", nextEntry.getAttribute("distinguishedName").StringValue);
                }
                else
                {
                    users.Add((nextEntry.getAttribute("SAMACCOUNTNAME") == null)? "NULL ACC Name " + count : nextEntry.getAttribute("SAMACCOUNTNAME").StringValue
                        ,(nextEntry.getAttribute("DISTINGUISHEDNAME") == null)? "NULL DN" + count : nextEntry.getAttribute("distinguishedName").StringValue);
                }
            }
        }
        catch (LdapException ldapEx)
        {
            ldapEx.ToString(); // ocassional time outs
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            ex.ToString();
        }
        conn.Disconnect(); // when run hits the break point here, missing out the anything in searchResults.hasMore()
    }

UPDATE 2:
Latest code.
[TestMethod]
public void SearchForUserDepartentTest()
{
    var users = new Dictionary<string,string>();
    var count = 0;

    string searchFilter = "(objectclass=*)";
    string searchBase = "OU=Departments,DC=domain,DC=com"; //ou=users, ou=TOD

    // reading members of dynamic group could take long so set timeout to 10 seconds
    LdapSearchConstraints constraints = new LdapSearchConstraints();
    constraints.TimeLimit = 30000;

    #region connection information
    string host = "domain";
    string un = "domain\\doatemp2";
    string pass = "";
    int port = 389;
    int version = LdapConnection.Ldap_V3;
    #endregion

    try
    {
        using (var conn = new LdapConnection { SecureSocketLayer = false })
        {
            conn.Connect(host, port);
            conn.Bind(version, un, pass);

            LdapSearchResults searchResults = conn.Search(
                searchBase,
                LdapConnection.SCOPE_SUB,
                searchFilter,
                null, // no specified attributes
                false, // return attr and value
                constraints);

            while (searchResults.hasMore())
            {
                count++;
                var nextEntry = searchResults.next();

                nextEntry.getAttributeSet();
                var attr = nextEntry.getAttribute("NAME");

                if (attr == null)
                {
                    users.Add("Distinguished Name", nextEntry.getAttribute("distinguishedName").StringValue);
                }
                else
                {
                    users.Add((nextEntry.getAttribute("SAMACCOUNTNAME") == null) ? "NULL ACC Name " + count : nextEntry.getAttribute("SAMACCOUNTNAME").StringValue,
                        (nextEntry.getAttribute("DISTINGUISHEDNAME") == null) ? "NULL DN" + count : nextEntry.getAttribute("distinguishedName").StringValue);
                }
            }
        }
    }
    catch (LdapException ldapEx)
    {
        ldapEx.ToString(); // ocassional time outs
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        ex.ToString();
    }

    var check = users;
}

UPDATE 3:
Using Core console application in case testing environment was causing adverse effects. With below code getting a readout of LdapConnection timeout 85
public static void SearchForUserDepartent()
{
    var users = new Dictionary();
    var count = 0;
string searchFilter = "(objectclass=*)";//string.Empty;
string searchBase = "OU=Users,OU=TOD,OU=Departments,DC=domain,DC=com";

LdapSearchConstraints constraints = new LdapSearchConstraints
{
    TimeLimit = 15000
};

#region connection information
string host = "dm1.domain.com";
string un = "domain\\doatemp2";
string pass = "password";
int port = 389;
#endregion

try
{
    using (var conn = new LdapConnection { SecureSocketLayer = false })
    {
        conn.Connect(host, port);
        conn.Bind(un, pass);

        LdapSearchResults searchResults = conn.Search(
            searchBase,
            LdapConnection.SCOPE_SUB,
            searchFilter,
            null, // no specified attributes
            false, // return attr and value
            constraints);

        while (searchResults.hasMore())
        {
            count++;
            var nextEntry = searchResults.next(); // hits and then goes to timeout

            nextEntry.getAttributeSet();
            Console.WriteLine("Distinguished Name:" + nextEntry.getAttribute("distinguishedName").StringValue);
            Console.ReadKey();
        }
    }
}
catch (LdapException ldapEx)
{
    Console.WriteLine(ldapEx.ToString()); // ocassional time outs
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
    Console.WriteLine(ex.ToString());
}
    foreach(var u in users)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Key:" + u.Key.ToString() + " | Value:" + u.Value.ToString());
    }
Console.ReadKey();
}

A: LdapSearchResults Count always 0, you should use .hasMore() to get value of your searching
Try somethink like this
                var users = new HashSet<string>();
//My domain have 4 DC's
            LdapSearchResults searchResults = conn.Search(
                "CN=Users,DC=z,DC=x,DC=c,DC=v",//You can use String.Empty for all domain search. This is example about users
                LdapConnection.SCOPE_SUB,//Use SUB
                "(mail=*@somemail.com)",// Example of filtering with *. You can use String.Empty to query without filtering
                null, // no specified attributes
                false // return attr and value
                );

            while (searchResults.hasMore())
            {
                var nextEntry = searchResults.next();
                nextEntry.getAttributeSet();
                var attr = nextEntry.getAttribute("mail");

                if (attr == null)
                {
                    users.Add(nextEntry.getAttribute("distinguishedName").StringValue);
                }
                else {
                    users.Add(nextEntry.getAttribute("mail").StringValue);
                }

            }

for better querying use ActiveDirectory Users and computers. there are has attribute editor witch can provide all information about DC,CN,OU and attrs
Also more info at here and here
UPDATE: as official documentation says:

SCOPE_BASE:Used with search to specify that the scope of entrys to
  search is to search only the base obect.
SCOPE_ONE:Used with search to specify that the scope of entrys to
  search is to search only the immediate subordinates of the base obect.
SCOPE_SUB:Used with search to specify that the scope of entrys to
  search is to search the base object and all entries within its
  subtree.

SCOPE_SUB that means that you can use searchBase without full entry path or use string.Empty to full domain search

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Danielle Robertson, from the Charlton Fire Department, MA, explains how the Hazard House and Hazard Kitchen fire safety props have become staples of their bi-annual Open House event.
The Charlton Fire Department provides educational programs to all groups within the community, including targeted programs for school children like Fire Safety Week and Operation Safe Prom, along with presentations at The Charlton Senior Center and other senior homes.
Danielle Robertson activating scenes on the Hazard House – Large Group fire safety props using the wireless remote.
Danielle Robertson demonstrating the "flaming pot" simulation on the Hazard Kitchen fire safety props, next to the Hazard Apartment model.


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Declaring Land to be Held for Conservation Purposes Together With a Declaration That the Area Become a Scenic Reserve Pursuant to section 7 (1) of the Conservation Act 1987, the Minister of Conservation and the Minister of Lands, being the Minister responsible for the Department of State that has control of the land described in the Schedule hereto, jointly declare that the land is held for conservation purposes and pursuant to section 8 (1a) of the Act, the Minister of Conservation further declares that the conservation area shall hereafter be set apart as a reserve, subject to the Reserves Act 1977 and classified as a scenic reserve subject to the provisions of section 19 (1a) of the latter Act. Schedule Wellington Land District Taupo District 27.8272 hectares, more or less, being Hautu 3F3B2, situated in Blocks VII and XI, Puketi Survey District. Part Document B. 255659.1. ML Plan 5279. Subject to a right of way easement, 20.12 metres wide along the margin of Lake Taupo, pursuant to section 14 of the Maori Land Adjustment and Maori Claims Adjustment Act 1926. 26.1048 hectares, more or less, being Hautu 3F4B2B, situated in Blocks VII and XI, Puketi Survey District. Part Document B. 255659.1. ML Plan 5279. Subject to a right of way easement, 20.12 metres wide along the margin of Lake Taupo, pursuant to section 14 of the Maori Land Adjustment and Maori Claims Adjustment Act 1926. Dated at Wellington this 11th day of April 1994. DENIS MARSHALL, Minister of Conservation. DENIS MARSHALL, Minister of Lands. (Cons. C.O. RES 056)1/1
Conservation Act Land notices held for conservation purposes
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Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. ~ Benjamin Franklin
If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. ~ George Bernard Shaw
To tax (from Latin taxare: to assess or appraise) is an imposition of a compulsory financial charge or levy upon an individual or legal entity by a state or the functional equivalent of a state in order to support that state.
1.1 Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989)
2 Attributed
Welfare should be built of more taxpayers. Not by higher taxes.
Anders Borg, Swedish Minister of Finance (2010), said in a speech during the election. (In Swedish: "Välfärden skall byggas av fler skattebetalare. Inte av högre skatter.")
To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Edmund Burke, speech on American taxation, House of Commons (April 19, 1774); The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, ed. Paul Langford, vol. 2, p. 454 (1981).
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Winston Churchill, "Why I am a Free Trader," Chapter I in T.W. Stead's journal Coming Men on Coming Questions (April 13, 1905), bottom p. 9.
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least amount of hissing.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, minister of finance to France's 17th-century "Sun King", Louis XIV
And I'm the one who will not raise taxes. My opponent now says he'll raise them as a last resort, or a third resort. But when a politician talks like that, you know that's one resort he'll be checking into. My opponent, my opponent won't rule out raising taxes. But I will. And the Congress will push me to raise taxes and I'll say no. And they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again, and I'll say, to them, Read my lips: No new taxes!
George Bush, Acceptance speech, New York Times (August 19, 1988).
Governments create nothing and have nothing to give but what they have first taken away — you may put money in the pockets of one set of Englishmen, but it will be money taken from the pockets of another set of Englishmen, and the greater part will be spilled on the way. Every vote given for Protection is a vote to give Governments the right of robbing Peter to pay Paul and charging the public a handsome commission on the job.
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
Albert Camus, Caligula, act 1, sc. 8, Pléiade (1962).
World War II was . . . responsible for considerable changes in the U.S. federal income tax. Not only were rates increased, but the base was extended to cover most of the working population. Even as late as 1939, only 6 percent of U.S. citizens had to file an income tax return; by 1945 this had increased to over 70 percent . . . By 1945 the major features of the current federal tax system were in place.
Susan B. Hansen, The Politics of Taxation: Revenue Without Representation, New York: NY, Praeger (1983) p. 86.
There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist — the taxidermist leaves the hide.
Mortimer Caplin, American bureaucrat, Director of the IRS. Time magazine, (Feb. 1, 1963)
The Inland Revenue is not slow, and quite rightly, to take every advantage which is open to it under the Taxing Statutes for the purposes of depleting the taxpayer's pocket. And the taxpayer is in like manner entitled to be astute to prevent, so far as he honestly can, the depletion of his means by the Inland Revenue.
James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde (1863-1944), Ayrshire Pullman Motor Services and Ritchie v. Inland Revenue (1929) 14 Tax Case 754.
If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Compensation," Essays, First Series (1841, repr. 1847).
When a government taxes you, it takes something you own without your consent. That's exactly what a thief does. The main difference is that the thief is breaking the law, whereas the government is (usually) taking your money legally.
David R. Henderson, The Joy of Freedom: An Economist's Odyssey, Financial Times/Prentice Hall (2002) p. 217.
Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes. What a satire is this on government! Everywhere they think they get their money's worth, except for these.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Politics," Essays: Second Series, in The Complete Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 1, p. 302 (1929).
I'm tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to "keep people in their homes." Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I'm willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the leftwing Congresscritters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them—with their own money.
Robert A. Hall, I'm Tired (February 19, 2009)
The thugs and bullies of the Internal Revenue Service, as properly befits their disposition, consider the tax rebels, the tax resister, the worst of all criminals . . . The marauders of the Internal Revenue Service, with strict quotas for how much they have to squeeze from taxpayers, descend on ordinary working people like locusts and plague them even unto death."
Karl Hess, Dear America, William Morrow (1975) p. 6
I don't like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of 'from each according to his capacity and to each according to his needs'. That's socialism. It's written into the Communist Manifesto. Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him.
T. Coleman Andrews, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, U.S. News & World Report (May 25, 1956)
Mr. Gladstone, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, had interrupted him in a description of his work on electricity to put the impatient inquiry: 'But, after all, what use is it?' Like a flash of lightning came the response: 'Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it!'
Michael Faraday, in James Kendall, Michael Faraday, Man of Simplicity, Introduction (1955), p. 14.
Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin, Letter to M. Leroy (Nov. 13, 1789). Complete Works, vol. 10, ed. John Bigelow (1887-1888).
The more the people are discontented with the oppression of taxes; the greater need the prince has of money to distribute among his partisans and pay the troops that are to suppress all resistance, and enable him to plunder at pleasure. There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharaoh, get first all the peoples money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants for ever. . .
Benjamin Franklin, Speech to the Constitutional Convention, (June 2, 1787).
The American colonies, all know, were greatly opposed to taxation without representation. They were also, a less celebrated quality, equally opposed to taxation with representation.
John Kenneth Galbraith, The Age of Uncertainty, Chapter 6, p. 180.
No country ever takes notice of the revenue laws of another.
Lord Mansfield, Hohnan v. Johnson (1775), 1 Cowp. 343.
Also: "* One nation does not take notice of the revenue laws of another". Lord Mansfield, Planche and another v. Fletcher (1779), 1 Doug. 253. See also per Abbott, C.J., James v. Catherwood (1823), 3 D. & R. 191; per Rolfe, B., Bristow v. Sequeville (1850), 5 Ex. 279.
Taxes are the existence of the state expressed in economic terms. Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list—the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.
Karl Marx, Moralizing Criticism and Critical Morality (1847).
Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!
Margaret Mitchell, Scarlett O'Hara, in Gone With the Wind, vol. 2, pt. 4, ch. 38 (1936).
Indoors or out, no one relaxes
In March, that month of wind and taxes,
The wind will presently disappear,
The taxes last us all the year.
Ogden Nash, "Thar She Blows," Versus (1949).
The power to tax is not the power to destroy while this Court sits.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., dissenting, Panhandle Oil Company v. Mississippi ex rel. Knox, Attorney General, 277 U.S. 223 (1928).
We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.
Ronald Reagan, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 1982
Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power.
Peter Schiff, "Peering into the Abyss"[1], 29 March 2009.
Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.
George Bernard Shaw, Caesar, in Caesar and Cleopatra, act 2 (1901).
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw, Everybody's Political What's What? (1944), chapter 30, p. 256.
If ... the tax scheme allows enormous intergenerational wealth transfers within families, some families will maintain considerable socioeconomic advantages over others, which allows them to provide better educations and better environments (both residential and familial) for their children, and their children's children. ... Even in a constitutional democracy in which each citizen has a publicly recognized claim to all the basic political and civil liberties, these socioeconomic inequalities would create an informal social hierarchy by birth: some would be born into great wealth and other social and political advantages while others would be born into poverty and its associated disadvantages. ... If, because a social scheme had the characteristics described above, the life prospects of some children were vastly inferior to those of others, it would be reasonable to regard these disadvantaged children as members of the lowest stratum in a descent-based social hierarchy. When such a hierarchy is, and has long been, marked by racial distinctions, equal citizenship, in any meaningful sense, does not obtain. In a society with an established democratic tradition, such a quasi-feudal order does not warrant the allegiance of its most disadvantaged members, especially when these persons are racially stigmatized. Indeed, the existence of such an order creates the suspicion that, despite the society's ostensible commitment to equal civil rights, white supremacy has simply taken a new form.
Tommie Shelby, "Justice, Deviance, and the Dark Ghetto," Philosophy & Public Affairs, vol. 35, no. 2 (2007), pp. 126–160
Men who prefer any load of infamy, however great, to any pressure of taxation, however light.
Sydney Smith, On American Debts.
It is true that the theory of our Constitution is, that all taxes are paid voluntarily; that our government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily entered into by the people with each other; that each man makes a free and purely voluntary contract with all others who are parties to the Constitution, to pay so much money for so much protection, the same as he does with any other insurance company; and that he is just as free not to be protected, and not to pay any tax, as he is to pay a tax, and be protected.
But this theory of our government is wholly different from the practical fact. The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.
The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets. But the robbery is none the less a robbery on that account; and it is far more dastardly and shameful.
The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit. He does not pretend to be anything but a robber. He has not acquired impudence enough to profess to be merely a "protector," and that he takes men's money against their will, merely to enable him to "protect" those infatuated travellers, who feel perfectly able to protect themselves, or do not appreciate his peculiar system of protection. He is too sensible a man to make such professions as these. Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you, as you wish him to do. He does not persist in following you on the road, against your will; assuming to be your rightful "sovereign," on account of the "protection" he affords you. He does not keep "protecting" you, by commanding you to bow down and serve him; by requiring you to do this, and forbidding you to do that; by robbing you of more money as often as he finds it for his interest or pleasure to do so; and by branding you as a rebel, a traitor, and an enemy to your country, and shooting you down without mercy, if you dispute his authority, or resist his demands. He is too much of a gentleman to be guilty of such impostures, and insults, and villainies as these. In short, he does not, in addition to robbing you, attempt to make you either his dupe or his slave.
The proceedings of those robbers and murderers, who call themselves "the government," are directly the opposite of these of the single highwayman.
In the first place, they do not, like him, make themselves individually known; or, consequently, take upon themselves personally the responsibility of their acts. On the contrary, they secretly (by secret ballot) designate some one of their number to commit the robbery in their behalf, while they keep themselves practically concealed.
Lysander Spooner, No Treason (1867–1870), No. VI: The Constitution of No Authority (1870), pp. 12–13
The law before us, my lords, seems to be the effect of that practice of which it is intended likewise to be the cause, and to be dictated by the liquor of which it so effectually promotes the use; for surely it never before was conceived by any man entrusted with the administration of public affairs, to raise taxes by the destruction of the people.
Philip Dormer Stanhope, from a speech in the House of Lords (Feb. 22, 1743), on the Gin Licensing Act, recorded in The Parliamentary History of England to the Year 1803, vol. XII.
Countries, therefore, when lawmaking falls exclusively to the lot of the poor cannot hope for much economy in public expenditure; expenses will always be considerable, either because taxes cannot touch those who vote for them or because they are assessed in a way to prevent that.
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, vol. 1, pt. 2, ch. 5 (1840).
In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
There should be left only so much to the Hindus that neither, on the one hand, they should become arrogant on account of their wealth, nor, on the other, desert their lands in despair.
Ordinance by Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq, quoted in Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 7
What is the difference between a taxidermist & a tax-collector? The taxidermist only takes your skin.
Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Notebook, editor, Albert Bigelow Paine, (1st ed.) New York: NY, Harper & Brothers, 1935, p. 379
Theft consists of taking a man's property against his will, regardless of the beneficiary. If the individual has an inalienable right to his own life, liberty and property, then morally his life and property are his to do with as he pleases.
David K. Walter, as quoted in Facets of Liberty: A Libertarian Primer, edited L.K. Samuels, Freeland Press (2009), from chapter 9, "Taxation is Theft", p. 92.
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy.
Daniel Webster, McCulloch v. Maryland 17 U.S. 327 (1819). Usually reported as "The power to tax is the power to destroy". Webster, in arguing the case, said: "An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy", 17 U.S. 327 (1819). Chief Justice John Marshall reflected this in his decision, saying: "That the power of taxing it [the bank] by the States may be exercised so as to destroy it, is too obvious to be denied" (p. 427), and "That the power to tax involves the power to destroy … [is] not to be denied" (p. 431).
Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989)[edit]
In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.
Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist, ed. Benjamin F. Wright, no. 30, p. 234 (1961).
Every good citizen … should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when necessary, to the making up of a listing of his income for taxes … to contribute to his Government, not the scriptural tithe, but a small percentage of his net profits.
Cordell Hull, remarks in the House, April 26, 1913, Congressional Record, vol. 50, p. 505.
If the Government cannot reduce the "terrific" tax burden on the country, I will predict that you will have a depression that will curl your hair, because we are just taking too much money out of this economy that we need to make the jobs that you have to have as time goes on.
George M. Humphrey, secretary of the treasury, at a news conference on January 15, 1957, as reported by The New York Times, January 17, 1957, p. 20. On January 16, President Eisenhower sent to Congress a record peacetime budget of $71.8 billion.
Attributed[edit]
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.
Variously attributed to Jean Baptiste Colbert, minister of finance to Louis XIV of France; and Cardinal Mazarin, under whom Colbert served. Reported in Burton Stevenson, ed., The Home Book of Quotations (1967), 10th ed., p. 2300f, no. 5.
We shall tax and tax, and spend and spend, and elect and elect.
Attributed to Harry L. Hopkins, administrator of the Works Progress Administration. Although Frank R. Kent mentioned the subject of "spending, taxes, and election" in reference to Hopkins in his column, "The Great Game of Politics" (Baltimore, Maryland, Sun, September 25, 1938, p. 1, 16) he first attributed "we are going to spend and spend and spend, and tax and tax and tax, and elect and elect and elect" to Hopkins in the Sun (October 14, 1938), p. 15. Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner in their column, "The Capital Parade" (Washington, D.C., Evening Star, November 9, 1938, p. A–11), elaborated Hopkins's "probably apocryphal" words to: "Now, get this through your head. We're going to spend and spend and spend, and tax and tax and tax, and re-elect and re-elect and re-elect, until you're dead or forgotten." Arthur Krock, in his column, "In the Nation" (The New York Times, November 10, 1938, p. 26), reported the wording as "we will spend and spend, and tax and tax, and elect and elect". He repeated this wording in The New York Times (November 13, 1938), sec. 4, p. E–3. A letter by Hopkins denying this attributed quotation and a response by Krock were published in The New York Times, November 24, 1938, p. 26. Over the years the quotation attributed to Hopkins has evolved into the wording above.
Tax avoidance and tax evasion
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Books to Curl up with this Winter
Life is too short to read books we don't love! I used to feel committed. If I started a book, either because of loyalty to the author or the good money I paid for it, I slogged through until the end. Nowadays, I only give a book three chapters. If I'm not hooked, I go to another. We have too many wonderful options!
Here's an assortment of books that did captivate me. Stories from all around the globe. From death and suspense in India to mystery and romance in Russia. A timeless romance on the beaches of Hawaii. Literary fiction in Paris and a small-town thriller.
Whatever your reading preferences, I hope you find a book on this list to enjoy!
Her Last Flight by Beatriz Williams
How did the first female pilots find the courage to strap themselves in an airplane seat and head off over the ocean?
Do we ever know the complete story of those we've loved and lost?
For fans of historical fictionand aviation pioneers—male and female—Beatriz Williams delivers a compelling tale. Once I settled into the rhythm of bouncing between alternating time periods and dual narrations, I fell in love with the characters and the story.
Readers will meet Janey, a photographer and war correspondent, as she searches 1940s remote Hawaii for two missing pilots. What happened to Sam Mallory? And is the Irene she encounters at all connected to the famous missing aviator?
With hints of the Amelia Earhart mystery threaded through the storyline, this novel paints an interesting picture of what might have been.
The Last Tiara by M.J. Rose
In 1915, Sofiya was a nurse in a Russian war hospital. The makeshift hospital was the former winter home of her dear friends, the Romanovs. For Sofiya, the past is meant to be closed, sealed, and not brought up again.
In 1948, Isobelle, a New York City architect, discovers a mysterious tiara while renovating her deceased mother's apartment. What is the background of the tiara, stripped of its jewels and concealed inside the wall? What secrets did her mom's life contain—the life she never wanted to discuss?
Written in alternating points of view—and based on an actual treasure still missing today—this novel is a beautiful blend of historical fiction, romance, and mystery.
Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March
Applause for Nev March's debut novel, based loosely on true events.
A native of Mumbai, the author grew up hearing a tale of two teenagers' untimely deaths. A legend passed down to warn young women of the dangers of traveling alone.
While recuperating from military injuries, Captain Jim peruses the Bombay newspaper and reads about the "crime of the century." Two well-to-do young women fell to their deaths from a university clock tower. Sloppy investigators rule suicide, the wealthy Parsee family suspects otherwise, and Jim is hired to look into the case.
Nev March transports readers to the sights and sounds and smells of Bombay in the late 1800s, when India was under British rule. Despite their socio-economic differences—and society's decree to stick to one's own class—Jim and the victims' family develop deep and respectful friendships.
After the first few chapters, this charming page-turner picked up steam, and I couldn't put it down. It contains pieces of all we want in a story. Mystery, crime, drama, history, and a touch of romance.
The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer
Hailed as one of the best books of 2019, this novel is the fictionalized account of the relationship between aspiring photographer Lee Miller and famed photographer Man Ray. And—true confession—before I read The Age of Light, I wasn't familiar with either of them.
In 1930s Paris, amid the glamorous fashion world, Lee is determined to switch gears. Instead of serving as the subject of the lens, the former Vogue model plans to step to the other side of the camera. As an assistant—and lover—to Surrealist Ray, she tumbles into a murky and complicated partnership.
Oh, I didn't agree with many of the characters' choices or actions. Not everyone is like us, nor do we want them to be. And isn't this the beauty of books? They expand our realm and introduce us to thoughts different from our own.
Don't Look for Me by Wendy Walker
When Fiona Davis recommended I read this psychological thriller, I raced to the bookstore to grab a copy.
International bestselling author Wendy Walker is a former family law attorney. Her suspenseful novels' characters and plots are borrowed from her training in trauma, psychology, and child advocacy.
Molly and her family suffered an unspeakable tragedy. It's been years, and Molly cannot forgive herself for the accident. "I'm finally being punished for what I have done," she says.
When she disappears, on a stormy night after her son's football game, the questions mount. Did Molly want to start over and leave her past behind? Would her grieving family be better off without her? Did she write the note the investigators found?
A suspenseful page-turner with plenty of twists and turns!
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama praised Tayari Jones' fourth novel, published in early 2018.
Celestial and Roy, young black newlyweds in the South, looked forward to a prosperous and loving life together. Until Roy turns up in the wrong place at the wrong time, and the trajectory of their marriage changes.
As Roy endures a lengthy prison sentence for a crime he didn't commit, Celestial manages her own lonely and desperate feelings. And moves on with her life.
In a raw exchange of letters between husband and wife, Jones urges us to ponder the what-ifs. How does one leave prison and return to society? Come back to love and marriage? Re-establish torn relationships?
Happy reading! If you've read any of these, I'd love to know what you think.
PS—A wonderful book of essays, saying goodbye to stuff, and favorite spots in Brooklyn
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Hi Pam.
Here are some books I've recently enjoyed:
The Rent Collector
The Henna Artist
The Girl with the Louding Voice
Thanks for your titles,
Pamela Lamp says:
Thanks so much for these recommendations! I've read The Girl with the Louding Voice and loved it. I have The Henna Artist – you've motivated me to read it soon. And I'll check into The Rent Collector. Many thanks!


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I covered up the parts identifying the friend of mine who posted this. A few things make these posts look "suspect": The post itself links to a domain "x.co". This is not the only domain used for these posts and it isn't obvious if they are all related (but many are). Another domain associated with x.co is for example thelikepage.com.
Once you click on it, you are offered a large number of other "provocative quotes" and offered to "like" them. At this point, I am mostly asking "what is the point"? Is it just an attempt to direct Facebook users to ad-covered pages? Or is there something more sinister at play? I don't see any exploits like click-jacking or cross-site-request-forging used. These pages also do not phish your credentials like some other similar pages.If you got an opinion or any further inside, please let us know.
I'd say that they're building people's trust but then again I think they've pretty much built that already.
I'm thinking the same thing as lmurillo. It's the calm before the storm. Once all this "liking" is deemed safe, and all caution is thrown to the wind, I expect we'll see something more dangerous or at least sneaky.
Some of the things it could be?
...but I'd wager it's Yet Another ICanHazCheezBurger Clone; hands-free content generation for the purpose of click-thrus of that lfstmedia.com banner at the bottom.
We had a discussion a while back about these type of posts because someone was inquiring about how to permanently block them from her FB feed. It seems that some of these sites have been around for a while, and is just mindless fun, but they are now taking advantage of the Facebook Connect (or whatever they call that like-a-webpage feature) to try to spread and get more people to like a specific phrase (I guess for bragging rights).
I agree with ASB that it wouldn't be that hard to create a similar site to host malware or other crap from in the future, once people accept it as annoying, but safe.
I think this could be a setup purely for SPAM purposes. Depending on how the "like" is presented, they could potentially now have access to post anything on that user's page at their leisure. I see where this could be marketable after thousands of "fans" have associated.
"If you include Open Graph tags on your Web page, your page becomes equivalent to a Facebook page. This means when a user clicks a Like button on your page, a connection is made between your page and the user. Your page will appear in the "Likes and Interests" section of the user's profile, and you have the ability to publish updates to the user."
I've actually seen a dramatic decline among my FB friends - only two such posts in the past week, whereas before it was more like 10 or so. Don't know if people are started to be annoyed by it and blocking the site.
From what I can tell, it's most likely a form of fingerprinting. You can tell a lot about a person by what they "like".
How many warnings have we seen over the years when they say "This is not remotely exploitable; the user must be tricked into clicking on a malicious link".
How quickly would you click the "Like" button below: "[your close friend's name] likes TO SEE HER EX SPILL HIS BEER (like)".
At first you think you are "liking" a status update. Even if you realize it is a phrase, you might still "Like" that phrase.
Pretty soon that "Like" button will end up being the malicious link we are trained to not click on.
Pretty soon "Like" buttons will be all over the net. We will be like lemmings, clicking on "Like" because everyone else clicks on "Like", no matter what site we are looking at.
• YouTube had 7,163 compromised web pages ..."
In doing some research on deploying video using ustream, brightcove, livestream, tokbox, and a whole host of others; my laptop was taken down so fast with malware it wasnt event funny. All of these sites cross post with each other and it must be a feeding frenzy overseas for those wishing to compromise machines. I don't understand 'how' this can happen but i quickly needed to buy a dedicated machine for this type of experimentation with social media since it is quite the 'wild west' at the moment.


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package org.apache.accumulo.core.util.shell.commands;

import static com.google.common.base.Charsets.UTF_8;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Map.Entry;
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.SortedSet;
import java.util.TreeSet;

import org.apache.accumulo.core.Constants;
import org.apache.accumulo.core.client.AccumuloException;
import org.apache.accumulo.core.client.AccumuloSecurityException;
import org.apache.accumulo.core.client.TableExistsException;
import org.apache.accumulo.core.client.TableNotFoundException;
import org.apache.accumulo.core.client.admin.TimeType;
import org.apache.accumulo.core.conf.Property;
import org.apache.accumulo.core.iterators.IteratorUtil;
import org.apache.accumulo.core.security.VisibilityConstraint;
import org.apache.accumulo.core.util.shell.Shell;
import org.apache.accumulo.core.util.shell.Shell.Command;
import org.apache.commons.cli.CommandLine;
import org.apache.commons.cli.Option;
import org.apache.commons.cli.OptionGroup;
import org.apache.commons.cli.Options;
import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;

public class CreateTableCommand extends Command {
  private Option createTableOptCopySplits;
  private Option createTableOptCopyConfig;
  private Option createTableOptSplit;
  private Option createTableOptTimeLogical;
  private Option createTableOptTimeMillis;
  private Option createTableNoDefaultIters;
  private Option createTableOptEVC;
  private Option base64Opt;
  private Option createTableOptFormatter;

  public int execute(final String fullCommand, final CommandLine cl, final Shell shellState) throws AccumuloException, AccumuloSecurityException,
      TableExistsException, TableNotFoundException, IOException, ClassNotFoundException {

    final String testTableName = cl.getArgs()[0];

    if (!testTableName.matches(Constants.VALID_TABLE_NAME_REGEX)) {
      shellState.getReader().printString("Only letters, numbers and underscores are allowed for use in table names. \n");
      throw new IllegalArgumentException();
    }

    final String tableName = cl.getArgs()[0];
    if (shellState.getConnector().tableOperations().exists(tableName)) {
      throw new TableExistsException(null, tableName, null);
    }
    final SortedSet<Text> partitions = new TreeSet<Text>();
    final boolean decode = cl.hasOption(base64Opt.getOpt());

    if (cl.hasOption(createTableOptSplit.getOpt())) {
      final String f = cl.getOptionValue(createTableOptSplit.getOpt());

      String line;
      Scanner file = new Scanner(new File(f), UTF_8.name());
      try {
        while (file.hasNextLine()) {
          line = file.nextLine();
          if (!line.isEmpty())
            partitions.add(decode ? new Text(Base64.decodeBase64(line.getBytes(UTF_8))) : new Text(line));
        }
      } finally {
        file.close();
      }
    } else if (cl.hasOption(createTableOptCopySplits.getOpt())) {
      final String oldTable = cl.getOptionValue(createTableOptCopySplits.getOpt());
      if (!shellState.getConnector().tableOperations().exists(oldTable)) {
        throw new TableNotFoundException(null, oldTable, null);
      }
      partitions.addAll(shellState.getConnector().tableOperations().listSplits(oldTable));
    }

    if (cl.hasOption(createTableOptCopyConfig.getOpt())) {
      final String oldTable = cl.getOptionValue(createTableOptCopyConfig.getOpt());
      if (!shellState.getConnector().tableOperations().exists(oldTable)) {
        throw new TableNotFoundException(null, oldTable, null);
      }
    }

    TimeType timeType = TimeType.MILLIS;
    if (cl.hasOption(createTableOptTimeLogical.getOpt())) {
      timeType = TimeType.LOGICAL;
    }

    // create table
    shellState.getConnector().tableOperations().create(tableName, true, timeType);
    if (partitions.size() > 0) {
      shellState.getConnector().tableOperations().addSplits(tableName, partitions);
    }
    shellState.setTableName(tableName); // switch shell to new table
    // context

    if (cl.hasOption(createTableNoDefaultIters.getOpt())) {
      for (String key : IteratorUtil.generateInitialTableProperties(true).keySet()) {
        shellState.getConnector().tableOperations().removeProperty(tableName, key);
      }
    }

    // Copy options if flag was set
    if (cl.hasOption(createTableOptCopyConfig.getOpt())) {
      if (shellState.getConnector().tableOperations().exists(tableName)) {
        final Iterable<Entry<String,String>> configuration = shellState.getConnector().tableOperations()
            .getProperties(cl.getOptionValue(createTableOptCopyConfig.getOpt()));
        for (Entry<String,String> entry : configuration) {
          if (Property.isValidTablePropertyKey(entry.getKey())) {
            shellState.getConnector().tableOperations().setProperty(tableName, entry.getKey(), entry.getValue());
          }
        }
      }
    }

    if (cl.hasOption(createTableOptEVC.getOpt())) {
      try {
        shellState.getConnector().tableOperations().addConstraint(tableName, VisibilityConstraint.class.getName());
      } catch (AccumuloException e) {
        Shell.log.warn(e.getMessage() + " while setting visibility constraint, but table was created");
      }
    }

    // Load custom formatter if set
    if (cl.hasOption(createTableOptFormatter.getOpt())) {
      final String formatterClass = cl.getOptionValue(createTableOptFormatter.getOpt());

      shellState.getConnector().tableOperations().setProperty(tableName, Property.TABLE_FORMATTER_CLASS.toString(), formatterClass);
    }

    return 0;
  }

  @Override
  public String description() {
    return "creates a new table, with optional aggregators and optionally pre-split";
  }

  @Override
  public String usage() {
    return getName() + " <tableName>";
  }

  @Override
  public Options getOptions() {
    final Options o = new Options();

    createTableOptCopyConfig = new Option("cc", "copy-config", true, "table to copy configuration from");
    createTableOptCopySplits = new Option("cs", "copy-splits", true, "table to copy current splits from");
    createTableOptSplit = new Option("sf", "splits-file", true, "file with a newline-separated list of rows to split the table with");
    createTableOptTimeLogical = new Option("tl", "time-logical", false, "use logical time");
    createTableOptTimeMillis = new Option("tm", "time-millis", false, "use time in milliseconds");
    createTableNoDefaultIters = new Option("ndi", "no-default-iterators", false, "prevent creation of the normal default iterator set");
    createTableOptEVC = new Option("evc", "enable-visibility-constraint", false,
        "prevent users from writing data they cannot read.  When enabling this, consider disabling bulk import and alter table.");
    createTableOptFormatter = new Option("f", "formatter", true, "default formatter to set");

    createTableOptCopyConfig.setArgName("table");
    createTableOptCopySplits.setArgName("table");
    createTableOptSplit.setArgName("filename");
    createTableOptFormatter.setArgName("className");

    // Splits and CopySplits are put in an optionsgroup to make them
    // mutually exclusive
    final OptionGroup splitOrCopySplit = new OptionGroup();
    splitOrCopySplit.addOption(createTableOptSplit);
    splitOrCopySplit.addOption(createTableOptCopySplits);

    final OptionGroup timeGroup = new OptionGroup();
    timeGroup.addOption(createTableOptTimeLogical);
    timeGroup.addOption(createTableOptTimeMillis);

    base64Opt = new Option("b64", "base64encoded", false, "decode encoded split points");
    o.addOption(base64Opt);

    o.addOptionGroup(splitOrCopySplit);
    o.addOptionGroup(timeGroup);
    o.addOption(createTableOptSplit);
    o.addOption(createTableOptCopyConfig);
    o.addOption(createTableNoDefaultIters);
    o.addOption(createTableOptEVC);
    o.addOption(createTableOptFormatter);

    return o;
  }

  @Override
  public int numArgs() {
    return 1;
  }
}

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I thought y'all might like to be interested in it.
Its , 200 years from now, with tech about that of Firefly but with a stable wormhole near Pluto for Transit. It'll take several years to cross the verse.
There are different cultures and colonies but no aliens except for the Transhuman Badguys "The Polity" who are still technically kind of human.
The first adventure "Starfall on the Lost Planet" is based very loosely off an old Star Frontiers one.
That pretty much it. Now all that remains is a bit of editing on my backgrounds, putting together a soundtrack and some prep work.
Sounds fun... did I miss what system you are using?
Thanks for chiming in Ryan!
It was in the previous post but I was kinda unclear.


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Accenture Introduces Enhancements to Accenture CAS Software to Help Consumer Goods Companies Build Efficient Sales Processes and Operations
Improved planning, mobile and management functionality closes the loop between promotions, sales and distribution
NEW YORK; March 4, 2014 – To help consumer goods companies take the guesswork out of store promotions, Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has enhanced its Accenture CAS software with better support for promotional planning, sales processes and operations. Leveraging its flexible architecture, Accenture CAS release 10.1 includes new baseline and promotional planning capabilities to create an integrated sales platform that can result in more successful promotions and boosted revenue. Additional updates include new mobile functionality that can help maximize efficiency and additional options for distributor management.
Accenture CAS release 10.1 can help account managers quickly and easily plan for promotions with confidence. A new single screen baseline planning process simplifies baseline predictions and refinements with an automated quality check that quickly gives users an analysis of data quality so that they can filter out inaccurate or duplicate entries. Accenture CAS release 10.1 includes new features such as built-in analytics capabilities to help clients predict what, when and how much consumers will buy; a new alert system that reviews historical data of similar promotions; and an automated Trade Promotion Optimization (TPO) check to gauge the feasibility of a promotion based on factors such as price and product availability, creating a "playground" where users can refine and adjust baseline prices to see effects on the sales cycle.
Business-driven data patterns—such as new items or discontinued products—and long data gaps can present difficulties in promotional planning. Accenture CAS release 10.1 addresses this through the automated data check as well as a statistical model toolbox for predictive modeling. This consists of template baseline models that are used for both consistently promoted products and regular-behaving products, and three uplift models for measuring the incremental impact of a promotion. Improved algorithms allow the best-fitting model combination to be automatically applied to the data for each product, enabling more efficient planning.
"Responding to changes in consumer and shopping behaviors at the national, regional and local levels can be operationally challenging," said Henning Fromme, Accenture CAS product strategy and development lead. "Accenture CAS release 10.1 addresses these challenges with simplified, top-down planning functionality, putting optimization capabilities right in the hands of account and trade planners –where it is needed – so that they can directly build the best account and promotion plans for their company and retail partners."
Additional enhancements around mobility continue to make Accenture CAS a natural choice for merchandising applications and on-the-go promotion execution. Available on numerous mobile devices, these features include an advanced calendar that can arrange site visits in order of priority for increased efficiency, and the ability to review all promotional information at a glance, giving users all necessary information to execute on a sales strategy. With added support for customer contract management, users can also create or update contracts from their mobile device.
Finally, the combination of Accenture CAS software with new functionality from Accenture NewsPage increases support for all route-to-market sales and delivery models in markets served by distributors, including company-owned distribution points and third party distributors. Now available as a decentralized deployment, Accenture NewsPage can be implemented on premise or in the cloud, depending on the existing technology and needs of each distributor location. Consumer goods companies still benefit from a consolidated view of all distributors, with better control over promotions, improved productivity and streamlined inventory and sales processes. Additionally, a new 'geography tree' feature allows distributors to adjust and update the structure of a consumer goods company in real-time, without having to make changes to the underlying code. This means that business users can fine tune their own sales team models in accordance with local or regional changes in company hierarchy.
Accenture CAS with Accenture NewsPage is a leading integrated sales platform for the consumer goods industry with a suite of retail execution, trade promotion management and distributor management software, including direct store delivery, field service and trade promotion optimization. Both are part of the Accenture Software portfolio of products.
Accenture CAS is also a key component within Accenture Commercial Services for Consumer Goods, a business service that helps companies increase sales and margins through an end-to-end offering of management consulting, technology, and business process outsourcing that improves interactions with customers, channels, and consumers through innovative analytical, multi-channel and operational capabilities.
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with approximately 281,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world's most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$28.6 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2013. Its home page is www.accenture.com.
Accenture Software combines deep technology acumen with industry knowledge to develop differentiated software products. It offers innovative software-based solutions to enable organizations to meet their business goals and achieve high performance. Its home page is www.accenture.com/software.
Julie Bennink
julie.l.bennink@accenture.com
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Copyright © 2014 Accenture. All rights reserved. Accenture, its logo, Accenture Software, and High Performance Delivered are trademarks of Accenture.


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Renewables can Power the World
byRichard Matthews
We already see strong evidence to support the contention that renewable energy can supply the world's power needs. As explained in Worldwatch Institute, State of the World 2013, we need to move beyond fossil fuels before its too late.
"Renewable technologies broke all growth records in recent years," said Alexander Ochs, Director of Worldwatch's Climate and Energy program, and contributing author of State of the World 2013.
"In 2011, new investments in renewables for the first time in modern history topped those in conventional energy technologies with clean energy investments in developing countries now outpacing those in many industrialized countries. These promising trends need to be accelerated, with action on all political levels. Science tells us that global greenhouse gas emissions have to peak well before 2020 if we want to avoid the danger of major climate disruptions."
Despite the fact that we urgently need to transition away from hydrocarbon based energy systems, there are many who continue to deride renewables as an unstable and unpredictable source of power. In an effort to debunk the myths about renewable energy being unpredictable, Karl-Friedrich Lenz coined the term "unreliables myth". He was responding to critics who say that wind and solar only offer intermittent energy (the wind is not always blowing and the sun is not always shining).
Describing wind and solar as unreliable is inaccurate. First, photovoltaic solar and wind can be supplemented with storage capacity that enables them to provide uninterrupted power. A good example of a technique for creating storage capacity involves generating hydrogen with renewable energy which can be stored and used at will. Once you are producing large enough volumes of energy you can stockpile it and avoid concerns about intermittency.
Second, even if part of the energy grid uses intermittent renewable energy without storage, as long as there are other energy sources on the grid (ie concentrated solar power, hydro, and geothermal etc) there will be no interruption of supply. Even if there is a shortage, this can be managed by smart grids, or as a worst case scenario, energy can occasionally be supplemented by hydrocarbons.
Despite these solutions, many continue to be doubtful about the possibility of an entirely renewable electrical grid. The old energy industry would like to have us believe that it will take at least 50 years before we can wean ourselves off of fossil fuels.
However, this is refuted by the 50 nations that are currently meeting most of their energy needs with renewables. A total of 11 countries are supplying all of their power demands with renewables and some of these have become net exporters of clean energy.
Paraguay is one of those countries that gets all of its electricity from renewable energy while at the same time exporting 90 percent of its production. Renewable energy is not only clean it also provides good jobs. Albania, which produces all of its electricity with renewables, is looking to create 100,000 green jobs by 2020.
The following list of countries get 60 percent or more of their electricity from renewable energy. It was compiled from data at the CO2 scorecard site. All the data is derived from this source with the exception of nations designated with an asterix, which are sourced from Wikipedia.
Afganistan (62%) *
Albania (100%).
Angola (96%)
Austria (73%)
Belize (90%)
Bhutan (99%)
Brazil (88%)
Burma/Myanmar (62%)
Burundi (100%)
Cameroon (77%)
Canada (61%)
Central African Republic (81%)
Columbia (85%)
Congo (82%)
Costa Rica (93%)
DPR Korea (61%)
DR Congo (99%)
Ecuador (64%)
El Salvador (62%)
Ethiopia (88%)
Fiji (68%)
Georgia (85%)
Ghana (75%)
Guatemala (61%)
Iberia (70%)
Iceland (100%)
Kenya (62%)
Kyrgyzstan (90%)
Lao PDR (92%)
Latvia (62%)
Lesotho (100%)
Madagascar (66%)
Malawi (86%)
Mozambique (99%)
Namibia (70%)
Nepal (99%)
New Zealand (72%)
North Korea (61%)*
Norway (97.11% )
Panama (63%)*
Paraguay (100%)
Peru (60% )
Portugal (70%)
Sweden (60%)
Tajikistan (98%)
Tanzania (61%)
Uganda (74%)
Uruguay (61%)
Venezuela (69%)
Zambia (99%)
As most of these figures date back to 2008, the percentage has in many cases increased over the last five years. It should also be noted that most of these states get their energy from hydroelectric projects, which although commonly considered a renewable energy, comes with a number of environmental concerns. Further, there are many small developing nations in this list which have limited power requirements. Nonetheless, this list demonstrates the viability of renewable energy, albeit on a small scale.
Developing countries are not the only ones ramping up renewable energy. In terms of developed nations, Germany is a recent standout for producing almost half of its energy needs from solar. In the U.S., almost half of all new generating capacity installed in 2012 was renewable, and in Q1 2013, 49 percent of all new US electricity generation capacity came form solar.
A number of independent researchers have demonstrated that renewable energy sources can replace fossil fuels and provide for all of the world's energy needs. This research has also debunked claims that the emissions attributable to intermittent power production from renewable sources offer only nominal reductions in greenhouse gas emissions when compared to fossil fuels.
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has conducted research which demonstrates that green energy can affordably replace fossil fuels as the world's primary source of electricity within 20 years.
The NOAA's findings add to other studies that also support the feasibility of replacing fossil fuels with renewable sources of energy. In 2011, the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report which indicates that nearly 80 percent of global energy demand could be met by renewable sources of energy by 2050. Research published in 2009 by Mark Z. Jacobson and Mark A. Delucchi also supports the contention that renewable energy can replace fossil fuels, as does research published in 2010 by Robert Howarth.
Sandy MacDonald, a director at NOAA said that wind and solar could supply 70 percent of electricity demand in the lower 48 states as soon as 2030.
Together the evidence supports the notion that we can meet our energy needs with renewable sources of energy. This is not just an urgent necessity, it is also a technologically and economically viable solution to the looming threats we face.
Richard Matthews is a consultant, eco-entrepreneur, green investor and author of numerous articles on sustainable positioning, eco-economics and enviro-politics. He is the owner of The Green Market Oracle, a leading sustainable business site and one of the Web's most comprehensive resources on the business of the environment. Find The Green Market on Facebook and follow The Green Market's twitter feed.
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We are a Choice District!
Netcong School District has accepted students to the Interdistrict Public School Choice Program for the 2019-2020 school year! We are creating a Wait List for next year, as well.
* Note - Deadlines are subject to change, as revised deadlines have not yet been received by the NJDOE.


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Bulls Student Advisors to assist peers in code of conduct violations
September 7, 2021 1:05 am by Dylan Cohen, CORRESPONDENT
Advisers knowledgeable in the student conduct process will be provided to students charged with minor violations through Student Government's Bulls Student Advisors program. ORACLE PHOTO/LEDA ALVIM
A new agency within Student Government (SG) aiming to support students undergoing the student conduct process is expecting to offer services to all three campuses starting Oct. 1.
Bulls Student Advisors (BSA) will provide advisers who understand the intricacies of the student conduct process for free to, upon request, accompany students during formal hearings and help them understand their rights.
"When students are in the student conduct process, they're told they're potentially in trouble with the university," said junior political science major and BSA Director Sam Rechek. "That's not something you really share, even with your semi-close friends. So, students could benefit from a support system during that process."
Students charged with minor violations of the student code of conduct, such as on-campus underage alcohol possession, property damage and failure to comply are eligible for having their cases taken by staff advisers, who can participate in all aspects of hearing proceedings and speak for their client upon request, but may not testify on behalf of the student.
However, the BSA won't take cases for students who are charged with more severe offenses, such as stalking, sexual assault and domestic violence, according to Rechek. The advisers will instead guide them to the appropriate office within the university, such as the Center for Victim Advocacy, student legal services or the Ombuds Office.
An office in the SG suite of the Marshall Student Center has been reserved for the BSA, as well as a formal budget of $35,000, supplied by SG's unrestricted reserves fund. The budget covers the wages for staff positions and office supplies, such as computers, pamphlets, signs and other promotional items to share with the student body.
Students from other campuses have the option to be advised over Microsoft Teams or travel to the Tampa campus for in-person support.
Established in spring 2021, the BSA was spearheaded by Rechek after attending a conference in November 2019 and interacting with students from different universities with a similar agency in place.
Inspired by their efforts, Rechek helped the Senate write a bill proposing the agency, which was signed by former Student Body President Claire Mitchell on March 15. Rechek was then selected for the director position by SG Lieutenant Governor Kiara Brooks in June.
"[The students I met at the conference] told me that their agencies were helping students and fulfilling a niche," said Rechek. "They found there was this need to provide students with support during an unfamiliar and stressful time, and I thought it was a really good idea to promote ethical behavior on campus and inform students of their rights and wanted to replicate it."
No agency like the BSA existed prior to its establishment. When students are informed of their inclusion into the student conduct process, they will be notified that their case can be taken by a staff adviser who is familiar with the student code of conduct and the rights it grants students. Prior to the formation of the BSA, advisers for formal hearing were typically parents or friends, according to Rechek.
Other positions within the agency include the assistant director, who will oversee administrative functions such as training and storing student records, and two staff advisers, who will work with students within the student conduct process while their charges await resolution.
"I need to ensure that I and all the people that are brought on this staff are trained in all the necessary areas of the student conduct process," said Rechek.
Once the final processes are complete and services are officially underway, the BSA will offer help for students across campuses. Rechek said he anticipates the day when the BSA's services are finally offered.
"I've already been starting to get questions if we're offering services yet, which is really exciting," he said. "I keep having to tell them to wait until October, so I really have to make that happen."


The USDA loan program is one of the few mortgage programs available that homeowners can buy a home with zero money out of pocket. USDA loans have several advantages over FHA, VA or conventional loans and these advantages are making USDA loans more popular than ever with new home buyers across the US.
USDA Loans: Where Do You Get A USDA Loan?
The USDA loans program is administered through the USDA office through a network of USDA lenders who are authorized to lend money to homeowners that is guaranteed by the USDA in the event of a default. Not all lenders offer USDA loans and many loan officers know that having the option to get a USDA loan can make all the difference when it comes to helping a borrower get into a home under certain circumstances.
USDA lenders can be either big banks or small mortgage brokers – it is important that you know what to expect when getting a USDA loan regardless what lender you choose to go with.
USDA loan guidelines are set so that one of the most important things in qualifying is whether or not the property qualifies for the USDA loan program. Depending on what zip code the property is located – and even right down to the individual property – you will want to check the USDA database to make sure the property qualifies first.
USDA loans interest rates will depend on which lender you go with. Getting the best interest rate on a USDA loan is one of the most important parts of getting a USDA loan and there is one simple thing that you can do to get the best possible interest rate on a USDA loan: shop around. Each USDA loan lender will have their own interest rate for USDA loans and the rate will change frequently (often more than once per day). Shopping around for USDA loans is easy – you can get started right here.
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Micah Fink, the founder of Common Good Productions, is an award winning producer, director and writer specializing in international affairs, public health, and environmental issues. He is also on the faculty at the Graduate Program in Social Documentary at the School For Visual Arts in NYC.
Recent projects include producing of CNN's "Memo to the President with Fareed Zakaria" (2013), producing discussion segments and short films for Al Gore's "Climate Reality Project," (2011 and 2012), and directing and producing "Mann V. Ford" a feature documentary for HBO (2011).
Micah's work has been recognized with several Emmy nominations, two Cine Golden Eagle Awards, a Silver Screen award, and an International Film and Video Award. He was a Japan Society Fellow in 2005 and a Kaiser Media Health Fellow in 2005. Micah has a MS in Journalism from Columbia University and a BA in Comparative Literature from Cornell University. Over the last fifteen years, he has worked on more than three dozen films for PBS Wide Angle, National Geographic Explorer, National Geographic Wild, Frontline, WNET, The Teaching Channel, and ABC News.
You can learn more about Micah's company, Common Good Productions, and see examples of his work at www.commongoodprod.com.
Karen Sim began her documentary filmmaking career as an editor on Maro Chermayeff's Juilliard, a 2-hour special for the PBS series American Masters. She then further honed her skills in storytelling by working with Frontline producer/director Ofra Bikel, editing a number of her films, including the Emmy award winning An Ordinary Crime and The Burden of Innocence. Since then, she edited Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie and worked with Liz Garbus as her producer and editor on a number of projects, including COMA, Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and most recently ROBOT for Focus Forward Films which premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
Gabrielle's film making career in documentary has brought her to many places including Thailand, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Mexico and throughout the United States. She has worked as a DP, producer and editor for clients such as ABC, PBS, HBO, Discovery/Times, TLC, NHK, The WashingtonPost.com, and A&E.
Acclaimed as the composer of "truly beautiful music" that is "hauntingly moving" as well as "audience-engaging", Philadelphia native Amanda Harberg composes music that continually engages audiences and performers alike on emotional as well as intellectual levels, and is performed regularly all over the world. The 2012/13 season includes performances of Ms. Harberg's music by the Albany Symphony's "Dogs of Desire", the Grand Rapids Symphony, the Olympia Philharmonic Society, the National Symphony of Ecuador, the Thuringer Symphoniker, the University of Nevada Symphony Orchestra, the Harmonium Choral Society and many more.
Harberg has recordings out on Koch International, Albany Records, Centaur Records, Walking Frog Regards, and several upcoming recordings. Harberg has received many commissions, including those from the Juilliard School, the New York Youth Symphony Chamber Music Program, the American Music Center, the New York State Council for the Arts, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and many more.
Awards include a Fulbright/Hays Fellowship, two Creative Connections grants, Juilliard's Peter Mennin Prize, a MacDowell Colony summer residency and regular ASCAP Plus awards. Harberg is the co-director of the Music and More series in Glen Ridge NJ, where she lives with her family.
Molly Schwartz was born in New York City, raised in Oklahoma. She earned her BFA in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, followed by a semester studying art, language, history and mountains in Nepal. After school she studied art conservation & restoration of works of art on paper, learning about qualities of paper and the cumulative effects of time. In Los Angeles she learned digital effects and time in fractions of seconds.
She has lived in Chicago, Katmandu, Los Angeles, and since 1999, Brooklyn. Schwartz shows her animated videos and drawings in public art installations, festivals, and exhibitions worldwide. She freelances for independent film and television. In May 2011 she completed her MPS graduate degree in visual programming and physical computing at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. She was awarded a Research Resident position for the 2011-2012 year at ITP.
Tara Nadolny is an associate producer and researcher at Common Good Productions. Tara received a BAH in Film and Media and German language from Queen's University in 2010. In 2013 she completed an MA in Media Studies from The New School in New York City.
Jon Sawyer is founding director of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a non-profit organization that funds independent reporting with the intent of raising the standard of media coverage and engaging the broadest possible public in global affairs. The Center partners with major newspapers, magazines and broadcast outlets as well as universities and high schools across the country and in Europe. In 2012 the Center provided $850,000 in direct support to journalists working on 85 projects.
Jon, previously Washington bureau chief for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was selected three years in a row for the National Press Club's award for best foreign reporting. The Pulitzer Center has won an Emmy for new approaches to news and documentary, the National Press Foundation's prize for best online journalism, the National Press Club's prize for best online journalism, and the Asia Society's Goldman Sachs Foundation Prize for best use of technology in international education..
Nathalie Applewhite is managing director of the Pulitzer Center. She joined the organization in 2006, shortly after its founding, and has played a key role in the development of the Center's model and approach towards international journalism initiatives and educational outreach. She won an Emmy with the Center as the managing producer for LiveHopeLove.com, an interactive documentary website that explores living with HIV/AIDS in Jamaica. Prior to joining the Center, Nathalie worked as an independent documentary producer, director and editor, as a consultant for the Executive Office of the Secretary General at the UN, and as a project manager and media specialist for the University of Pennsylvania.


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Landing Craft Tank: ships specially designed to conduct LOLO/ RORO cargo operations. The vessel is equipped with a crane to support in the maintenance of platforms/ installations. ADNOC Logistics & Services owns 2 LCTs.


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Combining culture and heritage a visionary move
Marie Hasler
Uniting culture and heritage will help us to celebrate, foster and protect our cultural and historical legacy, Hon Marie Hasler said today when announcing the details of the new Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
"The new Ministry reflects Government's positive vision for the future and my own view that culture and heritage underpins all we are, as New Zealanders, both socially and economically," Ms Hasler told guests at the second Millennium Concert in the Banquet Hall, Parliament.
"We can ensure a more coordinated approach to cultural and heritage objectives and see greater promotion and protection of our distinctive national identity.
"These changes represent a significant upgrading of the priority given to culture and heritage by this Government.
"They will enable me, as Minister for Culture and Heritage, to take a 'big picture' approach to policy development; and to create a strong platform for Government's further thinking about how it can most effectively protect our cultural and heritage history and support these activities now and in the future.
"This new role means Government will, for the first time, be able to take a strategic overview of the culture and heritage sector."
Outlining the changes, Ms Hasler said Government has for some time been reassessing its involvement in the cultural sector. This involvement has developed in a rather haphazard way over many decades and been scattered among a variety of portfolios, departments and agencies - some of which have other, non-cultural priorities.
From 1 September this year the Minister for Culture and Heritage will have responsibility for historic heritage policy and cultural broadcasting policy.
The inclusion of both these two policy components within the Culture and Heritage portfolio will increase its strategic range and enable policy development to take place within a relevant context.
The Minister for Culture and Heritage will also become responsible for New Zealand On Air, the New Zealand Historic Places Trust and the National Library.
The Heritage Group of Internal Affairs - comprising the National Archives, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, Historical Publications and Heritage Property will also be the Minister's responsibility.
In support of these changes a new Ministry for Culture and Heritage will be created.
This new Ministry will continue its current functions involving, providing policy advice (primarily on arts and museological issues); monitoring the performance of cultural crown entities, including Te Papa, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the New Zealand Film Commission and Creative New Zealand and the three private cultural organisations funded by the crown - the New Zealand Film Archive, the Royal New Zealand Ballet and the Aotearoa Traditional Maori Performing Arts Society.
Ms Hasler said the changes relate to portfolio and departmental responsibility; there is no change to the functions of Crown entities or other organisations outside central government.
"I would like to reassure those people who are currently working in these areas that for them it will be business as usual," she said.
"I am especially mindful of the need to preserve the constitutional nature of our heritage and ensure our valuable collections remain free from administrative and political interference.
"I also see having the cultural aspects of broadcasting and New Zealand On Air united in this portfolio as one of considerable value for the sector. There will be no change to the operation of New Zealand On Air and, as already indicated by Government, its level of funding is guaranteed for the next three years.
"I believe historic heritage activities and cultural broadcasting are key parts of the cultural heritage sector. I am looking forward to working with people in all these areas in the very near future."