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Weapons of mass destruction by country
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Radiological
List of treaties
In the 1970s and 80s, during the military regime, Brazil had a secret program intended to develop nuclear weapons.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] The program was dismantled in 1990, five years after the military regime ended, and Brazil is considered free of weapons of mass destruction.[8]
Brazil is one of several countries that have forsworn nuclear weapons under the terms of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty[9] but possess the key technologies needed to produce nuclear weapons.[7][10][11][12]
1 Nuclear program
2 Technological capability
3.1 Aramar Experimental Center
3.2 Cachimbo Test Site
3.3 Army's Technology Center (Guaratiba)
3.4 Aerospace Technology and Science Department (São José dos Campos)
3.5 Resende (Engenheiro Passos) Nuclear Fuel Factory
4 Legislation and conventions
6 Notes ans references
Nuclear program[edit | edit source]
In the 1950s, President Getúlio Vargas encouraged the development of independent national nuclear capabilities.[2] During the 1970s and 80s, Brazil and Argentina embarked on a nuclear competition.[1] Through technology transfers from West Germany, which did not require IAEA safeguards, Brazil pursued a covert nuclear weapons program known as the "Parallel Program",[2] with enrichment facilities (including small scale centrifuge enrichment plants, a limited reprocessing capability, and a missile program).[1] In 1987, President Sarney announced that Brazil had enriched uranium to 20%.[2]
In 1990, President Fernando Collor de Mello symbolically closed the Cachimbo test site, in Pará, and exposed the military's secret plan to develop a nuclear weapon.[1] Brazil's National Congress opened an investigation into the Parallel Program.[2] Congress members visited numerous facilities, including the Institute of Advanced Studies (IEAv) in São José dos Campos.[2] They also interviewed key players in the nuclear program, such as former President João Figueiredo and retired Army General Danilo Venturini, the former head of the National Security Council under Figueiredo.[2] The congressional investigation exposed secret bank accounts, code-named "Delta", which were managed by the National Nuclear Energy Commission and used for funding the program.[2] The congressional report revealed that the IEAv had designed two atomic bomb devices, one with a yield of twenty to thirty kilotons and a second with a yield of twelve kilotons.[2] The same report revealed that Brazil's military regime secretly exported eight tons of uranium to Iraq in 1981.[2][13]
In 1991, Brazil and Argentina renounced their nuclear rivalry.[1] On 13 December 1991, they signed the Quadripartite agreement, at the IAEA headquarters, creating the Brazilian–Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials and allowing fullscope IAEA safeguards of Argentine and Brazilian nuclear installations.[1]
Brazil officially opened the Resende enrichment plant in May 2006.[14] Brazil's enrichment technology development, and the plant itself, involved substantial discussions with the IAEA and its constituent nations. The dispute came down to whether IAEA inspectors would be allowed to inspect the machines themselves. The Brazilian government did not allow the inspection of the centrifugal cascade halls, arguing that this would reveal technological secrets (probably relating to the use of a magnetic lower bearing in place of the more common mechanical bearing).[15] The Brazilian authorities stated that, as Brazil is not part of any "axis of evil", the pressure for full access to inspection - even in universities - could be construed as an attempt to pirate industrial secrets.[16] They also claimed that their technology is better than that of the United States and France, mainly because the centrifugal axis is not mechanical, but electromagnetic. Eventually, after extensive negotiations, agreement was reached that while not directly inspecting the centrifuges, the IAEA would inspect the composition of the gas entering and leaving the centrifuge. Then U.S. Secretary of State, Colin Powell, stated in 2004 that he was sure that Brazil had no plans to develop nuclear weapons.[17]
Technological capability[edit | edit source]
It is likely that Brazil has retained the technological capacity and knowhow to produce and deliver a nuclear weapon.[7] Experts at the Los Alamos National Laboratory have concluded that in view of its previous nuclear activities, Brazil is in a position to produce nuclear weapons within three years.[18] If Brazil decided to pursue a nuclear weapon, the centrifuges at the Resende enrichment plant could be reconfigured to produce highly enriched uranium for nuclear weapons. Even a small enrichment plant like Resende could produce several nuclear weapons per year, but only if Brazil was willing to do so openly.[10][15][19]
The Brazilian Navy is currently developing a nuclear submarine fleet, and in 2007 authorised the construction of a prototype submarine propulsion reactor.[20] In 2008, France agreed to transfer technology to Brazil for the joint development of the nuclear submarine hull.[21]
Facilities[edit | edit source]
Aramar Experimental Center[edit | edit source]
23°23′49″S 47°36′04″W / 23.397°S 47.601°W / -23.397; -47.601
The Aramar Experimental Center (Portuguese language: Centro Experimental de Aramar ) located in Iperó in the State of São Paulo, was inaugurated in 1988 as the first uranium-only enrichment plant in Brazil. The facility is run by the Brazilian Nuclear Energy Commission (CNEN) and the Brazilian Navy. In addition to the Centrifuge Enrichment Plant, the facility also hosts an Isotopic Enrichment Laboratory and several Small Nuclear Centers (Portuguese language: Pequenas Centrais Nucleares , or PCNs). The enrichment laboratories are under the National Safeguards control and national inspections are carried out by the Safeguards Division of CNEN.[22]
Cachimbo Test Site[edit | edit source]
Main article: Campo de Provas Brigadeiro Velloso
9°18′17″S 54°56′47″W / 9.3047°S 54.9464°W / -9.3047; -54.9464
Brazilian Navy's Nuclear Propulsion Development Facility in July, 2007. This facility produces Uranium hexafluoride gas for Uranium enrichment.
The Cachimbo test site, officially named Brigadeiro Velloso Test Site (Portuguese language: Campo de Provas Brigadeiro Velloso ), is located in the State of Pará and covers 45,000 square kilometres, an area larger than the Netherlands. It is within this military area that a 320 meters-deep hole at the Cachimbo Mountain Range was site for nuclear explosives tests. The shaft has been public knowledge since 1986 and was allegedly abandoned in September 1990, when President Fernando Collor de Mello used a small shovel to symbolically seal up the hole.[23]
Army's Technology Center (Guaratiba)[edit | edit source]
23°00′45″S 43°33′50″W / 23.0124°S 43.5639°W / -23.0124; -43.5639
The Army's Technology Center (Portuguese language: Centro Tecnológico do Exército , or CTEx) located in Guaratiba in the State of Rio de Janeiro is the site of the plutonium-producing reactor facility, known as 'The Atlantic Project', managed by the Brazilian Army's Special Projects Institute – IPE. Reports indicate that the gas-graphite reactor would be capable of producing plutonium for atomic bombs.[24]
Aerospace Technology and Science Department (São José dos Campos)[edit | edit source]
23°12′44″S 45°52′30″W / 23.212290°S 45.875120°W / -23.212290; -45.875120
The Aerospace Technology and Science Department (Portuguese language: Departamento de Ciência e Tecnologia Aerospacial , or DCTA) is a research facility located in São José dos Campos, in the State of São Paulo where nuclear research is also conducted.[25]
Resende (Engenheiro Passos) Nuclear Fuel Factory[edit | edit source]
Main article: Resende Nuclear Fuel Factory
The Resende Nuclear Fuel Facility (Portuguese language: Fábrica de Combustíveis Nucleares , or FCN) is a nuclear enrichment facility located in Resende, in the State of Rio de Janeiro. The plant is managed by the Nuclear Industries of Brazil (Portuguese language: Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil , or INB) and by the Brazilian Navy. Currently the plant produces enough HEU for 26 to 31 implosion type warheads.[26][27]
Legislation and conventions[edit | edit source]
Brazil's 1988 Constitution states in Article 21 that "all nuclear activity within the national territory shall only be admitted for peaceful purposes and subject to approval by the National Congress".[28]
Brazil acceded to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty on September 18, 1998, ratified the Geneva Protocol on 28 August 1970, the Biological Weapons Convention on 27 February 1973, and the Chemical Weapons Convention on 13 March 1996.
Brazil signed the Treaty of Tlatelolco in 1967, making Brazil a nuclear-weapon-free zone.
Brazil is also an active participant in the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Nuclear Suppliers Group, multinational agencies concerned with reducing nuclear proliferation by controlling the export and re-transfer of materials that may be applicable to nuclear weapon development.
Angra Nuclear Power Plant
National Nuclear Energy Commission (CNEN)
Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials (ABACC)
Argentinian nuclear weapons program
Notes ans references[edit | edit source]
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Brazil: Nuclear Inventory Reachingcriticalwill.org. Retrieved on 2010-10-06.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 Brazil: Nuclear Weapons Programs Globalsecurity.org. Retrieved on 2010-10-06.
↑ Brazil, IAEA Reach Inspection Agreement Arms Control Association. Retrieved on 2010-10-06.
↑ Tracking Nuclear Proliferation - Brazil PBS NewsHour. Retrieved on 2010-10-06.
↑ States Formerly Possessing or Pursuing Nuclear Weapons: Brazil The Nuclear Weapon Archive. Retrieved on 2010-10-06.
↑ Country Profiles Global Security Institute. Retrieved on 2010-10-06.
↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Countries and issues of nuclear strategic concern: Brazil SIPRI. Retrieved on 2010-10-06.
↑ Life without the bomb BBC. Retrieved on 2010-10-06.
↑ Albright, Lampreia hail Brazil's accession to NPT Federation of American Scientists. Retrieved on 2010-10-06.
↑ 10.0 10.1 Brazil's Nuclear Puzzle Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control. Retrieved on 2010-10-06.
↑ Brazil and the Bomb German Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved on 2010-10-06.
↑ Not-Quite-Nuclear Nations Newsweek. Retrieved on 2010-10-06.
↑ Congressional Report on the "Parallel Program". Senate of Brazil. Retrieved on 2012-03-23. (Portuguese).
↑ BBC News: Brazil joins world's nuclear club BBC News. Retrieved on 2010-10-06.
↑ 15.0 15.1 How Brazil Spun the Atom Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Retrieved on 2010-10-06.
↑ Urânio: Brasil não é contra a inspeção internacional, mas contra aumento da inspeção que pode apropriar-se da tecnologia desenvolvida pelo país Jornal da Ciência. Retrieved on 2010-10-06. (Portuguese).
↑ BBC News: US sure of Brazil nuclear plans BBC News. Retrieved on 2010-10-06.
↑ Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD): Resende Nuclear Fuel Factory (FCN) Globalsecurity.org. Retrieved on 2010-10-06.
↑ Sarah Diehl and Eduardo Fujii (March 2008). "Brazil's Pursuit of a Nuclear Submarine Raises Proliferation Concerns". WMD Insights. Archived from the original on 2008-05-09. http://web.archive.org/web/20080509065553/http://www.wmdinsights.com/I23/I23_LA1_BrazilPursuit.htm. Retrieved 2008-03-27.
↑ Paul D. Taylor (June 2009). "Why Does Brazil Need Nuclear Submarines?". U.S. Naval Institute. http://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2009-06/why-does-brazil-need-nuclear-submarines. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
↑ WMD Facilities: Aramar Experimental Center, Iperó Globalsecurity.org. Retrieved on 2010-10-06.
↑ WMD Facilities: Cachimbo Globalsecurity.org. Retrieved on 2010-10-06.
↑ WMD Facilities: Guaratiba Globalsecurity.org. Retrieved on 2010-10-06.
↑ WMD Facilities: São José dos Campos Globalsecurity.org. Retrieved on 2010-10-06.
↑ WMD Facilities: Resende Nuclear Fuel Factory (FCN) Globalsecurity.org. Retrieved on 2010-10-06.
↑ INB Activities on the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Americas Nuclear Energy Symposiums. Retrieved on 2010-10-06.
↑ Constitution of Brazil: Article 21; XXIII; a V-Brazil. Retrieved on 2009-09-06.
Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil Brazilian Nuclear Industries (English)
Centro de Desenvolvimento da Tecnologia Nuclear Center of Nuclear Technology Development (English)
Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas Nucleares National Nuclear Energy Research Institute (Portuguese)
Instituto de Engenharia Nuclear Nuclear Engineering Institute (Portuguese)
Centro Regional de Ciências Nucleares Central-West Nuclear Sciences Regional Center (Portuguese)
Comissão Nacional de Energia Nuclear National Nuclear Energy Commission (Portuguese)
Eletronuclear Manages Brazil's nuclear power plants (Portuguese)
Associação Brasileira de Energia Nuclear Brazilian Association of Nuclear Energy (Portuguese)
Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials (English) (Portuguese) (Spanish)
Campo de Provas Brigadeiro Velloso Cachimbo Test Site (Portuguese)
Departamento de Ciência e Tecnologia Aeroespacial Brazilian Air Force - Aerospace Technology and Science Department (Portuguese)
Scientific sites
Jornal da Ciência's article (in Portuguese)
Academic Sites
Collection of Archival Documents on the Brazilian Nuclear Program hosted by the Wilson Center Digital Archive (English)
Military Firefighters Corps
Joint Staff of the Armed Forces
National Defense Council
Retrieved from "https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Brazil_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction?oldid=4312501"
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Q: Inequalities inconsistency There was an equation I was trying to solve.
I have converted the equation to basic terms for now.
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& -2x + 6 > 0 \tag{1} \\
\implies & -2x > -6 \tag{2} \\
\implies & x > 3 \tag{3}
\end{align}
Now, solving it another way,
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& -2x + 6 > 0 \tag{4}\\
\implies & 2x - 6 < 0 \tag{5} \\
\implies & 2x < 6 \tag{6} \\
\implies & x < 3 \tag{7}
\end{align}
For the same equation, I am getting two different ranges of $x$. Am I missing some rule/property?

A: If you have $x<y$ then $ax < ay$ if and only if $a > 0$. If you multiply (or divide) by a negative number then the inequalities change direction. For example if I take $-3<-2$ and multiply by $-1$ then I would get $3 < 2$ which is evidently false. If I change the direction of the inequality though I would get $2<3$ which is correct.

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DSK News: Evidence of Sexual Encounter With Maid But No Blackmail
Investigators: a sexual encounter did take place between DSK and the hotel maid but no evidence of blackmail.
Updated Jul. 13, 2017 6:59PM ET / Published Jul. 03, 2011 9:38AM ET
John Minchillo / AP Photo
Prosecutors in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case remain convinced they have solid evidence of a sexual encounter with a luxury hotel maid but, despite having spent extensive time investigating whether the victim was engaged in a financial extortion plot, they have yet to find any substantive proof, according to people familiar with the investigation.
Investigators began exploring whether the victim had financial motives long before stories surfaced in recent days suggesting she might have been a gold-digger – even a prostitute – who staged the encounter, sources told The Daily Beast.
While the investigative efforts uncovered a trail of previously unknown phones tied to the alleged victim as well as suspicious financial transactions, and even a prison call with a drug suspect in which the idea of financial gain was discussed, no evidence has been found to suggest premeditated extortion, sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Investigators "began looking at that some time ago and don't see that here so far," said one source. "Whenever you have a very wealthy defendant who is being accused of a sex crime, you begin looking at everything, including did money change hands between the victim and the defendant when [the sexual encounter] happened? Or was someone paid to make it happen?"
Prosecutors also have testimony from hotel colleagues that bolster the maid's contention that she believed Strauss-Kahn had already left his hotel suite when she entered to clean the room moments before the alleged incident—undercutting the suggestion of a premeditated plot, the sources said.
Nonetheless, prosecutors are now deeply uncertain whether the victim could withstand cross-examination during a high-profile trial after making a series of false claims to them in recent weeks, and recanting an earlier allegation about a rape that supposedly took place in her native Guinea as well as admitting she falsified information on an asylum application.
The prosecution team recognizes "a really terrible witness can still be a victim," but now has to decide in the coming weeks if the maid "is someone we can put on the stand and trust," one source directly familiar with the case said.
The sources' description of the current state of play comes as Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance's office faces questions about whether the DA's office adequately checked all the evidence or rushed to an indictment too soon.
The Daily Beast has learned that, until last week, investigators didn't seek electronic keycard evidence for rooms the alleged victim cleaned at the hotel the day of the alleged attack, other than Strauss-Kahn's. That omission has taken on new significance as the maid's account changed.
The maid originally alleged that on May 14, Strauss-Kahn, one of the world's most powerful men as a leading candidate for president of France and then-director of the International Monetary Fund, exited a shower in his luxury suite at the Sofitel hotel in New York City, grabbed her from behind and sexually assaulted her after she entered to clean his suite.
Bolstered by significant forensic evidence that included Strauss-Kahn's DNA, prosecutors in the Manhattan district attorney's office secured an indictment just days after the attack. But in recent weeks, their case began to unravel as investigators dug deeper into how the maid immigrated to the United States under a political asylum claim that included some false information.
High-powered lawyers for Strauss-Kahn had by then already combed New York's African immigrant world, uncovering their own evidence challenging the alleged victim's credibility.
As prosecutors' doubts mounted, the DA's office last week disclosed to defense lawyers that they believed there were problems with the victim's testimony and agreed to loosen the terms of Strauss-Kahn's bail.
Meanwhile, as questions surfaced about her background, the alleged victim began to change her story.
After weeks of offering a consistent narrative about exactly what she had done after fleeing Strauss-Kahn's room on May 14, she suddenly made some changes to that account, the sources said.
The maid had told her hotel superiors, hotel security, police detectives, prosecutors and the grand jury that, after Strauss-Kahn forced her to have oral sex, she managed to flee his room and hide around the corner where a housekeeping supervisor found her after Strauss-Kahn had left the hotel. But according to a letter prosecutors placed in the court file Friday she stated that, after the attack and before the housekeeper found her, she went and cleaned another room.
She also admitted that her application for asylum had included embellished and false information, recanting a story she had told investigators about how she had been raped in Guinea years ago.
"In interviews in connection with the investigation of this case, the complainant admitted that the above factual information, which she provided in connection with her asylum application, was false," the prosecutors wrote in the letter.
(The admission that she provided false information on her asylum application could spur the federal government to reconsider her asylum status.)
One source close to the investigation said prosecutors proceeded quickly to indictment to ensure Strauss-Kahn didn't leave the country again, as he had tried in the hours after the alleged incident, and because the initial evidence was so strong that inaction would have been seen as favoritism.
That source described the evolution of the case this way: "Her story was corroborated by witnesses in the hotel, electronic evidence, and forensic evidence... There is still overwhelming evidence of a sexual encounter but, with the changes in her story, it has become more of a he-said-she-said."
While much of the case's unraveling has involved the victim's own conduct and statements, there are signs of missteps or oversights by authorities, too.
The prosecutors sought the additional hotel key records on Wednesday, informed defense lawyers about the victim's credibility problems on Thursday, then got the hotel security key logs for the other rooms the next day, one source said. Prosecutors "may have undercut the victim's story before fully checking it out," the source said.
The logs, according to the source, appear to track the maid's original story. They show the maid entered room 2820—around the corner from Strauss-Kahn's luxury suite—at around 10:30 a.m., then again at 11 a.m., and then at 11:30 a.m.
She then used her key to enter Strauss-Kahn's room around 12:06 p.m. A room service colleague has told authorities he went into Strauss-Kahn's suite at around noon to pick up dinner trays, saw no sign of Strauss-Kahn and then told the maid the room was empty and OK to be cleaned, sources told the Beast.
Other hotel witnesses said the woman told them she believed the room was empty and was even fearful she might lose her job for walking in on a VIP client, sources have previously said.
The maid alleged the sexual assault occurred between 12:06 p.m., when she entered the room to clean it, and 12:28 p.m., when Strauss-Kahn hurriedly left his room and checked out. Witnesses at the hotel checkout counter told investigators that the normally prim and proper Strauss-Kahn appeared so rushed to leave that he still had toothpaste foam around his mouth, one source said.
The maid has alleged that she managed to flee Strauss-Kahn's room shortly before he left and hid around the corner, right near room 2820 which she had been cleaning earlier, sources said.
A supervisor told prosecutors she found the upset maid near a linen closet outside room 2806, Strauss-Kahn's suite, shortly before 12:30 p.m. and that she took the alleged victim back to Strauss-Kahn's room to calm her and debrief her about the incident, sources have said. Hotel colleagues reported the woman spit on the floor and walls in front of them, and appeared so traumatized that she wanted to vomit.
The hotel key card records that prosecutors belatedly got from the Sofitel on Friday show the maid keyed room 2820, which she had cleaned hours earlier, at 12:26 p.m. and, during the same minute, also keyed room 2806 where Strauss-Kahn had stayed – which would support the assertion that her supervisor took her there, according to a source directly familiar with the evidence.
"She didn't have time to clean 2820 again. The key cards show her supervisor took her to Strauss-Kahn's room almost immediately. And it would not have made sense to clean 2820 again, she had done it earlier between 10:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., which would suggest she simply got confused," the source said.
But such changes in her account coupled with the evidence of lying about a prior rape and the hints of a financial motive revealed during the call to prison could give defense lawyers plenty to create reasonable doubt with jurors. Did she engage in consensual oral sex and then was coached to spit to ensure DNA evidence could be collected? Did she make a call to one or more conspirators during her multiple entries into room 2820? Was her original story simply rehearsed to garner sympathy with colleagues and investigators, only to unravel later when conflicting evidence emerged? Does the prison call suggest she habitually cashed in on VIP hotel client with lots of money?
A source familiar with evidence from the hotel said the Sofitel had done a background criminal check before hiring the maid and established she was legally in the country. She later told the hotel she had won an asylum claim, the source said.
Even with the maid's changing account, prosecutors remain confident in the general timeline they presented to the grand jury when they indicted Strauss-Kahn, one source said. The bigger issues that unnerved prosecutors began when the woman admitted she lied on her asylum application and when she recanted her own tale of a rape years ago in Guinea.
And investigators in the prosecutor's office also began following a financial trail that linked the woman to suspected criminal elements in the drug world. They found several phones in the woman's name that she hadn't told them about as well as tens of thousands of dollars in suspicious deposits into her banking accounts, one source said.
The investigators began checking calls on those other phones, and eventually found that the woman, the day after the alleged attack, had made a call to a detention center in Arizona where one of her male acquaintances was being held on drug charges, according to the sources.
Because most inmate calls are normally recorded, the investigators sought and found a prison recording of the call. When they got it, the recording was in the woman's native Guinean language of Fulani so a translator was summoned, a source said.
A rough translation arrived on Wednesday and it included a section in which the woman hinted at a financial motive, suggesting Strauss-Kahn was wealthy and telling her incarcerated friend—who she was possibly involved with romantically—that she knew what she was doing. By that time, she had already hired a private attorney, the sources said. The woman hired one attorney almost immediately, and then switched to a second lawyer shortly thereafter. Some of the evidence that led prosecutors to their concerns actually originated with the maid's second attorney, the sources said.
While investigators suspect the reference in the prison call was an allusion to the potential of a lawsuit against Strauss-Kahn, it was the last of several troubling discoveries that prompted prosecutors to divulge concerns they had with the alleged victim to the Strauss-Kahn defense team on Thursday.
Prosecutors have little regret about the speed at which they brought the original charges, seeing the DNA evidence and corroborating witness testimony of hotel workers as solid, even now, one source said. "We just don't know if [the maid] would be credible at all on the witness stand. And this case can't be made unless she can credibly testify against DSK," the source said.
Relations between the prosecution and the alleged victim have soured in recent days. On Friday, her lawyer, Kenneth Thompson, publicly accused the district attorney's office of being too fearful to pursue Strauss-Kahn.
Prosecutors must decide whether they can prevail at trial with the maid as their star witness given her credibility issues. If not, they are likely to dismiss the charges.
In that scenario, the victim would still have the recourse of suing Strauss-Kahn in civil court.

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LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES - McGOVERN ON "NEWHART"
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LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES - SENATOR McGOVERN
SENATOR GEORGE McGOVERN
'Newhart'
["Child In Charge"]
A Figure In Dr. Bob Hartley's Dream
George Stanley McGovern (July 19, 1922 – October 21, 2012) was an American historian, author and U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election.
McGovern grew up in Mitchell, South Dakota, where he was a renowned debater. He volunteered for the U.S. Army Air Forces upon the country's entry into World War II and as a B-24 Liberator pilot flew 35 missions over German-occupied Europe. Among the medals bestowed upon him was a Distinguished Flying Cross for making a hazardous emergency landing of his damaged plane and saving his crew. After the war he gained degrees from Dakota Wesleyan University and Northwestern University, culminating in a PhD, and was a history professor. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1956 and re-elected in 1958. After a failed bid for the U.S. Senate in 1960, he was elected there in 1962.
As a senator, McGovern was an exemplar of modern American liberalism. He became most known for his outspoken opposition to the growing U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. He staged a brief nomination run in the 1968 presidential election as a stand-in for the assassinated Robert F. Kennedy. The subsequent McGovern–Fraser Commission fundamentally altered the presidential nominating process, by greatly increasing the number of caucuses and primaries and reducing the influence of party insiders. The McGovern–Hatfield Amendment sought to end the Vietnam War by legislative means but was defeated in 1970 and 1971.
McGovern's long-shot, grassroots-based 1972 presidential campaign found triumph in gaining the Democratic nomination but left the party badly split ideologically, and the failed vice-presidential pick of Thomas Eagleton undermined McGovern's credibility. In the general election McGovern lost to incumbent Richard Nixon in one of the biggest landslides in American electoral history. Re-elected Senator in 1968 and 1974, McGovern was defeated in a bid for a fourth term in 1980.
Throughout his career, McGovern was involved in issues related to agriculture, food, nutrition, and hunger. As the first director of the Food for Peace program in 1961, McGovern oversaw the distribution of U.S. surpluses to the needy abroad and was instrumental in the creation of the United Nations-based World Food Programme. As sole chair of the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs from 1968 to 1977, McGovern publicized the problem of hunger within the United States and issued the "McGovern Report" that led to a new set of nutritional guidelines for Americans. McGovern later served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture from 1998 to 2001 and was appointed the first UN Global Ambassador on World Hunger by the World Food Programme in 2001. The McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program has provided school meals for millions of children in dozens of countries since 2000 and resulted in McGovern's being named World Food Prize co-laureate in 2008.
McGovern guest starred as himself in an episode of the television series 'Newhart' (original airdate February 5, 1990). He played a dull caricature of himself in that 'Newhart' episode.
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LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES - BUDDY HACKETT
Here's a preview of our TV Crossover Hall of Fame entry for March....
BUDDY HACKETT
'Lateline'
["Buddy Hackett"]
2013 TVXOHOF inductee
Buddy Hackett (born Leonard Hacker, August 31, 1924 – June 30, 2003) was an American comedian and actor.
Hackett was born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, the son of a Jewish upholsterer. He grew up on 54th and 14th Ave in Borough Park, Brooklyn, across from Public School 103 (now a yeshiva). Living next door was an aspiring baseball player named Sandy Koufax. He graduated from New Utrecht High School in 1942. While still a student, he began performing in nightclubs in the Catskills Borscht Belt resorts. He appeared first at the Golden Hotel in Hurleyville, New York, and he claimed he did not get one single laugh.
Hackett became known to a wider audience when he appeared on television in the 1950s and 1960s as a frequent guest on such talk shows as those of Jack Paar and Arthur Godfrey, telling brash, often off-color jokes, and mugging at the camera. Hackett was also a guest on Jack Paar's last 'Tonight' show in 1962. He was on the Johnny Carson show as a frequent guest.
According to Trivial Pursuit, Hackett has the most appearances of any guest in the history of 'The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson'. A collection of these appearances are available on YouTube. During this time, he also appeared as a panelist on 'What's My Line?'.
Hackett also guest-starred in two episodes of 'The Rifleman', one as a hillbilly, the other as a mop boy.
Hackett starred as the title character in 'Stanley', a situation comedy that also featured Carol Burnett and the voice of Paul Lynde. Produced by Max Liebman, the series aired live on NBC before a studio audience and was one of the last live sitcoms. Stanley revolved around the adventures of the titular character (Hackett) as the operator of a newsstand in a posh New York City hotel.
In 1960, he appeared as himself in an episode of NBC's short-lived crime drama 'Dan Raven', starring Skip Homeier, set on the Sunset Strip of West Hollywood. Hackett also appeared many times on the game show 'Hollywood Squares', in the late 1960s. In one particularly notable episode, Hackett was asked which was the country with the highest ratio of doctors to populace; he answered Israel, or in his words, "the country with the most Jews". Despite the audience roaring with laughter (and Hackett's own belief that the actual answer was Sweden), the answer turned out to be correct.
He appeared as Art Carney's replacement on 'The Jackie Gleason Show'. His later career was mostly as a guest on variety shows and prime time sitcoms, such as 'Boy Meets World' in its 4th season.
In 1978, Hackett surprised many with his dramatic performance as Lou Costello in the television movie "Bud and Lou" opposite Harvey Korman as Bud Abbott. The film told the story of Abbott and Costello, and Hackett's portrayal was widely praised. He and Korman did a memorable rendition of the team's famous "Who's on First?" routine.
Throughout the 1970s Hackett appeared regularly doing TV ads for Tuscan Dairy popsicles and yogurt. But his most famous television campaign was for Lay's potato chips ("Nobody can eat just one!") which ran for 3 years, 1968-1971.
Hackett guest-starred in the 'Space Rangers' episode, "To Be Or Not To Be", as has-been comedian Lenny Hacker, a parody of his stage persona. The character's name was Hackett's own real name.
Hackett also appeared in the short term comedy series 'Action' which starred Jay Mohr as movie producer Peter Dragon. He played Dragon's uncle Lonnie. He appeared again with Mohr as a judge in the reality show 'Last Comic Standing'.
He also played a cameo in an episode of 'Sabrina The Teenage Witch' in 1998, "My Nightmare, the Car".
In April 1998, Hackett guest starred in an episode of 'LateLine' called "Buddy Hackett." The episode focuses on a news broadcast paying tribute to Hackett following his death, only to discover that the report of his death was a mistake. Robert Reich and Dick Gephardt also appeared in the episode, paying tribute to Hackett.
O'BSERVATIONS:
He also appeared in episodes of 'The Big Valley', 'Get Smart', and 'L.A. Law'.
His 'Space Rangers' character of Lenny Hacker - as far as Toobworld is concerned - will be a descendant of Buddy Hackett in 2104.
If you can, watch this episode of 'LateLine'. You get to see Buddy in a clip from 'The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson' and singing "Shapoopie" in "The Music Man".
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TVXOHOF, JANUARY 2013 - STUART BAILEY
For years now I've been putting off this induction into the TV Crossover Hall of Fame; always finding somebody else who - for me, anyway - was always just a little more interesting to add during the month in which we celebrate Classic TV.
And I almost did it again this year, thinking that Barnaby Jones or Frank Cannon would be a good choice. Sadly they're both gone now, so a delay in their entry isn't going to disturb them. While we still have Efram Zimbalist, Jr. with us, I think 2013 should be his year to finally receive this "honor".....
STUART BAILEY
It could be argued that 'Peter Gunn' made the TV private eye cool, but it was Stu Bailey who made the archetype suave - every hair in place and that pipe as necessary a prop as his .45.
Better writers than me have given Stu his due:
From Thrilling Detective:
Roy Huggins' decidedly downscale Chandleresque private eye STUART BAILEY appeared in a pretty good novel and a few short stories and was even brought to the big screen in the now-forgotten but surprisingly effective 1948 film noir "I Love Trouble", which starred Franchot Tone as Bailey, along with Janet Blair, Raymond Burr and a well-rounded cast of crime flick vets.
But it was a few years later, after Huggins' considerable success in the burgeoning TV market, that Bailey really made a splash. Having already created and produced 'Maverick' and 'The Fugitive', Huggins decided to dust Bailey off, move him out of the seedy little office and bestow upon him a fluency in foreign languages, a past as a government agent, a slick wardrobe and a partner. The result was '77 SUNSET STRIP', inarguably one of the most influential TV private eye shows in history -- for better and worse.
So successful, in fact, that Warner Brothers itself began spewing out copy cat versions such as 'Hawaiian Eye', 'Bourbon Street Beat', and 'Surfside Six' almost immediately. Other studios were quick to follow suit, and the formula of handsome male leads, "wacky" characters who drop by and "cool" premises and locations, not to mention the now almost-ubitquious 60-minute format, can be seen in everything from 'Riptide' to 'Magnum P.I.' to 'Las Vegas'.
From TV.com:
Private eye Stu Bailey is a suave, cultured former OSS officer who is an expert in languages. His partner, Jeff Spencer, is also a former undercover government agent, and like Bailey, a judo expert. The duo works out of an office at no. 77 Sunset Strip in Hollywood, but their cases lead them all over the world. The Stu Bailey character was originated by Roy Huggins in a story called "Death and the Skylark", published in Esquire Magazine in December 1952. Huggins later adapted this story into an episode of Warner Bros' ABC TV series 'Conflict' entitled "Anything for Money", broadcast on 16 Apr 1957, starring Efrem Zimbalist Jr. This led to the idea of building a series around the private eye character.
These are the appearances which guaranteed Stuart Bailey a place among the other TV Crossover greats:
'Conflict'
- "Anything for Money" (1957)
"Girl on the Run" (1958)
'77 Sunset Strip' (166 episodes)
'Hawaiian Eye'
- "Malihini Holiday" (1959)
- "Three Tickets to Lani" (1959)
- "I Wed Three Wives" (1960)
- "Blackmail in Satin" (1962)
For more on Stuart Bailey and '77 Sunset Strip', click HERE and HERE.
Welcome to the club, Mr. Bailey! I'm sorry it took so long......
Labels: Big Screen TV, Blogmates, Hall of Fame, La Triviata, Life During Prime-Time, O'Bservations, Special Guest Appearance, Tele-Folks Directory, TV Classique, TV timeline
LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES - JENNIFER GREY
'It's Like, You Know...'
Jennifer Grey (born March 26, 1960) is an American actress known for her roles in the 1980s films "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Dirty Dancing", the latter for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. She is also known for her 2010 victory in the eleventh season of the American version of 'Dancing with the Stars'. Grey is the daughter of Academy Award-winning actor Joel Grey and former actress/singer Jo Wilder.
In the early 1990s, Grey underwent two rhinoplasty procedures–the second of which was necessary to correct problems stemming from the first–that resulted in a nose that caused even close friends to fail to recognize her, and the major change in her appearance negatively affected her career. Of the experience she said, "I went in the operating room a celebrity – and came out anonymous. It was like being in a witness protection program or being invisible." She briefly considered changing her name in order to start her career anew, but ultimately decided against this.
From March 1999 until January 2000 Grey starred as herself in the short-lived ABC sitcom 'It's Like, You Know...', which satirized her much-publicized nose job as a running gag.
Labels: As Seen On TV, La Triviata, League of Themselves, Life During Prime-Time, Wikipediaphile
CROSSING ZONE - "MR. BEVIS" IN THE "NAKED CITY"
According to one of my Toobworld advisers, Andy Valentine, cops weren't supposed to moonlight back in the sixties. But many did to do right by their families. We've seen TV cops moonlighting on other jobs all over Toobworld. A common theme has a cop moonlighting on a job where he gets killed.
Lt. Mike Parker of the 65th Precinct in Manhattan (nicknamed 'Naked City') may have found himself in need of some easy cash as well. This would splain why we see him working as a bartender in New York City when Mr. James B.W. Bevis stopped in for a few drinks to "fortify" himself after getting fired from his job.
Unlike "Mr. Bevis", Mike couldn't see the guardian angel who had arrived in the bar from 'The Twilight Zone'.....
Labels: As Seen On TV, By Any Other Name, Crossing Zone, IDD/FB, La Triviata, Life During Prime-Time, Missing Links, Splainin 2 Do, Tele-Folks Directory, TV Classique, Wish-Craft
LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES - LARRY STORCH
Larry Storch turned 90 years old yesterday.....
LARRY STORCH
["Something Larry This Way Comes"]
From TV Rage:
Kelly is nominated Student of the Month at her acting school by Larry Storch, and they are going to perform the play, "The Phantom of the Opera", together. Larry Storch comes to visit the Bundys, but Al is stuck selling shoes. When Mr. Storch visits the shoe store, Gary punches him for ruining her once, knocking him out. Al tries to fill his role in the play, but his plan doesn't work.
I have no idea what that "Gary punches him for ruining her once" meant. And I didn't get any answers from the episode as seen on YouTube. It's in Hungarian (I think):
No matter!
Happy birthday and all the best, Mr. Storch!
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HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY, LARRY STORCH!
My brother printed the following "Morning 5" in his newspaper today:
Tuesday, Jan. 8, is Larry Storch's 90th birthday. Here are five memorable roles:
1) In his most famous role, he played Corporal Randolph Agarn on F Troop, the sidekick to Forrest Tucker's Sgt. O'Rourke.
2) Texas Jack in the film, "The Great Race," with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon.
3) Eddie Spenser in the TV series "The Ghost Busters."
4) Charlie the Drunk in "Car 54, Where Are You?"
5) And, in one of his most prolific roles, he voiced the scientist, Phineas J. Woopee, in the "Tennesse Tuxedo" cartoon.
It's limited to only five entries, much like a Top Ten list or my own Super Six list. (But then again, I cheat a lot on how many entries show up.)
Still, here are a few others I would have considered:
"Captain Newman, MD"
'The Queen And I'
Voice of the Joker in one of those early 'Batman' cartoon series.
'The Doris Day Show' as ex-boxer Duke Farentino
The DMV examiner in an episode of 'Columbo'
The chimp turned into a human on 'I Dream Of Jeannie'
"Angie" the hit man in an episode of 'The Persuaders!'
Archie Bunker's old school chum on 'All In The Family' who tried to hang on to his youth
The Groovy Guru in an episode of 'Get Smart'
and as Himself in an episode of 'Married... With Children', running an acting school.
All the best on your 90th, Mr. Storch. And for a long time to come!
Labels: Big Screen TV, League of Themselves, Life During Prime-Time, My So-Called Life, Tele-Folks Directory, Tooniverse, TV Classique, TV timeline, Twipped from the Headlines
LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES - MILTON THE ROASTED
Labels: Hall of Fame, League of Themselves, Online TV, TV Classique
LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES - UNCLE MILTIE
I don't know how long this can last in this format, but here's our second "Two for Tuesday" of the year!
'The Joey Bishop Show'
["Joey And Milton And Baby Makes Three"]
'The Lucy Show'
["Lucy Meets The Berles"*]
Serlinguist & Multiversal (and legendary "swordsman")
[But also Skitlandia and the Tooniverse]
(With Ruth Berle)
Milton Berle (born Milton Berlinger, July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an American comedian and actor. As the host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater (1948–55), he was the first major American television star and was known to millions of viewers as "Uncle Miltie" and "Mr. Television" during TV's golden age.
Milton Berle was inducted into the TV Crossover Hall of Fame in May of 2003, as that year's "May Queen" (because of his willingness to dress in drag).
The following list covers just the items from his TV resume in which he played himself in sitcoms and dramas. It doesn't even cover all the talk shows and variety programs he appeared on, let alone the other characters he played on TV.
'The Critic' (The Tooniverse)
'Amazing Stories'
'I Love Lucy'
'The Fall Guy'
'CHiPs'
'The Muppet Show'
'Make Room For Granddaddy'
'Joey and Milton and Baby Makes Three'
'Lucy Meets The Berles'
'Jack Benny Program'
'Make Room For Daddy'
'The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour'
*Milton Berle appeared in two other episodes of 'The Lucy Show' as well - "Lucy Saves Milton Berle" and "Lucy And John Wayne"........
Labels: Alternateevee, As Seen On TV, Hall of Fame, La Triviata, League of Themselves, Linkin' Logs, O'Bservations, Tooniverse, TV Classique, Wikipediaphile
LADY EDITH WITH THE GOO-GOO-GOOGLY EYES
Now that 'Downton's Abbey' is back on the air in America, let the fun begin!
My Idiot's Delight compadre "Krippy" pointed out this Tumblr account on Facebook. And she had it right when she said, "Poor Lady Edith can't catch a break."
EDITH WITH GOOGLY EYES
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THE "DOWNTON ABBEY" - "HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL" LINK
Season Three of 'Downton Abbey' premiered last night on 'Masterpiece Theater (Classic)'. Viewers in the UK and elsewhere - including those habitues of bit torrents - saw it last year. Not that it matters in terms of the Toobworld timeline - no matter when it was telecast, it's still 1920 in their lives.
As a caretaker of the TV Universe, one line of dialogue in particular leaped out at me. When Lady Cora learned that her husband, Lord Grantham, had lost the bulk of her fortune in an investment scheme, she took the news that they might lose the estate with aplomb: "I'm an American," she smiled sweetly. "'Have Gun, Will Travel'."
To me that meant that all she needed were the bare essentials and it didn't matter where the family ended up - so long as they were together.
But it was the turn of phrase that caught my attention. "Have Gun, Will Travel" was the title of a popular TV Western in the 1950's starring Richard Boone. And a quick search (meaning NOT exhaustive!) of the Internet did not lead to any previous usage from which the series might have borrowed it.
I figured there would be 'Downton Abbey' fanatics out there who might have taken umbrage that this period piece had been sullied by such a reference. So it was off to Google once again, where I found plenty of mentions of that line. Many noted that it was an anachronism from the Future, and worse yet, a reference to a TV shown no less! (Hello? What is 'Downton Abbey' then?)
I suppose it never occurred to them 'Downton Abbey' and 'Have Gun Will Travel' existed in the same TV dimension. Because that way, it's perfectly acceptable that Lady Cora should say such a thing.
'Have Gun Will Travel' was not just the title of that TV Western. It was the motto on the business car of a frontier "equalizer" who called himself "Paladin". (Toobworld Central believes that his real name was 'Hec Ramsey'.)
Paladin was based in San Francisco, working out of the Carlton Hotel. But he traveled all over the American West in order to help those in need. The time period for his adventures was a bit nebulous, but certain episodes locked themselves in to a specific year. For example (since this is a crossover blog) - when Paladin met Phileas Fogg and Passepartout, that had to be 1873.
Lady Cora's mother, Martha Levenson, mentioned that she had homes in New York and Newport, but I don't know if Paladin ever traveled that far east. However, the family began in Cincinnati, Ohio, where Isidore Levenson made his fortune as a dry goods merchant. If he shipped his goods west, perhaps he hired the services of Paladin to protect his shipments en route to San Francisco.
If the mercenary agreed to make the trip from Cincinnati to San Francisco, it's pozz'ble, just pozz'ble, that Cora and her brother Harry got the chance to meet Paladin when they were children. And that's when she could have seen the business card.
If not?
Ernest Pratt
Paladin, like his contemporaries the Brothers Maverick, was a legend of the West. Surely there had to be at least one writer, one "dime novelist", willing to pay him for the chance to publish his stories. I have three such candidates in mind - Nimrod Bligh, Ernest Pratt, and Tobias Wentworth Finch. But Finch and Bligh were rather unsavory characters so I don't think Paladin would have had any truck with them. So even though Mr. Pratt would have been more focused on his own creation (Nicodemus Legend, whom Pratt sometimes portrayed in the real world), he still might have added Paladin into the narrative.
Young Cora Levenson might have been a prim, young lady in the American version of the Victorian Era, properly trained a finishing school like Brackenridge, but she had a well-hidden rebellious streak which we have seen rise to the fore on occasion in 'Downton Abbey'. It could be that as a young girl she kept a well-worn, dime store novel about Paladin under her mattress.
And emblazoned on the cover of that book?
"HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL"
All that from one line of dialogue.....
SHOWS CITED:
'Have Gun, Will Travel'
'Hec Ramsey'
'Legend'
"Around The World In Eighty Days"
'Bonanza'
'Bret Maverick'
'Maverick'
'Benson'
Labels: Book 'em, By Any Other Name, Missing Links, Splainin 2 Do, Tele-Folks Directory, Tele-Quotes, TV Classique, TV timeline, Westview, Zonks
LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES - JERRY COLONNA
"Hello, Toobworld? Colonna!"
JERRY COLONNA
'McHale's Navy'
["Hello, McHale? Colonna!"]
Played younger than his true age
Gerardo Luigi "Jerry" Colonna (September 17, 1904 - November 21, 1986) was an Italian-American comedian, singer, songwriter, and trombonist best remembered as the zaniest of Bob Hope's sidekicks on Hope's popular radio shows and films of the 1940s and 1950s.
With his pop-eyed facial expressions and walrus-sized handlebar mustache, Colonna was known for singing loudly "in a comic caterwaul," according to "Raised on Radio" author Gerald Nachman, and for his catchphrase, "Who's Yehudi?", uttered after many an old joke, although it usually had nothing to do with the joke. The line was believed to be named for violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin, and the search for Yehudi became a running gag on the Hope show.
Colonna played a range of nitwitted characters, the best-remembered of which was a moronic professor. Nachman wrote:
Colonna brought a whacked-out touch to Hope's show. In a typical exchange, Hope asks, "Professor, did you plant the bomb in the embassy like I told you?", to which Colonna replied, in that whooping five-alarm voice, "Embassy? Great Scott, I thought you said NBC!"
Jerry Colonna also appeared in a 1965 episode of 'McHale's Navy'. In the episode "Hello McHale?-Colonna" McHale's men meet the famous WWII troubadour who promises to do a show for them at their Tarratupa base. However, when the men learn that shows are limited to bases that have a 50-bed hospital, they take steps to correct the shortage. This disrupts Captain Binghamton's base hospital inspection by the Admiral who is looking for overcrowded hospitals and malingering patients, thereby putting Binghamton in the hot seat again.
In 1999, Jeff MacKay portrayed Colonna in the 'JAG' episode "Ghosts of Christmas Past."
We don't see this happen very often - a League of Themselves member not appearing in the timeline contemporary to the broadcast. The 'McHale's Navy' episode took place about twenty years before it aired on TV. But Colonna didn't look too different from his earlier self.
As for the 'JAG' episode, Colonna was seen filtered through someone else's memories, so the recastaway by MacKay is accepted.
Labels: As Seen On TV, La Triviata, League of Themselves, Life During Prime-Time, O'Bservations, Recastaways, Splainin 2 Do, TV Classique, TV timeline, Wikipediaphile
THE LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES - JAMES GARNER
What better TV show for the first Sunday in the new yarren than an "Angel".....?
["The French Lesson"]
James Garner (born James Scott Baumgarner; April 7, 1928) is an American film and television actor, one of the first Hollywood actors to excel in both media. He has starred in several television series spanning a career of more than five decades. These included his roles as 'Bret Maverick', in the popular 1950s western-comedy series, 'Maverick'; Jim Rockford, in the popular 1970s detective drama, 'The Rockford Files'; and the father of Katey Sagal's character on '8 Simple Rules' following the death of John Ritter. He has starred in more than fifty movies, including "The Great Escape" (1963), Paddy Chayefsky's "The Americanization of Emily" (1964), Blake Edwards' "Victor Victoria" (1982), "Murphy's Romance" (1985), for which he received an Academy Award nomination, and "The Notebook" (2004).
Labels: As Seen On TV, League of Themselves, Museum Piece, O'Bservations, Online TV, Video Weekend, Wikipediaphile


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CMU Hacking Team Wins Super Bowl of Hacking for 6th Time – News | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #hacker
Carnegie Mellon University showed off its computer security talent by winning DEF CON's Capture the Flag competition, the "Super Bowl of hacking," for the sixth time. The team comprised CMU students in the Plaid Parliament of Pwning, who joined forces with CMU alumnus Professor Robert Xiao's Maple Bacon (at the University of British Columbia) and alumni startup Theori.
Together the teams formed a new squad under the name Maple Mallard Magistrates (MMM), finishing in the top spot on the leaderboard at the end of days one and two, and holding on during the competition's final day to take this year's crown.
Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP) won five hacking world championships between 2013 and 2019, the most victories by any team in the competition's history. Playing as an expanded team this year, PPP has now earned its sixth title in 10 years. Winners each year get 8 "black badges" — the most elite recognition in hacking. PPP now has 48 total black badges.
"If you're wondering who the best and brightest security experts in the world are, look no further than the Capture the Flag room at DEF CON," said David Brumley, an Electrical and Computer Engineering professor at CMU and the faculty adviser to the team.
Over the course of the 72 hour hacking spree, 16 qualifying teams made up of students, industry workers and government contractors from around the world attempted to break into each other's systems, stealing virtual flags and accumulating points while simultaneously trying to protect their own.
"The hacking challenges this year spanned many different formats, exploring different skills and giving us all the chance to both showcase and stretch our abilities," said Jay Bosamiya, PPP's team captain, a Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon's Computer Science Department, and member of CMU's CyLab Security and Privacy Institute.
Carnegie Mellon's hacking team first formed in 2009 and began competing at DEF CON in 2010. The team previously won the contest in 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2019.
The victory builds on CMU's prowess in cybersecurity, a strength shared with the rising generation through picoCTF, a free and robust computer security education program that hosts the world's largest high school hacking competition.
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The Pirate-Captain's Story
"It must be four-and-thirty years," said the old man, after considering a while, "since I saw you last, and there has much happened in that time that I should not like to tell, nor you to hear."
It was curious to observe what a new dignity the speaker seemed to assume. He was no longer the old gardener, with no interest beyond his flowers and fruits, speaking a rude dialect which was only saved from being vulgar by its being manifestly foreign. He was a chief, a ruler of men, one who had commanded fleets and matched his power with Rome itself.
"It is true," he continued, "I was never quite the same after seeing and knowing you that I had been before. I don't think that I had ever felt for a prisoner what I felt for you. I had spared their lives often enough, but it was when it was not worth while to kill them. I never was so bad as some even in my worst days, never liked killing for killing's sake, or when I hoped to get a good ransom for them, or when, for any other reason, it paid me better to keep them alive than to put them to death. But you were, I think, the very first that I ever positively spared for pity's sake; but you were not the last. My men often thought me a fool, and could not imagine what I meant. I had some ugly quarrels about it, and should have had worse, but that they knew pretty well that, whoever I might spare, I never spared a mutineer. Yes, a good many citizens and strangers owe their lives to you, and I am glad to think of it. I don't pretend to be much troubled by remembering what I once was. I was brought up to the business. It was my father's before me, and my grandfather's, and his father's, and so on for I don't know how many generations. To this day I don't see but what it is as honest as the trades that some very respectable persons get their money by; and I always behaved in it as an honest man should. You laugh, sir, but you know what I mean. I divided things fairly, and never kept a prisoner when his ransom had been properly paid, and so forth. But I must confess that what I like to think of, when I do go back to those days, is what I was able to do for you and for others like you. But you want to hear my story. Well, you know, I dare say, that after you and I parted we had it our own way more than ever in the Mediterranean. I am astonished that we were ever allowed to do the things we did; and not for a few months, mind you, but for years. I did not know in those days what Rome could do if she chose. I was fool enough to think that she hadn't the power to crush us, but I know better now. You have seen a little dog teasing a big one, snarling and barking at him, biting his heels, and so forth, till at last the big fellow gives him a shake and has done with him. So it was with us. But I am, as I said, amazed to this day when I think of what this great empire, with legions and fleets and money, and the best generals and commanders in the world, put up with. I suppose the Romans were too busy quarrelling with each other to give us a thought. They have, and from what people tell me they always have had, a terrible way of quarrelling among themselves. They have conquered pretty nearly the whole world in spite of it. Without it two worlds would not have been enough for them. Maybe you have heard of some of the things we did. I reckon that some day people will hardly believe them. They positively had to keep their armies waiting, when they wanted to send them across the sea, till we had gone into harbor for the winter. Who could have believed that? And yet, as you may perhaps have heard, it is a positive fact. I can tell you things, too, that I did myself, that would make you stare. Why, sir, one day when I was lying off the coast not very far from here, with four or five ships, we saw two officers, prætors they call them, going along the road. They had some five or six thousand men, bound for Sicily or Asia, somewhere in the neighborhood, but just then they were out of reach of the army. There they were marching along the road in great state, with their robes and ornaments, and their twelve lictors before them. Well, sir, I sent four or five boat-loads of men ashore, laid wait for them in a place where the road came close down to the sea, and positively carried off the whole company. You should have seen their astonishment. I cannot help laughing even now when I think of it. I didn't hold them to ransom. My men did not understand why, but I knew better; it would have been venturing too far. Rome could not put up with such a disgrace; and we should have been put down before we were. As it was, the crash came the very next year. No, I put them ashore, after giving them a good dinner on board, and only kept the axes out of the lictors' bundles as keepsakes. But we got some heavy ransoms too when it was safe to stand out for them. There was a lady, for instance, whom we carried off from near Misenum. I dare say that you know the place; a great favorite it is with the rich Romans. She was on her way to a country house in the neighborhood, and had a whole troop of serving-women with her, and a party of slaves armed. The slaves did not make much fight—what should they fight for? We took their arms and let four or five of the sturdiest take service with us. The women I left on shore; I never would cumber myself with them. We knew we had got a prize in the lady, but we did not know all. The fact was, that in one way that was the best thing we ever did. Why, sir, she was the daughter of a man who had fought against us, and conquered us—so, at least, he said. He came with a great fleet, and sent home fine despatches about what he had done,—he was a great speaker, I have heard say, Antonius was his name—and now we had his daughter, quite elderly she was then. A brave woman—the Roman women all are—she never shrieked or so much as shed a tear, but treated us all as if we were so many dogs. We got fifty pounds weight of gold for her. But the best thing of all—you must excuse me, sir, but when I get talking about these days, a thing I very seldom do, I feel as if I were on the deck of my own ship again—well, the boldest thing we ever did was when we actually sailed into Ostia—yes, into the port of Rome itself. There was a fleet in the harbor nearly ready for sailing, and the great man who was to take the command had just arrived. Well, just about sunset, when more than half the crews were on shore, drinking in the taverns or bidding good-by to their friends—for they were to sail the next day—we made our way into the harbor. Some of the ships were too near to the piers to be meddled with; but the rest we either burned or sank, or made off with. The men on board were mostly slaves, the rowers, you know, sir, and they had not much heart for fighting; and we were always ready to let them escape as best they could. As for the officers and sailors, many of them were asleep or tipsy. I never saw such a sight. All the piers were crowded with people looking on; and there was the great man himself in a most furious rage, stamping about and giving orders which there was no one to listen to. They positively could not find sober men enough to man the boats, and we were well out of the reach of their javelins and slings. At last they brought down some catapults, but by that time our work was pretty well finished. We burned thirty ships and scuttled as many more, though we could not wait to see them all sink; and ten we took away with us; we could not spare crews for more.
"The end of it was, we grew too bold. It seemed as if nothing could rouse the Romans; and I began to think that they weren't able to put us down. It was a great mistake, sir, and I ought to have known better. Well, at last we began to lay hold of their wheat-ships from Egypt and Utica and such places. You know, sir, they don't grow much corn in Italy; vines and olives, and fruits of all kinds, and flowers, pay much better, and a vast quantity of land is taken up with parks and the like. My kind friend, the poet, says that he is going to write about it, and see whether he can't bring back the old ways into fashion again. Things had not gone as far then as they have now, but still a great quantity of wheat had to be imported into Rome; so when we began to cut off the ships that brought it the people felt the pinch, and got really in earnest about it; and when the Romans are in earnest they do a thing pretty quickly and thoroughly. We heard all about it from our friends in Rome—we had very good friends, people in high place some of them, so high that you would scarcely believe if I were to tell you, and they got good pay from us. The best general in Rome was to have absolute command, with about as many ships and as many men as he chose to ask for. There was still a chance that it might not be done. There were other great men, or those who fancied themselves such, and they did not like the idea of all this power being given to somebody else. But before long came the news that the thing was done. Most of us were not afraid; they thought that the storm would pass over as it had passed over before. But I knew better; and yet I did not see what was to be done. At one time I thought of advising the others to make their submission, but I soon saw that it would be as much as my life was worth to hint at it; and besides, we had no regular authority among us. Every captain of a ship was independent in his way. They obeyed commands when actually fighting; but at all other times it was mostly a man for himself; so there was nothing for it but to fight, and that they were all ready to do; and I did my best to get ready, though I must own that I had very little hope. I am speaking, you will understand, of my own people, the Cilicians. We held together in a way. As for the rest, they were scattered just like a flock of sparrows when a hawk comes in sight. There was nothing, you see, to bind them to each other, for they came from every country under the sun, and some had no country at all. It would be a very strange thing, would be a true list of the free-booting ships that there were in those days, and of their owners. You would not believe it, sir, but there were rich men in Rome who had ships of their own in the trade; and a very good trade it was. They were ship-owners themselves for the most part. You look surprised, sir; but this is the way they managed it. A man would have the sixth part, say, of a merchant ship, or twenty merchant ships. Now, if he kept a freebooter at sea, and got half the profits of what it took, it paid him very well to lose the sixth of what was taken, particularly if he got something out of the treasury and something out of the associations they had, I was told, to protect themselves against loss. Well, sir, we Cilicians made up our minds to fight, and we had not long to wait. We had got together about a hundred and fifty ships of all sizes, and we lay off a harbor there is somewhere opposite the east end of Cyprus. It must have been about a month after midsummer when the Roman fleet came. We had men on the lookout along the coast, and were ready as far as we could be for them. It was, I remember, a little after sunrise that the ships came in sight, sixty of them, not more, so that we had double their number. But this was the only thing we beat them in. Better ships could not have been than these sixty, in fact they were picked for the work, and the crews were picked too. They had not a single slave on board; all the sailors above deck and below were free men, Italians many of them, others from Rhodes and Byzantium and the other great trading towns, for all were ready enough to follow when they saw that Rome was really in earnest. I did not know all this at the time, but I saw from the look of the ships, and the way they came on, that we had a hard piece of work before us. And the day was against us; I should have liked a brisk wind, the brisker the better; that would have given us a chance to show our seamanship. Our enemies could not touch us there. We could have sailed round and round them if there had only been some wind, but there was not a breath. It was a dead calm from the beginning of the affair unto the end.
"Well, sir, they came on in the shape of a half-moon, with the round of the curve, you will understand, not the hollow, towards us; and on the stern of the leading ship, which had a great flag hanging from its main-mast, stood the general, as I took him to be, with a number of men round him, who took his orders and made their signals accordingly. I never saw any thing like the regular sweep of their oars. The best harp-player in the world could not have kept time better. The forepart, too, of every ship was covered with a regular mass of men. They had locked their shields together over their heads, just as they do when they are at work on the walls of a town. Well, sir, of course we did not wait to be attacked. We lay close together in two lines, and I gave the word, for I had some sort of command, though it was not acknowledged as well as it might have been, that our ships were to scatter and ram the Romans, taking them as much as we could on the side. But we did very little good; they were too strong for us to hurt them much; indeed I heard afterwards that they had been specially strengthened; and then, though they were heavier than we, they faced round and met us with wonderful speed, thanks to their good crews, so that we really got more damage than we gave. And then when one of our ships did get a fair chance against one of theirs, and struck her, say amidships, before ours could clear again down came a heavy grapnel from the Roman's mast and held her fast; and then in a moment the sailors had a bridge up between the ships, and the soldiers poured over it, men in heavy armor with their pikes and swords, and boarded our vessel and swept its deck clear—for how could our light-armed fellows stand against them?—before you could count a hundred. The sea was so calm that the men could move as easily and regularly as if they had been on land. If there had been a wind they would have been staggering about, and we might have had a chance. But it was not to be, and on the whole, sir, I am not sorry. And this, the being boarded and taken, was just what happened to me. It was my business of course to set an example, and I made at the commander's ship. But first I thought I would disable her oars; so when we were just upon her I gave a turn to the rudder, for I was at the helm myself, and crashed in upon the left-side oars. Then, sheering off, and backing water till I had put a hundred paces' distance between my enemy and me, I came on again at full speed. My men could not have done better; they rowed as hard and as well as ever they did in their lives, but it was like knocking one's head against a wall. The place we rammed—they knew the place for which we were likely to make pretty well—had been made prodigiously strong, and we hardly so much as dented it; and then down came the grapnel, and we were fast. The sailors had their bridge out in a moment, in fact they were a little too quick, for we managed by lurching our ship down, which was done easily enough as we were all on that day, to get clear of it. I remember seeing two or three of the soldiers slip off into the sea. They went too, poor wretches, in their heavy armor without a struggle. You could positively see them at the bottom of the water, which was not more than forty or fifty feet deep and very clear. But we escaped only for a moment; the grapnel held us fast, and we could not cut the chain, for it was of iron. They soon had the bridge out again, and this time they made it safe enough, and the soldiers poured across it. Of course we did not give up without a fight; I had the picked men of the whole country about me, sir, good swordsmen all of them, and as strong, sinewy, determined fellows as ever you saw. But it did not last very long; it could not have lasted long in any case, for the odds were all against us, but as it turned I brought it to an end very soon; and a very happy thing it was for me and my people that I did. This was how it happened. There was a gallant young fellow among the enemy, one of the commander's aides-de-camp, and a cousin as I afterwards heard. Well, nothing would satisfy him but he must have, as he would say, the pirate-chief's head; and he made straight at me. He was a fair swordsman too, but no match for me as I was in those days. After a few passes I twisted the sword clean out of his hand. He had his dagger out in a moment and rushed at me—a braver and readier young fellow I never saw—but his foot slipped and he fell at full length at my feet. The general was watching us from the other ship, and I heard him cry out. And then it flashed upon me—the gods be praised for putting the thought into my mind!—that I would spare him, and so perhaps earn my own life. I could have killed him at a blow. There was an open space between the helmet and the cuirass, always a weak spot in the best armed men. But what was the good? It was all over with us, and we should not have been the better if I had struck, and there had been one Roman the less. So I dropped my sword, lifted him from the deck, and said, 'We are conquered; I put myself and my people under your protection.' Then I shouted to the crew to surrender; and this, I take it, they were glad enough to do, for they saw that there was no hope. The end of it was, that our ships could make no head at all against the Romans; and they could not fly. The fact was that there was no place to fly to. We were fighting like a rat in its hole. And the Romans, too, had sent a squadron round by the south side of Cyprus to keep any of us from going eastward. It hove in sight an hour or two after the battle had begun. It was admirably managed, I must say, though there was some good luck, too, especially in the weather. But then I have always heard say that Pompey—that was the general's name, sir, you know—had the best of luck all his life, till it turned against him. Before noon-day some fifty or sixty ships had been taken, and about thirty sunk; the rest were run aground by their captains, and the crews made the best of their way to the ports in the hill country. That of course was no use. If we could not hold our own by sea, we were not likely to do it by land. Long before the month was out they were all taken; indeed most of them surrendered. Well, we prisoners were kept in camps strongly guarded with soldiers till the whole business was finished; and then it was to be settled what was to be done with us. We didn't expect much mercy; indeed, I doubt very much whether any other general but Pompey would have shown it. You must pardon me for saying it. I seem to forget, when I am speaking to you, that you are a Roman, but mercy is not what we expect from your people; but then Pompey was not quite like others; and then he had the deciding about every thing in his own hands. It had been all left to him, how to manage the war and how to finish it. It is a different thing, sir, I take it, when a man has twenty thousand men under his very eye and has to decide whether they shall live or die, and when he has to refer it to other people a long way off and only carry out their orders. The senate sitting in judgment on us a thousand miles away at Rome might have ordered us to death, but Pompey, who was on the spot, couldn't do it, and, as I have said, he was not like the others.
"Well, I was told one day that I was to go before the great man. He was on board ship. The shore is not healthy when the weather is very hot, and the great officers did not see any more of it than they could help. He was sitting on a chair with his people about him, the young fellow that I had surrendered to being just behind him. He was a man of about forty, with a pleasant face, dignified enough, but not quite so great a man to look at as I had expected.
"'You are a chief among these people?' he said.
"'I am, sir,' I answered, 'as my father was before me, and his father before him.'
"'What have you to say for yourself? You know what a pirate deserves;' and he made a sign with his arm which I understood well enough.
"Well, I thought for a moment what I should say, not that I hadn't thought of it before over and over again, but I never could quite make up my mind. Should I be humble or bold, throw myself at his feet and beg for mercy, or brave it out? When one has to make up one's mind, one does it quickly enough. What you have spent hours and hours in thinking over, and only made it darker than ever, comes out as clear as the light in a moment. 'May I speak frankly, my lord?' I said.
"'As frankly as you will.'
"'My lord,' I said, 'there is a story in our family which I should like to tell you as you give me leave to speak. We have been pirates, as you call us, for I do not know how many generations. Well, my lord, a far-away ancestor of mine was brought up before the great Alexander. He had been caught exercising his trade somewhere near Egypt, and he had to answer for himself. 'What do you mean,' said the king, 'plundering peaceable persons in this way?' 'Great king,' he answered, 'I do not see but what I have as much right to the seas in these parts as you have to the land. If I am a plunderer you must be the same. But you have a great army, and generals, and fleets, and armor of gold in battle, and a robe of purple in peace, and so they call you a great man, a conqueror, a son of the gods, and I know not what; I have nothing but a little ship and some threescore men, and they call me a pirate.' The great Alexander looked at him for a moment, almost as much astonished as if some one had struck him in the face. Then he burst out into a laugh. 'Take the fellow away,' he said, 'and give him a hundred gold pieces to shut his mouth.' That is the story, my lord, that they tell in my family, and we keep one of the gold pieces made up into a ring as a remembrance of it. Greece had only one Alexander, my lord, but Rome has had many, so much the worse for the world.'
"He smiled; I could see that he was pleased with the compliment. 'Ah!' he said, 'you think that Rome is the big robber, and you the little one. Well, it may be so; I won't argue the matter with you. You know the proverb, "Two of a trade never agree." And the one that has the upper hand has a way of keeping it. But hark! you have been pirates, freebooters you prefer to call it, for many generations. You have been brought up to this trade, and though I cannot allow you to go on with it I shall not be hard upon you. You shall have an opportunity of being honest men, as we count honesty, you know. This is a barren country of yours, and can't support you; but there is plenty of land for you elsewhere, and I shall settle you in it. To you I owe a special favor. I saw when you had my young cousin here at your mercy, and I have been making inquiries about you, and find that he is not the first Roman whose life you have spared. I shall take you to Italy, for you are best a long way off from your old haunts, and you shall swear to me by all the gods, or give me your word, which I dare say will be just as good as your oath, that you will never set foot on a ship again, and we will find a place for you somewhere and the means of earning your bread. Is there any way that you would choose rather than another?' 'Well, my lord,' I answered, 'there are only two honest ways of making a livelihood that I know of—the sword and the plough—and as I must have nothing more to do with the first I choose the second.' 'So be it,' he said. 'My cousin here will see to it.'
"To make a long story short I came to Italy in the general's ship. By rights I should have followed in his triumph, but he excused me from that for his nephew's sake, and I set to work to earn my bread honestly. I did not exactly follow the plough, for I fancied that in a new country, with new ways, I should make but a poor hand at that business. But I had always had a taste for flowers and fruit, and I bought this little piece of land with some money that the general's cousin gave me. Pretty well waste it was at the time, but I liked the aspect of it. Indeed it only wanted labor; that I have given to it, and it is as pretty and profitable a little garden to-day as there is in Italy. Here I have been these thirty years. Many changes I have seen in them. Politics are nothing to me, but I could not help being sorry for the great man who was so kind to me, when I heard of his miserable ending. To be murdered by a slave and buried in the sand after all that he had been! And I hear them talk of his son as a pirate now! That is the strangest of all. How the world does come round, to be sure! But I must not talk of these great matters. I hope, sir," he continued, returning with a smile to his old manner, "that you will give me your custom when you want any thing in my way, if you are going to live at Tarentum."
The old man's story finished, Lucius Marius had, as may be supposed, something of his own to tell. Heracleo had long since given up all hope of seeing his son again. He had gone back to his native village the winter after it had been harried by the troops of Tigranes, to find his home in ashes. Some wretched survivors had by that time crept back to their old abode. From them he learnt of the death of his wife and daughter. Sad as was the news it was better than to hear that they had been carried into captivity. About his son he had been able to learn nothing. What Lucius Marius now told him was therefore almost a relief. The young man was dead, but at least he had died nobly. To the story of the finding of the treasure he listened with a smile. "These are my riches now," he said, pointing to the garden beds and fruit-trees, "and I care for no other. But I am glad that the things are not lost to the world, and that you, sir, have your share, On the whole, it was not an unlucky day that put you into a pirate's hand—I am afraid that few can say as much."
We shall not follow any farther the fortunes of our hero and his family. They never quite ceased to feel that the great wealth which had devolved upon them was something of a burden, and always enjoyed the quiet retirement of Scyllus when the time came round for them to visit it again. Lucius Marius and Philareté lived to a good old age, and passed away quietly and without pain on the same day and almost at the same hour. Rhodium in due time made a very happy marriage, being fortunate enough to find what does not always come in the way of great heiresses, a man who loved her for herself and not for her fortune. It was said in the family that the great Agrippa, afterwards the son-in-law of the emperor, admired her (he saw her the year following the end of my story, when he was on his way to take command of the fleet against the younger Pompey), and that he would gladly have made her his wife. Fortunately for her his friends had a more splendid alliance in view for him, and Rhodium, who had not been particularly flattered by his preference, though he was a brave soldier and an honest man, was left to obscurity and happiness. The younger Lucius never took any part in public affairs, beyond being senator and in due course prætor of Tarentum; but he did his duty to his generation by a wise and liberal management of the great wealth which ultimately came into his hands. Our old friend the pirate-gardener ended his days in the house at Tarentum. His garden outside the walls became too much for him, and he let it for a handsome rent, not without many groans over the incapable way in which he was sure it would be managed by his tenant. But to the day of his death he was never too feeble to tend the shrubs and flowers in the open court of the mansion. He had the honor of having his epitaph written by Virgil, but unhappily both it and the inscription over his gate have been lost.


Today I successfully passed the 70-562 exam. I must admit that it was a challenge, and the time spent with preparation was more than useful. I earned 810 points of the available 1000, but it was more than enough to pass the 700 points limit.
As I suggested yesterday, you should definitely try and buy the MeasureUp package. The questions on the exam were rather similar. And be sure to read MSDN all day and night. I did so when I published these posts, but stumbled into classes and properties which I've never heard before. Anyway, at least they made the exam more than exciting.
You should be familiar with AJAX, the AJAX application services, and events. Be sure you understand the different IIS hosting models, and you are able to tell under which identity under a process runs (and on what this depends). Know how to set up and consume a WCF service, and understand ADO.NET. That was my weakest area, so currently I'm considering the ADO.NET MCTS exam (and the WCF one, too).
That's all for now, I'll post again when I know what will be my next exam.
When I search blogs for Microsoft Certifications (and even on the Microsoft Learning site), I constantly stumble into the name of MeasureUp. They say you should buy their tests, and don't enroll to the exam unless you beat the test with a score of 100%, twice.
I must confess that I bought the sample test for 70-562, and failed so hard on the first time (when I considered myself as nearly ready) that I felt I must postpone my exam. So did I. But that was a month ago, and now, when I finished learning (some posts will come a bit later, I'm currently concentrating on the weak areas), I did that 100 per cent. Immediately after that I retook the test to see whether I can beat it again, and yes, I could (and did it for the third time in a row, just to make sure).
The point isn't that I am so cool, but that all those blog entries and advices where right, you definitely should try and buy the MeasureUp questions in order to see some real hard stuff (the questions provided with the training kit can't even be compared with the ones at MeasureUp). And even better, there are not just a single A or D as an answer, but explanations, sometimes paragraphs long. And from these explanations, I have (and you'll) learned a lot.
So try it! It's worth that money (and search for Coupon Codes on their site, to save more).
My exam is coming soon, I'll write a little about it when I'm through.
There are two types of caching available in ASP.NET: page output caching and data caching. From the two, page output caching is the easier to use, so let's start with that one.
Duration: the time in seconds to cache the page.
Location: doesn't supported in UserControls.
Shared: sets whether or not the cached user control should be used in multiple pages.
SqlDependency: a table in a database on which the caching depends on.
VarByHeader: a semicolon-separated list of HTTP headers to cache different versions of the page.
VarByParam: a semicolon-separated list of query string parameters to cache different versions of the page.
VarByControl: a semicolon-separated list of control IDs to cache different versions of the page.
In today's post, we'll explore the various state management techniques ASP.NET provides. But first we need to underline the fact several times that HTTP is a stateless protocol. Being so, it provides huge scalability, but the programmers need to find some ways to store data (even forms) between page requests.
Now I'd like to examine the first six, because I plan to give the topic of caching a full post, and profiles are a bit different from the others.
In yesterday's posts, we examined how to retrieve and process data from a database with the help of ADO.NET. Today, we take a look at the third major area of ADO.NET: XML.
I'll not going to describe LINQ to XML, since it isn't covered in the exam, and even when you work with LINQ to XML, you'll still need to know the basics of ADO.NET to perform for example basic XML data binding.
In the previous post, we discovered the connected layer of ADO.NET, namely the Command, Connection, DataReader classes. In this post, I'd like to review the disconnected layer of ADO.NET. The main classes are the DataSet and the various DataAdapter classes in this layer. But when should we use this one?


Can anyone shed light on the Olympus 2 year warranty if you sell on the goods you bought. Reason I ask is that I contacted SRSMicrosystems re purchasing a 620 and the possibility of a trade in of my 410 which has 7 months warranty left - I bought it in June 2008. I was told by SRS staff that the warranty is not transferrable - even if you supply the original receipt.
So what happens to all the items bought as presents?
I thought the warranty applied to the goods rather than the owner.
Hi Jamie have you tried ffordes for a trade in price?
Thanks for the suggestion. I only asked SRS because their selling price of the 620 was the best I could find - if you include the grip. I think I'd sell the 410 on ebay - if I were to sell it - as the prices there seem better. My son is still deciding if he wants to move up from a bridge camera to a DSLR. He can see the difference in quality of image - even my images - but is reluctant to get too techie with a camera yet.
Apparently you have to include a statement along with the gift and receipt, eg: 'Merry Xmas - An Olympus E620 with all of my Sale of Goods Acts Rights.' The recipient then has all the legal rights of the original purchaser.
Santa merely acts as a third party gift broker and delivery agency between the supplier (The Elves) and the final recipient of said goods and is therefore not subject to the Sale of Goods Act.
However, failure to deliver the correct goods at the stipulated time could leave him open to breach of contract.
Firstly disclaimer IANAL. But the following I believe to be true.
Assumption - goods are bought by an individual acting as a consumer from a seller acting in the course of a business.
One needs to distinguish between statutory consumer rights and those gained by the supply of a guarantee/warranty.
In the case of the former the contract is made between the buyer and seller (the parties to the contract). If the goods are intended as a gift then the buyer should make this clear to the seller in writing making the recipient a party. Only parties to the contract have rights under the SoGA.
In the case of a manufacturer's warranty (for which there is no statutory requirement) the terms of the warranty are as written. To check whether the Oly 2 year warranty is transferable one would need to read it.
Unfortunately the 2 year warranty cannot be transferred from owner to owner.