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Looking to go boating on Lake St. Clair? Here's the history and highlights.
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Pete Beauregard has a special place in his heart for Lake St. Clair. But, perhaps that's to be expected of a Southeast Michigan guy who's made a career out of helping folks get on the water.
Beauregard is the president of Colony Marine, a family-owned boat sales and marina operator company that's been doing business in Metro Detroit for more than half a century. And, as he sees it, recreational boating in the region has a lot going for it.
"I don't think that there's another place in the world that can boast what this area's got as far as the number of marinas, as far as the number of yacht clubs in the area, the canal homes," says Beauregard. "It's a lifestyle that this area is really known for."
The businessman attributes Southeast Michigan's boating fever in part to Lake St. Clair's prime location; it's smack dab in the middle of Lake Huron and Lake Erie, granting access to the wider Great Lakes and the waters surrounding the Eastern seaboard. Beyond that, he feels the area's climate naturally encourages people's interest.
"Folks that boat in Florida, they get it year round and the novelty kind of wears off. Whereas here in Michigan with the four seasons, [when] you're sitting in the house all winter long you've got cabin fever," says Beauregard. "So every spring, that passion comes back with a vengeance!"
Recreational boating has a deep history in Southeast Michigan, one that Beauregard's business has definitely helped to shape. Colony Marine is Southeast Original Colony Marine dealership Michigan's largest boat dealer, with several locations offering a wide range of models and sizes of boats all the way up to 75-footers. The company also operates three marinas—two in Algonac and one in St. Clair Shores—featuring a total of more than 950 boat slips.
Beuregard's grandfather launched the business with his father in 1958, using the proceeds from the sale of their shares in a St. Clair Shores harbor to buy a Chris-Craft boat dealership. Their business was originally known as Colony Chris-Craft, but as more boat brands were added to their inventory, the company simply became Colony Marine. Over the years, the business expanded, becoming so successful that it eventually bought the Algonac Harbour Club, the site of the original Chris-Craft factory.
The significance of that isn't lost on Beauregard, who notes that Chris Craft's role in recreational boat manufacturing is comparable to the one Ford played in the early automotive industry.
Chris-Craft was a major innovator in recreational boating manufacturing, playing a role
"The major manufacturers in the industry, they all started right here in Michigan," he says. "Chris-Craft started in Algonac. Sea Ray that became the giant in the industry through the '70s, '80s, and '90s started in Oxford. Four Winns started in Cadillac. Michigan and Lake St. Clair itself is really where the whole pleasure boating industry started and being part of that is pretty cool!"
Party on Lake St. Clair.Making a Splash
There's no doubt that boating is a big deal in Southeast Michigan these days. In fact, Oakland, Wayne, and Macomb County, are the top three counties for boat registrations right now in the state of Michigan.
While Macomb might technically come third on that list, Nicki Polan, executive director of the Michigan Boating Industries Association (MBIA), believes that many of those who are registered in those counties are probably keeping their boats at Macomb County marinas.
Known for its access to the region's waterways, Macomb is home to more than 16,000 boat slips, most of which are concentrated in Harrison Township, St. Clair Shores, Chesterfield Township, and New Baltimore. Beyond that, boating is also The Nautical Mile in St. Clair Shores deeply ingrained into daily life in Macomb and other communities surrounding the lake.
"If you drive along the lake, you see restaurants, ship stores, service companies, fueling stations, and convenience stores, all geared toward boating and boaters," says Polan. The Nautical Mile [in St. Clair Shores] is a great example of a community that is super focused on boating but you will see this all along the coast all the way up to Algonac and probably on the Canadian side as well."
As for the kinds of boats found on Lake St. Clair, Polan believes cruisers and fishing vessels like bass boats, center console boats and other aluminum and fiberglass boats are probably the most common, though pontoon boats have been growing more popular in recent years. Because the lake is big and the winds there can be very strong, she cautions those using smaller boats to be careful and appraised of the weather before they head out.
In addition to the cultural significance of boating in the region, the pastime also carries a sizable economic punch. Michigan is the third largest marine market in the entire country. And recreational boating, specifically, has a $7.8 billion annual impact on the state's economy, generated by a combination of manufacturers, boat dealers, marinas, and other businesses. Similarly the industry offers a bunch of well-paying in-demand career opportunities in fields like marine technology, marketing, finance, sales and service. Those interested in a career on the water can enroll in a five-week Marine Tech training program at Macomb Community College, that the MBIA helped launch.
For those looking into getting into recreational boating, the National Marine Manufacturers Association has created the website DiscoverBoating.com, which offers a wealth of information about purchasing a boat and getting on the water. Local dealers are another important resource for helping consumers find the boat that is right for them.
The MBIA also sponsors three annual boat shows: the Detroit Boat Show, Novi Boat Show and the in–the-water Progressive Metro Boat Show. These shows provide a convenient one-stop-shopping option to buy a boat and also offer opportunities for education and networking.
This year's Metro Boat show will be taking place Sept. 16-19 at Lake St. Clair Metro Park. Polan encourages anyone who's interested in boating to stop by and check it out.
"This is a beautiful outdoor, in-water boat show where you can see boating of all types on land and in-water," she says. "It is a great opportunity to meet with marine businesses, learn about new products and services, plan your boating excursions, and have some fun."
All kinds of boats can be found on Lake St. Clair.
Getting on the Water
For those who don't own a watercraft (or have a friend with one), there are still some options they can take advantage of to experience the rush of taking a boat on Lake St. Clair. One of the best ways to get a feeling for it is to charter a boat for a day.
Charter operations are businesses that rent our sailing and motorized water vessels for a period of time. Chartered boats come in all shapes and sizes and people rent them for a variety of purposes. The online boat rental and yacht charter marketplace site Sailo estimates renting a yacht in the Detroit area can cost anywhere from $250 for a somewhat budget-friendly day excursion to up to $6,500 for a trip on a luxury liner. Prices for other types of vessels vary.
H20 Limos is a local charter that's been in business for 15 years now. According to H20 Limos owner Christopher Kourtakis, the company gets all kinds of different clients.
"It's a bit of everything," he says. "I do weekday rentals, and I had a bunch of older guys that used to fish once or twice a week. The majority of the rentals are families. ONe family has been renting for five years, they drop anchor with the kids, fix dinner, and have a great day on the lake."
Kourtakis, who used to work for a boat manufacturer, got the idea for his business after a friend asked to borrow his company boat for a bachelor party. He kept getting follow-up requests, so he decided to launch his own charter, renting boats at first until he had enough capital to buy his own vessels. Today H20 Limos has three boats: a 27-foot Boston Whaler for smaller excursions; a 51-foot Sea Ray that can host a party of up to 12 people; and a 65-foot Nolan that can accommodate up to 70 passengers and is often used for corporate outings. Each of them are crewed by Kourtakis himself or one of his three other captains.
At times when the boats aren't rented out, H20 Limos also sponsors events like wine tastings and cigar parties. The company also offers a variety of training and boat safety classes. Having run the charter for over a decade-and-a-half Kourtakis couldn't be happier with the work his company is doing.
For more consistent access to boats, there's also the Freedom Boat Club, a national membership-based club with more than 300 franchises all over the country. Lake St. Clair franchise, which opened in 2016, operates three marinas, based in St. Clair Shores, Harrison Township, and the city of Detroit.
To join, members pay a one-time entrance fee and then a monthly fee for as long as they want to be a part of the club. Those interested in joining don't even have to be that familiar with watercraft, as the club trains members in everything they need to know about operating about and navigating waterways from licensed captains.
Jared Irwin, manager of the Southeast Michigan clubs describes the business model as a cross between a country club and a time-share property.
"You have access to brand new boats whenever you want to go tubing, fishing, snorkeling, hang out in the bay and go restaurant-hopping, whatever you want to do," he says. "You reserve the boats and you can do it all day from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. You can do it all over the country as well."
Members have a variety of different types of boats they can choose to reserve, including Tritoons, Center Console, and RInkers. They also get reciprocal access to 285 other Freedom Boat Club locations in the United States, Canada, and France. Though it's worth noting that COVID-restrictions are still in place, which may limit access to international ports. And for those who might fret about maintenance, storage, and insurance, all those things are all covered through the monthly membership fee.
"The best part about being in the club is the hassle-free experience we provide," says Irwin. "You know that you're going to go boating and enjoy the water."
Lake St. Clair famed fishing waters attract people from all over.
'Circling the Lake'
When it comes to spreading the word about boating on Lake St. Clair, Steve Remias is something of an expert. He's the chairman of the Lake St. Clair Tourism Initiative, a nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness about the lake and protecting its natural assets. Founded a little over a decade ago, the initiative worked with Macomb County to install "Circle The Lake Tour" signs around the lake's shoreline and maintains the tourlakestclair.org website.
From Remias' perspective tourism on Lake St. Clair had been on the upswing for many years, and despite the pandemic, it's in a pretty good spot right now.
"Tourism from a [wider] regional standpoint obviously slowed down a bit with COVID," he says. "But boating use, lake use, marina use, I would say it's at an all time high. Families were looking for something they could still, so retail boat sales took off."
While general tourism from other parts of Michigan and the Great Lakes States may have relaxed a little, there has been increased interest, especially internationally, from the pro-fishing community. In 2018, Lake St. Clair ranked at the top of the list for all-species fishing and fourth place for bass specifically in a Bassmaster Magazine poll of 100 best fishing lakes in the United States. It's also been a consistent location for major bass tournaments over the last decade.
Another draw to the lake are the various events that take place throughout the year, which include uninhibited on-the-lake parties like the Jobbie Nooner and more athletically inclined get-togethers like Sprint and Splash, a running/kayaking/paddleboarding event held at Lake St. Clair Metropark. The Lake St. Clair Tourism Initiative has an interactive events section on its website. The nonprofit is also working on a new app that will help users find events and other noteworthy attractions on the lake, which should be available this August..
As for highlights on the water, Remias suggests checking out the views along the shores of Detroit and Harsens Island, St. Clair Shores Nautical Mile. He's hesitant to provide a thorough checklist, however, remarking that discovering what the lake has to offer is really one of its greatest delights.
"I almost don't want to say, 'Here is your itinerary,"because if you just decide to travel around and have fun, you're going to experience something memorable," he says. "Explore Lake St. Clair, you will not regret it!"
The Macomb Parks & Trails series seeks to capture the story of the outdoor recreation, greenspace, placemaking and emerging outdoor assets that are shaping Macomb County's future. It's made possible with funding from Macomb County.
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Samsung, Vodafone launch first 5G open RAN site in UK
A Samsung flag flutters at the company's Seocho building in Seoul on Jan. 7. (AFP-Yonhap)
Samsung Electronics said Thursday that the Korean tech giant and UK's telecom carrier Vodafone have launched the first fifth-generation open radio access network site in the UK.
Supported by Samsung's virtualized RAN solutions, Europe's first scaled commercial open RAN project built on Vodafone's architecture enabled the first virtual call on the open RAN infrastructure between Vodafone and UK government officials on Jan. 11.
The deployment marks a milestone following Vodafone's decision in June to select Samsung as one of the key partners to launch at least 2,500 open RAN sites, including the first site located in Bath, United Kingdom, in an apparent move by Vodafone to reduce its reliance on Chinese telecom firm Huawei.
Open RAN is considered a next-generation wireless telecommunication standard, allowing a more diverse and flexible vendor ecosystem allowing for smaller firms to have increased access to the network. This is thanks to a separation of hardware and software, with a hosting software that controls networks and with open interfaces.
This is unlike traditional RAN technology, where only a select network equipment and service suppliers have exclusive access to the wireless network sites on an integrated platform of hardware and software.
The deployment will "help deliver the benefits of our carrier-grade 5G vRAN solutions to millions of Vodafone UK customers," Thomas Riedel, Head of Samsung Networks Europe at Samsung Electronics, said in a statement.
"Through our accumulated commercial 5G vRAN experience with leading operators across major markets globally, we look forward to pushing the boundaries of technological innovation and supporting the 5G journey across Europe."
This will lay a cornerstone for a further collaboration between Samsung and Vodafone.
According to Samsung, the two companies will test Samsung vRAN's performance metrics and its equipment's compliance with open RAN specifications, as well as network technologies to assign time-frequency resources to accommodate users of both 4G and 5G network, and to boost 5G performance by combining resources of 4G and 5G.
Samsung has worked with telecom service providers across the world, such as Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and US Cellular, as well as Japan's NTT Docomo and KDDI, Canada's Telus, Videotron and SaskTel, among others, as a vendor to supply 5G wireless network equipment.
Samsung was the sixth-largest telecom equipment vendor in the world with some 3 percent market share by revenue from January to September last year, trailing Huawei, Nokia, Ericsson, ZTE and Cisco, according to market researcher Dell'Oro in December.
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Dear readers, allow me to enter the foray of work-clothing advice. I feel there is mass confusion on the topic and that it is high time to restore decorum and common-sense.
As readers of my blog know, I take a relatively conservative stance on dress. This is for various reasons, including my aristocratic tendencies. However, beyond my predilections for old dress, there is a value to a well-constructed wardrobe that encourages a professional image and demands respect.
The point with a business wardrobe is to be at the point where respect and practicality meet. This allows your wardrobe to be comfortable and yet functional as you enforce the image of competency you project with your daily actions.
To this effect, because many people of my generation (and following generations) have grown up dressing extremely casually, it appears that a general guide may be of use to avoid a number of pitfalls that I have observed or had mentioned to me over the last few years.
To begin, let's also remember that in every industry, there are varying expectations. In construction, you will likely wish to focus on clothing that protects you, in fashion you may get away with more artsy/whimsical outfits, and some places are just generally more laid back.
However, for the purposes of this guide, we will assume you work in a more conservative office and that your superiors would appreciate you showing up in something beyond a t-shirt and shorts paired with flipflops. Just because this is 2012, doesn't mean you can wear the outfit that would be ok in a club or your dorm lounge to the office. If your office is more modern/casual, you can still apply some of the tips to spruce up your business classiness.
I'm going to break this into tips for both men and women (the women's guide will be posted soon once I have finished reviewing it). The fashion crimes aren't always the same, but invariably, there are points to be made. This guide is also meant as a starting point, as once you master the basics, you will learn how you can be more creative and stretch the rules in good ways. I like to add extra color to my wardrobe in the summer, but I try to make sure it's within the guidelines of a well put together outfit.
Shorts. Are you in the Bahamas? If not, don't do it.
Wife beater / sleeveless undershirts. Ideally, we should not see your undershirt too much. A wife beater style shirt is extremely obvious and unflattering. Also, I assume you know that undershirts should be worn under a dress/sport shirt.
Ill-fitting clothing / baggy clothing / clothing that sags below the hips. I'm sure you like your underwear just as much as we like not having to see it in public.
Clothing with holes. Nobody cares how on-trend you are. You look like an idiot.
Excessively tight trousers. I don't want to know how big your wallet is or if you're turned on by the girl you're talking to.
Excessively wrinkled clothing. I get that you didn't have time to iron--don't make it look like you scrunched it up and sat on it for a week before deciding to pull it out to wear.
Belts + Suspenders = huge fashion crime. Pick one or the either, please.
Pre-tied bow ties. I gentleman knows how to tie his own bow ties and neck ties (clip-ons and pre-tied bow ties are for children). It's not hard, there are plenty of guides available online. Also, practice makes perfect, so do it a few times so you're ready when you need it!
T-shirts are underwear. If you're wearing a t-shirt and it isn't an undershirt, you're probably too casual for more traditional office environments. Showing up with a comic book hero on your torso, probably isn't a great move if you want to impress.
GQ Magazine: If your office is more traditional, be careful with some of their trend ideas (most offices will not be pleased to see you wearing lace-ups with a suit and no socks). Otherwise, you can use some of their creative tips. Personally, I prefer Esquire Magazine when it comes to style (or better yet, classic men's fashion blogs and forums such as Ask Andy About Clothes).
Buy non-ironed dress shirts. These will save you time and money.
Hang your shirts, trousers, and suit coats/blazers/sportcoats. This will prevent/reduce wrinkles. Some items may even lose their wrinkles if you hang them properly for a long enough time.
Get a travel steamer. These are great, because you can arrive at a destination with wrinkled up clothes from your suitcase and emerge shortly afterwards looking nicely pressed. Also, they are safe to use on wool and silks, unlike irons. Very handy!
Buy clothing in your size. Don't guess. Get someone to measure you at a proper men's retailer and help you find your exact size.
Find a Tailor / Have Alterations Made. When the clothing isn't exactly your size, get it taken in, you will look great. Work clothing isn't meant to automatically fit your body off the rack, some of it will need adjustment.
Buy natural fibers when possible. The lower the synthetic content, the better your clothes will feel and look. Want to know who is wearing polyester? Look for the guy with lint balls on his trousers.
Wear the right undershirt. If you're wearing a tie or bow tie, wear a crew neck undershirt. If you're wearing a dress shirt without a tie, wear a V-neck undershirt. The point is to make it less obvious. Also, undershirts help protect your dress shirts from sweat stains, helps them stay cleaner longer, and gives them increased life.
Buy quality clothing. Remember, it's not having lots of clothes that matters. It's having clothes that are worth being seen in that matters. Additionally, if your clothing is constantly wearing out, it will cost you more money having to replace them continually than if you got something that was well constructed in the first place. If you can't afford a large wardrobe, start with a few essential pieces that you can pair with different accessories.
Essential pieces: Navy/dark grey suit/slacks, tan slacks are nice too (good for summer, and providing extra color in your wardrobe), navy blazer (goes well with most color trousers except navy and black), white dress shirts (long sleeves!), etc.
Leather shoes. Dress shoes should generally be leather. If you can get them with leather soles too, you will find they look even more classy. Leather soles wear evenly and therefore don't look like the keels of boats once you've been wearing a pair for a while. The drawback is that they wear faster than rubber soles.
Match your colors! Socks should normally match your trousers. Belts should generally match your shoes. Ideally your pocket square (should you wear one) should be complementary to your tie, but not the exact same pattern. Try to keep from wearing conflicting patterns that cause a dizzying effect. Make sure you have sufficient contrast and that your colors look good next to each other. Also: black and navy trousers/blazers do NOT go together.
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POLICE TO ENFORCE OF SECTION 291 OF CHAPTER 171 OF THE LAWS OF SVG, REVISED EDITION, 2009
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The Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force (RSVGPF) commends the citizens of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) who have been complying with the COVID-19 protocols that have been implemented by the Government of SVG to combat and contain the spread of the coronavirus in the multi-island state.
The RSVGPF has noted that while the vast majority of persons have been wearing a facemask as advised by the authorities, there are those who chose not to; especially some conductors working on public omnibuses.
The coronavirus is highly contagious and very deadly. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the coronavirus has alreadly killed over two million persons globally, including two persons in SVG.
In light of this, the RSVGPF strongly encourages all citizens, including omnibus drivers, conductors and passengers to wear a facemask in an effort to reduce the spread of the coronavirus.
Considering this, the RSVGPF wishes to inform the public that it is a criminal offence to negligently engage in activities that can cause the spread of any infectious or contagious disesase in SVG. According to section 291 Chapter 171 of the Revised Edition of the Laws of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 2009. Section 291 states "Any person who unlawfully or negligently does any act which he knows, or has reason to believe, to be likely to cause the spread of any infectious or contagious disease, is guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for one year."
The RSVGPF further informs that the police have the power to enforce this piece of legislation and will, if it becomes necessary so to do. Consequently, the RSVGPF strongly encourage all persons to wear a facemask.
Elma Gabriel-Mayers on January 29, 2021 1:51 PM
What took them (the Government) so long to enforce this legislation? Leaders must 'LEAD by example'.


Wendy McCleave, from Wales, asks: I've noticed a real buzz about German Pinot Noir recently. Which are the best regions, and can you recommend a few producers who make great, reasonably priced wines?
Anne Krebiehl MW, for Decanter, replies: Yes, Spätburgunder, as Pinot Noir is called in Germany, is receiving more and more (well-deserved) attention and becoming more widely distributed in the UK and elsewhere.
You might not guess it, but Germany is the world's third largest producer of Pinot Noir, according to the German Wine Institute.
A German Pinot Noir, Jean Stodden's Spätburgunder Alte Reben, Ahr 2010, topped Decanter's search for the best Pinot outside Burgundy in 2016.
Read more about German Pinot Noir and find top recommendations in the November 2017 issue of Decanter.
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Total Wine in the US also stocks German Pinot Noir. Wherever you live, it's always a good idea to speak to your local independent merchant.
More and more wines from young, ambitious producers who have yet to make their name are being shipped beyond Germany's borders, which should be well in reach of a clued-up independent retailer or merchant.
Anne Krebiehl MW is a wine writer, educator, consultant and judge.


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Lights and shadows on the accident of the Russian nuclear submarine Losharik
(To Andrea Gaspardo)
During the 2 July 2019, the main news agencies around the world circulated the news that an accident had involved a diving unit belonging to the Russian navy and that on board the submarine involved had registered victims. Some even went so far as to claim that the unit in question sank in a similar way to the August 12 2000 with the "K-141 Kursk" submarine.
Several days after the accident, and being able to count on better quality news, it is now possible to draw a different picture than the first frantic and fragmented news. However, it is necessary to state right now that the events that have taken place over the past few days show striking "shadow cones" that deserve to be analyzed in detail. First of all, the submarine affected by the accident is a sort of "legend" among the fans of the world of the abyss: the "Project 210 AS-12 Losharik" the last and most advanced "submarine-spy"Entered service with the Russian navy.
At the end of the "Cold War" and after having studied for years the successes achieved by the Americans in the field of "spy submarines" and for special uses, the Soviets decided to bridge the existing gap with the naval forces of their adversary countries by means of the introduction of new types of submarines. The first of these new classes was the "Project 1910 Kashalot" ("Uniform Class" according to the word NATO), the first true Soviet "spy submarines" dedicated. It is not clear how many have actually entered service since, originally, they were designed as a class of exemplary 3, but according to some sources they were made 2 (their identification code is not even certain since the names were proposed " AS-12 "," AS-13 "," AS-15 "," AS-16 "and" AS-17 "depending on the sources).
In any case, the introduction of these 2-3 submarines, starting with the 1986, has allowed the then Soviet navy to acquire considerable experience in the field of both underwater research and underwater espionage (after all, this type of unit is so flexible that it can be used both for military and scientific research operations) as well as preparing technical specifications for those who would later become their "successors".
The new submarines for espionage and scientific research arrived in the early '90 (when the Soviet Union no longer existed) in the form of the "Project 1851.1 X-Ray" class, built in a single copy, and in the "Project 1083.1 Paltus "made instead in 2 specimens. Finally, the last "purchase" of the series was precisely the "AS-12 Losharik" (in the first photos), also made only in one specimen.
The types of missions formulated for this "flotilla" of 6-7 units ranged from the operations of pure and simple scientific research, to recognition towards selected strategic targets, to real operations in "James Bond 007" style against submarine cables located in NATO territorial waters.
Given the confidential nature of the types of missions entrusted to submarines forming part of this particular "flotilla" it is not difficult to understand why the authorities have always remained "very buttoned up" about the performance, purpose and danger of such operations. Not only that, to protect the secrecy of these units, the Soviets first and then the Russians went so far as to create a special base used exclusively to serve the "flotilla" of spy submarines and their dedicated auxiliary vehicles. This base is located in Olenya Guba, a remote and forgotten place by God (even in a remote place like the extreme north of Russia!) With minimal infrastructure, among which, however, stands a huge "shed" literally positioned in the water, whose purpose is to host the "spy submarines" indoors and away from the prying eyes of the NATO rebirth satellites.
As stated before, the most mysterious of all these means is the "Losharik", set in the 1988, but entered into service only in the 2003 after a very long planning and construction process. Of the "Losharik" there are not even complete photos that show the hull in its entirety, only a few photographs that are quite blurred. What is known for sure, however, is that the hull was built using unconventional techniques; in fact the inner part of the same is divided into 7 "spheres" (and not in a single "corridor" as it is with all the other submarines of the world). The choice of this particular "arrangement" is due to the fact that the structure obtained is much more resistant both to pressure and to possible attacks by enemy vehicles, even if the narrow spaces thus obtained certainly do not help the liveability of the boat by of the crewmen. In any case, thanks to this ingenious invention, it seems that the "Losharik" is able to dive below 1000 meters (some sources even speak of 2000!) So the hull is able to withstand very high stresses.
As for the composition of the "crew sailors" then, there are plenty of surprises. Officially, in fact, the crew of the "Losharik" is made up of 25 men, which however can be increased in the case of particularly risky operations. One thing that impressed outside observers is the fact that among the 14 victims officially caused by the accident, 12 were captains and among them was the commander of the unit, Denis Dolonskiy. This confirms the previous rumors according to which the crew of the "Losharik" is composed solely of highly selected graduates and specialists.
Another key feature when talking about the "Losharik" and its predecessors is the ability to deploy in the operational theater. In fact, while the 2-3 "Kashalot" are submarines of quite considerable dimensions, and therefore able to reach their goals on the high seas or on enemy coasts without having to rely on any help, the same is not true of the specimens smaller.
Both the "X-Ray" and the two "Paltus" that also the "Losharik", in fact, have too small dimensions to stay in the sea for a prolonged period of time, therefore they need the help of a bigger "submarine-mother" that literally "transports" the smallest "spy submarines" into the theater of operations and retrieves them later at the end of the operation (even if the "Losharik" would have the theoretical ability to complete even autonomous missions, even if not for too large a distance from the motherland and in any case not for excessively long periods of time).
The first of these submarines (now laid up in decommissioned and dismantled) was the "Yankee Stretch KS-411 Orenburg" obtained from an original "Yankee class" which was then extensively modified by removing the ballistic missile section and replacing it with a fairing designed to "accommodate" in the "belly of the hull" the smaller spy submarine in the same way as the "mother kangaroo" does.
Then came the introduction of the "BS-136 Orenburg" (previous photo) of the "Delta III class" and infinite of the "BS-64 Podmoskovye" of the "Delta IV class". Summing up then, the "flotilla" of the "spy submarines" available today to the Russian navy, all based in Olenya Guba, is composed of 1 submarine of the "X-Ray" class, 2 submarines of the "Paltus" class, 1 submarine of the class "Losharik" and 2 "submarines-mother" (the already mentioned "BS-136 Orenburg" and "BS-64 Podmoskovye") obtained through the conversion of 1 submarine ballistic missile launchers of the "Delta III class" and 1 submarine launcher missile ballistics of the "Delta IV class", while it seems that the 2-3 submarines of the "Kashalot class" have been laid up or in reserve.
The tasks assigned to this "flotilla" concern both scientific research and military intelligence, in particular the positioning of instrumentation for listening to communications on cables belonging to the global submarine network. In the event of armed conflict, the "flotilla" could also carry out sabotage operations against underwater cables of particular strategic importance. And this fact brings us back to the dramatic 1 incident in July. According to the official reconstruction in fact, the fire broke out at 8.30 in the evening (Moscow time) starting from the battery compartment and was finally tamed by the crew at the price of heavy losses (including the aforementioned commander). Around the 9.30 (a circumstance confirmed by some local fishermen), the submarine emerged on the surface in the waters of the Ura bay and was then towed to the Severomorsk base (photo) by a Russian navy ship and two tugs. Once arrived in port, 5 seriously injured sailors would have been taken to the hospital while the operations of securing the reactor and the unit as a whole would have begun; operations that the Russian defense minister Sergey Shoigu would have announced as "Successfully completed" in the following three days.
However, there are obvious inconsistencies in the official version presented by the Russian authorities:
First: the fact that the "Losharik" has re-emerged at 9.30, a full hour after the start of the fire on board is simply nonsense. The security and risk containment procedures of submarine forces around the world provide that, in the event of an accident, the affected unit will immediately re-emerge to allow the eventual evacuation of the crew. Furthermore, it is much easier to fight a fire on board when on the surface than when you are diving;
second: due to the death of 14 men and the serious injury of other 5, the 6 members still "able" would have had very serious difficulties managing a submarine of tonnage, however, quite important without receiving any kind of help, and this also taking into account that the "Losharik" is a medium characterized by high automation. Moreover, if it is true that, in order to contain the fire, the commander has isolated an entire section of the submarine, it is likely that the "surviving" sailors could not in any case have access to the whole vehicle;
third: why were two tugs and a warship needed to tow a submarine that once emerged weighs 1600 tons (certainly not a "featherweight" but not even a "colossus")?
The author of this analysis was able to obtain 2 photographs taken in the Severomorsk base of the 3 in July in the mooring area reserved for submarines and, to great surprise, he was able to ascertain that the underwater unit therein is not the "AS -12 Losharik ", but one of the two" submarines-mother ", the" BS-64 Podmoskovye "! And this explains many things giving us the opportunity to formulate an alternative theory.
It is possible (here the condition is a must) that the "BS-64 Pormoskovye" was carrying the "AS-12 Losharik" hooked to the lower fairing for what should have been a long distance operation, probably in Norwegian waters (the bay of Ura where officially occurred the accident is located near the Norwegian territorial waters, to avoid misunderstandings). At some point, something must have gone wrong and a fire developed aboard the "spy submarine", a fire that the crews of the two submarines managed to tame despite the price of serious losses.
It is possible that, at the time of the accident, the "AS-12 Losharik" had recently detached from the "BS-64 Podmoskovye" and that everything had happened within the Norwegian territorial waters. In this delicate situation, the crew of the "Losharik" would have had to first sound the alarm to the brothers of the "Podmoskovye", then maneuver to hang up the two submarines and finally the two crews would have given battle to the fire bringing themselves back at the same time of Russian territorial waters where they could re-emerge and launch the SOS in command of the navy. This would explain the one-hour interval between the start of the fire and the emergence in the bay of Ura. At this point, even the use of three naval units to tow the unfortunates to the base would make sense given that the "BS-64 Podmoskovye" is a "beast" from 11.700 tons (not counting the "ballast" of the 1600 tons of " Russian submarine Losharik ").
As for the testimony of the fishermen, they probably simply reported having seen a submarine in difficulty, given that they are unlikely to have technical knowledge such as to recognize a submarine compared to another, especially if it is a secret unit like the "Russian submarine Losharik".
The emphasis with which Shoigu spoke of "making nuclear material safe" would be justified, given that the two submarines accommodated 3 nuclear reactors on the whole (2 of the VM4-SG model on the mother submarine and 1 of the E model -17 on the spy submarine). Finally this would also explain why the "Losharik" is not visible in the photographs anchored to Severomosk together with the "Podmoskovye"; the "spy submarine" would in fact still be hooked to the hull of the "submarine-mother" precisely to remove it from prying eyes. At the conclusion of this important examination of the "flotilla" of the Russian "spy submarines" and of the accident that occurred in recent days, we can say that:
Russia has an important supply of submarines suitable for performing highly classified missions with a considerable potential impact;
the incident showed that technical safety is never guaranteed to 100%, especially in prohibitive situations such as the depths of the oceans;
the crews of the two submarines involved deserve praise anyway because, despite the price of serious losses, they managed to manage a complex and potentially catastrophic situation with extreme professionalism and spirit of sacrifice.
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Q: Remote Powershell Connection to Exchange using a managed service account Is there a way to use a managed service account (msDS-GroupManagedServiceAccount) to connect to Exchange via Powershell? Our scenario is as follows:
We have a service component written in c# that connects to Exchange via Remote Powershell. The service component runs as a managed service account.
The call to New-PSSession is as follows:

New-PSSession
-Configurationname Microsoft.Exchange
-ConnectionUri "http://server/powershell"
-Authentication Kerberos
-AllowRedirection
-ErrorAction Stop

As you can see, a credential is not specified so the credential that is sent to the Exchange server is the credential of the current user (which seems to work when looking at the returned errormesage).
The result is the following error:

Processing data from remote server  failed with the following error message:
[ClientAccessServer=...,BackEndServer=...,RequestId=...,TimeStamp=...]
[AuthZRequestId=6c727005-565b-4019-855f-657ae6b86ee7][FailureCategory=AuthZ-CmdletAccessDeniedException]
The operation couldn't be performed because 'domain\account$' couldn't be found.

domain\account$ shows the correct login of the managed service account.
The eventlog of the exchangeserver also states:

Source: "MSExchange RBAC", Event ID: 16):
(Process w3wp.exe, PID 8980)
"RBAC authorization returns Access Denied for user domain\account$ (SID=S-...).
Reason: User was not found on Domain Controller XYZ.

I currently suspect, that the RBAC "component" explicitly looks for objects of type 'user' in Active Directory but not for msDS-GroupManagedServiceAccount objects so I wonder if this is supported at all.

A: No, a Managed Service Account is local to the host you define it on. Windows 2012 introduced gMSA which can be used on multiple hosts. You may have better luck using one of them. Also, you have to grant the account the correct permissions/RBAC roles depending on the commandlets you need to run.

A: I have the same problem and found a statement by Microsoft:
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The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of four additional deaths related to COVID-19.
There has been a total of 4,918 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
As of midnight, Thursday, May 6, the HPSC has been notified of 434 confirmed cases of COVID-19.
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467,471 people have received their second dose
Dr Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health said: "Next week we will see many more business open which means employees and customers will return to work and our economy will begin to restart in earnest.
"This is a very positive sign and a testament to the hard work of the vast majority in supressing incidence of disease in our communities.
"It is extremely important that business owners, employees and customers take great care and review safety protocols and practices and ensure to consider all the actions we can all take as individuals to protect ourselves and our loved ones.
"Only return to the workplace if it is necessary to do so. Continue to wear a mask, practice social distancing, good hand hygiene and cough etiquette.
"If you feel unsafe in a crowded environment feel empowered to turn around and go home.
"If you are a business owner or an an employer, remember that you have a duty of care to those that work for you.
"Reopening responsibly will help to mitigate the risk of COVID-19 spreading amongst your staff in the workplace and ensure we all have the opportunity to enjoy the new social and economic activities available to us from May 10."
Dr Ray Walley, General Practitioner said: "General practices are extremely busy at the moment dealing with COVID and non-COVID care as well as continuing to administer COVID-19 vaccines.
"GPs continue to administer COVID-19 vaccines as per the National Vaccination Programme, this means that those aged 70 and over and those that are clinically vulnerable between the ages of 50 – 59 are eligible to receive a vaccine from their GP.
"I would encourage anyone who has been called to register for their vaccine to do so on the HSE portal."
The COVID-19 Dashboard provides up-to-date information on the key indicators of COVID-19 in the community including daily data on Ireland's COVID-19 Vaccination Programme.
* Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of four confirmed cases. The figure of 251,904 confirmed cases reflects this.
** County data should be considered provisional as the national Computerised Infectious Disease Reporting System (CIDR) is a dynamic system and case details are continually being validated and updated.
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Frankenstein's Monster
10th October 2016 / M R / Uncategorized
In 2009, founders Ashley and Michael were in the local camera store, a dangerous place for any photographers living off 2-minute noodles. When a shiny gadget presented itself in the form of an intervalometer (fancy trigger cable) it sparked a somewhat involved brotherly exchange but little did we know at the time how important this decision would be.
A few weeks later one of our construction clients asked if we could do a time lapse of a bridge demolition. Armed with our new intervalometer a sense of excitement and truly misguided optimism we set out to capture our first ever time lapse. Then, reality hit, we had no way of powering it for the duration or protecting our $10,000 camera from the elements or someone's early Christmas present. So starting at 7:00 pm on a cold winters night Ashley had to maintain the camera for 12 hours swapping batteries and data in between bursts of sleep on the floor of our van.
"This was truly something McGuyver would've been proud of"
A few weeks later we were working on the Airport Link project when we were asked to do a 5 days time lapse of a bridge demolition. This created a new problem to solve, how we will protect and power our camera for 5 days? Like all DIY inspiration, we headed to Bunnings to see what we could find when inspiration hit us in aisle 23, Plumbing!
We built our first ever time-lapse housing from a $9.00 stormwater drain, a hole cut in the bottom, some perspex, silicon and other bits and pieces to mount the camera, this was truly something McGuyver would've been proud of.
We affectionally called our first time-lapse cameras dumb systems, primarily because they were just that, a camera, trigger, power and looked like something a caveman bashed together. The main problem with these early cameras was there's no way of remotely monitoring the camera, so once it was set up on site we had to hope and pray that it was still working when we came back to check on it.
Over the next year, we were doing more and more time lapse work with our clients and while the housing evolved into something smaller and more streamlined they still came from aisle 23. It wasn't until early 2011 that we were really set a challenge. A new client asked us if we could do an 18-month remote time lapse project outside of Dalby, 3 hours drive from our office.
"The only thing it was missing was a hamster on a wheel."
We had to quickly figure out how to build a system that could be monitored remotely, run off solar power, battery and data backup and most importantly reliable. Like a trio of Mad Scientists Ashley, Michael and our then post-production artist Hormuzd set out to build our first remote system. We worked 24hrs a day around the clock as the deadline was looming to have the system tested and ready for installation. Using off the shelf components, 3G modem, a microcomputer, car batteries, solar panel and an intervalometer mashed together like a primary school science experiment, our first remote time lapse system affectionately named "Frankenstein's Monster" was born, the only thing it was missing was a hamster and wheel.
Running off pure adrenaline, excitement and a real sense of accomplishment after 2 days installing and testing our new remote time-lapse camera, Blackbox was officially launched. We're happy to say that in the years since; we no longer build our housings from aisle 23 and use a mish-mash of off the shelf components. We are continually looking for ways to make it better and have a new system just around the corner. Check out the gallery below from that very first install.
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Apologies for slavery, 'witch' executions and other historical crimes can distract from modern-day scandals – Susan Dalgety
Susan Aitken's apology earlier this week for Glasgow's involvement in slavery was full-throated, and no doubt heartfelt.
By Susan Dalgety
1st Apr 2022, 4:45pm
Nicola Sturgeon recently apologised over the burning of women as witches in the past, while Glasgow Council leader Susan Aitken apologised for the city's links to the slave trade (Picture: John Linton/PA Wire)
"The blood of trafficked and enslaved African people, their children and their children's children is built into the very bones of this city," declared the council leader after the publication of a report by the Glasgow University historian, Dr Stephen Mullen, which linked 62 of the city's street names and eight statues to the slave trade.
Councillor Aitken evoked that most potent of images, the cruel sound of a whip on a man's bare back. "Glasgow's history to the present day echoes to the crack of the plantation overseer's lash," she said, before making an unreserved apology.
"Many who are alive today still live with the legacy of racism whose roots can be traced directly back to what was white supremacy codified in law and the countries whose populations were stolen and enslaved suffer still. An apology tells them that finally we are trying to understand."
So far, so progressive, but exactly what is it that Glasgow's council leadership is trying to understand? Not the history of African slavery, if the audit by Dr Mullen is anything to go by.
His report has been rightly criticised for including one of Scotland's most famous historical figures, Dr David Livingstone, in his list of eight suspect statues.
Livingstone's "crime" was to have been employed by Henry Monteith, owner of a cotton mill in Blantyre. Monteith, it transpires, was in partnership with two Glasgow-West India merchants in the 1810s, which – according to Dr Mullen's interpretation – makes Livingstone the willing beneficiary of the profits of slavery.
9 objects that link Scotland to slavery
What the report fails to mention is that Livingstone was a victim of child labour, forced to work from the age of ten to help his poverty-stricken family eat, little more than a slave himself. And the report ignores his very significant contribution to ending the slave trade on the East coast of Africa.
Largely self-educated, Livingstone made the seemingly impossible journey from the depths of Lanarkshire to southern Africa, where he spent 30 years exploring a region largely unknown to Europeans.
He also campaigned against the Eastern slave trade, which saw millions of Africans stolen by Swahili-Arab traders. He first encountered its cruelty on the shores of Lake Malawi in 1861, and the fig tree under which he brokered a treaty between local chiefs and the leading slave trader, Salim-bin Abdullah, remains one of Malawi's most revered national monuments.
There is no talk of destroying Livingstone's legacy in Malawi. Indeed, the country's biggest city, Blantyre, is named after the missionary's birthplace, and he is spoken of as one of Africa's first freedom fighters.
While Dr Mullen's report – and Councillor Aitken's apology – are firmly focused on the Caribbean slave trade, it was still a strange decision to taint Livingstone's reputation while giving another famous Scot, poet Robert Burns, a clean bill of health.
The report decided that Burns was "not complicit with chattel slavery in any tangible way. He is the most famous Scot in history not to be involved with Caribbean slavery." This despite the fact that the poet had gone as far as to buy tickets to cross the Atlantic to pursue a career as an overseer on a slave plantation, or as Burns himself put it, as "a poor negro driver".
The report's downplaying of Burns' ambivalent attitude towards slavery – typical of most Scots at the time – while suggesting Livingstone's child labour somehow made him complicit in the evil trade, highlights for me the inherent risks in trying to interpret the past to meet contemporary political objectives.
Scotland's self-appointed progressive politicians, from Glasgow's council leader to the First Minister, are desperate to be seen to be on the right side of history, whether it is condemning Glasgow's tobacco and sugar merchants for deeds done 300 years ago, or posthumously apologising to the women executed as witches, as Nicola Sturgeon did only a few weeks ago.
These performative acts should be seen as nothing more than tokenistic. Grand gestures to prove a politician is on the side of the oppressed, but with little or no cost to their administration.
As Susan Aitken apologised for the actions of men long dead, research by the Museum of Homelessness (MoH) charity showed that 80 people died, homeless and abandoned, on the streets of Glasgow last year, a rise of 142 per cent from 2020.
Our history is a complex, messy affair, largely the story of rich powerful elites who used and abused the rest of humanity to increase their wealth and bolster their status. Young men were conscripted to fight wars not of their making. Children were forced into factories and onto fields instead of receiving an education. Women and girls were sold for sex.
And little has changed in Africa since the merchants of Glasgow prospered from the exploitation of west Africans. The continent's poor scratch for food and water on ancient lands destroyed by climate change and conflict, while we watch their misery on smartphones, powered by rare earth minerals mined from the same ground.
In recent years, second-rate politicians have transformed politics from action and delivery to a mere performance. Theatrical language and symbolic acts, such as apologising for historic deeds or indulging in culture wars, have replaced any real effort to improve life for the majority or to properly protect vulnerable minorities.
Renaming Glasgow's Merchant City may make some of the city's elected representatives feel better about themselves, but it will not prevent homeless men and women dying in the doorways of its exclusive clubs and expensive shops.
If history has taught us anything, it is that words are not deeds.
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Home > Research > Survey >States of Change 2018: America's Electoral Future
States of Change 2018: America's Electoral Future
Rob Griffin, Ph.D., Ruy Teixeira, William H. Frey,
Topics: Politics & Elections
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The American electorate is changing. Voters have steadily grown older, more racially diverse, and more educated over the past 30 years. We have every reason to believe these changes will continue.
Demographics are not destiny, but these steady and predictable changes to the electorate play an important role in shaping the landscape of American elections. These shifts, which vary considerably state by state, will force parties and candidates to recalibrate their strategies for success going forward.
This report—a collaboration between PRRI, the Brookings Institution, the Center for American Progress, and the Bipartisan Policy Center—explores how these demographic changes could shape the next five presidential elections (2020 to 2036), using national and state-level demographic projections and a variety of assumptions about how voters might act in future. These scenarios are not intended as predictions, but as simulations that help us think about the future. Each alternative scenario assumes the same projections for the nation's demographic composition of eligible voters with respect to race, age, and educational attainment.
Select the "Downloads" option above to access the full report.
The report explores a wide variety of scenarios. Here are a few key findings:
Demographic changes over the next 18 years will likely favor the Democratic Party in presidential elections. In particular, the decline of white, non-college voters combined with the rise of other groups—including blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and college-educated whites—creates an electoral headwind for the Republican Party under most scenarios.
A hallmark of the 2016 election was the divide between the popular vote and the Electoral College. Even as the country changes, there are a number of possible futures where this split persists—allowing for wins by the Republican Party even as they lose the popular vote.
Even if Americans vote the same way they did in the last presidential election, demographic changes between 2016 and 2020 are large enough to result in a Democratic win in 2020. However, if third-party support levels return to their typical levels, the Republican Party will win the Electoral College by a single point in 2020.
Between 2012 and 2016, black turnout declined and black voters shifted slightly toward the Republican Party. If black turnout and support move back to 2012 levels, this will result in a Democratic win in 2020.
If the Republican Party can increase its support levels among Hispanics, Asians, and other racial groups, they can win the presidency in 2020, even as they lose the popular vote. Nevertheless, even with pro-Republican swing, demographic changes will result in a Democratic win by 2032.
Despite the large demographic changes taking place, the Republican Party can win the Electoral College through 2036 if they increase their support levels among white, non-college voters. However, if these gains among white, non-college voters are offset by losses among other groups, this coalition produces electoral losses for the Republican Party by the mid-to-late 2020s.
The demographic changes taking place across the country will be one of the defining features of the 21st century—impacting everything from national politics to local community life. Understanding these trends is vital to meeting tomorrow's challenges.
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The Fish-People of Aberdeen
The following article first appeared in the "Penny Magazine" for 26th September 1840
This handsome and flourishing town [Aberdeen] consists of about sixty thousand inhabitants, who are distinguished even in Scotland for their shrewdness. At the mouth of the river Dee, and in two squares, called Fishers' Squares, separated from the rest of the town by only a few dockyards, are a race of people who differ more in dialect, customs, superstitions, and other peculiarities, from the Aberdonians, than the latter do from any of the other inhabitants of the lowlands of Scotland.
They are a completely separate community; and their dialect is so different from that of the working classes of Aberdeen that, though the two races have a sufficient number of words in common for transacting business with each other, most of the words used by the "Foot-Dee" or "Fittie folk," among themselves are unintelligible to the "Aberdeen folk." If a native of Aberdeen were to wander into the square inhabited by the "Fittie folk," who are almost all fishers and pilots, he would run no little risk of being pelted out again with stones and haddock-heads. The "Fittie folk" scarcely ever intermarry with the other citizens.
Their marriages are generally "penny weddings." They seldom send their children to school, and almost never to a promiscuous one. Their sons are almost invariably brought up to follow the occupations of their forefathers, and never learn any regular trades, except that, perhaps, now and then , a youth, more adventurous than usual, becomes a ship-carpenter. They live together patriarchally, sometimes three or four generations in a single room. The oars are laid above them on the couples (or rafters) of their cottages; the children may be seen sleeping on nets in corners; and on the walls are creels, baskets, and other fishing tackle. Their boats descend by primogeniture.
Their women have not merely a costume different at all times from that of women in a similar rank of life in Aberdeen (distinguished by an all but exclusive preference for the colours white and blue, and consisting of a blue-striped wrapper, blue baize petticoat and close cap, called a "toy mutch." with "moggins," or stockings without feet, and they wear no shoes); but they also adopt very generally the masculine blue jackets of their husbands and brothers.
The men do little more than go out with the boats. The women search for bait, assist in carrying the nets, bait the hooks, and do all drudgery, while their lords are looking on with folded arms. The women both of Foot-Dee and those of the same race in several other villages on the east coast of Scotland, carry great loads of fish to market on market days in creels (large wicker baskets which are fastened to their shoulders, and rest on their hips), sometimes as many as eleven miles before breakfast; and so necessary does the load become to them, to enable them to walk steady, that when they are retuning home, they prefer carrying stones to carrying an empty creel. They never walk but in single file, and they have a superstitious dread of being counted, a fear of which the boys of Aberdeen avail themselves to annoy them by crying as they pass - "One, two, three, What a lot of fisher nannies I see." A salutation equally dreaded by them is the cry, "A baud's fit in yer creel" - that is, the point of a hare's foot is in your creel. This saying derived its meaning from the circumstance that a hare was seen to run through their "fish town" on the evening preceding a day on which a great number of their people were lost at sea. To point at their boats with the for-finger is the surest way of offending them. Among these people all superstitions which useful knowledge is banishing from the homes of the poor still flourish. The belief in lucky days and omens of stars and clouds is to the present hour a practical faith under the low, thatched roofs of those squares of white cottages among the sandhills of the sandy beach at the mouth of the Dee, occupied by this curious race who still tremble with the fear that a neglect of these things would bring great evils down upon their heads. They observe Old Christmas, and all their transactions and calculations are made by the old style, to which they tenaciously hold, saying, "New style is man's makin', but auld style is Guid's."
Aberdeen is full of stories of the fisherfolk. A "Fittie lassie" once visited London, and, on seeing St Paul's exclaimed - "This dings the kirk o' Fittie." A woman of this class went to the Post Office and asked for a letter "from oor Jock." She was asked what was her name or her husband's but she exclaimed - "I'se behaud you!" The chief article of trade is "Finnan Haddocks." Finnan (Findon) is a small village famous only for its fishery, situated about six miles south of Aberdeen. Of the excellence of this fish, perhaps the most decisive proof that can be given is that the burghs on the Firth of Forth and other places have regular manufactories of a spurious article, which they vend under its name, and doubtless to the detriment of its reputation among the deceived but unsuspicious purchasers.


Passwords "are starting to fail us," says PayPal's Chief Information Security Officer Michael Barrett at a recent event in Las Vegas. Much like a locked front door to your home, it may serve as a minor deterrent to the casual passer-by, but anyone who really wants to find a way in, will most likely be successful.
The number of data breaches in the US increased by 67 percent in 2011, and each major breach is more expensive than many people realize. When Sony's PlayStation account database was hacked in 2011, it cost the company upwards of $171 million to rebuild its network and protect users from identity theft. Add up the total cost, including lost business, and a single hack can cost millions or even billions…with a B.
So what's the answer? How does one protect themselves in an online environment with so many dangers? While there's no way to completely eliminate your risk, there are several things that can be done to mitigate the risk. For starters, don't make it easier on would-be hackers. Don't make your password "password," or "123456." Use 10 digit passwords, containing both letters and numbers, as well as capital and lowercase symbols. Try and vary passwords for different online accounts, so that if one account gets hacked, it doesn't create a situation where the hacker now has access to every online account you own. Additionally, avoid making passwords or security questions things that a stranger could guess at just by reviewing your publicly available information. What city you were born in, for example, might not be the best security question for an online account if you have that information publicly listed on your Facebook Page. Using varied and less typical/obvious passwords will go a long way to making your information online more safe.
On the industry side of things, more investigation needs to be done on better authentication methods than are currently in place. Cheap is always appealing, but not always effective. And as was pointed out, if a company is hacked those cost savings go out the window, and then some. There also needs to be greater limitation on the number of times someone can incorrectly answer a password prompt or security question before the account gets frozen. Understanding on the part of both the service provider and the consumer of what sort of tactics hackers use and what they're looking for is essential if we are to protect ourselves with a higher rate of success.
In short, don't be lazy with your passwords, even though they are in some ways antiquated forms of security. Be aware of what personal information about you is floating around on the cloud and be mindful of this when picking your fail safes for account access. Don't store information online that you don't absolutely need to and be mindful of who you're giving your information to and what they plan on using it for.
Face It: Internet Passwords Often Fail to Keep Hackers Out" was written by Matt Davis. Matt is a Victim Advisor at the Identity Theft Resource Center. We welcome you to repost the above article, as written, giving credit to the author and linking back to www.idtheftcenter.org.


We are very excited to finally post Ashley's bridal portraits as well as a few snapshots of their wedding day. Set in the gorgeous Tuscany Villa in Katy, TX, Ashley's beauty shone through in an poised yet youthful way while Max was very handsome in his formal attire.
Because Ashley and Max are some of our dearest friends, it was hard to keep these photos to ourselves so as to not ruin the surprise.
Her dress was marvelous, a long gown in a traditional style which she wore well.
Maryann and I were happy to be part of their bridal party but although we were in the wedding, we couldn't help but to take a few photos of our own. We had the pleasure of seeing their love culminate into a lovely marriage.
Congratulations you two! This is sure to be one of our favorite posts.