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Протокол керування спільними ключами (KMIP) — протокол зв'язку, який визначає формати повідомлення для маніпуляції криптографічними ключами на сервері. Ключі можуть створюватися на сервері, а потім відновлюватися за іншими захищеним ключем. Підтримуються як симетричні, так і асиметричні ключі. KMIP також визначає повідомлення, які можуть бути використані, щоб виконувати криптографічні дії над сервером як наприклад, кодування і розшифрування.

KMIP є відкритим протоколом, який має підтримку з боку багатьох великих технологічних компаній, таких як: Hewlett-Packard, Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc. *, IBM і Oracle Corporation. KMIP — це система управління, яка контролює обробку зашифрованих даних, а також доступ до зашифрованих даних.

Введення
Протокол управління взаємодією ключів призначений для використання в системах з зашифрованими ключами. KMIP являє собою відносно новий протокол, створений групою OASIS і запропонований в лютому 2009. Мета OASIS — замінити існуючі системи управління  на системи з KMIP.

Історія
OASIS KMIP 1.0

— публічне обговорення листопад 2009;

— технічна специфікація січень 2010;

— стандарт OASIS жовтень 2010.

OASIS KMIP 1.1

— публічне обговорення січень 2012;

— технічна специфікація липень 2012;

— стандарт OASIS січень 2013.

OASIS KMIP 1.2

— публічне обговорення січень 2014;

— технічна специфікація листопад 2014;

— стандарт OASIS травень 2015.

Реалізація
КМІР складається з 3 розділів:

 Об'єкти.
 Операції.
 Атрибути.

Сервери повинні використовувати SSL або TLS протоколи для своїх цілей зв'язку, рекомендується також HTTPS . SSL 2.0 має відомі проблеми безпеки і всі останні протоколи HTTP/S . Тому цей профіль забороняє використання SSL 2.0 і рекомендує SSL 3.1 або TLS 1.0.
KMIP рекомендує деякі шифри. Нижче перераховані обов'язкові шифри:

 TLS допускає використання TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
 SSL допускає використання SSL_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA

Опис
Сервер KMIP зберігає і контролює керовані об'єкти, такі як ключі -симетричні і асиметричні, сертифікати і визначені користувачем об'єкти. Потім клієнт використовує протокол, щоб отримати доступ до цих об'єктів. Сервери використовують техніку безпеки до керованих об'єктів. Операції можуть створювати, визначати місце розташування, отримувати та оновлювати керовані об'єкти.

Атрибути

У кожного керованого об'єкта є незмінне значення, як ключовий блок, який містить криптографічний ключ. Він також містить непостійні атрибути, які можуть використовуватися, щоб зберігати метадані про ключі. Деякі атрибути отримані безпосередньо із значення, наприклад, криптографічний алгоритм і довжина ключа. Інші атрибути визначені в специфікації для управління об'єктами, такі як спеціалізований ідентифікатор, який зазвичай виходить з ідентифікаційних даних стрічки. Існують атрибути, які є обов'язковими для кожного об'єкта або для конкретних об'єктів, у той час як інші не є обов'язковими. Додаткові ідентифікатори, необхідні додатку, можуть бути визначені сервером, або клієнтом. Крім того, можна створювати шаблони, які дозволяють адміністратору системи об'єднувати атрибути часто використовуваних процесів.

Об'єкти

Кожен об'єкт ідентифікований унікальним і незмінним ідентифікатором об'єкта, який згенерований сервером і використовується, щоб отримати об'єктні значення. Керованим об'єктам можна також дати багато непостійних, але глобально унікальних атрибутів імені, які можуть використовуватися для визначення місця розташування об'єктів.

Типи керованих об'єктів, які контролює KMIP, включають:

 Симетричні ключі.
 Відкриті і закриті ключі.
 Сертифікати ключів PGP.
 Ключі поділу.
 Секретні дані (паролі).
 Непрозорі дані для клієнта і сервера визначені розширеннями.

Операції

Операції відрізняються за ознакою — ким вони ініційовані. Більшість з них є операціями «Клієнт-сервер» . Крім того, існують операції «Сервер-клієнт».

Операції, передбачені KMIP, включають

 Створення — створення нового керованого об'єкта, наприклад, симетричний ключ, і повернення ідентифікатора.
 Отримання — отримання значення об'єкта за його унікальним ідентифікатором.
 Реєстрація — зберігання зовні згенерованого значення ключа.
 Додавання, отримання і зміна атрибутів — контроль атрибутів керованого об'єкта.
 Розташування — отримання списку об'єктів на основі з'єднання предикатів.
 Зміна ключа — створення нового ключа, який може замінити існуючий ключ.
 Створення пари ключів — створення асиметричних ключів.
 (Пере-) сертифікація — підтвердження сертифікату.
 Поділ і з'єднання n з m ключів.
 Шифрування, дешифрування, MAC і т. д. — криптографічні операції, що виконуються на сервері керування ключами.
 Операції які реалізовують життєвий цикл ключа NIST.

У кожного ключа є криптографічний стан такий як початковий, активний, пасивний. Операції надають управління станом у відповідності з інструкціями по життєвому циклу NIST. Дані кожного перетворення реєструються, наприклад, дата активації ключа. Дати можуть бути визначені в майбутньому так, щоб ключ автоматично став недоступним вказаними операціями, як тільки вони спливуть.

Формат повідомлення
Повідомлення завжди складається з заголовка, за яким випливає одна чи більш пакетних об'єктів і додаткових розширень повідомлень. Заголовок розрізняє два типи повідомлень: запит і відповідь. Існують дані, що залежать від типу. Пакетні об'єкти вказують необхідну операцію і включають в себе всі атрибути, необхідні для цього.

Кодування повідомлення
KMIP — мережевий протокол, а не прикладний програмний інтерфейс. Він являє собою двійковий формат, який складається з вкладеного тегу, типу, довжини і значення (TTLV) структури.

Переваги протоколу
KMIP має багато переваг у порівнянні з існуючими конструкціями. Перша перевага — це можливість спростити поточний проект і позбутися від складнощів і надлишковостей.

Конструкція KMIP виправляє проблеми протоколів зв'язку, допомагаючи компаніям не вкладати велику кількість грошей в свою інфраструктуру. Таким чином, виникає спосіб зв'язку для всіх протоколів один з одним, так само відбувається взаємозв'язок між системами. Така конструкція усуває єдину відмову системи завдяки здатності взаємного спілкування. Таким чином, якщо одна система виходить з ладу, то можна спокійно отримати доступ до зашифрованих даних.

І нарешті, протокол KMIP уникає надмірності поточного дизайну і спрощує його. Це дозволяє знизити вартість інвестицій в систему управління ключами, так як немає ніякої необхідності адаптувати протоколи для кожної послуги. Коли складність системи менше, її легше підтримувати. Їй потрібно менших інвестицій, щоб зберегти працездатність.

Примітки

Посилання

 «OASIS Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) TC» OASIS
 «Key Management Interoperability Protocol Specification Version 1.0»
 «Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) Addressing the Need for Standardization in Key Enterprise Management»  Май 20, 2009.
 «Key Management Interoperability Protocol Usage Guide»  Лютий. 10, 2009.
 «Key Management Interoperability Protocol Use Cases — Draft version 0.98»  Лютий 10, 2009.
 «KMIP message»  Травень 24, 2012.
 http://www.snia.org/events/dsicon/presentations2016

Криптографічні протоколи

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Volkswagen's software company is to establish a joint venture with Chinese AI company Horizon Robotics with 2.4 billion euros investment
Chinese article by 项睿
China's leading autonomous driving company Horizon Robotics(地平线) announced on October 13 that it would set up a joint venture with CARIAD, a software company under the Volkswagen Group. CARIAD will hold a majority stake of 60%.
The Volkswagen Group plans to invest around 2.4 billion euros ($2.35 billion) in the partnership, which is expected to close in the first half of 2023. This investment transaction has yet to be signed by all parties and approved by relevant government agencies.
It's reported that in response to the Chinese market demand, CARIAD will work with Horizon Robotics to develop full-stack advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous driving solutions, integrating multiple functions on a single chip. The project's object is to improve system stability, save costs and reduce energy consumption, provide scalable and cost-effective advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous driving solutions for Volkswagen Group's pure electric vehicles in China.
Ralf Brandstätter, chairman and CEO of Volkswagen Group (China), said, "Future joint ventures will develop cutting-edge technologies, including complete software and hardware stack technologies. Through cooperation with Horizon Robotics, we will accelerate developing autonomous driving, NEW AUTO strategy, and further driving business transformation in China."
Investment Volkswagen Horizon Robotics
Pandaily: Chinese PV silicon wafer giant TCL Zhonghuan acquires chip startup Xinxin Semiconductor
Chinese optical quantum chip startup TuringQ completes Series A round of funding

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Nothing in this world is black-and-white. I don't condone cheating, but I can sometimes empathize with the circumstances that lead to its occurrence. Why do people marry? Who decided for it to be a social norm? Love is an emotional state; marriage is a legal contract – from whose moral perspective does one necessitate, or even relate to, the other? These are the things I don't question, because going down that rabbit hole could mean pulling the ground out from under my feet in search of an answer that may not even exist.
In some ways, I see myself in Miyoshi – her immaturity, her artlessness, her reckless disregard for a secure future that to an outsider seems like a mix-up of priorities. But deep down, she understands the most important fact of all: it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if we choose shameless indulgence over decent abstention in this moment. At the end of the day, we go back to being alone.
In Akutagawa Ryunosuke's short story "The Handkerchief", a grieving mother visits her dead son's former professor, and feigns a smile while covertly ripping up her handkerchief under the table with trembling hands. The professor admires her restraint as an exemplar of Japanese "bushido", later to find the same gesture described as a third-rate gimmick in a Western theatre reference book.
Different strokes, as they say, for different folks. A different woman (such as Miyoshi's friend Iida) would have been touched by Watanabe's handkerchief-tearing act of love and repaid him with her full devotion, but to Miyoshi, he comes across as a clown at best and a lunatic at worst - and either convinces her that she's been shackled to the wrong marriage.
Miyoshi and Arishima belong to the same class of people, who worship their freedom and define their own codes of conduct without much regard for the status quo. Watanabe is blindsided by his absolute morality, resorting to passive-aggression and violation of his own personal boundaries to defend the love he believes to be righteous. Togawa (Reika), on the other hand, clings to her ethics as the sole guiding light in a world that has been unkind to her, but feels understandably let down and lost when her perfect self-discipline fails her in securing Arishima's fidelity.
So the crux of the story hinges on which moral compass you choose to align with. The beauty of the rotating narrative is that you aren't allowed to get too comfortable in any one character's shoes. None of the pairings really seems, in Miyoshi's words, "destined to be": two marriages wrought with inequalities, and two married individuals trying to make up for a lost chance at love built on shaky ground to begin with.
Is Miyoshi's obsession with Arishima any less frightful or absurd than Watanabe's fixation on her? What makes her fail to see the parallel between their plights? What about Togawa? What about the surrounding remarks that she's so lucky to have this charmed marriage, this charming husband – a husband who naively traded on their mutual vulnerabilities, when in reality he's barely scratched the surface of her laboured fortitude? He was eating yakiniku with his family while she worked to support hers. Who are we as outsiders to judge how she should think and feel, how Watanabe should act, or to whom (or what) Miyoshi's and Arishima's loyalties should lie?
Arishima said it well, "Sometimes good people can be detestable, and detestable people can turn out to be good." But in relationships there are no good or bad people, only how much you're willing to give and take in the name of love. The ones who are in too deep, covered in wounds of war; the ones who live a lie out of obligation; the ones who refuse to live a lie out of obligation _to themselves_; and the ones who forget themselves in the eyes of others – they're all good and detestable in their own ways. To paraphrase Dazai Osamu: that, too, is human. The grand spectacle, circus, tragedy, and unknown that is human emotion.


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Home Brain & Behavior Study supports PET scans for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
Study supports PET scans for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) has become vitally important now that drugs are available that may help slow the otherwise unremitting course of the disease. But an accurate diagnosis is critical when initiating early therapy since some of the most promising treatments have been shown to exacerbate other forms of dementia.From the Society of Nuclear Medicine :New study supports use of PET scans in early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
Reston, VA ?Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) has become vitally important now that drugs are available that may help slow the otherwise unremitting course of the disease. But an accurate diagnosis is critical when initiating early therapy since some of the most promising treatments have been shown to exacerbate other forms of dementia.
Recent studies have demonstrated that Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans may be the most accurate method of diagnosing AD, particularly in its early stages. Given the potential benefits of early diagnosis, the issue of insurance coverage for PET diagnosis of AD has become a focal point of discussion among legislators, researchers in the nuclear medicine field, other physicians, and the general public.
A study appearing in the March issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine identifies a new PET technique that may increase the already high accuracy of PET in diagnosing AD at a very early stage. Researchers reported that AD-related processes leading to altered brain connections between the entorhinal cortex (EC) and both hemispheres of the brain can be clearly identified with 18F-FDG PET.
The EC is a small area located deep in the brain that plays a central role in memory functions, and is an early site for neuronal damage resulting in memory impairment in AD. The EC is normally connected to other areas of the brain that constitute the so-called "neo-cortex", i.e. the shell of the brain, in both hemispheres.
"This study shows that most of these connections between the hemispheres are destroyed at a very early stage of AD. For example, when brain metabolism is reduced in the right EC, a parallel reduction can be found in the right neocortical areas. Such a pattern of coupled metabolic reductions between the deep and surface brain may make PET even more accurate at differentiating AD from other forms of dementia," said lead author Lisa Mosconi, MD, of the Department of Clinical Pathophysiology Nuclear Medicine Unit of the University of Florence (Italy).
"Our results confirm the importance of studying the connections between the EC and the neocortex to get a more complete picture of the functional alterations that occur very early in AD, and suggest that the clinical picture of AD could be better defined by using FDG-PET measurements" said coauthor Alberto Pupi, MD, also of the Department of Clinical Pathophysiology Nuclear Medicine Unit. f PET for the diagnosis of AD." "This, of course, could help promoting the use of FDG-PET in clinical trials of new drugs to treat AD, which could in turn accelerate the approval process for insurance reimbursement of PET for the diagnosis of AD."


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This was a really interesting series, in the aspect that it followed along the same questions of morality that Code Geass and Death Note did. Basically they ask the question, "is it okay to kill criminals, and what does that make the person that kills the criminal." The perspective of this show, however, is completely unlike the other two I mentioned in many key ways. The first of these being that it is a much lighter show in my opinion, and you see all this from the point of view of the "regular" girl in the centre of all the action.
The characters were all fairly well portrayed, they did a spectacularly good job of portraying Ogami in just the right way for a character in his position. I wanted to see much more of Yuuki's backstory, because he was one of the most interesting ones. I was particularly impressed with Heike's role, they completely threw me off with some pretty clever writing. I didn't predict anything that this character did after the first major move he made.
I wasn't a fan, however, of the way Hitomi was portrayed. His speech and actions all seemed contradictory to those moments later, and all of the other characters just seemed to respond accordingly to his current persona. I didn't feel that he was given an appropriate reasoning for this kind of erratic behaviour and it was irritating that the other characters went along with it. I also thought he looked an awful lot like Ogami, and was just waiting for that to come into play at some point, however it never did.
I enjoyed the action elements, and seeing all of their supernatural powers come into play, however.
So in general I did like this show, however there are some aspects that could have been markedly improved.
This anime seems to be about a mix of characters from or associated with 1001 Arabian Nights. Aladdin, Alibaba, Sinbad and Ja'far for example. The characters from this show don't really seem to play exactly the same roles as the ones you might know, however. For example, Ja'far works under Sinbad and fights on the side of good.
In the story, Aladdin is a magi, who is someone with special powers and the ability to choose the next king. He appears near Alibaba and turns his life upside down. They decide to go on an adventure, however there are pressing matters awaiting them at every turn. Dungeon capturing is a prominent theme in this show. These are places where Djinn reside. (Think genies) These Djinn can be summoned with special objects and will help their summoner fight.
I wasn't a huge fan of this show, I don't really have a reason why, but I personally didn't enjoy it much. I didn't like the way the story twisted as it progressed. The characters were interesting and fairly well written, the idea was novel. The show did feel cluttered, however, like they were trying to squeeze too many elements into it.
In the beginning, it was far too messy in my opinion. I also wish that Alibaba's backstory had been covered earlier on. If the flashbacks had been shown before his past started to affect the story, it may have been far superior (in my opinion).
I found that it was more enjoyable as it reached its conclusion, I started to settle into the pacing as it began to reach its conclusion.
A paper called the MX held a competition where you could take a photo of the front cover (a poster for Avengers Age of Ultron) in a creative way to win a prize. It's a bit late to send it in, but I thought I'd post my entry here, 'cause I thought it was pretty cool looking.
This anime is extremely dark, so those who don't like that should stay far away from it. It is about a boy who is framed for the murders of his entire class, and given the death sentence in a new prison. In this prison the prisoners have to face almost certain death each day. However, he has gained an unusual power.
One of the best features of this anime were the characters, almost all of them were likeable and interesting. I personally didn't like Hummingbird and the Undertakers, however the rest were all fascinating to watch. I really enjoyed seeing Shiro's attitude to everything she encountered, and her relationship with Ganta. I think that it really took the show up a level. I also really liked Crow's character. This anime creates an effect where you grow to like characters on different sides, which will willingly fight each other. I have never seen this effect to such a degree in an anime before.
I felt that all the different situations the main character faced passed by too quickly. Especially considering that these situations contained many unique, detailed and interesting concepts. It was almost as if it got bored and forgot about things.
Personally I wasn't bothered much by the dark nature of the show, however I did feel that some aspects were unnecessary, while others should have drawn more focus. This show was trying to be dark, so I'm not going to complain that they did what they set out to do, though.
This show has a very open ending. In fact, I would say that it doesn't really end. This wasn't a big problem, but I'm a little disappointed to not see it wrap up completely. That's a little strange, since I usually prefer open endings, however I would say that the style of this show certainly contributes to this.
So watch this if you don't mind dark shows, and I would highly recommend it to those who watch anime for the characters.
This anime is about the literature club, who all gain super powers. They don't have many enemies, so they mostly end up trying to get to know their powers.
The plot was fascinating, it didn't go quite the way I expected, but I mostly enjoyed it nevertheless.
They have a large main group of characters, with a varied range. There wasn't really anything that stood out apart from Andou, though.
Watching all the characters progress was fairly interesting, although at some points it seemed a little off.
I loved all their references to chunnibyou sickness, or middle school sickness. The main character Andou had this and it made him eager to discover things that weren't real. For a main character, this is a very refreshing trait. Far too often are main characters wearied by their powers, so to see a main character who's actually grateful is remarkable. I also think his chuunibyou is quite relatable, for many people.
This was a show I couldn't look away from. In my opinion, one of the signs of a great show is being able to marathon it, and this definitely fits in that category.
Not to say that this show doesn't have flaws, the storyline isn't perfect and in my opinion focuses too much on unrelated topics, and the other characters aren't exactly an outstanding group, however I really enjoyed watching this anime. So I'd say give it a try if you think you'll enjoy it.
After a lot of research before watching this show, I found out that it has no relation to Gunslinger Girls or Infinite Stratos. This was very helpful for me, because I haven't watched either of them, not yet at least.
I was really excited to watch this show, the image I saw beforehand looked… awesome to be frank. I was also really excited because it was based on a video game in the same way of Devil Survivor 2 the Animation was.
Yet I was a little disappointed with this series. The story all changed so quickly without giving you a chance to get to know and become invested in the characters.
I didn't really like most of them, and the main character was far too bland. He was a shell of a main character!
The relationships between the characters were ones that have been blatantly overused in so many different shows already, that they've been beaten half to death!
For a show based around sci-fi and mystery, it was all far too clear.


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America's Got Talent's Judge Melanie "Mel B" Brown
New York – Melanie "Mel B" Brown walked off the America's Got Talent Show stage Tuesday night after fellow judge Simon Cowell made a makeshift joke about her wedding night.
The event took place as the former Spice Girl is in the middle of a divorce from estranged husband Stephen Belafonte.
The British TV personality Cowell, 57, made an unwell timed dig after a magician suffered a technical malfunction during his performance.
"I kind of imagine this would be like Mel B's wedding night," Cowell said. "A lot of anticipation, not much promise or delivery."
Brown, a well-known former Spice Girl, did not appreciate the comment and continued to fling her glass of water at Cowell before walking out of the studio live on air.
"Mel B is out," host Tyra Banks said. "This is live TV, y'all. Live TV."
PEOPLE Magazine once established in July that Brown was earlier ordered to pay her soon to be ex-husband Belafonte $40,000 per month in temporary spousal support.
The former Spice Girl singer filed for divorce from Belafonte in March after nearly 10 years of marriage and asked for joint legal and physical custody of their 5-year-old daughter, Madison.
She also requested to terminate the court's ability to award spousal support in her filing.
Both Mel B and Simon Cowell are British.
America's Got Talent's Mel B Simon Cowell Spice Girl
Malia Obama Prepares for College; settles for Harvard
Jewel out, Findley in? CDC's Running-Mate Landscape
Unsealed Indictment of Charges Against Mozambique Finance Minister on Money Laundering and Fraud Charges in U.S District Court of New York
Haiti's Ambassador-at-Large Found Guilty of Corruption and Money Laundering in a Boston Court


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MaxLinear Joins MoCA Board of Directors
By Jeff Baumgartner
MaxLinear has joined the board of directors of the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA), moving up from an Associate level membership that the company has held since 2011.
MaxLinear was eligible to assume the seat on the MoCA board as a result of its acquisition of Entropic Communications late last month. Entropic was a pioneer in MoCA-powered silicon and products.
"MaxLinear's enthusiasm and commitment will greatly contribute to the success of the Alliance. We are delighted to have them join the Board and look forward to their insights and involvement" said Charles Cerino, president of MoCA, in a statement.
"We intend to take a very active role in MoCA," added Dr. Kishore Seendripu, CEO of MaxLinear. "We have long supported the value MoCA technology brings to the connected home."
MoCA technology is being used in a variety of whole-home DVRs, set-tops, broadband gateways, and Ethernet-to-coax bridge devices. As an upgrade of MoCA 1.1, the 2.0 version is designed to support usable throughputs of more than 400 Mbps in "Basic" mode and 500 Mbps in a "Turbo" point-to-point setting when connected devices are operating in the baseline mode and utilizing a single channel. MoCA 2.0 also supports an "Enhanced" mode that uses channel bonding to produce throughputs of between 800 Mbps to 1 Gbps.
Last month, MoCA said all new product certifications during the first quarter of 2015 were for devices of the 2.0 variety.
Jeff Baumgartner


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Bellwood and Blair County 6 added to SPARK/PaILS
Press Release: Equinox [October 7, 2016]
Copyright (c) 2016 Equinox
Abstract: Equinox announced two new additions to the SPARK/PaILS Consortium. Claysburg Area Public Library, Hollidaysburg Area Public Library, Martinsburg Community Library, Roaring Spring Community Library, Tyrone-Snyder Public Library, and Williamsburg PA Public Library; affectionately known as The Blair County 6–BC6 for short; joined Altoona and Bellwood-Antis within SPARK. Bellwood-Antis Public Library migrated two weeks before The BC6.
Duluth, Georgia -- October 7, 2016. Equinox is pleased to announce two new additions to the SPARK/PaILS Consortium. Claysburg Area Public Library, Hollidaysburg Area Public Library, Martinsburg Community Library, Roaring Spring Community Library, Tyrone-Snyder Public Library, and Williamsburg PA Public Library; affectionately known as The Blair County 6–BC6 for short; joined Altoona and Bellwood-Antis within SPARK. Bellwood-Antis Public Library migrated two weeks before The BC6.
The BC6 previously shared a server to host their ILS. They will begin physical resource sharing within SPARK very soon. Bellwood-Antis Public Library is also in Blair County. Along with previously migrated Altoona, Blair County libraries are now unified.
Erica Rohlfs, Equinox Project Manager, had this to say about the migrations:
"Being a part of the Blair Libraries' migrations was exciting and challenging. There were 3 total migrations, Altoona, Bellwood-Antis, and BC6. It's almost ineffable to describe the joy that came with knowing how large this migration was for both the Blair Library System and the community they serve. The librarians put an incredible amount of time and thought into their migrations, not only in the complex policy decisions but also in details, such as streamlining the BCLS branding. I just can't say enough about how hard they worked to unify their catalog, merge patrons, and streamline resource sharing. Also, their new children's library cards are awesome!"
Scott Thomas, SPARK/PaILS Executive Director, added; "One of the most exciting things about bringing new library systems onto SPARK is to see how the change directly improves services to library patrons. SPARK will enable the citizens of Blair County to use multiple libraries with ease and to benefit from the enhanced access to many collections county-wide."
About Equinox Software, Inc.
Equinox was founded by the original developers and designers of the Evergreen ILS. We are wholly devoted to the support and development of open source software in libraries, focusing on Evergreen, Koha, and the FulfILLment ILL system. We wrote over 80% of the Evergreen code base and continue to contribute more new features, bug fixes, and documentation than any other organization. Our team is fanatical about providing exceptional technical support. Over 98% of our support ticket responses are graded as "Excellent" by our customers. At Equinox, we are proud to be librarians. In fact, half of us have our ML(I)S. We understand you because we *are* you. We are Equinox, and we'd like to be awesome for you. For more information on Equinox, please visit http://www.esilibrary.com.
About Pennsylvania Integrated Library System
PaILS is the Pennsylvania Integrated Library System (ILS), a non-profit corporation that oversees SPARK, the open source ILS developed using Evergreen Open Source ILS. PaILS is governed by a 9-member Board of Directors. The SPARK User Group members make recommendations and inform the Board of Directors. A growing number of libraries large and small are PaILS members.
For more information about PaILS and SPARK, please visit http://sparkpa.org/.
About Evergreen
Evergreen is an award-winning ILS developed with the intent of providing an open source product able to meet the diverse needs of consortia and high transaction public libraries. However, it has proven to be equally successful in smaller installations including special and academic libraries. Today, over 1400 libraries across the US and Canada are using Evergreen including NC Cardinal, SC Lends, and B.C. Sitka.
For more information about Evergreen, including a list of all known Evergreen installations, see http://evergreen-ils.org.
https://librarytechnology.org/document/21932
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I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here
I'm a Celebrity latest: Yvette Fielding says Lady C's behaviour was even worse off camera
The Most Haunted host claims her most venomous verbal attacks were edited out of the ITV1 show
Mark Jefferies
(Image: ITV)
She made her feelings perfectly clear when she was voted out of the I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! jungle last night.
And Most Haunted host Yvette Fielding has further put the boot into the controversial Lady Colin Campbell – claiming that ITV are editing her worst tirades out of the reality show.
Stockport-raised Yvette, who called Lady C a 'sly silver witch' after leaving the camp, has spent time out of the jungle catching up on highlights from the show. And she claims 'venomous' verbal attacks had been airbrushed.
Yvette said: "Everything was fine and we could cope with her being demanding, wanting certain things doing, but then when it was getting personal, about myself, my career, personal things about Brian, personal things about Tony, none of this has been aired."
She added: "I don't want to reveal them because they're too personal and I'm shocked actually. It was the way it was said, with such venom.
"There was lots of bad language and I just thought, 'how is a woman of this age allowed to get away with what she's saying?' and I just couldn't stand for it any more."
The former Blue Peter presenter is bemused that Lady C has found allies in the jungle in footballer Kieron Dyer and boxer Chris Eubank.
Just who is Jorgie Porter?
The full I'm a Celebrity line-up
I'm a Celebrity: Yvette Fielding
Jorgie wants a Tarzan
She said: "I don't understand it and that's the one thing that myself Duncan and Tony are quite bemused about, because we don't understand – they're seeing what she's saying personally to people and upsetting people and yet they're still sitting by her.
"I really like Chris, but I think he has got a strategy going, he knows how to play a game and I think he's using that as a way perhaps to win it. It's very interesting how the three of them have got this relationship going."
Yvette leaves the jungle (Image: Nigel Wright/ITV)
Yvette also claims that a lot of the comedy in camp has been edited out and that she won the camp award for 'funniest person'.
She added: "It is a shame because I laughed every single day to the point where tears were streaming down my face. All you have seen is me being a bit wahhhh."
Yvette now plans to go back to the UK to film 20 new episodes of Most Haunted. But first she has a special seance she is planning in the swanky Versace hotel.
She explained: "There was nothing in the camp, but apparently there's been two deaths here in the hotel so we're going to do a little bit of a seance plus Ouija board when a few of the camp come out.
"It will be like a Celebrity Most Haunted."


I recently had the opportunity to contribute to Attorney At Work's "Ask the Experts" column. In particular, I and two other Legal Marketing Association members, tackled the question of whether law firm websites are a thing of the past and should be replaced with blogs.
You can read our responses here.
What do you think? Blog or website – or both?


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Put Up and Shut Up
Quick guess: Is this moment the happiest in Jerry Jones' life or, uh, not so much?
Robert Wilonsky | December 15, 2006 | 9:58am
This just in: Terrell Owens admits he isn't Superman. Yathink? Gawd.
If you're not going to Saturday's titanic Southlake Carroll-Allen High School semifinal at Texas Stadium or eschewing mainstream menus and taking in America's No. 1 tennis player Saturday night at the StarCenter in Frisco, I'm sure you'll be -- like me -- watching the Cowboys try to heave-ho their playoff train back on the tracks against the Atlanta Falcons. Oh, goody. We'll see T.O. botch at least one pass. After all, nobody this side of KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket) plays more drops.
Last weekend Owens sat down with ESPN's Michael Irvin and talked about how he felt so unloved that he was faking it on the football field. He said he was hurt by the fact coach Bill Parcells didn't as much as ask him one single question in the wake of his accidental overdose/attempted suicide, to which the Testy Tuna replied along the lines of, "Fuggoff, I'm not talking about that any more." (For the 47th time, don't they just look so cute together?)
The Cowboys this week unveiled a kick-ass new stadium and a heart-warming kinship, yet here's T.O. again stealing the spotlight by screaming that he's tired of the spotlight.
Of his 11 drops, Owens gets cozy with denial and went the ol' "I'm not perfect ... Michael Jordan missed a shot ... Tiger Woods missed a putt" route. But, dude, you lead the league in drops. T.O. would rather talk about finding "snitches" than catching passes. But all you need to know about his eternal mindset was in his opening remark last Sunday night after his team got its head bashed in by the New Orleans Saints at Texas Stadium. Said a visibly disappointed Owens, not about the final score but rather the media attendance: "Wow, not many people here." There's no "I" in team. But there are a "T" and an "O" in idiot. --Richie Whitt


Coaching employees is one of the most challenging (and rewarding) responsibilities of leadership. The problem is that most ascendant leaders don't receive coaching training until later (if at all) in their careers. This article, the first in a three-part series, will discuss what coaching is (and is not), guide you in developing your personal coaching philosophy, and outline practical tactics that you can use during coaching.
When I first meet with new leaders, I find they often have a great deal of enthusiasm about leading their team. Unfortunately, that fervor is typically blunted or tempered by confusion, apprehension, and a lack of clarity about the concept of coaching.
Coaching is not about correcting deficiencies, turning someone into a slightly different version of you, or having disciplinary conversations.
3) Capabilities, aptitude, competencies, and abilities of the individual being coached.
"Coaching" assumes you are privy to and have a firm grasp on your organization's mission and strategic objectives. If you don't understand these two components, you cannot be an effective coach. If you're starting with a lack of clarity about strategy and mission, you're going to need to do something scary—you will need to speak with someone who does understand those things and who can set you straight on where the organization is going.
No one ever likes to admit ignorance, but effective coaching requires you to grok the whole picture. Without this knowledge, it's likely that you also won't comprehend the underlying purpose of your department's work or your role within the organization.
b. Your department is not aligned with the rest of the organization—this does occasionally occur.
If the problem is your lack of understanding, but it is reflective of a broader organizational alignment issue, then developing your coaching skills is a secondary concern that must take a backseat until balance has been restored to The Force.
To competently coach people, you need to know them. Get to know their interests, their competencies, and why they work for the organization. These are all important questions that not only allow you to connect with the person you're coaching on a personal level but also to establish trust.
Do I feel connected or disconnected to the overall mission of the organization?
What do I really know about who I am, how others perceive me, and why/when I'm at my best?
What coaching have I previously received that was positive or negative, and what did I learn from those experiences?
Questions like these will open the door for you to develop your personal coaching philosophy, which Part 2 of this series covers.
Many people I work with decry coaching employees as "hard work." When I hear this and dig a bit deeper into why they feel that way, what I most often discover is that coaching others is not the problem; the problem is that the person I'm working with hasn't adequately prepared to be a coach. This is not an indictment of the individual but more of a reflection on the fact that leadership training often occurs too late. With that said, it's always easier to look outward than it is to look inward; good coaches don't shy away from a hard, internal review.
I invite you to download a copy of my eBook Leadership in Real Life, which discusses how to know yourself better. And don't miss Part 2 of this series, where you'll learn how to develop your personal coaching philosophy and discover how to coach more strategically.


Answer: I am very much against rubber tire mulches. They contain toxic materials and don't work well. They do absorb and hold too much heat, they don't break down and turn into humus and the look is not attractive. Stick with shredded mulches from native trees.
Rubber mulch, like some organic mulches, is a hazard if ignited. However, rubber mulch is more difficult to extinguish.
Although rubber mulch is generally safe, recycled tire rubber leachates do contain certain minerals and compounds which may cause concern in high concentrations. Recycled tire mulch can contain trace amounts of various minerals from the tire manufacturing process and other chemicals that may have been picked up during the tire's service life.
which are present in the tires which the mulch is made from.


Polarhome Community • View topic - Alpha Web Server: CGI, suEXEC?
If not, can support for CGI be added, allowing CGI scripts and programs to be run from at least each users [.public_html.cgi-bin] directory?
I'd also like to have suEXEC installed for the Alpha web server if possible. This module causes CGI scripts and programs to run with the permissions of the file owner instead of the web server owner. This allows CGI's to create or update files in the user's directories without having to make them all world-writable.


Here's the celebrity dirt you ordered.
Mini squad reunion alert – Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez have been hanging out again, with a brand new edition in the form of Pete Davidson's ex-girlfriend.
Gordon Ramsay's after getting on the wrong side of his neighbours with plans to cut down some ancient trees for his Ferrari.
The TV chef had already annoyed local residents by demolishing a 1920s property to construct his luxury new holiday home in the posh village of Rock in Cornwall. Not ideal now, in fairness.
He looks set to aggravate them even more, given he's been granted permission to knock down trees up to 100 years old so that he can build a driveway for his expensive fleet of cars.
St Minver Lowlands Parish Council said it was "disappointing" that the trees would be lost.
Ramsay's planning team admitted they messed up with the original plans for the driveway and would now need to fell the two mature trees in order to build it.
Eh, Jennifer Garner has a new fella?! And they're due to get engaged very soon?!
Yep, Us Weekly reports that Garner and Miller could be barreling towards a summer engagement.


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L'allée de Montfermeil est une voie de communication située au Raincy, à Clichy-sous-Bois et à Gagny. Elle suit en partie le tracé de la route départementale 117.

Situation et accès

Orienté ouest-est, elle part de l'avenue de la Résistance, traverse le rond-point de Montfermeil, puis le rond-point de la Limite, anciennement porte de Montfermeil.

Le côté nord passe ensuite sur le territoire de la ville de Clichy-sous-Bois, tandis que le sud se trouve à Gagny.

Elle se termine au carrefour de l'allée de Gagny et de la rue du 19-Mars-1962, dans le prolongement de l'avenue Jean-Jaurès à Montfermeil.

Origine du nom
Cette allée tient son nom de la ville de Montfermeil vers laquelle elle se dirige.

Historique
Cet axe était autrefois parcouru par le tramway du Raincy à Montfermeil.

Bâtiments remarquables et lieux de mémoire

 Église Sainte-Bernadette de Gagny, consacrée en 1936.
 Promenade de la Dhuis, sur le tracé de l'aqueduc de la Dhuis.
 Le 27 août 1944, Paul Tessier (SOE), capitaine de l'armée britannique, est arrêté par une patrouille allemande, et abattu par un tir de mitraillette, devant le numéro 229 de l'allée de Montfermeil. Une plaque à son nom a été apposée à cet endroit.

Notes et références

Transport routier en Île-de-France
Montfermeil
Montfermeil
Clichy-sous-Bois


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Burzynski's "research" - Part 1
Cancer quack Stanislaw Burzynski has 61 clinical trials listed on the register at http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?term=burzynski. Here is an analysis of the progress so far:
Withdrawn 7
Terminated 2
Unknown status 50
Not yet started 1
His supporters love to point to evidence of his success and can become quite abusive when anybody questions them. One piece of evidence they continually offer is the fact that he has a Phase 3 trial listed, but unfortunately that's not really evidence of anything as it's the trial that hasn't even started recruiting subjects yet. My guess is that Burzynski has no intention of ever starting that trial and it is just there for advertising purposes. No results have been published for the single completed trial, although it was supposedly finished in 2006.
Over the last two weeks his supporters have been calling all his detractors liars for saying that he doesn't publish anything and therefore there is no evidence of him curing anybody of anything. Oh yes, there are countless anecdotes and many web sites begging for money to send terminally ill children to Texas for a miracle cure. As Burzynski has been using web sites begging for money to save sick kids as an advertising gimmick for years not a lot has changed. What we want to see are papers in reputable peer-reviewed journals reporting on the results of double-blind randomised trials. You know, the sort of stuff we expect everyone else to do.
Why we are liars is because he has actually published something and I have been given links to it on at least a dozen occasions so I assume it's the best they've got. (One surprising thing is that some of his supporters seem to think that PubMed is a medical journal. It's an index to publications, so saying "He's been published in PubMed" is like saying "He must be legitimate. He's in the phone book".) Here it is.
Integr Cancer Ther. 2006 Mar;5(1):40-7.
Targeted therapy with antineoplastons A10 and AS2-1 of high-grade, recurrent, and progressive brainstem glioma.
Burzynski SR, Janicki TJ, Weaver RA, Burzynski B.
Department of Internal Medicine, Burzynski Clinic, Houston, Texas 77055, USA. srb@burzynskiclinic.com
BACKGROUND: Brainstem glioma carries the worst prognosis of all malignancies of the brain. Most patients with brainstem glioma fail standard radiation therapy and chemotherapy and do not survive longer than 2 years. Treatment is even more challenging when an inoperable tumor is of high-grade pathology (HBSG). The objective of this report is to summarize the outcome of patients with HBSG treated with antineoplastons in 4 phase 2 trials. Patients: The following group of 18 patients was evaluable: 4 patients with glioblastomas and 14 patients with anaplastic HBSG. Fourteen patients had diffuse intrinsic tumors. Twelve patients suffered from recurrence, and 6 patients did not have radiation therapy or chemotherapy.
METHODS: Antineoplastons, which consist of antineoplaston A10 (A10I) and AS2-1 injections, were given in escalating doses by intravenous injections. The median duration of antineoplaston administration was 5 months, and the average dosage of A10I was 9.22 g/kg/d and of AS2-1 was 0.31 g/kg/d. Responses were assessed by gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography.
RESULTS: The overall survival at 2 and 5 years was 39% and 22%, respectively, and maximum survival was more than 17 years for a patient with anaplastic astrocytoma and more than 5 years for a patient with glioblastoma. Progression-free survival at 6 months was 39%. Complete response was achieved in 11%, partial response in 11%, stable disease in 39%, and progressive disease in 39% of patients. Antineoplastons were tolerated very well with 1 case of grade 4 toxicity (reversible anemia).
CONCLUSION: Antineoplastons contributed to more than a 5-year survival in recurrent diffuse intrinsic glioblastomas and anaplastic astrocytomas of the brainstem in a small group of patients.
So let's summarise that.
Publication in high-impact journals is always better. The journal Integrative Cancer Therapies can be expected to be sympathetic to outlandish alternative medicine claims. In 2011 it had an Impact Factor of 2.136 and was cited 687 times. By contrast, the Journal of Clinical Oncology had an Impact Factor of 18.970 and gets cited about 114,000 times each year. (Nature has an IF of 36.280. That's where the Nobel Prize stuff gets published.)
It is not normal practice to divide the abstract up into the sections that are found in the main paper. I was taught that in my first year at university.
The paper was published in 2006, which is a long time ago in "cutting edge" medicine.
This is not a paper giving the results of a double-blind, randomised clinical trial.
It includes subjects from four trials, although which trials they are is not stated. It is not normal practice to aggregate trial data unless explicitly doing a meta-analysis and if that was the case the presentation of results would be completely different to what is given here.
There were only 18 patients in total across all four trials. I remember having sample size beaten into my head in my first year studying statistics and research methods.
"Fourteen patients had diffuse intrinsic tumors". What did the other four have?
"Twelve patients suffered from recurrence" so only six improved (and Burzynski counts not getting worse as an improvement).
"6 patients did not have radiation therapy or chemotherapy" so twelve did, simultaneously with Burzynski's treatment. (Many patients have to have had this sort of treatment before. Burzynski only accepts patients when all other options seem closed off. Desperate people are more ready to hand over money.)
There is nothing to say if the twelve patients who didn't get better were the ones having radiation or chemotherapy, but if they were then the maximum number of patients who could have "improved" with Burzynski's treatment alone is six. I suspect it was fewer.
More numbers:
All 18 subjects
Result % Subjects
Complete response 11% 2
Partial response 11% 2
Stable disease 39% 7
Progressive disease 39% 7
But wait -
5-year survival 22% 4
Progression-free 6 months 39% 7
By remarkable coincidence, those numbers add up to 100%, despite the fact that the rows are not independent (each figure includes the one on the row below it). Also, as everyone in the 2-year survival group must have made it beyond six months this seems to indicate that nobody ever gets worse after six months. This seems highly unlikely. The numbers are also inconsistent with the numbers in the first table - surely "Complete response" should not be only half of "5-year survival".
If this is the best research that Burzynski can come up with then I would hate to see the worst. In summary, a cobbled-together paper published in a low-impact journal six years ago which aggregates the results of four non-blinded trials with a small total number of subjects and which includes suspicious statistics is not about to get anyone the trip to Sweden that a cure for cancer would guarantee. If I had to rewrite the conclusion section of the paper it would say something like this:
CONCLUSION: We tried to find evidence that the treatments we have been selling at very high price for many years actually have an effect on the progression of certain forms of cancer. None of the clinical trials (that we pretend to do to get around the FDA's ruling about unproven treatments) were good enough on their own to show efficacy so we cherry-picked some of them, put them together as if they were independent studies suitable for meta-analysis and then added some numbers to make things look good. We reported the numbers in two inconsistent ways, hoping that nobody would notice that we didn't actually find any evidence of a cure. We even included an outlier to make the numbers look better, but we know that most people citing this paper will not know what that means or why it might be a problem.
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Monument Valley 2, Halide, and other awesome apps of the week | Cult of Mac
Monument Valley 2, Halide, and other awesome apps of the week
By Luke Dormehl • 10:00 am, June 11, 2017
'Appy weekend!
Photo: Ste Smith/Cult of Mac
Monument Valley 2, an M.C. Escher-inspired mobile gaming masterpiece, is just one of the brilliant titles we've picked out for this week's "Awesome Apps" roundup.
We've also got a great task manager, an ancient Egypt-themed strategy game, and a superb camera app. Check out our picks below.
Monument Valley 2
The sequel to 2014's brilliant Monument Valley, one of my favorite mobile games of all time, Monument Valley 2 offers more of the (brilliant) same.
For anyone who never played the original game, it works like this: You control a protagonist as she moves through an isometric landscape by tapping where you want her to go. To help her reach the end of each stage, however, you must manipulate an M.C. Escher-style piece of impossible architecture. That means raising and lowering platforms, or spinning physics-defying stairways and crosswalks, even if — actually, especially if — this means breaking the laws of perspective.
The sequel doesn't fundamentally change the formula, aside from adding a daughter who follows the protagonist around. It's not especially long, but this is still a gem of a game that you should totally drop everything to play. You can read my full review of it here.
Available for: iPhone, iPad
Get it from: App Store
Halide is packed with neat features that are intuitive to use.
Photo: Halide/Cult of Mac
There are a ton of camera apps available for iPhone. While you might think there are too many, to quote Alan Partridge, "another way of looking at it is, people like them, let's make some more of them."
Halide is one such app, only this is one you're definitely going to want to check out. Why? because it not only adds extra control to the stock camera app, it is also easier to use than Apple's built-in app. In addition to being one-handed simple, Halide adds power features like manual focus and RAW capture.
It's full of nice visual touches, too — including neat visual touches like its built-in manual resembling an old school paper manual. Check out our full write-up here.
Predynastic Egypt
Historical accuracy is one of the main selling points of this turn-based strategy game, created with the expertise of real Egyptologists. Spanning the years 5000 B.C. through the Unification of Lower and Upper Egypt in 3000 B.C., you lead a nomadic tribe in a quest to establish the first Egyptian state.
Along the way, you'll deal with wars, epidemics, political strife, religion, exploration, and plenty more in detailed simulations. It's also a good learning tool, since there are 48 historically-accurate technologies and cultural achievements to find out about, which come with their own descriptions.
An in-depth gaming experience you're definitely going to want to set aside some serious time for, Predynastic Egypt is one I'd recommend to any fan of the genre.
An Apple Design Award 2017 winner, Things 3 updates the already great, award-winning task manager to make it better than ever. Improvements over its predecessor include an all-new design, with more clarity, improved workflows, and better structure.
You also get the ability to add more details to checklists, calendar integration, natural language recognition, improved search, week planner, reminders, and way more.
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Beating the Burn: How We Got Here
An abbreviated history of firefighting efforts in the Golden State
Back Article Jun 11, 2019 By Sena Christian
When lightning sparked fires in the Sierra Nevada mountain range before European settlement in the 1850s, they were left to burn, naturally clearing out trees, shrubs and grasses. "Certainly in California, in fact in much of the Western United States, any of the dry forests historically had [natural] fire regimes in which they used to burn every 10 to 20 years roughly," says Malcolm North, a research scientist with the U.S. Forest Service and an affiliate professor of forest ecology at UC Davis. Early historians of California wrote about the smoky smell in the air through summer.
Native Americans relied on fire for things like herding animals for a big hunt and creating open space for villages. Cowboys used fire to sustain pastures for grazing. "When the cowboys left higher elevations, they would light behind them as they left — light the mountains or hills on fire," says Jennifer Hinckley, a fire management specialist formerly with the U.S. Forest Service and now with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Upon returning in the spring, there'd be new grass for cows and sheep to forage.
(Photo by Fred Greaves)
As miners arrived for the gold rush, trees were cut down to make way for the Transcontinental Railroad and to supply lumber for industry and settlements. Americans believed the country's natural resources were infinite. "There was so much of it, there's nothing we could do to put a dent in it, even though we were denting big-time," Hinckley says. "We were cutting down everything we could cut down."
Meanwhile, as cities grew overcrowded and polluted in the late 1880s, affluent Americans retreated outdoors for fishing, camping, hiking and bird-watching. Preservationists suggested nature had inherent value, and conservationists argued nature must be conserved for its economic benefit to people. In the early 1900s, President Theodore Roosevelt established 230 million acres of national parks, forests and monuments and oversaw the creation of the Forest Service in 1905.
Then in 1910, forest fires broke out in Montana and tore through the Northern Rocky Mountains in what came to be known as the Great Fire. "The Forest Service actually managed to save a bunch of towns and people, and it became very clear that in terms of establishing a mission … that fire was going to be one of the things that was going to keep the Forest Service financially alive with politicians in [Washington, D.C.]," North says. "It became a real central focus for the agency itself and has remained so."
By the 1920s, a shift to fire suppression had taken hold. While some scientists at the time argued that the right kind of fire benefitted forest ecosystems, their voices were overshadowed, North says. Outdoor recreationists didn't much care for wildfire, and it posed a danger to towns and the emerging commercial timber industry. "A lot of people were saying, 'Hmm, we could be growing a lot of board feet and more fiber if we got rid of fire,' " North says. "That was definitely one of the reasons fire was put out."
Over the ensuing decades, wildfires continued to be squashed. In the 1960s, Americans grappled with the effects of water and air pollution, which led Congress to pass legislation that further restricted the use of fire as a tool. By the 1990s, what had become a flourishing timber industry was about to enter a period of conflict and consolidation that would set up some of the conditions — and challenges — California faces today in effectively managing its forests.
Beating the Burn
California's plan to deal with deadly and devastating wildfires — including controlled burns, thinning and a restoration economy — is ambitious; is the state up to the task?
Past approaches to forest fires have been a misinformed regime of fire suppression: extinguishing all flames quickly. Now California's forests are overgrown tinderboxes-in-waiting; the approach is changing, but there's a lot of work to do.
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The Mission – October 2015
" Skid Row is horrible, like a nightmare . . . I completely wasted my life out there."
"When you're an addict, living on a sidewalk, Thanksgiving's just another day to get high," says Willie, who called the streets home for almost 25 years. "Skid Row is horrible, like a nightmare. Crowds of people smoking crack, shooting heroin, drinking. Rape. Prostitutes. I've seen folks get their heads busted in for $2. I saw one guy crawl into a dumpster and get eaten up by rats. I completely wasted my life out there." Skid Row is a long way from his middle-class childhood, when his life felt stable, when Thanksgivings were spent with family, good food, warm feelings, and laughter. Before the pain and confusion of his parents' divorce sent him into an emotional tailspin, and he started hanging with the wrong friends. At 22, Willie discovered crack, and his life spiraled completely out of control. Drugs cost him his savings and his job. Then his home. He ended up in and out of jail too many times to count. When he was free, he ate, and sometimes slept, at the Missions on Skid Row, including Union Rescue Mission. "Crack and alcohol finally sent me to my knees, crying out for help," he recalls. "I knew if I stayed out there much longer, I was going to die. I had people who cared about me — sisters, my mom, nieces and nephews. I needed help, so I came to Union Rescue Mission on November 11, 2013."
" I FEEL SO GOOD ABOUT MYSELF. I'M THANKFUL GOD NEVER GAVE UP ON ME."
Willie took advantage of everything Union Rescue Mission offers: Bible studies, chapel service, physical fitness, work therapy, counseling with his chaplains, health care — he even got new teeth through the Mission's dental clinic. But one of the highlights was Thanksgiving, he says. "I was here the past two Thanksgivings," he recalls. "You can't believe the number of people who come here to serve folks like me. Those folks really care, and they make a whole lot of people on these streets happy.
In fact, last Thanksgiving I got to help serve, too. "When you start ministering to someone else, all of a sudden, all your problems don't seem so big. So now, whenever I can help someone else out, I'm going to do it. "God and my chaplains helped me through the whole program," he continues. "This is the longest I've been sober in over 25 years. I'm healthy. I got my family back. I'm engaged to be married. And I feel so good about myself. I'm thankful God never gave up on me."
Thanksgiving Meals and a Way Home — With Your Help Today
All year-round at Union Rescue Mission, your gifts offer precious men, women, and children experiencing homelessness with safe shelter, nutritious meals, long-term care — and even the help they need to find their way home. Thank you! But right now, due to California's ongoing drought and a severe drop in food donations, we're facing a severe crisis this holiday season — our busiest time of year. We desperately need your help! Your gift of $33.74 will provide 14 holiday meals!
It still costs just $2.41 to provide a holiday meal to a hungry man, woman, or child. This season, we expect to serve more than 180,000 meals. Your gift of $33.74 will help feed 14 people, $67.48 will help feed 28 people, or any amount you can send will help. So please give generously. Thank you!
To put your gift to work even faster, go to urm.org/ThxFamily
Special Opportunity to Love Your Neighbor!
On November 14, URM will hand out 3,000 special kits to all neighbors on Skid Row. These kits are filled with shampoo, soap, toothpaste, mouthwash, deodorant, razors, socks, and a special invitation to celebrate Thanksgiving with us at Union Rescue Mission. For just $3, you can provide one of these special kits to one of our Skid Row neighbors — and add a personalized blessing signed by YOU! Please check the special $3 box on your remit form, then sign the Blessing Card with your first name only. It's a wonderful way to love your neighbor this holiday season!
I grew up in East L.A. I never thought I'd end up on the streets of Skid Row. But I got hooked on alcohol. I lost a good job. I lost my marriage. My drinking got so bad, my own family didn't want me around. So I ended up homeless here. By October 2013, I was broken down, sick, crying, and defeated by life. Then I came to Union Rescue Mission. Thanks to this place, I opened my life to God. I found what I'd been missing all my life. I found the life God has for me. My family has welcomed me back and I'm even going back to school!
Notes from Andy
A Day of Gratitude and a Moment of Joy
People are pouring into Skid Row like never before. The sidewalks outside Union Rescue Mission are crowded and I've never seen so much desperation. It's just chaos out there. But every Thanksgiving — thanks to your generous support — we take these precious folks away from their desperation for a day of joy. With music playing on the sidewalks, dancing in the streets, and the smoke of fried turkeys wafting down the streets, we make sure our guests enjoy the most splendid Thanksgiving ever — and maybe a reminder of how loved they really are. And when that happens, some will take the courageous step to leave the streets behind and transform their lives. Celebrating Thanksgiving at Union Rescue Mission gives us the chance to show our gratitude for all God has given to us by giving ourselves to those who have nothing at all. How well you and I pull this off is a true reflection of how grateful we really are. So I invite you to join with us again this year, offering your time and your financial support to display to the world our thankfulness and our love for others.
The Mission – September 2015
The Mission – August 2015
"For most of my life, the world viewed me as trash," says Gary, 57. "But God used Union Rescue Mission to make me a treasure, and to show the world what He can do with someone like me."
Gary grew up in poverty, the son of a struggling mother who had difficulty providing for her family. "We never had what the other kids had," he recalls. "They dressed nicer than we did. I guess that affected my self-esteem."
By high school, Gary was snatching purses, burglarizing homes, stealing cars, and gambling on the streets. Then his brother introduced him to crack cocaine. He was immediately hooked, and his life spiraled even more out of control. Between 1998 and 2012, he was constantly in and out of prison. And when he wasn't in prison, he wasted his life away on Skid Row.
"I wanted to change," he says. "I would see other people get clean, but I didn't t
hink it would ever happen for me. Then one day around 1999, the Lord spoke to my spirit: 'Satan's trying to destroy you. But I got you.'"
It took 10 more years to see the fruit of God's promise. In 2009, Gary surrendered his life to Jesus Christ in prison. Before long, he was leading Bible studies and preaching in chapel services, and he even felt God's call to one day go into ministry.
When Gary was released from prison in 2012, God led him straight to Union Rescue
Mission. "I needed a place to stay and I wanted to be in a stable Christian community," he says. "The Mission fed me, gave me clothes, all of that. But the most important thing is,
they raised me up in the Word of God, and they gave me purpose and direction. The chaplains here modeled for me what ministry is all about."
Soon Gary joined Central City Community Church, where he now serves as an assistant to
the pastor. He even got married for the first time in February 2013, and in July 2014, Union Rescue Mission hired Gary full-time to drive a truck for their new thrift store in Covina.
"I'm a truck driver," he says. "I pick up used items that we sell at the thrift store. But it's more than that. I know what I'm doing is going to benefit others and to God's glory. So I drive my truck with joy, because I know I'm a part of this incredible ministry. I'm a part of something glorious and honoring to God."
Real Jobs for Real People — Thanks to You!
by Glynn Coleman, Employment Skills Specialist
Many of the men and women who come to Union Rescue Mission have a spotty employment history, a lack of marketable job skills, and a history of felonies that can hurt their chances at gaining full-time employment and becoming self- sufficient. These precious people need more than meals and shelter, they need jobs. Real jobs.
And that's where you come in. Your financial gifts and support to URM do far more than provide meals and shelter. Your gifts help transform lives and help prepare men and women experiencing homelessness with job-preparedness training, work skills, and even job opportunities with employers all over Los Angeles.
Thanks to you, our Employment Program has already helped more than 100 men and women find sustainable employment that has not only helped them support themselves, but often their families, as well.
Summer heat on Skid Row is dangerous for the men and women who call these streets home. They desperately need your help. Yet every summer, donations to Union Rescue Mission drop way off, threatening our ability to meet their needs. Your gift today will provide cold water, cool shelter, nutritious meals, and another day of hope to precious people who need your help the most this summer. So please send the most generous gift you can today. Thank you!
— Anytime it's 85 degrees or hotter, we pass out cold bottled water on Skid Row. Water Walks take place Monday through Friday at 2:00 p.m. Text the word WATERWALK to 51555 to receive notifications for our next Water Walk.
Because of You!
Annette's Story
In 2013, I ended up homeless with my two small children. It got so bad, we had to live in a tent for awhile. Then we came to Union Rescue Mission and Hope Gardens. Hope Gardens helped me give up alcohol and drugs, helped me get closer to God, and they helped me in so many other positive ways. Today, I'm still living at Hope Gardens, but I have a job now and soon I will move into my own place with my children. All I want is to be able to support my children, and thanks to Hope Gardens and generous friends like you, I'm able to do that now.
More than Meals
Struggling men and women who come to Union Rescue Mission seeking help need more than meals and shelter. They need more than sobriety. They need jobs. Real jobs.
I know one guy here at the Mission who came to us after a 20-year addiction. He's clean, sober, and ready to go home. But he's scared. What will happen to him when he leaves? He worries that if he can't find work, if he can't support himself with dignity and self-respect, he may end up right back where he started.
Thankfully, he's now participating in our Employment Program and going to school. He knows we will provide him with the skills, the support, and the connections he needs. And we will walk with him every step of they way until he finds a much-needed job. But really it's you. Your financial gifts to URM help provide men and women experiencing homelessness with training, work skills, and even job opportunities with employers all over Los Angeles.
A life transformed, followed by a job, followed by a home. That's our strategy. But you're the one who makes it happen.
Lost Angels Children's Project – Year Two!
Lost Angels Children's Project founder Aaron Valencia is at it again! This year he is building a 1936 Ford Coupe to giveaway at the 13th annualVentura Nationals Custom Cars & Motorcycle Show on Saturday, September 5th.
Last year, the Lost Angels Children's Project car build giveaway raised money to off-set the cost of the build plus donate $17,110 each to the youth department of Union Rescue Mission and Grace Resource Center.
This generous donation from Lost Angels Children's project was used to buy washers and dryers for the families currently living at URM, recreational and fun activities, "Horses in the Hood" camp, afterschool supplies, school supplies, and other essential needs for our children, youth, and families!
This year, Aaron and his dedicated team are working even harder to raise more money and double what they raised last year! This can only happen with your help. Purchase a beautifully designed poster for $20 and you will automatically get free ticket to enter a chance to win the custom made 1936 Ford Coupe. There is NO limit on how many posters you can purchase.
The more you buy, the more chances you have to win the car and the more money raised for children who are experiencing homelessness.
To purchase your entry to win please contact Christine at (213) 347-6342 or ccalderon@urm.org.
The Mission – July 2015
To anyone else, it was just a silly child's necklace, a worthless souvenir from Disneyland.
But for William, it was the last remaining memento of his 12-year-old son, whom he hadn't seen in eight years. After a lifetime of broken relationships and abandonment, William felt alone and hopeless. First it was his mother, a troubled alcoholic who preferred the streets over her children. His grandmother was in and out of his life. He never knew his father, and after he married the woman of his dreams, she tragically died less than a year later.
"I was so depressed, I went into a tailspin and started drinking more and more. I really struggled," William recalls. "Then I got married again, way too soon. I never dealt with my grief. And because of my drinking, I burned that relationship out in five years. But a wonderful thing came out of that marriage. My son, Judah."
But two years after the marriage ended, William's ex-wife disappeared with his son. "I lost all hope," William says. "I started drinking all day, every day, and I ended up homeless. Over the next four years, I lost everything, all the reminders of my son."
Everything but a necklace. William knew he needed help.
So in January 2013, he came to Union Rescue Mission. Over the next year, he poured himself into weekly counseling sessions with Chaplain Mike McIntire, 12-step classes, Bible studies, and prayer. As he got closer to God and his burdens slowly lifted, William began to see the same hurt he had felt in the eyes of the other men at the Mission. So he began loving and ministering to them. Before long, he no longer felt alone.
Yet he never stopped praying to see his son again. "Then one day, out of the blue, my son found me on Facebook," William says. "I finally got my son back."
In fact, on Easter Sunday 2015, Judah, now 12, visited William at Union Rescue Mission. At the sunrise service, as they celebrated Christ's resurrection and new life in Him, William turned to Judah and gave him the necklace he'd carried for eight years.
"This necklace means the world to me, son," he said. "This is what kept me going, even in the midst of my addiction and all my running away from God, from all my relationships, and even from myself. It's all I had left of you. Take care of this for the rest of your life."
It was just a child's necklace. But it saved a father's life.
I love William's story. As a chaplain at Union Rescue Mission, I see men like him everyday — men wounded from broken relationships with friends, family, and with God. Sometimes those wounds are consequences of bad choices they've made. Other times, the broken relationships are suffered from no fault of their own.
But one thing is clear: People don't end up on Skid Row because of drugs and alcohol. They end up here because of some kind of relationship trauma they've never recovered from. In fact, the single biggest common denominator I see among addicted and homeless men and women is the overwhelming grief they feel at being completely alone.
But you and I know they're NOT alone. They're not alone because there's a God who loves them. They're not alone because we surround them with unconditional love and friendship. They're not alone because compassionate people like YOU care.
If men and women come here wounded by broken relationships, they heal through loving ones. And thanks to your giving hearts, hurting and broken people who come to Union Rescue Mission have the time and space they need to build new relationships and reconcile old ones — especially in families.
Everyone who comes here is someone's father, mother, brother, sister, son, or daughter. So every time you invest in someone here, you do far more than help to restore a life. You help heal and restore entire families — healing that will offer hope for generations to come.
Loved and Accepted
I bet if you were to survey 100 people here on the streets of Skid Row about what led them here, 93% would say a broken relationship. Whether that relational trauma led to some kind of mental health issues or led to their addiction issues, they've never healed from the grief and pain. So by the time they come to Union Rescue Mission, they have nowhere left to go and no one else to turn to.
But that's where you come in. With your support, we encourage them to trust again and risk building new relationships. We teach them how to overcome grief and loss, how to overcome anger, how to overcome addiction, and how to turn to the Lord for help. And that's most important, because when they have a relationship with their Lord, they are embraced by the only perfect Father.
I can't tell you how many times I've seen people go through our program and return home to start over as healthy parents, sons or daughters, brothers or sisters. We all need to be loved and accepted. There is no greater joy than seeing that happen. But it happens here, because caring people like you make it happen.
Kenneth Chancey, Overcoming All Odds
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Just as The Great Recession became apparent through the exploding numbers of two parent & single father & increased single mom families, Union Rescue Mission made the decision to be guided by our history & The Lord & step up to meet the need.
We opened up a 5th floor wing to make a place for this throng of families.
Among the families, was a single dad, with a son & a daughter, he had recently been reunited with & rescued from foster care.
We knew right away there was something very special about the 15 year old son, Kenneth Chancy.
Despite, living in a van, going hungry, suffering the devastation of homelessness, experiencing the challenges of foster care, Kenneth was a straight A student, Student Body President, & the starting Fullback on the Varsity Football Team.
Immediately, due to to Great Recession, the media descended on URM. When they came, they were very interested in this remarkable young man. ABC, CNN & many more interviewed this young man who had his sights set Harvard & becoming a brain surgeon.
Kenneth was grabbed up by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, flew to CNN in Atlanta, & assisted with a brain surgery. He no longer desired to be a brain surgeon.
He was introduced to NFL Star Nambdi Asomuogh, & was mentored by Nambdi & along with several other bright students taken on a tour of colleges all over the U.S.
Along Kenneth's journey, he befriended Mayor Antonio Villagarosa, Congresswoman Karen Bass, TV News personality Lou Parker, & many more.
One day, Kenneth Found himself sitting with the Duke & Duchess of Tour, Now Prince William & Princess Katherine.
URM's own Kitty Davis-Walker, VP of Public Relations, served as an "Auntie" to Kenneth all along the way. Always looking out for him & connecting him with the opportunities mentioned above. I had opportunity to be his firm & loving Uncle at times.
Two weeks ago, Kenneth's journey continued as he graduated from Loyola Marymount University & his story was told around the world, including The Huffington Post & ABC World News Tonight.
Kenneth was honored by Andre Ethier & The LA Dodgers on Memorial Day & we at Union Rescue Mission are honored to continue with Kenneth on his amazing ride.
Needed: Volunteers for Meal Service at Hope Gardens Family Center
Volunteer Jobs
We are in need of volunteers to help prepare and serve meals to the women, children, and senior ladies at Hope Gardens Family Center located near Sylmar, CA. If you are interested in helping and meet the criteria below, please contact Monique Johnson, at mjohnson@urm.org.
Shifts: Monday-Sunday
Age Requirement: 14 years and older
Volunteer(s) must be able to drive or coordinate a ride to property, as there is no bus access or shuttle service.
We need up to 3 volunteers per shift.
If you would like to serve, contact Monique (mjohnson@urm.org) to confirm your service and schedule a shift date. All Volunteer Activities must be scheduled/confirmed in advance. Thank you!
Special 2015 Sales Event – URM Thrift Store
The Union Rescue Mission thrift store is humming along as we roll in to 2015. It continues to provide needed resources to combat homelessness in LA and create jobs for URM graduates and community members alike. As we begin 2015 we wanted to celebrate its success and say thank you by hosting a 2015 Special Sales Event!
32 in. Flat Screen TV raffle (tickets given with any sale)
Free soft drinks and kettle corn
Items up to 50% off
Saturday January 10th from 9am to 6pm
URM thrift Store
280 E. Arrow Hwy
Please join us for the fun and bring your friends!
Christmas Treat for the pets of Skid Row!
Last weekend, the pets of Skid Row received a Christmas treat! Hollywood Grooming, a mobile pet grooming company, came to URM to brighten the day of Skid Row residents – and their pets! Offering grooming services to dogs and cats, Hollywood Grooming brought smiles to the faces of pets and their owners as they helped them out with something they might not otherwise be able to afford. They also partnered with Pet Express to provide free leashes, collars, food and treats!
Nearly 40 dogs and cats were beautified during the event! Pets are a part of many people's lives, including people who are experiencing homelessness. We are so thankful to Hollywood Grooming for recognizing this, and coming to Skid Row to bless so many people!
The Mission – December 2014
I love gardening. Every day after work, instead of grabbing a beer, I grab the hose and tend to all the plants in my garden, examining each one, admiring the veins and the complexity in each leaf — each one a gift from God. It's so peaceful and serene. And it reminds me how far I've come in my life.
It was my grandmother who taught me how to garden when I was kid.
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She also raised me, taught me how to cook, and gave me my values and morals. She was the center of my world and I thought she'd live forever.
But one day in 2004, I got a call at work. When my aunt told me my grandmother had died, it's like everything around me stopped. I didn't know how to handle it. So I bottled up all my feelings inside — feelings of hurt, sadness, grief, and frustration. Then, as the days rolled by, all those feelings started growing into anger and rage.
I never talked to anyone about it. Instead, I turned to alcohol. I'd start drinking after work. One drink turned into two drinks, and two drinks turned into too many drinks. And the more I drank, the angrier I got. And violent. I started getting into fights and going to jail on battery charges. I also had two DUIs, in 2006 and 2010. But I couldn't stop drinking.
One night, however, I found myself drunk, sitting at a train stop on the Green Line. I couldn't live like that anymore. I screamed out loud that I needed help. And that's when I went downtown and walked into Union Rescue Mission.
I immediately started anger management classes to get that under control. Then I took 8 months of classes to deal with my last DUI and get my driver's license back. And I went back to school and studied microenterprise at Pepperdine University.
I also opened up for the first time about my grandmother. My chaplain helped me realize that she's in a better place and that helped me let her go. I spent three years at Union Rescue Mission. In short, I grew up and today I'm moving forward with my life. I'm working for Toyota, I have a wife, and I've even opened my first bank account ever. I guess if I have a New Year's wish, it's to establish enough credit to buy a new car in 2015.
Looking back, I see now that Union Rescue Mission, like my grandmother, taught me how to garden — the garden of my own life.
Union Rescue Mission's Gift Catalog
Union Rescue Mission's Gift Catalog is a wonderful way to give someone experiencing homelessness the gift of hope this holiday. And when you purchase a gift on behalf of a loved one, you can also send them an e-card to let them know you've made this special gift in their honor. Please visit our online Gift Catalog today at urm.org/GiftCatalog
The season of Advent and the days leading up to Christmas are a wonderful time for thoughtful reflection and joyful anticipation as we celebrate the birth of our Savior. This holiday season, please sign up to receive Rev. Andy's Advent series of daily devotional emails. Each day from November 20 until December 25, you'll receive scripture and messages focused on the joy of the season. To sign up for these special email devotionals, please visit urm.org/AdventDevotionals
Instruments of God's Love
In her excellent book 'Pursuing God's Will Together', Ruth Haley Barton writes, "One of the first lessons we learn about discernment — from Jesus, anyway — is that it will always tend toward concrete expressions of love with real people rather than theoretical conversations about theology and philosophy. Such conversations are valuable only if they eventually lead us to more concrete expressions of love for the real people who are in need around us."
To me, that's what caring people like you and your support of Union Rescue Mission — are all about. You don't just talk about homelessness, you take concrete steps to do something about it. And in 2014, your faithful support led to a number of concrete expressions of love for those in need on Skid Row. You helped us expand Hope Gardens to house even more moms and kids.
To expand our jobs program and start a thrift store to help more men and women find employment. To open space to provide older men on Skid Row with permanent
shelter and care. And to improve our Learning Center to help more men and women achieve their academic goals. Working together, taking concrete steps, we'll continue to make a real difference for people experiencing homelessness in 2015.
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