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Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
A Community Resource for Identifying and Understanding Attacks
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This attack utilizes a REST(REpresentational State Transfer)-style applications' trust in the system resources and environment to obtain sensitive data once SSL is terminated.
Rest applications premise is that they leverage existing infrastructure to deliver web services functionality. An example of this is a Rest application that uses HTTP Get methods and receives a HTTP response with an XML document. These Rest style web services are deployed on existing infrastructure such as Apache and IIS web servers with no SOAP stack required.
Unfortunately from a security standpoint, there frequently is no interoperable identity security mechanism deployed, so Rest developers often fall back to SSL to deliver security. In large data centers, SSL is typically terminated at the edge of the network - at the firewall, load balancer, or router. Once the SSL is terminated the HTTP request is in the clear (unless developers have hashed or encrypted the values, but this is rare). The adversary can utilize a sniffer such as Wireshark to snapshot the credentials, such as username and password that are passed in the clear once SSL is terminated. Once the adversary gathers these credentials, they can submit requests to the web service provider just as authorized user do. There is not typically an authentication on the client side, beyond what is passed in the request itself so once this is compromised, then this is generally sufficient to compromise the service's authentication scheme.
This table shows the other attack patterns and high level categories that are related to this attack pattern. These relationships are defined as ChildOf and ParentOf, and give insight to similar items that may exist at higher and lower levels of abstraction. In addition, relationships such as CanFollow, PeerOf, and CanAlsoBe are defined to show similar attack patterns that the user may want to explore.
This table shows the views that this attack pattern belongs to and top level categories within that view.
This table specifies different individual consequences associated with the attack pattern. The Scope identifies the security property that is violated, while the Impact describes the negative technical impact that arises if an adversary succeeds in their attack. The Likelihood provides information about how likely the specific consequence is expected to be seen relative to the other consequences in the list. For example, there may be high likelihood that a pattern will be used to achieve a certain impact, but a low likelihood that it will be exploited to achieve a different impact.
A Related Weakness relationship associates a weakness with this attack pattern. Each association implies a weakness that must exist for a given attack to be successful. If multiple weaknesses are associated with the attack pattern, then any of the weaknesses (but not necessarily all) may be present for the attack to be successful. Each related weakness is identified by a CWE identifier.
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Whatever happened to Jay? After his departure from Diablo 3 Jay moved on to work on the now cancelled Project Titan sci-fi MMO. With that now canned, Jay has since moved on to World of Warcraft as a designer which is revealed in a list of credits for the upcoming expansion Warlords of Draenor.
Jay has worked on WoW before as part of the Strike team for Mists of Pandaria so WoW is not new to Jay.
If you're new to Diablo 3, Jay Wilson was the original Game Director who resigned his position after backlash from the community about the game's design and direction. He also admitted that that the auction house actually "hurt the game" during his GDC panel which was a real insight into his time working on the game.

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One of Azerbaijan's foremost new-breed wineries
From the north shore of the Absheron peninsular to the Russian border at the Samur River lies a narrow strip of coastal plain from which rises the 'nose' of the Greater Caucasus mountains. Historically the route of traders and invaders, these lands were guarded by three fortified pinch-points with fortresses whose ruins still create impressive scenes for travellers. As a wine terroir, the land is a curiosity, with a rich minerality, swirling khazri sea breezes and concentrated sunshine producing wines that can be explosively fiery and highly original.
A short drive from Baku, Marandi wine company (Fireland vineyards), is one of Azerbaijan's foremost new-breed wineries, welcoming to visitors and producing a growing range of well-balanced wines, many grown in Fireland vineyards that lie on the Absheron Peninsula between two salt lakes, close to some intriguing mud volcanoes. As the winery has expanded, it has also sought to include a portfolio of cool-air grapes for which it has additional vineyards in the Caucasian foothill regions of Oguz and Sheki. In all, some 15 grape varieties are now cultivated on 160 hectares of land producing several wine ranges: refined Yalli, premium Terra Caspea and Terra Caucasea plus the softer, easy-drinking Ilkin table wines.
Terra Caspea Vermentino – The Italian grape Vermentino can produce dry whites with a light, fresh yet subtly complex flavour. Unless you're familiar with Sardinian wines (or Ligurian Pigato), the easiest comparison is with a Sauvignon Blanc albeit with quince-like fruit notes and a potentially buttery texture. Caspea Vermentino is matured for 14 months, partially (30%) in oak.
Yalli Red – Aiming to compete with a sophisticated Bordeaux, the dry red Yalli is an assemblage of pre-oaked individual cépages Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Petit Verdot plus local Madrasa. Once combined the wine receives another 12 months in barrels to create a balanced tannic red that will mature further in the bottle. The name Yalli refers to a traditional shuffling ring- of line-dance. Certain ancient petroglyphs found at Gobustan south appear to show just such a dance and it is these Neolithic style artworks that adorn the wine labels.
Marandi wine company (Fireland vineyards), as the closest winery to Baku, a day-trip excursion is easy to organize and the popular beaches of Novkhani are nearby. Or you could work a winery tour into a more extensive exploration of the peninsula whose numerous attractions include photogenic several fortress towers and a series of off-beat cultural curiosities. Neither Caspian Coast nor Merit Brand r offer tours or tastings at present but this might change in coming years. If so, consider combining visits with the climbing of Beshbarmag – that's a very photogenic rocky outcrop with mystical cultural significance that rises abruptly beside the Baku-Siyazan highway. Or perhaps go kitesurfing at the Shuraabad lagoon… but preferably before the wine tastings.
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Chronus customer Tess Fyalka, Director of Employee Development and Engagement at O'Shea, walked us through how their onboarding and career development programs work. We've provided an edited video and transcript of the interview for your convenience.
Why Onboarding & Career Development?
Tess Fyalka, Director of Employee Development and Engagement at O'Shea: Founded in 1902, O'Shea is a commercial construction company based in central Illinois . We've enjoyed steady growth over our 113-year history, but in the past 10-12 years in particular, we have been expanding at a very rapid rate and we're moving into new communities across the region.
O'Shea enjoys an excellent reputation for quality and we also enjoy a really strong culture of respect within the organization. But in the immortal words of leadership guru and author Marshall Goldsmith, "What got you here, won't get you there." And like many on this call today, we know that to be true.
When we bring new hires into the organization, they're bringing their processes, procedures, and their cultures from their previous organizations, and that is for better and for worse. As we grow and enter new markets, our objective is to be deliberate in creating systems that will ensure our new hires learn the O'Shea way in terms of our processes, procedures and culture.
Additionally, we really want our new hires to be actively engaged in the organization because they've been integrated into the organization, and that they appreciate what this organization is all about. And again, that doesn't just happen by dropping someone into a position. You really have to be deliberate about creating that, and so that's what brought us to Chronus.
Goals for O'Shea's Career Development Programs
In December of 2014, we purchased our Chronus software and began creating a system for onboarding and employee development. Our goals for onboarding were to create a deliberate process for integrating new hires into the organization so they can become proficient, and frankly profitable, faster. We wanted to set up our new hires for success, and we wanted to ensure they're trained in the O'Shea way and best practices.
We also wanted to create a process for ongoing feedback. And we wanted to streamline the paperwork process. Of course, we really wanted to perpetuate the culture of the organization.
How O'Shea's Onboarding Works
If we look at the structure and the implementation for new hires, there are two phases. The first phase is the pre-boarding phase, and it begins with me.
It starts two weeks prior to the new hire's start date. We connect the individual to the portal so to complete any necessary paperwork, read the handbook, watch videos about O'Shea. This also allows the new hire to kind of get to know teammates and others within the organization by reviewing the profiles that are on the portal.
So I remain a primary contacts within the first three months, and then phase two begins, which is essentially the new hires' week-by-week training program with various subject-matter experts within the organization.
For example, the new hire's first week might involve training on our safety programs, it might include an introduction to our accounting system, and so forth. So, for each week of the training program, it's spelled out who the new hire needs to contact, what outcomes are expected, and what he or she needs to achieve during each individual training session.
While the onboarding or training template is customized for each new hire, it's important to note that I'm not creating these from scratch. So, these templates were created in skeleton or general templates early on. Additionally, I'll meet with the new hire throughout that three-month phase one process, and just talk to them and assess, how are things going, what do we need to improve, what's really worked for you. We continually want to fine tune, and improve, and change as we go along.
How O'Shea's Career Development Works
So let's look at the career development portion of the program. Now, once the new hire completes the onboarding process, they're integrated into our employee development program. So now, it's what we refer to at O'Shea as our player development program, and through this initiative, employees work with their supervisor, and they identify SMART goals. As I'm sure you know what SMART goals are: Strategic, Measurable, Actionable, Relevant, and Timely.
These goals are tied to three things:
- A strategic plan
- The vision of the department
- The individual's personal career and development goals
We don't want to be creating goals simply to create goals. It's really important that each goal helps the individual grow as a professional within the organization. It also encourages leaders within the departments to really consider opportunities to improve their departments. And it ensures that everyone is considering their goals from a strategic standpoint.
Now let's look at the mentoring connection plans within the career development portion of the program. These are designed to ensure that new hires complete training on specific processes and procedures.
We have been very fortunate in that generally this is being embraced very well and the percentages are nice. But what's really important in our organization of course, is that number one, new hires feel that they are truly set up to succeed. They're not just left to figure it out. And number two, the O'Shea team understands the value of the onboarding process and supports it.
Now, as far as using Chronus for employee development, this has allowed us to get goal plans out of the electronic files and in front of employees so that we are actively, truly developing them. These aren't just, "Oh yes, goals we created at the beginning of the year, but we don't really revisit them." So, the career development program allows us to keep goals in front of the employees, just like the onboarding program helps us make sure we're tracking where our new hires are in terms of their training on our systems.
Question & Answer
Kira Fickenscher, Customer Success Manager at Chronus: Great presentation, Tess! Now let's move on to Q&A.
So, Tess, what are some of the biggest or most interesting learnings you've had from deploying both the onboarding program and the career development piece of it?
Tess: I would have to say the onboarding is so much fun in that you're really helping people be more successful at what they do. If I had to say that there is a challenge, the challenge is always in changing behaviors and helping people who maybe didn't have these opportunities in their careers appreciate how critical they are. I can tell you one gentleman always says, "I just so wish someone had done that for me." I really think it speaks to how our workplace is changing in how we're setting up our existing people and our new hires to succeed.
Kira: Have you noticed changes in the new hires since starting strategic onboarding compared to what you noticed prior to deploying the program?
Tess: Most definitely. The difference in where individuals who came on to O'Shea before the onboarding program and after is night and day. There's no greater testament to this working. So we're going back and sort of re-boarding individuals who came on before the program.
Kira: That's great. You might have mentioned this earlier, but does your onboarding program cover pre-boarding prior to the employee start date and how do you handle that?
Tess: Yes, they are brought into the system two weeks prior to their start date. They can begin to become familiar with us and complete the assessments as time allows so their first day isn't spent filling out forms. Then they can hit the ground running and really get into more substantive learning and meeting people.
Kira: Thanks Tess for telling us more about your program!


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Emirates celebrates 10 years of flying to Brazil
DUBAI, October 23, 2017
Emirates marks its 10th year of service to Brazil this month, having carried over 2 million passengers since its first flight to Brazil in October 2007.
The number of passengers carried annually in Emirates' first year of operations – over 26,000 in 2007—has grown to over 288,000 passengers in 2016.
In 2012, Emirates expanded its presence in Brazil by adding a daily service between Dubai and Rio de Janeiro. Underlining its commitment to the Brazilian market, Emirates started to operate the first ever scheduled commercial Airbus A380 flight to South America in March this year. The switch to the A380 offers a total of 959 additional seats per week in each direction meeting a growing demand from travellers on the route. The most travelled destinations from Brazilian passengers over the last few years have been Dubai, Bangkok, Shanghai, Tokyo and Hong Kong.
According to Brazil's Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services, Brazilian exports to the UAE grew 87 per cent ($1.2 billion to $2.24 billion) and overall trade grew 72 per cent ($1.5 billion to $2.6 billion) between 2007 and 2016. The UAE is the second biggest importer of Brazilian products among Arab countries, with imports worth $2.24 billion in 2016. This amount represents almost 40 per cent of all Brazilian exports to the GCC countries, of which food produce and products formed a major component. The UAE in particular is an active trader with Brazil, with two-way trade reaching $2.6 billion last year. The vast majority of this trade was exports from Brazil, leaving a significant trade balance of $1.9 billion in favour of Brazil.
Emirates SkyCargo has also played an important role in connecting Brazil to the world, carrying more than 25,000 tons of imported cargo and more than 11,000 tons of exported cargo between Dubai and Brazil since 2007. Currently, major cargo imports include automobile and aircraft spare parts, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. Major exports include general cargo, hatching eggs, spare parts, shoes, fruits & vegetables. Top export destinations include UAE, India and Saudi Arabia; main import origins are Hong Kong, India and China. Emirates has also operated multiple freighter charters to Brazil over the last few years to transport various types of cargo – including horses for leading sporting events and outsized equipment including helicopters.
Commenting on the milestone, Hubert Frach, divisional senior vice president, Commercial Operations West at Emirates, said: "The 10-year anniversary is a significant milestone for Emirates in Brazil, celebrating our first touch point in Latin America. Over the years, we have achieved healthy growth on our Brazilian flights, as more and more customers experience Emirates' award-winning service and our hub, Dubai. We are continuously bringing new exciting leisure destinations closer to Brazilians such as, Bangkok, Tokyo, Vietnam or more recently Cambodia. We look forward to continue supporting Brazil's growing inbound tourist numbers and business trade opportunities."
Emirates currently serves two Brazil gateways with services to Dubai from Sao Paulo, operated by the A380, and Rio de Janeiro, operated by the Boeing 777-300ER. Passengers can also fly to Buenos Aires onboard the Boeing 777-300ER from Rio de Janeiro.
In October 2016, Emirates announced a codeshare and frequent flyer programme partnership with GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes S.A ("GOL") allowing customers to purchase connecting flights on both airlines using one reservation, and a seamless ticketing, check-in, boarding and baggage check experience during the entire journey. Passengers booking flights to Brazil can now connect to multiple destinations in Brazil with GOL, including Porte Alegre, Salvador, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba and Brasilia. - TradeArabia News Service


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(SEATTLE) – AUGUST 10, 2006 — Summit Connections, the Networking Schedule Planner of the 2006 Adventure Travel World Summit, today launched to facilitate networking solutions for registered delegates, speakers, advisors, sponsors and exhibitors of the fall, trade-only conference.
Summit Connections is provided exclusively as a complimentary service to all adventure travel professionals registered to attend the October 19-21 Adventure Travel World Summit in Seattle.
Designed specifically for Summit delegates, the secure online networking solution allows attendees to make connections with important industry counterparts before, during and after the event by accessing a private online community. The networking tool allows people to get acquainted ahead of the trade-only gathering and to set times to meet in person at the Summit. Summit Connections remains active for several months after the Summit, allowing delegates to stay connected with their new acquaintances.
Adventure Travel World Summit attendees may log into the Summit Connections system using a personalized, pre-made account. Users are asked to spend five minutes completing their profile in a few short steps that are customized based on event topics, Summit objectives, business goals and personal interests. Once the steps are complete, the Summit Connections system will match attendees that have commonalities. Users may then contact other attendees to exchange information and schedule meetings using Summit Connections introMail, the system's internal, personalized messaging center.
"With more than 400 expected attendees and a full two day conference schedule, meeting the right people can be next to impossible," said ATTA President Shannon Stowell. "This solution is offered in direct response to attendees of last year's Summit. Rather than simply hoping to meet business contacts by chance, attendees may instead use the Summit Connections to gain insight into the conference audience to deliberately pinpoint – and network with – their most valuable connections."
After completing their profiles, Summit delegates may access the online community to find multiple networking features including:
- Pinpoint Map: Plots delegates as pins on a circular 'similarity map' and allows users to find other delegates with similar interests and needs.
- Powerful Search: Searches by industry sub-sector, types of tours, years in industry, reason for coming to the Summit, and more, are available.
- Internal Messenger: Send and receive messages using the built in messenger, preventing spamming and list-selling.
"Finally, the conference industry has created an effective online tool to facilitate pre- and post-conference networking," said TravMedia.com Senior Vice President Mark O'Toole. "It's impressive to witness the Adventure Travel Trade Association once again quickly adapt an outside-the-travel-industry solution, reshape it, and provide its key constituents within the adventure travel community with new ways to connect."
For information about the upcoming Summit, Summit Connections or the
Adventure Travel Trade Association, email [email protected] or call 866-411-3131.
The Seattle-based ATTA (www.adventuretravel.biz) is a strategic membership organization dedicated to raising the profile of adventure travel globally. Established in 1990, the ATTA provides services, knowledge, and connections that help its members succeed in their businesses and contribute to responsible industry growth.
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Pete's Dragon: The reimagining of the studio's cherished family film about the adventures of a boy named Pete and his best friend Elliott, who just so happens to be a dragon.
For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham (Robert Redford) has delighted local children with his tales of the fierce dragon that resides deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. To his daughter, Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard), who works as a forest ranger, these stories are little more than tall tales…until she meets Pete (Oakes Fegley). Pete is a mysterious 10-year-old with no family and no home who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliott. And from Pete's descriptions, Elliott seems remarkably similar to the dragon from Mr. Meacham's stories. With the help of Natalie (Oona Laurence), an 11-year-old girl whose father Jack (Wes Bentley) owns the local lumber mill, Grace sets out to determine where Pete came from, where he belongs, and the truth about this dragon. Disney's "Pete's Dragon" opens in U.S. theaters on August 12, 2016.
Disney usually finds tremendous success when revisiting and "re-imagining" some of the most beloved and iconic films into modern blockbusters, and Pete's Dragon is exactly the kind of movie that should be remade. There is certainly promise in the tale of a young boy who befriends an invisible (imaginary?) dragon, and this poster is giving us our first tease and look at the film.
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Our first real look at Pete's Dragon arrived at last year's D23 Expo, with a few minutes of footage and the revelation that the film would be set "against the backdrop of loggers cutting down a forest." The remake will not be a musical.
The film brings together a strong cast including Robert Redford, Bryce Dallas Howard, Karl Urban, and Wes Bentley. A young, relative newcomer Oakes Fegley plays Pete.
Pete's Dragon is schedule to open on August 12, 2016, and the first trailer for the film is set to arrive tomorrow, Sunday, February 21, during ABC's Wonderful World of Disney: Disneyland 60 special airing at at 8:00 p.m.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DisneyPetesDragon
Twitter: https://twitter.com/disneypetes
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/disneypetesdragon/


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What's happening at this bridge?
Approaching on what appears to be a wooded river is an antiquated cargo vessel.
Know this sylvan location?
Might this be a not-so-obscure location referred to as the UES,
the Upper East Side of Manhattan? That certainly appears to be a section of the river campus of Rockefeller University . . .
Of course, this is the non-river but a tidal strait referred to as the East River, where the first pre-fabricated portions of the new campus were lifted in place only six years ago here.
And of course this is Empire State VI, launched as a cargo ship in 1961, converted on the Great Lakes to be a training ship, and serving as such for SUNY Maritime for over 30 years now, and departing on her last summer sea term for that school. See here.
Old as this training ship is, she turned heads along the East River as she headed out for sea. Many past departures and returns and shifts have been the basis of posts on this blog in recent years. I'd love to see photos of her transiting the Welland Canal and Saint Lawrence back 30+ years ago after conversion to training ship.
Happy, safe, and instructive cruise, cadets. As of posting today, she's off the east end of Long Island with next port of call–if my info is current–Philly. I wonder if there will be a sail-past of the new NSMV at the Shipyard there . . . . It would make a great photo op, with the old and the new.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
I've often posted photos of ROROs and PCTCs, but here's the old school. Here's a Ford ship loading Ford cars from the Chester PA plant. MV Lake Benbow was one of the first six Ford-owned vessels transporting Ford products around the world. Click here for her interesting history: built 1918 for the US Naval Overseas Transport Service (NOTS), purchased by Ford in 1925, which operated it until 1937. Given the automobiles awaiting loading, maybe 1935 Fords, this photo appears to have been taken near the end of its time as a Ford vessel.
The Chester plant made Fords from 1927 until 1958. Click here for more photos and info on the Chester plant. When that plant closed, operations moved to Mahwah NJ, where after some years, the same script was followed.
Click here for Ford production location photos both vintage and abroad.
Ford was know to have tried to own all aspects of their operation, from the Fordlandia gambit to northern forests and mines, but other companies like US Steel, Bethlehem, fruit companies and petroleum companies did the same. By the way, now that it's summer BBQ season, do you know the connection between Ford and Kingsford charcoal?
Again, thanks to barrel for these photos.
She started out as S. O. Co. No. 14 from a shipyard not far from her current Penn's Landing berth and worked for almost 80 years. For more on that story, read this article from the historiccamdencounty.com.
The next two photos are credited to Bonnie Halda, who took them last week.
Baltimore, completed in 1906, was built at the same yard as Pegasus, 1907.
Except for the two credited to Bonnie Halda, all photos were taken by Will Van Dorp. For a post with more photos of these old-timers and others, click here.
For an even older and much modified one, click here for a post I did on Charlotte, built in 1880 as a sandbagger. Click here for info on Swell, a repurposed 1912 tug operating in British Columbia.
Click here for an index of previous second lives posts. Reinventions are everywhere, but I have a hunch that the Caribbean offers an especially rewarding search area for second acts, third acts, and the number goes on. Take a vessel named Azores. I'd never heard of it before, but . . . suppose I say Stockholm, THAT Stockholm. the one that left the sixth boro in July 1956 and could have been a disintegrating artificial reef lying near Andrea Doria. Rich Taylor took the photo below in St. Kitts early last month. Scroll through here to see her sans bow. Click here to see her in dry dock and showing her unusual stern lines. Here's a long list of her previous names: Stockholm until 1960, Volkerfreundschaft until 1985, Fritjof Nansen until 1993, Italia I until later in 1993, Italia Prima until 2003, Valtur Prima until later 2003, Caribe until 2005, Athena until 2013 . . . Azores until . . . further notice.
And then there's this tugboat looking like exactly what she is . . . undistracted by her pink deckhouse, can't you imagine this as a former workhorse of the northeast? Any guesses?
She was once called James McAllister. And here's the story . . . built 1930 in Philly. Does anyone have photos of her in Hayes colors . . . purple I presume?
Many thanks to Rich Taylor for these photos of vessels that have lived on and on.
Aircraft about to land . . .
well . . yes, Philly's airport is only a few miles to the south.
Recognize the aircraft carrier?
CV-67 has been mothballed since 2007. I'm just wondering whether there's a tally of the number of crew who served aboard CV-67 in the almost four decades it was active.
Now . .. definitely, mothballed.
Until less than a year ago, Kennedy shared waterfront space with the Forrestal. Here and here are posts from February 2014 of Forrestal leaving Philadelphia and arriving in Brownville. Has anyone seen what's left of the Forrestal today?
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
The photo immediately below was taken in July 2011, just before I published this post from Mayport.
At that time, I'd no idea that some 40 months later I'd cross paths with the same vessel, FFG 42 Klakring here.
Here is NISMF . . . aka
. . the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility in the Philadelphia Navy Yard,
where in addition to FFGs (frigates) like Klakring, there are DDs (destroyers) as shown in photo #4 and LPDs (amphibious transport docks) like USS Shreveport above and below foreground.
guided missile cruisers and
amphibious cargo ships like USS El Paso,
LKA-117. Click here for info on one of her former captains.
Last vessel for today is T-AGOR-16, USS Hayes, an oceanographic research ship.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who suggests that if you're in Philly, take a ride to the end of Broad Street and visit the huge business campus still known as the Navy Yard. There's no better place to walk around!
Eight years ago today I published a post I called Meet Alice. More on that fact later. Today we meet . . . Alakai.
It seems fitting that today we should meet Alakai to the right and her sister Huakai,
now known as USNS Puerto Rico and
USNS Guam. Click here and here for more on these vessels.
No bulbous bow here . . . and that's a bulker docked off Alakai's stern. The catamarans were a very costly mistake for Hawaii Superferry. Here are the ship specifications from an existing Hawaii Superferry site.
Today both vessels await their fate at the Philadelphia Navy yard,
where I took this photo below, which has nothing to do with the HSFs, but I couldn't pass it up.
Soon I'll post more from NISMF Philadelphia, a place that should be on everyone's gallivant list.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who posted "Meet Alice" exactly eight years ago as the inaugural post on this blog. Since then, 2,602 other posts have been sent up from my rabbit's hole. It's been a fun gallivant that has shown me fascinating stuff and introduced me to literally thousands of fun and otherwise interesting folks. If I have the stamina and time, there ARE many more places to go and ways to go there, and I hope to do another 2600+ posts over the next days and months and years . . . Thanks for reading and writing back.
Know the location?
I took it from a southernmost point in the Bronx looking eastward toward North Brother Island . . . the brick chimney to the right. I can't identify either the Weeks tug or the current usage of the red-and-white striped stack to the left.
What caught my attention was the pink breast cancer awareness ribbon on the front of the house of Mediterranean Sea.
By the time I got back to the sixth boro, the pink "M" on Moran tugs was once again white. The only photo of a Moran tug I managed in the whole month of October was the one below, a photo of a photo of a Catherine Moran in the lobby of a restaurant in Lockport. Label says . . . as you can read it . . . "Lockport 1939." Would this have been the vessel built by Neafie & Levy in 1904?
As to the pink ribbon, I was happy to see it.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Thanks for all the guesses, both in comments and on email. Last week I accompanied a group of journalists invited on board. The word from the SS United States Conservancy is that the need for action is urgent; the project is running a critical "race against time." Here are a few key facts about the vessel from the conservancy website. This is the first of several posts I intend to do. Click here for an Op-Ed piece written by one of the guides on our tour Susan Gibbs, grand daughter of the the vessel's designer, architect, and creator.
Note the unique "sampan wing" tips on the funnels.
This is midships looking aft in the First Class corridor, as it looks today. To the left, you can see the deck "footprints" of suites, including where the plumbing rested.
This section of the "First Class stairs," like the entire interior is stripped to bare metal.
Use your imagination . . . this is the First class ballroom, where Count Basie and other greats played.
This is the port side promenade deck. (Follow the links there.) Too enclosed, you think? You'd want it enclosed for a passage in the North Atlantic in January as she speeds along at nearly 40 mph.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp. Click here for David Macaulay's blog about the vessel that brought him to the United States.
For more info on the the SS United States Conservancy and their efforts to save the ship via repurposing, click here. More soon . . . if not tomorrow.
By the way, in yesterday's post, the first three fotos were as follows: 1955 Packard Clipper Super, a 1941 Cadillac Series 75 hearse, and a 1955 Buick Road Master . . . all contemporaries of the SS United States.
Many thanks to the Conservancy for the opportunity to tour the vessel. If you have personal stories related to the vessel, please consider adding them to the comments.
Cold weather keeps me inside, where my fingers keep the keyboard warm. I'll start by revisiting this foto I took a warm morning in 2010. That tugboat was 60 years old at that moment. The easiest name to read is Ocean King, but in raised metal letters on the port bow, you might make out some other letters,
here and
even clearer here on the starboard bow. And in between those two names, she also went by David McAllister.
The following three fotos come thanks to Allen Baker. The foto below shows Resolute in 1974 in Fells Point, when she was part of the Baker-Whitely Towing Company. Click here and here for posts I did in Fells Point and Baltimore back in 2010.
The foto below dates from 1980. Notice Grace McAllister to the left. At this point, McAllister had just purchased the B-W Towing Company.
The boat to the right I can't identify. Notice Holland and Britannia also. Britannia was built as Thomas A. Meseck at Marvel in Newburgh NY in 1942.
It turns out that Ocean King aka Resolute was built at RTC Shipbuilding, the same yard in
Philadelphia Camden as John B. Caddell, which I last saw, sold for scrap here.
Many thanks to Allen Baker for sharing these vintage fotos. And thanks to the folks at tugboatinformation.com, without whom I'd have a much harder time tracing back these names.
First three fotos by Will Van Dorp.


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Disney's Haunted Mansion ride is a big fan favorite with a lot of websites devoted to it out there. Included among them is Ray Keim's Haunted Dimensions site devoted to how he created a 3D model of the Orlando mansion for no reason other than he felt the need to do so. The problem with that is the fact that the blueprints for the facade—the actual ride is underground and the mansion itself is hollow—are a closely guarded secret of the Disney corporation. So Ray had to sit down with little more than a collection of photographs of the mansion and figure out how big or small things should be with only those visual references to work from.
Because the Orlando Haunted Mansion is on a hill, and at some distance from the guests, most photos show the Haunted Mansion at extreme angles and severe perspectives. In order to create undistorted mechanical drawing of the walls, I had to find photos that had as little distortion as possible. I found a great shot of the east facade and conservatory, which was shot from a nearly head-on view. I brought the photo into Adobe Photoshop, marked off vertical and horizontal guides (based on the corners and roof lines). Using the "Transform > Distort" tool, I was able to pull and stretch the image, until the edges lined up squarely. I could then use the image as a template, to redraw the facade as clean, solid shapes, to be imported in to Lightwave as background templates for modeling.
The squared-up, east facade could then be used as a point of reference for the creation of the rest of the mansion's outer walls.
Each wall image was imported in to Lightwave, where I could build them in a 3D space. Once the walls were created, I could arrange them based on a few very low resolution aerial shots of Liberty Square. But they were enough to get an understanding of the Haunted Mansion layout, which is almost impossible to figure out from the ground. Here is what I finally came up with.
He's done an amazing job considering what he had to work with. The final 3D model is easily recognizable to anyone who has ever seen the real thing. His site also contains some of the other Haunted Mansion projects he's undertaken which are worth checking out as well.


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Apple is expected to release the first major update to its iOS 10 platform later this week. The new iOS 10.1 build has been available as a beta for several weeks now, and the public release may come on Thursday shortly after Apple's big press conference. In fact, with recent rumors suggesting Apple's event will focus solely on the company's refreshed Mac computers, iOS 10.1 could be released to the public even before Thursday.
Beyond bug fixes and refinements, there are a handful of new features coming iPhones and iPads in iOS 10.1. The most hotly anticipated among them, however, is definitely the new Portrait Mode setting that is exclusive to the iPhone 7 Plus.
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Apple's iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus include a number of new features and improvements over last year's iPhone lineup, but the new camera on the larger iPhone model is one of this year's hottest additions. The iPhone 7 Plus sports a dual lens setup that places a 12-megapixel telephoto lens next to the main 12-megapixel wide-angle lens.
The new configuration gives iPhone 7 Plus users access to 2x optical zoom without taking any hit to image quality. There are other ways the second rear camera is used as well, but the most talked-about feature is the new Portrait Mode that Apple added to the phone in iOS 10.1. This special new mode uses the wide-angle lens to focus on the subject of a photo, and then it uses data captured by the telephoto lens to blur the background of an image. The result is a "bokeh" effect similar to what you might see in photos captured by a DSLR camera.
We've seen plenty of samples of Portrait Mode photos around the web, and iPhone 7 Plus users who have the iOS 10.1 beta installed have undoubtedly tested the new camera mode themselves. Professional photographer and filmmaker Gary Yost wasn't happy with the photo samples he's seen floating around the web though, so he installed the iOS 10.1 beta on his own iPhone 7 Plus.
Armed with more than 40 years of photography experience, Yost took some professional portraits with the phone's new Portrait Mode enabled. The results are astounding.
Yost told BGR that Apple's new Portrait Mode in iOS 10.1 is "indistinguishable from the 'real thing'" for most viewers as far as presentation on the web is concerned. The bokeh effect obviously isn't quite as accurate as optical results shot with a DSLR camera, but the difference is negligible when sharing photos on the internet or on social media. Yost said that the iPhone 7 Plus' new Portrait Mode is particularly impressive in very good lighting, so you'll want to ensure that your subject is well-lit when you start playing with the iOS 10.1 update yourself.
A composite of some of the portraits captured by Yost with his iPhone 7 Plus has been posted on his website, and you'll find a few samples below so you can see just how impressive the photos really are. Click on any image to view it at its full size.
Image source: Gary Yost
Image source: Gary Yost
Image source: Gary Yost
Image source: Gary Yost


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I am a professional food tour guide based out of New York City, New York. I was born and raised in Florida and graduated from the University of Florida in 2006. After graduating, I worked in the musical theatre industry for various companies and on three Broadway national tours. I started this company in 2012 with my friend and business partner Sarah Rolleston and haven't looked back since.
I am very knowledgeable about all of the most famous dessert places in New York. I take pride in being a very flexible guide, so if there is somewhere you want to go on your tour, just ask me! I can create itineraries for groups, families, couples or individual travelers of all ages.
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This information is in three parts:
Applications and amendments may be submitted in one of two ways as follows:
AUTEC's forms are revised on a regular basis and this page contains the current version. It is strongly recommended that you download the current form each time you wish to use it rather than using one saved on your computer from an earlier occasion. If you have forms that you access by a bookmark in your web browser, please ensure that your bookmark is to this page as the filename of the form will also alter from version to version.
For your ease of use, the forms are not protected documents. It is therefore important when using the forms to take care that you keep the formatting unaltered. This applies especially to the numbering of the sections. All the forms have inbuilt Heading styles which govern the numbering and the easiest way to correct the numbering if you do alter it is to revert the appropriate heading to the style that it had in the original version. Applications that have non standard numbering or formatting will not be accepted for consideration, nor will incompletely filled forms.
Appendix C. This application form is the one most AUT researchers will use when submitting an application for consideration by AUTEC.
Appendix G. This form has a dual purpose and is for the yearly progress report on research that has been approved by AUTEC or for use when you wish to make an amendment to your research.
Appendix H. This form is used for the report required on the completion of research that has been approved by AUTEC.
Appendix K. This form is used by AUT researchers submitting an applications to AUTEC for institutional approval when ethics approval has been granted by an external ethics committee. It is also the form to be used in order to receive locality authorisation for applications submitted for review by the Health and Disability Ethics Committees which are being conducted on AUT premises.
Appendix L. This form is used by AUT staff applying to AUTEC for delegated authority to approve their students' undergraduate research projects.
Appendix M. This form is used for the required annual report on delegated approvals for Class Research Projects.
Appendix X. This form is for use by external researchers who are seeking permission to invite AUT staff and/or students to participate in their research. This form needs to be used in conjunction with the policy on access by external researchers which is contained in Appendix R.
Appendix D1. This is a fairly comprehensive exemplar for Information Sheets. Please read the Guide in Appendix D as well.
This exemplar has been designed by AUT's early childhood educators for use with children.
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Appendix E. There a few exemplars in this document for your assistance. Please note the difference between assent and consent and ensure that you get both when appropriate.
Appendix F. There are a few exemplars in this document for your assistance. They are required whenever someone other than the researcher has access to the data.
This exemplar is provided for use by independent peer reviewers who are wanting to provide AUTEC with confirmation of their review. It is optional and alternative exemplars may be downloaded from the Ministry of Health's HDEC website.
Researchers needing to draft a Sensitive Data Safety Management Protocol when sensitive data is being collected as part of their research are advised to use the Guide for drafting a Data Management Plan.
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Do you think there is anything to this New World Order idea?
What's all this talk about a one-world government called the New World Order that has supposedly been taking place and that has been in the works for years? I don't know if you've heard of this. I was watching a video on the Internet the other day that talked about a North American union that is supposed to happen and it suggested the people behind it are the same people behind the union of the other continents and the final step is a one-world government. They already have coins called the Amero which is supposed to replace the American currency. All this is going down and somehow, nobody is aware of any of it because the government controls the media and doesn't want anyone to know it's happening until it's too late to do anything about it.
People have been talking about the government has plans to get tracking chips implanted into people that track humans and have tried to use the Bible, in the book of Revelation, I think, to say that this is the mark of the beast it's talking about. Would God agree with the government placing tracking 'chips' in other humans that track their every whereabouts on the planet and that they could just 'turn off' at any given moment and the person is too 'turned off'? Would God approve of such a thing? I don't think so.
What if the same government that God gave us somehow became corrupt and try to abuse their power, going greatly against God, and God were to decide to bring judgment upon them? Doesn't that mean the citizens are in trouble too? We've seen in the Bible examples of people who provoked God's wrath that affected even those around them who had nothing to do with it. Take Jonah for example when he was on the boat with the others before he jumped into the water.
I always was one of those people that believed America is a country, despite some of its rough history, founded on God's principles and yet there are people of other denominational beliefs who will say America is just waiting to face God's wrath and God will deliver His out of the country before that happens. They use scriptures in the Old Testament to try and show how it will all 'go down'.
I'm not one to believe in the hype of conspiracies and I really think it's silly to believe any of this stuff, but what if I'm wrong? Any truth to this? I almost feel a bit silly for asking about this, but I couldn't find any sources that refute it so I am starting to wonder.
Thanks in advance. God bless.
"Do not say, 'A conspiracy,' Concerning all that this people call a conspiracy, Nor be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled. The LORD of hosts, Him you shall hallow; Let Him be your fear, And let Him be your dread" (Isaiah 8:12-13).
Let's start out by pointing out the silly stuff. There supposedly this secret organization making changes that no one knows about, yet you, an average fellow can read all the details of how this will be accomplished on the Internet and chat with thousands of people who are discussing these secret plans in detail. If this is an example of their abilities, then I can't see any reason to worry about an organization that can't keep their secrets secret.
The real point is that conspiracy theories play on people's fears of the unknown. It is a "secret" society. Everyone knows all their plans, but no one can name who are the members of this group. Hmm.
Yes, people will twist Scriptures to justify whatever they want to believe. Peter told us that a long time ago. "And consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation -- as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures" (II Peter 3:15-16). The use of Scripture is no evidence of truth because verses can be twisted. After that is what Satan did to Jesus in the wilderness (Matthew 4). The question is never whether scriptures are being cited, but whether they are being used accurately in the context originally given.
For example, Revelation states both at the beginning and the end that the things talked about are things that will shortly take place. So no, Revelation is not talking about imaginary remote control devices in our future. There are concepts in Revelation that still apply to our day because history tends to repeat itself, but the book of Revelation is not a prophecy about this day in age.
What is interesting is that conspiracy theories about a secret group taking over the world has been around for hundreds of years. See New World Order (Conspiracy Theory) for a brief history. Much of it is based on false premillennial beliefs which claim that "the Antichrist" will take over the world just prior to Jesus' millennial reign. The whole foundation is false, so it should be surprising that most of its side issues are also false.


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Even people I know who've never so much as glanced at a computer are suddenly talking about the not-so-new new "fad" (that is actually anything but a "fad") known as Twitter. It seems that you can't turn on the television or open a newspaper without stumbling across celebrities or panels of experts expounding on the merits and, more often, the utter nefariousness of this new obsession.
So what is Twitter? (Just in case you've been in a coma for the past few weeks.) Well, Twitter is a micro-blogging service — a condensed version of what I'm doing here. Think of it as soundbite broadcasting for and by the people, if you're feeling grand (and why not?), a way of sharing, in no more than 140 characters, a thought, a witticism, a mental fart. The principal question that drives Twitter is "what are you doing?", and some people take the answering of that quite literally. Jonathan Ross announcing that he is just going for "a poo" a pretty good example.
Childish and banal, yes? Well, actually, no.
I've been using Twitter for a while now — BSF, in fact (that is, Before Stephen Fry helped to popularise it by announcing on television that he's a Twitter user.) Initially, it was something of a slow burn. It seemed little more than a lot of noise, mostly pointless (at least to me.) And then I started to follow more people, people with similar and diverging interests — my own following growing daily — and the real value started to become more apparent. I found after a short while that one minute I might be using it to talk about Wittgenstein, the next sharing my progress on the outline I was working on or simply enjoying a #Twittercuppa with a few Twitter friends. It became useful very quickly, "useful" defined in a number of ways.
So I was amused (and, yes, it's such a ridiculous generalisation that I really can't take it seriously) to read this morning in the Times Online clinical psychologist Oliver James stating that: "Twittering stems from a lack of identity. It's a constant update of who you are, what you are, where you are. Nobody would Twitter if they had a strong sense of identity."
Where do they get these people? The very idea that (all) people using Twitter do not have a strong sense of identity is simply quite absurd. Anyone who's read my blog for any length of time will probably agree that I know exactly who I am. I do not need to define myself by constantly seeking feedback or approval. But even if I did — what about Barack Obama? As someone who used Twitter to get himself into the White House, does he lack identity? Is he perhaps a mass of insecurities in constant need of reassurance, confirmation, perhaps, that, yes, he is still President and worthy of the position? I think not. I think he is, quite simply, a man using a new medium in a way that suits and benefits him.
Celebrities might bicker and bitch on Twitter. Teenagers no doubt use it to flirt in text speak. I'm sure some tragic individual will at some point (if they haven't already) announce their impending suicide in no more than 140 characters. Like all new technologies — from telephones to Internet chat rooms — Twitter is as diverse as the world we live in and reflects just about every aspect of life imaginable, from the mundane to the quite simply astounding. As another tool, I find it invaluable. One brief message from my phone, no matter where I am, is immediately on Twitter, my website — see the sidebar to your right — and my Facebook page (with the help of some neat applications and widgets.) Friends and those who are interested in my writing always know what I'm up to (within reason… I'll leave the poo announcements to Jonathan Ross!) and it isn't a chore. Quick, efficient and vibrant.
And Oliver James will never know. Too wrapped up in his own superficial analyses he'll simply never take the time to try it.
But I doubt he could ever answer the question "what are you doing?" in 140 characters, anyway, or, at least, not without answering the question with a question.


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Congratulations to Donna & Alex on your marriage at Bordesley Park Farm Wedding Venue on 24th July!
What a great day, super fun couple, worked with Aspects Photography – Carla Williams again and made even better seeing 2 other couples who's weddings I have filmed over the last few years!
It's always good to know I have come recommended!
Thank you for having me, here is your Tiny Teaser! Feel free to share! 🙂
Bordesley Park Farm, Dagnell End Rd, Alvechurch, Redditch


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Join Opera TN at the deathbed of our dear relative Buoso where have all gathered to or course mourn, but more importantly to get our hands on his will! Someone has heard that left all of his possessions to charity and that quickly changes our energy from grief to scheming. Can Gianni Schicchi help us find a way to get around the will and get the inheritance we so deserve?
This comic one act opera by Giacomo Puccini is perfect for young and old, opera devotee or novice and will be presented in english under the direction of David Wood on November 10, 12, 17, and 19


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Oct 222011
Russian researchers looking for the yeti — the Asian version of the North American Bigfoot — claim to have found "indisputable proof" of the long-sought mystery beast in Siberia. My article on this appeared recently on MSNBC, and you can read it HERE.
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