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We Beat The Mountain necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 53 diseños de 5 diseñadores freelance.
We Beat The Mountain
We Beat The Mountain is an organization that has the ambition to beat the world wide trash mountain by designing, producing and selling products that are made from 100% recycled materials.
This ambition can be achieved by keeping our own organization small and cooperating with lots of other entrepreneurs. Every collaborative partner is welcomed to do what he/she does best. Together we can beat this trash mountain!
This product design contest is a step in attracting collaborative partners to design our first products.
There's a number of product requirements that are critical to our business proposition. The following requirements are each equally important:
1. 100% recycled material: the products need to be made from recycled materials.
2. Cradle 2 Cradle design: the products are made from recycled materials AND need to be designed in such a way that they can be broken down into commodities again after use. This way, We Beat The Mountain products do NOT end up on the mountain of trash.
3. Cool look: the products need to have a cool look.
4. High quality
5. Practical: We Beat The Mountain takes your design serious. That is why the design needs to be practical, so we can actually produce it.
Please check all our contests http://99designs.com/people/webeatthemountain.
For more information on our organization, check our Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/We-Be…1474154340). Our website will be online soon.
The products that We Beat The Mountain will sell are meant for a specific target group. Our potential customers and our current Facebook fans are men and women aged 20 to 40 years old, living all over the world. We aim at people who are socially involved, who choose quality over price, and who are aware of the environment. These people are urban types, early adapters, citizens of the world, who want to make a statement by buying We Beat The Mountain products!
Many people use a laptop sleeve to protect their laptop from falling and shaking, and to prevent getting scratches on the laptop.
But a laptop sleeve can have a few more functionalities, right?
We Beat The Mountain dares product designers to create a laptop sleeve that suits our brand and our product requirements as mentioned in the introduction.
For the laptop sleeve there are some additional product requirements:
• Size: eventually we want to produce a line of laptop sleeves in the most common sizes: 13, 15 and 17 inch. Please keep these sizes in mind.
• In addition, we dare the designers to come up with creative, innovative, new functionalities that can be useful in a laptop sleeve.
We Beat The Mountain asks the designers to please do the following in the presentation of your design:
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What do Sandra Bullock, Jennifer Lawrence and Miley Cyrus all have in common?
Well, probably not a whole lot, but they have all been named the Entertainers of the Year by Entertainment Weekly.
The three ladies are joined by Tom Hanks, the creators of "Breaking Bad," Matthew McConaughey, the cast of "Scandal," Grumpy Cat and many more.
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The "Gravity" actress graces the cover of the magazine, looking mighty lovely in a white gown, and jokes about her close relationship with George Clooney.
NEWS: Sandra Bullock shows off her rapping skills
"I'm so embarrassed for him. It's a booty call," she said. "But then he wants the commitment and the marriage and I'm like, 'Dude, I don't have the time.' And he's all, 'But I'm not a one-night-stand kind of guy.' Well, then I can't."
She added, "Drunk-dialing is what it is George. I just need an hour of your time."
And this isn't the first time these two have joked about their late-night faux love affair.
Clooney hilariously shamed Bullock during the 2013 BAFTA Britannia Awards in Los Angeles earlier this month.
NEWS: George Clooney's publicist clarifies Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe disses
"Let me tell you about Sandy. Yeah, she may say that she's not all that attracted to me. But she calls every night at three in the morning drunk," Clooney joked. "'Hey George, what are you doin'?' Nonstop. And then I just send her a bottle of tequila."
But all kidding aside, Bullock opened up about her love life and shared that she's not quite ready to dip her toe in the dating pool.
"If it should come along, great. But I feel like I'm not missing anything yet. Maybe one day I will. But my son is three years old, which is an amazing age. Four is an even better age. So if something happens, great, but if not, I've got plenty to do."

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Im thinking of going for a super minimal vibe in my bedroom, and possibly omitting colour all together from the space. Sticking to a really soft palette of greys, white and maybe a neutral pale blue. Ive got to have a little bit of colour after all! I just want to keep it soft and cost with lots of texture and warmth. I really want a serene sort of vibe to the space.
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SurveyMonkey Launches an Enterprise Version
For years there has been a well-established tradition among certain distinctive tech companies that goes a little like this: A company launches and builds up a successful product or service. People like it so much they start using it at work, even though the corporate IT policy doesn't officially support it.
Examples that come to mind over the years include the original PalmPilot and, more recently, the cloud file storage service Dropbox. It's a common enough occurrence now that the tech industry has created a phrase to describe the phenomenon: The consumerization of enterprise IT.
It's an overused term in recent years, although it's a rare company that can really claim to have done it effectively.
Here's one that seems to have done it, but one that you probably wouldn't necessarily think about in that way: SurveyMonkey. It turns out that SurveyMonkey, a 14-year-old company that specializes in doing Web-based surveys and questionnaires, has never had an enterprise-class product.
Now it does and it is called SurveyMonkey Enterprise, an enterprise-grade version that tracks how everyone in a company has been using it, and aggregates all their account data — including the historical data from past surveys — in one place.
"We have 15 million survey creators and every one of them has signed up as an individual," CEO Dave Goldberg told me in an interview last week.
There are a lot more reasons for having an enterprise product, said Goldberg, a lot of which has to do with the way that companies like to do things, such as billing. Rather than having individual's report what they spend on surveys on their monthly expense report, companies now will have a single invoice to pay and IT managers can control who has an account and who doesn't, as well as terminate those accounts when employees leave. For legal reasons, companies also want to own the data they collect, which is easier to establish when it's a corporate-created account.
Early customers of the new enterprise service include insurance giant Aetna, Hearst, the New York Giants football team, Yamaha, the National Health Service in the U.K. and Brazil's TAM Airlines.
It has certainly been a busy year for SurveyMonkey. In January, it raised about $800 million in debt and equity financing at a valuation of about $1.3 billion. More than half of that funding came from Goldberg himself and from the private equity firm Tiger Global Management. Google — the company, not its ventures arm — is also an investor.


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In her Jan. 19 letter to the editor headlined, �Danger to others? Issue of upbringing,� Leah Turner points out that an average of 26 fatalities are caused by dogs in the United States each year.
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In her Jan. 19 letter to the editor headlined, �Danger to others? Issue of upbringing,� Leah Turner points out that an average of 26 fatalities are caused by dogs in the United States each year.
She then goes on to show that the vast majority of these occur in the person�s own home or at the home of an acquaintance � pretty much proving that it is, indeed, the result of poor decision making by humans and not stray or aggressive or certain breeds of dogs at the core of the issue.
She then segues to an argument about criminalizing dog ownership and asks why we don�t target irresponsible dog owners and require spay/neuter of all pets (since the vast majority of dog bites are perpetrated by male, un-neutered dogs).
I have to say that as a dog lover and a person familiar with the problems caused by overpopulation of dogs in this country, I agree with her 100 percent.
Not only should we make it much tougher for people to obtain dogs if they do not have the intelligence, common sense and knowledge to raise and train them correctly; but we should absolutely require that only fully licensed persons be allowed to breed them. People not licensed for breeding should be required, by law, to have their pets spay/neutered.
And, I see no reason why we should not do the same for guns. Because, if all guns were �behind locks and safes� and handled in a responsible manner, as she asserts, then we would not have, not just 26, but thousands of accidental firearms deaths in the United States each year.
The right of a person to own a dog or a gun does not trump the right of another person to be safe from dog bites or bullet wounds.
Homeowners� liability insurance covers dog bites and other injuries that may occur on someone�s property, as automobile liability insurance covers injury to persons or property caused by their automobile. Owners of firearms should be required to carry liability insurance as well.
I am betting that insurance companies, being profit minded and fairly savvy, would then press for requirements such as written tests (to prove the operator is familiar with laws and safe operation of the vehicle or gun), a practical test (to prove the operator is able to control and safely operate the vehicle or gun), a valid license to operate the vehicle or gun and registration of the vehicle or gun before issuing insurance to the owner.
Finally, I�m not sure why she feels that protecting people from dog-bite fatalities is a liberal issue and protecting people from firearms fatalities should not be an issue at all; but I think protecting people from the bad choices that other people make � especially those that result in harm or death to innocent bystanders � is important to most of us, no matter the method of injury or death.
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The night before Jason Aldean played the University of Georgia's Sanford Stadium for 60,000 fans, he gave one loyal fan the grand tour of the space — his mom. She joined her son in Athens for his first-ever concert in the Georgia Bulldogs' stadium. "When my mom got here last night, we took a walk around the stadium, and it was really emotional for both of us," Aldean says on his website. "This place has always meant so much to me, but when I was a kid, we were flat broke, and my mom couldn't afford to buy tickets for us to go to a game. So I watched on TV and dreamed about one day seeing it in person." It seems ironic that Aldean now has more than enough money to buy tickets to any and all games there, yet he was the one doing the playing on Saturday (April 13). "Tonight was beyond my wildest dreams. … The whole thing has honestly shaken me a little bit. … It's has been a night I will never ever forget," he said after the show.


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Students of the Sanz Yeshiva in Netanya were in the midst of their holiday prayers on the morning of Shavuot when a nurse from nearly Lanyado Hospital came rushing in and excitedly called one of them outside. A patient's life was at risk, she explained, and fresh blood was needed immediately. Some 70 of the young men there quickly interrupted their prayers and rushed to the hospital and succeeded in saving a life.
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PHILADELPHIA -- Police have launched an internal investigation after a video was posted online that shows an officer striking a woman twice in the face at a neighborhood party associated with Philadelphia's annual Puerto Rican Day parade.
The 36-second video uploaded to YouTube and titled "Philadelphia Police Brutality" shows the woman crumpling to the ground after being struck Sunday in north Philadelphia.
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Moments before the woman was hit, the video shows someone else throwing a liquid toward the officers.
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The woman, whose name was not released, was cited for disorderly conduct, said Officer Tanya Little, a police spokeswoman.
The officer in the video, identified as highway patrol supervisor Lt. Jonathan Josey, is eager to tell his side of the story to internal investigators because there is more to what happened than the video shows, said John McNesby, president of the Fraternal Order of Police.
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The daylong neighborhood party is largely attended by a different group from those who are at an earlier downtown parade, he said.
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6/8-6/18 Monomoy Island, sight fishing, wade, flats, fly, Chatham and Stuff
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Randy Jones
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Location: Pulaski, N.Y., U.S.A.
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6/8-6/18 Monomoy Island, sight fishing, wade, flats, fly, Chatham and Stuff
Found some creeks loaded on the drop. Birds working, bait spraying, lots of bass bustin. You could pick out the fish you wanted to catch. Sight fished all day. If water was to deep, you only had to look for the flashes. They were on fire! It was too easy, so I left. Ha
Went out to the same area. No birds working, no bait spraying, no surface activity but still saw 75 or so bass in this one area. Most of the fish that were their yesterday had gone! Ha. I guess that's why they call it fish'in. Covered about 4 miles and saw fish everywhere we went. Not the day I was expecting but from most folk's perspective a decent day out on the flats with blue skies, crystal clear water and spectacular camaraderie.
Client arrived late so instead of touring the flats we toured the local water holes. Tide was up and running hard!
Awoke with a headache and congested. Must be from all the pollen in the air! Ha We managed to run out to South beach and hit a few Blues and Stripers. Birds working, Fish bust'in. Water temperature dropped to 52 deg. after the N.E. wind and rain. Took a friends boat into a small cove out of the wind and had a blast with the schoolies. Water temp. 62 deg. Some shad and weakfish around which have helped continue to bring the Blues in.
Spent a lil time on South Beach. Nothing to exciting. Fish, birds working over eel grass for the last week. Seeing lots of micro eels and 4-inch sand lances. Super clousers in white and light olive, (Peter Alves) Monomoy flat wings have been producing will. Water temps. rose to 55 deg.
Noticed the seals have moved to the tip of S. Beach. Looks like more than last year? Saw several Stripers on the flats in a 10-minute period but light was terrible so went to another area to blind cast and look for flashes. (Normally when feeding they turn sideways and a silvery flash will give away their location). This area had good moving water on the incoming over a large shallow sand flat that spills into a deep channel. Lots of bait being pushed into the channel so it's a prime spot to work. Some residents have set-up home for the summer with migratories stopping in for a bite from time to time. About a dozen fish were released. I use a fast sink line when water rips through this area but as water slows I switch to a clear Int. line, long Fluorocarbon leader and an unwieghted fly. Spooky is the word and this set-up and standing back 15 feet from the edge is the stealth mode required at this spot.
With higher air temps. and a return to a S.W. wind this weekend, look for the fishing to improve a bit in the Chatham S.E. area. It's a shame to have missed all the great sight fishing spots on this last week's incoming tide in the A.M. due to clouds and high winds.
Strong 15-20 knot wind. Found an area on the Island to cast with the wind, while blind casting and sight fishing. Fair # were sighted and landed. Remember back when you first started to fly fish? I know it's hard for some of you to remember back THAT far. Ha. First time out for Jeanie and even though we practiced fish fighting techniques she just did not want her 3 fish to swim away. Holding the line and reel handle left me with an excited disappointed client, few less flies but 3 very happy fish. Ha
Flats 101- Safety first while wading:
Here on Cape Cod, fog can become your worst nightmare when 1/8-2 miles out on a flat. Some of us have had close calls on the flats, so I would like to share some of the things I do to remain safe.
Number one rule is do not wonder into an area you are not familiar with. When I say familiar, I mean having an intimate understanding of all of the following.
2- Before I even walk out onto a flat I have already checked several weather related wind internet sites. I know direction and if its goint to swing and at what time. As I walk out I pay attention to what direction I feel the wind on my face. This helps should I have to guess ta mate my return.
3- I know exactly in what stage in the tide I'm walking out and when it will change. I'm very familiar with tidal current direction at every phase of the tide for the flat I am on. Knowing current direction also helps with navigation when seeing land is not an option.
4- Over the years the sand becomes like a road map, every trough, sluice, creek, river, depression is memorized over and over each year. Even if you can not see 10 feet you will come across these things that will help you navigate your way back.
5-Knowing exactly at what stage in the tide I can cross and re-cross certain depressions allowing me access to certain flats and a safe return.
6-Taking in all audible clues as I walk out. (Cars, Fog horns, Bells, Motor boat engine noise coming from the main channel.)
7- I take a compass reading when I reach my destination. I carry a compass on my watchband for easy access.
8-Know the height of your tides. Worse case scenario is to seek higher ground and sit it out. Knowing were this area is at, is crucial.
9-A cell phone is invaluable should you happen to hurt yourself and walking back is not an option.
10-Go with a friend or someone who knows the area as good as the inside of their pocket.
11- Know your moon fazes. There are certain tides in certain areas that will not allow you to out run them. No high ground to sit it out and the current is so swift you can not walk against it. Put yourself on the edge of a flat with a drop off and this current can at times run like a ragging river, as water drains off it. Someone lost their life last year under this same scenario.
12- An inflatable vest of some sort makes a lot of sense.
13- Look for the way water drains off the flat. If it drains to your right, then the high ground is to your left. If you can find the area where it drains off left and over to your right, you have just found you exit off the flat when faced with high water. Knowing this direct route will save you valuable time when faced with a fast incoming tide that you can not out run.
14- A good pair of polarized glasses are not only an invaluable tool for seeing fish but also for safety.
Having to feel your way back in by following the edge of the flat with your feet is not an enjoyable feeling, especially when the tide has turned and the fog is overwhelming. This happened to me once and it well never happen again! So be safe, be smart; don't fool around with Mother Nature. She always has the winning hand.
We should all try to remember that we are stewards of our environment. If it were not for conservative minded people 20 years ago, we would not be enjoying the fruits of there labor today. Please remember that a fish is to valuable a resource to only be caught once (Lee Wolf).
Happy Hookin;
Randy Jones
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Brian Johnson, son of Bill and Beni Johnson, was raised to make worship and praise before God his life's greatest pursuit. He is a founder of Bethel Music and has produced seven albums that have influenced the culture of worship in many churches around the world. Brian facilitates an atmosphere of faith in worship and has written anthems such as "Love Came Down" and "One Thing Remains," which was awarded #1 song for ASCAP Christian Music as well as the #1 Radio Single.
Jenn Johnson is a worship leader and songwriter with Bethel Music. Known for her powerful vocals and unique prophetic sound, Jenn's lyrics flow straight from the heart. She has authored songs such as, "O Taste and See," "God I Look To You," "Come To Me," and "Who You Are," written with her daughter, Haley. Jenn is committed to raising up worshippers who will take hold of their true identity and pursue intimacy with God above all else. She and Brian reside in Redding, California, with their three wonderful children.
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A-Rod mum on alleged illegal poker game involvement
Alex Rodriguez's publicist says the Yankees' third baseman is looking forward to cooperating with Major League Baseball in its investigation of his alleged involvement in illegal poker games.
The All-Star slugger sidestepped the issue, however, at the team's minor league training facility in Florida today, saying he had no comment following his first on-field activities since having right knee surgery July 14.
Star Magazine reported last month that several people saw A-Rod playing in games hosted at Hollywood hotels and residences.
But Richard Rubenstein, Rodriguez's publicist, said in a statement this morning that the Star's story contains "numerous factual inaccuracies."
The 36-year-old Rodriguez arrived at the Yankees' minor league complex in Tampa just before noon, pulling up in his Mercedes and waving to a group of 25 or so fans before entering the building.
He took the field for about 33 minutes, doing light running, playing catch, taking grounders and hitting in the batting cage off a tee and against a soft toss. He wore a light brace on the knee and showed no signs of difficulty moving. Rodriguez then went inside to ice the knee and run in the pool.
"I had an encouraging day today," said Rodriguez, who signed autographs before talking to the media outside the complex. "I will have a better idea of a timetable in four or five days. The most important thing is to go back healthy."


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We Need to Solve the Poverty Crisis. Just Not Obama's Way.
Economic inequality has become the left's great hope for recovering its political integrity after the Obamacare disaster. President Obama, trying to change the subject, has latched onto the issue and is sure to make many more speeches about it in the New Year. New York's new mayor, Bill de Blasio, promises to make that great city an experimental lab for progressive ideas aimed at curing inequality.
And if that doesn't convince you that the left will speak of little other than inequality for the next few months or years, note that former President Bill Clinton was on hand to swear in Mayor De Blasio and say a few words on the subject. Hillary Clinton, primed to run for president in 2016, looked on from the VIP stands. With the Clintons, there are no coincidences.
For years, analysts across the political spectrum have pondered why, after decades of providing upward economic mobility to millions, the U.S. economy no longer seems able to move so many people up from the lowest rung of the economic ladder. Is the American Dream of upward mobility dead?
This is a serious subject deserving serious consideration in the market place of ideas. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean we're about to get a thoughtful debate.
Instead, the president mischaracterizes the problem and offers a simplistic solution: There are just too many rich people, and they are causing the problem. So, he proposes, let's take more money from those successful people and redistribute it to the poor through welfare, raising the minimum wage, extending endless unemployment benefits and other government handouts.
This stance is based on economic fallacies. Worse, it is divisive to our society because it runs on the fumes of envy and resentment. Punishing success will only deter further success ... not what you want if you want the economy to grow. Better for the president to curb government policies that pick economic winners and losers (or as someone put it after the Solyndra affair, that picks only losers). Government intervention in the marketplace foments favoritism and cronyism and leads to more inequality.
President Obama has even lost top scholars at the liberal-leaning Brookings Institution, who grumble that the president is "over-stating, and over-simplifying, the problems at hand." Creating opportunity and economic mobility for the poor, they write, "will require cool analysis, bipartisan alliances, and a long-term strategy. It's the wrong issue for knock-about politics."
De Blasio has been no better. His inauguration was so ripe with hate-filled rhetoric that even the New York Times, which endorsed his mayoral campaign, was moved to object. The new mayor himself seems not to grasp that his "tale of two cities" has been created by the very type of government intervention that he seeks now to increase.
As for our former president, he was in classic Clintonian form as he purposely confused community with government. "We are interdependent," he averred to the New York crowd. "Look around. We can't get away from each other. We have to define the terms of our dependence." Does Clinton really conflate government, which seeks to exempt the individual from responsibility for his fellow man, with what Edmund Burke called the "little platoons" of civil society, the agents that actually nurture communities?
Aside from being disingenuous and false—as government has spent $20 trillion on the "War on Poverty" but poverty rates are as high as they were 50 years ago—such narratives are damaging because they will actually diminish economic opportunity for all. As sensible Republicans and Democrats agreed in reforming welfare in the mid-1990s, federal government poverty programs are no longer safety nets—they are snares that trap people in poverty and dependency. "Marriage penalties" and "cliff effects" make it all but impossible for people to get off government assistance. They thwart America's legendary upward mobility by destroying the financial and social capital required for Americans to grab the ladder of opportunity and climb as high as they can dream.
As Clinton himself said back in 1996, "All Americans, without regard to party, know that our welfare system is broken, that it teaches the wrong values, rewards the wrong choices, hurts those it was meant to help. We also know that no one wants to change the current system in a good way more than people who are trapped in it."
We must recognize that while the federal government can inefficiently redistribute money, it cannot redistribute success, character, personal satisfaction, dignity, purpose, perseverance or any of the qualities and outcomes that make life worth living. The Bill Clinton of the 1990s knew that.
Income inequality is in any case a red herring. Heritage Foundation analysts David Azerrad and Rea Hederman, for instance, provide evidence that disputes the "1 percent" sloganeering. Their paper, "Defending the Dream: Why Income Inequality Doesn't Threaten Opportunity," demonstrates that "how much the top 1 percent of the population earns has no bearing on whether the bottom 20 percent can move up."
They are not alone. The Manhattan Institute's Scott Winship, formerly a Brookings scholar, scoured dozens of research studies and showed that there is no evidence that "income inequality" causes less economic mobility or slower economic growth. In fact, there's a near consensus on this: A recent Harvard-Berkeley study of America's cities found that "a high concentration of income in the top 1 percent was not highly correlated with mobility patterns."
So what is to blame? Azerrad and Hederman conclude that "unequal results are a natural outcome of equal opportunity." Upward mobility has declined, but not because of income disparities. For the real culprit, one must look to broken families and communities. But these are often caused by government action, not fixed by it. What we need, then, is to reform our welfare system to promote work and individual success, not dependency on government. We must restore a culture of marriage, America's most important inoculation against child poverty, by eliminating marriage penalties in federal programs. And it is far past time to finally help low-income children and parents break free of the bad schools in their neighborhoods through school choice.
In other words, it's time to stop playing politics, and actually help the poor.


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Washington's Blog
Friday, Dec 18th, 2009
(Environmentalists: Kindly start by reading the end notes to see my background and why I am writing this)
On April 28, 1975, Newsweek wrote an article stating:
Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects. They concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers, might create problems far greater than those they solve. But the scientists see few signs that government leaders anywhere are even prepared to take the simple measures of stockpiling food or of introducing the variables of climatic uncertainty into economic projections of future food supplies. The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality.
Here is a reprint of the article in the Washington Times, and here is a copy of the 1975 Newsweek article.
Why were scientists considering melting the arctic ice cap?
Because they were worried about a new ice age.
Newsweek discussed the 1975 article in 2006:
In April, 1975 … NEWSWEEK published a small back-page article about a very different kind of disaster. Citing "ominous signs that the earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically," the magazine warned of an impending "drastic decline in food production." Political disruptions stemming from food shortages could affect "just about every nation on earth." Scientists urged governments to consider emergency action to head off the terrible threat of . . . well, if you had been following the climate-change debates at the time, you'd have known that the threat was: global cooling…
Citizens can judge for themselves what constitutes a prudent response-which, indeed, is what occurred 30 years ago. All in all, it's probably just as well that society elected not to follow one of the possible solutions mentioned in the NEWSWEEK article: to pour soot over the Arctic ice cap, to help it melt.
Newsweek was not alone. Some scientists and the press have been warning about an ice age off and on for over 100 years.
For example, on February 24, 1895, the New York Times published an article entitled "PROSPECTS OF ANOTHER GLACIAL PERIOD; Geologists Think the World May Be Frozen Up Again", which starts with the following paragraph:
The question is again being discussed whether recent and long-continued observations do not point to the advent of a second glacial period, when the countries now basking in the fostering warmth of a tropical sun will ultimately give way to the perennial frost and snow of the polar regions.
In September 1958, Harper's wrote an article called "The Coming Ice Age".
On January 11, 1970, the Washington Post wrote an article entitled "Colder Winters Held Dawn of New Ice Age – Scientists See Ice Age In the Future" which stated:
Get a good grip on your long johns, cold weather haters–the worst may be yet to come. That's the long-long-range weather forecast being given out by "climatologists." the people who study very long-term world weather trends.
In 1972, two scientists – George J. Kukla (of the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory) and R. K. Matthews (Chairman, Dept of Geological Sciences, Brown University) – wrote the following letter to President Nixon warning of the possibility of a new ice age:
Dear Mr. President:
Aware of your deep concern with the future of the world, we feel obliged to inform you on the results of the scientific conference held here recently. The conference dealt with the past and future changes of climate and was attended by 42 top American and European investigators. We enclose the summary report published in Science and further publications are forthcoming in Quaternary Research.
The main conclusion of the meeting was that a global deterioration of climate, by order of magnitude larger than any hitherto experience by civilized mankind, is a very real possibility and indeed may be due very soon.
The cooling has natural cause and falls within the rank of processes which produced the last ice age. This is a surprising result based largely on recent studies of deep sea sediments.
Existing data still do not allow forecast of the precise timing of the predicted development, nor the assessment of the man's interference with the natural trends. It could not be excluded however that the cooling now under way in the Northern Hemisphere is the start of the expected shift. The present rate of the cooling seems fast enough to bring glacial temperatures in about a century, if continuing at the present pace.
[efoods]The practical consequences which might be brought by such developments to existing social institution are among others:
(1) Substantially lowered food production due to the shorter growing seasons and changed rain distribution in the main grain producing belts of the world, with Eastern Europe and Central Asia to be first affected.
(2) Increased frequency and amplitude of extreme weather anomalies such as those bringing floods, snowstorms, killing frosts, etc.
With the efficient help of the world leaders, the research …
With best regards,
George J. Kukla (Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory)
R. K. Matthews (Chairman, Dept of Geological Sciences, Brown U)
The White House assigned the task of looking at the claims contained in the letter to its science agencies, especially the National Science Foundation and NOAA, who engaged in a flurry of activity looking into the threat of an ice age.
On August 1, 1974 the White House wrote a letter to Secretary of Commerce Frederick Dent stating:
Changes in climate in recent years have resulted in unanticipated impacts on key national programs and policies. Concern has been expressed that recent changes may presage others. In order to assess the problem and to determine what concerted action ought to be undertaken, I have decided to establish a subcommittee on Climate Change.
Out of this concern, the U.S. government started monitoring climate.
As NOAA scientists Robert W. Reeves, Daphne Gemmill, Robert E. Livezey, and James Laver point out:
There were also a number of short-term climate events of national and international consequence in the early 1970s that commanded a certain level of attention in Washington. Many of them were linked to the El Nino of 1972-1973.
A killing winter freeze followed by a severe summer heat wave and drought produced a 12 percent shortfall in Russian grain production in 1972. The Soviet decision to offset the losses by purchase abroad reduced world grain reserves and helped drive up food prices.
Collapse of the Peruvian anchovy harvest in late 1972 and early 1973, related to fluctuations in the Pacific ocean currents and atmospheric circulation, impacted world supplies of fertilizer, the soybean market, and prices of all other protein feedstocks.
The anomalously low precipitation in the U.S. Pacific north-west during the winter of 1972-73 depleted reservoir storage by an amount equivalent to more than 7 percent of the electric energy requirements for the region.
On June 24, 1974, Time Magazine wrote an article entitled "Another Ice Age?" which stated:
As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age.
Telltale signs are everywhere …
Whatever the cause of the cooling trend, its effects could be extremely serious, if not catastrophic. Scientists figure that only a 1% decrease in the amount of sunlight hitting the earth's surface could tip the climatic balance, and cool the planet enough to send it sliding down the road to another ice age within only a few hundred years.
(here's the printer-friendly version).
Science News wrote an article in 1975 called "Chilling Possibilities" warning of a new ice age.
A January 1975 article from the New York Times warned:
The most drastic potential change considered in the new report (by the National Academy of Sciences) is an abrupt end to the present interglacial period of relative warmth that has governed the planet's climate for the past 10,000 years.
A May 21, 1975 article in the New York Times again stated:
Sooner or later a major cooling of the climate is widely considered inevitable.
A 1994 Time article entitled "The Ice Age Cometh?" stated:
What ever happened to global warming? Scientists have issued apocalyptic warnings for years, claiming that gases from cars, power plants and factories are creating a greenhouse effect that will boost the temperature dangerously over the next 75 years or so. But if last week is any indication of winters to come, it might be more to the point to start worrying about the next Ice Age instead. After all, human-induced warming is still largely theoretical, while ice ages are an established part of the planet's history. The last one ended about 10,000 years ago; the next one — for there will be a next one — could start tens of thousands of years from now. Or tens of years. Or it may have already started.
Note 1: I have an extensive background working to preserve natural areas and reduce urban pollution. I studied global warming at a top university in the early 1980's. I was taught – as Al Gore was taught in college – that temperatures are directly correlated with CO2 levels.Note 2: I not only do not receive a penny from oil or any other energy, industry or political person or organization of any nature whatsoever (I make a few peanuts from ads on this site, which I do not choose, but are selected without my input by my ad service), I am also wholly and completely against big oil, big coal and big nuclear. As I have repeatedly argued, power should be taken away from the oil giants and decentralized. I have repeatedly argued for microgeneration and for alternative energy. These things are beneficial for a number of reasons – including better health, less corruption of our political systems through decentralization of power, and a boost to our economy – in addition to whatever climate benefits they may have.Note 3: One of the main reasons for writing this essay is to point out that we must make sure that our "solutions" are not more dangerous than the problems themselves. For example, the Washington Post noted that the government forced a switch from one type of chemical to another because it was believed the first was enlarging the ozone hole. However, according to the Post, the chemical which the government demanded be used instead is 4,470 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
Currently, "government scientists are studying the feasibility of sending nearly microscopic particles of specially made glass into the Earth's upper atmosphere to try to dampen the effects of 'global warming.' " Others are currently suggesting cutting down trees and burying them. Other ways to geoengineer the planet are being proposed.
And Noam Chomsky has said that he would submit to fascism if it would help combat global warming:
Suppose it was discovered tomorrow that the greenhouse effects has been way understimated, and that the catastrophic effects are actually going to set in 10 years from now, and not 100 years from now or something.
Well, given the state of the popular movements we have today, we'd probably have a fascist takeover-with everybody agreeing to it, because that would be the only method for survival that anyone could think of. I'd even agree to it, because there's just no other alternatives right now." (page 388).
Are those ideas any better than pouring soot on the North Pole?Our primary responsibility must be to ensure that we are not doing more harm than good.Note 4: Given that scientists considered pouring soot on the North Pole to melt the ice in the 1970's, it should come as no surprise that soot may be having a dramatic effect on the ice sheets and glaciers now.
Note 5: Some global warming advocates warn that a warming-induced shut down of the huge ocean current known as the thermohaline circulation could cause a new ice age in certain limited parts of the world that are warmed by the by the North Atlantic current, such as Iceland, Ireland, the Nordic countries, and Britain. But scientists in the 1970s were talking about something different: the start of a worldwide ice age due, for example, to a 100,000 year cycle in solar radiation hitting the Earth.
Note 6: For further information on the swing between warnings of ice ages and runaway global warming, see this and this. I have verified all of the facts made in the main post above, but I have not yet verified all of the claims made in the last two aforementioned web pages.
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at my jsp page, I put in the following in order to use the jstl tag library but I'm not sure where I had gone wrong except Netbeans IDE kept saying equal symbol expected at the errror line.
The line is :-
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Earth from Space: Sister cities
This Proba image features the sister cities of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, and Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. Both cities are located on St. Mary's River, which links three of North America's Great Lakes – Superior, Huron and Michigan.
Some 2 000 years ago Native Americans called the area 'Bahweting,' meaning 'The Gathering Place,' because they congregated there for fishing. It was not until the 1600s that Europeans began venturing into the area. In 1623, traders called the area 'Sault de Gaston' in honour of Gaston, Duke of Orleans, who was also the brother of France's King Louis XIII. In 1668, Jesuit missionaries renamed it 'Sault Sainte Marie' in honour of the Virgin Mary.
The Sault Sainte Marie International Bridge (visible as a thin white strip) spans 4,5 km and connects the sister cities. The bridge, which connects Ontario, Canada, and Michigan, U.S., is well travelled. In 2001, for instance, 2,5 million vehicles crossed it.
St. Mary's River drains Lake Superior (not visible but located to the west, or left, of the image) and flows 120 km into Lake Huron (not visible but located to the southeast). Lake Superior is the largest of the Great Lakes and has the largest surface area (127 700 km²) of any freshwater lake in the world. Because the level of Lake Superior is higher than the level of the lower lakes, a section of St. Mary's River drops around 7 m, making it impossible to navigate without canals.
Canada and the U.S. both operate one canal as part of the St. Mary's Falls Canal project. The canals include four locks – structures used for raising or lowering boats between bodies of water at different levels. On average around 12 000 ships per year pass through the locks, despite them being closed from January to March. The 'Soo Locks', as they are often called, are located between the horizontal strips of land located in the south of St. Mary's River just above Michigan.
ESA's Proba satellite acquired this image on 11 August 2006 with its Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (CHRIS), designed to acquire hyperspectral images with a spatial resolution of 18 metres across an area of 14 kilometres.


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More than two centuries have passed since humans first started using engine-driven devices to do work. And from the first steam locomotives to today's gas/electric hybrid cars, our development of motorized transport has had a parallel string of innovation: Engineers continuously work to make our engines run more efficiently.
For as long as consumers have complained about gas prices, there has been an army of inventors offering devices to stretch our mileage further. Innovations such as electronic fuel injection and the use of lighter, stronger internal components made great forward strides in fuel efficiency. It's no wonder that these have become standard features -- often government-mandated -- on most modern cars and trucks. But other inventions have turned out to be hoaxes that do little for fuel efficiency and, in some cases, can actually hurt a vehicle's mileage and cause dangerous engine damage.
There's a veritable sea of fuel-saving devices on the market, and while most of them sound great, many offer little -- if any -- benefit for what they cost. It's sometimes difficult to separate the truly useful devices from the not-so-great ones, so read on to learn more about popular fuel-saving hoaxes and how they work.
Hydrogen Generators
Hydrogen has long been a tantalizing alternative to petroleum fuel, and for good reason. It's abundant -- the gaseous element combines with oxygen to make water -- and carries a tremendous amount of energy. For years, scientists have worked on producing a hydrogen-powered internal combustion engine, in the hopes that this power source could become a clean-burning alternative to gasoline.
But hydrogen has some serious drawbacks that have slowed its adoption as an automotive fuel. It's not naturally occurring -- it must be extracted from water or other sources -- and the processes to obtain it require a lot of energy. Likewise, the light gas is difficult to store in large enough quantities to be useful for transportation. And the very energy density of hydrogen that makes it so attractive as a fuel also makes it dangerous if not handled properly [source: Alternative Energy News].
But that hasn't stopped a long string of inventors from offering mileage-boosting devices that claim to create hydrogen and add it to a car's fuel, boosting mileage with this high-energy wonder gas. Many of the so-called hydrogen generators work in the same fashion: An onboard electrolysis device pulls water from a storage tank, and, using electricity generated by the car's alternator, splits the hydrogen and oxygen. These are then injected into the engine, supposedly giving the car a power boost and saving fuel [source: Allen].
The problem with these onboard generators is one of capacity. Remember, it takes a great deal of electricity to split the strong bond between water's hydrogen and oxygen atoms. That energy has to come from somewhere, and in a car, that means a significant additional load is placed on the alternator. The car may be producing hydrogen fuel, but it's burning more energy than it creates.
As a result, hydrogen generators typically produce miniscule amounts of the gas. And while this gas may indeed make it into the car's fuel system (some sloppier generators could contain enough leaks to vent any hydrogen before it reaches the engine), it simply isn't enough to produce the claimed power or mileage boosts [source: Tony's Guide to Fuel Saving Gadgets].
Intake Vortex Devices
The internal combustion engines in cars and trucks are essentially large air pumps: The action of the pistons sucks in a precise mix of fuel and air, which is then ignited and vented out through the exhaust. The energy of the burning mixture forces the engine to suck in more of the mix, repeating the cycle. And this next piece of fuel-saving quackery plays off misunderstandings about that process.
Engineers pay close attention to airflow into an engine. The amount of turbulence in the flow can affect how fuel and air mix as they enter the combustion chamber, and this can impact an engine's efficiency. The creators behind intake vortex gadgets often claim that their devices alter this airflow in a way that improves fuel-to-air mixing, improving fuel burn and consequently getting more mileage out of each gallon [source: Allen].
The main warning flag with vortex generators is that they're actually based on antiquated engine technology. Automobiles built before engine management computers became commonplace did rely on the shape and length of intake bodies to manipulate fuel and air mixing. But modern vehicles have computers that constantly adjust fuel flow to match airflow: Create a turbulent airflow in the intake (as a vortex generator does), and the car simply adjusts the amount of fuel it injects [source: Tony's Guide to Fuel Saving Gadgets]. The result? The car may actually run worse, since it's compensating for altered airflow by altering the fuel flow. The computer's fuel-flow rate is calibrated at the factory to provide the right amount of fuel for each combination of driving speed and engine load. Alter this, and you're more likely to hurt performance than improve it [source: Allen].
Fuel Ionizers
This type of fuel-saver gadget can be found for both diesel and gasoline-powered vehicles, and often attaches somewhere along the line between the fuel pump and injector. Its creators often claim that it produces an ionic field, which separates fuel molecules from each other as they pass through it. This, they say, causes the fuel to form a more vaporous cloud in the combustion chamber, making it easier for the fuel to burn quickly and cleanly.
This type of device preys on drivers' misunderstanding of how modern engines work. A modern engine's fuel injectors are finely tuned to produce an ultrafine mist of fuel in the combustion chamber. The technology behind this system is so advanced that only a tiny fraction of the injected fuel is not burned. Even if these devices did make the fuel vapor burn better (debatable, to say the least), the miniscule amount of extra fuel burned would not account for the significant mileage gains that the products' sellers claim [source: Tony's Guide to Fuel Saving Gadgets].
Ignition Enhancers
This group of fuel-saving devices may have had a touch of merit in years past. These special spark plugs, spark intensifiers and related devices are supposed to improve the rate and amount of fuel burn each time an engine's cylinder cycles, reducing the amount of unspent fuel that gets flushed out the engine's exhaust.
In the early days of internal combustion engines, this type of thinking made some sense. Mechanical distributors could develop faults that caused spark plugs to misfire, resulting in one or more cylinders simply pumping unburned fuel through the chamber. Products that enhanced spark plug reliability could improve efficiency in these low-performance engines.
But that type of problem has virtually disappeared in modern engines. Thanks to computerized engine controls and newer, more reliable ignition technology, most modern cars only misfire if there's a significant problem with the engine. There's really no need to enhance ignition reliability: The engine already takes care of that.
Likewise, the claim that an ignition enhancer makes fuel burn faster or hotter is baseless. Fuel will burn at a set rate, regardless of how hot one makes the spark that ignites it. Ignition enhancers might have once been useful modifications, but now they're simply hoaxes to separate uneducated drivers from their money [source: Tony's Guide to Fuel Saving Gadgets].
Water Injection
This technology actually has historic roots. During World War II, aircraft engineers needed a device to combat detonation -- premature ignition that could damage engine parts -- in piston-powered fighter aircraft. Their solution involved injecting a mixture of water and alcohol into the air intake, cooling the engine and helping maintain proper fuel ignition.
After the war, hot-rodders adopted water injection for their own high-performance engines. The technology showed up on a handful of successful race cars, but it has declined in use as advanced materials, engines and fuel technology reduced the risk of detonation.
Detonation, like misfiring, is not a problem most drivers of modern cars will ever experience. It typically only occurs in cases where a driver runs a highly modified engine (which often experiences much higher than normal internal pressure) on low-octane gasoline. In a normal vehicle driven under normal conditions, the scenario that invites detonation is highly unlikely. Water injection may be a useful tool for specific high-performance situations, but it's not a particularly useful or effective device for improving your daily driver's fuel mileage [source: RallyCars.com].
Fuel-line Magnets
These devices, like fuel ionization systems, allegedly prepare the fuel to burn better when it reaches the combustion chamber. Rather than using electric fields to do the job, however, fuel-line magnets claim to use powerful magnetic fields to break down fuel into its basic components.
As is the case with fuel ionizers, fuel-line magnets serve little purpose other than to separate uninformed drivers from their money. Petroleum fuels are ubiquitous because of their stability -- although they can't pack the same punch as fuel sources like hydrogen, they're much safer and easier to handle. Petroleum fuels, in fact, are too stable to be significantly altered by something as small and simple as a magnet placed on a fuel line. Even if a magnet could produce a significant electrical field, that field would be altered by the metal of the fuel line, tank and components. If anything, an extremely strong magnet might disrupt some of the car's more sensitive electronics, although even this is unlikely, given the careful engineering that has gone into today's reliable electronic components [source: Allen].
Engine Ionization
These devices, which often attach to spark plug wires or the car's distributor, supposedly improve fuel burn by creating an "ionic corona" around the engine. Supposedly, this performs the same function as fuel ionizers, just closer to the point of ignition.
As mentioned before, the supposed molecular breakdown caused by ionic forces can't really happen. The molecular separation the ionizer claims to produce is what happens during combustion, and gasoline in its unburned form is a poor conductor. It stands to reason that, if gasoline were volatile enough to break down when exposed to a small electrical field carried by a bolt-on ionizer, the much larger field generated by the spark plugs, alternator and distributor would cause the same breakdown well before the gasoline reached the engine [source: Herning].
This is possibly one of the worst hoaxes thrown at drivers. In tests, ionizing devices revealed themselves to be little more than bundles of cleverly packaged wire, which could cause short circuits or fire hazards if attached to the wrong parts of a car's engine [source: Allen]. This is definitely one hoax to avoid at all costs.
Fuel Vapor Injectors
Gasoline's ability to burn changes along with its physical state: In liquid form, it burns too slowly to be useful for combustion. But when vaporized, gasoline burns at the explosive rate needed to power an internal combustion engine. Hucksters have been leveraging this fact for years.
One of the more common gadget hoaxes on the market is the fuel vapor injector. Allegedly, this device converts the fuel into a fine vapor before it reaches the engine, which supposedly lets the fuel burn more efficiently.
The problem with these devices comes not at the point of ignition, but at the tail end of the modern car or truck. An exhaust sensor measures the amount of oxygen in the vehicle's exhaust, which can indicate whether the engine is taking in the correct fuel-to-air mixture. Adding extra vaporized fuel through a vapor injector can cause the engine to run rich, with too much fuel and not enough air. The engine's computer would then adjust its fuel injectors to achieve the proper fuel-to-air ratio. At best, this means the engine would run exactly the same as it did without the vapor injector. At worst, a poorly installed vapor injector could cause part of the cylinder bank to run rich, sapping engine performance as the computer makes additional adjustments to address the imbalance [source: Allen].
Fuel and Oil Additives
The auto parts stores are full of them: racks of cans, bottles and cartons containing additives that claim to enhance power, reduce wear and improve engine performance -- and all you have to do is pour them into the oil pan or fuel tank. Thanks to their relatively low cost, these are some of the most often-seen mileage-enhancement devices. But not all of them work as advertised.
Modern car and truck engines are the result of decades -- even centuries -- of refinement. Parts do wear out, and any device that turns a series of small explosions into propulsion is bound to wear down over time. But vehicle engineers test engines for tens of thousands of hours, often under conditions worse than a road-going car would ever encounter, and design their products accordingly. As a result, even fuel and oil additives that work as claimed may only show minimal benefits when used.
Some oil additives, for example, are advertised with a striking commercial: an engine is run with the additive in it, and is then drained of oil and restarted. Miraculously, the oil-less engine runs. What the advertisement doesn't say is that the engine, like many modern engines, is likely sturdy enough that it can run temporarily with no oil in the pan. The running engine is less a tribute to the oil additive than to the engineers who designed its tight tolerances and high-wear materials [source: Tony's Guide to Fuel Saving Gadgets].
Some additives may indeed work. But understanding which ones can make a difference for your car or truck requires a thorough understanding of both the engine and the additive.
Fuel Catalysts
These devices insert pieces of various metals into the fuel. The claim behind them is that the metals produce a catalytic reaction in the fuel, removing impurities and making it a more efficient energy carrier. Some of these devices even claim to remove harmful bacteria from the fuel.
The merits of these devices are hard to measure without the aid of a mass spectrometer or other equipment that can measure the chemical changes that might take place in the fuel. But this could all be a moot point, given another factor: Modern engines are optimized to run on modern fuel in its current state. Changing that state moves the fuel away from the optimal fuel the engine is designed to burn. This may only be a minimal change, but it still strays from the standard engineered into the engine and its control systems. If the catalyzed fuel does indeed have properties that make it burn cleaner or faster, the engine's controls may not be able to adapt in a way that realizes any mileage improvements [source: Tony's Guide to Fuel Saving Gadgets].
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- Allen, Mike. "Looking For A Miracle: We Test Automotive 'Fuel Savers.'" Popular Mechanics. Aug. 25, 2005. (June 12, 2011) http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/alternative-fuel/gas-mileage/1802932
- Alternative Energy News. "Hydrogen Fuel." (June 21, 2011) http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/technology/hydrogen-fuel/
- Herning, Garrett R. "Singh Groove Concept: Combustion Analysis using Ionization Current." AutoTronixs, LLC. October 2007. (June 21, 2011) http://www.herningg.com/singh/Ionization%20current%20analysis.pdf
- RallyCars.com. "How a water injection system works." (June 20, 2011) http://www.rallycars.com/Cars/WaterInjection.html
- Tony's Guide to Fuel Saving Gadgets. "Fuel 'saving' gadgets." (June 12, 2011) http://www.fuelsaving.info/debunk.htm
- U.S. Department of Energy. "Gas Mileage Tips." (June 22, 2011) http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/drive.shtml
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Mobile Sources. "Tips to Save Gas and Improve Mileage." August 1994. (June 12, 2011) http://www.epa.gov/oms/consumer/17-tips.pdf
- Valdes-Dapena, Peter. "6 gas-saving myths." CNN Money. Aug. 12, 2008. (June 12, 2011) http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/12/autos/ways_to_not_save_gas/


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Oct 8 2019, 09:20 AM
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I have a login form which has a combo box and looks up the user name in tbl_Employees by using the combo box value to see if the employee is in the table -- rs.FindFirst "[UserName] = '" & Me.txtUserName.Column(1) & "'" -- and throws an error if an unknown name is used. I thought I could use this for a login purpose... but now I am having second thoughts about doing this on my corporate WAN database application. I've recently run across some information that indicates that it is bad to have a VBA code SQL statement where I refer to the control on the login form (txt_Password) and have something like, WHERE [Password] = '" & txt_Password". That's not exactly it as I am not looking at the code right now but it works. The information indicates that referring to the control Me.txt_Password in the VBA opens me up to SQL injection attacks. Is this true? If it is, can I use a string variable in place of the reference to my form control in the VBA in order to default a vulnerability like this?
Thanks in advance.
Oct 8 2019, 09:43 AM
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SQL Injection is definitely a potential security risk.
The complication here is that you would normally not suspect your users of wanting to implement malicious attacks on your Access Relational Database Application. The exposure is much greater on a public website where ANYONE can pound on a log in until they get in.
Using a parameterized query would be a good idea, yes.
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>> The information indicates that referring to the control Me.txt_Password in the VBA opens me up to SQL injection attacks. Is this true? If it is, can I use a string variable in place of the reference to my form control in the VBA in order to default a vulnerability like this? <<
It is true, and a string variable won't help you any.
Consider this: User places in the login form: "myname;drop table students"
You run this code with a reference to the control:
CurrentDb.Execute "SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE MyName = " & Me.MyControl
The string that gets processed is: "SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE MyName = myname;drop table students"
That's two SQL Statements. This is SQL injection.
Let's move that to a string variable:
Dim MyInput As String
MyInput = Me.MyControl
CurrentDb.Execute "SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE MyName = " & MyInput"
This helps none. The statement that's being processed is identical, including the ";drop table students"
Just putting the value in a string variable won't do anything.
What needs to be done is to sanitize the user input to make sure that it doesn't contain malicious values.
This is where Parameters help considerably. I'm not 100% sure in JET/ACE, but in other systems (SQL Server, ADO.NET, EF, etc), using a parameter shields you from people being able to inject statements this way. It's essentially a built in "sanitize this user input and make sure we only apply it to the appropriate place " function.
Finally, with all that said: certain areas of Access/JET/ACE are implicitly shielded just because of how things operate. DAO, for example, will not execute two statements in a single command (at least I don't THINK so - but don't take it to the bank), and there's other things regarding syntax that prevents some of this from happening. While it may not be quite as easy as I've made out above, it's still very possible. Also note that the example I gave is just one type of SQL injection. OWASP typically has a good rundown on this, though I haven't checked it in a while.
A few additional thoughts:
Generally speaking, any input values should be treated as potentially malicious, whether they come from users putting data in fields, or data being imported from some external source. Nothing is safe until you've made sure it's safe.
Joel Spolsky has a quite interesting article on Hungarian Notation, and uses this scenario as an example. Back when hungarian notation was good, we'd prefix this value with something like "us" as in "unsafe", and if we see a "us" variable, we know it's potentially malicious. Since then though, hungarian notation has turned into prefixing variables with their variable type, which offers no real value. I don't know the article link offhand, but if you happen across it in your travels, it's definitely worth a read.
Oct 8 2019, 10:51 AM
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Wow! I have never considered worrying about SQL Injection in Desktop Applications before, but I guess the concern has merits. I have always only associated SQL Injections with databases connected to public-facing websites.
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May I trouble you to point me to a parameterized query code block? What I thought were parameterized queries apparently is not. I was using the problem login code as a parameterized query since I supplied the parameter for the query from the form control txt_Password. I saw a reference to an Eval function too but I don't recall if that is for VB.net, Access, or both, as a way to sanitize.
Thank you.
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>> SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE MyName = myname;drop table students <<
Have you tried this in Access?
AFAICR, I don't think Access will run this statement anyway since it can't execute multiple statements. I could well be wrong, but haven't tested in a long time.
Also, I don't think comments are legal in Access SQL statements either.
More problematic is user entry like:
Dim MyInput As String
MyInput = "whatever' OR '1' = '1"
CurrentDb.Execute "SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE MyName = '" & MyInput & "'"
and potentially revealing all the records in the table.
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OK so I only work in Access, not SQL Server.
Why not reject logins that contain ";"? or other characters that might be used.
Oct 8 2019, 03:00 PM
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Hi David:
>> Have you tried this in Access? <<
For the record, I did put a paragraph in there stating that DAO shields us from some of this. I thought it was the case that DAO won't process multiple statements (so your recollection is likely correct, I wasn't 100% sure myself), and there's a few other subtle issues with my "code" in that post, but it wouldn't behoove of me to say "don't worry about it" because someone could well be using ADO or sending it through a passthrough, etc.
It's a simple to understand example of the essence of SQL inject, if not strictly applicable to standard DAO usage that most Access users are going to be using.
Point being: let's never assume we're safe, even if we happen to be in this case
Oct 8 2019, 03:08 PM
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I should add:
I think it's very important that people think about this stuff. While I'm not generally one to jump into a forum and throw out something that's actually incorrect, if 10 people look at that and say "hey, maybe I ought to pay closer attention to things" then that's GREAT. Even if it's not a major concern in this particular case, anyone who is doing development work should always have security in their mind at every corner of things.
SQL Injection ought to be part of 101 development. It applies everywhere, to everyone, and in most cases is extremely easy to prevent. Yet it's still a huge (huge!) source of attacks. Injection has been #1 on OWASP's top 10 for many, many years, and it's such an easy*, easy thing to prevent. But people need to know better is all... anything to bring awareness.
(*I say easy, because in every other platform/language except Access/VBA, there is builtin, platform/framework level best practices to avoid it: php has prepared statements, .net has ADO and EF parameters, SQL Server itself should always be done through parameters, etc etc etc - Access/VBA on the other hand has none of that - to be safe against SQL injections is actually much more difficult in here than it is elsewhere: the only saving grace is what George first mentioned about lack of desired attack area, but that's not an excuse, either).
Oct 8 2019, 03:18 PM
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>> Why not reject logins that contain ";"? or other characters that might be used. <<
It's a good thought, but if you do want to be actually secure, it's not something you'd take on yourself. The variations of characters (including non-printables) and other patterns that could force unwanted behavior is no simple list: there's quite a lot to it.
The best way would be to let someone else, with thousands of man-hours or resources (such as Microsoft), handle it instead, and provide tooling.
Access does this with parameterized queries. See here:
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