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OWASP New Zealand Day 2009
Back to the OWASP NZ Chapter page
The OWASP New Zealand Day has been the first all day security conference dedicated to web application security in New Zealand. The event attracted more than 150 attendees from all over the country. The conference has been structured in a single stream with seven talks covering multiple topics in the web application security area.
For those people who missed the event or are interested in the conference material, the presentations have been published and can be downloaded from the presentations page.
For any comments, feedback or observations, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Again, big thanks to the sponsors, the speakers and the conference committee for their contributions and support to the organisation of the event.
- Kirk Jackson's Page of Words - OWASP NZ Day Keynotes - http://pageofwords.com/blog/CategoryView,category,OWASP.aspx
- NetGuide - August 2009 - The unwelcome guest in your machine, pg. 11 - Browsing may get you foxed, pg.16
- Malerisch.net - http://malerisch.net/
- Risky.biz - OWASP Day NZ: Interview on Web services security testing - http://risky.biz/netcasts/rb2/rb2-owasp-day-nz-interview-web-services-security-testing
- Risky.biz - OWASP Day NZ: Presentation on Web services security testing- http://risky.biz/netcasts/rb2/rb2-owasp-day-nz-presentation-web-services-security-testing
- Risky.biz - OWASP Day podcast: Exploiting Firefox extensions - http://risky.biz/netcasts/rb2/rb2-owasp-day-podcast-exploiting-firefox-extensions
Welcome to OWASP New Zealand Day 2009
Roberto Suggi Liverani / Lech Janczewski - Security-Assessment.com / The University of Auckland
Keynote: Insecurity and the Internet - pptx
Paul Craig - Security-Assessment.com
Vulnerabilities In Action
Brett Moore - Insomnia Security
Coffee Break
Testing Web Services - pdf
Nick von Dadelszen – Lateral Security
Lunch Break
Exploiting Firefox Extensions - pptx
Roberto Suggi Liverani / Nick Freeman - Security-Assessment.com
Application Bug Chaining - pdf
Mark Piper - Catalyst IT Ltd
|Snackie Break
"Where Worlds Collide" - PCI-DSS for OWASP practioners - ppt
Dean Carter - Security-Assessment.com
XSS – The Gloves are Off - pptx
Andy Prow / Kirk Jackson - Aura Software Security / Xero
Panel Discussion/Conclusion
Dean Carter - Security-Assessment.com - "Where Worlds Collide" - PCI-DSS for OWASP practioners
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) has become a compliance requirement for many organisations. Due to its width and breadth the PCI-DSS poses many and varied challenges to an organisation. Achieving and maintaining compliance is not simply a technical issue – it relies heavily on people, policy and processes. This session aims to look at OWASP initiatives that can be related directly to the PCI-DSS.
The session will start with a very brief, high level overview of the PCI-DSS and then look closely how various OWASP initiatives can be leveraged in organisational compliance programs.
Dean Carter
Dean Carter leads the Security Advisory Services team within Security-Assessment.com .
Dean has been in the IT industry for 17 years during which time he has worked with a wide range of technologies, industries and companies. For the past 7 of those 17 years Dean has spent the majority of his time specializing in information security consulting for financial organizations and telcos.
Paul Craig – Security-Assessment.com - "Insecurity and the Internet"
For the last 5 years I have spent 10 hours a day successfully breaking the internet. Networks, applications, services, it's all insecure, hack-able and often completely vulnerable. Through my work at Security-Assessment.com I have pointed out critical security flaws in the majority of New Zealand organizations. Hacking a multi-billion dollar New Zealand organization is actually not that hard. This fact really troubles me, and I find myself asking the question: "Why is the internet insecure?" It is after all 2009, not 1999. Today I hope to answer that question and find out why the internet is, and will likely always remain insecure.
Paul Craig
Paul Craig is a principal security consultant at Security-Assessment.com in Auckland New Zealand, where he leads the penetration testing team. Paul is an active security researcher, published author, and a devoted hacker. Paul specializes in application penetration testing, and regularly speaks at security conferences around the globe.
Brett Moore – Insomnia Security - "Vulnerabilities In Action"
Common application vulnerabilities have been known for years now, and developers have been told about the threats and how to prevent these flaws. Even so, web applications are still been developed that are vulnerable to some of the oldest and most well known security flaws. The aim of this presentation is to show the attendees how vulnerabilities are discovered and exploited in real world situations, and the devastating effect that a flaw can have on the security of an application. The presentation will demonstrate multiple different application vulnerabilities across various development languages and operating systems. All of the commonly seen vulnerabilities will be demonstrated, aligned with the OWASP top 10 rating system. Attendees will be able to learn about the real dangers that application vulnerabilities pose, by seeing them been exploited as they would in a real compromise situation. The demonstration will be done again a 'virtual' network of vulnerable systems that will contain both server and application level flaws, giving a real world insight to an application compromise.
Brett Moore
Having conducted vulnerability assessments, network reviews, and penetration tests for the majority of the large companies in New Zealand, Insomnia founder Brett Moore brings with him over six years experience in information security. During this time, Brett has also worked with companies such as SUN Microsystems, Skype Limited and Microsoft Corporation by reporting and helping to fix security vulnerabilities in their products. Brett has released numerous whitepapers and technical postings related to security issues and has spoken at security conferences both locally and overseas, including BlackHat, Defcon, Syscan, Kiwicon, Ruxcon, and the invitation only Microsoft internal security conference called BlueHat.
Roberto Suggi Liverani / Nick Freeman – Security-Assessment.com - "Exploiting Firefox Extensions"
Firefox extensions are popular, well-established and used by millions of people around the world. Some of these extensions are recommended by the Mozilla community, and are implicitly trusted by the masses.
Little is known about Firefox extensions from a security perspective and our research intends to fill this gap. The talk is divided in two parts: theory and practice. First, we will explore the security model of Firefox extensions and present a security testing methodology. Next, we will illustrate how we applied the theory and discovered severe vulnerabilities in the most popular and recommended Firefox extensions. Examples of exploits will also be demonstrated.
After this talk, attendees will have gained a better understanding of the security implications, threats and risks of using and deploying Firefox extensions. Security professionals and auditors will be able to use our material as a security testing framework when auditing Firefox extensions.
Roberto Suggi Liverani
Roberto Suggi Liverani is a senior security consultant for Security-Assessment.com. He is the founder and leader of the OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) in New Zealand. Roberto has worked with companies such as Google, Oracle and Opera by reporting and helping to fix security vulnerabilities in their products. Roberto is the co-author of the most recent OWASP Testing Guide and has spoken at various security conferences around the globe.
Nick Freeman
Nick Freeman is a security consultant at Security-Assessment.com, based in Auckland, New Zealand. After a couple of years of building systems for companies he has turned to breaking them instead, and spends his spare time searching for shells and the ultimate combination of whisky and bacon.
Nick von Dadelszen – Lateral Security - "Testing Web Services"
Web Services are now a major component of many organisation's online presence. This could be in the form of AJAX-type consumer websites where more processing is being passed to the browser, or in corporate/governemtn b2b information-sharing environments. This talk will focus on how to properly test web services, what to look for, and some of the tips and tricks picked up through my testing of these types of systems.
Nick von Dadelszen
Nick von Dadelszen has managed successful security teams for two previous employers and is now a co-founder and director of Lateral Security, responsible for technical delivery of projects. Nick has been performing penetration testing in New Zealand for the last 10 years and in that time he has worked with the majority of New Zealand's largest organisations including government, financial and telecommunications sectors.
Mark Piper - Catalyst IT Ltd - "Application Bug Chaining"
As the number of useful, un-authenticated application bugs dwindles in 2009, the number of practical 'chained' exploits is growing.
Often, during development, it is very easy for developers (and penetration testers) to focus on individual bugs within an application. While these bugs may be serious, they are often difficult to exploit practically. This talk will explore various conditions that may be found within web applications to allow the 'chaining' of application bugs to produce reliable and practical exploits.
A real world case study of how exploiting chaining can work will be discussed, dissected and demonstrated to the audience.
Mark Piper
Currently working as a Linux Guy for Catalyst IT Ltd. Mark has a passion for all things related to caffeine, UNIX and security.
In the past Mark has been both a UNIX Administrator and Principal Security Consultant assisting and advising a large number of organizations across New Zealand with regards to security. He has also presented at a number of conferences including the OWASP conference in Australia and OWASP evenings in New Zealand.
Mark is often called upon as a trusted advisor to various public and private sector organizations regarding the practical, real world threats they face.
Andy Prow / Kirk Jackson - Aura Software Security / Xero - "XSS – The Gloves are Off"
XSS (Cross-site Scripting) is still one of the most common web-attacks used today. Whether hidden in websites that have been vulnerable like Twitter, Facebook, MSN, Hotmail and Amazon, or in PDFs or Flash, XSS attacks are out in the wild. Just in May of this year we saw Gumblar (a.k.a. Grumblar, Martuz, JSRedir) which hit the top-web-infections lists around the globe – one of its growth techniques was good old XSS.
The key message of this presentation -"You've heard of XSS and you've followed the "OWASP XSS Prevention Cheat Sheet" to protect your code, but do you really understand each protection step, and does it really matter if you miss one?"
To help answer this question in an easily understandable way this presentation is not just another "XSS talk", but more of a "Gloves are Off" battle between good and bad. Andy takes the "bad-guy" role with XSS attacks, Kirk is the "good-guy" defender, locking down his .Net website. Who will win?
Andy Prow
Andy has15 years commercial experience in Software Development from companies including IBM, Vodafone, Telecom and Ericssons, in roles including lead software developer, technical architect and development manager. Andy is the Managing Director of the Aura group which he started in 2001. Aura Software Security Ltd provides IT Security Consulting and Penetration Testing to major NZ companies and agencies including the NZ Police, MFAT, Fidelity Life, Xero, TAB and several banks. Aura provides overseas pen-testing to both Ausy and UK companies.
Kirk Jackson
Kirk Jackson is a Senior Developer and is the IT Security Officer at Xero (www.xero.com). Kirks is also involved in the Microsoft development community, runs the Wellington .NET Users Group, presents nationwide and has presented at Microsoft TechEd the past 4 years. Kirk is an ASP.NET MVP, and occasionally blogs at http://pageofwords.com
Please note that CFP is now closed.
Call For Sponsorships (CLOSED)
The aims of OWASP - New Zealand community is to guarantee access to the conference for free in order to allow for wide participation and empower the community itself. As so the OWASP - New Zealand community encourages Industries, Research Institutions and Individuals to sponsor their activities and events.
Two types of sponsorships are available:
- Silver sponsorship: 1500 NZD
- Publication of the sponsor logo on the event web site (top of this page)
- Gold Sponsorship: 3500 NZD
- The publication of the sponsor logo in the event site, in the agenda, on the flyers, brochure and in all the official communications with the attendees at the conference.
- The possibility to distribute the company brochures, CDs or other materials to the participants during the event.
- Sponsor dedicated space at the conference (sponsor booth) to show products/services to the attendees during coffee breaks, lunch and snack breaks.
Those who are interested in sponsoring OWASP New Zealand 2009 Conference can contact the OWASP New Zealand Board.
Sponsors can also make us of the following PayPal button to make payments. Donations are also more than welcome from the NZ community.
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Call for Paper (CLOSED) and review process
OWASP solicit contributions on the above topics, or general matters of interest to the community. Those who are interested in participating as speakers to the conference can submit an abstract of the speech to the OWASP New Zealand Board.
The email subject must be "OWASP New Zealand 2009: CFP" and the email body must contains the following information/sections:
- Name and Surname
- Affiliation
- Address
- Telephone number
- Email address
- List of the author's previous papers/articles/speeches on the same topics
- Title of the contribution
- Type of contribution: Technical or Informative
- Abstract (max one A4 style page)
- Why the contribution is relevant for OWASP New Zealand 2009
The submission will be reviewed by the OWASP New Zealand Board and the 12-14 most interesting ones will be selected and invited for presentation.
Conference Venue
The University of Auckland Business School
Owen G Glenn Building
Room: OGGB 260-073 (OGGB4)
Address: 12 Grafton Road
New Zealand
The OWASP Days have always offered a forum for discussion and exchange of ideas among researchers and practitioners who present their experiences and discuss issues related to Web Application Security from a higher level to a technical point of view.
Conference topics include, but are not limited to:
- OWASP Project Presentation (i.e Tool Updates/Project Status etc)
- Threat modelling of web applications
- Privacy Concerns with Applications and Data Storage
- Vulnerability analysis of web applications (code review, pentest, static analysis, scanning)
- Baseline or Metrics for Application Security
- Countermeasures for web application vulnerabilities
- Web application security
- Platform or language (e.g. Java, .NET) security features that help secure web applications
- Secure application development
- How to use databases securely in web applications
- Security of Service Oriented Architectures
- Access control in web applications
- Web services security
- Browser security
Conference structure and schedule
OWASP New Zealand Day 2009 will be all day Conference. The conference aims to provide a workshop-like atmosphere in which contributions can be presented and then time is allowed for constructive discussion of their results and processes.
It will be structured in a single stream. During the conference two coffee breaks (one in the morning and one in the afternoon) and the lunch are in program. These might be offered by the sponsors.
The detailed agenda of the conference will be available on the web site before the event.
Conference dates
- CFP close: 15th June 2009
- Contributions submission deadline: 25th June 2009
- Registration deadline: 20th June 2009
- Conference Agenda due: 20th June 2009
- Conference date: 13th July 2009
Conference Committee
OWASP New Zealand Day 2009 Organising Committees:
- Roberto Suggi Liverani – OWASP New Zealand Leader
- Rob Munro – OWASP New Zealand Evangelist
- Alexandre Medarov – ICT Risk Manager - University of Auckland
- Lech Janczewski - Associate Professor - University of Auckland
Conference Sponsors
ICT and Department of Information Systems and Operations Management
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City of Nashua Selects End-to-End Workforce Management Solution from Kronos
CHELMSFORD, Mass., - The City of Nashua, the second-largest city in New Hampshire has selected an end-to-end workforce management suite of solutions from Kronos Incorporated to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve productivity.
The City of Nashua selected the time and attendance, employee scheduling, and TeleStaff™ public safety scheduling solutions from Kronos. As labor costs represent one of the largest controllable expenses for local governments, Kronos was selected to automate processes to help achieve real-time visibility and control over labor-related decisions.
With Kronos, City of Nashua managers will be able to review and approve employee time quickly and easily as well as manage overtime more precisely. Also by accommodating a variety of schedules, including public safety employees' varying shift lengths, Kronos will help achieve accuracy in the citywide scheduling process.
Additionally, all pay and work rules of the city including those in the city's five separate bargaining unit contracts will be built into the Kronos automated system. This will allow all rules to be applied consistently across departments.
Donnalee Lozeau, mayor of the City of Nashua, says of TeleStaff, "We selected a partner that can help us with our mission of continued excellence in citizen services."
About Kronos Incorporated
Kronos is the global leader in workforce management solutions that enable organizations to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity. Tens of thousands of organizations in 80 countries - including more than half of the Fortune 1000® - use Kronos time and attendance, scheduling, absence management, HR and payroll, hiring, and labor analytics applications. To learn how Kronos uniquely delivers complete automation and high-quality information in an easy-to-use solution, visit www.kronos.com.

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Alignments of Good, Evil, Lawful & Chaotic seem to be hindrances. They affect your spell choice slightly, restrict certain equipment and worst of all, they make you weak to certain forms of weapons & magic.
True Neutral alignments have none of these weaknesses, and can still seem use almost all spells/equipment with alignment restrictions. What am I missing?
I'm a power gamer at heart, and I cannot bring myself to play characters with weaknesses. The only time I will consider playing anything other than TN is when I'm rolling a Paladin.


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A curvaceous flap pocket creates a beautiful counterbalance on a dramatic trapezoid silhouette with mixed-metal chains and raised effects.
* Leather
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- Brass/ Parchment
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Celebs are snatching up the newest collection, Kristin, from Coach. Halle Berry is carrying the Krisitin Elevated Leather Tote, $698. Halle looked stylish wearing a cowl neck sweater paired with a tunic and denim leggings.
Halle also wore zipper detailed boots by Botkier and accessorized with sunglasses and a large chain handle handbag by Coach. The Kristin Collection!
Halle Berry is a huge fan of Coach Bags, and was recently spotted rocking the brand's Kristin Leather Tote in Black. The hot bag features rich glazed leather, fashionably-perfect chain link straps, and a sophisticated snap closure.
The Kristin collection by Coach are gorgeous for Spring and Summer! Also they make a great gift for that special person in your life.


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War on Terrorism
terrorism, the threat or use of violence, often against the civilian population, to achieve political or social ends, to intimidate opponents, or to publicize grievances. The term dates from the Reign of Terror (1793–94) in the French Revolution but has taken on additional meaning in the 20th cent. Terrorism involves activities such as assassinations, bombings, random killings, and hijackings. Used for political, not military, purposes, and most typically by groups too weak to mount open assaults, it is a modern tool of the alienated, and its psychological impact on the public has increased because of extensive coverage by the media. Political terrorism also may be part of a government campaign to eliminate the opposition, as under Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and others, or may be part of a revolutionary effort to overthrow a regime. Terrorist attacks also are now a common tactic in guerrilla warfare. Governments find attacks by terrorist groups difficult to prevent; international agreements to tighten borders or return terrorists for trial may offer some deterrence.
Terrorism reaches back to ancient Greece and has occurred throughout history. Terrorism by radicals (of both the left and right) and by nationalists became widespread after World War II. Since the late 20th cent. acts of terrorism have been associated with the Italian Red Brigades, the Irish Republican Army, the Palestine Liberation Organization, Peru's Shining Path, Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the Weathermen and some members of U.S. "militia" organizations, among many groups. Religiously inspired terrrorism has also occurred, such as that of extremist Christian opponents of abortion in the United States; of extremist Muslims associated with Hamas, Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and other organizations; of extremist Sikhs in India; and of Japan's Aum Shinrikyo, who released nerve gas in two attacks in Japan (1994, 1995).
In 1999 the UN Security Council unanimously called for better international cooperation in fighting terrorism and asked governments not to aid terrorists. The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks by Al Qaeda on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon—the most devastating terrorist attacks in history—prompted calls by U.S. political leaders for a world "war on terrorism." Although the U.S. effort to destroy Al Qaeda and overthrow the Afghani government that hosted it was initially successful, terrorism is not a movement but a tactic used by a wide variety of groups, some of which are regarded (and supported) as "freedom fighters" in various countries or by various peoples. So-called state-sponsored terrorism, in which governments provide support or protection to terrorist groups that carry out proxy attacks against other countries, also complicates international efforts to end terror attacks, but financial sanctions have been placed by many countries on organizations that directly or indirectly support terrorists. The 2001 bioterror attacks in which anthrax spores were mailed to various U.S. media and government offices may not be linked to the events of September 11, but they raised specter of biological and chemical terrorism and revealed the difficulty of dealing with such attacks.
See B. Hoffman, Inside Terrorism (1998); M. Carr, The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism (2007); S. Nathanson, Terrorism and the Ethics of War (2010); M. A. Miller, The Foundations of Modern Terrorism (2013).


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Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and the blogosphere to bring you everything you need to know to start your day.
• Sanchez wore the t-shirt you see here — a reference, fittingly, to history's most overrated sports movie — at a press conference yesterday, and the New York media suddenly turned into Tiger Beat. If I were Sanchez, I'd be careful about drawing the comparison. You remember how the movie ends, right? Guy gets saddled with a fat blond corn silo of a kid and Glenn Close. Glenn Close.
• Roger Federer advances at Melbourne Park, and the Williams sisters continue to make asses of their opponents (about which, more later).
• Everyone is mad at Allen Iverson for having the gall to get voted into the All-Star Game's starting lineup. How dare a popular player win a popularity contest!
• Phil Mickelson will open his 2010 season in the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines. Tiger Woods will be busy not having sex.
• Irwin Dambrot, one of seven City College basketball players popped for shaving points during the school's championship season in 1950, has died and gone to that great "Allagaroo!" cheer in the sky.
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Top Story: I'm very pleased to present, as part of my coverage of the Pagan presence at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Melbourne, Australia, an interview with Pagan scholar Michael York. Michael York is Professor of Cultural Astronomy and Astrology at Bath Spa University College, UK, an instructor at Cherry Hill Seminary, and author of "Pagan Theology: Paganism as a World Religion". We discussed the evolving place of modern Paganism at the Parliament, the importance of the Pagan voice in interfaith interactions, and how polytheism promotes democracy.
If you are a Pagan podcaster, or host a Pagan-friendly radio show, you are welcome to download this file to play on your program. Be sure to credit the Pagan Newswire Collective as the audio source. For more Parliament-related audio, check out my discussion with Ed Hubbard, a PNC correspondent, as well as host of MagickTV and Pagans Tonight. There are more scheduled Parliament interviews, so stay tuned to the Pagans at the Parliament blog for the latest news.
In Other News: William Booth at the Washington Post looks at the oft-misunderstood cult of Santa Muerte, or Saint Death. An anthropologist interviewed for the piece makes the argument that this growing, and controversial, faith is a true reflection of contemporary Mexico.
"The authorities have condemned Santa Muerte as a "narco-saint," worshipped by drug traffickers, cartel assassins and dope slingers. But the worship is more a reflection of contemporary Mexico, says the anthropologist J. Katia Perdigón Castañeda, the author of "La Santa Muerte: Protector of Mankind." The cult is an urban pop amalgam, New Age meets heavy metal meets Virgin of Guadalupe. It is no accident that it is also cross-cultural — that the centers of worship are the poor, proud heart of Mexico City and the violent frontier lands of Laredo, Juarez and Tijuana. The cult borrows equally from Hollywood and the Aztec underworld. Altars, necklaces and tattoos honoring Santa Muerte also make appearances in Mexican American neighborhoods from Los Angeles to Boston. "The believers may be drug dealers, doctors, carpenters, housewives. The cult accepts all. No matter the social status or age or sexual preference. Even transsexuals. Even criminals. That's very important, that the cult of Santa Muerte accepts everyone," Perdigón told me, "because death takes one and all." Where mainstream Mexican Catholicism promises a better life in the hereafter, "central to the devotion of Santa Muerte is the fact that the believers want a miracle, a favor, in the present, in this life, not when they are dead," Perdigón said."
I find it very interesting that while many modern Pagan religions are quite self-conscious of mixing pop-culture with our Paganism, or of modernizing ancient sacred imagery, the followers of Santa Muerte seem to do it instinctively. Focusing more on necessities than proprieties. I wish I could read J. Katia Perdigon Castaneda's book, but it appears to be only available in Spanish, a language I have not mastered.
I have an update on the case of Ali Sibat, a former Lebanese television presenter who was arrested and sentenced to death for sorcery in Saudi Arabia by the Mutaween (religious police) in Saudi Arabia, but I'm afraid it isn't good news.
"He was condemned to death last month, and the religious court may confirm the sentence as soon as Thursday. The family's lawyer, May Khansa, has tried desperately to persuade Lebanese politicians to intervene to save Mr Sbatt's life – the Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, and President Michel Sleiman are aware of his case and so is the Sunni Grand Mufti, Sheikh Abdul Amir Qabalan – but so far without success. Sheikh Qabalan did, however, say that what Mr Sbatt did on television was merely psychological help for people who have lost hope and did not involve black magic. The family wisely appealed to Sunni prelates for help rather than dignitaries from their own Shia background. Their local member of parliament has been asked to assist – uselessly, it appears – and Ibrahim Najjar, the Minister for Justice, has said he has done "the necessary", whatever that is."
Saudi lawyers have asked for a million dollars to make a legal appeal, and it seems only the intervention of King Abdullah could save his life at this point. I'll have more on this case as it develops, but it looks like another innocent person will soon be killed by a government for alleged supernatural crimes.
Why do white supremacists feel the need to subvert Pagan, Heathen, and Christian faiths? Because their own sad attempts at building a "religion" are so transparently political that federal district court judges have no problem denying them equal treatment in court cases.
"In Conner v. Tilton, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 111892 (ND CA, Dec. 2, 2009), in a decision unusually detailed in its analysis for a case brought by a prisoner pro se, a California federal district court held that the White supremacist Creativity Movement is not a "religion" for purposes of the First Amendment or RLUIPA. In the case, an inmate sought the right to practice various aspects of his purported religion in Pelican Bay State Prison. In deciding the case, the court relied on the definition of "religion" articulated by the 3rd Circuit in Africa v. Pennsylvania."
In short,"what's good for white people is good" just isn't a comprehensive world-view that addresses "fundamental and ultimate questions having to do with deep and imponderable matters". There may be (and are) racist Heathens, Pagans, Muslims, and Christians, but they at least have the fig-leaf of an actual faith-tradition when considering legal matters. This sadly means that racists will continue to distort our faiths for their own ends, but at least the misguided may have some chance of interacting with genuine non-racist permutations of those faiths as they move through life.
In a final note, Bartholomew's Notes on Religion, who has been covering the plight of child witches in Nigeria, brings us the news that notorious (and popular) witch-hunting mega-pastor Helen Ukpabio is suing a local activist and witch children charity. Why is she suing them? For making Ukpabio look bad when her followers raided a conference on Witchcraft and Child Rights.
"Helen applied to the Federal High Court in Calabar for the enforcement of her fundamental rights. She claimed, among other things,that the conference on Witchcraft and Child Rights, held on July 29 in Calabar – which her members disrupted- and the arrest of her church members on the said date constituted an infringement on their rights to practice their christian religious belief relating to witchcraft. She asked the court to issue perpetual injunctions restraining me and others – From interfering with their practice of christianity and their deliverance of people with witchcraft spirit … From holding seminars or workshops denouncing the christian religious belief in witchcraft … From arresting her and her church members etc."
The activist, Leo Igwe, has sent out a press release regarding the lawsuit. Due to oppressive British libel laws, Bartholomew wasn't able to reprint the entire thing, so I'm making it available here. I'll try to keep you posted as new developments in this case arise, but I strongly suggest you also read Bartholomew's Notes on Religion for the latest updates as well.
That's all I have for now, don't forget to check the Pagans at the Parliament blog for the latest updates and links from Melbourne, and have a great day!


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IT'S NOT A PARTY POST I JUST WANTED TO RESURRECT THIS barely used GIF
So we had that mod post the other day and some of you wanted a guide to posting so we've written one up for you. Before I go on, I'd just like to remind everyone that the guidelines for submitting posts are in our profile page. But we're going to take it one step further with an example. This is what usually happens for me when I want to make a post:
1. find an article. I'm going through my dashboard and one of the tumblrs I follow updated with an article. I want to share it with Omona and talk about it with them! Before I do that I backtrack a few pages and a couple of tags to make sure it hasn't already been posted. It hasn't? Okay let's begin.
2. So now I head on over to omonatheydidnt, hit "Post to community":
and here we are!
BTW, we had a list of sources awhile back here (that probably needs to be updated.). Feel free to go through them~
3. So I paste the article I find and then I add both the translated source (with proper credit depending on how they want it) AND the original language article. There's more on proper sourcing etiquette at the end of this post. I always want to make sure it's the most direct source to the articles whenever possible, including specific twitter posts, international fan forums (even if a mod can't access the page because they're not a member), and tumblr page.
If it's a long article I make sure to put most of it under a cut:
I highlight the text I want to put under a cut, click on "Livejournal Cut" (circled above), edit the Read More... text or leave it alone and BAM, lj-cut.
If it's an article with subject matter that is potentially triggering to some users in the community, put those triggering details UNDER the cut not before. I know it's kind of obvious but someone recently used the trigger (say trigger one more time) warning tag and posted the stuff BEFORE the cut.
4. Now I'm going to add pictures to my article. Here's what the mods say they DON'T want: hotlinking and Photobucket. What is hotlinking? It is when I take an image from a non-image hosting site (i.e. Allkpop) and putting it on a different website enabling it to steal bandwidth and sometimes the images turn to shit when the page generates a lot of traffic. So what about Photobucket? Photobucket PRO is highly recommended otherwise you get this. I am assuming that if anybody submits posts and the pictures are from photobucket that they are from a PRO account and we will approve it. If you aren't using a PRO account then you're going to have to live with the fact that your images will get broken immediately and the first page of comments will be "where's your pictures?" "flop post" etc. I know at least a couple of us don't reject posts with Photobucket images so please be aware of the differences between Pro and Basic.
Tumblr images apparently DO expire and there's more explanation here but tbh I feel like Tumblr got better with that???? I'm not sure. I personally don't mind using Tumblr for image hosting, that is until the pictures eventually expire and hopefully that's later on down the line.
Otherwise you have: imageshack, tinypic, and Livejournal to host those images for you. I highly recommend using Livejournal: you don't have to open a new tab and it becomes a less tedious effort. I do this when I'm too lazy to open a tab. For Basic and Plus users you get 1GB, Paid users get 2GB and that is not a bad deal at all.
How to upload an image using livejournal:
1) Click on the insert photo button
2) Browse: to add multiple files hold down the CTRL or shirt button
3) Add image name and description if you want.
4) Resize them if necessary
5) Add to post! :)
If you already have the images in your album just select the option From Album.
If you are adding a picture you uploaded somewhere else select the option Paste URL.
4. Oh, my favorite's MV is out and I'm going to post it! I know livejournal has been messing around with the Embed Media function lately but the easiest way to do it is just grab the embed code:
Click on Embed Media (circled below) and paste the embed code (not the youtube url):
Source the video at the end of the post (either the direct video or the youtuber who uploaded it) and VOILA!
If I find the MV on some other site that wasn't Youtube, Vimeo or Dailymotion it's perfectly okay not to include the commentary ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The focus of the post is the MV, not the article ok honey unless that article is translating what's in the video. Same goes for photoshoots and editorials. Hell, you can even write your commentary if you can come up with something witty, funny, fantastic etc. Or not, whatever. Fashion posts though, obviously the details are necessary so there's that exception.
5. I tag it with the appropriate tags and then I SUBMIT THE POST. I know the waiting time varies between a couple of minutes to several hours due to the varied schedule of the mods.
BUT WAIT i got a rejection letter D:
How come my post got rejected?
Here are some reasons (no order) why on any given day:
1. Sources did not go outside of the cut
2. Hotlinking
3. Already posted (that's if more than one person submitted the same thing at the same time)
4. image or video before the cut might be larger than 540px in width
5. You forgot the subject!
Remember that once you've fixed the issues you can always resubmit and try again. No shame y'all. I remember when I first started posting (before I became a mod) I made many mistakes, it happens. If anything you could message us directly if you have any issues. JUST REMEMBER TO TURN ON YOUR MESSAGES! I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH. Some of us would get messages but we couldn't get back to them because your inbox is closed. Open them!!! Or else we'll find an old thread or a personal entry and respond to you there.
6. Finally, this is how you add a source. Put it outside the lj-cut so that whoever you got it from can see that you've given them credit. Common internet courtesy, and there was a mod post awhile back about this. I included an embed in this post so I type the name of the source and ...well, you know how to link right?:
HOPE THIS HELPS. if you have questions, don't hesitate to ask. come inside, maybe you have a couple of questions that someone has already asked.


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It's not only that Pro Controller that reminds Microsoft of its Xbox 360. The graphics do too.
"I think their Pro Controller makes a lot of sense with the platform they've built," Microsoft's Phil Spencer told website Games Industry. "They are building a platform that is effectively a 360 when you think of graphical capability."
According to Spencer, Nintendo is probably going to use the Wii U's Xbox 360-esque controller to ensure a back catalogue of Xbox 360 ports.
"Now they are really making an on-ramp for the back catalogue of games that are on 360," he added. "It is easy for those games to move over to the Wii U. They've moved the buttons around, and they've made a controller that feels familiar for 360 gamers, so I get why they are putting those pieces together."
If that is what Nintendo is doing, it'll be pretty smart at the start! It will also mean the Wii U can get ports of new games for Microsoft's and Sony's next consoles — although those ports might not be on the same level graphically.
As with the Wii, let's see how the next generation progresses.
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Mr Chidambaram`s war
THE low, flat-topped hills of south Orissa have been home to the Dongria Kondh long before there was a country called India or a state called Orissa. The hills watched over the Kondh. The Kondh watched over the hills and worshipped them as living deities. Now these hills have been sold for the bauxite they contain.
Perhaps the Kondh are supposed to be grateful that their Niyamgiri hill, home to Niyam Raja, their 'god of universal law', has been sold to a company with a name like Vedanta (the branch of Hindu philosophy that teaches the Ultimate Nature of Knowledge). It's one of the biggest mining corporations in the world and is owned by Anil Aggarwal, the Indian billionaire who lives in London in a mansion that once belonged to the Shah of Iran. Vedanta is only one of the many multinational corporations closing in on Orissa.
If the flat-topped hills are destroyed, the forests that clothe them will be destroyed too. So will the rivers and streams that flow out of them and irrigate the plains below. So will the Dongria Kondh. So will the hundreds of thousands of tribal people who live in the forested heart of India, and whose homeland is similarly under attack.
In our smoky, crowded cities, some people say, "So what? Someone has to pay the price of progress." Some even say, "Let's face it, these are people whose time has come. Look at any developed country, Europe, the US, Australia — they all have a 'past'." Indeed they do. So why shouldn't "we"?
In keeping with this line of thought, the government has announced Operation Green Hunt, a war purportedly against the 'Maoist' rebels headquartered in the jungles of central India. Of course, the Maoists are by no means the only ones rebelling. There is a whole spectrum of struggles all over the country that people are engaged in — the landless, the Dalits, the homeless, workers, peasants, weavers. They're pitted against a juggernaut of injustices, including policies that allow a wholesale corporate takeover of people's land and resources. However, it is the Maoists who the government has singled out as being the biggest threat.
Two years ago, when things were nowhere near as bad as they are now, the prime minister described the Maoists as the "single-largest internal security threat" to the country. This will probably go down as the most popular and often-repeated thing he ever said. For some reason, the comment he made on January 6, 2009, at a meeting of state chief ministers, when he described the Maoists as having only "modest capabilities" doesn't seem to have had the same raw appeal. He revealed his government's real concern on June 18, 2009, when he told parliament "If left-wing extremism continues to flourish in parts which have natural resources of minerals, the climate for investment would certainly be affected." At current market rates, the minerals in the region have been valued not in millions but in trillions of dollars.
Right now in central India, the Maoists' guerrilla army is made up almost entirely of desperately poor tribal people living in conditions of such chronic hunger that it verges on famine of the kind we only associate with sub-Saharan Africa. They are people who, even after 60 years of India's so-called independence, have not had access to education, healthcare or legal redress. They are people who have been mercilessly exploited for decades, consistently cheated by small businessmen and moneylenders, the women raped as a matter of right by police and forest department personnel. Their journey back to a semblance of dignity is due in large part to the Maoist cadre who have lived and worked and fought by their side for decades.
If the tribals have taken up arms, they have done so because a government which has given them nothing but violence and neglect now wants to snatch away the last thing they have — their land. Clearly, they do not believe the government when it says it only wants to 'develop' their region. Clearly, they do not believe that the roads as wide and flat as aircraft runways that are being built through their forests in Dantewada by the National Mineral Development Corporation are being built for them to walk their children to school on. They believe that if they do not fight for their land, they will be annihilated. That is why they have taken up arms.
MoUist corridor
The forest once known as the Dandakaranya, which stretches from West Bengal through Jharkhand, Orissa, Chhattisgarh, parts of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra, is home to millions of India's tribal people. The media has taken to calling it the Red corridor or the Maoist corridor. It could just as accurately be called the MoUist corridor. It doesn't seem to matter at all that the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution provides protection to adivasi people and disallows the alienation of their land. It looks as though the clause is there only to make the Constitution look good — a bit of window-dressing, a slash of make-up. Scores of corporations, from relatively unknown ones to the biggest mining companies and steel manufacturers in the world, are in the fray to appropriate adivasi homelands — the Mittals, Jindals, Tata, Essar, Posco, Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton and, of course, Vedanta.There's an MoU on every mountain, river and forest glade. We're talking about social and environmental engineering on an unimaginable scale. And most of this is secret. It's not in the public domain. Somehow I don't think that the plans that are afoot to destroy one of the world's most pristine forests and ecosystems, as well as the people who live in it, will be discussed at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Our 24-hour news channels that are so busy hunting for macabre stories of Maoist violence — and making them up when they run out of the real thing — seem to have no interest at all in this side of the story. I wonder why?
Perhaps it's because the development lobby to which they are so much in thrall says the mining industry will ratchet up the rate of GDP growth dramatically and provide employment to the people it displaces. This does not take into account the catastrophic costs of environmental damage. But even on its own narrow terms, it is simply untrue. Most of the money goes into the bank accounts of the mining corporations. Less than 10 per cent comes to the public exchequer. A very tiny percentage of the displaced people get jobs, and those who do, earn slave-wages to do humiliating, backbreaking work. By caving in to this paroxysm of greed, we are bolstering other countries' economies with our ecology.
The mining companies desperately need this "war". It's an old technique. They hope the impact of the violence will drive out the people who have so far managed to resist the attempts that have been made to evict them. Whether this will indeed be the outcome, or whether it'll simply swell the ranks of the Maoists remains to be seen.
The real problem is that the flagship of India's miraculous "growth" story has run aground. It came at a huge social and environmental cost. And now, as the rivers dry up and forests disappear, as the water table recedes and as people realise what is being done to them, the chickens are coming home to roost. All over the country, there's unrest, there are protests by people refusing to give up their land and their access to resources, refusing to believe false promises any more. Suddenly, it's beginning to look as though the 10 per cent growth rate and democracy are mutually incompatible.
To get the bauxite out of the flat-topped hills, to get iron ore out from under the forest floor, to get 85 per cent of India's people off their land and into the cities (which is what Home Minister Chidambaram says he'd like to see), India has to become a police state. The government has to militarise. To justify that militarisation, it needs an enemy. The Maoists are that enemy. They are to corporate fundamentalists what the Muslims are to Hindu fundamentalists. (Is there a fraternity of fundamentalists? Is tha t why the RSS has expressed open admiration for Mr Chidambaram?)
It would be a grave mistake to imagine that the paramilitary troops, the Rajnandgaon air base, the Bilaspur brigade headquarters, the Unlawful Activities Act, the Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act and Operation Green Hunt are all being put in place just to flush out a few thousand Maoists from the forests. In all the talk of Operation Green Hunt, whether or not Mr Chidambaram goes ahead and "presses the button", I detect the kernel of a coming state of emergency. (Here's a math question If it takes 600,000 soldiers to hold down the tiny valley of Kashmir, how many will it take to contain the mounting rage of hundreds of millions of people?)
Instead of narco-analysing Kobad Gandhy, the recently arrested Maoist leader, it might be a better idea to talk to him.
In the meanwhile, will someone who's going to the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen later this year please ask the only question worth asking Can we leave the bauxite in the mountain?


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SAN JOSE — Nothing comes easily to the Sharks in February.
Tuesday night, they managed to skate away with a 3-2 shootout victory over the Colorado Avalanche at HP Pavilion after coming within less than four minutes of a regulation win.
But after going 1-6-3 so far this month, Todd McLellan wasn't going to complain about how his team got the two points that have been so elusive as of late.
"Big win, real big win. It's so hard to get a win right now," the Sharks coach said. "I'm glad our group got the reward tonight because we probably deserved it."
San Jose got the victory on shootout goals by Michal Handzus and Patrick Marleau while Colorado netminder Semyon Varlamov stopped Joe Pavelski and Dan Boyle. Sharks goalie Antti Niemi allowed one to PA Parenteau, but stopped shots by Milan Hejduk, Gabriel Landeskog and John Mitchell.
What may have made the victory even a little more sweet for San Jose was the fact its goals in regulation came from two players who needed to find the back of the net — Logan Couture, who had gone eight games without one, and TJ Galiardi, whose first of the season provided the secondary scoring the team desperately needs.
Chuck Kobasew and Mark Olver scored for Colorado.
The Sharks were very aware that their 1-4-1 trip had dropped them below the cutoff point for playoff teams, and that things had reached the point where their first game in 17 nights at HP Pavilion might not exactly provide a warm reception.
"Being at home doesn't guarantee anything," defenseman Dan Boyle said. "The crowds are probably just as anxious as we are and not overly thrilled about what's going on."
That crowd did get something to cheer about only 25 seconds into the game.
On the game's first shift, an Avalanche turnover went right to Joe Thornton. He found Couture coming through the slot and he nailed his seventh goal of the season after a mini-drought.
"I always put a lot of pressure on myself and when the team's not scoring and I'm not scoring, you want to help the team out," Couture said. "Hopefully I can build off this and get a couple more."
The Avalanche got that one back at 12:13 of the first when the Sharks struggled to clear the puck out of their own zone. A rebound of a shot from the point ended up in Jason Demers' skates and before he could do anything, Kobasew punched it into the net.
San Jose finally got the secondary scoring it's been looking for all season to take a 2-1 lead at 2:55 of the second period, and it took a makeshift line to do it.
"We wanted to distribute some speed and some size out a little bit more. Just a hunch," McLellan said of his decision to drop James Sheppard to the fourth line where he played alongside Galiardi and Adam Burish.
Sheppard did most of the work on the goal, taking the puck from behind the Colorado net and sending a nifty backhand pass into the crease, where Galiardi converted it for his first goal of the season and first against his former team.
The fact that Galiardi scored against his former team, he acknowledged, made it a little extra special. But more important was the ability to provide the secondary scoring the team has had trouble finding this season.
"It's obviously been something we've struggled with this season and we've been looking for chemistry on our third and fourth lines," said Galiardi, who noted that he, Burish and Sheppard were pretty excited to learn McLellan was putting them together on the same line.
Still, he added, it was too soon to say the problem had been solved.
"It's pretty early, we had one goal," Galiardi said. "It's about stringing it together now."
The Sharks held the Avalanche off for most of the third period, but a shot by Colorado defenseman Hejda that caromed off the back boards and was poked into the net by Olver survived a video review and Colorado made it a 2-2 game at 16:44.
A high-sticking penalty to Avalanche forward Jamie McGinn gave San Jose a power play for the final 1:02 of regulation and carried into the overtime period. Thornton came close to ending the game 59 seconds into the extra period, but Varlamov robbed him with a flash of the glove, setting the stage for the shootout.
Before the game, Landeskog dismissed talk that there might be any payback.
"I don't know," he said. "I think as a hockey team we've moved on."
Matt Irwin was called up from Worcester to replace Burns, but did not play.
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It's not uncommon for artists to find themselves in the constant struggle between remaining true to the roots of their music and expressing themselves as individuals. A recent example of this can be found in a UK sensation, The Streets.
In an interview published this month in URB magazine, The Streets' Mike Skinner expressed a longing for his music to be embraced by the underground Garage music community.
The Streets' sound is deeply rooted in UK Garage music, a hybrid of drum 'n bass, hip-hop, and dancehall. Although his first album, Original Pirate Material, earned him the prestigious Mercury Prize for best album (the British version of a Grammy), his polished sound was not as well received by the community that supports the music that's the basis for his production style.
Nevertheless, his popularity grew. O.P.M. became an underground classic stateside, prompting the somewhat hurried follow-up release, A Grand Don't Come For Free.
That album picks up where O.P.M. left off– with Skinner penning engaging stories in his sometimes offbeat rap/spoken-word Birmingham slang-heavy dialect. Whereas on his first album the songs stood alone as singular portraits of a day in the life of an average bloke, the new album is a complete seamless story that listens like Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels for the blind.
At the risk of spoiling the plot for the virgin listener, A Grand Don't Come For Free starts of with The Streets lamenting how bad a day he's having. Things only get worse as he finds out he lost 1000 pounds (money, not avoir du pois), gets kicked out of his girlfriend's house, cheats on her, becomes suspicious of his friends, makes amends with his lady, and finds his money.
All this takes place over a curiously ecclectic kaleidescope of sleepy minimalist Garage beats seasoned with long string phrases, brooding piano chords, video game pops and bleeps, throw-back guitar riffs, and singing-by-himself-in-the-shower-style hooks. It's obvious that he chose the minimalist route so that the listener is forced to listen to the intricacies of the stories he weaves.
After one gets accustomed to his heavy accent and begins to decipher, through the context of his rhyme, the thick Brit street slang he spews, you find this pale-face griot to be quite the narrator. His attention to detail becomes more apparent after repeat listens as various plot intricacies are unveiled.
So if you're looking for danceable club tunes similar to the first album, or a groundbreaking Garage production, you'll be disappointed. Do prepare for head-bobbing, mid-tempo music. Alone, the music would border on boring but when combined with The Steets' scrutinizing meanderings it becomes the perfect album for a long drive or lonely afternoon.
I can't imagine the UK Garage community is any more accepting of Mike Skinner after A Grand Don't Come For Free. Truthfully, that fact is nothing for him to shed a tear about. The Streets is not simply a Garage artist, he's an artist.
A Grand Don't Come For Free transcends his genre and embraces something more universal. The album is as much folk as it is electronica, hip-hop and, soul. As far as songwriting goes, few contemporary artists can match him word for word or capture the up and down sides of urban living like The Streets can.
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Quote:That begs the question, doesn't everyone wear gloves to train in?
Quote:Most times but alot of MAs loose who they are (can't feel or trap or check the moves as well) in gloves. As in your dirty boxing it better to wear MMA or fingerless gloves rather then boxing gloves to do that because you want to grab the head and uppercut or whatever.Wing Chun and I like to grab certain parts of the arm or shoulder or shirt certainly you can't to that with boxing gloves on.
Quote:Boxing is more a unclinched match even in close they consider it resting or cheating to tie up without finding punching room. With us its just going into a different range.Hows is your distance boxing compared to your dirty boxing (I know you're good at that)? Can you handle a good boxer unclinched?
Quote:A lot of MAs can't handle a real fast jab w/o attacking the legs, WC is one of the arts that you gotta come better then that because thats what they train for imho.So yes we train in gloves sometimes, you don't walk around with gloves on so its best to learn to hit without them, even boxers. What do you say?
Quote:Notably there are things like Kyokushin (and other knockdown Karate perhaps?) that seem to train without gloves.Obviously you normally remove the head as target if you're going with much intensity, but for better or worse it's pretty common in the Karate world to not use gloves.
Quote:I personally think there are merits and downsides to doing both things.
Quote:One thing I would add is that the head should (IMO) be the primary target in a street fight/self-defense situation. Thus removal of the head in a sparring situation would be truly detrimental, wouldn't you say?
Quote:basically though, all sparring has flaws that don't exist in a real situation.
Quote:Quote:basically though, all sparring has flaws that don't exist in a real situation. Mind elaborating on this a bit? I would still like to weigh in on a few of your other comments but I don't have time. Gotta hit the gym. Back later folks!-John
Quote:From what I have seen, street fights don't look anywhere NEARLY as clean and precise as do MMA fights. Thus, becoming good at MMA sparring would tend to create more functional use of technique FOR street fighting.Sparring is simply fighting. Again, perhaps its just that the people you normally see in street fights aren't as skilled. Maybe that explains why you see things differently.Just a thought.
Quote:I don't view "fighting" and "self defense" as synonymous.
Quote:Most people who want to hurt you aren't gonna "fight" you, they are gonna do everything to stack the deck in their favor to not have to fight you, and still come out on top.
Quote:Doesn't mean that MMA (or anything else) can't help, but it does mean there's no one to one relationship between MA and self defense IMO.
Quote:If what you're after is me saying "yes MMA guys can defend themselves better than anyone" then i'm not gonna agree, if what you are saying is that "live" training scenarios can aid in physical self defense, I agree with that.
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CHICAGO-- One of the most sought-after —but elusive— elements of any trade show business (or any business for that matter) is the "buzz." It's the electric feeling that a truly transcendent event is in progress: the exhibit floor comes alive with the crackle of commerce and the seminar rooms reverberate with dynamic new ideas delivered by leading minds in the field. Well, earlier month in Chicago, the buzz was in the air at Club Industry 2002 , which is run by Club Industry parent company Primedia Business Magazines and Media. From the keynote address by four-time Super Bowl winner and NFL Hall of Famer Lynn Swann, where nearly 500 attendees crammed the room to hear Swann, speaking in his new role as chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, to the more than 7000 attendees and exhibitors swarming the hall the aisles creating a vibrant flow of traffic in the nearly 900 booths of the 230 exhibitors—Club Industry 2002 was a success for the show staff and the industry as a whole.
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XCache 的介绍
(这是 Introduction 页面对应的中文翻译)
XCache 是一个开源的 opcode 缓冲器/优化器, 这意味着他能够提高您服务器上的 PHP 性能. 他通过把编译 PHP 后的数据缓冲到共享内存从而避免重复的编译过程, 能够直接使用缓冲区已编译的代码从而提高速度. 通常能够提高您的页面生成速率 2 到5 倍, 降低服务器负载.
XCache 工程由 mOo 领队, 他也是 Lighttpd 的开发成员之一. Lighttpd 是最快的 Web 服务器应用程序之一, 并且超越 Apache 以及许多其他 Web 服务器. XCache 努力达到类似的效果.
你 (XCache 的作者) 知道 apc, eaccelerator, phpa, truck-mmcache 吗?
I noticed phpa (PHP Accelerator) long ago, and looked at truck-mmcache around the time it was still being actively maintained. Sadly phpa's project died and never updated its code to support newly released versions of PHP. So I used truck-mmcache for a period of time, but... it hanged or crashed continously after being under high load. I noticed APC later, but I've been reading both APC/truck-mmcache source for a long time (I couldn't have writen XCache if I hadn't read them), discovering that APC code is simpler and more beautiful than mmcache's. Features are good, but I believe that stability is more important. So I finally turned to run APC online -- simpler often means more stable. mmcache forked eaccelerator later and they setup www.eaccelerator.net, running trac.
但是您为什么又写了个 XCache? 为何不直接参与 ea/apc 的开发?
I DID filing bug report, submiting patches to both http://pecl.php.net/bugs/search.php?cmd=display&package_name[=APC&status=All apc bug report system] and truck-mmcache on sf.net and interactive with communicate with zoeloelip, one of the main developer of eaccelerator. He's the first one read my XCache source, long before XCache is published online. I'm not sure, but i guess the idea he rewrite ea_dasm.c is base on my Disassembler idea in XCache :)
There are many reasons for me to write XCache instead of using APC or EA:
- Something too big to be made into them (ea/apc).
- I have many new ideas on opcode cacher, but I just can't break their cacher to prove my ideas.
- To prove my programming skills? Making project oneself isn't that simple. With only programming skill is far insufficient, you need to become project admin, designing how the project will be, foresee the cost and benefits ... blah blah
To conclude, I've finished writting XCache for quite a long time, before then I had used APC. Although it was quite stable for a php4 with flock() configuration it had become unstable once I upgraded my server to a dual cpu (4 threaded cpu) because it flock()ed badly so XCache was used instead and seems to have solved the problem.
ea/apc is still good opcode cacher, as long as it's maintained actively, and if it's stable for you.
XCache 有什么特殊的?
参见 特色功能?.


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That Hinshaw who was apparently a partner with Nathan Thomas Beals was Amos S. Hinshaw (1839-1930), son of Stephen Hinshaw (and, although we don't know with certainty what his full middle name was, one could guess that it was probably Stephen):
Incidentally, I did perform a relationship search through my Rootsmagic database, and found that Nathan Thomas BEALS and Amos S. HINSHAW were indeed first cousins, once removed - through Charles and Hannah (PIGGOTT) DAVIS.Amos S. Hinshaw indeed did live in Westfield, and was a member of Westfield Monthly Meeting. And he was shown in the 1900 census with occupation "carriage builder", and in 1910 as "mechanic, carriage shop".
As to his relationship to Nathan Thomas Beals: inconsequential. Westfield was a small town in 1893, and there was a tight and close Quaker community - Amos and Nathan might have come together in partnership for reasons other than any genealogical relationship. However, probably coincidentally, Amos was 3rd cousin once removed to Solomon Hinshaw, who married Nathan's sister Elizabeth.
Regards,Jan HinshawThe Hinshaw Family Association
P.S.: I hope you don't mind, but I liked the "Beals & Hinshaw" scan you referenced, so I copied the image and added it to Amos Hinshaw's page (credited to you of course).


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Or at least it seems like the cloud is everywhere today. More and more you see service offerings to back-up your system data or store your files. The storage space is nice to have, but I like the cloud for the data organization aspects. Cloud storage lets you organize things like your music for example, according to many different criteria. So instead of just listing it alphabetically like I would on my hard drive, I can organize it according to the genre of music, or the year it was released. I can organize it according to whether I listen to it while I am driving or while I am working out. It also lets me grant access to it according to who may listen to it, so if it is a suitable song, I can grant access to my son or daughter so they may listen to it. As my library of photos and music grows, as well as my family, I can add more space to the cloud to scale it to my usage.
Manufacturing on the Cloud Makes Big Data Easy to Manage
Manufacturing applications on the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform work much in the same way. Of course the cloud offers a great repository to keep all of your manufacturing data and applications. But even better, it offers a great place to manage and access all of your project data. Whether it is a document, a process plan, a workcell simulation, or a manufacturing resource, it can be easily accessible on the cloud from the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. 3DEXPERIENCE on the cloud makes large amounts of data manageable and makes it easily searchable by different criteria.
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Manufacturing on the cloud is scalable. Projects ramp up and down as do workloads. Companies have a tough time managing hardware and software requirements that are constantly in a state of flux. Once hardware is purchased, it is on the books until it's lifecycle is over. On the cloud, software and hardware requirements are completely scalable. So as projects and workloads ramp up and down, so does the system utilization and software licensing. This means that the capital investment made for hardware and software is transferred to a scalable system. Over the years as the company grows, the value of the 3DEXPERIENCE on the cloud grows exponentially.
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The 3DEXPERIENCE platform on the cloud gives smaller companies many advantages. It provides scalable resources and technology at a lower cost. By hosting hardware and software on the cloud, it also allows for reduced on-site support from IT specialists, as well as reduced infrastructure. Since it lets IT offload the responsibility, your team can focus on new projects and new products. In other words, they can focus on growing your business.
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It was the much anticipated volleyball sectional final at North Miami Saturday night with the upset minded Northfield Lady Norse taking on the six time defending sectional champion Southwood Lady Knights. Southwood would get off to a good start, flexing their muscle most of the night, winning their 7th straight title 25-16, 25-18, 25-15.
Southwood would get game one started with a Drew Rhamy kill that got a 5-0 run started to jump out to a quick lead. Tori Snyder would stop the run with a kill, but the Knights responded with three straight and led 8-1. The Norse would then find power hitter Kylie Echard who pounded two kills and the Norse cut the lead to 8-4. Amy Bowman would then get a kill as the Knights scored five of the next six to increase their lead to 13-5. Lexi Brickner had two kills during the spurt. Echard and Elaina Terrill would trade kills with Brickner and Sami White and the Knights held a 17-9 lead. The Knights would continue the pressure, building the lead to 21-12, going on to the 25-16 game one win.
After a 2-0 start for Southwood in game two the Norse would respond, scoring five of the next seven game points to take a 7-5 lead. Elaina Terrill would record two kills during the run with Liz Howenstine getting a tip for a kill. The Knights would then do what they do best, go on a run. Lexi Brickner would spike one straight down that started a 11 point run, putting Southwood in the drivers seat at 16-7. Sarah Peters and Sami White would also get kills during the run. The Lady Norse wouldn't fold though. A kill from Holly Dyson got the Norse going as they would score nine of the next thirteen points to cut the Southwood lead to 20-16. The Knights would out score Northfield 5-2 down the stretch with kills from Murphy and White to win game two 25-18.
With all the momentum on Southwood's side, the Knights would take advantage of it early in game three. Sami White would start the game with a kill, also getting kills from Murphy and Bowman to jump out to a 5-2 lead. Elaina Terrill would get a kill to make it 5-3 when the Knights did their thing. Starting with a Sarah Peters kill, Southwood strung out five straight to take a 9-3 lead. Liz Howenstine would stop the run with a tip for a point as Northfield scored three straight to make it 9-6. Another 5-0 Knight run would increase the Southwood lead to 14-6 when the Norse made a run. Tori Snyder would get a kill that started a 5-1 run as Northfield cut in to the Southwood lead at 15-11. Four straight by Southwood made it 19-11 as the Knights would not allow the Norse to score more than one point at a time down the stretch to capture game three 25-15 and their 7th straight sectional title.
Southwood will now host the regional on Tuesday against Clinton Central who was a 25-11, 25-18, 25-9 winner over South Vermillion. The game is a rematch of last years regional that the Knights won 25-21, 25-18, 25-16.
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The day was grey and dark. Tevond Velmon rode under the crackling clouds on his blonde palfrey over verdant hilly plains, impatiently allowing the tired beast to trot. A useless thing, he though to himself, I ought to make a spell-mount that will not tire as this one does. As a mage of the kingdom of Lordaeron, Tevond certainly had the ability to research such a thing, but the war prevented it. Damnable orcs. Of all the wars to get involved in, it had to be with orcs... Tevond despised the green-skinned creatures. Not because they threatened his land or his kinsmen, but because they were his ticket to fame and fortune. And of all the ways to get money, this was the worst in his book.
The palfrey slowed its pace further as the town came into view. Tevond gave a cry of contempt and spurred the beast on, to no avail. He came to a stop, and dismounted. "I'm certain I can find better horses than you," he said to it, "Stay out here and get eaten by orcs for all I care!" He gesticulated wildly, filling the air with flames. The animal whinnied and ran off, afraid. Tevond grumbled about its sudden burst of speed and moved on at a brisk paced toward the ruined town.
Considering his life, Tevond thought himself rather unlucky. He had been born in a hamlet outside the 'great' town of Andorhal to poor farm workers. He had grown up to gain an affinity for magic, especially the arts of fire. His parents were proud to see their son learn such great things, until they discovered where he'd learned it all. Spurned for thievery. The mages were the thieves! They set unfair prices and cheated me... He remembered his parent's scorn well. It was a lesson that he could only trust himself. Even his friend Rupert had betrayed him. We were supposed to be a team, you and me. You teach me to steal and I teach you magic, that was the deal. Their deal had benefitted the both of them, until Tevond was found out. Then Rupert was too cowardly to keep up his work. After the second betrayal, Tevond had dedicated himself to becoming rich and famous, so when he was grown, he could teach his traitorous family and friends their lesson. So he had given himself to the mage Bartholomew Davids as an apprentice, so he could begin on his path. Davids had been a fair teacher, stern, but fair. Tevond respected him, but did not love him. In time, he outstripped his master. Then the refugees had started arriving.
The town approached Tevond slower than he liked, but his legs were sore and growing tired. In his boredom, he summoned a magic mirror to check his face. He liked keeping his looks in check when he could. In the enchanted glass, he saw his flat figures staring back at him. His face was tall and thin, but flat as a plate. His nose barely stuck out at him in the reflection. His long, but well-combed brown hair fell down to his shoulders, two smaller strands fell in front of his face, which he found interesting to look at, so it pleased him to keep it in order. His dull brown eyes also seemed to follow the flat theme of his face. They didn't pop or attract attention, but deep in them he saw the hunger that he knew would take him to the top of this world. This face may seem ordinary at first glance, but before I am done, this face will be the greatest in Azeroth!
Before he knew it, he had arrived in the town, and let his mirror vanish into thin air. A man in the steel and blue plate of Lordaeron approached him on an armored black horse, which carried its burden with grace and beauty. "State your business, mage," the knight said.
"I was sent by Khadgar to summon you lazy lot to the Black Morass. He says the war's close to done, but the Dark Portal's still standing." Tevond hated being a message carrier. Khadgar hadn't in fact sent him personally, but he thought his business sounded more important that way.
The knight seemed unimpressed. His stoic expression changed not at all as he said, "Very well. You may have food and lodging in the inn. I will deliver your message to Lord Redhelm as soon as he is available. No doubt you will be called before him with the details of Khadgar's missive on the morrow." When his words were done, he trotted off back to his post. Tevond glared after him. The sound of food and lodging appealed to him, so he followed his nose to the inn. Looks like another lot of pious pricks I have to serve. All I get are scraps now. Someday they will be feeding out of my hand. Tevond ruffled his hair and chuckled at what a sight it would be to have a line of knights in some fancy court waiting to eat his scraps.


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AMMAN (Reuters) - At least 11 people were killed and 40 wounded when a car bomb exploded on Thursday at a petrol station in the Syrian capital Damascus, opposition activists said.
The petrol station was packed with people queuing for fuel that has become increasingly scarce during the country's 21-month-long civil war, the activists said.
The bombing took place in the Barzeh al-Balad district, whose residents include a mix of majority Sunni Muslims and several other religious and ethnic minorities.
The semi-official al-Ikhbariya television showed footage of 10 burnt bodies and Red Crescent workers searching for victims at the site.
The opposition Revolution leadership Council in Damascus said the explosion was caused by a "a booby-trapped car". There was no immediate indication of who may have been responsible.
An activist who lives in the area said he saw ambulances loading burnt bodies and wounded people with severe burns before he was ordered away by security forces surrounding the station. Tow trucks removed destroyed vehicles, he added.
"The station is usually packed even when it has no fuel. There are lots of people who sleep there overnight, waiting for early morning fuel consignments," said the activist, who did not want to be named.
He said brawls have increased lately at the petrol station between militia loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and ordinary citizens waiting for fuel, but it was not known who carried out the attack.
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Twitter updated its mobile applications and website on Wednesday, pushing out a visual refresh to the company's Android app that claims to reflect a "native" Android experience. (Essentially, that means bringing the Android app up to par with the iOS app's functionality.) Also noteworthy: Twitter's mobile apps and website will now support the company's additional Cards technology, which were rolled out at a developer event on Tuesday evening.