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Strong Conn. support for tough gun laws
The voters of Connecticut appear to be more willing to rally around strict gun control measures than their elected representatives, at least up to now.
If the latest Quinnipiac University Poll is correct - or even if it's signficantly off the mark - Connecticut voters, including many gun owners, overwhelmingly favor stricter gun control measures. And we'd like to think these gun owners are more representative of the gun owning community than the noisy extremists wrapping themselves in an incorrect interpretation of the Second Amendment.
Even if the numbers are wrong by 10 percentage points or more, something well-done polls like Quinnipiac never are, the results would still show formidable support for strict gun legislation. The poll surveyed 1,009 registered voters earlier this month and has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.
The two most controversial of the gun measures awaiting legislative consideration, expanding the ban on assault weapons like the AR-15 used in Newtown and banning magazines with more than a 10 round capacity, each received the support of an impressive 68 percent of those polled.
Expansion of the assault weapons ban was the only legislation not supported by gun owners, but the vote was close, 49 to 44 percent. They split evenly on the magazine ban, with 49 percent for it and 48 percent opposed.
On one gun issue, the public appears to be nearly unanimous. A remarkable 93 percent said they favor universal background checks for gun purchasers and that's the highest the poll has seen in favor of any issue in 20 years of taking surveys in Connecticut, according to Douglas Schwartz, the poll's director. The numbers in gun owning households were nearly as high, with 89 percent favoring background checks to just 9 percent against.
Almost as many of those polled - 86 percent - support the establishment of a gun registry for those convicted of gun crimes. Even more significant and welcome was the poll's revelation that nearly as many of the gun owners polled - 85 percent - support the gun registry.
Eighty-five percent of those polled also want to see a permit requirement to purchase and carry all guns. A smaller number of gun owners, but still an impressive 71 percent, agree.
It should be of special interest to Republican legislators that while Republican voters divided 45 to 48 percent on the general question, "Do you support or oppose stricter gun control laws in Connecticut," they supported nearly all of the specific measures.
The poll results were released the day after the legislative task force on gun violence couldn't reach a bipartisan consensus on how to keep guns out of the hands of those who would misuse them.
It was encouraging to see that the panel was able to agree on most proposals, including universal background checks, the gun offender registry, safer gun storage and restricting ammunition sales to gun permit holders.
The Republican legislators couldn't bring themselves to support an expanded ban on assault-type weapons like the AR-15 used to kill the 26 children and educators in Newtown or the high capacity magazines used in the massacre. But Democrats have a strong legislative majority and that points to passage of the assault weapon and magazine bans and we believe these bills will receive some Republican support.
It would send a strong signal to other states and to the nation if both parties in the state that suffered the unimaginable losses at Newtown could send a unified message on the need to restrict these weapons of mass murder. As Gov. Dannel P. Malloy put it in his recent meeting with The Day editorial board, "Not every state has had 20 babies shot."
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Mr. BTongue (also known as Bob Case around these parts) just released a new video on videogame violence as a follow-up to his first video on videogame violence. This new video pokes at some longstanding flame wars regarding the American military, politics in games, the supposed obligations of artists to the societies they operate in, and diversity. But it's also got some stuff about The Iliad in it and that's always fun:
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I'm wary of pulling on any of the threads in his video. I think there are a lot of interesting discussions to be had here, but this ain't my first visit to the internet. I know that before we even get started we'll end up with some partisan announcing, "I HAVE STRONG OPINIONS ON AMERICA AND THE MILITARY AND I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU AGREE WITH ME BY DROWNING YOU IN OUTRAGE AND LINKS TO SOURCES IDEOLOGICALLY ALIGNED WITH MY POSITION." And then we'll end up in the same old Red vs. Blue ditch where all internet discussions go to die. As usual, a few people ruin it for the rest of us.
So let's just skate past that stuff and talk about…
Spec Ops: The Line: The Discussion: The Return
It's funny that Btongue brings up Spec Ops: The Line now, since we were just talking about it in the comments of the most recent post of Wolfenstein II. Some people disliked the game. In their view, the game traps you in contrived scenarios where you only have one option and many seemingly reasonable alternatives aren't available. Then it turns around and condemns you for those actions, and seems to condemn you for wanting to play the game in the first place. I really liked the game, but I also understand where the critics are coming from.
Is the game really condemning the player, or just genre conventions? At some point we'll end up in a quagmire arguing about authorial intent, but I don't think the position of "the game is hostile to the player" is an unreasonable reading of things. The game even pointedly introduces you, the player, as part of the opening credits.
So when the game starts chiding the protagonist for "wanting to be a hero", it's not hard to see that this condemnation might also be aimed at whomever is holding the controller. And this rubs people the wrong way because it makes all sorts of assumptions about how the player views the game.
I enjoy jumping the curb and running over people in Grand Theft Auto. That doesn't mean I want to do that in real life or that I don't know it's wrong. I enjoy punching bad guys in the face as Batman, even though I'm fully aware that vigilantism is a terrible idea in practice. I'd be pretty pissed off if I started up a Batman game and the developers spent the whole time sneering at me and insinuating I'm some sort of violent thug because I enjoy being Batman.
Just like Batman exists in a world where Bat-themed vigilantism is a viable solution to crime, military shooters often exist in a world where military conflicts are simple good vs. evil, the lines are clear, and you can make the world a better place by shooting all the bad people. No, the real world doesn't work that way, but that's what makes this an escapist fantasy. I actually enjoy SOTL's deconstruction of the genre, but I can't really fault people who signed on for something else and didn't like what they got.
The developers (seem to) have the position that people who enjoy typical military shooters are all sheeple:
"None of you actually THINK about the games you're playing. You're just mindlessly gunning down dudes."
And I'm sure that's true for some segment of the fanbase. But I'm betting lots of people who enjoy these games have the introspection to recognize them for what they are and realize the real world doesn't work this way. And for them the rhetorical position of SOTL comes off as presumptuous, sanctimonious, hypocritical, and unfair.
If nothing else I liked SOTL just for being different. If all shooters were grimdark "Apocalypse Now" styled explorations of no-win scenarios and we suddenly got a one-off game where you get to play as a righteous hero in a conflict that has clear sides and an unambiguous bad guy then I'd probably celebrate its novelty as well. "Finally! A game that understands we're here to have fun!"
We Could Use More Science Fiction Right About Now
Personally, I'd much rather they tore the labels off of things by placing their story in a sci-fi setting where we can consider whatever the point the game is trying to make without getting caught up in what political tribe the game is coming from. Rather than argue that games should advocate Ideology A or Group B, just take whatever part of that debate you want to talk about and transplant it somewhere that isn't going to map to the American Red / Blue paradigm.
But I guess the public prefers the "realism" of modern settings. This traps writers into using existing armies for their shooters, which means reducing complex geopolitical conflicts into good guys vs. bad guys. And if you're doing that, then it seems financially smart to make the home country of your biggest customer base the explicit good guys, and make villains of some small country that would never buy your game anyway. People refer to Call of Duty as "Propaganda", but this implies a deliberate attempt to spread a particular view or manipulate public opinion. Having casually played a couple of these games, to me they come off as more pandering than propaganda. That doesn't make it any more acceptable to people that dislike the designer's rhetorical position about who the bad guys are, but I think the distinction is still important.
On the other hand, does the public really prefer "real world" settings, or has the industry just been bad at creating science fiction? It's hard to tell public preferences from creative inertia, particularly since AAA publishers are obsessed with chasing trends in a way that entrenches familiar ideas. I know one of the big tentpole shooters went to space recently, but it was still space over Earth with the familiar roster of Earth-based armies. If you really want to get out of the shadow of the Red v. Blue fight then you need to go to a world where they've never heard of America. (Or so far in the future that they no longer care.)
This would be a win for me as well. I'd love to have the debate of "Did the Alliance actually bring peace to the Jondar homeworld or was that just an excuse to exploit their natural supply of quantum crystals? And even if they were there to take the crystals, wasn't that kind of justified considering the external threat proposed by the Khildar Dominion?" Sure, people that like to argue about partisan politics will try to map this to the real world so they can write snarky clickbait think-pieces, but (assuming the writer did their job) an honest reading of the world will prevent a simplistic mapping of that world onto this one and we'll all be obliged to consider the setting on its own terms without worrying about which team represents "our" party.
The other benefit to sci-fi settings is the availability of "Orcs". Shooter gameplay requires you to shoot a lot of dudes. This isn't necessarily a problem if the game is comedic or overtly bombastic in tone, but the closer we get towards "realism" – the more straight-faced and somber the work tries to be – the more people will naturally see the world through a more realistic lens. If you're fighting in a "realistic" modern-day setting, then once your body count hits the triple digits it's hard to not look at what you're doing and start wondering if all of this death is necessary. Sure, the bad guys need to be defeated. But don't some of these guys have families? Aren't they just human beings that have been brainwashed by the bad guys? Maybe these guys are conscripts who have no choice but to fight. Maybe they've been lied to their entire lives. Maybe they don't really hate me but they had to sign up for the military to feed their families. Suddenly I'm not feeling very heroic. Even if I really am making the world an objectively better place in the end, it's still a crappy job to mow down these poor slobs.
But in a sci-fi world we can create a strawman villain explicitly to facilitate gameplay. They can be bloodthirsty space-Orks that have no redeeming qualities. They can be robots. They can be insane bloodthirsty cannibal psycho killers. They can be vat-grown super-soldiers with no other dreams or aspirations in life except to kill. They can be a multi-racial band of cruel pirates or cultists so it doesn't feel like the writer is singling out a real-world group. Or maybe they're inter-dimensional demons of pure evil. Once we take a step or two away from realism we can facilitate copious amounts of fun shooting without turning one group of real-world humans into cannon fodder. Some people will still dislike the focus on violence, but that's fine. Those people probably aren't into shooters anyway.
Wait, Wasn't This Supposed to Be About Violence?
One final thing I'll add is that I think Campster hit on an important point back in 2012 when he made the case that violence-based gameplay isn't just a creative habit, but also a natural result of having a computer running the game. Computers are good at simulating physical conflict and bad at simulating (say) dramatic conflict:
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Campster's explanation is kind of depressing because it's harder to see a solution. Computers aren't about to get any better at running a tabletop-style roleplaying session. AI is making huge strides, but I don't think we're anywhere near the point where your home computer can hold up a conversation that isn't constructed from a canned dialog tree imposed by a writer. And even if we solved that problem, we don't have the means to have the AI perform that dialog like a proper actor. Thus violent conflict can be resolved using formal rules that the player can master, and dialog-based conflict is still trapped in the "Choose Your Own Adventure" model of guessing your way through a tree of predetermined choices. Violence wins because it suits the hardware.
Sure, you can come up with games that aren't centered on violent conflict. We've got The Sims, Cities Skylines, Crusader Kings, Rollercoaster TycoonYes, there are occasionally violent exceptions to the normal gameplay., Papers Please, The Witness, and hundreds of other games with no violence, or where violence is only a small part of the experience and often not directly controlled by the player. And many of those games sell incredibly well. But a lot of the really big flagship titles are still built on shooting and stabbing, and I doubt that will change anytime soon. The hardware is well-suited to that sort of thing, and so that's what gets made.
Just make a little more of it with Sci-fi, okay? Right now sci-fi fans have to pin all their hopes on BioWare, and that doesn't seem to be working out.
[1] Yes, there are occasionally violent exceptions to the normal gameplay.
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Windows 8 is here, and while it's not universally beloved, it does appear to be bringing a lot of cash into Microsoft's coffers. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced today at the company's BUILD conference that Microsoft has sold 4 million Windows 8 upgrades to consumers since the operating system went on sale Friday.
"The level of embrace from enthusiasts, from people who want to get out there, is very, very high," Ballmer said today.
Ballmer said yesterday that Windows 8 is selling faster than Windows 7. Of course, this is based on just a few days, and Microsoft is offering better-than-usual upgrade pricing this time around. Upgrades from previous versions of Windows to Windows 8 Pro cost only $39.99 for a downloadable copy (or $69.99 for a boxed DVD) until January 31, 2013. Additionally, people who bought Windows 7 PCs since June 2 can upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for only $14.99. By contrast, Windows 7 promotional pricing in 2009 was $49 for an upgrade to Home Premium and $99 for an upgrade to Professional.
Ballmer also had a big number to report on sales to business customers, apparently referring to volume licensing and Software Assurance subscription sales. "We have sold tens of millions of units to our corporate customers, who can upgrade when they want to, but have no time pressure to do that any time soon," Ballmer said. Those who bought Windows 8 consumer upgrade licenses are also not obligated to install the new bits right away.
Microsoft had some good news on the app front today, too. The Windows Store—the app store for Windows 8—is sparse so far, but Microsoft said applications from the likes of Twitter, Dropbox, and ESPN are on the way. Additionally, PayPal will integrate with Windows Store apps.
Recent big-name additions to the Windows Store include Skype, Netflix, and Angry Birds Space. But there are still notable missing names, such as Facebook. The Windows Store had more than 9,000 applications available at retail launch.


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USA Makes It 7 In A Row Over New Zealand; Next Race To Decide America's Cup
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) -- The longest America's Cup in history will come down to two 72-foot, space-age catamarans making a final, dramatic sprint around San Francisco Bay, on a five-leg course framed by the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz Island.
Skipper Jimmy Spithill and defending champion Oracle Team USA saw to that by extending their almost unimaginable winning streak to seven on Tuesday to force a winner-take-all finale against Emirates Team New Zealand.
Oracle came through a wild start with two collisions to win Race 17, and then sped past the Kiwis after they made a tactical error to give up the lead in Race 18 in strong wind.
All but defeated a week ago, Oracle Team USA tied the faltering Kiwis 8-8 on the scoreboard by winning its 10th race overall. Oracle was docked two points for illegally modifying boats in warmup regattas and Dirk de Ridder, who trimmed the 131-foot wing sail, was disqualified.
If it hadn't been hit with the harshest penalties in the 162-year history of the America's Cup, Oracle Team USA's sailors would be hoisting the oldest trophy in international sports in victory and spraying each other with champagne.
Instead, the epic 19th race is scheduled for Wednesday, weather-permitting, on San Francisco Bay.
Either Oracle will finish one of the greatest comebacks in sports history or Team New Zealand, marooned on match point for the past week, will get the win it needs to claim the Auld Mug for the second time in 18 years and ease the nerves of the 4.5 million residents of the island nation.
Oracle has gotten faster as it's made changes to its black cat every night in its big boatshed on Pier 80 and has steadily learned to sail it better under the watchful eye of team CEO Russell Coutts, a four-time America's Cup winner.
America's Cup Fans Look Forward To Wednesday's Final Race
But there's a bigger reason Oracle is still alive.
"Never giving up," Spithill said.
The 34-year-old Australian has been almost defiant in leading his well-funded, deep team after it was penalized just four days before the sailing began.
"I really feel it's because we've been through such hard times in this campaign that it's prepared us for this situation," Spithill said. "I spoke yesterday a lot about the capsize and stuff like that and what went on before this regatta. This team has just been through so much and some incredibly difficult times. Those were key moments, we needed those key moments to prepare us as a team."
Oracle's first boat capsized in October and its wing sail was destroyed, costing the team four months of training time until a new one arrived from New Zealand.
Barker, the losing skipper in the 2003 and 2007 America's Cup, looked deflated after the double losses.
"We got beaten today, and that's tough to handle, but sometimes you just have to accept that," he said. "It's frustrating, but we know we can still win this, and we will go out there and give it absolutely everything we can tomorrow."
Spithill may very well have gotten into the heads of Barker and the Kiwi crew on Sept. 12. With Oracle trailing 6 to minus-1, he said: "I think the question is, imagine if these guys lost from here, what an upset that would be. They've almost got it in the bag. That's my motivation."
On Tuesday, Spithill said: "It's not over. That's the key point here is, we've got to finish it off."
In terms of drama, this America's Cup rivals the 1983 regatta, when Australia II rallied from a 3-1 deficit to beat Dennis Conner in seven races to end the New York Yacht Club's 132-year winning streak.
Tuesday's races were so pivotal that software billionaire Larry Ellison, who owns Oracle Team USA, skipped making a keynote speech before 60,000 people at Oracle Open World so he could witness the comeback firsthand from a chase boat on the bay.
Barker dominated Spithill at the start of Race 18 and beat him to the first mark with his 72-foot catamaran, allowing the Kiwis to control the race.
The Kiwis led by 7 seconds rounding the second gate mark before committing the blunder that cost them the lead and, perhaps, the America's Cup.
Team New Zealand tacked too early heading into the first cross going upwind and slowed dramatically as the boats zigzagged toward the Golden Gate Bridge on the only windward leg on the course. The American-backed boat—with only one American on its 11-man crew—went speeding past and built its lead to more than 1,000 yards on the windward fourth leg going past Alcatraz Island.
The final margin was 54 seconds. Spithill did a flyby of Pier 27-29, with his crew lining the port hull to wave and pump their fists toward the crowd.
Oracle, which trailed 8-1 last Wednesday, has dramatically increased its speed sailing upwind after struggling repeatedly against the Kiwis earlier in the regatta. As it overhauled the Kiwis in Race 18, Oracle's hulls were out of the water, riding on hydrofoils.
"I think it's fairly clear to see that we could have tacked pretty much anywhere and we would have been behind at the end of that leg," Barker said. "They were going pretty damn well. This was the first time that we've recognized that there was a condition where we're maybe not as strong as we need to be. It's tough because you're doing everything you can. The guys never gave up, but clearly the Oracle guys were going pretty well in that stuff."
Earlier, Oracle forced Emirates Team New Zealand into two penalties during the wild start of Race 17 and won by 27 seconds.
Spithill appeared in trouble just before the start but hooked behind Barker into a favored leeward position as the boats jockeyed just inside the Golden Gate Bridge. The 72-foot catamarans touched, and Oracle tactician Ben Ainslie yelled at the Kiwis to tack away. They collided again, this time harder, with Ainslie gesturing angrily.
Team New Zealand sat dead in the water to clear the penalties as Oracle pulled away—and stayed ahead the whole way around the course.
Spithill and his mates are the first to win seven straight races in an America's Cup match. There have been three five-race winning streaks when the Cup was best-of-9. This regatta started as best-of-17, but Oracle will need to win 11 races to keep the Cup.
Oracle has twice trailed by seven points, most recently when Team New Zealand won Race 11 on Wednesday for an 8-1 lead.
After Oracle won Race 12, Team New Zealand was denied the chance to seize the Cup when Race 13 was abandoned because of a 40-minute time limit with the Kiwis well ahead in light wind. When the race was resailed in a better breeze, Oracle won to begin its winning streak.
With the two victories Tuesday, Oracle Team USA has won for the ninth time in 13 races since Ainslie, a British Olympic star, replaced American John Kostecki as tactician. Ainslie has teamed with Australian strategist Tom Slingsby, also an Olympic gold medalist, to help guide Spithill around the course.
It's been an agonizing week for New Zealanders, who've been getting up early to watch the races on TV.
At the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club in Wellington, Kate Robinson said that she had been rooting for Spithill a week ago as Oracle struggled.
"I wanted him to do better," she said. "But not this well."
And if Team New Zealand loses?
"I'll probably cry," she said. And she wasn't joking.
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Researchers have uncovered defects in a wide range of applications running on computers, smartphones, and Web servers that could make them susceptible to attacks exposing passwords, credit card numbers, and other sensitive data.
The Trillian and AIM instant messaging apps and an Android app offered by Chase Bank are three apps identified as vulnerable to so-called man-in-the-middle attacks. Like the other dozen or so applications identified, the threat stemmed from weak implementations of the secure sockets layer and transport layer security protocols. Together, the technologies are designed to guarantee the confidentiality and authenticity of communications between end users and servers connected over the Internet.
The weak implementations caused the programs to initiate encrypted communications without first assessing the validity of the digital certificates on the other end. As a result, one of the fundamental guarantees of the SSL—that the computer on the other end of the connection belongs to the party claiming ownership—was fundamentally compromised. Instead, the apps will trust imposter certificates that are signed by attackers or fail established validity tests for a variety of other reasons.
"Our main conclusion is that SSL certificate validation is completely broken in many critical software applications and libraries," a team of researchers wrote in a paper titled The Most Dangerous Code in the World: Validating SSL Certificates in Non-Browser Software. "When presented with self-signed and third-party certificates—including a certificate issued by a legitimate authority to a domain called AllYourSSLAreBelongTo.us—they establish SSL connections and send their secrets to a man-in-the-middle attacker."
The scenario described by the researchers is precisely the attack SSL is intended to protect against. The research paper, presented last week's Computer and Communications Security conference, came in addition to separate work presented that demonstrated how holes in apps downloaded as many as 185 million times from Google's official Android market left passwords, e-mail, and instant messaging contents vulnerable to theft.
Instant messaging clients Trillian and AIM are among the apps that fail to properly validate SSL certificates before establishing a secure connection, according to the researchers. Man-in-the-middle attacks on Trillian, depending on the specific setup, can yield login credentials for a variety of third-party services (including Google Talk, AIM, Yahoo!, and Windows Live services). The AIM client version 18.104.22.168 on Windows also accepts certificates signed by untrusted parties and also fails to verify if the host name on the certificate conforms to the Internet address the app is connected to.
Similar weaknesses in the Chase mobile banking app for Google's Android operating system also puts users at risk, the researchers said. "Even a primitive network attacker—for example, someone in control of a malicious Wi-Fi access point—can exploit this vulnerability to harvest the login credentials of Chase mobile banking customers," the paper warned.
The researchers attributed weaknesses to the "terrible design" of the programming interfaces provided in widely used code libraries that implement SSL. In some cases, the libraries leave it up to individual apps to validate the certificates presented when they connect to a server. In other cases, options chosen by app developers inadvertently turn off validation routines that by default are supposed to run.
"These APIs are extremely confusing," said Moxie Marlinspike, the pseudonymous researcher who has repeatedly exposed vulnerabilities in SSL. "They're very easy to get wrong and people do get them wrong all the time. But some of the cases that [the researchers] outline don't spell certain death."
One such case, Marlinspike said, was a weakness described in the code libraries for the Amazon Flexible Payments Service used to process online payments. Invoking the library using the PHP language turns off domain-name checking in FPS, allowing the server running the program to accept connections to non-authorized servers, the paper said. Marlinspike didn't dispute that finding but said that FPS provides its own signature-based authentication protocol and doesn't transmit client credentials, credit card numbers, or bank account information. Under those circumstances, the lack of SSL validation doesn't necessarily indicate a significant loss of security, he said.
Marlinspike made a similar observation about a finding involving TextSecure, an Android app he developed to encrypt cellphone messages that use the SMS and MMS protocols. The carrier servers that phones connect to don't present SSL certificates that conform to Internet standards, so TextSecure wouldn't work correctly if it ran validation routines. More importantly, messages are encrypted using the Off-the-record protocol, so SSL is never relied on to keep the content private.
Nonetheless, the paper cites a litany of widely used apps and code libraries that fail to properly vet servers before establishing connections that are supposed to be secure. This authentication is supposed to take place during a "handshake" mandated by the SSL protocol, when a server presents its public-key certificate to the end-user computer. For the connection to be considered secure, the client must first confirm the certificate has been issued by a valid certificate authority, has not expired or been revoked, and carries the domain name(s) the client is connecting to.
Other apps and libraries mentioned in the paper include Amazon's EC2 Java library and all cloud clients based on it; Amazon's and PayPal's merchant SDKs responsible for transmitting payment details from e-commerce sites to payment gateways; integrated shopping carts such as osCommerce, ZenCart, Ubercart, and PrestaShop; AdMob code used by mobile websites; and Java Web-services middleware—including Apache Axis, Axis 2, Codehaus XFire, and Pusher library for Android—plus all applications employing this middleware.
The researchers said they uncovered the faulty validation by running the programs on a network that used DNS cache poisoning and a real-time certificate impersonator to simulate a real-world man-in-the-middle environment. They called on developers to subject their apps to similar tests.
"The state of adversarial testing appears to be exceptionally poor even for critical software such as mobile banking apps and merchant SDKs responsible for managing secure connections to payment processors," the researchers wrote. "Most of the vulnerabilities we found should have been discovered during development with proper unit testing."


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PORTLAND, Maine — A national think tank says new gay marriage laws in Maine, Maryland and Washington will generate at least $166 million in wedding spending in the next three years.
The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law estimates that nearly 18,000 same-sex couples in the three states will exchange vows in the first three years after the new laws are in effect.
Wedding-related spending for in-state couples is expected be about $16 million in Maine, $63 million in Maryland and $89 million in Washington. The estimates do not include out-of-state same-sex couples that travel to those states to marry.
Lee Badgett, research director at the institute and an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts, says the additional spending will create new jobs and boost tax revenues.


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Drug-resistant bacteria aren't the only pernicious bugs that hospitals need to worry about. MIT's Technology Review reports that hospitals' computerized equipment—such as patient monitoring systems, MRI scanners, and nuclear medicine systems—is dangerously vulnerable to malware, and many systems are in fact heavily infected with viruses.
That's because many of these systems run on older versions of Windows—such as Windows 2000. Medical equipment manufacturers often won't support security patches or operating system upgrades for their systems, largely out of concern about whether such changes would require them to resubmit their systems to the Food and Drug Administration for certification.
The scope of the problem was the topic of a panel discussion (PDF) at a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board on October 11. Mark Olson, the chief information security officer at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, told attendees that malware had infected fetal monitors in his hospital's high-risk pregnancy ward, to the point where they were so slow they couldn't properly record data.
"Fortunately, we have a fallback model," Olson said. "They are in an (intensive care) unit—there's someone physically there to watch. But if they are stepping away to another patient, there is a window of time for things to go in the wrong direction." The systems have since been replaced with new ones—based on Microsoft's Windows XP.


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President Barack Obama speaks about the economy at Cheesman Park in Denver
President Barack Obama is hugged by a child in the crowd after speaking about the economy
"I'm here for every American who works their tail off and does everything right & believes in the American Dream." —Obama #OpportunityForAll—
The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 09, 2014
"The only story that matters is your story." —President Obama on why he's focused on expanding opportunity for more Americans—
The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 09, 2014
The Denver Post: President Obama In Denver Touts Economic Progress
President Obama, speaking to a crowd of hand-picked guests in Denver Wednesday at Cheesman Park, touted gains made in the economy following the recession that challenged the start of his presidency. "We have come farther and recovered faster than almost any other advanced country on Earth," the president said. Obama continued his populist message, telling guests: "I'm here for every American who works their tail off and does everything right and who believes in the American dream and asks for nothing but a decent chance in life for themselves and their families." He said: "I'm here to say I hear you. And sometimes it's as simple as that — that I'm listening and paying attention. … I see myself in folks, because I remember my first minimum wage job — at Baskin Robbins by the way, wearing a cap and an apron — and how a little raise would have helped.
"I think about what it was like for me to finance college and child care costs. … Your stories are ours. You're why I ran. What I want to make sure of is, as screwed up as Washington gets, that everyone here understands that there is progress to be made and that there's someone fighting for them." Dooley, who dined with president on Tuesday, said she believed his message was one that harkened back to his 2008 campaign. "He talked about hope and change then," said Dooley. "And though he inherited a bad economy it's now changing and more opportunities are coming about. His message of raising the minimum wage helped my boss realize it was important."
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"They said no to equal pay for equal work. They said no to unemployment insurance." —Obama on Republicans in Congress blocking progress—
The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 09, 2014
Obama: "I'm not going to stand by and let partisan gridlock or political games threaten the hard work of millions of Americans."—
White House Live (@WHLive) July 09, 2014
Doug Mills: President Obama runs up on stage to deliver remarks on the economy and Immigration at Cheesman Park, in Denver.
Yup. It's horse head guy
Nothing gets a bigger response from the crowd than mentions of Boehner's plan to sue POTUS for doing his job, while they do nothing—
Dan Pfeiffer (@pfeiffer44) July 09, 2014
"I will keep trying to restore the American Dream for everyone who's willing to work for it." —President Obama #OpportunityForAll—
The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 09, 2014
Alex Dooley of Denver, who had written to President Barack Obama thanking him for talking about raising the minimum wage and her boss doing so, introduces the president before he spoke about the economy


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Instead I want to focus on the woman behind the event, Barbara. Although I have never met her in person, I like to believe that we would be good friends if we were neighbors. I first "met" Barbara when I sent her a package during one round of Blogging By Mail....all the way to New Zealand! We kept in touch through emails, we discovered more about each other as the months went by and she is in my thoughts just about everyday. She has her own battle with cancer to fight and yet she never cease to amaze me by dropping me a line or sending me a little package when I come here and open up about some of my "mishaps". Thank you for being here, for being fierce, for being strong, for being such a support when I needed a little boost.
When she launched Taste of Yellow this year, she added a little photo contest opportunity with the request that our picture had to feature the yellow cancer wristband. Name your color, I got it, but in this case when I went to get mine wrapped around Teddy The Mini Bear I discovered that this ferocious beast had a field trip with the bear and the bracelet. I got online and figured I would order a bag of 10 and give them out to friends and family and right after I hit "buy", an email from Barbara came in reading that she had some and would I like her to send me one (from Australia this time, because she moved) Yep, Ma'm! I gave the whole bag I purchased away and kept hers for the photo shot and away from the beast of the house! Thank you my dear, macarons look great wrapped in yellow! The "funny" thing this year is that LiveStrong day falls on my birthday, a date my brother never missed although he was completely in his own world when it came to dates and celebrations. Life has a way to remind you of the big things doesn't it?
Allright, what about Barbara's event and the food.... It has to be yellow for one and since it has been in the 80sF around here lately I decided not to turn the oven on too long and make something refreshing. A tropical "verrine" of mango, fruit salad, and whipped Greek yogurt with peach ganache macarons...yellow, yellow...Of course I had to stick a macaron in there..eheheh!! That went down so easy last night as we were sitting on the porch, reminiscing about the first time B. met my bother in Montmartre in front of a big bowl of spaghetti and the first time he met my grandmother at her house in front of one of her famous tarts and a cup of tea. Great memories...the best (someone pass me a Kleenex).
I need to add after reading several comments that you do not need a yellow wristband to enter the event, it is just to take part in the photo contest. However, purchasing one or several through the Lance Armstrong Foundation will help fight this nasty disease.
For the verrines (serves 4)
For the bottom layer, peel the mango and cut in rough chunks, run them through the food processor with the lime juice until you obtain a fine puree. Divide it evenly among four glasses or dishes.
For the Macarons shells:
For the whites: the day before (24hrs), separate your eggs and store the whites at room temperature on a covered container. If you want to use 48hrs (or more) egg whites, you can store them in the fridge.
For the Peach Ganache:
Bring a small pot filled with water to a boil on the stove and cook the peach in it for a couple of minutes. Remove from the water, let cool, peel and chop into rough chunks. Run them through the food processor until you get a fine peach puree. Set aside.In a bowl set over a pot of simmering water, melt the white chocolate until completely smooth. Remove from the heat and add the heavy cream and peach puree. Gently incorporate all the ingredients together until your ganache is smooth. Refrigerate until of piping consistency and fill the macarons shells with it.


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Video Library
- 1 Synopsis
- 2 Configuration
- 2.1 Setting up Video and Image Folders
- 2.2 Folder Images
- 2.3 Scanning for Videos
- 2.4 Parental Controls
- 2.5 Internal Player
- 2.6 External Player Configuration
- 2.7 Trailer Playback
- 2.8 Editing Video Metadata
- 2.9 Metadata Lookup
- 2.10 Custom Movie Artwork
- 3 Using MythVideo
- 4 Screenshots
- 5 Importing DVDs
MythVideo allows for cataloguing and playback of a variety of video file formats. It can perform automatic metadata look ups on themoviedb.org or The TV DB as well as retrieve poster, fanart, banner, and screenshot artwork. You can also add your own Meta data to your own videos and add custom poster artwork to videos.
Setting up Video and Image Folders
Storage Groups
Videos in Myth can now be stored on the backend and streamed to the frontend without a NFS or Samba mount. It is critical to note that the Storage Group implementation is not complete, and to take that into consideration when weighing whether to move to MythVideo Storage Groups. Hopefully the transition to Storage Groups will be complete for MythTV .23, so this should be taken as a technology preview release only.
- Adding new frontends means zero configuration for videos, recordings, and metadata images.
- Can dynamically add space to your video library without using RAID or LVM. Loss of one drive does not mean loss of the entire library.
- Can spread video hosting across many/all backends.
- No need to set up network mounts of any kind.
- External Video Players (mplayer, xine, VLC) will not work with videos hosted on an SG.
- ISO/VIDEO_TS Playback does not presently work in Storage Groups.
Setting Up Video/Image Storage Groups
- On the backend to host the videos, stop the backend process and run mythtv-setup.
- In Storage Group configuration, set up directories for each of the following: Videos, Trailers, Fanart, Banners, Screenshots, and Coverart.
- Optional Step: If you would like to use a combination of Storage Group and locally hosted video, you can do the following. On the frontends, go to Utilities/Setup->Setup->Media Settings->Video Settings->General. Change "Directories that hold videos" to point at a directory that is not the same as the one the Storage Group points at. If the local video setting and the Storage Group setting point at the same path, MythVideo will prefer the Storage Group path and ignore the local one.
- Enter MythVideo. Press the "M" (MENU) key and choose "Scan For Changes."
- You will find that your metadata is reset, but should see all of the Storage Group videos. You will need to regrab metadata, but there are multiple new options to grab it all quickly in .22, as explained below.
Local Video Storage
If you choose not to use Storage Groups then simply don't define any of the above mentioned Storage Groups and set up your directories for videos and artwork on each individual frontend. On remote frontends the directories will need to be mounted locally via NFS or Samba. As always, the mount points need to be identical on all frontends. Then go to Utilities/Setup->Setup->Media Settings->Video Settings->General and point to the appropriate directories for Videos, Trailers, Fanart, Banners, Screenshots, and Coverart.
local playback dirty hack replace the 6543/\/var\/lib\/mythtv\/videos with your port and path
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IFS=$'\n' foobarpath2=`echo $1| sed -e 's/^myth.*6543/\/var\/lib\/mythtv\/videos/g' -e 's/\[/\\[/g' -e 's/\]/\\]/g' -e 's/'\/\\'\/g' -e 's/(/\\(/g' -e 's/)/\\)/g' -e 's/\&/\\&/g' -e 's/;/\\;/g'` mplayer -fs "$foobarpath2" >> /var/log/mythtv/mythfrontend.log
Folder Images
You can place a file named folder.(png | gif | jpg) into a folder that is accessible to MythVideo and it will be used when the gallery view is displayed instead of a plain folder icon. As a fallback, you can place any image in the folder and it will be used. In absence of one of these images, myth will descend into the directory and find the first valid poster on an item contained within and use it as the folder image.
Scanning for Videos
When you add new videos to your storage directories, you can trigger a scan from any MythVideo view by choosing MENU->Scan For Changes.
In versions of MythTV prior to .22, it was necessary to enter the Video Manager screen to initiate a scan. This is no longer the case.
Parental Controls
Configuration of Parental controls is found at Utilities/Setup->Setup->Media Settings->Video Settings->General.
MythVideo supports the ability to limit what videos maybe viewed without a password/pin. There are 4 different levels to choose from. You can select a default level and a password/pin for each level. Any videos/files at or below the current level will show up in the list. You can modify Parental Levels on-the-fly from within the Edit Metadata menu in MythVideo itself. Note that if you set the parental level to a high value, when someone enters MythVideo, even if they fail the PIN prompt, they will get that parental level. Thus, it is best to set the parental level to the lowest level you want publicly accessible.
To change parental level within MythVideo, Press the numeric value of the level, from 1-4. If you have set a PIN for that value, you will be prompted it at that time.
MythVideo remembers that you entered the pin for 2 minutes, so once you've entered the pin for a given level, you can freely switch between that level and all lower levels without a pin until that two minutes is up, after which you'll need to enter a pin again to switch to a higher level.
Internal Player
The MythTV Internal player is the default (and recommended) player for Video and DVD. It will also play DVDs and DVD isos with full menu and subtitle support. It uses the same OSD, settings, remote bindings and audio configuration as playback of recordings making it much easier to setup and use than an external player. It supports almost all video formats and content including High Definition and in addition a wide range of easily accessible features including configurable aspect ratios, picture fill modes, timestretch, bookmarks, video editing, automatic locale based or manual selection of subtitle and audio streams and much, much more.
Rebuild seek table
Some files require a seektable in order to skip/seek properly. If the Internal player is behaving strangely, please try building a seektable before resorting to an external player. To create a seektable, run the following command on the file:
mythcommflag --rebuild --video filename.ext
The symptoms are the internal player not displaying the correct time in the OSD, not seeking at all, partially corrupt playback, or restarting playback on any attempt to seek.
External Player Configuration
Configuration of Parental controls is found at Utilities/Setup->Setup->Media Settings->Video Settings->General.
(Trunk/.23 location: Utilities/Setup->Setup->Media Settings->Video Settings->Player Settings)
This screen is largely self-explanatory. You can configure default players for Videos, DVDs, VCDs, as well as (optionally) an alternate video player. To use the Internal player as your default player, simply enter "Internal" (without quotes) as the string.
Trailer Playback
MythVideo can both associate a single trailer with a film as well as play a user-specified number of trailers before all films.
To configure a film's specific trailer, open the edit metadata screen and click on the trailer button. Select the trailer you want to associate with the film. Once you have done so, to play a film's trailer, highlight the item and choose INFO->Play...->Play Trailer.
To set up randomized trailer playback, navigate to Utilities/Setup->Setup->Media Settings->Video Settings->General.
(Trunk/.23 location: Utilities/Setup->Setup->Media Settings->Video Settings->Player Settings)
Within these settings, you can enable randomized trailer playback before a film. For a Theater-like experience, enable this option and select the number of trailers to see before the film. With this setting enabled, you will see the specified number of trailers when pressing the SELECT key on a movie, as well as having the option INFO->Play...->Play with Trailers.
Editing Video Metadata
To edit video metadata, highlight any item in MythVideo. Then press INFO->Metadata Options->Edit Metadata.
For films that have no listings, home movies, or films whose metadata simply needs some "massaging," MythVideo provides an Edit Metadata screen. Which options are offered will vary slightly by theme, but editing basic metadata is possible in all themes.
The edit metadata screen is fairly simple. It provides a series of text edits, spinboxes, and button lists to modify the metadata for the selected item. You can also enter a specific player command for an item if necessary, a file to play afterwards, toggle whether an item is visible, and toggle the items watched status.
Change the metadata as you wish, and select "OK" or "Done" (varies by theme) to commit your changes. If you wish to cancel, press Escape of the Back key on your remote.
Metadata Lookup
MythVideo includes numerous grabber scripts for handling both Film and Television content. these scripts download plot, length, cast, and other textual information, as well as provide access to high quality poster, fanart, banner, and screenshot images. Note that not all scripts provide all image types. The default grabber scripts are Tmdb.pl for movies and Ttvdb.py for television.
MythVideo parses as much information as it can from a file's filename. Under ideal conditions, MythVideo will parse the Title, Subtitle, Season, and Episode (where applicable) of a file. New users will want to read MythVideo File Parsing to see the acceptable naming conventions for files. File naming traditionally associated with pirated material will prevent parsing from working properly, and will prevent metadata lookup from succeeding. Additionally, it is the position of the project developers that pirated material is unwelcome and unsupported. Please don't open bugs because MythVideo doesn't parse stolen material properly.
MythVideo determines whether something is film or television material based on the season and episode values. If MythVideo does not find an season or episode number while parsing a file, and the user does not set one, the movie grabber will be used. If the season or episode are greater than 0, the television grabber will be used.
When you are ready to perform a metadata lookup, multiple options are available. You can highlight an item and press the DOWNLOADDATA keybinding, which is "W" by default. This will automatically start a metadata query for the selected item. This same query can be started from the menu, by selecting INFO->Metadata Options->Download Metadata.
For some television material, you may have a television show with title and a subtitle, but not know the season and episode information. In this unique case, you can do a search by Title and Subtitle by selecting INFO->Metadata Options->Search TV by Title/Subtitle. Note that this will only work if you have filled in the title and subtitle fields in metadata. Films cannot be looked up by title and subtitle.
Metadata Grabbing with Storage Group Files
Doing a metadata lookup on a Storage Group homed file will work. It will download the images to the Fanart/Banner/Screenshot/Cover Storage Groups on the backend that hosts the video in question, so they must be defined. If they are not defined, the images will be downloaded to the Video Storage Group instead.
Metadata Grabber Troubleshooting
If you find that the wrong grabber is being used, it is almost certain that one of the following occurred:
- You are attempting to grab metadata for a legacy television item but have not removed and re-added it to the database to re-parse the filename. (eg: The subtitle/season/episode fields are all crammed into the title field) You can also fix this in "Edit Metadata" by setting the correct Title, Season, and Episode. Subtitle is not required for a successful grab.
- Your file is not named using one of the path/filename combinations that MythVideo recognizes. See MythVideo File Parsing.
If the grabber *itself* fails, and you have checked the source to be certain that the item you are trying to search exists, then consider the following possibilities:
- For the TMDB (Movie) grabber, the item at TMDB must have the IMDB number set in its details, and the API will need four hours to update after having done so.
- The title contains some punctuation (hyphens, commas, apostrophes, etc.) that is not present in your local record, or vice versa.
To correct local metadata information to improve a metadata grab, select the item, press "I" (INFO), Metadata Options->Edit Metadata. From here, you can correct the title/subtitle/season/episode to make it match the source and complete your metadata grab successfully.
If, after looking at the frontend logs, you see a crash in the grabber, or after having tested all of the above you are unable to complete a grab for an item in the TVDB/TMDB library, bring your concerns to #mythtv-users on freenode before opening a bug in trac. If nobody is able to help you on IRC, then please open a bug in trac.
Mass Metadata Grabbing
As of .22, MythVideo includes Jamu, Doug Vaughan's excellent script for automating mass metadata grabbing of your entire mythvideo library. It supports Storage Groups, TVDB, TMDB, and everything the Myth interface supports. It may be an excellent option for those looking for a "batch" method of updating their library.
Note that Jamu also parses the filename of the item, so if you have a "legacy" record where title = "Lost 1x01 - Pilot", and you have filename = "Lost s01e01 Pilot.mpg", Jamu will "correct" the metadata and move the title/subtitle/season/episode values into their own DB fields.
Custom Movie Artwork
You can select artwork in the Edit Metadata screen. Click on the button to browse the configured directory for fanart, banner, screenshots, etc. You can use custom artwork for an item by placing it in one of these directories and selecting it from the file browser.
Using MythVideo
To view or play your videos, navigate to Media Library->Watch Videos.
If you don't see any videos, you probably need to scan. If you still see no videos, you probably haven't properly set up your folders or storage groups.
Playing an item in MythVideo is as simple as highlighting it and pressing Enter or the SELECT key on your remote. In some views, you will see an intermediate Item Detail screen before playback. If you see this screen, select "Play" to start your film.
Viewing Item Metadata
To view specific item metadata, highlight an item and press INFO->Video Info. You will see a small selection of information views to view the plot, cast, or item detail screen for the selected item
'Development/.23 only: MythVideo grabbers now return a homepage for the item at the grabber source. You can choose "View Homepage" to spawn a browser and view or edit the metadata at TMDB, TVDB, or your grabber's site.
MythVideo Views
MythVideo features four different "views" on your collection:
- Browse View
- Tree View
- Gallery View
- Manage View
Each view will vary by theme, so try out different themes to see which interface you like best. You can toggle between the views from within MythVideo by choosing MENU->Change View->Name of view.
Metadata Browse Modes
In MythVideo .22 or greater, you can browse the library by metadata rather than folder structure. First, enable metadata browse modes by going to Utilities->Setup->Media Settings->Video Settings->General. On Page 2, enable the checkbox called "Enable Metadata Browse Modes." You can select the default view ("Folder" is the classic view by file structure), or toggle them on the fly in MythVideo.
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Financial Services Reaction to the Presidential Election
1. Momentum Has Been Lost?
You've lost that momentum where you're softening up the political stance that appears to or tends to be anti-banking.
— Paul Miller, analyst, FBR Capital Markets.
Source: Wall Street Journal
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Preface. (Carey, J.R., Moyle P. B., Rejmánek M., & Vermeij G., Ed.).Biological Conservation, Invasion biology. 78, 1 - 2.(1996).
Status of aquatic habitat types. Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project: Final report to Congress Vol. II, assessments, commissioned reports, and background information. 2, 945-952.(1996).
Status of fish and fisheries. Sierra Nevada ecosystem project: Final report to Congress Vol. II, assessments, commissioned reports, and background information. 2, 953-973.(1996).
Uncertainty and instream flow standards. Fisheries. 21(8), 20–21.(1996).
Where have all the fishes gone: interactive factors producing fish declines in the Sacramento-San Joaquin estuary. (Hollibaugh, J. T., Ed.).San Francisco Bay: the Ecosystem. 519-542.(1996).
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Bronson archers compete in national tourney
The Bronson High School Archery team recently competed in the National Archery in the Schools (NASP) Michigan Tournament at Bronson High School gym.
The BHS team of nine girls and 12 boys shot a combined team score of 3,029, said Sue Quiter, archery coach and Bronson math teacher.
"This is over 130 points better than last year," she said. "In only our third year of competition, we missed the automatic national qualifying score by 21 points — 3,050 was needed."
The team finished eighth again this year, in spite of the 130 point improvement, she said.
Each team member shoots 15 arrows from 10 meters and 15 arrows from 15 meters.
The top 12 scores, including at least four girls are used for the team score.
"We use Mathews Genesis compound bows and Easton aluminum arrows," Quiter said. "The targets are 80 cm targets with 10 scoring rings. The bullseye is scored as a 10 and so forth out to the outer ring which is scored as 1 point."
To qualify for the tournament, all the students participated in the six week archery class offered as an elective during May term.
Cristal Luviano was the first place girl with a score of 264.
Seth Wilson was the top boy with a score of 265.


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Municipalities balk at revenue loss from proposed car tax relief
When Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Wednesday proposed the elimination of the car tax that towns collect each year on vehicles valued at less than $28,500, he said it would provide tax relief for the "middle class, working class and the working poor" in addition to businesses.
But that's not true, according to municipal officials in the region.
That's because while car owners likely will rejoice over the prospect of not having to shell out several hundred dollars a year in taxes, municipal leaders said their communities stand to lose a large amount of badly needed revenue. To make it up, they said, they would have to raise property taxes.
In Stonington, where someone with a car valued at $28,000 would save $318 a year in taxes, Director of Finance Maryanna Stevens said the town would lose $1,991,000 of the $2,065,000 it collects in car taxes. That would result in a tax increase of two-thirds of a mill.
"This is astonishing," Stonington First Selectman Ed Haberek said. "This is really handcuffing our ability to raise revenue."
If the state does not make up the shortfall in some other way, Haberek said, the town would be forced to raise the property tax rate on homes and businesses as a way to make up the loss.
"I don't see how this can fly. From what I've seen, there's no money to make it up," he said.
In North Stonington, which would lose several hundred thousand dollars, First Selectman Nicholas Mullane agreed.
"It pretty much would be a disaster for the town," he said. "You can't just take something away from the towns and say, 'That's a good thing.' How do we recover that unless there's some other type of tax relief. If we want to continue to provide the same level of services, we have to make it up, and there goes property taxes."
Groton Town Manager Mark Oefinger said he failed to see the logic in the governor's plan because the loss of revenue would force an increase in property taxes. Although he did not have an estimate of lost revenue, Oefinger said the town has $192 million in vehicle assessments.
In Preston, where motor vehicle values totaled $36 million in the 2011 grand list, First Selectman Robert Congdon also said eliminating most of the town's car tax revenue would cause a direct increase in real estate property taxes.
The situation could be even worse in Norwich, where the city would lose most of its motor vehicle tax revenue, finance department officials said.
Comptroller Joseph Ruffo estimated the city would lose about $5 million, dropping from the current $5.2 million to $274,000. To make that up would require a 2.2 mill tax increase, based on the current tax rate. Ruffo said that would mean an 8 percent tax increase on real estate and personal property, hitting the city's businesses and homeowners.
"We're trying to create some economic development, and we suddenly have an 8 percent increase in any person that's left with real estate and personal property taxes," Ruffo said.
City Manager Alan Bergren said there could be an additional unintended consequence for new car dealerships throughout the region, because Malloy's measure could discourage people from buying new cars that cost more than $28,500.
"It's kind of an incentive for you not to buy a new car," he said.
In his budget address Wednesday, Malloy said municipalities could implement the proposal on July 1, but would be required to do so on July 1, 2014.
During questioning by reporters Wednesday, Benjamin Barnes, the governor's budget chief, said the state did not plan to reimburse the towns and cities for the lost revenue but expected they could make it up through other types of tax revenue, such as real estate.
Malloy's plan, which is part of his budget bill that now must be reviewed and approved by the General Assembly, would cover both private and commercial vehicles.
It applies to the first $20,000 assessment of a vehicle, or 70 percent of the market value. Owners of more expensive vehicles would not pay taxes on the first $20,000 of the assessment.
Malloy said the proposal would lower costs to municipalities, which would no longer be responsible for collecting the tax.
"The families and the businesses of Connecticut have enough on their shoulders," Malloy said. "This budget asks no more of them. In fact, I'm proposing we give them some much-deserved help. … These changes won't solve all of a working family's problems. But, as we continue the hard work of reforming our state finances and of growing jobs, they can still mean something to families working hard to make ends meet. Let's make it happen."
State Rep. Diana Urban, D-North Stonington, said the legislature has tried to get rid of the car tax for years because vehicle owners do not like it and feel it is inequitable. Owners of the same car pay a different amount depending on where they live.
But Urban said she does not see where towns would be able to make up the lost revenue from Malloy's plan.
"I don't see where he's making this up. My suspicion is that he's not," said Urban who is a member of the legislature's Appropriations Committee, which will not review the budget bill.
Day staff writer Johanna Somers also contributed to this report.


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Hax: Cleaning service could be investment in domestic harmony
Hi, Carolyn:
To preface, I'm a fairly neat person, not Monica-Geller-from-"Friends" clean (read: not neurotic), but I clean up after myself in the common areas as well as in my personal space. I do a more thorough clean every two or three weeks where I'll mop, vacuum, dust, etc. My roommates, however, are completely unaware of this fact and probably think there's some cleaning fairy that comes at night to clean (my) pots, pans and dishes that they use and of course don't clean. In the past, I've brought up the fact, very kindly, that we're all adults with busy schedules and social lives but that everyone should be cleaning up after themselves and keeping the common areas reasonably clean. The response I received was, "Well, on weekdays we're just so tired after work we don't really want to clean anything." I've tried not to be too preachy or "mom-ish," but I think at this point that ship has sailed.
They have now suggested that we all chip in for a cleaning service. Personally, I'm of the opinion that having a cleaning service is a privilege and you should know how to take care of things yourself before you start throwing money at a situation. I'm sure it wouldn't even cost that much to have a service, but it's the principle of it. I've explained the fact that I already clean the common areas, as well as my own space, on a regular basis and it seems wasteful and frankly lazy to me to pay for something that four able-bodied 20-somethings are perfectly capable of doing on our own. Am I being unreasonable for not wanting to contribute to the cleaning service fund?
-Anonymous "Mom" of the House
I receive a lot of questions. As I suspect is true of anyone in this position - say, a manager receiving a lot of resumes or admissions officer deluged by applications - my mind is set to "no" before I read Word 1, and I'm basically reading until something flips it to "yes."
Here's what has the power to flip that switch: "Having a cleaning service is a privilege and you should know how to take care of things yourself before you start throwing money at a situation."
They "should," should they? Says who? Momica?
You make two breezy maternal references, but that sentence exposes the truth in the humor. You're presuming to raise these fellow adults you happen to room with. That's the function of the word "should"; you think both that there's a right way, and that you have standing to impose said right way on others.
I was with you on the frustration of roommates who use your stuff but don't wash it - there's no excuse for them on that one. But their responsibility is to clean what they use, period; they get to decide how.
Now, if you were merely saying you don't want to pay your money to contract out a job you're happy to do yourself, then you'd have both a good point and the standing to make it. But that's not what you said.
So now I have to say that if they want to pay someone, then they can pay someone. If they are willing and able to conjure cleaning fairies, then they can conjure fairies. What you regard as a privilege applies to you alone, and beyond that is purely a rhetorical contribution.
It's also a contribution I urge you not to make, lest you become the Mom and the Monica in one indignant stroke.
In fact, I say throw principle to the wind (I don't get to type that often) and agree to the service, as long as it's frequent enough to make a difference, like weekly. Industry isn't the only virtue worth supporting; investing in domestic harmony sounds well worth the apparently minor if grudging expense.
Dear Carolyn:
I'm a recent grad who just began working part time as a barista this past week, and so far I really enjoy my job. My best friend was employed by the same coffee company last year, but was fired within a month and is still pretty angry about it. She keeps asking me how work is going whenever I see her, and I feel like I can never say a single, positive thing about my experiences so far without her making some sarcastic aside. I understand her frustration, but this is making me so uncomfortable that a part of me just wants to tell her to stuff it and make peace with the fact that I'm happy. Do you think there's any way I could approach this with her without setting off another rant or starting a fight?
- Beleaguered Bean
"You're still (peeved) at this company - I sympathize. I need the money, though, and so far like the job; is there something we can do to move past this?" An airing of the grievances, perhaps, or bare-knuckle boxing. Good luck.
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Book Notes: An environmental 'what if?'
By Rae Padilla Francoeur
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"The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future," by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway. Columbia University Press, New York, 2014. 104 pages. $9.95 paperback. Also available as an e-book.
In the fictional essay "The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future," authors Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway take us 379 years into the future. A scholar in the Second People's Republic of China enumerates the reasons why scientists failed to avert the catastrophic environmental crisis that redrew the world and annihilated millions.
The scholar does not dwell on the scope of the disaster that dates back to 2093. We do learn that rising sea levels overtake some countries, while others, like the United States, reduced in size and resources, regroup with lesser clout and fewer resources. China, we discover, emerges as a world leader.
On the tercentenary anniversary of Western civilization's demise, the scholar searches for reasons why scientists didn't act when data gathered, analyzed, published and shared at conferences all but guaranteed the disaster. The scientists, who require at least a 95 percent confidence level in their work, are too reticent in the face of ever-alarming data.
A neoliberal stronghold in Western civilization — particularly the United States and Canada — is also to blame. Opposed to any governmental involvement in free enterprise, ideologues thwart any centralized attempts to intervene in the degradation of the environment. The absence of an empowered government means that it cannot quickly respond to the growing climate crisis in the same way that China, with its traditionally strong centralized government, can. China, which had already enforced environmental controls, slides into a more autocratic role when it quickly builds new cities and evacuates those doomed to flood. The powerful communist rule that the United States so avidly feared now holds a commanding role in the world order.
Also responsible is the "carbon-combustion complex" — that conglomeration of fossil fuel companies, the automobile industry, utilities, and the many others that want to support and maintain their obscenely profitable status quo and who, of course, lose everything in the collapse of culture as they know it.
This short read, like "California," the book I reviewed last week, speculates on a near future that's imagined from the facts at hand. The authors of "The Collapse of Western Civilization" are historians with strong science backgrounds. Oreskes is a professor of the history of science at Harvard University and professor of earth and planetary sciences. Conway is a historian of science and technology. Their book includes a joint interview with Oreskes and Conway, a lexicon of archaic terms and extensive notes.
The book is based on existing science and posits a strong point of view — global warming is real and dangerous; thus, there are those who may find it objectionable. It will preach to the proverbial choir. Or it may land with a quiet thud. Or it may live on to taunt us with an "I told you so" that falls on defeated ears.
Rae Padilla Francoeur's memoir, "Free Fall: A Late-in-Life Love Affair," is available online or in some bookstores. Write her at firstname.lastname@example.com. Read her blog at http://www.freefallrae.blogspot.com/ or follow her @RaeAF.


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Warren on the Situation of Credit
Posted by The Situationist Staff on July 5, 2008
From the Harvard Law School Website.
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Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Warren was recently featured on the NPR program "Fresh Air." During the show, Warren spoke extensively about the intricacies of the credit system, including how lenders, employers, and even cell phone companies are using credit ratings to determine an individual's purchasing power.
Host Terry Gross opened the program by describing how several egregious clerical errors in her husband's credit report lowered his credit score extensively, and asked Warren how these errors can occur.
"It happens because there's no real check on the system," Warren said. "Estimates are that about 80 percent of credit reports contain at least one error, and one in four credit reports contain errors big enough to make a difference in your credit rating."
An expert in bankruptcy law, Warren writes about bankruptcy and credit issues facing middle-class Americans. She has recently called for the creation of a financial products safety commission, which would regulate credit products in the same way the government regulates other consumer goods. Warren is the author of The Two Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers are Going Broke . . . .
Listen to the interview of Warren, here.
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For a sample of related Situationist posts, see "The Situation of the Mortgage Crisis," "Financial Squeeze: Bad Choices or Bad Situations?," "The Situation of College Debt" – Part I, Part II, Part III, and Part IV.
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