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(AP) – A Kansas Senate committee is preparing to debate Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's proposals to cut income tax rates and scrap two popular deductions for homeowners.
The Assessment and Taxation Committee planned to take up the governor's proposals Tuesday morning.
Brownback's stated goal is to phase out individual income taxes, beginning with more reductions after aggressive cuts enacted last year. But he and lawmakers also must find revenue to stabilize the state budget.
Brownback proposes eliminating income tax deductions for the property taxes paid on homes and the interest on home mortgages. He also wants to cancel a drop in the state sales tax scheduled to take effect in July.


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16 Ways to Showcase Your Collections
Tell a story
Put the past in front of you. Frame covers from your children's favorite storybooks-or your favorite playbills-and hang them for inspiration above a writing desk.
Spotlight collected pieces
An heirloom hutch (or one picked up for a song at the local flea market and revived with a coat of paint) adds an air of history to your home, especially when it holds your favorite collections. Use it like a mini gallery to evoke favorite memories and infuse a room with color. To ensure harmony, group your treasures by hue.
Vanity will out
An antique vanity is a pretty setting for vintage jewelry, perfume bottles, mirrors or any other beauty accessory.
Hang it up
Let the items in the collection determine the method of display. Here, a collection of antique street signs still hangs high, this time grouped in one frame.
Big and bright
Old game boards and folk art pieces brighten simple shelves constructed with openings large enough to accommodate these graphic elements.
Period appropriate
Bauer pottery from the 1930s-50s mingles with pieces of similarly shaded pottery on a period-perfect end table.
Suitable framing
This collection of majolica surrounds a simply framed mirror, doubling the impact of the subtle shades.
Stirring collection
Tumblers hold a vast collection of swizzle sticks. State souvenir glasses are the perfect containers for these inexpensive travel mementos.
Fun function
Rocking choppers fill an old-fashioned wood bowl on a butcher-board counter. Antique kitchen implements are a natural fit for the kitchen, especially when grouped in a period-appropriate container.
Let it shine
Blenko art vases shine in front of glass block windows. Any collection of glass looks even more lovely with sun streaming through it.
Dispense with mess
Marbles, bouncy balls, tiny kid's toys. Corral hard-to-contain items in a device sized for the job, such as this gumball dispenser.
Double impact
Shelves in front of a mirrored wall hold a horde of purses, making both sides of the pieces easy to admire.
Suitable setting
Vintage children's watering cans get a shelf along a fence in the garden. Maybe you have terra-cotta pots or birdbaths that deserve the spotlight in your yard.
Perfect placement
There is nowhere more appropriate for a collection of old oil cans than on a nice shelf in the garage! Put your collection in the room where it belongs.
Pegged it
Pegboard has always been perfect for hanging tools. Use it to display a collection of tools of your favorite craft-sewing, knitting, etc.-or, as pictured here, the signs of your hobby.
Back to nature
Duck decoys and framed leaf prints fill the wall with earthy decor in this nature-inspired room.


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Yardsmart: Late-season color creations
They are the colors of Victorian drawing rooms, of Craftsman bungalows and the shades that fill fashion magazines in the fall. These deep hues blended with rare accents in fiery hues create an undisputable flair for the dramatic.
To create beautiful accents for porch and patio, the emphasis is not on flowers, for few bloom this late. Instead, the herbaceous plants that bear colored leaves are front and center, a most remarkable late-season dynamic.
Recent style trends have yielded some outstanding plants for your pots and window boxes that will easily come indoors later on. The vivid purple foliage of tropical Persian shield is among the most outstanding of the newer foliage plants because the leaves are large, up to 6 inches long. The color of Strobilanthes dyerianus is nothing short of iridescent purple, with darker venations that are a treasure up close.
The richness of foliage color will vary according to how much light the plants receive, so you may want to move this around to achieve the best look. This plant is, again, tropical, so it will not tolerate frost. In marginal areas, protection by a porch roof may allow it to survive outdoors, or simply move it inside and treat as a houseplant for the winter.
For colder regions, consider the more vivid purple flowering kales that have yielded very strong purple and magenta foliage that can offer a similar, but more cold-hardy, centerpiece.
When purple plants are your starting point, there are two options for companions that provide dynamic contrast. First are fine-leaf plants that create textural contrast. Second are very bright leaf plants that provide color contrast. When you achieve these ends with perennials bought in small containers late in the year, they won't be a one-act plant like annual coleus. Come spring, they'll be ready to go out into the garden. Therefore, the money you spend on perennials treated as annuals is a better value than creating autumn potted compositions strictly out of annuals that die at season's end.
In terms of texture, you need fine-bladed plants that stand out boldly against larger leaves of kale and Persian shield. The best choices are grasslike plants called sedges, in genus Carex. The foliage can be stiff, the blades needle thin to a half-inch wide, and most retain their looks better in the cooler months. There are dozens of species and hybrids to choose from, with foliage that is straight, arching or even curled. Discover sedges this fall for your container compositions, and by spring you'll be ready to use them in your garden with flair.
When it comes to contrasting foliage color, remember that blending light hues against the deep purple leaves is what makes a composition pop. Unlike analogous colors that all blend together, high-contrast companions are what gives a planted urn or antique pot visual appeal.
The extensive breeding of heucheras over the past decade has flooded the market with fabulous foliage. Once grown for their delightful coral-bell-like blossoms, the modern heucheras are all about foliage hues. This perennial holds its leaves through remarkably cold temperatures, making it valuable for maintaining interest in the off-season garden. If you start selecting heucheras to contrast with Persian shield, you'll get to know many of these varieties.
For a great introduction on what's available in both Carex and Heucheras, check out the Proven Winners selections at www.Provenwinners.com. This plant line is available through both independent garden centers and big-box stores.
This time of year, it's foliage color that will transform your entry with beautiful creations that welcome friends and family. Just forget the flowers, and keep in mind that it's all about the leaves.
Maureen Gilmer is an author, horticulturist and landscape designer. Learn more at www.MoPlants.com. Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com or P.O. Box 891, Morongo Valley, CA 92256.


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Todays Music: The Kooks – Stormy Weather
Days Til Spring: 90
It was harder than usual to wait for today to post this. It's felt like winter here in NYC for a while now (though tomorrow is supposed to hit 60 F). And Autumn is just too early to start this particular countdown, because I'd go (even) batty(er) with the extra waiting.
So, as I do, on the first day of winter, I post the list of Winter Stupid, and the countdown clock til Spring, over there on your right.
For those who are wondering, or forgot, or blotted it out of your memory, winter and spring start off with the list of stupid things I hope to do that season. So without further ado, I am proud to present
The Winter Stupid:
– Ski. I've already gotten a couple of days in, but apparently the new thing is that the mountains set up a huge ramp, and an airbag in the landing zone. Laugh at gravity and have a safe landing? Where do I sign?
– Ice Skate. This also shows up on the Spring/Summer Stupid list, but why wait?
– Experience Canada in mid-winter. Ok, I already have tickets to see John Hiatt and Lyle Lovett together (acoustic). But sometimes it's nice to add something to a list that you know you'll be able to cross off.
– Surf. As stated before, I plan to be out 1 Jan. Hopefully the weather will agree.
– Drinking hot chocolate while watching snow fall. With my arm around my wife, obviously.
Spring is my favorite season, but I'm looking forward to enjoying this Winter.
Anything you're looking forward to over the next 90 days?


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Naughty America is a San Diego, California based studio. They make male-gaze-oramas and 3D porn. This studio offers subscribers subscriptions and is known for its naughty, sensual videos. If you're looking for a studio where you can watch porn videos without breaking the bank, you've come to the right place.
Naughty America is an American pornography company that produces award-winning content. The studio has received numerous awards since 2004, including Best Ethnic-Themed Series (Asian) in 2008 and Best Latin Adultery in 2011. Naughty America's content is diverse and it has won numerous awards, including Best Ethnic-Themed Series (Asian) in 2008 and Best Latin Adultery in 2011. You can also view the videos in 4K or VR. It is subscription-based and users can choose from three payment options.
The company has experimented with Virtual Reality (VR), and has produced immersive videos, some of which are NSFW. The company is located in San Diego, California, and has released 108 VR videos over the past 18 months. According to the company, its VR videos are superior to other VR videos and it is considered a leader in this area.
The site features thousands of porn scenes online. You will find work from award-winning professionals, award-winning amateurs and MILFs in the library. There are even some unfamiliar faces, too. With this wealth of content, Naughty America helps users refine their fantasies. The website also features a live cam site.
You can subscribe to it.
Naughty America offers a subscription service with over 10,000 films. It is both subscriber-only and free. You can watch the videos in HD, 4K and virtual reality (VR) formats. Each video has an actor or actress name and movie title, as well as additional labels and information. These videos are between 18 and over an hour long.
Subscription options include the new Virtual Reality catalog. This innovative content lets you experience naughty America porn in an immersive manner. These videos are approximately 25 minutes long and can be downloaded as Mp4 files. The videos are now shown in 4K HD rather than the previous 1,920 x 1,080 resolution. The website is mobile-friendly and regularly updates with new content. The website also features a Virtual Reality library that contains 739 VR movies.
Naughty America Porn has a subscription option, but this service is not affiliated with iTunes. Subscribe to Naughty America and you will not have to share your email address or name. An anonymous access option is also available. Since Naughty America is not affiliated with iTunes, you won't have to enter a credit card number, nor will you have to reveal your identity. If you wish, you can also pay using a gift card number.
It has 3D porn
You can create porn scenes with your friends or even yourself in 3D using the Naughty America porn studio. You can create any type of hardcore act using the 3D technology. 360-degree viewing is possible so that you can see all of your subject or partner.
The best part is that you can watch porn in 3D for free. It's like having a live show right in your hands. You can choose from female or male models. You can choose from male or female models.
The Naughty America porn page is loaded with a lot of 3D porn clips. These clips feature stunning models and girls. The videos are also available in 1080p HD for lightning-fast streaming.
It is male-gaze-orama
Naughty America is a top porn site and tech innovator. Porn is a major industry in the U.S., where females make up 32% of porn viewers. The five most popular porn categories are gender-specific. With that in mind, it makes sense that Naughty America should be one of its top categories.
Although this site does not advertise itself as a fetish website, it does offer a large collection of photos and videos. Many of these videos can be viewed in VR. These videos can be viewed with Oculus Go and Samsung devices, as well as Google Cardboard and Oculus Go. Naughty America is clearly looking to the future of porn, with virtual reality videos and hologram scenes. You can also find a variety of videos in high-definition and 4K.


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Morning Jolt: Health care problems cost Obama in ratings
Staff Writer
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In the news
President Barack Obama has registered his lowest ratings ever, 42 percent. The ratings reflect anger over the rollout of HealthCare.gov and other health care issues, pollsters say. The Washington Post/ABC News poll also found that 55 percent of people disapprove of Obama's performance.
Opening bell
The Dow Jones opened at 15,976.02 after finishing up 14.32 points Monday.
Quote of the day
"I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening." - Larry King
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Khalifa Arrested
Authorities say rapper Wiz Khalifa has been arrested in West Texas for marijuana possession.
The performer from Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, was stopped at an inspection checkpoint at the El Paso airport. A statement from El Paso police says because Khalifa traveled without identification, a search was ordered and Transportation Security Administration agents found a canister with marijuana. TSA alerted police, who then arrested Khalifa.
He was charged with misdemeanor possession of marijuana and was released after posting $300 bail.
Court records do not list an attorney. A message left at Khalifa's agency was not immediately returned.
Khalifa posted a photo on Twitter inside of what appeared to be a holding cell.
Photo: Chester Beltowski
Alerus Center, Grand Forks, N.D.
Khalifa was born Cameron Thomaz in Minot, North Dakota. He was a headliner at an El Paso music festival Saturday.


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Justices skeptical, concerned about Internet TV case
WASHINGTON - Grappling with fast-changing technology, Supreme Court justices debated Tuesday whether they can protect the copyrights of TV broadcasters to the shows they send out without strangling innovations in the use of the Internet.
The high court heard arguments in a dispute between television broadcasters and Aereo Inc., which takes free television signals from the airwaves and charges subscribers to watch the programs on laptop computers, smartphones and even their large-screen televisions. The case has the potential to bring big changes to the television industry.
There was a good measure of skepticism about Aereo's approach, sometimes leavened with humor. Chief Justice John Roberts declared at one point: "I'm just saying your technological model is based solely on circumventing legal prohibitions that you don't want to comply with, which is fine. I mean, you know, lawyers do that."
But several justices expressed concern that a ruling for the broadcasters could hamper the burgeoning world of cloud computing, which gives users access to a vast online computer network that stores and processes information.
Justice Stephen Breyer said the prospect makes him nervous. "Are we somehow catching other things that would really change life and shouldn't?" Breyer asked.
Paul Clement, representing the broadcasters, tried to assure the court it could draw an appropriate line between Aereo's service and cloud computing generally. People who merely retrieve what they have stored should have no reason to worry, Clement said.
But David Frederick, representing Aereo, said the "cloud computing industry is freaked out about the case" because it sees its $10 billion investment at risk if the court were to hold that anytime music or an image is stored online and then retrieved, the copyright law would be implicated.
The discussion veered between references to Roku, a TV streaming device, and other high-tech gadgets on the one hand, and analogies to coat-check rooms and valet parking in an effort to make matters more understandable on the other. There was even Breyer's quaint reference to a "phonograph record store."
Aereo's service starts at $8 a month and is available in New York, Boston, Houston and Atlanta, among 11 metropolitan areas. Subscribers get about two dozen local over-the-air stations, plus the Bloomberg TV financial channel.
In each market, Aereo has a data center with thousands of dime-size antennas. When a subscriber wants to watch a show live or record it, the company temporarily assigns the customer an antenna and transmits the program over the Internet to the subscriber's laptop, tablet, smartphone or even a big-screen TV with a Roku or Apple TV streaming device.
The antenna is only used by one subscriber at a time, and Aereo says that's much like the situation at home, where a viewer uses a personal antenna to watch over-the-air broadcasts for free.
Chief Justice Roberts repeatedly asked Frederick whether the tiny antennas existed for any reason other than to avoid paying the broadcasters for their content. "Is there any reason you need 10,000 of them?" Roberts said at one point. He suggested that it might not affect his view of the case if there was no other reason.
But Frederick said it was much cheaper for Aereo, backed by billionaire Barry Diller, to add equipment as it grows, rather than start with a single large antenna.
Broadcasters including ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC and PBS sued Aereo for copyright infringement, saying Aereo should pay for redistributing the programming the same way cable and satellite systems must or risk high-profile blackouts of channels that anger their subscribers. Some networks have said they will consider abandoning free over-the-air broadcasting if they lose at the Supreme Court.
The broadcasters and their backers argue that Aereo's competitive advantage lies not in its product, but in avoiding paying for it.
There are signs people are starting to forgo pay-TV subscriptions by relying on Internet services such as Netflix and Hulu Plus for television shows. A service that offers live television, as Aereo does, could make such cord-cutting even more palatable. A study last year from GfK estimated that 19 percent of TV households had broadcast-only reception, up from 14 percent in 2010.
Broadcasters worry they will be able to charge cable and satellite companies less if they lose subscribers. But Aereo argues that broadcasters would benefit from increased advertising revenue from increased viewership. The company says many of its subscribers are under 30 and have never had cable service.
Aereo founder and CEO Chet Kanojia recently told The Associated Press that broadcasters can't stand in the way of innovation, saying, "the Internet is happening to everybody, whether you like it or not." Aereo plans to more than double the number of cities it serves, although the high court could put a major hurdle in the company's path if it sides with the broadcasters.
The federal appeals court in New York ruled that Aereo did not violate the copyrights of broadcasters with its service, but a similar service has been blocked by judges in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. A district judge in Utah also ruled against Aereo, saying that Aereo's service is "indistinguishable from a cable company."
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York said its ruling stemmed from a 2008 decision in which it held that Cablevision Systems Corp. could offer a remote digital video recording service without paying additional licensing fees to broadcasters because each playback transmission was made to a single subscriber using a single unique copy produced by that subscriber. The Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal from movie studios, TV networks and cable TV companies.
In the Aereo case, a dissenting judge said his court's decision would eviscerate copyright law. Judge Denny Chin called Aereo's setup a sham and said the individual antennas are a "Rube Goldberg-like contrivance" - an overly complicated device that accomplishes a simple task in a confusing way - that exists for the sole purpose of evading copyright law.
A decision is expected by late June.


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This bulletin board is offered as a roommate referral service only. You must contact potential roommates to agree on a shared room. If you want to share lodging, you must indicate the name(s) of your share members and send all of your Lodging Reservation Forms to the resort together. Each person must pay a deposit of the first night's room and tax, and complete one form per person. If the other party in your unit cancels or does not show up at the conference, you are responsible for the full unit rate for the entire stay. Keystone Symposia is not responsible for incorrect or insufficient information. Keystone Symposia and all resorts and hotels are exempt from any liability that may result from sharing a room.
Keystone Symposia is committed to maintaining a positive and respectful environment at its meetings. To this end, we ask and expect attendees to assist in ensuring that the meetings are free of harassment, sexual or otherwise, including reporting any instances of improper conduct to us. Keystone Symposia expects attendees to conform their conduct at these meetings to the policies and procedures of their employing institution or company. If we learn of improper conduct by an attendee, we will take appropriate action, including reporting such conduct to the attendee's employing institution or company and barring the attendee from participation in our meetings.


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Young Cardinals vs. veteran Sox in World Series
Big Papi, Dustin Pedroia and the bearded guys from Boston. Michael Wacha, Trevor Rosenthal and those fresh mugs from St. Louis.
Pretty neat face-off in this World Series.
Cardinals-Red Sox, once again in October. Fully rested, they'll start Wednesday night at Fenway Park with Boston opening as a slim favorite.
Postseason stars from past and present – Carlos Beltran, David Freese, John Lackey, David Ortiz and Adam Wainwright.
Juicy plotlines – can Gold Glove catcher Yadier Molina shut down Jacoby Ellsbury and the runnin' Red Sox? Can all-world closer Koji Uehara stop Matt Holliday and the Cardinals?
Plus, plenty of history – think Stan Musial vs. Ted Williams in 1946, Bob Gibson vs. Carl Yastrzemski in '67 or Pedro Martinez vs. Albert Pujols in 2004. Or, perhaps more memorably that last time, Curt Schilling and the bloody sock vs. The Curse.
The Red Sox and Cardinals are hardly arch enemies, however. They haven't played since Kevin Youkilis homered over the Green Monster in the 13th inning on June 22, 2008.
This year, Boston and St. Louis bounced back from disappointments and tied for the most victories in the majors with 97. Not since the Braves and Yankees in 1999 have league win leaders met in the World Series (the Cardinals and Red Sox were the top-scoring teams in their leagues, too).
Mike Napoli, Shane Victorino and Boston's scraggly band rose under first-year manager John Farrell, a season after the team hit bottom under Bobby Valentine with its most losses in nearly five decades.
Matt Carpenter, Matt Adams and St. Louis rebounded a year after wasting a 3-1 lead in the NL championship series against the Giants. Manager Mike Matheny got lots of help from a rookie-laden staff.
Wacha was the MVP of the NLCS and is 3-0 with an 0.43 ERA in the postseason. Rosenthal took over the closer role with a 100 mph fastball. Shelby Miller, Carlos Martinez and others also made major contributions.
The Cardinals captured their 19th NL pennant by trouncing Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers on Friday night in Game 6 of the NLCS.
"Watching them [Friday] night, they've got a fantastic team. And a lot of young power arms that will walk to that mound," Farrell said.
The Red Sox earned their 13th pennant Saturday night, riding Victorino's go-ahead grand slam to a 5-2 victory over Detroit in Game 6 of the ALCS. Uehara was the MVP with a win and three saves.
"It's been a special ride," Pedroia said, "and we're still going."
For Beltran, this will be his first time in the World Series. For the Cardinals, it's their fourth trip in 10 years.
For the Red Sox, it's their third Series visit in the last decade. And they hope for a repeat performance from 2004, when they never trailed during a four-game sweep of the Cardinals and won their first championship since 1918.
Johnny Damon playfully called his Boston teammates a bunch of "idiots" and Kevin Millar exhorting them to "Cowboy Up!" Manny Ramirez was the MVP of the series while Ortiz showed he was more than a slugger, switching from designated hitter to snazzy fielder at first base when the Series shifted to old Busch Stadium.
There are just a few leftovers from that fall.
Ortiz lined a key grand slam in this ALCS. Molina is now regarded as baseball's best defensive catcher – he was 21 in that '04 matchup and a backup to Matheny.
Now, their teams are set to meet for the fourth time in a World Series. Aside from Dodgers-Yankees, there hasn't been a more common pairing since that initial Red Sox-Cardinals meeting in 1946.
Here we go again.
"We've still got one more step," Victorino said.
Craig recovered from sprained foot
ST. LOUISCardinals cleanup hitter Allen Craig says he's recovered from a foot injury and ready to be put on St. Louis' World Series roster.
"I'm happy with where I'm at," Craig said Sunday. "No complaints. I'm happy to be on the roster and give it a shot, so I'm really excited."
Craig hasn't played since Sept. 4 because a left mid-foot sprain. He anticipates being the designated hitter in Wednesday night's Series opener at the Boston Red Sox.
"I think all indications are pointing that way," Craig said. "I haven't been told, 'Hey, you're on the roster,' but given my progress, I think I'm in a good spot."
It's basically a no-lose proposition because the Cardinals could replace Craig if he re-injured the foot. General manager John Mozeliak said doctors believe Craig is progressed to the point he's not risking a major setback.
"He's such a prolific hitter it's definitely worth the chance," Mozeliak said. "My understanding is he's swinging the bat pretty well. If nothing else, he adds a little pop off that bench."
St. Louis worked out at Busch Stadium, two days after beating the Dodgers for the NL pennant
Craig batted a major league-best .454 during the regular season with runners in scoring position.


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This site is the archived OWASP Foundation Wiki and is no longer accepting Account Requests.
To view the new OWASP Foundation website, please visit https://owasp.org
Testing for Captcha (OWASP-AT-012)
This article is part of the new OWASP Testing Guide v4.
Back to the OWASP Testing Guide v4 ToC: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Testing_Guide_v4_Table_of_Contents Back to the OWASP Testing Guide Project: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Testing_Project
- 1 WARNING: CAPTCHA protection is an ineffective security mechanism and should be perceived as a "rate limiting" protection only!
- 2 Brief Summary
- 3 Description of the Issue
- 4 Common CAPTCHA vulnerabilities and attacks
- 5 Solution
- 6 Black Box testing and example
- 7 Gray Box testing and example
- 8 References
WARNING: CAPTCHA protection is an ineffective security mechanism and should be perceived as a "rate limiting" protection only!
Most current used CAPTCHA images can be easily cracked in a fully automated way using online cracking services. Commercial services are usually very cheap and provide a simple API for most programming languages.
It is not recommended to use CAPTCHA protection for security-critical applications, in this case it is more suitable to use SMS authentication or OTP tokens instead.
Example of Google reCAPTCHA cracked in 7 seconds by commercial automated cracking service:
Price: US¢1.390
Uploaded: Sun Nov 17 20:03:13 2013
Solved: Sun Nov 17 20:03:23 2013
Text: 270 35524452
Most CAPTCHA images can be cracked in 1-15 seconds, therefore CAPTCHA should be perceived as a rate limiting protection only which stops the attacker for a limited amount of time.
Brief Summary
CAPTCHA ("Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart") is a type of challenge-response test used by many web applications to ensure that the response is not generated by a computer.
Description of the Issue
Despite the above-described CAPTCHA weakness, it can be still used against:
- automated sending of many GET/POST requests in a short time where it is undesirable (e.g., SMS/MMS/email flooding), CAPTCHA provides a rate limiting function
enumeration attacks (login, registration or password reset forms are often vulnerable to enumeration attacks - without CAPTCHA the attacker can gain valid usernames, phone numbers or any other sensitive information in a short time)
automated creation/using of the account that should be used only by humans (e.g., creating webmail accounts, stop spamming)
automated posting to blogs, forums and wikis, whether as a result of commercial promotion, or harassment and vandalism
any automated attacks that massively gain or misuse sensitive information from the application
- simple enumeration attacks, simple spambots/adbots, simple DOS attacks and less sophisticated attackers
In security critical applications it is more suitable to use alternative verification channels (SMS authentication, OTP etc).
Using CAPTCHAs as a CSRF protection is not recommended (because there are stronger CSRF countermeasures).
Common CAPTCHA vulnerabilities and attacks
- Generated CAPTCHA is weak
- be aware that most current CAPTCHAs can be considered to be weak and easily crackable using existing CAPTCHA cracking services (see below)
- Client-side storage and hidden fields
- the value of decoded CAPTCHA is sent by the client (as a GET parameter or as a hidden field of POST form). This value is often:
- encrypted by simple algorithm and can be easily decrypted by observing of multiple decoded CAPTCHA values
- hashed by a weak hash function (e.g., MD5) that can be easily broken
- the value of decoded CAPTCHA is sent by the client (as a GET parameter or as a hidden field of POST form). This value is often:
- The Chosen CAPTCHA text attack
- rarely CAPTCHA is verified on the client side or verified on the server side, but generated on the client side (in javascript)
- Arithmetic CAPTCHAs
- if arithmetic questions are displayed in cleartext, it is trivial to bypass this CAPTCHA, just parse the HTML content, extract the arithmetic question and solve it
- Limited set CAPTCHAs
- if generated CAPTCHA questions have a very limited set of possible answers, it is trivial to gain all of them, solve and use them subsequently (CAPTCHA Rainbow Tables can be built using CAPTCHA cryptographic hashes and the corresponding solutions)
- The Chosen CAPTCHA identifier attack
- sometimes the application returns CAPTCHA to the user, but does not store its ID or solution in the HTTP session (does not keep the track of what ID of which CAPTCHA image is sent to the user). This ID is subsequently extracted by the application from the received HTTP request and then used to perform CAPTCHA solution lookup for verification. This behaviour can be exploited by solving a single CAPTCHA, recording its unique ID and then submitting this stored ID of the already decoded CAPTCHA over multiple requests (the ID of a CAPTCHA could be a hash of the decoded CAPTCHA or any unique identifier)
- CAPTCHA fixation
- exploits a potential race condition in the CAPTCHA implementation relying on unique IDs for finite CAPTCHA set:
- Client requests a CAPTCHA from the server with a valid SESSIONID.
- The server picks a random CAPTCHA identifier from the finite set of CAPTCHAs it has.
- The client is redirected to another URL containing the CAPTCHA identifier from where the CAPTCHA should be retrieved.
- The client follows the redirect and requests for a CAPTCHA image with the given identifier.
- The server stores CAPTCHA identifier in the session.
- CAPTCHA image is returned.
Because the CAPTCHA cracking attacks are still improving (and will improve in the future), CAPTCHA should be perceived as a rate-limiting protection only.
If it is implemented, the following considerations should be taken into account:
- no CAPTCHA information (except the image itself) should be stored on the client side
- the client should have no "control" over the CAPTCHA content
- CAPTCHA images should be always randomly generated without possibility to perform image preprocessing, segmentation and classification
- CAPTCHA images should not be reused.
Black Box testing and example
- Use an intercepting fault injection proxy (e.g., WebScarab or BurpSuite) to:
- identify all parameters which are sent in addition to the decoded CAPTCHA value from the client to the server in order to check if these parameters contain encrypted or hashed values of decoded CAPTCHA and CAPTCHA ID number
- try to send an old decoded CAPTCHA value with an old CAPTCHA ID (if the application accepts them, it is vulnerable to replay attacks)
- try to send an old decoded CAPTCHA value with an old session ID (if the application accepts them, it is vulnerable to replay attacks)
- Find out if similar CAPTCHAs have already been broken.
- Verify if the set of possible answers for a CAPTCHA is limited and can be easily determined.
Gray Box testing and example
Audit the application source code in order to reveal:
- used CAPTCHA implementation and version - there are many known vulnerabilities in widely used CAPTCHA implementations, see http://osvdb.org/search?request=captcha
- if the application sends encrypted or hashed value from the client, verify if used encryption or hash algorithm is sufficiently strong
CAPTCHA decoders:
- (Commercial) www.deathbycaptcha.com
- (Commercial) www.bypasscaptcha.com
- (Commercial) www.beatcaptcha.com
- (Commercial) www.antigate.com
- (Commercial) www.imagetyperz.com
- (Commercial) www.expertdecoders.com


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The Washington Nationals starting pitching delivered another outstanding effort tonight as the Nationals road a superb outing by Craig Stammen to take the rubber match of the 3-game series vs. the New York Mets. Unfortunately, the effort appeared to offer little inspiration to racing president Teddy Roosevelt.
Abe Lincoln showed his colors tonight, breaking away but then stopping to taunt Teddy Roosevelt, who was running a distant second. Just when it seemed that Abe might let Teddy win, he turned to cross the finish line for his 22nd victory of the season.
Nationals Park regulars may notice something missing from the usual festivities this week. I hope you'll join me in sending your best get well wishes to Ron "Coach" Simms, intrepid usher from section 127-128, known to most Nationals fans as the guy who dances on the dugout and leads the crowd during "Sweet Caroline." "Coach" is recuperating from heart surgery. I'm told he is doing well and hopes to be back in the stands soon.


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Correction: We've since been informed that the team plans on using a luciferin/luciferase system from bacteria, which operates through a completely unrelated mechanism to the one used by fireflies. In this case, six enzymes are involved in converting a fatty acid to a substrate for the light-generating reaction. This should allow the entire system to work in plants without the need for any external supply of chemicals.
This makes the challenges of getting the firefly system to work in plants irrelevant to this project. The energetic challenges of producing sufficient light without killing the plant, however, remain significant.
Could we eventually do away with streetlights and have our neighborhoods bathed in the diffuse glow of self-lit trees? That's the premise behind a new Kickstarter campaign that has been featured on TXNOLOGIST and Slashdot. As of this writing, the project has already received more than double its goal of $65,000, with each donor being promised a glowing plant. Long-term, the project's leaders hope to expand out to trees, which is why their promotional video talks about doing away with streetlights.
There's just one small problem: as planned, the plants won't glow. At least not without a fertilizer that costs $200 a gram. Even if the team were to overcome this hitch, trees would probably never generate enough light to do away with a street lamp.
If you follow the biosciences, you'd be forgiven for thinking that glowing creatures were a dime a dozen. For example, researchers are regularly creating glow-in-the-dark mice and fish, and the technique has been used in a variety of species. But all of this work relies on the green fluorescent protein (GFP) and its relatives, which glow in other colors. GFP is great, and it's truly worthy of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry that its development was awarded. But bioluminescent animals only glow in the sense that black light posters do: they require UV light to excite the molecule, which then releases energy in the visible spectrum.
A GFP tree would glow during the day (when it wouldn't be noticed), then it would quickly fade as the sun sets. No streetlight there.
The complicated glow of fireflies
The people behind the new tree realize that limitation, so they've gone with a different form of glow—the one that powers fireflies. The protein that allows fireflies to glow, called luciferase, works in a completely different way from GFP. Rather than taking energy from light and re-emitting it, it converts chemical energy to visible light. Some of that energy comes from ATP, the chemical that all cells use to drive their energy-hungry chemistry, plants included. So that part is not a problem.
The other part of the energy involved in the glow comes from a complex molecule called a luciferin, shown below. And that's where problems arise.
As far as I can tell, we have no idea how fireflies make this chemical. Part of the synthesis reactions involve an amino acid (cysteine) that plants would be expected to have. But that cysteine has to react with chemicals of unknown origin to make the structure above. A recent text, Biosynthesis in Insects nicely describes just how mysterious the creation of luciferin is:
Astonishingly, the biosynthetic pathway for the formation of luciferin is unknown. Indeed, it is not even clear to which family of metabolites it is related. Luciferin is said to be synthesized by the fusion of benzoquinone (of unknown origin), cysteine, and a nitrogen source to give 2-cyano-6-hydroxybenzthiazole, but this has not been proved. The benzthiazole is said to condense with a second molecule of cysteine before oxydation and rearrangement in an unexplained way...
Plants simply don't make the stuff. Because we don't know how fireflies make it, we can't just take their genes and put them into plants. We know the luciferase system works in plants, but it only works because we add luciferins to their growth medium, and luciferins are currently running at about $200 a gram.
The people behind the project aren't completely ignoring this issue. One of the genes they're planning on putting into the plants is a recycling enzyme that takes the products of the light-producing reaction and recombines them into luciferins. But without any luciferins to begin with—as well as a constant supply, since the recycling won't be 100 percent efficient and the plant will grow new leaves—there would be nothing for the recycling enzyme to work with.
In short, the plants they're going to be sending out to their backers won't actually glow. Getting them to do so will require fertilizing them with luciferins, which are quite pricey.
A matter of energy
At some point in the future, we might be able to figure out how fireflies make this molecule, and we could put all of the requisite genes into a plant. Would we be ready to do away with streetlights then? Probably not, and not just because most trees go into an energetic stasis during winter.
Streetlights come in a variety of intensities, but a ballpark figure seems to be about 10,000 lumens. The trees would have the incident sunlight to work with as the source of energy for their glow, and that dwarfs the streetlight, at 100,000 lumens per square meter. Of course, plants can't use most of that energy for a number of reasons: it's the wrong wavelength, it gets reflected, it misses their leaves, etc. Photosynthesis isn't 100 percent efficient, either. By the time all of these factors are accounted for, the typical plant captures somewhere between three and six percent of the incident sunlight. Going with five percent, we're now down to 5,000 lumens
Of course, that's for every square meter, and each streetlight illuminates a lot of square meters. At the same time, the tree won't be able to use all of its energy to make light or it would promptly die. Plants seem to have some energy to spare—they carry around a lot of superfluous DNA and grow excessively ornate flowers—but there are limits to how much energy they can spare and still keep growing. For argument's sake, let's say they can spare about five percent of their total energy for producing light. That takes us down to 250 lumens for each square meter of foliage, or about the equivalent of a 40W bulb.
But most of that energy will never get made into light. Remember, even basic chemicals like cysteine don't come for free; they cost energy. So does making the enzymes that convert them into more complicated chemicals, as well as (typically) the reactions they catalyze. Then you have to make the luciferase enzyme, as well as the recycling enzyme, and power those. Absolutely none of these processes are going to be 100 percent efficient.
You'd be extremely lucky if five percent of the energy being dedicated to producing light ever ends up getting used that way. We're now at 12.5 lumens.
Of course, about half that light would be pointed directly at the sky, and it wouldn't do much good as far as illumination goes. A lot of what's emitted downward will end up being directed back at the tree's branches and trunk, which will absorb some of it. Some other fraction will be absorbed by the cells in which it's emitted (some of it probably by the chlorophyll that powered the process in the first place). That leaves us with under 5 lumens of potential light for every square meter of foliage, and likely much less.
All of which places this on the very edge of being useful directly under a tree. If any of the above estimates turn out to be wrong—or you get too far from the tree—then all bets are off. Streetlights probably have a long career ahead of them.
The project won't work as things stand, and it probably won't even do what's being promised in the future. If those were the only problems with this project, they would be significant ones. But the fact is that the project is largely recreating the wheel; various academic labs already have luciferase working in plants, including in the arabidopsis species that the project plans on sending out to its backers. Even if you wanted to start from scratch, there are cheaper ways of going about making the DNA required than ordering up the DNA online, one base at a time. Plenty of researchers would send the DNA for the luciferase for free.
All of which would leave me extremely skeptical of this project. I don't doubt that the project leaders will spend the money they get as they promise to; I just doubt that the money is going to be spent efficiently (or to any useful end).
The people behind this project have not yet responded to a request for comment.
Listing image by David Shutter.


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Chak De Movie Review
Now this is one feel-good Bollywood movie that makes all your feelings of nationalistic pride spring up and out! The Indian womens' hockey team is preparing for the World Cup and India is all that they are allowed to think of…
But the movie isn't just about that. It's also about a coach who comes in from the cold, having been discredited once because he lost a match to Pakistan. Being a Muslim coach (Kabir Khan played by Shah Rukh Khan) doubts are raised about his loyalty to India and this is what almost destroys the man.
The movie is also about state politics and is a damning indictment on the way our national teams our chosen – based on state politics. States 'representatives' are what the players are all about and Kabir sneers at this method of selection. He has to struggle to exorcise the regionalism ingrained in them.
The film also brings out two other things: one, that our sports teams, even the ones which officials deride, have innate talent but do not perform because of the lack of team spirit and a killer instinct, and two, that sexism prevails – in the families of the girls, in society and yes, even amongst the members of the hockey board! The lack of team spirit is evident when the girls squabble amongst themselves and this squabbling spills over to the field as some of the good performers become more interested in personal glory rather than the team's success. Kabir is told that it is unlikely that he will ever change the attitude of the trouble-makers and indeed right till the end one wonders whether he will succeed….this is what builds suspense. Nicely done.
I like movies which bring up serious issues and are yet entertaining and exciting. Chak De, directed by Shimit Amin, was all of that…and more. Its a sports movie but its a lot about people too. The movie has drama and not a single dull moment! There was this saree clad woman sitting next to me in the theater and she was on the edge of her seat, clapping when the team scored a goal and groaning as the players played politics…and she almost fell off her seat when the girls started to beat up a gang of boys! Little kids were also cheering!
The casting was excellent…the girls chosen for the hockey team sure knew how to play hockey and looked their part a hundred percent. They were ordinary looking athletes, complete with muscles and no 'nakhras.' Determined, passionate players. Each character has been well thought out. Good script-writing! Each girl has a distinct personality..and I thought that Chitrashi Rawat who played the role of Komal Chautala was pretty good and so was Tanya Abrol as Balbir Kaur. Overall however the acting was just about above average, not brilliant, including that of Shah Rukh. He did look the part though and that helped. He also played the role without his usual histrionics. There were moments when he was very very good. So even though none of the performances will win a national award, the actors were convincing and that was what was important if the audience is to believe that this team had a chance at the Gold medal!
I particularly enjoyed the brawl between the players and a group of eve-teasers at a restaurant. It was good to see girls beating up the gang and here too the director did not miss a chance to show how girls from the north-east (part of the hockey team) are often targets of eve-teasing because they wear western clothes. I didn't think that this scene was unrealistic as these guys were not shown as 'toughies.' In fact eve-teasers are mostly cowards…and these girls were not ordinary girls. They were shown to be very aggressive, spirited and strong, right from the beginning.
That is why I wasn't surprised that a team that was considered poor could get into shape for the World cup in just 3 months. Because right from the beginning the director has shown that it is the lack of team spirit and lack of confidence that is holding the team back. This is well brought out during the scene where the girls play a match against the mens' national team (!) just to prove that they are not bad players…and well, at first they just sort of collapse, thinking that it is impossible to beat the men. But the coach has faith in them and keeps egging them on, trying to bring out their fighting spirit. And he tries to instill in them dollops of confidence, something they lack. Call it suspension from disbelief if you will, but it doesn't seem all that weird when the team becomes a world-class team…although some moments at the end are unbelievable!
There is no song and dance, but yes there is a good background score and it brings out all the emotion and nationalistic pride inside of you. So even without the usual glamor, this movie packs enough drama and emotion to keep the audience hooked. If you haven't yet seen it (getting tickets on the 15th was difficult!) its worth keeping on your list of movies to see.
Added later, sunday: I found this very nice link of an Indian Express article which basically tells us how the girls were chosen for their individual roles as hockey players. I was surprised to discover that actually auditions were held!! No wonder the girls seemed so right for the role.
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Saw it last night. Very good EV (entertainment value). I liked the fact that the girls looked like normal indian girls….i.e. not like the dolled up artifical looking actresses we so often see on screen.
Some impt messages touched on:
1] regional sentiments do indeed exist even today, and often these do hold us back.
2] Linguistic prejudice – in one of the scenes……the punjabi balbir kaur singh was 'fighting" with one of the other players from bihar…and the former was shoutign in punjabi…..then SRK the coach while breaking up the fight, ticked off Balbir and told her that she shou;dn;t speak in punjabi cos the other girl doesn;t understasnd that language. Balbir then retirted that "why didn't the other girl learn punjabi and come there" >>>> very realistic…..many folk form the north suffer from thisdelusional prejudicial sentiment that anyone indian or brown should, must speak hindi.
3] regional chauvism – when the Andhra player came to register herself…the chap taking down the details heard her name and remarked "Madrasi ho!!!!!)….when the girl corrscted him by saying that she's a telugu not a tamilian….the official remarked that they're all the same…..then the girl said that a telugu person is the same as a tamilian just as a punjabi is the same as a bihari !!!!! >>> again, very realistic…..it surprises me time and time again how seemingly educated people from the north are prejudicially ignorant to the point where they cannot distinguish between the cultures in the south, or north east etc.
4] sense of entitlement that is rampant among senior members of the team – this is a serious ailmemnt that impacts the performance of every team or organisation in India. A well performing member, or a senior member suffers from a sens eof entitlement that purely ont he basis of their past performance, they deserve 5 star treatnment forever. A sense of meritocracy is missing from our mindsets.


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Morning Jolt: What will Biden's gun recommendations be?
In the news: Vice President Joe Biden announced yesterday that he will make gun-control recommendations to President Barack Obama next week. Biden is heading up a task force formed after the school shootings in Newtown, Conn. The task force is meeting with various representatives on the gun issue, and one area that may have a majority of support is universal background checks.
Happening today: The big movies opening in theaters today are "Gangster Squad," an R-rated action movie starring Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone; and "A Haunted House," an R-rated comedy spoof starring Marlon Wayans.
Gas update: Gasbuddy.com reports that the average price for a gallon of gas in the U.S. is $3.271. Last year at this time it was $3.340.
Motivational quote: "Those who wish to sing always find a song." - Swedish proverb
Watercooler talk: Enraged bull gets loose on highway
A trooper had to dive over the hood of his cruiser to get away from an enraged bull.
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Ever wonder what happens when you leave town for the weekend, and you have resolved not to plug in your fridge? Probably not, huh.
Last weekend we wanted to take a spur-of-the-moment mini trip to the mountains. It was the last weekend we had free before we hit the end of June-holiday/birthday craziness, and then it would be July and the baby would be due at any time. My mom was a gem and said we could camp in their motor home for the weekend. So we went for it.
I basically packed up the whole icebox into a cooler. I put in the ice jugs, the quart of milk we had left (I put it into a jar instead of the big jug), the half and half, the cheese, some green onions and the pork chops we'd planned to cook. All that was left in the icebox was my jar of bacon grease that I save to cook with, a jar of mayonnaise, some celery and a few other random condiments that required the cold. We packed all of these into a smaller cooler with ice packs. And then we took the shelf out of the freezer compartment, and put the little cooler in to stay the weekend without us.
The verdict? Everything in the little cooler/freezer compartment/condiment and bacon-grease-preserver thing-a-ma-jiggy stayed cold. The whole weekend. Everything we took with us in the cooler for the weekend got used, with the exception of the last of the milk, which soured due to us neglecting the expiration date and then leaving it in the heat without replenishing the ice (since we'd used everything else by then, we forgot it). So, yay. A weekend away, a full three days and two nights, without plugging in a fridge and nothing but the neglected milk going bad.
So, if you decide to be crazy like me, rest assured that you can preserve your condiments without a fridge for a weekend, without changing ice packs or inviting your neighbors to see just how nutso you really are, if you use a good cooler that you don't open ever until you're ready to unpack it upon your return. 😉 Heh. Longer than a weekend, you should probably make other arrangements though. Either use those condiments up, give them away, or resolve to make peace without them, I'd think. Or you can invite the same neighbor that is collecting your eggs for you to fridge-sit. 😉


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Making lamb leaner for a healthier burger
Beef may claim to be what's for dinner in America, but in the Middle East that honor often goes to lamb. It's prepared in innumerable ways, but my favorite is when the lamb is ground, spiced and grilled, then topped with some kind of yogurt sauce and finally tucked into a pita. And that's how we're rolling here.
The only problem with ground lamb is that the kind available at the supermarket often is quite fatty. Generally speaking, of course, fat is where the flavor is — and the moisture. But lamb fat is saturated fat and it's best to keep our intake of saturated fats down.
Happily, lamb is packed with flavor, which means that even the leaner cuts deliver big lamb taste. What about the missing juiciness? We've replaced it with vegetables.
The surest way to source lean ground lamb is to grind it yourself or put it in the hands of a pro. Not all markets boast an in-house butcher these days, but if yours does, choose a leaner cut of lamb — a part of the leg, for example — and have the store grind it for you. Of course, if you own a meat grinder, or a stand mixer with a meat-grinding attachment, buy the leaner cut, bring it home, and grind away.
If neither of those options is open to you, you can "grind" your lamb using a food processor. I put grind in quotes, because when you do it with a processor it's more like chopping or shredding than grinding. Anyway, here's how it works: cut the meat into 1-inch cubes and freeze them for 30 minutes. Freezing the meat helps it to "grind" more evenly and prevents the processor from overheating the lamb in the process. Put the meat in the processor in batches and pulse until it gets to the desired consistency. But be careful not to overdo it. You don't want to turn the lamb into mush.
This burger remains super juicy thanks to some onions and zucchini. We caramelize the onions to optimize their flavor, and grate, salt and drain the zucchini. I used to think zucchini were boring until I discovered this trick. The burger then is seasoned with garlic, oregano and lemon, though you're welcome to swap out the oregano for basil, dill, mint or rosemary. Lamb pairs nicely with all of them.
And if you're not a fan of lamb, this recipe also is dandy made with beef.
1 medium zucchini (10 to 12 ounces)
Kosher salt
1½ tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 cup finely chopped yellow onion
1 cup nonfat Greek yogurt
1½ teaspoons minced garlic, divided
2 teaspoons grated lemon zest, divided
Ground black pepper
1 pound lean ground lamb
1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh oregano
Olive oil cooking spray
4 pita bread halves
Grated carrots and chopped cucumbers, to serve
Use a food processor or box grater to coarsely grate the zucchini. Transfer the grated zucchini to a strainer. Toss the zucchini with ½ teaspoon of salt and let it drain over the sink for 15 minutes. When it is done draining, working with a small handful at a time, squeeze out the zucchini to get rid of as much liquid as possible.
While the zucchini is draining, in a large nonstick or stick-resistant skillet, heat the oil over medium. Add the onion and cook, stirring occasionally, for 6 minutes, or until golden brown. Add the squeezed zucchini and cook, stirring, for 1 minute. Transfer the mixture to a medium bowl and let it cool to room temperature.
Heat a grill to medium.
Meanwhile, to make the sauce, combine the yogurt, ½ teaspoon of the garlic, 1 teaspoon of the lemon zest, and salt and pepper to taste. Set aside.
When the zucchini mixture has cooled, add the lamb, oregano, the remaining 1 teaspoon of lemon zest, the remaining 1 teaspoon of garlic, and ¼ teaspoon of salt and ¼ teaspoon of pepper. Mix well, then shape into 4 patties, each about ½-inch thick. Spray the burgers lightly with olive oil cooking spray, then grill until medium-rare, 3 to 4 minutes per side.
Serve each burger in a pita half, topped with the garlic sauce, carrots and cucumber.
Makes 4 servings.


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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) – On the eve of their national party conventions, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are locked in a close race to amass the requisite 270 Electoral College votes for victory. And the contest is exactly where it was at the start of the long, volatile summer: focused on seven states that are up for grabs.
Neither candidate has a significant advantage in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Ohio, Nevada, New Hampshire and Virginia, which offer a combined 85 electoral votes, according to an Associated Press analysis of public and private polls, spending on television advertising and numerous interviews with Republican and Democratic strategists in battleground states.
The analysis, which also took into account the strength of a candidate's on-the-ground organization and travel schedules, found that if the election were held today, Obama would have 19 states and the District of Columbia, offering 247 votes, solidly in his column or leaning his way, while Republican Romney would have 24 states with 206 votes.
Obama won all seven of the too-close-to-call states in 2008, and they are where the race will primarily be contested in the homestretch to the Nov. 6 election.
Ten weeks before Election Day, the AP analysis isn't meant to be predictive but rather is intended to provide a snapshot of a race that's been stubbornly close all year.
Among the unknowns that could shake up the electoral landscape before November: the latest unemployment figures that come out early next month, an unexpected foreign policy crisis in Syria or Iran and the outcome of the candidates' October debates.
Both sides are working to persuade the 23 percent of registered voters who said in an Associated Press-GfK poll that they are either undecided about the presidential race or iffy in their support for a candidate.
To woo them, the campaigns and political parties, along with allied groups with access to unlimited financial contributions, have already spent an astounding $540 million on television advertising, according to ad spending reports provided to the AP. And there's more to come.
Over the past three months, the campaign took a sharply negative turn, at times becoming nasty and personal.
Obama sought to define Romney early as a ruthless corporate raider for his time at the head of a private equity firm in Boston, and as an out-of-touch rich man keeping secrets about his wealth. Romney, in turn, worked to cast Obama as a failed president on a host of fronts, primarily the economy.
Both candidates have hit road bumps: Obama saw the unemployment rate rise to 8.3 percent and gave Republicans an opening to argue that he was unfriendly to small business. Romney had a widely panned foreign trip and made a series of potentially problematic comments, most recently joking about the debunked conspiracy theory regarding Obama's citizenship.
The national party conventions, starting with Republicans here, who convene Monday and start with a full schedule on Tuesday, and ending with Democrats the following week in Charlotte, N.C., will set the parameters of the fall campaign, and could provide each side with at least a temporary surge of support in national, if not battleground state, polls.
While Obama has a clear advantage given his incumbency, Romney does have a path to victory – though it's a steep climb.
He must win most of the seven most competitive states – Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Ohio, Nevada, New Hampshire and Virginia – in order to reach the magic number. For instance, he can lose Ohio's 18 electoral votes and still become president if he wins the other six and hangs onto those already in his grasp. It's difficult to see a scenario where Romney wins without a victory in Florida, which offers 29 electoral votes.
Neither side expects a dramatically different playing field this fall.
'You know the states that are in play,' said Obama's campaign manager Jim Messina. 'I don't think there's going to be a surprise.'
Romney's political director Rich Beeson makes the same point: 'I don't think you're going to see the map go crazy.'
Still, once their conventions are over, both campaigns will commission polls in the hardest-fought states to determine whether to shift their strategies. The candidates and their allied outside groups will pull money and manpower from states that are moving out of reach while relocating it to others they may now think they have a shot at winning.
'We're in a holding pattern,' said Charlie Black, a veteran Republican campaign strategist and informal adviser to Romney.
Perhaps not for long. With a huge cash advantage, Romney is considering trying to put more states in play – and creating more state-by-state paths to reach 270. He's closely watching to see whether it's worth it to compete aggressively in Wisconsin, now that native son Rep. Paul Ryan is on the ticket.
The Republican National Committee and GOP allies have been advertising in the state in hopes of making it competitive; at least one poll shows they've had some success and the race appears close. Obama, who has a formidable campaign on the ground that includes the state's active labor and minority blocs, hasn't advertised there but might be forced to do so.
Romney also is eyeing a deeper investment in Michigan, where he campaigned Friday, and Pennsylvania, where Ryan was last week. Obama carried both states in 2008, but the GOP sees promise in the economically struggling northern industrial states, especially among working-class, white voters.
The Republican may have the money to expand the map.
August financial reports show that Romney's overall fundraising apparatus – his campaign, the RNC and a separate joint-fundraising committee – had roughly $177 million in the bank at the end of July. The reports are the most recent public data.
And to a greater degree than Obama, Romney also has amassed an untapped stockpile of general election money that he plans to use this fall. He can begin spending it immediately upon accepting the nomination for president at the convention's close Thursday night.
Obama and his comparable committees, in turn, had only about $127 million on hand, according to the most recent report.
He also must wait until he accepts his party's nomination on Sept. 6, the close of the Democratic convention, to start spending his general election money.
Unlike Romney, Obama isn't focused on expanding the map in earnest.
He's mostly looking to hang onto as many of the states he won four years ago, with Ohio being of particular focus. In recent months, Obama's standing there has strengthened, the unemployment rate has dropped and last week General Motors announced a $200 million expansion of a northeast Ohio plant to continue building the Chevrolet Cruze there.
Beyond playing defense, Obama's team is watching to see whether the political terrain becomes more favorable to him in Missouri in the aftermath of controversial abortion and rape comments by Rep. Todd Akin, a GOP Senate candidate.
The backlash has been fierce, and polls show Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill – arguably the most vulnerable Senate Democrat – having gained ground. Obama competed for Missouri four years ago but lost and hasn't run ads there this year. Romney has had a comfortable advantage there.
If they have the money to do it, both sides will engage in head-faking: spending money in places simply to force the other side to defend their home turf. For example, if Romney goes after Pennsylvania, which has voted Democratic in all recent presidential elections, Obama would likely have to spend money to defend it, limiting the amount of cash he'll have available to spend in more competitive states, like Florida or Virginia.


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Last week I blogged about the famous "Cookie Cutter" ornaments I make every holiday season, and about how quick and easy they are to make. Then, after an email and a few comments it dawned on me that easy is a rather subjective word. For someone who has never tried to thread a needle or tried to sew (gasp!) for fun, well, not so much.
If you've got sewing experience then this post will probably bore you, but if you've got pointers or URLs with other more basic holiday projects to share in the comments section, please do.
So let's sew up an ornament together! It'll be fun, promise. You'll need a few basic things to get started, things you may already have around the house!
What you'll need :
- Cookie cutters or other shapes you can trace as patterns, unless you're going to free-hand your drawing, which is also fun, especially if working with little kids who love seeing their drawings "come to life".
- Sharp scissors
- Thread – So many choices! Cotton thread, or thicker, more durable craft thread, embroidery thread (you'll want to use about 2 or 3 strands) or even some thin cotton yarn. I have also used very thin satin ribbon which is pretty, too.
- Fabric – Before you run out to buy some, or think you can't give the project a go because you haven't any, just stop. You can use nearly anything! A re-purposed dish towel, the sleeve of a torn cotton shirt, bits from a stained table cloth, etc. You can also use heavier craft paper – it looks lovely sewn.
- A needle for sewing and some pins to hold your fabric together. In a pinch you can use tape to keep the pieces together, and even paper clips.
Get your fabric and fold it in half, with the right sides together. This just means that the side of the fabric you'd like to see once your decoration is done faces the inside for now.
See what I mean? The red-checks are facing in and the boring backing is facing out. Perfect for drawing or tracing on. Because we make a few new decorations every year, they are like little snap-shots of the past. We love dinos, so we make a few each year. If your child (or husband) likes super heroes, try a cape with an S on it, or maybe an outline of a car. Don't worry about it not being traditional! I still need to make a zombie for Monsieur Fish, because that's what he loves, but haven't got it worked out yet.
Once you've traced, pin the fabric together and cut it out, going through both layers of cloth.
Now put the wrong sides together, right sides facing out, and pin to secure. Ready to sew? First, let's look at your needles…
Notice how the top needle has a rather large eye and a blunt end? That's an embroidery needle, so it can handle thicker threads, embroidery thread, yarn and ribbon. The tinner, sharper needle will work with cotton or nylon thread. Let's thread your needle!
You want to have a workable length of thread, not too long or it'll get tangled up, too short, and you'll be re-threading often. About from your hand to your elbow is a good size I think. If you're using regular cotton thread, just feed one end through the eye of the needle, then bring it to meet the other end so you've got a double-layer of thread (more sturdy). If using embroidery thread, take two or three strands, feed one end through the needle and pull to about half-way the total length, then knot the long end. It's already sturdy enough so you don't need to double up.
For your first stitch, you'll begin going from the inside of your "sandwich" of fabric from the wrong side of one piece to its right side (meaning outside the dino here). Gently pull until the knot is against the fabric, and tuck in or carefully trim any little tails that are left. We're going to do a straight stitch here, but to make things even easier, think of it as an in and out stitch. You just bring the needle through from one side to the other, all the way around your shape. Stop a bit before getting all the way around to stuff it if you'd like. You can use scrap yarn and thread, or cotton or nylon batting. Then sew up the hole and tie a knot to secure.
I hope this is helpful, and inspires you to make a few ornaments for your tree or window or potted plant or whatever. The tutorial for the Felt Doughnuts may also be helpful for you, too. They also make cute decorations for you tree, Jeni Treehugger says so herself!
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Farming thrives in southeastern Mass., but consumers aren't buying local
When it comes to produce, consumers in southeastern Massachusetts are not buying local, even as the amount of farm land in the region increases, according to a food system assessment recently released by the Southeastern Massachusetts Food Security Network.
Together, Bristol, Plymouth and Norfolk counties have more than 1,700 farms encompassing more than 108,000 acres of farmland. But while the number of customers buying directly from farms is increasing, residents only spend $5.02 per person per year on food purchased directly at farm stands or farmers markets.
The reasons are unclear, said Sarah Kelley, who helped produce the report by analyzing census data.
"My guess, and it's just a guess, is that it's a convenience factor," Kelley said. "People have to make an effort to make a habit to buy local and go to the farmers markets."
From 2007 to 2012, the number of residents buying directly from farmers actually increased by 64 percent, according to the assessment. But residents are still getting an overwhelming share of their food from sources other than local farms. In fact, of the $157 million in market value produced by farms in the three counties, only 5.5 percent of that comes from sales to local residents.
"Buying local is growing; it just is a really small fraction of the total agricultural growth of the region," Kelley said. "If you break it down and look at what people are actually spending on, local food is a very small percentage of food spending."
The lack of local consumers is something Silverbrook Farm owner Andrew Pollack said he struggles with at his Dartmouth farmstand.
He said that there are very few "vibrant" farmers markets in the SouthCoast, and that he instead brings his produce to farmers markets in Boston and Cape Cod where he said buying directly from farmers is more popular.
"It's very hard to sell produce in the local area," Pollack said. "When we go to these other places, they always ask 'Why are you here? Can't you sell in your own community?' But it's like we can't sell anything down here even though agriculture is really thriving."
Pollack said he thinks shoppers need to be more conscious of where their food is coming from. If they were, he said he believes residents would rather support their neighbors instead of workers in other countries.
"When you see at a farmers market that the price is 50 cents extra, people don't realize that's money that goes toward paying their neighbor a reasonable, sustainable wage," he said.
If buying local produce has anything to do with convenience, then that's a boon for Almeida's Vegetable Patch in Swansea.
Almeida's has no problem drawing customers to its widely shopped location on Route 6. In fact, the parking lot is often packed with vehicles. Inside, shoppers fill their baskets with native sweet corn, radishes, tomatoes and other vegetables and fruits.
Joe Cordeiro, a sort of do-it-all employee of Almeida's for the past 26 years, said business is good.
"We're out picking corn every day at 5:30 in the morning. We pick squash every day and tomatoes," Cordeiro said. "We have a lot of new (customers), a lot of young people."
Part of the draw may be the location, the fact that Almeida's is open daily until 6 p.m., or it may be something else.
"My husband is a corn junkie," said customer Louise Renaud of Fall River. "Once the season hits, I'm here every week. Once the native stuff is out, you can't beat it."
Susan Murray, who owns Apponagansett Farm with her husband, Anthony Wood, said sales at the Dartmouth and New Bedford farmers markets are an important part of her farm's income.
While she said she believes the markets she goes to "have been popular and are pretty busy," she said that her farm could not survive without additional income from selling products wholesale.
"If we were trying to do all farmers markets, we would have trouble," she said. "We're doing just fine because we have a diversified customer base."
Ann Richard, who runs the Fairhaven farmers market, said she believes it takes time for shoppers to "get into the routine" of buying local rather than from supermarkets.
Now in its seventh year, the Fairhaven market is "very vibrant," she said, but it wasn't always that way.
"I think it did take a while for people to say 'OK, I won't get my eggs at the grocery store, I want to know the farmer and know the person and the chickens providing my food,'" she said.
Herald News Staff Reporter Deborah Allard contributed to this report.


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As I recently posted, we're going to be putting on an OWS Poetry Anthology reading at the Jefferson Market Library on April 14th, from 2-5pm. As part of the reading, we're going to be giving the library a copy of the OWS Poetry Anthology for them to keep as part of their special collections. If you'd like to be in the anthology that will be available at the New York Public Library, be sure to send me your poem by the evening of April 8th, a Sunday. As you probably know, the anthology is ever growing, but we're going to give them an edition of it, so whatever has been sent to me by April 8th will go into the version of the anthology they'll have on file. I hope to include your poem in it! Send work to stephenjboyer(AT)gmail.com. Also, if you want to help with some "fixing up" work on the anthology, get in touch with me! As I am trying to clean it up, fix formatting and typo's. But no changes to any poems will be made! And only want help from people, that will respect all the differing work that has been sent into the anthology.
For those of you that need a prompt or some sort of push toward a poetic starting place… I suggest you go to Occupy Union Square and show solidarity with all the beautiful people currently living and occupying there… DISCOURSE DISCOURSE DISCOURSE and then go home and weave the conversations into an epic poem! For the more adventurous… I've been thinking it might be interesting to have people watch the documentary "Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove" by Alex Jones and then write a poem from the eyes of the owl god Moloch. Shoot forth from the eyes Moloch and unleash verse upon the robed men gathered to worship you!
Remember reality: PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER. ALL PEOPLE. HAVE THE POWER. The people gathered in the documentary may have accumulated "wealth" but it's actually THE PEOPLE, you know, EVERYBODY that has THE POWER. I don't mean to get all Star Wars on you, but it's true… The elites NEED us. We do not need them. Spring forth, GOD/DESS, (the elites worship you) and fill their souls with verse! Moloch! You are the center of a weird, bizarre ancient Canaanite, Lucifarian, Babylonian ceremony, please make sure I get a spot on the guest list…
"What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination?
Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men weeping in the parks!
Moloch! Moloch! Nightmare of Moloch! Moloch the loveless! Mental Moloch! Moloch the heavy judger of men!
Moloch the incomprehensible prison! Moloch the crossbone soulless jailhouse and Congress of sorrows! Moloch whose buildings are judgement! Moloch the vast stone of war! Moloch the stunned governments!
Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb!
Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! Moloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long streets like endless Jehovas! Moloch whose factories dream and choke in the fog! Moloch whose smokestacks and antennae crown the cities!
Moloch whose love is endless oil and stone! Moloch whose soul is electricity and banks! Moloch whose poverty is the specter of genius! Moloch whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen! Moloch whose name is the Mind!
Moloch in whom I sit lonely! Moloch in whom I dream angels! Crazy in Moloch! Cocksucker in Moloch! Lacklove and manless in Moloch!
Moloch who entered my soul early! Moloch in whom I am a consciousness without a body! Moloch who frightened me out of my natural ecstasy! Moloch whom I abandon! Wake up in Moloch! Light streaming out of the sky!
Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations! invincible madhouses! granite cocks! monstrous bombs!
They broke their backs lifting Moloch to Heaven! Pavements, trees, radios, tons! lifting the city to Heaven which exists and is everywhere about us!
Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river!"
–Allen Ginsberg
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So there we were in POS, Analogue in tree form and Reversion's second bear tank, the undergeared one. Soon as we saw the loading screen we knew we were in for fun. His second bear is lightly geared, has some holes, and was running with an experimental high-agility build. That's why I bring Analogue along when we want to run instances with that tank; she's usually able to keep things up just fine, but I know some of the POS pulls are fun..
We get a warlock, a dk, and a paladin. The warlock hasn't been here before on this character; he asks people to "share quests" and we remind him to talk to Jaina at the portal in. This is halfway through the first pull. He says "Ok, can I brb?" and we give him permission, starting in on the next pull. Then I notice his health bar is going down… and down… he's managed to aggro the caster mobs that everyone always skips these days. So Reversion and I go back and res him. Well now he's got the quest, so we keep going.
First boss is fine. Then we wipe after that because I'm careless and not looking where the tank is and run into the ambushers. Oops. That was dumb. We get back, clear to Ick and Krick, kill them, and start up the hill. It takes all my button spamming but the first two groups go down and everyone is alive. The paladin seems to have a broken cleanse button so we have to wait around after the fight for the diseases to wear off, but it's going ok.
The next set of mobs, Reversion tells the DK to run to one caster and death grip the other caster on top. Wonder of wonders he listens, we take out that group. We go to do the second group – and wipe; I have no idea why. Everyone runs back, except for the dk. He didn't run back last time either and this time he's under the mobs and I couldn't rez him if I wanted to. We tell him to release, wait for him to do it or reply or… nothing. So he gets kicked and a mage joins the party. A mage with a gear score higher than mine and an ego to match.
The first pull wasn't bad; Reversion kept aggro, we'd already killed one caster and the mage's blizzard didn't pull off. Now it was time for the tunnel. Reversion gave the standard rundown; get to the middle, don't dps till then, don't get ahead of the tank. We run to the plate, kill everything. One of the dps goes down; I have just enough time to rez before we're in combat again. We start off up the tunnel but it's taken long enough there are a lot on the bear. Since this alt only has 29k hit points in bear form, Reversion stops to kill a few adds. The mage and paladin, however, don't stop. I sigh as their health bars go down, and then ours go down, and it's a wipe.
"???" says the mage. "You don't stop in the tunnel nub".
"You do if the tank needs to kill the adds," Reversion points out.
"You fail as a tank. L2P nub." And he quits party, just like that.
Needless to say we finished the tunnel and the boss fight without any trouble at all.
I think the problem is that for a lot of people, unless you've played a role it's hard to tell the difference between "bad" and "undergeared". You can tell good geared players easily. You can tell bad ungeared players really easily. You can even tell bad geared players – they're the ones with a 6k gearscore and 2k dps. But it's hard sometimes to tell if a player is bad, or just lightly geared. If you wipe on hard fights, sometimes it's just because you're short on health. I'll point out that Reversion's second bear is better geared than his primary bear was the first few times we ran H POS; gear inflation is insane these days. But the mage wasn't willing to stick around to see which was the case. We'd deviated from his knowledge of "how you do the tunnel"; he couldn't see that the reason why was a good one, so he left.
Still, who's the bigger idiot, the tank who stops or the mage who keeps going?


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Sitcom actor Dave Madden dead at age 82
NEW YORK (AP) — Comic actor Dave Madden, who played the child-hating agent on the hit 1970s sitcom "The Partridge Family," died in Florida yesterday at age 82.
Madden died at a hospice center near his home in the Jacksonville area, his niece Mary Frances Miller said.
Towering and rumpled, Madden was best known for his role as Reuben Kinkaid, who managed the Partridge family band and regularly clashed with its impish pre-teen bassist, played by Danny Bonaduce.
While the series starred Shirley Jones, with her real-life stepson David Cassidy as the resident heart-throb, it was Madden and the freckle-faced Bonaduce who became the reigning comic duo.
Jones said Madden "made the show, I felt."
"His relationship with Danny Bonaduce is what made the show work: this strange, mad little boy and the grown man who was even worse as a father figure," she said yesterday. "It was hysterical!"
But though Madden played a guy bedeviled by the youngsters who surrounded him, Jones said that off-camera, he "loved kids."
And Bonaduce later wrote how during his troubled youth Madden served as his surrogate father.
Before "The Partridge Family," Madden was part of the ensemble on the "Laugh-In" comedy series, sipping and sometimes spitting milk along with joining in the show's zany sketches and crazy jokes. He later had a recurring role as one of the customers at Mel's Diner on the long-running sitcom "Alice."
Madden was born in Ontario, Canada, and grew up in North Terre Haute, Ind. He began show business as a nightclub comic and then landed his first acting job on the short-lived sitcom "Camp Runamuck" in the mid-1960s.
During his career, he also appeared on such series as "Bewitched," "Barney Miller," "Happy Days," "The Love Boat" and "Fantasy Island."


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