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Eggs are mostly every ones favorite everywhere across globe for the fact that they are a great source of protein, they are easy & quick to cook, good to eat and kind of complete the breakfast plates whether boiled, poached, scrambled or fried.
There are a lot of people still, especially the new cooks & bachelors who are not fully aware about how many ways the eggs can be cooked. Sometimes they hear the egg name but cannot really identify which one is it.
One thing is how you want to cook & eat eggs & the other thing is which egg type represents which personality. There have been studies done by some researchers showing the psychology of consumers, that their liking of eggs type is just not their culinary choice but can show their personality traits too.
So, lets start today by showing you the pictures of the common ways of cooking eggs and telling you what the studies say about your personality as per your choice of eggs, it's very interesting. Read On!
There are normal scrambled & soft scrambled and studies show that normal scrambled egg lovers are generally conservative by nature. They are normally loyal friends; neither a party enthusiast nor a life of the party but can still be always seen partying around. Some times bland & boring but still loved by friends around. The soft scramble egg eaters on other hand are not easy to open up; they take time to start a friendship. Research also found scrambled eggs eaters prefer to stay without children or single.
Omelet – as per the research the Omelet liking lot is like a mother, looking after others, does not always take credit for all that they do. They let other around over shadow them sometimes.
Sunny side up – You are subtle yet wild. Like they would want travel for adventure but will end up on a beach lazing out. They are comfortable talking and sharing their stuff with every body & any body.
Fried Eggs – people who like fried eggs are from skilled workers class and are organized in their work area.
Poached Eggs – the researcher feel that people eating poached eggs are usually happier than others. They like to be in good company and like people to notice them, they are entrepreneurs & mysterious too.
Boiled Eggs – In boiled eggs there are soft-boiled & hard-boiled. The soft-boiled eaters are powerful & charming, classy n beautiful, they are strict n graceful. They don't adapt easily to the new world. On the other hand hard-boiled egg eaters are conscious about health, are athletic in nature and like to have a nicely toned body. On the other hand the research says that boiled egg eaters are more prone to divorces but again it is all an individuals way of handling problems.
Baked Eggs – In general the research shows that baked egg eaters are very sensitive, emotional & delicate. They need some ones support always and need a lot of love & affection to sustain. They would prefer living in the countryside than in the hustle bustle of the city life.
Deviled Eggs – Classy & choosy, like things in a style. Like complicated things.
I think it will be interesting to know which Egg type you are and see if the existing research findings are actually correct or not for you. I am excited to find out, Are you?


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Where in Australia are the federal public servants?
Not-for-profit sector
SPONSORED: Inner-city centres on the east coast have amassed the greatest share of Australia's new public service jobs under the Coalition government as outer suburbs, bush towns and Canberra took cuts to their ranks of bureaucrats.
Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane's CBDs have grown their proportion of the nation's federal public service employment since the change of government in 2013 that brought on downsizing for the bureaucracy elsewhere.
Changing landscape
Public servants' workplaces over 15 years.
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Canberra bore most of the Coalition's efforts to slash the public service, losing 6700 jobs in four years, Public Service Commission data shows.
Inner Sydney gained 2000 public servants, while inner Brisbane (1300) and inner Melbourne (850) also emerged as job winners since the Coalition took power.
Further away from city centres, outer suburbs sustained some of the largest job cuts since 2013.
The migration of public service jobs into inner Sydney since 2013 reversed a decade-long trend that had reduced its share by nearly 5500. Sydney's west lost public servants in Parramatta (1600) and outer western suburbs (1200) under the Coalition, following increases in the Rudd-Gillard years.
Melbourne's inner-east (1100), south-east (800) and west (300) lost public service employment since 2013 as government jobs grew in the city centre. While inner Brisbane gained public servants, the city's south (900) and north (600) lost them.
Canberra's recent losses dented its massive growth in public service jobs since 2002, reaching 16,200 and taking its portion of the bureaucracy's ranks from 34 per cent to 38 per cent.
The concentration of public service jobs in Australia's largest and busiest urban centres under the Abbott and Turnbull governments coincided with a vocal campaign from its junior partners, the Nationals, to move government jobs to the regions.
Most regional areas lost federal government employment, and others had modest growth after 2013, the data shows.
Only Geelong – the new home of the agency administering the National Disability Insurance Scheme – and outback Northern Territory had triple-figure growth in federal bureaucracy jobs among regional areas under the Coalition.
Despite the cuts, regions marginally grew their share of federal government jobs since 2013, continuing a slow, long-term decentralisation trend.
Regions expanded their share of public service jobs – from 9.5 per cent to about 14 per cent – in the last 15 years.
Geelong, the Latrobe Valley, the Hunter Valley, Illawarra and north Queensland are among regions that grew public service employment most since 2002.
Nationals MP and Regional Development Minister John McVeigh said the federal government was following a measured and methodical process in moving public service jobs to the regions.
"Regional Australians deserve the benefits that flow from public service jobs, just as much as people who live in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra," he said.
"The Coalition government is resolute in our commitment to deliver our decentralisation agenda, and will have more to say later in 2018."
Nationals leader and Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack said the federal government had made positive moves on the decentralisation agenda, pushed hard by his party, but that these weren't always captured in statistics alone.
NSW had the largest shift in Australian Public Service jobs to regional towns in 15 years, as they doubled their share to 32 per cent.
An expansion of public service employment in Newcastle and Illawarra, and growth in agency jobs up the state's mid-north and north coasts helped the regions wrest jobs from Sydney.
NSW Business Chamber chief executive Stephen Cartwright said the commission's data was in line with what was happening on the ground.
"Much of the growth in regional employment from the APS has however been at the lower levels," he said.
"While still within reach to the Sydney CBD, the deep labour force and cost advantages of Wollongong and Newcastle have attracted significant expansion of the public service over recent years."
The Australian Taxation Office, the Department of Health and Ageing, the NDIS and, in Newcastle, the Defence Department had grown job numbers in two of the state's largest cities outside Sydney.
Jobs head north
Queensland has the third-most decentralised federal public servant workforce, after the Northern Territory and NSW, a trait attributed to its population spread.
Central Queensland University's Linda Colley said the state was less centralised than others, and service delivery agencies would be found near their clients.
Townsville (600) and Cairns (390) bulked up their public service ranks over 15 years, although inner Brisbane (2300) grew more, a trend that has raised eyebrows at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Queensland.
"Queensland is public servant heaven," the chamber's media and industy head Dan Petrie said.
"We would see that type of growth in the private sector as opposed to an expanding public service."
Victoria's regional gains
Growth in public service jobs in Geelong and the Latrobe Valley increased the regional share of federal government employment in Victoria, up from 7.5 per cent in 2002 to 16.3 per cent last year.
Melbourne School of Government director John Howe said the rise was partly explained by the 2013 decision to base the national office of the NDIS in Geelong, and the establishment of the Morwell Service Centre and Traralgon Shared Service Centre in the Latrobe Valley supporting the Department of Human Services.
"The federal and state governments have actively sought to stimulate additional employment opportunities in these areas, particularly with the withdrawal of Ford in Geelong and the decommissioning of Hazelwood Power Station in the Latrobe Valley," he said.
"The APS and Victorian Public Service have an active role to play in supporting regional communities and we see this as one way this manifests itself."
Public service jobs have dropped in inner and south-east Perth, offsetting gains in other parts of the city.
University of Western Australia Business School's David Gilchrist said the concentration of the state's population in Perth meant most services would be centralised compared to the eastern seaboard.
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AMPATH
The Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH) is a partnership between Moi University, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, and the AMPATH Consortium of universities around the world led by Indiana University. Officially established in 2001, AMPATH began as a partnership between medical schools at Indiana University and Moi University in 1990.
The Indiana University Center for Global Health (IUCGH) coordinates the involvement of the AMPATH Consortium of partner universities. IUCGH holds institutional relationships with Moi University and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, and facilitates the presence of several full-time, year-round IU faculty in Eldoret, Kenya.
Virtually all of the major IU School of Medicine departments and many sub-specialty divisions partner with AMPATH including Medicine, Pediatrics, Ob/Gyn, Surgery, GI, Radiology, Pathology, Oncology and Palliative Care.
IU's schools of Dentistry, Public Health, Law and others also contribute to the Kenya partnership. For example, nearly 1,000 children received oral health screenings over two and a half weeks during the IU School of Dentistry's international service learning program.
Contact: Adrian Gardner, MD
CARE IMPACT
AMPATH serves a population of more than 8 million people in western Kenya in partnership with Kenya's Ministry of Health (MoH). This AMPATH-MoH system aims to deliver a package of primary care services inclusive of HIV/AIDS care and control, maternal-child services, and essential/basic prevention services and medical care for burdensome health problems.
AMPATH is developing an integrated health system in the public sector across all levels of the health system using a community-based, population health approach. The system, inclusive of both primary and specialty care services, is designed to host and nurture training and research activities. Specialty care services, centered on the campus of Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, consist of emerging Centers of Excellence in cardiopulmonary diseases, diabetes, mental health, and oncology.
Additionally, AMPATH is developing a replicable model of universal health coverage by (1) building a health care system in western Kenya that delivers quality health services effectively and efficiently; (2) developing community-based and group-based mechanisms of wealth creation; and, (3) collaborating with Kenya's National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) to ensure that that health care delivery system is financially accessible to all people.
EDUCATION IMPACT
Through AMPATH, more than 2,200 North American and Kenyan medical trainees have trained alongside each other in Kenya, the U.S., and Canada with more joining every year.
The IU Center for Global Health coordinates exchanges including:
Two-month medical rotations in Kenya
Slemenda Scholars Progarm
Moi University Medical and Dental Student Exchange
The IU School of Dentistry also coordinates an International Service Learning program in Kenya for dental students.
Coordinated by the IU Center for Global Health, the AMPATH Research Network seeks to improve the health of the Kenyan population through the identification, development and dissemination of health systems information to influence the medical care, public health and public policy in Kenya and other resource-constrained areas of the world.
AMPATH Research Network includes:
More than 60 active studies and a network of collaborators from 20 institutions in North America, Europe, and East Africa.
Robust infrastructure for research including a system of peer research development groups to assist in mentoring new investigators and developing new research, an ISO-accredited laboratory, an Institutional Review Board (IRB), a research and sponsored projects office, and cores in biostatistics, data management, informatics and bioethics.
$187 million in cumulative direct research awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID and others.
More than 1,000 publications including many peer-reviewed articles in high-impact journals that inform programs and policies in HIV/AIDS, maternal child health, oncology, non-communicable diseases and more.


Hi folks, I have a ford fiesta titanium automatic, it's an 11 plate and came out of the factory with an electrical fault, up till now it is on its 5th battery, the original owner had it in the garage 3 times to check why the battery life was very short, he was fobbed off and when I bought it from I knew the car had a problem and had a hunch it hadn't been fixed. I read on the net that bluetooth is a known problem, so I disconnected it, but soon after the last battery went dead. So thought it wasn't the problem but now on its 5th battery it has been in for 20 months now and has outlasted all the other batteries so far and the bluetooth is still disconected so I'm thinking it was a problem after all, touch wood!!
Hi, thanks for the replies, it's petrol 1.4, the auto gearbox is electric powered, no battery has lasted this long in this car, but maybe I'm not out of the woods yet!
1.4 litres with an auto box ??? The acceleration must be awesome..
When my Mrs. had her battery replaced by the RAC it failed again after only 2 years and 361 days... and the RAC had given it a 3 year warranty.
RAC man had to replace FOC after checking the alternator and rectifier.
1.4 litres with an auto box ??? The acceleration must be awesome, well, it's not bad, the wife drives it most of the time and I like driving it, driving is simpler when you don't have to clutch and change! with low profile tyres it corners at speed well.
Extending the life of my cordless tools.


PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 29, 1907.
EXACT TIME OF NEW YEAR.
standard time belts of the country.
February and 112 for the entire year.
persons dying in the city.
there were many cases in the city.
located in Hong Kong, China.
influenced by the grippe bacillus.
hardly a household without a case.
"Our People and Their Ex-Presidents,"
the Youths' Companion for January 5.
held here today in the office of Jacob M.
Dickinson, president of the association.
The convention will assemble August 25.
"The First . Step Is to Remove Temptation."
from a house on the Mankin ranch.
the fa.ee . aid. dropped his gun and fled.
and through the lower jaw.
kin ranch of great magnitude.
tomorrow, when an inquest will be held.
Henry Mankin has been arrested.
"I'll Climb Aboard as She Goes By."
THE STORY OF OREGON. .
article In the New JT ear's number.
ton, queen of the tournament of roses.
SAUIT STE. MARIE; Mich., Dec 28.
last night. Loss estimated at $300,000.
left. Details are not obtainable.
lation is nearly a thousand.
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since April 15, 1907, was $193,363.40.
hands to help pay the bank's creditors.
company, and not his own.
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Efforts to end dictatorship In Portugal.
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ballot. Section 1, page 1..
Woman murdered In New Jersey identified.
Sunday closing. Section 2, page 3.
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faker. Section 4, page 6.
for 1908. Section 4, page 6.
Referee picks Multnomah te beat St. Louis.
people to kill rats. Section 1, page I.
welshing at Oakland. Section 1, page Z.
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gang discovered. Section 1. page i.
misrepresenting him. and boycott It.
nobleman broken, oft. Section 1. page 1.
S Jackson County farm. Section 1. page 1.
graph station at North. Head. Section 1.
Matron of Orphans' Home heroine in lire.
matters. Section 4. page 9.
higher prices. Section 4. page 9.
Upward tendency of stock prices checked.
finance revealed. Section 1, page 1.
tax. Section 2. page 10.
Thief commits burglary in police station.
row night. Section 1, page 11.
Alarl. . Section 1, page 8.
pass 14 mills. Section 1, page 11.
by Treasurer Steel. Section 8, page 1.
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feast of Indiana Republicans, declared!
Lead Me Not Into Tempi at ion.


Oral Surgery is the area of Dental Medicine devoted to the surgical treatment of diseases, traumatisms and mouth, teeth, gum, jaw and soft tissue deformities.
Among others, it encompasses teeth extraction procedures and bone tumours, soft tissue or graft extraction. Another relevant specialty in this field is Orthognathic Surgery, which deals with the correction of mandibular positioning, dysfunctions of the temporomandibular joint, occlusion problems or sleep disorders (apnea).


A compact yet powerful personal megaphone. Operation is simple; select speak with the switch, speak into the microphone, and it will amplify your voice. Adjustable volume level and in-built siren as well. Handle folds away for easier storage and transportation, and there's a wrist strap for safety (especially when standing above a crowd).


There are a wide variety of fine, comfortable hotels in Annapolis, geared to fit any budget, business or leisure visitor. Some are within walking distance of historic landmarks, such as the waterfront district and the United States Naval Academy, and others are convenient for a business traveler.
An Annapolis hotel that gets high marks with both budget and business travelers is the Hilton Garden Inn Annapolis, 305 Harry S. Truman Parkway. It is a short drive from downtown and is a well-equipped hotel for business travelers, as well as being lower in price than other comparable Annapolis hotels. Another hotel considered to be an excellent value for all its amenities is Spring Hill Suites by Marriott Annapolis, located at 189 Cochrane Drive. It is close to the Ballet Theater of Maryland and the historic downtown.You don't want to miss either the Best Western Annapolis because this hotel offers travelers convenient access to many local attractions, shopping and dining options in and around Annapolis, and one way they support it is by offering 24-hour complimentary coffee service; or the Holiday Inn Express Hotel and Suites – you can read why we thing they're tops in terms of Annapolis hotels right here.
The Bed and Breakfast Association lists a large number of independent homes and small inns that feature unique accommodations, personal service, and complete breakfasts. A B&B in Annapolis is ideal for travelers that enjoy personal service and historic lodgings in an intimate setting. One highly rated and quaint B&B is the Chez Amis Bed and Breakfast on 85 East Street is a short walk to City Dock. Other popular B& B's are the Harbor View Inn, at 1 St. Mary's Street, the William Page Inn, at 8 Martin Street, and the Georgian House, at 170 Duke of Gloucester Street. For those wanting to be right near the marina, the Eastport location of The Inn at Horn Point, 100 Chesapeake Ave, is an ideal spot.
We really have to recommend the Annapolitan B&B because each room is decorated differently with Annapolis-inspired décor. The flexibility is also great because they can accommodate cocktail or tailgate parties, reunions or business meetings in private event spaces.
It's a single downtown hotel with a lobby check-in location at 58 State Circle, but with lodgings in a group of three historic boutique hotels. The Governor Calvert House is the oldest and most luxurious home, built in 1695, and located across from the Capitol building. The Robert Johnson House is next to the Governor's Mansion and was completed in 1773. The Maryland Inn is also the location of the well-known Treaty of Paris restaurant.
The Loews Annapolis Hotel enjoys a central location on 126 West Street with easy access to restaurants and the nightlife downtown. It is a full-service hotel with a spa and pet friendly policy. The Westin Annapolis Hotel is another full-service hotel with a large grand ballroom. It is the top ranked hotel for business travelers in Annapolis. The Annapolis Waterfront Hotel is a fine departure point for city walking tours.
The Schooner Windward, at 80 Compromise Street, needs its own category because it is the only boat and breakfast in Annapolis. It features a delightful evening cruise where the captain allows passengers to take turns at the helm. The bed and bath may feel like cramped quarters for some guests, but the experience is unique and comes with a complete breakfast.
The wide variety of Annapolis hotels make it a wonderful city for both leisure and business travel. From historic sights to sailing and shopping Annapolis is a charming city designed to accommodate any type of visitor in comfortable and enjoyable style.


"Harlem is a neighborhood rich with heritage, and we are excited to feature these listings on the tour, as they are a great example of what this neighborhood has to offer," said Charlie Lewis, a senior managing director at Warburg Realty who is spearheading the firm's Harlem initiative.
As the first luxury brokerage to have a presence in Harlem, Warburg Realty is familiar with the attributes of this neighborhood, and have excitedly participated in the transformation of the neighborhood into the destination it has become today. As part of the Expo, attendees will visit two of the firm's exclusive Harlem listings: 42 West 120th Street and 2101 Fifth Avenue.
Participants will visit Park Place, the prewar building at 42 West 120th Street, located directly across the street from Marcus Garvey Park. The units consist of recently renovated one- and two-bedrooms homes featuring crown molding, solid oak flooring and a white-marble open kitchen with GE Profile stainless steel appliances. This development has a limited number of remaining units available, as it sold quickly due to its great location and first-rate amenities.
The second building with a Warburg listing on the tour is 2101 Fifth Avenue, a 13-unit pre-war building from 1912, located on the corner of 129th Street. The residence is a one-bedroom duplex with 1296 square feet of livable space which includes two bathrooms, a washer/dryer, two outdoor patios, a chef's kitchen and plenty of closet space.
In addition to these listings, Warburg Realty has experienced great success at other Harlem developments, including the recent sell out of 555 Lenox Avenue and 118 West 112th Street. Homes in this popular Manhattan neighborhood continue to sell quickly, as many buyers are looking to take advantage of the great value and vibrant community with lots of great restaurants and terrific shopping options.


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Better Pay for Better Profits
How increased wages and operational improvements can help your bottom line
Back Longreads Jul 28, 2015 By Steven Yoder
Among the counterintuitive gems economists have excavated in recent years is this curious insight: When the economy is humming along and unemployment is low, the U.S. death rate rises. Many in the field have tried to fathom why. And now, UC Davis Graduate School of Management interim dean Ann Huff Stevens and three of her colleagues think they know. (They published their findings in a paper released last May.)
Most of the additional deaths that occur in economic good times happen among older people living in nursing homes, Stevens and company found. It's because nursing homes can't retain low-wage staff when unemployment rates are low. Certified nursing aides make as little as $9 an hour, and the work is both physically and emotionally grueling. Taking another job — even one that doesn't pay more — is often a step up.
So as turnover rises in these homes, the ratio of patients to staff rises. Infections don't get the attention they need. New workers make mistakes in administering medications. And more patients die.
Companies that strengthen their operations and training and motivate employees with better pay, decent benefits and predictable schedules are out-competing their rivals.
High turnover drags down profits in any business, but in nursing homes it can kill people. Recent state court cases make that clear. Rosewood Post-Acute Rehab, a privately run home in Carmichael, was hit with several lawsuits over the years because of quality-of-care problems related to inadequate staffing. In 2013, the state fined Rosewood $100,000 after a patient was given a lethal overdose of a blood thinner, according to a New York Times report. In February, Rosewood's parent company filed for bankruptcy to escape potentially catastrophic legal verdicts. That's the second time in two years a California nursing-home chain has liquidated to avoid lawsuits related to inadequate staffing.
As minimum wage debates gain momentum regionally and nationwide, the business community has continued to argue that increasing employee pay drives up overhead and jeopardizes job growth. But a number of companies in thin-margin industries are proving that they don't have to compete by treating staff like cheap, disposable cogs. Companies that do the opposite — by strengthening their operations and training and motivating employees with better pay, decent benefits and predictable schedules — are out-competing their rivals.
An Alternative to Retail's Race to the Bottom
Conventional wisdom among service industries mirrors that in sail racing: Light and lean wins. Successful companies undercut competitors on price by shedding excess employees and tamping down wages for those who stay. Employers target wages and benefits for a good reason — they're often the biggest controllable expense these companies have.
For example, in the two biggest retail job categories (sales worker and cashier) median wages run between $9.17 and $10.29 an hour. That means a person working full time in one of these positions brings home between $18,000 and $20,500 a year, at least 15 percent lower than the poverty level for a family of four.
Those low wages and benefits come with long-term costs to a company, says Zeynep Ton, a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management and author of the 2014 book The Good Jobs Strategy. Ton hones in on the low-wage approach used by Walmart, the world's largest private employer. A National Bureau of Economic Research paper last November showed that Walmart cashiers, for example, average just $8.48 an hour. Ton says the company's size has forced the entire retail industry to follow suit by trimming pay scales.
But that race to the bottom may well be the herd thundering into a box canyon. At Walmart, low wages show up in unhappy customers — the company has consistently ranked as one of Consumer Reports' lowest-rated grocers for customer satisfaction since 2005. Stevens points to "efficiency wage" studies done since the early 1980s that suggest profits actually can rise when wages go up because employees work harder, better workers are attracted to the jobs and turnover drops, all of which increase productivity. Among that research is a 2003 study of San Francisco airport contract employees after new policies in 2000 increased their wages. After the boost, almost half the contractors reported that workers were offering better customer service. Turnover rates fell from almost 50 percent yearly to 20 percent. Absenteeism dropped by almost a third.
Related: The 4 Commandments of a Good Jobs Strategy
But boosting performance normally demands more than just raising wages, according to Ton. Her research focuses on the performance of the jumbo retail chains Costco, Trader Joe's, QuikTrip and Mercadona, the largest supermarket chain in Spain. All four provide wages and benefits considered high for their industries.
They also use four key operational strategies: First, they've winnowed down what they sell — they actually give their customers fewer choices by limiting products and promotions. That cuts cost and makes staff more knowledgeable about what the company does offer. Second, instead of cutting staff hours when business is slow, they heavily cross-train workers so staff can take on other roles in times of low demand, like having the fruit-and-vegetable specialist restock shelves in another department when foot traffic is slow. Third, they operate with slack: They have more employees than they need, giving staff breathing space to offer better customer service and suggest operational improvements. And finally, they standardize every employee task while also empowering staff to make decisions for which behavior is hard to prescribe, like how to respond to customer problems and complaints.
The results, Ton found, show up as both happier workers and higher profits. Costco's store employees, for example, earn about 40 percent more than their counterparts at Walmart's Sam's Club. Costco's turnover is less than 6 percent a year for workers who stay for more than a year, compared with overall turnover of about 60 percent in the industry. Its customer service is ranked as high as that of Nordstrom, which is known for treating shoppers well. Costco's prices are as low as Sam's Club's and about 40 percent lower than those in a typical supermarket. And from 2003 to 2013, the company's share price shot up 240 percent, compared with 50 percent at Walmart.
At least one ex-Costco employee thinks the company lives up to that hype. Wages and benefits at Costco are "golden handcuffs," making it tough to leave, says former employee Phillip Hutchens, 53, of Eau Claire, Wisc. In his experience, staff feel the company invests in them, and he says his own decision to depart for a career in ministry was "incredibly difficult."
Can It Be Scaled Down?
It's easy to object that a good-jobs strategy successful in huge retail firms can't work in small businesses, with their tiny profit margins and fewer company resources. But Ton points to The Container Store, which has been operating on the philosophy since launching in 1978 with a single Dallas store. The company has since grown to 63 locations in 22 states. "If anything, it's much easier in a smaller company," Ton says, because owners usually have more control and don't have to remake a whole corporate culture.
Ginger Elizabeth Chocolates Head Pastry Chef Alison Clevenger and Owner Ginger Hahn.
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Whether Ginger Elizabeth Chocolates in Sacramento will achieve growth on that scale has yet to be seen. But keeping happy and productive employees has been a meme of company culture since launching in 2008, says co-owner Tom Hahn.
Training staff to work in the company's retail store takes a month, compared with the eight hours or so that workers get at some large retailers. Hahn says the company wants to empower employees to do what's best for customers. That means "no one gets in trouble for doing what they think is best when a new situation arises," he says. "If we want to do something different than the decision that the employee made, we'll talk about it and write it into policy going forward."
The company also sacrifices short-term profits for long-term staff loyalty; when business is slow, managers don't send people home. Between 13 and 15 of the company's 20 staff are full time, depending on the time of year. By the time a staffer has been there a year, they're making about $11 an hour and getting full health benefits as long as they work 30 hours a week, he says. Among those who stay more than a year, turnover is "quite low," Hahn says, though he doesn't know a percentage.
Ginger Hahn, his wife and business partner, would like to someday start an employee daycare. "We want to ask a lot of people, so we need to give them something back," Tom Hahn says.
It's easiest for businesses to launch a good-jobs strategy when they're starting out. For existing companies, transitioning away from the bad-jobs approach is like remodeling a house, Ton says. But she has advice for companies that do want to overhaul.
The business owner or CEO has to fully commit to the change and get buy-in from investors, lenders or other shareholders. "They need to explain to them that this is a long-term play. Taking care of your customers and employees, creating operational efficiencies and operational excellence, it doesn't happen overnight," she says.
Costco's store employees earn about 40 percent more than their counterparts at Walmart's Sam's Club. Costco's turnover is less than 6 percent a year for workers who stay for more than a year, compared with overall turnover of about 60 percent in the industry. And from 2003 to 2013, the company's share price shot up 240 percent.
They also need to set some milestones to measure progress. Raising wages without redesigning how employees work may just result in higher prices. "For everybody to win, you need to find a way to get more productivity from the employees in whom you have invested," she says, such as through the four operational strategies that Costco and others have used.
Finally, she recommends implementing the new strategy in a small setting, in one store or section of a store, for example, to see what works and what doesn't. The company then can adapt the strategy to the company's circumstances and culture before rolling it out firm-wide.
With California's minimum-wage debate looming large, the new evidence of a nexus between better pay and higher profits gives talking points to advocates on either side. Those in favor of a wage increase can argue that not only could businesses afford to raise pay — they can hardly afford not to. Those opposed can counter that new data proves that the free market pushes up wages on its own, higher minimum wage or no.
Whatever position a business takes on that issue, Stevens thinks there's an additional reason for companies to get out ahead of a state requirement: "If you see the minimum wage increase coming and want to take advantage of raising wages to boost worker morale, you're likely to get more of a boost if you do it before it's mandated," she says. Call that smart cynicism or just enlightened self-interest.
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A Christmas Portrait
By jb on December 18, 2018
(Pictured: Nat King Cole, circa 1963.)
In past years, we have looked into Billboard magazine's special Christmas charts for several years of the 60s and 70s. Now let's take a look at the return of those charts in 1983, 1984, and 1985. In each year, charts for singles and albums have 10 places, which is a far cry from the huge charts from the 60s.
Charts for 1983 appear in the December 17 and December 24 issues. Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" is #1 on the first Billboard Christmas chart since 1973; the next week, however, it's taken out by Elmo and Patsy's "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer," first heard at Christmas 1979 but getting its first nationwide release in '83. Although they swap positions around, nine of the top 10 singles, all returning classics, are exactly the same in both weeks; "The Little Drummer Boy" by the Harry Simeone Chorale appears on the 17th but is replaced by Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" on the 24th. Same deal on the album chart: nine of the 10 are the same both weeks. Kenny Rogers' Christmas Album is #1 on both charts. John Denver and the Muppets' A Christmas Together appears only on the 17th and Chipmunk Christmas only on the 24th. The newest single on either chart is "Christmas in Dixie" by Alabama, released in 1982; the newest charting albums, by Kenny Rogers and Anne Murray, were released in 1981.
Charts for 1984 appear in the issues of December 15 and 22. New-for-1984 Once Upon a Christmas by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton is #1 both weeks; a new release Billboard lists as Christmas Mannheim Steamroller also appears both weeks, as does the new Christmas at Our House by Barbara Mandrell. But as in 1983, the charts are mostly static from week to week. Christmas With Placido by Placido Domingo shows up only on the 15th; it's replaced by Frank Sinatra's 1963 Christmas album on the 22nd. An oddity on the singles chart is that "The Christmas Song" by Nat King Cole appears only on the 15th; so does "Christmas Is the Time to Say I Love You" by Billy Squier, first released in 1981. They are replaced on the 22nd by "Another Lonely Christmas" by Prince and "Winter Wonderland" by Dolly Parton. "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" tops the singles chart both weeks.
Missing from the 1984 Christmas charts is Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas." Unlike other Christmas singles, it placed on the Hot 100. It debuted on 12/22/84 at #65, peaked at #13 on 1/19/85, and then spent four weeks on its way off the chart.
In 1985, Billboard publishes just one Christmas chart, in the December 21 issue. It includes two new albums, Alabama Christmas by Alabama, which is #1, and It's Christmas All Over the World by New Edition. George Winston's December, first released in 1982, makes its first Christmas chart appearance, and so does a 1983 album by Amy Grant. Two new singles appear in the Christmas Top 10: "Christmas Time" by Bryan Adams and "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" by Bruce Springsteen. The rest of the slots on both charts are taken up by returning holiday hits.
I will give you one guess what the #1 Christmas single of 1985 was, and it wasn't Bruce or Bryan.
There's a spreadsheet with all of the years, titles, and chart positions here. Only 18 songs take up the 50 spots available on the singles charts, with five appearing on all five charts: "White Christmas," "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer," "Blue Christmas," "Jingle Bell Rock," and "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)." Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song" and "Jingle Bells" by the Singing Dogs appear on four. Twenty-one albums take up the 50 spots. Only two appear on all five charts: A Christmas Album by Barbra Streisand and Christmas Portrait by the Carpenters. Kenny Rogers, Anne Murray, and Luciano Pavarotti appear on four.
In the 80s, it took a superstar event to crack the canon: Kenny and Dolly were that in 1984; Bruce Springsteen, and to a lesser extent, Bryan Adams and Alabama, were that in 1985. Although Christmas singles and albums were released and re-released every year, it often took a year or two before they got much sales or airplay traction, but they were likely to be swamped by music recorded a generation or two before. As a result, the charts remained very predictable every year, and their utility to broadcasters and retailers must have shrunk to almost nothing. It's not surprising that Billboard's Christmas charts vanished for good after 1985.
(Note to Patrons: One Day in Your Life is in the midst of a Christmas post-o-rama, now and through Christmas Day, so stop over.)
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David December 18, 2018 at 1:57 pm | Reply
Interesting. I would have thought that Wham!'s "Last Christmas" would have done better in 1984 and 1985, given that the group was pretty big at the time and the song has grown into a holiday standard (and the single was a huge hit in the UK).
jb December 18, 2018 at 2:14 pm | Reply
Seems like there was always a lag, though, and I kind of understand why. A new Christmas record crosses a music director's desk, but he/she may not be inclined to put it on right away unless it's an obvious hit (Kenny and Dolly, for instance). Better to wait until next year and see if it had any staying power or was just a one-year wonder (New Edition, for instance). Had there been a chart in 1986, I am guessing "Last Christmas" would have made it.
As of this moment (2:13PM on 12/18) I am still alive in this year's Whamageddon, by the way.
Yah Shure December 19, 2018 at 8:45 pm | Reply
The release histories of "Last Christmas" differ between the U.K. and U.S. The original 1984 U.K. single mix never has been issued in the States. The first American release wasn't until 1986, when the Pudding Mix appeared on Wham!'s 'Music From The Edge Of Heaven' album. That same year, Columbia Records sent a promo-only ("CS7" prefix) short/long single of the Pudding Mix to radio.
"Last Christmas" didn't crack the Billboard singles charts because it's never been issued as a single commercially in the U.S. (which was a requirement for inclusion during the '80s.)
mikehagerty December 19, 2018 at 10:29 am | Reply
Not to be picky, JB, but that's "Nat King Cole at the organ"—a Hammond.
And for those looking for someone to blame for "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer"—um, that would be me. I was the Music Director at KOLO in Reno in the late 70s—Elmo and Patsy were a lounge act in Lake Tahoe, they brought the song down on a reel of tape, I added it, the phones were huge, I mentioned it to Gavin and R&R and….thus began about 40 years of annoyance for a large number of people.
jb December 19, 2018 at 10:35 am | Reply
Fixed Nat. Cripes, I am really not very good at this.
So you're the guy. And I thought *I'd* have a lot to answer for on Judgment Day.
mikehagerty December 19, 2018 at 2:08 pm
"…really not very good at this."
JB, you should do what I did and swear off self-deprecation. I did it because I'm no good at it.
Yah Shure December 19, 2018 at 9:09 pm
It's no use, Mike. I've tried countless times to wean him from his self-deprecation habit, but he's so hopeless that I honestly think he'd give up beer first. I've even taken him to task about it in person, which earned the gratitude of Mrs. jb. That was at least a start, since it ruled out Wisconsin as a probable cause. Then again, that face-to-face did occur in Minnesota…
I think our next course of action is to do a 1976 intervention.
mikehagerty December 20, 2018 at 8:48 am
YahShure: This site needs a "like" button!
jb December 20, 2018 at 9:11 am | Reply
Well, you guys are kind and I appreciate it.
On the subject of "Last Christmas," I am trying to remember the first time I heard it. It wasn't Christmas of '84. Based on this, my station couldn't have played it in '85 either (seems weird that it wouldn't have been released over here that year, given how Wham! had blown up that year). So maybe '86, although I know I didn't see a physical copy of it in a radio station until '90 or '91.
porky December 23, 2018 at 12:49 pm | Reply
thought I would add this anecdote from the great :"B-Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and Rebirth of the Great American Song" by Ben Yagoda.
Johnny Marks (author of "Rudolph…." and other holiday tunes) was featured in People magazine in 1980 and revealed these amazing facts: Gene Autry's "Rudolph" had sold 12 million and records by some 500 other artists, another 130 million. "The magazine didn't say how much money Marks had made from the song in total but did report that, at that time of the interview,it was netting him some $600,000 a year. That suggests his total "Rudolph" proceeds, by the time of his death five years later, had probably reached eight figures."


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Q: How to extract multiple rows that have same index label from Excel file in python I have an Excel file which includes huge dataset (21157 rows x 32 columns). The first column is called 'user_id' such that hundreds of rows are labeled with the same user id (assume from row0 to row 200 indexed with 'user1', and from row201 to row500 for user2, and so on). My goal is to extract all the rows and all the columns data that only correspond to a specific user in order to get the data of each user separately based on the user id. The excel file is organized as follows.
               user_id   col2 col3 .....col32
      row0     user1      20    10  ..... 76
      row1     user1      22    20  ..... 65
      row2     user1      45    30  ..... 45
      row3     user1      43    56  ..... 67
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     row200    user2      20    10  ..... 76
     row201    user2      22    20  ..... 65
     row202    user2      45    30  ..... 45
     row202    user2      43    56  ..... 67
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I tried to read the whole excel file using pandas as follows:
  df = pd.read_excel('file_name.xlsx')     # data freams
  user_id_col = df['user_id'] # extract user_id column
  number_of_users = [len(list(group)) for key, group in
  groupby(user_id_col)] # count number_of_users in the dataset (we got 41 users)

 Orignal_data_matrix = df.values # convert datafram into matrix
 print(Orignal_data_matrix)
 print(Orignal_data_matrix.shape)

Can anyone tell me how I can extract all the columns data (i.e. from col2 to col 32) of multiple rows of each user separately based on his same user id (i.e., 1st col)?

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The Ford 501 Sickle Mower is piece of farm equipment used mainly for cutting grass and similar vegetation. It consists of a six- to eight-foot bar mounted on the right rear of a tractor and cuts with a shearing action. The 501 was designed as an accessory to Ford tractors equipped with a hydraulic system, but it will work with any tractor with a three-point lift linkage that mimics the Ford design. The cutter bar can easily be raised using the tractor's hydraulic control lever to prevent damage to the mower when passing over rocks or tree stumps. Attaching the mower takes several steps and should be followed carefully, as safety issues are involved with improper attachment.
Put on your work gloves. Check the frame size for your mower. It will either be a 56-inch frame mower or a 76-inch frame mower. When you have determined the frame size, adjust the tractor's rear wheels to the mower's frame size. For 56-inch frames, adjust the rear tractor wheels to 56-inch centers or less. The same rule applies for 76-inch frames.
Back the tractor into a position where you can align its left lower link to the mower's lift link pin. Attach these two parts together and secure the connection with the tractor linchpin.
Roll the tractor and adjust the leveling crank until the tractor's right lower link can be attached to the right link pin on the mower. Use the tractor linch pin to secure the connection.
Attach the upper link from the mower to the lower hole in the tractor rocker arm by using the link pin.
Start the tractor. Using the hydraulic control lever, lift the mower frame assembly slightly and move the mower to the left to allow attachment of the left stabilizer. Place the stabilizer guide under the tractor's left lift link. Position the clamp over the link and tighten the nut firmly.
Depending on the tractor type, install the clamp plate or push rod anchor assembly onto the left lower link. Install the push rod on either the clamp plate or anchor assembly.
Shift the mower assembly to the right to attach the right stabilizer. Place the stabilizer guide under the tractor's right lift link. Position the clamp over the link and tighten the nut firmly.
Raise the mower using the hydraulic control, then attach the mower lift spring to the spring links with the pins that have been provided. Lower the mower assembly and turn off the engine.
Remove the tractor power takeoff (PTO) cap and connect the splined end of the mower's drive shaft to the PTO shaft. Secure the connection with the snap coupler found on the yoke.
Rotate the leveling crank to lower the frame, ensuring that it is parallel to the ground. Use the leveling crank lock to secure the crank lever.
Look at the mower's ledger plates if you are getting bad cuts. Ledger plates in bad condition will result in bad cuts even after you have adjusted the blades.
When you are adjusting either the rock guards or the knife holders, do not have the knives directly on or below them. Try to position the point mid-distance between guards.
A sickle mowing bar can shift unexpectedly and cut down anything in its path. Exercise extreme caution when the tractor is running.


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Kratom Tea Bags - Making It At Home For Full-Fledged Benefits.
Tea is the most popular drink in the world next to the water. There are different types of tea with endless variations and flavors. What makes it appealing is the health benefit and its versatility. Among the many kinds of tea used all over the world, Kratom tea is most popular in many regions. Its popularity is associated with many properties it possesses. Recently, disorders like anxiety, depressions, chronic pain, fatigue, and others are increasing. For that reason, people are looking for natural ways to ease the symptoms — kratom in one of the natural alternatives to using for such disorders. Everything you need to know about kratom tea making at home is discussed in this article.
2 There is four common kratom dosage popularly used.
The number of kratom tea users have increased abruptly. However, many people buy kratom powder, and they do not know how to use it. The effects of taking kratom to depend on the dosage taken, and these effects can be calming, pain relieving, energizing or sedating.
The leaves of kratom form where the powder is extracted contain alkaloids. They act on your brain and the nervous system creating these effects. These and other effects are some of the reason which people love consuming kratom tea. Since our body structure is different, everyone requires the correct dosage to achieve the effects.
Starting with low dosage is the best approach to see how the body will react. Consequently, you may increase the dosage until the desired effects are achieved. Effects associated with kratom usually kick in 10-15 minutes after consumption and they can last for two hours.
There is four common kratom dosage popularly used.
A starting dose which includes 1-3 grams of kratom powder.
This dosage is the best recommendation for starters.
A low kratom dosage has 2-4 grams.
The dosage provides energizing and stimulating effects.
Moderate dosage has 4-5 grams of kratom powder.
The dose is powerful, and it provides stimulating and pain-relieving effects.
High dose has 4-8 grams of the powder.
Sedating properties are achieved from this dosage.
With this dosage, effects can last for up to eight hours.
There are different ways of making kratom tea bags at home. But just like any other type of tea preparation, the basic and easiest way to prepare a kratom tea is through brewing the powder directly in hot water.
The procedure involves you pouring one or two cups of water into a saucepan. Add the powder when the water starts boiling then stir to prevent the powder for clumping. Lower the heat and let the water to simmer for about 15-20 minutes.
Allowing the water to simmer for a long time like 30 minutes is still okay as the alkaloids in the tea can endure the heat. Finally, remove your tea and pour into a mug through a strain to get rid of any residual powder.
For those people who prefer using teabags in making tea over brewing, kratom tea can be prepared using these kinds of bags. Empty teabags can be bought from the market or through emptying the one you have at home. Fill the empty bags with kratom dose.
This method of making the teabag is the time a bit complicated compared to the use of empty bags. The method requires one to have a coffee filter, baker's string, and stapler. To begin with, cut the coffee filter into a large rectangle and the place the dosage in the middle. The filter should hold all the desired powder. Proceed to fold the sides of the rectangle over into the middle. This should allow you to set a finger in the center to fold up the two sides into each other. Then fold the top down and put a piece of baker's string on top. To make sure the bag is ready, staple the filter and string together. The essence of baker's string is to help in inserting and removing the kratom tea bags from the water.
You can make a kratom teabags at home using muslin or cheesecloth. The procedure is almost like that of coffee filters. To begin with, the procedure, cut the cheesecloth into a square large enough to hold the powder. Proceed by placing your dose powder in the center and bring the corners together. Finally, twist the top and tie it with a piece of baker's twine.
The tea infuser is the easiest method of making kratom tea at home. The only items required is an infuser, empty tea bags and the powder. Unfold a teabag or two and use them to cover the inside of the infuser. As an alternative solution, muslins or cheesecloth may be used instead of the teabag. When the infuser is the well-covered place, the powder inside then uses it normally.
Despite using teabags and direct brewing are common methods in making kratom tea, they are other methods to consume the powder. Toss and wash method is a popular way of consuming kratom powder. It Is an easy, direct method which requires placing the dose in the mouth and wash it down with water. Kratom capsules is also another way of consumption. In some occasions, people opt to mix the powder with sweet food to get rid of the bitter taste.
Even though kratom is considered a lifesaver due to its properties, there are few side effects associated with its use. Most of the side effects result from a large dosage, combining with different strains or taking the tea on an empty stomach. However, since every person is different, the side effects vary depending on the individual. The common side effects include constipation due to reduced movement of intestinal tracts, nausea, dizziness, migraine, eye wobble, and libido loss. To some extreme situations, excessive dehydration and constipation may result in hemorrhoids.
Kratom tea can have a bitter taste for some people. Therefore, during the preparation process, you may include some more ingredients. Using ingredients such as honey, sugar or artificial sweetener will help in making the tea taste sweet. In terms of effects, kratom has many positive effects compared to the negative ones. Similarly, the methods of making teabags at home are simple.


Is there really a safe, over the counter pill that can increase muscle and get rid of fat?
To determine the effects of supplemental fish oil (FO) on resting metabolic rate (RMR), body composition, and cortisol production in healthy adults.
A total of 44 men and women (34 ± 13y, mean+SD) participated in the study. All testing was performed first thing in the morning following an overnight fast. Baseline measurements of RMR were measured using indirect calorimetry using a facemask, and body composition was measured using air displacement plethysmography. Saliva was collected via passive drool and analyzed for cortisol concentration using ELISA. Following baseline testing, subjects were randomly assigned in a double blind manner to one of two groups: 4 g/d of Safflower Oil (SO); or 4 g/d of FO supplying 1,600 mg/d eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and 800 mg/d docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). All tests were repeated following 6 wk of treatment. Pre to post differences were analyzed using a treatment X time repeated measures ANOVA, and correlations were analyzed using Pearson's r.
Compared to the SO group, there was a significant increase in fat free mass following treatment with FO (FO = +0.5 ± 0.5 kg, SO = -0.1 ± 1.2 kg, p = 0.03), a significant reduction in fat mass (FO = -0.5 ± 1.3 kg, SO = +0.2 ± 1.2 kg, p = 0.04), and a tendency for a decrease in body fat percentage (FO = -0.4 ± 1.3% body fat, SO = +0. 3 ± 1.5% body fat, p = 0.08). No significant differences were observed for body mass (FO = 0.0 ± 0.9 kg, SO = +0.2 ± 0.8 kg), RMR (FO = +17 ± 260 kcal, SO = -62 ± 184 kcal) or respiratory exchange ratio (FO = -0.02 ± 0.09, SO = +0.02 ± 0.05). There was a tendency for salivary cortisol to decrease in the FO group (FO = -0.064 ± 0.142 μg/dL, SO = +0.016 ± 0.272 μg/dL, p = 0.11). There was a significant correlation in the FO group between change in cortisol and change in fat free mass (r = -0.504, p = 0.02) and fat mass (r = 0.661, p = 0.001).
6 wk of supplementation with FO significantly increased lean mass and decreased fat mass. These changes were significantly correlated with a reduction in salivary cortisol following FO treatment.
Fish oil has also been shown to reduce anxiety.


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Paunch's team emphasized that they would not buy exploits that were already public, and that newbies to the fraud forum who nevertheless had good exploits could work with the crimeware team via an agreed-upon 3rd party.
It's unclear how many takers Paunch is attracting to Cool Exploit Kit with its hefty price tag, but according to Kafeine and others, the new kit is being used exclusively by two different crimeware gangs. One of the gangs is using Cool to spread the Reveton ransomware that I profiled recently.
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It's just amazing! I still get folks asking why people write Waldemar. Now I have the answer! I always knew it was profitable, but $30,000 PER DAY?
Perhaps there would not be many exploits to be used if Kaffeine and other security "researchers" quit supplying the material!
The stuff posted here in many cases is a report on what is being posted on the sites/forums selling this stuff.
=> Is already in use => the information is not new to those that develop this kind of software.
It is not clear from your post, but maybe you are alluding to responsible disclosure practices?
That is, that researchers (no quotation marks needed) should only inform the developers of the software (Microsoft, Oracle, etc) and not make their findings public?
This has been tried. It leads to firms not fixing the vulnearbilities because there is no preassure from the public to do so. Leaving attackers (who can find vulnerabilities independently of the researchers. As seen above they have a pretty strong incentive to do so) a huge time window to use the exploits.
Therefore making these vulnerabilities and developments public is the best strategy to insure that they are fixed in a speedy fassion. And hence to increase the security of people on the internet.
Don't hesitate to correct me, I did not research any of this. I am just procrastinating (should be researching (something else)).
This sort of thing is another indication that cybercrime is a "growth industry" that will show no signs of slowing over the next decade or two unless the computer and telecommunications industries can come to some standard on embedding security design into their infrastructure and products.
In my view, cybercrime is where the drug business was…in the 1920's just after the anti-drug laws were passed which enabled the rise of organized crime; i.e., it's just getting started.
They just today arrested some Algerian kid in Thailand who has broken into 217 banks, supposedly one hit for $10-20 million (which I doubt; I'd like see details), and has apparently been just flying around the world living it up on the proceeds of his random hacking.
I am wondering if that 10mm usd plus figure the Thai are quoting is the actual loss he allegedly stole in a single act (I doubt this, for a number of reasons), or what the bank estimates is the "damage" to their systems — which tends to be more the situation in almost every case like this.
Not very far as browser exploits *start* at $60,000 to $80,000 U.S. and browser plug-in exploits *start* at $40,000 U.S. There appears to be a highly competitive market for selling one's exploits. The miscreants may have to start the Cool Exploit Kit with purchases of exploit "descriptions and proof of concepts".
P.S. Am assuming that currencies are all $ U.S. (if incorrect, I'm sure that someone will let me know).
I think you are falling prey to the idea that all money is created equal, and failing to grasp that it is not.
For one thing, not every exploit-finder wishes to arm a government potentially against them and their friends. Not everybody trusts governments (or the middlemen who "sell" to them indiscriminately in most cases), especially in the 'underground', in general, and the ones who do tend to use these exploits in the loudest manner often have the most difficult track record when it comes to justification.
Once you do sell to a government or third party, you don't tend to know what is done with anything you've sold — you have no say, while they have the only say. While 'fraud' may be 'bad' it is still a known quantity — more known than the majority of governments.
And as I stated — all money is not created equal: To assume everybody sees $40k from an American or European government contractor who wants to know everything about you (or at least will likely be very interested in you after) as equivalent to maybe even half that much from somebody who asks few or no questions is to lack any understanding whatsoever about what is currently going on in the world. I would presume once you are on their 'list' as a supplier, you will always be on a list of some sort. Governments (not only the US) don't tend to trust the people that supply them with their weapons, especially ones they have little control over.
Last but not least: Exploits have always been for sale in the 'underground'. This really is not anything that new, it is just more open than usual (and probably more of a guaranteed paycheck, given I am sure that Paunch cares about his reputation, and the 'underground' tends to be self-reinforcing when it comes to scamming and 'trust violations').
PS: Brian, your site ate my first several firefox attempts at this comment. I wish you did not insist on scripts so much. Or are you moderating?
No, I did not filter anything. I have three copies of your comment. Only one got published. Sometimes, it just has a delay before a comment is posted.
Ok, actually I did try more than 3 times by the time it posted, but this is good to know, as I believe it is the browser I was using (your site never plays well with Firefox with NoScript and privacy plugins on Linux , ironically enough). Thank you for replying.
Strange. I use all of those things you just mentioned and never seem to have a problem.
Maybe it would help if you set your controls for NoScript and other privacy plugins, to off. Brian's trying to make a living here! I always set all of that and AdBlock Plus(or etc, for Chrome) to the off mode, by URL, while visiting his site.
With Linux you have little to fear – so far I've not been attacked by any adds/links here at KOS, and I'm running Windows.
His ads all use flash; I often do enable it for his site alone if only to expand the 'not useful' comments when they show up. Putting aside security issues alone, if you've ever used the flash plugin viewer in Linux you will know it tends to go "out of control". I think it may be my privacy plugins anyway, not noscript. I am not trying to deprive Mr Brian Krebs of his ad revenue. 🙂 I've repeatedly said if he advocates for people to use security methods, his site should reflect the use of those methods. Flat image ads, for instance.
Just curious; have you tried or are you using Chrome/Mozilla; or will your distro run those browsers. I'm ready to try Mozilla on Puppy, but I haven't reached that project yet.
I used to use Chrome *only* for Brian's site. I have ceased installing any google software in my machine though. I found a smaller offshoot of mozilla to use (still, only for posting on Brian's site). Maybe this is to make Brian feel special enough to have his own browser? 😛 I think Opera may also work. I still advocate using something that has strong privacy, cookie controlling and script controlling plugins (or build-ins) to visit anywhere else. I am minimizing an attack footprint by using this only for this site (maybe one other with the same problems). The same might also be accomplished by having two installations of the same browser, but I find this difficult to maintain.
@voksalna, thanks for your well-considered reply. It was enlightening. While my comment does not address Russia (or, more broadly, the CIS), the article at referenced by my link states that zero-day exploits are payed "very little money" in Russia. Not that it isn't an excuse for leaving it out of my post, but just giving the Forbe's writer some credit.
It's sad that the only alternatives for exploit hunters are "the underground", "middle-men" that [often] sell exploits to governments and the few ISVs that pay bug bounties for vulnerabilities (Google is a prime example).
Given the financial losses that individuals, the financial industry, many other businesses/organizations and governments incur from exploits, one would think that a non-profit organization would spring up to purchase exploits, take them off the market and work with ISVs to fix the vulnerabilities targeted by the exploits. This organization, by its charter, would not provide the exploits to "the underground", "middle-men", governments or private industry and would pay more per exploit than "the underground" and less than the "middle-men". For those exploit hunters that currently work with "the underground", such an option might provide them with higher payments for their work and keep them out of trouble with their "friends".
Thanks for your equally cogent response. The Forbes article is not speaking of Russian (or CIS) with regards to prices, but when it comes to exploit sales, the location of the person discovering the exploit is largely irrelevant. It is true certain things have a higher price tag in "the West" but that doesn't mean the "value" is lower or higher; often it is more a matter of your environment when it comes to who you are willing to deal with, from what I've seen. In fact, I'd say the "value" of an exploit is far *higher* in Russia or CIS, as a large part of 'value' is the ability to wring out possible uses for a thing (something we are good at).
Your idea for a 'foundation' of this nature is an interesting one, but ultimately it would most likely wind up a catastrophe. The matter of trust is one of many factors, but the one that likely pushes out the other contenders for most important: unless it were a single, impeccable person only dealing with all of those vendors (and if that happened, then you'd just have a power vacuum and a very big target), those bugs would just wind up passing through many peoples' hands (having to deal with the bugs) and that would be a recipe for disaster.
The same 'other parties' would continue to exist and the temptations would be rife (as I'm sure would be the infiltrators). There'd be a large window of opportunity for that 'leaking' (i.e. selling) to occur with nothing seeming at all suspicious, too, given the fact that 'properly' notifying a vendor and taking things to a patch takes a long time. Money (and politics and… so on) is a corrupter. Everything leaks. It's unfortunate, but it is true. And once that happened once, the entire project would be shot — who'd be willing to trust it?
But then this conversation devolves into human nature (something we CIS people 😉 may perhaps be more accustomed to delving into the depths of but which, nevertheless, applies to our entire species), and I'm not sure this is the proper forum for such a discussion (though I would not be opposed to having it).
Or in the case of a Windows OS, operate it in user mode without the authority to download/install software or scripts.
Honorable mention on the Register for Brian's article – KUDOs!


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