AgXphoto.info
Service updated at AgXphoto.info.
Thanks.
J.
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
Digging Out
by John O'Keefe-Odom
AgXphoto.info
Our nameserver is still bogged down, but some of our pages are more accessible. For the time being, I locked up the directories for a little while. Since I've been posting service messages about the state of the website, I don't feel as comfortable about immediately emerging from the DDOS with the crowd. I will have the website wait a little while.
We'll stay here for now. Our addresses would normally be agxphoto.com and agxphoto.info.
Thanks.
AgXphoto.info
Our nameserver is still bogged down, but some of our pages are more accessible. For the time being, I locked up the directories for a little while. Since I've been posting service messages about the state of the website, I don't feel as comfortable about immediately emerging from the DDOS with the crowd. I will have the website wait a little while.
We'll stay here for now. Our addresses would normally be agxphoto.com and agxphoto.info.
Thanks.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Blekko Bot Plus Spam Equals DDOS
by John O'Keefe-Odom
AgXphoto.info
Program: Blekko Bot "scoutjet"
Symptoms: DDOS Attack; "scoutjet" in URLs in server access logs; DDOS storm IP addresses often blacklisted as "commenter spam."
Targets: Self-contained primary content like JPEG and PDFs.
Trends: 18 month old URLs (old enough to be old; new enough to be new); violates website's Terms of Use for Service and Content; over-aggressive spider.
UPDATE: We have noticed that Blekko's bots are not only in the middle of the arriving requests in our logs during this DDOS attack, but that Blekko is in the business of providing "crowdsourced" ratings of websites for its commercial search engine.
It may be that Blekko is the core participant in the DDOS; it looks like they have a financial motive for seizing content.
Fault can't be determined just from reviewing access logs, but Blekko's bot is clearly in there. So, if they are not a part of the DDOS, at the very least they are trying to scrape data during someone else's DDOS Attack.
Once again, review your files and know your system. Blekko's bot got my attention because these guys never show up to my website.
Some of the files Blekko has tried to gain access to from our website have been registered with the Library of Congress. As our faithful readers know, some of the content files have been sold for thousands of dollars.
Blekko has not attempted to contact us for use of those files in accordance with our website's Terms of Use. We have sent them an email advising them that they are coming close to receiving our bill, should they persist.
Blekko investors have made millions on promises of commercializing "crowdsourced" search engine optimization. Effectively, it's a large popularity contest in which investors get rich and content providers, like us, get paid nothing.
The Blekko bot was easily detectable in server-side access logs. Inside a swarm of IP addresses associated with "comment spammers", the Blekko bot's URL is plainly visible.
Look for "scoutjet".
The Blekko bot seemed to favor PDF copies of our original content, like equipment reviews. The PDF, once taken, would not need to be linked back to our website to be reused.
The URLs they were using were at least 18 months old, and were neutralized by our periodic system improvements.
Blekko's website features some quaint instructions for webmasters; effectively telling us that it is up to us to keep their spider off of our website. We're told to set the rate of query and to build our bots.txt file to keep it out of there. It's not our program. It's Blekko's.
If they had put even a minimal effort into actually reading our website, they would have seen our publicly posted passwords. I hand them out on business cards to actual people interested in reading the content. I don't think I gave any to Blekko.
They would have had to read the card and adjust the bot to negotiated the password challenge; which, by the way, is just as easy to program a spider to do as it is to tell a person to do.
Instead, Blekko's bot and its cloud of surround-sound ____ decided to hammer the nameserver with a 1980s war-dialing of antiquated URLs.
Blekko's sales pitch is that they know where the good stuff is.
Well, hell, we gave them the password.
ORIGINAL:
Our nameserver has been bogged down, on and off, for the past day (12 NOV 2010 to 13 NOV 2010) with a DDOS attack. Our files are still intact.
The DDOS time frame coincided with the arrival of the Blekko bot and an international comment spammer at the same time. Nothing but love for you both.
A check of our logs shows that right in the middle of this attack, unwanted and previously unknown bots from "Blekko," a search engine from http://scoutjet.com, were hammering our website with antiquated file requests.
According to their website, webmasters can limit how frequently their bot crawls our site.
How quaint.
Coincidentally, those files Blekko's bots were looking for are available on the website for people who read it. The addresses they went along with have long since been phased out, deleted, and human readers have been referred to replacement directories. It's obvious, from just looking at the URLs, that no one actually read and evaluated these directions given to the Blekko bot. They're just grabbing whatever to start up their search engine.
A recent trip to my local public library offers some good advice on how to avoid causing just this sort of problem with your bot, if you run one. I recommend the book, "Spidering Hacks" by Kevin Hemenway. Be sure to check out the subsection on not rudely hogging bandwidth. Just a suggestion.
For the meanwhile, we're going to use this blogger site; content-wise, it is close to mirror. Eventually, someone in Silly Valley will realize that Blekko's new bot crawls right around the time this large DDOS seems to be taking place. It unfortunately seems to be the Blekko bot and an international comment spammer at the same time.
We're building a better mousetrap, regardless of what happens with the nameserver.
AgXphoto.info
Program: Blekko Bot "scoutjet"
Symptoms: DDOS Attack; "scoutjet" in URLs in server access logs; DDOS storm IP addresses often blacklisted as "commenter spam."
Targets: Self-contained primary content like JPEG and PDFs.
Trends: 18 month old URLs (old enough to be old; new enough to be new); violates website's Terms of Use for Service and Content; over-aggressive spider.
UPDATE: We have noticed that Blekko's bots are not only in the middle of the arriving requests in our logs during this DDOS attack, but that Blekko is in the business of providing "crowdsourced" ratings of websites for its commercial search engine.
It may be that Blekko is the core participant in the DDOS; it looks like they have a financial motive for seizing content.
Fault can't be determined just from reviewing access logs, but Blekko's bot is clearly in there. So, if they are not a part of the DDOS, at the very least they are trying to scrape data during someone else's DDOS Attack.
Once again, review your files and know your system. Blekko's bot got my attention because these guys never show up to my website.
Some of the files Blekko has tried to gain access to from our website have been registered with the Library of Congress. As our faithful readers know, some of the content files have been sold for thousands of dollars.
Blekko has not attempted to contact us for use of those files in accordance with our website's Terms of Use. We have sent them an email advising them that they are coming close to receiving our bill, should they persist.
Blekko investors have made millions on promises of commercializing "crowdsourced" search engine optimization. Effectively, it's a large popularity contest in which investors get rich and content providers, like us, get paid nothing.
The Blekko bot was easily detectable in server-side access logs. Inside a swarm of IP addresses associated with "comment spammers", the Blekko bot's URL is plainly visible.
Look for "scoutjet".
The Blekko bot seemed to favor PDF copies of our original content, like equipment reviews. The PDF, once taken, would not need to be linked back to our website to be reused.
The URLs they were using were at least 18 months old, and were neutralized by our periodic system improvements.
Blekko's website features some quaint instructions for webmasters; effectively telling us that it is up to us to keep their spider off of our website. We're told to set the rate of query and to build our bots.txt file to keep it out of there. It's not our program. It's Blekko's.
If they had put even a minimal effort into actually reading our website, they would have seen our publicly posted passwords. I hand them out on business cards to actual people interested in reading the content. I don't think I gave any to Blekko.
They would have had to read the card and adjust the bot to negotiated the password challenge; which, by the way, is just as easy to program a spider to do as it is to tell a person to do.
Instead, Blekko's bot and its cloud of surround-sound ____ decided to hammer the nameserver with a 1980s war-dialing of antiquated URLs.
Blekko's sales pitch is that they know where the good stuff is.
Well, hell, we gave them the password.
ORIGINAL:
Our nameserver has been bogged down, on and off, for the past day (12 NOV 2010 to 13 NOV 2010) with a DDOS attack. Our files are still intact.
The DDOS time frame coincided with the arrival of the Blekko bot and an international comment spammer at the same time. Nothing but love for you both.
A check of our logs shows that right in the middle of this attack, unwanted and previously unknown bots from "Blekko," a search engine from http://scoutjet.com, were hammering our website with antiquated file requests.
According to their website, webmasters can limit how frequently their bot crawls our site.
How quaint.
Coincidentally, those files Blekko's bots were looking for are available on the website for people who read it. The addresses they went along with have long since been phased out, deleted, and human readers have been referred to replacement directories. It's obvious, from just looking at the URLs, that no one actually read and evaluated these directions given to the Blekko bot. They're just grabbing whatever to start up their search engine.
A recent trip to my local public library offers some good advice on how to avoid causing just this sort of problem with your bot, if you run one. I recommend the book, "Spidering Hacks" by Kevin Hemenway. Be sure to check out the subsection on not rudely hogging bandwidth. Just a suggestion.
For the meanwhile, we're going to use this blogger site; content-wise, it is close to mirror. Eventually, someone in Silly Valley will realize that Blekko's new bot crawls right around the time this large DDOS seems to be taking place. It unfortunately seems to be the Blekko bot and an international comment spammer at the same time.
We're building a better mousetrap, regardless of what happens with the nameserver.
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Blekko's Twitter: http://twitter.com/blekko
Scoutjet webcrawler for Blekko: http://www.scoutjet.com/
Blekko.com: http://blekko.com/
Reference for update:
http://www.mwd.com/2010/11/bleko-launches-human-filtered-search-engine/
Title updated.
Scoutjet webcrawler for Blekko: http://www.scoutjet.com/
Blekko.com: http://blekko.com/
Reference for update:
http://www.mwd.com/2010/11/bleko-launches-human-filtered-search-engine/
Title updated.
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Thursday, November 4, 2010
"Suter Falls with Rock" at AVA Salon Show 2010
by John O'Keefe-Odom
AgXphoto.info
We're joining dozens of our city's artists once again at the AVA Salon Show. This year, we offer Suter Falls with Rock, a 22X30" framed silver halide photograph.
The negative was made with Ilford PanF+ 120 black and white film developed in our own Plain Jane Hydroquinone Alpha developer.
The print is Kentmere large roll photo paper, developed in Kodak D-72 Dektol. The print paper is so large the photo had to be bathed in wallpaper trays.The technique used to make this photo print was described in an earlier article.
The AVA All Member Salon Show 2010 runs from November 5, 2010 to December 19, 2010. There is a reception on Friday night, November 5. The AVA Gallery is on 30 Frazier Avenue, Chattanooga. Artworks are purchasable through the AVA representative at the gallery's front desk.
Over $1,430,000 Spent on Buying Tennessee's Federal Lawmakers
by John O'Keefe-Odom
AgXphoto.info
A recent report released by lobbyists at the non-profit organization Public Citizen on their website Citizen.org lists contributions to recent political campaigns.
The report concentrates on funds which were from undisclosed sources outside of a candidate's state.
Over $1,430,000 (one million four hundred thirty thousand dollars') worth of campaign contributions, from undisclosed sources outside of Tennessee, went mainly into two of Tennessee's lawmakers' campaigns.
US Representatives-elect Scott Desjarlais($951,445) and Steve Fincher ($482,309) are listed among the nations' top recipients of contributions whose sources were from outside the candidates' state, but of an undisclosed origin.
Desjarlais Asks Tennessee for Yet More Money
Desjarlais, who is listed as receiving close to one million dollars in unnamed outside support ($951,445), had an ad on his website specifically asking voters to "Help Us Keep This Ad on the Air by Clicking Here!"
The ad featured the spoken and written words, "stop spending on wasteful bailouts!"
The hyperlink associated with supporting the ad went to a secure section of the website listed under the subdirectory of "contribute."
Desjarlais' campaign was headquartered in Jasper. Fincher's campaign headquarters had a Jackson, TN address.
"Low Funds" and "No Funds" Races Also Listed
US Representative-elect Diane Black ($1,830) also received outside the state funding from undisclosed sources, but at less than two thousand dollars' worth of influence.
US Representative-elect "Chuck" Fleischmann (TN-3: Chattanooga-area), who raced against John Wolfe, is listed as --not-- receiving funds ($0) from undisclosed sources outside the state.
Comparable to Governor's Race Dollars
Also listed were approximately $18 million dollars worth of undisclosed, outside-their-state funds of unknown origin which were applied to six governors' races across the US.
Tennessee's governor's race was not listed among those (IL, PA, WI, AR, IN, and $0 spent in North Dakota) which were associated with a partisan change in power.
Some of the amounts listed as being spent on Tennessee's US Representatives are comparable to the dollar values discussed on a recent episode of WTCI (PBS) "Tennessee Insider" as being an influential amount in upcoming governor's elections.
In Season 4, Episode 29 of "Tennessee Insider" panelists discussed how the spending of millions of dollars in advertising had become a practical requirement for running for governor.
That episode shows how this year's Governor's election campaigns already saw candidates concentrating their advertising on selected areas of the state. Bill Haslam, who later on became Tennessee's Governor-elect, was noted as having the most money to spend on advertising.
Managing equity arguably led to some candidates mutually conceding that their opponents were strong in their respective "home" areas. This led to a set of conditions in which the panelists discussed that it was plausible to conclude certain large areas (Nashville, mainly) would become the battleground between two candidates who had the most money to spend.
In these money-dumping schemes of purchasing political advertising, large swaths of the state's votes end up being regarded as a foregone conclusion.
Many of "Tennesse Insider"'s panelists predictions did turn out to be observable realities.
Given the over one million dollar amount listed as buying influence in campaign advertising for Desjarlais and Finch, above, it's demonstrable that similar sums could be applied to outright buy a future Tennessee governor by funding his campaign.
Look to AgXphoto.info's SSL site for updates and follow-up reports.
References:
http://www.citizen.org/documents/Outside-Job-Report-20101103.pdf
http://www.citizen.org/outside-job
Public Citizen’s Congress Watch, 215 Pennsylvania Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003
http://wtcitv.org/video/insider/season-4-episode-29
http://www.scottdesjarlais.com/
https://www.scottdesjarlais.com/www/contribute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWki46PRR3k
http://stephenfincher.org/
AgXphoto.info on SSL:
https://guest:agxphoto@www.agxphoto.info
or logon to https://www.agxphoto.info
and manually enter username: guest password:agxphoto.
AgXphoto.info
A recent report released by lobbyists at the non-profit organization Public Citizen on their website Citizen.org lists contributions to recent political campaigns.
The report concentrates on funds which were from undisclosed sources outside of a candidate's state.
Over $1,430,000 (one million four hundred thirty thousand dollars') worth of campaign contributions, from undisclosed sources outside of Tennessee, went mainly into two of Tennessee's lawmakers' campaigns.
US Representatives-elect Scott Desjarlais($951,445) and Steve Fincher ($482,309) are listed among the nations' top recipients of contributions whose sources were from outside the candidates' state, but of an undisclosed origin.
Desjarlais Asks Tennessee for Yet More Money
Desjarlais, who is listed as receiving close to one million dollars in unnamed outside support ($951,445), had an ad on his website specifically asking voters to "Help Us Keep This Ad on the Air by Clicking Here!"
The ad featured the spoken and written words, "stop spending on wasteful bailouts!"
The hyperlink associated with supporting the ad went to a secure section of the website listed under the subdirectory of "contribute."
Desjarlais' campaign was headquartered in Jasper. Fincher's campaign headquarters had a Jackson, TN address.
"Low Funds" and "No Funds" Races Also Listed
US Representative-elect Diane Black ($1,830) also received outside the state funding from undisclosed sources, but at less than two thousand dollars' worth of influence.
US Representative-elect "Chuck" Fleischmann (TN-3: Chattanooga-area), who raced against John Wolfe, is listed as --not-- receiving funds ($0) from undisclosed sources outside the state.
Comparable to Governor's Race Dollars
Also listed were approximately $18 million dollars worth of undisclosed, outside-their-state funds of unknown origin which were applied to six governors' races across the US.
Tennessee's governor's race was not listed among those (IL, PA, WI, AR, IN, and $0 spent in North Dakota) which were associated with a partisan change in power.
Some of the amounts listed as being spent on Tennessee's US Representatives are comparable to the dollar values discussed on a recent episode of WTCI (PBS) "Tennessee Insider" as being an influential amount in upcoming governor's elections.
In Season 4, Episode 29 of "Tennessee Insider" panelists discussed how the spending of millions of dollars in advertising had become a practical requirement for running for governor.
That episode shows how this year's Governor's election campaigns already saw candidates concentrating their advertising on selected areas of the state. Bill Haslam, who later on became Tennessee's Governor-elect, was noted as having the most money to spend on advertising.
Managing equity arguably led to some candidates mutually conceding that their opponents were strong in their respective "home" areas. This led to a set of conditions in which the panelists discussed that it was plausible to conclude certain large areas (Nashville, mainly) would become the battleground between two candidates who had the most money to spend.
In these money-dumping schemes of purchasing political advertising, large swaths of the state's votes end up being regarded as a foregone conclusion.
Many of "Tennesse Insider"'s panelists predictions did turn out to be observable realities.
Given the over one million dollar amount listed as buying influence in campaign advertising for Desjarlais and Finch, above, it's demonstrable that similar sums could be applied to outright buy a future Tennessee governor by funding his campaign.
Look to AgXphoto.info's SSL site for updates and follow-up reports.
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References:
http://www.citizen.org/documents/Outside-Job-Report-20101103.pdf
http://www.citizen.org/outside-job
Public Citizen’s Congress Watch, 215 Pennsylvania Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003
http://wtcitv.org/video/insider/season-4-episode-29
http://www.scottdesjarlais.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWki46PRR3k
http://stephenfincher.org/
AgXphoto.info on SSL:
https://guest:agxphoto@www.agxphoto.info
or logon to https://www.agxphoto.info
and manually enter username: guest password:agxphoto.
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Moving Mirrors Arrives at Libraries
Upper Greeter Creek, cover photo from Moving Mirrors: Intermediate Principles of Landscape Photography with Film. by John O'Keefe-Odom
AgXphoto.info
We're proud to announce the addition of Moving Mirrors: Intermediate Principles in Landscape Photography with Film to library collections in Tennessee.
Recent acceptances and catalog entries include:
Academic Libraries:
Southern Adventist University, McKee Library.
Chattanooga State, Augusta R. Kolwyck Library.
Motlow State Community College, Clayton-Glass Library, Moore County Campus and Fayetteville Campus.
Public Libraries:
Chattanooga-Hamilton County Public Library (Eastgate branch).
Manchester/Coffee County Public Library. Call number 778.71 OKE.
East Ridge City Library. Call number 770 OKE.
Secondary School:
East Ridge High School Library, one copy for the alma mater.
Many thanks to the Deans and Library Directors who were kind enough to reply with letters of acceptance.
Look for Moving Mirrors in your local library in southeast Tennessee. Some of the books we have donated to almost 20 libraries are still being processed and evaluated. We'll post updates about approvals as they become available.
Moving Mirrors: Intermediate Principles of Landscape Photography with Film is a monograph written, photographed, edited and designed by John O'Keefe-Odom. It is the primary product of a 2009 CreateHere MakeWork Grant.
CreateHere's MakeWork grants were made possible by generous donations from the Lyndhurst and Benwood Foundations. Both organizations are well known throughout the Chattanooga area for their exemplary, multi-millionaire patronage of arts and cultural activities.
Moving Mirrors includes discussions of: original developer recipes, film and darkroom techniques, photographic composition, Boyle's Law, Beer's Law, the Inverse Square Law of Light, Rayleigh Scattering, tonal grouping, tonal shifts and using spectra for editing images.
BISAC Subject codes: PHO023040 (Landscape), PHO006000 (Darkroom) and PHO011030 (monograph).
The book can also be searched for with ISBN 978-0-615-37152-8 or as ISBN 9780615371528.
An online copy of the text in web page format is available at: https://www.agxphoto.info. To login as a visitor and view the content for academic or personal reference use, please respond to password challenges with the Username "guest" and the Password of "agxphoto." Any subsequent updates to the challenge and reply procedure may be noted on our index.html page at www.agxphoto.info. Within the website, the book's content is available in HTML 2.0 with CSS and HTML 4.01 Strict with CSS.
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Monday, October 11, 2010
Decon Evercookie: Temporarily Shake Evercookie with User ID Deletion
AgXphoto.info
by John O'Keefe-Odom
Evercookie may resist removal by the user, but it does not seem to effectively withstand removal of the user, as in, removal of the contaminated login ID.
Receiving "evercookie" also seems to be dependent upon the use of browsers with "javascript enabled."
Building a new user login and destroying a contaminated one could be done, with some additional file saving in less than 30 minutes. Bold re-creation and contaminated directory deletion seems to be something that's do-able in less than 2 minutes.
The difference in time consumed rests with the deliberation and care for preserving other files associated with the user ID affected, before it is destroyed.
Removal Time: Under Five Minutes
Predicted elapsed time to erase the "un-removable" cookie: two to five minutes of normal operation and typing by a familiar user. This would be for one affected account, manual removal, through typing commands in Terminal, responding to identified processes through inspection and education.
It's not forever. Evercookie removal seems to take longer to recognize and prepare for than it takes to carry out.
Removal takes about five minutes, if you're prepared to delete a user ID, which anyone on the Internet should be prepared to do anyway. Burning the bridge behind you only takes a moment. Sometimes it's the right thing to do.
Summary
Shake evercookie by destroying User IDs like a one-time pad.
Preventative User Behavior
Establish, maintain, and destroy at irregular intervals, User IDs used only for Internet surfing. Same as the procedure for isolating or containing actions on the computer by restricting certain activities to certain User IDs. Avoid associating User IDs with specific people, particularly if you are the only user of a given computer.
Narrative
I picked up the dreaded evercookie HTML5 malware. Used to track computer users across the Internet, this particular type of cookie is aggressive about resisting deletion. It has a special "undelete" feature built into it that stores ten copies of itself on available memory systems.
I'm not absolutely certain about what this program is or does, but I used these simple steps to detect and manually, but brutally, contain the Evercookie.
I mean "contain" as in, once the login ID is deleted, the evercookie's behavior seems to stop and not reoccur.
Procedure:
- Detection through unusual processes in TOP
- Containment through deleting affected user ID
- Light containment with browsers initiated from within a separate volume
- Manual-input protections from disposing and recreating user IDs on a system based on desire
- Periodic hard-drive reformatting
- Periodic system destruction and reconstruction
Detection:
I found the evercookie first a few days ago, not knowing what it was. It showed up in Terminal when I ran TOP. This command reveals the top-consuming processes running on the computer.
At the same time, history related functions in Firefox were not working properly. The browser was suddenly providing unusual warnings. Bookmarks were gone; and, simple "BACK" and "FWD" functions were not working right.
When I ran a quick check of the system in Terminal, a program I use daily, I observed a bunch of "DesktopC" processes that I do not normally see on my system. Rightly or wrongly, I notice that these coincided with the occurrence of this browser problem. For this reason, and the arrival of recent publications on "evercookie," I suspect that what I was seeing was the effect evercookie had on my system.
NOTE: I provide the following guidance for use at your own risk. Read through and decide for yourself before proceeding. These solutions work because they involve deliberately destroying or disorganizing data. Thanks.
Normally, to put a stop to a process, this simple "KILL" command followed by the process number, will stop that particular program. In the case of this Evercookie, I noticed that there were ten unusual processes called "DesktopC" which were running. Also, I noticed that for every one I deleted, another new one would appear.
It was that new-appearance which got my attention. Normally, in TOP what would occur would be that when a process is deleted, whatever next one on the list (among the top consumers of power on the system) would be displayed. Almost always, because of the great variety of applications running on a system, this would be something of another name.
Attempts to issue a KILL command for all of those processes in one line were unsuccessful in my case. It might work; but, by the time I got around to trying it the process numbers had already spread themselves out so much that I could not remember them all to get them in one easy to type line.
Notable Exception:
I noticed that this problem only infected one user ID on my system. Even though I am only one person, like a lot of old operators, I maintain several user IDs for different kinds of uses. For example, I like to write simple programs in C: that has its own user ID. Browsing the Internet? Its own user ID. And, so on.
When evercookie arrived, it infected some user IDs, but not others. To observe this, when I would switch IDs around some, and running Terminal and TOP in each, I noticed that the DesktopC processes were not all consistently appearing.
The Brutal Solution:
To contain the symptoms, and I would like to emphasize "symptoms," I deleted the user ID that was infected with this problem.
That may seem harsh to some people, but if you are in the habit of running your systems as somewhat disposable anyway, it's just healthier. If you have so much stuff under your user ID right now that deleting it seems like a bad idea to you, it might be time to clean up some stuff, archive some backup copies, and get set to take the plunge sometime in the future.
With the deletion of that user ID which was infected with evercookie, those particular "DesktopC" processes stopped running. I suspect, but do not know, that those processes were running with that name, and there, because of instructions I had given to my browser about where to place downloads.
Keep in mind that just because something is not running now doesn't mean it's gone forever.
Notice also that this problem, evercookie, arrived through using the system on the Internet with other applications in use. So this thing has already traveled through pathways deeper than a user ID by the time it is detected. For example, multiple users may draw from the same browser application which helped evercookie arrive in the first place.
Prevention:
I noticed no good all-manual directions on the Internet for removing evercookies. There were a few programs which offered or claimed to control this problem, but I was skeptical of them. Back in the mid-90s, we saw a lot of programs, particularly marketed as scanners or cleaners, which would just replicate the tracking problems and re-route the results to a different destination. Since this evercookie problem is only a week old, I didn't feel too hot about trying those kinds of solutions lest I fall prey to the same old tricks.
Of the recommendations I can make with my limited knowledge of computers, probably the more brutal ones, of disposing of user IDs and reformatting your system at will: those ideas may seem inconvenient, but will probably only offer the only real help I could suggest to you.
I mention all of this because yesterday I saw some younger girls in a coffee shop complaining about how all of a sudden their computers were misbehaving. They were really frustrated, and I wonder if they had a more advanced form of this problem.
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Possible Alternate Course of Action:
Possible Alternate Course of Action:
It also occurred to me later that if this evercookie is detected, one possible course of action is to use "ps -A" command in Terminal (*nix systems) to locate the running processes, and then "KILL" all of those in one command-line statement.
I have not tried this particular route, but it may be possible. It would be important to destroy or confuse all of the processes involved in one action.
I have not tried this particular route, but it may be possible. It would be important to destroy or confuse all of the processes involved in one action.
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References:
New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/business/media/11privacy.html?ref=technology
PCMag.com:
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2010/09/new_evercookie_claims_its_toug.php#comments
"Evercookie" most frequently referenced website:
[Warning: disable javascript in your browser before visiting. Site involves evercookie automatic generation.]
[Note: the evercookie site listed makes use of, to my surprise, Google Analytics tracking cookies. Notice the Google account number in the source code for the page if you visit.]
http://samy.pl/evercookie/
Website sharing similar Google Analytics tracking ID number:
[No other coordinating information on evercookie]
http://pastie.org/pastes/1077104
Pastie.org web pages related to longevity, but not appearing directly relevant to evercookie (it was unusual that rigorous persistence was coincidental and colocated):
http://pastie.org/1
http://blog.pastie.org/2010/09/pastes-are-forever.html#comments
Commentary on a web page review, based on the code found in the "pastie.org" reference page 1077104, with code replicated in thread:
[No other information on evercookie. Located by searching Google for a set of html creating a mailto link back to code posted on pastie.org's page sharing the Google UID]
http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/166499-what-language-is-this-written-in/
New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/business/media/11privacy.html?ref=technology
PCMag.com:
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2010/09/new_evercookie_claims_its_toug.php#comments
"Evercookie" most frequently referenced website:
[Warning: disable javascript in your browser before visiting. Site involves evercookie automatic generation.]
[Note: the evercookie site listed makes use of, to my surprise, Google Analytics tracking cookies. Notice the Google account number in the source code for the page if you visit.]
http://samy.pl/evercookie/
Website sharing similar Google Analytics tracking ID number:
[No other coordinating information on evercookie]
http://pastie.org/pastes/1077104
Pastie.org web pages related to longevity, but not appearing directly relevant to evercookie (it was unusual that rigorous persistence was coincidental and colocated):
http://pastie.org/1
http://blog.pastie.org/2010/09/pastes-are-forever.html#comments
Commentary on a web page review, based on the code found in the "pastie.org" reference page 1077104, with code replicated in thread:
[No other information on evercookie. Located by searching Google for a set of html creating a mailto link back to code posted on pastie.org's page sharing the Google UID]
http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/166499-what-language-is-this-written-in/
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Time Goes Paywall: What About It?
by John O'Keefe-Odom
AgXphoto.info
Artists, authors and creative content providers need to be paid for their time. I understand why Time would put a paywall up on these documents. That said, if readers are going to pay, then it would make sense that they pay for content that has some lasting effects.
Paywall-printings need staying power.
That said, there's still some room for some free web content. Namely, that kind of content that's not worth preserving or conserving.
If it's on a web page, it's, by structure, temporary. W3C overhauls HTML standards every few years: already most browsers cannot read older web pages. Electronic content eventually deletes itself.
Free web pages are great for ads. Paid content needs some structure, some analysis, and some punch. If the paywall acts like the bookbinding of paper printing, then remember to put content worth binding into that package.
Will they? We'll see.
AgXphoto.info
Artists, authors and creative content providers need to be paid for their time. I understand why Time would put a paywall up on these documents. That said, if readers are going to pay, then it would make sense that they pay for content that has some lasting effects.
Paywall-printings need staying power.
That said, there's still some room for some free web content. Namely, that kind of content that's not worth preserving or conserving.
If it's on a web page, it's, by structure, temporary. W3C overhauls HTML standards every few years: already most browsers cannot read older web pages. Electronic content eventually deletes itself.
Free web pages are great for ads. Paid content needs some structure, some analysis, and some punch. If the paywall acts like the bookbinding of paper printing, then remember to put content worth binding into that package.
Will they? We'll see.
Got an App for Your Content? Why You Need to Get One
by John O'Keefe-Odom
AgXphoto.info
PDFs and JPEGs are the loose-leaf notebook paper of our time. Document file bundles, like .doc and .pages are actually collections of files under an arbitrary name. They are like the loose-leaf binders of our time.
In order to have a level of control over content packaging and distribution that's comparable to what artists and authors have had for centuries in libraries and bookstores, artists need to build their own applications to hold their own content.
The computer company who built your computer did. Their content is no more holy than your own.
Their content, their programs, are different only in that they're more socially expected. With the rise of the iPhone, we see that users are willing to install applications that do little other than hold content.
The main innovation: trust.
In the past, we have seen the concept of the surprise application download associated with receiving a computer virus, or malware, or any kind of instructions for the computer beyond the user's understanding and control.
Well, don't surprise them. Apple doesn't. Every iPhone user expects to download apps.
One of the innovations that Apple has brought us socially is that we now have large collections of users who are willing to download apps, and there's been a social protocol created for making this an acceptable procedure.
Imitate iTunes and application distribution if you want success. Some of the key points demonstrated over there are:
Why give out your collected material unbound? Have you ever gone into a bookstore and bought a loose sheet of notebook paper with the writing you wanted on it? Do you buy novels in looseleaf notebook binders?
Should your readers? Should your photo viewers?
Can't you build, of have built, one of those apps? The technology has been at our fingertips for years. We just haven't seen what was before us. Good luck. Proceed with confidence.
Get out there and code some of those already made text and photos into C.
AgXphoto.info
PDFs and JPEGs are the loose-leaf notebook paper of our time. Document file bundles, like .doc and .pages are actually collections of files under an arbitrary name. They are like the loose-leaf binders of our time.
In order to have a level of control over content packaging and distribution that's comparable to what artists and authors have had for centuries in libraries and bookstores, artists need to build their own applications to hold their own content.
The computer company who built your computer did. Their content is no more holy than your own.
Their content, their programs, are different only in that they're more socially expected. With the rise of the iPhone, we see that users are willing to install applications that do little other than hold content.
The main innovation: trust.
In the past, we have seen the concept of the surprise application download associated with receiving a computer virus, or malware, or any kind of instructions for the computer beyond the user's understanding and control.
Well, don't surprise them. Apple doesn't. Every iPhone user expects to download apps.
One of the innovations that Apple has brought us socially is that we now have large collections of users who are willing to download apps, and there's been a social protocol created for making this an acceptable procedure.
Imitate iTunes and application distribution if you want success. Some of the key points demonstrated over there are:
- Simple registration scripts to confirm and control distribution by CPU serial number
- Cocoa (Objective-C) applications, often built with Apple's own XCode, included with every Mac. [They also have an excellent support site. Cocoa uses "C", a computer language that has been around since 1961. So, decades of programmers are out there who can help you, if you are not smart enough to build the whole thing yourself.]
- Establishing a relationship with the user, the reader, that they are about to download a program before they do it
- Use of simple download buttons and links through web pages to establish a book "storefront" that serves as a known distribution point for authorized materials
- Some type of branding or description of who is allowed to give out a copy of the material and where those sites are ("only authorized dealers at: xyz.internetsufix")
- A general description of what they are about to download
- No sneaky extras; give them only the content they asked for.
Why give out your collected material unbound? Have you ever gone into a bookstore and bought a loose sheet of notebook paper with the writing you wanted on it? Do you buy novels in looseleaf notebook binders?
Should your readers? Should your photo viewers?
Can't you build, of have built, one of those apps? The technology has been at our fingertips for years. We just haven't seen what was before us. Good luck. Proceed with confidence.
Get out there and code some of those already made text and photos into C.
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AgXphoto.info Down for Maintenance
I'm overhauling the main site, AgXphoto.info. We'll have it back up in a few days. I'm looking forward to bringing back some hand-coded pages; and, a new hive model of database structure will let us expand and grow with less linear containment. We may have some articles on these kinds of structures and how they can help you grow in your blogging endeavors.
J.
J.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Aesthetic Ethics and Photo Standards
AgXphoto.info
by John O'Keefe-Odom
Detailed below are some of our policies for the content and presentation of our images. In summary, key points include:
Click here to jump to our standards for cosmetics.
Click here to jump to our standards for models.
Aesthetic Ethics and Photo Standards at AgXphoto.info
Respect for subject is our leading characteristic in standard compliance decisions.
Carry out a general purpose avoidance of any editing characteristic which would alter the overall message content of the photograph. Reportage of observed reality preferred.
No manipulation of photographs. Manipulation in editing is defined as post-recording separate treatment of a subset of the image, without exception. Changes to the entire surface area of the displayed image are acceptable. Examples of acceptable changes include: cropping, tone, color temperature correction, exposure and contrast.
Image Distribution and Control.
All rights reserved.
Image Comptroller required.
We discourage the redistribution of our images to or public display by corporate organizations who fail to appoint and maintain a designated responsible and accountable person who controls the display of the image. This person would be regarded by us as an Image Comptroller.
Image Comptrollers would be parties designated to approve or deny the printing or transmitting of an image.
Image Comptrollers have the authority to both transmit the image and to terminate the appearance of an image within 24 hours, in all applicable documents.
The point of contact and identity of an Image Comptroller would be a common predicate to the commercial sale or reprinting of our images.
We consider our works published from the moment they are displayed for lending or advertised for any sale.
Many of our works have been registered with the Library of Congress. We retain certificates to support future copyright enforcement needs.
We patrol for, and follow up on, the commercial display of our images to ensure that they comply with our licensing standards.
We recognize that the artist, as initial creator of the recording, is the unqualified granter of license and permission to other entities in order to print, reprint and mechanically transmit our images.
We reserve the right to revoke that license at any time in accordance with US Copyright Law as described through, but not limited to, the Library of Congress' website at copyright.gov.
Cosmetics.
In studio:
We have discontinued the use of most studio cosmetics.
No cosmetic application for editing of the presentation of the figure.
Soap, water and toothpaste are acceptable.
Limited applications of unscented deodorant (armpit wax) optional.
Basic personal hygiene to maintain health required.
Hair cutting or styling without the use of additives or dyes is acceptable.
No: additional colorings, dyes, waxes, varnishes, adhesives or substances are to be applied to the subject's skin, hair or nails.
Models may wear prosthetics as prescribed by a doctor. Prosthetics include dental and optical appliances (e.g. dentures, crowns, contact lenses and glasses).
Models are encouraged to remove all jewelry excepting wedding bands or wedding band sets.
In reportage:
Persons in public will be recorded as they normally appear.
No additional studio makeups or cosmetics will be applied for the purpose of our making the photograph, in accordance with the guidelines above.
Models.
Models should be over 18 years of age to establish a minimum dimension of legal and psychological responsibility in a commercially competitive environment.
Discourage the use of:
Encourage the use of:
Height, weight and body fat: comparable to US Army passing scores ("GO") for height and weight against age and gender. Standards are outlined in US Army Regulation 600-9, "Army Weight Control Program".
Note that the minimum weight for a six foot tall (72 inch) person is 140 pounds. At 40+ years old, the maximum weight would be 191.
Models are encouraged to surpass minimum weight requirements for females IAW USA 600-9. Models are encouraged to maintain healthy, below maximum, weight requirements. We encourage common, good physical fitness (APFT "GO").
A healthy increment of weight loss or gain is defined as 5 pounds per calendar month.
Note that USA 600-9 contains body fat standards and measurements for determining if a person outside of the guideline weights (too heavy) are considered overweight.
Our current contemporary attention is to actively discourage unhealthy low-weight practices, particularly among young females aspiring to model for photos.
Animal models are expected to have a handler on site. The animal models will be treated with a similar set of presentation standards, comparable to those outlined for humans but adjusted for species. This includes good general purpose animal health, a discouragement of unnecessary surgeries, and simplified common grooming (barbering). The handler will ensure the humane treatment and controlled behavior of the animal model.
by John O'Keefe-Odom
Detailed below are some of our policies for the content and presentation of our images. In summary, key points include:
- Respect for subject
- Strait recording
- Image comptrollers
- Rebroadcasts in accordance with copyright law
- Encourage healthy body image
Click here to jump to our standards for cosmetics.
Click here to jump to our standards for models.
Aesthetic Ethics and Photo Standards at AgXphoto.info
Respect for subject is our leading characteristic in standard compliance decisions.
Carry out a general purpose avoidance of any editing characteristic which would alter the overall message content of the photograph. Reportage of observed reality preferred.
No manipulation of photographs. Manipulation in editing is defined as post-recording separate treatment of a subset of the image, without exception. Changes to the entire surface area of the displayed image are acceptable. Examples of acceptable changes include: cropping, tone, color temperature correction, exposure and contrast.
Image Distribution and Control.
All rights reserved.
Image Comptroller required.
We discourage the redistribution of our images to or public display by corporate organizations who fail to appoint and maintain a designated responsible and accountable person who controls the display of the image. This person would be regarded by us as an Image Comptroller.
Image Comptrollers would be parties designated to approve or deny the printing or transmitting of an image.
Image Comptrollers have the authority to both transmit the image and to terminate the appearance of an image within 24 hours, in all applicable documents.
The point of contact and identity of an Image Comptroller would be a common predicate to the commercial sale or reprinting of our images.
We consider our works published from the moment they are displayed for lending or advertised for any sale.
Many of our works have been registered with the Library of Congress. We retain certificates to support future copyright enforcement needs.
We patrol for, and follow up on, the commercial display of our images to ensure that they comply with our licensing standards.
We recognize that the artist, as initial creator of the recording, is the unqualified granter of license and permission to other entities in order to print, reprint and mechanically transmit our images.
We reserve the right to revoke that license at any time in accordance with US Copyright Law as described through, but not limited to, the Library of Congress' website at copyright.gov.
Cosmetics.
In studio:
We have discontinued the use of most studio cosmetics.
No cosmetic application for editing of the presentation of the figure.
Soap, water and toothpaste are acceptable.
Limited applications of unscented deodorant (armpit wax) optional.
Basic personal hygiene to maintain health required.
Hair cutting or styling without the use of additives or dyes is acceptable.
No: additional colorings, dyes, waxes, varnishes, adhesives or substances are to be applied to the subject's skin, hair or nails.
Models may wear prosthetics as prescribed by a doctor. Prosthetics include dental and optical appliances (e.g. dentures, crowns, contact lenses and glasses).
Models are encouraged to remove all jewelry excepting wedding bands or wedding band sets.
In reportage:
Persons in public will be recorded as they normally appear.
No additional studio makeups or cosmetics will be applied for the purpose of our making the photograph, in accordance with the guidelines above.
Models.
Models should be over 18 years of age to establish a minimum dimension of legal and psychological responsibility in a commercially competitive environment.
Discourage the use of:
- plastic surgery (other than reconstructive or prosthetic replacement)
- elective surgery to the bones and teeth requiring more than 48 hours of recovery
- non-prosthetic inserts, implants, injections, grafts or similar permanent intrusions designed to change appearance more than bodily structure & function
- crash diets for weight gain or loss
- or any other practices abnormally aggressive to one's health.
Encourage the use of:
- reasonable caloric intake (e.g. 2,000 calorie days of balanced nutrition)
- reasonable physical fitness (cp. President's Council of Physical Fitness standards by age and gender or US Army APFT)
- and reasonable medical maintenance (doctor's care for wounds, injuries, ailments and diseases).
Height, weight and body fat: comparable to US Army passing scores ("GO") for height and weight against age and gender. Standards are outlined in US Army Regulation 600-9, "Army Weight Control Program".
Note that the minimum weight for a six foot tall (72 inch) person is 140 pounds. At 40+ years old, the maximum weight would be 191.
Models are encouraged to surpass minimum weight requirements for females IAW USA 600-9. Models are encouraged to maintain healthy, below maximum, weight requirements. We encourage common, good physical fitness (APFT "GO").
A healthy increment of weight loss or gain is defined as 5 pounds per calendar month.
Note that USA 600-9 contains body fat standards and measurements for determining if a person outside of the guideline weights (too heavy) are considered overweight.
Our current contemporary attention is to actively discourage unhealthy low-weight practices, particularly among young females aspiring to model for photos.
Animal models are expected to have a handler on site. The animal models will be treated with a similar set of presentation standards, comparable to those outlined for humans but adjusted for species. This includes good general purpose animal health, a discouragement of unnecessary surgeries, and simplified common grooming (barbering). The handler will ensure the humane treatment and controlled behavior of the animal model.
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Thursday, May 27, 2010
River Swim: Open Water Workout
on the Tennessee
Dr. Friberg swimming the Tennessee.Pentax K200d, 35mm Takumar,
EWA Marine UF
by John O'Keefe-Odom
AgXphoto.info
We caught up with English Channel solo swimmer Dr. Karah Nazor Friberg as she led another group of intrepid athletes through a Tennessee River workout along Maclellan Island.
How many times have you thought about swimming out there? These people do it. With kayak pilot boats to provide a more visible cordon, Dr. Friberg leads swimmers through simple paths both with and against the river current.
After the swims Dr. Friberg likes head into downtown Chattanooga and unwind to the sounds of a jazz trio over at the Market Street Tavern.
The Tavern's in the Waterhouse Pavilion; beer on tap; interior nice enough to bring a date; prices comparable to middle market.
Kayak pilot Adam Deimling near Veteran's Bridge.Pentax K200d, 35mm Takumar,
EWA Marine UF.
EWA Marine UF.
If you are interested in swimming or piloting a kayak for them, look them up on the links above.
Slideshow and gallery of photos from the swim at http://agxphoto.zenfolio.com
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References:
Water navigation chart, US Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District, website: http://www.lrn.usace.army.mil/opn/TNRiver/
http://www.lrn.usace.army.mil/opn/TNRiver/charts/67.jpg
English Channel swimmers listing, Channel Swimmers Association, Ltd.
http://www.channelswimmingassociation.com/provisional_34.html
Water navigation chart, US Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District, website: http://www.lrn.usace.army.mil/opn/TNRiver/
http://www.lrn.usace.army.mil/opn/TNRiver/charts/67.jpg
English Channel swimmers listing, Channel Swimmers Association, Ltd.
http://www.channelswimmingassociation.com/provisional_34.html
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Chattanooga Tri Club Swim Practice Pics Up
Swimmer. Chattanooga Triathlon Club Swim Practice,Lake Chickamauga. 24 May 2010.
Pentax K200d, 35mm Takumar.
EWA Marine UF underwater bag housing.
by John O'Keefe-Odom
AgXphoto.info
The pics in tonight's proof gallery folder were made by putting the DSLR in an amphibious housing designed for smaller film cameras. The EWA Marine UF easily accommodates an all manual SLR like the K1000, but was tight on the tolerances for fitting a K200d in there.
We were able to get by without leaks by using a Takumar 35mm, in order to keep the Z dimension down.
Our topic for the session was a swim practice for the Chattanooga Triathlon Club. They meet weekly to swim along the buoy line in the lake. This helps the triathletes get used to swimming in open water and condition them for racing.
The rig I have been using lately has included one ugly life jacket and a pair of swim fins. I know it looks totally ridiculous. I can swim well enough without the vest, and have made photos while swimming without it. Yet, it is so much easier to swim and photograph with the flotation vest that I think it's a good idea to try out some type of float for the amphibious photos.
Strong enough to go without it; taking it easy enough to enjoy it; get down to the photos.
Some of my latest sports photos are at: http://agxphoto.zenfolio.com/
The $1 digital download charge covers the licensing on the larger sized digital images.
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Sunday, May 23, 2010
EVIL "Milk" Anyone?
by John O'Keefe-Odom
AgXphoto.info
Marketers may not like it, but EVIL is a name that sticks to cameras.
EVIL, which stands for Electronic Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens, is an acronym coined and widely used for a certain chassis structure for camera bodies.
Recent internet postings show a newly arrived acronym, MILC, pronounced "milk", to denote the exact same type of camera body structure.
It's clear: someone's trying to replace EVIL with "milk," and it may not be working. What's worse: the camera chassis designs may be such that the structures are cheaper to build, but seem to have some basic handling disadvantages.
Imagine the lens mass and volume bayoneted to a point and shoot body, with no proper optical viewfinder. That's what these EVIL MILC cameras are. I'll leave you to guess which part of the Witch those design ideas flow from.
Here's a design idea: put a viewfinder on the camera and build the body big and strong enough to hold the attached parts. Thanks.
AgXphoto.info
Marketers may not like it, but EVIL is a name that sticks to cameras.
EVIL, which stands for Electronic Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens, is an acronym coined and widely used for a certain chassis structure for camera bodies.
Recent internet postings show a newly arrived acronym, MILC, pronounced "milk", to denote the exact same type of camera body structure.
It's clear: someone's trying to replace EVIL with "milk," and it may not be working. What's worse: the camera chassis designs may be such that the structures are cheaper to build, but seem to have some basic handling disadvantages.
Imagine the lens mass and volume bayoneted to a point and shoot body, with no proper optical viewfinder. That's what these EVIL MILC cameras are. I'll leave you to guess which part of the Witch those design ideas flow from.
Here's a design idea: put a viewfinder on the camera and build the body big and strong enough to hold the attached parts. Thanks.
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
Ride of Silence Photos Up
CPD escorts a large pack of bicyclists downTennessee Ave. in St. Elmo.
AgXphoto.info
Photos from Chattanooga's Second Annual Ride of Silence are up in our proof gallery. Hyperlink below. $1 digital downloads available.
http://agxphoto.zenfolio.com/rideofsilence
Bicyclists depart from the Finley Stadium areato begin the 2nd Annual Ride of Silence
Chattanooga Police provide traffic control points at key locationsduring the Second Annual Ride of Silence.
http://agxphoto.zenfolio.com/rideofsilence/slideshow
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Friday, April 23, 2010
Narrators for the Story of My Life
by John O'Keefe-Odom
AgXphoto.info
I woke up this morning wondering who we should nominate to do the voice-overs for the story of my life. I know many of you were wondering.
Being a dynamic thinker and noble adventurer, I always have to keep one eye on posterity. That includes who will narrate the movie about my life, after I'm dead and gone.
Well, quick up on the list were some women who had been on TV before: Dee Dee Myers, Mika Brzezinski and a scientist who I think was Doctor Lisa Kaltenegger, a Harvard University astronomer.
All three of those people got my attention for thinking before they started talking. I also notice that when they don't have something to say, they are quiet. Those three avoid the key problem of blathering away on TV about nothing. Like 'em or not, they're thinking chicks, so they make the list of narrators.
Well, while I was tinkering around with trying to figure out if the person whom I'd seen on television was Dr. Kaltenegger or not, I ran across these ridiculous lists of women scientists.
I say ridiculous because most of these lists were of completely fake, totally fictitious, female scientists. Apparently, a theatrical facsimile of a thinking female is preferable to some of the women who've already thought up something! At least when it comes to putting them on TV.
So, to fix this, I decided to add some of these women astronauts to my list of people who are welcome to narrate the story of my life.
I don't care if they can't read a Space Shuttle index card cheat sheet aloud well enough to make it to the morning shows on the local UHF station.
What made the list a touch more ridiculous was that
- I had never heard of any of these people
- The list of female astronauts was particularly long
- Their accomplishments were intense in thought and broad in scope
And it took a whole 35 seconds to scroll down the list (I didn't get even halfway through the alphabet before their accolades started to wear me out) and pick some of them at random. That's right: random.
It turns out that you can't swing Katie Couric's lip gloss applicator stick without marking up one of these ladies' Ph.D's in Something Complicated.
Most of these ladies have spent more time flying through space in a week than most Hollywood starlets have spent on TV in a lifetime.
It turns out that many of them have been Chemists, have had military careers (many are Colonels and Generals), and have somehow ended up associated with labs and observatories in space (which made me wonder what the hell everyone else is doing up there).
Here they are:
Eileen Collins. Ancestral home from the County Cork in Ireland, not too far from where the O'Keefe's hail from. First female Space Shuttle Commander. She had two previous missions which involved piloting the Space Shuttle, both involved rendezvous with the space station Mir.
Collins seems to be one of those astronauts who ends up going into space because she's on The Pilot track. Eventually those people try skipping the "air" portion of aircraft and end up flying spaceships. Collins not only flies, but has been put in charge of the whole thing. Space Shuttle Commander.
Cady Coleman. Chemist. USAF. Scheduled to hit the star chart in 2010. She plays in a band, married a guy who's into art glass and she knows enough about Chem to explain this stuff to you better than I could.
Nancy J. Currie. US Army Colonel. Helicopter pilot. Four time astronaut.
Just think on that a second. Apparently her hobbies include flying complicated machines really, really fast.
Nancy Davis. Engineer. Three shuttle missions. Operated a spacelab. Degrees from Georgia, Auburn and Alabama. We're confident that football season allegiances are a problem for her, but if anybody can figure that out, she probably can. I liked it that her education was laced with land grant university credentials. You don't have to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth to make it to the Space Shuttle. Good going, Nancy.
Anna Lee Fisher, M.D. Chemist. First mom in space. Apparently her hobbies include emergency medicine. Like a lot of these chemists, she's studied X-rays and crystals quite a bit. Doc Fisher was one of the people who developed and tested the robotic arm on the Space Shuttle. Without that robot arm, they wouldn't have gotten much done with those satellites.
Linda Maxine Godwin. This one got my attention because she was from Cape Girardeau. Some years ago, I worked a jobsite out there. I was at the airport. It turns out Rush Limbaugh was from Cape Girardeau. They named a street after him. It's one of the access roads on the airport. The way one of the locals told the story to me: he landed in a private jet, cut the ribbon on the street named after him, and then immediately got back on his plane and left town.
Linda Godwin has walked in space twice. Four shuttle missions. A whole lotta science experiments.
Two spacewalks. Cape Girardeau, how about naming a street after her?
Major General Susan J. Helms, USAF. Eight hour spacewalk, which set a record for duration. She's flown on four different Space Shuttles and the International Space Station. You might notice she's a general officer.
General officers sure do make good expert explainers on TV shows. I wonder when we're going to see female astronaut Major General Helms on TV telling us all about space.
Guessing from her resume, with 30 different airframe types under her belt, General Helms': turn-ons include "anything supersonic" and her turn-offs are "running out of oxygen."
If you ever wondered what it'd be like to have a woman with her finger on the nuclear button, count Helms in. How about "in" as "in charge" of like, Space Command, which would be just about everything the US Air Force decides to put into, or take out of, space.
Since she's been at it for a while now, you can consider her the Chief Nuker of menstrual punch lines about putting women in charge of lots of powerful stuff.
Historically, on the serious side, being a female commander of USAF Space Command may make her one of the most important women to ever live.
Millie Elizabeth Hughes-Fulford. This one's my favorite. Chemist and first female payload specialist. US Army Major (Medical Corps). This chemist figured out why astronauts undergo certain types of health effects when they fly through space. She had to do a lot of studying about blood, bones and genetics in order to come up with a sound answer.
Somebody should give these chicks a little more time on the Tube. They apparently think more than most people on TV. Think on that next time women are on TV for makeup commercials instead of space flight or other thinking stuff.
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Talkie Talk: Films and Movies Seen and Scenic Through Chattanooga
by John O'Keefe-Odom
Interestingly, IMDB lists the film stock types for The White Ribbon as Kodak's latest color negative types in 35mm, but the film is in black and white. If it was a digital conversion, then they fooled me. I would have called it as Kodak Movie Plus-X or Tri-X, which is what I like to use in my old 16mm.
The White Ribbon runs locally until for a little bit.
AgXphoto.info
Coming up this Sunday and Monday, the return to Cable TV Channel 165 (Sundance) of Werner Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World, about the Antarctic. We saw this one about a year ago in theaters. Clearly a good one for the big screen; you might want to catch it for recording.
If you get into Herzog, or haven't heard of him, I first caught him in two independent films, Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (required watching at some point in life). The movie is about a college bet that Herzog loses, requiring him to eat his shoe.
Also good is La Soufrière a documentary about a volcano about to erupt, and those who refuse to leave the area.
Herzog has been doing bigger and bigger projects; the latest with some "name" stars, but his best work seems to be when he tells a documentary story all alone.
On that note, I'm willing to give Disney's "Oceans" a chance. We'll see how it does. I'm hoping it'll be a movie that uses color well.
For those that don't need color, but which were shot in it anyway, I'd have to list the here-and-gone The Last Station, a story about the final days of Leo Tolstoy. An excellent film, which should probably get Kelly Condon (Masha) and Christopher Plummer (Tolstoy) awards for something. Required watching for those of you who've read War and Peace. If you haven't read it, put it on the list.
The White Ribbon, because it's the only movie I've seen in town which was followed by someone in a row behind me calling out about the end, "That sucks!"
The White Ribbon didn't suck. It was a good German film in black and white, and it doesn't come with the usual cowboy round 'em up to justice ending because just about everyone in the entire town is guilty of at least one of the seven deadly sins.
I love black and white films, and still remember a little bit of my German. The White Ribbon was the best morality movie about the seven deadly sins I've seen since "Se7en" with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman.
Coming up this Sunday and Monday, the return to Cable TV Channel 165 (Sundance) of Werner Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World, about the Antarctic. We saw this one about a year ago in theaters. Clearly a good one for the big screen; you might want to catch it for recording.
If you get into Herzog, or haven't heard of him, I first caught him in two independent films, Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (required watching at some point in life). The movie is about a college bet that Herzog loses, requiring him to eat his shoe.
Also good is La Soufrière a documentary about a volcano about to erupt, and those who refuse to leave the area.
Herzog has been doing bigger and bigger projects; the latest with some "name" stars, but his best work seems to be when he tells a documentary story all alone.
On that note, I'm willing to give Disney's "Oceans" a chance. We'll see how it does. I'm hoping it'll be a movie that uses color well.
For those that don't need color, but which were shot in it anyway, I'd have to list the here-and-gone The Last Station, a story about the final days of Leo Tolstoy. An excellent film, which should probably get Kelly Condon (Masha) and Christopher Plummer (Tolstoy) awards for something. Required watching for those of you who've read War and Peace. If you haven't read it, put it on the list.
The White Ribbon, because it's the only movie I've seen in town which was followed by someone in a row behind me calling out about the end, "That sucks!"
The White Ribbon didn't suck. It was a good German film in black and white, and it doesn't come with the usual cowboy round 'em up to justice ending because just about everyone in the entire town is guilty of at least one of the seven deadly sins.
I love black and white films, and still remember a little bit of my German. The White Ribbon was the best morality movie about the seven deadly sins I've seen since "Se7en" with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman.
In an interesting coincidence, like Se7en, The White Ribbon's end credits look like a class in how to get credits done. Se7en's credits were played using an interesting device of cycling them from top to bottom; but The White Ribbon's credits are notable for their content and organization. The same for the movie posters.
The White Ribbon's crediting looks like what we expect from how it should be done. At least I thought so, when I had a look at what they did.
Interestingly, IMDB lists the film stock types for The White Ribbon as Kodak's latest color negative types in 35mm, but the film is in black and white. If it was a digital conversion, then they fooled me. I would have called it as Kodak Movie Plus-X or Tri-X, which is what I like to use in my old 16mm.
The White Ribbon runs locally until for a little bit.
To get yourself back up to speed on black and white movies, you can't miss the classic, the original, George Romero's Night of the Living Dead. It's in the public domain, and available for internet download.
One film, which I chose to see twice in the same day, was The Art of the Steal about the Barnes collection out of Pennsylvania. The film clearly has a propaganda slant vilifying the Pew Charitable Trusts, but it vilifies them so well that the movie is worth seeing. Billed as a documentary, like Michael Moore films, this one's a propaganda piece for those of us not afraid to admit we like some persuading every now and then.
We get to see the face of Van Gogh's Postman. Considering that the post man was famously Van Gogh's only friend in that one village, it's worth see the movie just for that.
"[This review] will never be moved.
It will never be sold . . . "
Charlie Roses' interviews have brought two more films and filmmakers to our attention.
I don't know when or if either of these are coming to town, but you may not want to wait for them to.
The first is any documentary film by a man named Frederick Wiseman. Wiseman does cinema verite, which is what Reality TV has failed to be. Unlike the Reality shows of our time, Wiseman's films are interesting, educating, revealing, and flat out good movies. 15 minutes of his stuff pretty much smokes all of Fox's Reality Channel nonsense, along with their Big Three Broadcaster cohorts.
Try either Basic Training (1971) or Near Death (1989). I recommend these two solely because I was able to see two very short clips from those films; they're both in black and white; and, like many of Wiseman's films, they deal with institutions and matters of society.
Wiseman's films look like they could do well for their audience's chosen at random; but, it's also clear from his camera work that the films in silver are working out better than the ones that he bothered to record in color.
Finally, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Solely because this one will be the La Femme Nikita of 2010. I'm talking about the movie, not the cable series. This one will be good.
Catch 'em all. They're better than anything on broadcast TV besides PBS.
One film, which I chose to see twice in the same day, was The Art of the Steal about the Barnes collection out of Pennsylvania. The film clearly has a propaganda slant vilifying the Pew Charitable Trusts, but it vilifies them so well that the movie is worth seeing. Billed as a documentary, like Michael Moore films, this one's a propaganda piece for those of us not afraid to admit we like some persuading every now and then.
We get to see the face of Van Gogh's Postman. Considering that the post man was famously Van Gogh's only friend in that one village, it's worth see the movie just for that.
"[This review] will never be moved.
It will never be sold . . . "
Charlie Roses' interviews have brought two more films and filmmakers to our attention.
I don't know when or if either of these are coming to town, but you may not want to wait for them to.
The first is any documentary film by a man named Frederick Wiseman. Wiseman does cinema verite, which is what Reality TV has failed to be. Unlike the Reality shows of our time, Wiseman's films are interesting, educating, revealing, and flat out good movies. 15 minutes of his stuff pretty much smokes all of Fox's Reality Channel nonsense, along with their Big Three Broadcaster cohorts.
Try either Basic Training (1971) or Near Death (1989). I recommend these two solely because I was able to see two very short clips from those films; they're both in black and white; and, like many of Wiseman's films, they deal with institutions and matters of society.
Wiseman's films look like they could do well for their audience's chosen at random; but, it's also clear from his camera work that the films in silver are working out better than the ones that he bothered to record in color.
Finally, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Solely because this one will be the La Femme Nikita of 2010. I'm talking about the movie, not the cable series. This one will be good.
Catch 'em all. They're better than anything on broadcast TV besides PBS.
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Sunday, April 18, 2010
Take It or Make It? Sean Peele Photography and Infringement Allegations
by John O'Keefe-Odom
AgXphoto.info
UPDATE: This article, originally published about a month before this printing, was taken down after some of the controversy died down. We were all sick of hearing about Mr. Peele's unscrupulous decisions.
Unfortunately, many of the exact same images which were used by Mr. Peele with the first website have returned under a new name. The article goes back up and stays up. While I can't say that this type of behavior is typical of the photographers I've met, in this particular instance, I think our readers will find that a significant amount of the content presented below is independently verifiable and observably true.
Subsequent discoveries revealed that it is likely that some of the infringement instances discussed in detail below were but a small percentage of the overall occurrences. The scope and intensity of the unethical practices involved may be wider and greater than those covered here.
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Do you take pictures or make pictures? And if you didn't make them, is it right to take them and present them as though the work was your own?
Those are the questions surrounding the website of San Diego photographer Sean Peele. A recent Photo.net thread highlighted the possibility that Mr. Peele may have appropriated many images and misrepresented them to the public as being his own work.
We've been able to confirm at least four instances of misrepresentation on Mr. Peele's website. As many as 37 photographers' work may be affected.
The impact of this is that many of the world’s better wedding photographers, some of whom have scored among the top 100 in peer reviews and critiques on Photo.net, have had their work taken and published under someone else’s name.
The people featured in the photos may have had no idea that this was happening to their images. Many of the clients have contracts with their hired photographers, which in some way license or limit or specify how the wedding photos would be used in the future.
Customers for Mr. Peele’s business were recruited, in part, by these appropriated photographs, so that he could profit. It’s not entirely clear which, if any, of the photos were actually made by Mr. Peele. Some are observably not his work.
The advertisements on Mr. Peele's website appear to have been a blend of three kinds of photos: some of his own, stock photos related to weddings, and photos made by other photographers and used without their permission.
Peele advertised wedding and event photography on his website for prices beginning at $390. Several of the photographers whom he took photos from offer services at near ten times that amount.
One such photographer is Rachel Barker. We came across Barker's work when we identified someone in one of her photographs. That photograph appeared on Mr. Peele’s website.
The Soldier in Photo 19
The groom wore Army Blues and was kissing his bride as they held up their wedding rings. The rank on the uniform sleeve was Specialist. The groom was a lower enlisted Soldier in the US Army. His nametag was clearly visible.
Click a few tabs into Mr. Peele’s website, and one could see the photo. Enter > Engagements and Weddings. It was the 19th photo in the line.
By reading the groom’s uniform, we were able to track him down. He's James Dreussi. After the photo was made, he continued with his military service, progressed and completed his enlistment. He is now working as a professional actor and is represented by an agency in Ohio.
With a check against the IMDB and some other websites, we were able to confirm that he was probably the same then-SPC Dreussi that was in the photo.
We asked Dreussi about the use of his wedding photo on Sean Peele's website. Dreussi was able to confirm that he was pictured in the photo, and that he had no idea that Mr. Peele was using that picture in his advertisements.
Dreussi wrote that the photo had been made by Rachel.
Rachel Barker is a professional photographer and ordained minister in Charlotte, North Carolina. She has been working as a wedding photographer for years; her pictures are good. Her recent bookings are made through Millie Holloman.com. Pricing begins at $3200.
Website Down & Some Photos Still Up
By 2 a.m. on Thursday morning, the website for Sean Peele photography had shut down. Still, several other websites were up, and transmitting his web page advertisements.
On one of them, we could still see the stock photos identified by Photo.net moderator Bob Atkins as distributed from iStockphoto.com.
When photographers submit photos for sale through a stock photography agency, they often have little or no control over who buys the photo, or what they use it for.
Some of the photos on Sean Peele's website feature brides in dresses, smiling at the camera. Two of them are clearly from iStockphoto. The photographer who made those is apparently Katrina Brown.
On one website, http://www.partypop.com/Vendors/4340009.htm, we can see Peele's advertisement with the stock photos there.
In a succession of photos on web pages describing Sean Peele’s services, we can see a man who looks similar. In two of the photos on the Party Pop.com page, we see a younger man. He's happy and smiling. He has short dark hair. Reclining on the grass with him is a brunette.
Two photos after this one, we see a man carrying a brunette on his back as he runs down a beach. It looks very much like the same pair of people. The bangs of her hairstyle look very much like the bride on the page a few photos later. They're young and happy and smiling.
People Looking Out For Number One
On a later page, related to a MySpace page, we see an older man labeled as Sean Peele. This man has recorded some songs. One of the songs is on the MySpace Page. It’s about Valentine’s Day. Another song is about high school. On an album cover icon, on another page about this man’s music, we can see smiling man with dark hair and touch of a receding hairline under a cowboy hat. It’s labeled as the music of Sean Peele. The song is "God Save Our Future Children If You Can."
The lyrics we can hear on the iTunes preview say:
"God, look upon our virtues
And see what we become.
There's just so many people
Looking out for number one.
Please help us give more to each other
And seek righteousness again.
God, save our future children, if you can."
The voice singing that song sounds like the voice on the recorded message at the telephone number for Sean Peele Photography.
On the website that came down, www.seanpeelephotography.com, was a photo of a man sailing. This same photo turned up on his Photo.net bio page and a Classmates.com entry linked to Sean Peele’s Google profile. It appears to be a picture of Sean Peele. Hair's a little thinner. He appears a little more stout.
Finally, on a Facebook page for a man named Sean Peele, we see one more photo that looks similar to the others. A little older still, we see a man wearing a camera and some dark clothes. He's standing on some stone stairs. There's a manicured garden in the background. Green, green grass and some water are nearby.
Below the picture, on the Facebook page, is a text box. It read, "Everything you think you know about me is wrong."
Candidacy and Being Candid
One of the facts which has come up is that on cached Google profile, Mr. Peele mentioned that he was a graduate of US Navy Officer Candidate School.
Looking over the Navy's OCS website, we see instructors yelling at candidates. There are pamphlets of procedures to read before you get there.
"PT starts immediately upon arrival," the Navy's OCS website noted. This means that the person who volunteers for a military officer candidacy will face constant scrutiny, and much of that scrutiny involves stress.
In Navy OCS the training is similar to most military schools which are candidacies. In the military, a candidacy is a time in training when the candidate is expected to show that he's already capable. It's a different kind of scrutiny. While some technical training is provided, and the training is phased, the person undertaking the training is expected to show throughout that he's the kind of person who's worth commissioning when the training is over. This pattern of scrutiny is mentally and emotionally more challenging than some other forms of military schooling.
OCS graduates aren't perfect. Yet, they have a tendency to be familiar with their own imperfections by the time they complete those courses.
The scrutiny officer candidates experience is somehow inconsistent with the behavior we've seen on Sean Peele's website.
Has Mr. Peele been pressured by something into bending some ethical guidelines? On these websites, it looks like some of them may have been bent until they were broken.
The Navy OCS website also mentions that the very large and sophisticated swimming pool that they use, all 347,000 gallons of chlorinated water held by The Combat Pool, was dedicated on July 9, 2009, to Medal of Honor recipient LT Michael P. Murphy, a US Navy Seal Officer.
LT Murphy died on a SEAL operation in the Hindu Kush of Afghanistan. The certificate for the Medal of Honor begins with the citation of conspicuous gallantry before the enemy. It tells us the same story we see in other posthumous Medal of Honor citations. Engaged by a much larger force, once again one man took great risks, despite wounds, led troops, continued fighting, and worked to do the right the thing.
The word "gallantry" is reserved in the military for citations like these. Medal of Honor recipients are the equivalent of knights of the realm in the United States. They’re traditionally saluted by everyone, regardless of rank, when they wear the Medal of Honor.
Lone Survivor and Two Names
The cached Google profile for Sean Peele listed key biographical details and included, under the category of "Other Names" Christopher Sean Peele. A man signed a review on Amazon.com as Christoper S. Peele "Sean Peele" from San Diego.
The Amazon review commented on the book Lone Survivor, which is about the SEAL operation on which LT Murphy lost his life. The review concluded with the words, "Thank you Marcus Luttrell, I salute you."
Marcus Luttrell was the sole survivor of the SEAL mission. At the time, he was a Hospital Corpsman Second Class. He was an enlisted sailor. We know this from the Medal of Honor documents like the Summary of Action, published by the Navy, on their websites.
Just as Marcus Luttrell was enlisted in the Navy, so also SPC Dreussi was enlisted in the Army. Mr. Peele, when he served, became an officer. His review of Lone Survivor was posted to Amazon in November of 2007.
Two of the photos on Mr. Peele’s website that I reviewed, and interviewed a photographer about, were initially uploaded to the Internet on November 14, 2007.
Nadine O’Hara made those two photos. In the technical data that accompanies those uploads to portfolios on Photo.net, the date of upload is recorded and displayed.
In an adjacent Amazon review, two years later, Peele wrote about some difficulties he had with upgrading his copy of Photoshop CS2 to CS4. This computer program is the premier image editing program; it's widely used by professional photographers to edit digital images. This upgrade apparently took place in September 2009.
In that review, we see accounts of everyday frustrations. Peele kept on hold for an hour. The paragraphs recite the trials and tribulations of upgrading Photoshop and trying to get some customer service from a large corporation. He had to cycle through those menus of automatic help and scripted service several times. It's the same set of headaches that anyone who's been on hold for a really long time might imagine.
That review was published in 2009.
Landslides Into the Ocean
The Google profile for Sean Peele listed several companies he had worked for: Pfizer, Bristol Myers-Squibb, Novartis. All three are pharmaceutical companies. He doesn’t mention in what capacity or when he worked with them. In the past few years, news stories about those corporations have included topics like layoffs, restructuring and lawsuits.
No large company could escape marketplace tribulations by 2009. By then things had gotten tougher all over.
One of the bright spots of 2009 was the success of students at Palos Verdes Peninsula High School. Before it was renamed in 1991, it was Rolling Hills High School. Sean Peale went there; he graduated in 1976, according to the biography which had been up on Classmates.com.
This biography was linked to from the Google profile page for Sean Peele. That bio carried the same picture as the biography on www.seanpeelephotography.com.
Palos Verdes High School tells us a little bit about the kind of community that's grown up from Rolling Hills High School. 23 National Merit scholars graduated from there in 2009. It's ranked 89 out of 18,500 schools evaluated by US News and World Report. The school's list of accolades reads like the home room roll of really good school stuff.
They have the country's largest high school publication: their yearbook. There's probably some photography in there.
The community of Ranchos Palos Verdes also seems to have terrain that's prone to landslides into the ocean. Ranchos Palos Verdes is on the southwestern corner of Los Angeles County, which encompasses a big section of Sean Peele's described sales and service territory.
There’s been a landslide of public outcry against this specific instance of photographic piracy.
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Bibliographic References:
List of photographers whose work may have been affected:
Chris Harrison
Edward Horn
Dave Gardner
Edwin Mendoza
Jerry King
Tracy Fairey
Thomas Paul
Michael Brown
Zulkefli Mohd Zain
AJ Zammit
Christine Sharp
Kevin Teachey
Vince Crisler
Arthur Yeo
Lloyd Rowson
Derick Africa
Sergey Usik
Adrian Blanco
Birte Ragland
Carlos Ramirez
Clemson Chan
Michele Rivera
Frode Fanebust
Jay Philbrick
Tim Holte
Jose Francisco Sanchez Diaz
Michael Shuaib
Elaine Vang
Regina Maldonado
Steve Skibbie
John Karamanos
Randy Douglas
Chad Lorenzana
Jerry Ting
Mike Palhegyi
Katrina Brown
Rachel Barker
US Navy websites:
http://www.ocs.navy.mil/ocs.asp
http://www.ocs.navy.mil/ocs_program_overview.asp
http://www.ocs.navy.mil/ocs_academics.asp
http://www.ocs.navy.mil/combat_pool.asp
http://www.ocs.navy.mil/pdfs/Updated.Gouge.Pack.OCS2.pdf
http://www.navy.mil/moh/mpmurphy/soa.html
http://www.navy.mil/moh/mpmurphy/oc.html
http://www.navy.mil/moh/mpmurphy/index.html
Photo.net web pages:
http://photo.net/wedding-photography-forum/00W132
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6640660
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6640648
Web pages about or consulted about photographers and people involved:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2830379/resume
http://rannbphoto.blogspot.com/
http://www.millieholloman.com/rachel/
http://www.millieholloman.com/
http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=768546
http://www.lafflerphotography.com/ [Experience to Work Quality]
http://www.lafflerphotography.com/index2.php [“Who Me”, “Weddings”, “Rates”]
Web pages consulted about Sean Peele:
http://www.seanpeelephotography.com/
http://photo.net/wedding-photography-forum/00W132
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=sean+peele+photography&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
http://www.partypop.com/Vendors/4340337.htm
http://www.partypop.com/Vendors/4340009.htm
http://www.google.com/profiles/seanpeelephotography?hl=en
http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A3PD2L5EF4ATHP/ref=cm_cr_pr_pdp
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1172015082&ref=ts
http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/sean-peele/id337777282
http://www.myspace.com/seanpeele
http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/forum/topic/878684
http://www.projectwedding.com/post/list/warning-sean-peele-of-seanpeelephotography-com-is-a-scam
http://www.shared-memories.com/OrangeCounty/photographers-oc.htm
http://www.shared-memories.com/RiversideCounty/photographers-rc.htm
http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=5347899
Web pages about Pfizer:
http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/10005173/pfizer-aiming-for-30900-layoffs-through-2012/
http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/2010/01/11/daily3.html
Web pages about Bristol Myers-Squibb:
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2007/September/07_civ_782.html
http://online.wsj.com/quotes/main.html?symbol=BMY&type=djn
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/news/business/companies/bristol_myers_squibb_company/index.html
Web pages about Novartis:
http://online.wsj.com/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=NVS
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/news/business/companies/novartis_ag/index.html
Web pages about Palos Verdes Peninsula High School:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palos_Verdes_Peninsula_High_School
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_Palos_Verdes,_California
Writer’s notes, correspondence & communications with various sources.
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Originally published under this hyperlink: http://www.agxphoto.com/2010/03/take-it-or-make-it-sean-peele.html
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