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An examination of the cultural landscape preceding the official birth of iconology provides a rich and varied picture in which diverse critical tendencies merge and diverge. Even today, the exchange of ideas during this period can provide useful insights to help clarify the discussion of critical theory.
The work of Jan Białostocki, which reflects the Polish scholar's open-mindedness, breadth of interests, and attention to the necessity of reconsidering perspectives in terms of contemporary art, offers an interpretation of iconology in which the contradictions between iconology and formalism, as developed by Panofsky, are absent. Moreover, Białostocki's interpretation of iconology furnishes an opportunity to consider several themes of the iconographic method in relation to formal problems, without confusion and freed from extraneous polemics.
The Ouattrocento fresco series of uomini famosi in the Sala del Consiglio of the Palazzo del Comune in Lucignano shows that, although the frescoes were painted at different times during the century and commissioned by various patrons (whose names are recorded in the surviving inscriptions), Dante is consistently the source of their iconography. Among the biblical and Classical heroes depicted, the appearance of the Byzantine emperor Justinian, unique in Famous Men cycles, can be explained by Paradiso VI, where Dante describes him as having restored the glory and importance of Rome. Moreover, according to Dante, by promoting the coexistence of spiritual and temporal law under God, Justinian showed that the Romans were God's chosen people. At Lucignano, the virtuous heroes of the ancient past and the Roman world melt into the Christian empire, forming an indissoluble unity.
Few legal chambers have survived relatively intact from the early Italian Renaissance. The decoration of the example in Lucignano reflects extraordinary ambition, presenting the only known surviving illustrated synthesis of Dante's views. A small Tuscan commune thus put forward the poet's conception of justice, as opposed to the narrower tradition of "buon governo" established in the neighboring Republic of Siena.
The conception of Leonardo da Vinci's cartoon of Isabella d'Este in the Louvre is exam-ined, first by contrast to the artist's psychological rendering of the Lady with the Ermine (Cecilia Gallerani) in Cracow, and then in light of Isabella's cultural aspirations, which lent a classical aura to her portrait.
The article seeks to establish a close relationship between Michelangelo and Cardinal Francesco Alidosi, papal legate and governor of Bologna under Julius II, who was an impor-tant intermediary between the artist and the pope. Alidosi, Julius's most trusted advisor, was murdered by none other than the pope's nephew, Francesco Maria della Rovere, Duke of Ur-bino. According to most contemporary reports, Alidosi was a thoroughly despicable character and his murder was met with relief by many.
Whatever weaknesses he exhibited in private life, Alidosi as a patron kept abreast of the newest directions in art. Michelangelo sought his intervention in the famous disagreement with Julius during which the artist left Rome in a huff, and there seems to have been a regular correspondence between the two men. Their most remarkable—and hitherto unnoticed—contact revolved around the commissioning of the Sistine Chapel ceiling decoration. By Michelangelo's testimony, Alidosi actually wrote out the contract (now lost) in his own hand. This article proposes that Alidosi prepared the first comprehensive program for the ceiling, or at least collaborated on it with Michelangelo.
At Trinita dei Monti, Elena Orsini commissioned one of the most famous chapels in mid-sixteenth-century Rome from Daniele da Volterra—not only as an act of piety but also as a means of legitimization, for she was the illegitimate daughter of Archbishop Aldobrandini Orsini. She carefully orchestrated patronage, iconography, and the selection of early Church sources and Counter-Reformation ideas to establish her right to the Orsini name, and to reveal something about herself in the process.
It has usually been assumed that Caravaggio reworked his Martyrdom of St. Matthew in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome, because he was dissatisfied with the composition. In his second version, however, there is a significant change in the picture's iconography, which departs from the more traditional aspects of the known biography of the apostle.
Three male nudes appear in the lower section of the redone painting. These have been variously labeled repoussoirs or neophytes seated in a baptismal pool, the water of which is no longer discernible. In support of a baptismal setting, this article reviews evidence derived from the contracts for the picture, as well as from an analysis of apostles' vitae, rules for the design of baptismal chapels, and ritual practices prevalent in Caravaggio's time. By conflating baptism and martyrdom in his composition, Caravaggio linked death with spiritual rebirth –an appropriate theme for the burial chapel in which the painting hangs.
Before the Second World War, Jan Steen's painting The Drawing Lesson was understood somewhat naively as a straightforward documentary record of actual studio practice in seven-teenth-century Holland. During the last forty years, the picture has come increasingly to be interpreted as a noble allegory of painting and of art education. This article suggests that the picture is deeply ironic. Steen gently ridicules the foppish, overdressed painter who, like the purblind physician in Steen's many versions of The Doctor's Visit, remains unaware of his pupils' emotions: the young boy falling in love with pretty lady at the very moment when she herself is jolted of her innocence by the revelation of uncensored masculinity in the statuette on the table. The painting depicts a rite of passage without ritual pomp, with all the surround-ing paraphernalia providing the requisite authenticity along with plentifuluf further ironies.
The theme of the sleeping woman in art is investigated from a perspective which reopens questions about how artists at different times have represented woman asleep, and what this depiction reveals about the relationship between women and men. The prehistoric image of woman is analyzed in the Sleeping Lady from the Hypogeum in Malta, and the image of an-tiquity in poems by Propertius and the Ariadne in the Vatican Museums. Giorgione's Sleeping Venus in Dresden is related to the image from antiquity, but at the same time represents a newly defined ideal in terms of wedding symbolism. A separate theme, also originating in an-tiquity and appearing with many variations in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, is the sleeping woman watched by men. The modern depiction of sleeping women takes on a more strongly yoyeuristic aspect in works by Gustave Courbet and Johann Baptist Reiter, and also in early photography; but in works by Redon and Brancusi the cosmic reverberations return. Since 1960, completely new perspectives have been opened in performance art, in which women dominate the scene and, for the first time since prehistory, give a female identity to the image of sleeping women. Works by Lygia Clark, Yayoi Kusama, Colette, Natalia Ll, Rimma Gerlovina, Valie Export, and Ulrike Rosenbach are examined in this article.
In this article in honor of the late Jan Białostocki, the author investigates the long-forgotten career of Alexandre Ubelesqui, a Parisian-born artist of Polish origin who was active in Rome from 1673 until his death in 1718. Although information on his family background appears to be all but nonexistent, it is possible to trace Ubelesqui's artistic development from his training at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris and the French Academy in Rome, to his appointment as a professor at the Accademia di San Luca in 1695, and his participation in numerous exhibitions.
From the paintings and drawings which the author has rediscovered, Ubelesqui's style can nów be defined. He is shown to have been a skillful draughtsman and deft narrator, highly versatile in his choice of subjects and techniques. A loyal collaborator of Charles Le Brun, after the master's death in 1690, Ubelesqui assured himself a place among the painters of his time, in the shadow of La Fosse, Jouvenet, Boulogne, and Coypel.
The chalice-shaped font in St. Cassian's church at Chaddesley Corbett, Worcestershire, serves as the departure point for a discussion of the sources of certain unusual features in Ro-manesque sculptural ornamentation. On this font, a work of the Herefordshire School from the second quarter of the twelfth century, the heads of the monsters have Italian counterparts, but the intertwining tails and the bands that loop round these tails, thereby strangling the beasts, are of ancient Germanic origin. The Saxon settlement brought the motif to England where it flourished, later influencing such continental works as the Tassilo Chalice, made for the abbey of Kremsmünster. Another, even more savage Germanic motif is the penetration of forms: animals pierced by their own tails, tongues, legs, or by interlacing bands of ornament are common in Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian art of the Romanesque period.


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Montana's Wildlife Mitigation Program is designed to mitigate the wildlife impacts caused by construction of Libby and Hungry Horse Dams. These two federal hydroelectric facilities, located in northwestern Montana, provide cost-effective, renewable energy to electrical consumers in the Pacific Northwest. But the dams also caused the direct loss of 56,700 acres of land that were home to deer, elk, bighorn sheep, bears, and a variety of other native wildlife.
The 96th Congress recognized the benefits and impacts of the Columbia River federal hydropower system with the passage of the 1980 Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act. This law established the Northwest Power and Conservation Council and charged it with developing a program to balance cost-effective power supply with a program to offset impacts to fish and wildlife habitat affected by hydroelectric development. The act also stipulates that Bonneville Power Administration should fund the program through revenues they collect from the sale of electricity.
In 1988, the state of Montana and Bonneville Power Administration entered into an agreement that transferred $12.5 million from Bonneville to a legislatively established state trust account for the purpose of paying for wildlife mitigation projects in Montana. The 60-year agreement is based on impact assessments completed by Fish, Wildlife & Parks in 1984.
Over the past 23 years, Fish, Wildlife & Parks has completed mitigation projects on more than four times the total acres lost under Koocanusa and Hungry Horse reservoirs. Consequently, we believe that we have fully met the mitigation losses described under the 1988 agreement. The state trust account continues to produce income that is used to maintain past mitigation projects. Revenue in excess of our maintenance need is available to fund additional projects within the Columbia River Basin of Northwest Montana, to further offset impacts caused by the development of Libby and Hungry Horse Dams.
Our current priority for new projects target species and habitats identified in the original mitigation plans, which are underrepresented in our previous projects. Unfortunately, ongoing management costs and current investment returns provide only a few thousand dollars each year for new projects. So our strategy is to leverage those dollars through partnerships with other organizations that have overlapping objectives in order to continue benefiting the priority species and habitats impacted by development of Libby and Hungry Horse Dams.


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THE Gold Coast Titans have been handed one of the heaviest fines in NRL history for breaching the new concussion guidelines for failing to substitute three players in Friday's win over Parramatta.
The NRL has today issued breach notices with fines totalling $350,000 for allegedly failing to follow the concussion protocols in round three.
Gold Coast were the hardest hit, with $150,000 for incidents involving Kane Elgey, Joe Greenwood and Ryan Simpkins.
The Titans were already battling an enormous injury crisis ahead of the Parramatta game and after losing winger William Zillman to a calf strain early in the clash the Gold Coast were forced into major reshuffles of their playing line-up.
All three Titans players finished Friday's 26-14 win over the Eels, but the NRL believe all should have been taken from the field to undergo mandatory concussion testing at some stage in the game after sustaining head knocks.
St George Illawarra was handed a $100,000 fine for an incident involving Josh Dugan and Newcastle were also hit with a $100,000 fine for an incident involving fullback Brendan Elliot.
"These are, by far, the heaviest fines ever proposed by the game for concussion breaches," NRL CEO Todd Greenberg said.
"That is how seriously we take it.
"The clubs involved have the opportunity to respond to the Breach Notices, and we will consider those responses, but our message is clear - we are not going to allow player safety to be put at risk through breaches of the concussion rules."
Greenberg said the NRL had put significant resources into concussion training and education.
"In the majority of cases we see strong compliance with the League's concussion rules but it appears that this did not happen at the weekend in some matches and we cannot stand by and allow player safety to be put at risk," he said.
"Where we believe the rules have been breached we will take action - and we would hope that these Breach Notices will serve as a warning to all clubs."
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January 20, 2016, Michigan City, Indiana – Horizon Bancorp (NASDAQ GS: HBNC) announced Charley E. Gillispie, will retire from the Company's Board of Directors and not stand for re-election at the Company's May 2016 annual meeting. Mr. Gillispie has served on the Board since 2001 and as a Director of the Bank since 2000. Mr. Gillispie has chaired the Board's Audit Committee since 2001. Mr. Gillispie is relocating to the state of Florida and will no longer maintain a residence in Northwest Indiana. Mr. Gillispie believes that it's important for a community bank director to live, work and be engaged in the communities served by the bank, and that is also one of Horizon's criteria when considering candidates for its Board of Directors.
His service to the local area spans many years with his retirement in July 2013 from Valparaiso University where he had served for seventeen years as Senior Vice President for Administration and Finance (CFO). From July 2013 through December 31, 2015, Mr. Gillispie continued to serve the University as Retired Senior Vice President for Administration and Finance and Special Assistant to the President. During his tenure as Special Assistant to the President, he mentored first generation and minority students and assisted in developing internship opportunities for these students. Mr. Gillispie truly is an inspiration to all those that have had the privilege of knowing or working with him.
During his tenure with Horizon Bancorp, Mr. Gillispie chaired the Board's Audit Committee since 2001.
"Mr. Gillispie has provided sound leadership, guidance and critical audit insight throughout his tenure with Horizon," said Craig M. Dwight, Chairman and CEO of Horizon Bancorp. "We wish Mr. Gillispie and his family enjoyment in his well-deserved retirement years".
"Horizon intends to announce the Company's new Audit Committee Chairperson prior to the date Mr. Gillispie retires from the Board. Horizon is fortunate to have five financial experts currently serving on our Board of Directors who would be eligible to assume the Audit Committee Chairperson position. As a result, we are expecting a smooth transition in this role." continued Dwight.
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Horizon Bancorp is a locally owned, independent, commercial bank holding company serving northern and central Indiana and southwest and central Michigan through its commercial banking subsidiary Horizon Bank, NA. Horizon also offers mortgage-banking services throughout the Midwest. Horizon Bancorp may be reached online at www.horizonbank.com. Its common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol HBNC.
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- Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
-- Frederic Bastiat
Martin Armstrong talks a lot about the law and the importance of following the rule of law, it's one of the primary ingredients to the formation of capital. Without it, capital will flee. Without it, society breaks down – just view the video on the preceding post to see that happening in real time. Allow the rule of law to break down too far, and eventually you will get revolt.
That's exactly what Frederic Bastiat wrote about when he wrote "The Law," first published in the year 1850 (he died that Christman Eve). Frequent contributor, Joe, turned me onto his writing this morning by posting the following passage from his Bastiat's pamphlet:
"Man can live and satisfy his wants only by ceaseless labor; by the ceaseless application of his faculties to natural resources. This process is the origin of property.
But it is also true that a man may live and satisfy his wants by seizing and consuming the products of the labor of others. This process is the origin of plunder.
Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain — and since labor is pain in itself — it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it.
When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.
It is evident, then, that the proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of to work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder.
But, generally, the law is made by one man or one class of men. And since law cannot operate without the sanction and support of a dominating force, this force must be entrusted to those who make the laws.
This fact, combined with the fatal tendency that exists in the heart of man to satisfy his wants with the least possible effort, explains the almost universal perversion of the law. Thus it is easy to understand how law, instead of checking injustice, becomes the invincible weapon of injustice. It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of the people, their personal independence by slavery, their liberty by oppression, and their property by plunder. This is done for the benefit of the person who makes the law, and in proportion to the power that he holds."
Simply stated and oh so true. What he could not see was the eventual entanglement of corporations and their money with government. Plunder is a severe understatement for what's happening in America, and why I say that we need to separate our coporations and their money from state.
So, we have a ying and a yang with government… too much law and too much government and we head into socialism (plunder); too little law and we degenerate into lawlessness. Once again life is a balance, just as Freedom and Security are intertwined and must also strike a balance. Pursue freedom, you will find security. Pursue security, you will compromise both security and freedom. Pursue security no matter the cost, and you will have neither security nor freedom.
Reading the entire work of Bastiat's "The Law" pamphlet doesn't take long and I highly recommend that you read it online at this site - The Law - Frédéric Bastiat.
Scroll down and you'll begin reading with his work broken clearly into little, easy to read, pieces. Be sure to read the introduction there.
You'll find that his thinking and writing was shaped by a revolutionary period in France. The introduction draws the analogy of France at that time (The French Revolution) to the U.S. of today and the similarities are striking.
Not only does he slam socialism, but he also slams other forms of government as well. The closest thing to perfection, in his opinion, was the then pre-Civil War United States. Of course the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence were founded upon many of the same principles as the Magna Carta. Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are, according to Bastiat, a part of the order of nature.
Definitely timeless thinking and timeless writing, below are some of passages that caught my attention:
The Cause of French Revolutions
…This will remain the case so long as human beings with feelings continue to remain passive; so long as they consider themselves incapable of bettering their prosperity and happiness by their own intelligence and their own energy; so long as they expect everything from the law; in short, so long as they imagine that their relationship to the state is the same as that of the sheep to the shepherd.
The Enormous Power of Government
…But if the government undertakes to control and to raise wages, and cannot do it; if the government undertakes to care for all who may be in want, and cannot do it; if the government undertakes to support all unemployed workers, and cannot do it; if the government undertakes to lend interest-free money to all borrowers, and cannot do it; if, in these words that we regret to say escaped from the pen of Mr. de Lamartine, "The state considers that its purpose is to enlighten, to develop, to enlarge, to strengthen, to spiritualize, and to sanctify the soul of the people" — and if the government cannot do all of these things, what then? Is it not certain that after every government failure — which, alas! is more than probable — there will be an equally inevitable revolution?
Politics and Economics
A science of economics must be developed before a science of politics can be logically formulated. Essentially, economics is the science of determining whether the interests of human beings are harmonious or antagonistic. This must be known before a science of politics can be formulated to determine the proper functions of government.
Immediately following the development of a science of economics, and at the very beginning of the formulation of a science of politics, this all-important question must be answered: What is law? What ought it to be? What is its scope; its limits? Logically, at what point do the just powers of the legislator stop?
I do not hesitate to answer: Law is the common force organized to act as an obstacle of injustice. In short, law is justice.
The Basis for Stable Government
Law is justice. In this proposition a simple and enduring government can be conceived. And I defy anyone to say how even the thought of revolution, of insurrection, of the slightest uprising could arise against a government whose organized force was confined only to suppressing injustice.
Under such a regime, there would be the most prosperity — and it would be the most equally distributed. As for the sufferings that are inseparable from humanity, no one would even think of accusing the government for them. This is true because, if the force of government were limited to suppressing injustice, then government would be as innocent of these sufferings as it is now innocent of changes in the temperature.
As proof of this statement, consider this question: Have the people ever been known to rise against the Court of Appeals, or mob a Justice of the Peace, in order to get higher wages, free credit, tools of production, favorable tariffs, or government-created jobs? Everyone knows perfectly well that such matters are not within the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals or a Justice of the Peace. And if government were limited to its proper functions, everyone would soon learn that these matters are not within the jurisdiction of the law itself.
But make the laws upon the principle of fraternity — proclaim that all good, and all bad, stem from the law; that the law is responsible for all individual misfortunes and all social inequalities — then the door is open to an endless succession of complaints, irritations, troubles, and revolutions.
Justice Means Equal Rights
Law is justice. And it would indeed be strange if law could properly be anything else! Is not justice right? Are not rights equal? By what right does the law force me to conform to the social plans of Mr. Mimerel, Mr. de Melun, Mr. Thiers, or Mr. Louis Blanc? If the law has a moral right to do this, why does it not, then, force these gentlemen to submit to my plans? Is it logical to suppose that nature has not given me sufficient imagination to dream up a utopia also? Should the law choose one fantasy among many, and put the organized force of government at its service only?
There is much more worth reading, I hope you take a few minutes to read it if you aren't familiar.
If you wish to read it in one piece, below is his work as published by the Mises Institute. The Foreword here is written by Thomas DiLorenzo and is excellent.
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I will leave you with the last two paragraphs from his work simply entitled "Government," and ask simply, under which of the following forms of government do we currently reside?
Citizens! In all times, two political systems have been in existence, and each may be maintained by good reasons. According to one of them, Government ought to do much, but then it ought to take much. According to the other, this two-fold activity ought to be little felt. We have to choose between these two systems. But as regards the third system, which partakes of both the others, and which consists in exacting everything from Government, without giving it anything, it is chimerical, absurd, childish, contradictory, and dangerous. Those who parade it, for the sake of the pleasure of accusing all governments of weakness, and thus exposing them to your attacks, are only flattering and deceiving you, while they are deceiving themselves.
For ourselves, we consider that Government is and ought to be nothing whatever but the united power of the people, organized, not to be an instrument of oppression and mutual plunder among citizens; but, on the the contrary, to secure to every one his own, and to cause justice and security to reign.--Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
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- Backgrounder: Students from Poverty
This paper addresses poverty's impact on student physical, mental, and socioeconomic health, as well as the school's role in student development and advocating for programs and services proven to level the academic playing field.
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From NEA Education Policy and Practice & Priority Schools Departments and Center for Great Public Schools: Closing achievement gaps must remain a priority. See what's causing the gaps to continue, and how we can fix it.
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It is well known that the geckos can cling to almost any surface using highly dense micro/nano fibrils found on the feet that rely on Van Der Waals forces to adhere. A few experimental and theoretical approaches have been taken to understand the adhesion mechanism of gecko feet. This work explains the building procedure of custom experimental setup to test the adhesion force over a temperature range and extends its application in space environment, potentially unsafe working condition. This study demonstrates that these adhesive capable of switching adhesive properties not only at room environment but also over a temperature range …
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"Smart" materials are used for a broad range of application including electronics, bio-medical devices, and smart clothing. This work focuses on development of smart self-sealing and breathable protective gear for soldiers against Chemical Weapon Agents (CWA). Specifically, the response of chemo-mechanical swelling polymer modified meshes to contact with stimuli droplets was studied. Theoretical discussion of the mechanism of smart materials is followed by development and experimental analysis of different modified mesh designs. A multi-physics model is proposed based on experimental data and the prototype of the fabric is tested in aerosol impingement conditions to confirm the barrier formed by rapid-self-sealing …
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While some companies have mature security practices that can incorporate a bug bounty program, many organizations don't know about the existence of the vulnerability market. Such firms aren't refusing to pay market price for vulnerabilities--they don't even know that vulnerability information can be purchased and sold this way. Should vulnerability researchers treat such firms differently from the firms that knowingly choose not to participate in the vulnerability market?I addressed everything but the last question (I think) in the last post. But Lenny addresses a serious ethical concern here. Should we as security researchers treat firms differently based on their participation in (or knowledge of) the vulnerability market? There is an implied question here that may be difficult to examine: namely, how do you as a security researcher determine whether the firm has knowledge of a vulnerability market?
I would propose that one way to confirm knowledge is an explicit "we don't pay for bugs" message on the website. This implies that they know other companies pay for bugs, but they refuse to lower themselves to that level. IMHO, these guys get no mercy. They don't give away their research (their software), I'm not really interested in giving mine away either. Ethically, I think I'm good here to release anything I find (and fire for effect).
Generally, I treat any company with a disclosure policy (but no bug bounty) in the same category as those who simply refuse to pay. If you have a published disclosure policy, it doesn't pass the sniff test that you don't also know about bug bounties. Even if there's no explicit policy on paying (or not paying) bug bounties, the omission of this data in and of itself means that that you're not paying. Bad on you. Again, I argue for no mercy using the same "your time isn't free, why should mine be" argument.
In the two categories above, it's pretty easy to slam a company by using full public disclosure or third party sale. What about when neither of these conditions have been met? What sorts of disclosure are appropriate in these cases? Is third party sale of the vulnerability appropriate?
In my opinion, this can be handled on a case by case basis. However, I'm going to take the (probably unpopular) position that the answer has as much to do with the security researcher as it does with the target company. For instance, I would expect a large vulnerability research firm to exercise some level of responsible disclosure when dealing with a software company that employs two full time developers. I would hope that they would work to perform a coordinated disclosure of the vulnerability.
However, I don't think an independent vulnerability researcher with no budget has much motivation to work closely with a large software vendor that has no disclosure policy. If the software firm is making money, why expect an independent researcher to work for free? The security researcher may find himself in a sticky situation if the company has no public bug bounty. Does the company have an explicit policy not to pay for bugs? Is the lack of a disclosure policy just an oversight?
The independent researcher might prefer to give the vulnerability to the vendor, but also has rent to pay. In this case, should the researcher approach the vendor and request payment in exchange for the bug? This seems to be at the heart of what Lenny originally asked about. Clearly this is an ethical dilemma.
If the researcher approaches the vendor asking for money, only three possible outcomes exist:
- The vendor pays a reasonable (market price) bounty
- The vendor offers a pittance for the vuln (see Yahoo! t-shirtgate)
- The vendor refuses to pay any price (and may attempt legal action to prevent disclosure)
So my answer to Lenny's question is a fair "it depends." I'm not all for a big corporate entity picking on the little guy. But if the tables are reversed, sounds like a payday to me (whether or not the existence of a vulnerability market can be provably known).
Only one question remains in my mind: what if there is no bug bounty but because the attack space for the vulnerability is very small, there is also no market for the vulnerability? Well in this case, disclosure is coming, it's just a question of whether the disclosure is coordinated with the vendor. I don't have strong opinions here, but feel it's up to the researcher to evaluate which disclosure option works best for him. Since he's already put in lots of free labor, don't be surprised when he chooses the one most likely to being in future business.


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User talk:Axel
Hey Axel,
I noticed that you were making use of Help:Hosting courses and the sample course OWW.101 for 840.119. That's great. I am still in the process of trying to put the help pages for courses together so if you have any feedback, revisions or other useful tutorials you'd recommend, I'd love to hear it. You can of course edit the help pages yourself if you like.
Reshma 18:58, 30 August 2006 (EDT)
Print page problems
Hi Reshma,
the Help:Hosting courses page is just fine. I found it easy to work with. However, as I tried to print the page using the 'printable version' function, the page did not print after the first graphics. It looked fine on the screen but the printout contained only the text until the first graph - nothing beyond. It does not seem to be a problem with my printer (HP Laserjet 1320) since the same thing happened when i printed to a PDF file (to generate a PDF output). I have no clue how to fix this and just wanted to let you know.
Have a good day, Axel
Hey Axel,
Looks like you found a pretty subtle bug. It should be fixed now. Thanks so much for pointing this out!
Reshma 16:18, 31 August 2006 (EDT)
Naming of project pages
Hey Axel,
I changed 840.119:Projects so that each of the links pointed to 840.119:project 1 rather than just project 1. I thought this might help flag those pages as belonging to your class project so that others don't edit the pages. Hope this ok! Let me know if not.
Reshma 15:38, 5 September 2006 (EDT)
Course Template not autmatically activated
Hi Reshma, thanks for taking care of the project page titles. That makes sense.
Regarding the course template I was just wondering why the subpages of my course like "people", "projects", and "help" do not make use of the template. Do I have to tell the system that I want to use the template (activate it)? How?
Best regards,
Hi Axel,
Yes you need to include the line
{{Template:840.119}} at the top of the page in order for the template to be included. But it looks like you've already figured that out! :)
Reshma 16:15, 5 September 2006 (EDT)
Hi Reshma,
Yes, I figured that out just before you replied. thanks anyway.
However, when I re-edited the course help-page of the course 840.119, the first line containing the code pointing to the template had disappeared and I re-entered it again. The same result and I did it once more - ending up with a source code not showing any of the links to the template but the acutal page showing three copies of the header graphics from the template. Strange! At a later attempt all three copies of the line pointing to the template were visible in the source code of 840.119:help and I deleted two of the extra copies. The page then looked normal and contained just one instance of the template graphics - as anticipated. But now again, I cannot remove this line (which I actually do not wanna do) from the source code of the page because again it is not visible. I dont know if that's a problem of my system only (which is brandnew). Not a big problem but I just wanted to let you know about it.
Best regards, Axel
Hey Axel,
I think the problem is which edit link you are using. If you use the edit link at the top of the page that looks like then you will be able to edit the entire contents of the page (and see
{{Template:840.119}}. If you use the edit link on the right side of the page, next to Developing your project webpage at openwetware.org then you are editing only that section of the page and therefore won't see the
{{Template:840.119}} because that is in a different section. The section edit links enable people to be editing different parts of the same page at the same time.
Let me know if this makes sense and if it solves your problem.
Reshma 17:59, 5 September 2006 (EDT)
Hi Reshma,
yeah - you are right. Thats the solution! Its always good to have an expert around. Thanks very much for replying so soon.


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Bankruptcy again for 'Reader's Digest'
- RDA first filed for bankruptcy reorganization in 2009
- Company emerged from bankruptcy in 2010
- CEO says the company needs to shed more debt
Reader's Digest is banking on a second circuit through bankruptcy court to shore up its fortunes.
RDA Holding, parent company of the Reader's Digest Association, filed Sunday for Chapter 11 reorganization and put in motion a restructuring plan with its creditors that would convert about $465 million in debt to equity. The company also has a commitment for $105 million in debtor-in-possession financing.
"After considering a wide range of alternatives, we believe this course of action will most effectively enable us to maintain our momentum in transforming the business," CEO Robert Guth says.
Like many print publishers, RDA has seen the fortunes of its largely print-based products -- including its flagship Reader's Digest -- founder as the shift to digital information hurt subscriptions and newsstand sales.
Last year, it sold its Allrecipes.com property to Des Moines-based magazine publisher Meredith for $175 million and its Weekly Reader to Scholastic for an undisclosed sum.
The company, which says it still has more than "21 market-leading brands in 76 countries," first filed for bankruptcy protection in August 2009 and emerged in February 2010. But its comeback has been hampered by lingering debt and declines in Europe and Asia.
Reader's Digest has been around for 91 years and remains one of the world's largest-circulation magazines.
It is the fifth-most-popular magazine in the U.S. with a domestic circulation of about 5.5 million, according to the Alliance for Audited Media, behind two AARP publications, Game Informer magazine, and Meredith's Better Homes and Gardens. And Guth says the company is gaining traction in digital media.
He says this second bankruptcy filing "will enable us to continue to define our business by focusing our resources on our strong North America publishing brands, which have shown a new vitality as a result of our transformation efforts, particularly in the digital arena."
Van Conway, CEO of Detroit-based bankruptcy and turnaround firm Conway MacKenzie, says RDA is likely looking to shed the whole enterprise. "The only way to monetize the investment is a sale of the business down the road or a leveraged buyout or recapitalization of new debt," he says.
The company will continue to publish its magazines during the restructuring period and says it expects to conclude its reorganization within about six months.
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The first phase of the re-installation works of the Aksum Obelisk, also known as Stele 2, in its original location at the World Heritage site in Aksum, Ethiopia was completed on 12 June 2008. The first and second of three blocks of the stele, which stands 24.3 metres high and weighs 152 tons, have been successfully and smoothly mounted.
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The Council serves educators in the public education sector, specifically those employed in terms of the Employment of Educators Act 76 of 1998.
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There are a number of blogs out there including mine here that write all about Korea, but what exists when it comes to actual Korean media that is either translated in English or is produced in English to help foreigners learn more about the "land of the morning calm?"
Well, it used to be mainly just the newspapers, The Korea Herald, JoongAng Ilbo (i.e., JoonAng Daily), and the Korea Times. The AP of Korea, Yonhap News also provides their content in English as well here, but it seems that not all their content is fully translated into English. Over time, the Chosun Ilbo (or Daily) has converted a bunch of their content here into English.
One of Korea's leading TV & Radio networks, Korean Broadcasting System (aka KBS) appears to have recently translated a lot of their content here in English. They have also translated their content in Chinese & Japanese as well. KBS World Radio also is translated in English. KBS World TV as well is available in English. It's the inspiration behind today's post since I had a bit of difficulty in the past obtaining English information about dramas or other TV content on the other major networks MBC, SBS, & EBS.


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JERUSALEM, April 7 (Reuters) - Israel Radio said on Monday that Israel has evidence backing Syrian opposition accusations that forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad had used non-lethal chemical weapons in Damascus last month.
The report quoted an unidentified senior Israeli defense official as saying there were two attacks on March 27, using a "neutralizing chemical weapon", east of Damascus and at another location.
The report was broadcast shortly after Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon met the Israeli media. There was no immediate comment from government officials.
Last Thursday, opposition activists accused Assad's forces of using poison gas, showing footage of an apparently unconscious man lying on a bed and being treated by medics.
The alleged attack, the activists said, was carried out in Damascus's Jobar neighborhood. Reuters could not independently verify the footage or the claims due to security restrictions on reporting in Syria.
One opposition group, the Syrian Revolutionary Coordinators Union, said that all those affected by the gas were "in a good condition". There has been on-off fighting between rebels and government forces in Jobar this year.
A U.N. inquiry found in December that sarin gas had likely been used in Jobar in August and in several other locations, including in the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Ghouta, where hundreds of people were killed.
The inquiry was only looking at whether chemical weapons were used, not who used them. The Syrian government and the opposition have each accused the other of using chemical weapons, and both have denied it.
The Ghouta attack sparked global outrage and a U.S. threat of military strikes, which was dropped after Assad pledged to destroy his chemical weapons.
But the Syrian government failed to meet a Feb. 5 deadline to move all of its declared chemical substances and precursors, some 1,300 tonnes, out of the country. Israel Radio quoted the defense official as saying the material used on March 27 was not on the list of chemicals due to be removed.
Syria has since agreed to a new timetable to remove the weapons by late April.
Syria's three-year civil war has killed more than 150,000 people, a third of them civilians, and caused millions to flee. (Reporting by Jeffrey Heller, Editing by Crispian Balmer)


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CHICAGO -- Charlie Leesman will make his Major League debut and start Game 2 of Friday's split doubleheader against the Twins at U.S. Cellular Field, as announced by White Sox manager Robin Ventura on Wednesday.
"We needed another lefty," said Ventura in a highly sarcastic tone, with the White Sox already having four lefties in their starting rotation.
Leesman, 26, was an 11th-round selection in the 2008 First-Year Player Draft and had his strongest year for Triple-A Charlotte in 2012 with a 2.47 ERA over 26 starts. But he sustained a left knee injury during the International League playoffs and was rehabbing from surgery to repair his ACL during this past Spring Training.
The White Sox designated Leesman for assignment in April to make room for infielder Tyler Greene, but Leesman chose to stay in the White Sox system. Leesman ultimately could end up as part of the White Sox bullpen, but he will get his chance to start Friday as the 26th-man exemption for the doubleheader.
"There were points last year where he might have had a start," said Ventura of Leesman, who has a 3.47 ERA over 13 starts for Charlotte this season. "There was talk of having [Erik] Johnson doing it, but he's only been off the disabled list for two starts. We get good reports on Charlie, and let's see what we got."


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I have recently refound my love of giving guided tours through a company that aims to provide archaeologist guides around the most famous Neolithic sites of Wiltshire. Unlike the big tour buses, who herd their charges to the Stonehenge bus armed with an audioguide to explain the construction and purpose of this unique five thousand year old monument, Tours from Antiquity aims to provide a "real-life" archaeologist on small tour groups full of discerning travellers.
The power of TripAdvisor cannot be underestimated. Edward Shepherd, who set up Tours from Antiquity and has been leading tour groups on his own for the last five years, has needed to take on some help (including me) this year as his business reputation grows on the platform. There is demand from tourists who want in depth, detailed and accurate information about these amazing Stone Age sites. What also helps are the small group sizes (no 60-seater buses where half the group is talking over the tour guide), an early start to avoid the Stonehenge mania and providing more of a context for Stonehenge by taking in more of the World Heritage Site. On my tour on the Day of Archaeology, we got there and got out well before the queues started to build. It's great that Stonehenge is so popular, but if you don't like crowds, you've got to get there early.
I do love digging and discovery in museum collections, but I adore talking to the wider public about archaeology, when they're interested. My tour group on the Day of Archaeology was made up of people from the US, Canada, Argentina, and India, and I've also had people from Singapore, China, Sweden, Norway, France, Spain, Australia and New Zealand. All this international interest in Stonehenge! I would have liked to have talked to some Brits, but I guess they get to these sites under their own steam for the most part.
The act of talking to people about the archaeology challenges me to find a narrative, a reason for things, that is often missing from the standard literature (with its talk of ritual curation of the landscape into blah, blah, blah). It makes more sense when talking to actual people to have a story, a thread to hold on to in the flood of information. It's no good telling people a load of disconnected facts. It's easy to connect Durrington Walls and Stonehenge by their respective avenues and alignments on the solstices, for instance. Another strand in my story is the development of archaeology from William Cunnington and Richard Colt-Hoare to Maud Cunnington to Mike Parker-Pearson and Nick Snashall. The group loved to hear about the recent ground penetrating radar work by the University of Birmingham that might have located buried stones under the Durrington Walls bank.
It can be dangerous, though, to tell too neat a story as if its the truth. So I'm careful to point out the various interpretations, and the limitations of what we can do with the evidence, too. I think there was an expectation from most of the members of the tour group that, as an archaeologist, I would also throw out certain theories without hesitation. Some of the visitors came pretty well-informed already, and had adopted a little of the old-fashioned scorn of fringe archaeology that characterised some of the previous generations of archaeologists. I know I don't speak for everyone in archaeology when I keep an open mind about the survival of Neolithic practices into historical times, and look outside the strict boundaries of archaeological literature for ideas (anyone who has listened to my podcast knows I love Bernard Cornwell's theory of Silbury Hill). Ley-lines and aliens can take a running jump, though. There is a limit. We saw another tour group making a crop circle in a field just north of West Kennet long barrow, and I'm afraid I couldn't control my dismay.
The other thing I felt I needed to be careful about was the chronology. While many of these monuments were being constructed/used at vaguely the same time, there is the danger of presenting the 'story' as if there were two competing tribes trying to outdo each other on a day for day timetable. A lintel goes up at Stonehenge one day, the next day the people up at Avebury raise Silbury Hill by another ten metres. Maybe not.
I have always found that talking out loud about the archaeology helps my brain work. I've had a few ideas for research projects. One guy on my tour on the Day of Archaeology asked me whether there was a time of year for burying the dead under round barrows and whether the body would be buried then and then the mound built later when people had time in the agricultural year. While radiocarbon dating couldn't detect this kind of short time scale, I need to look in the literature for pollen date of the primary burial and the encircling ditch to see if this indicates quick burial and barrow-digging at leisure.
I was able to direct my tour towards Salisbury Museum to see the Stonehenge and Amesbury Archers having mentioned them earlier in the day, a bit of bluestone potentially from Stonehenge, finds from Durrington Walls. Only one guy took me up on that suggestion, though, most people preferring to see the cathedral and have a rest from the Neolithic in the middle of the day.
Over the course of the day (which starts at 7.30am) I got to bond with my tour group over a mutual interest in prehistory, and the beauty of this tour is ending in the Red Lion pub inside Avebury stone circle and henge, with a pint of Avebury Well Water, the local brew, still chatting about the nature of the past, conservation, oral history and so much more. By the end of the day I'm always sad to see them leave, knowing we won't bump into each other again, apart from perhaps a nice review on TripAdvisor. I just hope I've been a good enough ambassador for these World Heritage Sites.


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