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Ireland's largest bookmaker has tagged four-time Boston Marathon champion, Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot of Kenya, as a 6-to-4 bet to win Monday's 113th edition of the race, the best odds of any man in the invited field. The bookmaker, Paddy Power, is offering bets on nine of the men's invited athletes, with the longest odds at 25-to-1.
Another Kenyan, Evans Cheruiyot, last October's Bank of America Chicago Marathon champion, was given a 5-to-2 chance to win, and American Ryan Hall of Big Bear Lake, Calif., is rated at 7-to-2. Hall is the fastest man in the field with a 2:06:17 personal best.
The remaining odds offered by Paddy Power are as follows: Deriba Merga, Ethiopia, 9-to-1; Daniel Rono, Kenya, 14-1; Ben Maiyo, Kenya, 14-to-1; Gashaw Melese Asfaw, Ethiopia, 20-to-1; and Gudisa Shentema, Ethiopia, 25-to-1.
Abebe Dinkesa of Ethiopia is also listed at 25-to-1, but he has withdrawn from the race, according to John Hancock Financial, the sponsor of the elite fields at Boston.
Paddy Power, nor any other bookmaker, offered odds on the women's race.


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Complex functionality, dynamic workflows, constantly changing requirements and the demand for intuitive user interfaces have consigned monolithic, one-size-fits-all case management systems to the round file.
Now, these systems must also allow for access to data for analysis, measure performance across a number of areas, and allow for the sharing of information with both the public and justice partners. That's where a "Court Component Model" fits in. These systems promote a modular, business-driven approach. We learned about proposed components and plans to develop standards-based interfaces and get insights from the various stakeholder perspectives, including potential impacts on the marketplace for solutions providers.
– JTC Resource Bulletin: Introduction to the Court Component Model
– IJIS Courts Advisory Committee (ICAC) Court Technology Provider Directory
Jim Harris
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National Center for State Courts
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Director of Information Services
Texas Office of Court Administration

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Letter from the Campus Head
Dear St George's Family
I cannot believe I am opening this letter with, "Welcome back", it seems like yesterday I was wishing all our families well for the Easter break. Term 1 certainly was a most successful and busy term and clearly Term 2 will be no different.
Traditionally our winter terms are busy with more sports fixtures than usual as our boys and girls all have the opportunity to play at least two team sports. May we please appeal to all our parents to take note of the Term Calendar and the tours/fixtures/derby days arranged for the pupils? It really is disheartening when families withdraw their children from certain events/fixtures as this obviously has an impact on the teams and various age groups. One of our school values is commitment and we encourage all our pupils to commit to all the fixtures, festivals and tours arranged for their respective teams.
As a school we really are doing everything in our power to ensure we can offer as many opportunities to our boys and girls as possible. This of course will always come at a cost and we have intentionally given very early notice, particularly for tours, to try inform parents and provide a fairly accurate costing, so that we can all plan together to allow these opportunities to happen. Being a smaller school, we obviously understand that many pupils are involved in all aspects of school life and this too can become costly. Please rest assured we do keep the costs to cover just the basic necessities of a tour, any other extra's like kit, clothing etc. are covered through either sponsorship or fundraising by the parents of that particular group.
We are obviously also very excited with the newly renovated Grade 1 and 7 classrooms, and are very eager to complete as many classrooms as possibly for the benefit of all our pupils. At our recent Family Camp-Out, we encouraged the pupils to take parents into the new classrooms to really experience them first hand and hopefully get a better understanding of what we are wanting to achieve. Please go to the following link, to read a recent blog I wrote that hopefully will give you further clarity https://www.stgeorges.co.za/2018/04/12/thinking-about-our-thinking/. It really is more than just a fancy classroom!
Obviously this is a large Capital Project and we will be approaching various stakeholders to possibly sponsor an entire classroom. We do also, however, understand that some parents may want to contribute in some form or another towards the classrooms. With this in mind we have launched a campaign to try and raise funds to speed up the process. This can be found at: https://www.stgeorges.co.za/classroom-transformation/ and a brochure has been handed to your child to be shared with you. We are also acutely aware of the costs of sending your child to St George's and the various sacrifices that many parents do make to give their children the opportunity to attend our special school. As such there is no obligation to contribute and we appeal purely to those members of our immediate community who are in a position to assist.
May you all have a wonderful term with many exciting events ahead and I look forward to watching our U12 and U13 Girl's Netball sides playing in Knysna on Thursday!
Kind regards
Alex Hall – Campus Head
Twitter- @AlexHallZA
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Staff News
Congratulations to Miss Kendall Rowe who married Morgan Westcott over the Easter weekend. Welcome back Mrs Westcott!
Mrs Cindy Tanner is on a Term's leave. We welcome Mrs Charne Scheffel who will take Grade 2S this Term.
It is with great sadness that I need to inform you that Mrs Phillippa Johannessen (nee Long), has resigned from her position as Grade R Teacher and will be relocating to East London with her husband next term. Phillippa, during her time here at St George's Pre-Prep, has made a significant difference to all those pupils who were fortunate to be in her care. Her whole-hearted involvement and wonderful relationships built with staff, pupils and parents will certainly be missed. We wish Phillippa many happy years in East London with her new position as a Foundation Phase Teacher, I know she is very sad to be leaving St George's Pre-Preparatory but is also excited with the challenges ahead and the prospects of new opportunities.
Winter Uniform:
A reminder that pupils are to start wearing the winter uniform from Tuesday 2 May.
Water restrictions and the wearing of school uniform
With water restrictions still firmly in place within the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, the strain on the water supply to the city and the increased cost of water, St George's Prep has decided to continue being proactive instead of reactive.
Until until water restrictions are lifted in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, pupils will continue be allowed to wear sports clothes and tracksuits to school in Term 2 on the days that they take part in sporting activities. We are hoping that by allowing this to happen we will be doing our part to save a very precious natural resource, while at the same time saving the cost of having to wash so many items of clothing.
What's happening first two weeks of May – (School Events & Sport Fixtures: 2 – 19 May 2018)
The d6 Communicator is kept up to date with the daily fixtures. Also refer to your blue Calendars.
PLEASE NOTE: the Sports Fixtures are not yet available as we are still waiting for confirmation from other schools. The Sports Fixtures will be sent out as soon as they have all been confirmed. Until then your coach will be informing you as and when there is a match.
Important Dates for Term 2
Upcoming Events
One Day without Shoes Outreach Initiative – Thursday 10 May 2018
On Thursday 10 May we will be celebrating "one-day without shoes". We would like to make our pupils more aware of the needs of others less fortunate who have to cope daily going to school without shoes.
We will be collecting donations of new or gently worn shoes for an underprivileged school, Fernwood Park Primary School situated in Bethelsdorp. Any kind of shoes and any size will be most welcome. However, there is a great need for school shoes and takkies. Please tie the pair of shoes together with string before sending them to school.
Alternatively there is also an option to send R80 from which a new pair of school shoes would be purchased on your behalf to donate to Fernwood Park Primary School. If you choose this option please send the exact money in a marked envelope addressed SHOE OUTREACH and hand it to your class teacher by Tuesday 8 May.
Pupils to please bring all shoe donations on Thursday 10 May and take them directly to the school hall. We request that our pupils arrive and leave school on Thursday 10 May wearing their school shoes. Shoes will be taken off for the duration of the school day.
Thank you all for your continuous support for our outreach projects throughout the year.
St George's Fair 2018 – Saturday 16 June 2018
Look out for our exciting Raffle which will be launched shortly and Raffle sheets will be sent home to each St George's family so you can start selling tickets to family, friends and colleagues. There are some amazing prizes to be won, tickets will cost R20 each and for every ten tickets sold the family will receive a free entry!
A reminder to please bring second-hand books (children & adult) for us to sell at this stall and the Kiddies Tombola jars, which were very popular at the last Fair. These can be brought to Mrs Berry's office (opposite the secretary's office) at the Prep or handed in at the Pre-Prep school office.
A Peek around the Prep
We post photographs, events, announcements etc. on our Facebook page, Twitter and Instagram Accounts regularly – keep up to date with all that the Prep and Pre-Prep get up to – click on the links below and like, follow and share!
Well done to all our Rugby and Netball players who competed at the Charlo Sevens and Netball Festival on Saturday 21 April 2018
Well done to all our Rugby and Netball players who competed at the Charlo Sevens and Netball Festival on Saturday 21 April 2018
Pupils, staff and our special guests from "The Royal Society of St George" came together to celebrate St George's Day on Friday 20 April. Following our St George's Day assembly, where past pupil Candice Millar told us of her time as a Pre-Prep & Prep pupil, the Pre-schoolers enjoyed an obstacle race whilst the Grade 1-7 pupils enjoyed an "Amazing Race" followed by lunch on the lawn.
Our Grade 4-7 Golf Championship and Golf Day was held at Walmer GOLF CLUB on Thursday 19 April – thank you to all our sponsors and golfers for your support and well done to our young golfers who braved the blustery conditions.
It's not every day you get to play at your Prep School's Golf Day and have the ball you used at the Golf Championships as a school boy still in your bag!
Our Grade 3's are learning about countries of the world, and last week the country was Italy –they had lots of fun making their own pizzas
Grade 1's enjoying their Phys Ed lessons
We are proud of our Grade 7's who each knitted a square in Technology last term & Mrs du Toit who sewed the squares together to create a blanket. The blanket has been donated to Hope Edu-care in Joe Slovo
Grade 1's dress up as a family member for their isiXhosa class
Our Junior Prep watched and participated in a puppet show last week about global warming and the effect plastics and various types of pollution have on our environment
Our 1st XI Hockey boys playing for 3/4th place at the Grey U13 tournament!
The Grade 2 Boys' on the Astro


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In a new expo, over 250 artworks item the devastating effect of war on Iraq, something its curators accept has not been addressed culturally until now
As you walk into Moma PS1 in Queens, New York, tourists are responded with an unlikely wall sculpture- the CNN logo at the end of an oversized gold chain.
It's great for a selfie op, but there's a deeper meaning to the artwork, created in 2002 by Thomas Hirschhorn. CNN played a pivotal role in speed up the 24 -hour news coverage of the Gulf war, preparing the pace for struggle news.
This artwork is being shown as part of Theater of Activity: the Gulf Wars, 1991-2011, peculiarity over 250 artworks by 75 masters. It details the shocking, gruesome effects of war, as told by western and Middle Eastern artists.
" We realise there hasn't been a major sketch of Iraqi art in the US ," said Peter Eleey, who co-curated the exhibition with Ruba Katrib." Everyone wants to talk about the current conflict, but this conflict has been going on for 30 times. We're looking at what an creator on one side of an issue attains, versus another, sometimes on the same event ."
With the recent killing of the Isis ruler Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and with US units leaving northern Syria and being deployed in eastern Syria, America's armed presence is as topical as ever. But for the artists who lived in Kuwait and Iraq in the 1990 s, what was it like to live through such fright?
" It's timely but likewise belated, because this has not been addressed culturally ," said Katrib." Iraqi art has not been addressed; Iraqi cultural production hasn't been addressed either. But the US has been caught in Iraq for three decades, so why has there been such a lack of representation, interest, or epoch and opening given to Iraqi culture production ?"
Good question. While America is slowly warming up to Middle Eastern art and culture( a new not-for-profit in Washington dedicated to Middle Eastern art opened in September, while an exhibit of female Iranian creators is opening next week at the High Line Nine in New York ), the 1991 Gulf war's devastating effects has yet to be fully explored within prowes- at least that which has been shared with a wider western audience.


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"Are food bloggers fuelling racist stereotypes", asks the BBC in a headline on its news website, the article highlighting concern about "microaggressions" in food media.
"Food media is predominantly generated by white people for white people, so when the subject veers toward anything outside of the Western canon, it's not uncommon to see things generalised, exotified, or misrepresented," Filipino-American food and travel photographer Celeste Noche told BBC Trending.
"I think microaggressions in social media are reflective of food media as a whole in that appropriation," Ms. Noche said, citing photographs of Asian dishes placed on bamboo mats or framed with chopsticks and banana leaves as examples.
The Filipino-American singled out Andrew Zimmern as an offender on this front, accusing the food blogger of feeding into stereotypes by styling his recipe for Filipino short ribs with chopsticks "even though Filipinos traditionally eat with spoons and forks or their hands.
"We need to break away from the idea that white and western is the base standard for media portrayals – whether in food, film, literature, etc – and start trusting and hiring people of colour to represent themselves," Ms. Noche added.
The public broadcaster's unit tasked with tracking stories which are 'going viral' on social media, BBC Trending, discussed racism in food blogging with Ms; Noche after she appeared on a podcast which garnered a total of 4 'likes'.
It is unclear where on the internet 'The Racist Sandwich' podcast, on which Ms. Noche shared her thoughts on the "exotified" depiction of ethnic dishes, was 'trending' as it has few followers on Twitter.
Breitbart London revealed last year that despite the BBC's claim that "impartiality lies at the heart of public service", the content put out by its Trending platform is overtly slanted to the liberal-left.
The investigation found a large proportion of material on the BBC unit's YouTube page rallied for liberal causes like feminism, LGBT, transgender issues, and mass migration to the West.


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Spammers, phishers and other Internet bottom-feeders, be warned. A key Internet standards body gave preliminary approval on Tuesday to a powerful technology designed to detect and block fake e-mail messages. It's called DomainKeys Identified Mail, and it promises to give Internet users the best chance so far of stanching the seemingly endless flow of fraudulent junk e-mail.


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* C$ jumps to $1.0299, highest point since Nov. 2007
* Ends at $1.0294, up three-quarters of a cent
* Canada Q4 GDP strong, adds pressure for rate hike
* Bond prices slide
* Bank of Canada policy announcement Tues morning (Updates to close)
By Ka Yan Ng
TORONTO, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Canada's dollar jumped to its highest level against the U.S. dollar since November 2007 on Monday after fourth-quarter GDP data topped expectations and backed predictions that the Bank of Canada will resume interest rate hikes in the first half of the year.
Annualized GDP growth in the quarter was 3.3 percent, boosted by surging exports and strong consumer spending, Statistics Canada said.
Statscan also revised third-quarter GDP growth to 1.8 percent from 1.0 percent. Economists polled by Reuters had expected annualized growth of 3.0 percent in the fourth quarter. [ID:nSCLSDE79U]
Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney had conceded earlier this month that the bank's January forecast of 2.3 percent growth in the fourth quarter was likely short of the mark, suggesting the export strength was a surprise.
"It's certainly above market expectations, but more importantly above the BoC's expectations," said Jonathan Basile, economist at Credit Suisse in New York.
The currency rose as high as C$0.9710 to the U.S.
dollar, or $1.0299, its firmest level since November 2007.
It finished mildly off the session high at C$0.9714 to the U.S. dollar, or $1.0294, up three-quarters of a cent from Friday's North American finish of C$0.9787 to the U.S. dollar, or $1.0218.
Few technical barriers stood in the currency's path as it surged to the highest levels reached before the global financial crisis. [ID:nN17237763]
A second economic report also offered support to the currency, with higher exports helping narrow Canada's current fourth-quarter account deficit. [ID:nN28244157] [ID:nN28244249]
The GDP figures come one day ahead of a scheduled Bank of Canada policy announcement, but analysts see little chance of the central bank raising interest rates on Tuesday morning.
Short-dated government bonds fell steeply, responding to
evidence of momentum in Canada's economic recovery, which could
increase the chances of interest rate hikes later this year.
The interest rate-sensitive two-year bond dropped 12
Canadian cents to yield 1.842 percent.
"Expectations for Bank of Canada tightening has moved forward because of the strong GDP report, but it's not going to affect (the rate decision) tomorrow," said Sheldon Dong, fixed income analyst at TD Waterhouse Private Investment.
Dong said the overnight index swaps market suggests the May 31 policy-setting date is the most likely time that the Bank of Canada will take its key rate up 25 basis points from the current 1 percent, which matches a Reuters poll from Feb. 24.
Market watchers now expect stronger language on the economic outlook in the Bank of Canada's commentary on Tuesday's rate decision, which may lay the groundwork for an interest rate increase in either April or May. [ID:nN24280596]
"I think we will hear a more two-handed statement from the Bank of Canada tomorrow, which could set the stage for a rate hike in coming months," said Sal Guatieri, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets.
"(The GDP data) is moving in the right direction, consistent with an economy that's picking up steam."
But not all market watchers were convinced that the Bank of Canada would move quickly on rates, particularly as the Canadian dollar is now much higher than the parity level the central bank had assumed in its last Monetary Policy Report in January.
"I think it's a good report, stands up to scrutiny, but it still, in my mind, doesn't change anything for the Bank of Canada," said Derek Holt, economist at Scotia Capital.
"I think they're likely to say that we've seen a bit of growth momentum of late, but we're more concerned about the developments in global commodities, downside risks to global growth, compared to the last statement." (Additional reporting by Solarina Ho; editing by Rob Wilson)


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In the Alekhine Defence, contrary to the classical methods of playing in the opening, Black does not fight for the centre with his pawns, but begins to exert immediate pressure against White's centre. Black's knight on f6 attacks the pawn on e4, and if it advances, then Black's d-pawn joins into the attack against it.
The Alekhine Defence is particularly applicable in encounters against players who are inferior in class, as well as in games with a short time-control. This opening is not used so often in practice, so your opponent might lose plenty of time to recollect the opening theory. That might prove to be a very negative factor for him in the forthcoming fight.
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Posted on April 29, 2013 by Nicole Phillips
Been working on a asparagus design for my fabric and have just taken delivery. Thrilled with the results, would look amazing in my kitchen as a roman blind. Having it made into Aprons and large Cushions, can't wait to see the results. The roman blinds will have to wait!


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BY LEBRON JAMES (AS TOLD TO LEE JENKINS) — Before anyone ever cared where I would play basketball, I was a kid from Northeast Ohio. It's where I walked. It's where I ran. It's where I cried. It's where I bled. It holds a special place in my heart. People there have seen me grow up.
Discussion: New York Times, Mediaite, US News, Patterico's Pontifications, CBS Miami, Rush Limbaugh, Yahoo! News, CNN, Business Insider, Washington Post, Mashable, RedState, Poynter, American Spectator, NOLA River, Most Recent, Bloomberg View, The Daily Banter, Here & Now, Outside the Beltway, The Huffington Post, ABC News, National Review, Sheridan Hoops, Guardian, Hot Air, The Great Debate, Vox Popoli, CBS Chicago, KDVR.com, CBS Los Angeles, The Daily Caller, Gothamist and Fox News Insider, more at Mediagazer »
Scott Cacciola / New York Times: The Decision Is Reversed, and Cleveland Is in a Forgiving Mood
Katherine Peralta / US News: King James Could Help an Already Improving Cleveland
Roberto A. Ferdman / Washington Post: LeBron James' return is bigger for Cleveland than it is for the Cleveland Cavaliers
Sam Laird / Mashable: LeBron Grows Up: King James Through the Years
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter: Sports Illustrated editors didn't know of LeBron's decision until 'this morning'
Aaron Goldstein / American Spectator: LeBron Returns to Cleveland
Jimmy Smith / NOLA River: Back home again in Cleveland, LeBron James can write his own tale of redemption | Jimmy Smith
Kavitha A. Davidson / Bloomberg View: Back to Ohio, LeBron Can't Lose
Bryce Rudow / The Daily Banter: LeBron James Is Back In Cleveland and He's Going To Make You Love Him For It
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: LeBron James Is Returning To Cleveland
Chris Greenberg / The Huffington Post: Plain Dealer Welcomes LeBron Back To Cleveland With Amazing 'Home' Front Page (PHOTOS)
Meghan Keneally / ABC News: LeBron James Re-Joins the Cleveland Cavaliers
David French / National Review: LeBron Returns to Cleveland: Every Young Athlete Should Read His Essay
Martin Pengelly / Guardian: LeBron James leaves Miami Heat to rejoin Cleveland Cavaliers
Allahpundit / Hot Air: LeBron James becomes first person ever to leave Miami for Cleveland voluntarily
Matt Walks / The Great Debate: LeBron James, the best basketball player on the planet, is taking his ball and going home
Cwesterlundcbs / CBS Chicago: Bulls Casting Wide Net In Free Agency As They Wait On Anthony
Chuck Hickey / KDVR.com: Homecoming King: LeBron James says 'I'm coming home,' will sign with Cavaliers
Seth Richardson / The Daily Caller: Lebron James To Return To Cleveland
Warren Bass / Wall Street Journal:
Cheney vs. 9/11 Commission: What Each Said About Iraq — Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz, a former U.S. Senate candidate, have written a piece on Iraq in the Weekly Standard that resuscitates an old argument about Saddam Hussein's links to al Qaeda.
Discussion: emptywheel
Weekly Standard:
The Truth About Iraq
The Truth About Iraq
Discussion: Wall Street Journal, NO QUARTER USA NET, Washington Monthly, Liberaland and The Huffington Post
Larry Johnson / NO QUARTER USA NET: Dick And Liz Cheney Are Bats**t Crazy
Jane Arraf / Foreign Policy:
The Resurrection of Ahmad Chalabi
The Resurrection of Ahmad Chalabi
Discussion: Firedoglake and Washington Monthly
DSWright / Firedoglake: Ahmad Chalabi Still Wants to Lead Iraq
Brandon Darby / BREITBART.COM:
EXCLUSIVE: TSA ALLOWING ILLEGALS TO FLY WITHOUT VERIFIABLE ID, SAYS BORDER PATROL UNION — MCALLEN, Texas—Illegal aliens are being allowed to fly on commercial airliners without valid identification, according to the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC). "The aliens who are getting released …
Ryan Lovelace / National Review: Border Patrol Agent Hospitalized with Pneumonia Caught from an Illegal Immigrant, Expected …
Kevin Boyd / Independent Journal Review: TSA Is Now Allowing Illegal Immigrants To Board Commercial Flights Without Verifiable ID
Bryan Preston / The PJ Tatler: Report: TSA Is Allowing Illegal Aliens to Fly Without Any Verifiable ID
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama: Boehner suit a 'political stunt' — President Obama dismissed House Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) proposed lawsuit targeting his delay of the ObamaCare employer mandate as a "political stunt" in his first comments on the litigation since it was unveiled earlier this week.
Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Chris McDaniel: We've Found 8,300 'Questionable Ballots' — Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R) said Friday that his campaign and his supporters have found "over 8,300 questionable ballots cast" in the runoff election for U.S. Senate, which Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) won.
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Megyn Kelly Distances Herself From Guest's 'Jew-Hating Administration' Quote (VIDEO) — Megyn Kelly's interview Thursday with conservative commentator Ben Shapiro veered into wildly accusatory territory, and the Fox News anchor said she had no interest in perpetuating the extreme sentiment.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Liberaland
Kendall Breitman / Politico:
Megyn Kelly: Nancy Pelosi 'guilty' of sexism
Megyn Kelly: Nancy Pelosi 'guilty' of sexism
Lizette Alvarez / New York Times:
Ruling That Rejects 2 Florida Districts' Borders Casts Haze Over Coming Elections — TAMPA, Fla. — After political operatives helped redraw the boundaries of Florida's Fifth Congressional District, now held by Representative Corrine Brown, a Democrat, it snaked all the way from Jacksonville to Orlando …
Lizette Alvarez / New York Times:
Judge Rules G.O.P. Illegally Redrew Florida Districts
Judge Rules G.O.P. Illegally Redrew Florida Districts
Discussion: Tampa Bay Times, Mediaite and Talking Points Memo
Mary Ellen Klas / Tampa Bay Times: Judge invalidates Florida's congressional districts, appeal likely
Josh Feldman / Mediaite: Florida Judge Rules State GOP's Redistricting Was Illegal
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo: Judge Rules Florida Illegally Redrew Districts To Benefit GOP
Mary Ellen Klas / MiamiHerald.com:
Judge throws out Florida's congressional map
Judge throws out Florida's congressional map
Discussion: Roll Call, Daily Kos, Tampa Bay Times and Election Law Blog
Abby Livingston / Roll Call: House Democrats Have Mixed Reaction to Florida Redistricting Ruling
David Nir / Daily Kos: Judge rules Florida Republicans violated law in crafting new congressional map, orders major redraw
Nicole Lafond / Talking Points Memo:
Woman Finds Stack Of Anti-Hillary 'Lewinsky' Bumper Stickers At GOP Office — A Virginia woman told TPM on Friday that she recently discovered a stack of anti-Hillary Clinton bumper stickers at a local GOP office, despite denials from the state party that it had anything to do with the stickers.
Discussion: Washington Post, Hinterland Gazette and Liberaland
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post: Va. GOP not behind 'Monica Lewinsky's ex-boyfriend's wife for President' bumper sticker
Janet Shan / Hinterland Gazette: Virginia GOP Attacks Hillary Clinton with Monica Lewinsky Bumper Stickers
Christopher Morris / Variety:
Tommy Ramone, Last Surviving Member of Influential Punk Band, Dies at 62 — Drummer and producer Tommy Ramone, the last surviving original member of the influential New York punk quartet the Ramones, died Friday at his home in the Ridgewood area of Queens, New York.
Discussion: Guardian and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Australian / Guardian: Tommy Ramone dies aged 62
Greg Horton / Religion News Service:
Student who married same-sex partner expelled from Southwestern Christian University — OKLAHOMA CITY (RNS) A lesbian student who married her partner was expelled from an Oklahoma university one semester shy of her sports management degree. — Christian Minard, 22, attended Southwestern …
Discussion: addictinginfo.org and The Raw Story
Jameson Parker / addictinginfo.org: Senior Expelled From Christian College For Marrying Her Same-Sex Partner
Fernanda Santos / New York Times:
Legal Woes Pose Hurdles for Attorney General Tom Horne of Arizona in Campaign — PHOENIX — He has been caught by F.B.I. agents leaving the scene of a parking-garage fender-bender after a lunchtime tryst, a mishap that exposed not only the affair, but also a federal investigation …
William P. / The New York Young Republican Club:
United States of Gaymeria? U.S. Embassy in London Flies Rainbow Flag — Can I pose a serious question? At what point does replacing the American flag with the rainbow flag, a symbol of gay/LGBTQ(RSTUVWXYZ) pride from embassies abroad become an impeachable offense in itself?
Discussion: Business Insider, Talking Points Memo and The Gateway Pundit
Hunter Walker / Business Insider: The New York Young Republicans Are Worried The Country Is Becoming The 'United States Of Gaymeria'
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo: Member Of New York Young Republicans Worried That Country Is Becoming 'United States Of Gaymerica'
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Martin O'Malley: Don't send kids to 'certain death' — NASHVILLE — Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley urged compassion Friday for children flooding over the U.S. border from Latin American countries, sharply rejecting any wholesale effort to return them to places where he said they could face "certain death."
Discussion: CNN
Maria Tadeo / The Independent:
L'Oreal cuts ties with Belgium supporter Axelle Despiegelaere after hunting trip photographs — L'Oreal confirms Axelle Despiegelaere's contract with the French beauty behemoth has "been completed" — French cosmetics giant L'Oréal has cut its ties with a Belgian football fan …
Discussion: Independent Journal Review, Mediaite, Hot Air, The Daily Caller and National Review
Kyle Becker / Independent Journal Review: World Cup Fan Who Scored a L'Oreal Modeling Gig is Fired for a 'Controversial' Photo with an Animal
Tina Nguyen / Mediaite: L'Oreal Kills World Cup Fan's Modeling Contract After Joke About Hunting Americans
Noah Rothman / Hot Air: Contemptible corporate cowardice
Kaitlan Collins / The Daily Caller: L'Oreal Kills Modeling Contract With World Cup Belgian Beauty
Esther Yu-Hsi Lee / ThinkProgress:
Congressman Goes On Diatribe Against Migrant Children, Urges Texas To Unilaterally Declare War — Unaccompanied children sleep in a holding cell at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility in Brownsville, Texas. — CREDIT: Eric Gay/ AP — During a speech on the House floor Friday …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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President Obama's buzzed on suds great adventure — President Obama was absolutely swamped the other night, staving off the munchies at a pizza party in the Mile High city, hobnobbing as headliner at numerous Democrat shindigs, collecting big bucks from big donors all day. — Whew. Exhausting.
Discussion: Liberaland, The Daily Banter, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Bob Cesca / The Daily Banter: Sarah Palin Tried to Write Something Again and It Was a Bigger Train Wreck Than Last Time
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo: Sarah Palin: Obama Getting 'Buzzed On Suds' While 'Rome Burns'
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|Boom Gorge
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|Djil-Aryk - Alt. 1280 m (4200 ft)
|28 km (17 miles)
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The Chu is an easy river (by Tien-Shan's standards), flowing through most populated areas of Kyrgyzstan, so sense of wilderness is limited, but access to the river is easy.
The source of the river, named Kara-Kudjur, is located south of Issyk-Kul Lake, the biggest lake of the Tien-Shan. The upper river flows west in a small valley, until it meets one of the major roads, the Bishkek-Naryn route, at the village of Sarybulak. It changes its name to Djoon-Aryk here, and starts to make big arch to the north, to exit into huge flat basin near large town of Kochkorka. Kara-Kudjur and especially Djoon-Aryk flow in quite narrow valleys and have nice whitewater sections.
At Kochkorka the river changes its name once again and finally becomes Chu. It is completely flat here with occasional class 2 gurgles; to be more kayak-friendly it has a 15 km reservoir before a powerhouse at Orto-Tokoi. Below that it makes another big arch to the west, passing by Issyk-Kul Lake (it's just 7 km away from the shore but there's no connection between the river and the lake).
Having passed Issyk-Kul, the Chu gradually enters a narrow gorge, known as the Boom Gorge that cuts through Kyrgyz Range all the way down to the plains and the Bishkek city. Due to its proximity to the capital and big raft-friendly whitewater, the Boom Gorge is very popular for short (1-2 days) commercial rafting trips.
Access & Logistics
The Boom Gorge is the major route connecting Bishkek and numerous towns and resorts on the shores of sacred Issyk-Kul. There's a good road and even a railway to the main town, Balykchi (Rybachye) on the west end of the lake. The road continues further up the river, through Kochkorka to Sarybulak, where it leaves (now) Kara-Kudjur valley and goes south to the town of Naryn, administrative center of the so-called Inner Tien-Shan.
Above Sarybulak a local road goes all the way up the Kara-Kudjur and finally crosses to upper Smaller Naryn valley.
There's little reason to run the whole river, as its middle stretches are completely flat for nearly 100 km and there're no great landscapes here either.
The put-in for the Boom Gorge is around a rail station of Kok-Moinok, some 6-7 km above the place where both road and the railway cross the river (there's only one rail bridge in the gorge); higher up the valley opens and the river becomes pretty much flat. Take-out is possible only after the river exits a canyon near Chong-Kemin confluence; look for appropriate place on the way up (if you drive from Bishkek). First village and a rail station with easy river access is Djil-Aryk, 7-8 km below the Chong-Kemin confluence.
The put-in for the upper river (Djoon-Aryk and Kara-Kudjur) is a small village of Ak-Kya, some 20 km upstream of Sarybulak (where main road leaves the river and goes south to the Naryn town); higher up the river flows in a flat open basin. Alternatively, you can start just near Sarybulak, as the section above is reported as quite small and easy (mostly class 2-3). Take-out is possible anywhere in the Kochkorka basin; most obvious place is near an irrigation dam, located just as the river exits the mountains.


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Well after downloading this is what I've noticed so far:
New Weather screen for stock weather widget
Battery Icon is now all white
Ability to turn off Blinkfeed
Can now add a 6th screen(If you include Blinkfeed)
New HTC Icons in App Drawer for Apps and Backup
New Drive Icon in App Drawer(Widget & Shortcut as well)
New Automatic Connections after tapping Mobile Data
...More, NFC, ON, Tap & Pay
Location has a new, Mode Button
Tapping Storage, make more space, has no finish button.
New Printing(Cloud) option under settings
What am I missing?
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Stay Awake While Charging option in Developer Options
Solved! Go to Solution.
When you are sending a text, if you press the attachment icon (paperclip) there is now an option to attach a drawing to a text.
Also, if you swipe to the left near the top of the screen, there are lock screen widgets now (whatever widgets are on your home screens)
It's pretty cool but very limited to which widgets.
I noticed that you have to reset up your HTCbackup . So be aware of that.
When you are on a phone call now, there is a nice little contact picture. Not a huge deal, but much better than the grainy picture (which is still there)
Anyone else notice their notification led no longer go off when there's a notification, even when its all checked?
I can't seem to reproduce that small contact pic by calling from 2 different phones. I did get rid of that graining effect by deleting and then adding the same picture. Not much fun but worth it.
I just checked and mine is working, but I had to turn off another application, Dynamic Notifications, for it to work. There may be an application your using that causes this.
I have no notification applications. I'm gonna do a FT. It's so strange. Now, at eightperfcent battery, the led light is blinking . So I know it works. I have no idea what could be causing this.
Nope. Still not working. And the reset didn't install all my apps.
Notification lights not working on any notification. Not for phone calls, apps, mail, only for low battery and to show its charging.
What's going on?
I know I'm posting A LOT here but I figured something out.
I did a FR reset with backing up my settings and another starting fresh...just to make sure.
A weird but understandable new feature is how LED notifications work, now.
When you're using the phone, actively, even when the screen is on, unlocked, if you get an incoming whatever, the light won't pop up. BUT when the screen is locked (black), that's when the LED will pop up.
I tested it myself at least three times.
I guess they figure if the screen is unlocked, no need for an LED to alert you of something you've already seen.
Personally, I'm not a fan of this. I liked having the LED go off no matter what.
Does anyone have a way for an unrooted phone to set the LED to go off no matter what? I really don't want to download a separate notification app.
Wow GhostBlonde you are tenacious! Nice going. I wish I could help you but I can't think of anything without the use of an app. I just discovered the circle that forms around the stock music player pause button when you begin to play a song. I don't remember it being there before.
Another thing to note, for HTC backups, you can choose to use Google Drive now, instead of Dropbox being the only choice.
Also you can pick and choose icons in the dashboard.
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On this date in 2005, TV and radio commercials touting the benefit of preschool for all aired throughout California, paid for with $23 million in public funds supplied by First 5 California, the agency established by voters in 1998 to provide for programs for children under 5, funded with a surcharge on cigarettes. The ads ran as signature gathering continued for a "preschool for all" ballot initiative led by actor/director/activist Rob Reiner. The problem for anyone with a shred of ethics: Reiner chaired both the First 5 commission and the preschool initiative committee.
Reiner may have recused himself from the decision to fund the media campaign, but that doesn't mean it wasn't a grotesque abuse of power and quite possibly an illegal use of government funds for political purposes. But Reiner skated, and with one exception, nobody in the California media ever tried to figure out how that came to pass.This was amazing. It was $23 million, after all — not a trival sum.
Yeah, I was the exception. Here's what I came up with in March 2010:
His e-mails were deleted, possibly illegally: How Rob Reiner escaped a criminal probe
Early in 2006 – when the first reports came out documenting that the First 5 children's services agency had spent $23 million in taxpayer funds on a TV ad campaign touting "preschool for all" at the same time Rob Reiner, left, the First 5 chairman, was gathering signatures for a "preschool for all" initiative – Sacramento observers noted the parallels to a scam executed by former Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush.


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What Edward Snowden Could Have Guessed About Bradley Manning's Verdict
BY Nick Judd | Wednesday, July 31 2013
For the one man with the single biggest reason to follow the verdict issued Tuesday in the case of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, the ruling will offer very little he did not already know.
Like Manning, former defense contractor Edward Snowden's rise to fame comes in a shroud of intrigue and cyber-mystery. Manning was revealed to be the source of hundreds of thousands of leaked State Department and Defense Department documents delivered electronically to Wikileaks, the anti-secrecy organization that steeps itself in hacker culture. Snowden outed himself shortly after news broke of the documents he secreted away from the National Security Agency thanks to his computer systems administrator job with the firm Booz Allen Hamilton.
Manning has been found not guilty of aiding the enemy but guilty of all but two other counts leveled against him, including charges under the Espionage Act and theft of government property. The judge, Army Col. Denise Lind, reportedly plans to release findings that explain her rulings, and Snowden is likely to read them with interest. Federal prosecutors have filed a criminal complaint against him including charges under the Espionage Act, and that case is waiting for him should he return to the United States.
Whistleblower or not, spill government secrets and you will be punished. That's the message officials are sending. But as Snowden watches all of this take place from somewhere, we think, inside Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, it's hard to imagine him being at all surprised.
"The conditions in which Manning has been held, his unfair trial and the lack of transparency during the hearings speak volumes about the fate reserved for whistle-blowers and the way the rule of law is being flouted," Reporters Without Borders said in a statement in response to the Manning verdict.
Writing for The Guardian in a scathing critique of "legacy" media, Dan Gillmor warns:
We are, more and more, a society where unaccountable people can commit unspeakable acts with impunity. They are creating a surveillance state that makes not just dissent, but knowledge itself, more and more dangerous.
It all smacks a bit of the dystopian future which we have been promised. The reality is probably less fantastic but no less concerning.
Manning has been found guilty and Snowden charged under a law that dates back to 1917. The prosecution in Manning's case has even likened him, while charging him with aiding the enemy for his disclosures, to an Army private in the Civil War who leaked a roster to a local newspaper — as if a court's ruling on the information environment in wartime 150 years ago would be relevant today.
Meanwhile, Freedom of the Press Foundation board member Trevor Timm argues that Manning's conviction on one charge under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act "opens up a new avenue for charging leakers and whistleblowers."
Manning's case has been unstuck in time, whipping between the past and the future to find legal definition. Is he a novel new breed of hacker or the kind of neglectful pawn that armies have worried over for centuries? The prosecution has argued both, while, Timm told me in an email, the court largely left aside the issue of whether or not Manning's disclosures qualified him as a "whistleblower."
"During the trial, Manning was not allowed ... to show evidence that none of the disclosures materially harmed the US. By forbidding the defense from showing intent and lack of harm, the judge is following in the footsteps of recent rulings that are morphing the Espionage Act into an Official Secrets Act, something that should be considered unconstitutional," Timm wrote to me.
This makes whether Manning is or is not a whistleblower, in practice if not in theory, immaterial to the stakes in his case. As his sentencing begins, he still faces enough years in prison to keep him behind bars for the rest of his life. And the unfair treatment he already received while in custody — which Lind has indicated will shave time off of his sentence — cannot be undone.
While journalists, officials and media critics debate whether Manning's verdict casts a "chill" over watchdogs of government power, Snowden surely knows the truth: That chill is already in the air. Daniel Ellsberg is often mentioned as the pinnacle of modern whistleblowing, but he was facing charges under the same Espionage Act until it was revealed that wiretapping had picked up his phone conversations and his psychiatrist's office was burglarized by agents of President Richard Nixon seeking information to discredit him. In 2007, before Obama took office, FBI agents raided the homes of other former NSA officials who had spoken out about what they saw as wrongdoing within the agency as part of a leaks investigation. They have been cleared of accusations against them.
Because of what Snowden has disclosed, we know now that intelligence officials misrepresented the facts to Congress while discussing surveillance of Americans on unprecedented scale, under a secret legal framework that is little understood.
But that doesn't matter. Snowden said as much almost as soon as he revealed himself to the public.
"I could not do this without accepting the risk of prison," he told The Guardian. "You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will."
Later in the conversation, he explained, "I do not expect to see home again."
But he acted anyway.
Maybe that's what being a whistleblower means today. Maybe there have never really been protections for whistleblowers who leak information, under Obama or any president of the modern era, except what is afforded by the court of public opinion.
Maybe that's something Snowden already knew.


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Research and Markets - Global $1.5 Billion CRISPR/Cas9 Market Outlook, 2022: Major Players Include Thermo Fisher Scientific, Lonza, Agilent Technologies, GenScript, Editas Medicine & Horizon Discovery
18 Oct, 2016, 14:10 BST
DUBLIN, October 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global CRISPR/Cas9 Market Outlook 2022" report to their offering.
It is anticipated that the global CRISPR/Cas9 market will cross US$ 1.5 Billion by 2022
The growth of the market is likely to be driven by expanding drug discovery applications and increasing research related activities for exploring CRISPR/Cas9 therapeutic applications.
The report, Global CRISPR/Cas9 Market Outlook 2022, provides an insight into the current and future prospective of this market. This report covers the major opportunities in this area, and drivers that have impact on the market. The report also discusses some of the challenges currently faced by the market.
The major application areas of CRISPR/Cas9 include cell line engineering, genetic engineering, CRISPR plasmid development, human stem cells, gene library development and producing GM organisms or crops. Cell Line Engineering is the largest area of application of CRISPR/Cas9, followed by Genetic Engineering. This large share can be attributed to extensibility and multiplexity of CRISPR/Cas9 in modifying the multiple sites within the mammalian genome. The genetic engineering market employing CRISPR/Cas9 is expected to witness the highest growth in 2016-2022. This growth is likely to be driven by reduction of evolutionary time in comparison to previous gene editing tools, such as Zinc Finger Nucleases (ZFNs) and Transcription Activator-Like Effector Nucleases (TALENs).
The last segment of the report is entirely devoted to profiling leading companies of the CRISPR/Cas9 industry, including some major players like Thermo Fisher Scientific, Lonza, Agilent Technologies, GenScript, Editas Medicine, Horizon Discovery, etc.
This segment provides access to the financials, product portfolio, and recent developments of these companies. This segment also discusses the strengths and weaknesses of key players in this industry. Overall, the research contains exhaustive information that will help clients in formulating market strategies and assessing opportunity areas in the global CRISPR/Cas9 market.
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3. Introduction to CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing
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4.1.3 Rising Prevalence of Genetic Disorders
4.1.4 Increasing Investments
4.2 Market Challenges
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4.2.2 Presence of Alternative Gene Editing Tools
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4.3.1 Increasing Usage of CRISPR Gene Editing for Gene Surgery
4.3.2 Enhancing Plant Immunity with CRISPR/Cas9
4.3.3 Emerging Contract Research Market for CRISPR/Cas9
5. Global CRISPR/Cas9 Market Outlook to 2022
6. CRISPR/Cas9 Market by Application
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6.2 Genetic Engineering
6.3 CRISPR Plasmid
6.4 Gene Library
6.5 Human Stem Cells
6.6 Genetically Modified (GM) Organisms/Crops
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7.2 Pharma/Biotech Companies
7.3 Others
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10.10 Intellia Therapeutics, Inc.
10.11 Integrated DNA Technologies
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Security Via Surrender
A new approach to protecting data and identity
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David Sanger and Julie Davis are reporters for the paper of record—the New York Times. Their recent article starts:
WASHINGTON—The Obama administration on Thursday announced what appeared to be one of the largest breaches of federal employees' data, involving at least four million current and former government workers in an intrusion that officials said apparently originated in China.
The compromised data was held by the Office of Personnel Management, which handles government security clearances and federal employee records. The breach was first detected in April, the office said, but it appears to have begun at least late last year.
The target appeared to be Social Security numbers and other "personal identifying information," but it was unclear whether the attack was related to commercial gain or espionage. …
Today Ken and I want to suggest a new approach to data breaches like this.
Before we explain the method let's just say that it looks pretty grim for protecting data. If the White House cannot protect the emails of the President, and if the Office of Personnel Management cannot protect federal employees Social Security numbers, then perhaps it is time to give up.
We know huge sums are being spent on solving the security problem; many groups, centers, agencies, and researchers are working on it; countless conferences have their focus on this problem. But attacks occur, and we still lose information.
Perhaps it is a fundamental law of complex software systems that they will never be secure—that bad actors will always be able to break in and steal data. Perhaps this problem is unsolvable: not just hard, or expensive, or difficult. Perhaps it is as impossible to solve as trisecting an angle with only a ruler and a compass, or as impossible as the Halting Problem. Perhaps.
If this is the case, then we have a suggested approach to security that stops trying to solve the stealing-data problem. The approach is quite different and we will now explain it.
Jigoro Kano, the founder of the martial arts discipline Judo, once wrote:
In short, resisting a more powerful opponent will result in your defeat, whilst adjusting to and evading your opponent's attack will cause him to lose his balance, his power will be reduced, and you will defeat him. This can apply whatever the relative values of power, thus making it possible for weaker opponents to beat significantly stronger ones.
Judo allows a "weaker" opponent to beat a "stronger" one. The idea is based on not resisting directly, but rather resisting indirectly. We believe that this principle can be used in security.
Our application of Judo is based on looking deeper at just what it means to steal some information such as your SSN. A SSN is only useful because there are transactions that are based on using it. The same goes for almost all the information that is being stolen. The information is only valuable because it can be used in some transaction that we wish to stop.
Thus the surrender idea is to assume that the data is going to be compromised. Perhaps we will make it even public? But we will start to protect the transactions in a way that does not rely on the false assumption that certain data is secret.
Our suggestions are far from new—indeed, they are being used all the time, and importantly, their safety and success have held up. Our point is to build a framework whose philosophy is not to do more than this, and to change expectations for the end-user experience. Here are some common examples:
- You forget your password—and even your username too—at a website but are easily able to click to have an account-reset sent to your registered e-mail address.
- Your credit card provider calls or texts you to verify a large or unusual transaction.
- Your bank or a government agency asks you a challenge question you provided last year.
- Your bank has you register all machines/IPs from which you access their website, asking you challenge questions for any new or not-recently-used one.
- Your access patterns are recorded and pattern-matched for self-similarity.
- Your health insurer, operating under the Affordable Care Act, must be able to demonstrate that its policies did not depend on knowledge of a pre-existing condition that was disclosed.
What we sacrifice under the Judo philosophy is the "Swiss Bank" expectation that one golden key unlocks access with no questions asked.
Lessons From Tax Refund Hijacking
Electronic filing of tax returns ought to be the most secure online transaction that most people partake in. Unlike electronic purchases, this happens just once a year, the partner is the U.S. Government, and the safeguards can embrace the whole of your identity with the government. Yet for each of the past few years there have been over a million cases of thieves filing false returns with stolen genuine personal information before the real person files, in order to hijack the refund.
Safeguarding details of your return is of course desirable, but it is off the point of safeguarding the refund transaction. Hence we say one shouldn't rely on the same solution for both problems. Instead our attitude on the latter is that we should be prepared to just give up on the former—even if we have to be like Hillary Clinton or Mitt Romney.
What we believe needs to change is not what's under the hood but rather what's on our dashboard. We must forgo the passivity of thinking all one has to do is wait for the IRS message of deposit. There must be some validation of the destination that is interactive, such as asking a challenge question that you—the real you—provided last year.
It Had to Be You
The planted challenge question idea is an example of the static kind of knowledge-based authentication (KBA). There is also dynamic KBA, in which the questions are synthesized from information that the provider already has. These can be questions such as, what was the color of the car you bought in 2002? Both kinds of KBA are increasingly used against tax fraud.
Dynamic KBA can be used when there has been no prior interaction. There are further issues about how the provider gathers data for the questions. This Vermont government source notes issues with the use of public records. In keeping with our "surrender" motif, we don't see how to stop this access—rather, we look to controls on how the access is used in transactions.
The Vermont source moves on to the idea of recording and analyzing patterns of keyboard use, which may be even more fraught. We wonder instead about a good way to blend KBA ideas with what we'll call "access-based authentication" (ABA). Generalizing from the simple instance of using your e-mail to authenticate, the idea is to set up domains that only you have access to in their entirety.
To be sure, hackers might also gain access to your e-mail account used for validation, such as to roger a message about the destination of a tax refund. It won't do for you to create a separate e-mail account used only with the IRS—rather we think such things play into hackers' hands. Instead, your e-mail can safeguard the reality that only you use it. One idea is having a machine on which you are always logged in to your e-mail. This way any other activity shows up as supplementary.
The bad news in all of this is that assuring one's identity is becoming a battle and there seems to be no simple way to assure victory. Our point is favor approaches that move the battle into areas an individual controls, opposed to ones controlled from outside.
Open Problems
Do identity protection and integrity of data use need a consistent paradigm more than new schemes?
June 17, 2015 1:58 am
I think that I am posting this comment.
Am I sure?
MattF permalinkJune 17, 2015 6:45 am
A case in point of dynamic KBA: I applied, a couple of years ago, for a copy of my birth certificate from the NYC records department. I expected a gruesome struggle that might require a trip to NYC for a personal appearance, but it turned out to quite simple and all online. The city had apparently outsourced the critical part application process to a company that specializes in confirming online identity. They asked a couple of questions, based on public records– e.g., who I bought my condo from ten years ago– and it was all quite painless. I later heard from someone who works in the NYC Health Department bureaucracy that instituting the online application process only came after a huge battle.
jack permalinkJune 18, 2015 12:57 am
By Bruce Schneier
June 20, 2015 11:18 am
"A SSN is only useful because there are transactions that are based on using it. The same goes for almost all the information that is being stolen. The information is only valuable because it can be used in some transaction that we wish to stop."
I'd call this a false assumption. A major concern over the U.S. government breach is using all the private information from security checks for blackmail purposes. Asking for even greater stores of information for KBA purposes only exacerbates the problem.
My instinct would be to flip this around and consider not storing a mountain of personal information that you don't want stolen in the first place.
June 26, 2015 10:04 am
Very interesting post. After reading this post I started thinking of how hard security is and I ended up writing the following post. I talk about system security approaching it as a computational problem.


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Barbecue Salmon + Grilled Asparagus + Pineapple
This past weekend was gorgeous! And I was lucky enough to have the company of 2 very willing taste testers. I posted a request for suggestions on what to grill, which was met with both salmon and asparagus – two of my favorite things! I decided to add in some grilled pineapple with brown sugar as a compliment.
The first thing I always do when grilled salmon is on the menu is whip up a batch of my homemade barbecue sauce. This time, I was lucky enough to have a batch of that delicious ketchup to use instead of store bought. I will post the recipe for the BBQ sauce as well, incase you are interested in giving it a try.
Olive oil
Barbecue Sauce
Brown sugar
Salt and Pepper
Other Items
Vegetable grilling basket/aluminum foil
Small bowl for barbecue sauce
Basting brush
How To
Before you light your grill, put your salmon in a bag and pour in a generous amount of olive oil. Toss in 3 cloves of garlic (minced) and squeeze about 1/2 lemon into the bag. Put the asparagus in a separate bag with olive oil to cover, about 2 cloves garlic (minced) and about 2 T balsamic vinegar. You will let these marinade until they are ready.
If you don't know how to get your grill going, you may need to google search instructions. If you have a charcoal grill, the instructions are on the bag. Once it's lit (pile coals in a pyramid and get a fire going), let it sit until the coals are no longer flaming, but instead look ashen. A good test is to hold your hand over the grill about 5 inches from the grate and see if you can hold it there for 10 seconds without feeling as though your hand may have caught on fire. Remember: do not attempt to do that until the flames have subsided. Your hand MAY catch on fire. If it feels hot, move it right away and wait a little longer.
As this is happening to your coals, go get your fish and massage it a little bit in the bag. You'll take it out of the fridge about 20 minutes prior to throwing it on the grill. When your coals just about ready, put your asparagus in some sort of vegetable grilling basket or make a boat out of aluminum foil and put it on the top rack of your grill.
Its difficult to tell in this picture, because it was dark outside, but the asparagus is just as I described. Grill them on the top rack until the fish comes off of the grill (about 10 minutes is enough time. I recommend tasting one and seeing how you feel about it. I like mine crispy).
Now your coals should be ready and your fish should be room temperature. Get your barbecue sauce that is in a small bowl, a basting brush, spatula or other turning apparatus and a plate to put the fish on when it comes off the grill and head on out!
Go ahead and put your skewers of pineapple on the top rack and sprinkle some brown sugar on top.
Put your fish on the grill skin side up and allow it to cook for about 5 minutes.
Sprinkle some salt and pepper on the skin and then flip it. Cook for 5 additional minutes skin side down then spread some barbecue sauce on the flesh side. Flip it over and cook for another minute or two, baste the skin side with barbecue sauce then flip again. Baste the top with more barbecue sauce and wait about 2 more minutes, then take the fish off the grill.
My flipping technique isn't great, so I had a little bit of a falling apart experience with the fish. Looks aren't everything – that fish was GREAT!
One of my gentlemen dinner companions paired his with a Tripel Karmelite, which is a triple style beer from Belgium with kind of a spicy fruity palate. Its delicious! And it went very well with the fish.


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My favourite candidate in the American election of 2004 was Bob Graham, a Democratic senator from Florida whose policies were never very clear, but who had the endearing habit of logging every minute of his life in a series of colour-coded notebooks. "7-7.40am: kitchen, brew coffee, prepare and drink breakfast (soy, skim milk, OJ, peach, banana, blueberries)," read a typical entry. And another: "1.30-1.45pm rewind Ace Ventura." But this mild quirk counted against him - psychological quirks, or mild ones at least, apparently being a barrier to the presidency - and he soon dropped out of the race. This was a pity, since for anal retentives everywhere, Graham easily passed the legendary "barbecue test" of US politics: would you invite this candidate round for a burger? ("7-7.45pm: Attended barbecue.")
Graham's approach was overkill, to be sure. But logging certain aspects of your life can be a surprisingly powerful practice - not because there's much value in the record you create, but because the very act of recording exerts an interesting psychological effect. Spend a couple of days recording your time use in detail, several productivity experts advise, and you're likely to find yourself using it more efficiently. Record what you eat, and you'll find yourself eating more healthily, even without taking any other actions. (I tried both recently, for three days each. The time log alarmed me, by revealing how much time I'm capable of frittering away, but it helped, and the effects lasted beyond the three-day period. The food log turned me effortlessly into a health nut, but the effect was more short-lived.)
This is an individualised version of the Hawthorne effect, observed in the 1920s and 1930s at a Chicago factory. Experimenters from Harvard tried to boost employee productivity by adding rest breaks of different durations, and by changing the lighting, temperature and other factors. Many of the changes improved output - but so did changing things back. The mere fact of being observed, the study concluded, was what made people behave differently. Copious doubts have since been raised about the study, and besides, it's easy to see how it could be used as an excuse for keeping workers under close surveillance. But as a personal technique, it seems to work, helping us make unconscious behaviour conscious.
The idea of making the unconscious conscious chimes with the Buddhist concept of "mindfulness" - what the author and meditation teacher Sylvia Boorstein calls "the practice of paying attention in every moment of one's day". When I first encountered this notion, it was deeply unappealing: wouldn't it just mean becoming hyper-conscious of your every move, unable to relax because you were engaged in obsessive self-monitoring? The answer, I think, is that it could, if you did it in a judgmental way, relentlessly trying to analyse whether or not each action was the "right" one. But the lesson of the "personal Hawthorne effect" is that you don't need to make any such judgments. Merely observing your behaviour seems to make for better behaviour: just paying attention is enough.


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Mighty smart indeed!! I like that top pic too :)
Why, you are becoming a fully fledged pastry chef! Fantastic. Could we have some chocolate confections when I next come to visit? :-)
If you tell me you're coming, I'll bake a cake. :)


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Junichi Hayama (羽山 淳一 Hayama Junichi) is a Japanese animator credited as the Character Designer and Chief Animation Director of the the OVA adaptation of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and the Phantom Blood movie by Studio A.P.P.P..[1]
Originating from Monsieur Onion (affiliates of Toei Animation), he now collaborates with various studios as a freelancer. He is well known for his work on the Fist of the North Star anime, where he developed his current style from his mentor, Masami Suda.[2]
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (SFC Game)
- Illustrations
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (OVA)
- Storyboard (ep 8)
- Character Design (eps 1-13)
- Chief Animation Director (eps 9-13)
- Animation Director (eps 1-2, 6-8)
- Cover Art
- Key Animation (eps 2, 5-7, 13)
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood
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The Creation of ME - The Tuxedo Stan Story
Ghostwriter Kathy Chisholm discusses the creation of ME - The Tuxedo Stan Story, a memoir by Tuxedo Stan.
Ghostwriter Kathy Chisholm discusses the creation of ME - The Tuxedo Stan Story, a memoir by Tuxedo Stan.
This week Kathy and the Catopia crew discuss Chapter 3. Everyone was happy to venture outside as we had a beautiful day after a winter freeze.
Kathy discusses two main characters in Chapter two. Earl Grey was the only cat willing to brave the cold temperatures in Catopia for this week's segment.
Kathy is back! She begins another round of telling the story behind the story, chapter by chapter. As always, the residents of Catopia are happy to add some colour to the set.
This week Kathy discusses what inspired her to write about Allison, an emaciated little stray adopted by a kind man with a serious disease.
This week's blog reprises Evelyn Pratt's character from Chapter 5. Find out what happens when she meets Phyllis, an injured pregnant stray cat that needs a home.
Kathy tell us about the real life Elizabeth Dearborn and her "special" cat Sylvester.
Kathy is back! Earl Grey has stepped up as the official blog assistant to help Kathy finish the final chapters of Urban Tigers - Tales of a Cat Vet.
Minion Studios and Refusetobeboring Productions are proud to announce this summer's blockbuster hit: Urban Tigers Two - More Tales of a Cat Vet.
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Speed Records releases brand new video to 'Babe Di Full Kirpa' by Bai Amarjit from the album 'Flashback'. Music for the track is composed by Jassi Bros while lyrics are written by Bai Amarjit himself.
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domestic pale malt - Rahr 2 row pale
Quote from: denny on June 30, 2015, 06:26:56 PMdomestic pale malt - Rahr 2 row paleIs that their actual 2-row or their pale ale malt? Or both?
I have gone through 3 sacks of Avangard pilsner malt over the past year or so, and am loving it....the flavor and the price.
Best Malz here too. And I was using the LHBS Vienna but was getting a honey note from it. Found out he was stocking Gambrinus Vienna, so I made him order some Best Vienna.
Remember, this is objective....domestic pale malt - Rahr 2 row paledomestic Munich malt - Great Westerndomestic rye malt - Briesscontinental pils and Munich - Best Malz
Dingemann's - Belgian Pilsner malt (belgian styles)Weyermann - German Pilsner malt (german styles)Lots of other great malts out there, but these two I use most frequently.


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by Charlene Walton of TexturedTalk.com
Before now using glycerin for natural hair had always been a tricky topic for me. I sort of understood the purpose of the ingredient in hair products but I was still lost on the whole weather, dew point aspect. Like many, I saw other popular bloggers and vloggers using glycerin for natural hair, creating DIY recipes so I figured why not. Glycerin is also listed in about every product I own so I figured the ingredient…couldn't hurt right?
The good news is ever since I started blogging I've become way more informed about the science behind growing and maintaining healthy natural hair and my research game is on another level. (Yay me!) Instead of just taking someone else's word, I now seek out additional information to form my judgement. Now I know everyone doesn't have time for that, which is why you are here so let's dive right in! And if you were completely lost after reading the first paragraph then definitely keep reading.
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Some time ago I was asked to give some advice to a good friend who was about to direct a play written by a British dramatist. As an American she was concerned about the pronunciation of a number of English proper nouns. Aside from being something of a perfectionist I suspect that she was also anxious to forestall any potential criticism from a well healed American East Coast audience drawn from an academic background. I can't remember the play, or the playwright, it clearly didn't figure in my rather dodgy but well meaning advice to her which was as follows . . .
As a massive generalization the last syllable of a word tends to denote class, and by class we of course mean a geographically defined status. And the definitions are: - "South of the Midlands", "The Midlands" and "The North". This of course excludes Wales, Scotland and Cornwall all of which are, like Ireland, barely tolerated honorary members of the "British Isles" and only just about scrape into the species definition of homo sapiens and are generally regarded by the rest of the country as unreconstructed sheep stealers.
To the Midlanders "South of the Midlands" means a bunch of toffee nosed bastards with more money than sense. "Northerners" means an okay lot who somehow communicate with a set of incomprehensible accents which vary from village to village, but the pubs are great because at least we all drink the same types of beer.
To the Southerners "Midlanders" are essentially coal miners, nail makers and car manufacturers with an inexplicably difficult accent that few are capable of reproducing without sounding like part of the Pakistani diaspora (which might explain why many of the Pakistani diaspora settled there). "Northerners" are of course a bunch of madmen barely removed from their rapine Viking ways who somehow manage to communicate with a set of incomprehensible accents which vary from village to village, and eat black pudding (a sort of thin and foetid boerwurst or bratwurst fashioned from dried bulls blood and the innards of elderly cows) for breakfast.
To the Northerners "Midlanders" are barely tolerated, after all they are the product of a couple of centuries of sporting rape and pillage and are therefore almost of common stock. "Southerners" are of course the same as the French, and it is merely a historical accident that English (english!) is a common (common!) language. What Northerners have never understood is why no one else breakfasts on a sort of thin and foetid boerwurst fashioned from dried bulls blood and the innards of elderly cows.
Having dealt a little with the geopolitical history of linguistics necessary to understand the intricacies of English pronunciation it is worth digressing ever so slightly and dealing with the academic view that William Shakespeare actually spoke with a Midlands accent. This is of course incorrect because as we all know:-
It is also a little know fact that Elizabethans never stood too close to each other when conversing so as to avoid either receiving a clout round the head from an over-expressive arm or an eyeful of declamatory spittle.Elizabethans spoke in a loud and languid manner
so amply demonstrated by actor Kenneth Branagh.
Damn good show you're not doing Shakespeare then!
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But to continue with pronunciation: -
The bottom line is that the "a" in any second subsiduary syllable of a word is vital. Pronounced "ar" is posh (eg Bad- carster). The short "a" is working class, which of course we all are! Beware however because a long and rolling "arrrr" is definitely not an epiglottal shortcoming but signifies really lowly farming classes in the outreaches of the country.
Returning to the specifics of the names that you listed: -
Merton-cum-Middlewick - (murten-cum-middlewick)
Badcaster - (BAD-caster)
Wathampton - (wat-HAMPten)
Lax - (lax) What on earth is the context here?
Merthyr-Tydfil - (MER-ther-TID-ville) if you are a non-welsh speaker. If you want to do it with a welsh accent I suggest you practice by stuffing your mouth with mashed leaks and hiccupping as you under- emphasise "TID". Amateurs should keep a large glass of water close at hand – not to drink, but to throw in the face of the first person who dares to giggle. Hey, but never mind, practice makes perfect. Good Luck on this one!
Blatford - (blat-ford OR better still BLAT-fud). Bit of a problem this. The former would emphasise both syllables equally – but this is posh. The latter is better. The southern bumpkin would say BLAT-fud, (or BLAT-furd if he were-a-muck-spredin) and the southern posh would also say BLAT-fud just to show solidarity with the great unwashed of the North and Midlands.Chittendent-Cholmondley - (Chittendent-Chummley) I'm not even going to begin to explain this one! I think its just something one knows - it's a birthright thing.
Ladysmith - assuming reference to Anglo-Boer War? (Speak as written!)
Lor'Lummy - Cockney meaning Lord ??? (It will have come from Gor'blimey or more likely "Lord Love Me". As you've written it so you should say it). Actually better Lor'Lammy. You can use a touch or poetic license here and say co'r luv a duck – that's a definite winner!
Leicester Square - LES ter Square. Correct!
Good Luck!
Oh, and let me know how it all goes . . . .


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Hey guys, here's a GRWM, or I guess GRW..US... that I filmed with Brit a while ago when we were having a gothy themed day, dressing up, doing darker makeup, and visiting some of the cool gothy and witchy stores downtown. While we did not, unfortunately, make it to all the shops I wanted to see, it was good, and I think we looked pretty cool!
I don't have a product list for this video, because there is so much, but let me know if there is anything in particular either of us uses, and I'll try to figure out what it was for you! I also really love the eye look I did, so if you want to see a dedicated tutorial for this look, let me know, and I'll do my best to recreate it for you. =)
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One of the Most Beautiful Singer-Songwriters, Ron Sexsmith
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Today we are honored to spend 40 minutes with one of the most beautiful singer-songwriters of our time, Canadian Ron Sexsmith. Admired by artists from Elton John to Elvis Costello that he himself grew up admiring, Sexsmith is one of a kind. A gentle, introspective artist who doesn't drive, shuns technology and who readily admits was born to do one thing, make music. A new film called "Love Shines" documents the passion that Sexsmith and renowned producer Bob Rock poured into the making of Ron's latest CD "Long Player, Late Bloomer."
Ron plays the Crocodile Cafe in Seattle, Tuesday, April 5, 2011, and also does an in-store at Silver Platters on lower Queen Anne at 6:30PM the same day.


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Subtle nail art is sometimes my favorite look. I like having the knowledge that my nails are decorated, unknown to others. It's like having a little secret until people notice.
For my nude base, I used Sephora's Formula X Astronomical, two coats on each nail. I then added small flower stickers on the base of each nail and one coat of Sally Hansen Strobe Light on my ring finger. Although glittery nail art isn't my style, I really like this simple design.
Astronomical is a universally flattering nude. I think it's quite a neutral color, working well for mostly everyone, and makes me look tanned.
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David Harrison Jackson, left, and John R. Cassell.
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Two men were arrested following a road rage incident Friday morning on Route 114, according the Silver Spring Township police.
David H. Jackson and John R. Cassell were seen ramming their vehicles into each other from the merge lane to the second park-and-ride near Wertzville Road, according to a police news release.
The charges both men are facing include three counts of recklessly endangering another person, reckless driving, simple assault, and disorderly conduct.


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