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Proposal: Don't Shoot Down Alexander Hamilton a Second Time
This is a mock proposal - part of our tutorial.
Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton dead in a duel. Now Treasury Secretary Lew is trying to kill off our first Treasury Secretary from the $10 bill.
If you value your Hamiltons AND want to see a superstar woman on our currency, then explore this proposal.
Proposal: Don't Shoot Down Alexander Hamilton a Second Time
This is a mock proposal - part of our tutorial.
Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton dead in a duel. Now Treasury Secretary Lew is trying to kill off our first Treasury Secretary from the $10 bill.
If you value your Hamiltons AND want to see a superstar woman on our currency, then explore this proposal.
The Issue
Problem Defined
US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew announced that the Bureau of Engraving and Printing will redesign the $10 bill, replacing the image of Alexander Hamilton with a woman in 2020. It's standard practice to redesign our currency every 7-10 years to deter counterfeiting and enhance security. But featuring a woman is not. The Secretary wants to honor a woman in recognition of the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote in 1920. Honoring a woman is long overdue, but killing Hamilton again is not the answer.
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2. Requirements for being featured on US currency are simple MORE
3. Out of 92 individuals featured on US banknotes and coins, only 5 have been womenMORE
4. Alexander Hamilton was a superstar for economic and democratic prosperityMORE
Alexander Hamilton rose from being the "the bastard brat of a Scottish peddler" (as described by John Adams) to the first US Secretary of the Treasury.
Hamilton was senior aide to General George Washington during the Revolutionary War. He was one of the most influential interpreters and promoters of our Constitution and founder of the nation's financial system.
As Secretary of the Treasury, he was the primary author of George Washington's economic policies. Hamilton took the lead in the funding of the states' debts by the Federal government and establishing a national bank, a system of tariffs and friendly trade relations with Britain.
Broadway celebrates the legacy of this Founding Father's contributions with the debut of Hamilton in August 2015: Written by and starring Lin-Manuel Miranda; based on the book by Ron Chernow.
5. Not everyone on our currency is as admirable as HamiltonMORE
6. Andrew Jackson was the 12th person featured on the $20 bill; Lady Liberty was the firstMORE
7. There are many inspiring women in history who deserve to have a place on our currencyMORE
- Women On 20s, a non-profit, grassroots organization, held an online election earlier this year to let the public choose a nominee from among 15 inspiring women in history to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. More than 600,000 people cast votes and Harriet Tubman, the African-American abolitionist who led hundreds of slaves to freedom, emerged as the winner. Eleanor Roosevelt, the longest-serving first lady and human rights advocate, was close behind, followed by Rosa Parks, the African-American Civil Rights activist whose refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus was one of the pivotal moments of the Civil Rights movement.
- Eleanor Roosevelt was the front-runner in an August 2015 poll by McClatchy-Marist, followed by Harriet Tubman. Other women with significant support in the poll included Sacagawea, the American-Indian woman who served as a translator and guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition, Amelia Earhart, the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and Susan B. Anthony, the suffragist whose efforts led to women's right to vote.
8. Harriet Tubman was a rock star of 19th century freedom and democracyMORE
Boy, was she fierce.
Born into slavery as Araminta Harriet Ross in Maryland in 1822, Harriet Tubman escaped to Philadelphia in 1849. She endured severe beatings and head injuries which would torment her for life. But she would become one of our greatest abolitionists and humanitarians.
Harriet Tubman led hundreds of slaves to freedom as the most famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad. Some called her "Moses."
During the Civil War, she was a Union nurse, cook, armed scout and spy. She helped John Brown recruit men to raid Harper's Ferry, earning the name "General Tubman." As the first woman to lead an armed expedition in the war, she guided the Combahee River Raid, liberating 700 slaves.
A devout Christian, she fought for women's suffrage, opened an old age home for African-Americans, and took care of her parents until their deaths.
Harriet Tubman died in 1913, seven years before the 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote. Now, we honor her and take on her mantle of freedom, democracy, and courage.
As noted above, Tubman was the winner in Women on 20s' campaign to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. In July, US Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., introduced the Harriet Tubman Currency Tribute Act of 2015, new legislation that directs the Secretary of the Treasury to ensure that all newly issued $10 Federal Reserve Notes bear Tubman's likeness by 2021.
Detail from the painting The Underground Railroad by Paul Collins
Go deeper
The New 10
US Department of the Treasury - Official website (2015)https://thenew10.treasury.gov/faqs
The New 10 is an official website of the US Government; its mission is to explain process for redesigning the $10 bill and to collect suggestions from the public.
Alexander Hamilton Full-length Biography
Ron Chernow - Penguin Books (2005)http://www.amazon.com/Alexander-Hamilton-Ron-Chernow/dp/0143034758
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, a Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, and shaped the newborn nation.
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Jon Meacham - Random House Trade Paperbacks (2009)http://www.amazon.com/American-Lion-Andrew-Jackson-White/dp/0812973461/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1435111589&sr=1-4&keywords=andrew+jackson
Jon Meacham in American Lion delivers the definitive human portrait of a pivotal president who forever changed the American presidency–and America itself.
Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero
Kate Clifford Larson - Random House Publishing Group (2004)http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bound-for-the-promised-land-kate-clifford-larson/1100618634?ean=9780345456281
Kate Clifford Larson gives Harriet Tubman, one of the giants of American history, a powerful, intimate, meticulously detailed life in this definitive biography.
US Department of the Treasury
US Department of the Treasury - Official website (2015)http://www.treasury.gov
The US Department of the Treasury's mission is to maintain a strong economy and create economic and job opportunities, strengthen national security, and manage the US Government's finances and resources effectively.
How do we decide fate of Confederate monuments in New Orleans?
WALTER ISAACSON - The New Orleans Advocate (2015)http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/opinion/14286742-55/guest-column-jacksons-momument-was-errected-to-celebrate-new-orleans-so-how-do-we-decide-the-fate-of
Walter Isaacson offers an answer of whether we should take down monuments of controversial figures.
Expert Authors
The Ghost of Benjamin Franklin wrote this with a little help from his friends -- a band of citizens, aka More Perfect Union's Chisel team. Chisel wishes to honor our worthy forefathers while also honoring our worthy foremothers.
Deborah Devedjian
Founder & Chief Citizens' Officer - TheChisel / More Perfect Union, Inc.Born in Philadelphia, Deborah Devedjian has been a leader in the global Education and Training industry and an expert in corporate governance—creating, building, investing in, and transforming organizations. Long committed to education and inquiry as the basis for democracy, she weaves together more than 20 years of experiences in the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors to maximize learning, collaborative decision-making, and stakeholder value.
She's served in founding or leadership positions with Copernicus Learning Ventures, Warburg Pincus, RoundTable Partners, European Bank for Reconstruction & Development, and The Boston Consulting Group. Deborah has chaired or served on the executive committee of 20+ not-for-profit boards, including Polytechnic University; Marlboro College; Elwyn, Inc. (for the developmentally challenged); French-American Foundation; Pennsylvania-Russia Business Council; Commission of Independent Colleges and Universities; Harvard Business School Club of New York; and Yale Reunions.
She attended public schools, has a BA from Yale and MBA from Harvard, but her father still hopes she'll go to med school. Fluent in French and Armenian. Amusing in German and Italian. Deborah's day is not complete without a dose of the Rolling Stones, Beethoven, and Coltrane. Deborah is an independent (small "i"). Her patron saint is Ben Franklin. She excels at "herding cats," according to one business school dean.
Benjamin Franklin
Chief Inspiration Officer - TheChisel / More Perfect Union, Inc.
Benjamin Franklin, TheChisel's Chief Inspiration Officer, was born in Boston in 1706. He moved to Philadelphia at age 17.
Ben was known for being, well, take your pick: typesetter, inventor, scientist, entrepreneur, international statesman, writer, editor, publisher, home brewer, Founding Father, Francophile. Master of public-private ventures.
His was the only signature on all four of our country's founding documents: Declaration of Independence, Alliance Treaty with France, Peace Treaty with England, and US Constitution.
Totally cool dude. Oh, and politically, he was an Independent.
Self-taught, self-made, and answering to his highest ideals, Ben Franklin was a master problem solver. He identified commonalities and built bridges to forge more prosperous, equitable, and secure realities for America and the world.
Lisa Goldman Forgang
Chief Policy Officer - TheChisel / More Perfect Union
Lisa Goldman Forgang was born in Boston, grew up in Washington, DC, and has lived in both Northern and Southern California and Zurich, Switzerland.
She has an extensive background in statistics and analytics. Lisa has held executive roles in marketing, membership, and loyalty programs at The Walt Disney Company, Citi Cards, and Barnes and Noble. She received both her BA and MA from Stanford and her MBA from Harvard (HBS).
Lisa is a board member of the HBS Women's Association of New York and was Vice President of the HBS Club of New York for eight years. She has been a lay leader with UJA-Federation for ten years and serves on the Leadership Committee of HBS Community Partners which provides pro bono consulting to non-for-profits.
Lisa lives in New York with her attorney husband Chuck. She has two adorable pre-teen nephews and two adult step-daughters. Lisa loves cruises and won't eat blue M&M's.
Othman Lanizi
Front End Developer - TheChisel
Born and reared in Montpellier, in the South of France, Othman first became interested in computer programming when, at the age of 12, he started to handle and tweak private servers, build websites using PHP and MySQL, and develop video games in Lua. His passion for programming never faltered and he has since continued to work on side projects while dedicating his studies to understanding the mechanics of the corporate world.
Othman Lanizi received his BA in Business Administration from La Trobe University in Australia and his MBA from Montpellier Business School in France. His expertise lies in digital marketing, and how to interact and customize user interfaces to positively affect customers' behavior.
As a Front-End Developer at TheChisel, Othman combines his marketing knowledge with his programming skills to address issues in a creative way. Othman is an avid learner and his self-taught repertoire of technologies includes the latest stacks.
Othman's mother is French, and his father is Moroccan; he speaks French and basic Arabic and Japanese. He has chaired a French chapter of a youth mentoring program and during his free time he enjoys playing tennis and biking.
Bruno Thiery
News and Photo Editor - Chisel by More Perfect Union
Bruno celebrated his rebirth on July 20, 2015 when he became a US citizen. Born in Vendée, France, Bruno has lived and worked in Los Angeles and New York since 2002.
He was most recently Photo Editor for Vocativ, an international citizens journalism site. He was Photography and Digital Editor of News Corp's founding team for The Daily, the first news journal created with Steve Jobs for the iPad. Previously for 8 years, he headed the US operations of the French political and entertainment photo services agency Abaca in Los Angeles and New York.
For the first 10 years of his career, Bruno was a print journalist covering war in the Middle East and Formula 1 racing.
He holds a Diplome from Institut Pratique de Journalisme, the world's first journalism school.
Bruno has been a political junkie and journalist since childhood. His family called him Tintin, Belgian's most famous cartoon character-- a reporter who travels the world looking for great stories. As a teenager, Bruno read Le Canard enchaîné (the French equivalent of The Onion meets The Economist) instead of doing homework. He promises that one day he will stop smoking.
The Solution
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1. Keep Alexander Hamilton on the $10 billMORE
From illegitimate son and orphan child to Founding Father. General Washington's wartime Chief of Staff. First Treasury Secretary. Founder of the Federalist Party and co-author of the Federalist Papers with James Madison and John Jay. Promoter of the US Constitution. Founder of our financial system. Creator of a national bank.
Let's continue acknowledging all Hamilton contributed to our US democracy, freedoms, and economy.
2. Drop Andrew Jackson from the $20 billMORE
Get a taste of Jackson from the 2010 Broadway rock musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson:
3. Put Harriet Tubman on the $20 billMORE
In 1861, the first year of the Civil War, the US issued its first $20-denominated legal tender. It was a demand note featuring Lady Liberty holding a sword and shield.
Harriet Tubman saved hundreds of slaves by leading them to freedom via the Underground Railroad. In doing so, she risked her life and that of her family.
Harriet Tubman was a true Lady Liberty.
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1. We'd creep ever so slightly toward gender equalityMORE
2. We'd further demonstrate our commitment to inclusive democracyMORE
3. We'd acknowledge the will of the people AND the wisdom of crowdsMORE
Budget Impact
No change. Currency redesign occurs regularly. Cycles of currency changes and production have remained stable for decades.
Net Present Value
The Conversation
Erase the Federal Reserve from Our Government. Legislate a law, or some laws, that prevent any further intrusion of such a debt money institution, again. Place the full responsibility of the production of Our National Currency, on a as needed basis, with Our Treasury Department. Establish Congressional and Citizen watchfulness of the Treasury Department's work, in this regard.
A positive side outcome of this correction in Our Government and Economy, would be the elimination of all taxes. The Treasury Department will produce all the currency We will need to pay off all national and public debt. Investment in new business developments in Our Economy can also be generated.
To augment all this, strict controls of prices and inflation should be undertaken.
And, looking to the future when all payments go electronic, we could presumably pay tribute to a different individual each day or hour!
1) I'm not sure where it is said that being on a form of currency is a lifetime commitment like being a Supreme Court judge. If that has been the practice I'm not sure it has to be the rule. (Food for thought, I didn't research this...any takers?)
2) Having said this, though, removing Hamilton to make room for Tubman is like Currency Affirmative Action. Tubman has made significant contributions and we can find a significant way to honor her that doesn't have to be by removing another significant contributor.
Just to clarify, we're suggesting that we keep Hamilton on the $10 bill as he's such a significant contributor to our country and that we drop Andrew Jackson for Harriet Tubman from the $20 bill as he's a considerably lesser contributor.
Why are we removing leaders from our currency who are instrumental to our country's development?
To stir the pot a bit... There are a few instances where we have the same leaders on 2 forms of currency:
Jefferson ( $2 bill and Nickel)
Lincoln ( Penny and 5$ bill)
Washington( quarter and 1$ bill) (blasphemy!)
Taking the father of the banking system off the 10$bill isn't the answer nor is moving jackson out of his place in that special club.
I like the idea of honoring a woman WHO ALSO HAPPENS TO BE AFRICAN-AMERICAN. You go, girl!
Alexander Hamilton deserves to stay on the US currency!
Harriet Tubman Currency Tribute Act of 2015.
While the the Senators' measure addresses one aspect of the challenge, this determination is typical of Congress' short-term, in-the-box thinking. Congress needs to look at problems more holistically and out of the box. Part of its problem is that it does not define our problems well enough and comprehensively enough. Otherwise, we'd have a "richer" democracy -- in all the areas that are important to us -- basic freedoms, equal opportunities, economic, health, education, and national security.
When I emigrated to the US years ago, I believed that America was based on meritocracy.
Jack Lew shouldn't be the final decision-maker.
If Harriet doesn't get the nod, how about honoring Clara Barton and all the suffragettes?
Shouldn't Treasury establish a comprehensive plan to honor women instead of just piecemeal throwing of crumbs to placate women?
How is Jack Lew actually going to choose?
Is the circulation of this new $10 bill enough of a step towards acknowledging the role of women in US history?
What was the Treasury Department's rationale for choosing to drop Hamilton and not someone else?
Who or what authority gives Treasury the right to make this decision?
I grew up admiring the achievements of our founding fathers, especially Hamilton, without ever questioning their presence on the US currency.
What type of message would eliminating a founding father send to our future generations?
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MacBook Pros with NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M silicon making questionable graphics switching decisions -- Engadget
But it gets worse. Viewing QuickTime movie trailers on Apple's site in Chrome (a buggy experience, by the way) bumps you up to discrete, but doesn't bump you back down after you're done -- only closing the browser and opening it up again seems to reset it. Firefox and Safari keep you on integrated graphics the whole time -- as does downloading 480p or 720p content to your local QuickTime player -- but pulling up 1080p video locally kicks you into high gear (this sounds closer to the correct behavior, at least).
The most egregious thing we've seen, though, has to be Tweetie. Yes, little ol' Tweetie, that innocuous applet that stays out of your hair and shoots you a Growl notification every once in a while: as long as it's open, it's going to be rockin' the discrete graphics. The bottom line is that this is a great opportunity to underscore something we've said before, which is that Apple needs to bring back an ironclad disable option for the discrete graphics like it does with the older unibody models -- especially when battery life is supposedly Cupertino's single biggest push with these things. Of course, failing that, we've got to hope that some third-party dev out there has the wit, courage, and spitfire to craft a simple toggle utility.

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Robotics Summer of Learning
This summer students have the opportunity to learn how to program robots, design games, animate stories, and earn a chance to win over $10,000 in prizes and scholarships! The Robotics Summer of Learning program hopes to effectively increase students' interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) related fields. The program is hosted online at the Computer Science Student Network.
The Summer of Learning initiative is sponsored by Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Academy – an educational outreach of Carnegie Mellon University and a part of the university's world-renowned Robotics Institute. The Robotics Academy mission is to develop educational tools and resources to use the motivational effects of robotics to excite students and teachers about science and technology.
The Computer Science Student Network (CS2N) is a collaborative research project between Carnegie Mellon University (including the Robotics Academy) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) designed to increase the number of students pursuing advanced Computer Science and STEM degrees. CS2N is an online network for students and teachers to connect together and use engaging activities designed to teach how to program robots, animations, web pages, and games.
CS2N also includes tools for teachers/educators to create their own individual groups for students to join. Using the "groups" feature, teachers can track their students' progress through every activity offered on the site. All of CS2N's learning activities are designed to align with national educational standards.
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The Robotics Summer of Learning will offer students the opportunity to program a variety of robots in deep space, on a tropical island, and a VEX or FTC game board. The robots are programmed in ROBOTC, a programming language for LEGO, VEX and Arduino robots. Beginning ROBOTC users are able to utilize simple Natural Language commands like forward, reverse, and pointTurn at the introductory level and then migrate to full C-Programming to learn advanced computer science concepts like recursion, pointers, multitasking/threading, and multi-agent communications.
Students will program the virtual robots using the ROBOTC language and ROBOTC's Robot Virtual Worlds (RVW) software, an interactive educational video game software that allows every student to experience the same benefits of learning robotics and programming. RVW tracks and stores student's progress, through CS2N, as they solve different levels in each World. After successfully completing a World, students earn a badge that documents their achievements. At the end of the summer, students will have the opportunity to take an exam that will earn them a Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy programming certification, which can be included in the student's academic portfolio.
Introductory programming lessons are taught in the tropical themed Palm Island, one of three virtual environments in Robot Virtual Worlds. Once students learn the basics in their first mission, they are then challenged to complete missions on Planet H99 in deep space, and underwater in the Ruins of Atlantis. The final challenge is a national robot programming competition that will include over ten thousand dollars in scholarships and prizes. Two new "programming only" robotics game have been developed specifically for the Robotics Summer of Learning programming competition, which take advantage of current VEX and FTC games in Robot Virtual Worlds. The games are played by autonomously programming your robot to place objects into scoring positions as quickly as possible.
Animation programming languages, such as Scratch and Alice, make it easy for students to create video stories, animations, games, music, and art. By using storytelling and animation as a motivator, students learn the importance of the design process while using and learning interactive programming software.
Our Robotics Summer of Learning Animation Challenge is called Nature Doc-u-mentary. This challenge asks students to write a creative narrative and make an animated documentary using either Scratch, SAM Animation, or Alice 2.0.
Designing a digital game allows students the opportunity to creatively brainstorm ideas, create 3D objects to import into the game board, learn how to program in order to test the success of the game, and challenge them to think of ways to advance and optimize the gameplay. Robot Virtual Worlds comes with two great tools, the Level Builder and the Model Importer. The Level Builder uses a 12-inch by 12-inch board and our "desktop" models to create their very own Robot Virtual World. The Model Importer allows students to import their own 3D models into Level Builder to take their game to the next level. Students can use both tools while designing their own game board for a virtual robot to successfully complete!
Our Robotics Summer of Learning Animation Challenge is called Beacons and Barriers. This challenge will have users focus on creating levels for a virtual robot to navigate through. They will use the Model Importer, included in Robot Virtual Worlds, to create objects to serve as checkpoints and obstacles.
The Robotics Summer of Learning Program is excited for the opportunity to advance students' interests in STEM and advanced their programming skillsets! Software and training will be provided for free throughout the summer. Students will have 24/7 access to the online course materials, as well as professional support from developers of the software and curriculum. There will be over $10,000 in prizes available to participants in the challenges, including free software, robot kits, and college scholarships. The Robotics Summer of Learning kicks off on June 1 and runs to September 1, 2013.
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Also offered during the summer are our Professional Development courses. These courses provide teachers and coaches with a solid foundation for robot programming in the respective languages, and experience in troubleshooting common student mistakes. It also focuses on identifying and extracting academic value from the naturally occurring STEM situations encountered in robotics explorations. Classes are available on-site or online.
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Here's the thing about fresh, tasty, nutritious food: You're going to want it to stay that way. Aside from keeping it tasty, you want to prevent it from spoiling and making you sick. Not to bore you with details, but the truth is that, for the most part, fresh foods start to lose their texture, nutrients, and flavor once they are harvested. Light, heat, moisture, and even their own enzymes start to break the food down. This means that you're going to have to pay a little extra attention to storage, because a fresh berry, unlike a box of Pop-Tarts, won't last until the next ice age. And speaking of ice, I am a big fan of easy storage methods like freezing, so don't think you have to spend your autumn nights stooped over the stove putting up dilly beans. Make your mother-in-law do this.
There are lots of methods for preserving foods — curing, smoking, pickling — but for the average person these methods are too time consuming and involved, so I'm not including them here. (I'm also not including irradiation as a food preservation method, for obvious reasons.) You are also not going to find canning tips here, for the same reasons, plus the fact that canning spooks this home-ec flunker because of its potential for fatally poisoning your loved ones.
Before I move on to the basics of food storage, here are some sources of information, comfort, and inspiration when it comes to squirreling away fresh food.
Good books. My favorites are "Preserving Summer's Bounty: A Quick and Easy Guide to Freezing, Canning, Preserving, and Drying What You Grow," published by Rodale Books, and "The Busy Person's Guide to Preserving Food: Easy Step-by-Step Instructions for Freezing, Drying and Canning" by Janet Chadwick.
The National Center for Home Food Preservation. Created by the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service and the USDA, this organization has an easy-to use site that addresses most food preservation methods. You can watch slide shows and videos, sign up for a self-study course, order print publications, get seasonal tips, or just bone up on or troubleshoot your favorite preservation method.
Find an expert. Call your local cooperative extension office. They may be able to connect you with a master preserver, who, like a master gardener, volunteers in return for extensive education. Some extension offices staff seasonal food-preservation hotlines.
Enlist a friend. Many hands make fast work. Do you have a friend, an aunt, or a neighbor who makes a mean apricot jam? Ask him or her to show you how in return for dinner. You could also make it a potluck party and invite others. Be sure to thank your food-preserving friend by sending him or her home with some of the fruits of your collective labor. My personal advice: Find, and marry, a partner who enjoys food storage. My husband has the energy and inclinations of a caffeinated homesteader. Lucky me! But if your partner would rather watch the World Series, don't fret. Thanks to modern conveniences such as blenders and freezers, food preservation has never been easier.
Share the harvest — and the gear. Don't feel as if you need to run out and buy a bunch of appliances. My husband and I do the bulk of our storage with a food processor, a bag sealer, and a big freezer. Rather than buy a food dehydrator, I borrow one from a friend who in turn occasionally borrows stuff from me. Don't have a food processor? Use your blender. Don't know anyone with a food dehydrator? Use your oven or the good old-fashioned sun. Appliances are nifty and they save time; but they're not worth the credit-card debt; they use a bunch of electricity; and, let's face it, they're one more thing to clean.
Friends call me Snow Miser! Okay, not really, but I love freezing stuff. In fact, I am so into freezing that I finally splurged for a big Energy Star–rated chest freezer. (Energy Star appliances meet the energy efficiency guidelines set by the EPA and the U.S. Department of Energy.) This big white box allows me to feed my family easy-to-prepare meals without all the creepy additives of store-bought frozen foods. Here are some freezing tips I've learned along the way.
Keep your freezer about two-thirds full. Air needs to circulate around frozen foods. An under- or over-packed freezer doesn't work as well. A nice trick: We keep plastic 2-gallon jugs of frozen water in our chest freezer. This not only helps keep our freezer fuller when supplies are running low, but, should the power go out in a thunderstorm, the jugs will help maintain the freezer's temperature, which should be 0°F.
Freeze fresh foods quickly. Pick or choose fruits and vegetables at their peak ripeness. If you're not going to eat them in a day or two, preserve them in some way to make the most of their wonderful texture, flavors, and vitamins. To maximize flavor and all those nutrients, don't let those fresh-picked berries molder on your counter. Get them into the freezer as soon as you can because the natural enzymes in produce will cause them to spoil.
To freeze veggies: Wash and chop them. Then blanch them (cook them al dente in a large pot of lightly salted boiling water, tasting them for doneness — they should be firm. Then drain and dunk them in a quick ice bath to stop them from cooking further. If you cook them too long they will be mushy!) After blanching, put your veggies into freezer bags or freezer-safe plastic containers. Leave room for expansion (about a half-inch of "head space" or "head room"). Blanched veggies will keep in the freezer for up to nine months. According to "Preserving Summer's Bounty," veggies that you usually eat raw, such as lettuce, are least suited for the freezer. Don't believe it? Go ahead and try freezing some salad.
To freeze fruit: Some fruits, such as apples, will discolor when sliced. To prevent this, soak chopped fruit in acidulated water (1⁄4 teaspoon of ascorbic acid per quart of water). Sugar, or even honey, is often added to fruit that will be frozen to help retain its pretty color and to improve its taste. You can sprinkle sugar on the fruit or, alternatively, freeze it in a simple syrup (mix equal parts sugar and water and bring to a boil until the sugar dissolves and the mixture is clear).
Tip: We spread our berries out onto cookie sheets and put them in the freezer. After they're frozen, we put them in vacuum sealer bags and then use them for smoothies, baked goods, and sauces. Fruit will keep in the freezer for up to a year. We find this method works especially well for blueberries and raspberries but not so well for strawberries, which tend to get mushy, so we prefer to purée them or cook them into compotes.
Frequently asked questions: "Can I freeze eggs?" (Not in their shells.) "How long will a steak keep in the freezer?" (Six to twelve months.) "How about frozen cookie dough?" (Two months — if you have the discipline to keep it that long!) For a list of what foods to refrigerate and freeze and how long they will keep, refer to the USDA's Cold Storage chart.
Keep track of what you freeze. My darling husband keeps an inventory of our frozen foods on a clipboard in our pantry. We also write the date and the contents on the front of each bag. This helps us adhere to the ole freezer rule of "First in, first out": Use the oldest stuff first if you can. Over time, frozen items may lose nutrients and texture. When items get too old to use, toss 'em. And remember, the safest way to defrost foods is in the refrigerator or the microwave, not on the counter. Even if you keep a log or chart, dig through your freezer's contents periodically to experience the proof of Lou's Law of Frozen Foods: Because of fuzzy math skills, you will never have enough frozen pork chops for company, and you will always have too many boxes of the frozen toaster waffles that you bought in moments of weakness.
Use a vacuum bag sealer, which works with either fresh or cooked foods. You cut the plastic vacuum bags (which come in rolls) to size, depending on how much food you have to store. Then you seal the bag with a machine that also sucks out the excess air (while making a sound like an angry crocodile). You can store these polyethylene bags in the freezer.
Get strategic. If you want high-quality weeknight meals made with your sustainable ingredients, try a strategy employed by busy moms everywhere: Double or even triple your recipes and freeze a portion that can be thawed quickly after work. Also think about recipes that can do double duty. My husband's salsa is a good example (see recipe here).
A final thought about preparing produce for freezing: If you're going to go through all of the trouble to chop and blanch vegetables, or peel and chop fruit and coat it in syrup, why not just make your produce into your favorite dishes that can be thawed for dinner? Roast your favorite vegetables with olive oil and rosemary and freeze them. Make huge batches of pesto in your food processor and freeze it for weekday pasta nights. Make a quick sauce of your favorite seasonal fruit that can be used on ice cream or drizzled onto chocolate cake.
Besides freezing, the other preservation method I really like is drying (aka dehydration). It's easy to do, and dried food is easy to store (and carry, if you're camping). Plus, fewer nutrients are lost in drying than in canning.
You can dry food outside, but this requires — big shock — sunny, dry weather. If you live in New England, as I do, you're pretty much out of luck. But even here in the moist Northeast I dry herbs by hanging them in little upsidedown bouquets clothespinned to twine strung up near a window in a south-facing storage room. When the herbs look crumbly, in about two weeks, I put them into tiny mason jars. When I lived in New Mexico, where arid is the rule of thumb, I bought ristras — strings of chiles — and let them air-dry anywhere: on my front porch or in my living room. Go ahead and experiment! (Euell Gibbons dried blueberries in his hot attic.)
You can also dry food in a conventional or convection oven if the oven temp can be turned down to 140°F (remember, you want to dry the food, not cook it). The bottom line: You can dry food in many ways. The section on drying in the aforementioned book "Preserving Summer's Bounty" is excellent.
Be sure to store your dehydrated foods in labeled airtight containers. Most dried fruit or produce will keep for a couple of months at room temperature, but if you keep it cooler, say, in your unheated basement (typically about 52°F), it will keep much longer. According to "Preserving Summer's Bounty," dried cherries and dates stored at 52°F can be kept for 36 to 48 months!
The good news about dehydrators is that they don't take up much space and they can do the job more quickly than the sun or a conventional oven. Also, many dehydrators have trays that allow you to make fruit leather, which is great for camping trips and lunchbox snacks. Rehydrate dried fruit by just barely covering it with boiling water. Soak until water is absorbed, tasting for desired texture.
Thank God I don't have a root cellar. Not only do I detest my dank cellar and the way it smells, but also I'm a bit lazy. I don't relish the thought of wrapping my apples in paper or burying my carrots in sand or doing the other root-cellar-y things that industrious pioneer types do. So, if you're lazy, averse to dampness, or lacking in the cellar department, consider the following slacker methods.
If you're growing root vegetables (carrots, potatoes, turnips, parsnips) in the garden, you have the ultimate lazy person's storage option. Such veggies can be left in the ground when the weather cools —just dig or pull them before the first freeze. (Keep the ground from freezing a bit longer by covering this area of the garden with straw.) Once root veggies have been harvested, brush them off (don't wash them), cut off the stems if they have stems, and find a cool, dry, dark place if you can.
I like the refrigerator for small quantities of root vegetables. Some folks claim that potatoes become sweet in the fridge, but I don't notice it when it comes to short-term storage. The downside of using the refrigerator is that you are likely to run out of room. Luckily, root vegetables are hardy. Try your unheated garage or tool shed, but keep an eye on the temperature and don't let them freeze. Conversely, if potatoes start to sprout, temperatures are too warm. Other winter veggies that store well in the crisper compartment of your fridge? Celeriac and cabbage will keep for a month or two, maybe even longer.
A rule of thumb for spuds: Keep them in the dark (a big paper bag will do, but avoid plastic, which will encourage moisture and mold), and don't let them sprout. Toss any green ones, which could make you sick.
Hard squash and apples can be stored at room temperature on your counter for several weeks.
Garlic, onions, and shallots are fine at room temp but keep best when hung in mesh bags or open-weave baskets. If you don't have the room and do have a surplus, peel them, chop them, and freeze them. (And by all means, use your food processor!) Do you love garlic but find you're short on space? Hang a garlic braid in your kitchen: It will ward off evil spirits and free up a little premium space on your countertop, which should be saved for precious, vine-ripened, in-season tomatoes. If I were Queen of the World, putting tomatoes in the fridge (which blunts their peak flavor and makes their texture go all wonky) would be punishable by . . . having to eat them.
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Remember that first sex scene in The Way We Were during which a passed-out Hubbell Gardner has brief sleep sex with K-K-K-Katie Morosky?
Yeahhh, this brand of "sexsomnia" (spoiler alert: in real life it's not so romantic) has been an increasingly prominent defense for rape cases in Europe since 2007. Is there such a thing as "sexsomnia," and if so, how many of the so-called cases are actual examples of the condition versus excuses to get away with sexual assault scot-free? It's hard to know, since so little is still known about it... and we're not learning more with any kind of intensive research, but we keep acquitting anyway.
Over in Denmark, a 31-year-old man has just been acquitted of molesting two 17-year-old girls after a house party by virtue of his previously "unrecorded" sexsomnia. While doctors later officially diagnosed him, his unblemished history with the condition sounds a little fishy to me.
The other sexsomnia-based acquittals are also rather unsavory: Back in 2007, a man was acquitted for molesting an 8-year-old girl, and in 2011 a man was acquitted for raping a sleeping woman.
That same year, a neurology professor spoke to the Daily Mail about the very real circumstances of the condition: "At this time, the cortex — the thinking, planning, awareness part of the brain — gets switched off. But the brain stem, the part responsible for the basic urges like the drive to eat or have sex, is still working." It mostly affects men.
The neurologist adds that from a legal standpoint, sexsomnia is (ostensibly) hard to fake in court: "'To convince a jury, there usually has to be evidence of three things... First, that the defendant has previously suffered from parasomnias. Second, the act hasn't been planned or sought out. And finally, there is no covering of tracks afterwards, because if they're truly a sexsomniac, they will have no recollection of the incident and won't need to come up with excuses."
But as you can see above, the whole "previous parasomnias" clause doesn't seem to be pertinent in many of these acquittals. Plus, as a sexsomniac who's aware of his condition, wouldn't you think to give people you're sleeping near, oh, I don't know, a heads-up? The same way the husband in this Daily Mail piece did? So your bedmates know there's a possibility of getting violated while catching some Zs next to you? Just saying, a reallllly convenient way to avoid prosecution is to inform everyone of the risks.
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It's been a couple of weeks since our last round of Marvel rumors, but today a new batch of possible information has popped up concerning both Guardians of the Galaxy and Captain America: The Winter Soldier. While director James Gunn is currently busy rewriting the script for the other-worldly Guardians, we may now have a clearer idea of which characters from the comics will be in the spotlight when that film rolls around. Additionally, another rumor throws Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Lost actor Josh Holloway into the possible casting ring for Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
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While many of the rumors for properties this big don't pan out, this information comes from the folks over at Latino Review, a source that's proven to be fairly credible as far as Marvel is concerned. As such, they carry a bit more weight.
Regarding Guardians, Marvel previously announced that the feature film iteration of the comics series would feature the following characters: Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax The Destroyer, Rocket Raccoon, and Groot. That's a pretty large ensemble for any film, let alone a space-set superhero adventure movie. Latino Review reports that this introductory Guardians of the Galaxy feature will focus mainly on three of those characters: Star-Lord, Gamora, and Drax the Destroyer.
This approach makes plenty of sense, as these are the characters that will be the most relatable to audiences unfamiliar with the Guardians series. Star-Lord is a U.S. pilot who ends up in space in the middle of a universal conflict, so he's a natural protagonist to introduce audiences to the world of Guardians. As for Rocket Raccooon and Groot, well they're a talking raccoon and a tree so I don't think anyone's going to be too upset if they're relegated to supporting players.
As for Captain America: The Winter Soldier, we recently got wind of a shortlist of actresses that were poised to test for the film's female lead: Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones), Alison Brie (Community), and Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey). The role is that of Sharon Carter (aka Agent 13), the niece of The First Avenger's female lead Peggy Carter. Findlay and Clarke are both from England and Brie does one hell of a British accent, so the casting list made it seem like producers were looking for someone with strong English ties.
LR, however, hears that Marvel has their eye on a different actress for the role: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World star Mary Elizabeth Winstead. In addition to being incredibly charming in Scott Pilgrim and Live Free or Die Hard, Winstead showed off some serious acting chops earlier this year with the Sundance drama Smashed. She's apparently the actress that Marvel currently has the most traction with for the role, but it doesn't sound like any offers or deals have been made just yet. I still think Brie has a lot of traction given that Community producers Joe and Anthony Russo are directing The Winter Soldier, but I wouldn't be disappointed if Winstead nabbed the part instead.
In other Captain America 2 casting rumors, Marvel is currently looking to fill two "very physical" male roles that are assumed to be villains. LR hears that for one of the parts, Marvel is keen on either Lost actor Josh Holloway or Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster Waldau. They note that Kevin Durand (Cosmopolis, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) is also on the list, though he's more of a fringe choice compared to Holloway or Waldau. It's unclear who has the edge, but it's hard to judge who's better for the role without knowing anything about the character.
Again, it's important to note that none of this information has been confirmed, so we could see all or none of this pan out. LR's track record gives a bit more clout to the information, though, so don't be surprised if you hear some of the aforementioned names pop up in upcoming reports. Captain America: The Winter Soldier starts production in March and hits theaters on April 4th, 2014, while Guardians of the Galaxy opens on August 1st, 2014.


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Connecticut state police are calling the shooting deaths of a woman and her two young grandchildren a double murder-suicide and say she had permission to pick them up from their daycare.
State police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance says 47-year-old Debra Denison was armed when she left her Stonington home to pick up the children from their daycare in North Stonington Tuesday afternoon.
State police issued an Amber Alert Tuesday evening for Denison, 2-year-old Alton Perry and his 6-month-old brother, Ashton. The three bodies were found in a parked car in nearby Preston Tuesday night.
State police believe Denison shot the kids and herself. The chief medical examiner's office will be performing autopsies.
Denison's family said she suffered from bipolar disorder and had a history of mental health problems.


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Susan Granger's review of 'Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit'
This is the fifth espionage thriller revolving around Tom Clancy's CIA operative Jack Ryan, an intrepid character previously played by Alec Baldwin ("The Hunt for Red October"), Harrison Ford ("Patriot Games," "Clear and Present Danger") and Ben Affleck ("The Sum of All Fears"). "Shadow Recruit" is not only a prequel, detailing how Ryan was recruited into the CIA, but also the first story not based directly on one of Tom Clancy's novels.
Scripted by Adam Cozad and David Koepp, it introduces young Jack (Chris Pine) as a student at the London School of Economics on 9/11, as the attack on the World Trade Center occurs.
Fiercely patriotic, Ryan immediately joins the Marines, only to be blown out of the sky over Afghanistan. Recuperating at Walter Reed, he falls in love with Cathy Muller (Keira Knightley), the med student in charge of his physical therapy. He's also spotted by Naval Cmdr. William Harper (Kevin Costner), who sends him back to get his economics degree and then places him as a systems analyst on Wall Street, covertly reporting to the CIA.
When Ryan suddenly becomes suspicious of his firm's financial dealings, he's dispatched to Russia for an audit, which infuriates manipulative oligarch Viktor Cheverin (Kenneth Branagh) and his government minister boss (uncredited Mikhail Baryshnikov), who have concocted an elaborate tech scheme to launch another terrorist attack and crash the U.S. economy. Meanwhile, Cathy decides to surprise Jack by joining him at his Moscow hotel, unwittingly placing herself right in the middle of the dangerous action.
As director, Branagh handles the derring-do with finesse, but the cliched plot is so familiar and predictable that it seems to be on recycle mode with by-the-numbers filmmaking. Having established himself as youthful Capt. James T. Kirk in the "Star Trek" reboot, Pine gamely grapples with the pure physicality of Ryan, particularly when he's engaged in hand-to-hand combat with a huge Ugandan assassin.
On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit" is an efficient, escapist 6, a midwinter popcorn picture.


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Last week, as the debt-ceiling crisis neared its end, I got an e-mail from an outfit called the Western Representation PAC. The subject line was "The Big Surrender Caucus." The purpose was to ask me for money, so it could run primary challengers against "milquetoast establishment Republicans" who had committed the sin of compromise.
This — the threat of the big-money primary challenge — is why the government came to a standstill for so long. This is why moderates have disappeared, and why we're due for more crises soon.
How do you end the cycle? To Marian Walsh, the answer is so simple that it sounds naive: Don't worry about losing, and you might win anyway.
You might remember Walsh, a Democrat, lawyer, and Harvard Divinity School graduate who used to be a staple of Beacon Hill. She served two terms in the state House of Representatives and nine in the Senate, representing a high-votership, socially conservative district. She was known for casting politically difficult votes — most notably, in favor of gay marriage.
Later, she was known as an early supporter of Governor Patrick — and as a casualty of a public relations disaster in 2009, when his administration offered her a high-paying job at a quasi-public agency. In the end, she didn't take the job and didn't run for reelection. Her public service career was over.
Now, Walsh is reinventing herself, with a consulting firm, a teaching gig at Northeastern, and a mission to recruit a new "farm team" to American politics. She is launching a campaign school at the Kennedy Library next month. And she has published a book called "Run," a primer on running for office, offering tips on how to manage a coffee hour, track fund-raising, monitor polls, overcome doubts, and face angry opposition. ("I urge you to uncurl from that spiky, hedgehog-like ball of self-preservation, and instead subscribe to an attitude of love,'' she writes.)
Last week, I asked her why anyone would bother to run for high office today, in a climate this toxic and money-drenched. She answered the way she writes: as if she were giving a pep talk. What if you can't raise the money you need? Study your chances, she said, and choose your races wisely. What if you mess up and get pilloried in the press? "America has very forgiving voters. They just don't want to be had."
Her positivity is unshakable — to the point that it can sound unconvincing. I asked her if she had regrets about 2009. "I made the best decision, for the right reasons, knowing what I knew then," she said. I asked her whether she's still in touch with Governor Patrick. She told me: "I sent him a copy of 'Run.'"
Still, relentless positivity can be good for your career — and, at times, for democracy. It carried Walsh through what might have been her shining moment in public life: her heartfelt 2004 speech in support of gay marriage before the state constitutional convention.
It's getting hard to remember a time when gay marriage in Massachusetts was anything but a non-issue. But at the time, Walsh was out on a limb, particularly in her conservative district. She defied the pronouncements of Catholic priests and the specific wishes of many of her constituents.
"I did not expect to get reelected," she told me. She ran anyway. Between August and November, she went to 61 coffee hours, explaining herself to voters. "Most people were aghast, confused, felt betrayed, and wanted an explanation," she said. And on election night, in a high-turnout race, she won with 66 percent of the vote.
Walsh took from that a lesson about political courage: If you're willing to engage people and explain yourself, you could earn their respect. At that moment, in Massachusetts, it worked.
It's unclear how Walsh's happy vision could apply to Congress, with its politically engineered districts, big-money super PACs, a media culture that uses political fury as entertainment. But there's something appealing about her call to fearlessness, and for a farm team of idealistic warriors. If self-preservation is our politicians' chief goal, we can't expect more than what we've got. But if more people are willing to run — and face the risk of losing — then maybe a better crop of people will win.
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Halloween started a bit early at movie theaters this weekend, as "Paranormal Activity 3" killed the competition with a $54 million opening.
That is both the best debut for a horror movie and the best first weekend in October for any kind of film, The Hollywood Reporter said.
The "3" is deceiving, as the latest entry in Paramount Pictures' super-low-budget frightening franchise actually tells how the unusual activity began, thanks to "discovered" home video footage from 1988, The Associated Press notes.
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It's also super-profitable, as the new movie cost just $5 million to make. Beyond its gross in American and Canadian theaters, "Paranormal Activity 3" also took in $26 million in its overseas rollout this weekend.
The 2009 original cost $15,000 and grossed $193.4 million worldwide, and the 2010 sequel cost $3 million and generated $177.5 million, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The new film, in which two young sisters "befriend an invisible entity who resides in their home," was graded a lackluster "C+" on CinemaScore – but moviegoers marching en masse to see it didn't seem to much care.
Paramount executive Don Harris said "Paramount Activity 3" was actually helped by strong reviews, including one from Time magazine, and that it did so well because it's the best movie of the series.
"Ultimately, it gets back to why there's still a theatrical business, why people still go to the movies," he told the AP. "We want to laugh in a group, we want to be scared in a group, people like to cry in a group in the dark where nobody can see them crying."
"Paranormal Activity 3" knocked the boffo boxers of "Real Steel" from their two-week perch atop the box office. The Hugh Jackman flick came in second this time with $11.3 million, for a total of $67.2 million.
The "Footloose" remake was again close on its heels, placing third with $10.9 million, for a two-week total of $30.9 million.
New release "The Three Musketeers" opened softly in fourth with $8.8 million. It was directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and stars his wife, Milla Jovovich, who on Friday blasted distributor Summit Entertainment via Twitter for not marketing it as a "fun family film."
"I think 'summit' have swept '3 Musketeers,' a (great) family adventure film, under the rug in the U.S. Shame on them," she wrote on Twitter.
Summit had no comment, EW.com reported.
Coming in at Nos. 5-7 were three movies that held up well weeks into their box office runs – "The Ides of March" ($4.9 million), "Dolphin Tale" ($4.2 million), and "Moneyball" ($4.1 million).
The previous records for best horror flick and October movie openings were held by "Paranormal Activity 2" and – you guessed it – "Jackass 3D," which collected $50.4 million in its initial go-round at this time last year.
Remarkably, no other horror movies will be coming out next weekend for Halloween, so "Paranormal Activity 3" could very well keep drawing in lots of viewers.
Or Twitter followers: it has 55,000 at its Twitter handle, @TweetYourScream.
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"In order to provide you with extra security, we occasionally need to ask for additional information when you access your account online."
Beginning in 2007, those innocuous-sounding words began appearing seamlessly and immediately on the personal computer screens of thousands of online banking victims in the United States and worldwide right after they logged into their accounts.
Many were duped into entering their mother's maiden name, Social Security numbers, and other personal data into the neat little labeled boxes.
Little did they know that the moment the personal data was entered, a Trojan horse program inhabiting their personal computer immediately sent it to a computer server in California – and from there to a central command-and-control server in the Netherlands. After that, access to the stolen account data was sold to other criminals, who used it to enter the accounts and transfer out cash.
Tens of millions of dollars was stolen this way from online accounts, according to charges filed in a federal court in New York Wednesday against the alleged leading members of the Gozi Gang, cyber-bank-robber masterminds and creators of the infamous Gozi Trojan, one of the world's most notorious and malicious bank-theft software programs.
According to the US attorney for New York's Southern District, the alleged gang leaders, three Eastern European men in US custody, played critical roles in producing and distributing the Gozi virus. They faced criminal charges ranging from conspiracy to commit bank fraud to access device fraud and computer intrusion, and maximum penalties ranging from 60 to 95 years in prison.
Since 2007, Gozi has infected at least 1 million computers worldwide, including 40,000 in the US.
Documents released in federal court Wednesday shed light on the federal takedown of the gang – including the three alleged international cybercriminals suspected of creating and distributing the Gozi virus (really a Trojan horse program that creates an invisible digital back door) – as well as the inner workings of the gang.
First, they allege that Nikita Kuzmin, a Russian national, was the mastermind who set out the technical specifications and hired a programmer called only "CC-1" to create the Gozi Trojan in 2005. Mr. Kuzmin was arrested during a visit to the US in November 2010, later pleading guilty to computer intrusion and fraud charges in May 2011.
Charged yesterday were Deniss Calovskis, a Latvian who goes by the online nickname "Miami," who is alleged to have written some of the computer code that made the Gozi Trojan so effective. He was arrested in Latvia in November 2012. He was indicted on several conspiracy charges, including conspiracy to commit aggravated identity theft.
Also charged was Mihai Ionut Paunescu, a Romanian whose alleged hacker handle is "Virus." Authorities say he operated a so-called bulletproof hosting service that enabled Kuzmin and other cybercriminals to distribute the Gozi Trojan, the Zeus Trojan, and other infamous malware. He was arrested in Romania in December 2012.
"As we have seen with increasing frequency, cybercriminals' bank heists require neither a mask nor a gun, just a clever program and an Internet connection," said Preet Bharara, US attorney for Manhattan, in a statement. "This case should serve as a wake-up call to banks and consumers alike, because cybercrime remains one of the greatest threats we face, and it is not going away anytime soon."
Once the Gozi Trojan was coded, the court documents allege, Kuzmin began sharing it with other cybercriminals in exchange for a weekly fee through what he called his "76 Service."
Through the service, Kuzmin made the Gozi Trojan's catch available to criminals, who could also configure the program to steal data of their choosing – for instance from a particular country. All the stolen data was stored for them on Mr. Paunescu's bulletproof servers.
Meanwhile, Kuzmin advertised his "76 Service" on Internet cybercrime forums. Finally, in 2009, Kuzmin began to do what other cyber bank Trojan-makers had done long before – sell the actual source code to Gozi. The price: $50,000 a copy.
Along the way, Gozi infected 160 computers at NASA, stealing logon credentials there, as well as computers in Germany, Britain, Poland, France, Finland, Italy, and Turkey.
"Where Gozi really was a trailblazer was in providing criminal-to-criminal services," says Don Jackson, a senior security researcher with the Counter Threat unit of Dell Secureworks in Atlanta, who first discovered Gozi in 2007.
"The 76 Service was not about selling the source code, but selling access to the infected computers," he says, "reaching out to other criminals and providing live data feeds."
After he first unveiled the workings of Gozi in 2007, the gang backed off targeting US bank customers and focused instead on European victims. As a result, Mr. Jackson says that for about three years he had a hard time getting the attention of US law enforcement authorities, who were less concerned about European attacks. But that all changed around a few years later when the gang started hitting the US again, he says.
"About 2010, the Gozi gang began targeting US banks almost exclusively," Jackson says. "That's when the FBI started calling again asking for information."
Jackson says the capture of Paunescu, the alleged bulletproof-hosting service provider, was a key to ending Gozi.
Unlike Gozi, other major banking Trojan malware like Zeus and SpyEye is more user-friendly for the criminals, involving point-and-click systems, thus making those operations more resilient – and even more dangerous, Jackson says.
But because the Gozi gang's inner circle was a tightly knit group, and because the Trojan required more technical expertise to operate, he thinks that Gozi is likely to be dead in the long run, even if a few operators of the software try to persist.
"I think in this case they've finally cut off the head of the snake," he says.


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Calico Crumb Cake Recipe
This recipe is adapted from Better Homes & Gardens Pies and Cakes, 1972 edition.
Notes: Sift the flour, then measure out the amount called for in the recipe. To toast the walnuts: arrange walnuts in single layer on baking sheet. Bake in center rack in preheated 350°F oven until fragrant and golden, 7 to 10 minutes, shaking pan halfway through baking to redistribute pecans. Transfer baking sheet to cooling rack and cool pecans completely before chopping.
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- Yield:12
- Active time: 30 minutes
- Total time:2 hours
- For the Topping:
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, chilled and cut into small pieces
- 1/2 cup toasted walnuts, coarsely chopped (See notes)
- For the Cake:
- Baking spray
- 1 cup bittersweet chocolate chips
- 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour (See Notes)
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 4 ounces (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 2 large eggs, at room temperature
- 1 cup buttermilk, at room temperature
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
Adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly spray 13- by 9-inch cake pan with baking spray. Line pan with parchment paper or heavy-duty foil lengthwise with one sheet, then crosswise with a second sheet to create a sling; spray once again with baking spray.
For the topping: Combine flour and brown sugar in medium bowl. Using two dinner knives, cut in butter until mixture is resembles wet sand. Stir in nuts; set aside.
For the cake: Place chocolate in small bowl and microwave until smooth and melted, 1 to 2 minutes, stopping microwave to stir chocolate every 30 seconds. Set aside and allow to cool.
Sift flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt into large bowl. Add butter and beat on medium speed until combined, about 1 minute (mixture will be crumbly).
In small bowl, beat together eggs, buttermilk, and vanilla. With mixer on medium-low speed, add egg mixture in slow steady stream. Beat just until combined. Pause mixer, scrape sides and bottom of bowl, then beat mixture on medium-high speed until thoroughly combined, about 30 seconds.
Transfer 1 cup batter to medium bowl. Stir in melted and cooled chocolate.
Scrape plain batter into prepared baking pan. Dollop chocolate batter on top of batter.
Run a knife through cake batter to create a marble swirl. Sprinkle evenly with sugar-walnut mixture.
Bake until a toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes. Transfer cake to cooling rack and cool in pan 10 minutes. Pull cake out onto a cooling rack using the parchment sling and cool completely, about 1 hour. Serve.
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Sofiane Boufal has signed a five-year deal after moving from Lille for a club record fee.
Southampton have confirmed the signing of Sofiane Boufal on a five-year deal.
Weeks of speculation over the Moroccan attacking midfielder have now come to an end, with Saints striking a deal with Lille which is understood to be worth in the region of £21m.
Boufal, 22, was born in Paris but elected to play for Morocco - the nation of his parents.
He was Lille's top scorer last season, scoring 12 goals in all competitions.
Boufal was named African Footballer of the Year in Ligue 1 last season and joins Saints with a reputation as a highly-talented and coveted youngster.
Executive Director of Football Les Reed said:
"Im absolutely delighted to welcome Sofiane to Southampton Football Club.
"He has shown his undoubted qualities in France over the past few seasons, and we are extremely confident he will successfully adapt to life in the Premier League.
"Sofiane is a player we have watched develop closely over the last few years, and were thrilled to have him join the club ahead of what promises to be a very exciting season, with Europa League football on the horizon.
"His excellent campaign with Lille last season meant a number of clubs were pursuing him to secure his services, but were delighted that Sofiane sees Southampton as the best place for him to continue his development.
"Saints fans may have to wait for a few weeks yet to see him demonstrate his skills, as Sofiane had a delayed start to his pre-season training and will be working very hard with our fitness staff to get up to full match fitness.
"At just 22 years of age, he will undoubtedly continue to improve as a player, and were very pleased that he will be able to make that progression with us here at Southampton."
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Announced just one year ago, construction of the new Carmike Cinema at Grand Boulevard is already halfway complete and on schedule to open in time for the arrival of spring breakers at the beach in 2013.
As Grand Boulevard spokesperson Stacey Brady proudly made this announcement this week, she was joined by John Heiser, executive vice-president of development for Howard Group, the developer of the new cinema, in announcing more developments to the project.
First and foremost is the announcement of a new name for the cinema, and a new logo to go along with it.
Originally billed as the Montecito 10, the theater is now being branded as the Boulevard 10.
"We felt that branding it as the Boulevard 10 would make it unique to its place, and that's what people would end up calling it any way," said Brady, who went on to say that any grand project of this magnitude goes through �evolutions.�
The project will rest on a 40,000-square-foot footprint at the far west corner of Grand Boulevard. That translates to 1.2 acres, said Heiser.
The theater will feature 10 cinemas in its 39,744 square feet.
A 54-foot mostly glass tower at the entrance will welcome movie goers in grand style.
There will be no standing outside in the heat or inclement weather to purchase tickets at this theater, as the box office will be indoors.
There will also be a VIP area, and separate stations for food and drink purchases and another for refills.
"You will only pay for food and beverages one time," said Heiser.
The main body of the theater will be around 35-feet high with an impressive 30-foot-high ceiling in the lobby.
The cinemas will feature 455 seats and 50-foot screens to accommodate 3D or 2D large-format movies.
"It's true large format and only one of 14 in the country. It will be the first Big D in the state of Florida," said Brady.
The theater will also feature a Carmike Cinema-branded adults-only Ovation Club featuring full tableside light food and adult beverage service. The chairs in this theater will be of high-backed leather.
To complement such a theater, the inside and outside finishes have been taken up a notch. Adding the corner glass tower was first, and stone has also been added, along with a more Mediterranean-style color palate. "There will be a very classy upscale look to the lobby and it will be state of the art in the entertainment industry," said Heiser. "The design now has more energy. It will be really cool."
Terrell Mayton, director of marketing for Carmike Cinemas, agrees.
"This will be one of the most incredible theaters we have built," he said. "This theater will have only the second Ovation Club in the country, and offer light food in comfortable seating with table-side service. It will be cutting edge from sound to onscreen presentation."
Heiser said he feels confident about the theater being ready for opening by Spring Break.
"We had one of the wettest Augusts on record, but Parks Construction has built more than 100 Carmikes and they know how it's done," he said.


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Air New Zealand launches global search for All Blacks Apprentices
These volunteer positions are the first of their kind within the All Blacks camp. The apprentices will stay at the All Blacks' hotel and assist the team both in preparation for the match and on game day, including:
- assisting in the setting up of the team's Captain's Run on the day before the game before joining the team for lunch.
- attending an exclusive question and answer session with All Blacks Head Coach Steve Hansen and players.
- helping to set up the All Blacks' coaches box, sideline and bench on game day.
- observing the game from their own private sideline bench.
One lucky apprentice will also be responsible for running the ball on to the field for kick-off.
Air New Zealand will provide transport to Auckland from anywhere across New Zealand or around the world for the successful applicants along with up to three friends or family members each. They will also receive accommodation and apprentices will wear special custom-made uniforms.
All Blacks Head Coach Steve Hansen says true fans of any age should apply.
"The main thing is these people need to be All Blacks supporters through and through and demonstrate a true love of the game.
"Like any position on the All Blacks team we expect these spots will be hotly contested so applicants really need to sell themselves and show us how passionate they really are."
Air New Zealand General Manager Global Brand and Content Marketing Jodi Williams says the airline has been a proud sponsor of the All Blacks for more than 20 years.
"Together with NZR we wanted to create a truly awesome opportunity for fans to go behind the scenes with the All Blacks and do their bit to help the team prepare for the test match against Samoa."
The apprentices will volunteer their services for 48 hours - from 8am Thursday 15 June to 8am Saturday 17 June 2017.
All Blacks supporters can apply now at www.airnz.co.nz/blackout. Fans are encouraged to provide any supporting evidence of their suitability for this position – for example video, photos, written material or artwork.
Applications close 11.59pm Monday 5 June 2017 (NZT).
Issued by Air New Zealand Public Affairs ph +64 21 747 320
About Star Alliance:
Air New Zealand is proud to be a member of Star Alliance. The Star Alliance network was established in 1997 as the first truly global airline alliance to offer worldwide reach, recognition and seamless service to the international traveller. Its acceptance by the market has been recognized by numerous awards, including the Air Transport World Market Leadership Award and Best Airline Alliance by both Business Traveller Magazine and Skytrax. The member airlines are: Adria Airways, Aegean Airlines, Air Canada, Air China, Air India, Air New Zealand, ANA, Asiana Airlines, Austrian, Avianca, Avianca in Brazil, Brussels Airlines, Copa Airlines, Croatia Airlines, EGYPTAIR, Ethiopian Airlines, EVA Air, LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines, Singapore Airlines, South African Airways, SWISS, TAP Portugal, Turkish Airlines, THAI and United. Overall, the Star Alliance network currently offers more than 18,500 daily flights to 1,330 airports in 192 countries.
For more information please visit Air New Zealand and Star Alliance and/or follow Star Alliance on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, LinkedIn or Instagram.


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Robert Pattinson Talks Candidly About Kristen Stewart Cheating Scandalby Mandi Salerno | PopCrush
Though the drama of the cheating scandal between Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart remains one of the celeb news highlights of 2012, some people — namely Rob — are over it.
While sitting down with Esquire UK, the 28-year-old opened up on the infidelity between his then-girlfriend and 'Snow White and the Huntsman' director Rupert Sanders. According to Rob, he's moved on.
"S— happens, you know?" he said with a laugh. "It's just young people… It's normal! And honestly, who gives a s—?"
He certainly doesn't seem to!
"The hardest part was talking about it afterwards," he admitted. "Because when you talk about other people, it affects them in ways you can't predict. It's like that scene in 'Doubt,' where [Philip Seymour Hoffman is] talking about how to take back gossip? They throw all those feathers from a pillow into the sky and you've got to go and collect all the feathers."
Though Rob's name is no longer in the headlines for any personal turmoil, he's still been a busy guy building up his acting credits — and with that comes an army of paparazzi.
"I don't understand why," he said of tabloids' interest. "I think it goes through periods where you're assigned 'this is the guy to follow.' But whenever I see a bunch of paparazzi hanging out, I always think, 'Oh God, what have they found out!'" He added with a laugh, "'Oh, that love child! I totally forgot!'"
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"We've spotted massive violations from Morsi's campaign, and according to our counting our candidate is leading with 51.5% to 52%," said Ahmed Sarhan, spokesman of Ahmed Shafiq's campaign.
Sarhan further said that Morsi's campaign should drop all their allegations of vote-rigging against Shafiq accusing the Brotherhood candidate of "spreading lies about the results of the vote all along."
Moreover, Sarhan added that final results are not to be announced before all the violations had been verified and all appeals examined by the Supreme Presidential Electoral Commission (SPEC).
Meanwhile, the media coordinator of Shafiq's campaign told Ahram Online, "Morsi's campaign are spreading fake news of victory in order to be able to claim vote-rigging when Shafiq wins,"
The presidential runoffs have witnessed a tight competition between Ahmed Shafiq and his rival, the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi, while indications so far put Morsi in the lead - 51.74% to 48.25% - with 99% of votes reported according to the campaign of the Brotherhood leading figure.
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Detroit automakers may be close to clicking "like" on Facebook advertising again.
General Motors quit advertising on Facebook about eight months ago, claiming that the social network didn't help the Detroit company sell cars. However, a top executive at the company told Reuters that Facebook and GM are "discussing" a return to the medium.
"We're still actively talking to them," said Alan Batey, GM's interim marketing chief, in comments at the Detroit auto show, a major industry event.
GM used the timing of Facebook's May 2012 IPO to inform the world that its $40 million investment in Facebook presence didn't pay off, Reuters reported.
GM still has a Facebook presence, but similar to any other user, does not pay for the privilege. GM is also not paying for advertising during the 2013 Super Bowl due to the high cost, Batey said.
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Automaker may reconsider move away from social network.
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