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We've said this before, but the web of those who push the Satanic ritual abuse narrative within the UK is both relatively small and very close-knit.
For example, when we were looking into the story of SRA claimant Becki Percy, we learned that although she began her career of allegations by claiming that her father had sexually abused her, and later expanded that to her mother trafficking her, she didn't really get rolling with her abuse claims until she'd discovered a woman named Victoria (Vicky) Ash.
Off to a good start
Becki contacted blogger Fenna Vlekke in early 2015, "because she wanted to raise awareness on the topic of childhood sexual abuse". In the interview she not only claimed that she was locked into the loft at her parents' home with "only a dog bowl filled with water for company", but she described what happened after she allegedly told a teacher in January 2010 that her father had been sexually abusing her:
That night, a police woman and a social worker came to mums house. My dad was still at work so it was only my mum and me. They explained everything to her and she started with the crocodile tears. She pretended she had no clue this had been happening. Of course, they believed her tears. My dad came home and, for my own safety, the police woman told me to go upstairs so I did. I could still hear everything. She told my dad he would have to find somewhere else to live because he wasn't allowed near me. He was angry. Saying that I'd made it up and that he hasn't ever touched me. Lies. Thankfully the police made him go and he did. He left.
So…a 13-year-old girl reports sexual abuse, the police show up, and instead of arresting her father for questioning, they simply tell him he has to leave the home…and then they toodle off themselves, job done?
In this interview, Becki says she went to live with her uncle, but worse luck, guess what? He was involved in her parents' child trafficking ring too! When she reported this in March 2010, she was sent to live in foster care, followed quickly by emergency residential care, and finally "a lovely placement" where she was living at the time of the interview.
There's no mention of her uncle or parents ever having been arrested or prosecuted for their alleged crimes; they just fade out of the picture.
Asked whether she had help dealing with the emotional effects of her abuse, Becki's response is telling:
In terms of social services, they don't believe a word that comes out of my mouth. They think I've lied about the abuse. I've been referred to CAMHS countless times but they're totally useless.
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Interestingly, in a December 2016 YouTube video, the story changes somewhat:
I lived with Xxxx ([mother's] brother) until May 7th. I disclosed to the same school teacher about him sexually abusing me. I was placed in foster care
I was in that foster care placement for around a month in which time the male foster carer was sexually abusing me. I, again, disclosed to a school teacher and was placed into an emergency children's home
I was there for a further month then placed in a more permanent children's home.
From July 2nd 2010 to April 21st 2015 I live in the second children's home. In that time I went through a cycle of CPS wanting me to see Ann, I would have contact with her then she would abuse and traffick me, I would eventually tell someone. The police would 'investigate' but then come back and say they wasn't going to prosecute which is when the cycle would start over.
A few things are notable here:
- Becki adds an allegation of sexual abuse against her male foster carer;
- She states that her social workers wanted her to see her mother, a strange choice for a teen who was allegedly being sexually abused and trafficked;
- The police would investigate, but refused to prosecute—again, a strange choice if there was any evidence whatsoever that Becki was being sexually abused or trafficked; and
- Nowhere in any of the above does she mention Satanic ritual abuse, nor her devotion to evangelical Christianity, which will become leitmotifs of her current internet fame.
And then along came Vicky Ash
In January 2017, however, Becki posted this video to YouTube:
We've discussed this video before: it's the one in which she states, then tries to retract, that she has done a great deal of research into SRA. The main thrust of the video is that while she knew she'd been abused as a child, it wasn't until about six months earlier that she'd come to the stunning realisation that she had been a victim of SRA.
At 05:52 she mentions that her role model in this is "a very courageous woman named Vicky Ash". Becki expresses admiration for Vicky:
I really find her story and her courage inspiring and she was the push that I needed spiritually—she's a Christian—to continue doing these videos….To hear from another survivor that has experienced similar things to myself speak about it with such…she was so graceful about it, and she was calm. She looked like she was at peace. And I'm thanking God that she has found God, and she is strong in her faith, and I know that God has already started healing her, which I'm thankful for also.
Unfortunately, the video Becki refers to has been removed from YouTube for violating its terms of service.
On Voat, Becki gushes about how Vicky helped her understand that the alleged abuse she'd suffered was actually SRA.
We don't know that Becki and Vicky ever communicated directly. However, it seems quite clear that Vicky's various online interviews helped Becki shape and hone her SRA story, as it shifted from "my parents abused me" to "my parents trafficked me and locked me in the loft with a dog bowl of water" to "my parents and other unnamed people chased me through the forest full of dead children hung from the trees like Christmas ornaments, and each time they raped me they took another item of my clothing".
Who is Vicky Ash?
Although the specific video Becki references is no longer available, Vicky Ash has given many interviews over the years. In this undated interview with Wilfred Wong, she describes the familiar litany of "Satanic" practices:
I was also forced by my Satanist abuser to watch pornography, which included Bestiality. In addition I was forced to 'play games' during which I was sexually abused and told that I was the 'star of the show'. Photographs were taken of this abuse.
I was drugged with a drink and taken out at night to tunnels and other locations with everyone wearing black hooded cloaks. I heard screaming and witnessed Satanist rituals with animals and children being murdered. There was lots of chanting. I was impregnated and my baby was aborted and offered as a sacrifice to Satan. Abortion is the modern form of Child Sacrifice. Bible-believing Christians ought to take careful note of this and become much more actively Pro-Life.
(Yes, she does say, "Abortion is the modern form of Child Sacrifice". You were not imagining it. Sorry.)
With the help of her MP Geoffrey Dickens, Vicky's case was investigated by police twice, but no one was ever charged, despite her persistence. However, she claims "there is plenty of hard evidence that SRA exists in the UK, including the several successfully prosecuted SRA cases in our nation".
This is blatantly false: in Prof Jean La Fontaine's 1994 study of over 200 allegations of SRA in the UK, only three cases were substantiated, and they were found to have been "pseudosatanic"—sexual abuse was the main motivation of the abusers, and the ritual elements were incidental.
However, like most SRA pushers, Vicky does not let mere facts stand in the way of her belief.
A former beauty salon operator who now describes herself as a "beauty therapist", she runs a "Holistic Christian Ministry called 'Christoria'. Its work includes helping other SRA survivors and warning people that some beauty treatments on offer are Occultic".
Vicky's ties to UK SRA pushers
In addition to Wilfred Wong, Vicky Ash is closely linked to others within the UK SRA-pushing community.
In November 2015, we find her being interviewed by Brian Gerrish, an interview which was promoted on David Icke's website.
Interestingly, in addition to referencing Geoffrey Dickens, she talks about her affiliation with Dianne Core of Childwatch. Ms Core was an enthusiastic promoter of the SRA narrative in the 1990s, who managed to straddle the fundamentalist/evangelical Christian / radical feminist divide, and worked on The Cook Report at the time when it was pushing SRA heavily. She is probably worthy of a post on her own, but it's interesting that Vicky Ash says she was helped by her.
We found that Sabine McNeill has featured Vicky on her National Inquiry into Organised, Orchestrated, and Historic Child Sexual Abuse blog. In a post on 8 May 2017, Sabine featured Vicky speaking at the "Perth Conference on Full Spectrum #ChildSexualAbuse".
That event, described by our own YdychyncachuTracey as "a shitfest of complete utter fuckwittery", turns out to have been the founding event of none other than the Scottish Fresh Start Foundation, which we've been tracking for the past several months. In addition to Vicky Ash, speakers included the aforementioned Wilfred Wong, Robert Green, Sandy Smith, Shirley P. Cooper, and Andrea Sadegh, with Brian Gerrish, David Icke, and Kevin Annett making video appearances. Hail, hail, the gang's all here!
Once again, we have no idea what Vicky actually said at the event, as that particular Fresh Start Foundation YouTube channel seems to have taken down for "multiple infractions" of YouTube's terms of service. Quelle surprise.
We find it fascinating, though, that despite being located so far from the UK, an SRA claimant like Becki Percy, looking for validation of her own stories, somehow seems to have hooked into the UK SRA-believers' community so seamlessly.


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I play video games obsessively. I was probably one of the first people in my area to own a Play Station 3. I have played Rock Band with friends until three in the morning many times. If you have no idea what I am talking about, you should get the game.
However, despite its popularity, I have never really liked the Grand Theft Auto series. I thought it was pretty boring, simply because I wasn't very good at the missions and shooting up cops and jumping off buildings eventually got old, although it was funny the first several times. My male gamer friends love the series, however. They like to claim that I am just being overly sensitive because all the main characters in Grand Theft Auto are male. Although, I loved Assassin's Creed, which was extremely violent and dominated by male characters. If I held my breath waiting for video games that feature women as something other than eye candy or damsels in distress I would have to throw out most of my game collection. At the end of the day, I just got to suck it up and ignore the sexism if I want to have any fun playing video games.
Nevertheless, I simply cannot condone the sexualized violence in Grand Theft Auto 4. One of my friends went to a preview party hosted by Rockstar Games. As is typical for the gaming world, the entire party was a big sausage fest with no women in sight other than the models hired to promote the game. He reported back to say that the highlight of GTA4 was the strip clubs and buying sex. Kind of gross, but that wouldn't make me outright dislike the game. What really stuck out was that you can kill the prostitutes to get your money back. According to that friend, he said what most guys that got to play the preview set up found most enthralling was paying for demeaning sex and then shooting the prostitutes and running them over with their car. "Because it's funny," he said, "and you can also get your money back."
Very classy. I especially like how the game tries to be political by developing these elaborate back stories for fast food workers and victims of the drug war to highlight those issues. However, no word on sexualized violence and the huge problem of violence against sex workers. You can just run them over afterwards to get your money back, it's not like they have a name or purpose other than sex and then dying. From the previews I have seen around the internet, it seems like Rockstar's newest contribution has no other purpose for the women in "Liberty City" other than sex and death. I really like that underlying message.
I'll go on the record saying that I like violent videogames. When most people moan and groan about how video games are corrupting the youth, I think they sound a bit dull. However, I really have to go with the fundies on this one. Sexualized violence and killing hookers is not cool. Thanks for enabling the elaborate joke socialization thinks violence against women is, Rockstar. I just don't think it's at all funny.
Props to Feministing and Samhita for pointing this out.


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BA Midseason Cubs Top 10 Prospects and More
We are officially in the mid-season prospect ranking phase. And, although it's not quite as exciting or prominent as it is in the offseason, there is still quite a lot to discuss.
After all, a lot can happen in just half a season (and with the trade deadline looming, it's good to know the perceived relative value of your team's assets).
Guys like Willson Contreras and Albert Almora Jr. can graduate, prospects like Eloy Jimenez and Ian Happ can break out, and still other guys like Dylan Cease and Pierce Johnson can be slowed by injuries. The result is a brand new, often-rearranged set of rankings that reflect the many of the season's developments.
Already, we've seen Gleyber Torres, Ian Happ, and Eloy Jimenez among the top 50 of Baseball America's Mid-Season top 100, Baseball Prospectus' Mid-Season Top 50 and ESPN Keith Law's Midseason Top 50. Today, however, were checking in on something different. The Cubs own top ten. At Baseball America, the Chicago Cubs top ten prospects are re-ranked, after a half of season worth of games, and you can read about it here.
Below is some information on the rankings along with some thoughts of my own.
The actual list/rankings is accompanied by a brief scouting report on each individual player, information on players that are on the rise/fall, who's injured, who's graduating and who to look out for next. However, because it is premium content, I can't share too much with you. Instead, I'll encourage you to check it out for yourself.
Here's the list, according to Baseball America
- Gleyber Torres, SS
- Ian Happ, 2B/OF
- Eloy Jimenez, OF
- Mark Zagunis, OF
- Jeimer Candelario, 3B
- Oscar De La Cruz, RHP
- Dylan Cease, RHP
- Trevor Clifton, RHP
- Duane Underwood, RHP
- Eddy Julio Martinez, OF
We already knew who the top three would be, but it's at least a tiny surprise to see Mark Zagunis over Jeimer Candelario. According to John Manuel, Candelario is close to the big leagues and has matured as a hitter, but is more likely a second-division regular than a true star. Zagunis, on the other hand, could use some work on defense, but is able to control the zone very handily (with strike zone judgement comps to Kevin Youkilis). Given his more aggressive approach lately, his production (particularly the power) has improved at Triple-A.
It's also nice to see four pitchers in the six through nine spot, but it's most interesting – in my opinion – to see Eddy Julio Martinez's name starting to pop up. There was a lot of of uncertainty regarding his abilities and ceiling (both offensively and defensively/positionally), but Baseball America can see the potential. According to Manuel, Martinez has a shot at being a five tool player with average to above average skills across the board. He is a bit raw defensively (and hasn't yet made the move to center field), but he apparently has the tools/skills to be an impact player.


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When diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in his early 20s, Bob Schrank, an avid cyclist from Gurnee, Ill., thought his two-wheeled passion was in peril. But instead of giving up and giving in, Bob, who'd been riding since age 2, took charge. Now, 20 years after his diagnosis, Bob is still riding long distances as a member of Team Novo Nordisk (formerly Team Type 1), a world-class cycling team comprised entirely of Type 1 diabetics that in 2010 won the 3,005-mile Race Across America in 5 days, 10 hours and 48 minutes.
Today, with proper planning, frequent blood sugar checks and everything he needs in the case he goes low, Bob's is an inspiring story of overcoming challenges. Here he shares that story and offers words of wisdom for anyone who finds themselves at the crossroads of desire and diagnosis.


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[Update at 5:20 p.m. Ishmael Beah stands by his story in an Associated Press article posted today www.books.beloblog.com/archives/2008/01/ishmael_beah_stands_by_hi, though I can't get this link to the story to work.]
More questions have arisen about Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone in a continuing investigation of the book by the Australian, the Australian national newspaper. The paper says it "failed to find any supporting evidence for one of the book's dramatic peaks: the death of six boy soldiers in a fight at a UNICEF-run camp in the Sierra Leone capital of Freetown in early 1996." Beah and his publisher have defended the accuracy of A Long Way Gone. But they have refused to answer questions about discrepancies between what the reporters found and what appears in the book, the newspaper says. Here's the latest report on the controversy, in which I am quoted:
A review of A Long Way Gone appeared on One-Minute Book Reviews on Feb. 27, 2007 www.oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/02/27/, And a reading group guide to the book was posted on March 5, 2007 www.oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/. The guide noted that John Corry, who has reported from West Africa, said in a review in the Wall Street Journal: "It is permissible to wonder whether Mr. Beah is accurately recalling events and people and what they said."
(c) 2008 Janice Harayda. All rights reserved.


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I cooked the first braised dish of the season tonight and really it was because Bill was pushing me a tad. He is less and less traveling back and forth to Charleston and we are well adjusting to being a unit again. Next week will mark one year I have moved to Birmingham. Seems like it was yesterday. Seems like I have been here longer too. Seems like I was in Charleston just days ago. Seems like it was an eternity ago. I am here and there.
Everyday I learn more about myself and people. About what it means to photograph for a huge publishing house, with great talents and great projects. With big dreams too. There are issues, there is a little drama here and there but overall there is this intense desire to create beautiful imagery. At the end of a really hard day, I still wake the next morning and say "Man! I love my job". I am looking forward to what the next year will bring at work. And home now that Bill will be here more often.
Adjusting to each other is the easy part for us. We really dig each other...that helps! We have our quiet times. Our about town times. All punctuated by little indulgences here and there. Like Wine Soaked Cherries With Vanilla Ice Cream or Goat Cheese & Mascarpone Mousse. The cherries are divine on their own but flatter the most simple vanilla ice cream with gusto. They play a quieter part with soft and unctuous goat cheese and mascarpone mousse.


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Global markets responded in concert at the news this past week. The U.S. jobs created data perpetuated the assumption of a labor condition recovery. The reality is that any reduction in first-time unemployment applications reflects a reduced number of employees available for layoffs. The unemployed and underemployed numbers are too high to substantiate an economic recovery. As I have been stating for some time, "an unemployed consumer does not consume." The report of increased inventories is witness to that, and I expect the reality of a sustained economic contraction will soon materialize and be reflected in the nternational marketplace. Now for some actual information to assist my readers in making appropriate trading decisions…
Interest Rates: "The tail does not wag the dog". Rhetoric from the investment community has "determined" that the bond market rally is over. The bond market is not the determining factor, the Federal Reserve is in its intentions as to whether or not they will relax their quantitative easing program and allow rates to move higher. That being the case, Treasury bond prices would decline. Unfortunately analysts suggesting declines in bond prices fail to recognize that the economic condition will determine the Fed's actions as to rates and not the price of bonds. The June 30 year Treasury bond closed at 145 and 4/32nds, down 1 and 12/32nds as the "euphoria" with equities persists and money made the transition from the safety of treasuries to the equity markets. The expectation that given the recent economic data that the U.S. Fed may curtail further stimulative easing and that has prompted long liquidation of treasuries. We remain convinced that no such revision to Fed policy is in the offing and that treasuries will remain in a range as suggested in prior commentaries.
Stock Indices: The Dow Jones industrial average closed at 15,118.49, up 35.87 points and for the week gained 0.97%. The S&P 500 closed at 1,633.70, up 7.03 points and for the week gained 1.18%. The tech heavy Nasdaq closed at 3,436.58, up 27.41 points and for the week gained 1.72%. The positively construed U.S. labor data as well as an increase in consumer confidence prompted the transition from the relative safety instruments back to equities. We do not believe the rally in equities nor the positive sentiment can be sustained and once again suggest strongly the implementation of risk hedging strategies, something we have prepared for those with large equity holdings. Our programs attempt to mitigate any severe market contraction.
Currencies: The June U.S. dollar index closed at 83.235, up 36 points against its trading partners as the U.S. economic and labor data fomented a positive attitude towards the U.S. The most gain for the dollar came against the Japanese yen where a government report indicated Japanese investors increased holdings of overseas bonds. The Yen lost 2.7% to close at 101.62 for each dollar. Analyst expectations are for continued yen value decline. As far as the other losses Friday, the Euro lost 32 points to $1.2987, the Swiss Franc 93 points to $1.0448, the yen 100 points to 9844, the British Pound 70 points to $1.5356, the Canadian dollar 28 points to .9878c and Australian dollar 43 points to .9985c. We have favored the long side of the dollar for some time and continue to feel that relative to its trading partners, albeit our expectation for a U.S. economic contraction, the dollar is a better choice. We expect further deterioration of Eurozone economies along with continued erosion of the Yen. Stay with the dollar.
Energies: June crude oil closed at $95.84 per barrel, down 55c but posted a small weekly gain. During the session crude traded as low as $93.37 per barrel but shortcovering in front of the weekend took prices back at the close. OPEC, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, warned that challenges could alter its outlook for demand and that prompted the long liquidation in front of the weekend. The expectation for continued reduced demand tied to global economic uncertainty prompted the selling which we have been expecting for some time. The reality of a contracting global economic situation especially as relates to Europe, Japan, and to some extent the U.S. and China, could further prompt concern over optimistic pricing. We are bearish on crude but with an eye towards the escalation of Mideast tensions.
Copper: July copper closed at $3.3775 per pound, up 3.7c on shortcovering after recent long liquidation tied to economic news considerations. We have been bearish for some time tied to the recent demand reductions from China, one of the major user of industrial metals. The "positively construed" U.S. economic data provided the impetus for the shortcovering late in the week. We continue to feel demand for industrial metals will erode with our negative view of global economies. We remain bearish for copper.
Precious Metals: June gold closed at $1,442.20 per ounce, down another $26.40 posting a 1.8% loss on Friday and for the week lost nearly 2%. The U.S. jobs data of first time unemployment declined unexpectedly on Thursday reducing pressure on the U.S. Fed to continue aggressive monetary stimulus. We do not agree with assumptions that a one week reduction of first time unemployment applications will move the Fed to abandon it's current policy prior to its previously "stated" expectation of low rates through 2014. During the session gold posted a $30 per ounce loss before recovering slightly at the close. We remain sidelined in precious metals. July silver lost 25c per ounce or 1.1% to close at $23.66 per ounce and for the week lost 1.5%. Some Japanese hedge funds holding large gold related positions are reviewing their positions with the weak yen providing transition from gold to Japanese equity markets according to a New Delhi bullion analyst and that provided additional pressure to gold. We are also on the sidelines in silver as well. However, for those that "must have" a precious metal in the portfolio, we prefer silver to gold since its overall percentage gains exceed those of gold. The Friday loss in gold was 1.8% against the silver loss of 0.7%. In either direction silver "outperforms" gold. July platinum closed at $1,489.80 per ounce, down $26.70 or 1.8% while June palladium lost $7.80 per ounce or 1.1% to close at $706.95. We prefer the sidelines in this group although any gains in international auto sales would provide demand for the white metals used in catalytic converters and other oil refining applications.
Next page: Ags and softs report
Grains and Oilseeds: July corn closed at $6.36 ½ per bushel, down 12 1/4c after trading as low as $6.25 during the session. Weather conditions improved allowing farmers to start aggressive plantings leading to expectation of a record corn crop. The USDA monthly crop report forecast a greater than expected domestic supply for the next year prompting long liquidation. We prefer the sidelines in corn. July wheat closed at $7.03 ½ per bushel, down 20c with the low of $7.02 posted during the session. The USDA crop report also impacted wheat prices. We prefer the sidelines here as well. July soybeans closed at $13.98 ½ per bushel, down 10 1/4c also tied to the USDA forecast for an increase of domestic stocks. We had been bullish for soybeans and are now on the sidelines as well.
Meats: June cattle closed at $1.2040 per pound, down 15 ticks. We have no comment this week. June hogs closed at 90.75c per pound, up 175 points and we also have no comment here as well. Even with the onset of summer barbecue season, the mixed fundamentals do not provide us with any directional suggestions.
Coffee, Cocoa and Sugar: July coffee closed at $1.4420 per pound, down 3.7c on profittaking after having gained over 3% to its two month high on Thursday. We liked the long side of coffee even against expectations of better than expected off year Brazilian crop estimate. Cold weather for Brazil is forecast and short covering was the main feature of late. Technically motivated fund buying also a factor in the recent strength. We would hold off any new purchases pending further information from Brazil. July cocoa closed at $2,305 per tonne, down $44 on speculation that the buying of late was overdone against expected adequate supplies to meet demand. We like the sidelines from here. July sugar closed at 17.39c per pound, down 8 ticks closing in a 2 ½ year low. Expectation for a record cane crop from Brazil and larger than expected output from both Thailand and India remains a factor in the selling pressure. We continue to prefer the sidelines in sugar.
Cotton: July cotton closed at .8669c per pound, down 1.23c on mixed trading midway between the late February low of .8270c and mid-march high of .9420c. The International Cotton Advisory Committee early in the month had raised price expectations even against their estimate for greater world inventories. We prefer the sidelines until further fundamentals emerge.


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A hacker who goes by "Pinkie Pie" has once again subverted the security of Google's Chrome browser, a feat that fetched him a $60,000 prize and resulted in a security update to fix underlying vulnerabilities.
Ars readers may recall Pinkie Pie from earlier this year, when he pierced Chrome's vaunted security defenses at the first installment of Pwnium, a Google-sponsored contest that offered $1 million in prizes to people who successfully hacked the browser. At the time a little-known reverse engineer of just 19 years, Pinkie Pie stitched together at least six different bug exploits to bypass an elaborate defense perimeter designed by an army of some of the best software engineers in the world.
At the second installment of Pwnium, which wrapped up on Tuesday at the Hack in the Box 2012 security conference in Kuala Lumpur, Pinkie Pie did it again. This time, his attack exploited two vulnerabilities. The first, against Scalable Vector Graphics functions in Chrome's WebKit browser engine, allowed him to compromise the renderer process, according to a synopsis provided by Google software engineer Chris Evans.
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Even then, Pinkie Pie encountered a predicament that is growing increasingly common among software exploiters. A security sandbox acts as a boundary that quarantines HTML and other types of browser content so it doesn't interact with more sensitive parts of a computer's operating system. And Chrome utilized one that prevented Pinkie Pie's exploit from doing much more than crashing the machine. With Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Apple's Safari browser offering similar defenses, the ability to craft drive-by Web exploits that remotely execute malicious code is getting significantly harder. A comprehensive study from last year found Google's sandbox was far more restrictive than Microsoft's, although some people have discounted that finding because the report was commissioned by Google.
To work around this limitation and actually gain control of the system, Pinkie Pie targeted a second bug, this one in Chrome's interprocess communication layer. Because his exploit relied only on code that is included with Chrome, the attack once again qualified for the top $60,000 prize specified under the Pwnium rules.
"We'd like to thank Pinkie Pie for his hard work in assembling another great Pwnium submission," Evans wrote. "We'll post an in-depth look at the bugs used and subsequent mitigations once other platforms have been patched."
Pinkie Pie was the sole winner this time around, but based on a Twitter dispatch from self-described "vulnerability assassin" Nikita Tarakanov, a freshly fixed vulnerability in Adobe's Flash Player scuttled his Pwnium plans during day one of the competition. Google Chrome is notable for packaging a custom version of Flash and providing security fixes for it before Adobe patches other Flash versions.
All told, it took just 12 hours from the time Pinkie Pie's attack was demonstrated to the time Google engineers released a fix. If that's not a record, it's better than the weeks or months it can take Mozilla, Microsoft, and Apple to patch their browsers against similarly devastating bugs.


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Mining Platinum in Arizona
Platinum certification is the highest green-rating achievable in the LEED for Homes program. This means a net zero energy, net zero carbon and net zero water home that is comfortable, healthy, beautiful, and sustainable.
In 1939, when Flora and Willy Dwiggins established their original homestead on a beautiful and farmable property in north central Arizona, the world was a very different place. Germany was invading Poland, marking the beginning of World War II, and even though the largest oil field on Earth would not be discovered for another nine years, America was beginning a journey toward oil addiction, environmental degradation, and climate change. Nearly 70 years later, the Dwiggins's Arizona homestead would become the site of a remark-able home.
Conceived under the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for Homes pilot program, the Bellemont home was built and is owned by Carl Ramsey, a registered architect and contractor in Flagstaff. Ramsey is the owner and principal at Architectural & Environmental Associates, a firm with green building as its focus. The Ramsey home was recently awarded a Platinum certification, the highest rating achievable from USGBC, and is one of only 23 residences worldwide to achieve this honor (see "USGBC LEED for Homes Rating System").
The home blends time-tested design strategies, such as passive-solar techniques and rainwater harvesting, with modern, high-tech systems. Electricity for the home is supplied by a grid-tied PV system and a grid-tied wind turbine. Solar-thermal hydronic systems supply domestic hot water and heat for the radiant floor system. Additional biological and environmental technologies are applied in the UV light water purification systems, the graywater system, and the indoor air quality (IAQ) systems. A custom-designed, software-based control system monitors and automates these other systems. The end result is a net zero energy, net zero carbon, and net zero water house that is comfortable, healthy, beautiful, and sustainable.
Building Design and Efficiency
Ramsey knew that he had a locally unprecedented opportunity to provide a real-world example of household sustainability. His goal was to design and build a home that would provide its own potable and irrigation water and would produce its energy on-site, all with minimal impact on the environment. To earn a Platinum certification, the materials and methods of construction also had to minimize impact on the environment and meet set energy performance levels as well (see "A Model Home").
Passive cooling. The home's innovative design includes a tower structure that cools the house naturally during Flagstaff's summer evenings. The home has no other air conditioning. Cooling is important during the hot Arizona summers, even at 7,000 feet above sea level. Ventilation through windows in the tower and clerestory is automated by the control system. The windows open and close automatically to provide both ventilation and additional daylighting. Warm air is exhausted at the apex of the tower through the process of stratification, creating a natural convection path that draws cooler air inside the home from the lower levels of the tower.
Expansive living space. Extensive exterior decking, built with recycled materials, and large patio areas paved with recycled glass and concrete pavers, provide an additional 1,600 square feet of living area to the 2,700 ft2 house, without the additional expense of building infrastructure. A detached garage is connected to the home by an open breezeway and prevents airborne automobile combustion contaminants from entering the home. Exterior walls are constructed using structural insulated panels (SIPS), and sprayed-foam insulation is used in the attic and crawlspace. Windows in the home are all low-e spectrally selective windows except windows on the south side, which are standard single-pane windows.
This Platinum home is so energy efficient that it easily earned the Energy Star Homes rating with a HERS Index of 24 (to achieve Energy Star certification, a home must score a HERS Index of 85). The design for the home also incorporates advanced framing technologies that reduce the materials and labor required to frame a typical home by approximately 15%. The home includes space for a home office.
Indoor air quality. As a part of the comprehensive green design, special attention was paid to ensuring a healthy indoor living environment. Interior finishes are all low- or no-VOC materials. The detached garage is connected to the home by an open breezeway, which prevents IAQ degradation by ensuring that automobile combustion contaminants cannot enter the home. There is also a central vacuum system that exhausts pollutant particulates (dust, pollen, microscopic pollutants) to the outdoors. These particulates would be circulated throughout a home by traditional housekeeping appliances and practices. All of the interior flooring materials are hard, nonporous surfaces. There are no carpeted surfaces in the home. Traditional carpets off-gas chemical contaminants and harbor dust mites, cockroaches, bacteria, mold, and dirt. To provide clean, fresh air within a very well-sealed building envelope, a Honeywell automated heat recovery ventilation (HRV) unit was installed with a Broan-Nutone Guardian Plus high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filtration system. To reduce energy losses, an exchange manifold is used to capture warmth from indoor air in the winter and leave cool indoor air in the summer before exhausting the stale air from the house. The HEPA filtration system traps dust and pollen and prevents them from entering the home with the fresh-air supply.
A Model Home
In energy modeling, a computer is used to simulate, or predict, the energy performance of a building. This is done very early in the design process. Modeling is a way to test materials or design options before committing to a direction or a methodology, and to quickly identify the most cost-effective, energy-saving measures. It is crucial to effective energy design and management.
Energy modeling for the Ramsey home was performed using the Energy-10 software package developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Center for Building and Thermal Systems. Although the LEED standards require that Energy Star-rated low-e windows be used throughout a structure, the models generated with Energy-10 were used to demonstrate to USGBC that to maximize passive-solar heat gain, traditional clear glazing on the south side of the home was preferable to low-e coated glass. Modeling is also used for analysis to assign residential Energy Star ratings. This specialized modeling was performed using REM:Rate, a highly sophisticated residential energy analysis, code compliance, and rating software developed specifically to meet the needs of HERS providers (see "REM:Rate 12.5—A Versatile Energy Application, " p.10). The software calculates heating, cooling, hot water, lighting, and appliance energy loads, and consumption and costs for new and existing single and multifamily homes, using climate data available for cities and towns throughout North America. As a home energy rating tool, REM:Rate calculates energy loads, consumption, and costs. It also sizes mechanical equipment and performs automatic Council of American Building Officials (CABO) Model Energy Code, ASHRAE 90.2, and International Energy Conservation Code compliance analysis. The software features a utility that performs EPA Energy Star home analysis. The REM:Rate analysis indicated that the Ramsey home exceeded the applicable Energy Star requirements by approximately 70%.
Interior humidity levels are maintained by a Generalaire Elite steam electrode humidifier. The system maintains the humidity level at 40%—the optimum level for a human habitat. The home's automated management system adjusts the humidity, temperature, and air flow to keep the interior of the home comfortable and healthy. An evaporative cooler was not considered for cooling, as it would increase the humidity to an unhealthy level inside the home.
Intelligent lighting system. At night, the home uses Energy Star-rated lighting fixtures exclusively. The exterior lighting fixtures are also Energy Star rated. The exterior fixtures have a Dark-Sky rating as well. This rating means that the fixture must shine toward the ground and cannot contribute to light pollution in the night sky. Flagstaff is home to the world-renowned Lowell Observatory (where Pluto was discovered), and these Dark-Sky fixtures are a local building code requirement designed to make possible celestial viewing.
Environmentally friendly materials. Sustainable interior finishes include earthen plaster wall finishes, renewable cork floors, clay-painted ceilings, and concrete countertops infused with recycled glass aggregate and fly ash (waste from coal-fired power plants). To complement the home's natural surroundings, locally harvested and milled beetle-kill ponderosa pine was used for wood cabinetry, as well as base, window, and door trim.
Reduced construction waste. Leftover materials generated during construction were ground on site to create gravel for the driveway and mulch for the native landscaping. These practices reduced the waste from construction from a national average of approximately 5 lb per square foot of home, to under 0.5 lb per square foot. A large portion of construction waste would typically end up in a landfill.
Renewable Energy Systems
The renewable electricity systems were sited away from the house. This made it possible to position the house to take advantage of passive-solar orientation, shade resources, and a natural windbreak to the north, without compromising the performance of the renewable energy systems.
A 7.2 kW grid-tied PV system is the primary source of electricity. The PV system also serves as the carport roof. Integrating the renewable electricity system into a stand-alone structure earned the Ramsey home additional LEED points. The PV system consists of 40 Sharp 180W modules feeding two inverters: an SMA America Sunny Boy SB3000U in parallel with a Sunny Boy SB4000U. The smaller inverter is served by a 2,880W subarray. The second inverter is supplied by a 4,320W subarray. The total array was sized to provide more than 11,000 kWh of AC production annually. Environmental models indicate that over a 25-year life cycle (which coincides with the warranty period for the modules), the PV system will prevent 2.8 tons of sulfur dioxide (a greenhouse gas that contributes to acid rain), just over 1.2 tons of nitrogen oxides, and nearly 300 tons of climate-altering CO2 from entering the atmosphere.
To balance out renewable energy production during Flagstaff's rainy season, which runs from August through early October, a small wind turbine was installed. Early-afternoon thundershowers roll in almost daily, appreciably reducing good solar-production hours but bringing a fairly reliable wind resource when clouds compromise the solar resource. The utility-interactive wind turbine, built locally by Flagstaff-based Southwest Windpower, Incorporated, is a Skystream 3.7 rated at 1.8 kW (2.4 kW peak, at a rated wind speed of 20 mph) and supplies 240 VAC at 50–60 hertz. It features three fiberglass-reinforced composite blades that sweep an area of 115.7 square feet (approximately 12 feet in diameter). The turbine cut-in wind speed is rated at only 8 mph. The auxiliary wind turbine is located in an open field approximately 100 yards from the home. This location reduces noise at the home and provides an unobstructed wind resource when wind energy is available to harvest. Based on a local annual average wind speed of 6.4 mph, the Skystream 3.7 has the potential to produce approximately 1,200 kWh per year.
Water Systems and Waste Management
With no well and no connection to the municipal water supply, the home is completely water independent. All water needs are met on-site by a rainwater catchment system, which functions through a series of gutters and storage tanks that utilize every available roof on the property, including the outbuildings, for collection. The system can store approximately 37,000 gallons of water and can harvest more than 120,000 gallons in an average year, based on local average annual rainfall of 21.35 inches. Of the 37,000 gallons stored, 11,000 gallons are allocated for potable water and 26,000 gallons are allocated for irrigation water.
The land around the home is xeriscaped to minimize water used for irrigation. An arbor will soon be covered in grape vines and the grapes will be used to make wine (see photo above).
To achieve the Platinum certification, the environmental impact of human waste had to be minimized. The septic system that serves the home is a Norweco Singulair Bio-Kenetic Alternative system, which provides flow equalization, pretreatment, aeration, clarification, tertiary filtration, and optional chemical addition in a single precast concrete tank. The only mechanical component is the fractional horsepower aerator, which runs at 1,725 rpm and is certified with a run time of 30 minutes per hour. The system also uses UV light to disinfect the effluent. This step reduces the size of the septic leach field required, and it allows recycling of wastewater that would otherwise pollute aquifers, as well as surface water reservoirs. The system relies on an extended aeration process, similar to that used in municipal wastewater treatment facilities, which breaks down the organic matter by natural, biological means. The septic system provides pretreatment, secondary treatment, tertiary treatment, and disinfection, reducing harmful pathogenic bacteria to levels below the bathwater standard. The septic system is equipped with a Geoflow Wasteflow subsurface drip irrigation system for wastewater dispersal. Dispersal occurs underground, where wastewater is absorbed in the biologically active layer of soil. There is no surface contamination, no ponding, no runoff, and no unpleasant odor.
Water-saving plumbing fixtures used in showers, faucets, and toilets reduce water consumption in the home to 70% below the national average without compromising comfort or convenience. The water-conserving design is augmented with a graywater collection system that harvests wastewater from bathroom lavatories, the bathtub, shower, and clothes washer to provide additional recycled water for irrigation on the site. On the LEED assessment for Platinum certification, the home achieved a perfect score (15 LEED points) for Water Efficiency.
Home Energy's readers are looking for information about homes that perform well, not just homes that look good, are designed well, or use all the latest technology. In the first month of occupancy (May 16–June 20, 2008), the Ramsey household consumed 806 kWh (24 kWh per day average) of electricity, while producing 987 kWh (29 kWh per day average) from the home's renewable energy systems, for a net energy production of 181 kWh. The energy modeling predicted that the renewable energy systems would meet 119% of the electric load for the house for this time period. The renewable systems actually produced 122% of the electric load.
The single resident of the house is comfortable and is happy with all the water and energy saving low-flow fixtures in the house. Two types of low-flush toilets were installed, one by Coroma and one by Kohler; although they both work, the Coroma has worked better than the Kohler. The rainwater catchment was designed to support a home of 4, but with only one person currently living in the home, even with the dry weather water is no problem.
There was a small problem with the humidifier, which was not designed to use rainwater. The device is designed to use city water with some chlorine in it, which allows a current flow in the water pan to indicate the presence of water. Since the recycled water is free of chlorine, the humidifier system had to be adjusted to work with purer water.
Time will tell us more, but so far the Ramsey home has met expectations for energy and water efficiency, health, and comfort. Looks like it earned its platinum designation.
Don Joslin graduated at the top of his class from the Renewable Energy Program at San Juan College, with an emphasis on PV technologies. He is currently serving as a renewable energy systems project manager at Architectural Energy Associates in Flagstaff, Arizona.
This article would not have been possible without the individual knowledge, support, and assistance of Carl Ramsey, Jason Campbell, Chris Watson, Katy Johnson, and Nathan Hodgson.
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Visit Architectural & Environmental Associates, Incorporated, at www.aeapower.com.
USGBC LEED for Homes Rating System
The LEED standard was created by USGBC as a national standard for the design, construction, and operation of high-performance green buildings. The standard began as a pilot program approximately two years ago and was released from pilot status in early 2008. USGBC has created standards for several types of construction, including commercial, schools, homes, core and shell, interior design, and existing buildings. The Ramsey home was rated under the LEED for Homes pilot program, version 1.11.
The LEED for Homes pilot version 1.11 rating categories, and how the Ramsey home scored in each category, are as follows:
The Ramsey home scored 106.5 points out of a possible 130. The total points available in the current LEED for Homes rating system is 136. The current certification levels for LEED for Homes are as follows:
—Chris Watson
Chris Watson is a LEED Accredited Professional at Architectural & Environmental Associates, Incorporated.
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The future of wireless broadband is here, and it may or may not give you a headache. The flicker in your office lighting may someday soon be caused by data transmissions and not faulty fluorescent bulbs.
Professional Engineering reports that researchers at the University of Edinburgh have developed a wireless networking system that can handle up to 130 megabits per second of data transfer using light instead of radio waves. The system, dubbed "Li-Fi," uses LEDs to transmit data to photo-sensor receivers by making changes in the intensity of light that researchers claim are so fast they are imperceptible to the human eye.
Harald Haas, a German physicist and the University of Edinburgh's professor of mobile communications, told Professional Engineering that his incubator company Pure VLC was developing a "smart lighting" kit that would make it possible to use existing lighting systems to transmit and receive data, reaching network speeds of up to 50 megabits per second. He added that he and his team were working in the lab to develop a Li-Fi system that could handle up to a gigabit per second of network traffic.
Haas outlined the idea in a TEDGlobal talk last summer, and demonstrated an early version of the technology using a desk lamp to stream a high definition video. Haas said that he hopes the technology can be integrated into mobile devices eventually, even harnessing the device's camera as a data port for downloads.
Li-Fi has some obvious advantages, including its broader potential spectrum for transmissions—over 10,000 times more spectrum than radio—allowing for thousands of signal channels in the same space, as well as its greater transmission speed as a result. Li-Fi is also relatively secure—it only works within line of sight, so it could be used to provide wireless connectivity in rooms without fear of signal leakage to an eavesdropper outside.


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Teaching Your Kids How to Borrow
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NEW YORK (MainStreet) — "Neither a borrower nor a lender be," said the worried Polonius in Hamlet, as his son, Laertes, prepared to go off into the real world. It sounds like good advice, but parents with college-bound children need to adapt this wisdom to modern times.
That fact is, without borrowing one doesn't build a credit history, making it harder to get a loan when it's really necessary. Increasingly, good credit is required to rent an apartment and even to get a job.
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High school seniors who have been admitted recently to college are starting to get credit card offers in the mail. Though the CARD Act of 2009 curbed some industry abuses — requiring, for instance, that a parent or guardian co-sign for an applicant under 21 — it's still relatively easy for a teenager to get a card. And, of course, it's all too easy to abuse one, doing real damage to family finances and wrecking a young person's credit rating for years.
The obvious remedy: Don't rely on a credit card. Instead, for most expenses use a debit card that will draw on a checking account. That way, the student cannot spend more than the account holds. There will be no interest charges or late-payment penalties — and no risk of credit damage.
Still, a credit card can be essential if the student gets stranded on the way home for the holidays. And it does pay to start building a credit history as a freshman, so there's a good, solid record when the young person graduates and needs to borrow for a car or home, get a cellphone contract or win approval from a prospective landlord or employer.
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The simplest remedy is to add the student as an authorized user on a parent's credit card. So long as the parent makes payments on time, the student will share in the good credit history. Or a card can be obtained in the student's name.
To build a good credit history, the card must be used. Showing you have debt and have paid responsibly does more for your credit than having a credit line that's never tapped.
This requirement can be satisfied with a low-risk strategy that has some regular expenditures charged to the card, such as magazine or online-service subscriptions that are the same every month. That way there's less risk of the surprise that comes if the card is used for random expenses such as pizza, gasoline or concert tickets.
For an added layer of safety, the card user can reduce the risk of missed payments by having card balances paid automatically by a monthly transfer from a checking account. Here's an example from Wells Fargo.
Also see:Your Kids Are Going to Be Broke, and It's Your Fault!
Finally, the student and parents should harness all available electronic aids including online access to the account and alert services that send emails and text messages when monthly payments are due, when large charges are made and when available credit is running low. Many card issuers have smartphone apps for monitoring the user's various accounts.


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