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The first installment of this two-part profile of Sheriff Lee Baca ran on the Madeleine Brand Show on April 3. The second installment ran on April 4.
He may now be the single most powerful elected official in Southern California. But as L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca drives slowly along Rowan Avenue in East Los Angeles, he almost becomes a boy again.
He points to Our Lady of Lourdes, a modest stucco-and-tile Catholic Church. "That's where I was baptized, and it brings back a lot of memories," says the 69-year-old Baca. He recalls flying model airplanes and reading Little Lulu comics. His parents divorced, and his mother nearly gave him up.
"She couldn't handle three kids at the same time, so I was put up for foster care," he says. "Then my paternal grandmother stepped in and said 'No, I'll take him.'"
Baca says his compassion grew in part from watching that grandmother care for a mentally ill relative in her house.
"Kindness is actually the greatest strength on Earth," Baca says, sounding more like a social worker than the sheriff.
Baca's concern for the less fortunate — he once wanted the sheriff's department to build a homeless shelter — is one way he defies the lawman stereotype. Nearly bald and rail thin, he doesn't drink caffeine, rarely partakes of alcohol and mostly reads in his spare time. He never tweets and doesn't use email.
On a mission
Baca sometimes compares his job with missionary work.
That's an unusual way to describe the sheriff's department, which includes 9,000 deputies, 9,000 civilian employees and a budget that tops $2.2 billion. Baca's men and women patrol thousands of square miles, 44 cities, L.A. County Metro buses and trains, and the jails. While overseeing them, Baca has become a nationally recognized law enforcement leader.
One way he has distinguished himself: Reaching out to Muslims after 9/11. That's drawn the ire of some conservatives. A couple of years ago while testifying before Congress, he caught heat from then-Republican Rep. Mark Souder of Indiana. It was a tense showdown.
"Sheriff Baca, you have been 10 times to the fundraisers for the Council on American Islamic Relations, which even the FBI has separated themselves from," Souder said.
"I object to your characterization of me," Baca shot back as he vowed to continue to attend the group's fundraisers. He lectured the congressman about the importance of maintaining a good relationship with the Muslim communities.
The sheriff's story is, in some ways, typical L.A.: "My mother was born in the state of Michoacan, Mexico, and she came to the United States when she was less than a year old," Baca says.
The sheriff has revealed that his mother was an illegal immigrant who worked as a seamstress. "In those days, undocumented was different than it is today," he says. "And so it wasn't difficult for her to become a citizen."
Baca sees no contradiction in his support of Secure Communities, a federal program that works with local law enforcement to deport undocumented immigrants at a record pace. He argues that it targets serious criminals. Critics say it sweeps up otherwise law-abiding undocumented immigrants accused of minor crimes and breaks up families. Baca has fought to block the release of statistics that would detail who he's handed over to immigration authorities.
So Baca is a sheriff who angers the political right with his outreach to Muslims, and frustrates the political left with his handling of foreign nationals.
A tale of two jails
Baca defends his sensitivity to human rights. And, though critics disagree, he says that sensitivity extends to the jails.
Outside the troubled Men's Central Jail in downtown L.A., Roosevelt Tellis, 47, says he is among those who've benefited from Baca's philosophy. Tellis participated in one of the sheriff's "education-based incarceration" programs that teach anger management and fathering.
"While I was in here, I was able to go through some of the positive programs that he has," Tellis says. He thinks that "Lee Baca is somebody who believes in giving people a second chance."
At the very least, Baca says, he believes that those in jail "deserve to be respected, not for the crimes they've committed, but for the humanity that they have." The sheriff insists that "the objective, of course, is to get them to turn their lives around. That's my motive."
But for some, Baca's jails are a violent nightmare.
Gordon Grbavac, a 44-year-old father of four, stood before reporters late last year to describe his ordeal inside the downtown lock-up.
"I was assaulted by two L.A. County sheriff deputies. They slammed my head into a glass wall over half a dozen times," he said. "There was blood on the glass, there was blood on the cement floor."
Dozens of former inmates have made similar allegations. Jail chaplains, a jail volunteer, and a former deputy also have described beatings.
"I have never seen anything that approaches the level of violence that currently infects the Los Angeles County jail system," Tom Parker, the former head of the FBI's L.A. office, said. He examined the jails for the ACLU. "There's been an absolute, deliberate indifference on the part of the sheriff and his top commanders as to what was happening right under their noses."
For two decades, watchdogs have complained about a culture of violence inside the largest jail system in the nation.
"I think there is a question whether Baca has wisely surrounded himself with people who are capable of running the department consistent with his values," says Merrick Bobb, who has served as the L.A. County Board of Supervisors special counsel on the sheriff's department since 1992.
The FBI has launched an investigation into the jails, and some have called on the sheriff to resign. Baca has said his critics exaggerate any problems, and that he's working on them.
"I will always look at controversy and criticism as an opportunity."
A dramatic rise
Controversy propelled Leroy David Baca into the sheriff's office in Hollywood movie-worthy fashion. In 1998, after a stint in the Marines and more than three decades with the department, he bucked the political establishment and challenged incumbent Sherman Block.
"Sherman Block and I are were close, and still are, in spirit," he says. His victory was far from certain until five days before the election, when Block, 74, collapsed and died of a brain hemorrhage.
Baca describes Block as "an excellent leader, a kind man, a person who was an innovator." But he says it was time for his friend and mentor to leave office.
"Let me say this, there aren't too many people that would do what I did. I'm a tough guy," Baca says. "You don't have to be a yeller, screamer or movie star to be tough," he adds.
Baca, who holds a doctorate in public administration from USC, brought a more modern approach to the office. For Capt. Carrie Stuart, that's meant more women in leadership positions. "Years ago there wouldn't have been as many female captains on the sheriff's department as we have now, and that's because of him," she said. "We appreciate that."
Capt. Phil Hansen heeded Baca's call for a more educated sheriff's department, and "partly as a result of his leadership and example he sets, I went back to school myself and completed a master's degree at USC last year," Hansen said.
Sheriff's deputies also praise Baca's approach to misconduct. He prefers to re-train – instead of discipline - wayward employees. "Twenty-first century leadership is teaching people how to do better," Baca has said. But Bobb, the special counsel, said Baca may lean too heavily on the carrot, instead of the stick.
"The system as it exists is tending to, not trivialize, but make less serious some conduct that I think should be taken more seriously, including use of force," Bobb said.
In one case the Times documented, a sergeant who'd pointed a gun at a colleague was recommended for demotion but was suspended for 15 days.
Over the years, Bobb's reported on too little supervision of rookie deputies assigned to the jails, gang-like deputy cliques that condone beatings, and weak internal investigations. Then there's the deputy who smuggled heroin to inmates in a burrito.
"When their reports are not read and not heeded, this is what you end up with," civil right lawyer Connie Rice said.
L.A. County Supervisor Gloria Molina said she is frustrated with what she described as Baca's failure to follow through on task such as placing cameras inside the jails. "We're thinking that 'ok, we've told you what to do, here's what to do, get it done," Molina said. "At the end of the day, we need to be constantly checking."
One jail captain says he's warned Baca and other commanders of deputies' bad behavior in the jails, but they failed to listen. The Sheriff says the captain's warning surfaced only recently, and complains that his subordinates have kept him in the dark.
"You were the captain over the facility. You know what you're supposed to do," Baca said of one retired captain.
Rice, who sits on KPCC's board, has long supported Baca. But she questions the way the sheriff prioritizes his tasks. "I think that what has happened is that the choices that he has made to lead at the national level and the international level have taken his attention away from the department," Rice said.
The politicking sheriff
The L.A. County sheriff does have many distractions.
"I get 20 to 30 invitations a day to go and speak," Baca says as he flips through requests outside his Monterey Park headquarters. "These appointments I've reviewed and I've agreed to do. There's a political reception of a lady on Grand Street that's running for the assembly."
The lady is from Orange County, and like so many Republicans and Democrats in the region, she wants the popular sheriff's backing. L.A. County judges, especially, seek his support. He has written over 1,000 recommendation letters for Superior Court judges during the last 13 years.
"If you get his endorsement, you are getting the Good Housekeeping seal that you are supportive of the sheriff, you are supportive of law enforcement," says Fernando Guerra, director of the Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University.
Sometimes, the sheriff mixes politics with law enforcement. He recently wore his uniform while endorsing a candidate, a violation of state law. His department issued cars to two financial contributors who serve as reserve deputies. Baca said he was unaware of the perk, but refused to release information about his contributors' activities as reserve deputies.
When a political contributor called to complain that Beverly Hills police had decided against filing charges against a tenant accused of forgery, Baca ordered his detectives to investigate, labeling the task a "rush" job. Baca bristles when asked about this case.
"Let's just say you donated to my campaign, and you donated $50, and you're a victim of a crime. Does the campaign donation deny you the right as a victim?"
Asked why he stepped in on a relatively minor forgery case, Baca said it was a significant case in which prosecutors eventually filed charges. He doesn't mention he'd personally discussed the case with the district attorney.
"Giving preference to somebody who is a donor always raises the question of uneven enforcement," said Maki Haberfeld, who teaches police ethics at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. "It's problematic."
Baca denies that contributions color his decisions. The Board of Supervisors isn't so sure. Last month, amid concerns that one failed jail commander won his job because he donated to Baca, it began to consider banning the sheriff from soliciting money from subordinates. A 2006 L.A. Times analysis found sheriff's managers who contributed to his re-election campaigns were more likely to get promoted than those who didn't.
In the city of L.A., the police chief is accountable to a civilian police commission and mayor. But the sheriff faces an often-unengaged electorate — and never a strong challenger — every four years.
And Baca successfully argued in court that voter-approved term limits did not apply to the sheriff because the state constitution created the office. All this means Baca, who's been sheriff since 1998, faces few formal checks on his power.
Under the gun
These days, Baca is spending more time behind bars. On a regular visit to the cacophony of Men's Central Jail. Metal doors clamor open and shut, and inmates shout out requests as he walks down rows of cells. He directs subordinates to fix a broken toilet. Baca says he is showing them how to be good guards.
"What I have is the ability of being positive when people are being challenged in a negative reality," the sheriff says. "That's my skill. That's what I provide to people — reassurance, positiveness, encouragement."
Baca stops to talk to a several men in yellow jumpsuits inside one cell. "Stay strong," the sheriff says. "Hang in there." The men converse willingly with the man with five stars on his collar.
"They wanted to know why I was so thin. And I said because I run," Baca says later. (He does 7.5 miles a day.) "Those are the kind of contacts that are real. We're talking about something that's important: fitness."
The sheriff also has appointed a new jail captain, and a dozen new sergeants are in place. Deputies already are using less force, he says.
But the FBI investigation that began last year continues. The Board of Supervisors also has appointed a Citizen's Commission on Jail Violence. Its general counsel is Richard Drooyan, who was part of the Christopher Commission team that examined the LAPD after Rodney King.
After initially resisting scrutiny, the sheriff now says he welcomes it. He says he is on top of any problems inside his lockups. Baca's jails have ignited a political firestorm he says he's determined to put out.
At the end of the tour through his old East L.A. neighborhood, Baca sits in his unmarked car with his driver. He talks about listening to the radio to relax during the day and his favorite song, "Let Me Try Again" by Frank Sinatra. The 1973 song marked a revival of Sinatra's career.
"Of course, it's about a love relationship where they broke up and now he's wanting back in. The song is all about the pathos of 'Let me try again. Ya know, I think I can do a better job.'"
Baca says the song has nothing to do with the challenge at the jails. His critics would say otherwise.


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HOT MIC: Traitor Chelsea Manning Won't Rule Out Run for Office
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From the Dept. of I Can't Even...
The island of Guam made rare headlines this week when North Korea, responding to blustery language from President Trump, threatened to fire four ballistic missiles into waters near the American territory's shores. Some Guam residents told reporters that they worried what might happen if North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, were actually to follow through.
Um, I think the Norks started this whole thing, but whatever...
Scientists in Guam, however, say they have at least one other major threat in mind: climate change. "We know that it's serious," said Austin J. Shelton III, a marine biologist and the executive director of the Center for Island Sustainability at the University of Guam. "Some of the impacts are here, and a lot more are coming."
Let's go to the settled science!
Like other Pacific islands, Guam may be affected in the coming decades as climate change prompts shifts in weather, temperature and oceanic acidity, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Experts said in interviews that the primary consequences may include people suffering heat stress because of an increase in heat waves, a rise in the intensity of tropical storms, and the damage or destruction of Guam's exceptionally biodiverse coral reefs.
Okay, have we got all our monomaniacal tropes in this story? Trump, check. Climate change, check. Biodiversity, check! Good job, New York Times!
Not only do old presidents and presidential candidates never die, if they're Democrats they never even fade away:
Both former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are working on plans to campaign for Democrats in 2018, and Democrats worry they plan to change the direction of the Party. Aides to Obama told The Hill's Amie Parnes he is looking to resurface on the national campaign stage. Parnes also reported Tuesday that Clinton is trying to sort out what role she might play in the midterm elections.
Although the pair bring a lot of fundraising firepower to a very crowded field of needy Democratic candidates, party insiders worry about who would control the party if either past candidate became too influential.
"He has to be careful," Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University told The Hill. "At a moment when President Trump's approval is falling so fast — including with his base — there is a risk for Obama taking center stage and triggering the energy that many Republicans currently lack."
Come back, Barack and Hillary -- your country need you... to remind us what we voted for in 2016, and why we'll do it again in 2020.
Newsweek's Nina Burleigh thinks it's "horrifying" that "the Trump women" wear high heels because by doing so, they are "playing into male stereotypes."
"Six months in, and the Trump women are well on their way to normalizing the footwear of the beauty pageant," she seethed in her piece "MELANIA, IVANKA AND IVANA TRUMP WEAR HIGH HEELS, A SYMBOL OF EVERYTHING THAT IS BEAUTIFUL AND HORRIFYING ABOUT THEM" in as perfect a sampling of what passes as feminist thought as you'll find these days.
Just to be clear, high heels are BAD. They are demeaning and "play into male stereotypes."
But a female journalist offering to perform oral sex on a president (Bill Clinton) as a thank you for keeping abortion legal -- that's not bad; it's EMPOWERING.
Lena Dunham
faking an orgasm likening voting to sex in a 2012 campaign ad supporting Barack Obama? That was ADORABLE -- not demeaning or playing into any stereotypes about ditzy liberal actresses at all.
A male traitor dressing up in a women's bathing suit and getting his picture splattered on front pages all over the nation? That's not an attempt at "normalizing" a psychological disorder. It's STUNNING AND BRAVE.
Yep, the state of modern feminism is really something to behold these days.
Oh -- I almost forgot to mention that the author of that truly demeaning Bill Clinton piece in July of 1998 was anti-high heel zealot Nina Burleigh herself.
Deep state tries to prevent accountability at Trump's VA.
Last week the federal Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) offered a stay on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) attempt to fire Brian Hawkins, former director of the Washington, D.C. VA medical center. Hawkins was fired on July 28, but the MSBP order requires the VA to return him to work.
The VA actually returned him to the payroll, despite the fact that Hawkins allowed unsanitary surgical conditions like unsterile instruments. In one case, a patient was prepared for vascular surgery and already put under anesthesia when the surgeon discovered he lacked the necessary equipment for the operation!
VA Secretary David Shulkin was furious. "No judge who has never run a hospital and never cared for our nation's Veterans will force me to put an employee back in a position when he allowed the facility to pose potential safety risks to our Veterans," Shulkin declared in a statement Wednesday.
On Friday, Dan Caldwell, policy director at Concerned Veterans for America (CVA), told PJ Media that Shulkin intends to use his new power under the VA Accountability Act President Trump signed in June to finally fire Hawkins.
"Brian Hawkins was fired under the old law," Caldwell explained. "Now, they're going to try and terminate him under the new law."
The new law laid out important restrictions to the MSBP's actions, restraining the deep state from holding back accountability at the VA. "The MSBP has a terrible history of overturning demotions and terminations of employees who clearly engage in misconduct, in some cases criminal misconduct," Caldwell said.
He mentioned the cases of Kimberley Graves and Diana Rubens, who were accused of pocketing more than $400,000 in moving costs for questionable job moves. The MSBP prevented them from being disciplined or reassigned, and in February of last year, the board ordered that they could not even be demoted for defrauding the government.
Shulkin will likely act to remove Hawkins from the VA, but don't expect the deep state to take this lying down.
From the comments on my post about state and local spending, CapitalistReader shared this map:
He notes: "Spending is only ½ of the equation, the other ½ is revenue. Lots of very rich people spend extravagantly because they can afford to. This map is a better indicator of the states' fiscal health."
Liz linked to this in her Morning Briefing, but you can't absorb the full impact of the story without the picture:
The Vogue headlines screams:
Chelsea Manning Changed the Course of History. Now She's Focusing on Herself
In the long form Vogue profile, Manning the traitor explained why he joined the military, calling it a "defiant choice":
It was the moment of the so-called surge in Iraq. The news on TV was grim. "I don't know who I am," she recalls in the park. "Maybe the military will allow me to figure that out." She looks out toward the river. "It was a naive thought, but it was very real to me in 2007."
Newsflash: The sworn
purpose of the military is purpose of the military used to be protecting the nation from enemies foreign and domestic and defending and supporting the Constitution. Period. The military is not the place to find yourself or to work out your sexual dysfunctions, although the Obama administration did everything in its power to turn it into a place for social experimentation.
Manning's next stop may be political office:
Manning does not know what her career will be. While living as Bradley Manning, she expressed an interest in running for political office. I ask whether that's still on her mind. "I'm certainly not going to say no, and I'm certainly not going to say yes," she says. "My goal is to use these next six months to figure out where I want to go.
"I have these values that I can connect with: responsibility, compassion," she goes on. "Those are really foundational for me. Do and say and be who you are because, no matter what happens, you are loved unconditionally." It's the lesson, she says, that she wishes she learned earlier. "Unconditional love," she says. "It is OK to be who I am."
Awesome. Now we can watch the traitor take another oath to defend the Constitution. What could go wrong?
Is Trump posturing in pursuit of a deal with North Korea? Eli Lake, writing in Bloomberg, sees parallels with the actions and rhetoric of other U.S. presidents that eventually led to negotiations.
In substance, if not style, this is very similar to how past administrations have approached the Hermit Kingdom: threaten, cajole and bargain. "This is Obama plus," Michael Auslin, a Korea expert at the Hoover Institution, told me. "It's the same path of enhanced sanctions with the potential carrot of direct negotiations and trying to reassure our allies. There is not much different here."
And it's easy to understand why talks are better than war. The prospect of a military confrontation is too horrific. North Korea effectively holds its neighbor to the south as a hostage because of its conventional military capabilities. This says nothing of allies like Japan, or U.S. forces stationed on the peninsula.
And the critics of war are correct. A pre-emptive strike is not worth the risk. But neither is another deal.
There are a few reasons for this. First, the North Koreans don't keep their promises. Nearly every commitment the regime has made to the U.S., its allies and China, it has violated.
It's no mystery why North Korea continues to negotiate. The nation needs help from the outside to survive. The regime has pursued nuclear weapons as an insurance policy to stay in power, and since the 1990s U.S. administrations have enticed Pyongyang with fuel shipments, removing sanctions and promises to leave it alone. In exchange, Pyongyang makes empty promises about nuclear weapons. An agreement with North Korea makes America and its allies a partner in the regime's oppression of its own people.
Lake holds no illusions about a deal with North Korea, but he thinks the far better track is to encourage revolution.
The patient part of the policy should be a combination of sabotage and deterrence. North Korea should understand their provocations bring consequences. Those consequences though should be tailored to target the leaders of North Korea and not its broader economy. This means making it harder for Kim and his henchmen to spend and keep their fortunes. It also means accelerating intelligence operations aimed at gumming up the regime's illicit supply chain for its missiles and nuclear facilities. The next time the regime tests a missile, let's hope it blows up on the runway.
The imaginative part is to continue to give North Koreans a glimpse of a better future. Tom Malinowski, who served as President Barack Obama's assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor, wrote in Politico in June that the U.S. should continue to flood North Korea with information. This may sound strange. But in recent years, the state's ability to control information has waned. More and more Koreans living there have access to portable DVD players and cell phones, which are tools to break the state's control over the minds of their citizens.
North Korea may be the most regimented society in modern history. Only the Spartans rival them in world history. This regimentation, coupled with brainwashing under threat of death, makes any kind of "revolution" outside of a military coup a fantasy.
How could a revolution succeed in a country where the people are so thoroughly and completely cowed and manipulated that they wept hysterically at the death of Kim's father, Kim Jong-il?
Not much of a chance for a revolution there.
I want more choices!
Tomorrow, President Donald Trump will sign a bill to meet a budget shortfall in the Department of Veterans Affairs health care choice program. This is a win for veterans who desperately want to escape the VA's experiment in socialized medicine, but it's only a temporary victory.
The choice program was created in 2014 as a response to the VA wait list scandal, and it gives veterans the ability to access care outside the VA system — but only in limited circumstances, such as if they live too far away from a health center.
The bill will give an extra $2.1 billion in funding for the program, but this is a temporary measure. "It basically fills a budget shortfall in the program," Dan Caldwell, policy director at Concerned Veterans for America, told PJ Media on Friday. "The extension of the program was signed back in April, but the funding ran out."
Caldwell noted that some members of Congress actually opposed this needed funding (which Trump will sign tomorrow), and demanded extra unrelated funding. "While we wanted to see the choice funding extended," the CVA director said his organization wanted "a better analysis of the VA's current infrastructure needs" before the unrelated funding propped up the existing framework by extending leases on VA medical facilities.
Liberals continue to argue that the VA's problems are due to insufficient funding, rather than bureaucratic mismanagement, a lack of health care options for veterans, and the lack of accountability at the VA.
"With the current problems plaguing the Veterans Choice Program, Congress must pass permanent reforms that empower veterans with the ability to access care inside or outside of the VA at their own discretion," Caldwell said.
The choice program will get the needed funding, but Democrats have used this issue to squeeze more infrastructure funding to prop up the struggling system. Expect the battle over veterans' choice in health care to get even more heated, and to burst into conflagration after Labor Day.
Vulture has a glorious review of Michael Moore's new Broadway show, "The Terms of My Surrender":
So why does The Terms of My Surrender feel so uninspiring? First of all, because it's almost entirely unsurprising. In an interview with Time Out, Moore promises that "for 87 minutes, you're going to experience something you're not expecting" (the show runs 110 minutes, by the way), but my feelings upon leaving the Belasco Theatre can best be summed up with a long sigh. If I had had to make a guess as to what a Michael Moore Broadway show would feel like, this would have been pretty much it. The Terms of My Surrender feels like a live version of my Facebook feed: a few good stories and a boatload of preaching to the choir (add requisite helpings of self-congratulation and liberal-on-liberal shaming for full effect). From the opening line —"How the f**k did we get here?"— to the set-'em-up, knock-'em-down jokes (re: North Korea: "A leader that's irrational, unhinged, and maniacal … and then there's Kim Jong-un!"), to the production's flashier gimmicks (a Michael Moore 2020 stump speech, a faux game show designed to ridicule American ignorance) … it all seemed too easy, like playing T-ball with the audience. A pity, since in speaking with the Times, Moore actually seems to have a more vital idea of what theater can do: "I want to go and be challenged. I want to leave [the theater] better, smarter, angrier, happier than when I came in."
Alas, Moore did not deliver:
There is no challenge in The Terms of My Surrender. Well, there is the external challenge to the Trump regime, but no call for those of us participating in the event at hand to reexamine the ideas we presumably walked in with. Despite Moore's protests (in the Times and in Time Out) that the show isn't a "political rally," what else are you supposed to call a room full of people chanting and cheering every time a majority opinion is reaffirmed, and hissing and cursing whenever the Enemy is mentioned? And the audience was cheering all right — and cursing. This crowd was there for Moore. "We are the majority!" he repeated, each time to whoops and applause. "We" and "us" were two of the most frequent words out of Moore's mouth, and though they seemed to fire up a good number of my neighbors, I quickly started to feel like my significant other was ordering for me at a restaurant: "We'll have the salmon." The salmon in this case being Trump's impeachment.
Here's the thing: It's not that I don't want the salmon. The salmon would be great. I'm the target demographic for salmon. And yet I bridled at Moore's immediate and unceasing assumption that all 1,000 of us in the audience at the Belasco were one unified liberal "We." How is such an assumption helping anything — except perhaps a few more calls to a few more senators, and that's a big perhaps — to occur? How is it in keeping with the statement on the show's official website that "Michael would love nothing more than to make Donald Trump's supporters a part of the conversation?" (Fascinatingly, Itzkoff describes watching Moore rehearse a segment of the show in which he invites a conservative audience member onstage for a discussion: Nothing of the kind happened during the performance I witnessed.)
In other words, the liberal Vulture writer spent 110 minutes locked inside Moore's tedious liberal echo chamber and came away empty. At least the author was self-aware enough to recognize how off-putting the show might have been for people who don't want salmon (not that those folks would fork over hard-earned money to listen to Moore's spiel, but still). Maybe the left's strictly enforced monoculture is beginning to wear thin. We can hope.
Sean Kennedy fact-checked this Kaiser Family Foundation map that shows red states with some mighty high per capita state spending:
When he factored in local spending, a very different picture emerges:
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Siddharth Kara
Siddharth Kara is an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at HKS. He is recognized as an expert on contemporary slavery and is best known for his award-winning book, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, the first of three books he is writing on the subjects of human trafficking and contemporary slavery.
Sex Trafficking was named co-winner of the prestigious 2010 Frederick Douglass Award at Yale University for the best non-fiction book on slavery. The award is generally regarded as the top prize in the field of slavery scholarship, and Kara's is the first book on modern slavery to receive the award. In addition to his books, Kara has authored several academic and law journal articles.
Kara first encountered the horrors of slavery in a Bosnian refugee camp in 1995. Subsequently, he has traveled to twenty-five countries across six continents to research these crimes, interviewing over a thousand former and current slaves of all kinds, witnessing firsthand the sale of humans into slavery, and confronting some of those who trafficked and exploited them.
Kara currently advises the United Nations, the U.S. Government, and several other governments on antislavery research, policy and law. His second book on slavery, Bonded Labor: Inside the System of Slavery in South Asia is scheduled to be published in 2012. Kara is a regular contributor to the CNN Freedom Project, and his ongoing research into slavery around the world has been covered by CNN, the BBC, and CNBC.
Previously, Kara was an investment banker at Merrill Lynch, then ran his own finance and M&A consulting firm. He holds a law degree from England, MBA from Columbia University, and BA from Duke University. He was a Carr Center Fellow from 2015 to 2019.


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Q–I am concerned that there has only been on true doubleheader this year at the Park. All the other rainouts have been made up as day/night doubleheaders.
Tropical Storm Ernesto really created some challenges when Atlanta was at Citizens Bank Park at the start of this month.
There are several factors in the rescheduling of postponed games, whether the game is made up as part of a split (day-night) doubleheader, a traditional doubleheader (twi-night or day) or an open date in the schedule.
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The Phillies are very proud that we played a role in bringing professional baseball back to the Scranton area in 1989. We have had a great relationship in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre throughout the years with the ownership of the Red Barons and the fans.
The opportunity to move our triple-A ball club closer to Philadelphia and into a new state-of-the-art facility that has a grass playing surface. It was something we had to consider very strongly in making the decision not to renew our working agreement with the Red Barons.
We very much appreciate all the fan support we have received from Northeast Pennsylvania and look forward to the same in the Lehigh Valley.
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I think Ryan has answered that question well on this site in Ken Mandel's September 5 story: "We have tests. People take the tests. Either you pass or fail. If you fail, you get busted. If you don't fail, you're not doing it."
All I can say is Ryan Howard has been crushing home runs all the way back to his high school days. It doesn't matter, left field, center field or right field.
Rich Hofmann of the Philadelphia Daily News wrote a column on August 28 about a legendary home run Howard hit back home in suburban St. Louis. The ball hit a Red Lobster restaurant on the fly. Ryan was 12 years of age at the time.
And, for those critics who say he's playing half his games in a hitter-friendly ballpark (Citizens Bank Park), consider this: the Phillies record for most home runs at home is 29 by Mike Schmidt in 1979; the record for most on the road is also 29 by Chuck Klein in 1932. One more on the road and one more at home and Ryan ties two more records.
We should be celebrating Ryan's performance. As Jim Salisbury wrote in the Inquirer on Saturday, "Howard has evolved into one of the best sports stories in Philadelphia in some time."
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Audiophiles: These Wi-Fi speakers have a stereo drift of less than 25μs – good enough for you?
We hear out Imagination's Caskeid tech
CES 2014 Although this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was chockablock with Bluetooth-connected wireless speakers, the UK's Imagination Technologies bucked the trend: it demoed its own wireless-speaker tech, the Wi-Fi–enabled Caskeid system.
Caskeid – pronounced "cascade" – was announced last September, but CES 2014 was the first opportunity that this Reg reporter had to hear the system, and he came away impressed.
Transmitting the audio signal over Wi-Fi rather than Bluetooth has a couple of advantages, one obvious and another less so. The more obvious benny is Wi-Fi's superior signal distance; the hidden boon is that Wi-Fi signals carry not only audio data, but also timing information that enables accurate sound synchronization for multi-room setups.
"It's actually quite complicated to do Bluetooth multi-room," Imagination marketing director David Harold told The Reg. "If you want to do a multi-room system, Wi-Fi is the way to go. We do Wi-Fi at the chip level and we do the software stack, as well."
With that level of integration, Imagination has access to all the timing information in the Wi-Fi transmission, which is needed to keep the speakers outputting audio packets in step.
"Today you look at a lot of these multi-room speaker systems," Harold said, "and they're sending the exact same audio information to each speaker and just kind of hoping that their 300, 400 microsecond drift is not that noticeable to you."
In this correspondent's experience with such systems, however, such variations in signal timing are quite noticeable indeed, especially when you're sending signals to separate left and right speakers in a stereo setup, and even more so when you're sending signals to a multi-speaker surround-sound installation.
"Our system brings that drift down to – we're being cagey – but it's less than 25 microseconds," Harold said. "We really don't want to give the competition an exact target to go after, but suffice to say that once they hit our 25-stated public target, I can go lower."
The demo that your Reg reporter heard was conducted using an array of eight pairs of wireless Jongo speakers from Pure, Imagination's consumer-electronics division (which also have Bluetooth connectivity, by the way). Admittedly the setup was in a controlled demo environment, but our ears could detect no signal drift-induced "echo" whatsoever.
Harold said that Imagination has "several" third-party licensees for the tech, but that they were not yet at liberty to name them. "You know how it is," he said. "A show like this, you're here, you're doing the deals, you're getting things sorted out – but I'm hopeful we'll be able to start naming names pretty quickly."
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Our Gang --- Part Two
By 1935, they'd honed off rougher edges and promoted the Rascals to a level of comfort and stability denied their early talkie brethren. Much of what would eventually undermine the series at MGM began here. Our Gang now ran lemonade stands and put on impromptu shows. Spanky was fussed over by Hattie McDaniel as uniformed domestic in a distinctly middle-class home (Anniversary Troubles) while prosperous parents Gay Seabrook and Emerson Treacy took him to professional photographer Franklin Pangborn in Wild Poses. Spanky's well-fed appearance reflected a loosening of the depression's grip. Stories no longer revolved around issues of survival. The He-Man Woman Hater's Club and golf lessons supplied frameworks for comedy. Would Alfalfa sing in the annual Follies? There was still the ongoing threat of neighborhood bully Butch, but he wasn't a patch on sinister forces that had once preyed upon the Gang. That bucolic, on-location schoolhouse from earlier days was now replaced by a spanking clean edifice constructed on a Hal Roach soundstage. Classroom mischief was no longer calculated --- just little misunderstandings resolved within a (now) one-reel duration by Roach ingenue Rosina Lawrence. Harsh truths reflected in the early Our Gangs were now innocuous bromides where children were taught life's lessons and adults no longer represented a threat. If anything, the grown-ups were too ineffectual. Spanky's future with a neutered Johnny Arthur as father and presumed role model seemed anything but promising. By 1937, Our Gang was the last shorts group still ongoing at Roach, done with precision befitting a newly retrofitted feature manufacturer. Things like Two Too Young (Spanky and Alfalfa think Buckwheat and Porky are too immature to have firecrackers --- who the hell are they to judge?) and The Awful Tooth (dentistry was always ill-advised subject matter for this series) were almost as excruciating as the Metros to come, so there was little cause for regret when Roach (seated here with the Gang at his desk) finally closed the sale in 1938.
No use rehashing the later Our Gangs. Suffice to say they wheezed out in 1944. All the kids were left to fend for themselves. You'd think Metro could have at least kept them on as day players, helped with admission to a trade school ---something. Those bleak early subjects might have prepared older Rascals for what they'd face now. Books have been written about whatever became of, etc. Leonard Maltin and Richard Bann authored the best one. The fifties were barren ground for the gang before television release of the old shorts revitalized interest. A reunion of silent cast members on Art Baker's You Asked For It was eerily effective for the malaise it revealed among the group (and Mickey Daniels seems slightly demented, as usual). Viewers expecting a glimpse of the Gang they best remembered must have been disappointed, for the silent comedies had been out of circulation for years even then, and would remain so, other than mutilated excerpts on television's The Mischief Makers, and a small handful in the Interstate syndicated package. We wondered what had become of the talking Rascals, but information along these lines was hard to come by in the sixties, when public curiosity may well have been at its peak due to TV exposure in virtually every market. Everybody knew Alfalfa died in a knife fight over $50 (one kid at school maintained this was Pete The Pup's fate as well). My interest was piqued when word came that Spanky was distributing home heating oil in Hendersonville, NC (still not sure about that one). Tabloids would report the surfacing of a Fatty or a Stinky, but as these were characters unknown to any period within the Gang's twenty plus year run, one had to assume Fatty and Stinky were either liars or madmen. There was one surviving Our Gang member I did locate, and to my youthful wonderment, she stood right before me every day teaching sixth grade band…
My instrument was the clarinet, but Priscilla Call knew I was faking most of the notes, as I had no musical talent and less initiative to learn. Mrs. Call had taught band around the county school system for at least ten years. Before that, she'd attended music conservatory. Her long past career as a child actress in movies was known as well, but that was a forbidden topic among we band students. The singing cowboy host of Charlotte TV's Little Rascals Club was rebuffed when he sought an interview, and Mrs. Call had to deal with the persistent local myth that confused her with Our Gang's Darla Hood. She was actually Priscilla Lyon during the Hollywood years, landing there by virtue of a Hal Roach sponsored talent show she'd won back in Virginia. It was 1935, the Shirley Temple gold rush was on, and Priscilla's mother figured on mining some of it. Eventually, the whole family landed in Culver City. The seven-year-old tested for Darla's part in The Bohemian Girl, then decorated the chorus of The Our Gang Follies Of 1936. Priscilla tap-danced on a shine box in The Lucky Corner, and got feature work where she could. There were more aspiring moppets than buffalo head nickels, so competition was intense. She almost got to play Becky Thatcher in Selznick's Adventures Of Tom Sawyer, but Ann Gillis prevailed. The Hollywood scene never appealed to Priscilla, so by the time she got out (in 1942), there'd be no tears of parting. Most of the band kids left her alone about the Rascals, but Mrs. Call was aware of my overpowering (if not overbearing) interest in such things, and looking back on it now, I guess both of us knew that there would someday come a reckoning.
That final morning in band found me gingerly approaching the lectern as Mrs. Call conferred with fellow musicians about an upcoming concert. Perhaps she'd not paid sufficient heed to my question so as to realize the terrible consequence in answering … Mrs. Call, Did you ever meet Lon Chaney, Jr.? Her response was a casual yes. When and where? was my next query. Oh, he was making some picture about a werewolf and I stood on the stage and watched, she said, as if that amounted to something less than the supremely momentous event in anyone's life. My twelve-year-old euphoria must surely have alarmed her. Was Claude Rains there? Did you see Lugosi? Was Jack Pierce on the set to attend Chaney's make-up? The questions were as rapid-fire as they were relentless. Within five minutes, I'd been relocated to a corridor outside the band room with the understanding that classes would proceed henceforth without benefit of my presence. In short, I was booted out of band. Booted, my dear baron, for knowing too much. Later sightings of Priscilla Call, even in high school, were but fleeting. She'd see me in the hall, dart quickly around a corner, or beat a hasty retreat toward a classroom. I began to think of her as a faculty equivalent of the fabled Yeti, rarely glimpsed but definitely out there. It would be 1980 before she'd finally talk, and this was during her final illness. We spent at least two hours going through scrapbooks and noting credits, many of which were unknown, even to her. She'd been in a number of features in addition to the Our Gangs, and had quite a career in radio as well. Co-stars included John and Lionel Barrymore, Ronald Reagan, Tyrone Power, Shirley Temple, Claude Rains (his daughter in Strange Holiday) --- a real galaxy of notables. Priscilla was the only Golden Age celebrity my town ever had, and I was privileged to be the one to finally take down her story. Other Little Rascals may have been more noteworthy, but this was our Rascal.


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VANCOUVER - East Asian high school students in this province are less likely to be sexually active, but those who are engage in riskier sexual behaviour, according to a new study from the University of B.C.
That's partly because language and cultural barriers may prevent frank talk about sex between young people and their parents, suggest the authors of Sexual health and risk behaviour among East Asian adolescents in British Columbia, published this month in The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality.
It's become more common for adolescents to be sexually active — nearly half of all North American students between Grades nine and 10 report having sexual intercourse — but for adolescents of East Asian heritage living in B.C., the proportion drops to 10 per cent.
And seven out of those 10 reported high-risk behaviour, according to the study. One in four reported using drugs or alcohol, more than one third reported having had multiple partners in the last year, and more than half the girls surveyed had not used a condom.
Sexual health promotion strategies need to be more culturally appropriate, said Yuko Homma, a post-doctoral fellow in the School of Nursing at UBC and lead author of the study. The report uses 2008 data from the provincial Adolescent Health Survey and responses from nearly 30,000 students in Grades seven to 10 from China, Korea and Japan, the majority of whom are first-generation immigrants. Over half spoke their native language at home, which indicated to the authors they may have closer ties to more traditionally conservative cultures.
"In B.C., there is a growing population of East Asians, particularly Chinese and Koreans. East Asian student health impacts general Canadian health," she said. "It's important to investigate the population."
Homma would like to see sex education provided in both English and the students' first language.
"I hope it happens, because there are more and more East Asian students coming to British Columbia," she said.
Kristen Gilbert, a senior educator at Options for Sexual Health agency, agreed education needs to start at home, but some students are "missing out on years of conversation, which would help them with safe decision-making when they are older."
"I hate to make generalizations," she said. "But it's common for me to have Asian students in the class who are surprised by the information. Even basic reproductive biology."
Independent Vancouver-based sex educator Saleema Noon said some Asian students are more reticent and reluctant to speak up. Others are not so shy.
"Many of them are just bursting with questions because they're not learning it at home and don't feel comfortable accessing the resources. They've got their questions ready and they want answers," said Noon.
"I think it comes down to religion and culture ... Most of us didn't learn much from our own parents, and we live in a culture that's so much more sexually open than Asia."
In an "ideal world," educational material would be translated into several languages and sent home to parents too, she said. Although among some families, sex is still a taboo subject, it's slowly changing.
"More and more I speak to parents who didn't grow up with this information. I mean, they can't even say penis. Yet they have the courage to come to an information session and say, 'OK, how can I make sure my kids have what they need to know?'"
Sex education is part of the Health and Career Education curriculum and mandated by the B.C. Ministry of Education.
It's up to schools to decide how to implement it, and "the curriculum does not differentiate teachings by culture for this topic," said ministry spokesman Matt Silver.
Silver also pointed out that all B.C. curricula are under review, including the Health and Career Education components, although planning documents from the ministry do not mention sex education specifically.


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Application Security and OWASP top 10 - Jeddah
We'll have a technical session to talk about application security and OWASP top 10, as we'll demonstrate the top critical vulnerabilities against web applications.
The OWASP Top 10 Web Application Security Risks are:
A1: Injection
A2: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
A3: Broken Authentication and Session Management
A4: Insecure Direct Object References
A5: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
A6: Security Misconfiguration
A7: Insecure Cryptographic Storage
A8: Failure to Restrict URL Access
A9: Insufficient Transport Layer Protection
A10: Unvalidated Redirects and Forwards
Date: 21 Jun 2011
Location: Rosewood Corniche - Jeddah
Start: 19:00 End: 21:00
Speaker: Amro AlOlaqi
If you're interested to attend the session please confirm by sending your information to amro at owasp.org.
Jeddah meeting
The agenda of the inaugural meeting will be as follows:
1. Introduction to OWASP
2. Discuss local OWASP awareness and image programs for Jeddah members.
Date: Sunday, 3, 2010
Location: Costa Coffee, alHamrah, Jeddah.
Sponsored by: SAIS technology
Please do not hesitate to contact me at amro (at) owasp.org for any clarification or inquires
Information Security and beyond - Event
Venue: Makarim Hall - Marriott Hotel
City : Riyadh - KSA Date: 25 May 2009 Time: 08:30 - 15:00
Seminar Agenda
08:00 – 08:30 Registration 08:30 – 09:00 Key note ( SAMA Speaker ) 09:00 – 10:00 ISO 27001 ( BSI Speaker ) 10:00 – 10:20 Refreshment 10:20 – 11:0 Application Security ( Verizon Business Speaker ) 11:00 – 12:00 Penetration Testing using OWASP methodology ( OWASP ) 12:00 – 12:30 Prayer time 12:30 - 01:20 Enterprise Security ( F5 Speaker ) 01:20 – 01:40 Q & A 01:40 – 02:30 Lunch
Event Speaker
'Mr. Saqer Al-Orabi Al-Harthi. Information System and Control Manager Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA)
Mr. Saqer Al-Orabi Al-Harthi is responsible for the Information System and Control at SAMA – Banking Technology Department. Mr. Al-Harthi has been the chairman of various committees at SAMA such as: SAMA and Banks Information Security Managers Committee, Information Security Awareness Committee and Security Training Committee. Mr. Al-Harthi has been instrumental in building Information Security for the Saudi financial industry by initiating and executing major projects such as SARIE Security, SPAN Security, PKI, and he has been the champion in PCI development within Saudi Arabia along with other security related projects. Furthermore, Mr. Al-Harthi has presented in many IT Security seminars and events. Mr. Al-Harthi holds a Masters degree in Computer and Information System from U.S.A. and he is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).
'Amro AlOlaqi Information Security Consultant
Amro has more than 7 years of experience in Information security. He started his professional career at early age, since then, he engaged the field of UNIX/Linux engineering and systems' security. Throughout his extraordinary achievements and accomplishments, he became amongst the most recognized experts in the field of penetration testing, application security and vulnerability assessment within Saudi Arabia. He carried out penetration tests, application , vulnerability assessments and security audits for prestigious organizations. Moreover, his expertise extends across industry verticals, security technologies plus hacking tools and techniques. Amro is the OWASP chapter leader for Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, also he is specialized at cyber crime investigations and digital forensics. Nevertheles, Amro hold well-recognized international certifications such as GCIH, GHTQ, ECSA/LPT, CEH, CHFI, Security+, RHCE, SCSA, Linux+, LPIC1, LPIC2 and SCSECA.
'Theuns Kotze Regional Director BSI – Middle East and Africa
Mr. Kotze holds a B. Comm. Degree from the University of Pretoria. He is currently the Regional Director for BSI – Management Systems in Middle East and Africa. In BSI he was the Sales and Marketing Director for BSI- Management Systems in Europe based in London. He was an Executive Director of Nosa International responsible for Auditing and Certification Globally. During 2002 he developed an Aids management standard now known as AMS 16001. The AMS 16001 is now the South African Standard for Aids management and could become the ISO standard for aids management in future. He gained extensive knowledge and experience in Europe and Middle East in the last 2 years. He conducted more than 2000 assessments on various standards in the last 20 years. Theuns had a private pilot's license for 20 years and has flown many types of airplanes. He is married to Maria and has a son John 8 and they now live in Dubai.
Ali Akl Principal Consultant Verizon Business Security Solutions
Ali has over 10 years experience in Information Security, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. He has a unique blend of technical expertise along with management consulting experience, which has made him a valuable consultant to many organizations in the public and private sectors. He has contributed to the OPM3 standard development project, he is also CISSP and CISM, and has earned the GIAC Fundamentals of Security Policy certificate and recently has earned the Member Status of the Business Continuity Institute as well Certified in Disaster Recovery and Planning and finally he has been invited into the Fellowship Program of the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber-Terrorism ('IMPACT').
'Zakeer Zubair Field Systems Engineer
Zakeer Zubair is a senior technical team player in F5's Middle East operation. Since obtaining his Bachelor degree in Mathematics, Zubair has spent the last 9 years working in networking and security for a variety of systems integrators including Schlumberger and Atos Origin. This role has involved integrating best of breed vendor networking and security devices and necessitated skills in routing, switching, security and application switching. Zubair has technical certifications from F5, Cisco, Juniper, Nortel Networks, Extreme Networks, Microsoft and CISSP.
PCI compliance seminar
Location Venue: Makarim Hall - Marriott Hotel City : Riyadh - KSA Date: 2nd March 2009 Time: 08:30 - 15:00
Seminar Agenda
08:30 – 09:00 Registration Team 09:00 – 09:30 Introduction 09:30 – 10:20 PCI (Applications Firewalls/SSL VPN) 10:20 – 10:40 Refreshment 10:40 – 11:20 OWASP and PCI compliance 11:20 – 12:10 Application Delivery Controller 12:10 – 12:40 Prayer 12:40 – 01:00 Last Session + Questions +Closing Session 01:00 – 02:00 Lunch
Peter Draper, Security Specialist: has been providing guidance, design and implementation of Info Sec solutions for some 17+ years. The last ten years have been focused on Application delivery and security with the most recent focus following the main hacking attempts into the Web Application Security space. Peter has been instrumental in delivering Web Application Security into a wide and varied range of customers including finance, government, ecommerce and travel industry companies. Within the Middle East region Peter had delivered solutions to Government, Finance and Corporate customers ensuring the best possible protection is in place to secure customer sensitive data.
Peter's presentation will focus on:
1) What is the "PCI Journey"? 2) What do I need to do and when? 3) Is PCI the only reason to deploy security solutions? 4) Where should I concentrate my $ 5) What happens once I have it?
Nigel Ashworth, F5 MEA Technical Director: has been F5's Technical Director for Middle East and Africa since September 2005. In that time he has driven the region's increasing importance to F5's global business, managing the pre sales engineering team, and investing technical resources in key verticals to drive double-digit sales growth. Nigel has been with F5 for nine years in a number of senior technical roles, including Technical Director responsible for driving EMEA Strategic Alliances with key partners including Microsoft, SAP and Oracle, and Technical Director responsible for pre-sales in Europe. Prior to joining F5, Nigel held technical leadership positions for companies including Reuters and UB Networks. He received his B.S in Electrical Engineering from Portsmouth University.
'Amro AlOlaqi, Information Security Consultant
Amro has more than 7 years of experience in Information security. He started his professional career at early age, since then, he engaged the field of UNIX/Linux engineering and systems' security. Throughout his extraordinary achievements and accomplishments, he became amongst the most recognized experts in the field of penetration testing, application security and vulnerability assessment within Saudi Arabia. He carried out penetration tests, application , vulnerability assessments and security audits for prestigious organizations. Moreover, his expertise extends across industry verticals, security technologies plus hacking tools and techniques. Amro is the OWASP chapter leader for Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, also he is specialized at cyber crime investigations and digital forensics. Nevertheles, Amro hold well-recognized international certifications such as GCIH, GHTQ, ECSA/LPT, CEH, CHFI, Security+, RHCE, SCSA, Linux+, LPIC1, LPIC2 and SCSECA.
Amro's presentation will focus on:
1) Web application attacks and security trends. 2) OWASP "thinking out of the box". 2) OWASP and application security. 4) The relation between OWASP and PCI.


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Smiles, laughter in the midst of crisis
World Vision's Mariana Chokaa reports from Niger, a country left reeling from the drought and hunger crisis that has devastated Africa's Sahel region. At a local clinic, where one might expect to encounter the desperation of malnourished children, she instead observes a downright cheerful atmosphere.
What explains this? World Vision's early interventions amid increasingly dire conditions have helped save lives.
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A mother waits with her child at the clinic. (Photo: Mariana Chokaa/World Vision)
The mothers who attend the Thursday meetings at World Vision's Center for Management of Acute Malnutrition in Koulikoira are women of simple means, some of whom have never been to the city.
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I realize she is wittier than I imagine, and I quickly direct her to World Vision volunteer, who asks her to wait in line for treatment for the sores.
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All around New York City at this hour people are wondering just how big of a commission Joe Girardi gets per managerial move. Whatever the number, he's a rich man at this hour because of the way he attempted to take over Game 3 of the American League Championship Series. His last move will be the one that gets him grilled more than any other, however.
Girardi pulled David Robertson in the 11th inning with two outs and no one on base and summoned Alfredo Aceves to face Howie Kendrick. Kendrick promptly singled up the middle and Jeff Mathis doubled him home two hitters later to make the Yankees 5-4 losers and make for a lot more nervous Yankee fans than there were when the game got underway.
The pitching change is, on the surface, hard to defend. Both pitchers are right-handers, as is Kendrick, and Aceves has never faced him before which eliminates the strong history angle. Robertson was throwing well and, generally speaking, has better stuff than Aceves. It will be interesting to hear what Girardi has to say, but the move smacks of Girardi making the game much harder than it needs to be for little or no gain to the team.
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Some other moves also will be noted Monday night and Tuesday. Girardi pinch-ran Brett Gardner instead of Freddy Guzman for Hideki Matsui in the eighth inning and then pinch-hit Jerry Hairston for Gardner in the ninth. That cost Girardi his two most useful defensive reserves, except that neither one was available defensively without forcing the pitcher to hit because Matsui was the designated hitter. That's just what wound up happening when Hairston replaced Johnny Damon defensively in the 10th (a smart move given Damon's childlike throwing arm), leaving Francisco Cervelli to pinch-hit for Mariano Rivera in the top of the 11th. That whole convoluted chain was mostly unnecessary when you realize Guzman is only on the roster to pinch run while Gardner has other uses.
Girardi also chose to wait to use Rivera until Phil Hughes had already allowed a double to start the Angels half of the 10th. He quickly went to Rivera at this point, which begs the question of why he'd wait if he was willing to use Rivera in a tie game. Rivera made him look smart by escaping his own error and a bases loaded situation thanks to three plays by Mark Teixeira, but it was still part of a baffling performance by the Yankee manager.
It was a strange game overall. The two teams combined to score nine runs without either side picking up a single hit with a runner in scoring position. The Yankees hit four solo home runs, but could manage only four other hits over the course of the evening. Bobby Abreu doubled to start the 8th and then decided to wander off base where he was dead meat on a relay throw that came in behind him and got him out. Of course, that play was used as an opportunity to praise Derek Jeter's preternatural brilliance which is odd since it was only Abreu's stupidity that got him out.
We're used to such things, though, and we're also quickly getting used to seeing Alex Rodriguez rounding the bases after a home run. He hit his fourth of the postseason and Jeter added his third, but the rest of the Yankee lineup has not been backing them up well enough. Teixeira, for example, is 1-for-13 through three games and the team as a whole has become overly reliant on the home run to bail them out.
That needs to change Tuesday night if CC Sabathia is going to beat the Angels for the second time in five days. If it doesn't and if CC doesn't, we'll hit full panic mode and Girardi will be wishing he was back on the slow roast he put himself on by managing by bulk during Monday's loss.
Josh Alper is a writer living in New York City and is a contributor to FanHouse.com and ProFootballTalk.com in addition to his duties for NBCNewYork.com.


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