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TA18-201A: Emotet Malware
Original release date: July 20, 2018
Systems Affected
Network SystemsOverview
Emotet is an advanced, modular banking Trojan that primarily functions as a downloader or dropper of other banking Trojans. Emotet continues to be among the most costly and destructive malware affecting state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) governments, and the private and public sectors.
This joint Technical Alert (TA) is the result of Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) analytic efforts, in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC).Description
Emotet continues to be among the most costly and destructive malware affecting SLTT governments. Its worm-like features result in rapidly spreading network-wide infection, which are difficult to combat. Emotet infections have cost SLTT governments up to $1 million per incident to remediate.
Emotet is an advanced, modular banking Trojan that primarily functions as a downloader or dropper of other banking Trojans. Additionally, Emotet is a polymorphic banking Trojan that can evade typical signature-based detection. It has several methods for maintaining persistence, including auto-start registry keys and services. It uses modular Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs) to continuously evolve and update its capabilities. Furthermore, Emotet is Virtual Machine-aware and can generate false indicators if run in a virtual environment.
Emotet is disseminated through malspam (emails containing malicious attachments or links) that uses branding familiar to the recipient; it has even been spread using the MS-ISAC name. As of July 2018, the most recent campaigns imitate PayPal receipts, shipping notifications, or "past-due" invoices purportedly from MS-ISAC. Initial infection occurs when a user opens or clicks the malicious download link, PDF, or macro-enabled Microsoft Word document included in the malspam. Once downloaded, Emotet establishes persistence and attempts to propagate the local networks through incorporated spreader modules.Figure 1: Malicious email distributing Emotet
Currently, Emotet uses five known spreader modules: NetPass.exe, WebBrowserPassView, Mail PassView, Outlook scraper, and a credential enumerator.
To maintain persistence, Emotet injects code into explorer.exe and other running processes. It can also collect sensitive information, including system name, location, and operating system version, and connects to a remote command and control server (C2), usually through a generated 16-letter domain name that ends in ".eu." Once Emotet establishes a connection with the C2, it reports a new infection, receives configuration data, downloads and runs files, receives instructions, and uploads data to the C2 server.
Emotet artifacts are typically found in arbitrary paths located off of the AppData\Local and AppData\Roaming directories. The artifacts usually mimic the names of known executables. Persistence is typically maintained through Scheduled Tasks or via registry keys. Additionally, Emotet creates randomly-named files in the system root directories that are run as Windows services. When executed, these services attempt to propagate the malware to adjacent systems via accessible administrative shares.
Note: it is essential that privileged accounts are not used to log in to compromised systems during remediation as this may accelerate the spread of the malware.
Example Filenames and Paths:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData \Local\Microsoft\Windows\shedaudio.exe
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia\Flash Player\macromedia\bin\flashplayer.exe
Typical Registry Keys:
System Root Directories:
Negative consequences of Emotet infection include
NCCIC and MS-ISAC recommend that organizations adhere to the following general best practices to limit the effect of Emotet and similar malspam:
If a user or organization believes they may be infected, NCCIC and MS-ISAC recommend running an antivirus scan on the system and taking action to isolate the infected workstation based on the results. If multiple workstations are infected, the following actions are recommended:
MS-ISAC is the focal point for cyber threat prevention, protection, response, and recovery for the nation's SLTT governments. More information about this topic, as well as 24/7 cybersecurity assistance for SLTT governments, is available by phone at 866-787-4722, by email at firstname.lastname@example.com, or on MS-ISAC's website at https://msisac.cisecurity.org/.
To report an intrusion and request resources for incident response or technical assistance, contact NCCIC by email at email@example.com or by phone at 888-282-0870.References
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TA18-149A: HIDDEN COBRA – Joanap Backdoor Trojan and Brambul Server Message Block Worm
Original release date: May 29, 2018 | Last revised: May 31, 2018
Systems Affected
Network systemsOverview
This joint Technical Alert (TA) is the result of analytic efforts between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Working with U.S. government partners, DHS and FBI identified Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and other indicators of compromise (IOCs) associated with two families of malware used by the North Korean government:
The U.S. Government refers to malicious cyber activity by the North Korean government as HIDDEN COBRA. For more information on HIDDEN COBRA activity, visit https://www.us-cert.gov/hiddencobra.
FBI has high confidence that HIDDEN COBRA actors are using the IP addresses—listed in this report's IOC files—to maintain a presence on victims' networks and enable network exploitation. DHS and FBI are distributing these IP addresses and other IOCs to enable network defense and reduce exposure to any North Korean government malicious cyber activity.
This alert also includes suggested response actions to the IOCs provided, recommended mitigation techniques, and information on how to report incidents. If users or administrators detect activity associated with these malware families, they should immediately flag it, report it to the DHS National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) or the FBI Cyber Watch (CyWatch), and give it the highest priority for enhanced mitigation.
See the following links for a downloadable copy of IOCs:
NCCIC conducted analysis on four malware samples and produced a Malware Analysis Report (MAR). MAR-10135536.3 – RAT/Worm examines the tactics, techniques, and procedures observed in the malware. Visit MAR-10135536.3 – HIDDEN COBRA RAT/Worm for the report and associated IOCs.Description
According to reporting of trusted third parties, HIDDEN COBRA actors have likely been using both Joanap and Brambul malware since at least 2009 to target multiple victims globally and in the United States—including the media, aerospace, financial, and critical infrastructure sectors. Users and administrators should review the information related to Joanap and Brambul from the Operation Blockbuster Destructive Malware Report [1] in conjunction with the IP addresses listed in the .csv and .stix files provided within this alert. Like many of the families of malware used by HIDDEN COBRA actors, Joanap, Brambul, and other previously reported custom malware tools, may be found on compromised network nodes. Each malware tool has different purposes and functionalities.
Joanap malware is a fully functional RAT that is able to receive multiple commands, which can be issued by HIDDEN COBRA actors remotely from a command and control server. Joanap typically infects a system as a file dropped by other HIDDEN COBRA malware, which users unknowingly downloaded either when they visit sites compromised by HIDDEN COBRA actors, or when they open malicious email attachments.
During analysis of the infrastructure used by Joanap malware, the U.S. Government identified 87 compromised network nodes. The countries in which the infected IP addresses are registered are as follows:
Malware often infects servers and systems without the knowledge of system users and owners. If the malware can establish persistence, it could move laterally through a victim's network and any connected networks to infect nodes beyond those identified in this alert.
Brambul malware is a brute-force authentication worm that spreads through SMB shares. SMBs enable shared access to files between users on a network. Brambul malware typically spreads by using a list of hard-coded login credentials to launch a brute-force password attack against an SMB protocol for access to a victim's networks.
Technical Details
Joanap is a two-stage malware used to establish peer-to-peer communications and to manage botnets designed to enable other operations. Joanap malware provides HIDDEN COBRA actors with the ability to exfiltrate data, drop and run secondary payloads, and initialize proxy communications on a compromised Windows device. Other notable functions include
Analysis indicates the malware encodes data using Rivest Cipher 4 encryption to protect its communication with HIDDEN COBRA actors. Once installed, the malware creates a log entry within the Windows System Directory in a file named mssscardprv.ax. HIDDEN COBRA actors use this file to capture and store victims' information such as the host IP address, host name, and the current system time.
Brambul malware is a malicious Windows 32-bit SMB worm that functions as a service dynamic link library file or a portable executable file often dropped and installed onto victims' networks by dropper malware. When executed, the malware attempts to establish contact with victim systems and IP addresses on victims' local subnets. If successful, the application attempts to gain unauthorized access via the SMB protocol (ports 139 and 445) by launching brute-force password attacks using a list of embedded passwords. Additionally, the malware generates random IP addresses for further attacks.
Analysts suspect the malware targets insecure or unsecured user accounts and spreads through poorly secured network shares. Once the malware establishes unauthorized access on the victim's systems, it communicates information about victim's systems to HIDDEN COBRA actors using malicious email addresses. This information includes the IP address and host name—as well as the username and password—of each victim's system. HIDDEN COBRA actors can use this information to remotely access a compromised system via the SMB protocol.
Analysis of a newer variant of Brambul malware identified the following built-in functions for remote operations:
Detection and Response
This alert's IOC files provide HIDDEN COBRA IOCs related to Joanap and Brambul. DHS and FBI recommend that network administrators review the information provided, identify whether any of the provided IP addresses fall within their organizations' allocated IP address space, and—if found—take necessary measures to remove the malware.
When reviewing network perimeter logs for the IP addresses, organizations may find instances of these IP addresses attempting to connect to their systems. Upon reviewing the traffic from these IP addresses, system owners may find some traffic relates to malicious activity and some traffic relates to legitimate activity.Impact
A successful network intrusion can have severe impacts, particularly if the compromise becomes public. Possible impacts include
Mitigation Strategies
DHS recommends that users and administrators use the following best practices as preventive measures to protect their computer networks:
Response to Unauthorized Network Access
Contact DHS or your local FBI office immediately. To report an intrusion and request resources for incident response or technical assistance, contact DHS NCCIC (firstname.lastname@example.com or 888-282-0870), FBI through a local field office, or FBI's Cyber Division (email@example.com or 855-292-3937).References
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TA18-145A: Cyber Actors Target Home and Office Routers and Networked Devices Worldwide
Original release date: May 25, 2018 | Last revised: June 07, 2018
Systems Affected
Cybersecurity researchers have identified that foreign cyber actors have compromised hundreds of thousands of home and office routers and other networked devices worldwide [1] [2] [3]. The actors used VPNFilter malware to target small office/home office (SOHO) routers. VPNFilter malware uses modular functionality to collect intelligence, exploit local area network (LAN) devices, and block actor-configurable network traffic. Specific characteristics of VPNFilter have only been observed in the BlackEnergy malware, specifically BlackEnergy versions 2 and 3.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recommend that owners of SOHO routers power cycle (reboot) SOHO routers and networked devices to temporarily disrupt the malware.
DHS and FBI encourage SOHO router owners to report information concerning suspicious or criminal activity to their local FBI field office or the FBI's 24/7 Cyber Watch (CyWatch). Field office contacts can be identified at www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field. CyWatch can be contacted by phone at 855-292-3937 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com. Each submitted report should include as much informaiton as possible, specifically the date, time, location, type of activity, number of people, the type of equipment used for the activity, the name of the submitting company or organization, and a designated point of contact.Description
The size and scope of this infrastructure impacted by VPNFilter malware is significant. The persistent VPNFilter malware linked to this infrastructure targets a variety of SOHO routers and network-attached storage devices. The initial exploit vector for this malware is currently unknown.
The malware uses a modular functionality on SOHO routers to collect intelligence, exploit LAN devices, and block actor-configurable network traffic. The malware can render a device inoperable, and has destructive functionality across routers, network-attached storage devices, and central processing unit (CPU) architectures running embedded Linux. The command and control mechanism implemented by the malware uses a combination of secure sockets layer (SSL) with client-side certificates for authentication and TOR protocols, complicating network traffic detection and analysis.Impact
Negative consequences of VPNFilter malware infection include:
DHS and FBI recommend that all SOHO router owners power cycle (reboot) their devices to temporarily disrupt the malware.
Network device management interfaces—such as Telnet, SSH, Winbox, and HTTP—should be turned off for wide-area network (WAN) interfaces, and, when enabled, secured with strong passwords and encryption. Network devices should be upgraded to the latest available versions of firmware, which often contain patches for vulnerabilities.
Rebooting affected devices will cause non-persistent portions of the malware to be removed from the system. Network defenders should ensure that first-stage malware is removed from the devices, and appropriate network-level blocking is in place prior to rebooting affected devices. This will ensure that second stage malware is not downloaded again after reboot.
While the paths at each stage of the malware can vary across device platforms, processes running with the name "vpnfilter" are almost certainly instances of the second stage malware. Terminating these processes and removing associated processes and persistent files that execute the second stage malware would likely remove this malware from targeted devices.References
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TA18-141A: Side-Channel Vulnerability Variants 3a and 4
Original release date: May 21, 2018 | Last revised: May 22, 2018
Systems Affected
CPU hardware implementationsOverview
On May 21, 2018, new variants of the side-channel central processing unit (CPU) hardware vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown were publicly disclosed. These variants—known as 3A and 4—can allow an attacker to obtain access to sensitive information on affected systems.Description
Common CPU hardware implementations are vulnerable to the side-channel attacks known as Spectre and Meltdown. Meltdown is a bug that "melts" the security boundaries normally enforced by the hardware, affecting desktops, laptops, and cloud computers. Spectre is a flaw that an attacker can exploit to force a CPU to reveal its data.
Variant 3a is a vulnerability that may allow an attacker with local access to speculatively read system parameters via side-channel analysis and obtain sensitive information.
Variant 4 is a vulnerability that exploits "speculative bypass." When exploited, Variant 4 could allow an attacker to read older memory values in a CPU's stack or other memory locations. While implementation is complex, this side-channel vulnerability could allow less privileged code to
Corresponding CVEs for Side-Channel Variants 1, 2, 3, 3a, and 4 are found below:
Side-Channel Vulnerability Variants 3a and 4 may allow an attacker to obtain access to sensitive information on affected systems.Solution Mitigation
NCCIC recommends users and administrators
The following table contains links to advisories and patches published in response to the vulnerabilities. This table will be updated as information becomes available.Link to Vendor InformationDate AddedAMDMay 21, 2018ARMMay 21, 2018IntelMay 22, 2018MicrosoftMay 21, 2018RedhatMay 21, 2018 References
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ISC Stormcast For Friday, April 6th 2018 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=5943, (Fri, Apr 6th)

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ISC Stormcast For Thursday, April 5th 2018 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=5941, (Thu, Apr 5th)
ISC/DShield Website TLS Updates, (Wed, Apr 4th)
On Thursday, we will change our TLS certificate to one issued by Letsencrypt. In the past, we used normal "commercial" certificates. Until a few months ago, we used HTTP Public Key Pinning. It appears that key pinning is no longer going to be supported by browsers, so we decided to remove this feature, which enabled us to use Letsencrypt. We removed the key pinning header a while ago, and browsers should no longer "pin" for our sites. But in case you are experiencing problems connecting to this site later this week, please let us know. You may still be able to connect to www.dshield.org if you can not connect to isc.sans.edu.
SANS Security Awareness Published its April "Ouch!" Newsletter sans.org/u/Crt , (Wed, Apr 4th)
A Suspicious Use of certutil.exe, (Wed, Apr 4th)
The Microsoft operating system is full of command line tools that help to perform administrative tasks. Some can be easily installed, like the SysInternal suite[1] and psexec.exe, others are builtin in Windows and available to everybody. The presence of calls to such tools can help to detect suspicious behaviours. Why reinvent the wheel, if a tool can achieve what you need? I recently upgraded my hunting rules on VirusTotal to collect samples that are (ab)using the "certutil.exe" tool. The purpose of this tool is to dump and display certification authority (CA) information, manage certificates and keys. This is a command line tool that accepts a lot of parameters [2]. A classic use of certutil.exe is to easily process Base64 encoded data:


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In addition to the Prop. 8 plaintiffs, this year's dinner will include other champions of equality including former Washington State Gov. Christine Gregoire, who signed marriage equality into law in 2012 and then helped lead the historic campaign against the efforts to overturn the law, openly gay Congressman Mark Takano, and Rob Reiner, a board member of the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), the sole sponsor of the federal court challenge of Prop. 8. ABC's Tom Bergeron will host the event and actress Kerry Washington will make a special appearance. HRC will honor Disney/ABC Television Group with its Corporate Equality Award for the company's steadfast support of equality for the LGBT community. The award will be presented to the company's president, Anne Sweeney.
WHAT: Human Rights Campaign Los Angeles Gala Dinner
WHEN: Saturday, March 23, 2013
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WHERE: JW Marriott L.A. Live Hotel
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WHO: Prop. 8 Plaintiffs Kris Perry & Sandy Stier and Paul Katami & Jeff Zarrillo
Christine Gregoire, Former Washington Governor
Congressman Mark Takano
Anne Sweeney, President of Disney/ABC Television Group
Rob Reiner, actor, director, and American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) board member
Tom Bergeron, host of ABC's Dancing with the Stars and America's Funniest Home Videos
Kerry Washington, actress
Chad Griffin, President of the Human Rights Campaign
For more information on sponsorship opportunities or to purchase tickets go to www.hrcladinner.com.
The Human Rights Campaign is America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality. By inspiring and engaging all Americans, HRC strives to end discrimination against LGBT citizens and realize a nation that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all.


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Four days after the Jan. 15 deadline, the NFL Friday announced that 106 players have been granted special eligibility for the April draft. That sets a new record for early entrants, breaking the mark of 98 set in 2014. The past two seasons, there were 95 and 96 in 2017 and 2016, respectively. In 2015, there were just 74.
The SEC was hit hardest by attrition with 26 players leaving early, although the ACC wasn't far behind at 24. The Pac-12 was next among the Power Five conferences with 17, followed by the Big 12's 13 and the Big Ten's 11.
Among Group of Five leagues, Conference USA lost the most with four. The Mountain West saw three go early, with the AAC (two), MAC (one) and Sun Belt (one) coming next in line. There were also two non-FBS players who left early, as well as two from Notre Dame.
As far as individual schools go, there were three that lost six apiece — Florida State, LSU and Texas. Alabama lost five, while Auburn, Miami, Oklahoma, UCLA, and USC all lost four apiece. Clemson, Florida, Louisville, Stanford and Tennessee were on the losing end of three players each.
In addition to the 106 granted special eligibility — they'll be listed at the end — the NFL also granted eligibility to 13 players who the league writes "have in timely fashion under NFL rules officially notified the league office that they have fulfilled their degree requirements." Those players are listed below:
» Jordan Akins, TE, UCF
» Josh Allen, QB, Wyoming
» Kyle Allen, QB, Houston
» Will Clapp, C, LSU
» Terrell Edmunds, DB, Virginia Tech
» Taylor Hearn, G, Clemson
» Sam Hubbard, DE, Ohio State
» Sam Jones, G, Arizona State
» Quenton Nelson, G, Notre Dame
» Brian O'Neill, T, Pittsburgh
» Christian Sam, LB, Arizona State
» Tre'Quan Smith, WR, UCF
» Courtland Sutton, WR, SMU
Courtesy of the NFL, below is the complete list of 106 players who have been granted special eligibility for the 2018 NFL Draft:
» Josh Adams, RB, Notre Dame
» Olasunkanmi Adeniyi, DE, Toledo
» Jaire Alexander, DB, Louisville
» Mark Andrews, TE, Oklahoma
» Dorance Armstrong, DE, Kansas
» Jerome Baker, LB, Ohio State
» Saquon Barkley, RB, Penn State
» Jessie Bates, DB, Wake Forest
» Orlando Brown, T, Oklahoma
» Taven Bryan, DT, Florida
» Deontay Burnett, WR, USC
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» Antonio Callaway, WR, Florida
» Geron Christian, T, Louisville
» Simmie Cobbs, WR, Indiana
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» J.J. Dallas, DB, Louisiana-Monroe
» James Daniels, C, Iowa
» Sam Darnold, QB, USC
» Carlton Davis, DB, Auburn
» Michael Dickson, P, Texas
» Tremaine Edmunds, LB, Virginia Tech
» DeShon Elliott, DB, Texas
» Minkah Fitzpatrick, DB, Alabama
» Matt Fleming, WR, Benedictine
» Nick Gates, T, Nebraska
» Rashaan Gaulden, DB, Tennessee
» Frank Ginda, LB, San Jose State
» Rasheem Green, DT, USC
» Derrius Guice, RB, LSU
» Ronnie Harrison, DB, Alabama
» Quadree Henderson, WR, Pittsburgh
» Holton Hill, DB, Texas
» Nyheim Hines, RB, NC State
» Jeff Holland, LB, Auburn
» Mike Hughes, DB UCF
» Hayden Hurst, TE, South Carolina
» Joel Iyiegbuniwe, LB, Western Kentucky
» Ryan Izzo, TE, FSU
» Donte Jackson, DB, LSU
» J.C. Jackson, DB, Maryland
» Josh Jackson, DB, Iowa
» Lamar Jackson, QB, Louisville
» Derwin James, DB, FSU
» Richie James, WR, Middle Tennessee
» Malik Jefferson, LB, Texas
» Courtel Jenkins, DT, Miami
» Kerryon Johnson, RB, Auburn
» Ronald Jones, RB, USC
» John Kelly, RB, Tennessee
» Arden Key, LB, LSU
» Christian Kirk, WR, Texas A&M
» Du'Vonta Lampkin, DT, Oklahoma
» Jordan Lasley, WR, UCLA
» Chase Litton, QB, Marshall
» Tavares Martin, WR, Washington State
» Hercules Mata'afa, DE, Washington State
» Ray-Ray McCloud, WR, Clemson
» Tarvarus McFadden, DB, Florida State
» R.J. McIntosh, DT, Miami
» Reginald McKenzie, DT, Tennessee
» Quenton Meeks, DB, Stanford
» Kolton Miller, T, UCLA
» D.J. Moore, WR, Maryland
» Ryan Nall, RB, Oregon State
» Nick Nelson, DB, Wisconsin
» Kendrick Norton, DT, Miami
» Isaiah Oliver, DB, Colorado
» Dwayne Orso-Bacchus, T, Oklahoma
» Da'Ron Payne, NT, Alabama
» Kamryn Pettway, RB, Auburn
» Eddy Pineiro, K, Florida
» Trey Quinn, WR, SMU
» D.J. Reed, DB, Kansas State
» Justin Reid, DB, Stanford
» Will Richardson, T, NC State
» Calvin Ridley, WR, Alabama
» Austin Roberts, TE, UCLA
» Korey Robertson, WR, Southern Miss
» Josh Rosen, QB, UCLA
» Bo Scarbrough, RB, Alabama
» Dalton Schultz, TE, Stanford
» Tim Settle, DT, Virginia Tech
» Andre Smith, LB, UNC
» Roquan Smith, LB, Georgia
» Van Smith, DB, Clemson
» Breeland Speaks, DE, Ole Miss
» Equanimeous St. Brown, WR, Notre Dame
» Josh Sweat, DE, Florida State
» Auden Tate, WR, Florida State
» Maea Teuhema, T, Southeastern Louisiana
» Trenton Thompson, DT, Georgia
» Kevin Toliver, DB, LSU
» Travonte Valentine, NT, LSU
» Leighton Vander Esch, LB, Boise State
» Vita Vea, NT, Washington
» Mark Walton, RB, Miami
» Denzel Ward, DB, Ohio State
» Chris Warren, RB, Texas
» Toby Weathersby, T, LSU
» Jordan Whitehead, DB, Pittsburgh
» JoJo Wicker, DT, Arizona State
» Jalen Wilkerson, DE, Florida State
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Fourth-year student Kevin Sacca's "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) about multispectral imaging of historical documents proved highly popular on social network reddit
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Imaging Science senior Kevin Sacca is spending his summer working with Dr. Roger Easton Jr. capturing and processing multispectral images of historic documents. In response to public curiosity about the nature of his work, Sacca set up an AMA ("Ask Me Anything") interview session on social networking website reddit. The session proved to be wildly popular, racking up over 350 comments and even making it to the front page of reddit.
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On this week's Focus on Style- Talk, hosting duo Sharon Haver & Brad Boles talk about the style icons of the 80's Leigh Bowery, Klaus Nomi, Boy George, Annie Lenox, Grace Jones, Club Kids, and their influence over the late great designer Alexander McQueen and fashion as a whole
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The San Jose Mercury delivered a triple shot of optimism to go with the morning latte on Saturday morning. The Page One feature, the seventh installment of a 12-part "Life in a Year" series, was all about that first paycheck. The subtext? Making choices work.
The story had me at Studs Terkel. But more about that below.
Early on, reporter Bruce Newman reminds us how rare it is for our first job — "the thing that provides us a living if not a life" — to be our last. No small consolation for those worried about choosing wrong at the gate. But better yet, he defines work via one of Studs Terkel's greatest oral histories:
In "Working," the oral history ode to the way we toil by the late Studs Terkel, The Job is described as the start of a search "for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash … in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying."
Combine those two thoughts — career choice as trajectory rather than destination plus Terkel's reminder that any job can have meaning as well as dignity — add the way three newly employed twenty-somethings made their choices, and you've got some serious reassurance to spread on your morning bagel. Newman goes on:
Menial or magnificent, the first job — harder than ever to come by now — sets the tone for all the jobs to follow. It's the first time we feel the weight of serious money in our pockets, and serious responsibilities on our shoulders.
And that, these twenty-somethings seem to show, is a good thing. The story profiles three young adults who seized their options: Gabino Lopez, Jr., son of a farmworker and first in his family to attend college, who a month after graduation started work as a financial analyst at Chevron, where he relishes everything from his paycheck in the high-fives to, yes, even life in a cubicle; Jose Luna III, following his dream — and his father's footsteps — in becoming a firefighter; and Samantha Go, a poster child for the idea that career is a serial endeavor.
Go blitzed college, graduating from Santa Clara University with a degree in marketing two quarters early to beat the job-search rush. She figured out early what she didn't want to do via a soul-less internship in a cubicle at a file-management company. That motivated her to find her niche — and apparently, her bliss — as an event planner at Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health at Stanford.
"I didn't want to be one of those people who's always changing jobs, or hates their job, so whatever job I got out of college was going to be it for a while," she said. "But I really didn't like my desk job at all. If I had to do that every day for the rest of my life, I don't know what I would have done."
She now gets paid to taste wine, sample food, and go to parties. She also looks forward to five weeks of vacation.
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Consulting firm tells family to keep IndyCar, IMS
- A consulting group offered a wide range of suggestions for improving the IndyCar series
- Boardroom politics and IndyCar%27s history of dysfunction overshadowed Ryan Hunter-Reay%27s championship
- The consulting firm says the series suffers from a lack of awareness
The Hulman-George family should retain ownership of the IndyCar Series and Indianapolis Motor Speedway, according to a report from a consulting group it hired to evaluate business operations, including running the Indianapolis 500.
The Boston Consulting Group offered a wide array of suggestions on how to better position the troubled open-wheel series and historic speedway in a 115-page report, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press.
Among the ideas: a 15-race IndyCar schedule in major American cities held over 19 weeks; a three-race playoff with a season finale on the road course at Indy; a new marketing strategy promoting IndyCar's "daredevil drivers"; using just one U.S. television partner instead of both ABC/ESPN and NBC Sports Network; overhauling the ticket pricing at IMS in tiers that would raise the cost of the most expensive Indy 500 ticket from $150 to $200 and lower almost every ticket for the Brickyard 400 and Red Bull Grand Prix.
Hulman & Co. is under no obligation to follow the suggestions.
The consulting firm was hired at the end of last season, which many considered to be one of the best in terms of on-track competition. But boardroom politics and IndyCar's history of dysfunction overshadowed the racing and American driver Ryan Hunter-Reay's championship.
Randy Bernard was ousted as CEO in late October in what many fans viewed as a coup by power-hungry team owners and IndyCar founder Tony George, who made a late season play to buy back the open-wheel series.
Since then, Mark Miles, who most recently led Indianapolis' successful Super Bowl effort, has been brought in as CEO of Hulman & Co. and is charged with hiring Bernard's replacement. Jeff Belskus, the former CEO, is filling in for Bernard in the interim.
An attempt to reach IMS spokesman Doug Boles for comment by telephone was unsuccessful.
With the March 24 season-opener approaching and the series still lacking stability, auto racing observers were awaiting the report. However, it offered no quick fixes.
BCG said IndyCar was "the best pure racing motorsports league in the U.S. … but the series suffers from lack of awareness." Part of its problem is that a significant amount of the 14 million fans who watch the Indianapolis 500 don't watch another race during the season.
Focus groups suggested that marketing strategies should be geared to "positioning IndyCar as having the most skilled, daredevil drivers and not theatrical off-track personalities." They indicated they valued fast cars over science and engineering; winning over points challenges; suspense through lead changes over entertainment through crashes; and the diversity of track types rather than ovals.
"Focus on excitement of real racing; daredevil drivers defined by winning, racing at thrilling speeds," the report said, as a way to distinguish IndyCar from NASCAR's "amusing entertainment: off-track drama and partying."
The report also suggested:
— IndyCar should split the schedule into two seasons — a 15-race U.S. calendar from April to August and an international series during the offseason. The championship would be decided during the U.S. season, and the hypothetical schedule proposed by BCG included seven cities not currently visited by IndyCar. It opened at Houston, then Phoenix, the Indy 500, Miami, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Pocono, Toronto, Seattle, Sonoma and Fontana. The "playoffs" portion included Texas, Long Beach and the Indy road course. BCG argued for a playoff because "the current IndyCar schedule lacks consequence and the television ratings are at the lowest at the end of the season because the series does not have a mechanism to create suspense."
— One television partner, preferably ABC/ESPN, or placing as many races as possible on ABC. The report also suggested the NBC Sports Network may be in violation of its contract with IndyCar if it promotes any other motorsports series more than IndyCar. NBCSN will broadcast Formula One this year, but the promotional clause in the contract pertains only to the cable channel and not network television. The report said NBCSN has indicated it would "release the series from the deal" because the rights fees increase from $5.5 million this year to $10 million in 2018 when the contract expires. But NBCSN has indicated it's happy with the IndyCar deal and wasn't interested in ending the relationship early.
— IndyCar should reduce the Leaders' Circle subsidy payments to teams and redirect the funds into a weekly purse based on performance. Under the current model, the league is giving teams a $1.1 million subsidy and race winners are earning just $35,000 per victory. BCG offered several different models, including one that shifted half of Leader's Circle money into prize money and upped the race winner payout to a minimum $240,000 per victory.
— Using Indianapolis Motor Speedway more. BCG Found that of the 132 days the track was used in 2012, only 21 were considered major revenue-generating events. By using the speedway for an IndyCar race on the road course, BCG found IMS had the potential to generate a $4.3 million profit.
— Resetting ticket price tiers: BCG found that IMS didn't really differentiate between high-end and low-end ticket pricing. The report targets Indy 500 ticketing, suggesting penthouse and deck tickets should be raised from $150 to $200, paddock seats from $90 to $150. Other seats should drop anywhere from $5-$20 and sometimes more.


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DeKALB – Before the 2012 Mid-American Conference Championship Game, the MAC held a conference call with representatives from Northern Illinois and Kent State.
The winner had a shot at going to a BCS bowl game, which meant a special experience and great exposure for the program, but also some hefty expenses and a big-ticket commitment that would be extremely tough for a smaller program to fulfill.
The conference decided it would help the winning school, which ended up being NIU after a 44-37 victory in double overtime at Ford Field in Detroit, should it earn a BCS bid.
NIU had the dominoes fall the right way and earned a trip to the Orange Bowl. The conference then helped cover NIU's expenses, the biggest part of which was paying for the allotment of 17,500 tickets.
Playing in the Orange Bowl also required staying in South Florida for an entire week. Not to mention, the Huskies stayed at the luxurious Fontainebleau Hotel on Miami Beach.
The school's total expenses topped $1 million. Thanks to the MAC's distribution to the university of more than $1.3 million, NIU ended up with a net gain of more than $253,000 from its Orange Bowl trip. The $1.3 million NIU received was the university's share from the $8 million in BCS revenue the MAC was given.
"We made that arrangement before the game, which was really historic and unique and significantly different from other non-AQs with the opportunity to go to a BCS bowl game," said NIU acting athletic director Christian Spears, who was part of the conference call back in late November. "There's other schools (that have competed in BCS games) that were on the hook, so the Mid-American Conference really stepped up."
After competing in the GoDaddy.com Bowl in January of 2012, NIU had a net loss of $161,558. Over the past five bowl games, the only other time the school has came away with a net gain was in 2010, when NIU made $50,097 following the Humanitarian Bowl.
NIU's BCS appearance was the first in the history of the conference, and netted the league the $8 million payout to redistribute to its member schools. In this situation, Spears said the conference wanted to make sure NIU was covered when it came to finances.
"Their commitment to us was to ensure that our expenses, from a hotel perspective, from a ticket perspective and from a travel perspective, were completely covered, so that we were made whole," Spears said. "What we did is managed that budget really effectively, which allowed us to have a net gain."
Debra Boughton, NIU associate athletic director for business affairs, said there is also roughly $4 million remaining from the BCS that will be divided among the MAC's 13 football schools. The division of that revenue will be decided at a meeting in May.
When it comes to BCS games, it hasn't always been a success story financially for participating schools. Connecticut's trip to the Fiesta Bowl in 2011 infamously cost that school $1.8 million.
Selling 17,500 tickets can be a daunting task for any MAC program or non-AQ school. Although NIU sold only 3,266 Orange Bowl tickets, the league stepped in to help.
"When you look at an Orange Bowl contract that wants you to purchase 17,500 tickets, that's a conversation that you've got to have with a lot of different people on this task, to actually commit to that kind of resource," Spears said.
"So to know before we had to sign that contract that that part was off the table, was an amazing thing we were able to accomplish with the Mid-American Conference."


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Welcome to unspacy.com. This is the archival site for the Anime-Manga Roleplaying Network, a play-by-post RPG that ran from the mid 1990s through fall of 2012.
You can read game archives starting from approximately 2003 at the Game Boards link. These games are no longer active.
In the beginning, the AMRN was called the MRN, or Macross Roleplaying Network, and it focused, of course, on the universe of Macross. The records from these early days are either lost to time
or only exist on veteran players' hard drives in text files and Word documents.
The MRN was founded by Mute, who oversaw the games on Geocities, then at guvava.com. Around 1999, Mute passed the reins of admin to Hellfire, who registered unspacy.com and moved the games here.
Over time, as interest in games in anime universes beyond Macross increased, the name of the site was changed to Anime-Manga Roleplaying Network. The site was host to many different games,
including an alternate-reality Dark Macross, Gundam, Bubblegum Crisis, Lodoss, Five Star Stories, and Sailor Moon. The Macross game flourished with
several subgames, including GP4, Sound Force, Rubicon, Detachment Gamma, and the Rim Expeditionary Force, which
became the Arcadia Task Force, then Eagle - Restitution, then the Phoenix. The Macross games took place in the same gaming universe, Macross 2051, and sometimes
there were crossovers. Characters also moved from one game to another.
In late 2012, the message board software used to run the AMRN was discontinued. Rather than try to copy everything over to new software, the game masters decided to start an all-new site,
unfettered by the AMRN's long history. That site is unspacy.net.


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* Take a bowl and add the mango pulp.I have used canned - sweetened - mango pulp.If you are using fresh mangoes , then add the required sugar .
* Slightly warm the mango pulp along with water .
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* When the mixture is warm enough,turn off the stove .
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* Pour it into the moulds and refrigerate for 1 hour.If u like to have it as an icecream,just add some more jelly crystals and refrigerate overnight.
Serve it with topped whipped cream ,cherries and mint leaves.It tastes heavenly and very apt for potlucks or get togethers.We can prepare it in a day advance and enjoy the party.
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This Rebuild Service Is For The Seth Thomas 44 Time And Strike Clock Movement.
Please Note: This Is A Clock Repair Service For You To Send Me Your Clock Movement To Be Rebuilt And Then Returned To You.
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The Listed Price Of $225.00 Includes The Following:
Any bushings the clock movement needs.
This clock movement will receive at least 10+ bushings.
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I will inspect it for any extra repair issues such as those listed above. If any of these issues are found, I will contact you with an explanation and a price adjustment before proceeding with the rebuild. If you find that the price adjustment is not agreeable, I will return your clock movement to you and issue you a refund, minus the cost of return shipping.
My Average Turn Around Time Is Around 60-90 Days Or So From The Day I Receive Your Clock Movement.
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text: I hated it at first but now I'm actually looking forward to it. Summer is here and the large swells are gone. However the crowds are huge, for whatever reason, on a wave that is not even that great. The spot is plagued with large deep holes that make waves not want to break and rarely are they ever hollow. Does anyone else think that this spot will improve from replenishment? The only times wave jack up and break top to bottom are on the overhead+ swells that break on the bar outside the jetty. Anything smaller than that and it is just not good. High tide can be down right unsurfable. I went on on a chest high day earlier this summer. Chest high swells rolling in, look like they are going to break, then just die out. Chest high going right over the holes breaking in the 5 inch deep water. Sometimes the wave is so mellow you can't even catch it until it is breaking on top of you and you just gotta hope for the best. Wanted to hear others opinions on this spot. Though replenishment kills the breaks, after a year or so of good storms the bars are just deep enough to be surfable without breaking boards in most spots.


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Canepa: Super Bowl Week goes weird
Super Bowl Week's sweets and sours:
Barkeepers will tell you Super Bowl Weeks as a rule are very dry martinis, neither shaken nor stirred.
No controversy. Players are coached to be cautious with their tongues. Coaches, even brother coaches, rarely say much. Everything's set up by the NFL. Few surprises.
But this one was different. The week began with 49ers defensive back Chris Culliver saying he wanted nothing to do with gays in his locker room. "I don't do the gay guys; I don't do that," he said. He also said that if a gay player wants to be a 49er, he can "come out 10 years later." His apology fell flat.
Then came the deer antler spray controversy, in which Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis was accused of using it to help heal his triceps tear. The stuff contains a substance banned by the NFL. Lewis vehemently denied using it. Doesn't really matter. He's retiring, but should stay out of headlights.
And then came the 34-minute blackout in the Superdome during the third quarter of the game. Some put the blame on the Superdome staff, some put it on the New Orleans power company. Who cares? The stadium is inadequate.
"It was an unfortunate incident," said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, who, guaranteed, was far from pleased during the blackout. "There were no safety issues at any time. I think everyone stayed calm. There was maybe one minor injury on an escalator that stopped during the blackout."
As thorough as the NFL is, it will look deeply into this incident before awarding New Orleans another big game. They're all fortunate they were able to get the lights back on.
John Harbaugh coached the Ravens, brother Jim the 49ers. It was a Super first. Monday, John was asked if it would have been better for him if anyone other than his brother were coaching the opposition.
"The only thing worse would have been if one of us wasn't there," John said, "and the only thing worse than that would have been if both of us weren't there."
Jim wasn't the best Harbaugh Sunday night. John outcoached his brother, especially early in the game. The 49ers were bigger and much faster than the Ravens. John is much more the rock than Jim. The brothers have different personalities.
On the first play, the 49ers lined up in an illegal formation and it killed a nice gain. On the last 49ers play, the Ravens got away with a holding/ pass interference call in the end zone. That's how it goes. Biblical people can't call pass interference.
The Ravens were better prepared. And John never went conservative, even with the big lead. To his credit, he never went Norv Turner or Marty Schotttenheimer.
Jim is not a great coach. Yet. He had the best team and lost.
It's going to be mighty hard for the Ravens to repeat as Super Bowl champions. Baltimore has to deal with 22 free agents, quarterback and Super Bowl MVP Joe Flacco among them. Ray Lewis is retiring. Ed Reed may be leaving. Massive left tackle Bryant McKinnie, who had a superior Super Bowl, is a free agent (no penalties in the playoffs).
The 49ers, on the other hand, are much younger and seem to have everything in control. Plus, they don't have to worry about paying their young quarterback (Colin Kaepernick) for some time, if they so choose.
"They're incredible," John Harbaugh said of Jim's 49ers. "That team is going to be here for many years to come."
What the Niners need to do is fix the back end of their secondary and say adios to kicker David Akers. Other than that, not much. This is the most complete team in the NFL.
But the Ravens just completed probably the most remarkable postseason in history. This team should have lost to the Chargers, for cripes sake.
Flacco already has turned down a multiyear deal that would have paid him $16-million per. If there can be no agreement, the Ravens could franchise tag him (but it would cost them $20 million in cap space). But now that he definitely has reached elite status, the consensus is that he'll sign a deal that eventually will pay him more than $100 million.
He just completed one of the great offseasons ever, 11 touchdown passes, no interceptions, 117 passer rating.
"If you say I'm going to be some kind of celebrity, I'm cool with it," Flacco was saying Monday morning. "I met JZ and Beyonce after the game and I don't think I would have met them if we didn't win."
Asked if he was shocked to win MVP (maybe the last of the week's stupid questions), Flacco said: "I don't know if I was shocked. I was shocked I got a car.
For being MVP, Chevy gave him a Corvette Stingray.
Chances are he'll be able to pay for gas.
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Tonight, National Geographic CZ airs the fourth episode of "Genius" about Einstein. (I will have to watch it later because of another cultural event.) There's physics in it but the series is obviously focused on Einstein's relationship to other people, especially (but not only) women.
Ms Emily Jordan at Salon.com was inspired by the series yesterday and she published a piece titled
Well Hello, Dolly: Mileva Marić, Albert Einstein and the myth of the Great Manemphasizing Einstein's flaws as a male and the idea that women may also be geniuses. Women may surely be geniuses but I am not sure whether Mileva Marić is a great example of that. She was very smart... but a genius is a slightly different category.
Did she discover or co-discover relativity or something of this importance? In the series, we learn about the teenage Einstein's relationship with Maria, a girl in a family in Switzerland where he lived (and which supported Einstein much more than his own family). She was cute, she was also intellectually ordinary, she taught him some French, and we could see some nice romantic scenes involving bikes and crops. In some of these scenes, Einstein was already thinking hard about catching up with light. But Einstein left her... and she was heartbroken.
I have no reason to doubt that events like that took place.
Well, Einstein indirectly informed Maria that the relationship is over when he met Mileva Marić in the Swiss school. Samantha Colley stars as Mileva Marić in the series. According to the TV history, they first met in a classroom. The only two people. Einstein assumed he entered a wrong classroom. She impressed him with a monologue combining physics and ancient Greek philosophers whose main message was that he shouldn't assume that a woman couldn't be a physicist.
He clearly became obsessed with her and there are reasons to think that it was really her intellectual credentials that he found so attractive – because the probability is rather high that Maria was more attractive as a woman.
Now, Mileva was born with a deformed hip and as a result, she walked with a limp. This physical characteristic – but maybe not only this one – made her a target of mockery by her nasty classmates. She was generally not considered a bestseller on the romantic market. That's how the series puts it in between the lines and I tend to think it's a good description. Here, I think that the very fact that Einstein was into this woman should be interpreted as evidence of Einstein's superior moral credentials relatively to the average men.
The bad treatment by many men helped her to decide that she wanted to do physics – which she must have been rather excited by from her childhood – and thankfully, she had a highly supportive father back in Serbia who helped her to get to the Swiss school etc. in those times when women's access to STEM schools and occupations was more difficult then men's – in contrast with the situation in recent 50 years.
OK, so she was very good and she had a higher score in a mathematics exam than Einstein. They did talk about many things related to physics. She was competent in most things in the scholarly physics, interested in the foundations of statistical physics – at least if the series is to be trusted. But I still feel that what she was very good at was the scholarly physics. Again, that's the message I would extract from the TV program – and I do think that this description is realistic. For example, she liked to talk about the things "adjacent" to the humanities, like the remarks by the ancient Greek philosophers. I am confident that Einstein was very little interested in stuff like that – well, about as much as I am interested. Those ancient men were clearly rather far from the cutting-edge physics.
Now, her personality must have been attractive for Einstein and they became very close. The proximity also included some intense emotional outbursts. They had a child before they married – and the child died soon after its birth, as the third episode told us.
Einstein's parents – and perhaps some other folks – didn't like a Slavic girl with a limp. Einstein was "obliged" to marry a Jewish woman, of course. On the other side, people were suspecting that Einstein was a jerk who wouldn't take care of her. Mileva was found in the middle, sometimes telling Einstein that the critics of his personal approach could be right, while defending Einstein against these critics while she talked to them.
I haven't really verified whether all these details of the story – based on Walter Isaacson's book, I guess – are accurate. But they surely sound plausible and rather logical to me so far.
OK, I don't really know how the plot will evolve. It's saying many things about Einstein's personal life than what I have ever known. If you need to be reminded, personal gossip wasn't the part of Einstein I have been interested in much. But my feeling is that when Mileva and Albert agreed to be married, it simply changed Mileva's planning, superseded her environment's expectations that no one would ever marry her, and she mostly decided to be a loyal wife. Some sources say that there exists no evidence that would support the hypothesis that Mileva kept on working on physics after she married Einstein. I have no reason not to trust these sources. I know many examples when women who were good physics students immediately transform to reliable wives and mothers once Nature calls them to their duty. I know even feminist husbands who couldn't swallow this transformation – perhaps because they have been brainwashed to think that such natural effects are only talking place according to some nasty chauvinists.
Salon.com mentions that much later, after the divorce when he was probably already living with his cousin and second wife Elsa, Mileva threatened him with the publication of the memoirs. Einstein replied in 1925 that he "laughed" when he read about the threats. It looks like Ms Emily at Salon.com wants to suggest that Mileva could have revealed that she was the actual discoverer of relativity or at least, she has profoundly contributed to some of Einstein's important ideas in physics.
Well, I don't really think it follows. Everything I see is compatible with the interpretation that she simply wanted to publish some memoirs painting Einstein as a jerk – when it comes to the behavior to other humans, not to science. Something is telling me that if she were still capable of writing some convincing stuff about physics, she would do so – e.g. after she divorced Einstein in 1919. Also, Einstein gave all of his 1921 Nobel prize money to his ex-wife Mileva but I don't think this transfer had anything to do with the credit in physics.
So to summarize, I believe that all the hypotheses and "dreams in between the lines" that Mileva was actually the mother of relativity or something comparable are just myths and legends.
Women can be geniuses. When it comes to geniuses in the mathematical and physics sense, a woman's probability to be a genius is lower by more than one order of magnitude than a man's – and in the Einstein category, the probability gap almost certainly exceeds two orders of magnitude. But many of us have still had some extremely talented female classmates who could occasionally beat us in some scholarly benchmarks. They were usually more versatile than us and so on. It's cool. But the kind of ingenuity that is needed to discover a set of ideas such as relativity is a different level of talent. Average people can't distinguish a person who is smartest-among-ten-folks from a person who is smartest-among-one-million-folks (both are "rare" or "unusual" according to their standards) but one obviously needs to distinguish things like that if you want to meaningfully think about the question who could have discovered relativity.
One may also discuss whether this level of talent requires or is correlated with the spirit of a rebel. Both Mileva and Albert were – and had to be – rebellious relatively to the "unscientific" people around them. The fact that they were more nerdy or closer to science research than the average people couldn't have been overlooked. In this respect, they were similar. But Einstein was also rebellious relatively to the teachers and instructors and similar folks. I think that Mileva wasn't. Well, she sometimes did express some disagreement or her own ideas but she was guaranteed not to run into real problems.
At the end, I do believe that in Einstein's case and other similar cases, the main reason behind this rebellion was Einstein's internal knowledge that he was smarter than all these teachers of his. Just to be sure, I think he was smarter. And he was smarter than these adults already when he was a teenager. And he knew it. And he didn't try to hide this piece of information – probably mainly because he would find it dishonest.
Mileva wasn't rebellious in this sense. The reason is ultimately her being at most in the same league as these teachers. I mean folks like Heinrich Weber, their instructor who became Einstein's first adviser. In the initial episodes, we saw that Weber was one of Einstein's key soft supporters who helped him to overcome some barriers. However, Einstein had some battle with Weber as well and switched to Alfred Kleiner as the new adviser. Well, I guess that Weber was more achieved than Kleiner – Kleiner, an experimenter (with some work on retinas and molecular physics), is mostly remembered as Einstein's second adviser these days. (Don't get me wrong: the SI unit is not named after Heinrich Weber but after Wilhelm Weber. Some Bessel-like functions are named after Einstein's first adviser, however, and he did some work on specific heats that is still remembered.)
OK, to summarize. I don't think that Einstein was an angel but I also don't think that when it comes to his treatment of women, he was far from the median man. That's not what has made him important. His ingenious discoveries are the reason why we may appreciate him as a genius – even though he clearly had the talent before he discovered those important ideas. Einstein has never considered any woman to be quite in the same intellectual league as himself – with a marginal exception of his friend Marie Curie who was "roughly" in the same community – and I think he was simply right, whether politically correct writers like it or not. All women he has ever met were detectably less penetrating in physics (and yes, they were also less penetrating in other situations which is being used against Einstein).
Like Feynman, Einstein is often degraded by the feminist manipulators of the history as a sexist pig etc. – sometimes just for the innocent fact that they knew to be smarter than women around them. Sorry, I will keep on defending these men because they were right whether an obnoxious feminist likes this fact or not.
And that's the memo. (Thanks, Bill O'Reilly.)