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Bert Robinson, an attorney, is dead wrong in his letter to the editor claiming Common Core is federal control of local education. He falsely links that fact to the remark by Leslie Jacobs that claims the state would lose federal monies if it dropped Common Core. I suspect the aid to which Jacobs referred is associated with the No Child Left Behind legislation, created and made law by the Bush administration, and the Race to the Top legislation of the Obama administration, which was launched in 2009.
The No Child Left Behind legislation states that school systems must have in place a system of educational standards (goals) and assessments to measure the success of attaining those standards. The legislation further mandates that school districts compare this mastery across ethnic lines to insure that minority children are receiving an education equal to that of their peers. The Feds could care less about what standards and assessment a state utilizes as long as it can compare educational success across ethnic groups. No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top federal funds are tied to this success.
If Common Core is jettisoned at this late date, one and a half months before the start of school, there will be no standards or assessments in place, and thus no federal money to assist districts. What this attorney fails to understand is that when the Louisiana Educational Assessment Program, a Louisiana-created paradigm of assessments developed to measure Louisiana-designed standards, was operating for the past 20 years in our state, the same federal funds were given out. Louisiana has received over 17 million of Race to the Top funds as of May 2014.
However, there was a problem with LEAP. It was a an educational failure because it continued to prepare students based upon sub-par state-designed standards, creating an educational climate that lead to our students remaining at the 48th ranking in reading skills and 50th in math skills when compared just recently to other students nationally. Unacceptable performance, I hope, for even Robinson, for 20 years of implementation.
Common Core standards were designed by mutual agreement of the states as a whole and designed to eliminate, what I term, this inbreeding problem. The crisis Jindal has created is that standards and assessments take time to develop. Common Core standards took over four years and are still being tweaked. A state can't develop an educational system of any worth in one and a half months.
No standards and assessments in place, no money under the Race to the Top legislation. Therein lies the concern by educators.
My closing arguments are that these funds are not tied to any particular system of standards and assessments. There is no federal mandate to use Common Core standards, just use something.
Robinson, please remember, initially it was Bobby Jindal's decision to use Common Core standards before he became obsessed about adopting whatever position is fashionable at the time by ultra conservatives in his delusional thinking that this would help him secure a presidential bid.
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Gyms use huge amounts of electricity and water but for me, health and fitness come first and since I was finally able to make it part of my daily routine, I am not looking to compromise that.
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|Gary McLelland – Chief Executive
Gary joined IHEU in February 2017. Before this he worked for the Humanist Society Scotland since 2013 as Head of Communications and Public Affairs. He has also previously served as a Board member of the European Humanist Federation based in Brussels, as well as a board member of the Scottish Joint Committee on Religious and Moral Education.
Before working in Humanist campaigning, Gary worked for a global citizenship project at the Mercy Corps European headquarters in Edinburgh, and also in policy and service delivery in education and social work.
He has a BSc (hons) in psychology, a diploma in childhood and youth studies and master's in human rights law, in which he researched the approach of the European Court of Human Rights and the United Nations' approach to so-called 'blasphemy laws'.
|Bob Churchill – Director of Communications and Campaigns
As well as managing our communications strategy and online presence, Bob coordinates campaigns including IHEU's contribution to the End Blasphemy Laws campaign, and serves as editor of the IHEU Freedom of Thought Report, which monitors the rights, legal status and discrimination against non religious people around the world.
Prior to joining the staff of the IHEU, Bob worked for three and a half years with the British Humanist Association as Head of Membership and Promotion and volunteered for a year with the Uganda Humanist Association.
Bob is a trustee of the Conway Hall Ethical Society and the Karen Woo Foundation. He holds a BA (hons) in Philosophy from the University of Warwick and serves on the boards of two UK charities.
|Elizabeth O'Casey – Director of Advocacy
Elizabeth started as director of advocacy in January 2016, after two years heading the IHEU's delegation to the UN in Geneva. She focuses her work on freedom of religion or belief, freedom of expression, LGBT rights and the rights of women, particularly in relation to religious, traditional and cultural practices.
Elizabeth manages IHEU advocacy work at a number of institutions, including at the UN in Geneva, New York and Paris, the Council of Europe, the OSCE and Africa Commission on Human and Peoples Rights. She is also a Vice Chair of the UN NGO Committee on Freedom of Religion or Belief (in Geneva), an International Patron for the Pink Triangle Trust and an International Advisor at the Raif Badawi Foundation.
Elizabeth has a PhD in International Political Theory from the London School of Economics, where she was a Michael Leifer Scholar. She has spent time as a Global Justice fellow at Yale University, worked in various policy and advocacy positions in the UK and EU, and has also worked as a consultant on sexual and reproductive health and rights. She is based in Brussels.
|Giovanni Gaetani – Growth and Development Officer
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In April 2016 Giovanni obtained a PhD in Philosophy from Rome "Tor Vergata" University with a thesis entitled "If you want to be a philosopher, write novels. The philosophy of Albert Camus". He has published more than thirty academic papers in English, French, and Italian mainly on the philosophy of Camus and Nietzsche. He has published also many articles on secularism, liberalism, and pluralism in different international revues and blogs.
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We open with a black-and-white montage of this season's contestants. After RuPaul announces, "I'm back!" we get a quick montage of upcoming scenes from the season. Twelve queens, some doing backflips, some dressed as creepy hillbilly babies (?), and a whole bunch of splits. Oh, and a reminder that each week two queens will have to "Lip Sync...For Your Life." God, I missed this show.
After a revamped theme sequence we see a contestant enter the revamped workroom. The first contestant is Nicole Paige Brooks from Atlanta. What is up with drag queens and the name Paige? I think every city has at least one Paige Turner, but aside from the obvious pun I don't see what the appeal is for the name. We see her trying to decide which end of the workroom she wants to claim for herself. In an interview she defines herself as a southern belle/Capricorn/big momma. Is that considered a triple threat?
Moments later Shangela enters. She identifies herself as the "Debutantess of the Deep South." According to her, "debutantess" is one part booji and one part home girl. I think I like this queen. The two chat for a bit revealing that Nicole Paige has been doing drag for 15 years while Shangela has only been around for 5 months. NPB interviews that she is not interested in babysitting any newbies.
Next up is Raven, she of the pierced lip and tit-centric presentation. She reminds me of this queen in Cleveland named Athena Ghost who was really just a boy in makeup rocking out to Evanescence. Not a fan. Ugh, tattoos up the arm, too. In an interview male Raven (David) claims that he wants to be the ice queen. I think that might be this show's version "I'm not here to make friends."
Coming through the door next is Jujubee. She is Asian, poppy, fashion forward, and loves glitter because it's "wicked spah-kly". She's also from Boston. I like her instantly.
The show starts to pick up the pace and introduces Sahara Davenport. After she walks through the door Shangela looks over and starts screaming. The others are like "okay?" and it turns out that Sahara and Shangela were friends in college. As those two freak out, a blonde named Morgan McMichaels enters and Raven starts to freak out a bit. They both started out at the same club.
After the screaming subsides, Mystique enters the room. She is this season's plus-size queen. We see her introduce her right breast as "Cheeseburger", her left as "Taco Bell" and her rear as "Diet Coke on the Side." She could be interesting, especially after she interviews that "skinny bitches" can suck it.
The next queen is Jessica Wild, the viewer's choice contestant. She shares that her biggest fear in the competition is the language barrier: she's from Puerto Rico just like last year's viewer pick, Nina Flowers. Her strategy is to smile if someone says something she doesn't understand. That's probably better than just saying "Good night, Bahamas!"
The drag reunion tour continues when NPB recognizes Sonique. In her interview, Male Sonique reveals that his mom sent him to military school and he came back as a drag queen. That's military spending I think I can approve of.
Tatianna enters next followed by … Kathy Griffin? Oh, no, that's another queen known as Pandora Boxx. She does list Miss Kathy as one of her influences as well as Madonna and Goldie Hawn. This one might be a weirdo, but there is a charm there that I'm responding to – hopefully it will last. Shangela asks if she sews and Pandora says that she does and that she made the outfit she's wearing. Shangela screams.
A heavily medicated Rihanna enters the room. She is introduced as Tyra Sanchez. Shangela asks Tyra if she is bankable and she doesn't seem to know how to respond. Wake me up when this contestant is gone, please.
She Mail time! RuPaul welcomes the contestants and warns them that there will be "more twist and turns than Kim Kardashian trying to wiggle out of a pair of Spanx." The queens love that line, as do I. Ru finishes by telling the queens that this season will blow them away. The queens applaud the video and then Male Ru enters. He goes around the room to meet and greet the contestants and everyone SQUEES! appropriately.
After the introductions, RuPaul welcomes all the contestants and tells them that anyone who walks out of the house in a wig and high heels is his hero. All twelve were chosen because of their (say it with me) Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve and Talent. He then goes on to list the prizes up for grabs: a contract with NYX cosmetics (aww, no more MAC?), a PR contract with Project Publicity (LGBT represent!), an LA Eyeworks campaign, headliner of the LOGO/Absolut Pride tour, and $25,000. Not bad.
RuPaul introduces Mike Ruiz, photographer extraordinaire. This segues into the theme for this week's challenge: Gone with the Wind. The mini-challenge will be a photo shoot that will reward the queen that gives the best "Face Face Face." After the commercials we see that it also involves a cannon and two shirtless, dark skinned guys in Civil War uniforms. This is what we in the biz like to call "revisionist history." Also, these are not the same Pit Crew guys from last year. Where's Kenyon?
Jujubee gets the full explanation of the photo shoot except for the part about the fans being set at "Gale Force" (oo, there's a good drag name). She interviews that she could feel her wig starting to slip and her eyelashes sliding. Her photo turned out okay and she tells Ru that she had never been blown like that before.
Tatianna has a good photo while Sonique looks like she walked out of the superhero shoot from cycle 5 of Top Model. Pandora's photo looks crazy, Jessica's was okay and Mystique's was just blah. Morgan looks like she is having a good time until her wig flies off. Whoops! I think she could have rocked it without the wig, but she becomes self-conscious and tries to use the Isadora Duncan style scarf that all the contestants had to cover her hair. They got a decent shot with her wig still on but it wasn't great.
Morgan walks back into the workroom and tells the queens what happened. She seems to have a sense of humor about it, which is good. Meanwhile, Pandora muses on the amount of prep time it takes to achieve transformation. Morgan adds to this by hoping that the other boys are as attractive as he is. I will admit, Morgan is a cutie but it's fairly obvious that s/he's pretty self-absorbed.
Back at the photo shoot, NPB pinches Not-Kenyon's nipples before mounting the cannon. That is not a euphemism nor erotica. Mike Ruiz hilariously describes NPB as being more catalog than couture. Really, guy? I agree that she comes off like a stewardess with a tray table up her butt but hey, she still took an okay photo. The wind machine whips Sahara's face in the most unflattering way. Meanwhile Tyra, who inexplicably wore an outfit that you can't even sit down in, drones about the difficulty of being near the Pit Crew. There's something stiff in the general area of Tyra, but it's not what you're thinking. Even her picture puts me to sleep.
Shangela seems to be doing okay, heeding the advice of "think Franklin Mint plate" (c'mon, that's perfect for this challenge!) until her "chicken cutlets" try to come out to play. Whoops. I think her photo turned out well. Last up is Raven who looks so mannish in her photo. She enters the workroom and goes on and on about how wonderful that blowjob was. Sahara interviews that both Raven and Morgan are offputting, punctuated by Morgan stripping down to full junk exposure. She's not shy I'll give her that. Tyra also speculates that Morgan is going to get on her nerves.
Ru, Mike and the Pit Crew enter the workroom to reveal the challenge results. And the winner is...Raven?! Are you shitting me? Anyway, Ru sends the queens home for the night since "tomorrow is another day."
The next day we see the contestants as they wake up in their hotel rooms and make their way back to the workroom. RuPaul welcomes them back and introduces this week's challenge: Make a Scarlet O'Hara inspired dress from a set of drapes and various household items. He's calling it "Gone with the Window." It sounds like this might have a bit more structure than last season's "Drag on a Dime." Raven gets first choice of drapes since she won the photoshoot. She picks an ugly zebra print which Pandora whines about in an interview.
After RuPaul gives the "Start your engines and may the best woman win" soundbite, the remaining queens make a mad dash for the remaining curtains. Shangela and Tyra tease each other about who shoved whom while Morgan and Tatianna actually fight over a set (Tatianna wins). Over in housewares, Jujubee has determined that she will be "flawless" as she hoists a ceiling fan onto her workstation. Awesome.
Meanwhile, Shangela offers to share her workspace with Pandora. Pandora is able to read through the lines very quickly: Pandora can sew, Shangela cannot. Shangela asks for a couple of quick tutorials but Pandora is leery about this arrangement.
Tatianna and Raven give their unfavorable critiques of Mystique's project. Raven describes the dress as a pillowcase and I have to agree, mainly because I have a pillowcase that looks exactly like what Mystique is attempting. Girlfriend is in trouble. Shortly after this critique Morgan breaks the sewing machine that she and Raven are using.
RuPaul enters and gets his Tim Gunn on, starting with Mystique. Her main issue (of many issues) is that the largest available dress form is nowhere near her size. Ru suggests padding the form but Mystique instantly brushes that suggestion to the side. Next, Shangela shows her burlap concoction that is somehow going to incorporate corncobs? Tyra is next and we learn that she has a son named Jaremiah. Huh. Ru chats up Sahara and Morgan, both who have quite a bit of work to do before they are finished. After the walkaround, RuPaul tells the contestants that the extra special guest judge will be none other than Kathy Griffin. Woo! I love Miss Kathy!
The queens enter the workroom, presumably the next day, and get ready for the show. Jessica and Shangela interview about what final preparations are like before the first big runway show. We get a shot of Mystique, who has a basket of some sort on her head. That seems awkward. Morgan interviews "I think Mystique is a mistake." Bitchy, but perhaps fair given what has been presented so far. Sorry, I'm not on the Mystique love train just yet. More queens wax poetic about the artform that is drag performance and then we head to the mainstage.
Wow. This show has a budget this time around. There are lights all over the place including the catwalk. It looks like the show has cut down a smidge on the use of soft focus when filming RuPaul, which is also a nice touch. Tonight she's wearing a lovely red dress that looks very Vanna White. Santino and Merle have returned and are joined by Mike Ruiz and Miss Kathy. Kathy compliments Ru on her Michelle Obama arms. Hehe. Ru recaps the challenge and starts the runway show.
Tyra Sanchez: She has a couple of layers going on and they compliment her skin tone and hair very nicely. Kathy comments that the carpet and drapes don't match, but they don't have to.
Raven: She turned the ugly zebra print into an almost functional tube dress with red going down the center, but the movement accentuates her man shoulders.
Sonique: Wow, she came up with a Lion King inspired ensemble including Rafiki's staff. Very nice.
Jujubee: Not so much of a fan of this look. Although it looks like it is constructed well, there's a matronly quality about it.
Tatianna: Along with a red wig that isn't do her favors she made an ill-fitting baby doll dress. Very middle of the pack so far.
Sahara: A parasol? Okay. It's an interesting look, almost as if she is trying to pull off a Walmart brand of Iman.
Shangela: The color of the look is not all that eye-catching and she decided to accessorize with the corn cobs hanging from her hands. Oh girl.
Jessica Wild: Her dress looks more like a bathing suit covered with giant sunflowers. She looks a bit like Esther Williams.
Morgan: Her outfit turned out well. It is a little similar to Sonique's in its basic construction but it does not come off as costumey. Her hair, however, is pulling her face in a way that makes her look like a Tammy Faye impersonator.
Mystique: Huh. She's committed to that basket on her head, apparently. Ru says, "who needs a hybrid when you could have a basket on your head?" What? That makes no sense. Maybe that's the point because Mystique's entire presentation is just as baffling. As she walks back towards the entry, she sets the basket down, jumps in the air and lands in a split. The judges applaud but that's just gross pandering. Girlfriend is on borrowed time.
NPB: Her dress is cute but not really much of a standout within this crowd. She'll be safe.
Pandora: She opted to rock a Kathy wig (smart move) and made a rather nifty suit/dress/fishnet combination.
The twelve queens stand on the runway. RuPaul reiterates her comments about drag artists as heroes before separating some wheat from the chaff. She calls Jujubee, Tatianna, Raven, Sonique, Jessica, and NPB and tells them that they are neither the best nor the worst. Raven isn't too pleased with this, but neither is Ru. She tells them to step up their game before dismissing them.
Time for some girls to get told. Ru starts with Tyra. Although the dress has a simple design, the colors really worked well for her. Kathy's only criticism is for Tyra to have a little more fun with her face. I hope she listens to that advice because "dull as dishwater" ain't going to cut it.
Shangela is next. Santino hates the dress while Mike does not like the photo at all. Uh-oh. I like Shangela but I think she's in trouble.
Morgan and her crazy-face are up. Kathy calls Morgan "Chergifani": Cher + Fergie + Gwen Stefani. That's fair.
Pandora: Kathy says she is looking in a mirror (hehe). RuPaul references the energy in Pandora's photo and suggests that the same energy should come out on the mainstage.
Mystique: Kathy doesn't like the dress but Mystique says she can wear short skirts like the skinny bitches. Ru asks if Mystique's boobs are popping out in the photo to which the contestant responds, "Got milk?" Sigh.
Last up is Sahara. She mentions that her boyfriend is Asian, hence the parasol. Kathy brilliantly states, "Nothing says 'Civil War' like 'My Asian Boyfriend.'" Boosh. The main critique is that the outfit is not drag enough.
Deliberations. Mystique is raggedy. Shangela looks too old-fashioned and is all potential and not enough experience. Sahara may not be fabulous enough. Tyra needs some personality. Morgan has a good package at the moment (as we saw earlier). Pandora needs to own the stage more.
The six have returned. Tyra is warned about her personality before being told that she is safe. Shangela has energy but that is not enough to save her from the bottom two. Eep! Morgan is declared the winner. She gets immunity next week as well as an Interior Illusions photo spread in Lux magazine. Pandora is also safe. Mystique is told that she is raggedy but that split saved her…for now. That leaves Sahara to round out the bottom two. She also gets dinged on personality. What's worse, it's the former college buddies left to battle it out in the Lip Sync for Your Life.
This week's song: "Cover Girl (Put the Bass in Your Walk)" by RuPaul. Don't fuck it up! The queens take their positions. One of the good things about this performance is that both contestants are taking this seriously. The first two episodes last year both of the eliminated contestants seemed kind of whatever about the whole LSFYL. These queens came here to play. As soon as the song hits the bridge, Shangela rips off her skirt and starts rocking the runway. Sahara responds in kind. There are cartwheels, splits, pirouettes, kicks – it's awesome. Sonique goes a little overboard saying, "it looked like mortal combat." As much as I love this show, I wouldn't go that far. However, by the end of the performance you can tell that the bar has been set for future eliminations. I can't wait.
RuPaul announces her decision. "Sahara Davenport: Shantay you stay." Aww. She jumps and says "Yay!" but as she lands she instantly realizes that her friend had just been eliminated and looks like she feels really guilty for the previous half second. I hate when that happens. Shangela is very accepting of the situation and congratulates her friend. She sashays away.
In the workroom Shangela reflects on her brief experience. She is proud of what she has done and is happy to have lost to her friend. "Now it's time to pack my wigs and go home." I wonder if that was the send-off runner-up to "Sashay away"?
Back on stage RuPaul acknowledges the bittersweet nature of what just transpired. She then congratulates the contestants for surviving the first challenge. Ru signs off and asks for the music to play. "Don't Be Jealous of My Boogie" is the runway song of the season.
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As Apple's iPhone was gaining in popularity, Palm boldly debuted the Pre at the 2009 Consumer Electronic Show—and people loved it.
It was a fantastically inventive device that had a sliding keyboard and charming rounded design. But it was Palm's webOS that was the real star. The software acted as the successor to Palm OS, featuring some really cool ideas, including the cards interface used by so many companies today.
Unfortunately, the Pre was hit by a lot of issues after launching, in particular, suffering from a poorly made slider mechanism. That was later rectified in the Pre Plus, but that wasn't the only hardware issue people complained about.
While a lot of the ideas were sound, the execution left a lot to be desired, and thanks to slow software updates, the early honeymoon period eventually led to many unhappy customers.
Even though it wasn't the most well-executed device when it launched, the Palm Pre is considered an early pioneer of the smartphone age, introducing ideas that are still being implemented today.
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Are the top ten smartphones always be amongst the best smartphones, is the question which is raised to satisfy the difference or gape between the demand of the Smartphones in the market and the reality of the Phones in quality, especially when you compare smartphones.
No doubt that when are you categorizing smartphones as in the list of top ten smartphones, it includes many of factors to be taken in account including specs, quality, price, demand, brand and a like. However, the list of top ten smartphones in popularity would be different from the list that is made for when you compare smartphones in camera result.
Here we have tried our best to list down smartphones taking cell phone reviews in account so that we could make the best list of best smartphones of the year, i.e. top 10 smartphones 2014.
We have given and discussed some of the top ten smartphones would be in 2014 below.
HTC M8/new HTC One
In our opinion, HTC M8/new HTC One must be declares as the best amongst the top 10 smartphone of 2014 that HTC flagship handset is referred to internally as the HTC M8, the successor to the M7, the device that became the HTC One. With HTC saying that the "One" name is here to stay, it's safe to predict that the final commercial name will be new HTC One or HTC One (2014) or something like that.!
Samsung Galaxy S5
Samsung Galaxy S5 could also be enlisted in the Top Ten phones of coming 2014 as is still going to be one of the hottest phones of the year with having a 5.1-inch Super AMOLED display with a 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution and there's no lack of power with a 2.5GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 chipset.
Sony Xperia Z2
Sony Xperia Z2 can be called best smartphones of coming 2014. There's no confirmed launch date, however, we suspect April, although the phone is on pre-order for £599.
LG G3 must be in top ten smartphones in cell phone reviews that has seen a return to form in 2013, with the LG G2 doing a lot to restore faith in the company's smartphone ambitions.
LG G Pro 2
LG G Pro 2 looks like a strong competitor for the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and should be a great tablet.
Nokia Lumia Icon
Nokia Lumia Icon bringing those phablet skills down to a 5-inch device, but it's a Verizon exclusive, now on pre-order, hitting stores on 20 February for $199 on a 2-year Verizon contract.
Nokia X
At number seven, I would like to name 'Nokia X' as the best and one of top ten smartphones of 2014 in best smartphones. As one of the most leaked phones.
Nokia Lumia 930
Nokia Lumia 930 is said to have a 4.5-inch 1920 x 1080 resolution display, a quad-core Snapdragon 800 chipset and a 20-megapixel Preview camera..
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo
I have listed Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo amongst the smartphones because it is king of the phablets and has been a huge success for the company, helping remind us why big devices are also beautiful.
I hope you would agree with the most of the Phones I listed as the top ten Smartphones. If you are not agree with the most of or some of my top 10 Smartphones which I have listed, it would be appreciable for me if you suggest other best Smartphones that in your eye are better to list in top ten Smartphone.
Please share you remarks in comment box.
We rundown the top phones available to buy from here, from budget Androids to top-end smartphones.
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Archives for Non-Profit
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Big Heart, Small Budget: Social Media for Nonprofits and Small Businesses: M. Valentina Escobar-Gonzalez on Marketing Smarts [Podcast]
Social media expert and networking powerhouse M. Valentina Escobar-Gonzalez lays out her strategy for helping nonprofits and small businesses achieve social media success.
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How 'Dolphin Tale' Brought 800,000 Visitors a Year to Clearwater Marine Aquarium: CMO Bill Potts on Marketing Smarts [Podcast]
How can you use stories to garner support for a cause or organization? Here's a story that inspired the movie Dolphin Tale and saved Clearwater Marine Aquarium from financial disaster, as told by its CMO, Bill Potts.
Award-winning actress, author, and philanthropist Jane Seymour shares lessons on branding, storytelling, and the importance of giving back in this special video edition of Marketing Smarts.
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Storytelling and Nonprofit Marketing: Invisible People's Mark Horvath Talks to Marketing Smarts [Podcast]
Mark Horvath, founder of InvisiblePeople.tv, shares advice for marketers on how to share meaningful stories that move people to take action.
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Jamie Bearse, CEO of ZERO--The End of Prostate Cancer, discusses nonprofit marketing, blogger outreach, and promoting men's health (even when doing so makes them uncomfortable).
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Marketing Strategy for Colleges and Universities: 'Social Works' Author Michael Stoner Talks to Marketing Smarts [Podcast]
Michael Stoner shares insights he gained from compiling 25 case studies in higher education marketing, and how marketers can build integrated marketing plans that maximize audience reach using traditional channels, social media, and emerging platforms.
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Cause Marketing and Autism Awareness: Jason Falls of CafePress Talks to Marketing Smarts [Podcast]
Jason Falls of CafePress talks about cause marketing, Autism Awareness Month, and how businesses of any size can give back to the community.
Beth Kanter and Katie Delahaye (KD) Paine, authors of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World, discuss performance metrics and nonprofits.
Boston University's Dean of Students Kenn Elmore discusses BU's sometimes-pioneering use of social media, including for "reaching the unreachable." During our conversation, I asked him to explain what he meant by "the unreachable."
We took Marketing Smarts on the road and recorded the podcast live in Los Angeles, where I interviewed Eric Granof, CMO at the largest underwriter of surety bail in the US, and Brad Abare, communications director of a Los Angeles-based church.


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Tunisia: 2015 State of Emergency Extended
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Tunisia on Friday extended for another three months a state of emergency introduced two years ago following a series of deadly terrorist attacks in the North African country.
President Beji Caid Essebsi "decided to prolong the state of emergency across the whole country for three months from November 12", his office said in a statement.
The security measure has been in place since a November 2015 bombing on a presidential guard bus in the capital Tunis killed 12 security service members.
Daesh [the Arabic acronym for the terrorist 'ISIS/ISIL' group] claimed the attack, as well as bombings earlier in 2015 at the Bardo National Museum and at a beach resort that killed 59 foreign tourists and a Tunisian policeman.
Since its 2011 revolution, which sparked the Arab Spring, Tunisia's security forces have faced a series of terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of more than 100 soldiers and police.
The government repeatedly renewed the state of emergency despite pledges that it was looking to lift it following assurances that security has improved.
At the start of November, one policeman was killed and another wounded in a knife assault outside the parliament in Tunis that was blamed on a terrorist extremist.
The state of emergency hands sweeping powers to law enforcement agencies and in theory allows the authorities to ban strikes or public gatherings and take control of the media.
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Vuitton Knows Fashion Is a Money Pit—and Keeps Throwing Money in It
It's been a banner year for clothing at Louis Vuitton. Shoppers queuing for a streetwear collection developed with the cult New York brand Supreme; red-carpet appearances by actresses Michelle Williams and Isabelle Huppert wearing the brand; runway shows by star designer Nicolas Ghesquière at dramatic venues including the Louvre and the Miho Museum in Japan. All of this has pushed Louis Vuitton's apparel business into the spotlight. The brand also is enjoying a blast of media exposure as France's new first lady, Brigitte Macron, wears Vuitton at almost all her public appearances. "Ready-to-wear is our fastest-growing category," says Michael Burke, Vuitton's chief executive officer.
But don't expect Vuitton to shift away from its iconic monogrammed handbags. There's a simple reason: High-end clothes are famously unprofitable. The expense of producing collections, staging shows, and displaying apparel in boutiques wipes out the clothing's potential profit, says luxury analyst Luca Solca of Exane BNP Paribas. He estimates Vuitton loses more than €100 million ($118.1 million) a year on ready-to-wear, which generates less than €450 million of the brand's $8 billion to $9 billion in annual sales.
Fashion apparel is "a loss leader" in the luxury business, says Ashok Som, who directs a luxury management program run by France's Essec Business School and Italy's SDA Bocconi School of Management. But runway shows can create an aura around the brand that helps sell more-profitable items, Som says. With Vuitton, that's handbags; with Chanel International DB, it's perfume, which Som estimates accounts for 70 percent of revenue at the privately held luxury house. "Of course ready-to-wear is losing money, but no one will stop doing it, because if you don't have it, you don't create the desire, the image," he says.
Brigitte Macron wears Louis Vuitton at almost all her public appearances.
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Clothing also helps brands reinvent themselves. In the 1990s, the hip-hugger glam looks of Gucci then-designer Tom Ford helped the Italian luxury house shed its image as a producer of men's loafers. "You have a runway show, you have pictures of actresses and celebrities," says Jaqui Lividini, a New York-based consultant on luxury branding. "Ready-to-wear has incredible power, It's transformative."
Vuitton underwent a similar makeover after its parent, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE, hired U.S. designer Marc Jacobs to create the brand's first ready-to-wear line in 1997. He stayed until 2013, winning praise for irreverent collections whose references ranged from Jazz Age showgirls to nurses' uniforms, and over-the-top shows such as one where a custom-built steam train transported models to the catwalk. Still, fashion accounts for no more than 5 percent of Vuitton's annual sales, Solca estimates. (LVMH doesn't disclose results for individual brands.) Yet under Jacobs and now Ghesquière, Vuitton has become known as a fashion brand rather than a stodgy maker of bags and trunks. Sales at LVMH's fashion and leather goods division soared from €3.2 billion in 2000 to €12.8 billion last year as the group's other fashion brands, including Fendi and Celine, pursued similar strategies of using runway fashion to dust off their images. Vuitton is the world's most valuable luxury label, according to consultancy Interbrand, which pegs its brand value at $24 billion, almost twice that of runner-up Hermès International.
The economics of luxury fashion have gotten even tougher with the spread of social media. Brands scramble for attention online by recruiting celebrity ambassadors and staging ever more elaborate events. Star designers and artistic directors are often paid like football stars, Solca says, with personnel costs running €10 million to €20 million a year for a "major league" creative team. The rise of fast-fashion purveyors also has hurt, as shoppers balk at spending thousands on a dress or blouse they might wear only a few times, when they can find something elsewhere that looks similar for less money. That's less a challenge for the high-end handbag they can carry every day.
Brands more exposed to apparel such as Burberry Group PLC and Hugo Boss AG have seen profits slip in recent years. And houses whose core business is designer ready-to-wear—a segment where the average cocktail dress costs north of €2,000—have become revolving doors for designers and managers: In 2016, Roberto Cavalli's CEO and designer both left after less than two years on the job, while the most recent top designers at Oscar de la Renta and Lanvin had similarly brief stints. For luxury companies, says Solca, "high exposure to ready-to-wear [is] a structural weakness."
BOTTOM LINE – Like many luxury houses, Louis Vuitton doesn't make much on its high-profile apparel. But all the runway attention bolsters its lucrative handbag business.


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A great pilot should, obviously, want me to come back for more. I've always been fond of the pilot episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, for its odd blend of action (the revisiting of Wolf 359) and philosophy (a discussion of linear time with aliens that exist outside of it) that made it seem like it would be more than just a Next Generation cast off. More recently, the pilot for Sleepy Hollow grabbed me just because of Tom Mison's dry, witty performance as Ichabod Crane. It doesn't take much for me to give a show a chance, but Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. gave me very little. There's a lot of potential — a Whedon-produced TV series set in Marvel's comic universe with Clark Gregg returning as Agent Coulson is hard to imagine going wrong, but the pilot was just ok. It wasn't great.
Story-wise, there's not a lot going on here; the 'Rising Tide' terrorist threat was seemingly wrapped up within minutes of being mentioned, leaving little more than an Extremis plot thread hanging off the coat of Iron Man 3. The world has changed forever, we're told, but we're not shown, and the only serious antagonist — tripped out on what were essentially just performance-enhancing drugs — could have come from any genre show. At the end of the episode Coulson hints at marvels still to come, without having shown us any marvels to begin with.
As far as the characters go, the writers are going to have their work cut out for them to make this show anything more than The Agent Coulson Hour. To be fair, Clark Gregg's had a solid five years of working with this character and he wears Coulson's shoes very comfortably now, but nobody else on the cast leaves an impression beyond bland or annoying. "Speaking like you imagine a character in a Joss Whedon TV show would speak" isn't a compelling character trait when you don't have any others, and that's all I got from supposed master-hacker and S.H.I.E.L.D. nemesis Skye, a study in quippy blandness. Agent Ward doesn't fare much better, a lone wolf, hard-man character undermined more than once in ways that would have had me handing my notice in by the end of the day. That truth drug scene? That was not cool, Coulson.
As for Fitz and Simmons, Jesus Christ, I am very much done with the wacky, hyperactive and over-confident scientist trope. If you found Topher to be annoying in Dollhouse, well, here he is again. Twice. This pair needs to either get toned down, or made more interesting, otherwise they're going to be what drives me off the show altogether. Just give me one character that speaks like a regular human being!
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. feels like a pilot for a show that knows it's going to be watched, initially at least, regardless of quality, and…it's right. I'm going to watch it because it's a Joss Whedon series and these generally work out ok, despite usually having weak pilot episodes — I even grew to enjoy Dollhouse, with some qualifications, once the characters all started getting tortured in various ways. But, they need to do better. With some trimming, the pilot would have made a nice DVD extra; I'll need something more compelling to keep me going for the long haul, and it's going to need to be more than the mystery of how Agent Coulson is back from the dead.


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Hi, Any opinions at all out there regarding this? https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CODEC-89 Mat Booth, the Fedora commons-codec maintainer, left a message today on CODEC-89: --- [...] It definitely feels like a regression to me – I'm tempted to apply this patch to the commons-codec distributed by Fedora Linux (I am the maintainer there). --- Gary Gregory posted this on CODEC-89 a week ago: --- If you want, you can post to the dev list to ask for the community's feedback. It would be good to see what other people think. --- And that's why I wrote the original email. So, like I said up above: Any opinions at all out there regarding this? yours, Julius On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Julius Davies <email@example.com> wrote: > Hi, Commons Developers, > > > There's a minor regression in Codec-1.4 that causes two extra white > space characters to appear at the very end of the Base64 output when > using the instance encode() method instead of the static one: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CODEC-89 > > This seems to be causing some interop problems for clients. For > example, one person on the commons-user mailing list appeared to be > comparing output of Codec-1.4 against values stored in a database > using Codec-1.3 - so obviously they are having problems! They can > workaround using trim() or switching to the static method, but they > don't expect to have this problem. > > I suspect this problem is also behind the issues these people > experienced, but that's all I could find after about 15 minutes > playing with the google. > > http://alphawit.com/blog/2009/oct/12/amazon-vs-apache-my-base64-better-your-base64/ > > http://code.google.com/p/oauth-signpost/issues/detail?id=18 > > > > Should we release a 1.4.1 and fix the API to bring it back inline with > Commons-Codec-1.3? (If yes, then the sooner the better I think!) Or > should we leave the API as it is? > > Sorry I didn't catch this earlier. My patches caused this problem. I > was careful to make sure the static method had stayed the same in > Codec-1.3 and Codec-1.4, but I just never thought people would > actually write things like this: > > new Base64().encode() !!! > > Just didn't enter my mind to test that to compare output of 1.3 vs > 1.4. Very sorry. :-( > > -- yours, Julius Davies 250-592-2284 (Home) 250-893-4579 (Mobile) http://juliusdavies.ca/logging.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com
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telePort 0.9.1 released
Finally! It took a bit longer, but more was done. telePort now has built-in project directory handling and there's big and small changes across the board mostly regarding usability. Based on early user feedback most of the quirky nerdy things one had to deal with in the first release are gone. (Obviously it's all still quite nerdy…). Add to that two very nice new features plus a built-in MIDI monitor and it's quite the update!
Check the Changelog for the full list of changes, and get your download for Windows or Mac here.
Now, videos will seriously be coming soon…
The mac version of telePort 0.9 has been put up on the Downloads page. Mostly for good measure, to mark the state of the program at its first public release.
Why such an un-excited release post?
Because I finally found a way to fix a major usability issue in the prototype! Version 0.9.1 will be released soon – maybe even before NYE – with a couple of early user-driven changes to especially the initialization of the program, along with a project handling system where the cumbersome nerdy part has been taken away… So, have a look maybe, but come back soon for an update!
telePort – prototype released!
Moving Into the Light
For a very long time MIDIum was torn apart to rewrite big parts of it bringing both the core and the subsystems up to a new level. It is now finally starting to come together again and here is a little screenshot from the editor – of a character that is the test-subject in an upcoming demo.
A lot of time has also been spent getting telePort ready. An improvisational musical program that also serves as controller for MIDIum, designed to bridge the audio/visual gap. The prototype will be released very soon!
Full immersion 3D interface proposed
Here is a quick video sketch of an idea to make the interface in MIDIum fully 3D. The style will most definitely change before this happens, but it gives you an idea:
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Juvul.com Is Under Construction
Juvul Migration
The Site is currently migrating from the old server running static HTML to our new server running wordpress 3.0.1
With the progress made recently on our main project, MIDIum
With an internal BETA release very near by, we are working as hard as we can to show new videos and other media and updates in the near future.
Stay Tuned!
Juvul Re-launched
The new site has been launched in combination with the release of our first public program, Syncopath Performer.
An audio overdubbing looper with 3 tracks, undo and amazing synchronization.
You can pick it up from Downloads for FREE as a VST for both Windows and Mac.
Syncopath Performer
A Media page has been added with a video for both Syncopath and the flagship MIDIum. Be sure to check them out! In the coming months, this section will grow.
We are working hard on setting up new MIDIum scenes to show all the progress since 2007.
At juvul we obsess about Audio-Visual art and how to achieve higher order links between the Audio and Visual realms.
We will continue to do so but we are also reaching out for support since this is an enormous task.
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Travel to Amelia Island
With miles of beachfront views and a stunningly revamped resort, Amelia Island is an eye-catching Florida escape.
Written By: Erin Byers Murray
Photographers: Supplied
As one of the southernmost Sea Islands, a group of barrier islands stretching from South Carolina to northern Florida, Amelia Island is captivating and just 13 miles long, nudging the edge of Georgia. Though not officially part of that state's Golden Isles, the Florida island does share the same type of marsh grasses that turn a golden shade of wheat during the fall.
And it's chock-full of historical lore: Over the past 400 years, Amelia's been the conquest of eight different provinces, including France, Spain, Mexico, and the U.S. All of that hand-changing made it a haven for pirates who, according to legend, stashed their booty all over the island. It's also the birthplace of the commercial shrimping industry—much of Florida's white shrimp is caught right off the island's coast—and the production of handmade shrimping nets still takes place there.
1 = Omni Amelia Island Plantation
404 ocean-facing rooms and a tiered, palm-tree-lined pool deck complete with two pools and hot tubs, a kids' splash park, and three fire pits. Covering more than 1,300 acres, the resort is also home to a spa, a shopping center, an activity-filled nature center, three golf courses, a Cliff Drysdale tennis program, and three acres of beachfront. There's paddleboarding, yoga, personalized beach bonfires complete with s'mores—the list goes on.
Oceanside — Outstanding she-crab soup, fish tacos, and a sturdy burger loaded with mushrooms, onions, and black pepper aioli
Sunrise Café — Impressive and delicious breakfast buffet (off the menu, try the Georgia peach smoothie)
Rum and Tequila Experience bar — Sip on aged versions of both liquors while watching the tide come in
Falcon's Nest — A pub-style restaurant for great fish and chips
Marsh View Bar & Grill — grab from their light-fare menu or relax by at a full bar by the fairway (as it's adjacent to the golf pro shop)
2 - The Ritz-Carlton Amelia Island
Another major property on the island, the Ritz opened 23 years ago and has gone through several updates along the way, including inside the spa.
Treatments: 50-minute zero-gravity Heaven in a Hammock experience; two-hour Amelia Island Honey Butter Wrap
• 26 treatment rooms, a private saltwater pool, and male, female, and coed relaxation lounges.
Salt — reserve the private chef's table, which sits inside the kitchen and offers front-row seats of the action plus a customized tasting menu from chef Richard Laughlin.
3 - Fernandina Beach
Boutiques and galleries, some taking up residence in old Victorian cottages, line the quaint streets, which end just near the water's edge at the Harbor Marina.
Amelia River Cruises — charter a boat ride or hop on an eco-shrimping tour or take a kayaking tour through the marshes
Pigg's Joe's 2nd Street Bistro
España - for Spanish tapas
Le Clos - Provençal bistro food at this romantically cozy
How to Get There
Amelia Island is about eight and a half hours from Nashville by car. If you're flying, Delta and US Airways offer flights with connections from BNA to Jacksonville International Airport; the island is a 30-minute drive from there. Most hotels offer airport shuttles, but we recommend renting a car in order to fully explore the island. (For more information, go to ameliaisland.com.)
When to Go
The Isle of Eight Flags Shrimp Festival is the largest in the country, with about 150,000 visitors participating in the island's rich, living history. There is shrimp to eat, yes, but you'll also find dozens of area artists and their wares plus plenty of pirate-themed fun, fireworks, ice cream eating contests, and the Miss Shrimp scholarship pageant.
This month, the Omni Amelia Island hosts Fish to Fork (May 15-17). This two-day culinary challenge brings five chefs (Richard Jones from Nashville's Green Door Gourmet will be there) to the resort and sends them off on charter boats to spend a morning catching their own fish, which they then prepare Iron Chef–style into a feast for guests. Packages including a two-night stay and access to the festivities start at $850. (For a VIP experience, which involves joining in on the chefs' fishing excursion, call Allison Powers, 904-321-5091.)


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Bits and pieces that I would like to share in my day to day life as a fundraiser. Hopefully some interesting, motivating and at times controversial stuff.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
What should non emergency charities do in an emergency?
The tragic events of the past 24 hours in Haiti are exactly that. Tragic. And unthinkable what the people there are going through. My heart goes out to those who are suffering as a result.
But it doesn't stop the quest to find a cure for breast cancer, nor help that sick puppy being abused and in need of attention.
If we look back to emergencies over the last decade, the Tsunami, 9/11 to name just a couple. The organization's who suffered are the ones who did.... nothing. That is, scaled back on fundraising.
Don't commit fundraising suicide. Check out this article with some more evidence from the Tsunami experience and why you should solider on as normal.
PS Hats off to the disaster relief organization's who had emergency appeals out within 24 hours, particularly the American Red Cross who had an email in my inbox just 6 hours after the earthquake hit.
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Hi Jonathon
Is there any reason why we should congratualte the chaoty that get theri appeal out first? Does first mean best? Can speed comprimise content and organisational intregirty?
- January 15, 2010 at 9:46 AM
I can see the speed at which I typed that comment certainly compromised its spelling.
- January 15, 2010 at 11:55 AM
- Jonathon Grapsas said...
Hi there
Thanks for your comments, I hope it generates some more discussion. You raise some good points, some of which I will cover in a little more detail in a subsequent post about 'disaster preparedness'.
Getting their appeal our first doesn't necessarily equate to the 'best' (although as a side note it was a good e-appeal), but my experience is that speed is absolutely critical.
And getting out an urgent appeal within 6 hours gave them a great opportunity to generate significant support, following the horrible events in Haiti. In these situations, people responsd, udnerstandably, in an emotional way. It's organization's like the Red Cross' obligation to help fulfils peoples desire to help. I feel the Red Cross gave themselves a great chance of doing this by getting in our inboxes so quickly.
I have to say that from what I've seen (and in particular testing the responsiveness of emergency/disaster donors) 'speed' is actually the biggest factor in generating significant response, both in the first contact and subsequent efforts to solicit again.
That doesn't mean you can send a garbage communication of course, but I'd argue getting an appeal out that does 80% of the stuff it should (urgency, strong call to action, tells a story, deadline, clear proposition) and goes out fast has a better chance of raising large chunsk of income than one that gets 100% of the boxes ticked but takes a week - after going through a laborious sign off process.
So do I think we should compromise integrity? No. But in matters the magnitude of what has just happened, I think donors and/or the general public are somewhat forgiving. People dont care about the look and feel of the communicaiton, about whether it be in a slightly different tone that they're used to receiving. People care and simply want to help.
I hope this answers some of your points.
Thank you again for visiting my blog and generating some discussion.
- January 15, 2010 at 12:15 PM
- Jonathon Grapsas said...
Seems I also compromised my spelling as a result of my rapid typing! :)
- January 15, 2010 at 12:17 PM


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Research into teaching children to read and spell often advocates the use of synthetic phonics (Rose 2006; Johnstone & Watson 2005). Here at North Ormesby Primary Academy, we firmly believe that getting children started on their phonics as soon as they start nursery is vital for accelerating learning in communication and literacy. Furthermore, we know how imperative it is to share children's learning with parents.
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The Colorado Rockies' two best hitters in 2015 have been duly awarded for their outstanding seasons at the plate.
On Thursday, both Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado and right fielder Carlos Gonzalez were granted Silver Slugger Awards, voted on by MLB coaches and managers for the top offensive players in each league at every position.
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Arenado's award comes on the heels of his third Gold Glove award in as many MLB seasons, a testament to his breakout season at the plate in which he hit 42 home runs and drove in 130 runs while maintaining a .287 average and .898 OPS.
While Arenado's Silver Slugger award is his first, Gonzalez's is his second, and puts the icing on a resurgent 2015 season.
Plagued by injuries over the past few years, Gonzalez played in 153 games in the 2015 season, hitting a career-high 40 home runs and driving in 97 runs.
This offseason will be an intriguing one for both sluggers, as Arenado could be officially made the face of the franchise with a new contract, and Gonzalez might be on his way out of Colorado while his trade stock is high.


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Hoversurf is a Russian team that aims to introduce a series of flying taxis that you'll be able to order over a phone. But while that project has a long way to go, the Hoverbike Scorpion 3 is right on our doorstep. This flying motorcycle is opt to make our dreams of sci-fi come true as it surely looks like something that has come out of a Star Wars movie. Furthermore, the developers plan on producing series of prototype bikes by the end of the year.
Nevertheless, the flying bike can reach a height of 10 metres and has a top speed of 60km/h per hour. It's pretty amazing to see it in action although, the folks at Hoversurf say that this thing has only been constructed to demonstrate the platform of the vehicle they have in mind. Well, we can't wait to see what their future invention hold for us.
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Android phones with NFC are easy to hack
Researcher Charlie Miller outlines how to compromise handsets
SECURITY RESEARCHER Charlie Miller has revealed how near field communications (NFC), an increasingly popular technology in Android phones such as the Samsung Galaxy S3, makes it easy to hack the devices.
The Accuvant Labs research consultant showed attendees at the Black Hat conference a pair of demonstrations in which an attacking device could access a targeted handset and remotely execute files via NFC connections, such as those used by Samsung's S Beam.
In his demonstrations, Miller showed an Android handset being compromised by way of the Beam file-sharing feature.
By way of initiating a peer-to-peer NFC session, typically initiated by tapping two handsets together, Miller was able to access a targeted handset and run code that allows an attacker to load an attack page without any notification or permissions.
In the second demonstration, Miller was able to exploit connections between NFC devices and Bluetooth components on the Nokia N9 to activate a handset, install and then execute files including a Powerpoint presentation.
The presentation was the result of several months of research in which Miller analysed the NFC format from its most basic radio communications system to the high-level components that link NFC hardware to third-party applications.
The report noted that in most cases the range was limited to contact in which the attacking device was a few inches away or touching the targeted device. Miller commented that attacks from long distances are highly unlikely.
Miller's conclusion was that in most cases, the weakest link in NFC is at the higher levels of the stack where more vulnerabilities can be exploited.
"The real attack surface is the browser, and that is pretty screwed up," Miller commented.
The presentation was also part of an effort by Miller to pique the interest of researchers and developers in NFC security. He noted that in the case of his demonstrations, possible attacks could be spotted simply by enabling NFC connection alerts and permissions by default on handset.
Miller quipped, "Before you push a web page to me, for God's sake give me the option to say no."
Miller has a history of high-profile security presentations and discoveries. Between 2009 and 2011 he won a string of three consecutive Pwn2Own hacking contests and in 2011 the discovery of flaws in IOS lead to his banishment from Apple's developer programme. µ
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