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Reflexive opposition to Uncle Sam's machinations abroad is generally a good thing. It is a progressive instinct that progressively declined in the 1990s, as presidents Bush Sr. and Clinton deftly deployed the U.S. military to execute "humanitarian" missions in Somalia, Haiti, and the Balkans and progressively increased in the 2000s, as Bush Jr. lurched from quagmire to disaster in transparent empire-building exercises in Afghanistan and Iraq.
However, what is generally good is not good in every case. The progressive instinct to oppose anything the U.S. government does abroad became anything but progressive once the Arab Spring sprang up in Libya and Syria, countries ruled by dictatorships on Uncle Sam's hit list. When American imperialism's hostility to the Arab Spring took a back seat to its hostility to the Ghadafi and Assad regimes (their collaboration with Bush Jr.'s international torture ring notwithstanding), the Western left's support for the Arab Spring took a back seat to its hostility to American imperialism.
The moment the Syrian and Libyan revolutions demanded imperialist airstrikes and arms to neutralize the military advantage enjoyed by governments over revolutionary peoples, anti-interventionism became counter-revolutionary because it meant opposing aid to the revolution. Equivocal positions such as "revolution yes, intervention no" (the one I defended) were rendered utopian, abstract, and useless as a guide to action by this turn of events.
"Libyan Winter" Heats Up
To say that the Libyans were fortunate that anti-interventionists were too weak to block, disrupt, or affect NATO's military campaign would be an understatement. Libya would look like Syria today if the anti-interventionists won at home in the West.
In both cases, the Western left mistakenly prioritized its anti-imperialist principles over its internationalist duty to aid these revolutions by any means necessary. By any means necessary presumably includes aid from imperialist powers or other reactionary forces. If this presumption is wrong, then we are not for the victory of the oppressed by any means necessary and should remove those words from our vocabulary in favor of by any means we in the West deem acceptable.
When the going got tough and the F-16s got going over Libya, the revolution's fairweather friends in the West disowned it, claiming it had been hijacked by NATO. Instead of substantiating this claim with evidence that NATO successfully pushed the Libyans aside and seized control of their war against Ghadafi, the Western left instead 1) focused on the alleged misdeeds of the National Transitional Council (NTC) and 2) hid behind phrases such as "Libyan Winter" and "civil war," implying that the Arab Spring in Libya froze the instant NATO jumped in and that neither the rebels nor Ghadafi deserved anyone's support.
Both evasions of the central issue – that NATO's air campaign had mass support among revolutionary Libyans which was faithfully reflected by the NTC's stand against foreign invasion and for foreign airstrikes – were very serious methodological mistakes that only a handful of commentators managed to avoid, Clay Claiborne of Occupy LA being the most prominent. Far from freezing over, the struggle in Libya became a long hot summer of multifaceted conflict with international, conventional military, tribal, and underground dimensions that eventually culminated in Ghadafi's grisly execution, raising and personalizing the stakes for Assad.
Anti-imperialists were so focused on the NTC's cooperation with NATO, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and repressive Arab governments that they were as blindsided as Ghadafi was when forces independent of NTC control – Berber militias in Western Libya and underground networks in Tripoli – overthrew his regime in a surprise move on August 20. The NTC that the Western left portrayed as all-powerful due to its CIA and Arab state patronage was not able to move into Tripoli for weeks afterwards. To this day, the NTC has not disarmed rebel fighters, contrary to the confident predictions born of anti-imperial hubris by anti-interventionists who sought to convince us that the revolution was a mirage and that the West's pawns chosen from above were firmly in control of post-Ghadafi Libya.
Broken Records Lead to Broken Crystal Balls
When NATO launched airstrikes in Libya, the anti-interventionists heard the same pretexts about human rights and freedom used to justify wars for empire and oil in Afghanistan and Iraq. This identical stimulus triggered an identical reaction – they used the contradictions and hypocritical flaws in the official rationales for intervention as the basis for opposing NATO's action – just as Pavlov's dogs reacted as if they were being fed when they heard a bell ring, regardless of whether any food was actually served.
This conditioned reaction to the broken record of justifications led anti-interventionists to conclude that NATO's end of the Libyan war would resemble the Afghan and Iraq wars and so their case against intervention was built around the following predictions:
1) Mass civilian casualties due to Iraq or Viet Nam-style aerial bombardment;
2) Foreign invasion/occupation due to imperialist "mission creep";
3) Future interventions would be easier and more likely elsewhere;
4) A neocolonial regime would be installed in Tripoli as the result of NATO-led "regime change," the logical conclusion of the "revolution was hijacked" conspiracy theory.
NATO's methods and the war's outcome were totally at odds with what the anti-interventionists envisioned:
1) There was no massive NATO bombardment of civilian targets, there was no Libyan highway of death, no Black Hawk Down, no Wikileaks-style helicopter gunship atrocities. The absence of wanton slaughter of civilians by NATO compelled Ghadafi to fake collateral damage incidents and civilian funerals and arbitrarily exaggerate the number of civilians killed.
2) The anti-interventionists believed that NATO would be compelled to send ground troops by the logic of "regime change," by the inability of forces loyal to the NTC to make significant headway against Ghadafi's forces. They seized on the presence of small numbers of NATO military advisers and special forces in Libya as a vindication of their prediction and as proof that the West put "boots on the ground." In reality, NATO boots played a secondary role; Libyans did the fighting and the dying, not Westerners. Out of 30,000 people who were killed in the Libyan civil war, how many were NATO personnel? Zero. That number would have been higher if NATO ground forces were in the thick of combat or invaded (much less occupied) the country.
3) Paradoxically, NATO's successful campaign in Libya made a future U.S./NATO campaign in Syria less likely. Russia and China are now determined to block any attempt to apply the Libyan model to Syria at the United Nations Security Council and the Obama administration is not willing to defy either of them by taking Bush-style unilateral military action for the time being.
4) The proponents of the hijacking theory failed to address the most obvious and urgent question that flowed from their own analysis: what could the Libyans do to take their revolution back from NATO's hijacking? A hijacking is a struggle for control between legitimate and illegitimate actors where the rogue elements get the upper hand. (Never forget 9/11.) Not one of the Libyan revolution's progressive detractors outlined how NATO could be elbowed aside by Libyans to regain control of their struggle.
This was no accident or coincidence.
The hijacking narrative did not arise from a factual foundation but from a simplistic, reflexive ideology, albeit an anti-imperialist one. The anti-interventionists did their best to substitute weak suppositions, NATO's bald hypocrisy, and guilt by association for the evidence they lacked to support their hijacking story. For them, the Libyan revolution's constituent elements lost their political independence, initiative, and lifeblood the instant NATO fired its first cruise missile. Nothing else mattered except that NATO chose to act; what Libyans said, did, thought, and organized was simply not a factor for them.
This image became very popular among Western leftists prior to NATO's intervention. Revolutionary Libyans did not feel that U.N.-backed airstrikes constituted foreign intervention, a term they used to describe invasion and other forms of unwanted imperialist meddling. The Western left disregarded the thoughts and feelings of their Libyan comrades and called for an end to NATO airstrikes against Ghadafi's forces.
The driving force behind the military offensive by Berber militias in western Libya that was timed to coincide with the surprise uprising in Tripoli that ousted Ghadafi was not NATO. NATO did not organize the underground network of neighborhood cells in Tripoli that penetrated Ghadafi's secret police. And NATO certainly did not pick August 20, the day Muhammad entered Mecca, as the day to launch a risky grassroots insurrection in Tripoli.
Hammered by NATO's airpower from above, by the Berbers from without, and by revolutionaries from below, Ghadafi's forces in Tripoli melted away. The "Libyan Winter" proved to be the hottest chapter of the Arab Spring thus far.
Post-War Libya
Rebels who stormed Ghadafi's Tripoli compound were eager to expose his regime's relationship with imperialist powers and one of their commanders sued the British foreign minister for handing him over to Ghadafi to be tortured, hardly the acts of anyone on the CIA payroll.
Events shortly after Ghadafi was toppled provide even more evidence that the revolution was not hijacked by NATO. When rebels stormed Ghadafi's compound, they were quick to show Western reporters the dictator's scrap book featuring himself arm-in-arm with Condoleeza Rice. A top rebel commander publicly accused the British government of handing him over to Ghadai's regime to be tortured right before he filed a lawsuit against Jack Straw, Britain's former Foreign Minister for authorizing the rendition. The new Libyan government refused to hand over Ghadafi's son Saif to the International Criminal Court (now it has even arrested their lawyers), the body responsible for dispensing NATO's "justice" to Slobodan Milosevic. No U.S or NATO bases have been established in Libya unlike in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kosovo.
In other words, Libyan sovereignty emerged from the revolution intact despite NATO's involvement. This would not be the case if NATO was directly or indirectly in charge of Libya or set up some sort of neocolonial regime.
The bottom line is that the bulk of the Western left could not bring itself to wholeheartedly support a democratic revolution that co-opted foreign intervention for its own ends. The revolution landed safe and sound at a qualitatively more democratic destination precisely because control of the revolution never left Libyan hands.
Today, Libyans enjoy freedom of speech, freedom to protest and organize, and most importantly, freedom from fear of state repression. The Western left ought to join the revolutionary masses of the Arab and North African world in celebrating this historic victory, not isolate ourselves from them by mourning (or slandering) it.
Instead of trying to learn from their mistakes, the anti-interventionists simply moved on to Syria to make the same errors without a second thought about why the reality of post-intervention Libya looked nothing like their dire forecasts. This willful blindness makes them incapable of understanding why any Arab revolutionary in their right mind would look to Libya as a model, why Syrians would chant, "Bye, bye Ghadafi, Bashar your turn is coming!" while crowds in Tahrir Square chant, "If they want to be Syria, we'll give them Libya" in response to the Egyptian military's latest power grab.
The Main Enemy In Syria
The anti-interventionists are repeating their mistakes over the Libyan revolution blunder-for-blunder over the Syria revolution. In place of their attacks on the Libyan NTC, they denounce the Syrian Nation Council (SNC); they dwell on the Free Syrian Army's (FSA) U.S. backing, just as they painted Libya's rebels as tools of the CIA; instead of "hands off Libya," they put forward the slogan "hands off Syria," as if Syria's death squads were Uncle Sam's handiwork and not Assad's.
Hyperbolic condemnations of the FSA, SNC, or the coordinating committees do nothing for Syrians whose lives do not depend on the anti-imperialist credentials of these groups but on whatever assistance they can provide. Similarly, criticisms that the Syrian revolution should rely less on armed struggle and more on strikes by workers have a questionable relationship to reality at best. Since when has a strike ever stopped a death squad from breaking down a door and murdering a sleeping family or prevented a civilian neighborhood from being shelled by artillery? Does anyone seriously believe that the Syrian struggle is being led astray by trigger-happy gunmen (most of whom are working for Assad, not against him)?
German socialist Karl Liebknecht wrote an anti-war leafleft in 1915 under the title, "The Main Enemy Is At Home!"
Our first duty in the West is to do whatever we can to aid, abet, and provide material support for our Syrian brothers' and sisters' fight against the Assad regime. Our main enemy is at home in the West, but theirs is not. Washington, D.C. is not sending death squads door-to-door to execute women and children, the regime in Damascus is; the Pentagon is not shelling civilian targets and killing journalists in Homs, the regime in Damascus is. Their main enemy is at home, just as ours is.
This grim reality must be our starting point in any discussion about Syria, not a hypothetical U.S. military action down the road, the contours of which cannot be known in advance. We cannot have the same attitude towards U.S. airstrikes on Assad's forces and a full-scale ground invasion of Syria because their impact on and implications for the revolution would be completely different. The contours of imperialist intervention must shape our attitude towards it. Sending the FSA small arms and anti-tank missiles or video cameras is not the same as sending American marines into the streets of Damascus, although they are all forms of U.S. intervention.
Syrian revolutionaries know damn well what atrocities Uncle Sam is capable of – Iraq is right next door – and the Arab world knows better than we in the West ever will what the colonial boot feels like. To lecture them of perils and pitfalls they know better than we do is to insult their intelligence. To pretend that we know the dangers of dealing with imperialist devils better than Third World revolutionaries do is a kind of white anti-imperialist's burden, and its arrogant paternalism is just as misguided as its colonialist antipode.
We have no business criticizing the SNC, FSA, or the coordinating committees unless and until we have fulfilled our first duty by matching our words of solidarity with deeds and acts that can make a difference in the revolution's outcome, however small they might seem.
Self-Determination and Intervention
The biggest obstacle to Syrian self-determination today is the Assad regime which increasingly rests on Russian bayonets drenched in Syrian blood. He is determined to stay in power by any means necessary and will not rest until their struggle for self-determination (which is what a democratic revolution is) is buried, in mass graves if need be. Respect for Syrian self-determination means respecting how Syrian revolutionaries organize their struggle and their choices even when they conflict with our own preferences and choices.
If Syrian revolutionaries ask for Western airstrikes because they lack an air force to counter the Assad regime militarily, who are we to oppose those airstrikes? Who are we to tell them that all-out defeat is better than the triumph of a revolution "tainted" by an unavoidable compromise with imperialists powers? Who are we to tell them they must face Russian helicopter gunships without imperialist aid because "the revolution will be won by Syrians themselves or it won't be won at all"? Do we really want our Syrian brothers and sisters to confront tanks with rocks and slingshots as so many Palestinians have?
While the Western left is raising a hue and cry over the minimal aid Syria's rebels receive from the CIA and reactionary Gulf states, Russia is overtly ramping up its military aid to Assad. Whether we like it or not, the struggle between the Syrian revolution and Assad's counter-revolution has been internationalized just as the Spanish civil war of 1936-1939 was. The Western left in those days demanded foreign intervention in the form of arms, military aid, and volunteers for the Spanish Republic. The anti-interventionists (mostly fascists or fascist sympathizers) were more than happy to see the Republic starved in the name of "non-intervention" while Hitler bombed Guernica and did everything possible to ensure Franco's victory.
Those who oppose Western military action today against Assad in the context of a revolution that has developed into a full-blown civil war where segments of the revolution and the people are begging for foreign arms, aid, and airstrikes while the counter-revolution imports arms to slaughter them follow in the anti-interventionist footsteps of the Spanish Republic's opponents whether they are aware of it or not.
"Hands off Syria" should be the slogan raised at demonstrations in front of Russian embassies and consulates around the world, not the one directed at foreign powers aiding the rebels lest we become little better than Assad's unwitting executioners in the eyes of revolutionary Syrians. Instead of focusing our fire on the shortcomings of the SNC, FSA, and the coordinating committees, we should be organizing events and fund-raisers for humanitarian relief, fact-finding missions, and video and communications equipment with the aim of smuggling it into Syria. These activities are already taking place but not with the participation of the Western left since we are more worried about our precious anti-imperialist principles and hypothetical Libya-style airstrikes (as if the outcome there was a step backward and not a step forward) than tackling the ugly realities of the Syrian revolution whose straits become more desperate with each passing hour.
We fiddle furiously while Syria burns and Syrians bleed.
The most important thing for the Western left to do is to forge close and enduring relationships with revolutionary Syrians living abroad by demonstrating our unequivocal support for their revolution through deeds, through joint work with their communities. Only in that context and on that basis can criticisms we have about deals with U.S. imperialism or mistakes made by the SNC, FSA, and the coordinating committees gain a hearing among the people who count: revolutionary Syrians.
One way to begin building these relationships would be to organize forums and debates over the question of intervention with revolutionary Syrians of various shades of opinion. The single most embarrassing aspect of the Western left's opposition to NATO's Libya operation was the way revolutionary Libyans were barred from Libya forums organized by anti-interventionists.
This outrage was the absurd but logical outcome of the white anti-imperialist's burden, a burden we must cast aside if we hope to act in concert with the Arab Spring.
The Western left should reject knee-jerk anti-imperialism because its unthinking, blind, reflexive, natureput us at odds with the interests and explicit demands of first the Libyan and now the Syrian revolutionary peoplesand in line with the interests of their mortal enemies.
Knee-jerk anti-imperialism leads to our enemies doing our thinking for us: whatever Uncle Sam wants, we oppose; whatever Uncle Sam opposes, we want. This method plays right into U.S. imperialism's hands because the last thing Uncle Sam wants is a thinking enemy.
Related Info:
Hama Massacre: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hama_massacre
Hama Massacre: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Hama_massacre
Homs Massacre: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homs_massacre
Houla Massacre: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houla_massacre
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2012/08/417200.shtml?discussTags: democracy human rights syria
Dit ziet eruit als het originele stuk, met de bijbehorende links e.d.: http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=1097 .


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*WASC Threat Classification: No direct mapping, but the following is a close match:
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*RSnake, "What is CSRF?", [http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20061030/what-is-csrf/ http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20061030/what-is-csrf/]
*RSnake, "What is CSRF?", [http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20061030/what-is-csrf/ http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20061030/what-is-csrf/]
*Jeremiah Grossman, slides and demos of "Hacking Intranet sites from the outside"
*Jeremiah Grossman, slides and demos of "Hacking Intranet sites from the outside"
Revision as of 16:37, 27 June 2007
Cross site request forgery is not a new attack, but is simple and devastating. A CSRF attack forces a logged-on victim's browser to send a request to a vulnerable web application, which then performs the chosen action on behalf of the victim.
This vulnerability is extremely widespread, as any web application that
- Has no authorization checks for vulnerable actions
- Will process an action if a default login is able to be given in the request (e.g. http://www.example.com/admin/doSomething.ctl?username=admin&passwd=admin)
- Authorizes requests based only on credentials that are automatically submitted such as the session cookie if currently logged into the application, or "Remember me" functionality if not logged into the application, or a Kerberos token if part of an Intranet participating in integrated logon with Active Directory
is at risk. Unfortunately, today, most web applications rely solely on automatically submitted credentials such as session cookies, basic authentication credentials, source IP addresses, SSL certificates, or Windows domain credentials.
This vulnerability is also known by several other names including Session Riding, One-Click Attacks, Cross Site Reference Forgery, Hostile Linking, and Automation Attack. The acronym XSRF is also frequently used. OWASP and MITRE have both standardized on the term Cross Site Request Forgery and CSRF.
Environments Affected
All web application frameworks are vulnerable to CSRF.
A typical CSRF attack against a forum might take the form of directing the user to invoke some function, such as the application's logout page. The following tag in any web page viewed by the victim will generate a request which logs them out:

If an online bank allowed its application to process requests, such as transfer funds, a similar attack might allow:
<img src="http://www.example.com/transfer.do?frmAcct=document.form.frmAcct&
Jeremiah Grossman in his BlackHat 2006 talk Hacking Intranet Sites from the outside, demonstrated that it is possible to force a user to make changes to their DSL router without their consent; even if the user does not know that the DSL router has a web interface. Jeremiah used the router's default account name to perform the attack.
All of these attacks work because the user's authorization credential (typically the session cookie) is automatically included with such requests by the browser, even though the attacker didn't supply that credential.
If the tag containing the attack can be posted to a vulnerable application, then the likelihood of finding logged in victims is significantly increased, similar to the increase in risk between stored and reflected XSS flaws. XSS flaws are not required for a CSRF attack to work, although any application with XSS flaws is susceptible to CSRF because a CSRF attack can exploit the XSS flaw to steal any non-automatically submitted credential that might be in place to protect against a CSRF attack. Many application worms have used both techniques in combination.
When building defenses against CSRF attacks, you must also focus on eliminating XSS vulnerabilities in your application since such flaws can be used to get around most CSRF defenses you might put in place.
Verifying Security
The goal is to verify that the application protects against CSRF attacks by generating and then requiring some type of authorization token that is not automatically submitted by the browser.
Automated approaches: Few automated Automated scanners can do not detect CSRF vulnerabilities today, even though CSRF detection is possible forcan be somewhat automated given a sufficiently capable application scanning engines.engine. However, if your application scanner picks up a cross-site scripting vulnerability and you have no anti-CSRF protections, you are very likely to be at risk from pre-canned CSRF attacks.
Manual approaches: Penetration testing is a quick way to verify that CSRF protection is in place. To verify that the mechanism is strong and properly implemented, checking the code is the most efficient course of action.
Applications must ensure that they are not relying on credentials or tokens that are automatically submitted by browsers. The only solution is to use a custom token that the browser will not 'remember' and then automatically include with a CSRF attack.
The following strategies should be inherent in all web applications:
- Ensure that there are no XSS vulnerabilities in your application (see A1 – Cross Site Scripting)
- Insert custom random tokens into every form and URL that will not be automatically submitted by the browser. For example,
<form action="/transfer.do" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="8438927730" value="43847384383">
… </form>
and then verify that the submitted token is correct for the current user. Such tokens can be unique to that particular function or page for that user, or simply unique to the overall session. The more focused the token is to a particular function and/or particular set of data, the stronger the protection will be, but the more complicated it will be to construct and maintain
- For sensitive data or value transactions, re-authenticate or use transaction signing to ensure that the request is genuine. Set up external mechanisms such as e-mail or phone contact in order to verify requests or notify the user of the request.
- Do not use GET requests (URLs) for sensitive data or to perform value transactions. Use only POST methods when processing sensitive data from the user. However, the URL may contain the random token as this creates a unique URL, which makes CSRF almost impossible to perform.
- POST alone is insufficient a protection. You must also combine it with random tokens, out of band authentication or re-authentication to properly protect against CSRF
- For ASP.NET, set a ViewStateUserKey. (See references). This provides a similar type of check to a random token as described above.
While these suggestions will diminish your exposure dramatically, advanced CSRF attacks can bypass many of these restrictions. The strongest technique is the use of unique tokens, and eliminating all XSS vulnerabilities in your application.
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0192
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5116
- MySpace Samy Interview http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-10-14-n81.html
- An attack which uses Quicktime to perform CSRF attacks
Related Articles
- CWE: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)
- WASC Threat Classification: No direct mapping, but the following is a close match:
- RSnake, "What is CSRF?", http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20061030/what-is-csrf/
- Jeremiah Grossman, slides and demos of "Hacking Intranet sites from the outside"
- Microsoft, ViewStateUserKey details,

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Your First Autocross
Bored With Drag Racing but Intimidated by a Full Road Course? Try an Autocross
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There's an almost zero chance you can hurt your car on an autocross. Unless you forgot to tighten the lug nuts or add oil after the last time you drained it, an autocross is pretty easy on a car—easier than making a full-throttle blast down the quarter-mile, and there's far less chance of going on your roof like you can on a road course.
With that out of the way, there's no reason to sit on the sidelines of an autocross and watch others do it without lining up for your own shot at killing little orange cones. It's easy, cheap, and very quickly gets addictive, and unless you're a total moron, you won't look like an idiot in the process. This story will give you the basics of what and how, as well as some tips from the pros to make sure your first autocross is not your last.
An autocross is a mini road course set up in a parking lot, with the track laid out in orange pylons and timing lights at the start and end of the course to tell you how fast you went through it. There's only one car at a time on the course, so you're racing the clock, not another car wheel to wheel. Autocrossing has gone mainstream for muscle cars and trucks with the advent of the Street Challenge held at many Goodguys shows and the slew of Pro Touring events that have sprung up. You might also find regular events near you hosted by the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) or by local coneheads (they hate when you call them that, but we think it's funny).
Most autocross layouts can be driven in one gear, lessening the distractions from anything other than the pedals and steering wheel. Any vehicle can do it. Is your only car Mom's minivan? Go ahead and race it—we won't tell her. Most courses are laid out to avoid light poles and curbs, so the only harm you can do is get an orange smudge on your paint where a cone gave its life. And that'll buff out.
There is a competitive aspect to an autocross, with guys racing each other (especially in the SCCA events, where they run for points and season championships), but there's no money for the fastest car, seldom even a trophy, and the smart racers run against the clock and themselves, trying to go faster and/or modifying their cars to get through the course quicker than the last time.
At the Royal Purple Performance Experience, we spoke with Pro Touring hero Brian Finch, who wins damn near every autocross he enters. He says, "All in all it's a great group of guys having fun with their cars. Don't worry about where you are; worry about improving your time. As long as you come out and every time out get a little faster, then you're the only one you're in competition with, really. If you keep that mentality, and keep working at it, eventually you'll be up there with the top guys, because you're going to be comfortable and you're going to be relaxed."
Car Setup
Make sure all the lug nuts are tight. If you have a torque wrench, use it to check them.
Some people recommend adding pressure to the tires, but Finch disagrees. "It's the opposite of what most SCCA racers will tell you. They say to pump them up to 35 or 40 pounds to keep them from rolling over and tearing them up. But if you want them to stick, you gotta get 'em down to 27, 28 pounds. Then they'll really start gripping." As a guideline, tires with less pressure (to a reasonable level) have more traction, and tires with more pressure have less traction; therefore, pressure tuning can be used to help balance the car.
Tires are the single biggest component to driving on an autocross. If you want to get serious about it, get tires with a 100 or lower treadwear rating made specifically for the purpose. Finch says, "Get as much tire as you can and get it as sticky as you can.
"Shifting on an autocross will just kill you. If you find that your gear ratio is such that you have to shift on medium and longer courses, then you want to look at changing the ratio or put a different transmission in. You need to focus on driving, not shifting. Focus on what your hands are doing, what the car is doing, without having to do too much more than just turn it."
- Don't try to set the course on fire the first few laps. Go easy at first and improve gradually. You'll often find that one of your first few runs is your fastest of the day.
- You will likely hit some cones, but try not to, as one second is typically added to your time for each cone you knock down (or move out of its painted box on the ground). And remember that an autocross is usually staffed by volunteers and other racers who have to run out and set the cones back up for the next guy, shutting the course down in the meantime.
- Be cool. Don't pretend you're Michael Schumacher and let everyone know it. Again, the workers are volunteers, so don't get in their faces with attitude.
- Empty the trunk of tools, a spare tire, or anything else that can roll around and put a nice divot in the quarter-panel. Ask us how we know.
- Take a helmet, just in case. Many autocross events (especially the slower, tighter courses) don't require a brain bucket, but some do.
- At the start of any autocross event, you'll have an opportunity to walk the track on foot. Do it. It'll give you a good idea how the course is laid out, and you can strategize the quickest way around it.
- Drive smoothly. An old racing adage is "slow is fast," meaning smooth motions on the wheel and pedals are best to avoid sudden actions that can upset the car.
- Just as in road racing, or even driving down the freeway, look ahead to where you want to go. As you approach a corner, look at the apex. As soon as the car is headed there, look at the exit. Your hands will follow your eyes.
- Most production cars are set up to understeer, meaning when you corner too quickly, the front tires will push in a straight line rather than steer where they are pointed. If you feel this happening, you are going too fast or have too much steering input for your setup. Go easy.
- Oversteer occurs when the rear tires lose traction and start to slide the car sideways. Do this on an autocross, and you're going to look like a jerk, in most cases.
- You don't want to be "that guy," which you will be if you mow over the timing equipment at the end of the course. Many people see the end, which is often positioned after a slower corner, and try to make up time. It's easy to get squirrelly and go across the line sideways, but avoid the temptation. Besides, wheelspin just slows you down.
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KATHMANDU, Nepal (WOMENSENEWS)–The government has proposed helping widows here by paying engaged couples about $670 when they marry and the wife is a widow.
But Women for Human Rights, single women group, a leading local advocacy organization for widows based in Kathmandu, isn't pleased.
Last summer, shortly after the government announced the idea, the group staged a protest that drew about 1,500 participants to sound off against the government's proposal.
Rajin Rayamajhi, a lawyer with Women for Human Rights, likened the proposal to "buying and selling a woman."
Many single women, as widows here prefer to be called, are illiterate and only 2 percent have higher education. Rayamajhi said the proposal would be difficult for many to understand. This makes them vulnerable to men who would marry them for the money and then leave, taking all the funds.
She also slammed the payments for increasing the risk of violence and trafficking once widows were again under the control of a husband. Critics further say that the proposed legislation encourages a different kind of dowry, though the Nepali government has been trying to eliminate that system, and advances the notion that a woman's security and empowerment is dependent on marriage and men.
Women for Human Rights filed a case with the Supreme Court in October against the Nepali government, the prime minister and the finance minister to compel their withdrawal of the policy. In November, the court ordered the government to demonstrate why the legislation should not be withdrawn.
Lily Thapa, 49, the founder and executive director of Women for Human Rights, stressed that independence for widows is their first priority. Her organization has won several cases that secure citizenship and property rights for single women, including one in the Supreme Court in early 2009 that allowed widows to inherit from their deceased spouses, even if they remarry.
Independence Encouraged
"We encourage very young widows to get remarried," Thapa said, "but before that we encourage her to be independent on her own."
While waiting for the government's response, Thapa has met with policymakers and continues to lobby them to use the funds for skills training, job placements, health care for widows and free education for their children instead.
Her group also hopes to get the government to give the poorest widows monthly allowances regardless of age. As the law currently stands, only widows over the age of 60 get just under $7 each month.
When a woman's husband dies, in many parts of Nepal the loss she suffers is much more than just a spouse.
Single women are not to wear jewelry or bright colors, especially red; they are not to eat meat or seasoned food; not allowed to participate in celebrations; and often not even allowed to touch other people. Their increased dependency on living relatives makes them more vulnerable to, and often the victims of, verbal, physical and sexual abuse and frequently their property and inheritance rights are violated. The practice of Sati, where women were ritually burned on their husband's funeral pyres, was outlawed a century ago.
"One minute you have everything and the next it's gone," said Thapa, whose own husband died 20 years ago while serving as a physician with the United Nations in the first Iraq War. She was left with three sons aged 4, 9 and 10.
Almost immediately her relatives forcibly removed her treasured diamond nose ring, which she'd worn since receiving it at 14 from her parents as a gift for completing high school. She was made to wear colorless clothing and at her brother's wedding she was not allowed to help with the preparations. As a widow, she was considered bad luck.
Never Wanted to Remarry
Today Thapa again wears a nose ring, bracelets and brightly-colored clothes. She hasn't remarried and said she doesn't want to. She is not alone.
In the 15 years since Women for Human Rights began, the group has established 225 single women's groups across 52 of Nepal's 75 districts. In all, it has organized about 44,000 widows. Thapa said that 99 percent of the single women she has met in that time would prefer not to remarry.
Close to 70 percent of widows in Nepal are between 20 to 35 and have, on average, three to four children. Thapa said they worry primarily about their children and whether a second husband would properly care for them. Often, she said, stepchildren are not treated well or rejected by second spouses. Second marriages are also considered taboo, so even if a woman did want to remarry she would still encounter stigma for her choice.
"I don't have an interest," Bhagawati Satyal, 28, said of remarriage last month through a translator. Her husband died accidentally in 1999 after falling from the roof of a hotel where he worked in Kathmandu. "If I remarry, I'll have to again be dependent on my husband. Now I am independent."
Satyal now works with Women for Human Rights in the Single Women Entrepreneur Group preparing catered lunches for sale. She said she earns enough to support herself and her 10-year-old daughter, as well as to help her in-laws and their small farm.
The elderly couple, who Satyal said stigmatized her after her husband's death, have since come to live with her instead of their remaining son because she can better provide for them.
Dale Davis, Nepal project director for the Centre for Development and Population Activities, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that works to improve the lives of women and girls in the developing world, said that after marriage traditionally Nepali women move into their husband's homes, becoming part of his family.
Arranged Marriages a Factor
In a country where arranged marriages are still the norm, it is not customary to secure another marriage if a woman's husband dies, Davis said.
She reiterated Thapa's observation that for many single women the practical challenges of caring for children and insuring their livelihoods–not remarriage–are paramount concerns, especially for less affluent or poorly educated village women.
"Now that they have lost their breadwinner," she said in a telephone interview, "survival is the most important issue."
Satyal said she hoped a government proposal to assist widows would focus more on their children.
"I thought they would bring something beneficial to my children," she said. "I felt the policy commodified single women and tagged them with 50,000 rupees. Is my price only 50,000 rupees?"
Renu Sharma, president and founder of the Kathmandu-based Women's Foundation of Nepal, a nonprofit advocacy group formed in 1988, said that with job opportunities single women will have better chances of rebuilding their lives and overcoming cultural discrimination. Her organization currently houses 20 single women in its shelter for victims of violence.
"If women are skillful, can get a job and be independent, then society will accept her," Sharma said in a recent telephone interview.
For some women, however, remarriage is beside the point. What matters more is earning broad social recognition that even as single women they are equal, capable and free to live their lives as they wish.
"Marriage is not the only thing," said Rekha Subedi, 31, another member of the Single Women Entrepreneur Group. "Even by living single we can do something by ourselves.
Danielle Shapiro is a freelance journalist based in New York City.
For more information:
Women for Human Rights, single women group
The Women's Foundation of Nepal
Centre for Development and Population Activities


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Enero Opus by Victor Lopez (1946-)
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If you come to Madrid, which of course, we hope you do. If you go into a modern or classic little Spanish tapas bar, which of course, we hope you do. And if you order a wine, which of course, you should, you'll often have limited options. You ask for a vino tinto, and will almost always be given a Tempranillo from Rioja – although these days it is common to be offered a Ribera del Duero. Ask for a vino blanco, and you'll be proffered a goblet of Verdejo from Rueda – though, again, sometimes Albariño from Rías Baixas makes an appearance.
Across most of Castille – both Castilla y León and La Mancha – and Madrid, Extremadura, and Andalucía the most common white wine is always Verdejo. Go most other places and that exotically named grape is still there, accompanied with her productive little region of Rueda. It's the most well-known grape and region pairing that no-one has heard of!
So today it's time to meet Verdejo: Spain's quiet signature grape.
The Grape:
- The juicy green gapes were brought to Spain probably sometime in the 11th century by the Mozarabs coming from the north of Africa.
- The first vines were planted in the small but sensationally productive region of Rueda, 175km northwest of Madrid. There are fewer than 60 bodegas in the area, but the grape has become synonymous with the area. Pure terroir.
- It seems to be the daughter of Savagnin and Castellana Blanca.
- The name stems from the Spanish for green, verde. The viticultural version of 'say what you see' as they are famed for their green-blue bloom.
- In 2010, Australia got a taste for the grape and started to plant it.
- The grape is ideally suited to the poor soils and harsh environment present in Rueda; a region that can drop 25 degrees celsius at nighttime.
- The climate of the meseta is also handy, because Verdejo has a high susceptibility to Powdery mildew fungal disease. The complete dryness doesn't allow the humidity-loving growth of the fungus.
- It's only really in the last 40-odd years that Verdejo from Rueda has come into its own. For a long time it was used in Spain to produce a strong Sherry-like wine.
- It wasn't until 70s, with the Rioja giant Marqués de Riscal seeing its potential, that Verdejo began to be used to make fresh and crisp still wines.
- It's a fairly venerable Spanish denominación de origen, formed in 1980.
- The grapes, like many in hot climates, are generally harvested at night. The cooler temperatures will protect the grapes and mean they won't start to oxidise.
- As per usual, Verdejo has myriad other names, though generally they are not common but they are wonderful to look at: boto de gall, botón de gallo blanco, cepa de madrigal, gouvelo, verdal del país, verdeja, verdeja blanca.
The Wines:
- Verdejo as a wine, especially when showing its full expression in Rueda, is famed for its slightly green-tinted straw colour and aromatic and almost herbaceous aroma.
- It's not dissimilar to Sauvignon Blanc or a big Pinot Gris. Some laurel, bitter almonds, lemons and citrus are all found on the nose. The palate is smooth and quite full and has sharp acidity.
- Be aware Verdejo can be rather unappealing if not served chilled enough, sometimes too alcoholic and petrolly. But when chilled correctly is an utter delight.
- Verdejo can take to ageing quite well, turning almost nutty. That being said, it is not overly common; many producers believing that you lose the intrinsic qualities that Verdejo is good for.
- The grape, due to the similarity of the vines and name, is sometimes confused with Verdelho. They are not the same. And that's that.
- Verdejo is often mixed with Sauvignon Blanc or Macabeo.
- Due to the acidity of the wines, Verdejo is almost the perfect food pairing white wine.
- It goes very well with seafood and shellfish.
- Salty or matured food like strong cheeses pair brilliantly.
- Verdejo also can go toe to toe with 'exotic' food like Thai or Chinese and even spicy food – though, as stated prior, make sure it's well-chilled!
- The wines, to be called Rueda Verdejo must be 85% Verdejo. Usually, to show it off fully, producers are more likely to produce 100% wines.
- Despite finding its spiritual home in Rueda, the largest planting of the grape is actually in Extremadura followed by Castilla La Mancha.
So, even though the boozing populace of Madrid may either a) be bored of Verdejo these days or b) take it for granted, there is no doubting or ignoring the fact that this little green juice bomb has been carrying Spain's greatest cities, its most famous socialites, its hardy workers and its tiniest villages, into various states of inebriation for centuries.
Verdejo (and Rueda) are owed a debt of soused thanks from a lot of Spain. When all else fails and the cabinets and shelves are running dry, there's always Verdejo, smiling down at you and saying 'Hola, pop me in the fridge a while and then drink me!'


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As it says here, on page 64 of the glossily fascinating coffee-table book "Variety: An Illustrated History of the World From the Most Important Magazine in Hollywood," Al Capone, interviewed in his Chicago home, told Variety he was approached often to appear in gangster films but "snorted at most." He hated gangster films but liked movies and often had "private showings with professional projectionists to run the show." He was also famously self-aggrandizing, and on a wall of his home — a home protected by 70 bodyguards — it was noted his portrait hung beside portraits of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington.
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That interview, described by Variety editor-in-chief Tim Gray, whose prose anchors this eccentric, addicting account of the magazine's evolution, appeared in 1931 and goes on to say — wait, Variety interviewed Al Capone?
It did.
Though the often visually drab 108-year-old entertainment trade magazine first covered minstrel shows and circuses — and perhaps remains best known for its clever showbiz "slanguage," which gave us such words as "cliffhanger" and "biopic" (as well as the phrase "Will it play in Peoria?") — one of the joys of Gray's splattery assemblage of excerpts, anecdotes and history are odd little finds like the Al Capone interview. In fact, also mentioned on page 64: the rise of "talkers" (sound motion pictures), Variety's early coverage of Adolf Hitler and an item from 1934 assuring us that, yes, if there is a Loch Ness monster, it will likely appear in a movie.
Woven throughout this pastiche are tributes from studio execs and artists (Sarah Silverman, Martin Scorsese), landmark obituaries (James Dean, Elvis Presley), period ads. But the real draws are its reproductions of Variety's great cluttered front pages stuffed with grabby headlines — "Garbo Deal at 300 G's" (August 1934), "Can O.J. Still Make Hay?" (October 1995), "Cops No Booze Smellers" (August 1927).
We spoke recently with Gray from his Los Angeles office. The following is a edited version of our conversation.
Q: Do you write Variety headlines yourself?
A: Not all of them, but I do, yes. My favorite headline that I wrote was — we did this piece on the rising middle class in Russia, and yet everyone thinks of Russia as relentlessly bleak and gray — "Putin on the Ritz." Which is shameless, I know. But I think, go for the cheap joke in a headline sometimes!
Q: A Variety rule of thumb.
A: Well, we always write a lot of headlines for each story and usually throw in one or two to amuse ourselves. Sometimes a headline will be rude and raunchy, sometimes (headlines) get absurd but are used.
Q: One of the striking things in the book is how interchangeable the actual headlines could be with stories written today — there's a 1929 front page in the book with a giant headline reading "What Sound Has Done," which could just as easily be "What Digital has Done." There's another about a Hollywood theater promising to show only 3-D films, which was premature but prescient.
A: Change is inevitable. You recognize it or get stuck behind. There were people in vaudeville (in old Variety stories) saying vaudeville wasn't dead. OK, you can think that, but ... The same thing happened with sound. Now digital: People used to have five-year plans, now you don't even know if your jobs will exist in five years.
Q: I wonder then if the book, to an extent, didn't come out of a feeling of watching the physical magazine lose steam? The image of people reading Variety on a movie set or at a cafe is such an iconic Hollywood image — the large size of the magazine is so rooted in how we picture Variety — I wonder if the book was partly an attempt to construct some argument for the physical thing?
A: That's a valid question. Every day you hear print is dying, but I don't know if it's seen that way in the entertainment business. There is something about print media in the entertainment business, it's still part of the culture. People still love to see their names in print and frame it, and a screen grab is just not the same thing — we still get a lot of calls from people asking, "Can we have 25 copies of today's Variety?" It's part of the culture in Los Angeles still.
Which reminds me, as I was working on this book and going through the archives, I found a lot of stories about how television meant the end of movies. True, people were going to movies three times a week then, and I don't know anybody who goes that frequently, but movies didn't end.
The print issue of Variety might become a cult item, but I don't care if you read us on email or in print as long as you read us. I kept being reminded (while working on the book) by how things change and stay the same. Variety started out covering wild-west shows! And even now we occasionally get calls from people who are mad that we are not covering certain things. But, you know, we don't cover vaudeville today, either.
Q: What was the catalyst for the book?
A: Rizzoli approached me because they wanted the history of the world as seen through the pages of Variety. My first thought was, how interesting, and also, what a weird idea. I honestly didn't know we could do that. I have been at Variety since 1981, and I knew (the magazine) had covered a lot of world events, but I didn't know if they had covered events in the '20s and '30s, and sure enough, when I went through the archives, I found way too much material.
Variety started in 1905, and OK, what were the significant world events since 1905? Variety covered every one that I thought of, sometimes extensively. The sinking of the Titanic? There was an article about a woman in a vaudeville theater who fainted when she heard the Titanic had sunk. She had a relative on board, and a lot of people had been told that it hit an iceberg and was being towed to Nova Scotia. So when this announcement was made, she fainted. The article also talked about the mood of gloom in the entertainment business — people were shaken up — and when would people recover? Six months later, we had this piece on vaudeville doing a re-enactment of the sinking. They recovered fast.
Q: What else did you find?
A: When Nixon resigned, Variety did a good piece on the television coverage — that's in the book. There was a piece written during the Russian Revolution directed at the people in vaudeville, saying basically, if you have a booking in Russia, you might want to wire ahead, because, they're having this revolution, so, you know, your booking may be canceled perhaps. Which is hilarious. Not the revolution, the idea of that story.
Q: Did Variety have war reporters?
A: We had people covering the Arab Spring recently. We had people covering World War II. But Variety doesn't necessarily send its reporters into war zones. In 2007, we did a piece about television and Iraq and basically what television was like, what was on there. We had this great story about how the contestants on the Iraqi "American Idol" were dodging bullets on their way into the studio and how their "Extreme Home Makeover" show was about these homes destroyed in the war. Again, kind of a weird angle on an event, but fascinating.
Which is what I love about the Variety archives — all this history I had never heard before. But would I send a reporter now to interview a drug lord, the way reporters interviewed Capone? I don't think so.
Christopher Borrelli is an entertainment reporter for the Chicago Tribune.
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Ever sing along to a song, only to realize you're mumbling through half of it because you only know part of the lyrics? If so, give TuneWiki a try. Once available only for jailbroken iPhones, TuneWiki serves as a media player and song lyric database.
When you start up a song on your iPhone or iPod touch, open TuneWiki. The app automatically brings up the song while its lyrics scroll down the screen karaoke-style. The free app provides the standard iPod controls so that you can pause, skip and rewind without leaving the app. (If you want, you can use TuneWiki completely as a substitute for the iPhone app, but I found its browsing and searching features somewhat spartan.)
Sometimes the lyrics can be a little quirky. For example, certain songs will display lyrics that do not auto-scroll. In this case, TuneWiki asks you to manually advance the lyrics by tapping on the screen in time with the music. Apparently this data gets sent back to the TuneWiki Mother Ship and will help start those lyrics auto-scrolling one day. In other cases the app won't display lyrics at all, which is understandable; one can't expect TuneWiki's database to store every known song. (That said, TuneWiki has licensing deals with many of the major record labels, so its database is probably quite large.) Most of TuneWiki's features rely on having an Internet connection, so iPod touch users without a Wi-Fi connection are out of luck. The lyrics feature seems to work fine on Wi-Fi and 3G, but it can lag somewhat on EDGE.
Besides playing your own music collection, the app can also stream music from Internet radio stations and display the lyrics to those songs in real time, too. Its index of Internet radio stations is quite large, and the song lyrics display about as well as on local music tracks. TuneWiki also lets you search YouTube for music videos, but there is no lyric functionality, so it doesn't provide much more than the built-in YouTube app.
TuneWiki also has some interesting community-related features. The app allows you to "blip" the tracks you're listening to, which will post the song/artist name to the TuneWiki website, Facebook, or Twitter (or any combination) along with a short comment, either a canned one or one you type yourself. You can also "map" the current song, which displays a world map with pins showing where others are listening to the same song.
I have mixed feelings about TuneWiki. On one hand, I like being able to view song lyrics, but oftentimes I want to view the entire lyric, not have it fed to me one line at a time. The TuneWiki Web site does provide access to complete song lyrics, but my results have been mixed. The artist index is difficult to navigate and the search function can be quirky. Once you do find an entire song lyric (either at TuneWiki or another lyric Web sites), iTunes provides a place where you can store it. This info syncs to your iPod/iPhone, where you can view it without an Internet connection.
Despite a few shortcomings, TuneWiki provides a quick and easy way to listen to streaming media, view song lyrics and share your musical taste with your network. Considering it's a free download, it's worth your while to give this app a try.
TuneWiki is compatible with any iPhone or iPod touch running the iPhone 3.0 software update.
[Brian Beam is a musician, web developer and partner with BOLD Internet Solutions, living somewhere near Kansas City.]


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RNC chair joined Hannity to issue false attacks against Soros
Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Ed Gillespie joined Sean Hannity in issuing false attacks against financier, philanthropist, and political activist George Soros on the June 2 edition of FOX News Channel's Hannity & Colmes. In addition to grossly overstating the amount of money Soros has contributed to MoveOn.org, Gillespie affirmed Hannity's false claim that MoveOn.org "ran ads that liken the president to Adolph Hitler."
Before Hannity and Gillespie commenced their attacks on Soros, co-host Alan Colmes confronted Gillespie over a new RNC strategy, as reported in the June 2 issue of Roll Call (subscription only), of discrediting Senator John Kerry by attacking his prominent supporters, including Soros. Colmes said to Gillespie, "[Y]ou are calling, what, Soros the Daddy Warbucks of the movement." Gillespie deflected the question, responding, "Well, actually somebody else called him that."
A November 20, 2003, RNC research briefing on Soros, titled "THE LORD OF THE DEMOCRATS? Out Of Touch, Left-Wing Radical Pushing Extremist Agenda On America," included the following charge: "Soros Is 'Daddy Warbucks' Of Drug Legalization." The briefing credited Joseph A. Califano Jr., former Carter administration health, education, and welfare secretary, with coining the label. As first reported by Roll Call -- and then by the New York Post in a June 3 article headlined, "GOP HAS SOROS IN ITS SIGHTS" -- the RNC is circulating among congressional Republicans the research briefing on Soros. According to an article in the New York Post, "The Republican lawmakers are encouraged to use 'floor speeches' and other opportunities to blast Soros, who has given millions of dollars to various groups to help defeat President Bush."
Later in the segment on the June 2 edition of Hannity & Colmes:
HANNITY: He's [Soros is] a billionaire who's pledged to -- if he has to spend every cent he has. He's aligned himself and is funding this group MoveOn.org, that even ran ads that liken the president to Adolph Hitler.
GILLESPIE: Adolph Hitler, yes.
In fact, as Media Matters for America has noted, the nonpartisan Columbia Journalism Review's website The Campaign Desk reported a previous example of a Republican Party official -- convention communications director Mark Pfeifle on CNN's May 27 edition of American Morning -- making what Campaign Desk described as the "stunningly false" assertion that MoveOn.org ran ads comparing President George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler.
As Campaign Desk reported, while "at least one [ad] was posted briefly on the organization's website" as a submission to a contest held by MoveOn.org, the website "quickly removed it and disassociated itself from the offending ads."
Hannity and Gillespie continued on the June 2 Hannity & Colmes:
HANNITY: I mean -- and this guy [Soros] can spend any amount of money because he's a, what, a 527, section 527...
GILLESPIE: He's putting money in a 527. We fought this, I'm like the old rock singer Bobby Fuller. I fought the law, and the law won.
We fought it in the Supreme Court. We fought it in the Federal Election Commission. They say that it's legal.
And now you see conservative-minded groups starting to do the same thing, but nobody is going to put $15 million in the way he's put it into MoveOn.org.
However, as the Center for Public Integrity has documented, Soros has given $2.6 million -- not $15 million -- to MoveOn.org


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From Nature magazine
"The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning." Evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould was referring to purported links between genetics and an individual's intelligence when he made this familiar complaint in his 1981 book The Mismeasure of Man.
Fast-forward three decades, and leading geneticists and anthropologists are levelling a similar charge at economics researchers who claim that a country's genetic diversity can predict the success of its economy. To critics, the economists' paper seems to suggest that a country's poverty could be the result of its citizens' genetic make-up, and the paper is attracting charges of genetic determinism, and even racism. But the economists say that they have been misunderstood, and are merely using genetics as a proxy for other factors that can drive an economy, such as history and culture. The debate holds cautionary lessons for a nascent field that blends genetics with economics, sometimes called genoeconomics. The work could have real-world pay-offs, such as helping policy-makers to set the right level of immigration to boost the economy, says Enrico Spolaore, an economist at Tufts University near Boston, Massachusetts, who has also used global genetic-diversity data in his research.
But the economists at the forefront of this field clearly need to be prepared for harsh scrutiny of their techniques and conclusions. At the centre of the storm is a 107-page paper by Oded Galor of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and Quamrul Ashraf of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It has been peer-reviewed by economists and biologists, and will soon appear in American Economic Review, one of the most prestigious economics journals.
The paper argues that there are strong links between estimates of genetic diversity for 145 countries and per-capita incomes, even after accounting for myriad factors such as economic-based migration. High genetic diversity in a country's population is linked with greater innovation, the paper says, because diverse populations have a greater range of cognitive abilities and styles. By contrast, low genetic diversity tends to produce societies with greater interpersonal trust, because there are fewer differences between populations. Countries with intermediate levels of diversity, such as the United States, balance these factors and have the most productive economies as a result, the economists conclude.
The manuscript had been circulating on the Internet for more than two years, garnering little attention outside economics — until last month, when Science published a summary of the paper in its section on new research in other journals. This sparked a sharp response from a long list of prominent scientists, including geneticist David Reich of Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, and Harvard University palaeoanthropologist Daniel Lieberman in Cambridge.
In an open letter, the group said that it is worried about the political implications of the economists' work: "the suggestion that an ideal level of genetic variation could foster economic growth and could even be engineered has the potential to be misused with frightening consequences to justify indefensible practices such as ethnic cleansing or genocide," it said.
The critics add that the economists made blunders such as treating the genetic diversity of different countries as independent data, when they are intrinsically linked by human migration and shared history. "It's a misuse of data," says Reich, which undermines the paper's main conclusions. The populations of East Asian countries share a common genetic history, and cultural practices — but the former is not necessarily responsible for the latter. "Such haphazard methods and erroneous assumptions of statistical independence could equally find a genetic cause for the use of chopsticks," the critics wrote.
They have missed the point, responds Galor, a prominent economist whose work examines the ancient origins of contemporary economic factors. "The entire criticism is based on a gross misinterpretation of our work and, in some respects, a superficial understanding of the empirical techniques employed," he says. Galor and Ashraf told Nature that, far from claiming that genetic diversity directly influences economic development, they are using it as a proxy for immeasurable cultural, historical and biological factors that influence economies. "Our study is not about a nature or nurture debate," says Ashraf.
"It seems like the devil is in the interpretation more than the actual application of the statistics," says Sohini Ramachandran, a population geneticist at Brown University who provided the genetic data for the study. She adds that Galor and Ashraf used estimates of genetic diversity that she and her colleagues specifically developed to overcome many of the confounding factors caused by the overlapping genetic and cultural histories of neighbouring countries.
Galor and Ashraf are not the first economists to use genetic-diversity data. Spolaore has also found that the differences in genetic diversity between countries can predict discrepancies in their level of economic development. But he is clear that this is not necessarily a causal relationship: "In my view it's not genetic diversity itself that is responsible for this correlation," he says. "A lot of this could be culture."
Some say that the field needs a dose of rigour. Many studies linking genetic variation to economic traits make basic methodological errors, says Daniel Benjamin, a behavioural economist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He is part of the Social Science Genetics Association Consortium, a group that brings together social scientists, epidemiologists and geneticists to improve such studies. Problems that medical geneticists have known about for years — such as those stemming from small sample sizes — crop up all too often when economists start to work with the data, he says.
For instance, while searching for genetic associations with factors such as happiness and income in a study of 2,349 Icelanders, Benjamin and his colleagues found a stati-stically significant association between educational attainment and a variant in a gene involved in breaking down a neurotransmitter molecule. But the researchers could not replicate this association in three other population samples — a test for false positives that is standard practice in medical genetics — and the team now has reservations about the association. If the field is to develop fruitfully, "I think it's essential for us to have geneticists involved", says Benjamin. "We couldn't do it without their help and insight."
This article is reproduced with permission from the magazine Nature. The article was first published on October 10, 2012.


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Currently available quantum cryptography technology is bulky, expensive and limited to fixed physical locations – often server rooms in a bank. The team at Bristol has shown how it is possible to reduce these bulky and expensive resources so that a client requires only the integration of an optical chip into a mobile handset.
The scheme relies on the breakthrough protocol developed by CQP research fellow Dr Anthony Laing, and colleagues, which allows the robust exchange of quantum information through an unstable environment. The research is published in the latest issue of Physical Review Letters.
Dr Anthony Laing said: "With much attention currently focused on privacy and information security, people are looking to quantum cryptography as a solution since its security is guaranteed by the laws of physics. Our work here shows that quantum cryptography need not be limited to large corporations, but could be made available to members of the general public. The next step is to take our scheme out of the lab and deploy it in a real communications network."
The system uses photons – single particles of light – as the information carrier and the scheme relies on the integrated quantum circuits developed at the University of Bristol. These tiny microchips are crucial for the widespread adoption of secure quantum communications technologies and herald a new dawn for secure mobile banking, online commerce, and information exchange and could shortly lead to the production of the first 'NSA proof' mobile phone.
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Recently, a man stepping off a curb near my office was struck and killed by a passing bus. Only 49, he clearly had many productive years ahead. Reading about it reminded me how quickly unexpected accidents can turn your family upside down, and how vitally important proper planning is.
No matter what your age, you should have already drafted a will and other key documents that outline how youd like your financial and health matters to be handled if you die, become disabled or fall seriously ill. Even if you already have such documents in place, however, its important to review them periodically, particularly if your financial or family situation changes – say you get married or divorced, have a baby, a beneficiary dies, etc.
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* Court-supervised probate could hold up your estate and result in costly fees.
* Your ex-spouse might still be named primary beneficiary of certain assets.
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* With no will, the state decides guardianship for minor children if both parents die.
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A will declares who should receive your assets, chooses an executor to handle your estate and names a guardian for your minor children, among other decisions.
A revocable living trust creates a trust to which ownership of your assets is transferred. As trustee, you control the trust and as beneficiary, you own its assets. After you die, assets are transferred to your successor beneficiaries (heirs) without having to go through probate.
A financial durable power of attorney specifies who has legal authority to pay your bills, manage assets and conduct other financial matters if you become incapacitated.
A healthcare durable power of attorney assigns someone to make your medical decisions if youre unable. Be sure to pick someone who would closely follow your wishes and can make tough decisions.
A living will instructs doctors and hospitals which medical treatments and life-support procedures you do or dont want. Have your doctor put a copy in your medical file.
There are a few additional considerations for any of these documents:
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* Compare will or trust beneficiaries to those named in your insurance or retirement plans to eliminate conflicts.
* Before naming an executor or power of attorney, make sure they are up to the task.
* Name alternate beneficiaries and executors in case anyone dies before you.
Do-it-yourself kits like Quicken WillMaker Plus are available, although you should probably have an attorney who specializes in estate law review your documents. And if trusts, complex estates or large assets are involved, definitely hire a professional – one typo or skipped signature could end up costing far more than the lawyers fee.


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Messrs. William B. King, George A. King, and William E. Harvey, all of Washington, D. C., for appellant.
Mr. Assistant Attorney General Thompson, for the United States. [246 U.S. 547, 548]
Mr. Justice CLARKE delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is an appeal from a decision by the Court of Claims sustaining a demurrer and dismissing appellant's petition.
The appellant alleges that his decedent on April 28, 1863, 'executed a bill of sale to the Confederate States of America' for seventy-two bales of cotton and received therefor 'bonds of the Confederate States government to the nominal value of $5,500.' This bill of sale reads as follows:
It is further alleged that the appellant has no knowledge as to the disposition made of the bonds received by his decedent and that they became valueless on surrender of the military forces of the Confederate States; that the cotton remained in the possession of his decedent until subsequent to June 30, 1865, when forty-three of the seventy-two bales were taken from him by United States Treasury agents under warrant of the Act of Congress, approved March 3, 1863, entitled 'An act to provide for the collection of abandoned property' and for other purposes; that the cotton was sold and the pro- [246 U.S. 547, 549] ceeds deposited in the Treasury of the United States, and that 'the claimant (appellant) and said decedent have at all times borne true allegiance to the government of the United States and have not in any way voluntarily aided, abetted or given encouragement to rebellion against the said government, that is to say, if any such acts were committed during the late Civil War between the years 1861 and 1865, a full pardon has been granted therefor by the President of the United States.'
Upon the facts thus stated the appellant asserts a right to recover the net proceeds of the cotton seized and sold, based upon the terms of section 162 of the Act of March 3, 1911 (the Judicial Code) which reads as follows:
Assuming that the pardon pleaded in the petition and the decisions of this court relieve the appellant of any disability on account of the claimed disloyalty of his decedent (Carlisle v. United States, 16 Wall. 147), it is clear that he can prevail only if his decedent was the owner of t e cotton when it was seized, for the Court of Claims is given jurisdiction to hear and determine only 'claims of [246 U.S. 547, 550] those whose property is taken,' and this language can have no other meaning.
In the case of Whitfield v. United States, 92 U.S. 165 , it was decided that a sale of cotton, with payment in bonds, under circumstances precisely similar to those we have here, passed title to the Confederate government without formal delivery, so that the vendor ceased to be the owner of the cotton from the time he accepted the bonds.
It is frankly conceded by the appellant that this decision rules the case at bar and we are asked to reconsider and overrule it on various grounds.
It is argued that, because appellant's decedent in this case (as in that) continued in possession of the cotton until his vendee became insolvent and the bonds given in payment became valueless, he had a lien for the value of it, which constituted him the owner within the meaning of the statute.
The report of the Whitfield Case shows that this claim was pressed upon the attention of this court, and that it was rejected for the reason that the bonds were accepted as payment, as fully as if it had been made in money, with all the incidents of such payment. With this conclusion we are satisfied.
It is also argued that Congress, in enacting this section, intended to give a right of recovery to all persons who sold cotton to the Confederate government, which was afterwards seized by the United States under warrant of the Act of March 3, 1863, referred to, and upon the theory that such sales were void and therefore did not pass title but left the nominal vendors the owners of the cotton, we are urged to so construe the section as to give effect to such supposed intention.
It is asserted that evidence of this intention is to be found in the fact that if not so construed the section will be ineffective and meaningless, because all claims for [246 U.S. 547, 551] property taken from owners under the Act of March 3, 1863, other than for such as was sold to the Confederate government had been disposed of before its enactment.
Even if the non-existence of other claims for the statute to operate upon were shown, as it is not, by the petition and the attached exhibit, still this contention could not be allowed.
The intention of the Congress is to be sought for primarily in the language used, and where this expresses an intention reasonably intelligible and plain it must be accepted without modification by resort to construction or conjecture. Gardner v. Collins, 2 Pet. 58, 93; United States v. Goldenberg, 168 U.S. 95, 102 , 18 S. Sup. Ct. 3.
We have found that section 162, relied upon by appellant, is sufficiently clear in meaning, and we cannot doubt that if the Congress had intended by it to change the law, as evidenced by the Whitfield decision, of which we must assume that it had full knowledge (Chesapeake & Potomac Tel. C. v. Manning, 186 U.S. 238, 245 , 22 S. Sup. Ct. 881) it would have done so in plain terms, especially in a matter of such great importance as we have here, and that language would not have been used which, as we have seen, confers jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims only in cases which are clearly consonant with and within the scope of that decision.
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MIAMI (AP) — Ricky Nolasco beat the St. Louis Cardinals, and the Miami Marlins won a weekend matchup of worst versus first.
Nolasco allowed one run and three hits in seven innings Sunday to help the Marlins take the rubber game of their three-game series against the Cardinals, 7-2. NL Central leader St. Louis lost a series for the first time since April 26-28 against Pittsburgh.
The Marlins climbed above .300 at 21-47, still baseball's worst record.
"We didn't see it," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. "The team we saw is hitting the ball and making good pitches. They have the kind of offense that can make you pay if you make mistakes, and that's what we saw. Regardless of what their record shows, they've got some talent, and they're going about things the right way right now."
Miami is 3-3 since slugger Giancarlo Stanton rejoined the lineup after missing 36 games with a strained right hamstring. He had six hits in the series.
"When you have Giancarlo back in the lineup, that's a whole different team," Cardinals second baseman Matt Carpenter said. "Nothing against the other guys, but you can put him in anybody's lineup, and that team looks a little bit different. Having him back is a big advantage."
Miami scored 19 runs in the series against a team with the lowest ERA in the majors.
"We knew they were a great team coming in here," said Juan Pierre, who had two hits in each of the three games. "This is a big series win. To beat a team like that definitely gives you confidence."
The abundance of offense was a refreshing change for Nolasco (4-7), who has endured the worst run support of any pitcher with at least 14 starts. Luxuriating in an early lead, he retired 11 in a row during one stretch.
"It helps a ton," he said. "It just changes everything and the way you pitch and your approach."
Pierre drove in two runs and had two hits to extend his hitting streak to 12 games, while Justin Ruggiano and Placido Polanco each had a two-RBI hit. The Marlins have won eight of the past 14 games, their best stretch this season.
Tyler Lyons (2-3), making his fifth major-league start, lost for the third time in a row after winning his first two decisions. He went 5 1-3 innings and gave up six runs, including four with two out.
"I made some mistakes with guys on base," Lyons said.
The Cardinals managed only five hits, all singles, with NL batting leader Yadier Molina and Matt Holliday out of the lineup. Both were given a day to rest but pinch-hit in the ninth, and Holliday was called out on strikes against Steve Cishek with the bases loaded to end the game.
Cishek earned his ninth save in 11 chances.
Carlos Beltran went 0 for 4 to end the longest active hitting streak in the majors at 14 games. Carpenter was also hitless and finished 7 for 38 (.184) on the Cardinals' nine-game trip.
Jon Jay and Matt Adams drove in St. Louis' runs. Right fielder Stanton made a leaping catch at the fence to rob Adams of an RBI and an extra-base hit in the seventh.
"With that lineup, probably among the top three in the league, you just have to stay focused," Nolasco said. "You can't lose concentration and leave balls over the middle, because they're just going to start crushing you. I was able to get away with some balls that they hit hard, and we had great defense at the same time, so it worked out."
The Marlins scored twice in the first. Pierre led off with a single and took third on a double by Stanton. Ruggiano followed with a two-run single.
A bout of wildness against the bottom of the order cost Lyons in the fourth inning. He hit Jeff Mathis, who was batting .128, and then Nolasco walked for the first time this year to load the bases. Pierre followed with a two-out, two-run single for a 4-1 Miami lead.
Pierre increased his RBI total to eight in 222 at-bats this year.
Polanco had three hits starting for the first time in five games after being sidelined by back stiffness. His two-out, two-run double in the fifth made it 6-1.
"To get a win against such a great team and a great lineup, and to play as well as we did, that's a great day for all of us," Marlins manager Mike Redmond said.
NOTES: Miami 1B Logan Morrison (back) took grounders before the game but sat out for the third day in a row. … The crowd of 18,468 was the largest of the homestand. … David Freese had one hit, but his lifetime average against the Marlins fell to .462 (18 for 39). … Marlins OF Marcell Ozuna, who is in a 1-for-20 slump, was given the day off. … Pierre has 15 hitting streaks of at least 12 games, which is tied for fourth among active players.
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The food of the northern Vietnam is heavily influenced by China with its stir-fries and noodle-based soups. As you proceed south, there is more flavour, akin to Thailand and Cambodia. The tropical climate down south also sustains more rice paddies, coconut groves, jackfruit trees, and herb gardens. The food in southern Vietnam is typically sweeter. French colonization – from 18th century to 1954 - had its influence on Vietnamese food. It definitely left a lasting effect on the country and its people.
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