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Soon they've arrived at the village of Baliavasta, Imre's home town where, as always, time apparently came to a stop around 1490. They get lodgings at the only Inn in town, run by Crazy Ralph-prototype Gyogyo (whose real name, Bernabe Barta Barri, is almost as fun to say). The innkeeper tells them the story of the hobo, who was apparently a wealthy pillar of the community until somehow popular opinion turned ("They even set his dogs against him!" goes Gyogyo) and the villagers burned down his house for some reason, rendering him a scarred homeless feeb "who wanders around the area like a living dead man!" When Gyogyo learns of Imre's plan to visit the old cemetery to pay his respects to his ancestors, he warns the businessman against it, and further tells him not even to THINK about visiting "The Black Castle" nearby. At a neighboring table, a group of unsavory looking villagers eyes the rich man hungrily, and we all know where this is headed.
Oh, Paul Naschy--have I told you lately that I love you?
That fateful day a couple of years ago, when I went down to my local dollar store and discovered the untold riches of Vengeance of the Zombies and Paul Naschy, is now justly famous in MMMMMovies lore. There's a reason that film was the first praised and enshrined on this site--for without it, this outpost of the Vicarage and the Duchy would almost certainly not exist.
What's lesser known is that in that same batch of movies was a werewolf double-feature bearing a copy of the 1972 Paul Naschy monster-mash Dr. Jekyll and the Wolf Man, directed by Paul's frequent collaborator, the recently lauded León Klimovsky. The sixth movie in Naschy's famous Waldemar Daninsky Werewolf Saga, DJvWM is sandwiched between the wild and woolly craziness of Fury of the Wolfman and the elegant artistic excellence of Curse of the Devil--and though it shares more in tone and content with the former than the latter, it's still got the childlike enthusiasm, go-for-broke kitchen-sink attitude, and flashes of almost-brilliance that make even a lesser Naschy flick an uncontrollable joy-storm--at least for someone like me.
We open in an opulent mansion somewhere in London, where late-middle-aged businessman Imre Kosta (José Marco) is hosting a dinner party and waxing nostalgic about his home town back in Transylvania. Having recently wedded trophy wife Justine--the ridiculously hot Shirley Corrigan, who would later appear in the more-than-decent Devil's Nightmare--he's decided to take her back to the old village on their honeymoon. Though his guests scoff at the idea and make fun of the old legends of vampires and werewolves, a blast of wind flings open a window and knocks over the bust of a satyr, obviously expressing supernatural disapproval at Imre's guests' lack of manners.
Next thing you know Imre and Justine are cruising the sheep-runs of outer Transylvania in their Rolls Royce, which you just know is going to draw the wrong kind of attention. It's the dead of winter, and once the snow starts dropping, the Rolls starts stopping. While Imre fiddles with the engine, Justine (working the pink-top/black-skirt ensemble under an AMAZING fur-edged coat) goes off to explore a nearby hovel, wherein she is horrified by the sudden appearance of a disfigured hobo! She flees back into Imre's arms, and soon they're off again, the hobo waving them a fond farewell.
At the cemetery Imre finds the family crypt (marked FEDALMATUNK, for some reason--maybe they sold ad space). The old cemetery is AWESOME, btw, with decrepit tombstones, wiry scrub growing on the graves, and skulls absolutely LITTERING the ground near the cemetery wall! Fire your caretakers, guys! I have to stop here and say that Justine arrives wearing another amazing outfit*, super-short skirt and over-the-knee high-heeled boots striking just the right somber note. (I can just imagine the conversation in their inn suite: "Yes, this is what I'm wearing. I want to pay my respects in the SEXIEST WAY POSSIBLE." God, I love Europe.)
*In point of fact, Justine's outfits are great throughout--Costuminatrix, you need to see this one! ;)
Yes, as any Naschyphile could have predicted, the ruffians from the inn have followed the honeymooners out to the cemetery and proceed to loot the Rolls. Imre runs to protect his property, ignoring Justine's frantic but eminently reasonable advice NOT to, and gets stuck like a pig for his trouble, expiring as his wife screams. The robbers close in around Justine with more than money on their mind, and it seems like she's doomed to a fate of death by sheepherder rape when--look, out on the plain! Is it a wolf? Is it an ox? NO, IT'S NASCHY TO THE RESCUE!
tight black pants and a tighter black turleneck. Like a superhero he leaps in to rescue the damsel in distress--but his rescue quickly devolves into a KILL-CRAZY RAMPAGE! He picks up one of the highwaymen and literally squeezes him to death, blood flowing from the man's mouth as Paul crushes him with his love. He then knocks another criminal to the ground, picks up a large jagged rock and drops it on the hapless robber's face! SPLAT! And he's not even a freaking werewolf at this point!
Having seen quite enough, the remaining highwayman, Otvos, turns around and hightails it back to Baliavasta, counting himself lucky that his internal organs are still internal. His work done, Naschy picks up the long-since-fainted Justine and totes her back to The Black Castle, which is of course Chez Daninsky.
Sometime later Justine awakens in a sumptuous bedroom, a candelabra flickering on the bedside table, just begging to be taken wandering through the darkened house. Wander she does, dressed now in a flowing black nightie that one can only assume Paul picked out and dressed her in. Seeing Imre's body laid out on the table in the dining hall and Paul pacing around it, Justine freaks and runs. Paul chases her into the crypt, where Justine is startled by her old friend the disfigured hobo, who I just knew was going to pop up again. Somehow they get Justine back to her room (a kindly old woman--Uswika Bathory, no relation--is there for the assist), and Paul and the hobo bury Imre in his native soil.
Meanwhile, back at the inn, Otvos is mustering a new gang in hopes of getting revenge on Paul for having killed his brother and for making him ruin a brand new set of underclothes. Gyogyo offers more helpful history, claiming that the witch Uswika "breastfed the monster who lives in the castle!" meaning Paul. They plan their vengeance, not being nearly as worried as they should that the night appointed for their attack just happens to be the first night of the full moon--a lack of foresight they'll soon come to regret.
After a dose of that famous sampled wolf howl and an extreme close-up of a stuffed owl outta nowhere, we join the highwaymen in the cemetery. Soon they're also joined by a slavering werewolf with huge pectoral muscles! Wouldn't you just know it? The shotguns, they do NOTHING, and the wolf man quickly makes mincemeat out of the gang, even stopping long enough to pull a strip of human jerky from one of their necks. Otvo is the sole survivor/escapee again, and as he leaves Paul breaks his shotgun in HALF and throws it down to show his contempt for conventional weaponry. Awesome.
"Waldemar is...very ill." Just how ill becomes apparent when Justine witnesses his transformation from her balcony window, all done typically with shadows and convulsions--not too hi-tech, but it gets the job done.
Now that we've got THAT out of the way, Otvos is still thirsting for revenge, this time escalating hostilities by assembling a full-on torch-bearing mob to go after the werewolf. He whets the crowd's appetite for bloodlust by amazingly pulling Uswika's disembodied head out of a sack! ("I surprised her on the way over here!" he explains--I'll just bet!) Silver bullets are made and the villagers attack, though luckily for Waldemar they can't hit the broad side of a massive pec. Paul finally throttles Otvos--again in human form, he needs no claws to take out this garbage--pushes the murdered body of the disfigured hobo out of the front seat of the Rolls, and he and Justine take off into the distance, the mob satisfied just to let them leave.
You may have noticed that's an awful lot of plot without a single mention of the esteemed Dr. J, and it's not for nothing--at this point we're more than 35 minutes in to a 76 minute movie (my version is sadly cut) and so far it's been all werewolf, no scientist. But that's about to change as the newly widowed Justine takes the newly orphaned and homeless Waldemar back to London and gets proactive about his whole "lunar-triggered murderous man-beast" problem by calling in a solid from one of her friends.
Dr. Henry Jekyll (Jack Taylor, veteran of Jess Franco joints Succubus, Jess Franco's Dracula, and Female Vampire, not to mention many other memorable 70s horrors including Satan's Sadists and the unforgettable Pieces) was one of the guests at the opening dinner party, a fact we had no way of knowing until we see him again behind an office door with a placard reading, helpfully, "Dr. Jekyll." Sporting another fabulous outfit, this time with an amazing 70s hat, Justine is obviously not going to take no for an answer. Dr. Jekyll agrees to help Waldemar and quickly develops a fool-proof plan. He will inject Daninsky with some of his grandfather's good/evil separator-elixir on the night of the next full moon; if Hyde is stronger than the werewolf, then Daninsky will transform into Hyde, and a shot of the antidote will wipe out both the lycanthropy and the Hyde-osity in one swell foop! There's a reason this guy graduated at the top of his class, you'll agree. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
(After Justine leaves, Mirta Miller as Dr. J's sexy assistant Sandra makes her appearance, and we learn that while she's in love with the good doctor, Doc is carrying a torch for Justine--the fact that she's moved from his friend Imre to this muscle-bound lycanthrope without making a stop at Jekyllville seems not to sit well...)
the elevator gets stuck between floors, trapping him there on the WORST NIGHT POSSIBLE! What are the chances? Two hours of nerve-jangling suspense later they're still stuck--how they've spent the intervening time is left up to imagination--and the bad moon rises, Waldemar changes, and the nurse meets her undeserved fate. Mere moments afterward the technicians fix the elevator and the werewolf bursts into the lobby, terrifying the waiting room before dashing out into the foggy London night. A passing go-go-girl also falls to the swipe of the werewolf's claw, and a young Warren Zevon watches from his window and gets a great idea for a new tune.
Back at Imre's mansion--Justine's pad, now--Dr. Jekyll, Justine, and Waldemar go over the plan again. This scene is notable for showing one of the hazards of living in an unrenovated castle in winter, as during the conversation each actor's breath is CLEARLY visible. Brrrr! Having moved their operations to the spacious attic in Justine's house (really, this thing is so huge as to be almost German-Expressionistic), they strap Waldemar to a table, watch him change into the werewolf, and draw some blood while he rages against the leather straps. (Why he can't break them as easily as the tons of chains he's busted in his time I don't know; maybe Dr. J sedated him pre-wolf-out.)
Armed with a vial of all-powerful Daninsky Juice, Dr. J starts to get the kind of ideas one naturally gets when immersed in mad science and Naschy-musk. Somehow deducing that Daninsky holds "The key to control of the mind!" he plans to make Waldemar his guinea pig, and thus somehow gain Justine's love too. When Nurse Sandra comes on strong Dr. J gives her a backhand, which is SUCH the wrong thing to do. "Remember, Henry," she spits, glaring at him in a frighteningly evil and arousing way, "The very deepest love is easily changed into the very deepest HATE!" Too true, baby. Too true.
After Justine inflames Sandra's jealousy more by giving Henry a peck on the cheek amongst the bubbling beakers, the time finally comes to give Naschy the juice. A few patented convulsions and hey presto! Naschy notches another Classic Monster portrayal by becoming Mr. Hyde!
Naschy as Hyde == AWESOME. The bob haircut, the pale green skin, the glittering eyes, the eeeevil expression--Jacinto has thrown himself into this role with the same verve and joy he always brings to the table, and it's a joy to behold. Unfortunately and awesomely, before the experiment is complete Sandra pops up outta nowhere to BURY A DAGGER IN DR. JEKYLL'S BACK, proving that hell hath no fury of the wolfman. Hyde takes the opportunity to escape the lab and goes on a kill-crazy rampage of his own, shoving random strangers to their deaths in the Thames and later pushing Sandra onto a conveniently placed set of spikes, ending her wicked ways for good and all.
With that done, where does a vicious embodiment of the Id go? To a swingin' go-go club, of course! We get some great dancing in short short skirts and shiny shiny boots, and Hyde (in full anachronistic cape-and-cane regalia) charms a go-go girl back to his table for drinks. Before he can seal the deal, though, Hyde is affected adversely by the club's strobe-light and changes back to Waldemar! (That Jekyll formula is some strong stuff, apparently, as not only does Hyde change, but his wardrobe changes as well!) His lady companion barely has time to say, "Hey, wtf?" before the full moon changes Waldy into the werewolf! Clearing the joint with his growly awesomeness (and once again having changed shirts), the wolf man prowls back to the attic lab, his curse forcing him to hunt down the one woman he loves.
Back in the expressionistic attic (which has bales of HAY in it, for some reason--did Imre live in a barn?), Justine takes a gun loaded with silver that Dr. J had put aside "just in case," and the werewolf creeps toward her under the rafters. She tries to shoot, but with a swipe of his mighty paw Waldemar severs her jugular and sends her sprawling to the hay. Still, with her last bit of strength she gets off another shot, fatally wounding the werewolf, who falls beside her and changes back to her true love's form. They die holding hands, and the circle of tragic love is complete.
DJvWM was made around the same time as VotZ, and shares some of the same personnel; in addition to Naschy and Klimovsky, Mirta Miller, who appeared as Krishna's associate priestess and gold-skinned idol in VotZ, is on hand again in the hot assistant role. In his excellent autobiography Memoirs of a Wolf Man, Naschy admits that while writing the script for VotZ, he "must have been on some controlled substance" (paraphrase). I'm not sure which came first, but I'm betting that the same substances were in effect when he wrote the screenplay for Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf. The story structure is loose to say the least, moving on from one development to the next with the speed and agility of a werewolf leaping from crypt to crypt in a graveyard. As a result things can seem a little out of control, but you never have a chance to get bored and the enthusiasm of all involved can leave you a little breathless, but happy.
Naschy is great as always, particularly as the evil Hyde, where he really lets his joy shine through. (The werewolf makeup here is not up to the usual standard, it has to be said, though a few shots in the transformation scenes where Naschy has obviously let his beard grow out for effect is the kind of low-tech ingenuity I fucking LOVE.) Mirta Miller is wonderful as the evil sexy Sandra, and Jack Taylor makes a passable Dr. Jekyll. Shirley Corrigan as Justine is SMOKIN' HAWT, and I hope that in the uncut version of this we get to see more of her talents.
Direction-wise, Klimovsky doesn't indulge in the flashes of visual brilliance I'm used to from him--no slo-mo, few really vibrant scenes (the attic set of the finale is the big standout), and again, the pan-and-scan, cut-up version of the film I watched doubtless obscured or obliterated some of his compositions and more than one story point. (In one scene, Justine shows up with unexplained scratches all over her face and chest--I'm DYING to know!) Suffice to say I'd be very interested to see a restored, uncut version. Are you listening, dvd companies? GET ON IT!
This is one of those Naschy movies that a non-Naschyphile will likely dismiss as incoherent, sloppy, and an out-and-out mess, but for me it was still a hell of a lot of fun, and the only Daninsky flick I've seen where he gets to be TWO monsters instead of one. If you liked Fury of the Wolfman (and I did, a lot), Dr. Jekyll and the Wolf Man almost matches it for sheer craziness and fun. 2.5 thumbs--give it a shot.
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WWD reports: Kerastase in pill form
Interesting... Kerastase has launched a pill called Densitive to help those suffering from thinning hair and hair loss. WWD says, 'Densitive is designed to be taken twice a day with meals and is the first product in the luxury hair care brand's dietary supplement range.' I actually thought there was already something on the market for that: Rogaine (rumour has it that people also Rogaine their eyebrows to grow them in thicker after years of overplucking). That said, I suppose female baldness is a problem that more than one company can try to corner the market on.
And, really, it's not as if slathering whatever cream/serum/salve/conditioner/mask on the outside is going to transform your appearance if the inner-workings are being neglected.
My one concern (other than for you and your baldness, which cannot be a fun experience and one I don't look forward to if it ever happens to me) is that this is a pill you're taking, NOT a topical cream. Whereas you rub cream into a specific area to regrow said hair (or grow thicker hair... I'm not sure, so don't quote me on it) in that one area a pill gets into your entire system. Does taking a pill rather than slathering on a cream just make you a bit hairier everywhere, like the way cats grow a winter coat of fur? And I don't think it's some sort of 'smart pill' that pinpoints exactly where regrowth is needed, growing hair there and nowhere else, can it?
Hell, they can't even make bombs that do that correctly yet. It all seems a bit strange and while I do like the idea of beauty companies addressing that superficial treatments won't do the trick alone.

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WTF? Basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal takes a stand for ignorance, insists the world is flat.
In a disturbing display of scientific illiteracy Shaquille O'Neal insists the Earth is flat while appearing on a recent episode of The Big Podcast with Shaq.
On the program, co-host John Kincade asked the star about recent comments from Kyrie Irving, a Cleveland Cavaliers player who recently became the subject of media controversy after outing himself as a flat-Earther.
O'Neal replied:
It's true. The Earth is flat. The Earth is flat. Yeah, it is. Yes, it is. Listen, there are three ways to manipulate the mind — what you read, what you see and what you hear. In school, first thing they teach us is, 'Oh, Columbus discovered America,' but when he got there, there were some fair-skinned people with the long hair smoking on the peace pipes. So, what does that tell you? Columbus didn't discover America. So, listen, I drive from coast to coast, and this (expletive) is flat to me. I'm just saying. I drive from Florida to California all the time, and it's flat to me. I do not go up and down at a 360-degree angle, and all that stuff about gravity, have you looked outside Atlanta lately and seen all these buildings? You mean to tell me that China is under us? China is under us? It's not. The world is flat.
When asked about the existence of satellite imagery proving the world is round, O'Neal responded:
Satellite imagery could be drawn and made up."
As noted above, last month, Cleveland Cavaliers' player Kyrie Irving also insisted the Earth is flat, declaring:
This is not even a conspiracy theory. The Earth is flat. The Earth is flat.
Can you really think of us rotating around the sun, and all planets align, rotating in specific dates, being perpendicular with what's going on with these 'planets' and stuff like this?
The idea of a flat-earth seems to be a trend among NBA stars. Recently Golden State Warriors player Draymond Green and Denver Nuggets player Wilson Chandler have both expressed sympathy for the flat Earth hypothesis.
Adding insult to injury, Shaquille O'Neal claims to be an educated man: He has a Ph.D. in education from Barry University in Miami, Fla.
The good news: NBA Commissioner Adam Silver told reporters he believes the world is round when asked where he stands on the issue during last month's All-Star Weekend.
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Tina Stillwell Wants Her Job Back
Although the Garberville Sanitary District denies the allegations, Tina Stillwell says she was fired as Office Administrator for having alerted the auditor from Anderson, Lucas, Somerville and Borges LLC, to problems she said she was seeing with the use of District funds.
The audit report is included in the January 2017 board packet. Pages 54 through 56 of the packet are a draft letter to the GSD board from the auditor. The letter lists seven "material weaknesses" for the Board to consider. The seventh weakness the letter lists is "outside employment.' The auditor's letter says "…we discovered the General Manager holds several positions at three other districts. Since this District employs him full time, there should be some accountability for the time he spends at his outside employment." And "During the audit we noticed that the District's credit was used to purchase a tool for another district. Although this tool was replaced, it is a major internal control concern."
After the story was published, the District pulled the Auditor's report from the District's webpage where it had been included in the Board packet.
On June 5, according to the press release below, Tina Stillwell was fired by General Manager Ralph Emerson for "poor work performance."
The public was noticed last week that the GSD Board of Directors will go into closed session to discuss potential litigation brought by Ms. Stillwell. When asked for comment, Ms. Stillwell demurred; but yesterday, the 7th of September, her attorney, Kenneth Absalom, distributed the below press release.
In a telephone interview, Mr. Absalom says Tina Stillwell wants her position back. He said, "She loves her job. She loves serving her community in that position." He added that having a job with benefits is important to everyone and difficult to find in rural communities like Southern Humboldt.
When asked why it is implausible to believe that Tina Stillwell was actually doing a poor job and fired for good reason, Mr. Absalom said that the timing of events strongly supports Stillwell's claims and that "if the claims had merit" he "would expect to see documentation showing significant deficiencies that needed to be corrected."
Tina Stillwell has requested mediation to resolve the matter, Absalom said, "because once we get to litigation, the remedy becomes limited to compensation for lost wages and benefits which is costly to ratepayers, and Tina (Stillwell) sees them as her neighbors."
Mr. Absalom forwarded a letter sent to the Board of Directors inviting them to mediation with his client. The letter reads in part:
[T]he essential contention is that she was terminated in retaliation for reporting and disclosing financial improprieties committed by the General Manager and managerial deficiencies on his part. The evidence will show that the temporal proximity of her termination to the General Manager's knowledge of these complaints will lead ineluctably to the ultimate fact of retaliatory termination.
Moreover, it appears the Board violated its fiduciary duty failing to adequately oversee the General Manager's performance. Further, the Board failed to adopt required essential written policies governing his activities. A simple example: around this same time period, the Board adopted a bare bones policy protecting "whistleblowers" which is not likely to pass legal muster….
Her [Stillwell] primary objective is to return to her position with the District and to resume serving her community in that capacity. She loved her job, the opportunity to help rate payers and serve the District in which she has lived for most of her life. She would prefer to reach an amicable resolution of this unfortunate dispute at the least cost to the District, yet recovering reasonable compensation. Now is the time for the District and Ms. Stillwell to explore all early settlement opportunities before both sides incur substantial expenses.
Accordingly, my client has authorized me to offer pre-litigation mediation to the District in an effort to bring about a speedy and cost effective resolution.
When asked for comment, the Garberville Sanitary District sent this statement through the acting Office Administrator:
…Although the Garberville Sanitary District strongly disputes the allegations and claims asserted by Ms. Stillwell and believes the claims and allegations lack merit, no additional comment will follow at this time as this is a pending and/or threatened litigation matter involving District personnel determinations.
Below is the press release submitted by Tina Stillwell's attorney.FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -final 9-7-17


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You slowly open the sagging door, generating an ear-piercing screech from the complaining, unoiled hinges. The refrigerator is empty save for a few cardboard containers. Obviously the rats have beaten you to the food.
Suddenly, without any warning, the door hinges surrender their desperate struggle to support the door. With an reverberating crash, the door - followed by the refrigerator - falls toward you.
You leap back quickly - perhaps too quickly. In your haste you drop your precious penlight, which flickers and suddenly disappears. You find plastic splinters on the floor, and realize the penlight is yet another fatality in this night of endless shadow.
The dining room is a testament to wasted splendor.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Seniors Rachel Dias Carlson (Albany, Ohio) and Kaitlyn Nealon (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and sophomore Morgan Moroi (New Albany, Ohio) were named to the Capital One Academic All-District women's soccer team as announced by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) on Thursday. They will represent MIT on the national ballot and will contend for Academic All-America honors to be voted on at the end of November.
Appearing and starting in 16 games so far this season, Dias Carlson is currently second on the team with her three goals and six assists to total 12 points. Majoring in mechanical engineering with a minor in applied international studies and a concentration in French, the senior has completed multiple internships, including one that involved traveling to Belgium to work on characterizing joint impedance during the gait cycle at the Université Catholique de Louvain. This is the third time in her career that she has appeared on the All-District list.
Nealon, a pivotal part of the MIT defense, is the first player in program history to earn two CoSIDA Academic All-America selections, after being named to the third team in 2011 and second team in 2012. This is also the third time that she has been named All-District. She has played and started 14 games this season and is a key factor that has MIT ranked top in the conference with just eight goals allowed and a .45 goals against average. Majoring in mechanical engineering with a minor in biomedical engineering and a concentration in economics, she most recently interned at Ethicon Endo Surgery during the summer of 2013.
Appearing on the national ballot for the first time in her two years at MIT, Moroi was one of a small handful of nominees to hold a perfect grade point average. She has appeared and started in 12 games so far this season and has scored two goals and notched three assists for seven points. Majoring in mechanical engineering with a minor in biomedical engineering and a concentration in brain and cognitive sciences, she recently interned at Nationwide Children's Hospital, where she found ways to improve and regulate inflammatory responses in critically ill children.
MIT is the all-time Division III leader in producing Academic All-Americas and ranks third across all NCAA divisions with 203 honors. The women's soccer team has received five awards since it became a varsity program in 1985.


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A phone call from a collections company for an account that you never opened. Landlords calling about property damage to apartments that you have never gone near. Arrest warrants for bad checks that you never wrote. Those are just some of the ways that individuals have found out that they have become a victim of identity theft. Criminals stealing your good name to line their own pocketbooks. The crime strikes at the financial security that you have worked so hard to build, and a few actions by the dregs of society can create headaches that take years to fully resolve.
If you think you have been the victim of identity theft, it is critical that you contact your local police department to report the crime as soon as possible. In addition, you should immediately contact the three major credit reporting companies listed here to place a fraud alert on your credit report. The fraud alert is free, and will direct merchants who have an application for credit in your name to take additional steps to ensure that it is really you applying for that credit.
In addition, as of August 1, 2008, Georgia consumers can place a credit freeze on their credit histories in an effort to further protect against identity theft. Details on how to place a credit freeze can be found here.


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GRAND COULEE - The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will conduct a dye test Aug. 8 at Grand Coulee Dam.
The dye is safe for the environment and harmless to animals and humans, but the pool below the dam may be slightly discolored as engineers inject the upstream face of Grand Coulee Dam with a biodegradable blue dye, dam officials said.
The movement of the dye will help to determine the path of seepage near the Right Powerhouse. Seepage has been present and slowly increasing for a number of years; the test will aid engineers in planning maintenance.
"This dye test will ensure the efficient operation of Grand Coulee Dam and continued reliability to provide electrical power in the Pacific Northwest," Power Manager Mark Jenson said. "The seepage near the Right Powerhouse poses no danger to the public and the condition of the dam is sound."
Grand Coulee Dam produces enough electricity to supply more than 1 million homes in an average water year. The project also provides about one-quarter of the total generation of hydroelectric power for the Federal Columbia River Power System.
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When Benson Town was under seige and all the shops had closed down, she stepped into her garden, plucked a papaya off her tree, mixed it with godhi hittu (aata) and baked a glorious papaya gateau. Another day she made a kothambri soppu (corriander), avocado and strawberry bread which was, well, interesting.
While she says the secret to her phenomenal baking is gobs of amul butter, I haven't given up searching her pantry for that little vial of magic potion that's actually responsible for it. The most wonderful part, however, is that I am her self-appointed food taster. With her success rate of 100%, I am only too happy to stuff myself to bursting capacity with all her goodies, while giving her my extremely satiated two-paisa opinions on them.
Missy M made a green almond sponge cake the other day, which she had layered with chocolate and pistachios. She'd also made an unpronounceable Italian dessert with bansi rava (semolina), and called wondering if I wanted to drop by and try them out. Didn't I just! In about 43 seconds, I was squeezing through her front door, trying to prevent Coco and Buster from squeezing in with me. Dogs out of the way, I addressed myself conscientiously to my assigned task of stuffing myself silly. No eggs, she announced, since it was Deepavali after all.
The almond sponge with pistachio and chocolate icing was wonderful, as expected. Or as Appa would say "Mundiriparuppu, pista, vennai, sakkarai ellaam potta kasakkumaa?" (Cashew, pista, butter, sugar, all put means bitter it will be aa?). As always though, there was Missy M's unmistakeable touch, that made it a superlative almond sponge with pistachio and chocolate icing.
A quick kodbaLe break later, I was onto my next arduous task: sampling the unpronounceable Italian dessert. It was a cake-like kesari bhath, with the consistency of a very very fluffy Mysore pak. I blinked appreciatively at the legendary baker, unable to move any more muscles in acknowledgement of her fantastic culinary creations.
"Alright", she announced, "I figure you could use a walk. Care for a stroll down Williams Town? I need to buy some clay lamps." "Glurgh", I replied, indicating that I needed to be rolled off the Benson Hill first. So off we went: one goggle-eyed cake-taster and one diligent baker-deepavalist.
Williams Town, though adjacent to Benson Town, is in stark contrast to it. It struck me as nice and quaint, though not particularly affluent or spectacularly beautiful. Neat rowhouses abutted a sweet looking park, in the old world Bangalore style. The vaulted mangalore-tiled roofs of the rowhouses stuck out at the back, while their modernized frontages lined the clean streets. A few 1950s-style biscuit boxes with rounded verandahs stood in pristine splendour in their little gardens. A bunch of boys, a gaggle of girls and an assembly of aunties stood around in groups discussing the happennings of the day. We saw kids bursting crackers and lighting lamps, old men readying themselves for the evening namaaz, and several young people at the shrine of the virgin, lighting candles and singing softly. I was amazed at the diversity, and charmed by the old-wordliness. Missy M snorted a pretty snort and strode on smugly, reminding me that we were in the Cantonment after all.
A few well-swept streets later, we found ourselves at the central square of Pottery Town. "Wow. There's a potter's square in Bangalore?", I said, looking around in amazement. "Um, yes", said Missy M, "but it's been here forever, and we've never thought of it as one." I gaped open-mouthed at the quaint potters' shops around the square. Huge terracota planters, lamps, urns and basins lay around everywhere. Shopkeepers looked up at us lazily and went back to doing nothing. I meandered off into one of the shops, fascinated by some large urlis that seemed perfect for my irritatingly non-blooming water lilies.
"Focus", said Missy M gently, as she dragged me into a shop where she spied the diyas that she wanted. The sweet toothless adukulajji (betelnut grandmother) at the shop took an instant liking to us and made us come into her house and see all her wares. Pots, that is. We bought about 75 lamps for 100 bucks or so, and walked back through Williams Town, stopping to admire a collection of unsold clay ganeshas that escaped this year's mass-drowning. I chattered incessantly about the quaintness of it all, until Missy M suggested cooingly that I shut the hell up, as she was getting a migraine. I muttered my remaining remarks to my sandals and followed her back home, where she fed me home-made pizza and sent me away.
So if you're into quaint small-town 1950s enclaves and aren't afraid of jumping across a nullah or two to buy some pottery real cheap, go check out Williams Town and Pottery Town. And if there's enough of you coming that way, I'll ask Missy M to set up a bake-shop shop next to adukulajji.


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Favorite (and not quite as favorite?) Summer 2013 Anime
I know it just started and still have some premieres and ongoing anime.No Categories but you can use them and 12 max whatever IDK . No ranking for me yet.
The first two are like bookends about lack of love experience
Comedy seems to rule so far but there are others too!
1 Love Lab laughed from end to finish A great one from Aniplex.
2 Watamote A dark yet funny comedy.The OP song just rocks.
Two shorts
3 Teeyku always with Senpai
4 Senyu
5 Stella Women's Academy, High School Division Class C3 Funny and Airsoft combat better than Girls and Panzer/Uptotte.IMO
6 Senki Zesshou Symphogear G lots of action My headphones were just rumbling A first for me.
7 High School D x D What can I say Risa and company are back LOL
8 Fantasista Doll What can I say the girls look good.
9 Genei wo Kakeru Taiyo or Daybrealk Illusion Tarot reading girl and friends
10 Kitakubu Katsudou Kiroku/Going home club looks promising
11Kiniro Mosaic An English girl transfers to Japan to be with her friend.
12Servant x Service If you like"Working" this is cool
13 Dog and Scissors
All above is work in progress,
Still to watch
Gatchaman Crowds
Silver Spoon
Monogatari Series Second Season
A Certain Scientific Railgun Second Season
Attack On Titan
MJP maybe?
Oreimo OVAS 1-3
This is just my thoughts random at best because i watched others too, So its a lot to absorb!
"In Your Face" Shirase Kobuchizawa (A Place Further Than The Universe)
kimi no iru machi hasn't air but... I do like the manga. The latest manga stuff is iffy though, lets go with kimi still.
edit: I can't remember anime as I used to(o?). I need to look at the pictures.
chart copy pasta from the other thread
atxpieces - 2.0 2/06/13
His Holiness Optimus Maximus Decimus Meridius Colossus Nemesis Nexus Genesis
"In Your Face" Shirase Kobuchizawa (A Place Further Than The Universe)
You forgot Blood Lad
My Current Top five (Update July 11th, 2013) Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai: Megami-Hen
Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaete mo Omaera ga Warui!
Kin-iro Mosaic
Inu to Hasami wa Tsukaiyō
Kamisama no Inai Nichiyōbi
Honorable MentionsHigh School DxD New
Free! - Iwatobi Swim Club
Servant × Service
Tokurei Sochi Dantai Stella Jo-Gakuin Kōtō-ka C3-Bu
Recorder and Randsell Mi
On HoldNone
Losing InterestKitakubu Katsudō Kiroku
Danger ZoneGen'ei o Kakeru Taiyō
DroppedRozen Maiden – Zurückspulen
Uchōten Kazoku
Haven't looked into yet/No OpinionGin no Saji
Chō Jigen Game Neptune The Animation
Gatchaman Crowds
Futari wa Milky Holmes
Kimi no Iru Machi
Yami Shibai
The Midnight Animals
Pocket Monsters XY
Blood Lad
Genshiken Nidaime
Fate/kaleid liner プリズマ☆イリヤ
Brothers Conflict
Danganronpa Kibō no Gakuen to Zetsubō no Kōkōsei The Animation
Fantasista Doll
Hakkenden: Tōhō Hakken Ibun- season 2
Kingdom 2
Love Lab
Monogatari season 2
Makai Ōji: Devils and Realist
Ro-Kyu-Bu! SS
Senki Zesshou: Symphogear G
Senyū. season 2
Tamayura - More Aggressive
Next Update →
I love you Miichan, Takamina, Sasshi & Nako! (^_^)/
Top 5
Monogatari Series
The World God Only Knows
Sunday Without God
Gatchaman Crowds
Honorable Mentions
Love Lab
Blood Lad
Rozen Maiden Zurückspulen
High School Division Class C³
Servant × Service
Dog & Scissors
Still to Watch
Genshiken S2
Symphogear is actually pretty high on the list for me. The soundtrack is just so awesome. But Monogatari: Second Season is without doubt on top this season. At least so far it is.
Delete my account and ban me you losers.
Call me crazy, but i feel like il sole penetra le illusioni~ Day Break Illusion is gunna be a hit.
Did he just walk up...slowly...and ban me? @GoldTStar117
Senki Zesshou Symphogear G
(Senki Zesshō Shinfogia or Swan Song of the Valkyries: Symphogear)
2Gatchaman Crowds
(Gatchaman Kurauzu)
3Majestic Prince
(Ginga Kikōtai Majesutikku Purinsu)
4Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA
5Attack on Titan
(Shingeki no Kyojin aka Advancing Giants)
Note: You are banned until 2014-10-22 09:34:31 (PST)
top 5
Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi
Gen'ei o Kakeru Taiyou - Il Sole Penetra le Illusioni
Uchouten Kazoku
Dog & Scissors
Fantasista Doll
others I'm watching
Blood Lad
High School DXD New
Rozen Maiden
Stella Jogakuin Koutou-ka C³-bu
need to catch up on previous seasons:
Senki Zesshou Symphogear G
Monogatari Series
continuing from spring season:
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S
Attack on Titan
Majestic Prince
Kitakubu Katsudou Kiroku
Servant X Service
not yet aired:
Choujigen Game Neptune: The Animation
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Ilya
Gatchaman Crowds
glass, once broken, can never be restored perfectly
Definitely Free and Hakkenden.
The Sunday Without God, Danganronpa. Deff Blood Lad and Makai Ouji:Devils and Realist. Been looking forward for this two for awhile; hope they dont dissapoint.
Still early days, just one episode of many of these so much of this is bound to change but... my favorite of course has to be:
Monogatari Second Season!
Also watching...
Shingeki no Kyojin, still not perfect but come on, have to watch this one
Ginga Kikoutai Majestic Prince, episode 13 almost lost me but 14 seemed better
Toaru Kogaku no Railgun S, it's Railgun, have to watch
Mushibugyo, surprising shounen has me really intrigued still
Sure Fire Sequels, loved the first seasons and still love the second
Monogatari Series: Second Season, what can I say, amazing as always, love it!
Teekyuu 2, the crazy sometimes tennis club, instant love again
High School DxD, it should be Doubly good this season
Hooked, will likely watch 'til the end
Kiniro Mosaic, a wonderful surprise, so cute and funny the British/Japanese humor!
Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi - Sunday Without God, amazing first episode, loved it, let's see if it can keep it up
Gin no Saji - Silver Spoon - Almost turned this off before the OP but I'm very glad I didn't! Looks good, I went to a university with an aggie college and vet college so it brings back memories of some of my aggie and vet student friends. I was in computer science... yes, at an aggie and vet college!
Servant x Service, very funny 4-koma humor
Rozen Maiden (2013), looks really cool, seems darker and more interesting after episode 2
Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui! - Watamote, very unique, interesting character, very cool!
Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai: Megami-hen - The World God Only Knows Goddesses, skipping chapters like mad but still seems very good
Turning Girls, not sure why I like this super cheapo direct-to-Youtube short but I do
Watching, waiting to get hooked
Fantasista Doll, liked the first episode, still not sure where it's going
Inu to Hasami wa Tsukaiyou - Dog & Scissors, funny two intro episodes, where will it go?
Genei wo Kakeru Taiyou - Daybreak Illusion - Il Sole Penetra, a neat combo of Madoka and Kotoura, need to see where it is going, first episode looks very introductory
Genshiken Nidaime, looks good and funny, can it keep it up?
Uchouten Kazoku, character designs are a bit different but the characters and story already have me interested
Senyuu. 2, didn't love the first season, finished the first season recently, still not loving this one
Recorder to Randoseru Mi☆, watched the first two seasons quickly but first episode wasn't super great in season 3
Stella Jogakuin Koutou-ka C³-bu, expected to love this one instantly but not sure
On thin ice
Makai Ouji: Devils and Realist, too bishounen almost certainly
Kitakubu Katsudou Kiroku - Chronicles of Going Home Club, trying too hard to be funny, not funny enough
Not started watching yet, don't know yet but intend to give a shot
Gatchiman Crowds
Fate/Kaleid Liner
Brother's Conflict
Gifuu Doudou, I'm too Gar for my shirt
Free! too bishounen, great animation but just, no... not me
Being a free member, I've only seen 2 first episodes at this point, but I think Servant x Service has good potential.
For other free members (or anyone really), who needs help sorting through all the new shows: http://reallifeanime.wordpress.com/2013/07/11/summer-2013-anime-recommendations/
Keep in mind the blog is a week behind the premium members, so most of the current shows haven't gotten an opinion yet.
Crunchyroll is doing SUCH a good job of making me want a premium membership...
Weekly posts on the season's best anime! (http://mageinabarrel.com)
I'm going to do the same thing I did in Spring and not make any lists until a month into the season so I know how things have settled in for me. But so far there's more to Summer than I was expecting, which is nice; lots of fun stuff to watch.


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Over on twitter, some folks were chatting about the latest big security botch. A major service, called Evernote, had a security breach where a password file was stolen. Evernote has handled the situation quite well, being open about what happened, and explaining the risks.
In their description of the breach, they said that the stolen passwords were "both hashed and salted". Apparently this sounds funny to people outside of software. (Amazing how jargon becomes so ingrained that I didn't even notice the fact that it could be interpreted in a funny way until it was pointed out to me!)
Anyway, since discussion of this is going around, I thought I'd explain just what password hashing and salting means.
Let's start at the beginning. You're some kind of system that wants to have password security. Obviously, you need to save the passwords somewhere, right?
As we'll see, that's only partially correct - but let's go with it for now. You need to store something that lets you check if a user supplied the right password, so you need to store something.
The most naive approach is create a file (or database, or whatever) that contains the usernames and passwords of all of your users. Something like:
alice:abc mark:pass joe:123 jen:hello
Suppose you were a thief, and you wanted to crack this password file, what would you do? You'd try to steal that file! If you can get hold of that password file, then you'd have all of the passwords for all of the users of the system.
That means that this is a terrible way of storing the passwords. One step, and a thief has completely breached your system. We don't want that. So what should we do?
First, we could encrypt the file.
This might seem like a good idea at first. If a thief were the steal the file, the wouldn't be able to find your user's passwords without figuring out the encryption key! It's going to take a lot of work to figure out that key!
The first problem with this is that any password can be cracked given enough time and power. If there's only one encryption key for the entire file, then it's worth investing a lot of time and power into breaking it - and once it's broken, then everything is revealed.
The second problem is: how does your system check a user's password? It needs to decrypt the file! That means that the encryption key must be available to your system! So all that a thief needs to do is figure out where your system is getting the key from. You've got your entire security system for all of your users set up with a single point of protection, and somewhere in your system, everything that you need to break that protection is available!
What can we do to improve this? The answer is something called crypto graphic hashing.
Cryptographic hashing is a combination of two concepts: hashing, and one-way functions.
A really simple example of a not-very-good hash function of a string would be something like: convert all of the characters in the string to their numeric values, and exclusive-or the binary representation of those bits. With that hash function, you could take a string like "ABCD", and convert it to the numeric values of the characters ([65, 66, 67, 68]), and then x-or them together (1000001 xor 1000010 xor 1000011 xor 1000100 = 0000100) for a result of 4. Real practical hash functions are more complicated.
For example, at least some versions of Java use the following as the default hash for a string of characters:
\[text{hash}(s) = left(sum_{i in text{length}(s)} 31^{length(s) - i - 1}*s[i] right) mod 2^{32}\]
There's a class of mathematical functions called one-way functions. A one way function is a function \(f\), where given \(x\), it's easy to compute \(f(x)\), but given \(f(x)\) it's extremely difficult (or even impossible) to compute \(x\).
If we combine those two, we have what's called a crpytogrphic hash function: a function that takes an arbitrary input string, and converts it to a number, in a way where it's very difficult to figure out what the input string that produced the number was. That's great for storing passwords! We don't store the password at all. We just store the hash-value produced from the password. Then when a user comes and logs in, we take their password, hash it, and compute the result to the stored hash.
Instead of the file with explicit passwords, we get something like:
alice:7a2d28fc mark:dfd4e1c6 joe:ed849ee1 jen:bb76e739
This is much better than storing the encrypted password. There is no encryption key that a thief can use to decrypt the password. Even if a thief knows the hash values of your user's passwords, they can't get in to the system! And your system actually never stores the actual values of the user's passwords - just their hashcodes!
So again, let's look at this from the perspective of a thief. How can a thief break into a system with hashed passwords?
If they don't know what hash function you're using, then they're completely stuck. Sadly, they can probably figure it out. Designing new crpytographic hash functions is hard. Implementing cryptographic hash functions correctly is hard. As a result, most people just use a hash function from a library. That means that for a thief, it's usually pretty easy to figure out what hash function is being used by a system.
Once they know what hash function you used, their only choice to break your system is to try to guess the passwords. That is, they can guess passwords, compute their hash codes, and search through your password file to see if any of the users password hashes matches. If they find one, they're gold!
In fact, there's a common strategy based on this idea called a rainbow table. A rainbox table is a list of common passwords, and the numeric value that they hash to with a common crptographic hash value. Something like:
|Password String
|Hash value
If you can somehow steal the passwords file, then with a rainbow table, you can find users with common passwords. For example, in the table above, you can see that the hashcode "7a2d28fc" occurs in the passwords file for the username "alice", and it's also in the rainbow table for the password "abc". So a thief could determing that alice's password was "abc". Even with the best crpytographic hash, all it takes is one idiot user who uses "password" as their password, and your system's security is breached.
Salting passwords addresses that problem. In a salting strategy, you don't hash a user's password by itself: you combine it with some additional data, and then hash that combination. The additional information is called the salt..
You can use lots of different things for the salt. There's a complex set of tradeoffs in the exact salting strategy, which are beyond the scope of this post, but a few examples include:
- Always use a fixed salt string. This is weak, but better than nothing. It's got a similar weakness to the encrypted password system: you only need one salt to give you a handle on breaking all of the passwords, and that one salt needs to be in the system.
- Add a random piece of data for each password. The catch here is that you need to store the salt data for each password. This is what unix passwords used to use. They added 12 random bits to each password. In the passwords file, they stored the salt and the hashed password. The weakness of this is that the salt is right there with the password entry. But because each user has a different salt, that means that any attempt to breach the system needs to look at each user separately.
- Salt on metadata: that is, take information about the user that isn't part of their username, and use that as the salt. For example, you could use a person's birthday as the salt for their account.
If each user has a different salt, then even if you've got terrible passwords, a thief needs to do a lot of work to try to break your system. Even with a rainbow-table like strategy, they can't compute the hashcode for a given common password once, and then search the password hash list for that code - they need to recompute it for each possible salt value!
What salting does is, effectively, increase the amount of effort needed to break the passwords. If you add 12 bits of salt, then a rainbow table needs 4096 times more entries to find common passwords! If your salt is long enough, then it can make it effectively impossible to create a rainbox table at all. If they try to attack you without a rainbow table, a 12 bit salt means that your attacker needs to attack the passwords of each of your users seperately! Even if they know the value of the salt, you've made it much harder for them to breach your security.


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Boston's South End Garden Tour
I spent this last Sunday afternoon following a $20 map around the contours of my neighborhood. It led me to common places I had passed by a hundred times before and paid little notice to, and down narrow winding alleyways that opened up into much loved outdoor spaces normally hidden from public view.
This map was my guide to the neighborhood's South End garden tour, an afternoon put together by the SELROS Land Trust, the organization responsible for the majority of the flourishing community gardens in the area. The tour takes you into some of these community gardens, as well as into public parks with thoughtfully constructed landscaping (often a community effort by its neighbors) and into the private gardens of South End residents with either an impressive green thumb or close working relationship with a local landscape designer in possession of one.
It was a lovely, relaxing way to spend an afternoon — who, really, would complain about meandering through gardens all day? — and the diversity of the gardens was striking. From the carefully arranged and controlled British style gardens that are so popular in New England, to lively, meandering collections of plants that are cared for then allowed to run free, to the plots with neat rows, dedicated to growing food for harvesting, every space had its own unique beauty.
The South End Garden Tour is an annual event held in June of every year. For more information about the land trust you can visit their website.
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Kris Jenner had some strong words for President Obama after he took aim at her daughter Kim Kardashian and rapper-boyfriend Kanye West.
The president, who has previous decried West as a "jackass" when the rapper famously upstaged Taylor Swift, was interviewed by David Blum for Kindle Singles.
In the interview, Obama spoke about the American Dream, which he opined used to include a good home, job, education and the possibility of higher education. However, he said that these days the likes of Kardashian and West had distorted the American Dream in a way that he believes negatively affects the younger generation.
"I do think what's shifted is a notion that the wealthier you are, the more conspicuous consumption you engage in. The more successful you are, the more society should stay out of your way as you pursue the bigger house or the fancier jet or the bigger yacht," Obama said.
"Were there things that all of us might have liked to have? Sure. But partly, I think, there also has been a shift in culture. We weren't exposed to things we didn't have in the same way kids these days are. There was not that window into the lifestyles of the rich and famous," the president said. "Kids weren't monitoring every day what Kim Kardashian was wearing, or where Kanye West was going on vacation, and thinking that somehow that was the mark of success."
Jenner, for one, took what he said to heart.
On the Friday episode of her talk show "Kris," the Kardashian momager, 57, addressed Obama's quotes regarding her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend's affluence with co-host and E! personality Terrence Jenkins.
That's when Jenner put on her Oprah Winfrey hat.
"'They're influencing a generation of youngsters to be obsessed with wealth and celebrity,'" mama bear said, interpreting Obama's statements.
Kardashian, 32, and West, 36, famously spent $11 million on a 10,000-square-foot home in Bel-Air in January while Kardashian was pregnant. But Kardashian and her daughter North, who was born June 15, is currently residing at her mother's sprawling Hidden Hills home while she and West tear down and custom rebuild their mansion. They're reportedly gutting it and taking the Italian-style villa to up to 14,000 square feet.
"It's really great that people aspire to get a great job... but I wasn't aware that you could only set the bar so high and that we could only dream so big," Jenner said after reading the president's quotes. "I was taught: Dream big, work hard and you could have whatever you wanted."
The American Dream, ladies and gentleman, as told by the Kardashians.
"I bet the president has some friends with 10,000-square-foot houses and you probably wouldn't mind going over there, Mr. President while you were asking them to have a party for you when you were campaigning for dollars to run for president," Jenner said, referring to high-netting, star-studded fundraising parties thrown for him by the likes of A-listers George Clooney and Sarah Jessica Parker.
Jenner said that she thought that it was "kind of remarkable in and of itself" that the president even mentioned her overexposed kin in the first place, yet she still continued.
"I find it so odd that he's picking on Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. Well, Kanye West, first of all, doesn't go on vacation. Ever," Jenner said. "And Kim Kardashian is the hardest-working young lady in the world. She never sleeps, she never stops, she never slows down and works so hard for what she's got."
Indeed, Kardashian, the daughter of late O.J. Simpson defense lawyer Robert Kardashian, rose to fame following the bombshell appearance of a homemade sex tape made with R&B singer Ray J. She and her family have worked to move away from that initial notoriety by building a media empire through fashion, cosmetics and their juggernaut reality TV series "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" and its many spinoffs. (Jenner also made the point that they were doing their part to keep the unemployment rate low, saying "KUWTK" alone employs "hundreds and hundreds of people.")
The enormous family has remained a mainstay in the public eye (and on this particular blog) because of their glitzy lifestyle and accessibility on television and social media, constantly addressing fans and sharing big moments in their private lives. Cases in point, eldest sister Kourtney Kardashian televised part of the birth of her first child and Khloe Kardashian's whirlwind wedding to ball player Lamar Odom and Kim Kardashian's nuptials to ball player Kris Humphries were both documented and broadcast as E! special events.
The media maelstrom following Kim Kardashian's 72-day marriage and extended divorce proceedings from Humphries somewhat tarnished the brand, but Kim's candid take on the topic and perpetual projects swiftly brushed family scandals under a very luxurious rug. Kardashian's subsequent romance with the vainglorious "I am a God" rapper was seen as a supernova in the pop culture zeitgeist.
Surely, young America (and E!'s target demographic) paid attention then as it continues to pay attention now. Which brings us back to Jenner talking about Obama.
"I started thinking about her 10,000-square-foot house," Jenner said. "I thought, wow, her job affords her to live in a 10,000-square-foot house. And I think, if I'm not mistaken, that Mr. President's job affords him to live in a 55,000-square-foot house. So basically my house would fit in his entry."
"I just don't think it's such a bad thing to want to be our best and do our best and have nice things."
But the mainstream cachet this family yields should be questioned now and again. If Kardashian sticking out her tongue in a three-second video could make a flurry of headlines this past week, perhaps we've been grossly under-estimating the influence of this American dynasty.
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Guardian Digital is happy to announce the release of EnGarde Secure Community 3.0.7 (Version 3.0, Release 7). This release includes several bug fixes and feature enhancements to the Guardian Digital WebTool and the SELinux policy, and several new packages available for installation.
EnGarde Secure Community 3.0.7 Release Notes
Guardian Digital is happy to announce the release of EnGarde Secure
Community 3.0.7 (Version 3.0, Release 7). This release includes several
bug fixes and feature enhancements to the Guardian Digital WebTool and
the SELinux policy, several updated packages, and several new packages
available for installation.
The following reported bugs from bugs.engardelinux.org are fixed in
this release:
#0000067 SIMAP AND SPOP3 packages are built disabling plaintext auth
Several other bugs are fixed in this release as well.
New features include:
* A new package (hwlister) which can be used to generate an inventory
of all the hardware which comprises your system. This package is
now installed by default with EnGarde Secure Linux.
* PHP was re-build with cURL support and a race condition was fixed in
* The latest stable versions of: MySQL (5.0.22), apache (2.0.58),
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php5 (5.1.4), postfix (2.2.10), snort (2.4.4), sudo (1.6.8p12),
syslog-ng (1.6.11), vim (6.4.010), and zaptel (1.2.6).
* Several new packages:
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Hawks edge past Bucks with Horford's late bucket
MILWAUKEE -- In a hotly contested game between two playoff contenders, the Atlanta Hawks came out on top Saturday night with a 103-102 victory.
Al Horford scored the winning points for the Hawks with 5.9 seconds left when he bulled past Larry Sanders. Horford finished with 23 points on 11-of-22 shooting from the field and 11 rebounds.
"That play was to go to Al," Hawks coach Larry Drew said. "We executed it well enough to where we got him into a good position where he could score. He came up with the big play. Really powered his way to the basket and came up with the big shot."
Milwaukee's Monta Ellis rushed down the floor after the inbounds pass and attempted a fadeaway jumper that hit the back of the rim as time expired.
"Even though Monta had a good look at the end, it shouldn't have come down to that," Bucks guard Brandon Jennings said.
The Bucks had the ball trailing 101-100 with 15.2 seconds left and went to Ellis, who finished with 14 points on 7-of-14 shooting from the field and 10 assists. He drove the right side of the lane and made a layup to make it 102-101 with 10.8 seconds left.
Milwaukee had opened an 89-79 lead with 8:23 left in the fourth quarter, the game's largest spread, and appeared primed to hold on until a 22-11 Atlanta run created a 101-100 lead with 1:28 left after a Horford dunk.
"I don't think we should have been in a position to be in a one-possession game," Bucks guard J.J. Redick said. "We kind of separated ourselves there towards the end of the third, early fourth.
"I believe it was 100-93 when they called a timeout. And we gave up eight in a row. That to me was the game. You can't rely on winning one-possession games. You have to clamp down when you're up seven with three or four minutes to go."
With Jennings (11 points on 4-of-11 shooting from the field) limited offensively, the Bucks relied on Ersan Ilyasova, who had 19 points, and Redick, who made his Milwaukee debut with 16 points in 35 minutes, for offense. Sanders added 12 points and 19 rebounds.
"J.J. is a prolific shooter. With him on the floor, you know you have to be with him at all times," Drew said of Redick. "Defensively, you have to make some adjustments when he's in the game because he is such a deadly shooter."
Milwaukee held a 58-41 rebounding advantage but couldn't overcome its 4-of-12 shooting from beyond the 3-point arc combined with Atlanta hitting 50 percent of its 3-point attempts (14 of 28).
"We shot the ball well from the 3," Drew said. "I believe at halftime we were 9 for 16. Sometimes that can be fool's gold. What I didn't want to do was get seduced into taking just 3-point shots. Within our offense, if the shot is there, we'll seek it. But we don't want to come down just looking for it."
Atlanta led 54-53 at halftime. Atlanta's Jeff Teague led all scorers with 14 points on 6-of-9 shooting from the field. He scored five of Atlanta's first 11 points.
Tempers flared a few times in the game's opening half with three technical fouls called.
With 36.1 seconds left in the first quarter, Atlanta's Zaza Pachulia fouled John Henson underneath. While raising his hand to acknowledge his foul, he bumped Milwaukee's Samuel Dalembert, who didn't take kindly to it. Dalembert shoved Pachulia and both players were assessed technical fouls.
Jennings was called for the game's first technical with 6:24 left in the first quarter after a dispute with an official. Coinciding with the technical, Redick replaced Jennings to a round of applause to make his Milwaukee debut.
Atlanta's Josh Smith, who was part of numerous trade rumors before Thursday's deadline, missed his first four shots of the game and was 1 of 5 for two points in the first quarter. He finished with 15 points and 13 rebounds.
NOTES: Of Redick's 51 games this season, 40 have started on the bench. In games starting on the bench, Redick has posted double-digit points in 31 of them (one of 12 reserve players with at least 30 games scoring 10-plus points off the bench entering Saturday's game). He has scored 20-plus points off the bench 10 times, the fourth most in the NBA this season entering Saturday. ... Entering Saturday's game, two Bucks ranked in the top 15 in the NBA for points per game in the second half. Jennings was tied for 11th with Jrue Holiday (9.7 ppg) and Ellis ranked 15th (9.4 ppg). Jennings had six points and Ellis had four in the second half. ... In the last five games, Horford has averaged 24.2 points and 10.0 rebounds while shooting 67.9 percent from the field (55 of 81). He has scored over 20 points and made at least 10 field goals in each of those games. It's the first time in his career he has scored 20-plus points in five straight games.


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Kathleen Kenney Konkoly, 61, of Cresco, died Dec. 6, 2012.
She was born Sept. 29, 1951, in Scranton, and was a daughter of the late Alma and Joseph Kenney.
Kathy was active in the Boy Scouts, as assistant troop leader of Troop 83. She was also a longtime friend of Bill W. and Dr. Bob. She was a member of Stroudsburg Wesleyan Church and a previous member of Trinity Episcopal Church, Mount Pocono.
She will be sorely missed by her family and friends and the many lives she touched.
Kathy is survived by her husband, Joseph "Guy" Konkoly of Cresco; her sister, Mary Kenney Keller, and her brother, Robert Kenney, both of New Jersey.
Visiting hours will be from noon to 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, at Stroudsburg Wesleyan Church, 15 N. Fifth St., Stroudsburg. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, at the church.
In lieu of flowers, contributions in her memory may be made to Stroudsburg Wesleyan Church.
Cremation was entrusted to Bolock Funeral Home & Crematory, 6148 Paradise Valley Road, Cresco.
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6148 Paradise Valley Road, Cresco
Kathleen Kenney Konkoly
Kathleen Kenney Konkoly, 61, of Cresco, died Dec. 6, 2012.


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Holiday parties, a neighborhood open house, buffets – all these take place in abundance during Christmastime. Do you throw a party each year or did your family throw parties around Christmas? Any special theme like Ugly Christmas Sweater or perhaps a gift wrapping or cookie decorating party?
The year we got married, Dave and I hosted an open house in our tiny apartment. We lived on the second floor of an old farmhouse in a fairly rural area. We invited everyone we knew. Rather than an open bar, we elected to serve punch and hors d'oeuvres.
After consulting his Mr Boston book, Dave selected a recipe to use and went off to the liquor store for the ingredients. These included red wine, brandy, rum, and champagne. Oranges and lemon juice added some extra flavor along with simple syrup and soda water. The punch made 42 servings.
We combined all the ingredients in a punch bowl and added an ice ring to chill the punch. The kitchen table (the only table we had) held the punch bowl along with the hors d'oeuvres. In those years the hors d'oeuvres consisted of little square slices of rye bread called party rye with liver sausage of smoked sausage on top, cheese logs and crackers, chips and dips, and possibly mini-meatballs in cocktail sauce.
As the day grew longer, we realized that Wanda's voice was getting stronger, Slowly but surely her laryngitis was leaving! By the end of the evening the laryngitis had totally disappeared. In following years when the laryngitis threatened, we would suggest recreating the punch. The threat alone did the job of curing the laryngitis.


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I've gone on record before as saying that I generally just don't "get" the appeal of the Killer Santa movie. I mean, I get the whole "twisting something innocent and childish into something dark and wrong" thing. I can appreciate the fact that Silent Night, Deadly Night got a lot of squares bent out of shape when it came out in 1984, and the idea of people picketing a slasher flick because the killer dresses as Santa does give me a little bit of holiday cheer. (Come on folks, we're not saying he WAS Santa--that would have to wait until Goldberg's turn as St. Nick a couple of years back.) But once you get past the "OMG It's Santa and he's KILLING PEOPLE!" idea, there's really nowhere to go but down in my experience.
That's why for my nod to the season I chose Edmund Purdom's festive holiday offering, Don't Open Till Christmas. Also released in 1984, this is a Santa Killer movie with a twist--rather than centering around a Santa who kills a la 1980's Christmas Evil, this British production turns the formula on its head and gives us a killer who only kills Santas! You see what they did there?
I know, the plot sounds like it would be just as one-note as its inverse, and in truth it easily could have been. But due to some likable actors, a breezy pace, a serviceably intriguing plot, and an absolute barrage of entertaining and creative Santa kills, Don't Open Till Christmas manages to keep the Vicar smiling from start to finish. And that's more than you can say for last year's rancid eggnog--I speak from experience.
The movie wastes no time getting down to business, as we open with a drunken party-goer in a Santa suit stumbling out into the alley with his date, heading for his parked car and a backseat tête-à-cock. As they climb in and climb on, the previously stationary camera becomes a hand-held pov, the soundtrack fills with heavy breathing, and we approach the unsuspecting lovers--all to the tune of an obvious and hilarious synthesized Jaws score rip-off. After circling the car once, the POV character is shooed off by the annoyed and horny Saint Nick, who gets a knife in the ribs for his trouble! Which of course drops him like a rock according the b-movie biology rules. Ms. Claus manages to escape from the car and plaster herself against an alley wall before meeting the same fate.
After a credit sequence featuring a flaming Santa gnome, a nice minor-key music-box rendition of "Jingle Bells," and a mysteriously missing apostrophe, we're right back into the action. A fancy dress party is going on at the local discotheque, where Kate (Belinda Mayne) and her boyfriend Cliff (Gerry Sundquist) are helping Kate's father dress as Santa for the party-closing skit. Unfortunately Dad's delivery is interrupted by an unscripted SWORD THROUGH THE BACK OF THE HEAD, right there on stage in front of his horrified daughter! Someone is DEFINITELY on the naughty list!
Next we cut to Scotland Yard, where Chief Inspector Harris (Edmund Purdom) and Sgt. Powell (Mark Jones) are discussing the recent rash of one-horse open slayings. "It was the costume he was wearing," the velvet-voiced Harris intones. "He was the victim...of another SANTA MURDER!"
And there you have the flick's set-up almost in its entirety. There's a maniac loose in London, raining jolly death upon anyone with the misfortune to cross his path dressed as St. Nick. Harris and Powell do their best to get to the bottom of things, but since "the whole of the West End is crammed with Santa Clauses!", containment proves difficult. The cops question Kate and Cliff, and it's clear that Harris counts Kate's flute-playing Significant Other as one of the top suspects. The herrings get redder when investigative journalist Giles (creepy Howard Stern/Jeff Goldblum hybrid Alan Lake) advises Sgt. Powell to keep a close eye on his superior officer. Powell laughs it off at first, but when Harris starts acting strange and proving oddly elusive to the tail Powell orders, the sergeant has to widen his net.
As I mentioned above, the flick moves along at a breezy pace, with plenty of amusing dialogue and off-the-wall character moments (such as the disappointment of Harris's sweet-old-lady housekeeper when she doesn't get to peek at the police photos from the murder scenes) to keep you smirking. Director Purdom does a great job as the harried but grimly jocular Inspector Harris--his voice and looks remind me of Albert Finney's best roles, and he carries a similar gravitas. Belinda Mayne is appealing if stiff as the grief-stricken daughter (though it has to be said she recovers pretty quickly from seeing Dad shish-kabobbed before her eyes), and Mark Jones also does well as the capable, wry sergeant. In fact all the actors are very likable, except for Sandquist (whose character is kind of a twat, so that's no fault of his acting) and Lake, who it's not much of a spoiler to say comes out of the herring barrel and into the open water fairly quickly.
The movie was never going to win any awards on technical merit. Besides a few good pov hand-held sequences and one or two effective lighting set-ups, the cinematography is fairly static, the shot-framing uncreative. To call the editing "slapdash" would be kind. And while many of the actors are likable enough, their delivery is often stilted and the dialog clumsy--sometimes hilariously so. Plus, with the killer's identity revealed definitively 2/3rds of the way through the flick, the movie's one claim on suspense goes out the window.
But Don't Open Till Christmas manages to overcome all these drawbacks with sheer entertainment power, thanks largely to the sequence of darkly hilarious Santa kills that pepper the plot development like bloody commercial breaks. Whenever you see a guy in a Santa costume stumble into frame, you know he'll soon become a cooling Corpse Kringle--and yet the kills are so varied and creative that it never stops being fun. For instance, in addition to the aforementioned opening stab and sword-through-the-head shots, we also get:
a couple of major characters make rather surprising exits, one character disappears entirely and is never mentioned again, and the killer meets his fate in a surprising but satisfying way. Tack on a slam-bang ending and this movie definitely goes out on top.
Maybe some day I'll give one of those other Santa Killer movies a go with a more open mind, but it's hard for me to imagine enjoying any of them more than Don't Open Till Christmas. 3 thumbs for pure entertainment value. It's been released on its own and as part of dozens of public domain cheapie sets, including the so-far pretty good Mill Creek 50 Drive-In Movie Classics set. So if you're in the mood for some holiday cheer, pour yourself some egg nog, grab a candy cane off the tree, and settle in to watch Santa die, over and over again. You'll be glad you did.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Don't Open Till Christmas (1984): or, Die Santa Die!
I've gone on record before as saying that I generally just don't "get" the appeal of the Killer Santa movie. I mean, I get the whole "twisting something innocent and childish into something dark and wrong" thing. I can appreciate the fact that Silent Night, Deadly Night got a lot of squares bent out of shape when it came out in 1984, and the idea of people picketing a slasher flick because the killer dresses as Santa does give me a little bit of holiday cheer. (Come on folks, we're not saying he WAS Santa--that would have to wait until Goldberg's turn as St. Nick a couple of years back.) But once you get past the "OMG It's Santa and he's KILLING PEOPLE!" idea, there's really nowhere to go but down in my experience.
Posted by The Vicar of VHS at 2:28 PM
Labels: '80s, 3+ Thumbs, Drive-In Movie Classics, Holiday Horrors, Mill Creek, Psycho Killer
5 comments:
- prof. grewbeard said...
i agree that Killer Santas are pretty one-note and that's why i think the Tales From The Crypt segment featuring Joan Collins was so effective because well, it's short and to the point. we get no real backstory on the escaped Santa and that makes him scarier- he just comes out of nowhere. having the little girl let him in believing he's the real thing is the perfect touch!
- December 10, 2008 at 6:40 PM
- Rev. Fred Phantom said...
I also have that Mill Creek box set and planned on checking it out soon. Looks like fun stuff indeed.
I agree about the "killer santa" thing too. Plus it's hard to beat Tales From The Crypt's "All through the House".
- December 10, 2008 at 7:00 PM
- Karswell said...
Never saw this one, saw the box plenty at the vid store back in the day though, but...
Reason the Tales from the Crypt ep is so good is because it's not about Santa at all, but the crazy bitch what killed her husband and has now suddenly found herself turned potential victim.
- December 11, 2008 at 5:43 PM
- Gene Phillips said...
I liked most of what you liked, Vicar, and in addition enjoyed the killer's goofy HALLOWEEN-ripoff "motivation"-- that his dad once cheated on his mum while dad wore a Santa suit, and therefore all Santas were evil.
At least the feminists should be glad of one slasher film where almost all the victims are male.
The ending's weird, too: I can't tell whether the "Final Girl" survives or not.
- December 18, 2008 at 2:47 PM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
Hi Gene!
>>that his dad once cheated on his mum while dad wore a Santa suit, and therefore all Santas were evil
It seems to me that the song "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" is pretty much the whole motivation for every Killer Santa movie ever made, this one included (even though, as noted, this is more "Santa Killer"). To hear these filmmakers tell it, it's amazing that any father lives past his son's 9th birthday.
>>one slasher film where almost all the victims are male
True! That last screengrab is actually from a scene where the killer menaces a model wearing a Santa cape, but upon confirming she has breasts, lets her go. He *does* off a couple of women over the course of things, though, so he's not going to get any NOW awards, methinks.
>>I can't tell whether the "Final Girl" survives or not
Maybe you need to watch it again! ;)
- December 19, 2008 at 8:59 AM


text: Missouri 'Farm Bill' Passes House, Moves to Senate May 15, 2014 04:13 AM Tweet SB 506 will also allow Missouri beef producers to vote in a checkoff referendum if an enhancement is proposed by the Missouri Beef Industry Council. © Wyatt Bechtel TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By News Release Email The Missouri Cattlemen's Association (MCA) strongly supports the bipartisan 105 to 43 vote yesterday in the Missouri House of Representatives in favor of SB 506. The omnibus legislation, commonly referred to as the "farm bill," includes several pieces of legislation that will benefit Missouri's beef cattle industry, according to MCA Executive Vice President Mike Deering. "We have a lot of priorities wrapped into one bill," said Deering. "We commend the 105 legislators who sided with Missouri's farm and ranch families." The legislation, which was handled by Representative Casey Guernsey (R-2) in the House and originally sponsored by Senator Brian Munzlinger (R-18), would extend the equine activity liability waiver to include livestock activities in the rare instance that an accident occurs. Additionally, the omnibus bill includes increasing the hauling limits for livestock from 80,000 pounds to 85,500 pounds. SB 506 will also allow Missouri beef producers to vote in a checkoff referendum if an enhancement is proposed by the Missouri Beef Industry Council. MCA President Jim McCann said today's vote is a win for MCA and the entire beef industry. The legislation now moves to the Missouri Senate for consideration. "We encourage the senate to move quickly on this important legislation," said McCann. "We feel confident the senate will side with agriculture and pass this bill. We urge the Governor to support Missouri beef producers by signing SB 506 into law." Source: Missouri Cattlemen's Association Back to news


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Histoires de Parfum 1740 is also based on helichrysium/immortelle like Sables. It is quite warm and rich. I like it a lot.
I love ambre sultan by Serge Lutens and principally "sables by Annick Goutal!
Have you suggest me a similar perfume as a choice?
Histoires de Parfum 1740 is also based on helichrysium/immortelle like Sables. It is quite warm and rich. I like it a lot.
other scents similar?
Cotton Club
Well, in terms of Ambre Sultan there are quite a few 'ambers' to work your way through:
Tom Ford's Amber Absolute
Annick Goutal's Ambre Fetiche
Estee Lauder's Private Collection Amber Ylang Ylang
Prada Amber pour Homme
Montale's Blue Amber
Histoires de Parfums Ambre 114
... there's lots of them.
As for Sables - I really can't think of anything quite like it. For me, it's all about the vanilla, and the sandalwood, and an almost chocolate accord. Can you identify what it is that you like?
You might try:
Guerlain's Coriolan; and perhaps
Havana Vanille by L'Artisan Parfumeur; also
L'Heure Défendue by Cartier;
ELIXIR Azzaro pour Homme by Azzaro;
AMBRE NUIT by Dior;
Obsession for Men;
M7 by Yves Saint Laurent; these head in the same direction, but they're not Sables.
For Amber SUltan you can try Ambre Russe from Perfume d'Empire and for Sable: get a sample of Asmar from SoOud(launched this autumn) . I tryed Asmar and for me it was quit close to Sable. There is a link between the noses behind these fragrances


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It is only matter of 12 hours when the polling stations are closed and the votes counting will start across the country where we will have a new President of Egypt by tomorrow's early morning.
There are hopes and expectations that the turnout increases on Sunday compared to yesterday's very low turnout that some expected to be nearly 40%. Again frustration and terrible hot weather make many people believe it is not worth it unfortunately.
I passed by a polling station today in the way to my work to find it empty. It is downtown Cairo. It is weak turnout all over the polling stations.
Yesterday the ministry of health reported that 35 were fell sick in the polling stations including 3 judges.
Both campaigns depend on the negative publicity of the other , of course the media is treating the Muslim brotherhood just like the days of Mubarak.
Another important remark I noticed yesterday and somebody brought it up : Where are the Salafists ?? The Salafists are nowhere to be seen.
Low turnout is the common between all the polling stations in the country so far. In Cairo there are empty polling stations technically. The turnout can be less than 30% if it continues like that. The turnout is low so far in Cairo, Alexandria , Suez, Kafr El Sheikh. Again the weather can play important role here.
The army is distributing these flyers in Cairo to encourage people to go and to vote. "Screen shot by Samir Omar"
Now it is noticeable today and yesterday that the participation of the elderly is higher than youth , young Egyptians are boycotting the elections as it seems from their turnout. Even those young Egyptians went to the polling stations , many of them invalidated their votes including those who are not political activists.
Voting is extended to 9 PM once again today.
SCAF will issue an annex to the constitutional declaration with the president's powers within the upcoming 48 hours , I believe they will do it today so they do not like tailoring the annex according to the winner . Anyhow this annex will make from the upcoming president a puppet in the hand of SCAF.


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Of course, the grandstanding politicians who jump on moral panics absolutely hate Section 230. They always have. As we've discussed in detail over the years, the type of politician that focuses on grandstanding on moral panics the most is always a state attorney general. They make grand public pronouncements against companies they don't like, often with absolutely no legal basis, and then browbeat them into a "settlement" just so the companies can stop having to deal with the AGs lying about them in public all the time. Chris Tolles, the CEO of Topix, gave a great detailed explanation of how various AGs ganged up on him, basically issuing a press release accusing him of doing horrible things, totally misrepresenting what the company did, but without naming a single law they violated (because they hadn't). In response, Tolles did what most people would think you should do in that case: explain to the AGs what Topix actually did, and why it was perfectly reasonable. In response, the AGs (more of them this time) issued another press release, taking direct statements that Tolles had told them further out of context, and making the company sound even worse. Eventually he "settled" because fighting them was costly.
We've seen this over and over and over again. AGs have attacked Twitter and Craigslist and Facebook and Comcast and Google and over and over again.
Of course, the lack of a legal basis often stymies these attempts, and a big thing that gets in the way: Section 230. So it should come as little surprise, as noted by Eric Goldman today, that the states Attorneys General are planning to ask Congress for an exemption to Section 230 when (you guessed it) states AGs bring a case. He heard it today while on a panel at the annual meeting of the National Association of Attorneys General, where he was on a panel about Section 230. During the discussion, Goldman says that an unnamed Attorney General (he didn't catch which one) made a comment about the plan.
Section 230 has been under attack for some time, but going to Congress to try to make that kind of exception would be a huge disaster. It would allow these AGs to continue with bogus grandstanding campaigns, but actually with the ability to create massive problems for companies actually trying to offer usable, open platforms for users. Nearly every company would need to proactively filter any kind of user generated content, and would be at risk of tremendous legal liability if "bad stuff" got through. This would be a huge attack on internet innovation, all so some ambitious politicians can try to make more headlines by attacking tech companies. The state Attorney General position is considered the classic "stepping stone" position, which many politicians use to run for Governor or Senator in their state, and one way to help with the campaign is to get lots of headlines around "protecting the children" and whatnot. So, basically, these politicians would be breaking one of the key elements that has allowed internet innovation to thrive, to help them get a few more headlines in their quest for higher office.


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