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Emerging Women Power
South African president Thabo Mbeki appointed Mrs. Mlambo-Ngcuka as his new deputy replacing former deputy president Jacob Zuma who was fired after being implicated in a bribe-taking scandal. But despite the achievements, the presence of women in politics is still far below the expectations of the 1997 Sadc declaration on Gender and Development which sought to at least ensure that 30 percent of women were in political decision making structures by 2005.
The recent historic appointment of mines minister Mrs. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka to the position of deputy South African president is a hopeful symbol of women empowerment in the entire Southern African region which is aiming to have at least 30 percent of women in political decision making structures. South African president Thabo Mbeki appointed Mlambo-Ngcuka as his new deputy replacing former deputy president Jacob Zuma who was fired after being implicated in a bribe-taking scandal. The move also demonstrates clearly South Africa's determination to caste off the media image of African countries as tolerant of corruption. "We thought this would give us an opportunity further to strengthen the participation of women in the executive,� Mbeki said. "That's part of what influenced the decision that we took.�
The firing of Zuma who enjoyed grassroots support within the ANC party structures caused rumblings within Africa's oldest political party. Mlambo-Ngcuka, 49, has joined the small, but growing army of women who have assumed powerful and influential positions within the South African Development Cooperation (Sadc) region. She held the minerals and energy posts since 1999 and has been hailed for promoting the empowerment of Blacks in this sector widely dominated by whites. She is the second woman to become a deputy or vice president in this 14-member Sadc grouping after Zimbabwe Vice President Joyce Mujuru. Others who have scaled the heights in the male dominated political field include Mozambican prime minister Luisa Diogo who was elevated by former Mozambican president Joachim Chissano in February last year. She replaced Pascoal Mocumbi who resigned after serving as prime minister for a decade.
The Mozambican's appointment is viewed by analyst as passing the baton from the generation that fought for independence to the one trained since independence. Diogo was born in 1958 and holds a masters degree in financial economics and between 1989 and 1992 was the national budget director. From 1993 to 1994, she was the World Bank program officer in Mozambique. Mujuru of Zimbabwe was elevated to the position of vice president last December in a move that was widelyseen as empowering women and the opening up of the country's politics.
But despite the achievements, the presence of women in politics is still far below the expectations of the 1997 Sadc declaration on Gender and Development which sought to at least ensure that 30 percent of women were in political decision making structures by 2005. In Zimbabwe, 60 women joined the fray in the race for parliamentary seats in the March polls. A total of 36 were from the ruling Zanu PF party and 16 from MDC, six from Zanu and two independents. After the results were announced, only 19 were voted in–13 Zanu PF and six MDC.
Supporters of the women elevated to power believe strongly that Diogo, Mujuru and Mlambo-Ngcuka were strong willed women, approachable, efficient administrators and influential women that could easily act as rallying points to win support for their respective parties.
Critics charge that the appointment of these women was being done more out of political expediency rather than any real desire to advance the status of women in the region. Others see the move by both Presidents Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Mbeki of South Africa as a political strategy to quash power struggles by males within the ranks and file of their parties.
Tsiko is The Black Star's Southern Africa correspondent based in Harare. For more reports please call (212) 481-7745 to subscribe to the newsstand edition of The Black Star News, the world's leading Pan African news weekly.
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Unprecedented 24-hour "give-a-thon" to support more than 180 local organizations
"Spring It On," a new, 24-hour online giving event designed to raise awareness and funds for not-for-profit organizations in the Buffalo/Niagara community, will take place from 12:01 a.m. until 11:59 p.m. on Friday, March 1.
A first-of-its-kind event in this community, "Spring It On" will mobilize local residents for one day of giving to strengthen and support the nonprofits that make this region a vibrant place to live. It allows individuals to be part of something that can have a tremendous impact on a variety of organizations and those they serve within a very short timeframe.
Individuals can make a one-time, secure, online donation to the local not-for-profit agency of their choice through a specially designed website. Participating organizations and the United Way will be promoting the event through online communications including websites, emails, social media and through traditional communications to their constituencies.
More than 180 non-profit organizations throughout Erie and Niagara counties, representing all sectors including arts and cultural, health and human services, environmental, religious, animal protection and others, have signed on to participate. The event is being by the United Way of Buffalo & Erie County.
"Spring It On" updates will be posted throughout March 1 on The United Way of Buffalo and Erie County Facebook page and Twitter account via #SpringItOn, as well as on social media pages of participating organizations. For more information, visit the "Spring It On" website.


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For the last four years, photographer Trevor Graves and the fine folks at High Cascade Snowboard Camp have sent out a big old "Come on down" to all the people who wanna learn the in and outs of snowboard brotography. After leaving the workshop you'll be ready to enter a community of kids who think the world revolves around them and companies that will "lose your invoice" a half-dozen times before they pay you. Not to mention lazy-ass magazine dudes such as myself that will make you shoot whole entire Web-stories for them by convincing you it's "good exposure."
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It's time for another set of strangers to meet on MTV's Real World. This time we're bringing it to Brooklyn where the eight roommates will settle down in Red Hook and experience the real New York City.
From Gettysburg, PA, there's 23-year-old Army veteran Ryan who has just returned from Iraq. In West Palm Beach, FL, Katelynn is a 24-year-old average girl who also just happens to be transgender.
Salt Lake City native Chet is a 23-year-old Mormon who is looking for adventure in Brooklyn. Devyn is a 20-year-old pageant queen from Kansas City who wants to be taken seriously despite her model looks. Baya comes to New York City from Salt Lake City in hopes of pursuing a dance career.
California girl Sarah is 22-year-old tattooed beauty and JD from Miami Beach who is looking for a new Brooklyn family after surviving a rough childhood. Personal trainer Scott hails from Salem, NH, and this Brooklyn experience could be his ticket to a modeling career.
Chet and Devyn are the first to arrive at the Red Hook residence and are eager to check out the huge space equipped with Rock Band, plenty of food and the popular communal bathroom. Devyn admits to Chet that her first impression of him was that he could be gay, but he says that he's definitely straight.
The rest of the roommates show up at the house and they realize that this season there will be eight strangers instead of the usual seven. The roommates unpack and settle into their new Brooklyn home as they start to open up about themselves in hot tub.
The guys start to talk about how they feel that Katelynn may be different but they're not positive if she is a transgender or not. Meanwhile, the girls are still fascinated with Scott's toned abs that he reveals in the hot tub.
After Katelynn dishes the dirt on her past sexual experiences, the roommates are getting more curious about whether or not she is a transgender.
The roommates head out into the streets of Brooklyn to soak up all that the city has to offer. A night out in the club, the group gets invited into the VIP lounge but Ryan is drinking heavily and starts to worry JD. The next morning, Ryan opens to Sarah about his military experience and how he's handled his transition from Iraq to the Unites States.
Once Ryan starts to open up about being in the army, he shares some of his music with Chet that he wrote in Iraq. Then the two start to bond about how they feel about others in the house. When JD and Katelynn decide to go out to dinner alone, Chet and Ryan become suspicious about the reason why they're becoming so close. JD admits to Ryan that he's gay but tells Ryan and Chet to give Katelynn time to come out to the house.
When JD takes Katelynn out to dinner, Katelynn opens up about being a transgender. The two talk about how hard it was for them to come out and bond over being different from the rest of the roommates.
The strangers may just be starting to get to know one another now that they're settled down in Brooklyn, but this Real World season is full of secrets, drama, and hook-ups to take the Big Apple by storm.


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Archive - Mar 8, 2012
Mock Draft Tracker
Damian Lillard, 6'2 PG, Weber State
Nobody exploded onto the NBA draft radar quite like Lillard, who finds himself second in the nation in scoring at 24 points per game.
Will Josiah Turner's indefinite suspension become permanent?
Brewster Takes National Prep Championship
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Tyler Zeller
From an NBA draft standpoint, Zeller has greatly raised his stock by becoming a better rebounder, a more polished defender and a smarter passer. It's refreshing to see a prospect that understands his weaknesses and uses his time at school to actually make himself a better player. The fact that Zeller has raised his field-goal shooting percentage and his point, rebound, assist, block and steal averages every single season of his college career is a great testament to his strong work ethic and willingness to improve. He capped off the regular season by scoring 19 points (9/11 from the floor) and pulling down 10 rebounds in an 88-70 blowout win at Duke. Not bad. Maybe it doesn't live up to the 30-point, 20-made free-throw standard that he set in his previous game (win against Maryland on Wednesday), but it did help his team win the regular-season title over their rivals. Anyway, Zeller was recently named the ACC Player of the Year, and it's hard to make a case for anybody else with the way he's been producing lately. If he can carry his recent play into the postseason, then UNC has at least a good chance of winning a national championship.
Ian Miller
I remember writing about Ian Miller last summer. Florida State wasn't a good offensive team the previous season, and after losing Chris Singleton to the NBA, they needed a new go-to scorer. Miller was a freak athlete and a quality shooter with a year under his belt. It appeared that he would have every opportunity to break out this season. While he didn't become a go-to scorer (not yet, anyway), he is averaging a respectable 10.8 points per game this year and did perform like a hero in last week's FSU/Virginia matchup. Miller scored 15 points in the second half, including the last second tie-breaking triple, to help FSU come back from a double-digit deficit to defeat the Cavaliers and clinch a first-round bye in the ACC tournament. This was only the latest in a series of clutch performances from FSU players. Forward Michael Snaer hit a buzzer-beating three in January to give the Seminoles a victory at Duke. He did it again a few weeks later, making a three with 2.6 seconds left to give his team a 48-47 win against Virginia Tech. Florida State is consistently a great defensive team, and there's little doubt they'll be taking that ability into the tournament with them. If Miller and Snaer are providing offense to go along with that, then FSU becomes a sleeper team.


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Located in Canton, Ohio, Timken High School offers a unique instructional approach to education by providing its 1,300 students the opportunity to focus their academic careers within Arts, Services or Technology.
Wanting to increase safety without giving up aesthetics, Timken was looking for a long-life flooring that would also be easy to maintain. Johnsonite's Rubber Flooring and Flooring Accessories were identified as the answer to the issues that the school was facing. Motter and Meadows Architects chose Johnsonite flooring based on the durability rubber flooring brings to any space. Its acoustical properties also help reduce noise which is essential for any learning environment.
"We wanted to build an identity for Timken, to create a team spirit where it had been lacking. We wanted the students to identify with the space," said Rodney Meadows of Mottar and Meadows Architects. "The overall result has exceeded our expectations and our original vision. It is what education should look like in the 21st century. It excites the kids to come to school."
The faculty and students were also thrilled with the outcome. "There was a quiet WOW when the students first arrived after the renovation. There is also a huge difference in their behavior," commented Principal Kim Redmond of Timken High School. "They are appreciative of the opportunities that this space has created."
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Savings can erode due to a number of factors: a supplier applies the wrong price or discount (and your system doesn't catch it); an employee makes a purchase from a non-preferred supplier and there is no process in place to flag the exception; and so on. It's no wonder savings don't fully materialize—it's all because of savings leakage.
It's time for a completely new paradigm: measuring savings only after spending occurs, and measuring savings that are actually realized, not just identified. To learn about five key enablers and critical success factors that can help leaders create a culture that plugs savings leakage and drives real savings, read The Real Realized Savings: Creating Positive Impact on the Bottom Line.


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So pretty! This is way better than Bare Minerals warmth, which is what I'd been using for a perk in my complexion. I had this for quite some time but never bothered to use it, but I wish I had, especially over the summer. So many compliments as I walked through the mall. Terra Cotta Tan, has a very subtle and beautiful radiance that really gives a look of health to the complexion if you are around my shade. So cheap with great results, I will definitely repurchase!
on 8/12/2013 7:34:00 PM
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This is perfect for my skin. it gives me a perfect golden look. I use the dark side to bronze and the lighter side as blush and blend them together
on 5/13/2013 6:15:00 AM
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I own this bronzer in 'bronze gold' which has a dark bronzer on the left side and on the other side a highlighter.
I have nc25 skintone and the bronzer shows up amazing on my skin. It is a dark bronze color and a little goes a long way. I don't use the highlighter. This is the first bronzer that I hit pan on!
I apply this bronzer with my mac 109 brush. This product costed me 4� which is super cheap! If you're looking for a good drugstore bronzer, I highly recommend this one.
on 3/18/2013 2:28:00 PM
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I did see a noticeable color when I put this on but one side was two red and the other was too brown. Mixed wasn't a good combination either and it wasn't really easy to mix them because of how the compact was set up. I ended up dropping this and half of the side I was mostly using (the more brown one) broke.
Not bad though, I guess depending on your skin color. I am pretty fair. Liked that it wasn't shimmery. Cheap also which was a plus. Not very much in the compact so good to try if you're unsure. Might be better suited for someone who has some color already. Was a little harsh on me.
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Not for dark skin. I wanted to use it as a highlighter/ blush but it doesn't do much for me
on 12/2/2012 7:55:00 PM
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im not a fan of this bronzer what so ever, it gives off little pigmentation, i need to rub my finger in it 100 times to get the littlest amount of color. i also found that this bronzer really did break me out. wouldn't repurchase and wouldn't recommend
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I purchased this product in the shade Bronze Gold. One side is a deep terracotta color with very fine shimmer. The second color is a bright gold with shimmer. The deep color is great for contouring, while the gold is great for highlighting. The gold is also great as a quick and easy eyeshadow. I am light/medium, yellow warm toned, and this does not appear orange on me. Apply with a light hand on both colors though, because they are very pigmented. Be sure to apply after your base thoroughly dries, otherwise you will be streaky. Lastly, the packaging is a little chinsy, as the lid just sets on, but for me it sits on securely and tight, and I haven't had an issue with it. That's not to say others won't or haven't. All in all, I highly recommend this product.
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Honestly, this is the best bronzer I've had so far. It does not break me out (unlike MAC and other brands.) I've been using it for years now and recently bought Terracotta Tan (forgot what colors I bought before.) The darker color is amazing. I use it to contour, but the lighter color is a bit too dark to be a highlighter for me,however it has a lot of shimmer, but not too glittery. I'm between NC40-42 and naturally tanned so the colors are not dark for my skin tone at all. I use it with my elf powder brush or mac angled blush brush. I usually wear it with nars dolce vita or milani rose d'oro and together they give off a peachy to rosy glow, natural tan type of glow.
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ICE Considered One Of The Worst Places To Work In The Federal Government
from the maybe-if-they-spent-time-not-censoring-the-web dept
The same person pointed us to the news of a leaked memo from Morton concerning his disappointment about these rankings, and planning some sort of typical bureaucratic response to bad rankings: appointing someone to lead the effort to improve morale, looking at other agencies with happier employees and hosting some townhall meetings. Perhaps he could also try keeping ICE agents focused on issues related to their actual mandate, rather than having them work on seizing domain names and censoring the internet. Just a thought.


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About ZenKimchi
Three years ago this month, I ran afoul of South Korea's antiquated libel laws. My ex-employer had neglected to pay me my last month's wages on top of other fees, which is unfortunately a common practice in Korea. I was one of the few people who wouldn't take it lying down and went to the Labor Board to file a complaint. Most expats don't do this because they don't understand the procedures or their rights. So I posted on my blog how we did it. The problem was that I had the employer's name on my site. I ended up having to be locked in a room at the police station, interrogated like a terrorist with a translator who could barely speak English (they wouldn't let me bring my own translator). I was found partially guilty, not fully guilty. My web site wasn't famous enough. But it did take a bite out of my winnings from my ex-employer in the end. During the ordeal, I learned that South Korea is one of the last remaining democracies with criminal libel still on the books--a holdover from the dictatorship that ended in the '80s. It's now used by the corrupt to prosecute any and all whistleblowers or anyone who states the truth. I found it a sad irony that my employer stealing money from me was just a civil case. But saying that my employer stole money from me was a crime. The focus on the story should not only be on Samsung but on Korea's backward criminal libel laws. With South Korea trying to get acceptance as a global player on the stage of democratic nations, these types of laws need to be stricken from the books. For a very disturbing case regarding the libel laws, google the case of Stephanie White and the death of her son Mike, and how she can go to jail if she even mentions the notion that her son was murdered.


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Single Wave Thursday with Brittani Nicholl. One ride, no music, just ocean.
On the way to the airport to catch a plane back to Australia, Brittani Nicholl surfed a fun little right in Southern California before flying home. Single Wave Thursday on Jettygirl Online Surf Magazine. One ride, no music, just ocean.
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Paranoid type schizophrenia is a mental illness that involves false beliefs of being persecuted or plotted against.
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People with paranoid schizophrenia may have mistaken beliefs (delusions) that one or more people are plotting against them or their loved ones. It is difficult or impossible for others to convince them that they are not the target of a plot. People with this condition may spend a lot of time thinking about how to protect themselves from the person or people they believe are trying to harm them.
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- Becoming socially isolated
- Feeling tense, suspicious, guarded, and reserved
- Having an exaggerated sense of self importance (grandiose delusions)
- Having unrealistic feelings of jealousy (delusional jealousy)
- "Hearing things" (auditory hallucinations)
Paranoid schizophrenia usually does not involve the disorganized speech and behavior that is seen in other types of schizophrenia.
Addington D, Bouchard RH, Goldberg J, Honer B, Malla A, Norman R, Tempier R. Clinical practice guidelines: treatment of schizophrenia. Can J Psychiatry. 2005;50:7s-57s.
International early psychosis association writing group. International clinical practice guidelines for early psychosis. Br J Psychiatry. 2005;187:s120-s124.
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High End Designs: Brass Lamp, Knoll Sofa & Traditional Rug
This morning's Scavenger features high end design from some of the biggest names out there. Even though we can't all afford such loveliness, they are still beautiful to look at.
• New York, NY: Brass Lamp - $175
• New York, NY: DWR Dresser - $850
• Brooklyn, NY: Knoll Sofa - $3200
• Oak Park, IL: Bokhara Rug - $1695
• Falls Church, VA: Knoll Coffee Table - $850
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A 17-year-old riding a stolen motorcycle was killed Saturday night and the driver of an automobile was seriously injured in a crash on state Route 198 in Anne Arundel County. A rider on a second motorcycle fled the scene.
According to county police, Ira Tracy Matthews, 53, of Laurel, was making a left-hand turn on to Race Track Road at about 10:30 p.m. when his Isuzu was struck by the motorcycle. The driver was ejected and declared dead at the scene. Matthews was flown to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma where he was reported in serious but stable condition.
According to Anne Arundel County Police, the driver of the motorcycle has been identified as Gregory Lee Anderson, 17, of Jessup. The motorcycle had been reported stolen to Howard County police.


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97 Percent of Company Mobile Apps Are Insecure
Nov 19, 2013 5:00 AM PT
Mobile apps for consumers have been criticized for gathering more information from users' devices than they need. It seems, however, that mobile apps from companies fare no better.
Ninety-seven percent of some 2,000 mobile apps produced by 600 companies accessed at least one private information source on the device they were installed on, according to a report released Monday by HP.
Private data sources accessed by the apps included personal address books, social media pages and even connectivity options such as Bluetooth and WiFi. Worse yet, 86 percent of the apps failed to use simple protections against modern-day attacks.
"So many of these applications are really vulnerable to some kind of an attack," Mike Armistead, HP vice president and general manager for enterprise security products, told TechNewsWorld.
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The extent of the vulnerabilities identified in the enterprise apps by HP's Fortify software was an eye opener for Armistead.
"I was surprised it was so prevalent," he said. "I thought it might be in the 60-70 percent range, but not 90 percent. The sheer numbers [are] frightening."
Seventy-five percent of the apps did not use proper encryption when storing data on a mobile device, HP researchers also found.
"This 75 percent represents data that is accessible to anyone who has an unlocked powered-on phone in their possession," the report says.
"Unencrypted data that is seen and used for malicious purposes by an attacker can violate numerous policies in a corporation's governance as well as compromise the reputation of the enterprise if sensitive trade secrets are leaked to competitors, or the media," it notes.
Companies producing apps that bear their name should pay more attention to security, Armistead cautioned.
"Everyone is making the same mistakes -- not thinking of security when they're doing the mobile app," he said. "Today, it's almost irresponsible not to think about the security side of an application."
Printing Guns
A time-honored technique for building acceptance of a new technology has been to establish it in the public schools. Apple has used that technique in the past, and is doing so with its iPad in the present.
Now 3D printer makers appear to be embracing the strategy too. Last week, for instance, MakerBot raised the curtain on a program designed to put a 3D printer in every school in America.
It's undeniable that 3D printers can be a valuable tool for teaching science, math and engineering, but they also have managed to garner some notoriety as a means for producing gun parts. In the current climate in America, combining the words "guns" and "schools" can detonate an explosive reaction among parents.
Nevertheless, advocates for expanded use of 3D printers in public schools believe most parents will be cool about the technology.
"3D printers aren't going to be available for kids to use unless you have a teacher's supervision and approval," John Westrum, vice president of Afinia, told TechNewsWorld.
If students wanted to make a gun, metal shop might be a better place to do it. "Metal is a much better way to make a weaspon like that," Jesse Roitenberg, education manager for Stratasys, told TechNewsWorld.
"I wouldn't shoot a plastic gun with a real bullet. There's always going to be people that push the envelope in a negative way," he added.
Breach Diary
- Nov. 11. Ireland's Road Safety Authority discloses it's investigating reports that visitors to the National Driver License website are able to see personal data about drivers maintained at the site when trying to send email through the "contact us" function at the location.
- Nov. 12. Data breach at Loyaltybuild in Ireland compromises personal information for more than 1.5 million people. The company manages customer loyalty programs across Europe.
- Nov. 12. Facebook forces an unspecified number of users to reset their passwords after the social network discovered the passwords were compromised in a data breach of Adobe's computer systems. Early in October, hackers pinched from Adobe a file containing 150 million user names and encrypted passwords, but only 38 million active users were affected by the breach, according to the company.
- Nov. 12. Trend Micro reports that 200,000 new banking infections were discovered in the calendar quarter ending in September, the highest number for a single three-month period the company has recorded in 11 years.
- Nov. 12. MacRumors online forums breached and some 860,000 accounts compromised. According to MacRumors the break-in was similar to one at the Ubuntu forums in July. Although passwords stolen by the intruders were hashed, MacRumors recommends its users change their passwords to be safe.
- Nov. 12. Microsoft recommends its customers retire and deprecate RC4 encryption because it has become too easy to crack. It also recommends that certificate authorities and others stop using the SHA-1 algorithm for signing certificates because it has become susceptible to a number of known attacks.
- Nov. 13. Cisco CEO John Chambers at earnings announcement says reports of NSA online spying has had an impact on the company's business in China.
- Nov. 13. At Pwn2Own hacking contest in Tokyo, ethical hackers demonstrate vulnerabilities in iOS and Samsung Galaxy S4. iOS 6.1.4 flaw allows cookies to be stolen from a phone when visiting a malicious website; iOS 7.0.3 vulnerability lets photos to be extracted from the phone at an infected Web page. The Samsung defect permitted a drive-by attack on the phone from the Internet.
- Nov. 14. The New York Times reports CIA is secretly collecting bulk records of international money transfers, as those made through Western Union, under the same law used by the NSA to indiscriminately collect and store phone records of Americans.
Upcoming Security Events
- Nov. 18-20. Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit. JW Marriott at L.A. Live, 900 West Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles, Calif. Registration: Early Bird to Sept. 27, $2,075; Standard, $2,375; Public Sector, $1,975.
- Nov. 20. SC Congress Chicago 2013. 8:30 a.m.-7 p.m. CT. Chicago. Full Day Pass: $250.
- Nov. 20. Protecting 3G/4G Mobile Networks from DDoS Attacks. 11 a.m. ET. Webinar sponsored by Arbor Networks. Free with registration.
- Nov. 21. Data Driven Web Application Security. 2 p.m. ET. Black Hat Webcast Series. Free with registration.
- Dec. 4-5. MENA Business Infrastructure Protection 2013 Summit (Risk Management and Security Intelligence for companies in the Middle East and North Africa). Dubai.
- Dec. 9-12. Black Hat Training Sessions. Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, Wash. "The Art of Exploiting Injection Flaws," $1,800 by Oct. 24; $2,000 by Dec. 6; $2,300 thereafter. "The Black Art of Malware Analysis," $3,800 by Oct. 24; $4,000 by Dec. 5; $4,300 thereafter. "CNSS-4016-I Risk Analysis Course," $3,800 by Oct. 24; $4,000 by Dec. 5; $4,300 thereafter.
- Dec. 9-13. Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC). Hyatt French Quarter, New Orleans.
- Jan. 20-21, 2014. Suits and Spooks. Waterview Conference Center, Washington, D.C. Registration: Sept. 20-Oct. 20, $415; Oct. 21-Dec. 1, $575; after Dec. 1, $725.
- Feb. 17-20, 2014. 30th General Meeting of Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group. Westin Market Street, San Francisco. Members only.
- March 25-28, 2014. Black Hat Asia. Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. Registration: by Jan. 24, $999; by March 21, $1,200; by March 28, $1,400.


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Welcome to the New Age of Hacking
The New York Times reported it sustained Chinese hack attacks for four months, just the latest in a new age of hacking. WSJ's Spencer Ante reports on Digits. Photo: Getty Images.
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Within a matter of hours, the Democrats have seen three key figures – two in Washington, one outside – turn themselves into lame ducks. Sens. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, and Gov. Bill Ritter of Colorado, have all announced they're not running for reelection.
That's mostly bad news for the Democrats, who just a year ago were riding high on the impending inauguration of Barack Obama and greatly expanded majorities in both houses of Congress. Now, the atmosphere has altered dramatically, as President Obama struggles to keep his job approval at or near 50 percent and his party works to minimize its losses in congressional races this November. Democrats can probably kiss their 60-seat, filibuster-proof Senate majority goodbye.
The one bright spot for Democrats is that Senator Dodd's seat in Connecticut now has an excellent shot at staying in Democratic hands, with the expected announcement Wednesday of popular state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal (D) that he will run for the seat. Until his announcement, Dodd was the most vulnerable Democratic incumbent of the cycle, owing to perceptions that he had lost touch with his home state. But as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Dodd will now spend the next year as a lame duck, which could hurt his clout in the battle for financial regulation reform.
The surprise announcement by Governor Ritter of Colorado does not directly affect the Senate, of course, but it does add to the sense that the Democrats are in retreat – especially in a part of the country, the Mountain West, where the party had made dramatic inroads in recent years. Senator Dorgan, a Democratic stalwart in a red state, also caught his party by surprise in deciding to retire. Dorgan, a three-term senator with a total of 40 years in public service, comes from the old school that believes in working across the aisle. His seat is now in the "lean Republican" column in the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.
Obama's role in raiding the Senate
All in all, says Jennifer Duffy, the Senate and statehouse watcher at Cook Political, it's been a crazy year, politically. Obama himself is partly to blame, as he raided the Senate for Cabinet picks, not to mention the fact that his own former Senate seat and that of Vice President Joe Biden could go Republican in November.
"The cycle started with us asking, 'How many more seats can the Democrats actually pick up?' to a point where, now all we talk about is how many seats they're going to lose," says Ms. Duffy. "You've seen this big shift in the political environment and seats that were only a little bit vulnerable becoming more vulnerable, like Colorado."
She is referring to Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet (D), who was appointed to the seat by Governor Ritter after Obama named Sen. Ken Salazar to head the Interior Department.
Also vulnerable is Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D) of Arkansas. "And having the majority leader [Harry Reid of Nevada] in not great shape, that's a pretty weird cycle," says Duffy.
A GOP Senate takeover? Not likely – so far
With Democrats controlling 60 Senate seats out of 100, Republicans need 11 Democratic-held seats in play to have a shot at taking over the majority, which they don't have. What's more, Democrats have a chance at taking over five Republican-held seats – in Kentucky, Missouri, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Louisiana – which makes the Republicans' chances all the more remote. But the year is young.
For now, though, Democrats – including the president – are taking stock of the departures of Dodd and Dorgan, who between them have won eight six-year terms in the Senate. The White House issued statements on both men, calling Dorgan a "trusted leader for the people of his state" and praising Dodd for "a remarkable record of achievement."
Dodd's departure was simultaneously surprising and unsurprising. Dodd loves being a senator, as he noted in his retirement announcement, and it would have been easy to see him go out fighting. But his reelection prospects were bleak, after some damaging events. When he ran in the 2008 presidential cycle, he moved his family temporarily to Iowa, which the people of Connecticut did not appreciate. He was also hurt by the revelation that he had received VIP treatment on a mortgage from tainted lender Countrywide Financial, even though Dodd insisted he didn't know he was getting a favor and was cleared of wrongdoing by the Senate Ethics Committee.
Dorgan is being lauded as a progressive populist who has quietly but forcefully advocated for his causes, particularly economic.
"There's just a fundamental decency about him," says Jonathan Rowe, a former staffer. "He was always looking for opportunities to reach across the aisle, to diminish the rancor."
[Editor's note: The subhead has been changed to accurately characterize how the two senators' retirements affect the Democrats' Senate prospects in 2010.]
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The Department of History & Politics believes that historical thinking is an essential feature of faithful living. In our classes, we aim to help cultivate in students the skills, knowledge, and virtues necessary for thinking historically. To think historically is to read all dimensions of the creation with a keen and subtle awareness of how they were shaped by processes rooted in the remote and the recent past. It also involves understanding past events, ideas, institutions, and civilizations within their thick and varied contexts. The department offers both a major and minor in history to achieve these goals, as well as a concentration and minor in political studies to allow students to explore the dimensions of human governance and interstate relations, specifically.
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For the Major FieldMajors are further assisted in developing a deeper understanding of certain aspects of the past and in thinking critically about the issues and problems of teaching and writing history as Christians. To that end, Introduction to History, Historiography, Senior Seminar in History, and the Senior Integration Paper are required for all history majors. Majors in history at Covenant have led to vocations in teaching, journalism, law, government service, pastoral ministry, academic scholarship, and a host of other fields that benefit from a strong foundation in research skills, writing aptitude, and general training in the liberal arts. For further information, the student is urged to consult with anyone within the Department of History & Politics.
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It is very easy to register session data using Eliom references. Just create an Eliom reference of scope session and its value will be different for each session (one session = one browser process).
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From the time of Copland's first visit to Mexico City in1932, when his friend Carlos Chávez took him to the colorful nightclub called "El Salón México," Copland wanted to compose a piece about the unusual dance hall. He said, "I was attracted by the spirit of the place and by the Mexican people. Using Mexican melodies seemed appropriate. My purpose was not merely to quote literally, but to heighten without in any way falsifying the natural simplicity of Mexican tunes."
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[Edit July 2013: He's had an article ("Quantum Gravity and the Holographic Mass") published in a science journal. Does that mean it is science? Please see here or here for details. Links updated May 2016.]
On many of his videos, and on the main page of his Resonance Project's website, he displays a "prestigious" award for one of his physics papers. What is this? His certificate looks at first to have been awarded for best paper in the whole of "physics, quantum mechanics, relativity, field theory and gravitation" at the entire university of Liège, Belgium in the year 2009, and "chosen by a panel of peer reviewers". That would be quite an accolade.
But when you read the wording, it's clear that it was awarded for best paper presented in that category at a single computing systems conference; and that the 'peer reviewers' who awarded it were just the other people on the conference. Most people understand peer review to mean something quite different.
Two relevant questions here. Firstly, how much would the other people on this conference understand about "physics, quantum mechanics, relativity, field theory and gravitation"? Secondly, how many other papers on these subjects do you think were presented at this particular computing systems conference? It's not likely to be many.
It does sound impressive when described on the website and on videos such as this one. If you've looked at youtube comments and so forth, you'll see that plenty of people are impressed by it. In reality it is no more than a certificate for turning up at a conference in Belgium with a paper.
It seems likely that this is the best he has to show from any respectable institution for his twenty years of research, and he really would like to present something from a university that makes him look like legitimate scientist. You can't accuse him of lying here: to his credit, he puts the certificate in clear view right under our noses. As a display of sheer pretentiousness, it's pretty blatant.
Nassim's main current claim to scientific legitimacy is his paper, The Schwarzschild Proton.
It is eight pages of equations and particle physics, and claims to be a significant step towards potentially deriving the strong force from general relativity. Again, it looks impressive. But there are a number of very sound reasons to dismiss this paper as meaningless.
It's presented as a scientific document, so it's not possible to go into the reasoning properly without using technical language and concepts – which is a shame because I doubt that anyone with a good grasp of these concepts would need me to explain the problems with this paper. For those who are curious, I've presented a more detailed analysis of the Schwarzschild Proton as a separate post.
Broadly, though, the main problems with this paper are:
(a) His overall argument is circular, which means it shows nothing. A hypothesis is presented that a proton might be considered as if it were a black hole, and his first conclusion, after a few pages of equations, is that the forces between them would be very strong, like the forces in a nucleus. But this goes without saying! If you pretend that something is as heavy as a thing can be, then it shouldn't come as a surprise to find that the forces would be as strong as a force can be. There's no significance in this whatsoever.
(b) His theory implies that the nucleus of a single atom of hydrogen has a mass of nearly a billion tons. This does seem a bit silly – but theoretical physicists do hypothesise apparently silly things sometimes, so that's not a deal-breaker. For obvious reasons, though, you need a very convincing reason to do something like that, including an explanation as to why we never measure this huge mass when we weigh hydrogen (or anything else), and none is given.
(c) The paper, while using some scientific terms, is presented at a very basic level. This could be considered a plus – all scientists would agree that there's nothing better than a simple theory, if it works. But Nassim is merely playing with equations from student textbooks (these are the only references cited in the paper), things that have been explored thoroughly for decades, and he's using them in a pretty simplistic way. It's unlikely that he'll find anything that hasn't been found before by doing this. What he has found is some values for things that look suspiciously like what he knew when he started. This is often what happens when you go around in a circle.
It's a bit of a joke to claim that anything profound can come from this kind of thing. But again, it looks cool, and it's clearly enough to impress a lot of his followers. And it won a prestigious award! (see above)
As I mentioned above, you can find a more technical look at his paper here.
Nassim often talks about geometries or field equations or things of mathematical significance. Yet watching videos of him presenting ideas, it's painfully clear that he is clueless when it comes to pretty basic mathematics.
Here is a video of him discussing the phi ratio (or golden ratio), a subject he mentions often. From 5:30 onwards, he is using a CAD program to show a relationship between a phi spiral and a W-shape which has some connection to the 'mathematical' ideas of Marko Rodin.
He spots something that looks like a connection – between the emanation point of the spiral and the intersection of the W-shape (jump in at 8:00 into the video to see this) – and he immediately assumes that he's discovered something significant. What does he do? Does he...
(a) investigate it? No. He does zoom in on it a little on his CAD program to prove his point. But he wouldn't have had to zoom much further to disprove it. In this still from the video, it's fairly clear that the spiral doesn't actually emanate from where the lines cross.
(b) calculate it? No. If he had calculated where the spiral starts and where the lines cross, he'd have found that they're not related at all, and that they're not the same point. If anyone is interested, I've done the calculations here. They're not very difficult – no more than the maths I knew from A-level when I was 17.
(c) announce that his 'discovery' relates to interference resonances and has profound implications for Einstein's field equations and matter spiralling into a black hole and that it links his theories to the 'Mathematical Fingerprint of God'? Yes! It's (c). Watch the video. That's what he does.
So what? Well to me this is significant. We see the results of this kind of thinking throughout his presentations; this is just one particularly blatant example. It makes it clear that this is not someone who investigates mathematical or scientific ideas when jumping to conclusions will do. Nassim (and indeed the other participants in the video) is someone who is way too ready and willing to make outrageous claims, and to jump on anything that looks kind-of right without stopping to question it. He drags into his explanations as many established scientific concepts as possible to make what he says sound convincing, however irrelevant they may be, and throws in some seriously wacky ones for good measure. This is someone who brings the phi ratio, fractals, dimensions or infinities glibly into his presentations and plays the expert, but meanwhile is clueless about mathematics.
No physicist would ever do this. (Well... one would hope.)
For what it's worth, if you still think there may be some connection, common sense should be enough to tell you that when matter spirals into a black hole it is pulled in faster (begins to dive in at a steeper angle) as it moves towards the centre, rather than completing more and more orbits as it gets closer, as shown on Nassim's spiral. I've explained this a little more in the maths post.
I think this example goes some way to explain why so many people love the 'intuitively right' feel of Nassim's ideas. It feels intuitively right to some people because his approach is simply to spot what seems to be a connection or a pattern, and link it up to the first thing that it reminds him of. He's also a master story-teller. Physics could really do with more people who can communicate like him (but who understand what they're talking about, are a bit less self-obsessed and self-promoting, and will tell the truth). Nassim Haramein is not an investigator, rigorously testing his ideas on the touchstone of reality. What he is doing is not science, it is story-telling.
The appeal of his ideas – making the complexities of the universe graspable and simple to understand – is a false appeal. The Universe far more beautiful and complex than this, and far more of a slippery customer. Getting even a glimpse of how it works has taken the collaborative effort of massive numbers of rigorous, dedicated researchers over the ages. It's an affront to Nature to claim that it can be grasped by whatever models and connections happen to come into one guy's head, untested and unquestioned, however intuitive and exciting and real it may all have seemed to him at the time.
It's a attractive idea. Who wants 'the scientists' to have all the answers? The idea that this one guy-next-door character might have these lovely little insights into physics that have all escaped the entire scientific community, that would be one in the eye for the institutions, wouldn't it. You can see the appeal. It'd be a great thing to be a part of. If he wasn't simply making it all up.
A question. If Nassim's ideas, talks and research are scientific and revolutionary, why is the academic community ignoring it? As far as I can tell, no scientist working in any public university anywhere in the world has responded to any of his research, either in a scientific publication or anywhere online. None of his papers have been published in any scientific journal – certainly not one subject to proper peer review [but see top of article for July 2013 update]. Scientists seem to either treat him as a crank or dismiss him altogether. Which of the following reasons sounds most plausible? Is it...
(a) because the scientific establishment are afraid of having all their precious theories overturned?
Science loves having theories overturned. It's true that individual scientists are human and can be reluctant to accept when their way of seeing things is revealed to be false. Some will be slower to accept new things than others. But all will agree that this is part of the job of being a scientist. In addition, many scientists are deeply competitive, and for every theory beloved to one set of scientists, there'll be another set that is devoted to looking for any serious evidence they can use to pull the rug out from under it.
The world scientific community is an extremely diverse and argumentative bunch. Surely it would be crazy to imagine them being capable of unanimously agreeing to dismiss perfectly good ideas sitting right under all their noses.
This is a fact compatible with even the most cynical view of scientists – that they're more often out to prove each other wrong, even to backstab, than to back each other up. It makes it implausible that any scientist actually sees Nassim's ideas as any sort of threat. His ideas have simply never been taken seriously.
(b) because scientists are incapable of seeing outside the box that they were trained to think in, and are too proud to accept radical suggestion from an outsider?
Scientists can be guilty of narrow thinking. If you specialise in an extremely complex area, the effort of getting your head around the ideas within one framework might be so taxing that the last thing you want to be doing is considering the possibility that the whole framework might be wrong. At the same time, there are many scientists who are mavericks and ready for change, ready to throw it all up in the air. They also have all manner of values, and all manner of spiritual outlooks and practices.
There are hundreds of thousands of scientists in the universities of the world, and their ways of thinking are as various as any other group of hundreds of thousands of human beings - if not more so. There'll always be plenty of scientists hungry for any radical idea, especially in topics as hot as grand unified theories, provided it's got some substance.
There may well be unanimous skepticism about things which have utterly no scientific basis, such as someone claiming to have a theory that the moon is made of green cheese. But this is not because of any inability to think outside of the box.
Regarding outsiders – yes, pride and over-cautiousness can get in the way of scientists taking suggestions seriously from people not affiliated to a university. But would every single one of them fall prey to this? Again, scientists, and even scientific establishments, are surely too numerous and too diverse for this to be plausible.
When Garrett Lisi submitted a potentially revolutionary theory for the unification of particle physics, he was an unemployed surfer living in a camper van on a Hawaiian island with no university affiliation. (Aside from now renting a room in a shared house, it seems he still is.) Perhaps the majority of physicists initially did not take him seriously. But there were certainly plenty who did, who were waiting for someone like this to challenge everything, who looked at his work and thought "you know, this guy really does know what he's talking about. He could be onto something here. And I want in on this."
There are so many other examples of theories being accepted from outsiders (Einstein, for one) that this answer doesn't hold any water. If he isn't getting taken seriously, it certainly can't be blamed on a complete worldwide closed-mindedness among all respectable scientists.
(c) because they haven't come across his ideas yet?
Nassim and his Resonance Project have a massive internet presence, and they've been promoting their ideas to scientific bodies, presenting at university conferences (alongside student projects and industry researchers) throughout the world, and submitting papers to peer-review journals at every opportunity for most of the last decade. Not to mention training hundreds of people to promote their ideas for them.
There have been considerable efforts to put an article about Nassim Haramein, the scientist, on Wikipedia. The results can be seen here – I think you'll find the discussion revealing.
(It's worth noting that all Garrett Lisi did to set the academic world abuzz was to present his ideas at a single relatively obscure conference in Iceland.)
(d) because anyone with an understanding of science can see that his claims and his methods are not scientific in any sense of the term, and that he doesn't actually know what he's talking about?
I reckon so.
The Schwarzschild Proton and other ideas from The Resonance Foundation have also been discussed in depth at sciencefile.org.
A similar question. How is it that none of his radical historical ideas have any support from any academic institutions either?
I promised I'd stick to the scientific side... but I'd suggest something roughly along the lines of 'ditto'
There was more I had planned to discuss here. I honestly could go on and on with this guy, but it's already rather longer than I anticipated. (I'm open to suggestions, though.) I don't know how much evidence folks feel they need.
I'm aware that not everyone understands what evidence is. Some people are even prepared to argue that the more effort we put into 'debunking' someone like Nassim, the more likely it is that he's right, because otherwise why would we go to so much trouble?
No. The reason I want to 'debunk' him is because he's wrong. I teach physics and maths to students, and I think it's important to let them know when something is wrong. It's important to be able to tell truth from falsehood - if we don't, then we lose sight of truth altogether. I don't like it when someone pretends to have insights into the laws of physics that all the scientists of the world are supposedly too dumb to have realised, and misuses their charisma to build an uncritical following. And I noticed that there don't seem to be many detailed explanations on the web of why he is wrong. So I thought, at the risk of looking like a nutter for going on about someone at such length, that I'd try to address the imbalance.
Cultivating the image of being a serious scientist by making misleading and false claims in order to attract paying followers is a serious abuse of trust. There are plenty of others I could have gone for instead. Marko Rodin is one. But you have to start somewhere.
I've posted this on an old and rather silly anonymous blog of mine that happens to still get some traffic (mainly because of the Planck Monkeys), because it means I can go on at length without it giving him any legitimacy.
Now if you just want to listen to him because he can tell an entertaining, inspiring, but rather silly story, full of stuff he's made up, then I wouldn't argue with you for doing that at all.
[Edit 22nd July: Response to this article by Nassim Haramein...]
Response from Nassim Haramein
Nassim Haramein's Resonance Project has published a detailed response to this article. To find out more and to read his response for yourself, please see here. Thank you.
Some links:
Debate at sciencefile.org.


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Trent Reznor Continues To Show How Free Music Works In A Business Model
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Now, in an attempt to make that concert (whose tickets are a scarce good people will pay for) even more valuable, he's giving away free tracks of all of the opening acts on the tour. In other words, he's giving people even more reasons to pay to go to the concert. He's giving away that infinite good (the music) to make those scarce goods (the tickets) more valuable. This fits with the model we were discussing just a few weeks ago, of bands giving free downloads to anyone who buys a concert ticket, to boost the value of that ticket. Thanks to everyone who sent this in.


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of course we all have weaknesses. those things that we just can't help but indulging ourselves with despite the fact that we know it's bad.
i have a weakness that has gotten worse throughout my pregnancy- and i thought that maybe it would go away after i had the baby...
my most vulerable times are late at night, and sunday afternoon.
choc. chip cookies.
this is not a new weakness. it's been fostered since i was young. every sunday i would make choc. chip cookies-- that is until my little sister was old enough to take over about the time that i went to college. frankly, she became better than me at making choc. chip cookies. i love her cookies. my dad likes coconut and nuts added... not me. i like semi-sweet chips.. that's all.
not just any cookie will do. certainly NOT a store bought cookie.
not even a bakery made cookie... although, i do enjoy PARADISE cookies. (i enjoy everything at Paradise Bakery). i have become quite the choc. chip cookie snob over the years. and particularly since i have been preg. with capri. i crave them. often, it's the only thing that tastes good to me. while i was pregant... i didn't feel so bad... and now, i am never going to get back into my clothes if i don't quit making cookies twice a week. seriously.
i love them warm- right out of the oven. but after they cool... i put them in a zip-lock bag and into the freezer. for awhile, this was my strategy for hiding them from the kids. and now... i just love frozen cookies. now even the kids love frozen cookies. i like to eat them for breakfast... and as midnight snacks. i made a batch tonight and, if i do say so myself--tonight: perfection. delicious.
so good.
i have to figure out how to break the habit.
it's not like i can replace the craving with carrot sticks. or grapes..
so...for now, it remains a weakness...