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Bookshelf: Nana's Creole Italian Table
By: Jacob Hollifield
Coming of age in a cultural hub like New Orleans is sure to leave an impression on anyone, especially those interested in food. For Elizabeth Williams, founder of the Southern Food & Beverage Museum, the rich heritage of her mother's Sicilian family and the traditions of her father's New Orleans roots set her on an exploration of culture and cuisine that has culminated, after 70 years, into a new New Orleans cookbook, Nana's Creole Italian Table (LSU Press, 2022).
The book, says Williams, "gives a context for people who have any kind of heritage where their family were immigrants. They will be able to read it and feel that their experience is the same because I experienced grandparents who grew up in Sicily, but a mother who was born into New Orleans when there were so many Sicilians."
This New Orleans cookbook traces staunchly Sicilian and classically Creole dishes as they melded through Williams' life at her family's table. Readers can expect gumbos juxtaposed with garlic sauce, and red beans and rice offset by risotto, all meant to celebrate arguably the South's most storied melting pot.
Tracing Williams' Roots with this New Orleans Cookbook
Tell me a little bit about your back- ground as a New Orleanian and as a woman of Sicilian descent.
I was born in New Orleans in 1950 and there were so many Sicilians there. I really grew up with New Orleans surroundings: Going to school in New Orleans and having the experience of being on the streets, going to Mardi Gras, and seeing Second Lines and all the things that you do. But I also was able to go to parties and family gatherings that were all Sicilians, and they still spoke Sicilian and still ate Sicilian. So, I really grew up with both of those experiences happening at the same time.
Elizabeth Williams, image by TJ Bourdeaux
How did your Sicilian and New Orleans backgrounds merge in the kitchen?
You only had the experience of being Sicilian in certain places, whereas you had the experience of being a New Orleanian all the time. My mother married a non-Sicilian and my grandparents used to call him "the American." Because of that, at home, we didn't speak Sicilian or have a Sicilian food preference. He grew up eating rice for example, because he grew up in Louisiana, the rice capital, and so it was red beans and rice or gumbo and rice. He wanted rice; he didn't want pasta every day. I always knew when my mother wanted something from my father because she would fix something that had rice in it.
What did you learn from the time you spent away from New Orleans as a lawyer in the army stationed in Germany?
When I was growing up, I thought everybody ate the way that I ate. I didn't know how to study food because there wasn't a food studies program or anything like that around, so I became a JAG officer. I joined the military because I wanted to live in Europe, and at that time, they were recruiting women to join the military and they would let you choose where you wanted to be. I spent three years in Germany without coming home. Every vacation and every three-day weekend, I was going somewhere and eating because I wanted to experience Switzerland and France and Italy and England and Austria. I went all over the place because I was there—I didn't have to cross the Atlantic every time I wanted to go somewhere.
What inspired you to write the book and why did you feel now was the time to do it?
I have two grown children and I have two grandchildren and I'm in my 70s. So, I said "okay, somebody has to preserve this stuff," and so that's really what it is. All of that experience of not being tied to the motherland, so to speak, but only have descriptions of it and memories of it that other people tell you is something that I think all children of immigrants experience. I wanted to use my example as a way for people to think about that
You use the term "creolization" in the introduction of the book. Can you define that and talk about how you use it throughout the book?
Creole is one of those words that's just fraught with different meanings. I think originally it meant a person who was born in some colony, so that meant anybody who was born in America but whose family was from somewhere else was Creole. We came to the point through Lafcadio Hearn's book [Creole Cookbook (Arcadia, 1885)] of calling the food of New Orleans Creole—he named it Creole.
When you have these practices that develop within what is a former colony, you are "creolizing" it because it is mixed with whatever already exists there. It's a cultural exchange that happens naturally because you're exposed to the culture of where you are, but also you have some culture that you carry with you and they kind of merge.
Can you talk about the significance of the order the chapters as a New Orleans cookbook?
I really wanted the story to unfold so that people who weren't familiar with the history of New Orleans and Sicilians could get a sense of what happened. So, I talked about how the Sicilians came going all the way back to the end of the Civil War, I talked about the resurgence that happened because of what was going on in Italy with Garibaldi so people would understand [why] the Sicilians came here, the kinds of struggles they had, and how many of them there were, and how people saw it as a threat.
Is there a favorite recipe of yours in the book, or one that just you feel like encapsulates the community that it's about?
I really picked out the olive salad recipe that my grandmother brought, and how it changed with my mother and then me, to explain how things kind of develop.
I also think, another recipe or two that are illustrative are the red gravy and the tomato sauce recipes that you can look at side by side and see how the way people cook in New Orleans really influenced creating red gravy. I have done experiments where you make a red gravy and you make the Sicilian tomato sauce and eat them side by side and see how different they are, how there's a different mouthfeel, a different flavor. Even though you can treat them the same way, they are different and that really shows you how New Orleans influenced Sicilian food.
Creole Red Gravy from Nana's Creole Italian Table
Red Gravy
1⁄4 cup bacon grease
1⁄4 cup flour
2 celery stalks, chopped
3 scallions, chopped
3 (8-ounce) cans tomato sauce
1⁄4 cup chopped parsley
1 tablespoon Creole Italian seasoning mix (follows)
1 teaspoon Louisiana hot sauce (or more to taste)
Cooked spaghetti
Grated Italian cheese
Creole Italian Seasoning Mix
2 teaspoons dried basil
2 teaspoons dried oregano
2 teaspoons dried parsley
1½ teaspoons ground anise or fennel seed
2 teaspoons dried whole thyme
Prepare Italian Creole Seasoning Mix: Place all ingredients in a jar then screw on the lid and shake thoroughly. Keep in a cool, dark place and make sure to use seasoning liberally.
Prepare the red gravy: In a large pot with a heavy bottom, heat bacon grease over medium-low heat. Slowly sauté flour, stirring constantly, until it is the color of café au lait, a medium-light brown.
Add onion and garlic and cook 2 minutes. Add celery, bell pepper, and scallions. When vegetables are soft, add tomato sauce. Stir and simmer uncovered 1 hour.
Add parsley, Creole Italian seasoning mix, thyme, and hot sauce. Salt and pepper to taste. Serve over spaghetti and top with grated Italian cheese.
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Alex Rodriguez: Jackpot!
As a report alleges the would-be greatest baseball player in history took steroids in 2003, look back at the run-up to those years with this intimate profile.
By Scott Raab
Originally published in the April 2001 issue of Esquire.
Scott Boras—Scott Freakin' Boras, the Most Hated Man in Baseball, the heartless bastard hell-bent on destroying our National Pastime, the keen-eyed pimp of ball-hogging, bat-whipping, splitter-hurling youth -- he walks among us, here in the lobby of the elephantine Wyndham Anatole Hotel in Dallas, during the long December weekend of the game's annual winter meetings, in his blue sweater-vest, blue denim shirt, and jeans, his cloven hooves hidden in soft brown shoes, toting a tan leather satchel as battered as Yogi's old catcher's mitt. Boras has a suite upstairs, but nowhere does he ride -- not even the elevator down to the hotel café -- without the satchel. The satchel doesn't touch the floor, either: It gets a chair all to itself.
"Every contract I've done has been carried in that." Boras nods at the satchel. "Six different handles. People see a bag; when I see this, it's no different than a cow -- I'm close to that leather."
Boras grew up milking the cows and riding the tractor on his parents' small dairy farm -- they raised alfalfa, too -- not far from Sacramento. He is plain of face and speech, stocky and squint-eyed, piercing and direct. He played minor league ball for the Cubs and Cardinals in the 1970s -- rose as high as AA -- but never even sipped a cup of coffee in the Show. Even in the minors, though, Boras kept up with his college courses; by the early '80s, he'd earned a Ph.D. in industrial pharmaceutics and a law degree and spent five years in a large Chicago firm defending drug companies against product-liability lawsuits before pledging his soul to the financial ruin of God's favorite pro sport.
Jeff Carlick
It was either Vito Corleone or Vin Scully who first said that one lawyer with a briefcase could heist more cash than a hundred men with guns. Boras is proof: He represents only fifty-five major league players, but three of his pitchers have signed record-setting deals in the last four seasons; he also represents forty minor-leaguers, and with them he has thrown the game's amateur draft system into fiscal chaos, consistently plucking the ripest of young plums, forcing ball clubs to fork over fair market value for them before taking the first bite; and by the time this weekend is over, he will have bamboozled the Texas Rangers into making twenty-five-year-old shortstop Alex Rodriguez an offer he can't refuse: $252 million over ten years, plus bonus and escalator clauses, exactly twice the dollar amount of the previous highest-priced player contract in the history of American sport.
And Scott Boras, who takes 5 percent, will once more be vilified -- along with Rodriguez -- as the cancer killing the game.
"The greedy agent," says Boras. "When you bring a player to a team, they don't reward you for it -- the team recruited him. But if you take a player, the team didn't lose him -- the agent took him away. For money. Everything is about money; nothing is about anything you do to accentuate the performance of the player. None of that is ever talked about. It's money. It's contract. It's not talent assessment. It's not doing things that help the player -- his career, his life, his family. It's money. I used to fight that battle early on. I stopped. I go into a city now and I say, 'Okay, where're my horns?' "
I wasn't expecting horns, really, but at least an Armani suit and a shiny pair of Pradas.
Satan gives up a dry chuckle and a grin that flashes like a dagger.
"I worry about what's in here," he says, reaching to pat the satchel. "We've got very dressed-up computers. Our data -- it's very polished. That's the extent of our style."
He is picking at his salad, a Cobb salad, at a table on a terrace open to the lobby proper, and two separate clusters of reporters in the near distance stand watching him carefully.
"You see that bunch there?" Boras asks, jabbing his fork. "That's the L.A. group. They know their shit. I have great respect for them -- the beat writers. Their problem is they love the game."
Satan has no need of sugar now: He's got leverage.
Everyone at the winter meetings loves the game, including Boras, but few know it so well or get so little sugar in return. Scouts hate Boras because his nose for the scent of nubile, unsigned talent is at least as sharp as theirs and because the financial demands of any draftee linked with Boras will scare off some clubs regardless of their scouts' recommendations. General managers fear him because he doesn't schmooze away trade secrets or play scratch-my-back. Owners dread him because he shapes his monster deals and arbitration battles with a database that includes every pitch thrown in every major league game since 1979 and because when an owner says, "Well, those are some impressive numbers, Scott, but the truth is I just can't afford to pay that much for this player," Boras will say, "Then let's take a peek at your balance sheet and see how we might make it work." And the commissioner despises him because Boras has no patience for Bud Selig's death-rattling about how payroll disparities and the lack of competitive balance can't be helped until the players make the owners stop paying them so much money.
"Hocus-pocus," says Boras. "Players have to meet standards or they're released. The same thing should apply to baseball ownership. You wanna talk about traditions and the betterment of the game? If you have not achieved a standard of performance as a team, you should be required to sell it. If for ten years you are outside the playoffs, if you're just sitting there riding the tide of inflation and you really don't care, then give it to somebody who does care."
Satan has no need of sugar now: He's got leverage. Never has any sport's finest player been dangled at so tender an age before the open market. Boras will get 150 phone messages before this day is done, and the media will stand sentry at the elevators to mark his every coming and going, and starry-eyed general managers will paw at the door of his suite like prom-bound schoolboys.
"You know the great thing?" Boras says. "We don't know where he's going, neither I nor Alex. We've got it narrowed down, but we don't know. As exact as this game is -- are you gettin' three hits tonight? -- that's exactly how you know where you're gonna go. You don't know."
He grins again.
"But you know what they say about Dallas -- you never get out of this town with your gun."
The title of the book is Alex Rodriguez: Historical Performance. The Scott Boras Corporation published an edition of fifty, at a cost of $35,000. Light on character development, barely seventy pages long, with more blank white space than John Rocker's brain, it offers a vivid, nay, compelling plot: A-Rod, a bilingual Latino American heartthrob middle infielder, natural-born leader of manly men who take group showers, smashes all-time career records for home runs, runs scored, and runs batted in, becoming, by age forty, the greatest baseball player who has ever adjusted his cup.
And then, just before A-Rod's induction into a wing of the Hall of Fame built especially to house his plaque, bat, glove, cleats, and wristbands, his jealous evil twin, Nim-Rod, threatens to nuke the sleepy village of Cooperstown unless...okay, so I'm making this part up. But the rest of it is there, ten chapters of data comparing A-Rod at age twenty-four with everyone from Junior Griffey and Big Mac back to Willie Mays and the Georgia Peach, all spiced by paeans to A-Rod's unquantifiable but no less precious valor and virtue as sung by teammates, coaches, managers, executives, even journalists, including one long quote from a Miami Herald writer that ends as follows: Yes, Alex Rodriguez can save baseball.
The odd thing is, you meet Alex Rodriguez -- born in New York City of Dominican heritage, six three and 210 pounds, with skin of gleaming caramel and an easy, honeyed smile, well-spoken both en Español y en Ingles, sober and self-controlled -- and even the claim of saviorhood comes to seem, ah, not modest, certainly, but not as far-fetched as it first sounds.
The kid collects art, for God's sake, real Art: Chagall and Miró and Picasso.
Boras wears sweater-vests; A-Rod is the spiff. Tonight, taking in a Heat-Lakers game in Miami with Boras a few days after the deal was done, he's all in black -- wide-wale corduroys, cashmere crewneck, leather car coat, and a pair of black-and-white lace-ups that just may be the swiftest kicks humankind has ever seen.
On and off the diamond, Rodriguez glides and smolders at once. Model handsome, yes, but he also has the presence that some great athletes possess, a coiled charisma, a blend of size and mastery, muscle and confidence, the aura of self-knowledge and -belief forged and tempered by a life in competition.
Oh, and he admires Leonardo da Vinci. The kid collects art, for God's sake, real Art: Chagall and Miró and Picasso.
"Because I love art," he says shyly. "It brings happiness and life to my house."
Speaking of art, Alex, have you seen that A-Rod book?
He nods, straight-faced.
"I've got a lot of work to do," he says, "a lot of motivation. I'm chasing all those things -- internally. It's not good to talk about it. It's hard to compete when you don't have a place in the game now as a shortstop, so you have to look years back to find someone to compete against. That's what I do. I'm playing against guys like Ernie Banks or Hank Aaron or Ozzie Smith."
If this assessment ignores the most gifted shortstops he actually plays against -- Nomar Garciaparra of the Boston Red Sox and the Yankees' Derek Jeter -- well, Alex is better than they are. He has far more power at the plate (41 home runs, 132 RBIs, and a slugging percentage of .606 last season), more range and arm in the field, more speed on the bases, and now more -- lots more -- money.
Alex Rodriguez now has so much money that when he hands the VIP-lounge waiter a hundred-dollar bill to cover four bottles of spring water, the waiter asks if he needs change.
"Yeah, I need change," Alex says, shaking his head in disgust.
So much money that the Heat's Tim Hardaway, no peon his own self, comes bopping through the lounge, spots Alex, and heads over for a handout.
"Alex! Man. Da-yam!"
"What's up, Timmy?"
"Da-yam! Congratulations, man."
"What's up, big boy? How you feelin', man?"
"Da-yam! I need a loan, man. Da-yam!"
So much goddamned money that he spends most of his public time pleading not guilty for taking it.
"I only worry about the people I love and the people who love me."
"When I signed out of high school, that was the biggest thrill of my life, because I could buy my Cherokee, my black Cherokee, for thirty grand. I thought, Man, I've never been happier. You go up to an $11 million contract for four years -- that was really neat, too, because I could buy my first house.
"I was ridiculed for four years about my contract in Seattle, people telling me that I was grossly underpaid, that Scott's a bad agent. Now I'm grossly overpaid, and he's too greedy. Everything I've ever wanted, I already have. I'm already spoiled beyond anything. I feel like my life is a dream.
"My talent, what the man upstairs blessed me with, hiring Scott -- the result was my contract. But my work and my love for the game come way before that." He shrugs. "People are going to make up their own minds. I only worry about the people I love and the people who love me."
You almost feel bad for the kid, for the edge of hurt pride, the high-pitched plaint, in his voice. His father deserted the family when Alex was a lad of ten. His mother worked two jobs to make sure her children wore decent clothes to decent schools. His nose is clean, his Website, arod.com, is simple to navigate, and his Range Rover is three years old. The Rolling Stones rake in $75 million on their latest Swollen Prostate Tour and no one sermonizes about cancer-research funding, but let Alex Rodriguez earn a deal that vaults his annual salary up there with such living saints as Celine Dion and Tom Cruise, and baseball has been stained beyond redemption.
He doesn't wear makeup or croon, but A-Rod is no less an entertainer. Fans pay to see him play -- the Rangers' advance ticket sales for the 2001 season are expected to reach nearly two million -- he plays on TV, and he does all his own stunts. Plus, he risks his livelihood each time he takes the field. No pre-free-agency baseball star ever got paid close to what he was worth, in dollars and cents, to his team or his sport. Thanks to Scott Boras, A-Rod will.
Not that the men who run baseball know or care what a jewel like Alex Rodriguez might be worth in terms of attracting young and unwhite fans and all the future stars now shooting hoops and catching passes. In fact, you'd have thought from their reactions to his deal that A-Rod had been convicted of conspiring to shoot his pregnant girlfriend dead.
"The system has to be changed, and it will be changed," said commissioner Bud Selig from his burrow in Manhattan.
"Stupefying," said Sandy Alderson, Selig's right-hand man, in Dallas for the winter meetings. "Every club will be affected by this.... There will be people who say, 'Stop whining.' But clearly we have a crisis situation, and it's time for us to deal with it."
Alderson, by the way, is the same guy who, in 1990, as general manager of the Oakland Athletics, inked gun-toting hulk Jose Canseco to a record-setting five-year, $23 million deal.
(When we asked Sandy Alderson to speak with us for this story, his spokesman said that he would prefer not to.)
A-Rod, he gets it: Business is business, and in the baseball business, owners crying poverty is a century-old tradition.
"When Babe Ruth first signed for a hundred thousand -- there were the same issues then," Alex says. "This is a large business, and it's getting larger. This has been blown up, all these numbers. It's over. Now let's go play ball."
You wonder if the kid will find it harder to focus on the field now. He looks you right in the eye.
"No. My responsibility increases. I'm under a bigger microscope. But I always go back to the beauty and the clarity of the game."
Big Tom Hicks, he ain't been stupefied. No way, nohow.
"For Sandy Alderson to come into my city and trash our signin' the best player in baseball..."
Hicks weighs his verbal options while his left hand slowly curls into a meaty fist. Hicks is a bull of a man -- six three and well north of the Mendoza line weightwise -- with a dry husk of an east Texas drawl. There are 381 names above his on Forbes magazine's list of the 400 wealthiest Americans -- but I'd bet green money that the fifty-five-year-old Hicks could kick their butts, one at a time or all at once.
"Well," he finishes, lips pursed in a sour smile, "I thought that was pretty inappropriate."
Hicks collects companies -- close to two hundred over the past ten years or so -- as cofounder, CEO, and chairman of Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, a leveraged-buyout firm. In 1998, he bought the Texas Rangers from his buddy George W. Bush; in 1996, he bought the Dallas Stars. That ring on Big Tom's fist, crusted with big ol' diamonds -- that came with the Stars winnin' the Stanley Cup 'bout, oh, two years back.
Somebody here digs art, too, although it's more along the lines of furniture and statuary than all that painty crap. The Hicks, Muse offices are one whole floor -- you step off the elevator and turn right into a four-rod-square waiting room full of marble and dark wood and sculpted cherubs and tufted chairs with tiny curved feet and gilt-edged clocks that stopped running a couple of centuries back, and then a voice in your left ear says, "Can I help you," and it isn't the receptionist and it isn't a question: It's the brawny security guy whose name might be Earl or Raymond but whose suit is better than yours, and from the tinge of malice in his smile you can see that, Earl or Raymond, he knows it.
He saw Tiger, too, and Michael, and ol' Roger Staubach himself, all rolled into one.
Big Tom's own office is more sedate, with kind of an attached executive maid's quarters where two assistants work, and a desk you could land a corporate jet on, and shelves full of actual books, leather bound, some of which he may have actually cracked.
"Our model is to keep payroll to 50 to 55 percent of revenue," Hicks says, "real payroll, real cash. We're gonna be a little over $80 million, and our revenue this year will exceed $160 million. Our payroll goin' into free agency was $49 million. Compare that to where the Yankees were, where the Dodgers were, the Mets or Atlanta or Boston. We knew there was a bumper crop of free agents, and we didn't like the team we had. We got cheaper, we got younger, and we put ourselves in a position to have the flexibility to do what we've done."
Hicks opened the A-Rod book and didn't see only the shortstop who'd shatter Henry Aaron's records and deliver another ring or three unto his hammy fist: He saw Tiger, too, and Michael, and ol' Roger Staubach himself, all rolled into one.
"I read in one of the New York papers that I fell in love with Alex. I didn't fall in love. Alex Rodriguez is a good asset, and he's gonna own this city. Traditionally, the marquee athlete here has been a Dallas Cowboy. Alex will wear that cape. At his age, with his success and potential, he deserves to be the highest-paid guy in baseball -- no question. After the first time I met him, I knew he wasn't goin' back to Seattle. I only worried about Atlanta and the Mets."
So while A-Rod spent the weekend of the winter meetings playing golf in Las Vegas, Big Tom Hicks and Scott Boras got after it good up at the Anatole. Real good, with Boras ducking out of the room to phone updates to Alex as Hicks kept upping the ante.
"Scott's a good negotiator," Hicks grins. "He was tryin' to get a twelve-year contract that could be repriced after three years. If we were gonna invest in Alex, we wanted to give our team a chance to really benefit from what he brings. And if our fans are gonna fall in love with A-Rod, we want him to be here for a while. The most important thing was to lock him in for seven years, particularly in the early years, at reasonable numbers."
What Big Tom did -- "Very smart of the guy," says Boras, "very smart" -- was to jack up the salary, all the way up to $242 million for ten years, with $36 million of it deferred. Slowly they worked out the deferral schedule and interest rates, the option and escalator clauses, and a list of twelve award bonuses so minutely crafted by Boras as to guarantee Rodriguez an extra shiny nickel for each time he appears on camera in uniform without spitting or tugging at himself.
"The last thing he put on the table," says Hicks, "was this signing bonus. He said he talked to Alex and that it was important to Alex -- he needed $10 million to get situated, he wanted to buy a home in Dallas. So we swallowed hard and said yes to the $10 million on the basis that it would be deferred over five years."
Maybe he could've stared Boras down. But he didn't.
Hicks gulped it down, but something still sticks in his craw.
"Two, three days later, I told Boras, I said, 'I've been thinking about this, and I never look back on a deal at all, but I do keep score. I could've stared you down on that $10 million. You bring another player in here someday and I'm gonna get that $10 million back.' "
Hicks didn't wait long: When he took Rodriguez to lunch a few days later, the subject of signing bonuses somehow came up.
"Alex looked at me with that boyish grin and said, 'Mr. Hicks, when you renegotiate my contract in seven years, I'm gonna give you back the $10 million.' So we shook hands on it. And he'll do it."
As soon as Boras heard about the lunch, he called Hicks.
"I get you around my client for fifteen minutes and what do you do? You get $10 million out of him? You're killing me."
Maybe Hicks could've stared down Boras on that $10 million, but I doubt it: Boras is always the guy with the ace showing, and the next time he blinks at the poker table or turns over his hole card will be the very first.
But then again, the Braves had folded their hand by refusing to give A-Rod a no-trade clause, and the Mets had beshat themselves back in November by claiming publicly that Boras had tried to shake them down for all manner of perks, which Boras steadfastly denies. The Mariners' best and last offer was a halfhearted five years at $19 million per, with less than $60 million guaranteed. The Orioles and the White Sox made late, hapless plays. The Rockies spent their free-agent dollars on pitching, and the Dodgers, with all their Murdoch money, never made it to the table.
Which left Big Tom. Maybe he could've stared Boras down. But he didn't.
"I assure you," Hicks says, "he had other ten-year offers, and he had other offers over $20 million per year. I assure you."
And right there is the tell -- proof positive that this is one deal Big Tom is damned sure looking back on. Because I had not said one word about the chance that Hicks had indeed been bidding against himself.
Which doesn't make Hicks anybody's patsy. He got what he paid for: brilliance unto genius.
Nobody ever misjudged Alex Rodriguez—not Tom Hicks, not the scouts who saw him as a schoolboy, and surely not young A-Rod himself, who would look up from his geometry homework and see agents flitting across his lawn like geckos.
"They had to buy a new front door," Boras says. "I scratched off the first one. I came here nine times in two months. Alex was so busy with school and baseball that it was hard to get time."
Boras and Rodriguez are kicking back after the Heat-Lakers game, reminiscing. It's their first chance to toast the deal; Boras flew in today from Baltimore, where he completed a four-year, $28 million deal for another free agent, David Segui. He was here in Miami a few days before that, but he'd been busy hammering out a five-year, $35 million contract with the Florida Marlins for catcher Charles Johnson. The winter meetings ended a week ago (lost in all the A-Rod hoo-ha in Dallas was pitcher Darren Dreifort, yet another Boras guy, signing for five years and $55 million with the Dodgers, which brings his grand total for the past ten days to, um, what's 5 percent of $370 million?), and Scott Boras has spent nine hours at home since.
"You remember the guy," Boras says, starting to giggle, "that one guy who brought you -- he brought a bag."
Alex dissolves in laughter while Boras continues.
"This was the last couple of months of high school -- that's when all the agents come because they hear it from the scouts."
Boras, of course, had been scouting Alex for three years by then. The kid was hardly a secret: A three-time high school all-American, Alex was named U.S.A. Baseball's Junior Player of the Year and Gatorade's National Student Athlete of the Year. As a senior, he hit .505 with thirty-five stolen bases.
"This guy comes and takes you to lunch at Denny's...."
"Not Denny's," Alex gasps. "It was Hooters!"
"What'd he whip out on the table? A batting helmet?"
"Batting gloves. Shoes. Bats."
"He brought the equipment bag with him."
Suddenly Alex isn't laughing.
"A lot of Latin kids have nothing," he says. "They love it. But to me it was insulting. The limos -- they came into my living room trying to wow me with all these things. And Scott never once said anything like that. He was factual: 'Let me tell you why you and I make a great combination. Let me tell you why if you do your job, I can do mine.'
"Those other guys were just a bunch of baloney -- they shot themselves in the foot. I don't want to hear stories. I want to hear facts. I don't need you as a friend. I need you as my attorney. The advantage I have with Scott -- like I already told him, I can fire you now, because you've got your job done for the next ten years -- but seriously, not only do I think that I have the best negotiator in the big leagues, but I have a good human being, a family man who sets a good example for me. The contract's over -- now I'm paying for the advice he can give me on a daily, weekly, yearly basis as I go through my career."
Boras glows fondly. "The thing that made it easy was that Alex always loved baseball," he says. "That was our common love."
Alex gloves the lob and crosses the bag. "I have a love affair with the game of baseball that is so sincere and genuine -- I don't know. I don't know where it comes from, to be honest with you."
Me: "'The clarity and beauty of the game' -- like you said before. That says it all."
"Hah. Tell Mike Lupica that," Boras says.
"He's killin' me, man," says A-Rod.
"Eleven times he left his job to go for higher compensation," Boras says.
"He kills me on national TV," says Alex, his voice rising. "On The Sports Reporters. I would like to ask that guy, What would you do if you had this guarantee? He's barkin', 'You wanna win? Seattle gave you a winner.' So what? I made a business decision. An economic decision. It was simple."
"The thing that bothers me the most," Boras says, "is that this guy doesn't understand baseball. He doesn't understand why Seattle won last year. This year he's gonna find out why they won."
Alex is unsmiling, hard-faced. "The thing about Mike Lupica that pisses me off," he says, "is that he makes me look like the biggest dickhead in the world, and then he takes a guy like Jeter and just puts him way up there."
Rich Pilling
So much for the brotherhood of shortstops united under the fatherhood of Honus Wagner.
"There's a big difference," says Boras. "Jeter had seventy-one RBIs and fifteen home runs. Jeter and Nomar last year had fifteen and twenty-one home runs. You can have a golden bulldozer, but if there's no dirt to push..."
"Jeter's been blessed with great talent around him," Alex says. "He's never had to lead. He can just go and play and have fun. And he hits second -- that's totally different than third and fourth in a lineup. You go into New York, you wanna stop Bernie and O'Neill. You never say, Don't let Derek beat you. He's never your concern."
A-Rod collects art. Tom Hicks collects companies. Scott Boras collects talent.
"Remember," Boras says, "when the troops are marching, who's the first to die?"
"The leader of the pack," Alex answers.
"The leader. Being a leader, you're always gonna take the bullet. Whenever one of these contracts is done, it's the worst decision in baseball. This is part of the tradition of our game."
"But the 250 mark, Scott. How long do you think that will take to break?" Alex asks.
"Aw," Boras says, smiling wide, "gimme a week."
"The privilege and respect in this game have always revolved around one thing," Boras says. "Talent. The only power that any of us have in this game -- teams or agents or whatever -- is players. The talents. That's the commodity."
Bleary-eyed and hoarse, Boras sits at his desk in a nondescript third-floor suite in an island of smoked-glass buildings in Irvine, California, two minutes from John Wayne Airport, itching for the next deal, the next flight out. He flew home from Cleveland on Christmas Eve at 10:00 p.m., then zipped off with his wife and their three children on a five-day ski trip to Colorado, where Boras and the satchel holed up in the lodge while his family hit the slopes. Last night, he and his team banged heads in the conference room until 1:30 a.m., pitching arguments for Jason Varitek's arbitration hearing, and in an hour he heads back to Cleveland to complete a one-year, $10 million deal with the Indians for Juan Gonzalez.
"We could've gotten thirty million, guaranteed," Boras says. "But we would've had to do it for two years in a place Juan didn't want to play. I always do what's best for the players. Money is one thing, but putting them in an environment where they can succeed? You have to."
There are two theories put forth to explain why Scott Boras is the devil. The dumber one cites his insatiable greed. Oh, the money counts, yeah: Sweater-vests don't grow on trees. But Boras is already famous for being the sharpest lawyer and negotiator in sports; if it was all about the money, he could go cherry-picking among the five or ten best players in the NFL, NBA, and NHL, too. Shaq's daddy, Oscar De La Hoya, Hollywood's A-listers: Boras gets plenty of feelers. Two years ago, he spurned a nine-figure offer -- not just money: A-Rod money -- to sell his agency outright.
The other theory posits an embittered ex-minor-leaguer -- call him Bo-Rod -- who couldn't make the majors and decided to avenge himself on the game by wreaking legal and financial mayhem upon it. This theory might hold water if Boras hadn't wrecked both knees. Hadn't gotten that doctorate in pharmacy. Hadn't practiced medical law. And hadn't known, all along, that he wasn't good enough to make the Show.
"I tried," he says. "I really gave it my all. And it was so much fun trying. In the end -- my knees. I had to have 'em drained all the time. I had no lateral movement. When that went away, my opportunity to be a competent major league player went away."
Scott Boras stepped to the plate for the last time in 1977, at twenty-five years old. He had watched tough men break down in tears in the parking lot after getting released, hometown studs invincible to everything except truth and time. They'd hung on in the minors year after year, without training or skills beyond baseball, hoping for a shot that never would come.
"Everyone's goal is a long-term major league career," Boras says. "They use that term -- career. I say, That's not in our vocabulary. This is an opportunity; it is not a career. The number that we crunch? A six-year major league career -- .0025 percent. It ain't happenin'. It's a wonderful, wonderful game. And it's a wonderful opportunity. But it is not a career."
Boras left the field on his own terms, but he never forgot what he'd seen. When a couple of former teammates who'd made it to the bigs sought his help in negotiating their contracts in the '80s -- Boras was practicing law in Chicago by then -- he said yes. By '85, he was a full-time agent, focused mainly on the amateur draft. For four consecutive years, beginning in 1988, his picks got record-setting signing bonuses. Boras recognized even then that good pitching would forever be in short supply; today, more than two thirds of his clients are pitchers, including Greg Maddux and Kevin Brown, who signed contracts, in '97 and '98, that made each of them, for a while, the highest-paid player in baseball.
The first time Boras saw Alex Rodriguez play, A-Rod was a spindly-legged fourteen-year-old. Boras didn't see 5 percent of a quarter-billion-dollar contract. He didn't see a shovel he could use to bury Bud Selig 'neath the hard-packed dirt. He saw talent. Phenomenal talent.
"Alex was in the big leagues at age eighteen. I never told him this, but I was just scared for him. Here he is, in the big leagues, and I was just sitting there thinking, I've got this guy who could be the greatest player in the game, and they're gonna damage him.
"But every time I'd go to the ballpark, I'd think, What am I worried about? This guy -- he's got it."
Managers and general managers -- without talent, they're quickly out of work. Sometimes, they rush raw players, overpitch young arms, destroy confidence and careers. Owners will bargain hard and then present themselves as victims of greed. Commissioners will poor-mouth the product and scapegoat the talent. The players are the game, but sometimes the men who run the sport lose sight of that.
Never Boras. Yes, he is shrewd. Tireless. Calculating. Wickedly smart. That doesn't make him Satan; if you're a ballplayer, that makes Scott Boras the guy you want covering your back. He has a staff of fifteen; eight played big-league ball. Some coached and managed; some went to Harvard, Stanford, Duke. They wear T-shirts and jeans to work; they eat lunch at a sports bar, order chili, and make fart jokes; they spend eighteen-hour days at the office six, seven days a week; and they can't wait to tell you why Jason Varitek deserves to be paid more for his fourth season than Jorge Posada got. Boras has ten scouts planted in baseball hotbeds from Cape Cod to Venezuela, a full-time sports psychologist, and a computer engineer who used to work for NASA.
"Every working hour is the game," says Boras. "I wasn't playing baseball for the money -- I knew that early on. I was playing to compete. It was a kick. It was really, really challenging. This is my life. That's what I do. It's a privilege. It's just great. It's just never anything but absolutely intriguing for me."
A-Rod said it: Before the money comes the love. Find the work you love: voilà! -- you've found all the beauty and clarity one battered satchel of a heart can hold. You've found your game.
Framed on his desk is a small photo of Boras in his early twenties. It must be spring training: He's wearing a Cubs uniform. There's a bat resting on his shoulder. His hair is fat and blond under his cap, his smile is sunlit.
"I wasn't going back to that farm," Boras says. "I hated it. I was in jail. Out on that damned tractor all day long. I didn't mind the cows so much. But I wasn't going back."
Boras laughs and walks over to the window. The bat's over there in the corner -- the Louisville Slugger S361 he carried to home plate that last time up, in San Antonio, in 1977, with Bob Welch on the mound. Bob Welch, who went up to the Dodgers in '78 and spent seventeen years in the bigs.
"I always hear it -- Man, I'd do this for a million dollars. I say, Look, we all would. This is about mystery. The real mystery of this is, Why would someone pay someone? 'Cause all these players would play this game for love."
Boras holds the bat in front of him, the handle resting in both palms, weighing it, bouncing it, feeling the heft of the barrel.
Welch goes into his stretch.
"Fastball," Boras says, open-eyed and dreaming. "Outside corner."
The fingers of both hands wrap above the knob. Gently, gently.
"Double," Boras says, nodding, grinning, rocking on his feet.
Double?
"Double. Left center-field gap."
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NEW YORK — New York began picking up garbage yesterday for the first time since the blizzard a week ago, while on the West Coast a winter storm turned the main highway between Southern and Central California into a snowy, icy parking lot.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the next step will be figuring out what went wrong with the storm cleanup.
Bloomberg was asked yesterday whether budget cuts had an impact on snow removal. The mayor said the city used the same number of workers as in previous storms.
The Christmas weekend blizzard dumped 20 inches of snow on the city.
Doherty said all the city's 6,000 miles of streets have been plowed. About 1,100 garbage trucks began yesterday to collect 50,000 tons of trash that built up while workers were devoted to removing snow, he said.
Cleanup costs from the storm totaled at least $20 million, out of a snow-removal budget of $38.8 million for this fiscal year, according to Sanitation Department figures.
Also yesterday, New York authorities said a man who tried to jump to his death from his ninth floor apartment was saved by a heap of trash bags that had gone uncollected since the blizzard.
Fire officials say the 26-year-old was taken to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan shortly after noon Sunday. He was listed in critical but stable condition.
In California, hundreds of motorists returning from the New Year's holiday found themselves stuck after Interstate 5 was closed for a second day over the 4,160-foot-high Tejon Pass, about 70 miles north of Los Angeles.
The California Highway Patrol closed a 30-mile section Sunday because of blowing snow.
"It took us two hours to go five miles,'' said Charlie Crandall, who was trying to return north after visiting relatives in San Diego. He and a friend were lucky enough to get hotel rooms nearby, but hundreds more didn't get lodging, and cars kept coming.
"A lot of people slept in their cars last night,'' said Crandall, 55.
Other drivers spent hours crawling over Interstate 15's snowy Cajon Pass to get back to Los Angeles from Las Vegas, where there was a trace of snow yesterday at the official measuring station near McCarran International Airport.
National Weather Service meteorologist John Adair said up to 6 inches of snow fell overnight in Pahrump, about 60 miles west of Las Vegas.
The weather service predicted more snow at elevations as low as 1,500 feet.


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Abruzzo is a Region rich in Natural Parks and mountains. One over all, the Gran Sasso, one of the most loved mountains in Italy, that thanks to its 2.912 meters guards all the inhabitants of the Region (that is why its nickname is "the sleeping giant"). Marvelous are also the Laga Mountains, characterized by beeches, firs, chestnuts and oaks, the natural habitat which protects the brown bear from the Marsica area, a precious endangered specie, wolves, wild boars, porcupines and all the fauna You can find here. Abruzzo is a land appreciated even for its enchanted valleys, seas, falls and long coasts, culture and arts: many and fascinating are indeed the abbeys, castels, hermitages, holy places, villages and fortresses You can find on the territory and that some times have hosted commercials or very important and famous movies, think to "Ladyhawke", with Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfeiffer, which was shooted near L'Aquila. Numerous are also the chance to do trekking, along different paths which allow You to discover many Franciscan monasteries, in the Val Fino, or the Gran Sasso hermitages, such as the one of San Nicola in Fano a Corno, the one of Fra Nicola and the one of Santa Colomba. Do not forget the culture and folklore and the lots of festivals and local traditions which make lively the Abruzzo all year long and that delight who choose this land for a pleasant stay.
The Torre di Cerrano gives the Abruzzo coast one of the most beautiful views of the sea. Located between Pineto and Silvi Marina, it stands directly on the beach, with all its grandeur. The building, which takes its name from the nearby Cerrano stream, is one of the ancient coastal towers of the Kingdom of Naples, whose construction dates back to 1568. The entire complex has remained almost intact since then, while the upper and lateral parts of the Tower they have been added in more recent times by the families who owned it before it became the patrimony of the Province of Teramo.
Torre di Cerrano
Today it is one of the headquarters of the Water Biology Center of the Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of Abruzzo and Molise (IZS A & M) and also houses the Museum of the Sea, the Info Point of the Marine Protected Area, established a few years ago in the area, and the International Veterinary Training Center of the IZS A & M.
The Tower is surrounded by a wonderful garden with typical Mediterranean vegetation, open to the public every day from morning to evening in the summer. There you can find monumental pines and important plants for their use or for the rarity that distinguishes them.
A few steps from the Hotel Jean Pierre, the landscape offers a unique panorama, made even more impressive by the beauty of the Cerrano Tower.
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A few kilometers from Pineto, you can find one of the most interesting spectacles of nature, typical of the Adriatic landscape, but which only in Abruzzo, and specifically in the territory of Atri, reaches its maximum spectacularity. The Calanchi di Atri Regional Nature Reserve extends for 380 hectares, with a difference in height from 106m to 468m, and preserves the famous Calanchi di Atri, originating from the erosion of the clayey soil, caused by deforestation and by desiccation and washout, which also show the presence in the soil of numerous marine fossils. The Atrian places of the Calanchi are made even more fascinating by the mystery of the "Pietra di S. Paolo", whose history blends faith and legend around this soft white boulder, similar to a broken column. Legend has it that it is the same stone where St. Paul was martyred in Rome, but more realistically it is the remains of a pre-Christian altar, where traders and travelers stopped to rest and thank the gods. The Atrians have attributed miraculous powers to it against the bone malformations of the children, who were brought here in silent procession, making them keep some stone dust. Since the 1970s, the stone has been surrounded by a chapel, which has enhanced its religious aspect. The Calanchi Reserve can be visited freely, along marked trails, and also has a cycle path for lovers of trekking and mountain biking. During the summer, among other things, excursions are organized, among which the most particular are the suggestive night walks.
The peculiarity of Abruzzo is the extreme proximity and ease of reaching the sea and the mountains in a short time. It is the same particularity that characterizes the gastronomic aspect of the region, which combines and varies between strong and intense flavors and fresh and light flavors. Abruzzo cuisine has many souls and therefore different cultures coexist in it. On the one hand, there is the simple, pastoral and agricultural cuisine, made of tasty meats, especially sheep, cheeses with a strong taste and foods enhanced by the use of very aromatic herbs.
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Obviously, the marine culture cannot be overlooked, which feeds on the great variety of fish that populate the Adriatic, and is capable of satisfying all tastes. Absolutely to taste the fish broth alla pinetese.
The extreme variety of foods is obviously accompanied by high quality wines, especially Montepulciano, Rosato, Trebbiano, Pecorino, Cococciola, Passerina etc. And moreover, a particular cuisine such as that of Abruzzo cannot fail to offer digestive liqueurs, made from local specialties, such as Centerba, Ratafia, saffron liqueur, Aurum, gentian, Punch d'Abruzzo Evangelista.
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Q: Mixing aggregated initializers with scalar ones in multidimensional array Is that possible? I would be happy if someone can guide me where in the standard this is mentioned.
For me, it worked as I expect it to behave using MinGW. However, I want to know if this is standard or not. This is the code I tested:
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void) {

    int me[3][2] = {{1, 2}, 3, 4, 5, 6};
    int x = 0;

    while(x<6) printf("%d_", ((int*)me)[x]), ++x;

    return 0;

}

The output is: 1_2_3_4_5_6_.

A:
Is that possible? I would be happy if someone can guide me where in
  the standard this is mentioned.

I think it's standard but I wouldn't say I have definite proof.

6.7.9
If the aggregate or union contains elements or members that are
  aggregates or unions, these rules apply recursively to the
  subaggregates or contained unions. If the initializer of a
  subaggregate or contained union begins with a left brace, the
  initializers enclosed by that  brace  and  its  matching  right  brace
  initialize  the  elements  or  members  of  the subaggregate or the
  contained union. Otherwise, only enough initializers from the list are
  taken to account for the elements or members of the subaggregate or
  the first member of the contained union; any remaining initializers are
  left to initialize the next element or member of the aggregate of
  which the current subaggregate or contained union is a part.

And later, although not specifically for arrays, it gives an example of inconsistently  bracketed  initialization:

struct { int a[3], b; } w[] = { { 1 }, 2 };

w[0].a[0] is 1 and w[1].a[0] is 2; all the other elements are zero

A: As for the initializer, yes that is standard.
As for the printing. Well, that is more complicated. The memory is guaranteed to be continuous, but the compiler can actually trigger UB on that line (but I don't really think that you will find one that does).

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25 July, 2018 in Asia Rugby Sevens Trophy, News by Asia Rugby
After the conclusion of a very successful Rugby World cup Sevens in San Francisco, eyes now turn to the Queenstown Stadium in Singapore for the Asia Rugby Sevens Trophy 2018.
This year men's tournament will feature thirteen teams and will be played on 4-5 August and not only give the winning team the opportunity to gain promotion to the Asia Rugby Sevens Series in 2019 but will also give the teams experience for the upcoming Asian Games.
Pool A is one of the toughest featuring top seed Thailand who were runners up in last year's Trophy in Doha and they will be joined by Iran, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
Pool B sees the UAE team joined by Jordon, Nepal and the hosts for the Asian Games, Indonesia.
Hosts Singapore are the top seed in Pool C and after finishing fourth in Last year's trophy have home field advantage this year. Last year the Singapore Rugby Union engaged the services of Gene tong to help advise and rejuvenate their High Performance programme so it will be interesting to see how they progress.
They will be joined by two South Asian teams Pakistan and Bangladesh with both unions doing a fantastic job In promoting rugby via the Asia 1 million and Get Into Rugby programmes.
Pool C has five teams with Brunei and Laos completing the lineup.
As Rugby is growing in Asia the level of the teams and competition is improving and the Asia Rugby Sevens Trophy is now a stepping stone for teams aspiring to join the ranks of top teams in the Asia Rugby Sevens Series and has become an integral part of the Asia Rugby calendar
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– Securities Act, exempt transactns
S1253.......................................by COMMERCE AND HUMAN RESOURCES
SECURITIES ACT - Amends existing law relating to the Uniform Securities Act
to revise exempt transactions; and to delete obsolete language.
01/14    Rpt prt - to Com/HuRes
02/04    Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
AYES -- Andreason, Bair, Bastian, Bilyeu, Broadsword, Cameron,
Coiner, Corder, Darrington, Fulcher, Gannon, Geddes, Goedde, Hammond,
Heinrich, Hill, Jorgenson, Kelly, Keough, Langhorst, Little, Lodge,
Malepeai(Sagness), McGee, McKague, Pearce, Richardson, Schroeder,
Siddoway, Stegner, Stennett(Thorson), Werk
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Harwood, Jaquet, Killen, King, Kren, Labrador, Lake, LeFavour,
Loertscher, Luker, Marriott, Mathews, McGeachin, Nielsen, Nonini,
Pasley-Stuart, Patrick, Pence, Raybould, Ringo, Ruchti, Rusche,
Sayler, Schaefer, Shepherd(02), Shepherd(08), Shirley, Shively,
Smith(30), Snodgrass, Stevenson, Thayn, Thomas, Trail, Vander Woude,
Wills, Wood(27), Wood(35), Mr. Speaker
Absent and excused -- Henbest, Henderson, Mortimer, Moyle, Roberts,
Smith(24)
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BY COMMERCE AND HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE
2    RELATING TO THE UNIFORM SECURITIES  ACT;  AMENDING  SECTION  30-14-202,  IDAHO
3        CODE,  TO  REVISE  EXEMPT  TRANSACTIONS; AMENDING SECTION 30-14-412, IDAHO
4        CODE, TO MAKE A TECHNICAL  CORRECTION;  AND  AMENDING  SECTION  30-14-611,
5        IDAHO CODE, TO DELETE OBSOLETE LANGUAGE.
7        SECTION 1.  That Section 30-14-202, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
8    amended to read as follows:
9        30-14-202.  EXEMPT  TRANSACTIONS.  The  following  transactions are exempt
10    from the requirements of sections 30-14-301 through 30-14-306, Idaho Code, and
11    section 30-14-504, Idaho Code:
12        (1)  An isolated nonissuer transaction, whether  or  not  effected  by  or
13    through a broker-dealer;
14        (2)  A  nonissuer transaction by or through a broker-dealer registered, or
15    exempt from registration under this chapter, and a  resale  transaction  by  a
16    sponsor of a unit investment trust registered under the investment company act
17    of  1940,  in  a security of a class that has been outstanding in the hands of
18    the public for at least ninety (90) days, if, at the date of the transaction:
19        (a)  The issuer of the security is engaged in business, the issuer is  not
20        in  the  organizational  stage  or  in bankruptcy or receivership, and the
21        issuer is not a blank check, blind pool, or shell company that has no spe-
22        cific business plan or purpose or has indicated that its primary  business
23        plan  is  to engage in a merger or combination of the business with, or an
24        acquisition of, an unidentified person;
25        (b)  The security is sold at a price reasonably  related  to  its  current
26        market price;
27        (c)  The  security  does  not  constitute  the  whole or part of an unsold
28        allotment to, or a subscription or participation by, the broker-dealer  as
29        an underwriter of the security or a redistribution;
30        (d)  A  nationally  recognized securities manual or its electronic equiva-
31        lent designated by any rule adopted or an order issued under this  chapter
32        or a record filed with the securities and exchange commission that is pub-
33        licly available contains:
34             (i)   A description of the business and operations of the issuer;
35             (ii)  The  names  of the issuer's executive officers and the names of
36             the issuer's directors, if any;
37             (iii) An audited balance sheet of the issuer  as  of  a  date  within
38             eighteen  (18)  months  before the date of the transaction or, in the
39             case of a reorganization or merger when the parties to the  reorgani-
40             zation  or merger each had an audited balance sheet, a pro forma bal-
41             ance sheet for the combined organization; and
42             (iv)  An audited income statement for each of the  issuer's  two  (2)
43             immediately  previous  fiscal years or for the period of existence of
1             the issuer, whichever is shorter, or, in the case of a reorganization
2             or merger when each party to the reorganization or merger had audited
3             income statements, a pro forma income statement; and
4        (e)  Any one (1) of the following requirements is met:
5             (i)   The issuer of the security has a  class  of  equity  securities
6             listed  on  a national securities exchange registered under section 6
7             of the securities exchange act of 1934 or designated for  trading  on
8             the  national  association  of securities dealers automated quotation
9             system;
10             (ii)  The issuer of the security is a unit  investment  trust  regis-
11             tered under the investment company act of 1940;
12             (iii) The  issuer  of  the  security, including its predecessors, has
13             been engaged in continuous business for at least three (3) years; or
14             (iv)  The issuer of the security has total assets  of  at  least  two
15             million  dollars ($2,000,000) based on an audited balance sheet as of
16             a date within eighteen (18) months before the date of the transaction
17             or, in the case of a reorganization or merger when the parties to the
18             reorganization or merger each had such an audited  balance  sheet,  a
19             pro forma balance sheet for the combined organization;
20        (3)  A  nonissuer  transaction by or through a broker-dealer registered or
21    exempt from registration under this chapter in a security of a foreign  issuer
22    that is a margin security defined in regulations or rules adopted by the board
23    of governors of the federal reserve system;
25    exempt from registration under this chapter in an outstanding security if  the
26    guarantor  of the security files reports with the securities and exchange com-
27    mission under the reporting requirements of section 13 or 15(d) of the securi-
28    ties exchange act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78m or 78o(d));
29        (5)  A nonissuer transaction by or through a broker-dealer  registered  or
30    exempt from registration under this chapter in a security that:
31        (a)  Is  rated  at  the time of the transaction by a nationally recognized
32        statistical rating organization in one (1) of its four (4) highest  rating
33        categories; or
34        (b)  Has a fixed maturity or a fixed interest or dividend, if:
35             (i)   A  default  has  not occurred during the current fiscal year or
36             within the three (3) previous fiscal years of the issuer or any  pre-
37             decessor,  in the payment of principal, interest, or dividends on the
38             security; and
39             (ii)  The issuer is engaged in business, is not in the organizational
40             stage or in bankruptcy or receivership, and is not and has  not  been
41             within  the previous twelve (12) months a blank check, blind pool, or
42             shell company that has no specific business plan or  purpose  or  has
43             indicated  that its primary business plan is to engage in a merger or
44             combination of the business with, or an acquisition of, an  unidenti-
45             fied person;
47    exempt from registration under this chapter effecting an unsolicited order  or
48    offer to purchase;
49        (7)  A  nonissuer  transaction executed by a bona fide pledgee without the
50    purpose of evading this chapter;
51        (8)  A nonissuer transaction by a federal covered investment adviser  with
52    investments  under  management  in  excess  of  one  hundred  million  dollars
53    ($100,000,000)  acting  in the exercise of discretionary authority in a signed
54    record for the account of others;
55        (9)  A transaction in a security, whether or not the security or  transac-
1    tion  is otherwise exempt, in exchange for one (1) or more bona fide outstand-
2    ing securities, claims, or property interests, or partly in such exchange  and
3    partly  for  cash, if the terms and conditions of the issuance and exchange or
4    the delivery and exchange and the fairness of the terms  and  conditions  have
5    been  approved  by  the  administrator  after a hearing as provided in section
6    30-14-202A, Idaho Code, or otherwise;
7        (10) A transaction between the issuer or other person on whose behalf  the
8    offering is made and an underwriter, or among underwriters;
9        (11) A transaction in a note, bond, debenture or other evidence of indebt-
10    edness secured by a mortgage or other security agreement if:
11        (a)  Tthe  note,  bond,  debenture  or  other  evidence of indebtedness is
12        offered and sold with the mortgage or other security agreement as a unit;
13        (b)  A general solicitation or general advertisement of the transaction is
14        not made; and
15        (c)  A commission or other remuneration is not paid or given, directly  or
16        indirectly,  to  a  person  not registered under this chapter as a broker-
17        dealer or as an agent;
18        (12) A transaction by an executor, administrator of  an  estate,  sheriff,
19    marshal, receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, guardian or conservator;
20        (13) A sale or offer to sell to:
21        (a)  An institutional investor;
22        (b)  A federal covered investment adviser; or
23        (c)  Any  other person exempted by a rule adopted or an order issued under
24        this chapter;
25        (14) A sale or an offer to sell securities of an issuer, if  the  transac-
26    tion is part of a single issue in which:
27        (a)  Not  more  than  ten (10) purchasers are present in this state during
28        any twelve (12) consecutive months, other than those designated in subsec-
29        tion (13) of this section;
30        (b)  A general solicitation or general advertising is not made in  connec-
31        tion with the offer to sell or sale of the securities;
32        (c)  A  commission or other remuneration is not paid or given, directly or
33        indirectly, to a person other than a broker-dealer registered  under  this
34        chapter  or  an  agent registered under this chapter for soliciting a pro-
35        spective purchaser in this state; and
36        (d)  The issuer reasonably believes that all the purchasers in this state,
37        other than those designated in subsection (13) of this section,  are  pur-
38        chasing for investment;
39        (15) A  transaction  under  an  offer  to existing security holders of the
40    issuer, including persons that at the date of the transaction are  holders  of
41    convertible securities, options or warrants, if a commission or other remuner-
42    ation,  other  than  a  standby  commission, is not paid or given, directly or
43    indirectly, for soliciting a security holder in this state;
44        (16) An offer to sell, but not a sale, of a security not exempt from  reg-
45    istration under the securities act of 1933 if:
46        (a)  A  registration  or  offering statement or similar record as required
47        under the securities act of 1933 has been filed, but is not effective,  or
48        the offer is made in compliance with rule 165 adopted under the securities
49        act of 1933 (17 CFR 230.165); and
50        (b)  A  stop  order  of  which  the  offeror  is aware has not been issued
51        against the offeror by the administrator or the  securities  and  exchange
52        commission, and an audit, inspection or proceeding that is public and that
53        may culminate in a stop order is not known by the offeror to be pending;
54        (17) An offer to sell, but not a sale, of a security exempt from registra-
55    tion under the securities act of 1933 if:
1        (a)  A  registration  statement  has been filed under this chapter, but is
2        not effective;
3        (b)  A solicitation of interest is provided in a  record  to  offerees  in
4        compliance  with  a  rule adopted by the administrator under this chapter;
5        and
6        (c)  A stop order of which the offeror is aware has not been issued by the
7        administrator under this chapter and an audit,  inspection  or  proceeding
8        that may culminate in a stop order is not known by the offeror to be pend-
9        ing;
10        (18) A  transaction  involving  the  distribution  of the securities of an
11    issuer to the security holders of another person in connection with a  merger,
12    consolidation, exchange of securities, sale of assets, or other reorganization
13    to  which the issuer, or its parent or subsidiary and the other person, or its
14    parent or subsidiary, are parties;
15        (19) A rescission offer, sale or purchase under section  30-14-510,  Idaho
16    Code;
17        (20) An  offer  or  sale  of a security to a person not a resident of this
18    state and not present in this state if the offer or sale does not constitute a
19    violation of the laws of the  state  or  foreign  jurisdiction  in  which  the
20    offeree  or purchaser is present and is not part of an unlawful plan or scheme
21    to evade this chapter;
22        (21) Employees' stock purchase, savings, option, profit-sharing,  pension,
23    or  similar employees' benefit plan, including any securities, plan interests,
24    and guarantees issued under a compensatory benefit plan or  compensation  con-
25    tract,  contained  in  a  record,  established by the issuer, its parents, its
26    majority-owned  subsidiaries,  or  the  majority-owned  subsidiaries  of   the
27    issuer's  parent  for the participation of their employees including offers or
28    sales of such securities to:
29        (a)  Directors; general partners; trustees, if the issuer  is  a  business
30        trust; officers; consultants; and advisers;
31        (b)  Family members who acquire such securities from those persons through
32        gifts or domestic relations orders;
33        (c)  Former  employees,  directors,  general partners, trustees, officers,
34        consultants and advisers if those individuals were employed by or  provid-
35        ing services to the issuer when the securities were offered; and
36        (d)  Insurance agents who are exclusive insurance agents of the issuer, or
37        the  issuer's  subsidiaries or parents, or who derive more than fifty per-
38        cent (50%) of their annual income from those organizations;
39        (22) A transaction involving:
40        (a)  A stock dividend or equivalent equity distribution, whether the  cor-
41        poration  or  other  business  organization  distributing  the dividend or
42        equivalent equity distribution is the issuer or not, if nothing  of  value
43        is  given  by  stockholders  or  other  equity holders for the dividend or
44        equivalent equity distribution other than the surrender of a  right  to  a
45        cash  or  property dividend if each stockholder or other equity holder may
46        elect to take the dividend or  equivalent  equity  distribution  in  cash,
47        property or stock;
48        (b)  An  act  incident  to a judicially approved reorganization in which a
49        security is issued in exchange for one (1) or more outstanding securities,
50        claims, or property interests, or partly in such exchange and  partly  for
51        cash; or
52        (c)  The  solicitation  of tenders of securities by an offeror in a tender
53        offer in compliance with rule 162 adopted under the securities act of 1933
54        (17 CFR 230.162); or
55        (23) A nonissuer transaction in an outstanding security by  or  through  a
1    broker-dealer  registered  or  exempt from registration under this chapter, if
2    the issuer is a reporting issuer in a foreign jurisdiction designated by  this
3    subsection  or  by  a  rule adopted or an order issued under this chapter; has
4    been subject to continuous reporting requirements in the foreign  jurisdiction
5    for  not  less  than one hundred eighty (180) days before the transaction; and
6    the  security is listed on the foreign jurisdiction's securities exchange that
7    has been designated by this subsection or by a rule adopted or an order issued
8    under this chapter, or is a security of the same issuer that is of  senior  or
9    substantially  equal  rank  to the listed security or is a warrant or right to
10    purchase or subscribe to any of the foregoing. For purposes  of  this  subsec-
11    tion,  Canada,  together  with  its provinces and territories, is a designated
12    foreign jurisdiction and the Toronto stock exchange,  inc.,  is  a  designated
13    securities  exchange. After an administrative hearing in compliance with chap-
14    ter 52, title 67, Idaho Code, the administrator, by rule adopted or  an  order
15    issued under this chapter, may revoke the designation of a securities exchange
16    under this subsection, if the administrator finds that revocation is necessary
17    or appropriate in the public interest and for the protection of investors.
18        SECTION 2.  That Section 30-14-412, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
19    amended to read as follows:
20        30-14-412.  DENIAL,  REVOCATION, SUSPENSION, WITHDRAWAL, RESTRICTION, CON-
21    DITION OR LIMITATION OF REGISTRATION. (a) Disciplinary  conditions  --  Appli-
22    cants. If the administrator finds that the order is in the public interest and
23    subsection  (d)  of  this section authorizes the action, an order issued under
24    this chapter may deny an application, or may condition or  limit  registration
25    of an applicant to be a broker-dealer, agent, investment adviser or investment
26    adviser representative, and, if the applicant is a broker-dealer or investment
27    adviser,  of or a partner, officer, director or person having a similar status
28    or performing similar functions, or a person directly or  indirectly  in  con-
29    trol, of the broker-dealer or investment adviser.
30        (b)  Disciplinary  conditions  --  Registrants. If the administrator finds
31    that the order is in the public interest and subsection (d)  of  this  section
32    authorizes the action, an order issued under this chapter may revoke, suspend,
33    condition  or limit the registration of a registrant and, if the registrant is
34    a broker-dealer or investment adviser, of or a partner, officer,  director  or
35    person  having  a  similar status or performing similar functions, or a person
36    directly or indirectly in control, of the broker-dealer or investment adviser.
37    Provided however, the administrator may not:
38        (1)  Institute a revocation or suspension proceeding under this subsection
39        based on an order issued under a law of another state that is reported  to
40        the  administrator  or  a  designee of the administrator more than one (1)
41        year after the date of the order on which it is based; or
42        (2)  Under subsection (d)(5)(A) or (B) of this section, issue an order  on
43        the  basis  of  an  order issued under the securities act of another state
44        unless the other order was based on conduct for which  subsection  (d)  of
45        this  section  would authorize the action had the conduct occurred in this
46        state.
47        (c)  Disciplinary penalties -- Registrants.  If  the  administrator  finds
48    that  the  order is in the public interest and subsections (d)(1) through (6),
49    (8), (9), (10), (12) or (13) of this section authorizes the action,  an  order
50    under  this  chapter  may censure, impose a bar or suspension from association
51    with a broker-dealer or investment adviser registered in this state, or impose
52    a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000)  for
53    each  violation,  on a registrant and, if the registrant is a broker-dealer or
1    investment adviser, a partner, officer, director or person  having  a  similar
2    status  or performing similar functions, or a person directly or indirectly in
3    control, of the broker-dealer or investment adviser.
4        (d)  Grounds for discipline. A person may be disciplined under subsections
5    (a) through (c) of this section if the person:
6        (1)  Has filed an application for registration in this  state  under  this
7        chapter  or the predecessor act within the previous ten (10) years, which,
8        as of the effective date of registration or as of any date after filing in
9        the case of an order denying effectiveness, was incomplete in any material
10        respect or contained a statement that, in light of the circumstances under
11        which it was made, was false or misleading  with  respect  to  a  material
12        fact;
13        (2)  Willfully violated or willfully failed to comply with this chapter or
14        the  predecessor act or a rule adopted or an order issued under this chap-
15        ter or the predecessor act within the previous ten (10) years;
16        (3)  Has been convicted of any felony or  within  the  previous  ten  (10)
17        years  has been convicted of a misdemeanor involving a security, a commod-
18        ity future or option contract, or an aspect of a business involving  secu-
19        rities,   commodities,  investments,  franchises,  insurance,  banking  or
20        finance;
21        (4)  Is enjoined or restrained by a court of competent jurisdiction in  an
22        action instituted by the administrator under this chapter or the predeces-
23        sor  act,  a  state, the securities and exchange commission, or the United
24        States from engaging in or continuing an act, practice or course of  busi-
25        ness  involving an aspect of a business involving securities, commodities,
26        investments, franchises, insurance, banking or finance;
27        (5)  Is the subject of an order, issued after notice and  opportunity  for
28        hearing by:
29             (A)  The  securities,  depository  institution,  insurance  or  other
30             financial  services  regulator  of  a  state or by the securities and
31             exchange commission or other federal agency denying,  revoking,  bar-
32             ring or suspending registration as a broker-dealer, agent, investment
33             adviser,  federal  covered  investment adviser, or investment adviser
34             representative;
35             (B)  The securities regulator  of  a  state  or  the  securities  and
36             exchange   commission  against  a  broker-dealer,  agent,  investment
37             adviser,  investment  adviser  representative,  or  federal   covered
38             investment adviser;
39             (C)  The  securities  and  exchange  commission  or a self-regulatory
40             organization suspending or expelling the registrant  from  membership
41             in the self-regulatory organization;
42             (D)  A court adjudicating a United States postal service fraud order;
43             (E)  The insurance regulator of a state denying, suspending or revok-
44             ing registration as an insurance agent; or
45             (F)  A  depository  institution  regulator  suspending or barring the
46             person from the depository institution business;
47        (6)  Is the subject of an adjudication or determination, after notice  and
48        opportunity  for  hearing,  by the securities and exchange commission, the
49        commodity futures trading commission; the federal trade commission; a fed-
50        eral depository institution regulator, or a depository institution, insur-
51        ance or other financial services regulator of  a  state  that  the  person
52        willfully violated the securities act of 1933, the securities exchange act
53        of  1934,  the investment advisers act of 1940, the investment company act
54        of 1940, or the commodity exchange act, the securities or commodities  law
55        of  a  state,  or  a federal or state law under which a business involving
1        investments, franchises, insurance, banking or finance is regulated;
2        (7)  Is insolvent, either because  the  person's  liabilities  exceed  the
3        person's    assets  or because the person cannot meet the person's obliga-
4        tions as they mature, provided however  that  the  administrator  may  not
5        enter an order against an applicant or registrant under this paragraph (7)
6        without a finding of insolvency as to the applicant or registrant;
7        (8)  Refuses to allow or otherwise impedes the administrator from conduct-
8        ing  an  audit  or  inspection  under section 30-14-411(d), Idaho Code, or
9        refuses access to a registrant's office to conduct an audit or  inspection
10        under section 30-14-411(d), Idaho Code;
11        (9)  Has  failed to reasonably supervise an agent, investment adviser rep-
12        resentative or other individual, if the agent, investment  adviser  repre-
13        sentative  or other individual was subject to the person's supervision and
14        committed a violation of this chapter or the predecessor  act  or  a  rule
15        adopted  or  an  order  issued  under  this chapter or the predecessor act
16        within the previous ten (10) years;
17        (10) Has not paid the proper filing fee within thirty (30) days after hav-
18        ing been notified by the administrator of a deficiency,  provided  however
19        that  the  administrator  shall  vacate an order under this paragraph (10)
20        when the deficiency is corrected;
21        (11) After notice and opportunity for a hearing, has been found within the
22        previous ten (10) years:
23             (A)  By a court of competent jurisdiction to have willfully  violated
24             the  laws of a foreign jurisdiction under which the business of secu-
25             rities, commodities, investment, franchises,  insurance,  banking  or
26             finance is regulated;
27             (B)  To  have  been the subject of an order of a securities regulator
28             of a foreign jurisdiction denying, revoking or suspending  the  right
29             to  engage  in  the business of securities as a broker-dealer, agent,
30             investment adviser, investment adviser representative or similar per-
31             son; or
32             (C)  To have been suspended or expelled from membership by or partic-
33             ipation in a securities exchange or securities association  operating
34             under the securities laws of a foreign jurisdiction;
35        (12) Is  the  subject of a cease and desist order issued by the securities
36        and exchange commission  or  issued  under  the  securities,  commodities,
37        investment, franchise, banking, finance or insurance laws of a state;
38        (13) Has  engaged  in  dishonest or unethical practices in the securities,
39        commodities, investment, franchise, banking, finance or insurance business
40        within the previous ten (10) years; or
41        (14) Is not qualified on the basis of factors such as training, experience
42        and knowledge of the securities business. Provided however, in the case of
43        an application by an agent for a broker-dealer that is a member of a self-
44        regulatory organization or by an individual for registration as an invest-
45        ment adviser representative, a denial order may not be based on this para-
46        graph (14) if the individual has successfully completed  all  examinations
47        required  by subsection (e) of this section. The administrator may require
48        an applicant for registration under section 30-14-402 or 30-14-404,  Idaho
49        Code, who has not been registered in a state within the two (2) years pre-
50        ceding the filing of an application in this state to successfully complete
51        an examination.
52        (e)  Examinations.  A  rule  adopted or an order issued under this chapter
53    may require  that  an  examination,  including  an  examination  developed  or
54    approved  by  an  organization  of securities regulators, be successfully com-
55    pleted by a class of individuals or all individuals.  An  order  issued  under
1    this chapter may waive, in whole or in part, an examination as to an  individ-
2    ual  and  a rule adopted under this chapter may waive, in whole or in part, an
3    examination as to a class of individuals if the administrator determines  that
4    the examination is not necessary or appropriate in the public interest and for
5    the protection of investors.
6        (f)  Summary process. The administrator may suspend or deny an application
7    summarily;  restrict,  condition, limit or suspend a registration; or censure,
8    bar, or impose a civil penalty on a registrant before final  determination  of
9    an administrative proceeding. Upon the issuance of an order, the administrator
10    shall promptly notify each person subject to the order that the order has been
11    issued,  the  reasons  for the action, and that within fifteen (15) days after
12    the receipt of a request in a record from the person the matter will be sched-
13    uled for a hearing. If a hearing is not requested and none is ordered  by  the
14    administrator  within thirty (30) days after the date of service of the order,
15    the order becomes final by operation of law. If  a  hearing  is  requested  or
16    ordered,  the  administrator,  after  notice of and opportunity for hearing to
17    each person subject to the order, may modify or vacate the order or extend the
18    order until final determination.
19        (g)  Procedural requirements. An order issued may not be issued under this
20    section, except under subsection (f) of this section, without:
21        (1)  Appropriate notice to the applicant or registrant;
22        (2)  Opportunity for hearing; and
23        (3)  Findings of fact and conclusions of law in  a  record  in  accordance
24        with chapter 52, title 67, Idaho Code.
25        (h)  Control  person  liability. A person that controls, directly or indi-
26    rectly, a person not in compliance with this section  may  be  disciplined  by
27    order  of  the administrator under subsections (a) through (c) of this section
28    to the same extent as the noncomplying person, unless the  controlling  person
29    did  not know, and in the exercise of reasonable care could not have known, of
30    the existence of conduct that is a ground for discipline under this section.
31        (i)  Limit on investigation  or  proceeding.  The  administrator  may  not
32    institute  a proceeding under subsection (a), (b) or (c) of this section based
33    solely on material facts actually known by the administrator unless an  inves-
34    tigation  or the proceeding is instituted within one (1) year after the admin-
35    istrator actually acquires knowledge of the material facts.
38        30-14-611.  SERVICE OF PROCESS. (a) Signed consent to service of  process.
39    From September 1, 2004, through June 30, 2005, all persons applying for regis-
40    tration  or  making a notice filing shall submit to the administrator a signed
41    consent to service of process. A  consent  appointing  the  administrator  the
42    person's  agent  for  service of process in a noncriminal action or proceeding
43    against the person, or the person's successor or personal representative under
44    this chapter or a rule adopted or an order issued under this chapter after the
45    consent is filed, has the same force and validity as if the service were  made
46    personally  on  the person filing the consent. From July 1, 2005, and thereaf-
47    ter, registrants shall be required to submit a consent to service  of  process
48    only if there has been a material change.
49        (b)  Conduct  constituting  appointment of agent for service. If a person,
50    including a nonresident of this state, engages in an act, practice, or  course
51    of business prohibited or made actionable by this chapter or a rule adopted or
52    an  order  issued under this chapter and the person has not filed a consent to
53    service of process under subsection (a) of this  section, the  act,  practice,
1    or  course of business constitutes the appointment of the administrator as the
2    person's agent for service of process in a noncriminal  action  or  proceeding
3    against the person or the person's successor or personal representative.
4        (c)  Procedure for service of process. Service under subsection (a) or (b)
5    of  this  section may be made by providing a copy of the process to the office
6    of the administrator, but it is not effective unless:
7        (1)  The plaintiff, which may be the administrator, promptly sends  notice
8        of the service and a copy of the process, return receipt requested, to the
9        defendant or respondent at the address set forth in the consent to service
10        of  process  or, if a consent to service of process has not been filed, at
11        the last known address, or takes other reasonable steps  to  give  notice;
12        and
13        (2)  The  plaintiff  files an affidavit of compliance with this subsection
14        in the action or proceeding on or before the return day of the process, if
15        any, or within the time that the court, or the administrator in a proceed-
16        ing before the administrator, allows.
17        (d)  Service in administrative proceedings or civil actions by administra-
18    tor. Service pursuant to subsection (c) of this section may be used in a  pro-
19    ceeding  before the administrator or by the administrator in a civil action in
20    which the administrator is the moving party.
21        (e)  Opportunity to defend. If process is served under subsection  (c)  of
22    this  section,  the  court,  or  the  administrator in a proceeding before the
23    administrator, shall order continuances as are  necessary  or  appropriate  to
24    afford the defendant or respondent reasonable opportunity to defend.
These changes are intended to correct and update statutory
language. Specifically, (1)the proposed changes to  Idaho Code
30-14-202(11) will bring the statute's language into conformity
with an order issued by the Director of Finance in 2005 when it
became clear that the new Uniform Securities Act language
deviated from language in the prior Idaho Securities Act causing
disruption to local securities issuers; (2) correcting "of" to
"or" in Idaho Code 30-14-412 (a) and (b); and, (3) eliminating
transition language in Idaho Code 30-14-611 that is no longer
applicable to any situation.
No fiscal impact.
Name:	Marilyn Chastain
Agency:	Finance, Dept. of
Phone:	332-8070
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE                	S 1253


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Researchers claim that two government hacking groups hacked an Egyptian politician
Citizen Lab discovered that two different government hacking outfits attacked an Egyptian politician's iPhone, employing malware from NSO Group and a competitor called Cytrox.
Researchers claim that two government hacking groups hacked an Egyptian politician.
According to a new report, two different groups of government hackers used spyware from different providers to infiltrate a major Egyptian opposition politician.
The hack against Nour is yet another example of a government using tools made by Western cybersecurity companies to target prominent dissidents and politicians. It's also a sign that the spyware as a service industry—which insiders call the "lawful intercept" industry—is filled with many players beyond the controversial and well known NSO Group.
According to a new report published on Thursday by Citizen Lab, a digital rights watchdog housed at the University of Toronto Munk School, the iPhone of Ayman Nour, an Egyptian politician who has been a vocal opponent of current President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, was infected by spyware made by Israeli spyware maker NSO Group, as well as a new player in the industry called Cytrox.
"The targeting of a single individual with both Pegasus and Predator underscores that the practice of hacking civil society transcends any specific mercenary spyware company. Instead, it is a pattern that we expect will persist as long as autocratic governments are able to obtain sophisticated hacking technology," Citizen Lab researchers wrote in the report. "Absent international and domestic regulations and safeguards, journalists, human rights defenders, and opposition groups will continue to be hacked into the foreseeable future."
Citizen Lab researchers also found traces of Cytrox's spyware on the iPhone of an Egyptian journalist, who asked to remain anonymous.
At the same time, Facebook found around 300 accounts on Facebook and Instagram operated by Cytrox. The company, according to a new Facebook report also published Thursday, had an infrastructure made of domains spoofing legitimate news entities such as the BBC, CNN, and Fox News. Facebook researchers said that Cytrox customers targeted politicians and journalists around the world, including in Egypt and Armenia.
Nour, who lives in exile in Turkey, suspected something was wrong with his iPhone when he noticed last summer that it was "running hot," as Citizen Lab researchers put it. Indeed, there were two separate spyware programs running on it, Pegasus, made by NSO, and what Citizen Lab calls Predator, made by Cytrox. Bill Marczak, a senior researcher at Citizen Lab, said that he and his colleagues believe the Egyptian government is likely the one who used Predator to target Nour.
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