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Data Security: A Major Pitfall in GDPR Compliance
29.08.2019 | Categories: Data Security;
Data breaches often trigger administrative investigations as well as attention by the media, making data security to one of the major pitfalls for companies when it comes to GDPR compliance. We will explain strategic approaches to risk mitigation in data security in this article. Another aspect is that companies must report data breaches, what we will also briefly address.
In July 2019, the British Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) decided on two milestone cases for enforcement of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). British Airways suffered from a hacker attack that revealed address and credit card data of 380,000 customers and got fined 183 mio. British Pound for non-compliance with GDPR standards for data security.
Around the same time, the Mariott Hotel received the a 100 mio. British pounds bill for not filling a security gap that led to unauthorized disclosure of information on about 30 million EU customers. Mastercard's loyalty program is likely to follow, facing a massive data leak that was reported lately. But also small and medium-sized companies have been affected by security incidents and got fined: In Germany alone, the amounts range from 20,000 to 80,000 Euro.
Probably even worse than fines is the reputational damage. Data breaches get increasing media coverage in Europe, leading to a massive weakening of customer confidence. Let's frame it as a question: Would you opt-in for customer profiling by a brand that just was on the news all over for storing unencrypted credit card data?
How is data security a legal requirement?
The GDPR sets out requirements for data security. Instead of stipulating specific measures, it merely defines a risk-appropriate data security level as a target to be determined in the individual case, taking into account the state of the art, the costs of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of data processing as well as the risk of varying likelihood and severity of security incidents.
The GDPR outlines a couple of goals for data security:
Pseudonymization and encryption of the data
Confidentiality, integrity, and resilience of IT systems and services
Availability of data and ability to timely restore data after an incident
Regular evaluation and update of technical and organizational measures for data security
Executives like CTOs often find this regulatory approach unsatisfactorily blurry, particularly considering that non-compliance may be sanctioned with fines of up to 10 mio. EUR or 2% of the annual turnover, whichever is higher. It may seem that whether the company is compliant with data security standards can clearly be answered in a negative way only – the moment you receive the penalty notice. To prevent companies from that risk, the GDPR particularly recognizes certain audits to be taken into account when demonstrating data security compliance.
What can we do to meet those requirements?
Prospectively: European Data Protection Seal
Under the GDPR, it is possible to apply for certain official data protection seals and marks, which will cover aspects of technical data security and have positive legal effects for the certified companies, for example in demonstrating data security compliance and as a factor for determining the amount of fines.
Current status: In the process of certifying the certification bodies. So, help is on the way to allow better risk-handling for companies. However, it will probably still take some time until a market for certifications has been established that is also accessible for international and non-EU companies.
Currently: Industry recognized audits
For the moment, the best way to mitigate risks is to implement an effective data security management and to apply for market standard IT security seals such as ISO/IEC 27001 and 27002. ISO has recently issued an extension (ISO/IEC 27701) to also cover organizational aspects of data protection management. Independent audits and certifications are a good way to document compliance twofold: internally, as documentation of compliance is an obligation under the GDPR itself; and externally, as a sales argument for the privacy-sensitive market in the European Union.
External audits are a matter of costs and always also stress internal resources. However, since ISO standards reflect GDPR's security targets, companies will benefit in the long-term from having less efforts to adapt to officially recognized data protection seals once they have been introduced.
Another way to improve compliance is to carry out a data protection impact assessment (Art. 35 GDPR), which is sometimes mandatory but, in any case, can be done voluntarily. It may help to identify threats in the specific context of the processing and to find appropriate measures mitigating the risks. However, it may not replace audits, as it refers only to specific activities rather than overall data security. On the other hand, it is broader as it does not only cover technical and organizational aspects, but also other aspects of GDPR compliance with regard to certain processing operations.
How should we manage security incidents and data breaches?
Under the GDPR, data controllers must report data breaches to the competent supervisory authorities usually within 72 hours and, under further conditions, to the customers concerned. A "breach" not only means unauthorized intrusion by external attackers, but also includes accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of or access to personal data, e.g.:
Hackers get access to databases containing user information and alters the data
An employee of HR abuses personal information on his colleagues for private purposes
An employee accidentally loses a data carrier or laptop with access to customer data
Companies should have processes in place that ensure timely draft, review and delivery of such notifications. For more detailed information on conditions for and content of personal data breach notifications, you can consult the respective guidelines issued by the European Data Protection Board, an official EU body for privacy matters.
The aftermath: choosing the right strategy
If your company becomes aware of serious data breaches, you should get ready for immediate crisis management: mandatory reporting to supervisory authorities, wordings for public relations, notification of legal advisors to deal with investigations and, potentially, individual claims for damages.
When it comes to choosing the right strategy on how to deal with data protection supervision after reporting of the data breach, many factors should be considered:
The willingness to cooperate must be taken into account by supervisory authorities when deciding on whether a fine is issued and in determining the amount of fines.
Companies are required by law to cooperate with the authorities (Art. 31 GDPR), although the extent of this obligation may be limited by the company's rights against self-incrimination.
A cooperative approach helps with crisis communication and restoring customer confidence.
As the examples that we listed in the introduction show, close cooperation will not always prevent authorities from issuing high fines, but may instead contribute to revelation of further security gaps.
To sum it up: there is no one-size-fits-all strategy for handling data breaches and security incidents. Companies should find their individual strategy depending on the severity of the breach, the stability of ties with the customers and the resources to abide long-term legal disputes.
GDPR Updates for non-EU companies
Are you compliant with the GDPR?
Under Art. 27 of the GDPR, many non-EU companies must appoint an EU GDPR Privacy Representative. To find out now if your company is subject to this obligation
Who is EU-REP.Global?
We are data protection service provider based in Germany, focused on compliance services under the EU General Data Protection Regulation. If you want to know more,
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About Kev
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About Kevkevin2020-07-07T14:43:48-05:00
A native of Brooklyn New York, Kevin's love for dance goes back to the early days of break dancing and reggae dancehall competitions across the city.
Kevin has over 15 years experience as a performing artist and dance educator. His foundation in African Diasporic artforms is grounded in dance technique from Senegal, Mali and Guinea. Over the past several years, Kevin has broadened his dance repertoire by studying under dance masters to include Afro Cuban, Afro Jazz, Haitian Folkloric, and the Martha Graham Modern/Contemporary dance technique.
Projects/Work
Kofago Dance Ensemble
Kofago is something very special. What started out as a social justice project three years ago has blossomed into a performing arts company with a full cast of young artists who are dedicated to their healing and growth through our work. For more information, please check out our work at the website below:
https://www.kofagodance.com
After graduating from NYU with a graduate degree in Dance Education, I got a teaching position at Queensborough Community College, located in Bayside, New York. In a very short span of time, we've been able to put on some AMAZING works of culture, tradition and dance excellence while planting our work firmly in the concepts of diversity and diverse representation at the collegiate level of dance education.
In December of 2018, the QCC Dance Program held its first annual Kwanzaa Celebration. Click here to read a review of the event on QCC's Dance Program website.
Legacy Vision 150
This project was a massive undertaking. The mission: get 150 dancers trained and choreographed for a presentation in the Annual New York Caribbean Day Parade. The Project was a success, but not without its costs along the way. Take a look at the video below to see a clip from our work.
Walk All Night: A Drum Beat Journey
This project has been four years in the making and is finally ready for distribution! Drum Beat Journey is a new documentary project that follows a group of African-American bucket drummers on a musical pilgrimage from Chicago's South Side to Senegal. In July 2012 Eritrea-born social worker and filmmaker, Elilta Tewelde traveled with four teenaged street musicians to Petit Mbao, Senegal, for a two-week drumming workshop with Senegalese Griot percussionist Medoune Gueye (aka Papa Dame). My work in Rites of Passage programming played a crucial role in the super of these young brothers from Chicago. Check the link above for more information on screening dates in your city.
Danse Edeyo
Several years ago, my good friend Doris Pradieu asked me to do a dance workshop with some of the boys she works with in Haiti. Her brother and a good friend of his started a school in the Bel-Air community of the city Port-Au-Prince, Haiti and they were in some serious need of activities for the youth who were still recovering from the traumatic effects of the Earthquake that hit the island a year before. I agreed to go, not knowing that the kids would have a profound effect on my life (arguably more than I had on theirs! LOL!). After returning from the initial trip in 2011, I created the DANSE EDEYO concept to raise money for the school and our efforts in Haiti from a grassroots level. Collaborating with the organization Rhythm N' Dance, we had a fundraiser focused on a Haitian dance ethnographic experience, which was facilitated by the Oakland-based Rara Tou Limen Haitian Folkloric Dance Company's Artistic Director, Portsha Jefferson. We supported this school in Haiti for three years and it was some of the best time I ever had working with a really good group of people coming together for a great cause!
Dance To Save Lives
I love working with young people! They keep you moving and full of energy! My work in Haiti would transition from the inner city of Port-Au-Prince to the seaside town of Jacmel, where the organization Dance To Save Lives facilitates an annual dance retreat Vin Pran Baget.
Vin Pran Baget – 2016, Jacmel, Haiti
"Dance to Save Lives provides kids in need the necessary resources to keep them off the streets. We train them in Haitian folkloric and modern dance forms. These accessible activities and services are provided daily for free in the city of Jacmel, Haiti. The students are immersed into the world of dance, allowing them to learn what it takes to be a professional performing artist, choreographer, and/or dance Instructor. They also gain experience by touring as performers across the country of Haiti. We maximize the potential of our youth by exposing them to the rich traditional and contemporary aspects of Haitian culture through the lens of the performing arts."
It has been an honor and a pleasure to work with Master Haitian Dancer, Dieufel Lamisere and his Dance To Save Lives participants
The one thing that I've learned along life's journey is that education is critical to one's success. While I was at Hampton University back in the 90s, I never finished my degree. It would be years before I would return to complete my degree requirements, earning a Bachelors of Science degree in Business Management, December 2014. Finishing that degree work at Hampton Universty led me to my graduate degree work at New York University, where I completed my Masters in Arts degree in Dance Education. That was a huge accomplishment in my life that has opened many different doors of opportunity as an artist, mentor, educator, and advocate.
The next step for me is doctoral studies, however, I'm looking for the right program where I utilize all of my skills to manifest a project/program that will not only change my life but the lives of the people I work with.
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GM's OnStar facing social media backlash over baby in locked car in Florida
Evan James Carter, The Detroit News Published 9:32 p.m. ET Aug. 14, 2019
General Motor's OnStar service faced a flurry of backlash on social media Wednesday after reports that it was unable to unlock a vehicle with a baby inside in Florida on Tuesday.
A Florida woman accidentally locked her keys and her 10-month-old child in her vehicle on Tuesday. When the woman called OnStar for help in remotely unlocking her vehicle, she was told that in-vehicle services provider was unable to unlock her SUVbecause her account had expired, according to a CBS Miami online report.
In a statement on Twitter, OnStar said that it was investigating the details of the incident and that, currently, the only way for a customer to activate the system and restore a connection once their account expired is by pushing the blue OnStar button inside the vehicle.
@ABC
· Aug 13, 2019
MINUTES OF FEAR: Police body camera footage shows a mother in Florida begin to panic after locking her baby daughter and keys inside an SUV in 95-degree heat.
Luckily, the officer was able to shatter the window with a hammer and free the child. https://abcn.ws/2FLyzTu
@OnStar
We're hoping to clear up some confusion we're seeing about OnStar services. Our number one priority is the safety of our customers, and we take these situations very seriously. We are in the process of investigating the details of this incident. 1/5
12:25 PM – Aug 14, 2019
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OnStar's statement also said that once an OnStar plan expires or is cancelled, the OnStar system is deactivated and its connection to the vehicle is removed.
But the backlash was severe: People sounded off on Twitter about their frustration with OnStar's inability to unlock the vehicle of someone with an expired account.
Stephen Hurwitz
@HurwitzStephen
@OnStar If somebody's daughter is locked in a car, you should help them get her out. Even if her account is expired. It's the humanitarian thing to do.
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@OnStar I viewed the story on ABC World News Tonight, and you guys couldn't open the car door to save a child because of an expired account. Proof that our purchase of 2 Tesla's was a smart move!
7:11 PM – Aug 13, 2019
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@DivabrickI
@OnStar shame on you for not helping the young mother who had locked her child in the car and she had your feature and you wouldn't open the car door just because her account has expired shame on you #happened in Miami. The child could have died. Shame on you!!
5:53 PM – Aug 13, 2019 · Pinellas Park, FL
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OnStar launched in 1996 primarily as a safety feature, delivering a suite of emergency response services, navigation and various other connections. Today, OnStar offers automatic crash response, emergency and crisis assist services, stolen vehicle recovery and roadside assistance. OnStar dispatchers have responded to everything from fender-benders to heart attacks and births, according to the company.


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package com.launchkey.sdk.service;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.launchkey.sdk.cache.PingResponseCache;
import com.launchkey.sdk.crypto.Crypto;
import com.launchkey.sdk.service.auth.V1AuthService;
import com.launchkey.sdk.transport.v1.Transport;
import com.launchkey.sdk.transport.v1.domain.LaunchKeyDateFormat;
import com.launchkey.sdk.transport.v1.domain.PingRequest;
import com.launchkey.sdk.transport.v1.domain.PingResponse;
import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;
import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.mockito.ArgumentCaptor;
import org.mockito.InOrder;

import java.security.PublicKey;
import java.security.interfaces.RSAPublicKey;
import java.util.Date;

import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.greaterThanOrEqualTo;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.lessThanOrEqualTo;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
import static org.mockito.Matchers.any;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.*;

public class V1ServiceTestBase {
    protected final String rsaEncryptedValue = "RSA Encrypted Value";
    protected final String rsaSignedValue = "RSA Signature";
    protected final Base64 base64 = new Base64(0);
    protected final ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
    protected final LaunchKeyDateFormat launchKeyDateFormat = new LaunchKeyDateFormat();
    protected final long rocketKey = 12345674890L;
    protected final String secretKey = "ffd62938c9c42c471a440a44854f6b9a";
    protected Transport transport;
    protected Crypto crypto;
    protected PingResponseCache pingResponseCache;
    protected RSAPublicKey publicKey;
    protected PingResponse pingResponse;

    @Before
    public void setUp() throws Exception {
        transport = mock(Transport.class);
        crypto = mock(Crypto.class);
        pingResponseCache = mock(PingResponseCache.class);
        publicKey = mock(RSAPublicKey.class);

        pingResponse = new PingResponse("2001-01-01 01:01:01", "2002-02-02 02:02:02", "Expected Key");
        when(transport.ping(any(PingRequest.class))).thenReturn(pingResponse);
        when(crypto.encryptRSA(any(byte[].class), any(PublicKey.class))).thenReturn(rsaEncryptedValue.getBytes());
        when(crypto.sign(any(byte[].class))).thenReturn(rsaSignedValue.getBytes());
        when(crypto.getRSAPublicKeyFromPEM(any(String.class))).thenReturn(publicKey);

    }

    @After
    public void tearDown() throws Exception {
        transport = null;
        crypto = null;
        pingResponseCache = null;
        publicKey = null;
        pingResponse = null;

    }

    public void verifyChecksPingResponseCache() throws Exception {
        verify(pingResponseCache, atLeastOnce()).getPingResponse();
    }

    public void verifyDoesNotCallPingWhenPingResponseCacheReturnsResponse() throws Exception {
        InOrder inOrder = inOrder(pingResponseCache, transport);
        inOrder.verify(pingResponseCache).getPingResponse();
        inOrder.verify(transport, never()).ping(any(PingRequest.class));
    }

    public void verifyDoesCallPingWhenPingResponseCacheReturnsNull() throws Exception {
        InOrder inOrder = inOrder(pingResponseCache, transport);
        inOrder.verify(pingResponseCache).getPingResponse();
        inOrder.verify(transport).ping(any(PingRequest.class));
    }

    public void verifyAddsPingResponseToPingResponseCacheWhenPingCallReturnsValue() throws Exception {
        verify(pingResponseCache, atLeastOnce()).setPingResponse(pingResponse);
    }

    public void verifyUsesPemFromPingToCreatePublicKey() throws Exception {
        ArgumentCaptor<String> argumentCaptor = ArgumentCaptor.forClass(String.class);
        verify(crypto, atLeastOnce()).getRSAPublicKeyFromPEM(argumentCaptor.capture());
        assertEquals(pingResponse.getPublicKey(), argumentCaptor.getValue());
    }

    public void verifyRsaEncryptedWithCorrectPublicKeyToCreateSecretKey() throws Exception {
        ArgumentCaptor<PublicKey> argumentCaptor = ArgumentCaptor.forClass(PublicKey.class);
        verify(crypto, atLeastOnce()).encryptRSA(any(byte[].class), argumentCaptor.capture());
        assertEquals(publicKey, argumentCaptor.getValue());
    }

    public void verifyRsaEncryptedJsonWithCorrectDataToCreateSecretKey(Date start, Date end) throws Exception {
        // "LaunchKey time" precision is in seconds, Java is milliseconds, round down to the second
        Date actualStart = new Date((start.getTime() / 1000) * 1000);
        Date actualEnd = new Date((end.getTime() / 1000) * 1000);

        ArgumentCaptor<byte[]> argumentCaptor = ArgumentCaptor.forClass(byte[].class);
        verify(crypto, atLeastOnce()).encryptRSA(argumentCaptor.capture(), any(PublicKey.class));
        String json = new String(argumentCaptor.getValue());
        JsonNode actual = objectMapper.readTree(json);
        assertEquals("Expected only 2 elements, stamped and secret, in JSON: " + json, 2, actual.size());
        assertEquals("Unexpected secret value in JSON object", secretKey, actual.get("secret").textValue());
        String stamped = actual.get("stamped").asText();
        Date actualDate = new LaunchKeyDateFormat().parseObject(stamped);
        assertThat(actualDate, greaterThanOrEqualTo(actualStart));
        assertThat(actualDate, lessThanOrEqualTo(actualEnd));
    }

    public void verifySignatureUsedEncryptedSecretKeyValue() throws Exception {
        ArgumentCaptor<byte[]> signatureCaptor = ArgumentCaptor.forClass(byte[].class);
        verify(crypto, atLeastOnce()).sign(signatureCaptor.capture());
        String actual = new String(signatureCaptor.getValue());
        assertEquals(rsaEncryptedValue, actual);
    }
}

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Tag Archives: Provincial Reconstruction Team
Former @StateDept Employee Assigned to PRT Kirkuk Indicted in $2M Government Contract Conspiracy
December 21, 2015 By domani spero in Americans Abroad, Court Cases, Follow the Money, Govt Documents, Iraq, NEA|Near East Asia, PRTs, State Department, U.S. Missions, US Embassy Baghdad Tags: federal grand jury, Indictment, Iraq, Jonathan Apple, Kenneth D. Apple, Provincial Reconstruction Team, PRT Kirkuk, Reconstruction
On December 18, the USDOJ announced the indictment by a grand jury of former State Department employee, Kenneth Apple, 65, of Beaverton, Oregon, on charges related to his role in allegedly awarding $2 million in micro-dairy contracts from the U.S. government for use in Iraq.
Via DOJ/U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Virginia:
According to the indictment, Apple, a former employee with the U.S. Department of State, helped to steer the sole-sourcing of $2 million in micro-dairy contracts to a company in which his son, Jonathan Apple, owned a 50 percent interest. However, Jonathan Apple and his partner had no technical experience in the industry. Kenneth Apple conspired to use his official position to pass on non-public information to his son in order to fraudulently award and administer government contracts. The conspirators further provided false information to, and concealed material details from the U.S. government.
According to the indictment, Kenneth Apple provided templates and technical specifications used in the proposal submitted by Jonathan Apple and his partner to the U.S. government. In addition, Kenneth Apple caused false and misleading statements to be made to the U.S. government regarding his experience, ownership interest, and the status of the projects. For example, Kenneth Apple directed a conspirator to keep Jonathan Apple's name off the company's website and any ownership documents. When federal law enforcement agents confronted Kenneth Apple about the scheme, he made false statements, including that he could not recall the owner of the company that won the micro-dairy contracts and that he did not receive any money from the contracts.
Kenneth Apple faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison if convicted of wire fraud or obstruction of an official proceeding, and five years in prison if convicted of conspiracy or false statements. The maximum statutory sentence is prescribed by Congress and is provided here for informational purposes, as the sentencing of the defendant will be determined by the court based on the advisory Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
Dana J. Boente, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; Paul M. Abbate, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI's Washington Field Office; Frank Robey, Director of the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command's Major Procurement Fraud Unit (MPFU); and Robert E. Craig, Special Agent in Charge for the Defense Criminal Investigative Service's (DCIS) Mid-Atlantic Field Office, made the announcement. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Uzo Asonye and Katherine Wong are prosecuting the case.
According to court records, Kenneth D. Apple was arrested on December 18 in Oregon. His defense is currently listed as the Office of the Federal Public Defender in Alexandria, Virginia.
The indictment says that Kenneth D. Apple was a civilian employee with the Department of State assigned to the Kirkuk PRT in Iraq from January 2009 through March 2011 as an agricultural advisor. Micro-dairy processors are self-contained, mini-factories that are used to process milk into cheese and yogurt.
Related court documents and information may be found on the website of the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia or on PACER by searching for Case No. 1:15-cr-363.
An indictment contains allegations that a defendant has committed a crime. Every defendant is presumed to be innocent until and unless proven guilty in court.
News: Micro-dairy plant brings Kirkuk local farmers together | Dvidshub.net (2.21.2011)
Beaverton man indicted in alleged Iraqi contracting fraud | Oregon.live
Snapshot: Afghanistan Provincial Reconstruction Teams
August 4, 2014 By domani spero in Af/Pak, Civilian Surge, Defense Department, End of Year, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Service, Govt Documents, PRTs, Snapshots, State Department, U.S. Missions Tags: Afghanistan, Congressional Research Service, CRS Report, Provincial Reconstruction Team, PRT, Snapshot
— Domani Spero
According to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the May 20-21, 2012, NATO summit in Chicago expressed agreement to phase out the PRTs in Afghanistan by the end of 2014. The July 2014 CRS report also indicates that as of December 1, 2013, 12 PRTs have been transferred to Afghan control, and that the remaining 16 are to be transferred by the end of 2014. District Support Teams (DSTs), which help district officials provide government services, are to close by the end of 2014 as well. USAID and CRS calculations put the PRT projects cost (development and local governance) from FY2001 to 2011 at over USD $1.2 billion.
Below via the CRS:
The PRTs, the concept for which was announced in December 2002, have performed activities ranging from resolving local disputes to coordinating local reconstruction projects, although most U.S.-run PRTs and most PRTs in combat-heavy areas focused on counterinsurgency. Many of the additional U.S.civilian officials deployed to Afghanistan during 2009 and 2010 were based at PRTs, which have facilities, vehicles, and security. Some aid agencies say they felt more secure since the PRT program began,49 but several relief groups did not want to associate with military forces because doing so might taint their perceived neutrality. Virtually all the PRTs, listed in Table 15, were placed under the ISAF mission. Each PRT operated by the United States has had U.S. forces to train Afghan security forces; DOD civil affairs officers; representatives of USAID, State Department, and other agencies; and Afghan government (Interior Ministry) personnel. USAID officers assigned to the PRTs administer PRT reconstruction projects. USAID spending on PRT projects is in the table at the end of this report.
Despite the benefits, President Karzai consistently criticized the PRTs as holding back Afghan capacity-building and repeatedly called for their abolition as "parallel governing structures." USAID observers backed some of the criticism, saying that there was little Afghan input into PRT development project decision-making or as contractors for PRT-funded construction.
PRT Farah transfers Forward Operating Base Farah to Afghanistan (dvidshub.net)
PRT Paktya: A change of command, a change in mission (dvidshub.net)
Provincial Reconstruction Team – Uruzgan share Iftar with Afghan colleagues (dvidshub.net)
Hungary to grant one-off aid to Afghan interpreters (politics.hu)
Afghan schools and clinics built by British military forced to close (guardian.co.uk)
Canada's PRT in Afghanistan 'wildly successful': U.S. diplomat (canada.com)
Zabul Attack: Can it possibly get any worse than this?
April 10, 2013 By domani spero in Af/Pak, State Department, U.S. Missions, War Tags: Afghanistan, Anne Smedinghoff, FSOs Killed, FSOs Wounded, Kelly Hunt, Provincial Reconstruction Team, Qalat Zabul Province, Shamshad TV, US Mission Afghanistan, Zabul Province	7 Comments
Via Jay Price and Rezwan Natiq, McClatchy Newspapers, Posted on Wednesday, 04.10.1
Ahmad Zia Abed, a reporter for Shamshad TV, said he and a videographer from his station were among about a dozen people, including the officer, Anne Smedinghoff, 25, whom American soldiers were escorting on the 200-yard walk from the local headquarters of the U.S.-led Provincial Reconstruction Team to what they thought was the school. A man at the gate said they had the wrong place, though, that this was the provincial agriculture institute.
The group retraced its steps to the American base to figure out what to do next, Abed said. The entrance to the base is just a few feet from the street, he said, and just as they reached it, walking more or less in single file, something slammed into his back and he staggered forward.
Abed's account of the bombing, the most detailed to surface since the explosion, raises new questions about the circumstances that led to the deadliest combat incident in Afghanistan for Americans this year and contradicts what relatives of the victims have said they were told – that Smedinghoff and her military escorts had been in an armored vehicle when it was rammed by a suicide vehicle. Smedinghoff was the first American diplomat to die in Afghanistan during more than 11 years of warfare here.
The FBI has opened an investigation into the attack, said a U.S. government official who declined to be identified because of that investigation. He confirmed Wednesday night that the party had been on foot, and said earlier reports that they were in a vehicle convoy were inaccurate.
Smedinghoff's father told journalists in the United States that he'd been told she was in a vehicle and the bomber either rammed it or detonated his explosives nearby. But Abed said she'd been his media escort all the way from Kabul to Qalat, the capital of Zabul province, and that he was certain she was on foot.
Read in full here.
— DS
Tom and Mary Beth Smedinghoff's Statement on Daughter Anne Killed in Afghanistan (diplopundit.net)
Witness: Anne Smedinghoff, other Americans killed in Afghan bombing were on foot, lost (mcclatchydc.com)
RIP Anne Smedinghoff: Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. (diplopundit.net)
Taliban Attack Kills US Diplomat, Three NATO Troops and Civilians in Zabul, Afghanistan (diplopundit.net)
Death of an FSO, and the Tragedy in Zabul (republicofsnarkistan.net)
The Death Of A Young Diplomat Is Only Half The Tragedy In Zabul (businessinsider.com)
US diplomat killed in Afghanistan wanted to help (miamiherald.com)
Officially In: Alexander M. Laskaris – from Erbil, Iraq to the Republic of Guinea
May 31, 2012 By domani spero in Ambassadors, FSOs, Nominations, Officially In Tags: AIP Vet, Alexander M. Laskaris, Guinea, Patricia Moller, Provincial Reconstruction Team, Republic of Guinea, US Embassy Conakry
On May 24, President Obama announced his intent to nominate Alexander M. Laskaris as the next Ambassador to the Republic of Guinea. The WH released the following brief bio:
Alexander M. Laskaris, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Counselor, is Consul General at the U.S. Consulate in Erbil, Iraq, a position he has held since June 2010. Previously, he was the Team Leader for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Mosul, Iraq from 2008 to 2009. Prior to serving in Iraq, he was the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kosovo (2006-2009) and Burundi (2003-2005). Previously, Mr. Laskaris was a member of the U.S. Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff (2001-2003) and Advisor to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations (1999-2001). Other overseas assignments have included Political Officer in Luanda, Angola; Political and Economic Officer in Gaborone, Botswana; and Vice Consul in Monrovia, Liberia. From 1996 to 1997, he served as Desk Officer for Rwanda and Burundi at the Department of State.
He received a B.S. from Georgetown University and an M.A. from the U.S. Army War College.
In addition to Kurdish, Mr. Laskaris speaks Albanian, Greek, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. He was born in Monterey, California and lives in Takoma Park, Maryland. If confirmed, Mr. Laskaris would succeed career diplomat Patricia Newton Moller who was appointed chief of mission to Conakry in 2009.
We have often been struck by the prior assignments of some our diplomats nominated for ambassadorial posts. Some have been able to skirt the war zone posts, or able to get stuck in Foggy Bottom longer than most or move through inter-agency assignments within the beltway. Mr. Laskaris on the other hand is on his second tour in Iraq, his third year in that war torn country. His list of previous assignments is a run down of places high on hardship and low on cushy-factor. Conakry will not be altogether different from his prior assignments; post is a 55% differential post (25% COLA + 30% hardship).
President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts | May 24, 2012
Erbil today held a consultative meeting between the coalition and Iraqi Kurdistan to discuss the crisis in the country (thecurrencynewshound.com)
Guinea Election Reform Protests Spark Clashes (voanews.com)
Police break-up women's protest in Guinea, some 20 injured (rawstory.com)
Tony Blair expands his African empire into mineral-rich Guinea (telegraph.co.uk)


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"'Ideal Marriage': a Look Back" by Melissa Knox
Sometime around 1953, my father lay on the couch free-associating, when his analyst of ten years said she was getting a divorce. Dad sat up, turned to the doctor, and said, "Marry me!" (I heard this many years later.)
On the heels of Dad's proposal, which she declined, Dr. Berkeley threw my future parents together. A handsome dog back in the early fifties, Dad wore white linen suits. Cigarette perched, in photographs, between his long, elegant, pianist's fingers, he smoked with attitude. At the end of his life, he told me he would never forget his analyst's "beautiful eyes." When he proposed, she was a stout, plain fifty-three, nearly nine years older, incidentally the age gap between him and my mother–who came to analysis as a graceful, rosy-cheeked damsel of thirty-one, her thick brown hair gracefully twisted into a coronet.
Mom dedicated a family album page labelled "The House where we met" to May 15, 1954. On the evening of that fateful day, the doctor invited Harry, who would, two and a half years later, become my father, and Sylvia, my future mother, along with other patients to "a buffet supper" at her brownstone on Thirteenth Street. Berkeley's placid face illuminates the center of the page, framed by an indoor shot of her mantel, a view of the house from across the street, and a map of the neighborhood where the old brownstone still stands.
That need for a map—to marriage? To love? To sex? To life?—seems to have dominated the lives of my parents, who vied for their analyst's attentions like children for that of a favorite babysitter. How many memories I have of watching—as a five-year-old, as a ten-year-old—the doorbell ring, my mother and father each pushing the other aside to get there first. As soon as Dr. Berkeley was let in, the fighting stopped for a whole day. The plump figure with her iron-gray bun, string of pearls, patterned silk dresses and sensible shoes beamed at them both, waiting to be worshipped. And worship her they did. Every Christmas, every Easter, many Thanksgivings, she was there—unless she'd invited us to her place. Our social circle largely consisted of Dr. Berkeley, her daughter, who'd been a bridesmaid at my parents' wedding, and Berkeley's odd associates—including a married couple who'd been to school with her daughter, and who, tasked with "looking out" for me while my mother was in Europe and I was sixteen, inveigled me into a threesome.
Mom, who praised Berkeley as "the woman who freed me from my childhood," told me the husband Berkeley divorced, a man deeply involved in the peace movement, used to throw their daughter in closets and lock her in. I thought Berkeley treated Mom—who, I suspect, would have done anything to please her, including stay married for a quarter of a century to man she detested—with similar harshness. It often seemed Mom strove to please her no matter what. "No sympathy!" Berkeley barked on at least one occasion when my mother had been crying. Berkeley borrowed this mantra from her own analyst, Theodor Reik, whose frequent comment, "No Rachmones," (Yiddish for "no mercy") developed from his notion that sympathy deepened depression.
As far as I can glean from Mom's memories and a letter Berkeley sent to my own psychoanalyst about my parents, Berkeley pushed Mom to take an interest in homemaking, cooking, motherhood, and my father, putting Mom down when she failed to do so. Before her wedding, my mother went on a trip to the American West with Berkeley and Berkeley's daughter, establishing her sense of herself as a member of their family, apparently making up for all that followed. Mom pasted into her album photos of their trip, including the Grand Canyon, candid shots of the doctor biting into an apple, of herself posing with the daughter as "tree-trunk elves" in the shadow of a giant redwood.
For a young woman who thought of herself as too old to marry, who longed to get away from her own family, including a father who had molested her—as she divulged to me only when I was in my thirties and according to her, never to Berkeley—the lure of a new family with a husband and his best friends, the Berkeleys, must have been intoxicating. Dad, a US army reject for psychiatric reasons, had been Berkeley's very first patient, facts that didn't deter Mom from marrying him. Nor did Berkeley's revelations about choosing to take her own honeymoon in Stalinist Russia. On the boat back to the States, the husband from whom Berkeley would eventually seek divorce informed her she'd have to become a doctor, since he thought that profession best for her. She followed orders, signing up for medical school as soon as they got back to New York. Did my mother follow orders too, marrying Dad? I always had the feeling she put Berkeley's happiness above her own, not wishing to disappoint.
Once when my mother was complaining about Dad, Dr. Berkeley asked, "What do you value about Harry?" Growing up, I regularly witnessed Berkeley valuing Dad. Every Christmas and Easter dinner our family had with the woman we children called, "Aunt" Berkeley, every picnic, every annual pilgrimage to buy Halloween pumpkins and cider at a farm the doctor liked, seemed an occasion for her and my father to bond in a way that obviously excluded my mother.
Dad was born and raised in a small Carolina town, Dr. Berkeley in a Georgia hamlet, their Southern origins cementing a lifelong friendship. Whenever our family got together with the analyst, Dad and Dr. Berkeley cooed like lovebirds over their grits and gravy, their recipes for ham with Coca-Cola sauce. Mom sat withdrawn, eating little and declining seconds.
Mom, the outsider, was born and raised in New York City. Dad and Dr. Berkeley had in common their exile status; in Berkeley's Greenwich Village consulting room, they missed the South together.
Mom's route to Berkeley lay through her own mother, who had consulted Berkeley after an affair with her own therapist imploded. Getting a call from Berkeley, supposedly about her mother's difficulties, Mom realized this was a ploy to get her into treatment, which she correctly perceived as a method to make her marriageable. Although she was gorgeous, well-educated, and sweet—characteristics that seem to have gone unrecognized by, if not become the envy of, Dr. Berkeley—Mom remained, at age thirty-one, single. She was at a worrisome age for a girl coming of age in the early nineteen-fifties: she, her parents, and the redoubtable Berkeley all believed she'd missed a major developmental milestone. A virgin, Mom assured me, she'd never heard the word "shit," a term Dad explained to her after uttering it at a cocktail party they attended. When I was fourteen, Mom told me she'd been, while in her early thirties, to a gynecologist about a "funny smell." When the doctor removed the tampon she'd forgotten, Mom felt astonished.
Like many a recently married couple in the 1950s, Mom and Dad had a copy of Dr. Theodoor Henrik van de Velde's Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique. Their copy contained the insert that came with the 1926 edition, "The sale of this book is strictly limited to members of the medical profession, Psychoanalysts, Scholars, and to such adults as may have a definite position in the field of Physiological, Psychological, or Social Research." Mom and Dad had no definite position—except as Berkeley's patients. This leads me to believe they acquired their copy from her—I dimly recall Mom saying Berkeley liked and recommended the book.
This road map to marital sex, van de Velde's manual, speaks to a past in which, routinely, many a young couple couldn't find the right orifice. His guidebook offered practical advice peppered with fantasy; the book's charts, illustrations and (not infrequently crackpot and racist) opinions, like the notion that Western European semen smells better than . . . most peoples', were taken as scientific wisdom. So jam-packed with jargon is this tome that without a doctor-translator, ordinary people sometimes couldn't determine which position or act van de Velde was describing.
The term van de Velde uses to indicate kissing, namely "bucco-lingual" contact, probably didn't enlighten my parents, whom I never once saw kissing. For those who might want to imagine a full body kiss, van de Velde says it "resembles an irregular intermittent pneumatic massage." Teeth, he reminds us, can be erotic, but only up to a point. He does say that the "genital kiss" overcomes fear in "inexperienced" women.
If only it had overcome Mom's fear. But how could it? Who knew about her own father's fumbling caresses of her pre-adolescent body? I was in my thirties when I wondered if my grandfather might have been gay. She'd just shown me his oil portrait of himself as a woman, a pompadour atop his lantern-jawed face. Mom said "no, not gay," and told me where he'd put his hands.
"But I never felt threatened!" she said, her voice high. Even Dr. Berkeley might have sympathized, but I doubt Mom told her.
When Mom showed me the painting, she was wearing her usual outfit: an oversized man's shirt, thrift-shop baggy jeans and a newsboy's cap. She concealed her body in public. At home, she lay naked with her legs splayed, once calling my teenaged brother and his girlfriend into her room to talk to them about dinner. The girlfriend, whose body was hidden by a hundred and fifty extra pounds, looked away; she told my brother to protect himself. To look the other way.
"Readers who do not exactly comprehend any of these words can ask a doctor to explain their precise meaning," Van de Velde remarks. What about readers who did not exactly comprehend what had happened to them, especially as children? Where would such readers find words—or the resolve—to describe their experiences, especially when the world was telling them to pretend such things never happened? Van de Velde wasn't writing about the effects of child sexual abuse on marriage. Nobody was. Decades earlier, Freud, who admitted that his own father was "a pervert," evolved a "seduction theory" that messed-up women had been sexually touched by their fathers. Then he retracted his theory, because it couldn't possibly be the case that so many women in Vienna had fathers who touched them. Could it? Freud's own grandson, Sir Clement Freud, eminent British politician and broadcaster, raped children. In the early 2000s he had a villa in Portugal near the McCann family just two months after three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared. Clement Freud's own crimes weren't discovered until after his death.
Van de Velde writes, "I deal throughout this book only with such emotions and sensations as lie within the limits of normal sexuality: limits which are wide and various enough in all conscience." He'll mention a problem, but not in detail: "Morbid deflections, twisted and abnormal desires have no place in the physiology of marriage, in spite of their primitive ramifications, mani-fold diversity, and extraordinary frequency in the whole field of sexual life." He seems to think a person could just wave her hand and get rid of that stuff. Forget. It was literally unthinkable that "morbid deflections" experienced in childhood could have their influence on a marriage.
Mom proudly showed teenaged me photos her father had taken at her mother's request: she was fifteen, dancing naked on a beach.
"Da took these?"
"I was dancing with seaweed in my hands!" Mom smiled.
The seaweed, raised high above her head, a banner, fluttered in the breeze. Ballet-trained Mom looked graceful posing on half toe, one knee drawn up, peekaboo style. Handing me the photo, she looked right into my eyes, and I looked down. She wanted admiration. Of her body. From me. I tried hard not to see that naked longing in her eyes. I put the photo on the table and stepped back, as if both might spontaneously ignite.
When I was fourteen, she sent me to a psychoanalyst recommended by Dr. Berkeley. To him and to me she complained that I lacked affection. My brother used to crawl into her lap and cuddle, she said. But I, from toddlerhood on, always—always!—pushed her away when she tried to put me in her lap. The psychoanalyst agreed I was cold. To a mother who I grabbed me the way a lonely child grabs a doll for comfort, I probably seemed that way.
What if Mom had met a man who understood her loneliness and wanted to make her less lonely? What if Dad had found a way to settle down with the love of his life, Dr. Berkeley?
I would never have known. Anything.
The resort to a handbook was something its author tried to warn was a useless move when both parties lacked love. My parents, not loving each other, fumbling in the dark in so many ways, poor lovelorn Dr. Berkeley, were all desperately seeking an escape from feelings so powerful that often only death quenches them.
Melissa Knox's recent writing appears in *82 Review. Her book Divorcing Mom: A Memoir of Psychoanalysis was published by Cynren Press. She wrote previously for ACM about protecting herself from COVID in Essen, Germany, by wearing a Siemens vacuum cleaner bag and other items.
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From the given options, choose the sentence that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
(1) Yet, despite these technical developments, photographs still remain powerful because they are reminders of the people and things we care about.
(2) Images, after all, are surrogates carried into battle by a soldier or by a traveller on holiday.
(3) Photographs, be they digital or traditional, exist to remind us of the absent, the beloved, and the dead.
(4) In the new era of the digital image, the images also have a greater potential for fostering falsehood and trickery, perpetuating fictions that seem so real we cannot tell the difference.
(5) Anyway, human nature being what it is, little time has passed after photography's inventions became means of living life through images.
Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill. These were its assets; a tiny white van, two desks, two chairs, a telephone, and an old typewriter. Then there was a teapot, in which Mma Ramotswe - the only private lady detective in Botswana - brewed red bush tea. And three mugs - one for herself, one for her secretary and one for the client. What else does a detective agency really need? Detective agencies rely on human intuition and intelligence, both of which Mma Ramotswe had in abundance.
(1) But there was also the view, which again would appear on no inventory.
(2) No inventory would ever include those, of course.
(3) She had an intelligent secretary too.
(4) She was a good detective and a good woman.
(5) What she lacked in possessions was more than made up by a natural shrewdness.
The sentence/ paragraph labelled A is in its correct place. The four that follow are labelled B, C, D and E, and need to be arranged in the logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate option.
A. In America, highly educated women, who are in stronger position in the labour market than less qualified ones, have higher rates of marriage than other groups.
B. Some work supports the Becker thesis, and some appears to contradict it.
C. And, as with crime, it is equally inconclusive.
D. But regardless of the conclusion of any particular piece of work, it is hard to establish convincing connections between family changes and economic factors using conventional approaches.
E. Indeed, just as with crime, an enormous academic literature exists on the validity of the pure economic approach to the evolution of family structures.
A. Personal experience of mothering and motherhood are largely framed in relation to two discernible or "official" discourses: the "medical discourse and natural childbirth discourse". Both of these tend to focus on the "optimistic stories" of birth and mothering and underpin stereotypes of the "godmother".
B. At the same time, the need for medical expert guidance is also a feature for contemporary reproduction and motherhood. But constructions of good mothering have not always been so conceived - and in different contexts may exist in parallel to other equally dominant discourses.
C. Similarly, historical work has shown how what are now taken-for-granted aspects of reproduction and mothering practices result from contemporary "pseudoscientific directives" and "managed constructs". These changes have led to a reframing of modern discourses that pattern pregnancy and motherhood leading to an acceptance of the need for greater expert management.
D. The contrasting, overlapping and ambiguous strands within these frameworks focus to varying degrees on a woman's biological tie to her child and predisposition to instinctively know and be able to care for her child.
A. Indonesia has experienced dramatic shifts in its formal governance arrangements since the fall of President Soeharto and the close of his centralized, authoritarian "New Order" regime in 1997.
B. The political system has taken its place in the nearly 10 years since Reformasi began. It has featured the active contest for political office among a proliferation of parties at central, provincial and district levels; direct elections for the presidency (since 2004); and radical changes in centre-local government relations towards administrative, fiscal, and political decentralization.
C. The mass media, once tidily under Soeharto's thumb, has experienced significant liberalization as has the legal basis for non-governmental organizations, including many dedicated to such controversial issues as corruption control and human rights.
D. Such developments are seen optimistically by a number of donors and some external analysts, who interpret them as signs of Indonesia's political normalization.
E. A different group of analysts paint a picture in which the institutional forms have changed, but power relations have not. Vedi Hadiz argues that Indonesia's "democratic transition" has been anything but linear.


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Gar Alperovitz is the author of What Then Must We Do?, America Beyond Capitalism, and The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, and an advocate for a new, community-sustaining economy.
Delivering the keynote address at the 2018 Bioneers keynote address, titled "Why We Need a Next System," Alperovitz discusses his work with the Next System Project, emerging models for community-based political-economic development, and how we can begin to build and work toward the systemic change we need to save both democracy and the planet.
If corporate capitalism and traditional state socialism both systemically fail to sustain values of equality, genuine democracy, liberty, and ecological sustainability what must we do? Gar Alperovitz joined Terrence McNally to share his vision for a better future and a path to move beyond mere resistance to corporate capitalism in order to lay the groundwork for the next possible system transformation.
Gar Alperovitz offer his perspective on centrist, elite resistance to Trump era politics.
Gar offers an number of examples and evidence of the growing national and global movement to build a new economy from the ground up.
Read the full article in "In These Times" here.
Read their full conversation here.
Gar Alperovitz joined hosts, Annie Esposito and Steve Scalmanini, on Tuesday, November 14th at 1:00pm on KZYX's Corporations and Democracy program. Gar discusses developments in the New Economy and the quietly emerging next system. Gar also answers questions from Mendicino County listeners who are interested in working on the emerging elements, such as public banks, of the next system.
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