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Nigeria, Senegal in African Cup semis; VAR in spotlight
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CAIRO (AP) — Nigeria and Senegal went through to the semifinals and VAR was straight into the spotlight on its debut at the African Cup of Nations on Wednesday. This time, the often-contentious referee video review system got it right.
Nigerian players celebrate after a goal during the African Cup of Nations s quarterfinal soccer match between Nigeria and South Africa in Cairo International Stadium, Egypt, Wednesday, July 10, 2019 .
Nigeria's Samuel Chukwueze celebrates after he scored during the African Cup of Nations s quarterfinal soccer match between Nigeria and South Africa in Cairo International Stadium, Egypt, Wednesday, July 10, 2019 .
Nigeria's Samuel Chukwueze, center, celebrates after he scored during the African Cup of Nations s quarterfinal soccer match between Nigeria and South Africa in Cairo International Stadium, Egypt, Wednesday, July 10, 2019 .
Senegal's Idrissa Gana Gueye scores during the African Cup of Nations quarterfinal soccer match between Senegal and Benin in 30 June stadium in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, July 10, 2019.
Senegal's Idrissa Gana Gueye celebrates after he scored during the African Cup of Nations quarterfinal soccer match between Senegal and Benin in 30 June stadium in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, July 10, 2019.
Senegal's Idrissa Gana Gueye celebrates with his coach Aliou Cisse after the African Cup of Nations quarterfinal soccer match between Senegal and Benin in 30 June stadium in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, July 10, 2019.
Senegal players celebrate after a goal during the African Cup of Nations quarterfinal soccer match between Senegal and Benin in 30 June stadium in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, July 10, 2019.
Nigerian fan cheers before the African Cup of Nations s quarterfinal soccer match between Nigeria and South Africa in Cairo International Stadium, Egypt, Wednesday, July 10, 2019 .
Senegal's Papa Alioune Ndiaye fauls Benin's Emmanuelle Imorou in front of Senegal's head coach Aliou Cisse during the African Cup of Nations quarterfinal soccer match between Senegal and Benin in 30 June stadium in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, July 10, 2019.
Benin's Sessi D'almeida, left, and Senegal's Lamine Gassama argue during the African Cup of Nations quarterfinal soccer match between Senegal and Benin in 30 June stadium in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, July 10, 2019.
Benin's Sessi D'almeida, left, and Senegal's Lamine Gassama fight for the ball during the African Cup of Nations quarterfinal soccer match between Senegal and Benin in 30 June stadium in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, July 10, 2019.
Nigeria beat South Africa 2-1 with a winning goal bundled in from a corner by William Troost-Ekong with just a minute to go. Samuel Chukwueze gave Nigeria the lead in the first half at Cairo International Stadium. Bongani Zungu equalized in the 71st for South Africa when his looping header from a free kick, ruled out initially for offside, was correctly allowed to stand after a VAR referral that took about five minutes.
Zungu's was one of three goals to be looked at by VAR on the first day the system was being used at the African Cup. It's in play in Egypt from the quarterfinals onwards. That VAR decision became decidedly less important when defender Troost-Ekong forced in a corner off his knee at the very end to win it for three-time champion Nigeria.
"We are lucky in the end to score this second goal," Nigeria coach Gernot Rohr said. "But we are happy." Senegal was the first team through to the last four and is a step closer to its first African title after beating Benin 1-0 across Cairo at the 30 June Stadium, where Liverpool forward Sadio Mane had two goals ruled out for offside through VAR in a frantic second half.
But in between the disallowed goals, Idrissa Gueye scored in the 70th minute. Gueye made a surging run from deep and was played in by a deft touch from Mane, who was often the catalyst for Senegal. Going at full pace, Gueye swept his shot past Benin goalkeeper Owolabi Kassifa to seal it.
Senegal turned up the pressure on Benin in the second half. Mane's header from a free kick shortly after halftime was ruled offside after Algerian referee Mustapha Ghorbal briefly consulted VAR through his headset.
Mane also broke clear and scored straight after Gueye's goal but was adjudged offside again after another review by Ghorbal — this time for a little longer. The second disallowed goal was very tight, but also correct.
The referee didn't need to go to the sidelines to check the TV screen on either occasion. Zungu's goal in the Nigeria-South Africa game was more dramatic. Referee Redouane Jiyed of Morocco needed much longer to consult over the headset before indicating, by making the outline of a square with his hands and then pointing to the center circle, that the header stood.
Senegal's Mane, who had three goals in three games coming into the quarters, was a constant threat to Benin's last line of defense. As well as his two disallowed efforts, he missed out when 1-on-1 with Kassifa, who made the save, and defender Moise Adilehou followed up with a goal-saving tackle. Senegal had a flurry of chances in a few crazy minutes after the goal.
Benin, which was playing in the knockout stages for the first time, had defender Olivier Verdon sent off late in the match to effectively end the underdog's hopes. Verdon was red-carded for chopping down Gueye on the edge of the penalty area with seven minutes to go when Gueye was again clean through.
Senegal will play Madagascar or Tunisia in the semifinals as it aims to finally lift the African Cup at its 16th attempt. Senegal, with Mane in strong form, is now the favorite after host Egypt's exit at the hands of South Africa in the last 16.
Egyptian fans still haven't forgiven South Africa and cheered for Nigeria on Wednesday night. Nigeria faces the winner of the Ivory Coast-Algeria quarterfinal.
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Q: Getting URL for Image stored in MySQL as a blob My wife's family is big into jigsaw puzzles and I am using PHP and MySQL to build them a site so they can see what puzzles they already own. This should prevent issues of buying the same puzzle twice.
When someone adds a puzzle, I will get them to upload an image of the box art that will then be stored as a blob in the database. I have all the puzzles in the database appearing in a styled table and I am happy with how it looks, but there is one more piece of functionality that I would like to have.
The table displays the uploaded blob/image, and I use CSS to reduce it to thumbnail size - a future revision will show a true thumbnail to save data but that comes later, for now a CSS reduced blob/image is fine.
What I want to do is also have the thumbnail image be a link that can be clicked to open the image full size, but I don't know how to grab a URL from a blob stored in MySQL and hoping someone can help. What I currently have is below. Thanks in advance for your help!
$conn = new mysqli($configs->host, $configs->username, $configs->password, $configs->database);
if ($conn->connect_error) {
    die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}

$sql = "SELECT puzzles.name, puzzles.photo, manufacturers.name as manufacturer, owners.name as owner FROM puzzles LEFT JOIN manufacturers ON puzzles.manufacturer = manufacturers.id LEFT JOIN owners ON puzzles.owner = owners.id ORDER BY puzzles.id";
$result = $conn->query($sql);
?>

<?php
echo '

Puzzle Name
Manufacturer
Owner
Puzzle Photo
Options

';

while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc())
  {
    echo "
";
    echo "" . $row['name'] . "	";
    echo "" . $row['manufacturer'] . "	";
    echo "" . $row['owner'] . "	";
    echo "	";
    echo "Edit | Delete	";
  }
echo "

";

A: You should create a link to a php page. A parameter for the ID of the record related to the database should be sent to it. In the php page, set the header like this: header("Content-type: imageType).
mysql blob using php

A: for build your app that return your URL and you can show this image, you should to do a insert in your db with your local storage folder or internet URL. In new column. Blob return only object image, but I recommend you that not use blob, think that if your app it grows, you db will be very weight and will delay in return data.
you can to do:
query for url internet
$sql = "INSERT INTO puzzles(column, column, column, url)
VALUES ('xxx', 'xxx', 'xxx', 'https://urlInternet')";

if ($conn->query($sql) === TRUE) {
  echo "New record created successfully";
} else {
  echo "Error: " . $sql . "
" . $conn->error;
}

query for url local
$sql = "INSERT INTO puzzles(column, column, column, url)
    VALUES ('xxx', 'xxx', 'xxx', '/images/'.$_POST["img"])";

    if ($conn->query($sql) === TRUE) {
      echo "New record created successfully";
    } else {
      echo "Error: " . $sql . "
" . $conn->error;
    }

When you return your data:
while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc())
  {
    echo "
";
    echo "" . $row['name'] . "	";
    echo "" . $row['manufacturer'] . "	";
    echo "" . $row['owner'] . "	";
    echo "	";
    echo "Edit | Delete	";
  }

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Home » Bill Geiger » Stop Training Your Rear Delts with Shoulders!
A bodybuilding split separates training days by body part. You might do chest and triceps one day, and back and biceps the next. Seems pretty straightforward.
But let's consider what exactly gets worked on back day. For one, we consider "back" a muscle group because on back day we target more than a single muscle. By including a variety of moderately heavy rows and pull-downs, you effectively engage a number of muscles on your back side, including the lats, middle and lower traps, rhomboids and rear delts, as well as smaller ones. For our purposes, the rear delts are of particular interest here because most trainers also work them on shoulder day.
Are the rear delts getting too much work, or is doing them with back a better alternative than training them with the rest of the deltoid musculature?
First, understand that the rear delts are highly engaged in multi-joint back exercises as you pull your elbows behind the plane of your body. Most rowing exercises recruit them, not unlike how the triceps are engaged when doing pressing movements for chest. In fact, if you compare the movement arc of a row with that of a rear delt fly, you might notice how similar they in fact are.
Muscle stimulation on the rear delts isn't nearly as great on multi-joint exercises for the shoulders, a group of exercises we call overhead presses. Those primarily focus on the middle and front delts, depending on elbow position as you lower the weight, as well as triceps.
Is the difference in rear delt activation significant? There's not much research on the subject, but an unpublished EMG analysis done in 2014 indicated that rear delt activation was considerably less on the overhead dumbbell press when compared to the incline dumbbell row.1 This may also suggest other kinds of rows are more effective than overhead presses in successfully engaging the rear delt musculature.
Given the rear delts may not be getting much activation via multi-joint movements for the shoulders but rather those done on back day, wouldn't it make more sense to train them with the latter? That, in fact, is what many bodybuilders do.
If you're already doing rear delt isolation exercises like reverse pec-deck flyes and bent-over lateral raises with your shoulder training, realize that you're also hitting them again with back. That could effectively mean you're training them twice over the course of your split. That's not necessarily a bad short-term strategy if you need to bring them up in relation to your fronts and middles.
Normally, you want to give a muscle group at least 48 hours of rest before hitting it again in the gym, so how you construct your training split is consequential. Working the rears on consecutive days probably won't allow for optimal growth.
Consider working your back and shoulders on the same training day. In this case, do the larger muscle group first, which is back.
If you train rear delts with back, don't forget to add single-joint exercises for the rear delts after the heavy multi-joint moves are done. This will ensure they are effectively worked.
1 Sweeney, S., 2014. Electromyographic analysis of the deltoid muscle during various shoulder exercises. (doctoral dissertation, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse).


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Q: What does std::match_results::size return? I'm a bit confused about the following C++11 code:
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <regex>

int main()
{
    std::string haystack("abcdefabcghiabc");
    std::regex needle("abc");
    std::smatch matches;
    std::regex_search(haystack, matches, needle);
    std::cout << matches.size() << std::endl;
}

I'd expect it to print out 3 but instead I get 1. Am I missing something?

A: What you're missing is that matches is populated with one entry for each capture group (including the entire matched substring as the 0th capture).
If you write
std::regex needle("a(b)c");

then you'll get matches.size()==2, with matches[0]=="abc", and matches[1]=="b".

A: You get 1 because regex_search returns only 1 match, and size() will return the number of capture groups + the whole match value.
Your  matches is...:

Object of a match_results type (such as cmatch or smatch) that is filled by this function with information about the match results and any submatches found.
If [the regex search is] successful, it is not empty and contains a series of sub_match objects: the first sub_match element corresponds to the entire match, and, if the regex expression contained sub-expressions to be matched (i.e., parentheses-delimited groups), their corresponding sub-matches are stored as successive sub_match elements in the match_results object.

Here is a code that will find multiple matches:
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <regex>
using namespace std;
int main() {
  string str("abcdefabcghiabc");
  int i = 0;
  regex rgx1("abc");
  smatch smtch;
  while (regex_search(str, smtch, rgx1)) {
        std::cout << i << ": " << smtch[0] << std::endl;
        i += 1;
        str = smtch.suffix().str();
  }
  return 0;
}

See IDEONE demo returning abc 3 times.
As this method destroys the input string, here is another alternative based on the std::sregex_iterator (std::wsregex_iterator should be used when your subject is an std::wstring object):
int main() {
    std::regex r("ab(c)");
    std::string s = "abcdefabcghiabc";
    for(std::sregex_iterator i = std::sregex_iterator(s.begin(), s.end(), r);
                             i != std::sregex_iterator();
                             ++i)
    {
        std::smatch m = *i;
        std::cout << "Match value: " << m.str() << " at Position " << m.position() << '\n';
        std::cout << "    Capture: " << m[1].str() << " at Position " << m.position(1) << '\n';
    }
    return 0;
}

See IDEONE demo, returning
Match value: abc at Position 0
    Capture: c at Position 2
Match value: abc at Position 6
    Capture: c at Position 8
Match value: abc at Position 12
    Capture: c at Position 14

A: EDIT: Some people have downvoted this answer. That may be for a variety of reasons, but if it is because it does not apply to the answer I criticized (no one left a comment to explain the decision), they should take note that W. Stribizew changed the code two months after I wrote this, and I was unaware of it until today, 2021-01-18. The rest of the answer is unchanged from when I first wrote it.
@stribizhev's solution has quadratic worst case complexity for sane regular expressions. For insane ones (e.g. "y*"), it doesn't terminate. In some applications, these issues could be DoS attacks waiting to happen. Here's a fixed version:
string str("abcdefabcghiabc");
int i = 0;
regex rgx1("abc");
smatch smtch;
auto beg = str.cbegin();
while (regex_search(beg, str.cend(), smtch, rgx1)) {
    std::cout << i << ": " << smtch[0] << std::endl;
    i += 1;
    if ( smtch.length(0) > 0 )
        std::advance(beg, smtch.length(0));
    else if ( beg != str.cend() )
        ++beg;
    else
        break;
}

According to my personal preference, this will find n+1 matches of an empty regex in a string of length n. You might also just exit the loop after an empty match.
If you want to compare the performance for a string with millions of matches, add the following lines after the definition of str (and don't forget to turn on optimizations), once for each version:
for (int j = 0; j < 20; ++j)
    str = str + str;


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Inspired by Italy: John Storgårds conducts Mendelssohn and Sibelius
Le 17 avril 2015 par Derek Ho
English, On Stage
Helsinki. Helsinki Music Center. 14-IV-2015. Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847): Symphony No. 4, op. 90; Jean Sibelius (1865-1957): Symphony No. 2, op. 43. Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds: conductor.
A sense of refinement permeated Storgårds interpretation of the opening movement.
Italy has long been a source of inspiration for diverse composers both from the past and present. In this evening's program, conductor John Storgårds continued his season-long survey of the Sibelius symphonies, coupled with Mendelssohn's symphonic reflections on Italy.
Mendelssohn's music is considered by many to be largely free of angst and conflict; his Symphony No. 4 (also known as his Italian symphony) provides further evidence for this observation.
Storgårds seemed to guide the effervescent opening movement more in the direction of the classical era; textures were extraordinarily clear and articulations sharp. Special mention goes to the Helsinki Philharmonic violins for their precise rendering of Mendelssohn's endlessly running counterpoint. Storgårds also gave just the right amount of lilt to the walking bass line in the second movement, while the third movement was relaxed and sunny. The final movement benefited from excellent string ensemble, particularly in the rapid-fire, repeated-note gestures.
One of Storgård's final projects with the Helsinki Philharmonic is to conduct all of Sibelius' symphonies in chronological order. This evening's concert was the next installment of this project, and based on his previous performance of the Symphony No. 1 with these forces, there was much to look forward to.
The first thing which stood out in this performance was an immediate sense of unity and purpose in terms of sound and balance. The opening string gesture felt like a single body of sound; the woodwind response was distinct yet complementary. A sense of refinement permeated Storgårds interpretation of the opening movement; even Sibelius' occasionally angular woodwind writing came across as warm and polished.
Storgård's tempo in the second movement was sufficiently broad such that the doleful bassoon solo could breathe and sing. Careful attention by the strings ensured that the rapid passagework in the third movement was precise without being excessively edgy. In the final movement, Storgårds highlighted the interplay between timpani and lower strings/tuba. The buildup to the recapitulation was particularly satisfying.
The primary drawback to this otherwise excellent performance was the curiously underwhelming brass. The brass chorales in the outer movements should be radiant and glowing; in the second movement they should be imposing and weighty. Considering how Sibelius moved away from sweeping romantic gestures in his subsequent symphonies, one wondered why these elements were downplayed before the composer himself dispensed with them.
Photo credit John Storgårds: Heikki Tuuli
Felix Mendelssohn Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Jean Sibelius John Storgårds


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RYAN BUSSE argues: This ain't about freedom. Why the right's gun fetish isn't about the Second Amendment. It's about intimidation.
One of the subtle evolutions of American conservatism under Donald Trump has been the transformation of gun culture from an enthusiasm for freedom to a mechanism for instilling fear.
Because if you look beyond the statements of faux patriotism and the claims of gun fetishists to be defending the Constitution, what you see is something that looks like early-stage fascism.
Consider the lionization of Kyle Rittenhouse. Rittenhouse is a high school dropout turned vigilante who went out of his way to insert himself into a situation that resulted in him killing two human beings. Both Rittenhouse and the men he killed were idiots, all in the wrong place at the wrong time and had the situation developed slightly differently, it could have been Rittenhouse who was shot dead and the other guys who were acquitted under the banner of self-defense.
Rittenhouse isn't a hero. He's a cautionary tale about what can happen when gun owners act irresponsibly. And yet the conservative movement has treated Rittenhouse like a conquering warrior: Donald Trump brought him to Mar-a-Lago. He's been feted by Fox News. And just days ago Charlie Kirk introduced him to a standing ovation at a large gathering of Republicans. "You are a hero to millions," Kirk said. A hero for doing what? Looking for trouble, finding it, and killing two people.
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All told, the argument that this statute doesn't fit the alleged crimes is a stretch. If you read the plain language (rather than delve into the reasons behind the law), the defendants' argument that it's too narrow to cover the Jan. 6th crimes is not totally meritless, but it is weak.
The original statute dates back to the Victim and Witness Protection Act of 1982, a bill intended to "provide additional protections and assistance to victims and witnesses in Federal cases." The law effectively criminalized federal witness tampering or retaliation. Although it gained wide bipartisan support, the bill was part of a years-long Republican emphasis on victim issues during an era when Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee and President Ronald Reagan proclaimed a "Victims Rights Week." As DOJ explains on its website, "the federal criminal justice system cannot function without the participation of witnesses" and "the complete cooperation and truthful testimony of all witnesses." Section 1512 thus made it a crime to kill, use or threaten to use physical force, knowingly use intimidation, or corruptly persuade another person to "influence, delay, or prevent the testimony of any person in an official proceeding," among other things.
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Q: In App Purchase Error Message Google Play Console When I upload my in app purchases csv to google play console I receive an error message (in german):

The german text says

you can upload maximum -1 In App purchases per App.

Does it mean I overcome the limit of In-App purchases? If so how do other e.g. Newspaper apps do it when they release every day a product which should have a unique purchase ID?

A: It looks like a bug in the Play Console when rendering the number of maximum in-app purchases.
The actual maximum number is 1000. You can't have more than 1000 in-app purchases per app.


I've always loved a good tye dye! But my days of the rainbow tye dye and my handmade hemp jewelery are long gone… but of course not forgotten! 🙂 For the last few years, I've found myself drawn to a more subtle and I believe, sophisticated type of tye dye. Yes, it's true I know nothing about the Shibori method except what I've "learned" through Pinterest?!? ….. and watching the beautiful dying process that Maura Grace Ambrose uses and so graciously shares on her amazing blog. I am so ready and excited to try this method. As some of you know, I've been playing with the idea of hand dying my own fabric for a long while. My intention is to someday, use natural dyes and to incorporate some of the techniques I hope to learn about….
through this book, which is likely just the first of many. Thanks to my dear MIL who so kindly gifted me with this book recently, I now have no excuse not to become an expert in Shibori dying techniques…… well that might be going a bit far, but I do hope to gain enough knowledge to play around and create some beautiful patterns that I can use in future quilts! This book by Janice Gunner is filled with beautiful photos and detailed techniques to help get even a total beginner like me started. Very exciting!!
So apparently this shibori and indigo influence has gotten to me as of late because I have had a particular quilt design on my mind for a while and realized that I just had to have these fabrics to make it complete. I first saw these Kasuri by Moda prints during a recent trip to Superbuzzy and just couldn't stop thinking about them.
I found this giant 4 or 5 yard bundle of white linen that I ordered many years ago with the intention to dye believe it or not- yes it all comes full circle eventually doesn't it? I want to combine the linen and these indigo prints (probably not all of them) and solids along with my new Robert Kaufman Shot Cotton into a new quilt design.
They are just about ready to come out of the dryer, so I've got some work to do!
These are beautiful fabrics….I'm afraid I will be purchasing from this website. Funny, but I keep thinking about Japanese boro and the blues and indigos that are found in boro. Here's to artistic obsessions!
Oh, it's the Couldn't-Stop-Thinking-About-Them virus, eh?
We've all been smitten by that one!


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<?php
use Com\NgAbq\Beta;

require_once dirname(__DIR__, 2) . "/classes/autoload.php";
require_once dirname(__DIR__, 3) . "/lib/xsrf.php";
require_once("/etc/apache2/encrypted-config/encrypted-config.php");

/**
 * api for the OauthIdentity class
 *
 * @author Marlan Ball, parts of this code have been modified from code by Derek Mauldin <derek.e.mauldin from @see https://bootcamp-coders.cnm.edu/class-materials/php/writing-restful-apis/
 **/

// verify the session, start if not active
if(session_status() !== PHP_SESSION_ACTIVE) {
	session_start();
}

//prepare an empty reply
$reply = new stdClass();
$reply->status = 200;
$reply->data = null;

try {
	// grab the mySQL connection
	$pdo = connectToEncryptedMySQL("/etc/apache2/encrypted-config/ng-abq-dev.ini");

	//determine which HTTP method was used
	$method = array_key_exists("HTTP_X_HTTP_METHOD", $_SERVER) ? $_SERVER["HTTP_X_HTTP_METHOD"] : $_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"];

	//sanitize input
	$id = filter_input(INPUT_GET, "id", FILTER_VALIDATE_INT);
	$profileId = filter_input(INPUT_GET, "profileId", FILTER_VALIDATE_INT);
	$oauthIdentityTimeStamp = filter_input(INPUT_GET, "oauthIdentityTimeStamp", FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);

	//make sure the id is valid for methods that require it
	if(($method === "DELETE") && (empty($id) === true || $id < 0)) {
		throw(new InvalidArgumentException("id cannot be empty or negative", 405));
	}

	// handle GET request - all oauthIdentities are returned.
	if($method === "GET") {
		//set XSRF cookie
		setXsrfCookie();

		//get oauthIdentities and update reply
		if (empty($id) === false) {

			$oauthIdentity = Beta\OauthIdentity::getOauthIdentityByOauthIdentityId($pdo, $id);
			if ($oauthIdentity !== null) {
				$reply->data = $oauthIdentity;
			}
		} else if (empty($profileId) === false) {
			$oauthIdentities = Beta\OauthIdentity::getOauthIdentityByOauthIdentityProfileId($pdo, $profileId);
			if ($oauthIdentities !== null) {
				$reply->data = $oauthIdentities;
			}
		} else {
			$oauthIdentities = Beta\OauthIdentity::getOauthIdentityByOauthIdentityTimeStamp($pdo, $oauthIdentityTimeStamp)->toArray();
			if (sizeof($oauthIdentities) > 0) {
				$reply->data = $oauthIdentities;
			}
		}
	} else if($method === "POST") {

		verifyXsrf();
		$requestContent = file_get_contents("php://input");
		$requestObject = json_decode($requestContent);

		//make sure oauthIdentity content is available
		if((empty($requestObject->oauthIdentityProfileId) === true) && (empty($requestObject->oauthIdentityProfileEmail) === true)) {
			throw(new \InvalidArgumentException ("no profile for oauthIdentity.", 405));
		}
		if(empty($requestObject->oauthIdentityToken) === true) {
			throw(new \InvalidArgumentException ("no password reset token.", 405));
		}

		//perform the actual post
		if($method === "POST") {

			// create new oauthIdentity and insert into the database
			$bytes = random_bytes(25);
			$requestObject->oauthIdentityToken = (bin2hex($bytes));
			var_dump(($requestObject->oauthIdentityToken));
			$oauthIdentity = new Beta\OauthIdentity(null, $requestObject->oauthIdentityProfileId, $requestObject->oauthIdentityProfileEmail, $requestObject->oauthIdentityToken, $requestObject->oauthIdentityDate);
			$oauthIdentity->insert($pdo);

			// update reply
			$reply->message = "OauthIdentity created ok";
		}
	} else if($method === "DELETE") {
		verifyXsrf();

		// retrieve the Password Reset to be deleted
		$oauthIdentity = Beta\OauthIdentity::getOauthIdentityByOauthIdentityId($pdo, $id);
		if($oauthIdentity === null) {
			throw(new RuntimeException("Password Reset does not exist", 404));
		}

		// delete image
		$oauthIdentity->delete($pdo);

		// update reply
		$reply->message = "Password Reset deleted OK";
	} else {
		throw (new InvalidArgumentException("Invalid HTTP method request"));
	}

	// update reply with exception information
} catch(Exception $exception) {
	$reply->status = $exception->getCode();
	$reply->message = $exception->getMessage();
	$reply->trace = $exception->getTraceAsString();
} catch(TypeError $typeError) {
	$reply->status = $typeError->getCode();
	$reply->message = $typeError->getMessage();
}

header("Content-type: application/json");
if($reply->data === null) {
	unset($reply->data);
}

// encode and return reply to front end caller
echo json_encode($reply);

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The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, or VICP, is a result of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. Two years later, in October of 1988, the VICP was established in order to ensure both stable costs for, and an adequate supply of, vaccines. In addition, the VICP also established and now maintains an efficient and accessible forum for all individuals who are found to have been injured by certain vaccines.
As a no-fault alternative to the traditional tort system, the VICP resolves vaccine injury claims through the provision of appropriate compensation to individuals with certain injuries. The United States Department of Justice and the United States Department of Health and Human Services both play important roles in the VICP, but the United States Court of Federal Claims ultimately decides who will be paid.
How Does Filing a Vaccine Injury Claim Work?
For a vaccination personal injury claim to be eligible, the claim needs to be filed within three years after the first symptom of vaccine injury occurred. If the injury resulted in a death, the deadline is no later than two years after the death and no later than four years after the beginning of the first symptom of the injury that ultimately resulted in the death. The claim itself is filed in the United States Court of Federal Claims. From here it is adjudicated by Special Masters from the Court. Representation by a vaccine attorney is highly recommended because the cases are complicated both medically and legally. The procedures for prosecuting a vaccine claim are unique and often confusing to non-lawyers.
What Are the Legal Fees to File a Vaccine Claim?
The Law Office of Leah V. Durant, PLLC, files vaccine cases under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation at no charge to its clients. Our fees are typically paid at the conclusion of the case by the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, more commonly known as the "vaccine court" and are derived from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Fund. That means that our service comes at no risk and no cost to you. Our firm also covers all associated litigation costs, including expert witness fees and travel expenses.
Do I Need an Attorney to File a Vaccine Injury Claim?
Although the National Injury Compensation Program was designed to be a non-adversarial and non-litigious system, in reality, vaccine cases filed under the National Injury Compensation Program are often very difficult, hard-fought. The Secretary of Health and Human Services is represented in each case by highly trained an experienced vaccine litigation attorneys. Vaccine cases involve complicated legal, medical, and factual issues. You need an experienced vaccine attorney who knows how to litigate vaccine cases working on your behalf. We highly recommend that you do not attempt to represent yourself in the National Vaccine Compensation Program. Hiring a vaccine attorney to represent you should come at no cost to you because all legal fees are paid by the Court of Federal Claims and are taken out of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Fund.
How Do I file a Case Under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program?
All cases in the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program begin with the filing of a petition with the US Court of Federal Claims in Washington, DC. Once the vaccine petition is filed, a Special Master, who is a specialized judge is assigned to the vaccine case and decides the outcome in the event the case proceeds to a hearing (or trial). Cases that do not proceed to a hearing (or trial) are either settled by the parties in advance of the vaccine hearing or conceded by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Cases brought under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program are designed to be quicker than regular civil litigation. With some exceptions, it usually is. You can normally expect to receive a vaccine hearing on whether your vaccine caused the injury within approximately one year. Cases that settle typically conclude within six months. Other parts of the Vaccine Program are extremely cumbersome and may take much longer. Once a case is settled, it usually takes six months for settlement funds to be received.
What Kind of Compensation is Awarded in Vaccine Injury Compensation Claims?
For a vaccine injury, compensation may include pain and suffering a reasonable amount for past and future medical expenses, past and future lost wages, and reasonable attorneys' fees and costs are available. Compensation for pain and suffering is limited to a maximum of $250,000. There is no limit for medical expenses and lost wages.
For vaccine-related death cases you may be paid up to $250,000 as a death benefit for the estate of the deceased; and reasonable lawyers' fees and other legal costs or legal costs.
What Are the Deadlines for Filing a Claim?
As a general rule, for an injury, claims must be filed within 3 years after the first symptom of the vaccine injury. In the case of a death claim, claims must be filed within 2 years of the death.
When a new vaccine is covered by the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program or when a new vaccine injury/condition is added to the Vaccine Injury Table (Table), claims that do not meet the general filing deadlines must be filed within 2 years from the date the vaccine or injury/condition is added to the Table for injuries or deaths that occurred up to 8 years before the Table change. The Table lists and explains injuries that are presumed to be caused by vaccines. For details about the Table, go to Vaccine Injury Table.
For the claim to be valid, the injury or side effect in must have lasted for six months or longer or must have resulted in hospitalization and surgery. Injuries that result in death are also eligible for a claim.
What to Do After Suffering a Vaccine Injury?
For individuals who have you suffered an injury caused by a vaccine, it is recommended that they seek treatment from a doctor, and consult with an experienced vaccine injury lawyer to determine whether compensation may be available. To be compensated by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), individuals must first file a petition with the United States Court of Federal Claims. The petition is a legal document that commences the litigation process before the Court. Although individuals may prepare and file the petition for compensation on their own, it is recommended that they seek the assistance of a qualified vaccine attorney to assist them. Although hiring an attorney is not required, because it is a legal process, many petitioners in vaccine claims hire an attorney to represent them. Reasonable attorneys' fees are paid for by the Court, so the cost of hiring a qualified vaccine attorney will come at no financial cost to the injured party.
The United States Court of Federal Claims, Office of Special Masters, provides resources for petitioners, including step by step information of how to file and submit a claim for compensation.
Is There a Statute of Limitations for Vaccine Injuries?
Special rules are adhered to when filing a claim for vaccine injury compensation. These include statutes of limitations that are unique to VICP claims. For a vaccine injury, the petitioner must file his or her claim within three years of the first symptom or manifestation of the injury. For a death claim, the petitioner must file within two years of the date of death and within four years of the first symptom or manifestation.
How Common Are Vaccine-Related Illnesses and Injuries?
The actual number of vaccine-related injuries remains largely unknown due to the fact that many people fail to seek medical attention for their injuries and may neglect to report their condition as an adverse vaccine event. However, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)[f2] still receives more than 30,000 reports of vaccine induced injuries every year, and each year hundreds of people file claims for compensation under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.
How Do I Know if I Have a Claim Under the VICP?
A: Petitioners in vaccine claims must first demonstrate that they received a vaccine covered under the VICP. Although some adult vaccines are covered under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, the majority of vaccines the VICP covers are those vaccines routinely recommended and administered to infants and children in the United States.
In order for a vaccine to be covered under the Vaccine Program, the category of vaccine must be both recommended for routine administration to children by the CDC and subject to an excise tax by Federal law.
The Vaccine Injury Table lists injuries and reactions associated with many of the covered vaccinations. If the first onset of symptom of these injuries and/or illnesses occurs within the specified timeframes listed, and the injury meets the definition included in the Vaccine Injury Table, it is presumed that the vaccine caused petitioner's injury or condition unless another cause is shown.
If an individual's injury and/or condition is not on the Vaccine Injury Table or if their injury or condition fails to meet requirements listed on the Vaccine Table, petitioner must prove through providing evidence that the injury was caused by the vaccination they received. Some forms of acceptable evidence are expert witness testimony, medical records, or medical opinion.
It should be noted, however, that the Vaccine Injury Table is not exhaustive, and certain illnesses not listed on the Vaccine Injury Table may still be compensated. If you have suffered an unlisted vaccine-related injury (such as a vaccine related shoulder injury, or Guillain Barre Syndrome, you may still be entitled to seek compensation under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.
What to Do if Your Vaccine Injury Is Not Listed on the Vaccine Injury Table?
The Vaccine Injury Table provides a list of illnesses, injuries, and conditions associated with vaccines that are covered under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. If, however, your reaction or illness is not listed on the Vaccine Injury Table, or if the injury you sustained fails to meet requirements established by the Table, you may still be entitled to compensation.
In fact, the vaccine lawyers at the Law Offices of Leah V. Durant, PLLC regularly help clients who have suffered "off table" injuries obtain compensation for their pain and suffering, out of pocket expenses, and other financial losses.
Does the Government Settle VICP Claims?
Yes. In fact, few cases filed under the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, require a full hearing. If the evidence shows that you are entitled to compensation, the government's attorneys may be willing to offer a fair settlement, obviating the need for a trial, or hearing, altogether.


On November 1, 2018 Attorney Dan Adams spoke at the first ever National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys (NACDL) conference focusing on Overdose Death Homicides, often called "Len Bias Homicides." Adams was one of only four attorneys to present at the conference.
Wisconsin and other states are ramping up prosecution of those involved in drug deliveries that result in the overdose death of another. Wisconsin's overdose homicide law is codified under the Reckless Homicide statute.
Attorney Adams was selected to present at the conference due to his focus on this crime at the trial level in Wisconsin.


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NEW SOUTH PICTURES
THE MAYOR: The Age of Riley
THE MAYOR:
The Age of Riley
(run time 00:56;40)
Producer, Director, Writer: Barbara Tranter
Associate Producer: Jennet Robinson Alterman
Original Music Composed by: Charlton Singleton
Videography: Larry Monteith
Editing: Mark McKinney & Steve Lepre
This film is an inspiring story of a white, Irish Catholic man in the American south who provided guidance and compassion to his community for an incredible 40 year period as the mayor of Charleston, South Carolina.
Entering office just as the Civil Rights movement was taking off in South Carolina, Joseph P. Riley Jr., a Democrat, became America's Mayor and proved that the only real social change comes from the ground up. As American politics charged down the path of divisiveness, Mayor Riley sought inclusion and worked to improve his city in every way.
On June 17, 2015, in the final quarter of his last term in office, he faced "his worst nightmare": the tragic massacre of nine African Americans by a young, white supremacist, in the oldest African Methodist Episcopalian church in America.
This documentary will be airing throughout the United States in 2017 on local PBS stations. Click HERE for full listing of air dates, times and stations.
Is Joe Riley of Charleston the Most Loved Politician in America?
Frank Bruni/New York Times
Joe Riley Moonlights as Mayor of the United States
Brian Hicks/ Post & Courier
Joseph C. Riley - Sunday Review
Kate Murphy/New York Times
Pope bestows honors on former Charleston Mayor Joe Riley
Adam Parker/The Post and Courier


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Tarzan and the Slave Girl
Tarzan and the Slave Girl is a 1950 film directed by Lee Sholem and starring Lex Barker as Tarzan, Vanessa Brown as Jane, and Robert Alda as big game hunter Neil. The plot involves a lost civilization in Africa, a strange illness, and an evil counselor manipulating a prince into kidnapping large numbers of local women.
Italian theatrical poster
Lee Sholem
Sol Lesser
Arnold Belgard
Hans Jacoby[1]
Characters created
Lex Barker
Vanessa Brown
Robert Alda
Paul Sawtell
Russell Harlan
RKO Pictures
March 15, 1950 (1950-03-15)
The film was Barker's second portrayal of Tarzan, and Vanessa Brown's only outing as Jane.
Tarzan and Jane are spending some time by a river when they hear a scream. A local tribal girl has gone missing, and the tribes people believe this is due to some evil spirit. Tarzan and Jane quickly realize the girl has been kidnapped. The kidnappers are Lionians, a "lost" culture of Caucasians who have a culture similar to ancient Egypt and who worship lions. The Lionians are kidnapping girls throughout the region to bring back to their city deep in the jungle. But they have brought a terrible disease with them which can kill within hours. Tarzan seeks the help of Dr. Campbell, who has a serum that can both cure the disease as well as vaccinate against it. After saving the local tribe, Dr. Campbell and Tarzan (with the help of Neil, a drunken big game hunter) head for the Lionian city. Meanwhile, Dr. Campbell's native assistant, the buxom and blonde Lola, has fallen for Tarzan. Jane and Lola have a fight, after which both women are captured by a Lionian raiding party.
Tarzan and the others are repeatedly attacked by other tribes and the Lionians as they search for Lionia. Neil suffers an injured leg, and is left behind. Dr. Campbell unknowingly drops his bottle of serum, although Neil discovers it later as he follows Tarzan and Campbell.
Meanwhile, Jane and Lola are taken to the Lionian capital. The Lionian king has recently died of the horrible disease, leaving the Prince in charge. He is easily swayed by the evil counselor, Sengo, who has persuaded the Prince to indulge every lust for food, drink, and women to assuage his grief. Furthermore, the illness has killed many Lionian women, leading the menfolk to capture local beauties as concubines. When the Lionian High Priest challenges Sengo, Sengo convinces the Prince that the priest is a rebel and should be fed to the lions. Sengo takes on the duties of the High Priest. The Prince admires Lola but leaves to see his sick son. Lola taunts Sengo that he will suffer when she is Queen. He has her whipped and, in a scuffle, Jane stabs him in the arm with his own knife and the two girls flee into the dead Queen's tomb (which is in the dead king's stone mausoleum) where Sengo discovers them and entombs them alive.
Tarzan arrives at Lionia with Campbell. The Prince's son has fallen ill with the disease, and Sengo blames Tarzan and Neil. Their deaths are ordered, but Tarzan escapes and leads the Lionians on a merry chase through their own city. Tarzan hides inside the dead king's sarcophagus, but becomes entombed in the stone mausoleum as well. Luckily, Tarzan discovers where Jane and Lola have been sealed up as well, and frees them. Neil arrives with the serum (which Cheetah finds along the way) and they begin to treat the Prince's son. Whilst Sengo prepares to throw the old High Priest to the lions, Tarzan calls for help, and an elephant breaks down the tomb's door to free Tarzan, Jane, and Lola. Tarzan holds off the Lionians, and manages to throw Sengo into the pit with the lions. Meanwhile, the Prince's son is cured. The Prince, realizing how wrong he has been, orders the High Priest, Tarzan, all of Tarzan's friends, and all the slave girls freed.
Lex Barker as Tarzan
Vanessa Brown as Jane
Robert Alda as Neil
Hurd Hatfield as Prince of the Lionians
Arthur Shields as Dr. E.E. Campbell
Anthony Caruso as Sengo (billed as Tony Caruso)
Denise Darcel as Lola
Robert Warwick as High Priest
Alfonso Pedroza as Nagasi Chief (uncredited)
Satini Pualoa as Medicine Man (uncredited)
Tito Renaldo as Chief's Son (uncredited)
Phil Harron as Lionian (uncredited)
Peter Mamakos as Lionian Henchman (uncredited)
Tom Hernández as Molo
Production of the film was announced on June 23, 1949, after producer Sol Lesser signed a new distribution agreement for his "Tarzan" pictures with RKO Pictures.[2] The working title of the film had been Tarzan and the Golden Lion (the same as the 1927 silent picture).[3] But the June 23 announcement changed it to Tarzan and the Slave Girl as well as naming Lex Barker as the star.[2] On July 16, French actress Denise Darcel (who had recently appeared in William Wellman's World War II picture Battleground, was cast as the slave girl.[4] Vanessa Brown was signed to play Jane two weeks later.[5]
Hans Jacoby, who had scripted the highly popular Tarzan and the Amazons, turned in the screenplay for the film.[6] He would also script the Lex Barker feature Tarzan's Savage Fury.[6]
Some location shooting was done in Baldwin Park, California,[7] the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, and the Iverson Movie Ranch.[8] But most of the filming was done on the RKO Forty Acres backlot.[8] (On January 7, 1950, Lesser announced that the next Tarzan film would be made entirely in South Africa.)[9]
The film marked actress Vanessa Brown's only outing as Jane. According to director Lee Sholem, producer Sol Lesser was looking to cast a new "Jane" to replace actress Brenda Joyce, who had portrayed Jane in the five previous films.[10] Sholem brought Marilyn Monroe out to see Lesser,[10] but Lesser didn't think she'd be right for the part as she was too much of a bombshell.[11] Sholem brought Monroe to see Lesser eight times in all, but in the end Lesser settled on Vanessa Brown.[10] Brown had been a popular performer on the Quiz Kids radio show, and at age 21 already had a six-year acting career which included a number of prominent roles in important films.[12] Signed by 20th Century Fox, she'd been loaned out to RKO several times.[12] But Fox had cancelled her contract in early 1950.[12] She took the role in RKO's Tarzan and the Slave Girl because she needed the money. She later recalled, "My intellectual friends said, 'My God, what you won't do for money.' I needed a job, I had to pay the rent."[12] (Later that year, she'd become a Broadway star after Katharine Hepburn picked her to play Celia in As You Like It.)[12] Lesser picked Brown because of her Quiz Kid background.[10] Director Sholem found her pompous:
There was a situation one day where she had about three words to say, and she asked, "What is the underlying meaning of this?" In a Tarzan picture [laughs]! "What is my feeling here? What is my attitude?" Oh, you never heard such shit![13]
The slave girl in the title is Lola, played by Denise Darcel. Although previous films had made it clear that Tarzan and Jane were husband and wife, this film depicted Jane as Tarzan's girlfriend[3]—which allowed Lola to compete for Tarzan's affections without implying that she was an adulterer.
Mary Ellen Kay has an uncredited role as the slave girl who is engaged to the Prince.[14] Eva Gabor has a nonspeaking background role as one of the slave girls as well.[15]
Suffering from Parkinson's disease and having already had several heart attacks, Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs visited the set during production.[16] It was one of his last public appearances, according to Burrough's daughter, Joan.[16] Burroughs died on March 19, 1950, just four days after the film's release on March 15.[1]
Critical reception
Generally speaking, the film received only mediocre reviews from film critics, who felt the plot was silly and that Brown was a poor substitute for Joyce as "Jane."[17] The New York Times called the film "painful" to watch, and said, "About the only novelty the picture offers is Cheeta's encounter with a bottle of whisky, and even that isn't very funny."[18]
Essoe, p. 131.
Brady, Thomas F. "Del Ruth to Direct Milton Berle Film." New York Times. June 24, 1949.
"Tarzan and the Slave Girl: Notes." Turner Classic Movies. TCM.com. No date. Accessed 2011-07-08
Weiler, A.H. "By Way of Report." New York Times. July 17, 1949.
Brady, Thomas F. "'Rebellion' Ends for Judy Garland." New York Times. August 1, 1949.
Reid, p. 233.
American Film Institute, p. 1063.
Schneider, p. 4.
Weiler, A.H. "Random Notes About People and Pictures." New York Times. January 8, 1950.
Weaver, p. 291.
Vernon, p. 81.
Vallance, Tom. "Obituary: Vanessa Brown." The Independent. May 29, 1999. Accessed 2011-07-08.
Quoted in Weaver, p. 291. Emphasis in original.
Fitzgerald and Magers, p. 116-117.
Belanger, p. 273.
Etter, p. 233.
"Barker, Lex", in Dictionary of American Biography, 1971–1975, p. 65.
"At the Criterion." New York Times. June 24, 1950. Spellings in original.
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"Barker, Lex." Dictionary of American Biography, 1971–1975. New York: Scribner, 1994.
Belanger, Camyl Sosa. Eva Gabor, an Amazing Woman. New York: iUniverse, 2005.
Essoe, Gabe. Tarzan of the Movies: A Pictorial History of More Than Fifty Years of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Legendary Hero. New York: Citadel Press, 1968.
Etter, Jonathan. Quinn Martin, Producer: A Behind-the-Scenes History of QM Productions and Its Founder. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2003.
Fitzgerald, Michael G. and Magers, Boyd. Ladies of the Western: Interviews With 25 Actresses From the Silent Era to the Television Westerns of the 1950s and 1960s. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2008.
Reid, John Howard. Success in the Cinema: Money-Making Movies and Critics' Choices. Morrisville, N.C.: John Howard Reid, 2006.
Schneider, Jerry L. Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Silver Screen. Vol. IV: The Locations. Miami: ERBville Press, 2008.
Vernon, Alex. On Tarzan. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2008.
Weaver, Tom. Return of the B Science Fiction and Horror Heroes: The Mutant Melding of Two Volumes of Classic Interviews. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2000.
Tarzan and the Slave Girl on IMDb
Tarzan and the Slave Girl at AllMovie
Tarzan and the Slave Girl at the TCM Movie Database
Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs'
official canon
Tarzan of the Apes (1912)
The Return of Tarzan (1913)
The Beasts of Tarzan (1914)
The Son of Tarzan (1915)
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (1916)
Jungle Tales of Tarzan (1919)
Tarzan the Untamed (1920)
Tarzan the Terrible (1921)
Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1922/23)
Tarzan and the Ant Men (1924)
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (1927/28)
Tarzan and the Lost Empire (1928/29)
Tarzan at the Earth's Core (1929/30)
Tarzan the Invincible (1930/31)
Tarzan Triumphant (1931/32)
Tarzan and the City of Gold (1932)
Tarzan and the Lion Man (1933/34)
Tarzan and the Leopard Men (1932/33)
Tarzan's Quest (1935/36)
Tarzan and the Forbidden City (1938)
Tarzan the Magnificent (1939)
Tarzan and the Foreign Legion (1947)
Tarzan and the Madman (1964)
Tarzan and the Castaways (1965)
The Eternal Lover (1925)
The Mad King (1926)
Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins (1963)
Tarzan: The Lost Adventure (1995)
Licensed works
Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966)
Hadon of Ancient Opar (1974)
Bunduki (1975)
Flight to Opar (1976)
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures (1996)
The Dark Heart of Time (1999)
The Adventures of Tarzan (1921/2006)
Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy (2011)
Tarzan: Return to Pal-ul-don (2015)
Tarzan on the Precipice (2016)
King Kong vs. Tarzan (2016)
Tarzan Trilogy (2016)
Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy Under Siege (2017)
The Romance of Tarzan (1918)
The Revenge of Tarzan (1920)
The Adventures of Tarzan (1921)
Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1927)
Tarzan the Mighty (1928)
Tarzan the Tiger (1929)
Johnny Weissmuller
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
Tarzan Escapes (1936)
Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939)
Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941)
Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)
Tarzan Triumphs (1943)
Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943)
Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946)
Tarzan and the Huntress (1947)
Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948)
Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949)
Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950)
Tarzan's Peril (1951)
Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952)
Tarzan and the She-Devil (1953)
Gordon Scott
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (1955)
Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957)
Tarzan and the Trappers (1958)
Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958)
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959)
Jock Mahoney
Tarzan Goes to India (1962)
Tarzan's Three Challenges (1963)
Tarzan and the Great River (1967)
Tarzan and the Jungle Boy (1968)
Disney animated films
Tarzan (1999)
Tarzan & Jane (2002)
Tarzan II (2005)
Related documentaries
Investigating Tarzan (1997)
Tarzan: Silver Screen King of the Jungle (2004)
Miscellaneous films
Tarzan the Fearless (1933)
The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935)
Tarzan's Revenge (1938)
Vanaraja Karzan (1938)
Tarzan, the Ape Man (1959)
Tarzan's Jungle Rebellion (1967)
Tarzan's Deadly Silence (1970)
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan (1984)
Adventures of Tarzan (1985)
Tarzan in Manhattan (1989)
Tarzan and the Lost City (1998)
Tarzan (1966–1968)
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (1976–1980)
Tarzán (1991–1994)
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures (1996–1997)
The Legend of Tarzan (2001–2003)
Tarzan and Jane (2017–present)
Adventure hours
The Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour
The Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour
Tarzan and the Super 7
Jad-bal-ja
Kerchak
Mangani
Muviro
Nkima
Jane Porter
Harry Holt
Tublat
William Cecil Clayton
Disney version
The Legend of Tarzan (2001-2003)
Tarzan's Treehouse
Disney's Tarzan
Tarzan: Untamed
Disney's Tarzan: Return to the Jungle
Disney's Tarzan Activity Center
Music soundtrack
"You'll Be in My Heart"
"Strangers Like Me"
"Son of Man"
"Two Worlds"
"Gitarzan" (1969)
"Jungle Boogie" (1973)
"Tarzan Boy" (1985)
"Tarzan & Jane" (1998)
Kreegah bundolo
Tarzan yell
Tarzan (radio program)
Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle
Jungle Lord
Akim
Tarzan vs. Predator: At the Earth's Core
Batman/Tarzan: Claws of the Cat-woman
Superman/Tarzan: Sons of the Jungle
Tarzan on the Planet of the Apes
Tarzan: The Complete Russ Manning Newspaper Strips
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.
Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke
Pellucidar
"Brothers of the Spear"
Zone (play)
Tarzan and Jane (musical)
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Home > Fantasy > 2010 > 11/07 > Daily Deke: Flyers and Capitals collide; Blues go for seventh straight
Daily Deke: Flyers and Capitals collide; Blues go for seventh straight
Updated: November 8, 2010 at 6:58 am by Reggie Yinger
While there may just be four games today on the NHL schedule, these games are sure to be exciting. As always, be sure to check on the Starting Goalies section which is updated throughout the day, and check on the Team Lineups page for all your up-to-date lines.
Our first matchup of the day has the Philadelphia Flyers traveling to the Verizon Center to take on the Washington Capitals. The Flyers and Caps games are always filled with excitement, so don't expect anything less during this one. The Flyers have won six straight games entering today, but will face a Capitals team that has started to score in the bunches, and they themselves have won three in a row.
The Flyers and Caps will send two rookie netminders out tonight, and both have been very good over the first month of the season. Sergei Bobrovsky has won his last six starts and is 8-2-0 on the season with a 2.11 GAA and a .927 SV%. If Bob can notch a win tonight, he will tie the Flyers ' team record for most consecutive wins by a rookie, which is currently held by Pelle Lindbergh.
On the flip side, the Caps have a rookie netminder who's been just as impressive this season, despite his recent struggles. Michal Neuvirth has won his last few decisions, but has looked tired in the process. Neuvy played stretches like this in the AHL, but he's started pretty much every game for the Caps this season. Regardless, Neuvirth is 8-3-0 with a 2.41 GAA and a .914 SV%. One has to wonder when Braden Holtby will make his first actual start.
Some good news for the Flyers, as they'll be getting Danny Briere back from a three-game suspension this evening. Briere has eight points this season, including three power play goals.
The Alex Ovechkin, Nicklas Backstrom, Alexander Semin line continues to produce on command over the past week. Ovechkin and Semin have eight goals apiece this season, with Ovechkin leading the team in points with 17. After not recording a point for a six-game stretch this season, rookie defenseman John Carlson has recorded two points in his last two games.
Next up, the red-hot St. Louis Blues crash the MSG ice to take on the New York Rangers. The Blues are fresh off a big win against the Boston Bruins last night are are looking to finish up this last leg of the road trip on a high note. The Rangers will look to disturb the Blues' plans this evening, coming off a terrific outing from Henrik Ludqvist, who captured his second shutout of the season against the Devils two nights ago.
The Rangers will give Hank a night off, sticking to start Martin Biron in net tonight. He's 1-1-0 this season with a 3.03 GAA and a .880 SV%.
For the Blues, they have one of the best goaltenders in the game with Jaroslav Halak, but Halak could get a night off, as Ty Conklin is the probable to start. Conk is 0-0-1 this season with a 1.85 GAA. Keep in mind we believe Conklin will start because of an earlier announcement he would get a game in this weekend. The Blues still might opt to keep playing the hot Halak.
Both teams are dealing with injuries right now, as the Blues will be without winger David Perron and defenseman Carlo Colaiacovo, both out with concussion0-like symptoms. For the Rangers, they're still without the services of Marian Gaborik and Chris Drury, but will have Ryan Callahan back. Callahan missed one-game due to an undisclosed injury.
Brandon Dubinsky has picked-up the slack so far for the Rangers offense thus far, collecting a total of 14 points this season, including five goals over his last three games. Blues' winger T.J. Oshie is playing to the ability we know he can, producing three points over his last five games and currently leads the team in points with 10.
The Chicago Blackhawks return home and fans and fantasy owners woke-up to great some news this morning, as the team announced that Marian Hossa would return to the lineup against the Edmonton Oilers tonight.
The Blackhawks are coming off a terrific offensive outburst thanks to captain Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane. Toews collected four points against the Thrashers last night, including two goals and two assists, and now has seven points over his last five games. Kane has nine points over his last seven games, including four goals, but currently sits at a plus-minus of minus-5 on the season.
The Oilers hit the road for a five-game road trip tonight after losing four of their last five games. For the Oilers, bright spots include prospect winger Taylor Hall, who has scored in three of his last five games and has five points over his last five games as well.
The Nashville Predators are hoping to find a win on their road trip, but so far, they've lost the first three of a five game road trip. After being blown out against the Los Angeles Kings last night, the Preds travel to the Honda Center to take on the Anaheim Ducks. For the Ducks, they're coming off back-to-back wins against the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Pittsburgh Penguins, and are hoping to the ride that momentum as they close out their homestand.
Ducks' center Ryan Getzlaf has 17 points this season and has scored in his last three games. Bobby Ryan has also played well on this line, collecting three goals and five points over his last five games. Regardless of his age, winger Teemu Selanne has been flying around the ice this season and has collected seven points over his last five games and continues to look good on the power play for the Ducks.
Alexander Ovechkin, Alexander Semin, Anaheim Ducks, Braden Holtby, Chicago Blackhawks, Daniel Briere, Edmonton Oilers, Henrik Lundqvist, Jaroslav Halak, Martin Biron, Nashville Predators, New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers, Ryan Getzlaf, St. Louis Blues, Taylor Hall, Washington Capitals
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John Hughes' Career Opportunities is a hard film to have an opinion on. On the one hand, it's a fun slice of nostalgia pie, a young male wish-fulfilment fantasy with a danceable and well implemented soundtrack. It also has that 80s/90s sheen that all John Hughes' best films have. On the other, cold, hard, and cynical hand, it's a slight, unremarkable piece of fluff, devoid of real drama, lacking originality, and displaying a sagging midsection.
John Hughes is one of my favourite directors and writers, ever. The hyperreal world he created that are inhabited by the characters of his best films is a joy to visit, his use of smart dialogue, pop culture references and pop music still defines teen-orientated content today, and he seemed like one of the few adults who really understood teenagers. Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Plans, Trains and Automobiles, Uncle Buck, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Weird Science… These are the classic John Hughes films, and Career Opportunities falls into the 'Lesser Hughes' camp, alongside She's Having a Baby, and Curly Sue, among others. Not that these films are bad, they just aren't anywhere near as good as the real Hughes youth-centric classics.
Our protagonist on this merry tale is Jim Dodge (Frank Whaley), a young man with a talent for talking and not much else, whose grand plans stop him from actually achieving anything in his day-to-day existence. Aged 21 and living at home, Jim's prospects don't look too bright when, out of desperation (and via a brilliant cameo from John Candy) he lands a job as Night Cleanup Boy at his local target. Meanwhile, the local beautiful, but tormented-inside, rich girl, Josie McLellan (Jennifer Connelly) wants to escape her domineering father and, in her desire to do something, anything, about her situation, ends up botching a shoplifting attempt and getting stuck inside the store with Jim overnight. See what I mean about male wish-fulfilment? Cue a lot of gags involving rollerskates, ovens, clothes, food and hair-brained attempts to speed up the cleaning process. An underdeveloped plot point involving a store robbery attempt doesn't quite succeed, but the way that the two protagonists change and affect each other is enjoyable, even if the basic plotting has been done many times before.
Jim is a Hughes protagonist in the Ferris Bueller mode, a gift for talking and an innate audacity giving you the feeling that whatever his failings, he'll be alright in life. He's believably deluded, and gives even some of the weaker lines an earnest like-ability that masks any script weaknesses. Jennifer Connelly definitely has the looks for the part, but she has also always been a real actress. The better aspects of the script are where she is able to persuade Jim that he isn't happy with his lot in life, and that he should aspire to more. Some of the clunkier lines of exposition come her way, but she powers on through, delivering the lines well enough that they almost seem plausible. Hughes' trademark quirky side characters are well-realised in what little screen time they have, with Barry Corbin as Officer Don and John M. Jackson as Bud Dodge, Jim's father. Dermot and Kieran Mulroney give good, eccentric villain, but aren't allowed much screen time to establish their characters' threat.
The music is fantastic, and like a lot of John Hughes films, perfectly complements the onscreen action. Problem is, it's genuinely one of the best things about the movie. So much time is spent on the (admittedly fun) mall escapades that the momentum of the story is stalled, and ancillary characters aren't developed into anything more than cyphers. In a lot of ways, its Hughesian (it's a word, I invented it!) touches highlight its shortcomings. The Breakfast Club this ain't.
Still, if, on a Sunday afternoon, you want an easy watch, with a guaranteed happy ending, very mild peril in between, and you've seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off too recently, then this might hit the spot, albeit less effectively. Growing up in the mid 80s/early 90s, these films are fun in an ironic, nostalgic, wistful sort of way. If you were to judge it harshly, it would be an easy target to dissect, yet its aims are so amiable, it's intentions so true, that it's hard to dislike. Sort of like shooting a puppy.


Tenascin-X is a large extracellular matrix protein that is abundantly expressed in several connective tissues. A 140-kDa C-terminal fragment of tenascin-X is present in human serum. Complete deficiency of tenascin-X is associated with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, and these patients show major connective tissue alterations in their skin, as well as blood vessel fragility. In this study, we investigated whether tenascin-X is present in normal human aorta and abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) tissues and whether an association exists between serum tenascin-X levels and AAA.
Five normal aortas and 5 AAA tissues were immunostained for tenascin-X and elastin. Tenascin-X was present throughout the entire aorta and was especially abundant near the elastic lamellae, whereas tenascin-X expression was strongly decreased in AAA tissue. Measurement of tenascin-X serum concentration by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in 87 AAA patients and 86 controls demonstrated an increasing risk for AAA with increasing tenascin-X serum concentrations. After adjustment for established risk factors, tenascin-X serum concentrations in the highest quartile were associated with a 5-fold increase in risk of AAA (odds ratio, 5.3; 95% confidence interval, 2.0 to 13.8).
Tenascin-X expression is markedly decreased in AAA tissue, and AAA is associated with high serum concentrations of tenascin-X.


VICS provides collaboration services for business people and organizations. From the association website, it is possible to see its active involvement in collaboration services. Through its "Ultimate Retail Supply Chain Machine," the organization champions for the implementation of "new retail automatic replenishment solutions" to assist in boosting business flow and ease of operation (VICS). The organization's vision is central to supply chain management. It champions for seamless and efficient movement of products globally, thereby maximizing stakeholders, retailers, suppliers, and manufacturers' value. Attaining these objectives is an uphill task. It is due to this realization, that the organization engages the business fraternity in forums and conferences aimed at developing standard and highly reputable guidelines, which can work in the real world business scenario.
The activities of the organization are closely related to supply chain management. New CPFR Guideline, developed by the organization, is of great help to supply chain management. The guidelines provide forecasts for retailers to plan on flow of products, thereby avoiding shortages. This is central to supply chain management. The availability of focused plans enables suppliers to plan for any eventualities that may arise. This reduces significantly, any uncertainties that may cloud supply chain resulting in price fluctuations. The organization's role in linking suppliers with consumers is also in line with supply chain management. Supply is only complete when customers are readily available. Therefore, by linking consumers to suppliers, the organization facilitates supply management activities. The organization also promotes "New Store Management System." This links manufacturers to retailers and enable them to focus on increasing sales. These two aspects contribute significantly to energy efficiency. The reason is that the time for seeking products and ordering is significantly reduced since the organization offers linkages.
Effective guidelines for supply chain management should incorporate all stakeholders, consumers, retails, suppliers, and manufacturers. The organization's guidelines and products seem to take care of these interest groups. The organization's practices, if implemented to the latter, can reduce cost significantly, and make products readily available for consumers.
Accenture academy is another equally important website that contributes to supply chain management in various ways. The academy provides various curriculum subjects for both organizational staff and students. Its core areas of specialization include finance, sustainability, supply chain, and workforce optimization (Accenture Academy). The academy strives to provide curriculum content that focuses on increasing employees and business' performance. The curriculum and courses of academy have been tailored to meet roles and competencies necessary for supply chain management, finance, and sustainability in the present dynamic business environment. The courses have been designed using real world experiences and proven to comply with the latest role expectations in the respective fields. The academy's mode of instruction is equally effective. It employs "online self-study courses, live webinars, case-based learning, simulations, and extensive online resources," which make the learning process seamless and enjoyable (Accenture Academy).
The academy's mode of instruction and courses are a perfect demonstration of effective operational practices. The academy has put in place structures that bring together their professionals and learners to foster closer ties necessary for in-depth understanding of the curriculum content. Better still, their curriculum and content is determined by the needs of their learners. This eliminates unnecessary content, which may not add any value to learners. By providing such effective and well-structured courses in supply chain management, the academy has been taking a role in furthering supply chain management knowledge and expertise to its learners. This role cannot be ignored. Most importantly, the academy's ability to tailor its learning environment, its curriculum, and business environment to meet its learners' expectations, is a big plus to its learning objectives.
Supply chain management is about identifying areas that need improvement and finding efficient and cost effective ways of improving them. Accenture academy seems to have realized it and as a result, it improved its learning experience significantly. By tailoring its curriculum to the learners' needs, the academy has taken a positive step towards effective service delivery, a core requirement, and component of supply chain management. The academy's website is another testimony of their commitment to simplified, easy to use, yet effective operational objectives. It is simple, but conveys all necessary information.
McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) is an institution committed to offering education to business leaders in both private and public sectors to equip them with relevant and up-to-date skills on business management in the dynamic global market. Additionally, the provide the leaders with facts obtained from credible researches on business managements, prospects , futuristic projections, and environmental issues in business to enable them make important management decisions with confidence. This, in the end, is aimed at reinforcing the leaders' ability to "make distinctive, lasting, and substantial improvements in performance, and constantly build a great firm that attracts, develops, excites, and retains exceptional people" (McKinsey Quarterly).
The organization emphasizes effective management of all aspects of business operations for success to be realized on the global platform. Success on the global platform, according to the organization, requires effective cost reduction, and adoption of well-developed and efficient strategies. In cost cutting, they propose outsourcing of products, which are costly to produce or those whose profit margin is small. Outsourcing is a common practice in supply chain management. In attempts to capture markets entirely, organizations often choose to supply related products they do not produce to ensure that customers rely solely on them for their needs. This ensures continues supply and market security for the suppliers. Supply chain management is also about strategizing. This makes the institution's mandate related to supply chain management.
Managers are at the center of all business decisions. Therefore, by targeting them, the organization is capable of changing the way businesses are run, and how decisions are made. If managers are not in a position to make sound business decisions, the success of their businesses is limited. Considering the importance of strategy and outsourcing to any business' success, the organizations' bid to instill knowledge relating to these two variables in managers is a positive move.


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SAN FRANCISCO — A new variant of a well-known malware program has infected more than one million accounts via phones that run older versions of Google's Android operating system, mostly outside the U.S., a security firm reported Wednesday.


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WASHINGTON — Coming off the first major legislative defeat of his presidency, President Trump is trying to turn the page Monday with the creation of a new White House office designed to bring ideas from the private sector into the federal government.
The White House Office of American Innovation will be run by Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, currently a senior adviser to the president whose portfolio already has included acting as the administration's point person on Mideast peace.
"This office will bring together the best ideas from government, the private sector and other thought leaders to ensure that America is ready to solve tomorrow's most intractable problems, and is positioned to meet tomorrow's challenges and opportunities," Trump said in a presidential memorandum. "The office will focus on implementing policies and scaling proven private-sector models to spur job creation and innovation."
Kushner, who is married to Ivanka Trump, will be joined in the new office by officials with private sector experience, including former Goldman Sachs executives Gary Cohn, who is now director of the National Economic Council, and Dina Habib Powell, who is senior counselor to the president for economic initiatives and deputy national security adviser.
The announcement comes at a low point for Trump, three days after Republican legislation to largely repeal and replace Obamacare failed to win enough votes for passage.
Kushner, a Trump confidant, was on a ski vacation in Colorado last week as the health care bill failed.
The innovation group has already been meeting twice a week, and they have already hosted meetings with private sector chief executives whose expertise they hope to tap for the effort, including Tim Cook of Apple, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and Elon Musk, founder and chief executive of Tesla.
Areas they hope to tackle include overhauling Veterans' Affairs, improving workforce development and targeting opioid addiction.
"As some of its first priorities, the office will focus on modernizing the technology of every federal department, identifying transformational infrastructure projects and re-imagining the VA system so they can better serve our nation's heroes," press secretary Sean Spicer said.
He said the VA appears to be doing certain things well, such as bulk purchases of prescription drugs, but there are other areas, including record-keeping and the purchasing of technology that need improvement.
"There are certain practices that we can put in place that can help us deliver a better product and better service to the American people in some of these key areas," Spicer said.


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Sara Peters
Russian Hackers Breached White House Via US State Department
Attackers who recently breached the US State Department compromised an unclassified White House system by sending spearphishing messages from a hijacked State Department email account, officials say.
Attackers compromised an unclassified White House system in October by sending spearphishing messages from a hijacked US State Department email account, US officials say. Though unclassified, the system did include some sensitive communications in the executive office, including President Obama's schedule.
Although officials will not confirm that the Russian government is behind the attack, investigators have said the code contains indications that point to Russian sources. The State Department has known of such actors compromising their unclassified email systems over the past year, but seems to be having trouble permanently ousting them from the network.
"Once an attacker gets into your systems it can be notoriously difficult to get them out, particularly when your network and internal security controls allow the attacker to move around on your network without being noticed," says Dwayne Melancon, CTO of Tripwire. "That appears to be the case here, which could be the result of an outwardly focused security approach. If you assume the enemy is 'out there' you stop noticing their activities when they get 'in here.'"
"Additionally, many organizations lack a baseline understanding of what is 'normal' on their internal network and systems," he says, "making it difficult to tell which systems you can trust, which systems you can't and -- more importantly -- how to stop the attack and prevent future compromises."
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The attackers first capitalized on the trust between two government agencies to spearphish into the White House. Then they sidled through the White House network, looking for intriguing data, like the president's schedule.
"Monitoring and alerting on the first indicators of lateral movement can be the difference between detecting an attacker within a few days or a few months," says Greg Foss, senior security research engineer of LogRhythm. "Monitoring endpoints, segmenting networks, laying traps, creating baselines of what is normal and then digging into the 'abnormal,' all are effective strategies for reducing the mean- time-to-detect and respond to an intruder."
In recent years, the go-to assumptions were that Russian hackers were financially motivated criminals and Chinese hackers were directly sponsored by the nation-state, but those patterns are changing. At a Senate hearing Feb. 26, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said cryptically, "I cannot go into detail here, but the Russian cyber threat is more severe than we had previously assessed."
"While Russia and other eastern European countries are generally known for cyber-crime, it might be revealed that this breach was state-sponsored rather than run by a criminal organization," says Dave Pack, director, LogRhythm Labs. "Developing offensive cyber capabilities is a natural progression for most countries to augment their intelligence and espionage capabilities with. The same cyber capabilities employed by the US, China, and other world powers, will be built up and utilized by most developed countries in the coming years. We might be seeing a cyber arms race in development."
"The White House and all national security agencies should assume that Russia, China, North Korea, Iran and others want to infiltrate U.S. computer networks and hosts with the aim of stealing important information," says Muddu Sudhakar, CEO of Caspida. "We should assume by now that other countries have replicated NSA's capabilities and have similar organizations that are constantly attacking US interests. We need the next level of cyber defense, which will prove early breach detection proactively and in real time, while operating continuously 24/7. We are in a new age of cyber attacks, and as such, need to drastically improve our security measures."
"If the White House or the State Dept can't keep our foreign hackers with the infinite resources at their disposal...what chance does the average company have?" says Jeremiah Grossman, founder and iCEO of WhiteHat Security. "Not to mention the everyday person. Secondarily, whatever new legislation the White House or Congress is planning, does it have any chance of preventing this kind of incident from happening again?"
Sara Peters is Senior Editor at Dark Reading and formerly the editor-in-chief of Enterprise Efficiency. Prior that she was senior editor for the Computer Security Institute, writing and speaking about virtualization, identity management, cybersecurity law, and a myriad ... View Full Bio
Marilyn Cohodas,
User Rank: Strategist
Re: Fallen behind?
My guess that there has been more going on that we just haven't gotten wind of...
Whoopty,
Fallen behind?
I wonder if US cyber-security has rested on its laurels a bit in recent years, as it seems bizarre that so many attacks are getting through without any obvious repurcussion.
Then again, as has been shown with the NSA revelations, intelligent agencies can do a lot of stuff behind the scenes without us ever knowing, so this could well the case that these sorts of attacks happen all the time both ways and this is simply being dredged up to finagle some political support for legislative or administrative changes.
SgS125,
Can you imagine what the other side must be thinking?
Here we as a country have been snooping, attacking, planting malware, and intercepting their traffic for years and we seem upset when we find them doing the same things.
How ever will we stop them we ask?
It's simple, you can't. You can't stop our own agencies from spying on us and you can't stop nation states from this continued silent cyberwar.
It's always a good read but it will never be something new we did not expect to find.
We ask how to protect our networks with more tools and products but really can you ever think that we will get ahead of this wave of cyber warfare?
We can try to keep out the criminals and kiddies and insiders and fraudsters, but when it comes to nations, good luck!