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AFRL + DARPA Receive The Advanced Multifunction Sensor System From Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman tests its Arrays at Commercial Timescales Integration and Validation (ACT-IV) digital AESA system for the AFRL and DARPA at the company radar range in Linthicum, Maryland. Photo is courtesy of Northrop Grumman.
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) last month delivered the Arrays at Commercial Timescales Integration and Validation (ACT-IV) system to the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The system is based on an advanced digital active electronically scanned array (AESA) that completed multiple successful demonstrations and acceptance testing at Northrop Grumman test facilities.
The ACT-IV system mounted on an automated test fixture in the AFRL Sensors Directorate Indoor Antenna Range. Photo is courtesy of AFRL.
ACT-IV is one of the first multi-function systems based on a digital AESA using the semiconductor devices developed on the DARPA Arrays at Commercial Timescales (ACT) program. By applying the flexibility of the digital AESA, the ACT-IV system can perform radar, electronic warfare (EW) and communication functions simultaneously by controlling a large number of independent digital transmit/receive channels.
The agility of the digital AESA was demonstrated during multiple demonstrations at the Northrop Grumman test range and will enable future warfighters to quickly adapt to new threats, control the electromagnetic spectrum, and connect to tactical networks in support of distributed operations.
The ACT-IV system will be a foundational research asset for the Department of Defense's multi-service research initiative for digital radars and multifunction systems. This initiative will support a community of researchers that are developing new algorithms and software to explore the possibilities of next generation digital AESAs for national security missions.
The algorithms, software and capabilities developed on ACT-IV will transition into next generation multifunction RF systems to support advanced development programs throughout the Department of Defense.
"The development of the ACT-IV system is a breakthrough in AESA performance and marks an important milestone in the nation's transition to digitally reprogrammable multifunction radio frequency (RF) systems," said William Phillips, director, multifunction systems, Northrop Grumman. "The new ACT-IV capabilities have the agility to defeat complex emerging threats and will be used to enhance the next generation of integrated circuits and AESAs that are currently in our digital AESA product pipeline.
"This delivery is the culmination of the close collaboration between the teams at AFRL, DARPA and Northrop Grumman," said Dr. Bae-Ian Wu, ACT-IV project lead, Sensors Directorate, AFRL. "The ACT-IV system is being prepared for initial testing by the AFRL Sensors Directorate as part of a strategic investment to develop and test the technologies for multifunction digital phased array systems in an open-architecture environment for the larger DoD community."
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I had two suggestions, however, that would make things wonderful.
Let us save our custom settings--This will let us save time and go between one or more profiles we like to use.
That being said, thanks for the update.


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Ans. Night vision goggles have screens that make green pictures. That's because our eyes are more sensitive to light that's green. And, it's easier to view green pictures for a long time, rather than black and white pictures.


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Inspired Energy plc Acquisition of Professional Cost Management Group Limited Inspired Energy, a leading energy procurement consultant to UK and Irish corporates, is delighted to announce that it has today completed the acquisition of Professional Cost Management Group Limited ("PCMG"), a national cost recovery specialist, for an aggregate consideration of up to £700,000, payable in cash.
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On Monday 27 March 2017, Dr Rebecca O'Connell will present early findings from the UK research for Families and Food in Hard Times at the Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth, University of Sussex.
In the UK there is evidence that increasing numbers of people are unable to feed themselves and their families, but little systematic collection of data about the extent or characteristics of households experiencing food insecurity – or how experiences vary within families. Drawing on an international, mixed methods study of food in hard times that focuses on young people (11-15 yrs) and their families, Dr O'Connell reports secondary analysis of UK data (the Living Costs and Food Survey and Minimum Income Standard) that identifies an increasing proportion of lone parent and large families as being at risk of food poverty in Britain over time. Drawing on qualitative research, she will extrapolate patterns found in the quantitative data by describing three cases that exemplify some of the conditions under which families' food budgets are constrained, how they manage and – focusing on young people – how experiences and practices vary within, as well as between, households.


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12 Best Of Christmas: Best Actors of 2016
Nathan Ligon December 22, 20162016-12-22T20:17:11-06:002016-12-23T00:47:00-06:00
It has been another year filled with outstanding performances, but the best part of this year is how diverse the performers were that were performing these great performances. Nearly half of my picks this year for best actor are actors of color and there were at least a dozen others I considered and they just did not make the list. I hope this is a trend Hollywood keeps up moving forward.
12. Mykelti Williamson, Fences
It's been a while since he's had a great role, but this is it and boy did he deliver. There is so much heart in this performance that he stands out amongst giants.
11. Jeff Bridges, Hell Or High Water
It should not be surprising to see his name grace this list. He is still one of the finest actors of his generation and his performance as an old school cop chasing his last case is a memorable one.
10. Dev Patel, Lion
Dev has made a good career for himself since 'Slumdog', but this is his best role yet. His performance as a lost child searching for his family is truly heart wrenching.
9. Tom Hanks, Sully
We all remember this story, but we never really knew the man behind it until Tom Hanks brought him to life. His performance as Sully is truly illuminating and lead this film to big box office numbers.
8. Lucas Hedges, Manchester By The Sea
I'm not sure if I've ever seen this actor before, but I'm certainly looking forward to what he does next. He delivers one of the most natural depictions of how a teenager would react to death that I have ever seen.
7. Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals
Playing a dying detective who will do anything to bring down a murderer and deliver justice for a grieving father, Shannon gives a career best. Watching his moral code bend depending on the circumstances is something quite intriguing to behold.
6. Lewis MacDougall, A Monster Calls
The most heartbreaking performance of the year. This young man carries this whole movie on his shoulders and portrays the pain of grief with such fervor that audiences hearts will break in half.
5. Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Ali is fantastic here as a drug dealer that's full of knowledge for a quiet young boy. However, it's when he has nothing to say to a simple question from a child that he delivers one of the year's best scenes.
4. Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge, Silence
Even a cynical atheist like myself has to admit that Garfield's performance as Desmond Doss made me feel the power of his faith. It's a beautiful performance and I hope it gets him an Oscar nomination.
3. Ryan Gosling, La La Land, The Nice Guys
He sings, dances, plays piano, delivers big laughs, and some serious heartbreak. Gosling has got it all in his repertoire and he delivered it in his roles this year.
2. Denzel Washington, Fences
He won the Tony for this unforgettable performance of a father and husband who is as flawed as he is loving. It is a dialogue heavy performance that taps into the very nature of an everyday black man in the 1950's. His performance gets to the core of how fathers change and shape their children from generation to generation.
1. Casey Affleck, Manchester By The Sea
This is the only performance that could possibly be better than Denzel Washington. Affleck' performance is a slow burner of a man that's emotions are constantly simmering under the surface. One scene where he must describe the unimaginable leads to the most powerful piece of acting anyone delivered this year. I can't wait to scream congratulations when he wins his Oscar this year.
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Black Horse achieved the LEED Gold goal in a variety of means to include; installing a geothermal HVAC system, significantly increasing the insulation and by incorporating the Enhanced Commissioning process during both the design and construction phases. In conjunction with vastly improved insulation which included R-values reaching 60 in the roof, overall air tightness was significantly improved while maintaining excellent air quality. In-floor radiant heating system – supported by the geothermal system, the enhanced commissioning process, and use of local construction materials were some of the key green features that make this one of the finest Child Development Centers in the Army.


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Iron Hill Oktoberfest Celebration - September 25th Through October 12th - OneNineFourSixZero - Phoenixville Reviews, Events, + more!
Iron Hill's Oktoberfest Celebration begins today and runs through October 12th. Their Oktoberfest beer (OG: 1.063 Color: 7 IBU: 26 ABV: 5.8%) will be tapped on September 26th. The traditional German festival beer is a medium bodied lager with a wonderful sweet, malty, and bready aroma, with a firm malt flavor. It's balanced with mild bitterness and a clean dry finish.


Before I got into more detail, this article isn't going to tell you that no business should be using social media in their marketing strategy, and it isn't going to tell you that there is no value in social media marketing. This article will explain to you that at this present moment, social media marketing may not be right for your business. It may be suitable down the line, but it may not be right now. To explain this, I'm firstly going to cover a few social media marketing myths.
Well, this one isn't 100% a myth, but it is often over emphasised. Yes, if you have a proven business model and people want to buy your product or service, it's very likely that there are customers on social media. However, if your resources are tight, there are more effective ways to reach customers.
Social media is about communication and browsing. Sure, people ask for recommendations, and statistics have shown that this is a growing trend, but before putting your efforts into social media marketing, check to see that you have exhausted the 'easy' acquisition first. The 'easy' acquisitions are those people who are currently in the market for your product and actively looking for your product. Yes, you may be found by these people on Facebook, but if getting on Facebook means taking valuable resources away from improving your search engine marketing, then really think about the implications.
Yes, it's free to post to Facebook, Twitter and alike, and when you have a following, you can continue to reach these people. It can be a very cost-effective way of retaining your position it the consumer mind. However, time is money. If you pay an agency or employee to post on Facebook, you are paying for their time. If you are posting yourself, you're taking time that could be used elsewhere. Be sure to consider whether the time is best spent on Facebook or elsewhere.
If someone ignores your posts, they're less likely to see future posts. If someone engages with your posts, they're more likely to see future posts.
Many businesses feel like they should post every day, but in reality, if you don't have something worth saying, don't say anything. Sure, if you have interesting and engaging things to say every day, then great, but if you post terrible content, then the more you post, the more your potential to reach your followers is damaged.
Before deciding to invest more time in social media marketing, think about whether you have the ability to create engaging content. If you've already started creating content, look at the metrics (likes, comments, shares) and see what percentage of your audience is engaging. If the engagement level is generally high, then great. If not, then you'll need to either outsource your social, or stop as it's likely to be a waste of time and money.
Also, consider this: If your product or service is purchased repeatedly (for example, you run an e-commerce business), then the value of a like or follow on social media is likely to be higher as it can increase the customer lifetime value (LTV). However if your product is a one-off purchase, or a purchase every 20 to 30 years, then is it worth the investment? It may be, but it may not be- that is for you to work out. There could be value in friend recommendation, but there may be more value into putting that time into creating a high quality and effective referral program.
Possibly the biggest consideration is this: If your customers are looking for you on Google, and you aren't ranking top for the keywords they are searching, then there is space for improvement on Google. If Google is going to provide you with more sales for less work and investment, then put your time and money there. If Facebook provides you with more leads or sales with less work, then use Facebook. My point from this article is this: Don't just assume that just because everyone else is using social media marketing that it is the best way for you to spend your time and money, rather, consider where the best ROI is, and if you have exhausted that channel. Sure, social media marketing is great for the long term, and I'm an advocate for a holistic approach, but when resources are tight, consider where the easy wins are, and put your efforts into those channels.


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The use of integrated optical components can be highly beneficial in the realization of displacement sensors. To affront efficiently the problems related with fringe counting and signal fading, the configuration of the optical interferometer is particularly important. Passive interferometer configurations are preferred, with the phase shifted output signals being directly available optically, since they allow a simplified electronic processing for fringe counting and phase demodulation. This article reviews the contributions integrated optics can make in the realization of efficient, compact and reliable displacement sensors. Special emphasis is made in comparing passive interferometer configurations to obtain the phase diversity. The different possibilities in the realization and integration of the optical, optoelectronical and electronical elements are mentioned.


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Q: How to traverse a matrix starting from a random position in Java I'm trying to write a simple Java program that can traverse a matrix (2D-Array) starting from any position in the matrix that the user specifies.
I started by declaring my matrix and filling it with random numbers, but I'm not sure where to go from here? How can I be able to traverse every cell in my matrix starting from a random position?
I'm just looking to have something basic and not very advanced because I'm still a beginner in Java, any help would be much appreciated!
public static void main(String[] args) {

    // Initialize Matrix randomly
    int R = 3;
    int C = 3;

    int[][] matrix = new int[R][C];
    for (int i = 0; i < matrix.length; i++) {

        for (int j = 0; j < matrix.length; j++) {

            matrix[i][j] = ((int) (Math.random() * 2));

        }
    }

    //---------------------------

    // Robot Moving Algorithm

    int i, j, rows=R, cols=C, m, n;
    int Robot_i=0, Robot_j=0;

    if (Robot_i==0) {

        for (i=Robot_i; i<rows; i++) {

        }
    }

}

Here's an overview of what I'm looking for:
8 5 1
7 3 2
6 9 4

expected output, starting from row 0, col 1: 5,1,2,4,9,6,7,8,3

A: Let's say we have this matrix:
[9, 5, 9]
[1, 0, 3]
[1, 2, 0]

you can also think of it as an array
[9, 5, 9, 1, 0, 3, 1, 2, 0]
and you can map any coordinates in the matrix to its corresponding index in the array, ex:
the 2 at coordinates row 2, col 1 has index 7
here are 2 methods to map coords to index and vice versa
private static int toIndex(int row, int col, int nbCols) {
    return col + row * nbCols;
}

private static int[] toCoords(int index, int nbCols) {
    return new int[] { index / nbCols, index % nbCols };
}

And here is a utility method to print your matrix
private static void printMatrix(int[][] matrix) {
    for (int[] ints : matrix) {
        System.out.println(Arrays.toString(ints));
    }
}

Now with these tools:

*

*Calculate the start index of the robot

*Iterate in the array to the end (the array has size nbRows * nbCols).

*Start again iterating from index 0 to the start index of the robot.

public static void main(String[] args) {

    // Initialize Matrix randomly
    int nbRows = 3;
    int nbCols = 3;

    int[][] matrix = new int[nbRows][nbCols];

    for (int i = 0; i < matrix.length; i++) {
        for (int j = 0; j < matrix.length; j++) {
            matrix[i][j] = ((int) (Math.random() * 10));
        }
    }

    printMatrix(matrix);

    //---------------------------

    // Robot Moving Algorithm

    int robotRow = 0;
    int robotCol = 1;

    int robotStartIndex = toIndex(robotRow, robotCol, nbCols);

    for (int i = robotStartIndex; i < nbCols * nbCols; i++) {
        int[] coords = toCoords(i, nbCols);
        System.out.println(matrix[coords[0]][coords[1]]);
    }

    for (int i = 0; i < robotStartIndex; i++) {
        int[] coords = toCoords(i, nbCols);
        System.out.println(matrix[coords[0]][coords[1]]);
    }

}

prints out:
[9, 5, 9]
[1, 0, 3]
[1, 2, 0]
5
9
1
0
3
1
2
0
9

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Suffolk Highways have given us advance notice of road closures, as follows.
I am writing to inform you of upcoming essential bridge maintenance works proposed to take place at Wilton Bridge on Station Road (B1112), Lakenheath which may have an effect on the surrounding parishes.
The construction programme is due to take no more than 15 weeks beginning Wednesday 2nd January 2019 for 12 weeks until Monday 22nd April 2019. The carriageway will be restricted to one lane via the use of a barrier system for 150 meters either side of the bridge and also there will be a temporary speed reduction from NSL/60mph down to 30mph for 200 meters either side of the bridge.
There will be a programme of road closures during some weekends at the start and end of the project, these will be required to setup the site compound and install the traffic management systems and likewise at the end to dismantle.
The programme of road closure we propose is as follows. Please do note that not all of the proposed road closures will be required, however, we require to have them reserved and road space clear as this is a high risk project which does not allow for a delay of any kind. Please also find attached the proposed diversion route which will affect your parish jurisdictions during the any road closures.
20:00 Friday 4th January 2019 to 05:00 Monday 7th January 2019.
20:00 Friday 11th January 2019 to 05:00 Monday 14th January 2019.
20:00 Friday 18th January 2019 to 05:00 Monday 21st January 2019.
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Ashwood FC
Mini League Application Forms
Founded in 1990... Season 2011/2012
Ashwood football club: Small sided teams u7 (x2),as non competitive, they both enjoyed the season & improved a lot: u8s finished 7th in the league cup, were placed up in Div.1 where they finished a creditable 6th.: u9s finished in the bottom half of the league Cup, & in Div 3 in the League in their final match they lost 1-0 to finish 2nd: u10s won the League Cup but found their promotion too much as they finished in the bottom quarter of their Div.: u11s in the 1st half of the season found the going tough, but improved greatly in the 2nd half in the League Div.lV where in their game were also beaten by the odd goal, finished 3rd, had they won that match they also would have won that league it was so close at the top: Eleven a side u12s premier finished in the bottom half for the first time since they were formed & was their 1st season without any silverware, it must be said that over the last couple of years they have lost some of their best players. Senior team, promoted from the previous season in UCFL to Div.1 finished a creditable 4th before they departed going out on their own. We also had a nursery that started in September, but became our second u7s in January. The nursery is there to develop younger players, six year of age up to seven where they are prepared under the watchful eyes of our coaches with the aims of providing football basics and fun for boys and girls who want to play soccer.
Jim Bergin Memorial Mini League
Every year for the last 10 yrs. we run a Mini League for the Bawnogue, Clondalkin area. In 2012 it was renamed in memory of the clubs co-founder. This year it will start in June for u6,7,8,9,10.in Ashwood Estate (Bawnogue Church field). Dates to be confirmed. Forms can be got from any Club manager or committee members. The 9 a side Mini League for u,11,& 12 will be starting a week later same venue - Any queries to Bob Traynor acadamy 0868150450 or Sec. Jim Milton 11 Ashwood Drive 0868392855.
History from 1990/2009.
We have won the League Championship for the twelfth time in different categories 2 u/8, 2 u/9, 3 u/10, 2 u/11, u/12, u/14, u/15, Cup Winners Twice u/16 O Neill Cup, u/17 Dan Brady Cup. League Cup Winners once, u/15, Runners Up in League 5 times u/8, 2 u/10 , u/12, u/14, Runners up in the Cup 3 times u/11 Willie Madden Cup u/15 L S Cup, u/15 Dan Brad Cup. A girls teams u/10 Runners up the League. 2008/9 our u/8 won the League and cup Double.


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Q: Dimension of Ker(T) when $T(A) = \operatorname{Tr} {(A)}$. For a positive integer $n > 1$, let $ T: \mathbb{R}^{n\times n} \to \mathbb{R}$ be the linear transformation defined by $T(A) = \operatorname{Tr} {(A)}$, where $A$ is an $n \times n$ matrix with real entries. Determine the dimension of $\ker{(T)}$.
I can see just by looking at this transformation that it's not one-to-one. But I'm sort of stuck. I know the zero matrix and matrices with diagonal entries of 0 are examples of tr(A) = 0. But I still can't really see what the dimension is. Any help?

A: The best way is to use the dimension theorem. What is the dimension of the range of $T$?

A: Eric's way is probably the easiest and most canonical. Here is another one, along the same lines, but more explicit: one can prove that $$
\ker T=\{x-\frac{T(x)}n\,I_n:\ x\in \mathbb R^{n\times n}\}.
$$
Indeed, it is easy to see that the set on the right is in the kernel of $T$. And, conversely, if $T(x)=0$, then $x$ is of the required form.
Also, any $x$ can be written as $\frac{T(x)}n\,I_n+(x-\frac{T(x)}n\,I_n)$, which shows that $\mathbb R^{n\times n}=\mbox{Im}\,T\,I_n+\ker T$. And this is a direct sum, because if $y=T(x)\,I_n$ and $T(y)=0$, then $y=0$.
Thus we have that the dimensions of $\ker T$ and $\mbox{Im}\,T$ add to $n^2$. So
$$
\dim\ker T=n^2-1.
$$


Unless you live in a cave, you know that the Iowa Caucus took place today. Barack Obama came in first, John Edwards picked up momentum by coming in second while Hillary came in third on the Democratic side. Dodd and Biden have now dropped out of the race. I am sorry to see them go.
On the Republican side, ultra conservative Mike Huckabee won. I was horrified to see his campaign headquarters featuring prayer circles as were some of the reporters. On the plus side, he is most likely beatable. If by some miracle he does win, women and the LGBT community are screwed.
One Iowa voter said that he voted for him because of his unabashed faith. It is his unabashed faith that makes me want to move to out of the US.
I heart the Concord Monitor.
If this guy gets any where, women and the LGBT community are screwed. Is he spending the next few days with all of his wives?
According to the NYTimes, Senator Sam Brownback is said to be dropping out of the race to be the Republican nominee. The poll numbers show him at 2% in Iowa. At least for now, Roe v. Wade is safe from this wingnut.
Mitt Romney's number flip, just like his stance on issues like Abortion and questions about his religion. I have a few questions for him.
This is all subject to change when the candidates hit Iowa hard before the Caucus that is scheduled for Monday, January 14, 2008.
This interview goes on for twenty minutes and the interviewer, Jan Mickelson asks Mitt Romney about his Mormon faith and Romney didn't want to talk about it. In fact, he seemed irritated by the line of questioning. USAToday has some of the highlights in case you don't have time to watch the interview.
How does he think that he can belong to an odd religion that is mysterious and cult-like and think that it isn't a topic for discussion?
Seeing as how religion plays a role in all elections these days, I have to confess that I am intrigued by the Mormon underwear thing. Wacky, sure, weird, definitely. They claim it is an act of devotion. Whatever happened to wearing a cross necklace?
Garments are underclothing that covers the body from the shoulders to the knees. There is a great amount of symbolism associated with the receiving and wearing of the garment.
In Exodus 28 a description is given of how Aaron and his sons are consecrated and anointed to be priests. In this chapter it also describes the priestly clothing; "And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron they brother for glory and for beauty…And these are the garments they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle; and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office."1 From these scriptures and further reading in chapter 29 of Exodus it becomes apparent that the garment is to help remind the priests and symbolize their consecration to God's service.
According to Wonkette, presidential candidate and famous Mormon, Mitt Romney refuses to say whether or not he wears the garments. Does he or doesn't he? I don't see why he refuses to answer. Is he ashamed of his believes?
Well, it had been awhile since I have written about politics, but I have some two cents to share.
Yes, we have a REAL chance to get back the House and Senate. But, we aren't there, yet. Let's not spend the next two days prediciting victory.
Let's get out there and make it HAPPEN. How are we going to do that? by VOTING ON TUESDAY and making sure that all of our felllow liberals and moderates do the same.
Please VOTE on TUESDAY and take five friends with you. Otherwise, these articles won't matter.
Women, Katrina victims and LGBT community stands to lose the most.
The liberal media strikes again. ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX have all declined to run an ad for the United Church of Christ. They have refused because they claim not to run advocacy ads -- huh? What would you call the ads about pollution?
The ads feature Gay couples (oh, no!), ethnic minorites (scary) and unwed mothers being cast aside by an unspecified Church. How shocking and untrue true!
"They are saying, 'You can entertain on 'Will & Grace' and 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,' but when it comes to showing you as whole people with the church, that is going to far," Buford said. Says the spokesman for the Church and he may be right.
What's the moral of the story? 1. God loves all people and 2. the liberal media is only as liberal as those who sensor what gets on television.


Bakkt, the much-anticipated digital assets platform operated by the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), has closed its first acquisition, a tweet from the company revealed Feb. 8.
Bakkt had announced the acquisition of assets in RCG in mid-January. As the company's CEO, Kelly Loeffler, explained at the time, the acquisition means that the company is slowing down operations while awaiting regulatory approval by the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for the launch of regulated trading in crypto markets.
Loeffler also added that the acquisition will allegedly expand Bakkt's risk management and treasury operations with systems and expertise, and might contribute to Bakkt's Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) policies.
As Cointelegraph previously reported, Bakkt was first announced by ICE in August 2018. In late December, ICE reported it will update the launch of the Bakkt Bitcoin (USD) Daily Futures Contract launch timeline in early 2019, in accordance with the CFTC's approval process.
More recently, Bakkt published a list of eight evidently new vacancies at the company, all of which are based in Atlanta and New York City.


The Android 9 Pie update was released 4 months ago and it is slowly rolling out for mobile devices. While some smartphones already received it, others are about to get it. It appears that the Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1 is the next name on the list.
The smartphone is quite popular with Indian uses, and it is one of the most capable budget smartphones on that market. The device runs on Stock Android, so it should be easy to update it. Until now the Asus smartphones weren't exactly the first ones to get the Android updates, but it appears that they are working on that.
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Stuck on the couch tonight? TimesReporter.com features editor Rex Huffman offers some of his top picks for television viewing in his daily series:
• When she becomes tired of decorating for the holidays, Frankie decides to have a minimalist Christmas on tonight's new episode of ABC's "The Middle." The show airs at 8 p.m. and can be seen on WEWS-TV Channel 5.
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How Long Does A High School Basketball Game Last?
The National Federation of High School Associations (NFHS) states that all high school games will be at least 32 minutes, divided into four, eight-minute quarters. There is a 10-minute halftime intermission, a couple minutes between the first and second quarters and third and fourth quarters.
1 How long does a basketball game usually last?
2 How long is halftime in a high school basketball game?
3 How long does a high school match last?
4 How long do girls high school basketball games last?
5 What is the 10 second rule in basketball?
6 Are there periods in basketball?
7 How many quarters are in high school basketball?
8 How many points are free throws worth in basketball?
9 How many quarters are in CBA basketball?
10 How do you know when a soccer game is over?
11 How many minutes do they play in soccer?
12 How many minutes are in a JV basketball game?
14 Can a game end in a tie?
How long does a basketball game usually last?
A typical NBA game usually lasts between 2 and 2.5 hours. However, that is not an exact number for all leagues or associations. As we also mentioned above, basketball game time will vary from league to league. In the National Basketball Association (NBA), each period will be 12 minutes.
How long is halftime in a high school basketball game?
How long is halftime in High School Basketball? During a high school basketball, the half time intermission varies based on school and conference you are in. Generally, it is 10 to 15 minutes, this gives the teams a rest and time to go over game strategy and adjustments that need to be made in the second half.
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How long does a high school match last?
High school football games typically last between two hours and two and a half hours. They consist of four 12-minute quarters with a halftime in between the second and third quarter.
How long do girls high school basketball games last?
The National Federation of State High School Associations announced that high school basketball game should be at least 32 minutes long. A high school basketball game is comprised of four quarters with eight minutes each so the time taken is 32 minutes.
What is the 10 second rule in basketball?
The NBA rulebook says a player has 10 seconds to shoot a free throw after receiving the ball from the official. If he takes more than 10 seconds, he is in violation of league rules, and is thus penalized. The opponent gets possession.
Are there periods in basketball?
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How many quarters are in high school basketball?
Basketball games have a total of 4 quarters. The quarters in a basketball game has 10 minutes of game time and 2 minutes in between breaks for every quarter.
How many points are free throws worth in basketball?
A free throw is worth one point. Free throws are awarded to a team according to some formats involving the number of fouls committed in a half and/or the type of foul committed. Fouling a shooter always results in two or three free throws being awarded the shooter, depending upon where he was when he shot.
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How many quarters are in CBA basketball?
Non-Asian players are allowed to play a combined six quarters per game. For example, if "Import A" played the entire first quarter and "Import B" played the entire second quarter, that would add up to two quarters total.
How do you know when a soccer game is over?
A soccer game ends when the players have completed 90 minutes of play. The time allocated to play soccer is two 45 minute periods, or half's, with a 15-minute interval between the two.
How many minutes do they play in soccer?
A soccer game is estimated to last 90 minutes and divided into two 45-minute halves. The time of the professional football matches is 90 minutes of the regular time and 5-10 minutes extra. In tournaments, extra time is played when a winner needs to be declared.
How many minutes are in a JV basketball game?
c) All JV boys and girls basketball games will consist of two 18 minute halves with running time. The clock will run continuously during out of bounds plays and on the free throw line. The clock will only stop on timeouts and at the referee's direction.
Can a game end in a tie?
If the score is even after three periods, the game may end in a tie, or overtime may be played. In each case, the winner of the shootout is awarded credit for a regulation win (two points), and the loser of the overtime is marked with an overtime loss (OTL) and receives credit equal to half of one win (one point).
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Kaulsdorf ist eine Gemeinde im thüringischen Landkreis Saalfeld-Rudolstadt.

Geografie
Kaulsdorf liegt im südöstlichen Thüringen im Landkreis Saalfeld-Rudolstadt direkt im Saaletal, am Eingang zum Thüringer Schiefergebirge inmitten einer Mittelgebirgslandschaft mit steilen Berghängen.

Klima
Den Ort kennzeichnet ein warmes Talklima, eine dauerhafte Schneedecke im Winter ist selten. Kaulsdorf liegt auf der Leeseite des Thüringer Waldes, mit Niederschlägen um 600 mm im Jahr. Die Jahresdurchschnittstemperatur liegt um 8,4 °C.

Nachbargemeinden
Angrenzende Gemeinden sind (im Uhrzeigersinn) Unterwellenborn, Hohenwarte, Leutenberg, Probstzella und die Stadt Saalfeld/Saale.

Gemeindegliederung
Seit dem Jahr 1994 besteht die Gemeinde Kaulsdorf mit Tauschwitz aus fünf weiteren Ortsteilen, diese sind:
 Breternitz
 Eichicht
 Fischersdorf
 Hockeroda
 Weischwitz

Geschichte

Der Ort wurde erstmals im Jahr 1074 in einer Urkunde des Benediktinerklosters Saalfeld urkundlich erwähnt. 1425 wurde erstmals urkundlich die Kaulsdorfer Saalmühle erwähnt. Eine durch Gräben zusätzlich geschützte Burg stand an der Stelle des bis heute gut erhaltenen Schlosses. 1346 nannte man einen Siedelhof und meinte wohl die befestigte Anlage. Das jetzige Schloss wurde 1678 auf den Grundmauern der Burg aufgebaut.

Ursprünglich gehörte Kaulsdorf als Wettiner Lehen zur Grafschaft Weimar-Orlamünde. Deren Landesteil Lauenstein wurde 1427 der Markgrafschaft Brandenburg-Bayreuth unter böhmischer Oberlehnsherrschaft zum Lehen aufgetragen und 1438 an die Schwarzburger und von diesen 1503 an die Mansfeld-Vorderort verkauft. Bereits 1506 veräußerten die Mansfeld den Ort an die von Thüna wiederkäuflich als Lehen für 12.000 Gulden unter Vorbehalt der Ritterlehne. 1560 kauften die von Thüna Kaulsdorf denen von Enzenberg (ein Drittel der Nutzfläche) ab, wobei über die Lehnsherrschaft einzelner Dörfer zwischen Wettinern, Markgrafen und Mansfeldern Streit entstand. Lauenstein wurde 1600 Reichslehen der von Thüna, die es aber 1622 an die Markgrafen verkauften, zu deren (strittigen) Zubehör Kaulsdorf nun wurde. Das Gut fiel im Jahr 1631 an die von Streitberg, 1645 an die von Dobeneck, die es 1687 mit dem Könitz'schen Besitz, der seit etwa dem Jahr 1370 bestand, etwa ein Viertel der Nutzfläche, vereinigten. Praktisch übten die Wettiner vom 16. bis 18. Jahrhundert die Oberlehnsherrschaft aus. 1776 konnten die Mansfelder ihre Forderungen gegen Sachsen-Saalfeld beim Reichshofrat durchsetzen. Nach ihrem Aussterben 1780 besetzte Kursachsen unter Berufung auf eine Verpfändung der Ernestiner von 1567 die Exklave, die dann 1787 nach Protest der Markgrafen beim Reichshofrat wieder an diese fiel.

Nach deren Regierungsverzicht 1791 fiel die Exklave an Preußen, das auch 1795 das Gut aufkaufte und parzelliert an Bauern und Bürger weiterverkaufte. Napoleon annektierte 1806 die Herrschaft Kaulsdorf und gab sie 1810 an Bayern weiter. Nach dem von Bayern verlorenen Deutschen Krieg von 1866 fiel Kaulsdorf durch Annexion wieder an Preußen, Provinz Sachsen, Regierungsbezirk Erfurt, Kreis Ziegenrück. 1944 kam es an Thüringen, Kreis Saalfeld, 1952 zum Bezirk Gera, Kreis Saalfeld, und mit diesem 1990 zum Freistaat Thüringen.

Am 1. Juli 1950 wurde die bis dahin eigenständige Gemeinde Eichicht eingegliedert.

Von 1993 bis 1995 gehörten Kaulsdorf und Hohenwarte der Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Saale-Loquitz an. Am 19. Oktober 1995 wurde sie aufgelöst und Kaulsdorf wurde erfüllende Gemeinde für Hohenwarte. Im Jahre 1996 wurden die Gemeinden Altenbeuthen und Drognitz ebenfalls zu beauftragenden Gemeinden von Kaulsdorf, da die Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Obere Saale aufgelöst wurde.

Einwohnerentwicklung
Entwicklung der Einwohnerzahl (ab 1994: Stand jeweils 31. Dezember):

 Datenquelle ab 1994: Thüringer Landesamt für Statistik

Politik

Kaulsdorf besitzt den Status einer erfüllenden Gemeinde. Die beauftragenden Gemeinden sind Altenbeuthen, Drognitz und Hohenwarte.

Gemeinderat
Der Gemeinderat von Kaulsdorf setzt sich nach der Wahl 2014 aus 13 Ratsfrauen und Ratsherren zusammen.
 CDU: 8 Sitze (−1)
 Sabine Kunstmann: 1 Sitz (+1)
 Gewerbe- und Fremdenverkehrsverein Kaulsdorf: 3 Sitze (+1)
 SPD: 1 Sitz (±0)
In Klammern die Werte von 2009. Sabine Kunstmann hätte nach Stimmen 2 Sitze beanspruchen können; da dies nicht vorgesehen ist, verringerte sich die Anzahl der Mitglieder von 14 auf 13.

Bürgermeister
Der hauptamtliche Bürgermeister Hans-Jürgen Oßwald wurde letztmals am 22. April 2012 wiedergewählt. Im Jahr 2018 wurde Kerstin Barczus als Nachfolgerin gewählt.

Wappen
Das Wappen von Kaulsdorf wurde am 23. September 1992 genehmigt. Blasonierung: "In Rot, geteilt durch ein schrägliegendes, mit drei roten Sternen belegtes, silbernes Wellenband, oben eine silberne Weintraube mit zwei Blättern, unten ein silbernes Eichenblatt."

Das Wappen von Hockeroda wurde am 2. September 1992 genehmigt. Blasonierung: "In Silber eine blaue Wellendeichsel, begleitet von drei grünen Nadelbäumen."

Gemeindepartnerschaften
Die hessische Gemeinde Beselich ist seit Anfang Mai 1991 Partnergemeinde von Kaulsdorf. Die Partnerschaftsurkunden zwischen beiden Gemeinden wurden von den Bürgermeistern Hans-Peter Wahl (Beselich) und Hans-Jürgen Oßwald (Kaulsdorf) unterzeichnet.

Kultur und Sehenswürdigkeiten

Naturdenkmale
Der nahegelegene Hohenwarte-Stausee ist ein Naherholungsgebiet mit Campingplätzen und Fahrgastschifffahrt. Kaulsdorf liegt am Saaleradweg. Der nur einen Kilometer entfernte Lohmturm bietet einen umfassenden Ausblick über die Gemeinde und das Saaletal. In Kaulsdorf findet das alljährliche Gänsemarktfest statt.

Baudenkmale

Von weitem kann man das Schloss Eichicht sowie das tiefer gelegene Schloss Kaulsdorf sehen. Unweit im Nachbarort Hohenwarte liegt das Pumpspeicherwerk Hohenwarte sowie die Sperrmauer des Hohenwarte-Stausees, welcher Deutschlands viertgrößter Stausee ist und zum Verbund der Saalekaskade gehört.

Geschichtsdenkmale
Ein Gedenkstein auf dem Friedhof erinnert seit 1970 an 25 Opfer der Zwangsarbeit, die hunderte Menschen aus Osteuropa für den Bau von Rüstungsanlagen der REIMAHG verrichten mussten. Ein weiterer Gedenkstein erinnert seit 1985 an die Opfer des Todesmarsches aus dem KZ Buchenwald, der nahe der Saale vorbeiführte.

Persönlichkeiten
 Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig von Beulwitz (1755–1829), Kanzler von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt und Besitzer der Güter in Eichicht und Breternitz.
 Reginald Hanke (* 1956), deutscher Politiker (FDP), Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages, lebt seit 1979 in Breternitz.

Wirtschaft und Infrastruktur
Kaulsdorf besitzt angesichts seiner Ortsgröße ein ausgeprägtes und intaktes Gewerbe- und Handelsleben mit vielen Geschäften, Handwerkern und Familienbetrieben.

Der Sportplatz und das Bürgerhaus ergänzen spezielle Freizeitangebote.

Verkehr

Kaulsdorf liegt an der Bahnstrecke Leipzig–Probstzella, die auf bayerischer Seite als Frankenwaldbahn weiter nach Hochstadt am Main führt. Im Gemeindegebiet liegen die Haltepunkte Breternitz, Kaulsdorf (Saale) (Name bis 1954 Eichicht) und Hockeroda. In Hockeroda zweigt eine Nebenbahn nach Bad Lobenstein und Blankenstein (Saale) ab. An allen Stationen außer Hockeroda halten Regionalzüge des Franken-Thüringen-Express der Linie Leipzig–Nürnberg, an allen Stationen die Regionalzüge der Relation Saalfeld (Saale)–Blankenstein, in Kaulsdorf zusätzlich Regional-Express-Züge der Relation Saalfeld (Saale)–Nürnberg.

Parallel zur Frankenwaldbahn verläuft die Bundesstraße 85, parallel zur Strecke nach Blankenstein die Bundesstraße 90.

Sicherheit
Die Freiwillige Feuerwehr Kaulsdorf-Eichicht sorgt für den abwehrenden Brandschutz und die allgemeine Hilfe.

Literatur

Weblinks

 Internetpräsenz der Einheitsgemeinde Kaulsdorf

Einzelnachweise

Ort im Landkreis Saalfeld-Rudolstadt
Ort an der Saale
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Faraonii celei de a II-a dinastii Egiptene


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When a Shady Investigator Offers You Medical Records, Run for the Hills
As every investigator knows, palm trees aren't the only shady things in Florida.
I was bored a few weeks ago, and started doing some research on a company that had sent a blast email promising "medical records" and "prescription info." Given that obtaining these records is completely illegal and this person included a price list in the email, I was a tad bit surprised.
But after digging into this a bit more, maybe I shouldn't have been so stunned.
A colleague in the investigations industry had forwarded me an email a few years ago. It was a blast email from a Florida business — for those of you not in the know, Florida is the most popular state of residence among shady investigators — and it too had provided a price list running from $20 to $600 for things like bank records, food stamp records, credit card activity, hotel room activity, and college and high school transcripts. Knowing full well that nearly all this information would be obtained by shady/illegal means, I was intrigued.
At the very least, there was likely a whole lot of pretexting going on—of the not-so-savory kind.
What was most surprising was the offer to provide "medical records" (for $495) and "prescription info" (for $395). While the other offerings were certainly shady and more than likely obtained through illegal means, obtaining medical records and prescription info on someone without their permission is 100% illegal.
Seriously, just think about that for a minute. Imagine if anyone could purchase your medical records for around $500.
Let that soak in for a second.
Many people seem ambivalent about investigators' obtaining bank records. But medical records?
Anyhow, this blast email was like hundreds of other blast emails I get from shady data brokers peddling information.
So I ignored it.
That was until a few weeks ago, when I stumbled across this old email and decided to dig into it. You know, the world is literally on fire and we are in a global pandemic, so I have a bit of extra time on my hands.
I clicked on the company website and not surprisingly found that it is no longer operational.
This made me chuckle, because my general approach is to not worry too much about these sorts of fly-by-night firms, as they seem to disappear just as quickly as they appear. I am pretty sure that Starting & Running a Business for Dummies tells you that if you want to have a long-lasting business model, selling shady, illegal stuff is not the way to go.
But that didn't satisfy my interest, so I kept digging.
Since its registration, the company's domain history has been protected by a proxy registration service to protect the identity of the true owner, so that proved a dead end.
I went back and looked through the domain history on archive.org. Of course, as expected, the company claimed to be in full compliance with the law, including HIPAA (which protects medical records) and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (which protects banking records). I haven't found one firm that peddles bank records and other shady records that says it isn't compliant, so that claim means virtually nothing.
(The website also claimed to be in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, which is a law enacted in 2002 that predominantly concerns reporting requirements for public companies. Other than the fancy-sounding name that has a nice ring to it for marketing purposes, this has absolutely nothing to do with data protection, but I digress.)
There were also a few people listed on the website, two of whom had common-sounding names. They were common enough and the bios lacked enough detail to ensure that these people weren't going to be easy to find.
And they weren't.
The third name was uncommon enough that I ran it through a couple of investigative databases, only to find that there was nobody in the entire country with that name.
The owner of the company, Kristin (not her real name), did have a LinkedIn profile, with nine followers, a cropped photo, and some limited details, including the name of the university she attended. Not much of a lead there either.
So I turned to Florida corporate records, where I found some records for a company with the same name, but a woman with a totally different name, whom we will call Laura.
Interestingly, Laura, who was the only officer listed on corporate filings, happened to live in the same town in which Kristin reportedly did and reported an address in the same college town, and—despite the cropped, overly exposed photo of Kristin on LinkedIn—I found some photos of Laura that looked strikingly similar.
The bottom line is that I am nearly certain that Kristin was a fake name being used on this website to sell all kinds of personal records. I mean, if you are selling shady records, it's probably not a good idea to use your real name.
So, the punch line here is that for a business owner who has two kids about to go to college, a license, and a reasonably good reputation to uphold (or just an ethical and moral bone in your body) it's probably not a good idea to take any chances by getting information from some data broker who claims to get information that by any normal stretch of the imagination can only be obtained by shady or illegal tactics.
I don't care how compliant they are, who referred them, or how desperate my client is to get information.
It's just not smart business practice.
Unless, of course, you want to rely on Kristin (aka Laura), who has now shut down her business and is living in a million-dollar beachfront home sipping on piña coladas.
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October 7, 2020 /2 Comments/by Brian Willingham
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Finally, the Private Investigator Code of Ethics You Have Been Waiting For
There are very few topics that get me as agitated as do discussions regarding ethics and private investigators. My enthusiasm for this topic falls somewhere between my obsession with food and making the perfect paella (sorry, but no Spaniard would ever put chorizo in a paella) and drinking good beer (sorry, but Coors Light does not qualify as "good beer").
Since I spend the vast majority of my time on my work (and unfortunately not cooking paella and drinking beer) and much of my day on social media with news alerts set left and right, I get reminded of ethical issues with private investigators all the time.
A few months ago, I stumbled across a message board where a licensed private investigator asked about how to get an "unauthorized credit report" (Hint: the word "unauthorized" should be a clue).
I joked that it was kind of like asking where to buy an 8-ball of cocaine on Twitter. OK, I guess it's not the same. Cocaine is probably easier to get than a credit report.
A private investigator asks on a public message board "Does anyone know where I can get an unauthorized credit report from?" Isn't that kind of like asking where to buy an 8-ball of cocaine on Twitter?
— Brian Willingham (@b_willingham) May 7, 2020
That same week I got a message from another private investigator asking how he could get a credit report without a signed release. (Hint: a Google search can quickly confirm you MUST HAVE a signed authorized release).
There have been a number of infamous private investigator ethical lapses splattered across the news over the years, some of which have led to changes in laws and access to information.
In the 1980s, the actress Rebecca Shaeffer was murdered after a 19-year-old "obsessed fan" hired a private investigator to track down where the actress lived. California changed the law so that DMV information no longer included address details.
Anthony Pellicano, known as a "fixer" and "Private Eye to the Stars," spent 10 years in prison for, among other things, threatening witnesses, wiretapping phones (including the phones of Sylvester Stallone), and unlawfully accessing confidential records from members of the Los Angeles and Beverly Hills police departments.
Then there was Chris Butler, who set up "Dirty DUIs" for his clients, where he would hire female decoys to get a male drunk, get the males to drink a sufficient amount of alcohol, and then follow them in their vehicle as they headed home, all in order to call the police in order to get them pulled over.
In 2006, Hewlett–Packard hired private investigators to access the private phone records of board members and nine journalists. One private investigator was later convicted and sentenced to prison. Because of the national outcry, in 2007, President Bush signed the Telephone Records and Privacy Protection Act of 2006, which made it a federal felony to fraudulently acquire telephone records.
More recently, there was the story of Black Cube, who used ruses, fake websites, false identities and cellphone tracking to obtain information for its client, Harvey Weinstein. As you may have noticed from the news, that didn't end well.
In addition to these front-page news items, there have been dozens of other stories in the media every day of private investigators who hacked email passwords and credentials, posed as an airline worker to get copies of a passport; committed sex acts with a prisoner (and client) in jail; bribed and tampered with witnesses; intimidated a witness; impersonated a law enforcement officer; attempted to get the president's tax returns; flashed their old badges to give people the impression that they are law enforcement officers; illegally installed a GPS tracker; hired a shady subcontractor with spotty criminal records to get phone records; illegally obtained bank records through a pretext; or represented themselves as an "investigative firm" in order to dig up dirt on the opposing counsel by pretending to be a reporter.
Those are just the ones that crossed my radar over the past few years.
And I have had a bunch of my own personal experiences with other ethical breaches, including dealing with investigators who wanted to charge another investigator a handsome sum for public records and another investigator who told me he would put a GPS device on anyone's car, anytime, anywhere, despite the fact that laws suggest otherwise.
I've also had a client call me to ask whether I would break into someone's house to steal tax returns and dealt with a hedge fund manager who wanted me to threaten and intimidate someone.
The argument I get all the time is that these are just rogue investigators; but personally, I think it's more of a pattern of behavior. We may not be to blame for these rogue investigators, but we can all do something about it.
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There are a few things that I think could dramatically decrease these ethical lapses. First, most states do not require private investigators to get continuing education. So once you have received a license, you can maintain that license for eternity without a single iota of learning anything new, like pesky little things such as laws, privacy restrictions or even investigative techniques.
Imagine going to a doctor who learned how to practice medicine 30 years ago and was never required to learn anything new ever again. I don't know about you, but that's not the doctor I would want to be seeing.
The other thing that could dramatically decrease ethical lapses is a code of ethics. Nearly every single professional service has them; why don't private investigators? While many investigators belong to various associations that have their own code of ethics (e.g., National Association of Legal Investigators; The New Jersey Licensed Private Investigators Association; World Association of Detectives; Association of Certified Fraud Examiners; Council of International Investigators; Associated Licensed Detectives of New York State), there is no universal code of ethics. And as far as I know, very few (if any) states have a real code of ethics for investigators to abide by.
So where do we start to try to fix this?
Well, having a standardized code of ethics would probably be a good starting point.
So, for the past few months, my friend and fellow private investigator Molly Donaldson of Waverly Research (who is also an attorney) decided to put together our own code of ethics.
There were a few specific criteria for this private investigator code of ethics.
First and foremost, it needed to be in plain language; no legal jargon would be allowed. I know that it's an attorney's job to add disclaimers, provisions, clauses, rights, duties, etceteras, notwithstandings, heretofores, definitions and "including but not limited tos," but it's time we took a stand for plain language.
Secondly, we wanted this to be shared with the investigative community, so while we tried to hit every point, we tried to keep it as broad as possible while being concise and fitting on one page. We thought of this not as a set of exact rules, but as general guidelines that we must follow. Trying to cram every ethical scenario in a concise set of rules was not very practical.
Lastly, both Molly and I wanted to share this code of ethics with the investigative community— so please steal it, post it, edit it, sign it, blog about it, tear it apart or do whatever you want with it.
Maybe, just maybe, this might create some dialog about standardizing a code of ethics for all of us.
Or we can all decide to just completely ignore it, which is pretty much what the industry has been doing for quite some time.
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July 2, 2020 /4 Comments/by Brian Willingham
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Public Service Announcement for Fellow Private Investigators
Private investigator Scott Ross called me a few months back and relayed a story about a Florida investigator whom he had spoken with a few years ago. Scott is a nationally renowned expert on cell phone towers and has worked some really high-profile cases. The Florida investigator had called Scott a few years back, wanting to pick his brain about a case that needed some analysis of cell phone records.
Scott and I share a similar philosophy. He is happy to share some insight and information about his expertise, knowing that if there is a serious need, he's the guy that they will think of. Plus, it's just a good human trait to want to help people.
Scott helped the investigator out. Never charged him a penny and didn't think much about the investigator until several months ago, when Scott was about to be retained on a Florida murder case. Scott needed some police reports from a local Florida police department, so he called the Florida private investigator. The Florida investigator said he had a source in the police department who could get the records. Scott told the investigator that he hadn't been retained yet, but if his source could get the record without too much trouble, it would be helpful.
Shortly thereafter, the Florida investigator sent the two-page document—and a bill for $100.
Even though he was a bit surprised by the bill, Scott sent the investigator $125 as a thank-you for his time. The Florida investigator said that there were several more police reports relating to the person in question. Scott told the investigator to hold off, since they hadn't been retained by the attorney.
But shortly thereafter, Scott received six other police reports along with a bill for $300.
Scott was a bit perturbed, given he had explicitly told him not to do any additional work, but paid it anyway.
And that was that.
Or so Scott thought.
Some time thereafter, Scott was making some inquiries about getting an autopsy from the same Florida murder. Unlike in California, where you have to pay a $76 fee and jump through hoops, he was told that the report was free. (Gotta love Florida Sunshine laws.)
Curious, Scott called the police department that had the police records he wanted. First, Scott asked about the original police report he had inquired about. The search was free, and not only did they have the record he was inquiring about, they had six others. The officer at the police department told him that the fee would be $10, copies cost $0.15, and that he could email the request.
So much for that "source."
And the $400 in invoices.
And the professional courtesy of helping out another private investigator.
I too have had some similar experiences.
There are a couple of things to learn from this.
When your source is an open records request, you have to rethink your business model. It's 2019—people are too smart and have access to too much information to have the wool pulled over their eyes.
Nobody likes to be nickel-and-dimed. Nobody.
The investigative business is a small world; people find things out.
Investigators need to work together. Enough of the BS of your secret sources and desperately needing to increase your self-importance.
There's plenty of work out there for all of us—if you are good at what you do.
October 29, 2019 /4 Comments/by Brian Willingham
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Ronan Farrow Exposes the Dark Underbelly of Private Investigators
This week, Ronan Farrow, the investigative reporter, published a three-part series (read Part I here, Part II here, and Part III here) on the Israel-based "intelligence firm" Black Cube, whom Farrow had some run-ins with while exposing Harvey Weinstein.
It's a pretty captivating story if you are into espionage, spies, surveillance, intrigue, counterintelligence, spooks, and snooping—or if you just have a pulse. ;)
This has been a huge personal interest story for me over the years that Farrow and others have been writing about Black Cube in part because of their shady tactics and Hollywood-style bravado. [I'd bet my life there will be a movie about them in a few years.]
Another point of interest is that I have personally spoken to Black Cube. While my discussions with them were completely cordial and above-board, I can recall pretty vividly how suspect I was of the firm, even from a few brief emails and telephone calls. In addition, I have had contact with a few other people mentioned in the story.
As a private investigator for nearly 20 years, I was at times shocked, partly saddened, but mostly captivated by the stories in the articles. I've already preordered Farrow's book (you can order Catch and Kill here), as I am sure that will bring more shock and awe.
So, here are some observations.
"That Only Happens on TV"
Private investigators suffer from a perception problem (Hint: 95 percent of the people we polled think that private investigators break the law and are "shady.") Despite discussing openly all of the things that our firm won't do under any circumstances, we constantly get inquiries about those same things. We've been asked to break into an apartment and steal tax returns. We get asked frequently to hack into emails and get telephone records or the location of a cell phone.
Most of the time, I answer these inquiries with some form of "you have been watching too much TV. That's just not reality."
But then, Black Cube went and ruined that.
They used ruses, fake websites, false identities, cell phone tracking, and disguises. I get that this stuff happens in the high stakes game of world politics. Or arms dealing. Or drug lords.
But really? This happens in our industry?
But here is the reality.
I have worked with dozens of other firms in the industry. Some of the best and the brightest that this business has to offer. I've worked on cases that have been front cover of major newspapers.
Exactly zero of them would have used any of the tactics described in these articles.
So does one bad apple spoil the bunch? Sure.
But this is not an isolated incident…
An Industry in Desperate Need of Some Sunshine
There is an enormous amount of skepticism about the investigation industry. Frankly, it's a reputation well-deserved.
I just posted a blog last week about three separate front-page news stories involving private investigators who use sketchy tactics. And there are a lot more stories of private investigators being sentenced for making false pretext calls to get personal banking information, a private investigator having sex with a prisoner, and scrutiny about private investigators receiving DMV data.
That was just in the month of September.
Our industry can use a whole hell of a lot of sunshine.
@drowsyGeek
Back in May 2019, a former TV personality private investigator was jailed for promoting prostitution and unlawful surveillance for enticing a man into having sex with prostitutes at a Sunset Park hotel—and then surreptitiously recording the sex acts.
As Cath (@drowsygeek) said on Twitter, our industry can use a whole hell of a lot of sunshine.
Yes, we can use a who lot of sunshine…and rainbows, butterflies and unicorns too.
Results-oriented Business
If you hire a contractor to build you a house, at the end of the day, you expect a house to be built.
If you hire an accountant to help you file your tax return, you expect your taxes to be completed.
Or if you hire a software engineer to help you produce a piece of software, one would expect a piece of working software at the end.
But if you hire a private investigator to, for example, follow someone that you believe is meeting with some people that you might have an interest in, and you need to follow that person in a city of millions of people under difficult circumstances without being caught, lots of things can go wrong.
The surveillance investigator might lose the person they are following or get caught, or the target might go into a place where they can't be followed, or simply not meet up with the people they are suspected of meeting. And what you might have thought would cost a few thousand dollars, ends up costing tens of thousands of dollars to do properly. And even done properly, everything might go to hell.
Each of those scenarios brings disappointment to the client.
So what do some investigators do to mitigate their failing results?
They might cheat by resorting to not-so-savory tactics. They might start putting GPS devices on the cars they are following (see stories here, here and here). Track cell phones. Try to hack a computer.
I've heard of surveillance investigators letting the air out of the tires of those collecting disability to see if they can change a tire.
There are private investigators who will pretext a bank by providing a Social Security number, date of birth, and other personally identifiable information to a bank to convince them that they are a particular individual in order to get their bank account information.
Investigators get judged by their results, not their efforts. But we don't always have control over the results of our investigations.
It's frustrating. Exhausting. Dispiriting.
Which brings out the cheaters.
Leave the Bonus Fees to Wall Street
One of the striking stories that came out of these articles was bonus fees tied to certain objectives. First, in New York, where we are licensed, "success fees" and bonuses are not allowed.
Success fees and bonuses encourage bias and behaviors that may not be aboveboard.
Imagine paying an investigator when he was able to come up with evidence that helped support his client.
What kind of biases and/or moral, ethical, and legal behavior do you think that would encourage?
If you ever hear of paying a private investigator suggesting a bonus, run.
There has been quite a bit of talk about whistleblowers over the past few years, and particularly recently.
This story would not have even been a story if it weren't for at least two whistleblowers. One appears to be a Black Cube employee who was fed up with Black Cube's "false and devious ways of obtaining material illegally" that the whistleblower, as a woman, was "ashamed for participating" in the acts by helping Harvey Weinstein.
The other is a New York private investigator who feared he was on the wrong side of the law.
These whistleblowers were motivated by professional ethics and faith in humanity. The reality is that whistleblowers shed light on pressing issues that directly affect all of us. Some call them leakers. Some believe they are disloyal, disgruntled, or even traitorous. Some question their motives.
To me, however, someone who is willing to risk everything to expose something so blatantly wrong is a freaking hero.
Hopefully it will shed some light on this business too.
Maybe I am naïve to think that this stuff doesn't happen all the time.
Maybe I live in some idyllic world where the truth will always come out.
Or that reasonable people will always act ethically, morally, and within the law.
And maybe Black Cube is just eating up every bit of this press, since there are businesses who believe that "there is no such thing as bad publicity."
As for me, I hope that this story gives all of us in this industry a chance to take a hard look in the mirror.
Before it all crumbles around us.
October 10, 2019 /1 Comment/by Brian Willingham
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Private Investigators Are Not Licensed to Do Dirty Work
A few weeks ago we received a call from a local hedge fund manager who was being harassed through a series of text messages by someone who had threatened to create a website detailing the hedge fund manager's infidelities. It had not reached the point of extortion or blackmail, but it was clear that this person had some inside information and was not going to go away.
The hedge fund manager was concerned that his "private life" would be released to the public, and he wanted to track down the person who was sending the text messages.
All we had to go on was a telephone number that the person was texting from. That's not much to go on. As I explained to him, there are a 1,001 ways to mask a telephone number so that it would be nearly impossible to track down the owner of the phone without some sort of help from law enforcement.
The problem is that this situation was not at the point where law enforcement would even "take a sniff of it." The personal issues of a hedge fund manager are not high on the totem pole for the local police department. After all, no criminal offense had been committed.
As a first step, I offered to run some database research on the phone number through a series of professional and proprietary databases to see if the number popped up somewhere. If we had any leads, we could try to track down the person and get a sense of who they were.
But the hedge fund manager had other plans.
He wanted me to call and/or text the person and "threaten" and "intimidate" (his words, not mine) the person into revealing their identity and tell them that they would be arrested and prosecuted if they sent another message or released any information about the hedge fund manager.
Intimidating a person and throwing out empty threats on behalf of someone who called me out of the blue is not a case that I would covet.
It would have been a completely empty threat. You can't be arrested or charged with anything based on a few texts that say you have some information about someone's infidelity. Especially if it is true (which I suspect it was).
I nicely told him that it was not something that we would want to get involved with. Intimidating a person and throwing out empty threats on behalf of someone who called me out of the blue is not a case that I would covet.
His reply? "I thought that is what you guys do."
Intimidate people?
Throw out empty threats?
With all due respect, no we don't.
Nor would we ever.
November 12, 2014 /5 Comments/by Brian Willingham
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Can a Private Investigator Break Into an Apartment and Steal Tax Returns?
We get some "interesting" inquiries all the time, but this one takes the cake.
A few weeks ago, we received an email from someone in Minnesota who wanted to check up on her ex-husband. She wanted to find out more about his finances.
Normal enough. Everyone thinks their ex-spouse is hiding something. There are legal and ethical ways to check on someone's finances.
But then she asked:
Can you break into his apartment and get his tax return copies? … Is this something you can do or suggest someone who can do it? I understand it is illegal, but my situation is I don't want to go back just to support him … Pls let me know.
So if you understand that it is illegal, why would it be OK for us to do?
Some things in life make you question humanity, but as C+C Music Factory eloquently put it, there are other things that make you go hmmm …
January 25, 2013 /1 Comment/by Brian Willingham
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