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GDPR: FORCES A WHOLESALE SHIFT IN INFORMATION SECURITY THINKING
The new European General Data Protection Regulation is now adopted and, following the two year transition period, will be in force come May 2018. Jason Hart, ex 'ethical' hacker and CTO at Gemalto Identity & Data Protection, reasons that a whole new mindset is needed around information security for organisations to understand the point of the regulation, ensure compliance and keep their reputation intact and avoid hefty financial penalties.
Acceptance Is Better Than Prevention
Two absolutely fundamental words are at the heart, literally, of the GDPR – data protection. It is this that provides explicit recognition of the fact that for the cybercrime industry the 'new oil' is data. The prospect of a raw material that can be compromised, accessed and ultimately monetised drives the relentless assault on organisations from various attack vectors. No data, no value, it really is that simple, so given the immense volume of personal data organisations hold and transact then the requirement to protect becomes paramount and has driven the need for consistent regulatory frameworks like GDPR.
We've seen all the breach news, the fact that cybercrime against individuals is now a mainstream criminal activity (and now recorded in the Crime Survey for England and Wales), and with more and more data being created, stored, shared and analysed the potential value for the cyber-criminal is ever increasing. A paradigm shift in information security thinking is needed to keep data, and hence organisations, protected, safe and secure.
UNDERSTANDING DATA IS UNDERSTANDING RISK
However, this is a lot easier said than done given the volume, variety and ever growing size and dynamic variance of the data field. Taking a step back to look at all departments and associated data – its type (financial, personal, commercial, operational and so on), what is sensitive, its flow, use and location – is the hardest and most complex step along the way to data safety and security. Bear in mind too that a data audit, whilst the essential first step to securing data, is an ongoing and dynamic process and shouldn't be seen as a tick-box exercise but something evolutionary in an ever-changing digital world. A poor understanding of the data landscape and lack of relevant and appropriate data security controls were central to the vast majority of data breaches that have occurred in the last decade and more. The core of the new regulatory framework is about addressing the risk for different types of data and the application of controls around confidentiality, integrity, and availability. What's the data, where is it, and what's protecting it? Get this right and compliance follows.
DATA INTIMACY + ENCRYPTION & KEY MANAGEMENT + AUTHENTICATION = COMPLIANCE
Once the audit of the data universe is underway then the application of appropriate security controls is relatively straightforward. Encryption is key, and key management is even more key! Data is valueless if it is encrypted and it is now so easy to encrypt wherever it is located – on the server, in storage, on the device or travelling across the network. However, encryption without the means to decrypt is pointless and where encryption has been vulnerable before is in the management of the encryption keys. Keep these separate, safe and secure and the degree of difficulty to compromise, access and steal data rises enormously. Add in user controls, like two-factor authentication and ingrain a culture of security within an organisation and compliance to the, rightly so, stringent regulation becomes a matter of fact. Criminals will inevitably gain access to the 'vault', either technologically or via other means (the case of ringing reception at the US Department of Homeland Security pretending to be someone who has lost their network access information is one of the real world being a vector of attack), but once in the vault if they can't access the jewels then they'll go find a more vulnerable target.
ACTION NOW TO GET OUR CUSTOMERS COMPLIANT
Collectively we can all influence the safety of the digital world by re-inventing what is essential information security thinking. Get our mutual customers to understand that breach prevention, whilst valid, is not today's priority. Data protection is. Consider this, of the 700 million or so data records stolen in 2015 only 4% were 'secure' breaches involving encrypted, hence valueless, data. Working with customers to understand their data universe and its nature, how to encrypt it and manage the encryption keys securely, and how to authenticate and protect its users (technologically and in the real, imperfect, working world) will ensure compliance.
But a word of caution – it is getting to understand the data that will take the time and our customers need to start this process now. The implications of not doing so don't need to be repeated.
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Movie Night: My Beautiful Laundrette
Words by Nooreen Reza
Tags: Kumail Nanjiani, LGBTQI, movie night
My Beautiful Laundrette (dir. Stephen Frears) is a beloved British film of the 1980s. It was pioneering in its depiction of a romance between a young Pakistani entrepreneur, Omar (Gordon Warnecke), and his lapsed-fascist former schoolmate, Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis), as they strove together to revive Omar's uncle's failing laundrette in South London. While it was originally made for TV, the critical buzz around the film led to a cinematic release. In the decades since, My Beautiful Laundrette has gained a spot in film history as an important, but not self-important, document of an immigrant family's experience in London and of cross-racial, queer love. The film was not free of controversy, however. When it was released, protesters took to the street in New York to denounce it as "the product of a vile and perverted mind."
That legacy lives on today. Kumail Nanjiani, most recently of The Big Sick fame, is planning an adaptation of My Beautiful Laundrette as a TV series, which he will both co-write and star in. Kajal's Politics Editor Nooreen Reza and Staff Writer Aziz Adib sat down to watch the film and chat about Nanjiani's source material, wondering how My Beautiful Laundrette would translate to the screen in 2018.
Nooreen: Let's start off by stating where we're approaching this from. Had you heard of My Beautiful Laundrette or watched it before hearing the Kumail news?
Aziz: No, never. I was shocked that it was voted as a top 50 Brit movie or something.
Nooreen: Ok, so I bet you were confused as to why on earth Kumail Nanjiani wanted to make a TV adaptation of this film.
Aziz: Yeah, it just seemed like a really obscure choice. But after watching I think it could actually be a fun series—like, there are enough things and story lines you can dig into.
Nooreen: Right. So, for me I had heard of My Beautiful Laundrette for the first time probably in college, on one of my late night procrastination journeys, and not having access to the full film (also, fail at the internet to find a not-dodgy streaming site), I just watched all the clips I could on Youtube. So actually, this was the first time I watched the film in its entirety.
I think I agree with you that there are a lot of storylines to explore, but I have reservations about how the plot and ideas would translate to American TV circa 2018-2019.
Aziz: Yeah, I think you have to modernize a lot of it. But I think the general framework of it though, I think you can apply a lot of contemporary tropes to it.
Nooreen: Also, I will admit to being viscerally taken aback by anything that would replace a young Daniel Day-Lewis with anyone, lol.
Aziz: …I didn't care for him.
Nooreen: Gasp, Aziz, why?
Aziz: He was fine, he didn't stand out.
Omar (Gordon Warnecke) learns the ropes from his Uncle Nasser (Saeed Jaffery). Image via YouTube.
Nooreen: The acting or the character? I'm curious what you think about the characters.
Aziz: Acting. Character I think would be way more interesting when given a backstory in a series. So because this movie came out a decade before I was born, there is something inherently cheesy to a lot of the dialogue and interaction. I thought the relationship between the dad and uncle was very very very interesting and I wanna know more about that.
Nooreen: Mm yeah, you mean Omar's dad and Uncle Nasser?
Aziz: yes.
Nooreen: Yeah, there's an interesting juxtaposition of life outcomes there, in terms of how (or do) you "assimilate" and what does that look like? Is it just, make bank, like Uncle Nasser, and just navigate around racism, or even make strange racial dynamics work in your favor? You can see hierarchies of race and class play out in scenes like when the uncle gets Johnny to evict a black tenant in one of his run-down properties. Meanwhile, Omar's dad is mostly drunk and sad and occasionally saying rousing leftist things.
Aziz: Ya bro being woke doesn't pay.
Nooreen: Or you could be like Uncle Salim and deal drugs. Also, that was the most 80s subplot?
Aziz: Oh yeah I was all about that.
Nooreen: Mysterious uncle "picking up VHS TAPES," cocaine in beards…
Aziz: I chortled when I saw the cocaine beard—innovative.
Nooreen: Haha, pretty genius! So here's a Q: going back to racial dynamics, and viewing this from America in 2018, one of my reservations about the TV adaptation—which granted, we don't yet have much info about—is that this film is uniquely British in its racial politics, right? And, crucially, that 80s atmosphere of like, Thatcherite economic decline.
Aziz: Is it? I think you can actually simulate a similar economic feeling in a modern adaptation. I think the overarching dynamics still exist.
Nooreen: In what ways?
Aziz: Taking our jobs + they're less than us?
Nooreen: The general racial tensions are universal I guess.
Aziz: I think in a modern adaptation you have to present that subtly—like, you could say that shit in the 80s (I'm told) and that was it, but if you say that today it's unrealistic/unrecognizable/dated.
Omar meets Johnny's (Daniel Day-Lewis) fascist friends. Image via YouTube.
Nooreen: But that's not what i'm saying. Hmmm, Lemme think a second. Ok here's my "controversial statement":
Aziz: Oh boy.
Nooreen: If you made this in 2018 it would be a Trumpist film, lol.
Aziz: Explain.
Nooreen: Ok, so the dialogue, as you mentioned, and the plot are pretty straightforward. So the way it plays out to me is that all emotional statements made by and about characters should be taken at face value. And therefore the film comes off as sympathetic to the perspective of, as you expressed, "the browns are taking our jobs," whites in decline, etc. For instance, Johnny is portrayed as a victim, at times, of class exploitation, in ways that are inevitably racially charged.
Aziz: Okay I didn't pick that up when I watched it. I think I was already rooting for Omar. So, I didn't view it as a like "them vs us" thing. I was just like, I'm here to watch Omar do okay.
Nooreen: Ok, so how do you think that affected your reading of Omar's interactions with people? TBH I think he's kind of a dick.
Aziz: Oh yeah, he immediately turns into a dick. I just meant like, I wanted this weird brown mafia family do well. That's what this was for me, a mafia film! Also, I do think nowadays you have to make your stories/context factually accurate. There wasn't the pressure to do that back then.
Nooreen: How so?
Aziz: In 1985, I think you had no pressure/awareness on the West to view films with an accurate historical context because they seldom had to answer for it. And you had a lot of poc with self internalized stuff.
Nooreen: Explain self internalized stuff.
Aziz: Like, for example, when his Uncle Nasser is like, in this capitalist economy all that matters is money. To use that as a thesis sentence, that type of speech was normalized. I'm realizing now I meant to say normalized and not internalized.
Nooreen: You think it's really different now though? Perhaps in media depictions. I still hear that shit in brown communities a lot.
Aziz: I think it's a different type of it. I mean, regardless of all of this though—feel like this could become a rabbit hole—I think the bones of the movie are well suited for a modern series. I think you can make slight character adjustments and quirks to the plot and easily mold it into a modern setting. I'm curious as to, if Kumail is going to play the lead, how that would impact the relationships because he's a visibly older character. Like Kumail can't pass for early 20s.
Nooreen: Yeah, I think my position is the same on the overall. You would have to tinker with the racial dynamics in ways that would make this at best a very loose adaptation, which I guess is fine…and also, Laundrette to Laundromat transition, lol. Dealbreaker. But yes, I was thinking about that too with Kumail. If anyone, I'd be down with him being Salim.
Johnny's old friends wreck Salim's (Derrick Branche) car in an act of revenge for his hurting one of their own.
Aziz: Lmao no he's too fucking goofy!
Nooreen: If he's Omar I'm defs OUT.
Aziz: Imagine Kumail stepping on Omar's face.
Nooreen: Dude Salim was a clown!
Aziz: Making that angry little face. You can't put that shit on TV.
Nooreen: LOL, that scene where he's wearing that dumb showercap.
Aziz: I was so confused, and like impressed at his confidence because I don't believe he took it off in his interaction with Omar.
Nooreen: Manspreading in a towel…
Aziz: That was…
Nooreen: Such uncle behavior!
Aziz: Oof, too much.
Omar and Johnny, with "the women of the family" in the background. Image via YouTube.
Nooreen: The other big part of this that has to be adapted are of course the romantic storylines.
Aziz: Yeah yeah, no way they hook Omar up with the first cousin [Tania] in 2018; they'll bring in new characters in a series too.
Nooreen: lol yeah.
Aziz: Don't worry he won't recreate The Big Sick in this. I know you're thinking it—
Nooreen: Won't he though?
Aziz: No the mistress will be white…
Nooreen: Just with a male Zoe Kazan; "1400 year old culture"…
Aziz: lmao
Nooreen: Burn some photos of Tania… brown girl bonfire…
Aziz: Yo Tania was wild! Can we talk about Tania?
Nooreen: Yes, I think we should talk about the gender politics more deeply. There are basically four speaking female characters, but more like two who have actually storylines. How do you feel about the place the film situates women in the "immigrant experience?" It's also important to note there's a ghost woman character, Omar's mom.
Aziz: Hmmmmm.
Nooreen: I think about Tania specifically. I've come around to feeling that she did actually have a fair amount of depth as a character, but I think her motivations weren't given due time and exploration. Ultimately the women's actions are dictated by, or as a reaction to, the behavior of the men around them. Hers included.
Aziz: So my thing is, personally, I think we have to also judge the film within the context that it was made, specifically the 1980s. You can absolutely use this film as a criticism of how women + immigrants + female immigrant experience is portrayed. But at the same time, from my (albeit limited) research and opinion, this film was notable for (a) having a gay character of color, (b) a movie about brown people that wasn't fixated around arranged marriages in the context of relationships.
Tania (Rita Wolf) tries to break in to the men's world. Image via YouTube.
Nooreen: Yeah, I think that's a valid point.
Aziz: I 100% understand and empathize the argument and need for better representation, but I also think in the context of a 90 minute film, there are priorities in character development. Because if you try to unravel and give everyone a back story–you'll have a TV show, which in the case is good because there will be one. At the same time, I see your point, yes all the women's actions were at the whim of male actions, but in a way, could you argue that that is a somewhat accurate representation of how women were/are treated in many a immigrant household? Specifically in the 80s? With all that said, I think that Kumail absolutely cannot ignore or silence the story lines of women, because one of the best parts about TV vs movies, in my opinion, is the ability to really build out a number of characters and create storylines and nuance to said characters.
Nooreen: Yeah, I think that's true. On the scale of a film, it is very much a man's world. I suppose I automatically question the notion of limitations of structure when it comes to things like this because at the root of it is more likely not a lack of scope or time for a male filmmaker, but lack of interest. Or the greater ability to get away with using women as archetypes: "Scorned wife, hapless mistress, righteous daughter."
Aziz: In a way–and not that this erases any of the issues of how they are portrayed–I thought having Tania pack up and leave is a total move.
Nooreen: Yeah, giving her agency in that moment to say fuck all of you is powerful. Points for that. Let's see if/how many women/LGBTQ writers are on Kumail's production team.
Aziz: Overall though, I'm into it. Movie was goofy and cheesy but I like it, I'm curious as to what sort of modern treatment this will get in terms of the plotline. I'm confident dialogue and acting will be less goofy.
Nooreen: Yes, I agree…well, yes, I do. lol. I am curious for sure and will try to be open-minded about it. They should keep the oversized jumpers.
Aziz: Always.

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Little 'samurai' fighter beats the odds
By Valerie HauchStaff Reporter
He came into the world with a tumour larger than his head. But Kaito wouldn't even be here if his parents had listened to doctors advising them to terminate the pregnancy.
The little boy, whose name means "strong samurai'' in Japanese, not only survived but is a thriving 4-and-a-half-month-old baby about to celebrate his first Christmas.
His mother, Tamami Suzuki, and father, Charles Kryvenchuk, both say the little boy with big hazel eyes more than lives up to his name.
"He's the champ, he was the one who fought to come to term, he's the one who fought after the surgery to stay alive . . . he fought and he fought and he fought — he is his name,'' says Kryvenchuk of his son, who now weighs a healthy 12 lbs.
When he was delivered during a unique surgical procedure on Aug. 5 at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital, he weighed 7 1/2 lbs., but 1 1/2 lbs. of that weight was due to the rare cervical teratoma, a non-cancerous tumour on the side of his neck and head.
A week later, a special Sick Kids Hospital team of ear, nose and throat surgeons, plastic surgeons, nerve specialist, anesthetists and nurses successfully separated the tumour from Kaito.
This week his parents described the emotional roller-coaster they rode to get there, a story with painful recollections that still bring tears to Suzuki's eyes but ultimately ends with smiles as the couple looks at a squirmy, gurgling Kaito watching his sister, Reina, 2, play in a small hospital room.
Their journey began at an ultrasound clinic in Ottawa, where the couple resides. Suzuki, 33, was 17 weeks into her second pregnancy.
"I felt fine — I had a big appetite,'' recalled Suzuki, who met Kryvenchuk, 39, an architectural technician, in Vancouver in 2005 while she was visiting from Japan.
It was supposed to be a routine ultrasound, but that quickly changed. The obstetrician gave them the devastating news that the baby had a cervical teratoma and probably wouldn't make it to term. Canadian hospitals didn't handle these sorts of births, they were told. Their "best option" was to terminate or abort.
"Your emotions are running through the roof when you hear something like this — what do you say when you're told your baby has to be terminated?" says Kryvenchuk.
When the distraught couple got home they went online and began doing their own research. Almost all online references to babies born with this sort of tumour (one in 40,000-50,000 live births) involved U.S. facilities.
One reference led Kryvenchuk to Children's Hospital Boston, where medical professionals told him babies with this type of tumour can be delivered through what is called an EXIT (ex utero intrapartum treatment) procedure.
When they heard about this special procedure, they felt a surge of hope.
Because the tumour tends to be so large, it makes it impossible for a newborn to breathe upon birth. The EXIT procedure involves delivering the baby by Caesarean section, but while the baby is still attached to the mother through the umbilical cord, a surgeon establishes an airway. Once that is done, the cord is cut and the baby is delivered.
The couple had a "termination conversation'' when they got home following the ultrasound, but decided they couldn't end the pregnancy.
"We decided we couldn't live with ourselves terminating the life we created, not knowing whether we terminated a baby that would have been fine,'' said Kryvenchuk, his wife nodding in agreement.
On March 30, they had a meeting with an Ottawa geneticist. The fetus was tested for other abnormalities and again, the topic of "termination'' came up. But the tests all came back negative, offering more hope.
Kryvenchuk's brother, who lives in Toronto, had spoken with a specialist he knew at Sick Kids, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon known as Dr. Andrew Howard, who told him doctors there could help.
Kryvenchuk fired off an email to Howard, who spoke to Dr. Vito Forte, the hospital's chief of otolaryngology and Dr. Jack Langer, chief of surgery. Since Sick Kids, a pediatric hospital, does not do EXIT procedures, Langer brought in Mount Sinai's Dr. Greg Ryan, head of its fetal medicine unit.
By May 5 the couple had an appointment with Ryan for an assessment, ultrasound and a lengthy discussion about the risks and possibility of surgery.
"By the end of that we didn't look back, we only looked forward," said Kryvenchuk. "He showed us, on the ultrasound, the potential was there (for the tumour) to be removed without a problem.''
The location of the tumour — the side of the neck rather than over the face — also made it more optimum for removal from a cosmetic viewpoint.
It was decided: Mount Sinai, which only performs about one procedure a year in which a baby's airway could be obstructed, would deliver the baby using the EXIT procedure. Once Kaito was stabilized, he would be transferred across the street to Sick Kids where the tumour would be removed.
More than a dozen members of a specialized medical team were involved in Kaito's birth on Aug. 5 and the EXIT procedure went smoothly. The tumour had been putting pressure on his airway, so a tube was inserted into the newborn's trachea. By keeping the uterus quiet and placenta and cord intact, surgeons were able to buy time needed to correct the breathing problem.
"It took about two or three minutes to establish an airway," said Mount Sinai's Ryan. It took about seven minutes from the time Kaito was delivered to the time the umbilical cord was cut.
One of the important steps before Kaito's tumour could be removed was getting x-rays so doctors could view a clear image of the extensive network of veins feeding the mass.
The day before surgery, one of those major blood vessels had to be closed off.
Then, on Aug. 12, a medical team led by Dr. Paolo Campisi, a pediatric ear, nose and throat specialist, worked for six consecutive hours to cut away the tumour, which ran along the left side of Kaito's neck, side of his head and up to the ear canal. Plastic surgeons also reconstructed part of his ear lobe that was missing.
"The main risk was blood loss and injury to nerves,'' says Campisi, who had performed a couple of cervical teratomas at Sick Kids before Kaito's. The tumour, he adds, was fed by a "rich blood supply'' and tying off those veins "one by one was quite painstaking."
Five months later, Kaito has minimal scarring. There is some nerve damage on the left side of his face and some muscle on his neck, which may require future surgery. His left eye does not fully close, and he has a bit of a crooked smile. But he is an otherwise healthy little boy.
Kryvenchuk and Suzuki have nothing but praise for the medical team at the two hospitals. Their pride, however, they save for Kaito.
"I can't think of life without him," says Kryvenchuk. Speaking for the two of them, he adds: "He's a part of me, of her."


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Abroad DW: NATO allies clash as Turkey attacks US-backed Kurds in Syria
DW: NATO allies clash as Turkey attacks US-backed Kurds in Syria
Germany's Deutsche Welle (DW) wrote on Tuesday that Turkish military offensive against US-allied militias in the Afrin region of northern Syria is putting NATO in a difficult position. "As tensions between the NATO allies escalate, analysts wonder how far Ankara is prepared to go," said DW.
Stating that NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller's trip to Ankara on Monday provoked heightened interest, given that NATO's two largest armies stand on opposite sides in the operation, DW underlined that NATO officials in Brussels stressed that Gottemoeller was not in Ankara because of the heightened tensions between Turkey and the US, nor would she be playing any kind of mediation role in the dispute.
"But many analysts say the standoff in Afrin is hotter than it looks," wrote the German news outlet and stated that "The influential Soufan Group, a US-based security intelligence strategy firm, said in its latest brief that the Turkish action is an example of the new coalition between Turkey, Russia and Iran, which are 'united in a desire to block US interests in the country.' The US will have to back down or ratchet up the conflict with its NATO ally Ankara, the Soufan Group suggests."
Marc Pierini, a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe, who also served as the European Union's ambassador there from 2006 to 2011, told DW the Turkish President appears to be sacrificing what little goodwill there may be remaining in Europe for his own political aims. "Essentially it's putting Turkey at odds with NATO in terms of how allies operate between themselves," he said. "That's the main effect. But I guess the risk is perfectly understood in Ankara and it's the price to pay to control the political scene."
Flexing military muscle in the assault on the Kurdish YPG fighters in Syria will likely go down well among Turks, Pierini explained to DW. "It helps immensely in ramping up the nationalist narrative at home," he said. Erdoğan has created a "huge operation to crush a somewhat small threat" which likely could have been resolved diplomatically, he added. But, sounding a note of warning, Pierini said the problem is that "nobody knows when and where it will end."
DW has also reminded that on the diplomatic front, Erdoğan has not yet moved beyond calls he made last week for NATO to criticize US support for the Kurdish YPG forces in Syria. He has not instructed his diplomats to reiterate that demand at alliance headquarters, and NATO sources say Turkey has not initiated any briefings on its military action in northern Syria.
However, in New York, the UN Security Council on Monday refrained from condemning the offensive or calling for its end. In Brussels, meanwhile, the issue has not been added as a formal agenda item for Wednesday's weekly North Atlantic Council meeting.
On Tuesday, a US delegation is having talks in Ankara after Turkey launched a military operation into Syria's Afrin province. The delegation, led by Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Jonathan Cohen and officials from the Department of Defense, are in Ankara for talks as part of a joint working group that meets periodically.
According to a report by Hürriyet daily news, they are meeting in the Foreign Ministry with their Turkish partners headed by Ahmet Muhtar Gün, deputy secretary of the ministry. The working group's agenda includes a number of issues that have led to tension in bilateral relations in recent months including the visa crisis and ongoing investigations of US consular staff.
In another meeting in the afternoon, US Department of Defense officials, headed by Cohen, will discuss the "struggle against terrorism" at the General Staff, where the Turkish side will brief them about the ongoing military operation. In Ankara, the U.S. delegation is expected to make a detailed presentation on their military plans for Syria.
TURKISH JETS STRIKE PKK TARGETS IN NORTHERN IRAQ
Meanwhile, Turkish jets have also destroyed shelters and weapon emplacements of the outlawed PKK in northern Iraq, the Turkish military announced on Tuesday. According to the Turkish General Staff, the airstrikes targeted PKK camps in the Upper Zab region when PKK militants were preparing for an attack against military posts and bases located at the border line.
Airstrikes on PKK targets in northern Iraq, where the PKK has its main base in the Qandil region, near the Iranian border, have been carried out regularly since July 2015, when the PKK resumed its armed campaign. The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey as well as the US and EU. In its terror campaign against Turkey, which has lasted for more than three decades, over 40,000 people have been killed.
Qatar's Foreign Ministry said on Monday that Turkey's counterterrorist operation in Syria's Afrin region was motivated by legitimate security concerns. "The launching of the Turkish military operation last Saturday was motivated by legitimate concerns related to its national security and the security of its borders, in addition to protecting Syria's territorial integrity from the danger of secession," Qatar's official QNA news agency quoted ministry spokesperson Lulwah Rashid Al Khater as saying.
"Turkey, a NATO member, has always been a stabilizing factor in the region," she said. Al Khater added that Qatar is "fully confident of the Turkish Republic's keenness to preserve the safety of civilians and the unity of Syrian territory".
On Monday evening sympathisers of the PYD/PKK attacked Turkish citizens at Germany's Hannover airport Monday after a verbal confrontation over Turkey's military operation in northwest Syria. German police said dozens of protestors and passengers clashed after sympathizers of the PYD/PKK attempted to hold an unauthorized demonstration at the airport.
Multiple videos posted on social media showed the pro-PYD/PKK protestors shouting anti-Turkey slogans and punching Turkish passengers following a verbal exchange. Hannover police said officers had to use pepper spray to prevent further clashes and later opened a criminal investigation against a number of suspects. At least two people were slightly injured during the brawl.
Supporters of the PYD/PKK have organized demonstrations in various German cities to protest Turkey's ongoing military operation against the terrorist group's targets in northwest Syria.
Human rights situation in parts of Syria under Turkish control is grim: UN rights chief
Turkish-backed Syrian rebels may have carried out torture, rape and looting: UN


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Everyone at some point in their lives goes through a lavender phase. I remember mine was in jr. high and into high school where most of my clothes, and my room, was covered in various tones of lavender. It is such an easy color to love and looks great on a variety of skin tones. While researching and choosing gowns to feature in this post, I was delighted to see so many examples from a variety of time periods. It seems woman through out the past two hundred years have also seen the appeal that lavender has to offer.
While two of the three are trimmed in darker purple tones, they are overall wonderful examples of lavender gowns. With so many beautiful examples, it was (as usual) hard to choose ones to highlight, so as always, make sure to hop over to my Pinterest Page to see more gowns.
Looking for a modern lavender gown to wear now? My favorite right now is this long maxi dress from ModCloth. Absolutely gorgeous!!
Lavender is a lovely color and I think it's prefect for spring because it's colorful but not too over powering as summer colors can be. It also a color that can occasionally show up in winter because of it's cool tones. Thanks for sharing these wonderful lavender examples.
Thank you so much! I am glad you enjoyed it and I completely agree about the lovely tone of lavender!


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How Pat Summitt, a High School Basketball Player, and a Legal Team Changed the Game
Author(s): Haltom, Bill and Amanda Swanson
Imprint: University of Tennessee Press
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"This book is a three-point shot of basketball, law, and women's history. With a lawyer's eye for detail and a storyteller's wit, this book weaves the story of two women—and two fathers—who ultimately would change the sport of basketball for girls in the state of Tennessee." —Maria M. Cornelius, author of The Final Season: The Perseverance of Pat Summitt
"Full Court Press speaks to everyone engaged in sports in the post-Title IX era. It's a fast-paced story of a determined female high school basketball player who fought to change rules so that girls could play the same game as boys. The courtroom scene comes to a climactic finish with the testimony of a young Coach Pat Head Summitt, beginning her long career as an advocate of fairness for all." —Jenny Moshak, author of Ice 'n' Go: Score in Sports and Life
"What a nice description of the progression of women's basketball in the 1970s! Bill Haltom and Amanda Swanson paint a very accurate picture of the environment in women's athletics at that time in this new book."—from the Foreword
When Victoria Cape moved to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in the early 1970s, she had no idea that her desire to play basketball would change the game for women and the sport in Tennessee. Encouraged to sign up for basketball by her athletic father, Victoria was in for a shock: the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association endorsed an entirely different form of the game for high school women than the version of basketball commonly played around the country. Women played six-on-six basketball, in which offensive players stayed on one half of the court, and defensive players on the other half—defenders could spend their entire careers without taking a shot. Victoria Cape sued the TSSAA, and her lawsuit paved the way for women to play basketball by the same rules as men and served as an early test case of groundbreaking Title IX legislation. Further adding to the case's history-making précis was the presence of a young Pat Summitt, recently elevated to head coach of the Tennessee Lady Volunteers, who bravely testified on behalf of Cape during the lawsuit.
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Bill Haltom is an attorney with the firm of Lewis Thomason in Memphis, Tennessee. A practicing attorney for four decades, he has served as the president of the Tennessee Bar Association and the Memphis Bar Association. He has been an award-winning newspaper columnist and has written six books, including The Other Fellow May Be Right, a biography of the late Tennessee Senator Howard Baker.
Amanda Swanson worked as women's basketball operations assistant at Mount St. Joseph University and is currently a law student at the University of Virginia.


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package com.jcsanchez.hans.model;

import com.google.gson.annotations.Expose;
import com.google.gson.annotations.SerializedName;

public class Bot {

    @SerializedName("name")
    @Expose
    private String name;
    @SerializedName("alias")
    @Expose
    private String alias;
    @SerializedName("version")
    @Expose
    private String version;

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public String getAlias() {
        return alias;
    }

    public void setAlias(String alias) {
        this.alias = alias;
    }

    public String getVersion() {
        return version;
    }

    public void setVersion(String version) {
        this.version = version;
    }

}

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Q: vtables - Why does this work(binary compatibility of C and C++ under COM)? I was trying to test my understanding of COM and realized that when I tried calling a C++ object with a pure C interface(with vtables and this pointer as first argument), it wasn't working as expected because my compiler uses thiscall to pass "this" argument of the method in the ecx register, rather than on the stack(so when C++ tried to call my method through reinterpreted interface, it didn't know what "this" was), so C cannot call C++ methods in x86 without inline assembly to pass/accept the first argument via ecx.
I made a very simple COM component to test this binary compatibility. I made a simple Visual Basic class that I wanted to call with both IDispatch C++ abstract class pointer, and an IDispatch pure C class pointer(with a single member lpVtbl);
<System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComVisible(True)>
Public Class Greeter
    Public Sub Greet()
        MsgBox("Hey!")
    End Sub
End Class

The code goes as follows
stdafx.h:
#pragma once

#include "targetver.h"

#include <stdio.h>
#include <tchar.h>
#include <Windows.h>
#include <assert.h>

main.cpp
#include "stdafx.h"

typedef struct {
        BEGIN_INTERFACE

        HRESULT ( STDMETHODCALLTYPE *QueryInterface )(
            __RPC__in struct c_IDispatch * This,
            /* [in] */ __RPC__in REFIID riid,
            /* [annotation][iid_is][out] */
            _COM_Outptr_  void **ppvObject);

        ULONG ( STDMETHODCALLTYPE *AddRef )(
            __RPC__in struct c_IDispatch * This);

        ULONG ( STDMETHODCALLTYPE *Release )(
            __RPC__in struct c_IDispatch * This);

        HRESULT ( STDMETHODCALLTYPE *GetTypeInfoCount )(
            __RPC__in struct c_IDispatch * This,
            /* [out] */ __RPC__out UINT *pctinfo);

        HRESULT ( STDMETHODCALLTYPE *GetTypeInfo )(
            __RPC__in struct c_IDispatch * This,
            /* [in] */ UINT iTInfo,
            /* [in] */ LCID lcid,
            /* [out] */ __RPC__deref_out_opt ITypeInfo **ppTInfo);

        HRESULT ( STDMETHODCALLTYPE *GetIDsOfNames )(
            __RPC__in struct c_IDispatch * This,
            /* [in] */ __RPC__in REFIID riid,
            /* [size_is][in] */ __RPC__in_ecount_full(cNames) LPOLESTR *rgszNames,
            /* [range][in] */ __RPC__in_range(0,16384) UINT cNames,
            /* [in] */ LCID lcid,
            /* [size_is][out] */ __RPC__out_ecount_full(cNames) DISPID *rgDispId);

        /* [local] */ HRESULT ( STDMETHODCALLTYPE *Invoke )(
            struct c_IDispatch * This,
            /* [annotation][in] */
            _In_  DISPID dispIdMember,
            /* [annotation][in] */
            _In_  REFIID riid,
            /* [annotation][in] */
            _In_  LCID lcid,
            /* [annotation][in] */
            _In_  WORD wFlags,
            /* [annotation][out][in] */
            _In_  DISPPARAMS *pDispParams,
            /* [annotation][out] */
            _Out_opt_  VARIANT *pVarResult,
            /* [annotation][out] */
            _Out_opt_  EXCEPINFO *pExcepInfo,
            /* [annotation][out] */
            _Out_opt_  UINT *puArgErr);

        END_INTERFACE
} c_IDispatchVtbl;

typedef struct c_IDispatch {
    c_IDispatchVtbl *lpVtbl;
} c_IDispatch;

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
    CoInitialize(NULL);

    IDispatch *x = nullptr;
    CLSID c1;
    DISPID dispid_Greeter_Greet;
    LPOLESTR name = L"Greet";
    assert(SUCCEEDED(CLSIDFromProgID(L"Dmitry.Greeter", &c1)));
    CoCreateInstance(c1, NULL, CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER, IID_IDispatch, (LPVOID*)&x);

    assert(SUCCEEDED(x->GetIDsOfNames(IID_NULL, &name, 1, LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT, &dispid_Greeter_Greet)));

    DISPPARAMS params;
    ZeroMemory(&params, sizeof(params));
    assert(SUCCEEDED(x->Invoke(dispid_Greeter_Greet, IID_NULL, LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT, DISPATCH_METHOD, &params
        , NULL, NULL, NULL)));

    c_IDispatch *y = *(c_IDispatch **)&x;

    assert(SUCCEEDED(y->lpVtbl->Invoke(y, dispid_Greeter_Greet, IID_NULL, LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT, DISPATCH_METHOD, &params
        , NULL, NULL, NULL)));
    return 0;
}

to my surprise, both calls succeed even though IDispatch uses thiscall, whereas c_IDispatch doesn't.
Here's the disassembly:
int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
013F1412  add         dword ptr [ebx],esi
013F1414  lds         ecx,fword ptr [ecx-0B7403BBh]
    CoInitialize(NULL);
013F141A  push        0
013F141C  call        dword ptr ds:[13FA360h]
013F1422  cmp         esi,esp
013F1424  call        __RTC_CheckEsp (013F115Eh)

    IDispatch *x = nullptr;
013F1429  mov         dword ptr [x],0
    CLSID c1;
    DISPID dispid_Greeter_Greet;
    LPOLESTR name = L"Greet";
013F1430  mov         dword ptr [name],13F5858h
    assert(SUCCEEDED(CLSIDFromProgID(L"Dmitry.Greeter", &c1)));
013F1437  mov         esi,esp
013F1439  lea         eax,[c1]
013F143C  push        eax
013F143D  push        13F5868h
013F1442  call        dword ptr ds:[13FA364h]
013F1448  cmp         esi,esp
013F144A  call        __RTC_CheckEsp (013F115Eh)
013F144F  test        eax,eax
013F1451  jge         wmain+89h (013F1479h)
013F1453  mov         ecx,dword ptr ds:[13F9000h]
013F1459  ?? ??
013F145A  ?? ??
013F145B  ?? ??
013F145C  ?? ??
013F145D  ?? ??
013F145E  ?? ??
013F145F  ?? ??
013F1460  ?? ??
013F1461  ?? ??
013F1462  ?? ??
013F1463  ?? ??
013F1464  ?? ??
013F1465  ?? ??
013F1466  ?? ??
013F1467  ?? ??
013F1468  ?? ??
013F1469  ?? ??
013F146A  ?? ??
013F146B  ?? ??
013F146C  ?? ??
013F146D  ?? ??
013F146E  ?? ??
013F146F  ?? ??
013F1470  ?? ??
013F1471  ?? ??
013F1472  ?? ??
013F1473  ?? ??
013F1474  ?? ??
013F1475  ?? ??
013F1476  ?? ??
013F1477  ?? ??
013F1478  ?? ??
013F1479  ?? ??
013F147A  ?? ??
013F147B  ?? ??
    CoCreateInstance(c1, NULL, CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER, IID_IDispatch, (LPVOID*)&x);
013F147C  inc         ebp
013F147D  ?? ??
013F147E  ?? ??
013F147F  ?? ??
013F1480  ?? ??
013F1481  ?? ??
013F1482  ?? ??
013F1483  ?? ??
013F1484  ?? ??
013F1485  ?? ??
013F1486  ?? ??
013F1487  ?? ??
013F1488  ?? ??
013F1489  ?? ??
013F148A  ?? ??
013F148B  ?? ??
013F148C  ?? ??
013F148D  ?? ??
013F148E  ?? ??
    CoCreateInstance(c1, NULL, CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER, IID_IDispatch, (LPVOID*)&x);
013F148F  mov         dword ptr ds:[F43B013Fh],eax
013F1494  call        __RTC_CheckEsp (013F115Eh)

    assert(SUCCEEDED(x->GetIDsOfNames(IID_NULL, &name, 1, LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT, &dispid_Greeter_Greet)));
013F1499  mov         esi,esp
013F149B  lea         eax,[dispid_Greeter_Greet]
013F149E  push        eax
013F149F  push        800h
013F14A4  push        1
013F14A6  lea         ecx,[name]
013F14A9  push        ecx
013F14AA  push        13F64B4h
013F14AF  mov         edx,dword ptr [x]
013F14B2  mov         eax,dword ptr [edx]
013F14B4  mov         ecx,dword ptr [x]
013F14B7  push        ecx
013F14B8  mov         edx,dword ptr [eax+14h]
013F14BB  call        edx
013F14BD  cmp         esi,esp
013F14BF  call        __RTC_CheckEsp (013F115Eh)
013F14C4  test        eax,eax
013F14C6  jge         wmain+0FDh (013F14EDh)
013F14C8  mov         eax,dword ptr ds:[013F9000h]
013F14CD  add         eax,0Ah
013F14D0  mov         esi,esp
013F14D2  push        eax
013F14D3  push        13F5890h
013F14D8  push        13F5A38h
013F14DD  call        dword ptr ds:[13FA30Ch]
013F14E3  add         esp,0Ch
013F14E6  cmp         esi,esp
013F14E8  call        __RTC_CheckEsp (013F115Eh)

    DISPPARAMS params;
    ZeroMemory(&params, sizeof(params));
013F14ED  push        10h

    DISPPARAMS params;
    ZeroMemory(&params, sizeof(params));
013F14EF  push        0
013F14F1  lea         eax,[params]
013F14F4  push        eax
013F14F5  call        _memset (013F1087h)
013F14FA  add         esp,0Ch
    assert(SUCCEEDED(x->Invoke(dispid_Greeter_Greet, IID_NULL, LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT, DISPATCH_METHOD, &params
        , NULL, NULL, NULL)));
013F14FD  mov         esi,esp
013F14FF  push        0
013F1501  push        0
013F1503  push        0
013F1505  lea         eax,[params]
013F1508  push        eax
013F1509  push        1
013F150B  push        800h
013F1510  push        13F64B4h
013F1515  mov         ecx,dword ptr [dispid_Greeter_Greet]
013F1518  push        ecx
013F1519  mov         edx,dword ptr [x]
013F151C  mov         eax,dword ptr [edx]
013F151E  mov         ecx,dword ptr [x]
013F1521  push        ecx
013F1522  mov         edx,dword ptr [eax+18h]
013F1525  call        edx
013F1527  cmp         esi,esp
013F1529  call        __RTC_CheckEsp (013F115Eh)
013F152E  test        eax,eax
013F1530  jge         wmain+167h (013F1557h)
013F1532  mov         eax,dword ptr ds:[013F9000h]
013F1537  add         eax,0Fh
013F153A  mov         esi,esp
    assert(SUCCEEDED(x->Invoke(dispid_Greeter_Greet, IID_NULL, LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT, DISPATCH_METHOD, &params
        , NULL, NULL, NULL)));
013F153C  push        eax
013F153D  push        13F5890h
013F1542  push        13F5B20h
013F1547  call        dword ptr ds:[13FA30Ch]
013F154D  add         esp,0Ch
013F1550  cmp         esi,esp
013F1552  call        __RTC_CheckEsp (013F115Eh)

    c_IDispatch *y = *(c_IDispatch **)&x;
013F1557  mov         eax,dword ptr [x]
013F155A  mov         dword ptr [y],eax

    assert(SUCCEEDED(y->lpVtbl->Invoke(y, dispid_Greeter_Greet, IID_NULL, LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT, DISPATCH_METHOD, &params
        , NULL, NULL, NULL)));
013F155D  mov         esi,esp
013F155F  push        0
013F1561  push        0
013F1563  push        0
013F1565  lea         eax,[params]
013F1568  push        eax
013F1569  push        1
013F156B  push        800h
013F1570  push        13F64B4h
013F1575  mov         ecx,dword ptr [dispid_Greeter_Greet]
013F1578  push        ecx
013F1579  mov         edx,dword ptr [y]
013F157C  push        edx
013F157D  mov         eax,dword ptr [y]
013F1580  mov         ecx,dword ptr [eax]
013F1582  mov         edx,dword ptr [ecx+18h]
013F1585  call        edx
013F1587  cmp         esi,esp
013F1589  call        __RTC_CheckEsp (013F115Eh)
013F158E  test        eax,eax
013F1590  jge         wmain+1C7h (013F15B7h)
013F1592  mov         eax,dword ptr ds:[013F9000h]
013F1597  add         eax,14h
013F159A  mov         esi,esp
013F159C  push        eax
013F159D  push        13F5890h
013F15A2  push        13F7B20h
013F15A7  call        dword ptr ds:[13FA30Ch]
013F15AD  add         esp,0Ch
013F15B0  cmp         esi,esp
013F15B2  call        __RTC_CheckEsp (013F115Eh)
    return 0;
013F15B7  xor         eax,eax
}
013F15B9  push        edx
013F15BA  mov         ecx,ebp
013F15BC  push        eax
013F15BD  lea         edx,ds:[13F15E8h]
013F15C3  call        @_RTC_CheckStackVars@8 (013F10A0h)
013F15C8  pop         eax
013F15C9  pop         edx
013F15CA  pop         edi
013F15CB  pop         esi
013F15CC  pop         ebx
013F15CD  mov         ecx,dword ptr [ebp-4]
013F15D0  xor         ecx,ebp
013F15D2  call        @__security_check_cookie@4 (013F101Eh)
013F15D7  add         esp,124h
013F15DD  cmp         ebp,esp
013F15DF  call        __RTC_CheckEsp (013F115Eh)
013F15E4  mov         esp,ebp
013F15E6  pop         ebp
013F15E7  ret

Can someone please explain why both calls succeed despite having different calling conventions(one convention passes this via stack, the second passes this via ecx)?

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There was very little investigation. Just a number of emails from people griping about this place, a little poking around the DOB's web site and common sense.
At a recent CB10 meeting illegal SROs and illegal hotels were discussed. Apparently there is a law on the books with something to do with fire code: Two people per available legal bedroom.
It was suggested at that CB10 meeting that a combo of reaching out to the DOB (which is as useful as pineapple 200 underwater) and reaching out to the FDNY should be done in these cases.
The thought is that people usually allow a group of uniformed firemen into their place when asked. FDNY makes an inspection, sees extreme illegal use that goes against fire code and goes about getting an eviction ASAP.


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Islamic extremists slit throat of Christian for refusing to renounce faith
By Ted on June 29, 2013 in General
From Ken Hanley:
Radical Islamists in Nigeria have upped their fight for power in recent weeks, expanding their attacks on government forces to local citizens — one of the latest involving a Christian pastor who refused to renounce his faith.
In response, Boko Haram militants slit his throat, The Blaze reported.
The Nigerian newspaper The Daily Post reported that terrorists launched a coordinated attack a couple weeks ago on churches in several communities, ultimately killing the Rev. Jacob Kwiza of the Church of Christ while he picked mangoes in Hwa'a.
A witness told The Post: "As the gunmen threw some explosives at our church, they forced the retired Reverend to renounced Christianity and be converted to Islam, but Rev. Jacob defied the gunmen's threats of being killed, as he insisted on being a Christian among his people on the hills of Hwa'a. They slit his throat with sharp objects and we started to flee for safety, as we don't know the next target of these gunmen."
The militant group is also to blame for a couple of daytime mass shootings at schools. The first incident occurred two weeks ago at Ansarudeen Private School after militants found students in the middle of taking unauthorized exams, The Associated Press reported. The terrorists killed nine and sent six to the hospital with gunshot injuries, a local doctor said. A couple hours later, militants attacked the Government Secondary School, killing seven seniors and two teachers. Two of the militants also were killed after a shootout with law enforcement that lasted five hours.
The government has declared a state of emergency in roughly 60,000 square miles of the nation. And civilians are being warned to be on the watch.
"Today, there are no boundaries and they are targeting the civilian population in a way that shows Nigeria is at a dangerous turning point," said Comfort Ero, a program director for the International Crisis Group, in The Blaze.
The World Policy Institute reported that Boko Haram is funded in part by bank robberies and by contributions from al Qaeda groups in Africa.
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WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday after a series of public rifts over policy on North Korea, Russia and Iran, replacing his chief diplomat with loyalist CIA Director Mike Pompeo.
The biggest shakeup of Trump's Cabinet since he took office in January 2017 was announced by the president on Twitter as his administration works toward a meeting with North Korea's leader.
Some foreign policy experts expressed dismay at the decision to swap out top diplomats so soon before the unprecedented meeting and worried that Pompeo would encourage Trump to scrap the Iran nuclear deal and be hawkish on North Korea.
Critics said the move would sow more instability in the volatile Trump administration and marks the departure of another moderate who sought to emphasize the United States' strong ties to its allies amid Trump's criticism. Last week, top economic adviser Gary Cohn quit after Trump announced trade tariffs that would affect U.S. allies.
Later at the State Department, a visibly emotional Tillerson said Trump called him around noon from Air Force One and that he had also spoken with White House Chief of Staff John Kelly.
Tillerson had developed a strong relationship with Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, and the two were seen as a moderating influence on some of Trump's policies.
"I'm told for the first time in most people's memory the Department of State and the Department of Defense have a close working relationship where we all agree the U.S. leadership starts with diplomacy," he said.
Pompeo, a former Army officer who represented a Kansas district in the House of Representatives before taking the CIA job, is seen as a Trump loyalist who has enjoyed a less hostile relationship with career spies than Tillerson had with career diplomats.
Trump chose the Central Intelligence Agency's deputy director, Gina Haspel, to replace Pompeo at the CIA. A veteran CIA clandestine officer, Haspel is backed by many in the U.S. intelligence community but is regarded warily by some in Congress for her involvement in the agency's "black site" detention facilities.
Senior White House officials said Trump wanted his new team in place before any summit with Kim Jong Un, who invited the U.S. president to meet by May after months of escalating tensions over North Korea's nuclear and missile programs.
Tillerson's imminent departure had been rumored for several months, and Trump said he and Tillerson had discussed the move. State Department officials said Tillerson did not know why he was being pushed out and had intended to stay. One of them was fired later on Tuesday.
Foreign policy experts from Republican and Democratic administrations also questioned Trump's timing and choice, noting that Pompeo was known as a political partisan who strongly opposed the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
"Tillerson's replacement by … Pompeo, who is known as a political partisan and an opponent of the Iran agreement, raises the prospect of the collapse of that deal, and increases the possibility that the administration might soon face not one, but two nuclear crises," he said.
Senior White House officials said Chief of Staff Kelly had asked Tillerson to step down on Friday but did not want to make it public while he was on a trip to Africa. Trump's Twitter announcement came only a few hours after Tillerson landed in Washington.
Tillerson appeared to be caught by surprise last week when Trump announced he had accepted Kim's invitation to meet and the secretary of state cut short his trip.
Tillerson joined a long list of senior officials who have either resigned or been fired since Trump took office. Others include strategist Steve Bannon, national security adviser Michael Flynn, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, health secretary Tom Price, communications directors Hope Hicks and Anthony Scaramucci, economic adviser Gary Cohn and press secretary Sean Spicer.
In December, Tillerson had offered to begin direct talks with North Korea without preconditions, backing away from a U.S. demand that Pyongyang must accept that any negotiations would be about giving up its nuclear arsenal.
The White House distanced itself from those remarks, and a few days later Tillerson himself backed off.
Several months earlier in Beijing, Tillerson said the United States was directly communicating with North Korea but that Pyongyang had shown no interest in dialogue. Trump contradicted Tillerson's efforts a day later.
Lawmakers from both major parties have criticized those cuts and the administration's failure to fill dozens of open jobs there.
But over time, many lawmakers grew to appreciate Tillerson as a relatively steady hand in the chaotic Trump administration.
"He represented a stable view with regard to the implementation of diplomacy in North Korea, Iran and other places in the world," said Senator Ben Cardin, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during most of Tillerson's tenure.


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Our manuscript, "Visual and linguistic narrative comprehension in autism spectrum disorders: Neural evidence for modality-independent impairments", has been accepted for publication in Brain and Language! many thanks to my fantastic colleagues, and especially Dr. Neil Cohn, for all of their hard work, More information, and a link to the in-press article, coming soon to the Publications page.
I'm happy to announce that I, along with my undergraduate student Elizabeth O'Donnell and my colleague Neil Cohn, will be presenting some preliminary work on visual narratives in individuals with ASD in a symposium at this summer's Cognitive Science Society in Madison, Wisconsin. The full symposium is titled "The cognitive systems of visual and multimodal narratives." Our paper is titled "The Roles of Semantic Relatedness and Narrative Structure in Narrative Comprehension in Individuals with ASD," and investigates semantic and syntactic processing of visual narratives in individuals with ASD.
I'm happy to announce that my article in the Journal of Visualized Experiments, "A semantic priming event-related potential (ERP) task to study lexico-semantic and visuo-semantic processing in autism spectrum disorder," has been published and the video is available for viewing! The video, and corresponding manuscript, are available here: http://www.jove.com/video/57217. Also a special thanks to my Research Assistant, Emme O'Rourke, for demonstrating the equipment! Enjoy!
I'm pleased to announce that my manuscript, "A semantic priming event-related potential (ERP) task to study lexico-semantic and visuo-semantic processing in autism spectrum disorder", has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Visualized Experiments! Check back at the Publications page soon for DOI information. This journal also includes a video article with the publication, so more information about that will be coming soon!
I'm pleased to announce that I've been awarded the Early Extra Promotion of Research & Scholarly Success (EXPRESS) award from the Office of the Vice President for Research at the University of Vermont! This is a small research grant that will help support studies I'm currently running on visual narrative comprehension in individuals with ASD.
I have a new study that you can participate in online! This is a collaboration with Neil Cohn at Tilburg University and Tom Foulsham at the University of Essex. The study looks at how people understand comics, and takes about 10 minutes to complete. Click here to participate!
Earlier this year I worked with the Hopkins press office to put out a news release of my recently-published paper on linguistic and non-linguistic semantic priming in ASD. The story was picked up by a number of outlets - see the full list below!


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Holy cow! That's a lot of books! Happy Reading!
A lot of books this week ladies! I don't even know what to point out because you've got TONS of awesome titles!
I can't wait to read Frozen, Scorched, and The Beginning of Everything myself! ALSO: The Burning Sky is incredible. Such an awesome fantasy!
Thats a great list of terrific YA Titles in your haul. I hope you enjoy them all.
Oooh, so many books! O.o The books on the second photo are most of my favorites! Losing It was a really sweet read and If I Stay too- you have to get the second book, Where She Went, it's so much better. Such a Rush is fantastic, one of my fav Jennifer Echols book and of course Hex Hall! Loved that series.
Awesome haul! I want to read a lot of those books, especially: This Song Will Save Your Life, Code Name Verity , Control and Such a Rush.
Oh wow, crazy haul girls :D! CONTROL, I'm so excited for this book. Asylum looks creepy. The burning sky & In the after & Frozen, I love it :) The chaos of the stars is fun! Happy reading.
Oh my gosh! So many awesome books :D I really wanna read the Burning Sky and 3:59. AND OMG YOU GOT BOOKS SIGNED BY RACHEL HAWKINS.. SO LUCKY.. SHE'S ONE OF MY FAVORITE AUTHORS!!!
What an awesome haul! I think I am most excited for 3:59 and Asylum. OOOH, signed copies of the Hex Hall series!! Those are favorites of mine! Enjoy it all!
Code Name Verity <3 <3! And I like the sound of Gloss!
wow!! you guys received a lot of awesome books this week. that's so awesome. :) i'm dying to read the burning sky and 3:59 myself.
I have heard really good things about Code Name Verity. I really hope to read it soon! Enjoy your new reads!
Holy book haul! That's a lot of awesomeness! Enjoy it all! My Added to the Bookshelf post!
Oh my! What a lot of amazing books :) I can't wait to read In the After. I read Hex Hall and it wasn't bad, but I didn't continue with the series. I have a few of these too that are in my TBR pile.
I am so jelly!!! I loved Scorched and I cant wait to see what you girls think!
Farah. Juhina. Stop right there. Drop everything. GO READ CODE NAME VERITY.
Okay, I'm definitely super jealous of Control! I've heard it's so good, and I need to read it myself. But I shall have to be patient.
So many in there I want to read at some point. And I loved the way you posted monthly this time. I like hearing quickly what you read and if you liked it.
I just read This Song Will Save Your Life last week and I was a little skeptical but I ended up really really liking it. Have either of you read Requiem yet? I thought it was really good actually.
So you've got several books that I want to read at some point. You are SO lucky.
Aah, awesome haul! You'll enjoy Hex Hall, and I LOVE Lesley Livingston!
I am excited for you (and only a little jealous) for Chaos of Stars! Egyptian mythology and ancient Egypt are obsessions of mine so I'm excited for this one! I even featured it as my WoW a few weeks back!
I've also heard great things about In the After and Asylum but I'd be too creeped out to read that last one too haha! Anyways hope you both enjoy ALL your goodies - congrats!


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Then one day, while driving through a state that neither begins nor ends with an 'O', I found a bunch of bottles of Taylor Rye BIB selling for $52.
And that is how I wound up with my one bottle, a bottle that has not impressed me at all, I regret to say. It hasn't work well in Manhattan's, at full strength or watered down. It's approachable but unremarkable when sipped neatly.
Because of this disappointment, I've left it alone for the past two months. The fill level is now below the halfway point. I hope a little bit of oxygen helped it out.
It has a nice, crisp nose full of fruit and spice. Anise and mint combine with hints of stone fruit. Orange peel and cinnamon. Rye seeds, vanilla syrup and potpourri. The palate has mild sweet and heat levels. Cinnamon and freshly split lumber. Jalapeño oil and oranges. Ume and tart limes. Loads of wood. A touch of vinegar and bitterness. It finishes on lumber and limes, ginger, alcohol heat and chili oil.
An improvement! The nose really opened up. And the palate is a little better. The whiskey is likely from a very high rye mashbill, but Sazerac pushed the oak big-time, perhaps to hide any scary parts. Thus this will be one of the rare times where I'll say this whiskey would not be better with a few more years of maturation.
Though it's a different style than Pikesville 6yo or High West's Double, Taylor Rye BIB is of comparable quality. But that's all a matter of temperament, as is how one feels about spending $90-$100 on a $40 whiskey.
Availability - In the US, most specialty retailers. A little harder to find overseas.
"Nice rye whisky, similar to Baby Sazerac, perhaps better. On a good day it's 80-82pts. Ultimately not that exciting, a little weak body. Definitely not worth the asking price!"


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The 1,300-mile "EastMed pipeline" will connect recently discovered gas fields beneath the sea floor … [+] of the southeastern Mediterranean to Greece, and from Greece to a nexus of energy pipelines in Italy that feeds Europe.
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Greece, Israel and Cyprus today signed an agreement to build an undersea pipeline to ferry natural gas from offshore fields in the eastern Mediterranean to Europe, a project that would ease the European Union's energy dependence on Russia.
Yet the agreement has angered Turkey. Although itself an energy importer, Turkey is a key transit nation for supplies of Russian natural gas on their way to Europe, giving Turkey a source of leverage over Europe. New sources of European energy supply undermine that influence.
The 1,300-mile "EastMed pipeline" will connect recently discovered gas fields beneath the sea floor of the southeastern Mediterranean to Greece, and from Greece to a nexus of energy pipelines in Italy that feeds Europe. Estimated to cost around €6 billion, the EastMed line would supply around 4%, or an initial 10 billion cubic meters, of the European Union's annual natural gas imports. EU countries currently meet around 40% of their natural gas import needs with gas from Russia.
Officials signed the agreement after a meeting in Athens by Israel's caretaker prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, and Cypriot president Nicos Anastasiades.
EastMed isn't set to be completed until the mid-2020s. Its developer, IGI Poseidon, a joint venture consisting of Greek state-owned supplier Depa and Italian gas utility Edison, said in December that it would make a final investment decision within two years.
Europe's dependence on energy has already been curbed slightly in recent years by rapidly growing exports of natural gas from the US. (Natural gas can be stored aboard tankers as a liquid when cooled to around -260° Fahrenheit before being reconverted into gas.) But that still leaves Europe, which lacks significant gas resources of its own, heavily dependent on imports from Russia and other countries such as Norway and Qatar. The European Union considers EastMed vital to energy security and has fast-tracked its permitting process.
Cut out of EastMed and other gas supply deals in the eastern Mediterranean, Turkey is staunchly opposed to the project. It chafes at having its role as an energy supplier to the European Union undermined.
"[T]he most economical and safe route for the transmission [of natural gas] to consumer markets in Europe, including our country, is Turkey," said Hami Aksoy, a spokesperson for the Turkish foreign ministry. Aksoy accused the contracting parties of a "vicious" political ploy to isolate Turkey, where it has a long-running territorial dispute with EU member Cyprus.
Last month, in a move seen as trying to shore up its regional influence, Turkey redrew its maritime boundaries with Libya, angering a host of countries. The move could pose questions for the export of natural gas through the EastMed pipeline, since it would need to cross through a Turkish and Libyan economic zone.
The redrawn maritime boundaries are part of an aggressive regional foreign policy by Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling Justice and Development Party. Turkey's exploration of hydrocarbon resources offshore Cyprus has drawn condemnation from the European Union, while a vote this week by Turkey's parliament to send troops to Libya drew a warning from US president Donald Trump, who opposes more involvement there.
Unless Ankara changes tack, it could be a preview things still to come. A windfall of natural gas reserves has been steadily uncovered offshore Egypt, Israel and Cyprus over the past decade, including the most recent discovery, a field called Glaucus, this year. The region's complicated politics mean that countries might struggle to agree on plans to get the gas out of the ground.
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Global business chiefs are more pessimistic about prospects for the world economy than for many years, and senior executives in the Middle East are among the most gloomy, according to the annual survey of chief executive officers' opinion released at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos. The poll — by consulting firm PwC […]
Forest City's Classic Golf Course Named "Asia-Pacific Top 100 Golf Courses"
JOHOR BAHRU, Malaysia, Jan. 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — On 18 January 2020, the third Asia-Pacific Top 100 Golf Courses Selection Awards Ceremony was held at Mission Hills, Haikou, China. Forest City's LGK CLASSIC GOLF COURSE designed by Mr. Liang Guokun, a veteran golf course designer in China, was awarded "Asia-Pacific Top 100 Golf Courses". The […]
Low-value deals dominated Asia-Pacific VC at close of 2019
Low value deals dominated the Asia-Pacific venture capital funding landscape at the end of 2019 thanks to trade tensions and an economic slowdown in the region, new research shows. Investments of less than $10m made up the lion's share of VC activity in the region in Q4 according to the latest report from data and analytics […]
Asia-Pacific ramps up security measures as China virus kills six, infects nearly 300
The discovery of human-to-human transmission comes as hundreds of millions of people are criss-crossing China in packed trains, buses and planes. Photo: AFP /Nicolas Asfouri BEIJING: Many Asian countries ramped up security checks on Tuesday to help curb the spread of a new virus in China, which has killed six people and the number of cases […]
Size fo Global AI Recruitment Market to Reach US $388 Million By 2027: Facts & Factors
Size fo Global AI Recruitment Market to Reach US $388 Million By 2027: Facts & Factors – World News Report – EIN News Trusted News Since 1995 A service for global professionals · Tuesday, January 21, 2020 · 507,765,117 Articles · 3+ Million Readers News Monitoring and Press Release Distribution Tools News Topics Newsletters Press […]
Global Sled Market 2019 | Global (North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Latin America and the Asia Pacific) Market Status and Forecast 2024
Jan 21, 2020 (Hitech News Daily via COMTEX) — The recent research report on the global Sled Market presents the latest industry data and future trends, allowing you to recognize the products and end users driving Revenue growth and profitability of the market. The report offers an extensive analysis of key drivers, leading market players, […]
UK offers poor value-for-money for fixed-line broadband in Europe – research
The UK is the 5th cheapest of 29 countries in Western Europe for fixed-line broadband, and 71st cheapest in the world overall (out of 206 countries), according to the latest data compiled by Cable.co.uk. However, due to lower average speeds compared to most of Europe, the UK fares worse in terms of value for money, […]
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