We know a few things about fear. Namely, we know what it feels like and we know what scares us, but we are usually at a loss when it comes to assuaging this discomfort.
Feeding the fear doesn't serve us, it doesn't help us, and it doesn't change the situation. It fuels an already chaotic situation and makes it worse. It doesn't change the reality of what is, or what's going to be, or what should be. It doesn't do anything but paralyze us.
Most try to cope, but we can eradicate fear all together. It sounds simple, but that is the thing about these silly fears. The only thing providing them sustenance is you. You feed the fear every time you give into it. You feed it, it becomes stronger, and its appetite grows. Once you make the decision to give fear the boot, it no longer has a place in your mind, and therefore, no place in your life.
In the absence of the fear, your life will begin to unfold in incredible ways.
By meeting it head on, the fear you have can be cut down to size and its power taken away. The ultimate goal is to transcend fear and come to a place where you trust the process of your life.
As a long time student of Kabbalah, I have found the wisdom to be life changing. The kabbalistic perspective on fear is both unique and profound. I've distilled kabbalistic teachings in some of the following tools.
to identify your fears and "name" them.
I would like to eliminate my fear of ____________________________.
Rav Isaac Luria, a prominent kabbalist, taught that if you have a fearful thought, envision or build an actual fire.
- Bring the fearful thought into your mind and visualize the thought being thrown into the fire and erased from your consciousness.
2. Let go and trust. Say to yourself, "Fear is an opportunity." We all have strengths that are shown through challenges and each is designed to help us become our most fully realized self.
3. Shift your consciousness. Do not give power to your fear.
Illogical fears are detrimental because they impede our ability to live life fully and are responsible for our most debilitating experiences. Small steps have never been more imperative than in the case of eradicating fear. When action is taken in small steps it can lead to great change. Like adding trim tabs to a boat, for example. For those unfamiliar, trim tabs are the tiny rudders attached to the back of large ships that offer assistance to the main rudder by mitigating pressure. They were invented by philosopher and engineer Buckminster Fuller and are a very small adjustment that provides a major shift.
In what ways can you apply trim tabs - small changes - to your current reality that can help you to eliminate fear?
Another useful tool for eradicating fear-based thoughts is turning your fear around to create an affirmative mantra. Let's use the example of someone who is fearful of public speaking.
The fearful thought is: I'll get up there, I'll be visibly shaken, I'll forget what I want to say, and no one will ever want to hear me speak again. I'll be humiliated.
The mantra is: I am fully prepared. Everything I have to say is helpful, well-founded, and something I believe in.
By simply reversing the fear, you have created a mantra that not only empowers you but also eliminates the fearful origin. Practice turning a few of your own fearful thoughts into empowering mantras.
A "power pose" is a pose in which we are relaxed and open. Your shoulders are square, spine is straight, chest is lifted, and your hands are on your hips. Harvard social psychologist Amy Cuddy conducted a study to research whether or not certain power poses affected the people who embodied them, and the results were unanimous. Participants assuming power-poses saw 20% spikes in testosterone, the dominance hormone. The overall result: strike a powerful pose, feel more powerful.
It is a simple practice that can be done anywhere and is sure to help you feel strong in the face of your fear.
7. "Fear is Not an Option". Begin to live with this conciseness. Practice it daily. It's a mantra, it's a lifestyle and it also happens to be the title of my latest book, which you can find here.


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Corporate Tax Laws and Regulations 2021 | Israel
Overview of corporate tax work over the last year
Key developments affecting corporate tax law and practice
Tax climate in Israel
Developments affecting attractiveness of Israel for holding companies
Types of corporate tax work
Our tax boutique office engages in various types of corporate tax work, including the following:
International taxation – tax treaties, redomicile of corporations, information exchange between the Israel Tax Authority (ITA) and foreign tax authorities, and Israeli exit tax.
Income tax – taxation of corporations, partnerships, trusts, capital investment encouragement, employee stock options, venture capital funds, mergers and splits, capital markets, taxation of natural gas and oil enterprises, etc.
Real estate taxation and purchase tax – including acquisition groups, residential real estate, urban renewal and National Outline Plan 38, retirement homes, building rights, unique land options, income-producing real estate companies, contractors, developers, real estate associations, kibbutzim, moshavim and other co-operatives.
VAT, tax and insolvency, investment taxation, capital market taxation, and tax planning for corporations.
Tax litigation – representation of corporations before various courts and in all aspects of civil taxation. Among others: lawsuits and class action suits; and Supreme Court appeals and petitions, etc.
Significant deals and themes
Our office has obtained a tax ruling from the ITA that allows the transfer of assets between related companies under section 104F of the Israeli Income Tax Ordinance so that transfers are not taxed by the transferring company or by the shareholders.
Our team represented numerous privately held companies in Israel to secure a delay of tax in the restructuring of those companies.
Our firm has: handled assessments of land sales in Bat Yam amounting to NIS 64 million, in Rehovot amounting to NIS 137 million, and in Tel Aviv amounting to NIS 341 million and NIS 52 million, as well as of luxury homes in the amount of tens of millions of NIS; achieved a purchase tax assessment of a mall purchased for NIS 538 million; and sold land in Bat Yam in the amount of NIS 179 million.
Tax disputes
Our office represents corporations before various courts and in all aspects of civil taxation. Among others: lawsuits and class action suits; and Supreme Court appeals and petitions, etc. regarding various tax disputes including, inter alia:
A VAT appeal representing a listed company on a VAT charge of tens of millions of NIS for work developments it performed for municipalities.
A VAT appeal in the amount of approximately NIS 5 million for a listed company, which is a holding company, for charging VAT on input tax deduction.
A VAT appeal of a listed company for a VAT charge in the amount of approximately NIS 10 million for a full VAT charge, where a zero VAT rate should have applied.
A land appreciation tax appeal of a listed company of millions of NIS for a real estate transaction it made.
An income tax appeal on income tax assessments in the amount of more than NIS 30 million for a listed company for a claim to offset losses illegally.
An income tax appeal on income tax assessments in the amount of tens of millions of NIS for an international company. The appeal is against the ITA's argument that the activity was acquired in order to be able to offset losses.
Withholding certificates
Our office has submitted to the ITA many requests for a 0% or reduced tax withholding rate at source on behalf of Israeli and foreign corporations.
Employee benefits and executive comps
Our office represents employees, shareholders and corporations regarding requests to the employee stock options department in the professional division of the ITA.
Domestic – cases and legislation
In the matter of Sakmesky held on 26 February 2019, the Jerusalem District Court determined that the shareholders of several limited liability companies (flow-through entities for tax purposes) are not entitled to offset losses of one company against profits of another. An appeal was submitted to the Supreme Court and a judgment is expected to be given in the next year.
In the Drorim Mall case, the Supreme Court ruled on 17 June 2020 that there is no place for recognising "revaluation profits" – which represent profits according to the accounting rules from the point of view of the distributing company – as "taxable" income, according to section 126 (b) of the Ordinance, and therefore dividend distributed out of revaluation profits is taxable at the hands of the recipient company.
In the Beit Hosen case, the District Court ruled on 1 November 2020 that in the repurchase of shares by the company from a particular shareholder, the remaining shareholders should not be taxed on a deemed dividend income due to their increase in the holding rate since there was no economic enrichment.
The ITA's Senior Deputy Director has expressed the ITA's position that Israeli Research and Development centres of multinational enterprises (MNEs) should be, under certain circumstances, compensated based on the profit split method, rather than the cost-plus method.
The ITA issued Circular No. 1/2021 detailing its position on the tax treatment of payments of stock-based compensation in MNEs. The ITA regards stock-based compensation payments from Israeli companies to non-Israeli affiliates as not triggering any withholding tax liabilities.
On 3 November 2020, the Ministry of Finance amended the Israeli Tax Ordinance and Transfer Pricing Regulations in order to implement the Master File, Local File and Country-by-Country reporting obligations in Israel. The amendments seek to align the Israeli Transfer Pricing Regulations with Action 13 of the OECD/G20 base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) initiative.
On 24 June 2021, Israel agreed in principle to join the new OECD Digital Economy Taxation Plan (OECD New Plan). In a meeting of the Ministry of Finance's management, ahead of the approval of the outline by the designated OECD committee on 30 June 2021, the Minister of Finance announced that Israel will adopt the OECD New Plan.
The OECD New Plan will provide a framework for Israel to collect taxes from digital gains derived from the Israeli digital activity of global corporations mainly in two layers:
the first layer (Pillar One) intends to make sure that gains derived from services or products provided by global corporations to Israeli residents will be subject to taxes in Israel even if the global corporations do not have physical presence in Israel; and
the second layer (Pillar Two) intends to prevent tax planning designed to minimise the tax base or to divert profits to tax havens of the global corporation's income derived from digital activity in Israel and an agreed minimum 15% corporate tax rate will apply on such global corporations, which puts an end to the competition between the countries (race to the bottom) of the lowest tax rate. According to the OECD New Plan, Pillar Two will apply to such global groups with total annual turnover of at least EUR 750 million.
COVID tax implications
OECD guidelines published on 3 April 2020 and on 21 January 2021 did not get any formal response from the ITA.
In order to assist and facilitate taxpayers in preparing their tax returns for tax year 2020, the ITA has extended the deadline for submitting 2020 annual tax returns for individuals and corporations until 30 July 2021 (initially due on 30 April 2021).
Mandatory disclosure rules update
There has been no legislation in the last three years due to the political situation. Disclosure rules remain unchanged.
The VAT standard rate is 17%.
The corporate income tax rate is 23%.
Capital gains tax for corporations is 23%.
The tax rate on dividends is 30% for substantial shareholders (who hold 10% or more) and 25% for unsubstantial shareholders.
According to the law for the encouragement of capital investments, preferred income generated by preferred enterprises is subject to a 6–7.5% corporate tax rate in development area A, and 6–16% elsewhere in Israel with no time limit. The tax rate on dividends from preferred enterprises is 4–20%.
There has been no legislation in the last three years due to the political situation. Rules regarding holding companies remain unchanged.
The ITA is suggesting a reform in the field of international taxation (hereinafter: the suggested reform) and also the passing of a new budget law following the formation of the new Israeli government on 13 June 2021.
Submission of tax appeal is suggested to depend upon the payment of part of the tax in dispute
In June 2020, the General Director of the ITA, Eran Yaacov, presented to the Tax Forum of the Bar Association a suggested reform similar to the "Italian model", according to which a taxpayer must pay partial tax in the event of a dispute between him and the Authority instead of paying the tax only after reaching a tax agreement with the ITA or getting a judgment against him in the District Court. The Bar Association believes that this is unconstitutional as it will infringe on the basic rights of the taxpayer and therefore objects to the proposal.
Suggested reform of the fiscal residence tests
The ITA is of the opinion that for the sake of simplicity and in order to reduce disputes between the taxpayers and the ITA, it would be correct to establish absolute presumptions in relation to the seat of an individual as follows:
Absolute and unrefuted presumptions whose existence will determine the individual's residence of Israel.
Absolute and unrefuted presumptions whose existence will determine whether the individual is a foreign resident.
According to the suggested test, an individual will be considered a fiscal resident of Israel if:
He has stayed in Israel for at least 183 days or more in two consecutive tax years.
He stayed in Israel for 100 days or more in the tax year, and the total period of his stay in the tax year and in the two years preceding it is 450 days or more. This presumption can be refuted if the individual stayed more than 183 days in a country with which Israel has signed a double tax convention and that person submitted a certificate of fiscal residence from the foreign country.
The individual stayed 100 days or more in the tax year and his spouse runs a joint household with him.
In addition, according to the suggested reform, an individual will be considered a fiscal foreign resident if:
He resides in Israel for less than 30 days in each tax year for four consecutive tax years.
He resides in Israel for less than 30 days in each tax year for three consecutive tax years, in which case he will be considered a foreign resident starting from the second tax year of his stay as aforesaid.
The suggested reform will not recognise a family unit split for tax purposes and will retain the centre of life test for cases in which the absolute presumptions are not fulfilled.
Suggested reform of the Foreign Tax Credit System
Reduction of the basket method from 16 baskets according to the position of the tax authorities to only five baskets: (1) passive income; (2) personal income; (3) capital income; (4) a controlled foreign company (CFC) – it is possible to offset even against passive income, unless an indirect credit is chosen; and (5) a foreign vocational company.
Underline credit: Extension of entitlement to an underline credit to two additional layers (condition of holding at least 50% of her granddaughter and great granddaughter, and at least 12.5% indirectly) and test of holding period – at least 12 months before the dividend is distributed.
Suggested reform regarding CFCs
The scope of the term "passive income" has been expanded to include: (1) royalties and insurance; (2) interest on related parties in certain circumstances: removal of the payer from the application of the CFC; Israeli resident payer; and use of Israeli capital; (3) capital gain from sale of property held over one year – intangible assets; (4) business income used to divert profits; (5) lowering the threshold for passive income for the purpose of classifying a company as a corporation to one-third of the total income; (6) addition of a new immigrant/veteran returning resident to define the rate of holding of Israeli residents in the CFC; and (7) corrections to the profit calculation – notional expenses are not allowed even if included in the accounting rules, which is not a CFC out of the "unpaid profits".
The suggested reform also discusses topics such as participation exemption, branch tax, reporting on holdings in foreign entities, etc.
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US Wars and Military Action
Drones, Cops, and the Unaccountable Machinery of Death
May 18, 2015 Issue
From signature strikes in Pakistan to police violence in Baltimore, the state is seemingly uninterested in even counting how many people it kills.
The ruins of a house in Yemen where Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, the son of Anwar al-Awlaki, was killed by a US drone strike. (Reuters/Khaled Abdullah)
On January 15, Warren Weinstein, an American aid worker, and Giovanni Lo Porto, an Italian citizen, were killed by a US drone strike at an Al Qaeda compound in Pakistan, where the two were being held hostage. Their deaths were revealed by President Obama in an April 23 press conference in which he expressed profound regret, took "full responsibility for all our counterterrorism operations," and pledged a review. The president appeared somber, forthright, even grief-stricken. But his display of emotion, however heartfelt, conceals a more disconcerting reality. To date, not one US official has been held accountable for any civilian casualty in any drone strike anywhere.
Securing justice for these victims would be an arduous process, not least because there are so many of them. Since 2004 in Pakistan alone, US drones have killed between 423 and 962 civilians, at least 172 of them children. In Yemen, between 65 and 96 civilians have been killed by drones since 2002, including eight children, among them a 16-year-old US citizen, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, the son of Al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki. Abdulrahman's death occasioned no presidential mea culpas, although former press secretary Robert Gibbs later said that the teen should have had "a far more responsible father."
These civilian casualties are described as "inadvertent," and that may often be the case. Neither Weinstein nor Lo Porto was an intended target. The CIA didn't know they were at the compound, because, in fact, it didn't know the identity of anyone present. They were killed, along with two US members of Al Qaeda, in a "signature strike," part of the program that allows the CIA and the Pentagon to launch missiles at groups of men who appear to be engaged in activities associated with terrorism. Officials are not required to disclose how many of the drone strikes are signature strikes, nor are they required to track how many people are killed, combatants or otherwise. In this context, then, the civilian deaths are very much purposeful: the inevitable cost of conducting "targeted killings" under such conditions. As Congressman Adam Schiff put it, "To demand a higher standard of proof than they had here could be the end of these types of counterterrorism operations."
Thousands of miles away, no missiles rained down to kill 25-year-old Freddie Gray in Baltimore, but his death was nearly as abrupt and indiscriminate. On April 12, Gray was chased and tackled after running away from police, who discovered a switchblade on him and took him into custody. The police nearly severed his spinal cord during the arrest; Gray died a week later, becoming yet another of the dozens of black men killed by cops in recent years.
There are, of course, profound differences between the "war on terror" and the police state, but one commonality stands out. The best available data on civilian deaths from drone strikes comes not from the CIA, but from the independent Bureau of Investigative Journalism, while the FBI data on people killed by police is appallingly incomplete, leaving advocates to make educated guesses based on media reports and other methods. Far from being accountable, the state machineries of death—one using drones and missiles, the other using bullets and batons—are not even interested in their own body counts.
It's unclear whether the protests now rocking Baltimore will help achieve a measure of justice for Freddie Gray. Similarly, it's unimaginable that those responsible for Warren Weinstein's death—who surely include US officials—will be brought to justice. But accountability and justice should mean an end to both abusive policing and the secret drone program, which only create more terror.


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Doassansia is a genus of fungi belonging to the family Doassansiaceae.

The species of this genus are found in Europe and Northern America.

Ecology
They are parasitic on plants, attaching to leaves and stems of monocotyledons.
Doassansia sagittariae and Doassansiopsis deformans can be found on plants of Sagittaria lancifolia, Doassansia alismatis can be found on various species of Alisma and both Doassansiopsis occulta and Doassansiopsis hydrophila can be found on various species of Potamogeton plants.

Species
As accepted by GBIF;

Doassansia alismatis
Doassansia alpina
Doassansia borealis
Doassansia disticha
Doassansia domingensis
Doassansia eichhorniae
Doassansia epilobii
Doassansia epilobii
Doassansia gossypii
Doassansia hemigraphidis
Doassansia lilaeae
Doassansia limosellae
Doassansia nearctica
Doassansia niesslii
Doassansia opaca
Doassansia peplidis
Doassansia reukaufii
Doassansia rhinanthi
Doassansia sagittariae
Doassansia sintenisii
Doassansia sparganii
Doassansia utriculariae
Doassansia zizaniae

References

Ustilaginomycotina
Basidiomycota genera

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Wingsuits cover a wide range of discussion topics. Sorry, TGB is not intended to be a one-stop shop for everything wingsuit related. We're going to focus on the closest alligator to the canoe.
Q: Where is everybody dying?
A: Wingsuit BASE
That's it. Right there. That is our focus.
TGB is specifically not intended to be construed as a wingsuit skydiving manual or a first flight (skydiving) ground school. Nor is it meant to serve as a first wingsuit BASE course. It's an academic resource provided free-of-charge to a grossly under-educated community.
Now, TGB expects target readers to bring a little something to the table… so everybody shows up to the same starting line, right?
Are you a current and expert wingsuit skydiver?
Are you a current and expert basejumper?
Are you willing to learn?
If you bring these three components to the table, welcome to Topgunbase. It's going to be a fun ride. The thing is, I totally understand your dilemna. You've worked your ass off to become a safe, competent and qualified wingsuit skydiver. You've taken a BASE FJC and have now racked up a huge amount of experience in the BASE community. You're proud of how many basejumps you have. More importantly, you're proud of how many different exit points you've jumped, scouted, opened, and walked down from. You've been immersed in both skydiving and BASE long enough to see carnage and fuck-ups unique to both. Now, in light of your well-rounded big picture mentality, you're ready to commit to learning wingsuit BASE.
Alright, lemme do a quick google search for 'wingsuit basejump instruction'… huh, no results? How about 'wingsuit base jump instruction'. Dude, WTF… seriously? I follow USPA's very conservative progression advice to become a competent wingsuit skydiver. And then I take years (and hundreds of basejumps) to become an expert basejumper. Now, when I want to connect the two together, what do I find? A vacuum of available instruction at the top of the pyramid where Wingsuit BASE is perched. I'm left to figure it out on my own? To teach myself? Oh wait, there are a few brave souls who offer Wingsuit BASE Coaching… but isn't coaching a follow-up to both ground and flight instruction? I want instruction, dammit!
Sorry, it's not there. Yet.
You want my strong opinion? Our community's lack of available formal instruction directly explains the grossly disproportionate fatality rate between wingsuit BASE and all other parachute disciplines.
Okay, back to what we'd like you to bring to the table…
You say you're not qualified right now? Well, are you actively working on the above prerequisites? Great! Thank you for your hard work and thoughtful progression. Welcome to our discussion. You can expect to find plenty of guidance and recommendations for helping you progress to competent Wingsuit BASE qualification.
Last but not least, if you're one of those fast-track souls who mistakes enthusiasm for preparation, and who thinks buying a wingsuit makes you 'qualified'… well, we have a link for you here.
To be perfectly clear, TGB does not intend to teach First Wingsuit BASE Courses. Rather, TGB intends to deliver an academic educational resource tailored to the specifics of WB. Share, follow, copy, steal, discuss, debate, teach, lead, and learn.
Fly smarter, not harder. Welcome aboard.


The breakdown above highlights the fact that while TLS is gaining ground, a significant portion of common web browsing is still unencrypted. Additionally, the data points out that it is exceptionally tedious and time-consuming to get a completely accurate picture of what is actually occurring on common TCP ports. Although Wireshark is a great tool, the lion's share of traffic found communicating with TCP ports 80 and 443 was not directly identified as HTTP or TLS; the amount of manual analysis required to confirm <emjust this would be excruciating.
Stepping back to a higher-level view, I was interested in seeing what kinds of services were active in the background while I perused. Various social media platforms appeared, as did numerous browser plugins that had been installed and mostly forgotten. Asset tracking software kept a steady pulse on my laptop's whereabouts. I may have merely been reading the news, but so much more was happening.
Whether you're new to the profession, or you've been at it for years and your first book was the Intel Assembly Language Reference Manual, it is commonplace to encounter "bad-looking" network traffic. Successful attacks often however look similar to known good traffic. Given this, most analysts will tell you that a significant part of their job is inspecting supposedly trusted data.
While searching through the numerous HTTP sessions present, I uncovered plenty of traffic to content distribution networks (CDNs). These can be really tricky for several reasons. First, one might expect traffic for a news site to be coming from the actual site that is being contacted, which is often not the case. Second, there are a few large and well-known CDNs (BTW though well-known, whether or not we should implicitly trust these types of networks is a question for a different day), as well as a number of smaller companies. When encountering more obscure CDNs, how can we tell that it's legitimate and not simply an attacker taking advantage of our implicit trust (registering myreallycoolcdn.com is no harder than creating any other site)?
More troubling to me than active content is the abundance of octet stream (including executable) data. This data is harder to quickly understand and make a judgment call about. Not only is it prevalent in legitimate network traffic everywhere, but by nature it can be so many different kinds of data and be used for so many different functions. Sometimes information about the stream will be available, but oftentimes this is not the case. Examining it is at best tedious and at worst incredibly time-consuming.
One of the most common "bad-looking" situations to uncover in data sets is the use of IP addresses as endpoint identifiers in upper level protocols such as HTTP, as opposed to host names. (E.g.: seeing an IP address in the Host field of an HTTP request.) It immediately requires more effort to analyze than an actual hostname, since IP address ranges are inherently harder to memorize than a simple name. While this is generally regarded as a bad practice to be avoided, there are plenty of legitimate services that use direct IP address communication. Still, because many malware samples use IP addresses to communicate, analysts will therefore pay close to attention to this traffic. Fortunately there is only one unique example in my 10 minutes of data (and an easily-identifiable one, since it is a multicast address); however this pattern occurs frequently in every enterprise we've examined, and the analysis is often not trivial.
Stepping away from traffic that looks bad, there are several other interesting characteristics of the data set that I'd like to share.
One domain in particular (by a very large multinational company, no less) utilizes TLSv1.0, despite other domains owned by the same company using TLSv1.2. Fortunately, all of the negotiations utilize a cipher suite that is currently known to be secure. However, keeping up with what is or isn't secure—and whether the risk of an insecure cipher suite is acceptable in your environment—requires cross-referencing multiple sites, keeping up with the latest research in the field, and communicating across various stakeholders. This is time that many analysts simply don't have.
Another interesting protocol you might run into is QUIC – Quick UDP Internet Connections. This was created by Google to provide the benefits of TLS without the overhead associated with TCP. We first started seeing traffic utilizing this protocol in early 2016, and have since monitored its adoption and behavior. One interesting aspect of QUIC is that its handshake indicates the client's OS type, OS version, browser type and version, and the server/service being accessed. Of course, while this is not necessarily highly sensitive information, it is more revealing than what can be learned from a traditional TCP-based TLS negotiation, thereby providing additional knowledge about a user and the device they are using. And since this is not a "traditional" Internet protocol, it's quite likely that many analysts have not come across it in depth, nor would they know what could be exposed by its use.
Hmm, Spotify had a P2P Network?
While searching across traffic communicating with Spotify's music streaming service, I discovered a high-numbered UDP port sending several packets each minute to the same UDP port on two broadcast addresses, as well as responses from local devices. Looking more closely, it turns out that each packet had a "SpotUdp" plaintext string in its payload, which piqued my interest. After a brief search, I discovered that until mid-2014, Spotify had a P2P network that a lot of people didn't seem to know about. While the network was phased out over two years ago, this particular connection still exists, and still clearly has some local subnet P2P communication. If legacy things like this exist but often go undetected, imagine how hard it is for junior analysts trying to hunt and discern what is or isn't legitimate!
Of the roughly 53000 TCP packets within the data set, there are a few hundred error packets. This is less than 1%, but in that small number of packets was quite a number of unique errors: TCP ACK for an unseen segment, Duplicate ACK, Out-Of-Order packet arrival, Previous segment not captured, Spurious Retransmission, and a Zero Window size. Error packets are often ignored when doing routine analysis; how many times might an attack have been discovered earlier if this source of information could be more coherently analyzed? As a simple example, seeing duplicate ACK packets could mean network congestion and loss, or it could mean that an attacker is attempting to intercept communication between two hosts.
During these ten minutes of traffic on a private company wireless network, there are a lot of devices "informing" the network of their presence. Since it's all multicast traffic, I was able to see my coworkers' computers, phones, and some applications, as well as smart TVs, printers, and scanners. Simply by passively listening on a secured wireless network, I was able to do quite a bit of reconnaissance that otherwise would be difficult and time-consuming.
My reason for performing this exercise was first and foremost to show how much one can learn by simply analyzing benign activity on a network link. I figured it would take me a few hours to deeply analyze the traffic and write this post, but I was sorely mistaken: it actually took me more than a full day. If just ten minutes of traffic from one device (at a throughput rate of ~600 kbps) in a relatively common scenario required that much effort, imagine if the network instead had thousands of users going about their daily routines. How hard would it be to discover what the bad things are? How would one identify hygiene issues (that can easily become bad things)? And how can one identify and exclude what is not actually a problem? How does one begin or make progress with proactive threat hunting? Clearly, even an effort as simple as trying to string together network events that occur across the span of a few seconds—when found within a network of any appreciable size—becomes daunting and difficult to correlate.


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Intoxicated man gives car keys to stranger
On Jan. 9, shortly after midnight, a Glenwood Springs Police officer arrested a 28-year-old man near Taco Bell on Grand Avenue who was wanted on several charges.
According to the arrest affidavit, on Dec. 29, a male party reported having several items stolen from his vehicle, which was parked near the 800 block of Grand Avenue.
The missing items included a "Gucci wallet worth $350," "Tom Ford sunglasses valued at $180," $400 cash, as well as the man's driver's license and debit card.
The reporting party, who was intoxicated at the time, said he had given his car keys to a 28-year-old man, who he met for the first time that night.
According to the affidavit, the 28-year-old man attempted to get a room at a local hotel using cash and the driver's license he allegedly took from the reporting party's vehicle.
However, the hotel's front desk clerk — who happened to be a friend of the man whose possessions were stolen — denied the 28-year-old man a room.
After confronting the man about fraudulently using his friend's driver's license, the 28-year-old man left the property but was arrested several days later in Glenwood Springs.
The suspect was booked into the Garfield County Jail where he was charged with first degree criminal trespass, theft, identity theft and criminal possession of a financial device.
Modelo and meth on money
On Jan. 11, at approximately 11:53 p.m., a Glenwood Springs Police officer observed two males in an Infiniti sedan in the Ninth Street parking garage.
"I know from my training and experience that people will drink alcohol and use drugs in their vehicles before going to the downtown bars," the officer noted in the arrest affidavit.
Upon approaching the sedan, the officer noticed "open containers of Modelo beer within the vehicle."
According to the affidavit, the officer also saw a $5 bill folded in half with "a white substance in the middle," which later tested positive for the presence of methamphetamine.
The vehicle's 23-year-old driver was arrested and booked into the Garfield County Jail for unlawful possession of a controlled substance.
Drugs in Rifle hotel room
On Jan. 12, a Garfield County Sheriff's deputy and Rifle Police officer confronted a man staying at a Rifle hotel regarding a possible stolen vehicle.
According to the arrest affidavit, the vehicle's owner said the people who had allegedly stolen his car were staying at a local hotel.
When law enforcement officers arrived on scene, they noticed the reported stolen vehicle bearing "fictitious Colorado license plates" and knocked on the corresponding hotel room's door.
The room's occupant — a 22-year-old man — was "deceptive during the interview," according to the affidavit.
Additionally, the officers "in plain view" saw items commonly used for the consumption of illegal narcotics, including a large torch and a glass pipe.
The man allegedly told officers "he just wanted to sleep because he had not slept in two days."
The officers recognized the man from multiple previous contacts and searched the room after receiving permission to do so from the suspect's parole officer.
The search turned up "19.6 grams" of a substance, which tested presumptive positive for meth, as well as drug paraphernalia items.
The 22-year-old man was arrested and booked into the Garfield County Jail on several charges including: unlawful possession and distribution of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, violation of a protection order and reckless endangerment.
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ESI dans la presse
Tbilisi. Photo: flickr/fatboyke
Reinventing Georgia: The story of a Libertarian Revolution (April 2010)
Part one: Georgia as a model
Part two: Bendukidze and Russian Capitalism
Part three: Jacobins in Tbilisi
Part four: The future of Georgian libertarianism (forthcoming)
Georgia's revolution and the future of its democracy: A guided tour of literature on Georgia
More ESI research: Georgia – After the Rose Revolution (October 2008)
Georgian ships sunk off its Black Sea port of Poti. Russian soldiers cutting off the country's main East- West road linking Poti to the capital Tbilisi. Railway connections destroyed or blocked by Russian soldiers. Air traffic suspended because of bombs dropped close to airports. And waves of displaced persons seeking shelter, uncertain whether they will ever be able to return to their destroyed villages.
These were some of August 2008's dramatic images from the Southern Caucasus, when Russia's military actions constituted a turning-point in its relations with the West – a "return to the 19th century" as Sofiabased analyst Ivan Krastev has put it. But this short war is also a turning point for Georgia itself. Much will depend on the lessons policymakers and Georgian society as a whole draw from this crisis once the dust settles.
ESI has been doing research in Georgia for the past three years trying to better understand both social change in the country and the possible role the EU can play to help reforms and development. We are convinced that the fate of Georgian democracy is of huge significance, not only for the Caucasus but for Europe as a whole.
Réactions de la presse
The South Caucasus as seen from Moscow
Georgia picture stories
Peter Nasmyth's Georgia
Georgia – After the Rose Revolution (October 2008)
Turkish Policy Quarterly Vol 6, No. 3 (Fall 2007) "Europe's East: Changing Landscapes and Mindscapes in the Caucasus" with contributions by:
Elmar Mammadyarov
Goran Buldioski
Tigran Mkrtchyan
David J. Smith
Keti Tsikhelashvili
Arzu Geybullayeva
European Commission: Georgia - Country strategy paper 2007 - 2013 (March 2007)
World Bank: Georgia - Joint IDA-IMF staff advisory note on the poverty reduction strategy paper second progress report (September 2006)
UNDP: Georgia - National assessment report for sustainable development (September 2002)
Literary walk
Sukhumi: The history of the region became ashes
Limp Shevardnadze
In the Mountains of Poetry
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What is the temperature? That is a question that is often asked throughout the year as one prepares to leave the house, and especially when there are extreme temperatures or weather. We want to know what the temperature is in order to better prepare for the outdoor elements. Many people will watch the evening news and see the local meteorologist's temperature forecast preparing for the next day; others will turn to a weather channel or a weather app on their phone for more up to the moment weather conditions. So what is the temperature? The temperature at this moment is 41 degrees. However, there is a problem. The question might be asked to 10 different people, how does it feel outside? The temperature may be 41 degrees, but it is very possible to receive 10 different answers or guesses.
The temperature of 41 degrees may feel like 32 degrees to one person, 50 to another and for others anywhere in between. Asking what is the temperature and how does it feel are two different questions that will receive two different answers. How the 41 degrees feels may depend on the person, whether it is cloudy and humid or raining, if there is wind and how strong the wind is, and if it is sunny. The temperature of 41 degrees is measurable and accurate, but how it feels depends on a number of factors. What is the temperature? In order to find that out one must look at a standard and that would be a thermometer.
When it comes to religion and decisions concerning the Lord's church it is much like the temperature. These questions have often been asked. First, what does the Bible say about a certain subject, and second, how do you feel about a certain subject. The truth is that the Word of God may say one thing, but a person can feel another. Paul wrote; "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness" (2 Timothy 3:16). He went on to write; "Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching" (2 Timothy 4:2). To the Galatians Paul wrote: "I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, which is not another…" (Galatians 1:6-7). There is not an example in the New Testament where Paul, Peter, James, John, etc., encouraged Christians to make decisions according to their feelings and not according to the inspired Scripture. In fact, over and over Christians were pointed to the Scripture for the final authority.
Should we have women leadership in the church in the form of elders, preachers, and leading the worship in a public manner? I feel that…. Wait! What does the Bible say? Should we add instrumental music to the worship to make it more appealing so that more people will be present? Well, I feel that adding music is… Wait! What does the Bible say? Shouldn't we liven up the Lord's Supper a little bit by changing the elements used and having a play during it to help us grasp the meaning? I feel that it would be very… Wait! What does the Bible say?
When members of the Lord's church are tempted to make a decision by feeling then that is the exact time to say "Wait! What does the Bible say?" What is the temperature outside? I feel that it is…. To me it seems like it is… Wait! What does the thermometer say? Paul wrote; "And whatever you do in word or deed do all in the name of the Lord Jesus…" (Colossians 3:17), that is in accordance with his will.


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JURY NULLIFICATION: YOUR AWESOME POWER
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by Alan Stang
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Recently, we talked about the powers of the grand jury that the government has hidden from you, powers that newly informed Americans are beginning to reassert. That process, however sound and constitutional, will take some time, precisely because those powers, under remorseless judicial usurpation, have long lain dormant. Most Americans are unaware of them.
This week let's look at a power you have that is equally devastating, a power that could bring our communist nightmare to its knees, that you can begin using right now with absolutely no risk. It is another awesome power the totalitarian, legal bozos have labored long to conceal. It is called "jury nullification."
And let's begin with something you probably already know. You certainly know it if you have ever served on a trial jury. As soon as you sit down, the judge "instructs" you. He says he will make all decisions on the law; you are there only to decide on the facts. Did So-and-so spit on the sidewalk or not? Did he or didn't he fill out the right form? If he did or he didn't, he is guilty or innocent.
What's wrong with this? What's wrong is that the judge is lying. In fact, every trial judge in this country is routinely lying in every trial. What? Every judge? How? As a juror, you have the power to rule on the law as well as the facts. The lying judge is concealing that power from you, in the same way he is concealing the true powers of the grand jury, through usurpation. So, if the juror has the power to rule on everything, what is a truthful judge there to do? He is there to explain the law, to advise, and to be an umpire. That's all!
What's the difference? Remember that an honest grand jury reduces the power of the government. An honest trial jury reduces the power of the judge. But the judge and the government want all the power they can grab. An honest trial jury has the power to repudiate bad law.
Consider that if the law says you have no right to own property, no right to freedom of speech or religion, no right to keep and bear arms, and so on, then your right to a jury trial would not be worth much, were the jurors restricted just to deciding whether you illegally owned or spoke or prayed or bore arms or not.
Okay, but all the trial judges in the country liars? That requires considerable suspension of disbelief. This should help. Thomas Jefferson wrote as follows about federal judges to Samuel Kercheval in 1816: "But we have made them independent of the nation itself. They are irremovable but by their own body for any depravities of conduct, and even by their own body for the imbecilities of dotage."
To Spencer Roane he wrote this in 1821: "The great object of my fear is the Federal Judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting with noiseless foot and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step and holding what it gains, is engulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them."
He wrote this in his autobiography: "As for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam; so judges should be withdrawn from their bench whose erroneous biases are leading us to dissolution. It may, indeed, injure them in fame or in fortune; but it saves the republic, which is the first and supreme law."
Finally, he says this: "If, indeed, a judge goes against the law so grossly, so palpably, as no imputable degree of folly can account for, and nothing but corruption, malice or wilful wrong can explain, and especially if circumstances prove such motives, he may be punished for the corruption, the malice, the wilful wrong; but not for the error: nor is he liable to action by the party grieved. . . ." (Batture at New Orleans, 1812)
These are a few scant excerpts. Again and again, President Tom warns us about the judges. And remember, he is writing at the best of times in our country, when the Founding Fathers still strode the earth. Today's judiciary makes the one he feared look like the wisdom of Minerva. Today's judges have been caught playing with themselves on the bench, hitting on women and worse, extorting funds, playing power games, etc. They are politicians in black costumes designed to intimidate, whose consuming passion is to look important.
Recently, two judges in Pennsylvania were convicted of jailing some 2000 children in exchange for $2.6 million in bribes from private prison companies that belong to Mid Atlantic Youth Services. Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan sent children to jail for offenses so trivial that some of them weren't even crimes. Fifteen-year-old Hillary Transue got three months for creating a spoof web page ridiculing her school's assistant principal. Ciavarella sent Shane Bly, then 13, to boot camp for trespassing in a vacant building. He gave a 14 year-old, Jamie Quinn, 11 months in prison for slapping a friend during an argument, after the friend slapped her.
Now that you are in the proper mood, let's look at the history: In 1735, in New York, the English tried newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger for seditious libel. Under the law at the time, the facts showed him to be clearly guilty. But lawyer Andrew Hamilton urged the jurors "to see with their own eyes, to hear with their own ears, and to make use of their consciences and understanding in judging of the lives, liberties, or estates of their fellow subjects."
The jury did so, acquitted Zenger in the face of the judge's charge, thereby nullifying the law and expanding freedom of the press. The jury ruled on both the law and the facts. Since the law was unjust, the jurors struck it down. Today's journalists still celebrate the Zenger ruling.
In 1794, in Georgia v. Brailsford (3 Dallas 4), Chief Justice John Jay, a Founding Father, told the jury they had the power "to determine the law as well as the fact in controversy," and that "both objects are lawfully, within your power of decision."
Gilbert's History of the Common Pleas says "the jury are judges as well of the matter of law as of the fact . . . ." If they have a question about the law, they may ask the judge about it, "which when he hath done, and they are thus become well informed, they, and they only, become competent judges of the matter of law." The implicit assumption is not that jurors know the law better than the judge but that the judge is untrustworthy.
In 1856, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the famous Dred Scott decision, 19 Howard 393, that a runaway slave had to be returned to his "owner." That was the so-called "law of the land," but northern juries didn't buy it. They refused to convict – they overruled the Supreme Court – and the law collapsed.
Remember Prohibition? Most people believe Congress and the States killed it with Repeal, but that was only the last act in the story. The people killed it first by serving on juries and refusing to convict. The people repealed the law. Congress and the States just wrote finis to what the people had already done. Congress typically took credit for it.
In 1969, in U.S. v. Moylan, 417 F. 2d 1002, Justice Sobeloff said this: "We recognize . . . the undisputed power of the jury to acquit, even if its verdict is contrary to the law as given by the judge and contrary to the evidence. . . . [T]he courts can not search the minds of the jurors to find the basis upon which they judge. If the jury feels that the law under which the defendant is accused is unjust . . . the jury has the power to acquit, and the courts must abide by that decision."
In 1972, in U.S. v. Dougherty, 473 F.2d 1113, Judge Leventhal speaks of "The existence of an unreviewable and unreversible power in the jury, to acquit in disregard of the instructions on the law given by the trial judge . . . ." He quotes Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who wrote that "the jury has the power to bring in a verdict in the teeth of both law and facts." He even mentions that the Constitutions of both Indiana and Maryland require that juries be told the judge's instructions on the law are only advisory.
But he doesn't like it. He says there is no "imperative that the jury must be informed by the judge of that power. . . ." In short, he says, hide the power from the people. Why? Because. ". . . To tell him expressly of a nullification prerogative," would be "an overwhelming responsibility, an extreme burden for the jurors' psyche. . . ."
Can you believe the obnoxious effrontery of this judicial pimp? He is saying here that you are a wimp, that you are too puny to govern yourselves; that superior individuals must tell you what to do. In German, they call this der führer prinzip, the leader principle. Sieg Heil!
So, how can you use this? Do everything you can to get on the jury. After the judge tells you he will decide on the law and not to worry your pretty head about it, he will ask whether you agree to serve on the jury under that condition. If you refuse, he will dismiss you. You don't get to serve. So what do you do?
You smile subserviently and you agree. Then, on the jury, you vote to acquit a defendant who, for instance, faces prison on an income tax charge, or for failure to report for duty in Obama's Hitler Youth, or for selling unregistered produce or dietary supplements, or, especially, for exercising his unalienable right to keep and bear arms. You do that "in the teeth of both law and facts."
But, then, wouldn't you have lied? Well, didn't the judge lie? Are you required to be truthful to a man who lies to you; to a man who steps out of an alley and jabs you with a knife; to a man who would steal your freedom? You say you would never lie no matter what? I say you would and can prove it.
You have just finished watching the local news when a man breaks into your home. You have just seen him on the news. He is an escaped serial rapist and he is carrying a twelve gauge widow maker. He asks where your daughter is. The truth is that she is upstairs doing her college algebra homework. What do you tell him?
You lie. You tell him you just took her to the airport. She flew to Katmandu. She will be there for a couple of years doing archeology. If you would tell him the truth, which would tell me you worship your own "purity," that your own "perfection" is more important than your daughter, you are in the wrong place. Goodbye.
Consider that the law is always on trial. It may not be readily apparent, but even the law against murder is always on trial. The subject never is raised, because everyone agrees there should be such a law. Likewise for the laws against armed robbery, embezzlement and rape. But the more verdicts there are against unjust king's laws, the sooner they will be swept away.
Jury nullification and grand jury resuscitation fit together perfectly. We discussed the latter in a recent piece. It is something else the legal bozos have so far kept secret. To learn how to form a real grand jury, go to americangrandjury.org. Consider that doing jury nullification is much easier than forming a grand jury.
All you need do is vote for acquittal. They won't ask you why. If they do, furious, or just frustrated by your monkey wrench vote, you will not say you did it to nullify the law. If you say that, they will throw you into jail. So you will either say nothing or you will smile the subservient smile and say merely that you thought he was innocent.
However ridiculous that sounds, they can't do anything about it. Remember, Judge Sobeloff said the courts "can not search the minds of the jurors to find the basis upon which they judge." They are stuck with it. Jury nullification will become ever more important as the present administration imposes Communist law.
Remember, law is too important to leave to the courts.
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Trade, ``star wars,'' and Arctic sovereignty are the big issues in Canadian-United States relations this year. On the first issue, a special Canadian commission recently recommended scrapping tariffs and opening the borders to free trade between the two nations.
Trade issues have often been the major problem between Canada and the US, which is hardly surprising, as each is the other's No. 1 trading partner.
The proposal calls for easing into free trade over a 10-year period. The idea is politically popular, at least in Canada, where a recent opinion poll shows 80 percent of the population wants closer ties with the United States, compared to 60 percent just three years ago.
The Canadian government is expected this week to ask the US to begin talks on a free-trade agreement.
Canada seems to pick awkward moments for these overtures.
Just two weeks ago Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said no to Canadian participation in President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, or ``star wars'').
``After careful and detailed consideration, the government of Canada has concluded that Canada's own policies and priorities do not warrant a government-to-government effort in support of SDI research,'' Mr. Mulroney said. However, Mulroney did say that Canadian companies were free to pick up any contracts related to SDI.
And last week, External Affairs Minister Joe Clark stood up in the House of Commons to give a stern lecture on Canadian claims to sovereignty in the Arctic.
His remarks followed last month's trip of the US Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Sea through the Northwest Passage. Canada claims these as internal waters; Washington sees the passage as an international strait.
The Canadian government claims all the Arctic islands and the ice-clogged straits and channels that run between them. Ottawa announced plans to beef up its profile in the north, including $500-million (Canadian) for construction of a new icebreaker to patrol the area, plans for Canadian naval operations in the eastern Arctic, and an increased number of military surveillance flights over the Arctic. There are also plans for talks between the two countries on military and commercial uses of the Arctic wat ers.
Mr. Clark's outburst came as the new US ambassador to Canada, Thomas Niles, was holding his first Ottawa news conference across the street.
Niles also repeated the US view that Canada does not have sovereignty in the Northwest Passage.
The recommendation on free trade by the MacDonald Royal Commission, as it is known, was welcome news for the Mulroney government. The prime minister -- a former president of Iron Ore of Canada, an American-controlled company -- is no economic nationalist, and would welcome a free trade agreement with the US.
The trade recommendation came as a surprise to many since the the head of the 13-member commission, Donald MacDonald, is a former Liberal Cabinet minister who once fought against free trade.
Canadian trade with the US has grown dramatically over the past 30 years. In 1954 the US accounted for 60 percent of Canadian exports. By 1984 it was 76 percent.
In 1983 Canada exported C$66.3 billion worth of goods to the US, while importing C$54.1 billion of US goods.
The US, however, may not find Canada's free-trade proposal attractive. Washington was in favor of ``continentalism,'' or a common market, in the 1970s. It may not be now. Recently there have been a number of protectionist bills before the US Congress, many of them aimed at Canadian imports.


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Want to Advance? You Need to Get Noticed at Work. Here's How.
Do you ever feel like you're crushing it at work, doing a great job, but no one really sees it or says anything about it? Meanwhile other people are getting promotions and public kudos, whereas your great work goes uncommented on?
It's okay, it's a normal to feel that way. But how do you fix it? How do you ensure your contributions are being noticed?
In her weekly series Personal Effectiveness Tips, LinkedIn Learning Instructor Dorie Clark laid out a three-step process for getting noticed at work. By following these three steps, you ensure you get the full credit your good work deserves, and the benefits that come with that.
1. Know what's rewarded in your organization.
If you want your work to be recognized at your organization, you need to know what work is recognized at your organization, Clark said. Almost always, there's a pattern – maybe it's collaborating well with others, maybe it's finding cost efficiencies, whatever.
It could be something small too. For example, at some offices people are congratulated for coming in early, whereas working late is met with silence, Clark said. While that's unfair, it's the reality: if you want to be noticed, it probably makes sense to come in earlier than staying later (if possible, obviously).
The point is rather than trying to get your superiors to congratulate you for what you believe is important, determine what they believe is important and deliver on that.
2. Make sure you're working on the right things.
Going along with the last point, how you allocate your time should reflect your organization's priorities. And there's a very easy way to ensure you are focusing on the right things – simply ask your boss.
For example, there are likely several projects you are working on at a given time. Ask your boss – what's the most important? And then budget your time accordingly, by spending the most amount of time on the most important projects.
Seems simple but this is a step many professionals don't take. By focusing on what your boss or your organization cares most about, your contributions will be consistently recognized.
3. Let others know what you are working on – tactfully.
There's a right way and a wrong way to broadcast your successes. The wrong way is to send out an email to dozens of people touting your latest achievement under the guise of an "update", Clark said. That's not good, unless there really is relevant information people should know.
Instead, be prepared for when people invariably ask you "what you are doing?". In the office, we are asked this question countless times throughout the week, and most of us answer with something vague like "same old, same old" – hardly illuminating.
Instead, Clark suggests using this time to highlight what you are working on. For example, Clark suggests saying something like "I'm really excited we hit a new milestone on XYZ project" and explaining a bit.
Not only is this more informative than "same old", it also positions you as someone who can get things done. And it won't be seen as bragging as the person asked the question, particularly if you are gracious about sharing credit on any accomplishment, Clark said.
A word of caution – don't spend your career worrying about if you are getting enough credit for your work. Sometimes, not getting congratulations is a good thing – it means your boss trusts you to do great work and isn't surprised by the results.
That said, you want to make sure you are spending your time on the right things and others see you as someone who can get things done. Not only is this good for your career, it's what's best for the business as well as it means you are making the most impact you can with your time.
These tips ensure you are accomplishing that. By following them, your good work will get the proper attention it deserves.
Hungry to advance your career? Check out Dorie Clark's weekly series, Personal Effectiveness Tips.


"Servant leadership" so often has landed on recent business trends lists that many people think the philosophy — in which leaders share power, put the needs of others first, and help people develop and perform in the workplace — is new. But it isn't.
The term was coined in a 1970 essay titled "The Servant as Leader" written by Robert Greenleaf, founder of the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership. Still, many are unsure what servant leadership looks like and what they can do to become such a leader. Real-life examples of and from servant leaders offer a place to start.
One leader who credits servant leadership for her success is Cheryl Bachelder, former CEO of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen and author of Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others. She led a 2017 "Top 10 servant leadership list" in Inc.
Bachelder earlier told Business Insider: "The biggest distinction of a leader who serves others versus themselves is the ability to listen. When you listen, you hear people's objections, anxieties, and fears — and you also hear the solutions.
"Most people discount this as nice-guy leadership that's about hugs and campfires," she added. "Very few people have considered it might be the most effective. The greatest benefit is superior performance." Bachelder says servant leadership is what helped her achieve a turnaround at Popeyes, where the stock quadrupled while she was CEO. It was sold in 2017 to Burger King owner Restaurant Brands International Inc. for $1.8 billion, prompting Bachelder's departure.
Such performance benefits are backed up in research by the University of Illinois at Chicago, which found that when managers create a culture where workers know the boss puts employees' needs over his or her own, there are measurable improvements in multiple facets of a business.
Herb Kelleher, the late co-founder and CEO of Southwest Airlines, was an ardent supporter of service leadership and believed that "the business of business is people." During his tenure at Southwest, Kelleher implemented 10 Customer First Principles that guided the airline's famous customer-first mentality. He also started a set of Employee First Principles, which are the Customer First Principles with "employee" subbed in for "customer." The result? A workplace that aims to respect all individuals.
Southwest Airlines hosted a barbeque in honor of Kelleher that took place during the recent partial government shutdown. Southwest employees in Oakland, California, put Kelleher's values into action by including TSA workers affected by the shutdown in the festivities.
For more on servant leadership, read Convene's recent coverage of how serving is the new way of leading and how that is resonating in the business events industry.


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It's time to start moving forward on transit—that's why we must support Seattle Transportation Benefit District Proposition 1 on the November general election ballot. Passing this measure is an essential first step to provide transit to serve the greatest number of riders in Seattle.
Transportation Prop 1 significantly improves from the county-wide transportation measure that failed at the ballot (due to suburban opposition) last April. That measure spent heavily on roads in addition to funding Metro bus service. In contrast, Proposition 1 is a transit-only city measure that will fund Seattle bus routes.
This measure's funding will help preserve the integrity of our existing bus system. If this measure does not pass, we will face deep potential bus cuts next year that will directly impact thousands of Seattle residents. Last week, King County announced a round of bus service cuts that will take effect in February 2015 and deny thousands of Seattleites bus service to get around.
Traffic is already bad enough in Seattle. Cutting bus service will make things even worse; we don't want thousands of cars getting back on the roads because their drivers can't take the bus anymore.
Over the course of next year, as many as 45 bus routes in Seattle could be deleted or revised—harming our ability to get to work and school and cutting a lifeline for seniors, while disproportionately harming lower-income Seattleites for whom Metro provides a transportation lifeline. Transportation Prop 1 will ensure that that those lines remain intact and that we continue moving forward on transit.
We don't think this measure is perfect. Some readers may recall that we preferred a different funding mechanism—one based on more progressive tax measures–to pay for this critical bus service. But a majority of the City Council wanted to play it safe and use the same revenue sources—a $60 vehicle-licensing fee and a .1% sales tax—that 66 percent of Seattle voters had already voted to support in April.
There will be opportunities in the future to add progressive funding sources to our revenue system (if we fight for them!). For now, the important thing is to ensure that this Seattle-only, transit-only measure is successful at the ballot so that we determine for ourselves the level of transit service we need in our city.
Bus service is vital for many seniors, students, and working families who depend on the bus to get to work, school, and services. Proposition 1 provides up to $2 million for low-income bus riders, including efforts to help qualified riders easily access Metro's new low-income fare program, which starts in March 2015. Low-income drivers are also eligible for a $20 rebate on the vehicle-licensing fee.
We know our current transit system isn't meeting demand and needs to be expanded. Transportation Proposition 1 is the first step to get the transit we need in Seattle while we work on a regional, long-term solution. That's why we urge you to vote yes on Seattle Transportation Benefit District Proposition One.
Nick Licata and Kshama Sawant are Seattle City Councilmembers.


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import json
import os
import re
import tempfile

# These labels should match the ones output by gtest's JSON.
TEST_UNKNOWN_LABEL = 'UNKNOWN'
TEST_SUCCESS_LABEL = 'SUCCESS'
TEST_FAILURE_LABEL = 'FAILURE'
TEST_CRASH_LABEL = 'CRASH'
TEST_TIMEOUT_LABEL = 'TIMEOUT'
TEST_WARNING_LABEL = 'WARNING'

class XCTestLogParser(object):
  """This helper class process XCTest test output."""

  def __init__(self):
    # State tracking for log parsing
    self.completed = False
    self._current_test = ''
    self._failure_description = []
    self._current_report_hash = ''
    self._current_report = []
    self._parsing_failures = False

    # Line number currently being processed.
    self._line_number = 0

    # List of parsing errors, as human-readable strings.
    self._internal_error_lines = []

    # Tests are stored here as 'test.name': (status, [description]).
    # The status should be one of ('started', 'OK', 'failed', 'timeout',
    # 'warning'). Warning indicates that a test did not pass when run in
    # parallel with other tests but passed when run alone. The description is
    # a list of lines detailing the test's error, as reported in the log.
    self._test_status = {}

    # This may be either text or a number. It will be used in the phrase
    # '%s disabled' or '%s flaky' on the waterfall display.
    self._disabled_tests = 0
    self._flaky_tests = 0

    test_name_regexp = r'\-\[(\w+)\s(\w+)\]'
    self._test_name = re.compile(test_name_regexp)
    self._test_start = re.compile(
        r'Test Case \'' + test_name_regexp + '\' started\.')
    self._test_ok = re.compile(
        r'Test Case \'' + test_name_regexp +
          '\' passed\s+\(\d+\.\d+\s+seconds\)?.')
    self._test_fail = re.compile(
        r'Test Case \'' + test_name_regexp +
          '\' failed\s+\(\d+\.\d+\s+seconds\)?.')
    self._test_passed = re.compile(r'\*\*\s+TEST\s+EXECUTE\s+SUCCEEDED\s+\*\*')
    self._retry_message = re.compile('RETRYING FAILED TESTS:')
    self.retrying_failed = False

    self.TEST_STATUS_MAP = {
      'OK': TEST_SUCCESS_LABEL,
      'failed': TEST_FAILURE_LABEL,
      'timeout': TEST_TIMEOUT_LABEL,
      'warning': TEST_WARNING_LABEL
    }

  def GetCurrentTest(self):
    return self._current_test

  def _StatusOfTest(self, test):
    """Returns the status code for the given test, or 'not known'."""
    test_status = self._test_status.get(test, ('not known', []))
    return test_status[0]

  def _TestsByStatus(self, status, include_fails, include_flaky):
    """Returns list of tests with the given status.

    Args:
      include_fails: If False, tests containing 'FAILS_' anywhere in their
          names will be excluded from the list.
      include_flaky: If False, tests containing 'FLAKY_' anywhere in their
          names will be excluded from the list.
    """
    test_list = [x[0] for x in self._test_status.items()
                 if self._StatusOfTest(x[0]) == status]

    if not include_fails:
      test_list = [x for x in test_list if x.find('FAILS_') == -1]
    if not include_flaky:
      test_list = [x for x in test_list if x.find('FLAKY_') == -1]

    return test_list

  def _RecordError(self, line, reason):
    """Record a log line that produced a parsing error.

    Args:
      line: text of the line at which the error occurred
      reason: a string describing the error
    """
    self._internal_error_lines.append('%s: %s [%s]' %
                                      (self._line_number, line.strip(), reason))

  def RunningTests(self):
    """Returns list of tests that appear to be currently running."""
    return self._TestsByStatus('started', True, True)

  def ParsingErrors(self):
    """Returns a list of lines that have caused parsing errors."""
    return self._internal_error_lines

  def ClearParsingErrors(self):
    """Clears the currently stored parsing errors."""
    self._internal_error_lines = ['Cleared.']

  def PassedTests(self, include_fails=False, include_flaky=False):
    """Returns list of tests that passed."""
    return self._TestsByStatus('OK', include_fails, include_flaky)

  def FailedTests(self, include_fails=False, include_flaky=False):
    """Returns list of tests that failed, timed out, or didn't finish
    (crashed).

    This list will be incorrect until the complete log has been processed,
    because it will show currently running tests as having failed.

    Args:
      include_fails: If true, all failing tests with FAILS_ in their names will
          be included. Otherwise, they will only be included if they crashed or
          timed out.
      include_flaky: If true, all failing tests with FLAKY_ in their names will
          be included. Otherwise, they will only be included if they crashed or
          timed out.

    """
    return (self._TestsByStatus('failed', include_fails, include_flaky) +
            self._TestsByStatus('timeout', True, True) +
            self._TestsByStatus('warning', include_fails, include_flaky) +
            self.RunningTests())

  def TriesForTest(self, test):
    """Returns a list containing the state for all tries of the given test.
    This parser doesn't support retries so a single result is returned."""
    return [self.TEST_STATUS_MAP.get(self._StatusOfTest(test),
                                    TEST_UNKNOWN_LABEL)]

  def FailureDescription(self, test):
    """Returns a list containing the failure description for the given test.

    If the test didn't fail or timeout, returns [].
    """
    test_status = self._test_status.get(test, ('', []))
    return ['%s: ' % test] + test_status[1]

  def CompletedWithoutFailure(self):
    """Returns True if all tests completed and no tests failed unexpectedly."""
    return self.completed

  def ProcessLine(self, line):
    """This is called once with each line of the test log."""

    # Track line number for error messages.
    self._line_number += 1

    # Some tests (net_unittests in particular) run subprocesses which can write
    # stuff to shared stdout buffer. Sometimes such output appears between new
    # line and gtest directives ('[  RUN  ]', etc) which breaks the parser.
    # Code below tries to detect such cases and recognize a mixed line as two
    # separate lines.

    # List of regexps that parses expects to find at the start of a line but
    # which can be somewhere in the middle.
    gtest_regexps = [
      self._test_start,
      self._test_ok,
      self._test_fail,
      self._test_passed,
    ]

    for regexp in gtest_regexps:
      match = regexp.search(line)
      if match:
        break

    if not match or match.start() == 0:
      self._ProcessLine(line)
    else:
      self._ProcessLine(line[:match.start()])
      self._ProcessLine(line[match.start():])

  def _ProcessLine(self, line):
    """Parses the line and changes the state of parsed tests accordingly.

    Will recognize newly started tests, OK or FAILED statuses, timeouts, etc.
    """

    # Is it a line declaring all tests passed?
    results = self._test_passed.match(line)
    if results:
      self.completed = True
      self._current_test = ''
      return

    # Is it the start of a test?
    results = self._test_start.match(line)
    if results:
      if self._current_test:
        if self._test_status[self._current_test][0] == 'started':
          self._test_status[self._current_test] = (
              'timeout', self._failure_description)
      test_name = '%s.%s' % (results.group(1), results.group(2))
      self._test_status[test_name] = ('started', ['Did not complete.'])
      self._current_test = test_name
      if self.retrying_failed:
        self._failure_description = self._test_status[test_name][1]
        self._failure_description.extend(['', 'RETRY OUTPUT:', ''])
      else:
        self._failure_description = []
      return

    # Is it a test success line?
    results = self._test_ok.match(line)
    if results:
      test_name = '%s.%s' % (results.group(1), results.group(2))
      status = self._StatusOfTest(test_name)
      if status != 'started':
        self._RecordError(line, 'success while in status %s' % status)
      if self.retrying_failed:
        self._test_status[test_name] = ('warning', self._failure_description)
      else:
        self._test_status[test_name] = ('OK', [])
      self._failure_description = []
      self._current_test = ''
      return

    # Is it a test failure line?
    results = self._test_fail.match(line)
    if results:
      test_name = '%s.%s' % (results.group(1), results.group(2))
      status = self._StatusOfTest(test_name)
      if status not in ('started', 'failed', 'timeout'):
        self._RecordError(line, 'failure while in status %s' % status)
      # Don't overwrite the failure description when a failing test is listed a
      # second time in the summary, or if it was already recorded as timing
      # out.
      if status not in ('failed', 'timeout'):
        self._test_status[test_name] = ('failed', self._failure_description)
      self._failure_description = []
      self._current_test = ''
      return

    # Is it the start of the retry tests?
    results = self._retry_message.match(line)
    if results:
      self.retrying_failed = True
      return

    # Random line: if we're in a test, collect it for the failure description.
    # Tests may run simultaneously, so this might be off, but it's worth a try.
    # This also won't work if a test times out before it begins running.
    if self._current_test:
      self._failure_description.append(line)


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Lena Headey wasn't satisfied with Cersei's death: 'I was kind of gutted'
Gabbi Shaw - June 16, 2019
"I will say I wanted a better death," the "Game of Thrones" actress said of her character's anticlimactic demise.
'Game of Thrones' stars Maisie Williams and Lena Headey were disappointed their characters didn't have a final showdown
Callie Ahlgrim - May 22, 2019
On the final season of HBO's hit show, Cersei Lannister was one of the few remaining names left on Arya Stark's iconic kill list.
Making Daenerys a 'Mad Queen' on 'Game of Thrones' is the culmination of every demeaning sexist trope over the show's 8 ...
By turning the final season into a showdown between two "Mad Queens," the HBO drama played directly into the show's history of misogyny.
People think 'Game of Thrones' season 8, episode 5 was a big metaphor for the US's disastrous Iraq War
John Haltiwanger, Business Insider US - May 13, 2019
In the latest episode, a lot of people think Daenerys Targaryen essentially turned into former President George W. Bush. Warning, spoilers ahead.
'Game of Thrones' gave Cersei an unexpected role on Sunday's climactic episode and fans are bewildered
On HBO's "Game of Thrones," Lena Headey's Cersei Lannister has been the show's most devious, hated villain throughout all eight seasons.
'Game of Thrones' just upended a deadly book-only prophecy, but another key piece of foreshadowing came true
Kim Renfro - May 13, 2019
HBO's adaptation of "A Song of Ice and Fire" never mentioned the "valonqar" prophecy directly, but still brought Jaime and Cersei's stories together.
'The Mountain' actor from 'Game of Thrones' issued an Instagram apology to the character he killed in the latest episode: R...
Tom Murray - May 9, 2019
Icelandic strongman Hafthor Julius Bjornsson apologized to his costar on Instagram. Warning: Spoilers inside.
In campaign memoir, Hillary Clinton compared herself to Cersei Lannister from 'Game of Thrones'
Eliza Relman, Business Insider US - September 12, 2017
In "What Happened," Hillary Clinton compares herself to "Games of Thrones" character Cersei Lannister, who faced persecution by religious fanatics.
The entire plot of 'Game of Thrones' season 7 leaked before the finale — and it reveals one crucial scene that never aired
Ben Gilbert, Business Insider US - September 1, 2017
The season seven "Game of Thrones" finale showed that Cersei Lannister was pregnant. But a leaked plot outline suggested she should have had a miscarriage.
The most important 'Game of Thrones' characters, according to how much screen time they get
Nick Vega, Business Insider US - July 13, 2017
Longevity is a rare thing in the world of "Game of Thrones," and most characters struggled to make it up this list of most screen time.


The above is the restaurant's signature dish; Hakka Steamed Salted Chicken. The meat were firm and the skin was gelatinous.
Marian picked the Deep Fried Tofu with Chili Salt. The tofu was crispy on the outside. Marian asked for vinegar for dipping the tofu to cut the greasiness from the deep frying.
We also ordered the Hakka Pork Belly with Preserved Vegetables since this restaurant's specialty is Hakka cuisine. The preserved vegetables go well with steamed rice.
The rice came in one big bowl.
To balance our meal, we had Eggplant with Spicy Garlic Sauce Hotpot. This is the only dish that we managed to finish.
The set came with a complementary dessert. The red bean soup was sweet and on the watery side.
We paid cash for the meal. It was so good to meet up with you ladies. I'm really happy for Emily for her daughter's wedding coming up next year. I wish Marian and Lorna to have a smooth plan for the trip to Wuxi for the wedding and vacation.


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A Friendly Global FU
Posted on October 13, 2020 October 12, 2020 by Team Penthouse
Article by Thomas Morton
The first things any good traveler learns when he or she visits a new country are the basic words and phrases of its native tongue. Hello and goodbye. Thank you. Please. Coffee, water, beer.
How To Say "F***" Around The World
And though it's a little more advanced, we'd also recommend, I'm deeply sorry for the public urination, officer. My bladder was about to burst.
But the second thing? How to swear like a trucker.
There's a scene in Don DeLillo's novel The Names where an American living in Greece is driving with some British friends. He mistakenly turns into a one-way Athens street and the driver coming at him gestures obscenely and yells a Greek word unfamiliar to the American. One of the Brits translates: "Masturbator."
Another Brit chastises the American for his ignorance, arguing that learning "local terms of abuse and the words for sex acts and natural wastes" is a mark of respect for the culture. Meanwhile, Nobel Prize-winning Mexican poet Octavio Paz says cussing is "the only living language in a world of anemic vocables."
And you know what? The fucker's right!
Curse words are not only the funniest, most exciting part of any language, they're also a great way to blend in with locals and tap into a place's psyche. Consider "shit." What does it say about us that we use the word for everything from actual excrement to our personal possessions to a bratty little kid?
Or take "motherfucker." Any foreigner unclear on our society's stance on incest would get set straight pretty motherfucking fast if they heard us spit out the word.
There's also a practical reason for boning up on foreign profanities and slurs: It can save your ass. Knuckleheads, skinheads, fuckheads, homophobes, racists, and other assholes like to yell shit before they jump you, if that's their game. But there are nuances. The odds of imminent violence go down if the word "cunt" is spoken by an Englishman. On the flip side, if a Canadian twice the size of an average NHL player calls you a "goof" in a bar, you better head for the nearest exit.
Here, then, is our guide to the world's curse words, sex words, and you-better-run words, with an emphasis on the greatest of them all, the f-word.
You may be familiar with the verb chingar. It might seem like a pretty literal cognate to the English verb "fuck," with all its offshoots. You can't get much closer to being a fucker than being un chingón. Except in English, sometimes the word "fucker" can express admiration or affection. Like when we say, "He's such a funny fucker!" Or, "Are you kidding? I love the fucker!" This approving sense is completely absent in chinga.
Etymologically, chingar means "to rip apart." Octavio Paz attributes the word's implicit violence to the Spanish conquistadors who chingado'd — fucked — the Aztec Empire right down the middle. This makes Hernán Cortés the original chingón, but remember, for every fucker there has to be a fuckee. It's simple physics.
In the case of Cortés, his chingada — that which he fucked — wasn't just the social fabric of indigenous Mexico. He also literally fucked his native guide and interpreter, Malintzin, aka Doña Marina, leaving her pregnant with the first mestizo child in history, and leaving the mixed-race children to come with the mother of all mommy issues. Traditional nicknames for Malintzin include La Malinche — roughly the Mexican equivalent of Benedict Arnold — La Llorona, the weeping wife, and, easy enough, La Chingada. So if you've ever wondered why some Mexicans get so worked up over the casual suggestion that they chinga their madre, maybe it's because their ancestral madre got about as fucked as you can get.
The French, go figure, have a ludicrous number of expressions for fucking — more words for the act than sexual positions detailed in the Kama Sutra and practiced at Kink.com's legendary Armory porn studio combined. They also have a variety of excellent fuck-yous, from the plosively straightforward baise-toi to the concise t'encul, which makes the five syllables of "fuck your own ass out" seem like sputtering overkill.
Too many people are angry these days. When we can finally all travel again, Penthouse has decided a friendly Global FU might just be the perfect way to break the ice at a new travel location.
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Wood Auto Supplies Ltd is one of the UK's largest independent distributors of auto-electrical products with a huge range from rotating electrics to the smallest electrical component and accessory.
Their CV range includes genuine OE starters and alternators from Bosch and Mitsubishi which Majorsell are now making available to the truck and bus aftermarket in the UK and Ireland from our own stock or by direct ship from Wood Autos' UK based warehouse facilities where necessary.
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that transforms dark winter days into magical winter days. Who couldn't use a warming up in the cold, a lighting up in the darkness? Who couldn't use a little lightening up?
Every year around this time we put together a card—many a time starting in September—cutting ribbons, punching holes and stamping pretty things on paper. I love the slowing down that's required when we sit down and look through every. single. picture from our year. Perspective.
Giving that lights up another is renewable. There's plenty more where that came from. Right? Giving from our greatest resource: our love, is everything. The rest is just filler. It's just stuff. Let's remember to remember: more love, less fluff.
Give the love, not the stuff.
Let the things in your heart be the things you want in your heart.
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El Partit de la Restauració del Japó (日本維新の会 Nippon Ishin no Kai, abreviat com a PRJ) fou un partit polític japonés que existí des del 2012 fins al 2014, fundat i liderat pel batlle d'Osaka, en Tōru Hashimoto i pel Governador de Tòquio, en Shintaro Ishihara.

El 17 de novembre de 2012, Hashimoto i Ishihara van acordar la fusió dels seus respectius partits per crear una "tercera força" que concurrira a les eleccions generals de 2012. En aquells temps, el Partit de la Restauració del Japó va ser l'únic partit d'àmbit nacional amb seu fora de Tòquio. El partit va aconseguir 54 escons a la cambra baixa i 9 a la cambra alta.

El 28 de maig de 2014, els dos líders del partit, Hashimoto i Ishihara van decidir la dissolució del partit després de moltes diferències internes. Com a resultat d'això, Shintaro Ishihara va fundar amb el seu sector el Partit per a les Generacions Futures. Poc després, Hashimoto es va fusionar amb un altre partit creant així el Partit de l'Innovació del Japó.

Ideologia i polítiques
 El partit tenia un manifest de huit punts anomenat "Les huit polítiques per a la restauració". Aquestes polítiques cobrien més de 200 afers de governament, política econòmica, el benestar social, l'educació, la diplomàcia i l'abandonament de la política del "Japó com amant dels EUA", en paraules de la formació.
 De forma poc usual per a un partit conservador, defenien el matrimoni homosexual.
 El partit donava suport a la revisió de la Constitució del Japó, anomenada per la formació com "la Constitució de l'ocupació".

Llista de presidents

Resultats electorals

Eleccions generals

Eleccions a la Cambra de Consellers del Japó

Referències

Partits polítics japonesos desapareguts


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