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Beeck Data + Digital projects featured in Ideas That Transform series
October 13, 2020 – By Cori Zarek
Since 2014, the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation at Georgetown University has led the way with new ideas and approaches to reimagine our institutions to ensure they are designed to serve the people who need them most.
We know we can track our package or pizza delivery every step of the way, but not an application for unemployment insurance. The technology exists, it's just not accessible to everyone—and of course public services are far more complicated than packages and pizzas. We've looked at many of these systems to understand the tools and practices needed to make them better so we can work with institutions to implement change. Our Data + Digital portfolio now features nearly 30 fellows, students, and staff, and has organized around three main pillars to reimagine and rebuild trust in our institutions: Public Interest Technology Field Building, Data for Impact, and Infrastructure for Opportunity.
In the coming weeks, we're partnering with our collaborators to feature some of this work as part of the Beeck Center's Ideas That Transform series—we hope you'll join us to hear more about what we've been up to.
Public Interest Technology Field Building
The past decade has seen the founding and rise of what our friends at the Ford Foundation and New America have identified as public interest technology—using the tools and practices of modern design, data, and technology to work toward better outcomes in society. As the field matures, we've been thinking a lot about how to raise its profile for greater credibility, to support public interest technology workers through skills building and mentorship opportunities, and how to cultivate community among those of us doing this work. Here are a couple events where you can learn more about our Public Interest Tech Field Building work.
Book club: The Beeck Center's Taylor Campbell talks with public interest tech leader Cyd Harrell on lessons from Cyd's new book, A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide, on Tuesday, Oct. 20 at 1pm ET. Taylor and Cyd will focus on ways that curious, passionate people who work in private-sector tech can become civic technologists and use their careers to make a different kind of impact. Register
Managing change: Transitions are a way of life in government—whether there's a change in management, new policies to carry out, or even a new administration—and we're bringing together colleagues who have navigated a number of government transitions with a focus on continued support for data and tech through those changes. Join us on Thursday, Oct. 22 at 1pm ET for this conversation. Register
The Beeck Center has long known that data can drive economic prosperity, more effective policies, and help us measure what matters. In projects pressing for data-driven approaches at all levels of government and throughout communities, Beeck fellows have led the way to make the case for data as a priority and to train teams to best use data to carry out their work. Chief Data Officers in government have a critical role helping governments prioritize data as a way to achieve their policy goals, and since September 2019, the Beeck Center has been leading states in this work as the home of the State Chief Data Officers Network. We'll feature their work in an event next week.
Data-driven recovery: Join Tyler Kleykamp and Katya Abazajian on Monday, Oct. 19 at 12:15pm ET for a conversation about how neighborhood data can support state and local economic recovery from this pandemic in an event held in partnership with Smart Cities Week. Register
Infrastructure for Opportunity
When our systems use leading-edge practices and tools, they're better equipped to serve people and to make it easier for the workers administering them. From reimagining foster care licensing, to scaling tools to make it easier for families to apply for social safety net benefits, to developing open source software for high-priority policy needs like unemployment insurance and paid family leave, our fellows and partners are rebuilding the infrastructure we need for greater opportunity and better outcomes. Learn more about some of this work in these upcoming events.
Follow the money: Government technology policies and projects often come with big budgets and relatively little oversight—and, unsurprisingly, most fail. Beeck fellows Robin Carnahan and Waldo Jaquith spent four years at 18F pushing for better ways to budget for and oversee government tech projects to make them less risky and documented it in the recently released De-Risking Guide for government technology. Join them on Wednesday, Oct. 21 at 3pm ET for lessons that other government teams can adopt to avoid costly projects that don't deliver. Register
Fostering better outcomes: Child welfare programs across the country help some of our country's most vulnerable children and do so with limited resources. Non-governmental organizations such as Foster America and Think of Us work with partners, parents, and children to support and reimagine what's possible. Beeck fellow Emily Tavoulareas has partnered with New America fellow Marina Nitze, these organizations, and public servants across the country to co-create the Child Welfare Playbook that captures tested best practices in a manner that is easy for others to adopt and replicate. Emily will facilitate a conversation with child welfare leaders on the results of recent field research examining how to improve life outcomes for youth of the foster system. Join us on Wednesday, Oct. 28 at 4 p.m. ET. Register
Through all of our efforts, we aim to work in the open and document what we find so others can learn from it and scale what works. We also work collaboratively with others—these efforts rely on entire ecosystems to be successful and we aim to convene and coordinate networks and communities of practice to work together for greater impact. Finally, we know this work is never done, so we invite you to pull up a chair and hear what we've been up to through this series and we look forward to adding more chairs at the table so we can do this important work together.
Cori Zarek is the Director of the Data + Digital portfolio at the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation. Follow her at @corizarek.
May 20, 2020 | By Hollie Russon Gilman
The U.S. response to COVID-19 has demonstrated the fault lines of democracy. COVID-19, like all crises, disproportionately affects communities long marginalized in America, and is a reminder that our democracy's political inequalities stem from and exacerbate other societal inequalities. In Milwaukee for example, ProPublica reports that Black Americans make up over 80% of fatalities from COVID-19, despite accounting for a quarter of the county population.
COVID-19 strips bare the structural conditions that showcase our country's democratic, political, and economic inequalities. In my recently co-authored book Civic Power: Rebuilding American Democracy in an Era of Crisis, with Sabeel Rahman, President of Demos, we argue that we need to genuinely empower people in order to rebuild our democracy. We need to build a more participatory governance centered on people, especially women and communities of color, which have been structurally excluded from having a political voice. This is the moment for building the democracy of the future.
On May 11, 2020, Hollie Russon Gilman hosted a webinar on her most recent book, "Civic Power: Rebuilding American Democracy in an Era of Crisis." Watch and learn more of her insights.
Too often civic engagement is merely a public relations campaign or people are not meaningfully engaged in decision making. This kind of lip-service civic engagement runs the risk of further alienating communities and increasing the two-way trust deficit in the United States. Public officials are worried about engaging the public for fear of criticism or rebuke, and community members, especially those in vulnerable communities, are rightly mistrustful of the government's intentions. On the local level, there is often an opportunity for deepening engagement and there are lower levels of mistrust.
What does rebuilding civic power look like in this moment of crisis?
First, it requires building multi-racial, multi-ethnic models of organizing which empower new leadership. Take Coworker.org, a platform for organizing non-union workers. Coworker.org has seen dramatic increases in workers using the platform to organize, demanding basic health and safety protections from their employers. This has included Instacart and grocery workers who deliver food, often without PPE and putting their health and safety at risk. Across the country, we are seeing organizations tap into the power of grassroots communities to empower workers, build new models for engagement, and pushing for policy reform.
Building new organizing models requires reducing the barriers to entry so that new voices can be empowered. It requires investing in a new-generation of leadership and ensuring we create robust fellowship, training, and mentorship opportunities to ensure more diverse leadership to build and organize civic power.
Second, building civic power requires empowering community residents with their government in new ways. We are already seeing communities work together in new ways during this crisis, Several cities are experimenting with new forms of public engagement reducing the barriers to entry and enabling online engagement. From Miami, Florida to Brentwood, Tennessee, public officials are leveraging digital technology to enable more direct communication and participation between residents and their public officials.
Communities are also self-organizing to find innovative solutions to reinvigorate civic life. Madison, Wisconsin's clerk is partnering with the Madison Public Library to temporarily convert book drops into absentee ballot dropboxes. Libraries are already closed, so the book drops are being exclusively used for ballots. This is a creative way to use existing resources.
Ultimately, we need to build models of governance which provide a two-way mechanism for residents to be involved in their day-to-day of their democracy. Democratic participation should not be confined to every 2 or 4 years of voting. But rather we need to tap into the expertise of on-the-ground communities to re-design and innovative on policy.
This is a process which will not occur quickly, but rather it requires investing in the more durable, lasting infrastructure of democracy to build the institutional structures which support, retain, and train talent.
Hollie Russon Gilman, Beeck Center Fellow, is a political scientist and a Fellow at New America and teaches at Columbia University.


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Sadly, the dangers of being overweight aren't popularized as they should… Every single weight loss system on the market fights the battle against the bulge emphasizing the appearance factor. But there really is no debate that the primary concern of being overweight is your health, NOT your appearance!
Read on to discover the full spectrum of risks and the solution to transforming your body AND your health in the minimum amount of time (less than 8 weeks) – or, jump straight to the solution now.
In talking about the dangers of being overweight and the impact of the morbid obesity rates, the statistics are scary. In case you're wondering… In the United States 63.1% of adults are overweight or obese – according to the 2009 Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index findings.
related to being overweight or obese.
So, if – despite your efforts – you can't get and keep the extra pounds off, be sure to address the underlying issues that could make you unable to lose weight and facing a greater risk of chronic diseases, as you'll see in a moment.
The dangers of being overweight are way beyond your appearance and body shape! They span from social and psychological problems to metabolic, cardiovascular, sleep, joint and even cancer-related health problems.
When it comes to overweight people and their careers, there are some sad statistics out there. For example, one research study, "Morbid Obesity, Occupational Attainment, and Earnings" published in Social Science Quarterly found that heavier people are more likely to work in low paying jobs being often left out of high-paying positions.
Should this be acceptable? NO. But whether you like it or not, this is the frustrating reality and it impacts greatly the life of millions of people.
Type-2 diabetes (non-insulin dependent): Overweight people experience 100% increased risk of developing type-2 diabetes than people at a healthy weight. With type-2 diabetes, your blood sugar becomes hard to control causing havoc in all your body's systems. Type-2 diabetes is a VERY serious health issue, the single most important contributing factor to many other health problems including kidney disease, blindness, heart disease, even premature death.
Heart disease and Stroke: Did you know that heart disease and stroke are the main causes of death and disability for people in the US? It's true. That's because being overweight increases the incidence of high blood pressure, a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke. Being overweight also elevates your blood cholesterol and triglycerides (blood fats) levels leading to heart disease, including Angina Pectoris, a type of chest pain caused by decreased oxygen to the heart.
Cancer: Among the dangers of being overweight you can't ignore the higher risk of developing certain types of cancer. For example, overweight women are at greater risk of developing gallbladder, ovary, uterus, breast and colon cancer. Overweight men risk developing prostate and colon cancer more often than men at a healthy weight.
Osteoarthritis: Overweight people commonly suffer from this serious joint disorder, which affects the lower back, knees and hips. When you carry a lot of extra weight your risk of osteoarthritis is higher because there's much more pressure on these joints. Studies have shown that for every 2 pound increase in body weight, the risk of developing arthritis is increased by 9-13%. Luckily, your arthritis symptoms will improve as you lose weight.
Gout: Gout is another form of arthritis frequently experienced by overweight people. This joint disease is caused by higher concentrations of uric acid in the blood, which leads to the formation of needlelike tiny crystals deposited in the joints. This causes great pain and mobility problems. You should know that the higher your body weight, the higher your risk of developing gout.
Sleep Apnea: One of the risks of being overweight affecting the sleep patterns, sleep apnea can cause you to snore heavily and even to stop breathing for short periods of time during sleep. Sleep apnea may cause daytime sleepiness and even heart failure. The risk of experiencing sleep apnea increases with a higher body weight.
Poor Female Reproductive Health: This is one of the dangers of being overweight that is often overlooked. Infertility, irregular ovulation, multiple complications of pregnancy, and increased risk of birth defects are just a few of the risks associated with being out of the healthy weight range.
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Pensions (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008
Acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly
Private pensions
Changes over time for: Cross Heading: Private pensions
Pensions (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008, Cross Heading: Private pensions is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 29 January 2023. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
s. 24(1)(c) inserted by 2016 c. 1 (N.I.) Sch. 2 para. 39(2)(d)
Private pensionsN.I.
Abolition of safeguarded rightsN.I.
79 Part 3A of the Pension Schemes Act (safeguarded rights) ceases to have effect.
Revaluation of accrued benefits etc.N.I.
80—(1) Schedule 1, which—
(a)amends Schedule 2 to the Pension Schemes Act (methods of revaluing accrued pension benefits),
(b)amends Schedule 6 to the 2005 Order (pension compensation provisions), and
(c)makes consequential amendments,
has effect.
(2) The amendments made by Parts 1 and 3 of Schedule 1 do not apply in relation to a revaluation period ending before this section comes into operation.
(3) In subsection (2) "revaluation period" has the same meaning as in paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 2 to the Pension Schemes Act.
I1S. 80 partly in operation; s. 80 not in operation at Royal Assent see s. 118(1); s. 80 in operation for certain purposes at 6.4.2009 by S.R. 2009/22, art. 2(2)(c); s. 80(1) in operation for certain purposes at 6.4.2009 by S.R. 2009/147, art. 3
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Half Life Alyx
Pee Fire Thanks to the New Sims 4 Update Glitch
Of all the new content coming out for The Sims 4, peeing fire was not one we were expecting. Neither was EA, either.
Published June 4, 2020, 1:36 p.m. about The Sims 4
by Liana Ruppert
The Sims 4 has a new update on the way with the Eco Lifestyle expansion that is coming out later this week and to prep for the new content drop, a new patch has just gone live and comes with major changes to the game - including a few unintentional ones. If one of your life goals was to learn how to pee fire, then you're in luck! Don't let your dreams be dreams, kids, the new Sims 4 update lets you do just that.
The fire debacle began on Reddit with the below image provided by redditor FelinNeko and it is glorious:
You can't believe it's not butter? I can't believe it's not an STD! But no, seriously, that looks like a problem and you should problem get that checked out because y i k e s.
There are other bugs and glitches being reported thanks to the big update pushed before the coming expansion: not being able to get into a game, missing inventory, glitched out characters, delayed responses. The usual, it's a game, updates are meant to make changes to said game and sometimes those changes don't interact with each other the way that they are intended to. It happens, it'll get fixed, but until that fix happens let's revel in the fact that hell is literally pouring out of bodily orifices. That's metal af.
Related: Learn More About the Sims 4 Eco Lifestyle Expansion Here
"We're thrilled to give players the opportunity to explore an eco-friendly way of living in The Sims and play the change they want to see," said George Pigula, Producer of The Sims 4 Eco Lifestyle Expansion Pack, when the new content was announced. "By discovering and practicing sustainable habits, like using solar panels or wind turbines to power their electricity, or upcycling materials to create new furniture, players and their Sims can play with life in all-new ways."
Netflix's The Tiger King hilariously recreated in The Sims 4
Get Baby Yoda in the Sims 4, because why not?
Create your Sim off of personality quizzes, here's how
The Sims 4 Eco Lifestyle expansion pack officially arrives on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC on June 5th! Are you hoping to keep the peeing of fuego in the game, or just excited for the new launch? Sound off with your thoughts over on Twitter @PrimaGames and let us know what you'd like to see next from EA regarding the popular simulation game!
Liana Ruppert
With an arguably unhealthy obsession with Dragon Age and Mass Effect, Liana is wildly passionate about all things in the gaming community. From shooters, to RPGs, if it's out - she's playing it. A medically retired US Sailor and now full-time hoarder of gaming collectibles, Liana's passion for everything in the gaming industry is palpable. Also, if you lose her in a crowd, just casually mention any BioWare game and the crazy pterodactyl screech will without a doubt follow. You can follow her on Twitter @DirtyEffinHippy or email her for editorial inquiries at liana.ruppert@primagames.com!
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Suppressing the vote is in the news a lot this election. Several media organizations have reported that the Trump campaign is trying to suppress the vote in an attempt to win the election. Voter suppression can occur through discouraging people to vote by running a negative campaign or disenfranchising voters by claiming that the system is rigged and votes don't really matter. Votes can also be suppressed by managing resources in a sinister way.
There were very long voting lines in Ohio (a battleground state) in 2004, 2008, and 2012 that led some to question state officials motives. A 2008 NY Times article by Adam Cohen outlines some of the allocation issues in Ohio on Election Day in 2004. One way to suppress the vote is to under-allocate voting machines to precincts, which leads to voting queues exploding. As a result, many voters will balk or renege before voting, thus suppressing the vote. Under-allocating voting machines in a targeted set of precincts can suppress the vote of one political party.
Bad resource allocation can suppress the vote, whether it is intentional or not. And that's a problem. Good planning doesn't just to efficiency and effectiveness; it also leads to equity — everyone having equal opportunity to vote and equal access to a relatively short voting queue in their precinct.
We generally assume that the arrival rate and the voting time are exogenously given input parameters and that the only thing we can control is #3, the number of voting booths at each precinct. This is mostly true. Technically, we don't have much control over factors #1 and #2. Voters show up to vote when they want and take the time they need to cast a vote. However, a precinct with a very long line can encourage voters to balk (not enter the queue) or renege (leave the queue after waiting for a bit), which means that we have some control over the effective voting rate. We can lower the effective voting rate by allocating too few voting booths to a precinct. This is how you can suppress the vote.
You can also suppress the vote by not anticipating a longer ballot, since the time it takes to vote is largely determined by the length of the ballot. A long ballot or a ballot with referendums that are worded in confusing legalese can slow down the voting process and lead to very long queues. It's important to study the ballot length and request more voting booths if the ballot is long.
A 2013 paper by Muer Yang, Michael Fry, David Kelton, and Ted Allen called "Improving Voting Systems through Service‐Operations Management" studies how to allocate voting machines to precincts using queueing models and simulation models. All authors were at Ohio universities at the time, and they develop a method for allocating booths to precincts that are robust to assumptions regarding the potential arrival patterns of the voters and the possibility of voting machine failure.
One way to avoid waiting in line on Election Day is to vote early or with an absentee ballot. I hate waiting in line so I already did this. NPR has full coverage of how to vote early. Many–but not all–states allow for early in-person or by mail voting with no excuse necessary. Voting early helps to reduce the arrival rate on Election Day, which reduces waiting times while not suppressing the vote.
Yang M, Fry MJ, Kelton WD, Allen TT. Improving Voting Systems through Service‐Operations Management. Production and Operations Management. 2014 Jul 1;23(7):1083-97.
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ISLAMABAD: Tax Amnesty Scheme was receiving encouraging results and its success would help resolving the current account deficit and balance of payment issues.
This was stated by spokesman of Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Dr Muhammad Iqbal on Friday while addressing a press conference here at FBR House.
Muhammad Iqbal said the number of beneficiaries under tax amnesty scheme was increasing every day.
He said under the scheme, the people could benefit by declaring their domestic and foreign assets as they would have to pay only a nominal tax under the scheme.
To a question, the spokesman said last date of the scheme was June 30 and he did not have any authority to extend last date of the scheme.
Iqbal said keeping in view the benefits of tax amnesty scheme, the caretaker set up was also fully committed to ensure success of the scheme.
He said government as well as public representatives were not eligible to take benefit from the scheme while people involved in different crimes were also not allowed to benefit from it.
To a question, Dr Iqbal pointed out that FBR's mandate was to increase revenue collection simultaneously with the increased economic activities in the country.
He said the FBR was also taking special measures to simplify the taxation system to facilitate the taxpayers.


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Tests optional for fall 2021 freshman applicants
Jun 23, 2020 8:00 am by Steve Witmer | News Bureau directorCampus
In a one-year exception reflecting the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will not require students applying for fall 2021 freshman admission to submit SAT or ACT test results.
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Students applying for fall 2021 freshman admission to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will not be required to submit SAT or ACT test results due to the COVID-19 pandemic limiting students' opportunities to take the exams. The change was supported by the university's Academic Senate and approved by the University of Illinois Board of Trustees as a one-year exception.
Domestic and international students who have been unable to test – or who prefer not to share their test scores – may apply for fall 2021 admission to any major, without being disadvantaged.
"Rising seniors have faced unique educational circumstances, more so than any cohort in recent history. They've been given pass/fail junior year grades, online Advanced Placement exams, limited opportunities to participate in activities or work and limited or no opportunities to take the SAT or ACT," said Andy Borst, the director of undergraduate admissions. "Test scores are only a small part of what we look at in the admissions review process, and we will consider the context of all of these factors in our holistic review of a student's application."
Also in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the university will suspend its early action admission notification period for fall 2021. There will still be an early action deadline of Nov. 1 and a regular decision deadline of Jan. 5. All new freshman applicants will be notified of their admission status in mid-February. As ACT and SAT exams were canceled throughout the spring and summer, a single notification date provides an opportunity for students who choose to test or to retest in the fall.
SAT or ACT exams will not be required for consideration for merit scholarships provided by the university. Freshman applicants attending international high schools who elect test-optional will be required to submit a TOEFL or IELTS exam to demonstrate English proficiency.
Editor's note: For additional information, contact Admissions at admissions@illinois.edu. Also refer to a list of frequently asked questions.


On February 1, 2005, the televsion and cable channels in Nepal went blank. A solitary channel was left operating, on which a pre-recorded message from the king was braodcast throughout the day. Before he finished his announcement all communications within and outside Nepal were cut. Telephones went dead. Internet servers were powered down indefinitlety. Flights into the country were rerouted. And the democratically elected government was placed under house arrest. The king had taken over. Though freedom of the Nepali press was revoked, these are the following weeks worth on international headlines deadicated to the coup in Nepal.
The king claimed this was an "emergency". - Not a coup.


Rainey at a rehearsal of O Monsters First Draft (photo by Kate Raines, plate3.com).
This week sees the premiere of New Paradise Laboratories' O Monsters First Draft (tickets/info), marking the company's second collaboration with award-winning composer, saxophonist, sound designer Bhob Rainey.
Rainey's career is marked by a tireless push against preconceived notions of what music is and how it can affect listeners, and he has over 30 record releases to show for it. After earning a master's degree in music composition from New England Conservatory (where he studied with musical luminaries Joe Maneri, Paul Bley, Ran Blake, and Pozzi Escot) he founded Nmperign with trumpeter Greg Kelley in 1998. The highly influential non-idiomatic improvisation duo have been integral to the development of the lowercase and electroacoustic improvisation genres and have to date collaborated with a veritable who's-who of twenty-first century music innovators. In 2000 he founded The BSC, an octet of acoustic and electronic improvisers, as a means of exploring the dynamics of large group improvisation. Throughout his career he has sought interdisciplinary collaborations.
We caught up with Rainey to learn more about his background and his work on O Monsters First Draft.
FringeArts: Were you raised in a musical household?
Bhob Rainey: Not really. My dad is something of an aficionado of certain music, mostly blues and jazz, but I don't recall him sharing a lot of that when I was young. My mom would often play one side of a Barbara Streisand record followed by a side of Barry Manilow. No one in the family really knew what it was like to be a musician. It is very much to their credit that they didn't disown me when I decided to go the music route. I got to know a lot of music through endangered species like radio, record stores, and libraries. I was usually attracted to things that seemed to push boundaries, though it took a while for my idea of boundaries to grow large enough to be interesting. In truth, so much of the richness of my musical experience as a kid came from going to a public school with a good music program. It's unforgivable how much of that has been taken away.
FringeArts: Growing up in Philadelphia, were you involved with any of the city's music scenes?
Bhob Rainey: I didn't get involved with any significant music scene in Philadelphia until the mid-90s. This was the jazz scene in '94–'95. The scene was generationally and racially diverse, so there was a lot of sacred knowledge being passed around. I grew a lot from the experience and am deeply appreciative of the musicians I played with. You had a few downtown clubs like Zanzibar Blue and the Blue Moon, plus the old Ortlieb's and some more neighborhood-y clubs like Natalie's in West Philly. I played with Orrin Evans, Edgar Bateman, Mike Boone, Byron Landham, Duane Eubanks, Mickey Roker, and some other scene heavyweights like Bootsy Barnes and Larry McKenna. Byard Lancaster was helpful to me early on, introducing me to other players like Lucky Thompson and being generally—and somewhat aggressively—supportive. I don't think I ever thanked him to the degree I would have liked, and I regret that now. I was playing out most nights of the week, and I loved it. But it ultimately wasn't my voice. It was a voice I had learned and enjoyed using. It was a tradition for which I had and still have a deep respect. But I had something else that I needed to do, and that's when I left for Boston.
In searching for this idea of non-human perspectives, NPL drew inspiration from speculative fiction and the contemporary philosophical movement speculative realism, which in turn led them to explore examples of contingency and the unprecedented. They welcomed elements of chance to intrude into their creative processes, and the humanly indefinable result is a fitting show for the experimental theater company's twentieth year of existence.
January, 2014, The White Space at Crane Old School: New Paradise Laboratories in exploratory rehearsals for The Adults. Photo by Camilla Dely.
Impressionistic video report from NPL's rehearsals for 27 at the 2012 Live Arts Festival. There's really quite a bit of kneeing going on, isn't there?
27 runs September 5 through 9 and 12 through 16 at Plays and Players Theater, 1714 Delancey Place, Center City. Times vary, $23-$35.
This fall, NPL returns to the Live Arts Festival with 27, an age I've long since lived past, and thus became a cultural nobody. That's OK though; maybe I can move into the Internet, because it's too freaking hot out here.
27 runs September 5 through 9 and September 12 through 16 at Plays and Players, 1714 Delancey Place, Rittenhouse Square. Times vary; $23-$35. Tickets here.
First experience with coffee that made you understand coffee: Coffee crept inexorably into my life. One day I turned around and I was married to it.
Coffee you drink at home: Whole Foods 365 brand. French Roast. Very reliable and it used to be pretty cheap.
How do you like your coffee? Naked.
Average no. of cups per day? Um between 3 and 30 cups.
Fave coffee shop: My house.
Fave fancy coffee drink: I don't have one. No offense. On occasion I'll drink a coffee boilermaker–black coffee with an espresso shot. But that's just ridiculous. In Japan they sell a "tonic" from vending machines: a sweet base with triple caffeine, nicotine, and a completely weird snort of full strength menthol. It's compelling.
Enough about coffee, what are you doing now? The Poet Laureate of Capitalism with the Riot Group in NYC; Etched in Skin on a Sunlit Night—new play by Kara Lee Corthron at Interact Theatre; and 27, the new NPL piece at this year's Live Arts. Also FATEBOOK in Prague and a crazy app delivered all-city performance piece in Kansas City, Missouri.


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Bible > Commentaries > 2 Kings 25:18
◄ 2 Kings 25:18 ►
And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
(18, 19) List of the chief personages taken by Nebu-zaradan in the Temple and the city of David. This notice may be regarded as an indirect proof that the upper city was not captured before.
(18) Seraiah the chief (high) priest.—And grandfather or great-grandfather of Ezra (1Chronicles 6:14; Ezra 7:1).
Zephaniah the second priest.—See 2Kings 23:4, Note; and Jeremiah 21:1; Jeremiah 29:25; Jeremiah 29:29; Jeremiah 37:3. From the last three passages it is clear that Zephaniah was a priest of high rank, being probably the high priest's deputy.
The three keepers of the door (threshold).—The chief warders of the principal entrances to the Temple. (See Jeremiah 38:13.) All the chief officials of the Temple were apparently taken away together.
Benson Commentary
2 Kings 25:18-19. The captain of the guard took Seraiah, the chief priest — The high-priest, grandson of that Hilkiah mentioned 2 Kings 22:4, and father of Jehosadak, who, it seems, was taken with his father; and when his father was slain, (2 Kings 25:21,) was carried away to Babylon, as is observed 1 Chronicles 6:13-14. And Zephaniah the second priest — Who was the high-priest's deputy, when he was by sickness, or any other means, prevented from the execution of his office. And five of them that were in the king's presence — Who constantly attended upon the king's person wheresoever he was, and were his most intimate counsellors. And threescore men of the land that were found in the city — These were some eminent persons, who had concealed themselves in some private place; but before Nebuzar-adan left Jerusalem, were discovered.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
25:8-21 The city and temple were burnt, and, it is probable, the ark in it. By this, God showed how little he cares for the outward pomp of his worship, when the life and power of religion are neglected. The walls of Jerusalem were thrown down, and the people carried captive to Babylon. The vessels of the temple were carried away. When the things signified were sinned away, what should the signs stand there for? It was righteous with God to deprive those of the benefit of his worship, who had preferred false worships before it; those that would have many altars, now shall have none. As the Lord spared not the angels that sinned, as he doomed the whole race of fallen men to the grave, and all unbelievers to hell, and as he spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, we need not wonder at any miseries he may bring upon guilty nations, churches, or persons.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
It devolved on Nebuzaradan to select for exemplary punishment the persons whom he regarded as most guilty, either in respect of the original rebellion or of the protracted resistance. Instead of taking indiscriminately the first comers, he first selected those who by their offices would be likely to have had most authority - the high priest; the second priest (2 Kings 23:4 note); three of the temple Levites; the commandant of the city; five members of the king's Privy Council (or seven, see 2 Kings 25:19 note); and the secretary (or adjutant) of the captain of the host. To these he added sixty others, who were accounted "princes." Compared with the many occasions on which Assyrian and Persian conquerers put to death hundreds or thousands after taking a revolted town, Nebuzaradan (and Nebuchadnezzar) must be regarded as moderate, or even merciful, in their vengeance. Compare Jeremiah 40:2-5.
The three keepers of the door - Rather, "three keepers." The Hebrew has no article. The temple "door-keepers" in the time of Solomon numbered twenty-four 1 Chronicles 26:17-18, who were probably under six chiefs. After the captivity the chiefs are either six Ezra 2:42; Nehemiah 7:45 or four 1 Chronicles 9:17.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
18. the three keepers of the door—not mere porters, but officers of high trust among the Levites (2Ki 22:4; 1Ch 9:26).
Matthew Poole's Commentary
Seraiah the chief priest; the high priest, grandson of that Hilkiah, of whom 2 Kings 22:4, and father of Jehozadak, who, as it seems, was taken with his father; and when his father was slain, 2 Kings 25:21, he was carried away to Babylon, as it is noted, 1 Chronicles 6:14,15.
Zephaniah the second priest; who was the high priest's deputy, when he was hindered from the execution of his office: See Poole "Numbers 3:32"; See Poole "2Sa 8:17" 2 Kings 23:4???.
Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest,.... The sagan, or deputy priest, who officiated for the high priest, when by any means he was rendered unfit and incapable; so Joseph, the son of Ellem, as Josephus (x) relates, officiated for Matthias, when defiled with a nocturnal pollution; and seven days before the day of atonement they always substituted one under the high priest, lest anything of this kind should happen to him (y). From hence, to the end of 2 Kings 25:21 the account is the same as in Jeremiah 52:25, only here in 2 Kings 25:19 it is said, that five men that were in the king's presence were taken, there seven men; to account for which; see Gill on Jeremiah 52:25.
(x) Antiqu. l. 17. c. 6. sect. 4. (y) Misn. Yoma, c. 1. sect. 1.
Geneva Study Bible
And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the {i} second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
(i) That is, one appointed to act in the place of the high priest, if he were sick or otherwise detained.
EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
18. Seraiah, the chief priest] Probably the son of Azariah and grandson of Hilkiah (1 Chronicles 6:14). His name is not found except in the parallel narratives.
Zephaniah the second priest] This was the son of Maaseiah (Jeremiah 21:1). He was the successor in office of Jehoiada (Jeremiah 29:25-26). The particulars known of his history are that he was asked by Shemaiah the Nehelamite (Jeremiah 29:29) to punish Jeremiah as if he were a false prophet. Zephaniah was also sent on two occasions to Jeremiah, once to ask the result of the siege, and secondly, to beg the prophet to intercede for the people (Jeremiah 27:3).
On 'second priest' see note on 2 Kings 23:4 above.
the three keepers of the door] These were the three Levites stationed one at each chief entrance to the temple.
Pulpit Commentary
Verse 18. - And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest. The "chief priest" is a new expression; but it can only mean the "high priest." Seraiah seems to have been the grandson of Hilkiah (1 Chronicles 6:18, 14), and an ancestor (grandfather or great-grandfather) of Ezra (Ezra 7:1). He had stayed at his post till the city was taken, and was now seized by Nebuzar-adan as one of the most important personages whom he found in the city. And Zephaniah the second priest. Keil and Bahr translate "a priest of the second order;' i.e. a mere Ordinary priest; but something more than this must be intended by Jeremiah, who calls him (Jeremiah 52:34), כֹּהֵן הַמִּשְׁנֶה i.e. distinctly "the second priest." It is conjectured that he was the high priest's substitute, empowered to act for him on occasions. Possibly he was the Zephaniah, son of Maaseiah, of whom we hear a good deal in Jeremiah (see Jeremiah 21:1; Jeremiah 29:25-29: 37:3). And the three keepers of the door; rather, and three keepers of the threshold. There were twenty-five "gatekeepers" of the temple (1 Chronicles 26:17, 18), all of them Levites. On what principle Nebuzar-adan selected three out of the twenty-four is uncertain, since we have no evidence that the temple had. as Bahr says it had, "three main entrances." Jeremiah 38:14 certainly does not prove this. 2 Kings 25:18
Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament
(cf. Jeremiah 52:24-27). The principal officers of the temple and city, and sixty men of the population of the land, who were taken at the destruction of Jerusalem, Nebuzaradan sent to his king at Riblah, where they were put to death. Seraiah, the high priest, is the grandfather or great-grandfather of Ezra the scribe (Ezra 7:1; 1 Chronicles 6:14). Zephaniah, a priest of the second rank (משׁנה כּהן; in Jer. המּשׁנה כּהן: see at 2 Kings 23:4), is probably the same person as the son of Maaseiah, who took a prominent place among the priests, according to Jeremiah 21:1; Jeremiah 29:25., and Jeremiah 37:3. The "three keepers of the threshold" are probably the three superintendents of the Levites, whose duty it was to keep guard over the temple, and therefore were among the principal officers of the sanctuary.
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Evangelicals Debate a Broadened Agenda How Much Mixing of Religion and Politics Does the First Amendment Permit?
Evangelicals Debate a Broadened Agenda: How Much Mixing of Religion and Politics Does the First Amendment Permit?
By MICHAEL C. DORF
Wednesday, Mar. 16, 2005
At a Washington luncheon last week, the National Association of Evangelicals began debating a proposed "call to civic responsibility." If adopted, it would ask the organization's thirty million evangelical Christian members to take a liberal stand on issues such as environmental protection, racial equality, and distributive justice.
In light of the recent success of conservatives in mobilizing evangelicals for their candidates based on opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage, evangelical activism in favor of liberal causes has the potential to create a significant realignment in national politics.
Before liberals start dancing in the streets, however, they would do well to consider the separation of church and state. If that principle means anything, it must mean that efforts by religious groups to push their agenda on the state are potentially suspect, whether they favor conservative or liberal policies.
To be sure, persons of faith cannot and should not be barred from acting on their political ideals. But there is a difference--a subtle but nonetheless important one--between, on the one hand, acting on the basis of religious motivation in favor of policies that could be favored on secular grounds as well, and, on the other hand, attempting to impose religious, sectarian views on those who do not share one's own faith.
The Important Role of Religion in American Social Justice Movements
Religion has played an important role--indeed, often the leading role--in American social justice movements since the earliest days of the Republic. A 1790 Quaker petition to Congress, presented by Benjamin Franklin, sought the immediate prohibition of the slave trade. Likewise, religiously motivated actors led the abolitionist and temperance movements of the nineteenth century, and played a critical part in the civil rights movement of the twentieth century.
That is not to say, of course, that religion has always been on the right side of history. The Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition--and, closer to home, defenses of slavery and later segregation that were rooted in supposed Biblical exegesis--contribute to a decidedly mixed legacy.
So too, in our own time, the willingness of terrorists to justify their actions in religious terms--whether purported Koranic authorization for the slaughter of innocents or supposed Biblical justification for the murder of doctors who perform abortions--illustrates the dangerous potency of the belief in Divine approval of one's conduct.
Why Religious Motivation Cannot and Should Not Disqualify Individual Political Action
Nonetheless, it would be impossible and, in any event, unfair, to disqualify political participation simply because it proceeds from religious motives. It would be impossible, of course, because such a restriction simply could not be enforced.
Sorting out the motives of the few hundred legislators who vote for a particular law is a notoriously difficult problem. How much more difficult it would be to sort out, if one could even discover, the motives of the voters who elect individual representatives.
One might try to distinguish between the motives of voters and those of elected officials. But even that task is daunting.
Suppose the First Amendment's Establishment Clause prohibits a lawmaker from voting for an abortion prohibition on the grounds that he himself believes abortion is a sin. Can a different lawmaker who has no religious or other moral opposition to abortion, vote for the same prohibition because his constituents oppose abortion on religious grounds? Can he do so because a quarter of his constituents oppose abortion on religious grounds (while another quarter of his constituents don't care about abortion but support his position on taxes)? The lines must be drawn very fine indeed--and seem arbitrary once drawn.
Beyond these practical considerations lies a deeper principle: Religious motivation should not disqualify political action. After all, much of what religion makes sinful, law also makes--or might legitimately make--illegal, as the Ten Commandments cases now before the Supreme Court dramatically illustrate.
Suppose you believe that murder and theft should be crimes because they violate the Sixth and Eighth Commandments respectively. Now, suppose that you are told that you cannot act in politics on the basis of your religious motives. You might legitimately be baffled.
How would you feel about murder and theft were they not prohibited by the Bible? If you are like many people, the counterfactual question assumes a world you can scarcely imagine. You can readily articulate secular arguments for the prohibition of murder and theft, but if your moral sentiments are inextricably intertwined with your religious beliefs, then you cannot honestly say how you would weigh these arguments in the absence of the religious beliefs you hold.
It is a little like asking a proud mother whether she thinks her baby is objectively beautiful: she cannot truly say how she would view her baby if they were not related, because she cannot look at the baby without seeing him as her own. Likewise, the person who has been taught since early childhood that theft and murder are sinful cannot truly say what she would think of these practices absent her religious feelings.
Accordingly, unless we are to prohibit all persons who hold deeply religious views from participating in politics--which itself would be a form of invidious discrimination--we cannot and should not stop people from acting on religious motives.
The Requirement of "Public Reason"
Nonetheless, in a pluralistic society like ours, it is fair to demand that our laws be justifiable by reference to secular ends and means.
Your belief that adultery is wrong because the Seventh Commandment makes it sinful may be a sufficient reason for you to support criminal punishment for adulterers. Yet in a free society, something more must be offered as justification for a legal requirement that will be imposed on those who do not share the view that the Ten Commandments are Divinely authored.
The late moral and political philosopher John Rawls called the requirement that laws be defensible in secular terms an obligation of "public reason." The Supreme Court's cases interpreting the Establishment Clause similarly require that all laws serve secular purposes.
How Demanding is the Requirement of "Public Reason"?
As a technical matter, the demands of public reason and the Establishment Clause are usually met rather easily. Prohibitions on murder and theft can be readily justified by invoking secular reasons for protecting life and property. And while criminal adultery prohibitions may be suspect on the ground that they infringe a right of sexual autonomy, they are not invalid on Establishment Clause grounds: secular reasons such as the enforcement of contracts (including the marriage contract), or the protection of minor children who will predictably suffer harm if adultery occurs, could well be thought to support proscriptions on adultery.
But the demands of public reason are not toothless. For example, suppose a legal prohibition on the eating of pork in a community with a majority of religious Jews or Muslims were to be defended as a measure aimed at animal cruelty. That defense would be implausible, if the law also followed the course of Judaism and Islam in permitting the eating of other animals slaughtered by methods arguably no less cruel than those commonly used for killing pigs. If the community truly were concerned with the animals' wellbeing, rather than religious commandments, then its animal cruelty laws would be much broader.
Nor are the demands of public reason enforced exclusively through the courts. Those who oppose same-sex marriage on religious grounds understand that in trying to persuade their fellow citizens to maintain bans on the practice, they cannot simply point to church teachings. Tolerance and respect often require mounting secular arguments because one understands that one's religious principles and tenets are not shared by all.
And the same is true for liberal causes supported by persons of religious faith. It may be harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, but that is not a sufficient ground for progressive taxation to aid the poor.
The Dangerous Argument Against Public Reason
In recent years, some religious persons and groups have argued that the demands of public reason are unfair. They argue this way: Secularists who favor a policy are permitted to argue for that policy based on the grounds they deem most persuasive. So why should persons who hold pervasively religious world views be denied the same opportunity?
There is undoubtedly something right about this objection. Efforts to keep the public sphere free of religious arguments do indeed disadvantage those who hold pervasively religious views.
But what the objection overlooks is the reason we as a society have for trying to prevent public policy debates from becoming competitions between different religious sects. As the framers of our Constitution and Bill of Rights well knew, history teaches that societies in which political divisions track religious ones frequently descend into bloodletting. And sadly, our own era provides no shortage of further examples.
Of course, I do not suggest that the injection of religious arguments into American politics by evangelicals or others will plunge us immediately into a religious civil war. But the abundant lessons of the past and present do provide reasons to be wary of even the first step down that path.
Michael C. Dorf is the Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law at Columbia University in New York City. His book, Constitutional Law Stories, is published by Foundation Press, and tells the stories behind fifteen leading constitutional cases.


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Mohsin Raza, Sole Muslim Member, Joins UP CM Adityanath's Ministry
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The Bharatiya Janata Party, which did not field any Muslim for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, has inducted Mohsin Raza in its cabinet.
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Updated:March 20, 2017, 4:43 PM IST
A BJP poster depicting Mohsin Raza. Photo: Eram Agha
New Delhi: After having come to power in the state with over 300 non-Muslim legislators, BJP has inducted its first Muslim in UP cabinet - Mohsin Raza.
BJP and its allies had not fielded a single Muslim candidate while contesting the 403 assembly seats of UP.
Though the party came to power with a historic mandate, absence of Muslims in the cabinet had created an interesting precedent in the state, where Hindus were likely to be appointed for Haj and minority affairs portfolios.
But the party has brought in a suprising element to their power equation in UP, by inducting a Muslim cabinet member.
The only thing more intriguing than the party's decision is the profile of the candidate they've appointed.
A cricketer, socialite, winner of a beauty pageant and an actor, Raza is not a big name in politics, activism or social work but is a common face in the social circuit of Lucknow.
Raza, who is a Shia Muslim, is married to a Sunni Fozia Sarwat Fatima, who belongs to the prominent Muslim family and is related to the BJP leader and Manipur governor, Najma Heptullah.
Raza is a product of the MRF Pace Foundation at Chennai and an ex-Ranji Trophy player. He not only played cricket but also participated in pageants and tried luck in entertainment industry. He was crowned 'Prince Lucknow' in the year 1995, and also acted in the famous Doordarshan serial "Neem Ka Ped". Some years ago he tried his luck in the Hindi film industry.
He belongs to the family of zamindars in Unnao's Safipur that had its loyalties with the Congress party. In fact in 1999 Raza became the chairman of Congress' sports cell. But the association with Congress did not last long due to internal issues.
He was appointed as the chairman and when he was given the position of a convener he left Congress' cell. Raza was suspicious of 'games' being played against him.
"He left the Cell as he thought things are not going his way. He was not much interested in politics either but people put pressure on him to take it up. My brother's appeal was unbeatable on the pitch – the crowd would come to see him, but now with this new responsibility he will do well here too," his brother, Arshi Raza, said.
People still remember him from his cricketing days. When people started expecting him to enter politics – wondering his charm would translate in good leadership in politics – he made his wife stand for local polls in Unnao. She stood as an independent candidate in Safipur and lost by 125 votes.
To set an independent foothold for himself, in 2010 Raza floated an outfit called "Safipur Vikas Manch".
Slowly he started taking up politics and joined BJP before the Lok Sabha elections of 2014. He became the spokesperson for BJP last year. Raza enjoys good rapport with Rajnath Singh and his son Pankaj Singh.
(Mohsin Raza with Rajnath Singh)
Athar Hussain, a Muslim intellectual in Lucknow who is the director of Center for Objective Research and Development, said that by appointing Yogi Adityanath the party is respecting the sentiment of the mandate – "core Hindutva".
On BJP inducting a cricketer in its cabinet he said, "Raza is not from a big political background or involved in activism but he joined BJP before 2014. He is a common face in social circle of Lucknow."
He added, "It seems Muslims have become a commodity, you love them or hate them, either way they are in discussion. They constitute 20 % of the population and their issues are as similar as other. They too think of education, health and employment. But in past years politics made them of a product."
He said that Muslims have become a "vote bank or reverse vote bank of the neo-BJP."
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Sam McGarver is a best-selling horror author, and when he is invited to stay Halloween night at the Finch House, he doesn't pass up the opportunity. Not wanting to be alone, he invites three fellow horror authors, and together the four of them will spend the night in Finch House on Halloween night. A publicity stunt quickly turns into a fight for survival. Their presence has awoken something that will torment them – will they become a part of the legacy of Kill Creek?
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Ep 1724 | 12.15.22
Updates on the cyber phases of a hybrid war. Alleged booters busted. Progress report from the US anti-ransomware task force. Suspicion in AIIMS hack turns toward China.
Dave Bittner: Trojanized Windows 10 installers are deployed against Ukraine. Alleged booters have been collared and their sites disabled. A progress report on U.S. anti-ransomware efforts. Suspicion and a cyberattack against India turns toward China. Bryan Vorndran from the FBI's cyber division talks about deepfakes. Our guest is Lisa Plaggemier from the National Cybersecurity Alliance on their launch of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Career Program. And the hybrid war and fissures in the underworld.
Dave Bittner: From the CyberWire studios at DataTribe, I'm Dave Bittner with your CyberWire summary for Thursday, December 15, 2022.
A new cyberespionage campaign hits Ukraine.
Dave Bittner: Mandiant this morning issued a report on activity it was observing in Russia's hybrid war against Ukraine. It's a supply chain attack in which Trojanized Windows 10 installers are being distributed to Ukrainian targets. The researchers track the activity as UNC4166. And while they're commendably cautious in attribution, they do note that, significantly, there seems to be an overlap between this round of attacks and the target list of Ukrainian organizations against which the GRU deployed wipers early in the war.
Dave Bittner: Mandiant says, while our analysts do not have enough info to attribute this operation to a previously tracked group, it has been active at organizations that were previously targeted by GRU-related clusters with wipers at the outset of the war. Of note, UNC4166 has actively targeted organizations that were historically victims of disruptive wiper attacks that Mandiant associates with APT28. APT28, of course, is our old, familiar friend Fancy Bear. As Mandiant observes, that's a GRU crew. This current round looks like cyberespionage as the activity observed appears to involve information theft. But, of course, information can be stolen for other purposes as well - sabotage, battlespace preparation and so forth.
Dave Bittner: John Hultquist, head of intelligence analysis at Mandiant, emphasizes that this is a supply chain attack and, in that respect, at least reminiscent of the SolarWinds operation. He said in emailed comments, though it's hardly as technically sophisticated as SolarWinds, this operation is similar in that it appears to be designed to compromise a large set of potential targets, who can then be winnowed down for targets of interest. In this case, those targets are the Ukrainian government. We can't afford to ignore the supply chain. It can be used like a sledgehammer, or it can be used like a scalpel.
Alleged booters collared, their sites disabled.
Dave Bittner: U.S. federal prosecutors in California and Alaska have charged six people with crimes involving booter services - that is, offers of DDoS attacks for hire. The charges allege violations, or aiding and abetting such violations, of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and conspiracy to operate a booter service. In addition to the indictments, the FBI also seized 48 domains allegedly used in the crimes charged. The takedown was an international operation. Europol announced that the action was part of Operation Power Off, a cooperative effort by U.S., British, Dutch, Polish and German law enforcement agencies against this particular segment of the C2C market. Europol also reports that a seventh arrest in the case has been made in the U.K.
Dave Bittner: The U.S. Justice Department notes that there is a public outreach component to the operation. Justice says, in conjunction with the website seizures, the FBI, the United Kingdom's National Crime Agency and the Netherlands police have launched an advertising campaign using targeted placement ads in search engines, which are triggered by keywords associated with DDoS activities. The purpose of the ads is to deter potential cyber criminals searching for DDoS services in the United States and around the globe as well as to educate the public on the illegality of DDoS activities.
Progress report on US anti-ransomware efforts.
Dave Bittner: CISA yesterday published a read-ou of the second meeting of the Joint Ransomware Task Force. Six working groups have taken up various aspects of the ransomware challenge, and they're worth quoting as they offer some insight into how the task force sees its mission.
Dave Bittner: First, victim support - that's standardizing and synchronizing federal engagement with ransomware victims to offer services and assess any gaps to ensure that victims of ransomware incidents receive the necessary support to restore services and minimize damage.
Dave Bittner: Second, measurement - that's collecting data and metrics that will improve the cybersecurity community's collective understanding of ransomware affecting U.S. organizations and trends associated with actors, victims and impacts, which will in turn inform U.S. government action to counter the threat, provide more actionable guidance and evaluate progress.
Dave Bittner: Third, partner engagement - that's expanding operational collaboration and multidirectional intelligence sharing between JRTF members and nongovernmental partners, including the private sector and the international community, to more effectively prevent, detect and respond to evolving ransomware campaigns.
Dave Bittner: Fourth, continuous improvement - examining and compiling lessons learned from recent ransomware incidents in key sectors to address gaps in coordination, increase effectiveness of information-sharing and improve the federal government's response and preparedness posture.
Dave Bittner: Fifth, intelligence integration - leveraging the intelligence collection capabilities of all partners, process intelligence community analysis and manage intelligence engagement with international partners to drive the planning and execution of synchronized JRTF operations.
Dave Bittner: And finally, campaign coordination - organizing existing interagency campaigns to disrupt ransomware actors and strengthen national cyberdefense against ransomware operations, while also collaborating with relevant partners on new campaign efforts.
Dave Bittner: The Record cites comments by various officials to the effect that the task force is becoming the center of gravity of U.S. anti-ransomware efforts. Redacted's director of threat intelligence, Adam Flatley, gave the task force good reviews in emailed comments. He said, it's good to see that the JRTF continues to solidify its mission and build processes to support the mission. Both CISA and the FBI are well positioned to do great things in the cyberdefense space and important parts of the ransomware actor disruption space. Of course, a lot of gangland isn't easily within reach. Flatley observes, what remains to be seen is whether or not the JRTF will be properly empowered to truly leverage the whole of the U.S. government intelligence community to counter ransomware actors who operate from sanctuary in countries like Russia, where many ransomware gangs reside.
Suspicion in AIIMS cyberattack turns toward China.
Dave Bittner: The Times of India reports that official opinion is turning toward Chinese operators as the leading suspects in the cyberattack recently sustained by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. A source told the press, as of now, the server attack is suspected to have originated from a location in China and a location in Hong Kong. Theft of personal information has been the principal concern since the attacks began on November 23, NDTV writes.
Hybrid war and fissures in the underworld.
Dave Bittner: Finally, it's well known that there had at one time been close relations among Russian and Ukrainian cyber criminals, geographically close and linguistically related as they are. Al Jazeera, however, describes the ways in which the war has broken many of those connections. Russia's war has moved its security and intelligence services to push for closer cooperation from the cyber gangs the Russian state had long tolerated. This has gone beyond privateering and advice on permissible targets. Many of the criminal organizations have been diverted from what had formerly been their moneymaking rackets and into making themselves a nuisance for Ukraine and its supporters. This trend has been clearest in the rise of distributed denial-of-service attacks. It's not entirely patriotic side-taking, however, although that certainly plays a part. There's also a sense in Russian criminal circles that they can now expect Kyiv's law enforcement and intelligence organizations to give them more hostile scrutiny than they receive from Moscow. Whatever they're up to, we say shields up, everyone.
Dave Bittner: Coming up after the break, Bryan Vorndran from the FBI's cyber division talks about deepfakes. Our guest, Lisa Plaggemier from the National Cybersecurity Alliance, on the launch of their Historically Black Colleges and Universities Career Program. Stay with us.
Dave Bittner: The National Cybersecurity Alliance is a nonprofit organization that promotes cybersecurity education and awareness. They recently launched the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Career Program, which aims to equip students with the necessary skills to navigate the search process for positions in security, privacy and risk, helping to build a pipeline of Black professionals to fill the cyber workforce gap. Lisa Plaggemier is executive director at the National Cybersecurity Alliance.
Lisa Plaggemier: What we kept hearing over and over and over again, the constant theme - it wasn't like, oh, I really struggled with the academics or things like that. It was - you know, somebody said, my dad couldn't tell me not to wear an orange blazer to an interview. I didn't know what to expect in the interview process. I'd never written a resume before. I had imposter syndrome walking in the door of a career fair at my school. I didn't understand times zones, so when I got an invite for an interview in another time - from another time zone, I hadn't really kept a digital calendar before. I missed the interview. It was life skills things. It was things that - it was confidence. It was networking and having somebody to talk to.
Lisa Plaggemier: You know, a lot of us who were blessed with parents that went to college - it's kind of dinner table conversation, how you might conduct yourself in an interview, how you write a resume, how you write a LinkedIn profile, like, what kind of questions you might get asked and what your answers might be to those questions in an interview. And so if you think about people who grew up without that, then there's a void there. And that's not necessarily a problem that you solve in some - you know, it's hard to wave a magic wand and, in some scalable way, fix that overnight. Those are one-on-one relationships. So that's what led us to the mentorship program, to offering the mentorship program. And then just as far as the workforce problem, attracting more kids to the - and I'll say kids because I've got kids college age.
Lisa Plaggemier: There just isn't enough visibility of these careers. What they know is what they see on TV and the movies when it comes to cybersecurity. So how do we make it more real? How do we show them that there are people just like them, who look like them, working in these jobs and that there's a lot of job satisfaction working in cybersecurity? I know we all focus on, like, the burnout and everything, but at the end of the day, we're helping people. We're protecting assets and people. So a lot of that can be, you know, really rewarding for folks. So we have sort of mini career fairs, cybersecurity career fairs that we hold on campus. And those are the two main tactics on the program right now - are those in-person on-campus events where we have a series of speakers that are people of color who work in security and privacy, talking about their jobs, talking about what recruiters are looking for, what kind of skills they're looking for. You know, how are they hiring? And then the other tactic is that mentorship program that anybody can sign up to be a part of.
Dave Bittner: What has been the response so far from those historically Black colleges and universities that you've reached out to?
Lisa Plaggemier: Well, to be really honest, in some cases it can be really challenging to work with them because they are so under-resourced and understaffed. Just having an on-campus event, you know, when you have a commercial placement or career services office that only has one or two people in it - staff members, then I'm glad that we have the staff available to do, you know, more of the heavy lifting there because it's - you know, you're holding an event. So there's work to get done there. Generally, they've all been really, really positive. But when it comes to the logistics, like, we're there to help because a lot of them aren't super well-staffed. That's part of the problem, you know - is a lot of these schools don't get the resources that other schools get.
Lisa Plaggemier: So hopefully, by driving this kind of engagement - you know, we've had employers take tours of some of the schools. We've had a few schools that have opened new cyber labs, and they're excited to show those off to the sponsors. And so hopefully we're doing more good beyond just the immediate interaction with the students. So far, we've been to Prairie View A&M, Saint Philip's College and Texas Southern, all in Texas, and then Southern University A&M in Louisiana. And next semester, we'll be going to North and South Carolina. We'll be going to NC Central, South Carolina State, Winston-Salem State, Fayetteville State and Claflin. That's about - I think it'll be the end of February or early March when we do our North and South Carolina road trip.
Dave Bittner: For our own listeners, you know, folks who are out there and are inspired by what you're up to here, are there opportunities for people to contribute?
Lisa Plaggemier: Yeah, absolutely. If you have an hour a week or an hour a month for a student, you can be a mentor. We've got a software program that runs the whole mentorship program - not completely hands-off, but it's pretty helpful. So we've got - if you go to staysafeonline.org and click on events and programs and scroll down, you'll see the HBCU program. And all of it is explained there including - there's a box for mentors. If you fill out that form on our website, that will get you in our communication flow, and we'll send you information on how to register in the mentorship platform itself. And then once you're in there, there's training on being a mentor. There's 12 different agendas that we've sketched out to guide your meetings with your mentor, just to act a guideline. But you can really do whatever you want with your time if your mentee has specific requests.
Lisa Plaggemier: And so we've got over 100 people in there now that are actively having regular meetings. And some of the testimonial statements we've gotten from both mentors and mentees have been super-encouraging. So hopefully those students are, you know, getting the confidence they need to at least attend job fairs and put themselves out there. For a lot of them, just getting themselves into the room is a little bit of a challenge. It's just about confidence and their comfort level.
Lisa Plaggemier: And so having a mentor to help you through all that - and we're allowing the students to stay in there through their first year of their job if they want to have a mentor because who amongst us did not have a whole bunch of questions that first year in our new job? So, yeah, we would love to see people sign up to be mentors. As we - the more schools we go to, the more kids are going to sign up. And it's great to have people who are there waiting to be matched with a student. You fill out a profile, and then an algorithm matches you. Or if you have a specific request, we could do that manually as well. Like, you want somebody in a particular stage or somebody that has a certain major or something like that. We can help with that.
Dave Bittner: That's Lisa Plaggemier from the National Cybersecurity Alliance.
Dave Bittner: And it's my pleasure to welcome back to the show FBI Cyber Assistant Director Bryan Vorndran. Director Vorndran, welcome back. I want to touch base today on deepfakes - certainly been getting a lot of attention in the news lately - and your take on this from your position there at the FBI.
Bryan Vorndran: Hey, Dave. It's good to be with you today. You know, deepfakes are part of our normal dialogue here. And we actually refer to them as synthetic content. But at the end of the day, what they are are artificial intelligence, machine learning-enabled synthetic content that realistically depicts something that did not happen. You know, the advances in AI and machine learning techniques will improve the speed, the believability, the scale, the ease of use and the automation in the creation of that synthetic content or these deepfakes. And it's really replicated in high-quality videos, certainly pictures, audio and text of events, right? And it's becoming more and more of a prevalent conversation. And when we look at it from a traditional rule of law perspective, if we think about how we authenticate voices, obviously a deepfake voice and the need to authenticate that in real life for evidentiary purposes and the rule of law, it's becoming more and more of a prevalent conversation.
Bryan Vorndran: I think most concerning to us is that the barriers to entry are decreasing rapidly for the creation of synthetic content and deepfakes. And so certainly your average person could use it for nefarious purposes, but also nation-state actors could use it to conduct malign foreign influence campaigns, or a cybercriminal could use it to carry out a social engineering campaign. As these barriers do decrease - right? - we will likely see or hear much more realistic audio and video that will truly be indiscernible to you or me. So, Dave, I'm also prepared if you want to talk about kind of what is the FBI doing about it, what can the FBI do about it and what should the public look out for but certainly can go back to you for any questions you have.
Dave Bittner: No, I think that's a great place to go here. I mean, what are some of the practical ramifications and your guidance?
Bryan Vorndran: So from an FBI perspective, the First Amendment gives all of us as Americans broad protections in terms of speech, right? So while creating a deepfake video is not in itself illegal, the creation of those videos or voices by a foreign power to influence American people is something we would definitely investigate. But again, because of the First Amendment, we are limited in what I would refer to as, quote-unquote, "stopping it." But we do partner up with other government organizations, researchers and technology companies to develop ways to detect the deepfake content. And that's really an area we're collectively focused on.
Bryan Vorndran: You know, in terms of guidance for your listeners and what the public should look out for, you know, when you look at deepfake videos - and there are some on the internet - there will be visual anomalies. There will be discrepancies. There will be desyncing during the video. There will be tearaways between the audio and video where there is not syncing. There's also the ability to look at metadata, to find out how the files were created and where they were created. But the concern with metadata is it also can be manipulated, so it's not a reliable indicator.
Bryan Vorndran: So, you know, just one quick example that we could give you - and it's an anonymized example - is, for example, a bank manager would receive a call from a director of a company that is a regular client and whose voice the bank manager recognizes quite well. So the director would explain to the bank manager that his company was about to make a large acquisition and that he needed the bank to authorize the large transfer. The bank manager would believe that the voice was authentic and speaking to the director of the company and subsequently authorized the transfer. So this is just one example of how these deepfakes and these synthetic content can play out and pose a number of threats to whether it's private business or whether it's the democracy of America. So certainly happy to take additional questions, Dave.
Dave Bittner: So is this the matter that, you know, this new technology, this rapidly evolving technology, demands a higher level of scrutiny? You know, in other words, you know, that bank manager that you're talking about might not be able to rely on knowing the familiar voice of a colleague or a client or something like that. They have to respectfully ask for additional verification.
Bryan Vorndran: Correct. And there will undoubtedly need to be evolutions in the due diligence processes for authentication, whether it's photographs, whether it's audio, whether it's video inclusive of audio across the business sectors, but also across the national security and traditional rule of law spectrum, to your point, because we'll need additional due diligence variables to make sure that what we think we're seeing or hearing is actually what we're seeing or hearing.
Dave Bittner: At what level do you all at the FBI want to be informed about this sort of thing? If I - again, I'm that bank manager and I get a call. And I think it may be a deepfake. Should I make a call to my local FBI field office?
Bryan Vorndran: Yeah, we would encourage you to do so. These threats are going to continue to grow. We're not saying that they're going to grow at the same exponential curve that the cyber threats have certainly targeted the United States and its equities, but they are going to continue to grow over time as the barriers to entry decrease and as the speed of the technology improves in terms of creation to deployment of the deepfake. And so we would encourage engagement with the FBI because we never know who the point of - who is behind the point of creation. And that could lead us to a nation-state actor that is conducting other more - far malign influence campaigns. And that's something very important to us.
Dave Bittner: All right. Well, FBI Cyber Assistant Director Bryan Vorndran, thanks so much for joining us.
Dave Bittner: And that's the CyberWire. For links to all of today's stories, check out our Daily Briefing at thecyberwire.com. The CyberWire podcast is a production of N2K Networks, proudly produced in Maryland out of the startup studios of DataTribe, where they're co-building the next generation of cybersecurity teams and technologies. Our amazing CyberWire team is Elliott Peltzman, Tre Hester, Brandon Karpf, Eliana White, Puru Prakash, Liz Irvin, Rachel Gelfand, Tim Nodar, Joe Carrigan, Carole Theriault, Maria Varmazis, Ben Yelin, Nick Veliky, Milly Lardy, Gina Johnson, Bennett Moe, Catherine Murphy, Janene Daly, Jim Hoscheit, Chris Russell, John Petrik, Jennifer Eiben, Rick Howard, Peter Kilpe, Simone Petrella, and I'm Dave Bittner. Thanks for listening. We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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Yedlin joins Dempsey, Evans in USMNT callup
By SPNW Staff March 26, 2014 2 Comments2 Mins Read
Defender DeAndre Yedlin was added to the list of Sounders coveted by the U.S. Men's National Team. He joins previously selected midfielders Clint Dempsey and Brad Evans in being asked to train, then play in the USA-Mexico match April 2 in Phoenix. They depart following Saturday's match against the Columbus Crew at CenturyLink Field, and return for the April 5 Cascadia Cup match against the Portland Timbers.
The 8 p.m. match, the USA's final before the start of the World Cup in Brazil, will be broadcast on ESPN, WatchESPN, UniMas and ESPN Deportes Radio Network.
The appearance in the Mexico game is no guarantee of a spot on the final 23-player roster that will be chosen in a couple of weeks. Among the 22 callups by coach Jurgen Klinsmann are 19 MLS players, a high number because the game doesn't fall within a calendar window for international callups, and European teams don't have to release their U.S. players.
The captain of the national team, Dempsey has 102 caps and ranks second all-time with 36 goals. He played 90 minutes in a 2-0 loss at Ukraine March 5, and scored a career-high six goals with two assists in 10 appearances in 2013. Dempsey must sit out the Columbus match Saturday as part of a two-game suspension.
Evans has 17 caps and one goal for the national team. He participated the team's January camp and played 73 minutes in a 2-0 win against Korea Feb. 1. Evans has started at right back in eight of the last nine games for which he was available, including five World Cup qualifiers.
Yedlin, 20, participated in the team's January camp and earned his first cap in the friendly against Korea, playing the final 17 minutes as a second-half substitute. Yedlin also participated in the 2013 U.S. U-20 World Cup and started all three matches of the tournament.
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poulsbogary on March 26, 2014 1:56 pm
When i purchase a ticket to the game, especially a season ticket, I expect to be able to see Dempsey Evans and Yedlin perform. Those individuals are the reason why i go to the games. And then, when they are done practicing and playing with the national team, i expect to see them at 100% for the game I am at. Not injured, not 75% healthy, and not be taken out in the 20th minute because of fatigue. This national team business is so disruptive.
RadioGuy on March 26, 2014 8:18 pm
Unfortunately, that's the nature of the beast with soccer: The better players you have, the more likely they are to be called up to their national team. When you buy a ticket to watch the Sounders (or anyone else in MLS, for that matter), you're paying to see their best available players. In the grand scheme of things, the USMNT is more important than individual MLS teams. It may be a harsh reality, but it IS reality.
It'll be interesting to see what kind of crowd shows up in Phoenix because anytime the USA plays Mexico in a border state, it's like playing on the road.


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Sen. Angus King begins treatment for prostate cancer
By Chris Mills Rodrigo - 01/18/19 06:15 PM EST
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Sen. Angus King Angus Stanley KingPoll: McConnell is most unpopular senator Senate panel advances Pentagon chief, Joint Chiefs chairman nominees Overnight Defense: Highlights from Defense pick's confirmation hearing | Esper spars with Warren over ethics | Sidesteps questions on Mattis vs. Trump | Trump says he won't sell F-35s to Turkey MORE (I-Maine) announced Friday that he has begun treatment for prostate cancer.
King released a statement saying the treatment is "more like maintenance" and will not cause him to miss any time at the Senate.
"This week, I completed the first of an 8 week round of radiation to treat some small, localized, residual prostate cancer," he said in a statement. "This is a 5-day-a-week radiation treatment that will take about 20 minutes each morning until mid-March. What it means for my work in the Senate? Absolutely nothing. I have been assured by my doctors, as recently as this morning, that I will remain healthy through my current Senate term and beyond."
"For many of you, cancer treatment is scary to hear, but in this case, it's more like maintenance," he added.
King had surgery to remove his entire prostate gland in 2015, and had been cancer-free since then.
The senator's statement highlighted the high frequency of prostate cancer among men, and said that ObamaCare was key to being able to treat it.
"If it weren't for insurance - through the [Affordable Care Act] - and a great team of doctors, I'm not so sure I'd have this story to tell," King said.
"For so many Maine people, even regular checkups can be a hardship. It shouldn't have to be that way. For far too long, many in Washington have treated healthcare like it's some sort of privilege that can be revoked from those who are too poor or sick. It's not a privilege, it's a prerequisite for all Americans seeking happy, healthy, productive lives."
King will complete his treatment by mid-March at George Washington Hospital.
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