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City: Woman was hesitant to aid Winston case
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) A top Tallahassee official said that an investigation into allegations of sexual assault against Florida State University quarterback Jameis Winston was placed on hold for months because the alleged victim decided she did not want to press charges.
Nov. 20, 2013, 6:47 AM UTC / Source: NBC Sports
One of the lingering questions surrounding the case involving the Heisman Trophy candidate for the No. 2 ranked Seminoles is why it took 11 months for Tallahassee police to hand over information about the alleged December 2012 assault to local prosecutors.
City Manager Anita Favors Thompson, saying that she anticipated national news media interest because of Winston's celebrity, emailed the information to the Tallahassee mayor and city commissioners on Nov. 12. The Tallahassee Democrat first reported the existence of the email, which The Associated Press later obtained.
Favors Thompson, who reports to the city commission, oversees the police department, which currently does not have a permanent police chief.
Favors Thompson said the woman who filed the complaint got "intoxicated at a local bar" and was then allegedly assaulted. The city manager said that city police immediately began investigating the case after it was first reported to authorities.
But as they started interviewing witnesses, "they stopped getting responses from the young woman and could no longer contact her for additional follow up and information after many attempts to do so," Favors Thompson wrote.
Favors Thompson said that an attorney representing the victim's family said she "changed her mind and did not wish to prosecute."
News media outlets have been requesting information about the case from the Tallahassee Police Department. David Northway, a spokesman for the department, said that it is normal policy for the department to review any case that is inactive before information is handed over to the media. He added that investigations are not reactivated solely because of media requests.
In her email, Favors Thompson told city commissioners that the city reached out to the victim to let her know the information had been requested by the news media.
Last week, Tallahassee police released a heavily redacted two-page incident report that does not mention Winston by name, but says an assault took place between 1:30 a.m. and 2 a.m. last Dec. 7. It describes the suspect as being between 5-foot-9 and 5-11. Winston is listed by Florida State at 6-4.
Timothy Jansen, the attorney representing Winston, maintains his client has done nothing wrong. Last week he gave affidavits from two eyewitnesses that he said will "completely exonerate my client." Jansen has said that he believed the investigation was closed last February.
Four days after the first media request for information, Tallahassee police turned over information to local prosecutors. Prosecutors have begun their own investigation and State Attorney Willie Meggs said he wants to interview the alleged victim, who now lives out of state.
City Commissioner Scott Maddox said that "it is important that the process for this case is handled the same way as any other case."
"I am going to demand that this case is handled fairly and have full confidence that it will be," Maddox said.
Meggs told the AP on Saturday that he is concerned that media attention has focused primarily on 19-year-old Winston.
"We have a female victim here, too, and my job is to make sure that this victim or any victim of a crime has their rights protected," Meggs said. "Everything is now focused on Winston and what's going to happen to him."
Winston has continued to play football. Florida State hosts Idaho this week, then takes on the Florida Gators on Nov. 30. Prosecutors have said that they anticipate concluding their investigation in the next couple of weeks.


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2015 Line Investment Programme
The railway line from London to Norwich is set to benefit from a major package of upgrades worth £170m next year, providing a better, more reliable railway for passengers.
In addition to upgrades of the overhead lines, track and signalling, one of Network Rail's fleet of 'high output' machines will start working its way along the line from January to improve the reliability of the railway while also providing a smoother ride for passengers. More information about the High Output machine is available below in the Question and Answer section.
Key projects on the Great Eastern Main Line in 2015 also include:
Overhead line upgrade: Engineers continue to upgrade 60-year-old equipment to improve reliability along the Great Eastern Main Line. In 2015, work in the Chelmsford area will be completed.
Witham: Network Rail is installing new track and points at Witham. Points allow trains to move from one part of the track to another.
Colchester: Engineers are returning to Colchester to complete the second part of this project which commenced in 2014. Network Rail is remodelling the track and installing new sets of points, to deliver a more reliable railway to passengers.
Crossrail: Work continues to transform travel for commuters and longer-distance passengers between London, Essex and beyond. The additional passenger capacity and renewed stations will mean major, long-term improvements. Brand new trains will replace the existing trains used on stopping services from Shenfield to London from 2017.
Work on these key projects will take place during eight weekends between the beginning of February and the end of March in addition to Easter and May bank holidays. In 2015, there are currently no plans for any major disruptive engineering work on the Great Eastern Main Line between May and the end of the year, which would require any significant amount of bus replacement service during weekends on both Saturday and Sunday.
What is a High Output Ballast Cleaner and what does it do?
The High Output Ballast Cleaner consists of the cleaner itself and a string of conveyor ballast wagons. The cleaner scoops up the ballast the track sits on, before then sieving out any small, broken pieces and replacing them with the same weight in fresh stone. This provides a safe, well-drained track bed.
How will my train journeys be affected?
Network Rail and Greater Anglia are working together to minimise the changes to train services while the High Output Ballast Cleaner is operating. A significant amount of forward planning has already taken place and the work has deliberately been scheduled to take place overnight and during the late evening / very early morning periods to avoid the times when the vast majority of commuters and leisure travellers will be making journeys.
How can I find out if the service alterations will affect my particular journey?
Advance information is available from the service alterations section of Greater Anglia's website or from www.nationalrail.co.uk and Journey Planners. You will also be able to find out details from local stations, and all information will be updated on a regular basis as the work programme progresses.
How much ground will it cover every night?
Around 400 yards.
When will the work take place?
Overnight on Sundays, Monday, Tuesdays and Wednesday evenings - this means there will be some service alterations for the mid to late evenings and also for a small number of very early morning services. The ballast cleaner work is part of a £170m investment Network Rail is making to improve the tracks and other infrastructure in the Anglia Region in 2015.
At the weekends, some late trains or early morning Sunday services may also be affected. As the machine works on different parts of the track at different times, the alterations to services will vary, and some bus replacement services will operate to supplement the timetable, although every effort will be made to minimise the extent of these alterations. Additional customer service staff will be on duty at stations where there is a requirement for any bus replacement services.
How does this piece of kit improve the railway?
It will help Network Rail to provide a safe, well-drained bed for the track to sit on and is absolutely vital to improving train service performance. This essential upgrade is the railway's equivalent of resurfacing a busy road. Running a safe, reliable railway depends on the track being in good condition – not just the metal rails, but the foundations on which they sit too.
Where will it be working?
The machine will be working on the Norwich to London mainline in 2015.
January to April: from Norwich to Haughley (near Stowmarket)
April to May: from Ipswich to Stowmarket
May to October: from Colchester to Shenfield
November to December: from Norwich to Stowmarket
The machine continues on the Great Eastern Main Line in 2016, but is also planned to work on Saturday nights on the Ely to Peterborough line through the spring and summer of 2016.
Why is Network Rail using this machine?
Without using this machine, the work undertaken would need to be carried out using conventional methods which would be slower and more disruptive. There would be a need to close the railway during weekends and over a longer period of time. By using this machine, trains can continue running next to it – although with some service alterations - and keep the railway open. Network Rail engineers can also cover much more ground every time they carry-out this work to upgrade the railway.
How much quicker can the machine carry-out the work?
Network Rail plans to clean around 400 yards every shift with the ballast cleaner. Using conventional methods would only cover around 200 yards so with this equipment, double the distance can be covered.
How long is the machine?
About half a mile and it weighs 3,000 tonnes. The machine itself represents a £42m investment by Network Rail, who operates four high output trains that work across the country. These engineering trains have worked on the West Coast Main Line, East Coast Main Line and the Great Western Main Line for the last ten years.
How many people will be on site when the machine is working?
Between 50-70 specialist staff.
Once the machine finishes its work each night, where does it go to?
The ballast cleaner machine will be operating out of a base in Parkeston Quay freight yard in Harwich, Essex. This is also where the train will undergo regular maintenance and be restocked.
Will the work continue from the previous night's finishing point?
Yes, the cleaner will typically start its work from where it finished the night before.
Will there be a need to operate a bus replacement service when these works are taking place?
There will be some bus replacement services operating at certain times of this work to either replace train services that are affected, and / or to supplement the service where a reduced train frequency is necessary to enable the HOBC machine to work on the opposite line to that on which trains will be running. Wherever possible we will seek to minimise the requirement for customers to use replacement buses, however where buses are operating these will be clearly advertised via the various media channels where the revised timetables will be publicised.
Where there is a need for customers to change trains to complete their journeys and / or travel on a replacement bus service, we will be providing additional customer service staff to provide additional help, assistance and advice for passengers at those interchange stations.
Will I be able to travel on an alternative route with my ticket to avoid the service alterations?
Wherever possible yes, however this will depend on your particular journey requirements. Our station staff / customer relations team will be able to help provide advice and guidance.

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There's no point to making ontologies if you don't implement them to grab data from them. In this case we make use of queries to grab information that can be of use for us.
W3C made a recommended language to make consults in our ontologies called SPARQL. This language is very similar to SQL syntax on relational databases and can be used to grab data. In this case we're going to make a consult using two very famous tools, Jena for the Java platform and RDFLib for the Python language.
SPARQL (called sparkle) is an ontology processing framework developed for the Java language that allows the making of queries from the ontology. In this tutorial I'll show you how to make consults to the ontology using SPARQL.
Printing the Ontology using Jena.
This code allows to print the ontology contents using Java and the Jena API. In order to use it you must link the Jena libraries to the Eclipse IDE (or your chosen IDE) and call the ontology file (in RDF format) through the code.
RDFLib also provides with a SPARQL binder to make consults in our ontology using the Python programming language. Personally this is my favorite way to work given the advantages Python provides in ease of prototyping and which makes it ideal for web applications.
Of course if real time and resource allocation are vital (such as embedded systems) then other option like C, Assembly or even VHDL/Verilog may be preferable.
To begin we create a new file with .py extension to indicate our interpreter that we want to create a Python application. In this case I called my application Taki.py based on my otaku knowledge. Save in on the same folder as your ontology.
First of all we must import the libraries we're going to use. In this case we'll make use of RDFLib and as such must add the following lines in the header of our application.
Next we must create a Graph object that will hold the values of our ontology in memory. In this case its called g.
From the acquired values we will iterate printing each of the names using an iterator and finally close the graph as shown in the figure.
Executing our application we see that it successfully retrieves the three series that have Drama as their Genre or rather, in semantic programming vocabulary, those instances of the Series class whose Object property links to the Drama class.


The 2017 County Activity stats are posted on the County Activity page. While you're there, browse the map of current operations planned for 2018. There's still a lot of gray for us to fill in!
Counties included are all 146 from NC and SC. Your 8 letters can be all from one state or mixture of both.
You must participate in NC and SC parties and submit your regular log electronically via the website(s) to both. Even if all your 8 counties are in one state, you still must submit a log to both in order to be eligible. When submitting, click the link on the log upload page and fill out the electronic form. You will be asked which 8 counties you worked and your contact information.
Your personal certificate will be emailed to you in PDF format for printing or archiving at your discretion. You will also be entered into a random drawing for a $50 gift card for the Wireman! Winner will be announced at the time of results posting.


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Hennepin County public defender questions police agreement with documentary crew
Minneapolis Police Chief Janee Harteau, shown in 2017 before her resignation in the aftermath of officer Mohamed Noor's fatal shooting of Justine Ruszczyk Damond.
— Aaron Lavinsky, Star Tribune file
By Andy Mannix , Star Tribune
After Minneapolis police allowed a documentary crew to follow officers behind the scenes, Hennepin County's top public defender wants to know whether the footage may contain evidence that should have been disclosed in her clients' criminal cases.
On Wednesday, a Minneapolis City Council committee plans to approve an access agreement for a production company called Blue Pictures, LLC. The arrangement will apply retroactively to April 2017, however, and police say the filming is all but complete.
Tentatively titled "Women in Blue," the documentary will focus on female officers, including the resignation of former Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau in the aftermath of officer Mohamed Noor fatally shooting Justine Ruszczyk Damond. Noor is currently facing murder charges.
The contract details the legal access arrangement between the filmmakers and Police Department, including giving police the right to review a raw cut of the documentary before it's released.
After learning of the access agreement, Mary Moriarty, the Hennepin County's chief public defender, wrote a letter to Minneapolis City Attorney Susan Segal expressing concerns over the arrangement and asking for the names of her office's clients who have been filmed. Nearly three weeks later, as the contract moves through the council, she has yet to find answers, she said.
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Moriarty said she doesn't know what's in the raw footage but worries there may be evidence related to cases handled by her office that police would be legally obligated to produce.
"If MPD records an investigation, they have to hand it over," Moriarty said. "So if they're going to give a production company inside access, that has to be handed over. And on a policy level, why would Minneapolis allow MPD to contract away their constitutional obligations? It's just bad policy."
Police spokesman John Elder said members of the Police Department and City Attorney's Office have talked to the filmmakers. He said they understand the footage contains no evidence that would need to be turned over.
"There's nothing that was taped that would lend itself to need to be shared in discovery," Elder said.
Moriarty questioned how the city could be so sure.
"That means that they're relying on the filmmakers' understanding of what Minnesota criminal law requires," she said.
The police entered into an agreement a few years ago with a production company for A&E's true-crime show "The First 48," which chronicles criminal investigations from the officers' point of view. In that case, the public defender's office requested footage from police related to a murder trial.
Police said it had no footage — the contract turned all ownership over to the producers. The Hennepin County Attorney's Office joined the defense in requesting the footage from the production company, which refused to provide it, leading to a lengthy legal battle that delayed the trial.
City Council Member Steve Fletcher, vice chairman of the public safety committee, said he hasn't seen the footage from "Women in Blue." It's "conceivable" that filmmakers captured scenes related to criminal cases, he said, but that's not the focus of the film. Fletcher said he believes this contract addresses the issues raised in "The First 48" cases by including a clause clarifying that producers "must respond" to subpoenas.
"It is not my impression that it disadvantages [Moriarty's] clients," Fletcher said. "In discovery either side can request that footage. … If it became material to the case they would have access to it."
Beth Levison, one of the filmmakers, said in an e-mail that she was not available for an interview Tuesday. "We're proud of the project and its unprecedented focus on women officers," she said in the e-mail. "We're looking forward to the vote [Wednesday]."
Elder couldn't comment on why the agreement was made under the previous chief but said it was most likely a means of promoting the department to female recruits. He also did not know why the council was approving the contract now — after the documentary was filmed.
The City Council's Public Safety & Emergency Management Committee will meet at 10 a.m. Wednesday to vote on the contract.
When: Wednesday 10 a.m.
Who: Minneapolis City Council's Public Safety & Emergency Management Committee
What: Expected to retroactively approve a contract that gave filmmakers inside access to police
Andy Mannix covers Minneapolis city government for the Star Tribune. He joined the paper in January 2016, and previously covered in-depth criminal justice and mass incarceration, with a data bent.
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There are a lot more adventures in store for young recording artist Chyna Parks (China Anne McClain). The Disney Channel has announced that they're renewed A.N.T. Farm for a second season.
The series debuted on June 17th and has aired 18 of the first season's 26 episodes. There's no word on how many A.N.T. Farm installments have been ordered for season two.
Disney Channel has ordered a second season of the hit comedy series "A.N.T. Farm," TV's #1 series among Kids 6-11 and Tweens, it was announced today by Adam Bonnett, Senior Vice President, Original Programming, Disney Channels Worldwide.
Created by Dan Signer ("The Suite Life on Deck," "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody") and executive-produced by Signer and Stephen Engel ("The Big Bang Theory," "Mad About You," "Dream On"), the series stars China Anne McClain, Sierra McCormick, Jake Short, Stefanie Scott and Carlon Jeffery. Recurring are Finesse Mitchell ("Saturday Night Live"), Elise Neal ("The Hughleys"), Zach Steel, Mindy Sterling ("Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me") and Aedin Mincks.
China Anne McClain, age 13, is also a recording artist signed to Hollywood Records and is currently working on an album with her sisters Sierra and Lauryn McClain. Ms. McClain and two of her cast mates, Stefanie Scott and Carlon Jeffery, perform songs from and inspired by the series on the "A.N.T. Farm" soundtrack from Walt Disney Records. Released in October, it spent five weeks at #1 on the Billboard Kids Album chart and yielded two hits for Ms. McClain, "Dynamite" and "Calling All the Monsters," each spending several weeks at #1 on Radio Disney's Top 30. Additionally, music videos for "Dynamite" and "Calling All the Monsters" have generated a combined 22 million views online via Disney Channel, YouTube and Vevo. Ms. McClain recently performed in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and Chicago's Magnificent Mile Lights Festival Parade and will next be seen in the "Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade" on the ABC Television Network (Sunday, December 25, 12:00-2:00 p.m., ET).
On December 26, a new "D-Signed" collection debuts at Target stores nationwide, influenced by fashions worn by the character Chyna Parks in "A.N.T. Farm." It will be the latest in the popular collection in girl sizes 4 to 16 at Target stores nationwide and online at Target.com.
In the series, Chyna Parks is a middle school musical prodigy who is enrolled in a prestigious A.N.T. (Advanced Natural Talents) program at a local high school. Along with her fellow A.N.Ts, Olive Doyle, an A.N.T. with a photographic memory and Fletcher Quimby, an artistic genius and practical joker, they discover the ups and downs of high school, three years earlier than expected. Adding to their high school experience are Lexi Reed, a popular cheerleader determined to outshine Chyna, and Cameron Parks, Chyna's older brother who is less than thrilled that his little sister is now enrolled in his school.
Source: NTI, 12/27/10-11/23/11, most current trackage data with minimum 10 telecasts.
What do you think? Are you glad that A.N.T. Farm has been renewed? How long would you like to see it continue?
More about: A.N.T. Farm, A.N.T. Farm: canceled or renewed?
Yes I feel so good about the hit comedy show Ant Farm having a second season…I love Ant farm and I love china she iis such a good actress and singer..


Commercial compliance software developer Encompass Corporation has agreed a partnership with online directory 192.com.
Encompass Corporation, which took a 4,000 sq ft office at 39 St Vincent Place in Glasgow last August, had developed 'know your customer' (KYC) automation software used in financial and professional services to complete compliance processes cheaper and faster.
Its software allows users to search, review and manage commercial data from public registries such as Companies House and the Land Registry, as well as credit bureaus, property and asset valuation sites and other data streams.
The new partnership with 192.com will give Encompass users access to 192.com's stored information, including historic and edited electoral rolls and director reports.
192.com said identity verification enabled as a result of the partnership, "will provide an essential tool in helping companies to comply with Anti-Money Laundering legislation, whilst also being an invaluable tool for insolvency practitioners".
Dominic Blackburn, product director at 192.com, said: "192.com has over one billion searchable records, including the Open Electoral Register from 2002 to 2016 and over 26 million residential addresses.
Encompass was launched in Sydney, Australia by technology professionals Wayne Johnson and Roger Carson in 2011.
The company currently has offices in Glasgow, London and Sydney.


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Making Our Mark
It was interesting to watch a documentary by the comedian Sir Billy Connolly, who stated that he does not fear death. He laughs a lot despite having to cope with Parkinson's disease and a degenerative brain condition, and considers old age (he is 75) as an adventure which will prepare him for the spirit world.
He feels his life is slipping away, but he's not frightened. Instead he finds it 'interesting' to witness his decline and to how bits of him and his talents are slowly disappearing.
"It's as if I'm being prepared for something, some other adventure, which is over the hill. I've got all this stuff to lose first, and then I'll be at the shadowy side of the hill doing the next episode in the spirit world."
What a wonderful way to look at old age and its declining faculties! Sir Billy is also grateful for having 'made his mark' in life with his creative talents, and states that this achievement is a great companion in his old age.
Yes, it must be very satisfying to know you have 'made your mark' in life, so to speak. It occurred to me that we authors are also trying to do exactly the same thing, but with books instead of comic genius. Unfortunately there are many more authors than comedians, and so to gain literary recognition is a somewhat longer process for us, if it happens at all in our lifetime. Sir Billy has the luck to be both a comedian and a traditionally published author, and so…yes… he has certainly made his mark and should be proud of his efforts.
So… my question for writers is this: Do you as a self-published author feel you have still 'made your mark' even if you never find an agent or that big publishing deal?
I for one think that yes, I have still made a small stamp on the world with my books. They're out there in the world, people on the whole get pleasure from reading them, and although I may not sell as many as Sir Billy, people do buy them.
And what of those who do not have creative talents? How do they make their mark? With some it might be satisfying to know that their children will live on and remember them. Others may possess sporting talents or be a mathematical wizard for instance. Whatever the speciality, we generally like to know that our lives have been worth something and that we will not be forgotten.
21 thoughts on "Making Our Mark"
mswwrites said:
Yes, while my 2 books are not huge sellers, for those that read them-the information is good. If I can help 1 person, I have done my job as a writer…. 🙂
Janet Givens said:
We can't judge the water's impact by the size of the ripple. It all matters; it all makes a difference. Thank you for writing a provocative post and for sharing the update on Sir Billy Connally. I hadn't known.
Thank you Janet for your profound words.
Phil Huston said:
Billy is a saint. Crazy, profane, funny beyond funny. Cerebral, visceral, philosophy to locker room humor.
We are not the ones to judge. We never know how we impact others, only how they impact us. People whose handshake or hug we remember a lifetime might recall us or not. The size of our blip on the radar isn't ours to know. Here's a story. Greg Lake (ELP) said they played a concert in Russia long past their heyday, and there was a man in the front row in tears the whole show. Greg saw him at the door after the show and the man offered him a worn album cover to autograph. Greg signed it and asked him what the deal was, the man told him he'd gotten arrested for having that album and spent 9 years in jail for it. There's a story behind everything we do. If we're lucky we'll get a glimpse of them. But most of them well never know. Which is why when someone the "wrong" color asks you for a battery jump to start their car in a frosty cold parking lot when you'd rather stay warm and go home, do it for them anyway. Pay it forward. Peace begins with a smile, a much bigger success than a hit record or book. Write with intention, the impact is out of your control.
Very deep thoughts there, Phil…
Hi Stevie. As usual, I'm with you. Absolutely we are leaving our mark with our books behind. 🙂 x
Ah, yes, making your mark. Whether or not I have done this is a question that haunts me. As an almost-69-year-old blind person, who grew up before computers, before the ADA and before at least some people had the idea that blindness doesn't have to be a virtual death sentence, I feel like I am on the cusp of something that will come to fruition after I am gone.
The publishing industry is just beginning to explore the possibilities of diversity in young adult literature. Blind authors and characters are rarely part of the discussion; as a very small minority, we have to stand at the back of the line. Blind authors have told me that their attempts to find agents have led to experiences where they were told that their portrayals of blind women in particular were "unrealistic." We are trying to get them to understand that blind authors might be capable of portraying blind characters in a way that is more realistic than their notion that the public needs us to be serene, accepting and spiritually grounded people. This one-size-fits-all approach needs to end, if for no other reason than the fact that, unlike me, most people who are blind grew up sighted. They formed their negative opinions about the quality of life as a blind or visually impaired person in childhood, and those "prejudices" — though many just consider them kindly feelings of pity — come back to haunt them, if they end up losing their own sight.
So, I feel like a trail-blazer who has just about outlived her usefulness. It's OK, I know that I have made some impact because of the interactions I have had with audiences and readers as well as in my private life. I am delighted and relieved to find young blind women writers like Amy Krout-Horn, Kristen Witucki, Meredith Burton and Jo Elizabeth Pinto, who are far more grounded in community than I could ever hope to be.
You are a trail-blazer, Donna. You are a true inspiration.
I'm with Denzil on this. I don't see my writing as ever likely to make much of an impression among the millions of words published every week. On the other hand, I do like to think that I made a few useful innovations in my career as an Engineer and that my work as a County Councillor for four years contributed to improving the lives of one or two people.
tidalscribe said:
Most of us are not likely to be remembered for more than a couple of generations of our families, while the really great or the very wicked are remembered for centuries, even millenia. But we all leave a mark. And we Indie Authors will leave more of a mark than if we had not set out on this path. I once read an article that you should leave your writing in your will – so I am leaving my manuscripts and intellectual property to my daughter – the only one in the family interested in my writing! My sister is leaving her writing to my daughter as well, for the same reason. She will be left a lot of stuff and if she ever makes any money out of it good luck to her! But on line, if nobody switches the internet off, will be a digital archeologist's dream, the words and thoughts of 'the people'.
Yes, with our words we will leave a small mark in the annals of time.
We all 'make a mark' simply by being here… but to really leave a lasting impression is something else…
Too true.
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Thanks for the link up
robertawrites235681907 said:
Having read two of your books, Stevie, I would say you have definitely made a mark on this world by sharing the specific content of the two I have read. You are making readers aware of certain dangers in our society and that is a great thing.
Thanks Roberta.
Denzil said:
I wonder whether we live in a culture these days where there is too much attention on "making our mark" as it is so closely associated with gaining attention, which is heavily social media driven? Have we lost the ability to see ourselves "making a mark" just by quietly being a good dad, or a kind sister, or a friendly colleague? Do we only "make a mark" when our work or characteristics get noticed publicly/globally? Just wondering …
Good point, Denzil; to be remembered fondly by successive generations is a thing to aspire to. Everything seems so 'celebrity'-driven these days.
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Addie Johnson Grave
Address: Mattole Road, Humboldt Redwoods State Park
Weott, CA
Excerpted with permission from the book "Best Short Hikes in Redwood National and State Parks," by authors: Gisela Rohde and Jerry Rohde.
PARK: Humboldt Redwoods State Park
Features: A shaded stream canyon and a pioneer woman's grave.
Distance: 2.3 miles round trip
Elevation gain: 600 feet
Open all year for the basic hike.
HISTORY: A lost lamb originally led the way to the peaceful ridge-top spot where this hike concludes. Now you can take a shaded park trail to the gravesite of the lamb's long-departed owner.
THE HIKE: You start in the fabled Rockefeller Forest, the largest grove of old-growth redwoods in the world. While staring skyward at their soaring trunks you're likely to miss another red-wooded tree—a small, moss-covered Pacific yew (Taxus brevifolia) that stands forlornly just to the right of the path a few yards from its start. It is hard to believe that such an unassuming specimen is part of a proud heritage; however, yews have long made important contributions to humankind.
After 50 yards the path meets the Horse Trail, an equestrian/hiker route that runs along the northern edge of the flat. The hiking route turns right, following the Horse Trail until mile 0.1, where you branch left at a fork. At 0.2 miles you head into the canyon of Harper Creek. As you gradually climb the slope the creek sends its splashing sound upward, raucously noisy in winter and spring, more subdued during the dry months.
The trail rises along the hillside through mixed forest until it reaches a flat at 0.7 miles. The small-leaved shrub that fills much of the area is evergreen huckleberry, one of the most common plants in the redwood forest. Look also for the dusty green leaves and grayish bark of tanoak, another common under story resident.
At 0.9 miles you pass a second Pacific yew, this one overhanging the trail from its perch on the bank to the left. A switchback then takes the route south. Just ahead the path is bordered by one of the park's earliest blooming flowers. If you are lucky enough to be here in February, you'll see the delicately pointed, cream- and wine-colored petals of the fetid adder's tongue (Scoliopus bigelovii), whose forbidding name refers not only to its shape but also to its distinctive smell, which some beholders have likened to rotting meat. The odor is actually part of the plant's survival strategy. Since fetid adder's tongue blooms too early for the normal pollinators to be present, it needs to attract flies to do the job, and, as we all know, the scents preferred by flies are quite different from those preferred by most other species, including humans.
By way of compensation, the next plant you meet along the trail has a far more pleasant aroma—the California bay is sometimes known as both pepperwood and laurel, and its sharply pointed, dark green leaves suffuse the air with a strong but strangely appealing scent.
You then make a switchback to the right and come out on a ridgeline. To the left are intermittent views of a steeply sloping prairie and, at 1.1 miles, of Grasshopper Peak. Both Oregon white oak and California black oak border the path, while French broom, an invasive alien, encroaches the ridge top from the down slope prairie.
The trail then reaches a shaded knoll, where a low picket fence surrounds a grave marker and a pair of tall cypress trees. Buried here is Addie Johnson, who homesteaded on the nearby prairie with her husband Tosaldo in 1872. One day, while searching for a lost lamb, Addie hiked to this promontory, which looked down on the family homestead. She fell in love with the spot and told her husband that she would like to be buried here when she passed away. Only a few months later a grieving Tosaldo had to honor her request after Addie died in childbirth. The trail ends, like Addie's story, at her gravesite.
The way back follows the same route, returning you to the parking area at 2.3 miles.


There has been minor commentary in some of the leagues, so I will remind you all that I have the July results and will post them soon.
As previously mentioned, I have been in the process of moving across the country. I now live in Atlantic Canada. Texas, to the NWT, to Winnipeg, MB, and now Nova Scotia (from 05-16). The process of moving takes a lot of time and is a higher priority than posting July Stats. I have done my best to keep the PVLs going in the interim. Sorry for the delay, but when time allows, I will post the archived data.


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FBI Lied: Boston Bomber's Friend Unarmed When Agent Shot And Killed Him
It is now abundantly clear that rogue federal agents are engaged in a massive cover up of their false flag attack at the Boston Marathon last month when two Chechen immigrants were framed for an event planned and staged by rogue agents within our own government as a further excuse for perpetuating the endless war on terror that has bankrupted the country and stripped Americans of basic civil liberties. It now turns out that the friend of the dead Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was not armed as originally claimed by federal law enforcements when an FBI agent fatally shot him.
Law enforcement officials originally claimed that Ibragim Todashev was being interrogated by the FBI agent in the presence of several other law enforcement officials in his Orlando apartment and was starting to write out a confession to his alleged role in an unsolved triple homicide in Boston that law enforcement officials are now trying to claim he carried out with Tamerlan Tsarnaev on September 11, 2011. According to the initial reports, Todashev allegedly lunged at the agent with a knife as he was writing out his confession following hours of questioning. Law enforcement officials now admit there was no knife. The story now being told to the media by law enforcement sources is that Todashev became angry and overturned a table. The agent, feeling threatened, responded by firing seven shots at him from his handgun, including one bullet to the back of his head. From the Washington Post:
An air of mystery has surrounded the FBI shooting of Ibragim Todashev, 27, since it occurred in Todashev's apartment early on the morning of May 22. The FBI said in a news release that day that Todashev, a former Boston resident who knew bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed during an interview with several law enforcement officers.
The FBI has provided few other details, saying that the matter is being investigated by an FBI review team that may not finish its probe for several months.
"The FBI takes very seriously any shooting incidents involving our agents and as such we have an effective, time-tested process for addressing them internally," FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said in a statement Wednesday. "The review process is thorough and objective and conducted as expeditiously as possible under the circumstances." . . .
At the time of the shooting, Todashev was being interviewed about his possible connection to a triple murder in Waltham, Mass., on Sept. 11, 2011. Law enforcement officials said he had acknowledged involvement in the murders and had implicated Tsarnaev. Officials said Todashev was not suspected of involvement in the April 15 Boston bombing . . .
Initial reports citing anonymous law-enforcement individuals provided conflicting accounts of what happened. Some law enforcement officials said Todashev wielded a knife and others suggested that he attempted to grab the FBI agent's gun.
One law enforcement official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation, said Wednesday that Todashev lunged at the agent and overturned a table. But the official said Todashev did not have a gun or a knife. A second official also said Todashev was unarmed.
An official said that according to one account of the shooting, the other law enforcement officials had just stepped out of the room, leaving the FBI agent alone with Todashev, when the confrontation occurred.
The shooting followed hours of questioning by the law enforcement officials that had begun the night before.
Todashev's father said after the shooting that he didn't believe the FBI's account of why they killed his son.
"My son could never commit a crime, I know my son too well," Abdul-Baki Todashev, who lives in Chechnya, told the Daily Beast Web site. "He worked helping disabled people in America and did sports, coached other sportsmen. The FBI made up their accusations."
Separately, the Orlando-Sentinel is reporting that Todashev's widow, Reniya Manukyan, told reporters that FBI agents had been badgering her husband and her since the Boston bombings last month about their relationship to Tamerlan. Todashev met Tamerlan when he lived in Boston several years earlier through the tight knit Chechen community and both shared an interest in martial arts. Manukyan insists her husband would have never confessed to the 2011 triple homicide in Boston because of records she says that prove he was in Atlanta with her at that time. Todashev had undergone surgery on his knee to repair damage to a tendon a few days before the Boston bombings and was still recovering from that surgery when he was shot and killed by the FBI agent on May 22. At a press conference today, an attorney for Todashev's widow offered photo evidence of the extent of the injuries sustained by Todashev, which were taken of his body at a local funeral home following the shooting death. A family friend who took the photos claimed they showed at least a dozen wounds, although some may have been exit wounds from the multiple gunshots. A civil rights group is calling for a Justice Department investigation into the shooting.
Recall the shootout in Watertown with the two Boston suspects. Law enforcement reports of the events of that 24-hour period have been riddled with contradictory statements. Eyewitness accounts and video footage showed Tamerlan being taken into police custody alive the night of the shootout during which one police officer was shot. Yet police later claimed he was shot by police and then run over and killed by his brother while fleeing the scene in a stolen Mercedes SUV. Initial accounts claimed both brothers were firing at police and throwing bombs at them, but witnesses claimed they only heard gunshots and only one gun was recovered near Tamerlan's body. Later, we learned that the police officer who was shot had been hit by friendly fire, not by a gun fired by either of the suspects. The Tsarnaev brothers can be clearly heard on audio of an amateur video taken during the shootout yelling "we didn't do it" and "we give up."
After a massive manhunt for the next 24 hours during which the entire Boston area was placed under martial law and homes within a several block area were stormed and searched by heavily armed law enforcement officials without warrants failed to turn up the missing younger brother, Dzhokhar, police lifted the martial law order and a homeowner quickly discovered Dzhokhar hiding in a boat in his backyard. A massive team of police converged on the scene. Police claimed the suspect had fired upon them, causing them to fire dozens of shots into the boat and using flash bangs to coax a severely injured Dzhokhar from the boat. Later we learned that the suspect was unarmed, leading to questions about why so many shots were fired into the boat at him if he never fired a shot at police as earlier claimed.
Alternative news sources revealed after the suspects were identified by federal law enforcement officials their family's ties to the CIA despite initial claims by federal law enforcement agents that they knew nothing about the suspects prior to the bombings. The Tsarnaev's uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, turns out to be a former son-in-law of a former high-ranking CIA official, Graham Fuller, who is credited with writing the original action plan for Iran-Contra. Tsarni actually lived in Fuller's home in Rockville, Maryland for more than a year and had been instrumental in setting up an NGO to help fund radical Islamist rebels in Chechnya. Tsarni had also been employed by USAID, a CIA cut out agency, as well as working for a string of energy companies tied to Haliburton. It also turns out that Russian authorities had warned both the FBI and the CIA of its concerns of Tamerlan's activities long before the Boston bombings occurred. The Tsarnaev brothers' parents and aunt insist they were framed by the U.S. government. After their mother called out the FBI for its role in handling her sons over a several year period, the agency admitted it had interviewed the older brother on several occasions prior to the bombings but determined he posed no threat and closed the file on him. Supporters who believe in the Tsarnaev brothers' innocence have made this video as a tribute to them. Here's a couple more videos you weren't suppose to see. The first one shows when police first took Tamerlan into custody. A neighbor tells the police he doesn't recognize him so he presumably doesn't live in the neighborhood. Police begin searching the area for bombs. Near the end of the video, you will hear Tamerlan yell out his younger brother's name. The second video has extended footage taken by the same area resident with commentary added. You will see when police first approach Tamerlan and when they walk away with him while he is still fully clothed.
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Das Schloss ("Slottet") är en opera i två delar (tio scener med mellanspel och scenförändringar) med musik av Aribert Reimann, som även skrev librettot efter Franz Kafkas roman med samma namn (1926) och Max Brods dramatisering av denna. Verket uruppfördes 2 september 1992 på Deutsche Oper i Berlin.

Reimann, som fascinerades av allmängiltiga ämnen ur världslitteraturen, följde sin förkärlek för den dunkla sidan av människans existens, vare sig det var vansinnet i Shakespeares Kung Lear (operan Lear) eller Strindbergs intransparenta värld i Ett drömspel (operan Ein Traumspiel). Framträdande är ofta pessimistiska moment, som framkallas genom orättmätigt tillfogat lidande och bitter besvikelse. Reimann gav musikalisk stringens åt detta område i alla dess nyanser, och avancerade i och med uruppförandet av Lear till att bli en av 1900-talets mest betydelsefulla operatonsättare. Den psykologiska teckningen av vokalpartierna, som skulle bli alltmer subtil för varje opera, nådde en höjdpunkt i tonsättningen av Kafkas Slottet, ett beställningsverk från Deutsche Oper Berlin. Människan som anser sig ha rätt men som av omgivningen beskylls för en diffus förseelse, kanske själva hans existens inom systemet, är en fruktansvärd situation som Reimann är väl förmögen att ge en fängslande musikalisk gestaltning.

Personer
 K. (baryton)
 Värden på värdshuset Zur Brücke (baryton)
 Värdinnan, hans hustru (dramatisk alt)
 Schwarzer, slottsfogdens son (talroll)
 Artur och Jeremias, medhjälpare (tenor, basbaryton)
 Barnabas, budbäraren från slottet (tenor)
 Olga och Amalia, hans systrar (mezzosopran, sopran)
 Värdshusvärden på Herrenhof (basbaryton)
 Frieda, servitrisen på Herrenhof (sopran)
 Kommunalordföranden (bas)
 Mizzi, hans hustru (stum roll)
 Läraren (tenor)
 Bürgel, undersekreterare (talroll)
 Fyra bönder (2 tenorer, 2 basar)
 Bönder, slottstjänstemän (kör)

Handling

Del I

Scen 1 och 2

Utanför och inuti värdshuset Zur Brücke. Den utmattade K. kommer fram till byns värdshus, men eftersom det inte finns några rum tvingas han övernatta på en halmmadrass i skänkrummet. Han hinner knappt somna förrän han väcks av Schwarzer, som meddelar att det är förbjudet att uppehålla sig i byn utan tillstånd. K. säger sig vara den nye lantmätaren. En förfrågan på slottet bekräftar K:s uppgift.
Två inkompetenta medhjälpare presenterar sig för K. Denne vill besöka slottet, något som är otänkbart för en främling. Budbäraren Barnabas har med sig ett brev från tjänstemannen Klamm: K. skall anmäla sig hos kommunalordföranden.

Scen 3

En gata vid utkanten av skogen, utanför värdshuset Herrenhof. Här bor de besökande tjänstemännen, som kan tänkas ge upplysningar. K., som ännu inte fått tillstånd att stanna över natten, göms av servitrisen Frieda, Klamms väninna. Han undkommer dock inte medhjälparna som tar honom med sig.

Scen 4

Kammaren på värdshuset Zur Brücke. K. har sedan fyra dagar bott på kammaren tillsammans med Frieda. Värdshusvärdinnan, en gång Klamms älskarinna, förklarar att ett äktenskap mellan K. och Frieda är omöjligt på grund av dennes osäkra ställning. K. söker upp kommunalordföranden för att kunna tillträda sin tjänst.

Scen 5

Kommunalordförandens rustika rum. Kommunalordföranden meddelar K. att denne har kommit till byn på grund av en förlagd akt. Förgäves söker man efter den motsvarande akten. Man har inget behov av en lantmätare. K. blir upprörd.

Del II

Scen 6

Kammaren på värdshuset Zur Brücke. Läraren söker upp K. och meddelar att K:s ohörsamhet gentemot kommunalordföranden har protokollförts enligt föreskrifterna. Ett anbud om arbete som skolvaktmästare gör K. ursinnig. Frieda låter honom veta att värdshusvärdinnan har sagt upp dem och K. tvingas acceptera anställningen.

Scen 7

En öde, nattsvart bygata i snön. K., som har tröttnat på att vänta, går i riktning mot slottet. Medhjälparna följer efter honom. Barnabas för med sig ett brev från Klamm. K:s arbete lovordas och det finns utsikt till avlöning (allt är dock platta lögner). K. ansöker om audiens på slottet och jagar brutalt bort medhjälparna.

Scen 8

Nästa dag. I Barnabas hem. K. hoppas att Barnabas skall ha nyheter åt honom. Men denne befinner sig på slottet. Medhjälparna har sagt upp sig på grund av K:s brutalitet. Barnabas underrättar K. om att denne har beviljats audiens hos tjänstemannen Erlanger på Herrenhof.

Scen 9

En korridor i Herrenhof. Natt. Efter ett möte med Frieda, som har slagit sig i slang med en av medhjälparna, irrar K. omkring på Herrenhof. När akterna sorteras blir en över. I den ligger ett papper som en tjänare med en blick på den sovande K. river sönder.

Scenförändring

En kyrkogård. I mitten av den syns en öppen grav. I fjärran kan man se slottet. Vid K:s grav församlas alla hans kontaktpersoner och slutligen kommer även Barnabas med budet om att K. har tilldelats uppehållsrätt.

Referenser

Tyskspråkiga operor
Operor av Aribert Reimann

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Union members protest in Trenton, New Jersey, in June 2014 over Gov. Chris Christie's plan to use pension payments to balance the budget. Those payments are earned compensation, not optional contributions. Mel Evans / AP
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Don't be duped by misleading economic terms
Pension contributions aren't gifts, and the free market doesn't exist
March 11, 2015 2:00AM ET
by David Cay Johnston @DavidCayJ
Americans are being duped about many crucial economic concepts because of misleading terms that pollute popular understanding.
This problem caught my attention last week when a state treasurer spoke just before me at a national conference on pension plans and, along with the event host, referred to "contributions" to pension plans.
They are not alone. News reports routinely refer to contributions to pension plans by industry and government. Journalists perpetuate this misunderstanding by accepting the language politicians and others use without checking the facts, as when Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin said four years ago that he wanted state workers to "contribute more" to their pensions so taxpayers could contribute less.
Using the term "contribution" creates the false impression that pensions are a gift and therefore optional. There are no taxpayer contributions to public worker pension plans. All the money in these plans — except for investment earnings — is compensation that workers have earned.
Accounting gimmicks
Some readers may be thinking, "Hey, wait a minute. The money comes from the taxpayers." It does, but the taxpayers traded their money for the work done by state troopers, teachers and other public sector workers. Once that work is done, the money belongs to the workers, and it is their earnings that flow into the pension plan.
The easiest way to understand this is to think of what employers that provide fringe benefits tell their workers. They call it a compensation package. Most of that package is turned over as cash wages. But some of the earnings go to pay for health care, vacations, sick leave and retirement.
How the compensation package is divvied up is mere accounting. The way the earnings are sliced has no effect on the economic and legal principle that all compensation is earned. Whether the money going into the pension plan is shown on a paycheck as a deduction or it is paid directly into the plan or is funneled through some combination of these mechanisms is of absolutely no economic or legal consequence, because the workers earned every cent. Were that not so, the pension scheme would be a crime.
Similarly, there is no employer contribution or employer match to the Social Security and Medicare taxes deducted from worker paychecks. The amount deducted from paychecks is only half the combined Medicare and Federal Insurance Contributions Act taxes. There's that misleading word again.
The other half of the tax does not show up on paychecks because it is part of a deception by Congress to make the tax seem less onerous than it is. The other half, that so-called employer match, is just wages that workers earned and that Congress levies at a 100 percent rate.
Employers understand this. They know that if a worker has a salary of $100,000, their total cost will be $107,650, representing the salary plus Medicare and Social Security taxes. In reality the salary is $107,650 and the worker pays $15,300 in Medicare and Social Security taxes.
The free market is a theoretical construct that doesn't exist in reality. What matters is whether markets are competitive or rigged.
A primer on economic terms
Such misunderstandings of basic principles show up every day in newspapers, broadcast reports and magazines. Only rarely do I see clear explanations of these and other important principles.
In the hope of improving public understanding of these issues, let's review some other terms that are often abused, confused and debased in ways that sow confusion.
Accounting ≠ economics. Accounting tracks and summarizes transactions such as costs and revenues but ignores pollution and other costs that accounting rules ignore. The true costs and benefits show up only on what I call the universal ledger, meaning they are paid for in ways not listed on profit-and-loss statements, such as increased asthma from dirty air and cancer from polluted water.
Economics ≠ finance. Many news reports wrongly treat the terms as synonymous, noted Merrill Perlman, a former chief of The New York Times' copy desks. Economics is about the production and consumption of goods and services. Finance, a much narrower subject, is about money, including its value over time and risks to its value.
Free market. In theory, this means buyers and sellers freely decide on prices in a market with neither subsidies nor taxes. In the real world taxes and subsidies exist. Markets have rules, which can level the field or advantage some participants. Government rules may require safe products, limit who can buy (e.g., only adults can purchase alcohol) or sell (only licensed agents may sell alcohol, drugs, insurance or surgical services). The free market is a theoretical construct that doesn't exist in reality. What matters is whether markets are competitive or rigged.
Free trade. Like free markets, this is a unicorn. In theory, it means unrestricted sales and purchases across national borders, but all trade is regulated. The U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement imposes unequal tariffs. The still mostly secret Trans-Pacific Partnership has little to do with the few remaining trade barriers but a lot to do with insulating big enterprises from market competition. The same is true for the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which critics say favors corporate interests over consumers.
Deflation. Deflation occurs when prices overall decline, not when the price of any particular item falls, such as the price of oil in the past nine months. Last year U.S. inflation was 1.5 percent, which means that while some prices fell and others rose, the overall result was that more items rose in price or rose more than the declines in things like oil and copper.
Free and clear. When a mortgage is paid off, the real property is said to be free and clear. In any jurisdiction that imposes property taxes, however, continued ownership depends on paying property taxes, which run as high as 4.2 percent of assessed value annually and on government or utilities not taking it through eminent domain. "Free and clear" implies unfettered ownership, but all property ownership is conditional.
Gross domestic product ≠ total well-being. GDP measures the economy's total output of goods and services produced. Money spent committing crimes counts the same as money spent manufacturing life-saving drugs because no distinction is made between pathological and beneficial spending. Likewise, an economy can grow, and yet most people can be worse off when gains are concentrated at the top, as in the U.S. since 2009.
George Orwell taught us that words matter and that political language is often shrouded in euphemism. Calculated mislabelings, such as when earnings are called contributions and taxes are called matching money, reflect a politics of deceit. They are economic cousins of the three slogans made famous in George Orwell's novel "1984": "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
David Cay Johnston, an investigative reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize while at The New York Times, teaches business, tax and property law of the ancient world at the Syracuse University College of Law. He is the best-selling author of "Perfectly Legal," "Free Lunch" and "The Fine Print" and the editor of the new anthology "Divided: The Perils of Our Growing Inequality."
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Racism undermines support for government spending by Sean McElwee


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Filip TRUTA @FilipTrout
Bug bounty payouts double in 2018; India reports the most bugs while U.S. wins highest payouts
Some of the biggest players in various industries have turned to the crowdsourced security model – white hat-driven bug bounty programs – in a race to identify emerging vulnerabilities before the black hats do.
The crowdsourced security model brings the brightest ethical hackers together. Bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure programs uncover seven times more high-priority vulnerabilities than traditional assessment methods, and the smart companies are turning to crowdsourced security to cope with a complex threat landscape, according to Bugcrowd.
The industries most eager to adopt the crowdsourced security model include Computer Hardware, Software & Networking, IT Services, eCommerce / Retail, Financial Services, and Telecom / Communication Services, the company said.
In its fourth iteration, the 2018 Bugcrowd State of Bug Bounty Report reveals a spike across the board in the number and severity of vulnerabilities, as well as an increase in payouts to ethical hackers.
The total number of vulnerabilities submitted via the company's platform rose 21 percent in the last 12 months, year-over-year, to more than 37,000. Significantly, the average payout across all programs and industries doubled.
The Top 5 vulnerabilities submitted this past year were: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Reflected; Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Stored Admin; Broken Authentication and Session Management Failure to Invalidate Session; Broken Authentication and Session Management Weak Login Function Over HTTP; and Server Security Misconfiguration No Rate Limiting on Form.
Bugcrowd's legion of white hat hackers has grown 71 percent in the past year, with representatives from more than 100 countries. One standout from the report is India, responsible for an impressive 30 percent of vulnerability submissions. However, the largest payment amount went to the United States, suggesting Americans have more of a knack for high-profile bugs.
(This post on the Microsoft Developer blog explains, rather comically, how the P1, P2, P3… priority system works in the bug bounty world).
The report also notes a 40 percent increase in the number of bug bounty programs opened during the past year. A 33 percent increase was also recorded among private programs. In another key finding, 75 percent of all P1 vulnerability payouts were above $1,200, up from $926 last year. And more than 91 percent of all vulnerability submissions were web vulnerabilities.
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Filip TRUTA
Filip is an experienced writer with over a decade of practice in the technology realm. He has covered a wide range of topics in such industries as gaming, software, hardware and cyber-security, and has worked in various B2B and B2C marketing roles. Filip currently serves as Information Security Analyst with Bitdefender.
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Australia's Commonwealth Bank leaks data of 10,000 customers over domain misspelling


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Location: Porsche colour codes can be found under the front bonnet lid on a white paper sticker. The code is marked 'Paint / Laquer No.'.
A Porsche Color Code is typically 2,3 or 4 numbers long, but can also be a letter/number combination. If you can't find the sticker on the car some dealers will put it inside the service log book.


The LG G Flex 2 was just announced at CES 2015 in Las Vegas this Monday and it created quite the stir. Not only is the device very sleek and has a curved 1080p display, but it is the first device to sport the Snapdragon 810 processor. What makes the Snapdragon 810 so good you ask? Well it is one of the most powerful processors on the market coming in with 64-bit architecture and has eight cores which are clocked at 2.0 GHz.
Now if that doesn't get your attention, comparing the LG G Flex 2 to its predecessor, the original G Flex definitely will. The original G Flex was sort of a gimmick attempt for LG to see how far they could take far out ideas. Fortunately for them, it was mildly successful. The device was not up to flagship quality, so it didn't create much attention, aside from its 6 inch curved display of course. It had an underwhelming 720p display with a pixel density of 245 and it was indirectly competing with its flat brethren, the LG G2.
For all that the original G Flex was criticized for, low quality display, high price, and competition with the G2, the G Flex 2 has made up for all of that. Currently there are no major smartphones on the market to compete with the LG G Flex 2. Not only that, but it comes with high-end specs to justify the "gimmick" which is the curved screen. The G Flex 2 comes with a smaller 1080p display, nearly twice as many pixels per inch as its predecessor (403 compared to 245), and sports the best processor on the market.
Not only are the specs on the G Flex 2 flagship caliber, it gives us a glimpse as to what LG might be thinking on their development of the G4. If the G Flex 2 took that big of a jump in the specs and build quality categories, it really makes you wonder what could be had for the G4.
Below you can see the comparison between the original G Flex and the new G Flex 2. The only category that the original device will beat out the new one is the battery. A 3,500 mAh battery pushing only 245 pixels per inch gets amazing battery life. Otherwise, the G Flex 2 walks all over its predecessor.


"The bulb of Urginea maritima (Linné), Baker" (Scilla maritima, Linné, Urginea Scilla, Steinheil),"deprived of its dry, membranaceous outer scales, and cut into thin slices, the central portions being rejected"—(U. S. P.).
ILLUSTRATION: Bentley and Trimen, Med. Plants, 281.
Botanical Source.—Squill is a perennial plant with a roundish-ovate bulb, very large, half above ground, with the integuments either pale-green or red, and giving off fibrous roots. The leaves proceed from the bulb, are broad-lanceolate, channeled, spreading, recurved, shining, deep-green, and make their appearance long after the flowers. The scape is 2 or 3 feet high, and terminated by a rather dense, long, ovate raceme. The flowers are about ¾ inch in diameter, spreading, pale, yellowish-green, with a green stain on the middle of each segment. Peduncles purplish; bracts linear, twisted, and deciduous. Filaments shorter than the segments of the perianth (L.—Wi.).
History and Description.—Squill is a native of almost every part of the Mediterranean coast, and is also met with in Portugal and France. It flowers in August and September. The only part used is the bulb. When recent it is pyriform, from 3 to 6 inches in its largest diameter, and consists of concentric scales, the outer ones of which are thin and membranous, while the inner ones are whitish, thick, fleshy, and full of juice; they weigh on an average from 1 to 4 pounds, though they have attained a weight of 10 ½ pounds. Two kinds of squill, both abounding in an acrid juice, and having a bitter taste, are met with in commerce, the white and the red, so called from the color of their scales. The white is preferred. The juice of the fresh bulb is very acrid and vesicating, but is rendered much milder by desiccation. According to Prof. Schroff (1865), scilla irritates the skin when rubbed into it, and this is due mainly to a mechanical effect, viz.: to the presence of hard crystals of oxalate of calcium, sharp pointed at each end. The crystals sometimes attain a length of 1 millimeter. When intended for medicinal use, squill bulbs ought not to be kept entire, but should be stripped of their outer scales, cut transversely into thin slices, and dried carefully at a temperature of about 37.7° C. (100° F.). When recent, these slices have a mucilaginous, disagreeably bitter, and somewhat acrid taste, with a feeble radish-like odor. As ordinarily met with, dried squill is in scales or slices of various sizes. They attract moisture from the air, and then become pliable and spoiled, on which account they, as well as their powder, should always be kept in well-closed vessels. The official drug is "in narrow segments, about 5 Cc. (2 inches.) long, slightly translucent, yellowish-white or reddish, brittle and pulverizable when dry, tough and flexible after exposure to damp air; inodorous; taste mucilaginous, bitter, and acrid"—(U. S. P.). Squill yields its properties to water, spirit, or diluted acids; but the best solvents are proof-spirit or vinegar. Squill kills rats almost instantly; 2 drachms of powdered squill may be made into balls with 1 pound of strong-smelling cheese (or with fried lard), and spread where they visit.
Action, Medical Uses, and Dosage.—Squill is irritant, emetic, cathartic, diuretic, and expectorant. In large doses it is a dangerous irritant poison, producing inflammation of the alimentary canal, and urinary organs, and proving fatal in the dose of only 24 grains of the powder. Some constitutions are so susceptible of its irritant action, that it can not be safely used in any dose, unless combined with opium. The usual effects of very large doses are violent vomiting and purging attended with severe abdominal pain. The urine may be bloody and is passed with difficulty; the skin becomes cold, and coma and convulsions supervene. The juice of fresh squill acts as a rubefacient, and if the skin be broken its diuretic effects may be exhibited. It is seldom used as an emetic or cathartic, on account of its uncertainty in producing these effects. In small doses it causes nausea and depression of the pulse, and never stimulates the circulation. It stimulates all of the secretory organs. Small doses of it relieve irritation of the mucous surfaces and check excessive secretions. Its expectorant action is greatly increased by the addition of opium, and its diuretic by the conjunction of digitalis, or some other vegetable or saline diuretic, as potassium acetate. It is used extensively in dropsy not due to organic changes. It acts better in general and passive than in local dropsies, and also in those of an asthenic character. Dropsies of cardiac origin are probably more often relieved by it. It may be used in all cases where no inflammation is present, and there is over-action of the kidneys. According to dose it may be made to restrain or to increase the amount of urine secreted. To check the renal flow, as in diabetes, the minute dose should be employed. While in the majority of cases the drug has been employed with digitalis in the cases showing enfeebled circulation, yet in small doses (1 to 10 drops of a strong tincture, bulb, ℥viii to alcohol, 76 per cent, Oj) it acts favorably where there is a "dry, harsh skin, parched tongue, fevered lips, and contraction of features" (Scudder). Squill long continued gives rise to gastric irritation and loss of appetite, and when these effects are the result of its internal use the tincture may be rubbed into the skin or applied to the abdomen by means of compresses saturated with it. In cardiac dropsy, when the heart's action is feeble and the pulse is weak and rapid, 2 grains of squill may be given in a fluid drachm of infusion of digitalis 3 times a day. As an expectorant it will be found useful in chronic catarrh, humid asthma, pneumonia, phthisis, winter cough, and other chronic bronchial affections. In chronic respiratory troubles, with but little febrile reaction and no inflammation, and scanty tenacious sputa, 1 part of syrup of squill may be added to 3 parts of syrup of wild cherry and a teaspoonful be administered 4 times a day. Troublesome vomiting or purging caused by squill is best corrected by opium. Where there is much inflammation or vascular excitement, it is contraindicated. Dose of the powder, as a diuretic and expectorant, from 1 to 3 grains; as an emetic, 6 to 12 grains; of the syrup, 1 or 2 fluid drachms; tincture, 1 to 20 drops. The pilular form is the best when squill is given in powder.
Specific Indications and Uses.—Chronic cough, with scanty, tenacious sputa; scanty, high-colored urine, with sense of pressure in the bladder; overactivity of the kidneys with inability to retain the urine; dropsy, with no fever or inflammation, and a general asthenic condition.
Related Species.—The following plants yield bulbs which may be used like squill, but on account of the cheapness of the latter, are not found in commerce (see Pharmacographia for fuller information).
Scilla indica, Baker (Ledebouria hyacinthina, Roth), India and Abyssinia; Urginea indica, Kunth (Scilla Indica, Roxburgh), India and east Africa; Urginea altissima, Baker (Onithogalum altissimum, Linné), south Africa, well represents squill; Crinum Asiaticum, var. toxicarium, Herbert (Crinum toxicarium, Roxburgh), India, Ceylon, and the Moluccas; Drimia ciliaris, Jacquin, Itch bulb of the Cape of Good Hope. The juice is a powerful local irritant.
Medeola virginica, Linné (Gyromia virginica, Nuttall) (Nat. Ord.—Liliaceae).—This is the Indian cucumber found in shady situations and woods of the United States from the Mississippi River eastward. It bears greenish-yellow flowers in May and June. The rhizome is the part employed and resembles, both in taste and shape, our common cucumber. It is horizontal, from 1 to 1 ½ inches in length and ¼ inch in diameter, lower end pointed, has a white interior, and a brown-yellow exterior. It is beset with simple capillary rootlets. The rhizome contains starch. It is said to have been used as a food by the Indians (Pursh) and has been employed in dropsical disorders, it possessing both diuretic and hydragogue properties. It is now seldom used.
Gloriosa superba, Linné.—The tuberous root of this liliaceous climber contains, according to Warden, two resins and a bitter principle, superbine, which is very poisonous and closely allied, he believes, to the bitter principle of squill. Various statements are made regarding the toxic nature of the root and its reputed criminal uses. These reports, however, are not well established (Dymock).


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Q: Trouble Uploading Large Files to RStudio using Louis Aslett's AMI on EC2 After following this simple tutorial http://www.louisaslett.com/RStudio_AMI/ and video guide http://www.louisaslett.com/RStudio_AMI/video_guide.html I have setup an RStudio environment on EC2.
The only problem is, I can't upload large files (> 1GB).
I can upload small files just fine.
When I try to upload a file via RStudio, it gives me the following error:

Unexpected empty response from server

Does anyone know how I can upload these large files for use in RStudio? This is the whole reason I am using EC2 in the first place (to work with big data).

A: Ok so I had the same problem myself and it was incredibly frustrating, but eventually I realised what was going on here. The default home directory size for AWS is less than 8-10GB regardless of the size of your instance. As this as trying to upload to home then there was not enough room. An experienced linux user would not have fallen into this trap, but hopefully any other windows users new to this who come across this problem will see this. If you upload into a different drive on the instance then this can be solved. As the Louis Aslett Rstudio AMI is based in this 8-10GB space then you will have to set your working directory outside this, the home directory. Not intuitively apparent from Rstudio server interface. Whilst this is an advanced forum and this is a rookie error I am hoping no one deletes this question as I spent months on this and I think someone else will too. I hope this makes sense to you?

A: Don't you have shell access to your Amazon server? Don't rely on RStudio's upload (which may have a 2Gb limit, reasonably) and use proper unix dev tools:
rsync -avz myHugeFile.dat amazonusername@my.amazon.host.ip:

on your local PC command line (install cygwin or other unixy compatibility system) will transfer your huge file to your amazon server, and if interrupted will resume from that point, will compress the data for transfer too.
For a windows gui on something like this, WinSCP was what we used to do in the bad old days before Linux.

A: This could have something to do with your web server. Are you using nginx or apache as your web server. If so you can modify the upload feature in your nginx server. If you are running nginx on the front end of the web server I would recommend the following fix in your nginx.conf file.
http {
    ...
    client_max_body_size 100M;
}

https://www.tecmint.com/limit-file-upload-size-in-nginx/

A: I had a similar problems with a 5GB file. What worked for me was to use SQLite to create a database with the csv file that I needed. Use SQLite code to bring create the database. Then I used a function in RStudio to communicate with the local database. In that way, I was able to bring in the csv file. I can track down the R code that I used if you like.

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Muscle Support research demonstrates celery seed extract helps regulate inflammatory processes involved in minor pain affecting muscle and joint tissue. A compound unique to celery, 3-n-butylphthalide (3nB), appears to be responsible for its healing actions. By helping restore prostaglandin balance and enhance blood flow, celery seed extract had noticeable positive benefit on muscle and joint function in individuals studied over a three to six week period. Muscle Support also contains a concentrated boswellia extract supplying AKBA, a 5-lipoxygenase inhibitor, and a unique phellodendron extract with natural COX-2 regulatory action. Suitable for those with osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, and fibromyalgia.


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Q: Does anyone know how to make this work it is for object orientated programming? The threat level is calculated correctly but the rest of the attributes are either not displayed or in the wrong order.enter image description here
Here is the code if u can help me:
class animal():
    def __init__(self, animal_species="unknown", age=0, threat_level="peaceful", hunger_level=0):

        self.animal_species = animal_species
        self.age = age
        self.hunger_level = hunger_level
        self.threat_level = threat_level

def create():
    animal_species = input("Enter species: ")
    age = int(input("Enter age: "))
    return animal(animal_species, age)

def changeThreat_level():
    hunger_level = int(input("Enter hunger(1-10): "))
    threat_level = None
    if hunger_level <= 3:
      threat_level = 'peaceful'
    elif hunger_level >=4 and hunger_level<=7:
      threat_level = 'narky'
    else:
      threat_level = 'aggressive'
    return animal(hunger_level, threat_level)

cat = create()
cat = changeThreat_level()

print("Animal's Attributes: ")
print("-------------------------")
print("The species of the animal is", cat.animal_species)
print("The age of the animal is", cat.age)
print("The animals threat level is", cat.threat_level)
print("The animals hunger out of 10 is around", cat.hunger_level)

A: Your return in changeThreat_level is putting hunger_level and threat_level values where the constructor is expecting animal_species and age.
You could try specifying the fields:
return animal(hunger_level=hunger_level, threat_level=threat_level)

Better yet pass in the instance of the animal and change it's attributes.
Something like this should work:
class animal():
    def __init__(self, animal_species="unknown", age=0, threat_level="peaceful", hunger_level=0):

        self.animal_species = animal_species
        self.age = age
        self.hunger_level = hunger_level
        self.threat_level = threat_level

def create():
    animal_species = input("Enter species: ")
    age = int(input("Enter age: "))
    return animal(animal_species, age)

def changeThreat_level(animal:animal):
    hunger_level = int(input("Enter hunger(1-10): "))
    threat_level = None
    if hunger_level <= 3:
      threat_level = 'peaceful'
    elif hunger_level >=4 and hunger_level<=7:
      threat_level = 'narky'
    else:
      threat_level = 'aggressive'
    animal.hunger_level = hunger_level
    animal.threat_level = threat_level

cat = create()
changeThreat_level(cat)

print("Animal's Attributes: ")
print("-------------------------")
print("The species of the animal is", cat.animal_species)
print("The age of the animal is", cat.age)
print("The animals threat level is", cat.threat_level)
print("The animals hunger out of 10 is around", cat.hunger_level)

A: One of OOP principles is encapsulation, which is achieved when each object keeps its state private inside the class. Consider using getters and setters for objects manipulation. In this way you won't face this kind of problem.
Also, your identation is wrong, as create and changeThreat_level are methods of the Cat object, they must be nested below the class. Also, as the cat is an instance of the animal object consider initializing cat as the following:
class animal():
    def __init__(self, animal_species="unknown", age=0, threat_level="peaceful", hunger_level=0):
        self.animal_species = animal_species
        self.age = age
        self.hunger_level = hunger_level
        self.threat_level = threat_level

    def create(self):
        self.animal_species = input("Enter species: ")
        self.age = int(input("Enter age: "))
        self.hunger_level = int(input("Enter hunger(1-10): "))

    def change_threat_level(self):
        if self.hunger_level <= 3:
            self.threat_level = 'peaceful'
        elif self.hunger_level >=4 and self.hunger_level<=7:
            self.threat_level = 'narky'
        else:
            self.threat_level = 'aggressive'

    def print_animal_information(self):
        print("Animal's Attributes: ")
        print("-------------------------")
        print("The species of the animal is", self.animal_species)
        print("The age of the animal is", self.age)
        print("The animals threat level is", self.threat_level)
        print("The animals hunger out of 10 is around", self.hunger_level)

cat = animal()
cat.create()
cat.change_threat_level()
cat.print_animal_information()

Now your code works fine.