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Prosecution Offered Raniere Plea Bargain – 'Life in Prison'
Two sources with knowledge from both sides of the trial – the prosecution and the defense – told Frank Report that Keith Alan Raniere made multiple attempts at getting a plea bargain prior to trial.
He wanted 15 years. Declined. Then 20 years. No thanks.
How about 25…?
The best he could get was life in prison.
No deal. No incentive not to go to trial. None whatsoever.
The prosecution – headed by U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue – and represented in court by Assistant US Attorneys Moira Kim Penza, Tanya Hajjar and Mark Lesko – wanted to go to trial and would make no concession – other than sparing him the actual embarrassment of trial where all his ridiculous and dirty secrets were aired to the horror, the disgust and, at times, the laughter of the jury, and the world.
It was, the prosecution evidently felt, important to get facts on the record for victims to find relief and the public to realize the enormity of the monster. They felt the case had possibilities of being a "vanguard" so to say for future cases of similar sex trafficking, racketeering, forced labor – for others, for animals similar to our own Vanguard.
It surprised some that Raniere put on no defense whatsoever. He had problems finding witnesses.
It might not have made a difference.
Jim Del Negro: what he lacks in native intelligence he makes up for with earnest stupidity.
The defense prepped James Del Negro to testify in his lordly master's defense, but they were convinced the addlebrained leader of the Society of Protectors and longtime Nxivm proctor would more than likely wind up implicating Raniere in new crimes once he was subjected to cross-examination.
Sahajo Haertel wanted to be branded and to testify for her Vanguard.
Sahajo Haertel and the Elliot brothers volunteered to testify for their worshipful master, but they had no evidence to offer other than that Sahajo eagerly lay down on the branding table – even if she did remain in the country illegally by virtue of a sham marriage.
Indeed it was fascinating when Sahajo came to court to stand behind her Vanguard, the prosecution reportedly issued her a subpoena. It is not clear whether they had planned for her to testify.
She was not called.
The Elliot brothers – who may be risking indictment themselves for their curious financial schemes in support of the glorious one – did not, it was believed, offer anything for the defense other than that brother Marc claims to have been cured of Tourette's Syndrome by following the Nxivm technology.
This was not felt to be sufficient as a defense for sex trafficking, forced labor and racketeering – crimes which were otherwise proved in abundance during the case notwithstanding Marc's remarkable cure.
Marc Elliot seems to have been cured of Tourette's Syndrome. He thinks Nxivm did it for him.
Hector – the father of Cami, Dani, and Mariana – wanted to testify on behalf of the lustful one who impregnated all three of his daughters, raped the youngest, and imprisoned the middle one.
He wanted to proclaim that he knew his Vanguard did what was right for his daughters. His only problem was that he is a co-conspirator in the case – having aided and abetted Dani's imprisonment and Raniere's document servitude of his daughter.
He would have been charged, so papa wisely chose not to testify.
Sister Mariana – whose Facebook account was hacked by Raniere and who later had his child, the baby Kemar – also wanted to testify but she had committed immigration crimes and wisely chose to remain in Mexico.
Longtime number two harem member Marianna wanted to help her baby daddy Raniere.
As to Raniere testifying in his own defense, his attorney Marc Agnifilo advised against it and Raniere went along – likely knowing he was going to be convicted on all counts anyway.
Rather than risk pitting his super-powerful brain against such women as Moira Kim Penza and Tanya Hajjar – who in a bygone day would have been his idea of superb candidates for his sex slaver cult – he chose to remain, throughout the seven weeks of trial, completely quiet, as he listened to witness after witness describe him as a brute, a bully, a monster, a perv, a subhuman man concerned only with himself and his own sensual pleasures.
In the end, the Vanguard dared not speak up.
Observers thought that if he did take the stand, he would be cross-examined for days and wind up being implicated in a phalanx of new crimes.
If there was any chance of anything less than life in prison, it would be to get the fool to shut up and remain silent. He did.
Does anyone doubt Keith Alan Raniere is the world's smartest man?
It did not help him, however. The jury took less than four hours to convict him on all counts.
The world's smartest man faces a minimum of 15 years in prison for one count alone – the sex trafficking of Nicole. He also will be sentenced to charges of forced labor, racketeering, conspiracy, extortion, and other crimes.
It seems inconceivable that Judge Nicholas Garaufis will sentence him to anything less than 20 years. Twenty-five years seems more likely than 20 – and based on sentencing guidelines, I believe Raniere gets 40 – which, given his age, is life in prison.
I cannot imagine that the judge will be swayed by sympathy for the devil Vanguard – and public outrage would be great if he gave a too lenient sentence to a man who wreaked such havoc on so many lives.
Sources say he was ready to take 20 years. He is now almost 59.
He was ready to consider 25 and had his lawyers feel out his chances.
The DOJ scoffed at it.
Now it is likely life. But it was his life and he lived it. He romped around Clifton Park with a bevy of befuddled women, swindled millions out of some of them, and lied to and cheated everyone.
That was his life. While he lived it, he lived better than maybe anyone since the Caesars. He had slaves at his beck and call, women vying not only to have sex with him – but a selfish kind of sex where he need not please a woman but only that she get the privilege of having his sperm sprayed on her, or ejaculating in her mouth.
Even more – he had women vying to run errands, take out his garbage, and pick up his pizza with hot sauce while they starved themselves. And do his laundry. Buy his clothes [which magically appear.]
What billionaire this side of Jeffrey Epstein had more slaves at his disposal?
And what fool ever blew it better?
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Well put, especially the last sentence. What an ass. He better get life in prison.
Perhaps when Vanguard dies in prison the DOJ could have a ok taxidermist, taxidermy him and some rich person or people could buy him and put the proceeds to the victims of his cult .Vanguard could be worshipped like Lennon or like old school catholic relics ,I would be willing to bet some people would pay a pretty penny for a life time of worshipping a real life demon . The fact people gave this guy lots of money and he did so much evil is sad only makes me think of this scene https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pQJ9GUVxPl8
Adam Hayes says:
I would say Hector reminds me of a Scientologist who disowns a child who splits from the church. But no Hector's devotion to a myth is orders of magnitude worse. What is his major malfunction?
The Retard says:
Frank is lying about the plea deal offer.
There's NO WAY that Keith would have proposed spending 20 years in Federal prison as a plea deal.
Cuz there's no parole and he'd be nearly 80 years old before he got out.
There's no reason to give up those 20 years without a FIGHT at trial.
Frank is lying. Fuck you Frank! I just sniffed out your lies bro. 🙂
Also, there's NO WAY that Moira Penza would have rejected such a plea deal (had Keith REALLY proposed it).
Cuz he's nearly 60 years old right now anyway. Thus, spending 20 years in prison would keep him locked up until he's nearly 80 years old (meaning he'd likely die in prison with such a plea deal).
Therefore Penza didn't reject any such plea deal. Frank is lying his ass off.
Frank can bullshit us all day long because his 'anonymous' sources never have to be revealed.
He's got carte blanche to bullshit us but I see right thru Frank Parlato.
I'm guessing that Claviger is his 'source' for this bullshit plea deal rumor.
Plus, there's no way that anybody from the prosecution has contacted Frank Parlato, not even off the record.
It doesn't benefit them to contact Frank. They'd likely contact a mainstream media outlet if they wanted to 'leak' something anonymously.
The rest of you are just sheep.
You hang on Frank's every word as though it's written in gold. The joke's on you.
Bangkok? Peeping at you through the periscope, Hitchens' words come to mind: "That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence."!
Cheers Bangkok! LOL
niceguy says:
Great quote!!!
Retard, you're a retard.
Girl Scout Cookies says:
Curious as to who may be paying for Keith's legal representation once he's sentenced. One would think the defense trust set up by Clare would be a conflict of interest since she copped a plea deal. Seems fishy. Even if Keith gets 25 years, someone will most likely kill him in prison before he serves out his term.
Lo peor, lo más horrible de esto, definitivamente ha sido la actuación de Hector Fernández y todavía más horrible es ver que, después de ver cómo ese abusador destruyó la vida de sus hijas, todavía quiera testificar en favor de su torturador. Qué vergüenza!
Snorlax says:
Why does Sahejo look like something from a B-Grade horror movie? That gal looks like she was just conjured from beyond.
I wish the feds had offered–and gotten–a plea deal of say 20 years…with the requirement that Keith–truthfully and verifiably–gives info on the past crimes Nx had committed, and the names of those who aided in those crimes.
Also, Keith must reveal use of any false info Nx had used to persecute people like Tighe, O'hara, the Nx 9 etc. Would you really care if Keith got out of prison at 79 a free "man"—if it meant others hurt by Nx got some justice?
orangecountydreams - OCD says:
Just to further comment on your last statement, "And what fool ever blew it better?"
Disagree – I believe in reality he had nothing – at least, nothing of value. Sure sex, maid service and relief from actually having to work for a living. But, as Actaeon points out below, "Keith lived in a tacky suburban development in Bumsville NY*, got fat on pizza, played volleyball for entertainment and watched reruns of Star Trek for fun."
Even worse, he was and always will be empty inside. That means no meaningful close relationships of any kind, no knowing what it is to give and receive real love, no unconditional personal bonds with friends, family, or his own children. He has actually been cheated out of the best things in life by embracing his sociopathy and deviant lifestyle.
He has done nothing original, created no success stories (either for individuals or his own companies), has achieved exactly NOTHING but horrible notoriety. He's been exposed as a slothful, selfish and cruel fraud. The "respect" he supposedly commanded in times gone by was based on self -manufactured outright lies about his supposed talents and abilities. He is an average man at best, without the decency most average men possess.
No amount of short term sexual pleasure could make up for that.
(*Actually, it's a lovely area, but that doesn't impact the sentiment.)
"Hector – the father of Cami, Dani and Mariana – wanted to testify on behalf of the lustful one who impregnated all three of his daughters, raped the youngest and imprisoned the middle one."
The only person in the NXIVM story that disgusts me more than Keith Raniere is good old Hector.
Now, that alll the cards are on the table and the full story is out regarding Keith Raniere and Hector's daughters …..
Hector still defends his Vanguard.
I am beyond dumbfounded and appalled by Hector.
I cannot even put into words how I feel about that man.
Hector is one of the most vile of creatures.
I use the term creatures and not animals because even animals care for their young.
A Cabrón is more of a man than Hector.
But why? What man would defend Raniere if he were the true father of Cami, Dani and Mariana, considering what Raniere did to them? Are you suggesting Hector is the true father but was bribed and thus sold out his daughters? What other motive could there be?
Hector is obviously an idiot because he didn't murder everyone involved with enslaving his wife and 3 baby girls.
Scott Johnson says:
We don't know what Hector knew prior to the trial.
Ohshit says:
Sorry. The revelation about the idea of Hector maybe selling out his girls.
All I can say is, Wow. Thank you for this.
Now that the facts are firmly on record via trial (and it looks like the case is being used as a blueprint to go after Jeffrey Epstein and his ilk), would it make sense for the prosecution to offer Raniere 20 or 25 years in return for agreeing to forego appeals? It would spare everyone, including the victims, a lot of additional anguish and worry. If Raniere gets out at age 80+ (assuming he survives that long), what more damage could he do at that point? Who would support and pamper his lazy ass then?
I don't even know if such a post-trial deal is allowable or even possible.
Just thoughts…
Ricky Ricardo says:
This splains a lot about the trial we didn't know. Some interesting information.
How do you get 3 brothers to all devote their lives to this?
How do you get 2 heirs to a huge fortune to do the same?
How do you get a father that has had 3 children abused ( to put it mildly) by this man to testify on his behalf?
You really have to take a step back and hand it to Vanguard. He's really, really good at what he does.
Actaeon says:
Caesar lived in a marble palace at the center of the greatest civilization the world of the time had to offer. He commanded the most powerful army, he had the pick of the finest delicacies, possessed the finest art, presided at the cream of theatre and spectacle. Everyone feared and respected him. Finally, he knew that when he died he would become a god.
Keith lived in a tacky suburban development in Bumsville NY, got fat on pizza, played volleyball for entertainment and watched reruns of Star Trek for fun. There will be no marble busts of Vanguard, he will die in obscurity and by the time he croaks on his prison cot, he will be utterly forgotten by everyone.
Actaeon,
He will croak in his prison cot??? LOL
Marc Elliot stated on camera whilst talking with Raniere, that his Tourette's Syndrome had improved as he grew older; so there was no miraculous healing from Vanguard. He was 'cured' by the passage of time.
Pyriel says:
I really hope that the monstrous Papa Hector will answer for his crimes one day. He disgusts me.
sk says:
Absolutely agree. I feel so bad for Dani. Her own father and sister still think what happened to her was OK. May they rot in hell. At least her mother and brother realized what they had done. Shame, shame, shame on the rest of her family.
Only a very few in this world could be as evil and sick as Raniere – but, I can't help but think Hector should get first prize. I don't think there could be a pit in hell hot enough for him – or Raniere for that matter.
This demonstrates how confident the DOJ was with their case. At least Epstein had better looking women helping him and better looking girls that he f*cked, but then again, he was using his own money, so he could be more picky.
I'm so disappointed you did not like Keith's tastes in girls! Tz, tz, tz…
Raniere lived in a much less populated area as well, so he had to take what was available to him.
The important task ahead is to roll up the rest of the NXIVM network with the prosecution of the ENTIRE elite in the NDNY.
And while we're on the subject the Trump administration through the EDNY intends to use RICO to claim that all of singer R. Kelly's business is a Racket.
R. Kelly has already been indicted under RICO.
What's next for R. Kelly after latest child porn, obstruction and racketeering charges?
"Federal prosecutors in Chicago and Brooklyn on Friday unsealed indictments against R&B star R. Kelly that fleshed out what had been persistent rumors of sexual relations with underage girls — and a decades-long coverup of the singer's alleged illicit appetites."
"Kelly was arrested Thursday night as he walked his dog near his apartment in the Trump International Hotel & Tower. He faces charges of enticing a minor, child pornography and obstruction of justice in Chicago, and counts of racketeering and transporting minors across state lines in New York. Legal experts wonder if the 52-year-old singer might ever walk free again."
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2019/7/12/20692483/r-kelly-child-porn-obstruction-racketeering-charges-underage-chicago-new-york
Under the DOJ's theory ALL of R. Kelly's musical career was a racket designed to attract underage girls to him to sexually exploit.
Under this theory all of R. Kelly's music and all of R. Kelly's revenues going back over 20 years can be confiscated by the US government.
Using this same theory Allison Mack's bogus Acting School, "The Source" which was operated by Mack and Raniere could be viewed as part of a criminal enterprise to lure aspiring actresses into the NXIVM sex cult and the US government could file RICO charges against Mack, Raniere and the Source to seize any revenues generated by this Acting School scam.
And there is talk about RICO charges being filed against Jeffrey Epstein who is worth an estimated 500 million dollars plus.
"Do the new charges include crimes committed in Florida? What about the 2007 case and plea deal?
Even if the old plea deal remains solid, it would not bar new prosecution for crimes that were part of the same pattern of conduct in Florida in the early 2000s and certainly not for crimes committed in that same era in New York. Most obviously, so long as new victims have come forward, each victimization counts as a separate case of sex with a minor, so there is no double jeopardy. In addition, new charges involving other statutes like the money laundering and tax offenses and racketeering (so-called RICO charges) do not overlap with the original Florida charges in such a way as to be barred by double jeopardy."
https://law.stanford.edu/2019/07/15/stanford-laws-bob-weisberg-on-epstein-charges/
When it comes to sex trafficking the Trump administration means business.
Capt.Crunch says:
Trump was guilty of bogus school also!
Will Allison Mack Draw More Jail Time Than Lauren Salzman?
Acosta Had the Guts to Hold Epstein to Account in 2008


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Catherine of Braganza (1638-1705), Queen of Charles II. Sitter associated with 64 portraits.
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I do need to make a post about DNSSEC at some point in the near future. But for now, I'd like to deal with the more immediate issue: Moxie's SSL break.
You'll note that's not in quotes. There's a pretty decent temptation to say Moxie's attacks don't "count". Some of this comes from the fact that at the end of the day, these are his three attacks:
First, that when a site attempts to upgrade from HTTP to HTTPS, he can suppress the upgrade — possibly throwing in a "Lock" favicon which might trick the user.
Second, that there are a surprising number of online banks that still place a HTTPS form on an HTTP page, which can of course be downgraded (or as I pointed out, sniffed via injected Javascript).
Finally, Firefox's (not IE's) defenses against Eric Johannsen's IDN vulnerability could be bypassed by registering a domain and acquiring a wildcard cert in .cn.
The first two attacks have been discussed fairly extensively, while the third works in only one of the browsers. So there's some grumbling. Lets talk about that.
When I gave my DNS Cache Poisoning talk last year, I devoted quite a few slides to the failings of SSL. To put it simply, there's a reason I didn't consider SSL a sufficient defense for DNS Cache Poisoning. Indeed, the fact that the 302 Redirect could be replaced with a 200 OK — replacing https://www.paypal.com with http://www.paypal.com — is right there on the first slide. (His favicon trick is neat though.) And a few slides later, I ended up quoting my 2006 talk with respect to online banks and their tragic use of weak security forms, replete with cutesy "lock" icons. Obviously I didn't discover either of these attacks; they, and the rest of the litany of weaknesses described in my 2008 deck, have long been the sort of failings in SSL that we've all known are pretty deeply problematic.
But, at least the way I look at it, Moxie's talk wasn't about some "l33t new protocol flaw" in SSL. He's traveled that ground — in 2002, his finding that a certificate for http://www.badguy.com could sign another certificate for http://www.bank.com via the non-enforcement of Basic Constraints is about as "l33t" as it gets. That's been fixed for years though. This was instead a fairly searing critique about Security UI. Moxie introduced (to me anyway) the concept of Positive vs. Negative Feedback. Negative Feedback systems occur when the browser detects an out-and-out failure in the cryptography, and posits an error to the user. In response to the New Zealand bank data, in which 199 of 200 users ignored a negative prompt, browsers have been getting crazier and crazier about forcing users to jump through hoops in order to bypass a certificate error. The new negative errors are at the point where it is in fact easier to "balk" — to stop a web transaction, and move onto something else.
So Moxie's putting his energy on the old positive feedback attacks — simply disabling the security, and seeing if anyone notices. And here he shows up with some pretty astonishing data: Nobody noticed. To be specific, absolutely 0% of users presented with missing encryption on important web sites, being asked to provide sensitive financial data to those websites, refused on the basis of missing security.
Wow. 0%. Seriously.
Why don't users "get it"?
The most heartbreaking thing I think from Moxie's entire deck is where he shows off what his attack does to Paypal, on an older browser. Paypal, more than most sites, has some paranoid, whip-smart engineers who really want to ship the most secure web experience possible for their service. As such, they have what's probably the single most widely deployed SSL-only site. 100% of Paypal can, and must, be retrieved over SSL.
Unless there's a bad guy in the way, faking the real Paypal content over HTTP. Then Paypal looks just like your bank.
That the insecurity of other sites would train users to not expect security on yours, was pretty cool (if sad) to see.
Where I do think things went a little off the tracks was when Moxie talked about his (pretty elegant) extension of Eric Johannsen's IDN attacks. IDNs, or Internationalized Domain Names, exist to allow other languages the ability to have web sites in their native character sites, rather than shunting everything into ASCII. What Eric did in 2005 was show that he could acquire a certificate for http://www.paypal.com — with the a being the Cyrillic a — and thus acquire the "lock", apparently linked to a near-pixel-perfect rendering of Paypal's address bar. These so-called "Homograph" attacks were dealt with by locking down the rendering of other character sets in the address bar.
The problem — and it's worth exploring, because it reflects just how tricky it is to satisfy all those other demands besides security — is that the trivial way to lock down the address bar, to simply ban Chinese and Cyrillic and everything else — has some pretty serious geopolitical implications. What, America gets to have its domain names, and China doesn't? What's up with that? Different browsers have dealt with this problem in different ways. I believe the way IE has handled this is to ask the operating system what language the OS is in, and allow Chinese browsers to view Chinese characters, Russian browsers to view Cyrillic characters, and so on. It appears Firefox handled this instead by saying that domains in *.cn may contain Chinese characters, domains in *.ru may contain Cyrillic characters, and so on.
But nothing stops Moxie, an American, from registering a *.cn domain, acquiring a *.ijjk.cn certificate, and using the Chinese character that looks exactly like a slash to make a fake http://www.bankofwhatever.com/foo/bar/foo.ijjk.cn domain. It's a cute trick.
It's also precisely what EV certificates exist to solve.
There's an amazing amount of confusion around Extended Validation — EV. I can't claim innocence here; I myself was pretty clueless about why they exist until fairly recently. Here's the deal: Forget crazy tricks with chinese characters — bad guys have been registering names along the lines of http://www.bank-of-whatever.com or http://www.bankofwhateverinc.com or http://www.bankofamerica.com.xyzy.com for years, and then acquiring certificates for those names. Moxie's attack is neat, but once you hit the semantic space, there's practically an unlimited number of potential namespace collisions. EV exists, pretty much exclusively, to deal with the problem of these semantic collisions. It does four things:
1) It requires a solid certificate chain, as opposed to one containing MD5.
2) It requires a human lawyer, versed in the laws and language of a particular jurisdiction, to determine the implied corporate relationship from the domain name and declare it valid.
3) It applies a green background to the entire address bar (IE) or the leftmost side (Firefox), increasing the amount of "positive feedback" (as Moxie puts it) the user is hoped to demand
4) It explicitly inserts the human-lawyer-approved brand identity to the address bar, replete with a jurisdictional declaration. This also is there to add more positive feedback.
That's what EV is for. It's not at all there to deal with domain validated certs for http://www.bankofwhatever.com being incorrectly issued — see Adam Barth and Collin Jackson's work in their paper, "Beware of Finer Grained Origins". It's not at all, as Moxie said in his talk, "Just the validation that CA's should have been doing already". Verisign et al have built an extensive, new positive feedback layer to deal with real world phishing attacks that, while not as elegant as Moxie's Chinese Slash, were no less effective.
The real question, in the wake of Moxie's work, is do we have data that shows users notice the missing green bar, and the missing brand identity? Or, even with EV sites, do users still ignore the missing security markings? I'm looking forward to seeing the data.
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OK, I didn't finish reading yet, but I hit "nobody noticed there was no security" and went "huh? how do you not notice the green bar turned blue? or went away?" Then again, I guess that assumes Firefox users. Still…none of the 200 people tested were hackers either? I would *hope* people in the community would notice. That'd be interesting though…
Dan Kaminsky
Mackenzie,
Relatively few sites have EV certs. Nobody is noticing when "Domain Validated" SSL is missing. The open question, unanswered by Moxie's experiments, is whether anyone would miss EV missing either. It's an open question, really.
I just posted a "hey go read Dan's blog" thing on my blog, and a friend pinged me on IRC. He has good questions. How much validation is required for EV? Wouldn't it be possible for someone to legally register a business named Paypa1? Does Verisign just get a letter saying "yeah, uh, these guys are legit" from a lawyer, or is there human interaction involved? Basically, how can you game the system?
By the way, just double-checked to see if pnc.com is blue or green, and it's blue so 😦 Will have to complain.
EV validation is pretty hardcore. Specifically, it requires a lawyer — a Verisign trusted lawyer — in the claimed jurisdiction to approve of the name. No validation process is perfect but EV is more of a business deal than anything else.
That being said, revocation in SSL is pretty weak, so if something did sneak through, we'd be pretty hosed.
I don't think that the answer would be even in EV. People just DON'T NOTICE stuff… we've all seen it, you mentioned it here, again. I think that people must be provoked by beeps, big flashing signs and buttons that can't be clicked for a couple of seconds so that the user can actually TURN some attention to what's going on. Yeah, sounds silly, but I think that WOULD give results. Your opinion?
jweck
Dan, you've made a good point there. EV is not THE ANSWER/SOLUTION to all "problems" 'exposed' by Moxie. At least not in the current mixed environment.
As perverted as it may sound, and I kind of hate myself for suggesting it but only strict regulations and international laws could prevent stuff demonstrated by Moxie IMHO. On the other hand we really have enough of this SoX, HIPPA, YouNameIt comliance thingies and regulations for the price of our freedom/anonymity.
I guess that only a so called defacto standard or regulation (eg. EV only certs for all sites and services related to financial services) in combination with further technical meassurements (DNSSEC, WoT-esque techniques) could max out security in this case. And we all know how easy international regulations can be carried out… 😉
Obama, can I haz DNSSEC please?
My $0.02,
Just saw the thing on networkworld (and hey, more press is always better, huh?) and thought I'd drop a little nasty rain on the parade.
There are numerous problems with dnssec and crypto in general. For one, what do you suppose Joe Average can and wants to do should our fancy crypto solutions say he's looking at nasty evil stuff? Remember, it's standing between him and his porn, and NOBODY stands between Joe Average and his porn.
But the nastiest thing by far isn't how to make crypto transparant. It's the same thing that DJB doesn't get either: Policies and politics, in short the big scale version of the power games people like to fsck each other over with. In casu, I and with me many non-Americans but certainly at least some Americans also, could never agree to the American Government holding the keys to the naming infrastructure with hard crypto.
And that no promise or guarantee will be enough. Ever. The fact they already do except without the hard crypto is hard enough to stomach already, but can be ignored as long as they pretend they don't. Crypto changes that.
You can like it or not, but that's the situation. If that gets pushed through, expect multiple internets with disjoint naming trees in the long and not-so-long term. So please don't go there.
This is not to say dnssec wouldn't fix the problems you're trying to protect against, but unless the dns root keys get distributed to some international, multinational, fluid, disjoint, not easily influencable by any single government or megacorp, and preferrably democratic, collective of keyholders or something to that tune, instead of the status quo, ie a zombie sockpuppet ICANN and the USGOV pulling the strings, mere pushing of dnssec as a technical solution will cause severe non-technical problems on an epic scale. This means going back to the drawing board and either come up with a technical solution without the side effects, or address the non-technical issues and to make that work, move mountains. Sad, but true.
M. Holger
By and large I don't think EV will make a lick of difference, for at least a couple of reasons:
1) Inconsistency: Of a random sampling of financial institutions, few are using EV certs. (Wells Fargo, BofA, US Bank, to name a few; just by hitting https://www..com/ of course — I suppose their actual 'login' pages may be different)
2) Lack of awareness: Of the people I polled, few noticed the difference between the blue-background favicon of, say, Wells Fargo, vs. the green, emblazoned favicon of PayPal. Of those who did notice, they assumed it was a customizable UI element, ala the favicon.ico itself. (Note: These are technically competent people I'm referring to; my parents, for instance, would have fared yet worse).
It goes hand-in-hand, I suppose. For positive feedback to work, the end user has to have some expectation that fails to be met. With inconsistent deployment of EV certificates, that expectation has not been created — so a failure to meet it will go largely unnoticed. User education can help bridge that gap, but it still requires cognizance on behalf of the user that any given site *used to have* and *now does not* have the pretty green box associated with the EV cert; frankly, that's an unreasonable expectation from all but the most security-minded of people, and even they are susceptible to outside stimulus that may momentarily distract them from the lack of EV validation — negating it's effect entirely.
That said, of course, it's a great start — and for places where it's used, I'm happy to have it in place. 🙂 At the very least, it tells me that the vendor in question is on their game, which is definitely something to be aware of.
Oh, and as a case-in-point of how *not* to do things, check out Citibank.
Start with https://www.citi.com/
Then move on to (the particularly laughable) https://www.citibank.com/
Granted, you have to go to https://online.citibank.com/ before you can even think about giving them credentials, but it's still a bit of a mess when you compare it to, say, Boeing Employee's Credit Union at http://www.becu.org/.
Anyway, 'nuff of my ranting. 🙂
While it certainly doesn't look like Moxie's attack is the most technically complex, it does seem like what makes his attack unique is that he's actually put all the pieces together, worked out the details, and *written a tool that actively does it* with very high success rates.
It's not enough to simply suppress the 302 with a 200, for instance, because PayPal won't accept future non-https requests from the confused client.
I've also seen some comments from him indicating that this "stripping" thing is just the most basic version of what's possible, and that there are other things which become possible once you're attacking the jump from HTTP to HTTPS — which he hasn't yet disclosed. Looking at his website, I'm not sure that he ever will.
Decent amount of stuff to respond to. Lets go down the line.
One weird problem you have is that if crypto is too distracting and ugly, sites won't deploy it, because it's too distracting and ugly. There's been a progressive trend towards shrinking the amount of browser real estate more and more, because users aren't using a browser to see a browser, they're using a browser to see web pages. So positive feedback systems are having to do more and more with less and less. Moxie's data suggests we need to rebalance things a little, but exactly how is an open and interesting question.
There's some really annoying data, by the way, that suggests that if you warn people about security vulnerabilities, they will trust your site less — and should. A survey of sites that had security labeling on them actually showed them more insecure, not less, than the average site without. So it's rough.
I'm not really sure how regulations could or would work here. But obviously what we're doing isn't exactly working.
1) Awareness is increasing. Moxie should help with that, actually. It's fair to say however that years of complaints haven't gotten all the banks to fix their login forms, just most of them. So you're right that it's a continuing struggle.
2) I actually prefer the IE approach, where the entire bar turns green, versus the FF approach where just a section does. This needs testing.
I'm not going to speculate on what tricks Moxie does or doesn't have. There's a huge set of amusing things someone can do once security is stripped, but at the end of the day, his tricks come down to exactly what EV was intended to solve.
Whether EV actually works, I maintain, is the most interesting question to ask after Moxie's talk. Where's the data?
I think it would be good, in terms of the "remembering how it was v. how it is" thing, if when a bank deploys more security cues, they send out a snail mail letter to their customers (because hopefully people have learned not to trust email from banks) saying "We are now doing ____ to make it easier for you to tell if you're really at our site or are being tricked by a phisher. Any time you visit our site, please look for $visual_cues to make sure you're not being watched by a cracker. Also, please remember that we will never ask for your password in an email…blahblahblah" (though I suppose they'd probably say hacker, not cracker, but oh well).
That could at least help on the user-education front. Telling your parents, siblings, and friends what to look for could help too.
"The real question, in the wake of Moxie's work, is do we have data that shows users notice the missing green bar, and the missing brand identity?"
Well, not exactly, but we do have a comparative study. Researchers took *existing* BoA customers (that have used internet banking and the site), and removed the sitekey element (supposed to stop phishing). 58 out of 60 people entered their passwords anyway. These are people who have used the site, and knew-of/saw the positive feedback, and ignored the lack of it anyway.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/05/technology/05secure.html?_r=1
If this doesn't answer your question I dont know what does 🙂
Tim Callan
I'm a founding member of the CA/Browser Forum (the EV SSL standards body) and a VeriSign executive, so you may imagine I'm deeply interested in the effect of green address bars for both personal and professional reasons. You should understand that the answer to your question isn't binary. In other words, some people notice the green address bars while others miss it. The research indicates that the number of people who see green address bars is significant and that it's a meaningful and useful addition to browser security.
The best study I'm aware of is the one we commissioned from usability research firm Tec-Ed in January 2007. Tec-Ed put 384 active online shoppers through simulated purchasing scenarios with and without green address bars to measure the green bar's influence on behavior. One thing Tec-Ed found was that when subjects go a site where they expect to see a green address bar based on previous experience, if no bar is present that 70% of them indicate suspicion about this site.
I view that as a big positive. Certainly it's not 100% of site visitors, but it's quite a stride in the right direction. I have a longer posting on the Tec-Ed research here: https://blogs.verisign.com/ssl-blog/2008/06/so_how_does_ev_ssl_protect_aga.php#more
Ted, sorry to rain on your parade. First thing I thought when I heard about EV was "Cute, standard industry initiative, entirely the wrong thing. As usual." This isn't a condemnation of you; the problem is just much larger and harder than even the people who know about this sort of thing realize. Let me sum up some of the UI problems with crypto in general and applications in particular.
First, people don't understand it. It isn't that they don't understand the algorithms involved, they really shouldn't need to. But the world it plays in is alien to them. I'm going to leave the essay with the details as an excercise. Compare the ways a lock on your front door does and does not work like ssl in a browser. For starters just the usability side.
And then consider that we've told them "don't worry about anything, it's i n t u i t i v e", when their moms and dads never claimed such a thing about keys. They had to be old enough to be trusted with the keys to the house. With keys, it's widely known and understood what the risks and damage potentials are, at least well enough for Joe Average. By contrast, impact of compromise in the digital world is immediate and network-wide, and largely invisible.
Which explains why nobody cares about address bars, be they white, yellow, red, green, purple, infrared, or you name it what other shade. Nobody looks hard at that addressbar and if they do it'll be dismissed as another software quirk. They've been conditioned to accept crap from software. Any software. A lost house key, OTOH….
Then there's the problem of what to do when the browser says, wrongly or not, there's something funny going on with the certificate. Many houses have two doors, and those that don't, well, maybe you've given a key to the neighbour or you have to call the blacksmith. Oh well. But digitally?
Going from failure modes to non-failure modes: Who do you trust? Even when the cert isn't known to be forgeable, we're asking, nay forcing, people to trust faceless companies without credentials who proceed to make a tidy sum on the resulting trust scam.
To require more lawyers is just adding insult to injury. I can accept a PKI structure for, say, the government if it starts with a certificate signed by the head of state, for example, provided I can go to the local franchise (townhouse or so) and verify the certificate myself.
One could, on a national scale, legislate that to own a domain in bank.ccTLD you would have to have a banking licence issued by that country. But obviously that won't work for a while to come on a planetary scale. The fact that .com et al. really have an implicit .us tacked on tends to confuse the issue. Worse is that it only works for small groups like banks, and will not work for anything grassroots, ever.
But so far even governments will be using corporate certs because, oh, that's easy and cheap at the price, provided you don't mind unaccountable trust roots.
To be fair, I don't mind hard crypto and auth, provided we know exactly what we do with it and what we use it for, and, not a small thing, we don't over-reach and use it for everything.
Most real-world trust is mutual, not hierarchical, but both mechanisms are used and necessairy. So we'd need a crypto system that reflects that. And to make it usable in the general case it must also always allow for mutual authentication, like kerberos does. This extends to identity for people, corps, states, and must include forms of weaker auth like for the nickname I'm using.
Without we'll be killing free speech and a host of other things that we'll suddenly find require the possibility of the authenticator not find out everything about our persona at once, or that we maintain multiple personae, quite legitimately.
So, again sorry to rain on your parade, but I really do fail to see EV as much more than what
CCV is to CCs, an inept patch on a broken system. To fix it, we need to understand the domain and come up with something that both is comprehensive and properly allows for situations that it cannot deal well with, after all.
I guess the crux is the word "indicate" in your comment above. Lots of users might guess at something not being quite right, but how many actually ignore those warnings (several in the BoA study I linked to above noticed thins "not quite right", but continued anyway).
It's just like the normal SSL warnings you get – I've asked many (non-security/computing) people what they mean and the response is mostly "blah, blah, blah, if I click this button I can get on with my work".
This isn't a failing with the tech, or the idea, but people. We can help them out as much as you like but there will be a (significant) percentage that will do the "wrong" thing.
denis bider
Users' ignorance and willingness to conduct transactions through unsecured links will continue until:
(1) browsers begin to require encryption by default, and start providing lots of tedious negative feedback before they'll let you use a nonencrypted site;
(2) the likes of Google, and most other sites, realize that by not saving on not using SSL, they are contributing to the problem by preventing browsers from implementing #1, and training users to use unencrypted sites.
That poses a tough, possibly unworkable problem of coordinated action.
What can we do instead?
Putting DNSSEC aside (whenever _that_ will be ready), there could be a secure registry of sites which must be accessed via SSL. This registry would itself have to be accessed via SSL, and browsers would check it automatically. Browsers would then enforce either secure navigation to these sites, or provide strong negative feedback to discourage access.
Browsers accessing a central registry looks a heck of a lot like CRL's — Certificate Revocation Lists. We see how well THOSE scale.
Owen Crow
While I type this comment on what I hope is your site (http:) I did want to point out one error. "100% of Paypal can, and must, be retrieved over SSL." Not true. The first request and response may be plaintext that's what makes Paypal "vulnerable" to attack. You can train all users to use https only and complain to all sites that don't use SSL, but good luck with that.
LonerVamp
EV SSLs sound nice, but I've found in practice, having purchased several dozens, that my faith in them is nil.
I'd be curious how small a "company" someone can be (LLC, my own little company at home?) and still get their first EV SSL for http://www.soleproprietorsh!p.com or something.
And once you get the first one, as long as you own the domain (no checks there!), you can get an EV SSL for any of them after that. Over half of the ones I buy are 'branded' for sites I run under brands I don't own at all. (Yes, they are customers, but no one is proving that.)
That all said, it will help EV SSL adoption a TON if the CAs can be more transparent with their practices and explain exactly what happens to validate an EV SSL and prove the value. And I'm not just talking studies on who cares about the green bar, but rather who asks what questions and what proofs are provided. Honestly, it's going to come down to phone calls, a minor corporation records lookup, and some customer service rep pressing a button to Ok it. And that all only on the first one purchased. If they have a good process, it should not hurt to let us all know. But I don't feel that love at all.
(In my observation, it is not the green bar people care about so much as getting away from a red bar…as long as it is not red, then green or white is just fine. But this is more of a browser problem than a CA problem…)
Chadhurbhujaya
This may not be revelant but i figured i'd post this anyway. If you're using ubuntu 8.10 you may be in for some issues with the network manager. For some unknown reason it stops functioning. You will need to manually set you're resolv.conf with your ISP's DNS servers. That file is located in /etc/network/resolv.conf
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DanKam: Augmented Reality for Color Blindness
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Black Ops Of PKI:
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Financial Cryptography Paper
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BH Fed Slides (Adds Drupal, DNSSEC)
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Sarah on DNS
Ad Injection Gone Wild:
Subdomain NXDOMAIN injection for Universal Cross Site Scripting
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Pattern Recognition:
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Black Ops of TCP/IP:
High Speed Scanning, Parasitic Traceroute, TCP NAT2NAT
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SSH Dynamic Forwarding, Securing Meet-In-The-Middle, PPTP over SSH
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Amsterdam takes "Anti-Terror" measures against islamic institutions.
Amsterdam will secure mosques. According to the municipality, the chance of an attack is real. Jewish institutions in the city are already secured.
This appears from an overview of concrete measures announced by Mayor Femke Halsema in her approach to radicalization. According to her, there is an 'increased possible threat to Islamic institutions' in Amsterdam and the 'chance of an attack is real'.
That is why mosques and other Islamic institutions receive extra security in the short term, as happened with Jewish institutions, the mayor writes. Jewish institutions are protected by advanced cameras and extra supervision by the police.
At the end of last year, the spokesperson for the Nasr mosque in Oost was threatened in a film because the mosque had refused a death peace for a mother and daughter from Amsterdam who had died in Syria.
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Up to 40 percent of women of reproductive age in the United States develop uterine leiomyomas. This condition is reported to be the principal indication for approximately one third of all hysterectomies. The size of the uterus is the major determinant of symptoms, probability of surgery and choice of surgical procedure. The traditional assessment of uterine size relies on bimanual examination. Ultrasound examination is commonly used to confirm bimanual assessments, but it is not clear if ultrasound studies add to clinical information. Cantuaria and colleagues compared bimanual and ultrasonographic assessment of uterine size in patients with leiomyomas to clarify the role of ultrasonography.
A total of 111 women who underwent ultrasound examination before hysterectomy for uterine leiomyomas were retrospectively studied. Before the ultrasound examination, uterine size was estimated by bimanual examination performed by a senior resident and confirmed by an attending physician. The results of the bimanual examination were reported in terms of equivalent gestational size. Uterine dimensions on ultrasound were converted to equivalent gestational size using an established formula. Each uterus was weighed and measured after surgery.
On bimanual examination, uterine size estimations ranged from six to 25 weeks. In four patients, bimanual estimations were not possible because of obesity. The correlation between bimanual and ultrasound estimations was highly significant. Body mass index did not influence this correlation. Both bimanual and ultrasound estimates correlated with the actual size of pathologic specimens.
The authors conclude that routine ultrasound examination is not indicated when bimanual assessment of uterine leiomyomas is performed by an experienced examiner. Ultrasonography may provide useful information when bimanual examination and assessment are difficult, as in the case of extremely obese patients.


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El hombre de arena  es una película de Argentina filmada en Eastmancolor dirigida por Mario Cañazares sobre su propio guion que se estrenó el 4 de agosto de 1983 y que tuvo como actores principales a Cristian Carrizo y Jorge Rodríguez.

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Un paleador de arena, entre la libertad de su trabajo y la subsistencia en la ciudad.

Reparto
  Cristian Carrizo
  Jorge Rodríguez
  Teresita Terraf
  Antonio Grimau
  Ana María Picchio

Comentarios
Jorge Abel Martín en Tiempo Argentino escribió:
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Daniel López en La Voz del Interior dijo:

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 Información sobre Un hombre de arena en el sitio del cine nacional
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Austrians—Mostly Women–Said to Be Buying Record Number of Guns
According to this story from FoxNews.com, Austria is experiencing a spike in arms sales because of growing tensions over the...
By David Maccar | Published Oct 28, 2015 9:00 PM
Austrians scramble to defend their homes as tens of thousands of refugees enter the country.
According to this story from FoxNews.com, Austria is experiencing a spike in arms sales because of growing tensions over the influx of refugees fleeing violence in the Middle East, African, and Asia. According to this story from the Daily Mail, about 70,000 more firearms have been sold in Austria so far this year compared to the same period last year. With a population of 8.5 million, an estimated 900,000 firearms are in Austrian homes, making it one of the most heavily armed nations in Europe.
"Nearly all shotguns are sold out because you don't need to have a firearms permit to buy them," Thomas Ortner, spokesperson for gun retailers in the state of Upper Austria told OE24. "Registration courses for pistols are usually held only ever five weeks, but are now held weekly."
According to the story, Czech Independent TV reported that, as of Monday, most rifles in Austria are sold out.
Any Austrian age 18 and over can buy and own a shotgun or certain types of rifles, which have to be registered at a licensed dealer or gunsmith. Ownership of semiautomatic firearms requires a special permit, like a hunting license.
This is in contrast to most other European countries like Germany, Britain, Denmark, and the Netherlands, where it is practically impossible to own a gun or purchase ammunition.
FoxNews said that "many" of the gun buyers are women, and this story from ChristianToday.com reports that "most" people purchasing guns in Austria are women, though neither provided any numbers.
"I just returned from a gun rights meeting in Belgium, and I can attest that all over Europe people now want the means to defend themselves," Alan Gottlieb, executive vice president of the Second Amendment Foundation, said in the ChristianToday story. "Self-defense is no longer a dirty word. In countries like Austria, where it is still legal to own a firearm, gun sales are at record levels. I can tell you first-hand that people in Europe now wish they had a Second Amendment."
The most common reason given by Austrians for buying a gun were fear of refugees and fear of burglaries that may come with them.
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Q: MacOS High Sierra Suddenly Bloated by About 40GB I noticed that sometime in the last couple weeks or so my 2015 MacBook Pro's High Sierra bloated by about 40GB. In that time span, I have not installed any new software nor have done anything except browse internet and use basic software.
Things like this happened in the past, but it was all due to Final Cut Pro storing its caches on the disk. The caches were huge and by deleting them I was always able to clear space.
However, this time it all appears to show in the System section of the Space Used. Does anyone know how one can determine what caused the bloat and reverse it? I cannot afford to have the system occupy 70GB. It leaves no space to do the work. In the past, the system was 20-30GB.
P.S. Having recently looked at the newer MacBook Pros, I was amazed that Apple still sells 128, 256, and 512GB with a straight face. I considered it somewhat low in 2015 when I bought this Mac, but was willing to buy it because I had a desktop as well. However, three years later they still have not improved or increased storage??? All they have done is added a nonsensical touch-bar, removed the actually useful magnet from the charging cord and eliminated the wonderfully glowing apple from the back of the screen. Am I the only one who is astonished by this?

A: I would recommend an app like OmniDiskSweeper https://www.omnigroup.com/more to help you. Have it search the entire drive, not just your home directory.

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Q: How could I split test and train npzfiles data? I convert my .txt data to npzfile now I want split it to test and train for train Generator in GAN but I don't know how define x and then use:
x_train, x_test  = train_test_split(x, test_size=0.2, random_state=0)

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The World Bank Group Country Opinion Survey Program systematically measures and tracks the perceptions of the World Bank Group's clients, partners, and other stakeholders across the globe in client countries. The Public Opinion Research Group surveyed 29 countries in FY2012 (July 2011-June 2012), 41 countries in FY2013 (July 2012-June 2013), 42 countries in FY2014 (July 2013-June 2014), 35 countries in FY2015 (July 2014-June 2015), 45 countries in FY2016 (July 2015-June 2016), 35 countries in FY2017 (July 2016-June 2017), 39 countries in FY2018 (July 2017-June 2018), and 42 countries in FY2019 (July 2018-June 2019). In FY2020, surveys were conducted in 24 countries. Nearly all of the World Bank Group's client countries are surveyed in every three year cycle.
The Country Opinion Survey in Timor-Leste assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Timor-Leste perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private sector, and civil society in Timor-Leste on 1) their views regarding the general environment in Timor-Leste; 2) their overall attitudes toward the WBG in Timor-Leste; 3) overall impressions of the WBG's effectiveness and results, knowledge work and activities, and communication and information sharing in Timor-Leste; and 4) their perceptions of the WBG's future role in Timor-Leste.
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From July to September 2020, 210 stakeholders of the WBG in Timor-Leste were invited to provide their opinions on the WBG's work in the country by participating in a Country Opinion Survey. Participants were drawn from the Office of the President, Prime Minister; office of a minister; office of a parliamentarian; ministries/ministerial departments/implementation agencies; Project Management Units (PMUs) overseeing implementation of WBG projects; consultants/ contractors working on WBG-supported projects/programs; local governments; independent government institutions; the judiciary system; state-owned enterprises; bilateral and multilateral agencies; private sector organizations; the financial sector/private banks; private foundations; NGOs and community based organizations; trade unions; faith-based groups; youth groups; academia/research institutes/think tanks; the media; and other organizations.
The results in this year's Country Survey were compared to those in the Country Survey conducted in FY'17 (response rate was 50%, N=101). Data were weighted to reach the same stakeholder composition in two years, which allows for year comparisons. Stakeholder groups which were not present in both fiscal years were not included in the comparison. Respondents who belonged to the "other" stakeholder category were not included either. As a result, mean ratings, percentages of respondents, and the total number of respondents in both years are slightly different from those of the original data reported in the FY'17 COS report and the non-weighted data presented in appendices A, B, C and E. For the weighted stakeholder breakdown and year comparison results, please refer to Appendix D (page 78) of the report provided as a downloadable resource.
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WILMINGTON, N.C., March 18 (UPI) -- A school library book checked out by a first-grader, in which a prince and a prince live happily ever after, has a North Carolina family upset.
Michael and Tonya Hartsell of Wilmington read along with 7-year-old Olivia every weeknight before bed, but when they started reading her new book, "King & King" they were stunned at its content, the Wilmington Daily Star reported. Especially on an elementary school level.
In the book, the queen tells her son he must get married and take over for the king, but the search for a spouse doesn't go as expected. He waves off all the eligible princesses, falling instead for another prince and they are married. The last page has them kissing.


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Influencer Says He Was Offered Money to Spread Anti-Trump Jan 6 Lies on TikTok, Brings Receipts…Can Only Hope More Influencers Come Forward…
by Libby Emmons at The Post Millennial
Attorney and TikToker @TrialByPreston revealed in a video that the Good Information Foundation attempted to pay him $400 to spread unsubstantiated rumours and misinformation about January 6, President Trump, and his 2020 presidential campaign.
"I was just offered $400 to make an anti-Donald Trump propaganda post related to the January 6 investigation that is completely not true," Preston Moore, Esq. said in the video. The Good Information Foundation, headed by Rick Stengel, Former Under Secretary of State in Obama administration, emphasizes that "America is in an information crisis," and that "disinformation is threatening public health, safety, social trust and democracy."
Moore emphasized that he's not a Trump supporter to "give a little bit of context," and noted that he's an attorney who posts legal news on TikTok. Other videos on his channel include discussions of the special master that was appointed to review documents seized by the FBI from Trump's Mar-a-Lago home, on the Parkland school shooter, on the Constitution, or other matters.
Then he launched into what happened, saying: "I get an email from somebody at the Good Information Foundation." That person, he said, obscuring the name, "sent me a message letting me know she represented the Good Information Foundation and that she was willing to offer a paid collaboration to discuss some topics related to January 6.
"I said 'sure, why not,' I'll learn some more," he said. He learned that the Good Information Foundation would pay him $400 to make a post on his page and share it to Instagram, and that there were specific bullet points that they'd like him to hit to earn that fee.
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New Tech, Two Upgrades — QSO Fodder!
Here's to Albert Waters, of Los Lunas, who passed his Tech exam Jan 12, 2019. In addition, Kevin Welander, K5ZOO, of Bosque Farms, upgraded to a General-class license. And a belated congratulations to David Fouts, KC5ERO, of Albuquerque, who upgraded to General in December. All thanks to the Valencia County Amateur Radio Association's W5YI testing team. A great way to send off the old year and bring in the new!
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Congratulations to Daniel Alvarez, KC0CJD, of Los Lunas for passing his Extra exam earlier this month! And thanks to the Valencia County ARA's W5YI Team for overseeing the exam.
ARRL President Rick Roderick, K5UR, has named Robert Wareham, NØESQ, of Highlands Ranch, Colorado, as Rocky Mountain Division Vice Director. Wareham will serve the remaining term of Jeff Ryan, KØRM, who assumed the position of Rocky Mountain Director upon the resignation of Dwayne Allen, WY7FD.
Homeland Security and Emergency Management (DHSEM) and is managed by Colorado ARES leadership under a Memorandum of Understanding.
as PRB-1 into Colorado law. He has been providing pro bono legal assistance to Colorado Amateur Radio clubs for many years.
Wareham will serve the remainder of the Vice Director's term, which runs through 2019.
Division and wish him well as he departs to spend more time with family.
QST each month. Let's keep in touch, please!
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Judy and I spent the last weekend in Newington, CT, where I attended the annual meeting held for new Section Managers. The participants ranged from two from CA to my friend Nancy, KG0YL, from ND, to MI to NNJ. It truly was an eclectic group that worked well together. Steve, WV1X, was our gracious host who took great care of us! We met all the staff leaders, who briefed us on their areas of responsibilities, along with many others, starting with the new ARRL CEO Howard Mickel, WB2ITX, and outgoing (as of this past Monday) CEO Barry Shelley, N1VXY.
Rest assured, from Howard on down the ARRL is focused on ensuring the Amateur Radio Service's and the ARRL's viability, including serving each of you well. I encourage you to make visiting HQ an important item on your bucket list. This was my second trip there, as I was fortunate to visit during the centennial in 2014. I got to operate W1AW again, handing out dozens of QSOs in a pileup on 20m and more on 40m for the PA QSO Party.
From the Department of New Hams and Upgrades, congratulations to Ellis Fish of Los Lunas for earning his Tech license, to Scott Rankin of Fence Lake for earning his Tech ticket, and to Scott Weltin (WA1FTI) of Albuquerque for upgrading to Extra Class. Testing came courtesy of the W5YI VE Squad ND the Valencia County Amateur Radio Association.
GA from Albuquerque and the ARRL/TAPR DCC (Digital Communications Conference). The has been great thus far! I'm looking forward to this afternoon's and tomorrow's presentations. I had the opportunity two weekends ago to visit the Alamogordo Hamfest when I got to meet some of you. That was a fun event even though I didn't find any treasures to bring home. Thanks to Rick, KB7SQF, and his team for their hospitality.
While time is short, you can still plan to attend the Alamogordo Hamfest this coming Saturday. You can find all the details at: http://www.qsl.net/k5lrw/hamfest.htm. I look forward to seeing many of you from Southern NM there!
I'm am writing this edition from the 2018 Homeland Security and Emergency Management Conference. I've already met a couple of other hams attending the event. I mention this because the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) has significant changes pending in its Strategic Plan. Our Section Emergency Coordinator, Jay, W5WHN, and I are reviewing the plan, which is available at: http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Media%20&%20PR/ARES/ARES%20Strategic%20Plan%20-%20final%20-%20PSC.pdf. Your comments are important to us! Please send your comments to us no later than Sept. 30. Thanks!
Don't forget to register for the Duke City Hamfest and ARRL Rocky Mountain Division Convention at: https://www.dukecityhamfest.org/reserveandregister. This event will have everything you expect from a first class amateur-radio convention. This event runs Sept. 21-23. I'll be there, too, and look forward to meeting many of you.
On Oct. 18-19, the Socorro Hamfest will host the ARRL NM Convention. The event details are found at: https://www.socorroara.org/socorro-hamfest/. This will be a busy weekend starting with a tour of the Very Large Array and an evening banquet with a full day Saturday. BCNU!
Welcome to the ARRL New Mexico Section website!
This website is a resource for American Radio Relay League members across the Land of Enchantment. Here you will find information related to both the New Mexico Section and amateur radio in general across the state.
The Section and its field organization is where the rubber meets the road in the ARRL. It is the interface between the League's staff, various services, and its important membership. Thank you for being a valuable ARRL member, and please stay in touch with your feedback and ideas.


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Athletic Training Month Spotlight: Rachel Butler
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Rachel Butler is in her seventh year on the athletic training staff at Alaska Anchorage and her first as the head athletic trainer.
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In celebration of National Athletic Training Month, the GNAC is profiling athletic trainers throughout the conference. These trained medical professionals at every school work to keep the student-athletes of the GNAC healthy, active and safe.
National Athletic Training Month is an initiative of the National Athletic Trainers Association. To learn more about the month and role athletic trainers provide to the college athletics community, Click Here.
Name: Rachel Butler
Institution: University of Alaska Anchorage
Years at Institution: 7
Hometown: Pleasant Grove, Utah
Colleges Attended & Degrees: Southern Utah University (Undergraduate, Athletic Training), Western Michigan University (Graduate, Athletic Training).
Sports In Which You Have Served As A Primary Athletic Trainer: At one point or another, almost all! Basketball (men and women's), track and field, cross country, skiing, women's soccer and 13 sports while at Comstock High School.
What Prompted Your Interest In A Career In Athletic Training: A general interest in the body prompted my interest. Looking into various career fields narrowed my interest and taking a few courses solidified my interest in the career.
Who Has Been The Biggest Influence On Your Career: I've had three main mentors over the years: Rikki Mendini, Clay Wilson and Christine Volk. All are wonderful athletic trainers who have taught me so much and guided me in my career. They all have helped me hone my clinical skills, provided me with valuable experiences, assisted me in developing a working athletic training philosophy and gave me so much support.
For You Personally, What Are The Most Satisfying Aspects Of Being An Athletic Trainer: The relationships that I have the opportunity to build with student-athletes.
What Are The Most Challenging Aspects Of The Job: The schedule! The long hours and the time away from family and friends, as well as the short notice to schedule changes.
What Is The Most Misunderstood Aspect Of The Athletic Training Profession: That we, as athletic trainers, love our jobs so much that we don't care about poor compensation.
What Is One Key Element Of Your Job That Most People Would Not Realize: One key part of my job that friends are often most surprised by is when I take student-athletes to doctor's appointments, to surgery or sit in the emergency room with them for hours while they are getting more advanced medical care. I think it is important for these injured athletes to have someone else there listen and sometimes ask the questions beyond the initial "can I play" or "when can I play." I am there to help facilitate direct care or help coordinate care from other providers; to be a support when needed for surgery is big, especially if a student-athlete doesn't have family nearby.
What Has Been The Biggest Change In Athletic Training During Your Career: Athletic tape. Just kidding. That hasn't changed much at all. I think the biggest change in athletic training is how much bigger and more detailed our athletic training toolboxes can be. Not only are we preventing, evaluating, treating, and rehabilitating injuries we can do so many things within these main categories. So many best practices and standards of care, evidence-based medicine, so many types of therapy and treatments, so many courses in continuing education that can be extremely specific.
What Do You See As Primary Health Concerns Currently In College Athletics: Long-term health. Not just being a successful student-athlete for four or five years. Learning proper ways to take care of one's whole self: physical, mental, and social health. Engaging in and taking an ownership in health and healthcare both in the short and long term.
What Advice Would You Give To A High School Or College Student Interested In Pursuing A Career In Athletic Training: Learn. Ask questions. Be realistic. Shadow people. It's a tough but rewarding job. Approach it with eyes open and see what you think!
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RenMind Series 2 - #2 Adding Fields
This is the second lesson in our series about the Contacts area. We're going to talk about the importance of using Fields to make managing contacts a whole lot easier. You can also watch the video to get a good idea of how they're used and how to create them. You will also learn how to set one up, and how they relate to uploading new contacts.
The Contacts Area is where you manage all of the connections you've made....
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Importing Contacts
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Wire has a lot of features that work together, but I'm going to focus on the hub of the system: The Contact Area. This is the first of a series of five articles that are going to focus on the most essential part of the system and how to use it to see real results. We're going to tell you about basic features, how to manage your e-mail list, build lists, keep notes on specific contacts and how to follow up on...
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This video is about the importance of Fields in RenMind Wire. You will also learn how to set one up, and how they relate to uploading new contacts.
The Contacts Area is where you manage all of the connections you've made. One of its features is the Fields area and it's extremely important in keeping track of contact information. Before you upload new contacts or start using Forms, the first step you should take is...
Introducing Fields and Setting Them Up in Wire
Understanding Fields is one of the most important aspects of using Wire. Fields let you set up information in categories that will help you sort, build lists and keep track of information in the future. There are several ways to set them, but we're going to go over what Wire has to offer with its built-in Fields.
By default, Wire offers the following key fields by which you can sort your contacts:
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