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Like the rest of the world, I was startled - is that the right word? - when John McCain announced his choice for VP. Since then, in an attempt to figure out what was going on, I've been reading everything I can find in the infamous "mainstream media" about Gov. Palin. I'm trying to be as objective as possible, to counterbalance my visceral reaction to her. In short, the lady creeps me out, probably because she's diametrically opposed to me on virtually every position.
I've deliberately avoided the Internet riffs floating around on her, with one exception: the "Letter from Wasilla," attributed to one Anne Kilkenny - largely because the thing was signed, and showed internal evidence that the author was trying to be fair-minded. Snopes.com considers that letter authentic; much of what I say about her here comes either from that letter or from the New York Times.
I've concluded that Gov. Palin is the affirmative action candidate. She is where she is because she's female, and for no other major reason. To prove this to yourself, just invert the situation. You have the one-term governor of a large but thinly populated state, with no national or international experience or (apparently) interest; with a public record of hiring cronies and family members; a gun supporter, a disbeliever in global warming, a born-again evangelical creationist and right-to-life supporter, with 5 children, one of whom has Down's syndrome, and another of whom is pregnant at the age of 17. And this hypothetical governor is male.
Would this person be anywhere near the vice presidency? He wouldn't even be on the backup list. But she's in the catbird seat.
McCain apparently picked her himself, bypassing the usual vetting process. The New York Times ran a major article suggesting that no one in the Alaska Republican Party - for that matter, no one in the national party - was contacted about the governor before the announcement. It's a very interesting read; apparently McCain simply leaped to the conclusion that this woman could save his campaign and offered her the job on the spot, in place of two or three male candidates with real records of competence.
Consider this as an example of McCain's decision making under stress. Is this really the man you want running this country??
Also consider what this implies about McCain's opinion of American voting women. He thinks we'll vote for his ticket because his number two has ovaries instead of balls. The level of contempt for the people he expects to vote for him leaves me gobsmacked. It is an insult. If I were a Republican woman, I'd be furious. If I were a moderate Republican woman, I'd be practically radioactive.
Gov. Palin has one attribute that is usually required to attain high office: ambition. Is that enough??
Labels: Election, Political rants
Hedera:
Here's my offline letter to the SF Chronicle's Debra Saunders on Sept 3rd:
Dear DS:
I was embarrassed when Californians elected an Austrian weightlifter turned B movie actor as Governor.
Now we're possibly on the verge of electing a cheerleader beauty contestant as VP.
That's America for you.
What bothers me about all this "risk-taking" talk vis-a-vis McCain's impulsive approach to decision-making
is that riskiness, as a mode of behavior, has all the earmarks of irrationality, emotional imbalance, and
poor judgment.
Pundits such as yourself have tried in vain to portray McCain's lack of probity, and his impulsiveness as if these were
a political asset, remarking his willingness to "take risks" as a character-trait that you admire and believe to
be a marker for true-blue American genius.
But politics isn't about taking risks. It's about recognizing what problems exist, and setting about to solve
In the field of psychology, habitual or obsessive risk-taking may be hard-wired into the brain, intimately linked to
arousal and pleasure mechanisms, and may offer such a thrill that it functions like an addiction. The risk-
taking tendency is especially strong, in, for instance, the criminal stereotype. Those who habitually engage
in risky behavior may be more likely to engage in foolish or dangerous acts, such as gambling, sex without
protection, aggressive driving, taking dares, etc.
I'm not impressed by anything I've heard about Palin. If McCain's impulsive choice to make her his running
mate is praiseworthy, it could only be so if you accept the notion that risky decision-making per se is a good
She's stuck like the tar-baby to the Alaska Oil Cartel, and her experience has been limited to a provincial
state largely isolated from the national and international issues which the Presidential office faces every day.
Taking risks, as a strategy, is appropriate where experience, judgment, and known factors are weighed
against the potential downside in any given situation. Making decisions should not be like guesswork,
where you make snap judgments based on intuition, vague impressions, or hearsay.
Palin may or may not have the skills to suceed. In the meantime, it would be well not to impute too much
genius to McCain's methods of vetting, whatever they were.
Foreign and domestic policy-making isn't like playing poker, or blackjack.
Here's another entry from a blog I rant on--
Interestingly, Obama picked up on the neo-Republican tactic of NOT talking about issues, simply presenting images and "feeling" and implying but never specifying solutions or answers. The Republican agenda has always been so repugnant that it could never present it to the electorate. If it could--as it has--divert the Democratic Party from talking about real issues by forcing them instead to fight off illogical charges and fluff issues like abortion and lower-class tax rates, they could capture the dumb white vote in the Midwest, the South, the Prairie and Conservative Southwest. Rush Limbaugh's (and the rest of the smash-mouth attack dogs)' diatribes have always been aimed at this sector of the population, the part that has only a high school education, has no social or political smarts, and is most apt to be exploited by the corporations and crooked legislators (like Tom Delay). This has allowed them to talk endearingly about "populist" "values" and seduce potential Democratic constituencies away from their real interests.
The Palin choice is another attempt to divert, away from issues, to "personality" and sexiness. Palin is a knock-out, the cheerful cheerleader who could do the math and structure a debate in her favor and wound up being the class valedictorian despite never having asked herself a profound question or been willing to consider a depressing answer. Her choice of a dumb hunter husband is right in line with her manipulative, aggressive agenda (marry the school quarterback). She understood early on how using her physical attraction and good happy-talk optimism could win her access, while siding with "family values" and trite religiosity could produce results. In fact, she's a good deal more like Obama, than almost anyone else you could name.
The so-called American Middle Class has been consistently shrinking over the last three decades. States that were composed primarily of industrial economies--Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Missouri--and states that were still semi-"rural"--Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Colorado, the Dakotas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Utah, Idaho, Montana--have all suffered severe declines in income, median educational level. This is how the Rove strategy was constructed: Hit those places hard with the fake "core" issues; ignore economic realities, and go for "values".
I predicted six months ago that McCain would win in a landslide, and I stand by that prediction. The more people see Obama, his lack of specificity, his slick skating over thorny questions, the less they're going to like him, especially in those Lower Middle Class states. Even if Obama gets the Black, Latino and Oriental voters, it won't be enough. You can't win with just New York, California, Illinois and Massachusetts. Kerry was unhinged by the Swiftboaters. But Obama starts out with the wrong credentials at the outset.
The Palin choice was genius, and will turn the tide to McCain. Four more years of greed, corruption, war, suffering, and steeper economic decline.
Depression, anyone?
The Neo-Cons were really afraid of Hillary, because she had the cred and tactics to win. They're overjoyed to be facing Obama. They'll have a field day. Obama stole the Democratic nomination, but we'll all suffer in the end.
Hedera, I don't know who your female high school class valedictorian was (1964?), but mine was Kathryn Wilkins. She did indeed marry the class basketball star Don McConnell, and maybe they lived happily ever after, who knows?
Maybe it's an ingrained resentment with me, but I could never stomach those happy-talk All-American pom-pom ingenues. They were going to the moon, or thought they would. Wow. Palin looks like she just finished senior high. Sounds like it too. "I'm your girl!"
The very worst part about it is: Given McCain's age and health issues, this trollop could actually wind up being our President. Talk about risk-taking!
We'll have to agree to disagree about Obama, but we're sure in sync about Sarah Barracuda. (The nickname itself says it all...) And just consider: the possibility that she could become president isn't a risk for McCain! Only for the rest of us.
I don't recall who my valedictorian was - I was class of '63, not '64. I have a vague memory that it may have been another Karen - Karen Iversen. But I wouldn't swear to it.
"Consider this as an example of McCain's decision making under stress."
Very good point.
we certainly sound like good Democrats! typical educated, enlightened, socially-conscious, ARROGANT arrogant arrogant liberal mentality:
"...the dumb white vote in the Midwest, the South, the Prairie and Conservative Southwest... that has only a high school education, no social or political smarts..."
I wonder if this type of attitude turns many Americans away from the democratic party? hmmm
hedera 9:49 AM
Brian, I'm not responsible for what other people comment in response to my posts; let me just note that I didn't say a single thing about the "dumb white vote", nor did I indulge in any of Curtis' other personal attacks on midwestern voter stereotypes. I try to restrict myself to comments that are based on facts as nearly as I can establish them. In Curtis' defense, I think he's trying to summarize the way the Republican Party views midwestern voters; but I also don't think he made that very clear.
In fact I agree with you; this attitude is very off-putting, which is why I try very hard not to indulge in it. As the daughter of a blue-collar laborer with a high school education, I feel a very strong connection to those midwestern voters, although I may not agree with them on all issues.
Also, I don't understand why "lower class tax rates" is a "fluff issue" - the "lower class tax rates" Obama talks about applies to anyone making less than $250K per year! This is a lot of people in the midwest; it's a lot of people all over the country. The Democratic Party used to be the party of the working people, and I think Obama is trying to be that again, but I don't think he, and they, communicate that very well.
I don't normally take Curtis on when he rants on as he does; because it would frequently take more energy than I have. But you're quite right that, if I don't, I lay myself open to the accusation that I agree with him, which is not usually true. So thank you for calling me to account on that.
Curtis Faville 9:28 AM
No one should ever assume that a squawkbox poster's views coincide with the blog owner's. Why do people come to that conclusion? It never makes any sense to me. Hedera has nothing to answer for in this regard. Each poster is wholly responsible for the views s/he expresses.
The tired old saw about those who "rant"--as opposed to those who slip in a quick two lines and make their getaway--strikes me as a cheap shot. Serious subjects require a little more time and space. We aren't going to solve the world's problems by blogging about them, but it's an opportunity to express opinions that the regular media hardly ever addresses. Our public information is increasingly being monopolized by politically extreme interests. Where else do we get to talk about these things? It may be that the internet is the single most important expansion of the democratic exchange of views since the enfranchisement of citizenry.
The Republican strategy has been to win that part of electorate which is trapped--geographically and culturally and in almost every other way--in provincial pockets. They know no well-informed, well-read, sophisticated demographic is going to swallow lies without gagging. So they've given up on them. They readily concede New York, California, Massachusetts, etc., i.e., the "elitist" states. I didn't draw the map of the Republican election agenda; THEY did!
Who do you suppose their broadsides are aimed at? It's all very well to engage in fake indignation about America's "salt-of-the-earth" common man. I've travelled in nearly every state in the union, and I can tell you the Republicans have got it right. Their tactics worked during the Nixon, Reagan, Bush I & II campaigns; and they've gone right back to that strategy this year. As a matter of fact, the conservative vote--once the province of the rich and the privileged (whose interests the Republicans represented)--now is chiefly concentrated among the lower rungs of the population. As the Middle Class evaporates, the refugees flock to the Republicans--through the hot-button emotional issues which have little or nothing to do with their true economic interests. Those voters once tended to gravitate to the Democratic side, but that trend was reversed beginning in the 1970's.
One strategy of the Conservatives is to paint the Democrats as elitist, condescending to "ordinary, working Americans" who go to church on Sundays and follow the golden rule. Does anyone but a fool believe this trick?
Politics is a dirty business. Brian objects to the demonization of the American lower Middle Class, and uses that to snipe at the "arrogant liberal mentality." But what is more arrogant or disrespectful than pretending to represent the interests of the vast majority of Americans while plotting their demise?
Political sophistication isn't something I'd choose as a preoccupation. How much easier to turn my back on real problems and retire to Montana or Idaho and spend my time fly-fishing and reading the novels of Thackeray?
Brian needs to study the polls results to see who actually votes for what these days, before being indignant. The Democrats--those of us who still are intelligent enough to stick with it--are understandably frustrated with you old-line populist once-upon-a-time Demos. You've let yourselves be seduced with the old snake-oil routine. When are you going to wake up?


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My Suicide Letter…
And do not kill yourselves. Indeed, Allah is to you ever Merciful. (4:29)
Recently, I came across an article which made my hair stand and gave me goosebumps, as I live just next door: http://www.blogpreston.co.uk/2016/02/preston-has-highest-suicide-rate-in-the-uk/
A horrifying statistic about Preston has emerged in new figures about suicide. Preston has the highest suicide rate in the UK compared to other towns and cities. There are nearly 19 suicides each year in the city per 100,000 people. The figures, which come from the Office of National Statistics, are based on the period from 2012-2014. It also shows the suicide rate in Preston has been rising sharply in the last few years.
The highest level of suicide in UK towns and cities
Preston – 18.6
Middlesborough – 17.6
Hastings – 17.4
Blackpool – 17
Warwick – 16.6
A few points we all need to consider, as we all go through hardship, pain and suffering:
"Allah burdens not a soul more than its scope." (2:286)
Allah only gives you what you can handle, in simple terms. If you cannot deal with it Allah will not give it to you. Because as Muslims we believe Allah is al-Hakeem (The Wise), al-Aleem (All-Knowing). Allah knows the past and the future.
So why do we feel we can't cope anymore?
There are numerous reasons to this, first being our sins weigh us down. Excessive sinning leads one to become despondent. Secondly, we have become ungrateful. Instead of counting our blessings, we as humans tend to count our problems more.
"And He giveth you of all that you ask for. But if you count the favours of Allah, never will you be able to number them. Verily, man is given up to injustice and ingratitude." (14:34)
Suicide is increasing in Britain and in Muslims, but it is a major sin in Islam. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) stated that the one who commits suicide will be punished with something like that with which he killed himself.
Why do people commit suicide?
They have had enough of life or they have no hope left that they can carry on. Sometimes Muslims lose hope in Allah SWT and in their religion. They pray, they fast, give charity but Allah's help doesn't seem to come or is delayed. This happens to every single one of us in life, some more than others. But is suicide the solution? More importantly, is it permissible to end our own life?
At some point or another we all think about suicide, we all have bad days and 'very' bad days. Problems and difficulties are temporary but remember suicide is not temporary. Do you want to commit suicide to end your life or end the problems you have?
Suicide is not the solution AT ALL. A person must remain positive at all times, life is not perfect. Allah did not promise us a perfect life, otherwise this world would be Jannah.
Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "The world is a prison for the believer and Paradise for the disbeliever." (Tirmidhi)
Life is short and temporary, so are the problems and trials and calamities we face in life. Whether you are currently in a state of bliss or depression, "this time will pass." Nothing lasts forever, not your happiness nor your sadness. This world does not even last forever, it will surely end.
If you think that nobody cares, or is there for you, then you have a loving Lord. Allah SWT loves you.
In Saheeh Muslim it is narrated from Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "Allah has one hundred parts of mercy, of which He sent down one between the jinn, mankind, the animals and the insects, by means of which they are compassionate and merciful to one another, and by means of which wild animals are kind to their offspring. And Allah has kept back ninety-nine parts of mercy with which to be merciful to His slaves of the Day of Resurrection." (Muslim, al-Tawbah, 6908)
It was narrated that 'Umar ibn al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Some prisoners were brought to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), and there was a woman among the prisoners who was searching (for her child). When she found her child she embraced him and put him to her breast. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said to us, 'Do you think that this woman would throw her child in the fire?' We said, 'No, by Allah, not if she is able not to.' The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, 'Allah is more merciful to His slaves than this woman is to her child.'" (Agreed upon)
So do not despair in the mercy of Allah, rather turn to him and remember Him. Obey Him and His help will come. If we knew the wisdom behind Allah's orders and decisions for us, our hearts would burst out of love for Him SWT. We have to understand and accept Allah always does what is best for us.
"And it may be that you dislike a thing which is good for you and that you like a thing which is bad for you. Allah knows but you do not know." (2:216)
Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "Whoever throws himself down from a mountain and kills himself will be in the Fire of Hell, throwing himself down therein forever and ever. Whoever takes poison and kills himself, his poison will be in his hand and he will be sipping it in the Fire of Hell forever and ever. Whoever kills himself with a piece of iron, that piece of iron will be in his hand and he will be stabbing himself in the stomach with it in the Fire of Hell, forever and ever." Narrated by al-Bukhari, 5442; Muslim, 109.
It was narrated from Thaabit ibn al-Dahhaak (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "Whoever kills himself with something in this world will be punished with it on the Day of Resurrection." Narrated by al-Bukhari, 5700; Muslim, 110.
From these Hadith it is apparent that suicide is not permissible in Islam – it is Haram.
Suicide is not kufr that puts a person beyond the pale of Islam as some people think, rather it is a major sin that is subject to the will of Allah on the Day of Resurrection: if He wills, He will forgive it, and if He wills He will punish for it. So do not neglect to make du'aa for them and be sincere in doing so; perhaps that may be the means of Allah forgiving them.
It was narrated that Jundub ibn 'Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "Among those who came before you there was a man who was wounded and he panicked, so he took a knife and cut his hand with it, and the blood did not stop flowing until he died. Allah said: 'My slave hastened to bring about his demise; I have forbidden Paradise to him." Narrated by al-Bukhari, 3276; Muslim, 113.
A FEW MORE FACTS:
Myth: People who are suicidal want to die.
Fact: The majority of people who feel suicidal do not actually want to die; they do not want to live the life they have. The distinction may seem small but is in fact very important and is why talking through other options at the right time is so vital.
Myth: Talking about suicide is a bad idea as it may give someone the idea to try it.
Fact: Suicide can be a taboo topic in society. Often, people feeling suicidal don't want to worry or burden anyone with how they feel and so they don't discuss it. By asking directly about suicide you give them permission to tell you how they feel. People who have felt suicidal will often say what a huge relief it is to be able to talk about what their experiencing. Once someone starts talking they've got a better chance of discovering other options to suicide.
Myth: If a person is serious about killing themselves then there is nothing you can do.
Fact: Often, feeling actively suicidal is temporary, even if someone has been feeling low, anxious or struggling to cope for a long period of time. This is why getting the right kind of support at the right time is so important.
Myth: You have to be mentally ill to think about suicide.
Fact: Most people have thought of suicide from time to time and not all people who die by suicide have mental health problems at the time of death. However, many people who kill themselves do suffer from their mental health, typically to a serious degree. Sometimes it's known about before the person's death and sometimes not.
Myth: People who talk about suicide aren't serious and won't go through with it.
Fact: People who kill themselves have often told someone that they do not feel life is worth living or that they have no future. Some may have actually said they want to die. While it's possible that someone might talk about suicide as a way of getting the attention they need, it's vitally important to take anybody who talks about feeling suicidal seriously.
"The majority of people who feel suicidal do not actually want to die; they do not want to live the life they have."
Ismail Ibn Nazir Satia (one who is in dire need of Allah's Forgiveness, Mercy and Pleasure).
Key facts (2017)
In 2017 there were 6,213 suicides in the UK and Republic of Ireland.
Of these, 5,821 suicides were registered in the UK and 392 occurred in the Republic of Ireland.
In the UK, men are three times as likely to take their own lives than women.
In the Republic of Ireland, men are four times more likely to take their own lives than women.
In the UK, the highest suicide rate was for men aged 45-49.
In the Republic of Ireland, the highest suicide rate was for men aged 25–34 (with an almost identical rate for men aged 45–54).
In Northern Ireland, suicide rates for both men and women are higher than other UK nations – however, rates are not necessarily directly comparable.
Key trends (2017)
In the UK, there has been a significant decrease in male suicide. The male suicide rate is the lowest in over 30 years.
In Scotland, the overall suicide rate decreased between 2016 and 2017 – this appears to be driven by a decrease in the female suicide rate.
In Scotland, suicide in young men increased for the third consecutive year in 2017.
In Northern Ireland, the suicide rate has remained relatively stable between 2016 and 2017. There was an increase in the male suicide rate and a decrease in the female rate.
In the Republic of Ireland, suicide has continued to fall in both men and women.
In the Republic of Ireland, rates have fluctuated more than in the UK in recent years, but they are currently at their lowest since 1989.
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Fireproof!
Ibnul Jawzi (Rahimahullah) narrates that a pious person once mentioned:
I once entered Egypt where I found a blacksmith who would extract iron from his furnace using nothing but his bare hands! He would then place the iron on his anvil and turn it with his hands without apparently experiencing any pain whatsoever.
On witnessing this extraordinary spectacle, I thought to myself, "This must most definitely be a very pious man if the fire does not harm him!" With this in mind, I drew close to him and greeted him with salaam to which he replied. I thereafter addressed him in the following words, "O my master! I beseech you in the name of that Being who favoured you with this miracle to please make du'aa for me!" On hearing my request, the blacksmith began to cry and exclaimed, "My brother! By Allah! I am not the pious person that you think me to be!" To this exclamation, I replied, "O my brother! This miracle which I witnessed from you is something which only the pious people are able to carry out." The blacksmith answered, "There is a strange incident behind the miracle you speak of." At my request, the blacksmith thereafter recounted the following incident:
I was once sitting in this business of mine, in a state of intense preoccupation, when I suddenly realized that there was a woman before me. On glancing at her, I beheld a face which possessed beauty the like of which I had never seen before. The woman addressed me and pleaded saying, "O my brother! Do you have anything to give us for the sake of Allah Ta'ala?" I was, by this point, captivated by her sight and infatuated by her beauty. I therefore replied, "Why don't you accompany me to my home where I will give you something that will see to your needs?" On hearing my suggestion, she looked at me in silence for some time and eventually turned and departed from my business. After some time had passed, however, she returned and submitted, "Dire necessity has forced me to accept your offer." I therefore locked my business and proceeded home with her.
When we reached my residence, she begged me saying, "I have children whom I have left in extreme starvation. Please give me something that I can take to them! I will return to you thereafter." After making her promise and vow that she would return, I gave her some dirhams and watched as she left to see to her children. When she returned, I ushered her into my home and turned to lock the door. "Why are you locking the door?" she asked. "I fear the people." I replied. "And why do you not fear the Lord of all the people?" she enquired. "He is Forgiving and Merciful." I retorted. I then advanced towards her and found that tears were streaming down her cheeks in torrents and she was trembling, just as palm leaves tremble beneath the force of a gale. "Why are you trembling and crying?" I asked. "Out of the fear of Allah Ta'ala." she answered.
The woman then turned to me and pleaded saying, "If you leave me for the sake of Allah Ta'ala, I will stand guarantee that Allah Ta'ala will neither punish you with fire in this world nor in the next." When I heard her say this, I was shaken and instantly stood and gave her all that I owned saying, "I have left you out of the fear of Allah Ta'ala!"
A while after she had left, I fell asleep and had a dream in which I saw a woman wearing a crown of red rubies who had the most beautiful face that I had ever seen. She said to me, "May Allah Ta'ala reward you well on our behalf." Who are you?" I asked. "I am the mother of the girl whom you left out of the fear of Allah Ta'ala. May Alah Ta'ala never punish you with fire, neither in this world nor the next." I next said to her, "Please tell me who she is and which family she is from." To this the woman replied, "She is from the family of Rasulullah (sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam)." It was then that I remembered the verse of the Qur'aan in which Allah Ta'ala mentions: "Allah only intends to keep (all sorts of) filth away from you, O members of the family (of the Prophet), and to make you pure through a perfect purification."
When I awoke from my sleep, I found that the fire of this world could not harm me. I have hope that the fire of the Hereafter will not harm me as well. (Al-Mawaa'iz wal Majaalis libnil Jawzi RH pg. 219)
1. The way to extinguish the fire of Jahannum is for us to extinguish the fire of our nafs and desires.
2. If we introduce a person to an evil habit or sin, we will have a share of the burden to bear every time he commits it. On the other hand, if we are instrumental in assisting someone to abstain from sin or change their lives for the better, we will continue to receive reward so long as that person is benefiting from our advice and encouragement.
3. We do not know which action or which person's du'aa will be the means of drawing the special mercy of Allah Ta'ala. As such, we should never consider any good action to be insignificant or risk losing the du'aa of any person.
4. A person who wishes to commit a sin should fear the punishment of Allah Ta'ala as His forgiveness is for those who sincerely repent and wish to change their lives.
5. A believer should meditate, for a few minutes daily, over the reality that Allah Ta'ala is watching him at all times.
6. The family of Rasulullah (sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam) is the greatest of all Royal Families. Hence they should be shown the absolute greatest level of respect and honour that should be shown to people.
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Guten Morgen Northcoasters. Hop up out of bed, brush your breath and launch yourself forward to squeeze as much out of today as you can. Navigate solely on dead reckoning and do not backpaddle unless absolutely necessary. This crisp and clean German Pilsner is light enough to keep your wake straight but robust enough to rouse you to reach for another as you glide past that rockopotomus. Paddles up, let's do this.


In vSphere Client go to Configuration - Advanced Settings (Hardware) and see if the the device is Active (a green icon). If there is no device displayed, go to Edit and select your device. In some cases the host will need reboot - device will have an orange icon.
It seems to get the wrong deviceId when adding via the GUI. Have you seen this?
BTW, I'm using ESXi 5.1.0 patched through Mar 31 2013.
ideed: this bug still seems to be around with the latest release of ESXi 5.5 / vCenter 5.5 (as of 26.10.2014).
Also I get different deviceIds when using the .Net Client against the ESXi Host directly or the vCenter.
vSphere Web Client does also produce crap in my tests. Best way of doing it seems to be editing the VMX file, unregister and re-register the VM.
There are also differences when looking up the device ID in the client and the cli. CLI seems to use hex converted to bin notation (0x######) while the client (and perhaps the API) use full hex IDs e.g. 68b8).
Another strange thing i noticed is that if one pci device has multiple passthrough components (e.g. a VGA that also has a audio chip) it will show up as one device with 2 child devices in the passthrough menu. The id of the second device (in my case the audio component) will end up with a negative deviceID (e.g. -256612) which seems kinda odd - maybe another bug?
Adding the component using different VM hardware compability versions (e.g. 8 vs 10) also seems to have different outcome.
oh boy - passthrough is a mess from what i've seen so far. out of 20 times it will work maybe 3 times - but once it works on a vm it works pretty stable.
I had the exact same issues as RSZ mentioned, with the device ID being in decimal instead of hex. This caused the machines being unable to boot. Also the uuid was messed up. I also found out this by observing the differences between a vmx-file for a PowerCLI added PCI-device and a point-and-click added PCI-device.
Thru PowerCLI I'm configuring View VM's for GRID K1 PCI passthrough, and it works when manually defining the device id, and using esxcli to get the correct VMHost uuid.
Thanks for putting this information online.
Big thanks to this post, it lead me down the right path.
This issue still occurred in ESXi 6.0.0 (Build 3620759) and after some digging I saw that the Web UI was not correctly populated the device ID field (via VM->Edit Settings->VM Options->Advanced->Edit Configuration->pciPassthrough0.deviceId). Manually correcting it to the output from lspci -v allowed the machine to boot.


Some days I can feel down in the dumps especially on those cold and grey winter days. Those days are the best RAOK (random act of kindness) days! So I decided once a week I'd dedicate a day to RAOK, and maybe you could try for it too!


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Q: Should ngModelChange work with custom form control? Let's say I'm making a custom form control. Can I do this?
<custom-control [ngModel]="myModelVariable" (ngModelChange)="modelHasChanged($event)"></custom-control>

I'm able to get [(ngModel)] working with all the form controls I've made, but I'm not able to check for changes. A lot of people using my components need this, and I'm wondering if there is a clean way to do it without creating @Output EventEmitters. I'm thinking I'm not doing something correctly, but maybe I'm wrong.
This is a sample component implementation following the pattern I understand:
@Component({
  selector: 'custom-control',
  providers: [
    { provide: NG_VALUE_ACCESSOR, useClass: CustomControlComponent, multi: true }
  ]
})
export class CustomControlComponent implements ControlValueAccessor {

  private onChangeCallback: (_: any) => void = (_: any) => {};
  private onTouchedCallback: () => void = () => {};

  private innerValue: any;

  get value(): any {
    return this.innerValue;
  }

  set value(val: any) {
    if (val !== this.innerValue) {
      this.innerValue = val;
      this.onChangeCallback(this.innerValue);
    }
  }

  writeValue(val: any) {
    if (val !== this.innerValue) {
      this.innerValue = val;
    }
  }

  registerOnChange(fn: any) {
    this.onChangeCallback = fn;
  }

  registerOnTouched(fn: any) {
    this.onTouchedCallback = fn;
  }

}

A: After closer inspection, some of the components in question weren't calling the onChangedCallback in the setter, hence our problems. Others weren't being implemented correctly.
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Stylistic origins
Chicago house
New York garage[1]
Cultural origins
Late 1980s, United States
Typical instruments
Synthesizer (Juno)
drum machine (TR-909)
Derivative forms
Subgenres
Regional scenes
Deep house is a subgenre of house music[1][2] that originated in the 1980s, initially fusing elements of Chicago house with 1980s jazz-funk and touches of soul music. Its origins are attributed to Larry Heard's track "Mystery of Love" in 1984.[3]
This style of house music can often have an acoustic feeling.[4] The online music store Beatport is credited with driving the popularity of deep house,[5] but also with mislabeling a number of artists in the process[6] and with giving rise to the future house genre.
3 Artists, DJs and record labels
Deep house is known for tempos typically from 110 to 125 BPM,[7][1][8] deep muted basslines (typically using a Roland Juno synthesizer),[9] spacious use of percussion elements (typically using a Roland TR-909 drum machine),[10] soft keyboard sounds (pads), use of advanced chord structures, ambient mixes, and soulful vocals. Lyrics usually focus on positive/uplifting or forlorn modern blues lyrics. In the early compositions (1986–89), influences of jazz music were most frequently brought out by using more complex chords than simple triads (7ths, 9ths, 13ths, suspensions, alterations) which are held for many bars and give compositions a slightly dissonant feel. The use of vocals became more common in deep house than in many other forms of house music. Sonic qualities include soulful vocals (if vocals are included), slow and concentrated pleasantly dissonant melodies, and a smooth, stylish, and chic demeanor. The use of women's vocals is more common than males in deep house tracks. Deep house music rarely reaches a climax, but lingers on as a comfortable, hypnotic and relaxing sound.
Mr. Fingers – "Can You Feel It?" (1986)
"Can You Feel It?" (1986) by Mr. Fingers (Larry Heard)
Deep house was largely pioneered by Chicago producers such as Marshall Jefferson (On the House) and Larry Heard (Mr. Fingers) and with tracks such as "Mystery of Love" (1985) and "Can You Feel It?" (1986);[11] the latter had a similar impact on deep house to that of Derrick May's "Strings Of Life" (1987) on Detroit techno.[12] The jazzy sound became more common due to the favored use of gentler, more organic (yet still synthesizer based) production and instrument sounds. Author Richie Unterberger has stated that Heard's deep house sound moved house music away from its posthuman tendencies back towards the lush, soulful sound of early disco music (particularly that of old Philadelphia International and Salsoul records).[13] "Can You Feel It" became a deep house blueprint; Heard used the Roland Juno-60 synthesizer to create the deep bassline,[9] along with a Roland TR-909 drum machine for the beats.[10]
In the 2000s and in the 2010s, the genre remained very popular. Today,[when?] the term Deep House is often misused[14] and is utilized to encapsulate various types of bassline driven house music.
Nowadays,[when?] deep house is very popular and represented by record labels labels like Innervisions, Defected, Crosstown Rebels, Suara, Mother Recordings, Diynamic, Strictly Rhythm, Exploited, and Enormous Tunes, to name a few.[15]
Artists, DJs and record labels[edit]
For a list of deep house musicians, see: Deep house musicians
Record labels of the genre include Alleviated Records (Larry Heard), AFTR:HRS, Glasgow Underground, Naked Music, Om Records, Peacefrog Records, Soma, Source, Anjunadeep and Spinnin' Deep. Examples of deep house albums from artists known from other genres include The Martyr Mantras (1990) and Modernism: A New Decade (1989) from The Style Council, as well as Until Now (2012), from Swedish House Mafia, and Illegal in Paris that are producers out of Toronto that are focused in on Parisian Deep House.
List of electronic music genres
Club Zanzibar
^ a b c M'Baye, Babacar; Oliver Hall, Alexander Charles, eds. (2013). Crossing Traditions: American Popular Music in Local and Global Contexts. Scarecrow Press. p. 153. ISBN 9780810888289. Deep house is a subgenre of house music that is revered by its fans for its faithfulness to Chicago house and New York garage. Deep house cooks up a tasty sonic stew from disco, gospel, soul, jazz, funk, Latin, and R & B. Like its predecessors, its simmers at 120 to 125 BPM. What distinguishes deep house from its progenitors is its tendency to overuse shrieking divas, ominous organs, and chord progressions to whip up dance floor drama.
^ Mitchell, Tony (1989). "Performance and the Postmodern in Pop Music". Theatre Journal. 41 (3): 275. JSTOR 3208181. "House" music, and its offshoots acid house, deep house, and techno...
^ Resident Advisor (2018-05-08), How Larry Heard made house music deep | Resident Advisor, retrieved 2018-09-30
^ Reynolds, Simon (2013). Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture. Soft Skull Press. Perhaps because unlike deep house, none of the sounds used in the style really resemble 'real' acoustic instruments.
^ Taylor Barnes. "Beatport By The Numbers 10 Analyzed (Part 1)". DJ Master Course. Archived from the original on 14 May 2017. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
^ "Stop calling it deep house". Mixmag. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
^ "Deep House Music". Armada Music.
^ "List of Average Tempo (BPM) By Genre". digitaldjhub.com. 30 April 2013. Archived from the original on 6 December 2016. deep house: 120-125 bpm
^ a b https://reverb.com/news/the-syntronik-j-60-soft-synth-reverb-software-pick
^ a b The Mr. Fingers 'Can You Feel It' Bass Line, Synthtopia
^ Iqbal, Mohson (31 January 2008). "Larry Heard: Soul survivor". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
^ "Various Artists - The Kings of House, Compiled and Mixed by Masters at Work". In the Mix. 12 August 2005. Archived from the original on 6 January 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
^ Unterberger, Richie (1999). Music USA: The Rough Guide. London: Rough Guides. p. 265. ISBN 185828421X. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
^ "Stop calling it deep house". Mixmag. Retrieved 2018-09-30.
^ "Best Of 2016 Deep House - Labels". mixmag. 2017. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
Deep house (Outsider house)
Diva house (Hardbag)
Electro house (Big room house • Complextro • Fidget house)
Garage house
Ghetto house (Ghettotech • Juke house • Footwork)
Hard house (Hard NRG)
Hip house
Microhouse
Moombahton (Moombahcore)
Nu-disco (Future funk)
Balearic beat
Baltimore club
Dutch house
Jersey Club
Italo house
Dream trance
Madchester (Baggy)
Nu jazz (Electro swing)
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De 17e editie van de wielerwedstrijd Grote Prijs Miguel Indurain werd gehouden op 4 april 2015. De start en finish vonden plaats in Estella. De wedstrijd maakte deel uit van de UCI Europe Tour 2015, in de categorie 1.1. In 2014 won de Spanjaard Alejandro Valverde. Deze editie werd gewonnen door zijn landgenoot Ángel Vicioso.

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After Alice tumbles down a mysterious rabbit hole, she finds herself in a strange land where everyone is raving mad. With the help of a Cheshire Cat, an astute Caterpillar, and a righteous Humpty Dumpty, Alice must find her way home and discover who she really is. A darker, more faithful version of Lewis Carroll's classic tale that reimagines the experience of Wonderland, and ends with an unexpected new twist.


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Parents angered by changes to Ontario autism program aimed at cutting wait list
Allison Jones The Canadian Press
Published Wednesday, February 6, 2019 10:05AM EST Last Updated Wednesday, February 6, 2019 5:19PM EST
TORONTO -- Ontario is overhauling its autism program in an attempt to clear a waiting list of 23,000 children, but families and advocates say that backlog will be eliminated at the expense of the amount and quality of treatment.
The changes announced Wednesday by Children, Community and Social Services Minister Lisa MacLeod include giving funding for treatment directly to families instead of regional service providers, dependent on age, with up to $140,000 for a child in treatment from the ages of two to 18.
Families will receive up to $20,000 a year until their child turns six. From that time until they are 18 it would be $5,000 a year.
But intensive therapy can cost between $60,000 and $80,000 a year, said Ontario Autism Coalition president Laura Kirby-McIntosh, which means that families will quickly burn through the funding.
"Autism is a range in terms of severity and what this does is it guarantees that kids at the severe end of the spectrum will not get what they need," she said. "It will eliminate the wait list at the cost of the quality of lives of people with autism."
Parents of children with autism launched protests against the previous Liberal government in the spring of 2016 when it announced that kids over four would be cut off from funding for intensive therapy. The Liberals ultimately backed down. Kirby-McIntosh said they will fight the latest changes from the Progressive Conservative government too.
"Does the government think that we're going to be any different to them because they're a different political party? Have they met us?" she said.
Bruce McIntosh -- her husband and the former coalition president -- resigned Wednesday from his post as a Progressive Conservative staffer in response to the new autism plan. He had gone to work for Amy Fee, MacLeod's parliamentary assistant. Fee, as a parent to two children with autism spectrum disorder, had protested alongside them, and they had hoped both she and McIntosh could make a difference, Kirby-McIntosh said.
MacLeod said families are currently spending two years on the wait list, even though early years supports are key.
"We know that early intervention is when autism supports make the greatest difference, and yet families have told us that under the Liberal program they continue to wait with no hope in sight," she said. "(The old program) abandoned children and families in the greatest need."
The program will be means tested, with support targeted to lower- and middle-income families. Those making more than $250,000 won't receive any funding, MacLeod said.
A child entering the program at age seven would receive up to $55,000 until they're 18, the government said.
Kristen Ellison's eight-year-old son spends 25 hours a week in treatment, at a cost of nearly $6,000 a month.
"We've made progress, but the gap was so wide that he needed more time," she said. "(He's) still not toilet trained and he's still mostly non-verbal, so a lot of those big hurdles we're still dealing with."
Ellison said need is not necessarily based on age.
"There are lots of two year olds that are potty trained or talking and have deficits in other areas. There's lots of eight year olds that are in diapers, who don't go to school because they can't integrate, who harm themselves ... What's going to happen to them?"
NDP critic Monique Taylor called on the government to fund families according to the needs of their children, not just their age and income.
Families on the waiting list can expect to receive funding within the next 18 months, MacLeod said.
Todd Boyce, whose seven-year-old son has been on the waiting list for 1 1/2 years, said it has been frustrating.
"Every time you get to the next (step), it's just another wait," he said. "On the surface, this seems like really good news."
The government is also doubling the funding for five diagnostic hubs to $5.5 million a year for the next two years to address the diagnosis waiting list of 2,400 children, who currently wait on average for 31 weeks. The new program has the same annual budget of $321 million as the Liberal program.
The new program will further include establishing an agency to help families register, asses their funding eligibility, distribute the money and help them choose which services to purchase. The government will also be publishing a list of verified service providers.
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The U.S. ahead of the vote ordered "non-emergency" government employees and family members to leave the country.
The commission's rapporteur, Jean-Pierre Kalamba, said "we will see tomorrow" and that 44 percent of the results had been compiled.
At stake is a vast country rich in the minerals that power the world's mobile phones and laptops, yet desperately underdeveloped. Some 40 million people were registered to vote, though at the last minute some 1 million voters were barred as the electoral commission cited a deadly Ebola virus outbreak. Critics said that undermines the election's credibility.


AHDB Potatoes has launched a new guide to help potato growers test for Potato Cyst Nematode (PCN), a pest that costs the industry over £25m each year.
The release of PCN: Sampling and laboratory guide draws on AHDB funded research, conducted by Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture (SASA) and BioSS, measuring the effectiveness of soil sampling techniques ahead of PCN testing.
In a further effort to ensure the guide offered practical and relevant advice, AHDB ran through the results of its research at a conference, which was attended by over 40 prominent agronomists and researchers with a keen interest in PCN.
Data from statutory sampling and recent AHDB funded research, conducted at Harper Adams University, had shown that PCN is moving into areas and fields where it has not previously been found.
"PCN is a damaging pest, and once it is in your soil, it is very hard to remove" said Dr Cowgill.
Patrick Mitton, chair of the Nematicide Stewardship Programme, attended the conference. He said: "The new PCN sampling guide is a welcome update to the understanding of PCN detection, management and control.
The conference was also attended by representatives from the laboratories that provide testing for PCN. Presentations were made to the group following work by Dr Kim Davie as part of her AHDB funded research fellowship at SASA.


Build your dream house on this rural 18 acre lot. Sitting atop Smith Hill Road, you will be surrounded by wildlife on this 18 acre sanctuary. This wooded lot may have timber value. With an abundance of wildlife, this lot is a hunters dream. Take a look before someone else snatches up this rare opportunity to own 18 acres of land in Central New Hampshire. The beauty of this location is its close proximity to I93 which makes an easy commute to Concord, Manchester and even Nashua.


Establishing a strong online presence can be challenging for cosmetic surgeons, and along the way it can be difficult to tell whose advice you should use and who is just trying to sell you a service you don't need. At Crystal Clear, we have earned a reputation in the digital marketing industry over the past 16 years for being no-nonsense; we know what you need to get your practice to the top of organic Google searches, and when you choose us, you choose a genuine, straightforward digital marketing strategy based on experience, analytics, and the most relevant trends in the online space.
Content marketing for plastic surgeons is a prime example of getting lost in the sea of digital marketing advice. Is it important? Is it overrated? Should you focus your marketing strategy elsewhere? When it comes to your medical marketing website, your content is your best friend. Before you get talked out of this essential part of your digital marketing strategy, consider all that your content does for you.
We have a saying at Crystal Clear – content is king, and anyone who tries to convince you otherwise does not have the best interest of your practice in mind. Content marketing for cosmetic surgeons consists of the dedicated pages on your website as well as your blog, and without it, your site would still look good but would have no information to offer your current and future patients.
Your patients are going to love the appearance of your website, but it's your content that is going to hook them. At its peak performance, your content has a story to tell – who you are, why you're the best at what you do, and why they should choose you for their services. This is where the rubber meets the road, where patients respond to what they see by calling or filling out a form.
In addition to your content pages, your blog is a way to continue the conversation with your patients outside of the office. When your patients have questions, they are going to take to the Internet for answers, and maintaining your blog is a great way to answer those frequently asked questions, boost your Search Engine Optimization, and drive traffic back to your website.
It is a common misconception that content can be "borrowed" from other practice websites or directly from manufacturers with no real repercussions. While this may seem like the faster, easier solution, it is not the best. Having content that is completely unique will not only put you into better favor with Google, it will also strengthen your unique brand and voice and create content that your patients can understand and relate to.
Do you have a trademarked procedure that nobody else in your area has? Have you received advanced training with world-renowned specialists in your field that gives you an advantage over your competition? Your patients want to know, and your content is the best way to tell them. Today's Social Patient is more cognisant than ever of what kind of cosmetic surgeon they should choose and why they should choose them – keep your practice ahead of the game by sprinkling your unique selling points into your content.
Did you recently innovate a new technique for one of your procedures or acquire a new piece of technology to improve one of your services? When content is written, it is not set in stone never to be touched again. Once your content strategy is developing, keeping it relevant and updated is key.
In order for Google to successfully track and cache your content, certain rules apply. You need at least 350 words on each page with optimized SEO. Mobile-friendly pages and pages with photos and videos are also given preference. Those are the rules right now, but they can always change, and it is important to have a digital marketing strategy that factors this in.
Content marketing for cosmetic surgeons is not rocket science, but it does require short-term changes with a long-term vision. At Crystal Clear, we have helped over 250 cosmetic surgeons, plastic surgeons, dermatologists, doctors, and more strengthen their online presences with comprehensive digital marketing strategies, and our testimonials speak for themselves.
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Home Issues Environment New Global Initiative to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants
New Global Initiative to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants
Sat February 18, 2012
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton today announced a new global initiative called the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants.
The coalition will seize the opportunity of realizing concrete benefits on climate, health, food and energy resulting from reducing short-lived climate pollutants.
A Senior Administration Official today states that the coalition will focus efforts on reducing black carbon, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), and methane.
Black carbon is found worldwide, but its presence and impact are particularly strong in Asia.
The founding coalition partners are Bangladesh, Canada, Ghana, Mexico, Sweden, and the United States, together with the UN Environment Programme.
Ms. Clinton was joined by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. UNEP's going to be acting as the secretariat for this coalition.
The focus of the new initiative is to curb methane, black carbon, and hydrofluorocarbons.
"They're short-lived pollutants and they, together, account for more than a third of current global warming, so they have a much larger impact than people generally recognize. UNEP has put out some very good reports in the past year or so most recent one was at the end of 2011."- SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL
The coalition has y listed and discussed a set of 16 major actions that could be taken either on black carbon or methane, which could have quite striking effects with respect to global warming.
Senior Administration Official stresses that those actions are implemented, it could slow global warming by something like a half degree Celsius by 2050.
Senior Administration Official says the UNEP also projects that taking these actions could prevent at least 2.5 million deaths annuall.
Senior Administration Official notes that those actions will yield a big climate impact, most strikingly in health, but also in agriculture.
"The coalition is going to be aimed at action, at attracting high-level political support, mobilizing resources, catalyzing and helping to drive the implementation. I guess the development first, and then the implementation of national action plans, and broadly raising public awareness about the impact of action in these areas." -Senior Administration Official
The United States is already actively engaged in efforts to reduce these pollutants on the national and international levels. The U.S. Environment Protection Agency addresses these pollutants through robust programs that protect public health and the environment.
The pollutants targeted by this new initiative remain in the atmosphere for only a few days to a few years after they are emitted. This is very short when compared to CO2, which remains in the atmosphere for approximately a century. The targeted pollutants for this initiative are methane, black carbon and HFCs.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded more than $6.6 million in grants to eight universities in support of black carbon research.
Black carbon is the sooty black material emitted from diesel-powered engines and vehicles, industries like brick kilns and coke ovens, traditional cookstoves, and other sources that burn fossil fuels or biomass. Black carbon can affect the climate in the near term, and like other types of fine particles, can cause serious health effects such as cardiovascular and respiratory ailments. Therefore, reducing black carbon emissions could have a positive effect on our climate quickly.
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Beinn na Caillich is the name of several mountains in Scotland:
Beinn na Caillich (Red Hills), a hill of 732 m with 696 m prominence, to the west of Broadford on Skye
Beinn na Caillich (Kyle Rhea), a hill of 732 m, with 154 m prominence, at the eastern end of Skye, near Kyleakin
Beinn na Caillich (Knoydart), 785 m, to the south of Loch Hourn


Upon entering this beautiful heritage style 6 bedroom home, one is greeted by a living room with coffer ceilings, wainscoting, hardwood floors, stained glass and a gorgeous gas fireplace. There is attention to details with ample woodwork finishings, wood windows and blinds, a maple kitchen with honed granite counter tops. The house has been completely renovated and is heated by hydronic hot water cast iron units all retrofitted and finished in antique gold. The upstairs has 3 bedrooms and an office which opens up onto a roof deck with a panoramic 275 degree ocean and city view. The master en-suite has a steam shower and body sprays for that time of tranquility. Only top of the line fixtures are used- grohe fixtures, viessmann boiler and kitchen aid appliances. The ground floor has a great income helper with a legal 2 bedroom suite self contained and beautifully finished. The back of the house has a nanny suite with an en-suite bathroom. Call William for a private viewing.


Disclaimer: Names, characters, businesses, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. This is a series about what would happen to our country if she ever elected a lousy government. God forbid this happens.
It was a hot mid-May day in Delhi, and Wormtail sat on his porch, entertaining a bunch of journalists. He was a happy man today. Just the previous evening, he was sworn in as the foreign minister of India. The journalists too had waited for this day and were busy massaging his ego. Lutyens Delhi felt like one big happy family that morning, with the usual Lutyens crowd smiling at each other and hugging each other without being their usual bitchy selves.
In less than a minute, Wormtail was on the move. And since the prime minister's residence was a stone's throw away, his convoy drove into 7LKM less than three minutes after he had gotten off the phone. Wormtail was proud that he was the first one to reach. These little gestures which put obedience and servitude on full display, were always appreciated by the family. But as Wormtail walked into the familiar living room, he was surprised to find that the rest of them were already seated. The lawyer from Mylapore smiled at him politely. He had been allotted the defense portfolio this time around, and Wormtail was sure that he had already begun scheming about how he would expand his billion-dollar global empire. The moneybag from Bangalore who had stood by the family during every crisis, twirled his mustache. The prince couldn't have wished for a better finance minister, Wormtail thought approvingly. And strategically seated right next to the prime minister's chair, close enough to whisper things into his ear but with enough gap not to draw undue attention, was the wily Gujarati who had been the family's key strategist for decades. He was the new home minister. Four grown men with enough acumen and resources to achieve literally anything under the sun, waited like servants for the prince to finish his morning business, bathe, get dressed, and emerge from behind the curtain.
It was only at quarter to two in the afternoon that the government began its business of the day. The prince finally emerged and took his seat. His little poodle followed him inside, and the first few minutes of the meeting were spent in the prince smiling dumbly and caressing it. The four grown men were also forced to smile dumbly and watch the prince caress the poodle. Then the prince looked up and said, "Let us make this quick. I'm not feeling very well." The four grown men immediately knew that the prince was terribly hungover from the post-swearing-in after party, but their faces didn't betray the fact that they were all aware of this.
"You shall do no such thing," a forceful voice said from the door.
Everyone turned towards the door, and there in all her glory, stood the matriarch. The four grown men stood up slowly with a glow on their faces, as if they were undergoing a spiritual experience. Could it really be? Had the matriarch really reemerged from her retirement (on the first day itself), and decided to be part of their meeting?
"Forget what the allies say right now. Forget what the opposition says right now. What we will implement will ensure that we are never thrown out of power again. Everyone will fall in line." The four men listened with rapt attention. They were loving this.
"What about the election commission? How will we fix them?" asked the Mylapore lawyer.


Lime -- calcium oxide or calcium hydroxide -- comes in two manufactured forms: quicklime and hydrated lime; the latter will keep unwanted ants from invading your home or garden. Hydrated lime comes in a dry powder form and is normally used in building and engineering materials, but its chemical properties and scent also make it an effective tool for driving away small pests, like ants. There's more than one way to use hydrated lime to deal with ant populations.
Hydrated lime creates an invisible barrier to ants.
Mix hydrated lime with copper sulfate and water -- called a Bordeaux mixture -- and sprinkle the mixture in areas where you don't want ants. However, avoid putting the mixture in areas where pets or people commonly tread, as copper sulfate is an irritant. Use a ratio of one part copper sulfate, one part hydrated lime and 100 parts water. For example, if you want about a gallon of the mixture, you would mix 1.28 ounces of hydrated lime and 1.28 ounces of copper sulfate with 1 gallon of water, since a gallon has 128 ounces.
Sprinkle a half cup of hydrated lime per square yard of lawn if the ant infestation is coming from your yard. Repeat every four weeks until the ant problem is gone.
Use the hydrated lime to make a barrier to keep ants out of certain areas. Apply it near openings where you see ants emerging.


Yes, you read correctly. That Barbara Walters. The most significant woman to ever work in broadcast journalism returns to her native home of Brookline to sign copies of her fascinating new biography, Audition. She will only sign her new book. The book must be purchased at the Booksmith and be accompanied by your receipt to enter the signing line.
If you haven't heard, there was some scandal involving an affair that Barbara Walters had thirty years ago (here).
The book signing is at 7pm tonight. Click (here) for a link to Brookline Booksmith.
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Barbara Walter's life was influenced greatly by her older sister and she's written a beautiful memoir about her life. I read another memoir of a life influence by a sibling that I recommend highly - I actually liked it even more. The memoir is ""My Stroke of Insight"" by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. Dr Taylor became a Harvard brain scientist to find the cause and cure for schizophrenia because her older brother was a sufferer. Then, crazy as life can be, Dr. Taylor had a stroke at age 37. What was amazing was that her left brain was shut down by the stroke - where language and thinking occur - but her right brain was fully functioning. She experienced bliss and nirvana and the way she writes about it (or talks about it in her now famous TED talk) is incredible.
What I took away from Dr. Taylor's book above all, and why I recommend it so highly, is that you don't have to have a stroke or take drugs to find the deep inner peace that she talks about. Her book explains how. ""I want what she's having"", and thanks to this wonderful book, I can!


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Food Funct. 2017 Nov 15;8(11):3893-3905. doi: 10.1039/c7fo00915a.
Several previous meta-analyses show a consistent inverse association between nut consumption and all-cause mortality, but the associations with cause-specific mortality remain uncertain. A recent meta-analysis on nut consumption and multiple health outcomes combined incidence and mortality outcomes across most of the analyses, which may have introduced heterogeneity across studies. We conducted an updated meta-analysis to evaluate the nut-mortality association.
We searched PubMed and EMBASE and we contacted authors for additional data. The final analyses included 18 prospective studies. The random-effects summary RRs for high compared with low nut consumption were 0.81 (95% CI: 0.78-0.84) for all-cause mortality (18 studies with 81 034 deaths), 0.75 (95% CI: 0.71-0.79) for CVD mortality (17 studies with 20 381 deaths), 0.73 (95% CI: 0.67-0.80) for CHD mortality (14 studies with 10 438 deaths), 0.82 (95% CI: 0.73-0.91) for stroke mortality (13 studies with 4850 deaths) and 0.87 (95% CI: 0.80-0.93) for cancer mortality (11 studies 21 353 deaths). These results were broadly consistent within subgroups according to various study and population characteristics and within sensitivity analyses that took into account potential confounders. Peanut (5 studies) and tree nut (3 studies) consumption were similarly associated with mortality risks. Dose-response analyses suggested evidence for nonlinear associations between nut consumption and mortality (P-nonlinearity < 0.001 for all outcomes except cancer mortality), with mortality risk levelling off at the consumption of about 3 servings per week (12 g d-1).
Our findings suggest that nut consumption is associated with reduced all-cause and cause-specific mortality, with the strongest reduction for CHD mortality. Both tree nuts and peanuts may lower mortality and most of the survival benefits may be achieved at a relative low level of nut consumption.


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Europol cybergang study. Protecting the DIB. Supply chain issues. Alleged DIA leaker. China throws its info ops weight around.
Europol's 2019 Internet Organized Crime Threat Assessment is out. Ransomware remains the biggest criminal problem, and organized crime continues to defraud e-commerce and financial organizations. As gangs become more "audacious" and sophisticated; Europol wants to enhance its ability to investigate crimes touching the dark web and cryptocurrencies.
US NSA Director Nakasone said yesterday that the first priority of NSA's new Cybersecurity Directorate will be to shore up the defenses of the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), with particular attention paid to securing the companies in the DIB from intellectual property theft, MeriTalk reports.
A study of code snippets available in Stack Overflow confirms that quality control is a small but real problem. But apparently developers tend to think the propagation of such vulnerabilities is an acceptable cost when balanced against the benefits of fast coding and project completion.
A US Defense Intelligence Agency analyst has been charged with two counts of willful transmission of national defense information. The Government alleges that Henry Frese gave two reporters highly classified material. The Washington Post says Mr. Frese was interested in advancing the reporters' careers. One reporter worked for CNBC, the other for MSNBC.
China is enjoying some success suppressing expressions of support for Hong Kong protesters in Western corporate circles. Apple has removed a police-tracking app used by protesters, Quartz reports, and a bipartisan group of US Senators and Representatives thinks the NBA has joined Team Beijing. CyberScoop says NSA Director Nakasone yesterday accused China of "weaponizing information" with respect to Hong Kong.
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Should you be hit by ransomware (which heaven forfend) what should you do about it?
"The very first thing that is actually a little bit counterintuitive is to leave the ransomware alone, meaning don't delete the ransomware file that you double-clicked. Don't do anything with that. And the reason being is quite simple - to have a chance to get your files back, if we can't readily determine what kind of ransomware you got hit by, we will have to take a look at the actual file that you executed and that infected your system. If you deleted that file or if you got rid of it somehow, then that process becomes way, way more difficult because, in that case, we would have to try to find the ransomware file ourselves.... Now, the next step is you have to figure out kind of what kind of ransomware you got hit by. And don't trust the ransomware telling you its real name. There have been so many cases where there are copycats that try to imitate bigger and more professional campaigns. For example, like, one of the biggest ransomware campaigns was CryptoLocker, for example. There have been so many ransomware that had nothing to do with CryptoLocker that just pretended to be CryptoLocker. So don't trust anything the ransom note says. Don't trust anything the ransomware may display to you."
—Fabian Wosar of Emsisoft, on Hacking Humans, 10.10.19.
And then look for decryptors, but from security firms, not from the crooks. And, of course, take good care of your backups. You had those all along, right?
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In today's Daily Podcast, out later this afternoon, we speak with our partners at Dragos, as Robert M. Lee discusses the roles of regulations and incentives in securing the electrical grid. Our guest is Robb Reck from Ping Identity, sharing results from their CISO Advisory Council's new research on securing customer identity.
See the current Hacking Humans for a discussion of ransomware, among other things. In this week's episode, "Don't trust the ransomware to tell you its real name," Joe describes online redirect scams, URL encoding and the clever combination of the two. Dave shares delightful satire about Russian brides and Nigerian princes, together at last. The catch of the day involves a student getting the best of scammers, getting them to send him money. Our guest is Fabian Wosar from Emsisoft, well-known for decrypting ransomware.
And Recorded Future's Threat Intelligence podcast, produced in partnership with the CyberWire, is also up. In this episode, "Understanding Social Engineering and Maintaining Healthy Paranoia," Rosa Smothers, senior vice president of cyber operations at KnowBe4, joins the show to share her career experience, which includes over a decade in the CIA.
Texas Cyber Summit Job Fair, October 10, San Antonio. (San Antonio, Texas, United States, October 10, 2019) Cleared and non-cleared cybersecurity pros make your next career move at the free Texas Cyber Summit Job Fair, October 10 in San Antonio. Meet face-to-face with leading cyber employers. Visit ClearedJobs.Net or CyberSecJobs.com for more details.
IMAGINE, A MISI salon-style bespoke dinner event (Columbia, Maryland, United States, November 1, 2019) IMAGINE a world where more young women can see themselves in the faces of the legendary women of science & technology – and say, "Yes I can!" The event on November 1 is a fundraiser in support of the region's unique and inclusive STEM program and will be held at the DreamPort Facility in Columbia Maryland. While its focus is on the under-represented young women, young men are also included in MISI's STEM programs.
Iranian Hackers Update Spear-Phishing Techniques in Recent Campaign (SecurityWeek) The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as Charming Kitten employed new spear-phishing methods in a recent campaign.
Microsoft Identifies Targeted Attacks on Presidential Campaign, Government Officials (Decipher) An attack group known as Phosphorus that is linked to the Iranian government has targeted email accounts of U.S. government officials and people associated with a presidential campaign.
Copy-and-paste sharing on Stack Overflow spreads insecure code (Naked Security) It's the time-saving technique employed by many coders – copy and paste code from crowd-sourcing 'Q&A' websites. But is it always secure?
An Empirical Study of C++ Vulnerabilities in Crowd-Sourced Code Examples (Arxiv) Software developers share programming solutions in Q&A sites like Stack Overflow. The reuse of crowd-sourced code snippets can facilitate rapid prototyping. However, recent research shows that the shared code snippets may be of low quality and can even contain vulnerabilities.
European risk report flags 5G security challenges (TechCrunch) European Union Member States have published a joint risk assessment report into 5G technology which highlights increased security risks that will require a new approach to securing telecoms infrastructure. The EU has so far resisted pressure from the U.S. to boycott Chinese tech giant Huawei as a 5…
Member States publish a report on EU coordinated risk assessment of 5G networks security (European Commission) Today, Member States, with the support of the Commission and the European Agency for Cybersecurity published a report on the EU coordinated risk assessment on
Human Rights Activist Allegedly Targeted With NSO Malware Says His Life Is 'Hellish' (Vice) Amnesty International details attacks against two Moroccan human rights activists allegedly carried out with NSO Group's spyware.
Dutch website hack reveals data of 250,000 sex workers' clients: report (Netherlands Times) The account details of the 250 thousand users of Dutch website Hookers.nl have leaked out after a vulnerability on the website was exploited. A hacker captured the members' data and is offering it for sale, NOS reports based on its own research after an anonymous tip. The website is popular among clients of sex workers, who exchange tips, reviews and experiences in the sex industry. The problem extends beyond clients of sex workers. Sex workers themselves are also active on the website. They also may want to not be known as a sex worker with their real names.
Cookie monster eats data from Sesame Street store (BBC News) Malicious software has been stealing credit card details from thousands of online stores, say researchers.
PVH reports cyber attack (Gallipolis Daily Tribune) Pleasant Valley Hospital (PVH) recently released information regarding a reported cyber attack.The statement read as follows:
Monroe superintendent talks progress, cyber attacks at MCS Update Luncheon (KNOE) On Wednesday, Monroe City School Superintendent Dr. Brent Vidrine gave the keynote address at the district's annual update luncheon. Vidrine spoke about the district's progress in 2019, and also addressed the recent cyber attacks
DTExpo: "I know I can't hack a bank, but I can hack a person," says ethical hacker (Computing) Why hack your way in when you can simply talk your way in?,Security,Leadership ,Security,ethical hacker,DTExpo
Signal immediately fixed FaceTime-style eavesdropping bug (Naked Security) Remember the FaceTime bug that allowed a caller to eavesdrop on your phone? Researchers just discovered another – this time in Signal.
2019 Healthcare Industry Report on Cyberattacks Released (Proofpoint US) Few industries can claim a mission more critical, data more sensitive, or operations more complex than healthcare. Unfortunately, these characteristics mean healthcare companies are challenging to protect. Cyberattacks expose personal health data. Ransomware shuts down emergency rooms. Fraudulent emails defraud business associates, patients, and clinical staff. These threats hurt the healthcare industry's ability to care for patients.
Sila and Ponemon Institute Study Finds Rampant Lapses in Securing Access to Sensitive Information (Yahoo) Sila Solutions Group, a North American technology and management consulting firm, in partnership with the Ponemon Institute, a leading research organization on data protection and emerging information technologies, today released the results of The 2019 Study on Privileged Access Security. The primary
Global Survey Reveals How Cyber Security Teams Measure Success, Secure Budget and Minimize Stress (PR Newswire) Thycotic, provider of privileged access management (PAM) solutions to more than 10,000 organizations, including 25...
Spiceworks Study Reveals Aging Technology Infrastructure and Growing Security Concerns Will Drive IT Budget Increases in 2020 (PR Newswire) Today at SpiceWorld 2019, Spiceworks announced its annual 2020 State of IT study examining technology budget...
2020 State of IT: Tech Budgets, Trends, and Purchase Drivers (Spiceworks) Based on a survey of 1,000+ IT decision makers, the annual State of IT uncovers how businesses are spending their technology budgets. Find out what's driving budgets to increase in 2020.
Cybercrime is maturing, shifting its focus to larger and more profitable targets (Help Net Security) The Europol's annual assessment of the cybercrime threat landscape highlights the persistence and tenacity of a number of key threats.
Why CEOs Of SMBs Make Easy Cyber Targets (Forbes) Most small and midsize businesses will experience a cyberattack this year, but few CEOs have a clue what to do.
Research: SMB Cyberattacks Spike, Getting More Sophisticated (Channel Partners) Attacks against U.S., U.K. and European businesses are growing in both frequency and sophistication, and nearly half of the survey respondents described their organization's IT security as ineffective, with 39% reporting they have no incident response plan in place.
Many in Utilities Sector Expect Attacks on Critical Infrastructure: Survey (SecurityWeek) A survey of over 1,700 individuals in the utilities sector shows that 56% have reported at least one shutdown or operational data loss, and 54% expect an attack on critical infrastructure in the next year.
The State of USB Data Protection 2019 pt. II (Apricorn) Data protection is critical across industries – but the obstacles to ensuring it are more challenging than ever.
Most Americans Fail Cybersecurity Quiz (Threatpost) Study participants fail to correctly identify core security concepts and tools to help them stay safe online.
"Disconnected" CISOs struggling to assert security's relevance to the business (CSO) Stressed-out security practitioners feel distanced from business strategy, unsupported by executives
Melbourne cyber conference organisers pressured speaker to edit 'biased' talk (the Guardian) After two speakers were banned, a third says organisers tried to edit his presentation
Berlin-based EMnify snags €8 million Series A for IoT security SaaS (Tech.eu) EMnify, a German startup based in Berlin and Würzburg, announced its existing investors have funded an €8 million Series A round to help scale the company's unique Internet of Things cloud technology. EMnify provides a SaaS product that allows users to securely operate IoT data networks around the world. In fact, the company claims to …
Akamai Technologies Accelerates Development of Solution to Protect Websites from Magecart and Credit Card Skimming with Planned Acquisition of ChameleonX (Seeking Alpha) Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AKAM), the intelligent edge platform for securing and delivering digital experiences, today announces that the company has entered into an agreement to acquire ChameleonX, an Israel-based company with a unique solution to protect websites from an increasingly publicized and insidious form of attack that entails credit card skimming and user credential theft via malicious or compromised third-party scripts.
Defence hands Data#3 $80 million for Microsoft licences (CRN Australia) New three-year deal for software licences and assurance services.
UK Specialist Insurer Acquires Texas Cyber Response Co. (Law360) Specialist cyber insurer CFC Underwriting Ltd. announced Tuesday that it has bought Texas-based Solis Security, which provides incident response services.
Artificial Intelligence Startup SparkCognition Raises $100 Million in Additional Funding (SiliconHills) SparkCognition announced Tuesday that it has raised $100 million in additional VC funding. March Capital Partners led the Series C round. To date, the Austin-based startup, founded in 2013, has raised $175 million. "In a short few years, SparkCognition has proven itself to be one of the leading industrial AI companies in the world," Sumant …
Duo Security Founder Dug Song on Building a Unicorn (Middle Market Growth) On the podcast, Dug Song spoke about the origins of Duo, the decision to sell to Cisco, and how Duo helped draw venture capital investors to Michigan.
FireEye: Struggler (Seeking Alpha) FireEye released preliminary Q3 numbers above previously reduced guidance. The numbers aren't impressive for a slow-growing company generating limited free cash
VMware says channel can feast on Carbon Black (CRN Australia) Acquisition formally closes and creates new VMware security BU.
Zscaler: Eye-Watering Valuation Clouds Business Potential (Seeking Alpha) Zscaler recently announced several initiatives including a partnership with CrowdStrike and three new products. The company's competitive differentiation lies i
Acronis SCS Launches SCSVets Initiative as It Opens Arizona-based Headquarters (Yahoo) Acronis SCS, a leading American cyber protection and edge data security company, yesterday opened its new headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona. The company welcomed many state and local dignitaries, partners, employees, veterans and community members for
Ascent adds cyber duo to meet rising North America demand (Insurance Day) Double underwriting hire reflects "strong demand for cyber products in North America"
Rohde & Schwarz Cybersecurity and Pradeo launch a unified application security offer (Rhode & Scwarz) Rohde & Schwarz Cybersecurity and Pradeo, leaders of IT security and mobile security respectively, are shedding the light today on a joint offer, dedicated to protecting web and mobile applications with an end-to-end approach.
Tech Data Forms Partnership with Akamai Technologies to Provide Defense-in-Depth Capabilities (BusinessWire) Tech Data Forms Partnership with Akamai Technologies to Provide Defense-in-Depth Capabilities
Accellion and FireEye Collaborate to Prevent Cyber Attacks From Crippling Critical Business Operations (Yahoo) Accellion, Inc., provider of the secure content communication platform that prevents data breaches and compliance violations from third.
Nerds on Site Launches CyberSecurity Incident Response (Yahoo) Nerds On Site Inc. ("NERDS" or the "Company") (NERD.CN) (3NS.F) (OTCQB: NOSUF), a mobile IT solutions company servicing the SME marketplace, launches its CyberSecurity Incident Response, designed to address cyberattacks with minimal damage, recovery
10 Hot New FireEye Tools Unveiled At FireEye Cyber Defense Summit (CRN) From automating attack simulations to monitoring malicious content in real-time to finally running on AWS, here's a look at 10 of the most interesting FireEye tools debuting at FireEye Cyber Defense Summit 2019.
FireEye is partnering with a leading cloud security company (Technical.ly DC) The Reston-based cyber company is partnering with iboss to bring its network security offerings to the iboss cloud platform.
Internal security operations centers in large companies halve the financial impact of data breaches (Business Review) Companies with an internal security operation center (SOC) estimate the financial damage caused by a cyber attack at USD 675,000, which represents less
If you have a security alert, I feel bad for you, son – you got 99 problems but a hack ain't one (Register) Nearly all admin warnings are false alarms, says Kaspersky, and that's not a bad thing
Stories from the front line: The secrets of the Red Team revealed (IT PRO) White hat hackers expose why firewalls and phishing-awareness aren't enough in the face of a motivated attacker
MSPAlliance Develops Cyber Risk Rating for Cloud and Managed Service Providers (PR Newswire) The International Association of Cloud & Managed Service Providers (MSPAlliance®) today announced that is has...
Think Safety When Using Social Media (Forbes) One of the biggest problems people make with social media is a desire to connect with seemingly the entire world.
How Blockchain Will Solve Some of IoT's Biggest Security Problems (SecurityWeek) Because blockchain can process millions of transactions accurately and in the right order, it can protect the data exchanges happening between IoT devices.
NIST is Hunting for Tech to Secure the Energy Sector's Network (Nextgov.com) Officials want to help power companies bolster their digital defenses as renewable energy resources like solar panels and wind turbines introduce more vulnerabilities to the grid.
Kentucky Cybersecurity Program Receives National Accolade (Government Technology) Owensboro Community & Technical College's computer and IT program has been named a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyberdefense Education by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security.
UTD-Backed Research Center Gets NSF Designation (Dallas Innovates) The Center for Hardware and Embedded Systems Security and Trust has been designated a National Science Foundation Industry-University Cooperative Research Center.
Apple pulls police-tracking app used by Hong Kong protesters after consulting authorities (Reuters) Apple Inc has removed an app that helped Hong Kong protesters track police movem...
Apple bowed to China by removing a Hong Kong protests map from its app store (Quartz) The real-time, crowd-sourced map was accused of being used in ways that "endanger law enforcement and residents in Hong Kong."
China lashes out at Western businesses as it tries to cut support for Hong Kong protests (Washington Post) China has long been sensitive about its image at home, controlling what it allows Western businesses and its own citizens to say or do there. Now, however, with Hong Kong in its fourth month of street protests, China is increasingly imposing the same strictures on what's said about it beyond its borders.
NSA director rebukes Beijing for 'weaponizing' disinformation in Hong Kong protests (CyberScoop) NSA Director Gen. Paul Nakasone issued a rebuke Wednesday of China' recent efforts to spread disinformation online about protests in Hong Kong.
[Letter to NBA Commissioner Silver] (Congress of the United States) Commissioner Silver, We are writing to express our deep concern...
Russia's Disinformation War Is Just Getting Started (Wired) The Internet Research Agency specifically targeted African Americans, and has not stopped trying to influence elections, a Senate intelligence report says.
Pressure mounts in UK to take action over blacklisted Chinese CCTV firm (The Telegraph) Demands are mounting for an official inquiry into NHS and council contracts with a Chinese CCTV firm blacklisted for allegedly spying on persecuted Chinese Muslims.
Trump Green-Lights Some Sales to Huawei (New York Times) The administration plans to issue licenses allowing some American companies to sell nonsensitive products to Huawei, despite its placement on a U.S. blacklist.
Senators Peters, Johnson, Wyden and Cotton Letter to OMB FASC (Washington Post) Dear Director Mulvaney, We are writing to urge the Federal Acquisition Security Council (FASC) to develop a strategic plan for sharing supply chain security information with Congress and the judiciary...
NSA Chief: DIB is New Cybersecurity Directorate's First Focus (MeriTalk) Army Gen. Paul Nakasone – who heads both the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command – said today that the first focus of NSA's recently launched Cybersecurity Directorate will be to shore up protection of companies that make up the nation's Defense Industrial Base (DIB), and specifically to prevent the theft of intellectual property from DIB companies.
Exclusive: DHS seeks subpoena powers to identify vulnerable systems (TechCrunch) Homeland Security's cybersecurity division is pushing to change the law that would allow it to demand information from internet providers that would identify the owners of vulnerable systems, TechCrunch has learned. Sources familiar with the proposal say the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure S…
Analysis | The Cybersecurity 202: There's a fight brewing over Homeland Security's push for subpoena power (Washington Post) DHS says it wants to prevent attacks. Privacy advocates see overreach.
EDITORIAL COMMENT: Cyber criminals must be severely punished (The Chronicle) Cabinet on Tuesday approved the Cyber Crime, Security and Data Protection Bill. The proposed law will cover a whole range of issues in relation to the utilisation of cyberspace.
EU Looks to Tweak Method for Compiling Dirty-Money Blacklist (Wall Street Journal) The European Union is working on a new approach for flagging countries with weak anti-money-laundering laws after the bloc's previous attempt to create a blacklist failed earlier this year.
Bank of England fires warning shot at Facebook over Libra digital currency (The Telegraph) Facebook's new digital currency must meet the highest standards if it is to go ahead, the Bank of England has said in a significant hardening of its position.
Facebook CEO to Testify at House Panel About Libra (Wall Street Journal) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is slated to return to Capitol Hill this month to testify before a House panel about the company's foray into cryptocurrency.
Mark Zuckerberg to testify in US over Libra cryptocurrency (The Telegraph) Mark Zuckerberg will testify about Libra, the cryptocurrency he is building, this month after he was summoned by a committee of US politicians.
Henry Kyle Frese Accused of Leaking Docs to Amanda Macias (Heavy) Henry Kyle Frese is the Pentagon analyst who is accused of leaking documents related to North Korea and China to CNBC's Amanda Macias and another reporter.
Intelligence agent arrested for spilling secrets to journalists (New York Post) The feds busted a Defense Intelligence Agency worker Wednesday for leaking classified national defense information to two journalists in 2018 and 2019 — one of whom he was shacking up with. Henry K…
Mississippi Audit: Agencies Not Complying with Cybersecurity Law (Government Technology) A recent report from the state auditor's office showed widespread noncompliance with routine cybersecurity protections. The gaps could open the state to unnecessary threats as hackers aggressively target government.
CyberForce (College Park, Maryland, USA, November 7, 2019) A gathering of government and industry to bridge the managerial, operational, and technical skills gap of today's cybersecurity workforce.
Insider Threat Program Development & Management Training (College Park, Maryland, USA, December 3 - 4, 2019) The Insider Threat Defense Group will hold its highly sought after and very affordable Insider Threat Program (ITP) Development & Management Course, at the University of Maryland College Park Campus. This 2 day training course will ensure the ITP Manager / Senior Official, Insider Threat Analyst, FSO, and others who support the ITP (CSO, CIO, CISO, IT, Network Security, Human Resources, Etc.), have the Core Knowledge, Blueprint, Resources needed for developing, managing, enhancing an ITP / ITP Working Group. For a limited time the training is being offered at a discounted rate of $1,095. (Normally $1295).
CyberNext Summit (Washington, DC, USA, October 8 - 10, 2019) Cybersecurity is shifting toward more distributed and dynamic models. Decentralized security infrastructure brings its challenges and opportunities. CyberNext Summit (#CNS19) 8-10 October, 2019 in Washington D.C. summit will focus on the capabilities needed to achieve security in such a distributed environment, especially in the context of ever-increasing security threats. CNS will take place in parallel to Borderless Cyber 2019, an event by OASIS Open Consortium. By booking 1 ticket, you can attend both events.
Borderless Cyber (Washington, DC, USA, October 8 - 10, 2019) OASIS Borderless Cyber and The Integrated Adaptive Cyber Defense (IACD)'s Integrated Cyber merge conferences this year to bring you a three-day program addressing advances in automation and autonomous systems for network defense. Experts will share knowledge and experiences through a mixture of interactive panel discussions and presentations on proactive/reactive threat intelligence automation options, emerging exchange standards for automating cyber threat data, managing threats with AI, and more. Thought leaders will also provide information on some of the new players in defense development and technology in waiting.
SecureWorld Dallas (Dallas, Texas, USA, October 9 - 10, 2019) Connecting, informing, and developing leaders in cybersecurity. For the past 17 years, SecureWorld conferences have provided more content and facilitated more professional connections than any other event in the InfoSec industry. Join your fellow InfoSec professionals for high-quality, affordable cybersecurity training and collaboration. Earn 12-16 CPE credits through 60+ educational elements learning from nationally recognized industry leaders. Attend featured keynotes, panel discussions, breakout sessions, and solution vendor displays—all while networking with local peers.
Jacksonville Cybersecurity Conference (Jacksonville, Florida, USA, October 10, 2019) Data Connectors brings together security professionals to discuss mitigating risk and improving their overall security posture. Eight industry speakers, an FBI/NSA/DHS keynote speaker, and a CISO Panel with three-to-five local CISOs discuss real-world problems and solutions.
driving.digital Conference 2019 (Nitra, Slovakia, October 14 - 15, 2019) An international program conference focused on cyber security in the automotive industry and mobility. Conference themes will address the topic of stability of digital solutions in the automotive and mobility sectors and highlight areas of risk and vulnerability throughout the life cycle of vehicles, from development, production and operation to end-of-life.