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Ep 53 | 11.4.20
IoT device risk: can legislation keep up?
Curtis Simpson: These things are everywhere. They're connected to everything. We don't understand them well. And in some cases, even manufacturers don't really understand what they're selling to the public in terms of risk.
Dave Bittner: Hello, everyone, and welcome to "Caveat," the CyberWire's law and policy podcast. I'm Dave Bittner. And joining me is my co-host Ben Yelin from the University of Maryland Center for Health and Homeland Security. Hello, Ben.
Ben Yelin: Hello, Dave.
Dave Bittner: On this week's show, I wonder if Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg isn't asking Congress to throw him in the briar patch. Ben looks at the massive amount of data politicians gather on voters. And later in the show, my conversation with Curtis Simpson. He's CISO at Armis, and he shares his thoughts on some recent IoT legislative updates.
Dave Bittner: While this show covers legal topics and Ben is a lawyer, the views expressed do not constitute legal advice. For official legal advice on any of the topics we cover, please contact your attorney.
Dave Bittner: All right, Ben, before we kick things off here, just a little reminder to our listeners that timing-wise, it's a little bit odd because we record our shows a few days ahead of time, which means that we're recording this before the election, but it's actually going to come out the day after the election. So if people are wondering, why are they not talking about the election, it's because in this strange little time warp that is podcasting, the election has not happened yet for us, although it has happened for everyone else.
Ben Yelin: Yeah. So to our future selves, congratulations on your candidate winning, or my condolences on your candidate losing. We should...
Dave Bittner: Right.
Ben Yelin: We should fulfill all of our prerecorded messages for...
Dave Bittner: There you go (laughter).
Ben Yelin: ...Election-related content.
Dave Bittner: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. All right, well, let's get to our stories. Ben, why don't you start things off for us?
Ben Yelin: So on the subject of elections, we are in the last stages of the election season. And one thing you might notice if you've ever given any information to either a political candidate or a private company is that politicians know how to contact you and, more importantly, they know how to microtarget you. So they know your interests. They know your spending habits. They know your demographic information.
Ben Yelin: And there's a really interesting article on The Washington Post in the Technology section by Geoffrey Fowler, who's a technology columnist, who tried to dig into exactly how much these political campaigns know and how they get access to information. And it turns out that they know a lot.
Ben Yelin: So there are a bunch of different ways that politicians can learn things about you. There is publicly available information in state voter files. So when you register to vote, you put in your address, your phone number, your email address. In most states, you put in your political party affiliation. Those aren't necessarily public, but they're widely available to researchers, political analysts, et cetera.
Ben Yelin: There are also commercial voter files. So there are, like, professional political data brokers who combine voter file information with various, quote, "enhancements." So...
Dave Bittner: (Laughter).
Ben Yelin: ...These are things - yeah. I mean, it's very Orwellian.
Ben Yelin: So these are the types of things that you would find in somebody's credit report, their subscriptions, their spending habits, bank accounts, what information they've given to various online applications. And, you know, they can really build quite a detailed profile of you. There are a couple of very large political data firms who are so good at what they do that they can predict with a very high degree of accuracy not only whether you are likely to vote, but whether you're likely - you are likely to be a political donor.
Ben Yelin: So the result is political campaigns may know more about us than we know about ourselves.
Ben Yelin: According to both political parties, there are about 3,000 data points on every voter. So they know about 3,000 distinct pieces of information about me and you. Now, sometimes they're wrong. This particular author talked about how when he sought information on his own voter profile, they said he was into, like, interior decorating or something. And he's like, I am not into interior decorating.
Ben Yelin: But, you know, they do have a lot of information about you.
Ben Yelin: A very interesting legal angle to the story is that Mr. Fowler used the California Consumer Protection Act - CCPA - to get public access to this information. So you can, through the CCPA, request that any corporation - private company has to reveal what they know about you. And you can put in these requests and, because of this law which just went into effect at the beginning of 2020, you can get a little bit of transparency on what information is out there.
Ben Yelin: But the success of using CCPA is limited. It doesn't apply when you're seeking information from public entities. That's a very big exception. And, you know, sometimes you don't know what you don't know. So you have to request every distinct piece of data from every distinct company that might have information on you. And if you don't know, you know, how those 3,000 data points are collected, it's going to be impossible to get a full picture of what political campaigns know about you.
Ben Yelin: As he said in this article, politicians tell us that they care about privacy, but certainly, the way their campaigns act, they are anything but interested in privacy. They're interested in giving us an incredibly detailed profile so that they can have accurate information as to how likely we are to vote, how likely we are to vote for their preferred candidate, et cetera, et cetera. So I just thought it was a really interesting window into this world of political data.
Dave Bittner: Yeah, it really is. And it leaves me scratching my head, you know, 'cause I suppose one person's influence is another person's manipulation. Right?
Ben Yelin: Yes.
Dave Bittner: Where's that line? How do you know if you've crossed it? I mean, I guess politics is very much all about getting emotional responses and pressing people's buttons. So I guess - should we - I mean, is it all fair play then?
Ben Yelin: It is mostly fair play. Now, the parties themselves - I actually interviewed a spokesperson for both the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee. They were both very adamant that all of their practices comply with federal laws and regulations and state laws and regulations. And the representative of the Democratic National Committee actually has said that they've returned data that they believe they have received improperly - that they believe was not obtained using legal channels.
Ben Yelin: But by and large, all of this collection is legal because it is publicly - it's either public information, which is what you can get through the voter file, or information you, in one way or another, have voluntarily given to third parties. So whether that's a financial institution, whether that's agreeing to cookies on a website, whether that's - you know, you visit a website and log in with Facebook and you're consenting for, you know, Facebook to collect that information and then a group like Cambridge Analytica goes in and finds out what they know about you based on your Facebook profile. All of that is is legal.
Ben Yelin: So there's really nothing - there's not much legal recourse except, if you are a California resident, you do have the CCPA where you can at least get some transparency as to what they know about you. And, you know, if you have the time and the energy to do this, which nobody has, you can go through and request...
Dave Bittner: (Laughter) It's 'cause we're all too - yeah, we're all too busy reading all those EULAs, right?
Ben Yelin: Yeah, exactly.
Dave Bittner: It's taking up all of our time, yeah.
Ben Yelin: I read all 800 pages, and now I'm going to go through and, you know, using the CCPA, try and have these companies give me back my personal information. Yeah. So nobody's actually going to have the time to do that when, you know, companies have 3,000 data points about you.
Dave Bittner: It makes me long for a universal opt-out where you could go to a website or an organization or something and say, you know, I, Dave Bittner or I, Ben Yelin, I do not authorize you - all of you data aggregators - to use my data as a private company. Obviously, there are some of - sort of there's some public uses that I suppose you wouldn't be able to opt out of like the credit reporting agencies or things like that. But if we could have a one-stop shop to say, hey, you know, knuckleheads, knock it off, wouldn't that be a nice thing for consumers?
Ben Yelin: Yes, it would be.
Ben Yelin: I would love to have a kill switch to all of the data that's been collected on us online.
Ben Yelin: You know, there are some remedial measures you can take. So this talks about how much information the campaigns can obtain from you just if you visit their website or sign up for their mailing list. And you can always - you know, when they text message you, you can reply stop. And the author of this article said that when he did that, the campaigns did generally stop texting him. You can actually read those EULAs and, you know, decide whether to give your consent to each individual website or application that you visit. These options exists. They're not realistic. And in a world where business is conducted via social media and our social interactions are largely social media-based, especially in the COVID age, it's just not realistic to expect that, you know, people can opt out without also suffering the consequences of going off the grid.
Ben Yelin: So I think there's not really a meaningful opportunity to opt out, even if there are measures you can take to limit this type of collection.
Dave Bittner: Yeah. No, it's an eye-opening story, again, from The Washington Post - Geoffrey Fowler doing great work over there. We'll have a link to that in the show notes. Good story.
Dave Bittner: My story this week - how do I describe this? As we - as you and I are recording, several of the leaders of some of these social media companies are set to testify before Congress. And Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has released his opening statements, which are getting all kinds of commentary, specifically because he's saying that he wants some changes to be made to Section 230. Ben, Cliff's Notes - Section 230, just to get us up to speed?
Ben Yelin: Sure. So Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is the provision that holds that content moderation will not lead to liability for services like Facebook, Google, YouTube, et cetera. So you have a liability shield against any moderation decisions you make as it relates to content on your service. And this is for people who are not publishers of information but merely conduits for other people to post information.
Dave Bittner: Right. So in his comments, Zuckerberg says - and I quote here - "Section 230 made it possible for every major internet service to be built and ensured important values like free expression and openness were part of how platforms operate. Changing it is a significant decision. However, I believe Congress should update the law to make sure it's working as intended."
Dave Bittner: Now, there are folks who are saying that basically this is Mark Zuckerberg saying to Congress, please don't throw me in the briar patch...
Dave Bittner: (Laughter) ...'Cause...
Ben Yelin: Are we allowed to be suspicious of Mark Zuckerberg? 'Cause...
Dave Bittner: ...You know, I think we're obligated to be suspicious of Mark Zuckerberg (laughter).
Ben Yelin: I kind of think so, too. Yeah.
Dave Bittner: In my opinion, yes. Yes. And the criticism that folks are making here - and the article that I'm going to link to is from Techdirt, it's written by Mike Masnick. And people are saying that he's pulling up the ladder behind him. The quote here from the article says, "Make no mistake about it - this is Mark Zuckerberg pulling up the innovation ladder he climbed behind him." In other words, saying that they were able to build these businesses because of Section 230...
Dave Bittner: ...They are now successful. They have the resources to do large-scale content moderation. And if we change Section 230 at this point, it will make it much harder for competitors to enter the space because having an enhanced regulation on content moderation is going to be expensive.
Ben Yelin: I think that's - that perspective is absolutely right. And I would be willing to suggest - and forgive me if this is controversial - that this is a really questionable statement and action on the part of Mark Zuckerberg. And I certainly question his motives here, as does the author of that Techdirt article.
Ben Yelin: So he's in a difficult position because politicians of all stripes dislike him for different reasons. Republicans generally think that Facebook and other tech platforms like Twitter are biased against conservative viewpoints, basically that the Twitters and the Facebooks of the world censor conservative-related content. Democrats and liberals come come to it from the opposite perspective. They don't think that there's enough content moderation on these platforms; they're not doing enough to root out abuse, misinformation, et cetera.
Ben Yelin: I think there's a grain of truth to both of these arguments, but I think what Zuckerberg is doing is leveraging the fact that there is this bipartisan opposition to Section 230 from both political parties into an opportunity to kind of clear the field of competitors. As you said and as the Techdirt article mentions, he now has the full market share on whatever it is that Facebook does. He got there by taking advantage of Section 230. You can innovate - you can be creative in how you moderate content if you're not subject to any type of liability. And to come in after you have 100% of the market share, basically - no offense to the MySpaces of the world...
Ben Yelin: ...And remove that ladder from under you, I think, is a very cynical political decision for him to make. I think he's trying to ingratiate himself with lawmakers who have been beating the drums about reform to Section 230. But in the end, this is a decision to improve his own bottom line and to continue some of the anti-competitive practices that we talked about last week. So, yeah, I do think it's cynical.
Ben Yelin: The other thing that sort of bothers me about it is I don't really see any potential solution in Zuckerberg's opening statement. I see a critique of Section 230 - that he thinks it has to be reformed, but I don't see what a viable alternative would be. If we completely repeal Section 230 and there isn't that liability shield, then content-moderating platforms like Facebook or these types of conduits - Twitter, et cetera - will be extremely fearful about lawsuits and therefore will regulate content more significantly. They'll be like broadcast networks where they're bleeping out words so that they don't get fined by the FCC.
Ben Yelin: They could potentially take some half measures where they're not continuing to have complete liability but maybe minimize shield of liability, but we don't know exactly what that would look like either. The less protection these companies have, then the less leeway they have to be creative in making content moderation decisions. And they have gotten creative. I mean, Twitter in particular has taken some substantial steps to cut against misinformation as it relates to voting and the presidential election. And if they were subject to liability for something like that, they wouldn't be able to take these bold content moderation steps. So without any sort of proposed solution, it's hard for me to look at this as anything except something that's pretty cynical on Zuckerberg's part.
Dave Bittner: Yeah. Well, as Molly Wood over at Marketplace says, which I love - she says, Facebook's solution to every problem is more Facebook.
Ben Yelin: Exactly (laughter). Exactly.
Ben Yelin: That's very true. And the thing is, Zuckerberg knows that we are all addicted to Facebook. We're not going to leave. There isn't a real alternative platform that does everything that Facebook does. And they would probably benefit from the type of rollback on Section 230. So I think there's a lot to that statement that the solution to everything, in Zuckerberg's mind, is more Facebook.
Dave Bittner: There's also nothing keeping Facebook from enhancing the amount of moderation that they do. I mean, it seems to me like this is sort of, in a way, passing the buck that's saying, you know, well, if the government takes - tells us what to do, then we don't have to take responsibility for our own actions.
Ben Yelin: I think there's something to that as well. They take a lot of heat because of their content moderation decisions. So there's this New York Post article that came out that alleged a scandal against Hunter Biden, the son of the Democratic presidential candidate.
Ben Yelin: And Facebook made a decision to limit sharing of this article until it was independently fact-checked, and conservatives raised holy you-know-what about this, saying that this was evidence of political bias. The tech companies - and Facebook in particular - would love to stay clear of this type of political controversy. They would love it if they didn't have to be yelled at by members of Congress, by people of political influence every time they made a content moderation decision. So, you know, as you say, taking the decisions out of their own hands and trying to put them in the hands of somebody else - i.e. Congress - that's another way they're trying to make their own lives easier, not to mention they wouldn't have to devote the resources that they currently devote to content moderation. So I think that point is very well taken.
Dave Bittner: Yeah. All right. Well, interesting article. I say - I linked to the one over in Techdirt. There's been a lot of commentary about this. And we'll see - as these testimonies take place, I'm sure there'll be a lot of grandstanding and puffing up of chests and (laughter) monologuing and all that stuff that we can expect from...
Ben Yelin: Yeah, how dare you, sir? Yeah.
Dave Bittner: (Laughter) Right. But so it goes. So it goes. We'll have a link to this article in the show notes, of course. Ben, it is time to move on to our Listener on the Line.
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Dave Bittner: I have sort of an unusual listener on the line this week. I was recording the "Grumpy Old Geeks" podcast with my pal Jason DeFillippo, and we were talking about a story that we'll have a link to hear about a gentleman who's trying to use facial recognition software to recognize police officers. And as we've seen in some of these demonstrations, some civil unrest - so there are police officers who are covering their nametags, covering their badges or not even wearing them at all, and there are some folks who are taking issue with this, I think - personally, I think understandably. So they're trying to use facial recognition to sort of turn the tables on the police to be able to know who these police officers are. And Jason and I had an interesting little conversation about it. Here's a snippet from our conversation over on "Grumpy Old Geeks."
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Jason Defillippo: We've talked about facial recognition so many times in this show it seems like we're beating a a pulverized horse, but this one got me excited just from the title alone - "Activists Turn Facial Recognition Tools Against the Police." I'm like, yes. Go get them. Go get them.
Jason Defillippo: And in reading the article, it turns out it they're not really yet. It's kind of a side project for one guy up in Seattle, so it hasn't been really released into the wild. But, you know, turnabout's fair play, I think.
Dave Bittner: Yeah. Do you - you know, this is - I guess this is something I have to - I'll ask Ben about when I talk to him. Is it against the law to out a police officer who's undercover?
Jason Defillippo: Undercover is a little different from what they're trying to do, though, right? That's a different thing. These guys are just putting their - putting black tape over their name badges, and they're in public doing police work. This is not like...
Dave Bittner: Yeah.
Jason Defillippo: ...You don't know they're police.
Jason Defillippo: Undercover is like, you know, yeah, you don't want Huggy Bear getting wise to, you know, Joe Law over there.
Dave Bittner: So, Ben, what is your take on this?
Ben Yelin: So I would say for the proximate issue, which is can people be held criminally liable for using this facial recognition to identify police officers, I think the answer is no. These officers are in public. They are in uniform. They are not undercover, and they generally should be showing their badges at all time, depending on what their individual department's policy is. So in that sense, no, there is nothing illegal about using this facial recognition software. This is just a way to augment good old-fashioned facial recognition, which is standing in a crowd and seeing the officers for oneself.
Ben Yelin: It gets a little bit more complicated when we're talking about outing an undercover law enforcement officer. And in that sense, it varies by jurisdiction. In federal law, you can be charged with obstruction of justice if you knowingly expose an undercover federal investigator. And, you know, that's - that can be a pretty serious charge. You could be, depending on the case, potentially looking at jail time. And states - I think states vary on whether there is any punishment for uncovering undercover police officers. In some states, you can be charged with being an accessory to a crime, especially if violence will befall that undercover officer. In some states, there really are no criminal or civil penalties for that type of action. So that would be my stab at answering that question.
Dave Bittner: Now, that's interesting because it makes me wonder, is it possible to inadvertently out someone who's undercover, right? You're just running facial recognition on everybody walking by, and an undercover police officer walks by. And it pops up and says, oh, Bob Jones from 123 Main Street, you know?
Ben Yelin: Right. I thought I recognized that name from my police officer files or whatever. Yeah.
Dave Bittner: Right. Right. Yeah, exactly. I - that's - I mean, I suppose it hasn't come up yet, but it's an interesting thing to ponder - I suppose a potential peril there, right?
Ben Yelin: Yeah, it absolutely is. Another thing I should mention here is there are First Amendment interests at stake. So generally, a person will have more protection if there's some sort of public purpose for revealing the existence of an undercover officer. So if it was part of, like, a media expose, you run into some pretty significant First Amendment issues about freedom of the press and freedom of speech. But if you start identifying more personal or private information about them, then you lose that sort of First Amendment protection.
Ben Yelin: But, you know, that's just another thing to keep in mind when we're talking about this issue.
Dave Bittner: Yeah - interesting, interesting. All right, well, you can hear the whole conversation over at the "Grumpy Old Geeks" podcast. And if you tune into certain episodes, you might even hear Ben over there. You've been a guest on that show as well, right?
Ben Yelin: I have. It's me unfiltered. I can, on that podcast, use all types of dirty words that I spare from you, our loyal listeners.
Dave Bittner: (Laughter) Right. Right. Right. All right. Well, thanks to Jason from "Grumpy Old Geeks" for taking part in our show this week. We would love to hear from you. Our call in number is 410-618-3720. You can also email us. It's caveat@thecyberwire.com.
Dave Bittner: Ben, I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Curtis Simpson. He is the chief information security officer at a company called Armis. And our conversation focused on some recent IoT legislative updates and Curtis' thoughts on that. Here's my conversation with Curtis Simpson.
Curtis Simpson: I spend a lot of time talking to customers about this overall scenario. But the ratio of devices within our environments has changed, and that's a term I commonly use because it's true, and it applies both to enterprise as well as consumer environments. Even if you look at our homes - right? - we used to have a bunch of benign devices like light switches and things in our houses that have now gone digital, alongside all of the other things that we've commonly used for a while, like laptops and tablets and such like that.
Curtis Simpson: Well, then you go into the enterprise landscape, including public and private sectors, and you get into a whole more complex, sophisticated scenario where, in the environment that I came from, as an example, at Sysco Foods - really, how you could describe that environment was an IT environment and an OT and ICS environment that were totally separate from one another. Well, about four years ago or so, you started to see holes punched into that OT and ICS environment, and more specifically, you started to see IoT sensors and additional IoT capabilities introduced into that landscape to help reduce costs, avoid downtime through predictive maintenance capabilities and things like that, even to the point where we had one facility that was almost entirely automated, similar to an Amazon warehouse.
Curtis Simpson: So we've gone from a position where we run our businesses and even just connect it to the internet at home using traditional PCs and tablets, mobile devices, to the point now where we've got all these interconnected devices that, in many cases, we don't know a lot about. And then there's another really important element to all of this - it's the manufacturing side of this scenario that I'm speaking to. So for a long time - decades now - as long as we've been using these technologies, it's not about an outcome versus security because it's - we're talking about multiuse platforms, like a PC or a server or even a tablet or a mobile device. They're used for many different purposes, for many different outcomes. And therefore you've got to have some security abilities that apply to those things, et cetera.
Curtis Simpson: Well, the market's been demanding rapid outcomes on the IoT side, and the manufacturers have rose up to that, so much so that there's large and many small manufacturers that have been able to join the market with little more than a capability to understand the components that are out there, how to stitch them together and then sell an outcome.
Curtis Simpson: So you're very much seeing us run the gamut of a lack of understanding about these new devices that sit in our environments, how many of them are - what are they doing? Are they compromised? Was the supply chain compromised from the beginning? All the way to the fact that we're now seeing these types of devices that may be not even built responsibly, built with security in mind, built with even a technical understanding in general, that can't be patched, that are being actively attacked by bad actors - and that's some of the more recent news. But this is really what's leading up to this right now. It's pretty broad. It's pretty multifaceted. But the gist of it is these things are everywhere. They're connected to everything. We don't understand them well. And in some cases, even manufacturers don't really understand what they're selling to the public in terms of risk.
Dave Bittner: Can you give us an example? I mean, is there some category of device that, in your mind, is kind of the poster child for this issue?
Curtis Simpson: It's many - so even, as you note, some of the more recent cybersecurity or IoT-based regulations and legislation - one of the things you - that they're noting very specifically as one of the main concerns is around these smaller manufacturers. So an example is sensors. Many of the IoT-based sensors - whether it's a temperature sensor or some sort of sensor to look for a specific situation, like humidity, or a specific point of failure - those sensors are usually built very simply without necessarily a lot of - the need for a lot of experience in building these devices. You can buy the software straight from the market, buy the components from the market and quickly put them together to sell one of these sensors to an enterprise.
Curtis Simpson: And as you look at things like that, you can even consider other examples as you think about scenarios in the home where, even when you do have IoT devices that may be able to be updated - like, you may be able to get an update for that switch that sits in your wall - would you have any concept of how to actually apply those updates or consider what risks there may be facing your home? And as you think about even some of these - well, actually, one of the more interesting examples I can give you is in terms of one of the recent vulnerabilities dubbed Ripple20, which affected many different forms of devices, ranging from printers to network devices to devices used in health care and manufacturing use cases. One of the interesting things that we found is, once it was disclosed, we started doing our research and using our product to discover other devices that might be impacted, and we found a number of them.
Curtis Simpson: One of the interesting conversations that came out of that is there was a relatively known manufacturer that was actually unclear on the fact that they had this vulnerable software running on their device. And it was because there had been someone within the organization that had made that specific purchase, solved that specific problem, helped them deliver on that specific feature, but there wasn't necessarily the documentation or understanding that that thing was there until someone else was able to point them to it. So in some ways, it is the Wild West in terms of how these devices are being secured, what security capabilities are there or even who's building them and what their capabilities are in understanding of how to secure those devices or even respond to someone telling them that they're not secure.
Dave Bittner: Now, that's fascinating. I mean, I - you know, I think about - something that comes to mind for me that I find useful is thinking about, you know, those old security cameras that are sitting up on the wall or on the corner of a building somewhere. And maybe they've been sitting there for 10 years, and they've been doing all the things that they need to do. They've been functioning fine as reliable security cameras. But perhaps they are full of vulnerabilities. Perhaps they've been taken over by a botnet. And they're still doing all their security camera stuff, but who knows what's in there? You know, I wonder, as we move forward, does there need to be some sort of IoT abatement system, you know, similar to how we pull asbestos out of old buildings? Do people need to take stock and say, listen - you know, before we had - before we settled on what security standards were going to be, we made a lot of mistakes, and you can't just leave those things sitting up there on that wall.
Curtis Simpson: Yeah. No, and it's a very good analogy and it's a very real one. We're actually seeing - and there's - it's complex to some extent, of course, because one of the challenges we do see is that - you take an OT and ITS environment as an example. A lot of the devices in that environment were built to be used for a decade or longer. But to your point, they weren't targeted by bad actors in the past. They weren't even being targeted by researchers. They weren't seen as an attack surface. Now they very much are - largest attack surface I've seen through my career. And now, though, there's this concern in that - wait a second. We can't just replace all these things because they are the lifeblood of this service, this organization, this energy company - whatever that is.
Curtis Simpson: So it's going to be a multifaceted effort. I do think a part of it is exactly what you said. And one of the reasons I do say that is because what's been interesting to me is the response to Section 889 more recently - banning a number of specific foreign manufacturers and their devices from environments that are used to service government clients. That's had one of the largest impacts on that conversation that I've seen. And remember - there's an element of this that we've actually been talking about for a while. We've been talking about how dangerous these Hikvision cameras are or Hikvision cameras are, the risks that you're exposed to with those cameras in your environment, so - there's nation-state associations with these devices. We've long talked about them. But many different companies and enterprises have not looked at that as a significant risk until it started having implications on revenue and customer bases.
Curtis Simpson: Right now you're seeing a very different conversation because it's not just a risk anymore; it's a risk to the business. And as we continue to look at these challenges, I do think we - and we look at regulations and legislation around these things - I think we do have to think about how we got here, what we're facing. And I think it's going to be a combination of what you said - we've got to have these regulations that guide us, that are going to have to have some sort of deadlines as to what we need to do and how we need to do it. And it's not just about government acting; it's about all of us acting. And it does start with the manufacturers themselves and the capabilities built into that. And then it ripples into our organizations in terms of how we're consuming those devices and how we're applying due diligence to actually understanding if these things are acting the way they shouldn't be, et cetera.
Dave Bittner: Is there a possibility that other elements of the ecosystem could have an effect on this? I'm thinking of specifically insurance companies. You know, is it possible that they could come to the organizations and say, listen - if you want us to cover you or if you want this really nice discount on your insurance, your IoT devices need to meet these standards?
Curtis Simpson: Absolutely. And I do think what we're facing are a whole number of things coming to an ultimate conclusion in the center. And I think there's - exactly what you said. I think that is an absolute opportunity. And there's also a flip side of that that's going to have an impact. As I think about what the NSA and CISA have recently advised in regards to this OT and ICS attack surface - it being massive, a perfect storm that you need to build a program around now - the other side of this is - imagine you have some of the most informed intelligence agencies telling you to act immediately and you don't. And three or four years from now, you encounter this issue that ultimately comes back to the fact that you've had this massive outage. There's potentially been loss of life. It relates back to - there's been no program built around your OT and ICS environments.
Curtis Simpson: The other side of that is companies may very well be at risk of being unable to receive any sort of payout from the insurance companies. Those claims will be rejected. And I do envision that we will come closer and closer to that because what you're seeing is this culmination of - we need to do more. Let's start getting those regulations in place so we can start forcing more. And I think we're going to continue to learn from this, and I think what we're also going to see is - you've seen this story more recently talking about how CEOs and leaders may be held accountable in as little as four or so years from now for loss-of-life events in their organizations. This is where I say all of these things are coming together and that there's an elevated level of responsibility being talked about from a number of different perspectives. And I do think we have the opportunity to influence it both positively, and I think it's also going to be influenced negatively as events continue to occur.
Dave Bittner: What are your recommendations for organizations who want to try to get ahead of this? You know, what - where do they begin?
Curtis Simpson: So I think a good first point and one of the things I often advise folks is don't rely on the regulations to require you to build a program - just start building a program. One of the really important things to understand here is that, one, the technologies exist out there to actually assess these devices, understand the risks associated with these devices, build strategies around managing the risk in terms of those potential impacts and implications to business.
Curtis Simpson: One of the things, as an example, we help a number of manufacturers with is actually implementing our product and solution in a - in their manufacturing environment such that they can assess all of those components throughout that build process and have a greater level of confidence that they're using an external source of information that understands how to break an IoT device into all of its individual components, assess it for risk, provide you with the readout, and then you're building these more secure capabilities into those devices.
Curtis Simpson: But as we think about this as enterprises, I think what's most important - particularly as we think from a risk leadership perspective, from a CISO standpoint - is we've got to go back to what's most important about our roles, which is protecting what's most important to our businesses. And I think it is important for us to remember that ratio of devices has changed. And we need to take a step back, look at our most critical solutions and services that we use to deliver all those capabilities back to our customers, our partners, etc. - what are the attacks and through which devices and the exploitation of what vulnerabilities can these bad things happen? And I think, if we're looking at that with due diligence or the appropriate level of diligence now - starting to build a program around it, being responsible around it - my advice would be - it's been the same as it's always been in cyber, which is if we're doing that, we're ultimately working towards compliance, regardless.
Curtis Simpson: And as these regulations ebb and flow, which they will - because these are good-start regulations for the most part, as opposed to some sort of end result - we will have already been working towards a place where we've built that ecosystem to be able to achieve compliance because what I also see this burgeoning towards is that there's going to be a mandate at some point in time around some of the things we're talking about today - can't use these unsecured devices or devices that haven't been assessed, must have a program around managing OT and ICS security - doing that overnight is almost impossible. And if we get into a situation where retaining business or gaining business with the government or otherwise is hinging upon that, it's in our best interest now to start looking at risk from the perspective that I just mentioned.
Curtis Simpson: One of the things that is really important as we consider regulations and as we consider this risk - it's not about breaking the risk down between government or public and private sector and consumer; it's about looking at the device, right? Because these devices are now everywhere. And, yeah, the risk within government can be extreme, obviously, depending on that government's overall mandate and scope of responsibilities, et cetera. But the reality is this - if we look at 2020 and what we're facing is not only are we seeing much of our work forces have gone remote; we're seeing many companies say that many of these workforces will remain remote or a larger subset will. As we say those things, it's also important for us to remember that we're telling bad actors that as well.
Curtis Simpson: And as we think about this larger risk and even some of the warnings that have come from FBI over the last year or so around televisions being compromised in homes and such - a lot of these botnets that are being formed by APT28 or otherwise are actually being formed of the devices that we all have, including the ones we have in our homes. If we continue to almost disregard the consumer element of this in terms of how we're protecting the citizens from these attacks, that also has a very significant ripple effect into public and private sector because we all go home, and right now we're all going home to devices that don't really have a lot of mandates, regulations, requirements. They're just being sold to do something, and people are buying them because they're the right price or whatever else. That's what we're running towards if we don't consider the risk scenario as all-encompassing versus starting to slice it into different channels of users and companies in it.
Curtis Simpson: The definition of what devices could have an enterprise impact now and where they must sit and who is purchasing them and how they're being used has gotten very blurry as a result of 2020 in particular.
Dave Bittner: All right, Ben. What do you think?
Ben Yelin: So another really interesting conversation. I think what's informative about what he said is that organizations have to be forward-looking and anticipate their liability risks in advance. So it's not good enough to understand the regulatory environment as it exists right now. You have to have somebody, whether it's your CISO or somebody else on staff, who can anticipate where the regulatory world is going because you could get to a situation where you're using a type of technology or IoT that runs afoul of new government regulations or new state policies. So I think that's just a very important and prudent lesson for people who are in the industry.
Dave Bittner: Yeah. Yeah. So I think it really speaks to that whole notion of being proactive rather than being reactive.
Ben Yelin: Yeah, and having a full understanding of your risks. That's what risk analysis is all about. It's not just about what your risks are now. It's, yeah, being forward-looking and proactive to try and figure out what your legal risks will be in the future.
Dave Bittner: Yeah. All right. Well, our thanks to Curtis Simpson for joining us. We do appreciate him taking the time.
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Numerous entrepreneurs battle with settling on the most proficient method to settle on the correct decision for designing their website. They scan the web for help with their website and find that the decision is harder than they thought. As of now there are actually a great many websites who guarantee to be proficient web designers. Be that as it may, one must be watchful in picking the ideal individual or individuals in which to believe their organization picture. In this article, I will endeavor to arrange web designers into reasonable gatherings, and show the peruser the distinction between the sorts. Web designers fall into four general classifications independent beginner, independent expert, Web Design Company, Web Development Firm.
The lion is share of web designers you will go over, particularly looking through the Internet, are specialists. That is, people who do web design yet are not utilized by a web design organization. Some are independently employed experts yet the greater part of these specialists is novice specialist types. They discover a duplicate of FrontPage™ accompanied their MS Office™ Suite. They found how fun it could be to make web pages so they began telling their companions that they could design web pages.
The masters of utilizing a novice are that they are exceptionally modest. The cons are excessively various, making it impossible to make reference to, yet I will call attention to a couple. They have no preparation they have little information of what makes a decent website work they do not comprehend HTML code or CSS however just FrontPage point and snap they do not comprehend general design and format ideas and they have minimal genuine website design . The most compelling motivation they ought to be maintained a strategic distance from for the genuine representative, is that their work looks awkward, which makes your organization look crude.
An expert is frequently characterized by basically being paid. Individuals surmise that on the off chance that you are paid for something, you are proficient. Perhaps that is valid in the Olympics, however for the business administration is world, you are not an expert until the point when you are set up and regarded as one by your customers and companions. Consultant proficient web designers are a monster jump from the beginner in that they have set up an arrangement of good work. They have a type of qualified preparing and experience and they have accreditations that can be checked by reaching references. They have a decent notoriety with their customers and different experts. All in all, a great independent expert web designer can be great individual to have doing your webpage. Be that as it may, they are difficult to recognize from the novice when you are simply looking through the web. The upside is, on the off chance that you locate a decent one they are altogether less expensive than a web design organization. In any case, that is generally the main upside.


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Brian James O'Connell is a working actor, writer, director, filmmaker and teacher in Los Angeles.
He currently teaches as part of the Core Improv Faculty at The Pack Theater and the Digital Program at The Pack Theater, of which he is also the Founder.
Brian is the Creator and Executive Producer of WPCK, the Executive Producer of The Deconstruction, Creator and Executive Producer of Big Yellow Taxi, the Executive Producer and Founder of Long Hard Tuesdays, the Executive Producer and Founder of The Lady Invitational and Executive Producer of Genre Night! at The Pack Theater.
Brian is a graduate of the prestigious North Carolina School of the Arts (David Gordon Green, Danny McBride, Jody Hill, Anthony Mackie, Peter Hedges, Mary-Louise Parker, Dane DeHaan, Terrence Mann, Chris Parnell, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Jeff Nichols) and moved to Los Angeles in 2000 to follow his dreams of a career in filmmaking.
BOC (as his friends call him) is part of the comedy collective Dr. God, who recently completed their first feature film project BLOODSUCKING BASTARDS, starring Fran Kranz, Pedro Pascal, Joey Kern, Joel Murray, and Emma Fitzpatrick, which O'Connell directed (his third feature as a director) as well as co-writing the script with Dr. God. The film was the Opening Night Premiere at Slamdance in 2015 and is available now on DVD and On-Demand after it's theatrical run.
A regular performer, coach and teacher in Los Angeles, Brian derives most of his approach to improv from The Deconstruction, the form created by iO's legendary team, The Family (Miles Stroth, Neil Flynn, Ian Roberts, Matt Besser, Adam McKay, Ali Faranahkian.).
With his internationally touring improv duo Billyhawk and iOWest's legendary improv group Dr. God, Brian has performed and taught in festivals in Denver, Phoenix, Toronto, Philadelphia, Austin, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chapel Hill, NC. Well-respected as one of Los Angeles' premier improvisers, Brian is famous for his encyclopedic knowledge of minutiae and his insane recall ability and memory.
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[adj] to your own liking or feelings or nature; "Is the plan agreeable to you?"; "he's an agreeable fellow"; "My idea of an agreeable person...is a person who agrees with me"- Disraeli; "an agreeable manner"
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Ten Best Atlanta Falcons Draft Picks: Jamal Anderson
By Dave Choate Updated Apr 19, 2011, 10:00pm EDT
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In this series of sponsored posts, we'll be looking at the ten worst and ten best Atlanta Falcons draft picks of all time. Let's move on to the best. Today's choice is former running back Jamal Anderson.
You can make a reasonable argument that Jamal Anderson was not the running back that William Andrews was. I'll accept that. Either way, Anderson was still a damn good one, and the Falcons got him for what could be charitably described as a song.
Drafted with the ninth pick in the seventh round out of Utah, Anderson didn't immediately impress. The first two seasons he got very limited snaps, but he busted out in 1996 at age 24, putting up 1,055 yards, five touchdowns and a 4.5 yards per carry average on 232 carries.
The 410 carries he endured in the magical 1998 Super Bowl season—which resulted in a crazy 1,846 yards and 14 touchdowns—helped birth the legend of the curse of 400. A serious injury in 1999 cost him nearly the entire season, and he had one more good year in 2000 before hanging it up after the 2001 season. Had he stayed healthy, it's reasonable to argue that Anderson would've flirted with 10,000 yards for his career. Alas.
The workhorse back still came away with 5,336 yards and 34 touchdowns for his career, with an average of 4.0 yards per carry. He was also one of the few Falcons who didn't embarrass himself in the 1998 Super Bowl, piling up 96 yards. When you consider that he was a seventh round pick, he was one of the most tremendous draft day selections the Falcons have ever had. Which is sort of the point of this list, in case you had forgotten.
Oh, and he was one of the primary practitioners of the Dirty Bird. That's worth a few points.
Man, it's hard not to come away depressed by how many Falcons running back has their careers shortened by injuries, isn't it? Feel free to debate Anderson's #6 slot on this list, and check out our sponsored message after the jump.
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Alan Astro has compiled the first anthology of Latin American Yiddish writings translated into English. Included are works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay, and Cuba, with one brief memoir by a Russian rabbi who arrived in San Antonio, Texas, in 1910. Literature has always served as a refuge for Yiddish speakers, and the Yiddish literature of Latin America reflects the writers' assertions of their political rights. Stories depicting working-class life in Buenos Aires are reminiscent of the work of New York writers like Abraham Cahan (founder ofJewish Daily Forward) or Henry Roth (author ofCall It Sleep).
Yiddish South of the Border features a fascinating assortment of peddlers and moneylenders. The central figure in "Jésus," by Pinkhes Berniker, is a rabbi in Cuba who makes a fortune selling Catholic icons because his beard reminds the peasants of Jesus. Other stories involve a peddler selling goods on the installment plan and Jewish involvement in money lending and prostitution. A large number of Jews in Latin America established agricultural colonies, the best known of which was a project known as the Jewish Colonization Association (JCA) developed by the Argentine Jewish railroad millionaire, Baron de Hirsch. The JCA facilitated mass emigration of Jews from Russia to agricultural colonies in Argentina. Finally, themes of identity permeate this literature. In Latin America, Ashkenazic immigrants, Jews from France, Germany, and Eastern Europe, explore their possible links to the Crypto Jews who came to the New World to escape the Inquisition.
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The Quarantine Chronicles
Ben Albert, Athletics Editor
In March 2020, our lives as we know it changed forever. With the COVID-19 pandemic having spread across the globe and into the United States, we were forced to go into quarantine. All of sudden, we were required to stay home at all times and only leave the house if it was absolutely necessary. Schools, businesses, and travel around the world were shut down indefinitely. With uncertainty surrounding us, nowhere to go, and only the items in our home to entertain ourselves, that raises the question: What did people do to survive quarantine in West Orange and around the world?
One of the biggest quarantine phenomena was the true crime documentary, Tiger King, that was released on Netflix in the early days of quarantine. The film explored the interesting lives of big cat conservationists in the United States. Its wild story and colorful personalities, such as Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin, took the world by storm. It was a quarantine must-watch and was viewed by 34.3 million people over its first ten days, according to Nielsen ratings.
Screen time during quarantine did not stop with just movies. Video games were also a popular way people passed the time. Games like Animal Crossing, Pokemon: Sword and Shield, and Call of Duty allowed people to have fun and enjoy themselves while staying in touch with friends that they could not see in person.
In addition to screens, most West Orange students spent time during quarantine on their hobbies and interests. West Orange High school senior Kofi Opoku discussed how his hobbies kept him going during this difficult time.
"I used this opportunity to further my hobbies," Opoku explained, "I spent most of my time playing guitar, playing soccer, and reading."
With less things to do out of the house, it became a lot more difficult to go out and stay active. As a result, people went on hikes, bike rides, and walks in an attempt to keep in shape, get exercise, and just have an excuse to get out of the house. WOHS senior Ruben Torres discussed what he did to get out of the house during quarantine.
"During the day, I would try to ride my bike, throw a football or kick a soccer ball with my younger brother so we can stay healthy and get some physical activity." Torres said.
Overall, people mostly tried to make the most of this less than ideal situation. It was a new and challenging experience, and people wanted to get the most that they could out of it. Torres also discussed how he used quarantine to become a better person.
"I took advantage of the free time I had to grow as a person and tried to take advantage over the whole situation." Torres explained.
Altogether, it is clear the quarantine forced a lot of us to adapt our everyday lives and change how we do things. But in some ways, it ended up making us better people in some way.
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The news this week of the high-altitude dispute between elite European climbers and Sherpa employees of climbing expeditions highlights the differing expectations and world views when they are in juxtaposition on a steep and icy mountainside.
With modern mountaineering, the term 'sherpa' has come to mean Himalayan men working on expeditions in the Himalaya. But the capital 'S' Sherpas are an ethnic people whose culture is steeped in philosophical and practical traditions that helped them survive in scattered high mountain hamlets.
From the Sherpa perspective, mountaineering is a risky livelihood to fill the family coffers. In some villages, nearly every family has lost someone on an expedition. Still, mountaineering attracts numerous young men and a few women for the income and, occasionally, for the fame.
While helping others achieve their dreams, sherpas working in the icefall or to place fixed lines take this responsibility very seriously. A key issue seems to be that the Sherpas are working to fix lines for the general safety of all on the mountain, while these Europeans are pushing for their very individual goals. These are different cultural mindsets.
In Sherpa villages, traditional community norms and rules regulate everything from the collection of fuel wood and leaf-litter, to the movement of the yak herds, to the performance of cultural rituals and festivals.
Sherpas, especially in the villages, are brought up to respect these norms and rules, called "Dhi," which aims to protect crops, forests, and community rituals for the common welfare of the settlement. The Dhi are vital for survival in the harsh high-altitude environment.
In a way, the verbal agreement among the expeditions that no one would climb on the face while the Sherpas were fixing the lines is like a Dhi, proclaimed for the common good. Although no one seems to have been able to interview the Sherpas involved yet since they are busy fixing lines, it would seem that they expected the climbers would abide by terms that they might perceive as unbreakable Dhi.
The Sherpas may be conformists in this regard, but it prepared them for the rigours of cross-Himalayan trade, agriculture on the edge of the inhabitable, and mountaineering expeditions. When confronted with the European sense of individual achievement, were the actions of the three climbers an affront on the Sherpa sense of community and responsibility for the common good?
Frances Klatzel is the author of Gaiety of Spirit: the Sherpas of Everest.


What a waste! – Ann Dunnewold, Ph.D.
So true Ann, but it comes with experience and wisdom!
I tell my daughter that if her year here does nothing more than convince her that performing is not the life for her, then it was worth the time and money to find out.
Imagine all those years of "what if's" and "if only I'd's"!
Once again, "words of wisdom", from you, mean so much. The best part of my "listening" to your words in this message: "hearing your voice, as you write". Yes, after many years of not hearing your inciteful messages, YOU have the gift of "making your voice come through, while reading your message. So much appreciated. Keep up the great work, Dr. Ann!


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"Take a look to your left," said the Hon. Philip Journey. "Now take a look to your right. What do you see?"
It was Saturday morning inside a hotel ballroom at Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport. We, the several hundred congregants of the twenty-eighth annual Guns Rights Policy Conference, did as instructed. Looking to my left, I saw the pundit and National Review columnist John Fund struggling to attach a new credit card reader to his smart phone. Looking to my right, I exchanged nods with an older gentleman wearing suspenders and a VFW hat. He looked like he could have served in the Navy with the airport's nearly nonagenarian namesake.
"You'll notice there's a lot of grey in this room," said Judge Journey, who when not sitting on a Kansas district court bench serves as an officer for the Kansas State Rifle Association. "That's the problem with our movement. We've got to get children into the shooting sports and develop an appreciation by them in the right to keep and bear arms. Because in 20 years, where will we be?"
This question -- "In 20 years, where will we be?" -- is one of gnawing urgency for the gun-rights movement. At the National Rifle Association convention last summer, I heard gun industry veterans joke that NRA now stood for "Normal Retirement Age." At this smaller but no less influential meeting of leading pro-gun minds, most speakers circled back to their fear that those in the room represented the end of a proud line. Even as the movement's leading activists boasted of recent victories at the federal and state level -- and there are many, from successful recall elections in Colorado to a carry law in Illinois -- they warned of a deadly demographic drop-off, that the energy and the youth was all in the gun-reform corner. "The people on the other side, like [the Stimson Center's] Rachel Stohl, they are very young and they are motivated," said Julianne Versnel, of the International Association for the Protection of Civilian Arms Rights. "They know how to Tweet and Facebook, and they are doing a very good job."
If only winning the battle for young hearts and minds was as simple as opening a Twitter account. Like the GOP it overwhelming supports, the pro-gun movement does not sound like a modern army positioned to win a culture war for the allegiance of young Americans. Beverly Zaslow, a protégé of Andrew Breitbart who produces right-wing documentaries, used to the GRPC podium to slam the television program Glee for not having "normal kinds of relationships in it." Another speaker advised the pro-gun movement to "accept the gays, if they're with us." This kind of outreach is unlikely to draw the required levels of new blood needed to replace the men in suspenders and VFW hats. The severity of the crisis was put most bluntly by Andrew Sypien, content manager for the online retail gun giant CheaperThanDirt.com. "It's the 25 to 35 year-olds who are going to replace you in ten years," he said. "If you don't get them, it's going to die here with you."
The "it" here refers to a Second Amendment absolutism that rejects as unconstitutional restrictions on the right of Americans to buy, sell, transport, and carry firearms as they see fit. For the last 30 years, no single figure has done more to advance this vision of an Armed America than the diminutive, bow-tied organizer behind the Gun Rights Policy Conference. Though few Americans have ever heard of Alan Gottlieb, we live in a country he helped create.
Gottlieb began his crusade in 1974, when he founded two non-profits dedicated to the defense and expansion of gun rights: the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and the Second Amendment Foundation. Both pushed an agenda to the right of any gun group in the country. This included the NRA, which was then a more centrist organization focused on gun safety, hunting, and marksmanship. From this twin institutional base, Gottlieb crafted and executed public relations campaigns and lawsuits that anticipated Wayne LaPierre's NRA by decades. Central to his plan was developing a legal brain trust to advance the pro-gun agenda in the courts.
Today, the SAF's legal team is led by Alan Gura, the principal litigator in the landmark Supreme Court decisions D.C. v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago, which declared the individual right to gun ownership for self-defense as a Constitutional right, and one applicable to the states. The state-level suits filed by SAF-affiliated lawyers are too numerous to list. Over the years they have significantly impacted gun law across the country. This success has engendered condescension among SAF strategists when it comes to their bigger, better-known, better-funded ally, the NRA. "The Second Amendment Foundation is the nation's leading gun rights litigation team," said Gura in Houston. "There's nothing wrong with lobbying and get-out-the-vote work. But this group is not just about filling your mailbox, or rabble rousing on the Internet, or sending you trinkets."
As Gottlieb grew his fortune and influence in the 1980s, the NRA appeared in his rearview driving a similar politics. But his two non-profits remain laboratories for the larger pro-gun movement, and Gottlieb's inner-circle still sets the pace. He once told a Seattle newspaper, "I'm kind of the gun lobby's lobby. I prod them a whole lot. What happens is that things get innovated here and the NRA is then forced to copy it. A good example is the whole woman [sic] and guns issue. Other examples could be making the gun movement more of a civil-rights type thing."
It's worth noting that Korwin is considered the Frank Luntz of the pro-gun movement. Lauded by multiple speakers, he is the author of a "politically corrected" gun glossary designed to focus the gun debate around a language of rights. This lexicon, he believes, is key in wooing America's growing Latino population, which he sees holding the line against the gun-reform youth edge. "Some form of amnesty is coming," said Korwin, "and when they become citizens, they get the Second Amendment. That's 20 million people able to buy a gun and go to a range. They're slaves in Mexico. They're gonna come here and find out what freedom is about and come over to our side."
First someone needs to "get them to the range." Undergirding the strategy expressed at GRPC is the belief that people can be recruited into the gun lobby by the simple act of placing some steel in their hands. Faith in the transformative power of shooting found its most enthusiastic promoter in Charles Heller of Jews for the Preservation of Firearm Ownership, a group that has been criticized by the Anti-Defamation League for linking stronger gun laws to anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. It all starts with the proper gateway gun. "If you can at least get them to own a .22," said Heller. "Going from zero to one gun is the biggest change. Going from one to 34 is not a big deal. If we could just get them to a Ruger Mark II, or a Browning Buck Mark, or a Smith & Wesson 422, it would be a tremendous leap forward. It would be the footprint on the moon. That's what it would be."
While driving new recruits to the munitions moon, Heller told the audience they should feel free to describe anti-gun Jews as "bagel brains," a phrase coined by his organization's rabbinic director. "When you quote Rabbi [Dovid] Bendory," said Heller, "you aren't being anti-Semitic, you are being a reporter, reporting it as fact."
Inside the pro-gun movement, there is no bigger "bagel brain" than Michael Bloomberg. Angst and anger over Bloomberg's financial commitments to gun reform causes bubbled up repeatedly, described as a threat on par with the natural aging process. The weekend featured a panel titled, "Bloomberg: The $500 Billion Anti-Gun Gorilla," but it could have been the name of the entire conference. Bloomberg's shadow darkened each speaker's outlook, beginning with Gottlieb, who described Bloomberg's support for state ballot-measures as "the biggest short-term threat to the movement." Several speakers expressed something close to terror over their belief that the mogul-mayor's most recent donation to the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health that bears his name was made to fund 40 full-time gun-policy researchers. While a $350 million dollar gift was announced in January, a spokesperson for the School says the money was not targeted to gun policy research, but rather to "cross-disciplinary work across the university to galvanize people and resources around a set of complex global challenges."
This is made clear by the press release announcing the donation, which also explains that $100 million of the funds will be used for need-based financial aid. These facts did nothing to temper the conspiracies. "Johns Hopkins has always been a center of anti-gun thinking, but this [development] is extraordinarily serious," said the gun lawyer Mark Barnes. "We're going to have to get behind young people who can counter this over time."
The pro-gun movement's leading lawyer described 2014 as a potential watershed year for gun politics at the federal level. Alan Gura ran down three cases related to concealed carry that he believes have a chance of making it to the Supreme Court. Which one the Court decides to take up doesn't matter; the particular decision is less important than the court agreeing that the Second Amendment protects carrying guns outside the home. Also consequential for a range of gun law fights is the legal language of the decision. Specifically, Gura will argue against the legal standard by which most courts decide Second Amendment law.
Some courts have decided that the permissibility of gun regulations is determined based on the principle of "intermediate scrutiny," meaning that gun regulations must be proved to be "substantially related to an important governmental interest," such as public health, safety, and order. Gura seeks to replace the "intermediate scrutiny" standard with the much higher test of "strict scrutiny." The "strict scrutiny" standard requires laws to be "narrowly tailored to achieve [a compelling government] interest and it must be the least restrictive means of doing so," said Kelly Ward, a lawyer who works on gun-policy issues. Because of this language and the standard it sets, it is considered a graveyard for regulatory laws. Legal experts say success by Gura would endanger state and municipal-level permitting systems and other laws across the country.
"We have three petitions before the Court, but we need only argue one of these to correct 'intermediate scrutiny' approach," Gura said in Houston. "Heller and McDonald suggest they will take future petitions, but should they refuse all of them, then Heller and McDonald don't matter a lot. They are important only if shown to change the way Supreme Court deals with Second Amendment. Next year may be the most consequential since 2008."
At the street level, Gottlieb's groups are busy planning a nationwide action on the anniversary of the Newtown massacre. Emboldened by polls suggesting a sagging in public support for gun reform, Gottlieb is confident he can win the battle for hearts and minds by planting a flag in the memory of Sandy Hook. The SAF is organizing a "Guns Save Lives" day that they hope will include protests and meet-ups in 50 states. "We are not going to let the gun prohibition lobby own December 14," said Gottlieb. "We will out-organize the other side and show America that there is a good side to guns."
Their plan for December 14 shows that Gottlieb's groups can be as delusional and tone-deaf when it comes to public opinion as the NRA. But the yearly GRPC is also home to admissions you would never hear at the NRA's main-event annual gun-show and GOP primary pre-run. This begins with the simple admission that Barack Obama has failed to advance the gun-reform agenda. SAF president Joseph Tartaro gloated over the nonexistence of the gun-grabbing Satan that stars in so many NRA fundraising letters. "He's more of a talker than a doer," Tartaro said.
The weekend's discussion of the global Arms Trade Treaty likewise began with a rare gun-culture admission of reality. Allen Youngman, of the Defense Small Arms Advisory Council, criticized unnamed pro-gun groups who fundraised off a false caricature of the ATT. "The ATT is not a direct assault on the Second Amendment in its present text," said Youngman. "The U.S. delegation did a superb job in keeping the bad stuff out. There's no gun registration. It's just not in there."
But these moments of reasoned clarity tended to be short-lived, giving way to NRA-style hyperbole. Obama has proven a paper tiger, but just wait 'til Andrew Cuomo is in the White House. The ATT is not a threat as written, but the Senate must never sign it and we must always remain ever vigilant. And just like inside the NRA, the ahistorical superlatives rain down like water. One speaker called New York's SAFE Act "the most unworkable law since Prohibition." Gottlieb could have been reading from a Wayne LaPierre speech when he said, "The most important midterm election in our lifetime is just a year away. Losing our freedoms is always just one election away."
Another similarity is the presence of the pro-gun movement's silent partner: the gun-and-ammo industry. At last year's NRA convention, CheaperThanDirt.com donated $500,000 to the group's lobbying arm. At the GRPC, the company was a diamond level sponsor at $100,000. This put the company's name on a banner alongside the logo of handgun maker Glock. It also shielded the company from public criticism. During a panel on "Advancing Gun Rights in the New Media," an attendee asked a CheaperThanDirt executive about the company's decision to treble prices on certain items on the night of president Obama's Newtown speech. The moderator quickly jumped in and ended the line of questioning. Sly digs at the NRA are one thing. Getting into the economic interests and incentives of the gun industry, that remains a collapsible stock too far.


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France's Andam Fashion Prize Doubles Grants for Accessories, Innovation
Chloé and Lacoste will mentor this year's fashion prizes, while Hermès will tutor the accessories winner.
Dolly Cohen won last year's Andam accessories prize for custom mouth jewellery including this grill for the Mercedes-Benz x A$AP Rocky collab.
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Andam has increased its pool of available prizes to €700,000 ($737,000), the French industry consortium said as it launched the 2023 edition of its influential fashion awards.
In addition to a €300,000 grand prize and €100,000 runner-up prize for fashion designers, the organisation has doubled its awards for accessories and innovation, both now reaching €100,000. The group will also grant €100,000 to an early-stage French designer in honour of its longtime president Pierre Bergé.
Hermès managing director Guillaume de Seynes will mentor the winner of the increased accessories prize for a year, while Chloé CEO Riccardo Bellini (formerly Maison Margiela's chief) will mentor the main fashion winners. Lacoste deputy CEO Catherine Spindler chairs this year's Pierre Bergé Prize. A new board member, production company Bureau Betak, has pledged to help winners' show their collections.
Founded in 1989, Andam is funded and administered by the French culture ministry and DEFI industry association alongside an array of companies involved in fashion, ranging from French luxury groups LVMH and Kering to Italy's OTB, German e-tailer Mytheresa and tech giants Meta and Google.
Designers and start-ups from around the world are invited to apply for Andam's prizes, on the condition that winners are expected to show on the Paris Fashion Week calendar and to invest in moving part of their supply chain or operations to France.
Andam founder Nathalie Dufour said the best applicants are often designers whose vision extends beyond fashion to include a point-of-view on issues like culture, representation and diversity, sustainability or craftsmanship.
Recent winners have included designers Botter, Y/Project and Marine Serre, sustainable dyeing start-up Ever Dye, and Dolly Cohen (the Paris-based jeweller known for her custom grills). Former winners also include Anthony Vaccarello, Martin Margiela, APC, Jeremy Scott and Lemaire.
Editor's Note: This story has been modified 9th January at 12h50 B.S.T. A previous version of this article misstated the nationality of designer Dolly Cohen. Cohen is French.
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Dole Food is committed to IBM Food Trust to revamp its supply chain operations.
Hyperledger Fabric and Ethereum are moving towards interoperability via new alliance.
What do Facebook's '10-Year Challenge,' Domino's 'Points for Pies' app, and the early detection of diabetic retinopathy all have in common? They prove the difficulty in separating the peril from the promise of AI.
More importantly, however, they illuminate the need for an enforceable code of ethics that includes all ecosystem participants.
IBM Cloud Integration Platform represents more integration capabilities (MQ, Event Streams, API Connect, App Connect) and a public cloud presence.
Continued innovation in integration is critical for IBM's broader cloud strategy founded on IBM Cloud Private (ICP), which now serves as its multi-cloud management offering.
IBM released a free beta version of its blockchain platform, componentized to work with Kubernetes containers and operate in hybrid and multi-cloud environments and emphasizing a network-agnostic approach.
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It showed how at its recent analyst briefing, begging the question of whether it can remain differentiated.
Initiatives by mobile network operators illustrate the importance attributed to edge computing as an essential component for unlocking the benefits of 5G mobile networks.
However, plenty of challenges lie ahead for 5G and edge computing, including security concerns and the need to develop viable business models and use cases based on the new technologies.
Last week, Nokia announced a strategy to build out private industrial LTE networks, Ericsson carved out four cellular IoT segments, and Cisco offered solutions to bring 'intent-based' networking to the edge.
What do these announcements imply about the future of the IIoT and how should service providers respond?
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Man booked for harassing woman
Currently in the US, police say they will ask Interpol to help with his arrest.
Umer Nangiana July 19, 2012
ISLAMABAD:
Marrying him would have been a "privilege" for her, but instead she reported him to the police, and now he is wanted by the police.
On the complaints of a Pakistani woman based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the city police booked a man on Wednesday on accusations of blasphemy for declaring himself Imam Mehdi.
The woman, a permanent resident of Dubai, lodged a complaint through the Pakistani embassy in UAE accusing Hafeezullah, who identified himself as a retired Pakistan army major, of having sent her emails containing information that was interpreted as derogatory by the Islamabad police's legal experts, said a police official at the Secretariat Police Station.
The Secretariat police registered a case against Hafeezullah under section 295-A for blasphemy.
A police investigation officer said the suspect is living in the US.
However, his name was put on the Exit Control List, and after obtaining arrest warrants, the police will seek Interpol's help in arresting the man.
The officer did not clearly describe the nature of the emails sent by the suspect, as the records are with the interior ministry, which is also a complainant in the case.
"He also proposed to her, claiming he was Imam Mehdi and it would be a privilege for her to marry him," said the police officer, quoting one of the emails. The police said it was not clear if the two knew each other before, however the woman said Hafeezullah had randomly contacted her.
"This fact has to be investigated besides many others including the mental health of the man," said an officer.
The police registered a case against Hafeezullah on the complaint of Interior Ministry Section Officer Muhammad Ali Malik, after he sought advice from the legal department of the police.
Secretariat Police SHO said the case was filed on the woman's complaint and a covering letter from the ministry was sent to the legal department to place charges.
The legal branch interpreted the information as blasphemy and suggested an application, he added.
The complaint reached the Interior Ministry through the foreign office. It was forwarded to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for investigations but was returned to the police as it involved crimes beyond the FIA's jurisdiction, said the investigation officer.
The police said that because both suspect and complainant were based abroad, investigations to ascertain the facts will move forward after the police interview the woman before moving to arrest the suspect, they added.
US port authorities have been alerted so that the suspect is not able to leave that country and evade arrest, said the secretariat police.
However, some reports suggest that the suspect is, in fact, in Pakistan.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 19th, 2012.
Correction: An earlier version of the story was running factual errors. The story has been revised accordingly.
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or has it lived out its life?
What are you asking? I have a hard time grasping the concept of "many many" hours on a mini bike engine. Is that destroyed metal, or grease? Send them back to Isky if that is metal.
At any rate, measure the base circle, (width) and total height for each lobe. Subtract base circle number from lobe height, and that will give you your lift, and you can determine variation from your 260 and 220 respectively.
Is that .260 lobe lift and .220 duration? What valve springs and what was your installed height?
of valve lash enough and allowed too much room between lobe and lifter.
going for a new one, try to ride daily.
not think to do that.
I've not seen wear like that with my isky cams but the motors with the most time are still running ok. I had a black mamba in a kart engine that had maybe 10 hours on it when compression release got stuck open and I could no longer pull start it. I replaced that with another and the original lobes look pristine. He does a hard face overlay on them so I'm not sure what happened to yours. What oil do you use? I doubt it is oil related but I am curious. Are lifters messed up as well?
All of them will eventually wear out. Valves being loose isn't as bad as tight, no time for oil to cool and lube the face. Lifters are likely galled as well.
without oil after major upgrade. For a good 10 minutes.
If I had to guess that may have started galling it.
like ole4 said, if you ran it without oil. the first thing will go is the cam lobes before the lifters. lifters are made out of a much harder steel then the cam is . it won't take much time for the hard steel to start to chewing up the cam. might be one reason why your lifters still look good.
or two before. And that day the new head came in the mail and I was over-joyed to get it put on.
When I realized what I had done, the bottom fell out, I cussed,and cussed, and cussed.
for damage control. I'm lucky it didn't gall the cylinder.
That's your problem. Valve lash would not have affected the nose of the cam because the valve will always be open at that point, regardless of valve lash. The only other thing I'd check for would be coil bind but unless you were running 1.3:1 rockers I don't think that was the issue.
The pitting is repairable by welding and regrinding the cam again, but at best you only stand to save the cost of a $10 iron cam core. It's not a good idea to weld and regrind an iron cam more than once anyway.
Ignoring the history of running without oil, lobe pitting is something that can just develop from lots of run time. It tends to happen where the most force is concentrated on the smallest area like the nose of the lobe.
They might look OK, but they shouldn't be reused at this point.
Good morning, sir. Happy New Year.
I learn something everyday it seems.
I meant to add my new short block included new lifters.
It's possible, but hard to say.
10-4 brother, have a good one.


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DARLENE A. PICKNELL
Darlene A. Picknell, 75, Rice Lake, formerly of Delavan, lost her five-year battle with cancer. She passed away peacefully on Jan. 25, 2013. She was born March 7, 1937 to the late Worthy and Luella (Garthwaite) Grasley in Birchwood. There she was raised and graduated from the Rice Lake High […]
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Whitewater boys get third win
By David Paulsen Correspondent The Whitewater High School boys basketball team got its third win of the season Tuesday, defeating Parkview on the road 56-52. No further details of the game were available at deadline. The win improves the Whippets overall record to 3-15, and their Rock Valley Conference record […]
MARLIN M. DUNHAM
Marlin M. Dunham, 83, Burlington, died Jan. 23, 2013, at Vintage on the Ponds, Delavan. He was born in Macoupin County, Ill., on Dec. 24, 1929, to the late Maynard and Lucy (Mowen) Dunham. He spent his early life in Macoupin County and Roseau, Minn. As a member of the […]
JEANETTE L. VILLERS
Jeanette Lucille Villers, 95, formerly of Whitewater, died on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013 at Vintage on the Pond in Delavan. Jeanette was born in Chicago, Ill. on Feb. 15, 1917, the daughter of Percy and Hazel (Brophy) Preston. She married Gaylord Arthur Villers (Sr.) on Oct. 30, 1937, in Hammond, […]
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