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The meeting will be held at 16:45 on Tuesday, Feb 9th, 2010.
Location: Amdocs Ra'anana, HaPnina St. 8 in Amdocs Auditorium.
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- 1 Agenda
- 2 16:45 - 17:05 : Gathering, Mingling & Refreshments
- 3 17:05 - 17:10 : Opening Notes
- 4 17:10 - 17:20 : Opening Notes
- 5 17:20 - 18:00 : Cloud Security Topics
- 6 18:00 - 18:35 : SaaS as a Security Hazard: The Google Docs Example
- 8 19:10 - 19:40 : XSHM - Cross Site History Manipulation
- 9 Map
16:45 - 17:05 : Gathering, Mingling & Refreshments
17:05 - 17:10 : Opening Notes
Ofer Maor, Hacktics
17:10 - 17:20 : Opening Notes
Avi Brener, Amdocs
17:20 - 18:00 : Cloud Security Topics
Shalom Carmel, Venera
As more and more services move into the cloud, security of these resources becomes significant. In this lecture Shalom will review various topics relating to cloud security, including:
- Short Introduction to XaaS
- Challenges in Cloud Security - Management, Process, Data, Communications, Connection to Enterprise
- Differences Between Security of Leading Cloud Providers
- Regulation in the Cloud - Is It Feasible?
18:00 - 18:35 : SaaS as a Security Hazard: The Google Docs Example
Ofer Shezaf, Better Place
As the borderline between a web site and an application blurs, so does the division between the enterprise IT and the internet. More and more enterprises adapt core applications which are provided as a service over the Internet. Until recently those where limited to vertical applications such as salesforce.com for sales automation and monster.com for recruiting, both of which have already suffered major security issues that compromises customer data. Google software push has led to enterprise adaption of general purpose cloud services including office tools, mail and knowledge management, which presents an entirely new risk level.
In this presentation we will discuss the security risks unique to SaaS (Software as a service) and some past attacks on such services. We will than dissect the security implications of using Google sites (which includes Google docs and Gmail) as an example for a SaaS. We will go over a checklist of things to examine in a SaaS before subscribing to ensure that it provides sufficient security and will discuss the solutions offered (or not) by Google to the items listed.
David Movshovitz
SAML is one of the protocols that have been developed to secure web services, and has been become very popular especially to implement Web SSO and SaaS SSO. In the lecture we will describe the principals of the protocol and demonstrate how it is used to implement Web SSO.
19:10 - 19:40 : XSHM - Cross Site History Manipulation
Alex Roichman, Checkmarx
In this presentation I will introduce a newly discovered SOP (Same Origin Policy) security breach identified as Cross-Site History Manipulation (XSHM). Cross-Site History Manipulation breach is based on our research findings that the client-side browser history object is not properly partitioned on a per-site basis. Manipulating browser history may lead to SOP compromising, allow bi-directional CSRF and other exploitations such as: user privacy violation, login status detection, resource mapping, sensitive information inferring, users' activity tracking and URL parameter stealing. In the presentation I will show how XSHM can be executed, what applications are vulnerable to it, how to detect the flaw and consequently remediate it.


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As predicted, famous Internet cat, Lil Bub has reigned victorious at the Tribeca Film Festival.
The Vice-produced feature Lil Bub & Friends, which documents the Internet cat phenomenon as a whole, was awarded best film prize at the online incarnation of the festival.
While Lil Bub & Friends is not without its own merit, we should note that anonymous web users were the arbiters of "the best" of the online festival. Several feature and short films were streamed for free on the festival website, where anyone in the United States with an Internet connection would be allowed to vote for best film. So, it was basically a foregone conclusion that a film about Internet cats as voted by anonymous Internet users would win this award. There was just no other way that was going to go down.
Users can still stream Lil Bub & Friends online for free here. But when you're done squee-ing, feel free to check out the other available entries as well.
This story, "Internet-famous cat, Lil Bub wins at the Tribeca Film Festival" was originally published by TechHive.


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This is a scalable context timeline. It contains events related to the event Early 1981: Mossad Initiates Bombing Campaign in Europe against A. Q. Khan Network. You can narrow or broaden the context of this timeline by adjusting the zoom level. The lower the scale, the more relevant the items on average will be, while the higher the scale, the less relevant the items, on average, will be.
The Israeli intelligence service Mossad begins a bombing and intimidation campaign in Europe targeting people linked to A. Q. Khan's nuclear proliferation network, which is helping Pakistan build a nuclear weapon. After Israel bombs an Iraqi nuclear reactor in Osirak in June 1981, the campaign intensifies. Attacks are carried out and warnings given in Europe against Khan's suppliers and middlemen (see Early 1981, February 20, 1981, Early 1981, November 1981, and 1981). The bombings are investigated by the police forces in the countries in which they occur and are traced to a group of apparent fronts for Mossad: the Group for Non-Proliferation in South Asia, the Committee to Safeguard the Islamic Revolution, and the League for Protecting the Sub-Continent. European police realize that a state-backed group is probably behind the bombings and suspect Mossad, due to the problematic relations between Israel and the Islamic world. Authors Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark will also say that Mossad was behind the bombings, partly based on interviews of "senior intelligence sources" in Israel in 2006. [Levy and Scott-Clark, 2007, pp. 87-8, 476]
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Timeline Tags: Alleged Use of False Flag Attacks, A. Q. Khan's Nuclear Network
A bomb planted by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad goes off outside the home of Eduard German in Berne, Switzerland. German is the managing director of CORA engineering, which had exported a gasification and solidification unit to Pakistan in 1979 to help A. Q. Khan's efforts to build a nuclear bomb, and is soon planning to supply another such unit. The bombing is one of a series by Mossad against Khan's suppliers in Europe (see Early 1981). The company also receives an anonymous call saying it should stop trading with Pakistan, and this threat is followed by a similar one two months later. At this point the company realizes US intelligence knows everything about its operations (see April 1981), and so halts its dealings with Pakistan. [Levy and Scott-Clark, 2007, pp. 87]
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The Swiss firm CORA engineering finds that US intelligence has a comprehensive file on its shipments to Pakistan to aid A. Q. Khan's nuclear weapons program. The discovery is made after the company is bombed by the Israeli intelligence service Mossad (see February 20, 1981). CORA official Rudolf Walti will comment, "When the company was cited to the Swiss government [for supplying technology to manufacture nuclear weapons to Pakistan] we discovered that the Americans had such good records of what we were doing that if we ever lost our own files we could always go and ask them to use theirs." Authors Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark will comment, "However, this information had been kept highly classified [in the US] lest it undermine the aid train that had started to leave for Pakistan." [Levy and Scott-Clark, 2007, pp. 87, 476]
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The Israeli intelligence service Mossad bombs a German company that supplies parts for A. Q. Khan's nuclear weapons program in Pakistan. The company had been doing business with Khan through one of his representatives in Paris since 1976 and had sold Pakistan lead shielding and remote-controlled equipment to maneuver radioactive substances. The bomb is part of a campaign by Mossad targeting members of Khan's nuclear proliferation network (see Early 1981). The company also receives three threatening calls, and another such call is made to the local Reuters office. However, the company continues to supply equipment to help Pakistan's nuclear weapons program. [Levy and Scott-Clark, 2007, pp. 88]
The Israeli intelligence agency Mossad sends a letter bomb to Albrecht Migule, an associate of A. Q. Khan who had helped build fluoride and uranium conversion plants for Pakistani in 1979. It is not known whether the bomb explodes or what damage it does, but Migule survives, only to be fined by the German authorities for his dealings with Khan. The bomb is part of a campaign by Mossad targeting members of Khan's nuclear proliferation network (see Early 1981). [Levy and Scott-Clark, 2007, pp. 88, 118]
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In an effort to cut teen pregnancy rates, the Los Angeles school district and Planned Parenthood have formed an interesting new partnership to provide reproductive health care to some students at school. Wow, that sounds like a completely reasonable solution to a very real problem; so naturally it is 100% guaranteed to royally piss off those who think Planned Parenthood is the Devil's abortion factory.
Overall, the county's teen birth rate is actually down, but there are certain areas within it that are hotspots for teen pregnancies—mostly in the heavily Latino and low-income areas that feed Roosevelt High School. The school has an existing health center which does primary care, but nearly half of the patients seen this year were there for reproductive health care. The clinic used to provide counseling and contraception in conjunction with a local hospital, but that program ended in 2006.
This new partnership with Planned Parenthood will mean there is a medical assistant at the clinic, and it will give students access to free contraceptives and pregnancy and STD testing. This is the first time Planned Parenthood has done something like this anywhere in the country. It seems like a natural pairing, and it would be cool if they could expand it to serve other areas in need. Though since they're already getting shamed for caring for teens in their own clinics, one imagines they'll face some seriously batshit opposition if they try to colonize schools.
Planned Parenthood Sets Up Shop At Roosevelt High To Reduce Teen Pregnancies [CBS LA]
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Best of 2010: Film
I saw a lot of movies this year, thanks to my membership in the WGA and the flood of screeners that arrived at the end of the year. So, I caught almost all the big Oscar movies, and, ironically, few of them actually made it to the list. But, some did in what I'd consider over all a fantastic year for movies.
10. The Fighter
There were a bunch of movies in contention for this tenth spot on the list (and I still haven't seen a couple of big 2010 movies I'd like to have seen [Blue Valentine and Mesrine in particular]), but The Fighter ultimately won out over True Grit, Somewhere and The Runaways. The reason is it was one of the most emotionally engrossing films I'd seen this year. There was some cliché plotting along the way, and it sort of fizzled at the end, but through the Sanchez fight, this was a consistently intense, and emotionally gripping film. I hated Christian Bale's character so much, and Amy Adams really jumped out as a hard edged lady who took no shit from anyone. Her performance totally changed my perception of her as an actress, it's one of the most electric roles of the year, and really made the movie. I just wish it had kept up that momentum and ferocity to the ending.
9. The Kids Are All Right
I've written a lot about how TV is the trend setting, innovative visual storytelling medium now, so consider a huge compliment to say that The Kids Are All Right had the character depth and easygoing realism of a great TV show. Tonally, it recalled Six Feet Under in its depiction of a family that has its issues, but loves each other and is trying to do good in a world full of temptation. The loose narrative leaves plenty of room for character exploration and the uniformly excellent cast makes it all work. Julianne Moore is fantastic here, reminding me why she was once my favorite actress out there. But, Mark Ruffalo really steals the show as the ne'er do well, but charming absent father. He's so charismatic and engaging, it's easy to see why the whole family falls under his spell. A really satisfying adult targeted film. This is one of those movies that people say they don't make any more.
8. Inception
Inception is one of the most visually ambitious films of the year, and features some of the most dazzling action sequences I've ever seen. It's the action movie as crazy videogame, stacking level after level of crazy obstacle on top of each other, and indulging in a mix of intense psychology and pure action movie joy in sequences like the snow attack or zero gravity battle. It's a great looking movie, with a phenomenal score. What holds it back from greatness is the reliance on a dour, tormented hero who can't express himself emotionally (i.e. every single Chris Nolan character ever). It's a film about dreams that feels so utterly controlled and without any random elements sinking in. That stops it from being an all time great movie, but there's so much good in here, I can forgive the flaws.
7. Rebuild of Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance
The second new Evangelion film didn't quite pull all its elements together. But, it was full of very haunting moments, and its finale was exhilarating and points to a bold new direction for the rest of the films in the series. This whole project remains caught between breaking new ground and paying homage to the past series. This one manages to strike a pretty good balance, and presents a nicely distilled version of the original series' psychological troubles. But, I would still point a new viewer to the original series over this version.
6. Toy Story 3
Pixar continues one of the longest hot streaks in film with their most emotionally potent film yet. Toy Story 3 is about 80% really good, fun film. The whole imprisonment at day care is funny and full of well executed set pieces and gags. But, it's the other 20% of the film that just emotionally anhialates viewers. There's hints of this in the opening, particularly during the videotape sequence, but it comes to the fore most notably in the inferno sequence, where the characters confront their own mortality and prepare to face death. Lingering in the fire past the point where it's a cliffhanger and to the moment where everyone accepts death, it's intensely harrowing. After crossing through death, they make it out to a new life in the emotionally overwhelming finale. For what's ostensibly a kid's film to be so emotionally effulgent is a real feat, and a testament to Pixar's skill.
5. Tron: Legacy
In a year of visually stunning films, none could match the production design and overall aesthetic of Tron. Updating the 80s style for the present day, everyone in the film looked intensely stylish as they moved through gorgeous environments, backed by the fantastic Daft Punk score. Beyond the fantastic look, the film offered a solid take on the hero's journey, definitely calling back to Star Wars at times, but delivering a story that satisfied. Its video game based universe might not make any sense objectively, but in the world the story it all hangs together for a visually dazzling, emotionally engaging ride full of really cool moments. I wish everyone dressed like the characters in this movie do.
4. Black Swan
Black Swan is another great Darren Aronofsky film about obsession and a character's desire to be the absolute best, at the cost of their sanity. I love the intensity of the film and the frequent surreal indulgences. Natalie Portman is fantastic, and everything in the film draws you into her mental world, which is less intriguingly ambiguous when everything wraps up in the end. It's a totally engrossing film, and one of the most refreshingly insane movies I've seen in a while.
3. The Social Network
The so called 'Facebook' movie is actually a rather classical look at the corrupting influence of power and money. But, thanks to David Fincher's ice cold direction and Trent Reznor's alien electronic score, it becomes something more. It's a deconstruction of a world that becomes increasingly separate even as technology brings us together. I don't usually love Fincher, but the really strong Sorkin script proves the perfect anchor, filled with biting humor, keeping him from drifting off into the excess darkness of some of his other works. This is a great example of two auteurs coming together to make one great film.
2. Runaway
This Kanye West film wasn't a feature, but it demonstrates a wonderful understanding of what film can do as a medium, an audacious half hour full of incredible visuals and strange ideas. The film throws back to European art cinema motifs, with a portentious symbolic storyline that recalls Fellini, and a strangely mannered acting style that is at once alienating and intriguing. But, combined with an incredible soundtrack, it becomes a really unique package full of amazing moments, like the opening slo-mo shot of Kanye in front of a fiery explosion, or the final Phoenix ascent. So many films fail to make use of true visual storytelling, this one is a consistently riveting experience, one that lingers with me far more than most traditional features.
1. Enter the Void
Speaking of experiences, Enter the Void is attempting something entirely different from virtually any film made this year, or any other year. Gaspar Noe isn't telling you a story about someone else as he is in making you feel and experience things. The movie's title is a command, you must enter the void, and by the end of the film, you'll have passed through death and rebirth and experienced a dizzying array of images and sounds. At times, it's an assault, at times it's soothing and beautiful, this movie did things that no other film ever has. I think it's less cohesive and emotional than Irreversible, but it's just as technically dazzling and has more moments of abstract transcendence than Irreversible did. Watching the final half hour or so, in which the camera winds its way through Tokyo's sky before settling in a hotel to watch a variety of couples have sex, you reach a total altered state, and what could be vulgar becomes absolutely beautiful. This film is an experience, and I'd love to see more filmmakers approach the medium like Noe does. Film can be a great narrative medium, but it can also be so much more, and this film shows you that.


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Although they're aware of the dangers, they say they don't want to be banned from playing.
MONDAY, October 22, 2012 (HealthDay News) — A new survey of high school football players finds that more than half of those who felt some of the common symptoms of a concussion over the past two years didn't report them because they were afraid of being banned from playing.
More than half of the 134 athletes surveyed said they'd learned more about the symptoms of concussion after getting to high school. But even though concussions can lead to problems such as brain swelling and bleeding, less than 40 percent were worried about the long-term effects of concussions.
"The good news is that kids are paying attention and have gotten some increased knowledge," said survey author Dr. Michael Israel, a resident at the department of pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. "But they also know that due to state rules, if they have certain symptoms they have to go through a certain protocol to get back to play. Some of them are potentially hiding their symptoms to avoid being pulled."
The risk of concussions on the football field has become a major issue at both the youth and professional levels. Researchers and physicians fear they can lead to long-lasting brain damage.
Concussions occur when something hits the head and jars the brain. Many are minor, but concussions can lead to loss of consciousness and serious medical conditions like brain damage and bleeding in the brain.
Israel said he was inspired to launch the survey after serving as an on-site doctor during a high school football game. A player "got his bell rung" and went to be examined by the athletic trainer. But he didn't want the coach to know that there was any problem.
"He knew he wouldn't be able to go back in without going through some tests," Israel said. The player turned out to be fine after going through some tests to check his alertness and memory.
Israel created an online survey about concussions for varsity high school football players and sent it to several Arkansas school districts. It's not clear how many players got a chance to take the survey, but 134 responded. All had played football for at least one year.
Fewer than 10 percent said a doctor or team trainer had diagnosed them with a concussion. But about a third of football players said they'd suffered from concussion-like symptoms — like headache, dizziness, loss of balance and blurred vision — over the past two years. Of those, more than half said they didn't do anything for fear of being taken off the field.
The message of the study is that despite more knowledge about concussion, many football players haven't changed their behavior regarding their own possible injuries, Israel said. Still, he said, almost three of four said they'd report another player's concussion-like symptoms. "They were more likely to report a teammate than themselves," he said.
What to do? Israel said most of the players — 85 percent — said they got most of their information about concussion from their coaches. "There needs to be a way to get the important information to the coaches," he said.
Israel's research is to be presented Monday at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) annual meeting in New Orleans.
Athletic trainers may also play an important role in concussion awareness. Another study presented at the AAP meeting found that Chicago area high schools with athletic trainers had more diagnosed concussions and fewer injuries overall, at least among sports programs for girls. Yet, fewer than half of U.S. high schools have trainers. It's not clear, though, that the presence of trainers is directly related to injury rates and concussion diagnoses.
Dr. Michael O'Brien, associate director of the Sports Concussion Clinic at Boston Children's Hospital, said teen athletes need to take responsibility, too. "A lot of the problems with young athletes is that they don't recognize it as a problem or they don't necessarily want to miss play and miss what often ends up being a short career," he said. "We have to expect more out of teenage athletes. If we treat them more like children, it's not going to be effective."
Because this study was presented at a medical meeting, the data and conclusions should be viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.


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When you pay someone else to remove the GHGs you emitted into the atmosphere, it's called carbon offsetting.
Another option when purchasing carbon credits is to retire them. This essentially means that you don't use the carbon emission rights that you have purchased. You are also able to fund emission-reducing projects.The most ordinary projects include renewable energy such as wind farms, biomass energy systems and hydroelectric dams. Some other common project types include energy efficiency projects, destructing industrial pollutants or agricultural by-products, destructing landfill methane, and creating forestry projects.


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When Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein spent two weeks in videotaped depositions back in June, he was set to testify about millions of dollars in missing treasure he bought with stolen money.
The deposition was in the bankruptcy case filed against JR Dunn Jewelers, which had sold millions of dollars worth of gems to the fraudster. Some of that Dunn jewelry -- including a 12 carat diamond ring valued at over $300,000 -- had gone missing. It was time for Rothstein to testify about what he knew about.
But the deposition was scrapped just before it was set to begin. While only tight-lipped federal officials know exactly why it was canceled, sources close to the case tell me they suspect Rothstein blew the whistle on his own wife.
It was Kim Rothstein, the feds say, who grabbed over a million dollars worth of Ponzi treasure under the nose of the FBI and tried to secretly sell it with the help of her attorney, Scott Saidel, her close friend, Stacie Weisman, jeweler Patrick Daoud, and ex-con Eddy Marin.
When bankruptcy attorneys sued Dunn for the missing jewelry, owner Sean Dunn tracked down the 12 carat diamond ring to Daoud. Then Dunn's attorney, Patrick Scott, began deposing those involved.
"Sean Dunn originally started looking for the most valuable of the jewelry that J.R. Dunn had sold, as a way to mitigate the Dunns' exposure to the [bankruptcy lawsuit]," Scott wrote me. "The Dunns asked me to help develop the information through depositions and document subpoenas and we turned over all the information to the United States Attorney."
With Dunn and the feds closing in, Kim Rothstein claimed that her husband had sold the diamond ring to a deceased man named Robert Fuchs, according to court records, and tried tried to get her husband to back up her story in his June deposition.
But that deposition never happened -- and Kim Rothstein is set to be arraigned n federal court on a conspiracy charge tomorrow.


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The Battle for the Arab Spring: Revolution, Counter-Revolution and the Making of a New Era
Through research, interviews, and firsthand experience, the authors analyze the challenges many Arab nations face in building democratic institutions, finding consensus on political Islam and overcoming tribal divides.
Excerpted from Chapter 1: An Arab Malaise (footnotes omitted), from The Battle for the Arab Spring: Revolution, Counter-Revolution and the Making of a New Era by Lin Noueihed and Alex Warren. Reprinted by arrangement with
Yale University Press. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or printed without permission in writing from the publisher.
An Arab Malaise
Good rulership is equivalent to mildness. If the ruler uses force and is ready to mete out punishment and eager to expose the faults of people and to count their sins, (his subjects) become fearful and depressed and seek to protect themselves against him through lies, ruses and deceit... They often abandon (the ruler) on the battlefield and fail to support his defensive enterprises... The subjects often conspire to kill the ruler. Thus the dynasty decays, and the fence (that protects it) lies in ruins.
-- 14th-century Tunisian philosopher Ibn Khaldun, Al-Muqaddimah
Not a single Arab country made it onto the 2011 list of top global risks issued by Eurasia Group, a multinational consulting firm that helps clients identify looming instability. Some perennials, such as the Iranian nuclear standoff, were mentioned, but domestic change in the Middle East was simply not on its radar – even though protests had been spreading since late 2010. After all, despite their dysfunctional economies and ossified political systems, Arab rulers had proved remarkably resilient to both domestic pressures and external shocks. They had survived the end of the Cold War and the so-called 'third wave of democratization' that swept away dictators from Portugal to Indonesia, from the 1970s onwards.
Arab regimes, if not individual leaders, had made it through a series of wars and three unpopular peace deals with Israel. They had largely crushed violent Islamists. They had adjusted, as mostly Sunni Muslim rulers, to the Shi'ite resurgence ushered in by Iran's 1979 revolution, and they had survived the sectarian and political tensions wrought by two US-led wars against Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
Syria, Morocco, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates had all survived the deaths of veteran leaders and managed relatively smooth successions. Syria, the only republic on this list of monarchies and dynasties and the one most vulnerable to a succession crisis, had set a precedent with Bashar al-Assad's carefully-choreographed takeover in 2000 from his father Hafez, who had ruled for the previous three decades. Mubarak, who had led Egypt for thirty years without naming a vice president, took note as he groomed his son Gamal for the presidency.
Democrats around the Arab world lamented the birth of the first Arab 'jumlukiya'. Literally translated as 'republarchy', the word fused together jumhuriya, Arabic for 'republic', and malakiya, Arabic for 'monarchy'. With the creation of this monstrous hybrid dropped the last fig leaf of legitimacy. There could be no more pretence that national interests came before the interests of the ruling family, and the sect or tribe to which it belonged. In Tunisia, another Arab republic, it was widely suspected that Ben Ali, whose only son was a toddler, was grooming his son-in-law for the top job. There were fears that the first lady, Leila Trabelsi, derided by Tunisians as a latter-day Marie Antoinette, had her own eye on high office.
Rather than invest in the future of their countries, these leaders dedicated much of the wealth and power of the state to ensuring their own survival. Coercion, or the threat of it, was widely used in a region whose governments spend a higher proportion of their state budgets on defence and security than any other. In 2009, an average 4.6 per cent of Arab GDP went on military spending, compared to a global average of less than 2 per cent.
Much Gulf Arab military spending is intended as a deterrent against Iran, a non-Arab Shi'ite power in a region dominated by Sunni rulers, but the aura of an impregnable state, possessed both of the latest weaponry and of support from Western countries, also put off potential opponents from mounting any serious challenge for power. It was not just the amount spent on the armed forces, but also their composition, that discouraged revolt. Some rulers and their families fortified their power bases by filling the military and interior security forces with members of their own tribe or sect, creating a patronage network and ensuring that those who bore arms owed their allegiance to the leadership rather than the state itself. The Saudi Arabian National Guard, for instance, is a separate force that bypasses the defence ministry and draws its soldiers from tribal elements historically loyal to the royal family and dedicated to protecting the king from a family rebellion or a challenge from the regular army. Bahrain, meanwhile, has resorted to recruiting foreigners, who were less likely to balk at shooting or beating protesters and had no stake in local politics.
Tellingly, the army in Tunisia was considerably more professional than most in the region and considered itself to be an institution of the state rather than the private security wing of the ruling family or party. In Tunisia and Egypt, furthermore, tribal ties are weak and both countries are home to majority Sunni populations ruled over by Sunni rulers, who focused on crushing opposition parties or rival elite figures rather than shielding themselves from competing sects or clans.
An underlying sense of fear was also perpetuated by intelligence agencies, or mukhabarat, that employed spies at every level of society. This was manifested in different ways in different countries. Egypt or Bahrain did not feel oppressive day-to-day, but Syria was another story. Men in lurid shirts and leather jackets loitered in hotel lobbies, hiding behind newspapers and listening to the conversations that went on. It was casually assumed that phones were tapped and on no account was any political conversation to be undertaken in taxis, whose drivers were widely believed to be informants. One in Damascus openly admitted that he worked for Syrian intelligence, describing how he had been based in Beirut before the 2005 withdrawal of Syrian forces but by 2010 was forced to supplement his paltry civil servant's salary with taxi fares.
Intelligence agencies operated in a legal grey area, carrying out arrests and operating secret jails where political prisoners, numbering thousands, were abused or tortured. Many of these prisoners were Islamists, but any journalist or academic worth his salt could expect to be in and out of jail on trumped-up charges, or no charges at all.
The Syrian regime had maintained emergency law since the Ba'ath Party coup of 1963, Egypt had done so since 1981 and for long stretches before that, while in Algeria emergency law had been in place since 1992. This effectively suspended constitutional protections and gave rulers much wider scope for arbitrary arrests. It meant that a journalist who stepped over the line could suddenly find him- or herself in a military or security court on charges of undermining national security that would normally be reserved for cases of terrorism or espionage. The absence of the rule of law meant that no one knew exactly what was permitted and what was not, forcing critics to play a dangerous game of self-censorship as they tried to make their point without tripping up on one of the many red lines that criss-crossed the public sphere.
But it was not all repression. Authoritarian rulers also built alliances among prominent tribes, families and business elites to bolster their rule. Libya's Gaddafi rewarded the clans who helped him to recruit fighters in the war against Chad with plum government jobs, or put the scions of loyal families in charge of public sector companies. In Syria, the ruler was Alawite but the established Sunni business families were among the main beneficiaries of Assad's economic liberalization policies of the 2000s. In Saudi Arabia and among some Sunni monarchies, political bonds were strengthened through marriage, much as they had been among European aristocracies in centuries past.
The economic reforms introduced in Syria, in Tunisia, in Libya and beyond had lifted the pall of oppression that hung over these countries in the 1980s and 1990s. New cafés, restaurants and shops opened up. Foreign high-street brands arrived in upmarket districts. The lot of most Syrians and Libyans had improved a great deal since the 1980s, when imports were effectively banned but local industries could not produce enough goods of sufficient quality to meet demand. Yet such reforms were intended to protect the incumbent rulers by relieving economic discontent and staving off calls for deeper change.
Facing US pressure or domestic demand, some Arab dictatorships and dynasties even introduced more meaningful elections, but they worked to curtail any concrete changes the ballot box might bring. When one party can change the laws to its benefit, can wield the security forces to intimidate its opponents, the judiciary to jail its critics and the state-run media to campaign on its behalf, there is no real choice. Either electorates were not allowed to vote freely or the body that they were voting for lacked any meaningful powers. This system proved effective on at least two fronts. Firstly, it applied a veneer of plurality to systems that were in reality based on a single party that saw itself as the state. Secondly, it divided the opposition. After years underground, some activists felt that, since they could not beat the system, they should try to change it from the inside.
Together with this ran the promotion of a cult of personality. Rulers projected the image that they would be there for eternity and that, if they were not, their son or other relative was waiting in the wings. A giant poster showing Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, his son, the crown prince, and his uncle, the prime minister, hung from the side of a building just a few metres from the Pearl roundabout where protests would be concentrated in early 2011. In Libya, billboards were filled not with ads but with pictures of Gaddafi showing the number of years he had been in power. Faded posters showing the Colonel next to a large number 39 were juxtaposed with newer ones of Gaddafi 40 or 41. Visitors could buy Gaddafi watches, baseball caps and T-shirts from shops in central Tripoli.
Alongside this crude propaganda that appeared to belong to another era, Arab rulers demonstrated a knack for 'upgrading authoritarianism' to survive the challenges posed not only by globalization but also by new media and the growing international emphasis on human rights. One of several tactics they employed was to curtail, co-opt, compete with and thereby undermine efforts to build a strong civil society through the creation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
Arab NGOs first started to proliferate in the 1980s, largely in response to openings from above. Authoritarian rulers apparently thought that tolerating small and powerless groups would burnish their democratic credentials abroad while incurring little cost at home. But local NGOs that focused on issues from human rights to corruption eventually became a thorn in their sides. Rather than attract bad press by banning all groups, they harassed and repeatedly detained offending members. They introduced laws that required NGOs to register, which then allowed the state to legally reject troublesome critics, limit their sources of funding, or restrict the scope of their activities. While weakening independent groups, Arab governments also set about sponsoring semi-official NGOs that received privileged access to donors, conferences and officials. These could not act independently and were muted in their criticism while competing for funds and publicity with the weaker and smaller independent groups.
Many of these government NGOs, or GONGOs, were led by the glamorous wives of Arab kings and presidents, and were dismissed by grassroots activists as 'First Ladies' Clubs'. Asma al-Assad, the wife of the Syrian president, was the sponsor of seven NGOs focused on issues such as youth, women's rights and rural development. All operated under the umbrella of the Syria Trust for Development, which she also chaired, and which advertised itself as a non-profit and non-government organization through which the state would partner with local NGOs to foster development. Yet it was notoriously difficult for any rights-based NGOs to operate legally in Syria, which is home to 1,500 civil society groups compared to 5,000 in its much smaller but much freer neighbour Lebanon.
Gushing Western media coverage also made it easier to present a sanitized view of developments in the Arab world. Asma al-Assad was glamorous, charming, British-born, and the subject of a fawning Vogue story which described the democratic principles governing her family's life, and was published the same month that Mubarak was overthrown. Jordan's Queen Rania, another beautiful first lady, boasted a string of accolades from Glamour magazine's Woman of the Year to a place on Forbes' Most Powerful Women list, thanks to her work for charity and for NGOs that sought to empower women. These first ladies were popular abroad, but their unveiled, slick and empowered images bore little resemblance to the lives of ordinary women and made no mention of the undemocratic ways of their husbands.
If one generalization could be made about countries as different as Yemen and Tunisia, it is that their rulers were survivors, adept at repressing or co-opting their enemies and adapting to changes, from the end of the Cold War to the rise of social media. They had simply been around so long that they exuded an air of stability that masked the growing discontent among their people.
The Arab Exception
The club of Arab dictators had proven so resilient that a whole body of academic literature and journalistic commentary had developed to explain why emerging countries were industrializing, growing, creating jobs and shifting towards more representative government, while the Middle East fell ever further behind. Pundits spoke of the 'Arab exception', unfavourably comparing Arab countries first to Asia's 'tiger economies', then to the BRICs, the rising powers of Brazil, Russia, India and China.
There were several permutations to the 'Arab exception' argument, ranging from the suggestion that these societies were simply not 'ready' for democracy because their patriarchal nature predisposed them to authoritarian rule, to the opinion that Islam, as a religion, was intrinsically incompatible with democracy. Another explanation was that the United States had propped up authoritarian rulers in countries including Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Bahrain and Tunisia because a confluence of geopolitical interests in the region – its desire to defend Israel, to ensure a steady supply of affordable oil, to hold back Iranian influence following the 1979 revolution, and to curtail any Islamist threat – trumped any ideological desire to spread democracy.
The US commitment to protecting Israel's security has, indeed, led it to work closely with leaders in Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinian territories, all of whom signed peace deals with the Jewish state, and to apply pressure to those who had not. When Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat broke ranks and signed a unilateral peace treaty with Israel in 1979, the deal was sealed with the promise of $1.3 billion a year in US aid and unwavering support from Washington. The Camp David peace accord won back Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, which had been captured by the Jewish state in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, but cost Sadat his life in 1981, when he was assassinated by an Islamist militant.
So unpopular was the agreement both at home and among other Arab states, that Sadat's funeral was attended by three former US presidents, as well as Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, but only one Arab leader. Once host to the Arab League, Egypt had been thrown out and its leader was as unpopular among his own people as he was in the region. Sadat's economic liberalization, or infitah, policies also cemented Egypt's shift from the Soviet into the Western sphere and, though they provoked bread riots in 1977, the reforms were lauded by the United States.
US financial, military and political support continued under Sadat's successor. Mubarak worked with the United States and Israel to enforce a blockade of Gaza that began in 2007, with the aim of isolating Hamas, despite television images of widespread civilian suffering and protests on the streets of Cairo. Even as thousands of Egyptian protesters braved tear gas and rubber bullets to demand Mubarak's resignation in 2011, US officials appeared reluctant to admit that his record on human rights and democracy was, to put it mildly, an embarrassment.


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Andy Ricker's Kapi Kung (Homemade shrimp paste)
Use this slightly subtle shrimp paste in Andy Ricker's Kaeng Khiaw Waan Luuk Chin Plaa (Green curry with fish balls and eggplant) from his new Pok Pok cookbook.
Reprinted with permission from Pok Pok: Food and Stories from the Streets, Homes, and Roadside Restaurants of Thailand by Andy Ricker with JJ Goode. Copyright 2013. Published by Ten Speed Press, a division of Random House. All rights reserved. Available wherever books are sold.
- Yield:Makes about 1 cup
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- 2 cups jarred Korean salted shrimp
- 2 tablespoons Thai shrimp paste (galled gapi or kapi)
Briefly rinse the salted shrimp, then put them in a double layer of cheesecloth and gently squeeze out most of the liquid.
Mix the salted shrimp and shrimp paste together in the mortar and pound, stirring occasionally with a spoon, until you have a coarse paste that's a more or less even light brown color, 3 to 5 minutes. It's fine if htere are very small pieces of salted shrimp.
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This is how Gallows feels. Press play on track 1 and start running - not for medals or glory, not for health, not even for fun. Run because you have to run. Even if you physically can't, even if you're standing still, even if you're lying on your back, head spinning from drink. As an ice-cold female voice announces opener 'Victim Culture', as Wade MacNeil fills his lungs and roars "In us! We trust!" your imagination will do the work, in your head your feet are pounding the concrete and you are running. This is how Gallows feels.
Many wrote Gallows off when Frank Carter stepped out the door. Logically we knew there was more to them than one man, but for most Carter's scrawny, bloodied body convulsing as he screamed into the faces of the front row was the definitive image of the band, his estuary yelp ("when yoor wipin' my cum off ya fackin' face") the perfect fronting for their nihilistic rock n'roll. Stripped of their frontman, Gallows are surely just another bunch of bratty noise-merchants, right? Wrong. SO wrong. Forget Frank Carter - he's got his new band, and maybe they'll be the British QOTSA after all. Good luck to them. But really, fuck him, we don't need him. We've still got Gallows, and you know what? They're better now.
Gallows (the album) is the one we've been waiting for Gallows (the band) to make since their earliest shows. It's the best representation yet of the sheer force of the band live, a perfect half hour snapshot of the energy and aggression they've never properly captured on tape. MacNeill is a very different presence to Carter, his voice is richer and more controlled, and it's tied to a nearly faultless run of songs that vapourise the history of punk rock -its buzzsaw NYC origins, its snotty British golden age, Eighties hardcore and Nineties punk'n'roll - and reassembles it as something that is utterly 2012 and completely Gallows.
This is how Gallows feels. At 'Outsider Art' you feel the ground slope, you're running downhill. You're nearly flying, jumping over bins and walls, wanting someone to try and stop you because right now you're invincible and you will fucking have them. 'Vapid Adolescent Blues' is naked aggression and speed. There's hooks here, proper, catchy pop hooks, as 'Austere' pushes you into overdrive, out of control, arms flailing, it's a violent tumble to the street, a graze oozing blood down your leg, but it absolutely won't let you stop. Faster, and harder. Nothing matters but the speed and the glorious fucking noise. This is how Gallows feels. Relentless, unstoppable.
'Depravers' and 'Odessa' have the lot- big gang-chorus shouting, guitars that are as much a rhythm track as the drums and drums like a drill through your head. In the former there's also one walloper of a sing-a-long chorus. You're at your peak now, laying on a burst of speed. But things are changing.
This is how Gallows feels. At the end of the record you're running because you daren't stop, you're running for your life and it's getting harder. 'Cult Of Mary' is all burning muscles and bursting lungs, and still you can't slow down. You're powering uphill and something is chasing you, a creeping paranoia that won't let you pause for a second, chanting along with the innocent child's voice that appears as the song drives itself to a genuinely sinister climax. You're fading now, but the music is unrelenting and there's one last dash to go. 'Cross of Lorraine' comes with a crushing, irresistible momentum that resolves into feedback and white static. It's audio nausea that's echoed in your stomach as muscles turn to water, lungs stuffed with sugar you collapse to the street, panting, sweating, trying not to vomit, legs trembling like Bambi in the snow. Silence rings in your ears- It's over. Shaking you reach out and hit 'play' on track 1, This is how Gallows feels. Pulling yourself to your feet you start to run again.
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ATI's Radeon X1800 series of PCI Express 3D graphics cards is designed for demanding gamers who want the latest, greatest products. These cards all support modern 3D graphics features, such as Shader Model 3 pixel treatments and high dynamic range lighting, and they also lend benefits from ATI's Avivo video processing technology. If the test results from the two cards we tested are representative of the whole line, you can expect blazing performance in 3D games that use the Direct3D programming API, but only so-so frame rates in games such as Doom 3 that use OpenGL.
A potentially exciting feature of this series is its CrossFire capability, which is ATI's technology for linking two cards together in the same PC. It's unknown when ATI will release the requisite CrossFire Edition card though, beyond "sometime in Q4 2005." As for the other cards, the $449 Radeon X1800 XL will be in stores on October 5, 2005, with the two Radeon X1800 XT variants available a month later on November 5.


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Erin Elizabeth Fening and Phillip Lee Brown were united in marriage during a 2 p.m. ceremony May 18 at St. Columba Cathedral with the Rev. Nicholas Shori officiating.
Their reception followed at the Maronite Center, and they honeymooned at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas.
The bride is a daughter of Chris and Liz Fening of Canfield. The groom is a son of Leonard and Marla Brown of Maumee, Ohio, and Melinda and Douglas Corbolotti of Virginia Beach, Va.
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Kelly Fening, the brides sister, was her maid of honor, and bridesmaids were Mara Geosano; Arin Bennett, sister of the groom; Danielle Sterle; and Kelly Williams. The attendants wore aqua-colored dresses.
Adam Corbolotti, a brother of the groom, was best man. Groomsmen were Nick Corbolotti, a brother of the groom; Patrick Fening, brother of the bride; Justin Jorgensen; and Greg Bazzo. Ushers were Donald Dobrindt, uncle of the bride; David Brown; and Matt and Steve Rudisill, brothers of the groom.
Mrs. Brown graduated from Ohio State University with a bachelor's degree in psychology and from the University of Dayton with a doctorate in physical therapy. She is employed by NovaCare Rehabilitation as a physical therapist in Dublin, Ohio.
Mr. Brown earned a bachelor's degree in health sciences from OSU and a doctorate in physical therapy from University of Dayton. He is employed as a physical therapist at Madison County Hospital in London, Ohio.
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Analytical survey of emergence of art markets, interactions between market behavior(s), visual/media culture(s). Addresses questions regarding the nature of art markets, the specificity of art markets and the application of economic and historical methodologies, how and where players in local markets throughout the world shape visual culture(s), effective causes for art consumption, taste, fashion throughout ages, and methodological implications of art market research at interface of Economics, Art History, Law and Visual Studies. Instructor: Van Miegroet
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Osbourne effect?
They've just killed April sales.
Nintendo may be about to slash the price of the Wii by as much as 25 per cent. In the US, it's claimed, the console's price will come down from $200 to $150 on 15 May, according to "a trusted source", cited by Engadget. The Wii's share of the console market, while still impressive, slumped last year from 22.5m in 2009 to 17m …
Have you seen how many games have (not) been released this year?
It's also starting to look like the Xbox is dying too, with it mostly all made up of multiplatform releases that are out (and usually better) on PS3 and PC.
The Wii was a repackaged GameCube and half the shit on it was repackaged content, with the rest being shovelware. A few good (and in some cases really good) games occasionally appeared, but much like the DS, looking at the range in the local games store is just depressing.The number of games I have for my Nintendo consoles pales into insignificance besides my other, better machines.
I wonder what gimmic-sorry, innovation they have for us this time...
I'd be interested to know average games bought/average spend per user on software for wii vs xbox/ps3.
Everyone I know with a wii seems to buy Wii Sports, Mario Kart and maybe wii fit and then it all just gathers dust under the telly.
The same fate doesnt seem to befall the xbox/ps3 crowd (though obviosuly these people are more likelyto be 'hardcore' gamers)
Recent usage not turned on in last few weeks but.
Wife - weigh herself using Wii fit
Children - 1 of play Super Mario Galaxy 2
Me - put batteries in controller
Even the PS2 gets more use.
The children seem to play LBP and Modnation Racers more except for the Uncharted fan.
I probably have more Wii games than any other console, but I've certainly given my other consoles more love. Traded in most of my PS3 games and I haven't bought any news ones due to my Sony embargo, the Xbox would get more use if my Samsung panel wasn't smashed by a housemate and my temp TV is a tiny cheap thing with only one HDMI port.
I blame...
-the gimmicky controllers. If I could just use a PS3/Xbox controller, I'd probably getting those last few Mario Kart wins. Plugging a "classic controller" into a Wiimote doesn't count.
-resetting the resolution for whomever's TV I happen to be stealing at the time. Set up time is so exhausting(ish) that I don't even offer. HDMI fixes this.
-Be original again. I appreciate the Wii is the better over GameCube, and happily supports its games to boot. But beef the console a bit. Please. Your first party titles rock, but that multi-console port is going to look mighty embarrassing and 3rd party titles have less to work with to really give you neat exclusives.
"-the gimmicky controllers. If I could just use a PS3/Xbox controller, I'd probably getting those last few Mario Kart wins. Plugging a "classic controller" into a Wiimote doesn't count."
Just pick up a GameCube controller or 4 for £2 a piece and use those. They're ten times better in a lot of games than the motion controller. If you have to bring out an accessory to nail onto the bottom of your controller to make it actually work properly, you're taking the piss.
My Wii generally gets love for light gun games. I love light gunners, and naturally the Wii has a few. Ghost Squad, the incredibly OTT House of the Dead: Overkill, etc. Aside from that....Nights into Dreams II? And do any of these light gun games support the Motion+? Of course not, because Wii games don't get patched.
If you even attempt a comparison with my PS3, the Wii really is a piece of shit, and the Move I got last weekend makes their motion control look like it was made by disabled chimps.
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The Drawing Lamp, by designer Thomas Feichtner, is a barebones light source that can be leaned closer to your desk for a more focused glow. Feichtner describes the Drawing Lamp, which he designed for himself, as "reduced to the basics."
Designers like Feichtner often need focused lighting when sketching by hand, and the svelte Drawing Lamp provides this when needed with only its cord, thin steel, tube and single LED. To illuminate the rest of the desktop, the light can be raised back to its upright position. Dead simple, easy on the eyes, and highly functional—adjectives that are not found on my desk often enough. [Thomas Feichtner via Dezeen]


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Winsted operating in the red
WINSTED >> Cash flow concerns left the Board of Selectmen on their heels Monday night, and answers have yet to materialize. However, town officials -- and the residents who publicly criticized them -- agree that something must be done to keep Winsted out of the red.
The Board of Selectmen acknowledged that multiple bills have gone unpaid, and that the ongoing lack of cash on hand could jeopardize town services and the salaries of employees. The issues stem from accounting irregularities, and although the problem had been growing for some time, the financial problems came to a head at Monday night's meeting.
"It seems to me it's a little outrageous that the town is going broke," said Jay Budahazy at the Jan. 7 Board of Selectmen meeting. "We have beaches that won't be open because $38,000 was cut from the recreation budget."
Town manager Dale Martin -- whose performance evaluation was scheduled later in the meeting -- acknowledged that the cash flow problems have stemmed from the ongoing issues in the town's finance office. Martin said that he expected the issues would be resolved soon, stating that "that will all be worked out when we get a finance director on board," although the town manager stopped short of saying the town would hire a new finance manager on Feb. 1.
"Something should have been done years ago," said Martin, "and I don't know why the town didn't do anything."
The problems raised at the meeting have reached as far as the town's school system, which has historically faced calls for more financial transparency. Board of Education member James Roberts called for that same transparency from the town, remarking that multiple school district bills had gone unpaid or underpaid. One of those bills was the town's tuition at the Gilbert School, whose superintendent acknowledged that the reason the Gilbert School Corporation did not grant Winsted a reduction of its tuition bill was because the town could not immediately pay the lower amount.
"This is just a plea that we can have some financial honesty," said Roberts at the Board of Selectmen meeting.
Brian O'Heron went further, recommending a forensic audit of the town. O'Heron praised the board for coming together in order to call for a thorough look at the Water and Sewer Commission's finances -- the commission is also running low on cash -- and said the town should follow suit.
"I think it was a great step forward tonight," said O'Heron, "that one person proposed that we get all the facts on the table about one specific issue, and everybody agreed to it."
O'Heron noted Winsted's history of cash flow problems during his comments. The town ran low on funds in late 2009, heading off its own financial cataclysm by postponing payments to vendors, instituting a spending freeze and banking cash from the state. Henry Centrella, who was the finance manager at the time -- and is on leave due to accounting irregularities -- said the town would have been $1.7 million short by mid-December 2009 if actions were not taken. O'Heron called for another bipartisan answer to the town's issues.
"Let's get it all on the table," said O'Heron. "Let's get rid of the politics and let's all work together."
The fiscal issues have had wide-ranging impacts, ranging from utility bills to income. Martin acknowledged that while he expected the issues would be resolved after a new finance manager is hired, relief in the form of $190,000 in returned tipping fees from Regional Refuse Disposal District 1 will not be available for their intended general use. Instead, the fees will be used to pay down the town's fees for the next six months.
"We're far past the time when we need to be honest," said Sterling. "We don't even know if we're going to make the mayor's salary."
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Frozen Egg
Name: unnamed
Species: Amphista
Birthday: Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Owner: WolfeDente
This gray egg has a few blue scales adorning it.
There are many strange and wondrous creatures who reside at The Keep, but amphistas may be the most unique. Whereas most creatures possess only one head, amphistas have two. They are indeed two beasts contained in one body, siblings who share each other's thoughts and knowledge. Their very existence is steeped in magic, and would do much good for all the magi, but amphistas are secretive beasts who prefer to keep their powers to themselves. They do not go out of their ways to help others, but are more content to watch from the shadows, observing everything and thinking their own dark thoughts. Amphistas may be the most difficult creatures of all to tame, as their natures tend to be dark. A magi must patiently train and discipline an amphista from the moment it is born: if the training is poor, the amphista will grow into a bitter and dangerous companion. Even when raised well, amphistas love nothing more than playing cruel pranks and scaring other creatures. Amphistas in the wild are confined to the deepest caves, where they live out their mysterious lives. To find an amphista egg is a rare occurrence, as they are carefully guarded and almost constantly protected. Because amphistas rarely move, villagers know where they live and never approach their dens. Towns may be nearby, though, for amphistas are not great threats if avoided. This is because, despite their cruel tempers, amphistas do not prey on animals or humans. These strange beasts eat ants, and nothing else.
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The fourth branch of government runs the entire thing, they run the legislative, executive, and judicial branches, they run our money system, the Fed, other businesses, and they run you and me (ht Point).
Bank of America spent $1.5B on lobbying
Published: July 22, 2009 at 3:17 PM
WASHINGTON, July 22 (UPI) -- Bank of America Corp., which accepted $45 billion in taxpayer bailout money, has spent $1.5 billion on lobbying so far this year, U.S. Senate records indicate.
The Charlotte, N.C., bank -- one of the nation's largest -- has sought to sway senators and members of Congress on more than two dozen pieces of legislation, records indicate.
BoA has lobbied for flexibility in spending government rescue funds and against restrictions on executive compensation. It also has lobbied on home mortgage issues and credit card fees, as well as a consumer-rights bill, student lending issues and a proposed federal regulatory oversight agency, the records obtained by The Charlotte Observer suggest.
The documents don't say what positions the bank took. Bank spokeswoman Shirley Norton would not comment to the newspaper other than saying it was interested in tax reform and regulatory issues.
Critics argue that until banks repay taxpayer bailout money, they should steer clear of lobbying.
"As long as they hold on to a very substantial portion of public funds, and are publicly owned essentially, they should not be using any of their funds for lobbying purposes or campaign contributions," Craig Holman, government affairs lobbyist for the non-profit advocacy group Public Citizen, told the newspaper. "And you'll find Bank of America is doing both."
Bank of America's lobbying tab was $2.3 billion in the first half of 2008, the Senate records state.
"We're cutting expenses across the company, including lobbying expenses," Norton said.
The only way we are ever going to get a stable and lasting economic system is when this type of nonsense ends. We must separate all corporations and their money from state.
When we do that, THEN we can have a smaller government that works. THEN we can have politicians that make decisions not for special interests, but for the LONG TERM good of our country. Until then, everything else is just debt on top of debt that ultimately feeds these institutions.


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Jefferson Davis was one of the most influential American politicians in the 19th century. He was an important military figure, serving as Colonel of the Mississippi rifles in the Mexican War, and bringing in important military inventions as Secretary of State. He was the Southern leader in the Senate during the antebellum period. But his most important role came as President of the Confederate States of America, as he tried to lead a floundering new nation, guide her armies to victory and stave off defeat as along as possible. Although ultimately he was not successful, he was hailed as a hero by the South and loud cheers were given at the very mention of his name. During the war he had many enemies, but they almost unanimously rallied around him as a symbol of a political system and cultural structure that they had been forced to give up, but still cherished in their hearts. All this was possible because of four main qualities: trust in God, decisiveness, choice of men, and integrity.
|Davis in about 1847
Trust in GodThroughout his life Jefferson Davis saw himself as a Christian, and attended church. But in 1862 as the Confederacy began to enter dark times, Davis turned to God even more. He was baptized in the Episcopal Church, publicly proclaiming himself to be a Christian. Jefferson Davis frequently in both public and private writings referred to God, and requested His help in their cause. As a prisoner Davis relied upon God and spent time reading the Bible and religious books. His doctor wrote:
There was no affection of devoutness of asceticism in my patient; but every opportunity I had of seeing him, convinced me more deeply of his sincere religious convictions. He was fond of referring to passages of Scripture, comparing text with text, dwelling on the divine beauty of the imagery, and the wonderful adaption of the whole to every conceivable phase and stage of human life. The Psalms were his favorite portion of the Word, and had always been. ... There were moments, while speaking on religious subjects, in which Mr. Davis impressed me more than any professor of Christianity I have ever heard. There was a vital earnestness in his discourse, a clear, almost passionate, grasp in his faith; and the thought would frequently recur, that a belief capable of consoling such sorrows as his, possessed, and thereby evidenced, a reality - a substance - which no sophistry of the infidel could discredit.1Although today Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are typically thought of as the most Christian of the Confederate leaders, Jefferson Davis was a very devout Christian as well.
|Davis in Prison
DecisivenessAs President of the Confederacy, Davis demonstrated decisiveness. He made mistakes, but he made them quickly. He was not rash, but he made up his mind quickly and worked to implement his decision. It is worse for a leader to be uncertain than wrong. If he was uncertain, Davis would never make a decision. Even if he leaned toward the correct solution, he would never have made up his mind and therefore would never have taken action on anything. Historian Joseph McElroy wrote:
It is doubtless true that it is more dangerous to a leader to be uncertain than to be wrong. The uncertain man confesses thereby the need to be led; and that other, when found, becomes the leader. Davis made many errors; but indecision was not among them, a fact which largely accounts for his continuing leadership, though it accounts also for many of his mistakes. As he was confident that his constitutional views were unassailable, so was he later confident with respect to his military views.2
|Davis, 1853
Judge of MenDavis had the ability to choose good men as his subordinates. Since he had been Secretary of War, Davis had some knowledge of the officers he would have available to him to choose from for leadership roles in the Confederate army. Unlike Lincoln, Davis did not give political appointments. Lincoln entered into his presidency with very little military knowledge, and he appointed politicians to commands for which they had no ability. Davis in general steered clear of these appointments, and although some were temporarily disappointed, it did well for the South in the long run. He wrote, "The appointing power is a public trust, to be executed for the public welfare, not a private fund with which to discharge personal obligations."3 Instead of politicians, Davis instead appointed when possible men with military training who had experience which qualified them for their positions. He said, "If Napoleon, himself more highly endowed by nature with every military attribute than any other general of the Christian era, thought it essential to teach himself his business by incessant study, how much more is such study necessary for ordinary men."4
Davis was strong in likes and dislikes. He was intensely loyal to his friends, and cool towards his enemies. But perhaps Davis's greatest service to the Confederacy was his relationship with Robert E. Lee. In the first year of the war Lee did not meet with the public's approval. He had a few military reverses, and no grand successes. But Davis trusted him and still had confidence in him. When the opportunity presented itself, Davis appointed him to the command of the Army of Northern Virginia. In this position he made history as one of the greatest generals in modern times. When he had reverses, Davis did not throw him away. He remained confident in him, thus probably extending the Confederacy's life for many months.
|Davis 1885
IntegrityOne of Jefferson Davis's greatest strengths was his integrity. When he swore to uphold the Constitution, he believed that he had to obey that oath. He believed it was his duty to strictly apply his interpretation of the Constitution. He wrote:
The Constitution and laws should be masters, and public officers, like private individuals, only their servants. Beyond the lines of their strict constitutional powers such officers are as literally without authority, before the law, as the humblest citizens; for they are, in fact, private wrong-doers, and not public officers, from the moment that they have transgressed those constitutional limits.5He had no kind words for those who said there was a higher law that they could turn to to violate the Constitution:
You have among you politicians of a philosophic turn, who preach a high morality; a system of which they are the discoverers.... They say, it is true the Constitution dictates this, the Bible inculcates that, but there is a higher law than those and they call upon you to obey that higher law of which they are the inspired givers. Men who are traitors to the compact of their fathers – men who have perjured the oaths they have themselves taken – they who wish to steep their hands in the blood of their brothers; these are the moral law-givers who proclaim a higher law than the Bible, the Constitution, and the laws of the land. This higher-law doctrine … is the most convenient of which I have ever heard – for the criminal.... What security have you for your own safety if every man of vile temper, of low instincts, of base purpose, can find in his own heart a law higher than that which is the rule of society, the Constitution and the Bible?6This stands in sharp contrast to the view of Abraham Lincoln. He thought that the preamble of the Constitution gave the guidelines towards which he was to act, and he was at liberty to break any specific injunction while doing it. One historian has written, "He was ready to violate any specific clause of the Constitution if by so doing he could serve its main purpose; and he interpreted his powers as including anything to save the Union."7 Many Southern politicians of the Civil War eara have been criticized for using the state's rights issue only as a pragmatic argument in their pushing for or against slavery. But this criticism does not apply to Jefferson Davis. He believed in the State's Right doctrine with all his heart, and applied it throughout his life.
After the Confederacy was crushed, Davis was imprisoned, and although the government could find no crime for which to try him, he remained there for two years. His friends begged him to ask for pardon, since it was very likely it would have been granted, but he refused. He would rather suffer many trials than even hint that the principles for which the Confederacy fought were wrong. He said:
Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so just, so sacred, that had I known all that has come to pass, had I known what was to be inflicted upon me, all that my country was to suffer, all that our posterity was to endure, I would do it all over again.Although the Confederacy had been defeated, Davis hoped that the principles for which they had fought would still live on. He said, "Truth crushed to the earth will rise again … in its might, clothed with all the majesty and the power that God gave it, and so the independence of these states, the Constitution, liberty, state sovereignty, which they won in '76... can never die...."8
|Davis after the war
1. Jefferson Davis: ex-president of the Confederate States of America : A Memoir by Varina Davis (New York: Bedford Company, Publishers, 1890) vol. 2, p. 672-673
2. Jefferson Davis: The Unreal and the Real by Robert McElroy (New York: Smithmark Publishers, 1937) p. 312-313
3. Ibid, p. 314-315
4. Ibid, p. 315
5. Ibid, p. 310
6. Ibid, p. 187-188
7. Ibid, p. 311
8. Ibid, p. 678