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"Each time I step into this kind of conference, I am impressed with the amazing amount of skills they gather. And if I do the math, multiplying this skills by the fourty-plus years of activity ahead of these young researchers, engineers, PhDs, I realize that the future of our society is precisely here. This is the new elite of this country as well as of the world for this conference has a worldwide scope. The Ivy League and the Grandes Ecoles, so typical of the French system are already dead as a doornail, they just haven't realized it yet."
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NoSuchCon is a three-days-long conference set up by volunteer members through a non-profit organization.
The project is the offspring of well-known people of the cybercommunity, people used to international IT security conferences and, up-until-then, of organizers of Hackito Ergo Sum. Each member of the organization is, in a variety of projects, part of the international cybercommunity. The organizing team is moved by the ambition of gathering the best researchers in ethical hacking and IT security, of sharing innovation, inform and transmit knowledge with the final goal of stepping up the technical level of the community.
NoSuchCon presents new and exclusive contents regarding IT security. The conference is a crucible for different IT security experts coming in different flavours: professionals, enthousiasts, hackers ; renowned or more secretive. NoSuchCon conference allows to share best practices ; let new tendencies and exclusive research appear, anticipating the challenges to come.
NoSuchCon is a place for both well-known, top-guns of the cybercommunity, as well as young talented researchers at the dawn of their careers or others presenting their results anonymously. NoSuchCon pursues multiple goals but mostly wants to foster exchange, federating different communities such as students, key actors of the industry, private and public sectors. It also wants to make room for practical demonstrations as well as innovative theoretical findings.
Among the themes of interest will be: vulnerabilities assessments and analysis, SCADA architectures, reverse engineering, attacks on critical infrastructures, Cloud computing security, botnets, Threat Intelligence, etc.
The program committee comprizes some of the best hackers and security researchers worldwide, from both academics and industry, which is a key factor to guarantee quality content. It will be uniquely diverse in its international composition. Bridging over frontiers and sovereignty issues, ideological and economical differences, the program committee looks for people able to share their research findings and propose new concepts.
Joffrey Czarny (Sn0rky)
Security researcher, VoIP hacker, Ambassador of Happiness and Healthy Living
Renaud Bidou
No comment
Cedric Blancher (Sid)
Researcher, serial-speaker, snowboarder and skydiver
"Sid" Blancher, the first president of NSA (No Such Association) who left us in November 2013. The ISS community misses him very much. Surely enough, he will be with the rest of us to make NSC 2014 an amazing experience.
Jonathan Brossard (Endrazine)
Elite computer terrorist. Old school reverse engineer. Speaker at Blackhat/CCC/Defcon.
Veronique Loquet
Relationista behind the scenes, involved in some hackers communities around the planet with an historic focus on open source and security areas.
Arnaud Malard (Sud0man)
Pentester, researcher (when I have time), skier, snowboarder and father of 2 tiny hackers.
Nicolas Massaviol
The flying security guy
Nicolas Ruff (Newsoft)
Security researcher, hacker, blogger, serial speaker, troll herder, happy father, and more ...
Sébastien Rummelhardt
Assistant deputy director, Propaganda Department (Propdep) -- Ministry of Truth, Bullshistan.
Matt Suiche
Well known for his technical contributions to the law-enforcement community for the Windows hibernation file, Windows physical memory acquisition and Mac OS X Physical Memory Analysis. Speaker at PacSec, BlackHat USA, EUROPOL High Tech Crime Meeting, Shakacon...
Stéphane Avi
Pentester and more ...
Valérie Micaux (athoms)
Graphic designer at home, happy girl and snowboarder
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Andrea Allievi - Understanding and defeating Windows 8.1 Patch Protections: it's all about gong fu! (part 2)
Andrea Allievi is an Italian computer security researcher with over 6 years experience. He graduated in 2010 from University Milano Bicocca with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. For his thesis, he developed a Master Boot Record (MBR) Bootkit entirely in 64 bit capable of defeating some Windows 7 protections. He is also the original designer of the first UEFI Bootkit. Andrea specialized in operating systems internals, from kernel level code all the way to user-land code.
He has completed a lot of security-related researches, ranging from all kind of Malware (especially Kernel-mode rootkit) to the analysis of particular Operating systems security features (like Windows 8 AppContainers for example).
Andrea works as a Security Researcher in the Talos Security Research and Intelligence Group at Cisco Systems Inc.
Jean-Philippe Aumasson - Cryptographic Backdooring
We describe the different classes of cryptographic backdoors, which depend on where sabotage occurs in the cryptographic supply-chain. We characterize and categorize backdoors, in terms of discoverability, detectability, and exploitability, and propose semi-formal definitions in order to encourage a more rigorous study of malicious cryptography.
Several examples are discussed, from straightforward coding backdoors to Dual_EC or the recent sabotaged SHA-1 instances.
Jean-Philippe (JP) Aumasson is Principal Cryptographer at Kudelski Security, in Switzerland. He is known for designing the cryptographic functions BLAKE, BLAKE2, SipHash, and NORX. He has spoken at conferences such as Black Hat and CCC, and initiated the Crypto Coding Standard and the Password Hashing Competition projects. He is member of the technical advisory board of the Open Crypto Audit Project. JP tweets as @veorq.
Andrea Barisani - Forging the USB armory
Inverse Path recently introduced the USB armory project, an open source hardware design, implementing a flash drive sized computer for securityapplications. The USB armory is a compact USB powered device that provides a platform for developing and running a variety of applications.
The security features of the USB armory System on a Chip (SoC), combined with the openness of the board design, empower developers and users with a fully customizable USB trusted device for open and innovative personal security applications.
The presentation will cover the journey that we have taken to develop the USB armory board from scratch, explaining the lessons learned and its prospected applications.
Andrea Barisani is an internationally known security researcher. Since owning his first Commodore-64 he has never stopped studying new technologies, developing unconventional attack vectors and exploring what makes things tick...and break.
His experiences focus on large-scale infrastructure administration and defense, forensic analysis, penetration testing and software development, with more than 13 years of professional experience in security consulting.
Being an active member of the international Open Source and security community he contributed to several projects, books and open standards. He is now the founder and coordinator of the oCERT effort, the Open Source Computer Security Incident Response Team.
He has been a speaker and trainer at BlackHat, CanSecWest, DEFCON, Hack In The Box, PacSec conferences among many others, speaking about TEMPEST attacks, SatNav hacking, 0-days, OS hardening and many other topics.
Anthony Zboralski - No Such Security
Anthony Zboralski is a computer hacker who has worked as a security expert for nearly 20 years. He has experience performing penetration tests, security assessments and related services for industries areas ranging from manufacturing through telecommunications and banking to government. Some of his activity as a teen was recorded by security expert and technologist Bruce Schneier: "In 1994, a French hacker named Anthony Zboralski called the FBI office in Washington, pretending to be an FBI representative working at the U.S. embassy in Paris. He persuaded the person at the other end of the phone to explain how to connect to the FBI's phone conferencing system.
Since then Zboralski has turned his attention to information security. He has assisted numerous governments and dozens of Fortune 500 companies to help test the security of systems and highlight their vulnerabilities. He is now founder and CEO of Belua, an experimental search engine dubbed "the anti-google project
Nicolas Collignon - Google Apps Engine security
Based on a feedback from multiple penetration tests and codes reviews, this talk answer practical questions concerning GAE: How secure is the Google GAE infrastructure? How Google protects your applications? How a GAE application hosted in Google datacenters may affect the security of your internal network?
This talk is not about theory or trolling on "is-cloud-good-or-wrong", but will present real-world attacks, including arbitrary code execution to escape the Python sandbox in the Google datacenters and exploration of the GAE platform outside of the Python sandbox.
Nicolas Collignon has been auditing and pentesting information systems for more than 9 years. He's the author of several publications such as "Playing with Windows /dev/(k)mem", "Tunneling TCP over RDP: rdp2tcp", "Shell over DTMF", "VMware and virtualization security" or "JSF ViewStates upside-down". He is currently leading the penetration testing team at Synacktiv. For the last 2 years, he has spent a considerable amount of time hacking Android operating system and Google services.
Benjamin Delpy - Mimikatz
Benjamin Delpy, is a security researcher know as 'gentilkiwi'. Presented at Black Hat, Defcon, PHDays, BlueHat, and more. Security enthusiast, he publishes tools and articles in order to speak about product weaknesses and to prove some of his ideas. Mimikatz was his first software that reached an international audience. It is now recognized as a Windows security audit tool - http://blog.gentilkiwi.com/mimikatz
Sebastien Dudek - HomePlugAV PLC: practical attacks and...
Domestic Power-line Communication (PLC) devices are used to extend a LAN network as well as WiFi does, but using the power-line support. Even if PLC have a bad reputation because of few aspects in the past (bad security, bad speed, not stable because of perturbations, ...), this technology grown up and offers a better connection, more stable with an encrypted conversation between two PLC devices. Someone who wants to extend his private network easily without additional wires, or without spending a 'fortune' on wireless repeaters, will use PLCs. Moreover, Internet Service Providers in France usually provide a HomePlugAV embedded in the power supply of their routers and set-top-boxes. As HomePlugAV is implemented on a lot of devices, we were interested to study their security, and their weaknesses.
In this talk, we will see how PLC work with a detailed network analysis. Then we will discover few practical attacks to penetrate, and backdoor a private LAN.
Sébastien Dudek is a security researcher at Sogeti ESEC R&D labs. His main fields of interest are radio communication technologies (GSM, GPRS, RFID, Wi-Fi, POCSAG, DECT...), but also other areas like software, web, and network security.
He has been a speaker at Hack.lu 2012 speaking about GSM protocol stack fuzzing and his fuzzing environment. Interested in application security, particularly on Linux, he has also contributed for the french magazine MISC #62 on current Linux mitigations, and possible ways to bypass them.
Georgi Geshev - Your Q is my Q
Message Queueing concepts are well established in enterprise environments which are already known to be fairly insecure. Now that the Internet of Things is gaining momentum, MQ is also the lightweight mechanism of choice for communicating with your fridge and toaster. We discovered a series of vulnerabilities in several widely adopted MQ implementations that would allow an adversary to cause a mass disruption in your corporate network or maybe pull off the shadow file from your neighbours' microwave. General MQ concepts will be briefly introduced to the audience, followed by a short attack surface walk-through and quick review of the common vulnerabilities and typical misconfigurations and ways to identify and leverage them for fun or profit.
Georgi is a security researcher for MWR InfoSecurity in the UK. Prior moving to the UK, he worked in Australia where he was mostly drinking golden ales and fighting with kangaroos. He was at some point of his life involved with a couple of local chapters of OWASP. His main areas of interest include bug hunting, reverse engineering and cryptography.
Ezequiel Gutesman - Blended Web and Database Attacks on Real-time, In-Memory Platforms
It is well known there is a race going on in the "Big Data" arena (take a drink for even thinking about the "Internet of Things"). One of the stronger competitors in the "Big Data" market is Real-Time, In-Memory Platforms. An interesting thing about this platform and, the one we will talk about specifically, is that it blends everything to increase performance. The database tables, webserver engine, webserver code, authorization, analytics engine, libraries, etc. are all optimized to, if possible, never touch the disk.
Surprisingly, this causes a perspective shift for the web and database application threat landscape and how security professionals should address it.
Ezequiel Gutesman is Director of Research at Onapsis. He has led security research projects for the last 10 years giving talks and presentations in international security conferences such as Black Hat, Hack.Lu and Ekoparty. Ezequiel is responsible for Onapsis innovation in cutting-edge ERP security assessment techniques and defensive technologies.
Peter Hlavaty - Attack on the Core
Kernel vulnerabilities was commonly used to obtain admin privileges, and main rule was to stay in kernel as small time as possible! But nowdays even when you get admin / root then current operating systems are sometimes too restrictive. And that made kernel exploitation nice vector for installing to kernel mode!
In this talk we will examine steps from CPL3 to CPL0, including some nice tricks, and we end up with developing kernel mode drivers.
Peter (@zer0mem) is a security researcher at KEEN Team (@K33nTeam) and his primary focus is kernel exploitation. Peter has 4+ years' experience at IT security in different areas as malware research, developing anti-APT solutions or windows kernel dev & research.
Alex Ionescu - "SURPRISE TALK"
Alex Ionescu is the Chief Architect at CrowdStrike, Inc. Alex is a world-class security architect and consultant expert in low-level system software, kernel development, security training, and reverse engineering. He is coauthor of the last two editions of the Windows Internals series, along with Mark Russinovich and David Solomon. His work has led to the fixing of many critical kernel vulnerabilities, as well as to over a few dozen non-security bugs.
Previously, Alex was the lead kernel developer for ReactOS, an open source Windows clone written from scratch, for which he wrote most of the Windows NT–based subsystems. During his studies in Computer Science, Alex worked at Apple on the iOS kernel, boot loader, and drivers on the original core platform team behind the iPhone, iPad and AppleTV.
Richard Johnson - Fuzzing and Patch Analysis: SAGEly Advice
Last year, in "Taint Nobody Got Time for Crash Analysis", we presented implementations of analyses performed on taint traces that included a tool to help determine input leading to a crash and an exploitability evaluation tool based on symbolic execution. This year we will expand on these topics with a study of our efforts towards improving the effectiveness of binary differential analysis (bindiff) and replicating Microsoft Research's work on the "Scalable, Automated, Guided Execution" (SAGE) fuzzer. Richard Johnson is a computer security specialist in the area of software vulnerability analysis. Richard currently fills the role of Manager of Vulnerability Development in charge of vulnerability discovery, triage, and mitigation research within Cisco Sourcefire VRT, offering 12 years of expertise and leadership in the software security industry. Current responsibilities include research on exploitation echnologies and automation of the vulnerability triage and discovery process. Previous areas of security research and tool development include program execution tracing, taint analysis, fuzzing strategies, memory management hardening, compiler mitigations, disassembler and debugger design, and software visualization. Richard has released public code for binary integrity monitoring, program debugging, and reverse engineering and has presented annually at top-tier industry conferences worldwide for over a decade. Richard is also a co-founder of the Uninformed Journal.
Renaud Lifchitz - Quantum computing in practice
There are a lot of fantasies and myths about quantum computers. Do they exist? In what are they useful? Dive into quantum computing and learn how to develop your own quantum algorithms and run them. Discover how cryptography will be affected and change in the next future.
Renaud Lifchitz is a French senior IT security consultant. He has a solid penetration testing, training and research background. His main interests are protocol security (authentication, cryptography, protocol security, information leakage, zero-knowledge proof, RFID security) and number theory (integer factorization and primality tests).
He currently mostly works on wireless protocols security and was speaker for the following international conferences: CCC 2010 (Germany), Hackito Ergo Sum 2010 & 2012 & 2014 (France), DeepSec 2012 (Austria), Shakacon 2012 (USA), 8dot8 2013 (Chile).
Rob Rachwald - The Nitty Gritty of Sandbox Evasion
With organizations facing a deluge of cyber-attacks, virtual-machine sandboxing has become a popular tool for quickly examining legions of files for suspicious activity. These sandboxes provide isolated, virtual environments that monitor the actual behavior of files as they execute. In theory, this setup enables security professionals to spot malicious code that evades traditional signature-based defenses.
But sandboxes are only as good as the analysis that surrounds them. By themselves, sandboxes can only monitor and report file activity, not analyze it. And unfortunately for organizations that rely on them, the file-based sandboxes used by many vendors are proving oblivious to the latest malware. Attackers are using a variety of techniques to slip under the radar of these sandboxes, leaving systems just as vulnerable as they were before.
Rob Rachwald has worked in security for more than 15 years. At Intel, Rob worked on securing their supply chain management system. Additionally, Rob managed product marketing at code review companies Fortify and Coverity. Before joining FireEye, Rob was at Imperva for four years as the senior director of security strategy and oversaw Imperva¹s thought leadership initiatives.
Braden Thomas - Exploitation of a hardened MSP430-based device
This presentation walks through the reverse-engineering and exploitation of a hardened embedded device and provides certain techniques you can use to exploit similar devices. As MSP430 devices become more common, it is slowly becoming the norm to encounter devices in production with blown JTAG fuses. Previously, this was a significant hurdle. In 2008, Goodspeed described several attacks against the MSP's BSL (bootstrap loader). This presentation will review those attacks and describe the challenges facing a researcher attempting to perform them. This presentation will demonstrate how to reliably perform successful firmware extraction on a MSP430 with a blown JTAG fuse. Additionally, the presentation will cover what you might see while reverse-engineering MSP430 firmware. Finally, it will describe a software-only attack that uses a feature of BSL to extract sensitive data from RAM.
Braden is currently a senior research scientist at Accuvant, focusing on embedded research in the AMI and medical device industries. Prior to Accuvant, he worked as a Product Security Engineer at Apple for 6 years.
At Apple, Braden focused on drastically increasing the internal fuzzing throughput and coverage, as well as performing proactive security reviews for many high-profile features.
Guillaume Valadon, Nicolas Vivet - Detecting BGP hijacks in 2014
The main goal of this talk is to raise awareness of routing security issues by providing a tutorial on the BGP routing protocol and on the detection of specific routing events called IP prefixes hijacks. We hope that the security community that attends NSC will find interest in network-related issues. In a nutshell, such events happen when two network operators announce overlapping IP prefixes using BGP. As a consequence, IP packets could be delivered to these two operators. The final destination mainly depends on the home network of the sender. Overlapping announcements can disturb the whole Internet as observed in 2008 when YouTube traffic was partially redirected to Pakistan Telecom.
However, duplicated and overlapping announcements may also be legitimate when an operator wishes to distribute its DNS servers using anycast to filter out DDoS attacks, or needs to assign IPv4 resources to its clients. As a consequence, detecting and classifying hijacks is a challenging task, not only because the dataset is large (around 500 Gb per year), but also because of engineering and commercial practices.
We have been monitoring events that affect French network operators since 2011. This talk will present issues that must be addressed while trying to detect hijacks on the Internet, and focus on France as well as Europe to provide examples.
The outline of the talk will be the following: 1. how does BGP work ? 2. what are hijacks ? 3. engineering Best Current Practices defined by the networking community that could block them 4. offline detection: challenges & results 5. online detection & active measurements: challenges & results.
Guillaume is an Internet professional that works for ANSSI and holds a PhD in networking. He likes looking at data and crafting packets. In his spare time, he maintains Scapy and tries to learn reversing stuffs. Also, he still remembers what AT+MS=V34 means.
Nicolas is a network security engineer at ANSSI, French Network and Information Security Agency. He spends his days developing elegant solutions to Internet-scale problems. He also works on the security of a wide range of network related devices.
Damien Cauquil - Hardware Workshop - Fun with RF remotes
RF remotes are cheap and everywhere, and pretty easy to hack: people knows about Software Defined Radio and how much fun it could bring to the masses. SDR is cool but requires some specific knowledge and not-very-affordable tools when it comes to send crafted RF signals, i.e. with an HackRF or a BladeRF board. This workshop will demonstrate how a RF remote basically works (electronics, RF protocol, data encoding) and how to turn it into an attack tool without using any microcontroller or computer.
No computer programming nor electronics skills required, only a brain and two hands. We will provide all further required materials to the attendees.
Damien Cauquil is the R&D Director at Sysdream, a French IT security company but also a professional pentester who loves reverse-engineering, coding and other security-related topics.
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TL;DR ===== Conference: NoSuchCon 2014 Date: 19-21 November Venue: Paris, France Motto: "the bullshit-free conference" CFP deadline: September 30st 2014 Web: www.nosuchcon.org Contact: cfp{at}nosuchcon.org Twitter: @NoSuchCon Details ======= The USA are sucking oil from this planet up to the last bit. Russia has invaded Western Europe. Crypto has failed. You cannot wipe your a** with your Bitcoins, because it is not even paper. Justin Bieber almost lost his O-1 visa. Jade the Rabbit is dead. Only 7% of Yahoo! video chats actually involve nudity. Clear signs that the end of the world is coming. What are *you* going to do? Getting drunk with cheap Bud? Do yourself a favor: settle for no less than Champagne. Or at least Bordeaux wine. Submit to NoSuchCon 2014! If you are not clever enough to have been abducted by Cicadia 3301, but still smart enough to be in the "cybersecurity" field those days, do not miss this unique opportunity to gather one more time before the Cybergeddon. Show up with never-seen-before and hardcore research materials to NoSuchCon 2014! If you call yourself a hacker, but did not sell your company over $19bn (yet), stay calm and submit to NoSuchCon 2014! We provide free trips to Paris for the best of you! This operation will be known as PONY COLLECTION. And do not worry, there will be NSA[*] members all around the place. Wearing orange T-Shirts. Just like last year[**]. It all started here: cfp{at}nosuchcon.org At least if you can write at least 20 lines of text before September 30st. Wow. Such Conference. So 2014. Many submissions. [*] No Such Association [**] https://twitter.com/k8em0/status/335258070471016448/photo/1 Program Committee ================= Ange Albertini @angealbertini Julio Auto @julioauto Piotr Bania @piotrbania Sergey Bratus @sergeybratus Jonathan Brossard @endrazine Cesar Cerrudo @cesarcer Travis Goodspeed @travisgoodspeed Alex Ionescu @aionescu Tim Kornau Itzik Kotler @itzikkotler Aaron Portnoy @aaronportnoy Nicolas Ruff @newsoft Peter Van Eeckhoutte @corelanc0d3r Nicolas Waisman @nicowaisman Arnaud Abbati @noarfromspace Xavier Mertens @xme Jean-Philippe Aumasson @veorq Bruce Monroe Vincent Benony @bSr43 Saumil Shah @therealsaumil Florian Ledoux @myst3rie
Three Nexus 5 devices will be made available by the conference organizers and preloaded with the latest version of Uhuru Mobile. Those devices will be available on site during the 3 days of the event.
The phones will be in working field condition (encrypted and setup). Passwords (encryption and unlocking) will be provided.
The objective of the challenge is to recover a file that is stored locally. In order to win, the contestant must provide the jury with all tools and resources that were required at all stages of a successful attack.
The prize is set to €300 for the first to win (shared among winners if they played as a team). The jury consists in people from Nov'IT and NoSuchAssociation. The contest will start at the opening of the conference, and will stop immediately after the closing speech.
There is no preliminary registration required. Anybody seated at the challenge table can play. Anybody leaving the table has to yield to the next contestant. First come, first served.
The contest is open to everyone except Synacktiv employees and NSC organizers.
Participation in the challenge can be anonymous but the winner must provide his identity to receive the prize. To win the contest, you must discover and send a password to an email address of the form [0-9a-f]{firstname.lastname@example.com. These two elements are the solution of the third challenge. You also have to send a written solution within 10 days to the same email address.
The winner is the first person to send this email.
The solution must be written in English or French and must contain the different approaches used to solve each stage of the challenge and the tools used (private tools can remain private but the author will have to describe how they work).
The challenge ends Monday, November 3 at 10am, Paris time.
Prize for the winner of NSC 2014 challenge is a ticket for a security conference and refund of traveling & accomodations for the conference. The maximal cost (ticket & expenses) will be up to 3000€.
If no one has solved the last challenge, the people who solved the first 2 parts of the challenge will be invited to send the fullest possible solution before Monday, November 17 at 10am. Synacktiv will select the winner based on the quality of the solution (preference will be given to original and inventive solutions, the presentation is not important).
Participation in the challenge is individual but a one-time call to a friend is allowed.
Only challenge's IPs and services can be attacked.
Any attempt of brute-force, denial of service, mental or physical attack on an organizer will cause a temporary or permanent ban.
Attempts to bribe challenge's organizers (especially with beer and sausages) are allowed, but their results can not be guaranteed.
Synacktiv may disclose clues on his twitter account: Synacktiv
By entering the challenge, participants give their tacit consent to the publication of their solution associated with their name or pseudonym.
Winners of the NSC challenge!
Fabien Perigaud
Solution: NSC_challenge_2014_FABIEN_PERIGAUD.zip
David Berard & Vincent Fargues
Solution: NSC_challenge_2014_D.BERARD_V.FARGUES.pdf
Eltrai & Frisk0
Solution: NSC_challenge_2014_Eltrai_Frisk0.pdf


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Tir na n-Og 2014 Award
First-Time Author Scoops Tir na n-Og Award
Carmarthenshire-based author Wendy White has won the annual Tir na n-Og award with Welsh Cakes and Custard, her début novel for children.
This award – organised by the Welsh Books Council, and sponsored by CILIP Cymru/Wales – celebrates the best English-language title with an authentic Welsh background. In a prestigious event held at Cardiff Central Library on 15 May, the award was presented to Wendy White for her book Welsh Cakes and Custard (published by Pont/Gomer).
Welsh Cakes and Custard, illustrated by Helen Flook, is a charming series of stories about two young children, Betsi Wyn and Emyr Rhys, who encounter new and sometimes alarming things for the first time. Both children spend a great deal of time with their grandparents, who are positive and encouraging role models for the youngsters.
The panel of judges agreed that Welsh Cakes and Custard skilfully showed aspects of contemporary life in Wales, introducing unforgettable characters in Betsi Wyn and Emyr Rhys, who are brimming with personality.
Lorna Herbert Egan, Chair of the Tir na n-Og English-language Panel, stated of the winner: "She is a perceptive author who understands young children, and her book will educate and entertain youngsters and sharing adults. Text and visual elements work well together, and the joyous illustrations by Helen Flook, the inclusion of both a recipe and traditional song lyrics in Welsh and English, produce a gem of a book which is warm, funny and curriculum-friendly."
Elwyn Jones, Chief Executive of the Welsh Books Council, said: "A number of exciting books were considered for this year's Tir na n-Og Award, reflecting the quality and range of titles available for children. It is with great pleasure that we warmly congratulate Wendy White and Pont Books on their achievement."
Wendy White, a former teacher at Ysgol y Castell, Kidwelly, said: "I'm delighted to win the Tir na n-Og Award. It's a great honour for me to win this important award with my first book, as it will certainly encourage me to keep on writing. I love writing about children, so it would be wonderful to have a second book published about Betsi Wyn and Emyr Rhys. I'm also writing a story for young adults and grown-ups about a six-year-old boy who is having a difficult time at home."
The Tir na n-Og English Award – which recognises the exceptional quality of books with a Welsh background for children and young people – is sponsored by CILIP Cymru/Wales (The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals).
The winners of the Welsh language categories of the Tir na n-Og award were as followsPrimary: Cwmwl Dros y Cwm by Gareth F. Williams (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch)Secondary: Diffodd y Ser by Haf Llewelyn (Y Lolfa)
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Historical Novels Triumph at the 2014 Tir na n-Og Awards
In a ceremony held at the Urdd Eisteddfod in Bala, it was announced that the 2014 Tir na n-Og Awards have been won by two novels based on historic events.
The winner of the primary schools category is Gareth F Williams, for his novel Cwmwl dros y Cwm. Published by Carreg Gwalch, it is based on the fictional experiences of 13 year old John Williams, who moves to Senghenydd with his family from north Wales when his father decides to seek work in the south Wales coalfield.
Speaking at the awards ceremony, Gareth noted: "The centenary of the Senghenydd disaster last year inspired me to write the novel. What happened there on 14 October 1913 – the background to the book – was shocking because of the enormity of the disaster. A total of 440 men and boys lost their lives that terrible morning. My aim with Cwmwl dros y Cwm was to bring their stories to life for a new generation of Welsh children, who know precious little about the disaster, and relay that tale through the eyes of a 13 year old boy who lived through it."
This is the fifth time for Gareth to win the Tir na n-Og Award, which is presented annually by the Welsh Books Council to the authors of the best books for children and young people published during the previous year. The awards were established in 1976 and, over the years, they have been presented to some of Wales's leading authors of children's books.
The winner of the secondary schools category is Haf Llewelyn, whose novel was also inspired by historical events. Published by Y Lolfa, Diffodd y Sêr is based on the Evans family of Yr Ysgwrn, Trawsfynydd, and their famous son – fallen World War I poet Ellis Humphrey Evans (Hedd Wyn) – whose story unfolds through the eyes of his younger sister, Annie.
Haf, speaking at the awards ceremony, noted: "I was inspired to write Diffodd y Sêr following a trip with friends to see the World War cemeteries at Ypres in Belgium, where we visited Hedd Wyn's grave. It was an odd feeling to see row upon row of white gravestones with Welsh names etched on them, and the full realisation of how young those boys were really affected us. "After I got home I began to read many letters from soldiers on the front to their families, and vice versa. And that was it – I was caught up in the story, and had to start writing."
Elwyn Jones, Chief Executive of the Welsh Books Council, said: "It is a privilege to congratulate Gareth F Williams on winning the Tir na n-Og Award for a record fifth time which confirms his ability to write captivating stories for children. We also to congratulate Haf Llewelyn, who has also established herself as an author of excellent books for children and adults. The standard of the books on the short list was particularly high this year, reflecting the wide variety of the titles published. We warmly congratulate both authors, together with their respective publishers Carreg Gwalch and Y Lolfa, on their success."
The Tir na n-Og Awards are sponsored by CILIP Cymru/Wales (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals), together with Cymdeithas Lyfrau Ceredigion.
2014 Tir na n-Og shortlists
2014 Best English-language Book Category The Seven – Steve Gladwin (Pont)The Wild West Show – Phil Carradice (Pont)Welsh Cakes and Custard – Wendy White (illustrated by Helen Flook) (Pont)
Best Welsh-language Primary Category Ar Fferm Sgubor Wen – Caryl Lewis (Gwasg Gwynedd)Dafydd a Dad – Manon Steffan Ros a Jac Jones (Y Lolfa)Cwmwl dros y Cwm – Gareth F. Williams (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch)
Best Welsh-language Secondary Category Haciwr (Cyfres Pen Dafad) – Hywel Griffiths (Y Lolfa)Diffodd y Sêr (Cyfres yr Onnen) – Haf Llewelyn (Y Lolfa)Pedwar (Cyfres Mellt) – Lleucu Roberts (Y Lolfa)
Full details and reviews of the books can be viewed on www.gwales.com
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Could 'Moneyball' be Brad Pitt's ticket to the Oscars?
On Thursday, Columbia released the trailer for the highly anticipated adaptation of Michael Lewis' 'Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game,' in which Pitt plays Oakland A's GM Billy Beane, a man who used sabermetric principles to boost his team's winning record on a tight budget.
Judging by the trailer, the film looks to be 'Jerry Maguire' meets 'Erin Brockovich.' In other words: Brad might want to schedule Angie for another trip to the Kodak Theater.
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Today is my niece Mahima 's 17th birthday.
Happy birthday Mahima.
Her name means Glory or God 's Praise.
Posted by Amrita at Friday, October 23, 2009
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happy birthday to mahima!! she is gorgeous. sounds as if she lives up to the meaning of her name.
Dear Amrita,
You are a woman of many interests and skills. I like and admire your broad horizon.
I also like the way you make me smile and giggle when I read your blogs.
In Norway we say "a good laugh prolongs the life".
Well, then you have added much to my life.
Have a good week-end.
From Felisol
Good gracious, Mahima is incredibly beautiful. Good looking ladies run in your family, Amrita!!!
She should follow her aunt into teaching! But she will have to combine sternness with her love of children, or they will get into mischief! How well I know!
I like what you cooked. I can tell I would get quite fat (well, fatter) if my dream of visiting all my bloggie friends all over the world comes true!!!
You are incredibly beautiful!!
And you have a wonderfully nice Aunt in Amrita..
Happy Birthday to your niece. She is stunningly beautiful, with a name to match.
We too like to watch cooking shows and my husband improvises with some of the recipes & makes them his own. He does most of the cooking and I do the baking.
Lovely young woman .. your niece! Happy Birthday Mahima!!
Cooking shows are a good way to develop cooking skills. Improvising and adapting recipes is quite a good skill to acquire.
I went to our local health food store today and inquired about holy basil tea .. and bought a box of tea bags ... holy basil and organic black tea leaves mixed together ... quite good .. called Indian breakfast tea on the box. Thanks for mentioning it a while back.
She is lovely.
Happy day to you, too Amrita. Always enjoy what you share. Hope your mama is improving.
Hi Amrita,
Last night I cooked the Ziploc omelets you showed on the 20th. They were delicious! I'd never heard of this before reading about it on your site; thanks for a handy tip.
Mahima obviously takes after her aunt!
She's very beautiful your niece, Happy Birthday Sweet one.
I would eat what ever you cook. I love food. Don't watch many cooking shows.I'm from the South, so we have our own way of cooking, and pretty much stick to it.
Thank you so much for stoping by Hon,I always enjoy your visits.
XXOO Marie Antionette
Hi Amrita:)
I will have to repeat what many of your blogger friends said- Your niece MAHIMA is stunningly beautiful.
My happy birthday wishes to this lovely young girl. May the Almighty God bless her and grant her all happiness and success.
Have a wonderful day Amrita:)
Happy birthday to your niece :)
The food looks yummi :)
God bless you.
Happy Birthday to your precious one and only niece! She is very beautiful, her hair is sooo pretty. I've read that the most beautiful and healthy hair in the world is that of women from India. They are in high demand for wigs!
I hate to show my ignorance, but I'm not familiar with an aubergine. Is it similar to an eggplant? I look forward to your enlightenment!
Your niece Mihima is most attractive, happy birthday to her.
Thank you for your sweet comments. I will ask Mahima to read them too.
Hi Pat auberbine and eggplants are the same I think
Thanks Pat for asking a question I also had. Amrita, at least once before you made me hungry. Nice post.
"Happy birthday". Your niece looks beautiful, hope you all had a nice day.
happy birthday, mahima! amrita, she's pretty!
Happy Birthday to Mahima. May she have many more blessed and abundant birthdays to come. She is very beautiful and charming. I'm sure there are many young boys teasing her already at her tender age. You must really be fond of cooking. Thanks for the post. God bless you always.
Mahima is stunningly beautiful!!!
Happy Belated Birthday to her and I pray for God's richest blessings on her life!
I have been neglecting my comments - taking a few moments today to "stop and smell the roses" as they say! Or in this case, I'm imagining smelling that delicious looking eggplant! I have made stuffed augergines several times --not as often as my Italian Grandma used to - and not as often as my Italian Mom does! Brillo Man is not a huge fan of eggplant (?!) so it's not something I make often --but when I do...I enjoy them! Reading your post has made me hungry...now I must go in search of some food!
Thanks for your prayers for Randy -his surgery is Wednesday. Watch the Sister's blog for updates!
I'm praying that God blesses you tremendously today!
Love you!
Hello! I haven't been by in far too long - sorry about that!
Oh, yummy! The aubergine dish looks wonderful!
Your niece is a lovely young woman and it is obvious how proud you are of her. She is a tribute to her name's meaning and her beauty demonstrates a good heart.
God bless you today and always!
Oh how beautiful your niece is! She looks very sweet, too. Doc watches cooking shows all day. Which is kind of absurd, but he enjoys them. Saturday I bought an Indian lunch at the Farmer's Market. I always think of you when I see that vendor. Her name is Nena and sometimes she has younger Indian women working for her. My Doctor (Sagegh) is also Indian and I see women with saris on, etc, in his office all the time. He is very nice looking and uses the computer so well, and he is very kind. I have had quite a few Indian doctors as they often work for the clinics and so on. I always like them. They are gentle people who seem like healers.
Very belated birthday greetings to your niece. She is a beautiful young lady.
Dear friends, Mahima asked me to convey her thanks to all of you for your greetings.
yummy yummy yummy is all i can say amrita!
what do you ever mean that you are not fancy!
i don't know what aubergines are!
are they some kind of potatoes?
happiest birthday to the sweet "glory", .mahima..love terry
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A Recruiter's Bucket List
A Recruiter's Bucket List
By Peter Weddle
You may have seen the movie. The Bucket List starred Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as two aging men who meet in a hospital while each is dealing with the shock of learning they are terminally ill. They decide to devote their remaining time before they "kick the bucket" to experiencing a list of dreams—some modest, some not—that they had never found the time or the opportunity to realize while they were raising families and earning a living.
The movie is a poignant treatise on friendship in unlikely places, and perhaps more importantly, a powerful lesson about how best to live our lives (and our careers). It offers an admittedly old truism, but one worth remembering: we should never put our dreams off because we don't know how long we will have to see them come true.
With that thought in mind, I offer my bucket list for recruiters—the things we should strive to get to while we can. It's an abbreviated list, so is not meant to identify everything that we might hope to accomplish in the course of our careers. In addition, some of the goals may be beyond our reach—at least without some outside cooperation—while others are much more susceptible to our own efforts. However, all of the goals—be they large or small—are worthy aspirations. By reaching for them, we improve our experience as recruiters.
How should you read the list? Simply insert the following phrase in front of each item: "At some point in my career—and the sooner, the better—I would like .to …"
1. Work for a CEO who gets it. We know they can say it—"Our employees are our most important asset" is the siren song of every CEO worth his or her salt in corporate America—what we seldom experience is one who does it. Indeed, the limit of what many executives seem willing to invest in their workforce (and the recruiting team that brings it in the door) is just that—verbal capital or what you and I call "hot air." If they really believe they can't get by without great talent, they will have to open their wallets in a much bigger way. And those that do are the organizations for which we should seek to work.
2. Work with hiring managers who get it. Too many of today's managers think that it's still 1952 and there's an unlimited supply of top talent just salivating at the chance to work for them. They are too busy to write a decent requisition, get involved with sourcing candidates or learn how to prepare for and conduct an effective interview, but they always have enough time to wail about what they perceive to be inadequate recruiting support. If they want to see more high caliber applicants for their openings, however, they will have to get more involved in filling them. And those that do are the business partners to whom we should devote our best efforts.
3. Work with coworkers who get it. While recruiters are formally charged with acquiring talent for the organization, it is clearly in everybody's best interest to ensure that their coworkers are as capable as possible. Especially in these days and times, there's no better form of security than an organization brimming with high caliber workers. Which begs the question: why is it so difficult to get people involved in their organization's employee referral program? If our coworkers want to get more satisfaction and security out of their work, they will have to work harder at searching out and selling top talent. And those who do are the employees we should celebrate and support.
4. Work with an applicant tracking system that gets it. Recruiters may be responsible for processing a lot of information, but that is by no means their most important accountability. In addition to acquiring top talent, they also have a fiduciary responsibility—they must ensure that they invest their employer's money wisely. To do that, they need accurate data on the source of their applicants, and they rely on their ATS to get it. Unfortunately, however, the rudimentary technology offered by many ATS vendors is simply not up to the task. If these vendors want to help recruiters get smarter about where to spend their recruitment budget, they will have to upgrade their source identification capability. And those that do should be the vendors from which we buy our systems.
5. Work with applicants who get it. Unfortunately, a lot of applicants today think that the question we want them to answer is "What have they done?" And, of course, the insight for which we're really looking is "What can they do?" For us? Right now and in the future? The fact that they've been in the workforce for twenty or thirty years doesn't mean a thing if their skills and knowledge are that old, as well. If they want to get considered by us, therefore, they will have to bring themselves up-to-date. And those who do are the prospects we should pursue most aggressively.
The notion of a bucket list, I suppose, can be off-putting at first. It can seem … well, a bit pessimistic. On the other hand, if we see it as our horizon, as the future toward which we would like to journey, then it is as hopeful an outlook as one can have. It affirms our ability to better our condition, to reach for the richest and fullest experience we can have in the one-third of our lives that we spend at work.
Thanks for reading,
Visit my blog at Weddles.com/WorkStrong
Peter Weddle is the author of over two dozen employment-related books, including Recognizing Richard Rabbit, a fable of self-discovery for working adults, and Work Strong, Your Personal Career Fitness System.
© Copyright 2010 WEDDLE's LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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SAS is No. 1 in advanced and predictive analytics market share, says analyst report
SAS again surpasses all predictive and advanced analytics suppliers, according to the IDC report, Worldwide Advanced and Predictive Analytics Software Market Shares, 2017: Open Source Continues to Threaten.
SAS led with a 30.8 percent market share in 2017 in the advanced and predictive analytics category, more than twice that of the next-closest competitor. According to the report, SAS increased market share with 5 percent revenue growth in 2017. SAS has led in the predictive and advanced analytics category since IDC started tracking the market in 1997 and has exhibited continued growth every year in the category.
"SAS has been able to retain authority in the advanced and predictive analytics market and continue to grow year over year," said Chandana Gopal, Research Manager for Business Analytics at IDC. "This is not an easy feat given the rise in the number of competitors entering the market. SAS' tools now make it easier for users to develop in open source tools and then integrate their models into the SAS Platform. Capabilities like this help SAS stay at the top of the category."
SAS reinvests into R&D more than twice the average for major technology firms. In 2017, SAS devoted 26 percent of its overall revenue of $3.24 billion into developing AI, IoT, data management and analytics software. Driven by more than 40 years of innovation, SAS has customers in 147 countries and at more than 83,000 business, government and university sites.
"We continue to work closely with our customers to transform a world of data into a world of intelligence," said Jim Goodnight, CEO of SAS. "Over the years, SAS has developed and refined an incredibly deep set of capabilities in advanced analytics that has propelled us to the top of the market. But we are not content to stand still. A curiosity about what's possible, and a passion for analytics shared with our customers, means ceaseless development in emerging areas like AI, machine learning, IoT, risk management, fighting fraud and more."
Powered by the SAS® Platform, a strong analytics foundation that tackles a diverse set of challenges at scale, customers are empowered to make trusted business decisions from data-driven insights. The most recent release of SAS® Viya® embeds transparent artificial intelligence (AI) technology. New machine learning techniques help data scientists and business users alike produce more accurate analytical models with added layers of interpretability.
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Fundamental Optical Processes in Semiconductors (FOPS)
Welcome to the Fundamental Optical Processes in Semiconductors (FOPS) Conferences
About This Site
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Meowllo evewypawdy and happy Caturday. Well weez didn't get any visitin' dun yesfurday, and may not get much dun today eevew. And nope it wusn't cuz we wuz out stwollin' eevew. We finally got sis Lexi's test wesults in da mail. And yous know what? They purrppussly sent them to da wrong addwess. Oh yes they did. And yep yous guessed it, mommy's livid. Then on top of dat when she opened them da furst page had sissy's urinalysis on it and It clearly shows an infection. Dat's wight, there's an infection. And da VET sed in da email she sent us as well as on da fone when she talked wiff mommy dat there wuz no infection whatsoevew. So sissy be havin an infection and maybe even pain and not getting' any tweatment whatsoevew. Mommy feels just pawful dat all this be happenin' to Lexi. Well mommy spent most of da day pourin' ovew those wesults twyin' to figger it all out, and postin' 'em to Tanya's site so we kuld get sum help figgewin' all this out. Weez not postin' da wesults here as we don't know how many of ya' wuld care to see them or unnewstand what yous be lookin' at.
Da one fing we did learn fur sure is dat sissy's phosphorous levels dat we wuz so worried 'bout actually be low, too low in fact. You know what dat means? She can hav any food she wants and as much of it as she wants. Well gotta tell ya' dat makes sissy happy. Or at least it will when she figgers it out. She just tried a food dat she luvs, luvs, luvs. It's callled Soulistic Tri-Fusion Tuna wiff Salmon, beef and duck in gravy. Moommy set da plate down and walked into da livin' room and set meez plate down and walked back to da kitchen to get hers cup of coffee, and sissy's plate wuz licked clean. Yep, empty, evewyfin' wuz gone and sissy wuz smackin' hers lips. And this is a food dat wuz borderline fur her ifin she needed to lower hers phosphorous levels, but now dat she dusn't have to worry 'bout dat she kuld have this all day long.
Well anyways, we hope to get back to visitin' soon but mommy duz need to work on makin' a plan fur sissy's care furst. Hers got to check on sum supplements dat be wecommended fur all CRF/CKD kitties like B-12, and figger out what to do 'bout sissy's infection. So it may be a busy day on da fone/puter/road fur mommy. So weez'll see ya' soon. And till then enjoy sum Caturday art. Weez joinin' Athena and Marie fur da Caturday Art blog hop. Pop on ovew and check out all da pawsum posties. And join up yous selves while yous at it.
Till da nex time……………………..Be Blest!!!
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We are so glad you found a food Lexi loves and now you know she can have, sending big purrs her way for all to be healed quickly for the infection.
Pardon me, but the vets in ur area SUCK!!!! I'll b prayin u can find a good one soon, maybe there r reviews somewhere online??? Is there a list like Angie's List for vets?


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Is America's campus culture becoming anti-Semitic? Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League says no. A recent ADL survey reported that the percentage of anti-Semites on campus is low-3 percent of students and 15 percent of faculty. (Why the teachers should be five times as bigoted as their students is an interesting question.)
On campus, a different question is being asked: Can't you oppose Israel's policies without being called an anti-Semite? Of course, but anti-Israel rallies at colleges often bristle with contempt for Jews, and anti-Semitic incidents seem to be on the rise. If this were happening to Muslims, there would be a national uproar.
Consider some signs of the times: a pig's head left at the door of the Hillel building at Indiana University, swastikas on a Jewish structure at the University of Colorado, a Hillel center window smashed with a cinder block at the University of California-Berkeley, and expletives written on the building. At the University of California-San Diego, an annual "Anti-Zionism Week" (recently given a more upscale name-"From Oppression to Liberation Week") is supported by student fees. "Very, very anti-Semitic stuff" circulates on the San Diego campus, one Jewish student said, including the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and a fake Talmudic quotation giving permission for Jewish males to violate any non-Jewish female over the age of 3. At the University of Chicago, a Jewish student group said, "Jews are being mistreated and intimidated on campus . . . anti-Semitism has been made acceptable, even fashionable, by a long process of academic delegitimizing of Israel and Judaism."
Chris Silver, co-chair of the Israel Action Committee at Berkeley, said something similar: "There's a lot of anti-Semitism that goes on here separate from the massive amount of anti-Israel sentiment that can be found in every department and in every classroom." (Off campus, too. Amiri Baraka, New Jersey's poet laureate, is in the news for anti-Semitism again, this time for some doggerel implicating Jews in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.)
No room on the bus. An op-ed writer at the Detroit News asked, "When did anti-Semitism lose its seat on the bus of political correctness?" He meant, why doesn't the PC culture protect Jews? The answer is that seats on the PC bus are reserved for certified victim groups, but Jews don't count. They have been historic victims for centuries but are doing too well in America to qualify as officially aggrieved. And as Muslims have been welcomed into the grievance culture, the status of Jews on campus, the stronghold of PC, has become problematic.
Israel itself is often seen as an intolerable colonial outpost, planted in the historically victimized Third World by the West. The thing that most Americans admire about Israel, that it has many of the same features as the United States -- free speech, an open society, democratic institutions -- makes it a natural target of America-hating campus sentiment. Hostility to Israel was a strong feature of the New Left in the Sixties as it is of the campus left today. And as Boston Globe columnist Cathy Young pointed out last week, sympathy for the Palestinians, even when they are blowing up Israel's women and children, "stems largely from the knee- jerk instinct to romanticize the 'wretched of the Earth.' "
Anti-Israel activism on campus is mostly the work of Muslim students and the far left. Some of the ugliest incidents have occurred in the San Francisco Bay area, where the left is unusually strong. At Berkeley, Silver says, "Instead of rallying behind Iraq, the hard left here tends to keep focusing on Israel."
The divestment movement is the successor to last summer's atrocious U.N. conference on racism.
So do the sponsors of an anti-Israel conference that will start October 12 at the University of Michigan. They condemn the "racism and discrimination inherent in Zionism" (which seems to mean that Israel is an illegitimate state that will have to go) and refuse to criticize the suicide bombings because "it is not our place to dictate the strategies and tactics adopted by the Palestinian people."
The primary carrier of the "Israel is illegitimate" message on campus is the movement to get universities to stop investing in corporations that do business in Israel. Divestment won't happen, but a slanderous point is being made, that Israel is a hopelessly racist state, the one nation in the world that must be singled out for financial punishment. The divestment movement is the successor to last summer's atrocious U.N. conference on racism, which surveyed the entire world but chose to focus on only one "racist" state, Israel. For the backers of divestment, political opposition to Israeli policies isn't nearly enough. No, the only open, democratic nation in its part of the world must be isolated as a pariah. Is this what people on campus really want?
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An Atlanta-based company is proposing to build a 371-foot tall pyramid-shaped structure that would include 500 apartments, indoor parking, a mall, a movie theater, bowling alley, restaurants, a hockey rink, a baseball field and ponds, among other features. The price tag? A staggering $130 million, or more.
Officials from Camp and Associates are working to purchase 80 acres of land east of Williston for the project. Gil Geiger, vice president of the company, said he and partner Bill Camp created the concept to help with the housing needs in North Dakota, but also to create something unique that would bring visitors to the area.
A pyramid? Really?
The 371-foot tall structure, which would take up to two years to build, would dwarf the state Capitol, currently the tallest building in the state at roughly 242 feet. Such a massive building certainly would stand out on the northwest North Dakota prairie, rising above the area's oil drilling platforms.
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When chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, got up to speak at the Conservative party conference on Monday, he knew he had to tread a fine line between optimism that the British economy could recover and wasn't going to fall into a "double-dip" recession, versus facing down calls from the Liberal Democrats to ease public spending cuts and those on the right of his own political party calling for an end to the 50p tax rate at the very least.
It wasn't an easy task, but he just about managed it. However, he did so in a rather contradictory and confusing manner.
There were really no new announcements in the chancellor's speech; what we got were mostly policies that we already knew were coming or -- in the case of freezing Council Tax -- the same policy for a second year in a row. It also happened to be a policy that would save the average UK family a grand total of £1.50 per week!
The only new policy announcement was, of course, that the government would pursue begin "credit easing" -- except that unfortunately this wasn't a new policy either. (More about that later.) For the next hour or two after he first used the term, political journalists at the Conservative party conference were left scratching their heads, trying to work out what credit easing actually meant.
What they were told by Treasury officials was that it amounted to the government buying corporate bonds from small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) – effectively lending those businesses the money they need to either grow and expand, or simply stay in business, because the banks still appear reluctant to do so.
Apart from the idea being a tacit admission that Project Merlin, the government's agreement with the banks that it won't hit their compensation bonuses next year if they manage to lend several billion pounds to SMEs this year, was not succeeding sufficiently in its aims, the policy represents a number of problems for Osborne.
Worse still, it shows that the cuts in UK government spending are ideologically driven rather than based on sound finance. The credit-easing policy idea also raise s a number of difficult questions that, as yet, the Treasury hasn't been able to answer.
The first of these, and the most obvious, is where is the money to lend to these businesses going to come from?
So far the coalition government's plan to reduce the structural deficit doesn't really appear to be working. Public borrowing hit a record high for the month of August, which suggests that either the chancellor isn't really getting his sums right or increased public borrowing is becoming necessary to pay for automatic stabilizers such as jobseekers' allowance and other benefits.
Journalists briefed by Treasury officials on Monday were told that the credit-easing scheme could lead to tens of billions of pounds being lent to SME's. But how is the government going to be able to lend this money to small businesses when it tells the public that it doesn't have the money to maintain police office numbers? Will it have to increase public borrowing in order to lend the money to business? And if so why borrow to lend to business and not to keep hospitals open?
Following on from this initial problem, there are various other questions that need to be addressed and about which the government is presently fairly hazy.
These questions include, who will qualify for these loans? How will the Treasury or the Bank of England – which is thought likely to manage the scheme on behalf of the government – decide which business is deserving of a loan and which isn't? How will an SME be defined? Will it be a company of five individuals, a sole trader, or will there be a qualifying number of staff, say 100?
Will SME's have to provide profit and loss accounts for the last five years? Will they have to submit business plans to show what they are going to do with the money?
Apart from all these questions -- and they are just a sample of the many that have so far been left unanswered -- is the inherent risk in lending any money to small businesses. It's why so many banks are refusing to do so. Many of them fail.
So this raises even more questions such as how will the government recoup its losses from those that do? Will it ever be able to? And if not, what will be the efffect on public finances? Will further cuts become necessary because the Treasury took a gamble on a whole bunch of small businesses that went belly up?
The above questions is and that specific inherent risk of SMEs failing is why the Bank of England's governor Mervyn King rolled back on Alistair Darling's same policy proposal two years ago, telling the then-chancellor that he had no real problem with the policy itself except that because it involved risking taxpayer's money it should be the elected government that took that risk. I told you it wasn't a new policy.
So when the chancellor said yesterday that borrowing an additional five, ten or 20 billion pounds for public spending would put at risk the UK's credit rating, what did he really mean? This is where the ideology comes in.
Osborne is a believer in the idea that business will flood into any gaps left by reduced public spending, and if not, then volunteers will – this is the core belief of the Conservative party's often-mocked Big Society program. Close a village library, or threaten to do so, and either the private sector will step in to run it or the village will come together to raise enough money to keep it open or run the library off the back of charitable donations. And so on.
What Osborne tends to ignore -- apart from the fact that in deprived areas the community may struggle to keep its local library open because they're so busy just trying to keep their heads above water -- is the fact that a lot of businesses, as well as banks, all over the world, right now are hoarding cash whatever their size, and as a result are unlikely or unwilling to fill the gaps left by the government.
The problem is that, if those of a more entrepreneurial persuasion are unable to secure the funds they need to set up businesses, or are too busy shoring up their balance sheets to take on the risk of further investment, then the services once provided by the government simply disappear.
Such gaps in the economy have a negative impact on growth. So is Osborne offering a way of funding the public sector by the back door?
I suspect so. I've no proof that this is going to be the case, but given past Conservative policy and the fact that both the chancellor and prime minister consider themselves the heirs to previous prime minister Tony Blair's public sector reforms, it wouldn't surprise me.
The only way we'll know if I'm correct will be to see which businesses are the recipients of these loans. But personally I suspect restaurants, for example, won't be among them.
Osborne's policy is based on the theory that the government will one day get its money back from the loans it makes to these small businesses. In the meantime, the private sector will bring market forces and competition to outdated methods of providing public services.
Osborne is still spending the money he suggested yesterday he would not. He just doesn't want anyone to think he is.
And by dressing it up as a loan to small businesses, he is able to maintain the argument that the government is reducing government waste and overspending on services that he believes are in desperate need of reform.
It seems to me to be one very large gamble and I'm not entirely sure it will work. In fact, I fear it will simply mean that most people in Britain will end up paying more for poorer quality public services that have been channelled toward the private sector, all through the back door.


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"The ineptitude of the failed Corbyn coup". Not only did the coup plotters do something really stupid and wreck their political careers - though some will be rewarded with appointment to the House of Lords, and some will end up in a rump party of some sort - they appear to have jumped into this without any thought of the consequences. Lemmings leaping off the cliff, hoping to land on the roof of a helicopter passing by.
Think about this for a minute. How can this possibly be happening? These people aren't stupid. They are aware of polling, and the deep and wide support in the party for Corbyn. They know they cannot possibly succeed.
There is literally only one possible explanation. World Jewry, terrified at the likely prospect that the next election will yield a Prime Minister of Britain who is profoundly pro-Palestinian, has decided to blow up and destroy the entire Labour Party.
You can see why realism is necessary to understand the world, and necessary for self-preservation.
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