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32 state Attorneys General to Congress: Don't replace our stronger privacy laws!
A bipartisan group of 32 state Attorneys General, led by Illinois AG Lisa Madigan, sent a joint letter last week to the House Financial Services Committee leadership against the draft (link includes opposition testimony of Massachusetts Attorney General's Office) "Data Acquisition and Technology Accountability and Security Act" that PIRG has also been opposing. The bill incorporates numerous aspects of previous Trojan Horse privacy laws pushed in Congress.
What has brought together 20 Democrats and 12 Republican state consumer cops against this bi-partisan proposal, co-sponsored by Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-R) and Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (NY-D)?
As the letter points out, the proposal "...appears to place Equifax and other reporting agencies and financial institutions out of states' enforcement reach. This bill totally preempts all state data breach and data security laws, including laws that require notice to consumers and state attorneys general of data breaches."
The draft bill requires merchants, telecoms and some others to notify the public when they are hacked. But it exempts firms already covered under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999, which includes all banks and "other financial institutions", including Equifax and the other big credit bureaus. Under GLBA, they do not have to provide breach notices, only breach response plans. It would also override and replace stronger requirements that many states already have in place.
More from the letter: "Consumers must know right away if their data has been compromised so that they can take pro-active steps to protect themselves from identity theft before it happens, not after the fact." We agree!
In detailed testimony to the committee before the draft bill was circulated, U.S. PIRG outlined the numerous flaws in predecessor legislation. Privacy expert Laura Moy of the Georgetown University Law Center's Center on Privacy and Technology explained to the committee that states are securing more kinds of information (locational and biometric, e.g.) and protecting consumers from many more types of harms, including physical harms (a domestic abuser could track a previous victim after a data breach).
This bill is the worst of both worlds. If these industries want a uniform standard, which is often the selling point behind this and other bad federal data breach bills we've seen before, they could take the strongest state laws and apply them to all consumers across the country - they don't need Congress for that. This is simply an attempt to set weaker federal laws as the ceiling for what states can do to protect consumers.
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Blazing Saddles
Once upon a time in the golden period of films known as the 1970s, Mel Brooks was, along with Woody Allen, the biggest directing name in comedy. Both had been on the legendary writing staff of Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows in the '50s (along with Neil Simon and Carl Reiner) and both brought a distinctly Jewish tone to their slapstick. While Allen represented the Manhattan highbrow, Brooks's style lurked more in the offensively low end Borscht Belt style. By the '80s, when Allen's status raised to the level of genius, Brooks's comedy had already become passe and completely juvenile, working in the obvious (Spaceballs, Dracula: Dead and Loving It, etc.). But his early string of comedies, from The Producers through High Anxiety, created a lot of laughs, peaking in 1974 with two comic masterpieces: Young Frankenstein and, maybe even better, the bawdy western spoof Blazing Saddles.
The western spoof is almost as old as the western itself—you had Laurel & Hardy in Way Out West, The Marx Brothers in Go West, Mae West and W.C. Fields did My Little Chickadee, and Bob Hope had The Paleface and then Son of Paleface, not to mention Destry Rides Again with Marlene Dietrich (which Blazing Saddles actually directly spoofs). The '60s saw an examining of the western most directly through the Italian spaghetti westerns and American western comedies such as Cat Ballou and Support Your Local Sheriff! In the '70s, the reexamining went to the extreme as the western was turned in on itself and poked at by post-modernists with films as broad as Jodorowsky's El Topo, Altman&r...
Lost In America
Three comic masterpieces in a row is enough to put you on the higher rung of American humorists. The Marx Brothers had that run with Horse Feathers, Duck Soup and A Night at the Opera. Mel Brooks had The Producers, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein (with the less vital The Twelve Chairs mixed in). WC Fields had that amazing trifecta of You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, The Bank Dick and Never Give a Sucker an Even Break. Preston Sturges, Charlie Chaplin and Woody Allen are three more legends whose hot streaks went beyond three. Albert Brooks, an underrated comic genius of recent generations, is the forgotten man. Throughout the '70s he shined as a cutting edge stand-up comic and made groundbreaking short films for that first season of Saturday Night Live. He made his writer/director feature film debut in 1979 with Real Life, a wonderfully uncomfortable comedy that predicted the coming of reality TV. He followed it with Modern Romance, often called Brooks' Annie Hall, a deadeye take on both Hollywood and love. And then finally maybe his most perfect gem, Lost in America, the most biting satire of Ronald Reagan's "greed is good" 1980s yuppie culture. (A less sophisticated comic mind like Steve Martin poked fun at the culture with L.A. Story, but was actually embracing the superficiality.)
The first step in embracing an Albert Brooks film is deciding whether or not you can stomach him. The guy plays some of the most neurotic and deeply insecure characters in movie history, and as David Howard in Lost in America, he's as obnoxious as ever. The movie opens with him laying in bed with his wife, Linda (Julie Hagerty, fresh off another comic masterpiece, Airplane!). He can't sleep; he has second thoughts on the much bigger house they just bought and he's excited with anticipation for the big promotion he is expecting to get at the advertising agency he has worked at for eight years. He assures her once that promotion comes he will no longer be the uptight husband he can't help being. Linda is a study in understanding, but the next day she breaks down to a co-worker wondering if she can go on like this. To his shock and disappointment, instead of the promotion, he is transferred to New York. He throws a massive tantrum and is fired. In a sorta melt down, he convinces himself that he has been freed from the rat race and talks Linda into quitting her job too. They make a plan: sell the new house, cash out all their stocks and bonds, leaving them with $180,000 to live on for the rest of their lives (this was considered a lot in 1985), buy a motor home to escape from Los Angeles and travel the country (just like Easy Rider!), and maybe settle in a lighthouse in Connecticut where they can paint and write and no longer have to worry about ambition. Deal! First stop, Las Vegas, for a wedding vowel renewal. A monkey wrench is thrown into the works though. While David sleeps, Linda gambles away their entire fortune in a casino. It's even more downhill from there as they head East and now must rediscover themselves without the comfort of the nest egg.Continue Reading
Love And Death
I'm not enough of an expert in Russian literature to give Woody Allen's Love And Death it's full due, intellectually. I do know there's some Crime And Punishment, some Brothers Karamazov, some War And Peace, and some Chekhov being spoofed. Visually there are references to Allen's Swedish idol, Ingmar Bergman, with The Seventh Seal and Persona, and as well as some Charlie Chaplin. Allen also borrows healthily from his wisecracking forbearers, The Marx Brothers and Bob Hope.If Woody Allen's directing career can be broken into three sections - his early slapstick comedies, his middle important films, and his later mostly forgettable busts that he's been marred in for almost the last 20 years - then Love And Death marks the end of that first period. It would be his final "straight comedy" before making his evolutionary leap with his next film, the masterpiece Annie Hall. Love And Death ended his six-year period of comic experimentation following the hit and miss joke epics Take The Money And Run, Bananas, Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex, and Sleeper. Hard to believe at one time a film critic argued who was the more important comic filmmaker: Allen or Mel Brooks (after making the classics Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein)? Allen went on to do Annie Hall and Manhattan and about a ten more relevant films while Brooks did Dracula: Dead And Loving It. Woody was always growing, while Brooks peaked early. That is not to say Love And Death is only important as a growth record. It's also a great comedy on its own merits. It's beautifully shot in Hungary by cinematographer Ghislain Cloquet (Au hasard Balthazar, Tess, etc.). Also it's been cleverly scored with the music of 20th century Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev (later The Ren & Stimpy Show would use his music as well).
Like Allen's Latin American revolution comedy, Bananas, a lot of the fun is putting Woody in an absurd situation and letting him be Bob Hope. During the Napoleonic era, Allen, sporting his trademark horn rimmed black glasses, plays Boris Grushenko, a Russian coward ("Yes, but I'm a militant coward"). As his two virile brothers enlist in the military, Boris is too busy fretting about life and trying to get laid. The object of Boris's lust is his independent cousin, Sonja (Diane Keaton), however she is engaged to the herring merchant. Eventually Boris enlists in the army, becomes a hero, and then he and Sonja set out to assassinate Napoleon (played wonderfully by James Tolkan).Continue Reading
Richard Pryor Live On The Sunset Strip
It's a given that Richard Pryor is one of the most influential stand-up comedians ever (along with Lenny Bruce or George Carlin or Mort Sahl or whoever you want to put on a short list). His feature length performance film, Richard Pryor Live On The Sunset Strip, along with Richard Pryor Live in Concert a few years earlier, are still the benchmarks for stand-up comedy films. Sunset Strip may be slightly stronger because of the incredible autobiographical detail and honesty. He might have been a train wreck in real life, but on stage he was completely self-assured - without being cocky - and utterly honest about his own shortcomings, not to mention his takes on sex and race. Besides being hilarious, this film stand as a documentary about the mind of Richard Pryor and the unique way he interprets the world.
Like Bruce and Carlin, Pryor started off a TV-friendly, joke man who evolved when he found himself, got dangerous, got dirty, and embraced the counterculture. On The Sunset Strip is almost like an autobiographical one-man show; he talks about growing up in a brothel, how going to Africa changes him, working for the mob, but, most revealing, his cocaine abuse. In an almost too honest moment he discusses his famous "blowing himself up" incident. At the same time he still hits some great standards like the differences between men and women and black and white people. He also does his down & out character of Mudbone, for what he claims, thankfully, is the last time.Continue Reading
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
The opening title card of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution reads: "In 1891, Sherlock Holmes was missing and presumed dead for three years. This is the true story of that disappearance. Only the facts are made up."
This clever welcoming very much sums up the kitschy and revisionist way the story of literature's greatest detective is treated. One-time dance choreographer turned director Herbert Ross created a near-brand for himself in the '70s with his theatrical adaptations, with films like Funny Lady and Play It Again, Sam, and Neil Simon scripts including The Goodbye Girl, California Suite and The Sunshine Boys. But it is with this adaptation from the popular novel by Nicholas Meyer that Ross really gets to break away from his more stagebound roots, taking advantage of actual European locations and a very exciting cast to tell this tale of Holmes being treated by Sigmund Freud. (Later he would have success going back to his dancy roots with films like The Turning Point and Footloose.)Continue Reading
Young Frankenstein
The great horror spoofs are far and few between. For every Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein or Shaun of the Dead (both excellent) there are at least a dozen Scary Movies, Saturday the 14ths or Vampire in Brooklyns, most tend to range from lousy to lame. Young Frankenstein falls in the excellent camp, working as both a laugh out loud comedy and a perfect dissection of the style used by Universal in their famous monster period, directly spoofing both Frankenstein and its sequel, The Bride of Frankenstein. For director Mel Brooks it would mark the apex of his career after The Producers and Blazing Saddles, all three films featuring Gene Wilder who cowrote the Young Frankenstein script with Brooks. Wilder went on to direct his own films and neither Brooks nor Wilder would ever make anything as inspired as the three films they made together. They would even both later direct lousy and lame horror spoofs: Haunted Honeymoon (Wilder... lame) and Dracula: Dead and Loving It (Brooks... lousy). But together, combining both men's distinct comedy style, they created a film that is easily one of the two or three greatest horror comedies of all time.
American lecturer and doctor, Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (Wilder) can't live down his famous mad doctor grandfather (Mary Shelley's Dr. Frankenstein) and is truly embarrassed by his roots. When he inherits the family property in Eastern Europe he leaves behind his icy fiancée, Elizabeth, played by Madeline Kahn, on her own roll of big time performances in the period, including Blazing Saddles and Paper Moon. At the castle, he meets his new hunchbacked manservant, Igor (bug-eyed British comedian Marty Feldman), his sexy young laboratory assistant, Inga (Teri Garr) and the creepy maid, Frau Blucher (Cloris Leachman). After reading his grandfather's journals, Frederick becomes convinced he can reanimate life and sets about recreating his experiments. Like the original Frankenstein story, he brings a patched together man back to life but the man (Peter Boyle, very crafty casting) is accidentally given an abnormal brain and is a relegated to being a monster.Continue Reading

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OWASP Huntsville, Alabama
Welcome to the Huntsville, Alabama chapter homepage. The chapter leader is OPEN
OWASP Foundation (Overview Slides) is a professional association of global members and is open to anyone interested in learning more about software security. Local chapters are run independently and guided by the Chapter_Leader_Handbook. As a 501(c)(3) non-profit professional association your support and sponsorship of any meeting venue and/or refreshments is tax-deductible. Financial contributions should only be made online using the authorized online chapter donation button. To be a SPEAKER at ANY OWASP Chapter in the world simply review the speaker agreement and then contact the local chapter leader with details of what OWASP PROJECT, independent research or related software security topic you would like to present on.
to this chapter or become a local chapter supporter. Or consider the value of Individual, Corporate, or Academic Supporter membership. Ready to become a member?
Local News
Meeting Location - VERIFIED
The Huntsville chapter Committee met today (Feb 27,2010) and have official secured several high quality meeting locations. The first public meeting will be held at the new SAIC(SAIC.com) location in Huntsville's Research Park. SAIC has also mentioned that we will have continual access to the conference room depending on the number of attendees.
Google map link to the location [1].
TThe SAIC conference room that is currently approved will hold approximately 10-15 attendees comfortably. Other approved locations include the new CB&S Bank downtown location, and Intergraph in Huntsville. The CB&S conference room i will hold 12-17 and if additional space is required Intergraph has an auditorium that would be accessible. Based on other groups, we estimate 10-30 attendees for the initial March meeting (March 24, 2010)
When the Chapter meets
The Huntsville OWASP Chapter will meet the third (3rd) Wednesday of every month. The first meeting will be in March 2010. However, due to spring break, the first public meeting will be re-scheduled to March 24, 2010. The normal meeting schedule will return in April, and the projected date is April 12-2010. Location will vary depending on RSVP.
The March 24, 2010 meeting will provide an overview of OWASP and include high level information on projects, funding, current news, future plans, and an open discussion on the local Huntsville Chapter. A short presentation on OWASP will be provided by Joshua Perrymon, who will then open the meeting to the open discussion. We urge you to attend to better understand OWASP, what the Huntsville chapter is planning, and to provide feedback on current application security issues.
Chapter Meeting Times/ Schedule
11:30 -11:45 : Lunch / Social
11:45 -12:00 : Chapter News /Updates
12:00-:12:30-12:45 Talk (This is variable based on content and type of presenation)
12:45-1:00- Open Discussion / Q&A / FeedBack for next meetings content
- This is a rough schedule, but we will attempt to stick to it as close as possible. If presentations are to be over an hour appropriate announcements will be made ahead of time for scheduling. We understand that everyone can't be out of the office for several hours, and want to pack as much value and content into the alloted time as possible. The goal is for each atendee to walk away with usable information and value. If we are not doing that, thencontact us and let us know how to improve our meeting process.
Potential Training/ 1-day Application Security Conference Idea
We have discussed having a one day conference focused on Application Security. Tracks would be based on OWASP content, projects, methods, etc and how to put it all together to create and maintain an effective application security program.
Tracks/Session may be split based on technical and management focused material. This may be held Q4 2010 depending on community feedback, planning and budget. We can also start on a smaller scale to define a workable model before investing in a much larger event.
Attendees would be charged an affordable fee of $100-$250 with proceeds from the conference going directly into the Chapters OWASP PayPal fund. Vendor space would be available to help support the event as well.
Ideas/Comments may be sent to Joshua Perrymon (Josh AT PacketFocus.com)
Huntsville Chapter Board Members
The Huntsville Board has been selected for 2010 and had the first planning meeting February 27, 2010 at SAIC in Huntsville. The board was selected by community security leaders from a diverse background of companies. The board represents different members from various roles in each of their respective organizations to bring broad perspective, cross-industry experience, and to ensure the chapter operates effectively and provides value back to the community.
Previous Board Chairman: Joshua Perrymon: PacketFocus
Previous Board Members:
- Bob Luedeman: CB&S Bank
- Dean V. Della Pella: Intergraph
- Mike Lyman: SAIC
- Harold Cook: SAIC
Current board responsibilities include:
Speaker selection, budgeting/accounting, marketing, operations, integration with other security organizations, updating content, obtaining feedback from the local community, venue selection, catering, and event planning to name a few. The overall vision is to raise application security awareness among all Huntsville companies/organizations. We also want to bridge the gap between executive and technical in relation to application security to ensure a cohesive process that works from the top down.
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The professional association of OWASP Foundation is a not-for-profit 501c3 charitable organization not associated with any commercial product or service. OWASP is an open source project dedicated to finding and fighting the causes of insecure software to be successful we need your support. OWASP individuals, supporting educational and commercial organization form an application security community that works together to create articles, methodologies, documentation, tools, and technologies ("OWASP Materials").
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Membership Page Link for full details: www.owasp.org/index.php/Membership
Membership Levels
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Why Should I Become An OWASP Member or Organization Supporter
OWASP provides documentation, tools, methodologies, standards, articles, and message forums ("OWASP Materials") as a service to Internet users worldwide to help users and developers understand more about application security. OWASP makes these materials available to end users to help them acquire, build, test, and operate secure software. In addition to the benefits you receive as described above, your membership helps to support the growth of OWASP and the development of new and improved OWASP Materials. Because we are an open, non-commercial entity, we can take on projects that commercial entities driven by profit motives could not. Everyone benefits from these projects. Your support will help OWASP continue to find and fight the causes of insecure software.
How Are Funds Used?
OWASP is a 501c3 not-for-profit foundation, and all funds go directly to support OWASP projects, grants, chapters, and infrastructure. Our funds come from conferences, memberships, advertising, and individual and organization supporter contributions. The local chapter receives 40% of membership dues to fund overhead and growth. All records are documented, and maintained by OWASP and a local Huntsville Chapter board member.
Who Must Become an OWASP Member?
Memberships are not required to use OWASP materials under each project's open source license. Also, anyone can participate in or contribute to an OWASP project without becoming a member. Your membership fees are what make the various OWASP projects possible.
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To become an OWASP Member, an individual or organization must: Agree to the terms and conditions of the OWASP Membership Agreement. Pay the appropriate membership fee, depending on what type of OWASP Membership is indicated. (See top of page for both) Keep OWASP updated with accurate contact and business profile information. Enrollment as an OWASP Member is required before a commercial license to use the materials is established. The term of the agreement is one year from the date of execution. We appreciate your interest in becoming an OWASP Member. Click the "Register Now" logo to begin the OWASP Member registration process:
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Quick list of useful OWASP Documentation and Projects
OWASP Development Guide
a massive document covering all aspects of web application and web service security (Assessment Criteria v1.0)
OWASP .NET Project http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_.NET_Project the purpose of the this project is to provide a central repository of information and tools for software professionals that use the Microsoft .NET Framework for web applications and services. (Assessment Criteria v1.0)
OWASP Testing Guide http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Testing_Project a project focused on application security testing procedures and checklists (Assessment Criteria v1.0)
OWASP Top Ten Project
OWASP Application Security Verification Standard Project http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Application_Security_Verification_Standard_Project The ASVS defines the first internationally-recognized standard for conducting application security assessments. It covers both automated and manual approaches for assessing (verifying)


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I mean...aych ay are dee.
That guy blew out a shoulder fielding a grounder - I have no idea how he didn't do something worse while swinging a bat.
And now Junior Lake.
I mean, he hasn't actually hurt himself or anything, but every time I watch him swing I think he's gonna come apart, which inspired this art here.
Yesterday he struck out twice and went 0 for 5.
He's been around long enough now for teams to figure the holes in the swing, so it's that adjustment thing he's got to work on.
I don't know if you heard, but Ryne Sandberg was managing the other team yesterday, and his team was losing nothin' to five.
Like half way to the slaughter rule.
But that crafty Ryno - he knows a thing or two about coming back.
Cubs lose it in the 9th when Kevin Gregg gives up the winner on a single to 36 year old leadoff hitter Michael Young, who had 3 other hits including a double.
Odd but totally cool seeing Sandberg managing a big league game, even if it's the Phillies.
The Pirates beat the Cards 5 to nothin and now they're tied at 78-56 with the Reds 3 1/2 back.
It'll be so refreshing if the Pirates can keep it up.
And finally, the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks lost to the AZ Wildcats in Tuscon 35 - zip, so everything stays normal in Flagstaff.


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The African Metropolis Short Film Project is an initiative of the Goethe-Institut South Africa and executive producer Steven Markovitz, with support from Guaranty Trust Bank and the Hubert Bals Fund of International FilmFestival Rotterdam.
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Approximately 40 million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo depend on the rainforest for their basic needs, such as medicine, food or shelter. In this image a local fisherman guides his boat through the waters of Lac Tumba (Lake Tumba). The lake area was identified by the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP) as a priority region for conservation. Expansion of logging into remaining areas of intact forests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo will destroy globally critical carbon reserves and impact biodiversity. Beyond environmental impacts, logging in the region exacerbates poverty and leads to social conflicts. Image: Philip Reynaers
Alphonse Muhindo and Silas Siakor have traveled all the way to Washington DC from the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Liberia. Walking into the enormous atrium of the World Bank, filled with glass and light and a fountain in the centre sending endless water flowing down the walls, the visitors are then greeted by big shiny letters on the wall of the entrance hall: "Our dream is a world without poverty".
Ten years ago, the World Bank initiated a reform of the forest sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The country was in shambles, after years of war, with a dysfunctional government and war still raging in the east of the country. The Congo, a country almost the size of Western Europe, has the second largest rainforest in the world. Most of the vast, low land rainforests are still intact. 40 million people depend on the forests for their livelihoods, it provides food, building materials, energy, medicines and more.
We are joined by my friend Reiner Tegtmeyer, from the organisation Global Witness who is attending this World Bank event to screen a film from his visits to 67 local communities affected by logging in the Congo, trying to find out what has changed after almost ten years of World Bank sponsored "reform". The results he presents in the film are sobering. "They take our trees without leaving anything", an angry man says into the camera, and a woman adds: "There have been no positive impacts, only disorder". Tegtmeyer informs the audience "We have tons of this material, this is only a snapshot."
Another woman in the film recalls her village's worst nightmare, describing security forces – including police - called in by a Liechtenstein-based logging company who raided the place and raped women, including minors. "They even raped a pregnant woman and left her to die", she says. That was in 2006; the children of these crimes have been born in the meantime, but the victims have never seen justice.
This year, it happened again, in another area controlled by SIFORCO, a subsidiary of Swiss group Danzer. Villagers were fed up with the broken promises and seized some equipment from the company in order to get them to the negotiation table. In a mission of brutal retaliation, security forces came to the loggers' assistance, raped women and girls, beat people up and destroyed property. 16 people were arrested by police and deported to prison. Company equipment and money was used to help facilitate the crack-down. Siforco is currently preparing for an eco-label certification with the help of the German development bank KfW.
Watching the testimonials, one wonders how the World Bank could continue to celebrate its success in the Congo forest so enthusiastically. Never mind that the moratorium on new logging titles it helped install was breached just weeks after it was signed in 2002. Never mind that most of the much touted millions of hectares of cancelled logging titles were in fact just paper titles where no tree was being cut. Never mind that the government increased the number of "legal" logging titles from originally 29, recommended by its own experts, to 80 as of January 2011. Never mind that the negotiations about so-called "social responsibility contracts" between communities and logging companies have been a complete farce. For the Bank, this "reform" is an extraordinary achievement.
I ask the Bank's Senior Forest Advisor who joined us for the screening: 'after ten years of "successful" World Bank intervention, why are the rights of local communities still being trampled on?' Four years ago, Greenpeace produced a film that has a striking resemblance to the images Tegtmeyer is showing us today. What happened to all that money that was supposed to "improve governance" and bring "transparency" and "sustainability" to the logging industry?
The DRC is not the only and not the first country where the World Bank has been pushing logging reform programs, and there are important lessons to be learned from the past. This is why I focus my presentation on Cameroon, the "pioneer" of forest reform where a new forest law was introduced already in 1994. The World Bank was instrumental in bringing it about, and hailed it as Africa's most progressive forest law. The Bank pushed through changes in the tax regime in order to increase revenues from logging, and a requirement for companies to have an approved management plan for their cutting operations. A regulation to enable community forests was also added. 17 years later, it is obvious that the model has failed.
Recent studies are showing that, even if the theory of "sustainable management" was working – which it isn't – there is nothing sustainable about it. In fact, it will be only a matter of time until the ancient trees will be gone forever from Cameroon's 'sustainably logged' forests. Communities in and around logging concessions in Cameroon are still impoverished; the revenues are not reaching them. But the World Bank set out to copy and paste the Cameroonian model in the DRC, despite our warnings.
Gerhard Dieterle has been working in the World Bank's forest department for many years. He admits that "looking at these pictures is depressing, undeniably deplorable". He agrees that more needs to be done to support community forests and local management. He is personally involved in a couple of small new initiatives at the Bank with the aim of strengthening "local control" in the forest sector and supporting indigenous peoples.
"We have learned a lot", he concedes. However, as long as the mainstream operations of the World Bank continue to focus on support for large scale logging concessions, and continue to ignore the needs of local communities and indigenous peoples, these little initiatives on the side remain a drop in the ocean, a 'fig leaf exercise'.
Alphonse from the DRC has a clear message to the Bank: Change your strategy and shift your support to programs that strengthen and benefit poor local communities. He and the members of his network have started to take things into their own hands. Congolese civil society groups are drafting legislation to regulate the informal logging and charcoal sector, which provide millions of poor with income, but is in desperate need of clear and equitable regulation. They have also started an initiative to measure and improve transparency in the forest sector together with international partners. And they are working hard to finally provide a legal basis for communities to manage their own forests: A national community forest law has been drafted with the help of civil society. It is sitting on the desk of the Prime Minister, ready to be signed. It would, for the first time, put local communities – at least legally – on equal footing with loggers.
"The World Bank needs to use its influence and get our government to sign this law", Alphonse says. Indeed, the World Bank has proven that it has the power to push through all kinds of conditions in its poor client countries – if it chooses to do so. If World Bankers are serious about helping the poor, they will simply not release any further funds to forest programs unless the government passes a law on community forests. It would be a small step for the Bank, but a big leap forward for the people of the Congo forest.
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Chega de tanta estupidez! Preserve-se, preserve a Natureza!
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Greed not only rules the World, it is destroying it! Don't forget it is OUR World too !!
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This is an interesting article. Our evaluation team is assessing World Bank's forest projects now and will come out with a report next year. Right now...
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text: The National Aquarium is excited to introduce the Fresh Thoughts: Sustainable Seafood Dining Series at its Washington D.C. venue this March. This new series will celebrate sensible and scrumptious seafood choices with the help of renowned Washington DC chefs. The first of the dining experiences will introduce a fish whose taste is distinctive as its story; the invasive Red Lionfish. As part of a growing strategy coined Eat 'Em to Beat 'Em, the National Aquarium will embark on a week-long trip to the Bahamas on February 20, 2011 with Chef Xavier Deshayes, Executive Chef for the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, to collect, prepare and ship the fish that will be served just days later at the Aquarium's first Fresh Thoughts dinner. The Indo-Pacific Red Lionfish (Pterois volitans) has been invading tropical Atlantic waters at an alarming rate and is quickly threatening aquatic ecosystems as far east as Bermuda, and south beyond the Bahamas to the entire Caribbean. The National Aquarium in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF) has been on the forefront of this invasion, studying methods of controlling the population and impacts of this venomous fish. After much research and help from the restaurant industry, it has been discovered that one potential method to control the population of this pest species is human consumption. "At a time when concerned vendors, restaurateurs and diners are seeking sustainable seafood choices, biologists are suggesting that the red lionfish may provide a commercial opportunity as well as a means to control an invasive species," commented Andy Dehart, Director of Fishes and Aquatic Invertebrates at the National Aquarium. "With so many fish stocks over-exploited, we're thrilled that lionfish offers a great-tasting fillet and we're excited to finally introduce it to Washington DC food enthusiasts." This week-long trip will chronicle the "ocean-to-plate" journey of the lionfish from capture and handling to preparation and serving with Chef Xavier. Each day Aquarium divers will collect lionfish for Chef Xavier to prepare for human consumption, which involves removing the damage-inflicting spines that make them venomous. At the end of the week approximately 200 lionfish fillets will be shipped back to Washington DC for Chef Xavier to serve up to guests at the Aquarium's first Fresh Thoughts dinner on March 3, 2011. In addition to the three-course fine dining experience featuring pan-seared lionfish fillet, Chef Xavier will demonstrate and discuss the culinary uses and preparation of lionfish as well as share insights gained during the trip including meetings with US and Bahamian officials, local chefs and restaurateurs. The concept of the sustainable seafood dining series is to offer unique dining experiences themed around a sustainable seafood choice. Guests will enjoy a cocktail reception and educational cooking demonstrations followed by a three-course seated dinner paired with perfectly matched wine in the tranquil atmosphere of the Aquarium after-hours. Tickets for Fresh Thoughts: A Sustainable Dining Series can be purchased by calling 202-789-2782. Additional information can be found here. The second dining experience of the series will feature guest Chef Barton Seaver, who has dedicated his career to restoring the human relationship with our oceans. Categories: Conservation


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There is a new translation of Nostradamus's The Prophecies, the text that when read just so manages to predict everything from 9/11 to the rise of the Kennedys (and whose contents were the subject of roughly 98 percent of all emails forwarded from AOL accounts between 1998 and 2004). In a review on Tuesday, Dwight Garner of the Times mentioned in passing a quatrain alluding to Paterno, the town in Sicily. We looked it up in an older translation:
Paterno will hear the cry from Sicily,
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it will be heard as far as Sicily
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Abstract: This thesis is about innovation and power. Human nature has always been expressed by our capacity to innovate and adapt to almost any environment (Bowlby, 1962; Giddens, 1991). In the 20th century, the primary function of business organisations was to invent, produce and commercialise their products and services in different markets. As a matter of fact, business organisations in the last century proved to be the best way of disseminating innovation (Schön, 1971). Currently in the 21st century, there is a call to better understand how new ideas, technology and sources of knowledge are managed, based on the premise that novelty can unfold anywhere and that innovation cannot be considered a linear process consisting of a chain of activities. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8164
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I am trying to show that every finitely generated free group is a cogroup object in the category of groups. (Note I believe that this is also true for non-finite free groups, but that is probably much harder to prove - I think it is theorem of Kan's)
I know that the coproduct in the category of groups is just the free product. So then is it just basically show that the free product satisfies the usual diagrams for co-associativity, co-identity and co-inverse?
I guess I am confused by the map $C \to C \coprod C$ (can't get my head around co-multiplication yet).
This was OK in the category of abelian groups - as the coproduct is the direct product and the there is an obvious map $c \mapsto (c,c)$. But (and maybe I am struggling with the notion of a free product here), if I tried something similar - take an element from a finitely generated free group (say on $n$ generators) and then take the coproduct with itself - what does that give? Wouldn't it just leave a single element? (As all adjacent elements belong to the same set the reduced word cancels everything out?)
Not looking for an answer, I guess just some clarity - I am sure I am not understand something properly.
(I guess one could also do this by showing that $\mbox{Hom}(\quad , G)$ take a group structure?)
Edit: Actually is $C \ast C = C$? ($\ast$ is the free product) (No - as Theo points out!)


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Sub-Saharan Africa has massive potential to generate clean energy that could help lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty without exacerbating climate change, a new Christian Aid report says today.
At present, sub-Saharan Africa countries (719 million people) have severely limited access to energy, consuming between them if South Africa is discounted less electricity than New York State (19.5 million people).
Lack of power has hampered Africa's efforts to meet the UN-agreed Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and contributes to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children under five every year through respiratory ailments caused by smoke fumes from open cooking fires.
With the provision of energy a cornerstone of poverty eradication, progress through modernisation elsewhere in the world has until now entailed massive increases in carbon emissions through the use of fossil fuels.
The new report, 'Low-Carbon Africa: leapfrogging to a green future ', published by UK-based international development agency Christian Aid to mark the United Nations climate summit which opens this month in Durban, South Africa, says this need not be template for the future.
Taking examples from six sub-Saharan countries, it highlights the sustainable energy sources at hand that would enable Africa to develop in a low-carbon fashion.
The report's launch comes as a 'Caravan of Hope' sets off today from Burundi across 10 African countries bound for the opening of the UN summit in Durban later this month to highlight how climate change is already affecting poor people's lives on the African continent.
Organised by the Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance, the Caravan comprises of scores of African farmers, pastoralists and campaigners who are demanding that the UN talks help produce a just solution to the mounting crisis.
The new report's lead author, Dr Alison Doig, Christian Aid's senior adviser on climate change and sustainable development, said that without significantly expanding energy provision, African countries will fail to meet the MDGs.
"A lack of access to modern energy services impedes poverty alleviation, education, gender equality and healthcare, and limits employment and livelihood options," she said. "It is now widely recognised that without access to modern energy services, it is highly unlikely that the MDGs will be met."
"In Africa, the need is urgent. Nearly half a billion people– almost 70 per cent of the population – have no access to electricity," said Dr Doig.
"Until now, those used to a carbon-intensive way of doing business have said the choice is plain, policy makers can either lift people out of poverty, or they can tackle climate change - they can't do both. Clean air and progress have been seen as mutually exclusive," she added.
"That 'choice' is fundamentally false. An enormous opportunity exists for developing countries in Africa to leapfrog ahead in the journey to sustainable development if the right strategies are used.
"There is a huge potential for renewable energy across the continent, which is largely untapped. Our report demonstrates that geothermal, small-scale hydro, solar, wind, tidal and biomass fuels, including agricultural wastes, all offer significant potential for delivering both basic needs and for unlocking economic growth."
Dr Doig warned, however, that African countries, some of which are already experiencing the impact of climate change, a problem not of their causing, through depletion of water resources and soil erosion, as well as reduced crop yields, need help to realise their huge energy potential.
"The funding must be reliable and substantial,' she said. 'It is estimated that about US$20bn per year is needed to deliver basic energy to all by 2030, and US $30-35 billion a year to deliver a higher level of low-carbon development," she declared.
Dedicated funding to help Africa achieve low-carbon development should be met from the Green Climate Fund which is expected to be set up at the UN summit, she added.
Dr Doig said that African countries also needed to plan ahead for a low-carbon future, and rich country assistance should also take the form of technology transfer, bilateral and multilateral investment and participatory market approaches.
Existing sustainable energy projects in Africa described in the report include:
· Electricity from sugar production waste in Kenya
· The use of biogas rather than wood fuel in Rwanda
· A network of small hydroelectric power stations in Nigeria
· Provision of solar energy to households in Ethiopia
· The use of sustainable charcoal cook stoves in Ghana
· Household solar water heaters in South Africa
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Have you ever:
*Been sold on a sewing machine simply because it had so many stitch options, only to have never used them years later ((except for the zig zag stitch))?
*Wanted to spruce up your Christmas gifts with a sweet, homemade touch?
*Needed a little something extra on your tree or in your Christmas decor?
Well then, I've got the perfect cute, simple & festive tutorial for you today!
Here's what you'll need:
Felt (the thicker the better)
Miscellaneous Thread Colors
Sharp scissors (otherwise, it will just fray the felt and make it look all wonky)
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Cut out random ornament shapes from your felt. I just free-handed mine, but feel free to print off some stencils if you're
OCD particular like that.
Pick your thread & select your stitch.
Have fun with miscellaneous stitches & thread colors to embellish your ornaments!
Using a needle & thread, sew a loop of thread onto the top of your ornament or use some hot glue and attach to your gifts. Who doesn't enjoy a little extra cuteness?
Fun options/ideas:
Make a garland out of your stitched felt ornaments.
Use metallic thread for even more glam!
Hang on your tree.
Cut out letters and spell out something fun on your mantle. ((Joy, Hark!, Love, Merry))
And speaking of decor...I added this to my Christmas decor yesterday. It makes me so happy! ((moved the garland from the fireplace so that I can hang stockings this week!))
And speaking of decor...I added this to my Christmas decor yesterday. It makes me so happy! ((moved the garland from the fireplace so that I can hang stockings this week!))
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MOGADISHU, Somalia, July 17 (UPI) -- An official in charge of security in Mogadishu said an estimated 1 million people have returned to the Somali capital this year.
Warsame Mohamed Hassan, a deputy mayor in Mogadishu, told the United Nations' humanitarian news agency IRIN that former residents were returning in droves.
"We estimate that about 1 million people have returned to Mogadishu this year," he said.
Al-Shabaab, a militant group allied with al-Qaida, has lost ground in Somalia as the interim administration in Mogadishu gains a foothold in the country. African forces in the country have fought alongside pro-government troops to restore security to the capital.
Hassan said the population in Mogadishu may be close to 3 million people, twice the estimate from July 2011.
Somalia has by members of the international community as an emerging success story. Oxfam, however, warns there's no room for complacency in a country that hasn't had a functioning central government since the 1990s.
"Somalia needs more than a band aid," Oxfam's Somalia Director Senait Gebregziabher said in a statement.


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Quote:Huh, sounds interesting, but why not just throw real fast consecutive jab cross combinations?
Quote:The other thing is that the streight blast executes the one inch punch technique of closing the fist before impact and punch 2 inches behind the target, which doesn't work so well with the jab btw. Therefore if its twice as fast as the jab, it has a chance of being just as powerfull as the jab as well. I would train in it, and get to know it, and then spar using that and then using the jab combo. Find what you prefer, and what works better, and use that.
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