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Honeywell has released its new LYNX 5200 wireless security system and Alarm Grid DIY Security Solutions, a new Florida company that focuses on helping customers install their own security systems to keep costs affordable, says it is "on a mission to make the L5200 the perfect panel for security system Do-It-Yourselfers."
It will be interesting to see how much traction Alarm Grid—founded in 2012 and based in Lighthouse Point, Fla., and which offers its customers no-contract central station monitoring—is able to achieve with its DIY approach.
It's clear the company really likes the new Honeywell panel.
"The L5200 is the sister panel to this year's ISC [West] 'Best in Intrusion' winner, the Honeywell L7000, which is expected to be released in the latter half of 2014," Alarm Grid said in a June 11 news release. "Like the predecessors of these two panels, Honeywell has designed the L5200 to be an integrated system that combines state-of-the art wireless security features such as Advanced Protection Logic (APL) and interactive services that allow an user to control the system from any smart device, with the incredible convenience afforded by modern home automation products."
Alarm Grid said that with the new panel, "Honeywell has gone far to address many of their consumers' demands, and it's clear that with this panel the company is furthering its commitment to improved user experience. … The Honeywell L5200 comes with more zones of protection, the ability to display a camera on screen, and one of the most exciting developments in Honeywell's technology comes with the announcement that the L5200 is flash upgradeable … which allows the panel to download the latest software updates that have been released for the unit."
Alarm Grid believes that DIY is the wave of the future and that Honeywell's new panel is perfect for DIYers. The company says it is making it available to end users through its website.
"Do-It-Yourselfers have really taken up the reins in this industry. These panels are easy to understand, they are simple to program, and they are simple to install," said Joshua Unseth, Alarm Grid's director of marketing, in a prepared statement.
The news release continues: "While the release of a security system like the L5200 would generally mean big money for installers who bank on consumers knowing very little about how these systems work, Alarm Grid has already released the L5200 manuals, they have begun writing L5200 frequently asked questions, and they have even released a L5200 DIY installation video, which they say shows just how simple installing this system yourself can be."
"We don't think you have to be an experienced DIYer to install a security system," Sterling Donnelly, Alarm Grid president, said in a statement. "… Our goal is to make it easy. For those who want to give it a try, our tech team patiently guides them through every step of the way."
It's that time of year: ESX is closing in on us, and my schedule for the show is beginning to take form. I'm envisioning a high-energy, well-paced show, with an array of educational sessions geared to new and important topics, and a show floor conducive to getting the skinny on the trends shaping the industry.
I wanted to use this space to draw attention to a seminar I'll be moderating Tuesday, June 24 at 3:15 titled "Monitoring: A Quality Customer Touch Point."
I'll be talking to Mike Bodnar, president of Security Partners, Tom Szell, SVP at ADS, and Brandon Savage, SVP of customer experience and operations at Alarm Capital Alliance / My Alarm Center about the new means of customer engagement brought on by the rise of mobile apps and interactive services, and how those in the industry can leverage these advances to minimize attrition.
With Nashville roughly ten days away, I encourage folks (particularly those on the monitoring side) to contact me in the days ahead to arrange a meeting on the show floor. Given the structure of the show, and its emphasis on education, I don't anticipate fodder for conversation being in any short supply. Industry shows like ESX offer a valuable stage not only for discussing initiatives specific to a single business, but also broader trends affecting the industry writ large. I look forward to chatting.
Honeywell's Scott Harkins is transitioning to a new role.
Honeywell spokeman David Gottlieb today confirmed that "Scott Harkins has accepted a new role within Honeywell to help develop global growth opportunities within the Connected Home space. He will leave his current post as president of Honeywell Security Products Americas by the end of June."
Honeywell Security Group has not yet announced a successor to Harkins. "Honeywell Security Group has a strong leadership team in place committed to delivering for our customers and ensuring a smooth transition while we execute our succession plan. We will share news regarding our new leadership as soon as we finalize this process," Gottlieb said in a prepared statement.
Harkins joined Honeywell in 1995. Before he was named president of HSPA in December 2011, he oversaw Honeywell's video surveillance and access control divisions.
I don't know if Harkins' new role will include working with Honeywell's Lyric thermostat, which it launched yesterday. There's been much in the mainstream news today about Honeywell partnering with Apple to "take on" Google's NEST. (Some of these guys do seem to forget that Honeywell HAS been in the thermostat business for a few years.)
Here's a report from Apple Insider . And here's a report from Bloomberg, which goes on to talk about the connected home.
Toronto, the largest city in Canada, is mulling the possibility of not responding to private alarms, citing a false alarm rate that looks bad even within that context.
According to a report from the Toronto Star, just 300 of the 20,000 private alarm calls Toronto police responded to in 2012 turned out to be legitimate. As a result, an internal police steering committee is reviewing the cost-savings that could be reaped by scaling back on alarm response (among other services), the report said.
By doing so, the committee estimates the police force could realize $613,222 in savings, according to the report. That amounts to 10,960 officer hours.
Additionally, the committee recommended police stop taking reports on lost or stolen property whose value does not exceed $500.
From a law enforcement perspective, it's sensible to do away with writing redundant reports for lost property, particularly when other institutions are better suited to deal with such events. But what could a non-response policy portend for alarm companies who would then have to provide private response services themselves? Not only do companies stand to incur the costs associated with this; they also stand to lose what many in the industry view as the most vital element of the value proposition of an alarm system—the guarantee of police response in the event of a legitimate alarm.
False alarms (and what to do about them) remain among the most polarizing issues in the alarm industry today. It continues to define, and sometimes roil, the relationship between private alarm companies and law enforcement.
So what's can be done? The theories about how to mitigate false alarms tend to diverge and dovetail, making the issue especially complex and difficult to navigate, much less reach a conclusion on. Some believe a clear and properly enforced ordinance, bolstered by measures such as cross-zoning and enhanced call verification, will do the trick, with fines for offending alarms helping to offset the losses. Others say private response is the inevitable long-term solution.
Others still, such as PPVAR, believe the relationship between law enforcement and the industry can and should remain intact so long as the alarm installed base evolves technologically and municipalities move toward a verified response approach (that's not to say the industry is in full agreement over what constitutes a verified alarm). The organization also espouses new video verification standards.
The issue continues to be a fraught one, with no definite solution in sight. To be sure, many cities have made great strides with false alarm reduction. But cases such as Toronto are a resounding reminder that there's room for improvement.
It was big news last summer when Provo, Utah-based Vivint opened a new 400-employee sales center in Liberty Lake, Wash., suburb of Spokane. But now, barely a year later, Vivint is closing that center, the company says.
Starr Fowler, Vivint's VP of human resources, provided this statement: "It has been a pleasure to be part of the Liberty Lake community, which has hosted one of Vivint's sales centers for the past year. Due to a reallocation of resources, the Vivint Liberty Lake office will close on June 27, 2014. At that time, all employees are eligible to receive severance, and some employees will be offered the opportunity to relocate to Provo, UT. If of interest, employees are encouraged to apply for other positions with Vivint, and their application will be considered. Vivint remains committed to providing world-class customer service to its more than 800,000 customers across North America."
It's not clear exactly why Vivint is reallocating resources away from the center. According to reports from Washington state media, it's also unclear whether Vivint ever reached its planned goal of hiring 400 employees.
The new center was billed as part of the home automation/ home security company's plan to diversify its sales channel by increasing inside sales. Vivint has been known primarily as a door-knocking company. Vivint has said the Liberty Lake center was its second inside sales center and its first outside of Utah.
Vivint received a $150,000 incentive to open the Liberty Lake center from an economic development fund managed by the Washington governor's office, according to The Spokesman-Review.
Why the change in plans? I'm going to try to learn more from Vivint execs.
In two separate, but related transactions, Securitas is getting into electronic security and Iverify is nearly doubling in size and adding new capabilities.
Guarding giant Securitas is making a concerted move into electronic security and "integrated guarding" with the purchase, announced June 2, of a 24 percent stake in remote monitoring firm Iverify. In a related move also announced Monday, Iverify bought 100 percent of the shares of commercial security and fire company TransAlarm. Iverify is the Charlotte, N.C.-based full-service security company noted for its "high-touch remote security monitoring" offering. Sean Forrest recently joined the company as its CEO.
Securitas has offered Iverify services to some of its customers for the past couple of years, Jim McNulty, EVP of Securitas USA told me. "We liked what we saw," he said.
"We had our toe in the pool, now we're jumping into the pool," he said. Using Iverify, Securitas plans to roll out "integrated guarding services" across the country. Integrated guarding is a mix of traditional guarding, mobile and remote monitoring services. Securitas has 100,000 employees, 400 offices and does $3 billion in revenue annually.
This will update Securitas' offering, McNulty said, so it can "leverage traditional onsite guarding with mobile and remote services—to give customers a more efficient and higher value security offering."
In the second transaction, Iverify bought TransAlarm, which is based in Burnsville, Minn., just outside the Twin Cities. Now, with the goal of really boosting their national accounts business, the two companies are merging. Sean Forrest will be CEO of the combined company and current Trans Alarm CEO, Steve Champeau will become president.
Trans Alarm has 120 employees, combined with Iverify, there will be more than 300 employees.
Like Iverify, Trans Alarm has a UL-listed 5 diamond certified central station. It has branch offices in Nebraska, Northern Wisconsin and Wyoming. It also has deeper capabilities in traditional security offerings such as intrusion, access control, CCTV than Iverify. On top of that, it has a network of installers located across the U.S. What it does not have, Forrest told me, "is the high touch remote video security monitoring that Iverify has. Conversely, Iverify didn't offer the other services in a big way and didn't offer fire at all."
"This gives us a full spectrum to offer customers and significantly improves what we have to offer. The commonality between the two companies is that we're both very customer-service focused," Forrest said.
While Iverify bought 100 percent share of Trans Alarm, this is a merger of the two companies both Forrest and Champeau told me.
"We're going to become one company. That's a key step for us," Forrest said. Sales and service will be cross-trained and "both companies will focus on a single point of contact, rather than branch delivery [approach taken by other companies]," Forrest said. This is not a fold-in purchase, he said. All offices and operations will be retained.
Forrest declined to give revenue or RMR figures. He did say: "Both companies have been growing at a rapid rate and we expect, on a combined basis, that that growth will be accelerated."
Both Iverify and Trans Alarm have customers in the national retail, property management and transportation verticals.
Champeau said said that Trans Alarm has sold and installed Iverify technology even before the deal was announced. He looks forward to "getting into additional markets that we haven't pursued previously [with the Iverify technology]."
McNulty is equally excited about the capabilities of the combined companies, noting that "they complement each other. Their combined offering will be a "good vehicle [for Securitas] to further the whole idea of integrated guarding." He likes the fact that the combined company will have redundant monitoring capabilities. He is also excited about the "vetted, capable, trained and qualified installers that Trans Alarm brings."
The offering of integrated guard services will be a "company-wide effort. … We're going to roll it out all over the place."
Securitas put this together this venture with Driehaus Private Equity, the majority owner of IVerify since 2006. Driehaus is a co-investor with Securitas in the deal. The PrivateBank provided Iverify with debt financing. Raymond James & Associate advised Trans Alarm.
In the modern security environment, there's no shortage of relatively new, tech-savvy companies intent on revising the traditional alarm monitoring business model. That some of these upstart companies, such as Cambridge, Mass.-based SimpliSafe, are now attracting serious outside investment interest is a development that bears watching.
SimpliSafe, which provides wireless security systems and professional monitoring services without long-term contracts, recently partnered with Sequoia, a prominent venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, to raise $57 million. On its website, the company claims to have 100,000 customers.
SimpliSafe describes itself as a "disruptive tech company working to help people live safely," while touting its in-house maxim that "being safe should be simple."
Interestingly enough, SimpliSafe doesn't fit perfectly into the DIY/MIY mold; it's really more of a hybrid between those types of systems and more traditional security units. A Wall Street Journal blog noted that a SimpliSafe system with sensors and other burglary protection components, along with a hardware package, typically costs about $260. The company also offers monitoring services for $14.99 per month, but doesn't require customers to purchase them.
In a company blog, Chad Laurans, CEO of SimpliSafe, said the following: "We've eliminated unnecessary middlemen, so we can pass the savings onto our customers and pour our resources into product innovation and customer service."
Down the road, one of the biggest threats to central station RMR could be the proliferation of increasingly sophisticated DIY/MIY systems that unite ease of use and installation with competitive pricing models. As of yet, there's no clear writing on the wall that says central station RMR will suffer the effects of "disintermediation" at the hands of innovative MIY products. But a $57 million infusion is no small sum for the security industry. It goes without saying that an investment of this scale can be transformative from a product development standpoint.
It will be interesting to see if this pared down version of security and alarm monitoring indeed proves to be disruptive, and if so, how the monitoring industry responds to the challenge.
Recent news reports say that Google may buy startup Dropcam, which makes video cameras that stream video to a user's computer or cellphone, as a way to get into home security. And The Financial Times has reported that Apple is soon expected to make a "big play" into the smart home, launching a new software platform that will allow users to control security systems and home features such as lights directly from their iPhones.
Should security companies be worried? Not really, according to a report today from Imperial Capital, a New York-based full-service investment bank.
If the Dropcam report turns out to be true, it would mean Google is adding a security component on the heels of its entrance into home automation with its recent $3.2 billion purchase of Nest Labs, maker of smart thermostats and smoke alarms.
But the report, authored by Jeff Kessler, Imperial Capital's managing director of institutional research, said it doesn't believe the Dropcam purchase would have a negative impact on security companies or other pure play home automation companies, like Control4.
The reason, it says, is that "security companies generally are not participants in the do-it-yourself (DIY) market and do not target particular groups that may be interested in such products (e.g., college students, young professionals living in high rises)." Also, the report said, although "Dropcam could be a good entry product for those that do not understand or are not familiar with security products, it does not replace the security, home automation, and customer service capabilities which the likes of ADT or Control4 provide, and nor do we believe that it wants to."
What about the potential Apple smart home/security play?
The report says: "We wonder if Apple will open up its "big play" to allow a broad base of installers, service, and responders to interact with it, or will it be another closed end system, in which the homeowner, or more likely the apartment owner, can check on what is going on at home on an Apple iPhone, and then have the responsibility of "making the call" to police or health responders based on what they have just seen on the iPhone. Another uncertainty is if the police would trust this system, or would law enforcement be more likely to respond to a more familiar source that has verified the same incident."
The report summarized by saying that while the new developments are exciting and will be particularly attractive to those who don't own homes, the lack of professional monitoring is a drawback.
"Remember, these monitoring stations (to be accredited) have to show that their average time to make a decision to dispatch or not to dispatch is less that 30-35 seconds, have tremendous redundancy, and can typically be trusted. We simply do not believe that Apple users will get that service."
In fact, the report says that these DIY products could indirectly help professional security companies by introducing a younger generation to the idea of home security/home automation, which could lead those customers to "potentially switch to a larger, more powerful, and more comprehensive platform in the out years."
Alarm.com, a leading provider of interactive security services, also weighed in to me on the new developments involving Google and Apple.
That Vienna, Va.-based company stressed that security is the backbone of the smart home and noted that professional monitoring is a key differentiator, but said security companies need to make sure homeowners know that.
"The key purchase driver for home automation is security. We see this in both consumer surveys and purchasing trends," Alarm.com said, in a statement.
Also, Alarm.com said, the announcements "validate the popularity of a growing range of connected devices and services. Security dealers should tap into this underlying consumer demand by aggressively marketing and selling a complete range of connected home technologies with professionally monitored security at its core."
Samsung Techwin America's EVP Frank De Fina announced May 28 that he is leaving Samsung for personal reasons.
"As of June 2, I will no longer be there. I made the decision on my own, the departure is amicable," he said. A replacement has yet to be named, though De Fina said there are "a couple of obvious potential choices. There is a very capable management team there."
De Fina joined Samsung in February 2010, and said he is proud of how far Samsung has come in the security industry since then. "Five years ago we didn't even appear on the IMS [Research, now part of IHS] list [of top IP camera providers]," he said. "This year our business grew over 75 percent." And he expects to "move up a couple of notches on the IHS list."
De Fina, who has "retired" twice before, said he is not even going to say he's retiring now. He is simply "taking a breather" and will likely return to the industry, perhaps in a consulting role.
Asked about the biggest challenges getting Samsung up to speed, he said "building the brand and credibility in the security space."
"I will take credit for organizing a great team," De Fina said. "But the credit for building the business goes to [that team]," he added.
"I'm leaving Samsung in much better shape [than when I arrived] and the team is spectacular," he said.
Before Samsung, De Fina was the long time president of Panasonic Systems. He retired from Panasonic Systems in 2008 to run Paul Reed Smith Guitars for two years before joining Samsung.
De Fina can play guitar in case you didn't know. Here's a video that my former colleague Sam took at the PSA-TEC jam a few years ago. Scroll down to the video; it features Paul Michael Nathan on harmonica, Frank De Fina on guitar, Daved Levine on bass, and Jerry Cordasco on drums.
The biggest opportunities in the security industry? De Fina said he did lots of research during a recent month-long tour of the Silicon Valley. "I spoke to big name companies [Google, Yahoo, others] and asked them what their [security] concerns are. "They look at us [the security industry] as a bit naive" in terms of cyber security. They also are concerned about the physical security of some critical infrastructure in this country such as data centers and cell towers, De Fina said.
De Fina identified the biggest challenge for integrators as shrinking margins. He recommends that integrators "pay attention to solving the problems that are not so easy to solve ... to reinvent themselves to mimic the growth opportunities I mentioned earlier."
De Fina is vice chairman of the Security Industry Association Board of Directors Executive Committee.
He was instrumental in the establishment of a security degree program that will be launched in 2015 at Mercer Country Community College.
He also holds positions in the International Biometrics Industry Association (IBIA) and is a board member of the Paley Center for Media (formerly Museum of Television and Radio) as well as a member of the board of the New York Friar's Club Foundation.
Professional security companies proudly point to the good service they give consumers as an important differentiator between them and their giant cableco and telecom competitors. And a new consumer satisfaction survey suggests they don't have to worry about losing that edge to the Cable Guy anytime soon—because it shows new dips for Time Warner Cable and Comcast, and AT&T and DIRECTV don't fare too well, either.
The American Customer Satisfaction Index released its annual measure of the communications industries this week. The ACSI report measures consumer satisfaction in such categories as Internet service providers (ISPs), subscription TV service, fixed-line and wireless telephone service, computer software and cellphones, according to a news release. Ratings are done on a 100-point scale.
"Customer satisfaction is deteriorating for all of the largest pay TV providers. Viewers are much more dissatisfied with cable TV service than fiber optic and satellite service (60 vs. 68). Though both companies drop in customer satisfaction, DIRECTV (-4 percent) and AT&T (-3 percent) are tied for the lead with ACSI scores of 69. Verizon Communications FiOS (68) and DISH Network (67) follow."
AT&T's and DIRECTV's dips in customer satisfaction are of particular note because I just wrote about how AT&T's $48.5 billion plan to buy DIRECTV could impact Digital Life—AT&T home security/home automation offering—and the security industry.
Hmmm…a dip in customer satisfaction regarding any part of those companies' businesses doesn't seem like a positive—especially if they want to bundle services!
There's also a $45 billion pending deal for Comcast to buy Time Warner Cable. Both of those companies have home security/home automation offerings but they're not making customers very happy, at least when it comes to TV and Internet service, according to ACSI.
"Cable giants Comcast and Time Warner Cable have the most dissatisfied customers. Comcast falls 5 percent to 60, while Time Warner registers the biggest loss and plunges 7 percent to 56, its lowest score to date," the news release said.
The release also has a prepared statement from David VanAmburg, ACSI director: "Comcast and Time Warner assert their proposed merger will not reduce competition because there is little overlap in their service territories. Still, it's a concern whenever two poor-performing service providers combine operations. ACSI data consistently show that mergers in service industries usually result in lower customer satisfaction, at least in the short term. It's hard to see how combining two negatives will be a positive for consumers."
Customers also aren't happy with their Internet service from such providers, according to ACSI.
"High prices, slow data transmission and unreliable service drag satisfaction to record lows, as customers have few alternatives beyond the largest Internet service providers. Customer satisfaction with ISPs drops 3.1 percent to 63, the lowest score in the Index, the release said.
"At an ACSI score of 71,Verizon's FiOS Internet service continues to lead the category, surpassing AT&T, CenturyLink and the aggregate of other smaller broadband providers, all at 65," according to the release. "Cable-company-controlled ISPs languish at the bottom of the rankings again. Cox Communications is the best of these and stays above the industry average despite a 6 percent fall to 64. Customers rate Comcast (-8 percent to 57) and Time Warner Cable (-14 percent to 54) even lower for Internet service than for their TV service. In both industries, the two providers have the weakest customer satisfaction."
However, customers are happy with their cellphones. That rating is "up for a second straight year, rising 2.6 percent to a new all-time high ACSI score of 78."
The release said, "Steady growth in the use of smartphones, which have much higher levels of customer satisfaction, helps drive the overall industry gain. However, as data usage increases, costs to access overloaded networks are high, leaving customer satisfaction with wireless service providers stagnant at an ACSI score of 72."
ACSI found that, "among wireless phone providers, Verizon Wireless separates from the pack after climbing 3 percent to 75. T-Mobile (69), Sprint (68) and AT&T Mobility (68) are tightly grouped behind. As smartphone adoption continues to grow, network demands increase along with costs to the consumer, each contributing to stagnant customer satisfaction."
Also interesting were the ACSI POTS ratings. "Customer satisfaction with fixed-line telephone service dips 1.4 percent to an ACSI score of 73, but remains the most satisfying of all types of telecommunications. However, the score is due to shrinking landline usage. As more households abandon fixed-line service for cell phones, the customers that remain tend to be the most satisfied," the release said.
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An adventure of a performance, DeVotchKa played a sold out Red Rocks backed by the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. And if that wasn't enough, they were joined by El Sistema Colorado and acrobats.
DeVotchKa played a surprise show at the 75-capacity Lost Lake Lounge in Denver on Sunday.
Less than a week before the band plays Red Rocks Amphitheatre, DeVotchKa will perform at the 75-person capacity Lost Lake Lounge on July 13, the venue announced today.
DeVotchKa wrapped up a three-night, intimate run at the Mercury Cafe in Denver on Saturday.
Buoyed by peerless sound production, the DeVotchKa's acclaimed multi-instrumentation was crisp and Nick Urata's vocals swirled in a commanding hum at the Mercury Cafe on Valentine's Day.
DeVotchKa's Nick Urata talks to Reverb about a new album in the works and love and loss in his writing ahead of the band's Valentine's Day show.
Skeleton paint on their faces and clad in Ushaka hats and Babushkas, DeVotchKa celebrated Day of the Dead at the Boulder Theater on Saturday.
Complete with aerialists, sugar skulls and spooky pageantry, DeVotchKa brought its annual Halloween concert to the Gothic Theatre on Thursday.
Dave Matthews, members of the Lumineers, DeVotchKa, Nathaniel Rateliff and Big Head Todd and the Monsters helped raise $500,000 with the Colorado Rising flood benefit concert.
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I can confirm that the version in FreeBSD 2.2.6 is indeed vulnerable, the
stack is smashed and we are root at the time :(. Fortunately, it is not
executable by anyone but root or group ospf. I would venture that solaris
x86 is vulnerable. The exploit is trivial, just change the target in your
favorite local overflow and exec.
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Joel Eriksson wrote:
This looks suspicious:
bash$ ospf_monitor `perl -e 'print "A"x1066'`
task_get_proto: getprotobyname("ospf") failed, using proto 89
listening on 0.0.0.0.64527
Segmentation Fault
bash$ ls -l /usr/bin/ospf_monitor
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root other 61892 Sep 17 1997
Has anyone succeded in exploiting this? It sure looks like a
bufferoverflow to me..
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Nevermind that the rum industry was only made possible by the most brutal and horrific form of slavery to ever exist on the face of the earth, while whiskey was distilled by noble, free frontiersmen.
Go ahead, drink your rum. Scumbag slaver.
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Ugh. This is such a white dude's list.
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@Niko Bellic Good shoehorning!
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@Niko Bellic Sure, if you want to pull a Massad and shoehorn in whatever interpretations you need to prove that unfounded point while ignoring the much greater evidence that the show's point is how stupid that worldview is.
I mean, Homeland has it's issues but hot damn it doesn't deserve this.
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@major disaster What's even more frustrating about that is that many people in AQ and other terrorist organizations go by psuedonyms, see e.g. Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki of Al Shabaab, taken on for the purpose of identification inside the organization and not their actual name. That's pretty clearly what they're doing with Abu Nazir.
I've read the links provided; I have no clue why Sicha thinks this guy is brilliant. Perhaps useful in that he's against the dominant paradigm, but his work as represented here is derivative and hacktastic and not founded in any understanding of history as it occurred. Others are doing what he does, and better.
Moreover, if his review of Homeland is even the slightest indication of his actual work he's got so many virulent unacknowledged biases that his work negates itself.
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You got paid to write this? Man. The Awl must be flush.
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Yeah, like the kid reading Camus at 16 is a real fucking rebel. Jesus, how blinkered.
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@ericdeamer Yeah, but in the counterfactual world all the fire would be aimed at Hillary. And instead of "Scary Black Man" we have "Scary Feminazi Lady"- which may not have been as bad in some ways but would probably have been just as frustrating in others.
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@skahammer Lopez, IIRC was more the distance from actual commerce and the intrusion of that particular part of VAWA on the state police powers than anything having to do with the 2nd amendment, and that Congress making a finding about the nexus of commerce to the legislation wasn't enough. But I don't recall it perfectly.
My big gripe is one that might not end up in the final decision, that there's anything meaningful about the activity/inactivity distinction. There simply isn't, in this case, any avoiding the health care market in some form, given that being fully absent from using it still impacts the health insurance market. Inactivity still has an impact upon the market, which under Wickard and Raich matters even if there's limited to no immediate contact to interstate markets. It's not complicated, and is far more grounded in both past decisions and the text of the constitution than the challenging argument about personal liberty- an argument that falls apart given that we have at least one 18th century law created by the founders with a mandate, which voids the "Founders would never have accepted a mandate" argument. Even for Thomas that should be a strong argument for constitutionality.


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In a first-of-its-kind study, a higher socio-economic status has been linked with a more satisfying sex life.
An analysis based on the first Spanish National Sexual Health Survey confirms that socio-economic factors affect sexual satisfaction.
"People with a lower economic status claim to be less sexually satisfied, particularly women, who seem to be more influenced by these factors," said main author Dolores Ruiz from the Barcelona Public Health Agency (ASPB).
Investigators analysed the influence of various socio-economic factors on the results of the Spanish National Sexual Health Survey by the Centre for Sociological Research.
The survey showed that nearly 90 percent of men and women claimed to be very satisfied or quite satisfied with their sex life in general, and that 95 percent were satisfied with the sexual relations they had during the previous year.
With the new study, the experts confirmed that socio-economic factors affect sexual satisfaction.
In terms of safe sexual relations, 77 percent of women and 73 percent of men claimed to have used contraception habitually with a stable partner.
In this case, socio-economic factors influence men as much as women, even at the different times analysed and with the different types of partner.
"Those people with a lower socio-economic status are always those who use less contraception," added Ruiz.
"It's particularly women of a lower socio-economic status who suffer more experiences of sexual abuse," the researchers added.
People that have a more disadvantaged socio-economic status tend to have less satisfying and less safe sexual relations, as well as suffering more experiences of sexual abuse.
"Furthermore, women usually suffer more experiences of sexual abuse than men and they claim to have less sexual gratification during their first sexual intercourse," Ruiz stated.
However, people with a higher socio-economic status seem to have a better awareness of their own needs and a greater capacity for developing their sexuality in a way which is satisfying for them, as well as having greater control over the use of contraception, the study said.
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23 Jul 2013
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08 Jul 2013
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01 Jul 2013
Big strides on Millennium Development Goals with more targets achievable by 2015: UN report
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27 Jun 2013
In new video, UN Secretary-General hails post-2015 agenda as most inclusive global development process
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07 Jun 2013
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03 Jun 2013
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02 Jun 2013
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31 May 2013
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31 May 2013
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30 May 2013
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27 May 2013
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24 May 2013
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After Cheadles role in 2004s Hotel Rwanda as the Rwandan Hotel Manager Paul Rusesabagina, who saved hundreds from certain death in the face of genocide, he became sensitized to the issues of genocide. He learned that through efforts to bring attention to the situation in Darfur. After the release of Hotel Rwanda, Cheadle saw his chance to reach people on a personal level.
After being invited to a Congressional delegation, Cheadle and John Prendergast (with whom Cheadle would eventually co-author the book Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur) set out on a mission to get the word out. The result was both a book on the subject, and the documentary Darfur NOW [click here to read review].
The filming of Darfur NOW brought together the paths of Don Cheadle and Adam Sterling. Sterling, while waiting tables in New York, was flying to California on weekends to push for the Golden State to pass legislation in divestment on his own paycheck. HipHopDX caught up with Don Cheadle and Adam Sterling two extraordinary individuals who, if you ask them in person, will refuse to admit theyre anything special. You can be the judge of that.
HipHopDX: In the film Darfur NOW, there are six different people were you guided in telling in your characters, or were you allowed to express what you feel?
Don Cheadle: There was no guiding. We tried to really make sure that we made a documentary, not some sort of narrative that was instructive in any way, shape, or form. The control of the content was more [guided by] what we covered and where we sent the cameras rather than what we did once they were there. It was amazing to see how it unfolded.
All those events happened to happen during that time. Things just happened to show up when you show it. It's a lot different from MTV documentaries, which are definitely guided and written. This one just kind of happened. In my storyline, Adam was happening before we started any filming so things occurred when they did.
DX: Was there danger involved throughout the filming?
DC: Absolutely. There's a great moment in the movie where Recalde is driving, and they pan the camera over to the soldiers. We were surprised that they allowed a crew in there, knowing what was happening, knowing what our perspective was. We kept calling Ted and saying, "They know what you're doing, right? There's full disclosure, right?" And he said, "Yes, I keep telling them this is what we're making a movie about." And they kept saying, good keep coming. It doesnt matter.
Adam Sterling: I wanted guidance, but they wouldn't give it to me. This was all new to me. I remember the first couple of days when I first met Ted [Braun], I was in Southern California, waiting tables, working five days a week, and then on Mondays and Tuesdays I would fly up to Sacramento to go lobby. And I was just telling Ted, you should go meet this person and this person, and was telling him my story. In the meantime, he called me one day and he said, "Hey, we're going to film you a little bit and see how it goes." I said, "Okay but I'm going to work tomorrow." And he said, "I'll call you." I felt awkward, because I had never done that. And I was asking questions and they said, "No, you can't ask questions, be normal." [Laughs] And so I learned quickly that there was not going to be any guidance, but just free rein.
DX: Did you give any pointers to anyone like Adam about being on camera?
DC: Yeah... cover for me. [Laughs] No, no, I didn't. In real life, if you try to look good on camera, you look like an idiot. At least with the script, you have some sort of cover, you're trying to play somebody else. But trying to play you, with some polish, you're going to look like an idiot. We tried to just be, and really allow to come through who we were and what we were trying to do. None of us are extraordinary people and that's the whole point of this film--that we're not extraordinary people. We are people who are just moved by something and have become passionate about something that we really think is the greatest humanitarian crisis on the face of the earth today. And in that effort, we are hoping that the result can be extraordinary. But I don't think that any of us looked at ourselves and thought we were special.
DX: One point in fact has been that in a way, one thing thats special in your un-specialness about getting involved in this. You've become so knowledgeable and an expert by your passion and drive. Do you look back and say: "God, how do I know all this shit?"
DC: Definitely. I always tell people, when they ask, I say I was pulled into a stream that was already flowing. It was already moving, and Adam pulled me in. And John Prendergast pulled me in. And Congressman Ed Royce pulled me in. These were people that were already trying to do things in this effort, and I said well, give my light to to the sum of light and try to make it happen. Because I, too, think that that's what we need to be doing.
DX: To what extent do you see your work in Hotel Rwanda and on this movie as being part of the same genre?
DC: As I mentioned, Royce--the one who pulled me into this--was the person who was trying to make noise on the Hill, he and his Democratic counterpart, Donald Payne (D-NJ) about Darfur, about what was happening in Sudan, and he wasn't having a lot of success raising the temperature on the issue.
And then Hotel Rwanda"came out. He saw it and he saw very similar echoes and a very personalized way of touching people, and he thought it would help bridge the understanding about Darfur. So there was a Congressional delegation and they invited me to go on it with he and several other members of Congress.
I went, and John Prendergast came, and the ABC cameras came and Nightline came and filmed it. And this just started this ball rolling downhill. And once I had been there, and seen the effect of what was happening and the devastation and talking to people, people who had nothing but meager bits, but were sharing a handful of peanuts...I was like, "Whoa..."
DX: How do we make this issue real to the people of this nation--in such a way that they can take the same path and not have it become a trendy political issue? We've seen that happen to Katrina and the Tsunami victims.
AS: I think getting involved and being creative in your involvement and giving back, as opposed to just making a donation and never seeing that money again. There are so many ways to get involved creatively. We are a testament to that. So I think really finding a creative way to get involved, joining with others in your community [is what matters].
We've got a great network, The Genocide Intervention Network, where you get your own site and you get connected with community members. You're not just doing it by yourself giving money to some trendy cause you're actually involved in getting things back. And that's what made the difference to me.
There's a lot of work in activism, and [then there's the word] "burn-out." There's just so much to keep us busy. Countless people wanting to listen to you speak, to ask "What can I do?" I think there is so much to do that if you really put yourself into that, then you won't burn out.
DC: I think America as a country has actually done a lot more than a lot of other nations have done about awareness, advocacy, and trying to push their leaders forward. We're trying to get that to happen on a international level. The Genocide Intervention Network just recently opened an office in London, to deal with it on a European level, get it into a global scale. We're just trying to "move and shake," and just "move and shake" within the positions we can move from. Hopefully doors will open if we continue to push it.
DX: When actors get involve themselves in activism, it puts their careers into a different light. Do you talk to your friends about it, like George [Clooney] or Brad [Pitt]?
DC: I don't know where it fits, vis a vis. I think a lot of people think doing advocacy work really helps in your career. I think, as you are a human being, and you're feeing off of being a human being, giving value and meaning to your life, then in all walks of your life it absolutely helps. As far as acting goes, it sometimes cuts against it. It makes it more difficult, as a career. It makes it more difficult in our business, because you get pigeon-holed. It's just another way to get pigeon-holed and people don't think you can do a bunch of things and those doors start shutting.
Does that mean that I stop doing it for me? No. Or George? Or others that I've spoken to? No. You keep doing it because that's where your heart lies. It definitely puts everything in perspective. Way more than my acting, it puts my family life into perspective, it puts my children's relationship to me in perspective--what are you trying to accomplish and achieve as a global citizen in the brief time that you're here?
What do you want to do? Do you want to be on record between you and your god and your family and your friends as having tried to do something? Or just, you know, to make as much money as you can and get a nice big house and cool ass cars and nice clothes? You can do that too. But I don't think thats how you want to measure yourself.
DX: You mentioned in the film, that you got a bill passed in California, and that there were like 15 more states coming along. What's the progress on that?
AS: Yeah, we've been moving. California started because we were working at the university and the legislator came up to us and said, "This is a great idea, help me write this law. Okay, we helped him write a law. And then we started getting a call from legislators from all across the country. So in the last year--my final scene in the film, that was September of last year--we passed laws in another 12 states.
There are still four more pieces of legislation still in play. Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin just passed it this year. We've got commitments from legislators in another 15 states, so we're working on all 50. There's a federal bill in the US Senate that just passed the Senate banking committee. It's the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act, introduced by Senators Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Richard Shelby (R-AL). It passed the House of Representatives in July. So that will bring divestment into a federal level.
DC: It's great timing, given the confluence of events that are happening at this time. There's peace talks they are scheduling in Libya at the end of this month. This year, there's supposed to be a 30,000-member peace-keeping force that's going to go into the area. So its really time, in our opinion, for us to push even more now.
These things don't happen with this sort of nexus all at the same time. Of course in 15 months we're going to have a new administration. And with the Olympics in China next year, a lot of stuff is freighting on Darfur right now. We need to use this opportunity to push that and keep making sure we're a present force in that.
DX: You just mentioned China. That's been a problem. China has been selling weapons to the Sudan government. Will this film create the kind of awareness that will affect US policy or UN's policy towards China?
DC: Under this current administration, it is doubtful. I believe that everything in this current administration, as far as supporting that, is that weve got our heads up our you-know-whats all about Iraq and terrorism. I don't think that that will be anything we can focus on right now. So a lot of other things are getting second or third tier consideration. But America is only one component in the United Nations. We're trying to appeal to the greater body of governments, besides ours who has done more, a lot more, than other nations have?
When this 33,000-strong force of troops goes into the area, 27% of the budget will be from the US. That's a large portion in compared to what other countries have committed so far. We have done, on record, some positive things and forward thinking things, we're trying to continue to push them to do more.
And as George Bush considers his legacy, we're saying this should be a part of what your legacy is, if you want to resurrect it. You should stand up and be the only president to call a genocide a genocide while it's occurring. Now what does that mean? To actually push for change.
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Ideally you've already heard of Heartbleed and are acting accordingly. If not, you need to know that a crypto bug" in OpenSSL has been identified that, if exploited, allows attackers to eavesdrop on communications, steal data directly from the services and users and to impersonate services and users." Yeah, yeah, sounds scary but what's a musician to do? It's time to start changing passwords on such services as SoundCloud, Gmail, Tumblr and Facebook. Then be prepared to repeat the process.
What Is This Heartbleed Bug?
The Heartbleed Bug is real and the stories of its exploits will only come after it's too late to protect yourself.
Here's what the researchers say:
The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This weakness allows stealing the information protected, under normal conditions, by the SSL/TLS encryption used to secure the Internet. SSL/TLS provides communication security and privacy over the Internet for applications such as web, email, instant messaging (IM) and some virtual private networks (VPNs)."
The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software. This compromises the secret keys used to identify the service providers and to encrypt the traffic, the names and passwords of the users and the actual content. This allows attackers to eavesdrop on communications, steal data directly from the services and users and to impersonate services and users."
This understated delivery is balanced out by security researchers such as Bruce Schneier who describes Heartbleed as a catastrophic bug:
On the scale of 1 to 10, this is an 11."
More background and technical stuff for those so inclined:
Critical crypto bug in OpenSSL opens two-thirds of the Web to eavesdropping
Critical crypto bug exposes Yahoo Mail, other passwords Russian roulette-style
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If the answer is Unclear" then definitely change it for that service too such as Pinterest, Apple and Twitter.
You can also check your server for Heartbleed.
If you have old accounts for online services now's a good time to start ditching them even if they weren't affected.
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Keep this in mind:
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Directed by Shawn Levy, written by Jonathan Tropper, starring Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Corey Stoll, Adam Driver, Rose Byrne, Timothy Olyphant, Abigail Spencer, Ari Graynor, Kathryn Hahn, Jane Fonda, Dax Shepherd, Connie Britton and Ben Schwartz.
Dream cast. Seriously.
First Look: Tina Fey & Jason Bateman's emotional family funeral comedy 'This Is Where I Leave You'
This cast.
I have to say it again. THIS CAST.
I'm sitting here watching Alicia Florrick as she takes a day off after being excused from jury duty. Of all things, she could not get the TV to work. She had to call her teenaged son, who tried to talk her through the problem. Then she couldn't figure out which remote to use.
Can we compare this to Mackenzie sending that infamous email by mistake? Will the critics jump on The Good Wife's writers and a accuse them of lacking the ability to write female characters?
Just sayin'.
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Gah I love this show. And I'm a little behind with my recaps. I'll catch up.
And…it's a new News Night! And it's off to a…shaky start. Great storytelling in following up the high that was the first episode with a low like this one where everything that could go wrong seems to.
Love Maggie's story about her ex - and for the record, I probably would have gotten under the bed too. What does that say about me?
LOVE the fallout. Inviting three incompetents to speak on a subject like anti-immigration. The professor. The pageant girl. The shotgun dude. Will doing his damnedest to lead these three along and failing MISERABLY because they are just that ignorant.
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Jim: First you look over the questions the producer put in the rundown. Identify yourself and your news agency, summarize the segment, the length, whether it's live or not and who we're having on from the other side.
Maggie: I'm sorry, but don't I first open my eyes and notice it's a new day?
Jim: What are we—
Maggie: I've done this before!
Jim: Okay.
Maggie: *looks at computer* What is this magic box in front of me?
Jim: Have I done something to you?
Maggie: I swear I was just thinking the exact same thing. I have no idea why I'm being mean to you.
Jim: Now that you know that, do you think you'll stop?
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…you write a nonsensical article tearing into one of the nicest guys in baseball. TJ Simers, you fit the bill and may very well be an a-hole.
Let me preface this by saying I have never met or spoken to Marcus Thames. However, from the outpouring of support for "Tems" and what I have read on the internet it seems like he's a stand-up guy.
I'm a few days late on this, but I just stumbled upon one of the greatest hatchet jobs in recent memory last night. TJ starts off by poking fun at the pronunciation of Thames. Nice. You really got him good.
He follows that up with an anecdote regarding an interview attempt with Thames, and, in doing so, takes another shot at the Dodgers — the team he covers on a daily basis.
So I thought I might talk to Tims/Tems on Monday. Ordinarily I don't like to start off a week talking to stiffs, but that leaves so few Dodgers to interview these days.
Next, Teej gets into Thames' sub-par defensive skills. The first words he ever mutters to the left fielder are:
Are you that horrible on defense that teams don't think it's worth playing such a home run threat?
Wow. I can't believe he wouldn't answer you when you didn't even take the time to introduce yourself, you just jumped right into insulting the man. No wonder he dismissed you and walked away.
Simers is like a child; he comes off rude and snarky and then wonders why he doesn't get the response he wants. Dick head. I guess he was absent from Kindergarten the day they taught manners.
This mook also took time to mention Thames' .248 lifetime batting average. What'd you hit in the majors, TJ?
The rest of the article is just cheap shots (including a serious one directed at Mattingly) and BS. I really don't recommend reading it, the article is just pointless drivel from a jaded, scorned sportswriter. It's guys like TJ Simers that make the newspaper industry a dying breed.
Somebody on the Dodgers should organize a protest and not let any player speak to Simers after games. If not, the LA Times should give this dipshit a pink slip and tell him to get lost. What a goon.
Maybe TJ is not an a-hole as this appears to be his shtick. However, I'd like to see him walk a mile in Marcus Thames' shoes, or any other athlete's, before going for the jugular again.


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