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Update - Whitstable Tree Clearance - a geotechnical report shows Network Rail seek to misinform and mislead - meeting 21st September

The fight against tree clearance on rail embankments by Network Rail has been in abeyance since the protests in May, but this important campaign is now gathering strength owing to a geotechnical report into railside embankment maintenance which has just been released. Although this was completed in regard to Whitstable, it has clear ramifications nationally. It shows that Network Rail has sought to misinform and mislead, and that there are viable, safer and more ecologically sound alternatives to blanket destruction of railside trees and wildlife corridors.

After much resistance from the company, a public meeting has now been secured with Network Rail in Whitstable on Friday 21st September, at 6.45pm in St Peter's Church, Sydenham St. Please put the date in your diaries and try to come along.

The fight to stop Network Rail destroying trees on the Cromwell Road railway embankment went directly to the government this week, as campaign spokesperson, Julie Wassmer, and Canterbury councillor, James Flanagan, met with Transport Minister, Norman Baker MP. (NB Full title - Parliamentary Under Secretary for State for the Dept of Transport).

The half hour meeting took place on Monday 10th September at the Dept of Transport, after which Ms Wassmer said "campaigners and residents are very grateful to Cllr Flanagan for securing this meeting as it capitalised on previous contact made with the Minister in May."  On that occasion, Cllr Flanagan had written to Norman Baker on the campaigners' behalf when residents were urgently seeking to prevent tree felling during the bird breeding season. Cllr Flanagan explained, "at that time, Mr Baker met with senior officials at Network Rail and delivered a letter for us on behalf of 7 year old Cromwell Road resident, Maya Mills, who had written to Network Rail CEO, David Higgins, but had not received a reply. Monday's meeting was a further attempt to help residents find a lasting resolution to their concerns about clear felling on the embankment."

On 28th May, during a protest at which three women, including Ms Wassmer, chained themselves to a tree on the embankment, Network Rail finally agreed to defer the work until 'after the end of September'. "But time has moved on, "said Ms Wassmer, "and so has the campaign."

Monday's discussion covered Network Rail's general conduct in Whitstable during the past six months, concerns over the potential loss of an important wildlife corridor on the embankment as well as raising a challenge to the technical reasons offered by Network Rail for the tree clearance. Peter Johns, a respected engineer with a special interest in soil mechanics has been researching data about the Cromwell Road embankment and has now completed a 42 page report, "Railway Trackside Vegetation in Whitstable. A Geotechnical Appraisal of Maintenance Options", which Ms Wassmer put before the Transport Minister. "The report responds very specifically to evidence presented to residents in Network Rail's Technical Presentation at the Umbrella Centre on 3rd May and warns that Network Rail's plans to clear fell trees on the embankment, as well as lay poison to prevent regrowth, could have exactly the opposite effect of stabilising the clay embankment." Instead, Mr Johns proposes an alternative solution involving the pollarding of mature trees and replanting of evergreen trees and shrubs. Cllr Flanagan said, "I have read the report and understand that this solution is loosely based on London Underground's vegetation policy, which seems arguably superior to that employed by Network Rail as it appears to have resulted in fewer land slips. I am hoping we can use this as a basis for negotiation."

Ms Wassmer also brought up residents' concerns about the lack of accountability of Network Rail, which is a private company funded by the taxpayer, but not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. She says, "I also informed Mr Baker that I have made recent requests to three parliamentary select committees to report on the conduct of Network Rail over its tree clearances and that those letters have been co-signed by members of five other communities: Walsall, Enfield, Rickmansworth, Dronfield and King's Lynn. I am on record as having said that the company is not accustomed to being challenged by small town communities but our own continuing battle in Whitstable has acted as an example to others, especially in Drayton Park, Islington, where Network Rail were forced to abandon tree clearance in June pending an investigation by the RSPB and the British Transport Police."

Ministry officials confirmed to Cllr Flanagan and Ms Wassmer that Network Rail has now agreed to a public meeting in Whitstable which is due to take place on 21st September at 6.45 at St Peter's Church in Sydenham Street. Ms Wassmer said, "the meeting is to be Chaired by our local MP, Julian Brazier, to whom I am very grateful, not only for securing the meeting but for understanding that this is nothing less than the community deserves. In June we were given a commitment by Network Rail to a series of meetings but the company has been refusing until now to name a date for any public meeting before the work is re-scheduled. Last Friday they refused to pay a venue fee for St Peter's but fortunately, the Rev Simon Tillotson has been very understanding." Ms Wassmer says she has personally guaranteed a fee for the church and, if necessary, hopes to re-coup this from donations from the community. "The Minister listened very carefully to our concerns and told us that he would be writing to Network Rail's CEO, David Higgins, about the issues raised as well as handing over Peter Johns's report on our behalf. She and Cllr Flanagan also handed Mr Baker another letter from 7 year old Maya Mills, as Network Rail's CEO has still not replied to her. Says Ms Wassmer, "it was addressed to 'Norman Transport'".

Peter John's report "Railway Trackside Vegetation in Whitstable. A Geotechnical Appraisal of Maintenance Options" can be accessed on the following link (together with Network Rail's Technical Presentation from 3rd May 2012):-

(The previous article on this subject can be found here.)


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Early commentary on 'Capital as Power'

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Early commentary on 'Capital as Power'

Postby dtcochrane » Fri May 22, 2009 6:31 pm

This is from Andrew Kliman, who has written a book length defence of the LToV.

http://marxisthumanistinitiative.org/20 ... economism/

Two leftist political scientists, Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler, have a new book out entitled “Capital as Power: A study of order and creorder“ (London and New York: Routledge, 2009). I think I’ll disagree with a whole lot of what they say, but their scathing indictment of much “critical discourse” and anti-”economism” on the left (pp. 3-4) is right on the mark, in my view:

“many contemporary critics of capitalism seem to believe that they can challenge this social order without ever asking how it operates, let alone why.

“With some obvious exceptions, present-day leftists prefer to avoid ‘the economy’, and many are rather proud about it. To prioritize profit and accumulation, to theorize corporations and the stock market, to empirically research the gyrations of money and prices are all acts of narrow ‘economism’. To do these things is to fetishize the world, to conceal the cultural nuances of human consciousness, to prevent the critic from seeing the true political underpinnings of social affairs. Best to leave them to the dismal scientists.

“And, so, most self-respecting critics of capitalism remain happily ignorant of its ‘economics’, neoclassical as well as Marxist. They know little about the respective histories, questions and challenges of these theories, and they are oblivious to their triumphs, contradictions and failures. This innocence is certainly liberating. It allows critics to produce ‘critical discourse’ littered with cut-and-paste platitudes, ambiguities and often plain nonsense. Seldom do their ‘critiques’ tell us something important about the forces of contemporary capitalism, let alone about how these forces should be researched, understood and challenged.

“Most importantly, though, this stale context conditions students to stop asking ‘why?’”

Most of us in Marxist-Humanist Initiative coexisted, in a manner of speaking, with such currents for a long or very long time, and have only recently extricated ourselves from that environment. I think we need to go deeply into the factors that have caused “critical discourse” and anti-”economism” to became predominant on the Left, and to such a degree that they affected, and infected, an ostensibly Marxist-Humanist organization. But also, frankly, I think we need to examine the ways of speaking and categorizing to which we’ve become accustomed, which can give the impression that Marxist-Humanism has an affinity with, or even that it’s an instance of, such “critical discourse” and anti-”economism.” (After all, we do champion critique, and we’re anti-economist! :-) — but can we find a way to formulate this so that it doesn’t capitulate to regressive currents of thought?)
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Groundless Skepticism of TCM Treatment on Chronic Prostatitis, Diuretic and Anti-Inflammatory Pill Has Proved Effective

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Updated 8:51 AM CDT, Wed, March 28,2018

Chinese herbal medicine has maintained its popularity as well as some skepticism in the US. However it is groundless skepticism, because modern medicine is based on traditional medicine, and Chinese traditional medicine has existed in America for several centuries. TCM Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill has been proved effective to cure chronic prostatitis without side effects and drug resistance.

Houston, TX -- (ReleaseWire) -- 03/28/2018 -- Recently an herbal cough remedy named Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa, containing honey and laquat, has become popular in New York. Even Wall Street Journal has reported on how New Yorkers were snapping up Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa, and praising the syrup for being able to contain a cough within 15 minutes. It seems that Chinese medicine is increasingly practiced overseas. Unfortunately, it is a flash in the pan, just as what once happened to Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill, an Chinese herbal medicine effectively cure chronic prostatitis. When Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill enjoys a reputation in the American, it finds that people easily doubt and say no to something new or unknown, and that some people think there is just placebo effect with anything like that in Chinese medicine. However, In fact, Chinese herbal medicine Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill is absolutely something old, common and effective.

The Relationship between Herbal Medicine and Modern Drug

Chinese medicine is based on herbs/ plants, which are the oldest friends of human being. Historians from all around the world have produced evidence to show that apparently all primitive people used plants in a sophisticated way. For example, Herba houttuynia, one raw ingredient of Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill, has long been used to relieve dysuria for centuries. The herbal medicine have given people very useful synthetic clues of modern drugs in the past. Most of these plant-derived drugs were originally discovered through the study of herbal cures and folk knowledge of traditional people. By the middle of 19 century at least 80% of all medicine were derived from plants. Common aspirin, botanical source from willow bark, is one of plant-derived modern drug. Then came the revolution inspired by the development of the pharmaceutical industry and synthetic drugs dominated, though traditional medicine has never been out of scene. Even today if people visit to any pharmacy in the West, they will find at least 25% plant derived drug.

Practice and Research on Chinese Medicine in the United States

The introduction of Chinese medicine into the United States can be traced back to the 18th century. In the early 19th century, books about Chinese medicine research and practice are translated into English and published in the United States. The true influx of Chinese medicine into the United States was in 1970s. On 26 July 1971, James Reston published a report in the New York Times introducing how Chinese physicians in Beijing eased his post-surgery abdominal pain and discomfort with needles.

Since then, Chinese medicine has attracted great interest in the United States. In 1992, the National Institutes of Health established the Office of Alternative Medicine. In 1993, the first survey of the prevalence of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the United States was published. In 2012, national survey estimated that 60% of the adults population with chronic diseases in the United States has used complementary therapies including herbal medicine or acupuncture. For example, there is increasing probability of patients with chronic prostatitis or chronic epididymitis choosing Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill.

The Advantage of Traditional Chinese Medicine over the Western Medicine

Holism in CM is an important philosophical concept for understanding physiology, pathology, diagnostics, and treatment of diseases. It points to the unity and integrity of the body --- an organic whole. In the process of diagnosis in CM, the main underlying principle is "all internal changes are reflected by external manifestations." This principle makes possible the use of perceptible symptoms and signs of the sense organs, the tongue and the meridians to infer and grasp the abnormalities of the internal organs or the whole body, and further to make a firm diagnosis. This is the clinical application of the principle of unity between a region and the entire body.

However, Modern medicine (western medicine) today emphasizes the inseparable connection between the human body and its organs. And unlike Chinese medication can "completely cure the disease", western medication can be used to control the symptoms first. What's worse, the belief in the "faster" action of Western medicine may lead people over-dependent on medications and may have higher expectations in drug prescription, even for illnesses that medications are not necessary or even harmful.

How does Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill Work on Curing Chronic Prostatitis?

Chinese medicine named Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill not only be able to ease the pain, but also cure the disease by killing inflammatory cytokines which proves to bring physiological pain and psychological anxiety to CPPS patients according to a lot of studies and improving Qi-blood circulation to enhance immunity to prevent from recurrence of chronic prostatitis. A specific formula for curing chronic prostatitis is Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill with different ingredients working together in ensuring that people heal from the disease that they are suffering from. Some of the most important ingredients are: Plantago seed, Dianthus superbus, talcum, Houttuynia cordata, Polygonum aviculare, herba laminariae, pangolin, saffron, semen persicae, honeysuckle, lignum aquilariae, etc. Different herbs have different actions including "herbs that drain fire" (reduce fever), "herbs that clear heat and relieve toxity" (anti-infection), "herbs that cool the blood" (anti-inflammatory), "herbs that invigorate blood" (promote blood circulation), while the combination and balance of them make the product powerful and effective.

Chinese herbs can also enter specific meridians and cure specific infected organs. It means that each herb has an affinity with one or more specific organs, and it is this tendency to specific organs via meridians that helps explain the therapeutic effect of a herb on conditions associated with those organs. For example, the herbs che qianzi (Plantago seed), qu mai (Dianthus superbus), yu xing cao (Herba houttuynia) all enters kidney, bladder and liver meridians, with the effect of draining damp-heat and promoting urination and can be used to treat conditions like urinary tract infection. The liver meridian encircles the genitalia and is traditionally used to treat diseases of the reproductive system.

As to herbs like chi shao (radices paeoniae rubra), tao ren (semen persicae) their action may be explained in terms of modern biomedical concepts --- "herbs that cool the blood" generally have anti-inflammatory actions and the process of removing inflammation is also the process of killing inflammatory cytokines, so then patients feel less painful with the inflammation gone.

In the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, a good medicinal formula should contain herbs treating disease as well as maintaining health, that is, boosting the immune system. Usually patients sustaining chronic diseases are weak because their body mechanism are under the attack of diseases. Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill with dang gui (angelica sinensis) to emphasize warm-tonification of the kidney and nourishing of the blood, finally improving the circulation of Qi and blood, that is to say, there will be enough nutrition and oxygen in the blood. All these make contribution to healthy organs and strong the immune system to fight against diseases.

Know More about Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill and Its Successful Case

This medicine is authorized by State Intellectual Property Office of China with the patent number 200910157894. Here is the website link

Chinese medicine is relatively safe with few side effects in comparison with antibiotics which is not that effective and long-duration antibiotic therapy results in drug residence. Common antibiotics such as fluoroquinolones, tetracyclines, and macrolides are difficult to overcome the blood/prostate barrier and reach the level of the minimum inhibitory concentration, yet the large-dose of antibiotics with possible risks of drug resistance. While patients with serious even incurable genital and reproductive diseases such as interstitial cystitis can take Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill as herbal supplement for years to control symptoms and avoid deterioration of the condition for years without any harm to their body. It brings hope and efficacy to so many patients with CPPS all around the world. Here is a case about curing CPPS successfully by Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory.

"I've been diagnosed with prostatitis for almost 2 years. Though I was prescribed with antibiotics when I had my first prostatitis, the pain and discomfort keep come and go. It's really excruciating. Some antibiotics can eliminate the symptoms for several days. However, if I stop the medication for some days, the discomfort will come back."

Mr. Black is from Canada. He is 30 years old. His prostatitis started with pain in penis, burning urination, and sore penis. He thought the symptoms may be caused by over masturbation, so he stopped the past couple of weeks. He went to the doctor. He was given a prostate check and diagnosed with prostatitis. He was prescribed with bacterium. But pain still in his penis when urinating, more in the middle to tip. The condition seems have no improvement. Then he was recommend herbal medicine Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill by his friend. He decided to have a try.

"I ordered one month medication to have a try. After the first treating course, the pain in penis was relived a little. But the urinary disorders still has no improvement. Then I ordered another medication to cure the burning and pain during urination. The problem was cured step by step. Though there was still a little burning when urinating after the second month medication, the urinary frequency was cured with no recurrence. Dr. Lee suggested me to avoid eating spicy food and no alcohol, coffee and smoking. Strictly keep to the food prohibitions, the prostatitis was cured radically. I want to say big thanks to Dr. Lee."

To avoid the recurrence of the disease, Mr. Black ordered another third month medication to consolidate. More successful testimonials at

About Dr.Lee and Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill
Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill is developed by Lee Xiaoping, a doctor with thirty-year clinical experience in the male and female genitourinary system disease. Dr. Lee graduated from Hubei College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and operates a private clinic in Wuhan, China. Every year her clinic is visited by thousands of patients with chronic prostatitis or epididymitis and 80% of these people can get rid of the disease after taking treatment from Dr. Lee. In addition, people can get free advise from her on-line tcm clinic.

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By Sam Reiver
On February 20, 2019

Snowboarder Kyla Henry shows off her board

Snowboarding began its emergence in 1965 with the Snurfer — an innovation made by connecting two skis with a piece of rope.

In the ’70s, Jake Burton took the snowboard to the next level by inventing bindings, providing a much more secure way to attach feet to the board.

Since then, the sport has grown exponentially, and there are boards of all colors shapes and designs from aliens smoking a joint to a sasquatch lost in space.

Some, on the other hand, have just a logo and a single color.

There are different kinds of snowboards with different purposes — some with the goal of grinding rails and some designed to be ideal for powder.

But snowboards are not just an adventurous way to enjoy a beautiful bluebird day; they’ve become a means of expression. Cameron Rossi- Crete, a Castleton senior proficient in graphic design who’d love to design snowboards for Burton said, “I admire snowboarding because it’s a sport you can express yourself with your gear.”

Castleton student Dan Hathaway rides a Lib Tech Banana designed by professional rider Travis Rice.  The board is blue, black and white and Hathaway said,  “the blue has a wave feeling to it.”

But it is not just the aesthetics that drew Hathaway to his board.

“I have a serrated edge on it, which is good for the east, cause it gets icy here,” he said.

And the blue wave also has a sentimental connection with Hathaway.

“I really like the blue on the board because it has to do with my high school football team.  We had blue tide pride,” he said, while adding that functionality was still crucial while choosing his board.

“It’s an all mountain board; woods, park, I can do anything,” he said.

For some, the design is not as crucial as the functionality.  Castleton student John Everett rides a Never Summer Board Lock. His board has a very subtle and sleek design to it, though Everett describes it differently

“It has no design,” said Everett. “That is harder to find.”

A board’s design takes the back seat for Everett.

“The type of board I’m looking for is a powder board or carver board,” he said.

Kyla Henry, a Darkside Snowboards employee and Castleton senior, rocks a Gnu Stunt Puppy.  The board merges an in-shape gentleman and puppies.

“I saw on Instagram that a girl who I thought was rad at snowboarding had it and then saw we had it at work and knew I had to get it.  I chose it for the shape of it, the design on it was just a plus,” she said.

When asked if customers pick out a snowboard for its design or functionality, she said “we try to push people to buy boards for function.  But people always care about the designs.”

She said, “people will say ‘oh that’s too girly, that’s ugly,’ just random things when really we are always trying to explain why this ugly board is going to work best for you.”

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Hyperlight Ultimate will be available very soon. Platforms and additional details revealed in the coming weeks.
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Hyperlight EX is now published on Nintendo 3DS™

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Back in 2011 Hyperlight was one of the most original action games on mobile platforms.
The game was critically acclaimed and got several nominations as mobile “Game of the Year”.
It was also a featured game on the iOS devices by Apple.

Today CatfishBlues Games announces the publishing of Hyperlight EX for New Nintendo 3DS
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Hyperlight is an high intensity arcade action game in which you control a spaceship that fights against hordes of evil alien monsters in a virtual cosmic environment. Your spaceship has a special capability: it can travel at a Faster Than Light speed (F.T.L.) becoming itself the final weapon. By colliding with enemies in this state the ship can instantly destroy everything it touches! In the game there are also plenty of other bonus, weapons and entities that can help you overcome the many difficulties you’ll be facing, including the battles against the terrific final bosses that await you in the dark side of the universe!

Hyperlight EX is available in the Americas (USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil), Europe and Australia as a digital download from the Nintendo eShop for $4.99 / €4.99 / £4.59 only for the New Nintendo 3DS!

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An alternative father's day gift idea

Jamie Oliver eat your heart out â€“ there’s a new cookery champion in town.

Haynes has swapped the workshop for the kitchen and is hoping to show aspiring foodies who are more comfortable with a wrench than a whisk a thing or two with its new Men’s Cooking manual.

Out just in time for Father’s Day, the book is being pitched as a gift idea for dads who have trouble telling olive oil from Castrol GTX.

The manual, says its publisher, is a no-nonsense guide to making food thatâ€™s totally edible â€“ and in some cases even tasty.

And it’s written in the sort of language that men understand. Simple. To the point. Concise. With a few jokes. And lots. Of. Full. Stops.

Written by Chris Maillard, one of the founding editors of Top Gear magazine, the book promises to reveal “real menâ€™s” cooking techniques such as warnings about cooking while drunk.

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What is a (Bitcoin) HD Wallet?

Many Bitcoin Wallets today are HD Wallets. But what does that actually mean?

HD stands for “hierarchical and deterministic”. HD Wallets consist of many private keys that do not exist independently of each other, but are arranged in a hierarchy. In addition, these keys are not generated on the basis of random numbers – as is customary – but are derived from a certain value in a deterministic way, i.e. following fixed rules. This original value, which is itself randomly generated for a new wallet, is also called “seed”.

Ethereum code for more privacy and comfort

HD Wallets were invented to solve two problems of classic wallets. To
One was previously often routinely used as a private key and the associated Ethereum code for multiple transactions. Transaction change was returned to an address already in use. This is bad for privacy – outsiders can more easily associate different transactions with each other, and for example estimate how much money you have available or what values you usually move.

On the other hand, each time new private keys were generated, a new backup had to be made. This is tedious and cumbersome, and increases the likelihood that backups will not be created promptly or not at all, or stored in an unsafe way for convenience.

So how do Bitcoin trader solve these problems?

You can imagine the whole thing in a very simplified way: There is a
Original value to which a positive Bitcoin trader review is added. From this combined value, a hash is calculated that acts as the basis for an actual private key. These hashes do not allow inference to the base value, nor do they have a
Connection to each other. If you know the base value, however, you can append
of consecutive numbers and perform the hash operation to calculate all hashes.

In reality the whole thing is a bit more complex, but the basic mechanism is the same. How exactly the calculation works can also be read in the specification, BIP32.

With the help of this mechanism, a HD Wallet can now generate any number of private keys and associated addresses from a single value. If you have a backup of this value, all previously generated keys are covered – as well as all keys that will be generated in the future. This solves the problem, because a backup only has to be created once and stored securely.

Thanks to a simple, never-ending stream of fresh Bitcoin addresses, an HD Wallet can now easily avoid the multiple use of an address. After each
incoming transaction, a new receiving address is generated. For each outgoing
transaction, a new address is generated for the change. Users can of course
can still accept several transactions at one receiving address, but it is no longer necessary and is largely avoided in regular operation. There are two very common extensions of the standard for HD Wallets. One of them refers to the point of hierarchy. BIP44 defines how a structure can be used for different

New details about the stock exchange

For the third time in two years, Bithumb, South Korea’s largest crypto exchange, was hacked in June 2018. SK, the country’s telecommunications giant, explained that the hack was probably caused by APT attacks.

An Advanced Persistent Threat, also known as APT, is an attack in which unauthorized hackers gain access to a network and remain undetected for a long time, with access to sensitive information and valuable data. In an interview, SK Infosec Director Lee Jae-woo said:

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“The Bithumb Stock Exchange Hack is currently under investigation by the local tax authorities and the exact reason for the hack was not disclosed by the investigators. But here at SK Infosec we suspect that the stock market hack was most likely caused by Bitcoin Code an APT attack, either by intrusion into employees’ computers or the stock market’s internal system.”

Three possible scenarios
As a subsidiary of SK Infosec, SK Infosec has the task of investigating various security threats and developing solutions to combat large-scale violations. Lee suspects that the Bithumb hacking attack was caused by one of the following scenarios:

Hackers gained access to the internal server by attacking an employee with a phishing attack called Spearphishing and installing malware directly on the employee’s computer.
Direct attack on the internal server by launching an APT attack.
Attack on a public server that was hacked and infiltrated the internal server.

Attack on Bitcoin Revolution

SK Infosec researchers emphasized that the second scenario with sophisticated APT attacks Bitcoin Revolution was most likely the cause, as Bithumb has already experienced two hacks based on the first scenario.

Heavy criticism from the media
Chosun, a leading mainstream media company in South Korea, reported in June that Bithumb was aware of suspicious activity four days before the hacking attack. Despite this awareness, Bithumb was unable to prevent the attack, putting users’ capital at risk. Local authorities also warned the crypto exchanges of their poor security measures and weak internal management systems.

Since both large exchanges and smaller platforms have been unable to protect user funds and prevent security breaches, the South Korean government may require local exchanges to comply with guidelines comparable to those of banks and regulated financial institutions.

Currently, banks must spend seven percent of their total capital on cyber security and the development of systems that are used to secure user funds. With the drafting of a new crypto-regulatory framework, it is possible for the South Korean government to use part of its funds and capital to improve its security measures.


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Who Wins: LeBron v. D-Wade?

Dwayne Wade and LeBron James are quite similar in a number of ways. They were drafted in the same year in the same draft round. They are two of the top three players in the NBA (LeBron's number one, obviously and D-Wade is third, right after Kobe Bryant). Both are in the center of all the hoopla concerning the 2010 free agent bonanza. Both have had the privilege of playing in the Olympics. Heck, both of them have been teammates of a certain Shaquille O'Neal at some time or another. As similar as their respective resumes may be, there is one major huge difference between the two. LeBron has a MVP award to his name but no championship ring, while Dwayne Wade has a ring but no MVP award.

We all know that at some point in time, LeBron is going to win himself a championship. No one questions this. Whether it be with Cleveland or with some other lesser team, LeBron is going to win at least one ring, if not many, many more. However, the same can't be said about Dwayne Wade and his quest to win a MVP award. I know it sounds ridiculous to say that a top three player in the NBA doesn't have a real shot at winning the MVP award, but there are some serious underlying issues that makes Wade winning seem unlikely.

First, there's his age. Even though LeBron and Wade came from the same draft class, Wade is three years older than LeBron. In fact, he just turned 28 three weeks ago. While that's not an old age by any stretch of the imagination, it is close to the prime years of a basketball player's career. Wade is reaching the peak of the career, if he hasn't hit it already. After all, he is averaging less points, less rebounds and less assists than last year and is leading a team that currently stands at one game below .500 and barely hanging on to a playoff spot. When you factor in the amount of abuse that Wade's body takes in a season and the back injuries he's already endured, it's not hard to predict that we will be seeing a decline in his production sooner as opposed to later.

Then of course, there's the issue of LeBron James himself. LeBron has established himself as the best player in the NBA this year and is a shoo-in for the MVP award. No one can really argue this point. Even if you want to argue that someone like Wade or Kobe is more talented than LeBron (they're not), no one can deny that LeBron is having a better season than either of them, especially with Kobe's recent finger and ankle injuries. In their head to head match-ups this season, LeBron has one-upped Wade, whether it be through making big shots or posterizing Wade in ridiculous dunks. As it stands today, Wade just isn't as good as LeBron and it's not looking like that's going to change anytime soon. Even if LeBron is somehow taken out of consideration for the MVP award sometime in the future, Wade still won't be the top dog in the NBA. Kobe will still be a force to be reckoned with, as will the quickly rising star of Kevin Durant, who's looking more and more like a superstar every day and LeBron's eventual successor to the title of dominant player in the NBA.

There's other minor factors too, like his inability to shoot threes or Miami's inability to surround Wade with a good enough team to make Wade look good. Wade can always improve on his shooting while his team situation could be easily resolved by Miami either committing to spend the money to make a championship caliber team or Wade leaving this summer to a team that will. Chicago springs to mind as a destination that Wade could depart to that he could quickly turn into a force to be reckoned with (although they'd still be number two to Cleveland after LeBron signs his extension this summer.)

It's hard to predict the future when it comes to sports. After all, there was a time when no one thought that the Red Sox would win the World Series or that the Saints would ever make it to the Super Bowl. However, if Dwayne Wade's performances against LeBron and the Cavaliers this season have been any indication, he will always be considered to be the second fiddle, at best, in the NBA.

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  1. Would you think it possible for any one to have predicted that Chris Paul would have a season ending injury like that? Or the fact that the rookie Darren Collison would do such a great job as his replacement?
    No one knows what the future holds for both Wade and Le Bron. Although right now the tide favors LeBron.

  2. I'll one-up and say for sure that D-Wade's career is already in decling. He can no longer lead a team to the title as lead banana because, frankly, match up him against LeBron with comparable supporting casts and LeBron wins every time. Like you said, LeBron is just better and 3 years younger. The only way Wade wins another title is if he teams up with LeBron (I really DONT want this to happen), or with another transcendent big man. The latter is pretty unlikely, because Bosh and Dwight Howard are the best entering-their-prime big men and frankly aren't good enough to lead a team to a title. Only big men since Hakeen Olajuwan (remember, NBA was sans Jordan) to lead a team to a title are Duncan and Shaq (and Garnett, but that team was such an anomaly and unlikey to happen again given the contracting salary cap). And Bosh and Howard, while very good, are very unlikely to become as good as Shaq or Duncan. And by very unlikely I mean it won't happen.

    On a very related, optimistic note, given how Kobe clearly only has 2-3 years left at his level, D-Wade's inferiority and the lack of transcendent big men entering their prime, what is to stop LeBron from winning 5 titles before he is 30? Besides his GM? Who stops him? Durant or Brandon Roay? (I disinclude Chris Paul because as blasphemous as this sounds, it is very unlikely he leads a team to a title, since no PG has done it as lead-banana since Isiah Thomas in 1989. '04 Pistons were a complete team facing the perfect opponent, a Lakers team with a complete lack of unity)

  3. Thanks for the comments!

    @ Jason-It is, of course, hard to predict the future when it comes to sports and athletes. Trades, injuries and other unforeseen variables can all throw kinks into predicting what may happen. However, anyone who follows sports on any level will try to predict what'll happen. It's just part of the fun of being a sports fan.

    That being said, it's basically impossible for Wade to win the MVP award due to LeBron's dominance and a lack of teammates that would compliment and support Wade and allow him to shine. Remember, almost no one considered LeBron to be on the same level as Garnett/Kobe until he was surrounded by the right parts, which allowed him to live up to his full potential.

    @Anon.-Your comments are spot on, especially the comment on CP3. I personally place a lower value on point guards than most, since any good team can win without having an elite point guard. That's not to belittle Chris Paul's skills, it's simply the fact that most great teams' best players no longer play the point guard position (except in rare exceptions like LeBron last night)


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Consumers looking for a better way to easily store and share photos and videos can turn to Sony’s new Personal Content Station. This wireless home device gives users centralized control over their data, even if it was captured and resides on several devices.

The rise in smartphones and tablets with advanced cameras and imaging capabilities is creating a content storage and management issue for consumers. According to recent industry research, 80% of smartphone users admit to keeping photos on their device, rather than deal with the hassle of transferring them to a PC.

The Personal Content Station addresses this need simply and effectively. It connects wirelessly to a home network to store, view and share photos and videos from a consumer’s different devices including smartphones, tablets, cameras and camcorders.

“Consumer technology is more mobile than ever, and the smartphone now is often a person’s primary camera,” said Viviano Cantu, director of consumer media marketing at Sony Electronics. “The challenge is, what do you do with all that content on your phone, and how do you easily share it with family and friends? This device answers those questions. With 1TB of space, it has enough storage capacity to become the wireless hub of all your personal content.”

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To compliment the electronics industry’s launch of 4K Ultra HD Televisions, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) is proud to leverage its growing 4K asset library to present “Mastered in 4K” Blu-ray titles. While maintaining the studio’s commitment to the highest possible quality Blu-ray releases, the “Mastered in 4K” offering takes these efforts even further.

“Mastered in 4K” Blu-ray releases will feature titles—such as The Amazing Spider-Man, Total Recall, The Karate Kid, Battle: Los Angeles and The Other Guys—sourced from pristine 4K masters and presented at high-bitrate 1080p resolution, with expanded color showcasing more of the wide range of rich color contained in the original source. When upscaled via the Sony 4K Ultra HD TVs, these discs serve as an ideal way for consumers to experience near-4K picture quality. SPHE also plans to utilize available high quality 4K masters for select upcoming new release Blu-ray titles. “Mastered in 4K” Blu-ray Discs can be played on all existing Blu-ray Disc players.

“The electronics industry’s groundbreaking launch of 4K Ultra HD TV has given us reason to even further elevate our Blu-ray offering,” said David Bishop, President, SPHE. “This spring, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is excited to deliver a complementing lineup of ‘Mastered in 4K’ Blu-ray titles, offering consumers the best possible picture and sound quality to be experienced on the latest HDTVs.”

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Sony Electronics is unveiling an array of new home audio and video technologies which combine style, features and performance to create the perfect multi-faceted home entertainment experience. From Blu-ray Disc players to Home Theater Systems to accessories for the Internet player powered by Google TV, Sony’s newest devices offer something for everyone: 3D, Wi-Fi, Internet connectivity with access to hundreds of apps, near-field communications and more.

Sony is adding three new models to its acclaimed line of Blu-ray Disc players:  the BDP-S1100, BDP-S3100 and BDP-S5100. Each model is Internet-connected and packed with apps, and offers stunning performance when playing back Blu-ray Discs or DVDs thanks to a fully encased optical drive and powerful image processors. The S3100 and S5100 players are also equipped with improved Wi-Fi capability offering a stronger signal and excellent range. In addition to giving consumers more entertainment choices than ever before, the new Blu-ray Disc players also incorporate Sony’s striking new premium design.

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Panasonic, a major developer and contributor to the success of the Blu-ray format, today introduced an expanded Blu-ray Disc Player lineup with two new Full HD 3D models – the DMP-BDT330, DMP-BDT230, and two 2D Blu-ray Disc Players – the DMP-BD89 and DMP-BD79.

Additionally, Panasonic maintains the successes of FULL HD 3D 2012 models – the DMP-BDT500 and DMP-BBT01.  All four of the 3D-capable models include Panasonic's proprietary IPTV platform, VIERA Connect, while the 2D models feature IP VOD, a service that offers a limited, though targeted, selection of such sites as Netflix, HuluPlus, Amazon Instant Video, Vudu, CinemaNow and YouTube.

"Panasonic is committed to the best in-home entertainment and this year's Blu-ray Players are at the forefront of design, performance and green technology," said Alex Fried , Product Manager, Panasonic Consumer Marketing Company of North America. "With new features including expanded VIERA Connect applications, seamless web browsing and display mirroring allowing interaction with a tablet or smartphone, Panasonic continues to create products with the needs of today's consumer top-of-mind."

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Rovi Corporation, driving digital entertainment innovation, today announced that the DivX digital rights management (DRM) used with the company’s adaptive streaming format, has been approved by the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) for streaming use within the UltraViolet ecosystem. With the DivX DRM becoming part of the UltraViolet technology specification, DivX Plus Streaming® may be easily used by UltraViolet retailers to deliver a consistently high quality over-the-top video streaming experience. DECE is the developer and operator of UltraViolet, which is designed to offer consumers unprecedented freedom and flexibility in how they watch and collect home entertainment.

DivX Plus Streaming brings features historically associated with Blu-ray Discs to the over-the-top entertainment experience. The adaptive streaming solution not only dynamically adjusts streams to help deliver maximum visual quality based on available bandwidth, but also offers an advanced feature set with support for 1080p, subtitles, multiple language tracks, and trick-play functions such as smooth fast forward and rewind.

The addition of DivX DRM to DECE’s list of approved stream protection technologies continues the momentum for DivX Plus Streaming, which has been approved by studios and adopted by a range of companies that are helping fuel over-the-top entertainment distribution, including Broadcom, China Mobile, Dixons, MediaTek, MediaMarkt, and MStar.

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Walmart is making it easier and more enjoyable for movie fans to watch their favorite movies when and where they want. Today at the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the retailer announced it is expanding its in-store Disc-to-Digital service to provide customers with digital versions of their previously purchased movies from the comfort of their home. Walmart will also be launching a new Facebook app that will give people access to exclusive movie content and the power to influence and shape what movies are sold in-store and online.

"From Smartphones to Smart TVs, our customers are consuming and sharing content more than ever," said John Aden , executive vice president for general merchandising, Walmart U.S. "We see a great opportunity to provide our customers with accessible and affordable tools to help them bring their movie collections into the digital age. In addition to Disc-to-Digital, Walmart's new Entertainment Facebook app will give movie fans a starring role by serving as place for them to share, interact with and choose the movies they want to see in our stores and online – ultimately enhancing the way people watch and enjoy movies."

Walmart Entertainment's Disc-to-Digital Service, Powered by VUDU
Starting this month, watching DVD and Blu-ray movies from compatible Internet-connected devices will get even easier. Walmart's industry-leading video streaming service, VUDU, will soon have the capability to convert previously purchased DVD/Blu-ray movies to UltraViolet digital copies. UltraViolet is a free, cloud-based digital library that gives users greater flexibility with how and where they watch the movies and TV shows they purchase.

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Sling Media, Inc. today introduces the Slingbox 500 and Slingbox 350, two completely redesigned retail Slingbox products that deliver best-in-class, up to Full 1080p HD-quality, live streaming of your favorite TV shows, sporting events, recorded programming and premium content to smartphones, tablets, laptops and connected devices. In addition, the Slingbox 500 introduces new features, including Wi-Fi and HDMI, as well as a platform for delivering personal content to the TV, a first for any Slingbox product.

The latest portable devices and high-speed wireless networks give consumers access to video content wherever they go. Now the Slingbox 500 and Slingbox 350 raise the bar by delivering a superior HD quality video experience, making it easy for them to watch and control their home TV -- virtually anywhere.

"Slingbox is still the best way to extend the entire living room TV experience anywhere," said Sling Media's Senior Vice President and General Manager, Raghu Tarra. "We've redesigned our Slingbox products from the ground up, adding features and enhancements that make them easier to set-up and use while creating the highest performing products on the market. With these new product introductions Sling Media continues to evolve and disrupt the category we created."

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NETGEAR, Inc., a global networking company that delivers innovative products to consumers, businesses and service providers, today announced a new family of next-generation streaming players that deliver a superior connected home entertainment experience. The three new NETGEAR NeoTV Streaming Players are among the first to support the HTML 5 standard, which is rapidly being adopted by content providers as the ideal method for streaming entertainment into homes. The new NeoTV Streaming Players use HTML 5, HLS, and digital rights management tools like Microsoft PlayReady to provide access to hundreds of HD streaming channels and a variety of entertainment features that offer an outstanding home theater experience for consumers.

The new NETGEAR streaming players are perfect for upgrading standard TVs to smart TVs. Additionally, if you are unsatisfied with the content availability or ease-of-use of your smart TV, NeoTV will broaden your access to content and features apps that turn smartphones into remote control devices to simplify finding and playing content.

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Today, Corel announced the release of Roxio® Game Capture HD PRO, the most comprehensive and easiest way for gamers to capture, edit, and share, their best gaming moments - all in stunning HD. For gaming enthusiasts, Roxio Game Capture HD PRO is the perfect all-in-one solution and is the first capture device to offer live streaming!

Roxio Game Capture HD PRO is the complete package for gamers as it not only includes a top of the line capture card that encodes in H.264, enabling it to record in 720p and 1080 60i/30p, it also includes a full featured video editor tailored specifically to a gamers' needs. A new partnership with Twitch allows users to live stream directly to their channel without having to leave the application - all at a price that won't break the bank!

"Gamers love to share their best moves and achievements, and watch others play for tips and tricks," said Matt DiMaria, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Digital Media at Corel. "Our new product makes this experience even more exciting by supporting HD recording and easy social media sharing. What's more, Roxio Game Capture HD PRO takes social sharing to a whole new level by enabling live streaming."

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VUDU and Roku today announced the launch of the VUDU streaming channel on the Roku platform. VUDU is Walmart's subscription-free, video streaming service which offers more than 100,000 new releases, Hollywood classics, independent films and TV shows, and was recently ranked as the top streaming video service by Consumer Reports . Available now on all Roku 2, Roku HD (model 2500) and Roku LT streaming players in the U.S. and coming to the Roku Streaming Stick in October, VUDU offers the world's largest selection of HD movies and delivers a cinema-like experience with vibrant-streaming 1080p HD and rich Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound. Movies on VUDU are available the same day they are released to DVD or Blu-ray, and can be purchased or rented without a subscription.

"We're committed to offering customers access to their favorite movies and TV shows at the highest possible streaming quality wherever they choose to watch them," said Prasanna Ganesan, general manager and CEO of VUDU. "Our launch on Roku today allows us to offer our entire catalog on the most popular streaming player on the market."

"With its impressive library of a la carte movies and TV shows, and high quality surround sound features, VUDU is a great addition to the Roku streaming platform," said Anthony Wood, founder and CEO of Roku. "The ability to instantly watch the latest Hollywood releases is certain to make the VUDU channel a big hit among Roku customers."

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Who was behind Sabra and Shatila massacres of 1982?
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Sunday, 12 January 2014

Franck Salameh of Boston College: "The Assad regime behind the Sabra and Shatila massacres of 1982"

As soon as the news about Ariel Sharon's death was announced a massive online campaign reopened the file of the Palestinian camps massacres at Sabra and Shatila. The pro-Iranian, Hezbollah, and Muslim Brotherhood networks and their allies in the West blame the Israelis and Sharon in particular. But decades later, Lebanese American historians are rejecting this simplistic assertion. One of these historians, Dr Franck Salameh of Boston College has published a pioneering piece in the History News Network in 2011 that explains clearly that the armed militiamen who perpetrated the killing were commanded by leaders who were the allies of the Syrian regime of Hafez Assad. Not surprising that the massacres were ordered by Assad and his Iranian allies and impute them to Israelis and Lebanese Christians. Not that the latter were exempt of mistakes, but the perpetrators were -as archives have demonstrated for the following 30 years- direct operatives of the Baathist regime in Damascus. Today's massacres perpetrated by the Bashar regime of his own people, are not so different from the type of killings of innocent civilians in these two camps in 1982. Same method, same tactics: massacre and blame others, seize the moment and build the Terrorists' version of history...

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Managing Introverts like Audrey Hepburn

Management Monday: Managing and Motivating Introverts

Modern business is all about extroverts, teams and collaboration, which is great. However, history has proven that it’s important not to overlook the value of introverts. The world recognizes introverts such as Warren Buffet, Jo Rowling, Johnny Depp, Audrey Hepburn and Steven Spielberg as some of the most impactful leaders, artists and innovators. It would be a shame for the business world to burn-out or suppress a future Warren Buffet. Workplaces are much more attune to nurturing extrovert talent and often don’t understand how to help rather than stifle bright introverts.

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It is important to understand that introverts are an important asset to the business world. Healthy companies need both to survive. In fact, studies by psychologists Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Gregory Feist reveal that often the most creative people in many fields are introverted (New York Times). Below are some tips to help introverts feel welcome and part of the team, without overwhelming them. Different tips are right for different scenarios.

Managing Introverts:

1)      Introverts can be vocal on topics of interest to them. During team meetings, find ways to incorporate their interests into the discussion, which will help get them to start talking.

2)      Naturally, introverts internalize a lot. Know that it will help motivate an introvert if they’re in an environment where they have time to process and think. To put this to use, practice having two weekly meetings, one in which problems, goals and ideas are laid out and a second where the team is invited to discussion. This gives the introverts time to mull over the topics.

3)      Introverts are likelier to share their ideas in writing than they are trying to win out over other people’s voices. Try having everyone turn in any ideas they have on paper during the week and then discuss them as a whole.

4)      Make the work space friendly to introverts. Provide areas in the office that are quiet and secluded where people can think.

5)      Avoid making the mistake of trying to make introverts into extroverts. At the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, gene specialist Dean Hamer conducted a study revealing that the D4DR gene on Chromosome 11 affects dopamine, a neurotransmitter connected to excitement, motivation and physical activity. Extroverts have a long D4DR gene and as a result require more external input to maintain their level of drive. Introverts, on the other hand, have a shortened version of this gene, so too much external excitement can exhaust them and disrupt their thinking (Chron and Collaborate). Introversion is not a defect. It is thought to be genetic and is a positive trait when embraced.

6)      Don’t overload introverts with meetings and phone calls. If an introvert is hired for the purpose of coming up with big ideas, it is important to give them quiet and uninterrupted time to do just that. Too often, introverts are given goals and strategic projects, but then bombarded with unnecessary internal and external communication, which blocks their progress. Monitor this for introverts in the office to help them thrive. While it is important for them to be aware and part of the team, it should be done tactfully.

7)      Another tactic is to set up one-on-one meetings more regularly and group meetings less often. Contrary to popular belief, most introverts are vocal and enjoy discussion, but prefer to talk with one person at a time. So balancing the amount of small and large meetings gives both introverts and extroverts opportunity to flourish.

8)      Another idea would be to create an introvert/extrovert friendly environment. Talk to employees about the genetic differences between both introverts and extroverts. Talk to them about the strengths and value of each. Establish a system where each employee is given a sign that reads introvert on one side and extrovert on the other. This sign can be hung on their door during their working (non-meeting) hours and flipped to the status of their choosing. This way introverts gain their valued quiet time, but extroverts who need discussion and collaboration to reboot know which other employees are on the same page at that time.

There’s no doubt that incorporating introverts on teams and motivating them is worth the effort. They are creative and bring a different form of innovation than extroverts, which is equally and sometimes more valuable. They are the ones who are always thinking, always strategizing and often working in isolation to produce brilliant outcomes, like introvert Bill Gates working alone on his computer to eventually develop Microsoft. Nurturing introverts isn’t rocket science, but it can be done and is worth the results. In the words of a famous introvert, Audrey Hepburn, “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m Possible!’”

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Founded in 1985, The Central Penn SAAB Club, a non-profit organization, is a group of family oriented SAAB enthusiasts who enjoy driving our SAABs. We have been recognized nationally as one of the most active SAAB Clubs in North America.

Our roots trace back to 1959 and The Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) SAAB Club; the first organization of its kind. The Harrisburg SAAB Club members were very active in organized racing events including The Hershey Hill Climb, autocrossing and many other events throughout the area. It is this rich heritage that helped establish the current club; a lasting legacy that lives on today with the spirit of our members, and a tradition that we are proud to share with you upon becoming a member.

With the support of several select dealers, our members enjoy generous discounts on SAAB parts and accessories, and in some cases, labor as well. We meet once a month for an informal dinner meeting and organize and attend events throughout the Northeast and Mid Atlantic regions of the United States. Because of our growth, we now count members in New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Ohio, Virginia, and most of the New England states, as well as across Pennsylvania.

Whether your interest is simply getting out once in a while, meeting other enthusiasts, scenic touring, rallies, attending SAABs @ Carlisle, traveling to the National Owners' Convention or learning more about your car and SAAB's heritage, the Central Penn SAAB Club has a great deal to offer.


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How will GDPR affect insurance companies in the UK?

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a proposed set of rules which aim to implement a stricter and more uniform data privacy regime right across the European Union. The EU institutions agreed on the scope and detail of the GDPR towards the end of 2015 and it is due to come into force on 25 May 2018. It will replace the 1995 Data Protection Directive - implemented in the UK by the Data Protection Act (DPA) - and will supersede the privacy laws of every EU state with immediate effect. How does this affect Insurance?

What are the key points of GDPR?

Data processors

Whereas current data protection regulations only apply to data controllers, the GDPR will extend obligations to data processors, including requirements to:

  • Carry out regular data protection impact assessments;
  • Implement appropriate security standards and maintain adequate documentation; and
  • Appoint a data protection officer (for public authorities or controllers and processors who process large scale and/or sensitive personal data).

Data processors can be fined if they fail to fulfil their GDPR obligations – and data controllers must ensure they implements written data processing agreements with any third parties (eg. suppliers) who process any of this data.

Consent and right to erasure

Stricter requirements to gain explicit consent from data subjects will apply to companies who wish to hold or process any personal data. Parents will need to grant consent on behalf of any data subjects who are under a certain age (each country's regulator will determine this age, in the range of 13 to 16 years' old).

As well as tightening up rules on gaining consent, the GDPR also provides greater powers to individuals to remove this consent, should they change their mind at a later date. It introduces a 'right of erasure' (otherwise known as the 'right to be forgotten') which essentially means that data controllers will need to delete any personal data if requested by the relevant individual.

Data portability

Data subjects will be able to demand that any of their data held by a data controller be transferred in a "structured and commonly used and machine-readable format" - either to themselves or to a different data controller. This right is known as 'data portability' and can be invoked if, for example, an individual using a cloud based software service wishes to change their service provider (ie. without losing all their data).

Breach notifications

The relevant data protection regulator (the ICO in the UK) must be notified of any personal data breaches "without undue delay" - and within 72 hours if possible - by the data controller, once they become aware of the breach. The only derogation from this rule is where the breach is "unlikely to result in a risk for the rights and freedoms of individuals”. Furthermore, if a data breach is likely to pose a “high risk to the rights and freedoms of individuals" the data subjects must also be notified by the data controller. Data processors, meanwhile, are required to notify the data controller of any personal data breach "without undue delay”.

Personal data and special personal data

A uniform definition of “personal data” will be applied across the EU, to include “any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person”. Furthermore, the ambit of special personal data (more commonly known as sensitive personal data) will be extended, to encompass biometric data (eg. retinal scans and fingerprints) and genetic data. The new regulations will make it even more difficult to justify the processing of special categories of personal data - which also include "data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership” and “data concerning health or data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation.

Data protection officers

Public authorities and other data controllers or processors who carry out large scale systematic monitoring of individuals, or those who handle special personal data or data pertaining to criminal convictions and offences, are required to appoint a Data Protection Officer (DPO). This DPO should have professional experience and knowledge of data protection law and their tasks include:

  • Monitoring data protection compliance within their company or organisation;
  • Providing training and awareness of GDPR and other data protection duties to staff; and
  • Being the first point of contact for data subjects and regulatory authorities (eg. the ICO).

Privacy by design and Pseudonymisation

The GDPR will introduce a requirement for data controllers to “implement appropriate technical and organisational measures" when developing products, services and procedures. This emphasis on "privacy by design" is particularly relevant to the Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data, and takes into account cybersecurity concerns.

Pseudonymisation is one way of meeting requirements privacy design requirements. It is defined under the GDPR as "the processing of personal data in such a manner that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organisational measures to ensure that the personal data are not attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person.” Technical measures such as tokenisation and hashing can be used to work towards the pseudonymisation of personal data.

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How will GDPR affect insurance companies in the UK?

The GDPR is expected to come into force on 25 May 2018. As insurance companies often both control and process data, it's crucial that they are fully prepared for the new rules to come into effect. The most senior management at board level will be held accountable for any failures to implement GDPR requirements; they cannot simply delegate this accountability to more junior employees or the IT team. Ensuring that a DPO is assigned to handle GDPR will of course help to prevent any issues from arising; but the DPO should be able to report to board level directors or the "highest management level".

Fines and compensation

Currently, the maximum fine which can be imposed by the ICO is £500,000. The GDPR will drastically increase the possible level of fines, up to the greater of €20 million or 4% of total global turnover of an undertaking. Since many insurance companies have a presence in multiple countries, this threat to global turnover should propel data protection concerns to front of mind. Indeed the vast difference in the level of fines pre and post-GDPR will undoubtedly change the culture surrounding data protection matters within the insurance sector as a whole, as key members of staff at all levels will need to keep an eye on this area.

How will GDPR affect transatlantic data sharing?

The EU-US "Privacy Shield" recently replaced the invalidated "Safe Harbor" agreement as a data protection framework for American companies handling data of Europeans. Privacy Shield was designed to allow transfers of personal data from EU member states to the US, providing a set of principles which must be followed to remain compliant with EU data protection laws.

But whilst Privacy Shield is designed to uphold the existing data protection laws, the GDPR introduces new stricter data protection laws which replace the previous regime. As such, US companies will need to tighten up their practices to follow the GDPR; simply following the Privacy Shield principles will not be sufficient.

What about insurance companies which are headquartered outside the EU?

All insurance companies which do business in the EU, hold data pertaining to EU citizens or process such data, will be caught by the provisions of the GDPR. Additionally, if they use any form of online advertising which involves internet use profiling of EU citizens (in practice, this often simply means that geo-location preferences do not exclude IP addresses associated with EU countries) they can similarly face consequences under the GDPR.

What are the risks and opportunities for the insurance sector?

The high level of mergers and acquisitions in the insurance industry poses a particular challenge for insurers, as they need to either harmonise legacy systems to provide uniform data protection procedures, or else they need to train staff to manage data protection over multiple systems.

As policyholders often switch insurance providers, catering for the new data portability requirement is crucial for insurers when customers decide to take their business (and data) elsewhere. Meanwhile, they need to be careful when looking for new customers; in particular, using data controlled by third parties (eg Facebook posts) to assess individual premiums can potentially open them up to liability as data processors.

Insurers may benefit from an increased uptake of cybersecurity insurance policies, particularly by businesses dealing with large volumes of personal data. A surge has been seen in the US cyber-insurance market recently, and a similar trend may translate to the UK market with the impending spectre of GDPR and its significant fines.

Will Brexit affect the adoption of GDPR in the UK?

Negotiations are expected to take at least two years between the triggering of article 50 and the UK formally exiting the European Union. As such, the GDPR will directly apply to the UK for a good 10 months following its coming into force at the end of May 2018. Furthermore, just as with any other non-EU country, the regulations will continue to apply to British companies - even post-Brexit - unless they cease to operate in the EU.

How should insurance companies be preparing for the introduction of GDPR?

  • Awareness – make sure key personnel are briefed on the main points of the GDPR relevant to their area.
  • Impact assessment - carry out a comprehensive analysis of your current data protection measures. Consider any measures you will need to take to ensure compliance under the new regulations.
  • Audit - review your contracts and policies and update these in advance of GDPR. Examples include: adding a clause in contracts with third party data processors asking them to notify you immediately of any data breach; and tightening up staff data protection policies to meet the new regulatory requirements.
  • DPO – appoint a Data Protection Officer if necessary.
  • Design – ensure that you take account of data protection principles if you are creating a new product or service, updating your IT systems or revising procedures.
  • Training – make sure that staff at all levels of your organisation have sufficient awareness of how data protection issues may relate to their particular roles, and provide sufficient training to promote compliance.
  • Advice - obtain external advice well in advance of 25 May 2018. Similarly, an IT consultant who understands the forthcoming rules can review your existing IT systems and make sure they meet the new requirements.
Matthew Johns, Product Marketing Manager, EMEA

Matthew is a member of the CenturyLink marketing team. He has over 20 years' experience in the IT, cloud and hosting industry gained in a variety of roles spanning project management to product release and product marketing. Matthew has a key focus on Digital Transformation and Cyber Security, including how organisations can best transition to the cloud and secure their critical assets - particularly with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) looming ever closer..

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Capital market stakeholders across the spectrum are as primed as ever to take action on an issue that affects us all: cybersecurity. Fifty percent of U.S. chief executives say they are “extremely concerned” about cyber threats, according to a recent survey. Boards of directors are engaged on the issue, while investors overwhelmingly perceive cybersecurity attacks as one the biggest risks to their portfolios. For policymakers at home and overseas, cybersecurity continues to climb the list of priorities.

This rising cyber-awareness is necessary and fitting, given the urgency of confronting cybersecurity threats and the astonishing aggregate cost of today’s cyber-attacks. Yet as momentum picks up, we must carefully consider our overall approach to cybersecurity risk management — there are several possible paths ahead. Moreover, cybersecurity is particularly challenging terrain, given its complex and shifting nature. Organizations face varying threats and actors, all in the context of relentless and rapid technological change.

Cindy Fornelli

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So which path should we choose through this difficult landscape? What should be our model for addressing cybersecurity challenges? Here are three key points to consider.

First, the approach to cybersecurity risk management should be principles-based, setting the focus on an end-result and letting the private sector bring to bear its agility, energy, and innovation to achieve that result. For cybersecurity, one critical objective should be enabling companies to establish robust cybersecurity risk-management programs that are tailored to their particular situations, needs, risk appetite, and threats faced.

Yet accomplishing that objective becomes increasingly difficult if overly prescriptive regulations or standards force companies to meet a raft of requirements that align poorly with their businesses and risks. At that point, cybersecurity risk management devolves into a burdensome compliance exercise, one in which merely checking boxes becomes a resource-draining end in itself. That’s certainly a path we should avoid.

Second, a sound approach to cybersecurity should build on and leverage the good work that has already been done in this area. Several organizations have developed cybersecurity management frameworks — such as those put forward by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) or the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) — to help organizations manage cybersecurity risk.

Third, we need to incent positive action. Companies should be rewarded for making good faith efforts to protect against cybersecurity breaches, to detect cyber-threats, and to remediate in a timely manner following a breach.

While a broad-based consensus may not have formed around the three-point approach outlined above, there has been promising movement in that direction. Recently, the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) unveiled an entity-level cybersecurity reporting framework through which organizations can communicate useful information about their cybersecurity risk management program to a broad range of stakeholders, including boards of directors, senior management, investors, and others.

The AICPA’s reporting framework has three key components: The first is management’s description of the entity’s cybersecurity risk management program, based on suitable criteria. The second is management’s assertion to the presentation of their description and to the effectiveness of controls implemented to achieve the entity’s cybersecurity objectives. Finally, the AICPA framework includes a CPA’s opinion on that description and the effectiveness of the controls to meet the entity’s cybersecurity objectives.

The AICPA’s reporting framework is principles-based and voluntary, and companies do not need to implement all three of its components at once. Rather than prescribing specific requirements, its description criteria set forth the types of policies and procedures that companies can adopt for cybersecurity risk management. With the aid of the criteria, companies can decide what works best for them.

What’s more, the AICPA framework leverages existing cybersecurity and risk management structures. It maps to commonly used cybersecurity risk management frameworks — such as NIST and ISO — and aligns to the 2013 COSO Internal Control – Integrated Framework so cybersecurity can be integrated with a company’s broader enterprise risk management efforts.

Finally, and no less important, the AIPCA approach incents companies to take action. While the framework cannot guarantee against cyber-attacks, it offers companies the benefit of an independent, objective opinion on their cybersecurity risk management. In addition to bolstering the company’s own confidence, that independent opinion can provide decision-useful information to other key constituencies, including directors and investors.

The AICPA’s cybersecurity risk reporting framework is a step toward harnessing the power of the private sector, making the most of existing resources, and increasing the confidence of investors and other stakeholders. It represents progress down a sound path forward for cybersecurity.

A former deputy director of investment management at the Securities and Exchange Commission and senior vice president at Bank of America, Cindy Fornelli has served as the executive director of the Center for Audit Quality, an organization affiliated with the AICPA, since its establishment in 2007.

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  1. Privileged Account Security – The Giant Dirty Secret in most organizations cybersecurity.

    Why isn’t it being addressed? Lack of Courage.

    The overwhelming majority of companies and government organizations are avoiding the most critical cyber-security practice of all. Dealing with privileged account security. It’s the biggest dirty secret in cybersecurity. Which is extremely unfortunate because virtually every hack on record was accomplished by someone gaining access to a privileged account then moving through the system. This usually occurs due to a successful phishing expedition. (Of which 22% are successful. Keep in mind only one is needed).

    Of the small fraction of companies that even deal with this area only 1% of them actually use the products they purchase properly. Said differently – even if a CISO is buying the right things they are not using most of what you paid for. And in most cases they either have no plan to actually use critical features like Password Management, Session Management and Access Monitoring, or are moving so slow it will decades to finish. Often this is meant to purposefully deceive C-Suite and above. This puts everyone at risk.

    Here is how bad things are. CMU CERT is the premier authority on cyber-security best practices. Especially for DoD. I found out that CMU CERT has no solution for themselves in this area. They actually defer to CMU IT for their own security and they have no solution in this area. Shouldn’t the organization responsible for telling others what best practice is use best practices for its own security?

    Why is this happening? These products inadvertently expose several huge best practice gaps. Examples include having 4X more accounts than people, non-encrypted password files or spreadsheets, emails with passwords and software programs with passwords hard coded in them and many not knowing where they all are. And having local admin permissions available on laptops and end points and not knowing where they all are either.

    Why don’t these folks address this? Because it means pushing the culture to change bad habits and admit to their executives and boards they even existed in the first place. Governing bodies and regulators mean well but they don’t help much. This is because the relevant regulations, SOC, HiTrust etc are too trusting and don’t specify enough detail. This gives organizations far too much room to wiggle. This all results in most companies and organizations not utilizing best practices or readily available of off the shelf products that can significantly reduce the threat.

    This is not a technical issue. It’s one of Courage. Courage to admit the root causes exist, To deal with the culture and lead them to fix them. To not sacrifice customers to protect egos or let the bean counters justify it’s cheaper to harm customers than the bottom line.

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For background, on September 30, 2015, the EPA promulgated its revised ELGs, which impose new steam electric plant wastewater discharge limits for arsenic, mercury, selenium, and nitrates. The revised rule sets the first federal limits on these parameters requiring adoption of new wastewater treatment technologies.

These recent revisions to the Steam Electric Utilities ELGs include requirements for the treatment of wastewater produced from wet FGD systems. Due to the complex chemistries associated with the wastewater generated from these systems, various treatment processes and equipment must be evaluated to reduce the regulated constituents to the permitted levels. Numerous design considerations—including selecting mechanical equipment that minimizes shearing of metal containing solids, using a closed-loop sludge wasting and recycling system, employing piping configurations to minimize the potential for solids accumulation and plugging, and laying out the treatment train to take advantage of common unit processes and allow for common access—can promote the treatment system’s ability to comply with the ELGs and simplify its operation and maintenance while promoting system reliability and adaptability.

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Home Energy More “Eligible Customers” look to purchase 600 MW of electricity

More “Eligible Customers” look to purchase 600 MW of electricity

More “Eligible Customers” look to purchase 600 MW of electricity

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Forty-four customers have shown interest to purchase a total of 600MW from underserved and unserved consumers desirous of becoming Eligible Customers, according to a statement by the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing.

According to the statement, of the 44 customers, 14 have submitted license applications to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, two have fulfilled all NERC’s conditions and are expect to be licensed imminently.

In line with the regulation, the electricity Generation Companies, GenCos, were also urged to more aggressively taking advantage of the Eligible Customers regulation, to sell the power they can generate, of which 2,000MW is now stranded, to customers who need it and are willing and able to pay for it.

The ministry insisted that it would be better to sell than wait for the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading, NBET to pay for it or to guarantee it, for which NBET needs support from the Federal Government due to shortfalls in payment by distribution companies.

According to the statement, though the Minister, Babatunde Fashola had issued the policy direction to NERC that gave rise to the regulation in May 2017, and NERC has issued the regulation, none of the interested consumers and their generation company suppliers have been given licenses to buy and sell power as Eligible Customers, encouraging NERC to accelerate and simplify the licensing process.

The statement further directed that the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN should continue to support the regulation by making targeted investments in the national grid, as needed to service specific contracts with generation companies and Eligible Customers to transmit the power, with penalties for failure to transmit, adding that TCN could finance such targeted investments with the expected revenue from such bilateral transmission contracts.

Encouraging electricity distribution companies, DisCos to embrace the policy, the statement argued that if the DisCos were satisfying the power supply needs of their consumers of bulk power adequately, such consumers would have no reason to generate the power by themselves or to want to become Eligible Customers, adding that by embracing the regulation, the DisCos could partner with investors and generation companies to build new distribution infrastructure to better serve specific paying customers.

“They can buy power directly from generation companies and contract with TCN to deliver it, and give premium service to selected customers or customer groups”, the Permanent Secretary said adding that in such cases the distribution company must be willing and able to guarantee the payment for the power they buy, “because the shortfalls in payment which characterizes their power purchases from NBET, would not be possible in such bilateral contracts”.

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