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Marshal receives a daily stipend
Investigated official gets expenses paid
Yvonne Bonner, acting US marshal, leaving her Charlestown townhouse near Monument Square. (The Boston Globe)
Email|Print|Single Page| Text size – + By Shelley Murphy
Globe Staff / May 16, 2008
Acting US Marshal Yvonne Bonner, who is under federal investigation for allegedly assigning deputies to escort Fox Sports broadcasters from last year's World Series at Fenway Park, has received more than $100,000 - at least $187 a day - from the government for meals, travel, and housing since she came to Boston 17 months ago.
Bonner has been living in a three-bedroom, 2 1/2-bath townhouse near Charlestown's historic Monument Square that is on the market for $739,000, according to a Globe review of public records.
Responding to a Globe request, the US Marshals Service said the government paid Bonner $100,874 between Dec. 10, 2006 and March 2008 for housing, food, and travel - including the $2,975 monthly for her rent and $1,100 each month for utilities and other housing costs. She gets $48 a day for food and other incidentals.
Earlier this month, Bonner said she was entitled to the payments because she still lives in Virginia and maintains a home there. But yesterday a spokesman for the Marshals Service in Boston said Bonner would not discuss the payments further.
Bonner, who joined the Marshals Service 24 years ago and previously served as chief of the agency's internal affairs division, is entitled to the daily stipend because she has remained on "temporary duty assignment" since she arrived in Boston, and is technically still assigned to the agency's Virginia headquarters, according to David Turner, a spokesman for the agency in Virginia.
"She is one of our star performers," said Turner, adding that Bonner was tapped for the acting marshal's job after White House officials dismissed Boston's last US marshal and a temporary replacement who worked in Boston requested a transfer to another office. He said the agency has kept Bonner on temporary duty while waiting for Congress to confirm a new US marshal for Boston. But that hasn't happened.
Eleven months after President Bush nominated Reed Hillman, the former head of the Massachusetts State Police and an unsuccessful Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in 2006, as US marshal, his confirmation has languished in Congress amid opposition by Senators Edward M. Kennedy and John F. Kerry.
The marshals could avoid paying the stipend of $187 a day or more to Bonner by permanently assigning her to Boston, or by promoting someone who already works in the Boston office to serve as acting US marshal, but Turner said the agency has no plans to do so.
"What the public needs to know is we get the job done right with the best talent we have available," said Turner, adding that Bonner, 56, is eligible to retire in July and wasn't looking to move to Boston. "She's doing this job because the Marshals Service needed her."
But some in government say the expenditures are extravagant.
"This one appears to be a pretty egregious misuse of taxpayer money," said state Senator Stephen M. Brewer, a Democrat from Barre and longtime supporter of Hillman.
He said he doesn't know Bonner, but knows Hillman and can't understand why some have challenged his qualifications to serve as marshal.
"He has a work ethic that is second to none," said Brewer, adding that he hopes Kennedy and Kerry rethink their opposition to Hillman's appointment.
Melissa Wagoner, a spokeswoman for Kennedy, released a statement saying, "Senator Kennedy is serious about professional standards and the White House should be as well." The statement said the White House's failure to nominate a qualified candidate is what "creates any subsequent problems."
The last US marshal in Boston, Anthony Dichio, was dismissed by the White House in August 2005 after The Boston Globe published a story detailing observations that Dichio was often not at his office and used his government car to run personal errands. The chief marshal in Boston, William Fallon, was tapped to serve as acting marshal until December 2006, when he transferred to another office.
Bonner, who began her career as a deputy marshal in Houston, was dispatched to Boston. She had worked fugitive, violent offender, and civil rights cases and received numerous commendations, including the director's meritorious service award from Director John F. Clark two years ago.
US District Chief Judge Mark L. Wolf said Clark personally met with him and other judges after Dichio's dismissal, and appointed Bonner after assuring them that the temporary leader of the office would be highly qualified.
"I've had many dealings with her, and I've found her to be highly professional in all instances," Wolf said of Bonner. "From my perspective, and that I believe of my colleagues, she's done a good job."
Echoing those sentiments, US District Judge William G. Young said, "Personally, I think she is very professional, very astute, and really a fine person."
Wolf and Young stressed that they have no knowledge of the ongoing federal investigation into Bonner's alleged assignment of deputy marshals to the World Series last year, and wouldn't comment on those allegations.
Deputy marshals are charged with tracking fugitives, transporting federal prisoners, and protecting judges.
The Justice Department's office of the inspector general in Boston is looking into whether Bonner overstepped her authority or violated ethics rules by allegedly ordering her deputies to escort Fox Sports broadcasters Tim McCarver and Joe Buck between their hotels and Fenway Park during last year's World Series, according to two law enforcement officials and other people familiar with the investigation.
The Globe reported earlier this month that during both home games, on Oct. 24 and Oct. 25, two deputy marshals allegedly watched the Red Sox defeat the Colorado Rockies from the broadcast booth with McCarver and Buck, as well as Joseph Band, a lawyer who works for the Marshals Service in Washington and occasionally does work for the Fox network, the officials said.
The deputies allegedly drove Band in their unmarked cruisers while escorting the broadcasters who followed in limousines, according to law enforcement officials.
Investigators are looking into whether the deputy marshals activated their blue lights to cut through traffic as fans jammed the streets around Fenway Park.
Bonner told the Globe earlier this month that she wasn't worried about the probe, but declined to comment further because it is ongoing.
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History of the Foksal Gallery from a new perspective
April 27 2020,
"In the nineteen sixties, the Foksal in Warsaw and the Václav Špála in Prague were the only two avant-garde galleries in the Eastern Bloc. Nowadays, the Foksal is known all over the world and its history, perforce, fits the current artistic and political context very well. However, it does so in a way which its co-founders never anticipated, to which I testify in this essay. In a sense, the Foksal tradition has been continued to this day by the gallery itself in its past home on ulica Foksal and by the plans, both local and international, for the Foksal Gallery Foundation, which is located on ulica Górskiego in Warsaw. Meanwhile, the distant history of the Foksal of the nineteen sixties has met with an unexpected revival beyond Poland, in France, as a kind of hope for the future." writes Anka Ptaszkowska in her essay published in Blok Magazine.
Many a time, and to the point of boredom, have I told the story of the Foksal, of its victories and defeats, its interpersonal conflicts and standard curiosities.
This essay stands apart from those ranks.
What provoked the change in my view of the story which definitively bound my life to the gallery?
It was a brief remark made not all that long ago by Florian Fouché, an artist I esteem, and it concerned two pressing questions:
How do we remedy the current situation in art and its subjection to the capitalist market?
How do we oppose the fact that, in front of our eyes and, to some extent, by our hands, art is becoming the kingdom of any-old-thing, is permitting the borders between itself and design to be erased, is working hand in glove with the Institutions which it once intended to conquer and is selling its relationship with politics for a meagre handful of small change?
“We need to bring back the Foksal,” Florian Fouché said.
So I am looking at the gallery’s history, a history I know by heart, from the new angle of the Foksal’s potential, topical and oh-so desirable usefulness.
Celý text eseje v angličtině najdete na Blok Magazine.
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The CGA 3rd Cross Country league powered by MTN Foundation was welcomed by Ulinda Athletic Club at Kwathema Sports Complex, Springs last weekend, Saturday 18 May 2019.
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The day was kicked off with the 1km event for the athletes under the age of 8 which saw Sihle Nyezi from Simunye Global Athletics Club coming out victorious in a time line of 00:04:16. Dieketseng Motsoeneng from Runzone Athletics Club and Itumeleng Seboa from Colossus Athletics Club dominated 3km race in the 13 and 11 age category respectively. Dieketseng maintained her number one spot from the start of the season and this time finishing in the time of 00:11:34. In an interview with Itumeleng Seboa, he indicated that he was upset about his performance during the second league but he was happy to reclaim his number one spot at this 3rd league.
2018 National Champion Reaglehile representing Nedbank Running Club won the boys under 14 category with an exceptional performance from start to finish. When interviewed he said that today’s victory confirms that he is ready to defend the title at the national championships.
Antonia Brown from Jansen Athletics Club based in Kempton Park running his 2nd league outshines his fellow competitors in a second lap, in the 6km race, Boys under 17 to settle race in a time of 00:57:38.
Hollywood Athletics Club claimed their first victory in the Senior Men 10km race by Ntshindiso Phakathi stepping to the finish line in a time of 00:29:52. The club is promising to boost development in the province and we are expecting more great results in the future leagues.
Steven Khanyile, chairperson of Cross Country in an interview indicated that “the performance is really encouraging this year as we are looking at sending a very strong provincial team for the National Championships later in the year”. Athletes are required to run any 4 out of 8 league events plus the CGA Championships in order to be considered for selection.
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Kristen Wiig Talks About MacGruber and Saturday Night Live.
If you caught the Screen Actors Guild Awards this past Sunday, you probably saw Maya Rudolph, Kristen Wiig, and Melissa McCarthy discussing the drinking game they invented. Every time someone.
Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Ike Barinholtz, Jillian Bell and the rest of the Bless The Harts castmates are doing a virtual table read of a new episode to raise money for Feeding America and.
Annie (Kristen Wiig), is a maid of honor whose life unravels as she leads her best friend, Lillian (Maya Rudolph), and a group of colorful bridesmaids (Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Wendi McLendon-Covey and Ellie Kemper) on a wild ride down the road to matrimony. Annie's life is a mess. But when she finds out her lifetime best friend is engaged, she simply must serve as Lillian's maid of honor.
Dec 23, 2013 - Best of the funny and talented actress Kristen Wiig. See more ideas about Kristen wiig, Kristen, The funny.
The 31st season of Saturday Night Live, America’s leading late-night sketch comedy show, featuring cast members Fred Armisen, Rachel Dratch, Tina Fey, Will Forte, Darrell Hammond, Seth Meyers, Finesse Mitchell, Chris Parnell, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Horatio Sanz, Kenan Thompson and featured players Bill Hader, Andy Samberg, Jason Sudeikis and Kristen Wiig. Check out these selected.
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When it comes to consummate professionals like Maya Rudolph, Kristen Wiig, and Bill Hader, sometimes all you need is their commitment to a bit to help elevate an otherwise so-so sketch. Then again.
Kristen Wiig stickers featuring millions of original designs created by independent artists. Decorate your laptops, water bottles, notebooks and windows. White or transparent. 4 sizes available.
The film stars Maya Rudolph as a bride-to-be, following her and her bridal party (including Kristen Wiig as her maid of honor) through the trials, tribulations, and drama that ensues in the months.
Great classic Super Showcase sketch from when Maya Rudolph hosted in season 37. Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig both break almost immediately.
I Would Like Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph to Host the Oscars, Please and Thank You. February 9, 2020 by Karenna Meredith. 5.3K Shares I'm starting a petition for Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph to.
Billie Eilish didn't hide her confusion as she watched Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig’s on-stage singing skit. Comedic legends Rudolph and Wiig took to the Oscars stage in typically hilarious.
Saturday Night Live alumnae Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph did what they do best at the Oscars this Sunday. The duo were presenting the award for production design - but took their speech.
Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph are joining forces to bring television viewers a brand new animated comedy! According to Yahoo Entertainment, Fox has given a straight-to-series order to Bless the.
Wiig plays a 30-ish single woman, unlucky in love and career who now faces the loss of her lifelong, best friend, Maya Rudolph, to marriage and a rich, competing bridesmaid played by Rose Byrne. Melissa McCarthy as the groom's sister is a whacky character you won't forget. Wiig pretty much loses it and wrecks everything in her jealous wake. Sounds dire but it's a comedy with nonstop guffaws.
Kristen Wiig has proven herself to be one of the most diverse and prolific actresses to grace Hollywood over the past 20 years. Since making her screen debut as a background extra in the 2000 short film Carnata, Wiig has accrued over 100 film and TV credits.In 2005, Wiig's popularity began to blossom after being cast on the sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, on which she tallied roughly.
Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig made their annual case for hosting every awards show at Sunday's Oscars, where they cracked up the audience as they presented the awards for Production Design and.
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Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph killed at the 2020 Oscars on Sunday night, as usual, but 18-year-old singer Billie Eilish wasn’t amused. Wiig and Rudolph, who were presenting the award for Best.
Oscars 2020: Billie Eilish looks baffled at Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph's skit Billie Eilish didn’t quite know how to react to Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig’s skit at last night’s Oscars. The comedy double act, who rose to fame on Saturday Night Live before starring together in 2011’s Bridesmaids, are always a highlight of awards season.
Wiig's comic chops were never in doubt. Like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler before her, she is an alumna of the long-running US comedy sketch show Saturday Night Live; all three were highly respected TV.
Alongside fellow SNL alum Maya Rudolph (left), Kristen Wiig (right) tickled the audience with a medley of apparel related songs before presenting the Best Costume Design award. The brand also.
Rudolph and Kristen Wiig’s unhinged game-show “showcase models” were so bizarrely funny — even (especially?) when I couldn’t understand half their words — that both Wiig and Bill Hader.
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Cyberweekly #129 - Even cyber companies get breached
Sent on 2020-12-13
Remember that term "assumed breached", well if FireEye can get breached, then you should assume that pretty much anyone can.
Of course there are companies that you simply have to trust in some ways, your core identity provider is one, generally most organisations trust AWS and Microsoft to not be fundamentally breached, but beyond that you need to start working out who you trust, and how much you trust them.
Some of this is the heart of threat modelling, a subject that I keep meaning to write a blog about, but life just keeps getting in the way. Threat modelling is generally very poorly practiced, and many organisations really struggle to apply threat models within projects, let alone at higher abstractions such as across their supply chain, within their organisation or across their industry generally.
This brings me to the real "big deal" about the FireEye hack. I've talked a bit below about why the loss of the red team tools isn't that big a deal, and how the loss of customer data would be a much bigger deal. But the real impact here is the loss of credibility for cyber security generally. Senior executives around the world, faced with increasing financial pressures, are going to look at this, and look at the requests for security spend and think "If FireEye, a cyber security company, couldn't keep from being hacked, then why should I bother spending extra here?"
The loss of credibility makes it even harder to justify even small amounts of security spend on small things, like central IDAM solutions that work and support 2FA, like using VLANS and VLAN ACLs to segment your network, like employing Endpoint Detection and Response software to your endpoints.
We know that these are tools and techniques that significantly raise the bar for attackers, and make it far more likely that the general unwashed masses of blackhat hackers, teenagers and hacking collectives will move on to another target when their scripts don't work as expected. That doesn't mean that an advanced attacker can't get around them, but it does mean that more effort is required, which massively changes your threat model.
We need to reinforce that yes, attackers can and will compromise and breach any system, even cyber companies. Our job is to make sure that they pay for that, in effort expended, in monetary cost, and in disclosed equities such as novel tools or techniques that were needed to get to you. We need to continue to argue with businesses that we shouldn't just shrug and give in.
Admin note: This is the last newsletter of 2020. I'm going to take a Christmas Break from CyberWeekly for two weeks, aiming to restart on the 3rd of January. I may manage to pull together a best of newsletter for the week between Christmas and New Year, but it will depend on work and family schedules over Christmas. I hope you all enjoy your holidays and come back refreshed and ready to face 2021.
FireEye Shares Details of Recent Cyber Attack, Actions to Protect Community | FireEye Inc
https://www.fireeye.com/blog/products-and-services/2020/12/fireeye-shares-details-of-recent-cyber-attack-actions-to-protect-community.html
This attack is different from the tens of thousands of incidents we have responded to throughout the years. The attackers tailored their world-class capabilities specifically to target and attack FireEye. They are highly trained in operational security and executed with discipline and focus. They operated clandestinely, using methods that counter security tools and forensic examination. They used a novel combination of techniques not witnessed by us or our partners in the past.
We are actively investigating in coordination with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other key partners, including Microsoft. Their initial analysis supports our conclusion that this was the work of a highly sophisticated state-sponsored attacker utilizing novel techniques.
During our investigation to date, we have found that the attacker targeted and accessed certain Red Team assessment tools that we use to test our customers’ security. These tools mimic the behavior of many cyber threat actors and enable FireEye to provide essential diagnostic security services to our customers. None of the tools contain zero-day exploits. Consistent with our goal to protect the community, we are proactively releasing methods and means to detect the use of our stolen Red Team tools.
We are not sure if the attacker intends to use our Red Team tools or to publicly disclose them. Nevertheless, out of an abundance of caution, we have developed more than 300 countermeasures for our customers, and the community at large, to use in order to minimize the potential impact of the theft of these tools.
This is both a massive deal, and not a big deal at the same time. I talked about why it's a big deal further up, but here's why it's not as big as some people are claiming.
FireEye's red team tools, while unique, do not contain any zero-days, and are therefore likely not significantly different or better than say Metasploit or CobaltStrike which are already free and open source. In addition, whatever advanced actor carried this out clearly has capabilities well beyond the use of these tools, so it's not like this is advancing their capabilities significantly.
Additionally, the release of the detection rules means that blueteams should be able to add those rules to their detection suites easily and quickly, and be reasonably secure against the use of the tools. That repository has not just basic signatures for the tools, but also more complex rules for hunting the workflows and sequence of actions that the tools imply.
Russia's FireEye Hack Is a Statement—but Not a Catastrophe | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/russia-fireeye-hack-statement-not-catastrophe/
The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that hackers from a group known as APT 29 or Cozy Bear, attributed to Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence service, carried out the breach.
FireEye has both global prominence and a history of engaging with Russian actors. The company was the first, for instance, to tie the hacker group known as Sandworm—responsible for blackouts in Ukraine in 2015 and 2016 as well as the hyperdestructive worm NotPetya the following year—to Unit 74455 of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency. FireEye also provided the first public evidence that the same GRU unit was responsible for the attempted sabotage of the 2018 Winter Olympics. All of those attacks were later named in a US indictment of six Sandworm hackers unsealed in October.
The apparently retaliatory hack sends a clear statement that while Russia may have been relatively quiet during the US presidential election, the Kremlin’s digital prowess remains formidable. At the same time, the fallout from the hack doesn’t compare to the release of tools like the NSA’s Eternal Blue tool, which a mysterious group called the Shadow Brokers leaked in 2017, or the breach of exploit broker Hacking Team in 2015.
“The most important data that a company like FireEye has is data about its customers. The second most important data they have are the sources and methods they use to protect their customers,” like threat intelligence data, says Richard Bejtlich, former chief security officer of Mandiant, the incident response division of FireEye, and principal security strategist at the network analysis firm Corelight. “Farther down the line are the red team tools, where they’re emulating adversaries.”
FireEye seems to be saying that no customer data was accessed or stolen, although the language around that has been a little vague.
If it is a nation backed acvanced threat actor, and it seems likely that it is, then the customer data on vulnerabilities in customer systems would be incredibly valuable. Not only to plan specific targeted attacks on those customers, but also to be able to get analysable bulk data that enables them to work out where systemic weaknesses are in most systems. (although for free, I'll suggest that poor patching, lack of application control for admins, poor passwords and lack of use of 2FA will be the systemic trends).
San Jose Man Sentenced To Two Years Imprisonment For Damaging Cisco’s Network | USAO-NDCA | Department of Justice
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/san-jose-man-sentenced-two-years-imprisonment-damaging-cisco-s-network
Ramesh, 31, of San Jose, pleaded guilty on August 26, 2020, to one count of intentionally accessing a protected computer without authorization and recklessly causing damage to Cisco. Ramesh worked for Cisco but resigned in approximately April 2018. According to the plea agreement, Ramesh admitted to intentionally accessing the Cisco Systems cloud infrastructure that was hosted by Amazon Web Services without Cisco’s permission on September 24, 2018. Ramesh further admitted that during his unauthorized access he deployed a code from his Google Cloud Project account that resulted in the deletion of 456 virtual machines for Cisco’s WebEx Teams application, which provides video meetings, video messaging, file sharing, and other collaboration tools. He admitted that he acted recklessly in deploying the code and consciously disregarded the substantial risk that his conduct would harm Cisco. As a result of Ramesh’s conduct, over 16,000 WebEx Teams accounts were shut down for up to two weeks and caused Cisco to spend approximately $1,400,000 in employee time to restore the damage to the application and refund over $1,000,000 to affected customers. No customer data was compromised as a result of the defendant’s conduct.
Ramesh was still able to use his credentials to log into the production systems at Cisco nearly 6 months after he left the company.
Reminder that where possible, you should be using SSO to ensure that your staff have just one account that needs securing with 2FA. You can configure AWS to use your corporate identity systems, which means that when HR removes someone from the corporate system, their access to all your production and development infrastructure is removed as well.
pre:Invent 2020 - Chris Farris
https://www.chrisfarris.com/post/preinvent2020/
As I was slammed with work things, I wasn’t following pre:Invent (and will probably miss much of the lame online re:Invent), so I’m going back and reviewing all the announcements for things of note to a serverless nerd or security geek.
Here are the 29 I thought interesting. Rather that review these by date (which is what you get from the AWS Feed), I thought I’d categorize them into useful buckets.
There's a lot of reading here. Best pass this onto your lead cloud architect and make them read all of these and get them to summarise them for you. [No, I didn't have time to read them all this week, I've been slammed, but they're all added to my reading list, so give me a month or two and I'll have read at least 50% of them!]
Evilginx-ing into the cloud: How we detected a red team attack in AWS - Expel
https://expel.io/blog/evilginx-into-cloud-detected-red-team-attack-in-aws/
The first hint that something was wrong came in the form of one of our analysts discovering a login from an anonymous source to a customer’s AWS console. We immediately sprung into action, digging in to see if that user logged in from known proxies or end points previously.
But wait a second. Isn’t this customer’s AWS access provisioned through Okta? Why didn’t we get any Okta alerts?
Shortly thereafter, an AmazonGuardDuty alert fired – those same access keys were being used from a python software development kit (SDK) rather than the AWS console and someone was enumerating those access key permissions.
The TL;DR on all of that? Not good.
We immediately escalated this as an incident to the customer to understand whether this series of events was expected.
Several interesting tidbits in here. Would you detect these kinds of activity? You should be able to, but should and can are very different. This is the value of a good red-team exercise.
The second is that they decided to let the attack play out. In this case, they were a service team, they could have revoked that token and seen what happened, how the red team would try again, but instead they let it play out and watched the attackers.
This is a much harder judgement call. For some redteam activities, I'd want the redteam to know they were caught, and to frustrate them, because the SOC noticed, so the SOC should run their normal processes. But in others, it's more valuable for the SOC to learn what happens next, in order to build better layers of defence.
Threat Modeling Manifesto
https://www.threatmodelingmanifesto.org/
Threat modeling is analyzing representations of a system to highlight concerns about security and privacy characteristics.
At the highest levels, when we threat model, we ask four key questions:
What are we working on?
What are we going to do about it?
Did we do a good enough job?
This is a good document and a good bit of work trying to set out a stall for threat modelling, ensuring that it's understood and consistent.
Co-op is using facial recognition tech to scan and track shoppers | WIRED UK
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/coop-facial-recognition
Southern Co-op is using facial recognition technology from Facewatch, a London-based startup. Every time someone enters one of the 18 shops using the tech cameras scan their faces. These CCTV images are converted to numerical data and compared against a watchlist of ‘suspects’ to see if there’s a match. If a match is made, staff within the store receive notifications on smartphones.
“The system alerts our store teams immediately when someone enters their store who has a past record of theft or anti-social behaviour,” Gareth Lewis, Southern Co-op’s loss prevention lead wrote in a blog post on the Facewatch website. The post is the only public acknowledgement of the use of the technology and Lewis says it has been “successful,” with the tech being deployed in branches where there are higher levels of crime.
In response to police use of facial recognition technology, the Court of Appeal criticised a lack of transparency around the creation of watchlists and who could be on them. Co-op staff decide who is added to its watchlists based on behaviour. A spokesperson for the firm says its “limited and targeted” use of facial recognition is to “identify when a known repeat offender enters one of our stores”.
“Only images of individuals known to have offended within our premises, including those who have been banned/excluded, are used on our facial recognition platform,” the spokesperson says. “Using facial recognition in this limited way has improved the safety of our store colleagues.”
This is going to be huge in 2021. Facial recognition, gait recognition and other mechanisms to improve loss prevention will be popular with stores that are seeking to reduce the number of people in the store, and replace cashiers with self-service tools.
The question around regulation is a good one. This particular case seems pretty ethical and within boundaries. The watchlist is created purely from people convicted of shoplifting and given a banning order. The system alerts the staff, letting them know that someone is suspected of matching, which allows staff to make human decisions based on the algorithm, and Co-op was highlighted as explicitly using a good quality watchlist.
The concern starts to come if those lists are shared, if there's a right to rectification for people who find themselves on the list accidentally, and of course, when stores or organisations start to roll out the tech wider. Is it a fair and proportionate punishment for stealing to find yourself excluded from say all stores in the area?
Exclusive: The U.S. Emergency Alert system has been hacked
https://www.inputmag.com/tech/this-hacker-showed-us-how-to-exploit-the-usa-candas-emergency-alert-system
He posted evidence on Twitter in late November showing a screen enabling him to generate EAS (Emergency Alert System) messages, including Child Abduction Emergencies, Civil Emergency Messages, or Evacuation Immediate [sic] alerts.
The hacktivist believes the system access points are available on the open internet for use by proper authorized personnel, but are easily accessible by people able to socially engineer the manufacturers of the systems.
“You can get whatever you need to gain full access – not to all, as most are updated – but a scary majority,” he says. “This reminds me of the banking systems, they run COBOL because they are too lazy and cheap to upgrade to something more secure and we get left with very old people who know how to program COBOL working on the banking and insurance infrastructure. I think the federal government needs to set up proper training for set up and usage of these devices, and make it illegal to operate if you have not been trained.”
One of the problem with "hackers", whether white hat or black hat, is that despite their prodigious technical skills with offensive tools, they often don't actually understand the systems architecture and development that underlies the systems they are looking at. This faulty understanding means that they might not know what they could do with a tool when they find it, and also means that they sometimes cause disruption in the system that they are exploring.
There's several misconceptions in this article, simply scanning the internet for people running software that does emergency alerts doesn't mean that every one that you've found is actually a live emergency alert system for a state. These systems can do a lot of things. He says he searched for domain names that look like they might be connected to alert systems, and looked at those. But of course many organisations will run versions of these systems for training, for staging and testing. It's not entirely clear without more information, that the systems that he's got access to are production systems.
However, the slightly more cynical me suspects that there probably are a bunch of poorly secured, poorly managed emergency alert systems connected to the internet, so it's not beyond possibility that he's stumbled on a real thing.
Affable Kraut on Twitter: "Thanks to data from @sansecio I stumbled upon a digital skimming / #magecart technique for injecting convincing PayPal iframes into the checkout process. It does this using postMessage, and I think this is the first skimmer to deploy such a method. 1/20" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/AffableKraut/status/1333258498910588928
Thanks to data from @sansecio I stumbled upon a digital skimming / #magecart technique for injecting convincing PayPal iframes into the checkout process. It does this using postMessage, and I think this is the first skimmer to deploy such a method.
This is quite the twitter thread, one that I wish was a blogpost.
But here we go, some indicators to put into your SIEM, and a good breakdown of a new technique being used by MageCart.
r2c blog — Exploiting dynamic rendering engines to take control of web apps
https://r2c.dev/blog/2020/exploiting-dynamic-rendering-engines-to-take-control-of-web-apps/
Modern JavaScript frameworks are heavily utilized for web site development nowadays. Instead of plain HTML pages, we now have PWAs (progressive web applications) and SPAs (single page applications) that do most of the work in the client's browser and use JavaScript to generate the contents of the page on the fly.
This technology has many advantages and can be effective at creating a sleek UI and UX, but at the same time, it is not SEO friendly, because crawlers and bots are not developed to render or understand JavaScript. One of the common ways to help bots get valid HTML content is to open a requested page in a headless browser instance on the server, such as Puppeteer or Playwright, get the resulting HTML, strip parts that are not intended to be crawled and return it. This approach is called dynamic rendering and is promoted by Google as one of the possible ways to serve content.
I came across this type of application while doing a security review of packages in the Node.js ecosystem on possible vulnerabilities that may appear when utilizing headless browsers in production.
Sigh, if you wanted yet another reason why replacing the rendering engine with client side javascript is a bad idea, this is a well articulated attack model on backend renderers.
As Vasilii says, for SEO reasons, you might have systems that render that webpage for you on the backend. If those renderers run inside your network, they have the ability to access internal websites, systems and other interesting URLs. It's very similar to an SSRF attack, but done through prerender engines instead.
Introducing Amazon Curate (I Wish) | Daniel Miessler
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/introducing-amazon-curate-i-wish/
There’s an argument that most of the good creators are already being seen because Google, Social Media, and word of mouth are finding the best stuff out there. But I don’t buy that argument.
I have seen far too many examples of phenomenal content that sits on the internet, gets crawled by Google, and yet has no following.
These authors either don’t know how, or care to, do self-promotion across various channels, so they either continue to write for nobody or they give up because they feel unseen.
Via, the excellent tldrsec newsletter I saw this suggestion for a curation tool.
About 10 years ago I worked on a hackday project at the Guardian that was focused on curation and recommendation, which was driven by watching a group of students with the physical paper on a new years day, handing sections to each other and recommending articles.
Sadly, none of that vision has come true, and this remains a product that I'd be interested in. Although I think the rise of newsletters (like this one) mean that people are interested in curation by people rather than by AI.
132 - New year, new resolutions, and new lessons to learn
131 - Protecting the cloud
130 - Solarwinds Special
129 - Even cyber companies get breached
128 - What makes a good strategy?
127 - Secure your platforms
126 - More secure in the public cloud
125 - Self service tooling
124 - Our tools are evolving
123 - Developers are not the enemy
122 - Learning from the past, not dwelling in it
121 - Can we tell the future
120 - How we communicate
119 - The security of comms platforms
118 - Do you need a threat model?
117 - What is the inside threat?
116 - Are we paving the path our users desire?
115 - Working from home forever?
114 - Continuous Learning
113 - The rise and rise of ransomware
112 - Wormable and remote vulnerabilities
111 - I was just saying
110 - Why cloud?
109 - Protecting yourself
108 - June Roundup
107 - Without comment
106 - Sans comment
105 - Taking time
104 - Developing compliance
103 - The steady growth of AI
102 - Security isn't binary
101 - Making the most of our tools
100 - What's next?
99 - Collaboration, Risk and Data
98 - Governance isn't a dirty word
97 - How to work from home
96 - The cloud is more secure
95 - We don't know what people do with our data
94 - Is remote working just letting the enemy inside the walls?
93 - Tools shape our thinking
92 - What justifies lawful interception
91 - Who actually is security and what are we for?
90 - How do we deal with personal data?
89 - Trust in security
88 - There's no certainty in risk management
87 - How much of a target are you?
86 - Tackling only what we can
85 - Change is scary for people
84 - What would cyberwar look like?
83 - Poor incentives for cybersecurity industry
82 - What do we mean by threat model?
81 - What does best practice even mean?
80 - How secure are cryptocurrencies
79 - Do we know why things go right?
78 - Enough with the cyber-nonsense
77 - Progress marches on even if we aren't ready
76 - General is easier than specific, or why security says no
75 - Coordination is hard
74 - Security things are still really hard
73 - Know your users
72 - What are our boundaries?
71 - What actually is hostile social manipulation?
70 - Tackling the insider threat
69 - Fake news and adequate pernicious toerags
68 - Do we trust machines?
67 - How to compare or weigh risks?
66 - Are we unwilling managers
65 - How much privacy do we expect?
64 - We need to stop operating IT like it's 1999
63 - Put more security in your SaaS
62 - The next big malware that wasn't
61 - Just because it’s basic doesn’t mean it’s easy
60 - Is it Cyberwar or Cyberespionage?
59 - How confident are you that your defences work?
58 - Phishing just works
57 - Malware is still your biggest threat
56 - How can we be more positive in security?
55 - Raising the baseline of security
54 - The more things change, the more they stay the same
53 - When is a breach a breach?
52 - To patch or not to patch
51 - What does cyberwar actually mean?
50 - Who are the attackers we worry about
49 - We're on a Huawei to hell
48 - DNS is at the root of our cybersecurity
47 - People & Privacy: Consent? Is that your question?
46 - People & Security - forever intertwined
45 - How secure is our software?
44 - It’s not always targeted attacks
43 - Hacking Tools
42 - Fake news and propaganda
41 - The evolving practice of security
40 - Throwing out the baby with the bathwater
39 - Are developers the kingmakers?
38 - Digital transformation is hard
37 - The US dominates “cyberspace”
36 - What will 2019 hold for us?
35 - Are we still learning?
34 - The sky is falling
33 - Who are we at Cyberwar with?
32 - Happy New Year
31 - Merry Christmas
30 - A breach is just a failure of process
29 - When is risk management not risk management?
28 - Whats next for digital government?
27 - We're all human after all
26 - Small steps to knowledge, taking each one at a time
25 - Digital supply chains should be giving you nightmares today
24 - How can we set a security strategy if we don't know what's going on?
23 - Is risk management the right approach
22 - A new methodology needs a new set of practices
21 - When is a breach not a breach?
20 - China, Russia, Facebook, Conservatives... It's been quite a week
19 - Patching everything all the time might be too expensive
18 - Are we getting better?
17 - How do normal users make good security decisions?
16 - Blockchain has a history
15 - Who holds data on you, and what do they do with it?
14 - How many breaches will it take?
13 - Making sense of a complex world
12 - Should we trust cyber security stats?
11 - Two factor or not two factor, that is the question
10 - That’s edition 8 in octal
9 - Better late than never
8 - Where are you spending your security budget?
7 - Security has to be usable to be any good
6 - Whose fault is a breach anyway?
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06:53 app, chat, dee, deeksha, deekshadee.blogspot.com, Messenger, mobile, phone mobile No comments
Qnext Corp.
4.0.4 / June 21, 2010; 3 years ago
Android, iOS, Linux, Macintosh, Windows
Mobile-PC, multi-messenger, sharing and access
www.qnext.com
Qnext is a multi-protocol instant messaging service for Linux, Mac OS, Windows, and mobile devices. Qnext lets people connect to their digital content when they have access to the internet.
Qnext desktop client runs on Linux, Macintosh, and Windows.
Qnext Mobile solution includes an iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch) application that can be downloaded from the Apple App Store, and a Qnext Mobile Web Application (no download or installation needed) that works on any mobile device equipped with a WebKit based mobile browser, such as Android, iPhone, iPod Touch, Nokia, and Windows Mobile 7 devices.
All clients are freeware.
Desktop Client available for Linux, Macintosh, and Windows computers.
An iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch application that can be downloaded from the Apple store.
A Mobile Web version and can be used with an WebKit based browser.
Users that don’t wish to share any content or have access to their content, but would like to use the multi-protocol IM on their mobile device, do not need to install the Qnext desktop (PC) client. In any event, those users will be able to view and access shared content from other Qnext users on their supported mobile device.
Qnext services run in a multi-tasking mode, which lets users perform multiple tasks at the same time, such as talking to a group using video, transfer files, download files, view content, share content, carry IM conversation with others and more.
Qnext combines multiple technologies to connect users, facilitate communication, manage shared content and deliver shared media to anyone in an efficient way. Qnext uses Java, services-delivery architecture, Unicode, hybrid P2P / Web 2.0 (Peer2Web), Peer2Mobile and cross-platform technologies. Qnext services are plug-ins to the Qnext core with a high security level using SSL encryption. With Qnext, users can share and provide access to their digital content directly from their computers without the need to upload any of the shared content to external servers.
Desktop (PC) client features
In addition to the multi-protocol IM and access to shared content as shown above, the Qnext Desktop client (Linux, Macintosh, Windows) lets users import email contacts from AOL Mail, GMail Hotmail, and Yahoo! Mail, to enable the sharing and streaming of shared content to any email contact, 8-way VoIP, 4-way video conferencing; drag and drop file transfers of any size, remote PC access and shared applications. Users can quickly share unlimited number of files of any size, documents, presentations, videos, photos, and music streaming to anyone, even if a recipient does not have Qnext installed.
Multi-protocol (universal) instant messaging for AIM, Facebook Messenger, Google Talk, iMessage, ICQ, XMPP (Jabber), Myspace IM, Microsoft Messenger service (MSN), and Yahoo! Messenger sends and receives IM messages and keeps users truly connected to everyone from a single contact list.[6][7] Qnext IM implementation supports avatars (animated GIF and images), emoticons (smileys), spellchecker, themes, nudges, time-stamp, multi-chat, chat history/message logging, online messaging, and more.
Qnext file transfer is a fast and secured way to get a file or folder of any size to any Qnext user and can end the need to use FTP or send CDs via courier or deal with email attachment limits. Drag and drop any file or folder of any size on anyone on a contact list, and that is all. The recipient will get a message to allow the transfer, and the content will be transferred. Files are sent using SSL encryption via peer-to-peer (P2P) connection directly to the recipient computer.
With no servers in the way to slow down, file transfers occur as fast as the Internet service connection and computer system will allow. Also, transfers cannot be hacked or intercepted.
Qnext also allows sending and receiving files from other instant messaging services. Most services (such as ICQ, Microsoft Messenger service, and Yahoo! Messenger, etc. have a file size limit and the transfers travel through a server infrastructure. This may compromise security, privacy and quality of service.
Voice chat (audio conferencing) is multi-user voice conferencing (up to eight users at once). Qnext uses direct P2P routing to find the best available network connection; the quality of the user’s online telephone call is high. Linux, Macintosh, and Windows, users can all join a video or voice call together.
Video conferencing is a multi-user Video Chat (up to four people at once). This is where individuals or groups from around the world can meet face to face in real time, to interact for as long as they want, without any costs. Initiating a video conference is straightforward and easy. Qnext automatically detects video & sound devices.
Photo sharing is a way to share photos with anyone in seconds, even if the recipients don’t have Qnext.Any photos at any file format and resolution can be shared with any IM or email contact. Unlike other photo sharing tools, Qnext does not limit the number of photos users can share at a time, or the size of each individual photo. Just select the photos to share, choose your audience (IM or email contacts) and recipients will receive a link that lets them view, zoom, run a slide show, or download any or all photos in small or original format and resolution. No need to upload any photos to public websites.
File sharing is a means to get big files where they need to go, fast. Share an unlimited amount of files or folders of any size. Select the IM or email contacts you want to share with and that is all. Recipients will get a link in an email or an instant message and be able to download any or all of the shared files from any web browser in the world.
Streaming media (music) allows listening to an entire music library and iTunes or Windows Media Player playlists from anywhere in the world. Choose up to 700,000 songs and select an audience; the tunes will be streamed quickly to any who are chosen. Whether users want to share with themselves or with friends, this is the only way to stream your music to any web browser. The users’ library can be browsed by artist, album or genre, or created and shared user’s favorite playlist. Your audience can make their own playlist from your tunes.
Qnext users can access share content directly from the Qnext application. Data transmission is secured using SSL encryption.
Secure remote PC access and share applications for Windows. Qnext remote access technology allows users to remotely access their computers from any Internet connected device in the world, through a standard web browser. It’s an easy and secure solution that enables Qnext users to remotely access their content, emails, files and programs. Qnext users can:
Set permission to allow themselves or others to remotely access their PC from any web browser.
Allow a person or a group to view and/or control specific applications on their computer as others watch in real-time (ideal for software demonstrations).
Request one-on-one assistance from any Qnext contact by allowing them to access your computer, as you watch their action in real-time.
Games can be played privately in real-time and can be accessed directly from the IM window. The user that initiates the game can invite any Qnext user to participate and others to watch as the game is being played by others. Free games include Backgammon, Checkers, Chess, Go, and Poker. All Qnext games have the option to play against the computer.
iPhone application features
Qnext improves iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch use by providing tighter integration to the device features and abilities. The devices become one more device in the users worldwide network. Some of the key features of Qnext for iPad and iPhone include:
Send and receive free instant messages with emoticons using AIM, Facebook Messenger, Google Talk, iMessage, ICQ, XMPP, Microsoft Messenger service, Myspace IM, Qnext, and Yahoo! Messenger
Synchronize and display user multi-protocol instant messaging contacts
Real-time presence and the state of each Qnext user (online, offline, do not disturb, etc.) and account’s status message
Add contacts and groups and view/ edit account and contact information
Sound and display messages event notification
Display the listing of each Qnext user shared content with one touch access to the shared content
View any photographs, albums in thumbnails, full view and slideshow directly from their or anyone else’s computer (by permission)
View folders and files directly from yours or anyone else’s computer (by permission); supported document types include: Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel, Adobe Acrobat, text and more
Listen to music directly from host or other’s computer (music library or iTunes and Media Player playlist)
Qnext App for iPad and iPhone supports OS 3.0 or later
Mobile Web application features
A web application (Web App) is a computer software application that is hosted in a browser-controlled environment which is accessed over a network such as the Internet or an Intranet. The Qnext Mobile Web Application has the same features as the Qnext iPhone application.
Using the Qnext Mobile Web App doesn’t need any downloads or installation and it should work on most of the smartphones and devices with a WebKit based mobile browser, such as: Android, HTC, iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch), LG, Motorola, Nexus One, Nokia, Palm, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Windows.
Qnext Mobile Web App can be used in two ways:
From a mobile device using a mobile web browser. Note that some browsers may not display the app correctly.
From any computer using a web browser and opening the Qnext Web application. This is a live implementation which operates the Qnext Mobile Web App in real-time.
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Technology Front
Industry-First Power Supply IC Supporting USB Power Delivery V. 2.0 and 3.0
Published: Apr 14,2016
Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today released industry-first’s high-efficiency power supply IC, the RAA230161 that supports the Power Rules requirements as defined in USB Power Delivery (USB PD) 2.0 and 3.0 specifications from USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF). This IC can be used with a wide variety of equipment that uses direct current (DC) power, from AC adapters and PC peripheral equipment to home and office equipment, and hub applications.
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The new high-efficiency power supply IC allows system manufacturers to quickly and easily implement safe and reliable power supply equipment that is based on the USB PD 2.0 and 3.0 specifications.
The USB PD specification makes it possible to provide DC power over a USB cable to equipment, such as notebook personal computers and digital single-lens reflex cameras that previously could not be powered over a USB cable.
In particular, in addition to the maximum 7.5 W (5 V at 1.5 A) of the earlier USB standards, this new standard adds Power Rules based on 15 W (5 V at 3 A), 27 W (9 V at 3 A), 45 W (15 V at 3 A), 60 W (20 V at 3 A), and 100 W (20 V at 5 A) capacities. As a result, power supply designers are faced with challenges supporting multiple voltage levels of the USB PD standards, output voltage switching, and handling large currents up to 3 A. Also, as the concerns for hazards (e.g., overheating on non-compliant cables) associated with larger currents increases, new designs for USB PD power supply will need to provide a higher level of safety and reliability.
Given these conditions, Renesas moved up its development of technology for “Simple DC/DC” called for by users of Renesas microcontroller (MCU) and system-on-chip (SoC) devices, and developed power supply ICs centered around DC/DC converters that can achieve an efficiency rate of up to 95 percent leading to less power loss, as devices that can resolve the issues in the construction of power supply equipment that supports the USB PD 2.0 and 3.0 standards.
1HOLTEK New HT32F5828 USB PDF Data Logger MCU
2Toshiba Introduces 5 New Groups of TXZ+ Family Advanced Class MCUs
3Renesas Launches New General-Purpose 64-Bit RZ/G2L Group of MPUs
4ST Trims Brushless Motor-Control Designs with Gate-Driver IC Optimized for Low-Voltage Applications
STMicroelectronics Reveals Innovative Synchronous-Rectification Controller
USB 3.1 Flash Drive Key for Industrial Applications
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Foreign to what should be done to prepare
Rizhao Dss International Trading Co.,Ltd Time：2012-8-29
1. We must first understand the details of the foreign companies, including the structure of the shares of the foreign company, operating status, level of technology and balance figures for the last three years ...
2. To learn more about the specific circumstances of the foreign negotiators, including age, education, hobbies, physical health, his position in the foreign companies, the performance of his business resume, investment projects excitement.
3. Prepare a good professional translator, and a high level of translation can help successfully completed negotiations to accurately express the true representation of the two sides and, when appropriate, the avoidance or mitigation of a confrontation between the two sides will play a decisive role.
4. Thorough analysis of the current situation of their own businesses, the composition of the balance figures for the last three years, workers labor productivity, and shareholders.
5. Own company is prepared to participate in a joint venture asset position to make accurate magnitude analysis. Including the original investment of equity capital, depreciation, fixed asset appreciation, the original value of land, the land value-added, technology assessment, the total value of intangible assets, and so on.
6. Prepare accurate written materials available to them in foreign arrive, the text data to be stapled as beautifully. If your company the VI design has been completed, the data to be completely in accordance with the VI design specification.
7. Three options to determine in advance of negotiations with foreign investors, the best solution, compromise, and compromise.
8. To achieve the strategy and the tactics of the three programs.
9. Explicitly allow foreign clear and understood, they only have to cooperate with you in order to get the maximum investment returns. What they will lose if they do not cooperate with you? Loss of what?
10. Through other channels you working with third-party negotiations may disclose to foreign side, if possible, make arrangements for another foreign negotiations.
11. Prepare information on all aspects of technology, management, public relations, trying to get foreign understand, if you do not cooperate with them, they will establish a potentially powerful business competitors.
12. Negotiations with the foreign consultation to determine the schedule of the convergence of various time periods to be precise and detailed, such as which restaurant to eat, what to eat vegetables and so on. The general foreign Lunch is very casual, a lunch can also be.
13. Cost burden of the program to discuss the negotiations and foreign. Do not mention it, the foreign habits AA, the first meal and the last meal enough to eat two drink scene they did not appreciate, or even have the opposite effect, he would think that if cooperation with you worried that you too wasteful, of course, if is Chinese, is another treat.
14. The concept of time must be stressed that the timetable for the two sides recognized, must arrive in minutes.
15. Note arrange technical or other confidential department will not let foreign contacts.
16. Do not look forward to showing, thirst Jizao, or blindly to curry favor with the mood and behavior of foreign cooperation, all reception activities be justified, powerful sections equality.
17. Ready to participate in the negotiations on behalf of personal clothing and instruments, foreigners pay attention to etiquette, he will think that you wear clean clothing for his respect. If you use a brand of perfume in France it is his favorite, that will contribute to the success of the talks.
18. Do not have to be cautious in front of foreigners, and treat them as a good friend from afar, the time can do other than negotiation humorous and witty some British humor is man's greatest charm.
19. Ready for the first meeting of small gifts do not have to precious to some memorable, it is best to let him into his office or in his living room, small decorative, so he left can also often see, nature can often reminds you to.
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Total No of Rhinos slaughtered in South Africa to End of July 2020 = 166 Official figures. Read my blog below for Headlines from around the World concerning the Global Catastrophe that is causing the biggest mass extinction since the Permian Period, and News of the fight to stop the slaughter of the Planet's Wildlife before it is too late.
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Criminal elephant sales in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean wildlife activists are in a race against time to stop the government from selling 35 baby elephants to China and Pakistan after it emerged that the state was planning to secretly trade the young jumbos.
Lenin Chisaira, Director of Advocacy4Earth, an environmental lobby group which is suing the government over the sale, alleging that government has been trying, since last year, to nicodemusly sell the baby elephants to China but were delayed by a High Court application which they filed in May this year.
"The ongoing case has been that the state wants to sell the elephants through the backdoor and we have reliable information that they can fly out tomorrow and Thursday.
Rhino poaching upsurge in Botswana
Poachers have raided the pristine Mombo Concession in the Okavango Delta, killing three rhinos and stealing their highly sought after horns within a period of one month. On Tuesday security agents discovered two carcasses of rhinos, one fresh and the other seven months old.
Unconfirmed reports indicate that a team was dispatched from Mombo camp on Thursday to check three other suspected rhino carcasses. Should they be confirmed the total number of rhinos killed in Mombo will increase to six in a space of a month. Two weeks ago, the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) anti-poaching unit shot and killed two suspected poachers they encountered while tracking a wounded female rhino. The suspects, who had shot the rhino, were ambushed and killed on sight.
Green Mile Safaris has hunting permit revoked in Tanzania
Tanzania has revoked a hunting permit for Abu Dhabi-based Green Mile Safari, which runs safari hunting operations around Lake Natron, for alleged violation of game hunting rules.
The firm is linked to the United Arab Emirates' ruling family.
Natural Resources and Tourism Minister Dr Hamisi Kigwangallah announced the ban, citing violations of wildlife hunting regulations, including killing of wild animals not specified in its hunting licence.
The ministry further accused the UAE firm of failing to pay the local communities concession fees amounting to Tsh329 million ($144,000) in the past two years.
The company is further accused of employing minors.
n 2014, the Tanzanian government suspended the Green Mile operations in key wildlife reserves before restoring the permit in 2016.
Former natural resources and tourism minister Lazaro Nyalandu revoked the licence, accusing the company of haphazard killing of wildlife in hunting expeditions based on a video circulated on the Internet.
The video, which angered conservation groups, showed hunters, including minors, using automatic weapons from moving vehicles, capture of young animals and torture of dying ones, and using baits and lights at night to attract animals.
Mr Nyalandu said the company violated the Wildlife Conservation Act (No. 5 of 2009), which prohibits safari and amateur hunters from chasing and shooting wild animals, and killing young ones.
Horrifying video of big cats being bred for their bones in South Africa
Credit: Conservation Action Trust
National Council of SPCAs made yet another deeply shocking discovery. No words can aptly describe this cruelty.
Breeding big cats for their bones to make wine. Department of Environmental Affirs it is high time to shut this industry down.
https://www.facebook.com/YouthForLions/videos/705091593245844/?t=0
BREAKING NEWS: NSPCA did a follow-up visit to the same farm in the North West Province, only to find more lion cubs in a devastating physical condition.
On further investigation, the NSPCA found a chest freezer with approximately 20 carcasses of lion and tiger at varying ages. The NSPCA removed a further five carcasses for post mortem examinations to determine the cause of death, and will be laying further charges in terms of the Animals Protection Act No 71 of 1962.
This comes after 108 lions, caracal, tigers and leopards were found in filthy and parasitic conditions in April this year and charges were laid against the owner, which also happens to be a South African Predator Association member.
This video was taken of a cub on site.
#BLOODLIONS comments on this news:
"It appears the extent of cruelty and neglect has no boundaries within the predator breeding industry in South Africa. We strongly urge the public, tourism and government bodies to put a stop to this industry.
Read the full Blood Lions statement here:
And let the government hear your voice by emailing:
# Hon.Minister Creecy of Environment - bcreecy@environment.gov.za
# Head of Communications for Environment - Mr Albi Modise: amodise@environment.gov.za
# SA Predators Association - sapaceo@sapredators.co.za
Plight of the Lions: Always worth listening to Dereck and Beverly Joubert
Twenty nine cheetah cubs confiscated in Somaliland
In Somaliland on the horn of Africa 29 cheetah cubs have been rescued from the wildlife smuggling trade. They were destined for the illegal pet trade in the middle east.
The orphaned cubs were confiscated in Somaliland, which is known to be the main transit route for cheetahs trafficked out of East Africa .
The cheetah pet trade is thriving due to the high demand of wild animals as status symbol pets, particularly in the Gulf States. Many of them die on the way, or of malnourishment once in the hands of their new owners.
About 300 cheetahs are poached and smuggled into the Arabian Peninsula each year, for sale in the illegal pet trade. There are fewer than 7 500 cheetahs in the wild today, although there was a population of 100 000 a century ago.
Lack of space is one of the biggest problems for them, along with persecution by livestock farmers in Southern Africa.
Mass poisoning of vultures in Botswana and the increasing elephant poaching problem
Poachers have poisoned three elephant carcasses which have then subsequently killed hundreds of vultures and eagles in Northern Botswana, a country that just foolishly lifted the ban on hunting.
The massacre took place just south of Chobe National Park. Two tawny eagles and 537 vultures were found dead near the carcasses, which had their tusks chopped out. The poisoning killed 10 Cape, 4 lappet-faced, 17 white-hooded, 28 hooded and 468 white-backed vultures.
Vultures will circle above a dead animal and give its position away, before landing to feed. This is a giveaway for poachers wishing to remain in the area, so the birds are being poisoned to stop them signaling anything to the authorities.
The incident is further evidence of a growing problem of elephant poaching in Botswana which is of extreme concern for a country where 20% of its income is generated from wildlife tourism. Botswana is home to one-third of Africa’s savanna elephants – 130,000 and up till now they have been pretty well protected, until a new government was elected.
A recent study found 156 elephants with their tusks hacked out, a huge increase over the previous survey. It estimated 385 poached for the whole country. All carcasses were under a year old and within five “hot spots”.
Poaching has been on a rapid increase since 2017.
This is what you get when you weaken the protection given to wildlife, as is happening in Botswana under the Masisi regime. It won't be long before the industrial scale poaching seen in East Africa arrives in the country, and the elephant population is decimated. I wonder if that's what the government actually wants , and do they see it as a solution to the HWC problem?
Great way for them to get elephant numbers drastically reduced without officially culling anything.
Elephant poaching on the increase in Northern Botswana
I've warned about it for years. I said once east Africa was depleted the poachers would head South. The South Africans et al. were alsways a bit smug saying they had no problem. Well it's on its way.
Elephants Without Borders survey results habe been peer reviewed and published. The salient points are:
In northern Botswana, fresh elephant carcasses increased by 593% from 2014 to 2018
In 2018, we confirmed 156 elephants as poached for ivory based on damage to skulls
Fresh elephant carcasses were clustered in 5 hotspots where elephants have declined
We estimate that a minimum of 385 elephants were poached in Botswana in 2017–2018
Of course President Masisi and his government don't want to accept this. It doesn't suit their political ambitions.
Massive pangolin scale seizure in Vietnam
Eight tonnes of smuggled African pangolin scales seized in Vietnam port
An eight tonne shipment of pangolin scales was seized at the northern Hai Phong port in March, the city’s customs department said this week.
Dr. Dang Tat The of Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, a wildlife expert, said that this was the largest seizure of pangolin scales ever in Vietnam.
Pangolin trafficking is not rare in Vietnam, where it is legally protected and categorized as endangered.
The shy, tiny creature, which resembles a scaly anteater, is the world's most heavily trafficked mammal despite bans. Pangolins are hunted in Vietnam and its neighborhood for their meat and the alleged medicinal properties of their scales.
A December 2017 study by wildlife trade monitoring group Traffic and Australia’s University of Adelaide found that of the 10 countries and territories with the largest number of trafficking incidents, seven are in Asia – China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Laos, and Indonesia.
Massive ivory haul seized in China
In one of the biggest busts in recent years, Chinese officials have seized 2,748 elephant tusks weighing more than 7 tonnes, the General Administration of Customs announced earlier this week. The ivory was confiscated during a joint operation by customs authorities and police across six provinces on March 30.
Most of the ivory, which had been smuggled from Africa, was found hidden inside several wooden boxes in an abandoned factory, Sun Zhijie, director of the administration’s anti-smuggling bureau, told local media at a press conference. Some 20 suspects have been detained for questioning.
“This is the biggest amount of ivory seized in a single case independently investigated by the anti-smuggling bureau of the General Administration of Customs,” Sun said, according to the South China Morning Post.
Second 12-tonne haul of pangolin scales seized in less than a week in Singapore
SINGAPORE - Less than a week after a record 12.9 tonnes of pangolin scales were seized from a container by the authorities here, another 12.7 tonnes have been uncovered in a joint operation by the National Parks Board (NParks), Singapore Customs and the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA).
The 40ft (12m) container that was on its way by ship from Nigeria to Vietnam was declared to contain "cassia seeds" but was found on Monday (April 8) to be holding the animal parts, estimated to be worth about $51.6 million, in 474 bags at the Pasir Panjang Scanning Station.
The haul came from two species, the white-bellied tree pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) and the giant ground pangolin (Smutsia gigantea) and are likely to have come from 21,000 pangolins.
The scales of the pangolin, believed to be the world's most highly trafficked mammal, are in high demand in Asia for use in traditional Chinese medicine despite there being no proven medical benefit from their use.
Massive rhino horn seizure in Hong Kong
Hong Kong customs seized HK$16.5 million (US$2.1 million) worth of rhino horns in transshipment cargo at the airport on Friday, marking a record haul of products related to the endangered species.
The smuggled items from South Africa were declared as vehicle parts destined for Malaysia. X-ray images of the cargo had raised suspicions and officers acted on a tip-off. Authorities found 82.5kg of suspected rhino horns and body parts in the consignment.
No arrests were made, and a senior customs source said they believed no local offenders were involved in the case.
According to the source, authorities have been monitoring smuggling trends with rhino horn being sought after in China and Southeast Asia for its perceived medicinal properties. “South Africa is home to most of the world’s rhino population and therefore, is a common source of smuggled rhino horns,” the source said.
Seizures of wildlife products have been on the rise last year and totalled 270 tonnes, a threefold increase in quantity from the year before.
People's indiscriminate land use is wrecking the Maasai Mara
New research shows how activities like farming, erecting fences and settlements are hemming in the core protected areas of Kenya's Maasai Mara. This is putting huge pressure on the environment. Grasslands are being reduced and becoming fragmented, and more prone to damage by the stress of climate change.
Between 1977 and 2016 The number of fenced plots has increased by more than 20% since 2010 outside of the core protected area. The number of new bomas was rising in parts of the Mara by up to three new bomas per square kilometre per year. There was also a massive increase in the number of sheep and goats (276.2%) and a slight decrease in the number of cattle (9.4%) in the Narok region in Kenya.
Livestock paths were prevalent and visible up to 5km or more inside te core areas. This illegal grazing is in competion with the wildlife and reduces the quantity and quality of food available.
From 1977 to 2016, illegal incursions into the Maasai Mara national reserve by cattle increased by 1053% and by sheep and goats by 1174%.
The numbers of resident wildlife species declined by between 40% and 87%. In addition, 63.5% fewer migratory wildebeest used the reserve.
Large scale elephant poaching is still alive and well
Customs officials at Da Nang’s Tien Sa Port in central Vietnam on Tuesday seized 9.12 tons of elephant tusks hidden in timber containers.
This is the biggest ivory seizure in recent years, police say. Preliminary investigations show that the containers were imported to Tien Sa from Congo, Africa. Last October, police and customs officials in Da Nang seized 10 tons of elephant tusks and pangolin scales trafficked from Nigeria to Tien Sa.
The seizure provides yet more evidence that organised criminal syndicates continue to exploit Vietnam as a hub for illegal wildlife trade ...
Vietnam outlawed ivory trade in 1992, but the country remains a top market for ivory products prized locally for decorative and medicinal purposes, according to conservation groups.
The country is also a busy thoroughfare for tusks trafficked from Africa destined for other parts of Asia, conservationists say. A report from the Environmental Investigation Agency, a London-based NGO, last year ranked Vietnam among the top 10 countries for ivory smuggling.
Finally: justice for rhino paochers after 10 years
Three poachers are finally convicted of killing a rhino in KwaZulu-Natal: A magistrate lost his patience after a decade of delays -- prosecution and defence sources estimated that somewhere between 12 and 25 defence attorneys had been engaged and later dismissed by the accused.
One of the world's longest rhino poaching trials came to a swift and decisive conclusion on Monday, 25 March when a Durban magistrate lost patience after nearly 10 years of "deliberate and unreasonable delays" by three men who tried, but ultimately failed, to drag out their trial indefinitely.
Convicting all three poachers based on the "overwhelming evidence" placed before him, senior Regional Court Magistrate Logan Naidoo declared that it would have been a travesty to allow the three men to continue holding the justice system to ransom any longer.
The three men, Muntugokwakhe Khoza, 50, Ayanda Buthelezi, 40, and SANDF officer Mduduzi Xulu, 51, were arrested on 26 August, 2009, hours after a rhino was gunned down in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Game Reserve -- the world cradle of white rhino conservation, where this species was brought back from the brink of extinction almost a century ago by the Natal Parks Board.
Biggest ever seizure of pangolin parts
On the 11th of February 2019 the biggest ever seizure of pangolin parts was made from two locations in Sabah, Borneo.
From the two locations, authorities uncovered 29.8 tonnes of pangolinsand their parts.
The haul included about 1,800 boxes full of frozen pangolins stuffed inside three refrigerated containers, 572 more frozen pangolins in six freezers, 61 live pangolins in cages and in a car boot and 361 kg of pangolin scales. Two bear paws and carcasses of four flying fox were also recovered.
Pangolins, a group of unique African and Asian scaly mammals, are considered to be one of the most heavily trafficked wild mammals in the world. They are hunted and traded for their meat, scales, and other body parts, and used as traditional medicines in parts of Africa and Asia.
Of the eight pangolin species, four are found in Africa. These are the white‐bellied, black‐bellied, giant, and Temminck's ground pangolin. Three of these species live in Central African forests. The tree-dwelling white-bellied and black-bellied pangolins, weighing approximately 1.5 to 3kg (comparable to a small rabbit), and the ground-dwelling giant pangolin can weigh up to 33kg (the weight of a small Labrador dog).
For Central African forests in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo and Republic of Congo, we estimated that at least 400,000 pangolins are hunted annually for meat.
Head of Tanzania's Anti-poaching Unit suspended.
The head of Anti poaching in northern Tanzania , Mr Said Mnkeni has been suspended from duty. Allegations are that he has colluded with poaching gangs by giving them a heads up as to the anti poaching units plans and schedules of where they will be in the area.
Arusha Regional Commissioner (RC) Mrisho Gambo said Mnkeni's suspension was a result of his conniving with the poaching suspects, leading to the killings of 35 giraffes in the Longido district over two years.
Mr Mnkeni was a member of a committee investigating wildlife deaths in the region.
According to Mr Gambo, arrested poaching suspects were walking scot-free under Mr Mnkeni's watch.
"His office was also issuing contradicting reports on the rate of giraffe and other wildlife killings," he alleged.
Mr Gambo was referring to an incident where the KDU northern zone office put the number of giraffe killings at three, while the Longido Wildlife Officer registered nine killings.
Corruption is alive and well - more needs to be done to root it out as one criminal at this level can do untold amounts of damage to conservation efforts. But it's better than it was five years ago.
Biggest ever seizure of pangolin scales
Hong Kong Customs seized a container en route from Nigeria to mainland China with ivory and pangolin scales worth HK$62 million
The container was believed to be destined for mainland China, for use in traditional medicine and sculptures.
The haul included more than 8.2 tonnes of scales from thousands of endangered pangolins, with an estimated street value of HK$42 million.
It was the biggest seizure of pangolin scales, by value AND weight, ever in the city.
Somebody please nuke China
Poaching threatens to wipe out some species in Angola
Mbanza Kongo — some animal species under protection regime with highlights to elephants and African forest buffalo, are on the verge of extinction due to poaching, said on Friday in Mbanza Kongo, the head of the Forest Development Institute (IDF), João Domingos.
Speaking to ANGOP, the official pointed out the corridors of Casa da Telha / Soyo and Musserra / Rio Loge as the main localities of the province where the indiscriminate killing of these animal species is frequently verified.
According to the source, these hunters are operating outside the law, since the IDF General Directorate suspended the hunting license issued five years ago to allow the repopulation of protected animals in the region.
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Analysis Contributor Lead Story Politics
How the NLD keeps its lawmakers under control
National League for Democracy (NLD) lawmakers line up before a meeting with party leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Naypyidaw on 28 March 2016. (Photo: Reuters)
By RENAUD EGRETEAU
Since it took control of the Union Parliament and 12 of the 14 state and regional legislatures after the 2015 elections, the National League for Democracy has imposed tight discipline on its 850-odd members of parliament. Media access is restricted. Draft proposals and motions prepared by individual legislators are routinely dismissed by the party’s internal vetting committee and the two speakers of the Union legislature – both NLD officials. Backbenchers are strongly advised not to exert the full extent of their oversight duties by asking “tough questions” to NLD cabinet ministers. Worse, many new parliamentarians feel they are being scolded by senior NLD officials as if they were unruly schoolchildren.
Yet, discipline and cohesion are necessary for a ruling parliamentary majority. Most theories of comparative politics say that disciplined parties are a precondition for responsible party government. Efficient legislative decision-making depends on the ability of the ruling leadership to secure a unified voting bloc in parliament, mobilise its lawmakers whenever needed, and prevent systematic dissent.
Despite growing resentment among NLD lawmakers, there has been no organized dissent in parliament since the start of the NLD-controlled legislature in February 2016. This is puzzling. When the NLD does not receive the full support of its legislators in passing a bill in plenary session, it is often because many are absent, on sick leave, visiting their constituencies or out of the country for international conferences or training programs. Sometimes, MPs have simply made a mistake in pressing the wrong electronic voting button.
Yangon’s regional parliament seems an exception. Its increasingly vocal legislators have not hesitated to criticise publicly the heavy hand of the NLD party machine and the regional chief minister, Phyo Min Thein. But a clearly identifiable factionalism is yet to emerge within the ranks of other NLD parliamentary delegations. Dissent expressed in private discussions or the media has not yet translated into open revolt. The only important resignation of a NLD lawmaker, the former chair of the Lower House’s committee on farmers and labour affairs, only occurred in July 2017. After being relieved from his chairmanship duties by the speaker earlier in December 2016, the newly independent MP publicly refused to comply with his former party’s internal rules, and quit.
Why is this so? How has the NLD, after two years in power, proved in position to hold the ranks despite mounting internal criticism? A ruling party can impose severe punishments on MPs who do not toe the party line. Around the world, ruling parties have employed a vast array of strategies and disciplinary tools to ensure the support of lawmakers in passing bills, prevent them from speaking out or obstructing parliamentary committee work, and curtail dissent. The NLD has diligently used that toolbox recently.
First, the instruments of parliamentary discipline often derive from the ruling party’s control over factors that determine the future of a politician. Party leaders – and the NLD is no exception – typically wield patronage power. They can distribute ministerial or legislative office perks, and local or central party positions, to the most loyal supporters. Many NLD candidates who won the 2012 by-elections were rewarded after the NLD’s landslide electoral victory in 2015 with government posts or chief ministerships. Other newcomers to the NLD were promptly given prestigious managerial positions in local party branches too.
Second, a ruling party can ensure the cohesion among its rank-and-file MPs by weeding out potential troublemakers. Joining a party to run for office is explicitly contractual, so recalcitrant politicians can be easily screened out and denied inclusion on the party’s lists of candidates for the next elections. The risks for incumbents are particularly high in a first-past-the-post electoral system under a dominant party, such as exists in Burma.
Ahead of the 2015 polls, the role of the NLD’s central executive committee in overseeing the selection of new parliamentary candidates was heavily criticised by local sympathisers of the party. To avoid a wave of dissent similar to that observed before the previous elections held in 2010 (and boycotted by the NLD), the senior leadership deliberately excluded long-time local party members in favour of younger and possibly more compliant political novices drawn from civil society or the education sector. This pattern was especially obvious in constituencies of the Sagaing, Irrawaddy, Mandalay and Magwe regions as well as Mon State. This process was also observed before the by-elections held in April 2017.
Third, party leaders can discipline defiant MPs through financial penalties and the withholding of party support for local or international projects. The NLD leadership has regularly sanctioned individual MPs by cancelling scheduled overseas trips or suspending them from party functions at the local branch level. Furthermore, NLD parliamentarians must relinquish 25 percent of their monthly salary of 1 million kyat ($750) to the party’s coffers. This is much higher than any other parties.
More accommodating strategies can be adopted to maintain lawmakers on board. Parliamentary dissidence in majoritarian political systems is usually short-lived and tends to be single-issue. Cajoling individual MPs to prevent dissent can often pay off. Policy compromises can be brokered and an issue considered crucial by a would-be rebel lawmaker can be put on the legislative agenda to defuse dissent. The fact that a legislative debate on Burma’s increasingly criticised defamation laws was initiated by the NLD in July 2017 despite the reluctance of its highest officials seems to be in response to growing concerns within NLD ranks. Many elected lawmakers are former political prisoners who were once the victims of similar repressive legislation.
Young or first-time lawmakers can also be gradually socialised into common thinking and a unifying ideology promoting the “common good” and thus coaxed into leaving aside personal considerations. The NLD has provided numerous trainings, orientation courses and workshops for its candidates and new MPs since 2015. They are taught to present their work as “people-oriented.” They are directed to avoid open criticism and public complaints, including about their own poor living conditions in the municipal residence allotted to Union MPs in the capital Naypyidaw.
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Discipline in Burma’s legislatures has worked thus far because ambitious MPs do not want to jeopardise their chances for advancement and re-election, or be deprived of various perks and benefits. (And there are indeed many determined would-be local politicians who view the NLD as the sole credible and legitimate vehicle for personal political ambitions.) It has also worked because activists-turned-lawmakers sometimes simply cannot master the art of politicking or else lack proper knowledge of how to conduct rebellious legislative politics. Without an acquaintance with parliamentary procedures or an understanding that ruling parties can sometimes benefit from tolerating some parliamentary dissent, novice lawmakers tend to remain quiet and avoid breaking legislative discipline. Unlike before the 2010 elections, when the NLD last experienced a severe party split over the boycott of a poll controlled by the former junta, resentment is now chiefly being observed among young and new party members, not in the commanding heights of the NLD.
In addition, Burmese society has been traditionally shaped by Buddhism, which considers values such as obedience and discipline paramount. Seniority is highly respected and dissent from those younger is not normally accepted. Young NLD members who privately criticise the political stance and party management of Burma’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi seldom confront her publicly.
There are political risks for the ruling party, though. The greater the resentment, the more likely MPs will look for alternatives or even jump ship. Condescending disciplinary measures and public scolding can provoke a disastrous backlash against the senior party establishment. In January this year, there was a sense of palpable relief among NLD representatives and party rank-and-file as Win Htein was informally discharged from his party duties. Once the chief organiser of the NLD party machine and a feared member of its central executive committee, the 75-year-old veteran politician had earned himself a tough reputation for bossing around MPs from his room at the heart of Naypyidaw’s municipal guesthouse where civilian MPs reside when the parliament is in session.
The NLD may well lose most of its incumbent MPs in the next election round, scheduled for 2020, although not the election itself. Many have already made no secret of their willingness to leave parliamentary politics after just one term. Being scolded and disciplined by professional politicians, while waiting for the senior party leadership to devise policies their constituents expect is not what civil society activists signed up for when they joined the NLD and ran for office in 2015.
Can the NLD leadership afford to alienate a generation of young, determined, yet potentially disloyal lawmakers? Can the party keep a tight rein over its lawmakers without devising any bottom-up decision-making process or mitigating the grievances of would-be deviant MPs? For now, the NLD’s top brass obviously thinks it can, counting on the quasi-magical aura of Suu Kyi to win more elections in the near future. Urban, educated and outspoken citizens and politicians may criticise the NLD. But in the end, the party seems to believe that rural voters in the central plains and even in ethnic areas will still vote for the political movement incarnated by “A-may Suu.”
In the short-term, the discipline imposed by the NLD hierarchy may not be damaging to the party in parliament, quite the opposite. But in the long-run, the lash of discipline may well produce a generation of frustrated political activists who may consider leaving the NLD and legislative politics altogether. A high level of legislative turnover and the continuing presence of inexperienced members in parliament may well prove a challenge to Burma’s aspiring democracy. Not only may the NLD be deprived of its most capable and experienced lawmakers, but the pattern will also prove harmful to the consolidation and professionalisation of Burma’s parliament, a key agent of democratisation.
Renaud Egreteau, a political scientist, authored “Caretaking Democratization: The Military and Political Change in Myanmar” (Oxford University Press & Hurst, 2016) and Parliamentary Development in Myanmar: An Overview of the Union Legislature, 2011-2016, a report sponsored by the Asia Foundation available here.
This article was originally published by Tea Circle.
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Juliusz Słowacki Theatre Once in Krakow, you should stroll through all the streets of the old town to explore the beauty of this historic city and to find its major sights. Much of that happened at Auschwitz, not far from Krakow. A tour inside the mine lets tourists take a peek at a stunning natural phenomenon of crystal formations. Elsewhere, the 19th century Tempel Synagogue, with its Moorish Revival architecture, is still in use. It has a very interesting history and is essential while visiting the center of Krakow. For more options on where to stay in Krakow check out our guides to the best and in Krakow! Not to worry though, the Town Hall Tower does still exist and the decapitated head of Eros can be found discarded at its doorstep. Planty Park And once you have enough of sightseeing do not miss a rest in the Planty Park which surrounds the whole Old Town center.
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On Saturday the market explodes with hundreds of merchants selling anything your deal-seeking heart desires including electronics, books, antique furniture, clothes, and furs…strangely lots of furs. To avoid long waits we suggest purchasing tickets in advanced or booking a. When Krakow was the capital city, this was the official residence and one of the finest castles in Europe. Czartoryski Museum Although Krakow has several areas dedicated to art, the Czartoryski Museum is undoubtedly the most premier art center. One the is , the food is amazing and the portions are enormous.
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Three major US newspapers endorse Obama
It’s an interesting feature in US politics. As polling day approaches, newspapers will publish an editorial endorsing one of the candidates.
CNN reported that the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune have endorsed Barack Obama as their choice for President of the United States.
Here are snippets of what they had to say about the rationale behind their choice.
Washington Post:
…it is without ambivalence that we endorse Sen. Barack Obama for president.
The choice is made easy in part by Mr. McCain’s disappointing campaign, above all his irresponsible selection of a running mate who is not ready to be president.
Mr. Obama’s temperament is unlike anything we’ve seen on the national stage in many years. He is deliberate but not indecisive; eloquent but a master of substance and detail; preternaturally confident but eager to hear opposing points of view. He has inspired millions of voters of diverse ages and races, no small thing in our often divided and cynical country. We think he is the right man for a perilous moment.
Los Angeles Times:
We need a leader who demonstrates thoughtful calm and grace under pressure, one not prone to volatile gesture or capricious pronouncement. We need a leader well-grounded in the intellectual and legal foundations of American freedom. Yet we ask that the same person also possess the spark and passion to inspire the best within us: creativity, generosity and a fierce defense of justice and liberty.
Indeed, the presidential campaign has rendered McCain nearly unrecognizable. His selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate was, as a short-term political tactic, brilliant. It was also irresponsible, as Palin is the most unqualified vice presidential nominee of a major party in living memory. The decision calls into question just what kind of thinking — if that’s the appropriate word — would drive the White House in a McCain presidency. Fortunately, the public has shown more discernment, and the early enthusiasm for Palin has given way to national ridicule of her candidacy and McCain’s judgment.
Obama’s selection also was telling. He might have scored a steeper bump in the polls by making a more dramatic choice than the capable and experienced Joe Biden. But for all the excitement of his own candidacy, Obama has offered more competence than drama.
We may marvel that Obama’s critics called him an elitist, as if an Ivy League education were a source of embarrassment, and belittled his eloquence, as if a gift with words were suddenly a defect. In fact, Obama is educated and eloquent, sober and exciting, steady and mature. He represents the nation as it is, and as it aspires to be.
Chicago Tribune:
On Dec. 6, 2006, this page encouraged Obama to join the presidential campaign. We wrote that he would celebrate our common values instead of exaggerate our differences. We said he would raise the tone of the campaign. We said his intellectual depth would sharpen the policy debate. In the ensuing 22 months he has done just that.
This endorsement makes some history for the Chicago Tribune. This is the first time the newspaper has endorsed the Democratic Party’s nominee for president.
McCain failed in his most important executive decision. Give him credit for choosing a female running mate–but he passed up any number of supremely qualified Republican women who could have served. Having called Obama not ready to lead, McCain chose Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. His campaign has tried to stage-manage Palin’s exposure to the public. But it’s clear she is not prepared to step in at a moment’s notice and serve as president. McCain put his campaign before his country.
Obama chose a more experienced and more thoughtful running mate–he put governing before politicking. Sen. Joe Biden doesn’t bring many votes to Obama, but he would help him from day one to lead the country.
We do, though, think Obama would govern as much more of a pragmatic centrist than many people expect.
He has the intelligence to understand the grave economic and national security risks that face us, to listen to good advice and make careful decisions.
It may have seemed audacious for Obama to start his campaign in Springfield, invoking Lincoln. We think, given the opportunity to hold this nation’s most powerful office, he will prove it wasn’t so audacious after all. We are proud to add Barack Obama’s name to Lincoln’s in the list of people the Tribune has endorsed for president of the United States.
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5 thoughts on “Three major US newspapers endorse Obama”
Lim Chih-Yang says:
Dear Gerald,
I like the commentary by the Los Angeles Times.
“…. His (McCain) selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate was, as a short-term political tactic, brilliant. It was also irresponsible, as Palin is the most unqualified vice presidential nominee of a major party in living memory….”
I do totally agree that Palin is good for a short burst of popularity. Unfortunately, an election is more a marathon than a 100m dash. Palin has shown herself to be utterly incoherent and lacking views on foreign policy, economy, healthcare..etc. its is utterly embarrasing to see her performance in the interview for Katie Couric.
In fact, Palin looks more comfortable appearing on SNL than on the election stage.
The only other Veep that comes close is probably Dan Quayle.
I do hope that Obama wins. He can bring much sanity, dignity, governance and statesman to the office. Having said the above, McCain had demonstrated himself to be a decent man in defending Obama and clarifying to his myopic supporters that Obama is not a terrorist.
Chih-Yang
Gerald Giam says:
Haha good that you mentioned Dan Quayle. But McCain’s “Bill Ayers” attacks on Obama show his desperation to the point of being unethical. I think Colin Powell’s endorsement was the most significant.
Hi Gerald,
you know that I have always been a fan of Colin Powell. I strongly respect this man as one of the last few statesmen in US. To him its not about politics but doing the right thing for US and the world. He is hardly every sway by soundbites or ideology but by a practical realism.
So to me, Powell’s endorsement (a man who has served in Carter, Reagan, Bush Snr, Clinton and Bush Jr’s administration), speaks volume about Obama’s standing.
twasher says:
Since when was invading Iraq on spurious grounds an act of ‘practical realism’? Whether or not Powell personally supported that act of foolishness, he certainly used his public credibility to make the case for it. I remember people saying at that time ‘well Powell supports it so it can’t be that crazy’. How many mistakes does he have to make before he loses his credibility?
Hi Twasher,
Iraq war was perhaps one of his biggest mistake. He was mislead by the neocons in the administration, primarily Cheney, Rumsfeld…etc. of course as it turns out he was totally sidelined by these guys… perhaps that was one reason why he left the administration and refuse to be part of bush jnr second term.
it is next to impossible to not make mistake while one is in office or for that matters in life. I am not sure how many mistakes can one make before one loses credibility but his standing has still remain strong to this day and despite the Iraq war he still commands vast respect unlike Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gates…
I think this speaks volumes about the man.
Nevertheless, we are all entitled to our opinions.
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Secret Origins Special #1: The Penguin, The Riddler, and Two-Face
On this special* episode, Ryan Daly investigates the original sins of Batman’s vilest villains in Secret Origins Special #1. First, Ryan welcomes Michael Bailey for the origin of the Penguin. Then Ryan and Mike Gillis try to crack the mysteries of the Riddler. And finally Ryan recruits Clinton Robison and Nathaniel Wayne for a double-sided discussion of Two-Face. All of that plus new secrets behind the Secret Origins from Ryan’s meeting with Mark Waid at Boston Comic Con. (special* = long.)
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42 responses to “Secret Origins Special #1: The Penguin, The Riddler, and Two-Face”
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Ryan Daly says:
Why aren’t we doing a podcast on the Venture Bros?!!
Chris Franklin says:
I lost track after about season 3, but I loved the show. I need to catch up.
Jeff Nettleton says:
Great stuff in the later seasons. Sgt Hatred becomes the Venture bodyguard, Brock is working with SPHINX, Henchmen 21 proves to be the most capable of all, Phantom Limb returns, more Order of the Triad, more Shore Leave, Dr Venture’s boy adventurer therapy group, Kevin Conroy as Captain Sunshine, Dean’s internship at Impossible Industries, Hank & Dean’s prom, sulky Dean, the return of the original SPHINX (lots of fun for the GI JOE generation), Spanokopita!, and more….
Okay, I’m through the Riddler segment, and even though I was left out of this Batman episode (did you not check the Fire & Water contract, Ryan?) I’m going to go ahead and comment on Penguin and Riddler.
I agree with Michael Bailey on many things, and another one for the record books is that Batman Forever is a much better Batman film than Batman Returns. Sure, the goofy starts to seep in with this movie, but the Batman and Robin scenes work like a modern take on the early Golden Age stories.
I also agree with Ryan that DC seemed hellbent on trying to make the Penugin work with the darker tone of the Batman universe. I don’t think they really succeeded until Chuck Dixon came up with the Iceberg Lounge aspect to the character. This story always struck me as part of that “let’s make Penguin tough and gritty”. It may be because of Sam Keith’s art (sorry, not a fan on mainstream comic stuff), but it also has to do with “he’s not fat, it’s just muscle” which I’ve always called BS on…at least until I watched the Netflix Daredevil series, where the Kingpin truly, TRULY frightened me. So I’ll give them that. That was 14 year-old Chris’ hang-up with this story.
The Penguin got a then NEW origin in Best of DC (Digest) #10, March 1981 a Secret Origins issue. I think this may be the first place where Oswald’s mom, and his being bullied was first explored.
Onto the Riddler: Yes, Frank Gorshin did wear a three-piece suit and bowler hat in the classic TV series and movie, in addition to his tights. This was the first time this look appeared in the comics.
This story is an odd one. I really like it, but it came to me at a weird time, where I was trying to reconcile my love for the silly old TV show against the new, dark, cool, hip Batman of the late 80s. I never turned my back on the show like many, but it was kind of the crazy old uncle you still loved, but you tended to try to avoid at reunions. The Riddler comes across very much like that here. DC didn’t have any rights to the made-for-TV villains at that time, so it’s interesting that Gaiman snuck them in.
I have ready many articles with Batman writers who admit the Riddler is a tough nut to crack. Even the Animated Series guys felt like they never really got him right. Oh, and he wore the bowler with the tights on the second version of that series, The New Batman Adventures.
There was a Question story shortly before this where the Riddler was portrayed as washed up (written by Bat-edtior Denny O’Neil). His Who’s Who entry from the 1989 Detective Annual also reflects his retired status, and his running of the junkyard (more on that in the next Who’s Who episode). Interesting that at this point, the Bat-office was content to seemingly put Riddler out to pasture, while they were trying desperately to make Penugin work in their darkened world.
So far, so great!
Well, they considered him a pretty worn out joke, which was a big point of that story. BTAS, as they did with many characters, showed the potential that lay within.
Robert Kelly says:
Wow, almost four hours! I was sure at some point during the show Ryan was going to check the tote board to see how many donations had come in.
In a lot of ways, this is my favorite issue of the SO series. I think the Riddler section is genius, as is the wraparound segment. I find the Penguin and Two Face stories merely okay, but I think the whole book gets lifted by the stuff Gaiman did. Plus the Bolland cover is…well, a Bolland cover. Perfect.
I remember being really shocked that DC allowed Gaiman to even mention some of TV show villains in a comic, especially at the time when they were trying so hard to sell the Grim n Gritty Batman to a mass audience. I thought it was pretty daring and loved Gaiman for doing it.
And even though no one asked, my top 5 fav Bat Villains are (in no particular order)
Ra’s Al Ghul
Kyle has disqualified himself from future podcast guest gigs by putting KGBeast on his list. Have some standards, man! Who was #6? Kite-Man?
Pretty sure I’m always disqualifying myself. Don’t worry, it’s all part of the Coffee & Comics charm.
Sir Print says:
“Take your pick.”
I believe that comes from Untold Legend of the Batman #1
http://www.bernarduccimeisel.com/imagesdb/moody_takeyourpick.jpg
Nathaniel Wayne says:
Bradley Null says:
A note before I listen, I love all versions of the Riddler, yes even the Jim Carry version. I even like the hardly seen AU version. Neil Gaiman is my favorite writer. I love stories that casually break the forth wall. This Riddler story is reprinted in “Whatever happened to the Caped Crusader”, where I liked it far better then the tittle story.
I kinda remember reading it in comic form…
I sort of remember the other two stories….
I re
I remember having the argument where the Bat fans and the Vertigo kids both hated me for liking this.
So weird relationship with this issue have I.
Well, I listened to the rest, and now I have a beard and am eligible for Social Security. But I didn’t mind. This was indeed, a special episode. Well done fellas.
But Ryan, you question the existence of a Harlan Ellison-written script for a Two-Face episode of the Batman TV Series? Did you NOT listen to the Super Mates episode where Cindy and I review the comic special that adapted that unused script? It was written by Len Wein and drawn by Jose Luis Garcia Lopez (Praise Be His Name)! For shame.
You’re probably right about the Chilton angle, BUT, the name Chilton does come up in Batman lore. In the late Silver/early Bronze Age, it was established that Bruce was sent to live with his Uncle Phillip after his parents were murdered. He was looked after by Phillip’s housekeeper, a Mrs. Chilton. Unbeknownst to Bruce (but known to Alfred, per The Untold Legend of the Batman mini), the kindly Mrs. Chilton was actually the mother of…Joe Chill, the man who murdered Thomas and Martha Wayne! Duh-duh-DUHHHH!!! But yeah, it was probably a Silence of the Lambs thing.
I forgot to mention the cover earlier. It’s outstanding. Iconic even. The best image of those three characters ever committed to paper? Probably.
I loved how you guys dug deep with the questions on celebrity. Some interesting discussion there. While I do agree there is some fascination with killers, I don’t see too many attempts at actually merchandising them (although there was a series of serial killer trading cards which stirred up some serious fuss years ago). In the DCU, someone is constantly trying to exploit these pshychos, and even the Joker himself tried to get in on it with the Laughing Fish, of course.
As for favorite Bat-villains…that’s like asking me whose my favorite kid? Don’t tell Cindy I said that.
C’mon, Chris, we all know you have a favorite kid. Don’t hide it!
As for the Ellison-plotted BATMAN ’66 episode/comic, well, of course I listened to that episode of Super Mates! It just, uh, slipped my mind.
There have been Charles Manson t-shirts and stuff, which is close enough, for my book.
The serial killer trading cards were from Eclipse, if I remember right. It created a minor stir; but, it blew over pretty quickly. I thought their Bush League trading cards were far better, though nowhere near as good as their comic creator cards.
Martin Gray says:
Dang, I was SO excited to remember Mrs Chilton but Chris was so Chris-ish!
Great episode…. So far just listened to up to Riddler part. I liked the Peguin discussion well enough.
The Riddler discussion has me relalizing I like the idea of the Riddler more then any of the actual characters who have appeared. I say characters plural because he’s been so different so many times….
Jim Carry’s guy (who I like) IS NOT the Gaiman stand in from this (whom I love). And neither of those is the Gerssin 60’s guy I first fell in love with.
His names and gimmick may stay the same, BUT I think he might be the second least consistent between versions character in Superhero stories. (Hank Pym is number one)
Sean Walsh says:
Great episode. Loved that this was 4 hours, as it really allows 3 important villains to get some well due spotlight.
Regarding the Riddler segment (my favorite of the 3, by far, and one of my favorite comic villains ever), this is indeed the 1st time he appears in a suit & bowler hat in a comic. He’d wear it more prominently in his next appearances – Dark Knight, Dark City (whose cover artist, Mike Mignola, designed the B:TAS Riddler, which displaced Timm’s own design inspired by Will Eisner’s Spirit) and in most appearances beyond.
And from the pen of Paul Dini himself came a statement that echoes Ryan & Michael’s observation about the Riddler’s relative lack of use in comics and, in his own case, the animated series. In the 1998 Batman Animated retrospective book, Dini reflected on the a Riddler and said that the shared opinion of the showrunners was that the Riddler was a very tough character to write – “a cerebral villain who spends too much time proving how smart he is rather than causing mayhem” – and that most scripts were rejected because they were too long or just too silly. Plus, of course, coming up with compelling riddles (that didn’t devolve into lazy machine gun sparrow references) on their show deadlines was a bit too much. I would imagine that’s why Bill Finger, the character’s own co-creator and a writer who was fairly infamous for not meeting his own deadlines, only ever wrote him once or twice himself
Always enjoyed that Neil Gaiman can, if he ever tires of the Sandman fandom, proudly point to a fairly poignant Riddler tale in his vast bibliography, and that Bernie Mireault would again illustrate a more nostalgic story that, to a more untrained eye (like mine in the early ’90s), would age wonderfully over the next 25 years and add a special element to the Riddler’s “secret” “origin.”
Paul Hix says:
Day 2 of listening to the Secret Origins podcast. This expedition has been doomed from the start. We ate the last dog this morning. During dinner last night, Shag stood up suddenly and said “I’m just stepping outside for minute”. I never saw him again.
David M Gutierrez says:
Still making my way through this, but wanted to get a special Secret Origins podcast on the origins of Ryan “Shanks” Daly and Michael “Legs” Bailey. I’m particularly interested in the time they clearly spent in the clink. I don’t know how else they have such a clear knowledge of streetfights and prison bitchery.
My top 5 Batman villains is most similar to Ryan’s (as it stood at the time of recording):
5. Two Face
4. Raysh
2. Catwoman
1. Deadshot
Not the movie version of Deadshot obviously.
Aw, come on. Big Willy style!
Anj says:
Late to the game as usual.
I loved this book as decent looks at all these characters.
I am a fan of the Riddler but I agree it is hard to pull off a good story. Like you all, I need the Riddler to be an intelligent puzzler. I don’t need ‘What trees are hairy? Fir trees.’ Somewhere along the way, Scott Snyder said he wanted to write a Riddler story but learned quickly that it isn’t easy to write riddles. My intro was Gorshin, who is the quintessential Riddler for me.
But my favorite Batman villain is Two-Face and so I loved this story. As you guys said, the Wagner Faces story (LOTDK 28-30) is brilliant as he tries to play up his freakish side. I’ll also add Batman:Jekyll and Hyde by Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee. Great stuff there. And, of course, his role in Dark Knight Returns is well done, Harvey giving into his dark side, his coin scarred on both sides. Chilling.
I think part of what I like about Two-Face is that he starts out as Law and Order, a man of rules, who descends into madness and thinks chance is more powerful than rules. Brilliant.
My top Five Batman villains:
Joker.
But I wish more was done with the ‘reverse Batman’ the Wraith, covered in Who’s Who XXVI
Ack, as I am driving home today I realize I forgot 2 more fave Batman villains – Hugo Strange! And the Nightslayer/Nocturna duo.
Also, great info from Mark Waid at the con. Ditko on Plastic Man. Now I will never forgive Roy Thomas!!!
No love for Orca?
Clinton Robison says:
Excellent episode, Ryan. Nice to know there were three amazing guests (and one complete jackass who somehow bribed you to get to talk with you and Nathaniel). Like you, my favorite Batman villains keep changing, but I will fully own all the well-deserved tossed fruit for the KGBeast pick.
The conversation you had with Mark Waid sounds absolutely amazing. What an utter shame no interviews or anything could come of it. Perhaps another time.
I have to give a big word of thanks and appreciation to all the guests. Michael, Mike and Nathaniel, you all made this episode a neverending source of entertainment. This Cecil B. DeMille epic length episode just flew by with all your amazing input. I’m glad to know we can all agree that Mr. al Ghul belongs in the Top 5 no matter what.
Here’s hoping my monotonous hick droning didn’t bore too many people along the way.
Loved your debut Clinton, but I’m not agreeing on Ra’s, so there! Everyone seems to like him because he makes Batman go all Jamea Bond, but we already have a James Bond. i like my Bat-villains to have a connection to Gotham, not live in a tent and be involved in a creepy relationship with his sub-Bond girl daughter.
But everyone else seems to love the old bugger!
We’ve talked a lot about the heroes before (our) time, but not so much the gangsters so original that they exist in our personal pre-history. The Batman rogues gallery has probably benefited most from this 20th century phenomenon, and I think this is absolutely due to “Batman ’66.” Hollywood has historically been filled with short-sighted morons, especially when it comes to comic books, and the Man of Steel is still paying for the producers of The Adventures of Superman going cheap with his opposition. If they’d made a few extra costumes, had a few guys who could stage punch George Reeves through some drywall, he might very well have continued to be the most popular and important super-hero of all. Instead, Superman ceded to Batman the opportunity to not just transport a super-hero into a basic filmic reality with very light science fantasy elements, but to port the entire surreality of funny books to TV and cinema. Ditto the motion pictures, where Superman started out fighting Gene Hackman, Ned Beatty and Valerie Perrine and went less impressive from there. When Batman came to film, he brought with him the expectations of a Gotham City fully realized for a generation of fans within and without comics’ readership. They got the Joker, and then asked about Catwoman, and then Scarecrow, and then Poison Ivy, and how about some more Commissioner Gordon and Batgirl and Harvey Dent and so on. Superman had Lois Lane and, uh, Jimmy Olsen and… Brainiac? Mr. Mxyzptlk? The potential was there, but the multimedia exploration was late and lacking. I never felt as strongly for Batman’s rogues overall as I did for other more favored cliques, but in terms of marketing to the masses, they’re tops.
The cover is by Bolland… Brian Bolland, license to thrill. His is one of the few names you could justifiably drop into a sentence containing the phrase “merely JLGL.” Despite being something of a straightforward pin-up, this Secret Origins would likely turn up at the very least among the top ten best covers individually for Riddler, Penguin, Two-Face, and perhaps even Batman, despite his not actually even being on it. Another uncommon phrase: “This book has too many Neil Gaiman stories, and they’re not very good.” Both the framing story and the Riddler non-origin are one note played too long. I’m grateful for the presence of Kevin Nowlan in the vignette, but there’s still too much undigested Hydrox layout artist lingering on the page. It looks better than it deserves to, but still like someone aping Nowlan instead of the real thing.
There are so many possible introductory points for me to the Penguin, since he was on the cartoons and in one of the first comics I bought, but most probably it was through Burgess Meredith. Actually, that was the only Penguin I liked as a kid, purely on the performance. Elsewhere, Penguin was the dope with the trick umbrellas, and those short portly action figures made for obvious punching bags to more fit kewl toys. Then Danny DeVito came along and ate up space in Batman Returns that I’d have rather seen lent to the two other villains (I got a fever… and the only cure… is more Christopher Walken.) Worse, the Burton version informed Batman: The Animated Series, an early opportunity for me to reject cynical attempts at grimdark with obviously inappropriate characters. I was an early adopter of Chromium Age sensibilities, but the Penguin helped me to recognize that when everybody is a grizzled badass, nobody is, and there has to be a better way into one of the most famous comic book super-villains than to pretend he’s a goth and pander to a scene.
Around the same time as Batman Returns, DC put out best of trades for Penguin and Catwoman. It was either there or in subsequent books of critical analysis (Jules Pfeiffer?) where I was made to realize that what made Penguin special among the Batman rogues was that he was sane and a brutal mobster. He’ll entertain affectations like the bird-themed heists and the refrigerated hideouts because that’s fashionable in Gotham. He’ll put on his roaring 20s suit and whip out his trick umbrellas, as it makes folks underestimate him or laugh him off. Doesn’t matter. At the end of the day, he’s balling, and he’ll be running whichever prison they temporarily assign him to. He’s had heartaches, but he’s not tragic. He’s just a bad guy in a worse town who loves showing off in his dirty work. That’s refreshing in his environment.
Sometime in the mid-90s, I’d fallen in love with a version of the Penguin’s early history I’d concocted and have since forgotten, then read this Secret Origin. I hated it a lot in part because it somehow contradicted my ideas, but now that I’ve reread it without a personal agenda, I can be more objective in thinking it sucks. I’ve never liked Alan Grant’s work, because he’s got that 2000 A.D. attitude that gives the impression he’s too clever to be working on disreputable genre material, so he basically takes the piss while still cashing the checks. I read this origin as a satire, bashing together impossible contrivances and cliche to see if you can get away with hacking out a marketable strip on sheer fan service. It plays right into the sadistic power fantasies of a large segment of the readership without offering any legitimate insight into the main character. People laughed at Oswald Cobblepot, and one bully especially scarred him, so he became a themed master criminal? What? You can’t just draw a line from one to the other, and yes, it’s totally the Kingpin’s origin with the forced inclusion of “Birds N Stuff.” That’s like, Peter Parker’s parents were gunned down in an alley, so he became a Spider-Man. But… Wait… There should probably be more to this, right?
Then there’s the art by Sam Keith, which is a total scam. His fundamentals are strictly amateur hour, reminding me of the crappy comic strips I drew in my notebook in grade school. Faces in crude absolute profile across multiple panels, extreme obscuring close-ups, young child with a camcorder camera angles, an absence of the illusion of depth– work cheats that even Rob Liefeld would scoff at. The con is that Keith then drenches everything in heavy inks with some stylish shading techniques and usually one “money” image per page that looks impressive until you break down what he actually did (like that facial close-up of Penguin coming out of (surprise) deep shadow that conceal his neck and body while Keith has flicked ink off a toothbrush to alter the texture. For my money, peak Sam Keith was his Marvel Comics Presents covers, where he could draw Wolverine in semi-silhouette endlessly– a character with built-in weirdly exaggerated anatomy that you could jazz up with a slick muscle dimple and thick layers of body hair. I can enjoy his work in the same vein of guilty pleasure as other early Image artists, but extreme style aside, he’s among the worst technically of the “name brand” lot. He’s the Jack in the Box tacos of ’90s draw-ers.
What a fantastic episode, I liked the off-grid format and the multiple guests.
I’m a Penguin traditionalist, he’s a funny little man who’s ridiculously formidable. I don’t want him as a Kingpin muscle monster, or running a nightclub and skimming the cash off other crimes. I want him out on the streets, flying into fights with Batman and Robin on a helicopter umbrella. I do love this origin, though, with the melted teeth scaring the bejabbers out of me. (I looked up that Best of DC Secret Origins of Super-Villains digest, featuring the origins of ‘your favourite villains’ – Penguin, Parasite, Ocean Master, Captain Boomerang, Shadow Thief… and Red Dart. Good grief. Someone should do a lame villains podcast, Least Wanted or something.)
Again, I don’t like the modern take on The Riddler, as a private detective – Batman needs adversaries, and if someone can’t wrote a smart enough story for him, bench the guy until a smarter writer comes aloft. And while I love a nice three-piece suit, it’s tights all the way, baby!
Two-Face is a brilliant villain, with a great origin, look, psychology, even a bit of a supporting cast in Gilda (has Duela ever appeared as his daughter in a Batman story)… I never tire of him. Oh, hang on, James Robinson’s extended post-52 story in which Batman gave Harvey Dent the job of replacing Batman, having made him a Kung fu master detective? How many unbusy heroes does he know? Dozens!
When did they start drawing his face purple rather than green? It’s like a reverse Beast Boy scenario. I love that the Earth 2 Batman got to stay sane.
Ouch, the iPad posted the message when I breathed on it. Still jabbering, here!
I have to disagree with Nathaniel that nobody introduced in the Eighties was any good. Nocturna and the Thief of Night. Killer Croc. Black Mask. The Ventriloquist. Anarchy. Black Mask. Film Freak…
I doubt that Geraldo Rivera inspired Steve Jones – Gaiman wasn’t living in the US back then and Rivera is pretty unknown over here in the UK. Snoopy TV reporters are ten a penny in the DCU. There were at least two UK broadcasting guys in the Eighties called Steve Jones, maybe he took against one of them.
I was fascinating to hear Harley Quinn make a list of top Batman villains, I can’t recall a single story in which she fights him solo … I was under the impression she was a sidekick to the Joker who then stepped out in her own. Then again, I’ve only seen about one episode of the TV cartoon so am likely way off base.
5 Scarecrow
4 Nocturna
3 Penguin
2 Catwoman
1 Two-Face
The Riddler almost certainly came through my door via the Adam West TV show. Penguin has the stronger visual and easier hook, so he got around a lot more than Ed Nigma. I haven’t really watched the show since it was in syndication growing up, but Frank Gorshin was definitely near the top of my favorite actors there (and I love John Astin, but not as Riddler.) What I was surprised didn’t get explored on this episode was how similar the usage of Joker and Riddler was for a lot of years. They were both big, loud, cackling crooks with gaudy costumes involving purple and green with themed henchmen and elaborate heists/traps revolving around childhood amusements. I think the biggest problem for most of Riddler’s career is that he’s too similar to the Joker without getting over as well conceptually with fans. I used to love the Joker before he went WAY off the deep end in the late ’80s, so to my thinking, the simplest way to restore some of Riddler’s lost glory is to write him as the Silver/Bronze Age Joker. I tried to watch those two grisly, sadistic, imbecilic, pathetic Joker fan films some opportunistic cretins released recently in a transparent attempt to exploit Suicide Squad’s flickering visibility. I couldn’t make it much more than five minutes skipping through either because it’s the same disgusting serial killer fixated dreck that has adulterated so many crime shows today. Wouldn’t it be great if Riddler could recapture the toothsome but still playful anarchy of the Joker Boomers and Gen-X grew up on? Y’know, he could still kill people that kind of deserve it or that the audience just doesn’t care about to remind everyone he’s a threat, but maybe not beat any children to death with a crowbar or commit any catastrophic acts of sexualized violence that leaves the victim physically paralyzed?
But say we keep Riddler on point. Writers are full of excuses to not do their damned job. Riddles are hard? Buy a book of riddles, and if the specific examples are copyrighted, reverse engineer them. Read a question, come up with your own answer, and if it doesn’t match the book’s, keep your answer and alter the riddle until it best matches that. In fact, you can even craft the story out of the engineered riddles, allowing you to plot via these sort of mad libs. It’s actually simpler than trying to think up some crazy thing for the Joker to do, but then again, he’s just a flamboyant serial killer now, and murdering fictional folk in cruel ways is easier than just about anything else to write.
“Ha-ha, I’m hurting you!”
“Ahhh, it hurts so bad.”
“You maniac– I’m going to hurt you for hurting this person!”
SFX: HRT!!!
The Dark Knight is arguably the greatest Batman movie, but aside from wasting Two-Face on a too fast psychotic break in an unnecessary fourth act that could have been expanded into a much better sequel than The Dark Knight Rises… Deep breath; going back into that sentence… I don’t think it’s a very good Joker movie. The main issue is that Ledger’s Joker is too contained and methodical, his schemes requiring crackerjack precision, and the Clown Prince of Crime should never be that disciplined. I don’t think the Riddler needs to literally be a guy who tells riddles, any more than Joker ever tells actual jokes anymore or ever. He’s a taunting clown and a bit of a prop comic– maybe throws out some puns– but jokes? As I was watching The Dark Knight in the theater the first time, during the bank robbery, I was kicked out of the narrative when it hit me that this was more of a Riddler story, or maybe Clock King. You know, guys who are vexing because they can rig the game at the level required for the elaborate heist. Joker can crash a benefit gala or set up a group morality play involving bomb detonators, but he’s not Keyser Soze. Actually, Kevin Spacey could still pull off Edward Nigma, I think. Far better than the awful Jim Carrey, certainly.
The Secret Origin offered here was crummy, as any number of minor Batman villains could have been used as Gaiman’s mouthpiece. Riddler (and BEM) deserved better, and got it (sans BEM) from Chuck Dixon (and Kieron Dwyer? Spaz Johnson?) in a Detective Comics Annual with a Year One theme. That’s the only Riddler comic I can think of off the top of my head that I really enjoyed and completely sold me on the character. I like the potential Riddler a lot, but his common usage, not so much.
I guess time to revise to make sure Hugo Strange makes it onto my real list.
Hugo Strange
Odd that Joker isn’t on the list. Maybe because he is so omnipresent, its hard to be a favorite. No one says grass is their favorite plant.
You beat me to my initial presumed “unique” selection of Hugo Strange, and I posted it to the wrong feedback section besides, so at least your list wasn’t squashed between giant bricks of my rants. We’ve got three in common, and Two-Face almost made mine, too.
Keith G! Baker says:
Re: “No one says grass is their favorite plant.”
Is this a medicinal marijuana reference?
Jimmy McGlinchey says:
Very late to the party – was away on holidays last week and had no time to listen to podcasts! Another great show, Ryan and guests. Re the Penguin story, I believe that there was a follow up in the anthology “The Further Adventures of Batman featuring the Penguin” where Sharkey started murdering people from his and Penguin’s past to try and draw Penguin out for revenge from the story in Secret Origins Special.
I love the Riddler as a Batman villain – one story of his which I particularly like was by Chuck Dixon and Graham Nolan in Detective Comics 705-707 which included the Clumaster. Very fun story and Dixon gave the Riddler two sidekicks in Echo and Query who were a blast. Would highly recommend that and Dixon’s Year One Annual on the Riddler.
Would echo all the comments about the Batman annual 14 – great story on the origin of Two Face.
All set to dive into episode 45 now!
I think I read those issues with Echo and Query. I wasn’t reading BATMAN or DETECTIVE regularly during that time but I remember checking those issues out because I liked the covers and I’m always interested in a new take on the Riddler.
Keith G. Baker says:
You want a list, you got a list, Ryan. Here’s my top 5 Batman foes:
Too late for me to mention it on the next episode, Keith, but thanks for the list. And mad props for Signalman!
Late to the party, by my favorite (not the best, mind you) Batfoes are:
Clayface (the BTAS version moreson than any other, but the Preston Pane one had a striking visual)
Man-Bat (I contend he shouldn’t be a foe, but he keeps popping up that way)
Killer Croc (pre Jim Lee-fuzzy Croc)
Doctor Phosphorous (you want to talk visuals!)
The Riddler is one of my favorite Batman villains, and not just because we share a name. He does run the gauntlet of good and bad stories in the last decade, with Young Justice doing a good version and Telltale doing a weird disturbed version. I enjoy him as the game master who doesn’t cheat and just wants to be praised for his genius.
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'Worlds of DC' THREAD
General Intelligent Discussion & One Thread About That Buttknuckle
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Re: 'Worlds of DC' THREAD
by verslibre » Mon Jan 14, 2019 6:57 am
#WanBillion
Congratulations to James Wan and his stellar cast and crew, especially those guys who worked on the VFX.
"Heer's ta swimmen wid bowlegged wimmen!"
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by verslibre » Fri Jan 18, 2019 7:23 am
There it is.
https://revengeofthefans.com/2019/01/17/dc-snyder-didnt-want-to-rush-wanted-solo-movies-says-industry-insider-more/
by YoungJRNYfan » Fri Jan 18, 2019 11:28 am
Aquaman': How Zack Snyder Helped Retcon 'Justice League' Against WB's Wishes
Https://comicbook.com/dc/2019/01/17/aqu ... ce-league/
Lmao, Wan was secretly showing Zack cuts of Aquaman to help with what he wanted from his vision to distance away from what that dishit Whedon did to JL.
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verslibre wrote: There it is.
There's no doubt about it. When the press, non-stop, asked Zack about getting to JL in his Man of Steel junkets, Snyder repeatedly said "In order for the DC Universe to take shape, Superman needs to get his house in order first.." I posted that interview numerous times. Zack had MoS2 planned. The studio wanted the shared universe and pushed BvS on him. He makes it, they panic, they chop it up. It critically bombs. Wonder Woman's success happens. He starts filming an already compromised version of JL for the studio. The studio wanted more control. He said fuck you. His daughter died. The studio didn't want to wait so they can get their bonuses. They bring in Whedon. He ruins it. JL bombs. Snyder is the fall guy.
by verslibre » Fri Jan 18, 2019 12:09 pm
YoungJRNYfan wrote: Aquaman': How Zack Snyder Helped Retcon 'Justice League' Against WB's Wishes
Lmao, Wan was secretly showing Zack cuts of Aquaman to help with what he wanted from his vision to distance away from what that dipshit Whedon did to JL.
Haters. No matter what they say, no matter what they do, Zack will ALWAYS be in their rear view. Bwahahahahaha!
"Dipshit Whedon" has a nice ring to it. He should legally change his name!
YoungJRNYfan wrote:
Veruca Salt Syndrome. "I want my billion dollars and I want it now!"
Buncha fuckheads.
by The_Noble_Cause » Fri Jan 18, 2019 11:40 pm
Ultimately, Wan is just a better filmmaker than Snyder.
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by YoungJRNYfan » Sat Jan 19, 2019 5:37 am
Zack just isn't a formula; vanilla by the numbers director. He takes risks and chances and owns up to it. WB hired him to make Zack Snyder films. So he did. It's their fault they don't know what they want but when you hire his type to orchestrate a movie universe, he was going to bring the kitchen sink. It's just one huge contradiction after the other with WB. They claim to be director-driven who separates themselves from the typical blockbuster. They got exactly what they asked from Snyder but simply got cold feet because of the greed of the big billion. Zack faught them big time but the studio won't admit they fucked up. Now they are coming with a "Worlds of DC" slate where all films will be different. Typically, that's exactly what they had with Zack's vision.
by The_Noble_Cause » Sat Jan 19, 2019 5:38 am
YoungJRNYfan wrote: Zack just isn't a formula; vanilla by the numbers director. He takes risks and chances and owns up to it. WB hired him to make Zack Snyder films. So he did. It's their fault they don't know what they want but when you hire his type to orchestrate a movie universe, he was going to bring the kitchen sink. It's just one huge contradiction after the other with WB. They claim to be director-driven who separates themselves from the typical blockbuster. They got exactly what they asked from Snyder but simply got cold feet because of the greed of the big billion. Zack faught them big time but the studio won't admit they fucked up. Now they are coming with a "Worlds of DC" slate where all films will be different. Typically, that's exactly what they had with Zack's vision.
I've appreciated all of Zack's films from a visual standpoint, but none of them really connected with me.
by YoungJRNYfan » Sat Jan 19, 2019 10:51 am
Emmerich:
We all feel like we’ve turned a corner now. We’re playing by the DC playbook, which is very different than the Marvel playbook. We are far less focused on a shared universe. We take it one movie at a time. Each movie is its own equation and own creative entity. If you had to say one thing about us, it’s that it always has to be about the directors.
by verslibre » Sat Jan 19, 2019 11:25 am
New Shazam! trailer on Tuesday!
by verslibre » Sat Jan 19, 2019 12:35 pm
https://twitter.com/GARBAGEIV/status/1086304563433488384
by YoungJRNYfan » Sun Jan 20, 2019 4:56 am
The_Noble_Cause wrote:
I understand that. A lot of fans say the same. It's more than fair. That notion just factors into Zack's style not being suitable for the average movie-goer. He goes dark. He goes serious and he goes big. I can agree with his critics that his films need more flavor fluctuation since from beginning to end, his tone is one-note. But I respect how he owns that and doesn't apologize for it. I will say, his films are graphic novels come to life. Nobody will change my mind with that. Some of his shots are flat out "Whoa." I still think he would fit into either horror or... Batman.
by RedWingFan » Mon Jan 21, 2019 5:25 am
Who wants to go way back in the old thread and find the posts where I stated, "DC is screwing up not doing stand alones to flesh out these characters" and where others defend DC's "cash grab" direction and stating "there are other ways to build a universe other than the Marvel Way"?
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RWF, instead of master-baiting, try asking yourself this: "Did Marvel invent the crossover?"
by YoungJRNYfan » Mon Jan 21, 2019 6:27 am
Zack had a finite universe. It wasn't supposed to go on forever ala the MCU. There was supposed to be a beginning, middle and end to his saga while solo films were helmed by their respected directors vision. DC reverse way of engineering their universe didn't hurt the likes of Wonder Woman or Aquaman. It comes down to cutting studio interference down the best you can and make a good film where it's not chopped to absolute piece's. We all wanted the likes of MoS2 before Justice League or even BvS before that took on a life of its own.
Meanwhile, Shazam! looks amazing on a $90 mil budget where Sandberg pays many homages to MoS.
YoungJRNYfan wrote: Meanwhile, Shazam! looks amazing on a $90 mil budget where Sandberg pays many homages to MoS.
Everything about that movie looks on point. I think it's going to do very well for three weeks. And on the home market.
I'm still waiting for someone to tell me how and why they managed to make the last fight in Black Panther look like complete ass. Horrible fight choreography, too (I don't think you can even call it that). It was like they used the CGI from the very first X-Men movie back in 2000.
No drama from Wonder Woman's set.
No drama from Aquaman's set.
No drama from Shazam's set.
BvS was a mess. Major studio meddling.
SSquad was a mess. Major studio meddling
JL....lol.
Figure it out.
YoungJRNYfan wrote: No drama from Wonder Woman's set.
No drama, MoS-wise, either, IIRC. Btw, did you see that shot of Sha-Zack and Sivana in the sky? You can't get more homage-y to MoS than that. Looks like the who guy who outright disputed there were no MoS/BvS-isms in Shazam! in this thread doesn't want to step up and admit he was 100% full-on wronnng.
by The_Noble_Cause » Tue Jan 22, 2019 12:37 am
verslibre wrote: I'm still waiting for someone to tell me how and why they managed to make the last fight in Black Panther look like complete ass.
Prolly ran out of money, time, or both.
by verslibre » Tue Jan 22, 2019 3:00 am
Doubt it!
by YoungJRNYfan » Wed Jan 23, 2019 11:22 pm
Captain Marvel' Producer On What They Took From 'Wonder Woman
https://comicbook.com/marvel/2019/01/08 ... ation-mcu/
by Monker » Tue Jan 29, 2019 10:29 am
Ummm, OK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgInmHHO0m4
Monker
by verslibre » Tue Jan 29, 2019 2:32 pm
Bill Maher is a Grade "A" certified, stamped "Guaranteed" DOUCHE.
by YoungJRNYfan » Tue Jan 29, 2019 10:54 pm
I'm glad he ranted for the simple fact of how pop culture icons like those who appear in the comic book realm of entertainment are escapism of reality from morons like Bill Mahr. In 50 years nobody will remember Bill Mahr. In 50 years, there will be an all new generation that are going to pick up literature with Stan Lee's name on it and become a fanatic.
Also, wasn't Mahr in Iron Man 3? What a fuckup in life. I wish his umbilical chord wrapped around his throat as a newborn. Shucks.
by verslibre » Wed Jan 30, 2019 11:59 am
ZACK is BACK, and he's doing another zombie movie! His Dawn of the Dead remake rocks, so I'm down
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/zack-snyder-returns-movies-zombie-pic-army-dead-1178979
Zack Snyder Returning to Movies With Zombie Action Pic 'Army of the Dead' (Exclusive)
"No one's ever let me completely loose," the 'Justice League' filmmaker tells The Hollywood Reporter.
Zack is back.
Zack Snyder, who directed 2017's Justice League only to step away from movies to deal with a family tragedy, has signed on to helm Army of the Dead, a zombie horror thriller, for Netflix. Snyder will direct and produce with his partner and wife, Deborah Snyder, via their newly rebranded production company, Stone Quarry. The company's Wesley Coller is also producing.
Snyder also came up with the story for Army, which has a script by Joby Harold. The adventure is set amid a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, during which a man assembles a group of mercenaries to take the ultimate gamble, venturing into the quarantined zone to pull off the greatest heist ever attempted.
Netflix, which is taking the project over from Warner Bros., where it was first set up in 2007, is going full throttle with Army. The movie will commence shooting this summer with a sizable budget that could reach the $90 million range, say sources.
To say Snyder is excited would be an understatement.
"There are no handcuffs on me at all with this one,” Snyder tells The Hollywood Reporter in an interview.
Snyder was the chief architect of Warner Bros.’ stable of DC Comics films for many years, and he was in postproduction on Justice League when his and Deborah’s daughter committed suicide. The Snyders decided to step away from the movie, letting Joss Whedon film reshoots and finish postproduction. Since then, the duo has been out of the spotlight. There’s been a focus on family, working with suicide awareness causes, and a regrouping of his company. But film projects can be cathartic, and Zack says he's got a desire to get back behind the camera.
“I thought this was a good palate cleanser to really dig in with both hands and make something fun and epic and crazy and bonkers in the best possible way,” he says.
The new project features several full-circle moments for the filmmaker. For one, it brings Snyder back to the genre of his feature debut, 2004's Dawn of the Dead, which launched his high-profile feature directing career. It also reunites him with Scott Stuber, Netflix's movie head, the executive who originally gave Snyder his big-screen shot on the Universal release. And as much as Snyder had made his name in high-flying comic book adaptations such as 300, Watchmen and the various DC movies, this new project is one he is proud to call truly his own.
“I love to honor canon and the works of art,” he says of his adaptations, “but this is the opportunity to find a purely joyful way to express myself though a genre. It will be the most kick-ass, self-aware — but not in a wink-to-the-camera way — balls-to-the-wall zombie freakshow that anyone has ever seen. No one’s ever let me completely loose [like this].”
Snyder says he's been energized by the prospect of making this particular story. “I love big action, I love big sequences," he says. "My movie brain starts clicking around and I was like, ‘We need to be shooting this now!’ Constructing these sequences really fired me up.”
One thing Snyder has missed, even while making his mega-tentpoles, is actually operating a camera and “being in the trenches.”
“When the movie gets super big, you get pushed away from the camera," he notes. "And in the last few years I’ve had a reconnection with photography. This movie will be a chance to get the camera in hand."
Snyder’s return also is noteworthy on other fronts. According to sources, Netflix identified the project and sought it out from Warners, which led to dealmaking that could set precedent for the studio selling other projects to the streamer. Terms for the studio deal and Snyder’ deal were not disclosed.
Snyder is repped by CAA and Sloane Offer.
by Monker » Wed Jan 30, 2019 1:59 pm
What Bill Maher did was essentially the same as standing in front of a bunch of Trekkies and telling them to 'get a life'. He is right on almost every point. Even when it is at its best, it's entertainment and not meant to be taken as some type of profound literature. IMO you two have way over estimated it as some type of profound story telling, especially the print versions. People comparing it to the level of Shakespeare? It is silly to do that. It is taking it way, way, way too serious. It's fun, it's entertainment, but it's not at that level.
Wow, this sounds really bad and a dated idea. If they made into a parody, they may have something. Add the fact that WB cut the project and Netflix had to pick it up says a lot. Good luck with that.
verslibre wrote: ZACK is BACK, and he's doing another zombie movie! His Dawn of the Dead remake rocks, so I'm down
Zack uncut? No handcuffs?
by YoungJRNYfan » Thu Jan 31, 2019 12:13 am
WW '84 could possibly challenge the BigB as well. Jenkins says '84 looks "Mind Blowing":
https://comicbook.com/dc/2019/01/28/pat ... d-blowing/
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Giving Back to the Future
by John Mitchell, AATC's CEO
On September 27th Candy Maxey was introduced during AATC’s prestigious Lone Star Leadership Celebration as our 48th president; serving one of the nation’s leading Associations as its chief elected officer during a 52-year run representing the multifamily industry in north-central Texas.
Candy is a native Texan. In fact, she was born and raised in Dallas-Fort Worth. She’s a Lake Highlands High School and Texas A&M grad (Whoop!) as well as a multifamily lifer. “My dad tagged me with my ‘Candy’ nickname before I even left the hospital,” said Anna Marlene McMillan Maxey. “I was very close to both of my parents and my paternal grandparents as well.”
Candy has been married to her husband Buck for 15-years. She grew up attending First Baptist Dallas where she has worshiped and served as an active member her entire life. “I was a member of the drill team in high school, played soccer and sang in the church choir,” said Candy. She continues enjoying an active lifestyle to this day.
“My grandmother ran her own small brokerage office and I spent a lot of time helping her,” explained AATCs new president. “She inspired me to give real estate a try, so I started as a temp and then launched my career leasing apartments after college. I’ve always been focused on the multifamily business.”
Candy has invested time with several outstanding management companies during her professional tenure including Paragon, Dalcor, GFS of Texas (now Pinnacle), CWS, Village Green and now Greystar. “I had the privilege of working as a property manager within a year after I started out leasing apartments,” said Maxey. “With the exception of a 2-year tour as a training director, I’ve served as a regional property manager; my passion since 10-years out of college.”
Candy and Buck enjoy the companionship of 2 dogs and spend their spare time traveling. “I love exploring new places,” said Candy. “I’ve been to Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tahiti; love the mountains as well as the beach. I hope to one day see a great deal of Europe and perhaps return to the lure of the South Pacific.”
“My mother and grandmother were the most significant influences in my life,” said AATCs new president. “They taught me the importance of honesty, integrity and a strong work ethic. They encouraged me to be self-sufficient, as well as kind and respectful to other people. Although both my parents and grandparents have passed on, the lessons they modeled have provided a rock-solid foundation for my approach to business.”
Candy is always quick to give credit to others for the servant-leader she has become. “My older brother served as a “stand-in” father since my dad passed away when I was in college,” said Maxey. “When it comes to examples, I’d also have to acknowledge a few of my friends and colleagues including Earl Shanks, Jeff Hoster, Rick Graff, and Dawn Waye. Each of these special people have played a significant role in helping me grow as a leader for more than 20 years.”
“I have to say, believe it or not, I’ve never had a ‘bad’ job,” said Maxey. “I’ve been blessed working beside so many wonderful people. Greystar has afforded me with an amazing culture. They invest a lot of time and resources in their people; as did Pinnacle for many years. It has been exciting to learn something valuable and new everywhere I’ve had to privilege to serve.”
As Candy looks to her year serving the Association as its new President, servant-leadership is her number-1 focus. “I want to help others find productive ways to give something back to the industry providing them with a paycheck,” says Maxey. “I want the Association’s leaders to set an example for those coming-up next so we’ll always rest assured the industry we serve will continue as a strong, essential part of our business culture.”
When asked to provide her favorite bit of advice – “Don’t sweat the little stuff,” Candy quickly adds to the conversation. “Live life to its fullest and always be ready to serve.”
John Mitchell serves as the Association’s chief executive officer. For additional info on any of AATC’s programs, events or leadership functions, go to AATCnet.org or reach out to John at jmitchell@aatcnet.org.
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A bit of my personal history, experimenting in 3D game design.
I was wide-eyed and curious. And much before the year 2000, I only owned Windows-based computers, purchased most of my software for money, and also purchased a license of 3D Game Studio, some version of which is still being sold today. The version that I purchased well before 2000 was using the ‘A4′ game engine, where all the 3DGS versions have a game engine specified by the latter ‘A’ and a number.
That version of 3DGS was based on DirectX 7 because Microsoft owns and uses DirectX, and DirectX 7 still had as one of its capabilities to switch back into software-mode, even though it was perhaps one of the earliest APIs that offered hardware-rendering, provided that is, that the host machine had a graphics card capable of hardware-rendering.
I created a simplistic game using that engine, which had no real title, but which I simply referred to as my ‘Defeat The Guard Game’. And in so doing I learned a lot.
The API which is referred to as OpenGL, offers what DirectX versions offer. But because Microsoft has the primary say in how the graphics hardware is to be designed, OpenGL versions are frequently just catching up to what the latest DirectX versions have to offer. There is a loose correspondence in version numbers.
Shortly after the year 2000, I upgraded to a 3D Game Studio version with their ‘A6′ game engine. This was a game engine based on DirectX 9.0c, which was also standard with Windows XP, which no longer offered any possibility of software rendering, but which gave the customers of this software product their first opportunity to program shaders. And because I was playing with the ‘A6′ game engine for a long time, in addition owning a PC that ran Windows XP for a long time, the capabilities of DirectX 9.0c became etched in my mind. However, as fate would have it, I never actually created anything significant with this game engine version – only snippets of code designed to test various capabilities.
The way OpenGL versions parallel DirectX versions and their capabilities, is roughly like so:
OpenGL 2 -> DirectX 9
OpenGL 1.1 -> DirectX 7
OpenGL 3 -> DirectX 10
Further, the computer which is presently acting as my Web-server, which I name ‘Phoenix’, only has as its graphics chip an NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE, that offers the Linux world OpenGL 2.1.2 . Even though Microsoft had once made DirectX 9 a standard, on Windows 10 computers, this graphics chip is no longer supported, just because its hardware-rendering capabilities do not live up to what is expected of any modern graphics chip. The lowest version of DirectX which I know any Microsoft computers to provide backwards-compatibility for, is DirectX 8 – nowadays through an emulation. And so the only way I can make ‘Phoenix’ work today is literally, by installing Linux on it.
All the way up to and including DirectX 9, graphics cards and chips were organized into Vertex Pipelines, and Pixel Pipelines, while with DirectX 10 / OpenGL 3, Unified Shader Model was introduced, in which any GPU shader core can be made to work as either type of shader.
What gets called a Pixel Shader under DirectX, is called a Fragment Shader under OpenGL.
And eventually my computing preferences changed such, that I prefer working with Linux computers over Windows, and therefore, I also have a greater curiosity these days, for how to use OpenGL, even though its features closely parallel those of DirectX, at least, as long as the user has sufficiently powerful graphics hardware installed, so as to support OpenGL 4.5… Which corresponds to DirectX 11…
There may be some truth to the rumour, that the latest DirectX capabilities have not been fulfilled by the latest OpenGL versions, but because the game works as I wrote above, I see this as a temporary situation, which will keep repeating itself.
I also began to examine other game engines, such as “OGRE” and “Unity 3D”.
I suppose that there exists a substantial difference between DirectX and OpenGL which I should elaborate – apart from the fact that they are two completely different APIs, that access the same H/W capabilities.
One of the two standards stores its 4×4 matrices as a sequence of elements that proceed row-by-row, while the equivalent matrices in the other API store them as a sequence of 4 columns. I forget which does which. But the net effect is, that either matrix is meant to be written the same way, and to be multiplied by a position vector the same way, to result in an equivalent, transformed position vector.
Regardless of whether a vector is to be a (more-normal) column vector, or a row vector, in computing, any vector is stored the same way – essentially as a list of elements. And so in one system, 4 dot-products need to be computed, while in the other system, 4 scalar products need to be computed, and because each is in turn a vector, the 4 resulting vectors need to be added.
I personally believe that the reason for this difference between how DirectX and OpenGL work, is not for any technical advantage, but only to avoid possible copyright lawsuits. The GPU supports computing a dot-product, as easily as it supports computing the scalar product between a vector and a real number, as easily as a vector-addition. But because these two systems store the matrices in a different order, the actual shader code needs to be different at the hardware-level, in order finally to arrive at the same, correct result.
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Further, because in Algebra, to multiply a column vector by a matrix requires that the vector be on the Right-Hand-Side of the matrix, while to multiply a row-vector by it, requires that the vector be on the Left-Hand-Side of the matrix, High-Level Shader code for DirectX puts the vector in question on the LHS, while the High-Level Shader code for OpenGL puts this vector on the RHS, so that DirectX computations written in the correct syntax proceed left-to-right, even though algebraically, Matrix and Vector multiplications ‘normally’ proceed right-to-left.
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Under Linux, there exists an emulator named “Wine”, which is a recursive acronym that stands for Wine Is Not An Emulator. And its purpose is to allow Windows software to run under Linux – more or less. And the type of Windows software Linux users use it for, is often, ‘Games that were designed to run under DirectX’.
Well at some point I carried out the experiment of running the ‘A6′ version of 3D Game Studio under Wine. The result I obtained was, that the animations rendered correctly, but certain windows within the 3DGS Editors, the purpose of which were, to display the matrices for the game-dev to see, would actually show me the transpose of the matrix which I knew to be correct.
So, instead of showing [ 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0 ] as the last row of such a matrix, the program, running under Wine, would show me this sequence as the last column of the matrix. But this was just a side effect of how Wine generally translates what Windows programs presume to be DirectX calls, into OpenGL calls, that need to be supported natively on the Linux host-computers, by the Linux-installed graphics hardware.
Posted on April 22, 2019 May 4, 2019 Author Dirk MittlerTags 3D Game Studio, Column Vector, Column-Major, DirectX, DirectX 9, Element Order, Fragment Shader, GeForce 6150SE, Hardware Rendering, Linux, OGRE, OpenGL, Order of Elements, Personal History, Pixel Shader, Row Vector, Row-Major, Software Rendering, Unity 3D, Vertex Shader, Windows, Windows 10, Windows XP, Wine
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