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Chinese bank forced western companies to install malware-laced tax software GoldenSpy backdoor trojan found in a Chinese bank’s official tax software, which the bank has been forcing western companies to install.
A Chinese bank has forced at least two western companies to install malware-laced tax software on their systems, cyber-security firm Trustwave said in a report published today.
The two companies are a UK-based technology/software vendor and a major financial institution, both of which had recently opened offices in China.
“They informed us that upon opening operations in China, their local Chinese bank required that they install a software package called Intelligent Tax produced by the Golden Tax Department of Aisino Corporation, for paying local taxes.”
The “GoldenSpy” backdoor Trustwave, who was providing cyber-security services for the UK software vendor, said it identified the malware after observing suspicious network requests originating its customer’s network.
This backdoor,GoldenSpy and said it ran with SYSTEM-level access, allowed a remote attacker to connect to the infected system and run Windows commands, or upload and install other software.
But many types of software have remote-access features for debugging services. However, Trustwave said it also identified features that are more commonly found in malware and don’t have legitimate uses anywhere else.
GoldenSpy installs two identical versions of itself, both as persistent autostart services. If either stops running, it will respawn its counterpart. .
GoldenSpy operates with SYSTEM level privileges, making it highly dangerous and capable of executing any software on the system. This includes additional malware or Windows administrative tools to conduct reconnaissance, create new users, escalate privileges, etc.
But despite spotting the hidden backdoor inside the Aisino Intelligent Tax Software, Trustwave wasn’t able to determine how it got there.
Trustwave said it wasn’t able to determine if the backdoor was developed by China’s government hackers, secretly added by one of the bank’s rogue employees, or created by someone at Aisino Corporation.
It was also unclear if Chinese intelligence might have forced the bank or the Aisino Corporation into adding the malware to their official software so they could spy on a foreign company, or if this was an incident where hackers were purely interested into their own financial gain.
But while some questions remain unanswered, in the meantime, Trustwave is sounding the alarm for any other company doing business in China that has installed the same software.
A new devilish malware is targeting Windows systems with cryptojacking and DDoS capabilities.
Security experts have identified a self-propagating malware, dubbed Lucifer, that targets Windows systems with cryptojacking and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
The never-before-seen malware initially tries to infect PCs by bombarding them with exploits in hopes of taking advantage of an “exhaustive” list of unpatched vulnerabilities. While patches for all the critical and high-severity bugs exist, the various companies impacted by the malware had not applied the fixes.
Lucifer is a new hybrid of cryptojacking and DDoS malware variant that leverages old vulnerabilities to spread and perform malicious activities on Windows platforms.
The vulnerabilities targeted by Lucifer include Rejetto HTTP File Server (CVE-2014-6287), Oracle Weblogic (CVE-2017-10271), ThinkPHP RCE (CVE-2018-20062), Apache Struts (CVE-2017-9791), Laravel framework CVE-2019-9081), and Microsoft Windows (CVE-2017-0144, CVE-2017-0145, and CVE-2017-8464).
After successfully exploiting these flaws, the attacker then connects to the command-and-control (C2) server and executes arbitrary commands on the vulnerable device, said researchers. These commands include performing a TCP, UDP or HTTP DoS attack. Other commands allow the malware to drop an XMRig miner and launch cryptojacking attacks, as well as collecting interface info and sending the miner status to the C2.
The malware is also capable of self-propagation through various methods.
It scans either for open instances of TCP port 1433 or Remote Procedure Call (RPC) port 135. If either of these are open, the malware attempts to brute-force the login using a default administrator username and an embedded password list (a full list of the passwords used can be found on Unit 42’s analysis). It then copies and runs the malware binary on the remote host upon successful authentication.
In addition to brute-forcing credentials, the malware leverages exploitation for self-propagation. If the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol (a network file sharing protocol) is open, Lucifer executes several backdoors. These include the EternalBlue, EternalRomance, and DoublePulsar exploits.
Once these three exploits have been used, the certutil utility is then used to propagate the malware. Certutil.exe is a command-line program, installed as part of Certificate Services, that can be used to dump and display certification authority (CA) configuration information, configure Certificate Services, backup and restore CA components, and verify certificates.
Lucifer has been discovered in a series of recent attacks that are still ongoing. The first wave occurred on June 10. The attackers then resumed their campaign on June 11 with an upgraded version of the malware. Researchers say these updates include the addition of an anti-sandbox capability, an anti-debugger technique, and new checks for device drivers, DLLs and virtual devices.
These added capabilities show that the malware is growing in sophistication, researchers warn. They say, enterprises can protect themselves with simply security measures such as applying patches and strengthening passwords.
Glupteba creates a backdoor into infected Windows systems – and researchers think it’ll be offered to cyber criminals as an easy means of distributing other malware.
A malware campaign that creates a backdoor providing full access to compromised Windows PC, while adding them to a growing botnet, has developed some unusual measures for staying undetected.
Glupteba first emerged in 2018 and started by gradually dropping more components into place on infected machines in its bid to create a backdoor to the system.
Highly self-defending malware with the cyber-criminal group behind it paying special attention to “enhancing features that enable the malware to evade detection.
Method of distribution is relatively simple: it’s bundled in pirated software, including cracked versions of commercial applications, as well as illegal video game downloads. The idea is simply to get as many users to download compromised applications that contain the Glupteba payload as possible.
To ensure the best possible chance of a successful compromise, the malware is gradually dropped, bit-by-bit onto the system to avoid detection by any anti-virus software the user may have installed. The malware also uses the EternalBlue SMB vulnerability to help it secretly spread across networks.
Glupteba uses a number of software exploits is for privilege escalation, primarily so it can install a kernel driver the bot uses as a rootkit, and make other changes that weaken the security posture of an infected host.
Glupteba’s latest campaign is described as relatively prolific, fitting in with what appears to be the aim of compromising as many computers as possible.
Glupteba’s main activity appears to be cryptocurrency mining. But the way it creates a backdoor into compromised computers, combined with the way in which those behind it look to be attempting to create a large botnet of readily available machines, suggests that the ultimate aim is to lease it out as a means of distributing other forms of malware to victims.
The campaign is still active and attempting to recruit more machines into the botnet. The simplest way users can avoid falling victim to Glupteba is by ensuring the critical security update issued to protect against EternalBlue is installed.
Microsoft released the patch in 2017, but EternalBlue remains successful because of the significant number of Microsoft Windows systems around the world that haven’t had it installed, putting them at risk of falling victim to this and other malware.
The normal general precautions apply here as much as anywhere else: Don’t run stuff you shouldn’t, keep everything patched, and always make sure you have some sort of malware protection on your computer . Don’t download and run unauthorised softwares
The explosion of Internet of Things devices has long served as a breeding ground for malware distribution.
The explosion of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has long served as a breeding ground for malware distribution. The inability for users to patch many IoT devices has only compounded this problem, as bad actors continue to evolve tactics to leverage botnets for DDoS attacks and other malicious behaviour. Black Lotus Labs tracks malware families that present new or distinct threats to the global community, and recently began tracking a new malware family called Mozi.
Mozi is evolved from the source code of several known malware families – Gafgyt, Mirai and IoT Reaper – that have been brought together to form a peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet capable of DDoS attacks, data exfiltration and command or payload execution. The malware targets IoT devices, predominantly routers and DVRs that are either unpatched or have weak telnet passwords. After a notable traffic increase in December was mistakenly attributed to other malware families by researchers, Black Lotus Labs reviewed entries in our reputation system for that timeframe, which revealed a different story. This traffic was not simply increased activity by a known family, but a new family altogether.
Black Lotus labs findings
This malware family has not changed in some time, the increase was unexpected, and led to further investigation of the increase. Upon review of these entries we began to see a pattern develop, each host had an http server listening on a random port that served a file which included “Mozi” in the name. File names such as “Mozi.m” and “Mozi.a” were seen throughout all of the identified hosts.
The Mozi botnet is comprised of nodes that utilise a distributed hash table (DHT) for communication, similar to the code used by IoT Reaper and Hajime. These nodes also host the Mozi.m and Mozi.a malware binary files, passed during the compromise of new hosts, on a randomly chosen port. The standard DHT protocol is commonly used to store node contact information for torrent and other P2P clients. Using DHT allows the malware to bypass the use of standard malware command and control servers while hiding behind the large amount of typical DHT traffic. This makes it harder to track and impact the control infrastructure. As a P2P botnet, Mozi implements its own custom extended DHT described later.
To enumerate the botnet, Black Lotus Labs implemented a machine learning model trained on the observed unique DHT traffic implementation utilised by Mozi. This allows us to distinguish between Mozi nodes and benign hosts, and identify the IPs suspected of participating in the botnet. When we identify a new suspected Mozi node, our software attempts to confirm the suspicion by sending messages proprietary to the malware’s p2p protocol, and looks for correctly formatted responses. When the correct response is seen, the host is validated as a member of the Mozi botnet.
A deeper look into the Mozi malware The Mozi samples analysed are ELF binaries with versions targeted for MIPS and ARM processor architectures. Once executed, the binary forks many versions of itself renamed as ‘ssh’ or ‘dropbear’. The forked processes are responsible for setting up the DHT communications and closing ports to prevent infection by other malware. The forked processes can also set up HTTP on a randomly chosen port to host the Mozi binary.
Mozi uses a modified DHT protocol for communication. The bot initially DHT pings several nodes hardcoded in the binary to bootstrap the initial connection to the DHT network. For the nodes that respond, the bot then sends a DHT ‘find_node’ command to locate other bots on the Mozi botnet. It often takes several find_node attempts to locate an active Mozi peer.
All the vulnerabilities targeted by the botnet are well known and are prevented by either proper patching or proper password management. Companies and individuals can follow these security best practices to help prevent these types of compromises in the future:


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United Airlines said that its computer system is back up and running late Thursday morning after a computer problem delayed some airline flights earlier in the morning.
"Our system is up," United said on its Twitter page. "We're resuming operations for affected flights."
The problem had been reported around 10 a.m. and delayed some flights.
"We're aware of a computer issue affecting some of our flights," United said on its Twitter page around 10:15 a.m. "We're working to resolve it."
United Continental (NYSE: UAL) serves Pittsburgh International Airport with flights to Chicago, Houston, Cleveland, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, among others. There were delays on a handful of United aircraft flying out of Pittsburgh on Thursday morning, ranging from a 15-minute delay on United Flight 590 to Chicago to a 1 hour, 44-minute delay on United Flight 6027. Both were delayed due to "awaiting inbound aircraft."
It wasn't clear whether those flights were caused by the same delay.
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On Sunday 2 July the Turkish state crushed Istanbul’s LGBT+ Pride celebrations for the third year in a row.
Brave protesters who tried to march were met with violent attacks by police using tear gas, dogs and rubber bullets.
The march had been going ahead in peace for 12 years before the ban started in 2016.
A screening of the 2014 hit film Pride was also cancelled this year.The Governate of Ankara said the film “incites hatred and enmity”.
It has already been shown in Turkey many times to wildly enthusiastic audiences.
Outraged activists portrayed in the film, and the creative team behind it, made a public statement in response. It said Pride is a “love story; a simple but powerful tale of how one community under attack from a repressive government extended the hand of friendship to another community threatened with destruction”.
“The bonds of mutual respect and solidarity forged in the 1984/5 strike between LGBTQ+ socialists and mining communities has proved unbreakable.
“That the Turkish authorities should fear the screening of a film that tells this story is a salutary warning about the present political climate in Turkey.”
The statement was signed by members of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, and Sian James, a former miner’s wife who became a Labour MP in South Wales. The extra support of Pride director Matthew Warchus, writer Stephen Beresford and actors including Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton and Dominic West meant the statement was published widely across the mainstream international media.
I think by banning Pride, Turkish president Erdogan is showing his utter terror of oppressed groups making common cause with the vast, powerful Turkish working class and persecuted Kurdish population.
Please do whatever you can to show solidarity with the people of Turkey.
‘Your coverage of our strikes mattered’
I thought the coverage of our strikes against outsourcing in Wigan hospitals was very effective—and I loved being part of it.
You made the effort to come up to our picket lines all the way from London. When you put us on the front cover, people loved it—and it proved effective.
Whenever Tomáš sent me one of his reports, I’d post it to the strikers and it would always get a thumbs up. Since they’ve withdrawn the plans to outsource our jobs, everybody is walking around with smiles on their faces. And chief executive Andrew Foster has been walking around wearing an ancillary uniform, probably trying to rebuild trust.
But he can’t undo the lies that he’s told, or how he’s made us feel less worthy for working in the NHS.
All the country was watching Wigan—now it’s given everyone hope.
You have been brilliant, we can’t thank
Socialist Worker’s readers enough for getting the word out.
A Wigan striker
Mistake by McCluskey
I was appalled to hear that Unite union leader Len McCluskey had signed a petition accusing trans activists of intimidation and “violence”.
The petition was published in the Morning Star newspaper.
Trans people are far and away the group most at risk of hate crime.
Almost half of trans people have been physically attacked, while over a quarter of trans women have been sexually assaulted.
Yet McCluskey appears to regard trans people who stand up against those who would deny them the right to exist as a problem.
No to transphobia, no matter where it comes from.
Support for trans people
Transgender folk are nothing at all new. The “controversy” arises now because of the Gender Recognition Act.
Trans women don’t take away anything from women. Trans men don’t take anything away from men.
The trans critics on the “left” are a small but loud voice getting a lot of attention by writing in the right wing press.
Trans people are an oppressed minority who face murder, ridicule and gross inequality.
Let’s not stand with the right, and let’s provide compassion.
Socialists should stand with oppressed groups
The behaviour of transphobes on the London Pride march was shameful.
There is no place for this division in our movement.
They will surely have gained confidence from some in the leadership of trade unions who have sided with the right under the guise of feminism.
We must stand unequivocally with the oppressed.
Anyone from any oppressed group seeking to support the oppression of others divides our movement and has no place within it.
In the NEU union we have to support our union’s position to back the Gender Recognition Act.
We should condemn any union officer who lines up with the right wing to attack our members and create division among us.
Well done to anti-fascists
Well done to all the people who turned out in Leeds to show that Nazis are not welcome (Socialist Worker online, 7 July).
- I was glad to see that so many people turned out in Leeds and Wakefield against the fascists.
This will show Muslims who might be too nervous to come out that they are not alone.
Establishment loves a bigot
Last week we saw the government and establishment roll out the red carpet for one of the most reactionary US presidents of modern times.
Donald Trump was treated to dinner with Theresa May, afternoon tea with the queen and a round of golf with prince Andrew. The prince happens to be the Chancellor of the University of Huddersfield.
Trump is reactionary and a warmonger. For the majority of people, he is not welcome here.
To charge or not to charge?
What does Socialist Worker think about Starbucks charging for disposable cups?
We really need to stop climate change, and putting people off using disposable cups would make a difference.
But charges also mean rich companies get even more money.
Bosses put NHS at risk
Bosses are Tories through and through (Wigan hospital strikes force bosses to stop outsourcing plans, Socialist Worker 6 July).
They are put there for the privatisation of our NHS. Hurry up JC.
- Brilliant news from Wigan—striking works!

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Sinn Féin demands the overhaul, reform and democratisation of the IMF and World Bank and the end of SAPs
Speaking in the Dáil during the debate on the private members motion in relation to world debt and the upcoming G8 meeting, Sinn Féin T.D. Arthur Morgan outlined Sinn Féin's view that debt cancellation needs to be accompanied by the ending of structural adjustment programmes and the thorough reform of the international financial institutions.
Deputy Morgan said:
"The debt burden on developing countries is a symptom of the disease that is at the core of the international financial institutions, namely the IMF and the World Bank. The role of these two antidemocratic bodies in world politics needs to be challenged.
"Sinn Féin demands the overhaul, reform and democratisation of the IMF and World Bank. These institutions and the interests they represent are responsible for the debt crisis. Every action they take is designed to benefit developed states at the expense of developing states. They were designed for this purpose and they are structured in a way which subjugates the interests of the developing countries to that of the powerful developed states and in particular the USA. They have played a huge role in the growth of inequality in the world.
"The voting rights within both these bodies are stacked in favour of the developed states and against the developing countries.
"Many of the developing states burdened by debt are within their rights under international law to refuse to pay these debts on the bases that the debt is 'odious' that is where a despotic power contracts a debt not according to the needs and interests of the State.. When the notion is successfully invoked, the state debt becomes the personal debt of those responsible during the dictatorship and cannot engage the financial resources of the state. This state should actively encourage such states to invoke the notion of odious debt where possible.
"Citizens of developing countries are disempowered as economic policy is decided by the IMF and the World Bank. This is done by way of the structural adjustment programmes which are imposed upon indebted countries and which have dramatically aggravated the problems facing those states. Their central aim is to impose upon developing countries economic policies approved by Washington.
"Structural adjustment programmes (SAP) force governments in developing countries to open up their state‚s economies - to export more and spend less. Developing country governments are forced to drastically reduce public spending, cutting social budgets such as education, health, housing and infrastructure, and ending subsidises on products or services of primary necessity. All of this has drastic consequences for local populations as living conditions in these countries have substantially deteriorated since the introduction of SAPs .
"Debt cancellation needs to be accompanied by the ending of structural adjustment programmes and the thorough reform of the international financial institutions." ENDS


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Cellular One District Supervisor Ethan Sewell (left) congratulates the winner of a sack of flour at a public celebration held Feb. 10 in Kykotsmovi.
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KYKOTSMOVI, Ariz. - On Feb. 10 the Cellular One store in Kykotsmovi held a public celebration with hot dogs, and raffles for the attendees. The event was held to promote the Vision One program, a federally subsidized program that allows low income individuals to own a cell phone.


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Phytochemical Features of Moringa oleifera Leaves as Anticancer
AbstractCancer is a disease that can threaten human life. Various methods of cancer therapy havebeen widely practiced, one of which is chemotherapy. But the cost used for the therapy is alsovery expensive. This difficulty led many researchers to conduct research to find activecompounds from natural materials. Moringa leaf (Moringa oleifera) has cytotoxic activity,because it contains a lot of flavonoids. Flavonoids are polyphenol compounds produced fromsecondary metabolism in plants. The most flavonoids that are anticancer active substances inthe Moringa leaf are quercetin, kaempferol and myricetin. Cytotoxic activity because theseactive substances can induce apoptosis through intrinsic pathways by inhibition of mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), extracellular-signal-regulated kinase 1/2 (ERK 1/2), c-Jun N-terminal protein kinase 1 (JNK), and protein kinase C (PKC).Keywords: Moringa leaf, quersetin; kaempferol; myricetin; anticancer
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Animal-model assessment of the impact of diet modification and vitamin B supplementation on the pericardial fatty tissue and its fatty acid profile
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Goluch-Koniuszy Z., Domiszewski Z.
The objective of this research is to examine, on an animal model, the consequences of a diet modification where ingredients such as full wheat and maize grain have been isocalorically replaced with white flour and sucrose. This research also examines how dietary supplementation (adequate and excessive one) with synthetic B vitamins affects the amount of pericardial fatty tissue and its fatty acid profile. 48 male Wistar rats were divided into 4 groups: group I was fed Basic Diet (BD), while groups II-IV were given Modified Diet (MD), in which 83.5% of wheat was replaced with wheat flour and 50% of maize was replaced with sucrose. Animals from groups I-II received only water to drink, while group III was given an aqueous solution of vitamins supplementing the deficiency created by the dietary modification (MD+Adequate Supplementation); group IV received a solution in order to supplement both the deficiency resulting from the dietary modification and the recommended prophylactic dose of vitamins (MD+Excessive Supplementation). Subsequently, the blood serum was examined to determine the glucose level. The heart and pericardial fats were dissected and their content of fatty acids was determined by the GC method. It has been ascertained that MD led to a significant increase in feed and energy consumption but did not influence the increase in body mass, heart mass, pericardial fatty tissue, or glucose concentration in the blood of the animals. However, it did cause changes in its fatty acid profile, lowering the content of MUFA and increasing PUFA. The MD+AS supplementation did not yield the same effect. The MD+ES supplementation combined with the lowered consumption of feed caused an increase in glycaemia and changes in the profile of pericardial fatty tissue, similar to those observed in the control group.
Goluch-Koniuszy Z., Domiszewski Z. 2018. Animal-model assessment of the impact of diet modification and vitamin B supplementation on the pericardial fatty tissue and its fatty acid profile. J. Elem., 23(3): 849 - 862. DOI: 10.5601/jelem.2017.22.3.1514
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July 19, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced an 18-month extension and re-designation of Somalia for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). TPS is extended for Somalia from September 18, 2021, through March 17, 2023.
Why TPS for Somalia?
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) guidelines state that the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, currently Alejandro N. Mayorkas, may designate that a foreign country has Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Because conditions in that country that make it unsafe for a national of that country, who is currently in the U.S., to return to that country. These conditions include ongoing armed conflict. This is the primary reason the countries, such as Somalia, are designated under TPS. Other conditions include environmental disasters, epidemics, or other circumstances deemed â€śextraordinary and temporary.â€ť
Somalia has been designated under TPS by the Department of Homeland Security since September 16, 1991. This designation was originally set to expire on September 18, 2021. However, â€śdue to ongoing conflict and a worsening humanitarian crisis,â€ť on July 19, 2021, Secretary Mayorkas announced the extension and re-designation of Somalia under TPS, in effect from September 18, 2021, to March 17, 2023.
To Maintain TPS
A national of a TPS-designated country may fill out an Application for Temporary Protected Status. Once granted, TPS means that an individual cannot be removed from the U.S. In addition, they are also eligible to apply for an employment authorization document via the Application for Employment Authorization. Although it does not make the applicant a permanent resident or citizen; nevertheless, TPS does not prevent the individual from applying for a nonimmigrant status.
To maintain TPS
You must re-register during the 60-day re-registration period that runs from July 22, 2021 through September 20, 2021.
The following USCIS website outlines several important dates for Somalian immigrants registering or re-registering for TPS under the new extension:
- The registration period for applicants new to TPS: 7/22/21 â€“ 3/17/23
- Continuous Residence Date in U.S. Since: 07/19/2021
- Continuous Physical Presence in U.S. Since: 06/18/2021
- Re-registration period for applicants who already have TPS: 7/22/21 â€“ 9/20/21
- Employment Authorization Document (EAD) work permit extended through 3/16/22
We Can Help
Donâ€™t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions concerning Temporary Protected Status for Somalia or other countries. We can help you determine your eligibility and navigate the process.
Migration Resource Center views each case as unique; therefore, it is essential to consult with legal counsel before starting your case as some other options may be available. Donâ€™t hesitate to contact us to begin your consultation. Please contact us at (646) 609-8805 or use our webform to schedule a free immigration consultation.
By: Tom De Kesel, MRC Immigration Attorney & Ishika Bhasin – August 25 2021
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The top 10 YouTube ads in May earned a total 115M views, 87M belonged to Clash of Clans
The video game ranked No. 1 last month with 87.7 million views, while the No. 2 ad from Heineken generated a meager 6.5 million in comparison.
“Clash of Clans” blew away the competition on YouTube’s ad leaderboard last month. The video game’s “How do we get over there?” spot owned 87.7 million of the combined 115.1 million views generated by the top 10 ads.
Easily winning the No. 1 spot, “Clash of Clans” far outperformed brands like Heineken, Apple and Microsoft — all of which earned less than 7 million views.
At No. 2, Heineken earned 6.5 million views, and Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus spot ranked No. 3 with 4.2 million views. Disney helped Lego make its debut appearance on YouTube’s ad leaderboard with the “Moana as told by Lego” mini-movie ranking No. 9.
YouTube reports the combined 115.1 million views generated by May’s top advertisers accounted for 1.9-million hours of watch time on the site.
Top 10 Ads On YouTube in May
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Happy campers Barry and Edna Holt will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary with family and friends this weekend.
The couple grew up in the Brisbane area, Barry in Coorparoo, and Edna in Moorooka.
They met when they were 18 after Mrs Holt's cousin brought Mr Holt over for a visit, and it was love at first sight.
The pair were married at St James Church in Coorparoo on June 10 1961 and moved to Victoria Point two years later where they remain today.
Their oldest daughter was born on their first wedding anniversary and they had three more children over the years.
Mr Holt worked as a commercial fisherman for 35 years, and he built his own trawler in his backyard and called it the Edna May after his wife. Mrs Holt did not work after she was married and stayed at home with their four children.
Mr Holt retired 20 years ago and the couple became avid campers, completing several trips travelling Australia in their caravan.
They still live in the Redlands and are surrounded by family with seven grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.
Daughter-in-law Nathalie Holt has known the couple for 29 years and said they were the most generous people she had ever met.
"They're very beautiful, kind people. They just want to help people, they would give you the shirts off their backs," Ms Holt said.
She said although she wasn't sure of the secret to their long marriage, they were always supporting each other.
"There's definitely some give and take, and I think that's one reason why they are so happy," Ms Holt said.
The family will celebrate with the happy couple with a lunch at the Cleveland RSL this weekend.


Review Verdict: The ROG Flow X13 is a tiny convertible laptop in the Philippines that packs a hell of a punch. ASUS has found a way to deliver top-tier gaming performance in a tiny little package, but its sky-high price means that only the really deep-pocketed will be able to enjoy this tiny powerhouse.
- Small and light for a gaming laptop
- Powerful processor
- Great screen
- Great keyboard
- Has removable RTX 3080 GPU
- eGPU is a cut down version of NVIDIA’s RTX 3080
- Overall package with eGPU will likely be very expensive
Thin and light laptops have always been an exercise in compromise, but Taiwanese manufacturer ASUS has managed to find a way to give users the best of both worlds, at least at first glance. Thanks to a rethink of the external GPU, ASUS has found a way to make a thin and light laptop perform like a powerful desktop, though the increased performance comes at a steep price.
- AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS/AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS
- NVIDIA GTX 1650 Max Q/NVIDIA RTX 3080 Mobile eGPU
- 32GB LPDDR4X RAM
- 1TB M.2 NVMe PCIe 3.0 SSD
- 13.4-inch WQUXGA (3840 x 2400) resolution touch panel with 60Hz refresh rate/13.4-inch full HD 120Hz refresh rate touch panel
- 1x 3.5mm Combo Audio Jack
- 1x HDMI 2.0b
- 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A
- 2x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C support DisplayPort / power delivery
- 1x ROG XG Mobile Interface
- 62WHrs 4-cell Li-ion Battery
- Windows 10
One of the things that’ll really take you for a loop with the ROG Flow X13 is how small it is, considering it’s supposedly a gaming laptop. The Flow X13 is a 13-inch convertible at its core, and weighs in at a scant 1.3 kilos, and is only 15.7mm thick.
Those aren’t surprising numbers for a normal laptop or convertible, but remember the ROG Flow X13 isn’t a normal laptop or convertible. It’s marketed primarily as a gaming laptop and going by that classification, it’s one of the tiniest ones we’ve tested so far, period.
During our review, the Flow X13 also pleasantly surprised us with its design. Despite being marketed to gamers, it doesn’t have crazy gaming-Esque design cues on the outside. The metal lid has diagonal ribbing that gives it this weird and funky texture, but other than the ROG logo on the front, there isn’t anything weird-looking about the Flow X13’s exterior that’s going to clue you in that it’s a gaming machine.
Port selection is a little on the thin side with just the laptop – there’s a single USB 3.2 Type C port along with a regular USB 3.2 Type-A and a power button on the right side of the chassis. On the left is an HDMI 2.0B connector along with a 3.5mm jack and another USB Type C 3.2 that also doubles as the charger. Also on the left side is the ROG XG mobile interface – the secret sauce that makes the ROG Flow X13 so powerful.
What really makes the ROG Flow X13 stand out isn’t its small design or powerful processor (we’ve seen this combination on many other laptops before). The really big thing with the Flow X13 is the discrete external GPU that ASUS calls the XG Mobile that it intends to offer alongside it that houses NVIDIA’s RTX 3080 GPU.
External GPUs aren’t new, in fact, several of ASUS’ competitors offer external enclosures that give thin and light laptops a bit of extra graphical oomph. The problem with them is that their performance is limited by their interface, mainly Thunderbolt 3. It just doesn’t have enough bandwidth to deliver the full performance of the card you’re stuffing in it. This usually means you’ll be eating a performance penalty relative to the card you put in it.
The XG Mobile uses a proprietary connector on the side that ASUS claims are based on the PCI Express Gen 3 standard – the same standard that most desktop GPUs connect to motherboards. The XG Mobile requires its own power connector and offers additional ports to use when it’s plugged into the Flow X13. The idea here is that you’re getting extra GPU power and ports when you’re at home and gaming, and leaving the weight and the bulk of the GPU behind at home when you’re about and about.
Is all the hassle of the external GPU worth it? The short answer of it is no – the XG Mobile uses a lower power version of NVIDIA’s top-end GPU. You can check out our full performance benchmarks below to see what we mean.
The ROG Flow X13 has a 13.4-inch display with a 16:10 aspect ratio which is a little surprising, considering that most displays for laptops clock in at 16:9.
Even more surprising is the fact that ASUS is offering two versions for the 13.4-inch touch display: one is a 4K UHD panel with a 60Hz refresh rate, and one full HD variant with a 120Hz refresh rate.
We received the 4K display variant for our review, and while we appreciate the ultrasharp display, the resolution is wasted on such a small panel. You’d probably be better off getting the faster 120Hz full HD display variant instead – aside from being (probably) cheaper, the hardware inside the laptop will be able to take advantage of the faster display better.
You can check out the display results of the Flow X13 in detail here. Our measurements were taken with a DataColor Spyder 5 Elite colorimeter.
Like we mentioned earlier, the display is touchscreen-enabled and the entire laptop can be flipped over and used as a tablet, which is pretty cool.
Keyboard and trackpad
ASUS laptops have always had excellent keyboards and as we found out in our review, the Flow X13 in the Philippines is no exception to this. The keys have around 1.7mm of vertical travel and feel incredibly nice to type on.
The key spacing is good, and there are no weird Page Up or Page Down keys on the right side which you usually see on other laptops (they’ve been placed on the arrow keys as a separate function).
The only gripe gamers will probably have with the Flow X13 is the fact that it only has white LED lighting – there’s no per-key RGB here, which is a little odd for a laptop in its price range.
The touchpad is good enough for mobile use and clicks rather solidly when you’re using it.
ASUS offers the ROG Flow X13 in two distinct processor variants, both of the Ryzen variety: Ryzen 9 5900HS or an even powerful Ryzen 9 5980HS.
Both variants are backed with up to 32GB of LPDDR4X RAM as well as 1TB of M.2 2230 NVMe SSD storage, which makes the laptop incredibly potent.
The Flow X13 comes with a built-in NVIDIA GTX 1650 GPU for gaming when you’re not at home and have access to the XG Mobile. It’s a good enough GPU for full HD gaming with graphics settings turned down, though it’s far too anemic to make the most out of the 4K display on our review unit.
We benchmarked the Flow X13 with and without the XG Mobile station to see what kind of performance you can expect from it and compared it to a roughly equivalent Ryzen 9-equipped gaming desktop that had an ASUS ROG RTX 3080 in it. You can check out the performance numbers below:
From what we got from our testing, it looks like the RTX 3080 inside the XG Mobile is a relatively more modest laptop version of NVIDIA’s premium GPU. Specifically, the clock of the GPU has been reduced to just 1,810MHz and only uses around 150 watts of power. For reference, the desktop variant of the RTX 3080 has been observed by some to boost as high as 1950MHz and has a power limit of 320 watts for the FE variant.
There are upsides to the XG Mobile though – because of the improved bandwidth it gives there’s room for more ports, and it gives you the ability to attach two displays to it, useful if you have a multi-monitor setup at home.
Overall the XG Mobile’s cut-down RTX 3080 is able to run many AAA titles at 90FPS at the average with all the details set to ultra (or equivalent), but that’s in full HD resolution. Crank the resolution up to 4K and your average drops to around 40FPS depending on the game, which is another argument against getting the 4K variant of the laptop.
The Flow X13 also comes with a stand-alone GeForce GTX 1650 when you’re not connected to the XG Mobile, though it’s a Max-Q design so it’s a little more sedate compared to a non-mobile variant.
With just the GTX 1650 we got frames below 40FPS in full HD with max settings in the games we tested, which is obviously not ideal, though you can probably crank the settings down to get an acceptable 60FPS on it. Forget about using the GTX 1650 on 4K resolutions though unless you’re a masochist.
Temperatures for the XG Mobile were around 74 degrees Celcius as reported by the software, with the CPU reaching temps as high as 85 degrees Celcius during extended gaming runs. Higher temps aren’t surprising with the Flow X13 because of its thin and light nature.
Overall battery life for the Flow X13 with our punishing YouTube battery drain test puts it at around three hours and fifty-five minutes – not great for a thin and light, but above average for a gaming laptop.
ROG Flow X13 Review Philippines: Verdict and wrap-up
As we wrap up our review for the ROG Flow X13 in the Philippines, we found that it’s a great little laptop that tries to be two things at the same time. It’s an ambitious product that challenges the idea of a gaming laptop being gigantic behemoths – it’s a tiny 13-inches that can trade blows with the rest of them.
Unfortunately, the XG Mobile external GPU is a little disappointing, especially when you take a look at the high cost that it adds to the package VS what you’re getting in performance. It’s more than half the performance of a desktop RTX 3080 while being significantly more expensive, and its proprietary nature definitely doesn’t help matters either.
That being said, there is an appeal to having a thin and light gaming laptop that you can bring around with you for work, and then plug into an eGPU when you get home when you want to unwind after a long day.
ROG Flow X13 Review Philippines: Price
Unfortunately, you’ll have to have deep pockets to enjoy the privilege. ASUS hasn’t given us specific pricing during our review of the ROG Flow X13 in the Philippines as of press time, though in the US it’s around $3,299.99 or Php 158.6K in the configuration lent to us. We expect that price to be a bit higher when we account for taxes and duties when the laptop finally launches here.


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that of Cabeza de Vaca’s ten years wanderings in Texas and Mexico. The first that we hear Naufragios de Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca. This was published. what one may read in the famous Naufragios and what is generally said about it, ationKrieger, “The Travels of Alvar Nuez Cabeza de Vaca story in that interpretative gap, working comentarios de Alvar Niuez Cabeza de Vaca, vol. 1, ed. Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was born around in Andalusia , a region of Spain . Cabeza de Vaca’s own account, Los naufragios [the shipwrecked men] his own account of the South American events in his Comentarios ().
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The Archaic hunting-and-gathering Coahuilticans enslaved Cabeza de Vaca and made him gather roots, work done customarily by the women. So, taking them as guides, we started, and after walking ten or twelve leagues, came to another village of fifteen houses, where there was a large cultivated patch of corn appeared to the Commissary and friars that these were idolatries, so the Governor had them burnt.
Naufragios (Ilustrado) (Visión del soldado)
Two crafts with about 40 survivors each, including Cabeza de Vaca, wrecked on or near Galveston Island now part of Texas. At the last onset the Captains Dorantes, Pefialosa and Tellez, with fifteen men, placed themselves in am- bush and attacked them from the rear, caus- ing them to flee and leave us.
In the French language there is the well- known translation by H. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. From there we started and arrived at San- tiago a port in the Island of Cuba where, in the few days that we remained the Gov- ernor supplied himself again with people, arms and horses. It should also not be forgotten that men in their ex- ceptional situation, without reasonable hope of salvation, relentlessly persecuted by mis- fortune and the worst hardships for many years, have their imagination finally raised to the higest pitch, and exaggerations and misconceptions become therefore excusable.
IN the morning many canoes of Indiana came, demanding their two compan- ions, who had remained in the barge as hostages.
After the skipper had taken the barge under his control I went to rest, very much without resting, for I thought of anything else but sleep. For never they build their abodes except where there are wood and water, and sometimes load them- selves with the requisites and go in quest of deer, which are found mostly where there naufragiod neither water nor wood.
Trivia About Adventures apvar the But our men in the barge held them backj and so the other Indians forsook their canoe, leaving us very despondent and sad for the loss of those two Christians.
One of those houses was so large that it could hold more than people. Soon thirty of them loaded themselves with fire- wood and went to their lodges, which were far away, while we stayed with the others until it was almost cabsza. And many there were among us who besides suffering great fatigue and hunger, had their backs covered with wounds from the weight of the armor and other things they had to carry as occasion required.
Then I scratched a hole in the g-round and threw in it much firewood from the numerous trees. There we crossed without opposition, for the Indians, having spent all their ar- rows at the first place, had nothing where- with naufragio would dare attack us.
I became well known among them; they rejoiced greatly when seeing me and I would bring them what they need- ed, and those who did not know me would desire and endeavor to meet me for cabeaa sake of my fame. Thanks for telling us about the problem. A few days before the battle, a shepherd by the name of Xabeza offered to show the Chris- tian forces a path by which they might cir- cumvent the mountain-passes held by the Moors in strong force.
He was almost perpetually in life threatening situations, but he glosses over them. They answered, each one for himself, that Apalachen was the largest town of all ; that further in less people were met with, who were very much poorer than those here, and that the country was thinly settled, the in- habitants greatly scattered, and also that further inland big lakes, g forests, great deserts and wastes were met with.
He went back and I remained alone among these Indians, who are named GueveneSy whereas those with whom he went naufragos were called Deaguanes, TWO days after Lope de Oviedo had gone the Indians who kept Alonso del Castillo and Andres Dorantes came to the very spot we had been told of to eat the nuts upon which they subsist for two months in the year, grinding certain small grains with them, without eating any- thing else.
I refrain from making a long story of it. They became worse every day, and our sufferings were afflicting. The men at arms are hidden by brushwood and have their loopholes, and are so well covered and concealed that even at close range they cannot be seen.
Naufragios (Ilustrado) by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (2 star ratings)
We flayed the legs of the horses and tanned the skin to make leather pouches for carrying water. In naufragioz winter Cabeza de Vaca encountered four Spaniards mounted on horseback.
Once on open ground they pursued us still. This is the fifth of the missing ones. The last one he naufragiis to the inspector and to me, with forty-nine men, and, after clothing and supplies were put on board, the sides of the barges only rose half a foot above the water.
Naufragioos Coahuiltecan or desert groups:. Their story is one of the most remarkable in the annals of exploration. In that same letter he states that the wanderers had already made a report to him on their jour- ney, which report he had sent to the Empress previously.
The third barge he placed in charge of Captain Alonso del Castillo and of Andres Dorantes, with forty-eight men; in another he placed two- captains, named Tellez and Penalosa, comfntarios forty-seven men. The day after, Indians from a village on the other side came and attacked us in the same manner, escaping in the same way, with the loss of a single man.

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An American applies for permanent residence status in
The general offices of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the State Council, China's cabinet, have jointly issued a document to ease the permanent residency application requirements for foreigners, amid effort to build an innovation-driven nation with more global talents.
China will adopt a "flexible" and "pragmatic" approach to classify foreign applicants' qualifications based on salary, tax and social reputation, and allow more entities to employ eligible applicants, according to the document aimed at expanding the categories of foreigners in the country qualified to gain a Chinese green card.
The document, which only offered some guidelines that the government said will be used for detailed regulations in the near future, said that "proactive" investment-based immigration policies are needed to lure foreigners intending to invest in China.
The document made clear that foreigners with permanent residency will enjoy equal treatment with Chinese citizens in buying property, children's education, obtaining driver's license, handling financial business and other areas of life.
Talent introduction strategy
The document reiterated that the application procedure for foreigners who have made significant contributions to China should be simplified with their waiting time for approval being shortened.
Wang Huiyao, director of the Center for China and Globalization (CCG), an independent think tank based in Beijing, called the document a "radical change" in China's policy of attracting investor immigrants and outstanding international professionals, comparing it to the country's first law enacted in 1979 to allow the establishment of joint-venture enterprises.
"At the early phase of the reform and opening up, with the help of the 1979 law, China saw an explosive growth of foreign capital introduction. At present, being the world's second-largest economy, China is increasingly changing its development strategy by lowering threshold for foreign talents (who want to apply for Chinese green cards)," said Wang.
After reviewing an article of the document which encourages investor immigration policy to be proactively implemented in order to attract more foreigners to invest in China, Wang predicted that China is likely to set up an immigration bureau similar to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, saying that the policy change will meet China's demand for foreign talents and investment.
Wang added that the document will make it easier for the enterprises operating in China to apply for long-term visas or Chinese green cards for their foreign employees.
In 2008, China launched the "Thousand Talents" recruitment program to attract high-level professionals from around the world. But an official from China's Ministry of Public Security who refused to be named revealed that China's current scale of green card issuance cannot meet the country's demand for overseas talents.
A survey conducted by the CCG showed that foreign experts working in China only accounted for 0.06 percent of the country's total experts, while the average figure in the developed countries is 3 percent or above.
An empty promise?
However, some foreigners living and working in China are not excited about the document.
"The Chinese government has already talked about making it easier for foreigners to have Chinese green cards, but it is still the most difficult thing to obtain. It always promised and never really improved anything. All empty talk. I would say seeing is believing," said Gilbert van Kerckhove, a Belgian who has worked in China for decades and served as a government advisor during Beijing's preparations for the Summer Olympic Games in 2008.
China is one of the major countries in the world with the smallest number of foreigners, said the Belgian. He revealed that he got his green card twice but others who on paper fulfilled the requirements never got it, attributing it to his decent background and great contributions to the Chinese government.
When asked why the Chinese government set high threshold for foreigners to gain Chinese green cards, he said, "We foreigners are less welcome than before."
According to a survey recently conducted by the American Chamber of Commerce in China, more than 70 percent of foreign companies surveyed said that they felt less welcome in the past year, with a quarter having plans to relocate some of their operations out of the country.
Among the roughly 600,000 foreigners living and working in China, only about 7,000 have been granted permanent residency by the Chinese authorities since 2004 when China adopted its first policy on green card.
Colin, who is from the UK and has lived and worked in China since 1998, suggested that China should learn from many other countries where the only requirements that foreigners have to meet to obtain green cards are to have lived legally in the host countries for a certain period and to have not been convicted for any criminal offence.
"I do not have a Chinese green card now, but I would be happy to have one," said Colin.


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Global Advanced Research Journal of Microbiology (GARJM) ISSN: 2315-5116
June 2014 Vol. 3(5), pp 078-082
Copyright © 2014 Global Advanced Research Journals
Full Length Research Paper
Susceptibility of Proteus mirabilis, Staphylococcus aureus and Candida albicans to Extracts of Cola acuminata.
*C. I. Mboto1 and P. Udoh2
*1Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, University of Calabar, Calabar-CRS, Nigeria.
2Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, University of Uyo-AKS, Nigeria.
*Corresponding Author’s Email:email@example.com;
Tel: 234 803 7618 412.
Accepted 08 May, 2014
Ethanolic extract of the seed of Cola acuminata was evaluated for its antimicrobial and antifungal activities as compared to standard anti-microbial agents usingProteus mirabilis, Staphylococcus aureus and Candida albicans following standard microbiological procedures. Phytochemical screening of the seed extracts reveals abundance presence of Tannins, Cardiac glycosides, flavonoids and Phlobatanins and moderate presence of Alkaloids with a total absence of Saponins. At 25mg/ml, 50mg/ml, 100mg/ml, 200mg/ml and 400mg/ml concentrations of the extract used, Staphylococcus aureus and Candida albicans were susceptible to all except the later which was resistant to 25mg/ml concentration. Proteus mirabilis was resistant to all concentrations of the extract employed. Staphylococcus aureus was susceptible to vancomycin (30μg) yielding 18mm zone of inhibition as compared to the seed extract (20mm). Proteus mirabilis was susceptible to 10μg of Gentamycin (16mm), while Candida albicans was susceptible to Clotrimazole (50μg) yielding 17 mm zone of inhibition as compared to the seed extract (20mm). The Minimum inhibitory concentration of the extract was 50mg/ml and 25mg/ml for Staphylococcus aureus and Candida albicans respectively. This study shows that ethanolic extract of Cola acuminata is a superior antimicrobial agent against Staphylococcus aureus and Candida albicans, but not for Proteus mirabilis as compared to the drugs evaluated.
Keywords: Cola acuminata, antimicrobial, antifungal, Proteus mirabilis, Staphylococcus aureus, Candida albicans.

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The Office of Academic and Bar Success is dedicated to supporting students’ success from the day they start at the law school through the bar examination. The office oversees programming that is integrated into the curriculum such as orientation, writing programs, and bar preparation. We work collaboratively with Charleston School of Law faculty and staff to meet the needs of the students. The office also provides individual academic counseling and support for students. We work closely with students who want extra help and are always available for one-on-one meetings.
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Dean Margolis and Professor Point are available for one-on-one meetings. They can help you with creating a schedule, class preparation, outlining, multiple choice approach, and essay practice.
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The management of this chapel is very strict, because the murals in it are very exquisite works of art, there are a lot of people, you need to wait in line, the ticket price is not cheap 100 yuan, and the visit time is limited.
The visit to this small church must be led by the staff. The visit time is only half an hour, mainly to see the dome inside the church and the frescoes around it. It is really beautiful, but the price is not high.
It is a place worth visiting. The inside is not big but the murals inside are really special. The whole house is fully painted and the colors are also very beautiful. I went a few years ago. I was not allowed to take pictures inside at the time, so there were no pictures, but I was impressed.
The Scrovegni Chapel, a masterpiece in the history of painting in Italy and Europe in the 14th century, is considered to be the most complete series of frescoes executed by Giotto in his mature age.
The Scrovegni Chapel, located in the ruins of the ancient amphitheater in Padua, is a Roman-style chapel. The walls and ceilings of the chapel are painted with frescoes. There is no break between the frescoes and the frescoes. The frescoes are continuous, which is quite spectacular.
The appearance of the Scrovegni Chapel is very ordinary, but when you walk into the chapel, the scene in front of you will be shocking: not only the murals are wonderful, but the overall blue tone is dreamlike.
It is a Roman style chapel fresco depicting the life of Jesus and Mary

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Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Nashville, TN (September 17, 2013) The Isaacs have now been honored to appear multiple times at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, TN. The Isaacs once again received a very warm welcome when they sang on Saturday, August 31st.
The crowd was into their singing from the first song, "The Living Years", but when they sang "Mr. In-Between" and the ladies broke into those close harmony parts, you could actually hear some swooning going though the crowd.
For their last two numbers special guest Bill Gaither joined them on stage. The audience cheered when Bill joined them on the a capella rendition of "Walk together Children", however with the final song of the classic Dottie Rambo tune "If That Isn't Love" the crowd erupted giving them a standing ovation.


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Philly Doesn’t Want to Tell You What It Promised Amazon for HQ2
Locales across the country have offered the company big tax breaks and more to attract its second headquarters. Here’s why the secrecy surrounding Philly’s bid should concern you.
From New Jersey: $7 billion in tax incentives.
From Chicago: $1.32 billion in workers’ income taxes.
From Chula Vista, California: 85 acres of land, worth $100 million, for free. (And no property taxes for 30 years.)
These are a just a few of the incentives cities and states have offered Amazon in an attempt to secure the online retail giant’s second headquarters, which the company pledges will bring the winning locality 50,000 jobs at an average salary of $100,000. In a calculated plan earlier this fall, Amazon invited regions across North America to compete for HQ2, opening the door for a slew of favorable offers from politicians who appear desperate for a slice of the company’s economic prosperity.
To much fanfare from local business leaders and urbanists, Philly submitted a neatly packaged HQ2 bid to Amazon in October. But because the city has yet to release a copy of its bid (which, in a collective public and private effort, cost local agencies roughly a quarter-million dollars to prepare and publicize), constituents have no clue what was dangled in front of Amazon to lure the company to our backyard. Here’s why that lack of transparency could be problematic.
Amazon’s Hunger Games
“In an era of brutal austerity, cities are hollowed out and hoping for a savior,” they write. “Since the tech sector is flush with cash, by showing up and saying the magic words – growth, jobs, investment, innovation – city leaders bend to their will.”
The Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat recently wrote that “some City Halls seem willing to go beyond just throwing money at Amazon … They’re turning over the keys to the democracy.” Take Chicago’s $1 billion in workers’ income taxes — instead of financing the state of Illinois (and potentially funding public services, like schools and roads), taxes paid by Amazon workers would instead benefit Amazon.
— Taniel (@Taniel) November 26, 2017
Another example bolstering Westneat’s and Sadowski and Gregory’s claims is Fresno, California, which proposed funneling 85 percent of every tax dollar generated by the new headquarters into a separate fund dedicated to supporting HQ2 and other projects determined by a board of city officials and Amazon representatives. And some cities have gone beyond tax breaks: Boston vowed to create an “Amazon Task Force” that would include city-paid employees working to “support a seamless permitting process” for HQ2’s development, as well as a city coordinator to “develop and enhance career pathways for Amazon.” It almost goes without saying that such a plan would likely grant Amazon the ability to exert power in local politics.
The “Right to Know”
Given these startling promises, it’s no wonder cities like Philly have attempted to stay mum about their Amazon bids. Those that have disclosed their proposals have, for the most part, done so only after reporters and others demanded or sought access. In the case of Chicago, journalists obtained access to the bid through sources familiar with the offer process. Boston, however, released it’s own.
Philly is, by many assessments, regarded as a top HQ2 contender. On October 19th, the city released what it said is a “significant portion” of its submission through the Philadelphia Delivers website, which pitches Philly as a city that “possesses all of the key ingredients [Amazon] needs to support its long-term growth,” including talent, logistics and livability. (ICYMI, the city’s ambition for HQ2 was parodied in an Onion article.)
— Jim Kenney (@PhillyMayor) October 19, 2017
Philadelphia magazine filed a Right-to-Know request on November 27th asking the city to share the full bid; we received a response from the Law Department on December 5th advising us that it will assert its right to take 30 days to fulfill the request, per state law.
Some background: The city is legally required to send a response either completing or confirming Right-to-Know requests within five business days. The 30-day delay is typical of requests filed via the Right-to-Know law, which was essentially established to guarantee journalists and others access to copies of public records held by government agencies. The city receives about 1,800 Right-to-Know requests each year, and the Law Department regularly asks for 30-day extensions to those inquiries.
The Law Department partially blamed the delay (as it often does) on staffing limitations “in retrieving and reviewing the record requested.” However, it’s worth pointing out that accessing and presenting the bid probably shouldn’t be difficult or time-consuming for the city, as officials surely had no issue doing so for Amazon in October. The department’s more reasonable justifications include the need for a legal review to determine whether the record is subject to access under the law. In other words, officials are determining if they are, in fact, legally required to release the bid – which means there’s no guarantee we’ll even get the document after 30 days are up.
Asked about the delay, city spokesperson Lauren Hitt said via email: “We have not released additional materials submitted as part of the proposal to date to avoid jeopardizing our competitiveness in this deal or our position in business discussions with other entities interested in relocating to Philadelphia.”
The delay isn’t “unique to Amazon,” Hitt said, and the city is “working to release additional information in response to the requests it has received without negatively affecting its position. Given the sensitivity of these types of discussions, and the posture of the HQ2 deal specifically, this necessarily takes time.”
What’s at Stake
The city’s hesitancy to release the offer raises questions about transparency, especially in the wake of Kenney’s campaign promise to “make city government more open and transparent.”
Dr. Cary Coglianese, a University of Pennsylvania law professor specializing in regulation and business-government relations, said that, given the stakes, Philly and other local governments could have legitimate reasons to maintain secrecy in the midst of the HQ2 competition — but with a catch.
“In a context like this … any city competing for Amazon will want to keep its secret,” Coglianese said. “It’s not necessarily nefarious. It could just be that they want to make sure that their bidding is not undercut by some other city that knows what they’re providing.”
But in keeping citizens in the dark about potential offers, the city is creating “somewhat of a bias” toward Amazon, Coglianese said. He added that there is a “compelling need” for constituents to be made aware of proposals that will affect the rest of the city – such as promises of tax relief or “other favorable positions” that require full city approval through City Council or other boards or processes.
“The pivotal time for any city to know about any arrangements being offered is at the time they’re offered, when they can be dispassionately weighed without the influence, if you will, of an offer by Amazon,” Coglianese said. “If the city wins, it has more pressure to abide by the promises.”
For now, it’s impossible to say whether or not Philadelphians will have a bone to pick with the city over its Amazon bid – given that we don’t know what it holds. But maybe that, in itself, is a cause for concern.
Fabiola Cineas contributed reporting. This story has been updated to clarify the sources of funding for Philadelphia’s bid submission.


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The American Consumer Institute issued the following statement from policy analyst Nate Scherer:
In a ruling on Wednesday by the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a three-judge panel rightly decided that the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) current funding runs afoul of the Constitution’s doctrine of separation of powers.
The Fifth Circuit determined that Congress had unlawfully ceded its power of the purse to the 12-year-old agency by exempting it from the annual legislative appropriations process and allowing it to receive funding directly from the Federal Reserve. While the court did note that some federal regulators are exempt from the appropriations process, the CFPB went well beyond its legal authority by relying on a “double-insulated” funding structure that involves little legislative oversight.
The court’s ruling also throws out a 2017 rule on small dollar loans that short-term lenders say negatively impacts their ability to offer loans to borrowers. These borrowers tend to be overwhelmingly lower-income Americans who lack access to traditional lines of credit. This make’s Wednesday’s ruling all the more important for creating a fairer and more equitable marketplace for all consumers.
The American Consumer Institute applauds this important decision, which pushes back on years of federal overreach in the financial sector. For too long, the CFPB has operated without adequate accountability and has gradually expanded its reach over new areas of the economy to the detriment of credit lenders and consumers. The CFPB must now go through the proper legislative channels to receive appropriations – that’s a win for everyone.


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Argued and won reversal of a $15 million jury verdict for a surgery center.
WTO lawyers delivered oral arguments remotely to win reversal of a $15 million jury verdict in the Colorado Court of Appeals for a surgery center facing negligence allegations. The plaintiff brought the claims after receiving epidural injections that led to complications including paraplegia.
The plaintiff claimed that WTO’s client violated federal regulations requiring a safe surgery center, and that they should have prevented the doctor from prescribing and administering the off-label drug used in the injections. The plaintiff further claimed that the surgery center should have obtained the plaintiff’s informed consent that the drug was being used off-label. A jury initially agreed and awarded a plaintiff’s verdict.
In the Court of Appeals, however, WTO successfully argued that the Corporate Practice of Medicine Doctrine precluded the plaintiff’s negligence claim against the surgery center. Because medical corporations or businesses—such as a surgery center or hospital network—are not authorized to practice medicine or obtain informed consent, they therefore cannot be sued for negligence in the way a doctor can.
The doctrine is rooted in the idea that doctors, not their employers, have the sole authority to make medical recommendations and provide informed consent to their patients. In its ruling, the court observed that the case should never have gone to a jury in the first place, and eliminated the possibility of another trial. This ruling is not only a win for WTO’s client, but the entire U.S. medical industry as a whole.


An Omaha, Neb., man has a rude message for his neighbors — mowed right into his front lawn.
"When I first saw it, I saw the big 'U,' and I had to back up just to see if that's what it really said," local resident Bernie Horstmeyer told Omaha's KETV-TV.
The two-word, seven-letter, very common expletive stretches about 30 feet across the man's front yard.
Neighbors said the man, identified only by the last name Miller, had long put off mowing his unruly lawn, until the city recently gave him a warning. The pithy phrase appears to have been the result.
"I have three children, and two of them will definitely know what that says. It worries me," neighbor Traci Tunzer told the TV station. "We don't want our children to be around that kind of stuff."
Unfortunately for local residents, the lewd lawn is entirely legal.
"As much as you might shake your head at what kind of reasoning is involved, it's not prohibited," explained Omaha city prosecutor Marty Conboy (search). "A person who wants to make a statement in public that doesn't invoke a violent response is protected by the Constitution."
City officials said the message might eventually violate local ordinances — but only after the grass forming it reaches 10 inches tall.
— Thanks to Out There readers Karen C. and Jennifer S.
Tasty Treats Don't Distract Drug Dog
WABASH, Ind. (AP) — A driver stopped for speeding tried to distract a drug-sniffing dog by throwing dog biscuits from his car, state police said.
Troopers stopped Jong H. Kim, 23, of Overland Park, Kan., along U.S. 24 last Wednesday, but reported that they called for a Wabash County Sheriff's Department dog after he appeared to be very nervous and at one point vomited.
As the dog walked around the car, Kim threw dog biscuits and debris out the window toward the dog in an apparent attempt to distract it, police said. The dog nonetheless indicated the possible presence of illegal drugs in the car.
Kim refused to leave the car and had to be pulled out by officers, police said.
Troopers reported finding about 75 grams of marijuana hidden in the car. Kim was being held Friday in the Wabash County Jail (search) on charges of marijuana possession, resisting law enforcement and drunken driving.
Prison Warden Loses Keys
JACKSONVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Prisoners at the Jacksonville Correctional Center (search) spent four days on lockdown after an assistant warden lost a set of keys.
The set of about ten keys, which was still missing last Friday, included a master key that opens doors to cell houses and two prison wings.
The "high minimum security" institution of 1,400 male inmates was locked down over the weekend of Sept. 9-12 after a search failed to turn up the keys.
"We don't believe this poses a serious threat to the safety of the facility," Illinois Department of Corrections spokesman Sergio Molina said.
The keys could have been lost between April 8 and Sept. 9, Molina said. They were not necessarily lost at the prison and were authorized to be taken home, he said.
The master key also provides entry to prison work camps at Greene County and Pittsfield, he said.
An assistant warden reported the keys missing last Friday. He had given the keys to another employee on April 8 because he was being temporarily reassigned to the department's headquarters, Molina said.
Both employees remained on the job. The department was investigating and disciplinary action was possible, Molina said.
Women Fight for Right to Go Topless
MORAVIA, N.Y. (AP) — Four women arrested after going topless on a downtown street last month say they didn't break any laws and want the charges against them dropped.
The women, each charged with exposure, were to appear Tuesday night in village court. If convicted of the violation they each face 15 days in jail and/or a $250 fine.
Charles Marangola, the attorney representing the women, said he's filed a motion to dismiss the case, maintaining that a 1992 state Court of Appeals decision allows women to go topless anywhere a man can.
"This thing should be dismissed outright," he said. "But if it isn't and these young ladies are found guilty at a trial ... if we have to go to the Court of Appeals, we will."
But Cayuga County Assistant District Attorney Charles Thomas said his office isn't convinced that the 1992 ruling gives blanket permission for women to go topless. Thomas said that in addition to the nudity violation, he'll argue that the women interfered with commerce.
The four women — Carol Clarke, 54, and Barbara Crumb, 61, both of Branchport; Claudia Kellersch, 40, of La Jolla, Calif.; and Madeleine McPherson, 40, of Rochester — were arrested Aug. 11 outside a grocery store in this village of 1,600 just south of Owasco Lake, 40 miles southwest of Syracuse.
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April 14 through May 31
Winston Culpepper sees art in common everyday places that others wouldn’t even notice. Culpepper went to college as a pre-dental student but he wasn’t suited to that and he found he had an aptitude for art. After a stint in the Navy, he went to Fine Art graduate school in Baltimore, then moved to New Mexico. During this time he was renowned for his ability to paint eggs (a la Faberge.)
After Culpepper’s father died, he moved to his father’s home and studio on the Outer Banks, where he making a living painting houses and murals. Culpepper continued to painting in the studio and frequently would gather artifacts from the sea and then paint what he has seen along the shore. Culpepper will paint on fences or whatever is around, but the pieces in this show will be acrylic on canvas. Some of his art, particularly on old sand fencing, can be found at the Sea Green Gallery.

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There is much confusion surrounding the various "modifications" made to many A-4E and A-4F Skyhawks for the purpose of use as "Aggressor" aircraft; and for use by the Blue Angel Flight Demonstration Team.
Technical Facts and Comments from Gary Verver:
Usually when I see the term "Super Fox" it's in quotes and used to refer to the stripped down and souped up F's used by the Blue Angels.
As far as I know the following changes were made at Long Beach to the Blue Angels A-4F's:
removed the avionics hump
removed the ECM etc. antennas
added a brake chute
slats were bolted shut
removed the 20mm guns and the port gun fairing was extended to accommodate the fold-in boarding ladder
smoke generating tank and tube was added
the flare launchers were removed and or faired over (aft fuselage under the speed brakes)
the wing ord. pylons #1, #2, #4 & #5 were removed (the center-line station was retained)
inverted fuel system was added
I've seen claims that the Blue Angels F's used a Pratt & Whitney J52-P408 and others that claim a J52-480 was used. One thing that I've seen that is attributed to a Blue Angel is the quote from Vice-Adm. Anthony A. Less, CO of the Blue Angels 1974-1975 (Cdr. at the time) "... the Super F's were slicked by removing the two outboard racks on each wing. We kept the center-line for cross-country flights. With the P-408 , we had a lot of power available. The Foxtrot's empty weight was about 11,300lb and we were at a near 1:1 thrust to weight ratio without fuel..." This from Brad Elward's (author of McDonnell Douglas A-4 Skyhawk) interview with Vice Adm. Less 5 Oct 1999.
I've also seen claims that the intakes were enlarged. The initial Blue Angels A-4F compliment came from VX-5 at China Lake and the intakes don't look any different to me after the Skyhawks were modified for use by the Blue Angels.
[Note from LCDR Steve Easton, Blues Maintenance CPO 1979-81, states that "the engines were definitely J52-P408, and the intakes were definitely enlarged as part of the modification kit."]
As far as the TA-4J is concerned the only change that I know of is the paint scheme and addition of the ladder tube which can be seen in this head on photo taken by Blues Photo Mate Paul O'Mara. It was taken from the boomer compartment of an USAF KC-10, which had taken the team from PKA to Bermuda for an air-show. Time was 1983 on a flight near Bermuda. #7 pilot was Curt "Griz" Watson. Rear seater was a Douglas employee. Photo is from the Harry Gann collection, and gives a good look at the ladder tube.
The Blue Angels also flew an all white TA-4J, BuNo 153477, during their 1981 winter training. It looked pretty standard and did not have the ladder tube in the photo I've seen. Gary Verver 04 JUN 2003
Gary "Zoo" Rezeau helps set the record straight.


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