Attack by Chinese hacker group targeted high-profile individuals around the world
July 9, 2019 by Joseph Fitsanakis 2 Comments
A hacker attack of impressive magnitude targeted specific individuals of interest to the Chinese government as they moved around the world, in what appears to be the first such operation in the history of cyberespionage. The attack was revealed late last month by Cybereason, an American cybersecurity firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. Company experts described the scope and length of the attack, dubbed Operation SOFTCELL, as a new phenomenon in state-sponsored cyberespionage. Cybereason said SOFTCELL has been in operation since at least 2017, and identified the culprit as APT10, a hacker group that is believed to operate on behalf of China's Ministry of State Security.
The operation is thought to have compromised close to a dozen major global telecommunications carriers in four continents —the Middle East, Europe, Asia and Africa. According to Cybereason, the hackers launched persistent multi-wave attacks on their targets, which gave them "complete takeover" of the networks. However, they did not appear to be interested in financial gain, but instead focused their attention on the call detail records (CDRs) of just 20 network users. With the help of the CDRs, the hackers were able to track their targets' movements around the world and map their contacts based on their telephone activity. According to The Wall Street Journal, which reported on Cybereason's findings, the 20 targets consisted of senior business executives and government officials. Others were Chinese dissidents, military leaders, as well as law enforcement and intelligence officials.
An especially impressive feature of SOFTCELL was that the hackers attacked new telecommunications carriers as their targets moved around the world and made use of new service providers. The attacks thus followed the movements of specific targets around the world. Although this is not a new phenomenon in the world of cyberespionage, the geographical scope and persistence of the attacks are unprecedented, said The Wall Street Journal. Speaking last week at the 9th Annual International Cybersecurity Conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, Lior Div, Cybereason's chief executive officer and co-founder, said SOFTCELL attacks occurred in waves over the course of several months. The hackers used a collection of techniques that are commonly associated with identified Chinese hacker groups. If detected and repelled, the hackers would retreat for a few weeks or months before returning and employing new methods. The Cybereason security experts said that they were unable to name the targeted telecommunications carriers and users "due to multiple and various limitations".
► Author: Joseph Fitsanakis | Date: 09 July 2019 | Permalink
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Iran spied on ISIS supporters through fake phone wallpaper app, say researchers
September 14, 2018 by Ian Allen 1 Comment
Supporters of the Islamic State, most of them Persian speakers, were spied on by the government of Iran after they downloaded a fake smartphone application with wallpaper images, according to an online security firm. Iran is a major adversary of the radical Sunni group Islamic State. The latter considers Shiism (Iran's state religion) as an abomination. Not surprisingly, therefore, the Islamic State, which is also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), relies largely on supporters from the Arabic-speaking regions of the Levant. But according to estimates, Sunnis constitute about 10 percent of Iran's population, and ISIS has found some fertile ground among Iran's 8 million-strong Sunni minority. As a result, the government in Tehran is highly mistrustful of Iranian Sunnis, many of whom are ethnic Kurds, Baluchis, Azeris or Turkomans, and systematically spies on them.
According to the Israeli online security firm Check Point Software Technologies, one way in which Tehran has spied on Persian-speaking ISIS supporters is through fake smartphone applications. In an article published last week, the company said it had uncovered a state-sponsored surveillance operation that it had codenamed "Domestic Kitten". The Check Point article said that the operation had gone on for more than two years, but had remained undetected "due to the artful deception of its attackers towards their targets". The surveillance of targeted phones was carried out with the help of an application that featured pro-ISIS-themed wallpapers, which users could download on their devices. Yet another program linked to the same vendor was a fake version of the Firat News Agency mobile phone application. The Firat News Agency is a legitimate Iranian information service featuring news about Iran's Kurdish minority. But both applications were in fact malware that gave a remote party full access to all text messages sent or received on the compromised phones. They also gave a remote party access to records of phone calls, Internet browser activity and bookmarks, and all files stored on the compromised phones. Additionally, the fake applications gave away the geo-location of compromised devices, and used their built-in cameras and microphones as surveillance devices.
Check Point said that the majority of compromised phones belonged to Persian-speaking members of Iran's Kurdish and Turkoman minorities. The company stressed that it was not able to confirm the identity of the sponsoring party with absolute accuracy. However, the nature of the fake applications, the infrastructure of the surveillance operation, as well as the identities of those targeted, posed a strong possibility that "Domestic Kitten" was sponsored by the government of Iran, it concluded. Last July, the American cyber security firm Symantec said that it had uncovered a new cyber espionage group called "Leafminer", which was allegedly sponsored by the Iranian state. The group had reportedly launched attacks on more than 800 agencies and organizations in in countries such as Israel, Egypt, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan and Azerbaijan.
► Author: Ian Allen | Date: 14 September 2018 | Permalink
Filed under A specialized intelligence website written by experts Tagged with cellular telephony, Check Point Software Technologies, cyberespionage, cybersecurity, Domestic Kitten, Iran, Islamic State, News
Researchers uncover 'ambitious' Iranian hacker group that targets the Middle East
July 26, 2018 by Joseph Fitsanakis 1 Comment
An American cyber security firm has reported the discovery of a previously undetected, "highly active" Iranian cyber espionage group, whose extensive target list consists mainly of large organizations and companies in the Middle East. The cyber security firm Symantec, makers of Norton antivirus software, which uncovered the cyber espionage group's existence, has dubbed it "Leafminer". It said the group has been active since the beginning of 2017, but has "significantly ramped up its activities" in 2018 and is currently involved in dozens of ongoing attacks.
In a report published on Wednesday, Symantec said that its security experts managed to obtain what appears to be Leafminer's master list of targets. The list is written in the Farsi language and contains just over 800 organizations, which according to Symantec researchers is "an ambitious goal" for any cyber espionage group. The organizations listed on the target sheet come from a variety of sectors, including government, transportation, the financial sector, energy and telecommunications. But the majority of the group's targets appear to be in the petrochemical and government sectors. Additionally, virtually all of Leafminer's targets are located in the Middle East and North Africa, in countries such as Israel, Egypt, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. Some of the group's targets are located in Afghanistan and Azerbaijan.
Symantec said its researchers observed the Leafminer hackers execute attacks in real time on at least 40 targets in the Middle East, including on the website of an intelligence agency in Lebanon. According to the cyber security company, Leafminer uses a variety of hacking tools, including custom-designed malware and some publicly available software. The group's operational sophistication is also varied, and ranges from complex, multilayered attacks to brute-force login attempts. Symantec said it concluded that the cyber espionage group originates from Iran because its master target list is written in Farsi and because Iran is virtually the only country in the Middle East that is missing from the target list. However, it said that it did not have sufficient evidence to link Leafminer to the Iranian government. In a separate development, Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), said this week in its annual report that the government of Iran has significantly expanded its cyber warfare capabilities and "poses a danger to German companies and research institutions".
Filed under A specialized intelligence website written by experts Tagged with computer hacking, cyberespionage, cybersecurity, Iran, Leafminer, News, Symantec Corporation
Dutch spies identified Russian hackers who meddled in 2016 US election
January 29, 2018 by Joseph Fitsanakis 1 Comment
Dutch spies identified a notorious Russian hacker group that compromised computer servers belonging to the Democratic Party of the United States and notified American authorities of the attack, according to reports. In 2016, US intelligence agencies determined that a Russian hacker group known as Cozy Bear, or APT29, led a concerted effort to interfere in the US presidential election. The effort, which according to US intelligence agencies was sponsored by the Russian government, involved cyber-attacks against computer systems in the White House and the Department of State, among other targets. It also involved the theft of thousands of emails from computer servers belonging to the Democratic National Committee, which is the governing body of the Democratic Party. The stolen emails were eventually leaked to WikiLeaks, DCLeaks, and other online outlets. Prior descriptions of the Russian hacking in the media have hinted that US intelligence agencies were notified of the Russian cyber-attacks by foreign spy agencies. But there was no mention of where the initial clues came from.
Last Thursday, the Dutch current affairs program Nieuwsuur, which airs daily on Holland's NPO 2 television, said that the initial tipoff originated from the AIVD, Holland's General Intelligence and Security Service. On the same day, the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant published a detailed account of what it described as AIVD's successful penetration of Cozy Bear. According to these reports, AIVD was able to penetrate Cozy Bear in mid-2014, before the hacker group intensified its campaign against political targets in the US. Citing "six American and Dutch sources who are familiar with the material, but wish to remain anonymous", De Volkskrant said that the AIVD was able to detect the physical base of the Cozy Bear hackers. The latter appeared to be working out of an academic facility that was adjacent to Moscow's Red Square. The AIVD team was then able to remotely take control of security camera networks located around the facility. Eventually, the Dutch team hacked into another security camera network located inside the buildings in which the hackers worked. They soon began to collect pictures and footage of Cozy Bear members, which they then compared with photos of "known Russian spies", according to De Volkskrant.
The paper said that the AIVD team continued to monitor Cozy Bear's activities until at least 2017, while sharing intelligence with the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency in the US. The intelligence was allegedly instrumental in alerting US spy agencies about Russian government-sponsored efforts to meddle in the 2016 presidential election. Several newspapers, including The Washington Post in the US and The Independent in Britain, contacted the AIVD and the MIVD —Holland's military intelligence agency— over the weekend. But the two agencies said they would not comment on reports concerning Cozy Bear.
► Author: Joseph Fitsanakis | Date: 29 January 2018 | Research credit: E.J. & E.K. | Permalink
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Russian hackers behind US election attacks also targeted hundreds of journalists
December 26, 2017 by Ian Allen Leave a comment
The Russian hacker group that targeted the United States presidential election in 2016 also attacked hundreds of reporters around the world, most of them Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows. The group is often referred to in cyber security circles as Fancy Bear, but is also known as Pawn Storm, Sednit, APT28, Sofacy, and STRONTIUM. It has been linked to a long-lasting series or coordinated attacks against at least 150 senior figures in the US Democratic Party. The attacks occurred in the run-up to last year's presidential elections in the US, which resulted in a victory for Donald Trump. The hacker group's targets included Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her campaign chairman John Podesta. But its hackers also went after senior US diplomatic and intelligence officials, as well as foreign officials in countries like Canada and the Ukraine.
Now a new investigation by the Associated Press news agency, based on data collected over a period of two years by the cyber security firm Secureworks, appears to show that Fancy Bear also attacked journalists. In a leading article published last week, the Associated Press said that journalists appeared to be the third largest professional group targeted by Fancy Bear, after politicians and diplomats. The investigation shows that nearly half of all journalists that were systematically targeted by the hacker group worked for a single newspaper, The New York Times. At least fifty Times reporters feature on the hacker group's target list. The latter includes another 50 reporters working for Russian outlets that known to be critical of the Kremlin, and dozens of Eastern European reporters based in the Baltics, Moldova, Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine.
The Associated Press said that prominent names on the Fancy Bear target list include The Washington Post's Josh Rogin, The Daily Beast's intelligence correspondent Shane Harris, CNN's security correspondent Michael Weiss, and Ellen Barry, the former Moscow bureau chief for The New York Times. The report also said that some American journalists were not only targeted online, but also physically. One of them, The New Yorker's Masha Gessen, claims that she was routinely followed by Russian-speaking men in the period leading up to the 2016 presidential election. In April of this year, a study by the Tokyo-based cybersecurity firm Trend Micro showed that Fancy Bear was behind systematic efforts to subvert recent national elections in France and Germany. And a few weeks ago, Russian media reported that Konstantin Kozlovsky, a member of the prolific Russian hacker group Lurk, alleged that he had been hired by the Kremlin to help target the US Democratic Party.
► Author: Ian Allen | Date: 26 December 2017 | Permalink
Filed under A specialized intelligence website written by experts Tagged with APT28, computer hacking, cybersecurity, Fancy Bear, News, Russia, Sednit, Sofacy, STRONTIUM
Russian hacker claims he was hired by Kremlin to target US Democratic Party
December 15, 2017 by Ian Allen 3 Comments
A member of a prolific Russian hacker group reportedly stated in court that he was hired by the Russian government to break into the computer systems of the Democratic Party in the United States. The hacker, Konstantin Kozlovsky, operated online as a member of Lurk, a notorious hacker group whose members are believed to have stolen in excess of $45 million from hundreds of companies since 2011. Most of the group's members were apprehended in a wave of 50 arrests that took place throughout Russia in the summer of 2016. The group's nine most senior members, Kozlovsky being one of them, were put on trial earlier this year.
Last Monday, Russian website The Bell reported that Kozlovsky said during his court testimony in August of this year that he was hired by the Kremlin to hack into the computers of the Democratic Party in the US. The website claimed that he and his fellow Lurk hackers regularly worked for the FSB, Russia's Federal Security Service. For nearly a decade, said Kozlovsky, he and other hackers "performed different tasks on assignments by FSB officers". In his testimony of August 15, Kozlovsky reportedly said that some of the tasks performed by Lurk on behalf of the FSB included hacking into the computers of the Democratic National Committee, which is the governing body for the Democratic Party in the US. He also claimed that he and his fellow hackers stole emails belonging to the Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
The Bell published Kozlovsky's claims on its website in both Russian and English. According to to The Times of London, the website also posted minutes from the court hearing, as well as a recording of Kozlovsky's testimony, on its page on Facebook. Kozlovsky also claimed that the FSB recruited him in 2008, when he was 16 years old, and that he worked under the supervision of Dmitry Dokuchaev, a notorious criminal hacker known as 'Forb', who was arrested and subsequently recruited by the FSB. Kozlovsky added that he participated in "very serious military enterprises of the United States and other organizations" under Dokuchaev's supervision.
Filed under A specialized intelligence website written by experts Tagged with cyberespionage, cybersecurity, Democratic National Committee, Dmitry Dokuchaev, FSB, Konstantin Kozlovsky, Lurk (hacker group), News, Russia
Israel reportedly behind discovery of Russian antivirus company's spy links
October 11, 2017 by Joseph Fitsanakis 1 Comment
Israeli spy services were reportedly behind the United States government's recent decision to purge Kaspersky Lab antivirus software from its computers, citing possible collusion with Russian intelligence. Last month, the US Department of Homeland Security issued a directive ordering that all government computers should be free of software products designed by Kaspersky Lab. Formed in the late 1990s by Russian cybersecurity expert Eugene Kaspersky, the multinational antivirus software provider operates out of Moscow but is technically based in the United Kingdom. Its antivirus and cybersecurity products are installed on tens of millions of computers around the world, including computers belonging to government agencies in the US and elsewhere. But last month's memorandum by the US government's domestic security arm alarmed the cybersecurity community by alleging direct operational links between the antivirus company and the Kremlin.
On Tuesday, The New York Times reported that the initial piece of intelligence that alerted the US government to the alleged links between Kaspersky Lab and Moscow was provided by Israel. The American paper said that Israeli cyber spies managed to hack into Kaspersky's systems and confirm the heavy presence of Russian government operatives there. The Times' report stated that the Israelis documented real-time cyber espionage operations by the Russians, which targeted the government computer systems of foreign governments, including the United States'. The Israeli spies then reportedly approached their American counterparts and told them that Kaspersky Lab software was being used by Russian intelligence services as a backdoor to millions of computers worldwide. The Israelis also concluded that Kaspersky's antivirus software was used to illegally steal files from these computers, which were essentially infected by spy software operated by the Russian government.
It was following the tip by the Israelis that he Department of Homeland Security issued its memorandum saying that it was "concerned about the ties between certain Kaspersky [Lab] officials and Russian intelligence and other government agencies". The memorandum resulted in a decision by the US government —overwhelmingly supported by Congress— to scrap all Kaspersky software from its computer systems. Kaspersky Lab has rejected allegations that it works with Russian intelligence. In a statement issued in May of this year, the company said it had "never helped, nor will help, any government in the world with its cyberespionage efforts".
► Author: Joseph Fitsanakis | Date: 11 October 2017 | Pemalink
Filed under A specialized intelligence website written by experts Tagged with computer hacking, cybersecurity, Israel, Kaspersky Lab, News, Russia, United States, US Department of Homeland Security


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US calls for investigation into Shiite deaths in Nigeria
Members of Islamic Movement of Nigeria wave flags and chant slogans as they take part in a demonstration to protest against the imprisonnement of a Shiite, in Abuja. (AFP)
Three dead in Nigeria after Shiites and army clash
Nigerian Shiites bury dead after clashes with security forces
Nigerian group says troops shot, killed 27 Shiite Muslims
The United States embassy in Nigeria said on Thursday it was "concerned" and called for an investigation after supporters of an imprisoned Shiite cleric were killed in clashes with security forces.
The Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) said 49 of its members were killed this week after the army and police fired live bullets at crowds who marched near and in the capital Abuja, calling into doubt the military's official death toll of six.
"The United States embassy is concerned by the deaths resulting from clashes between Nigerian security forces and members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria in areas surrounding Abuja," said the US embassy in a statement.
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"We urge government of Nigeria authorities to conduct a thorough investigation of the events and to take appropriate action to hold accountable those responsible for violations of Nigerian law. We urge restraint on all sides," it added.
Amnesty International said on Wednesday it had "strong evidence" that police and soldiers used automatic weapons against IMN members and killed about 45 people.
"We have seen a shocking and unconscionable use of deadly force by soldiers and police against IMN members," said Amnesty's Nigeria director Osai Ojigho.
Nigeria, Africa's largest economy, is almost evenly split between a mostly Muslim north - which is predominantly Sunni - and a largely Christian south.
Experts have warned the government that a heavy-handed response to the group risks sparking conflict in a volatile region where poverty is widespread.
IMN leader Ibrahim Zakzaky has been in custody since 2015, when an army crackdown killed 300 of his supporters, who were buried in mass graves, according to human rights groups.
Zakzaky is facing a culpable homicide charge in connection with the 2015 violence, and is in jail despite a court order granting him bail.
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Kim Kardashian Reveals the Truth About Having More Kids
Stefan Preston
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West seem to have a perfect life. They both have thriving careers, an impressive level of fame, and a beautiful family. Kardashian, in particular, is at an all-time career peak. The reality star is studying law and managing her beauty line, in addition to working on her TV show, Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
She's got a very busy schedule. Still, fans can't get enough of her, or of learning more about her adorable kids. Recently, Kardashian opened up on social media, explaining her future family plans to curious followers.
How many kids does Kim Kardashian have?
NEW YORK, NY – JUNE 04: Kim Kardashian West attends the 2018 CFDA Fashion Awards at Brooklyn Museum on June 4, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Jared Siskin/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
Kardashian and West first started dating in 2012 and didn't wait long to start their family. They welcomed their eldest daughter North West in June 2013, their son Saint West in December 2015, their second daughter Chicago West in January 2018, and their second son Psalm West in May 2019.
Kardashian isn't shy about showing off her kids on social media, and they are featured fairly regularly on Keeping Up with the Kardashians. She has said in the past that she loves having a large family and even likes to talk about her kid's different personalities and how they all mesh together.
Kardashian recently claimed that North is West's "twin," sharing much of his creative energy and gift of expression, while she believes that Saint definitely resembles her more. Chicago definitely takes after Kardashian in terms of looks, while the reality star states that it's a little early to tell what Psalm's personality will be. Although, she posted on Instagram that he's by far the calmest of all her babies.
Recently, she posted a picture of all four of her children on Instagram, writing a caption that revealed how "impossible" it is to try and get a picture of all four young kids.
Does Kim Kardashian want more children?
My little man is the sweetest ever! He's honestly the best baby. Sleeps through the night and by far my most calm. How did I get so lucky
A post shared by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on Aug 25, 2019 at 9:04pm PDT
Kardashian loves to interact with her followers on social media and does so fairly often. She recently did an "ask me anything" session on Instagram, where she invited all of her fans to ask her any questions that they have been dying to know the answer to.
One of the questions was whether or not Kardashian wanted more children. While many celebrities don't like to share their reproductive plans, Kardashian responded to the curious fan. She stated that while she loves her babies, she doesn't think she can handle any more than four children, especially with how busy she is. Kardashian said that she likes to give each of her kids an equal amount of attention and she also thinks it's important to give her husband a good amount of attention as well.
The Q/A session wasn't the first time that Kardashian hinted that she would stop after four kids. She suffers from a pregnancy condition called placenta previa, which made it unsafe for her to get pregnant after the birth of her son Saint — both Chicago and Psalm were born via surrogate.
Kardashian has been one of the most vocal celebrities to advocate for surrogacy and has even featured the surrogate, with her face blurred for privacy reasons, on her family's reality show.
What's next for Kim Kardashian?
Me and my Chi Chi
A post shared by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on Aug 25, 2019 at 9:49am PDT
Fans can continue to keep up with Kardashian and her large, busy family when Keeping Up with the Kardashians returns in September. As for Kardashian's other plans, she will be busy pursuing her law career and spending time with her family.


Ingersoll [ 44 ]
1,283 / km²
Ingersoll is located in Ontario. In Ingersoll the majority of the population are Married (and not separated) and have children living at home between the ages of 6 to 14 years. The top three occupations people in Ingersoll are in employed in are Sales and service occupations, Trades, transport and equipment operators and related occupations and Occupations in manufacturing and utilities. The average personal gross income in Ingersoll is $37,286 per year while the average after-tax income is $32,071 which means the average personal income tax rate is 13.99%. Most of the population in Ingersoll lives in Single-detached house and the average home value is $215,763. The majority of the homes in Ingersoll were constructed 1960 or before. The the most predominant religious faith is Christian. The majority of the population who live in Ingersoll are Canadian citizens. The most common non-official languages spoken in Ingersoll are Dutch, Spanish and Italian. The most predominant continent of origin for most migrants to Ingersoll is Europe.


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OAG Lawsuit Against Marriott for Resort Fees Could Affect Traveling Teams
By: Mary Helen Sprecher
With its lawsuit against Marriott for resort fees, the Washington, D.C. Office of the Attorney General is proving that what you don't see is more dangerous than what you do – at least from a cost/benefit standpoint. The question, of course, is this: What do planners need to know about the court action – and the fees themselves?
The lawsuit, filed by OAG Karl Racine just after the busy July 4th weekend, cites the hotel chain for hiding the true price of guest rooms from consumers and charging hidden resort fees to increase profits. The OAG allegation states that "Marriott's deceptive and misleading pricing practices and failure to disclose fees harmed consumers and violated the District's consumer protection laws. OAG's lawsuit seeks to force Marriott to advertise the true prices of its hotel rooms up-front, provide monetary relief to tens of thousands of harmed District consumers, and pay civil penalties."
The lawsuit in D.C. follows an investigation into the hotel industry's pricing practices by the Attorneys General in all 50 states.
"To lure consumers, Marriott advertised daily room rates lower than the true total price for a room," Racine stated in a Twitter thread. "Then, during booking, mandatory fees were added on top of advertised rates, which allowed Marriott to increase profits without appearing to raise prices."
Racine explained that Marriott's resort fees ranged from $9 to as much as $95 per room per day. "Discovering these charges only after a consumer has started to book a room makes it extremely difficult to compare prices and make informed choices," he noted. "In some instances, Marriott led consumers to believe the resort fees were government-imposed charges, rather than additional daily charges paid to Marriott. This kind of bait-and-switch advertising and other forms of deceptive pricing are unfair and illegal."
The Office of the Attorney General (whose full documentation is available here) is seeking a court order in order to force the multinational hotel brand to advertise the true prices of its hotel rooms up front; pay monetary relief for DC consumers who were charged deceptive resort fees; and pay civil penalties for violating DC's consumer protection laws.
Consumer Reports notes that the so-called hidden fees are becoming worse, and have been the source of hundreds of complaints to the magazine. In fact, the article states, the hotel industry raked in a record $2.9 billion in resort fees and other fees and surcharges in 2018, with even more expected for 2019, according to Bjorn Hanson, Ph.D., a hotel consultant and clinical adjunct professor at the Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality at New York University.
It isn't the first time the issue of resort fees has been in the legal spotlight – it's far from the first time people have complained about them. The travel blog, The Points Guy, notes, "Resort fees have long been a bane of existence for travelers. After many years of seeming powerlessness against the relentless increase of additional costs "hidden" in plain sight, consumers and third-party booking agencies have begun fighting back. With some hotel loyalty programs (Hilton and Hyatt, for example), using points is a way to avoid paying resort fees, though that option does not work with Marriott who charges resort fees on both paid and award bookings (occasionally even charging per person instead of per room)."
Several years ago, the FTC considered sanctioning the controversial charges, but ultimately found they were not required to be included on advertised hotel rates. This is a direct contrast to airlines and travel agents, both of which are required to disclose all incremental fees in their final advertised prices.
Planners who are negotiating with hotels should ask for a breakdown on room charges and should ascertain that individuals who are making their reservations will not encounter unexpected fees. Housing bureaus may also be able to create safeguards against individuals being hit with surcharges.
"Resort fees and other fees can be negotiated in every hotel contract, depending on the size and scope of the particular event you're negotiating," says Nicholas Collins of HBC Event Services. "It helps when you are contracting a larger block of rooms and even more so if you intend on utilizing food and beverage at the hotel. It also depends on the availability in the area, the demand at the time and how willing the hotel will be to work with you on your requests. It is very easy, for example, to receive discounted resort fees at hotels in Las Vegas for larger blocks of rooms. There are plenty of factors but negotiation is always possible."
Those who are charged resort fees in a city where they have not negotiated the housing may still have some recourse; Frommer's includes this list of actions travelers can take that may help them get out of some or all of the surcharges.
SDM will continue to follow the developments in this lawsuit.
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Prince Baudouin of Belgium
Title: Prince Baudouin of Belgium
Subject: Albert I of Belgium, Baudouin of Belgium, Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Leopold III of Belgium, Louis Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium
Collection: 1869 Births, 1891 Deaths, Belgian Royal Princes, Burials at the Church of Our Lady of Laeken, Deaths from the 1889–90 Flu Pandemic, House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Belgium), People from Brussels, Princes of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Prince Baudouin
French: Baudouin Léopold Philippe Marie Charles Antoine Joseph Louis
Dutch: Boudewijn Leopold Filips Marie Karel Antoon Jozef Lodewijk
English: Baldwin Leopold Philip Marie Charles Anthony Joseph Louis
House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders
Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
(1869-06-03)3 June 1869
Prince Baudouin of Belgium (3 June 1869 – 23 January 1891), born in Brussels, was the first child and eldest son of Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders and his wife, Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.
Baudouin was the nephew of Leopold II of Belgium. Upon the death of his eldest son, Leopold, Duke of Brabant, in the January before Baudouin's birth, the king was left with only one person in the line of succession – his younger brother, the Count of Flanders. Baudouin's birth that June was celebrated throughout the country. He was second in line to the throne at the time of his birth. King Leopold would have only one more child, another daughter, Clémentine. Baudouin was thus groomed to eventually succeed his uncle as king.
Grave of Prince Baudouin with Guard of Honour
Baudouin died in Brussels on 23 January 1891, a day after the anniversary of his cousin Léopold's death. Baudouin had been visiting his sick sister, Henriette. The prince, who had been suffering a bout of influenza, insisted on staying with his sister. Rumours circulated after his death that foul play had been involved, including a suggestion that Baudouin's death was copy of the suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria; Rudolf was the husband of Baudouin's cousin, Stéphanie. Baudouin was, at the time of his death, soon to be betrothed to his cousin, Clémentine.[1] Upon the death of Prince Baudouin, the Belgian Parliament was adjourned and theatres and public institutions were closed until after the funeral. Baudouin's body was interred at the royal vault at the Church of Our Lady of Laeken in Brussels.
After Baudouin's death, his younger brother, Albert, eventually became heir presumptive after the death of their father, and later succeeded their uncle Leopold as Albert I of Belgium.
His Royal Highness Prince Baudouin of Belgium, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony (1869–1891)
^ Belgium in Mourning; Death of Prince Bandouin -- the heir to the throne, New York Times
Bilteryst Damien, Le prince Baudouin, frère du Roi-Chevalier, Bruxelles, Editions Racine, 2013, 336 p. ISBN 9782873868475
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IU O-line feels back on track
September 11, 2018 Mike Miller Football One comment
When Indiana's offensive line didn't play to coach Tom Allen's expectations in the season opener, they heard about it.
Then, leading into last week's game against Virginia, they did something about it.
IU's O-line responded with a much more encouraging effort in Saturday's 20-16 win over the Cavaliers, paving the way toward a banner performance from freshman running back Stevie Scott, who posted 204 yards and one touchdown on 31 carries.
There's still more improvements to be made up front for the Hoosiers, but after last week's success. IU feels it's on the right course.
"We're the (most) mature group on the team and we didn't play the way we needed to in Week 1," senior left guard Wes Martin said. "We played good enough to get the win, but didn't play up to the standard we've set in our room. And we knew that. We took that personal. Coach (Allen) reinforced that. So going into Week 2, we knew we had to get back up to the standard we had set for ourselves."
All off-season, Indiana's offensive line drew praise for their approach toward authoring a comeback campaign after injuries and inconsistency plagued the group in 2017. IU's linemen were lauded as the top performing group in the weight room and emerged healthy from fall camp, bringing a combined 125 career starts into the first game of the year.
While the opener at Florida International saw a decent performance from the O-line, it didn't contain the attention to detail that Allen and position coach Darren Hiller wished to see. Allen, in particular, was displeased with IU's struggles to convert a couple of key third-and-short situations at FIU.
But this week, with Allen demanding his linemen do a better job finishing blocks, the Hoosiers fared much better. Perhaps most pleasing to Allen, they helped convert five of offense's seven opportunities on third down with four or fewer yards to go.
"I really challenged our offensive line a week ago after our first week performance about finishing blocks and finishing the plays off and really being the strength of our team and they did," Allen said. "They were good Week 1, but they weren't great, and I felt like they responded."
In doing so, Allen named the entire line — Martin, left tackle Coy Cronk, center Hunter Littlejohn, guard Simon Stepaniak, tackle Brandon Knight, center Nick Linder and guard/tackle Delroy Baker — as IU's Offensive Players of the Week.
"That's awesome and kudos to the kids," Hiller said, "but at the end of the day, we're on scholarship for a reason. That's our job. I tell the offensive line it's awesome and I'm happy for them and all that, but what we can't do is feel too good about ourselves from that perspective. It's all about mindset and mentality."
This week, the focus is repeating that performance against Ball State.
With its odd front, Virginia presented a new look for IU's offensive line in this past weekend's game. The Hoosiers also expect to see some similar fronts from the Cardinals on Saturday.
Early this week, the Ball State defense seemed to have IU's full attention after an impressive defensive performance in last week's 24-16 loss at Notre Dame. The Cardinals posted four sacks and 10 tackles for loss, harassing Irish quarterback Brandon Wimbush for much of the afternoon.
"We have to continue with our assignments," Hiller said. "Virginia created a whole new animal for us with an odd front. I thought, from an assignment standpoint, we were really good. From a technical standpoint, there's still things that we've got to get fixed. But they're coming around in that regard."
"… Leading into Game 3, it's Ball State, a scrappy football team that plays extremely hard. Lot of odd front stuff. They mix it up a little bit, so we have to be even better with our assignments and knowing what to do."
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vesuvius13 says:
The OL is much better this year but far from being a dominate OL in the B1G. They need to get better at driving DL off the LOS at the point of attack. The other thing still needing improvement is the ability to stay on blocks and finish. No OL is perfect and this OL is much better and does a good job making the offense successful so far this year.
The OL has kept our QB clean most of the time and open holes for the RBs averaging
225 yds/game. This is a very good start to the season but the challenges are going to step up in the B1G. The season is set up for the OL to make steady improvements heading into the teeth of the B1G.


Commanders' red-zone offense takes a step forward but still has work to do
Analysis by Sam Fortier
Updated November 28, 2022 at 9:57 a.m. EST|Published November 28, 2022 at 8:30 a.m. EST
Commanders tight end John Bates lands in the end zone for a 16-yard touchdown catch during the third quarter of Sunday's win over the Falcons.
Late in the third quarter Sunday, Washington Commanders tight end John Bates took off from the 16-yard line on the second in a three-route combination: post, corner and flat. Before the snap, he had seen the Atlanta Falcons in a single-high-safety defense, so when the linebackers bit on the run action and wide receiver Jahan Dotson broke inside toward the safety, Bates figured quarterback Taylor Heinicke would read from the post (Dotson's route) to the corner (his).
"I had a pretty good idea that it was probably going to be coming to me," Bates said, smiling.
As Bates broke outside, Heinicke slung the ball his way. The touchdown gave the Commanders the lead for good in a 19-13 victory, their third in a row. But perhaps the most notable part of the play was that they had scored a touchdown in the red zone.
Since Week 7, when Heinicke took over for the injured Carson Wentz, Washington has relied on a formula predicated on running the ball. The offense has sustained lengthy drives, dominated the clock and scored points with regularity, but it often has stalled out in the red zone. Under Heinicke, Washington ranks 12th in red-zone drives (18), sixth in scoring on those drives (94 percent) and 21st in red-zone touchdown rate (50 percent), per TruMedia.
An inability to finish drives is particularly dangerous for an offense such as Washington's, which isn't as explosive as a pass-first scheme and doesn't often create separation from its opponent. The liability was highlighted against Atlanta, another ball-control team that forces opponents to maximize their limited possessions. Washington was more efficient Sunday, scoring two touchdowns and kicking a field goal in three red-zone trips, but if cornerback Kendall Fuller hadn't made a game-sealing interception in the end zone, the Commanders leaving four points on the field would've been an issue.
John Bates with his first TD of 2022‼‼
Commanders lead 16-10 in the 3rd🏈pic.twitter.com/11EkYesDqZ
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"A little better," Coach Ron Rivera said of Sunday's red-zone offense, citing Bates's touchdown. But he quickly pointed to one of the Commanders' earlier chances. In the second quarter, they churned to the Atlanta 14. From there, Heinicke threw incomplete for Bates, running back Antonio Gibson was stopped after a two-yard gain, and Heinicke couldn't hit wide receiver Terry McLaurin on a short throw to the right. Washington settled for a 30-yard field goal by Joey Slye and a 10-10 tie.
"We got to punch it in," Rivera said.
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The red zone has been a problem for Washington all season. In the first six weeks with Wentz, the team got to the red zone on 14 of 74 drives, the worst rate in the NFL (18.9 percent), and scored only 71.4 percent of the time, the second-worst rate. But the offense overcame the problem at times because it was explosive enough to score from outside the red zone. In Week 5 against Tennessee, for example, Wentz threw two touchdown passes outside the red zone — before tossing a game-losing interception in it.
Since Heinicke has taken over, Washington has had an explosive play — a rush of 12 or more yards or a pass of 16 or more — on just 9.2 percent of its plays, which ranks 26th in the NFL. This heightens the importance of the Commanders making the drives they can sustain count.
Last week, Rivera suggested his team's struggles are tied to less effective play on first down. It's unclear whether the data supports that notion, but it's possible Rivera sees problems because his team is more predictable in the red zone. Washington runs 58.9 percent of the time there, the eighth-highest rate in the league. If the opposing defense doesn't fear Heinicke's arm or believe coordinator Scott Turner will call a pass, it can put more players in the box and stuff the run.
Commanders RB Brian Robinson Jr. racks up big yards and wears a big hat
Another factor could be the tight ends. The top three receivers at the position — Logan Thomas, Cole Turner and Armani Rogers — haven't been consistently healthy. And Thomas, when he did get on the field, didn't look like himself until Week 11. At 6-foot-6 and 250 pounds, Thomas was one of the league's best red-zone threats in 2020 before struggling with injuries in 2021 and 2022.
"I think [tight end health is] a little bit of it," Rivera said. "We really haven't had the continuity of that position. … That is a big position in the red zone for us, especially in this offense."
That context heightens the importance of Bates's touchdown catch. Thomas and Turner were active Sunday, but if the 6-6, 259-pounder can become a reliable red-zone target, it would be a boon for the offense.
In its win at Houston, Washington scored one touchdown and kicked two field goals on three red-zone trips (discounting a fourth on the final possession, when the game's outcome was settled and the Commanders ran out the clock). One of the field goals raised the question of whether Washington's floundering is tied to play-calling, Heinicke's arm or some of both. Near the end of the first half, the Commanders marched deep into Texans territory and took their final timeout at the 6-yard line with 22 seconds left.
"Obviously, in that situation, you can't run the ball," Heinicke said.
On the next two plays, Heinicke threw incomplete passes. The reason those passes didn't work, Heinicke said, was that Houston played cover-two, "and the couple plays that we called just didn't have that cover-two beater on it. So it's just one of those things."
Despite Sunday's step forward, Rivera, Heinicke and others spoke about the red zone as they have other facets of this successful stretch. The Commanders are having success but still have to improve.
"We could have been better in the red zone, clearly," left tackle Charles Leno Jr. said. "When you get into the red zone, you want to get touchdowns, and that's what our emphasis will be moving forward."
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Cricket boss praises Red Force effort
The T&TCB has praised the performance of the national cricket team following their emphatic victory over Barbados on Saturday night in the final of the 2016 Nagico Super50 regional tournament at the Queen's Park Oval, Port-of-Spain.
On the back of an innings of 97 runs by star batsman Darren Bravo, and an all-round bowling performance led by Rayad Emrit's three-wicket haul, the Red Force clinched their second consecutive Super50 crown with a 72-run win in front of more than 7,000 home fans.
On Monday, president of the TTCB, Azim Bassarath, said that the cricketers should be complimented for their hard work, focus and commitment during the entire two-week competition during which they did not let their guard down.
He said the Super50 victory was a result of teamwork when everyone pulled together for the greater good of supporting each other and representing their nation with their best effort on the field.
"Words cannot adequately describe how proud the Red Force team has made cricket fans and the entire nation with their show of cricket excellence. The public too has been exceptional in their support during this campaign," said Bassarath.
Left-hander Bravo was duly named Man-of-the-Match in the final for his superb knock, after joining the team last weekend following the West Indies tour of Australia. In this three innings for the team he scored 274 runs comprising scores of 82, 95, and 97 for a phenomenal average of 91.33.
Also singled out was Red Force debutant Jon Russ Jaggesar, an off-spinner who bagged 14 wickets, second in the tournament only to Sulieman Benn of the Barbados Pride, and who was instrumental in keeping the opposing batsmen in check throughout the series.
Bassarath said that despite the fact that the national squad was depleted because of injury and the unavailability of several key players, the team showed the depth of talent that currently exists in the national set-up. He said Bravo and wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin joined the squad in the last week of the tournament, after the Test tour Down Under, and made an invaluable contribution in every match they played.
"I was impressed by the way the senior players pulled their weight and led by example as they did not disappoint in keeping the momentum going which had been established earlier in the tournament," said Bassarath.
He said that the leadership qualities shown by Jason Mohammed should also be commended, as he did not shun his responsibilities and did put his best foot forward in the prevailing circumstances.
The cricket chief said the skipper was also given invaluable support by allrounder Rayad Emrit, who was one of the stand-out fast bowlers of the tournament, who along with opening batsman Evin Lewis showed that they had stepped up their game following a stint in the Bangladesh Premier League T20 prior to the Nagico Super50.
Bassarath also had encouraging words for Barbadian opening batsman Kyle Hope, selected by the Red Force as a franchise player and who fitted in perfectly with his adopted team, and never flinched even it was against his island of birth in the final.
Also coming in for high praise was the technical team comprising senior coach Gus Logie, a former outstanding West Indies player, his assistant Kelvin Williams, and no-nonsense manager Roland Sampath who all ensured that everything was done according to the book and the objectives of the team were realised.
He said not to be forgotten were stand-in wicketkeeper Stephen Katwaroo who also had an exceptional tournament behind the stumps.
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Emrullah Acar, a reporter for the pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya News Agency (MA), was one of 10 journalists detained for alleged terrorist links in various Turkish cities in October 2022. He was detained in the southeastern city of Urfa and is being held in Ankara's Sincan prison awaiting trial. The reason for the mass arrest remains unclear, but lawyers representing the journalists told CPJ that all of them have denied any connection with a terrorist group.
Employees of MA, which supports the political and cultural rights of Turkey's ethnic Kurdish citizens, have been subject to frequent prosecution, as the Turkish authorities associate them with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), an armed group that has clashed with Turkey over Kurdish independence for decades. Acar was briefly detained in Urfa in November 2021 on suspicion of "being a member of a [terrorist ] organization" before his release without charge by a local court.
On October 25, police simultaneously raided several homes and one newsroom in the cities of Ankara, Diyarbakır, Istanbul, Mardin, Urfa, and Van as part of an investigation led by the Ankara chief prosecutor's office, arresting 10 journalists perceived as pro-Kurdish. One, Zemo Ağgöz, was released the next day on house arrest to care for her newborn baby.
The remaining detainees were questioned on suspicion of "being a member of a [terrorist] organization," and about their journalistic activities; they were placed under arrest though they have not been officially charged, according to news reports. Acar, who started his journalism career with MA in 2019, was asked about the agency's reporting and his social media posts, as well as an anonymous witness testimony saying he was a terrorist, which he denied, according to documents provided to CPJ by his lawyer.
MA reported that police officers manhandled and threatened the journalists, handcuffing them for up to 15 hours during the transfer to Ankara and refusing to provide a medical assessment to confirm that some of them had been injured in custody. Some were kept in solitary confinement or given insufficient water, according to MA. Emrullah Acar, an MA reporter among the detainees, told colleagues from prison that Sincan does not provide reading materials in Kurdish, and denied inmates personal letters and healthcare.
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Book learning November 19, 2009
Posted by dolorosa12 in books, childhood, fangirl, memories.
Tags: a little princess, adele geras, amelie, books, buffy, childhood, fangirl, john marsden, joss whedon, memories, nostalgia, pagan chronicles, philip pullman
The only wars my family waged were with pen and paper.
Madhur Jaffrey, Seasons of Splendour.
As someone who lives a little too vicariously through books (and the occasional film or television series), the idea that a person might fight his or her battles on the page really resonates with me. For me, books have always provided if not guidance then at least aspirations. For almost as long as I can remember reading, I have latched on to particular characters and attempted, with varying degrees of success, to emulate them. There have been a lot of articles and posts recently about female role-models in literature (prompted in part by the upcoming release of the New Moon film and the inevitable bout of hand-wringing about the message Bella Swan sends to impressionable young women) and this post is prompted, in part, by these articles. I'll do a links round-up over at Livejournal so you can see the sorts of things that are being said, if you're interested.
I'm quite proud of my literary role models, on the whole.
The first character I can remember pretending to be, was, fittingly, Sara Crewe from A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. (I had spent many years pretending to be fairytale princesses before that, but I choose to ignore that as I feel my identification with these princesses was more due to the fact that they wore pretty dresses and jewellery.) For those of you not familiar with the character, Sara is the daughter of an English soldier who lives in India as part of the colonial administration. She grows up pampered in a London boarding school run by the cartoonishly vile Miss Minchin, until her father's death, which leaves her penniless. Miss Minchin, who spoiled Sara because she hoped to get rewarded by the wealthy Captain Crewe, finds herself responsible for a girl she detests. Overnight, Sara's life changes. Instead of being the favoured student at the school, she is now a drudge teaching the younger students. She has to move out of her luxurious rooms into a cold attic, eating scraps where before she had dined on delicacies.
What I loved about Sara was not so much the grace with which she endured this change in circumstances but the way she chose to endure them. You see, Sara was a reader. ('She doesn't just read books, Miss Minchin, she devours them,' her father says.) More importantly, she was a storyteller. The thing that kept me covering wooden crates with red crepe paper (to make them look like Sara's 'battered red footstool') and drawing fireplaces on bits of paper in order to stick them on my wall to recreate Sara's attic bedroom was the power of Sara's imagination. 'Suppose,', she would say, meaning, 'Imagine something better than here'.
A Little Princess was an early lesson for me in the power of the imagination to overcome the most horrendous circumstances. The book articulated something I'd only just begun to understand: that books offered readers another, infinitely more wonderful world.
The next book to set my imagination on fire to such an extent was Adèle Geras' wonderful The Girls in the Velvet Frame. What, you might ask, did a story about five Jewish sisters growing up poor in pre-Israel Jerusalem have to do with a seven-year-old middle-class Canberran in the early 90s? For me, it was two things: the warmth of the sisters' relationship (and their relationships with their widowed mother Sarah and unmarried, ageing aunt Mimi), and the perfection of Geras' characterisation.
I loved the matriarchal world of the Bernstein sisters, as I saw (and valued) a similar quality in my own family (which is made up of very strong women with very close relationships). And I loved, in particular, two of the sisters: dreamy Naomi, who saw the world through rose-coloured glasses and used storytelling to occupy her two younger sisters, and practical, cynical Chava ('I always expect bad things to happen, because then bad things don't disappoint me and the good things come as a nice surprise'). There's a lot of Naomi and Chava in me, and there is a lot of stubborn, determined Dvora in my younger sister Mimi. I recognised this even then, and I identified passionately with Geras' characters.
When I was ten, along came one character who would blow them all away with sheer awesomeness. I'm referring, of course, to Pagan Kidrouk, from Catherine Jinks' Pagan Chronicles. I read these books initially as I was invited to a talk given by Jinks at the sadly now defunct Griffith Library, and I fell in love with the snarky, sarcastic, scarily intelligent hero. It's been a life-long love affair: if Pagan were to walk out of the pages of the books today, I would follow him to the ends of the earth, even if all he did was make disparaging remarks about my intelligence and rage at the stupidity of mankind.
Part of the appeal of Pagan lay in his identity as a literate intellectual in a largely illiterate, anti-intellectual world (the books are set during the Third Crusades). He was irresolutely bookish, with a rich, if angry, intellectual life going on in his head. He has always appealed to my book snobbery, which in my preteen days was even more fierce than it is today. I read, therefore I am would've been my motto if I'd heard of Descartes. Pagan made even the illiterate characters recognise the value of reading: Lord Roland, the knight whom Pagan serves, remarks (giving me a quote that has always resonated with me), 'People who read are always like you. You can't just tell them, you have to tell them why.' I swooned, and I'm still swooning today.
The Tomorrow series by John Marsden also provided me with a set of inspirational characters. After briefly cheating on Pagan with Lee (haha), I settled down into a more sedate appreciation of this classic Australian series. I honestly think it was one of the most important cultural artefacts of my generation. For about five years, everyone was reading these books. When a new one came out, we'd all be discussing them on the playground, speculating about who would live and who would die. They were, for my generation, bigger than Harry Potter, and for that they'll always have a special place in my heart: although I loved being a reader because it set me apart, I also enjoyed it when my classmates and friends read so that we could discuss books.
I also adored the characters because they rang so true. Not one of them is a stereotype or a cardboard cut-out placed in the book as a mouthpiece for Marsden's views (which happens so often in so many YA books). Oh, sure, it was very clear what Marsden's views were, but he let them seep through organically, whispering at the margins of one of the most gripping plots I've ever had the pleasure to read. Marsden's teenage characters, from Ellie the tomboyish, self-reliant narrator to Fi the sheltered princess, from Robyn the pacifist Christian to Lee the depressed, revenge-obsessed artist, taught me how to be brave. They taught me that war was hell and that I had a moral obligation to do all that I could to prevent it, and they taught me that teenagers were the most powerful, most adaptable, most resilient and most resourceful creatures on the planet.
The next author to play such a significant role in my moral and intellectual development was the wonderful, eloquent, word-weaving Philip Pullman. He gave me such great gifts: the character Lyra, from his His Dark Materials series, who is probably my favourite fictional heroine, and is definitely the most heartbreakingly human character ever to stalk the pages of a book, and the book The Tiger In the Well, which gave me a speech which has informed my political beliefs to this day. These books didn't exactly change my beliefs (I was an atheist already, I was in favour of knowledge and consciousness and life, I was a social democrat, I was appalled by unchecked capitalism) so much as confirm them and articulate them in a way that I could not have done myself. No books have ever meant more to me than His Dark Materials and nothing has ever had, or will ever have, such a profound effect on my life.
In His Dark Materials, the idea that a very small event has the potential to create millions and millions of universes is a crucial theme. Well, the fact that my sister overheard me complaining about lack of books (I was put off by the cover of Northern Lights, which had animals on it: I've never been particularly interested in stories about animals) and forced Northern Lights into my hands utterly changed my life. I would not be at Cambridge without Philip Pullman.
There are several other book, film and television characters who are important to me: Amelie from the movie Amelie (who gave me unrealistic expectations about life, but introduced me to the joys of quirkiness and serendipity), Sulien ap Gwien from Jo Walton's Tir Tanagiri Saga (who showed me that one could have a fulfilled life without romantic realitionships), Una from Jo Walton's Romanitas series (whose intense introversion and observation of other people is something with which I identity strongly) and the characters in Joss Whedon's television shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly (who taught me that the family that you choose for yourself, united, can never be defeated, and that misfits can save the world).
These characters are in some ways more important to me than the themes of the texts in which they appear. As I took on all these characters and integrated them into my identity, they ceased to be the creations of their respective authors and became something different. I hesitate to say that they taught me how to be, since of course I am not as stoic as Sara Crewe, as resilient as Naomi and Dvora Bernstein, as intelligent as Pagan Kidrouk, as brave as the teenagers in the Tomorrow series or as all-around awesome as Lyra. I don't have the courage of my convictions of Dan Goldberg and Sally Lockhart, I don't brighten the lives of those around me as much as Amelie Poulain, I'm not as loyal as Sulien, I'm not as determined as Una and I'm not as good a friend as the characters in Joss Whedon's shows. But all these characters taught me who I wanted to be, and how I wanted to live. Although I do not live up to their standards, that I value these standards says something essential about my identity.


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After breakfast on Monday with National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R.-Okla) and the gaggle (early morning press briefing) with White House Press Secretary Dana Perino Tuesday morning, I couldn't help but reach one conclusion: when it comes to what Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the House Democrats are doing with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Cole is a lot clearer in his response than is Perino in hers.
In taking after Pelosi and Company on key issues, Cole repeatedly underscored the fact that "they are fighting us on FISA." House Democrats bottling up a Senate version of the legislation that includes retroactive immunity for telecom companies that assist in surveillance (the measure passed the Senate resoundingly, by a vote of 68-to-29), Cole said, "has more to do with trial lawyers than national security." He explained that few, if any, telecom companies would assist in surveillance if they did not receive retroactive immunity and thus be saved from lawsuits spearheaded by among the largest of Democratic contributors, the trial lawyers.
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