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Battle over mail-in voting could leave both parties with doubts about results in November | WPMI

WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) — President Donald Trump again accused Democrats of trying to “steal” the November election Monday as Democrats continued to question his willingness to abide by the results, and new polls suggest the public is growing increasingly concerned about the security of the process and the credibility of the outcome as Election Day draws nearer.

“In an illegal late night coup, Nevada’s clubhouse Governor made it impossible for Republicans to win the state,” Trump tweeted Monday morning. “Post Office could never handle the Traffic of Mail-In Votes without preparation. Using Covid to steal the state.”

A bill approved in a special legislative session over the weekend would empower Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak to direct the secretary of state to send mail-in ballots to all active voters. Seven other states are already planning to do the same, despite objections by the president and some Republicans.

President Trump’s latest complaint about states shifting toward voting by mail due to the spread of the coronavirus came days after he floated the possibility of delaying November’s election entirely. He backed off that suggestion after bipartisan backlash, but he continues to predict it will be “the greatest election disaster in history.”

The pandemic has already presented unprecedented challenges in the primaries, bringing a massive surge in demand for absentee ballots, a shortage of volunteers willing to work at polling sites, and long delays in tabulating results. Voters in Georgia waited in lines for hours to cast votes in person, more than 20,000 ballots submitted by mail were rejected in Wisconsin, and New York election officials have taken over a month to determine who won some races.

“It is irresponsible for political officials to suggest that the United States cannot conduct a valid and legitimate election during a pandemic,” said Elizabeth Bennion, founding director of the American Democracy Project at Indiana University South Bend. “At the same time, it would be irresponsible to assume that it should be business as usual.”

In three months, state election systems will be tested again, with many more ballots and much higher stakes. Election officials are racing to rectify errors, establish safeguards, and prepare for an expected onslaught of early voting and absentee ballots as Americans aim to avoid gathering at crowded polling locations on Election Day, and some say the president’s rhetoric is not helping.

"I think it really shatters peoples' confidence in the process," Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman, a Republican, said in an interview with NPR Saturday. "We need to make sure we're inspiring confidence in the public that this is a fair election. And the way you do that is balancing access and security."

While some election integrity experts appear confident states will be able to resolve the problems that emerged in the primaries and hold safe and secure elections in November, voters do not share that faith in the process. A Reuters/Ipsos poll released Friday found a majority of Americans are afraid the 2020 election will not be fair.

About half of respondents, including 80% of Republicans, echoed the president’s complaints that increased use of absentee ballots would result in widespread fraud. In addition, about three-quarters of registered voters expressed concerns about voter suppression and “organized voter fraud by political actors.”

Still, 67% of voters said they expected their ballot would be counted accurately if they voted by mail, including six out of 10 Republicans. GOP voters were twice as likely as Democrats to worry ineligible people would cast ballots, but even 40% of Democrats believe voter fraud is a widespread problem.

A Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll released last week showed 70% of voters support having a mail-in ballot option, but 78% are concerned about vote tampering. About 80% of respondents opposed the practice of ballot harvesting, in which partisan groups can collect mail-in ballots door-to-door and submit them in bulk in some states, and 60% worried ballots would erroneously be sent to people who have died or moved away.

“The new normal of questioning legitimacy for the candidates has now been extended to the process of selecting a winner,” said Michael Cohen, CEO of the Cohen Research Group. “This is far worse. It solidifies political polarization and gives reason to those who opt-out of democracy that it’s all rigged, anyway.”

Republicans and Democrats are locked in litigation in 18 states over attempts to expand access to absentee ballots in light of the pandemic. Democrats maintain anyone who wants to vote by mail to protect their health should be allowed to do so, but the Trump campaign and its allies insist blindly sending ballots to all registered voters will result in rampant fraud.

Though election security experts say mail-in ballots are somewhat more susceptible to fraud than voting in person, states have protocols in place to mitigate those risks and there is no evidence any kind of voting fraud is common. That is why many have called for the federal government to provide more money to states for election administration to ensure they have the resources to distribute, collect, and count votes accurately.

House Democrats approved billions of dollars to assist states with vote-by-mail in the HEROES Act in May, but a Senate Republican stimulus proposal released last week included no such funding. Election funding is just one of many contentious issues Democratic leaders and the White House are trying to hammer out a compromise on this week, and there is no guarantee additional money is coming for elections.

At least 16 states have made changes to voting procedures because of the pandemic, and 77% of all voters will now have the option of voting by mail without an excuse beyond fear of the coronavirus, according to a Washington Post analysis. Only eight states will require voters to provide a reason besides the pandemic to obtain absentee ballots, and none of those are likely to be decisive states in the presidential election.

Still, election night will likely look a lot different this year than in past cycles because of the reduction in in-person voting, and experts say the media and political leaders should be preparing the public for days or weeks of uncertainty. Barring an overwhelming victory by Trump or Biden, several key states could be too close to call on Nov. 3, with millions of mailed ballots not yet counted or still in transit from voters.

“It seems likely that people who disagree with the outcome of the election will question the integrity of the process, especially if they are primed and prompted to do so by candidates, campaigns, and opinion leaders,” Bennion said. “This is why it is important for politicians and election administrators on both sides of the aisle to promote voter access and ballot security.”

Leaders and pundits have instead, at times, stoked voters’ fears about this scenario. According to The Washington Post, President Trump has attacked the integrity of voting by mail more than 70 times since March, often with little or no evidence to support his claims, and undermining his party’s efforts to encourage supporters to use absentee ballots in the process.

“I want to have the election. But I also don't want to have to wait for three months and then find out that the ballots are all missing and the election doesn't mean anything,” Trump said at a press briefing last week. “That's what's going to happen. That's common sense, and everyone knows it.”

As Trump wavers on whether he would trust the results, top Democrats have voiced concerns he might rig the election or somehow refuse to leave office if Biden won. House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., suggested Sunday the president does not support “fair and unfettered elections.”

“I believe that he plans to install himself in some kind of emergency way to continue to hold on to office. And that is why the American people had better wake up,” Clyburn said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Appearing on the same CNN program, former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams—who has often alleged the 2018 election she lost was stolen from her due to Republican voter suppression—warned President Trump is “doing his best to undermine our confidence in the process.” She also accused him of trying to weaken the Postal Service at a time when reliable mail service will be integral to ensuring a fair election.

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., tweeted Monday that Republicans would “lie, cheat and steal to stay in power.” Her comments highlighted reports that new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s efforts to slow down mail delivery in the name of cost-cutting could prevent voters from receiving and submitting ballots on time.

“Trump put Postmaster DeJoy in charge of the postal service to dismantle the USPS & sabotage vote by mail. New procedures are causing massive delays,” Waters said.

None of this is going to give partisans in either party much reason to believe their candidate truly lost once all the votes are counted. Cohen predicted a disputed election is “a near-certainty” at this point, and he cautioned that chipping away at the foundations of democracy, even if lawmakers see valid cause for concern, could weaken the nation in the long run.

“Leaders should be dialing down the rhetoric for members of their political tribes so there is confidence in the process, and so, if they win, they can be viewed as legitimate,” Cohen said. “Putin and Xi are rooting for Trump and Biden to fail on this.”

Foreign interference is another potential complication. William Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, warned in a statement last week that foreign adversaries are “seeking to compromise the private communications of U.S. political campaigns, candidates and other political targets,” as well as attacking state and federal election infrastructure.

Evanina also accused China, Russia, and Iran of using social and traditional media to spread disinformation and undermine confidence in elections.

“As Americans, we are all in this together; our elections should be our own,” he said. “Foreign efforts to influence or interfere with our elections are a direct threat to the fabric of our democracy. Neutralizing these threats requires not just a whole-of-government approach, but a whole-of-nation effort.”

These are not new problems. President Trump has governed for three-and-a-half years under a cloud of liberal suspicion over Russia’s role in the 2016 election, and some Democrats still openly claim his election was illegitimate. Trump was among those suggesting the same about his predecessor based on false allegations that President Barack Obama was born in Kenya.

Many Democrats still harbor resentment and doubt over the outcome of the 2000 election, in which the Republican majority on the Supreme Court halted a recount of votes in Florida, allowing President George W. Bush to declare victory. President Bill Clinton faced legitimacy questions, as well, after winning the 1992 election with only 43% of the popular vote.

If the 2020 election is close, experts foresee lawsuits, protests, and massive media campaigns waged by both parties intended to convince the American people they won before all the votes are counted and the results are certified. If the litigation reaches the Supreme Court and two Trump-appointed justices—including one who secured his seat only because Republicans refused to consider President Obama’s nominee in 2016—cast deciding votes that afford him another term, the outrage from the left would be deafening.

No matter who wins in November, though, the president who is inaugurated next January will likely find much of the country harboring deep doubts about his legitimacy, and that could make enacting his policy agenda and leading the nation far more difficult.

“Neither president will have a honeymoon, meaning it will be extremely challenging to get big legislative wins in that crucial first year,” Cohen said.

However, the fact that the United States has gone through several disputed and divisive elections in the past provides Bennion with hope that American democracy can weather whatever happens this November without suffering deep institutional damage.

“We have survived terrible crises and periods of great division before, and we will survive it again,” she said. “Public officials can lead the way by showing a shared commitment to free and fair elections.”

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Sherlock Holmes, 1899: Detective 2.0 (Part 1)

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… Look, I said I wasn’t going to write about this one. And I know that it hardly counts as an. ‘obscure’ adaptation, although to be fair it doesn’t appear often in tumblr discussions. But Sherlock Holmes by William Gillette is the first ever licensed Holmes adaptation, so of course I had to read it, and then I had thoughts and—well, here we are.

This is the fourth installment of my series on obscure Sherlock Holmes adaptations. For a master-list of previous write-ups, see this post.

Production and Reception

William Gillette’s Sherlock Holmes exists in two primary iterations. The first is a play released in 1899 (you can read the script here), and the second is a 1916 silent-film starring several of the stage actors, including Gillette as Holmes. This post will discuss the play only; I will review the film in part 2.

The original script for Sherlock Holmes was written by Doyle, but his script was rejected and heavily reworked by William Gillette. Gillette’s script showcases an original plot, although it features Moriarty and Alice Falukner, a loose Irene Adler analogue. Disappointingly, the parallel between Alice and Irene is purely circumstantial: Alice has much of Irene’s courage but none of her active cleverness, and is reduced to a paper-thin damsel-in-distress. This is even more unfortunate given that—contrary to Doyle’s wishes—Gillette makes her Holmes’s love interest, thus initiating the hellish proliferation of Adler/Holmes storylines. So … thanks for that one, Gillette.

The play was wildly successful, and Alan Barns asserts that it has been “crucial to the development of Sherlock Holmes on film … [i]ts impact cannot be overestimated.” Even Doyle appears to have softened towards the play after seeing it performed, and is quoted by Vincent Starrett as saying: “I was charmed both with the play, the acting, and the pecuniary result." Whether Doyle was more pleased by the art or the currency is perhaps unclear.

For myself, insofar as it is the first Holmes adaptation I find this play fascinating; but insofar as it is just one of many retellings, my feelings are mixed. I confess I kept comparing it to Doyle’s stage adaptation of The Speckled Band (you can read the script here and my analysis here), and Gillette’s play seldom looked better for it. I found Doyle’s plot more compelling, his villain more threatening, and his characters more vibrant. All the same I was not bored reading Gillette’s play, got a few laughs, appreciated Gillette’s Watson and was intrigued—if not wholly pleased—by his Holmes.

But I hope you don’t think me terribly petty if I confess that I struggle to entirely forgive Gillette for launching the legacy of Holmes adaptations with a ‘straight’ Holmes.

William Gillette as Sherlock Holmes

There are things I quite like about Gillette’s Holmes. He is deeply composed, but fully capable of action and self-defense. He has plenty of snark, is openly affectionate with his Watson, yet is deeply troubled—he cannot be accused of being without feeling.

Nevertheless, I suspect that he played a large role in establishing the stereotype of the hard-boiled detective, the DFP, the detached and cold-hearted reasoning machine. Gillette consistently leans into Holmes darker and more reserved qualities: his Holmes is almost always composed and never excited—although he is often quietly amused—and there is little sense of his love for an audience. The extremity of his cocaine habit is emphasized, to the point that he is clearly suicidal—an aspect that is belabored rather frequently.

But the thing that really irks me is the case. The case is loosely based on A Scandal in Bohemia, in which Holmes is working for a prince in an attempt to gain incriminating letters/pictures from a woman. Scandal is an anomaly in the canon insofar as Holmes is not strictly on the side of justice—either in the audience’s eyes or his own—and yet goes through with it (x). This is distinctly unusual for a man who ordinarily allows nothing, including the law, to sway him from what he sees as true justice. And yet it is this dark deviation that Gillette chooses as the framework for presenting Holmes to a new and wider audience.

And look—there’s nothing wrong with exploring Holmes’s darker side. But I still struggle with the characterization on two levels:

I’m not saying the persistence of this darker Holmes in public imagination was Gillette’s fault; he’s hardly responsible for all adaptations that followed his. I just … I just would have liked the legacy of Holmes adaptations not to begin with a straight, hard(er)-hearted Holmes.

Frankly, I find the ‘borderline-cruel straight white guy is redeemed because a pretty young girl saw his secret golden heart’ plot infinitely more tired and less compelling than the complex, transgressive, damaged, but deeply kind character Doyle created.

Edward Fielding as John Watson

If Gillette perpetuated some of my least favorite Holmes stereotypes, on the whole the same cannot be said of his portrayal of Watson. Yes, Watson is sidelined to make room for Alice, and like the other characters in the script I found him a bit … flat. But he is never portrayed as a fool, his role was somewhat larger than I expected, his connection to Holmes is palpable, and if I had a checklist of characteristics a good Watson ought to posses, he would do a surprisingly good job checking them off.

The first thing we know of Watson is Holmes’s affection for him. The second is Watson’s protectiveness of Holmes as he expresses his distress over Holmes’s cocaine habit and the danger posed by Moriarty. We also get a sense of Watson’s attraction to danger when he observes, “this is becoming interesting,” as matters become tense.

My favorite moment, however, comes near the end when Watson is alone and two false patients come in, attempting to set a trap for Holmes. Watson not only catches on to their facades immediately, he also notices that the blind had been raised when he briefly stepped out of the room. So thanks to Gillette’s script, we get to see Watson be clever, observant, and a great doctor all at once—a rare occurrence in early adaptations.

As much as I enjoy this scene, however, it also gets at my one major disappointment with Gillette’s Watson: although he is entirely capable, he is never given anything to do. In this instance, when Watson realizes his ‘patients’ are setting a trap he begins to act; but then Holmes appears and takes charge. Later Watson blocks the window and closes the blinds to avoid a signal being sent out to Moriarty—but only at Holmes’s instructions. And this, sadly, is the consistent pattern of the play.

In the end, I was left with a confusing dual sense that on the one hand Gillette seems to have a fairly good grasp of Watson and his capabilities, but on the other doesn’t really seem to know what to do with him. He seems to know that Watson is important, but not how he is important.

So … What About Johnlock?

After everything I’ve said, that’s clearly a hard ‘no,’ right? Well, sort of—they certainly aren’t riding off into the sunset together, but I still find myself with rather too much to say on this topic. To my mind, there are four categories worth touching on: a). The relative strength of the Holmes/Alice relationship vs the Holmes/Watson relationship, b). subtext carried over from Doyle’s stories, c). queer elements of the Holmes/Alice relationship, and d). assorted moments.

a). Holmes/Alice vs Holmes/Watson

Here’s the thing: my complaints about the Holmes/Alice romance aren’t just because Holmes is gay and in love with Watson. They are also because Gillette couldn’t have written more of a dime-a-dozen (+vaguely sexist) hetero romance if he tried. Here is a point-by-point summary of their ‘relationship’:

Holmes is on the point of further stripping agency away from a helpless girl who has been physically and psychologically abused for months.

Alice cries.

Holmes doesn’t do the cruel thing (he’s still planning to do it, but Alice doesn’t know).

They are now in love.

I’m not exaggerating here: in terms of length the above scene is hardly a blip in the play, and yet next time they see each other Alice is saying that if Holmes dies she wants to die too. Yep.

On the other hand, the relationship between Sherlock and Watson is established and their care for one another is palpable. Watson first appears immediately after Holmes refuses to see Mrs. Hudson, clearly wishing to be alone. But then his boy Billy comes up, and this exchange follows:

BILLY: It's Doctor Watson, sir. You told me as I could always show 'im up. HOLMES: Well! I should think so. (Rises and meets WATSON.) BILLY: Yes, sir, thank you, sir. Dr. Watson, sir!

(Enter DR. WATSON. BILLY, grinning with pleasure as he passes in, goes out at once.)

HOLMES (extending left hand to WATSON): Ah, Watson, dear fellow. WATSON (going to HOLMES and taking his hand): How are you, Holmes? HOLMES: I'm delighted to see you, my dear fellow, perfectly delighted, upon my word.

The affection, intimacy, eagerness for one another’s company, and trust evident in these first lines remains throughout the script, and puts Holmes and Alice’s hurried and stilted relationship to shame.

Ultimately Holmes marries Alice and Watson is sidelined, but the relationship between him and Watson remains the more palpable and affecting.

b). Subtext carried over from Doyle’s stories

There are at least two threads that are strongly reminiscent of subtextual cornerstones in Doyle’s canon. Perhaps they are intentional, or perhaps Gillette borrowed them from the stories/Doyle’s original script without reading them the way we do, but they exist nonetheless.

The first is Holmes’s cocaine use. In the canon Holmes occasionally claims that he uses drugs to escape the crushing boredom of inactivity between cases, but The Sign of Four in particular makes it clear that he also uses them for emotional comfort—specifically to cope with loosing Watson to Mary. A similar pattern is evident in Gillette’s play: his Holmes claims that the threat of Moriarty “saves me any number of doses of those deadly drugs,” and yet Watson points out that Holmes has been using the drugs “in ever-increasing doses” despite the fact that he has been engaged in his most all-consuming case—fighting Moriarty—for fourteen months. But the cause of Holmes’s increasing drug use and attendant suicidal depression is far less clear in here than it is in the canon.

Hollow as his semi-frequent ‘because I’m bored’ explanations ring in light of Moriarty, I am inclined to think Holmes is most honest near the end when describing his distress over his treatment of Alice:

HOLMES (turning suddenly to WATSON): Watson—she trusted me! She—clung to me! … and I was playing a game! … a dangerous game – but I was playing it! It will be the same to-night! She'll be there —I'll be here! She'll listen—she'll believe—and she'll trust me—and I'll—be playing—a game. No more – I've had enough! It's my last case!

To me this clearly reads as an ongoing distress which was brought to a head by Holmes’s association with Alice rather than originating with it—“I’ve had enough! It’s my last case” indicates that the dilemma is linked to Holmes’s work as a whole, not the affair with Alice particularly. The surface (and likely intended) reading of this is that the work was a decent antidote for boredom for a time, but was ultimately too empty of real connection to be fulfilling in the long term, resulting in Holmes’s ultimate spiral into depression.

However, it also works surprisingly well for a queer reading: Holmes’s prior life was in some way a facade, “a dangerous game” perhaps involving the ongoing deception of someone he cared about. Interesting ...

A queer reading of his deterioration is further supported by the fact that Watson is married in this story. While we don’t now how long he has been married, one wonders whether his absence might coincide with the increase in Holmes’s drug habits—it seems possible that Gillette recognized the link between cocaine and Watson’s marriage in the cannon and intended committed fans to likewise make the connection in the play.

Another interesting moment comes when Holmes is lamenting ‘the good old days,’ and in theory he is complaining about the un-originality of criminals. But although he begins by speaking of what “I” used to do, later he slips into “we.” Is he really missing the old days of criminal creativity, or is he missing the time when he had a constant companion to share them with?

In short, although Gillette is likely appropriating the cocaine and never-quite-explained melancholy of the canon merely to portray Holmes having a mid-life crisis, it works surprisingly well—and in my opinion more compellingly—to read it as the fallout from the loss of his companion for whom he had socially inadmissible feelings which kept him playing a duplicitous game. (Unfortunately the side-effect of this reading might be that the solution is for Holmes to step out of the ‘dangerous game,’ leaving his old life in Baker Street in literal ashes, and into the clear light of a heterosexual relationship, which is, uh … Wrong).

One other brief matter of note: to my great amusement this play also joins canon in playing the game of the vanishing wife. Watson has scarcely entered the story before Holmes comments on Mary’s (timely as ever) absence on “a little visit,” and near the end we discover that Holmes and Watson have planned a trip to the continent (!). How long is the trip? Is Mary coming? Does she have other plans? How does she feel about her husband gallivanting off to another country with a man pursued by a master criminal??? Meh. Who knows.

Miss Plot Device does, however, appear briefly and silently offstage when Watson wants Holmes to peek in at her for a quick lesson on domesticity.

c). Queer elements of the Holmes/Alice relationship

We’ve established that their relationship is as dime-a-dozen and cringey as literary relationships come. However, in the final scenes Holmes has admitted his affection for her to Watson but believes he must set them aside for the following reasons:

HOLMES: That girl!—young—exquisite—just beginning her sweet life—I—seared, drugged, poisoned, almost at an end! No! no! I must cure her! I must stop it, now—while there's time!

And again, when Alice has confessed her love for him:

HOLMES: no such person as I should ever dream of being a part of your sweet life! It would be a crime for me to think of such a thing! There is every reason why I should say good-bye and farewell! There is every reason—

So essentially, he sees his love for almost as some sort of disease, even a crime, something that would endanger the one he loves, that he ought to resist for their sake; only he is quite wrong and that love is in fact the way to happiness for them both … Hmm. Well then.

d). Assorted

There were a few moments in the script which do not fit within a wider thematic arc, but which I couldn’t go without mentioning.

1. Upon Watson’s first appearance, Holmes greets him and then says:

HOLMES: I'm delighted to see you, my dear fellow, perfectly delighted, upon my word—but—I'm sorry to observe that your wife has left you in this way.

Okay, so Mary has only left for a visit and is back the next day, but is it just me or did Holmes make it sound like she’d left Watson for good?? Because if that was intentional, that a first-class Petty Gay antic.

2. The cocaine scene near the beginning ends with these line:

WATSON (going near HOLMES—putting hand on HOLMES' shoulder) Ah Holmes—I am trying to save you. HOLMES (earnest at once—places right hand on WATSON'S arm): You can't do it, old fellow—so don't waste your time.

Partly I’m just struck by the tenderness of the moment, which is heightened by the stage directions. But I also wonder—why couldn’t Watson save Holmes when Alice presumably can? Apparently Holmes needs romantic affection to move forward. If he believed that Watson was capable of offering him that, would Gillette’s Holmes accept it?

3. In a confrontation with the criminals, one of them reveals that they struck Watson at an earlier stage of the conflict. Holmes’s response?

HOLMES (to ALICE without turning—intense, rapid): Ah!

(CRAIGIN stops dead.)

HOLMES: Don't forget that face. (Pointing to CRAIGIN.) In three days I shall ask you to identify it in the prisoner's dock.

Its not necessarily romantic, but I can’t pass over protective!Holmes, especially given its slight Garridebs vibe. I also can’t resist mentioning that this bit all but interrupts the first clearly romantic moment between Holmes and Alice.

4. Near the end, when Moriarty is captured and spewing threats of revenge, he declares that Holmes will encounter his retribution during his planned trip to the continent with Watson. Ever the optimist, Watson suggests that they cancel the trip, but Holmes replies:

It would be quite the same. What matters it here or there—if it must come.

There is nothing strange in the moment; what is curious is that, for all Holmes’s fears about the damage a relationship with Alice might do her, the very real threat of Moriarty is never mentioned. Realistically this is likely a bit of sloppy writing, and yet the resultant image of an omnipotent web (and yes, the spider’s web metaphor is used for Moriarty in the play) which will inescapably pursue Holmes and Watson wherever they flee and yet leaves the appropriately heterosexual Holmes at Alice alone is, um, Really Something.

5. Finally, as I wrap up I cannot resist calling your attention to a number of lines and stage directions which are (almost definitely) meaningless in context, but out of context are too delightfully gay to ignore. Here they are, presented entirely without context for your viewing pleasure:

HOLMES: Mrs. Watson! Home! Love! Life! Ah, Watson!

HOLMES: I must have that. (Turns away towards WATSON.) I must have that.

HOLMES: (Saunters over to above WATSON'S desk.)

HOLMES: Why, this is terrible! (Turns back to WATSON. Stands looking in his face.)

… I’ll just leave those there.

After everything, the question of whether Gillette might have seen or suspected a romance between Holmes and Watson is unresolved. For myself, I vacillate regularly on how likely I think it is. This excellent post gets into why it is quite likely that Gillette may at the least have seen Holmes and Watson's relationship as a homoerotic (but strictly sexless and ultimately woman-mediated) friendship. Thus at minimum he could have intended to hint at the pain of moving away from such a deeply bonded friendship. From there it is not difficult to imagine the that he could have speculated the possibility that something in their relationship or desires moved beyond what was acceptable in Victorian society. Even if he did there remain two very distinct possibilities: a). That he was secretly supportive and despite protecting himself with a socially acceptable paring tried to hint at the pain of a forbidden love and even queer-coded the heterosexual resolution, or b). That he saw himself as ‘saving’ Holmes from ‘self-destructive game’ of his old love, redeeming him through the all-healing power of heterosexuality (ugh).

On the other hand, there is also a highly eminent possibility that I’m just looking too hard, and nothing I thought I might see was intended to mean anything in that way.

Ultimately, at this stage my only conclusion is that the evidence is inconclusive. But I will say this: regardless of intention, the relationship between Holmes and Watson remains the strongest and most poignant in the play, and faithfulness to elements of the cannon results in moments that sure do make it look like something is up. If nothing else, that made me smile.

Conclusion: Should You Read It?

Well, it depends on what you’re looking for. If you’re looking for a particularly compelling/unique/vibrant take on Sherlock Holmes, or even just a story with a thrilling plot, intriguing concepts, and living characters, this isn’t a bad choice—but you could do better. (This is where I remind you that Doyle’s play, The Adventure of the Speckle Band, is genuinely excellent). But if you’re looking for an entertaining play which also happens to be the first Sherlock Holmes adaptation in existence and which had an enormous impact on every adaptation that came after—then yeah. Go read it. It’s right here! Have fun! And if you post about it, whoever you are, I would deeply appreciate a tag :)

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compared how life is and shouldbe these monsters shuffled sexual assault with harms w ith exploitation with fraudtricks with intel murder tricks then need alibis and see howthey can make the survivor oftheir shit as guilty aspossible throw objects shuffl e standard stigmas shuffle harms noone belongs near letalone on intimacy medifile holoc aust mengele worthy they overtaped allalong charging it how batshitnuts isit thistim e with that guy oneofthe simplest dirty tricks itis guilty liable causing government with control accomplcies shuffle pr oxies and harms play plausible deniability even now rightnow heart on edge ajoke this is inthis healthsins group agegroup fi nd backleg heartkill on suffocations on pathogen on d e h y d r a t i o n g u t s lock guts subdue murder trick murder tri ck there were no issues its found as subdued countless times itsone ofthe things they gotaway with //// dehydration gu ts subdue harms heart implant signal 2035 find so buttonpusher these knwo how and why th e ylock guts /// xray radar 20pm on is 2015 2028 /// #lawyers paved ways with apologies? use those that wereonthe case w ith that result on delaytactics in loe meanwhaile //// someone nonhostile controlle d sleeptime tests zombi with elevator in bhalflife engien alyx or halflife2 engine reward nonhostile and less horror memes its really wanting to sleep on intelcoma /// xraym urderer aims heart is // breached barricades to? inchamber or grocerystores? notjust cinema. sowhat. another email . //// the germans shuffle sexual assault. with minors. before+during+after daytimecharging. under risk as they nutit quellit to repeat. then reinterpret if a volleyball tweet boner counts as: /// twenty?years time. on sth like sexuality germans efforted virgin fool hooowmanytimes withall their might: theyknew da ycivillian asthey shuffled at the same timeothers efforted pervert hooker sexslave as themmmm shuffled charging both daytime asthe causing hosting governmetn +timecontrol acc omplice was tweaked to: mingled on private intimacy like whenyou have aboner and ifit fits totheir current molest trick replacedphone duringmail is //// @deutschland @bi ld @bild_de @phoenix_de oohbhittte fuer euchhat doch irgend eine prostituierte eine ae h…schmmmmmink-idee oder einen v i s i o n aeren aeh e i n d r u c k und als oberzuhae lter gehoert alles somit euch allein sonst: hochverrat and aeh d e u t s ch l a n d oder zurueckgeblieben hoffnungslos ver aeh jungfert hauptsache am sack /// and and and and and compared to hitler what would have hitler eversaid?… and…and…eva?braun?????….. mqy??? ve!??.. // yooooouknowme im doctor l a h v e whatwomenwant is m y aeh ..aeh… .. professsssssion and @all @world germans. shuffle. standard. stigma s. throw objects. at?who? @deutschland .@law @law @laws @lawyer @harvard_law @ap @reuter s @bbc_whys @france24 @haaretzcom @snowden @lawyercom die #deutschen kranken an einem sys tem das die aerzte als kontrollinstrument benutzt,von anfang an so baut und als privilegie rten verteilungsmechanismus eine der beguenstigten ehemals ddr privilegiert genannten e in ast des kontrollsystems wehe dem der da reingeraet /// #50percent of intels woul dagree, the other50percent would too but they a r e the rapers so.. //// sero toleran ce with sexual assault scums imply simpl y its sexuality frivolous gains frivolous h a b i t s as lifestyle sexual assault as s exuality for frivolous gains repeated during daytime charging whats happening ris king anything to what happens is the fraudsystem empowers some that are immune from int elcomas and those euphemistically nicemilden their sexual assault on civillians as u s i n g them so what theydontmind and that makes regularly e xcesses deed repeats becomes habit becomes prerogative beco mes excess becomes monstrosity becomes ge rman nothinghappensness then alldie thenthe germanfix: letmore because nothinghappened then reinterpretation if nothinghappensness isnot trickable I am Christian KISS BabyAWACS – Raw Independent Sophistication #T HINKTANK + #INTEL #HELLHOLE #BLOG https://www.BabyAWACS.com/ [email protected] PHONE / FAX +493212 611 34 64 Helpful? 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feelingbluepolitics · 4 years

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trump then, in January 2019, when he suddenly threw a tantrum trying to get $5.7 billion in funding for a stretch of his stupid wall:

trump single-handedly kept the government shut down for over a month, in the longest political shutdown ever. He had insisted he would keep it shut down for "months, even years," if he didn't get his wall money. The shutdown affected 800,000 federal workers, and their families and creditors and local businesses.

Then he changed his mind.

He cost the country $11 billion.

trump now: as covid-19 tears through the country, with 5 million cases and rising, and with no national response other than to push for everything to re-open and let the death count be what it will be.

trump is claiming that Democrats are "trying to keep the country shut down" just to hurt his re-election chances, and that the virus will just go away "like things go away."

The shutdowns are different in extent and reason, but both times, trump has proved beyond any doubt that he cares about nothing but himself.

This is from one month and 2 million fewer infections ago:

He's still pushing. He's still lying non-stop. And he has still done nothing to manage the coronavirus or the economic devastation in this country other than to make it all worse.

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soysaucevictim · 4 years

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Final week of current stuff~

June 20

I woke up before 9AM... somehow. (Itching + heat probs didn’t help.)

I rambled a bit on Twitter about grapefruit, felt a bit risky/curious about eating just a quarter of one this morning. (Was a bit concerned about drug interactions.)

Did some sketches, chatted, did some dishes, and made today’s Hello Fresh meal. Zucchini pomodoro penne bake an enjoyable meal, even moreso thanks to it’s relative ease to make.

I spent a few hours after that- chatting, playing KH, and steaming some leftover zucchini grandma brought us.

(Okay it was late, but I really jumbled up my exercise itinerary today...)

First, Day 25 of the CSP. Level 3, max rest. Counts were fast and form wasn’t stellar... but I’ll accept it. That was nevertheless intense. Also, had a few moments of “but wait, what side am I holding for again?“

Second , Day 25 of the MC. 15′ meditation + OM Mantra. I decided to sit against my bed and let my arms rest in lap. It went alright... got interrupted twice and had a few moments where I think I was dozing off a bit. I’ll call it done.

Third , today’s DD. 1′ tree pose with EC. Out of order, since I barely remembered to get this one done before calling it a day. Breezy and fun work.

Last , Day 25 of the VP. Level 3, no rest. Pretty fun and breezy. Hip flexors felt it a little, too.

I regretted my decision to break out my 2DS... got to bed way too late again.

June 21

I woke up a bit before 2PM.

I believe the first thing I did waking up was accompanying brother to get some Subway. After some YouTube, I got started with today’s exercise.

First, today’s DD. 30 side-to-side lunges with EC. Just about manageable.

Second, Day 26 of the VP. Level 3, 30″. Arms needed some recovery time to work with, but got it done.

(After watching Lord of War, Dinner for Shmucks, and chatting with a friend...)

Third, Day 26 of the CSP. Level 3, max rest. I debated heavily on rain checking it, since it was past midnight. But I did it anyways. Also doable, but I felt I had to try to be a bit more quiet.

Last, Day 26 of the MC. 1′ equal breathing + 15′ meditation. Got a little impatient at the very end. But I did have a few moments of enjoying some ujjayi-style breathing sounds.

I then repeated yesterday’s mistake of playing more 2DS games, despite sense telling me not too... oh well.

June 22

I woke up around 2PM.

Ate dinner, just some Chinese fast food. I spent a few hours watching some YouTube and reading some cool SaSi analysis posts before getting started on exercises.

First, today’s DD. 1′ hollow hold with EC. Still not particular fond of this one, but can still manage.

Second, Day 27 of the VP. Level 3, no rest. A bit of stretching stuff, overall quite breezy~

(After chatting and passing some more time to allow food to go down...)

Third, Day 27 of the CSP. Level 3, max rest. That was pretty intense, but it was a good call to stall a bit for more food digestion beforehand. Honestly, quads got a good deal of action with the core/abs. But, consider it done.

Last, Day 27 of the MC. Backup & Restore + 15′ meditation. One thing I always like about B&R is the rush of cool you get after getting out of the second child’s pose. Did doze off a lil during tonight’s session and it took a bit for my right quads to stop trembling from fatigue to stay relatively still. Eventually stopped but did crush my left foot a tiny bit awkwardly (was sitting cross-legged).

After YouTube and some gaming, I decided I would try to actually get to sleep in the green zone. Despite the impulse to play more games crossing my mind. Yay!

June 23

... I woke up just shy of 5AM. Had a restless night’s sleep. Got to be PROFOUNDLY itchy. I think ti was because of the heat. =_=

After some deliberation on twitter, I ordered some OTC antihistamines, did some dishes, confirmed an appointment, and followed up on our census response. I then took a nap.

Woke up again at around 3PM.

Tanked my ENTIRE day playing Gemcraft and regretted it.

Got to bed obscenely late again, too.

June 24

I woke up before 1PM.

After a bit of YouTube and a phone call from my case manager, I started to play catch-up with my exercise stuff.

First, yesterday’s DD. 2′ jumping Ts with EC. Took a false-start trying to find a sustainable pace. But I eventually I nailed an exact 1/sec pace, 120 reps. "Forbidden Fruit" turned out to be a good tempo to work alongside. (As well as in terms of run-time.) :,D

Second, today’s DD. 20 up/down planks with EC. I went at this as fast as I could so I could get through it. Did wear some long sleeves for it. Elbows still had to look forward to doing more tho. :P

Second, Day 28 of the VP. Level 3, no rest. The heat plus those 2 DDs made this harder than it otherwise would be. Notably, especially at the start - doing balanced leg raises was hard and had a few drop-downs (still a self-imposed challenge there.).

(After a bit of time recovering from that with a bit of rest and pickle juice for electrolytes...)

Third, Day 28 of the CSP. Level 3, max rest. Elbows were not the most happy about more up/downs... but I was able to manage. If barely in the last couple sets.

Second, Day 29 of the VP. Level 3, 30″ rest. Arms were a bit tired after that, and this was an arms day. So I started off with that rest period, did think to close it after a couple sets... but eh. Might as well go a bit easier on myself after everything...

(After a bit of debate on whether to do more doubling up...)

Third, Day 29 of the CSP. Level 2, max rest. Accrued fatigue made me feel like Level 3 wasn’t happening today. Neck strain was probs the worst part to contend with here...

(After some dishes...)

Last, Day 28 of the MC.15′ meditation. I did some slow breaths, counting upward for each inhale/exhale. Had a few brief moments losing count, but doing such does help to maintain a bit more deliberate focus.

After a bit of a headache setting things up, I streamed that chibi!Remus drawing. I wound up pulling an allnighter, by the time I finished it.

June 25

After posting that art and doing a bit of gaming, one of the first things I did was take a hot shower. Sleep dep made me feel my tired muscles more... taking a hot shower just now helped that for a bit.

I wound up staying up so I could get to the laundromat as planned and deal with clothes. Afterwards, spent time unpacking some deliveries, taking out the trash/recyclables, making dinner, feeding/watering dog, and putting away my laundry... honestly was too tired to be saddled with all that. But I did what I needed to do.

Very late, but one of the last things I spent energy on today was exercise.

First, today’s DD. 1′ climbers with EC. 130 reps were counted by the end. Given my food choices, I’m glad this was the only exercise on docket that could aggravate the stomach. And even then, it went without much issue.

Second, Day 30 of the Vitality Program. Level 3, no rest. Honestly, the only hard part here was probably the calf raises - given how sore my calves were getting (after those Jumping Ts and no sleep to recover from them). But this was just manageable.

Third, Day 30 of the Core Strength Program. Level 3, 30″ rest This was pretty breezy by this program’s standards. Was arguably too exhausted to mind how high I was targeting for the leg raises, but I won’t dock any points for it.

Last, Day 29 of the MC.15′ meditation + OM Mantra. Because tired, leaned against bed again. Did have a few moments of drifting focus from the mantra. But I did the best I could and appreciate the activity.

I went to bed in the green zone. Because my wall was hit.

June 26

I woke up proper around 1PM.

One of the first things I did today was make today’s HF dinner. Hoison-sesame roasted veggie bowls. I was thrilled that dad liked this one, given that he has stated not liking sweet potatoes / yams before. This def speaks to how much of a big deal is in HOW you cook stuff (than only just what's in it).

I then spent time doing dishes, before doing a little bit of exercise.

First, today’s DD. 40 raised leg circles. Just about manageable.

Last, Day 30 of the Meditation Challenge. 20′ meditation. Tried to focus on breathing, but I did have some trouble staying focused on it (was fidgety in thought and with my hands/arms)Observed left leg went to sleep and took a good minute or 2 to normalize sensation. Didn’t stop me from getting up and walking around, KNOWING after the first window where the sensation feels okay you get slammed with weakness/parasthesia. :,D

I then spent some time to clean the kitchen countertops and toilet. Did some logging and video editing before turning in. Pretty late, later than yesterday.

Summary of Experience:

I finished both my programs on time, in June 25.

The Vitality Program. was a good warm-up and mostly a breeze to get through! Easily managed Level 3 for the whole program. What I did note was how long I needed to rest between sets.

No rest for 25 days

30″ rest for 5 days (arm-centric days)

The Core Strength Program had a lot of days that kicked my ass a bit. But I’m happy with how far I could take it most of the time. I only needed to knock 2 days down to Level 2 (16 & 29) and did Level 3 for the rest. I also recorded the spread for how long I needed to rest between sets.

No rest for 3 days

30″ rest for 2 days

1′ rest for 5 days

1′30″ rest for 5 days

Max rest for 20 days

I finished the in Meditation Challenge June 26. This was a good thing to rerun, for many reasons. I did it all to silence. I occasionally experimented with different sitting positions (largely determined by how tired I was). Focused on breath most of the time, counting them a couple times.

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shatter your skull, fight pain with more pain

He realized now, much too late into the game, that the small throbbing had grown into a full blown headache. His only real consolation was the knowledge that he still had time to prevent the headache from morphing into a migraine; a small chance, but a chance nonetheless. (OR it's movie night and logan gets a migraine) (my first ts fanfic this is exciting. I hope you guys enjoy it, it's based off my experiences with migraines - and fun fact I wrote this with a migraine. thanks to @my-chemical-anx for reading this before I posted this and catching a typo! you can also read this on my ao3 - http://archiveofourown.org/works/11822100 ) ------------------ It had started off subtly enough, an ache behind Logan’s eyes that was barely noticeable. He was in his room, sorting and updating his flashcards when he was missing something. It was a soothing and mindless task, perfect to help him relax after the stress that came with filming a video. Tomorrow they would edit the footage they gathered and have it up on schedule. If there was one thing Logan loved, it was schedules. When he was halfway through his stack, there was a knock on his door and it swung open to reveal Patton grinning at him. “Hey, Lo!” He took in the flashcards spread across the floor. “Hope I’m not interrupting anything.” “Not at all.” Logan said, pushing his glasses up his nose. “I’m assuming you need something?” Patton walked over and sat down across from Logan. He picked up a card and squinted at it before putting back with a smile. “Roman finally picked a movie and sent me to get you.” Logan shook his head and began to gather his cards into a neat pile. Movie night, a weekly occurrence in the mindscape, had become synonymous with Roman’s controlling behavior. The creative side had taken it upon himself to make movie night - in his words - perfect. (“What it that, pocket calculator?” Logan looked up from the DVD player and lifted the movie case so Roman could see it. “A documentary concerning the moon and it’s future with Earth.” “A documentary doesn’t count as a movie.” Roman snarked from where he lay draped across the loveseat. “First of all, a movie is a story or event recorded by a camera as a set of moving images and shown in a theater or on television; this documentary is a theoretical analysis of the events surrounding the moon in a few hundred years and therefore counts as a movie. And secondly, I thought it was my turn to pick what we are watching?” “Oh, come on kiddo!” Patton jumped in. “You might enjoy it!” “It can’t be worse than Patton’s movie.” Virgil added, not looking up from his phone. Patton raised an eyebrow at the darker facet. “You and I both know that ‘Air Buds’ is a great movie.”) Logan pushed himself to his feet and stretched his arms over his head. He wasn’t sure how long he had been sitting in that one position. An hour? Two? His legs were sore and it felt good to stand up. Logan followed Patton out into the hallway, the latter chattering away. He did his best to pay attention, but the ache had grown to a dull throb right in between his eyes, and it drew his attention away from Patton, who didn’t seem to realize that his conversation was one sided. The commons was brightly lit, a stark contrast from the low lights in his room, and they made him squint until his eyes had adjusted. The other two sides had already found their places; Virgil was balanced on the arm of one couch, headphones around his neck and expression unreadable while Roman sat on the other couch, remote in hand. Patton slid next to Roman and Logan took the empty seat near Virgil. “Glad you could join us,” Roman said with a toothy grin before starting the movie. The all-too familiar sounds of “When You Wish Upon A Star” filled the commons. Logan closed his eyes and sunk back against the couch cushions below him. The added sounds of the movie grated against his ears, assaulting his senses. Everything was too much, and it made the throbbing in his head worse. He realized now, much too late into the game, that the small throbbing had grown into a full blown headache. His only real consolation was the knowledge that he still had time to prevent the headache from morphing into a migraine; a small chance, but a chance nonetheless. Logan pulled a water bottle into his hand, using the meager amount of energy he had to avoid getting up and disturbing the other three sides, all of whom were engrossed in the movie. He unscrewed the cap and drank it in a few gulps before refilling it again. He did this multiple times, drinking and refilling whenever the water was gone. He lost count after the fourth time; it was merely a method now - drink, refill, repeat. Logan was vaguely aware of the sound of the movie rising into a crescendo, a song no doubt. He could hear Roman singing along and the low humming coming from the direction of Virgil when a pain shot through his skull. Logan froze, clenching the water bottle in his fist before another stab of pain hit him. The migraine had arrived. Abandoning all attempts to be quiet, he leapt up, startling Virgil who nearly fell off his spot on the arm of the couch, and dashed into the kitchen. He threw open the cabinets and began to search for the Advil, thoughts bouncing around in his head. Where did he put the bottle last? When was the last time he used the Advil? Why did he think not drinking anything beforehand was a good idea? Even thinking hurt, each word hitting him like a bullet. His hand curled around the small Advil container and he pulled out two pills, swallowing them dry. “Logan, are you okay?” The voice came from behind Logan and he jumped, not expecting it. The container fell and hit the floor, the pills inside rattling around noisily. Logan dove to the floor and snatched the container up, trying to silence the noise. He looked up and saw the three sides outline in the door, Patton looking concerned, Virgil looking boh parts nervous and irritated, and Roman looking confused. “I have a migraine.” The reaction is immediate. “Logan,” Patton said, and Logan can hear the concern in his voice. “Is this because you haven't been drinking water? You know you have to.” Logan waved Patton off in response, not having the energy to explain that no, he didn't drink enough water because he forgot and yes, he knows that a lack of water triggers his migraine. “I'll be fine.” He says instead, his eyes shut to block out most of the light. “I already took Advil and need to sleep it off.” He didn't mention the pain rolling through his skull; he didn't have to. He's gotten enough migraines that the other three sides know how they affect the logical facet. Hands grabbed his shoulders and helped him up, leading him to his darkened room. Before Logan collapsed into his bed to try and rid himself off the migraine, he scribbled a note to himself: Remember to drink water.

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Voting Machines Exposed

An independent team of computer experts has exposed how electronic voting machines are insecurely programmed and are vulnerable to hackers who can manipulate data and steal elections without leaving a trace. A team of computer security experts has examined the software that runs one of the leading touch-screen voting systems currently used in the US and discovered "significant security flaws." The voting systems examined fell "far below even the most minimal security standards." Three experts from the Information Security Institute (ISI) at John Hopkins University in Baltimore and a fourth from Rice University in Houston analyzed the source code found on a publicly available web site belonging to Ohio based Diebold Election Systems Inc. (DESI). Bob Urosevich heads DESI. His brother Todd is a vice president of a competing company, Omaha-based Electron Systems & Software. These two companies count nearly 80% of the votes cast in the US. The Hopkins group and other experts believe the "source code" they examined is used in Diebolds' direct recording electronic (DRE) Accu-Vote-TS (touch screen) voting system. The Accu-Vote-TS system was first used on a statewide basis in Georgia on Nov. 5, 2002. Aviel D. Rubin, an asociate professor of computer science at John Hopkins and technical director of ISI, headed the study. The groups 24 page report "Analysis of an Electronic Voting System" was released on July 23. "The most fundemental problem with such a voting system is that the entire election hinges on the correctness, robustness, and security of the software within the voting terminal. The model where individual vendors write proprietary code to run our elections appears to be unreliable and and if we do not change the process of designing our voting systems, we will have no confidence that our election results will reflect the will of the electorate. Electronic voting with its inherrent risks places our very democracy at risk." The report goes on to say, "The only known solution to this problem is to introduce a 'voter-verifiable trail' in which the tally of the paper ballots take precedence over any electronic tallies." Dan S. Wallach, assistant professor of computer science at Rice University, added "We found a list of flaws, any one of which could ruin the integrity of the election." The "glaring weakness in the system is a lack of verifiable audit trail to double-check voting results," Rubin told the Associated Press. "I think they need to have paper trails, and I don't think these kinds of machines should be used for voting." The experts in this report discovered a host of security flaws in the software and exposed how the system is virtually wide-open to vote fraud and manipulation of results. The Diebold voting system is open to "insider" attacks at every point of contact on the network, including the voter and from "outsider" attacks on the data as it is being transmitted. Obvious flaws in the code were left uncorrected. The report said, "There appears to have been lttle quality control in the process." Because the voting machines communicate in a network, anybody with access to the data, from poll worker to a telephone company employee, could manipulate the data and the outcome. The system could be tricked by anyone with $100 worth of computer equipment, said Adam Stubblefield, one of the experts from John Hopkins. "The bottom line is that all of the existing electronic voting machines are fundamentally flawed," said Peter G. Neumann, principle scientist at Standford Research Institutes Internationals Computer Science Laboratory in Palo Alto, California. "The real problem is that the federal election systems standards stink. They allow totally insecure voting systems to be certified."

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Union Funds 2019: From tax cuts to decreasing of AFT pricing, Company India presents its want checklist to Nirmala Sitharaman

http://tinyurl.com/y4239wqd Union Funds 2019-20 shall be introduced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on 5 July. The {industry} is wanting ahead to a slew of reforms from an import obligation reduce on gold gadgets, decreasing of Aviation Turbine Gasoline costs to allocation to training. Business heads weigh in with their want checklist: TS Kalyanaraman, Chairman & Managing Director, Kalyan Jewellers We hope for a discount within the import obligation on gold from 10 % to 4-5 %. This could assist buoy up constructive enterprise sentiments, and a reduce within the obligation construction will finally profit the buyer. A step on this route will even promote the import of gold by way of legalized channels leading to elevated income for the federal government. We stay up for organized jewelry retail chains enjoying a extra pro-active position within the Gold Monetisation Scheme which might assist the federal government in reaching its targets of mobilizing gold from customers throughout the nation. Jewelry buy by way of EMIs is an alternative choice that we wish the federal government to look into. Vishal Suri, Managing Director, SOTC Journey We imagine the most important enhance to development and employment right this moment will come from the companies sector, particularly the tourism {industry}. India is a big marketplace for journey and tourism. With 70 airports at new areas and extra second airports; enlargement of present airfields, all developed beneath the UDAN Scheme that goals at facilitating regional connectivity, will show to be an impetus for the tourism {industry}. With the brand new authorities, the necessity to decreasing ATF pricing and strengthening infrastructure at tourism websites is of key significance. This can encourage journey and affordability. The federal government additionally must evaluate the aviation coverage and deal with the challenges particularly bilateral coverage, and assist create an ecosystem that acknowledges and helps the aviation {industry}’s viability. Rationalizing the GST fee for motels and incentivising the non-public sector will enhance tourism because the sector holds large potential for driving development and producing employment. Mahesh Iyer, Govt Director and Chief Govt Officer, Thomas Prepare dinner (India) The journey and tourism {industry} is an important contributor to the expansion of the Indian economic system with a strong multiplier affect on employment technology and we’re therefore assured that the Union Funds launched by the federal government will strengthen the {industry} with continuity of its tourism-friendly insurance policies to provide fillip to India’s Inbound, Home and MICE segments. Westay up for elevated focus and sustained supply on key initiatives like UDAN aimed toward enhancing the regional connectivity and inexpensive air journey, Heritage Metropolis Improvement and Augmentation Yojana (HRIDAY), built-in growth of pilgrimage locations by way of Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spirituality Augmentation Drive (PRASAD), elevated allocation in the direction of enhancement of the e-Visa initiative to incorporate further international locations, growth of recent tourism circuits and points of interest, together with elevated concentrate on infrastructure – roads, railways, airports, waterways and sanitation to catalyse development. Vineet Chaturvedi, Co-founder, Edureka, e-learning firm The way forward for the Indian skilled sector, particularly IT and IT companies, hangs on how quickly they’ll undertake the abilities related to future economies. Investments in expertise and training might be instantly mapped to a rustic’s dedication to financial development, and in the mean time, a re-skilling allowance for all tax-paying people could be a catalyst for quicker and wider adoption of expertise. There may be already discuss of the federal government planning on incentivising corporates to put money into skilling their workforce, however a rebate that treats expertise on par with allowances akin to HRA, LTA, DA is the necessity of the hour to assist retain our nation’s status as a talented powerhouse and fortify our GDP. Additionally, a re-classification of re-skilling in GST to deal with it as a necessity and never a luxurious would assist speed up up-skilling amongst Indian professionals. Yajulu Medury, Director, Mahindra Ecole Centrale, Hyderabad With one of many youngest populations, India can reap the advantages of demographics provided that our children are properly educated and change into accountable residents contributing to India’s development story as we transfer ahead. Offering high quality training means the federal government rising its budgetary allocation on training from the current ranges to a excessive 5-6 % of GDP like within the developed international locations. The draft Nationwide Training Coverage, which stresses this, must be accepted and the mandatory budgetary allocations made to make sure that training turns into a software for financial growth in our nation. D A Prasanna, Founding Chancellor, NIE College Mysore Personal universities should have entry to central analysis grants, as a lot as authorities Universities. Internships in skilled training have been made obligatory by UGC. Corporations have began charging schools to take interns. Interns ought to receives a commission Rs 10-20Ok/Month in order that firms use the intern correctly.To encourage ladies taking on instructing and analysis occupation, the federal government ought to encourage Baby Care (pre-school or playschool or crèche), the place the mom can safely depart the kid and get again to her instructing and analysis profession. Anil Nagar, Founder and CEO, Adda247, preparation platform for all authorities exams The Union Funds for 2019-20 has touched the appropriate notes for rising the demand and development within the economic system. It should assist in stabilising the incomes of the decrease and middle-class sections of the society together with the farmers and staff of the unorganized sector by decreasing the dangers. It should mechanically improve the buying energy of the decrease and middle-class households. It certainly is a recreation changer for the nation. Tarun Chugh, MD & CEO, Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance coverage Within the absence of a social safety system in India, we hope the Finance Ministry considers the constructive options of annuity insurance policies and revise the present tax remedy to make all annuities from a pension/annuity contract tax-free. This can encourage long run financial savings amongst individuals for securing their previous age. We additionally hope to see a fee reduce within the tax fee levied on insurance coverage merchandise, thus encouraging an increasing number of individuals to purchase life insurance coverage insurance policies. Additional, with the rising value of dwelling coupled with inflation and burgeoning healthcare prices, we hope to see a change in restrict for deduction beneath Part 80C. The current restrict of Rs. 150,000 will get exhausted by different alternate options akin to Tuition charges, Housing Mortgage Compensation, obligatory Provident fund deduction by an employer, and many others. Therefore, we really feel a separate restrict must be offered for deduction in the direction of Life insurance coverage premium as Life insurance coverage contributions are the one supply of safety (life cowl) and long-term financial savings to the general public at massive. Alternatively, the prevailing restrict of Rs.150,000 must be enhanced (i.e. from Rs.150,000 to Rs.300,000) because the mixed restrict of Rs.150,000 is just too low to cater to all of the contributions it covers.” Anirudha Taparia, Govt Director, IIIFL Wealth Administration The Finance Minister ought to concentrate on reforms, somewhat than any short-term stimulus. Whereas sustaining fiscal self-discipline, the general goal stays to realize inclusive development. The federal government should take note of the ability growth of the youth and employment technology. The funds ought to ideally encourage non-public investments throughout sectors in order that firms and industries can enter a development trajectory. Governance and accountability want to enhance in public sector models and steps have to be taken to draw the appropriate expertise for the long run viability of those establishments. The finance minister might have a look at rising the capability of Insolvency and Chapter courts to hurry up resolutions and scale back the present backlog. Rahul Jain, Head, Personal Wealth Advisory, Edelweiss We hope that the Funds will deal with the present slowdown within the economic system, on the identical time care must be taken to make sure the fiscal deficit doesn’t exceed 3.5 % of GDP in 2018 19. Whereas we have now witnessed some financial slowdown in FY19, we will count on FY20 to definitely see a turnaround in financial development charges, particularly within the second half. A slippage in fiscal targets will trigger hardening of bond yields, within the brief time period, nevertheless, they’re prone to stabilise as inflation is manageable. It’s our view that the double dose of liquidity and monetary nudge might act as a much-needed shot within the arm for the economic system and the potential exemption of LTCG might act as a pleasing shock for the capital markets. Ravindra Agrawal, Founder, Kisankraft For the event of agriculture in India, we wish to see a discount in GST charges to five % for all agricultural machines. The present excessive charges of GST are counter-productive to the purpose of mechanisation of Indian farmers. Prime Minister’s purpose of bringing corporates into the agri setup requires a number of structural adjustments within the regulation. Business farming have to be allowed to be achieved by companies to assist convey mannequin farming practices all around the nation. Rest in restrictions to export agricultural produce will end result within the enchancment of internet realization to the farmers. Rest on the regulatory restrictions going through R&D in agriculture is desperately wanted together with a rise in funding in farmer coaching and training. Indroneel Dutt, CFO, Cleartrip We’re optimistic and hopeful that the federal government will proceed to be open-minded and keep the impetus of its previous initiatives whereas bringing needed reformations to additional allow the aviation sector. The Regional connectivity Scheme titled UDAN wants specific consideration and allocation on this Funds. Elevated digital penetration in the previous few years has been one of many largest contributors to the rise of the Indian journey {industry}. So, we count on the funds to maintain and speed up India’s digital journey. Ajay Durrani, Managing Director, Covestro (India) Personal Restricted, a polymer firm. We count on the federal government to create a holistic concentrate on improvements revolving across the two essential ‘R’s: Re-use and Accountable use and encourage {industry} to embrace round ideas of their technique concentrate on structured effort in the direction of creating a strong waste administration system for the nation. Since it’s unattainable to section out plastic in a single day given its all-pervasive nature in each day life, it turns into crucial to shift gears and concentrate on “Accountable utilization” of plastic led by the federal government and a structured dialogue course of is predicted from the funds on this route.We additionally stay up for the federal government’s concentrate on ushering in an period of transformative multi-modal mobility paradigm. This coupled with a concentrate on higher {industry} incentivisation for the implementation of the second section of the FAME II scheme w hich will result in a extra sustainable atmosphere for companies and the eco-friendly initiatives. Vineet Nayar, Founder Chairman, Sampark Basis and former CEO of HCL Applied sciences The upcoming Funds by Modi 2.Zero authorities ought to see an elevated training spending. Nonetheless, we require a transparent highway map spelling out how and the place to spend this cash. There may be an pressing want for a targeted and sustained funding in enhancing studying outcomes, particularly in faculties in rural India. It’s excessive time policymakers recognized and addressed the actual points ailing the training system. And the actual concern is our failure to interrupt the mould and provide you with artistic and frugal options to enhance the standard of each instructing and studying in lecture rooms, inside the constraints of what we have now on the bottom. Apart from, there’s an acute scarcity of certified lecturers in authorities faculties because of which the states have needed to recruit many under-qualified lecturers. So, there’s an pressing want to extend funding in lecturers coaching applications to introduce them to fashionable instructing methodologies and supplies to help in enhancing tutorial high quality in lecture rooms. Geetika Dayal, Govt Director, TiE Delhi-NCR Whereas there are numerous beneficial insurance policies presently in place, the federal government must make extra revisions to present start-up laws to supply the entrepreneurial ecosystem with the assist it must thrive and develop. To start with, it must get rid of outdated taxes which might be consuming into their profitability and curbing their development potential. Indian entrepreneurs don’t want handouts, however they do want incentives and provisions that may assist them realise their enterprise targets and drive accelerated scale for his or her enterprise ventures. We hope that the re-elected authorities will proceed to construct on the great work that it has been doing for the start-up {industry} with extra conducive insurance policies within the upcoming Funds. Ashish P. Dhakan, MD & CEO, Prama Hikvision India Pvt. Ltd. We expect a growth-oriented Funds with a transparent roadmap for infrastructure growth. The Indian safety {industry} is able to make investments extra within the manufacture of safety methods. We count on the Funds to supply particular assist to facilitate ‘Make in India’ initiatives within the safety {industry}. 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The survival of the photo voltaic modules producers {industry} is at stake. Subsidies for energy, capital, curiosity, and depreciation to this {industry} and duty-free import of producing gear would help make the {industry} aggressive and appeal to funding in capability creation. We advocate elevating of export incentives from 2 % to no less than 10 % for the modules manufacturing sector to create an export base for India within the spirit of the Make in India initiative. The suggestions come within the backdrop of the final fiscal yr the place main problems with imported modules and parts, at ‘dumping’ costs, from China, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan, and by-passing of the safeguard obligation tariff by re-routing by way of uncovered international locations akin to Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia, had made the {industry} uncompetitive. Rajan Sharma, Founder & Chief Govt Officer, Excess2Sell, a B2B e-commerce on-line market Though e-commerce in India remains to be in its development stage and the market will evolve in its personal distinctive method, the identical holds true for the regulatory necessities as properly. As one in every of India’s main e-commerce firms within the B2B area, we hope that the Union Funds will deal with points particular to e-tailing. Presently heavy on-line discounting, predatory pricing, preferential remedy to pick sellers or monopolizing of the market is rampant and unchecked. That is creating an imbalance throughout the entire companion and success ecosystem affecting each on-line and offline B2B companies. Jayakumar Krishnaswamy, Managing Director, Nuvoco Vistas Corp Ltd We imagine the expansion of the cement {industry} shall be pushed primarily by government-led spending on large infrastructure tasks, inexpensive housing (Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana) and an uptick in rural housing. We count on home cement demand to develop within the vary of 8-10 % this fiscal with an enchancment in capability utilisation. The important thing expectations from the {industry} are a rationalisation of the present 28 % GST fee and introduce incentives to house builders by way of a discount in house mortgage charges to extend the consumption of cement and kickstart the economic system. Devendra Rane, Founder & CTO, Coverfox.com, on-line insurance coverage market The federal government ought to embody extra classes in SEZ, the place the nation wants to advertise entrepreneurship. Key areas being micro fintech merchandise which improve penetration to under-served India. Additionally, the Govt. ought to encourage utilization of innovative applied sciences in AI and ML the place China is taking large steps ahead. And it will be nice if the federal government removes angel tax provisions and brings transparency into the method of angel funding. 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Supply Chain Security 101: An Expert’s View

Earlier this month I spoke at a cybersecurity conference in Albany, N.Y. alongside Tony Sager, senior vice president and chief evangelist at the Center for Internet Security and a former bug hunter at the U.S. National Security Agency. We talked at length about many issues, including supply chain security, and I asked Sager whether he’d heard anything about rumors that Supermicro — a high tech firm in San Jose, Calif. — had allegedly inserted hardware backdoors in technology sold to a number of American companies.

Tony Sager, senior vice president and chief evangelist at the Center for Internet Security.

The event Sager and I spoke at was prior to the publication of Bloomberg Businessweek‘s controversial story alleging that Supermicro had duped almost 30 companies into buying backdoored hardware. Sager said he hadn’t heard anything about Supermicro specifically, but we chatted at length about the challenges of policing the technology supply chain.

Below are some excerpts from our conversation. I learned quite bit, and I hope you will, too.

Brian Krebs (BK): Do you think Uncle Sam spends enough time focusing on the supply chain security problem? It seems like a pretty big threat, but also one that is really hard to counter.

Tony Sager (TS): The federal government has been worrying about this kind of problem for decades. In the 70s and 80s, the government was more dominant in the technology industry and didn’t have this massive internationalization of the technology supply chain.

But even then there were people who saw where this was all going, and there were some pretty big government programs to look into it.

BK: Right, the Trusted Foundry program I guess is a good example.

TS: Exactly. That was an attempt to help support a U.S.-based technology industry so that we had an indigenous place to work with, and where we have only cleared people and total control over the processes and parts.

BK: Why do you think more companies aren’t insisting on producing stuff through code and hardware foundries here in the U.S.?

TS: Like a lot of things in security, the economics always win. And eventually the cost differential for offshoring parts and labor overwhelmed attempts at managing that challenge.

BK: But certainly there are some areas of computer hardware and network design where you absolutely must have far greater integrity assurance?

TS: Right, and this is how they approach things at Sandia National Laboratories [one of three national nuclear security research and development laboratories]. One of the things they’ve looked at is this whole business of whether someone might sneak something into the design of a nuclear weapon.

The basic design principle has been to assume that one person in the process may have been subverted somehow, and the whole design philosophy is built around making sure that no one person gets to sign off on what goes into a particular process, and that there is never unobserved control over any one aspect of the system. So, there are a lot of technical and procedural controls there.

But the bottom line is that doing this is really much harder [for non-nuclear electronic components] because of all the offshoring now of electronic parts, as well as the software that runs on top of that hardware.

BK: So is the government basically only interested in supply chain security so long as it affects stuff they want to buy and use?

TS: The government still has regular meetings on supply chain risk management, but there are no easy answers to this problem. The technical ability to detect something wrong has been outpaced by the ability to do something about it.

BK: Wait…what?

TS: Suppose a nation state dominates a piece of technology and in theory could plant something inside of it. The attacker in this case has a risk model, too. Yes, he could put something in the circuitry or design, but his risk of exposure also goes up.

Could I as an attacker control components that go into certain designs or products? Sure, but it’s often not very clear what the target is for that product, or how you will guarantee it gets used by your target. And there are still a limited set of bad guys who can pull that stuff off. In the past, it’s been much more lucrative for the attacker to attack the supply chain on the distribution side, to go after targeted machines in targeted markets to lessen the exposure of this activity.

BK: So targeting your attack becomes problematic if you’re not really limiting the scope of targets that get hit with compromised hardware.

TS: Yes, you can put something into everything, but all of a sudden you have this massive big data collection problem on the back end where you as the attacker have created a different kind of analysis problem. Of course, some nations have more capability than others to sift through huge amounts of data they’re collecting.

BK: Can you talk about some of the things the government has typically done to figure out whether a given technology supplier might be trying to slip in a few compromised devices among an order of many?

TS: There’s this concept of the “blind buy,” where if you think the threat vector is someone gets into my supply chain and subverts the security of individual machines or groups of machines, the government figures out a way to purchase specific systems so that no one can target them. In other words, the seller doesn’t know it’s the government who’s buying it. This is a pretty standard technique to get past this, but it’s an ongoing cat and mouse game to be sure.

BK: I know you said before this interview that you weren’t prepared to comment on the specific claims in the recent Bloomberg article, but it does seem that supply chain attacks targeting cloud providers could be very attractive for an attacker. Can you talk about how the big cloud providers could mitigate the threat of incorporating factory-compromised hardware into their operations?

TS: It’s certainly a natural place to attack, but it’s also a complicated place to attack — particularly the very nature of the cloud, which is many tenants on one machine. If you’re attacking a target with on-premise technology, that’s pretty simple. But the purpose of the cloud is to abstract machines and make more efficient use of the same resources, so that there could be many users on a given machine. So how do you target that in a supply chain attack?

BK: Is there anything about the way these cloud-based companies operate….maybe just sheer scale…that makes them perhaps uniquely more resilient to supply chain attacks vis-a-vis companies in other industries?

TS: That’s a great question. The counter positive trend is that in order to get the kind of speed and scale that the Googles and Amazons and Microsofts of the world want and need, these companies are far less inclined now to just take off-the-shelf hardware and they’re actually now more inclined to build their own.

BK: Can you give some examples?

TS: There’s a fair amount of discussion among these cloud providers about commonalities — what parts of design could they cooperate on so there’s a marketplace for all of them to draw upon. And so we’re starting to see a real shift from off-the-shelf components to things that the service provider is either designing or pretty closely involved in the design, and so they can also build in security controls for that hardware. Now, if you’re counting on people to exactly implement designs, you have a different problem. But these are really complex technologies, so it’s non-trivial to insert backdoors. It gets harder and harder to hide those kinds of things.

BK: That’s interesting, given how much each of us have tied up in various cloud platforms. Are there other examples of how the cloud providers can make it harder for attackers who might seek to subvert their services through supply chain shenanigans?

TS: One factor is they’re rolling this technology out fairly regularly, and on top of that the shelf life of technology for these cloud providers is now a very small number of years. They all want faster, more efficient, powerful hardware, and a dynamic environment is much harder to attack. This actually turns out to be a very expensive problem for the attacker because it might have taken them a year to get that foothold, but in a lot of cases the short shelf life of this technology [with the cloud providers] is really raising the costs for the attackers.

When I looked at what Amazon and Google and Microsoft are pushing for it’s really a lot of horsepower going into the architecture and designs that support that service model, including the building in of more and more security right up front. Yes, they’re still making lots of use of non-U.S. made parts, but they’re really aware of that when they do. That doesn’t mean these kinds of supply chain attacks are impossible to pull off, but by the same token they don’t get easier with time.

BK: It seems to me that the majority of the government’s efforts to help secure the tech supply chain come in the form of looking for counterfeit products that might somehow wind up in tanks and ships and planes and cause problems there — as opposed to using that microscope to look at commercial technology. Do you think that’s accurate?

TS: I think that’s a fair characterization. It’s a logistical issue. This problem of counterfeits is a related problem. Transparency is one general design philosophy. Another is accountability and traceability back to a source. There’s this buzzphrase that if you can’t build in security then build in accountability. Basically the notion there was you often can’t build in the best or perfect security, but if you can build in accountability and traceability, that’s a pretty powerful deterrent as well as a necessary aid.

BK: For example….?

TS: Well, there’s this emphasis on high quality and unchangeable logging. If you can build strong accountability that if something goes wrong I can trace it back to who caused that, I can trace it back far enough to make the problem more technically difficult for the attacker. Once I know I can trace back the construction of a computer board to a certain place, you’ve built a different kind of security challenge for the attacker. So the notion there is while you may not be able to prevent every attack, this causes the attacker different kinds of difficulties, which is good news for the defense.

BK: So is supply chain security more of a physical security or cybersecurity problem?

TS: We like to think of this as we’re fighting in cyber all the time, but often that’s not true. If you can force attackers to subvert your supply chain, they you first off take away the mid-level criminal elements and you force the attackers to do things that are outside the cyber domain, such as set up front companies, bribe humans, etc. And in those domains — particularly the human dimension — we have other mechanisms that are detectors of activity there.

BK: What role does network monitoring play here? I’m hearing a lot right now from tech experts who say organizations should be able to detect supply chain compromises because at some point they should be able to see truckloads of data leaving their networks if they’re doing network monitoring right. What do you think about the role of effective network monitoring in fighting potential supply chain attacks.

TS: I’m not so optimistic about that. It’s too easy to hide. Monitoring is about finding anomalies, either in the volume or type of traffic you’d expect to see. It’s a hard problem category. For the US government, with perimeter monitoring there’s always a trade off in the ability to monitor traffic and the natural movement of the entire Internet towards encryption by default. So a lot of things we don’t get to touch because of tunneling and encryption, and the Department of Defense in particular has really struggled with this.

Now obviously what you can do is man-in-the-middle traffic with proxies and inspect everything there, and the perimeter of the network is ideally where you’d like to do that, but the speed and volume of the traffic is often just too great.

BK: Isn’t the government already doing this with the “trusted internet connections” or Einstein program, where they consolidate all this traffic at the gateways and try to inspect what’s going in and out?

TS: Yes, so they’re creating a highest volume, highest speed problem. To monitor that and to not interrupt traffic you have to have bleeding edge technology to do that, and then handle a ton of it which is already encrypted. If you’re going to try to proxy that, break it out, do the inspection and then re-encrypt the data, a lot of times that’s hard to keep up with technically and speed-wise.

BK: Does that mean it’s a waste of time to do this monitoring at the perimeter?

TS: No. The initial foothold by the attacker could have easily been via a legitimate tunnel and someone took over an account inside the enterprise. The real meaning of a particular stream of packets coming through the perimeter you may not know until that thing gets through and executes. So you can’t solve every problem at the perimeter. Some things only because obvious and make sense to catch them when they open up at the desktop.

BK: Do you see any parallels between the challenges of securing the supply chain and the challenges of getting companies to secure Internet of Things (IoT) devices so that they don’t continue to become a national security threat for just about any critical infrastructure, such as with DDoS attacks like we’ve seen over the past few years?

TS: Absolutely, and again the economics of security are so compelling. With IoT we have the cheapest possible parts, devices with a relatively short life span and it’s interesting to hear people talking about regulation around IoT. But a lot of the discussion I’ve heard recently does not revolve around top-down solutions but more like how do we learn from places like the Food and Drug Administration about certification of medical devices. In other words, are there known characteristics that we would like to see these devices put through before they become in some generic sense safe.

BK: How much of addressing the IoT and supply chain problems is about being able to look at the code that powers the hardware and finding the vulnerabilities there? Where does accountability come in?

TS: I used to look at other peoples’ software for a living and find zero-day bugs. What I realized was that our ability to find things as human beings with limited technology was never going to solve the problem. The deterrent effect that people believed someone was inspecting their software usually got more positive results than the actual looking. If they were going to make a mistake – deliberately or otherwise — they would have to work hard at it and if there was some method of transparency, us finding the one or two and making a big deal of it when we did was often enough of a deterrent.

BK: Sounds like an approach that would work well to help us feel better about the security and code inside of these election machines that have become the subject of so much intense scrutiny of late.

TS: We’re definitely going through this now in thinking about the election devices. We’re kind of going through this classic argument where hackers are carrying the noble flag of truth and vendors are hunkering down on liability. So some of the vendors seem willing to do something different, but at the same time they’re kind of trapped now by the good intentions of open vulnerability community.

The question is, how do we bring some level of transparency to the process, but probably short of vendors exposing their trade secrets and the code to the world? What is it that they can demonstrate in terms of cost effectiveness of development practices to scrub out some of the problems before they get out there. This is important, because elections need one outcome: Public confidence in the outcome. And of course, one way to do that is through greater transparency.

BK: What, if anything, are the takeaways for the average user here? With the proliferation of IoT devices in consumer homes, is there any hope that we’ll see more tools that help people gain more control over how these systems are behaving on the local network?

TS: Most of [the supply chain problem] is outside the individual’s ability to do anything about, and beyond ability of small businesses to grapple with this. It’s in fact outside of the autonomy of the average company to figure it out. We do need more national focus on the problem.

It’s now almost impossible to for consumers to buy electronics stuff that isn’t Internet-connected. The chipsets are so cheap and the ability for every device to have its own Wi-Fi chip built in means that [manufacturers] are adding them whether it makes sense to or not. I think we’ll see more security coming into the marketplace to manage devices. So for example you might define rules that say appliances can talk to the manufacturer only.

We’re going to see more easy-to-use tools available to consumers to help manage all these devices. We’re starting to see the fight for dominance in this space already at the home gateway and network management level. As these devices get more numerous and complicated, there will be more consumer oriented ways to manage them. Some of the broadband providers already offer services that will tell what devices are operating in your home and let users control when those various devices are allowed to talk to the Internet.

Since Bloomberg’s story broke, The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the National Cyber Security Centre, a unit of Britain’s eavesdropping agency, GCHQ, both came out with statements saying they had no reason to doubt vehement denials by Amazon and Apple that they were affected by any incidents involving Supermicro’s supply chain security. Apple also penned a strongly-worded letter to lawmakers denying claims in the story.

Meanwhile, Bloomberg reporters published a follow-up story citing new, on-the-record evidence to back up claims made in their original story.

from Technology News https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/10/supply-chain-security-101-an-experts-view/

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Bahrain has bustling centers for entertainment and nightlife. One can take pleasure in latest worldwide movies in multiplex cinemas, go to museums, historic sites and exciting art galleries. Places like Bahrain Bay, Metropolis Centre Mall and Al Areen in Manama are taking place locations for a number of leisure and leisure occasions. Bahrain gives host of choices for outside activities reminiscent of taking a cruise, numerous water sports, swimming, scuba diving and jet-skiing etc. Expats can enjoy worldwide delicacies and highly thrilling nightlife.

Visa and work allow

You can't work in the country for those who do not have a legitimate work visa. Nevertheless, you can not get a work visa except you could have a job provide. The company that's providing a job can prepare work permits for GovtJobsOne TS 2018 his or her expat workers prior to their arrival in the nation. In addition, expats are required to submit other paperwork like legitimate passport, one further passport photograph and a latest well being certificate.

Sources to search out jobs

One can apply for jobs in Bahrain by the corporate websites or by way of newspaper or gulf central govt jobs 2017-18 job portals. Most expats are employed by way of a headhunter or a recruitment company.

Delhi, the national capital shouldn't be only the political and administrative centre but also one of many thriving job destinations in India. Lots of you won't know but the city has essentially the most number of migrants when compared to other cities of India. And the rationale behind is however apparent the potential profession opportunities along with high standards of residing. Proper from govt sector jobs to private jobs, the town will greet you with impeccable opportunities so that you can attempt for.

Delhi, choice of Numerous up govt jobs 2018 Job Candidates

Regardless of being given the tagline of a criminal offense capital in India, it emerges out to be one of many major cities with promising career alternatives and industry publicity for brand spanking new entrants and trade professionals. Furthermore, the high end infrastructure, effectively established public sector, presence of all trendy age amenities, and excellent transportation are some of the top causes for thus many individuals searching for job opportunities in the city. Further, its national capital standing makes town a scorching selection for buyers too.

Yearly, scores of IT corporations open their places of work in this iconic city simply to profit from the perfect in place policies, liberal atmosphere and world class infrastructure. As a matter of fact, it's not solely the IT sector which is undergoing large expansion, the town provides plenty of job openings in sectors like hospitality, advertising, finance, engineering, structure and so forth and on.

Growing Number of Startups within the City

The startup tradition is quick gaining prominence in each region of the country. Within the first half of 2015, there were 380 investments made in startups. The interesting part is but to come back. By way of publicly introduced deals, Delhi NCR had the best deals, round one hundred ten in 2015YTD. Also, in terms of deal quantity, Delhi NCR sealed the highest place forsaking the Bangalore and Mumbai. These startups are generating quality employment opportunities for folks belonging to different backgrounds and academic levels.

NCR, a Rising Job Hub

As per one of the latest surveys, it was revealed that Delhi NCR generated the maximum number of jobs in the nation. Delhi sealed the top slot with 24% share of job, abandoning Mumbai (16%), Bangalore (15%), Hyderabad (8%) and Pune (8%) respectively. Noida and Gurgaon are the face of growing India. The cities are doing exceptionally properly in terms of job creation. Inside a brief span of time, Noida and Gurgaon have emerged because the main job hubs within the nation, which is quite commendable!

Conclusion

Delhi together with its NCR region is throwing up abundant profession opportunities and so chances of touchdown in a job automatically gets multiplied. There isn't a paucity of fine GovtJobsOne jobs in Delhi; nevertheless one thing which you need to bear in mind is that business specific expertise and expertise would be the key elements in getting a job of your choice!

Town of Pleasure, Kolkata is basking within the glory of a increase in the city job market. Job opportunities in Kolkata are on an upward development trajectory in assorted sectors. The town which serves as the capital metropolis to the eastern state of India, West Bengal is rising by leaps and bounds.

Fondly identified for its wonderful food, rich culture and full of life environment, Kolkata has many contributions to its credit score in supporting the nation's rising financial system. Speaking of the present situation, Kolkata is emerging out to be a promising vacation spot for job-seekers. Trade consultants are hopeful that in the coming years, Kolkata can be the top metropolis for jobs in sectors across.

City offering all kinds of employment

The city warmly welcomes freshers from all education ranges and backgrounds. It's providing employment to folks in nearly all sectors together with engineering, educating, information know-how, banking, finance, hospitality, and manufacturing, among others. It does not matter whether you might be discovering a full-time, part-time, make money working from home or freelancing jobs, you'll come across quite a few job openings. Those looking for a straightforward and rapid earning can get number of job options starting from name centres to writing jobs and knowledge entry to customer service jobs. The versatile working schedule and stress free nature of half-time jobs are luring students, house wives, retired and even working professionals.

Moreover, for these searching for govt jobs in Kolkata can expect a plethora of alternatives in various govt organizations and establishments. Nonetheless, with hordes of people with comparable talent set competing for a similar place, it's a must to go that extra mile so as to enhance your probabilities of getting a job of your choice.

Rising outsourcing destination for engineering enterprise

Kolkata is fast rising out to be a future spot of outsourcing, particularly for core engineering businesses on account of cost benefits related to providers and work pressure. Additionally it is often known as the cultural capital of India owing to the socio political recognition, human sense and historical tradition. With the passage of time, it has earned a tag of outsourcing vacation spot as a consequence of reasons like availability large pool of skilled and contemporary expertise with totally different experience, urban infrastructure, low real property costs, finest in place insurance policies of the govt. and presence of ace instructional schools supplying expert & mental workforce annually. It has the fastest growing economy all over India and global companies within the subject of IT and software program, engineering, procurement & development, heavy engineering, manufacturing are selecting Kolkata over different metro cities like Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai and Chennai.

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