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Programs » Fair Use
Classroom Discussion:
Teaching Script about Fair Use in Making Art
You've had a chance to read about fair use, and you know the function it plays in our copyright system: balancing rights by making room for new creativity while protecting the old. Now, you can share these insights with students.
The goal of these classroom exercises is to give your students a chance to practice the approach to analysis you've read about in the Code of Best Practices and the other materials we've provided. While you want your students to follow and stay within the logic of the code, you also want them to think with each other and you about the various ways one might interpret fair use. This is practice for the kind of thinking your students will have to do throughout their working lives. Arts professionals usually will not have lawyers around to help them puzzle out questions about when they should and shouldn't use unlicensed third party materials. Nor would having such access necessarily solve their problems. As you've seen, the premise of the Code of Best Practices is that members of the visual arts communities themselves know best—at least collectively—about what makes ethical and legal sense in connection with their own projects.So the goal here is to learn something about doing it for oneself through a series of exercises that you'll undertake (and discuss) along with your students.
The first thing to do with the students is to make sure they have read and understood the Code. After they have read Appendix A, they should focus for this discussion on thesection "Making Art" (p. 11). In this area, as in each of the others, the document gives you some basic criteria for assessing what uses may be considered fair, and suggests some ways in which your analysis can be deepened and be made still more reliable. As you can see, the section begins with a descriptive note, which indicates the extremely broad coverage of the principle affirming the application of fair use, including art-making activities of all kinds, in all media, and in digital as well as analog. The limitations that follow are crucial to interpretation, and reflect the shared opinions of the many professionals who were consulted in creating the document. Of these limitations, the first two effectively recapitulate the law of fair use, while the second two address additional considerations that Congress and the courts haven't yet taken up, but about which the visual arts community feels strongly.
Finally, before launching into discussion, remind the students of a practical reality: if they are ever challenged, probably the most important single determinant of whether a given use will be considered fair is whether the user can, if necessary, explain why it was important to the execution of his or her project.
You may want to use illustrations of your own, but here is a set of suggested works to discuss. (Images can be found in the accompanying slide show.) They are deliberately chosen to move from the very easy to the more head-scratching. [Relying on the principles and limitations in CAA's Code of Best Practices, all but the fifth set of images (Dennis Morris and Mr. Brainwash) are fair use examples.] If you do use illustrations of your own, we strongly recommend that you avoid images that have been litigated, both because they are "edge cases," and the point of discussion is to work through routine reasoning, and because judicial decisions are often decided on issues that are not related to this logic, or even sometimes about fair use.
1. Works by Marcel Duchamp and Salvador Dalí: Here are two well-known images. Duchamp died in 1968, so it's quite possible his L.H.O.O.Q. version of the Mona Lisa is still under copyright. Let's assume, for present purposes, that it is; of course, that wouldn't give Duchamp's successors rights in everything, but it would give them ownership of his specific contributions, including the famous superimposed mustache. The other image is Dalí's 1954 variation on it, which duplicates that facial ornament—with a twist of its own. We focus on the work by Dalí, and our question is whether the Dalí could be considered a fair use of the Duchamp. (This is an easy one, but a great place to start to see if they can use the terms of the Code.)
Who thinks this is a fair use? Who doesn't?
Is the Dalí version "transformative," in that it generates new artistic meaning? Is it, in effect, a parody of a parody? Or would you tell the story of this use differently? Can we agree on a common story? (If people are struggling, they might need to return to Appendix A to read about transformativeness.)
Whatever we think the new purpose of the use would have been, could it have been equally successful if Dalí had somehow used less of the image? Couldn't he have made his point by repainting only the face of the Duchamp version, in effect confining himself to a detail? (Remind the students, if necessary, that the standard is not whether the extent of the use was "necessary" to the user's goal, but whether it was appropriate.)
Look now at the last two limitations. Is there a risk that the Dalí might be mistaken for the Duchamp? Is this a case where there may be an "authentic aesthetic basis" not to provide attribution? Would attribution, in effect, spoil the joke?
The students might worry about the fact that these paintings were made for sale and indeed sold. So before you conclude the analysis, it's important to reemphasize that there's a least one consideration that it is tempting to take into account, but that simply doesn't belong in this sort of fair use analysis: the fact that the Dalí image was prepared for sale, and actually did change hands at a good price—that the use was, in other words, commercial. This is not a significant consideration, perhaps because so many uses, artistic or otherwise, are undertaken for gain (among other reasons). Additionally, it's hard to imagine that someone would purchase the Dalí instead of the Duchamp; in spite of similarities, they are unique works by unique artists and not interchangeable.
Were any minds changed?
2. Print by Keith Haring: What made the first example particular straightforward is that the artist relying on fair use was commenting, by means of a new image, on preexisting ones. In effect, this is an example of criticism or commentary on an artwork carried out by visual means. But fair use isn't only for critique. Consider the Keith Haring homage to Mickey Mouse, an icon of popular culture. (This one is also easy, but the students will have to move beyond the arguments of commentary and parody, and really put the concept of transformativeness to work.)
What's the artist's apparent goal or purpose here? (Let them work this out—some possibilities include illustrating the ubiquity of popular commercial imagery in American consciousness, and the debasement of taste, but they may have other arguments too.) Is the purpose you identified a transformative one within the meaning of the first two limitations of the Code?
Does the fact that Haring may be commenting on American culture rather than on Disney iconography, as such, matter? Should it?
And back to the issue of attribution. Should it be employed in quotations from popular culture as a general matter, or reserved for certain cases? Is attribution more applicable in cases where fine art works make use of another? (There are no rules about this question, and the Code leaves it open; but whatever the students argue, they should be prepared to justify within the terms of the Code, featuring both transformativeness and appropriateness.)
The students might be dazzled by the fact that it's Keith Haring. You might also ask them to consider the same question with an example of, say, local graffiti or an anonymous internet doodle. Before answering, they might want to reread the description in Section III, because—but don't tell them, let them find it out—it makes clear that fair use is available to both the humble and the grand.
3. Images by Andrea Blanch and Jeff Koons: Here's a case that was in the courts, involving a fashion photograph of feet in shoes that was incorporated into a large painting, Niagara, by Jeff Koons, who explained that "certain physical features of the legs [in the photograph] represented for me a particular type of woman frequently presented in advertising." He considered this typicality to further his purpose of commenting on the "commercial images . . . in our consumer culture." (This is a really interesting example for the art students, because it shows how important it is for an artist to be able, if called upon, to explain what he/she was doing that was a transformative, appropriate, use of the material. It will work best if the students do not know the outcome of the case. The court found fair use without any particular difficulty in this case, but don't tell them that until they have worked out what they think.)
What do you think of Koons's explanation? Does it help that he provided it?
Should it matter than Koons is a highly successful artist, whose pieces sell for high prices, whereas the fashion photographer whose work he used was earning only at a modest professional level? Is there anything in the Code that suggests this should be a consideration? (You can remind them of your earlier point about commerciality; you might also have to disentangle what they think is rude or insulting marketplace or ethical behavior from what the law permits, and why.)
How important is it that Koons used less than the whole photo? What standard should be applied, according to the Code, to the question of whether he "right-sized" his use? (This is an important point for them to debate with each other; the law sets no requirement on how much should be taken, as the Code makes clear, and links the amount to the transformative purpose. But let them work this out, referring to the Code.)
Koons did not follow the recommendations of the Code by giving credit. Discuss whether he should have done so. How serious a defect do you think this should be where a fair use claim is concerned? (It may be worth reminding students that although the visual arts community has decided that attribution is important, there is no indication that today's courts consider it necessary.)
4. Work by Robert Rauschenberg: Here's an image that may pose a greater (or different) challenge: a Rauschenberg collage that incorporates bits of found material (in the form of pages and clippings from paper media). Although most of the material would be quite hard to identify, and may seem to lack value, we must nevertheless assume (unless advised otherwise) that it may be subject to copyright. The artist's purposes aren't easy to read, and he's not on record explaining himself. However, pastiche techniques of this kind are very common throughout his career. (This is a case that takes students even further into needing to find a story about artistic process that explains transformativeness. It shouldn't be too hard for them to find one, but they will need to work at it. This example is really important for them, because cases like this are more and more likely in digital creation. At the end, you might want to share with them that Rauschenberg sometimes was challenged by photographers, but never in a dispute that led to a legal decision).
If the artist were challenged for his use, would it matter if an expert—for instance, an art historian—opined on how and why the artist used found materials? Why or why not? (The students may want to retain the right to interpret artistic activity for the artist; but that also places a burden on the artist to be able to articulate a reason why they did what they did. Furthermore, in the ecology of art-making, critics, curators, and other professionals play a role in shaping the significance of artistic practices too.)
Given that the use is aesthetic rather than informational, how can one discuss or decide whether the amount used is appropriate? (This is a challenging question, and it will force the students to really think about artistic practice.)
What kind/form of credit might be used in an instance such as this one? Would it be important to do so, if possible? Is there an argument that credit would be inappropriate?
5. Images by Dennis Morris and Mr. Brainwash: Here's another example, also the subject of a recent court case. It involved a print by Thierry Guetta (aka Mr. Brainwash) which was sourced to a photograph of Sid Vicious, the punk rock musician. Mr. Brainwash used the photograph without licensing it or acknowledging the maker, a professional portrait photographer named Dennis Morris, who subsequently sued. (This is a real borderline case, of someone whose decisions fall outside some of the terms of the Code, but still might be considered for the eligibility of fair use in the large "grey area" outside the Code. Once the discussion is over, you may want to note that Mr. Brainwash lost the case and did not appeal the result. His lawyer has explained that this is because damages were low and it was easier to pay and move on. It may also be important to recognize that this case was decided before the Code was released; it might come out differently today.)
Who thinks this is a fair use? Who doesn't? [Show of hands]
What could Mr. Brainwash say that would persuade us to take his fair use claim seriously? Does it matter that he hasn't actually said it?
Given that the use is aesthetic rather than informational, how can one discuss or decide whether the amount used is appropriate?
In fair use cases, the issue of a "consumer substitution" test sometimes comes up in connection with deciding whether a use is "transformative." Could Mr. Brainwash's image serve as a market substitute for the original photograph? What additional information would we need to make an educated guess?
Would giving proper credit make a difference? What kind/form of credit might be used in an instance such as this one?
6. Works by Andy Warhol and Elaine Sturtevant: The two Marilyns—Andy Warhol's silkscreen and Elaine Sturtevant's acknowledged follow-on silkscreen—bring together many of the considerations we've been considering up to now: the meaning of "transformative use;" the question of whether an appropriate amount has been taken; the relationship between the markets for the works; attribution; and so forth. After the initial show of hands, ask the students to break up into groups and report back, rather than directing the discussion. To conclude this discussion about fair use, you might point out that Sturtevant's appropriation of the Warhol image is a conceptual work of art whose entire meaning resides in her action of quoting Warhol's work. She states as much by including Warhol's name (and crediting him at the same time) in the title, Warhol Licorice Marilyn. Thus, a major principle of fair use—the ability to articulate a reason behind the use of a copyrighted work—is conveyed in this example. Be sure to ask for a repeat vote on whether or not the Sturtevant work is a fair use at the end of the discussion.
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UNF student creates virtual reality tool to study tumors
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Blast at wedding in Kabul kills 40 people, hurts dozens more
Posted at 10:49 AM, Nov 20, 2018
A suspected suicide bombing at a wedding hall in the Afghan capital, Kabul, has killed 40 people and injured dozens more, officials say.
The blast ripped through a venue near the city's international airport, where a gathering of religious scholars was taking place, the Afghan interior ministry said. The blast occurred around 6:15 p.m. local time, police said.
It was likely caused by a suicide attack, according to Najib Danish, spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of the Interior. The gathering was being held to mark the birthday of the Prophet Mohammed, he said.
At least 60 people were injured, the health ministry reported.
The security situation in Kabul has deteriorated sharply in the past year.
In August, at least 34 people were killed in an attack which targeted an education center. Among the victims were thought to be dozens of teenagers studying English.
Then in September, 20 people, including two journalists, were killed in twin bomb attacks on a wrestling club for which ISIS claimed responsibility. The second blast was detonated after emergency services, journalists and police arrived at the scene.
In July, the UN released a report stating the number of Afghan civilians killed in the first six months of 2018 had reached a record high. Almost 1,700 civilians were killed from January 1 to June 30, a total higher than at any comparable time over the last 10 years, according to the UN.


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Josh Gad signs up for Honey, I Shrunk the Kids reboot
Honey I Shrunk The Kids
Rick Moranis
Honey I Blew Up The Kid
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The mvoie will reportedly focus on an older version of Nick Szalinski, Wayne Szalinski's son in the original 1989 film.
Josh Gad has signed up for a reboot of the classic '80s movie, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
According to editors at Slashfilm, the new project, tentatively titled Shrunk, is heading to cinemas.
Beauty and the Beast star Josh, who also voiced snowman Olaf in Frozen, is set to play an older version of Nick Szalinski, Wayne Szalinski's son in the original 1989 film.
Directed by Joe Johnston, the original starred Rick Moranis as Wayne, an inventor who accidentally shrinks his and his neighbour's children down to a minute size.
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids grossed more than $222 million (£171 million) worldwide, and was the highest-grossing live-action Disney film at the time.
It spawned two subsequent sequels – 1992's Honey, I Blew Up the Kid and 1997's Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves – and later in the '90s, a TV series based on the original movie, that ran for three seasons.
Shrunk will reportedly continue in the vein of the previous films by using the same set-up, with Nick doing his own experiments with shrinking technology and ends up accidentally miniaturising his own children.
The studio is now looking for a director to move the feature from concept into reality, Den of Geek reports.
It's not yet known if Rick will make an appearance in the reboot, after he mostly retired from acting following Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves.
Disney has been planning to reboot or remake several of its older live-action movies for its forthcoming streaming platform, Disney+, including Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson's Three Men and a Baby, and Steve Martin's family comedy Father of the Bride.


Shopware is a popular e-commerce software. It is based on PHP using technologies like Symfony 2, Doctrine and the Zend Framework. The code base of its open source community edition encompasses over 690,000 lines of code which we scanned for security vulnerabilities with our RIPS static code analyzer.
The analysis of this complex code base took roughly 4 minutes. RIPS discovered two vulnerabilities: a PHP object instantiation and a SQL injection which we disclosed to the vendor and were fixed in version 5.3.4. In this blog post we investigate the rare object instantiation vulnerability (CVE-2017-18357). We describe how it can occur and how it can be exploited by an attacker in order to retrieve arbitrary files from the server.
In order to exploit the found vulnerabilities an attacker needs to be able to use the backend functionality of Shopware, specifically, the configuration of product streams. However, it is sufficient if the attacker can control the session of an account with limited permissions.
Successfully exploiting the object instantiation vulnerability grants an attacker the ability to instantiate an object in the PHP application of an arbitrary class. By using a blind XXE attack described in this blog post, this can lead to the disclosure of any file on the server (as long as the user associated with the PHP process has the required permissions). This can for example, be any confidential file of the shopware installation like config.php which contains the database credentials.
In this section we will technically analyse the object instantiation vulnerability by examining the flow of data from the input to the dangerous sink. Furthermore, we will present a way of how such a vulnerability can be exploited by escalating it into a blind XXE attack. This sort of vulnerability is not very often to find, and thus an interesting candidate for our inspection.
RIPS automatically identified the object instantiation vulnerability that spans over multiple files and classes. The point of injection resides in the feature to preview product streams in the shopware backend. Here, the user parameter sort is received in the loadPreviewAction() method of the Shopware_Controllers_Backend_ProductStream controller.
The input is then forwarded to the unserialize() method of Shopware\Components\ProductStream\Repository. Note that this is not a PHP Object Injection vulnerability and a custom unserialize() method. This method calls another unserialize() method of Shopware\Components\LogawareReflectionHelper.
The user input is passed along in the first parameter. Here, it ends up in a foreach loop.
Each array key of the user input is then passed to a createInstanceFromNamedArguments() method as $className.
Finally, the keypoint is the instantiation of an object with ReflectionClass of the type specified in $className. The invokation of the newInstanceArgs() method with user controlled input in $arguments allows to specify the arguments of the constructor. ReflectionClass is part of the reflection API introduced with PHP 5. It allows retrieving information (available methods, their awaited parameters, etc.) about all classes accessible at a given point during execution. As the name implies, newInstanceArgs() creates an instance of a class with given parameters. So basically at this point, we can instantiate arbitrary objects.
So what is left to do is to find a class available at runtime in which one of the above methods is implemented in an advantageous manner. Unfortunately we could not find any such class in the Shopware code base.
As the third parameter $data_is_url might imply, it's even possible to pass an URL to an external XML file which should be parsed. The following XML and DTD example shows how this can be abused to read any file on the targeted system that the web server's privileges allow access to.
First, the object instantiation vulnerability is used to instantiate a SimpleXMLElement object with the appropriate parameters. The parameter $options must be set to LIBXML_NOENT in order to activate entity substitution which is required for the XXE to work. The parameter $data_is_url is set to true and the $data points to the attackers xxe.xml file. When the XML file is parsed by the injected SimpleXMLElement object, it reads the /etc/passwd file from the file system and sends its content base64 encoded back to the attackers web server.
Finally, the attacker can read the content of the desired file by reviewing his web server's log file and base64 decoding the received log entry.
We analyzed the community edition of the popular e-commerce software Shopware as part of our PHP vulnerability research that contributes to open source security. Using cutting-edge static code analysis techniques, we identified two security issues in the code base. In this post we analyzed a unique and cool object instantiation vulnerability and presented a way of how such a vulnerability can be escalated into a blind XXE attack leading to arbitrary file disclosure.
We would like to thank the team behind Shopware for their professional collaboration and for quickly resolving the issues with the release of version 5.3.4. If you are still using an older version, we encourage to update.


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Gaurav Taneja: From an IITian to a Successful Youtuber
, and Ananya Dubey
June 13, 2020 . 9:37 AM
Gaurav Taneja did not limit his life to engineering after cracking IIT and found his success in a platform in which engineers don't generally imagine.
Gaurav Taneja is famous as one of the most versatile and successful Youtuber. Some people may know him as a pilot, while others may usually see his videos on youtube and follow him. To make things clear a bit, Gaurav Taneja is a civil engineer from IIT Kharagpur as a qualification and an ex-pilot for Indigo Airlines. Moreover, he is also a fitness blogger known through his youtube channel called the 'flying beast' and the 'Fit Muscle TV.' One might surely be curious about his journey which turned him from an engineer to a famous blogger
He is considered one of the most influential youth icons who inspire and aspires young people for a better and more harmonious living! He is an internationally certified nutritionist, a fitness trainer, an aviator, and a national level bodybuilder. The many can be called the versatile man and inevitably be an inspiration for anyone who feels like getting masters in many fields rather than being stuck to a single one.
Born on 9th July 1986, Gaurav Taneja always had a keen spirit for games and sports, and the school gym used to be his favorite places of all! Just so to workout more, he used to reach 45 minutes earlier the usual timings and exercise for a better body. Those days, he used to consider Salman Khan as his fitness guru and wanted to be as perfect as he was, which grew his passion for fitness and made him successful.
Gaurav Taneja at TedX
Later as he grew successful, Manipal University in Jaipur invited him for a TEDx speech where he felt privileged in sharing his success mantra. Eventually, young people started looking up to him. The success mantra which was shared by him was: It is always about motivation and how a person wants themself to achieve a thing. He also addressed students that nothing is big enough that can make us stop from attaining it. A dedicated person with dreams can surely pave away towards his goals.
How his Channel "Flying Beast" made an appearance
Gaurav Taneja with wife and daughter
Gaurav Taneja always has an interest in the betterment, fitness, and developing one's body. Hence, while going through his eight-week transformation, he decided to make a vlog, which eventually was followed by more videos. People found him surprising and started following him at a high rate. With his interest growing in this field and people promoting him, he decided to keep his fitness videos on the channel rather than the vlogs, and this is how "Flying Beast" (1) came into being. To keep people stay tuned to him and amaze them, his wife and daughter also made several appearances in the videos now and then!
About "Fit Muscle TV"
Gaurav Taneja created this by keeping his fans updated with fitness, bodybuilding, nutrition, and similar content, which every fitness freak would like to follow, no matter if it's a girl or a boy. He guides people to eat and stay healthy and loves to inspire people. He feels that people should have proper knowledge regarding any fitness routine or exercise and what can be done on their body by following a method and eating healthy. The main motive behind making the channel "Fit Muscles TV" (2) was to provide detailed information and insight into people to develop a routine regarding their fitness and transform themselves into healthy living.
Changing Career
People generally wonder why a person changed his life career from being an engineer to a fitness vlogger. To this, Gaurav Taneja always states that fitness was his passion and wanted to carry it out on a large platform. He never found his career-changing phase a dull one as it still kept him amused with new challenged to encounter daily. He also states that there was no particular reason that he changed his career, the mindset to stay fit and influence people made him reach this phase.
Influencing people socially comes with responsibilities
There is a common misconception that every person has is that YouTubing and vlogging are simple tasks that involve glamour, but the harsh truth to be told, vlogging is not as simple as it appears to be! Behind a simple yet influencing post or a picture or even a video, several things have to be done just to record a video also for a few seconds. The audience notices every small something and points them out. Hence things always should be perfect, which is liked by people and positively influences them. It takes a lot amount of time, and hours are spent to record an ideal shot. Gaurav Taneja has similar views regarding this topic and says that holding on to the brand and its motive is the best possible way towards success. One should keep their motivation intact and deliver their contents in the best possible way without changing unnecessary topics and wasting time.
As any portal or a person grows towards fame, it brings responsibilities to them. One has to be vigilant with how people take up their opinion with enuring explicit content and managing their brands. One has to ensure that people do not take anything which may offend their interests, and people should be mindful of their knowledge and share them with people in the best possible way. As a successful blogger or vlogger influence more than millions of people, they have to be protective of everyone's interest, which makes their work more robust.
Branding and Partnering with Brands
Gaurav Taneja states that one has to be careful in choosing brands and partners for their advertising and public endorsement activities. Getting partnered with brands that actually relate to your work is way more beneficial than just collaborating with them without any purpose, this also affects the mindset of people and makes them believe in you and your content. If influencers do publicity and collaborate with brands that do not relate to their works can turn to hurt people and make people criticize them or even feel unhappy with their work.
Correctly, Gaurav Taneja understands the appropriate company for him and his followers and tries to cut unnecessary things that may be of no use regarding his followers. He states that whenever a brand offers him, he knows if the partnership is right for him or not! He never likes to work in fashion. According to him, it can bring a negative impact on his followers and tries to keep his content selective and only towards fitness related things.
Influencers like Gaurav Taneja has a significant impact on people and majorly has youths as his followers. He is dedicated to his work and loves to make people feel motivated towards their work with a fit body and a healthy living.


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About Those North Korean Miniature Warheads
August 22, 2019, 6:00 pm by Denise Simon Leave a Comment
By: Denise Simon | Founders Code
Primer: North Korea could now have as many as 60 nuclear warheads in its inventory. The new number is more than double the maximum estimate of 20 to 25 weapons by Siegfried Hecker, former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and now a professor at Stanford University. Hecker was the last American scientist to visit North Korea's nuclear weapons complex, in late 2010. Most estimates of the size of the North's inventory have been far more conservative, generally in the range of 12 to 15 to 20.
Japan defense white paper to concede North Korea has miniaturized nuclear warheads, report says
Reuters, Kyodo
TOKYO/BEIJING – Japan has upgraded its estimate of North Korea's nuclear weapons capability in an upcoming annual defense white paper, saying it seems Pyongyang has already achieved the miniaturization of warheads, the Yomiuri newspaper said in an unsourced report Wednesday.
That compares with the assessment in last year's report in which the government said it was possible North Korea had achieved miniaturization, the daily said without citing sources.
The report, to be approved at a Cabinet meeting in mid-September, will maintain the assessment that North Korea's military activities pose a "serious and imminent threat," the Yomiuri said.
South Korea's 2018 defense white paper, released in January, reported that North Korea's ability to miniaturize nuclear weapons "appears to have reached a considerable level."
According to South Korean media reports late last year, the South Korean intelligence agency told lawmakers that North Korea had continued to miniaturize nuclear warheads even after the Singapore summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in June 2018.
At that time, North Korea committed "to work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula" and destroyed some tunnels and buildings at its Punggye-ri nuclear test site.
But a second Trump-Kim meeting in February collapsed without an agreement, and North Korea has since resumed missile tests.
American officials have concluded for years that North Korea had likely produced miniaturized nuclear warheads. A leaked report by the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2017 concluded that North Korea had successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missiles, according to The Washington Post.
In last year's defense white paper, Japan said "miniaturizing a nuclear weapon small enough to be mounted on a ballistic missile requires a considerably high degree of technological capacity," and that "it is possible that North Korea has achieved the miniaturization of nuclear weapons and has developed nuclear warheads."
Also Wednesday, North Korea voiced its eagerness via its state-run media to continue developing and testing new weapons while accusing the United States of seeking confrontation through joint military drills with the South.
"There can be no constructive dialogue while confrontation is fueled," the Rodong Sinmun, the mouthpiece of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, said. "We have to develop, test and deploy powerful physical means essential for national defense."
The remarks by North Korea's most influential newspaper came a day after the United States and South Korea ended their joint military exercise that started Aug. 5. Pyongyang has denounced such drills as a rehearsal for an invasion.
North Korea has repeatedly launched projectiles, including what appeared to be short-range ballistic missiles, off its east coast since July 25, in protest against the latest U.S.-South Korea joint military exercise.
The moves came despite Trump's revelation earlier this month that he received what he called a "beautiful" letter from Kim. Trump said Kim expressed his desire in the letter to hold more summit talks following the end of the military drill.
North Korea is scheduled to convene the second session of its top legislative body this year on Aug. 29. All eyes are on whether Kim will make a speech at the legislature to announce his policy of how to proceed with denuclearization negotiations with the United States.
At their June 30 meeting at the inter-Korean truce village of Panmunjeom, Trump and Kim agreed that Washington and Pyongyang would resume stalled denuclearization talks within weeks, but they have yet to take place.
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The Cathedral Panthers boys basketball team will travel to play an away game at the John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics & Science of Boston on Friday, December 7th.
The JV game will start at 4:30 p.m. The Varsity game follows at 6:00 p.m.


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Q: Memory Leakage while using dynamic array pointer in C++ As the title reads, I get memory leakage when I run my program. However, I think the problem is that I do not tell the destructor to free all of the memory when the program is done. But the problem is that the program crashes when I try to put my freeMemory() function in the destructor. The compiler says that the function getString() in my base class could not read from string. I wonder if you can see the problem, because I surely can not... And to not get too many rows of code, I will only post the functions which could be the possible source of leakage. Handler.h:
class Handler {
private:
    Competitor* *person;
    int capacity;
    int nrOfCompetitors;
    void expand();
    void initiate(int start) const;
    int find(string name) const;
    void freeMemory();
public:
    Handler(int capacity = 3);
    Handler(const Handler & origObj);
    virtual ~Handler();
    Handler operator=(const Handler & origObj);
    bool addExerciser(string name, string gender, int age);
    bool addProffs(string name, string gender, string compound, int nrOfSeasons);
    void getCompetitors(string arr[]) const;
    int getNrOfCompetitors() const;
    void getProffs(string arr[]) const;
    int getNrOfProffs() const;
    void getExercisers(string arr[]) const;
    int getNrOfExercisers() const;
    bool removeCompetitor(string name);
    bool changeNrOfSeasons(string name, int newNrOfSeasons) const;
    void sortCompetitors();
};

Handler.cpp (just the relevant functions):
void Handler::expand() {
    this->capacity += 5;
    Competitor* *tmp = new Competitor*[capacity];

    for (int i = 0; i < this->nrOfCompetitors; i++) {
        tmp[i] = this->person[i];
    }
    delete[] this->person;

    this->person = tmp;
    this->initiate(nrOfCompetitors);
}

void Handler::initiate(int start) const {
    for (int i = start; i < this->capacity; i++) {
        person[i] = nullptr;
    }
}

void Handler::freeMemory() {
    for (int i = 0; i < nrOfCompetitors; i++) {
        delete person[i];
    }
    delete[] person;
}

Handler::Handler(int capacity) {
    this->capacity = capacity;
    this->nrOfCompetitors = 0;
    this->person = new Competitor*[this->capacity];
    initiate(0);
}

Handler::Handler(const Handler & origObj) {
    this->capacity = origObj.capacity;
    this->nrOfCompetitors = origObj.nrOfCompetitors;
    this->person = new Competitor*[origObj.capacity];
    for (int i = 0; i < this->capacity; i++) {
        person[i] = origObj.person[i];
    }
    initiate(nrOfCompetitors);
}

Handler::~Handler() {
    //freeMemory();
    delete[] person;
}

Handler Handler::operator=(const Handler & origObj) {
    if (this != &origObj) {
        freeMemory();
        this->capacity = origObj.capacity;
        this->nrOfCompetitors = origObj.nrOfCompetitors;
        this->person = new Competitor*[origObj.capacity];
        for (int i = 0; i < this->capacity; i++) {
            person[i] = origObj.person[i];
        }
        initiate(nrOfCompetitors);
    }
    return *this;
}

bool Handler::removeCompetitor(string name) {
    bool removed = false;
    int found = find(name);

    if (found != -1) {
        delete person[found];
        for (int i = found; i < nrOfCompetitors; i++) {
            person[found] = person[found + 1];
        }
        delete person[nrOfCompetitors];
        nrOfCompetitors -= 1;
        removed = true;
    }

    return removed;
}

void Handler::sortCompetitors() {
    Competitor* tmp;
    bool swap;

    do {
        swap = false;
        for (int i = 0; i < nrOfCompetitors - 1; i++) {
            if (person[i]->getName() > person[i + 1]->getName()) {
                tmp = person[i];
                person[i] = person[i + 1];
                person[i + 1] = tmp;
                swap = true;
            }
        }
    } while (swap);
}

EDIT:
When the program crashes while I am trying to use the freeMemory() function in my destructor, the compiler says that the getString() function in my base class could not read character from string.
Competitor.h (base class):
string getString() const;
virtual string getSpecificString() const = 0;

Competitor.cpp:
string Deltagare::getString() const {
    return "Name: " + this->name + "\nGender: " + this->gender + "\n" + this->getSpecificString();
}

Exerciser.h (sub class):
virtual string getSpecificString() const;

Exerciser.cpp
string Exerciser::getSpecificString() const {
    return "Age: " + to_string(this->age);
}

Solved! Solution:
The problems were in the destructor, assignment operator and the copy-constructor, but they are fixed now. I used a clone method because I was not able to type person[i] = new Competitor[origObj.person[i]] because of the fact that the Competitor class is an abstract class.
Competitor.h:
virtual Competitor* clone() const = 0;

Exerciser.h:
Exerciser* clone() const;

Exerciser.cpp:
Exerciser * Exerciser::clone() const {
    return new Exerciser(*this);
}

Edit in the copy-constructor and the assignment operator:
this->person = new Competitor*[origObj.capacity];
    for (int i = 0; i < origObj.nrOfCompetitors; i++) {
        person[i] = origObj.person[i]->clone();
    }

Edit in the destructor:
Handler::~Handler() {
    freeMemory();
}

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FONTANA, Calif. (March 20, 2012) - AJ Allmendinger and his Todd Gordon-led Penske Racing No. 22 Dodge team enter this weekend's race in Fontana, Calif., looking to make the team sponsor, race sponsor and facility sponsor proud. After all, Dinger will be driving the AAA Dodge Charger in this weekend's Auto Club 400 at Auto Club Speedway.
"We certainly are coming in there hoping to have a really strong performance," said Allmendinger, who will be making his eighth career start at the 2.0-mile Fontana, Calif., low-banked, D-shaped oval this weekend. "It's our first time out in the AAA colors and we'd love to be able to make it a memorable race weekend for all the right reasons."
This weekend's race comes on the heels of the Automobile Club of Southern California announcing this week a multi-year sponsorship extension with Penske Racing that will go through the 2016 season.
"I'm really looking forward to this weekend's race in Fontana," offered crew chief Gordon. "With the sponsorship extension being announced, we know it's important for us to go in there and have a good showing. We're confident we can do that.
"It'll be a return to the intermediate tracks and we have a lot to build off of," Gordon said. "The Penske teams admittedly struggled in last year's Auto Club 400, but our intermediate track strength has grown by leaps and bounds since then.
"We are looking to draw quite a bit from our race weekend at Las Vegas. I know that may sound strange when you look at the stats and see that we finished 37th in that race. The fact is that we had a really strong Dodge Charger until we had the issue with the fuel pump. We started 14th and had a top-10 or at worst a top-15 run going until that bit us. We are confident that problem is behind us now.
"I think we're coming into Fontana with some positive momentum going after last weekend's race at Bristol," said Gordon. "We were fast all weekend long. We qualified well (started second) and led for most of the first quarter of the race. AJ was able to pass Jeff Gordon and just drive away from the field. But again we had problems and could get only a 17th-place finish out of it.
"As it turned out, we did have a mechanical issue that we discovered when we got the car back to the shop. It definitely would make the car a lot looser in the corner and that was what bit us. The bottom line is that it was another learning experience and we will continue to get better from it.
"AJ went into last weekend saying that Bristol was one of his worst tracks and we made so much progress there from Friday's opening practice on through the race," said Gordon. "We really are gelling well as a team overall and our communication level gets better and better every day we're at the track. I honestly think he is already really looking forward to going back to Bristol in August for the night race.
"AJ is quick to say that Auto Club Speedway is another one of his most challenging tracks. So, it's like the third time we have faced that this year. Las Vegas was a very similar situation. The two tracks actually have a lot in common. Both of them are really rough-surfaced, high-speed tracks.
"The biggest challenge for this weekend in Fontana is the same as it was in Vegas - tire management," said Gordon. "The tires fall off two to three seconds per lap during a run and you have to maximize what you can get out of them during a fuel run.
"With the way our season has gone, we're coming in there looking for a solid performance without any issues during the race. We need to be able to run well all weekend, complete all the laps and come out of there with a top-12 finish. We need to get a solid race like that under our belts and progress to where we can accomplish that every week out there."
In his seven career races to date at Auto Club Speedway, Allmendinger is still looking for his first top-10 finish. He has a 17.0 average start and a 21.7 average finish. He has a 99.4 percent lap completion average, finish all by 10 possible laps (1,640 of 1,650).
Dinger started 20th and finished 14th in last year's Auto Club 400. "It was a case of being loose in and tight off most of the race there last year," Dinger recalled. "We had a final yellow with about 15 laps to go and came in for four fresh tires. We were 22nd on the final restart with eight laps to go. We wound up passing a car every lap and got up to 14th when the time ran out."
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Amber Heard's Friend iO Tillett Wright Writes About Experience Calling 911 on an Abuser
By Peyton Dix
"I called 911 because she never would."
Yesterday morning, a post published in Refinery 29 by iO Tillett Wright opened with that chilling line; omitting any names from the piece, Wright only recounted in detail the reason why she decided to take action in a situation surrounding domestic violence. It's both a personal narrative and a means of calling attention more generally to often unaddressed issue of domestic violence.
She writes:
We say domestic violence is bad, we condemn it. But as a culture, we create the most fertile breeding ground for it to thrive.
The post deconstructs the excuses victims and society tend to make for abusers, and simultaneously addresses the difficult aspects of confronting abuse that's coupled with celebrity.
This is particularly relevant because Wright — an artist, writer, photographer, and gender activist — is also a dear friend to both Amber Heard and Johnny Depp. Many of us are well aware that there have been many allegations made surrounding Johnny Depp having abused his Heard, and since the article went up a day after Wright tweeted her support for Heard, people have been speculating across the Internet that the piece may be connected.
Wright continue with specifics of the particular incident around which the piece — which doesn't name names — centers:
When I was on the phone with both of them and heard it drop, heard him say, 'What if I pulled your hair back?' and her scream for my help, I wondered like so many times before if I should break the code of silence that surrounds celebrities and invite the police into the situation, and in a split second decided that, yes, I was going to.
This account is similar to the encounter Heard describes in her testimony, having cited Wright as a witness. The Cut notes that this part of the article is reflective of Heard's divorce filing and her restraining order request. According to the said filing, Heard stated that on May 21, Wright was on the phone with her when Depp allegedly threw his phone at her face, at which point Heard yelled for Wright to call the police. Wright has also been named in Heard's sworn declaration.
In this anonymized letter, Wright recalls seeing supposed evidence of physical harm and damage, ranging from a pillow covered in blood, to a busted lip. No conclusion on the case has come to a head yet, but Heard and Depp have another hearing on June 17th, the same day Heard's restraining order against him will expire.


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Calling all computers: VoIP goes mainstream
03 May Calling all computers: VoIP goes mainstream
Posted at 00:00h in Commentary, IT	by	WTN News 0 Comments
Voice traffic leaps to the Internet and phones become computer devices
Chances are you have already received phone calls that spent part of their time on the Internet, thanks to a technology that has finally crossed into the mainstream.
And if your company isn't already making use of the Internet to carry phone calls, it will probably consider doing so sooner rather than later. The potential savings and efficiencies are just too great to ignore.
Whether you say it in initials, "V-O-I-P," say the whole thing, "voice over Internet Protocol," shorten it to "voice over IP," or pronounce it as an acronym, "Voip," putting telephone voice traffic onto the same cables and networks that have been carrying computer and Internet data all these years is the next big thing in technology.
Huge players such as AT&T, Cisco Systems, and Time Warner are rolling out VoIP service, and Baby Bells such as Verizon Communications, SBC Communications, and Qwest Communications International are on the bandwagon as well, or should we say the "broadband wagon."
High-speed broadband access to the Internet is crucial to carrying voice traffic, which arrives in the form of the unique data packets that the Internet traffics in, hence the name "Internet protocol." Unlike regular phone service that requires an open line in both directions, voice traffic over the Internet is sent streaming along like everything else and reassembled in nanoseconds on the other end.
Not only do phone calls become as cheap to transmit as e-mails, but cable companies and other newcomers can also get into the telecommunications game without having to pay access charges to the established phone companies.
First cut your wiring
For a business, the first level of savings starts with the wiring – which is cut in half.
"You don't need a separate wire for your phone," says Mike Ulicki, VP and chief technology officer for Brookfield-based networking company Norlight.
"You can run both voice and data over the same Ethernet connection. Phones coming out now have Ethernet switches built into them, so you plug your phone into the Ethernet jack in the wall, and plug your phone into your computer and basically save 50% on your infrastructure wiring."
These savings are especially attractive for companies moving into new space, since they can eliminate half the cable-pulling and switching equipment.
That is what the law firm of Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. experienced when moving into new space in Milwaukee in November.
"In the past, each office would have at least two phone wires, or even four wires, because you wanted to give yourself some flexibility in the future," says Al Ciochon, the firm's director of information technology. "What you find in a voice-over-IP situation is you completely eliminate those wires, which could save considerable amounts of money."
He estimates each wire that needs to be pulled could cost $200 in labor, so with 100 phone wirings eliminated, that would total $20,000 in savings.
"It really simplifies the administration from a networking side in just the complexity of the wires you're dealing with," he says."And some of the most expensive devices you pay for [in a computer network] are your hubs and routers and switches," he adds.
By eliminating a separate system of phone wires, you make double use of your computer networking gear. Not only that, but all moves and changes of extensions and service within the organization are now handled by software on the computer system, not by having to change wiring connections or reprogram the PBX.
Next, cut your charges
Eliminating half the wiring is fine, but how about if your phone bill shrank as well?
Because long distance charges have come down considerably for regular phone service, VoIP may not make sense for companies that don't make a lot of long-distance calls. But using VoIP can be a cost-effective way to connect an overseas call center to North America, for instance.
And for a company with several locations, using VoIP can totally eliminate charges for calls within its own organization.
A manufacturer of cabling headquartered in Milwaukee, HellermannTyton has a distribution center in the Chicago area and a manufacturing center in Florida, plus sales offices in Canada and Mexico. All are connected by dedicated data lines.
"By working with AT&T we were able to use one of our data lines, one of our T1 lines, to send our long-distance voice traffic," says Chris Cantwell, e-business manager at HellermannTyton.
"We are saving about $1,000 a month now in just our [telephone] line costs."
The same technology that allows leveraging existing data networks to also carry voice traffic also results in other efficiencies. Whyte Hirschboeck's Ciochon points out that in the past, you would have to dedicate some of your T1 channels for voice and some for data.
"Now with voice over IP, the routers are smart enough that when it is a voice packet, they use quality of service to prioritize the voice traffic ahead of data traffic. But if there's no voice traffic, they'll use the entire T1, 1.5 megabytes, for data throughput — a much greater usage of your existing infrastructure."
Finally, integrate your data
Cutting wiring and phone costs are fine, but what really gets experts excited about voice-over-Internet technology is the possibility of unifying or integrating all sorts of functions that are now separate, such as e-mail, voice-mail, and databases.
Norlight's Ulicki says, "With VoIP, you can dial directly from your computer database of contact information. You can also have unified messaging, one box that everything comes into, faxes, e-mails, voice-mails. You can listen to your e-mails on your phone if you want, like when you're on the road. The system can read you the e-mail and send what you say.
"This is going to be one of the biggest revolutions in a long time. I don't think people have realized the impact integrated telephony is going to have on their lives in terms of communications."
As a Madison-based Internet provider and data center manager for e-commerce companies such as Lands' End, Berbee Information Networks Corp. has been using VoIP internally for two years and now offers it to its clients.
"The functionality that VoIP brings over traditional phones systems is driven by the fact that your telephone becomes a computer device," says Paul Shain, president and COO of Berbee.
"It's on the network, therefore you can interface and interact with other systems on the network, such as unified messaging. The converged voice and data networks makes technological sense and makes business sense."
Because an employee can connect to the company's voice and data system from any high-speed Internet connection, Shain sees VoIP as being very attractive to companies with a lot of mobile workers, who can appear as if they are at the office no matter where they are actually located.
"Voice over IP is a technology that seems to be ready for the time," says Shain. "It's providing a lot of return for our customers from a financial perspective as well as from a productivity perspective.
"My sense is that as people look for more and more unique applications to run over their phone system, bringing data from other computer systems, you'll start to see creative applications that allow you to get even more value from the phone system."
One early example he cites is Informacast, a paging and notification system for building evacuation that Berbee originally wrote for the U.S. Department of Commerce.
"It allows you to use VoIP to either send a text or voice message simultaneously to tens of thousands of phones and effectively turn your phone system into [the equivalent of] an overhead paging system," Shain says. "We have sold it all over the country and the world."
Berbee's client Ciochon agrees. "The thing that's so important for voice over IP is the integration into the PC world. You can now click on a phone number displayed on your PC screen and your phone starts dialing it. This integration has always been difficult because the systems [phone and computer software] had been very different. Voice over IP puts them on common platforms."
"We purchased the Cisco AVVID VoIP system, and the database that runs it is Microsoft SQL, the same that I run for all our business applications. Your phone is truly acting as another computer device, such as for data entry, and my database administrator is also able to now manage the database for the telephone system. In the past that was very proprietary and there would be a lot of costs associated with that application and support."
He also sees the "virtual office" feature as very important. "You're able to work anytime, any place on any device [connected to the Internet] so you can be just as efficient from home as from the office. The cost-savings are tremendous because if you're anywhere over the Internet you're able to get your calls.
"The technology makes sense, I think. A lot of things are going over the Internet, and there's a lot of cost savings associated with the medium of exchange, so I think it only makes sense to put voice traffic there, too."
Paul Zukowski is editor of Corporate Report Wisconsin. He can be reached at pz@wistrails.com. This story has been syndicated with permission of the publication.


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Is it possible for a budget to be popular?
Ben Chifley was one of Australia's finest Treasurers. At one point in his career, he was reported as saying that it is utterly impossible to produce a budget that a majority of voters will find acceptable.
Both Peter Costello and Wayne Swan will testify that Chifley's comments were close to the mark. So, it is not a surprise that this year's budget was greeted with hysteria by lots of otherwise intelligent people who believe that they have a holy calling to say the worst possible things that they can think of about everything that the Gillard government does. They truly believe that if they can be seen to have had a prominent role in bringing this government down, they will have earned the right to be treated with great warmth when St Peter greets them at the pearly gates of Heaven.
Really, they are a very sad lot who love power more than they care for Australia. Of course, there are things that many of us would have chosen not to put in this Budget but, overall, it was not a bad effort. It was probably the best of Wayne Swan's five budgets in that it made a genuine attempt to go into surplus — something that every nation on earth should do for decades to come.
Hand-outs always worry me, particularly when they benefit the middle class, rather than concentrating on those in genuine need. It is a comment that I often made to John Howard, who turned middle class welfare into an art form that won elections.
I can understand the rationale behind compensating those most affected by any increase in the cost of living caused by the carbon tax. But, I feel also that, if it is vital for us to protect the environment by implementing the carbon tax, then we all should bear some part of the cost of meeting the challenge, otherwise it's not really a crisis issue.
Nevertheless, I have a feeling that the carbon tax won't have as bad an economic effect as the doomsayers lead us to believe.
It will be a bit like the implementation of the GST. Back then, there was panic among voters in a similar manner to the experience of today as Kim Beasley and Simon Crean constantly attacked John Howard over the economic devastation that they forecast the GST would cause. But, it went through quite smoothly, life went on as normal and Howard earned his spurs as an economic reformer.
Tony Abbott may find himself in a similar position to Beasley and Crean.
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