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Ex-chair of FCC broadband committee gets five years in prison for fraud
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The former head of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee (BDAC) was sentenced to five years in prison for defrauding investors.
Elizabeth Ann Pierce was CEO of Quintillion, an Alaskan telecom company, when she lied to two investment firms in New York in order to raise $270 million to build a fiber network. She also defrauded two individual investors out of $365,000 and used a large chunk of that money for personal expenses.
Pierce, 55, pleaded guilty and last week was given the five-year prison sentence in US District Court for the Southern District of New York, US Attorney Geoffrey Berman announced. Pierce was also "ordered to forfeit $896,698.00 and all of her interests in Quintillion and a property in Texas." She will also be subject to a restitution order to compensate her victims "at a later date."
Pierce's industry experience helped her land the top spot on Pai's broadband advisory committee in April 2017. But she left Quintillion in July 2017 as her scheme unraveled, and she resigned from the FCC advisory panel. Pai appointed a new chair for his committee two months later; he thanked Pierce for her service, saying she did "an excellent job" chairing the committee and "wish[ed] her all the best in her future endeavors."
Pierce used fake contracts to fool investors
Berman's announcement detailed Pierce's fraud:
Between May 2015 and July 2017, Pierce engaged in a scheme to induce two New York-based investment companies to provide more than $270 million to construct the Quintillion System by providing them with eight forged broadband capacity sales contracts and related order forms under which Quintillion would obtain guaranteed revenue once the Quintillion System was built (the "Fake Revenue Agreements"). Under the Fake Revenue Agreements, four telecommunications services companies appeared to have made binding commitments to purchase specific wholesale quantities of capacity from Quintillion at specified prices. The cumulative value of the Fake Revenue Agreements was approximately $1 billion over the life of the Fake Revenue Agreements. In reality, the Fake Revenue Agreements were completely worthless because Pierce had forged the counterparties' signatures.
Some of these revenue agreements "never existed at all," and "others were falsified versions of genuine revenue agreements." Pierce altered the contracts "to make them more favorable to Quintillion and, therefore, more appealing to investors than the genuine agreements," the US Attorney's office said.
"For example, under one of the Fake Revenue Agreements, the customer purportedly agreed to buy from Quintillion increasing quantities of gigabits per second of capacity over a period of 20 years," the US Attorney said. "That agreement, if genuine, would have assured Quintillion hundreds of millions of dollars in future revenue. In reality, negotiations over that deal had ended unsuccessfully, a fact that Pierce never disclosed to the investors. Under another Fake Revenue Agreement, the customer purportedly agreed to buy a fixed, predetermined amount of capacity from Quintillion regardless of subsequent market conditions. In truth, that customer was not obligated to buy any capacity."
Pierce tried to cover up her fraud "by continuing to negotiate with the telecommunications companies in hopes of reaching agreements identical to the ones she forged" but failed to do so.
"Pierce hid these genuine, but inferior, contracts from the investment companies and her own staff," the US Attorney's office said. "When Quintillion and the investment companies ultimately discovered the fraud in mid-2017, they learned that the real contracts Pierce actually negotiated would generate only a fraction of the anticipated guaranteed revenue of the Fake Revenue Agreements she forged."
Pierce convinced the two individual investors that they would receive ownership interests in Quintillion in exchange for their $365,000, when in reality they received no shares in the company. Pierce "used half of one victim's money and all of the other victim's investment for her own personal benefit," the US Attorney's office said.
Quintillion said it "took swift action and self-reported to the Department of Justice" when it learned of Pierce's fraud, the company said in April 2018.
FCC committee favors industry
The FCC committee that Pierce used to lead has repeatedly been criticized for favoring the interests of industry over the public at large. San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo quit the group in January 2018 out of frustration that its recommendations favor the interests of private industry over municipalities.
The committee has also pushed policy that would benefit telecom companies at the expense of other tech companies. In December 2018, the committee urged states to impose new taxes on Netflix, Google, Facebook, and many other businesses that require Internet access to operate. The resulting funding would have been transferred to ISPs via grants that subsidize private broadband providers' network construction. (Pai didn't back the tax proposal.)
The BDAC is continuing its work, with the FCC saying it will "craft recommendations for the Commission on ways to accelerate the deployment of high-speed Internet access... by reducing and/or removing regulatory barriers to infrastructure investment and strengthening existing broadband networks in communities across the country."
In April this year, Pai gave a consumer advisory committee spot to a representative of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which lobbies against municipal broadband, net neutrality, and other consumer protection measures. (Correction: This story originally stated incorrectly that an ALEC representative is a member of the FCC's Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee. The consumer advisory committee is separate from the BDAC.)
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        _json_resource_key = 'ike_policy'

        _json_resources_key = 'ike_policies'

        _url_resource_path = '/v2.0/vpn/ike_policies'

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create(self,
        name=None,
        description=None,
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        encryption_algorithm=None,
        pfs=None,
        phase1_negotiation_mode=None,
        lifetime=None,
        ike_version=None,
        project=None)

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Create an IKE policy

Parameters:

name (str) - IKE policy name

description (str) - Description

auth_algorithm (str) - Auth algorithm; only 'sha1'

encryption_algorithm (str) - Encryption algorithm ('3des', 'aes-128', 'aes-192', ...)

pfs (str) - Perfect forward secrecy ('Group2', 'Group5', 'Group14', ...)

phase1_negotiation_mode (str) - IKE mode; only 'main'

lifetime (str) - Life time; e.q.'3600seconds'

ike_version (str) - IKE version; 'v1' or 'v2'

project (osclient2.project.Resource) - Project object

Returns: osclient2.neutron.v2.vpn.ike_policy.Resource

Created policy

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        base.Manager.create

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I'm an IT Expert at CNIL (the French DPA) and a former NYU PostDoc who maintains and develops the TrackMeNot extension. On this blog I'll express my personal opinion about search engines and how they handle privacy issues.
According to Facebook, Graph Search not only helps people finding information about their friends, it also helps them to know what information they reveal about themself. I find this objective questionable especially in France where many people are still not aware that Graph Search even exist  and yet have their profiles searchable by anyone in the US. Yet, Graph Search is certainly very useful and educative about what could go wrong with tagging and shared content.
When Facebook announced Graph Search in January, I was surprised by their decision to not show friends lists that could be recomposed by browsing timelines. Recomposing part of someone friends list was time consuming but possible if you spent time scrolling down the timeline.
Last July update of Graph Search makes it even simpler to retrieve list of friends of people who hide it. Indeed, Graph Search now allows you to search who liked or commented on photos. Since some content is only visible to my friends, only they can comment or like my pictures. Having a list of people who liked or commented on my photos is like having a list of my friends with who I share things on Facebook. Some people that I do not know commented on my photos, but that's a negligible fraction.
Surprisingly, it seems that you can even know if someone liked a photo you don't have access to. Indeed, in some circumstances, you cannot see which picture has been liked; you only know that someone liked a picture (see bellow). It goes against Facebook claim that Graph Search only gives you access to information you already had.
Update: In fact, the person who liked the picture is not searchable but she appears in the search results because she liked a public photo.
Another annoying effect is that queries like "People who liked photos by me" returns a list of people with who I'm no longer friend. And it's pretty easy to spot these people because they are systematically at the end of the result list.
Unfortunately, Graph Search does not (yet?) support 'OR' queries so there is no easy way to quantify the overlap between these four queries . I reported numbers of confirmed retrieved friends (using the "mutual friend" filter) and the total number of retrieved people because it also includes former friends. I compare that to the number of friends I have (and I thank my friends who did not hide their friends list).
I made some tests on a few friends and I obtained similar results , queries Q1 and Q3 are the more effective queries in general. On average, Graph Search returns 30% of friends, plus some former friends. I guess I could retrieve up to 40-50% by combining the four queries. It's problematic because many people assume that their friend's lists are safe, but this safety goes away when they share likable photos or when they like photos.
Since "Like" visibility is public, you can even retrieve some friends of people with who you have no connection. I can imagine many circumstances where having your list of friends publicly available is very problematic.
Unfortunately, you cannot prevent your friends from liking content you share with them. Likes are not like tag or comments: they cannot be removed. The only current solution is to not share "likeable" content or to ask to people to not like it, but that's very counter intuitive on Facebook. In the end, you can only hide friends who don't "like" you.
Another solution is to obfuscate the list of people who liked your pictures. I probably rely too much on obfuscation, but asking people you don't know to like your photos is currently the only technical solution to prevent stalkers from quickly retrieving your friends.
Acknowledgements: Thanks to my stalked friends who do not share their friends lists, they motivated this post. Thanks to those who do share their list, they helped me to make this post relevant.
When Facebook announced Graph Search, they emphasized that they designed it with privacy in mind and yet made two different statements. First, M. Zuckerberg said that it'll give access only to « things that people have shared with you » while T. Stocky said that «[you] can only search for what [you] can already see on Facebook».
I define the « content I share with you» as the content you can see on my timeline which is in fact a subset of the content you could see about me on Facebook. But Facebook has a different definition and considers « content shared » as everything about me that is visible, even if it normally requires a considerable effort to find it.
Facebook made it clear that hiding photos on your timeline is no longer enough to prevent people from seeing them. With graph search, it's now very simple to find all the photos of someone that are visible to you.
For instance, if one of your friends is tagged on pictures that he decided to remove from its timeline, these "hidden" photos will appear in graph search if you have access to them.
It was already possible to find « hidden » pictures a friend was tagged on but it required a considerable amount of time and effort: you had to go through the list of all his friends and check their pictures in case your friend might appear on some of them. Unless you were really creepy, your friends were safe to assume that most of their « hidden » pictures would not be viewed by you. That's no longer the case and to control who can see your "hidden" pictures you'll have to delete tags or ask your friends to limit the pictures visibility .
Tags is not only a feature used to annotate content, it's also used to know when someone comments a picture you appear on. If you delete the tag, you lose the possibility to quickly know how people react to a photo. Not removing a tag is different than sharing a picture. Assuming that people want to share every picture they're tagged on is wrong, especially when they're a « share » button that allows them to do precisely that.
Unlike posts on your timeline, tags don't have to be reviewed before they appear in Graph Search. To control photos of you that will appear in graph search, you have to frequently visit Facebook and remove unwanted tags. You have no option to proactively control your image on Facebook other than relying on your friends to not tag you without your consent.
Strangely Facebook did not adopt the same definition of "sharing" with the "Friends list". Assuming we're friends; if you've decided to hide your friend list from your timeline, I can try to recompose it by visiting each of your friend's timeline and check that you appear as a mutual friend. It would require knowing some of your friends first, but that's fairly easy if they posted something on your timeline. By iterating this process, I could retrieve a subset of your friends. Like photos you are tagged on, this subset is presumably shared by you but won't appear if I search for the list of your friends.
1) The searches that have been recorded in your Web Search History before March the 1st will be subject to this policy .
2) Advertisers could target ads based on your browsing interests and interests inferred from your Web Search History.
First, I have to say that Google did a remarkable job advertising the new policy: notifications are everywhere. I don't remember any of the policy updates being that much advertised and then commented.
So much for the good points, now let's discuss the policy itself. The bottom line is this policy would allow advertisers target you based on your web search profile and other interests you expressed in your emails or through your use of Google services. And this list of interests can be combined with the list of interests they built based on your DoubleClick cookie.
In fact, it means that your Double-Click cookie will not be linked to your personally identifiable information. So Google can not put your name in front of the list of interests they inferred from your browsing behavior and will not put your name (or any other PII) in the ads you see. Because your Web Search history is likely to be unique, it identifies you and therefore can not be combined to your DoubleClick profile .
But your search profile (i.e. the list of interests inferred from your search history) is unlikely to be unique and therefore does not identify you so Google can combine it with your DoubleClick cookie information . I believe they could also include some the of search results you clicked on to retarget you.
Similarly, your age, gender and interests expressed during Gtalk and Gmail discussions (or any other interest that Google could infer but that you would not be the only one to express) could be associated to your DoubleClick cookie. If you have any suggestion to deal with these data, do not hesitate to share it.
 Google defines Personal information as information "you provide to us which personally identifies you, such as your name, email address or billing information, or other data which can be reasonably linked to such information by Google".
After finding an information leakage in Google Search, I've been curious to see if there were no other pieces of information that could be gleaned from other Google services. To verify this, I visited my Google Dashboard, replaced my SID cookie and clicked on all the HTTP services that were listed.
My first attempt failed as I was systematically redirected to the account page where I was asked to enter my password. I then tried to also spoof the HSID cookie — also sent clear text — but because HSID cookie is an HTTPOnly cookie , it cannot be modified by a script or by the user: the cookie can only be modified by the server.
The best solution I found was to install a local proxy to intercept the HTTP traffic and then modify the cookies (I recommend Burp free edition which does a good job). It is then quite simple to replace the HSID cookie in the sent requests.
Google Alerts: I was able to view and edit the mail alerts that were configured for the spoofed account.
Google Social Content: This service lists all your Gtalk contacts (that means most of the people you chatted with a couple of times).
Google Contacts: This is the Gmail contacts manager, it allows you to view, edit and create Gmail contacts. Quite useful if you want to get a list of persons to spam. An attacker could also attempt to replace the mail address of a contact with its own mail address.
Google Reader: You could see and edit RSS subscription.
Google Maps : You could see the maps associated to the spoof account.
There might be other vulnerable services but I think this list is already quite exhaustive and each of the listed service is likely to provide sensitive information.
These cookies can be used to provide an access to multiple services: when Google created these services, it did not assign a specific cookie for each of them. Therefore a single pair of cookies provides an access to all these services.
SID cookies are still valid even after the user logout: if a user thinks his session has been compromised, there is nothing he can do to revoke it. It seems that this was already pointed out 4 years ago .
In our paper on Google's session cookie information leakage, Vincent Verdot and I described how to captures SID cookies on a shared network and run the attack with Firesheep (see the previous post).
Nevertheless, there are other ways to capture such cookies. For instance one could use malware to capture search traffic, but the simplest solution remains to search SID cookies.
Using a malware to redirect the traffic of infected computers through a proxy controlled by the attack would allow to capture session cookies. Such infection has recently been detected by Google which displayed a banner on its search page . In that particular case, Google traffic redirection was merely a side effect which triggered the malware detection.
According to Google, a couple of millions of computers  were infected by this malware. Attackers could have captured a significant number of session cookies and run attacks described in our paper.
The simpler solution to find SID cookies is to search them. Typing the right query in Google provides a list of pages where people published captured HTTP traffic, including SID cookies (also works with Yahoo!).
If you replace your SID cookie by one of the cookies listed in these pages, you will receive the same personalized results than its owner. From these results you can quickly extract a list of visited results, Gmail contacts and Google+ acquaintances.
Not all these results contain full SID cookies and some of the listed SID cookies may have already expired, but this simple search should already provide many valid cookies to test the flaw. I've written a Chrome extension to simply replace the SID cookie for the "google.com" domain and quickly test different accounts. Once installed, click on the red button in the upper right corner, past the cookie value and click save.
On Firefox you could use the Web Developer extension to edit cookies (it does not seem to work on Firefox 5.0).
By publishing their (apparently innocuous) cookies users indirectly published part of their click-stream and associated it to their email address. Thus they established a public record of having visited these URLs , and this record is now linked to their name. From there, their full anonymized click-stream — not reduced to visited search results — could be de-anonymized by a tracking ad-network.
Back in February, I re-discovered a small flaw in Google Search: result personalization leaks the list of results you clicked on. This leak was already known and mentioned in a paper by Castelluccia et al., but several features added by Google made it critical.
First there is the possibility (for web search history users) to only view result that have already been visited (visit http://www.google.com/webhp?tbs=whv:1).
Second, with Google Instant it is possible to view visited links quickly without living a trace in the victim Web Search history (the attack is not-destructive).
The third point has been addressed by Google very recently, when they introduced the new interface with the black top bar.
Vincent Verdot and I wrote a paper about this flaw. In order to conduct an experiment, we've been working on a proof of concept and an evaluation tool that we used to gather results.
This proof of concept is based on Firesheep (I just added a module and modify the attack launched when a SID cookie was captured). Firesheep is only working with the latest version of Firefox 3.6, do not expect to run it on Firefox 5.
With our version of Firesheep, when a Google SID cookie is captured, the account name appears in the Firesheep sidebar. Double clicking on it starts the attack; double clicking again displays the retrieved list of visited links.
We also designed a Firefox extension which downloads your web search history on your computer, issue a couple of search queries (mostly searching for extensions like: « .com, .fr, .us, .html, www, … ») and see how many clicked links can be retrieved.
We've run this experiment with a dozen of account and sent the result to Google. We'll soon publish the paper as a technical report.
We've been in contact with Google Security Team who is working on a fix that should soon be deployed. In the meantime, make sure you're not logged in your Google account when you're connected on an unsecured network.
If you do not use Web Search History you may also purge it and disable the feature (visit https://www.google.com/history).
Also, TrackMeNot and Unsearch will reduce the exposition of your click history.
A Google Account with Web Search History enabled. To check that you activated it, visit https://www.google.com/history; if it asks you to turn on the feature, then you cannot help here. Thanks anyway for trying.
Install this Firefox extension (https://unsearcher.org/Test%20Flaw/ad@monitor.xpi), download it and then drag it and drop it in Firefox. Once the extension has been installed, you should restart Firefox.
Modify your Google Search preferences (http://www.google.com/preferences?hl=en) to disable "Google Instant" and set the number of returned result to 100 (instead of 10).
Sign out and Sign in again on Google.com.
In Firefox, click on "Tools-> ADMONITOR-> History". A first message should appear to inform you that the extension is about to extract your search History. Click on OK and do not close the Firefox window.
After five minutes, another message will be prompted to inform you that the test is finished. It'll tell you where you can find the generated file. A Firefox window should have open (not necessarily taking the focus). You can send me the content of this window via e-mail and we'll integrate it in our experiment results.
You can remove the generated files and uninstall the sid@testextension.
Last year, I started to analyze Google Search and Google Suggest logs retention policies for the NYU Privacy Research Group meetings. To complete this analysis, I'm trying to review policies of other Google services.
"Information we collect" for Advisor, Checkout, Desktop, Gears, TV, Location, Mobile, Toolbar, Trader, Web Accelerator.
My first understanding was that for services that require a Google Account to be used, Google uses the terms "Personal information" otherwise it uses "Information we collect". But there are several exceptions. For instance, SafeBrowsing does not require an account to be used but Google TV does.
In addition, explicit references to server logs are made in these Personal Information sections while Google does not consider server logs as Personal Information (see their FAQ).
This last sentence is unusual and suggest that if you ever logged in and visited Knol, Google can associate your IP address and Cookie IDs to your Goolge Account — and all the personal information attached to it. From that, Google can directly de-anonymized the searches you did when you were not logged in.
This loophole is certainly not intentional; this exact sentence appears in many privacy policies . As a matter of fact, this sentence also appears in YouTube and Blogger policies. Therefore we can assume that a same template has been used for services hosting user generated content.
There is no explicit mention of the server logs in these policies. For these services, Google only mention that their 'servers automatically record information about your use of the service'.
Both Blogger and YouTube have their own domain names, meaning that cookies you send to YoutTube are different from the cookies you send when you're visiting a Google website. Unlike these services, Knol uses Google domain name. Therefore, you send to Knol cookies that you also send to Google when you are doing a search.
My first post introduces 'Unsearch', the extension that gave its name to this blog. Unsearch is an extension for the Google Chrome browser that allows to search on Google without leaving traces on Google Search logs or on Google Web Search History. Normally, your searches on Google are recorded and logged with your IP address and cookies. While one can manage his web search history through this interface, it is not possible to manage Google search logs.
Analyzing Google Log retention policies we found out that, even after anonymization, some pieces of information in Google search logs might lead to user identification ( for further information, see our paper). When you use Unsearch all pieces of information are deleted from Google servers within 15 days.
Also, one may not want to have all his searches recorded in his web search history. While it is possible to log out or to delete entries from Google Web Search History, I prefer to have the possibility to do 'off the record' searches directly on the search page. Especially now that the 'Log-out' button is one additional click away and that we have only three seconds before the search is recorded.
Paradoxically, with the new navigation bar, I find it more difficult to notice when I'm not logged into my account. Putting the risk of pseudonym usurpation aside, the account information is – in my opinion – less visible. That's problematic because I can not remove searches that I did from someone else account.
When you type keywords in Google Search bar, you get Google Instant results but your query won't be logged unless you click on the page or remain inactive for three seconds (moredetails).
When you click on Unsearch, it removes the keywords you typed in the search box (so they will not be recorded), but before that, it copies the Google Instant result and pasts it in another tab where your interactions are not monitored: you can browse the results without Google noticing (redirects are removed).
Because you never clicked on 'Search', Google won't log your query and it won't appear in your web search history either. And since you're logged into your Google account, you'll still get personalized search results. This approach is somehow complementary to TrackMeNot which lets user shape their search profile without issuing queries.
Because Unsearch is based on Google Instant, this feature must be turned on for Unsearch to work. Furthermore, you have to click on Unsearch within three seconds or Google will log the query as a normal search. I tried to find a fix (like adding and removing space in the search bar) but I'm looking for a good solution.
In fact, the main drawback is that Unsearch takes advantage of Google Instant log retention policy. Should this policy change, Unsearch would no longer prevent Google from logging searches. Such change is very unlikely as Google never extended its log retention period or made its 'anonymizing' process less effective.
Furthermore, even if this policy is changed, countermeasures exist to prevent Google from logging most of the queries in their entirety (see some possible solution in Unsearch Presentation (.ppt) ).


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Over 70,000 Tinder photos of women have been dumped in an online forum for cybercrime. Contextual clues, including particular phone models like the iPhone X seen in the photographs, as well as limited... metadata, suggest that many of the (mostly) selfies were taken in recent years. Some of the photos, in fact, contain timestamps dated as recent as October 2019. Tinder also noted that all of the photos are public and can be viewed by others through regular use of the app; although, obviously, the app is not designed to help a single person amass such a massive quantity of images. The app can also only be used to view the profiles of other users within 100 miles. Emphasis mine.
Live Science - 16 Jan 2020 17:11
Tiny-but-tough tardigrades aren't as indestructible as previously believed.
R1-billion South African electronics factory faces liquidation
Tech Central - 16 Jan 2020 17:01
A major electronics manufacturing facility in East London, which until recently made decoders for MultiChoice, faces possible liquidation after it reportedly failed to make repayments on a... R200-million loan.
Cyral announces $11M Series A to help protect data in cloud
TechCrunch - 16 Jan 2020 15:06
Cyral, an early stage startup that helps protect data stored in cloud repositories, announced an $11 million Series A today. The company also revealed a previous undisclosed $4.1 million angel... investment, making the total $15.1 million. The Series A was led by Redpoint Ventures. A.Capital Ventures, Costanoa VC, Firebolt, SV Angel and Trifecta Capital also […]


It's that time of year, back to school time! And while it is exciting, we also want to make sure that back to school time is a safe time. So to keep everyone safe as they head back to class, we are offering some back to school safety tips.
The Back To School Safety Tips are being powered by Winthrop Area Federal Credit Union, Franklin Savings Bank and Delta Ambulance.
According to the American Red Cross, parents should make sure that their kids know their phone number, address, how to dial 911 and how to get in touch with a parent or other trusted adult during the school/work day.
In addition to the old rule of never accepting rides from strangers, it's also important for kids to only board the school bus they are assigned to and not another one.
The National Safety Council also has some tips for drivers as school opens.


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Watch a British Teen's Golden Buzzer-Winning Performance of 'Hard to Handle' on 'America's Got Talent'
"Bloody hell Courtney," enthused judge Simon Cowell. "You were this shy little thing when you came out. Then you sing and you're like a lion. I mean, genuinely incredible."
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Nerves can wreck any performer's day. Not Courtney Hadwin. When the British teen auditioned on America's Got Talent, she confessed to her battle with nerves right from the start. Nerves of steel, more like.
Hadwin surprised everyone in the room as she wheeled around the stage and belted out Otis Redding's "Hard to Handle," covered in the '90s by the Black Crowes.
"Bloody hell Courtney," enthused judge Simon Cowell. "You were this shy little thing when you came out. Then you sing and you're like a lion. I mean, genuinely incredible."
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Howie Mandel went one better. "You are not from this era. You're from a whole different era," the judge observed. "I'm a huge Janis Joplin fan. There's a story, if you ever watch the documentary. Clive Davis, he, goes to the Monterey Pop Festival and he sees this young girl that nobody has ever seen before and that nobody knows. It was the first time Janis Joplin got signed." Unlike Davis, Mandel couldn't swing a record deal. But he could hit the golden buzzer, and he did just that
Hadwin, a finalist on The Voice Kids U.K., now progresses to the live round.
"I didn't know what to expect when I auditioned for AGT but the golden buzzer was more than I ever could have dreamed of," the youngster from Hartlepool, England tweeted after the show.
Watch her performance below.
I didn't know what to expect when I auditioned for @AGT but the golden buzzer was more than I ever could have dreamed of. Thank you so much @howiemandel I am so happy and can't thank you enough xx pic.twitter.com/qqNKUWyzVk
— Courtney Hadwin (@CourtneyHadwin) June 13, 2018
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Every year approximately 20 students graduate with a degree in christian counseling from New York schools. If you too are interested in studying christian counseling, New York has 2 christian counseling schools from which you can choose. Tuition at New York's christian counseling schools is approximately $36,882 per year for a degree in christian counseling.
The largest christian counseling school in New York, by student population is Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. It is located in New York. In 2009, a reported 18 students graduated with a christian counseling degree from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. This was 90% of the total christian counseling graduates in New York for that year.
A majority of christian counseling graduates choose to work as counselors. The job outlook for counselors in New York is average. Approximately 12,480 counselors are currently working in New York. This number is projected to increase to 13,530 by the year 2018. This indicates an 8% change in the number of counselors in New York.
As a counselor in New York you can expect to earn anywhere from less than $22,679 per year to more than $79,096 per year. But the median salary for counselors earn $43,055 per year, in New York.


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casey-simpson
Casey Simpson
Actor (2004)
Thu Aug 12 2021
Birth Date April 6,2004
Full Name Casey Simpson
Birth Name Casey Simpson
Birth City Los Angeles
Horoscope Aries
Casey Simpson is an American TV actor who is best known for playing Ricky Harper on the Nickelodeon show Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn from 2014 to 2018. In 2017, he appeared in the film Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library. In 2016 and 2017, he was nominated for a Kids Choice Award.
Casey began his acting career when he was three years old, winning his first role on Frank TV in a comedy skit, Santa. Apart from his professional career, he loves playing the piano and singing. He is also fond of skating and often uploads videos on his Instagram account.
Is TV Actor, Casey Simpson Involved in Dating Games? Know About His Girlfriend!
Seventeen years old Casey Simpson is one of the beloved young actors in the world. His loving face and way of acting have helped him to amass a huge amount of fan following in a short period of time. So, people often wonder about his life regarding his affairs and relationship.
Image: Casey Simpson's Hanging Out With His Friends
However, on the other hand, Casey loves to keep his relationship life private. Although he is seen uploading pictures with several girls in his Instagram account but has never admitted any as his girlfriend.
So, it is still unclear whether he is dating anyone or not? Maybe shortly we can find about his lover but for now, he might be living a single lifestyle. Other than that, he is busy in his wonderful acting career.
How Much is Casey Simpson Worth in 2021?
One of the Successful child actors, Casey Simpson has had several hits till now. So, he has earned a decent amount of fortune from his acting gigs. As of 2021, he holds a net worth of $350,000. Also, his other source of income is from generating money from social media. His Instagram account has almost 2 million followers and his YouTube account has over 460 thousand subscribers.
Image: Casey Simpson with his co-stars.
Not to mention, he makes most of his money through his acting and doing commercials for various brands. Simpson made his breakout performance with the Nickelodeon hit TV series, Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn. Aidan Gallagher, Savannah Sanabia, and Siena Agudong were part of the show.
Other than that, he has appeared in The Goldbergs, The Thundermans and Timecrafters: The Treasure of Pirate's Cove. As estimated, Simpson makes over $70,000 per annum through his involvement. Further, he is a young and talented soul who has lots of surprises left in near future.
The Just Add Magic star is also big on TikTok. On the popular platform, he has 9 million followers and posts videos doing various things.
Bio/Wiki
Casey was born on 6th April 2004 in Los Angeles California, United States. His birth sign is Aries and celebrates his birthday every 6th April with his family and friends.
Image: Casey Simpson with his big sister, Sabrina Simpson.
Moreover, he has one older sister, Sabrina Simpson who occasionally features in his YouTube and Instagram accounts.
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