For six years, Sibel Edmonds has been carrying out an heroic crusade to protect her adopted country from national security threats within the top levels of the American government. Hired as an FBI translator in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks, Edmonds, a Turkish American, threw herself into the daunting task of translating thousands of hours of recordings of backlogged intercepts in Turkic, Farsi, and Azerbaijani. What she heard on the tapes was alarming: Turkish agents in the United States bribing high-level U.S. officials and obtaining our military and intelligence secrets. What she witnessed at the FBI was even more appalling: translators who were intentionally filing false translations and passing information to foreign powers; and, what's even worse, FBI superiors who did nothing about it when these serious breaches were brought to their attention.
Unwilling to settle for the bureaucratic "don't rock the boat" response she faced from immediate supervisors, Sibel Edmonds decided to take her concerns higher up the FBI chain of command. The result? She was fired, and those she tried to have investigated got off scot-free; some fled the country to avoid potential prosecution, while others continued their alleged criminal and treasonous activities. Some of the FBI colleagues who blocked her efforts were promoted.
How could this be, especially in the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks, when "homeland security" was our number one concern? And especially since FBI Director Robert Mueller had expressly promised that the agency's notorious penchant for punishing whistle-blowers was now a thing of the past.
However, Director Mueller's assurances notwithstanding, the case of Sibel Edmonds is Exhibit A in a long line of examples indicating that reprisal and intimidation against whistle-blowers continues to be standard operating procedure at the FBI and other federal agencies. The public may be tempted to wonder: "Well, if the national security compromises Mrs. Edmonds alleges are as grave as she claims, why doesn't she go the Congress, or the courts, or the media?" She has attempted to do all of that, but has been blocked at every turn by a smothering gag order imposed by the Bush administration under the "State Secrets Privilege." The gag order not only classified all of Edmonds' testimony to the 9/11 Commission, to the investigative staffs of congressional committees, and to the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General (OIG), but even letters by members of Congress requesting information from the executive branch.
Turkish Spy in the FBI?
Governments, obviously, have a legitimate interest in protecting secrets vital to national security. But as history abundantly shows, governments frequently invoke "national security" to avoid embarrassment or to protect those guilty of criminal negligence, corruption, or treason.
Sibel Edmonds has been threatened with prosecution and imprisonment if she reveals what she knows. Plain and simple, the administration has been trying to make her disappear into a black hole. However, the petite, plucky whistle-blower refuses to be bowed or intimidated.
Considering the meat of Sibel Edmonds' charges, we may be fortunate indeed that she has been so tenacious and unyielding before the fearsome threat of a retaliatory indictment. The information she reportedly was privy to on nuclear proliferation alone is, literally, explosive, of the kind that has to do with the ultimate nightmare terrorist scenario: a nuke attack inside the United States.
Since Edmonds herself has been prevented from publicly naming names and providing details, most of what is now in the public domain about her case has come from leaks of documents by anonymous sources in government and the investigative work of "alternative media" journalists and Internet activists.
In December 2001, Sibel and her husband, Matthew Edmonds, received a surprise visit to their Alexandria, Virginia, home by one of Sibel's co-workers, Melek Can Dickerson, and her husband, Douglas. Like Sibel Edmonds, Melek was a Turkish translator for the FBI and carried a Top Secret security clearance. Her husband Douglas is a major in the U.S. Air Force who had served as a military attaché in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. According to Sibel and Matthew Edmonds, Maj. Dickerson proposed that the Edmonds become members of a certain Turkish "semi-legitimate organization," as Sibel Edmonds put it.
It has since been revealed (by others) that the organization referred to is the American Turkish Council (ATC), a lobbying and cultural organization that also allegedly functions as an intelligence front for the Turkish government.
Maj. Dickerson's mention of the "semi-legitimate organization" and high-level friends at the Turkish embassy in Washington, D.C., immediately set off Sibel's internal alarms; the ATC and some of the individuals he named were subjects of FBI counterterrorism investigations that she was working on.
It sounded to the Edmonds like they had just been propositioned to spy against their country for payoffs by a foreign power. According to Sibel Edmonds, she recounted the incident, both verbally and in writing, to her FBI superiors.
Long story short: in March 2002, the FBI fired Sibel Edmonds for having a "disruptive effect" on the agency; Melek Can Dickerson, on the other hand, kept her job. No criminal charges were brought against the Dickersons and no known counterintelligence investigation was opened on them. Indeed, it appears the government did everything possible to shield them from investigation. When attorneys for Sibel Edmonds prepared to depose the Dickersons in a civil suit in August 2002, the Air Force conveniently transferred the Dickersons beyond legal reach, to a NATO assignment in Belgium.
We found that many of Edmonds' core allegations relating to the co-worker were supported by either documentary evidence or witnesses other than Edmonds. Moreover, we concluded that, had the FBI performed a more careful investigation of Edmonds' allegations, it would have discovered evidence of significant omissions and inaccuracies by the co-worker related to these allegations. These omissions and inaccuracies, in turn, should have led to further investigation by the FBI.
A ray of hope seemed to appear in 2005 when Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) promised Edmonds that if the Democrats took control of Congress in 2006, he would hold hearings on her case. "But you know what happened," Edmonds told THE NEW AMERICAN in a recent interview, "the Democrats did win the House and Rep. Waxman did become chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. But nothing has changed; there has been no investigation." Rep. Waxman seems to have developed selective amnesia, a common affliction on the Potomac. He has not responded to any of her calls or inquiries.
Following up on her revelations, independent researchers have begun putting names on some of the "high-level officials" Edmonds had been referring to, but not identifying, over the past few years.
The above-mentioned official, whom Edmonds and the Times did not identify, was outed in an article in the American Conservative by retired CIA officer Philip Giraldi. According to Giraldi, the official in question is Marc Grossman, a career State Department bureaucrat, who served as ambassador to Turkey under Bill Clinton, and retired in 2006 after serving as Under Secretary of State (the Number 3 position at the State Department) for George Bush.
In retirement, Grossman has followed a familiar career trajectory, accepting a lucrative "consulting" position at The Cohen Group, the lobbying outfit set up by former Clinton Defense Secretary William Cohen that counts Turkey as one of its chief clients.
Other former high officials who now openly ride the Turkey gravy train as paid lobbyists/consultants include former Democratic House Speaker Richard Gephardt and former Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert. Hastert, allegedly, is one of the officials identified in FBI intercepts as receiving multiple cash payoffs through the American Turkish Council.
"If you made public all the information that the FBI have on this case," Edmonds told the Times , "you will see very high-level people going through criminal trials." Perhaps that explains why top Republicans and Democrats would rather see Sibel Edmonds locked up with a permanent gag order.


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Top apps ranking in April: Douyin completely suppresses Kuaishou, Fan Deng doubles his income from reading
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The April app list is freshly released by ASO World tech team. Let's take a look at whether the App Store app market in China in April is still dominated by Tencent, ByteDance, Alibaba and other major manufacturers? Are there any "rising stars" in the fields of long and short videos, social networking, and shopping that are looking forward to?
Top 30 popular app downloads in April
In the ranking of app downloads in April, "Pinduoduo" returned to the top with 6.0799 million downloads, and Tencent's social giant "WeChat" followed closely behind with 5,714,200 downloads. The "Taobao Special Edition", which performed well in the Top 3 in March, encountered Waterloo in April and ranked in the Top 12 with only 3.0847 million downloads. In April, it was the short video giant "Tik Tok" that successfully squeezed into the Top 3.
Judging from the top 30 downloads, the market structure that new applications are difficult to emerge and large manufacturers are difficult to shake remains unchanged. Among them, Tencent still has super traffic products in the fields of social, entertainment, and music segments.
"Mobile Taobao", "Taobao Special Edition" and "Xianyu" continue to help Ali sit firmly on the top spot in the shopping field (although Pinduoduo is at the top of the list, it can't hold back the crowds and crowds).
In the short video field, the downloads of ByteDance's "Tik Tok" of 5.17 million, the "Cut Ying" of 5.0314 million downloads and the "Tik Tok Speed Edition" of 2.969 million downloads are all higher than the 2.5421 million downloads of "Kaishou".
Of course, if you insist on finding a surprising app in April, it must be the "National Anti-fraud Center." This application developed by the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security not only became the only new application on the list in March, but also continued its high popularity in April, ranking soaring 7 places and successfully squeezing into the top ten of the list.
The "hotness" of the "National Anti-fraud Center" is inseparable from the vigorous publicity of related units. Take Shenzhen Wenheyou as an example. Due to the hot market of the Internet celebrity venue, the "Wenheyou Queuing Guide" has become a Shenzhen native. A major focus of attention. The police in Luohu just caught this point. Their anti-fraud propaganda adopted "scan the QR code at the door of Wen Heyou to download and register the National Anti-Fraud Center App, and the police uncle will take you directly to the fast track!" The effect is quite good.
Top 30 Popular Apps Revenue in April
The overall income list of popular apps in April did not change much, and the money-absorbing ability of various long and short videos and social apps was still untouched. There is still no new face in the top 30 list of app revenue estimates.
Judging from the rankings of the list, "Tik Tok", "Tencent Video", and "iqiyi" have a solid position and firmly hold the top three positions in the income list. The estimated income is US$55,306,200, US$29,337,500 and US$22,039,200 respectively. ; "Xingyue Club" ranks 8 places higher than last month, ranking in Top 6 with an income of US$8.5884 million. In addition, "Climbing Dushu" has increased its ranking by 14 places compared to last month. It is the highest-ranking application in the Top30 list along with "Huya Live". The former had a total revenue of US$3.628 million in April and the latter in April. The total income is $1.1936 million.
From the perspective of application vendors, Tencent's dominance remains the same. A total of 7 applications in the Top 30 are shortlisted, and they are fully blooming in the four sub-fields of entertainment, social networking, music, and tools.
From the perspective of application classification, social applications are the most, with a total of 8 shortlisted, namely QQ, Tantan, Weibo, Soul, Zhihu, Momo, WeChat and Aichao. Long and short video apps were the next best, with 7 shortlisted apps, and music apps ranked third, with 4 shortlisted apps in total. In addition, there are three shortlisted book applications. It can be seen that in addition to strong social and entertainment needs, the willingness of netizens to pay for knowledge should not be underestimated.
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Rivers melt Arctic ice, warming air and ocean
by Heather McFarland, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Water from Canada's Mackenzie River enters the blue Arctic Ocean in July 2012. White areas in the top half of the photo are largely sea ice, while those below are clouds over land. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory
A new study shows that increased heat from Arctic rivers is melting sea ice in the Arctic Ocean and warming the atmosphere.
The study published this week in Science Advances was led by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, with contributing authors in the United States, United Arab Emirates, Finland and Canada.
According to the research, major Arctic rivers contribute significantly more heat to the Arctic Ocean than they did in 1980. River heat is responsible for up to 10% of the total sea ice loss that occurred from 1980 to 2015 over the shelf region of the Arctic Ocean. That melt is equivalent to about 120,000 square miles of 1-meter thick ice.
"If Alaska were covered by 1-meter thick ice, 20% of Alaska would be gone," explained Igor Polyakov, co-author and oceanographer at the University of Alaska Fairbanks' International Arctic Research Center and Finnish Meteorological Institute.
Rivers have the greatest impact during spring breakup. The warming water dumps into the ice-covered Arctic Ocean and spreads below the ice, decaying it. Once the sea ice melts, the warm water begins heating the atmosphere.
The research found that much more river heat energy enters the atmosphere than melts ice or heats the ocean. Since air is mobile, this means river heat can affect areas of the Arctic far from river deltas.
This diagram shows the relative amount of warming caused by Arctic rivers, with the sources of heat in orange and the heat sinks in turquoise. In spring, rivers flow into the Arctic Ocean, warming the water and melting sea ice, which in turn warms the atmosphere. A feedback occurs as the reflective ice disappears, allowing the dark ocean water to absorb more heat and melt more sea ice. Credit: Graphic adapted from Science Advances paper
The impacts were most pronounced in the Siberian Arctic, where several large rivers flow onto the relatively shallow shelf region extending nearly 1,000 miles offshore. Canada's Mackenzie River is the only river large enough to contribute substantially to sea ice melt near Alaska, but the state's smaller rivers are also a source of heat.
Polyakov expects that rising global air temperatures will continue to warm Arctic rivers in the future. As rivers heat up, more heat will flow into the Arctic Ocean, melting more sea ice and accelerating Arctic warming.
Rivers are just one of many heat sources now warming the Arctic Ocean. The entire Arctic system is in an extremely anomalous state as global air temperatures rise and warm Atlantic and Pacific water enters the region, decaying sea ice even in the middle of winter. All these components work together, causing positive feedback loops that speed up warming in the Arctic.
"It's very alarming because all these changes are accelerating," said Polyakov. "The rapid changes are just incredible in the last decade or so."
Arctic ocean moorings shed light on winter sea ice loss
More information: Increasing riverine heat influx triggers Arctic sea ice decline and oceanic and atmospheric warming, Science Advances (2020). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abc4699 , advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/45/eabc4699
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Erma Vernice Franklin (* 13. März 1938 in Shelby, Mississippi; † 7. September 2002 in Detroit, Michigan) war eine US-amerikanische Soul-, R&B- und Popsängerin. Ihr Schaffen stand allerdings immer im Schatten der Karriere ihrer jüngeren Schwester Aretha.

Biografie
Erma Franklin wurde im US-Bundesstaat Mississippi geboren; ihr Vater C. L. Franklin war ein einflussreicher Baptistenprediger und Bürgerrechtler. Die Familie zog mehrmals um, ehe sie sich in Detroit niederließ. Dort sang Erma mit ihren Schwestern Aretha und Carolyn im Kirchenchor. 1962 veröffentlichte sie ihr erstes Album, Her Name Is Erma. Ihre bekannteste Aufnahme ist die Originalversion von (Take a Little) Piece of My Heart (von Bert Berns und Jerry Ragovoy) aus dem Jahr 1967, die ein Top-10-Hit in den amerikanischen R&B-Charts war. Für diese Aufnahme wurde Franklin das einzige Mal in ihrer Karriere für den Grammy als beste R&B-Sängerin nominiert. Den Preis erhielt jedoch ihre Schwester Aretha. Im Laufe der Jahrzehnte entwickelte sich Piece of My Heart zum Klassiker, insbesondere in der Coverversion von Big Brother & the Holding Company, deren Frontfrau Janis Joplin war. Die Version der Countrysängerin Faith Hill schaffte es 1994 auf Platz eins der Countrycharts.

Mit Gotta Find Me a Lover (24 Hours a Day) vom Album Soul Sister erreichte Erma Franklin 1969 eine Top-40-Position in den US-R&B-Charts. Dies war ihr letzter Hit. In den 1970er Jahren zog sie sich – bis auf einige Auftritte mit Aretha – aus dem Musikbusiness zurück.

1992 erlebte Franklin ein überraschendes, wenn auch kurzes Comeback: Piece of My Heart wurde in Großbritannien in einer Werbung von Levi's verwendet. Das Lied wurde daraufhin als Single wiederveröffentlicht und erreichte die Top 10 der britischen Charts.

Erma Franklin starb 2002 an den Folgen einer Krebserkrankung.

Diskografie

Alben

Weitere Veröffentlichungen
 1962: Her Name Is Erma (Epic 3824)
 2015: Live 1968: At the Carousel Ballroom (The Electric Flag feat. Erma Franklin; Aufnahme: Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco, am 21. April 1968; RockBeat 3311)

Kompilationen
 1993: Golden Classics (Collectables 5453)
 1998: Brunswick's Super Soul Sisters (Diablo (UK); VÖ: 27. Oktober)
 2003: Super Soul Sister (Vampi Soul; VÖ: 8. Dezember)
 2009: Piece of Her Heart: The Epic and Shout Years (Shout! 50; VÖ: 20. Oktober)

Singles

Weitere Veröffentlichungen
 1961: Don't Blame Me (VÖ: 23. August)
 1961: Hello Again (VÖ: 22. Dezember)
 1962: Each Night I Cry (VÖ: April)
 1962: Dear Momma (VÖ: 18. Mai)
 1963: Time After Time (VÖ: 18. Januar)
 1963: I Don't Want No Mama's Boy (VÖ: 3. Mai)
 1963: Abracadabra(VÖ: 12. August)
 1967: Big Boss Man (VÖ: August)
 1968: Open Up Your Soul (VÖ: April)
 1968: The Right to Cry (VÖ: Juli)
 1969: Saving My Love for You (VÖ: Juli)
 1969: It Could've Been Me (VÖ: Dezember)
 1970: Whispers (VÖ: Februar)
 1971: I'm Just Not Ready for Love (VÖ: 6. August)
 1999: I Get the Sweetest Feeling (mit Jackie Wilson; VÖ: 6. August)
 2016: Hold On, I'm Coming / Light My Fire (VÖ: 16. April)

Quellen

Weblinks

 Erma Franklin bei 45cat.com
 Interview bei bluesmusicnow.com
 Diskografie bei soulfulkindamusic.net

Sänger
Musiker (Vereinigte Staaten)
Familienmitglied (Aretha Franklin)
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1938
Gestorben 2002
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The July winner for the Dogs of Daniel Island photo contest is Calhoun, a handsome Chesapeake Bay Retriever! Visitors to the My Island Town Facebook Page fell in love with his patriotic attire and big brown puppy eyes. Calhoun will receive his very own Daniel Island collar and lead set, available for sale exclusively at the Daniel Island Real Estate Information Center. Calhoun will be highlighted in The Daniel Island News and on our social media platforms in the coming weeks.
How did Calhoun come to join your family?
Shortly after getting married, my husband and I decided we wanted to add a four-legged friend to our family. After doing a lot of research on various dog breeds, we decided on a Chesapeake Bay Retriever (crazy, we know). We got Calhoun from a small town called McBee, S.C. about a year ago. As soon as we saw him he ran right up to us and we fell in love. He has been the perfect addition to our family!
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LA ranked riskiest county for natural disasters in the country, FEMA says
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Posted: Jan 2, 2021 / 01:42 PM CST | Updated: Jan 2, 2021 / 01:42 PM CST
Firefighters prepare to battle the Bond Fire burning through the Silverado community in Orange County, Calif., on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
(AP) — Spending her life in Los Angeles, Morgan Andersen knows natural disasters all too well. In college, an earthquake shook her home hard. Her grandfather was affected by recent wildfires in neighboring Orange County.
"It's just that constant reminder, 'Oh yeah, we live somewhere where there's natural disasters and they can strike at any time,'" said the 29-year-old marketing executive.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has calculated the risk for every county in America for 18 types of natural disasters, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, volcanoes and even tsunamis. And of the more than 3,000 counties, Los Angeles County has the highest ranking in the National Risk Index.
The way FEMA calculates the index spotlights places long known as danger spots, like Los Angeles, but some other places highlighted run counter to what most people would think. For instance, eastern cities such as New York and Philadelphia rank far higher on the risk for tornadoes than tornado alley stalwarts Oklahoma and Kansas.
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And the county with the biggest coastal flood risk is one in Washington state that's not on the ocean, although its river is tidal.
Those seeming oddities occur because FEMA's index scores how often disasters strike, how many people and how much property are in harm's way, how vulnerable the population is socially and how well the area is able to bounce back. And that results in a high-risk assessment for big cities with lots of poor people and expensive property that are ill-prepared to be hit by once-in-a-generation disasters.
While the rankings may seem "counterintuitive," the degree of risk isn't just how often a type of natural disaster strikes a place, but how bad the toll would be, according to FEMA's Mike Grimm.
Take tornadoes. Two New York City counties, Philadelphia, St. Louis and Hudson County, New Jersey, are FEMA's top five riskiest counties for tornadoes. Oklahoma County, Oklahoma — with more than 120 tornadoes since 1950, including one that killed 36 people in 1999 — ranks 120th.
"They (the top five) are a low frequency, potentially high-consequence event because there's a lot of property exposure in that area," said University of South Carolina Hazards & Vulnerability Research Institute Director Susan Cutter, whose work much of the FEMA calculations are based on. "Therefore, a small tornado can create a large dollar loss."
In New York, people are far less aware of the risk and less prepared — and that's a problem, Grimm said. The day before he said that, New York had a tornado watch. Days later, the National Weather Service tweeted that in 2020 several cities, mostly along the East Coast, had more tornadoes than Wichita, Kansas.
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In general, Oklahoma is twice as likely to get tornadoes as New York City, but the damage potential is much higher in New York because there are 20 times the people and nearly 20 times the property value at risk, FEMA officials said.
"It's that risk perception that it won't happen to me," Grimm said. "Just because I haven't seen it in my lifetime doesn't mean it won't happen."
That sort of denial is especially true with frequent and costly flooding, he said, and is the reason only 4% of the population has federal flood insurance when about one-third may need it.
Disaster experts say people have to think about the big disaster that happens only a few times a lifetime at most, but is devastating when it hits — Hurricane Katrina, Superstorm Sandy, the 2011 super outbreak of tornadoes, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake or a pandemic.
"We're bad at taking seriously risks that happen only infrequently," said David Ropeik, a retired Harvard risk communications lecturer and author of "How Risky Is It, Really?" "We simply don't fear them as much as we fear things that are more present in our consciousness, more common. That's practically disastrous with natural disasters."
Something like FEMA's new index "opens our eyes to the gaps between what we feel and what is," Ropeik said.
FEMA's top 10 riskiest places, in addition to Los Angeles, are three counties in the New York City area — Bronx, New York County (Manhattan) and Kings County (Brooklyn) — along with Miami, Philadelphia, Dallas, St. Louis and Riverside and San Bernardino counties in California.
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By the same measurement, Loudoun County, a Washington, D.C. outer suburb, has the lowest risk of any county, according to FEMA. Three other Washington suburban counties rank among the lowest risks for larger counties, along with suburban Boston, Long Island, suburban Detroit and Pittsburgh.
Some of FEMA's risk rankings by disaster type seem obvious. Miami has the highest risk for hurricanes, lightning, and river flooding. Hawaii County is tops in volcano risk and Honolulu County for tsunamis, Dallas for hail, Philadelphia for heat waves and California's Riverside County for wildfires.
Outside risk expert Himanshu Grover at the University of Washington called FEMA's effort "a good tool, a good start," but one with flaws, such as final scores that seem to downplay disaster frequency.
Risks are changing because of climate change and this index doesn't seem to address that, Ropeik said. FEMA officials said climate change shows up in flooding calculations and will probably be incorporated in future updates.
This new tool, based on calculations by 80 experts over six years, is about "educating homeowners and renters and communities to be more resilient," FEMA's Grimm said, adding that people shouldn't move into or out of a county because of the risk rating.
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Q: Lower bound for the $p$-th absolute moment of a sum of random variables Suppose that $X_1,\ldots,X_n$ are independent random variables with $\operatorname E X_k=0$ and $\operatorname E |X_k|^p<\infty$ with $1<p<2$ for each $1\le k\le n$.  I am interested in the inequalities that establish a lower bound for the $p$-th absolute moment of $S_n=\sum_{k=1}^nX_k$ in terms of the $p$-th absolute moments of $X_1,\ldots,X_n$.
I was able to find an upper bound for $E|S_n|^p$. von Bahr and Esseen (1965) among other results established that
$$
\operatorname E|S_n|^p\le2\sum_{k=1}^n\operatorname E|X_k|^p.
$$
But I can't seem to find an inequality that establishes a lower bound for $\operatorname E|S_n|^p$. My questions are as follow:

Are there any inequalities that establish a lower bound for $\operatorname E|S_n|^p$ in terms of the $p$-th absolute moments of $X_1,\ldots,X_n$? Is it true that $\operatorname E|S_n|^p\ge C\sum_{k=1}^n\operatorname E|X_k|^p$ with some positive constant $C$?

Any help is much appreciated!

A: If the $X_i$ are i.i.d. Gaussian with variance $1$, then you have
$$ c_p := \mathbb{E} |X_k|^p = \frac{2^{p/2} \Gamma(\frac{p+1}{2})}{\sqrt{\pi}}.$$
The variable $S_n$ is also Gaussian with variance $n$, therefore you have
$$\mathbb{E} |S_n|^p = c_p n^{p/2}.$$
Hence, $\frac{\sum_{k=1}^n \mathbb{E} |X_k|^p}{\mathbb{E} |S_n|^p} = n^{1-p/2} \rightarrow \infty$ for $1<p<2$. At least, it means that you cannot hope for a constant $C$ as you expected.

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The most important points in baseball betting
Baseball has long gained popularity among fans around the world. Baseball is known to everyone as a crew game of bat and ball. At first glance, it may seem that there could be nothing complicated in gambling on such a discipline. However, this game has a large number of features and key characteristics that should be taken into account when choosing the right strategy, type of bet and degree of risk.
What is baseball?
There are two teams in the given sport. Each team has nine players, sometimes there may be ten players. The main thing in the game is the ball and the bat. The game usually lasts nine halves (in baseball, a half is called an inning), which means that both teams attack and repel the attack nine times. In different countries of the world, this discipline has a different level of popularity, however, game bets are accepted by almost the majority of reputable bookmakers in the world. From the peculiarity of the game, it could be noted that when three players of the attacking team leave the game, both crews change places on the field. The team with the most points wins by the end of all innings. Interestingly, there is no fixed time in the game, and any attack or deflection can take either a very long time or very quickly. It all depends on the chosen strategy and how successfully the crew manages to adhere to it.
Key features of baseball
As with any sport and any sports discipline, baseball also boasts its own distinctive features. They are very important in analysis and forecasting, so they should be given special attention.
World and international baseball championships are usually held in the summer. During this time, breaks occur in most team sports.
In terms of odds, in the sport in question, high odds could be assigned not only to outsiders, but also to favorites. The reason for this is the stability of the leagues.
Another interesting and important factor is the absence of a draw in baseball: this situation makes it easier to predict the winner, since the probabilities decrease.
The main types of baseball betting
Baseball is a sport that boasts a wide variety of bookmaker bets. Among the most diverse are:
A bet on the victory of one of the crews. The two main bets are the victory of the first or second team. As we have already said, there could be no draw. However, this type of bet has been slightly modified to date, and some bookmakers now accept bets on the victory of one of the teams from the total number of points scored taking into account the extra halves. In baseball, an unlimited number of innings can be added to determine the winner of a match.
Team Handicap Win – as in other disciplines, here the handicap bet means the final point difference between the two teams.
Total bet – in this situation, the total number of points that could be scored by two teams in all halves is meant. Bookmaker offices also offer gambling on individual totals – the number of points of one of the teams.
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Basically, all strategies are essentially reduced to one thing – the catch-up strategy. That is, when gambling on baseball, it is necessary that the size of each subsequent bid is based on the results achieved in the previous bets. Each time, the losses of previous bids must be covered by new ones, in order to end up with a profit.
Live betting mode for a draw in one of the halves
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Main analytical activities before the match
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Viacheslav Vladímirovich Gladkov (; 15 de enero de 1969) es un estadista y político ruso. El 27 de septiembre de 2021, se convirtió en gobernador del óblast de Belgorod, luego de desempeñarse como gobernador interino desde el 18 de noviembre de 2020. Entre el 28 de julio de 2016 y el 16 de abril de 2018, fue Vicegobernador de Sebastopol, y posteriormnete Viceprimer Ministro del Krái de Stávropol y del 13 de junio de 2018 al 18 de noviembre de 2020, jefe de Gabinete del Gobierno.

Biografía

Infancia y juventud
Viacheslav Gladkov nació el 15 de enero de 1969 en la pequeña localidad rural de Kuchki en el óblast de Penza en esa época parte de la Unión Soviética.

En 1996, se graduó en la Universidad de Economía y Finanzas de San Petersburgo con una Licenciatura en Economía. Más tarde recibió educación adicional, graduándose en la Universidad Estatal de Penza con un título en administración municipal. En 2012, completó una maestría en RANChIGS en Administración. Es candidato de Ciencias Económicas. En 2012, en la Universidad Técnica Estatal de Petróleo de Grozni, que lleva el nombre del académico MD Millionshchikov, defendió su tesis sobre la «Formación y desarrollo de mercados cooperativos agrícolas regionales (basado en materiales del Óblast de Penza)».

Es egresado de la tercera corriente del Programa de formación de la reserva de gestión de personal del servicio civil, la conocida como la «Escuela de Gobernadores».

Trabajo en el óblast de Penza
Gladokov comenzó su carrera laboral en 1997, en el Departamento de Construcción de OAO Penza. Inicialmente como economista de contratos y siniestros, pero en el mismo año fue nombrado jefe del grupo financiero de contabilidad centralizada. permaneció en este puesto hasta 2000, cuando fue enviado al servicio civil y durante los siguientes dieciséis años trabajó en la administración de la ciudad de Zarechni en el óblast de Penza. Primero trabajó como subdirector y luego como jefe del departamento económico de economía y desarrollo de relaciones de mercado. De 2002 a 2005, fue Director Adjunto de la Administración de Economía y Desarrollo Empresarial de Zarechny, y en 2009, fue el Primer Director Adjunto de la Administración.

El 30 de octubre de 2008 se afilió al partido Rusia Unida. Ese mismo año, en el concurso de municipios, convocado por el Ministerio de Desarrollo Regional, se convirtió en uno de los ganadores en la categoría «Mejor Empleado Municipal». Desde el 24 de abril de 2009 hasta el 23 de septiembre de 2016, fue alcalde de Zarechni. En el otoño de 2015, se supo sobre la preparación de un proyecto de decreto del presidente de la Federación Rusa para eliminar a partir del 1 de enero de 2016 el estatus de entidad territorial administrativa cerrada de seis ciudades, incluida la «ciudad de los científicos nucleares» en Zarechni. Gladkov luego declaró que «esto es categóricamente imposible de hacer» y finalmente fue capaz de maniobrar para preservar el estado de ZATO con todos sus beneficios.

Trabajo en Sevastopol y en el krái de Stávropol
Desde septiembre de 2016 hasta finales de marzo de 2018, Gladkov trabajó como vicegobernador de Sebastopol bajo Dmitri Ovsiannikov para política interna. Según fuentes de Kommersant, Gladkov fue enviado a Sebastopol para resolver dos tareas: elegir a Dmitri Ovsiannikov (en ese momento, fue elegido en elecciones directas en septiembre de 2017) y celebrar elecciones presidenciales, en las cuales Vladímir Putin obtuvo el 90,19% con una participación ligeramente por encima del 70%. Inmediatamente después de la exitosa campaña presidencial, Gladkov quiso renunciar voluntariamente, pero permaneció en el cargo hasta junio, cuando se le encontró un reemplazo.

El 13 de junio de 2018, el gobernador del krái de Stávropol, Vladímir Vladimirov, nombró a Gladkov su vicepresidente del gobierno regional para política interna, al mismo tiempo fue nombrado Jefe de Gabinete del Gobierno del Krai. Después de ser reelegido en las elecciones regionales de 2019, Vladimirov formó un nuevo gobierno, y Gladkov retuvo su cargo y permaneció como Viceprimer Ministro del Krái de Stávropol y Jefe de Gabinete del Gobierno de la región. Mientras trabajaba en Stávropol, fue miembro del presídium del consejo político regional del partido Rusia Unida.

Gobernador del óblast de Bélgorod
El 18 de noviembre de 2020, por decreto del Presidente de la Federación de Rusia, Vladímir Putin, fue nombrado gobernador interino del óblast de Bélgorod hasta que se celebraran elecciones regionales y fuera nombrado un gobernador definitivo. Reemplazó a Denis Butsaev, quien había sido gobernador interino del 22 de septiembre al 18 de noviembre de 2020, después de que Evgeni Savchenko, quien había encabezado el Óblast de Bélgorod durante casi 27 años, hubiera renunciado voluntariamente al puesto. Las elecciones para gobernador estaban programadas para el 19 de septiembre de 2021.

Ganó dichas elecciones con un resultado del 78,79% y asumió el cargo de gobernador el 27 de septiembre del mismo año. Tras su nombramiento, Gladkov afirmó que «uno ha llegado tan lejos» y «no es necesario esperar la revolución del personal», calificando de prioridad la lucha contra el coronavirus, el aumento de los ingresos de los residentes de Bélgorod y la implementación de varios proyectos nacionales.

Familia
Está casado y tiene cuatro hijos y una nieta.

Ingresos
Los ingresos declarados para 2019 ascendieron a 3427000 rublos y los de su cónyuge fueron de 1707000 rublos.

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Enlaces externos

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Development of automatic driving systems is now advancing rapidly worldwide. Many features have been developed, including automatic braking, cruise control (an automatic speed control system that maintains a set speed without using the accelerator pedal), and obstacle avoidance; however, some major challenges remain, such as security issues. We asked Shinpei Kato, general producer of the program and associate professor at the University of Tokyo as well as a developer of open-source autonomous driving systems, how to overcome these challenges.
Many companies and research institutes are developing autonomous driving systems. However, their development remains at "Level 1," where just one of the functions of acceleration, braking, or steering has been automated, or at "Level 2," where two or more of these functions have been automated. "Level 3" automation means that the vehicle can take over all Level-2 driving functions and the human driver need only take control in an emergency. "To reach such a level, we must overcome many difficulties," Kato said.
"Self-driving capabilities require human drivers to take control only in emergencies. Thus, the driver's role will shift from conventional 'driving' to 'monitoring.' Even so, the driver must always understand the outside situation and state of the driving system, but doing so is difficult. Since first of all it is automatic driving, the driver should be able to concentrate on other tasks, and it is unrealistic to expect the driver to instantly judge the situation and control steering in response to an emergency request from the car."
Use of virtual reality (VR) is said to be one possible solution. Kato has developed a monitoring system using RoV, an advanced form of VR, in order to discover clues leading toward a solution. RoV is the abbreviation of Real-oriented Virtuality. With RoV technology, users can feel virtual textures and see virtual objects in a real landscape by wearing a head-mounted display. For example, the technology provides a mechanism to display a wall on-screen to prevent the user from proceeding when the traffic light is red, and it displays holes on the ground to alert the driver when there are pedestrians in the street. "Going forward, a mechanism to improve drivers' and passengers' monitoring awareness must be developed by incorporating elements of gamification," said Kato.
"While promoting the development of Autoware, which is open-source autonomous driving software, I also focus on developing services and software based on these systems. To tell the truth, we do not aim to install systems we ourselves have developed onto vehicles sold all over the world. Because Autoware is an open-source software product, we cannot profit from it as a business. It would also be difficult for us to become a dominant player in the market for autonomous driving systems by directly competing with companies such as Google and Microsoft, which have strong technical capabilities and capital bases."
What should autonomous driving aim to achieve in the future? For example, Android, an open-source OS installed on smartphones, acquired its market share by enabling users to freely develop applications. Kato says that, in the same way as for Android, the spread of autonomous driving will likely accelerate if applications that run on autonomous driving systems can be vigorously developed.
"One social challenge that can be addressed by systems employing autonomous driving is the maximization of transportation efficiency. Taxis traveling without passengers and package redeliveries due to the recipient's absence are very inefficient. It is said that 70 to 80% of transportation costs are personnel expenses, and we believe that realization of autonomous driving can contribute not only to personnel expense reduction but also to solving social problems related to road transport, such as exhaust gases and traffic congestion. Such system development is the essence of autonomous driving, which we strive to achieve."
However, he points out that, "Before developing application technologies based on autonomous driving, another barrier must be overcome, namely safety assurance."
"Currently, each company individually sets its own safety standards, which thus vary among companies. For example, in the manner of Google, adopting a method that ensures accident-free travel except for 1 mile out of 10 million is one way. Ensuring accident-free driving by test driving on autonomous driving courses and assuming all possible environments is another. Assuming that autonomous driving systems will be installed in various vehicles going forward, major problems will occur unless strict industry safety standards are established, though this is the most difficult, time consuming task."
We daily endeavor to develop autonomous driving systems to achieve our high goals while tackling technical barriers. In the future, cooperation among businesses will be a key driver for realizing a society with autonomous driving systems.
Director and CTO, TierIV, Inc.
Graduated from the Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University in 2002. Completed his doctoral course at the School of Science for Open and Environmental Systems, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University in 2008. Ph.D. in Engineering. Visiting Research Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University from 2009 to 2011 and the University of California from 2011 to 2012, and Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University from 2012 to 2016.
He is currently engaged in research on operating systems, parallel distributed systems, and cyber physical systems as an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, and concurrently serves as a Visiting Associate Professor at the Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Nagoya University.


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And the result? How about the introduction of a one-hour delivery service, in partnership with Uber's latest venture, in just 60 days? That's 60 days from initial proposal to the first customer getting their goods delivered. Successfully, too. That's what sunglasses retailer Maui Jim achieved by acting like a startup.
The benefits of an on-demand delivery service are easy to understand, and for Maui Jim it worked perfectly for its discerning customers. A customer orders a pair of its $250 sunglasses, and an hour later they turn up, wherever the customer is. It's bespoke delivery for a high-end product. But it's the way they went about it that's really intriguing.
There is, of course, a lot more to getting a one-hour delivery service launched than putting sunglasses in cars. Packaging and potential branding changes were just two of many, many considerations that they needed to deal with, but a flexible attitude and a willingness to try things out meant nothing was insurmountable.
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Q: How to count the most recent value based on multiple criteria? I keep a log of phone calls like the following where the F column is LVM = Left Voice Mail, U = Unsuccessful, S = Successful.
A1 1  B1 Smith   C1 John  D1 11/21/2012  E1 8:00 AM  F1 LVM

A2 2  B2 Smith   C2 John  D2 11/22/2012  E1 8:15 AM  F2 U

A3 3  B3 Harvey  C3 Luke  D3 11/22/2012  E1 8:30 AM  F3 S

A4 4  B4 Smith   C4 John  D4 11/22/2012  E1 9:00 AM  F4 S

A5 5  B5 Smith   C5 John  D5 11/23/2012  E5 8:00 AM  F5 LVM

This is a small sample.  I actually have over 700 entries.  In my line of work, it is important to know how many unsuccessful (LVM or U) calls I have made since the last Successful one (S).  Since values in the F column can repeat, I need to take into consideration both the B and C column.
Also, since I can make a successful call with a client and then be trying to contact them again, I need to be able to count from the last successful call.  My G column is completely open which is where I would like to put a running total for each client (G5 would = 1 ideally while G4 = 0, G3 = 0, G2 = 2, G1 = 1 but I want these values calculated automatically so that I do not have scroll through 700 names).

A: I have taken the liberty of adding a header row and have replaced your numbers in ColumnA (these effectively match the row numbers, so hopefully not required) with =B2&" "&A2 etc (to distinguish individuals who might share Surname or FirstName with others). Then the formula:
=SUM(IF(F2<>"S",G1+IF(F2="S",0,MATCH(A2,A2:A$700,0)),0))

will hopefully suit – though I have not tested it much beyond the data you have provided.

If this works I may come back later and explain how - but no point if it does not!


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Biografia

Formazione culturale e professionale
Di nobile famiglia napoletana e appassionato di alpinismo, de Ferrariis Salzano, dopo essersi laureato in giurisprudenza e in scienze politiche, entrò come volontario nella carriera diplomatica nel 1932. Una delle prime note personali (1933) recita: "Ottimo funzionario, ma con la spiacevole tendenza a scavalcare i superiori".

Nell'aprile del 1939, partecipò alle operazioni militari in Albania, conseguendo una croce al merito di guerra e una medaglia commemorativa.

A Budapest, dopo l'armistizio del 1943
L'8 settembre 1943, de Ferrariis Salzano era a Budapest presso la legazione italiana. Con la costituzione della Repubblica Sociale Italiana, il suo capomissione Filippo Anfuso si schierò con Mussolini; de Ferrariis e altri funzionari, invece, si mantennero leali al re e al governo Badoglio e furono espulsi dall'ambasciata. Il diplomatico napoletano, allora, ricostituì l'ambasciata del Regno d'Italia in altra sede.
Nel marzo del 1944, con l'invasione tedesca dell'Ungheria, tuttavia, De Ferrariis e gli altri furono arrestati".

Deportazione e fuga
Deportati in un campo di concentramento in Austria, i componenti della legazione furono rimpatriati nel maggio del 1944 e internati nuovamente nel campo di Lumezzane presso Brescia, insieme a funzionari lealisti di altre rappresentanze diplomatiche italiane caduti in mano tedesche. Condannato al domicilio coatto presso un istituto religioso di Cesano Boscone, nell'ottobre del 1944, de Ferrariis approfittò della semilibertà per raggiungere Bologna, dove si nascose per altri tre mesi, insieme ad altri due funzionari di Budapest (Giorgio Ciraolo e Attilio Perrone Capano). Infine, insieme ai due colleghi, tentò la traversata dell'Appennino e, nei primi giorni del 1945, riuscì ad attraversare le linee con l'aiuto dei partigiani.

Dopoguerra
Dopo la guerra di liberazione, Carlo de Ferrariis Salzano fu nominato alla guida di due uffici della Direzione generale affari politici, poi fu destinato a Città del Messico e a New York. Rientrato a Roma fu nominato Direttore generale del Personale e, nel 1958, Segretario generale del Ministero degli Affari Esteri, la carica più alta della diplomazia. Fu, poi, nominato Ambasciatore d'Italia in Canada (1959-1965) e, infine, rappresentante per l'Italia presso il Consiglio Atlantico.

È stato collocato a riposo il 1º settembre 1970.

Opere
 Carlo de Ferrariis, Storia di una missione straordinaria. Dall'Ambasciata allo Stalag XVII, Castelvecchi, Roma, 2017.

Onorificenze

Note

Bibliografia
 Ilva Vaccari, Un diplomatico fedele all'Italia. Attilio Perrone Capano, Quaderni dell'Istituto storico della Resistenza in Modena e provincia, 1967.

Voci correlate
 Carriera diplomatica (Italia)

Collegamenti esterni

Cavalieri di gran croce OMRI
Ambasciatori d'Italia in Canada


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Feds bust DDoS 'Mafia'
US businessman allegedly rubbed out rivals' websites
By Kevin Poulsen 27 Aug 2004 at 11:02
A Massachusetts businessman allegedly paid members of the computer underground to launch organized, crippling distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against three of his competitors, in what federal officials are calling the first criminal case to arise from a DDoS-for-hire scheme.
Jay Echouafni, 37, is a fugitive from a five-count federal indictment in Los Angeles charging him with aiding and abetting computer intrusion and with conspiracy. As CEO of the online satellite TV retailer Orbit Communication Corp., Echouafni allegedly paid a business associate to recruit members of the computer underground to cripple three online stores, resulting in long periods of downtime and an estimated $2m in losses to the businesses and their service providers.
Paul Ashley, 30, of Powell, Ohio, is named in a separate criminal complaint as Echouafni's go-between in arranging two of the attacks. Ashley was the network administrator of the Web and IRC hosting company CIT/FooNet, run from his home, which was shuttered sometime after being raided by the FBI last February. Three other Americans and one UK citizen are charged with actually carrying out the attacks.
"This is an example of a growing trend: that is, denial of service attacks being used for either extortionate reasons, or to disable or impair the competition," says FBI supervisory special agent Frank Harrill. "It's a growing problem and one that we take very seriously, and one that we think has a very destructive impact and potential."
According to an FBI affidavit filed in the case, Echouafni was a client of CIT/FooNet's hosting services when he made a deal with Ashley, then the owner, in October of last year. Echouafni allegedly paid Ashley $1,000 to snuff out two competing websites that he claimed had stolen some of his content and were staging DDoS attacks against his company.
Ashley in turn used his connections in the underground, and in at least one case the promise of free CIT/FooNet server, to recruit three associates to do the dirty work: Joshua Schichtel, Jonathan Hall, and Lee Walker, known online as "Emp," "Rain," and "sorCe" respectively. Each of the three apparently had sizable "botnets" at their disposal, meaning they could each command thousands of compromised PCs to simultaneously attack a single host -- Walker alone had control of between 5,000 and 10,000 computers through a customized version of the Agobot worm, according to the FBI affidavit. Schichtel's network of 3,000 zombies was more modest, and he quietly subcontracted the job to Richard "Krashed" Roby, who allegedly took the assignment in exchange for a free shell account.
The attacks began on 6 October, with SYN floods slamming into the Los Angeles-based e-commerce site WeaKnees.com, crippling the site, which sells digital video recorders, for 12 hours straight, according to the FBI. The company's hosting provider, Lexiconn, responded by dropping WeaKnees.com as a client, sending the company to more expensive hosting at RackSpace.com.
RackSpace fought back, but the attackers proved determined and adaptive. In mid-October the simple SYN flood attacks were replaced with an HTTP flood, pulling large image files from WeaKnees.com in overwhelming numbers. At its peak the onslaught allegedly kept the company offline for a full two weeks. (The company declined to comment on the case).
RapidSatellite.com, which sells satellite TV receivers, was hit at the same time and with similar results. The company responded by quickly moving their electronic storefront to the distributed content delivery services of Speedera, only to be crippled three days later by an attack on that provider's DNS servers, which for an hour also blocked access to other Speedera-hosted sites, including Amazon.com and the Department of Homeland Security, according to the FBI affidavit. RapidSatellite then moved to Akamai, but were out again within a week when the attackers switched to an HTTP flood attack, running massive numbers of queries through RapidSatellite.com's search engine.
Behind the scenes Ashley was allegedly micromanaging the assault. A chat log recovered from Schichtel's hard drive shows Ashley admonishing his subordinate to stay on top of his portion of the attack: "u gotta keep ane [sic] eye on it...cuz they could null route the ip and change the dns...and it would be back up." When Schichtel asks, "what did they do to you?," Ashley replies with an answer fit for Tony Soprano. "[F]---ing with us...well, a customer."
"Operation Cyberslam"
In December, the alleged DDoS conspirators' informal relationship became more corporate, when Echouafni purchased CIT/FooNet from Ashley, and kept Ashley on as network administrator at $120,000 a year salary. Ashley, in turn, formally hired Hall to perform "security" for the company -- which the FBI suggests was a euphemism for launching more DDoS attacks against Echouafni's enemies.
In Feburary, Echouafni -- now the boss -- phoned Hall directly to order an attack on a new target, according to the government: another satellite T.V. retailer called Expert Satellite. Hall dutifully launched a SYN flood against the new victim, but the results didn't please his CEO; Echouafni contacted Hall repeatedly to inform him that the site had resurfaced, and to express his disappointment. "Echouafni also implied that [Hall] would be fired if he did not launch the attacks," reads the affidavit
By then, law enforcement was making progress on the investigation they code named "Operation Cyberslam."
FBI cyber crime agents had spotted what appeared to be reconnaissance for the HTTP flood attacks in WeaKnees.com's October log files, originating from a shell hosting company called Unixcon. Unixcon traced the activity to an account that had been established with a stolen credit card number, but an FBI source, whose identity is protected in the affidavit, fingered U.K. resident and Unixcon administrator Lee "sorCe" Walker as the culprit.
Walker was already known to the FBI from an investigation earlier in the year, when one of Walker's IRC enemies complained that Walker had DDoSed him. The Bureau even had Walker's home address. An FBI agent traveled to the U.K. in February to accompany London police as they raided Walker, who admitted to the WeaKnees.com and RapidSatellite.com attacks, and fingered Ashley as his handler, according to the affidavit.
The Bureau raided Ashley's home on Valentine's day. Before they hauled away CIT/FooNet's servers -- an act that would briefly cause controversy in the hosting community -- Ashley allegedly admitted to the attacks, and named all three of his cyber button men and Echouafni. Echouafni was arrested in Massachusetts, and released on $750,000 bail secured by his house. "We've alleged in the indictment that Echouafni was the manager, organizer and leader of the group," says assistant U.S. attorney Arif Alikhan, head of the Los Angeles computer crimes section, who's prosecuting the case.
He's also missing. According to court records, last month Echouafni's attorney won a motion to permit Echouafni's wife and children to "travel freely within and outside of the United States of America," and to have their passports returned. That was Echouafni's last action in court: the government says he's disappeared, and officials believe he's likely in Morocco. "He's a native of Morocco, and he was arrested in March as he returned from Morocco into the U.S.," says the FBI's Harrill. Echouafni's attorney did not return a phone call.
The Echouafni investigation was one of a handful of cases specifically cited Thursday by U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft in announcing what the Justice Department called "Operation Web Snare -- a tallying of over 150 recent and ongoing federal criminal cases relating to computers or identity theft. Ashcroft said the case illustrates "the increased use of the Internet to damage rival businesses and communicate threats for commercial advantage."
"I think it's the first case of its kind involving a DDoS for commercial advantage or for hire," says Alikhan. "There are DDoS attacks all the time organized on IRC, but this is certainly the first case where you have a corporate executive who was using the services of another person to launch attacks against competitors."
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