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      <title>Taxation by Another Name, with Greater Hope </title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 17:40:38 -0400</pubDate>
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A
 single winning ticket for a record Powerball lottery jackpot worth 
$590.5 million was sold in Florida, organizers said late on Saturday, 
but there was no immediate word about who won one of the largest 
jackpots in U.S. history.The winning numbers from Saturday 
night's drawing were: 10, 13, 14, 22 and 52, with a Powerball number of 
11. The odds of winning were put at 1 in 175 million.http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-05-19/news/chi-powerball-numbers-20130518_1_powerball-jackpot-florida-lottery-winning-ticket




STILL NO WINNER

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      <title>$590M-plus Powerball: 1 winning ticket sold in Fla</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 08:57:39 -0400</pubDate>
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It's all about the odds, and one lone ticket in Florida has beaten them 
all by matching each of the numbers drawn for the highest Powerball 
jackpot in history at an estimated $590.5 million, lottery officials 
said Sunday.

The single winner was sold at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., 
according to Florida Lottery executive Cindy O'Connell. She told The 
Associated Press by telephone that more details would be released later.

&quot;This would be the sixth Florida Powerball winner and right now, it's 
the sole winner of the largest ever Powerball jackpot,&quot; O'Connell told 
AP. &quot;We're delighted right now that we have the sole winner.&quot;

She said Florida has had more Powerball winners than any other state.

The winner was not immediately identified publicly and O'Connell did not
 give any indication just hours after Saturday's drawing whether anyone 
had already stepped forward with that winning ticket.

With four out of every five possible combinations of Powerball numbers 
in play, lottery executives said earlier that someone was almost certain
 to win the game's highest jackpot, a windfall of hundreds of millions 
of dollars - and that's after taxes.

Saturday night's winning numbers were 10, 13, 14, 22 and 52, with a Powerball of 11.

Estimates had earlier put the jackpot at around $600 million. But 
Powerball's online site said Sunday that the jackpot had reached an 
estimated $590.5 million.
				
			

Terry Rich, CEO of the Iowa Lottery, initially confirmed that one 
Florida winning ticket had been sold. He told AP that following the 
Florida winner, the Powerball grand prize was being reset at an 
estimated jackpot of $40 million, or about $25.1 million cash value.
 

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      <title>Arizona couple hit the &lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;jackpot&lt;/span&gt;, again </title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:41:31 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>A couple wins the lottery for the second time.</description>
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      <title>New homeowner finds $30 million &lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;jackpot&lt;/span&gt; in garage</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 13:29:28 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description>30 Million Art Found in GARAGE !!! Athur Pinajian's paintingsSometimes it pays to buy the former house of an obscure Armenian-American artist, a lesson recently learned by lucky new home owners Thomas Schultz and Lawrence Joseph.

According to News 12 in Long Island, New York, the duo purchased a massive collection of artworks by little-known painter Arthur Pinajian along with his old Bellport cottage. They bought the rare find for $2,500 in 2007, on top of the $300,000 cost of the house, and proceeded to restore, frame and appraise the paintings, drawings and journals found in the garage.

Well, it turns out their decision to buy Mr. Pinajian's art stash along with the house was a good one, as the collection has now been valued at a remarkable $30 million, according to the Wall Street Journal. Individual works have already sold for a whopping $500,000, and now the abstract impressionist artist's works are on view at a gallery opened by Schultz, as well as in Manhattan's Fuller Building.

The posthumous attention is unusual for an artist who &quot;did not conform to today's norms,&quot; art historian Peter Hastings Falk tells The Armenian Weekly. &quot;He painted every day, but no one saw his art. He received no reviews and not one of his paintings or works on paper ever was shown in a New York gallery or museum.&quot; In fact, Pinajian's work was actually meant to be dumped in the Brookhaven landfill, per the artist's request; however, his family didn't go along with the instructions.

We're sure Schultz and Joseph, who confessed to the New York Times that they weren't &quot;big art people,&quot; are thankful for the Pinajian family's oversight. Let us know what you think of the unexpected art find in the comments.</description>
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      <title>Pick me a winner.</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 18:41:04 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Smartphone hacking comes of age, hitting US victims</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:03:56 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Devastating cellphone hacks that hijack your most personal gadget and rob you of privacy and money have long been forecast. But even as smartphone users in Asia are beginning to suffer exploding bills and emptied bank accounts at the hands of hackers, U.S. users largely remain safe and blissfully unaware of the gathering threat.

Not for long. 
Criminals have been probing the systems that protect U.S. smartphone users for years, searching for the right combination of programming tricks and social engineering that would allow them to sneak onto users' phones. Recently, one hacker group hit the jackpot.




They took a year-old mobile virus named NotCompatible, which allows hackers to take complete control of a phone, and posted the malicious code on websites. Then they sent out enticing spam emails with links to the booby-trapped sites. The emails were all the more tempting because they appeared to come from friends or others on the recipients' contact list.  Victims who clicked on the link from their phones and downloaded the file surrendered control of their Android phones to the criminals. Security firm Lookout says 10,000 customers per day are still being tricked to click on the bogus link and landing on the booby-trapped pages, and virtually all of them are in the U.S.




Tim Strazzere, Lookout's lead research and response engineer, said the sudden &quot;staggering increase&quot; in detection of the of the NotCompatible, which initially appeared one year ago, shows that the marriage of spam and mobile malware might be a recipe for real trouble.




&quot;This Android malware is unique,&quot; he said. &quot;It's exactly the same scheme and end game as before, but it's just being circulated through different means. And it's working.&quot;




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      <title>The Penniless Millionaire</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:26:31 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Nine years after cashing her $10,569,000.10 cheque, lotto winner Sharon Tirabassi is catching the Barton Street bus to her part-time job. She's working to support her kids in their rented house in northeast Hamilton.

Tirabassi, 35 - one of this city's biggest lotto winners - has gone from rolling in dough to living pay cheque to pay cheque.

The Lotto Super Seven payout didn't come with a financial adviser and before she knew it - big house, fancy cars, designer clothes, lavish parties, exotic trips, handouts to family, loans to friends - the money was gone.

&quot;You don't think it'll go (at the time), right?&quot; she says.

She'd check her account now and again, but there were always so many zeroes that she figured it was fine - until one day there was just three quarters of a million left.

&quot;And that was time for fun to stop and to just go back to life,&quot; she says.

She's happier today. Says life has more purpose now than when she was shopping.

She's working part-time as a personal support worker and raising her six kids in a rented downtown house off Barton and Sherman.

Her husband, Vinny, also 35, has another three kids from a previous relationship.

Asked about how life turned out for them, Vinny shrugs, smoking a cigarette in the doorway of their rented home.

&quot;I lived like this my whole life, I never was rich,&quot; he says. &quot;We grew up like this, so we're used to it.&quot;

Pretty much all that's left now is in trust for her kids when they turn 26 - her children will be OK, and that's what's important to her.

&quot;The moment I got it, I divided it among my family ... all of that other stuff was fun in the beginning, now it's like ... back to life,&quot; she said.

Before her win, Tirabassi had been living in an east Hamilton apartment with her three kids, each one from a different father.

She was Sharon Mentore then - not yet married. She had just landed a job as a personal care provider, fresh off welfare, and couldn't afford a car.

But on Easter Weekend in April 2004, she literally hit the jackpot and won $10.5 million from a Lotto Super Seven ticket.

For someone who spent her teenage years bouncing around from shelter to shelter, she was unprepared for the millionaire lifestyle. That cheque might as well have been a money tree in the yard - it felt like cash for life.

Suddenly, life was but a dream.

She took friends on wild, all-expenses paid trips to Cancun, Florida, Las Vegas, California, the Caribbean.

She bought a house on West 5th, and she married Vinny.

In 2006, the newlyweds and blended Tirabassi family moved to a massive $515,000 home on Kitty Murray Lane in Ancaster.

Despite cashing a $10.5 million cheque just two years earlier, Tirabassi took out a $360,000 mortgage on the house.

The pair, Vinny says, owned four vehicles: a bright yellow Hummer, a Mustang, a Dodge Charger and a $200,000-plus, souped-up Cadillac Escalade - Tirabassi's baby.

Her customized licence plate read &quot;BABIPHAT,&quot; after one of her favourite designer clothing lines.

Ancaster neighbours hated that Cadillac. Equipped with interior turntables and sound mixers, it blared hip-hop music in the driveway and shook their quiet suburban street.

Tirabassi didn't like her neighbours.

&quot;They didn't like young people,&quot; she says.

Besides the extravagant vehicles, a lot of the cash went to family and friends.

Too much, she admits now.

She gave her parents $1 million.

Another $1.75 million was divided among her four siblings.

She bought several houses in the city, renting them out at affordable rates to families. She said she paid people's rent. Lent money to help out a friend when her husband went to jail. Helped another two friends start up a business in Toronto.

A lot of friends came out of the woodwork when news broke of her win - and a lot of them she never heard from again.

&quot;Money is the root of all evil,&quot; she says, shaking her head.

Vinny agrees.

&quot;Friends that she hadn't talked to in a long time came calling.&quot;

&quot;Money doesn't buy you happiness. It caused her a lot of headaches,&quot; he says.

&quot;She lost a lot of friends, a lot of family.&quot;

By 2007, Tirabassi had already blown through half of her winnings, and was living off interest from investments on the other $5 million.

Also that year, Vinny crashed the Mustang.

He pleaded guilty to two counts of driving impaired and causing bodily harm. He was sentenced to 18 months in jail plus two years' probation. And his licence was revoked for five years.

He would serve time again in 2011 after breaching his conditions and driving with a disqualified licence.

In 2008, while he was in jail, the Tirabassis lost the Ancaster house.

From there, they moved to Hagersville, then out west to Edmonton once Vinny was out of jail.

They moved around a lot and today, Hamilton's penniless millionaires are back downtown, living in a rented house on a quiet industrial street - not far from where she started.

It's modest, the walls covered in family photos and the odd relic from their flashier days - Michael Jackson memorabilia for her, Maple Leafs memorabilia for him.

They have two cats and a rabbit named Princess.

The Tirabassis are worried about people knowing where they live now. Their win didn't make them a lot of friends, and they're worried about being robbed.

&quot;A lot of people do still think she has lots of money,&quot; Vinny said.

Between the two of them, there are nine kids. Three each from previous relationships, and three more together.

The Dodge Charger and the Hummer are nowhere in sight on their new street. She drives a hot pink electric bike these days, when she's not taking the bus.

The Cadillac's in storage; it needs work done that she can't afford right now.

A lot of friends are gone too.

People took advantage of them, didn't pay them back when they loaned them money.

&quot;(They said) 'they've got enough so they're OK, right?'&quot; Vinny said.

Hamilton resident Gayle Zolaturiuk accepted a $30-million cheque from the OLG last week, and local convenience store owner Myungsu You is waiting to collect his $16.1 million on March 22.

If the Tirabassis can give Zolaturiuk and You one piece of advice as they collect their wins, it's to be wary of whom you share it with.

&quot;Try to keep it to yourself. Keep it to yourself and don't trust anybody but family,&quot; Tirabassi says.

But as she heads to work in her scrubs Wednesday, she says she couldn't help giving so much away.

&quot;That's the way I was brought up. Help those who can't help themselves,&quot; she says with a shrug.

Rather than mourn the millions, she's concentrating now on raising her kids with those same family values.

&quot;I'm trying to get them to learn that they have to work for money,&quot; Tirabassi says.

&quot;Every so often they ask for money and I say I don't have any money till payday. You have to wait 'til payday.&quot;</description>
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      <title>German Chancellor Shies Away From Taking Action on China Hacking German Defense Technology..</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:46:19 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description>Cyber Menace: Digital Spying Burdens German-Chinese Relations 
							By SPIEGEL Staff


							
									


		
							http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/digital-spying-burdens-german-relations-with-beijing-a-885444.html


						


							Companies like defense giant EADS 
or steelmaker ThyssenKrupp have become the targets of hacker attacks 
from China. The digitial espionage is creating a problem for relations 
between Berlin and Beijing, but Chancellor Angela Merkel has shied away 
from taking firm action. 
							
					

					
	
Very few companies in Europe are as strategically important as the 
European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS). It makes the 
Eurofighter jet, drones, spy satellites, and even the carrier rockets 
for French nuclear weapons.






	Not surprisingly, the German government reacted with alarm last year 
when EADS managers reported that their company, which has its German 
administrative headquarters near Munich, was attacked by hackers. The 
EADS computer network contains secret design plans, aerodynamic 
calculations and cost estimates, as well as correspondence with the 
governments in Paris and Berlin. Gaining access to the documents would 
be like hitting the jackpot for a competitor or a foreign intelligence 
agency.

The company's digital firewalls have been exposed to attacks by 
hackers for years. But now company officials say there was &quot;a more 
conspicuous&quot; attack a few months ago, one that seemed so important to 
EADS managers that they chose to report it to the German government. 
Officially, EADS is only confirming there was a &quot;standard attack,&quot; and 
insists that no harm was done.

The attack isn't just embarrassing for the company, which operates in
 an industry in which trust is very important. It also affects German 
foreign policy, because the attackers were apparently from a country 
that has reported spectacular growth rates for years: China.

During a visit to Guangzhou during February 2012, German Chancellor 
Angela Merkel praised China's success, saying it is something &quot;that can 
be described as a classic win-win situation.&quot;

But the chancellor could be wrong.



For some time now, the relationship between China and the West seems 
to have been producing one winner and many losers. China is routinely 
the winner, while the losers are from Germany, France and the United 
States. They are global companies that are eviscerated by Chinese 
hackers and learn the painful lesson of how quickly sensitive 
information can end up in the Far East.


 Berlin 
 's Dilemma 


The relentless digital attack plunges the German government into a 
political dilemma. No government can stand back while another country 
unscrupulously tries to steal its national secrets. It has to protect 
the core of the government and the know-how of the national economy, 
sometimes with severe methods, if the diplomatic approach proves 
ineffective. Berlin should threaten Beijing with serious consequences, 
like the ones the US government announced last week.

On the other hand, the German government doesn't want to mar 
relations with one of its most important international partners. China 
has become Germany's third-largest trading partner and, from Merkel's 
perspective, is now much more than a large market for German goods and 
supplier of inexpensive products. Berlin now views the leadership in 
Beijing as its most important non-Western political partner.

That may explain why Merkel is addressing the Chinese problem 
abstractly rather than directly. During the high-level government 
meetings last August, she reminded the Chinese of the importance of 
&quot;abiding by international rules.&quot; When she sent a representative to 
Beijing in November to tell senior government officials that Germany 
condemned the cyber espionage, it was done informally and off the 
record. In the end, Merkel will accept the ongoing espionage attempts as
 a troublesome plague that Germany simply has to put up with.

When SPIEGEL first exposed the scope of the Chinese attacks 
five-and-a-half years ago, then-Prime Minister Wen Jiabao asserted that 
his government would &quot;take decisive steps to prevent hacker attacks.&quot;

But the problem has only gotten worse since then.




 1,100 Attacks in 2012 


Last year, Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office
 for the Protection of the Constitution, reported close to 1,100 digital
 attacks on the German government by foreign intelligence agencies. Most
 were directed against the Chancellery, the Foreign Ministry and the 
Economics Ministry. In most cases, the attacks consist of emails with 
attachments containing a Trojan horse. Security officials noticed that 
the attacks were especially severe in the run-up to the G-20 summit, 
targeting members of the German delegation and focusing on fiscal and 
energy policy. The Green Party has also been targeted before.

In mid-2012, hackers attacked ThyssenKrupp with previously unheard of
 vehemence. The attempts to infiltrate the steel and defense group's 
corporate network were &quot;massive&quot; and of &quot;a special quality,&quot; say company
 officials. Internally, the subject was treated as a top-secret issue. 
The hackers had apparently penetrated so deeply into the company's 
systems that executives felt it was necessary to notify authorities. 
ThyssenKrupp told SPIEGEL that the attack had occurred &quot;locally in the 
United States,&quot; and that the company did not know whether and what the 
intruders may have copied. It did know, however, that the attacks were 
linked to Internet addresses in China.

Hackers have also apparently targeted pharmaceutical giant Bayer and 
IBM, although IBM isn't commenting on the alleged attacks. In late 2011,
 a German high-tech company, the global market leader in its industry, 
received a call from security officials, who said that they had received
 information from a friendly intelligence service indicating that large 
volumes of data had been transferred abroad.

The investigations showed that two packets of data were in fact 
transmitted in quick succession. The first was apparently a trial run, 
while the second one was a large packet containing a virtually complete 
set of company data: development and R&amp;amp;D files, as well as 
information about suppliers and customers. An external technology 
service provider had copied the data and apparently sold it to Chinese 
nationals.


 Seventy Percent of German Companies Under Threat 







	&quot;Seventy percent of all major German companies are threatened or 
affected&quot; by cyber attacks, Stefan Kaller, the head of the department in
 charge of cyber security at the German Interior Ministry, said at the 
European Police Congress last week. The attacks have become so intense 
that the otherwise reserved German government is now openly discussing 
the culprits. &quot;The overwhelming number of attacks on government agencies
 that are detected in Germany stem from Chinese sources,&quot; Kaller said at
 the meeting. But the Germans still lack definitive proof of who is 
behind the cyber attacks.

The hackers' tracks lead to three major Chinese cities: Beijing, 
Shanghai and Guangzhou. And from Germany's perspective, they point to a 
Unit 61398, which was identified in a  report  by the US cyber security company Mandiant last week.

In the dossier, which is apparently based on intelligence 
information, the Washington-based IT firm describes in detail how a unit
 of the Chinese People's Liberation Army has hacked into 141 companies 
worldwide since 2006. The trail, according to Mandiant, leads to an 
inconspicuous 12-story building in Beijing's Pudong district, home to 
the army's Unit 61398.



									
					

					
	Mandiant claims that the elite unit operates at least 937 servers in
 13 countries. One of the key Chinese nationals involved has worked 
under the code name &quot;UglyGorilla&quot; since 2004, while two other hackers 
use the names &quot;SuperHard&quot; and &quot;Dota.&quot; According to Mandiant, the scope 
of the evidence leaves little doubt that soldiers with Unit 61398 are 
behind the hacker attacks. The White House, which was notified in 
advance, privately confirmed the report's conclusions, while the Chinese
 denied them. &quot;The Chinese military has never supported any hacking 
activities,&quot; said spokesmen for China's Foreign and Defense Ministries, 
adding that China is in fact &quot;one of the main victims of cyber attacks.&quot;

The dossier publicly emphasizes, for the first time, what has long 
been claimed in intelligence circles: that the power apparatus of the 
Chinese government is behind at least some of the attacks. Following the
 report's publication, European ambassadors in Beijing moved the 
accusations to the top of their agenda. The diplomats agreed that China 
has become too large and powerful for a single European Union country to
 tangle with it.

The US government has now defined the attacks as a key issue, and 
cyber security is now on the agenda of the Strategic Security Dialogue 
between Beijing and Washington. China's IT espionage is the biggest 
&quot;transfer of wealth in history,&quot; says General Keith Alexander, head of 
the US military's Cyber Command. The companies that Mandiant claims were
 the targets of attacks include one with access to more than 60 percent 
of the oil and natural gas pipelines in North America. &quot;A hacker in 
China can acquire source code from a software company in Virginia 
without leaving his or her desk,&quot; says US Attorney General Eric Holder.

Last summer, Holder launched a training program for 400 district 
attorneys to specifically investigate cyber attacks by foreign 
countries. And last week, Holder presented the government's plan to 
prevent the theft of intellectual property. Following the Mandiant 
report, there have been growing calls in the United States for tougher 
action, including such steps as entry bans for convicted hackers and 
laws to enhance the options available to companies to fight data theft 
under civil law. Referring to Beijing, James Lewis of the Center for 
Strategic and International Studies told the  Wall Street Journal : &quot;You've got to keep pushing on them.&quot;


 Germany 
  Like a Developing Country 


Germany is a long way from increasing pressure on the Chinese. In 
fact, when it comes to cyberspace, Germany sometimes feels like a 
developing country. When companies like EADS are attacked, it is a 
question of coincidence as to whether the German government learns of 
the incidents. The draft of the country's new IT Security Law, which 
Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich, a member of the conservative 
Christian Social Union (CSU) unveiled in early February, at least 
envisions a reporting requirement for companies that are attacked. But 
there is a strong chance that the ministries involved in the proposed 
legislation will destroy the draft before the German national election 
in September. 

The government approved a national cyber security strategy two years 
ago, and Germany's new Cyber Defense Center has been staffed with a 
dozen officials since then, but it's little more than a government virus
 scanner. The center lacks authority and clear policies on how the 
government intends to handle threats originating from the Internet. The 
federal agencies are &quot;not even capable of appreciably defending 
themselves against an attack,&quot; scoffs a senior executive in the defense 
industry.

The country's foreign intelligence agency, the BND, has the most 
experience with cyber attacks. The agency, based near Munich, is also 
involved in digital espionage and has used Trojans and so-called 
keyloggers in more than 3,000 cases. BND President Gerhard Schindler 
wants to combine previously scattered personnel into a single 
subsection, and the necessary new positions have already been approved. 
An official from the Chancellery will likely head the new group.

The BND wants its future capabilities to not only include 
infiltrating an outside computer system. It also intends to develop a 
sort of digital second-strike capability to shut down the server of a 
particularly aggressive attacker.

That would be the worst-case scenario.




REPORTED BY RALPH NEUKIRCH, J&quot;ORG SCHMITT, GREGOR PETER SCHMITZ, HOLGER STARK, GERALD TRAUFETTER, BERNHARD ZAND.



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