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When Alice married into the Van Cleave family, an Appalachian coal mining dynasty, and moved to Baileysville, KY from England she had no idea she would become a Packhorse Librarian. The 1930s were a tough time to be a woman in America and living in the hills and hollers didn't make it any easier. Marjorie, Izzy, Sophia and Beth; these are the friends that spread books and hope to their rural communities while fighting injustice and abuse themselves. Based on real historical events, you'll be rooting for these ladies to overcome their circumstances and triumph together as women. A quote from the book informs our tasting today: “Bordeaux bottles are sturdy like wives, while Burgundy bottles are curvaceous like their mistresses.” Learn why bottles have such different shapes and discover an Alfred Merkelbach Auslese Riesling from the Rosenburg vineyard while you learn what punts, necks, shoulders, bodies, opacity, translucence and thickness have to do with how you enjoy your favorite wine. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/readingbetweenthewines/support

In this podcast, we describe what the chaos of "desperate enabling" looks like, how it starts and how it can be arrested by a wake-up call.We learn the following from Alice, the mum in this story:A family's journey down the slippery slope toward desperate enabling starts slowly and imperceptibly, without the slightest suspicion that there is anything brewing.Enabling is well-meaning, but it is misguided because it simply gives the disease the oxygen it craves to keep thriving.The family deludes itself into believing that it has any power to arrest the disease when the truth is that they are powerless over the ultimate course of a progressive disorder.Chaos will rule the house unless some form of intervention takes place, almost always with the help of a professional trained in addictive disease.When Alice and her husband made the decision that they needed to live their own lives without guilt did the chaos subside. That decision meant that they could finally live happily together, one day at a time.

This time on The World Wanderers, Amanda leads a one-on-one discussion with Alice Nettleingham from Teacaketravels.com! When Alice was a psychologist in the UK she met a girl on the train. After 4 hours of non-stop talking, she got off the train, booked a Teaching English as a Foreign Language course, and quit her life in the UK. Within 3 months, she was in South Korea teaching English.Since then, Alice has had solo adventures all around the world. From driving solo on her bike across Vietnam, to driving from the UK to Mongolia on the Mongol Rally with an all female team, and learning martial arts in China with a shaved head!In this episode Alice and Amanda discuss tips for traveling the world as a solo female, how Alice became a full-time travel blogger, and Alice’s new venture using her experience as an expert solo female traveller to empower people around the world to face their fears.

New Zealand ski racer Alice Robinson has saved her best for last with a stunning Giant Slalom victory at the World Cup Finals in Lenzerheide in Switzerland overnight.The 19-year-old has beaten the world's best to win gold in her final race of the season.She set down a scorching second run to surge from fourth to first and claim her third career World Cup victory and first of what has been a challenging season for the young Kiwi."I am just so happy and relieved that I got my plan right and I just really attacked on the second run like I know I can, and I have been missing that feeling most of the season, so I am really happy," Robinson said.Robinson sat fourth after clocking 1:11.85 in her first run. She was .70 of a second slower than Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin who was .10 of a second quicker than Italian Marta Bassino and Slovenia Meta Hrovat.Conditions were tough for the first run held on one of the steepest courses on the circuit. It was overcast and difficult to see and Robinson who was flying on the upper sections, made a mistake with a redirect slide half-way down instead of arching and it cost her time.However, as she did with the second run in her last World Cup race in Jasna in Slovakia two weeks ago, Robinson surged in the second run, posting the quickest time, 1:07.63, more than a second faster than Shiffrin. Her combined time of 2:19.48 saw Robinson top the podium, .28 of a second clear of the American and .48 of a second ahead of Hrovat in third.Robinson who struggled in the early part of the season to find her best skiing with some inconsistent results, ended in the form that saw her win two World Cup races last season.She finished fourth in the GS at last month's World Championships in Cortina in Italy and second in the World Cup race in Jasna in Slovakia a fortnight ago, and this result was coming."I have been working so hard this year and it's been a bit of a mission with how Covid has impacted my season being away from home for so long (She left for Europe last August) not seeing any family and I am glad the sacrifices have paid off and have some success today," Robinson said.The 19-year-old is at least four or five years younger than her major rivals and looms as a huge medal chance in Giant Slalom at the Beijing Winter Olympics next February.She has finished the season ranked eighth in the Giant Slalom standings but has shown when she's skiing her best few skiers can match her.1990's Kiwi star Claudia Riegler told the Herald last week Robinson has the fastest turn of any skier on the circuit, and she showed that today, powering down the course in the second run and as one commentator remarked, showed the course no respect."Second run I just didn't want to get to the bottom and feel that I could have done more, so I just gave it everything I had and got to the bottom and it was enough, so it was a good feeling. It was a really cool run, but my fastest runs in skiing never feel amazing, it always feels a bit crazy and a bit rush, but I felt like I was pushing as hard as I could."Riegler watched Robinson race from her home in France and described her second run as like a 'gladiator, so courageous and strong.""When Alice is in the flow, she is by far the best. She pushes the turn to the limit to get the extra acceleration," Riegler commented.Robinson's rise to the top has been rapid and remarkable. She won two World Cup GS races last season before Covid-19 hit, following on from the previous season where she clocked the second fastest second run at the 2019 World Championships before winning the World Junior Championships GS and finishing second in the World Cup Final that year as a 17-year-old.Robinson will spend the next couple of weeks training in Europe before she finally returns home to take up a place in managed isolation early next month.One of the pleasing aspects for the young Kiwi this season has been her development in Super G. She finished 10th in her final World Cup...

Bible Reading: 1 John 4:7-11The first day of school always made Alice nervous, but today was the worst ever because her family had recently moved to a new town. She smiled shyly at a couple of girls. One nodded toward Alice's feet and mouthed, "Weird." The other rolled her eyes. They turned their backs and giggled.Alice shifted her backpack and limped to her locker. The kids are already making fun of my shoes, she thought. What will they say when they notice the way I walk?A girl with long dark curls pulled back in a ponytail pushed a pile of gym clothes into the locker next to Alice's. "Hi," she said. "You must be new here. My name's Jade.""Hi, Jade." Alice's voice squeaked. "I'm Alice.""Want to stop at the library with me?" asked Jade. She slammed her locker door and started down the hall. When Alice limped behind, Jade slowed her pace. She glanced down at Alice's shoes. "Hurt your feet?" she asked. "I--I was born with crooked feet," Alice explained, "but I had surgery on them two months ago. The doctor says if I wear these ugly orthopedic shoes for a year, my feet should be okay." To her relief, Jade simply smiled and nodded.As the days went by, Jade continued to treat Alice as a friend, but several other kids did not. One day as the two walked down the hall, a classmate pointed to Alice's shoes and said, "Ew, look at those ugly brown shoes!" Heads turned, and several kids snickered."What's your problem?" Jade asked the gawking kids. "Alice had an operation on her feet. Her shoes are like a cast--they're helping them heal." The hallway fell silent, and the kids scattered."Thanks, Jade," said Alice as they moved on, "but won't kids make fun of you now for sticking up for me?""Maybe," said Jade, "but I'm a Christian, so I want to be kind even when others are mean because that's what Jesus is like. Besides, you're my friend." She grinned. "After school, let's see if our moms will let us go shopping for the brightest shoelaces we can find, so bright those kids will notice them instead of your shoes. I'll get some too. Don't you think friends ought to wear matching shoelaces?" Dorothy SkinnerHow About You?Do you stick up for somebody other kids laugh at?Or do you join in? When you're tempted to do that, think about God's great love for you. Like everyone, you are a sinner, but God loves you so much He gave His Son, Jesus, to take the punishment for every bad thing you do. Show His love to others by being kind--especially to those who are often looked down upon. Today's Key Verse:If God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. (NKJV) (1 John 4:11)Today's Key Thought:Show God's love to everyone

Today we celebrate a son of France who developed the first natural classification of flowering plants. We'll also learn about the young female garden writer who teamed up with an Australian botanical illustrator and turned out some fabulous garden classics. We salute the English Poet Laureate who wrote inspiringly about gardens. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a tour book of American Gardens that was just released this past week. And then we’ll wrap things up with the birthday of one of the greatest plant collectors of all time.   Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart To listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to “Play the latest episode of The Daily Gardener Podcast.” It's just that easy.   Gardener Greetings Send your garden pics, stories, birthday wishes, and so forth to Jennifer@theDailyGardener.org   Facebook Group If you'd like to check out my curated news articles and blog posts for yourself, you're in luck because I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. There’s no need to take notes or search for links - the next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.    Important Events November 6, 1777   Today is the anniversary of the death of the French naturalist and botanist Bernard Jussieu. We remember Bernard for developing the first natural classification of flowering plants. And although both Bernard and his brother Antoine were botany professors in Paris, Bernard was the stronger botanist, and there's a famous story about his incredible dedication to botany: One time, after botanizing in Lebanon, Bernard was sailing back to France. Of course, drinkable water onboard a long voyage home would have been a precious commodity. Yet, Bernard Jussieu purportedly shared his precious water with a little Lebanon Cedar seedling he was bringing home. He wanted to plant the little seedling in the Royal Garden, and he was determined to bring the little tree back alive to Paris. The French say the seedling lived to be over 200 years old and grew to eighty feet high. As for Bernard Jussieu, in 1759, he was summoned to Versailles to develop the Royal Botanical Garden at the Petit Trianon. Unassuming and laid back, Bernard quietly began arranging the plants in the garden in a new way. Jussieu's system of organizing plants into a more natural order was revolutionary at the time, and his method was something he wouldn't disclose to others. However, Bernard did put together a catalog of the plants in his garden. Bernard recognized a kindred spirit in his nephew, Antoine-Laurent. Bernard trained him for four years, and when he came of age, Bernard confided his methods of plant classification. As a result, Antoine-Laurent's work extended his Uncle Bernard's ideas around grouping plants. It took Antoine-Laurent Jussieu almost twenty years of refinement and perfecting of his Uncle's work before he finally published it as the Bastille was falling in 1789. Antoine-Laurent Jussieu kept Linnaeus' binomial nomenclature in his book, Genera Plantarum, but he grouped plants by genera and then into families. He called his system natural and strived to let nature be his guide. Today, many plant families can be attributed to Jussieu. Today, there's a metro station near the Paris botanical garden named in honor of the Jussieu family - which boasted five notable botanists in the family over several generations.   November 6, 1868  Today is the birthday of the botanist and garden writer Alice Lounsberry. (Note: Online databases report the date of birth as 1873 - which is incorrect as Alice was already two years old on an 1870 census with her brother and parents.) Alice was a New Yorker, and she developed a love for botany as a young girl. In her mid-twenties, she was already serving as a board member for the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG). But Alice is best known for her botanical books written with her dear friend and collaborator - the Australian botanical illustrator Ellis Rowan. So we have Alice and Ellis - and here's the fabulous story of how they met. In the late 1890s, Ellis decided to travel to New York. She caused a bit of a sensation during her first trip to the States a few years earlier. This trip was no different - except that Ellis contracted influenza after her arrival, and she needed to be hospitalized. Like Alice, New Yorkers read about Ellis's illness, and they sent cards and flowers to her hospital room to cheer her. Now Alice had an enormous sense of admiration for Ellis, and she felt she needed to do something more personal for her. So, Alice decided to hand-deliver a box of fresh wildflowers she had handpicked to the hospital and gave them to Ellis's nurse. Ellis was thoroughly charmed by the bouquet and the card which read, "From one flower seeker to another - and an admirer of your work." The following day, Alice visited Ellis. Even though Alice was twenty years younger than Ellis, the two hit it off. They spent an entire afternoon discussing botany and their work. When Alice offered to show Ellis where she liked to botanize for wildflowers, it was the incentive Ellis needed to get her health back on track. When Alice invited her to illustrate a book on Wildflowers she had been asked to write, their fates as writer and painter were jointly sealed. Together, they produced three books: A Guide to the Wild Flowers (1899) describing around 500 wildflowers. A Guide to the Trees (1900) describing nearly 200 trees & shrubs. And, Southern Wild Flowers & Trees (1901) where Alice wrote in the preface:   "To learn something of the history, the folklore and the uses of southern plants and to see rare ones growing in their natural surroundings, Mrs. Rowan and I traveled in many parts of the south, always exercising our best blandishments to get the people of the section to talk with us. Through the mountainous region, we drove from cabin to cabin, and nowhere could we have met with greater kindness and hospitality."   While they were working on their book on Southern Wildflowers, Alice and Ellis's time together was marred by tragedy. They were surrounded by the beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains when a telegram came for Ellis. Her only son, Eric, had died in South Africa. He was 22 years old. After finishing these books, the two women went their separate ways. Alice continued to write after working with Ellis - but without Ellis's artwork, her books failed to attract the same level of popularity. In 1910, Alice wrote a book called Gardens Near the Sea. In this book, Alice shared her thoughts on the garden:   “For the garden is not only a place in which to make things grow and to display the beautiful flowers of the earth but a place that should accord with the various moods of its admirers. It should be a place in which to hold light banter, a place in which to laugh, and, besides, should have a hidden corner in which to weep. But above all, perhaps, it should be a place of sweet scent and sentiment.”   After suffering a stroke, Alice Lounsberry died at the age of 81 on November 20, 1949.   Unearthed Words A garden that you make yourself becomes associated with your personal history and that of your friends, interwoven with your tastes, preferences, and character, and constitutes a sort of unwritten, but withal manifest, autobiography. Show me your garden, provided it be your own, and I will tell you what you are like. – Alfred Austin, British poet laureate, The Garden That I Love, 1894   Grow That Garden Library American Gardens by Monty Don and Derry Moore This book came out just last week, and the subtitle is 100 Contemporary Designs. In this book, the beloved British horticulturist Monty Don and world-class photographer Derry Moore take us on a diverse and mesmerizing tour of American Gardens. Monty and Derry take us on a garden adventure: from Jefferson's Monticello ("MontiCHELLo”) to Longwood Gardens in Delaware to Middleton Place in South Carolina, to Central Park in New York, Bob Hope's Palm Springs garden, Frank Lloyd Wright’s garden, and the Seattle Spheres, and many many more. This book will leave you with a richer understanding of some of America's top gardens with beautiful photography and fascinating garden stories. This book is 224 pages of gorgeous American Gardens, and I think it would make a wonderful gift for the holidays. You can get a copy of American Gardens by Monty Don and Derry Moore and support the show using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for around $38   Today’s Botanic Spark November 6, 1885   Today is the birthday of the British plant collector and explorer Frank Kingdon Ward. During the beginning of the twentieth century, Frank Kingdon Ward went on twenty-four Indiana-Jones-like expeditions throughout Tibet, China, and Southeast Asia to search for rare and elusive species of plants. Among his many accomplishments, Frank found the legendary Tibetan blue poppy. Frank’s accounts of his adventures are captivating. In 1942, he arrived in New Delhi after a 500 hundred mile walk over mountains and through jungles. The newspaper account said:   "A thin, wiry little man in his 50s, Captain Kingdon-Ward...decided that the Japanese were getting too close for comfort, so he loaded two 60-pound bags of rice on two mules... But instead of taking the short road through the Chaukan pass, [he] decided to travel the 500-mile mule trail through Tibet... [Frank tramped] knee-deep in the snow [and] crossed the Himalayas at the 14,500-foot pass... [Frank said] "It was a pleasant walk and [my] reward is in the finding of dazzling flowers never seen before. You know they may always blush unseen — unless you manage to take them back and make them grow where others can admire them. They are a little bit of the enchantment of Asia transplanted into England or America. It is satisfying enough, if you can feel in an industrial age like the present, that you have brought home a little beauty for others to enjoy."

In this episode I speak with Alice Tapper. When Alice was in the 4th grade, she noticed boys were raising their hands more than the girls. She decided to do something about it. With the help of her parents and the CEO of the Girl Scouts Lidia Soto- Harmon, Alice created a Girl Scout patch and ended up up writing a New York Time’s best seller RAISE YOUR HAND. We talk about how important it is to learn to speak up when you’re young, even if you’re shy, and what we can do to keep encouraging young people to let their voices be heard.

Interview with Ben Frengley (Masters student, University of Melbourne) and Vanessa Teague (CEO, Thinking Cybersecurity Pty Ltd and the A/Prof (Adj.), Australian National University) Recorded 22 September 2020. Researcher notes can be sourced from https://www.thinkingcybersecurity.com/DigitalID/ ATO Response: An ‘ATO spokesperson’ provided the following points in response: ATO systems have not been compromised or hacked. The approach identified by the researchers, to scam a user by redirecting them to a malicious phishing website requesting credentials, is a well-known and common challenge across authentication systems and is not unique to the myGovID platform. This research is not disclosing a security vulnerability of the myGovID solution or application and this type of scam can be used against most existing credential types in the online sector including passwords, SMS, physical code generators and mobile apps codes The ATO takes IT security very seriously. We remind people to protect themselves online by ensuring to never click links in emails or SMS messages purporting to be from the ATO that ask you to log in and provide personal details. If people think their myGovID or other personal identifying information has been compromised, they should call the ATO’s dedicated hotline 1800 008 540. Examples of current scams are available at www.ato.gov.au/scam The ATO works with the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) when phishing scams are detected or reported to initiate defensive action to minimise harm to the community. On background myGovID was built in accordance with the Trusted Digital Identity Framework (TDIF) which is based upon international standard OpenID Connect 1.0 and is consistent with the International Government Assurance Profile (iGov) for OpenID Connect 1.0 – Draft 02. Further information can be found in “TDIF: 06b – OpenID Connect 1.0 profile” As part of complying with the TDIF’s requirements, the ATO is assessed against Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) guidelines including the Protective Security Policy Framework and Information Security Manual controls. Prior to releasing myGovID the ATO undertook extensive assurance assessments, including: o Multiple rounds of security penetration testing by ATO internal security teams. o Multiple rounds of security penetration testing by an independent external assessor. o Independent Information Security Registered Assessors program (IRAP) assessment. o Independent Privacy Impact Assessment. ATO continuously tests and assesses the security risk for myGovID and prioritises improvements where appropriate, any indication by a third party that ATO refuses to address security vulnerabilities is not accurate myGovID represents an improvement over other credential types in this scenario. As no password is required within the browser the scammer has not harvested any part of the credential that could be used in a later attack. In most other credential types, the scammer would learn of the user’s password. As scams are a common problem across the community when interacting online (e.g. banking, shopping, utilities, government) the ATO provides advice on how to stay safe online https://www.ato.gov.au/general/online-services/online-security/   ____________________________________________ Researcher notes - sourced from https://www.thinkingcybersecurity.com/DigitalID/ Summary We explain a replay attack on the Australian Tax Office's myGovID scheme. When a user tries to use the myGovID scheme to log in to a website under the attacker's control, the attacker can immediately log in as the user via myGovID at any other site. The attack relies on the malicious site's ability to replay the 4-digit code that the myGovID scheme displays. Although the attack is visible to a vigilant user who knows the protocol, we believe that most ordinary users' logins would be successfully hijacked. At the server side, the login would be indistinguishable from a legitimate login from the user, so the attack is impossible to detect (excluding surveillance-based detection by device fingerprinting, login location, etc). This video shows nontechnical users how to protect themselves. Attack scenario Suppose Alice wants to log in to nottrustworthy.com, using myGovID. In the language of the Trusted Digital Identity Framework, nottrustworthy.com is the relying party (RP), Alice is the user, the ATO provides the Identity Exchange (IdX), and myGovID is the (sole) Identity Provider (IP). The myGovID system uses a client app that Alice runs on her phone. nottrustworthy.com does not need to be an authentic RP integrated with myGovID; instead, it only needs to appear to Alice as if she can log into it using myGovID. The adversary controls nottrustworthy.com and wishes to log in fraudulently, as Alice, at some other site, which we will call AlicesTaxService.gov.au. Assume AlicesTaxService.gov.au is an authentic RP in the myGovID system, such that users can use myGovID to log in. We assume that Alice already has the myGovID app installed and is somewhat familiar with its use but not an expert in its trust assumptions. Attack details The adversary edits the web page at nottrustworthy.com to present a fake button inviting users to log in with myGovID. (It is easy to copy a button that perfectly resembles the real one.) Instead of honestly redirecting users to mygovid.gov.au, the adversary makes up a frame or page on their own website that resembles a myGovID login and asks for the user's email. Again, this could perfectly copy the real myGovID site and say "Login with your myGovID to continue." A diligent user who knows this should come from https://mygovid.gov.au can detect this, but unless Alice knows exactly how the protocol works there is nothing suspicious about an email address request from a website she intended to interact with. The attack proceeds as follows. When Alice enters her email, the attacker (either by hand or in an automated way) goes to AlicesTaxService.gov.au, clicks on 'Log in with myGovID,' waits for the (honest) redirect to mygovid.gov.au, and enters Alice's email address. The myGovID system displays a 4-digit code, intended for Alice, on the mygovid.gov.au page that the adversary is reading. The attacker reads the code and replays it to Alice, on the page at nottrustworthy.com that Alice is looking at, in a way that makes it appear to be a legitimate code from myGovID. Alice reads the code and enters it into her app when requested. The attacker will now be logged in to AlicesTaxService.gov.au as Alice. In order to hide the attack completely from Alice, the attacker could show Alice a successful login at nottrustworthy.com. The crucial design flaw is that when Alice's myGovID app receives an authorisation request and invites Alice to enter her 4-digit code, there is nothing in the app's user interface that tells her the name of the entity (RP) seeking authorisation. Alice thinks that she is consenting to log in to nottrustworthy.com. However, the myGovID system (both the IdX and the IP) are conveying the attacker's authorisation request from AlicesTaxService.gov.au. Analysis of impact This attack is detectable by a diligent user who understands the protocol well enough to know that they should only accept 4-digit codes from mygovid.gov.au (and knows how to check for TLS). However we believe that there are very few users in this category, because it is a counter-intuitive protocol designed to reverse the information flow relative to what users are accustomed to. Users are generally told (from primary school) always to check carefully that they are visiting the right website when they are about to enter their login credentials. In practice maybe they do not always do this well, and most people don't know how to check for TLS, but browsers are getting better at this - for example, Firefox and Chrome both now warn when the user visits a not-TLS-protected site, or when a login and password is solicited in a way that seems suspicious. Common email clients warn when a link does not go where it looks like it goes. So most browsers and email clients put reasonable effort into thwarting the most obvious attacks on the traditional password-based information flow. This is imperfect but at least most educated people (including primary school children) are somewhat aware of the problem. The myGovID system aims to alleviate this problem (we assume) by reversing the information flow, so users never enter their password or 4-digit code into anything except their app. This is a noble goal, but the implementation introduces another equivalent problem. The main reason this is worse than the standard redirect-to-fake-login-site attack is that the information flow is so counter-intuitive and non-standard that users are much less likely to notice - we all know we are not supposed to enter credentials into websites we do not trust, but we have no intuition about whether we are supposed to enter a number from a website we semi-trust into an app we trust. Also none of the browser-based defences against the redirect-to-fake-login attack would work against this attack. There is nothing intuitively suspicious about getting a 4-digit code from a website you were trying to log in to, when that is standard in the typical authentication process when using myGovID. The user trusts the app, so the fact that they receive a notification from the app about the login may even alleviate their concern. A particularly knowledgeable user may notice that the code does not come from https://mygovid.gov.au, but otherwise there is nothing suspicious: neither the notification nor the code entry in the app provide any indication of which website the code applies to. Even in normal circumstances, the myGovID protocol can be confusing to the user — starting an authentication process at an RP, abandoning it at code entry, and starting a new authentication process at the same RP (e.g., by getting to the code entry page then clicking the Cancel button, then entering the same email) results in an invalid code entry popup in the app, which when closed will immediately yield another, totally indistinguishable, code entry popup, which this time is valid. In that scenario both code entry popups are honest and correspond to authentic login requests at a registered and trusted RP. However, they are entirely indistinguishable: nothing indicates to the user which RP they are from, when the login was initiated or that the first code entry popup is no longer valid and that there is a second popup awaiting user attention. Entering the code from the second login attempt at the first code entry popup yields a cryptic "Something is wrong with the code. Try again," error message with no indication of what the error is and no reason for the user to expect an error to occur. This kind of confusing user experience teaches even normally vigilant users to ignore things that might otherwise seem odd, and myGovID's lack of context for login requests exacerbates this issue, which makes this attack more concerning. Mitigations and their impact Short term - for users Users are advised not to use the myGovID system until the protocol is patched. If use of the myGovID system is unavoidable, each user should check diligently that the 4-digit code they are about to enter comes from a TLS-protected URL at https://mygovid.gov.au. This unlikely to work in practice for most users, who will struggle to recognise a secure website with the right URL. Short term - for government Even if all users carefully perform the check above, a randomised version of the same attack could still be attempted: the malicious website faithfully (but with a small delay) passes the user on to the real mygovid.gov.au login site, while more quickly trying to log on as that user elsewhere. Unless there are careful protections in place to ensure that the 4-digit codes are never the same, there is a chance of 1/10,000 that the codes will match, higher if we assume an opportunity for a few guesses. Without having seen the code generation algorithm, we cannot tell whether such a mitigation is in place or not, but if not it should be added urgently. The app should also be updated immediately with the following simple mitigation: When an authentication request is received, tell the user what website is requesting it. Technically, this is incompatible with the stated goals of the Trusted Digital Identify Framework, in which the Identity Exchange (provided by auth.ato.gov.au in our example) obscures the identity of the Relying Party (nottrustworthy.com in our example) from the Identity Provider (myGovID in our example). However, the ATO's Identity Exchange leaks the RP's identity to myGovID via the HTTP Referer header, so this information is already available and can be used as a mitigation. Hiding the RP's identity from the app seems to be a very low priority goal compared with preventing fraudulent logins. Attempting to certify trustworthy RPs would not help unless users have an simple way of checking who has been certified that can be easily included in a typical authentication process. Long term In the long run, the TDIF and all its current implementations should be deprecated and replaced with an open standard such as OpenID Connect or a protocol modelled on that of a nation with an existing secure public key infrastructure such as Belgium or Estonia. The implementation and design documentation should be openly available to the Australian public to allow for the identification and responsible disclosure of other vulnerabilities. We have no reason to believe that this is the only, or the worst, vulnerability in this system. Its complex nature and the desire to hide information makes enforcing and validating correct, secure behaviour close to impossible. Responsible disclosure history This problem was disclosed on 19th August 2020 to the Australian Signals Directorate, with an indicative expectation of a 90-day disclosure period. ASD communicated it to the ATO. At a meeting on 18th September 2020, ATO told us they did not intend to change the protocol, at which point we immediately informed them that we would make a warning to users public on Monday 21st September. Acknowledgements Thanks to Rod Teague and Andrew Conway for their help. Thanks also to Yaakov Smith for helpful review of this work. Usage and Contacts You are welcome to quote or reuse this material as long as you credit the original source. Email contact: bfrengley [at] student.unimelb.edu.au or vanessa [at] thinkingcybersecurity.com  

When Alice asks the Cheshire Cat which way she ought to go, the Cat responds, “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.” Alice says she doesn’t much care where she goes, to which the Cat says, “Then it doesn’t much matter which way you go.” We spend this episode exploring our radical dreams, and imagining where we’d like to go, accompanied by the music words of the radical poet, Martin Espada, and a conversation with the legendary activist, Bernardine Dohrn.

When Alice started working for a theatre company she never imagined being screamed at and abused while over 100 people watched on. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/i-work-with-a-nightmare. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Alice Moloney discusses how best to express negative emotions in the digital realm. When Alice's father was diagnosed with cancer, she found herself at a loss as to how to communicate with him digitally. One solution was sending more personal objects. But Alice works in digital communication, and in this talk at the Shambala Festival she describes her journey to improve the tools available to communicate grief and sadness. Producer: Giles Edwards

After receiving a letter addressed to 'those who seek the past,' the group is intrigued by an invite to a local hotel. Before leaving to investigate, the trio has dinner with Maxwell Steelbreeze and they discuss what happened to Hannibal and Maxwell in a place known as Obsidian Town. Before the team can look into the letter, they decide to visit the Grand Duke Lion Cathedral, only to find that somebody broke in. When Alice and Thelonius go to fetch a guard, Hannibal finds that he's not alone. Will his comrades make it back with an ally strong enough to help? Or is Hannibal Demonbreaker doomed?

Today we celebrate the Versailles botanist who started organizing plants in a new way but kept his method a secret. We'll learn about the young New Yorker and garden writer who met the perfect botanical illustrator for her garden books in the hospital as she was battling influenza. We'll hear some glorious thoughts on November from the author of “Butternut Wisdom.” We Grow That Garden Library with a book that helps us grow more by going vertical in our gardens. I'll talk about burying your cold-hardy succulents, and then we'll wrap things up with the intrepid botanist who discovered a plant that's still almost too good to be true - the blue poppy.   But first, let's catch up on a few recent events.   Modern Monochromatic Wedding at Baltimore’s Sagamore Pendry Hotel @ruffledblog shared this gorgeous @lemonlime_event Modern Monochromatic Wedding at Baltimore’s Sagamore Pendry Hotel. Gardeners will love the green/white floral arrangements. And you MUST check out the bride's bouquet. That air plant!! https://buff.ly/2oFnKjj     What is a Vegan Garden? I must confess I didn't fully appreciate all that it entails - so hats off to Garden Teacher Plews Garden Design @plewgd for a thorough and thoughtful explanation.         Great article in @PsychToday by @peterbongi called Saffron for Emotional Health. Studies show the stigma & the petal of Saffron (Crocus sativus) are helpful for calming, mood support & more. And, love the Charlemange quote about herbs at the beginning... https://buff.ly/2WBvKyp       Garden Betty share a really lovely post called  A Guide to Saving and Storing Seeds As your end-of-season crops start to fade, now's the time to save the seeds from your favorite plants so you can grow them again next year! Here's a foolproof guide to show you how from @gardenbetty #gardenchat #gardening #growyourown https://buff.ly/2RzMpiN   Now, if you'd like to check out these curated articles for yourself, you're in luck - because I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. So there’s no need to take notes or search for links - the next time you're on Facebook, just search for Daily Gardener Community and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group. Brevities #OTD Today is the anniversary of the death of the French naturalist and botanist Bernard de Jussieu who died on this day in 1777. Jussieuwas a French botanist who developed the first natural classification of flowering plants. Today, there's a metro station near the botanical garden in Paris that is named in honor of the Jussieu family - which boasted five members over several generations as notable botanists.   Bernard and his brother Antoine were both botany professors in Paris. Bernard was the stronger botanist, and there's a famous story about his incredible dedication to botany:   One time, after botanizing in Lebanon, Bernard was sailing back to France. Of course, drinkable water onboard a long voyage home would have been a precious commodity. Yet, Bernard Jussieu purportedly shared his precious water with a little Lebanon Cedar seedling he was bringing home. He wanted to plant in the Royal Garden, and he was determined to bring the little tree back alive to Paris. The French say the seedling lived to be over 200 years old and eighty feet high.   As for Bernard Jussieu, in 1759, he was brought to Versailles to develop the Royal Botanical Garden at the Petit Trianon. Unassuming and laid back, Bernard quietly began arranging the plants in the garden in a new way. Jussieu's system of organizing plants into a more natural order was revolutionary at the time and also something he wouldn't disclose to others. However, Bernard did put together a catalog of the plants in his garden.   Bernard recognized a kindred spirit in his nephew, Antoine-Laurent. Bernard trained him for four years, and when he came of age, Bernard confided his methods of plant classification. As a result, Antoine-Laurent's work was an extension of his Uncle Bernard's ideas around grouping plants.   It took Antoine-Laurent Jussieu almost twenty years of refinement and perfecting of his Uncle's work, but he finally published his work on natural classification as the Bastille was falling in 1789. In Genera Plantarum, Antoine-Laurent Jussieu kept Linnaeus' binomial nomenclature, but he grouped plants by genera and then into families. He called his system natural and strived to let nature be his guide. Today, many plant families can be attributed to Jussieu.       #OTD   Today is the birthday of the botanist and garden writer Alice Lounsberry who was born on this day in 1868. (Note: Online accounts, based on a Who's Who biography have the date of her year of birth as 1873 - which is incorrect as she was already two years old on an 1870 census with her brother and parents.) Lounsberry was a New Yorker, and she developed a love for botany as a young girl. In her mid-twenties, she was already serving as a board member for the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG). Lounsberry is forever linked to her friend and collaborator - the Australian botanical illustrator, Ellis Rowan. In the late 1890s, Rowan (b. 1848) decided to travel to New York. She caused a bit of a sensation during her first trip to the States a few years earlier. This trip was no different - except that after her arrival, Rowan contracted influenza, and she needed to be hospitalized.  New Yorkers, like Lounsberry, read about Rowan's illness, and they sent cards and flowers to her hospital room to cheer her. But Lounsberry had an enormous sense of admiration for Rowan, and she felt she needed to do something more personal. So, Alice personally brought a box of fresh-picked wildflowers to the hospital and gave them to Rowan's nurse. Rowan  was thoroughly charmed by the bouquet and the card which read, "From one flower seeker to another - and an admirer of your work." The following day, Alice visited Rowan. Even though Alice was twenty years younger than Rowan, the two hit it off. They spent an entire afternoon discussing botany and their work. When Alice offered to show Rowan where she liked to botanize for wildflowers, it was the incentive Rowan needed to get her health back on track. When Alice invited her to illustrate a book on Wildflowers she had been asked to write, their fates as writer and painter were jointly sealed. Together, they produced three books: "A Guide to the Wild Flowers" (1899) describing around 500 wildflowers. "A Guide to the Trees" (1900) describing nearly 200 trees & shrubs. And, "Southern Wild Flowers & Trees" (1901) where Alice wrote in the preface: "To learn something of the history, the folklore and the uses of southern plants and to see rare ones growing in their natural surroundings, Mrs. Rowan and I traveled in many parts of the south, exercising always our best blandishments to get the people of the section to talk with us. Through the mountainous region we drove from cabin to cabin, and nowhere could we have met with greater kindness and hospitality." While they were working on their book on Southern Wildflowers, Alice and Rowan's time together was marred by tragedy. They were surrounded by the beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains when a telegram came for Rowan. Her only son, Eric, had died in South Africa. He was 22 years old.  After finishing these books, the two went their separate ways.  After working with Rowan, Alice continued to write - but without Rowan's artwork, her books failed to attract the same level of popularity.  After suffering a stroke, Alice Lounsberry died at the age of 81 on November 20, 1949.         Unearthed Words Walking down the country road this morning, I noticed the swamp in late fall has lovely colors. The chalky purple of the wild blackberry canes, the cinnabar of frosted weeds, and the garnet of oak seedlings seem like music. Farther on, the cutover fields have variations on the theme of brown, from tawny to copper. Squirrels go a-marketing under the hazel bushes, for, under the burs, the satiny brown nuts begin to show. A fawn-colored rabbit hops ahead along the grey stone wall, and a pheasant leads three females toward the thicket.      As I pass the neighbor's old red barn, the smell of dried hay is as sweet as honey. Pumpkins and cabbages and smoky hubbard squash lie in the garden. Blue smoke rises from a pile of burning cornstalks. "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness," Keats called it, and also, "Think not of spring, thou has thy beauty too." -Gladys Taber, The Best of Still Meadow         Today's Grow That Garden Library book recommendation: Vertical Vegetables by Amy Andrychowicz The subtitle to this book is Simple Projects that Deliver More Yield in Less Space. Going vertical is something I love to do indoors in small spaces - but as Amy shows us in this book, it's a strategy that works brilliantly in our gardens as well. Amy points out that when you grow upward rather than outward, you will double or triple the yield from your small-space garden. Not only does growing vertically not only potentially increase your yield, but also it also gets your plants off the ground - increasing airflow, reducing the risk from soil-borne disease, and making a crouch-free harvest. Vertical Vegetables is packed with valuable information. Amy includes lists of plants that are best suited for vertical growing. The book is packed full of beautiful DIY garden projects anyone can do thanks to step-by-step instructions. Beyond the trellis, Amy shares what you can grow vertically using cages, stakes, tee-pees, a classic obelisk, or pergolas in addition to providing creative plans for even more functional structures.       Today's Garden Chore It's time to have a funeral: Bury your pots with hardy succulents like Hens and Chicks and Sedums. In a Northern garden, you cannot leave your cute little pots with these cold-hardy succulents sitting out in the garden. They won't make it - or should say - they won't make it above ground in a pot. To avoid the heartbreak of having to re-buy them and the hassle of repotting them, I simply gather up all my pots - terra cotta, iron, strawberry pots, etc. - collecting them in a cleared area by the water feature. I'll add in my succulent wreath form as well. Then I bury them under a couple of bags of wood mulch. Sheltered under the mulch, the plants continue to grow until the first hard freeze. In the spring, I dig out my pots and then return them to their homes throughout the garden.         Something Sweet  Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart #OTD   Today is the birthday of the British plant collector and explorer Frank Kingdon Ward who was born on this day in 1885. During the beginning of the twentieth century,  Frank Kingdon Ward went on twenty-four Indiana-Jones-like expeditions throughout Tibet, China, and Southeast Asia, in search of rare and elusive species of plants. Among his many accomplishments, Ward found the legendary Tibetan blue poppy. Ward’s accounts of his adventures are captivating. In 1942, he arrived inNew Delhi after a 500 hundred mile walk over mountains and through jungles. The newspaper account said: "A thin, wiry little man in his 50s, Captain Kingdon-Ward...decided that the Japanese were getting too close for comfort so he loaded two 60-pound bags of rice on two mules... But instead of taking the short road through the Chaukan pass, [he] decided to travel the 500 mile mule trail through Tibet...  [Kingdon-Ward tramped] knee-deep in snow [and] crossed the Himalayas at the 14,500-foot pass.... [He said] "It was a pleasant walk and [my] reward is in the finding of dazzling flowers never seen before. You know they may always blush unseen unless you manage to take them back and make them grow where others can admire them. They are a little bit of the enchantment of Asia transplanted into England or America. It is satisfaction enough if you can feel in an industrial age like the present that you have brought home a little beauty for others to enjoy."       Thanks for listening to the daily gardener, and remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

Behind The Grid - Life As An Influencer Even though influencer marketing is a hot commodity on Instagram there is still a negative stigma surrounding influencers. This stigma is really just a general fear about influencers, and I want to shine a light on the fact that influencers are just people! That’s why I’m so excited for you to meet today’s guest, Alice Bingham, who is an influencer on Instagram with over 40K followers. Alice is passionate about sharing and exploring her version of Healthyland with her beautiful tribe of goddesses. Her content is about fuelling her body with nourishing food, creating healthy recipes, self love discussions, moving the body and the ups and downs of motherhood. During this episode, Alice is going to share what an average week looks like for her, how she creates content and how she has gotten through some influencer mindset blocks, along with three things someone starting in the influencer industry needs to know. Key Takeaways: >> [0:25] This episode is proudly brought to you by my Social Method Society, which is my online learning academy for women growing businesses using Instagram. >> [0:57] If you are wanting to know more about the Social Method Society or if you want to be made aware of when I do open up the doors again for the next intake, then the best thing you can do is head over to socialmethodsociety.com. From there, you’ll be able to jump onto my waitlist and be the first to know when doors open again. >> [1:30] Today's guest, Alice Bingham, is actually a Member of the Social Method Society and she recently recorded an entire Masterclass with me that was all about diving deep into Influencer Marketing. This Masterclass was something we released exclusively for my Society Members and these ladies are LOVING it. >> [2:08] Alice is passionate about sharing and exploring her version of Healthyland with her beautiful tribe of goddesses. Her content is about fuelling her body with nourishing food, creating healthy recipes, self love discussions, moving the body and the ups and downs of motherhood. And she has grown her Instagram account to over 40K loyal tribe members! >> [3:20] During this episode, Alice is going to share what an average week looks like for her, how she creates content and how she has gotten through some influencer mindset blocks, along with three things someone starting in the influencer industry needs to know. ALICE'S INFLUENCER JOURNEY >> [5:20] Alice has always had the urge to help and inspire people. She found that health and wellness had a big impact on her life, and so Alice wanted to share that journey. >> [10:25] When Alice first founded @aliceinhealthyland, she was using Instagram as a diary of sorts. She was influencing then, when she wasn’t realising it. Whenever someone asks her she owns the fact that she’s an influencer! >> [13:04] Alice helps business owners by providing a marketing platform for them by being herself. She has built the trust and credibility on Instagram! >> [15:40] Instagram is a great way to gain brand awareness and sales. The trust is becoming more and more important because people buy from people! >> [16:50] Alice’s friends and family used to say that she got a lot of stuff for free, but in reality they don’t see the hours of work that goes into creating content. HOW DOES ALICE DEAL WITH SNARKY COMMENTS? Snarky comments about influencer marketing do not bother Alice anymore. Alice blocks out any snarky comments. It’s okay to shrug off any hateful comments, so you can focus on showing up with consistency. >> [21:35] Alice has a helping nature in her, but she had to learn how to balance paid influencer work and gifted influencer work. This caused her to have to get comfortable saying no to opportunities. >> [23:02] If you’re listening to this episode, and you’re a member of the Social Method Society, there is a Masterclass available for you that is all about working with inf...

When Alice's friend was going through cancer, she promised her that she'd care for her and her dog. Her friend's journey initiated Alice's growth into becoming an author and storyteller. She shares these powerful nuggets of life wisdom: - be honest with each other - friendship crosses many lines, including racial lines - writing is a safe place to be - meditate, stay in silence and write - find people that are accepting of you - be compassionate with yourself - you are the person that you've been waiting for Alice Butler Collins is a storyteller, author, workshop facilitator and educator. She is the current president of ASE, the Chicago affiliate of the National Association of Black Storytellers. She uses the spoken and written word to educate, entertain and empower her audiences. She enjoys telling stories to diverse audiences. She was privileged to be selected to attend the 2018 Access Africa Institute at Howard University. Additionally, as a passionate writer she is looking forward to her new publications. arbcoll@sbcglobal.net http://www.aseblackstorytellers.org/member/8 tags:  Alice, Butler, Collins, storyteller, author, workshop, facilitator, educator, ASE, National, Association, Black, Storytellers, educate, entertain, empower, storiesthatempower.com, stories that empower, empowering stories, empowerment stories, stories of empowerment, stories of empowering others, self empowerment stories, stories empower, inspire, inspiring, inspiration, uplift, uplifting, upliftment, hope, light, Sean  

It's time for a children's classic: Alice in Wonderland! When Alice follows the White Rabbit down a rabbit hole and into Wonderland, what marvelous and frightening adventures await her?Featuring Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, chapters one and two.Starring Jordan Lagana and Dominique Simone.

Alice Heiman is the Founder of Alice Heiman LLC an agency that provides companies dealing with complex B2B sales the tactics and strategies to experience rapid exponential growth. She also is the Co-Founder and CRO of TradeShowMakeover an online summit focused solely on helping companies to stop leaving money on the trade show floor. When Alice is consulting a company on how to dominate the trade show, often times the biggest point of failure she identifies is poor planning. Trade shows are a big expense; you need to generate plenty of revenue from the event. On this episode of The Sales Engagement Podcast, Alice broke down the 3 phases she says are crucial to Trade Show ROI.

Welcome to the first episode of More of a Comment, Really...!, a weekly interview show hosted by Clint Worthington! Every episode will feature one or more interviews with actors, filmmakers, producers, and more, giving you the skinny on the latest films and TV. For this first episode, Clint speaks to Daniel Goldhaber, director of the Netflix original psychological horror film CAM, about a camgirl (Madeline Brewer) who finds herself contending with a mysterious doppelganger who has stolen her account and threatens her sanity. Listen as Goldhaber talks about his collaboration with friend and screenwriter Isa Mazzei, their perspective on online sex work, and placing those perspectives within the framework of a genre film. Check out the full podcast, as well as an edited and abridged version of the interview with Goldhaber, below. - CAM had its world premiere at Fantasia, right? Yeah. having the festival run that we had was so cool. But ultimately, I think that being able to be on Netflix and have people have the time to catch up with the movie was cool because we're able to reach such a large audience on that platform. Especially considering its subject matter too, about cultivating online audiences. I think it's a really interesting home for it. Well, it's also it's also a little ironic because the movie is about a demon algorithm, right? And it's being distributed by algorithm of Netflix. How were you turned on to the project? How did you meet Isa? Isa and I have known each other for quite a long time. We dated in high school actually, and worked on a bunch of stuff. Then we had a theater company, working on a bunch of plays together, and we went to different colleges. Not long after that, she became a cam girl, and when she started camming she reached out to me to make a bunch of promotional pornography for her - I thought that would be a really cool, fun, creative challenge. It was really my introduction to her world of sex work, into the attitude she was bringing to it. This idea of sex work as work, that she was really just a working creative professional, but also seeing the craft that she was bringing to what she was doing. And that was one of the things that was eye-opening about this process of doing pornography with her - it certainly changed my relationship to porn. Because, I'm a filmmaker, and when you're a filmmaker, your relationships with movies changes. When making porn, you start thinking of porn differently - you start looking at the editing in pornography and then mise-en-scene and things that we don't really think to ask of porn but they're there. How does cutting change the nature of a sexual performance in a porn film? That was really interesting to me and with all those things combined, we were like, “there’s a really exciting movie to be made here. It took some time but we eventually settled on making a genre movie – Isa’s always been a reader and a movie maker, and so naturally we wanted to do it together. It felt like the best way to do that was to have her write and me direct. What was the process behind deciding to make it a genre film? Arriving at something like a thriller, as opposed to a straight documentary or a character drama. Originally the conversation was about doing a doc, but I think that the issue with doing a doc about pornography is that the lens of documentary is so frequently exotifying. The lens of a doc - saying “hey, I'm giving you this authentic experience” - is also the lens of porn. You're saying, “hey, the thing I'm showing you is authentic,” even though it's obviously very carefully curated. I think a movie that broke all of that down on both the dock and the porn side would be an amazing documentary; I don't think that I was the person to do it. We really wanted to make a movie that had wide commercial appeal and could take this story and blow it up in a significant way. The best way to do that is through genre film. It uses those recognizable rhythms and ideas to familiarize the unfamiliar for a wide commercial audience. Beyond all of that, we love genre movies. We love fun movies. I think that we in the critical community often look down on movies that are just really fun, but I think that you can have it all - not to say that we necessarily achieve everything we can. I just think that you can have movies that are really entertaining and fun and silly and scary and can't be and it also have a rich well of ideas behind it. So when it came time to writing the script, then, I presume Isa was pulling a lot from her own experience. Were there particular things that she wanted to express about life as a cam girl that are either expressed either in Alice's everyday life as a cam girl, like the entrepreneurship of it, or in these broader genre things. It’s tough to fully walk back through the process. You build a list of everything that you think is interesting and exciting about camming and then gradually you whittle it down. What can you combine? What is distracting? For instance, I was making porn for Isa that she was selling on her show; we don't get a huge part of the camming revenue stream for people. A lot of camgirls make their own amateur pornography and sell it on their shows or through other platforms as part of their branding and it was something that really seemed to confuse the audience. That's an ethnographic detail that is better explored somewhere else. There's a lot of conversations like that, where we’re constantly trying to whittle it down and make sacrifices and compromises and drive at the overarching theme - at the end of the day, this is a movie about digital identity set in the world of webcam pornography. So, we have an ethnographic responsibility in talking about the world of webcam porn, but at the end of the day that thing that is moderating what's in the movie, and what’s out of the movie, is the theme of digital identity that we wanted to talk about. That part really resonated with me too because that was something I was feeling about I'm getting this look into the world of camgirl stuff, but in terms of what Alice is going through, it feels a lot more broadly that it also touches on the general experience of this one-sided parasocial relationship that we have, especially as either filmmakers or film critics, we have with our audiences, and the emotional labor that tends to go into that and all the relationships you have to manage. When I was spending a lot of time with Isa while she was camming, one of the things that was the most startling and surprising to me was that this huge part of her job was what she was doing in front of the camera, but just an even bigger part of the job was what she was doing behind the camera - not just in shows but in all the relationships that she had to curate and service. And the way that she would have to build these relationships and maintain them to make sure that she would have a good show, because so much of the show is the way the guys are participating in it. What you see in that first two scenes, when she's talking to Tinker and you realize he was the one playing the anonymous visitor, I think you start to recognize, “oh wait, this is a show she puts on.” That was one of the ways that you do find a way to work an ethnographic detail into the overall film. You need to show that Alice's actively collaborating with her guys for her shows and we found a way to do that right. The other major group of people that she interacts with throughout the film are not just her fellow camgirls, but there's also the family dynamic which I was really impressed with. The way you guys were able to include that element in terms of having to keep her livelihood a secret, but without presenting it in this sort of reductive, judgmental way. I mean a lot of that was just talking about the ways just people in Isa’s life responded. There were a lot of people in her life who were very supportive of what she was doing or offered a spectrum of support. I think it was also important that we subvert the stereotypes that Karen can't or won't support you if you’re a sex worker. That's not always the case. A huge part of the development there was an active collaboration with Melora, who plays Alice’s mom. Melora is an actor whose fundamental philosophy is that it has to be real. As a result, she was really going to ask the question, “how would I respond to this if my daughter said, ‘I am a cam girl?’”. She brought a lot of these depths to the character because she agreed, “I would be supportive.” The way in which that support manifested, she really came in and rewrote a significant chunk of dialogue to do a better job than we were able to do ourselves at balancing the “I'm afraid, and also I feel confused about the parts of myself that I see in you, but at the same time you're my daughter and I love you and I want to support you. And I do recognize that what you're doing has this power behind it.” I think that she really responded to that as a person first and as an actor second. Well speaking of performances, CAM is an absolute knockout for Madeline Brewer. She's fantastic in the film. What was the casting process like in terms of finding Alice and working with her with you and Isa to sort of acclimate her to the challenges of the role? In all honesty we didn't have to do anything to acclimate her. From the first meeting that I had with her, Maddie was extraordinarily excited about the prospect of the movie. She was really excited to find the cam girl inside of herself, so she obsessively watched cams in preparation for the role, At the end of the day the process of making the movie for her was like any actor: how do I relate to this? For Maddie, part of it was learning the camgirl craft for herself in the short window we had to prep and make the movie. The casting process was really hard, because we couldn’t get the script out in Hollywood. Not a lot of people wanted their clients in it, and it was a time where Blumhouse wasn’t producing the movie. Ultimately, my dad saw Maddie in a Black Mirror episode, and somebody on our team happened to know her manager. Isa and I became really obsessed with her, because she had this thing we really needed – this ability to act with incredible physical ability and character work, but it feels naturalistic on camera. There aren’t many people like that – where they build this whole character but really disappear into it. Because we need someone who could play the whole spectrum of performance beyond performance, and have her be believable the whole time. And then there’s Alice’s own levels of performances, regardless of who she’s interacting with in the film. When Alice isn’t performing at all, it has to feel like Maddie isn’t acting, and I think she does an amazing job of that in the film. Maybe my favorite moment of performances of her is when Alice is going to meet Barney - she’s hunched over on this couch, she sees him coming, and you see her unfurl herself into posing for him. In that moment, you see her going from Alice to Lola, to realizing she has to be Lola in real life. You can see Alice calculate how that’s going to work in real time, because she’s never done it before, and settle on it. Playing that many different notes so seamlessly is really impressive. I wanted to talk about the look of the film, which is gorgeous – I had to play the white dude film critic game of, “Is this a masterpiece, or is it just really neon?” and I think the answer is both. [laughs] There’s a lot of Letterboxd reviews that say, “shit film, but I loved the pink room! Three stars.” Which I’ll take. We always wanted the look of the film to be heightened and specific; we wanted the cam world to be a fantasy world that is Alice’s, and the pink room to be a living, breathing organism that is a mood ring for Alice. I wish I had a better handle on my own aesthetic development process, because I look at it now and say, “I have no idea where any of those ideas came from.” One of my favorite moments of making the film was filming the hallway shot at Cam Girl Clubhouse; it’s a moment where there’s no narrative demand, it’s just all aesthetic. You can do whatever you want there. [Cinematographer] Kate [Arizmendi] and I just had so much fun saying, “can we put a light strip over there? Let’s get some neon there!” Just doing it live and feeling your way through it, and then thinking, “Wait a minute, we’ve built a universe.” It came through a lot of conversations with Kate and [production designer] Emma [Mead] and Isa. We had a few references that were specific and unique, one of the most important ones being Pink Narcissus, a queer film that was originally financed as a porn film, but instead became this piece of avant-garde expression. That’s where a lot of the Pink Room comes from – it’s both performance art and pornography, because that’s what it is for Alice. This is a stage that Alice has built for herself, her place where she expresses herself. Going back to approach then, you mentioned you shot porn before for Isa. Was there a translation in techniques or styles? Did you draw from anything you did there into CAM? Not really, but there were ideas that we were working through in the porn that absolutely carried through. Ideas like, what is an authentic pornographic image? That is one of the fundamental questions of the movie: if the purpose of porn is for me to get off, does it matter if the person behind the porn isn’t actually there? Is that no longer authentic? That also has to do what I personally get off to when I consume porn; something that feels like a real moment of sex. That’s not necessarily the case for everybody, but it’s something I was into exploring in my work with Isa. How do we make something that feels authentic, while still looking very beautiful and designed? That push and pull was fundamental to the ideas explored in CAM. There’s a lot of really interesting discussion hat happens through the craft of the film and the script, all these questions of personhood and authenticity through these different layers of performance, especially as she battles with this persona getting away from her. Especially in the climax, the camera set up with the reflecting mirrors on the screen and the infinite Alices stretching out into the abyss. I’m glad you think that; the climax was a real struggle to film and figure out.

On this episode of Talking Terror. The King of Horror Andy G is taking the boys back to the year 1976. While there, they'll be discussing the Alfred Sole film; "Alice, Sweet Alice". When a young girl named Karen (played by Brooke Shields in her film debut) is found brutally murdered on the day of her first communion. The suspicion falls upon her sister; Alice. When Alice is eventually sent away to a mental hospital,  the murders continue.  If Alice isn't the killer, then who? There's only one way to find out. Tune in and listen

When Alice realized she was in an abusive relationship with then boyfriend, Harry, Alice decided to end it. He began stalking her and his jealousy got so immense that she ended up murdered. Do you think there should be harsher punishments for stalking offenders? 

  Welcome to the YA Cafe, where you’ll find conversations and reviews about Young Adult books for teachers, readers, and caffeine addicts everywhere. On today’s episode, we’ll be talking about The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert with our guest, Brynn Allison, The Literary Maven. Grab a mug of your favorite beverage, friends, and let’s talk books.     In today’s episode… The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert is the story of a 17-year-old girl named Alice, who has never been able to outrun her bad luck. She and her mother Ella have had to leave places at the drop of a hat, and Alice has caught occasional glimpses of what is following them. When Alice’s grandmother (a famous but reclusive author of a collection of dark fairy tales) dies, Ella says they will finally be free of […] The post The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert appeared first on Nouvelle ELA Teaching Resources.

When Alice was very young, she had only one ambition. There was only one thing that Alice wanted to do more than anything else in the world, and that was to break the moon ...

In today’s episode, I’ve interviewed Alice from Paris-Bourke. When Alice and her family arrived in Australia they lived in the outback for two years. What an adventure it was! Find out more about this little-known lifestyle and its challenges. Alice is also a young crafty mum who designs beautiful games and toys for her children.… Read More → The post FV 027 : From Paris to the Australian Outback – the Story of Paris-Bourke and the Map Game appeared first on French Your Way.

Classroom 2.0 LIVE webinar, Oct. 18, 2014, presented and facilitated by Alice Keeler. What do hashtags and Twitter have in common? TwitterChats, of course! If you're still trying to figure out exactly what hashtags are, what TwitterChats are, and how to make these a part of your professional learning network, join our amazing special guest, Alice Keeler, to get the scoop in this week's Classroom 2.0 LIVE show: TwitterChats: What, Why, How, When? Alice is a doctoral student at Boise State University in EdTech with a focus on gamification and has many years of experience as an ed tech leader and connected educator. Alice is a Google Certified Teacher, New Media Consortium K12 Ambassador, Microsoft Innovative Educator and LEC Admin & Online and Blended certified. She has led project teams for Google projects such as the YouTube teachers project and the Google Play for Education project. She has served on the New Media Consortium Horizon report advisory panel for both 2013 and 2014. As a believer in the importance of connectivity she founded #coffeeEDU and #profchat and is a perfect person to help us learn about the power of TwitterChats. If you participate in educational TwitterChats we hope you'll join us to share your personal favorites and your experiences as a participant. Alice tweets @alicekeeler and blogs at alicekeeler.com

Classroom 2.0 LIVE webinar, Oct. 18, 2014, presented and facilitated by Alice Keeler. What do hashtags and Twitter have in common? TwitterChats, of course! If you're still trying to figure out exactly what hashtags are, what TwitterChats are, and how to make these a part of your professional learning network, join our amazing special guest, Alice Keeler, to get the scoop in this week's Classroom 2.0 LIVE show: TwitterChats: What, Why, How, When? Alice is a doctoral student at Boise State University in EdTech with a focus on gamification and has many years of experience as an ed tech leader and connected educator. Alice is a Google Certified Teacher, New Media Consortium K12 Ambassador, Microsoft Innovative Educator and LEC Admin & Online and Blended certified. She has led project teams for Google projects such as the YouTube teachers project and the Google Play for Education project. She has served on the New Media Consortium Horizon report advisory panel for both 2013 and 2014. As a believer in the importance of connectivity she founded #coffeeEDU and #profchat and is a perfect person to help us learn about the power of TwitterChats. If you participate in educational TwitterChats we hope you'll join us to share your personal favorites and your experiences as a participant. Alice tweets @alicekeeler and blogs at alicekeeler.com

The subject of the Academy Award–winning documentary The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life, Alice Herz-Sommer was the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor when she died on February 23, 2014. A Century of Wisdom is the true story of her life—an inspiring story of resilience and the power of optimism. ------------------- Before her death at 110, the pianist Alice Herz-Sommer was an eyewitness to the entire last century and the first decade of this one. She had seen it all, surviving the Theresienstadt concentration camp, attending the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, and along the way coming into contact with some of the most fascinating historical figures of our time. As a child in Prague, she spent weekends and holidays in the company of Franz Kafka (whom she knew as “Uncle Franz”), and Gustav Mahler, Sigmund Freud, and Rainer Maria Rilke were friendly with her mother. When Alice moved to Israel after the war, Golda Meir attended her house concerts, as did Arthur Rubinstein, Leonard Bernstein, and Isaac Stern. Until the end of her life Alice, who lived in London, practiced piano for hours every day.