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guerrerense · 10 months

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DL 190 - ALCO PA-1 at Kansas City, KS por Zach Pumphery Por Flickr: On its way to new owner Genesee Valley Transportation Company is the famous ALCO PA-1 restored by preservationist Doyle McCormack over the past 2 decades in Portland, Oregon. The locomotive began moving east in late April from the PNW on BNSF Railway, arriving at Kansas City early this morning on BNSF Train H PASKCK9 25A, appropriately behind a warbonnet painted Dash-9. In this view, the locomotive is at the "Tall Tower" at BNSF Argentine Yard. The unit is on home rails at this former Santa Fe facility. This engine was built for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway by the American Locomotive Company in 12-1948 as ATSF 62-L, builder number 76541 wearing the famous red and silver Warbonnet paint scheme leading famous trains such as the "El Capitan" between Chicago and California. On 4-5-67, the Santa Fe retired the unit and sold it to Morrison–Knudsen in Boise, ID. 4 Ex-ATSF units including this one were rebuilt by MK with the "PA-4" classification, for the Delaware and Hudson on 8-11-75, with this one becoming D&H 18. Under D&H ownership, they were used by Amtrak for the "Adirondack", and later by the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority hauling commuter trains around Boston. The last PA's to operate in the United States, they were sold in 1978 to the NdeM, where this one ran as DH-18 until 1981. All 4 of those PA's remain, 2 at the National Museum of Mexican Railways, and 2 in the US. In 2000, McCormack of American Freedom Train and SP 4449 fame worked with the Smithsonian Institution to bring two of these engines back to the United States. What was left of the 16 and 18 came home on flat cars to Oregon. Doyle bought a set of trucks in Canada to replace the ones that were missing when it arrived from Mexico, and the hulk of a BC Rail M420B for its 251 prime mover, electrical cabinet, and traction motors. 16 later wound up at the Museum of the American Railroad in Texas where it is steadily being restored to its Santa Fe appearance. McCormack's father worked for the NYC&STL, better known as the Nickel Plate Road, and his first cab ride when he was 12 was aboard the real NKP 190. Doyle later worked for the N&W in Ohio and an operator, eventually becoming a fireman before moving to the Pacific Northwest in the 1970's. He hired out on the SP, worked freight an passenger service for Amtrak, and has retired from the UP, all the while being heavily involved with the 4449 organization. When he restored the PA it was only natural for him to restore it to an NKP appearance, which took the better part of 2 decades to complete. The engine traveled to Spencer, NC in 2014 for the "Streamliners at Spencer" event featuring a plethora of locomotives from that era. Now in his 80's, it was announced in March 2023 that he had sold the engine to GVT after years of talks. The engine will be put into excursion service by GVT and will pull excursions in Northeastern Pennsylvanian, including former D&H track the engine ran in revenue service. Assigned "DL 190" for movement to GVT's Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad in Pennsylvania, it retains its Nickel Plate Road paint scheme. The real 190 was built in March 1948 and carried builder number 75457. For what was regarded as one of the most beautiful locomotive designs ever built, not many of these were preserved, and half of those units suffered what had been a grim fate for decades. It's nice to have a few left to enjoy. Locomotive: DL 190 5-3-23 Kansas City, KS

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mariacallous · 1 year

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In February, attackers from the Russia-based BlackCat ransomware group hit a physician practice in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, that's part of the Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN). At the time, LVHN said that the attack “involved” a patient photo system related to radiation oncology treatment. The health care group said that BlackCat had issued a ransom demand, “but LVHN refused to pay this criminal enterprise.”

After a couple of weeks, BlackCat threatened to publish data stolen from the system. “Our blog is followed by a lot of world media, the case will be widely publicized and will cause significant damage to your business,” BlackCat wrote on their dark-web extortion site. “Your time is running out. We are ready to unleash our full power on you!” The attackers then released three screenshots of cancer patients receiving radiation treatment and seven documents that included patient information.

The medical photos are graphic and intimate, depicting patients' naked breasts in various angles and positions. And while hospitals and health care facilities have long been a favorite target of ransomware gangs, researchers say the situation at LVHN may indicate a shift in attackers' desperation and willingness to go to ruthless extremes as ransomware targets increasingly refuse to pay.

“As fewer victims pay the ransom, ransomware actors are getting more aggressive in their extortion techniques,” says Allan Liska, an analyst for the security firm Recorded Future who specializes in ransomware. “I think we’ll see more of that. It follows closely patterns in kidnapping cases, where when victims’ families refused to pay, the kidnappers might send an ear or other body part of the victim.”

Researchers say that another example of these brutal escalations came on Tuesday when the emerging ransomware gang Medusa published sample data stolen from Minneapolis Public Schools in a February attack that came with a $1 million ransom demand. The leaked screenshots include scans of handwritten notes that describe allegations of a sexual assault and the names of a male student and two female students involved in the incident.

“Please note, MPS has not paid a ransom,” the Minnesota school district said in a statement at the beginning of March. The school district enrolls more than 36,000 students, but the data apparently contains records related to students, staff, and parents dating back to 1995. Last week, Medusa posted a 50-minute-long video in which attackers appeared to scroll through and review all the data they stole from the school, an unusual technique for advertising exactly what information they currently hold. Medusa offers three buttons on its dark-web site, one for anyone to pay $1 million to buy the stolen MPS data, one for the school district itself to pay the ransom and have the stolen data deleted, and one to pay $50,000 to extend the ransom deadline by one day.

“What’s notable here, I think, is that in the past the gangs have always had to strike a balance between pressuring their victims into paying and not doing such heinous, terrible, evil things that victims don’t want to deal with them,” says Brett Callow, a threat analyst at the antivirus company Emsisoft. “But because targets are not paying as often, the gangs are now pushing harder. It's bad PR to have a ransomware attack, but not as terrible as it once was—and it's really bad PR to be seen paying an organization that does terrible, heinous things.”

The public pressure is certainly mounting. In response to the leaked patient photos this week, for example, LVHN said in a statement, “This unconscionable criminal act takes advantage of patients receiving cancer treatment, and LVHN condemns this despicable behavior.”

The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) said in its annual Internet Crime Report this week that it received 2,385 reports about ransomware attacks in 2022, totaling $34.3 million in losses. The numbers were down from 3,729 ransomware complaints and $49 million in total losses in 2021. “It has been challenging for the FBI to ascertain the true number of ransomware victims as many infections go unreported to law enforcement,” the report notes.

But the report specifically calls out evolving and more aggressive extortion behavior. “In 2022, the IC3 has seen an increase in an additional extortion tactic used to facilitate ransomware,” the FBI wrote. “The threat actors pressure victims to pay by threatening to publish the stolen data if they do not pay the ransom.”

In some ways, the change is a positive sign that efforts to combat ransomware are working. If enough organizations have the resources and tools to resist paying ransoms, attackers eventually may not be able to generate the revenue they want and, ideally, would abandon ransomware entirely. But that makes this shift toward more aggressive tactics a precarious moment.

“We really haven’t seen things like this before. Groups have done unpleasant things, but it was adults that were targeted, it wasn’t sick cancer patients or school kids,” Emsisoft's Callow says. “I hope that these tactics will bite them in the butt and that companies will say no, we cannot be seen funding an organization that does these heinous things. That’s my hope anyway. Whether they will react that way remains to be seen.”

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fromundertheapron · 1 year

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Episode 69 - Breaking down the New Day vs Usos Tag Team Championship Match, we get a tease for Asuka vs Iyo Sky, and I do a deep dive on the WWE Perfomance Center Fall 2022 Rookie Class.

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Meet the NXT Rookie Fall Class of 2022

Beau Morris – From Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He’s an offensive lineman from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. During his senior year in 2021, Saw action in nine games, making six starts... Helped the Mustangs to national rankings of ninth in scoring offense (38.4), 13th in total offense (465.9), 14th in passing offense (304.5) and 17th in sacks allowed (1.33)... AWARDS: College Gridiron Showcase Invite... Tropical Bowl Invite... NFF Hampshire Honor Society…

Hayden Pittman – From Spanish Fort, Alabama. Played Tight End for the University of Alabama Blazers for His Senior year in 2021 hes on the John Mackey Award Preseaon Watch List...Utilizing his extra year of eligibility granted by the NCAA due to COVID-19...Appeared in all 13 games for UAB, making seven starts...Recorded 22 receptions for 192 yards, averaging 8.7 yards per catch...Had a career-high 32 yard reception versus Jacksonville State.

Alivia Ash – From Merrillville, Indiana. She’s a Track and Field runner from the University of Louisville Cardinals. In 2020 she Competed in five meets during the indoor season… Cleared a season-high 1.73m/5’08 in the high jump at the ACC Indoor Championships for a third place finish, earning first team All-ACC honors… Finished second in the high jump at the Gene Edmonds Open and Notre Dame Invitational.

Kevin Venturas Cortes – From Anaheim, California. Tight End from CSP, Concordia St. Paul in 2021 NSIC All-Academic Team of Excellence honors ... led the team's tight ends in total receptions (10) and reception yards (64) … played in 10 games while starting five … had at least one reception in 5 games. His twitter account is so special. KVCortes7. He has a pinned video of Triple H making him an offer to go to Orlando to train at the Performance Center. Then the shot goes to the bus with everyone on the list, calling his loved one, at a loss for words but telling whoever is on that call that he got the contract. The video of his introduction into NXT and followed up with the words Arriva y Adelante which translates to onward. Representation Matters.

Skylor Clinton – From Prescott, Arizona. Former tight end from Northern Arizona University, professional indoor football league player.

Academic Notes: Golden Eagle Scholar-Athlete Award recipient in 2021 UAB: Spent three seasons with the Blazers after joining the program in 2017... Played in nine games across the 2018 and 2019 seasons. Mesa Community College: Caught 23 passes for 441 yards and four touchdowns as a wide receiver... Finished with three catches and 100 yards in the season finale Valley of the Sun Bowl against Lackawanna College. Albany: Spent the spring of 2016 at Albany as an inside linebacker. Wyoming: Joined the Cowboys as a defensive end for the 2015 season.

Franki Strefling – From Niles, Michigan. She was an outside hitter for Eastern Michigan University Volleyball. Her resume is outstanding.

EMU: Became the sixth EMU volleyball player to reach both 1,000 career kills and digs, and was the first since Becky Baltare (2002-05)...Ranks eighth in program history with 3,510 career attempts...

2020: Earned AVCA Midwest All-Region First Team honors, becoming the first EMU volleyball player to collect first team honors since 1989...Named First Team All-MAC...Started all 20 matches, including 77 sets for the Green and White…Finished second in the MAC in both total kills (315) and total points (342)...Totaled double-digit kill performances 16 times...Notched 10-plus digs in 17 matches for the Green and White...Ended the season with 4.09 kills per set and 4.44 points per set, which led the team…Collected 308 total digs, which ranked second for EMU…Led the Eagles with 13 double-doubles and recorded 15-plus kills in 10 matches…Earned MAC West Division Offensive Player of the Week after a career-best 26 digs to surpass 1,000 career digs, and posted 23 kills in a 3-1 victory at Northern Illinois (Feb. 11)...Recorded a personal-high 26 kills against Buffalo (Feb. 25) and collected her second offensive player of the week honor...Her 26-kill outing versus the Bulls is tied for seventh in Convocation Center history...Reached the 1,000-career kills plateau with her first strike of the match against Ohio (March 8)...Led the team with a season-best three service aces in a 3-1 loss at Miami (March 20)...Posted a season-high five blocks (0-5) in a five-set win over Ball State (March 27)...Named to the West Division Preseason All-MAC Team.. There is a lot more in the years prior but you get the picture. And I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that she graduated from EMU with a bachelor in business management and pursued a Master’s degree in 2021. WWE is just her back up. She is already a queen and we haven’t seen her perform yet.

Chukwusom Enekwechi - From Queens, New York. Another standout from Eastern Michigan University. He is a shot put guy. He throws stones. Here are his stats. Im impressed. EMU: 2021-22: Indoor: Competed in eight meets for the Eagles…Finished runner-up in the shot put at the Mid-American Conference Championships with a toss of 17.42m (57.15 feet) Feb. 26…Recorded a career-best throw of 18.72m (61.41 feet), the third-best indoor shot put in school history, at the GVSU Big Meet, Feb. 11…Took first in the shot put at the Wolverine Invitational with a mark of 18.16m, Jan. 8…

Harleigh White – From Clemson University in South Carolina. Her 2022 season highlights include

2022 Outdoor Season

Yellow Jacket Invitational

Jumped 13.12m in the triple jump

Jumped 13.06m in the triple jump

Florida Relays

Jumped 12.59m in the triple jump

Tom Jones

Member of the 4x400m relay team that ran a 3:35.68

South Carolina

Ran a 23.80 in the 200m

Ran a 54.60 in the 400m

Penn Relays

Jumped a 12.91m in the triple jump

ACC Outdoor Championships

Jumped a 13.05m in the triple jump

NCAA Regionals

Jumped a 12.82m in the triple jump

Rickssen Opont – From Port-au-Prince, Haiti. University of South Alabama. He can squat 900 lbs.

2020: Outdoor – Recorded personal-bests in the discus throw (43.33m) and in the hammer throw (51.56m) at the Jaguar Opener … Indoor – Earned First-Team All-Sun Belt honors in the shot put (16.47m) and recorded a personal-best in weight throw (17.57m) at the Sun Belt Championships … Won in the shot put (17.43m) and placed third in the weight throw (17.46m) at the Samford Bulldog Invite … Finished third in the shot put (17.35m) and sixth in the weight throw (16.53m) at the Jaguar Invitational … Recorded a 16.90m distance in the shot put at the Clemson Bob Pollock Invitational … Won in the weight throw (17.40m) and placed third in the shot put at the Samford January Invite.

Lea Mitchell – From Boynton Beach, Florida. She’s a gymnast from Michigan State. Four time team captain, Three time MVP.

CAREER HIGHS: • Vault - 9.900 • Bars - 9.900 • Beam - 9.925 • Floor - 9.950 • All-Around - 39.375 CAREER NOTES: Earned CoSIDA, which is a College Sports Information Directors of America, Academic All-America Division I At-Large Third Team accolades in 2022, becoming just the second Spartan gymnast all-time to reach CoSIDA Academic All-American status, with Angela Howard having received the honor consecutively in 1994 and 1995 ... Recipient of the 2021 Big Ten Conference Wayne Duke Postgraduate Award, becoming the first MSU female student-athlete to receive this honor, and only the second Spartan overall ... Won 23 career event titles, with 10 on floor, five in the all-around, four on vault, three on bars and one on beam ... Three-time team co-captain (2020-22) ... Five-time WCGA Scholastic All-America honoree (2018-22) ... Four-time Academic All-Big Ten and Big Ten Distinguished Scholar honoree (2019-22). 2022: Earned CoSIDA Academic All-America Division I At-Large Third Team accolades ... A WCGA Scholastic All-America Award recipient ... Also earned Big Ten Distinguished Scholar accolades, as well as Academic All-Big Ten honors and the MSU SASS Scholar-Athlete Award recipient ... Made season debut on 1/15 against Bowling Green and Illinois State ... Placed second and earned a new career-best score in the beam event with a 9.900 ... Tied career-best bars score against Maryland on 2/5 ... Scored a season-best 9.900 on floor in the meet against Illinois 2/13 ... Tied for second place on the uneven bars event at Big Fives on 2/19, posting a 9.875 ... Scored a 9.900 on floor at Ohio State 2/26 ... Tallied scores of 9.850 on both bars and beam on 3/5 against Western Michigan ... Scored two scores of 9.900 or better at Kentucky on 3/11, a 9.900 on floor and a career-high 9.925 on beam to tie for second place ... Tied for sixth on beam at the Big Ten Championships with a 9.850 ... Posted a 9.900 on floor at the NCAA Regional Finals on 4/2 ... Scored a 9.875 at Regionals Second Round and Regional Finals ...

Anna Keefer – From St Michael Albertville, Minnesota. Coming out of University of North Carolina. She was on the track and field roster and her accolades are impressive as well. Five time NCAA All American.

All-America 2022 Indoor Long Jump 2022 Indoor 200M (2nd team) 2021 Indoor Long Jump (2nd team) ACC Champion 2022 Indoor Long Jump All-ACC 2022 Indoor Long Jump 2022 Indoor 60M (2nd team) 2022 Indoor 200M (2nd team) 2022 Outdoor Long Jump 2022 Outdoor 100M (2nd team) 2022 Outdoor 200M (2nd team) 2021 Indoor 200M 2021 Outdoor Long Jump 2020 Indoor Long Jump 2020 Indoor 60M ((2nd team) School Records Outdoors 100 meters (all-conditions), 11.23 Outdoors 200 meters (all-conditions), 22.83 Indoor Long Jump, 21-6 Majoring in communication studies ... Honored as the team's Athletic Director's Scholar-Athlete for 2021-22 2022 Indoors: Qualified for NCAA Championships in both long jump and 200 meters ... Earned first-team All-America honors in long jump aft, second-team honors in the 200 meters ... ACC Champion in the long jump ... First-team All-ACC in long jump, second in both 60 meters and 200 meters ... All-ACC Academic Team for indoor track & field Outdoors: Qualified for NCAA Championships in the long jump ... Long jump champion at the Penn Relays ... Also won long jump at the Duke Invite ... Second in long jump at ACC Championships to earn first-team honors in that event ... Earned second-team honors in the 100 (6th place) and the 200 (5th place)

Kennedy Cummins – A cheerleader out of the University of Minnesota. From Kenosha Wisconsin. I wish we could find out more like her accolades and accomplishments but the university she went doesn’t have any information on her except for her hometown.

Breanna Ruggiero – acrobatics athlete and tumbler from Sacramento State University.

Jade Gentile – From Baldwinsville, New York. She played forward for the West Virginia University women’s soccer team. She plays professional soccer in Iceland. In 2018

Academic All-Big 12 Second Team

Played at forward in all 23 matches and started one

Logged a career high 830 minutes of action

Finished the season with one point (1 A)

Earned her first career start and played a career single-game high 74 minutes in a 1-1 draw at Purdue (Aug. 24)

Assisted on first of two insurance goals in 3-0 victory over Xavier (Aug. 30)

Tallied a career-high three shots in 2-0 win over St. Francis (Pa.) (Sept. 16)

Monika Klisara. Karate black belt, martial arts from Canada.

Alfa magazine did a cover story about her. She says “I originally come from a background of Serbian-Croatian descent. Born in the Balkans during war, my family fled to Canada in order to seek a stable living environment.”

She’s been training karate for 20 years and have currently been on the National team for 10 of those years. She won the Karate Commonwealth Championships. "It was a tough year overall in competition for me, and one of the largest competitions was coming up (Commonwealth Games). Before travelling to South Africa to compete, I fell short of medal rounds in 3 competitions prior to the Commonwealth championships".

Her favorite quote is "Hasta La Victoria Siempre." -Che Guevara

For Victory, Always

#wwe #nxt #2022 rookie fall class #beau morris #hayden pittman #alivia ash #kevin venturas-cortes #skylor clinton #franki strefling #chukwusom enekwechi #rickssen opont #lea mitchell #anna keefer #kennedy cummins #harleigh white #breanna ruggiero #jade gentile #monika klisara

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gungieblog · 3 months

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The "Million Dollar Coaster", Rocky Glen Park, Moosic Pa. Built in 1945, this 96-foot tall, 4700-foot-long, out-and-back roller coaster quickly became the park's signature attraction. The ride, which cost $100,000 to build, was tucked between the tracks of the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad and Glen Lake. The ride carried more than 1,000,000 riders during it's first few years of operation. The roller coaster was dismantled in 1957, and the park closed for good in 1987.

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wafact · 1 year

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Ransomware Attacks Have Entered a ‘Heinous’ New Phase

In February, attackers from the Russia-based BlackCat ransomware group hit a physician practice in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, that’s part of the Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN). At the time, LVHN said that the attack “involved” a patient photo system related to radiation oncology treatment. The health care group said that BlackCat had issued a ransom demand, “but LVHN refused to pay…

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godbeautyorder · 1 year

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George Inness | The Lackawanna Valley (Scranton), 1855

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milliondollargeek1 · 1 year

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Meet the NXT Rookie Fall Class of 2022

Skylor Clinton – From Prescott, Arizona. Former tight end from Northern Arizona University, professional indoor football league player.

Franki Strefling – From Niles, Michigan. She was an outside hitter for Eastern Michigan University Volleyball. Her resume is outstanding.

EMU: Became the sixth EMU volleyball player to reach both 1,000 career kills and digs, and was the first since Becky Baltare (2002-05)...Ranks eighth in program history with 3,510 career attempts...

Harleigh White – From Clemson University in South Carolina. Her 2022 season highlights include

2022 Outdoor Season

Yellow Jacket Invitational

Jumped 13.12m in the triple jump

Jumped 13.06m in the triple jump

Florida Relays

Jumped 12.59m in the triple jump

Tom Jones

Member of the 4x400m relay team that ran a 3:35.68

South Carolina

Ran a 23.80 in the 200m

Ran a 54.60 in the 400m

Penn Relays

Jumped a 12.91m in the triple jump

ACC Outdoor Championships

Jumped a 13.05m in the triple jump

NCAA Regionals

Jumped a 12.82m in the triple jump

Rickssen Opont – From Port-au-Prince, Haiti. University of South Alabama. He can squat 900 lbs.

Lea Mitchell – From Boynton Beach, Florida. She’s a gymnast from Michigan State. Four time team captain, Three time MVP.

Breanna Ruggiero – acrobatics athlete and tumbler from Sacramento State University.

Jade Gentile – From Baldwinsville, New York. She played forward for the West Virginia University women’s soccer team. She plays professional soccer in Iceland. In 2018

Academic All-Big 12 Second Team

Played at forward in all 23 matches and started one

Logged a career high 830 minutes of action

Finished the season with one point (1 A)

Earned her first career start and played a career single-game high 74 minutes in a 1-1 draw at Purdue (Aug. 24)

Assisted on first of two insurance goals in 3-0 victory over Xavier (Aug. 30)

Tallied a career-high three shots in 2-0 win over St. Francis (Pa.) (Sept. 16)