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Jaishankar meets US NSA, Speaker The Hindu On his third trip to the United States since the election of Donald Trump, Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar met U.S. National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, House Speaker Paul Ryan and Under Secretary of State Thomas Shannon on Wednesday. Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar meets US NSA, discuss bilateral tiesEconomic Times S Jaishankar holds talks with US Speaker Paul Ryan and NSA McMaster; safety of Indians, counter terrorism ops ...India.com S. Jaishankar meets US NSA Lt. Gen. HR McMasterBusiness Standard Millennium Post all 33 news articles »

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ORLANDO, Fla., March 1, 2017 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Personal Mini Storage ("Personal Mini"), Central Florida's largest family owned storage operator is pleased to announce they have entered into definitive agreements with National Storage Affiliates Trust ("NSA"). Personal Mini, headed by Marc and Laurie Smith, has become NSA's eighth Participating Regional Operator ("PRO").

"We will continue to retain our management team and operate our management company as a family owned business while at the same time gaining all the benefits of being part of a large public company," said Marc Smith, President of Personal Mini, "Joining NSA as its newest PRO is the best way to accelerate our growth through NSA's attractive capital structure, and at the same time strengthen our operational tools by integrating them into NSA's 'best practices' platform. We expect to see significant growth, both personally and professionally, for our entire team as a result of our affiliation with NSA."

Marc Smith has more than 20 years of first-hand experience in owning and operating self-storage facilities. He is currently completing his term as Chairman of the national Self Storage Association ("SSA"). A licensed real estate broker, building contractor and Orlando philanthropist, Marc previously served as past president and national board member of the Southeast Region of the SSA. Marc specializes in all aspects of the self storage business, including acquisitions, site selection, start-ups, construction management, design, systems analysis and more. The Personal Mini brand continues to grow with the addition of 4 self storage properties on March 1, 2017, bringing the total number under management to forty (40) across mid-Florida.

Arlen D. Nordhagen, NSA's Chief Executive Officer, commented, "We are extremely pleased to introduce Personal Mini, a long-time industry leader, as our eighth PRO. Our new partnership with Personal Mini will significantly strengthen NSA's presence in the Florida market. We look forward to working with the entire Personal Mini team and welcome them to NSA."

About National Storage Affiliates Trust

National Storage Affiliates Trust is a Maryland real estate investment trust focused on the ownership, operation and acquisition of self-storage properties located within the top 100 metropolitan statistical areas throughout the United States. NSA currently holds ownership in and operates 453 self storage properties located in 23 states with approximately 28 million rentable square feet, and is one of the largest operators of self storage properties among public and private companies in the U.S. For more information, please visit the Company's website at http://www.nationalstorageaffiliates.com. NSA is included in the MSCI US REIT Index (RMS/RMZ) and the Russell 2000 Index of Companies.

About Personal Mini Storage

Personal Mini Storage is operated by Laurie & Marc Smith and is Central Florida's largest family owned storage operator. As of March 1, 2017, Personal Mini manages 40 properties with approximately 2.7 million rentable square feet in mid-Florida. To find out more about Personal Mini Storage or to find the storage location nearest to you, visitwww.personalministorage.com.

Media Contact: Cheryl Lewis, Personal Mini Storage, 407-297-3683, cl@personalministorage.com

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HackerOne CEO Marten Mickos.Photograph by Albert Law

Many people don't realize much of the Internet is built on free software. Even giant companies like Facebook, Google , and Amazon rely extensively on big libraries of codeknown as "open source" software"written by thousands of programmers, who share their work with everyone.

But no software is perfect. Like the proprietary code developed by many companies, open source software contains flaws that hackers can exploit to steal information or spread viruses. That's why a new initiative to patch those holes is important.

On Thursday, a startup called HackerOne announced it will offer its bug bounty management services, which helps discover flaws in software, to open source projects free of charge.

If you're unfamiliar, bug bounties work by offering altruistic hackers a reward (typically cash) to disclose software vulnerabilities they discover. The bounties are offered by a growing number of companies, from Apple to General Motors , and are effective because they let companies patch software problems before a malicious hacker can find and exploit them first.

While there is already such a program for open source projects, called The Internet Bug Bounty, the new HackerOne initiative is likely to direct more attention to these projects.

The reason is because HackerOne, which just raised a $40 million investment round in February, acts as a hub for a huge community of hackers, who use the company as a conduit to report their discoveries. Acting as an intermediary, HackerOne takes the information it gets from the hackers and presents it to those responsible for softwarewho in turn use HackerOne to distribute the rewards.

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In a blog post announcing the new initiative, HackerOne noted that many open source projectssuch as Ruby, Rails, Discourse, Django, GitLab, Brave, and Sentryare already using the company's services. HackerOne also encouraged other open source projects, including lesser known ones, to apply to be included as well.

"Put simply, eligible open source projects will receive the powerful HackerOne Professional service for free. This will provide vulnerability submission, coordination, dupe detection, analytics, and bounty programs for your projects. It greatly simplifies how you define scope, receive vulnerability reports, manage those reports, and incentivize security researchers to help harden your project," said the company.

Here is a screenshot that shows a sample of the dashboard HackerOne provides to its users to discuss vulnerabilities:

In an interview with Fortune , HackerOne CEO Marten Mickos says the company regards its new initiative, called Community Edition, as a way of giving back. Just as other companies such as Amazon Web Services ( amzn ) and GitHub provide open source projects with services free of charge, Mickos says HackerOne wants to do the same on the bug bounty front.

As for rewards, Mickos says cash bounties will come from the Internet Bug Bounty but that, in his experience, that will often be unnecessary.

"Many hackers say, 'If its an open source project, Ill hack for free. A lot of that goes on. There's so many good people out there," he says.

Mickos also notes open source projects typically result in stronger software because they are built with more collaboration. But he hopes the new HackerOne initiative will provide a way for the projects to ask hackers for extra help in boosting their security.

"Coming from the open source world myself, I know you dont push your solution," Mickos says. "You show your value, and they will come to you."

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The debate over controversial stand your ground laws is heating up again, as lawmakers in at least two states are seekingto expand protections for people who commit violence in self-defense.

Republican state lawmakers in Iowa advanced a bill toenhance existing stand your ground lawsin the state on Wednesday. Bya party-line vote 13-7, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee voted to send House Study Bill 133 to the full House floor for debate. The proposed legislation would expand the so-called castle doctrine part of English common law which maintainsthat a person could defend his life with lethal force if necessary when an intruder entered his home or property to public spaces.

Currently,Iowa law saysone must exhaust other ways of getting to safety if they feel their life is at risk when in public.

Under Republicans proposed changes, a person would not have to exhaust lesser means before using deadly forceif they feel their life is at risk.

It is about the right to self-preservation, Republican Rep. Matt Windschitl saidina House committee meeting on Wednesday. This is about making sure Iowans whoever find themselves in a situation where they have to make a snap decision that they dont have that fear in the back of their mind of being prosecuted, taken to court and losing a whole bunch of money on attorneys fees and time out of their life when they were justified in defending themselves or another person.

However, David Walker, a retired Drake University Law School dean, testifiedthat Iowas castle doctrine already allows Iowans to use deadly force if they reasonably believe their life is endangered in their home or car.

Some of Iowas black residents have expressed concern that the expanded law would bring on more violence, not less.

That is highly concerning to me, because I could just possibly walk in a room,somebody could be afraidand they feel threatened, and Im on the ground with a bullet in my chest,Renaldo Johnson testified at a recent House hearing, according to the Des Moines Register.Just because they are afraid, they can kill someone, he said of his neighbors.

Ive watched my son walk from the back of my house to the front of my house and be stopped by a police officer because he fits the bill of that kid, Des Moines resident Laural Clinton testified.Im a parent, and this law scares me.

Clinton told the House panel, Im not anti-gun.Im anti-stand your ground.

The Republicans proposal also allows citizens who believe they are adversely affected by anynew guns-free zone on state or local government property can sue for damages.

In Florida, Republican lawmakers want to change that states existing stand your ground law to make prosecutors prove a defendant wasnt acting in self-defense before proceeding to trial, a measure being decried by law-enforcement and gun-control critics.

The change to the Sunshine States 2005 law wouldshift the burden of proof from defendants to prosecutors during the pre-trial phase of court proceedings for cases in which the defendant invokes self-defense.

Floridas existing stand your ground law received worldwide scrutiny after the 2012 killing of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin by an armed neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman.

Although the law was not ultimately used in Zimmermans defense, his trial and eventual acquittalbrought to light the states uneven application of the law.

After Martins death, the Tampa Bay Times conducted an investigation of almost 200 stand your ground cases and found that such cases are on the rise largely because defense attorneys are using stand your ground in ways states never envisioned. The paper noted that defendants claiming stand your ground are more likely to prevail if the victim is black and that blacks who use stand your ground are almost 15 percent more likely to face a penalty for doing so than their white peers.

Marrissa Alexander, an African-American woman whose stand your ground defense against a husband with an admitted history of abuse was denied by a judge during a pre-trial hearing, supports Republican efforts to change the law.

Here is a black woman who had a history of abuse against her and tried to use stand your ground and ended up with a 20-year sentence, Bruce Zimet, one of Alexanders lawyers recently told the New York Times. Alexander told the Times she believes the stand your ground law was never considered by her judge. She spent almost a half-dozen years either locked in prison or confined to her house after she was convicted of aggravated assault charges in 2012 for firing a warning shot at her husband. Her conviction was overturned on appeal in 2013.

Florida was the first state to pass a stand your ground law, in 2005, with strong support from the National Rifle Association. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, 23 other states have such laws.

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