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There you go, some good bait to get the
To get it out of the way, we need the regulatory institution because the cable providers have a monopoly, are transitioning to digital only signals across the wire, and we don't have any way to set up our own HTPC to record TV shows for viewing/commercial skipping later.
There you go, some good bait to get the
That run-on sentence from her blog is a fresh fish in a pile of cats.
That run-on sentence from her blog is a fresh fish in a pile of cats.
That's "his" blog.
That's what I've pointed out before - for some people, even paying for Tivo monthly(*), it can be cheaper than paying for a cable STB. (Thus over the very long run, even making up the difference of having to pay for the Tivo hardware.)
Some people can 'install' cablecards themselves nowadays. After Comcast locally changed extended basic to digital, I got cablecards for one of my Tivos.. I was able to just go get them and install them myself.
I didn't RTFA (but I skimmed it). Doesn't OCAP (http://en.wikiped [wikipedia.org]
we need the regulatory institution because the cable providers have a monopoly,
No no no; we don't need more regulation. This whole problem is caused by excess regulation. See the only business model allowed is the cable TV model of delivering signal to the home. Obviously the first one to get their gets the network effect and wins. Now if the corporations were allowed to round up their customers and bring them to their corporate office, more competitors would be able to even up the market. Alternatively, if they were allowed to bomb competitors customers they would be able to per
Not usually.
In most cases the monopoly is not statutory but natural. I'm lucky enough to live in Columbus, OH, where we have 2 cable companies (Insight and WOW). There won't be a third because of the up-front costs of rolling out and maintaining the infrastructure. Most everywhere else there is only the one, and no one bothers to compete with them because it would be unprofitable to do so.
Econ 101 tells you that if the monopoly is natural, the government ought to own the infrastructure (see sewers and ro
"I have difficulty seeing how this universe can be made to function effectively in the absence of some sort of regulatory regime to ensure transparency and fairness in situations where the Internet access providers themselves are providing their own content that directly competes with content from the external Internet."
I see only one way that we, as consumers of content, will get a good outcome from this. And it's a messy one... We'd need to be able to have multiple content providers simultaneously. They'll competing on their service on shared content, and on the unique content they provide. It would end up being like TV before cable... you had the big networks in VHF, and a few fringe stations in UHF.
I really don't think this is a feasible solution due to infrastructure requirements (unless the infrastructure is common), but I think it's the only way the [Internet access|Content providers] can be involved in fair competition that benefits the end-consumer.
Say Microsoft enters into an agreement with Comcast, and Comcast starts delaying packets for google searches. Fine... not much harm done, since I could "change channels" and use another ISP.
I agree that the FCC is not seeing the real problem here, but I have a better solution.
Video=Voice=Data. It's all bits. Barring (maybe) wireless we will not ever have actual competition in the current system because the market has a naturally high barrier to entry: the high cost and difficulty of pulling physical cables. (permits, zoning rules, capacity/buildout planning, "who really wants five cables from five different providers running into their house?!", etc...) That's why there is no mom and pop broad
True, but at least then the cable company doesn't have a vested interest in serving up content from their affiliated provider over a 3rd party provider like Amazon or Netflix.
I have to say I'm a little mystified by all this. Her argument seems kind of antiquated and quaint. Doesn't the internet prove that such as system can and does work? All it seems like the FCC is doing is trying to limit the ability of cable companies to lock customers into a set top solution. Probably their aim is to create an environment where we can get convergence between set top boxes and internet routers. If DDWRT could let you order pay-per-view, then the world is functioning correctly, right?
As long
In case nobody noticed, there hasn't been any new models cablecard enabled TV set since 2006. Cable companies has worked hard to make sure cablecard will never ever take off, and for the most part they appear to have succeeded. FCC investigation is about four years late.
I worked call center at Comcast and during training the support supervisor told us how much of a PITA it was to support CableCard boxes and how kludgy they were. I think 2.5% of the cable boxes in our support area were CableCard. I got to trouble shoot a few calls, and yea, they required alot more work to troubleshoot and enable for an account.
Odd isn't it. It isn't as if the cable companies chose the specs and design of the card themselves or anything (sarcasm alert, they did), how odd that supporting one would be such a PITA to them. Almost as if they were doing things half-assed just so they could say "We told you it wouldn't work and you need to use our locked down stuff instead."
I have no idea when you worked at a call center. July 1, 2007 was the deadline for all _new_ cable boxes from cable companies to use cable cards inside them. (http://news.cnet.com/Set-top-shakeup-is-in-the-cards/2100-1033_3-6194323.html [cnet.com]) Existing stock that was Cable Card-less could still be deployed. (There are waivers for very very small cable companies for Cable Cards at all..)
There's been some shakeup lately wrt. the "DTAs" that cable companies are giving people so they can go all (or virtually all) d
That's the short version.
By the way, my cards, which are basically PCMCIA cards, may need replacing again. You'd think they'd know how to build a solid-state device that doesn't move for two years without it dieing, but they don't.
Cables has gone out of their way to make things as difficult as possible. I'm guessing 90% of people don't even know the things are available. And with the deficits Cable has put in place (like no PPV/VOD), I'm not surprised people aren't rushing out to use them. And they don't work with Switched-Digital-Video, so any day now I may lose the option to use them.
It failed because the FCC didn't force things nearly hard enough. They let cable drag their feet WAY too long.
They require a visit because they have to check to make sure they're installed only in authorized secure devices. If they let it into just one unsecured device, all their digital encrypted programming will be available for copying.
Though when I got my second TiVo HD, I called up and the person on the phone told me I could pick them up and install them myself and save myself the roll-out cost. Turns out the people who handle the local number are not local. They handle the national call center, they don't know local policy, and just didn't want to have to do anything at the end of that day. They were even wrong about the local branch's hours.
Also they don't have any clue about cable boxes with IEEE 1394/Firewire ports and disavow their existence.
They require a visit because they have to check to make sure they're installed only in authorized secure devices. If they let it into just one unsecured device, all their digital encrypted programming will be available for copying.
I have never delt with this so I wouldn't know. Is there any way for them to detect the transfer to another device? If not this is as stupid as half their other policies
The card must be paired with the Host ID of the slot in which it is inserted by the head office, requiring a phone call. Once paired with a slot, it can't be used with any other slot in any other device.
Also there's a quality problem with the cards, causing many not to pair properly to the device, and it can still take over an hour for the device pairing authorization to go out over the network.
I don't have personal experience with this, but apparently not all cable companies actually pair Cable Cards with the device. (This from what I've read on discussions at tivocommunity.com.)
I do wish that they'd set up a web site to "hit" your box/device to reset it if needed (though I personally haven't needed it).
Not only late but obsolete. The cable industry resisted and killed cablecard so we all looked for a way to bypass them: the internet.
Youtube proved the tech and bandwidth are there when they netcasted U2 live from the Rose Bowl to millions around the world.
For $150 you can buy blueray players with plugins to play live streams from providers such as netflix.
It is just a matter of months before cable channels start bypassing the cable industry and sell direct subscriptions to their live HD stream (is Mark Cub
Youtube proved the tech and bandwidth are there when they netcasted U2 live from the Rose Bowl to millions around the world.
YouTube proved that they could serve one video stream to an estimated 10 million viewers, which is a remarkable feat. However, there are an estimated 110 million households with a TV in the US alone, watching dozens or even hundreds of different shows, so let's not get ahead of ourselves.
Don't underestimate Cable. In the US, they are still the fattest pipe entering the most households,
The cable industry resisted and killed cablecard
How did they kill it? Except for small cable companies, they are legally required to provide you with cable cards. Many of us are successfully using cable cards in our devices.
(Yes, I wish the satellite companies did not have an exemption from the cable card requirement.. and things like SDV and 'on demand' can be a pain, but there's already a workaround for
the SDV issue with another [free] device.. and IMHO, if you have a PVR, do you need On Demand?)
At the $150 price point, the only thing you need to plug in to some of those blu-ray players is patch cable.
The old CableCard standard was one way only. The newer 'MCard' and the OCAP / Tru2Way boxes are much more capable, and [speaking from the inside of the cable industry] a bit puzzling to deal with.
We are looking at revamping our entire provisioning infrastructure to permit the new generation boxes to function, but that has run into some comical snags. For example, we can't get a Pannasonic Tru2Way set delivered to our lab, because the distributor will only ship to areas served by a Tru2Way compatible cable p
Please let me know when I can get one to work with myth until then they are useless.
Why the thing can't just use usb and be dealt with that way I will never know.
Nevermind MythTV. Let us know when ANY of these standards have PC hardware available for purchase at your local Frys or Microcenter.
This cablecard nonsense is pretty much effectively locking EVERYONE out except for Tivo.
there hasn't been any new models cablecard enabled TV set since 2006
Yet now there are Netflix-enabled TV's. The market is routing around the damage that is the telco hegemony.
Currently Netflix TV shows are time-delayed by several months. That's a policy decision, not a technical one, though.
Anybody know if radio broadcast and IP unicast are still converging on price-parity in 2015? That was the prediction in 2005. After that, TV stations are too expensive to run.
Just asking about your sig really, but who is Eloi and why are you asking why they did something from a s-b-ch root to you?
TV is dead anyway.
eztv.it, bittorrent and companies with their own streaming sites (daily show, south park, etc) is all I need. I haven't watched TV or touched a remote for at least five years. And I see more and better shows than before.
If I want to pointlessly procrastinate, there's always Slashdot with more stories than I can read in a day (including *all* comments.
You mean we would be stuck feeding off the rotting corpse of Hollywood content to watch 50+ years of back catalog material?
What was it you were talking about again? Internet piracy or cable TV?
there's always Slashdot with more stories than I can read in a day (including *all* comments.
Well that's fine for you, but what does someone do if they're not a masochist?
When I got my first CableCARD-enabled TiVo, I was overjoyed to finally be rid of Time Warner Cable's Scientific Atlanta cable box with its mystro software designed to penalize you if you use an external device to control it to change channels precisely on time. If you started changing channels before the guide data updates for the timeslot but don't finish until after it does, you find it throwing out the initial or all the digits and either changing to the wrong channel or not changing channels at all. Though that cable box was still useful as a conduit over Firewire for recording to my desktop computer.
OK, so maybe there were a few problems now and then, but the CableCARD experience had settled down... until TWC decided to use Switched Digital Video and required TiVo users to use their Tuning Adapters to watch certain channels. Not IR controlled though. These use USB, so at least they could handshake to ensure that the device switched properly, yes?
No, of course not. For many of my HD channels I now have to have a second unit also recording the non-HD version of the same program in order to be sure I at least get to see the shows I want.
Meanwhile broadcasters like Fox (KPTM 42) are setting broadcast flags on their prime-time shows, preventing me from playing back my recordings made through the cable box on my computer, their being flagged "Copy Once" instead of "Copy Freely". And this after last season doing something else that made their video non-standard so I could only access the audio stream with the computer. At least the TiVo not only still records and plays back those shows, it also still lets me transfer them to the computer for burning to DVD.
Perhaps you should not be paying for a device that honors such things?
Meanwhile broadcasters like Fox (KPTM 42) are setting broadcast flags on their prime-time shows
This is against the law. Contact your cable company and/or cable franchise board and get them to fix it. Other people have gotten this fixed.
Digeo worked on Charter's network along with the Moto boxes. Of course, they were bought by Arris a few months ago, but still.
What the FCC is proposing is making the DCTV systems function like the ACTV system used to. You know, it's the reason why every new TV / VCR / ETC that came out had an analog cable box built right into it. I don't see why this ended when DCTV systems appeared on the scene. CableCards where a completely unnecessary and unneeded detour AWAY from the functionality and choice that the consumer previously had.
ClearQAM would be fine, if the sons of bitches would stop moving the damn channels around.
YES! DO IT. It is a no-brainer.
Until November 11, Comcast distributed every basic digital cable channel IN THE CLEAR. All of my ClearQAM devices worked with this signal just fine.
On Nov. 11, Comcast started encrypting everything except the must-carries. Every channel that you cannot receive without the lowest level digital subscription, gone.
When asked why they don't just trap lines that don't have basic digital
You don't understand the motivation. The cable companies are trading analog "channels" for digital bandwidth, which is something they can pretty easily do. For the most part, this means they can accomodate more digital bandwidth from the neighborhood node to the home/STB. They need this because the more TVs that are being served by digital services, the more bandwidth they need because there is little commonality between users of digital services.
Analog channels, on the other hand have unlimited bandwidt
Until digital cable TV works, I won't be paying for it.
If the FCC "forces" them to work with my HDHomeRun, I'll likely become a monthly-paying sap. I think it's funny, though, that they won't choose the more profitable (for them!) course on their own.
I get this image of the FCC holding a gun to Comcast's head, saying, "have customers, collect revenue, stop screwing over your stockholders," and a Comcast lobbyist saying, "No, we don't want money! Please, nooo!! Customers, ick!! The bastards pay us every damn month and we don't know what to do with the money, so please, please don't force us to supply a service that people will be willing to pay for. We had to buy NBC with our excess cash, and if you make us more profitable, we'll have so much money that we'll be choking on it. For the accountants' sake, at least, have mercy!" So far, FCC has considered this to be a good argument.
I have an HDHR also. I bought mine when I still had clear-qam on my cable.
that went away. and my sat tv NEVER had it (and so I canceled my sat-tv). been biding my time until its time to move and see if the new location has clear-qam. until then, my HDHR sits mostly unused (antenna use is not possible for me, being in an apartment).
I'd pay for cable IFF they let clear-qam (at least for the useful channels) thru.
until then, I rent from netflix and that's my ONLY video fix. cable doesn't even exist in my
The future is:
Voice, cable TV or the idea of 'channels', video, program guides, on-demand, the Internet.. It's all just data. The future is paying for one Internet connection.. and then paying for whatever services you want from whatever company. For example, one person might decide to have 7 cable channels they like from 7 different providers for nominal monthly fees, Internet access to accomodate, and a voip phone also.. all delivered (except for the actual Internet link) from various states or even other countries. Mr. African-American can actually watch African channels in America! Another customer might feel better having a 'package' deal where everything is delivered by one company (exactly how things are done now). Another customer might prefer Internet access from one company and a package of select channels from another company..
So, imo, the easiest way to accomodate this is for 'cable' boxes to require Internet access. Hell.. with a decent Internet connection and a computer on every TV (getting less and less expensive or different in price than a cable box), I could just pay for cable channels I want if the damn media companies were willing to sell it directly to me.
And, as technology progresses, the argument that it is 'innefficient' becomes more and more moot because the bandwidth required becomes more and more nominal in relation to availability.
Of course, the entrenched entities such as Verizon and Comcast will fight against this.. because even in 'competition' they duopolistically screw the consumer.
And, as technology progresses, the argument that it is 'innefficient' becomes more and more moot because the bandwidth required becomes more and more nominal in relation to availability.
Doesn't IPV6 also have broadcast capability built-in, making live-streaming type applications (TV) drastically more efficient?
"I have difficulty seeing how this universe can be made to function effectively in the absence of some sort of regulatory regime to ensure transparency and fairness in situations where the Internet access providers themselves are providing their own content that directly competes with content from the external Internet."
I'm neither trolling nor taking cheap shots here.
TFS is right if the implication is that things only change from market forces or regulatory ones.
Market forces are held back when there are few choices - such as that faced by a large number of TV consumers that can't get decent over-the-air (OTA) reception - or their favorite shows via OTA. For many people, it's a take it or leave it option for cable OR satellite.
Now enter streaming video. Market forces - especially among
Now - add in TV and ISP interests and hope for regulatory salvation. While laudable theoretically, it's a formula for even more special interest lobbying.
FWIW - note that cable companies seem to successfully lobby many states for an added tax on satellite TV, as one example of infighting hitting the consumers.
Don't forget the ever-present MPAA and programming conglomerates for cable / satellite - they want the cable feeds to be hard to copy, or circumvent.
Like it or not - cable or sat can with present tech deliver a LOT of programming in their respective pipes - streaming is not ready to fully compete in terms of delivery systems, DRM that the industry will allow, and ease of use for the consumers.
I, for one, do not see a viable solution to this situation.
But - I shudder at the word "regulatory."
That's what the government ought to be working on: ensure competition. Everything else is not only useless — for even the slowest-moving corporation will outrun and outsmart a government bureaucrat — but dangerous, because trying (and failing) to outsmart a corporation, the bureaucrats will trample over freedoms and liberties.
The entire idea of giving entire regions over to one or two companies — in exchange for "stricter" regulation — was a disaster. It is as if somebody wanted Capitalism to fail, so they crippled it with government-assured mono- or, at best, duopoly. Why am I stuck choosing between Verizon and Comcast?
That ought to be stopped. Allow anyone to run their cables to any home, if they want to. Then you can stop mandating this and that and let the competition sort it out. Which consumer would rather be calling FCC (Monday through Friday, 9-4 EDT) to complain and wait for the bureaucracy deal with company's skilled lawyers, instead of simply calling the competitor to switch?
Of course, this would diminish the Government's power, so FCC will never voluntarily release this control and will keep finding reasons and examples of its own usefulness...
Allow anyone to run their cables to any home, if they want to.
No, this makes no sense at all. It's a waste of expensive cables and they may have to dig up roads unnecessarily. Instead, the monopoly that owns the cable should be divested of its content arm, so that anybody can send me their content through the cable to my house.
It's a waste of expensive cables and they may have to dig up roads unnecessarily.
It is a waste, but the cables are a one-time expense and, are minuscule compared to the ongoing costs of human-hours (frustrated consumers', the company employees', and the regulating bureaucrats').
Instead, the monopoly that owns the cable should be divested of its content arm, so that anybody can send me their content through the cable to my house.
That's a violation of that company's (or, rather, its owners') freedom. And they
They maybe they should not have used regulation to avoid competition? Or perhaps not taken tax money and right of ways?
If the cable companies want to negotiate with every land owner whose property they cross then they can be free of this government interference you fear.
The entire idea of giving entire regions over to one or two companies -- in exchange for "stricter" regulation -- was a disaster. It is as if somebody wanted Capitalism to fail, so they crippled it with government-assured mono- or, at best, duopoly. Why am I stuck choosing between Verizon and Comcast?
It's quite funny to me how you answered the unspoken "who" in your second sentence with the question you pose in your third sentence, yet still don't seem to be able to connect the two occurrences, and that the answer to both is the same, and actually stated quite plainly by you, yourself.
There is a fine way to not need a box now, it is called clearQAM. From the users endpoint it works just like the old analog cable did.
Mind you the cable company fuckers move the channels around once a month or so, but if the FCC would fix that we would be in the clear.
Clear QAM has no conditional access, so either everyone would get HBO for free (oops) or anyone who wants HBO would have to rent a box anyway (oops). Clear QAM also doesn't support VOD, which is a cash cow for the cable companies.
They can use traps just like in the old days. This way the customer does not need to be burdened with their crap box.
VOD is called netflix. Very cheap too!
They wouldn't have to rent 'a box', cable cards can already provide this functionality.
Please tell me how to get a cablecard working with mythtv or any open solution.
So far it seems they will not work and are therefore useless.
I have no idea how. Go through the requirements to get mythtv "or any open solution" to fulfill the CableLabs requirements. (I realize that is probably technically impossible.)
I was simply responding to the idea that everyone needs "a box", which is not true, since one can use CableCards instead. Plus, I am not saying that I agree with this, but if you are referring to using an IR blaster to control a cable box, that requires the "analog hole".. If all of the cable boxes theoretically went HDMI, that w
Cable companies don't use public airwaves. The FCC should have anything to say about them beyond regulating spurious emissions. If a cable company offers you a deal where you use their services in exchange for using specific hardware then so be it.
Cable companies do, however, use public right of way's which are probably owned by the city. I say let the cities add contract/lease terms for open access when they allow the cable companies to run the wiring.
Cable companies do have competition already - at my
Analog cable can use signal traps which block specific channels, thus eliminating the need for encryption.
Digital cable cannot use such things - the information is present on the cable in packets and you can't use a simple electrical device to block some packets while passing others through. This is the function of the STB - block the content that you aren't paying for. Without the encryption, there is no blocking of premium content.
Or is it that you do understand and feel the cable company should just pr
If simple traps don't work, build digital traps.
Basically a simple fucking box that decodes what I pay for and outputs a coax cable with what I did pay for in clearQAM.
Here is the biggest problem for consumers... Support Most Cable Companies already refuse support for anything out of their core product offering. Examples include mail clients(Outlook Express Only), no third party routers, no linux/unix, or other operating systems, cable card ready devices aren't supported...
If you have 100 different makes/models of HD PVR's your cable co will only support the ones they sell. Consumers will get frustrated with the lack of support, and the whole idea of an open network will
So make the damn thing a usb device. With a command set like AT.This works fine for my Verizon 3G card, works great in linux.
There is no reason a simple usb dongle could not handle this. Then any computer could be the cable box. Even a tiny dedicated one, in a cablebox box.
The only way to get cable boxes into retail is to make them more attractive than the rental boxes from the cable cos. The only way to do that is to stop the cable cos from lying to customers and saying the boxes are required and that retail boxes (and Tivos) won't work on their systems. And the only way to do that is kill the atrocious profits the cable cos make from renting a $50 box for $10+ a month for years. And the only way to do that is stop the cables cos from providing boxes at all. And then the cable cos will just add the $10+ a month into their regular fees.
Or, you can educate consumers, but that's harder than doing the above.
"Lauren Weinstein has a cautionary blog post about the world we may be entering if this FCC initiative comes to fruition, which concludes: "I have difficulty seeing how this universe can be made to function effectively in the absence of some sort of regulatory regime to ensure transparency and fairness in situations where the Internet access providers themselves are providing their own content that directly competes with content from the external Internet.""
Yes, indeed. There are few parallels.
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Bring a grown-up and come to story time. There is a different theme each week with fresh new ideas. A simple craft is offered, followed by a snack.
The goal is to develop a relationship with preschoolers and motivate them to enjoy books and to take care of them.
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Prosecutors, in their continuing influence-peddling investigation of convicted super lobbyist Jack Abramoff, have issued subpoenas to California Republican Rep. John Doolittle and five of his staff members, seeking office records dating back more than 10 years.
Doolittle's attorney David G. Barger argued that the U.S. Constitution protects Members of Congress from legal inquiries into legislative acts. "These efforts raise serious Constitutional issues going to the very core of our separation of powers created by the Founding Fathers," Barger said in a statement.
Barger said the prosecutors wanted "virtually every record including legislative records for the congressman for the past 11 years."
Neither Doolittle nor his lawyer has indicated in their statement, which records prosecutors are seeking to obtain. In April, the FBI raided Doolittle's house in Oakton, Va., where his wife, Julie, ran a fundraising company linked to Abramoff. She owned Sierra Dominion Financial Solutions.
According to a Senate Indian Affairs Committee investigation released last year, the firm was retained by Abramoff's law firm, Greenberg Traurig, and earned $66,000 from Abramoff. The committee report also details money paid by Abramoff's law firm, which include eight $5,000 payments to Julie Doolittle beginning in July 2003.
Rep. Doolittle accepted $14,000 in contributions directly from Abramoff in 1999. The first contribution came just a few weeks before Doolittle endorsed the election of a key politician in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, a key Abramoff client at the time, according to the committee report. The last Abramoff contribution to Doolittle came as the Northern Marianas lobbying contract was expiring in December 2001. Doolittle helped block labor reforms the Marianas and also used Abramoff's luxury sports box for a fundraiser without initially reporting it.
According to the documents, Rep. Doolittle also wrote a letter to then-Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton in support of the Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa, an Abramoff client. The letter asked Norton to allow the tribe to re-open a gaming casino that had been shut down by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The letter was written at the same time that Sierra Dominion was receiving payments from Abramoff's lobby firm.
The five staffers who were served subpoenas are Alisha Perkins, the office scheduler; chief of staff Ron Rogers; deputy chief of staff Dan Blankenburg; Gordon Hinkle, Doolittle's field representative and spokesman in Granite Bay; and legislative director Evan Goitein. Blankenburg and Perkins appeared under subpoenas to testify before a federal grand jury investigating the lobbying scandal in U.S. District Court.
A release issued by Doolittle said, "The five staff members, who have been assured by DOJ that they are merely witnesses, will confer with the Office of the General Counsel for the United States House of Representatives to determine how to respond to these subpoenas."
Doolittle was also subpoenaed, along with 11 House members, by defense attorneys representing Brent Wilkes, the former defense contractor charged with bribing now imprisoned ex-Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham. Attorneys in the Office of General Counsel of the House of Representatives filed a motion Wednesday in federal court in San Diego to quash those subpoenas.
Abramoff is currently serving a five-and-a-half-year sentence for his conviction in the Florida-based SunCruz Casinos gambling boat fraud case. He has yet to be sentenced for his role in the Washington lobbying scandal.


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DALLAS (AP) — As former Dallas Cowboys player Josh Brent was convicted of intoxication manslaughter and confronted with the possibility of spending up to 20 years in prison, the mother of the man he killed sat two rows behind him.
Stacey Jackson has said she's forgiven Brent. With the sentencing phase underway Thursday, Jackson could be one of several witnesses Brent's attorneys call to argue for leniency. They have previously asked for probation.
Brent and Jerry Brown were close friends, having played football together at the University of Illinois. Brown had joined the Cowboys as a practice squad player about two months before Brent drunkenly drove home from a night of partying in December 2012 and crashed on a suburban Dallas highway.
Jurors took about nine hours over two days to convict Brent, who was led from the courtroom Wednesday in handcuffs as family members in the front row sobbed.
Jackson sat behind them and showed no visible reaction. She walked out of the courtroom with Brown's family, ignoring a reporter's questions. But she told The Dallas Morning News last month she is no longer angry at Brent and has maintained a relationship with him since the wreck.
"If being mad at Josh would bring Jerry back, I would be the No. 1 person. I would be mad as hell at him," Jackson told the newspaper, adding doing that "takes too much time and too much energy."
Prosecutors say the burly, 320-pound defensive tackle's blood-alcohol level after the wreck was 0.18 percent, more than twice the legal limit. Authorities say it would have taken as many as 17 drinks for Brown to get that drunk.
Brent's attorneys argued at trial that the blood tests were faulty and that Brent could not have drank nearly that much. Attorney George Milner said his client was "guilty of being stupid behind the wheel of a car," not drinking beforehand.
Authorities say Brent was driving his Mercedes as fast as 110 mph.
Milner has said that no one besides Jackson may have suffered from the aftermath as much as Brent, who lost his close friend and his career.
Brent played in all 12 games of the 2012 NFL season before the crash, but retired in July.
His ties to the Cowboys were prominent at trial. Two current players, Barry Church and Danny McCray, testified about hanging out with Brent and Brown, first playing video games, then having dinner and going to Privae, a Dallas nightclub.
Cowboys linebacker Sean Lee attended part of the trial to show support for Brent, and team owner Jerry Jones said this week that he was closely watching for a verdict.
"Certainly it's tragic. We've all, to some degree, have been a part of this," Jones said Tuesday, according to the Cowboys' website. "We support Josh. This has been just a terrible experience for the families who lost a loved one and for Josh who loved Jerry as well."
Jurors saw video of Brent appearing to hold bottles of Champagne in each hand and credit-card receipts that showed Brent had purchased three bottles. They also saw police dash cam footage of Brent losing his balance during field sobriety tests and occasionally stumbling over his words while talking to officers.
It was, in the words of prosecutors Jason Hermus and Heath Harris, a textbook case of intoxication manslaughter. The prosecutors told jurors during closing arguments they should send a message about the danger posed by drunken drivers.
Hermus stood in front of Brent, hit the table and shouted: "They shouldn't be driving, no exceptions, no excuses!"
While Brent is eligible for probation, prosecutors have indicated they will push for jail time. His conviction comes just after weeks of fierce debate about a North Texas teen, Ethan Couch, who received probation for intoxication manslaughter after a wreck that left four people dead. Couch's case, and the so-called "affluenza" defense his attorneys employed, became the subject of fierce, widespread scrutiny.
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins attended parts of Brent's trial and whispered in prosecutors' ears during the questioning of one witness. Watkins told a sports radio station last year that prosecutors had the responsibility to make sure Brent "loses his freedom."
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ESHE student receives national recognition
Suzanne Talley, a senior in Radford University's College of Education and Human Development (CEHD), has won the Major of the Year Award from the National Association of Sport and Physical Education.
Talley, a Virginia Beach native, received the honor April 25 at the national meeting of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance in Charlotte, N.C. She is RU's first Exercise, Sport and Health Education (ESHE) major to receive the award at the national level and one of only five students in Virginia to be honored this year.
Talley will graduate on Saturday, May 11, with a degree in physical and health education teaching.
"I could not have received this award without the wonderful professors in Exercise, Sport and Health Education," Talley said. "These professors have helped develop the person that I am today—a person ready to embark on the life of educating others, the life of giving back to something that has given so much to me."
To receive the award, students must be a college junior or senior, maintain at least a 3.0 GPA and conduct school or community service for a minimum of two years. Candidates for the award must major in physical education, kinesiology, sport management, exercise science, fitness and wellness, athletic training or a closely related area.
While a student in CEHD, Talley volunteered with Relay for Life, Habitat for Humanity and Meals on Wheels through the Catholic Campus Ministry. She also served as president and vice president of the ESHE Majors Club.
ESHE Assistant Professor Anna DeVito said, "It was nice to see Suzanne's leadership skills progress as she went from member to vice president and then to president of the ESHE Majors Club. The same was true of her teaching skills with children in our Physical Education Activity Kamp Program. By her junior and senior year, she frequently led small and large groups of children, and her peers, in activities and dances that that made the smallest children to the tallest college students smile."
Suzanne Saunders '97, who teaches health and physical education at Dalton Intermediate School in Radford, served as a cooperating teacher for Talley. She said Talley has a passion for teaching physical education and health, and she genuinely cares for the students.
"Ms. Talley quickly established a rapport with the students and set high expectations," Saunders said. "She is well organized, utilizes technology and offers creative lesson plans. She will be an asset to any P.E. program."
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10. Criticizing The Research
For 2012, the most talked about research on the data center business, a massive story in the New York Times about the huge waste of power in data centers, was also the most panned.
In September, the Times criticized the data center industry for wasting up to 90 percent of the power it pulls from the electrical grid and for the pollution caused by its backup generators -- but not without backlash from the data center industry.
As CRN sister publication InformationWeek's response, typical of many, notes, the Times article ignored both moves by data centers to take advantage of new power-saving techniques and reports showing how data center power consumption has been rising less than expected.
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Jo-Wilfried Tsonga will make his Hopman Cup debut in Perth at the end of the year in what organisers boast will be the strongest ever field assembled for the mixed international tournament.
The Frenchman, who reached the Australian Open final in 2008, will join World No 2 Novak Djokovic, Venus Williams and Ana Ivanovic for the tournament at the new Perth Arena from December 29 to January 5.
"It's really good because I will arrive really early to Australia (and) I will be able to play three matches to prepare for the Australian Open," the world number six, who will partner Mathilde Johansson, said in a release from the organisers.
"I heard that they built a new arena similar to Rod Laver Arena, so it's going to be just perfect for me to play, it's going to be fun."
The Serbian pair of Djokovic and Ivanovic are the top seeds, ahead of the U.S. team comprising multiple grand slam winner Williams and John Isner.
"I've played Hopman Cup three times in the last five years and I love the competition there; I love the atmosphere," three-time Australian Open champion Djokovic said.
"I've reached the finals on two previous occasions so I sincerely hope that now this time, with Ana, we can actually win a trophy."


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|Rickie Lambert is 8/1 to score the first goal when Southampton face Manchester City with BetVictor
However, Lambert is confident the new manager can improve the club's fortunes and says a top-four challenge is not "unrealistic".
"The new manager has been great and you can see since he has come to the club he wants to make things happen," he told The Sun.
"The chairman is very ambitious and Southampton is going to be a very exciting place to be over the next few years.
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The N.C. Department of Transportation estimates that a wreck occurs about every three hours in Henderson County.
The N.C. Department of Transportation estimates that a wreck occurs about every three hours in Henderson County.
Squealing tires, breaking glass and crunching metal have become all too familiar along some stretches of road, earning them nicknames such as "dead man's curve."
In 2011, 1,962 crashes were reported in Henderson County by law enforcement agencies. Thirteen people died.
In Polk and Transylvania counties, crashes are much less frequent than their more populated neighbor, but a higher percentage are attributed to alcohol use, according to the DOT.
In 2011, 6.6 percent of the 351 crashes in Polk County and 5.9 percent of the 443 wrecks in Transylvania County were tied to alcohol use, compared to 5.1 percent of Henderson County's collisions.
In Polk County that same year, one person died in an alcohol-related wreck. Six lives were lost in Henderson County due at least in part to alcohol in 2011.
Among cities of 10,000 or more residents, Hendersonville ranked 16th in the state for the most crashes in 2011. Asheville held the first-place ranking in the last two years counted by the DOT (2010-2011), followed by Fayetteville (second), Wilmington (third), Charlotte (sixth), Gastonia (seventh) and Raleigh (15th).
The top 16 cities are all saddled by busy interstates and heavily traveled highways.
Henderson County's worst road
The road with the most wrecks in Henderson County during the most recent recording period (Jan. 1, 2007 through Dec. 31, 2011), according to the DOT, was Interstate 26, where 792 crashes occurred from Upward Road to the Buncombe County line.
The worst stretch of the busy thoroughfare — from Four Seasons Boulevard at exit 49 to Fletcher at exit 44 — saw a whopping 238 wrecks in the same four-year period.
That wouldn't surprise Arden resident John Forehand, who attended a recent DOT informational workshop held to gauge public opinion on widening the interstate.
Forehand travels the interstate every day on his way to work in Greer, S.C. He has been caught in the five-mile, no-exit "land of no return" before, he said, trapped in traffic snarled for an hour-and-a-half due to a collision that blocked both lanes.
"Most days I-26 is like a rolling parking lot," said Forehand, who encouraged the DOT to add lanes and another exit.
The DOT estimates the corridor could host a daily stream of more than 90,000 motorists by 2040.
On the night of Oct. 24, 2010, a tractor-trailer slammed into a line of stopped traffic on eastbound I-26 at the Butler Bridge Road underpass, killing five people and injuring 10 others, some severely.
The driver of the truck, Roumen Todorov Velkov, then 48, showed no signs of stopping as cars sat idling while emergency crews worked at the site of a previous accident, according to the N.C. Highway Patrol.
The impact set off a chain reaction and left a trail of carnage on the highway near the Fletcher exit. Deputy Fire Marshal Wally Hollis told the Times-News in 2010 it was the worst motor vehicle accident he had seen in his 24 years in the county.
Other dangerous roads
U.S. Highway 64 was also a busy thoroughfare for accidents during the four-year recording period. Fifty-two wrecks clogged the one-mile stretch from Howard Gap Road to Fruitland Road, where four lanes shrink to two.
A nearly 1.5-mile span from Cummings Road to Banner Farm Road was the scene of 32 crashes. On the night of Oct. 1, 2008, three people were killed in a two-vehicle wreck near Cummings Road after troopers say a 1987 Honda Civic station wagon crossed the center line and collided head-on with a 2002 Chevy pickup truck. All three women in the Honda died.
Thirty accidents were logged in less than a mile from Gilliam Road to Pace Road. Another 29 wrecks occurred in just a span of about 500 yards from Orrs Camp Road to the I-26 "four-leaf clover" connector on Four Seasons Boulevard.
A stretch of the same distance on Dana Road is also growing infamous for wrecks. A woman was cited last week for reckless driving after the Ford truck she was driving ran off of the road, hit a ditch, bounced over culverts, struck an electric pole and flipped, according to troopers. No serious injuries were reported.
The pole — clipped and chipped but still standing — has been felled by drivers before, residents say. The stretch along Dana Road from Meadowlark Lane to Feagan Road has been the site of six wrecks from 2007 to 2011.
A stretch of less than a half-mile on Chimney Rock Road from Laycock Road to Pressley Road in the Edneyville community saw 25 wrecks from 2007-2011.
On the same highway, 23 crashes occurred along a 350-yard stretch from Howard Gap Road to Old Chimney Rock road, and 20 wrecks interrupted traffic along a half-mile stretch between Dawn Valley Drive and Townsend Road.
Forty wrecks were logged on Upward Road from South Allen Road to Acorn Manor Drive. Other troubled spots on Upward Road have seen wrecks in the double digits: from Allen Road to South Allen Road and from Spartan Heights to Spartanburg Highway.
North Mills River Road in Mills River from Haywood Road (N.C. 191) to Pennsylvania Road saw 20 wrecks.
The top 10
The 10 most troubled intersections in Henderson County during the four-year recording period were:
-- I-26 at Asheville Highway (U.S. 25), with 136 crashes recorded.
-- I-26 at Upward Road, 66 wrecks.
-- Chimney Rock Road (U.S. 64) at Highland Square, 62 wrecks.
-- Spartanburg Highway (U.S. 176) at Upward Road, 59 collisions.
-- Haywood Road (N.C. 191) at Boylston Highway (N.C. 280), 54 wrecks.
-- Four Seasons Boulevard (U.S. 64) at Linda Vista Drive, 49 crashes.
-- Chimney Rock Road (U.S. 64) at Howard Gap Road with 45 wrecks.
-- I-26 at Four Seasons Boulevard (U.S. 64) with 44 crashes.
-- Four Seasons Boulevard (U.S. 64) at Freeman Street, 43 crashes.
u--himney Rock Road (U.S. 64) at Sugarloaf Road, 39 wrecks.
Some roads have seen a decrease in traffic accidents, however. Though it has not been the site of a fatality in several years, a sharp curve on U.S. Highway 176 heading toward Saluda has donned the moniker "dead man's curve" for decades.
Unlike the popular 1964 Jan and Dean song, the legend of this curve grew from a slew of wrecks that happened for years before I-26 opened to the public.
"That was the main thoroughfare before the interstate came in," said N.C. Highway Patrol Sgt. Don Christensen. "I don't know if there's been a fatal collision there in the past 20 years, but that was the nickname it was given."
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) closely monitored the Occupy Wall Street movement, providing agency officials with threat assessments, regular updates about protests taking place throughout the country, responding to internal requests for intelligence on the group and mining Twitter and other social media for information about Occupy's activities, according to hundreds of pages of internal documents DHS released to Truthout in response to our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
Eric Neuschaefer, a DHS FOIA program specialist, said the agency expects to release a second set of OWS-related documents to Truthout, the first news organization to file a FOIA request with DHS for OWS records, sometime in mid-April. He added that DHS will release files on a "rolling" basis once they are processed and cleared by DHS component offices.
While the nearly 400 pages of documents DHS released to Truthout Wednesday do not contain any smoking-guns showing that DHS worked with local law enforcement and local government officials "in any wholesale manner," as noted by one DHS official, on the coordinated crackdown of Occupy encampments throughout the country last October, the materials provide deep insight into the agency's interest in OWS and also highlight fears that DHS's actions may have been unconstitutional.
"There is attached to this email a threat bulletin being disseminated by the Office of Emergency Management in Pittsburgh in which it discusses the threat posed by the Occupy Pittsburgh campaign and the hackers' group: Anonymous," states an October 7, 2011 email written by an intelligence official whose name was redacted. "Both myself and [redacted]...are somewhat concerned that several items contained in this Intel Bulletin might be advocating surveillance and other countermeasures to be employed against activities protected under the 1st Amendment. Would either one or both of you be able to see what could be developed from this document that [redacted] could take back to the Intel staff that produced this so that in the future they have a greater awareness of how to develop intelligence assessments that don't undermine Constitutionally protected speech and assembly rights?"
DHS's early monitoring of OWS also included the preparation and distribution of an intelligence report on the movement. The report was cited in an email distributed internally by the Domestic Security Alliance Council (DSAC), an intelligence sharing partnership between the FBI, DHS and the private sector. That report advised DHS officials to pay close attention to any threats associated with the growth of the Occupy movement. But the document, referred to as an intelligence "product," was apparently unauthorized and quickly scrubbed from the agency's internal intelligence sharing database because of concerns that it rose to the level of unconstitutional surveillance, according to internal emails.
"How Would We Describe Our Activities?"
The documents also show how DHS spokespeople struggled over how to respond to media inquries about whether the agency played a hands-on role in suppressing the Occupy movement a month or so after it was launched. Indeed, when queried by reporters in mid-November about the agency's role, DHS spokesman Matthew Chandler sent an email to DHS official Robert Davis inquiring about the agency's "relationship with cities dealing with 'occupy protestors.'"
"[H]ow would we describe our activities?" Chandler asked.
Davis told Chandler DHS is "treating all 'Occupy' demonstrations as peaceful."
"We are working with [General Services Administration, the agency that approves permits for protests on federal property] and each city government to ensure that all parties concerned are safe and secure," Davis said in an email reply to Chandler. DHS has held "standard coordination calls and face-to-face meetings with our partners to ensure that the proper resources are available for operations such as street closures, etc."
Chandler was then advised to provide reporters with certain information on background only, meaning that it could be used but not attributed to DHS.
In response to one such query from the Huffington Post, Chandler told reporter Sean McCormack, on background, November 18, 2011 that Federal Protective Services (FPS) "has only been involved in one instance in removing protestors, in Portland, OR."
"FPS was assisting Portland Police Bureau at the federally-owned Terry Schrunk Plaza where FPS arrested several people," Chandler wrote after receiving guidance on the preparation of an official statement from senior DHS officials.
FPS is part of DHS. It is a "federal law enforcement agency [that] provides integrated security and law enforcement services to federally owned and leased buildings, facilities, properties and other assets," DHS's website says.
In a November 16, 2011 email to nearly a dozen DHS officials, Kris Cline, deputy director for operations of FPS, was asked to elaborate on the incident in Portland. He replied by stating, "[On] November 1, 2011 at approximately 4:30 a.m. FPS and Portland Police Bureau officers moved into Terry Shrunk [sic] Park in downtown Portland to evict a number of 'Occupy Portland' protesters who had set up tents in the federal park."
"Approximately 12 tents had been set up and about 20 protesters were present," Cline wrote to DHS officials after the agency received an inquiry from CBS News about its role in the crackdowns and dismantling of encampments. "FPS personnel ordered the protesters to depart since overnight camping is not allowed in the park and about half of the people present complied and departed. 10 protesters refused to leave and were arrested for failure to comply with the lawful order of a Federal police officer." [emphasis in document.]
FPS "inspectors" were also "on site at an October 30, 2011 Occupy demonstration at Ilus W. Davis Park in Kansas City, Missouri, according to a "Spot Report" email written that day by a DHS official stationed at the agency's Battle Creek MegaCenter in Michigan. Additionally, an October 5, 2011 "Spot Report" email FPS spokesman Rob Winchester forwarded to DHS spokesman Chris Ortman from the Philadelphia MegaCenter noted that a protest was taking place in New York City at Foley Square and states that besides the New York Police Department (NYPD), [redacted] "are also present," indicating the possibility of federal law enforcement on the scene.
Read More: Homeland Security: The Occupy Files
Chandler added in his email to the Huffington Post that DHS "is not actively coordinating with local law enforcement agencies and/or city governments concerning the evictions of Occupy encampments writ large."
McCormack used DHS's statement, minus the background points, and attributed to Chandler in a report he published last November refuting a news story by an Examiner.com journalist, who claimed to have received information from unnamed sources within the federal government confirming DHS played a role in the Occupy crackdown.
Truthout cited DHS's statement to the Huffington Post in a report we published last November and noted the agency's response was "carefully worded."
DHS disseminated identical statements and background information to numerous other journalists who sought comment from the agency about whether it played a role in the dismantling of Occupy encampments, the documents show.
One DHS official told Chandler to emphasize one of the background bullet points pertaining to the Portland incident, in which FPS arrested protesters, and "make it clear how rare the federal involvement is."
Yet Andrew Lluberes, DHS's director of communications for the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A), added, according to another internal email, that the agency could not say whether fusion centers or other DHS divisions coordinated with local law enforcement and/or local government officials on a coordinated crackdown of Occupy encampments and protests.
On its website, I&A says its mission is supported by "four strategic goals":
- Promote Understanding of Threats Through Intelligence Analysis
- Collect Information and Intelligence Pertinent to Homeland Security
- Share Information Necessary for Action
- Manage Intelligence for the Homeland Security Enterprise
However, with regard to OWS, I&A "scrupulously avoided any connection with the Occupy movement/protests/dismantlings," Lluberes wrote in a November 16, 2011 email. "We cannot speak for any individual fusion center or other departmental component, but we issued no product to our customers and held no conf calls with our field [intelligence offices] on the subject."
Fusion centers are located throughout the country and "serve as primary focal points within the state and local environment for the receipt, analysis, gathering, and sharing of threat-related information among federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) partners," according to a fact sheet on DHS's website.
Secret Service Reports
There are also several documents identified as "Prism Demonstrations Abstract" from the US Secret Service's Intelligence Division describing OWS activities last September 17, 2011 when the group staged its first protest, and in November following a protest that took place in New York City during an appearance at Goldman Sachs headquarters by former President George W. Bush.
"On 11/02/2011, one hundred (100) individuals associated with 'Occupy Wall Street' demonstrated at a [Former President of the United States] George W. Bush site in New York City," states the November 3, 2011 Secret Service report. "The demonstrators were peaceful and protested corporate interests in US government. It should be noted demonstrators spread word of Bush's presence at the site via Twitter. There was some media attention to the protest and use of Twitter by demonstrators."
Another Secret Service report, which described Occupy's first week of activities, noted, "this record was subject of FOIA request."
In addition to OWS documents, Truthout also sought internal DHS documents related to "US Day of Rage," a movement that preceded OWS. US Day of Rage coordinated a day of protests on Wall Street last September against the use of corporate money in US elections. DHS turned over documents that show the agency monitored US Day of Rage's activities prior to last September's protest.
First Official Release of OWS Documents
This is the first official release of government documents related to OWS since the launch of the movement last year. In our FOIA request filed with DHS last October, we requested:
"All records, including emails, memoranda, letters, audio/video, transcripts, reports, including Threat Assessments, related to the protest movement known as "Occupy Wall Street.'"
A DHS FOIA officer asked Truthout if we could narrow "the scope of [our FOIA] request to include responsive records from senior DHS officials only" due to numerous requests for OWS documents the agency received, which had "overwhelmed" DHS staff.
Narrowing the scope of our request, the DHS officer said, would speed up the response time. We agreed. However, Truthout has since filed a separate FOIA request for all OWS-related documents from DHS field offices as well as a separate FOIA request for DHS's "processing notes" to determine how the agency's FOIA analysts handled our records request.
In a letter to Truthout, James Holzer, the director of DHS's Disclosure and FOIA Operations, said "a search for documents responsive to your [FOIA] request produced a total of 408 pages."
"I have determined that 58 pages of the records are releasable in their entirety, 340 pages are partially releasable, and 10 pages are withheld in full" under certain FOIA exemptions, Holzer wrote.
Those exemptions include (read the letter DHS sent to Truthout for a full description of exemptions cited):
Exemption 7 – Protects records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes the release of which could reasonably be expected:
7(C) – to constitute an unwarranted invasion of the personal privacy of a third party/parties (in some instances by revealing an investigative interest in them).
7(E) – would disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions.
Example of information the Department of Homeland Security may withhold using 7(E): Law enforcement manuals, records pertaining to Watch Lists.
In preparing these documents for release, DHS worked with, among other divisions, its Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL), according to that component's 2012 FOIA logs, which identifies requests for OWS documents this reporter filed. CRCL, whose officials prepared guidelines on how internal requests for information on Occupy should be handled, according to the documents Truthout received, cited two exemptions to justify the withholding of certain information in response to our FOIA request.
Exemption 5 – Protects the integrity of the deliberative or policy-making processes within the agency by exempting from mandatory disclosure opinion, conclusions, and recommendations included within inter-agency or intra-agency memoranda or letters.
Example of information the Department of Homeland Security may withhold using 5: Draft documents and recommendations or other documents that reflect the personal opinion of the author rather than official agency position.
Exemption 6 – Protects information that would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy of the individuals involved.
Example of information the Department of Homeland Security may withhold using 6: Social Security Numbers, home addresses and telephone numbers, certain identifying information regarding Department employees.
FBI Denies Truthout's Appeal for OWS Documents
Meanwhile, the FBI maintains it still cannot locate any OWS records responsive to a FOIA request Truthout filed with the agency last October, despite the fact that DHS documents released to Truthout show some intelligence sharing between the two agencies.
As Truthout previously reported, the FBI responded to our FOIA request two weeks after we filed it by stating the agency was "unable to identify main file records responsive to the FOIA."
We immediately appealed the decision to the Justice Department's Office of Information Policy (OIP) and requested the FBI conduct a broader search for documents given that a report published last October by Gawker, which noted that Jordan T. Lloyd, a member of the FBI's cybersecurity team in New York, received dozens of emails about Occupy Wall Street and that Loyd responded to at least one of the messages.
On February 7, Justice Department attorney Sean R. O'Neill, denied our appeal and affirmed the FBI's position that the agency could not locate responsive records on OWS.
"After carefully considering your appeal, I am affirming the FBI's action on your request," O'Neill wrote in a letter to Truthout. "I have determined tha tthe FBI's action was correct and that it conducted an adequate, reasonable search for responsive records."
Truthout has since filed a separate FOIA request with the FBI for processing notes to determine how the agency handled our FOIA request for OWS documents. Furthermore, we also requested a copy of the administrative file from OIP related to the denial of our appeal.
OWS Records Also Sought From NYPD
Finally, on January 29, Truthout filed, under New York's Freedom of Information Law (FOIL), a wide-ranging request for OWS documents, including video, audio, photographs, emails and threat assessments, with the New York Police Department (NYPD) and its Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). The most violent crackdowns on OWS have taken place in New York City.
In a February 13 letter sent to Truthout, Lt. Richard Mantellino, a records access officer in NYPD's legal bureau, said, "Before a determination can be rendered, further review is necessary to assess the potential applicability of exemptions set forth in FOIL, and whether the records can be located."
DHS Response to Truthout FOIA Request: Cover Letter (Occupy Wall Street)
DHS Reponse to Truthout FOIA Request: Cover Letter (US Day of Rage)
DHS Response to Truthout FOIA Request: Documents, Part 1
DHS Response to Truthout FOIA Request: Documents, Part 2
DHS Reponse to Truthout FOIA Request: Documents, Part 3
DHS Response to Truthout FOIA Request: Documents, Part 4
DHS Response to Truthout FOIA Request: Documents, Part 5


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Kristie Johnson is the 4-H Program Coordinator.
October 7-13 is National 4-H Week, and Polk County is celebrating the 4-H youth, who have made an impact on the community, and are stepping up to the challenges of a complex and changing world.
Youth are connecting with their community by putting up fliers, making window displays and inviting new members in their schools to join.
Recent findings from Tufts University's 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development indicate that young people in 4-H are three times more likely to contribute to their communities than youth not participating in 4-H. Notably, the Tufts research discovered that the structured learning, encouragement and adult mentoring that 4-Hers receive play a vital role in helping them actively contribute to their communities. In Polk County, more than 120 4-H members and 52 volunteers are involved in 4H.
Also during National 4-H Week, hundreds of thousands of youth from all around the nation will complete a single, innovative experiment on 4-H National Youth Science Day, which will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012. The 2012 National Science Experiment, 4-H Eco-Bot Challenge, explores how robots can be used to preserve and protect the environment, while offering a glimpse into the future of science, technology, engineering and math.
4-H youth are a living breathing, culture-changing revolution for doing the right thing, breaking through obstacles and pushing our country forward by making a measurable difference right where they live. Learn how you can Join the Revolution of Responsibility at 4-H.org/revolution. Or contact Kristie Johnson, 4-H Program Coordinator at Polk County Extension Office in McIntosh at 1-800-450-2465.


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Joseph and Lena Handler had six children, four boys and two girls. I am able to track the family from their immigration, to Joseph's naturalization in 1919, through the 1920 U.S. Federal Census to the 1930 U.S. Federal Census, in Akron, Summit County, Ohio. The three youngest sons enlisted in the U.S. Army and saw action in WWII.
Two of them did not return home.
The U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946, found at Ancestry.com, gives me a starting place to learn a bit about the brothers and their service.
|Alfred Handler
He died in Biak, New Guinea on June 23, 1944.
|Undated [possibly June 24 or 25, 1944] news story from the Akron Beacon Journal
Akron Area Marks Its [?] As 8 More Soldiers Die
This is Akron's darkest day of the war.
The longest list of "killed in action" from the area was announced today. Eight servicemen gave up their lives and seven more suffered serious wounds. One is missing in action and two others are prisoners of war.
Most of the deaths came in the conquest of Biak island in New Guinea and of bloody Saipan. The invasion of France and the battling of Burma were responsible for two of them.
The list includes:
Tech. 4th grade Alfred Handler, 23, of 557 Rhodes av., killed in action at Biak.
|From the same undated [possibly June 24 or 25, 1944] news story from the Akron Beacon Journal
"Harry will read of the death in the Beacon Journal which he has been getting regularly," they said. Another son, Louis, is in the army in France.
Technician Handler had been overseas 10 months when he met death in the storming of the tiny but important Pacific isle. His wife, Mrs. Rebecca Handler, had just arrived from St. Louis to visit her parents-in-law when the death news arrived.
|Louis Handler
He died on July 8, 1944, in Normandy, France.
|Undated [possibly July 10 or 11, 1944] news story from the Akron Beacon Journal
Akron Brothers Killed In War 15 Days Apart
For the second time within three weeks, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Handler, 557 Rhodes av., answered the doorbell Sunday to find a messenger standing there.
For the second time they tore open a yellow envelope with sinking hearts. Incredulously they stared at the words leaping at them from the paper. It could not be-lightning does not strike twice in the same place. But it had. Frantic calls only confirmed the thing they couldn't believe. A second son had been killed in action.
The two soldier sons perished within 15 days of each other on two major battlefronts.
One, Technician, 4th grade, Alfred, 24, died in Mafflin, New Guinea, on June 23. He left a young bride.
Sunday's telegram told of P.F.C. Louis Handler, 23, who was killed in France on July 8. His widow, Isabelle, is expecting their first child in six weeks.
This is the first time that two brothers in one family have been killed in action in the Akron area.
"I know God will help me to get home to see my baby," Louis wrote from somewhere in Normandy shortly before he was killed.
A third brother, Private Harry, 21, is now in the midst of the fighting in the New Guinea jungles. Crushed by the news of his first brother's death, he is unaware of the death of the second.
His parents are trying to contact officials in Washington to have him brought home. Harry learned of Alfred's death when a letter he had sent him was returned to him stamped "deceased." They fear he will learn of the second brother's death the same way.
Alfred, the first son of the Handlers to die, went overseas in September, 1943. Harry, the younger one, now on the New Guinea front, followed him two months later. The next spring, the Handlers told their third son, Louis, goodby, as he left for the European front.
The letter telling how Harry received the news of Alfred's death as he sat in a fox hole on the New Guinea front is a poignant epistle. "I've just had two letters back I sent to Al," he wrote. "They were stamped 'Deceased.' That can only mean one thing - I feel very bad - I want to cry - I really can't express my feelings to you - and I hope somehow that the report still is wrong.
"But Al will never really die. In our hearts he will live always. I still have faith. And we are all fighting together for the country we love - America. We've all got to pull together. Let's have courage. Let's not give up the belief we will come through-"
To a friend, Fred Goldstein, 624 Euclid av., the dead soldier wrote in a last letter the following significant paragraphs:
"Fred, I know it's plenty tough working in a factory and I considered factory work nerve-wracking and quit and joined the army.
"I disliked factory work because if you had no seniority you got all the worst shifts. And the factory was filled with dust and it got into your lungs and made you cough.
"But dammit, Fred, give me a rubber factory now and 12 hours a day and I'll be the happiest guy on earth...but I want to see this mad war over first and get into the fighting myself."
Louis Handler attended West high school and Akron university and was employed at the B. F. Goodrich Co. before he entered the service. Besides his brother, Harry, he leaves one other brother, Arthur, married and living in Atlantic City, N.J. and two sisters, Margaret and Belle, at home.
That youngest brother, Harry Handler, is my father-in-law, who enlisted on April 7, 1943, as a Private. His family was not able to successfully bring him home early, but they succeeded in having him transferred from the Pacific to the U.S. He was ultimately discharged on February 18, 1946.
It has been said that their father died of a broken heart in December 1947.
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Panama City police say they've arrested 3-people in-connection with a fire at the home of a local Muslim family.
21 year old Patrick Lance Pippin is charged with arson. 21 year old Daniel Lee Blankenship and 23 year old Anthony Michael Wait are charged with principal to arson.
The fire happened at 3:45 in the morning on August 15th, at a home on Timber Lane in phase-1 of the subdivision called the Woods which is off north Harrison Ave.
The home is owned by a local doctor Aziz Ahmad. 5-adults were inside at the time. Ahmad's son was one of them. He heard a loud noise outside of his bedroom window, looked out and saw the ground below on-fire. He called 9-1-1, then put out the fire.
Police say they smelled gasoline and found what appeared to be a broken and burned mason jar, lying on the ground below the window.
Panama City police, State Fire Marshall's investigators, the FBI, and the Gulf County sheriff's office all worked on the case and developed Pippin, Blankenship and Wait as their suspects.
But they're not giving out any other details about the case. Blankenship and Wait are in the Bay county jail tonight. Wait is being held in Gulf County.


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This is the story of a man-made island sanctuary for wildlife. Just minutes east of the bustling, modern city of Edmonton is one of the world's densest collections of wildlife, maintained by the active resource-management of Parks Canada. The film looks at the behind-the-scenes activity of the island.
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With his Everton contract coming to an an end, combined with constant speculation over his future, should David Moyes leave Goodison Park?
It has been a strong season for the Toffees, with many - including Moyes himself - claiming that this is their best squad under Moyes - and I agree.
He has managed to build a squad with both youth and experience, catering for both the long and short term, as well as adding extra value to several of his key players.
Moyes' main attribute is his shrewd transfer market skills, managing to purchase several quality talents at the minimum price. For example, he signed Leighton Baines, who might have once been regarded as an average left-back who can take a good free-kick, and now look at him.
Baines is one of the best full-backs in the English Premier league and is providing Ashley Cole with his toughest international competition yet.
Moyes also proved he has a good eye for purchases abroad as well, as he managed sign the little known Marouane Fellaini for what seemed like an overpriced £15m just a few seasons ago and, just like Baines, the big-haired Belgian is a wanted man - and has been strongly linked with a big-money transfer to both Chelsea and Manchester City.
Moyes has also benefitted the academy of his team as he has managed to blood through several young talents from early ages, most notably Wayne Rooney and Jack Rodwell, who were sold for around £46m between them.
He has shown great willingness to put faith in his academy graduates and this has paid off, as players like Victor Anichebe and Seamus Coleman have had starring roles this season, and the impressive Ross Barkley looking like a very strong hope for the future.
Well, even with such a strong team which he has built, could he possibly refuse if Chelsea came at him with a big offer?
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U.S. Department of Agriculture - FY 2007 TestimonyThe American Society for Microbiology (ASM) appreciates the opportunity to submit testimony on the Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 appropriation for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The ASM is the largest single life science organization in the world, with more than 42,000 members who work in academic, industrial, medical, and governmental institutions. The ASM's mission is to enhance the science of microbiology, to gain a better understanding of life processes, and to promote the application of this knowledge for improved plant, animal and human health, and for economic and environmental well-being.
The USDA sponsors research and education programs, which meet the USDA's strategic goals of enhancing competitiveness and sustainability of US agriculture; increasing economic opportunities and improving quality of life in rural America; enhancing protection and safety of the nation's agriculture and food supply; improving the nation's nutrition and health; and protecting and enhancing the nation's natural resource base and environment. U.S. agriculture faces new challenges, including threats from emerging infectious diseases in plants and animals such as avian influenza, as well as threats from climate change, and public concern about food safety and security. It is critical to increase the visibility and investment in agriculture research to respond to these challenges. The ASM urges Congress to provide increased funding for research programs within the USDA in FY 2007.
Microbiological research in agriculture is vital to understanding and finding solutions to foodborne diseases, endemic diseases of long standing, new and emerging plant and animal diseases, development of new agriculture products and processes and addressing existing and emerging environmental challenges. Unfortunately, federal investment in agricultural research has not kept pace with the need for additional agricultural research to solve emerging problems. The USDA funds more than 90 percent of all federal support for the agricultural sciences. According to the USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) report, Agricultural Research and Development: Public and Private Investments Under Alternative Markets and Institutions, the rate of return on public investment in basic agricultural research is estimated to be between 60 and 90 percent.
USDA National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program
The National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRI) was established in 1991 in response to recommendations outlined in Investing in Research: A Proposal to Strengthen the Agricultural, Food and Environmental System, a 1989 report by the National Research Council's (NRC) Board on Agriculture. This publication called for increased funding of high priority research that is supported by the USDA through a competitive peer-review process directed at:
- Increasing the competitiveness of U.S. agriculture.
- Improving human health and well-being through an abundant, safe, and high-quality food supply.
- Sustaining the quality and productivity of the natural resources and the environment upon which agriculture depends.
Continued interest in and support of the NRI is reflected in two subsequent NRC reports, Investing in the National Research Initiative: An Update of the Competitive Grants Program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, published in 1994, and National Research Initiative: A Vital Competitive Grants Program in Food, Fiber, and Natural Resources Research, published in 2000.
Today, the NRI, housed within the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES), supports research on key problems of national and regional importance in biological, environmental, physical, and social sciences relevant to agriculture, food, and the environment on a peer-reviewed, competitive basis. Additionally, the NRI enables the USDA to develop new partnerships with other federal agencies that advance agricultural science. Examples of such collaborations include the USDA's involvement in the Microbial Genome Sequencing Program, the Maize Genome Program, the Microbial Observatories program, the Plant Feedstock Genomics for Bioenergy program, the Metabolic Engineering program, and the Climate Change Science Plan.
The ASM urges Congress to support the Administration's requested increase for the NRI in FY 2007. NRI's proposed increase comes from shifting the CSREES Integrated Activities, such as food safety, pest management, and water quality, making up $42.7 million of the proposed increase, providing a net increase of $24 million for the NRI including the additional responsibility of the Integrated Programs. The ASM supports the Administration's effort to increase competitively awarded funding mechanisms and believes that competitive grants ensure the best science.
Additional funding for the NRI is needed to expand research in microbial genomics and to provide more funding for merit reviewed basic research with long-term potential for new discoveries and products. It is critical to increase the visibility and investment in agriculture research to respond to these challenges and we appreciate Congress's efforts to fund the NRI at $181 million in FY 2006 and urge Congress to support the Administration's FY 2007 request of $247.5 million for this program.
Agricultural Research Service
The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is the USDA's chief scientific research agency, which conducts research to develop new scientific knowledge, transfers technology to the private sector to solve critical agricultural problems of broad scope and high national priority, and provides access to scientific data. The ARS supports approximately 1,200 individual research projects conducted by scientists from the USDA at over 100 federal facilities. The Administration requests approximately $1.03 billion for the ARS in FY 2007, a 20 percent decrease from FY 2006. The ASM urges Congress to strongly support the ARS in FY 2007.
USDA Food and Agriculture Defense Initiative
The Food and Agriculture Defense Initiative is an interagency initiative to improve the federal government's capability to rapidly identify and characterize a bioterrorist attack, by improving the national surveillance capabilities in human health, food, agriculture, and environmental monitoring. The ASM supports the Administration's request for this initiative of $322 million for FY 2007, an increase of $127 million over FY 2006. This does not include funding for construction of the Ames, Iowa facility for animal research and diagnostics, which was fully funded in FY 2006. Of the total amount, an increase of approximately $30 million for Food Defense would enhance the Food Safety and Inspection Service's (FSIS) ability to detect and respond to food emergencies and for the USDA's research agencies to conduct related research. For Agriculture Defense, the budget includes a $97 million increase to improve the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's (APHIS) monitoring and surveillance of plant and animal health, including wildlife; response capabilities, including provisions for the National Veterinary Stockpile; and further research on emerging and exotic diseases.
The ASM supports this greater emphasis on research in the Food and Agriculture Defense Initiative and recommends an increase in funding, both extramural and intramural, for research on pathogenic microorganisms as part of the Food and Agriculture Defense Initiative.
Food Safety
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that each year 76 million people get sick, more than 300,000 are hospitalized, and 5,000 die because of foodborne illnesses. Primarily the very young, the elderly, and the immunocompromised are affected. Recent changes in human demographics and food preferences, changes in food production and distribution systems, microbial adaptation, and lack of support for public health resources and infrastructure have led to the emergence of novel as well as traditional foodborne diseases. With increasing travel and trade opportunities, it is not surprising that now there is a greater risk of contracting and spreading a foodborne illness locally, regionally, and even globally. (MMWR 2004;53[No. RR-04]). The USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS) estimates that the medical costs, productivity losses, and costs of premature deaths for diseases caused by just five types of foodborne pathogens exceeds $6.9 billion per year in the United States. The USDA plays a vital role in the government's effort to reduce the incidence of foodborne illness. Continued and sustained research is important to safeguarding the nation's food supply and focusing on methods and technologies to prevent microbial foodborne disease and emerging pathogens. The ASM supports the requested increases for the Food and Agriculture Defense Initiative and the Food Safety and Inspection Service. Without sustained significant increases in the level of food safety research funding, meeting the National Health Objectives for 2010 in all likelihood will not become reality. The ASM recommends a substantial increase in food safety research, which is essential to ensure the protection of the nation's health.
Genomics Initiative
The NRI and the ARS fund the USDA collaborative efforts in the field of genomics. There are opportunities to leverage the USDA's investments with those of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Department of Energy (DOE), and the National Science Foundation (NSF) in projects to map and sequence the genomes of agriculturally important species of plants, animals, and microbes. Determining the function of the sequenced genomes (functional genomics) and analyses of the data (bioinformatics) now need investment for new management techniques and tools. The USDA plays an important role in coordinating and participating in interagency workgroups on domestic animal, microbial, and plant genomics. Access to genomic information and the new tools to utilize it have implications for virtually all aspects of agriculture. The ASM urges Congress to provide strong support for the USDA genomics initiative.
Emerging Infectious Diseases in Plants and Animals
The food production and distribution system in the U.S. is vulnerable to the introduction of pathogens and toxins through natural processes, global commerce, and intentional means. The ASM supports increases in the USDA research budget for emerging diseases and invasive species. Nearly 200 zoonotic diseases can be naturally transmitted from animals to man and opportunistic plant pathogens and soil-inhabiting microorganisms can be causal agents of infection and disease in humans. For emerging diseases to be effectively detected and controlled the biology, ecology, and mechanisms for pathogenicity of the causal pathogens must be understood and weaknesses exploited to limit their impact. This research will help address the risk to humans from emerging diseases and opportunistic pathogens, and will ensure the safety of plant and animal products. Additionally, expanded research is needed to accelerate the development of information and technologies for the protection of United States agricultural commodities, wildlife and human health against emerging diseases.
Antimicrobial Resistance Research
The USDA plays a key role in addressing the national and global increase in antimicrobial resistance and the complex issues surrounding this public health threat. The ARS Strategic Plan for 2003-2007 states the need to "determine how antimicrobial resistance is acquired, transmitted, maintained, in food-producing animals, and develop technologies or altered management strategies to control its occurrence." In 1996, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the USDA established the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) to monitor trends in antimicrobial resistance in foodborne pathogens; the USDA has expanded monitoring to include the Collaboration on Animal Health Food Safety Epidemiology (CAHFSE) program. The USDA support for these projects should continue and the ASM urges Congress to increase support for antimicrobial resistance surveillance, research, prevention, and control programs.
The USDA's mission and goals of leadership on food, agriculture, and natural resources, based on sound public policy, the best available science, and efficient management should be strongly supported. With a significant investment in research, the USDA will be better able to meet its goals. The ASM urges Congress to increase funding for agricultural research programs to enable the USDA to help ensure a safe, nutritious and plentiful food supply for America. This includes providing $247.5 million for the NRI in FY 2007.
The ASM appreciates the opportunity to provide written testimony and would be pleased to assist the Subcommittee as the Department of Agriculture bill is considered throughout the appropriations process.


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The Georgia Southwestern baseball team lost to #8 Columbus State
University 11-2 on Friday evening in a Peach Belt Conference
matchup at Hurricane Field.
Four runs in the first and another three in the second proved to be more than enough for CSU. The Cougars used eight singles and a double to bring all seven runs around.
All of the Hurricanes scoring came in the second when Francisco Gomez was brought in from first on a Patrick McCarthy line shot to center that landed below the outstretched glove of Jonnie Geiger and rolled to the 400' sign for an inside-the-park home run.
Columbus State answered with two more runs in the fourth and single runs in the seventh and eighth.
Starter RM Cozza (4-4) took the loss for GSW in three innings of work allowing nine earned runs. Colin Duffie threw five innings and allowed two to score, while Tyler Smith pitched a scoreless ninth.
Korey Noles, a three-time Peach Belt Player of the Week in '08, remained perfect (11-0) with the complete game win for CSU. Noles scattered seven hits and struck out 10.
Cody Adams was the lone Hurricane batter to record multiple hits. Adams finished 3-for-4 with two doubles to remain hot at the plate. In his last nine at-bats, Adams has seven hits, including three doubles and a home run.
Rodney Rutherford led the Cougars with a 5-for-5 performance at the plate. Rutherford knocked his conference leading 25th home run of the season, drove in two, scored three times and was hit by a pitch. Geiger, Brandon Masters, Thomas Morrison, Brian Gordon and Brad Bowen added three hits apiece.
With the loss, GSW falls to 16-32 overall on the season and 6-19 in conference play. Columbus State improves to 38-14 and sits atop the PBC standings at 18-7. The series and 2008 season for GSW concludes tomorrow with a doubleheader on senior day at 1 p.m.
#8 Cougars Jump on 'Canes Early and Cruise to Victory
The Georgia Southwestern baseball team lost to #8 Columbus State
University 11-2 on Friday evening in a Peach Belt Conference
matchup at Hurricane Field.


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David Marshall has recovered from a knee problem in time to line up against Preston as Cardiff look to put their off-field problems behind them and get their season back on track.
The Scotland goalkeeper was forced off at half-time in last Sunday's 2-1 defeat to Ipswich to be replaced by Peter Enckelman but he has recovered quickly and will be okay.
Full-back Kevin McNaughton has also returned to full training after pulling up with a small tear in his hamstring on his return from an ankle injury at Barnsley. But it would be unlikely to see him thrown in from the off again.
Centre-back Gabor Gyepes kept his place against Town despite the return of Anthony Gerrard (calf) and he will be hoping to get the nod once more against North End, for whom former Bluebird Paul Parry will be looking to impress on his return to South Wales.
Winger Kelvin Etuhu made his first appearance last weekend after damaging ankle ligaments and he will be keen to continue his comeback but midfielder Stephen McPhail will be unavailable until the new year as he undergoes treatment for cancer.
November was a tough month for Cardiff with troubles off the pitch compounded by one point from a possible 12 on it and manager Dave Jones may be considering changes as he looks to bring the feel-good factor back.
Preston boss Alan Irvine could again deploy Eddie Nolan at centre-back.
Frenchman Youl Mawene will not play for several months after damaging knee ligaments in North End's recent defeat at the hands of Newcastle.
Liam Chilvers - whose absence through illness forced Irvine to pair left-back Nolan alongside Neill Collins at the heart of the defence in Monday's 1-1 draw at derby rivals Blackpool - could remain sidelined.
Nolan's performance earned him a ringing endorsement from Irvine and he will continue there should Chilvers remain out as the Lilywhites seek to end a five-match winless streak.
Midfielder Barry Nicholson remains a long-term absentee but winger Ross Wallace has shaken off a knock sustained in Monday's derby and will play.
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Team meetings. Fast-paced practices. Some time to rest and recuperate. The Predators ran the gamut of ways to get back on track in their two days off in San Jose. Instead, their penalty kill misfired and they lost 2-1 to the San Jose Sharks in HP Pavilion. The Sharks scored two power-play goals, and that was just enough against the offensively challenged Predators, who again could not figure out a way to put the puck into the net with proficiency. The Predators (9-8-5) have won just two of their past eight games, and in their past five contests, they've been shut out or scored just one goal four times. "We haven't had neither a power play nor penalty kill on the road. You need both to win in this league," Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne said. "Tonight they got two on their power play, and that's a credit to them. I thought for the most part we did a pretty good job on the PK, but we have to find a way … these games are such crucial games that it's always one goal games. You have to find a way."
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