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This new TSA policy to allow small knives onboard commercial aircraft will not fly. Kudos to Delta CEO Richard Anderson for being out-front in joining the opposition, including many crew members.
The head of Delta Air Lines on Friday joined the growing opposition to the Transportation Security Administration's new policy allowing passengers to carry small knives onto planes.
Delta CEO Richard Anderson said in a letter to TSA Administrator John Pistole that he shares the "legitimate concerns" of the airline's flight attendants about the new policy.
Allowing small knives to be carried on board after a ban of more than 11 years "will add little value to the customer security process flow in relation to the additional risk for our cabin staff and customers," Anderson said in the letter, which was obtained by The Associated Press.
"If the purpose is to increase security checkpoint flow, there are much more effective steps we can take together to streamline the security checkpoints with risk-based screening mechanisms," he said. Delta, based in Atlanta, is the world's second-largest airline. It is the first major airline to join not only flight attendants but pilots, federal air marshals and insurance companies in a burgeoning backlash to the policy. Pistole announced the policy on Tuesday.
TSA spokesman David Castelveter declined to comment on the letter. He said TSA plans to implement the policy on April 25 as scheduled.
Airlines for America, a trade association representing major U.S. airlines, has been supportive of TSA without explicitly endorsing the policy.
"We support the TSA's approach of combining its vast experience with billions of passenger screenings with thorough risk-based assessments," Jean Medina, a spokeswoman for the association, said in response to a request Friday for the association's position.
Anderson cited only small knives in his letter. The policy will also allow passengers to include in their carry-on luggage novelty-size baseball bats less than 24 inches long, toy plastic bats, billiard cues, ski poles, hockey sticks, lacrosse sticks and two golf clubs. Items like box cutters and razor blades are still prohibited.
Knives permitted under the policy must be able to fold up and have blades that are 2.36 inches or less in length and are less than 1/2-inch wide. The policy is aimed at allowing passengers to carry pen knives, corkscrews with small blades and other small knives
There has been a gradual easing of some of the security measures applied to airline passengers after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The new policy conforms U.S. security standards to international standards and allows the TSA to concentrate its energies on more serious safety threats, the agency said when it announced the change this week.
The policy change was based on a recommendation from an internal TSA working group, which decided the items represented no real danger, the agency has said.
TSA has said the presence on flights of gun-carrying pilots traveling as passengers, federal air marshals and airline crew members trained in self-defense provide additional layers of security to protect against misuse of the newly allowed items.
Not all flights, however, have federal air marshals or armed pilots onboard.
The Flight Attendants Union Coalition, representing nearly 90,000 flight attendants, said Thursday it is coordinating a nationwide legislative and public education campaign to reverse the policy. A petition posted by the flight attendants on the White House's "We the People" website had nearly 12,000 signatures late Friday urging the administration to tell the TSA to keep knives off planes.
"The continued ban on dangerous objects is an integral layer in aviation security and must remain in place," the coalition, which is made up of five unions, said in a statement.
Jon Adler, national president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, whose 26,000 members include federal air marshals, complained that he and other "stakeholders" weren't consulted by TSA before the "countersafety policy" was announced. He said the association will ask Congress to block the policy change.
The Coalition of Airline Pilot Associations, which represents 22,000 pilots, said it opposes allowing knives of any kind in airliner cabins.
"We believe the (terrorism) threat is still real and the removal of any layer of security will put crewmembers and the flying public unnecessarily in harm's way," Mike Karn, the coalition's president, said.
The new policy has touched off a debate over the mission of TSA and whether the agency is supposed to concentrate exclusively on preventing terrorists from hijacking or blowing up planes, or whether it should also help protect air travelers and flight crews from unruly and sometimes dangerous passengers.
"The charter, the mission of TSA is to stop an airplane from being used as a weapon and to stop catastrophic damage to that aircraft," David Castelveter, a spokesman for the agency, said. Pistole's position is "these small knives, these baseball bats, these sporting items aren't going to contribute to bringing an airplane down," he said.
In an era of reinforced cockpit doors and passengers who have shown a willingness to intervene, the threat from terrorism has been greatly reduced, said Andrew R. Thomas, a University of Akron business professor and author of several books on the airline industry and security.
"Acts of aberrant, abusive and abnormal passenger behavior known as air rage remain the most persistent threat to aviation security," he said.
Adler, representing the air marshals, said aviation security is neither "terrorist-proof nor psycho-proof," and both should be protected against.
TSA's "primary concern, and their only concern, is to protect the cockpit to make sure the planes aren't turned into missiles," he complained. "Traveling Americans are expendable, disposable and otherwise irrelevant to air travel safety."
The new policy has aviation insurers concerned as well.
"We think this move is a bad idea, and isn't in the interests of the traveling public or flight crews in the aviation industry," said Joe Strickland, head of American operations for Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty, a leading global aviation insurer.
"Safety is the highest priority of every commercial air carrier, flight crew member and air traffic controller," he said. "We don't see how these changes support this priority."
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Pelvic floor rehabilitation key to a pain-free Valentine's Day
This time of year, it's normal to be overwhelmed by store shelves full of greeting cards, candy hearts, and heart-shaped boxes of chocolate and to dread having to pick out the perfect gift for your special someone. However, it's not normal to dread an evening with that special someone because of the pain you experience each time you have intercourse.
Even though one in three women say they've experienced pain during intercourse, it's not supposed to be that way. It doesn't matter whether you're 18 or 81, sex shouldn't to be painful for you.
Cecile Gibbs, a physical therapist at ATI Physical Therapy in Elkton, Md., has dealt with a lot of men and women who think that pain during intercourse is normal and "just the way it is." She has worked with each of them to explain what causes discomfort and to help them achieve pleasurable, pain-free intercourse through physical therapy.
What to expect
When you seek therapy to relieve pain during intercourse, you'll work with a physical therapist who's specially trained in pelvic floor rehabilitation. Patients typically go to therapy once or twice a week for two to six months, depending on the severity of the case, and work on these four components:
- Aerobics: Anything cardio-related (biking, walking, jogging, etc.) helps increase blood flow to relax the body.
- Stretching: Stretching loosens up the muscles while increasing flexibility.
- Core strengthening: Lower ab and core strength is to key to improving functionality of pelvic floor muscles.
- Pelvic strengthening: Physical therapists use Kegel exercises to contract and relax the muscles.
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A new paper shows how the mtDNA evidence is inconsistent with Neandertal admixture, by looking at ancient Homo sapiens, Neandertal, and modern human mtDNA. The basic idea is simple, that if admixture with Neandertals did take place at the levels predicted (~4%), then we would expected to see some Neandertal-like mtDNA in either ancient or modern humans, but we don't.
There are some alternative explanations for the lack of Neandertal-like mtDNA in modern humans that I have considered:
- Modern human-Neandertal crossings were female-male exclusively.
- Neandertal mtDNA sequences were weeded out by natural selection, perhaps because Neandertal mtDNA was well-adapted to extreme cold and became maladaptive in modern human bodies, as the latter had better cold-protection technology (tight clothes, for example), and the glaciers retreated anyway.
AJPA DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21569
No evidence of Neandertal admixture in the mitochondrial genomes of early European modern humans and contemporary Europeans
Silvia Ghirotto et al.
Neandertals, the archaic human form documented in Eurasia until 29,000 years ago, share no mitochondrial haplotype with modern Europeans. Whether this means that the two groups were reproductively isolated is controversial, and indeed nuclear data have been interpreted as suggesting that they admixed. We explored the range of demographic parameters that may have generated the observed mitochondrial diversity, simulating 3.0 million genealogies under six models differing as for the relationships among contemporary Europeans, Neandertals, and Upper Palaeolithic European early modern humans (EEMH), who coexisted with Neandertals for millennia. We compared by Approximate Bayesian Computations the simulation results with mitochondrial diversity in 7 Neandertals, 3 EEMH, and 150 opportunely chosen modern Europeans. A model of genealogical continuity between EEMH and contemporary Europeans, with no Neandertal contribution, received overwhelming support from the analyses. The maximum degree of Neandertal admixture, under the model of gene flow supported by nuclear data, was estimated at 1.5%, but this model proved 20–32 times less likely than a model without any gene flow. Nuclear and mitochondrial evidence might be reconciled if smaller population sizes led to faster lineage sorting for mitochondrial DNA, and Neandertals shared a longer period of common ancestry with the non-African's than with the African's ancestors.


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Who do YOU think is gonna win? Enter the ML Fantasy Surfer comp and win BIG! Click the link on the right. BELLS BEACH, Victoria/AUS (Friday, March 29, 2013) – The ASP Top 34 returned to battle today as the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach presented by Ford completed Round 1 of competition in clean three-to-four foot (1 metre) waves at Bells Beach.
Stop No. 2 of 10 on the 2013 ASP World Championship Tour (WCT), the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach recommences the hunt for this year's world surfing crown and the perennial threats were in blistering form on opening day. Kelly Slater (USA), 41, 11-time ASP World Champion, posted an emphatic victory over a lethal Adam Melling(AUS), 28, and wildcard Jacob Willcox (AUS), 15, in Round 1 of competition this afternoon. Slater's commanding display at Rincon point netted him the day's high heat total of an 18.07 out of a possible 20, including a near-perfect 9.70 on his final wave of the heat. "I switched my equipment back to the Weirdo Ripper which I rode in the early rounds on the Gold Coast and it seemed to work really well in those slopey Rincon waves," Slater said. "I drifted in towards the end of the heat and that wave (9.70) wasn't very big, but it looked like it was going to run a bit better and it just allowed for a good amount of turns." Following a Runner-Up finish in 2012, Slater is back with a vengeance this season, collecting a win at the opening event on the Gold Coast and announcing his intentions for the year ahead. "I'm committed to the tour this year," Slater said. "I think in the past, I've been of two minds – wanting to compete but also wanting to chase swells around the world and that's why I've been hesitant to commit before. This year though, I'm committed and focused on the tour. When I stop competing in a few years, I can chase the swells then." Joel Parkinson (AUS), 31, reigning ASP World Champion, has collected three Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach victories (2004, 2009, 2011) throughout his storied career and the stylish natural-footer continued his impressive run at the iconic break in Round 1 this morning. "Bells is comfortable place for me," Parkinson said. "It has so much history and I've been surfing the waves, Rincon and the Bowl and Winki, my whole life. I love coming back here to compete and feel very at home. Kelly (Slater) set the pace at the first stop on the Goldy, but there are a lot of crew right in the mix." Parkinson was joined by Gold Coast stablemate and two-time ASP World Champion (2007, 2009) Mick Fanning (AUS), 31, today as back-to-back Round 1 victors with Fanning slicing through the morning conditions and directly into Round 3. Julian Wilson (AUS), 24, current ASP WCT No. 5, survived a hard-fought battle with Kai Otton (AUS), 33, and Patrick Gudauskas (USA), 27, to punctuate this morning's action. "Very happy to get through a heat out at Bells," Wilson said. "I had a bit of success here in my junior career, but lost in Round 2 the last few years. So yeah, I'm into Round 3 and that's already the best result of my professional career here." Long considered one of the premiere surfers on the planet, Wilson's start to the 2013 season has positioned the young Sunshine Coaster in the hunt for the 2013 ASP World Title. "A Top 5 finish this year would be great but the World Title is the goal," Wilson said. "I had a pretty good start on the Gold Coast and hopefully I can back it up at Bells and keep the momentum up. The waves are pretty fun and I think today may be the smallest we get it through the window so hopefully we get to finish up in the Bells Bowl." While the top seeds dominated the opening day proceedings, rookies Nat Young (USA), 21, and Filipe Toledo (BRA), 17, collected dynamic Round 1 victories of their own with Young posting a dramatic last-minute win with his searing backhand surfing and Toledo flying across and over the rippable Rincon righthanders to advance directly into Round 3. Kolohe Andino (USA), 19, ASP Dream Tour sophomore, punctuated the day's affairs with a high-flying exhibition against Jordy Smith (ZAF), 25, andC.J. Hobgood (USA), 33. Andino opened up the heat with a full-rotation aerial for a 9.57 and took a commanding 17.14 heat total to finish out the day. "It's a weird dynamic on this tour as they're all your favorite surfers and you want to beat them," Andino said. "Jordy (Smith) is one of my favorite surfers and CJ (Hobgood) is so deadly. I'm having fun though. I feel like my surfing has improved a lot from last year. Hopefully we get good waves for the rest of the event." When men's competition resumes, up first will be Taj Burrow (AUS), 34, up against Jacob Willcox (AUS), 15, in the opening heat of Round 2. Event organizers will reconvene tomorrow at 7:30am to assess conditions for a possible 8am start. The 2013 Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach will be webcast LIVE via www.live.ripcurl.com and broadcast live on Fuel TV in Australia and Portugal, ESPN in Brazil and MCS Extreme in France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Switzerland and Africa. You can also watch the event live via the Rip Curl Pro iPhone app, available free in the iTunes App Store. CoastalWatch, official forecasters for the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach, have called for: A mid period SW swell maintains three foot surf at Bells on Friday and eases into Saturday. A stronger increase in long period SW groundswell arrives over the Easter long weekend. This is likely to be followed by another strong SSW groundswell around Wednesday 4 April. For more information, log onto www.aspworldtour.com RIP CURL PRO BELLS BEACH ROUND 1 RESULTS: Heat 1: Raoni Monteiro (BRA) 13.60, Matt Wilkinson (AUS) 13.33, Gabriel Medina (BRA) 11.17 Heat 2: Julian Wilson (AUS) 14.64, Kai Otton (AUS) 14.43, Patrick Gudauskas (USA) 12.83 Heat 3: Willian Cardoso (BRA) 15.06, Taj Burrow (AUS) 11.33, Kieren Perrow (AUS) 8.16 Heat 4: Mick Fanning (AUS) 14.83, Sebastian Zietz (HAW) 12.34, Oney Anwar (IDN) 7.60 Heat 5: Joel Parkinson (AUS) 16.20, Brett Simpson (USA) 10.20, Jack Perry (AUS) 8.87 Heat 6: Kelly Slater (USA) 18.03, Adam Melling (AUS) 15.50, Jacob Willcox (AUS) 10.17 Heat 7: Alejo Muniz (BRA) 16.33, Adriano de Souza (BRA) 13.60, Tiago Pires (PRT) 11.10 Heat 8: Josh Kerr (AUS) 15.06, Dusty Payne (HAW) 14.20, Damien Hobgood (USA) 13.87 Heat 9: Nat Young (USA) 16.43, Jeremy Flores (FRA) 15.90, Travis Logie (ZAF) 12.20 Heat 10: Filipe Toledo (BRA) 15.47, Michel Bourez (PYF) 13.67, Bede Durbidge (AUS) 12.23 Heat 11: Adrian Buchan (AUS) 17.26, Glenn Hall (IRL) 13.77, Owen Wright (AUS) 13.73 Heat 12: Kolohe Andino (USA) 17.14, C.J. 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LYON, France – Close collaboration between law enforcement in Georgia, Israel and INTERPOL's Crimes Against Children unit has led to the removal from harm of an 11-year-old girl and the arrest of a man accused of sexually abusing her and sharing the sexual abuse images online. The girl's mother was also arrested for allegedly participating in the production of the child sexual abuse materials.
The investigation began a year ago when victim identification specialists in the United States seized abuse images and shared them with their counterparts worldwide via INTERPOL's International Child Sexual Exploitation (ICSE) database.
Further images of the same victim were also added to the INTERPOL database by investigators in Australia and Denmark. The images were found online and also available for sale via various websites.
Analysis of the child sexual abuse material by INTERPOL's Crimes Against Children unit at the General Secretariat headquarters in Lyon and investigators from its global specialist network identified clues which pointed to Georgia as the country where it was produced. Investigators believed the abuse had been ongoing for at least three years.
Additional intelligence suggested that the offender trading in the abuse material was residing in Israel. INTERPOL coordinated the investigative efforts through its National Central Bureaus (NCBs) in Tbilisi and Jerusalem to positively identify the victim and the perpetrator.
Police in Georgia and Israel carried out a joint operation in early April, which resulted in the arrest of an Israeli man of Georgian origin who police said had traveled to Georgia several times to abuse the girl.
In addition, the victim was removed from further harm and her mother arrested for facilitating the sexual abuse, as well as producing more abuse materials of the girl and trading it to the perpetrator for money.
"This case highlights the need for international collaboration and how INTERPOL's tools, services and operational assistance can be used to counter the speed and ease with which offenders network, exchange child abuse material and organize the exploitation of children using the Internet and other technologies," said Michael Moran, the Head of INTERPOL's Crimes Against Children unit.
"The identification of the victim in this case led directly to the rescue and the arrest of her abusers. Victim identification must therefore be an integral part of any child exploitation investigation," he concluded.
As a result of the investigation and arrests, more child sexual abuse material was discovered, which police hope will lead to the identification of further victims and perpetrators.


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WATER. That liquid substance of which the sea, the rivers, and creeks are composed.
2. A pool of water, or a stream or water course, is considered as part of the land, hence a pool of twenty acres, would pass by the grant of twenty acres of land, without mentioning the water. 2 Bl. Com. 18; 2 N. H. Rep. 255; 1, Wend. R. 255; 5 Paige, R. 141; 2 N. H. Rep. 371; 2 Brownl. 142; 5 Cowen, R. 216; 5 Conn. R. 497; 1 Wend. R. 237. A mere grant of water passes only a fishery. Co. Lit. 4 b.
3. Like land, water is distinguishable into different parts, as the sea, (q. v.) rivers, (q. v.) docks, (q. v.) canals, (q. v.) ponds, q v.) and sewers, (q. v.) and to these may be added at water course. (q. v.) Vide 4 Mason, R. 397 River; Water course.


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A pope who leads by humble example
Published 12:00 am Thursday, September 26, 2013
A few words on the new pope.
Since ascending to the papacy in March, the former Jorge Mario Bergoglio has managed to surprise and impress the religious and irreligious alike by living a brand of faith seldom seen on the public stage. Pope Francis insists on carrying his own bags, living in a simple apartment and cooking his own supper. He has largely shunned the papal Mercedes-Benz in favor of a 5-year-old Ford Focus. One of the earliest acts of his papacy was to wash and kiss the feet of a dozen young prisoners, two of them girls, at least one of them a Muslim.
But the pontiff's appeal has not been solely stylistic. It has also been a matter of substance. This is, after all, the pope who famously asked, "Who am I to judge?" gay people. And who criticized Catholics as narrowly "obsessed" with abortion, same-sex marriage and contraception. And who called his church to be "for the poor." And who said God loves atheists, too.
Tellingly, the pope has not — yet — sought to change any bedrock teaching of Catholicism. Still, his vision of a more compassionate and inclusive church has won him rave reviews from across the cultural spectrum. Thomas Groome, a theology professor at Boston University, called him "a breath of fresh air." Columnist Michael Gerson described him approvingly as a "disruptive force." Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show" said, "I love this guy!" Chris Rock tweeted that "the new pope might be the greatest man alive."
It is a shower of unaccustomed approbation that should leave Christians, well … a little embarrassed.
They — we — should ask what it tells us that a pope models humility, inclusion, unpretentiousness, concern for the poor and nonjudgmental, small "c" catholic love — and people are surprised. Indeed, it generates headlines around the world.
What it should tell us is that people are not used to seeing those virtues from people of faith. Their praise, then, amounts to a stark indictment.
Let's consider for a moment the washing of the feet. Though Francis broke with tradition by including prisoners, women and non-Christians, the ritual itself is an old one based in one of the more poignant incidents in the Bible. The book of John recounts how Jesus, in the hours before his crucifixion, decides to teach his disciples one last lesson. He kneels before them and washes their feet.
People call this an act of humility. If you are a Christian, that word is not nearly strong enough for the idea of God incarnate, the Creator of Creation, the Author of Everything, wiping dirt and camel dung from the feet of these often dull-witted fishermen — and then telling them explicitly that He is setting an example He wants them to follow.
Take care of one another. Serve one another. And, for God's sake, love one another.
It is an example of selfless service — faith as obligation, not license — that seems wholly alien to much of modern American Christianity. There, when people speak of "faith," it often means some pious politician likening poor people to stray animals. Or some Bible Belt town organizing to keep the Muslims out. Or some preacher preaching that he prays for President Obama to die. Or some pundit using God as his excuse for condemning people by the millions based solely upon who and how they love. Small wonder Americans who seem increasingly disenchanted by faith and polls, like the 2008 American Religious Identification Survey, find the influence of organized religion to be waning.
Then we see this new pope declaring the dignity of the poor, the inclusion of the marginalized, the denial of self, the infinity of God's compassion, and people are surprised by this new thing.
But the very fact that they are surprised speaks volumes. Because isn't that what faith was supposed to be all along?
Leonard Pitts is a columnist for the Miami Herald (email@example.com).


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text: File photo of journalist James Foley.Washington, United States: A grisly video shows Islamic State militants beheading American journalist James Foley, US officials said, in what the extremists called retribution for recent US airstrikes in Iraq. The militants threatened to kill another captive they also identified as an American journalist.After the video was released Tuesday, Foley's family separately confirmed his death in a statement posted on a Facebook page that was created to rally support for his release, saying they "have never been prouder of him.""He gave his life trying to expose the world to the suffering of the Syrian people," said the statement, which was attributed to Foley's mother, Diane Foley. She implored the militants to spare the lives of other hostages. "Like Jim, they are innocents. They have no control over American government policy in Iraq, Syria or anywhere in the world."The statement was posted on a Facebook page called "Find James Foley," which his family has used a number of times since his November 2012 disappearance. Earlier Tuesday, a red-eyed but gracious Diane Foley said the family would not make an immediate statement when approached at her home by an Associated Press reporter. A priest arrived at the home several hours later.Foley, a 40-year-old journalist from Rochester, New Hampshire, went missing in northern Syria while freelancing for Agence France-Presse and the Boston-based media company GlobalPost. The car he was riding in was stopped by four militants in a contested battle zone that both Sunni rebel fighters and government forces were trying to control. He had not been heard from since.The video released on websites Tuesday appears to show the increasing sophistication of the Islamic State group's media arm and begins with scenes of President Barack Obama explaining his decision to order airstrikes.It then cuts to a bald man in an orange jumpsuit kneeling in the desert, next to a black-clad militant with a knife to his throat. Foley's name appears in both English and Arabic graphics on screen, and he is wearing a clip-on microphone as he begins his statement. The scene is captured on at least two video cameras and has been edited in a professional style.After the captive speaks, the masked man is shown apparently beginning to cut at the neck of the captive; the video fades to black before the beheading is completed. The next shot appears to show the captive lying dead on the ground, his head on his body. The video appears to have been shot in an arid area; there is no vegetation to be seen and the horizon is in the distance where the sand meets the gray-blue sky. The sound quality is sharp.At the end of the video, a militant shows a second man, who was identified as another American journalist, Steven Sotloff, and warns that he could be the next captive killed. Sotloff was kidnapped near the Syrian-Turkish border in August 2013 and freelanced for Time, the National Interest and MediaLine.One US official said the video appeared to be authentic, and two other U.S. officials said the victim was Foley. All three officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the killing by name.One of the officials said Obama was expected to make a statement about the killing on Wednesday. Obama was briefed about the video on Air Force One on Tuesday as he flew from Washington to resume his vacation on the resort island of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. A White House statement said he would continue to receive regular updates.The beheading marks the first time the Islamic State has killed an American citizen since the Syrian conflict broke out in March 2011, upping the stakes in an increasingly chaotic and multilayered war. If confirmed, the killing is likely to complicate U.S. involvement in Iraq and the Obama administration's efforts to contain the group as it expands in both Iraq and Syria.The group is the heir apparent of the militancy known as al-Qaida in Iraq, which beheaded many of its victims, including American businessman Nicholas Berg in 2004.The Islamic State militant group is so ruthless in its attacks against all people they consider heretics or infidels that it has been disowned by al-Qaida's leaders. In seeking to impose its harsh interpretation of Islamic law in the lands it is trying to control, the extremists have slain soldiers and civilians alike in horrifying killings - including mounting the decapitated heads of some of its victims on spikes.Several senior US officials with direct knowledge of the situation said the Islamic State very recently threatened to kill Foley to avenge the crushing airstrikes over the last two weeks against militants advancing on Mount Sinjar, the Mosul dam and the Kurdish capital of Irbil.Both areas are in northern Iraq, which has become a key front for the Islamic State as its fighters travel to and from Syria.Since Aug. 8, the US military has struck more than 70 Islamic State targets - including security checkpoints, vehicles and weapons caches. It's not clear how many militants have been killed in the strikes, although it's likely that some were.Officials from the State Department and Pentagon contacted social media sites Tuesday to inform them of the video and ask them to remove it. White House National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said the Obama administration asked the sites to "take appropriate action consistent with their stated usage policies."In 2011, Foley was among a small group of journalists held captive for six weeks by the government in Libya and was released after receiving a one-year suspended sentence on charges of illegally entering the country. In a May 2011 interview about his experience, he recounted watching a fellow journalist being killed in a firefight and said he would regret that day for the rest of his life. At the time, Foley said he "would love to go back" to Libya to report on the conflict and spoke of his enduring commitment to the profession of journalism."Journalism is journalism," Foley said during the AP interview, which was held in GlobalPost's office in Boston. "If I had a choice to do Nashua (New Hampshire) zoning meetings or give up journalism, I'll do it. I love writing and reporting."The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists estimated Tuesday that about 20 journalists are missing in Syria, and has not released their nationalities. In its annual report last November, CPJ concluded that the missing journalists are either being held and threatened with death by extremists, or taken captive by gangs seeking ransom. The group's report described the widespread seizure of journalists as unprecedented and largely unreported by news organizations in the hope that keeping the kidnappings out of public view may help in the captives' release.PromotedListen to the latest songs, only on JioSaavn.comEarlier on Tuesday, GlobalPost CEO and co-founder Philip Balboni in a statement asked "for your prayers for Jim and his family." AFP chairman Emmanuel Hoog said the French news agency was "horrified" by the video and called Foley "a brave, independent and impartial journalist."Also ReadMarried US Teacher Caught Having Sex With Student In Car, Arrested"Act Of Piracy": White House Tells Iran To Immediately Release Seized ShipFloating Home: Two-Storey House Embarks On Journey Across San Francisco Bay


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A man who has accused "X-Men" director Bryan Singer of sexually abusing him when he was a teen sued three more entertainment industry figures Monday, claiming they also molested him.
The allegations in the latest lawsuits filed by Michael Egan III are substantially similar to his legal action against Singer. That lawsuit accuses the director of abusing him between the ages of 15 and 17 in Los Angeles and Hawaii.
Monday's lawsuits were filed in federal court in Hawaii against former Fox television executive Garth Ancier, theater producer Gary Wayne Goddard, and David A. Neuman, a former television executive with Current TV and Disney.
Alan Grodin, an attorney for Goddard, said the executive was out of the country and had not seen the lawsuit.
"Based on what we have heard, the allegations are without merit," Grodin wrote in a statement. "Once we have seen the complaint we will respond appropriately."
Ancier did not respond to phone and email messages seeking comment.
Neuman could not be reached for comment. Phone numbers associated with him have been disconnected, and he did not immediately respond to a message sent through the social networking site LinkedIn.
The lawsuits were filed in Hawaii under a law that temporarily suspends the statute of limitations in civil sex abuse cases.
Singer's attorney, Marty Singer, has denied the director abused Egan, calling the allegations defamatory. He has said the director was not in Hawaii when Egan says he was abused and was instead working on production for the first "X-Men" film.
None of the men has been criminally charged, and the statute of limitations for any such charges has passed.
Ancier was the founding programmer at the Fox network, later going on to create programming for The WB, and was a top executive at NBC Entertainment.
Egan, 31, appeared at a news conference Monday alongside his mother, who tearfully described her efforts to report alleged abuses to the FBI in 1999 and 2000.
Bonnie Mound said she wrote several letters to FBI agents in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., urging them to take action. She questioned why those letters and information her son provided in interviews with an agent did not result in criminal charges.
The FBI has said it could not discuss specifically what Egan told them, however, the agency denied last week that it had ignored any information about Singer.
"The suggestion that the FBI ignored a minor victim, or evidence involving the sexual victimization of a child, is ludicrous," FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said in a statement. She reiterated the statement after Egan's news conference Monday.
Mound denied her son's lawsuits were motivated by anything other than holding the defendants accountable.
"It's not about money," Mound said, breaking down in tears.
Egan said he spent several years masking his pain by drinking. He stopped drinking within the past year, entered therapy and sought out a lawyer who would pursue a case.
The Associated Press does not typically name victims of sex abuse but is naming Egan because he is speaking publicly about his allegations.
Egan's attorney, Jeff Herman, said he had spent six months investigating before filing the lawsuits but acknowledged he didn't have all the investigative files or Singer's records that might show the director wasn't in Hawaii during the timeframe. Herman said he has asked Singer's lawyers for those records.
Egan claims he was lured into a sex ring run by a former digital entertainment company executive, Marc Collins-Rector, with promises of auditions for acting, modeling and commercial jobs. He was put on the company's payroll as an actor and forced to have sex with adult men at parties within Hollywood's entertainment industry, the lawsuit said.
Collins-Rector pleaded guilty in 2004 to transporting five minors across state lines to have sex.
Phone numbers listed for Collins-Rector have been disconnected and attempts to reach him for comment last week were unsuccessful. Records maintained in Florida, where Collins-Rector is required to register as a sex offender, show that in 2008 his last known address was in the Dominican Republic.
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Favorite Things. Rock.
It's Day 3 of my week long celebration of National Library Week! Today, it's all about favorite things!
Up first, California Strawberries! They are delicious, delicious, delicious and the first sign of the soon-to-come onslaught of stone fruits and other lovely summer delights! Strawberries have always been my favorite!
This is the Barefoot Contessa's Strawberry Country Cake. It's Cake (my favorite). It's Strawberries (oh yes). It's Whipped Cream (come on, who doesn't love fresh whipped cream!?!)
You can find the recipe here on the FoodNetwork website. It makes two cakes and you freeze one for later in the summer!
One of my favorite shows is America's Best Dance Crew on MTV! Congrats Los Angeles Quest Crew! Not that I'm a hip hop dancer (remember, I have so little rhythm I can't do the rhythm method), I found myself txting in votes along with 14-year old kid next door. Sigh. One day I'll act my age.
People, check out that Head Spin!! These b-girl librarians are krumping, popping, locking, and gliding to a mix of Lady Gaga and Ne-Yo (you just can't see it in this photo :) Please note that the Librarian Action Figure don't do much action. Nothing moves on her except her arms...in order to do a Shushing motion!
It's National Library Week! All this week, I'm highlighting a library thing. Today, it's movies and music. I know some adults haven't been to their library since they were kids and think libraries only have books...but many libraries have current DVDs and music CDs in their collections. Sometimes you might have to wait a bit if there is a queue, but the check outs are often free or less than a rental store. In our current economic situation, libraries may be able to entertain you with movies, books, and music!
To celebrate Day 3 of National Library Week, I'm giving away the following to one lucky winner:
b. Handmade beaded bookmark (designed by my friend Julie!)
c. Disneyland book bag (carry all your library books, DVDs and CDs in this cool bag)
d. $10 Starbucks gift card...okay, is this a bit of regifting or "sharing"? Ever 56 days or so, I donate a pint of blood at my local hospital and receive a Thank You $5 Starbucks giftcard. I don't drink coffee and the Starbucks near my work has closed...so I don't go often. I know Starbucks is a "favorite thing" of many people out there so I thought I would pass these along!
To enter the Day 3 Giveaway, simply leave a comment below (one entry per person) and I'll pick the winner from a hat. Deadline: Monday, April 20, 2009 at midnight PDT. If your comment isn't linked to a blog where I can find you, please leave your email or check back on Tuesday, April 21st to see if you won. Shipping to U.S. addresses only.
Enter the Day 1 Giveaway for mini-cake pans and Day 2 Giveaway for mini-loaf pans, bookmark and bag. Deadline is also Monday, April 20, 2009! Coming up tomorrow...more miniature stuff giveaways!


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Pastor, Church Official Shot Dead in Nigeria
Muslim militants of Boko Haram blamed for killings in Borno state
JOS, Nigeria – Muslim extremists from the Boko Haram sect on Tuesday shot and killed a Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) pastor and his church secretary in Maiduguri, in northeastern Nigeria's Borno state.
The Rev. David Usman, 45, and church secretary Hamman Andrew were the latest casualties in an upsurge of Islamic militancy that has engulfed northern Nigeria this year, resulting in the destruction of church buildings and the killing and maiming of Christians.
The Rev. Titus Dama Pona, pastor with the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) in Maiduguri, told Compass that Pastor Usman was shot and killed by the members of the Boko Haram near an area of Maiduguri called the Railway Quarters, where the slain pastor's church is located.
Pona said Christians in Maiduguri have become full of dread over the violence of Boko Haram, which seeks to impose sharia (Islamic law) on northern Nigeria.
"Christians have become the targets of these Muslim militants – we no longer feel free moving around the city, and most churches no longer carry out worship service for fear of becoming targets of these unprovoked attacks," Pona said.
Officials at COCIN's national headquarters in Jos, Plateau state, confirmed the killing of Pastor Usman. The Rev. Logan Gongchi of a COCIN congregation in Kerang, Jos, told Compass that area Christians were shocked at the news.
Gongchi said he attended Gindiri Theological College with Pastor Usman beginning in August 2003, and that both of them were ordained into pastoral ministry on Nov. 27, 2009.
"We knew him to be very gentle, an introvert, who was always silent in the class and only spoke while answering questions from our teachers," Gongchi said. "He had a simple lifestyle and was easygoing with other students. He was very accommodating and ready at all times to withstand life's pressures – this is in addition to being very jovial."
Gongchi described Usman as "a pastor to the core because of his humility. I remember he once told me that he was not used to working with peasant farmers' working tools, like the hoe. But with time he adapted to the reality of working with these tools on the farm in the school."
Pastor Usman was excellent at counseling Christians and others while they were at the COCIN theological college, Gongchi said, adding that the pastor greatly encouraged him when he was suffering a long illness from 2005 to 2007.
"His encouraging words kept my faith alive, and the Lord saw me overcoming my ill health," he said. "So when I heard the news about his murder, I cried."
The late pastor had once complained about the activities of Boko Haram, saying that unless the Nigerian government faced up to the challenge of its attacks, the extremist group would consume the lives of innocent persons, according to Gongchi.
"Pastor Usman once commented on the activities of the Boko Haram, which he said has undermined the church not only in Maiduguri, but in Borno state," Gongchi said. "At the time, he urged us to pray for them, as they did not know how the problem will end."
Gongchi advised the Nigerian government to find a lasting solution to Boko Haram's violence, which has also claimed the lives of moderate Muslim leaders and police.
The Railway Quarters area in Maiduguri housed the seat of Boko Haram until 2009, when Nigerian security agencies and the military demolished its headquarters and captured and killed the sect's leader, Mohammed Yusuf, and some of his followers.
The killing of Pastor Usman marked the second attack on his church premises by the Muslim militants. The first attack came on July 29, 2009, when Boko Haram militants burned the church building and killed some members of his congregation.
On Monday (June 6), the militants had bombed the St. Patrick's Catholic Church, along with other areas in Maiduguri, killing three people. In all, 14 people were killed in three explosions at the church and police stations, and authorities have arrested 14 people.
The Boko Haram name is interpreted figuratively as "against Western education," but some say it can also refer to the forbidding of the Judeo-Christian faith. They say the word "Boko" is a corruption in Hausa language for the English word "Book," referring to the Islamic scripture's description of Jews and Christians as "people of the Book," while "Haram" is a Hausa word derived from Arabic meaning, "forbidding."
Boko Haram leaders have openly declared that they want to establish an Islamic theocratic state in Nigeria, and they reject democratic institutions, which they associate with Christianity. Their bombings and suspected involvement in April's post-election violence in Nigeria were aimed at stifling democracy, which they see as a system of government built on the foundation of Christian scripture.
Christians as well as Muslims suffered many casualties after supporters of Muslim presidential candidate Muhammudu Buhari lost the April 16 federal election to Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian. Primarily Muslim rioters claimed vote fraud, although international observers praised the polls as the fairest since 1999.
Nigeria's population of more than 158.2 million is almost evenly divided between Christians, who make up 51.3 percent of the population and live mainly in the south, and Muslims, who account for 45 percent of the population and live mainly in the north. The percentages may be less, however, as those practicing indigenous religions may be as high as 10 percent of the total population, according to Operation World.


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OCEAN CITY — The Coast Guard and several Good Samaritans were kept busy this week with two separate incidents of boats in distress dozens of miles offshore including a 38-foot vessel that sank last Saturday.
Around 10:30 a.m. last Saturday, the Coast Guard received a radio call from a boat carrying nine people, which reported the vessel was taking on water about 46 miles offshore. A Coast Guard C-130 Hercules air crew from North Carolina was in the general area assisting with another disabled vessel when the request for help was received.
The 38-foot boat sank about a half an hour later at 11 a.m. The Coast Guard coordinated with two Good Samaritan vessels in the area on the rescue of the nine people in the water 46 miles offshore. Many of the people rescued by the Coast Guard and the assisting private boats were showing signs of medical distress. A 47-foot Coast Guard motor life boat crew brought all nine victims back to Station Ocean City to waiting emergency medical services. The names and conditions of the victim, and the name of the vessel that sank, have not been made public.
On Monday, another incident involving a vessel in distress unfolded. Around 12:15 p.m., the 27-foot pleasure boat "Last One" radioed the Coast Guard it was taking on water after its anchor damaged the hull around 25 miles southeast of Ocean City. The Coast Guard immediately issued an urgent broadcast and dispatched a MH-65 Dolphin helicopter and rescue crew from Air Station Atlantic City and the 47-foot motor life boat crew from Station Ocean City.
Meanwhile, three crewmembers on the "Lil Angler II" heard the distress call and the conversation on the radio and plotted the distressed vessel's position in relation to their own position. The "Lil Angler II" was heading to shore from an overnight trip and determined it was about 25 miles southeast from the position reported by the "Last One."
Captain Brian Wazlavek was at the helm of the "Lil Angler II" and the crew faced a decision of whether to turn back toward the distressed vessel at least an hour away in the opposite direction. Wazlavek said this week the decision was an easy one when he listened to the conversations between the "Last One" crew and the Coast Guard.
"At first, they seemed pretty calm and it didn't seem like they were too distressed," he said. "But through each conversation over the radio, we could tell by their voices they were becoming more and more panicked. You could here they were really in trouble."
The "Lil Angler II" turned about and chugged toward the distressed vessel. When they plotted the last known position again, they realized they were now just about 10 miles away and reached the "Last One" in about 25 minutes. Wazlavek said when they reached the "Last One," the ocean was washing over the brackets that support the outboard motors and the bow was sitting low in the water.
The "Lil Angler II" attempted to pull close to the distressed vessel to pass over a hand bilge pump, but conditions prevented it from getting too close. Ultimately, the "Lil Angler II" was able to get the hand pump to the crew on the "Last One," and they immediately began to remove the water. Meanwhile, the "Lil Angler II" crew stayed in contact with the Coast Guard and set off an orange smoke signal to better mark the position.
The Coast Guard helicopter arrived and dropped a rescue swimmer into the ocean nearby who was able to get aboard the "Last One" and assist the fatigued crew. The Coast Guard also dropped an automated pump that expedited the dewatering of the distressed vessel.
Wazlavek said the hand pumping likely bought the "Last One" crew some valuable time until the Coast Guard arrived on the scene.
"I'm not sure how much of an actual difference we made in terms of preventing the boat from sinking, but we definitely made a psychological difference," he said. "They were clearly relieved when we made it to them and got the pump to them. I think it lifted their spirits just seeing us arrive."
The Coast Guard rescue boat arrived and relieved the rescue swimmer, who was picked up by the helicopter. The Coast Guard put one of its crewmembers on board to assist with the pumping and escorted the vessel back to the West Ocean City commercial harbor. Coast Guard officials praised the quick response by the "Lil Angler II" and its assistance with the rescue.
"The crew of the Good Samaritan boat made this one of the easiest cases I have worked," said Lt. Joseph Heal, the pilot of the helicopter. "They lent their hand pump to the sinking vessel, provided updated position reports and popped an emergency smoke signal, which allowed us to locate the sinking vessel quickly and provide immediate assistance. If they had not been there, we could have been searching a large area for three people in the water."


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{Be warned...a very wordy post, with lots of personal pictures. But, there ARE cookies, too!}
My very favorite thing about blogging is that it has brought some really amazing and true friendships into my life. ♥
For Mother's Day two years ago, Mr. E surprised me with a trip to visit my very first blogging friend, Cheryl from TidyMom. It was so much fun that I decided then and there that visiting bloggy friends in real life must be continued.
TERESA from Blooming on Bainbridge!!!
Now, Teresa and I had gotten to the point of texting each other, oh, about 247,000 times a day. It was high time we met...and we DID!!!
You know how Teresa is the sunniest, funniest, happiest girl on her blog? Well, she's that x 1,000 in person. And her house? Oh, it's only the cutest place ever.
{Psst...See that handsome man with the cool glasses in the picture with kiddo and & Mr. E? That's Teresa's husband. I swear, bloggers have the best husbands. I just love him.}
Oh, and y'all...Seattle is a foodie town. Great food is everyWHERE! Take a look at this salted caramel cupcake from The Yellow Leaf Cupcake Co.
And I'm chubby.
Let's talk about Seattle...or, our home away from home, the Pan Pacific Hotel.
This was our view:
I'm pretty much in love with this hotel. From the location (in a hip little neighborhood where Amazon is making it's new home), to the service (impeccable), to the WHOLE FOODS MARKET downstairs!
Foodies...if you are planning a trip to BlogHer Food in June, you might want to consider the Pan Pacific! {Y'all...they have free wifi. They know better than to separate a blogger from her wifi.}
Now to the cookies...
So, I stole a picture of Doogan from Teresa's blog ;), and printed it out.
For the cookies, I used Callye's method of turning a scalloped circle cookie into a scalloped oval. (I love this!) The cookies were outlined and filled with light turquoise icing.
After the cookies had been drying for about an hour, I peeled the Doogan silhouettes off of the waxed paper and gently placed them on the cookies. (The cookies are still wet enough to hold the silhouette without disturbing the icing.) Then, the cookies dried uncovered overnight.
Seattle Spring Break...I recommend it.
I'll leave you with one more (can you stand it?) picture. It's blurry, but I think it's my favorite.


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Lost Boy
His name was William Frederick Hunter, and she only saw him once.
Once, from behind the window of the nursery. He was wrapped in a blue blanket, and he was oh so small. They asked her if she wanted to hold him, and she said no. Just as she had in the delivery room, right after he was born, when she had squeezed her eyes shut so that she wouldn't see him, her heart, the heart that she was giving away. She said no.
It would have killed me, she said. It would have killed me. I couldn't have gone on. I loved him.
She had loved his father. They had planned to marry, as soon as he divorced his wife. Nobody had believed her, but it was true. It seemed true. They'd run off together twice. They both went AWOL from the Air Force, running off into the night to be together. Her family pursued them, his wife's family sent private detectives after them, the Air Force searched for them. They were wanted. They ran. They were found, and they ran again. He left his family for her, risked his career for her. He was happy that they were going to have a baby. They hid out in motels.
At the time, she said, I thought it was romantic. She shakes her head.
She was nineteen years old. He was nearly twice her age. When her family found her the second time, they didn't bother to reason with her. They just took her. They took her and put her in a home for unwed mothers. She stayed there. She doesn't know what happened to her lover. She never saw or heard from him again. She thinks that he probably went back to the Air Force, and to his wife.
I would have liked for him to know that he had a son, she said. I think that would have made him happy. She paused. Or maybe not.
When she went into labor, the nurses at the home for unwed mothers gave her some money and put her in a taxi. She arrived at the hospital alone, labored alone, gave birth alone. Gave up her child alone.
She was alone when the social worker came into her room and asked her if she knew anything about the parents who would adopt her child. It's a private adoption, she told the worker. My doctor arranged it. The social worker nodded. But did she know that those parents were in their 60's? That they were old? That the province would never approve it if it were a public adoption? She didn't know. She didn't want that. She wasn't giving up her son to new parents, only for him to lose them in a few years. Like he was losing her, now. She wanted the best for him. That was the only way she could do this. She had to know that she was giving him a better life.
She called her doctor in. She told her that she wouldn't do it. She wanted her son to go to a young family, to parents who had their whole lives ahead of them, to parents who had years and years and years to love him. Her doctor was furious.
I was terrified, she said. I'd never spoken up to anyone older than me, not to anyone with any authority. But I had to do it. For him.
Her baby went into foster care while adoption services sought new parents. She didn't go to see him.
My parents went to see him, I think, she said. They never talked about it, but I'm sure they did. My mother put him in her will, and kept him there. Through revisions and revisions until the end of her life, she kept him there, always a member of the family, in her heart.
The man that she would some day marry came to her side during that time. They were friends. He held her hand, a lot. She grieved for her lost love and her lost baby, and he held her hand. He said, I'll marry you. We can get your baby back. I will love that baby. With you. We will love that baby, together.
But it was too late.
William Frederick Hunter was adopted by a Vancouver couple. Professors at UBC, I think, she said. It was too late for me, she said. For us. Or so we thought. We didn't know any better. We were so young. We might have been able to get him back. But we didn't try. We didn't know to try. We thought he was gone.
She grieved for years. Her husband held her hand. She couldn't bear the idea of having children. Just the thought of seeing another baby in another blanket... it was too much.
The grief became less acute, as time passed. One day, she realized that she could have another baby, and bear the pain. She could imagine not transposing her lost boy upon a new child. She could love again.
It took seven years, she said. Seven years before I knew that I would be okay. And then I had - then we had - you.
And I loved again.
I squeeze my own baby boy, pulling him tightly against my chest, wondering how it would feel to let him go. Even if I thought it best, for him - could I let him go? My heart screams.
I understand why she couldn't hold him, her lost boy.
I've thought about him every single day of my life, she says. Every single day. Every single day I see that little baby in that blue blanket, and I wonder.
I wonder.
She pauses. I imagine that her hand trembles as she lifts her wine to her lips, but I can't see in the dim light of the late summer evening. I'm glad that I can't see, and that she can't see me. Tears are streaming down my face and wetting my baby's head.
I've never looked for him. I couldn't. What if something had happened to him? What if he hated me? What if he didn't want to know anything of me? What if he never forgave me? Her voice cracks. I couldn't stand knowing.
We sit quietly. I reach for the wine bottle between us and fill her emptied glass.
Still, she says. Still. I've often wondered whether you or your sister would ever look for him.
Would you want me to?
She takes a sip of her wine. She doesn't look at me.
Then I will.
Thank you.
We sit.
I just want him to know how much I loved him. How much I love him still.
I know.
Thank you.
His name was William Frederick Hunter, and he's my brother. I'm going to find him.
PS: Because you are asking: he was born in July of 1963, at Grace Hospital in Vancouver. William Frederick Hunter was the name given to him to at birth. One or both of his parents were - we think - professors at UBC. That's all I know.
PPS: Those of you who are offering to help - oh god the tears - your generosity makes my heart ache - please e-mail me, if you haven't already. And, all of you, with all of your tremendous words of support: THANK YOU. Going off to weep now.
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Jailbreaking and unlocking might be restricted in treaty pushed by Obama
Ars Technica | Nov 19 2013
Jailbreaking and unlocking might be restricted in treaty pushed by Obama
International ban could make it difficult to change US law for the better.
Jon Brodkin
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) treaty pushed by the Obama administration could complicate efforts to loosen restrictions on jailbreaking and unlocking smartphones, tablets, or other consumer electronics.
A working draft of the treaty published by WikiLeaks prohibits the manufacturing or distribution of devices or services "for the purpose of circumvention of any effective technological measure." It goes on to prohibit devices and services that "have only a limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent any effective technological measure, or are primarily designed, produced, or performed for the purpose of the circumvention of any effective technological measure."
Derek Khanna, a Yale Law Fellow who submitted a White House petition that led to the Obama administration publicly supporting the end of a ban on unlocking, wrote in Slate that "while the White House was publicly proclaiming its support of cellphone unlocking, it was secretly negotiating a treaty that would ban it."
The treaty text never specifically mentions jailbreaking or unlocking, but the lack of an exemption to the ban on circumventing technological measures has Khanna worried.
"The treaty as proposed would stop all methods of circumvention," Khanna wrote in an e-mail to Ars. "The key is that there must be an exemption to allow for unlocking. In the draft text, there is no exemption for unlocking."
Canada submitted an amendment that could be interpreted to exempt unlocking and jailbreaking. For example, Canada's amendment would allow "circumvention of a technological measure on a radio apparatus for the sole purpose of gaining or facilitating access to a telecommunication service by means of the radio apparatus."
The treaty is still being negotiated, although 151 Democratic US representatives have come out against Obama's "use of outdated 'Fast Track' procedures that usurp Congress's authority over trade matters." Twenty-two House Republicans similarly opposed Obama's use of Fast Track authority that lets him "sign trade agreements before Congress has an opportunity to vote on them."
Besides the US and Canada, the treaty negotiations include Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, Japan, and Mexico.
Congress still has a voice
The actual impact TPP would have on US consumers isn't entirely straightforward, in part because the TPP mirrors existing US law. "The US has proposed this whole set of laws around DRM based on our existing DMCA [Digital Millennium Copyright Act]," and it's trying to export them to the rest of the world with the treaty, Sherwin Siy, VP of legal affairs at consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge, told Ars.
TPP itself is "consistent with our law today," he said. The treaty wouldn't make it impossible for the US to reform its laws, but it could make it difficult, Siy said.
Unlocking a phone removes restrictions placed on it by carriers, allowing a consumer to hook it up to any other carrier's network provided it is compatible. It is illegal for a consumer to unlock a phone today because the Librarian of Congress did not provide an exemption for unlocking under the DMCA. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is urging carriers to let consumers unlock phones once they've completed their contracts and has threatened to issue regulations if they refuse.
Jailbreaking is different. It frees a device from restrictions imposed by the manufacturer. For instance, jailbreaking an Apple iPhone or iPad makes it possible to install any application that can work with the device instead of just those Apple has approved for inclusion in its App Store. Under our strange set of laws, jailbreaking a smartphone is legal under the DMCA, but jailbreaking a tablet is not.
According to Siy, the treaty shouldn't affect Wheeler's attempt to loosen restrictions around unlocking or a bill that would bring back the expired DMCA exemption for unlocking cell phones.
But it might make it difficult for Congress to pass legislation such as the "Unlocking Technology Act of 2013," which offers a more broad and permanent fix. Instead of providing a temporary exemption, that bill "Amends the prohibition under federal copyright law on the circumvention of a technological measure that controls access to a copyright-protected work to require that such prohibition apply only to circumventions carried out in order to infringe or facilitate infringement of a protected work." In other words, the bill lets consumers do what they wish with their devices as long as they're not also infringing someone's copyright.
Congress could still pass the law, but it would be complicated. "If they do that and pass a permanent cell phone exemption, someone can say, 'hey isn't this in violation of the TPP?'" Siy noted. The answer would be "yes," but the outcome would "depend on what our trading partners in this agreement can and want to do about that."
Such a matter could go to the World Trade Organization. But ultimately, Congress could do what it wants. "Congress isn't prevented from doing their jobs," Siy said. "There's no way you can have one of these agreements overturn US law. No one is going to be able to take anyone to court for something that is A-OK under a law passed by Congress even if they contradict an international agreement."
In a blog post, Siy lamented that "so many of the major events in copyright law of the last two years have failed to alter the course of the administration in its push for increasingly outdated policies.
"Between February of 2011 and November of 2013, we've seen the unprecedented grassroots opposition to copyright enforcement expansion in SOPA; a similar international outcry against IP trade agreements in ACTA; and a groundswell of outrage that copyright law would prevent people from doing something as basic (and as unrelated to copyright's purpose) as unlocking their cell phones. ... Congress and the White House both agree with the hundreds of thousands of Americans that cell phone unlocking shouldn't be barred by copyright law, yet the language proposed by USTR [US Trade Representative] would be used as an excuse to prevent conclusive solution to the problem."
A White House spokesperson did not answer a request for comment.


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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Downloading a gun's design plans to your computer, building it on a three-dimensional printer and firing it minutes later. No background checks, no questions asked.
Sound far-fetched? It's not. And that is disquieting for gun control advocates.
Rep. Steven Israel, D-NY, said the prospect of such guns becoming reality is reason enough for the renewal of the Undetectable Firearms Act, which makes illegal the building of guns that can't be detected by X-ray or metallic scanners. That law expires at the end of 2013.
At least one group, called Defense Distributed, is claiming to have created downloadable weapon parts that can be built using the increasingly popular new-generation of printer that utilizes plastics and other materials to create 3-D objects with moving parts. University of Texas law student Cody Wilson, the 24-year-old "Wiki Weapons" project leader, says the group last month test fired a semiautomatic AR-15 rifle — one of the weapon types used in the Connecticut elementary school massacre — which was built with some key parts created on a 3-D printer. The gun was fired six times before it broke.
Though no independent observer was there to verify the test, a short video clip showing the gun firing and breaking was posted to YouTube. Federal firearms regulators said they are aware of the technology's gun-making potential, but do not believe an entire weapon has yet been made.
"What's chilling is that last month a group of kids used a 3-D printer to actually manufacture (key parts) of the AR-15 and fire six bullets," Israel said. "When the (act) was last renewed in 2003, a gun made by a 3-D printer was like a Star Trek episode, but now we know it's real."
Even with gun control pushed to the top of the national political conversation, Wilson is steadfast about reaching his goal of making a fully downloadable gun. This weekend, he and his partners plan to print four new lower receivers — the segment of the gun that includes the trigger, magazine and grip. He keeps three of these AR-15 parts — one black, one white and another green — in his tidy student apartment in Austin, TX.
While saddened by the Connecticut mass killing, Wilson said Thursday that protecting the right to bear arms by giving everyone access to guns is more important in the long term than a single horrible crime.
"Clearly what happened in Connecticut was a tragedy," he told The Associated Press. "Still, by affording the Second Amendment protection, we understand events like these will happen."
He said he discussed with his partners whether they should suspend their effort, and they all decided it was too important to stop.
Wilson acknowledged there still are many technical hurdles to creating a complete gun from a 3-D printer and provided no estimate on when his goal might be reached.
Special Agent Helen Dunkel of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which helps enforce gun laws, said the agency is familiar with Wilson's project. She didn't offer an opinion but noted there is nothing illegal about making many types of guns at home. Exceptions would be high-powered weapons like machine guns and those not detectable by airport scanners.
Advances in 3-D printing technology are fueling Wilson's goal. The printers were developed for the automobile, aerospace and other industries to create product prototypes from the same hard plastics used in toys like Legos. Hobbyists mainly use the printers to design Christmas ornaments, toys and gadget accessories.
Prices on the machines have fallen as the consumer market grows, leading to a surge in interest from people in the so-called "maker" scene. Low-end 3-D printers can now be purchased online from between $1,500-$4,000. The more high-end printers needed to make gun parts are still priced from $10,000 and up.
Stratasys Ltd. Of Eden Prairie, Minn., makes 3-D printers. Shane Glenn, director of investor relations, said gun-making was never something envisioned for the machines.
"The gun issue is something that the 3-D printing industry will have to address going forward," Glenn said.
Right now, most people interested in 3-D printing rent time on one. There are a number of businesses and co-ops in major cities that allow access to the machines for a nominal fee. At San Francisco's TechShop, which features a 3-D printer for its members, "assembling firearms is strictly prohibited and our staff is trained on that policy," company spokeswoman Carrie Motamedi said.
Wilson acknowledged his idea has met resistance from those active in 3-D printing.
"The early adopters of 3-D printing technology seem to be an educated, more liberal group who were against firearms to begin with," he said. Wilson said some are worried the gun project might spur regulations that will hurt or curtail their projects.
Early schematics created by Wilson's group were posted on Thingiverse, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based website that serves as a hub for 3-D printing aficionados. After the school shooting, Thingiverse took down Wilson's links.
The site's spokeswoman Jenifer Howard said its focus is "to empower the creative process and make things for good." Howard said Thingiverse's terms of service state that users cannot use the site to share content that contributes to the creation of weapons.
Wilson said the group has already posted the links on its own website.
Paul Saffo, a Silicon Valley technology forecaster who teaches at Stanford University's engineering school, said Defense Distributed's work carries on a long tradition of tech geeks using innovation to make a political point, in this case on gun control and Second Amendment freedoms.
"If you want to get people's attention in Washington, you say something. If you want to do it in Silicon Valley, you make something," Saffo said.
He said the technology exists now for a highly motivated group to make a plastic gun on a 3-D printer that could avoid airport scanners. But the equipment is still too expensive for most people.
"Nobody right now needs to worry about the bright teenager making a gun on a printer in their bedroom," he said.
Freelance video producer Jay Olivier contributed to this report from Austin, TX.


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"BlackBerry has a thriving ecosystem with BlackBerry 10." That's what CEO Thorsten Heins said this May at a developer conference before revealing that users had a choice of 120,000 apps from its still-young app market, BlackBerry World. The problem is that over a third of those apps come from a single developer. Yes, a Hong Kong-based company called S4BB has published just under 47,000 apps to BlackBerry World since launch. That's not a good sign of a "thriving ecosystem."
This is what happens when the technology press lets itself be dictated by companies. The companies were the ones who started touting quantity over quality when it comes to mobile application stores, and the press played right into their hands. In a statement to The Verge, BlackBerry confirms the issue, but states that it's not actually an issue at all. Of course they say that. They want to keep touting that number.
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Now that you are recovering from your post-All-Star Game revelry, we've got to make sure that your brains are back in the swing of things. So here comes Off-Day Puzzle #6, and those of you detail-oriented folks will notice it's the first puzzle in the Puzzle Championship Series from an author other than SoSG Eric Karros (translation: keep expectations low). This go-round, you have yet another hypothetical situation on which to chew, this time involving our own beloved Matt Kemp.
Premise: Kemp enters the Dodger dugout early, showing up to batting practice so far in advance he even gets there before Juan Pierre. And as he walks by coach Torre's office, he sees his manager inside the office, finishing up the lineup card for that evening. Given Torre's penchant for crazy, illogical, and dare I say unsound lineups, Kemp expects to be surprised. However, Kemp has no idea how surprising today's conversation will be.
"Hey coach, where am I batting in tonight's lineup?" asks Kemp."Actually, Matty, I'm glad you are here early, before the rest of the team shows up," replies Torre. "You see, I've got some news to break to you."
"All right! Finally, I'm batting cleanup, instead of The 40-Year-Old Aversion! It's about time that you decided to replace that creaky old guy. Thanks, coach!"
"No, you're not batting fourth, Matt. I've got Russell slotted there, since he leads the team in batting average with a .294 (among active players who aren't pitchers)."
"Well, I've got to be third, then, right coach?"
"No, I've opted to put Andre Ethier there, given his team-leading 11 home runs and all."
"Okay, so you must have be back in leadoff, right? That makes sense, since I've got speed and power, you know."
"Actually, Matt, I've got Luis Maza there in the one-hole. I know it sounds crazy given his .228 average that he would slot leadoff, let alone any starting position, but I think this one makes sense."
"Maza? Hey, I'm about to go nuts here coach. At least tell me that the Tubbster Andruw Jones isn't still starting."
"Jones has the fifth slot in the lineup, Matt, and as you know I'm not letting Andruw give up his starting position despite the fact that he's horrible, he just had a five-strikeout day almost a week after a four-strikeout day, he's horrible, his batting average is a meager .164, and he's horrible. Oh, and he's horrible. But on this one, Ned Colletti totally agrees with me; Jones stays."
"That makes no sense. Don't you read the Dodger blogs? Jones continuing to have a starting role is suicide. You gotta get me in, coach."
"Why don't you take a seat, Matt, as this part is a tough thing to tell you. The fact is, I'm going with an unconventional lineup tonight. You already know four of the slots. But I'm shaking it all up and, along with Chan Ho Park, who is starting, I'm also batting Eric Stults in the starting lineup. And we've called up Scott Van Slyke from the Great Lakes Loons (A), and Jake New from the Gulf Coast League Dodgers (R), to slot them in as starters as well. I know it's a little strange, but I think I'm on to something here so I'm going to go with my gut on this one."
"I have to say, I don't get it coach. But I'm a team player so I'm willing to go with you. Just tell me what role to play, starting or not, and I'm there."
"Well, Matt, here's where the bad news comes. There just wasn't anyone in the organization--and I'm talking, the entire organization--who had what I was looking for to fill that last spot. So you've been traded straight up to the Florida Marlins. In exchange, we just picked up..."
For whom was Matt Kemp traded, and what slot will this new Dodger occupy in crazy Joe's new lineup?
HINT #1 (12.48p PT): Torre's ordering methodology for the nine spots has nothing to do with the offensive statistics of the players (just like in real life, I might add).
HINT #2 (1.20p PT): First step is to get the players' names aligned.
HINT #3 (2:00p PT): Torre used the All-Star break to visit with some advisers, some of whom also used to advise Nancy Reagan.
HINT #4 (2.33p PT): Technically speaking, whether Park deserved a spot was up for debate.
HINT #5 (3.00p PT): Kemp was keenly aware of the gravity of the situation, however he resisted his urge to drop his trousers and show his bare behind to Torre.
HINT #6 / FINAL HINT (5.04p PT): Torre bats Van Slyke second.
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