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Wow, it's been a while, hasn't it? I've been running around everywhere for months, trying to get my stuff together. Thankfully, I have~ I go back to school next month to get my B.A. in Asian studies, and I've been working for the past 4 months. So, things are going good for me. Oh, I was also able to get an apartment with my friend!
Work has taken up most of my time, so it's been hard to have any free time @.@ But, hopefully I'll be able to be much more active on here. I really need to start posting some of my artwork and all that stuff.. Dx
On a side note, I went to Metrocon for a little while this past Saturday. I went as Luke (mostly because he's a perfect outfit for the summer). It was a lot of fun and I took a few pictures and bought some stuff. Currently saving up for Umicon this September because it will be a birthday gift for my brother. I went to Bellecon a few months ago and met Todd Haberkorn, who by the way is amazing! He signed my Kanda jacket and my D.Gray Man cd <3
Welp, gonna stop blabbing for now. Gotta get back to drawing so I can finally post things here~
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Star Trek Online Will Thrill Fans, Satisfy Gamers
- Thursday, April 15, 2010
Controlling one's ship and one's character on the ground is surprisingly similar. I think this was a great choice by Cryptic. The controls to move your ship and character around are practically the same. Thanks to the simple key mapping of abilities (keys 1-0 and then some) as in most MMORPGs, battle is familiar in both situations.
Leveling System
In STO, you begin your star trek as an ensign, the newbie rank of a naval officer. You level up to Lieutenant, Lieutenant Commander and so forth until you reach Admiral. In other games you gain experience points while playing and eventually gain enough experience to level, allowing you to unlock skills you can buy. In STO, you gain skills points all along. This allows you to buy new skills and level up current skills of your character and/or Bridge Officers. Once you've spent a certain number of skill points, you are promoted. In short, in STO, your skills increase all along, not just when you level.
Cryptic definitely made this game with core Star Trek fans in mind. It's not the type of game that will reach out to random fan bases and tease people with promises of a better gaming experience. I wouldn't go as far as to say it is better than any other MMORPG I've played. The fact that it's Star Trek is what is important. I can get into just about any Fantasy/Sci-fi universe, but being able to play in the Star Trek world is a special treat for the long-time fan. And while this game might pull some extra players because of the recent Star Trek movie (amazing, by the way), most of its players were fervent fans before the latest movie.
Simply put, if you are a Star Trek fan, you will love this game. If you are not a Star Trek fan, but looking for something fun to play, this game is as fun as any other MMORPG. I found nothing inappropriate with this game to date, so I recommend for all ages. The fantasy violence is not bloody, and characters simply fall and disappear when defeated. Ships do explode in a fire ball. I have yet to encounter any mildly suggestive themes, though they are mentioned in the rating.
(Inf Rated T for Teen | Fantasy Violence, Mild Suggestive Themes)
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Tuskegee outlasted Clark Atlanta 31-21 Saturday in an SIAC matchup that featured big plays from both teams.
The Golden Tigers (3-1, 3-1 in SIAC) had a 70-yard pass and a 60-yard run among their four touchdowns while Clark Atlanta (3-1, 3-1) had scoring passes of 18 and 20 yards and a forced fumble that led to another touchdown in the loss. Both teams saw their starting QBs (Jeremy Williams of Tuskegee and Mark Wright of Clark Atlanta) leave the game with injuries, but both backups (Tuskegee's Joshua Harris and Clark Atlanta's T.J. Smith) were solid in reserve.
In the end, it was the 60-yard TD run from Tuskegee's Tony Forney in the fourth quarter that helped the Golden Tigers win for the 13th time in the last 14 games of the series.
TSU falls to Southern, prepares for Atlanta Football Classic
Tennessee State lost a late fourth-quarter lead to Southern and fell 21-17 to the Jaguars in Baton Rouge.
With the loss, the Tigers fall to 1-2 heading into Saturday's Atlanta Football Classic matchup with unbeaten Florida A&M at the Georgia Dome. The Rattlers improved to 3-0 Thursday with their 48-10 thumping of Howard.
Weekend scores
Bowie State 51, Livingstone 0
Elizabeth State 35, Chowan 30
Fayetteville State 24, Saint Paul's 0
Shaw 68, Lincoln, Pa. 6
St. Augustine's 27, Virginia State 14
Virginia Union 34, Johnson C. Smith 14
Delaware 27, Delaware State 14
Hampton 24, North Carolina A&T 14
Morgan State 16, Winston-Salem State 10
William and Mary 27, Norfolk State 15
Benedict 24, Concordia 13
Fort Valley 53, Lane 20
Kentucky State 30, Kentucky Wesleyan 25
Morehouse 38, Lincoln, Mo. 0
Samford 31, Miles 12
Tuskegee 31, Clark Atlanta 21
Alabama State 38, Edward Waters 6
Ark.-Pine Bluff 27, Miss. Valley 7
Central Michigan 48, Alcorn State 0
Grambling 27, Jackson State 17
Jacksonville State 45, Alabama A&M 13
Southern 21, Tennessee State 17
Texas Southern 75, Texas College 6
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September 20th, 2009
12:09 pm
Does anyone have a coach they could let Howard "borrow" for the rest of the season? The Bison are an embarrassment to their alums. They look great in their uniforms, but the stink on the field. I'm scared this season will be worse than last year's shamefulness.
September 21st, 2009
8:29 am
Clark and Tuskegee was a game with it all. Sunshine, rain, rain delay. Fighting to the finish. Wet field, injuries for both. Hard plays, Good fans on both sides. Though our great panthers took home a lost. It was a great game. We are proud of our sons!
Thanks for the write up AJC!!
September 22nd, 2009
3:37 pm
Hey Clark Atlanta Fan…. How could yall have great fans on both sides when you only have a onesided stadium…. as much as yall charge for tuition yall should be able to build the other side… and maybe get some grass…. Oct 17… a real football team will come into panthers stadium(practice field) and show yall how to play… GO Albany State Golden Rams!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
September 23rd, 2009
7:41 am
I didnt know there was a such thing as a NUPE or Kappa, but I would have to agree. Albany State University… the only national ranked SIAC team… is coming.. Be very very afrain Clark Atlanta
September 23rd, 2009
11:48 am
I agree with BisonMan. I watched Howard on last Thursday and it had to be the worse display of defense and special teams that I've seen in a loooooong time.
Anyway, that's why it feels great to support my Golden Rams. Regardless of conference or division affiliation the ASU Rams will make some noise this year. If we stay healthy, ASU should go deep in the playoffs. Hoperfully, it will help to bring more credibility to the quality of Black College football.
September 23rd, 2009
1:46 pm
FAMU is back, baby!! We will eviscerate TSU on Saturday in the Dome!!
Watch GameDay this Saturday to see a feature on Leroy Vann, FAMU's electrifying kick returner. Desmond Howard is on campus in Tallahassee today to tape the feature!!
September 25th, 2009
1:14 am
Watch out for freshman qb Kindle. He is on the rise at NC A&T. you will see and enjoy the spread offense.
September 27th, 2009
3:20 pm
I hope Fort Valley whip the socks off of Albany State this year!
October 2nd, 2009
12:42 am
Go Langston U. Lions; ranked #8 in the nation. That baddest team with the baddest band!
October 2nd, 2009
2:28 pm
Enter your comments here erin just kept hoping.
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10:21 am
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Lindsay Lohan is safely ensconced at the Betty Ford Center rehab facility in Rancho Mirage, CA ... TMZ has learned.
Sources familiar with the situation tell TMZ ... Lindsay checked in late Thursday night ... barely dodging a looming arrest warrant.
We broke the story ... Lindsay has re-hired Shawn Holley, who then negotiated with Santa Monica City Attorney Terry White to make the deal that Betty Ford was an acceptable rehab joint.
It's ironic Lindsay is at Betty Ford -- you'll recall back in 2010 Lindsay got into an epic fight during her rehab stay with a staffer. The police were called and civil lawsuits were filed. It's amazing Betty Ford took her back.
We're told prosecutors will back off their promise to seek an arrest warrant today ... although they still have to get the judge to sign off on Betty Ford, but it looks like that will just be a formality.
Can Lindsay make it for 90 days? Let's be serious.
Good, let her try and go out for her 10pm-1am happy hour and right into a pair of handcuffs.
Maybe Dabney is still letting Lohan hang herself. I'ts all up to Lohan not to leave. There is no gun to her head. Lohan is fully aware that she can't.
*rolling eyes* wow! Didn't see this coming.... If this girl kills someone while drunk or high, she will still only get 2 hours in jail. Unbelievable....
So who's gonna be the next adam case/rehab boyfriend? & which BF employee is she going to assault?
So who's gonna be the next adam case/rehab boyfriend? & which BF employee is she going to assault?
Bull poop! Terry White is a weak attorney!
She is a drug and alcohol addicted joke....but the real joke here is California law enforcement and the judicial system. I want o live in a land where I can do anything and not worry about facing the consequences...I love the judges in CA.....they are so nice and they dont want to upset anyone...especially the criminals. I wonder if they ever get embarrassed from being ignored so publicly.
She'll **** up.... No way she will go 90 days without incident
You know - I'm just amazed at all of this. Shawn takes her back - not a smart move.... Betty Ford takes her back - not lockdown as she has gotten out before.... She doesn't have a warrant anymore - that amazing, what happened to the no more chances... Is everyone so dumb that they think letting this woman do what she wants and give her no consequences is the right thing?
If she doesn't make it she will go to jail for an hour or two. Overcrowding. And regardless of whether she lives or dies I would love to do her mom
I am not usually a confused person......but ummm how can SH broker a deal with DA if technically Heller is her lawyer on record with the court....wouldn't the judge need to sign off on it, also wouldn't LL need to be present in court to acknowledge the change????.....oh well I guess anything can happen when your millionaire pimp is footing bills for shopping and privates planes and such.....me I am going back to my normal life right now getting kids to school.....BTW thought SH was classier and more intelligent, guess everyone has their price.....ugggh hopefully it will be a quiet 3 months of no LL news
What a JOKE. Whats next, criminals picking out their fav jail?? Oh wait... Most are not celebs with special treatment.
this isn't court ordered approved. Betty Ford - send her packing!
For Christ's sake, put her in jail already. I'm sooooooo sick and tired of her antics.
Why even bother to report anything about her. I mean obviously she is the one TELLING THE CALIFORNIAN JUSTICE SYSTEM what she will do when she wants to do it and how she wants to do it. Now if she was an average tax playing citizen, it would be a different story, they'd be in Jail.
She begged Shawn Holley to come back and chose Betty Ford because she couldn't stand the fact that the judge ruled that NO INFORMATION was to be released about Smeggy for 90days. You know damn well we will be getting day to day updates. Smeggy has to be in the news otherwise people will move on to the next train wreck (not hard considering Amanda Bynes has popped up again.) How long was it into the last stint at BF before she climbed the wall and went partying?


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Worship the Way God Intends
- Friday, December 30, 2011
Debunk the myth that worship is a religious activity. Worship is really about a relationship, not a religion. If you worship God out of a sense of religious duty, trying to earn favor with Him by performing religious rituals, you'll eventually fail to meet the standards you're trying to reach and be crushed by shame, guilt, and the pressure of feeling obligated to do what you lack the power to do on your own. But if you approach worship as a way to strengthen your relationship with God, you'll connect with Him in ways that will empower you to become the person He wants you to become, and you'll feel loved and free rather than guilty and pressured. When you have a right relationship with God, you'll be motivated to do what's right out of love, not out of obligation. Enjoying a close relationship with God will inspire you to do what He calls you to do because you want to, not because you have to do so – and your loving, faithful response to God means that you're truly worshipping Him.
Bring something of value to your worship. It pleases God when you offer Him something of value as part of worshipping Him. Bring God the gift of yourself by spending time with Him simply to get to know Him better and develop a closer bond with Him. Offer God your talents and skills by using them to serve others through the ways in which God leads you. Entrust your family and friends to God by sharing your faith with them, praying for them, and inviting them to church with you. When you bring something valuable to God, you're worshipping Him by honoring Him.
Adapted from Revolve: A New Way to See Worship, copyright 2011 by Nelson Searcy and Jason Hatley, with Jennifer Dykes Henson. Published by Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group, Grand Rapids, Mich., www.bakerpublishinggroup.com.
Nelson Searcy served as the director of The Purpose Driven Community at Saddleback Church before starting The Journey Church of the City in New York City in 2002. He and his 2,000-member church appear routinely on lists such as The 50 Most Influential Churches and The 25 Most Innovative Leaders. The Journey is a multi-site church with locations across New York City (http://www.journeymetro.com/) and Boca Raton, Florida (http://bocajourney.com/). His newsletter for pastors and church leaders, Church Leader Insights, now reaches more than 80,000 subscribers and continues to grow by hundreds each month. Searcy lives in New York City.
Jason Hatley is the pastor of worship arts at The Journey Church and has been a worship leader since 1996. Founder of www.WorshipLeaderInsights.com, Jason has spoken at the Willow Creek Arts Conference and The Purpose Driven Worship Conference, as well as seminars around the country. Currently, Jason serves at The Journey's newest location in Boca Raton, Florida.
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Amanda Actually Does A Follow-Up
I've always… what's the word for it… oh, yes… SUCKED at doing follow-up posts. Big things are about to happen and I blog about them, then they happen, and I blog about it, and then… *crickets*.
Good thing I realize this, yes?
Since my "posting like a crazy person to spark my blogging" didn't exactly pan out, how about I do this: actually do some follow-up blogging. I can't promise I'll answer every question or find every unanswered topic because well, that takes commitment and at this point you guys know me. So.
Over a year ago, I ventured into the land of Having an IUD (intra-uterine device). Sorry kids, yes, this means I'm going to talk about birth control now. Hide ya wife. (if that reference makes no sense to you, you better be watching that video)
In my most confusingly title, and SEO-killing, post about My Mirena I shared with my readers what a glorious and confusing time this was for me - venturing into obtaining a long-term option.
I even blogged as I got it. Dedication, indeed.
(Yes, I realize I just said I am not committed in one sentence, and then that I'm dedicated in another, but just stay with me people and don't ask questions)
Ok, y'all - it hurt. Not even going to lie. For a few weeks, I was scared to bend over for fear that this foreign thing would just pop right out of my uterus and burst out of my skin little lower than my belly button. Which would be difficult to explain in a Target store, so I opted for the "kneel down and pick up" method. I also slept like a Barbie doll does - arms to the side and on my back.
Then there was the weird bleeding. On for 18 days, off for 4, back on for another week. But then? Nodda. I went 8 weeks with nothing.
Now that I'm accustomed to it, I don't really get periods. Loverly.
TOO MUCH INFO ALERT. Insert whatever alarm sound you'd like here.
I do get a ton of cervical mucus. I know, that's gross. But it's the truth. It's how the Mirena works - it thickens your "stuff" (I love science) so nothing "does what it is supposed to".
I get random pains in my uterus - quick ones. But I'm not dealing with cramping any more, so I consider it a fair trade.
Hormonally? At first? I was kind of a mess. I was going through other stuff too, so really I can't tell you exactly what was a side effect of the Mirena and what was not. Now, a year out, things have calmed down though.
So my side effects that I know of are the following:
- Hair loss. this is a "recentish" thing that I thought was due to stress. Turns out? Nah. It's totally the Mirena. I've been pulling out a good bit every single morning for 3 months now. I have THICK hair, or had thick hair, so for now? It only slightly freaks me out. I pay to get it thinned, so this is money saving, yes? I've been thinking I should see my GYN about this…
- Headaches. Nothing severe as I've been prone to them my whole life, but these are different. I get them in the front of my head. They seemed to be timed with ovulation.
- Oh. Right. Ovulation. I have been able to tell/feel when I ovulate for a few years now and this sucker only makes it slightly more obvious. I will have slight cramps, more of a "sharp" feelings the days I am.
- No kids. Yes. This is a side effect. The good kind. Well, I mean.. it's not going to get rid of your current offspring, so if you are looking for a drug to do that… maybe try google? Or I hear you can drop kids off at fire stations.
I THINK that's about it. Because my mom is reading this and because I'm divorced and therefore single, I have no comment on what a Mirena is like during sexual activity. But, for the record, you can't feel the thing. (TWSS)
Any questions? What to do for my next follow-up!?!
(HAHAHAHA! Thought: what if I say I'm doing to do follow-ups but DON'T follow-up?! Oh! The irony!)


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Reports about Google testing menus in the direct-answer "card" results for queries like "[restaurant] brunch menu" have sparked debate about where Google is pulling that sort of data from – is it Schema markup on the restaurant's website or third-party website?
Over on Google+, Aaron Bradley of Airshock started a discussion on the matter, saying "it appears that the data source Google is using is allmenus.com (and/or menupages.com, which seems to employ similar taxonomic schemes)."
Here, he pulls together an image that illustrates the similarities in the AllMenus.com menu listing and the Knowledge Graph card result:
Bradley said he was unable to find any Schema.org markup on the restaurant's desktop site, its mobile site, or MenuPages.com or AllMenus.com.
So if the menus are coming from a third-party, Bradley made a good point that it wouldn't be the first time "Google has gone out of its way to parse a specific data source because that source classifies the data in useful ways."
And that the lesson is to think about "how data organization can create value for data consumers like Google," he said. "It makes one think about how Google will often ignore natively-provided data in preference to third-party data that is organized in a way that makes its consumption irresistible."
There is, in fact, markup at Schema.org for menu items, and on the discussion thread at Google+, Jarno van Driel commented he marked up a menu for a restaurant about two years ago, and subsequently, the site owners saw an increase in traffic.
"Now it didn't have any effect in regards to Rich snippets but boy did their visitor count (website and establishments) go up. We guestimated back then that because Google could understand their menu, recipes and localities, their site had become more relevant for certain search queries," he said.
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- Using proper Schema.org markup for your site's menu options here and here
- Exploring additional schema to tag more data on your restaurant site using markup helper
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"Yeah, why are the guys here?" I heard a bang and a muffled "ouch! shit!" come from behind the door.
"What?" I was confused, we were supposed to be going Christmas shopping together, what had the guys got to do with it? "I don't get it, are they coming too?"
"Oh. Right. Damnit. I totally forgot about shopping, I already arranged to go to this Black Flag gig with Ray and Bob." he sounded sorry, but then he let a small giggle slip.
"Ow Frank!!" I banged my hand on the door, harder this time. I think I broke my finger! I shook the pain away.
"Relax, I was joking!" Frank emerged from his room, "I was just winding you up!" he put his arm around my shoulder and shook me a little.
I punched his arm, laughing, "Bitch."
We said goodbye to our parents, and made our way to the bus stop.
"Its here!" Frank said grabbing my hand and yanking me towards the edge of the road, sticking his hand out so the bus would stop.
We sat down right at the back.
I could see her staring. A woman would look over at me and Frank every so often, eventually she spoke.
"Excuse me?" She said, "I was just wondering, are you expecting?"
"Yes." I smiled. Really, I was getting pissed off with people keep asking me that.
"How far along are you?" She smiled back.
"4 months," I said, trying not to sigh or flip up my middle finger at her.
"She's moody already." Frank laughed. I scowled at him.
"Oh," the woman laughed, "well, I'm sure when she has had the baby you will enjoy being a father."
Frank nearly choked. I laughed that much I nearly choked too.
"It's not my baby." Frank said, then realised how that sounded.
The woman looked at me disgusted. It was a kind of,/ you get pregnant with one guy and then go out with a different one? Slut!/ Kind of look.
"Ah. No. I mean, Im her brother. Im not the father, my best friend is." Frank spluttered.
"Oh right. " The woman turned back around to face the front of the bus. Frank and I were in stitches.
Finally, after about an hour of Frank singing along, very loudly and out of tune to songs on his i-pod, we arrived.
"Come on dumbass," I took hold of Frank's hand and lead him to the door, pulling out his headphones in the process.
"So what are you buying Gerard?" Frank asked as we entered a shop selling chocolate and other sweets.
"I'm not sure yet, its hard to buy for guys, girls are easy, you just buy them shit to put in the bath or something, but dudes are awkward, especially when their name is Gerard." I looked over at Frank, who was carefully scanning the shelves, "are you even listening?"
"What, sorry, got carried away," He turned around clutching a heart shaped box.
"Oooh, who are they for?" I asked.
Frank looked down at his feet, "Nobody."
"Come on! Tell me!! I promise I won't say anything! Please Frankie! Pleeeease!!" I begged.
"Okay. But if you tell, you are dead!" Frank looked serious.
"Okay okay. Just spit it out!" I urged him to talk.
"Jamia." Frank muttered.
"Jamia Nestor!?!" I shouted, then covered my mouth with my hand, "sorry."
"Sshhhh!" Frank nudged me, "yeah, I really like her, and was hoping to ask her out just before we break up from school. Then give her these." he smiled.
"Aww," I pinched his cheek, "isn't she your partner in biology?"
"Yeah," Frank giggled, "I got paired with her"
I laughed at the cute expression on his face.
Frank paid for the chocolates.
"So, you got everything?" I asked, as we walked towards the door.
"Yeah." he held up all of his bags, "Time to go home... oh shit!" he cried.
"What? What?" I looked around, it was then that I noticed Jamia, and she was heading this way.
"Has she seen me?" Frank tried to hide behind me.
"Yeah, looks like it. She's heading over here," I laughed.
""Oh fuck." Frank groaned.
"Dude, if you like her, you have to talk to her sometime, you can't just smile and look cute." I moved him from behind me.
"Hey you guys," Jamia waved at us.
"Hey," I smiled, kicking Frank for him to say something.
"Hi, umm" Frank blushed.
I tried not to laugh. I could just imagine what he would be like asking her out. Talking complete crap.
"So Frank, when does our biology project have to be in for?" Jamia smiled at Frank, who blushed even more.
He didn't speak. He just stood smiling.
I kicked him again, "It's in for Friday Jamia" I said for Frank, before he said something stupid.
"Have you already done yours then?" She asked.
"I've done nothing on it, Euan has done it all." I laughed. I was paired with the class geek, and so he wouldn't let me help out with the project. He was afraid I would wreck it. So Id get good marks for doing fuck all.
Jamia giggled, "So Frank, wanna come over to mine later to finish it, or should I come to yours?"
I looked at Frank, say something, say something, say something, I thought.
"Come over to ours. About 5? You can stay for tea if you like." Frank looked shocked at himself. He had actually managed to say something to her that actually made sense.
"Sure, okay. See you at 5 then," She waved again, and skipped away.
"See that wasn't so hard!" I hugged Frank, just before the bus arrived to take us home.
"I was shitting myself." He sighed, "How am I gonna cope later on, when she's in my fucking house!"
"Dude, you'll be fine," I tried to calm him down.
"Mom, we're having a guest for tea later." I exclaimed as we entered our house.
"Okay, who?" My mum replied.
"Her name is Jamia" I shouted so she could hear me over the noise of the kettle boiling.
"Oh, a friend of yours is she?" My mum asked, sounding surprised, as all my friends are boys.
"No. Frank's biology partner, she's coming to finish off their project." I nodded, and winked at my mum.
"Oh, right." She winked back, knowingly.
5 o'clock dead. The doorbell rang.
"Ill get it!" Frank shouted, shooting up from where he was sitting, hurdling over the arm of the sofa, and speeding towards the door.
I watched as Frank pulled open the door to reveal Jamia, holding tightly onto a cluster of papers.
"Hi," She smiled.
"Hey, let me help you," Frank smiled back, being a gentleman and taking the papers from her, "just make yourself at home."
"Hey," I smiled at her as she entered the front room.
"Hi. Wow, nice place you've got." she giggled.
"Yeah. Thanks" I turned off the TV.
Frank entered at sat down, then tried to arrange the papers into a neat pile before handing them back to Jamia who sat down beside him.
After about an hour, the doorbell rang again. I looked up at Frank.
"Just one minute, Ill just go and answer the door," he said looking at Jamia, who laughed.
"Sarah! Its Ray, he wants you!" I heard Frank call from the door.
"Ray?" I looked puzzled, "what does he want me for?"
"Hey dude," I smiled at Ray who was standing in the doorway, "come in."
We stood in the hallway talking.
"Gerard and I went to the arcade today and we won some stuff. I just thought you might like it, y'know." Ray smiled, handing me a small blue stuffed bear, with stripes and stars on its stomach.
"Oh. Love it," I smiled, hugging Ray. His hair tickled my nose, making me giggle.
"Is that your sister's boyfriend?" I heard Jamia say, "I knew he was a year older than us, but I didn't know who he was."
"No, that's Ray. He's a friend. Gerard will probably be over later, so if you stay you'll probably get the pleasure of meeting him." Frank laughed.
"Oh, right." Jamia giggled.
"Come and sit down," I pulled at Ray's arm, "Jamia this is Ray, not my boyfriend." I laughed.
"Are you breaking up with me?" Ray pretended to sob, making everyone laugh.
Another few hours passed and we were all sat playing video games, when the doorbell rang once again.
"Not again." Frank sighed, answering the door.
The rest of the guys piled in.
"I've missed you today" Gerard held me in his arms, "where have you been all my life."
He sat down beside Mikey on the sofa, and I sat down on his knees.
He kissed my neck, making me giggle.
"Here we go." Mikey sighed.
The guys and Jamia all laughed in stereo.
Gerard stuck up his middle finger at them all, as his toungue found its way inside my mouth.


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Changes to the TICS Bill
The TICS Bill (Telecommunications Interception Capability and Security), a partner to the GCSB Bill that has already been passed, is progressing through Parliament. See our round-up of articles about the Bill.
The Bill has been modified twice:
- The Bill as reported back (PDF) by the Law & Order Select Committee on 19/9/2013.
- A supplementary order paper added by the government on 15/10/2013.
The government has also provided two further documents:
- A comparison of the original 2004 TICA law and the TICS Bill (PDF).
- An infographic showing how law enforcement interacts with the interception requirements.
As reported back by the select committee
The Law & Order Select Committee made a number of minor changes to the Bill. Many of the changes are tweaks to the drafting that have no substantive effect, while others are minor technical changes to improve clarity or streamline procedures.
Even those that do attempt to make changes are fairly weak. E.g. the Director of the GCSB will now have the duty to make decisions about network security "as soon as practicable".
There are no substantive changes worth reporting.
Supplementary order paper 366
As reported in the press release from Amy Adams, the SOP makes the following changes:
- Clause 39, allowing the Minister to forbid the resale of a foreign service that doesn't allow interception, has been removed. This is a good change as the clause was basically unusable - no one really thought that the Minister was going to, for example, ban the sale of Apple products in NZ.
- The GCSB's oversight of network providers has been further cleaned up in an attempt to make it workable, and the Minister can now make regulations about the timeframes for decisions.
- The press release says "it is also proposed to narrow the scope of the matters that must be notified to the GCSB, reducing compliance costs for network operators". The words "any change" have now been replaced by "any change to the architecture", which would mean that minor changes would not have to be notified. However, the word "acquisition" has been added alongside procurement, thus extending the scope to systems that have not been through the normal procurement process (i.e. developed in-house or using free software).
- Adds an additional step before the Minister can make a direction to a network provider about how they should run their business. The Commissioner of Security Warrants will now be required to carry out their own analysis of the GCSB's risk assessment. The Minister will also have to take into account any cost or competition implications for the network provider.
- Acknowledges that some foreign-based service providers will not be able to provide assistance as required in clause 24 due to their own laws.
Tech Liberty comment
The changes to the Bill are largely tweaks designed to improve how the bill works rather than the product of any rethinking of what the government should or shouldn't be doing. Even the removal of section 39, which allowed the minister to ban the resale of foreign services, is fairly irrelevant as that part of the law was unworkable anyway.
There is no evidence that the revelations about the extent of government spying in our intelligence allies, the USA and UK, have had any impact on the TICS Bill which is still mainly concerned about making sure that all electronic communications in New Zealand can be exposed to government scrutiny.
The government is also still pressing on with their intention of giving the GCSB overarching control of New Zealand's voice and data networks. Again there have been some minor changes and shifts in emphasis, but network providers will still be obliged to get GCSB permission to expand or modify their communications infrastructure. The government claims that this is about improving security but it is also clearly about maintaining the ability of the Police, SIS and GCSB to spy on New Zealanders. How the GCSB will handle the tension between surveillance and security is yet to be seen.
One interesting element that hasn't changed is section 10(3) which obliges a network provider to decrypt a telecommunication where the network operator has provided that encryption. A number of submitters said that this was unclear - what about services such as Mega or LastPass that provide the encryption but don't have access to the key as it chosen by the user? The clause could be read to say that this was no defence and that the network operators would have to engineer in security backdoors or risk being fined. The government's decision not to clarify this would seem to indicate that this is the intention.
The future
We believe that changes in technology mean we need to rethink surveillance, search warrants and interception. We also fear that the cold war heritage of our security services unreasonably influences their thinking and their operations.
We support the idea of an inquiry into our intelligence services to ensure that what they do and how they do it are in the best interests of New Zealanders. We also support the idea that just because something is technically possible, it doesn't necessarily mean that we should do it. There needs to be limits on surveillance to protect important rights, such as freedom of expression and freedom of association.
We have started our own project to develop a set of suitable laws and safeguards for surveillance and spying in New Zealand. Informed by the principles at Necessary and Proportionate, we want to come up with some solutions to the hard questions that we're all being confronted with. Please contact us if you'd like to be involved in this effort.
TICS Bill – Oral Submission
Text of our submission to the Law and Order Select Committee re the Telecommunications (Interception Capability & Security) Bill.
I represent Tech Liberty, we're a group dedicated to defending civil liberties in the digital age.
In general we support the ability of the government to have interception capabilities on telecommunications where possible, when those interception capabilities have suitable oversight and control. However we fear that technological development is slowly making this lawful intercept regime increasingly irrelevant.
We'll be addressing this and some other elements of the first two parts of the bill, before talking about the proposal to make the GCSB responsible for cyber security in New Zealand.
Govt proposes GCSB control over NZ communications in new TICS Bill
The government has announced two new Bills for reforming the GCSB and expanding their powers. The first is the GCSB and Related Legislation Amendment Bill (PDF) and the second is the Telecommunications (Interception Capability and Security) Bill (PDF).
This article is a summary of the major parts of the TICS Bill.
The TICS Bill is a replacement for the Telecommunications (Interception Capability) Act 2004. This law forced communications providers (ISPs, telcos, data networks, etc) to provide "lawful intercept" capabilities so that the Police, SIS and GCSB could access communications once they had a suitable warrant. The new bill expands and clarifies these requirements.
However, the addition of the word "security" is the key to what has changed. The new bill now gives the GCSB sweeping powers of oversight and control over the design, deployment and operation of all data and telecommunications networks run by network providers in New Zealand. The stated reasons are to both protect New Zealand's infrastructure and to ensure that surveillance agencies can spy on traffic when required. As part of this, the GCSB will have the power to stop network providers from reselling overseas services that do not provide these capabilities.
Summary of major elements of the TICS Bill
From the Bill:
A network operator must ensure that every public telecommunications network that the operator owns, controls, or operates, and every telecommunications service that the operator provides in New Zealand, has full interception capability.
Note that the surveillance agencies still need to have a legally issued warrant (under the Search & Surveillance Act, NZ SIS Act, or GCSB Act) to actually intercept any communications and there are obligations to avoid capturing communications that are not covered by the warrant.
The new Bill splits communications providers into multiple classes, with small, wholesale and infrastructure providers having reduced obligations. Providers must either have a full intercept capability, to be "intercept ready", or to be "intercept accessible". Membership of these classes can be varied by direction of the Minister.
The Bill specifies that the law applies to companies whether based in New Zealand or overseas. It then goes on to give the Minister the power to ban the resale of an off-shore telecommunications service in New Zealand if it does not provide interception capabilities. This could stop the resale of foreign-hosted VPNs, instant message services, email, etc.
Finally, there is more detail about how intercepted data should be formatted and delivered (apparently this has caused problems under the existing law).
Encryption and decryption
Network operators must decrypt the intercepted communications if they have provided the encryption, but there is no obligation to do so if the encryption is provided by others.
What does this mean for providers such as Mega (file locker) or LastPass (password storage) who have a business model based on the fact that they supply a cloud product that uses encryption but have deliberately designed it so that they can not decrypt the files themselves? This gives users the assurance that they can trust them with their data. Will the government close them down unless they provide a backdoor into the system?
Network security
There is a major new role for the GCSB in overseeing the design and operation of commercially available data and voice communications networks.
The Bill says that network providers and the GCSB are to work co-operatively and collaboratively on identifying and addressing network risks. If they fail to cooperate sufficiently, the law provides for penalties of up to $500,000 with an additional $50,000 per day.
Network operators must notify the GCSB of any proposed decision, course of action or changes made by them in regards to purchases, network changes or ownership/control of the "specified security interest". This includes their network operations centre (NOC), lawful intercept equipment, customer databases, databases of user accounts, and "any place where data aggregates in large volumes".
The GCSB can also demand any other information about the security and interception capabilities of the network including copies of contracts, specifications, and so on. That the information is commercially sensitive or held in confidence is not a defense.
All network operators will have to register themselves with the government. The register will be administered by the Police and available to the Police, SIS and GCSB.
The register will include the numbers of customers, names of responsible contact people within the organisation, the regions they operate in and the types of services they provide. Providers of infrastructure services (e.g. companies that provide fibre links but not the equipment for communicating over those links) will also have to give the names of their customers to the register. There are penalties for non-compliance.
The government can insist that communications providers must obtain secret-level security clearances for some of their staff. It does not say what will happen if none of the technical staff qualify for a security clearance.
Liability and protecting classified information
People who do any act in good faith under the new law will be protected from subsequent prosecution or lawsuits. i.e. the new law is superior to other NZ laws or existing contracts.
There is also a provision that allows the courts to receive classified information in a court case in the absence of the defendant or the defendant's lawyer. This applies to information that might reveal details of the interception methods used by the surveillance agency or is about particular operations in relation to any of the functions of the surveillance agency, or is provided as secret information from the surveillance agencies of another country. It can also be used if that disclosure would prejudice security of NZ, prejudice the maintenance of law, or endanger the safety of any person. The judge in the case can appoint someone with an appropriate security clearance to represent the interests of the defendant for these parts of the trial.
Analysis and comment
The new TICS Bill is a major expansion of government power over the internet and other communications networks in New Zealand. While the existing TICA Act already mandated the provision of lawful intercept capabilities, handing over final control of network design and operation to the GCSB in the name of "security" seems incredibly wide and open ended.
Adding an additional level of government bureaucracy to the design and operation of these systems would appear to be a fairly significant hindrance to the ability of network operators to run their businesses.
There also must be concern about the GCSB being able to ban the resale of any services that do not provide lawful intercept capability. This means that New Zealanders will be prevented from protecting their communications from the New Zealand government - but equally they will be prevented from protecting their communications from foreign governments too. (We can safely assume that a foreign service that gives access to the NZ govt will also provide it to others.) These rules could wipe out businesses such as file lockers and password stores that rely on providing secure storage to their users.
One must ask where the justification for this expansion of power is coming from. Has New Zealand already been materially affected by attacks on our communications infrastructure? It seems clear that while the GCSB may not be that competent at exercising the powers they already have, they have done a fine job of convincing the government that they can handle a lot more.
There are many other parts of concern and there will need to be more analysis of the interception capabilities in conjunction with the new GCSB bill. One that does stick out as particularly offensive to civil liberties are the provisions for convicting people based on secret evidence. How can you defend yourself fairly when you can't even find out the evidence presented against you?
We will be doing further work on analysing this bill and would welcome contributions, particularly from those within the industry who already have experience working with TICA requirements.
Update on NZ Police use of aerial surveillance drones
We've been keeping track of the Police use of new surveillance and tracking technology. We asked them what they've been doing with drones and here are the more interesting/informative answers (Police letter, 19th February 2013):
- The Police currently have one aerial drone.
- They don't have a specific budget for it and claim not to know how much they've spent on it so far.
- They say that they can use it for tracking people and cars but promise to do it in accordance with the Search & Surveillance Act. We note that our interpretation of this says that they need a tracking warrant to use an electronic tracking system but we don't know if the Police agree with this.
- The Police believe that their current policy concerning video recording operations and events also covers their use of drones.
- The Police have been contacted by the Privacy Commissioner re their use of drones and will be meeting with them soon.
- The Police expect their drone trials to finish by the end of 2013.
You may also wish to read this article about drones by David Beatson at NZ Pundit.
We're going to be following up to get more information. If there's any questions you want asked, please leave them in the comments.
Police use of new surveillance technology
The NZ Police are continuing to expand their use of technology to watch and track people in New Zealand. We've already discussed automated number plate recognition, but information has emerged about two new initiatives:
The first is Signal - a tool used to scan and collate publicly availably data from multiple social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Youtube. This data can then be analysed to establish connections between people and events, and was used during the Rugby World Cup to monitor both boy racers and political protesters.
The second is the trialling of aerial surveillance drones. As part of the trials they have already been used in some Police investigations.
We're not reflexively opposed to the NZ Police using tools to do their job better, but we do have some concerns about how they can be used to infringe our rights to go about our lawful business without unwarranted surveillance and tracking. We believe that it is not healthy in a democratic society for our every movement and action to be monitored, stored and analysed by the government.
We've made requests to the Police for more information about both of these initiatives and will report more once we receive it.
General Principles
One thing that is of concern is that the Police seem to be being quite secretive about their use of technology. It seems that they wait for someone to find out about it before releasing information in dribs and drabs, sometimes after prompting from the Ombudsman. If the Police aren't proud of what they're doing to more efficiently fight crime, perhaps they shouldn't be doing it at all.
A second concern is that our laws, even including the new Search & Surveillance Act, might already be out of date when it comes to the Police use of such technology. For example, are there any controls on amassing publicly available data to such an extent that modern data analysis software can make some assumptions about very private behaviour?
We'd like to see two things:
- The NZ Police taking a more proactive role in disclosing what they are doing and how they are doing it. They may even wish to do more consulting with community groups and watchdogs such as Tech Liberty and the NZ Council for Civil Liberties.
- Work on a new set of standards and principles to inform the Police's (and other agencies) use of new technology and "big data" systems. These should cover data integrity, retention, security, auditing and notification. This is something that Tech Liberty is currently working on.
Police confirm they're not keeping ANPR data
See update at end of post.
We've been keeping an eye on the NZ Police trials of ANPR (automated number plate recognition - read our explanation).
The main civil liberties issue with this technology is that the system stores the time and location of the license plate check. Once enough of these systems are deployed they can be used to track people by following vehicle movements, as is being done by a number of other countries. We believe that, at a minimum, there should be some controls on how this data is stored and used, for example by having to apply for a tracking warrant.
The Police themselves have been sending out mixed messages about whether they're keeping the information and whether they'll be using it for tracking, as documented by our article. At the end of that article we said we were seeking further clarification from the Police.
Police confirm they're not keeping ANPR data for tracking
We have now received a letter (PDF) from Superintendent Carey Griffiths in which he explains:
All three patrol cars and one of the vans have the capacity to store information for up to a two or three day period depending upon operational use. In general the information is not stored for any longer than a shift period which can vary from an eight hour to a ten hour shift.
One of the [two] vans has a system known as BOSS ( Back Office System Software) and this system has the capability to store information for a longer period ... The BOSS system settings have recently been amended, and the information is now only stored for a maximum of 48 hours.
It seems clear from this that the Police will not be keeping the ANPR data.
Police believe they can't track without a warrant
Furthermore, Superintendent Griffiths goes on to say that:
Police considers that with so few cameras, the technology cannot be used to "track" vehicles. In any event, Police cannot track vehicles other than in accordance with the Search & Surveillance Act 2012.
This contrasts strongly with what the Police said in a letter from December 2011:
There is no requirement for police to apply for a warrant for any ANPR information as it is gathered in a public place.
This change in attitude is quite interesting. The Search & Surveillance Act only refers to getting a warrant for tracking when it involves the use of a tracking device (s46). We initially took this to refer to getting a warrant to allow the installation of a "bug" on the car or person to be tracked.
However, tracking device is defined as "a device that may be used to help ascertain, by electronic or other means ... the location of a thing or a person".
Could one define an ANPR system as a tracking device and would the Police then have to get a warrant to use it to track people? It seems that the Police now think it would. The same argument would also seem to apply to using mobile phones to track people.
In our opinion this interpretation would fit in both with the purpose of the Act and the requirements in a civil society for oversight of the use of this type of mass surveillance.
We're pleased that the Police are not attempting to implement the sort of pervasive people/vehicle tracking systems that are becoming popular in some overseas jurisdictions. We do not think that this sort of police state behaviour has any place in a free and democratic New Zealand.
Furthermore, after some problems with illegal surveillance in recent years, it's good to see that the Police are taking their responsibilities under the Search & Surveillance Act seriously.
We will continue to monitor the Police use of ANPR technology and look forward to receiving copies of the assessment from the Privacy Commissioner and the final Police report into their test ANPR deployment.
Update 5th August 2013
The Police have announced they will be deploying new red-light and speed cameras. We asked them if these new cameras would support ANPR. Their response:
There are no current plans to deploy either digital red-light cameras or speed cameras that support Automatic Number Plate Recognition.
Police contradictions on ANPR
Close Up have done a piece about the NZ Police trials of automated number plate recognition (ANPR). (See our earlier article explaining it.)
The main civil liberties issue is that the system stores the time and location of the license plate check. Once enough of these systems are deployed they can be used to track people by following vehicle movements. We believe that, at a minimum, there should be some controls on how this data is stored and used, for example by having to apply for a tracking warrant.
Nothing to fear?
The Police were represented on Close Up by Superintendent Carey Griffiths who said that these fears were incorrect: "The system we are using here, we don't retain the data."
He went on to say: "Most of the cameras and systems we use drop it off at the end of the shift. We're certainly not using it for data mining."
Police contradictions
However, we have letters (first letter March 2011, second letter December 2011) from the Police that indicate a very different story:
"Details of vehicle movements captured during ANPR deployments will be retained on a secure Police database."
What sort of data is stored?
"The time, data and a photograph of all vehicles passing the ANPR camera is stored." and "Yes it will include the location or where the device was deployed."
And will they be used for tracking?
"Police may search the stored data if there is a belief that there may be information relation to a crime; e.g. where a serious crime has taken place and Police are looking for an offender's vehicle."
And do the Police think they need a warrant to track people in this way?
"There is no requirements for police to apply for a warrant for any ANPR information as it is gathered in a public place."
The big question
Who is correct - Superintendent Carey Griffiths, Road Policing Manager, who just appeared on Close Up or Superintendent Paula Rose, National Manager Road Policing, who wrote to us in March and December 2011?
Has the policy changed in the meantime? Was Superintendent Paula Rose incorrect? Or has Superintendent Carey Griffiths been misleading us all on national TV?
Edit (19/8/2012): We have written to the Commissioner of Police to ask for an explanation and will report back with any answer we get.
An introduction to ANPR (automated number plate recognition)
ANPR stands for automated number plate recognition.
It's a camera that can automatically recognise and read license plates on cars and then checks them against a central database. If the plate matches a "vehicle of interest", the police can then decide to pull over the car and talk to the driver. ANPR cameras are typically deployed in police cars and in fixed installations by the side of the road.
The current state of ANPR in New Zealand
[Edit: there is some inconsistency between the information available over multiple letters from the Police and that reported in Police News.]
[Edit 2: Superintendent Carey Griffiths has denied that the Police will be storing the ANPR data and using it for tracking. We have asked the Police Commissioner for clarification.]
According to the June 2012 edition of Police News, the NZ Police have been trialling ANPR since 2009. This has involved four mobile ANPR units which are not that sophisticated in that they need two people to operate them (one to drive, one to watch the screen).
In theory the trial ended in January 2012 but it is our understanding from Police News that they are still using the current four ANPR vehicles (2 in Auckland, 1 in Waikato/Eastern and 1 in Christchurch/Southland) and are looking at deploying another couple.
We have requested copies of reports about the trial and any recommendations about further deployment of ANPR systems.
Thanks an OIA request by Alex Harris we also have a draft copy of the ANPR manual. There is also an associated letter where the Police report that the trial began in 2010 and has consisted of only two units for a limited time in Counties Manukau and Wellington, with them currently deployed in Counties Manukau and Waitemata.
The Police answer questions about ANPR
Some questions and answers from letters to the police about ANPR (questions are ours, answers are from the Police):
Q. What data is stored with each record (e.g. location, time of day, etc)?
A. The time date and a photograph of all vehicles passing the ANPR camera is stored.
Q. Will this information include the location of the ANPR device at the time of the lookup?
A. Yes it will include the location of where the device was deployed.
Q. How long will the data for each captured license plate be kept for?
A. Data of vehicle movements captured during ANPR deployments will be retained on a secure Police database. In time this information may be deleted with it is no longer required for the purpose it was obtained. Police may search the stored data if there is a belief that there may be information relating to a crime.
Q. Are the police considering using the information stored in the ANPR database to track vehicles?
A. The ANPR system alerts police to vehicles that are a vehicle of interest to police recorded in the vehicles of interest database.
Q. If so, do the police believe they would need to apply for a warrant to use the information in this way?
A. There is no requirement for police to apply for a warrant for any ANPR information as it is gathered in a public place.
Why does ANPR make us worried?
If ANPR was simply used by the police to help find people they are actively looking for, we'd probably have no argument against it.
The problem is that it's more than just a simple database lookup. That central database isn't just responding to queries, it's also storing the date, the time and the place for every car that passes the ANPR camera.
So the police end up with a very big database of car sightings – which gives them the ability to track the movements of any car they wish. Even more worrying is that they can keep this data for as long as they like and therefore "go back in time" by entering queries for any day since the database was started.
The technology is rapidly getting cheaper and could easily end up deployed in every police car and in fixed places around major cities and roads, allowing for near total coverage.
Potential harm
There are three types of harm that can come from creating a new database like this:
- An inappropriate extension of police power that might be used badly. e.g. the Police use it to spy on political activists who are engaged in peaceful protest, breaching their rights to privacy and freedom from Police surveillance.
- Extension to other government departments. e.g. could CYFS access the database to determine that you are feeding your children badly because you park near the local McDonalds each day?
- Improper use. A police officer using it to stalk someone for their own reasons.
Tracking used to be hard
Tracking someone used to be hard and expensive but ANPR is going to make it easy and cheap. With ANPR you don't need a whole team of people, you don't need to install a GPS tracking device, you don't need to get a court order to access mobile phone data - you just install ANPR devices everywhere and then ask the database about whoever you like.
More to the point, you also don't need to change any laws or apply for a surveillance warrant to install a tracking device – you can just start doing it.
It's the sort of information that a totalitarian regime would love to have. But is it the sort of information that we want our government to have about everyone?
Shouldn't we talk about what sort of controls we might want to impose if such a system is implemented?
Are we going to end up with this system watching our every move without even any public debate about it?
MegaUpload arrests in New Zealand
NZ police have arrested four people connected with MegaUpload.com in New Zealand today at the request of the US FBI. They have been charged in the US "with running an international organized criminal enterprise allegedly responsible for massive worldwide online piracy of numerous types of copyrighted works through Megaupload.com and other related sites". (FBI press release.)
We have little faith in the fairness and appropriateness of the US's laws and processes around copyright and intellectual property. The US government is continually strengthening its copyright laws at the behest of the entertainment industry (see SOPA and PIPA) and is trying to pass laws that we would not like to see copied in NZ.
Will this NZ police cooperation lead to New Zealanders being arrested and handed over to the US for doing things that may not be serious offences in New Zealand? Which other countries' laws do New Zealanders have to obey when using the internet?
Whether this case is an example of good international cooperation or the US demanding other countries help enforce bad law is yet to be determined. We will be monitoring this issue closely and hope to publish more information as it is available.
Media Links
- FBI charges seven with online piracy (Wall Street Journal)
- Megaupload's Kim Schmitz arrested in Auckland, site shut down (3news)
- File-sharing website Megaupload shut down, NZ-based founder arrested (PC World NZ)
- File-sharing kingpin arrested in New Zealand at US officials' request (NBR)
- 'We're not pirates, we're just providing shipping services to pirates' (Wall Street Journal Law Blog).
- Why the feds smashed Megaupload (Ars Technica).
- Megaupload attempting to get back online (Stuff NZ)
Useful Links
- The FBI press release.
- The indictment.
- Statement from the NZ Police.
- The NZ extradition treaty (PDF) with the US.
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade's information about extradition from New Zealand
- Yes, copyright infringement can be criminal in New Zealand with imprisonment up to five years.
- Damning quotes from the MegaUpload owner's email.


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Crews began sandbagging the river at around 10:00 p.m. on Thursday night.
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Healthy Skepticism: Marion Nestle Takes On Food Studies
Diet sodas can lead to strokes! Zinc helps common colds! Pomegranate juice is an antioxidant powerhouse!
In a recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle, Marion Nestle explains why headlines like these can be misleading and how to question the studies that lead to them.
Nestle says that any study that makes a sweeping claim about a single food or ingredient sets off warning bells for her. She then mentions three major factors we should always consider when judging these health studies: plausibility, controls, and sponsorship.
Plausibility simply means asking yourself if the study makes sense. She points to the study linking diet sodas and increase heart disease, questioning their methods and saying, "Mostly, I can't think of a biological reason why diet sodas might lead to cardiovascular disease." If the study doesn't explain the link sufficiently, there's good reason to be skeptical.
By controls, Nestle means taking a look at how the study was carried out and whether the control groups were sufficiently, well, controlled. She mentions the studies done on zinc and Vitamin C supplements as an aid for the common cold with this one.
And finally, sponsorship of health studies is something for which we should always be alert. As Nestle says, "Vested interests influence the design and interpretation of studies." This is the case with the claim that pomegranate juice is high in antioxidants. Nestle explains that it's not so much that this claim is wrong, but that the study doesn't give enough context.
We really appreciate hearing how a nutrition and food policy expert like Marion Nestle approaches the headlines we read every day!
• Read the Article: Be Skeptical of Food Studies by Marion Nestle in the San Francisco Chronicle
Related: 2010 Dietary Guidelines: A Change for the Better
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This is great! Psuedo science is a menace y'all.
Industry-funded propaganda aside, I don't think the problem is with the studies themselves. If you take the time to look at the actual studies, they very rarely make sweeping claims. They suggest possible links, they not correlations.
The issue is really how the media report on those studies and how we as consumers try to find some clear-cut, hand and fast rule in them. The diet-soda/stroke study is a perfect example. If you look at what the scientists stated, they were very clear that they did not know why people who reported higher consumption of diet pop had more strokes, and specifically said the issue needed more study. But those caveats and qualifications were buried at the end of the stories about the study - when they were mentioned at all.
I'm with PilarJ, I find if you look at the actual study it may not be drawing the same conclusions that the media reports. The media likes a nice clear-cut sound bite and that is so rarely what science provides.
I'm with PilarJ, too. Although I think it's more that THE PEOPLE aren't interested in critically thinking about anything. Just the sound bites and the next dietary fixation, please.
I completely embrace Nestle's points, but reading study abstracts to understand the methodology is way beyond what the average person would ever do.
Likewise, it can take a fair amount of digging and backtracking to find out who is behind what in terms of sponsorship.
Sadly, it sort of goes without saying that the people who need this message the most are the least likely to pay attention to it.
Yeah, what PilarJ said. The problem is not with the studies, but how they are reported in the main stream media.
Also, most studies are funded by corporations. All that great research about chocolate being good for you? Funded by Nestle and Mars. Calcium good for weight loss? Dairy Council. Margarine being better for heart health than butter? National Association of Margarine Manufacturers. Cholesterol evil? Pharmaceutical companies.
Of course there are some privately funded studies, and the gov't funds a lot too. But, at the end of the day it's the corporations that have the cash to do studies that they have an interest in. It's just how it is. It doesn't mean the studies are bad or flawed per se.
Also, I hate Marion Nestle.


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Josh's first animation studies for this opera were presented at the BAM Harvey Theater, alongside the premiere of a new piece of music by Judd set to Walt Whitman's poem Mannahatta. DM Stith and the Trinity Wall Street Choir sang the vocals.
The song is the first section of a three-part cycle that Judd is writing, titled My City, commissioned by the Orchestra Engagement Lab, Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Waterbury Symphony Orchestra.
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Eating disorders in adolescents and young adult women: Implications for reproductive health
Eating disorders (EDs) are serious, often debilitating chronic illnesses that typically start in adolescence. About 90% of ED patients are female. In addition to anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN), the most recent Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
(DSM-5) has included binge eating disorder.1 Past DSM editions included the category "eating disorder not otherwise specified" (EDNOS), and many young people fell into this group. Modifications of the other ED criteria and the addition of the category "other specified feeding or eating disorder" led to the elimination of EDNOS. Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is one more new category; it is especially relevant for children and adolescents. Table 1 outlines the DSM-5 ED criteria.1
The prevalence of EDs has increased in recent decades, likely due in part to better recognition as well as the marked medical and societal focus on obesity and dieting. Current prevalence estimates among adolescents and young adults in the United States are 0.5% to 1.0 % with AN, 1% to 2% with BN, and about 5% with other EDs.2 Of special concern is that ED diagnoses are increasingly being made in preadolescents (<12 years), putting this young population at heightened risk for delayed physical and psychosocial development.3 These prevalence figures are clearly underestimates. The 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance, a biannual national survey of high school students by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found 61% of females were trying to lose weight, and in the past 30 days 12% of females had not eaten for 24 hours or more, 5% took diet pills/supplements, and 4% induced vomiting or took laxatives to lose or not gain weight.4 Thus, many young women are engaging in unhealthy eating and dieting behaviors, even if they do not meet DSM criteria for an ED.
EDs can affect every organ system; patients may present with any combination of gynecologic, cardiac, gastrointestinal, neurologic, orthopedic, or psychiatric signs and symptoms (Table 2). Young women with EDs are seldom forthcoming about their ED thoughts and behaviors, often leading to unnecessary testing and delayed diagnosis. Because of parental concerns, children and adolescents may be more likely to see a healthcare provider earlier in their course than are older patients.
EDs are multifactorial in origin, with a strong genetic component.3,5 They are not volitional, although dieting often precedes the ED. Patients with AN at low weight show elevated ghrelin, a hunger-stimulating hormone secreted mainly by the stomach and pancreas, and a low level of leptin, a hormone secreted by adipocytes. These abnormalities are likely a physiologic adaptation to a starved state, rather than causal. A constellation of personality and psychologic traits such as perfectionism and low self-esteem are often but not always seen in those with EDs. Comorbid psychiatric conditions, especially anxiety and depression, are common.6 Again, are these factors causative or more a result of the disordered eating and weight changes? Our thinness-obsessed culture influences everyone; young women seem to be especially vulnerable to unrealistic and unattainable "body ideals," and yet few develop an ED.
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