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Captain's Report
Capt. Steve Says
It's sure hard to look at any boat in the Tigé lineup and not see just how cool these boats are. But looks are only half the battle plan for marketing a boat. If it's all show and no go then the lineup falls flat. So I needed to get on the water with these boats and see what's up. And that's exactly what I did. Here's what I found---
Taken as a regular boat, as opposed to a watersports boat, the RZ4 performed nicely. Turns were crisp and well defined with just a little slide to counter the forces that can turn uncontrollable in a hard turn. At any speed, the boat was fully maneuverable and offered nothing out of the ordinary that may surprise the unwary.
Now you have to keep in mind that the Tigé RZ4 is an inboard boat, so handling will be a little different than a sterndrive. Some of these differences are good, and some not so much, in my opinion. The good differences were mostly notable in the high speed turns. There was no prop cavitation at any speed, so you don't have to worry about trim in a hard turn. I was throwing the boat into very hard turns and was surprised that the boat didn't come flying off from the sideways forces, but she hung fast and showed no signs of slipping out...ever. That adhesion to the water is thanks to the three stabilizing fins protruding down from her keel. Another characteristic of this inboard drive in the Tigé RZ4 is that it's connected to a V-drive transmission. So unlike other wakeboard boats on the market, there's no big ol' engine box in the middle of the cockpit. This engine is well aft leaving plenty of play room in the cockpit.
The downside to any single-engine inboard installation is in docking, and this boat was no exception.. The boat backs to starboard, and there's not a thing you can do about it. No amount of steering will counter the torque of the propeller rotation pulling the boat over so my recommendation is to deal with it.
Inboard Docking Made Easy
How do you do that? Easily. Make all your dockings to the starboard side. Approach the dock slightly off, and then when you back down, the stern will get pulled over. To keep the stern from hitting the dock first, be turned hard to starboard, and just a touch of forward will push the stern away enough so that the boat comes up against the dock flush with the whole side of the boat, rather than one section hitting first. With a few minutes practice, and some forward and reverse, you can get the hang of it and you'll be an instant pro. Be gentle, you won't feel the transmission "clunk" as it slips into gear. It's silky smooth.
The Wake Maker
So the real deal is in the RZ4's wake handling. Tigé approaches the game a little differently. Where most, if not all, other wakeboard boat hulls have a straight line running towards the stern, and then a hook down to give the stern the "dig in" you need to get that fat wake, Tigé actually makes their hull curve up at the stern. Then, the TAPS2 comes into play. TAPS stands for Tigé Adjustable Performance System, and it's basically a wide plate at the stern that you can adjust like a trim tab. Only unlike trim tabs, this is in the center of the hull at the bottom of the transom. You can run with it up, for a flat wake, or run with it down for a fat wake. But is it effective? I found it to be marginally effective with the ballast tanks empty. It did cause the bow to rise and fall, but from the boat the changes in wake appeared to be marginal. I'm sure if I were on the end of a towline, I'd notice the difference but from the driver's seat, it was small. That said, the fact that it would change at all is significant. With other wakeboard brands, you're left to the ballast tanks only.
Let'em Eat Wake!
Now, with the ballast tanks full, (we had four, two in the stern, two in the bow) the difference in wake was significant. Moving the TAPS 2 plane up and down resulted in a large change in the wake, from a sporty "jumping for the fun of catching a little air" size wake, to a "jumping into the air and flying from one side of the boat to the other" size of wake. From a performance and handling standpoint, with the TAPS plane down the boat is converted into a depressing, bow high, fuel burner, but then again, when wakeboarding, the driver's aspect is of little concern… it's all about the wake!! And in the Tigé RZ4, I had complete control of the wake and could make it do whatever I wanted. It took a little time to get it where I wanted it to be, what with filling and draining ballast bags (about a 15 minute one way trip), but I could definitely get it there and anyone at the end of the towline would be pleased with the customized results. So if TAPS 2 is all that great, why doesn't everybody do it? Because they can't. Tigé patented it. Smart move on Tigé's part.
Tigé Touch
But once you get it to where you want it, the question is… can you get it there again? What if you are towing a guy and finally arrive at that sweet spot of performance. Will you be able to arrive at it again for him, and what's more...can you do it for all the other guys (and gals) you're taking out on your boat? The answer is a resounding yes. And you do it with Tigé Touch. This proprietary device allows you to utilize a touch screen to input very specific parameters and save them as profiles, and even name the profiles. So when Bob decides that you've reached a perfect wake for him, then you save that set of parameters as a profile named "Bob" and then, at the touch of a button, Bob's a happy camper every time. If his skills improve and he wants to tweak things a bit, just edit the profile and you're done. Tigé Touch is able to control not only the boat's speed, but the levels of individual ballast tanks and the level of the TAPS 2 running plate. All with touch screen capability. I think this is a huge feature.
But it gets better. Tigé Touch also gives you control of the boats lights, all switches for pumps and blowers, as well as the tunes. You can even change the input for the tunes from AM, FM, MP3, Sirius, and Aux inputs.
Performance and Specifications
The Tigé RZ4 has a LOA of 24' (7.32 m), and a beam of 8'6" (2.6 m). Her empty weight is 4,485 lbs. (2,034 kgs) and she carries 48 gallons (181.7 L) of fuel. We tested the Tigé RZ4 on a chilly day with 5-10 mph winds a light chop and our test boat was powered with a PCM EX343."Look at those rocks, Huck. Just wait until the boat drifts on to 'em and we'll see how cool your Dad acts then."
This is a 5.7L MPI engine, and you have to give high marks to PCM for calling it as it is. Their EX343 is 343-hp. No confusing marketing hype here. Her top speed was found to be 41.9 MPH and her best cruise came at 3000 RPM's and 23.9 MPH. At that speed, the RZ4 was burning only 7.5 gallons per hour, and with her tanks topped off, she'll have a range, at that speed, of 138 miles. Now that's a lot of wakeboarding. Overall, I was very impressed with the Tigé RZ4. Not only was she a sweet handling boat, but TAPS allowed control of the wake to keep both novices and pros happy. And at the end of the day, that's what it's all about.
Test Result Highlights
- Top speed for the Tigé RZ4 (2010-) is 41.9 mph (67.4 kph), burning 23.2 gallons per hour (gph) or 87.81 liters per hour (lph).
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Most of the attention has been on rush linebacker Terrell Suggs' future because he'll cost the Ravens more than $12 million against the salary cap next season. However, there are probably other Ravens whose futures in purple are a bit more tenuous than Suggs'.
It would be extremely surprising if Pro Bowl fullback Vonta Leach, who would count $2.3 million against the cap and had a limited role this season, is back next year. Weak-side linebacker Jameel McClain ($4.4 million) and punter Sam Koch ($2.8 million) may also be in jeopardy.
Defensive end Chris Canty ($3.2 million) is another question mark, though if the Ravens lose free agent Arthur Jones, It would be tough to replace both Jones and Canty.
Speaking of Jones, I know a lot of people consider him a must re-sign for the Ravens, but I just can't see it happening.
After having the best season of his career, Jones is in line for a nice payday this year, and he'll have earned every bit of it. He's improved every year and made himself into a real solid player. However, with the money the Ravens owe nose tackle Haloti Ngata and their other financial commitments, I don't see how they'll win a bidding war for Jones.
I think it will play out a lot like Dannell Ellerbe's free agency last year or Cory Redding's from a couple of years ago. The Ravens will maintain interest and consider re-signing Jones a priority, but they'll realize pretty quickly that their offer won't be competitive with what Jones will get elsewhere.
I hope I'm wrong, because Jones is one of the classiest and most accountable athletes I've ever covered.
With limited flexibility under the salary cap, the Ravens are only going to be able to devote so much money to fixing their struggling offensive line.
Even if they re-sign left tackle Eugene Monroe – and both sides seem to want to make that happen – they are still going to have questions at center, where Gino Gradkowski has yet to prove that he's the long-term answer; at left guard, where Kelechi Osemele is coming off back surgery; and at right tackle, where free agent Michael Oher isn't expected to return.
So, it seems inevitable that they are going to need one of their young offensive linemen to step up next season and prove themselves capable of handling a starting role.
Rick Wagner, a fifth-round pick out of Wisconsin, played in all 16 games as a rookie, mostly limited to special teams and the "jumbo" package. There's a long offseason ahead but with it unlikely that the Ravens can afford to sign two free agent offensive tackles, Wagner may well be the favorite to start at right tackle next season.
Getting back to Oher -- I know I'm going to get ripped for this -- but I'm still surprised how much vitriol the mere mention of his name stirs up among Ravens' fans.
Sure, he never developed into the dominant left tackle that the organization had hoped for when they selected him in the first round of the 2009 draft, and his weekly false start penalties were frustrating.
But he was also a guy who has started every game of his Ravens career, his 80 consecutive starts representing the third-longest streak in franchise history.
He moved from right tackle to left, back to right, back to left and then back to right without complaint. And though he struggled this year, he played extremely well during the Super Bowl run last year against some really good pass rushers.
He was dominant against Von Miller and Elvis Dumervil in the AFC divisional playoff game last year. That should count for something.
It's unclear at this point how serious a candidate Ravens offensive coordinator Jim Caldwell is for the head coaching openings with the Detroit Lions and the Washington Redskins, or if he'll ultimately emerge as a candidate at Penn State as well.
But you can bet that like most coaches, Harbaugh already has an extensive list put together about potential assistants that he'd like to hire given an opening.
I'm not privy to that list, but I'd be surprised if the Ravens didn't at least check in on Cleveland Browns offensive coordinator Norv Turner's availability. Turner is still under contract with the Browns, but he reportedly questioned Cleveland owner Jimmy Haslam and CEO Joe Banner after this week's firing of head coach Rob Chudzinski.
It still would be hard to imagine the Browns letting Turner go, though it can't be ruled out because their new head coach may want to bring in his own offensive coordinator.
If that happens and Ravens had an opening at offensive coordinator, Turner would be a great fit. The Ravens have long had a tremendous amount of respect for Turner, his offensive mind and his skills as a play caller.
While Harbaugh said Monday that there were no imminent plans for coaching changes, I'd still be surprised if run game coordinator Juan Castillo is back next year. It sounds like both sides could be ready for a parting at this point and Castillo, who has a really good reputation around the league regardless of what happened this year, shouldn't have a huge problem finding another job.
That would be ideal for the Ravens and prevent Harbaugh from having to fire a good friend, though he's done it before with Cam Cameron.
One more coaching observation: it will be interesting to see if senior defensive assistant Steve Spagnuolo gets some feelers with the number of defensive coordinator jobs that might open.
The New York Giants would be one potential match if they decide to dump Perry Fewell or Fewell surprisingly gets the Redskins head coaching job. Spagnuolo was the defensive coordinator when the Giants won the Super Bowl in 2007, and he's extremely well liked and respected by that organization.

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By mounting the HyperStar lens assembly in place of the secondary mirror, a CCD camera can be mounted at the front of the telescope allowing for a wider field of view and much faster imaging.
Switching from HyperStar to the telescope's normal f/10 configuration is simple and fast. It takes only a minute or two, requires no tools, and the telescope's secondary mirror is indexed so no recollimation is necessary.
The HyperStar lens assembly works with a variety of cameras from Atik, Orion, Meade, Mallincam, SBIG, Starlight Xpress and more. Different cameras require different adapters in order to preserve the critical backfocus distance of the HyperStar lens. One adapter is included with the HyperStar lens. Please specify the camera being used when ordering.
A holder is included for safe storage of the secondary mirror while imaging.
Read Astronomy Technology Today's article The Evolution of Intelligent Design to better understand the history of Starizona's HyperStar and the advantages it brings to astrophotography.
The HyperStar systems allows an 11" telescope to operate at a focal ratio of f/2.0, an incredible 25 times faster than the standard f/10 focal ratio! Images can be obtained in just seconds!
- Focal Ratio: f/2.0
- Focal Length: 560mm
- Maximum Usable Sensor Size: 27mm Diagonal (APS Format)
- DSLR Compatible
- Field of View (with 27mm sensor): 2.9 degrees
- Camera Adapter Threaded for 2" (48mm) Filters
- Backfocus (from mounting thread to focal plane): 59.7mm (2.35")
- Length (without camera adapter): 4.5"
- Diameter: 4.3"
- Weight: 2.1 lbs
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Reviewed By Robert J (Cassatt, SC) Reviewed for a 2000 Acura RL —6/28/2016 8:47 PM
Installed the Wagner Brake Pads on the front of my Acura myself. No extra shims or grease required on sides of pads like cheaper brands. Instructions on importance of using new included hardware was helpful to do job properly.Had proper fit & quiet operation. Couldn't be happier!


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Blog:News/Bethesda vs. Interplay court transcripts: Snow White, Donald Duck and hair falling out
As I have posted last month, Bethesda's motion to dismiss Interplay's latest counterclaim was denied by the court but details of that court session were not made public. However, I have now received the court transcripts from that very session. Here are some of the more interesting quotes.
Note that I have preserved the original spelling, including some names that were misspelled in the transcripts. "Mr. Kaen" refers to Herve Caen, CEO of Interplay, while "Mr. Leader" is James Leder, COO of Bethesda.
Howard H. Stahl, Bethesda's lawyer, argued that the name in itself has enormous value, which is why Interplay actually licensed only that.
(...)The name, Your Honor, has enormous value. They wanted that name for this MMOG.
However, after he compared the value of the name "Fallout" to licensing the name "Walt Disney" to use with a movie, judge Deborah K. Chasanow asked:
(...)Let me ask you this about your analogy, what if someone was allowed to use the mark Snow White but none of the characters or pictures or storyline or anything else, so what they did is they labeled it Snow White but you look at it and it is Donald Duck?
Stahl replied:
Jeffrey Gersh, Interplay's lawyer, in stated in reply to that that prior to this motion, Bethesda never took the position that Interplay had never had any rights to use established elements of the Fallout world.
As evidence of that, Gersh presented the early proof of concept screenshots, which clearly show such elements as super mutants and Nuka-Cola.
Do we slap it on a game where people are losing their hair and as hair falls out we say, okay it is a Fallout game?
Do we put that on a game that says that there are people falling out of windows and when they hit the ground we killthem and we say that is a Fallout and they are falling out of cars or do we put it on some car racing game set in a time that is not an apocalyptic time like a Fallout game?
Can anybody honestly think for one second that if a game didn't look, smell, taste, feel like a Fallout game that Bethesda would ever approve it?
That Bethesda would say it is okay, you can put out a game with a bunch of rainbow ponies prancing around and we will call it Fallout and Bethesda is going to say, that is great because people are going to really understand it is related to Fallout? The answer is no.
With goodwill and a mark you want the images, you want that game that people are going to pick up and buy that see the word Fallout. They are going to say wow that is a Fallout game, I remember playing that game on a standalone on my computer, looks great, we like it.It couldn't be anything else. It would be impossible to suggest. The problem is as we suggest Iin our papers is that I think it is ambiguous from this agreement what did we really get? It is why we think that the intent of the parties need to be delved into in great depth.
I submit to you they left it out, but completely explaining what was going to be part of that. But what is interesting is they didn't come to this Court previously and simply say to you at the preliminary injunction, we want an injunction Judge because they don't have any right to do anything wit it except put a game out there with a mark Fallout on it.That would have been simple and why didn't they do that? Because I submit that Mr. Leader and Mr. Lesher in declarations, they knew what the intent was, they knew that Interplay was going to make a game that looked like Fallout, they knew that it was going to have similar characters to it, they wouldn't have had to make the arguments that they are making now had they really believed that is what it was before. To think anything else is simply ridiculous.
Mr. Stahl answered with the following:
If there is anything, it is absolutely clear that anything that is not specifically licensed to Interplay is completely exclusively owned by it and entitled to be used by Bethesda.
To say there is no control in this agreement about what kind of game they could create under the Fallout mark is really not accurate Your Honor.Look at all of Section 5 of the Trademark License Agreement, it goes on for pages about quality control, about using confusing marks, about samples, about what is to be in it, about the rest of it.
He also reaffirmed that Bethesda never knew about Interplay using established elements of the Fallout world in their game, ignoring the proof of concept screenshots from the preliminary injunction stage:
Eventually, the judge decided to deny Bethesda's motion to dismiss Interplay's counterclaim.
We use a common ordinary meaning, we do not read any particular term in isolation, we have to read the contracts as a whole and here we have two documents that were executed at the same time, refer to each other and therefore are to be interpreted together.
While this [Bethesda's interpretation] is a possible reading, I am not saying ultimately that they won't succeed. I find that they have not persuaded me at this juncture that it is the clearly unambiguous meaning of these documents.
The Asset Purchase Agreement differentiates in the intellectual property definition between the trademarks and the brand indicating that they are not necessarily synonymous so the license that licenses the ability to create a Fallout branded MMOG indicates to me that maybe we have mroe than the marks involved.
We need, as I have said, to look at the contracts as a whole and I looked at Section 3.4 where the parties outlined what they expect to happen if the TLA was terminated and it refers to Interplay's right to retain elements of the MMOG that it created but excluding any game elements that used, incorporated, traded on or otherwise exploited any Fallout related intellectual property (...).I question that if it never granted iNterplay the right to use any of this intellectual property there would be no need and no reason to have the return of it contained in the agreement and I do not think we are to read a contract so as to render nugatory or ineffective any other provisions.
Additional discovery hearings are to take place in the next few months to determine the actual meaning of the agreements between the parties. Interplay was also ordered to submit additional documentation regarding financing and development of Fallout Online by February 7.


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There's nothing like acknowledging that you are part of something bigger, part of an entire way of life that exists outside your home, town or state. That's why Earth Day is such a big day … it celebrates our entire planet! And this year, there will be a variety of events that highlight Mother Earth in all her glory. Some stuff worth mentioning is the 6th Annual Sustainability Expo & Lobos Growers' Market, the Celebrate Earth Day event at Hotel Andaluz and Earth Day at the Museum.
The first is at the Cornell Mall at UNM's main campus and includes fresh, local produce, music, crafts and food trucks. Now that's a fine way to pay homage to our planet. The event runs from 10am to 2pm tomorrow, and is free, unless, you know, you buy stuff. The second event is Celebrate Earth Day at Hotel Andaluz (125 Second Street NW) and is a free event that features guest speakers (including Congresswoman Michelle Lujan Grisham), a wolf from the Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary and raptors from Avian Ambassadors. That event happens from 10am to 1pm, also tomorrow.
And for those who want to throw a little education into their celebrations, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science (1801 Mountain NW) is hosting Earth Day at the Museum (again, tomorrow). This day will have "special celebrations, hands-on activities for all ages and short talks." And that slice of terrestrial goodness is included with regular admission, which is $7 for ages 13 and up, $6 for seniors and $4 for those under 13. Festivities run from 9am to 3pm. Not bad, eh? Consult our calendars for more events happening prior to Earth Day if these aren't to your liking. But bear in mind that Earth is a lovely place to be, and that's always a reason to celebrate. Cornell Mall on the UNM Main Campus (East of SUB) • Tue Apr 22 • 10am-2pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! • View on Alibi calendar


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Vivienne Hu is a New York based designer. Vivienne Hu received her degree in fashion design from Parsons School of Design, New York . She graduated from Goethe Institute, she also has a Bachelor's Degree in Finance from the University of Hohenheim in Germany. Before her fashion endeavors, she worked in investment banking on Wall Street for over three years. She then quickly gained experience in the fashion industry working at Oscar de la Renta and Yigal Azrouel. Her decision to change career paths stemmed from her zeal for fashion and her love of creativity and the arts. Her design concepts cater to women who have a strong sense of independence and a desire to display their femininity and personality in a unique way. Her collections exhibit a blend of classic European elegance and New York downtown style, with a touch of exotic Asian flair.


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Do We Really Want The UN In Charge Of Cybersecurity Standards?
from the answer:-no dept
This reference to data retention well illustrates the problems with involving the ITU in issues related to cybercrime and cybersecurity. Not only do national laws on data retention vary greatly, but there is ongoing controversy about whether governments should impose data retention mandates at all. In addition, where data retention is required, there are many different views on the legal standards under which governments should be able to gain access to retained data – whether access should require a court order, for example. Such questions are crucial to adopting a data retention law, but are far outside the expertise of the ITU. Other concerns arise from the fact that data retained by a service provider may, absent specific legal and procedural safeguards, be subject to access by the government to investigate any crime, may be accessed by intelligence agencies, and may be shared with other governments to assist their investigations. In addition, the more data that companies are required to retain, and the longer the retention period, the greater the risk that personal information could be breached, leaked, or otherwise abused.Elsewhere, the report highlights how many of the proposals on "cybersecurity" seem more likely to set up rules and laws that help repressive regimes crack down on critics and dissidents. And that, of course, highlights the real problem here. There is nothing in the ITU that involves actually determining what's best for the public and for individuals' rights. Instead, the proposals are from big (often state-supported) telcos and governments themselves. The CDT paper correctly argues that a group like the ITU simply isn't as quick or as flexible as any reasonable body dealing with the rapidly changing, always dynamic world of cybersecurity. But it goes even further than that. An effective look at cybersecurity requires recognizing that governments and telcos often have views that are not at all in the best interests of citizens -- and handing off all discussions on "cybersecurity" regulations to such a body seems ripe for abuse in ways that may help governments or telcos, but at the expense of the public and their ability to speak out.


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Vic salchichón sausage
Salchichón sausage
Which area of Spain is it typical?
- Autonomous region: Catalonia
The quality of the best lean pork, careful manufacture and the climatic conditions of the Barcelona county of La Plana de Vic, which hugely influence its curing, give the Vic salchichón sausage its unmistakable aroma and flavour which have won it the international fame it deserves.
To make it, meat and bacon from top-quality white pigs is used together with white and black pepper and salt, all macerated for at least 48 hours and packed in natural skins. The nearby Montseny mountains, which generate a gentle but continuous breeze and cause a great deal of mist, influence the curing of the pieces for 45 days, during which they acquire the sensory qualities that have made them so highly prized. The mixture is perfectly bound together and is very aromatic and tasty. They are presented in candle shapes, 7-8cm in diameter and between 50 and 60cm long.
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Product information
- Type of product: Meat
- Season: All year round
- Origin: In the area where this product is made, limited to La Plana de Vic, there are 28 villages which are the only ones which can make this exclusive meat product. The area is a wide thoroughfare between the Pyrenees and the coastal plain, at an altitude ranging between 400 and 600 metres above sea level.
- To drink with it: Young red wines or those aged in wood.
- Where to buy: Shops specialising in quality meat products.
Nutritional information
- Energy: Average
- Cholesterol: High
- Comments: Rich in lipids and proteins.


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The Arte Luise Kunsthotel is in constant transformation. Every two to five years we have our rooms redesigned by different artists. Altogether our hotel houses 50 rooms and two apartments.
As in the past, this year too, selected rooms will be redesigned respectively by one artist. We would therefore appreciate it if further fine artists would take an interest in our project.
In the process of room design we ask for creative results that go beyond the artists' studio work and that reflect and allow for the specific features of the site. At best, the entire room should be taken into consideration, whereby functionality and the satisfaction of guests' needs should be clearly kept in mind.
A draft of the artistic concept should be presented by e-mail or regular post.
Once an artist's proposal has been accepted, based on the quality of the artistic position as well as its compatability with the day to day hotel operation and on its financial and practical feasibility, a contract will be stipulated. The contract will settle its term (min. two years), the artist's compensation (approx 5% of the room revenue p.a.), free lodging for the artist (one week p.a.) and a reimbursement for material (lump-sum payment) and other expenses linked to the room design ex signing of the contract. The room design should be executed within a designated time period.
The furnishing of the room as well as further elements of the interior decoration, if not already included in the artistic concept, will be selected by the hotel management in accordance with the artist.
Please send your proposals to:
Arte Luise Kunsthotel
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Promoting Healthy Weight
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Promoting healthy weight focuses on the prevention and management of overweight and obesity. In Australia, the 2007-08 National Health Survey showed that some 61% of the adult population (18 years and over) were overweight or obese, with 25% of these classified as obese.
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Carlsbad, San Diego Travel Guide
Carlsbad Summary
- Great beaches, golf courses and beautiful lagoons
- Good restaurants in the downtown area
- Small-town atmosphere
- Interesting antique shops
- Legoland amusement park
- Easy parking
- Secluded location, a 45-minute drive from San Diego
- Little nightlife
- Mainly a residential area
- Few luxury hotels
What It's Like
Once known for the healing properties of the local mineral water, Carlsbad came in the spotlight once again when Legoland California amusement park opened in 1999. This seaside community, one of the wealthiest in California and in the US, has plenty of antique stores and restaurants, but it's mostly residential, and there's little to do after the sun sets. However, there are some interesting historic buildings, excellent golf courses, and wonderful beaches that are great for surfing and sunbathing. The closest urban areas are Encinitas to the south, and Oceanside to the north. San Diego is a 45-minute drive south.
Where To Stay
Since this is mainly a beach destination, the best place to stay is in the downtown area, right next to the beach and within walking distance of restaurants and shops. But if you're after a sprawling megaresort experience, you'll have to stay a short drive away.


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After the Flyers' 2-0 loss in Ottawa Tuesday, Mike Richards said his team didn't play with enough urgency.
As the Flyers' captain, it's time for Richards to get into the faces of the players he thinks are guilty.
This is Richards' second year as captain; it's also the second year the Flyers have folded down the stretch.
A year ago, the Flyers went 7-7-1 in their final 15 regular-season games and slipped to fifth in the Eastern Conference, losing the home-ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs. It was a recipe for disaster, and the Flyers fell to the Penguins in six games.
Tuesday's loss was the Flyers' fifth in six games. They are tied for sixth, but are only four points ahead of ninth-place Atlanta.
Richards said the Flyers "had a little bit of a lack of motivation and a lack of urgency, which shouldn't be there. It's frustrating and it has to change."
The Flyers, who are without injured star Jeff Carter for the rest of the regular season, have scored two goals or fewer in five of their last eight games.
Most of the players on the top three lines have been unproductive recently. Consider:
** Darroll Powe hasn't scored a goal in his last 25 games.
** James van Riemsdyk and Arron Asham each haven't scored in their last 12 games.
** Dan Carcillo has one goal in his last 12 games.
** Danny Briere has one goal in his last nine games.
** Claude Giroux, who took Carter's spot on the second line Tuesday, has two goals in the last 19 games.
** Richards has two goals in his last 10 games.
** Scott Hartnell has three goals in his last 27 games.
To make matters worse, the Flyers are 0 for 13 on the power play in their last four games.
They will try to regroup Thursday against visiting Minnesota. It's a proverbial "must" game for the Flyers, who have been outscored in the first periods of their last five games, 10-3. They have trailed at the end of the first period in each of those five games.
Yep, another recipe for disaster.
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Center Jeff Carter will have surgery on his broken left foot Friday, but is still expected to return in the same time as the original prognosis _ three to four weeks, the Flyers announced.
Carter, who leads the team in goals (33) and points (60), broke a bone in the foot on Sunday. The surgery, in which a screw is inserted, will aid the healing process, GM Paul Holmgren said.
The Flyers hope Carter can return for the first round of the playoffs _ if they get there. They host Minnesota Thursday, and the new lines are expected to look like this:
Hartnell-Richards-Carcillo; Gagne-Briere-Leino; van Riemsdyk-Giroux-Powe;
I still vote for a French Connection line of Briere, Giroux and Gagne. Hey, the way things are going, it's worth a look.


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Keith Alexander Supports Law To Gag Press So He Can Get His Preferred Online Surveillance Bill Passed
from the but-of-course dept
The general, who is due to retire in the next several weeks, said that the furore over Snowden's surveillance revelations – which he referred to only as "media leaks" – was complicating his ability to get congressional support for a bill that would permit the NSA and the military Cyber Command he also helms to secretly communicate with private entities like banks about online data intrusions and attacks.In case you haven't been paying attention, Alexander has been pushing for years for laws like CISPA, which would give the NSA much greater control over "cybersecurity" -- and specifically knock down barriers towards getting companies to share information with the NSA. Alexander and CISPA supporters have been spinning this entirely about "protecting" companies from online attackers, leaving out how it's really about giving the NSA more backdoors into private companies' networks.
"We've got to handle media leaks first," Alexander said.
"I think we are going to make headway over the next few weeks on media leaks. I am an optimist. I think if we make the right steps on the media leaks legislation, then cyber legislation will be a lot easier," Alexander said.
But think about what Alexander is saying above. He's flat out admitting -- as many have noted -- that his pet cybersecurity bills are dead right now because of all of the Snowden leaks, showing just how abusive the NSA has been. And his answer to that is not to fix the NSA, but to pass bills to stifle the free press from reporting on NSA efforts, which he then thinks will allow the government to pass legislation like CISPA.
As the report in the Guardian notes, no one seems to have any idea what this "media leaks legislation" is going to entail, as nothing has yet been proposed, and there haven't even been any real rumors of anything until now. However, with James Clapper recently referring to reporters as accomplices, and Rep. Mike Rogers making the out-of-left-field argument that reporters who are covering Snowden are thieves who traffic in stolen government property, you can connect a few dots and guess at what's coming down the pike.
Alexander's own comments seem to similarly suggest that reporters "have no standing" to report on these issues, because they're not insiders, using the Miranda detention as a launching pad:
"Recently, what came out with the justices in the United Kingdom … they looked at what happened on Miranda and other things, and they said it's interesting: journalists have no standing when it comes to national security issues. They don't know how to weigh the fact of what they're giving out and saying, is it in the nation's interest to divulge this,"Still, a bill to stifle investigative reporting is going to face stiff opposition, and even bringing up such a concept suggests that Alexander still has no clue what current public perception is like concerning the NSA's surveillance activities. Just the fact that he's suggesting a bill to silence a free press, and he specifically admits he wants to do so in order to get his troubling surveillance bill approved, shows the depths of Alexander's thinking on these issues. A free press? Not important. More power for the NSA to spy on everyone? That's the priority.


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Here is a brief update on my current creative projects and endeavors…!
★ "The Poet and the Flea 100 Day Countdown to the Premiere" is underway!! Join us on Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook!
Friday, November 2nd
- Meeting with Gabe: I surprised myself by creating a rough draft for Elias in less than a week! Went through entire draft with Gabe, and discussed options for various pages. Next step, experiment with watercolors, markers, etc. to create samples in order to give Gabe a better idea of the final illustrations.
- Worked on application for the Chronicle Books Children's Design Fellowship.
- Responded to Craigslist post: personal assistant for a graphic designer.
Saturday, November 3rd
- Dinner at Gabe's! Had a wonderful time and met a lot of cool people, including Gabe's adorable family.
- Continued to work on application for Chronicle Books Children's Design Fellowship.
- Looking into freelance illustrating and artist agencies.
Sunday, November 4th
- Continued to work on application for Chronicle Books Children's Design Fellowship.
- Signed up with Coroflot.com.
Monday, November 5th
- Continued to work on application for Chronicle Books Children's Design Fellowship.
- Worked on application to the Cannes Film Program.
- Working on The Flea script.
- The Poet and the Flea: 49 pages of written script (1 page of script = 4-6 illustrated pages), and about 36 pages (1-24, 27-30 completed, and 25-26, 31-36 in progress) of illustrated work.
- The First Reich: Began work on the first few pages…!
To Do:
- Add information to my Coroflot.com profile.
- Continue adding blog content to The First Reich.
- Continue to work on The First Reich.
- Continue to work on Elias & The City of Cats.
- Schedule next meeting with Gabe.
- November 7th: Scary Cow Information Session with Shannon.
- November 9th: Cinema by the Bay with Wes at 7 p.m.
- Sign up with Top Web Comics: Comic Rankings.
- Sign up with OnlineComics.net.
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One win away from title game
POCATELLO — Rematches are the story of the weekend for the two remaining Bingham County schools in the state football playoffs.
Both Firth and Shelley will be taking on the exact same teams they played in the 2012 semifinals and hoping that by the time the dust settles tonight, they have secured a berth in next week's state title games.
Neither the Cougars or Russets have been challenged in the first two rounds of the playoffs, that will change today, but the ned result should be the same as last year for both squads.
It is yet again time for me to make my fearless predictions for today's games in Holt Arena and dive into why each of the county schools will still be playing next week.
Firth (9-1) vs. West Side (9-1), 2:30 today in Holt Arena
These two teams are no strangers to each other. This will be the fourth meeting between the Cougars and Pirates in the last two seasons and so far the Cougars have won all three meetings with all but one being by a margin of more than 12 points.
Firth blew out the Pirates 44-18 to start the 2012 season, they met again in the semifinals in a game where Firth lost starting quarterback Jake Orme in the first half and had to erase a 14-point halftime deficit to earn a 22-14 win and a berth in the championship game.
The Cougars beat West Side 24-12 in Dayton to start the 2013 season in a game dominated for a half by the Pirates, but late turnovers allowed the Cougars to come back and win in the second half.
Expect this game to again be close, but the key for both schools will be the ability to get their running attacks going.
The Cougars are led by Connor Montgomery.
Montgomery has rushed for over 1,300 yard sand 28 touchdowns this season and has been the biggest asset of the Cougars much more balanced offensive attack.
What the Cougars don't do well the throw the ball with consistently. Quarterback Jackson Thompson has thrown for less than 800 yards and nine touchdowns this season, the disturbing number if you are a Cougar fan is the 11 interceptions.
In the playoffs turnovers can be and usually are the difference in the game.
Don't expect Firth to throw the ball much, especially with Montgomery in the backfield.
West Side too is a power running team. And since that loss to Firth to start the season the Pirates have won nine straight games averaging 42 points a game.
But it has been the Pirates defense that has been the surprise of late. In the Pirates last four games the defense has allowed 31 total points with Salmon being the only team to score in double figures and that was mere 14 points.
In a game that will be a defensive struggle…
Cougars 22, Pirates 14
Shelley (9-1) vs. Gooding (8-2), 7:30 p.m. today in Holt Arena
To put it plain and simple the Shelley Russets are rolling.
Head coach Travis Hobson and the team have not faced a stiff test since the 21-0 loss to Manti, Utah in September.
In fact the Russets have beaten up their opponents. Just three teams have scored more than 14 points against Shelley and other than the 29 scored by Teton three weeks ago the Russets have pitched three shutouts in their last four games.
Oh and one other side note, Shelley has not allowed a single point thus far in the playoffs.
A pretty dominating performance by a dominant team.
The Russets take on a Gooding team they dismantled during the 2012 semifinals on the Senators home field.
Shelley cruised to a 47-7 victory last year and while Hobson is not a guy that overlooks any opponent, the Russets head coach knows where his team has an advantage.
The Senators are a big and aggressive squad, that aggressiveness leaves them open for offenses to take advantage, if Shelley can take advantage of the Senators aggressiveness the end result will be the same as last year's meeting.
Shelley senior quarterback Kaden Schmitt has been a dual threat weapon for the Russets all season long. He has thrown for over 1,900 yards and 25 touchdowns and ran for another 500 and two more touchdowns.
But Shelley is a lot more than just Schmitt. Randy Bauer, has led a large group of Russets rushers with over 500 yards rushing while Cameron Waite and Josh Peterson each have over 400 yards receiving.
While the offense is a juggernaut, the defense has been the undisputed leaders of the Russets all season.
Because of that tough defense…
Russets 42, Senators 7.


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1) Curious about the use of προς in John 1:1 and John 1:2. Why not συν? Doesn't συν have more to do with togetherness?
2) Curious about the translation of δια in John 1:3 as "by". I know that δια when used with the passive voice and with the genitive denotes intermediate agency. But wouldn't this be conflicting with Colossians 1? Or does it not matter if it is deponent?
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11.18.2018 | 10 Kislev, 5779
PA slams Trump's 'Zionist' policies in Middle East
Indictments filed against Barkan attacker's mother, brother
Egyptian intelligence officials attend Hamas rally
Clashes ensue during protests along Gaza border
The end of an era for Israeli liberal Orthodox educational network
For first time US opposes UNGA call to return Golan to Syria
Grapevine: Women waging peace
Poll shows Knesset makeup may not change much in election
Netanyahu as defense minister is too much
Netanyahu defends Gaza ceasefire, says Hamas 'begged' to stop fighting
Liberman calls dramatic press conference; will he resign over Gaza?
Netanyahu's Gaza strategy not working, opposition says
Ran Danker – not just another pretty face
Life is a JEWish cabaret
Stan Lee gave comic books permission to be more Jewish
William Goldman, noted Jewish-American script-writer, dies at 87
Mac TA, Hapoel Beersheba win
Basketball Preview: Mac TA, Jerusalem, Holon lead the pack
Mutually beneficial reunion beween Hapoel Jerusalem, Amar'e Stoudemire
Hapoel Jerusalem to host free Sukkot basketball clinic
Workers make explosive threats as massive Teva layoff strikes continue
Israel seeks to bring more women into the hi-tech industry
Nation girds for general strike today in protest of Teva layoffs
Teva Pharmaceuticals to lay off 14,000 employees worldwide, 1,750 in Israel
Can medical empathy survive the technological revolution?
Israeli-founded start-up raises $15m. to help fight heart failure
Israeli doctors are first to implant device for congestive heart failure
Rambam Hospital hosts Chinese teams, treats deformed children in Ghana
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Pipeline failure for Tamar gas field to cause hiccup in electricity rates
Haifa Chemicals to close down two plants, layoff 800 workers
Reform Judaism can have Zionism or fringe Leftism, not both
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U.S. is in Syria until Iranian 'commanded forces' leave
Syria claims it has killed ISIS commander in new offensive
Iranian workers protest against government as U.S. sanctions take its toll
Senior IRGC commander: Israeli agent killed in September strikes on Kurds
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Jewish students present claims of antisemitism to Connecticut school board
Steve Bannon picks Jewish-Belgian lawyer to unite European right
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At Fiddler on the Roof theatre, a man yells: 'Heil Hitler, Heil Trump'
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New House Democrats seen as lightning rods on Israel debate
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Analysis: Clinton falls amid assault on establishment
Clinton concedes: 'We have still not shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling'
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I have started enjoying the wonders of Latin BUT I am an absolute noob. A friend of mine has asked if I could translate the following sentence: "Knowledge will always be heritage of a few". I guess that I will be able to do this easily in a few years but right now I am stuck!
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"I don't believe that elected officials should have any special privileges beyond what the average citizen has," Avella said.
Parking is a major problem in Queens, and allowing elected officials to use the placard is sending the wrong message, he said. Avella said several of his colleagues park in front of fire hydrants and buses, as well as make copies of the placard and allow their spouses to use them.
Politicians should have trouble finding a parking spot just like everyone else, the state senator said.
"I don't think any elected official should get this," Avella said. "It's hard for the average traffic enforcement agent to take on an elected official."
He recently introduced a bill that would make all parking placards issued by New York required to have a barcode to allow traffic enforcement agents to confirm their validity. "As parking becomes harder and harder in the city of New York, this will become a bigger issue," he said.


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Katie Keough will play Nellie Forbush in the musical "South Pacific" at The Gary-The Olivia Performing Arts Center on the grounds of The Abbey of Regina Laudis, Flanders Road in Bethlehem, Ct. Aug. 2 to 12. Sally Camm directs and choreographs with music direction by Craig Hartley.
Also featured in the cast are Thomas Camm, Alika Hope, Ryan Pipke, T. Abran Lee, Joseph Stofko, Brother Kevin McElroy and Julia Sun.
Performances are Aug. 2 to 4 and Aug. 9 to 11 at 7:30 p.m. anmd Aug. 5 and 12 at 2:30 p.m.
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After growing up in Portland Oregon for 21 years I decided to move Colorado to get a job with the wilderness program Outward Bound. I was new to the Boulder area and was honestly just looking for good people to become friends with. After meeting David on Match, we went out to dinner and have been together ever since.
Six months after we started dating and six days before I was going to start a job with the wilderness program, I was hit by a car and thrown 22 feet. I suffered a traumatic brain injury, broken arm, cracked skull and fractured vertebrae. I was in a coma for two weeks and my boyfriend David was the first one to the hospital. He asked my parents that night if he could marry me and slept by my bed night after night. The brain injury caused severe intracranial pressure and David would put his hand on my chest and sing to me. He amazed the medical staff by bringing my brain pressure down.
When I awoke from my coma I was extremely confused and so afraid and everything hurt. David held my hand and told me everything would be okay. About a week after waking up David knelt on one knee and told me he never wanted to live without me. With tears in his eyes he said he loves me and wants us to spend our lives together. He then asked if I would be his wife and I was overwhelmed with emotion and felt so grateful to have him in my life. I said yes and told him I could never imagine living without him either. He really is the most amazing man and I am so fortunate to have found so many blessings in such a terrible accident.
I am making a good recovery and our wedding was scheduled for May 16, 2012, one year to the day of the accident! I can't thank you enough for bringing this incredible man into my life.
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We want to remove it, so there is only firefox to use.
Is there a way of setting something on a W2k server so it takes it off (btw, all students are in a "student" group with policies)?
We run a batch script for the students to set network shares, like their profiles. Is there a way to change regedit in that script to take it off the desktop?
Also, we have disabled access to regedit from the students.
Someone has told me about "managed desktop" and "program menu", but im unsure what they mean.
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Three dead in Catskill shooting
Man killed estranged wife, her boyfriend, then himself
A veteran parole officer shot and killed his estranged wife, her boyfriend, and then, while trying to evade cops after the double homicide turned the gun on himself, State Police said Monday.
At about 12:45 p.m., Robert Mroczek, a 46-year-old state parole officer since 2005, confronted his estranged wife, Pammi Mroczek, and her boyfriend, Daniel Brennan, at Robert Mroczek's 844 Pennsylvania Ave. home, troopers said.
Pammi Mroczek had not lived there for some time, but had gone back with Brennan to pick up some belongings, said Maj. Patrick Regan of State Police Troop F, which is based in Middletown and handled the investigation.
It's unclear whether Robert Mroczek was home when Pammi Mroczek and Brennan came to the house, or if he came home in the middle of the couple's visit.
Robert Mroczek shot and killed Brennan, 51, of Schenectady, in the driveway. Pammi Mroczek, 49, was found dead in the foyer. Both Pammi Mroczek and Brennan were shot multiple times with a 9mm handgun, Regan said.
The killings occurred in Palenville, a hamlet in the town of Catskill.
Neighbors heard the gunshots and called 911.
After the killings, Robert Mroczek drove west in his Lincoln sedan, Regan said.
Mroczek was spotted by troopers 100 miles from the scene on Interstate 81 in the town of Chenango, in Broome County. When cops tried to pull him over, he sped off, prompting a chase that reached 100 mph and stretched another 35 miles into Cortland County.
There, on I-81 in the town of Cortlandville, troopers laid out a spiked device that pierced Mroczek's tires. Mroczek then pulled off onto the shoulder of the highway.
By the time troopers got to Mroczek's car door, he had killed himself with a gunshot, troopers said.
Regan said there was no history of prior police calls to Robert Mroczek's Palenville home.
As a parole officer, Robert Mroczek carried a gun, though it's unclear if his department-issued weapon was used in the shootings.
Mroczek was hired by the Department of Correctional Services in 1995 as a correction counselor, according to state records. In 2005, he transferred to the Division of Parole.
The Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, which began overseeing the Division of Parole after a 2011 merger, said protocol prevents officials from releasing any personnel information on Mroczek.
Mroczek supervised a seven-county region but spent most of his time working with parolees in Columbia County, DOCCS said.
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Last spring, Juan Castillo vowed that he would "take a bullet" for Eagles coach Andy Reid. Tuesday, he did.
Castillo was fired as the Eagles' defensive coordinator, to be replaced by secondary coach Todd Bowles.
The move is stunning, with the Eagles 3-3 and allowing a respectable 20.83 points per game. But the defense failed to get off the field late each of the past two weeks, at Pittsburgh and in the horrendous collapse Sunday against the Lions. After the Detroit game, corner Nnamdi Asomugha openly questioned changes in strategy down the stretch.
Monday, Reid announced he would review everything, including Castillo, during the bye week. He said Castillo would continue to call defensive plays "as I stand here right now."
Reid's painstaking review didn't last long. While many people close to the team thought the loyal offensive line coach was a bizarre choice to lead the defense two years ago, and many felt he should have been replaced after last season, axing him at 3-3 seems transparently panicky, the move of a coach who is desperate to hold onto his job and is willing to try just about anything.
If Reid thought Bowles would be a better defensive coordinator than Castillo, he could have hired the former Dolphins interim head coach for the job last offseason. If Reid made the wrong call then, it's hard to muster a lot of faith that he's making the right call now.
In a statement, Reid said: "I want to make it clear that I have nothing but the ultimate respect for Juan Castillo as a coach and a person. He's one of the finest football coaches that I've ever worked with. He has served this organization extremely well for 18 years, and letting him go was a difficult decision. I know he will continue to be a successful coach in this league and I wish he and his family nothing but the best.
"We're six games into the season and average isn't good enough. I know the potential of our team and insist on maximizing it."
Of course, cynics will note that Castillo's defense has been much better than Reid's offense this year, but Andy isn't firing himselft, or offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg.


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1997 ASIS Mid-Year Meeting
by Steve Hardin
Janlori Goldman, deputy director of the Washington-based Center for Democracy and Technology, discussed some of the issues surrounding privacy in an electronic world at the ASIS Mid-Year Meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona. Goldman, who is also a visiting scholar at Georgetown University Law Center, talked about the challenges presented by the Web, medical information, encryption, regulation and other issues during her keynote address.
Goldman commented that many civil libertarians once saw computers and communications media primarily as a threat to privacy. It is easy to see the Orwellian aspects of the Internet and the Web. In fact, she said, it often is the case that these developments threaten privacy. But the other side of the coin -- that technology must be developed for the good of the individual and ultimately the good of the community and society -- was not apparent for many years. We should not be pitting the individual against new technologies, she said. Rather, we should look at ways we can harness the new technologies to more effectively communicate and access information.
The traditional approach taken by regulatory agencies needs to expand as well to address issues posed by interactive media, she said. Regulatory agencies follow their traditional models; they hold hearings, get comments and issue rulings. Many representatives of Internet-based industries are saying it is better not to regulate this nascent environment; however, there is a role for national policy makers. But novel, informed approaches are required.
Goldman stated there is no way to talk about the "Internet industry" as a whole. Self-regulation, which she said works best for trade associations, has been offered as a way of staving off legislative solutions. People fear that Congress will get regulation wrong. But self-regulation has pitfalls, too. It is not legally enforceable and tends only to bind the "good guys." People unconcerned about doing the right thing are unaffected by self-regulation.
Change has been very dramatic in the Internet environment, Goldman noted. Two years ago, there were very few people doing anything on the Web. But now, ads, movies and many other commercial ventures have URLs. The assumption is that most people are going to use the Web to get more information. She related that when she was laid up with a recent foot injury, she did all her grocery shopping on the Web. Electronic commerce will not work if people's privacy cannot be guaranteed. This is true even though people will often negotiate away their privacy in exchange for a good bargain. The consequence, both for society and for commerce, is that people will change their behaviors to adjust to an environment that grabs up and reuses information about them without their knowledge or consent.
As far as legislation is concerned, things work best when there is an intersection of interests. For instance, when the Wiretap Act of 1986 was passed, there was a powerful coalition of civil liberties, business and privacy groups. When Judge Bork's video rental records were made public in 1988, the American Civil Liberties Union worked with the Direct Marketers Association and others to ensure a video privacy bill within six months. Again, there was a strong convergence of interests. However, the American Library Association was unable to get library records included in the bill because of the FBI's vigorous opposition.
Goldman says that the inclusions and exclusions in existing privacy laws create a "goofy patchwork" of privacy protection. There is no cohesive body of law for privacy. What we have seen on the Internet is that some real concerns about privacy have arisen. LEXIS/NEXIS put together a lookup service that allowed subscribers to get phone numbers, mothers' maiden names and other personal information. Many people, such as those who pay to keep their phone numbers out of the telephone directory, were angered. LEXIS/NEXIS took a lot of heat and bad press for that, she said. And consider the Social Security Administration, which just got in trouble with its online system to allow people to obtain their social security information. There had been no trouble reported, but the perception of insecurity was there.
"Isn't there a better way to do this?" Goldman asked. She suggested a feature that would allow users to state what information they were willing to give to a Web site. Users could refuse to give out any information about their identities if they chose -- although, of course, the Web sites could also refuse to let them log-on.
Then there is the issue of filtering Web sites. Software exists, of course, to let you control which sites people who use your system can see. Some people use the PICS -- Platform for Internet Content Selection -- rating system. You can choose various filters, such as those that filter out violence but not sex. The Federal Trade Commission is very interested in this approach, she said. It fits in with the concept of self-regulation and it is enforceable. The Internet Privacy Working Group (IPWG), launched in November, has been looking at privacy-enhancing technologies. A lot of progress has been made, she said.
Goldman agrees with those who say privacy is essential for the development of the self. If people are afraid that information will be shared, then they will be afraid to fully participate in society. People will be far less likely to take risks. People with diseases may not get treated because they don't want their health information to be made available to others.
We need to fight terrorism and other crimes, she acknowledged. But do we need to do it by throwing out everyone's privacy? She noted that we don't approach this issue by considering the harm done to society when privacy is not protected, but there is a real social cost.
Janlori Goldman can be reached by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com or by phone at Georgetown University Law Center, 202/662-9432, or at the Center for Democracy and Technology, 202/637-9800.
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At the second plenary session of the 1997 ASIS Mid-Year Meeting, Herb Lin, a senior staff officer with the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Research Council, discussed threats to information security and their possible solutions. He outlined the results of two recent board studies: Cryptography's Role in Security in the Information Society (CRISIS), published in 1996, and For the Record: Protecting Electronic Health Information, published in 1997.
Lin presented several of his points in the form of threats and responses. First, he looked at Category 1 threats to information security, which he identified as unambiguous threats, including eavesdroppers on fax lines or corrupt or careless medical clerks. Hackers may sniff for passwords or medical records on the Internet. Foreign governments can intercept trade secrets. All of these are recognized as problems.
Then there are Category 2 information security threats. They may include insurance companies or employers who obtain medical records and use them to deny coverage or employment. Consumers may see this as a problem, but insurance companies can say they are making prudent financial decisions. Local police may conduct electronic surveillance on alleged civil rights groups, but maybe the civil rights groups are a cover for bombing groups. How do you know which is which? All of these Category 2 threats demonstrate conflicting objectives.
The CRISIS report notes that information assets are at risk. The threats, Lin said, are largely covert. If you see missiles in a hostile country, you know there is a threat. But if the hostile country assembles a team of hackers, you can't tell. You can't even tell you have been under attack if they do it correctly. When you have to reboot Windows 95, have you done something wrong or do you have a virus or have you been hacked? It doesn't take much money to develop an information threat. All you need is a PC, a modem and a graduate student. The threat is continuous in intensity from low (hacking one computer system) to high (hacking a national network). In addition, there is little necessary correlation between the amount spent to create the threat and the potential damage caused by it.
Electronic threats are most significant, Lin told his audience. The National Counterintelligence Center says that specialized technical operations account for the largest portion of economic and industrial information lost by U.S. corporations. CRISIS concluded that the information society is vulnerable to information threats. Cryptography is a good tool for defending against those threats, but, Lin noted, cryptography is available to both the good and the bad guys. There is also a greater use of information technology in health care.
There are integrated delivery systems and linkages between organizations. In addition, applications of information technology are expanding to include electronic medical records, corporate intranets and internet applications.
Lin said that use of information technology raises new questions about privacy and security that must be answered if patients are to share sensitive health information with providers. Solutions must be found that protect patient privacy while ensuring that providers have legitimate access to information for purposes of care. Electronic medical information is coming, Lin said; resisting it is not an option.
The For the Record report identified Category 1 threats as inappropriate releases of information from individual organizations (corrupt clerks, nosy neighbors) and unauthorized users breaking into systems to retrieve or alter information (hackers). The same report labeled Category 2 threats as systemic flows of information among organizations in health care and related industries for socially sanctioned reasons. For example, health insurance companies want to get information on you to see if you actually had the operation for which they are paying. Life insurance companies want health status information to make sound actuarial decisions. Are these threats? What about epidemiological researchers doing longitudinal studies? Health care organizations care about outcomes management. They want to know what works and what doesn't. Pharmacy benefit managers check for drug interactions. These situations all represent risks to privacy, but potential benefits, such as lower cost and more effective care, must be considered.
So, Lin asked, how do you deal with these threats? For Category 1, he said, the response is unambiguous. You can use technology and invoke policy and procedures to promote the use of technology to curb the threat. For Category 2 -- ambiguous threats -- you must define the threat with dialogue. There is no such thing as a technological fix for this threat, Lin said.
The Role of Cryptography in Information Security
Lin next turned his attention to information security and cryptography. He said that information security has four primary functions: confidentiality (also called encryption), which ensures that information is meaningful only to the proper parties; authentication, which verifies that the asserted sender/author/recipient of information is the true sender/author/recipient; integrity, which is a way of checking to make sure information has not been secretly altered; and non-repudiation, which is actually a combination of authentication and integrity to make sure the transaction cannot be denied in the future. He treated the audience to his 10 Minute Primer on Cryptography.
Lin stated that responses to Category 1 threats can include technology such as encryption, firewalls and locks, but technology is useless if it is not used! Policy and procedures are needed to encourage the proper use of technology. People implement, fix and upgrade technology. Good policy and procedures are at least as important as good technology, Lin asserted.
U.S. Government Policy on Cryptography
The current U.S. national policy on cryptography is based on two pillars, Lin said. The first includes export controls to deny cryptography to other countries (for national security). The second pillar involves promotion of key recovery encryption, in which a copy of the encryption key is stored in a place to which the government can gain authorized access.
CRISIS concludes that current national policy discourages the use of cryptography. The report says that export controls were overly restrictive, and confusion existed in the marketplace about what was permitted. CRISIS said government policy should encourage the use of cryptography. The benefits of the widespread use of cryptography include better protection for corporate information, higher security, increased privacy for U.S. citizens and continued U.S. leadership in information technology. The costs include making law enforcement surveillance and security intelligence more difficult.
An important role for law enforcement is crime prevention. Cryptography provides a good tool for preventing certain types of crime. So, according to CRISIS, the traditional view that law enforcement and cryptography are always opposing interests is not correct. CRISIS recommends there be no ban on the sale or use of any kind of cryptography domestically. The authors of CRISIS believe the government's current promotion of key recovery is overly aggressive. It is appropriate to relax, but not eliminate, export controls. In addition, the authors want the government to promote non-confidential applications and better security.
Security for Medical Records
The For the Record report, which included information on medical records, found a variety of practices that can improve protection and be implemented with reasonable cost and effort. Technical mechanisms must be accompanied by organizational mechanisms for developing access and release policies, training workers and penalizing violations of policy. One of the technical practices suggested by For the Record is individual authentication for each person accessing the system. (One site the team visited had all its doctors using the same password and ID.) Other technical practices include access controls, audit trails, encryption of external communications, physical security (including locks on doors), disaster recovery (files should be backed up, and the backups should be encrypted), protection of remote access points and software discipline (make sure no viruses are introduced) and system assessment.
For the Record also discussed organizational practices. The report states security and confidentiality policies should be developed before a disaster. Too many hospitals write their policies on the fly based on newspaper headlines. Security and confidentiality committees representing various stakeholders are needed. Information security officers should be hired, too. Education and training programs are also a must. There should be sanctions for violators; you have to be willing to fire doctors as well as clerks for security violations. Authorization forms should be improved. Patients should have access to audit logs to see who has had access to their records.
As far as the Category 2 threats -- the more ambiguous kind -- are concerned, For the Record says the only solution is to develop a consensus on tradeoffs; there are no technical solutions. Planners need to consider the value of privacy vis-a-vis other interests regarding medical information. There should be fair information practices for health organizations. Consumer and practitioner awareness should be promoted. The report went on to say that any method used to identify patients or link patient records should be accompanied by a policy framework that defines violations, specifies sanctions and facilitates the identification of parties who link records. It should also allow unidirectional linking of information, making it easy to go from identity to the linking of a record, but difficult to determine identity from records or to identify the scheme itself. However, other issues such as cost and speed are at stake, too.
Threats Not Static
CRISIS says that Category 2 responses should include consideration of the tradeoffs between law enforcement and national security benefits and costs (better crime prevention versus better protection) as well as the tradeoffs between establishing a key repository now versus later or never. Issues include the loss of confidentiality versus the loss of access, as well as harm to the market versus benefits to law enforcement and national security.
CRISIS notes that threats are not static. The report recommends a periodic increase in key sizes for easy export. For the Record also reminds us that threats are not static; future technologies will always be a consideration. For every move you make, there is a counter move. It will never end. Data should be collected on threats, there should be an ongoing process for evolving standards, and testbeds for experimentation should be funded. Information on Cryptography's Role in Security in the Information Society and For the Record: Protecting Electronic Health Information is available on the CSTB Web page at http://www2.nas.edu/cstbweb. The reports may be ordered by calling CSTB at 800/624-6242.
The original, unencrypted message is called plain text. The encrypted message is cipher text. Cipher text depends on the original message and the key. Decryption is going the other way, assuming you know the encryption key. If you do not know the key, there are only two ways of attacking the problem. First, you can analyze the cipher text, or second, you can do a "brute force" search of the cipher text.
Analysis of cipher text is done using structural regularities. For example, English has known letter frequencies: 14% of all letters used are e. This approach is easier if you have lots of cipher text and known plain text.
The brute force method tries to decrypt the cipher text with each possible key. You are done if something sensible appears. If the key has 10 bits, you may need to try as many as 210 or 1024 keys before you find the correct one. Each additional bit doubles the number of keys that must be tested.
A good encryption scheme has a good algorithm with nothing too explicit in cipher text to aid structural analysis and a long enough key to preclude practical brute-force searches. It is possible to develop an encryption scheme with a key so long it would be impossible ever to decrypt it by brute force. For example, a key of 1000 bits would take more than the age of the universe to decode if every atom in the earth were a computer.
Editor's note: Readers may want to review the recent brute-force decryption of the DES or Data Encryption Standard, a 56-bit key scheme, by a group of programmers and researchers using computers networked through the Internet. The answer was found after approximately 25% of the 72 quadrillion possibilities had been tested. See, for instance, "Group Cracks Financial-Data Encryption Code," Wall Street Journal, June 19, 1997, p. A3, col. 1.
The final plenary session at the recent Mid-Year Meeting of the American Society for Information Science featured a dialogue between Bellcore's Michael Lesk and Microsoft's Robert Frankston. Lesk authored many UNIX utilities and has worked on information systems; Frankston is a co-creator of Visicalc, the first personal computer spreadsheet, and has contributed to the design of numerous advanced technology projects. The session was co-sponsored by SIG/Library Automation and Networks (LAN). Moderator Ellen Sleeter posed several questions to which Lesk and Frankston responded. Some of their remarks follow.
Lesk stated that one of the big tradeoffs in the information world is that of efficiency versus privacy. Record-keeping permits targeted marketing and personalized payment, packaged products and quantity discounts, site licenses and shared costs. It makes things easier to find, but, by the same token, harder to hide.
Lesk listed the "four horsemen of the Internet" as drug dealers, terrorists, foreign espionage agents and child pornographers. If there is too much privacy, will Congress over-regulate the Net in response? Will that shut the whole thing down? Do we really want money laundering, anonymous libels, plagiarism, blackmail and electronic vandalism? Lesk believes we should discourage anonymity on the Web. He noted that telephone caller ID, while it can reduce privacy, has reduced the number of obscene phone calls in New Jersey. He is more frightened, he said, of the drug dealers than of the government taxing him inappropriately because it discovered how he spent his money.
Frankston took a different tack. He said he remembers the "post-McCarthy days," when the Post Office would take down the name of anyone writing to a Communist country. He asserted privacy is extremely important. People want to store their files and know they will not be accessed improperly. So he thinks we need to accept a certain amount of chaos. However, we must do it correctly. People will find ways to abuse any medium. You can choose how much information you want to give up. There is no simple answer; this will be an ongoing battle, Frankston said. He fears we will use the current bogeymen -- terrorists (he remembers when it was Communists) -- to give up our privacy.
Frankston observed that the basic problem with digital information is that people can access all your little transactions, add them up and do something with the information. You don't know the interpretation people will put on the data in the future. An innocent act years ago can be reinterpreted years later. He is less concerned about credit cards; we give out the numbers easily. Even before the Internet, there was a problem with people stealing credit cards when the cards were sent out through the mail.
Lesk noted that supermarket affinity cards tell what you have purchased. Supermarkets can figure out your diet; they can provide health information to insurance companies. That doesn't worry him, he said. We are willing to surrender some security in return for "a dollar off for a pound of fish."
More worrisome, Lesk said, is employers reading their employees' e-mail. As yet, there is no model on whether e-mail activities at work should be private. Policies requiring that e-mail should be used only for business can hurt commerce; a little friendly chitchat greases the wheels and makes business happen.
The big security issue on the Net is downstream copyright. Of the two terabytes of information on the Net, none of it is copyrighted books, he said. Publishers don't see how to protect their work.
What can help? Lesk outlined a technique of putting things on screens so that they can be read but not copied. The browser switches back and forth between two images; it fools the eye, but makes the information hard to copy. There are also encryption chips for printers; a person can give publishers the key and be permitted to print their copyrighted material. There's also the problem with people either stealing other people's work or damaging work to discredit the author. There are digital signature techniques to help with these problems, Lesk said.
Frankston countered that there are many technological solutions, but he doubts printer or screen encryption will work. Photocopiers used to be the big copyright problem.
The discussion continued for some time, with several members of the audience joining in as well. No one point of view seemed to predominate. However, a lot of thought-provoking information was exchanged, which was the idea behind the session in the first place!


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