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tools/mailnotify, that generates and sends out the emails based on analysis of
cron (or an equivalent off-line job scheduler), or from the command-line.
The script collates the changes emails so that each subscriber only receives one changes notification for all changes in all webs in the TWiki. Furthermore, users can elect to receive just summaries of changes, or the entire content of topics that have changed.
Each web can optionally contain a topic called WebNotify.
Users subscribe to email notifications using their WikiName or an alternative email address, and can specify the webs/topics they wish to track using one of these bullet list formats:
three spaces * [ webname . ] wikiName - SMTP mail address
* firstname.lastname@example.com Daisy to all changes in all webs that start with
* firstname.lastname@example.com: Web*Subscribe Daisy to changes to topics starting with
Petal, and their immediate children, WeedKillers and children to a depth of 3, and all topics that match start with
Pretty and end with
Flowers e.g.
* DaisyCutter: Petal* (1) WeedKillers (3) Pretty*FlowersSubscribe StarTrekFan to changes to all topics that start with
Star except those that end in
sInTheirEyes or
* StarTrekFan: Star* - *Wars - *sInTheirEyes - *shipTroopersSubscribe Daisy to the full content of NewsLetter whenever it has changed
* email@example.com: NewsLetter?Subscribe buttercup to NewsLetter and its immediate children, even if it hasn't changed.
* firstname.lastname@example.com: NewsLetter! (1)Subscribe GardenGroup (which includes Petunia) to all changed topics under AllnewsLetters to a depth of 3. Then unsubscribe Petunia from the ManureNewsLetter, which she would normally get as a member of GardenGroup? :
* GardenGroup: AllNewsLetters? (3) * email@example.com: - ManureNewsLetterA user may be listed many times in the WebNotify topic. Where a user has several lines in WebNotify that all match the same topic, they will only be notified about changes that topic once (though they will still receive individual mails for news topics). If a TWiki group is listed for notification, the group will be recursively expanded to the e-mail addresses of all members. Tip: List names in alphabetical order to make it easier to find the names. In the future it is intended that individual users will be able to control the frequency with which they are notified of topic changes, by changing a schedule specification in their home topic. However at present, the notification schedule is controlled by the frequency of activation of the
cron job that runs the
mailnotify script.
mailnotify ignores permissions in webs. It is entirely possible for a user to get added to one of the subscription topics in a web, when they are not authorised to view the topics in that web. This could result in them having access to sensitive information, particularly with news mode.
Note that when using the "news mode" ! or ? specifiers are used the entire topic text is mailed out as HTML. The
newsletter template is used to generate the content in this mail, using whatever skin is selected in the topic being mailed.
In addition, the %STARTPUBLISH% and %STOPPUBLISH% markers used by TWiki:Plugins.PublishContrib to delimit the text to be published are respected.
TWiki/Contrib/MailerContrib code library
WebNotify package described below.
$name - Name of subscriber (wikiname with no web or email address)
$noAdd - If false or undef, a new subscriber will be created for this name
$name - Name of subscriber (wikiname with no web or email address)
$topics - wildcard expression giving topics to subscribe to
$depth - Child depth to scan (default 0)
$mode - ! if this is a non-changes subscription and the topics should be mailed evebn if there are no changes. ? to mail the full topic only if there are changes. undef to mail changes only.
$name - Name of subscriber (wikiname with no web or email address)
$topics - wildcard expression giving topics to subscribe to
$depth - Child depth to scan (default 0)
$change - ref of a TWiki::Contrib::Mailer::Change
$db - TWiki::Contrib::MailerContrib::UpData database of parent references
$changeSet - ref of a hash mapping emails to sets of changes
$seenSet - ref of a hash recording indices of topics already seen
$allSet - ref of a hash that maps topics to email addresses for news subscriptions
$topic - topic name
$db - TWiki::Contrib::MailerContrib::UpData database of parent references
\%allSet - ref of a hash that maps topics to email addresses for news subscriptions
$name - Wikiname, with no web, or email address, of user targeted for notification
$subs - Subscription object
$subs - Subscription object
$topic - Topic object we are checking
$db - TWiki::Contrib::MailerContrib::UpData database of parents
$topic - Topic object we are checking
$db - TWiki::Contrib::MailerContrib::UpData database of parents
$pages - Wildcarded expression matching subscribed pages
$childDepth - Depth of children of $topic to notify changes for. Defaults to 0
$mode - ! if this is a non-changes subscription and the topics should be mailed evebn if there are no changes. ? to mail the full topic only if there are changes. undef to mail changes only.
$topic - Topic object we are checking
$db - TWiki::Contrib::MailerContrib::UpData database of parent names
$depth - If non-zero, check if the parent of the given topic matches as well. undef = 0.
$web - Web name
$topic - Topic name
$author - String author of change
$time - String time of change
$rev - Revision identifier
$change - Change record to merge
$html - Template to expand keys within
$web - Web we are building parent relationships for
$webs - filter list of names webs to process. Wildcards (*) may be used.
$session - optional session object. If not given, will use a local object.
$verbose - true to get verbose (debug) output
mailnotify scripts.
configure interface (Go to Plugins->Find More Extensions)
MailerContrib_installer perl script and run it.
$TWIKI_PACKAGES to this directory, and the installer script will look there first for required TWiki packages.
$TWIKI_PACKAGES is actually a path; you can list several directories separated by :
.zip or
.tgz archives to a temporary directory.
,v files in your existing install (take care not to lock the files when you check in)
configure and enable the module, if it is a plugin.
mailnotify script from the command line, with no parameters. In this case it will print out what it would have done to STDOUT.
cron (or equivalent) job to run
perl -I <bin> mailnotify [-q] [-news] [ web1 web2 ... webN ]
<bin> is the path to the TWiki bin directory, so that the script can find the rest of TWiki.
|Don't print progress information
|Run in news mode (process NewsNotify instead of WebNotify)
web1 web2 ... webN
|List of webs to process, separated by spaces or commas. Default is to process all legal TWiki webs. Wildcards (*) are supported.
/usr/local/twiki, this cron entry:
0 0 * * * cd /usr/local/twiki && perl -I bin tools/mailnotify -q Public Privatewill generate change notifications for the
Public and
Private webs every night at midnight.
0 0 * * 0 cd /usr/local/twiki && perl -I bin tools/mailnotify -newswill generate newsletters from all webs every week on midnight Saturday.
mailnotify. This template must contain the following definitions.
|Section of a HTML mail before the changes
|Repeated in a HTML mail for each change
|Section of a HTML mail after the changes
|Section of a plain text mail before the changes
|Repeated in a plain text mail for each changes
|Section of a plain text mail after the changes
| All the above are embedded in this. %HTML_TEXT% expands to the HTML obtained by expanding the
HTML:* templates, and %PLAIN_TEXT% from the
PLAIN:* templates.
view template, using whatever skin is selected in the topic being mailed.
|TWiki:Main/CrawfordCurrie (http://c-dot.co.uk)
|Copyright ©:
|2004, Wind River Systems; 2006, http://WikiRing.com
|Change History:
|Item3415 mailnotify did not send notifications to intranet users because of wrong call to findUser.
|Added newsletter support, after much harassment from TWiki:Main.LynnwoodBrown
|Item2153 Clarified docs. Item2698 Improved error reporting.
|Item1654 mailnotify must enter the command_line context
|Item1508 Making the dashes in the separatator clearer
|Item1508 MailerContrib: Brushing up HTML mailnotify template
|Item1508 MailerContrib: Cleaning up plaintext e-mail template, removing TEXTAREA
|Item1511 arguments to getScriptUrl in wrong order
|Item1465 Fix 'TWiki.' to '%TWIKIEB%.'
|Item1460 polished up the comment a bit
|Item1362 moving mailnotify cron script
|Item1167 forced all mail operations to generate absolute URLs
|Item910 use SCRIPTURL{view} instead of complex url expr
|Item624 mailer templates moved the the right places
|Item624 Added proper templates support for plain text mails
|Item623 don't print anything if verbosity is switched off.
|Item528 Updated MailerContrib. it's working and the sendmail parameter is used.
|Item420 removed spurious remove_obsolete_locks from MailerContrib
|Item153 fix mail URL-fixing scheme
|Minor doc fixes
|Doc tidy-ups, added filtering of _ webs, added obsolete lock script
|Changed default to add web name to user name (I hope)
|Minor doc tidyups
|Documentation changes, and fixed to scan all webs.
|runnable as CGI script, minor bugfixes, removed dependency on DBCacheContrib?
|Minor doc changes
|Made a change an object, added unit tests to CVS, lots of testing.
|4 March 2005
|1.010 Dakar release ready.
|12 Oct 2004
|1.004 Added support for anti-subscriptions. Doc fixes from TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny. Bug fixes to permissions code. Back-off and retry if the mailer can't be reached (should really be in Net::sendEmail)
|6 Oct 2004
| 1.003 Excluded _ webs from processing, added
bin/remove_obsolete_locks for full reverse-compatibility
|1 Oct 2004
|1.002 PeterThoeny provided additional documentation
|27 Sep 2004
|1.001 runnable as CGI script, minor bugfixes, removed dependency on DBCacheContrib
|8 Sep 2004
|1.000 Initial version


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Fascination with nano-objects, molecules which resemble every day devices, is increasing. Thus the world's smallest car has just been built[1]. The mechanics of such a device can often be understood in terms of chemical concepts taught to most students. So I thought I would have a go at this one!
- T. Kudernac, N. Ruangsupapichat, M. Parschau, B. Maciá, N. Katsonis, S.R. Harutyunyan, K. Ernst, and B.L. Feringa, "Electrically driven directional motion of a four-wheeled molecule on a metal surface", Nature, vol. 479, pp. 208-211, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature10587

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2014 Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG, 2014 Jaguar XJR, 2015 Audi S8 Review
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We've brought together the quickest and most powerful V-8 variants of three of the most desirable and prestigious full-size luxury sedans in the world, the Audi A8, the Jaguar XJ, and the Mercedes-Benz S-Class. In doing so, we have stuck with the assumption that the essence of old-fashioned, white-knuckle, temple-throbbing driving pleasure in the year 2014 is still composed of howling V-8 engines, flickering stability control warning lights, and a lust factor that grows in proportion with revs, acceleration, and speed. The Audi S8, the Jaguar XJR, and the Mercedes S63 AMG 4Matic have no interest in stitching up the yawning hole in the ozone layer, in saving baby whales or rain forests, or in setting a shining example of social responsibility and self-denial. Quite the contrary: in this particular seventy-two-hour contest, we staked out a remote, radar-free environment and targeted a set of breathtaking primary and secondary roads where we could drive the rubber socks off of three remarkable, 500-plus-hp, high-performance boardroom haulers on a no-holds-barred tour de force of rural Upper Bavaria, Salzburg, and Tyrol.
Although the 577-hp S63 eclipses the XJR by 27 hp and the S8 by 57 hp, the mean-looking Merc is actually quite jovial and obliging in character. Its big-bore twin-turbo engine runs so smoothly and quietly, you might think you're wearing a pair of wax earplugs. Throttle response even in sport mode is relatively restrained and relaxed, the transmission rides the torque surf in seven subtle steps, the suspension is firm yet supple, and the sound-deadening materials give the term "splendid isolation" a whole new meaning. Whereas the eight-speed automatics used by Audi and Jaguar will shift up with near-whiplash force and lightning-like speed in sport mode, the Benz changes gears with rapid fluency and velvet-glove urgency. Despite these gentlemanly manners, the S63 can accelerate to 60 mph in 3.9 seconds with no trace of takeoff wheelspin, up to 664 lb-ft of physical punch between your shoulder blades, and only one gearchange.
The Audi, too, benefits from the traction bonus only four-wheel drive can provide. Against the stopwatch, the S8 is equal to the bigger and heavier Mercedes, according to their manufacturers. On slippery surfaces, through tight corners, and at the start of every traffic-light grand prix, both German contenders compete in a league of their own. In winter, only the rear-wheel-drive Jaguar struggles on icy on-ramps, when tackling snow-covered climbs, while easing into and out of unplowed roadside parking spots, or when attempting to merge with fast traffic. Fitted with a 4.0-liter twin-turbo V-8 redlined at 6400 rpm, the Audi is between five and ten percent more economical than the other two V-8-powered sedans. During our test drives, it averaged 17 mpg versus the Jaguar's 15 mpg and the S63's 16 mpg. In terms of sheer power and torque, however, the S8 (520 hp, 481 lb-ft) cannot quite match the XJR (550 hp, 502 lb-ft) or the even brawnier S63 AMG (577 hp, 664 lb-ft).
Even though the Audi has the best fit and finish, the classiest instruments, the most tasteful interior, and the brightest headlights (full LEDs in this case), the four rings don't signify perfection in every respect. The MMI infotainment system, for instance, gets more complex with every round of modifications; access to the extensive Drive Select menu should be more intuitive; and the Tiptronic gear selector often needs two or three attempts to engage and stay in reverse. Standard equipment includes 21-inch wheels, air suspension with a sporty calibration, dynamic steering, a sport differential, a navigation system, and leather upholstery. You must pay extra for carbon-ceramic brakes, night vision, and most driver-assistance systems. The Audi has the smallest trunk (13.2 cubic feet) and the biggest tank (23.8 gallons), which grants it the longest range. The trunk of the Benz measures 16.3 cubic feet, while that of the Jaguar holds 15.2 cubic feet. All three cars ran on winter tires for this test. Our European-spec S8 was shod with 265/40R-20s all around; the XJR made do with downsized 245/45R-19s in front and 275/40R-19s at the back (twenties are standard); and the S63 was delivered with 255/40R-20s front, 285/35R-20s rear.
The Jaguar's cabin is a nice mix of Buckingham Palace tradition and Silicon Valley modernity. At a glance, the XJR appears fully loaded. The cabin accents are fabricated of piano black and glossy metal; hide and suede covers everything else. The usual conveniences are paired with a decent sound system. When you zoom in and compare, though, the 550-hp Briton won't let you specify as many high-tech options as its German challengers. Even adaptive cruise control costs extra. The charmless digital instruments look out of place in such an upmarket environment, and the dynamic have-fun goodies are limited to a more lenient in-between stability control setting, an on-demand firmer spring and damper tuning, and quicker transmission software. There's no head-up display, no composite brake discs, and—perhaps most significant—no available all-wheel drive, which can be ordered only with the V-6 XJ.
The Euro-spec, standard-wheelbase, rear-wheel-drive S63 AMG comes with Magic Body Control, Mercedes-speak for two cameras that scan the road surface to alert the suspension before it encounters obstacles such as potholes or transverse ridges. The long-wheelbase S63 AMG 4Matic, the only S63 offered in America (and the version we tested in Europe), is equipped with a spiced-up variant of the Airmatic air suspension. Other S63 ingredients include stronger brakes, a more attentive Speedshift transmission, more direct steering, and the ability to select sportier drive modes. In addition, the S63 has the full go-faster treatment: the seats have special leather, stitching patterns, piping, and emblems; the stylish body kit should be as good at reducing drag as it is at turning heads; the four gleaming tailpipes are almost as big in diameter as foxholes; and, to avoid confusion with lesser Benzes, there are about two dozen AMG logos prominently scattered throughout the car. So far, so good. But when you put the S63 to the real test by waltzing through a set of hold-your-breath curves, a larger than expected portion of the promised sparkle is lost in translation. In sum, the cream-of-the-crop Mercedes actually dishes up a less invigorating menu than the loud and loose XJR. The S63 AMG is a complete and competent car, but it has been wrapped in too many neutralizing layers of cotton wool.
After almost 600 demanding miles, the Mercedes emerged as a luxury limousine with degrees in velocity, ride comfort, and stability. In this features-galore mile-eater, the driver is constantly tailed by a battalion of electronic helpers that know how and when to stay in the lane, keep the correct distance, decelerate in an emergency, pull at the steering wheel if need be, and park the car automatically. Although fully autonomous driving is one of the brand's declared goals, the S63 thankfully still expresses interest in such AMG priorities as handling and roadholding, cornering grip and steering accuracy, brake bite and throttle response. The steam-hammer version turns in more eagerly than the S550, decelerates with added vigor, handles with greater talent, is a true champion of acceleration, and can be coaxed into feeling quite chuckable for a behemoth weighing 4806 pounds. Despite all that, the 5.5-liter hypersedan feels too much like a very fast S-class and not enough like a raw and special driving machine prepared by the most talented power brokers in the trade. The smaller E63 AMG is much sharper and more communicative, a superior master of quick escapes and grand gestures.
The Jaguar epitomizes the very British art of waftability, but refined part-throttle cruising and posing at street-café pace are not its only skills. When asked to give chase, the XJR will instantly change down a gear or two, expertly flex and stretch its muscles, then slowly lower its head and aim at the horizon with the energy of a sprinter who has somehow managed to adopt the delicate balance of a high-wire performer. Be content to relish the car's communication skills this side of burn-outs and tail slides, and the XJR may become an ally, perhaps a friend. But if whips and spurs are your thing, the Jag is liable to mutate from house cat to wildcat. The instant James the devoted chauffeur hands the keys to his alter ego Zorro the racer, the car's personality and attitude undergo a dramatic change. From one moment to the next, supercharger whine and exhaust trumpets set the tone, the nineteen-inch winter tires struggle to connect even on clear blacktop, and the quick steering develops a newfound lightness.
The limit arrives earlier and more suddenly than expected, and when it does, the Jaguar is notably more difficult to keep on course than the S8 or the S63. The paddle-operated gearbox isn't totally composed, either. In sport mode, it feels more like a dual-clutch automatic than like the torque-converter automatic it is, holding on to a given ratio all the way to the engine's redline and then shifting with time-warp efficiency. The brakes bite with such unyielding force that one would not be surprised if the pads were basted with piranha teeth. Every acceleration from 50 to 75 mph leaves a deep dimple in the pit of your stomach, and the growling V-8 is inherently aggressive. All of which is another way of saying that this Jaguar is a very special animal, competent and controversial yet flawed in a quite charming way.
To summarize, the Jaguar is a great plaything for the twenty-mile Saturday-morning detour to the bakery and coffee house but leaves something to be desired as an all-weather 24/7 executive runabout; the Mercedes just does not have the same effect on our heart rate, blood thickness, and adrenaline flow as most other AMG products. Which brings us to the Audi S8 and its stature in this trio.
While the sporty S8 has great potential, it is not available in long-wheelbase form, so tall rear-seat occupants struggle for space. On a good day, one may be tempted to describe the design as classic, but when you take off the rose-colored glasses, the aging cookie-cutter single-frame grille is inexpressive and ordinary. In theory, the driving dynamics should be spot-on, and yet in real life they form an odd mix of highs and lows. Take the handling, which ranges from defensive to indifferent, all the way from casual cornering exercises to terminal understeer at the very edge of adhesion. Feel the steering, which refuses to feed your palms with enough weight, self-centering action, and grip information. Try the brakes, which are very powerful and totally immune to fade but could do with more progressive pedal action. Experience the air suspension in all three available settings, and you will invariably wonder why not even the comfort mode provides a satisfactory level of compliance. At the end of the third day, the S8 was perceived by all four of our testers as a cold technocrat that takes particular pride in keeping its driver at arm's length. As best epitomized by its faultless drivetrain, this car is a somewhat empty and not entirely convincing triumph of efficiency over emotion.
Decisions, decisions. If you are a Bang & Olufsen type and love the clean Bauhaus style, Germanic perfection down to the last detail, as well as special, no-cost-spared feel-good solidity, then the S8 may be worth a second look and a first test drive. In contrast, the XJR appeals to your inner hooligan, is the secret darling of affluent hipsters, and can either play the prestige card or do donuts until a neighbor calls the cops. The S63 AMG has what it takes to be the best of all worlds, and yet it isn't. Instead, you pay dearly for a token 0.9-second acceleration advantage over the S550.
When it was all over, we debated long and hard about crowning a winner . . . and decided there wasn't one. Why? Because the $113,395 Audi S8 is not really that much more desirable than a 420-hp A8L 4.0T ($88,495) or even the 333-hp A8L 3.0T ($79,695). Because the $116,895 XJR makes the 470-hp XJ Supercharged ($91,495), not to mention the 340-hp XJ AWD ($78,595), look like conspicuously smart buys. Because the $140,425 S63 AMG doesn't cast a sufficiently tall shadow to blot out the 449-hp S550 4Matic ($96,825). What we have here is, therefore, a rare case of less is more, of three oversexed and underdesirable flagship sedans, of half-kept promises and transitory illusions.
Even though the Audi has the best fit and finish, the classiest instruments, the most tasteful interior, and the brightest headlights, the four rings don't signify perfection in every respect.
The Specs
2015 Audi S8
- Base price: $113,395
- Powertrain
- Engine: 32-valve turbocharged DOHC V-8
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Tuesday, December 07, 2010
Way Too Cool 50k Announces New Course for 2011
I really like the layout of the new course. Lots more single track, a longer stretch along the river, no more Ball Bearing climb from hell, and a chance to go flat out the whole way. I know it's tough to change a course that has been around for decades (Julie crossed that road when making it an actual 50k two years back as the new RD), but serious kudos to Julie and her team for kicking this great course up a notch. Well done!
The lottery for WTC opens today on UltraSignUp, so be sure to put your name in before the 12th (drawing on the 15th).
I will have to skip the fun this year, since baby #2 is due on the same day. To Christi's credit, one of her first comments when finding out the due date was "well, so much for Cool". Gotta love a spouse who has the ultra calendar memorized. :-)
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- Anonymous12/07/2010 11:16:00 AM
No out and back means no potential misread of flags. My money is on Roes for the win!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12/07/2010 02:11:00 PM
Thoughts from an other "Dunlap" that I thought I should share with you....ReplyDelete
Whoa...that's kinda scary to read "Dunlap" in that story! Maybe if he kept to the trails... ;)ReplyDelete
Baby #2? Awesome, Scott! Congratulations to you, Christie and Sophie. And yes, it is golden to have a spouse who realizes the importance of the ultra schedule. :) Appreciate it.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12/08/2010 10:51:00 AM
I'm training for an Ironman:ReplyDelete
Hello there Scott and company, I'm Jeremy Stersky from London England. While I'm certainly nowhere near IronMan status at yet - or in the near future - I certainly aspire towards such stellar status. If I could compete in 3 events and prove my worth in land and water, then I'd surely start my own sports blog too. I do enjoy a challenge and you guys are the ultimate inspiration for improvement. What a rush! Reading your stories of trails and exploits is always invigorating - even though I've only taken an interest in this type of sport. But I'm already on track - excuse the pun - with 18km a day and trying to increase it to 21 within the week. Any tips on how to push the limits ever further? Much obliged -ReplyDelete
Jeremy Stersky - fan and friend -
I LIVE for comments! Please add your thoughts, let me know you stopped by, etc., and be thoughtful of others. Always best if you sign your name, of course.


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Ralf-Philipp Weinmann (center) with organizers of the Pwn2Own contest at the 2010 CanSecWest conference in Vancouver. Weinmann will be demoing a new way of breaking into mobile phones this week. He's found a way of breaking into the baseband processors used by phones to communicate with cellular towers. Last year, Weinmann won the Pwn2Own contest with another mobile hack.
More than three years after the iPhone was first hacked, computer security experts think they've found a whole new way to break into mobile phones -- one that could become a big headache for Apple, or for smartphone makers using Google's Android software.
In a presentation set for next week's Black Hat conference in Washington D.C., University of Luxembourg research associate Ralf-Philipp Weinmann says he plans to demonstrate his new technique on an iPhone and an Android device, showing how they could be converted into clandestine spying systems. "I will demo how to use the auto-answer feature present in most phones to turn the telephone into a remote listening device," he said in an e-mail interview.
Weinmann says he can do this by breaking the phone's "baseband" processor, used to send and receive radio signals as the device communicates on its cellular network. He has found bugs in the way the firmware used in chips sold by Qualcomm and Infineon Technologies processes radio signals on the GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) networks used by the majority of the world's wireless carriers.
This is a new area of research. Until recently, mobile phone attacks had focused on another part of the phone: the programs and operating systems that runs on the device's CPU. By tricking someone into visiting a malicious Web site, for example, hackers could take advantage of a Web browser bug on the phone and start messing around with the computer's memory.
With baseband hacking, security researchers are looking at a brand new way to get into this memory.
"[It's] like tipping over a rock that no one ever thought would be tipped over," said the Grugq -- a pseudonymous, but well-respected, wireless phone hacker, and one of a handful of people who have done research in this area. "There are a lot of bugs hidden there," he said, "It is just a matter of actively looking for them."
But hacking a smartphone with a baseband attack is very tricky, to say the least. The mobile phone's radio communicates with a cell phone tower. So in Weinmann's attack, he has to first set up a fake cell phone tower and then convince his target phone to connect to it. Only then can he deliver his malicious code. And even then, the malicious code he writes must run on the firmware that's used by obscure radio processors -- something that most hackers know nothing about.
"This is an extremely technical attack," said Don Bailey, a security consultant with Isec Partners. He says that while the work on baseband hacking is very exciting -- and ultimately a big deal for the mobile phone industry -- he doesn't expect any attacks that target the general public to emerge anytime soon.
But the research into this area is just starting to take off, fuelled by new open-source software called OpenBTS that allows virtually anyone to set up their own cellular network radio tower with about $2,000 worth of computer hardware.
Five years ago device makers didn't have to worry about this type of hacking, because it used to cost tens of thousands of dollars to set up a cellular tower. But OpenBTS has changed all that. "Now it's a completely different game," Bailey said.
It's a risky game too. In the U.S., federal wiretapping laws make it illegal to intercept phone calls over the licensed frequencies used by mobile phones. In August, it took intense last-minute negotiations between lawyers from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission before security researcher Chris Paget could demonstrate a very simple tower spoofing technique at the Defcon hacking conference in Las Vegas.
Two months from now another hacker conference, Vancouver's CanSecWest, will invite hackers to break into mobile phones using a low power transmitter. If their baseband attacks work, they can win cash prices. Conference organizer Dragos Ruiu said that Canada's broadcast laws are "more lenient' for researchers who want to set up low-power towers for research purposes.
Still, it remains a touchy subject. "Last year we were worried about falling afoul of regulations," he said."Now we've figured out a nice safe way to do that so that we don't mess up anybody else's cell phones at the conference."
Ruiu expects some interesting results from the contest, called Pwn2Own. "It sounds like the radio parts of the phones are very shaky indeed and pretty vulnerable," he said.
Robert McMillan covers computer security and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Follow Robert on Twitter at @bobmcmillan. Robert's e-mail address is email@example.com


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How niffy nappies could help develop new weapons in fight against bacteria
Bacteria "plan ahead" by tightening their belts to help them survive looming lean periods, researchers at Cambridge have discovered. At a time when there is growing concern about rising antibiotic resistance, the results – published in the journal PLOS ONE – could lead to new ways of combatting dangerous bacteria.
For many years, people thought bacteria worked by simply consuming resources until they ran out, and then entering a stationary, non-growing, phase. Working with physicists from the Cavendish Laboratory, Hannah Gaimster and David Summers from the Department of Genetics showed that as resources decline, bacteria switch to austerity mode, individually deciding to consume less until conditions improve.
Summers and Gaimster identified this behaviour by studying indole – the chemical behind the bad smell in babies' nappies (and also used as an ingredient in perfumes) – a key signalling molecule in bacteria.
Scientists have known for many years that bacteria use low concentrations of indole to communicate with each other. This study shows for the first time that bacteria also use the chemical in a completely different and dramatic way – producing high transient pulses of indole that accumulate within a bacterial cell and cause it to enter austerity mode.
According to Gaimster: "The effects of low concentration of indole are subtle, but higher concentrations will do things such as abolish the ability of the cells to divide, or shut down growth completely."
Working with Escherichia coli, Gaimster and Summers grew two cultures of the bacteria, one was the normal indole-producing E. coli and the other a mutant strain that has lost its ability to make indole.
When they stopped feeding the bacteria for 10 days, they found that the two strains coped with famine in very different ways.
"Initially the mutants seemed to do better than the wild type bacteria, but when we looked at the longer term, over 10 days the wild type's viability declined by only one third compared with the mutants, whose viability fell by 80%. This is because without indole, the mutants could not plan ahead and weren't able to survive as well in the long-term," she explained.
In a second experiment, they seeded a population of wild type E. coli with 1% of the indole-lacking mutants and filmed what occurred when famine set in.
"When the food began to run out, the normal cells started doing this careful slowing down to make the food last longer, but the mutants ran riot through the culture, increasing many fold in number and eating all the food reserves. That results in disaster for everyone, because they all starve to death," Gaimster said.
"Our results have many applications because indole plays such an important role in how bacteria respond to stress, including antibiotics. If we can understand how they use signalling systems to cope with the drugs we're throwing at them, that should help us find new ways to get around their defences," she said.
By discovering an entirely new way that bacteria use indole to communicate, the study could help scientists find new ways of controlling dangerous bacteria such as MRSA.
As well as opening up new modes of attacking dangerous bacteria, the study illustrates that rather than the simple creatures we assume them to be, bacteria are complex organisms with sophisticated survival strategies.
According to Summers: "I want to destroy the idea that bacteria are simple, because that's an extraordinarily naïve view of a very sophisticated cell. Compared with humans, bacteria have been evolving for an unbelievably long time, so they will be better at being bacteria than any other organism will be at being itself."
Journal information: PLoS ONE
Provided by University of Cambridge


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Monday, October 25, 2010
Rogues Gallery F/W 2010
3 comments:
Speaking on Fred's behalf, we've been a big fan of his MB pants, sans the button fly -- extreme chafing. Do these RG pants have a zipper fly? We don't want to run into the same problem again.ReplyDelete
Three of these pieces are the same polo in different colors and two are a sweatshirt in different colors. All in all it looks like 7 new pieces. This is pretty sad.ReplyDelete
- The Striking FellowOctober 26, 2010 at 5:09 AM
I happened to see this too on their webshop yesterday. I had no clue that they had just put up their new gear but my first thought when I saw it was that I was completely unimpressed. Those pants are great for a fisherman who needs to be noticed when goiong overboard on rough seas but otherwise no thanks.ReplyDelete
Also, I know from a couple of retail buddies that RG already announced a couple of months ago that they would be having trouble with their deliveries.


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- February 9, 2011
An air-conditioned rehearsal room at Florida Studio couldn't be any further from a Congolese brothel, yet the cast of playwright Lynn Nottage's "Ruined" carries you there. With thoughtful gestures and commanding dialogue, the play, which earned Nottage a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2009, is so engrossing even audiences watching early run-throughs couldn't look away.
During a behind-the-scenes tour last month, students in FST's theater appreciation program watched 20 minutes of the show while Artistic Director Richard Hopkins ran cast members through the first scene.
With limited props, no set and no costumes, "Ruined" was still startlingly visceral. Just 20 minutes in, the audience was begging for more. Led by actress Alice Gatling as Mama Nadi, the proprietress of a bar and brothel in the Democratic Republic of Congo, "Ruined" is as much a poignant survival story as it is a biting comedy.
"This is the most complex piece of theater I've worked on in a decade or two," says Hopkins, who flew up to New York City last year to cast the show shortly after it wrapped at the Manhattan Theatre Club. "The people are complex. The issues are complex. The emotions are complex."
FST is the first regional theater company in the Southeast to premiere the show, which was so popular during its New York City run that the Manhattan Theatre Club extended it nine times.
"I initially stayed away from it, thinking it would be too dark and heavy," Hopkins says. "But when I saw the play, I was blown away by how life-affirming and pleasurable it was. It's a word-of-mouth kind of show."
Here's why: Mama Nadi's brothel is set against the backdrop of a civil war; armed soldiers pass in and out of the brothel, hungry for beer and women. The play begins with Mama, a fortress of a woman, loosely inspired by Nottage's own interviews with women of the Congo and Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage."
Armed with chocolates, makeup and other commodities, a salesman nicknamed "The Professor" for his bookish glasses and dapper suits (played by Broadway actor Stanley Wayne Mathis) enters Mama's canteen and offers up the goods, in addition to two new girls. Tempted by the chocolates and delighted to have a new tube of red lipstick, Mama reluctantly agrees to take on both women. The frailer of the two is 18-year-old Sophie, who was raped with a bayonet and has little to offer Mama, except for book smarts and a pretty singing voice — skills that serve her well in the brothel, despite her being "ruined."
Knowing only this, the plot seems awfully grim, until you hear the rest of Nottage's script, a mix of weighty subplot, cutting witticisms and playful innuendo.
"It has tremendous breadth," Hopkins says. "So many points of view are delivered on stage and it's done with such humanity. We see the Congo from the point of view of the farmer, the rebel soldier, the government commander, the diamond merchant, the educated, the uneducated, the earthbound and the spirit-bound. It's an amazing world this playwright has put together."
The cast is huge by FST standards — 11 actors and two musicians, many of whom play more than one character, making "Ruined" the company's biggest-budget production of the season.
"Every actor in New York City came out for this audition," Hopkins says. "We chose from some of the best actors in the country."
The drama, which opened Feb. 3 in FST's Keating Theatre, couldn't be more different than "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," a Tony Award-winning musical about goofy middle-school students competing to win first place in a spelling competition. Yet, if you ask Hopkins if Sarasota audiences will have difficulty stomaching "Ruined," he'll say that the show is no less watchable than "Spelling Bee," which closed last Friday on the same stage.
He mentions that the show includes contemporary Congolese music that, like the play itself, is contrary to what audiences might expect.
"I thought this play deserved a Pulitzer Prize," Hopkins says. "And I think Sarasota deserves to see it."
Contact Heidi Kurpiela at [email protected]
"Ruined" runs now through April 3, at Florida Studio Theatre. For more information, visit www.floridastudiotheatre.org or call 366-9000. For more on Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage, visit www.lynnnottage.net.


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Whatever the health and condition of your business venture, it will benefit from planning. Business planning of all types provides a road-map that guides the leadership team to successfully achieve business goals.
I've taught business plan writing for more than 10 years and I've also developed a one-day business plan writing workshop. As I see it, the process of business planning gives company leaders opportunities to see the big picture and remove "magical thinking" from the process. Business planning first reveals if the proposed goals are potentially viable and second, requires that we devise strategies that will make them a reality.
What your team wants to achieve will shape the plan that is written. For example, if the mission is to launch a start-up that will require significant outside investment, then the plan will include detailed financial projections. Additionally, marketing strategies that delve into customer acquisition, the competitive landscape, the logistics of the product or service launch, messaging and sales distribution, along with operational aspects such as manufacturing, staffing and quality control, must be thoroughly detailed.
Solopreneur consultants will focus heavily on marketing, in particular defining the target clients and client acquisition; providing services for which there is adequate demand; and appropriate pricing. Financial planning will focus on allocating the budget to support promotional strategies and marketing campaigns.
Whether the plan will be used to launch a big venture and attract outside investment money or open a boutique-style consulting service, include the following elements:
Present the business mission statement here. Include as well the date the business was formed; the leadership team and other key management personnel; the credentials or experience that make you and the leadership team uniquely qualified to launch and successfully run the venture; the business legal structure (LLC, Sole Proprietor, or Corporation); the products and services; one or two key competitive advantages; a concise overview of sales projections; and the amount of capital needed if recruiting investors or obtaining bank financing is a goal.
It's traditional to present a brief description of your industry and its outlook, nationally and regionally. Give the details of your products and services and briefly discuss how they'll be used by target customers. Identify whether the venture is B2B, B2C, or B2G. If the organization holds a patent, review the competitive advantages that it will convey. Have there been any technological advances that will help or hinder the enterprise? Divulge the details here.
This element is a big tent that encompasses sales, product or service distribution, competitors, advertising, social media, PR, networking, branding, customer acquisition and pricing. Plans written for a small organization will spotlight the role of marketing because for Solopreneurs, success hinges on identifying and reaching paying clients, as well as pricing the services advantageously.
Whether you're wealthy enough to self-finance or the venture is small and not especially demanding of capital investment, the leadership team nevertheless needs to know with a reasonable degree of certainty how much money will be required to achieve important goals.
The plan might be written to support financing for the acquisition of new office space, additional staffing, or manufacturing equipment. Bank loans typically require a business plan to demonstrate how the investment money would be used and how the organization will generate funds for loan repayment.
If the goal is to attract investors, they'll need to be convinced by the projected sales revenue figures (as will the bank), so they'll know when their investment will be repaid and when to expect profits if they are made co-owners of the business. A break-even analysis, projected income statement, projected cash-flow statement and projected balance sheet are required by those who will need significant money.
How will day-to-day business processes function? Tell it here, along with providing the organizational chart, the business location, the method of producing that which you sell (if you are, for example, a freelance book editor or graphic designer, you produce the service yourself), your usual sub-contractors (if you are a special events organizer, who are your preferred caterer, florist and limo service?) and quality control methods. This element is about logistics.


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It's funny because in almost every intstance, my least favorite is the one I picked in my first play through of each. Ha!
I'd do this with a poll if it weren't for the max of ten options...
So in each starter set, Kanto to Unova, what is your least favourite in that set? Here are mine:
Kanto: Charmander line. Game only they are all equal in my eyes, the Squirtle line maybe taking 1st. However, this may sound cliché, but the way some (only a minority) fans harp on about Charizard, just gets to me. I did a Diamond playthrough with all three Kanto starters and you know who did the best? Venusaur (named Maryjuana), followed by Blastoise. Charizard was actually somewhat underwhelming.
Johto: Totodile line. Again a fairly close one. However I like Chikorita the most and Cyndaquil just edges out so sorry my little Croc.
Hoenn: Mudkip line. I no liekz mudkipz? Yeah, some of the starter designs irk me in this gen. Sceptile is awkward, Combusken is ugly as sin and I don't like the Marshtomp's or Swampert's cheek things. So it came down to (in game) performance. Swampert felt the most awkward.
Sinnoh: Chimchar line. God I hate Chimchar. It has a poop on its head for Pete's sake. Monferno looks fairly cool, but Infernape just returns to the ugly with its stupid armour stuff.
Unova: Tepig line. Another Fire-Fighting, awkward design, unappealing stats. The Tepig line pale in comparison to both Oshawott and Snivy.
Funny. I never disliked the Grass types.


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|Llewellyn's 2019 Daily Planetary Guide
|Yoga for the Creative Soul
|The Pure Heart of Yoga
A longstanding belief among magical practitioners is that perception creates reality. This concept has been decried by skeptics, since perceiving oneself as a billionaire does not make it instantly so. Rather than "proving" that the concept is false, skeptics are actually proving it true, since the boring, magic-free world that they perceive is true for them. There is more to the idea of changing your reality through altered perception than merely just making a wish; there is actually some science behind this notion. The startling discoveries being made by physicists are validating what Witches and magicians have known to be true for centuries.
In quantum mechanics, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is the name given to the discovery that the more precisely the position of some particle is determined, the less precisely its momentum can be known, and vice versa. A related principle is the observer effect, whereby this shift is influenced by the observer. If the observer is seeking to determine the momentum of a particle, its position will be difficult to determine, and conversely, if the observer is trying to determine position the particle's momentum will be difficult to determine. Basically, at the finest levels that science has been able to reach, particles can act as either particle or wave depending upon how the observer is interacting with them at any given moment. How the scientist currently perceives the particle determines the particle's current reality.
Essentially, what it boils down to for us regular people is that how we are interacting with and perceiving the people and events in our lives determines how they in turn, relate to and affect us. Again, this is not as easy as "believing that things are perfect will make them perfect" or anything like that. It is a matter of patterns and focus. Patterns are set up slowly over time and can either be positive and fulfilling or negative and depleting. The patterns are set up by how we choose to focus in an event. If we always look to the negative and ignore the positive, the negative will be nurtured and grow, and the positive will shrivel and fade away. This is not to say that we should ignore the negative. Quite the contrary is true; we need to confront the negative and refuse to allow it in our lives. We then need to re-focus on the positive and move forward seeking to increase the level of positivity in our lives. Our perception of people and events creates a pattern of energy that conditions those people or events to what we expect to see. How many times have we read something that is actually misspelled, but we don't notice at first because we are not expecting to see it differently. Our expectations are powerful filters through which we view the world, which is why unrelenting optimists are always happy even when the situation does not support it and why eternal pessimists are always unhappy even when good things happen. Either option is fraught with self-delusion.
The most sensible approach is realism; fully embrace happiness wherever you find it, but do not deny or dismiss negative things in your life. The negative must be consciously worked through with the intent that good will come of it and also with the knowledge that you always have the power to overcome it. In this way, negativity is perceived as a tool for growth rather than an obstacle to happiness. Just this small change in perception strips any negativity of much of its power. Denying the dark and negative would be foolhardy; it is there. Don't deny the negative, to do so increase its power. Instead, it must be transformed—confronted, stripped of power, and turned to good.
Consciously directed perception is a major facet of magic in general. Magic, as I see it, is the unification of consciously directed thinking (perception), feeling (emotion), and willpower, which are then directed toward a goal. Thus, cultivating a healthy use of our perception to keep our lives focused on positivity enhances our ability to work magic in any form. Thinking is the beginning of the magical process. How we perceive the world at large (and our lives specifically) greatly influences how we think about our spells and how we envision a magical goal. If your perception is continually slanted toward negativity or fear, your magical vision (the images that you visualize of your magical goal being reached) are colored by this view even if you do not consciously visualize something bad occurring in the visualization.
How you operate in your everyday life is also how you operate magically. Magical practice and "mundane" living are inseparable because everything is recorded by and for the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind works through use of shape, color, image, and triggers/cues. If we are consciously dwelling in the negative or perceiving things as being against us, we are creating unconscious triggers that remind us of these negative feelings. For example, if you continually feel that love will never find you, watching romantic movies makes you sad and seeing red roses reminds you that you are alone, then there is a strong chance that visualizing a romantic scene of you and a potential partner and/or using red rose petals in a love spell will subconsciously trigger you to feel those emotions of lack and sadness. Even if you barely notice them, those feelings will still color the results of your spell.
The way to combat this is to first spend some time (several weeks, at least) actively trying to change your perception about the possibility of love in your life. Attempt to halt the feeling of lack and instead cultivate the feeling that your love already exists, that it is fully formed in the future. You are not currently in the future but rather you are in the present. By casting the spell, instead of drawing a random person to you, you are rather creating a link between your current self and your future self in the relationship. Instead of lack, all you have to do is walk through the time from the present to the future when you begin the relationship in linear time.
This notion is a bit complex, but seeing the result as already fulfilled takes on whole new meaning in magic when you perceive it as literal. It helps to think of time as being parallel rather than linear (which is a possibility currently being considered in theoretical physics)—that everything is occurring at once and a large part of what keeps us anchored in the present is our perception. Using this concept of parallel time is very empowering because when you feel that the goal is already manifested as soon as the spell is cast, all that is left is to move forward and claim it once it makes itself known. This removes a great deal of the feeling of lack or anxiety, which can reduce the effectiveness of your spells. In my book, Spellcasting For Beginners, I discuss the topic of magical intention and give tips of properly refining your focus for the most popular goals in magical work: love, money, healing, protection, and even the truth about bindings and cursing. There are many specifics to consider for each goal and also issues to avoid that would hinder success.
Intentionally directed perception is the catalyst for magical success. It sets up the correct frame of mind to work magic. If you perceive yourself as powerful and capable of achieving your goals, the energy currents start to flow in your favor. That change in fortune, combined with proper focus during the magical work and the bringing together of thinking, feeling, and willpower, create the spark of true magic. With everything aligned in your favor, you can't help but achieve your goals.
Michael Furie (Northern California) is the author of Supermarket Sabbats, Spellcasting for Beginners, Supermarket Magic, Spellcasting: Beyond the Basics, and more, all from Llewellyn Worldwide. A practicing Witch for more ...


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Not all Electronic Arts-published games will be given the Project $10/ Online Pass treatment. Rather than slap Syndicate with a one-use code that unlocks the game's multiplayer features, EA will keep such access free, to grow interest in the shooter's co-op mode it says.
Syndicate is being published by EA Partners, meaning it doesn't own the studio (Starbreeze). But EA does own the intellectual property behind Syndicate, making this a curious choice. Especially as Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning another title being published under EA Partners—with heavy, direct investment from EA—will be subjected to Online Pass treatment, and it has no multiplayer component. Other EA Partners titles—notably Crysis 2—have avoided such restrictions.
All in-house series like Mass Effect and Dragon Age (as well as the entire EA Sports label) are by now assumed to carry Online Passes—which means if you buy a used copy of the game, you'll have to shell out $10 to get at certain content, typically online multiplayer access or extra singleplayer missions.
Jeff Gamon, the executive producer of EA Partners, told Eurogamer that EA kept Online Pass out of Syndicate because EA wanted "as little resistance or barriers to entry as possible," Gamon said.
"Under normal circumstances it would have had an online pass, but because it didn't have competitive multiplayer and because we wanted as many people as possible to be playing co-op, we got away with it," Gamon said.
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Latif: An answer to detainee lawyers' dilemma?
on May 15, 2012 at 5:01 pm
For most of the past four years, the volunteer lawyers who are helping Guantanamo Bay detainees use their constitutional right of access to U.S. courts have faced a dilemma: they assumed that, at some point, the Supreme Court would again get interested in those cases, but they had no idea what it would take to get the Justices involved again. They persuaded the Court just once in those years to grant a case — a highly unusual one — but that case went away without any new guidance on where the Court stands.
Last Term, the lawyers failed every time as they tried repeatedly to fathom what might catch the Justices' attention; they had what they regarded as solid issues, but no case advanced. This Term, they are trying again — seven more times, so far. But, among those seven, they have Latif v. Obama, and that may be their best chance. Indeed, if that one fails, too, it is hard to imagine the Court taking any Guantanamo captive's case.
At the Justices' private Conference on Thursday, they are scheduled, according to the electronic docket, to have a look at all seven of the new Guantanamo cases. That is not a coincidence. The lawyers have been urging the Court staff to schedule the cases together, and specifically asked that some of the cases be held up for examination until the Latif case, too, was ready. Now the filings in the seven cases are all in (including an extra brief in one of the cases pointing out just how important the Latif case is), and presumably the Justices are poised to act. The earliest an announcement of any action is likely to come is next Monday morning.
It is important to note, though, that the Obama Administration has urged the Court to deny review in every one of the new cases; it says there is no issue in any case that is worth the Court's time. Given the historic fact that the Court has a good deal of trust for the government's judgment, it would appear that the detainees' lawyers are operating at something of a disadvantage as they try to convince the Court that it needs to provide new guidance on the law of detention. The military prison at Guantanamo Bay has been open for more than ten years, and the law of detention is still a work in progress.
But one facet of the developing law of detention, and it has added a special urgency to the work of the Guantanamo lawyers, is that the D.C. Circuit Court has not approved a single order by a District judge clearing the way for a detainee to leave Guantanamo. Several score have gone home, but none as a result of a Circuit Court decision. The question that detainees' lawyers keep trying to get the Supreme Court to answer is: did you mean it when you said that the Guantanamo prisoners should have a chance at winning actual release? That is an open question, the lawyers have argued, because the Circuit Court has not allowed that to happen in any case actually appealed to that court by the government.
The last time the Court as a whole said anything of real consequence about Guantanamo (aside from saying that government offers of release for five detainees made it unnecessary to decide the one case that had been granted) was on June 12, 2008. That day, the Court issued a historic ruling in Boumediene v. Bush, declaring for the first time that prisoners held by the U.S. military outside of the Nation's borders had a constitutional right to go into a U.S. court, using the ancient writ of habeas corpus, to force the government to justify holding them captive even while declining to pursue criminal terrorism charges against most of them.
Boumediene, actually, had two main parts to it: establishing the habeas right for those at Guantanamo, but explicitly giving District Court judges in Washington a wide degree of discretion to work out the details on how to process those challenges. The District judges, applying a format worked out in November 2008 by a coordinating judge, began processing the cases, and in the majority of cases, they found that detention was not justified. The District judges applied a strong dose of skepticism to government evidence of terrorism links, especially evidence submitted in intelligence reports, sometimes assembled under chaotic conditions overseas.
It is likely, though, that neither the Justices themselves nor the District judges in Washington (where all Guantanamo cases are filed) anticipated one development that emerged after Boumediene had been decided. It actually came out of a second detention case decided by the Justices on that same day in June 2008 — Munaf v. Geren, about two U.S. citizens the U.S. military was holding in Iraq pending criminal trials in that country, and having nothing directly to do with Guantanamo. But, Munaf v. Geren, as transformed by D.C. Circuit Court, would become a stern mandate to the District judges not to "second-guess" the military's judgment about the need to detain prisoners at Guantanamo and anywhere else.
In the summer of 2010, three Justices — Ruth Bader Ginsburg, joined by Stephen G. Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor — said publicly that the Court should at some point sort out the impact that Munaf had had on the law of detention, and at that point, lawyers for the Guantanamo prisoners thought they had a clue of how to reopen post-Boumediene issues in the Supreme Court. But that did not happen, and there was no explanation why it did not happen. Munaf-related sequels were filed by the Guantanamo lawyers, but none got a hearing.
The D.C. Circuit steadily tightened the limits on the District Court judges, and in the last dozen such cases, the detainees' challenges have lost in 11. The only case among those 12 in which a detainee won was the case of Latif v. Obama, involving a Yemeni national, Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, who was captured in Pakistan within three months after the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2011. But Latif's success in the District Court did not last; the D.C. Circuit overturned the judge in that case, too.
There are totally contradictory stories about Latif: his lawyers insist that he went to Afghanistan and then to Pakistan seeking medical treatment for a head injury, but the government insists that he went there along a path followed by terrorist recruits, and that, when he got there, he received military training and joined the Taliban forces and went to war against the Afghan Northern Alliance. The Circuit Court concluded that he was "part of" the Al-Qaeda terrorist network — the current legal standard for detention.
The primary evidence the government used against Latif was an intelligence report that was based, in part, on interviews that intelligence or military agents had with him and others, overseas and perhaps also at Guantanamo Bay.
On the basis of the conflicting accounts of Latif's travels and activities in Afghanistan and Pakistan, his case does not stand out as unusual; such factual conflicts exist in all of the cases. But, as his case developed in the D.C. Circuit and now in the filings in the Supreme Court, here is why it has taken on a status that does not seem to be fully matched by other pending cases:
* It resulted in the creation, not previously found in any prior Guantanamo case, of a "presumption of regularity" and accuracy for government intelligence reports, no matter the conditions under which they were gathered. It is a legal rule of thumb that makes the government's reasons for detention significantly weightier, and puts a heavy burden on the detainee's lawyers to disprove that evidence. Up to that decision, the District judges had routinely refused to grant the government such a "presumption."
* A group of intelligence officers and retired federal judges filed amicus briefs with the Supreme Court questioning the reliability of those intelligence reports and the fairness of their use.
* The case produced something that is quite rare in Guantanamo cases in the D.C. Circuit — a vigorous, even angry dissent. It was filed by Circuit Judge David S. Tatel, who argued that the D.C. Circuit "has moved the goal posts" and had "called the game in the government's favor."
* The main opinion in the D.C. Circuit brought a scathing denunciation of the Supreme Court's Boumediene decision by Circuit Judge Janice Rogers Brown, who said that the ruling was based upon "airy suppositions" and who suggested that the signal it had sent to the government in the "war on terrorism" was to "take no prisoners."
* It has drawn the criticism of even outside observers who have generally supported what the D.C. Circuit had been doing in developing the law of detention.
* It appears — at least so far — to be a case in which Justice Elena Kagan can take part; that is not true of all Guantanamo cases, because of her prior role in the Justice Department as U.S. Solicitor General.
* And, to repeat, it is the one case in the last dozen to go through the District Courts to result in a win for a detainee, only to have that, too, set aside in the Circuit Court.
The Latif petition raises three issues. One has to do with the validity of the "presumption of regularity" for government intelligence reports. One has to do with whether the D.C. Circuit wrongly took on the role assigned to the District judge to sort out the facts. (If the Circuit Court had accepted the District judge's factual findings, all sides agree that Latif's detention would be invalid. It was the first Guantanamo case to reach the Circuit Court that had that characteristic about it.)
But the third issue raised is an especially provocative question that, in fact, is also included in a number of the other new Guantanamo cases. That question reads: "Whether the court of appeals' manifest unwillingness to allow Guantanamo detainees to prevail in their habeas corpus cases calls for the exercise of this Court's supervisory power."
Implicit in that question are these other questions: Did the Court actually expect in 2008 that a Guantanamo detainee would win release over the government's objection? What did the Court mean when it said habeas review in Guantanamo cases should be "meaningful"? How content are the Justices with the handiwork of the D.C. Circuit in defining the law of detention since Boumediene? Just where would the Justices start if they wanted to examine the Circuit Court's results? Does the Court see any need to defend itself against the criticism that Circuit judges have aimed, in escalating terms, at Boumediene?
Or, perhaps finally, does the Court have any desire, on any score, to return to a role in monitoring the fate of the 169 foreign nationals who remain at Guantanamo? What would be lost, to the Court as an institution, if it opted now just to leave Guantanamo to the political branches and the D.C. Circuit?


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The Marathon
This morning like lots of people I have a heavy heart. I'm thankful that none my family was injured in yesterday's bombings or saw or heard anything first hand, but I'm shaken with how close my family was to the event and how hurt so many people must be.
My sister Nicole made it 25 miles or so before she was stopped (my brother-in-law, folks and nephews were enroute to pick her up at the finish line). We went to see her run by (and a get a hug) at the 3 mile mark. We are extremely proud of her; completely impressed that she made the paper this weekend, too!
Here are some pictures:
Believe or not we all got haircuts on Saturday. Meg got one earlier at a salon and the kids and me went to walk-in place. Hazel and Henry did superb!
Hazel right after her haircut.
Hazel, Henry and Liam waiting for Nicole to run by (we took the picture during one of their calmer moments).
Henry's picture of Nicole running that he made for our sign. Hazel's drawing isn't easy to discern, but she did tell us this morning that she was going to draw "Uncle Brian" (she confuses Uncle Greg with Uncle Brian) and Cody.
Henry drew this last weekend at a Chinese restaurant. It is quite accurate to the event. Hazel was seated across from him in a striped shirt, at a brown wooden table with a maroon table cloth.
Henry's drawing he made for school vacation homework. Left to right it depicts our black cupboard, the butterfly cage, Henry holding the plate of butterfly food and his blue bird.


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Kent State to Offer Executive MBA for Healthcare Professionals at College of Podiatric Medicine's Independence Location
Kent State University announces it will offer the Executive MBA for Healthcare Professionals program at its College of Podiatric Medicine in Greater Cleveland beginning next year.
With the induction of the new class in May 2014, the 23-month program will take place on Kent State's College of Podiatric Medicine campus in Independence, Ohio, located off of Interstate 77, south of Interstate 480 in the heart of Cuyahoga County.
"We're delighted to be able to partner with the College of Podiatric Medicine to offer the Executive MBA for Healthcare," said Deborah Spake, dean of the College of Business Administration at Kent State. "By offering the program at a location that is centrally located and close to where many people live and work, we're being responsive to the needs of the market."
Spake is pleased the popular program is going to be offered at a Kent State medical facility.
"By being able to offer the program at the College of Podiatric Medicine, we are not asking professionals to go to a competitor's facility to take coursework," she said. "They are going to a Kent State facility for that program."
The Executive MBA for Healthcare Professionals program features a curriculum created to meet the demands and challenges of today's healthcare professional. The classroom is brought to life by outstanding faculty and respected executive lecturers from leading organizations in the healthcare industry.
When combined with the program's innovative online/on-site learning approach and a convenient, state-of-the-art facility, Kent State's Executive MBA for Healthcare Professionals is an excellent investment and valuable learning experience.
Kent State hopes to attract people who are interested in furthering their education once they have had a healthcare component in their jobs, according to Laurie Walker, Kent State's director of Executive MBA programs.
"Knowing all of the changes that have come with healthcare reform and the need for professionals to understand more about the business aspects of healthcare, this is the ideal transition for people to gain those skills," Walker said.
To learn more about the program, interested individuals are encouraged to attend an information session. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet students and faculty and program administrators, while receiving important program information, including:
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Two information nights are scheduled for November. On Tuesday, Nov. 12, at 6:30 p.m., the session will be held at the Business Administration Building, Room A325, on the Kent Campus. On Thursday, Nov. 14, at 6:30 p.m., a session will be held at Kent State's College of Podiatric Medicine, located at 6000 Rockside Woods Blvd. in Independence.
For more information about the Executive MBA for Healthcare Professionals program at Kent State, visitwww.kent.edu/business/grad/healthcaremba.
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Kent State University will offer the Executive MBA for Healthcare Professionals program at its College of Podiatric Medicine in Greater Cleveland beginning next year. Pictured (from left to right) from Kent State are Laurie Walker, Ph.D., director of Executive MBA programs for the College of Business Administration; David R. Nicolanti, Ph.D., executive vice president of the College of Podiatric Medicine; Vincent J. Hetherington, DPM, senior associate dean of the College of Podiatric Medicine; Bryan D. Caldwell, DPM, MS, interim dean of the College of Podiatric Medicine; and Deborah F. Spake, Ph.D., dean of the College of Business Administration.
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A lawsuit against DuPont Co. claiming its nonstick Teflon cookware coating could pose health risks to users has been dropped.
The lawsuit included 22 cases from about 15 states. All had been consolidated to be heard in U.S. District Court in Des Moines, Iowa.
The lawsuit has been in the courts for four years.
U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Longstaff signed a dismissal order on May 1.
The case was dropped because if failed to convince the court it deserved class-action status.
"The court determined that we did not meet the criteria to have it class certified," said Kim Baer, a Des Moines attorney representing plaintiffs from Arizona, Nebraska, Iowa and New Mexico. "Given the fact that we cannot proceed as a class-action, the cases will not be going forward."
She said the court did not rule on the issue of whether the cookware is safe.
A ruling denying the status was appealed to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which refused to reconsider the lower court's ruling.
Had it been granted, the lawsuit would have sought to compensate millions of owners of Teflon-coated cookware. Attorneys have estimated the case could have cost the Wilmington, Del.-based chemicals company $5 billion if it had been successful.
The lawsuit claimed that Teflon concealed studies that showed a chemical used in the manufacturing process could release toxic particles when heated to normal cooking temperatures.
The chemical, perflourooctanoic acid, called PFOA or C-8, has been determined by the Science Advisory Board for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to likely be a cancer-causing agent in humans.
The company says no studies have ever shown Teflon could be toxic and continues to insist it's safe.
"This decision supports our position that cookware coated with DuPont Teflon nonstick coatings is safe for its intended use," said Thomas L. Sager, senior vice president and general counsel, in a statement. "Teflon is a trusted brand and is used all over the world by millions of people every day."
He said the company is committed to operate to the highest standards in product stewardship and ethical behavior its customers.
The lawsuit sought to require DuPont to create a fund for independent research into whether Teflon was harmful; to replace all existing Teflon coated cookware products or pay owners equivalent compensation; and to stop making, selling and distributing the coated products.
DuPont shares were trading 4 cents lower at $27.59 in the afternoon.
Lawsuit Against Teflon Doesn't Stick
A lawsuit against DuPont Co. claiming its nonstick Teflon cookware coating could pose health risks to users has been dropped.