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Saturday, February 12, 2011
Pennsylvania Palatine Research
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I think a few of us were delighted to hear you speak of the Palatines the other day, and I'm glad you wrote this article. However, my Palatines settled in the Albany and Mohawk Valley in New York, so I didn't even know abt. Pennsylvania. Thanks for sharing that.ReplyDelete
Of course the Palatines went to NY, but were not treated well. That was the catalyst for Wm Penn to offer his land. Thanks for the reminder. I'll write another blog on that soon. It was quite a moment in the history.ReplyDelete
Very interesting! Peter von Sieg is apparently my 4th Greatgrandfather, if I'm correct. His son Paul and wife Susannah Fauber were my 3rd greats. I wish we knew Peter's wife's name. I know very little about the Palatine's though and thanks to you I'll learn more. =Paul Sieg from OhioReplyDelete


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Photos courtesy of Athena Anastasiou for Red Bull Studios London
The prestigious Red Bull Studios in London is home to a forward-thinking music showcase series on Channel 4. Hosted by Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac, "Launched at Red Bull Studios", now in its third series, features performances and interviews with ten of the best new, up and coming artists who are hotly tipped as ones to watch in 2014 over five half-hour episodes.
Red Bull Studios is a state-of-the-art, non-commercial recording studio and programmable space in London Bridge, South East London, offering artists a creative space to use at no cost.
The featured artists in this series include Ella Eyre, Joel Compass, Gorgon City, Royal Blood, George Ezra, Sam Smith and Elli Ingram, with their ambassadors including Rudimental, Guy Lawrence of Disclosure and Will Kennard of Chase & Status. Previous "Launched" artists from the first two series include Mercury-nominated singers Jessie Ware and Laura Mvula, andBastille and The 1975, both topping the charts with their debut albums, proving that the show is a great launching platform for aspiring talent.
Focusrite at the heart of "Launched at Red Bull Studios" recording setup
The engineers at Red Bull Studios chose Focusrite equipment to be at the heart of their recording setup. The high quality mic pre on the ISA 430 MkII was the preamp of choice used on all of the lead vocals throughout the series – its transformer-based design with variable input impedance makes it an incredibly versatile solution, capturing the best sounding results out of any microphone. Additionally the ISA 828, an eight-channel mic pre featuring the same preamplifier design as the ISA110 module in the legendary Focusrite Forté console, was used for recording drums (kick, snare, hi hats and overheads). The studio also has an array of Novation keyboards and synthesizers for artists to use, including the 61-key SL MkII keyboard.
You can watch the episodes from "Launched at Red Bull Studios" on Red Bull's website here.

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Outdoor Idaho "Winter Grit" Adventure and grit tie together this collection of cold-weather activities captured on camera across Idaho. From extreme back-country skiing and avalanche assessment, to equestrian skijoring, ice climbing and heli-skiing, everything requires extra grit as well as specialized skills and a desire for adventure.G
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Shakespeare Uncovered "Richard II with Derek Jacobi" Derek Jacobi returns to a role he played 30 years ago, coaches actors at the Globe in aspects of the play, reveals why it could have cost Shakespeare his life - and shares some of the extraordinary modern political parallels within the play that still resonate as dictators are deposed. Also featured are notable excerpts from the upcoming GREAT PERFORMANCES film adaptation starring Ben Whishaw and Patrick Stewart. D
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In Search of Shakespeare "The Duty of Poets" Shakespeare rises to fame. Plunged into mid-life crisis by the death of his son, he falls in love with a teenage nobleman, has an affair with a mysterious married woman and is charged with assault. The Globe Theatre is caught up in the rebellion against the Queen. Part 3 of 4G
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Moyers & Company "Who's Widening America's Digital Divide" America has a wide digital divide - high-speed Internet access is available only to those who can afford it, at prices much higher and speeds much slower in the U.S. than they are around the world. . D
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In February 2004, our magazine was about to enter its 15th year of publication. Our cover mom that month was Yen-Li Chen-Zhang, a former Ballet Arizona principal dancer who was operating her own ballet school in Chandler. (It recently celebrated its 10th year.)
My son Andy was a freshman in college; my son David a junior in high school. My husband and I spent a lot of time at football and lacrosse fields.
It was a big year for news. A report was issued saying the Bush administration misled Americans about the so-called "imminent danger" posed by Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. A New York court found Martha Stewart guilty of lying to federal investigators. Kmart announced that it was acquiring Sears. Captain Kangaroo died. Hurricanes killed 2,000 people in Haiti (and we thought that was bad).
Blockbuster movies that year included "Shrek 2," "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," "The Passion of the Christ," "Meet the Fockers," "Spider-Man 2," "Fahrenheit 9/11," "I, Robot" and "Ocean's Twelve."
2004 was also the first year that Raising Arizona Kids organized a Camp Fair. It was Marketing Director MaryAnn Ortiz-Lieb's suggestion. A similar event had been held for several years at the Judson School in Paradise Valley, an elite private boarding school that closed in 2000 and is now the site of multi-million dollar homes. (Interestingly, if you Google "Judson School" you can find entries that indicate it's still accepting students.)
MaryAnn thought we should take over the event. I thought she was crazy. We were understaffed and overwhelmed as it was; how were we going to coordinate something on that scale?
But anyone who knows MaryAnn knows she doesn't hear the word "no." So we took a deep breath, dove in headfirst and organized our first Camp Fair.
It was held at All Saints Episcopal Day School that first year, and for four more years to follow. Three years ago, we moved it to the Tesseract School, which had just opened a middle and upper school campus at 40th St. & Shea and had a beautiful, bigger gymnasium to accommodate our growing roster of participating camps, some of which came from as far away as Minnesota.
This year's event will be held from 10am-3pm Saturday, Feb. 26. (Did I mention that's my birthday?) It will again be at Tesseract. Our entire staff will be there, as will more than 65 camps. Some are overnight camps; some are day camps located throughout Maricopa Count. For parents looking to fill their children's summer months with meaningful activities, there is no better place to get started making memories.


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Tea & Books - What are you reading?
Kakuzo Okakura: The Book of Tea. I'm also digging into some fiction as well as non-fiction about the Borgia family, since obviously I love the Showtime series.
Just got done reading The Language of Flowers. It was excellent, the best book I've read in a long time. It was perfectly complimented by a cup of green tea on my porch.
Reading Lord of the Rings, drinking Earl Grey Creme. That's how you make a friday night awesome.
How is Earl Grey Creme? I've been wanting to try it.
Have to admit… Lord of The Rings has remained on the top of my list for many, many years. And have read them all way too many times. Don't forget to enjoy "The Children of Hurin" as it is also a great read. Myself (enjoying the audio versions) I love the audio as Christopher Lee narrates this book! Awesome.
I love them while enjoying Summer Darjeeling.
Lord of the Rings is a series made to be read while drinking Earl Grey.
…and Game of Thrones it is now. Is it unreasonable to want a direwolf already??
We aren't watching the show until we read all the books. Still a few weeks yet. : )
An excellent strategy. I read all but the last one before the show came out. I like both. Now I just need a direwolf tea to drink while re-reading the series. ;)
The wolves each have such distinct personalities. I think they each deserve their own tea.
You know that's a valid point Mercuryhime. I have to agree that they each deserve their own tea. :D
I read the Iliad (new translation by Stephen Mitchell) 2 books ago. Then I consumed Hilary Mantel's new Bring Up the Bodies. Now I'm on Joyce's Ulysses. After that I'll need to get back to course preparation, with reading on musicians in Renaissance northern Italy.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M. Pirsig.
Otherwise, on the side, I've been reading comicbooks. Yup. And occasionally /re/ reading The Book of Tea.
Mostly the classical Doctor Who comics originally from the magazine (which they were, for a while, slowly republishing to America through IDW, but seem to have stopped? Don't know what happened there—so I'll usually just find them in pdf or cbr). Occasionally NewWho, but mostly only picked up "The Forgotten". Also related publishes, like the shorts of Faction Paradox and Miranda.
Otherwise, I loosely follow Marvel's Deadpool, and pick up the back issues related to him (rather than fight for the newer ones, which are usually long gone before I get there).
Most recently, I've been following the re-translation of the Sailormoon manga (I did read the original translation, years ago, but). Only manga I've ever read, to be honest. But come on. /Sailormoon/.
And then just fill in the cracks with other things that fill my interest.
LOL, I remember being a big fan of the Sailor Moon anime when it first came to N. America (I think I was ten or eleven then). But it's nice to see that the manga is being reprinted. Seeing it on the shelves at work makes me smile nostalgically. :)
If you're looking for other manga to get into I highly recommend FullMetal Alchemist. As for other types of graphic novels the Walking Dead series is pretty good and I love the classic ones like Maus and V for Vendetta.
some doctor who novels are available as an ebook. As for comics if you like Marvel has some out on gooogle play. Hellboy, Witchblade and stuff are on Kobo. Fullmetal Alchemist is awesome, I also enjoy .hack// stuff.
I think that my all time favorite graphic novel has to be The Sandman by Neil Gaiman. I highly recommend it!!!
As for Manga, I have not kept up to date on the new stuff… But really enjoyed Pet Shop of Horrors (though the anime is awful…)
Since you liked WOLF HALL, I assure you that you will also like BRING UP THE BODIES. Evidently Mantel plans that these be part of a trilogy and has already started the 3rd (when Cromwell will finally run out of luck). The final 100 pages of BODIES zoomed. I wish that the machinations of these folks were not so believable, but that would be naive.
I LOVED LOVED LOVED the Thomas Cromwell character! I found myself even laughing out loud during parts of WOLF HALL (I listened to the audio version which I would highly recommend)
Of course he's the best — and that's such a surprise for those of us who know A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, in which he is the villain. I especially like the way Mantel lets us inside Cromwell's mind; and, her back-story for him really works. By the way, have you visited the Frick art collection? They have Holbein's portraits of Cromwell AND More, and they hang them facing one another.
I'm currently reading A Confusion of Princes by Garth Nix – love his books. I needed something to bleach the memories of slogging through Fifty Shades of Grey (or Fifty Shades of Crap as my co-workers at the bookstore are calling it) from my mind. DX
Yup, Chapters bookstore, which is basically the Canadian equivalent of Barnes & Noble. It's a great job, but you might not be so jealous if you saw how crazy it gets during the Christmas season. ;)
Love Garth Nix!
Tried to get a job at Chapters once. Friend ended up getting it instead. Curse him.
I would love to work in a bookstore, I applied to Chapters and Mcnallyrobinson but didn't get it. Oh well I have a good job now so I'm happy :D
I just bought Fifty Shades of Grey… :( Oh well… I took advantage of being in an airport and having access to English Language books to pick up a few from the tiny selection available. Hope the others I got are better…
Currently reading Game of Thrones because well.. its awesome. I'm also reading (being a history geek) War and Peace.
WAR AND PEACE is one of my absolute favorite books. What translation are you reading? I've read a few of them and have to say that the old Constance Garnett version is by far my favorite!
I'm reading the Singet Classic translated by Ann Dunnigan, so far its taking a lot of re-reading to make sure I understand their mid-19th century lingo correctly, but I'm loving the book lol.
When I approach a classic like this, with beautiful yet antiquated dialog, I like to think of it as eating cheesecake – best when savored slowly. Stick with it and I assure you you'll keep thinking about this book for a long time!
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts as you progress!
I love War and Peace!
Just started reading Wild by Cheryl Strayed. Not sure what tea would go with a book like this. It's a autobiographical account about a woman who lost everything important to her and then lived a self-destructive lifestyle until she had an idea to hike the entire Pacific Crest Trail (from Mexico to Canada) in order to turn herself back into the person she was before she got lost. She has never hiked for more than a day.
THe book is very engrossing. I saw it on the New York TImes top seller list and thought I'd give it a try. I'd say a calming tea would be good with this book. The story is very depressing and it's easy to relate to the character. So a happy tea or relaxing tea would keep you from getting too involved in her depressing world. :(


text: Student Profiles Drew Fulton '06 Drew Fulton '06 Hometown: Orlando, Florida Major: Self-designed, combining Environmental Studies, Biology, and Photography To visit Drew's photo gallery click here. Why did you choose to come to Bowdoin? After growing up in Orlando, Florida and attending the same school for most of my life, I was looking for something new and completely different. After visiting several schools in the northeast and consequently experiencing my first heavy snowfall, I felt Bowdoin would be full of new experiences. Although I had always believed that my college experience would depend more on what I put into it rather than what the particular school had to offer, Bowdoin had a lot that appealed to me. Bowdoin had a strong core of sciences, didn't require Drawing I as a prerequisite for their Photo classes, and was near the coast, something that was important to me having grown up spending every free weekend on the water. It was these little things that made the difference and by December I had decided Bowdoin was my top choice and I applied for the second round of Early Decision. Why did you choose your major? When I arrived at Bowdoin I had no idea what I wanted to major in. I did some exploring and after my first year at Bowdoin I had taken full advantage of the Liberal Arts concept, taking eight classes in eight departments. By the fall of my sophomore year I was no closer to choosing a major. My passion is nature photography, particularly bird photography, and beyond my three photo classes I felt a bit lost as to which additional classes I wanted to take. Several majors had caught my eye but all of them had a significant portion of required course work that I simply had no interest in taking. My advisor suggested looking at the student designed major option and I haven't looked back. My major combines my passions, photography and biology, under the larger ideas of environmental studies. I was able to choose my own curriculum for my remaining years at Bowdoin and it enabled me to pursue the fields that really excite me. What has been your favorite course at Bowdoin? Selecting a single course is difficult as I have been engaged by most of my courses. However, this past semester I took Behavioral Ecology and Population Biology, with Professor Nathaniel Wheelright, and it hooked me. Understanding the behavior and interaction of individual plants and animals has informed my understanding of the natural world. In addition to this class, I am looking forward to taking Ornithology, also with Professor Wheelright, this spring as I have been waiting to take it since first learning about the class during my first year. Did you study abroad during your time at Bowdoin? In line with my nontraditional major, my junior spring "abroad" was rather nontraditional as well. Instead of finding a program to attend overseas, I created my own experience. I took a leave of absence during my junior spring and moved to the Florida Everglades. I spent the semester living in a travel trailer in the community of Flamingo, inside Everglades National Park. I spent every day for five and a half months photographing the unique ecosystem of the Florida Everglades. During this time, I took over 20,000 images, about 5,000 of which I have kept and cataloged. These six months were an amazing experience that I will never forget. I lived alone in a remote area (it was over 100 miles round trip just to go to the grocery store or get gas for my car) doing exactly what I am passionate about every single day for almost six months. I was able to shadow scientists as they studied nesting wading birds, participate in conducting surveys of an endangered sparrow, and fly alongside a researcher who was tracking Florida Panthers by airplane. I spent several mornings photographing with a photographer who has worked for National Geographic and I also had the chance to guide a visitor from Belgium on a tour of the Everglades region. These experiences are something that I could not have had anywhere else and even though they did not happen in a classroom, they are integral to my education at Bowdoin. Drew photographed this great egret in the Everglades. Photo © Drew Fulton 2005. For more information about my experience during my semester in the Everglades and a sample of the photographs I took, please see my website and the weblog I maintained during the semester, http://www.evergladesimagery.com. Also, I will have an exhibit of over 100 of my photographs in the Visual Arts Center from February 4 through February 16, 2006. Have you engaged in any independent research while at Bowdoin? The semester in the Everglades was only the first part of my research on the Everglades. After returning to Bowdoin for my senior year, I began working on my Honors Project. Based on my knowledge and experience in the Everglades, I am writing a series of essays that, combined with my photographs, will take the form of a book on the Florida Everglades. My goal is to bring light to the subtle complexities of the Everglades ecosystem. What extracurricular or work experiences have you had at Bowdoin? As with most of my other pursuits, my work and extracurricular experiences are centered on photography. I have worked in the darkroom as a chem tech and TA for several semesters. Being able to help other photographers and to see their work and excitement has been extremely satisfying. This fall I began working for The Bowdoin Orient as the paper's photo editor. This was my first taste of editorial photography and I have definitely enjoyed the process, especially photographing Bowdoin sports. This job has required me to attend a number of events that I normally would not attend and I feel much more involved with the Bowdoin community than I have been in years past. What are your plans for after graduation? I currently have applied for a Watson Fellowship that would allow me to spend a year in Australia. The Australian continent has over 700 species of birds that are regularly seen and about 325 of those are endemic, meaning they are found nowhere else. If I receive the Watson I will be traveling the country seeking and photographing as many of these endemic species as possible, while experiencing another country and its culture. What advice would you give to a prospective student or first-year about the Bowdoin experience? Bowdoin can provide you with opportunities that are available nowhere else if you are willing to take advantage of them. The people who make up the Bowdoin community, whether professors, students, deans, or staff, are genuinely committed to helping you succeed in whatever it is you want do. Many of my greatest learning experiences occurred outside of the classroom, whether over lunch with a professor or in the swamps of the Florida Everglades. Discover your passion, whatever it may be, find a way to pursue what you love and you can't go wrong. It may sound cliché, but I have found it to hold true. Story posted on February 01, 2006 « Back | More Student Profiles | Go to News Home


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Marion Local holds off late-charging Minster, 41-34
PIQUA — Marion Local kept trying to drive the stake into Minster's heart.
That took a long time in a memorable playoff shootout on Friday between Midwest Athletic Conference rivals.
Between a 44-yard reverse pass for a touchdown, a goal line stand and a 99-yard, 14-play touchdown drive, Minster answered every call in the fourth quarter in its quest to come back from a 21-point deficit.
The Wildcats simply ran out of time. Never heart.
The Wildcats and Flyers sparred for three hours, with the defending Division VI state champion Flyers emerging from the backyard battle with a 41-34 win on Friday night at Alexander Stadium in Piqua.
Marion Local took a 21-point lead in the fourth quarter, only to watch Minster draw to within one score in the game's final minute with a prolific night through the air.
Minster head coach Nate Moore consoled his seniors after the game with the thought that they'd left everything on the artificial turf in Piqua.
"You couldn't have played any harder than our kids did," Moore said. "I'm so proud of them. We lost to one of the best teams in Division VI, if not the best. There's no shame in that. If you have to go out, this is how you go out."
The two teams met for the third straight year in the postseason. Marion Local has taken the last two meetings in the playoffs.
The Flyers' power ground attack, led by the odd coupling of a towering, bruising quarterback and a pint-sized dynamo running back, made the difference.
Marion Local running back Jacy Goettemoeller scored four touchdowns and rushed for 188 yards in the win. Quarterback Adam Bertke ran for another 123 yards and a touchdown.
"This is one of the few times I've looked at a game and thought that both offenses had the advantage," Marion Local head coach Tim Goodwin said. "Usually I'm dead wrong on that one, but both offenses were pretty darn good and just in the way they matched up to the opposing defenses."
A Marion Local team that started the year looking to add some finesse to its attack in the form of the spread is closing with the typical smashmouth brand so familiar to Flyer fans.
"They're very tough and physical up front," Moore said.
Minster's Adam Niemeyer went 23- of 41 passing for 248 yards and three touchdowns. Wide receiver Devon Poeppelman completed his one throw of the game for 44 yards and a touchdown on a trick play.
"We wanted to be as balanced we could and wanted to see how they'd defend us," Moore said. "But you get down a couple scores and you've got to start throwing the football."
Goettemoeller appeared to put the game away with less than two minutes left when he took a sweep on a 4th and 1 for 41 yards around right end for a touchdown to give the Flyers a 41-27 lead with 1:48 left in the game.
Had Goettemoeller not scored, Marion Local could've run out the clock.
"Once I scored it occurred to me," Goettemoeller said with a chuckle. "I was just thinking of going, scoring."
That gave Minster another chance.
The Wildcats moved the ball down field and Niemeyer hit Ethan Wolf with a two-yard touchdown pass with 45 seconds left left to draw Minster within seven.
Minster's onside kick was grabbed by the Flyers and Marion Local took two knees to advance for a regional championship match-up with another MAC rival in St. Henry next Friday at a site to be determined.
"We obviously wish we would've finished better, but a win's a win," Marion Local head coach Tim Goodwin said. "Now we're going to work on kickoffs and all that crap....We need to credit Minster. They never quit. They have great skill with their quarterback and receivers. Our secondary is three sophomores and ajunior going against their three seniors and a stud junior. Our kids battled and came out ahead."
Marion Local probably thought they'd finished off Minster a couple times in the fourth quarter.
Marion Local went up 35-14 on an Adam Bertke 10-yard run with 10:23 left in the fourth quarter.
With its back to the wall, Minster came back with a big return by Korey Schultz to the Marion Local 45-yard line. Three plays later Minster went deep into the playbook for a reverse pass. Niemeyer handed the ball to Poeppelman on a reverse, who threw the ball perfectly to a spot in the end zone 44 yards away into the arms of Jay Eilerman. Misnter drew to within 35-20.
Minster got the ball back after a bizzare onside kick recovery. Minster's onside kick did not go the requisite 10 yards and both teams stood around the ball as it came to a rest. A Flyer came in and tried to scoop up the ball but could not get a grip on it. It squirted away and Minster got the ball back at midfield.
Minster fumbled the ball away three plays later, however, as Poeppelman was fighting for extra yardage on a third and four reception in Marion Local territory.
The Minster defense then put up a stand at the goal line to keep its hopes alive. Marion Local drove down inside the Minster five yard line. On fourth and goal from the one yard line with about 5:30 left in the game, Marion Local went for it. Bertke called his own number up the middle on a sneak, but Minster had a handful of players jumping to meet him and turn him back.
Minster got the ball back at the half yard line, down by 15, with 5:26 left in the game.
The Wildcats drove the field in stunning fashion, throwing out of their own end zone for 26 yards to Devon Poeppelman down the left sideline. On fourth and two and the game in the balance at the Marion Local 22 yard line, Niemeyer hit Poeppelman for six yards to move the chains.
An 18-yard pass to Wolf down to the three yard line set up Niemeyer's three-yard slant pass to Poeppelman to draw Minster to within 35-27 with 2:20 left.
Marion Local's Goettemoeller started off the scoring. He caught a pass in the left flat, stopped on a dime on the artificial turf near the sideline and knifed into the end zone to finish off the 43-yard score.
"I was going down the sideline and saw the defenders keep going, so I just cut it back and saw blockers coming for me so I could score," Goettemoeller said.
Minster answered back quickly with a big return by Kauffman and a 31 yard touchdown run by Korey Schultz to tie the game, 7-7.
Goettemoeller wwent off right tackle for his second touchdown of the night to give Marion Local a 14-7 lead on the first play of the second quarter.
After Minster's 12-play drive died on an incompletion on fourth and two at the Marion Local 26-yard line, the Flyers marched down the field in 10 plays. Fullback Alaric Keller capped off the drive with a one-yard touchdown plunge to give the Flyers a 21-7 lead with 2:29 left in the half.
Minster went into the locker room with a shot in the arm with a perfectly executed two-minute drill. Adam Niemeyer hit on 6-of-11 passes for 75 yards. The biggest was a fourth and two conversion, a six-yard touchdown from Niemeyer to Ethan Wolf on a drag route across the middle with less than 30 seconds left in the half.
Marion Local led 21-14 at the half.
Minster couldn't take advantage of what looked like a key interception early in the third quarter by Korey Schultz. He picked off Bertke with 11:07 left in the third quarter.
But Marion Local's Goettemoeller stepped in front of a Niemeyer post pattern near the goal line on the very next play.
Marion Local upped its lead to 28-14 later in the quarter with an eight-play drive that included eight runs, including a one-yard score by Goettemoeller in which he leapt over the offensive line and into the end zone.


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Banjo Spirits explores the legacy of the banjo through the eyes of Don Stover and Stephen Wade. Don Stover learned to play the banjo from his mother in Artie, West Virginia, where he was born in 1928. Don grew up and worked in the local coal mines, but the banjo proved to be his ticket out of the area. Don played with Buzz Buzby, the Lilly Brothers, and Bill Monroe. Stephen Wade was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1953. After apprenticing for Fleming Brown and serving as accompanist to Doc Hopkins, Stephen is best know for "Banjo Dancing", his long-running one man show. Stephen is also known as a record producer.
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View looking east, at 11th Avenue and West 30th Street. Before and after on the High Line at the Rail Yards. Along the straightaway between 10th and 11th Avenues, the self-seeded landscape is being removed to make way for the park's new design features, but it will remain untouched on the western stretch of the site. There, crews will build a simple path, called the Interim Walkway, to let visitors experience the original wildscape. Photos by Timothy Schenck
Site preparation took a major step forward this month, when crews began removing soil, ballast, tracks, and debris from the High Line's concrete deck.
Follow us after the jump to learn more and view the latest photos.
Before we can build the High Line at the Rail Yards' new design features, crews prepare the site by inspecting, repairing, and waterproofing the elevated railway's concrete deck. To complete this process, crews remove the rail tracks, soil, ballast, and tracks, and then cut up a concrete topping slab to get down to the structural slab below. Photo by Timothy Schenck
Once the initial cuts are made, workers chip away the concrete to get down to the structural slab. Photo by Timothy Schenck
The view through the metal gate separating the High Line park's northern terminus from the High Line at the Rail Yards. The debris will be removed from the site in the coming weeks. Photo by Timothy Schenck
Is that Jeff Koons' train on a crane? Nope – it's a crane building the foundation for the South Tower at Hudson Yards. On the smokepipe to the right of the crane, you can spot recent High Line Art – a black blp from Richard Artschwager's installation at the High Line. Photo by Timothy Schenck
Construction sites are full of interesting discoveries. Pictured here are footprints embedded in the High Line's concrete deck, dating back to 1934 when the elevated railway was originally built. Photo by Timothy Schenck
Aerial view of the High Line at the Rail Yards, just east of the intersection of 11th Avenue and West 30th Street. Photo by Timothy Schenck
LEFT Taking in the views. RIGHT An aerial view of the High Line at the Rail Yards as it curves north at 12th Avenue. In this photograph, you can see how the site preparation work ends just beyond the backhoe. That point marks the spot where the Interim Walkway will begin. Photo by Timothy Schenck
LEFT Tractor trailer trucks, commuter trains, taxi cabs – despite construction on the High Line at the Rail yards, and site preparation work underway on Hudson Yards below the High Line, the hustle and bustle continues. RIGHT A fitting mark on the concrete decking on the High Line at the Rail Yards. Photo by Timothy Schenck
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At 1:37 a.m. on Jan. 8, Mark Zuckerberg, the 24-year-old founder and CEO of Facebook, posted a message on the company's blog with news of a milestone: The site had just added its 150-millionth member. Facebook now has users on every continent, with half of them logging in at least once a day. "If Facebook were a country, it would be the eighth most populated in the world, just ahead of Japan, Russia and Nigeria," Zuckerberg wrote. This People's Republic of Facebook would also have a terrible population-growth problem. Like most communications networks, Facebook obeys classic network-effects laws: It gets better—more useful, more entertaining—as more people join it, which causes it to grow even faster still. It was just last August that Facebook hit 100 million users. Since then, an average of 374,000 people have signed up every day. At this rate, Facebook will grow to nearly 300 million people by this time next year.
If you're reading this article, there's a good chance you already belong to Facebook. There's a good chance everyone you know is on Facebook, too. Indeed, there's a good chance you're no longer reading this article because you just switched over to check Facebook. That's fine—this piece is not for you. Instead I'd like to address those readers who aren't on Facebook, especially those of you who've consciously decided to stay away.
Though your ranks dwindle daily, there are many of you. This is understandable—any social movement that becomes so popular so fast engenders skepticism. A year ago, the New York Observer interviewed a half-dozen or so disdainful Facebook holdouts. "I don't see how having hundreds or thousands of 'friends' is leading to any kind of substantive friendships," said Cary Goldstein, the director of publicity at Twelve Publishers. "The whole thing seems so weird to me. Now you really have to turn off your computer and just go out to live real life and make real connections with people that way. I don't think it's healthy." I was reminded of a quote from an Onion story, "Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own a Television": "I'm not an elitist. It's just that I'd much rather sculpt or write in my journal or read Proust than sit there passively staring at some phosphorescent screen."
Friends—can I call you friends?—it's time to drop the attitude: There is no longer any good reason to avoid Facebook. The site has crossed a threshold—it is now so widely trafficked that it's fast becoming a routine aid to social interaction, like e-mail and antiperspirant. It's only the most recent of many new technologies that have crossed over this stage. For a long while—from about the late '80s to the late-middle '90s, Wall Street to Jerry Maguire—carrying a mobile phone seemed like a haughty affectation. But as more people got phones, they became more useful for everyone—and then one day enough people had cell phones that everyone began to assume that you did, too. Your friends stopped prearranging where they would meet up on Saturday night because it was assumed that everyone would call from wherever they were to find out what was going on. From that moment on, it became an affectation not to carry a mobile phone; they'd grown so deeply entwined with modern life that the only reason to be without one was to make a statement by abstaining. Facebook is now at that same point—whether or not you intend it, you're saying something by staying away.
I use Facebook every day, and not always to waste time. Most of my extended family lives in South Africa, and though I speak to them occasionally on the phone, Facebook gives me an astonishingly intimate look at their lives—I can see what they did yesterday, what they're doing tomorrow, and what they're doing right now, almost like there's no distance separating us. The same holds true for my job: I live on the West Coast, but I work in an industry centered on the East Coast; Facebook gives me the opportunity to connect with people—to "network," you might say—in a completely natural, unaggressive manner. More than a dozen times, I've contacted sources through Facebook—searching for them there is much easier than searching for a current e-mail or phone number.
In fact, Facebook helped me write this story. The other day I posted a status update asking my Facebook friends to put me in touch with people who've decided against joining. The holdouts I contacted this way weren't haughty—they were nice, reasonable people with entirely rational-sounding explanations for staying off the site. Among the main reasons people cited was that Facebook looked like it required too much work. Chad Retelle, a network systems administrator in Madison, Wis., said he'd seen how his wife—my friend Katie—had taken to the site. But at the same time, it had changed her: "Now she's obligated to spend time maintaining her Facebook page. She's got to check it every morning. I have no desire to do that."
Retelle and other Facebook holdouts also protested that the site presents numerous opportunities for awkwardness—there's the headache of managing which people to friend and which to forget, the fear that one of your friends might post something on your wall that will offend everyone else, the worry that someone will find something about you that you didn't mean to share. Naomi Harris, a magazine photographer in New York, says that, for all that trouble, Facebook seems to offer little in return. "Why?" she asks. "I'm on the computer enough as it is for work. I don't really want to be there for recreation purposes, too. I have no interests in someone from fifth grade contacting me and saying, 'Hey, I sat behind you in class—wanna chat?' "
Finally, I heard what must be the most universal concern about Facebook—I don't want people knowing my business! Kate Koppelman is a 23-year-old New Yorker who works in the fashion industry. She was on Facebook all through college, and she concedes that the site has many benefits. And yet, the whole thing creeped her out: "I had friends from back home knowing what was going on with my friends from college—people they had never met—which was weird," she told me. "I found friends knowing things about what was on my 'wall' before I'd had a chance to see it—which was also weird." Koppelman quit Facebook last year. She still uses it by proxy—her roommates look people up for her when she's curious about them—but she says she'll never sign up again.
Yet of the many concerns about Facebook, Koppelman's is the most easily addressed. Last year, the site added a series of fine-grained privacy controls that let you choose which friends see what information about you. Your college friends can see one version of your profile, your high-school friends another, and your family yet another; if you want, you can let everyone see essentially nothing about you.
Retelle's worry that Facebook demands a lot of work is also somewhat misguided. It's true that some people spend a lot of time on it, but that's because they're having fun there; if you're not, you can simply log in once or twice a week just to accept or reject friends. Even doing nothing and waiting for others to friend you is enough: You're establishing a presence for other people to connect with you, which is the site's main purpose.
That brings us to Harris' argument: What's the social utility to Facebook—why should you join? Like with e-mail and cell phones, there are many, and as you begin to use it, you'll notice more and different situations in which it proves helpful. In general, Facebook is a lubricant of social connections. With so many people on it, it's now the best, fastest place online to find and connect with a specific person—think of it as a worldwide directory, or a Wikipedia of people. As a result, people now expect to find you on Facebook—whether they're contacting you for a job or scouting you out for a genius grant.
True, you might not want people to be able to follow your life—it's no great loss to you if your long-lost college frenemy can't find you. But what about your old fling, your new fling, your next employer, or that friend-of-a-friend you just met at a party who says he can give you some great tips on your golf swing? Sure, you can trade e-mail addresses or phone numbers, but in many circles Facebook is now the expected way to make these connections. By being on Facebook, you're facilitating such ties; without it, you're missing them and making life difficult for those who went looking for you there.
Skeptics often suggest that online social networks foster introverted, anti-social behavior—that we forge virtual connections at the expense of real-life connections. But only someone who's never used Facebook would make that argument. Nobody avoids meeting people in real life by escaping to the Web. In fact, the opposite seems true: Short, continuous, low-content updates about the particulars of your friends' lives—Bob has the flu, Barbara can't believe what just happened on Mad Men, Sally and Ned are no longer on speaking terms—deepen your bonds with them. Writer Clive Thompson has explored this phenomenon, what social scientists call "ambient awareness." Following someone through his status updates is not unlike sitting in a room with him and semiconsciously taking note of his body language, Thompson points out. Just as you can sense his mood from the rhythm of his breathing, sighing, and swearing, you can get the broad outlines of his life from short updates, making for a deeper conversation the next time you do meet up.
It's this benefit of Facebook that seems to hook people in the end: Their friendships seem to demand signing up. Last year, Darcy Stockton, a fashion photographer in New York, held nothing back in describing her hatred of Facebook to the Observer. "If you have time to network through a site like that, you aren't working enough," she said. "I just don't have the time or the ability to keep up with yet another social networking site in my free time. I feel there's other things and real experiences I could be having in real life instead of wasting my free time on Facebook."
Stockton now has 250 Facebook friends. In an e-mail, she explained that she'd decided to join the site when her friends migrated over from MySpace. She added, "Thank you for making me eat my words!"


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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The NBA announced today that Wizards guard John Wall has been named to the 2014 NBA All-Star team, and will represent Washington during the 2014 NBA All-Star Weekend in New Orleans, Louisiana. This marks the first career All-Star appearance for Wall and the first appearance by a Wizards player since Caron Butler and Antawn Jamison were selected in 2008, also in New Orleans.
In his fourth year from Kentucky, the 2010 number one overall draft pick is averaging career highs in points (19.8), assists (8.5) and steals (1.9), while pulling down 4.4 rebounds in 37 minutes per game. Wall is shooting career highs in three-point field goal percentage at .325 and free-throw percentage at .841 while leading all Eastern Conference players in assists per game and leading all Eastern Conference point guards in double-doubles with 16.
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St. Martins, Oct 2004, 24.95, 320 pp. ISBN 0312324677 After working for the San Francisco Police Department for seven years, Dante Mancuso wasn't satisfied the way a case ended up; he pursued it against the orders of his superiors. Internal Affairs booted him out on trumped up charges. The shadowy Company recruited him and has sent him on assignments around the world. His latest assignment is to return to San Francisco, go to his father's fune...


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New York, NY (PRWEB) January 30, 2013
Binge drinking causes insulin resistance, which increases the risk of Type 2 diabetes, according to the results of an animal study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The results are published in the January 30 issue of the journal Science Translational Medicine.
Alcohol disrupts insulin-receptor signaling by causing inflammation in the hypothalamus area of the brain, according to the researchers at Mount Sinai's Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism Institute.
"Insulin resistance has emerged as a key metabolic defect leading to Type 2 diabetes and coronary artery disease (CAD)," said Christoph Buettner, MD, PhD, senior author of the study and Associate Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease). "Someone who regularly binge drinks even once a week, over many years, may remain in an insulin resistant state for an extended period of time, potentially years," said Dr. Buettner.
In this study, researchers treated rats with alcohol for three consecutive days to simulate human binge drinking. A control group received the same amount of calories. Once alcohol was no longer detectable in blood, glucose metabolism was studied through either glucose-tolerance tests or through controlled-insulin infusions. The rats treated with alcohol were found to have higher concentrations of plasma insulin than the control group, suggesting that insulin resistance may have been the cause of the impaired glucose tolerance.
High plasma insulin levels are a major component of the metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors that occur together and increase the risk for Type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease, and stroke.
"Previously it was unclear whether binge drinking was associated with an increased risk for diabetes, since a person who binge drinks may also tend to binge eat, or at least eat too much. Our data show for the first time that binge drinking induces insulin resistance directly and can occur independent of differences in caloric intake," said Claudia Lindtner, MD, first author of the study and an Associate Researcher of Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease at the Icahn School of Medicine.
About The Mount Sinai Medical Center
The Mount Sinai Medical Center encompasses both The Mount Sinai Hospital and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Established in 1968, the Icahn School of Medicine is one of the leading medical schools in the United States, and is noted for innovation in education, biomedical research, clinical care delivery, and local and global community service. It has more than 3,400 faculty in 32 departments and 14 research institutes, and ranks among the top 20 medical schools both in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and by U.S. News & World Report.
The Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is a 1,171-bed tertiary- and quaternary-care teaching facility and one of the nation's oldest, largest and most-respected voluntary hospitals. In 2012, U.S. News & World Report ranked The Mount Sinai Hospital 14th on its elite Honor Roll of the nation's top hospitals based on reputation, safety, and other patient-care factors. Mount Sinai is one of 12 integrated academic medical centers whose medical school ranks among the top 20 in NIH funding and by U.S. News & World Report and whose hospital is on the U.S. News & World Report Honor Roll. Nearly 60,000 people were treated at Mount Sinai as inpatients last year, and approximately 560,000 outpatient visits took place.
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Cigarette Smuggling Study Explained
(Editor's note: This response is from the authors of the Center's recent study on the effect of taxes on cigarette smuggling.)
February 1, 2013
Mr. Danny McGoldrick
Vice President for Research
Tobacco Free Kids
1400 I Street NW, Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20005
Stay Engaged
Dear Mr. McGoldrick:
By now you have probably seen our rejoinder to your letter online in The Kalamazoo Gazette. Unfortunately, the space limitation provided to us for such letters limits the degree to which we can explain our model and its workings, among other thoughts, so we thought we would write you and offer more detail. A small portion of the text below is taken directly from our letter.
It is not our methodology that is flawed, but your interpretation. Our model begins by estimating state level per-adult cigarette consumption by statistically comparing state level legal tax-paid cigarette sales per adult to the CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System estimate of state level smoking prevalence and a linear time trend.
The smoking prevalence variable provides an estimate of the percentage of each state's population that smokes cigarettes; this value varies substantially across states. It seems you have mistakenly interpreted the linear trend as forcing per-adult consumption to be constant across all the states. The correct interpretation is that the linear time trend models a constant rate of decline in smoking intensity across the state. Specifically, consumption is estimated to decline by roughly 2.1 percent each year in each state.
We also estimated a model that allows for the rate of decline to vary across states, but it statistically added no additional explanatory power to the model (and did not change the other estimates in any significant way). Such a finding suggests that the rate of decline in consumption did not vary much from the 2.1 percent average. As such, we opted for the simpler model, a decision supported in almost all econometric textbooks.
The consumption estimates from this process are then compared to the observed state-level sales to derive an estimate of illicit cigarette consumption. This estimate is then modeled against the state cigarette tax and tax differentials to compute our estimate of tax-induced smuggling activity.
We are disappointed that you would blithely dismiss our own cigarette tax and smuggling research when so much other research exists from government and university economists that basically come to the same conclusion. For instance:
Michael Lovenheim's 2008 National Tax Journal article — using data that ended in 2002 — only focuses on casual smuggling and concludes conservatively that "between 13 and 25 percent of consumers purchase cigarettes" in border locations or Indian Reservations. That is, they smuggle.
Perhaps more importantly, Lovenheim writes that "the central implication of this study is cross-border smuggling confounds many of the potential health and revenue gains from cigarette taxation." This confounding should be of particular interest to your organization.
As an aside, there is a little irony in the fact that that the taxing jurisdiction Lovenheim identifies as having the highest percentage of "consumers who smuggle" (more than 60 percent) is Washington, D.C., home to the Tobacco Free Kids' headquarters.
It is worth noting that even when smuggling is not confounding public health goals the "substitution effect" is. Last August the Centers for Disease Control published its study "Consumption of Cigarettes and Combustible Tobacco — United States, 2000-2011" and reported that it appears "certain smokers" were switching types of tobacco to avoid high cigarette taxes. The report suggests this is perhaps due to the hike in the federal excise tax in 2009.
The 1995 study by Morris Coats titled "A Note on Estimating Cross-Border Effects of State Cigarette Taxes" — and also published in the National Tax Journal — concluded that "[A]bout four-fifths of the sales response to state cigarette taxes is due to cross-border sales." In other words, published reports about declines in legal cigarettes bought in each state do not reflect the true declines in smoking.
In 2004 Mark Stehr published "Cigarette tax avoidance and evasion" in the Journal of Health Economics and came to a similar conclusion. He notes that "up to 85 percent of the tax paid sales response" to cigarette consumption is a result of trying to avoid taxes.
This obviously does not sum up the state of the literature, but it is worth asking if you believe investigators at state of New Jersey or the CDC and various university researchers are just "parrots" of others who pull their strings, or are they dispassionate scholars who have come to roughly similar conclusions about taxes and smuggling?
We don't disagree with your assertion that higher tax rates help reduce smoking, but there is much evidence to suggest that it is not to the degree many people — perhaps including the good folks at Tobacco Free Kids — believe.
The timing of your letter, by the way, is quite interesting. Last Jan. 10, less than two weeks before it was published, 30,000 pounds of loose, smuggled tobacco was confiscated by Canadian officials at the Ambassador Bridge (which connects the U.S. and Canada between Detroit and Windsor). Smuggling tobacco is a serious problem. This is a direct function of high excise taxes and evidence seems to suggest that it undermines very laudable health goals.
The Center takes its research very seriously. Its scholars are confident that their research can stand up to rigorous peer reviews, but you did not provide one. Instead you called on readers to be skeptical based on a misunderstanding of our research. This in itself was unscholarly, if not uncharitable, particularly in light of significant other research by a wide array of researchers who basically come to similar conclusions.
It is our hope that in the future you might at least contact us about our methodology or consult the wide body of other evidence on the subject of higher excise taxes and smuggling.
Michael LaFaive
Director of Fiscal Policy
Mackinac Center
Todd Nesbit
Senior Lecturer
The Ohio State University
Cc: Matthew Meyers
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Indiana Could See Cigarette Smuggling Leap with Excise Tax Increase


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Press Releases: March 2014
Two Hearings This Week: Appeal of Andrew "weev" Auernheimer CFAA Conviction in Philadelphia; License Plate Reader Records Case in Los Angeles
UPDATE: The Los Angeles hearing has been postponed until April.
Courts in Los Angeles and Philadelphia will hear arguments about coder's rights and the collection of license plate data in noteworthy Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) cases this week.
Andrew "weev" Auernheimer Case CFAA Case:
On Wednesday, George Washington University law professor Orin Kerr will argue on behalf of computer security researcher Andrew "weev" Auernheimer, who was prosecuted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act after he revealed a massive security flaw in AT&T's website. EFF is part of Auernheimer's appeals team, and Staff Attorney Hanni Fakhoury will be in attendance and available for interviews.
WHAT: Oral Argument in U.S. v. Andrew Auernheimer
WHERE: Third Circuit Court of Appeals
Albert Branson Maris Courtroom
601 Market Street, 19th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19106
WHEN: Wednesday, March 18 10 a.m. EDT
For background on Auernheimer's appeal: https://www.eff.org/cases/us-v-auernheimer
Lawsuit Over License Plate Reader Records:
UPDATE: This hearing has been postponed until April.
On Friday, EFF Senior Staff Attorney Jennifer Lynch and ACLU of Southern California Senior Staff Attorney Peter Bibring will argue for the release of Los Angeles automatic license plate reader records in this California Public Records Act lawsuit.
WHAT: Oral Argument in EFF and ACLU of Southern California v. Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles Sheriff's Department
WHERE: Los Angeles County Superior Court
Judge James Chalfant, Department 85
Stanley Mosk Courthouse
111 North Hill St. Los Angeles, CA 90012
WHEN: Friday, March 21, 9:30 a.m. PDT
For background on EFF's case: https://www.eff.org/foia/automated-license-plate-readers
Hanni Fakhoury
Staff Attorney
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Jennifer Lynch
Staff Attorney
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Government Claims EFF's Lawsuits Don't Cover Ongoing Surveillance – Raising Fears Key Documents May Have Been Destroyed
UPDATE: Judge White today continued his temporary restraining order in these two cases until a more permanent order could be put in place. The question of whether the government improperly destroyed evidence so far will be briefed over the next several weeks.
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will fight disturbing new government claims in an emergency court hearing Wednesday – claims that may imply records documenting ongoing government surveillance have been destroyed despite a judge's order.
Over the last several weeks, EFF has been battling to ensure that evidence of the NSA surveillance program will be preserved as part of its two cases challenging the illegal government spying: Jewel v. NSA and First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles v. NSA. But in a court filing late Monday, the government made shocking new assertions, arguing that its obligation to preserve evidence was limited to aspects of the original Bush-era spying program, which the government contends ended eight years ago with a transition to FISA court orders.
"This argument simply does not make sense. EFF has been demanding an injunction to stop this illegal spying program, regardless of the government's shifting justifications," said EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn, who will argue in front of U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey S. White at the hearing Wednesday. "But these government claims aren't just nonsensical – they are extremely worrisome and dangerous. The government is suggesting it may have destroyed years' worth of evidence about its illegal spying, justified by its own secret interpretation of our case. This is about more than just phone records; it's about evidence concerning all of the government's spying. EFF is asking the court for a full accounting of just what is going on here, and it's time for the government to come clean."
EFF has been litigating against illegal NSA surveillance for more than eight years. Jewel v. NSA is a case brought on behalf of AT&T customers who were subject to unconstitutional NSA spying. In First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles v. NSA, EFF represents 22 groups whose First Amendment rights to association are violated by the NSA program.
Oral Argument in Jewel v. NSA and First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles v. NSA
EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn
Courtroom of District Judge Jeffrey S. White
San Francisco Courthouse
Courtroom 11, 19th Floor
450 Golden Gate Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
Wednesday, March 19th
2 p.m. PDT
For the full government brief on evidence preservation:
For EFF's response:
High resolution image: (from left to right) Co-counsel Aram Antaramian, EFF Senior Staff Attorney David Greene, EFF Staff Attorney Nate Cardozo, EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn, EFF Senior Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl, Co-counsel Richard Wiebe, EFF Legal Fellow Andrew Crocker.
Rebecca Jeschke or Dave Maass
Media Relations
Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF Represents Computer Scientists in Explaining Why "It Is Not Just Metadata"
San Francisco - Representing a large group of top computer science experts and professors, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today submitted a brief to a federal appeals court supporting the American Civil Liberties Union's lawsuit over the NSA's mass call records collection program. At the core of the brief is the argument that metadata matters.
Intelligence officials have often downplayed privacy concerns over the NSA's interpretation of Section 215 of the Patriot Act by stating that the agency does not collect the "content" of calls, but only the metadata—who a person called, when, how long the conversation lasted and other information. EFF's brief begins with the line "It is not just metadata," and goes on to explain how metadata collected on a massive scale can often reveal more personal information about an individual than content. The brief outlines how metadata can show patterns of behavior, political and religious affiliations, and other personal details, especially when combined with other data sources.
"The metadata the government collects isn't just a list of numbers dialed and times—it's a window into the lives of millions of Americans," EFF Staff Attorney Mark Rumold said. "The law should provide the highest level of protection for this kind of information. The technology experts who signed the brief provide a valuable perspective for the court to consider."
The ACLU filed its lawsuit against the Director of National Intelligence, NSA, Department of Defense, Department of Justice and FBI last year after former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden revealed a secret legal order allowing for the indiscriminate capture of call metadata from Verizon Business Services.
EFF represents 17 professors who signed onto the brief, including: Profs. Harold Abelson and Ron Rivest of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Prof. Andrew Appel, chair of Princeton University's computer science department; Prof. Steven Bellovin of Columbia University's computer science department; and Matthew Blaze, an associate professor in the University of Pennsylvania's Computer and Information Science Department. Other experts signed on to the brief come from Johns Hopkins University, the University of Michigan, Rice University and Purdue.
"Metadata equals surveillance," said security expert and EFF board member Bruce Schneier, another signer of the brief. "It's who we talk to, what we read, and where we go. When the president says 'don't worry, it's only metadata,' what he's really saying is that you're all under surveillance."
While EFF is acting as amicus in this case, it also has two ongoing lawsuits of its own that challenge NSA surveillance. In First Unitarian v. NSA, EFF represents 22 groups whose First Amendment rights to association are violated by the NSA program. Jewel v. NSA is a case on behalf of AT&T customers who were subject to the unconstitutional NSA spying.
For the text of the amicus brief:
Mark Rumold
Staff Attorney
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Changing Technology Demands New Rules for Police
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked the U.S. Supreme Court Monday to set limits on warrantless searches of cell phones, arguing in two cases before the court that changing technology demands new guidelines for when the data on someone's phone can be accessed and reviewed by investigators.
The amicus briefs were filed in Riley v. California and U.S. v. Wurie. In both cases, after arresting a suspect, law enforcement officers searched the arrestee's cell phone without obtaining a warrant from a judge. Historically, police have been allowed some searches "incident to arrest" in order to protect officers' safety and to preserve evidence. However, in the briefs filed Monday, EFF argues that once a cell phone has been seized, the police should be required to get a search warrant to look through the data on the phone.
"Allowing investigators to search a phone at this point – after the device has been secured by law enforcement but before going to a judge and showing probable cause – is leaving 21st Century technology outside the protections of the Fourth Amendment," said EFF Staff Attorney Hanni Fakhoury. "If we're going to truly have privacy in the digital age, we need clear, common-sense guidelines for searches of digital devices, with meaningful court oversight of when and how these searches can be conducted."
In the not-so-distant past, our pockets and purses carried only limited information about our lives. But in the age of the smartphone, we are walking around with a complete, detailed history of our work schedules, our medical concerns, our political beliefs, and our financial situations. Our phones include pictures of family gatherings, videos of friends, apps that help manage our health and our money, and email and text messages from both our personal and professional lives.
"Our phones include an extraordinary amount of sensitive information – our past, our present, our plans for the future," said Fakhoury. "We can't let investigators rummage through this data on a whim. It's time for the Supreme Court to recognize the important role that judicial oversight must play in searches of cell phones incident to arrest."
Today's brief was filed in conjunction with the Center for Democracy and Technology. The brief was authored with the assistance of Andrew Pincus of Mayer Brown LLP and the Yale Law School Supreme Court Clinic.
For the full brief filed in Riley and Wurie:
For more on search incident to arrest:
Hanni Fakhoury
Staff Attorney
Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF Quashes Patent Troll's Subpoena for Donor Records, Collects 5,000 Signatures in Support of Patent Reform
San Francisco - Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Staff Attorney Daniel Nazer has become the new "Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents." Nazer succeeds former Senior Staff Attorney Julie Samuels and will lead EFF's campaign to reform the patent system and smash patent trolls. Samuels has left EFF to become the new executive director of Engine Advocacy, one of EFF's key partners in defending innovation in the start-up sector.
Entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban funded the title and Nazer's position with a $250,000 donation in 2012. Together, Nazer and Samuels, along with the other members of EFF's Intellectual Property team, have worked tirelessly to reform the patent system on multiple fronts, including in the courts, in Congress, at the White House, and before the US Patent and Trademark Office. On Wednesday, Nazer scored a victory against Personal Audio when a judge agreed to quash the notorious patent troll's subpoena for the names of donors who supported EFF's Save Podcasting campaign.
"This is an exciting time to be working on patent reform," said Nazer, who practiced law at Keker & Van Nest LLP before joining EFF at the start of 2013. "The next few months could see new legislation, important Supreme Court decisions, and action from the president. We need to make sure we get real reform that stops the flood of abusive patent troll litigation. I look forward to building on Julie Samuel's success as the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents."
One of the first items of business will be to push Congress to pass meaningful reform. With the Innovation Act overwhelmingly passing in the House (by a vote of 325 to 91), it is now the Senate's turn. Over 5,000 inventors, entrepreneurs, investors, and concerned citizens have signed EFF's letter urging the Senate to act. EFF will continue to develop TrollingEffects.org, an online clearinghouse of crowd-sourced intelligence on patent trolls launched last year in collaboration with a coalition of organizations and law schools.
"Daniel has been an invaluable colleague, and I know he will head up EFF's patent work with dedication and success," Samuels said. "I look forward to continuing to collaborate with him, and the entire EFF patent team, as we all work toward fixing a broken patent system."
For a high resolution image of Daniel Nazer with formal bio:
Daniel Nazer
Staff Attorney and Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Legal Briefings Still Under Seal After Government Demands for Secrecy
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed two briefs on Friday challenging secret government demands for information known as National Security Letters (NSLs) with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The briefs—one filed on behalf of a telecom company and another for an Internet company—remain under seal because the government continues to insist that even identifying the companies involved might endanger national security.
While the facts surrounding the specific companies and the NSLs they are challenging cannot be disclosed, their legal positions are already public: the NSL statute is a violation of the First Amendment as well as the constitutional separation of powers.
"The NSL statute allows the FBI to demand potentially protected information without any court oversight," EFF Senior Staff Attorney Matt Zimmerman said. "Furthermore, it permits the FBI to independently gag recipients so that NSL recipients like our clients have no ability to notify their customers or the public that any demands were made, let alone that they went to court to stop them. Our clients strongly desire to bring their unique perspectives to the ongoing national discussion on intrusive government spying, and they have timely and relevant information to contribute to that debate. However, the FBI's unconstitutional NSL authority prevents these companies from exercising their rights and taking part in this critically important conversation."
In March 2013 a federal district court judge in San Francisco agreed with EFF and ruled the NSL provisions unconstitutional, barring future NSLs and accompanying gag orders. That ruling was stayed pending appeal, however, and the district court has subsequently enforced separate NSLs—including NSLs issued to both EFF clients—and indicates that it will continue to do so until the Ninth Circuit rules on EFF's challenges.
"The fight over NSLs and the government's dangerous practice of bypassing meaningful review by the judicial branch is not an academic one—real people and real companies are involved, battling for their constitutional rights and the rights of their users," Zimmerman said. "The district court was right: the First Amendment prevents the FBI from engaging in such invasive, secretive, and unaccountable activities. We are eager to explain to the Court of Appeals why it should come to the same conclusion."
EFF also recently re-launched its Frequently Asked Questions page on National Security Letters. Read it at: https://www.eff.org/issues/national-security-letters-faq
For more on the National Security Letter cases: https://www.eff.org/cases/re-matter-2011-national-security-letter
Matt Zimmerman
Senior Staff Attorney
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Two Big Cases Could Protect Software Innovators – and Their Customers – From Patent Lawsuits
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the U.S. Supreme Court to crack down on patent trolls and the schemes they use to perpetuate their lawsuits in two amicus briefs filed today.
"Patent trolls and their payoff demands depend on a flawed U.S. patent system," said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Julie Samuels, who also holds the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents. "The cases the Supreme Court is tackling this term are prime examples of patent lawsuits gone awry. We're asking the justices today to enforce the law and protect new businesses, new gadgets, and the customers who use these products and services by providing clear rules that crack down on patent trolls."
In Nautilus v. Biosig Instruments, the Supreme Court could curtail vague and ambiguous patents that are currently allowed by the Federal Circuit. Under that standard, patent claims can stand even if "reasonable people can disagree" over the patent's meaning, and no matter "however difficult that task may be" to understand it. This has sparked a rash of vague patents, and EFF asked justices in today's brief to restore the Patent Act's requirement that patent claims be clear.
"Vague patents are extraordinarily prevalent in software, and they are a favorite tool of patent trolls," said EFF Staff Attorney Daniel Nazer. "If you can cleverly craft an ambiguous patent, you can stretch the claims later to cover all sorts of things you hadn't thought of at the time. Clarifying the law here and requiring definite claims is a straightforward, substantial way to improve patent quality and reduce shake-down patent litigation."
Limelight Networks v. Akamai Technologies involves a patent question over Limelight's content-distribution network, which allows for server-side storage of web content. Limelight's customers perform one of the steps of the patent at issue – tagging the remote content – but Akamai wants to enforce its patent anyway. In the brief filed today, EFF argues that Akamai's legal strategy could create a new category of patent defendants: end-users who unknowingly performed one of the steps.
"Imagine what would happen if using a piece of software or other service sold to you legally could result in a major patent infringement case," said Samuels. "Luckily, courts thus far have instituted a common-sense rule protecting end-users and consumers, and we're hopeful the Supreme Court will keep up this trend."
So far this term, EFF has filed four amicus briefs with the Supreme Court on patent and patent troll issues. Last week, EFF urged the court to rein in overbroad patents that are impermissibly abstract in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank. In December, EFF filed a brief in Octane Fitness, LLC v. Icon Health & Fitness, Inc., urging the court to make it easier for prevailing defendants to get attorney's fees in patent cases.
For the full brief in Nautilus v. Biosig:
For the full brief in Limelight v. Akamai:
Julie Samuels
Senior Staff Attorney
The Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Daniel Nazer
Staff Attorney
Electronic Frontier Foundation