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Child, Adolescent and Family. ( , Ed.).Clinical Psychology, 'Race' and Culture: a training manual.(2002).
Building Bridges and Community Empowerment. Clinical Psychology. 24,(2003).
Racism and clinical psychology: has anything changed?. Clinical Psychology. 48(May),(2005).
Building Bridges in Liverpool: Delivering CAMHS to Black and Minority Ethnic Children and their Families. Journal of Integrated Care. 15(3),(2007).
Interpersonal skill and reflection as the core of transformational change in regeneration?. Public Money and Management. 27(3),(2007).
Interrogating power: the case of arts and mental health in community projects. Journal of Community Applied Social Psychology. 17(4),(2007).
Working at the 'edge': Making use of psychological resources through collaboration. The Psychologist. 20(4),(2007).
Building community supports for work-life integration. ( , Ed.).Work, Life, and the Mental Health System of Care A Guide for Professionals Supporting Families of Children with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders.(2008).
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text: As the federal government begins to shut down, The Telegraph wants to know how it's affecting Middle Georgia residents. From federal workers to those who rely on government assistance, how are you being impacted by the shutdown? Have you tried to use a government service, only to find that the office was closed or your efforts were denied? Share your story by emailing Andy Drury at email@example.com. Please include your name and a daytime phone number.

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Former Osceola clerk cleared of ethical violations
Former Osceola clerk cleared of ethical violations
OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. —
The former local leader at the center of a court controversy in Osceola County is clear of accusations.
The Ethics Commission released a statement Friday, saying former Osceola Clerk of Courts Malcolm Thompson did nothing illegal.
Thompson was accused of abusing his position and intimidating courthouse employees.
In April 2012, Thompson was found not guilty of battery on an aide in his office. He was charged with battery after an incident in December 2011.


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What is Green Infrastructure?
Green Infrastructure mimics natural systems, harnessing stormwater as close as possible to its source.
On the small-scale this could mean capturing rainwater from your home's gutters. At the larger-scale this may mean involve constructing bioswales through a neighborhood that is prone to flooding.
How can I learn more about Green Infrastructure?
The Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans has funded numerous projects throughout the city through its Green Infrastructure Initiative. We will be posting these important projects as they are launched. Stay tuned!
Also, listed below are other green infrastructure projects happening throughout the city and country.
This is the wave of the future!
Groundwork New Orleans is hosting their first event in their Learn and Play workshop series: YOUR Water, YOUR Health.
In this workshop, they'll lay the foundation for the rest of the series. Come and learn what a watershed is, how you affect your local waterways every day, and how clean water directly affects you and your community. Groundwork's Green Team — high school students learning environmental science and job skills — will lead a fun workshop activity for the whole family. And Brad Kramer from the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans will tell you what the SWB is doing to improve neighborhood health and watersheds in New Orleans.
The event is FREE but you must RSVP!
Parkway Partners' Green Keepers educational series involves 15 hours of classroom and in-the-field presentations, teaching New Orleanians how to live with their stormwater, instead of in spite of it.
Water Wise NOLA is celebrating its pilot rain garden at Angela Chalk's home on Thursday, April 23. Please join us!
Water Wise NOLA's workshops are another great educational resource funded by the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans' Green Infrastructure Initiative. Their next workshop is January 31st. Come learn how to build your own rain barrel. You may attend the workshop for free and observe the building of barrels, or for $30 build your own barrel and take it home!
ASLA, The American Society for Landscape Architects, issued a Guide To Green Infrastructure. Check out this fantastic resource!


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Focus on Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Judo
Mon/Wed (8:00pm - 10:00pm)
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Is arguably the most effective and realistic form of self-defense for men, women and children of all sizes. BJJ prefers to bring an opponent to the ground where size and strength are less of a factor. Once on the ground relying on grappling techniques to subdue the opponent utilizing holds arm locks, chokes, leg locks, and strikes. This strategy takes away the advantage of an opponent with superior striking abilities and can mitigate the advantage of a larger, stronger opponent.
Also a formidable grappling art, Judo is referred to as "the gentle way." Judo focuses on movements and techniques to overcome that which is stronger and faster. Judo is primarily a standing art which incorporates standing and ground grappling. Where using a person's weight, momentum and leverage you can throw them through the air onto the ground where joint locks and chokes can be applied. Judo is optimal for situation where going to the ground is not ideal.
Focus on Muay Thai and Kickboxing
Tues/Thurs (7:00pm - 9:00pm)
Muay Thai
A simple, yet effictive and devastating art, Muay Thai (or sometimes-referred to as Thai Boxing) is is known for two things: its use of basic techniques that get the job done and its effectiveness. The vicious, crushing blows of Muay Thai are respected by all martial artists. The devastating kicks, elbows, knees, and skilled hands make it one of the most feared and effective standing arts in the world!
"The only way to train to fight stand up is to fight." That's our motto. Kickboxing will focus more on your standing strikes (Kicking and Punching), incorporating full on stand up sparring with full protective gear. You will work footwork and striking skills on the heavy bags as well as live sparring. No air techniques here. Our goal is to further perfect your stand up skills!
Focus on Vale Tudo and Street Fighting
Friday (8:00pm - 10:00pm)
Vale Tudo
In Brazil, Vale Tudo means, "anything goes." In our NHB/MMA class we combine the best aspects of stand up and ground fighting into one extreme fighting style. In this class we show you how to put it all together: the standing strikes with the throws and ground work. Vale Tudo incorporates grappling submissions with striking on the ground with knees and elbows. We incorporate all aspects of BJJ, Judo, Muay Thai, Kickboxing, Combat Grappling and Free Style Fighting into one effective fighting system.
Street Fighting
The true difference between Martial Arts and street fighting is the "anything" can and will happen on the street. There are no rules. In this class we try to prepare you and train you for that, to deal with the unexpected. Training for real street fighting and self-defense situations requires specialty training. In this class we incorporate training with weapons, multiple attackers, and many unexpected situations you may have to deal with.
Cardio / Core Conditioning
Tues/Thurs (5:30pm - 7:00pm)
Sat (9:00am-11:00pm) - Summer schedule
Our Cardio/ Core Conditioning class teaches basic punching and kicks, while challenging your level of cardio endurance. By using a variety of core-strengthening exercises mixed with high cardio and a touch of strength training, your body will be transformed and you will discover yourself having a higher level of energy. This class is good for those that just want to get in shape as well as for those who want better conditioning before joining the more specialized martial art classes
Fighter Program
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My New Year's resolution came a little late this year, on purpose. February 1 marked the start of American Heart Month and I resolved to make a big change in my life, for my heart and for the better. Since then I have been walking 60 minutes every day around downtown D.C., snaking my way through neighborhoods, around office buildings, and down to the National Mall -- places I rarely get to see because, well, I'm working just like most everyone I know in this city. This year, though, I had to get out and about, breathe the fresh air, smell the roses and take in some sunshine. I just had to. My mother passed away from heart disease in 2010 and it was a stark lesson that unless I started to get my heart and body in shape I may be headed down the same path.
I dubbed my new personal initiative RIS Walk 60 -- daily 60-minute walks to the heartbeat of DC. I am in the same situation as most people. We all work so hard that we sometimes stop taking care of ourselves. So my resolution then became to walk for me. But one is forced to ask, "If I haven't taken care of myself yet, what would motivate me to do it now?" So I chose to make it a public affair and help others on the way while letting others help me. I got together with Dr. Jannet Lewis at the George Washington Women's Heart Center and for every mile I walk I am donating $1 to the Center. I invite anyone to join me on our journey towards better health and in doing so we help the Center help others. Get out of the office, out of class, just outside at noon any day during the week and head to my restaurant and we'll do it together. My goal is to raise $25,000 and walk 25,000 miles together this year. The magic is already happening. Friends who never get to see me now know where I am every day at noon and walk with me. We already have a few regulars. People are walking and talking at their own pace, networking or forgetting their cares, meeting new friends, strolling their babies and walking their dogs. And feeling good.
I am walking the walk and also talking the talk. It doesn't always happen but it is great when you practice what you preach. The staff at RIS jumped on to the bandwagon. We started a biggest loser challenge; the staff's book of the month is The End of Overeating, Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite by David A. Kessler, MD; and staff meals have improved immeasurably. The next step was the menu. I created a prix fixe "I Heart Lunch" menu for February which includes lots of greens, fish, green tea, oatmeal and dark chocolate. March's menu will focus on Greens and Grains to celebrate good health, St. Patrick and spring! And I must say that Mother Nature has certainly done her share in helping me out in this campaign. Not only has the weather been flawless for walking, but the milder climes have produced an abundance of bounty in the fields. Never before in February have I returned from the market with kale, spinach, Swiss chard, collards, sweet potatoes, leeks, arugula, radishes, mache, escarole, romaine, green cabbage, napa cabbage, beets, mizuna, arugula, apples, potatoes and brussel sprouts, all the heart healthiest of foods. All on the menu. It is like summer. I have to make two trips.
I personally decided to take advantage of the bounty of this mild season and have chosen to eat only fish accompanied by those great green and orange vegetables. This version of my plan started on February 1 and will continue through Lent. Having been raised Catholic, fish and Lent go together like ham and cheese. I am drinking red wine instead of gin. Having been on the diet rollercoaster all of my life, and having read every diet book, I will try anything. I am certain that new plots will reveal themselves to keep me going when I get bored with this one as I refuse to give up on myself this time. And I am pretty sure my staff won't let me give up on myself either. I will be healthy and fit.
Here are some combinations I have put together for myself over the past couple of weeks. I don't know if they are the end all and be all. They say calories in/calories out so it's about eating smart calories and hopefully delicious ones.
First a couple of my current rules other than the Lenten fish rule:
- A liter of water with a tablespoon of raw apple cider every morning and a gallon of water all day;
- Green tea every day;
- A glass of red wine every day;
- Snack of a handful of almonds and an ounce of 70% dark chocolate every day;
- Walk 60 minutes every day;
- No whites -- white flour, white rice, potatoes, sugar;
- Eat protein with every meal/snack;
- Use all of the local vegetables you can.
Some things that I love:
- Oatmeal with blueberries and almonds; or shredded wheat, banana and skim milk; or, on the run, a banana, handful of almonds and Triscuits;
- Salmon with lentils, kale, roast sweet potato and red wine sauce (of course, it helps when you are the boss and can say "Will, make me a salmon, would ya?");
- My new creation -- sweet potato guacamole! Yes, just make guacamole but instead of the avocado (which is certainly not a bad choice) use roasted sweet potatoes, skin and all. Add onion, tomato, garlic, cilantro, jalapeno, dash of OJ and lime juice. Season with salt and pepper. Delicious. I use my Triscuits again instead of those tortilla chips and it makes a great snack;
- Codfish or salmon with steamed cabbage, mustard and spinach;
- Nonfat Blue Ridge Dairy (local) yogurt with blueberries and almonds;
- Leek consommé;
- RIS' Caesar salad with egg white Caesar dressing;
- Kimchi -- love it!


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Archive for August, 2008
Below is a link to a presentation from this year's Defcon in regards to the inherent insecurity of BGP prefix advertisements on the Internet. This is of course old news to most of us but still an interesting presentation.
Additionally there was another good presentation in regards to "Developments in Cisco IOS Forensics" that is an interesting read.
Policy Change to Payment for CCIE Labs
In effort to improve the availability of CCIE lab exams Cisco has updated the CCIE lab payment process.
On September 6, 2008 the payment policy for CCIE labs will be as follows:
Payment in full is due 90 days (calendar) prior to your lab date. Payment must be received to confirm your date. After 90 days refunds will not be available for canceled lab dates.
The change in this policy will allow for lab seats to be open in a timely manner and create more desirable time frames.
If you have questions or want to confirm you are within the 90+ day window please contact customer support.
This is good news as it should open up more lab dates 90 days out as opposed to 30 days out.
I ran across this email on a mailing list today in regards to Cisco interviewing candidates before allowing them to take the exam. It's unconfirmed as to it's authenticity but there have been stories of problems with certain CCIE lab locations (e.g. someone taking the lab for 4 or 5 other people, someone else with a very good memory but no Cisco networking skills taking the exam to just brain dump it, etc).
Dear Candidate: On August 27, Cisco will introduce a pilot for the CCIE Routing and Switching lab exam in Beijing, China. The pilot will add a 10-minute interview that will assess the candidate's ability to apply expert-level networking skills and knowledge to networking problems that are encountered on the job. After the lab orientation, a panel of three experts will conduct a verbal interview with each candidate, asking a series of expert-level networking questions (questions and answers will be in English). The ability to correctly answer these questions will affect the exam score. After completing the interview, the candidate will have the entire 8 hours to complete the lab portion of the exam. These scores will then be calculated and then combined for a total score which will decide a pass or a fail. Our goal with this email is to let you know that your day will extend beyond the normal testing day by approximately one hour. The additional hour will be at the end of the day. We hope you find this interview process enlightening and helpful as we continue to strive for the standard the world has come to expect from CCIE.
Today my routers finally passed the point of no return. Negotiations between R4 and SW4 broke down, and the course of action we were all trying to avoid was now inevitable… all out war.
R4# %OSPF-4-FLOOD_WAR: Process 1 re-originates LSA ID 22.214.171.124 type-5 adv-rtr 188.8.131.52 in area 0 %OSPF-4-FLOOD_WAR: Process 1 re-originates LSA ID 220.127.116.11 type-5 adv-rtr 22.214.171.124 in area 0 %OSPF-4-FLOOD_WAR: Process 1 re-originates LSA ID 18.104.22.168 type-5 adv-rtr 188.8.131.52 in area 0 %OSPF-4-FLOOD_WAR: Process 1 re-originates LSA ID 188.8.131.52 type-5 adv-rtr 22.214.171.124 in area 0 %OSPF-4-FLOOD_WAR: Process 1 re-originates LSA ID 22.214.171.124 type-5 adv-rtr 220.127.116.11 in area 0 %OSPF-4-FLOOD_WAR: Process 1 re-originates LSA ID 220.127.116.11 type-5 adv-rtr 220.127.116.11 in area 0
Who will be the winner? Only time will tell. What sent them over the edge though? Did the diplomat in charge of DTP negotiation fail?
Be the first person to tell me why R4 and SW4 declared all out WAR on each other and win a $50 amazon gift card! Post your comments now!
Congratulations to Patrik Berglund, winner of a $50 amazon gift card!
R4 and SW4 declared war on each other because they had duplicate OSPF Router-IDs. When R4 redistributed routes into OSPF, it generated LSA Type-5 routes tagged with its own Router-ID, 188.8.131.52. Per RFC 2328, OSPFv2:
13.4. Receiving self-originated LSAs It is a common occurrence for a router to receive self- originated LSAs via the flooding procedure. A self-originated LSA is detected when either 1) the LSA's Advertising Router is equal to the router's own Router ID or 2) the LSA is a network- LSA and its Link State ID is equal to one of the router's own IP interface addresses. However, if the received self-originated LSA is newer than the last instance that the router actually originated, the router must take special action. The reception of such an LSA indicates that there are LSAs in the routing domain that were originated by the router before the last time it was restarted. In most cases, the router must then advance the LSA's LS sequence number one past the received LS sequence number, and originate a new instance of the LSA. It may be the case the router no longer wishes to originate the received LSA. Possible examples include: 1) the LSA is a summary-LSA or AS-external-LSA and the router no longer has an (advertisable) route to the destination, 2) the LSA is a network-LSA but the router is no longer Designated Router for the network or 3) the LSA is a network-LSA whose Link State ID is one of the router's own IP interface addresses but whose Advertising Router is not equal to the router's own Router ID (this latter case should be rare, and it indicates that the router's Router ID has changed since originating the LSA). In all these cases, instead of updating the LSA, the LSA should be flushed from the routing domain by incrementing the received LSA's LS age to MaxAge and reflooding (see Section 14.1).
In this case, SW4 received an external LSA with its own Router-ID (126.96.36.199) as the originator ID. Since SW4 didn't have a route to the destination that it was originating, it thought that it had previously originated the route, lost the route to the destination, and now received an old LSA which was aging out throughout the topology. In response to this SW4 incremented the age of the LSA to MaxAge, effectively poisoning it. When R4 received this back, it thought that its own LSA was somehow aged out, but since it had a route to the destination itself locally still it re-originated the LSA again. The fight between the legitimate route and the MaxAge route continues over and over, resulting in the FLOOD_WAR message on the command line.
For more detailed information and lab scenarios like this check out the new IEWB-RS Volume 1 Version 5.0!
There is an interesting article regarding CCIEs on www.pbs.org. Here is an excerpt from it:
Leading indicators are measurements that change over time and suggest future trends for important second-order results like population growth and economic development. Economists in particular are often looking for indicators that have been known historically to lead the overall economy. If unemployment goes down, for example, it is a good bet that shortly thereafter income will rise and the economy will improve. It's for this very reason, then, that economists and Wall Street fund managers are always looking for newer and better leading indicators. But such indicators needn't be limited to the economy: they can apply to technology and technical culture, too, which has its own feedback loop to economic development. My friend George Morton, who figured this all out, says that by knowing the right numbers to look at we can have a good idea what countries will be leading in technology — and presumably in economic development and power — in the years ahead. The measure George likes is the number of Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts or CCIEs.
You can read the rest of the article at:
Note: The following post is an excerpt from the full QoS section of IEWB-RS VOL1 version 5.
Peak shaping may look confusing at first sight; however, its function becomes clear once you think of oversubscription. As we discussed before, oversubscription means selling customers more bandwidth than a network can supply, hoping that not all connections would use their maximum sending rate at the same time. With oversubscription, traffic contract usually specifies three parameters: PIR, CIR and Tc – peak rate, committed rate and averaging time interval for rate measurements. The SP allows customers to send traffic at rates up to PIR, but only guarantees CIR rate in case of network congestion. Inside the network SP uses any of the max-min scheduling procedures to implement bandwidth sharing in such manner that oversubscribed traffic has lower preference than conforming traffic. Additionally, the SP generally assumes that customers respond to notifications of traffic congestion in the network (either explicit, such as FECN/BECN/TCP ECN or implicit such as packet drops in TCP) by slowing down sending rate.
Tags: adaptive, iewb, oversubscription, sample, shape-peak, shaping
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CCIE labs changing from UniversCD to Cisco Documentation
On Sept 24 2008 CCIE labs will no longer support using the UniversCD documentation for the lab exam.
All labs are migrating to Cisco Documentation only. For those scheduled to take the CCIE lab prior to Sept 24 access will still be available for UniversCD.
The Cisco Documentation pages have the same information that currently resides on UniversCD, please refer to the links on the CCIE web pages to view these pages and become familiar with the new format.
After Sept 24 2008 only the Cisco Documentation web pages will be available for CCIE labs.
So what does this mean for people taking the lab after Sept 24th? It means you will still have access to everything needed in relation to the documentation but you will need to access it using the link below:
A large portion of the OSPF section from the new IEWB-RS Volume 1 Version 5.0 has been posted on the members site. This section is still "alpha" because it's only about 1/3rd of the total content, but I wanted to get something posted due to the large number of requests from eager candidates I'm getting The sections posted so far are complete, the alpha designation just means that there is much more to come later.
Please post all questions and comments on www.IEOC.com under the CCIE R&S Lab Workbook Volume I Version 5.0 forum.
Happy Labbing!
Cisco is now soliciting beta candidates for Cisco's upcoming CCIE Wireless Written Exam. We are looking for an exclusive set of professional and expert level Wireless Networking Engineers who can dedicate 3 hours of their time to take the beta exam.
The CCIE Wireless certification, to be launched later this year, will validate that professionals have the expertise to design, manage and support mission and business critical wireless networks and the job skills and technical knowledge required of expert level network IT practitioners. This written exam is the first step in obtaining the CCIE Wireless certification. Successful candidates will have mastered broad theoretical knowledge of wireless networking and demonstrated a readiness for the CCIE Wireless lab examination. Be one of the first wireless professionals to get a peek at the new CCIE Wireless exam.
- Location: Pearson Vue Testing Centers, Worldwide
- Registration Date: October 7
- Last Test Date: November 14, 2008
- Cost: $US50
- Exam Number/Name: 351-050 CCIE Wireless Beta Written Exam
Try assessing your understanding of Cisco's CBWFQ by looking at the following example:
class-map match-all HTTP_R6 match access-group name HTTP_R6 ! policy-map CBWFQ class HTTP_R6 bandwidth remaining percent 5 ! interface Serial 0/1 bandwidth 128 clock rate 128000 service-policy output CBWFQ
and answering a question on the imaginable scenario: Two TCP flows (think of them as HTTP file transfers) are going across Serial 0/1 interface. One of the flows matches the class HTTP_R6, and another flow, marked with IP Precedence of 7 (pretty high), does not match any class. The traffic flow overwhelms the interface, so the system engages CBWFQ. Now the question is: how CBWFQ will share the interface bandwidth among the flows.
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Press Releases: January 2018
EFF and ACLU Ask Court to Allow Legal Challenge to Proceed Against Warrantless Searches of Travelers' Smartphones, Laptops
Eleven Travelers in Groundbreaking Case Face Substantial Risk of Future Unconstitutional Searches
Boston, Massachusetts—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) urged a federal judge today to reject the Department of Homeland Security's attempt to dismiss an important lawsuit challenging DHS's policy of searching and confiscating, without suspicion or warrant, travelers' electronic devices at U.S. borders.
EFF and ACLU represent 11 travelers—10 U.S. citizens and one lawful permanent resident—whose smartphones and laptops were searched without warrants at the U.S. border in a groundbreaking lawsuit filed in September. The case, Alasaad v. Nielsen, asks the court to rule that the government must have a warrant based on probable cause before conducting searches of electronic devices, which contain highly detailed personal information about people's lives. The case also argues that the government must have probable cause to confiscate a traveler's device.
The plaintiffs in the case include a military veteran, journalists, students, an artist, a NASA engineer, and a business owner. The government seeks dismissal, saying the plaintiffs don't have the right to bring the lawsuit and the Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to border searches. Both claims are wrong, the EFF and ACLU explain in a brief filed today in federal court in Boston.
First, the plaintiffs have "standing" to seek a court order to end unconstitutional border device searches because they face a substantial risk of having their devices searched again. This means they are the right parties to bring this case and should be able to proceed to the merits. Four plaintiffs already have had their devices searched multiple times.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) policy allows border agents to search and confiscate anyone's smartphone for any reason or for no reason at all. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) policy allows border device searches without a warrant or probable cause, and usually without even reasonable suspicion. Last year, CBP conducted more than 30,000 border device searches, more than triple the number just two years earlier.
"Our clients are travelers from all walks of life. The government policies that invaded their privacy in the past are enforced every day at airports and border crossings around the country," said EFF Staff Attorney Sophia Cope. "Because the plaintiffs face being searched in the future, they have the right to proceed with said Cope.
Second, the plaintiffs argue that the Fourth Amendment requires border officers to get a warrant before searching a traveler's electronic device. This follows from the Supreme Court's 2014 decision in Riley v. California requiring that police officers get a warrant before searching an arrestee's cell phone. The court explained that cell phones contain the "privacies of life"—a uniquely large and varied amount of highly sensitive information, including emails, photos, and medical records. This is equally true for international travelers, the vast majority of whom are not suspected of any crime. Warrantless border device searches also violate the First Amendment, because they chill freedom of speech and association by allowing the government to view people's contacts, communications, and reading material.
"Searches of electronic devices at the border are increasing rapidly, causing greater numbers of people to have their constitutional rights violated," said ACLU attorney Esha Bhandari. "Device searches can give border officers unfettered access to vast amounts of private information about our lives, and they are unconstitutional absent a warrant."
Below is a full list of the plaintiffs along with links to their individual stories, which are also collected here:
- Ghassan and Nadia Alasaad are a married couple who live in Massachusetts, where he is a limousine driver and she is a nursing student.
- Suhaib Allababidi, who lives in Texas, owns and operates a business that sells security technology, including to federal government clients.
- Sidd Bikkannavar is an optical engineer for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.
- Jeremy Dupin is a journalist living in Massachusetts.
- Aaron Gach is an artist living in California.
- Isma'il Kushkush is a journalist living in Virginia.
- Diane Maye is a college professor and former captain in the U. S. Air Force living in Florida.
- Zainab Merchant, from Florida, is a writer and a graduate student in international security and journalism at Harvard.
- Akram Shibly is a filmmaker living in New York.
- Matthew Wright is a computer programmer in Colorado.
For the brief:
For more EFF information on this case:
For more ACLU information on this case:
For more on privacy at the border:
EFF Asks Ninth Circuit Appeals Court To Strengthen Privacy Protections Of Smart Phones At The Border
Warrantless Border Searches of Phones, Laptops, Are Unconstitutional
San Diego, California—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to further limit the government's ability to conduct highly intrusive searches of electronic devices at the border by requiring federal agents to obtain a warrant if they want to access the contents of travelers' phones.
"The Ninth Circuit four years ago issued an important ruling requiring officials to show they have reasonable suspicion of criminal activity to forensically search digital devices. While that was an improvement over the government's prior practice of conducting suspicionless searches, the court didn't go far enough," said EFF Staff Attorney Sophia Cope. "We are now asking the Ninth Circuit to bar warrantless device searches at the border."
"Our electronic devices contain texts, emails, photos, contact lists, work documents, and other communications that reveal intimate details of our private lives. Our privacy interests in this material is tremendous. Requiring a warrant is a critical step in making sure our Fourth Amendment protections survive into the digital age," said Cope.
The Ninth Circuit is being asked to throw out evidence obtained through a warrantless forensic search of the defendant's cell phone at the U.S.-Mexico border in southern California. The case, U.S. v. Cano, is a drug prosecution and the first before the Ninth Circuit since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that because devices hold "the privacies of life," police need a warrant to search the phones of people who are arrested.
In an amicus brief filed today in U.S. v. Cano, EFF urged the court to recognize that people traveling through our international borders deserve the same privacy protections that the Supreme Court has extended to arrestees. The Ninth Circuit's rulings apply to states in the west and southwest, several of whom share borders with Mexico and Canada,
Warrantless border searches of luggage have been allowed under an exception to the Fourth Amendment for routine immigration and customs enforcement. But since digital devices provide so much more highly personal, private information than what is traditionally carried in a suitcase, agents should be required to show a judge that they have probable cause to believe that the device contains evidence of a violation of the immigration or customs laws, EFF said in the brief.
Digital device searches at the border have more than tripled since the inauguration of President Trump. This increase, along with the increasing number of people who carry these devices while traveling, has highlighted the need for stronger privacy rights while crossing the U.S. border. Last year, EFF and ACLU filed a lawsuit in Boston against the federal government on behalf of 11 travelers whose smartphones and other electronic devices were searched without a warrant at the U.S. border.
"Digital devices differ wildly from luggage and other physical items a person carries across the border," said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Adam Schwartz. "Now is the time to apply the full force of constitutional privacy protections to digital devices."
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Mobile Devices Compromised by Fake Secure Messaging Clients – Hundreds of Gigabytes of Data Stolen
San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and mobile security company Lookout have uncovered a new malware espionage campaign infecting thousands of people in more than 20 countries. Hundreds of gigabytes of data has been stolen, primarily through mobile devices compromised by fake secure messaging clients.
The trojanized apps, including Signal and WhatsApp, function like the legitimate apps and send and receive messages normally. However, the fake apps also allow the attackers to take photos, retrieve location information, capture audio, and more.
The threat, called Dark Caracal by EFF and Lookout researchers, may be a nation-state actor and appears to employ shared infrastructure which has been linked to other nation-state actors. In a new report, EFF and Lookout trace Dark Caracal to a building belonging to the Lebanese General Security Directorate in Beirut.
"People in the U.S., Canada, Germany, Lebanon, and France have been hit by Dark Caracal. Targets include military personnel, activists, journalists, and lawyers, and the types of stolen data range from call records and audio recordings to documents and photos," said EFF Director of Cybersecurity Eva Galperin. "This is a very large, global campaign, focused on mobile devices. Mobile is the future of spying, because phones are full of so much data about a person's day-to-day life."
"Dark Caracal is part of a trend we've seen mounting over the past year whereby traditional APT actors are moving toward using mobile as a primary target platform," said Mike Murray, Vice President of Security Intelligence at Lookout. "The Android threat we identified, as used by Dark Caracal, is one of the first globally active mobile APTs we have spoken publicly about."
Dark Caracal has been operating since at least 2012. However, one reason it has been hard to track is the diversity of seemingly unrelated espionage campaigns originating from the same domain names. The researchers believe that Dark Caracal is only one of a number of different global attackers using this infrastructure. Over the years, Dark Caracal's work has been repeatedly misattributed to other cybercrime groups. In fact, EFF's Operation Manul report from 2016 misidentified espionage from these servers as coming from the Indian security company Appin.
"One of the interesting things about this ongoing attack is that it doesn't require a sophisticated or expensive exploit. Instead, all Dark Caracal needed was application permissions that users themselves granted when they downloaded the apps, not realizing that they contained malware," said EFF Staff Technologist Cooper Quintin. "This research shows it's not difficult to create a strategy allowing people and governments to spy on targets around the world."
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Playboy Lawsuit Against Boing Boing Should Be Dismissed
Los Angeles, California—Playboy Entertainment's lawsuit accusing acclaimed website Boing Boing of copyright infringement—for doing nothing more than reporting on a historical collection of Playboy centerfolds—is groundless and should be thrown out, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) told a federal court today.
As EFF and co-counsel Durie Tangri LLP explain in a request to dismiss the lawsuit filed on behalf of Boing Boing owner Happy Mutants LLC, Playboy's copyright claim seeks to punish Boing Boing for commenting on and linking to an archive of Playboy "playmate" centerfold images that a third party posted. The blog contained links to an imgur.com page and YouTube video—neither of which were created by Boing Boing. But courts have long recognized that simply linking to content on the web isn't unlawful.
"Boing Boing didn't upload, publish, host, or store any images that Playboy owns, didn't control the images, and didn't contribute to the infringement of any Playboy copyrights," said EFF Legal Director Corynne McSherry. "It's frankly mystifying that an entertainment company that has often fought to defend free speech rights is trying to punish Boing Boing for doing what has made it a leading online source of news and commentary: unique and groundbreaking reporting on art, science, and popular culture."
"Boing Boing's reporting and commenting on the Playboy photos is protected by copyright's fair use doctrine," said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Daniel Nazer. "We're asking the court to dismiss this deeply flawed lawsuit. Journalists, scientists, researchers, and everyday people on the web have the right to link to material, even copyrighted material, without having to worry about getting sued."
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TOKYO/BEIJING (Reuters) - Japan risks losing a global PR battle with China after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to a controversial shrine for war dead and comments by other prominent figures on the wartime past helped Beijing try to paint Tokyo as the villain of Asia.
Sino-Japanese ties have long been plagued by territorial rows, regional rivalry and disputes stemming from China's bitter memories of Japan's occupation of parts of the country before and during World War Two. Relations chilled markedly after a feud over disputed East China Sea isles flared in 2012.
Beijing, however, has stepped up its campaign to sway international public opinion since Abe's December 26 visit to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine. The shrine is seen by critics as a symbol of Japan's past militarism because it honors leaders convicted as war criminals with millions of war dead.
That strategy has helped China shift some of the debate away from its growing military assertiveness in Asia, including double digit defense spending increases and the recent creation of an air defense identification zone in the East China Sea that was condemned by Tokyo and Washington, experts said.
"Right now, this is a real war," said Shin Tanaka, president of the FleishmanHillard Japan Group in Tokyo, a communications consultancy.
"Japan and China are using missiles called 'messages' and the reality is that a lot of damage is already happening in both countries," he added, warning of a mutual backlash of nationalist emotions and potential harm to business ties.
Abe has repeatedly said he did not visit the shrine to honor war criminals but to pay his respects to those who died for their country and pledge Japan would never again go to war.
Getting that message across is not easy, communications and political experts said. Abe's Yasukuni visit "gave China the opportunity ... to attack Japan and send the message that China is the good guy and Japan is the bad guy," Tanaka said.
Some Japanese diplomats and officials dismissed any suggestion they were worried, saying Tokyo's rebuttals and the country's post-war record of peace would win the day.
"Their Goebbelsian PR binge - repeat it 100 times then it becomes true, ungrounded or not - shows all the symptoms of a Leninist regime still remaining in the 21st century," Tomohiko Taniguchi, a councillor in the cabinet secretariat of the prime minister's office, said in an email.
He was referring to Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler's minister of propaganda from 1933-1945.
"Yes we feel annoyed, but the next moment we relax for we have nothing to be ashamed of."
Still, experts said Abe's shrine visit had made it easier for Beijing to try to link Abe's plans to bolster the military and loosen limits on the pacifist constitution to Japan's militarist past.
"The most fundamental thing they say is to assert that Japan is going on a path of militarism a la the 1930s. That's just nonsense," said Daniel Sneider, associate director for research at Stanford University's Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. "But the problem is the Chinese are able to blur a lot of this stuff because of what Abe did."
Recent remarks about the wartime past by the chairman of NHK public TV and members of its board of governors have added grist to China's PR mill.
Among those remarks were comments by new NHK Chairman Katsuto Momii, who told a news conference last month that "comfort women" - a euphemism for women forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels - had counterparts in every country at war at that time. He later apologized.
NHK's chief is selected by a board of governors that includes four Abe appointees.
Since the start of the year, Chinese ambassadors and other officials have targeted Japan 69 times in media around the world, Japan's Foreign Ministry said. The campaign includes interviews, written commentaries and news conferences.
As of Monday, Japan had issued rebuttals in 67 cases with the other two under review, Foreign Ministry spokesman Masaru Sato said.
Asked if China had won over international opinion, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said countries such as South Korea - where memories of Japan's 1910-1945 colonization run deep - had also criticized Tokyo.
"The mistaken ways of the Japanese leader have incurred the strong opposition of the international community," Hua told reporters. "China is willing to work with other victims of the war and the international community to uphold historical justice."
The verbal jousting has spanned the globe from capitals such as London and Washington to remote Fiji and South Sudan.
The best known exchanges are the "Voldemort attacks" in which China's ambassador to Britain, Liu Xiaoming, last month compared Japan to the villain in the Harry Potter children's book series. In reply, Japan's envoy, Keiichi Hayashi, said China risked becoming "Asia's Voldemort".
"We try to explain that Japan faces its history squarely and has expressed remorse ... (and that) Japan will continue to pursue the path of a peace-loving country," Sato said.
"Sometimes they try to link the visit to the shrine to security policy. That is a totally unrelated matter."
Still, some in Japan fear that China's PR blitz is having an impact on world opinion.
"A lie is repeated so that people are brainwashed and start to believe it," Akira Sato, head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's panel on defense policy told Reuters.
Echoed a Western diplomat in Beijing: "China is being successful at getting its message across while Japan keeps saying stupid things like questioning the existence of comfort women. I think (China) has changed opinions."
Tokyo's mostly reactive approach, some PR experts said, was not enough to sway international public opinion, a worry some Japanese diplomats share privately.
"Japan is very worried that China is winning this propaganda war," said an Asian diplomat based in Beijing. "Their diplomats have been asking how they can better put their side of the story and win people over in the West."
That could be tough if Abe declines to say whether he will visit Yasukuni again or other prominent Japanese figures make controversial comments on wartime history, experts said.
Other matters such as planned changes to Japanese textbooks to promote patriotism could add fuel to the fire.
"Even if he doesn't go to Yasukuni again, there are plenty of issues on their (the Japanese government's) agenda," Sneider said.
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Kick the footbag on the inside of your foot to the outside of your foot, where you kick it to the inside of your foot again and this all happens without your foot touching the ground.
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You do an inside foot stall and then bring the footbag behind you. Then you pop it up and catch it in an outside foot stall with the same foot still behind your back. Then bring it around.
3. Outside Foot Stall
Kick the footbag with the inside of your foot to the outside of your foot (either leg). Then, instead of kicking it with the outside of your foot, you instead gently lower your foot and catch the footbag on the outside of your foot in a stall.
4. Side Spin
Throw the hack up and stall on the inside of your foot (either one). Then wrap your lifted foot around the planted one, flicking the hack up in front of you. Slowly turn and bounce the hack off the outside of your foot, sending it straight up above your head. While the hack is on its way up, spin in a complete circle stalling the hack on either toe.
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You kick the footbag a good ways into the air and a little away from you. You then chase a little after it and run and jump into a kick to send it flying once more. While it is on a descent, you stab with your foot out (right or left, it makes no difference) and stall it on the outside of said foot. When satisfied with the stall, pop it up and kick it towards another person using the top of your foot. It helps to do this trick if you are flexible.
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Start kicking the footbag normally, then kick it about eye level. Then cross one leg over so that the calf is touching the knee, stalling the footbag in-between your thighs. Make sure that you close your legs tight enough so that the footbag will not slip out and that your stabilizing leg is bent at the knee a little for balance. Then release the footbag, passing it in mid-air with your stabilizing foot. Then land on the foot you released the footbag with.
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Have four footbags positioned: 1 in a toe stall position, 1 in a mouth stall, and one in the crook of each elbow. Simultaneously pop both elbows, flick the footbag off your toe, and flick the footbag in your mouth all onto your back. This trick is nearly impossible so don't get mad if you are unable to do it. I've tried it millions of times and only done it completely correct twice! This trick can be turned into a game of who can catch the most footbags on their back in a predetermined amount of tries chosen by the circle.
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Start this trick with an outside stall then bend your knee to bring your foot closer. Then whip your leg around so that the footbag pops over one of your shoulders. You have to be pretty flexible to make this one work well and it works on the same principle as the pendulum.
10. Side Slash
You begin by just kicking the footbag on the inside of either foot but on the next kick you put your other foot (that wasn't used) behind the one you used and kick it with the bottom of your shoe. Then kick it again with the outside of your foot and once again with the bottom of your shoe.
11. Taxi
First drop the footbag to an inside stall, then transfer it to a toe stall. Then transfer it to an outside stall. Then transfer it to a suicide. A Suicide is a stall on the bottom of your foot.
12. Ninety Degree Toe Stall
You can start off with any stall and flick it up out in front of you. Catch it on the top like a toe stall but with your foot turned 90 degrees.
Jonathan M. submitted four tricks and won a free Stalling Star.
13. In and Out
Start with the inside of your foot, an inside foot stall. Toss the footbag in the air with the inside foot. Then, catch the footbag with the outside of your other foot. Then toss the footbag from the outside of that foot back to the inside of your other foot...and repeat!!
14. The Fakie
To do this move, start by kicking the footbag to about your height. When it reaches its peak, kick out your leg, like you are going to kick the footbag with an ouside kick, but quickly bring your leg back in and kick the footbag back up with an inside kick. Finish it up with a Flying Clipper for an added touch.
15. The Eclipse
First, bring your right foot up as if you were about to do a right inside stall. The moment the footbag touches your foot, hop off of your left foot, keeping your right foot up with the footbag stalled on it. Jump over your right foot. The second before your left foot touches the ground, flip up your right foot and release the footbag. All you have to do now is to keep kicking or catch it (if you really want to). Small tip: Keep your right foot low as you hop over it, this helps a lot.
16. SwitchBlade
Kick around a couple times normally...then set yourself up to where you kick it almost straight up and down...as it's up in the air, take your left or right leg and put it across your other leg so that your calf is resting on top of your knee. Try to make the footbag land in the pocket you have made with your pant legs. After that, stall it there for however long you need to, then in one swift motion, drop your left leg while at the same moment bringing up the other foot to hit the footbag with the side of your shoe.
17. Jig
For this trick simply hit the footbag with the inside of your foot and then the inside of the other foot. Do this many times and keep the footbag low. If you keep it low there should be very little time between kicks and it looks like a little jig/dance when you do it many times consecutively.
18. Runner
Hit the footbag with the back of your foot (heel) and then the other heel. do this many times. This one is kinda like the jig, just on your heels. If you keep it sort of low so that your can do them consecutively, you look like you are running in place. You can also kick it with the bottoms of your feet if that is easier for you.
Scott B submitted 3 tricks and won a Stalling Star.
19. The Hungry Alligator
First of all you need to throw the footbag to yourself while playing in a group, getting it to come to you. You can kick it in any way but it is important that you bring the footbag up to your elbow and stall it there and make it roll down your forearm and onto your other elbow. Using the other foot, kick it again as it falls off the elbow. This trick is very hard but it is possible to do it.
20. Disapearer
To do this you need to be wearing a sweatshirt with a pocket on the front of it. You start by dropping the footbag down to a toe stall. Then you flick it up to yourself and start kicking. Then while you are kicking , you grab the opening of the sweatshirt pocket and get the footbag to land in it. As soon as it goes in, you need to grab the top of the pocket and pull up really fast and the footbag will come out into the air and you can continue to kick or stall it any way you want to.
21. Hard Three Combo Stall
Toe stall to an outside stall to a sole of the foot stall with the same foot.
22. Conveyer Belt (and Candy Factory)
Start with the footbag in your hand and toss it to your dominant side. Outside kick it towards the center of your body, then inside kick it straight up and when it falls, inside kick it with the other foot on the other side of your body and when it falls again kick it with the inside of that foot. You can end in a Rainbow for a "Candy Factory" or just keep on kicking for the "Conveyer Belt".
23. Valley Drop
Catch the bag between your legs. The only way to get out of it is to let the bag drop by opening your legs a little and then catch it again inbetween your feet. Then either jump and let it go behind or in front of you and continue kicking.
24. Inside Cloud Kick
Like an Outside Kick but use your calf instead of your foot.
25. Outside Cloud Kick
Like an Outside Kick but use your calf.
26. Figure Eight
Do an inside stall on your left foot. Bring it around behind your right leg and kick it up catching it in an inside stall on your right foot. Bring that behind your left leg and kick it up cathcing it on your left foot. You can keep this going for awhile.
27. Dolphin
First get the footbag to go up as straight as you can in front of you. Then jump up with both feet together while keeping the legs straight. Both your legs should swing forward slightly and there should be some bending at the hips. Depending on how the bag is positioned, both your feet will hit it or only one of them will but, if you make sure not to bend sideways at all, this will not be a big deal and the footbag will probably go back stright up.
28. Frog
Kick the footbag straight up. Then jump up with both feet together and bend your knees up and outward while the bag hits one or both of your feet. Your feet will probably turn so that the soles are together and this insides are facing up. The bag should end up hitting the inside(s) of the foot.
29. Greater Acceleration
From any combination of tricks, pop the bag up and stall it behind you on the back side of your heel. From there, pop it straight up a few inches and swing the same foot above the bag just as it reaches its peak. From there, guide the bag curving dowarward and forward with an ice cream scoop motion all the while keeping the bag in the same position as a toe stall. Once the bag is in front of you, pop it straight up.
30. Heeltap-Toetap
When going for a low toetap, if you use a little extra force as you strike your heel on the pavement at the same time your toe connects with the bag, you can send it flying! When your heel connects, try to have your foot implanted firmly at a 30 to 45 degree angle or it will fly at you or go nowhere. It takes lots of practice and perfect timing to control this move.
31. Topside Switchstall
As you bring down a topside foot stall with your foot on the ground, tilt the foot in slightly and slowly but steadily bring the foot to meet the other foot. As the feet touch each other the bag will roll onto the other foot! You must be very gentle with this move or the bag will roll over the other foot. Also, try twisting the foot a little in the opposite direction before impact for a more controlled roll.
32. Vice Pinch
When someone kicks the footbag to you coming close to your midsection on your dominant side, quickly lifet your domiant leg while you lean forward, pinching the bag close to where you leg meets the hip. Now, crouch over and using the support of both legs hold the bag there. Then, with a quick, upward motion, raise your body back to the normal upright position while raising your dominant leg as you rise up and the bag will roll up your leg and straight up off your knee. Then go back into normal paly. Here is an illustration:
Colin R. submitted this trick and the drawing and won a free Stalling Star.
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With an election in October and their party down in the polls, it's easy to understand why Ontario Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty and his finance minister, Dwight Duncan, would want to get in front of the media as often as possible to defend their government's record. It would be helpful for Ontario's Liberals, however, if the Premier and Mr. Duncan could better co-ordinate their messages, so they could avoid this week's embarrassing gaffe, where both men argued opposite sides of the same issue within a 24-hour period.
On Wednesday, Mr. Duncan told reporters that
"Equalization has nothing to do with strength of the economy," Mr. Duncan said. "Equalization has everything to do with a formula that has been gerrymandered." He called the formula that sees Ontario receive these payments, soon to exceed a total $3.5-billion since the transfers began, "absolutely crazy."
Mr. Duncan has a fair point. The
National Posteditorial board has long been critical of the equalization program, and would be pleased to see all transfer payments stopped, or at least cut back to the greatest extent possible. The great disparities in provincial per-capita income that led to the creation of the program in 1957 have been largely addressed; today, only Prince Edward Island's 141,000 residents lag far behind the national average.
Equalization simply isn't needed, though its protection in the Constitution would admittedly make it hard to be rid of entirely. It should at least be minimized and heavily reformed: The decision to only partially count resource revenues as part of the calculations that determine which provinces qualify for transfers was absurd, especially given Canada's emerging status as a global energy superpower, the advantages of which are reaped most directly by oil-producing provinces such as Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland.
Unfortunately for Mr. Duncan, the Ontario Liberals' left-hand did not know what its right-hand was doing. Just the day before Mr. Duncan tore into the "absolutely crazy" equalization formula that allows Ontario to qualify for transfer payments from other provinces, Premier McGuinty was in Vancouver ahead of the 2011 Council of Federation meetings with his provincial and federal counterparts. Speaking with reporters, Mr. McGuinty made clear that he would resist any attempt to change the equalization system in such a way that would
reduce how much Ontario receivesin transfers. Ontario would "assert itself," he said, to oppose any change to the system that would see Ontario receive any less than it already is. (Quite an evolution for a man who called for the
It is difficult to reconcile these two positions. If the government of Ontario believes that the equalization formula is crazy, intellectually dishonest, a gerrymandered mess — why is the Premier set to assert himself to preserve the very same status quo that Finance Minister Duncan finds so objectionable?
The answer is obvious, of course: They desperately need the cash. Over the three years Ontario has been receiving equalization, it racked up deficits of $19.3-billion in 2009-10, $16.7-billion for 2010-11, and a further $16.3-billion is projected for this year. That's an extra $52-billion in debt over three years. The Liberals' only plan to getting Ontario back to black are a few tiny trims, hoping the economy grows and imposing restraint on government spending — spending they themselves have driven up approximately 70% since taking office. Clearly, this is not a government that can afford to turn down any offering. Even one ripped from the pockets of other Canadians through the complex mechanisms of a formula that even Mr. Duncan, the man cashing the cheques, agrees is broken.
If the Ontario Liberal party truly had the courage of Dwight Duncan's anti-equalization convictions, it would refuse to accept the transfer payments, adding moral weight to their claims that the system is broken and needs fixing. But it clearly does not, or, at least not in sufficient quantity to resist the easy money their spend-happy government craves. That being the case, they should at least have the decency to admit that Ontario needs the help and accept it gratefully, rather than tear into the very same program that Premier Dalton McGuinty simultaneously insists he'll fight tooth and nail for. The entire affair reeks of desperation and hypocrisy, and Ontario voters should consider that carefully when they head to the polls in less than three months' time.
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Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
Notice of availability of the Draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan and Environmental Assessment.
The Fish and Wildlife Service announces that the Draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan and Environmental Assessment (Draft CCP/EA) for Logan Cave National Wildlife Refuge in Benton County, Arkansas, is available for review and comment. This document was prepared pursuant to the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966, as amended by the National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act of 1997, and the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. The Draft CCP/EA describes the Service's proposal for management of the refuge for 15 years.Start Printed Page 4616
Written comments must be received at the address in the ADDRESSES section no later than February 25, 2008.
To provide written comments or to obtain a copy of the Draft CCP/EA, please write to: Ms. Tina Chouinard, Refuge Planner, Hatchie National Wildlife Refuge, 6772 Highway 76 South, Stanton, TN 38069. The Draft CCP/EA is available on compact diskette or hard copy. It also may be accessed and downloaded from the Service's Internet site: http://southeast.fws.gov/planning.Start Further Info
Tina Chouinard; Telephone: 318/305-0643.End Further Info End Preamble Start Supplemental Information
Public Availability of Comments: Before including your address, phone number, e-mail address, or other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment, including your personal identifying information, may be made publicly available at any time. While you can ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.
Background: Logan Cave National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1989 under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. This 123-acre Ozark Mountain refuge, which includes a limestone-solution cave, is located 20 miles west of Fayetteville, Arkansas, and approximately 2 miles north of U.S. Highway 412. The ecology of Logan Cave has been described as the highest quality cave habitat in the entire Ozark region. A spring-fed stream, with an average water flow of 5 million gallons/day, extends the entire length of the cave. The primary objectives of the refuge are to properly administer, conserve, and develop the tract for protection of a unique cave ecosystem that provides essential habitat for the endangered gray bat, the endangered Ozark cave crayfish, the threatened Ozark cavefish, and other significant cave-dwelling wildlife species.
The Service developed three alternatives for managing the refuge and chose Alternative 3 as the proposed alternative.
Under Alternative 1, no refuge management or resource protection would occur. Fish and wildlife populations would not be monitored, habitats would not be managed or monitored, no land protection would occur, and no law enforcement activities would be performed. The Service would probably enter into management agreements with the Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission and/or The Nature Conservancy.
Under Alternative 2, there would be no change from current management of this un-staffed refuge. Under this alternative, 123 acres of refuge lands would be protected and maintained for resident wildlife, migratory non-game birds, and threatened and endangered species. Refuge management programs would continue to be developed and implemented with little baseline biological information. All refuge management activities would be directed toward achieving the refuge's primary purposes, which are to properly administer, conserve, and develop the 123-acre-area for protection of a unique cave ecosystem that provides essential habitat for the endangered gray bat, endangered cave crayfish, the threatened Ozark cavefish, as well as other significant cave-dwelling wildlife species. Active habitat and wildlife management would continue to be limited to protection of the cave entrances and limited access to surface and subsurface habitats. Little to no environmental education and wildlife interpretation would occur. No improvements would be made to the exterior for wildlife observation or wildlife photography. Under this alternative, the refuge would not seek out partnerships with adjacent landowners or with other Federal and State agencies to contribute to the overall natural resource conservation effort in the area.
Under Alternative 3, the proposed alternative, all refuge management actions would be directed toward achieving the refuge's primary purposes, which are to properly administer, conserve, and develop the 123-acre-area for protection of a unique cave ecosystem that provides essential habitat for the endangered gray bat, the endangered cave crayfish, the threatened Ozark cavefish, and other significant cave-dwelling wildlife species, while contributing to other national, regional and State goals to protect and restore karst habitats and species. Wildlife and plant censuses and inventory activities would be initiated and maintained to obtain the biological information needed to continue current refuge management programs and implement crucial management programs on and off the refuge. Active habitat management would be implemented to maintain and enhance water quality and quantity within the cave system, the recharge zone (groundwater recharge areas), and waterways within the bat foraging areas through best management practices, easements, and partnerships with private landowners and other Federal and State agencies. Continuous groundwater quality monitoring is crucial to the existence of the aquatic species utilizing the cave stream and groundwater corridors.
Wildlife-dependent recreation activities, such as wildlife observation, wildlife photography, and environmental education and interpretation, would be provided. Utilizing various partners, the refuge would develop a small environmental education program, focusing on karst environments. The refuge would develop a community-based volunteer program by establishing a Cave Steward program. Volunteers would be educated on management issues and utilized to help complete wildlife and plant surveys, maintenance projects, and public recreation and education programs.Start Signature
Dated: August 16, 2007.
Cynthia K. Dohner,
Acting Regional Director.
[FR Doc. E8-1279 Filed 1-24-08; 8:45 am]