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Two users in the BlackBerry developer support forums have written up a nice tutorial on adding NFC to a BlackBerry 10 app. Here's the tutorial, which can alternatively be found here:
This article is part of a series intended to help developers wishing to exploit NFC in their BlackBerry® 10 applications. Readers of this article should have some pre-existing knowledge of the fundamental architecture of NFC systems and be familiar with C/C++, Qt® and Cascades™. This article builds on the "NFC Tool" application that we've been evolving as a sample application and you are expected to have read the earlier articles on NFC Tool so that the context of this article can be fully appreciated.
This article will explain how to use the BlackBerry 10 C++ native API to develop software, which can interact with an applet running in the Secure Element (SE) of the UICC in a BlackBerry 10 handset. We've released version 4.0 of NFC Tool in full in our GitHub® repository, details of which can be found at the end of this article.
In terms of the standard NFC "modes of operation", this article is concerned with Card Emulation Mode.
You may find the article entitled "NFC Card Emulation Primer", which was written for BlackBerry® 7 a useful reference since it covers generally applicable concepts as well as BlackBerry 7 Java APIs for card emulation.
See http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/Java-Develo
The Authors
This article was co-authored by Martin Woolley and John Murray both of whom work in the RIM® Developer Relations team. Both Martin and John specialize in NFC applications development (amongst other things).
About Secure Elements, APDUs and the UICC
So, what do we mean by this heading? If you haven't come across these concepts before then, before diving into the details of the application itself, we need to explain some of the terminology. Let's use a diagram of the overall setup of this sample application to establish this context.
Figure 1 shows the main components. There are three physical pieces:
• A BlackBerry 10 device containing a UICC with a Secure Element (SE)
• An NFC reader
• A PC to which the NFC reader is attached via USB and which is capable of running applications that can communicate with the reader and by extension BlackBerry 10 handset.
Figure 1 Relationship of all the components in this example
There are two use cases that we're going to cover in this article which are highlighted in the diagram:
1. Communicate with an Applet in the Secure Element
2. Detect an NFC Transaction Event
Let's look at these in turn.
Use Case 1: Communicate with an Applet in the Secure Element
NFC Tool has acquired a new function on its main menu screen to support this use case as shown in Figure 2. This option will allow us to send an Application Protocol Data Unit (APDU) to an applet that exists in the Secure Element in the UICC.
Figure 2 NFC Tool's home screen
On selecting this option the application flow allows you to specify a number of parameters for the APDU that will be sent to the chosen applet in the SE (more on this later); and to review the response returned from the applet on the application event log screen.
Figure 3 NFC Tool V4 – Issue an APDU to UICC: user interface overview
It's as simple as that!
Use Case 2: Detect an NFC Transaction Event
In this case an external application on a PC is used to communicate with an applet in the Secure Element of the UICC. In a real-life example this would correspond to touching the handset to an external reader to perform, say, a payment operation in Card Emulation mode. The application in the PC communicates directly with the applet in the UICC's SE with no involvement of any application on the BlackBerry 10 handset itself.
In practical terms the setup looks something like the image in Figure 4 below.
Figure 4 — Typical setup for the second use-case
However, the completion of this transaction may be of interest to an application in the handset and it's possible to have the applet in the SE notify the handset that a transaction has occurred so that it may take some other action of its own.
Figure 5 NFC Tool V4 – NFC Transaction Event: user interface overview
In the case of NFC Tool all we do is to display a dialog box showing the details of the event that has been notified by the SE as shown in Figure 4.
A Closer look at the Secure Element itself
A Secure Element is basically a secure container within which applications called applets can be run. Many applets can be installed in an SE and they are uniquely identified by an Application Identifier (AID) which is typically a long hexadecimal number. Typical examples of AIDs might be:
- A000000018308005006563686F00 – this is the AID of a simple applet in the particular UICC that NFC Tool was developed against that simply echoes the contents of an APDU sent to it back to the initiator.
- 6E6663746573743031 – this is the AID of a simple applet in the particular UICC that NFC Tool was developed against that will generate an EVT_TRANSACTION HCI event ( the proper term for the blue dashed line in Figure 1)
NOTE: It's important to recognise that the behaviour of NFC Tool in these two use cases depends on having a UICC in the handset with an SE that contains two applets with the above AIDs that behave in the way described. How applets are written and installed in an SE like this is out of scope of this article. You may have access to UICCs that contain applets that behave in a similar way that you may be able to use but you would need to ensure that the AIDs of these applets are used in NFC Tool rather than the ones above.
If you examine the screenshot shown below in Figure 5 you'll see that there are a number of fields that should have values. All the fields have default values but you should understand the meaning of these fields. Let's look at them in turn.
Figure 6 Details of the APDU Screen
AID – this identifies the AID of the applet in the UICC's SE to which we wish to send a command. The default value is that of the applet that will simply echo the command back to us as mentioned above.
NOTE: Unless you have access to this precise applet/AID on your own UICC you will have to replace that with the AID of an applet to which you have access.
CLA (Class) – this contains various flags that control the interpretation of the subsequent instruction (INS) itself. For example, it can identify the INS as a proprietary one rather than one of the standard ones defined in the ISO 7816-4 specification.
INS (Instruction) – this contains the specific operation that is to be performed by the card. Examples might be "READ", "SELECT", etc. In this case, by default, NFC Tool uses instruction 0x41 and this will be interpreted by the applet we're using as a directive to echo the command back as a response.
Parameters P1 and P2 – these would carry any additional qualification information specific to the instruction (INS). In this example they are not used by the applet we're using and they have been set to arbitrary values of 0x11 and 0x22 respectively.
Lc (Command Length) – if the command carries optional data L(c) would indicate the length if the data. L(c) may be absent if there is no data to be carried by the command. In this example there is no command data and this parameter is omitted.
Command data – if the command carries optional additional data they would be specified here. The default is to specific no additional data.
Le (Length expected) – if present this identifies the upper bound on the length of the expected response. In this example it's been omitted.
You really need to read the ISO 7816-4 specification if you want to understand how to encode all the permutations of length and data fields.
Let's look at response that may be returned from the applet. A response is really very simple. It consists of:
An optional Response Data field — this represents any data that the command expects to be returned.
Two Status Word (SW1 and SW2) fields – these are always present and reflect information that indicates the success or failure of the original command. The standard identifies the particular (SW1, SW2) response of (0x90, 0x00) as indicating SUCCESS.
If all went well then the response that might be seen in the application event log could look something like that shown in Figure 6. The main point to note is that this applet has responded successfully (the last two bytes in the response of "81411122222009000" are 0x9000 which indicates success) and the response payload contains some of the content of the original command since this is what our test "echo" applet does.
Figure 7 Successful Response to a command sent to the SE
On the other hand you might see the response shown in Figure 7. This means that there was no UICC present in the handset yet you tried to issue an APDU command to it; or that the SIM that you placed in the handset had no Secure Element inside it.
Figure 8 Missing UICC or no SE response
Right, that's enough of the background and a description of the technology used by these use cases. Let's see how this was all actually coded.
We're interested in the core aspects of how to communicate with an applet in the SE and how to receive transaction events so we'll not dwell on any of the UI aspects of the application or how it's organised since we've covered this in previous articles and the pattern used in NFC Tool is well understood.
Implementation Details
In this section, we'll review the changes that were made to NFC Tool to incorporate the features described in this article.
Implementation Details – Communicating with an Applet in the SE
Let's look at the signature of the routine that is called when the user requests to "Issue the APDU" from the application APDU screen. "doIso7816Test()" is implemented as a Qt SLOT like the other similar routines within NfcWorker. The arguments are all derived from the data provided by the user on the screen.
void NfcWorker::doIso7816Test(const QVariant &aid, const QVariant &hex_cla, const QVariant &hex_ins, const QVariant &hexp1p2, const QVariant &hex_lc, const QVariant,&hex_command, const QVariant &hex_le) { …
Following the same pattern for NFC Tool all messages are written to the application event log using the "message()" signal. We'll skip over most such messages in the code below for the sake of clarity unless it's important to illustrate a point or handle a specific error condition.
Being QVariants we need to convert them to strings and build up the request APDU ("apdu") as a string of hex characters in the first instance.
… emit message(QString("ISO7816-4 test starts")); QString _aid = aid.toString(); QString _hex_cla = hex_cla.toString(); QString _hex_ins = hex_ins.toString(); QString _hex_p1p2 = hexp1p2.toString(); QString _hex_lc = hex_lc.toString(); QString _hex_command = hex_command.toString(); QString _hex_le = hex_le.toString(); QString apdu = _hex_cla; apdu.append(_hex_ins); apdu.append(_hex_p1p2); apdu.append(_hex_lc); apdu.append(_hex_command); apdu.append(_hex_le); …
Now, we need to understand something about how Secure Elements in a device are addressed.
uiccSeReaderID – this is a unique handle to the "reader" that represents a Secure Element on the UICC. In principle there can be multiple SEs on a device and each is identified by its reader Id.
hSESession – Once you've located the reader representing the SE that you're interested in you open a session to that SE.
seChannel – Once you've obtained a session with the SE you then open a logical channel to the applet on the SE that you're interested in communicating with.
… // variables for handles uint32_t hSESession; uint32_t seChannel; uint32_t uiccSeReaderID; …
We also need some variables to support the mechanics of locating readers, opening sessions and logical channels. You'll see these used in the code that follows.
… // variables for retrieving the Readers, holders of possible SEs nfc_result_t rc; uint32_t numberOfReaders = 0; uint32_t *phReaders = NULL; static int DEF_LEN = 10; char readerName[DEF_LEN]; uint32_t len = 10; //variables for opening and exchanging data fcp_type_t fcpResponseType; int32_t openResponseLen; uint32_t exchangeResponseLen; uint32_t nReceiveAPDUBufferSize; uint8_t* result; …
The APIs used for SE / applet interaction mostly use byte arrays, "char *", or "uint8_t *" types when passing data. Since the AID and APDU are currently in QString form they need to be converted to "uint_t *". We then have the AID and the APDU in a form that can be used directly with the NFS SE APIs.
… QByteArray hex_encoded = QByteArray(aid.toByteArray()); int aid_size = _aid.length() / 2; uint8_t the_aid[aid_size]; int apdu_size = apdu.length() / 2; uint8_t the_apdu[apdu_size]; Utilities::hexToIntArray(_aid,the_aid); Utilities::hexToIntArray(apdu,the_apdu); …
The next thing we do is locate the reader that represents the UICC Secure Element. It's necessary to iterate through all the available readers in the system to locate the one that we're after. It's identified by a reader name of "SIM". The CHECK() macro defined in the project is just a convenience that checks return codes.
Notice the use of "malloc()" for dynamic space for the readers table and the corresponding "free()" at the end to balance the books!
The net result of this section is that we have identified the UICC reader and obtained its ID in "uiccSeReaderID".
… uint32_t i; CHECK(nfc_se_service_get_num_readers(&numberOfRead
Having located the UICC SE and obtained its ID we open a session to it which we can hold on to for the lifetime of the application should we want to open further connections to other applets.
It's worth noticing the check that is performed here. Even though we may have successfully located the reader representing the UICC there may not actually be a SIM/UICC in it. Or, there may be a SIM but it may be a one that doesn't have a Secure Element inside it! Yes, there are indeed such SIMs and it's worth making this test.
… rc = nfc_se_reader_open_session( uiccSeReaderID, &hSESession ); if (rc != NFC_RESULT_SUCCESS) { emit message(QString("ERROR opening session:%1").arg(rc)); if (rc == NFC_RESULT_SE_NOT_PRESENT) { emit message(QString( "……or SIM does not include secure element")); emit message(QString("No SIM/UICC present")); } return; } …
Now that we've successfully opened a session to the UICC reader the next step is to use that session to open a logical channel to the applet in the Secure Element in the UICC with which we wish to communicate. The applet is identified by its AID and in return we'll obtain a logical channel handle in "seChannel".
… fcpResponseType = OPEN_NO_FCP_INFO; openResponseLen = 0; rc = nfc_se_session_open_logical_channel(hSESession, the_aid, 12, fcpResponseType, &seChannel, &openResponseLen); if (rc != NFC_RESULT_SUCCESS) { emit message(QString("ERROR opening logical channel:%1").arg(rc)); return; } …
Finally we've got to the point where it's possible to issue an APDU to the applet in the Secure Element in the UICC. The APDU has already been constructed and it's only necessary to use the logical channel handle to do this.
The APDU is transmitted to the applet in the SE using "nfc_se_channel_transmit_apdu()". The return code from this tells us whether the operation was successful or not. If it was successful we want to check what the response from the applet itself was.
As a side effect "nfc_se_channel_transmit_apdu()" lets us know what the length of the response is from the applet – it's stored in "exchangeResponseLen" and the next task is to retrieve that information. Knowing the length we allocate ("malloc()") a buffer to contain the response: "result".
Recall that an APDU response will have the two status word bytes (SW1, SW2) representing the status of the request as set by the applet. If the buffer we've been returned is of length less that 2 then there is something wrong and it's not possible to interpret the status.
Otherwise the response data is copied into the buffer we've just allocated using "nfc_se_channel_get_transmit_data()" and in this case the response is just logged in the application's event log. In either case we need to free() the malloc()'d buffer to keep the books balanced.
… rc = nfc_se_channel_transmit_apdu( seChannel, the_apdu, apdu_size, &exchangeResponseLen ); if (rc != NFC_RESULT_SUCCESS) { emit message(QString("ERROR transmitting APDU:%1").arg(rc)); } result = (uint8_t*) malloc(sizeof(uint8_t) * exchangeResponseLen); nReceiveAPDUBufferSize = exchangeResponseLen; if (exchangeResponseLen >= 2) { CHECK(nfc_se_channel_get_transmit_data(seChannel, &result[0], &nReceiveAPDUBufferSize)); emit message( QString("got response APDU. Len=%1") .arg(nReceiveAPDUBufferSize)); QByteArray responseData = ByteArray::fromRawData(reinterpret_cast<const char *>(result), nReceiveAPDUBufferSize); QString responseAsHex = QString::fromAscii(responseData.toHex()); emit message(QString("APDU response: %1").arg(responseAsHex)); } free(result); …
Finally we tidy up and close the logical channel to the applet.
… if (NFC_RESULT_SUCCESS != nfc_se_channel_close_channel(seChannel)) { emit message(QString("nfc_se_channel_close_channel failed")); } }
Implementation Details – Registering to Receive Transaction Notification Events
Once more the Invocation Framework comes to our aid (pun intended!) here. We've already seen how we can register interest in the presentation of NFC NDEF Tags of different flavours. Figure 9 shows how to register to receive transaction notification events.
… <invoke-target id="com.example.NfcTool.tl"> <entry-point>1</entry-point> <type>APPLICATION</type> <filter> <action>bb.action.NOTIFY</action> <mime-type>application/vnd.bb.nfc_transaction</mim
Figure 9 Registering for Transaction Notification
Let's look at this in a bit more detail.
1. Every "<invoke-target …>" stanza needs to be identified uniquely, so, we choose to continue to use the reverse DNS domain name pattern and extend it with a sub-domain "com.example.NfcTool.t1".
2. Transaction notifications are always invoked using an action of "bb.action.NOTIFY" and a MIME type of "application/vnd.bb.nfc_transaction".
- The "uris" property further qualifies the registration by specifying the URI or URIs of the events we're interesting in receiving; specifically this is where we identify the AID, or AIDs, of the applets we're interested in and the SE where they are located.
- The format of the URI is:
so, in this case you can see that an SE-Type of "SIM" is used to identify the UICC (remember we tested the reader name against the string "SIM" in the first use case).
- Similarly, the AID we're interested in is "6e.126.96.36.199.220.127.116.11" which, if you recall was the one described in the section "A Closer look at the Secure Element itself". This parameter is case sensitive and must be specified in lower case in exactly the format shown.
- NOTE: Unless you have access to this precise applet/AID on your own UICC you will have to replace that with the AID of an applet to which you have access.
3. It's worth pointing out that when an application is sent a transaction notification, it will be invoked in the background. From the background, the application may launch dialogs or toasts, but if a more complicated user experience is required then the application may bring itself to the foreground.
4. It's also worth pointing out that, in order to receive a transaction notification for a given transaction an application must pass an ACF (Access Control Framework) check for all of the AIDs involved in the transaction. Discussion of ACF, though, is out of scope for this article, but suffice to say the test UICC and applet we've used to test NFC Tool has not imposed any ACF constraints.
The Invoke Manager pattern should be familiar from previous articles in this series and, as usual, the first step is to obtain a reference to the Invoke Manager and connect its "invoked()" SIGNAL to a method in our own class as shown in Figure 10.
… _invokeManager = new bb::system::InvokeManager(); … QObject::connect(_invokeManager, SIGNAL(invoked(const bb::system::InvokeRequest&)), this, SLOT(receivedInvokeRequest(const bb::system::InvokeRequest&))); …
Figure 10 Connect our application with Invoke Manager
Now, whenever an NFC Transaction event occurs in the AID "6e.126.96.36.199.18.104.22.168" in the UICC then we'll be called by the Invocation Framework at "receivedInvokeRequest()".
Now, let's take a step back and think what we want to do when we're notified of a transaction. Remember that we'll be invoked in the background so let's launch a dialogue to tell the user what has happened. Figure 11 shows the mechanics of this.
… _systemDialog = new bb::system::SystemDialog(this); _systemDialog->setTitle("NFC Transaction"); bb::system::SystemUiButton *confirmButton = _systemDialog->confirmButton(); confirmButton->setLabel("OK"); connect(_systemDialog, SIGNAL(accepted()), this, SLOT(onDialogAccepted())); … } … void MainMenu::onDialogAccepted() { qDebug() << "XXXX MainMenu:onDialogAccepted()"; }
Figure 11 Setting up a dialogue
Firstly we obtain a reference to a "SystemDialog" instance and start configuring it. We add a title, a confirmation button labelled "OK", and finally connect the SIGNAL from the confirmation button to a method in our own class where the event is just logged for the moment.
Now that we have the plumbing all set up let's look (Figure 12) at what we have to do when a transaction event is received.
void MainMenu::receivedInvokeRequest(const bb::system::InvokeRequest& request) { QByteArray data = request.data(); if (request.mimeType().compare("application/vnd.bb.nf
Figure 12 Processing a Transaction Event
It's deceptively simple isn't it? The first thing we do is check that the invocation request is one that represents an NFC Transaction event. If it is, then we extract the data from the request, which is in the form of a JSON string, and pop up a dialogue box to the user with the JSON data as its content.
Triggering a Transaction Notification Event
To trigger an NFC Transaction event you need to write an application that performs a transaction on the applet. Or, you could make use of a tool called GPShell. GPShell is a tool that can be downloaded from SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/globalplatform/fi
Figure 13 Using GPShell to initiate a Transaction Event
The AID we're using ("6E6663746573743031") in the UICC for this example will generate an EVT_TRANSACTION HCI event (the proper name for the NFC Transaction Event) when the card is disconnected after its initial selection by the reader.
Putting it Together
Figure 14 shows the contents of the dialogue box that is popped up on the handset as a result. Most of the data is understandable; the AID, the type of SE etc. But what's this "eventData" field with a value of "YWJjZG="?
Well, a quick check of the reference data for the AID that we're using indicates that the applet will send a default message on the transaction event and that this message will be the string "abcde". If we Base64 encode this string we get an encode result: "YWJjZG=". This matches the field in the dialogue box exactly demonstrating that the message from the applet in the UICC has been correctly communicated to our application and that in conversion to JSON format Base64 encoding has been used since the message could be an arbitrary byte array rather than a string.
Figure 14 Contents of the NFC Transaction Event
We hope that this article and code sample has demonstrated how easy it is to use the BlackBerry 10 APIs in a C/C++ Cascades application to communicate with applets in a Secure Element and to be notified when transactions take place on the applet.
You can download NFC Tool V4, including its full source code from:
The NFC Tool as written for the BlackBerry 10 "Dev Alpha" device and requires the following versions of the NDK and device software to build and run:
- BlackBerry® 10 Native SDK 10.0.9
- BlackBerry Dev Alpha Device Software 10.0.9 (Beta 3)
You can find details of other NFC related articles and sample applications written by Martin and John at
You can contact Martin or John either through the BlackBerry support forums or through Twitter®:
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Agriculture and Fisheries Council, 22 April 2013
The Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting of April 2013 will take place in Luxemburg on 22 April 2013, under the presidency of Mr Simon Coveney, Irish Minister of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The Commission will be represented by Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Dacian Cioloş and Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Maria Damanaki. Agriculture points will be dealt with on Monday morning, while Monday afternoon will be dedicated to Fisheries issues. A press conference will be held for each session at the end of the discussions. The public debates and the press conferences can be followed by video streaming: http://video.consilium.europa.eu.
Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy
The Council will hold an orientation debate on the proposal for a basic Regulation on the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy. Council will also be informed on the state of play of the Proposal for a Regulation on the Common Organisation of the Markets in Fishery and Aquaculture Products.
Negotiations between the European Parliament and the Council on the reform are underway and are dealing with core issues such as Maximum Sustainable Yield, scope and detail of the landing obligation, regionalisation and capacity management, as well as with other outstanding issues such as the rules determining the fixing and distribution of fishing opportunities, the composition of Advisory Councils, Member States' obligation to create fish stock recovery areas and empowerment for the Commission to adopt delegated acts.
Based on a discussion paper prepared by the Presidency, delegations will hold an orientation debate concerning the way to move forward on these issues.
The objective of the reformed fisheries policy is to end overfishing and make fishing sustainable - environmentally, economically and socially. The new policy aims to:
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Scientific evidence has shown that high numbers of seabird species including albatrosses, petrels, shearwaters, auks, sea ducks and divers are being caught in fishing gear every year. Measures taken so far to protect seabirds from being entangled in fishing gear have been ineffective. The Action Plan sets up a management framework to minimise seabird bycatch to the lowest levels practically possible. It focuses on long line and static net fisheries where seabird bycatch are known to be highest, although other gears such as trawls and purse seines are also covered by the plan. It entails a wide range of elements under 30 recommended actions that are a combination of binding and non-binding measures. The rules will apply to EU fishing vessels inside and outside EU waters as well as non-EU vessels operating in EU waters. (IP/12/1222)
The Presidency will brief Member States on the state of play of negotiations on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy proposed by the Commission in October 2011. Following the adoption of their negotiating mandates by the Council and the European Parliament (respectively on 19 and 13 March), six trilogues have been held by the three institutions, out of the series of 30 planned for this final phase of negotiations on the CAP reform. The shared objective is that a political agreement is reached by the end of June 2013, with the formal adoption of the definitive legislative texts as a 1st reading agreement to follow in the autumn.
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Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi has apparently agreed to scale back on his decree of near absolute powers after a meeting with the country's top judges. Matt Bradley has the latest on The News Hub.
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OCEANPORT, N.J. - When Double Desert and No Questions each won a race on successive Saturdays in late September at Monmouth Park, there might have been an angel riding on the withers of the $5,000 claimers. Double Desert is a Hope Haskell Jones homebred and No Questions is owned and trained by Jimmy Iselin.
The names Haskell and Iselin are the most prominent in the illustrious history of the track. Amory L. Haskell was instrumental in once again getting pari-mutuel wagering on horse racing legalized in New Jersey, and then in the construction of the modern racetrack. Appointed president and chairman of Monmouth Park Jockey Club in 1945, Haskell was at the helm of the organization until his death in 1966. Philip H. Iselin also played a key role in launching the track and was appointed treasurer in 1946. He succeeded Haskell in 1966 and was the president and chairman of the board until he passed away 10 years later.
Nevertheless, their involvement in racing at Monmouth Park is far more than ceremonial.
"I love coming back here. There is no place like home," Iselin said while standing on the backside renewing acquaintances in the morning on September 29 before he saddled No Questions in the afternoon. "It is very nostalgic for me to be here. We lived right across the street (on the old Wolf Hill Training Center property) and my mother and father are buried across the street. When I drove through the stable gate, an awful lot of wonderful memories came flooding back."
Jones's horse, trained by Rory Huston, won the last race on the card on September 22 to become her first winner this year.
"I can remember when Monmouth Park was built, and I still love racing and the horses," said Jones, 78. "When I was young, I used to have to watch the races from the backside because my father was a stickler for the rules and minors weren't allowed to be on the front side. My mother loved the horses, too. She was the one who got my father interested in this. After she was killed in an automobile accident in 1946, my father took over with a vengeance."
Mr. Haskell was president of the Thoroughbred Racing Association from 1945 to 1955 and he and his wife bred horses as well as owned them. Jones said that Blue Sparkler, for whom a stakes race for fillies and mares at Monmouth is named, was their best horse.
"The horse who won on Saturday was a great-great-great granddaughter of Blue Sparkler," Jones said with pride. "My sister and I both breed horses and keep mares at Overbrook Farm (in Colts Neck, New Jersey) but she has different lines than I do. She lives in Modena, Italy for part of the year and has introduced some Italian blood lines into some of her horses."
Isabelle Haskell De Tomaso, who is the widow of international racecar driver and Italian automobile magnate Alejandro DeTomaso, bred and owns Irish Politics. The 2-year-old son of Political Force by the Polish Numbers mare Irish Sovereign was the runaway winner of a maiden special weight race on September 15, the day of the New Jersey Thoroughbred Festival at Monmouth Park for state-breds. Trainer Graham Motion has nominated the colt to the $60,000 Jersey Juvenile here on October 6 and the sisters hope to be on-hand to watch him run.
"It's great fun having Monmouth Park so close by so I can come over and see my horses and my sister's horses race," said Jones, who maintains homes in Red Bank, N.J. and Palm Beach, Fla.
Iselin, who bred the multiple graded stakes winning Bandini but sold the colt to Michael Tabor and John Magnier before he got to the races, doesn't have any stakes winners in his barn these days. This year he has started only three horses and No Questions is his only winner.
"I bought Bandini's dam but you never look back," said Iselin, who has been close friends with Super Bowl winning quarterback "Broadway" Joe Namath since the 1960s when his father was part owner and president of the New York Jets. "I have nine in training right now and I'm based at Aqueduct. I still love it. It's a great lifestyle."
Iselin said that his father and Leon Hess, who was also a member of the consortium that purchased the Jets in 1963 and changed the name of the franchise from the New York Titans, gave him the first three horses that he conditioned . They bought Chief Tamanaco from (Hall of Fame trainer) Lucien Laurin.
"He won the Bold Ruler (in 1976) so my father got to see me win a stakes race," he said. "My father had a heart attack and died two days later."
No Questions is a descendant of Mr. Prospector and Iselin once owned a share of the greatest sire of his generation. He remembers Crafty Prospector, a son of Mr. Prospector who won seven of 10 starts in 1981-83 and never finished out of the money, fondly as "my great horse".
"The horse I'm running today in a $5,000 claiming race, I keep him because he's part of the family," Iselin said.
So are Jones, De Tomaso and Iselin, and they always will be at Monmouth Park.
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The engaged couple, who are together more than four years, has been the subject of breakup rumors for months.
The elder Cyrus fueled the split speculation during an interview with ABC News to promote his new memoir "Hillbilly Heart."
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While serving as the executive director of the Greater Ridgewood Youth Council, Gary Giordano joined the board in 1989 at a time he says was very different than how the community is today.
"When I started in 1989, that year there were more than 1,200 robberies in District 5 and there were more than 4,000 burglaries," Giordano recalled. "The numbers today are essentially one-third of what they were. So crime has gone down and safety has improved."
Aside from playing a role in creating a safer community through his work with the board, the Our Lady of Hope graduate - and later a graduate of St. Francis Prep and Pace University – said he is most proud of their work at cutting back the pollution and dumping hubs once found throughout the district.
"Illegal dumping was a huge problem back in the mid-90s," he said. "There were mountains of trash and construction debris at 10 different locations, and we worked hard to get that cleaned up."
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"I commend Gary for his 25 years of dedication and service to CB5," said Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi. "His commitment to the communities served by Board 5 has been marked with tireless devotion and demonstrate his dedication to public service. I congratulate him for this achievement."
Along with a proclamation presented by State Senator Joseph Addabbo, Assemblywoman Marge Markey joined her colleagues Hevesi and Cathy Nolan to present Giordano with a similar recognition.
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Journey and Def Leppard, two of the biggest names in Rock music for over 40 years are joining forces to bring their fans a night of epic Rock across North America. With hits like 'Don't Stop Believing' and 'Bringin' On the Heartbreak' fans will be awash with hit after hit of Rock anthems, so back-comb your hair, grab your guitars and get ready to ROCK!
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For most students Fall Break is a time to go home, catch up on some sleep, and possibly even work on solidifying that bothersome thesis for a final paper. This year a few students chose to travel to the Mississippi Gulf Coast in order to help the hurricane victims get their lives back in order.
For a few students, most of the time was spent at Pass Christian High School. It was not the building which students had attended classes in late August, but rather several rows of mobile classrooms which were parked in a field in DeLisle, Mississippi, a town which neighbors Pass Christian.
The high school building had been flooded up to the second floor and was in disarray. Students had not attended classes for the six weeks since Hurricane Katrina devastated the town. Though the building had been put out of commission, the school had not. The high school and middle school teachers worked feverishly alongside volunteers from across the country as they attempted to prepare the new facility to open its doors Monday.
Though their classrooms had been rendered inoperative, these teachers had not been deterred in their passion for teaching. Each teacher was genuinely ready to get their students back into the classroom, in order to re-establish the normalcy which learning brings.
Several students spent their Friday and Saturday working at the new high school as well. Nearly a thousand desks were moved from the old high school to the new facility, along with tables, chairs and almost anything else which could be salvaged and strapped into the back of a beat up AmeriCorps pickup.
While the volunteers loaded up the pickup truck to make their way back to the high school, a complicated journey with all of the bridges which were out, several teachers sat and discussed the impact of the storm. Each of them mentioned how annoyed they had been in previous years when they were forced to clear out their rooms after barely having gotten them set up for the year, only to come back from what was supposed to be a devastating storm, to find that everything would have remained quite safe. This year, however, the teachers had only been instructed to unplug their computers before leaving on Friday in order to prevent power surges from the electrical storm from damaging the circuits. They had not entered their classrooms since that day. No one was prepared for a storm of this magnitude.
The high school fared well, having only been flooded on the first floor, keeping the second floor classrooms and lockers intact. Walking through the hallways of the old high school was surreal, as lockers hung open, doors covered in pictures, perhaps with a jacket inside. The middle school had not been preserved nearly so well. A teacher long familiar with the school might be able to guess where certain classrooms had been. The front steps led to an archway, and from there it was a level pile of rubble. One teacher lamented her classroom might be visible were the cafeteria not sitting on top of it.
Though these teachers had faced many difficulties, they were excited about getting back into the classroom. Their buildings had been destroyed, but their schools had not. The Pass Christian Pirates played their biggest rivals last Friday night. Though they lost the game, the spirit of the school and of the town has not been broken, not by the football team of Bay St. Louis, and not by Hurricane Katrina. Wabash men saw something of themselves exemplified in the town of Pass Christian, Mississippi. They saw a people who, though injured, would not stop fighting.


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South Dakota Seeking Applications for Clean Water Grants
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - The South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources is accepting applications for grants to support projects aimed at improving water quality.
Officials say they expect about $2 million will be available for South Dakota projects. Conservation districts, water development districts, counties, cities, universities and American Indian tribes can apply for the grants through Oct. 1.
The grants from the federal Environmental Protection Agency require a 40 percent local funding match.
The federal Clean Water Act provides grants to reduce water pollution from nonpoint sources such as runoff from urban, agricultural and forest lands.
Such pollution comes from heavily fertilized lawns, urban street and pet wastes, agricultural fields and small livestock operations. The primary nonpoint source pollutants in South Dakota are sediment, phosphorus, nitrogen and fecal coliform bacteria.
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Rebecca Grunewald joins us to ponder which book of the Bible calls for George Zimmerman to be raped in prison, why the president has a preference for all-male foursomes, and whether or not Al Sharpton has AIDS.
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If the Emmys are any indicator, the fashion must have for this season is a pickled pussy cat. Stacy Haiduk sashayed down the awards show's red carpet with this fabulous feline fashion accessory, which she rented from the prop shop of The Young & The Restless. (No you can't put your lipstick in it.) On the hit daytime show, Stacy plays a mentally unstable character, Mary Jane Benson (a.k.a. Patty Williams), who is known for sharing secrets with her stuffed cat. According to Stacy, quoted on peoplepets.com, the cat gets tons of fan mail. Now, is it just me, or does sending a fan letter to a taxidermic cat seem like a strange thing to do?


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Warde breaks up no-hitter in 8th, beats Staples 1-0 in softball
Freshman Gillian Birk, who had started most of Staples games this season, didn't allow Fairfield Warde any hits through seven innings Friday in an FCIAC softball game in Fairfield. But Birk's Mustangs' counterpart, Gabriella Natoli, was nearly as effective as Birk. Warde's sophomore pitcher had shut out the Wreckers on four hits.
So it was scoreless as extra innings began.
Natoli retired Staples 1-2-3 in the top of the eighth. Then the Mustangs strung together three straight hits -- after Birk had gotten the first Warde batter -- with Sarah Cotto's line drive single into center field driving in Michelle Treglia, who had broken up the no-hitter two at-bats prior. Warde won 1-0 to improve to 5-4 overall and 3-4 in the conference. Staples' records dropped to 4-4 and 3-4 in the FCIAC.
"If we get one hit to go our way, it's the difference in the game," said Staples coach Sara Holland, whose club put runners in scoring position three times against Natoli but failed to capitalize.
"They just got the one hit before we did."
Natoli gave up four hits -- three to sophomore Emily Lustbader -- and one walk and struck out one Wrecker, as the Mustangs played error-free behind her. Birk gave up singles to Treglia, Brianna West and Cotto -- all three into center field -- and four walks. She struck out three Mustangs. Staples made three errors, but none in a pivotal spot.
Even without the benefits of any hits, Warde had runners on base every inning, four times getting runners into scoring position before Birk stranded them. In the bottom of the sixth inning, Treglia reached third, moving up on a passed ball after her bunt was mishandled by the Wreckers and she got to second base on the play.
Then Birk bore down again and the defense tightened, as they had before.
"Our hitters made one adjustment when we into extra innings," Warde coach Gary Quiricone said. "And that was to be more patient for the pitch you can hit. We weren't hitting well. When we hit it hard, we hit it at them."
Once the no-hitter was gone, he said, there was a difference. "Confidence builds when there's one hit after another," Quiricone said.
Cotto, a sophomore, rated a grand slam that gave her team the lead last year during a Warde victory as the only other hit in her career approaching the magnitude of the game-winner against Staples. "I believe that we definitely could have hit her better than we did," Cotto said. "Brianna and I had big hits."
Cotto was impressed with Birk's location and her ability to throw strikes to the outside and inside parts of the plate.
Holland termed Birk's performance as wonderful.
"She was real solid. She was hitting her spots," Holland said. "Gillian showed excellent poise on the mound in pressure situations."
Birk, whose first career no-hitter came for a travel team in the fall, was humble in assessing her performance. "I thought I was OK," said Birk, who began pitching in fourth grade. "I need to work on my off-speed pitches. My (high) fastball was working well, and my defense was really good behind me."
Wreckers' fielders tracked down the few line drives that Birk gave up.
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Records: Staples 4-4, 3-4 FCIAC; Fairfield Warde 5-4, 3-4 FCIAC. Batteries: S--Gillian Birk (L) and Nicola Shenk; FW--Gabriella Natoli (W) and Brianna West. Highlights: S--Birk allowed no hits in seven innings, with three strikeouts and four walks; Emily Lustbader went 3-for-3; FW--Michelle Treglia broke up the no-hitter; Sarah Cotto had the game-winning hit.


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Damnit. I spoke up too late
And just if anyone's curious the exact the song I was listening to when I saw this announcement (In the Beginning by The Stills) was at the part where they were singing these exact lyrics:
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in a ball of fire
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So that's a good sign
So when someone says "Man who could have seen this coming with the Avs?"
The answer is, well, a lot of people:
Granato screams out as the "safe" choice. That's not a terrible thing, but I think Francois Giguere missed a chance to really shake things up behind the bench.Shane:
The cynic in me also says this: The Avs are uncomfortable at the thought of a high-profile, opinionated type of coach, a guy like a Pat Burns or Ron Wilson or Barry Melrose. They want in-house, home-grown guys who they can better control. The real cynic in me says they only want subservient puppets, and they want to stubbornly go against public opinion (i.e., the media) and never admit a mistake. Hence, Granato's rehire.Mike @ MHH:
More to come after I stop the bleeding from banging my head against the wall.OK, I think I managed to cauterize the wound with a ham and cheese Hot Pocket.
Commenting stalwart, and friend of jibblescribbits, thedoctor (aka matt):
My initial reaction is...why? Granato had one job the last few years, as far as I know -- the Power Play. Which was certifiably awful last year at 29th in the league. So lets promote him!
I'm usually an optimist about this kind of thing around here, but this is an awful move. He was terrible his first time around, he was terrible last year in his role as PP coach...why would this be any different?
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Ukraine, Gaza concerns push up oil prices
The price of oil rose above $103 a barrel Tuesday on persisting jitters over the situation in Gaza, the standoff over the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 in Ukraine and expectations of a fall in U.S. crude inventories.
By early afternoon in Europe, U.S. benchmark crude for September delivery was up 15 cents to $103.01 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 91 cents on Monday.
Brent crude for September delivery, a benchmark for international oils, was up 43 cents to $108.11 on the ICE Futures exchange in London.
Israeli airstrikes hit a wide range of targets across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, as U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met in Cairo to launch the highest-level push yet to end two weeks of Israel-Hamas fighting.
The war has added to the risk of instability in the oil-rich Middle East just as tensions have intensified between the West and Russia, a major oil and gas producer, over the Ukraine crisis.
European leaders are considering tougher sanctions against Russia for its backing of separatists accused of shooting down the Malaysia Airlines jet plane in Ukraine last week. The European Union's foreign ministers were meeting to discuss their next steps.
Investors will also be monitoring fresh information on U.S. stockpiles of crude and refined products.
Data for the week ending July 18 is expected to show a draw of 2.6 million barrels in crude oil stocks and a build of 1.2 million barrels in gasoline stocks, according to a survey of analysts by Platts, the energy information arm of McGraw-Hill Financial.
The American Petroleum Institute will release its report on oil stocks later Tuesday, while the report from the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration - the market benchmark - will be out on Wednesday.
In other Nymex trading:
- Wholesale gasoline rose 1.99 cents to $2.8831 a gallon.
- Heating oil gained 1.05 cents to $2.8816 a gallon.
- Natural gas was down 4.7 cents at $3.802 per 1,000 cubic feet.


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Miners settle for tie with McKendree.
For the third straight game and fourth in the last five, Missouri S&T's men's soccer team ended up in overtime, but after 20 extra minutes of play, neither team was able to put a ball into the net as the Miners played to a 1-1 tie with McKendree Sunday in Great Lakes Valley Conference play at the S&T Soccer Field.
In a contest where the Bearcats held a shots edge of a little better than two-to-one, it was the Miners who broke on top late in the first half.
With just under two minutes to play before the intermission, Diego Robayo sent a ball through the Bearcat defense that Ryan Lawhead got to and put a shot from the center of the box past McKendree goalkeeper Scott Armistead.
The lead held up until midway through the second half when the Bearcats were awarded a penalty kick after BJ Tucker went down in the box. Liam Robley converted the attempt to knot the score at the 68:04 mark.
Over the final 20-plus minutes of regulation time and through both of the overtime periods, the two teams traded scoring chances but none of the efforts ended up as goals. The Bearcats had a couple of corner kick opportunities in the final minute, but the Miners cleared the first one away and Jan Peters hit a long shot wide just before time expired.
McKendree had a 28-13 advantage in overall shots and a 13-9 edge in shots on goal. Matt Jackson made 12 saves in the nets for the Miners, who went to 4-3-1 overall and 3-2-1 in the GLVC with Sunday's tie. The Bearcats finished the day at 2-5-1 overall and 0-5-1 in GLVC play.
Missouri S&T heads to the St. Louis for conference play next weekend, beginning Friday afternoon with a 1:30 p.m. game at Maryville University.


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Does Mel Gibson Deserve Another Chance?
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On the 10th anniversary of The Passion of The Christ's release, a journalist is pleading with Hollywood to let Mel Gibson off the hook for his grievances that led to him being blacklisted by most studios. In an opinion piece posted on Deadline.com, A… Read more


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