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Two diverse cuisines hobnobbing together can produce some pretty tasty results, and a great example of that is Gobi (or Cauliflower) Manchurian.
We Indians have had a long love affair with Chinese food. Long before the '90s brought fast-food chains and their inevitable pizzas and burgers and other junk food pouring into Indian cities, it was Chinese food that most of us wanted when we craved something exotic and different. The food was in a cuisine class of its own and quite likely bore no strong resemblance to real Chinese cuisine since it was heavily adapted for our flavor-seeking tastebuds. At restaurants I have eaten stir-fried noodles seasoned with dry red chillies and mustard seeds and gravied Chinese dishes smothered in Indian spices like coriander and cumin.
Cauliflower Manchurian is one of the more popular products of Indian-Chinese cuisine and it has always been one of my favorites, with its sour-spicy notes and the crispy florets of cauliflower that melt in your mouth. Typically the cauliflower is deep-fried, which gives it that great crunch. Now while I do like to indulge in some deep-fried food once in a while, I also like to keep my meals pretty healthy most of the time. So I baked the cauliflower instead, saving on the fat calories, and the result was still delicious. In fact, I swear that the sauce is so flavorful, you'd never notice that the cauliflower was not deep-fried first. But if you do want the extra crunch, you can always choose to deep-fry the florets in my recipe.
To go with the manchurian I made some stir-fried Udon noodles. These couldn't be simpler– they take minutes to make and taste great and they're loaded with veggies. Udon noodles are wheat noodles that are typically used in Japanese cuisine, but here I cooked them the Indian-Chinese way. Talk about fusion!
I got the noodles as well as some of the condiments with a $30 coupon I received from Foodbuzz and Asian Food Grocer, an online food store. In a vegan kitchen, Asian foods can be invaluable because they offer so much flavor, but you do have to be careful because many sauces and pastes contain animal ingredients. The Asian Grocer Web site displays the ingredients for each product online, which was very helpful.
Here are the recipes. It's a busy afternoon, so bye for now. Enjoy, all!
Cauliflower Manchurian
1 medium head of cauliflower, separated into medium-sized florets (you don't want to make them too small or they'll turn mushy too soon)
6 tbsp cornstarch + 1/2 cup water or more as needed to make a runny paste
1 tsp red chilli powder
Salt to taste
2 tsp canola or sesame or other oil
Grease a large baking dish. Dip each cauliflower floret into the cornstarch paste and place it on the baking dish in a single layer. Bake in a 450-degree oven for 40-50 minutes or until the cauliflower is cooked but still crunchy and lightly browned.
(If you choose to deep-fry, heat oil — at least an inch deep– in a skillet and then deep-fry the florets a few at a time until they are golden-brown)
To make the sauce:
1 tbsp sesame oil
1 small onion, thinly sliced
1 medium green bell pepper (capsicum), thinly sliced
1 tbsp ginger paste
1 tbsp garlic paste
3 tbsp low-salt soy sauce
2 tbsp vinegar
2 cups water
2 tbsp cornstarch mixed in 1/4 cup water
1 tbsp sugar
Salt if needed
Heat the sesame oil and then add the ginger and garlic paste. Stir fry for a minute until the ginger and garlic smell fragrant, not raw, and then add the onions and bell peppers.
Saute for a couple of minutes, then add 2 cups water and soy sauce. Bring it to a boil, turn the heat to low, and simmer for a couple of minutes.
Add the vinegar, sugar and salt if needed, then add the cornstarch-water mixture and allow it to simmer for a couple of minutes.
Add the cauliflower florets and stir well to coat. Turn off the heat after a couple of minutes.
Garnish with chives or chopped spring onions, if desired.
Stir-Fried Udon Noodles
1 9.5-oz packet of Udon noodles
1 cup thinly shredded cabbage
1 large green bell pepper, thinly sliced
1 medium carrot, cut into thin strips
1 medium onion, thinly sliced
1 tbsp sesame oil
2 tbsp or more as needed of low-salt soy sauce
1 tsp hot sauce like Sriracha (optional)
1 tbsp vinegar
Cook the noodles according to package directions until they are cooked but not too tender. You need them to be al dente in order to be able to stir-fry them without turning them into a paste. Drain, rinse in cold water, and spread on a plate to cool.
Heat the sesame oil in a large pan or preferably in a wok.
Add the onions, stir-fry for a moment, then add the remaining veggies.
Stir-fry quickly over high heat for about 2-3 minutes until the veggies start to get tender but still have a bite.
Now add the soy sauce and vinegar and hot sauce, if using.
Stir together, then add the noodles. Using a pair of tongs, stir-fry the noodles for another 2-3 minutes.
Garnish with chopped spring onions if desired. Serve hot with the Gobi Manchurian.
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For over 150 years, Haviland china has been celebrated for its generation spanning designs.
American businessman David Haviland was inspired by an encounter with one exceptional teacup. The translucent and sturdy cup was like nothing he had ever seen and he traveled to France where he learned of the Limoges china tradition started the factory that would bear his name.
Crafted in the centuries old tradition of Limoges, France, Haviland china is prized for its translucency and durability. Haviland's wide variety of both classic and contemporary patterns has made it an international favorite for generations.


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When I signed my debut novel, The Angels' Share, with Winter Goose, a small press, I knew that a healthy share of marketing and promotion would be my responsibility. Not a huge surprise—small houses don't have a lot of resources to throw at literary fiction. But what was surprising was that when I spoke with others who'd signed with larger publishers, I kept hearing that unless their book was "Big" (and sometimes even if it was), the authors still had to do most of the nitty-gritty publicity themselves.
The first thing I learned about publicity is that no task is too small to start gaining traction in today's overcrowded and underfinanced fiction marketplace. Act on the smallest inspiration (contact that high school English teacher who loved my stories!).
Here are 10 tips that are working for me. You might as well get started now.
1. Print up business cards for your novel. Do this as soon as you sign your contract. Use cover art if you can. If it doesn't exist yet, use what you would pick as cover art.
2. Come up with a snappy two- or three-sentence pitch for the inevitable "What is your novel about?" question.
Here's mine: "The Angels' Share is the story of a young woman, a former meth addict, rebuilding her life while working at a fledgling Sonoma County winery. With elements of a mystery and a love story, the novel has an upbeat ending. It's great for book clubs."
3. Create as much of a digital presence as you can stand. The most important and bare minimum is a Web site. You can do it yourself if you have patience and some digital acumen. If you pay for design, insist that it doesn't look like everyone else's template. If you are prolific, add a blog. I have been a Facebook user for years and honestly enjoy using the medium. I signed up for Twitter at my publisher's insistence. You can put up accounts as place holders, but if you do, don't forget to check them.
4. Hire some professional publicity help. Ideally it would be for the five-month period before your release date and a few months after. Even if it is just a few hours on the phone, it's a worthwhile investment. You will get many new ideas to follow up on.
5. Set yourself up as a Goodreads author, and once you have an ISBN from your publisher, create an Amazon Writers' Central account. Look at how authors you admire populate their pages and emulate them.
6. Go to all of the writers' conferences you can. The famous ones are great, but the smaller ones, especially if they are held at a university, can be great places to meet other writers who will become your trusted network. These contacts can help you by writing those evil yet necessary blurbs and may ask you to speak in their writing classes.
7. Work your nonwriter network to the hilt. Most everyone will be excited and want to help, even if people are busy and you may need to ask them more than once (but rarely more than three times).
8. Work on short pieces related to your novel topic. You can send them to bloggers, newspapers, and the like. I never advocate writing for free, but getting your name and a link to your book attached to a fine piece of writing on a trafficked Web site is worth it.
9. Have a friend review your reviews. Don't read them yourself. This is not to say you shouldn't be interested in feedback on your work. But maybe you don't want much negative feedback. Or maybe you don't want it at all.
10. Give yourself permission to not work on your next novel. Of course, if you are generating ideas and enjoying time writing something new, then go for it. However, if the burden of book promotion is all you have time for, don't beat your inner writer up. You owe it to yourself and your novel to give it proper attention during the publication period. Resources are limited, but as you've shown by writing and selling a book, you are fierce. As Theodore Roosevelt said: do what you can with what you have where you are.
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Little Rock morning radio show host Tommy Smith can cut back on his prep work for Friday�s gig.
By simply mentioning two football scores in the same breath, Smith will encourage and infuriate enough callers to fill at least a half-hour of air time. Whether the winner Thursday night in Jonesboro is Arkansas State University or Louisiana-Monroe, people will want to talk about the outcome in the context of ULM 34, Arkansas 31 in overtime two months ago.
Forget that comparing scores is an exercise in futility. If it was that easy, Arkansas would breeze by South Carolina on Saturday. After all, the Razorbacks defeated Kentucky by 42 in a weather-shortened game in Fayetteville while South Carolina beat those same Wildcats by 21 on the road.
Disregarding those results, the knowledgeable folks in Las Vegas favor South Carolina by two touchdowns.
Thanks to a happening in Monroe on Saturday night, Arkansas-only fans will be able to explain away an ASU victory and ASU fans who clamor for a series with the Razorbacks will not be able to trumpet a Red Wolves� W without conceding ULM is less than the team that won in Little Rock.
Quarterback Kolton Browning, a nemesis to the Razorbacks, left the Louisiana-Lafayette game on crutches and coach Todd Berry said Monday that Browning will not play Thursday night. Against Arkansas, Browning was 42 of 67 for 412 yards with three touchdowns and one interception. Plus, he carried 16 times for 69 yards, including a 16-yard scoring run on fourth-and-1 in overtime.
With Browning, ULM beat Arkansas, scared Auburn and Baylor, and rattled off five victories in a row. After Browning was injured in the loss to Lafayette, Berry said �obviously whenever you lose one quarterback, you aren�t fired up about losing another, so the game plan changes somewhat in terms of how much you�re going to expose that guy.�
Knowing that, ASU defensive coordinator John Thompson will prepare accordingly for Cody Wells. The senior has only attempted 226 passes in 35 games so the conclusion is that ULM will tone down the passing game and attempt to control the clock.
No matter the score in Jonesboro, UA vs. ASU is not going to happen without an unlikely mandate from the state Legislature. That said, UA fans are free to ignore ASU, but the preferred response is to compliment the Red Wolves and appreciate their success under first-year coach Gus Malzahn.
Arkansas fans who fret about recruiting competition from ASU need only compare facilities and conference affiliations in Fayetteville vs. those in Jonesboro.
For Malzahn and his players, the idea is to focus exclusively on ULM and leave the comparisons to others. With a victory comes a share of the top spot in the Sun Belt Conference with Middle Tennessee, a team that finishes the season in Jonesboro in a game that might be interesting enough to keep the hunters out of the woods for a day.
As Sun Belt champion, ASU would make its second straight bowl trip, more than likely to the New Orleans Bowl in the Superdome on Dec. 22. At this point, ASU is 6-3 with losses to likely Pac-12 champion Oregon, possible Big Ten winner Nebraska, and a Western Kentucky that was impressive enough to get Willie Taggert�s name inserted in the Arkansas coaching search.
In the loss to Western Kentucky, ASU quarterback Ryan Aplin was 23 of 40 with a quarterback rating of 95.34. Since then, he has completed 65 percent or better in four straight victories with a qb rating from 151.28 to 199.78. For the year, he has 14 touchdown passes and two interceptions, none since September.
When all is said and done, ASU with Aplin is better than ULM without Browning. If the result goes the other way, ASU�s credibility will take a huge hit in state.
Harry King is sports columnist for Stephens Media�s Arkansas News Bureau. Email: email@example.com.


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5 Movie Directors Who Influenced RZA
In order to truly master a field, studying has to be apart of your daily routine. It doesn't help your cause if you don't do the homework on your predecessors and at least acknowledge the immense contributions they've made to the art you're trying to learn and eventually master.
RZA took it a few steps further than studying and actually worked with several directors before embarking on his official debut. The difference is glaring between RZA's first amateur-director endeavors and his most recent work, The Man With The Iron Fists, which he directed after spending time with some of the soon to be mentioned directors. He spents hours on their movie sets as an actor or just as a student observing a master at work.
Remember, often a student is only as good as his teacher so RZA sought out and learned from the best. Here are five of his "film sifus."
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Sorry I haven't been around much! But where has the time gone? Why is it when I have time off work, that it just passes by so quickly? We had a wonderful Christmas and had all my family in for Christmas dinner - 18 of us! It was wonderful, if only I could have made Christmas last about 3 days, it would have been perfect.
I have a very special Christmas present to share, well not actually a gift from anyone, but one we had been promising ourselves, since we lost 2 of our dogs last summer. And here she is - she arrived on Boxing Day, little Bella!
Isn't she adorable!!! What a cute little puppy face. She is a Schnoodle (Schnauzer/Poodle mix) and 3 months old. She has currently become the Diva-Miss of the couch and chair and won't let any of the others get any attention while she is around. What others might you wonder? Well I have been dogsitting for Nick's friends the past 2 weeks, a Chihuahua named Mason, and I have Stu and Kelsey, Maisie and Maddie. That's a lot of dogs!
The kids are all off to various parties tonight and we are having friends over to help bring in the New Year... and yet another dog.
Just to get in a little stitchiness, here is a pillow I finished off in time for Christmas. Its hardly timely to show Christmas stitching but I thought the sentiment appropriate for tonight!
Happy New Year!
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Happy New Year!
Sorry I haven't been around much! But where has the time gone? Why is it when I have time off work, that it just passes by so quickly? We had a wonderful Christmas and had all my family in for Christmas dinner - 18 of us! It was wonderful, if only I could have made Christmas last about 3 days, it would have been perfect.
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Thursday, December 18, 2008
Love my new Santa!
Isn't it so nice to get lovely little packages in the mail ~ and this is what the mailman delivered yesterday - this sweet Prairie Schooler Santa ornament from dear Harmien! I love him! He's not taken his place on my Christmas tree just yet, I have him on my desk so I can look at him during the work day.
And I'm not just counting down to Christmas, I'm counting off those work days left. Luckily for me, the clinic that I work for is closing down between Christmas and New Year's and that means time off work!!! So holidays for me start on Christmas Eve!
Do you know about the new blog that has started for a Prairie Schooler exchange? Of course I couldn't resist signing up for this. And there is also a blog starting up for a Peppermint Twist SAL. I'm thinking of joining that one too! I love the New Year coming with so many great possibilities.
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008
A Christmas tree
Not the bestest picture, but I took it with my cell phone, actually I took several, feeling very touristy, of the Swarovski Crystal Tree at the Eaton's Centre in downtown Toronto. It is truly gorgeous and could be seen from almost all areas of this huge mall. I wish I knew how many crystal snowflakes were hanging from this tree, it was awesome!
Of course being Friday afternoon/evening, there were hoardes of people about, but that made it part of the fun. Hubby and I finished up our Christmas shopping, found a place for dinner, and then went to the St. Michael's Boys Choir concert. What a great evening!
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Saturday, December 06, 2008
This and That
Where have the past few weeks gone? Work has been deadly recently - owing to the fact that we have gone from 3 full timers down to 2 - so much for a slow ease back into work. I honestly feel that I can't see the end of the tunnel. I have spent so much time on the computer, that once I finish up with work, that's it for me and the computer. Needless to say, I am very behind in my blogreading :-(
But it didn't stop me from taking Friday afternoon off so that Carrie and I could head down to the One-of-a-Kind Show in Toronto. I love this show - its absolutely the best show around and we love the Christmas show. Its so fantastic to see Canadian artisans and handmade items. I had thought to find myself a new coat, but didn't see anything that struck my fancy. I did get some wonderful smelling body butter, smelling of oatmeal and honey, yummm, and honey lip balm, which is so necessary for these cold winter days. Plus some delicious Christmas cranberry pot pourri and herbal tea. But the best was the new tea set that I had a hankering for - hand made stoneware - in a gorgeous shade of blue. I indulged in the teapot, cream and sugar and a small matching bowl. I did run out of money! May be the tea cups can come next year. You'll see some glimpses of my teapot in the pictures......
Here's a little finish from last month - Little House Needleworks Wool Needlebook, stitched on a 32 ct remnant (note shiny new teapot!).
And another small finish - Blackbird Designs Buttons & Pins, on a 40 ct remnant.
I started some Christmas ornaments - this is the Shepherd's Bush series that has appeared in the JCS Ornament issues, starting way back in 2000. I got the first 2 stitched already this week. I've been using a mixture of DMC, WDW and GAST threads and instead of using the silver charms, I used Kreinik #4 cord to make the cane and trumpet. Looks pretty good I think! Only 6 more ornaments to go.....do you think I'll have them finished for Christmas?
On looking at these pictures, I really think the finishing fairy is long overdue at my house!
One last shot of my wee Christmas tree. I have a sweet collection of handmade angels that I have found over the years at local craft shows and the smallest of these I have hanging on this little tree, along with a few ornaments that I made about 10 years ago.
We're off house hunting this afternoon - with the newlyweds Carrie and JF!
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Monday, December 01, 2008
A Winter finish
Another finish - one I actually got done a couple of weeks ago but I don't think I posted a picture of it! Its not finish-finished.....I would really like to try making a flatfold. I have a couple other small finishes to show too, but I've got to get pictures first.
We decorated our house for Christmas yesterday - the tree is up and sparkling and the house is looking very festive - just in time for another snowstorm with a prediction of 20 cm. Luckily it ended up being mostly rain with some sleet and this morning the streets are fine. I'm so glad really - its too early for snow!
I feel like tossing all my stitching aside to make Christmas ornaments! Is it too early to start Carol's 2009 Christmas Challenge?
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Welcome to this weeks Indie Tee Spotlight! This week I highlight Found Item Clothing, a brand that specializes in taking fictional tees from your favorite movies and turning them into actual t-shirts that you can wear too. If this all sounds too familiar then that means you read this blog often and know that I featured Found Item Clothing in this weeks tee review video!
I had the opportunity to talk to Travis Greenwood, marketing manager over at Found Item Clothing, about the brand and the nuances that go into creating tees from existing, albeit fictional, shirts. He also hints at some new things happening at Found Item Clothing in 2009!
Coty: You started Found Item Clothing because during a viewing of Real Genius – you decided you wanted an I Love Toxic Waste tee. To your disappointment, you could not find an online seller so you decided to print your own. How did you go from wanting a one off tee to deciding to start your own niche brand?
Travis: 1. It was an organic process that evolved over time. The initial goal was simply to keep a few tees for ourselves, friends and family and recoup our investment from the trial batch of 25. In time, we came to understand that other movie fans wanted these shirts as well. It was pretty quiet for the first six months, but we sold enough shirts to make our money back and fund the next round of designs. And then people started requesting shirts from other movies, and we started watching films with the expressed goal of finding new shirts to reproduce. The rest, as they say, is history…
Coty: Many of your tees focus on films from the 80's and early 90's. What about this time period has intrigued you and will you be doing tees based on more recent films? If so, which films do you have in mind?
Travis: That's a good question. There's no real formula or specific criteria here, but generally each shirt should be something that (a) we think is inventive, humorous or unique (and hence, won't lose its appeal over time) and (b) something that we ourselves would wear out in public.
I will say that these are the films that we grew up on, bonded over and have watched throughout our lives, especially fine flicks like Spinal Tap, Caddyshack, Real Genius and The Big Lebowski. Our shirts reflect, in some small way, the strong connection people have with moving pictures, the lengths they will go to get a little slice of that movie magic for themselves. If you examine our roster of shirts closely, you'll see that most of them come from funny comedies and/or cult films that may have failed at the box office (or enjoyed modest success), but have since acquired devoted, even nerdish, followings.
I should add that 2009 will mark a FIC first: new, original designs are in the works. They should be available for sale sometime in the next few months.
Coty: Explain a bit about how you go about reproducing these tees that are sometimes on the screen for just a few seconds. What has been the most difficult tee to replicate?
Travis: I can't really speak to this process because it's not my area of expertise, but in general, when we've decided to green-light a design, we do numerous and detailed screen captures for the movie, and also try to find any other source material for the design that might be out there, and from there we let our talented designers have at it with illustrating software. There's also usually a lot of back and forth about the particulars of the design, and what is truest to the original. We strive to reproduce the smallest aspects – font, color, placement, shirt style – as best we can and this can be a time-consuming process. It sounds easy, but I assure you, it's not always so. Off the top of my head, some of the more difficult tees to replicate have included Summer Games, Karou Betto and the Green Skeleton, because the images on front (and occasionally, back) are somewhat complicated and finely-detailed.
Coty: The Caduceus tee from Ferris Bueler's Day Off is my favorite tee from your collection. I would predict that I Love Toxic Waste is your favorite tee. Which tee thus far has been your best seller?
Travis: Judging anecdotally by the orders I process, I'd say the most popular shirts include Green Skeleton, Fu Manchu, Guns Don't Kill People, Caddyshack CC and pretty much all of the shirts from Real Genius. Personally, my favorite shirts from the FIC collection are Dicknose, Cutters and the Death Before Disco sweatshirt. I'm a sucker for slogan tees that grab people's attention.
Coty: I bet you get many requests from your customers to print tees from particular movies. What are some of the tees that people have requested? Have you ever had a request that you later did print?
Travis: Sure, we get a fair amount of suggestions and always welcome more. A lot of the times the requests are pretty obscure, but there have been few designs that were made as a result of customer requests. The Karoru Betto and Gun's Don't Kill People shirts were both customer requests. If we do make shirts from a request, we'll send that person a couple shirts of their choice, so if anyone's got any shirts, they'd like to see made, please send along those requests!
Thanks again to Travis of Found Item Clothing for chatting with me! In case you missed it, watch a video tee review that I did of Found Item Clothing's Caduceus tee from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.


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The lyrics of a decades-old song are new fodder for debate this holiday season as the 1944 classic 'Baby it's Cold Outside' has been banned by several radio stations across the country, the first being Star 102 in Cleveland. The refusal to play the holiday classic has sparked uproar by some who believe the lyrics are being misconstrued amid the #MeToo era. Continue Reading
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Ranking the Pac-12's newest quarterbacks: How CU's Jordan Webb compares
Six quarterbacks made starting debuts for their Pac-12 schools in Week 1 and none embarrassed himself.
Only Colorado's Jordan Webb lost, but he wasn't the reason. (It's 4th-and-1 on the CSU 1 against a depleted, inexperienced defensive line and Colorado tries a rollout pass that doesn't come close to working.)
Here are my rankings for newbies after their first week:
1. Brett Hundley, Fr., UCLA, 21-28-1(INT)-202-2(TD), beat Rice 49-24. He's No. 1 for a couple reasons. One, His first college game is on the road at steaming Rice which may have been a defensive sieve a year ago but it's no Northern Arizona, either. He also ran seven times for 68 yards and a score. Two, no program needs a star quarterback more than UCLA. Just ask Rick Neuheisel.


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The rift has been most pronounced between top lawyers in the State Department and the Pentagon, though it has also involved conflicts among career Justice Department lawyers and political appointees throughout the national security agencies.
The discussions, which shaped classified court briefs filed this month, have centered on how broadly to define the types of terrorism suspects who may be detained without trials as wartime prisoners. The outcome of the yearlong debate could reverberate through national security policies, ranging from the number of people the
"Beyond the technical legal issues, this debate is about the fundamental question of whom we are at war with," said Noah Feldman, a
In the years after the 9/11 attacks, Mr. Bush claimed virtually unlimited power as commander in chief to detain those he deemed a threat — a view so boundless that his Justice Department once told a court that it was within the president's lawful discretion to imprison as an enemy combatant even a "little old lady in
In March 2009, the Obama legal team adopted a new position about who was detainable in the war on terrorism — one that showed greater deference to the international laws of war, including the
An examination of that conflict offers rich insight into how the team of former law professors and campaign lawyers, nearly all veterans of the Clinton administration, is shaping important policies under Mr. Obama.
In February 2009, just weeks after the
Career Justice Department lawyers handling Guantánamo lawsuits feared that rolling back the Bush position might make it harder to win. And the new acting head of the department's Office of Legal Counsel — David Barron, a Harvard law professor and co-author of a lengthy law review critique of Bush administration claims that the commander in chief can override statutes — worried that Judge Bates had given them too little time to devise the answer.
But the White House counsel, Greg Craig, a campaign adviser to Mr. Obama who had been a foreign policy official in the Clinton administration, saw this as an important opportunity to demonstrate a break with Mr. Bush. And at a White House meeting, Mr. Obama weighed in, declaring that he did not want to invoke unrestrained commander-in-chief powers in detention matters.
With the president's directions in hand, Mr. Obama's Justice Department came back on March 13, 2009, with a more modest position than Mr. Bush had advanced. It told Judge Bates that the president could detain without trial only people who were part of Al Qaeda or its affiliates, or their "substantial" supporters. The department rooted that power in the authorization granted by Congress to use military force against the perpetrators of the Sept. 11 attacks. And it acknowledged that the scope and limits of that power were defined by the laws of war, as translated to a conflict against terrorists.
But behind closed doors, the debate flared again that summer, when the Obama administration confronted the case of Belkacem Bensayah, an Algerian man who had been arrested in
The arguments over the case forced onto the table discussion of lingering discontent at the State Department over one aspect of the Obama position on detention. There was broad agreement that the law of armed conflict allowed the United States to detain as wartime prisoners anyone who was actually a part of Al Qaeda, as well as nonmembers who took positions alongside the enemy force and helped it. But some criticized the notion that the United States could also consider mere supporters, arrested far away, to be just as detainable without trial as enemy fighters.
That view was amplified after Harold Koh, a former human-rights official and Yale Law School dean who had been a leading critic of the Bush administration's detainee policies, became the State Department's top lawyer in late June. Mr. Koh produced a lengthy, secret memo contending that there was no support in the laws of war for the United States' position in the Bensayah case.
Mr. Koh found himself in immediate conflict with the Pentagon's top lawyer, Jeh C. Johnson, a former
In September 2009, national-security officials from across the government packed into the Office of Legal Counsel's conference room on the fifth floor of the Justice Department, lining the walls, to watch Mr. Koh and Mr. Johnson debate around a long table. It was up to Mr. Barron, who sat at the head of the table, to decide who was right.
But he did not. Instead, days later, he circulated a preliminary draft memorandum stating that while the Office of Legal Counsel had found no precedents justifying the detention of mere supporters of Al Qaeda who were picked up far away from enemy forces, it was not prepared to state any definitive conclusion.
So with no consensus, the legal team decided on a tactical approach. For as long as possible they would try to avoid that hard question. They changed the subject by instead asking courts to agree that people like Mr. Bensayah, looked at from another angle, had performed functions that made them effectively part of the terrorist organization — and so were clearly detainable.
The appeals court has not yet ruled on Mr. Bensayah's case. But the hours and effort that high-level officials expended on wrestling over adjustments to the reasoning in his case — only to reach the same outcome, that he was detainable without trial — dovetailed with a pattern identified by critics as varied as civil libertarians and former Bush lawyers.
"I think the change in tone has been important and has helped internationally," said John B. Bellinger III, a top Bush era
But at a recent
"We are not saying that we don't have to fight battles," he said. "We're just saying that we should fight those battles within the framework of law."
Last week, in another speech, Mr. Koh also for the first time outlined portions of the administration's legal rationale for targeted killings using drone strikes, which some scholars have criticized. His remarks, however, focused on issues like whether it was lawful to single out specific enemy figures for killing — not defining the limits of who may be deemed an enemy.
But Mr. Feldman, the Harvard professor, said the detention debate also had "serious consequences" for the targeted killings policy because, "If we're at war with you, then we can detain you — but we can also try to kill you."
That said, he cautioned, additional factors complicate the analysis of selecting lawful targets. Among them, it is not clear whether Mr. Obama is more willing in classified settings to assert that, as commander in chief, he can use drone strikes to defend the country against perceived threats that cannot be linked to the Congressionally authorized war against Al Qaeda.
And even in detention matters, Bush-era theories have remained attractive to some. This January, two appeals court judges appointed by Mr. Bush — Janice Rogers Brown and Brett M. Kavanaugh, both of whom had been singled out by Democrats after their nominations as too ideological — reopened the debate by unexpectedly declaring, in another Guantánamo case, that the laws of armed conflict did not limit the president's war powers.
In the Justice Department, career litigators who defend against Guantánamo lawsuits wanted to embrace that reasoning, arguing it would help them win. Judges have sided with detainees seeking release in some 34 of 46 cases to date — though the decisions largely turned on skepticism about specific evidence, not the general legal theory about who was detainable.
But political appointees — including Mr. Barron, Mr. Koh and even Mr. Johnson — criticized the reasoning of the appeals court ruling as vulnerable to reversal and argued that the administration should not abandon its respect for the laws of war.
In classified briefs filed in several detainee cases this month, officials said, the Justice Department adopted an ambivalent stance. It cited the ruling as a precedent while also reasserting its own contradictory argument that the laws of war matter. The debate would go on.
"We'll see how the cases develop," Attorney General


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Delicate Task to Salvage Costa Concordia Begins
Engineers have started the process of righting the Costa Concordia, the cruise ship that struck a reef near Giglio Island off the coast of Italy in January 2012. Dipti Kapadia reports. Photo: Getty Images
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In the ski resort of Pinetree, Colorado, a middle-aged lawyer collapses and dies. At first, the explanation seems obvious. There are just a couple of loose ends that don't quite make sense. But the more the police and his next of kin try to build a picture of how Matthew Chambers died, the more it seems like something is seriously wrong somewhere.
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The U.S. State Department didn't reveal much of anything on Thursday in the wake of reports that North Korean officials had detained an 85-year-old California veteran of the Korean War last month.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a wide-ranging news conference in Washington, D.C., that she "wouldn't dispute" reports that Merrill Newman was being held in North Korea, but she wouldn't confirm it either.
"I just don't have any more specifics on it," Psaki told reporters.
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Earlier Thursday, NBC News' Andrea Mitchell had asked Secretary of State John Kerry about the reports Newman had been detained, but he did not address Newman's reported detention specifically.
"They have other people, too," Kerry said. "These are all very, very disturbing choices by the North Koreans."
Newman's son, Jeffrey Newman of Pasadena, told the Associated Press that on Oct. 26 his father had been set to return to California when a uniformed North Korean officer boarded the plane he was on and asked for his passport. Jeffrey Newman said his father, who lives in a Palo Alto assisted living facility called the Channing House and was traveling as a tourist, was then told by a flight attendant that he had to leave the plane.
"My dad got off, walked out with the stewardess, and that's the last he was seen,'' Jeffrey Newman said.
It wasn't clear what led to the detention, which the Mercury News first reported on Wednesday.
Newman taught high school in Berkeley and Livermore, and had been to Korea as an infantry officer during the Korean War, the newspaper reported.
"There are parts of this that are, even by North Korean standards, out of the ordinary," said Dan Sneider, associate director for research at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford, told NBC Bay Area.
That North Korea has yet to formally admit holding Newman is "very unusual," according to Sneider. It may indicate that the North Koreans "don't know what to do with him yet," he said.
Sneider said North Korea might hope to use Newman to get something from the United States, as in 2009, when former president Bill Clinton visited Pyongyang to secure the release of two American journalists.
Newman's son told the Associated Press that he was speaking regularly with the U.S. State Department about his father, but U.S. officials wouldn't confirm the detention to reporters, including NBC Bay Area, citing privacy issues.
The son said that, according to his father's traveling companion, Newman earlier had a "difficult'' discussion with North Korean officials about his experiences during the 1950-53 war between U.S.-led United Nations forces and North Korea and ally China.
That war ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty, leaving the Korean Peninsula still technically at war. The war is still an important part of North Korean propaganda, which regularly accuses Washington and Seoul of trying to bring down its political system - statements analysts believe are aimed in part at shoring up domestic support for young leader Kim Jong Un.
The detention comes about a year after North Korea detained another American and as the U.S. State Department warns in a formal notice that Americans should avoid travel to the country, in part because of the risk of arbitrary arrest and detention.
North Korea has detained at least six Americans since 2009, often for alleged missionary work, but it is unusual for a tourist to be arrested. The North's secretive, authoritarian government is sensitive about foreign travelers, and tourists are closely monitored. Analysts say it has used detained Americans as diplomatic pawns in a long-running standoff with the United States over the North's nuclear bomb production, something it denies.
Speaking Thursday to reporters in Beijing, U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Policy Glyn Davies wouldn't confirm Newman's detention but said, generally, that Washington was working with the Swedish Embassy in Pyongyang, which acts as America's protecting power because Washington and Pyongyang don't have official diplomatic relations, ``to try to move this issue along and of course calling on North Korea ... to resolve the issue and to allow our citizens to go free.''
Merrill Newman was traveling with his friend, Bob Hamrdla, who was allowed to return. Hamrdla said in a statement that "there has to be a terrible misunderstanding'' and asked for Newman to be quickly returned to his family.
Jeffrey Newman said his father always wanted to visit North Korea and took lessons in the language before leaving on the nine-day trip. Newman said he believed the inspiration came from the three years his father spent as an infantry officer in the Korean War, but said his father never talked about his service. The son added that the Swedish ambassador had delivered his father's heart medication to the North Korean Foreign Affairs Ministry, but it was unclear whether he had received it.
Despite some recent nuclear diplomacy, tensions remain on the Korean Peninsula after a spring that saw threats from North Korea of nuclear strikes against Washington and Seoul. International disarmament talks are currently deadlocked, with North Korea demanding status as an atomic power and Washington refusing to resume the talks until the North makes progress on past disarmament commitments. The North is estimated to have a handful of crude nuclear devices and has conducted three underground atomic tests.
Davies, the U.S. envoy, told reporters that the holding of American citizens by North Korea is a further indication of its lack of sincerity on restarting a dialogue on nuclear issues.
Jeffrey Newman said he believed North Korea would eventually release his father after realizing that all they have is an "elderly traveler, a grandfather with a heart condition.''
"We don't know what this misunderstanding is all about,'' he said. ""All we want as a family is to have my father, my kids' grandfather, returned to California so he can be with his family for Thanksgiving.''
NBC Bay Area's Kris Sanchez, and the Associated Press' Foster Klug, Robert Jablon, Channing Joseph and Christopher Bodeen in Beijing contributed to this story.


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NORTHFIELD, Minn. (10/08/11)—Fullback Brett Baune rushed for 102 yards and three touchdowns and the Concordia defense held Carleton to only 128 yards of total offense as the Cobbers overwhelmed the Knights 26-7 in Northfield.
The Cobbers set the tone for the perfect autumn afternoon by scoring on the opening possession of the game. CC marched 75 yards in 13 plays to take a 7-0 lead with 9:52 to play in the first quarter and never looked back. Concordia's go-ahead TD marked the first time all season that Carleton had given up any points in the first quarter. The Cobbers would add another Baune touchdown in the second quarter to take a 14-0 lead at halftime and then built a 20-0 edge in the third frame before the Knights would score their only touchdown of the game on a 92-yard kickoff return. CC finished off the scoring at the start of the fourth quarter on Baune's final score of the afternoon.
Baune carried the ball 17 times and finished with over 100 yards for the second time this season. It was also Baune's second game where he scored three TD's. He now has 12 touchdowns on the year and has scored at least on TD in all six games this season. His 12 overall touchdowns is tied for the conference lead and is seven shy of the Cobber single-season record for TD's of 19 set by Adam Swingdorf in 2007.
The Cobber defense continues to progress as a unit each week. The CC "Black Shirts" forced four turnovers for the second straight week. They have now come away with 15 turnovers on the year and their +8 turnover margin leads the MIAC.
The two biggest statistical numbers for the defense came in total offensive yards allowed and third-down conversion rate. The 128 totals yards in offense is the fewest allowed by a CC defense since the 2002 season when they kept Carleton to only 60 total yards. Concordia also held the Knights to only 3-of-12 on third down plays and only allowed Carleton to post three drives that lasted more than five plays.
The Cobbers also came up with seven sacks on the day and now lead the MIAC in QB tackles with 28. They have recorded at least two sacks in every game and have had three games where they have gotten the opposing teams quarterback behind the line at least five times.
Tyler Spiczka came away with a pair of interceptions on the afternoon. He also had 2.0 tackles and one pass break up. Bryce Hentges recorded his league-leading fourth "pick" of the year. Hentges also had 4.0 tackles. Peter Hvidston led the team in tackles with 10.0. He has now had at least 10.0 tackles in three of the last four games and has 56.0 on the year. Fellow linebacker Matt Monekedick had 9.0 tackles and is now fifth in the MIAC in overall tackles with 57.0. Both Paul Streich and Tyler Berling had 1.5 sacks. Streich now leads the MIAC in sacks with 6.0.
On offense - Concordia ran 65 plays, gained 354 yards of total offense and held on to the ball for 33:26. The CC offense was also 7-for-14 on third down conversions and 1-for-1 on fourth down attempts.
Senior quarterback Michael Dunham was an efficient 11-for-14 for 129 yards and one TD on the day. He also ran for 29 yards. Dunham now needs only 490 yards to break the school record for career passing yards set by Ethan Pole from 1995-98. His 546 career completions are 106 shy of Pole's record of 667.
Besides Baune and Dunham, the two biggest stat fillers for the Cobbers were Bronson Shepherd and Luke Gotta. Shepherd caught five passes for 79 yards and also one TD while Gotta ran the ball eight times and gained a career-high 61 yards.
Concordia now heads back to Moorhead to host Augsburg on Saturday, Oct. 15 at 1 p.m. in the annual Homecoming game.
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Firstly, I've created a Kickstarter Campaign to raise funds for my new DOUBLE ALBUM!!!
Secondly, I'm heading to the West Coast USA for a tour with John Ludington in a few days… info below.
Beyond that, there are 3 European Tours planned in May, August and September… info below.
Kickstart our new double album, "Tin Wood Soldier" and "Friend Producers", both are very interesting projects:
March 7 San Francisco, CA – SUB/mission
March 9 Sacramento, CA – Luna's
March 10 Davis, CA – G Street Wunderbar
March 13 Arcata, CA – The Bat Cave
March 15 Portland, OR – Mississippi Pizza
March 16 Olympia, WA – Kitzel's Crazy Delicious Delicatessen
March 17 Olympia, WA – Olympia Ballroom
March 18 Seattle, WA – Hollow Earth Radio Magma Festival
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Visitors relived the golden age of travel in the Merseyside Maritime Museum's major exhibition Liverpool to New York: the only way to cross, which ran from 28 January until 14 August 2005.
Until the 1960s the ship was the only way to cross the Atlantic for many people. One of the main UK departure ports was Liverpool. Two of the greatest Atlantic shipping lines, Cunard and White Star, were based in the city. At the height of their popularity the lives of thousands of people on Merseyside were linked with the Atlantic liners, as passengers, crew, employees and suppliers.
The type of people that travelled on the liners varied immensely. They included immigrants sailing to a new world, American tourists returning from Europe and famous celebrities heading to Hollywood.
A liner at sea was a self-contained world. The exhibition 'Liverpool to New York' aimed to bring this world to life by recreating a voyage day by day, letting visitors experience each stage of the journey as the passengers and crew themselves would have done. Explore the main themes online by following the links below.
This blockbuster exhibition at the Maritime Museum included original artefacts and equipment from some of the most luxurious ocean liners, such as the Queen Mary and the Mauretania. It also featured interactives and hands-on displays, to give visitors a taste of life on board.
A collection of medals and an engraved silver loving cup that were presented to Captain Arthur Rostron of the Cunard liner Carpathia, for his rescue of all the survivors from the Titanic, were also on show.
Another prize exhibit was the superb 4 metre model of the Birkenhead-built Cunard liner Mauretania (II) 1939-65, on loan from the National Maritime Museum in London.
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Taking Pleasure in the Creator and His Creation
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[The demon Screwtape writes:] [God, the "Enemy," is] a hedonist at heart. All those fasts and vigils and stakes and crosses are only a facade. Or only like foam on the sea shore. Out at sea, out in His sea, there is pleasure, and more pleasure. He makes no secret of it; at His right hand are "pleasures for evermore." Ugh! Don't think He has the least inkling of that high and austere mystery to which we rise in the Miserific Vision. He's vulgar, Wormwood. He has a bourgeois mind. He has filled His world full of pleasures. There are things for humans to do all day long without His minding in the least—sleeping, washing, eating, drinking, making love, playing, praying, working. Everything has to be twisted before it's any use to us. We fight under cruel disadvantages. Nothing is naturally on our side.
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Rogue administrator hijacks city network; experts tell how to maintain control of network resources.
Nothing gets people talking like a good story and in July 2008, headlines and blogs were abuzz with the news that Terry Childs, a network engineer in San Francisco's city-county government, was arrested for seizing control of the fiber network, locking out co-workers and denying officials the passwords to get back in. Mayor Gavin Newsom had to visit the jailhouse to obtain the passwords from Childs in a secret meeting that even the district attorney knew nothing about.
The press reported the story with enough drama to pique readers' interest. In a July 14 article, the San Francisco Chronicle referred to Childs as a "disgruntled city computer engineer" who received a bad performance review. The Washington Post published on Aug. 11 said he "hijacked the system" under the user name "Maggot617" and that police found diagrams of San Francisco's network, $10,000 cash and bullets at Childs' home.
No conviction has been made, but Childs' motives are on many minds. Most can only speculate at this point, but IT managers might do well to ponder why an employee would do this. After all, it happened in one government agency, what's to stop it from happening elsewhere?
Some speculated that Childs became too possessive of his work, though that's not easy to prove or verify. In a July 18 InfoWorld article, Senior Contributing Writer Paul Venezia wrote that "Childs apparently trusted no one but himself with the details of the network" and that administrators who build and maintain large networks often "care for them like children." But if Childs felt that way, that reason would ultimately have been no excuse, said Ron Vinson, chief administrative officer and deputy director of San Francisco's Department of Technology.
"[That] network does not belong to Terry Childs. It belongs to the city and county of San Francisco, and that's the major point there," he said.
How It All Began
In July, Childs was charged with felony counts of computer tampering. The network he hijacked was San Francisco's FiberWAN (wide area network) that handles payroll, e-mail, and law enforcement and jail documentation. Childs was one of five people who worked on the network.
"On July 9, in a process to complete our change control and change management system, I requested of Mr. Childs the user [identifications] and passwords for several devices on the FiberWAN network," said Chief Operations Officer Richard Robinson. Childs refused to comply. The devices in question were different types of network routers and switches.
According to Vinson, the department had already been implementing network security protocols, and when other network employees observed actions that weren't best practices, it led to Childs' questioning. Vinson said San Francisco paid at least $182,000 to Cisco and other contractors to help remedy the problem.
Childs made unauthorized and undocumented changes to the network, Robinson said. "The rest of the network engineering staff would not have the ability to continue to do any change control, any change management or any continued rollout of the FiberWAN," he said. "That being the case, it became a criminal issue because he was denying us administrative access to equipment that the city owned."
Robinson contacted the police department, and the officers also asked Childs to provide the passwords, but he still refused. According to the Chronicle, he gave authorities bogus passwords at one point. He was arrested three days later on July 12, Robinson recalled. The Department of Technology started working with Cisco, its network vendor, to handle the network as well as possible in the meantime. Once Childs gave the mayor the codes on July 21, network engineers regained control. But even now, Robinson and his team are still trying to determine the extent of the changes Childs made.
"We have found that Mr. Childs had put other devices, unknown to management or other network engineers,
within the network and that this is undocumented and unauthorized equipment," Robinson said.
In its August story, The Post reported that Childs set up unauthorized network doorways that allowed him "unfettered and undetectable access." He obtained pages of user names and passwords and downloaded gigabytes of city data to a personal storage device. At the time, Childs wasn't the only engineer with control over the network, but his control increased as his co-workers moved to other projects.
Childs left many devices inaccessible; he had gone through and encrypted many of them, Robinson said. These devices don't hinder the department from administering the network, but they do make it harder for personnel to identify and correct problems Childs may have left behind.
Robinson said the Department of Technology was in the process of furthering its security protocols and mechanisms, and Childs made the changes difficult by initially refusing to offer the passwords. These security steps included revisiting the city's intrusion detection and intrusion prevention strategies, architecture and approach. The city was also working to enhance asset management, identity access and password management tools.
Internal Threats
Unfortunately insider sabotage comes with the territory. In 2007, the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication published a graph of public- and private-sector security breaches from 1980 to 2006. In 2006 alone, of about 250 reported incidents, nearly 200 came from threats within the organizations that reported the breaches. This graph was reprinted in a 2007 report, Insider Security Threats: State CIOs Take Action Now!, published by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO).
The San Francisco story can also be seen as a warning, and CIOs have definitely taken notice.
Bill Schrier, chief technology officer of Seattle's Department of Information Technology, wrote about the incident on "The Chief Seattle Geek Blog." He advises that CIOs should be careful not to give one employee too much power over the network.
"That sort of responsibility has to be shared, and to actually share it, there ought to be multiple administrators who can do the same sort of work and have access to the passwords -- with management oversight to make sure that the job responsibilities are divided and supervised," he said.
Schrier isn't the only one with that opinion. "You must have a balance of authority across your security layer, either with the network or applications, so you don't have one person that is godlike and controls all your resources," said Rico Singleton, a New York state deputy CIO. "You typically have a decentralized or federated security model of which you have redundant levels of super-user administrator type of authority."
Redundant levels of access means there will be more than one way, or more than one high-level administrator, with top-level authority, to access the system. However, the ability to distribute network responsibilities between different people may not always be easy to attain in state and local government.
"Government budgets and government personnel policies make it much harder to sort of do things in an efficient way," said John Pescatore, a Gartner analyst who specializes in security and privacy. "We also see government staffs are often much more multipurpose." In other words, while a private company may have a large department of administrators, a much smaller government agency may only be able to afford one administrator who also performs other functions that are unrelated to IT administration.
"The more common problem people worry about, and the more common way things have gone wrong, is when an authorized administrator -- we typically call them a super-user -- oversteps their authority," Pescatore said. They might do things that they really shouldn't do just because they have administrative access, whether it's IRS taxpayer database surfing or passport application surfing, he said.
Pescatore also recommends that departments stay on top of
who needs access for what task, and remove the appropriate access when tasks are no longer necessary. This role-based access protocol restricts system access to authorized users only.
"That seems simple, but so many times security audits are done and you find 30 percent of the admin accounts are still active, even though that person doesn't work there anymore and hasn't for months. As soon as those privileges are not needed to do their job, those privileges or authorizations should be removed," he said.
Pescatore and Schrier recommend configuring security management software tools so the authorizations of two administrators are required before significant changes can be made. Implementation of this type of software in a network environment forces departments to avoid the risky practice of giving only one employee the keys to the digital kingdom. Pescatore said Tivoli and Computer Associates provide tools that create automated logs for documenting network changes and blocked accesses.
Pescatore said the software would log if an employee were trying to surf an unauthorized database, making administrators aware of suspicious activity. Although it can be expensive to install such software agents on every necessary server, that price might be dwarfed by the cost and humiliation of having to notify 27 million citizens that their information was compromised, he said.
Keeping a Watchful Eye
The NASCIO report identified malicious employees as the No. 1 insider threat to a department's data, and it offers ways to deal with them. According to the report, IT employees may be too proficient for roles-based access and security awareness protocols. Their activity should be monitored and audited for abnormalities and dealt with quickly through severe consequences, including criminal charges if necessary.
NASCIO Executive Director Doug Robinson recommends departments pay attention to employees who are under stress.
"Perhaps they are going through a divorce, a foreclosure or financial instability," he said. "They are disgruntled because of a performance appraisal compensation or a raise that they didn't believe was adequate. They were demoted; they were fired perhaps."
Schrier said he also believes that managers should keep an eye out for employee stressors. "Certainly a warning sign for management is if an individual is taking a lot of overtime or is using a lot of overtime. It means that particular individual is probably being overworked," he said. "It requires some of the responsibilities to be spread around."
According to Schrier, if managers watch overtime and disperse responsibilities, they might also reduce the chances of IT workers getting too attached to their code. People who get too wound up in their work can become overly possessive, as if they're working on personal property instead of government-owned resources and projects.
IT shops should know as much as possible about prospective employees before hiring them by expanding background check procedures. The Post's August article reported that Childs "carried a list of convictions, including aggravated burglary, aggravated robbery and theft, according to court documents." He spent four years in a Kansas prison, but according to court documents he omitted those details from his employment application for San Francisco government service, The Post reported.
After the Storm
Although most of the dust has settled, San Francisco's Department of Information Technology still has a pile of digital debris to sift through. Apparently disgruntled network administrator Terry Childs left a networking device hidden on the city FiberWAN network that, as of this writing, IT staff are still trying to locate -- months following Childs' arrest.
The IDG News Service reported on Sept. 10, 2008, that an outside router was installed on the FiberWAN network that provided unauthorized remote access. City officials discovered it in August and don't have the correct user name or password, so they can't log on to the device and see what's going on. The prosecution has a screenshot of the message received when the improper login information is entered: "This system is the personal property of Terry S. Childs."


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Runners of the Week - No. 6
Kirwa won his fourth meet title in five races, clocking a 24:15.10 8K at the University of Central Florida Black and Gold Challenge on Oct. 14. The junior from Eldoret, Kenya, finished nearly a minute ahead of the second-place finisher from NCAA Division I Florida A&M. He helped lead the No. 23 Eagles to a fourth-place team finish with 85 points in a 12-team field. This is the third national weekly honor for Kirwa.
Ronoh ran a course-record 5K time of 18:04.22 to win top honors at the NCAA Division III Wilmington College (Ohio) Fall Classic on Oct. 14. The individual title was the junior's fourth straight of the season as she finished 29 seconds ahead of the runner-up in a field of 241 runners. Ronoh, a native of Timboroa, Kenya, helped lead the Blue Raiders to a 12th-place finish with 397 points in the team standings.
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Men's Nominees: Mitchell Dale, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); Philiph Tonui, Hannibal-LaGrange (Mo.); Jimmy Oribo, Lewis-Clark State (Idaho); David Weeks, Siena Heights (Mich.); Silas Kisorio, Oklahoma Christian; Andrew Herrera, Texas Wesleyan; Seth Bridges, Northwest (Wash.); Frank Adelman, Southwestern (Kan.); Austin Houchens, Berea (Ky.); Austin Epting, Blue Mountain (Miss.); Jim Vonnahme, Grand View (Iowa); Warren Lannon, York (Neb.); Daniel Sorenson, Shorter (Ga.); Hilary Cheruiyot, Tennessee Wesleyan; Joseph Herber, Huntington (Ind.); Edwin Ronoh, Doane (Neb.); Nick Wilson, Rio Grande (Ohio).
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Right now, there are a lot of people that have precious metals, coins, jewelry, and so much more lying around the home. If you find yourself with a lot of different things that you're not using, or even forgot that you had, you are not alone. Whether you think about it or not, you may be able to garner a great bit of money for items that you don't even use any longer.
Many people are discovering this to be true, especially those that have tried to sell, fix, or even pawn certain things in the past. There's a new methodology to getting paid, and it's not necessarily something that has been difficult in the past, but now, with the advent of technology, you'll be able to get rid of old items fast.
The best way to approach the issue of getting rid of items, is to look into going with a pawn shop.
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Lady Antebellum Deliver Energetic Rendition of 'Compass' to Kick Off 2013 American Country Awards
Lady Antebellum kicked off the 2013 American Country Awards with an energetic performance of their newest hit, 'Compass.'
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As the singers rocked through their catchy hit, the stage was ablaze with neon. Behind them, some of the lyrics were scrawled out on a lit-up sign and the fans in the pits waved florescent sticks as they sang along to every single word.
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