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NYPD Program Designated Entire Mosques As 'Terrorist Organizations' And Failed To Deliver Useful Data When It Mattered Most
from the an-ongoing,-audacious-failure dept
The NYPD's defenders claim that minorities will be the real victims if the stop and frisk program is neutered by court decisions and legislation. It's an odd claim considering minorities made up 88% of the unconstitutional stops, but that's the line of thinking up top.
I wonder how they'll spin this latest revelation. The NYPD carved itself exceptions to policies meant to limit First Amendment violations by declaring entire New York mosques as "terror groups."
The New York Police Department has secretly labeled entire mosques as terrorist organizations, a designation that allows police to use informants to record sermons and spy on imams, often without specific evidence of criminal wrongdoing.How did the NYPD do this? By exploiting post-9/11 paranoia and leveraging the word "protection" in order to infringe on civil liberties. NY Magazine details how this went down in a very long and thorough writeup on the history of the NYPD's civil liberty-stomping Demographics Group. The first step in turning mosques into Constitution-free zones required a rewrite of rules referred to as the "Handschu guidelines."
Designating an entire mosque as a terrorism enterprise means that anyone who attends prayer services there is a potential subject of an investigation and fair game for surveillance.
Since the 9/11 attacks, the NYPD has opened at least a dozen "terrorism enterprise investigations" into mosques, according to interviews and confidential police documents. The TEI, as it is known, is a police tool intended to help investigate terrorist cells and the like.
Many TEIs stretch for years, allowing surveillance to continue even though the NYPD has never criminally charged a mosque or Islamic organization with operating as a terrorism enterprises.
"The guidelines stated that police could investigate constitutionally protected activities only when they had specific information that a crime was being committed or was imminent. Undercover officers could be used only when they were essential to a case, not as a way to keep tabs on groups that might be up to no good. Police were prohibited from building dossiers on people or keeping their names in files without specific evidence of crimes."Over the years, constitutional protection has often been viewed as an impediment to investigative work. Just as the government pushed for warrantless wiretaps, location tracking and cell phone content searches, the NYPD pushed for uncontrolled access to anything it considered a hotspot for terrorists -- in this case, the city's many mosques. The bizarrely-named "Demographics Group" used the recent terrorist attacks in New York City as the justification for violating First Amendment protections.
[T]he activities that [CIA liaison Larry] Sanchez and [former senior CIA officer David] Cohen were proposing would not have been permitted under the Handschu guidelines. So, on September 12, 2002, Cohen filed a 23-page document in federal court asking a judge to throw out the guidelines and give his officers more leeway.This 23-page document was, to put it lightly, bullshit. But it was a "masterpiece" of button-pushing, an exceedingly well-crafted bit of rhetoric that served as a justification blueprint for nearly every constitutionally-problematic NYPD program that followed. Cohen's combination of jargon and fearmongering won over Judge Charles Haight, who decided the "Handschu guidelines" were no longer applicable to today's terrorist-heavy world.
Cohen insisted that the world had changed since Al Qaeda attacked America, and the NYPD needed to change with it. "These changes were not envisioned when the Handschu guidelines were agreed upon," he wrote, "and their continuation dangerously limits the ability of the NYPD to protect the people it is sworn to serve."
Cohen painted a frightening picture of a nation—and a city—under siege from enemies within. "They escape detection by blending into American society. They may own homes, live in communities with families, belong to religious or social organizations, and attend educational institutions," he wrote. "They typically display enormous patience, often waiting years until the components of their plans are perfectly aligned."
He argued that America's freedoms of movement, privacy, and association gave terrorists an advantage, one that left U.S. citizens painfully exposed. "The freedom of our society," Cohen wrote, "has also made it possible for terrorist organizations to maintain U.S.-based activities."
The new guidelines still contained one significant restriction: the department was forbidden from collecting or storing information related to First Amendment-protected activities (like worship and speech) unless it was "directly related" to criminal activity. This limitation obviously wasn't going to work for Sanchez and Cohen, so they did what the NSA has done -- expanded the definition of "related." Here's a quote by Sanchez that illustrates the type of spin deployed to loosen the restrictions.
"Part of our mission is to protect New York City citizens from becoming terrorists."This is taken from a statement delivered to Congress. Unbelievably, no one questioned whether the NYPD should really be in the "business" of "protecting" New Yorkers from terrorist recruiting efforts. No one questioned the fact that widening the scope of its "mission" allowed the NYPD's mini-CIA to claim nearly everything and everyone in New York City was "related" to its investigations, thanks to nearly everyone being somehow susceptible to terrorist recruitment efforts. In fact, as NY Magazine points out, Congress "enthusiastically embraced" Cohen and Sanchez's views.
With anything and everything now "related" to the Demographic Group's investigations, the data poured in. And most of what was collected was completely useless. Well, "useless" if you believe the group was primarily there to catch terrorists. If you believe it was there to scoop up as much information as it could about mosque attendees and their non-mosque-related activities, then the program was firing on all cylinders.
About once a week, they filed reports on conversations they'd eavesdropped on. Nobody trained the rakers on what exactly qualified as suspicious, so they reported anything they heard. One Muslim man made it into files even though he praised President Bush's State of the Union address and said people who criticized the U.S. government didn't realize how good they had it. Two men of Pakistani ancestry were included for saying the nation's policies had become increasingly anti-Muslim since 9/11. Muslims who criticized the CIA's use of drones to launch missiles in Pakistan were documented.The surveillance program grew, as unchecked programs tend to, expanding beyond even the loosely-defined targets.
Cohen and Sanchez's efforts also reached beyond the Muslim community. Undercover officers traveled the country, keeping tabs on liberal protest groups like Time's Up and the Friends of Brad Will. Police infiltrated demonstrations and collected information about antiwar groups and those that marched against police brutality.So, now the Demographic Group was surveilling everyone the NYPD viewed with suspicion, including those who simply don't care to be brutalized by police officers. This program extended so far past its original point that even the FBI became concerned after Sanchez tried to sell it some of the Demographics Group's collected data, declaring the program was "targeting individuals and businesses without cause." Taking the files would have violated the FBI's rules.
Not only was the FBI concerned, but the CIA found the unit's work troublesome, especially as no one could point to any proven results of its activities.
Sitting with the NYPD, [senior CIA officer Margaret Henoch] felt a similar unease. She didn't see how the Demographics reports could be used to draw conclusions. "I think this is a really impressive collection of what's where, but I don't understand how it helps you," Henoch told the NYPD brass… She asked if there was some success story that summed up the program's usefulness in its first two years. When she didn't get an answer, she assumed that the NYPD was being coy with a potential rival. Even in the post-9/11 era, intelligence agencies often jealously guarded their secrets.We've covered that exact lack of results here at Techdirt. Thousands of man-hours and millions of dollars spent, and the only success stories seem to involve questionable sting operations that set up unassuming chumps to take a fall on terrorism charges. The only outcome to date has been an impressive slate of civil liberties violations.
Even worse, despite years of wide collections, no one who ended up in a file was ever crossed off the list of potential terrorists. If the Demographic Group gathered anything on you, you were a suspect for life. The analogy Cohen used to sell the judge on the program -- "raking" through "coal" to look for "hotspots" -- turned out be a shovel that produced nothing more than bigger and bigger piles of coal.
Then came the most damning moment of all. The collection efforts failed when they mattered most.
In September 2009, the National Security Agency intercepted an e-mail from a taxi driver named Najibullah Zazi to an e-mail address linked to one of Al Qaeda's most senior leaders. The message contained the line "the marriage is ready."Here's where the NYPD's mini-CIA meets the real CIA and its more secretive, more sinister big brother, the NSA. All of these agencies, handling rakes or pitchforks or whatever in order to comb through haystacks and piles of coal, collaborated to search for that one ember, that one needle -- and came up with nothing.
Marriage and wedding were among Al Qaeda's favorite code words for attacks, referring to the day that a suicide bomber met his brides, the maidens of the hereafter.
Trying to ascertain the scope of the plot, the NYPD searched the files of the Demographics Unit. Even though the rakers had canvassed Zazi's neighborhood daily, and had even visited the travel agent where he bought his tickets between New York and Colorado, there was not a single piece of useful information.
Harvesting massive amounts of data simply because you've carved yourself a loophole in the Constitution not only abuses the trust of American citizens, but it does so in exchange for "collections" that are 99.9-100% useless. The defenders continue to claim every bit of this extraneous information is somehow "relevant" or "related," but when it comes time to put it all to work, the dots fail to connect. See also: the Boston Bombing.
Kelly still believes this program is useful and violates no one's rights. Of course he feels this way. Citizens are merely data points or potential criminals or, very frequently, both. The only people he trusts are members of his police force. Everyone else is a name on a file, collected and observed simply because someone gave the NYPD the permission to do it.
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MOLINE, Ill. -- Rose-Hulman upset No. 1 Webster 3-2 in extra innings to eliminate the nation's top team from the Division III Central Baseball Regional on Thursday afternoon.
Sophomore Warren Whithaus snapped a 2-2 tie in the 11th inning with a game winning single to score junior Josh Hoeing with the game winning run. The victory marked Rose-Hulman's first win against a baseball team ranked No. 1 in the nation.
With the win, Rose-Hulman adavnces in the bracket to a game that will either be played late Friday night or early Saturday. The remaining games in Thursday's Central Regional were postponed until Friday due to rain.
The win also marked the second time this season that Rose-Hulman has eliminated the No. 1 team in the nation in an NCAA Division III Tournament. The Fightin' Engineer men's soccer defeated previously undefeated Ohio Wesleyan 1-0 in the Round of 32 in November.
Sophomore Caleb Kissel led the Fightin' Engineer offense with five singles, and Hoeing added four hits including a pair of doubles. Whithaus had two singles as part of Rose-Hulman's 15-hit attack.
Sophomore Karson Nixon started and pitched six shutout innings prior to a 50-minute rain delay to give the Engineers a solid outing. Nixon allowed just three hits with one strikeout as Rose-Hulman led 2-0 in the bottom of the sixth when the rains hit.
After the rain delay, senior Kevin Farley pitched two innings and allowed one earned run as the Gorloks showcased their top ranking in a rally to tie the score at 2-2.
Head coach Jeff Jenkins called on sophomore closer Alec McNally starting in the ninth inning, and McNally threw his best game of the season to earn his second win. McNally held the top ranked team without a hit over three innings in the win.
Rose-Hulman jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning. Senior Hank Akard singled, stole second and advanced to third on a single by Kissel. Senior Andrew Benitez then hit a double to right field to score Akard and give Rose-Hulman a 1-0 lead. Pitcher Chris Jansen pitched out of a bases loaded jam for Webster to keep the score at 1-0.
In the sixth, Kissel singled and scored on a Hoeing double on the final play before the rain delay was called to give Rose-Hulman a two-run advantage.
Webster knotted the score with two runs in the eighth. Matt Wollnik and Corey Lasky singled to start the rally, and both later scored on a two-run single by Jordan Stoulp. With two runners aboard, Farley coaxed back-to-back hitters to fly out to Akard on a pair of sliding catches in center field.
Rose-Hulman had a chance to win in the 10th, when Kissel singled and took second on a wild pitch. Webster pitcher Dylan Dean Smith recorded the final out to push the game to the 11th.
In the 11th, Hoeing opened the frame with a double to center field and took third on a bunt single by freshman Zach Trusk. After a walk to sophomore Josh Koutnik, Whithaus lined a game winning single to center in a heavy rain.
The win marked Rose-Hulman's first Division III Tournament win in baseball since 2010 and the fourth in school history. The Fightin' Engineers need one more win to make their farthest advancement in an NCAA Baseball Tournament in school history, and could also meet archrival DePauw later in the tournament with one more victory.

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I Am Almost Always Hungry
Princeton Architectural Press, 1 okt. 1999 - 262 pagina's
Legendary Harper's Bazaar art director Alexey Brodovitch had a favorite saying: "Why to eat bacon and eggs every day?" The designers at San Francisco-based design firm Cahan & Associates, in their hunger for fresh ideas, find inspiration in the most unexpected places, such as an oddly sculptural piece of discarded metal in the alley near their office, or a conversation with an elaborately tattooed bicycle messenger. From these eclectic ingredients the office serves up in-your-face graphics that are exceptional for their visceral impact yet still convey the strategic thinking behind each piece. The firm's working methods, involving extensive exploration, collaborations, and play, are documented in this monograph through interviews with found Bill Cahan, clients, and vendors; writings by colleagues; photo essays; proposals to clients that were accepted and rejected; and finished pieces, providing a portrait of a firm for whom process is just as important as product.
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Pentagon looking for 'Big Mechanism' to mine health data
The Pentagon is planning to embark on a $45 million data mining program, which it calls a "Big Mechanism," to track research into the biology of cancer and signal pathways for cancer cells.
An announcement released recently by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) shows the program hopes to comb through the growing trove of worldwide scientific research to find specific terms related to cancer and assemble them into a more coherent package that will allow researchers to better understand the latest developments.
Medical researchers have searched for years for a system that can find information located in various reports and combine it into one place. The philosophy behind the Big Mechanism is for researchers to be able to find new information found in the various scientific reports and papers published around the world and then absorb that information into their ongoing work.
The program is an example of bioinformatics, which involves managing, mining and interpreting information included in biological reports and data.
STORY:Pentagon on watch for disruptive technology worldwide
Officials and researchers throughout the government have been targeting ways to examine more data to find treatments for various medial ailments or to track inventions that have the potential to disrupt U.S. military efforts. The Pentagon has launched a new project called Technology Watch/Horizon Scanning, which aims to track developing technologies around the world that could either aid U.S. military efforts or seriously disrupt existing military plans.
The DARPA announcement seeks researchers from universities, government and private industry to propose how to build the mechanism and weave data mining into ongoing research. One government-affiliated think tank and contractor, the MITRE Corp. of Bedford, Mass., is a leader in data mining research.
By the final 12 months of the project, DARPA documents show, mechanism developers should be able to identify targets for therapy based on their findings in the data.
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
* Homemade Christmas Crafts: Pine Cone Elves
I participated in the
and this year's theme was "Fairy Tales"
I don't know why, but for some reason the first thing
that came to my mind were pine cone elves when I heard this theme.
So, I embarked on a mini crafty journey
to make some little elf friends to spread some holiday cheer.
I used a small pine cone for the body
(yummy cinnamon scented ones
swiped borrowed from a potpourri mix!)
and a wooden bead for the head (attached with glue gun)
The faces were drawn with permanent markers.
The arms and legs were made with brown pipe cleaners
trimmed and tucked into the pine cones.
(A dab of glue from the glue gun kept them from dismembering themselves.)
I hand-sewed the hats from felt, then added a dab of
glue to keep them in place.
Their scarves are scraps of my rainbow fleece.
The mittens and shoes were cut from felt scraps
and glued in place around the tips of the pipe cleaner appendages.
My elfy friends waving goodbye as they set off on their
cross-country adventures for the ornament swap!
I made a couple of extras for our tree but my kids stole them...
I think they're visiting Fairy Land.
A very sad photo of my elves when they were starting out!
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So you need to do some disk performance testing? Maybe some benchmarking? What tools are out there to help you out? Well I am glad you asked... here are some that I use on my daily travels:
IOmeter is an old classic, with emphasis on the word old. At time of writing, the most recent update was from 2006. However it remains very popular mainly because it is free and easy to use.
Some tips when using IOmeter:
On Windows, IOmeter needs to be run as an Administrator, which seems to be the most common mistake people make (not running as Administrator means you don't see any drives). You can only run one instance of IOmeter in Windows, which means if multiple users logon to the same server, only one user can run IOmeter. You also really need to run IOmeter with a queue depth ( or number of outstanding I/Os) greater than one, with multiple workers. If you don't, you will not be able to drive the storage to saturation. For instance here are some results running 75% read I/O, 0% random, 4 KB blocks on a Windows 2008 machine with 4 workers. In each case against the same 128 GB volume on a Storwize V7000 backended by 4 x 300 GB SSDs in a RAID10 array. In each case I let the machine run for 10 minutes before taking the screen capture to ensure the performance was steady state and not peaking.
Firstly I used a queue depth of one. Aggregate performance was around 27000 IOPS.
Then I used a queue depth of 10. Aggregate performance was around 81000 IOPS.
I then used a queue depth of 20. Aggregate performance was around 113000 IOPS.
What I am trying to show is that taking the defaults (one worker with a queue depth of 1) will not drive the storage to a useful value for comparison... you need to do some tuning and some experimenting to get valid results. At some point increasing queue depths will not improve performance (it may actually decrease it).
You can get IOmeter from here:
There is a great how to document for IOmeter here:
There is an alternative to IOmeter called IOrate (created by an EMC employee). It is also very popular and appears to still be in active development. It is not unusual to see IBM performance whitepapers that used IOrate to generate the workload.
You can download it from here:
I/O Analyzer
This is a fairly recent tool that I have not had a chance to try out (due to time pressures). The tool uses virtual machines under VMware to generate the I/O and includes some very nice workload capture and playback tools as well as reporting tools.
There is a good write-up on some results and experiences here:
Jetstress is a benchmarking tool created by Microsoft to simulate Microsoft Exchange workloads. I like the fact you can configure it to run for very long periods and it has a more real world feel about it than just running empty I/Os. You can get the base software here, but you will also need some files from a Microsoft Exchange install DVD (or from an installed instance of Microsoft Exchange). If you cannot get to those files you cannot complete the startup process inside Jeststress.
You can get Jetstress itself from here:
There is a great how-to guide for Jetstress here:
Orion tool
Oracle offer a tool on their website called Orion, which will simulate the workload of an Oracle database. You can get the tool from here (although you will need to create a free Oracle user account before you can download it).
SDelete is not a benchmarking tool or a performance modelling tool. But it is a great way to generate I/O with very little effort. Just create a new drive in Windows and then run SDelete against it with the -c parameter. This parameter is used for secure deletion, so generates random patterns (which is real traffic - albeit 100% sequential writes). The syntax is like:
sdelete -c e:\
You can get SDelete from here:
Just doing file copies is probably the worst way to generate benchmarks, especially as a single copy is usually a single threaded operation.
I am sure there are plenty of other tools out there to generate benchmarks and simulate workload. My main concern with many of them is that synthetic (artificial) workloads do not reflect real world workloads.
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Cassini image database & updates, And notifications of PDS data releases
Cassini image database & updates, And notifications of PDS data releases
Jun 29 2007, 11:35 PM
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I sketched my little diagrams and chanted "SOH CAH TOA" and worked it out and yes it came to 114.6 pixels. That sounds like a good plan. I'll put in >114.
I ran that in to Bjorn's database as of March and got the following numbers of images:
Mimas: 422
Enceladus: 623
Tethys: 749
Dione: 884
Rhea: 1584
Hyperion: 677
Iapetus: 2181
Phoebe: 383
These numbers are a little on the highish side...running it down to 200 pixels across, here's what I get:
Mimas: 327
Enceladus: 603
Tethys: 308
Dione: 600
Rhea: 1150
Hyperion: 496
Iapetus: 1061
Phoebe: 227
(Interesting how much of a hit Iapetus and Tethys take, while Enceladus is virtually unchanged!)
...and remember that that's less than 2/3 of the way through the mission. I'm kind of inclined to go with the higher number so as not to have mind-numbing quantities of images where the moons aren't very big, but if someone makes the case that I'll miss out on too many phase angles or mutual events I'll try it with the lower-res ones included.
I should also add that I'm not real excited about downloading 25 volumes and will be more excited about doing this if I can figure out how to use Bjorn's database to write batch files for wget that will only retrieve the files I want...we'll see!
Jun 29 2007, 11:46 PM
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Screw it - go for 2 pixels / degree 230 pixels for cash.
Jun 29 2007, 11:53 PM
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I think it might be a good idea to limit this by resolution and not pixel size. A 115 (or 200) pixel diameter image of Mimas or Enceladus is usually much more interesting than a 115 pixel diameter image of Rhea unless you are interested in photometry. Another way of putting this: Make the size limit in pixels a function of satellite radius.
Jun 30 2007, 12:20 AM
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That's not a bad idea. Got any specific recommendations?
Jun 30 2007, 01:05 AM
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Hm, taking Mimas as your 114 px baseline, that comes out to:
Mimas 114
Enceladus 140
Tethys 292
Dione 306
Rhea 417
Titan 1405
Iapetus 392
Assuming I'm not working with ridiculously antiquated figures here...
Jun 30 2007, 01:10 AM
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I now have the information on the just released Cassini images ready for getting added to the Access image database discussed earlier in this thread. That database includes everything up to and including the April 1, 2007 release. The files below add the images released on July 1, 2007.
Transferring the entire database file is an overkill so I prepared two Excel (!) files that can be imported into the database. The files are fairly small (less than 3 MB each). Emily has hosted them on the same server as the database:
In Access, do File -> Get External Data -> Import
What follows should be obvious, accept the defaults and when asked "Where would you like to store your data?" choose the table "coiss" in the list that appears next to "In an Existing Table:".
Thanks to Emily for hosting this together with the database.
Jul 12 2007, 07:14 PM
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A little comparison of Cassini's solar eclipse as seen by VIMS and ISS:
The leftmost image is a gamma-correct (2.2 gamma) mosaic of four VIMS cubes and is probably closest to what the human eye would see. The middle image is additionally brightened and saturation increased. The rightmost image is a crop from the famous CICLOPS mosaic. Neglecting massive VIMS noise in the visual channel, if you increase the saturation the CICLOPS and VIMS colors appear pretty similar.
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Two short time-lapse sequences:
Three frames on the left show the opposition surge on part of the rings. Don't know which part though, probably A or B rings. The surge appears elongated probably because as VIMS was scanning the cube the opposition highlight moved. Also note ring darkening as phase increases.
The 5 frame sequence on the right was taken on 2006-08-18 and spans an hour and a half. Each VIMS scan took more than 10 minutes to read out. Noisy as hell. I removed most of the linear noise but it wasn't perfect and left some residuals as well as cosmic noise hits.
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Hm, taking Mimas as your 114 px baseline, that comes out to:
Mimas 114
Enceladus 140
Tethys 292
Dione 306
Rhea 417
Titan 1405
Iapetus 392
Assuming I'm not working with ridiculously antiquated figures here...
In addition to size, I think the relative abundance of available images could be a consideration. In this light, it's good for Rhea to have a larger number as there are quite a few hi-res images available. On the other hand, Iapetus has a relative scarcity of images so I would go lower - back to the 100-200 pixel range.
Titan makes sense to have a large threshold, partly as large images are needed to compensate for atmospheric blurring.
Steve [ my planetary maps page ]
Jul 31 2007, 10:18 PM
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I'm returning to this project after a hiatus. I am now trying to figure out what information will be valuable to include in the browse pages. There is a huge number of fields available in the database. Here is what I am thinking about including; let me know if there are any fields I've missed that you can't live without.
FILE_NAME (e.g. W1481738172_2.IMG)
TARGET_NAME (e.g. DIONE)
TARGET_LIST (listed only if it is not "N/A" or identical to TARGET_NAME -- picks up other bodies that may be in frame, useful for mutual events)
OBSERVATION_ID (e.g. ISS_00BDI_GLOCOL001_PRIME) <-- note you get information on which rev you're on in this one
IMAGE_MID_TIME and IMAGE_MID_TIME_SEC_FRAC (e.g. 12/14/2004 5:30:21.716) -- is this OK or is START_TIME better?
PIXEL_SCALE (e.g. 9.3249958) <-- in km
TARGET_DISTANCE (e.g. 156875.92) <-- in km. this is redundant with the pixel scale but I think it's useful to show both.
PHASE_ANGLE (e.g. 34.258215) <-- in degrees
SUB_SPACECRAFT_LATITUDE and SUB_SPACECRAFT_LONGITUDE (e.g. 11.092879 and 207.90797) <-- I prefer this to the CENTER_LAT and CENTER_LON because I think it makes more sense for images where the entire body is contained somewhere within the FOV.
EXPOSURE_DURATION (e.g. 5600) <--need to state units
INSTRUMENT_MODE_ID (listed only if it's been 2x2 or 4x4 binned, "SUM2" or "SUM4")
INST_CMPRS_TYPE (LOSSY or LOSSLESS)
Some questions:
Can I get away with skipping INSTRUMENT_ID? Whether it's WA or NA will be clear from the file name.
Are EMISSION_ANGLE and INCIDENCE_ANGLE important, or is there enough information contained in PHASE_ANGLE?
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Instrument_ID isn't important if you are listing both WACs and NACs, and the file name is listed. That field is just useful as a search criteria, e.g. you want to retrieve NACs only.
Emission angle and incidence angle is important if the object more than fills the frame. Emission angle is important if you are looking for useful Titan images.
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I just went through the process of creating an index page for Dione, using the 2 pixels per degree (=228 pixel diameter) size cutoff:
WARNING: to view this page requires you to download about 42 MB of data.
[Note: I didn't bother uploading the full-size images, only the thumbnails, so the images won't link to anything. Also, I didn't yet include all the fields I mentioned in my previous post; I did intend to include the filters and stupidly forgot. Next time around they'll be in there.]
This included more than 500 images, but after seeing the results I don't think it was enough. Cassini has so danged many filters that those 500 images were for a relatively small number of distinct observations (22), most of them on nontargeted flybys; the query did not pull in nearly as many global shots of the moon as I was hoping to get. So I think I will back away and try the 1 pixel per degree cutoff next time.
What do you think of the layout, with one observation per line? I think I will reduce the size of the thumbnails next time. They are currently 256 pixels -- I think I will reduce to 128 or even 100.
I used IMG2PNG to convert these, and did calibration, but the calibration didn't seem to work for the WAC images for some reason.
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Wow, this is quite an undertaking you're doing there, Emily! You sure your server is good for all this data?
One parameter that might be nice to add is which way north is (IIRC can be approximated from from the so-called TWIST_ANGLE). I'd use IMAGE_MID_TIME as I think it's more reliable than START_TIME.
What do you mean by WAC calibration not working? 128 pixel thumbs seem about right, anything smaller might make more distant observations look bad.
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There are a few more fields I'd include, in approximate order of priority:
The first five are essential in my opinion. Possibly include VOLUME_ID and some of the RINGS_ fields as well.
Note: I'm using the field names from the Access database, not the fields in the INDEX.LBL files (which describe the contents of the INDEX.TAB files from which the database was generated). The field names are usually identical but there are a few exceptions where I broke a field from INDEX.LBL up into two fields, for example the two FILTER_NAME fields (because it seemed more convenient) and the SEC_FRAC fields (because as far as I know the maximum precision of Access dates is one second).
I'd use IMAGE_MID_TIME as you did rather than IMAGE_START_TIME.
The page layout looks fine but it contains a lot of stuff (42 MB) so maybe it should be broken up into several pages, probably by OBSERVATION_ID.
I'll see if I can find out why calibration didn't work for the WA images (it does on my machine when I use my big program from which IMG2PNG was cannibalized).
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I like it. Perhaps you could do it with more images, but do it yearly (in other words, separate pages for 2004, 2005, 2006, etc). One thing (not sure if it is just because you are still working), the links to the PNG images don't work.
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The 2.5-liter naturally aspirated four-cylinder serves base duty in the S trim level, and is only available with front-wheel drive. It's essentially a carryover engine from the 2012 model. The big news for 2013 is the availability of two EcoBoost four-cylinder engines. The smaller of the two is a 1.6-liter turbo producing 178 hp and 184 lb-ft of torque. Although those numbers aren't remarkable for the class, the fuel economy delivered by the pint-sized powerhouse is impressive. At 23 mpg city and 33 mpg highway, the "baby" EcoBoost-powered Escape ranks higher than all other compact SUVs except the Mazda CX-5, which bests the Escape by 3 mpg in the EPA city ratings, but comes in 1 mpg lower than the Escape at 32 mpg when equipped with the automatic transmission.
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Franklin (7-3, 7-1) will find out its playoff opponent and game site on Sunday, November 17 at 6 p.m. during the NCAA.com Selection Show. The Grizzlies become the first football team to win four consecutive HCAC titles.
Senior quarterback Jonny West (Speedway, Ind./Speedway) broke the school record for career passing yards with 452 yards in the contest. He surpassed Chad Rupp's (2005-08) mark and now has recorded 10,094 passing yards in his career.
The visitors started fast in the contest, scoring 28 first-quarter points. Junior fullback Sam Otley (Indianapolis, Ind./Roncalli) capped the game's first possession with a one-yard score.
West threw the first of his three touchdown passes on the day to give the Grizzlies a 14-0 lead at the 9:14 mark of the opening quarter. The pass came on a 48-yard score to sophomore Michael Maloian (Speedway, Ind./Speedway).
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Freshman Kole Stogner (Greenwood, Ind./Greenwood) and Pasquale scored on one-yard carries in the second quarter to give Franklin a 42-6 lead.
After a Hanover score with 43 seconds remaining in the first half, Franklin needed on 32 seconds to answer. West hooked up with senior Kyle Linville (Speedway, Ind./Speedway) on a 12-yard score with 11 seconds left in the half.
The Grizzlies scored 10 points in the fourth quarter to surpass 50 points scored in an HCAC game for the fifth time this season. Stogner had his second rushing touchdown of the game midway through the quarter. Senior placekicker Mike Wood (Greenwood, Ind./Center Grove) connected on a 30-yard field goal at the 2:13 mark.
Individually, West completed 33-of-46 passes for 452 yards and three touchdowns. He also led the team in rushing with 58 yards on 10 carries. Pasquale and Stogner each scored two touchdowns on the ground.
Linville led a balanced receiving effort with six receptions for 88 yards and a score. Maloian caught five passes for 131 yards and two touchdowns. Juniors Dylan Jenney (Floyd Knobs, Ind./Floyd Knobs) and Jonny Hession (Speedway, Ind./Speedway) each had five catches in the contest.
Five of Franklin's eight touchdowns lasted less than 2:27 per possession.
Defensively, senior Jordan Segner (Anderson, Ind./Highland) led the unit with 10 tackles. Sophomore Nate Bryan (Greencastle, Ind./North Putnam) added seven stops. Senior Zack Zehren (Madison, Ind./Madison) had an interception.


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The offset iterator provides a convenient means to specify telescope sequences e.g.mosaics, dithers, nods. The main features of the offset iterator are identified in the figure below:
The coordinate system for offsets is defined as (p,q) where q is always parallel to the detector columns (or spectrograph slit) and p to detector rows (or orthogonal to the slit). The sketch in the lower left corner of the offset iterator is a useful reminder. Offsets are always entered in arcsec relative to the base position. For example, using a long-slit spectrograph like GMOS or GNIRS, an offset of (0,q) where q is any real number is always along the slit regardless of the position angle on the sky.
This (p,q) coordinate frame, and the offset positions, rotates with the image rotator. Thus only one mosaic is required regardless of the specified position angle. Similarly, if the base position is moved (i.e. translated) the offsets will move with it. With an offset pattern displayed in the position editor, you can drag the instrument rotation angle or base position to see this behavior.
The concept behind the telescope offset iterator is similar to the instrument iterators. You build up a sequence of telescope offset positions in an iteration table.The table columns are (a) Index, (b) p offsets, (c) q offsets and (d) the guide state (on/off). Table rows correspond to iterator steps. At run time, all the values in a row are set at once.
As many offset positions as desired may be entered, and the ordering of the list (the execution order) can subsequently be modified using the up and down arrow buttons. The selected offset, highlighted in green, can be moved up or down one step using the yellow arrows, or moved to the top or bottom of the list using the arrows with a bar. You can select and display (or re-order) multiple steps at once. To select several adjacent steps, click on the first one in the iteration table then shift+click on the last one; all steps in between will be selected (highlighted). To select non-contiguous steps ("disjoint sections"), select the first step and then ctrl+click on any others that you wish to select.
Steps in the list can be removed individually with the single red X button, en masse with the red XX button, or new steps may be added with the green + button. The values of a particular (highlighted) offset can be changed using the p and q editing boxes.Often it will be more convenient to change offset coordinates interactively in the position editor by dragging any offset as the science fields of view corresponding to the offsets and WFS probe vignetting are also displayed.
The "Grid..." button in the lower right of the offset iterator allows rapid creation of rectangular grid patterns. Set the offset of the initial position, the spacing and grid dimensions, then select create. Subsequent grids (e.g. to map an area of nearby sky) can be appended to the offset list. The order of steps in the list can be modified as described above to create arbitrarily complex patterns.
The "Random..." button can be used to quickly create sequences of random offsets that populate a square of the specified maximum offset in p,q.
If there are steps in the offset table where the guiding is listed as "off" this means that the WFS will not be moved from its previous position (i.e. it will not compensate for the telescope offset and will not attempt to stay locked on the star). This is useful if you wish to maintain the same illumination (vignetting) pattern on the detector e.g. for sky frames.
From the offset iterator it is possible to step through the sequence and display the science area and WFS probe positions in a (rudimentary) "playback" mode:
Configure the Position Editor to display the science FOV only at the selected position:
View > Science Display > Display Science FOV at > Selected Position.
- Configure the Position Editor to display Base, Offset, Science and the WFS FOV.
- Select (highlight) the first step in the offset list.
- Step through the offsets using the down-arrow key on your keyboard.
- The position editor viewer will update at each step.
The "Advanced Guiding Options" tab is used to define the guide state of each guider individually, and should not be necessary in normal use.
The Save button accepts the latest changes and stores the program to the local database, and the Close button closes the science program editor (saving any changes to the local database).


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A classroom cover-up led to the resignation of two Millard Public Schools elementary teachers last spring. KETV NewsWatch 7 has learned the Nebraska Board of Education granted leniency to both educators on Monday and restored their certificates to teach.
Investigators said Ann Gigstad and Keri Watkins initially lied when questioned about an accidental exposure of a child with allergies to peanut butter.
"She admitted she was not upfront with the administration as to how the young individual came in contact with the peanut butter," said Rick Wade, Gigstad's attorney.
The teachers shared a classroom inside Disney Elementary. On the day of the incident, students were learning about the letter "S." Watkins chose to teach the lesson with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
A student accidentally caused a mess with the sandwiches, so the teachers sent some of the students to art class while the mess was being cleaned.
Wade said the two teachers thought the fifth-grader with the peanut allergy went to art class, but instead, the student came back to Watkins side of the classroom where the sandwiches were made.
After lunch, the student had developed a rash from the peanut butter exposure. The teachers took the child to the school nurse where the child's mother was contacted and the student was treated.
The teachers said nothing to the nurse or the child's mother about the peanut butter sandwich lesson. Instead, Gigstad and Watkins suggested the student may have came in contact with peanut butter in the lunch room.
Gigstad and Watkins later told the truth about the peanut butter exposure after a student teacher came forward about the incident. The two resigned and a state commission recommended revoking their teaching certificates.
"Her peers, her fellow colleagues, classroom teachers and school administrators believe a one-year revocation is warranted for lies that were told," said Brian Halstead, Nebraska Department of Education attorney.
But, the Nebraska Board of Education reduced the recommended punishment from revocation to suspension, dating back to last April when both teachers resigned.
The board's decision restored their teaching certificates.
"She's been punished. She's punished herself. She's learned her lesson, and she's sacrificed much," Wade said.
Gigstad now teaches in Atlantic, Iowa, where the schools district knows about the incident. Prior to the incident, she had a 10-year career with education.
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Neglect is no excuse
Maverick Meerkat is set to become the last version of Ubuntu that'll run on Oracle's Sparc, ending a four-year relationship.
Also getting canned is Ubuntu running on Hewlett-Packard's Itanic 64-bit challenger.
Meerkat is currently in feature-freeze ahead of October's official launch, and apparently nobody's stepped up to maintain the Linux ports to either Sparc or Itanium.
The Ubuntu Sparc port has fallen out of use and updates have slipped, meaning it's fallen below the level of quality needed for an Ubuntu port.
Ubuntu on HP's IA64 is in slightly better shape, but — still — nobody's actively maintaining it.
Canonical employee and Ubuntu developer Scott James Remnant has proposed removing both ports from Meerkat's code before it's released. The only question is whether the Meerket team should act now or after the next Ubuntu board meeting.
On the upside, The H reports that Sparc and IA64 on Ubuntu 10.04 desktop will be maintained for another three years while server gets another five years.
Ubuntu on Sparc was introduced with a flourish in 2006 with Dapper Drake, as Sun Microsystems was busy reinventing itself as a systems company whose servers didn't just run Sun operating systems. In hugging the Drake, Sun desperately tried to align itself with the cool kids, to get them running Linux apps on Sparc boxes instead of the rival Intel kit.
Announcing the Ubuntu port, Sun's then–chief executive Jonathan Schwartz threw free Sparc Niagara servers at developers. According to Schwartz: "Expanding Sparc beyond Solaris to Linux opens new markets for everyone."
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Q: In light of the widespread flu outbreak, should all employers in California be required to provide paid sick time off?
Panel's answer: 2 Yes , 6 No
Marney Cox, San Diego Association of Governments
Answer: NO
Sometimes "we," who work for others, don't require government protection or intervention to achieve or acquire compensation and benefits. Generally speaking, employers organize their compensation packages so prospective employees can review them in advance of deciding to take the job offered or wait for another, better offer. A small business owner, and friend, suggested paying for and giving employees time off to get the flu shot, helping both sides, would be more appropriate. Also, the small business owner wants to know who he should go to to get the paid sick time off.
Kelly Cunningham, National University Systems
From an epidemiological standpoint, requiring paid sick time could reduce the spread of communicable diseases. Economically, however, there are additional issues at stake. Mandates such as this depress employment, particularly among the lowest paid workers in various industries. California would find itself even further behind other states having no such mandate. Rather than adding another regulatory requirement, it would seem a state with one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation and already experiencing an outflow of employers should not be adding another restriction. While getting the flu is a bad thing, not having a job is usually worse.
Alan Gin, University of San Diego
Businesses on their own should give workers paid sick leave, particularly restaurants and retailers, due to the large amount of contact employees in those industries have with the public. Businesses would benefit, as it would make their workers more productive and reduce the costs associated with employee turnover. Unfortunately, workers in restaurants and retailing are among those least likely to get paid sick leave and may even face termination for missing work. As a result, workers often work when they are sick, leading to the spread of illnesses such as the flu. Thus, paid sick leave should be mandated for public health reasons.
James Hamilton, University of California San Diego
This is one of those proposals that sounds nice in theory, and of course we'd hope that every employer could do this. But if you knew the specifics of each job and each employer's financial situation, you'd be sure to find examples where you wouldn't want to require this for that particular employer. Our biggest problem at the moment in California is 1.8 million people who are looking for work but can't find it. We should be trying to make it more attractive to firms to hire more workers, not putting extra burdens on the enterprises that actually meet the payrolls and create the jobs.
Gary London, The London Group Realty Advisors
Although I hate the word "required." There should be the employer commitment to a healthy business environment and, in return, the employee's promise to maintain a healthy lifestyle. The bargain should be this: Employee gets health benefits if employee commits to certain benchmarks of health (weight range, regular checkups, flu shots, etc.). If the employee does not commit or fails proscribed benchmarks, they are not covered, or not as beneficially. In that way, the employer is able to select and retain the most cost effective health insurance.
Norm Miller, University of San Diego
We should let employers decide the best strategy for themselves. Providing free on-site flu shots might make more sense and is less prone to abuse by employees. Employers can also encourage and provide support for some telecommuting when possible, provide breathing masks at the office or for employees that are traveling and encourage more use of web-based meetings, but let's not mandate the strategy or the benefits.
Lynn Reaser, Point Loma Nazarene University
Adding additional costs for firms could be another barrier to lowering our high rate of unemployment. If the goal is to improve public health, why should not all taxpayers bear the cost of paying for sick days? We all want a healthy society, low taxes, and full employment. Simple hand washing may be the best answer. Until the science of disease transmission is more fully understood (for example, people may be contagious before they know it), mandating paid sick days for companies may raise costs more than benefits. Unfortunately, many employees regard sick days as theirs to use for any purpose.
Dan Seiver, Reilly Financial Advisors
We have to allow employers some discretion in terms of sick leave policy. We have the federal Family Medical Leave Act to cover serious illness of an employee or family member. Part of the problem with influenza each year is that too few Americans are immunized. Considering how communicable the disease is, immunization has both spillover and public good attributes. Thus we should more heavily subsidize and promote the shots, and fund research to improve the efficacy of the annual vaccine. These investments would more than pay for themselves in reduced hours lost to illness, not to mention reduced suffering.


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(CNN) -- The state of the union?
President Obama will outline his version Tuesday night in front of a joint session of Congress. Almost as soon as he has finished speaking, a chorus of voices will rise to say that he was right, or that he was wrong.
The state of the union? It's such a big and daunting subject.
One way to observe the state of the union, in fine brushstrokes, is to take a look at local newspapers from around the country, from small and medium-sized towns, and find out what has made the front pages. Not the national wire-service stories, and not the grimness intrinsic to police-blotter reports of crime and mayhem. But the quiet tales that usually never make it past the county line.
The stories can be moving, they can be quirky, they can be inspiring, they can be funny.
Here are some of them. They have only two things in common:
They were all published on a single day during the week leading up to this year's State of the Union address. And they all made Page One of the print editions of the papers in their towns.
In East Jordan, Michigan, a fourth-grade teacher named Tina McDuffie noticed that there were other teachers in her school whose classrooms didn't have enough books and materials. Some of the teachers were new to the elementary school. So, McDuffie told reporter Alice Perrault of the Petoskey News-Review, she applied for and received charitable grants worth about $900, and was able to help her colleagues: "I got started with this whole thing because I felt bad for the other teachers. I know the panicking feeling you have when you need materials for your classroom but don't have them."
In Dubuque, Iowa, the mother and father of Marine Lance Cpl. Christopher Billmyer, 22, were doing their best to help their son adjust to his new life after he lost both legs to an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan. Jim and Cheryl Billmyer told Craig D. Reber of the Dubuque Telegraph Herald that they are especially proud of the fact that their boy, with all he has endured, seems so concerned about properly expressing his gratitude to friends and strangers who have sent him cards and letters of encouragement: "Christopher said, 'Dad, how am I going to be able to thank all of these folks who have been helping me?' I said, 'Christopher, right now you can thank them by doing the best you can to get better every day.' "
iReport: What's the state of your community?
In Lubbock, Texas, longtime residents were reminiscing about how much a simple piece of furniture -- the lunch counter at the Pancake House -- has meant to the community in the 50 years since the restaurant opened in 1961. The current owner of the place, Damon Stotts, told Ray Westbrook of the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal that the counter has served as a point of continuity for the town: "We can solve the world's problems here." Stotts said that a woman now living in Florida walked in recently and said, "Wonderful. I used to come in here. My daddy brought me here when I was a little girl, and I just wanted to come back to see it. This is just like coming home.'"
In Mendham Township, New Jersey, the Alderton family was celebrating the swearing-in of Jay Alderton, 26, as the new volunteer fire department chief of Brookside Engine Co. No. 1. He is the third generation of his family to serve as volunteer firefighters in the area; his grandfather, John Alderton, 79, and his father, Jack Alderton, 56, showed him the way. The dad, who was present for the swearing-in, told Vanessa Vera Roman of the Daily Record of Morris County: "Watching your son grow up to be the chief of a great fire company ... I was so proud. I was proud as a father, proud as a firefighter."
In Hutchinson, Kansas, a reader wrote to the Hutchinson News: "Would the News carriers who place rubber bands around the paper in the wee hours of the morning appreciate it if we saved our rubber bands and returned them so they could be recycled? Also, do they have to pay for their own rubber bands or does the News provide them?" Amy Bickel of the News staff replied that the carriers, as independent contractors, supplied their own rubber bands: "If you aren't using your bands to make the world's largest rubber band ball, feel free to drop them off with our circulation department here at the office or, if you have a newspaper mailbox, stick them in there and your carrier will pick them up."
In Rome, Georgia, the number of inmates booked into the Floyd County Jail was down sharply after an unusual recent snowstorm. The reason, according to reporter Kim Sloan of the Rome News-Tribune? An unanticipated and helpful side benefit that the storm bestowed upon the community: Criminals were deterred because so many people were stuck inside homes that might otherwise have been burglarized. And "after a man burglarized the Gravy Boat on Dean Avenue on Monday, police were able to find him by tracking his footprints."
In Waynesboro, Virginia, Logan and Jaime Kelso were feeling indebted to a pair of local men who, without thinking twice, took action to save the life of the Kelsos' bleeding and injured pet dog. The dog, a chocolate Labrador, had been playing in the Kelsos' enclosed back yard when, without them noticing, he jumped a fence. According to to Chase Purdy, a reporter for the News Virginian, the Kelsos drove around the neighborhood, looking for the dog. He had been hit by a car on Poplar Avenue. Two members of the Waynesboro First Aid Crew -- Ralph Brewer and Jeremy Green -- found the dog bleeding profusely and in great distress. They wrapped the wounds tightly; "If we hadn't stopped the bleeding, the dog would probably have died," Green said. They ran an intravenous tube into the dog's leg and put an oxygen mask over his snout. Because of them, he lived.
In Opelousas, Louisiana, the local public library, hoping to spark in the town's children a lifetime love of reading, planned to hold a winter-themed free story time. Books with cold-weather titles sure to appeal to the children -- "The Mitten," "Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?" and "The Snowy Day" -- were scheduled to be read. The idea, library volunteer Cheryl Schlomer told William Johnson of the Daily World of Opelousas, was to introduce the boys and girls to the joys of the library: "The children really love being able to take home a book of their very own. We also hope to encourage family reading time."
In South Dakota, people were learning that a boy who grew up in Rapid City, T.J. Ellwein, has been nominated for the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation's American Spirit Award. Steve Young of the Argus Leader of Sioux Falls reported that, as part of a service project to become an Eagle Scout, Ellwein and 40 friends and fellow Boy Scouts went to Chaplains Hill at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, and, by hand, meticulously cleaned the marble headstones of military chaplains and chaplains' assistants buried there dating back to World War I. Scout Ellwein said that, in addition to honoring the service of the chaplains, he undertook the task to honor his parents, Fred and Dianne Ellwein, both of whom are serving in the U.S. Army.
The state of the union?
Sometimes we wonder. Often we worry.
It is a continuing story, being written every day.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bob Greene.


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The Stockholm-based wireless equipment manufacturer is disbanding Ericsson Technology Licensing, a unit spun off four years ago to spearhead the company's Bluetooth research and development efforts, according to the subsidiary's Vice President of Marketing Johan Akesson.
"We have decided to stop developing and licensing new Bluetooth hardware to the semiconductor industry because we don't see this business as prosperous enough in the long term," Akesson said. "Bluetooth is now a mature standard, and numerous semiconductor manufacturers are supplying Bluetooth products in large volumes."
Ericsson will continue to support existing Bluetooth customers, including Koninklijke Philips Electronics and STMicroelectronics, but will not seek new ones, according to Akesson.
The Swedish company will also continue Bluetooth software technology development through its Ericsson Mobile Platforms subsidiary, and remains committed to the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, which consists of several companies promoting Bluetooth technology, he said.
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We stayed a few days here to play golf. The palazzo building is impressive and already the little alley up to the entrance is very idyllic. We booked three rooms, one suite and two classic and got an upgrade for the two classic rooms - which was obviously very nice! All these rooms were on the first floor of the palazzo, and our room went out to the backyard, facing east. The sound of the singing birds in the morning is unforgettable! It seems that the rooms on the second floor have just tiny little windows. I am not sure i would like that. Part of the charm of this place is to look outside the window and soak in the amazing nature and view. Anyway, we played golf everyday and the service by the caddy masters was superb. We had two golf carts each day and they did everything for us: packing the right bags to the carts, cleaning the clubs afterwards, just perfect! We also liked the food and service in the hotel, Vito is the best and nicest waiter! Finally we enjoyed the outdoor pool and the terraces, the kids loved the indoor pool. Overall, a fantastic location for a golf holiday with the family!!!
Splendid hotel at a beautiful location. Staff is very helpful and the rooms offer great value for money. Most definitely a perfect place for a relaxing weekend of golf, spa and relaxation.
We stayed there for 3 nights and really love the place. The staff is so lovely and helpful, definitely made us feel very welcome. The breakfast is amazing. We stayed in the residenza closer to the main building and that in my opinion is the nicer bit of the hotel. As I don't play Golf I cannot rate that, but sipping cocktails by the pool the massage and nice walk is amazing there. Also do try the restaurant, if staying it is italy at its best. We will be back!
We stayed here for 6 night stay in a Deluxe Residenza Room with private terrace.
Location is about 20 mins from lake Garda in the car, with a trip to Sirmione being about 30 mins. 2hrs ish drive from Venice airport. Rural location with lovely grounds, away from anywhere- pictures dont do it justice! Beware, google maps thinks it can take you in via multiple "rural roads" which are not actually roads. The only access that we could find was well signposted from the SP4 onto Via Arzaga on the South.
The staff were excellent- reception and cleaners so so friendly, greeting us every day with a smile. Nothing was too much bother, and very attentive.
The restaurant was excellent. We had a full cooked or continental breakfast every day with a good selection and nice variety. We had 3 evening meals, a room service and some drinks/snacks at the bar during our stay- all were faultless. Wine recommendations were fabulous and the food was to die for. All the waiting staff were brilliant: friendly, attentive, and very professional. 2 tips: evening meal is smart dress only, no shorts/flip flops/vest tops.. and it is worth booking by the afternoon on the day you want to eat as they may recommend you a time if they are particularly busy. One night we had the last table.
The room had a gorgeous view across the golf course and lake, and the terrace was large and fairly private. Room itself was clean and well presented, nice and quiet. The air con worked. Only downside was there was no kettle or tea/coffee making facilities, which was a little frustrating being English! But not sure if this is custom across Italy or not?
Pool was clean and quiet, as was the rest of the hotel. Didn't play any golf, but this seems very popular here. Unfortunately didn't try the spa, but has a 40euro off voucher on check-in.
Overall the best stay in Italy I have ever had, and it's my 6th time! This place was perfect in every way, and we cannot wait to come back here.
We came twice to this hotel, first 3 nights and then another 2 nights a few days later. The reception was excellent: from the very attentive attendant who took care of our car and luggage on arrival and on departure while chatting with us as if we were family, to the lovely receptionists who looked after us and gave us very good restaurant recommendations for dining out at night, to the breakfast staff and finally the golf staff who had our clubs, trolley and buggy ready - we could not fault any of them. The hotel is old, as mentioned in other reviews, yes, but well looked after, our room (a groundfloor deluxe with a view on the golf course) comfortable and cleaned each day with the bed turned down in the evening. The overall hotel atmosphere very pleasant and relaxing. The hotel is a 10-15' drive to Lake Garda which has a very good selection of restaurants. We went to Aquariva (recommended by the hotel) twice and loved it. Golf was very good, we enjoyed the golf course. To be aware is that if golfing with a buggy, you cannot drive on the fairway and need to stay at all times on the path (unless you have a medical condition in which case they authorise you to drive in the rough - but still, not on the fairway). We would love to come back for another golf stay.