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Posted 22 February 2010 - 04:16 AM
And since the search results for "listening" didn't show any relevant thread...
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (It's a whole album and I love it)
Here's Walcott, the best and most wonderful song from the album imho
Feel free to delete/merge in case this thread has been done before. (and I'm pretty sure, I just couldn't find it)
Posted 28 February 2010 - 10:39 PM
Posted 28 February 2010 - 11:05 PM
deadmau5 - Strobe (LOVELOVELOVE)
Lady Gaga - Telephone (pretty much all of the remixes), same for Bad Romance
Christian Cheval - Drop It...! (Rap On It and Jump On It Mixes) (Sippin goose. Getting loose. My hands. Her caboose. )
Posted 28 February 2010 - 11:54 PM
Ooh, I forgot about this thread!
Me too, since nobody wrote anything. lol
Anyway, besides Vampire Weekend's Album I'm also listening to the Mushishi OST whenever I play Stranded II (or any Stalker game), that's just the absolutely perfect music for that games that give you that "lonely" feeling.
Other than that, I'm still addicted to "Oh" and have the Justice album Cross mix inbetween my current playlist.
Tanz Baby! - Nur Du
These I just found yesterday:
Editors - Papillon
Tricky meets South Rakkas Crew - Numb
and sooo many more, I currently have about ~40 songs in my playlist.
Posted 09 March 2010 - 05:05 PM
Right now, I keep changing songs on my MP3 player because I can and am looking for a certain song. Don't know what it is, guess I'll find out when I find it.
Ah, found it.
Shining Soul - Kazuhiko Inoue
Posted 09 March 2010 - 10:02 PM
Remioromen - 3月9日 (with Quartet version)
That's a song I really really (really) love (for many reasons), and listening to it today makes it sounding even more special
So, every year, 9th march it's a kind of personal anniversary for me...
Posted 09 March 2010 - 11:59 PM
It's probably not their best album, but I still like it a lot.
Posted 10 March 2010 - 02:05 AM
Posted 16 March 2010 - 09:00 PM
Link & Listen:
Posted 17 March 2010 - 03:26 AM
It is like being being stabbed in the teeth with a nostalgia-coated bat.
Posted 20 March 2010 - 05:57 PM
Posted 21 March 2010 - 06:08 PM
Listening to whatever song is on this vid.
Posted 25 March 2010 - 03:03 PM
Posted 26 March 2010 - 05:24 AM
Posted 26 March 2010 - 11:16 AM
Muse - Uprising
I first heard it on the radio and was like, why are they playing the Doctor Who theme on the radio? What?
Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
The lyrics kinda get stuck in your head.
T-ara - Bo Peep Bo Peep
I'm behind on the times, forgive me but
Posted 27 March 2010 - 03:38 PM
DEF. DIVA - Suki Sugite Baka Mitai (I love this song to bits... listen to it all the time!)
High-King - Kioku no Meiro (really catchy)
Timbaland feat. SoShy & Nelly Furtado - Morning After Dark (got to have some western music in there to balance things out).
Posted 28 March 2010 - 02:19 AM
I had been looking for Swain's First Bike Ride by Fifteen on and off for a couple of years, and I finally found it, but now I almost wish I hadn't. I was really into this album when it came out, to the point where I think I idealized it in my head after not hearing it for over 15 years, and hearing it now is a huge disappointment. Two-part pop-punk songs shouldn't last more than three minutes -- two-and-a-half is ideal -- and half of these clock in at over four. Jeff Ott's growly vocal delivery, which seemed passionate back then, only compound the problem. That said, It's still more interesting than any contemporary pop-punk
The Blatz/Filth Shit-Split LP isn't nearly as funny now, although to be fair, I should've listened to it while drunk.
Cub was the hottness for a couple of months in the mid-90s, but they just sound like cute, amateur indie pop now, which I guess is what they always sounded like. I just don't get into that anymore.
Another album I idealized due to not hearing in 15 years is Mr. Machinery Operator by fIREHOSE, which is really pretty lackluster, although the single "Blaze" still blazes.
On the positive side:
Manic Pop Thrill by That Petrol Emotion is just as awesome as ever. Political music was so much better back in the day, and I don't think I'm just being Old Guy by saying that. Only Green Day seems to be able to pull it off with any aplomb anymore, and I say that as a guy who disagrees with everything they support. If any of the old dudes here knows of That Petrol Emotion, and has a copy of Babble, hook a geezer up, yo.
Superchunk was awesome in the 90s, and their stuff is still awesome today. I don't think they ever got the credit they deserved for being a really great ROCK band. Their first four albums are fucking sweet.
Another really good pop-punk band from that era is Doughboys, and i was really stoked to find their first three albums recently. It's funny how the debate as to which of their first two albums -- Whatever and Home Again -- is their best. I lean toward Home Again, but it's pretty close. They're both horribly recorded, unfortunately, but they blow everything else they ever did out of the water.
And that brings me to my current retro-obsession: Urge Overkill. Dudes, The Supersonic Storybook and Saturation both totally hold up over the years. For some reason Urge Overkill is seen by a lot of people as kind of a joke, and that's totally undeserved. Saturation is one of the best rock albums of the 1990s, period. "Sister Havana", "Positive Bleeding", "Bottle Of Fur", "Dropout", and "Heaven 90210" are all great, catchy songs. Too bad they followed it up with the utterly forgettable Exit The Dragon.
Posted 01 April 2010 - 04:54 PM
I heard this song this morning and I can't get it out of my head! The video is pretty badass too! Oh, it's western music in case it gives some of you hives.
[url="http://"<a%20href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwnefUaKCbc<%3b%2fa>""%20target="_blank">http://www.youtube.c...Cbc""]Janelle Monae - Tightrope feat some shit rapper that ruins the short part of the song he's featured[/url]
Posted 06 April 2010 - 01:03 PM
Posted 07 April 2010 - 02:11 AM
Posted 07 April 2010 - 04:56 AM
Okay, that's pretty damned funny.
JPope, I read your post in Christian Bale's "American Psycho" voice. Now I can never listen to those songs you mentioned .
Posted 08 April 2010 - 12:18 PM
What a voice !
And some german/austrian stuff:
Dendemann - Stumpf is Trumpf
Pretty cool lyrics (if you understand them)
Ja, Panik ! - Die Luft ist dünn
Beautiful song and very fitting lyrics.
Ja, Panik ! - Quizshows
Charlie Winston - Like a Hobo
Probably the most well-known of these.
And I'm still addicted to SNSD's Oh.
Posted 09 April 2010 - 03:31 AM
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Posted 11 April 2010 - 04:13 PM
Definitely the best song in the new album.
Posted 12 April 2010 - 03:10 AM
Good remix of the Outkast original, in my opinion. Just found out about it recently.
Posted 12 April 2010 - 06:46 AM
I didn't like their vocoded voices before, but One Room Disco is just too catchy >.<
Edited by Noemi, 12 April 2010 - 08:10 PM.
Posted 14 April 2010 - 05:30 PM
Tsuchiya Anna - True Colors (the cover)
As if you weren't awesome in my book already. <33
It's all Love! - Koda Kumi and misono
Posted 16 April 2010 - 02:00 PM
Fuiste Mala - Kumbia Kings y Intocable
And oh god, this kid is what, 12? Looks exactly like all those little brats from the Junior High back in the day. I can't stop laughing at the video. Oh, the song is nostalgic too, but I'd never seen the video before this. Kumbia Kings - Dulce Nina (na na na) Oh carps, there's a song about Speedy Gonzalez too? Gawd, that kid still looks like he's 10 or something. What the hell hahahaha! Okay, okay, don't you guys shit on tejano or norteno because any genre of music that still has the motherfucking ACCORDION is automagically kickass. Look at him, he's even rocking a nike glove! And their silly dance moves hahaha! Oh man, I can't get enough of this. It's so damn cheesy. Perhaps later I'll link some spanish music that's not equivalent to our country music. Until then, laugh at this song because it's really funny.
Posted 16 April 2010 - 02:22 PM
While in the car, I accidentally hit the AM button instead of FM. And the auto station it settled on was a tejano station and this song was playing BAM nostalgia! Of course now I can't get it out of my head.
Fuiste Mala - Kumbia Kings y Intocable
I've never heard that song, but it reminds me of Monkey Island.


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Identity Theft Prevention Program (VIII.A.2)
Volume VIII: Records
Chapter A: Records
Issuing Office: Executive Vice President for Business and Finance and Treasurer
Responsible Officer: VP Business Services
Responsible Office: VP Business Services
Originally Issued: March 16, 2009
Most Recently Revised: November 18, 2011
Statement of Policy
Reason for Policy
Who Should Know This Policy
Related Documents
The Identity Theft Prevention Program is established to detect, prevent, and mitigate Identity Theft in connection with the opening of a Covered Account or maintenance of an existing Covered Account and to provide continued administration of the Program in compliance with 16 C.F.R. Part 681.1, 681.2, and 681.3.
The Identity Theft Prevention Program policy assures that Purdue University is complying with the FTC FACT act of 2003, as implemented through 16 CFR 681.1, 681.2, and 681.3.
Board of Trustees
Vice Provosts
Vice Chancellors
Vice Presidents
Directors/Department Heads/Chairs
- Federal Register Final Rules:
http://www.ftc.gov/os/fedreg/2007/november/071109redflags.pdf (contains definitions and final rules for 16 CFR 681.1, 681.2, and 681.3.)
- Personal Identify Theft Information:
https://www.purdue.edu/securepurdue/bestPractices/theft.html provides steps for Customers if identity theft is suspected.
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A person or entity that arranges for the extension, renewal, or continuation of credit, which in some cases could include third-party debt collectors.
An individual.
Covered Account
- An account that a financial institution or creditor offers or maintains, primarily for personal, family, or household purposes, that involves or is designed to permit multiple payments or transactions.
- Any other account that the financial institution or creditor offers or maintains for which there is a reasonably foreseeable risk to Customers or to the safety and soundness of the financial institution or creditor from identity theft, including financial, operational, compliance, reputation, or litigation risks.
Covered Account includes general activity relating to the tuition/fee or receivable billing, student loan origination and servicing, and ID card account maintenance.
A person that has a "covered account" with a financial institution or creditor.
Identity Theft
Fraud committed or attempted using the identifying information of another person without authority.
Information Security Program Committee
Purdue's Information Security Program Committee, co-chaired by the Chief Security Officer and the Director of Audits, and includes the Executive Director Financial Aid, Bursar, University Counsel, and representatives from the Calumet, Fort Wayne, and North Central regional campuses. Other individuals may be added as needed. This committee meets biannually and as needed.
Notice of Address Discrepancy
A notice sent to a user of a consumer report by a Consumer Reporting Agency pursuant to 15 U.S.C. 1681c(h)(1), that informs the user of a substantial difference between the address for the Consumer provided by the user in requesting the consumer report and the address or addresses the Consumer Reporting Agency has in the Consumer's file.
Personally Identifiable Information
An individual's first name and last name and at least one of the following data elements: Social Security Number, driver's license number or identification card number, and account number, credit card number, debit card number, security code, access code, or password of an individual's Covered Account.
The Identity Theft Prevention Program.
Red Flag
A pattern, practice, or specific activity that indicates the possible existence of identity theft.
Identification of Relevant Red Flags
The following Red Flags have been initially identified for inclusion in the Program:
- Documents provided for identification appearing to have been altered or forged.
- The photograph or physical description on the identification is not consistent with the appearance of the applicant or Customer presenting the identification.
- Other information on the identification is not consistent with information provided by the person opening a new Covered Account or Customer presenting the identification.
- An application appears to have been altered or forged, or gives the appearance of having been destroyed and reassembled.
- Personal identifying information provided is inconsistent when compared against external information sources.
- Personal identifying information provided is associated with known fraudulent activity as indicated by internal or third-party sources.
- The Social Security number provided is the same as that submitted by other persons opening an account or other Customers.
- The Customer or the person opening the Covered Account fails to provide all required personal identifying information on an application or in response to notification that the application is incomplete.
- Personal identifying information provided is not consistent with personal identifying information that is on file.
- Purdue University is notified of unauthorized charges or transactions in connection with a Customer's Covered Account.
- Purdue University receives notice from Customers, victims of Identity Theft, law enforcement authorities, or other persons regarding possible Identity Theft in connection with Covered Accounts.
Detection of Red Flags
The Program shall address the detection of Red Flags in connection with the opening of Covered Accounts and existing Covered Accounts by:
- Obtaining identifying information about, and verifying the identity of, a person opening a Covered Account; and
- Authenticating Customers, monitoring transactions, and verifying the validity of change of address requests in the case of existing Covered Accounts.
Responding to Red Flags
The Program shall provide for appropriate responses to detected Red Flags to prevent and mitigate Identity Theft. The response shall be commensurate with the degree of risk posed.
Once potentially fraudulent activity is detected, the employee or employees charged with responsibility shall act quickly, as a rapid appropriate response can protect Customers and Purdue University from damages and loss. Approved standards and responsive action must be maintained by each assigned resource based upon business and technical needs. These standards and responsive actions shall be reviewed by the Information Security Program Committee periodically to assure appropriate response to an incident.
Appropriate responses to the detection of Red Flags include:
- Monitor a Covered Account for evidence of Identity Theft;
- Contact the Customer;
- Change any passwords, security codes, or other security devices that permit access to a Covered Account;
- Reopen a Covered Account with a new account number;
- Not open a new Covered Account;
- Close an existing Covered Account;
- Request additional documentation to validate identity;
- Handle per regulatory requirements under law if applicable;
- Notify law enforcement or regulatory entity; or
- Determine no response is warranted under the particular circumstances.
Duties to Address Discrepancies Related to Consumer Reporting
Purdue University shall implement procedures intended to assist it with forming a reasonable belief that a consumer report relates to the Consumer for whom it was requested if a Notice of Address Discrepancy is received from a consumer reporting agency indicating the address given by the Consumer differs from the address contained in the consumer report.
Purdue University will reasonably confirm that an address is accurate by any of the following means:
- Verification of the address with the Consumer,
- Review of the individual's records,
- Verification of the address through third party sources, or
- Other reasonable means.
If an accurate address is confirmed, Purdue University shall furnish the Consumer's address to the consumer reporting agency from which it received the Notice of Address Discrepancy if:
- Purdue University establishes a continuing relationship with the Consumer and
- Purdue University regularly and in the ordinary course of business, furnishes information to the consumer agency.
Duties Regarding Change of Address as Related to Card Activity
Purdue University shall have procedures intended to assess the validity of a change of address upon receipt of a request for an additional or replacement card within 30 days of a notification of an address change. An additional or replacement card shall not be issued until an assessment of the validity of the address change has occurred. Validity of requests for duplicate or replacement cards will be further established by:
- Providing written or electronic notification to the cardholder of the request for an additional or replacement card.
- Providing a cardholder a reasonable means of promptly reporting address changes.
Purdue University will reasonably confirm that an address is accurate by any of the following means:
- Verification of the address with the Consumer,
- Review of the individual's records,
- Verification of the address through third party sources, or
- Other reasonable means.
Staff training shall be provided annually by each campus to all employees, officials, and contractors who might reasonably come into contact with Covered Accounts that may constitute a risk to Purdue University or its Customers. Additional training will be made available if significant changes are made to the Program. The following principles shall be included in training materials for those areas maintaining activity relating to a Covered Account:
- Identity Theft is a serious risk for Customers and businesses that use or maintain financial or demographic information. It is necessary for Purdue University to seek methods to minimize potential impact to the institution and its clients and Customers.
- Personally identifying information should not be provided to individuals as a rule. Rather, this information should be maintained in order to confirm the identity of Purdue's Customers.
- Staff should not store Personally Identifiable Information unless necessary to perform a business function, and should only store information in secured systems designated for those functions.
- Identity Theft reports should be handled as priority incidents and immediate steps should be taken to remediate resulting issues.
Security Practices of Contractors and Service Providers
Purdue University shall exercise appropriate and effective oversight of service provider arrangements involving those service providers with access to Covered Accounts or information regarding Purdue's Customers under this Program.
Purdue University third party contractors and service providers are expected to follow and be compliant with any federal, state, and local laws or regulations that are applicable to Purdue University, as well as Purdue University policies and procedures that are relevant to the underlying contract between the parties. The specific terms and issues of such compliance are addressed in Purdue University contractual documents. Third party contractors and service providers who have questions regarding appropriate information security practices and/or other components of this Program should review their Purdue University contracts and contact their Purdue University contract representative.
Board of Trustees
Initial approval of the Program
Executive Vice President for Business and Finance and Treasurer
Administrative oversight of the Program
Information Security Program Committee
Functional oversight, program changes, and training
All business activity relating to a Covered Account under this Program shall be conducted by a resource with appropriate training as assigned by the Information Security Program Committee. Approved standards and processes must be maintained by each assigned resource based upon business and technical needs. These standards and processes shall be reviewed and approved by the Information Security Program Committee.
The Program shall consider the following risk factors in identifying relevant Red Flags for Covered Accounts as appropriate:
- The types of Covered Accounts offered or maintained,
- The methods provided to open Covered Accounts,
- The methods provided to access Covered Accounts, and
- Its previous experience with Identity Theft.
The Program shall incorporate relevant Red Flags from sources such as:
- Incidents of Identity Theft previously experienced,
- Methods of Identity Theft that reflect changes in risk, and
- Applicable supervisory guidance.
The Program will be re-evaluated annually to determine whether all aspects of the Program are up to date and applicable in the current business environment. Periodic reviews will include an assessment of which accounts are covered by the Program. As part of the review, Red Flags may be revised, replaced, or eliminated. Defining new Red Flags may also be appropriate.
Appropriate remedial actions required following the discovery of fraudulent activities shall also be reviewed and may require revision to reduce damage to Purdue University and its Customers.
November 18, 2011: Policy number changed to VIII.A.2 (formerly VI.2.2).
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10 Tricks to Look Amazing in Your Online Dating Photo
Sure, a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. But if a trout could operate a twelve-speed, chances are they'd take it for the occasional joyride. With that lighthearted approach to online dating (and dating in general), we're offering up some fail-safe tips to help make your profile photo stand out from the pack. Follow our lead and you'll have 'em falling hook, line, and sinker.
While we ladies go weak in the knees over an adorable pixie cut or a voluptuous topknot, it's a sad fact of life that men prefer women with long hair (it probably has something to do with cascading locks signifying fertility, blah blah blah, sexual Darwinism). Anyway, if you're really in it to win it, wear your hair down.
According to a new study conducted by the dating website, Zoosk.com, user profiles featuring full-body shots receive a whopping 203 percent more messages than those with cropped photos or close-ups. Translation? Potential mates like to see the whole package.
The same Zoosk.com study also reported that women whose photos were taken indoors received 60 percent more messages than those who were shot outdoors. This probably has less to do with any outdated, misogynistic notion that a woman's place is the home and more to do with the ambient, flattering lighting offered by said home.
It's painful, we know, but you're better off leaving that fab new Peter Pilotto dress in the closet. Patterns, and metallics for that matter, are apt to make the picture look too busy and detract from the center of attention (i.e. you).
According to the results of a study reported in the new book, Drunk Tank Pink, women received anywhere from 4 to 7 percent more emails from men when they wore red. One possible explanation is the color's historic association with passion and romance (see: Valentine's Day). Moreover, from a biological standpoint, red signifies sexual reception (see: a baboon's rear end).
Unless you have beauty guru Pat McGrath on speed dial, it's best to DIY your own primping. You're likely to do a better job at making you look like, well, you, than a professional makeup artist. Besides, you're not going to be wearing false eyelashes or airbrushed foundation when you meet your date so you don't want to be accused of false advertising.
In addition to giving you an epic case of redeye, the harsh glare of flash photography has the tendency to make subjects look older. So unless you're out to snag a WWII veteran, make sure that little lightening bolt symbol is switched to the off position.
This is an easy way to automatically eliminate anything that's too sexy, too frumpy, or too eccentric. For more info on what not to wear on a date, check out what the experts have to say on the issue.
Studies show that photos with pets are less likely to elicit a response. The same goes for pictures that include other people. Apparently, would-be suitors simply don't have the time/facial recognition skills to pick you out of a lineup of all your BFFs partying on a beach in Cabo. Best to go it solo.
As pretty much anyone with a smartphone will attest, it's tough to capture your best angle from just an arm's length away. Moreover, selfies convey a level of a narcissism that's unlikely be found attractive to anyone other than Kanye West.


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Hey guys, I've put together some tips for spending less money on playing paintball. Some tips are obvious, some are not. Check out the article if you're interested. Paintball 101: How can I play for less? Thanks, and if you guys have any comments or suggestions for other tips, please let me know on here!
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Paintball, as we all know, is not exactly a cheap hobby. And with everyone strapped for cash because of tough economic times, how can we manage to play our sport without breaking the bank?
Following a few of these steps will definitely save you some dough and keep you playing the game. So let me break it down for ya'.
Shoot less paint: For most paintballers, this is the main expense. Paintballs cost anywhere from $28.00/case for the lowest of the low, to around $70.00/case for the most expensive. Double that if you're buying from a "field paint only" complex. Players will have to change how they play the game if they want to save money. Flip that electro marker to semi-fire only, break out the pump marker, or just pick and choose your shots. Playing on your own field? Make rules that limit players to a set amount of paint per game. Each player can be allowed one hopper-full, for instance. Or take it to the extreme and go even lower. Ever play a game where each player only has 20 rounds? That definitely mixes things up a bit.
Make some friends: So you'll never be lonely. Oh, and because sharing is caring. Not all members of your group need to buy every extraneous piece of equipment, after all. Make a list of the items that each person in your group has and is responsible for bringing. After a game, for instance, get the guys together and clean your gear. Need to take apart you marker? Steve has the allen keys. Goggles smeared? Tim's got the Windex. Tank leaking? Mike has a pack of o-rings. Problem solved.
Play closer to home: One of the most over-looked expenses, for any activity, is travel time. Playing closer to home will lower those gas prices for you and your friends. After all, the point is to play, not sit in a car for hours. Feeling ambitious? Set up your own field and avoid admission costs as well.
Shop around: Ever make a purchase and then see a better deal at a different shop? Ever find out "Half-price paint day" was the next weekend? It's not just annoying, and it adds up too. Make sure to check out multiple dealers and do your research before you buy.
Avoid superfluous purchases: Thinking about this years cool new paintball jersey, or digi-camo boots that match the rest of your ensemble? How about the newest loader model, or circuit board upgrade? Marker body kit? Paint grenades? Vest patches? Well whatever it is, chances are, you don't need it to play the game. Think twice, or for some of you dolts out there, three times before you buy anything. More of our purchases are less important than we might think.
Take care of your equipment: This can't be said enough. If it doesn't break, you won't have to fix or replace it! Always clean and maintain your gear.
Mail in that warranty card: Many pieces of paintball equipment we buy come with warranties of 90 days, 1 year, 3 years, and even lifetime guaranties. Just remember to mail in the warranty card or register online in time, or you might end up buying another one.
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Ubuntu is the first OS which supports Indian Rupee Symbol, Since release Of Ubuntu 10.10. Here is the one fact that nobody can type Indian Rupee Symbol without support of font. So font should have Indian Rupee Symbol in it. By default Ubuntu 10.10 is coming with that. So, it will make easy for your OS to display Rupee Symbol and copy paste of it, but typing of it is tricky, you can use Ctrl + Shift u20b9. But it would very hard for anybody to type frequently with above key combination. Also, it is very tricky add key combination with some hack. But now onwards it would be de-facto :).
According to government, all OS should support Indian Rupee Symbol. For Enduser, It should be easy to print it from Keyboard using AltGr + 4 Key combination.
It has assign u2b09 Unicode Number. Here is some insight.
As i told earlier, Ubuntu is supporting it since Ubuntu 10.10 release, but typing it using "AltGr + 4" was not supported. Infect there wasn't any Keyboard Layout with Rupee Symbol Support. But, hold your breath, Ubuntu has released new package xkb-data, which contains new India Keyboard Layout with Rupee Symbol support. It's already in proposed repository for testing. So If you are in Ubuntu 10.10, please enable proposed. it will allow you to install newly uploaded package xkb-data, which has new India Keyboard Layout with Rupee Symbol. Install it from repository. Restart the machine to be at safer side. After successful restart you will find new keyboard layout under India as Country and India With Rupee Sign as variant of Keyboard Layout.
So, here is instruction to achieve the same.
1. Go to -> System -> Preferences -> Keyboard
2. Above step will will launch new window "Keyboard Preferences"
3. Select second tab "Layouts" to modify the keyboard layouts.
4. At middle of the windows, you will find "Add" button to add new layout.
5. Above step will launch new window "Choose a Layout"
6. Default tab would be "By Country", Choose "India" as Country and "India With RupeeSign" as variants, it would be last in the list
7. Please add above layout and make it default in "Keyboard Preferences", also make it top with "Move Up" button.
8. Close everything.
Here is pictorial view for better reference.
Now, you can enjoy the Rupee symbol with "Right Alt + 4" Key combination. "Right Alt" is called as "AltGr" Key. But please make sure that you are on "India With RupeeSign" Keyboard Layout as your default Keyboard Layout. Here is from my side using "AltGr (Right Alt) + 4" Combination = " ?"
You can achieve the same in Ubuntu 10.04, but you have to also install Ubuntu Font Family from here and install latest "India With RupeeSign" Keyboard layout using xkb-data package from proposed repository. It would be default in Natty. We have done ad-hoc testing of Rupee Symbol in Open Office, Gedit, and Gnome-Terminal, Empathy, Firefox.
I am sure, you will feel now "Proud To Be Ubuntu User". That's all for now.
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Oct. 14, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Junior Hemagiri Arumugam has been named the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Runner of the Week after leading MIT to a 12th place finish at the All-Division New England Championships held Saturday at Franklin Park.
His time of 25:19 was good for 27th overall out of a field of over 300 runners. Arumugam was the second best finisher among all Division III runners in the meet and the top finisher among NEWMAC competitors.
This is the third conference weekly honor for Arumugam this season. He was previously named Runner of the Week on September 16 and October 6.


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Singer Fiona Apple addressed her recent drug arrest in a rambling speech during a show in Houston, Texas on Friday.
The "Criminal" hitmaker was arrested on Wednesday on a drug possession charge and was subsequently released on $10,000 bail after spending the night in Hudspeth County Jail.
She postponed a gig on Thursday at the Moody Theater in Austin, but took to the stage on Friday at Houston's Bayou Music Center, where she stunned fans by taking time out from performing to blast several staff at the jail where she was incarcerated.
She told the audience, "There are four of you out there, and I want you to know that I heard everything you did, I wrote it all down with your names and everything you did and said, stupidly thinking that I couldn't hear or see you. I then ripped the paper up, but not before I encoded it."
Apple added she was sorry to "the guy who runs the jail," who she branded "a real decent guy," for "being attitude-y and saying that I didn't trust him. Because I didn't then but by the end of the day I did."


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Liberal election law expert Rick Hasen, professor at the University of California Irvine Law School and proprietor of the Election Law Blog, characterizes the revelations of the Government Accountability Institute report on foreign and fraudulent online campaign donations as "much ado about nothing." Hasen adds in an update: "It is profoundly ironic that these Republican leaning groups are claiming that there needs to be better disclosure of contributions to the Obama campaign under $200, while at the same time the Republican leadership in Congress has opposed even fixing the gaping holes in our existing campaign finance disclosure laws."
I'm not sure whom Hasen is referring to as "Republican-leaning groups." Is it the GAI and/or Power Line and Hot Air (to which Hasen links)? I'm opposed to the regime of campaign finance regulation of which Hasen is a fan, but I believe in compliance with the law. This is a distinction that should not be difficult for a professor of law to grasp. To the extent that issues of compliance involve the Obama campaign, Hasen appears to be uninterested in the subject beyond his publication of the Obama campaign's denial.
The Obama campaign told Hasen this past May: "If a billing address is verified via AVS, then the credit card contribution is processed without delay. Some transactions caught by AVS may initially appear to a donor to have been accepted even though this is not the case. Obama for America employs a manual process to review any transaction flagged by AVS, also taking into account other fraud risk factors, and using fraud detection services provided by our credit card processor."
Matthew Mosk's 2008 Washington Post story. Mosk confirmed what we and others had reported in 2008:
In recent weeks, questionable contributions have created headaches for Obama's accounting team as it has tried to explain why campaign finance filings have included itemized donations from individuals using fake names, such as Es Esh or Doodad Pro.
Readers this year reported that they had repeated the experiment to the same effect. In the post cited in the Obama campaign statement, John Hinderaker reported his experience making an online contribution and setting up a grassroots fundraising page on the Obama site under the name Illegal Contributor, from Cell 13 of the Stillwater Prison. The Obama campaign claimed that its back-end review managed to unravel John's scheme, at least after he published it on Power Line. Good work!
The Obama campaign's online fundraising methodology sounds like it hasn't changed since 2008, or at least the reliance on back-end review. Here is the response then Washington Post reporter Matthew Mosk received from the Obama campaign to his inquiry in 2008 along with the incident that prompted it:
Lawyers for the Obama operation said yesterday that their "extensive back-end review" has carefully scrubbed contributions to prevent illegal money from entering the operation's war chest. "I'm pretty sure if I took my error rate and matched it against any other campaign or comparable nonprofit, you'd find we're doing very well," said Robert Bauer, a lawyer for the campaign. "I have not seen the McCain compliance staff ascending to heaven on a cloud."
The Obama team's disclosures came in response to questions from The Washington Post about the case of Mary T. Biskup, a retired insurance manager from Manchester, Mo., who turned up on Obama's FEC reports as having donated $174,800 to the campaign. Contributors are limited to giving $2,300 for the general election.
Biskup, who had scores of Obama contributions attributed to her, said in an interview that she never donated to the candidate. "That's an error," she said. Moreover, she added, her credit card was never billed for the donations, meaning someone appropriated her name and made the contributions with another card.
Our reader Ashely Tate commented on the Obama campaign statement to Hasen:
The manual validation they are talking about is a Web interface where the payment processor allows them to review (if they choose) transactions where the address did not match what was on file for the credit card. This is provided by all payment processors to allow for optional manual review when automated review is not being done. It works well for low volume systems where the liklihood of fraudulent charges is very low. If you tried this with a major consumer electronics site you would quickly be over your head and out of business. Perhaps they are paying more attention to these now and scanning for really obvious fake charges due to media attention.
The GAI report contrasts the Obama campaign's treatment of donations with purchases from the campaign's Web shop, which require conventional credit card security measures including CVV. As Peter Boyer and Peter Schweizer explain in the Newsweek column that is companion to the GAI report, CVV is the three- or four-digit number often imprinted on the back of a credit card, whose purpose is to verify that the person executing the purchase (or, in this case, donation) physically possesses the card. Requiring the CVV is a measure that helps prevent credit card fraud.
Why doesn't the Obama campaign require donors' credit card CVVs? The Obama campaign told Boyer and Schweizer that it doesn't use the CVV because it can be an inhibiting factor for some small donors. How so? That is an "explanation" that is extremely difficult to take at face value, as CVV is the basic requirement of online credit card transactions. Yet foregoing its provision facilitates fraud and circumvention of the limitations imposed by campaign finance law. Isn't this the likely explanation for what the Obama campaign has done and is doing?
The GAI report also finds "a remarkable array of appeals and solicitations to foreign residents by the Obama campaign," to quote the legal analysis by Kenneth Sukhia that the FAI commissioned to accompany its report. Sukhia writes:
The GAI report has shown that that Obama campaign actively solicits campaign contributions from non U.S. residents throughout the world. While such solicitations could be explainable if they were received solely by U.S. citizens abroad, they clearly are not. Given the campaign's failure to employ CVV, its unregulated AVS usage, its solicitation of foreign nationals, and the considerable foreign traffic reaching its websites, there is reason to ask if the Campaign is vulnerable to abuse by foreign interests and individuals seeking to influence the American presidential election.
Sukhia notes further that "the law makes it a crime not only to knowingly receive contributions from foreign nationals, but also to knowingly solicit from them" and that "the law is violated at the moment such solicitations are made, whether or not the person solicited actually follows through by making a contribution." Sukhia finds a reasonable basis for further investigation "[g]iven the wide-scale and seemingly indiscriminate solicitation for contributions to all those who subscribe to the campaign without regard to their nationality or residence[.]"
Boyer and Schweizer quote the Obama campaign on the question of illegal foreign fundraising:
"We take great care to make sure that every one of our more than three million donors are eligible to donate and that our fundraising efforts fully comply with all U.S. laws and regulations," says campaign spokesman Adam Fetcher. Campaign officials say they use multiple security tools to screen all online credit-card contributions, and then review, by hand, those donations that are flagged by their automated system. Potentially improper donations, such as those originating from foreign Internet addresses, are returned to any donors who cannot provide a copy of their current U.S. passport photo pages, the campaign says.
Given the GAI findings, I should think that this calls for skeptical follow-up questions and a close look at the evidence. In the meantime, however, it appears to me that the GAI has done the work of serious journalists and professors in its examination of the Obama campaign's online fundraising techniques.


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Musician and producer Pharrell Williams is asking a New York court to rule that he has not infringed on any trademarks for the phrase "I am."
According to a complaint filed Monday in New York, Black Eyed Peas rapper will.i.am has sent Williams cease and desist letters to stop him from using the phrase for his "i am OTHER" website and YouTube channel.
Lawyers for will.i.am said in the original letter, sent last year, that "the use of the term "I AM" is likely to cause visitors to the website to believe" that will.i.am is affiliated with the site.
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Williams, a member of hip-hop duo the Neptunes, has contributed vocals to two massive summer hits, Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" and Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines."
Williams' complaint argues that Will.i.am, whose given name is William Adams, has a "relatively weak" trademark claim in this case. He currently only has trademarks for the phrase's use on clothing, and there are already multiple registered trademarks for other uses of the phrase, the lawsuit said.
"The complaint seeks a declaration from the Federal Court in New York that i am OTHER does not infringe, dilute or unfairly compete with will.i.am or any of Mr. Adams' alleged "I AM " trademarks," said Brad Rose, Williams' attorney, in a statement.
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In a response to the first cease and desist letter, Williams argued that the "i am OTHER" mark is "not confusingly similar" to the will.i.am trademark.
The response suggested will.i.am's mark is a play on his given name and is similar to the use of language by Dr. Seuss in "Green Eggs and Ham." "I Am Other" is a different kind of wordplay, Williams argued.
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How Many Years Can Jogging Add to Your Life?
Want to live longer? Then start jogging. While that might seem like a chore, there's even better news. You only need to jog a little bit to extend your time on earth.
A Danish study suggests that regular jogging could add approximately six years to your life.
Peter Schnohr, chief cardiologist of the long-term Copenhagen City Heart Study, said, "We can say with certainty that regular jogging increases longevity. The good news is that you don't actually need to do that much to reap the benefits."
The study, which looked at 20,000 people between ages 20 and 93 over 35 years, compared the mortality rates of joggers versus non-joggers.
Through the course of the research, 10,158 non-joggers died, while 122 joggers died. A total of 1,115 male joggers and 763 female joggers were polled on how fast and how long they jog per week. The researchers found that male joggers can extend their life by 6.2 years, while women can do the same 5.6 years.
A slow jog for one-to-two-and-a-half hours weekly proved beneficial to health on both physical and psychological levels. Jogging was also proven to help lower blood pressure and prevent obesity, which are the more obvious benefits.


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I oppose the proposed expansion of the SECs jurisdiction to include direct oversight of hedge fund managers. I believe that the large institutional investors and wealthy individuals who qualify to invest in hedge funds are capable of evaluating the merits of investing with registered and unregistered advisers, just as they may choose to invest in registered or unregistered securities and registered or unregistered funds. The SEC should not substitute its own views about the benefits of regulation for the judgments of highly sophisticated investors who can fend for themselves.


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DENVER — As Chris Lindley drove to work that morning in August 2008, a call set his heart pounding.
The Democratic National Convention was being held in Denver, and Barack Obama was to accept his party's presidential nomination before a crowd of 80,000 people that night.
The phone call was from one of Lindley's colleagues at Colorado's emergency preparedness agency. The deadly bacterium that causes tularemia — long feared as a possible biological weapon — had been detected at the convention site.
Should they order an evacuation, the state officials wondered? Send inspectors in moon suits? Distribute antibiotics? Delay or move Obama's speech?
Another question loomed: Could they trust the source of the alert, a billion-dollar government system for detecting biological attacks known as BioWatch?
Six tense hours later, Lindley and his colleagues had reached a verdict: false alarm.
BioWatch had failed — again.
President George W. Bush announced the system's deployment in his 2003 State of the Union address, saying it would "protect our people and our homeland." Since then, BioWatch air samplers have been installed inconspicuously at street level and atop buildings in cities across the country — ready, in theory, to detect pathogens that cause anthrax, tularemia, smallpox, plague and other deadly diseases.
But the system has not lived up to its billing. It has repeatedly cried wolf, producing dozens of false alarms in Los Angeles, Detroit, St. Louis, Phoenix, San Diego, the San Francisco Bay Area and elsewhere, a Los Angeles Times investigation found.
Worse, BioWatch cannot be counted on to detect a real attack, according to confidential government test results and computer modeling.
The false alarms have threatened to disrupt not only the 2008 Democratic convention, but also the 2004 and 2008 Super Bowls and the 2006 National League baseball playoffs. In 2005, a false alarm in Washington prompted officials to consider closing the National Mall.
Federal agencies documented 56 BioWatch false alarms — most of them never disclosed to the public — through 2008. More followed.
The ultimate verdict on BioWatch is that state and local health officials have shown no confidence in it. Not once have they ordered evacuations or distributed emergency medicines in response to a positive reading.
Federal officials have not established the cause of the false alarms, but scientists familiar with BioWatch say they appear to stem from its inability to distinguish between dangerous pathogens and closely related but nonlethal germs.
BioWatch has yet to face an actual biological attack. Field tests and computer modeling, however, suggest it would have difficulty detecting one.
In an attack by terrorists or a rogue state, disease organisms could well be widely dispersed, at concentrations too low to trigger BioWatch but high enough to infect thousands of people, according to scientists with knowledge of the test data who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Even in a massive release, air currents would scatter the germs in unpredictable ways. Huge numbers of air samplers would have to be deployed to reliably detect an attack in a given area, the scientists said.
Many who have worked with BioWatch — from the Army general who oversaw its initial deployment to state and local health officials who have seen its repeated failures up close — call it ill-conceived or unworkable.
"I can't find anyone in my peer group who believes in BioWatch," said Dr. Ned Calonge, chief medical officer for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment from 2002 to 2010.
"The only times it goes off, it's wrong. I just think it's a colossal waste of money. It's a stupid program."
Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the federal agency that would be chiefly responsible for rushing medications to the site of an attack, told White House aides at a meeting Nov. 21 that they would not do so unless a BioWatch warning was confirmed by follow-up sampling and analysis, several attendees said in interviews.
Those extra steps would undercut BioWatch's rationale: to enable swift treatment of those exposed.
Federal officials also have shelved long-standing plans to expand the system to the nation's airports for fear that false alarms could trigger evacuations of terminals, grounding of flights and needless panic.
BioWatch was developed by U.S. national laboratories and government contractors and is overseen by the Department of Homeland Security. Department officials insist that the system's many alerts were not false alarms. Each time, BioWatch accurately detected some organism in the environment, even if it was not the result of an attack and posed no threat to the public, officials said.
At the same time, department officials have assured Congress that newer technology will make BioWatch more reliable and cheaper to operate.
The current samplers are vacuum-powered collection devices, about the size of an office printer, that pull air through filters that trap any airborne materials. In more than 30 cities each day, technicians collect the filters and deliver them to state or local health labs for genetic analysis. Lab personnel look for DNA matches with at least half a dozen targeted pathogens.
The new, larger units would be automated labs in a box. Samples could be analyzed far more quickly and with no need for manual collection.
Buying and operating the new technology, known as Generation 3, would cost about $3.1 billion over the next five years, on top of the roughly $1 billion that BioWatch already has cost taxpayers. The Obama administration is weighing whether to award a multiyear contract.
Generation 3 "is imperative to saving thousands of lives," Dr. Alexander Garza, Homeland Security's chief medical officer, told a House subcommittee on March 29.
But field and lab tests of automated units have raised doubts about their effectiveness. A prototype installed in the New York subway system in 2007 and 2008 produced multiple false readings, according to interviews with scientists. Field tests last year in Chicago found that a second prototype could not operate independently for more than a week at a time.
Most worrisome, testing at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington state and at the Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah found that Generation 3 units could detect a biological agent only if exposed to extremely high concentrations: hundreds of thousands of organisms per cubic meter of air over a six-hour period.
Most of the pathogens targeted by BioWatch, scientists said, can cause sickness or death at much lower levels.
A confidential Homeland Security analysis prepared in January said these "failures were so significant" that the department had proposed that Northrop Grumman Corp., the leading competitor for the Generation 3 contract, make "major engineering modifications."
A spokesman for the department, Peter Boogaard, defended the performance of BioWatch. Responding to written questions, he said the department "takes all precautions necessary to minimize the occurrence of both false positive and false negative results."
"Rigorous testing and evaluation" will guide the department's decisions about whether to buy the Generation 3 technology, he said.
Representatives of Northrop Grumman said in interviews that some test results had prompted efforts to improve the automated units' sensitivity and overall performance.
"We had an issue that affected the consistency of the performance of the system," said Dave Tilles, the company's project director. "We resolved it. We fixed it.... We feel like we're ready for the next phase of the program."
In congressional testimony, officials responsible for BioWatch in both the Bush and Obama administrations have made only fleeting references to the system's documented failures.
"BioWatch, as you know, has been an enormous success story," Jay M. Cohen, a Homeland Security undersecretary, told a House subcommittee in 2007.
In June 2009, Homeland Security's then-chief medical officer, Dr. Jon Krohmer, told a House panel: "Without these detectors, the nation has no ability to detect biological attacks until individuals start to show clinical symptoms." Without BioWatch, "needless deaths" could result, he said.
Garza, the current chief medical officer, was asked during his March 29 testimony whether Generation 3 was on track. "My professional opinion is, it's right where it needs to be," he said.
After hearing such assurances, bipartisan majorities of Congress have unfailingly supported additional spending for BioWatch.
Olympic prototype
The problems inherent in what would become BioWatch appeared early.
In February 2002, scientists and technicians from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory deployed a prototype in and around Salt Lake City in preparation for the Winter Olympics. The scientists were aware that false alarms could "cause immense disruptions and panic" and were determined to prevent them, they later wrote in the lab's quarterly magazine.
Sixteen air samplers were positioned at Olympic venues, as well as in downtown Salt Lake City and at the airport. About 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 12, a sample from the airport's C concourse tested positive for anthrax.
Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt was at an Olympic figure skating competition when the state's public safety director, Bob Flowers, called with the news.
"He told me that they had a positive lead on anthrax at the airport," Leavitt recalled. "I asked if they'd retested it. He said they had — not just once, but four times. And each time it tested positive."
The Olympics marked the first major international gathering since the Sept. 11, 2001, airliner hijackings and the deadly anthrax mailings that fall.
"It didn't take a lot of imagination to say, 'This could be the real thing,'" Leavitt said.
But sealing off the airport would disrupt the Olympics. And "the federal government would have stopped transportation all over the country," as it had after Sept. 11, Leavitt said.
Leavitt ordered hazardous-materials crews to stand by at the airport, though without lights and sirens or conspicuous protective gear.
"He was ready to close the airport and call the National Guard," recalled Richard Meyer, then a federal scientist assisting with the detection technology at the Olympics.
After consulting Meyer and other officials, Leavitt decided to wait until a final round of testing was completed. By 9 p.m., when the results were negative, the governor decided not to order any further response.
"It was a false positive," Leavitt said. "But it was a live-fire exercise, I'll tell you that."
Pressing ahead
The implication — that BioWatch could deliver a highly disruptive false alarm — went unheeded.
After the Olympics, Meyer and others who had worked with the air samplers attended meetings at the Pentagon, where Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz was building a case for rapidly deploying the technology nationwide.
On Jan. 28, 2003, Bush unveiled BioWatch in his State of the Union address, calling it "the nation's first early-warning network of sensors to detect biological attack."
The next month, a group of science and technology advisors to the Defense Department, including Sidney Drell, the noted Stanford University physicist, expressed surprise that "no formal study has been undertaken" of the Salt Lake City incident. The cause of that false alarm has never been identified.
"It is not realistic to undertake a nationwide, blanket deployment of biosensors," the advisory panel, named the JASON group, concluded.
The warning was ignored in the rush to deploy BioWatch. Administration officials also disbanded a separate working group of prominent scientists with expertise in the pathogens.
That group, established by the Pentagon, had been working to determine how often certain germs appear in nature, members of the panel said in interviews. The answer would be key to avoiding false alarms. The idea was to establish a baseline to distinguish between the natural presence of disease organisms and an attack.
The failure to conduct that work has hobbled the system ever since, particularly in regard to tularemia, which has been involved in nearly all of BioWatch's false alarms.
The bacterium that causes tularemia, or rabbit fever, got its formal name, Francisella tularensis, after being found in squirrels in the early 20th century in Central California's Tulare County. About 200 naturally occurring infections in humans are reported every year in the U.S. The disease can be deadly but is readily curable when treated promptly with antibiotics.
Before BioWatch, scientists knew that the tularemia bacterium existed in soil and water. What the scientists who designed BioWatch did not know — because the fieldwork wasn't done — was that nature is rife with close cousins to it.
The false alarms for tularemia appear to have been triggered by those nonlethal cousins, according to scientists with knowledge of the system.
That BioWatch is sensitive enough to register repeated false alarms but not sensitive enough to reliably detect an attack may seem contradictory. But the two tasks involve different challenges.
Any detection system is likely to encounter naturally occurring organisms like the tularemia bacterium and its cousins. Those encounters have the potential to trigger alerts unless the system can distinguish between benign organisms and harmful ones.
Detecting an attack requires a system that is not only discriminating but also highly sensitive — to guarantee that it won't miss traces of deadly germs that might have been dispersed over a large area.
BioWatch is neither discriminating enough for the one task nor sensitive enough for the other.
The system's inherent flaws and the missing scientific work did not slow its deployment. After Bush's speech, the White House assigned Army Maj. Gen. Stephen Reeves, whose office was responsible for developing defenses against chemical and biological attacks, to get BioWatch up and running.
Over the previous year, Reeves had overseen placement of units similar to the BioWatch samplers throughout the Washington area, including the Pentagon, where several false alarms for anthrax and plague later occurred.
Based on that work and computer modeling of the technology's capabilities, Reeves did not see how BioWatch could reliably detect attacks smaller than, for example, a mass-volume spraying from a crop duster.
Nevertheless, the priority was to carry out Bush's directive, swiftly.
"In the senior-level discussions, the issue of efficacy really wasn't on the table," recalled Reeves, who has since retired from the Army. "It was get it done, tell the president we did good, tell the nation that they're protected.… I thought at the time this was good PR, to calm the nation down. But an effective system? Not a chance."
Why no illness?
It wasn't long before there was a false alarm. Over a three-day period in October 2003, three BioWatch units detected the tularemia bacterium in Houston.
Public health officials were puzzled: The region's hospitals were not reporting anyone sick with the disease.
Dr. Mary desVignes-Kendrick, the city's health director, wanted to question hospital officials in detail to make sure early symptoms of tularemia were not being missed or masked by a flu outbreak. But to desVignes-Kendrick's dismay, Homeland Security officials told her not to tell the doctors and nurses what she was looking for.
"We were hampered by how much we could share on this quote-unquote secret initiative," she said.
After a week, it was clear that the BioWatch alarm was false.
In early 2004, on the eve of the Super Bowl in Houston, BioWatch once again signaled tularemia, desVignes-Kendrick said. The sample was from a location two blocks from Reliant Stadium, where the game was to be played Feb. 1.
DesVignes-Kendrick was skeptical but she and other officials again checked with hospitals before dismissing the warning as another false alarm. The football game was played without interruption.
Nonetheless, three weeks later, Charles E. McQueary, then Homeland Security's undersecretary for science and technology, told a House subcommittee that BioWatch was performing flawlessly.
"I am very pleased with the manner in which BioWatch has worked," he said. "We've had well over half a million samples that have been taken by those sensors. We have yet to have our first false alarm."
Asked in an interview about that statement, McQueary said his denial of any false alarm was based on his belief that the tularemia bacterium had been detected in Houston, albeit not from an attack.
"You can't tell the machine, 'I only want you to detect the one that comes from a terrorist,'" he said.
Whether the Houston alarms involved actual tularemia has never been determined, but researchers later reported the presence of benign relatives of the pathogen in the metropolitan area.
Fear in the capital
In late September 2005, nearly two years after the first cluster of false alarms in Houston, analysis of filters from BioWatch units on and near the National Mall in Washington indicated the presence of tularemia. Tens of thousands of people had visited the Mall that weekend for a book festival and a protest against the Iraq War. Anyone who had been infected would need antibiotics promptly.
For days, officials from the White House and Homeland Security and other federal agencies privately discussed whether to assume the signal was another false alarm and do nothing, or quarantine the Mall and urge those who had been there to get checked for tularemia.
As they waited for further tests, federal officials decided not to alert local healthcare providers to be on the lookout for symptoms, for fear of creating a panic. Homeland Security officials now say findings from lab analysis of the filters did not meet BioWatch standards for declaring an alert.
Six days after the first results, however, CDC scientists broke ranks and began alerting hospitals and clinics. That was little help to visitors who already had left town, however.
"There were 100 people on one conference call — scientists from all over, public health officials — trying to sort out what it meant," recalled Dr. Gregg Pane, director of Washington's health department at the time.
Discussing the incident soon thereafter, Jeffrey Stiefel, then chief BioWatch administrator for Homeland Security, said agency officials were keenly aware that false alarms could damage the system's credibility.
"If I tell a city that they've got a biological event, and it's not a biological event, you no longer trust that system, and the system is useless," Stiefel said on videotape at a biodefense seminar at the National Institutes of Health on Oct. 6, 2005. "It has to have a high reliability."
Ultimately, no one turned up sick with tularemia.
Culture of silence
Homeland Security officials have said little publicly about the false positives. And, citing national security and the classification of information, they have insisted that their local counterparts remain mum as well.
Dr. Jonathan Fielding, Los Angeles County's public health director, whose department has presided over several BioWatch false positives, referred questions to Homeland Security officials.
Dr. Takashi Wada, health officer for Pasadena from 2003 to 2010, was guarded in discussing the BioWatch false positive that occurred on his watch. Wada confirmed that the detection was made, in February 2007, but would not say where in the 23-square-mile city.
"We've been told not to discuss it," he said in an interview.
Dr. Karen Relucio, medical director for the San Mateo County Health Department, acknowledged there was a false positive there in 2008, but declined to elaborate. "I'm not sure it's OK for me to talk about that," said Relucio, who referred further questions to officials in Washington.
In Arizona, officials kept quiet when BioWatch air samplers detected the anthrax pathogen at Super Bowl XLII in February 2008.
Nothing had turned up when technicians checked the enclosed University of Phoenix Stadium before kickoff. But airborne material collected during the first half of the game tested positive for anthrax, said Lt. Col. Jack W. Beasley Jr., chief of the Arizona National Guard's weapons of mass destruction unit.
The Guard rushed some of the genetic material to the state's central BioWatch lab in Phoenix for further testing. Federal and state officials convened a 2 a.m. conference call, only to be told that it was another false alarm.
Although it never made the news, the incident "caused quite a stir," Beasley said.
The director of the state lab, Victor Waddell, said he had been instructed by Homeland Security officials not to discuss the test results. "That's considered national security," he said.
The dreaded call
In the months before the 2008 Democratic National Convention, local, state and federal officials planned for a worst-case event in Denver, including a biological attack.
Shortly before 9 a.m. on Aug. 28, the convention's final day, that frightening scenario seemed to have come true. That's when Chris Lindley, of the Colorado health department, got the phone call from a colleague, saying BioWatch had detected the tularemia pathogen at the convention site.
Lindley, an epidemiologist who had led a team of Army preventive-medicine specialists in Iraq, had faced crises, but nothing like a bioterrorism attack. Within minutes, chief medical officer Ned Calonge arrived.
Calonge had little faith in BioWatch. A couple of years earlier, the health department had been turned upside down responding to what turned out to be a false alarm for Brucella, a bacterium that primarily affects cattle, on Denver's western outskirts.
"The idea behind BioWatch — that you could put out these ambient air filters and they would provide you with the information to save people exposed to a biological attack — it's a concept that you could only put together in theory," Calonge said in an interview. "It's a poorly conceived strategy for doing early detection that is inherently going to pick up false positives."
Lindley and his team arranged a conference call with scores of officials, including representatives from Homeland Security, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Secret Service and the White House.
None of the BioWatch samplers operated by the state had registered a positive, and no unusual cases of infection appeared to have been diagnosed at area hospitals, Lindley said.
The alert had come from a Secret Service-installed sampler on the grounds of the arena where the convention was taking place. The unit was next to an area filled with satellite trucks broadcasting live news reports on the Democratic gathering. Soon, thousands of conventioneers would be walking from Pepsi Center to nearby Invesco Field to hear Obama's acceptance speech.
Had Lindley and Calonge been asked, they said in interviews, they wouldn't have put the BioWatch unit at this spot, where foot and vehicle traffic could stir up dust and contaminants that might set off a false alarm. As it turned out, a shade tree 12 yards from the sampler had attracted squirrels, potential carriers of tularemia.
The location near the media trailers posed another problem: how to conduct additional tests without setting off a panic.
EPA officials "said on the phone, 'We have a team standing by, ready to go,'" Lindley recalled. But the technicians would have to wear elaborate protective gear.
The sight of emergency responders in moon suits "would have derailed the convention," Calonge said.
On the other hand, sending personnel in street clothes would risk exposing them to the pathogen.
"This was the biggest decision we ever had to make," Lindley said.
When the conference call resumed, Lindley said the state would collect its own samples, without using conspicuous safety gear. "No one was willing to say, 'That's the right response, Colorado,'" Lindley recalled. "Everybody was frozen. We were on our own."
State workers discreetly gathered samples of soil, water and other items for immediate DNA analysis. No pathogen was found.
At 3 p.m., Lindley told participants in another national conference call that his agency was satisfied there was no threat. "I said: 'We are doing no more sampling. We are closing up this issue,'" Lindley recalled.
Lindley and Calonge, having staked their reputations on not believing BioWatch, were vindicated: Barack Obama gave his acceptance speech on schedule. No one turned up sick with tularemia. And, to their surprise, news of the false alarm never became public.
'An opportunity'
Officials responsible for BioWatch insist that the false alarms, which they refer to as "BioWatch actionable results," or BARs, have been beneficial.
Each incident "has provided local, state and federal government personnel an opportunity to exercise its preparedness plans and coordination activities," three senior Homeland Security BioWatch administrators told a House subcommittee in a statement in July 2008. "These real-world events have been a catalyst for collaboration."
Biologist David M. Engelthaler, who led responses to several BioWatch false positives while serving as Arizona's bioterrorism coordinator, is one of the many public health officials who see it differently.
"A Homeland Security or national security pipe dream," he said, "became our nightmare."
DENVER — As Chris Lindley drove to work that morning in August 2008, a call set his heart pounding.


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