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So many factors have conspired against me on this project, not the least – timing! The drive to make the fabric up collided with a brick wall of curtains, cushions and Xmas outfits for people other than immediate family! This meant I couldn't put them off. So I finally got the chance (after Xmas) to get cracking, luckily all the fiddling witht he toiles had been done before the mad rush.
I had bought this grey wool with a small burgandy fleck on an impulse in the Autumn. I promised that I would get the jacket done this season, and made myself control my urge to purchase what was remaining on the roll, instead of exactly 1.5m. Of course I had no pattern in mind, I just had to have the wool! So, the pattern. It is a self drafted jacket, with simple details and no pockets. There was just not enough to do that. It was getting too simple though, so I thought I'd play with the sleeves. I had a burst of inspiration from the Elizabethan era, the way they have slashes to reveal a contrast fabric below. So I made a pleat down the centre of the sleeve (had to switch to a one-piece sleeve) and cut a contrast pleat back. Originally this was going to be burgandy, and I had thought of a velvet.. But it proved impossible to find the right colour within my time-scale, so I reverted to some plain black wool I had hiding in the cupboard. The pleat edges were hand sewn together at 8cm intervals so when there is movement in the arm the pleat opens and reveals the back below. The buttons are the remnants of a charity shop splurg earlier in the season. I lined the jacket with a suit lining from the Fancy Silk store in Birmingham, the perfect colour to match the burgandy flecks.
I am pretty happy with the jacket, the tailoring went smoothly, the wool handled beautifully and I had no issues with the pattern at all. I might make the next one either 5cm longer, or 5 cm shorter… just to see.
I have started to put the construction information on my blog and will complete it this week, if you'd like to see the insides of this jacket.
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Feb 20, 2012, 01.05 PMby dottty
Ya jacket is lovely, and yea i love the detail you put into the sleeves, i must remember that one jj:)x
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Dec 21, 2012, 04.09 PMby Anne Wagenhauser
Thanks, it's a really simple, but effective detail!
Feb 17, 2012, 05.42 AMby mrpm1974
Lovely – love the sleeves too!
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Feb 17, 2012, 11.29 PMby Anne Wagenhauser
Thank you! ;)
Feb 17, 2012, 12.23 AMby servareginae
Beautiful! Lovely fabric, expert construction, creative touch with the sleeves. One day, I'd like to be able to make a jacket this well.
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Feb 17, 2012, 11.29 PMby Anne Wagenhauser
Thank you, I guess practice makes perfect! :)
Feb 16, 2012, 05.47 PMby Swirlz1
Ann, you did a awesome job on this jacket, and yes the sleeves are amazing!!!
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Thank you very much! :)
Feb 15, 2012, 10.21 PMby corinneski
Love those sleeves! Actually the whole jacket is just gorgeous. I want one so I guess my sewing list has just grown another item.
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Thanks very much! My list grows daily, I will never catch up!
Feb 15, 2012, 06.56 PMby Christianne DeHart
The sleeves! I am wanting to sew more and more simple lines, but then always have a surprise somewhere. Its the surprise that sets it one step above. Nice surprise on the sleeves!
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Thanks Christianne, it was gettting a bit too plain, no pockets, no detail, so the sleeves had to do something! Next time I buy more fabric!
Feb 15, 2012, 05.28 PMby faith
wonderful !!!
Feb 15, 2012, 05.11 PMby lmb
Beautiful work! The sleeve detail is wonderful. I hope you are wearing it with lots of pride. It's very inspirational.
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Feb 16, 2012, 07.49 PMby Anne Wagenhauser
Thank you, I am!
Jan 25, 2012, 05.01 PMby domestic-divaonline
Love the wool fabric. Really good wool is a dream to work with. Nice job!
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Feb 16, 2012, 07.49 PMby Anne Wagenhauser
Thank you, it is English wool, I knew I should have got more!
Jan 24, 2012, 02.26 AMby carolyn-s
This is gorgeous! Those sleeves are so interesting. Self-drafted? Respect! You've done a magnificent job!
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Jan 24, 2012, 09.34 AMby Anne Wagenhauser
Thanks, coming from you, I take that as a massive compliment!! Love all your stuff.
Jan 23, 2012, 10.44 AMby chula123
Fantastic fit ! This material is really nice, thanks to the close up I could finally see the little burgundy flecks you mentioned. Great job and those sleeves are fab !
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Jan 23, 2012, 07.25 AMby Ralf Schmitz
the sleeves look so so great! i love this jacket! fantastic!
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Thank you! It would have been a pretty plain jacket without those sleeves!
Jan 23, 2012, 02.44 AMby runningwithscissors1
Great job!I do love the slashes on the sleeves.
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Thanks! I may do it again.
Jan 22, 2012, 09.30 PMby fashionfreek
Looks great AW..you done a great job with those sleeves. Looks like a good fit on you.Suits you well. Well done :-D
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Thanks! Must make more!
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The Cove Restaurant at 392 Davol St. inFall River celebrated its grand opening on July 24.
FALL RIVER — The Cove Restaurant at 392 Davol St. in the city celebrated its grand opening on July 24.
Overlooking the Taunton River, the restaurant underwent a complete renovation since it was purchased by Rapids Management, LLC in 2012. It was formerly the site of The Regatta.
The new restaurant includes a 200-seat indoor dining area, plus 100 outdoor dining seats, and an expansive bar area. A private function/event room can hold up to 180 guests.
The restaurant's culinary team will be led by Executive Chef David Marks and feature traditional American cuisine as well as seafood and steak specialties.
Peter Cabral, one of the principals in the project, thanked the city for its support throughout the project.
"We have worked long and hard to provide quality food and drink to the Fall River, Southcoast and Rhode Island area and we hope that people will enjoy the experience at this beautiful waterfront location," Cabral said.
"The Cove will be one of the jewels of our waterfront. This multimillion dollar investment in our city will create jobs, expand our tax base, and give our citizenry even more options for dining out," said Mayor William A. Flanagan.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Dec. 17, 2008) - In a battle that live up to the rivalries long and storied history, senior forward Kevin Tiggs (Flint, Mich.) scored 30-plus points for the third time in four games and fellow senior Courtney Pigram (Memphis) added 24 as the ETSU men's basketball team dropped in-state foe Chattanooga 82-70 Wednesday night in non-conference action at Memorial Center.
A crowd of 3,102 watched the Bucs move to 7-3 on the season, while the Mocs dropped to 1-7 on the year. With the win, ETSU improved to a perfect 3-0 against former Southern Conference foes Marshall, Appalachian State and Chattanooga.
"Again, what else can you say about the Big Three, they are just playing great and they stepped up again," said ETSU head coach Murry Bartow, referencing Tiggs, Pigram and junior guard Mike Smith. "To be 7-3 is obviously a great start and to beat a Chattanooga team that I think could be a NCAA Tournament team by the end of the year says something. They have good players and are well coached. That was a great win for us."
Tiggs finished with a career and game high 32 points, meaning the senior has now scored 115 points in his last four games - Marshall (31), Mercer (21), Appalachian State (31) and Chattanooga (32). Meanwhile, Pigram posted a 20-plus point game for the fifth time this season, while Smith scored in double figures (10) for the ninth time in 10 games this year. The Bucs shot 48 percent from the floor and held UTC to just a 31 percent clip on the night.
For Chattanooga, Stephen McDowell led the way with 28, while both Nicchaeus Doaks and Ty Patterson posted 10 each.
The Mocs opened the game on fire from the field, producing a 10-2 offensive run to build a 21-10 lead with just under 14 minutes left in the half and causing Bartow to take a 30-second timeout to stem the tide. It worked, and ETSU responded by outscoring the Mocs 21-10 over the next nine minutes to tie the game at 31-31 with six minutes left on the clock.
ETSU then used another 10-0 run to take the lead at 41-36 with two minutes left in the half, but Chattanooga responded and a layup by Keyron Sheard tied the game 41-41 at the break. The Bucs shot 46 percent from the field in the first half compared to 33 percent for the Mocs, but UTC got eight more shots from the field to make up the difference in percentage.
As they did at Appalachian State, the Buccaneers opened the second half with a flurry on the offensive end, highlighted by a three from Pigram, as well as a three and dunk by Tiggs. The result was a 16-4 start to the half and a 57-45 ETSU advantage with 16:45 left in the game.
However, with Tiggs in foul trouble and on the bench with four personals, UTC slowly chipped away at the Bucs' lead over the next 11 minutes and manufactured a 7-0 run to make it a 68-67 game with just over four minutes left. A basket by Tiggs broke the string and made it 70-67, and from there a pair of free throws by Smith and another four straight from Tiggs made it 76-67 with just over a minute left in the game. The run ended Chattanooga's hopes for a win.
The Bucs return to action on the road for their final Atlantic Sun Conference game of 2008, facing off with Kennesaw State on Tuesday, Dec. 23 at 7:30 p.m. For more on ETSU men's basketball throughout the 2008-09 season, visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the men's basketball link.


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DENVER -- The remnants of a flow blue stoneware teacup hint at the life of the coal mining family that owned the family heirloom in the early 1900s.
The ceramic shards are among the items excavated from a historic Lafayette outhouse that a pair of University of Denver graduate students analyzed last spring.
In spring 2010, Rebecca Schwendler excavated the outhouse of her Lafayette home. While Schwendler holds a doctorate in anthropology with a concentration in archeology and works at a Denver archaeological consulting firm, she specializes in prehistoric archaeology, so she loaned the artifacts to Bonnie Clark, a DU associate professor of anthropology.
"There was a wide range of people who occupied this property, from miners to preachers to furniture makers, so it was really interesting to be able to take a look at this collection because it shows the diversity of the people who lived there," said Jennifer Moon, one of the students who worked on the project.
She and Christian Driver, both of whom are third-year graduate students working on master's degrees in anthology with an emphasis in archeology, researched the ceramic and glass remains found in the outhouse as part of an independent study class. They are also finalizing a site report with the state's Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation, which would give researchers access to their work.
The outhouse dates back to 1892, when furniture maker Charles Keen built the home. Three years later, he sold the house to a preacher, and by 1907, it belonged to Welsh coal miner William Richards, after whom the home is named on the Lafayette Register of Historic Properties. His grandson inherited the home in 1937 and then sold it in 1945.
Moon and Driver grouped the early occupants into two groups: the furniture maker and preacher in one group and the Richards mining families in the second. The grouping also put the residents into distinct classes, the white-collar professionals and the working-class miners.
The student found that the first group was more likely to throw out patent medicines, which were legal and often contained opiates, and little alcohol, which was banned in the original Lafayette town site. Conversely, the second group threw out few medicines and a great number of liquor bottles, mostly whiskey.
"There is a socioeconomic difference and it seems to be manifesting itself in choices that people are making in what they choose to consume," Driver said.
It's particularly telling to examine artifacts from a privy, Moon said, because "people throw things away in their privy that they don't want others to see." That was likely the case for several other items the students examined, including a hand-blown glass syringe made by a local pharmacy and Mayor Walnut Oil hair dye bottled in Kansas City, Mo.
In addition to the glass and ceramic items, the students also identified animal bones found in the outhouse as mostly butchered cow and pig. The meat was processed industrially, marking the "beginnings of a consumer culture," Driver said.
Schwendler said she was pleased with the students' "thorough" work. She plans to take the items back to her home and may one day donate them to the Lafayette Miners Museum.
Last month, Moon and an undergraduate student who worked on the project, Margaret Miller, presented their findings in a talk at the Lafayette Public Library.
Dick Schillawski, who attended the talk and is a docent at the Lafayette Miners Museum, said their research fills in the details of the bigger story of the city's history.
"It kind of gives you an indication about some of the items that people didn't particularly want to air in public," he said.
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Homeowners across the city could see their property rights altered by the first zoning code overhaul in more than 40 years.
City officials said the sweeping revisions, dubbed Transform Baltimore, would preserve the character of neighborhoods and make it easier for homes to be modernized.
"If your zoning is changing, it doesn't necessarily mean your neighborhood is going to change," said Tom Stosur, Baltimore's director of planning.
Stosur and his staff, who spent the past four years writing and rewriting the proposed code, want to assure people that the changes would not allow businesses to spring up in the middle of tree-filled blocks of single-family homes.
Still, the proposed code contains several revisions that would modify what homeowners can do with their land and how they go about making changes to their properties. The proposals include minimum design standards for new homes, limitations on the amount and type of paving that can be used on a home lot, a ban on splitting large residential lots and a streamlining of the process for making adjustments to a residence.
The version of the code introduced by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to the City Council last month is the Planning Department's third draft. It features input from residents, businesses and planning experts. The Planning Commission has scheduled a series of hearings on the proposed code, beginning Thursday. The City Council begins its own hearing process on the bill in early April.
The proposed zoning code addresses residential districts in two sections. Title 8 deals with property in areas dominated by detached and semi-detached homes. Title 9 addresses rowhouse and multifamily districts. The Planning Department launched a website, rewritebaltimore.org, where residents can search by address to see where their homes would fall under the proposed code.
Both sections lay out design standards, complete with example diagrams, that dictate how new homes should look. If the code is adopted, it would be the first time Baltimore had a unified set of standards for the appearance of homes, Stosur said.
"We still want a building to be in the general scale and character of a neighborhood," Stosur said. The design standards are minimal, but would help the city deter the construction of boxy, bland houses among distinctive homes, he said.
For instance, the front entry on new detached and semi-detached homes "must be a dominant feature," according to the new code: "The front entry should be emphasized … using features such as porches and raised steps and stoops with roof overhangs or decorative railings, to create a protected entry area and articulate the front facade."
Likewise, the proposed code prohibits blank side walls on new detached homes. And among the rules for the appearance of "infill" rowhouses — for example, replacements for burned-out buildings in the middle of a block — is a dictate that "brick colors should be consistent with Baltimore traditions."
"These design standards will help us assure that [Baltimore's] housing stock will be demanded by homebuyers," said Seema D. Iyer, the associate director of the Jacob France Institute at the University of Baltimore, which tracks applications to the city's zoning board.
The design standards should help modernize the appearance of the city's homes, bringing them more in line with contemporary sensibilities, Iyer said. That also could help increase home prices, she said.
The simplified process for making changes to existing homes would help modernize the housing stock too, Iyer said.
The current law requires homeowners to address the Board of Municipal Zoning Appeals in a public hearing for even small changes to their home or lot. The cumbersome public hearing process inhibits people from adapting their homes in ways that have become commonplace elsewhere, Iyer said.
"It's crazy, almost, that this is the nature of development in Baltimore today," she said.
The proposed code allows homeowners to make minor changes to a property with only approval by the zoning administrator as long as the homeowner has posted notice — a sign in the yard or window, for instance — of the impending change for 10 days and has received no objections.
The new system would save homeowners time and hassle — no more taking time off work to go meet with the zoning board — when they want to make changes to the property that their neighbors don't mind, Stosur said.
The zoning bill also eliminates a requirement that rowhouses be at least 16 feet wide. Many Baltimore rowhouses are narrower than that, Stosur said, so homeowners in rowhouse districts often have been required to appeal to the zoning board in order to make minor changes.
Another significant change for some homeowners is the institution of minimum lot sizes and widths, intended to prevent homeowners from selling off parts of their yards for new home construction. The largest lot considered by the current zoning code is about a half-acre. That means homeowners who have larger lots can sell off unused portions, creating two smaller tracts.
The proposed code provides for neighborhoods with minimum lot sizes as large as 1 and 2 acres.
"The whole idea behind this is if you can keep lot size fairly standard … you can prevent these smaller subdivisions coming in," Stosur said.
Those are provisions North Baltimore residents want, said Councilwoman Rochelle "Rikki" Spector, who represents homeowners in neighborhoods with large lots. "The Planning Department has recognized that the residents want to maintain the neighborhood," she said.
For areas with detached homes, lots also would be required to meet minimum widths, ranging from 45 feet (for neighborhoods such as Cylburn) to 100 feet (for neighborhoods such as North Roland Park-Poplar Hill). This would prevent new homes from being built behind existing homes in most neighborhoods, Stosur said.
The Planning Department also hopes to institute some rules that would further the goal of sustainable, environmentally friendly development, he said. The most significant such change for homeowners is a rule that would prevent pavement from being poured over more than 40 percent or 50 percent of a lot (depending on the residential zone).
Not only would reductions in paving allow more rainwater to filter through the soil before entering waterways, and ultimately the Chesapeake Bay, but "the less paving that is done the more green you have," Stosur said.
So far, the proposed zoning changes that would affect homeowners have not caused debate, according to Baltimore's elected officials and community leaders. Homeowners seem more concerned about the zoning of the commercial areas near their neighborhoods, they said.
Based on a meeting with the Planning Department, Linda Gruzs, the president of the Cedmont Community Improvement Association in Northeast Baltimore, said she thought the proposed code would strengthen protections for neighborhood character and make zoning rules easier to understand. Her neighbors are more concerned about the commercial zoning along Bel Air Road, she said.
Similar sentiments were shared by neighborhood leaders in North Baltimore, Fells Point and West Baltimore. Steven Gondol, the executive director of Live Baltimore, a nonprofit that promotes living in Baltimore's neighborhoods, agreed.
"If it was detrimental, there would be a lot more people up in arms," he said.
Select zoning proposals that affect Baltimore's homes
City officials say the proposed zoning overhaul would help protect neighborhood character
•Side facades — Blank side walls would be prohibited on newly built detached and semi-detached homes: "Windows, side entrances or other architectural features are required to avoid the appearance of blank walls facing neighboring homes."
•Rowhouse infill — Design guidelines would dictate the height, setback and appearance of new rowhouses that are built within a group of existing rowhouses "that were originally designed and developed as a single, coordinated rowhouse development."
•Lot size — Single-family districts would be created to prevent the subdivision of large home lots. Under the current zoning laws, owners of lots larger than one-half acre can sell off portions of their land for home development. The proposed code creates residential districts with minimum lot sizes including 1 and 2 acres.
•Lot width — The proposed code sets minimum residential lot widths in some communities of detached homes, to maintain consistency across a neighborhood. This would prevent new homes from being built behind existing homes. The minimum widths range from 30 feet to 100 feet.
•Conditional uses — Educational and religious centers currently are allowed in residential areas. The proposed code would make these and other institutional uses — including community centers, museums and government facilities — "conditional," meaning they would require a permit from the Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals.
•Impervious surfaces — For new detached and semi-detached homes, the code would prevent landowners from pouring too much concrete or nondraining asphalt. Land owners would not be allowed to cover more than 40 percent or 50 percent, depending on their community, of their lot with an impervious material.
Source: Baltimore City Council Bill 12-0152


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Delivered From Distraction
In 1994, Driven to Distraction sparked a revolution in our understanding of attention deficit disorder. Now a second revolution is under way in the approach to ADD, and the news is great. Drug therapies, our understanding of the role of diet and exercise, even the way we define the disorder, all are changing radically. And doctors are realizing that millions of adults suffer from this condition, though the vast majority of them remain undiagnosed and untreated. In this new book, Drs. Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey build on the breakthroughs of Driven to Distraction to offer a comprehensive and entirely up-to-date guide to living a successful life with ADD.
As Hallowell and Ratey point out, "attention deficit disorder" is a highly misleading description of an intriguing kind of mind. Original, charismatic, energetic, often brilliant, people with ADD have extraordinary talents and gifts embedded in their highly charged but easily distracted minds. Tailored expressly to ADD learning styles and attention spans, Delivered from Distraction provides accessible, engaging discussions of every aspect of the condition, from diagnosis to finding the proper treatment regime. Inside you'll discover:
- whether ADD runs in families
- the links between ADD and other conditions
- how people with ADD can free up their inner talents and strengths
- the new drugs and how they work, and why they're not for everyone
- sexual problems associated with ADD and how to resolve them
- strategies for dealing with procrastination, clutter, and chronic forgetfulness
ADD is a trait, it only becomes a disorder when it impairs your life. Featuring gripping profiles of patients with ADD who have triumphed, Delivered from Distraction is a wise, loving guide to releasing the positive energy that all people with ADD hold inside. If you have ADD or care about someone who does, this is the book you must read.
"An excellent resource." (Publishers Weekly)
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- Lincoln
- 13/02/2005
Excellent Book on ADD
This book is awesome!
Hallowell gives fun and useful strategies for dealing with child and adult Attention Deficit Disorder.
I read his first book, Driven to Distraction, in the 90's and am quite impressed with the new strategies and 'improved' or updated philosophies and methods of dealing with ADD.
An audiobook is a much easier way for ADD'ers to get through a book like this! Listening in LA traffic has been great.
The book is full of examples of actual patients as well as some in depth stories of successful adults with ADD.
The new thrust of dealing with ADD (in addition to outer structure, exercise, nutrition, medication, etc) is Emphasising the Strengths and Talents of the individual with ADD and the 'play cycle.'
This is a very EMPOWERING AUDIOBOOK FOR THOSE WITH ADD AND THEIR PARENTS OR FAMILIES.
I have ADD and my wife didn't want to listen at first, but I got her take the questionaire with me. Upon finishing the test, she had new understanding and compassion for my ADD.
It includes some self-diagnostic questionaires and Hallowell makes good use of humor.
Well narrated.
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- Aaron
- 06/03/2005
Excellent Book!
This is the best book I've read (heard) on ADD. It's more thorough than any book I've seen and I've learned a lot about what causes many/all of my problems. I know what to watch for in my behavior/situation and what to do about it! It paints a very accurate picture of ADD - it's more accurate and complete and up to date than any book I've seen before. It also has some exercises to increase my attention-which are easy to do & they do in fact increase my attention - like the cerebellum exercise of practicing balance on a wobbly board. I never heard of stuff like this before and it's easy and works! I highly recommend this book - there's a lot of great information. I also really like the audio format because it's much easier to complete and relisten to.
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- Kelli
- 18/02/2010
Simply phenomenal!
Over the past year both myself and my 8 year old son have been diagnosed with ADHD, both of us predominantly inattentive type (no hyperactivity). Dr Hallowell's book has opened my mind and my eyes to so much. It is because of this book that I even sought diagnosis for myself. I originally purchased the hard copy of this book when my son's teacher indicated she thought he might be ADHD, and as I read part of this book I thought to myself, my goodness, THIS IS ME!!! This is who I have been my entire life...unorganized, absent minded, forgetful, easily distracted, unable to concentrate to follow a conversation without going over what I was going to say next in my own head...and on and on. Needless to say, as an ADHD'er there was no way I was reading this whole book front to cover, as I rarely finish anything, especially a book, that I start. And then I found Audible. I downloaded the book to my phone and on my 90 minute commute each way to work each day, I listened. And I still listen. I have been through the whole audible book at least 4 times and every time I listen I learn something new that I drifted off on the last time I listened! The person narrating has a great voice to listen to and I wish he would have narrated Dr Hallowell's other book. I am eagerly anticipating Dr. Hallowell's new book Married to Distraction! All I can say is thank you...this read/listen is simply awesome for anyone who is or loves someone who has been diagnosed with or you think may have ADHD.
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- Delano
- 20/07/2010
Read the book
As an audiobook this is guaranteed to waste your time. Why? About 2/3 is for parents of children with ADD and 1/3 is for adults with ADD. Since the book isn't divided that way, anyone who listens to this book will spend a lot of time listening to material they really don't care about. So ADHD adults who buy this book looking for practical advice on how to help their careers and household organization will spend hours listening to stories about experimental schools for dyslexic children. Individual chapters also suffer from a tendency to repeat the same point long after it's been made. Since the sections of the file are much larger than individual chapters, there's no way to skip from one topic to another. The only solution is to buy the book and skip the large amount of material you don't need.
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- Donald
- 04/05/2005
Eye Opener
I purchased this audio to learn more about ADD, since my Grand Daughter was diagnosed as having ADD. In fact I really had no idea what ADD or ADHD was all about. Not only did this book help me with understanding her problems, it help me to see that I too have ADD and have had it all my life. I cannot express in words how this book has helped change my life and that of my family. It is truly worth its weight in gold.
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- Adam
- 08/03/2005
Absolutely Fantastic
As an adult with ADD with three children who have inherited this trait, I found this to be the best book I have ever read on the subject. The author provides numerous resources and has a positive and unique way of viewing ADD. Practically all of the other books I have read on ADD spend 95% of the book defining the "problem" and 5% on so called solutions like "add structure to your life." This book gives practical advice which would benefit even those without ADD. Thank you for writing this excellent book Dr. Hallowell and Dr. Ratey.
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- Stephen
- 02/06/2005
Very revealing!
I bought this book because I am interested in psychiatry. But as Iistened I kept thinking "I understand exactly what you are saying". I was quite hyper as a child but seemed to gain control as a teenager. But as I listened I could see myself in his descriptions. A great book written by authors that have ADD themselves, so they can explain it very well. I also enjoyed the fact that most of the chapters can be listened to independently. Highly recommended.
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- Stephen Ryder
- 10/03/2007
Fantastic and accurate
I loved this book. I started reading it, in an effort to help my son. I learned so much about how he was feeling, and how I can help him feel better about himself. After reading, I could better understand him, and was able to get my son to open up more with me about what goes on in his head while in school etc.
I would highly recommend this book for anyone who would like to understand ADD and other like, diagnosis.
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- Kevin
- 15/10/2010
Liked Dr Hs previous book more
Delivered from distraction was alright, I got more out of his previous book. This one is more of a compilation of patient stories than anything else. I related to a lot of the stories and it was a decent listening, but I was looking more for further enlightenment of ADHD and the development of tools to help me deal with ADHD.
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- Duane H
- 14/05/2012
If you buy one book or audio on ADHD, this is it!
Have you listened to any of Dan Cashman's other performances before? How does this one compare?
He has a great voice for this book. I always prefer the author to record the audio, but Dan does a great job. Thought it matched up well with Dr. Hallowell's style.
Any additional comments?
I have the book, but its hard to get through it all. So getting the audio was great way to finish the book and reinforce by listening to it again.
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If your enterprise is working with Big Data, or at least beginning to stick your toe in the water, and you're not thinking about the concept of "signal", you're about to make a big mistake. Identifying the signal is what will enable you to leverage Big Data effectively. And if you don't, you're going to spend a lot of time and money chasing red herrings.
Stephen Few recently penned a great blog post on the concept of "signal detection". He proposes a definition of what defines signal vs noise:
When we rely on data for decision making, what qualifies as a signal and what is merely noise? In and of themselves, data are neither. Data are merely facts. When facts are useful, they serve as signals. When they aren't useful, data clutter the environment with distracting noise.For data to be useful, they must:
- Address something that matters
- Promote understanding
- Provide an opportunity for action to achieve or maintain a desired state
When any of these qualities are missing, data remain noise.
I like this definition. It fits hand in hand with the concept of Marketing Science that we proposed earlier this year. Insights (aka signal) are only valuable in so far as they drive business outcomes. And if you're developing insights that influence action within your enterprise, you had better make sure that what you're looking at is actually signal.
This is where Big Data is presents challenges. In his post, Few makes the absolutely correct point that data are noisy. And when data increase dramatically in volume, velocity, and variety (aka it gets BIG), that noisiness grows right along with everything else. All of a sudden, it becomes that much harder to correctly identify signal. As Few points out:
Finding a needle in a haystack doesn't get easier as you're tossing more and more hay on the pile.
If you listen to some of the discussion around Big Data, you could easily walk away thinking that if you can capture it, all you need to do is run it through some sophisticated analytic software and "boom" you've got new insights.
The problem with this approach is that pesky noise. As you start dealing with huge data sets, it becomes relatively easy to find "statistically significant noise". You may think you're looking at signal, but instead you're just finding random patterns in the noise that happen to look like signal. This is what can happen when analysts are given lots of data and told to go find something.
How do you combat this? Part of it, as Few points out, is having data analysts that have a deep understanding of how to detect signal and the associated challenges that Big Data presents. The other part, is in how you approach data analysis in the first place.
Again, I'll reference our Marketing Science framework and propose that by applying a scientific approach to data collection and analysis, you improve your ability to correctly identify signal. Instead of randomly looking for patterns in the data, by developing hypotheses and then testing and refining them, you're able to focus on signal that (a is more likely to actually be signal and b) will help drive the business forward.
We've seen some really interesting and impactful results internally with the Marketing Science framework. We've developed insights that both drive business outcomes and challenge conventional thinking. I'll be highlighting a few of these examples in future blog posts. In the meantime, I'd love to get your feedback on what challenges you've experienced with identifying signal within Big Data.


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In a cramped bathroom stall at Edward Cary Middle School, Mariela and her crew passed around a binder and a school badge to divide the lines of powder.
Come and check it. See if the lines are even, a girl in the stall said. Here's four for you. Four for you. Four for you.
I'm fixin' to hit a line, right now, boasted Mariela, a skinny 13-year-old girl with blond streaks through her brown hair, directing the crew while standing back by the sinks.
The bathroom door creaked. Most of the girls, high at 8 in the morning, spun around and began fussing over themselves in the mirror.
Who is that? one girl, still snorting in the stall, asked in Spanish.
Maestra, one of them whispered. The teacher.
The teacher walked into a stall near them, taking no notice of the girls or the drugs.
When Mariela Torres started eighth grade months earlier, she'd never smoked, drunk or tried drugs. But in classrooms, hallways and bathroom stalls, "cheese" heroin was inescapable.
In many ways, Mariela was like other teenagers getting hooked: a 13-year-old girl living in a poor area of Dallas where prostitutes, drug dealers and gangbangers were common. She can't move out. She can't ignore it. Does she forsake her only friends in favor of a drug-free life? What 13-year-old would?
Newspapers and TV would highlight the crisis the following year: Children as young as 11 snorting the black tar heroin mixed with pills. But over the years, the media spotlight would fade, even as kids continue to die.
And cheese heroin would always surround Mariela.
It started in September 2005, a few weeks into the new school year.
She was sitting in the back during eighth-grade home economics. Kids were talking and strutting around, flinging paper airplanes, balled-up notes — even books. A boy named Adrian sidled up to Mariela and hunched behind a textbook with something in his hand.
Inside a folded piece of notebook paper were little yellow balls of dust.
There's this new drug, cheese, he said. It's easy to forget your problems, y'know? Everything's bliss, y'know? I've just been getting high. It's great.
What are you talking about? Mariela asked.
This is cheese, he said, forming a bit of the powder into a line. This is what I've been using. If you try it, it's going to make you feel good.
He offered Mariela a rolled dollar bill to use as a straw.
Heroin chunks banged through her nostrils, like hot coals.
She rubbed her nose, willing the pain away, waiting for the effects to kick in. Nothing happened.
The next day in the hallway after class, she tried again. Almost immediately, she struggled to keep her eyes open. Everything faded. She felt like she was floating.
When she was 5, Mariela, her mother and younger twin sisters returned from a trip to Mexico to their Oak Cliff apartment. A stranger met them at the door. Mariela's father had abandoned them, and another man was living there.
Mariela's mother, 45-year-old Margarita Delara, moved the family to a cramped apartment in the Webb Chapel area, where Mariela's aunt, uncle and cousins lived nearby. Low-rent apartments dominate, filled with poor immigrant families chasing the American dream. But Webb Chapel also struggles against crime.
Margarita didn't speak English. She and her three daughters lived sparingly off the money Margarita made selling dishes she'd learned to prepare in Mexico to neighbors.
Mariela used that money to support her new routine. She gave Adrian $2 of her lunch money and would snort lines with her hollowed-out pen or a dollar bill.
Mariela heard rival middle school drug dealers arguing over whose cheese looked the best. That looks like straight-up chalk, one boy said about another's product.
The boys argued over how many pills and which ones to cut the heroin with. (Tylenol PM? Oxycontin? Xanax?) One boy might mix 20 pills with $40 worth of black-tar heroin, while another would use only five pills. Every batch of cheese was a gamble. One could kill you. One might barely give you a buzz.
Adrian made Mariela a deal. If she sold heroin, she could keep some. Drop it off at "A" lunch, Adrian would tell her.
She worried that drugs would ruin her friends, but selling the drug was the only way she could afford it.
The school didn't have cameras. Adrian and Mariela met by the portable classrooms to exchange products and profits. He'd hand her a paper pouch with a number written on it: 5, 10, 20, 30 or 40, indicating how much money the heroin inside was worth.
Five dollars of heroin might be two lines of cheese. Ten dollars would be six lines. Twenty dollars could mean anywhere from 12 to 30 lines of cheese. At $20, users were getting high for less than $1 per hit.
By December, she was snorting four lines in the morning, four lines at lunch and four lines after school every day.
Teachers became suspicious. The next month when selling, she and Adrian were caught skipping class. They were sent to in-school suspension, called Appropriate Alternative Placement. Mariela found herself doing homework in an isolated classroom with other users and dealers.
One day, a Dallas ISD police officer escorted Adrian and Mariela to the principal's office. Teachers suspected they were using drugs even during suspension. Leaving the portable classroom, Mariela pulled a folded paper marked "$10" out of her bra and threw the heroin behind a mound of dirt, glass and rocks.
I just dropped it, she whispered to Adrian in Spanish.
Before the teens met with the principal, an officer searched Mariela. She didn't find anything. I'm on to you, the officer said.
Most girls wanted to be Mariela's friend, but she was picky. Girls would compliment her, and she would cut them down. Popular but confrontational, she led her own clique, vying for the attention of boys.
As she tired of getting high with Adrian and other boys, she drew her girlfriends in.
Abby had been her best friend and neighbor since they were 7 and 6. Now, after school, they would snort cheese in Abby's bathroom. They told Abby's parents they were styling each other's hair.
Jessica Esparza was Mariela's cousin. Together, they spent their childhoods playing with Barbies, running through fields and dancing to the radio. They'd been distant in recent months; Jessica disapproved of the drugs. But the two grew closer than ever after Jessica, who earlier mocked Mariela as a cheesehead, admitted that she, too, had tried cheese. Mariela shared her supply.
That spring, Mariela once went two days without heroin. Her whole body ached. She started using again, at least 16 lines a day, just to feel normal. She'd stopped feeling the drug's calming sense of slipping away. She'd lost the high.
She blamed Adrian's drugs.
It's sheisty, she told him. He was cutting it with too many tablets.
She and her crew of friends wanted their own hookup. She asked Adrian how he got his drugs.
Call this number, state your name, say you got the number from me and say how much heroin you want.
At her apartment complex, surrounded by friends, she borrowed her cousin's cellphone and made the call from a dirty patch of grass littered with cigarette butts and brown marijuana blunts.
Who the hell is this? a deep voice asked.
I'm Mariela. I got your number from Adrian. He said he gets heroin from you.
They were at a nearby McDonald's a half-hour later to meet a dark truck with tinted windows as it drove up. The windows rolled down.
Are you Mariela? the dealer called out.
They greeted with a handshake, black-tar heroin wrapped in plastic in his hand, a $20 bill cupped in hers. The same way she'd sold at school.
One day in the spring of 2006, Mariela was called to the principal's office. She was so high she was sent to the infirmary. Her mother was called.
Not my Mariela, Margarita Delara thought.
Margarita came from a poor Mexican pueblo, working in tomato fields, away from paved roads and city lights. She'd never used drugs. She moved to Dallas to build a life and family.
She didn't want to copy her parents' harsh discipline. She smothered her Mariela in love. But something changed in eighth grade. Mariela began talking back.
I want to go out, she said. When her mother refused, peace broke, doors slammed, voices screeched. Mariela went out anyway. Margarita heard rumors: Mariela was getting high.
She'd asked her daughter before. Are you using drugs?
Mariela looked her in the eyes.
No! Te lo juro. I swear. Why would you say that?!
Margarita marched into the school, worried that her daughter's addiction could kill her.
School officials told Margarita they wanted to place Mariela in an alternative school, but her mother objected. Alternative schools are filled with addicts. Why would you put my daughter with other addicts?
Though she didn't speak English, Margarita sat next to Mariela in class every day she could.
But Mariela took bathroom breaks, sneaking into stalls to snort lines.
During the summer of 2006, Mariela and her friends each pitched in a few dollars so they could get their daily fix from their dealer. As loyal customers, he rewarded them with a special: Thirty dollars of heroin for only $20.
The girls divided the heroin into a breakfast dose, a lunch dose, a dinner dose and a sleeping dose.
One evening, she heard a dance song called "La Niña." It sounded upbeat, supported by lines such as "Alex, your daddy loves you," before continuing in Spanish with the story of a 9-year-old girl being raped.
The next morning, as Mariela was in her heroin-induced sleep and while Margarita was out selling homemade menudo, one of her sisters heard a knock at the door. It was a man who said he was hungry.
Mariela awoke to screams. Almost blind without her glasses, she could at first barely distinguish the shapes: A man was attacking her sister. Her sister's pants had been torn off.
Mariela tried to pull the man off. He grabbed her hair. Mariela stomped on the ground and the walls to make as much noise as possible. She heard banging outside the front door, but both bolts were locked.
Then her uncle leapt onto the balcony and sprang in through the unlocked patio door. He wrestled with the intruder while Mariela grabbed a phone and cursed at the 911 call taker to get here, now.
Shaken but unharmed, Mariela and her sisters spent the rest of the day reliving the story at a police station. Back home, Mariela stood in the parking lot with friends, snorting as much cheese as she could, hoping to forget.
Then a car pulled up.
Mariela! a voice beckoned.
It was the father she hadn't seen in years.
Get the [expletive] out of here! she yelled at him. I don't want you around! Why are you here?!
High and paranoid, Mariela heard the song she'd heard the night before ringing through her head. Why hadn't he been there when he was needed?
She kept snorting.
In the fall of 2006, Margarita refused to send Mariela to the nearby school kids were calling the "Cheesehead Factory" — Thomas Jefferson High. Instead, Mariela started high school at W.T. White, away from her friends.
There was no Adrian or Abby or Jessica to tempt her at the school of more than 2,000 students, but as soon as the day ended, Mariela bolted home to call her dealer.
Students started bumping into her. I hear you're selling, they'd say.
I'm not selling, but I'll sell you some.
A few weeks later, Jessica's mother sent her to Phoenix House, a rehab center for children. Within days, Margarita told Mariela she was going, too.
Packing, Mariela took one last snort before tucking away her favorite toy — a stuffed elephant.
Oh my God, Mariela thought as they drove on Harry Hines Boulevard toward the center, I'm about to go into treatment, and I don't know when I'm going to get out.
She slept that first night, Sept. 22, thanks to the waning effects of her last high. But 5:30 a.m. came too soon.
Where the hell am I? she demanded. Call my mom, tell her to come pick me up. Tell her I don't want to be here. If you don't call my mom, I'm going to leave.
During group meetings, others talked about goals and temptations, and she sat in a corner. She stayed silent.
Counselors asked her to list the people she had gotten high with; she wrote out 114 names, enough that she distinguished users by adding initials, nicknames or different spellings. To stay clean, counselors told Mariela, she needed to abandon all of them.
Withdrawal meant cold sweats and fever. At night, she lay awake, frightened. She didn't trust the staff. She didn't trust her roommates. She worried about her sisters. She began having nightmares. In them, she'd use. And the attacker was there.
A month after arriving at Phoenix House, she met Ricardo, a 15-year-old boy from Fort Worth. He was crying. He missed his family. He missed celebrating Halloween with costumes.
The next day, they talked again. Then they started passing notes.
Counselor Louis Toms took her aside and explained she needed to focus on herself, not on Ricardo. "Mr. Louis" first got hooked on meth when he was 13 in California. He went through prison and a treatment facility before he made his way to Phoenix House. He knew Mariela's pain.
She played sweet and nice in front of the counselors. But when they were out of sight, she tried huffing, inhaling aerosol sprays from a bag. She tried snorting Benadryl. She tried a game where others choke you until you pass out.
Each time, she got caught.
Counselors told her she was only using to avoid her emotions. She bottled her feelings until exploding at whoever was closest — her mom, her sisters, her friends. To escape drugs, she needed to learn to cope.
One day, a girl came back from a doctor's appointment outside the facility. She brought a bag of heroin into Phoenix House.
Don't, Mariela told one of the girls about to snort a line. The girl would graduate in a few days. Why ruin that? The girl snorted. And then Mariela did.
Once again, she got caught.
At Encounter Group, kids confronted each other with the problems they caused. Mariela was confronted a lot.
December 2006. Three months into the program. During Encounter Group, a staff member asked Ricardo to step out of the room.
Later, Mariela went to look for him. She couldn't find him in any of the rooms and started shouting.
Where's Ricardo? Where's Ricardo?
Staff members tried to calm her. They explained that Ricardo broke the rules and they'd had to discharge him.
Mariela didn't eat for two days. She stopped talking again.
Mr. Louis finally had enough. He'd seen potential in Mariela: The way she led others when they had a chore or an assignment. She was polite to the staff. He also knew she didn't value herself.
You need to get yourself together, he told her. He's moved on to somewhere where he can get help. Now it's your turn to get help. It was either going to be you discharged or him discharged, and we saw you had more potential.
Mr. Louis told her to be afraid of using again. He explained she needed to be wary of her friends. Drugs came from friends. Ricardo was exactly the kind of person she needed to abandon.
Mariela remained quiet, looking down.
But a week later, she was placed in charge of assigning chores to other kids: vacuuming, serving food, scrubbing toilets. She harnessed the same skills she'd used as the leader of her crew of drug-using friends.
It's your turn to get help, Mr. Louis had said. She started paying attention in meetings.
A few days before Christmas, she wrote a mock conversation with Adrian on a worksheet.
"Say, I got some, do you want some?" she imagined him asking her.
"Well, I'm sober now, Adrian."
She imagined him pushing her harder. "Adrian, I'm sorry, but I already stopped doing drugs! I don't want to do it no more! So just leave me alone!" she wrote.
She was determined to turn away from her old ways. But she would soon be back in the same apartment, near her old friends who were still using.
February 2007. On her second day back at W.T. White, as Mariela picked up papers in her health class, the teacher asked her to tell everyone where she'd been.
Oh, I just got out of rehab, she began. I was there for about five months.
She spent half the class telling her story. She was a drug addict. She'd used heroin. But she was clean, and proud. She wanted people to know.
Victor, a friend from rehab, got out and promised Mariela he'd never use again if only she would go out with him.
She felt guilty. She believed it was her fault that so many friends were hooked on cheese.
They dated one week. Then Victor either had too much or got his hands on a bad batch. He walked to her apartment saying he didn't feel right. She called 911, and he ended up back in rehab and permanently out of her life.
After that, she separated herself from her old friends. To start a new life, Mariela put her old life to death. She replaced drugs with school, and then work. She spoke about her experiences on local TV. A year later, Univision brought her to Miami for a national story on drug use.
She met a new boy, Herbert, who taught her to drive. She volunteered at Phoenix House, helping families that spoke Spanish. Then came a paying job at the center.
She started taking classes at Eastfield College in Mesquite to learn to be a substance abuse counselor. She expects to graduate in May.
Today, she's 21, and six years sober.
Another cheese addict finished the in-house Phoenix program in October, moving to outpatient counseling. His mother brought him to the center one day and thrust out her hand to Mariela. Cupped inside was a folded piece of paper.
Mariela's hands were shaking as she handed the cheese over to a counselor.
The lure of floating away was still there.
Editor's note: Staff writer Andrew Pantazi reconstructed the story of Mariela Torres from about 30 interviews across the last six months. In addition to more than 10 lengthy interviews with Mariela, he corroborated key details with her mother, sister, friends and counselors. Drug activity in Dallas Independent School District schools has been reported in the past, and where possible was corroborated with police sources and Mariela's own investigative file. The italicized quotes are presented as they were remembered by those present at the time.


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|UnWorldly [ Thu Dec 22, 2005 2:11 am ]
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Has anyone else seen these recent ars techica articles that make some inferences about the NSA's surveillence technology?
It is entirely possible that the NSA technology at issue here is some kind of high-volume, automated voice recognition and pattern matching system. Now, I don't at all believe that all international calls are or could be monitored with such a system, or anything like that. Rather, the NSA could very easily narrow down the amount of phone traffic that they'd have to a relatively small fraction of international calls with some smart filtering. First, they'd only monitor calls where one end of the connection is in a country of interest. Then, they'd only need the ability to do a roving random sample of a few seconds from each call in that already greatly narrowed pool of calls. As Zimmermann describes above, you monitor a few seconds of some fraction of the calls looking for "hits," and then you move on to another fraction. If a particular call generates a hit, then you zero in on it for further real-time analysis and possible human interception. All the calls can be recorded, cached, and further examined later for items that may have been overlooked in the real-time analysis.
So I am wondering if such a device would be able to detect such 'hits' through the blasterisk system (not that I am planning anything, really big brother this is just hypothetical conversation!). A 'hit' might be something like saying the word "Allah" (to quote my favorite will smith movie, enemy of the state). I am not sure how blag's phone network works, but I imagine the NSA cant detect hits going through the internet channels, and I imagine you aren't paying telco's to make international calls.
I ask this because I question whether this surveillence technology can ever be affective against any real threat. I think people can talk in code and always be a step ahead of surveillence, congress only recently learned the definition of the word "skeet" for example. I also wonder if terrorist could just circumvent this whole problem by using a phone system similar to blasterisk, granted there are endless amounts of switches in these networks that can be listened in on, but if this was only for international calls then it wouldn'y be listening in on all of those switches between the caller and the internet node.
Any thoughts on this?
|jebba [ Thu Dec 22, 2005 2:27 am ]
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Well, i personally think a huge chunk of international calls are recorded.
BLASTERISK is certainly not NSA-proof or anything near it. It is not encrypted.
Also, considering BLASTERISK has already taken calls from anti-torture protestors outside of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba I'd think it's already on someone's list. (Can you believe we're at the point where we're discussing pro- versus anti-torture and the president admits and defends on national news that he's listening in on gringo's phone calls!)
I don't know what skeet is either.
The NSA likely uses a system similar to bayesian spam filtering. They don't just come up with some list of words they think are dodgy, they feed known dodgy calls into their system and look for similar ones. This is just speculation on my part of course, but they certainly use some far more powerful data mining than just a word blacklist....
Just think how powerful google is. Then picture a google 10x more powerful with access to all your bills, your phone calls, your credit card charges, your travel details, your tax returns, driving record, criminal record, fingerprints, school records, etc. They got something like that with a nice cute web interface, methinks. Want to start recording all calls to/from a number? 1) enter "1-555-555-5555", 2) click <submit>, 3) done.
I just assume all my phonecalls and emails are recorded. ;)
|rblee [ Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:07 pm ]
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jebba wrote:
Well, i personally think a huge chunk of international calls are recorded.
I just assume all my phonecalls and emails are recorded. ;)
It used to be that 100% of international calls to and from Blighty were recorded, although a relatively small proportion were actually listened to. I would guess the same is true today, except the volume of calls will have increased dramatically, and the sophistication of the techniques used to home in on "interesting" calls will have been massively improved as well.
To a large extent, analysis of the content of communications is a zero sum game though, as serious criminals, terrorists, financiers, businessmen, and other enemies of the people, will use pre-arranged but unnoticable codes to actually transmit the information, with the rest of the message being just innocuous camoflage to hide the fact that a message is being sent at all.
This is why the Forces Of Law And Order are so keen to order the retention of metadata surrounding communications - Even though you may have no idea whether a hidden message has been passed between two individuals, the fact that a communication path between them can be established means that you can start to focus your resources on more, rather than less, likely targets. This also, unfortunately, means that you need a legal framework that allows the investigation of individuals on no better pretext than they both have, say, friends who have a friend in common. If the theory of 6 degrees of separation is anywhere near accurate, you can see why the paranoid amongst the FOLAO quickly rationalise that they need untramelled access to any and all data on everyone. How they will distil this vast mountain of irrelevence into actionable data is a question I have yet to see any vaguely credible attempt to answer.
Where this starts to fall apart is when use is made of emergent properties of the data. For example, there is an embryonic plan in Britain to monitor the movements of all vehicles, all the time. This is ostensibly to allow vehicle taxation by road usage. All fine and dandy, until you notice that it will be possible to deduce from the road usage data (simple case) whether a given vehicle has been exceeding the speed limit, or (more sinisterly) whether a given vehicle has been co-proximate with a vehicle thought to have been used for "terrorism". In the first case, any government proposing to fine the hell out of people for playing with their favorite toys isn't going to be the government for long, and in the second case... Well, they can lock people up for 28 days without charge, or even a shred of evidence, already, already... All under the guise of keeping us safe!
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|UnWorldly [ Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:31 pm ]
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I don't doubt that they are easily capable of recording us, I was more wondering if the specific device that the article was guessing about would be capable of intersepting the blasterisk conversations. I know a couple classmates who got internships with the NSA then completely dissapeared from everybody that knew them, and they were really smart people capable of helping to make a machine like this. I imagine they have a really clever way of detecting hits rather than just trigger phrases.
Skeet is a dirty word used in some rap songs, somebody brought it up in a debate in congress recently, but most urban kids knew what the word meant for at least a year before the gov't got wind of it, had they learned the definition earlier they probably wouldnt have allowed it to play on the radio. I was just using it as an example to show that people are always ahead of security if they are smart enough to be dangerous, and I think our biggest threats are easily capable of masking their messages, especially if rappers can do it with a single word.
|jebba [ Thu Dec 22, 2005 3:15 pm ]
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UnWorldly wrote:
I was more wondering if the specific device that the article was guessing about would be capable of intersepting the blasterisk conversations.
Oh, I would think that the NSA has taken VoIP into consideration. To a large extent the digitizing of phone calls (not just VoIP) has made it easier for them to record.
The way to protect against people (not just the NSA) spying would be to encrypt phone calls. SIP and IAX2, two common protocols for asterisk, currently cannot encrypt calls. Even if asterisk could, the large telcos around the world don't run asterisk so it would only help in asterisk to asterisk calls. The large telcos are required to allow people to tap the phones too.
Phil Zimmerman, of PGP fame, has been working on zPhone, which is an encrypted telephone system of some sort that works with VoIP. I know few details about it except he said he was going announce something about it last summer. So far, nada. With luck he'll announce something at an O'Reilly conference he's speaking at in January.
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