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A survey of sex therapists concluded the optimal amount of time for sexual intercourse was 3 to 13 minutes. The findings, to be published in the May issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, strike at the notion that endurance is the key to a great sex life.
If that sounds like good news to you, don't cheer too loudly. The time does not count foreplay, and the therapists did rate sexual intercourse that lasts from 1 to 2 minutes as "too short."
Researcher Eric Corty said he hoped to ease the minds of those who believe that "more of something good is better, and if you really want to satisfy your partner, you should last forever."
The questions were not gender-specific, said Corty (who, it must be noted, is male). But he said prior research has shown that both men and women want foreplay and sexual intercourse to last longer.
Dr. Irwin Goldstein, editor of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, cited a four-week study of 1,500 couples in 2005 that found the median time for sexual intercourse was 7.3 minutes. (Women were armed with stopwatches.)
It's difficult for both older men and young men to make sexual intercourse last much longer, said Marianne Brandon, a clinical psychologist and director of Wellminds Wellbodies in Annapolis, Md.
"There are so many myths in our culture of what other people are doing sexually," Brandon said. "Most people's sex lives are not as exciting as other people think they are."
Fifty members of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research in the U.S. and Canada were surveyed by Corty, an associate professor of psychology at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, and student Jenay Guardiani. Thirty-four members, or 68 percent, responded, although some said the optimal time depended on the couple.
Corty said he hoped to give an idea of what therapists find to be normal and satisfactory among the couples they see.
"People who read this will say, 'I last 5 minutes or my partner lasts 8 minutes,' and say, 'That's OK,'" he said. "They will relax a little bit."
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Configuring the number of ports on storage arrays and switches shouldn't be a guessing game that results in an excess of ports and a big dent in your budget. To properly size a switch or storage array, you need to analyze the average and peak bandwidth requirements of each device. Monitoring current utilization rates will help you determine effective bandwidth requirements.
You'll need to juggle the right number of ports on your switches and arrays to maximize performance and reduce the management complexity of your applications.
At first glance, it might seem that the number of ports is a relatively insignificant factor when choosing a storage array, switch or host bus adapter (HBA). Application requirements, operating system support, device features, performance and scalability are all factors to consider--the number of ports is almost an afterthought. But the number of ports plays an increasingly important role in the application's availability and performance, as well as the cost of the storage device and how complex it is to manage.
Think of ports as gates into arrays and switches; if these gates are congested, the fastest arrays and switches won't be able to live up to their potential. Therefore, the number of required ports into a storage system is determined by how much traffic the storage system must handle.
Proper sizing of a switch or array begins by analyzing the connected storage devices. The average and peak bandwidth requirements of each device need to be taken into consideration. Let's assume you need to size a storage switch for 25 servers that connect to three storage arrays. The device count dictates the minimum number of ports, which in our example is 28 ports. Depending on the storage bandwidth requirements of the applications running on each server, the aggregate bandwidth to the arrays will likely require multiple trunked connections, increasing the minimum number of ports.
Unfortunately, it's not always easy to accurately project the average and peak performance of all connected devices; the only way to get an accurate assessment is to monitor and analyze the utilization metric in production, which will reveal performance issues. If you want to add extra ports to a congested link or affix additional devices in general, it's crucial to include spare ports in the required port count. As a rule of thumb, you should plan for a port count that meets your port requirements for the next 12 months. "Typically, we see companies size their infrastructure up to a factor of twice today's needs," says James E. Opfer, research vice president at Gartner Inc., Stamford, CT. "Sizing infrastructure beyond a factor of two is expensive and, in most cases, uneconomical."
|Ports and Fibre Channel HBAs
Host bus adapters (HBAs) enable servers to connect to switches and arrays. They're typically PCI, PCI-X or lately PCI Express add-in cards with one, two or four Fibre Channel (FC) ports. Servers are connected redundantly to switches or arrays via at least two connections, using Multipath I/O (MPIO). While multiport HBAs enable multipathing through a single HBA, having the redundant connections on physically separate HBAs prevents storage failure; redundant links on separate HBAs eliminate the HBA as a single point of failure.
Multiport HBAs with a port count beyond two, such as QLogic Corp.'s SANblade QLA2344 HBA, face an oversubscription problem similar to that of high-density blades. The aggregated bandwidth of four FC ports exceeds the capacity of a single I/O port; as a result, all four ports won't be able to operate at full speed simultaneously. PCI Express, with its higher bandwidth, can alleviate if not resolve this issue. High port-count HBAs, however, can be beneficial in virtualized environments with multiple virtual servers running on a single physical server. By assigning instances that run high-performance and low-performance applications to different HBA ports, the impact of low-performance applications on high-performance applications can be minimized.
Virtualization is becoming increasingly important. Until recently all virtual servers had to connect to storage sharing a single worldwide name (WWN). Now that some HBAs support N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV), you can assign different WWNs to each virtual server; as a result, each virtual server can access only the volumes specifically assigned to it. Furthermore, NPIV simplifies the creation of new servers and the migration of existing virtual servers to different physical servers.
The most important aspect of designing a well-performing storage system is the creation of a balanced system that has no bottlenecks along the data path; from HBAs and switches, to array host ports and array back-end ports, capacity needs to match the throughout of the system. Although this logic applies to all storage components, it's especially crucial for arrays and switches.
Data enters the array through host ports, passes through the storage controller for storage processing and reaches the spindles in the disk enclosure through the storage controller's back-end ports. Obviously, the number and size of host and back-end ports is only one of the many factors influencing array performance. The controller's internal bandwidth, cache, number of processors, disk performance, and the type of interconnect between the controller and disk enclosure--switch vs. loop--determine the array's performance, and all these pieces need to be balanced.
A similar thought process needs to be applied to switches and directors. The throughput of a switch or director is determined by its internal bandwidth, and connected storage devices tap this bandwidth through switch ports. If the number of ports multiplied by the port speed is greater than the internal capacity of the switch, the switch is oversubscribed; the more a switch is oversubscribed, the more performance will suffer. Oversubscription results in connected devices not operating at full port speed. In other words, a switch can only operate up to its internal capacity; if the concurrent aggregate bandwidth of connected devices is greater than internal bandwidth, some devices will operate at a fraction of full port speed.
To keep costs under control, most switches and directors operate with some level of oversubscription. When combined with traffic prioritization techniques like quality of service (QoS) and bandwidth reservation, oversubscription is a great tool to balance cost with performance requirements. To give storage managers a choice between high port counts and guaranteed performance, switch vendors offer their line cards with varying numbers of ports. For instance, while a 12-port 4Gb Fibre Channel (FC) line card in a Cisco Systems Inc. MDS 9500 series multilayer director will operate at full line rate under any circumstances, a 48-port line card in the same switch operates at an oversubscription ratio of 4:1.
Midsized arrays
Choosing the right array is a complex process that's largely determined by application and scalability needs. One of the key decisions you'll face is whether you need the performance, features, modularity and scalability of a high-end array or if a midsized array suffices. Midsized arrays are typically dual-controller arrays with a host port count of four to eight ports, as well as two to eight back-end ports.
While a single, back-end port per controller is sufficient for entry-level arrays to redundantly attach disk enclosures, two host ports per controller are imperative to enable cluster-type configurations with two servers or switches attached to each controller.
In addition to the number of ports and port speed, arrays differ in how the back-end ports are connected to the disk enclosure. Vendors have been transitioning from an arbitrated loop design with shared bandwidth to a switched or point-to-point-type architecture to connect disks to controllers. Switched connectivity not only provides higher performance than a loop, "it also simplifies dealing with individual disk drive failures," says Craig Butler, manager of disk, SAN and NAS product marketing at IBM Corp. "That's why all our enclosures have a switched back end, all the way from the storage controller to the enclosure and drives."
For backward-compatibility reasons, some arrays ship with a hybrid loop/ switched architecture. For instance, EMC Corp.'s recently released Clariion CX3 UltraScale series arrays attach the disk enclosure via an arbitrated loop, but the disks within the enclosure are connected via a switched connection that enables the UltraPoint enclosures to work with pre-CX3 UltraScale series arrays. Similarly, the Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co. StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) family deploys a hybrid interconnect to the spindles.
"We use a point-to-point connection between the controllers and the disk enclosure; but within the enclosure itself, the drives are connected via an arbitrated loop," reports Kyle Fitze, director SAN marketing, HP's StorageWorks Division.
While midsized arrays from EMC, HP and IBM have a relatively fixed number of host ports--from four to eight, depending on the model--and a relatively fixed back-end port count (two to eight), these arrays don't allow you to mix host-side and back-end ports. Network Appliance Inc. arrays, on the other hand, let you configure each available array port as target (host port) or initiator (back-end port), thereby giving storage managers the option to designate any number of ports as host or back-end ports.
|Performance Tuning
Determining when to move to the next level is never easy, and it's no different with storage arrays and switches. If money didn't matter, oversizing the infrastructure could be one approach, but tight IT budgets and a mandate to do more with less make this a no-go for most environments. Fortunately, there's a systematic approach to right-sizing your storage infrastructure and it starts with planning, designing and architecting your storage landscape. An analysis of the hosts/servers and applications that connect to arrays and switches will provide the information you need to determine the average and peak bandwidth each server requires; this, in turn, will enable you to determine the number of ports and bandwidth per port your switches/arrays need to provide.
This analysis must include which servers can accept some level of congestion and those that absolutely need to operate at full line speed. Armed with this data, you can assign critical as well as storage-intense servers like database servers, transactional application servers and backup servers to full line-rate ports and have less storage-dependent servers like DNS, fax and other auxiliary application servers leverage oversubscribed ports. The more you take advantage of oversubscription, the more difficult this exercise will become.
Once the storage system is in production, the single most important tool for tuning or adding ports and capacity is performance monitoring. Nothing beats actual performance, utilization and latency data to isolate and remedy bottlenecks. For oversubscribed ports, the monitoring data will provide a clear picture of how often a port will reach maximum utilization. You'll be able to identify the servers causing these spikes, while the I/O data determines whether to move the server to a different port. User feedback is a crucial element, especially in environments with oversubscription. A storage manager may deem a port that reaches maximum utilization a few times a day acceptable, but it may not be acceptable to a business user performing a critical task.
High-end arrays
For high-end end arrays, the guiding principle is performance and scalability and, naturally, complexity increases. High-end arrays are very modular, and the number of host ports and back-end ports is determined by business requirements. Ports are added on an as-needed basis. For instance, if you need additional disk enclosures, you simply add back-end disk directors or cards to support the additional spindles. Similarly, if you need more ports and bandwidth, just add front-end host directors or cards.
Unlike midsized arrays, the equilibrium of a balanced system can be easily broken. For instance, if you add host ports without beefing up the back end by adding more ports and controllers, the array back end will be unable to keep up with the increased host load. Performance and utilization monitoring are recommended for any size array, but it's imperative to ensure that high-end arrays stay tuned. Some of the elements to monitor include front-end host ports for fan-out ratios and host traffic, the cache subsystem, back-end disk processors, back-end I/O paths, and array or RAID processors.
High-end arrays can easily scale beyond 100 ports. To support this level of scalability, array vendors have implemented advanced array architectures. EMC's Direct Matrix Architecture in its Symmetrix array family employs a point-to-point design that directly connects front-end channels with array cache and back-end channels, eliminating any elements that could introduce delay. Array capacity is scaled by simply adding channel directors for host communication, back-end disk directors (two to eight, depending on the model, with eight ports per director), and global memory directors for I/O delivery from hosts to disk directors.
Unlike EMC, the Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) Corp. TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform (USP) implements a parallel crossbar switch with its Universal Star Network architecture, which connects front-end ports to back-end controllers and disks to cache. Similar to the EMC Symmetrix array, port count is scaled by simply adding front-end directors and back-end directors, supporting up to 192 FC ports, 96 ESCON ports or 96 FICON ports.
IBM's TotalStorage DS8000 array family--formerly known as Shark storage servers--takes yet another architectural approach, leveraging clusters of IBM System p servers that act as storage controllers where two (DS8100) or four (DS8300) of these systems are connected via a high-speed internal bus (RIO-G), supporting a total of 64 (DS8100) or 128 (DS8300) ports.
The first question to ask yourself when choosing a switch is if you need a modular switch that allows you to simply add ports by adding line cards or if a fixed-port, nonmodular switch will suffice.
Nonmodular switches are available from vendors like Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Cisco and QLogic Corp., and port counts typically range from eight to 64 ports. All vendors, including Cisco with its MDS 9124 Multilayer Fabric Switch, now support ports on demand, which enables you to buy a fraction of the total number of available ports and simply activate the remaining ports by purchasing a license when additional ports are needed.
If the port count of a single nonmodular switch isn't high enough, multiple nonmodular switches can be cascaded using single or multiple trunked inter-switch link (ISL) connections. QLogic, with its SANbox 5200 and 5600 switches, made cascading a more acceptable option by offering a 10Gb/sec interconnect between each switch, eliminating the performance and management issues of switches linked via standard ISL links.
Furthermore, QLogic's recently released SANbox 9000 series stackable chassis switch connects to QLogic's modular switches via a 10Gb/sec high-speed FC link, providing a smooth transition path from nonmodular switches to director-level switches. The SANbox 9000 series stackable chassis switch differs from traditional directors from Brocade, Cisco and McData Corp. (recently acquired by Brocade) by limiting the total number of ports to 128, offering only nonblocking 16-port 4Gb/sec blades and four-port 10Gb/sec blades.
It's easy to add ports to a modular, chassis-based switch: Simply add line cards. Both Cisco and Brocade offer line cards with two, three or even four times (Cisco) the number of ports that originally came with their switch or director. Higher port-count line cards have a lower price per port, but they also have a higher level of oversubscription that can result in a less-predictable storage performance. "If you deal with oversubscription, you have to be mindful where you use it and you may need monitoring to deal with it," says Mario Blandini, Brocade's director of product marketing. "The use of oversubscription definitely makes storage management more complex, but at the same time, it lowers cost," he says.
High port-count line cards and oversubscription can also make cable management more challenging, and some of the existing racks may not be able to deal with it. "Large density can become a big problem, and if your cable management system isn't able to deal with it, you may end up just using every other port," says Blandini.
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High availability
One of the strategies in designing redundant storage systems is to connect each storage node via dual or multiple paths with the next node. This is accomplished by connecting servers and storage arrays to separate fabrics. For the highest level of availability, the redundant ports on each storage node typically originate from physically separate components, eliminating downtime due to component failure. For storage arrays, this means having primary and secondary ports on separate controllers; in the case of switches and directors, this is achieved by putting ports in the same multipath group on physically or virtually separate fabrics; on the host-side, ports on separate HBAs result in higher availability than having ports in the same multipath group on a single multiport HBA (see "Ports and Fibre Channel HBAs").
A redundant storage design doubles the number of required ports and significantly increases storage costs. A mandate to lower storage costs without compromising availability has caused some storage managers to reduce the number of ports by eliminating storage switches, moving from a networked storage architecture to a more directly connected design. "With a dual-controller Clariion AX150 priced at about $10,000 and FC switches priced at about $5,000, being able to build a highly available environment without switches can literally cut the cost in half," says Jay Krone, director of Clariion platforms at EMC. However, a directly connected architecture isn't the norm for large storage environments; the more servers you need to connect to an array, the more you can make a case for SAN switches.
Ports aren't necessarily the primary concern when buying an array or switch, but they play an instrumental role when building a balanced storage system (see "Port strategy comparison," this page). As a general rule, the number of required ports is determined by the amount of data per second a storage system needs to handle; and your system will only perform well if it's in balance with the system's internal capacity.


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The Grace-Gospel Fellowship Church in Bensenville, Illinois held its first "Second Amendment Sunday" this past weekend where children were encouraged to create gun-shaped pastries and "combat" cupcakes, a strategy aimed at countering the wave of anti-gun paranoia sweeping the country.
"This past Sunday, a Chicago area church sponsored a Second Amendment Sunday filled with 'assault' pop-tarts, 'combat' cupcakes and a sheet-cake that featured a chocolate semi-automatic Glock handgun with a quote from Jesus that read 'Blessed are the peacemakers,'" reported ClashDaily.com.
The church even held a contest for the best gun-shaped pastries, dubbed the "assault pop-tart challenge," where they awarded gift cards and toy "assault rifles" to the children who created the best-looking gun tarts, "as determined by The Parson."
Pastor John Kirkwood tells Clash Daily one of the toy firearms he handed out as a prize was labeled with the term "high capacity," terminology currently being used to demonize a broad spectrum of firearm magazines: "You know, I stood in the toy aisle for a good half an hour to choose just the right one and it turned out to be the biggest Nerf gun that I could find, and the kicker – the box was marked 'semi-auto' and 'high capacity,' so we named that one 'the Feinstein.'"
A Facebook post by Pastor Kirkwood laid out exactly what the program aimed to accomplish by allowing kids to bring toy guns to church and "fashion their own assault pop-tarts":
2nd Amendment Sunday is here at Grace Gospel Fellowship, Bensenville. Join us as we lay out the Biblical doctrines of self-defense and Liberty. Our Jr. Church will respond to the latest absurdities in the news of "toy gun" buy back programs by eunuch preachers and suspending elementary children for assault fingers, pop-tarts and cupcakes.
Our kids will be allowed to bear their "toy guns" to church and to fashion their own assault pop-tart. The winner of the assault pop-tart challenge, as determined by The Parson, will receive a gift card or an awesome toy gun. Our Sunday School teachers will be teaching from the Biblical texts about freedom, tyranny and the Christian's duty to God, Country and Family.
Pastor Kirkwood is of course referring to the insane rash of "toy gun" and "gun hand gesture" incidents making headlines as of late (and making it easier for people like Chuck Shepherd to find News of the Weird) – incidents that have initiated school lockdowns, prompted harsh suspensions and potentially permanent criminal records for innocent children, and have all but scared many Americans into a big state of wussiness, for lack of a better word.
The parson says he got the idea from an article he read titled, "Christian Parents Should Have Their Kids Play with Toy Guns," which pointed out the ridiculousness of a St. Louis Pastor's "toy gun buy back" program.
In the article, Clash Daily writer Doug Giles expressed, "…mom and dad, I say, in contrast to Rev. Rodney, to have your kid get use[d] to confronting nonsense – first and foremost in themselves. Gear them up to be a fighter and defender of that which is good. Let them play with toy weapons (if you can find any). They're not going to turn into a terrorist. It's not going to warp their wheel. Your kid has to learn that they are growing up in difficult times that demand that they be able to deal with 'snakes.' Yes, your kid needs to learn not only to be nice, but also to be strong, sacrificial and courageous."
Unfortunately Pastor Kirkwood doesn't have much faith in Second Amendment Sunday catching on throughout the rest of the country, telling Clash Daily, "you're kidding me right? The reason this country is in this condition is not because sinners act like sinners, it's because Christians don't act at all. And pastors? They're notorious cowards… anything that will come between a filled pew and a filled collection plate … the hirelings scamper away."
However, despite his pessimism, he did tell Clash Daily that at least three other pastors from different states have contacted him wanting to know more.
Recently, Maryland Senator J. B. Jennings proposed legislation targeting overzealous accusations of children making gun gestures and others armed with harmless toaster pastries and computer images of guns.
Maryland Senate Bill 1058, entitled, "Education – The Reasonable School Discipline Act of 2013," would prohibit "a principal from suspending or expelling a student who brings to school or possesses on school property a picture of a gun, a computer image of a gun, a facsimile of a gun, or any other object that resembles a gun but serves another purpose," prohibit "a principal from suspending or expelling a student who makes a hand shape or gesture resembling a gun," and in general requests a reasonable approach in discerning real threats, that should be treated as such, from "children being children."
Despite numerous schools being forced to eat crow for their overreactions, the absurdity continues as one school in Massachusetts demonstrated earlier this week when it apprehended a student for possessing a neon water pistol.
Prison Planet.com editor Steve Watson has been keeping a running tally on the absurdness:
Last week a third grader in Michigan was reprimanded by school officials when he brought a cupcake to school with a plastic toy soldier, holding a gun, on top of it.
A ten year old Virginia boy who was arrested for taking a plastic toy gun to school is now facing a potentially permanent criminal record over the incident.
A student in Florence, Arizona was recently suspended because he had a picture of a gun on his computer.
A six-year-old kindergartner in South Carolina was suspended for taking a small transparent plastic toy gun to school for a show and tell.
A day before that incident we reported on the five-year-old in Massachusetts who faced suspension for building a small toy gun out of lego bricks and play-shooting his classmates.
We also reported on an incident that erupted when a discussion between two children about a toy nerf gun caused a lockdown and a massive armed police response at two elementary schools in the Bronx.
In another incident, a Long Island high school was also placed on lock down for 6 hours in response to a student carrying a toy nerf gun.
In yet another recent incident, a five-year-old girl was suspended after a three hour grilling, and described as a "terroristic threat" when she brought a pink bubble gun to school.
A South Philadelphia elementary student was searched in front of classmates and threatened with arrest after she mistakenly brought a "paper gun" to school.
A 6-year-old boy was suspended from his elementary school, also in Maryland, for making a gun gesture with his hand and saying "pow".
Days after that incident, another two 6-year-olds in Maryland were suspended for pointing their fingers into gun shapes while playing "cops and robbers" with each other.
In Oklahoma, a five-year-old boy was also recently suspended for making a gun gesture with his hand.
And finally, a 13-year-old Middle School seventh grade student in Pennsylvania was also suspended for the same hand gesture.
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The NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Golf committees are recommending an adjustment to the format for the 2015 championship finals site. The change would replace the individuals-only day on Monday with play by the top 15 teams and nine individuals not on one of the advancing teams.
The recommendation will need approval by the Division I Championships/Sports Management Cabinet at its next meeting Sept. 9.
"The revised format adds excitement to the championship by televising the 'Race to the Eight,' which was so popular with the national viewers this year, while maintaining the 72-hole stroke play format for determining the individual champion," said Mike Carter, chair of the Division I Men's Golf Committee and director of athletics at Oral Roberts University.
"Monday's play with the top-15 teams and nine individuals not on those teams provides greater exposure for more institutions and student- athletes. This format also provides the greatest flexibility to assure that the eight match play teams will be determined by at least 54 holes of competition."
The recommendation is for the 2015 finals format for both championships to consist of three days (54 holes) of stroke play on a Friday through Sunday, after which the top 15 teams and nine individuals not on an advancing team will be determined.
The weekend would be followed by a final day of 18 holes of stroke play on a Monday, which would determine the top eight teams that advance to match play as well as the 72-hole individual champion.
The team national champion would be determined by a match-play format consisting of quarterfinals and semifinals conducted on Tuesday of championships week, followed by the finals Wednesday.
In 2015, both the women's championship, scheduled for May 22-27, and men's championship, scheduled for May 29-June 3, will be played at The Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, Florida, with the University of South Florida serving as host.
Golf Channel will televise both championships for the first time.
"The women's committee believes adjusting the original format change for the 2015 championship was the best thing to do toward achieving the intended outcome of highlighting the excitement of college team golf," said Theresa Becker, chair of the Division I Women's Golf Committee and associate athletics director at the University of Kansas.
"The 72-hole stroke-play format will be maintained for determining the individual champion, but the greater emphasis will be placed on team competition and advancing to the two-day match-play format. This will add tremendous excitement to the championship and will certainly present greater opportunities for Golf Channel to showcase our student-athletes and coaches."
The recommended adjustments to the finals competition schedule are provided in bold and outlined as follows:
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|Quarterfinals and semifinals of team match play.
|Championship match to determine team champion.


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As a follow-up to a conference on "Foreign Direct Investment and the Environment", held in The Hague in January 1999, the OECD organised a major conference to focus on the mining sector under the umbrella of the Global Forum on International Investment.
This conference aimed to shed further light on the broader linkages between FDI and the environment in a sector that is of particular importance for the economy in many developing countries, and where environmental concerns have frequently been voiced. It used the focus on the mining sector to derive broader lessons for the FDI - environment linkage. Discussion focused on how best to integrate environmental and investment goals, ensure that environmental protection and investment liberalisation are mutually supportive and explore the significance of voluntary business approaches in encouraging 'best environmental practice'.
Following on from this conference, the OECD provided input to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in September 2002.
For further information and documentation from the conference, see the conference proceedings or visit the conference website.
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No, that's not a joke.
It's been nearly a year since I last posted here at Walkable Eastwood. The Walgreens hullabaloo is over, the old Steak & Sundae (aka Wittigs Ice Cream) building at the corner of James and Midler has been saved and there's a fabulous ice cream shop in it (yaay Fifi's!). And we have yet another drug/convenience store, a Kinney's at the same intersection. Not the ideal building, but thanks to the owner and his wise choice of Sheila Weed for the architect, the building is built up to the corner, looks about as good as a drug store can and is a heck of a lot better than the empty lot we stared at for ten years. It's progress, and developers know that we do have a set of overlay district guidelines and the folks in Eastwood really do expect them to follow them. If Kinney's can do it, so can any other developer.
So the big news is true: President Barak Obama really did come to Eastwood, just the other day, to give a speech about making college affordable, right here in our Henninger High School. Aside from the President, the star of the show was Corcoran High School student Emilio Ortiz, whose opening speech brought tears of joy to this university professor's eyes. I look forward to the day when a lot more young people like Emilio come from Syracuse City Schools. I get to see a lot of the good ones at OCC, but they deserve to be able to afford four-year schools, too. And they deserve to be better prepared – by their parents, by their community, and by their teachers – before entering any institution of higher education.
This is probably my last post at Walkable Eastwood. Much has been accomplished, other duties call, nobody has shown an interest in keeping the website up, and hey, what's going to top a visit by the President?
We're working to get this website hosted and cared for elsewhere so that the archived posts will be available for anyone who wants to remember how we cared about walkability and sustainable urban design in a "village within the city" that was originally designed correctly. It's always been about how design and development affect the quality of life in a community – our community. The people come first, but it's the way we work together and the spaces we have to work in that make for ease of communication or for barriers. The fact that there's no transparency from inside the two new drug stores to the street is an example of barriers. I hope someone works on that and other barriers as time goes by.
In the meantime, you can catch me and Dave over at Fifi's way too many days of the week. And never forget: the most popular blog post by far, the one that has nearly 60 comments and climbing, is the one I didn't write. You-all did. God bless Eastwoodians, former, current and future.
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Texas Rep. Kevin Brady has been an outspoken critic of the Federal Reserve's use of monetary policy to prop up the struggling U.S. economy. And this week's Fed announcement that it will extend Operation Twist, a controversial program designed to lower long-term interest rates through the end of 2012, rankled the Republican from The Woodlands.
"The (Fed's Federal Open Market Committee) decision to extend 'Operation Twist' is disappointing in light of (Fed) Chairman (Ben) Bernanke's recent testimony to the Joint Economic Committee in which he told the committee that 'monetary policy is not a panacea' and that there are limits to what the Federal Reserve can do," said Brady, the top House Republican on Congress' Joint Economic Committee.
"I wish the FOMC had looked the president and Congress in the eye and said, 'do your job, remove the uncertainty surrounding tax policy and put your fiscal house in order.' More monetary morphine is not the answer to what ails our economy."
Brady called the Fed action "just one more confirmation of the failure of President Obama's economic policies."
"Those policies and other administration proposals continue to place a drag on the economy and hold back the recovery," he added. "It's time to change direction and place our faith in the American people and the free enterprise system to create jobs and opportunity for all Americans."


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!! History Commons Alert, Exciting News
This is a scalable context timeline. It contains events related to the event November 23, 2004: Congress Slips Patriot II Provision into Intelligence Spending Bill. You can narrow or broaden the context of this timeline by adjusting the zoom level. The lower the scale, the more relevant the items on average will be, while the higher the scale, the less relevant the items, on average, will be.
President Clinton signs the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, which the New York Times calls "broad legislation that provides new tools and penalties for federal law-enforcement officials to use in fighting terrorism." The Clinton administration proposed the bill in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City terrorist bombing (see 8:35 a.m. - 9:02 a.m. April 19, 1995). In many ways, the original bill will be mirrored by the USA Patriot Act six years later (see October 26, 2001). Civil libertarians on both the left and right opposed the legislation. Political analyst Michael Freeman called the proposal one of the "worst assaults on civil liberties in decades," and the Houston Chronicle called it a "frightening" and "grievous" assault on domestic freedoms. Many Republicans opposed the bill, and forced a compromise that removed increased wiretap authority and lower standards for lawsuits against sellers of guns used in crimes. CNN called the version that finally passed the Republican-controlled Congress a "watered-down version of the White House's proposal. The Clinton administration has been critical of the bill, calling it too weak. The original House bill, passed last month, had deleted many of the Senate's anti-terrorism provisions because of lawmakers' concerns about increasing federal law enforcement powers. Some of those provisions were restored in the compromise bill." [CNN, 4/18/1996; New York Times, 4/25/1996; Roberts, 2008, pp. 35] An unusual coalition of gun rights groups such as the National Rifle Association (NRA) and civil liberties groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) led the opposition to the law. [New York Times, 4/17/1996] By the time Congress passed the bill, it had been, in the words of FBI Director Louis Freeh, "stripped… of just about every meaningful provision." [Roberts, 2008, pp. 35] The law makes it illegal in the US to provide "material support" to any organization banned by the State Department. [Guardian, 9/10/2001]
Entity Tags: William Jefferson ("Bill") Clinton, Louis J. Freeh, National Rifle Association, American Civil Liberties Union, Clinton administration, Michael Freeman, USA Patriot Act, US Congress
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, Civil Liberties, US Domestic Terrorism
The Justice Department publishes an interim regulation allowing non-citizens suspected of terrorism to be detained without charge for 48 hours or "an additional reasonable period of time" in the event of an "emergency or other extraordinary circumstance." [New York Times, 9/19/2001] The new rule is used to hold hundreds indefinitely until the Patriot Act passes in October (see October 26, 2001), providing more solid grounds to hold non-citizens without charge.
Entity Tags: US Department of Justice
Timeline Tags: Civil Liberties
Sen. Russell Feingold will ultimately be the only senator to vote against the Patriot Act.
[Source: Publicity photo]The "anti-terrorism" Patriot Act is introduced in Congress. The act is technically known as The USA PATRIOT Act, which stands for "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001." [US Congress, 10/2/2001] The legislation was ready four days after the 9/11 attacks, in what Attorney General John Ashcroft called a "full-blown legislative proposal" ready to submit to Congress. The proposal is actually a revamping and enlargement of the Clinton-era antiterrorism legislation first proposed after the Oklahoma City terrorist bombing (see April 25, 1996). [Roberts, 2008, pp. 36]
Entity Tags: US Congress, USA Patriot Act, John Ashcroft
On October 9, 2001, Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) blocks an attempt to rush the Patriot Act to a vote with little debate and no opportunity for amendments. He criticizes the bill as a threat to civil liberties. [Associated Press, 10/10/2001] One day earlier, in the story "Cracks in Bipartisanship Start to Show," the Washington Post reported, "Congress has lost some of the shock-induced unity with which it first responded to the [9/11] attacks." [Washington Post, 10/8/2001] Also on October 9, identical anthrax letters are postmarked in Trenton, New Jersey, with lethal doses to Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy. Inside both letters are the words, "Death to America, Death to Israel, Allah is Great" (see October 15, 2001). [Associated Press, 8/7/2008]
Entity Tags: Russell D. Feingold, USA Patriot Act
Timeline Tags: Civil Liberties, 2001 Anthrax Attacks
The House of Representatives passes the final version of the Patriot Act and other previously unpopular Bush administration projects: Alaska oil drilling, $25 billion in tax cuts for corporations, taps into Social Security funds, and cuts in education. [CNN, 10/25/2001] Republican Congressman Ron Paul states: "It's my understanding the bill wasn't printed before the vote—at least I couldn't get it. They played all kinds of games, kept the House in session all night, and it was a very complicated bill. Maybe a handful of staffers actually read it, but the bill definitely was not available to members before the vote." It is later found that only two copies of the bill were made available in the hours before its passage, and most House members admit they voted for the act without actually reading it first. [Insight, 11/9/2001] Two days later, the Senate will pass the final version of the Patriot Act. Anthrax targets Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy (see October 15, 2001) now support the bill. President Bush signs it into law the same day (see October 26, 2001). [Fox News, 10/26/2001]
Entity Tags: Tom Daschle, Patrick J. Leahy, Ron Paul
President Bush signs the Patriot Act into law. [Source: White House]President Bush signs the USA Patriot Act (see October 2, 2001) into law. The act's provisions include: 1) Non-citizens can be detained and deported if they provide "assistance" for lawful activities of any group the government chooses to call a terrorist organization. Under this provision the secretary of state can designate any group that has ever engaged in violent activity as a terrorist organization. Representative Patsy Mink (D-HI) notes that in theory supporters of Greenpeace could now be convicted for supporting terrorism. [San Francisco Chronicle, 11/12/2001] 2) Immigrants can be detained indefinitely, even if they are found not to have any links to terrorism. They can be detained indefinitely for immigration violations or if the attorney general decides their activities pose a danger to national security. They need never be given a trial or even a hearing on their status. [San Francisco Chronicle, 9/8/2002] 3) Internet service providers can be ordered to reveal the websites and e-mail addresses that a suspect has communicated to or visited. The FBI need only inform a judge that the information is relevant to an investigation. [Village Voice, 11/26/2001; San Francisco Chronicle, 9/8/2002] 4) The act "lays the foundation for a domestic intelligence-gathering system of unprecedented scale and technological prowess." [Washington Post, 11/4/2001] It allows the government to access confidential credit reports, school records, and other records, without consent or notification. [San Francisco Chronicle, 9/8/2002] All of this information can now be given to the CIA, in violation of the CIA's mandate prohibiting it from spying within the US. [Village Voice, 11/26/2001] 5) Financial institutions are encouraged to disclose possible violations of law or "suspicious activities" by any client. The institution is prohibited from notifying the person involved that it made such a report. The term "suspicious" is not defined, so it is up to the financial institutions to determine when to send such a report. 6) Federal agents can easily obtain warrants to review a library patron's reading and computer habits (see January 2002). [Village Voice, 2/22/2002] Section 215 allows the FBI to ask the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) for an order to obtain documents relating to counterterrorism investigations without meeting the usual standard of legal "probable cause" that a crime may have been committed. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI—see October 9, 2001) says that Section 215 can allow the FBI to "go on a fishing expedition and collect information on virtually anyone." Librarians will make Section 215 the centerpiece of their objections to the Patriot Act, arguing that the government can now "sweep up vast amounts of information about people who are not suspected of a crime." In 2005, one librarian will say, "It reminds me of the Red Scare of the 1950s." However, some FBI officials find it easier to use provisions of Section 505, which expands the usage of so-called "national security letters" (see November 28, 2001). [Roberts, 2008, pp. 39-40] 7) The government can refuse to reveal how evidence is collected against a suspected terrorist defendant. [Tampa Tribune, 4/6/2003] Passes with No Public Debate - The law passes without public debate. [Village Voice, 11/9/2001; Village Voice, 11/26/2001] Even though it ultimately took six weeks to pass the law, there were no hearings or congressional debates. [Salon, 3/24/2003] Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) says: "This was the least democratic process for debating questions fundamental to democracy I have ever seen. A bill drafted by a handful of people in secret, subject to no committee process, comes before us immune from amendment" (see October 2-4, 2001 and October 24, 2001). [Village Voice, 11/9/2001] Only 66 congresspeople, and one senator, Feingold, vote against it. Few in Congress are able to read summaries, let alone the fine print, before voting on it. [Los Angeles Times, 10/30/2001] Feingold says, "The new law goes into a lot of areas that have nothing to do with terrorism and have a lot to do with the government and the FBI having a wish list of things they want to do." [Village Voice, 11/9/2001] Supporters of the act point out that some of its provisions will expire in four years, but in fact most provisions will not expire. [Chicago Tribune, 11/1/2001] Mounting Opposition - One year later, criticism of the law will grow. [San Francisco Chronicle, 9/8/2002] Dozens of cities will later pass resolutions criticizing the Patriot Act (see January 12, 2003).
Entity Tags: George W. Bush, USA Patriot Act, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, US Congress, Patsy Mink, Russell D. Feingold, Barney Frank
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, Civil Liberties
The newly adopted USA Patriot Act (see October 26, 2001) allows FBI field offices to issue, without court orders, so-called "national security letters," or NSLs, that require recipients—telecommunications firms, employers, libraries, anyone—to provide detailed information on their clients, employees, and patrons. The FBI's Office of General Counsel warns each field office of the potential for abuse inherent in such powerful and relatively unrestricted instruments, writing in part: "NSLs are powerful investigative tools in that they can compel the production of substantial amounts of relevant information. However, they must be used judiciously.… In deciding whether or not to re-authorize the broadened authority, Congress certainly will examine the manner in which the FBI exercised it. Executive Order 12333 and the FCIG [Attorney General Guidelines for FBI Foreign Intelligence Collection and Counterintelligence Investigations] require that the FB[I] accomplish its investigations through the 'least intrusive' means. Supervisors should keep this in mind when deciding whether or not a particular use of NSL authority is appropriate. The greater availability of NSLs does not mean that they should be used in every case." This warning not to overuse NSLs is not always heeded (see February 2005 and Before Mid-March, 2007). [Wired News, 7/10/2007]
Entity Tags: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Office of General Counsel (FBI), USA Patriot Act
The Patriot Act permits federal agents to secretly obtain information from booksellers and librarians about customers' and patrons' reading, internet and book-buying habits, merely by alleging that the records are relevant to an anti-terrorism investigation. The act prohibits librarians and booksellers from revealing these requests, so they cannot be challenged in court (see October 2, 2001). [Newsday, 9/16/2002] A University of Illinois study now concludes that federal agents have sought records from about 220 libraries nationwide since September 2001. [Miami Herald, 9/1/2002] The Justice Department refuses to say how many times it has invoked this Patriot Act provision (see June 13, 2002). [Observer, 3/16/2003] But Assistant Attorney General Daniel Bryant says that people who borrow or buy books surrender their right of privacy. [San Francisco Chronicle, 3/10/2003] Some libraries and bookstores unhappy with the law begin to fight back in a number of ways. Some libraries have posted signs warning that the government may be monitoring their users' reading habits. [Reuters, 3/11/2003] Thousands of libraries are destroying records so agents have nothing to seize. [New York Times, 4/7/2003] Many librarians polled say they would break the law and deny orders to disclose reading records. [San Francisco Chronicle, 3/10/2003]
Entity Tags: Daniel Bryant, US Department of Justice, USA Patriot Act
Several members of Congress submit a list of 50 questions to Attorney General Ashcroft, asking him how the Patriot Act is being implemented (see October 26, 2001). [New York Times, 7/14/2002] For instance, they ask, "How many times has the department requested records from libraries, bookstores and newspapers? How many roving wiretaps has the department requested?" Ashcroft refuses to answer many of the questions, even though he is legally required to do so. [San Francisco Chronicle, 9/8/2002] Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT) fails to receive any response to dozens of letters he writes to Ashcroft, and other senators complain of a complete stonewall from Ashcroft. [Washington Post, 8/21/2002] In March 2003, senators continue to complain that Ashcroft still has not provided the oversight information about the Patriot Act that he is required to give by law. [ABC News, 3/12/2003]
Entity Tags: Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick J. Leahy, USA Patriot Act, John Ashcroft
The Justice Department provides limited information to the House Judiciary Committee about actions performed under the new Patriot Act (see October 26, 2001). Representative James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) had demanded answers to 50 questions regarding the Patriot Act from Attorney General John Ashcroft, or else he would "start blowing a fuse." Among other things, Sensenbrenner wanted to know how many times the Justice Department had implemented wiretaps under the act, and threatened Congressional subpoenas and opposition to the act when it comes up for renewal. Sensenbrenner and the Judiciary Committee receive far less than originally requested, with the Justice Department asserting that much of the information is classified and cannot be revealed. Sensenbrenner declares himself satisfied. [Savage, 2007, pp. 114-115]
Entity Tags: James Sensenbrenner, House Judiciary Committee, USA Patriot Act, John Ashcroft, US Department of Justice
It is reported that 22 cities representing 3.5 million residents have passed resolutions criticizing the Patriot and Homeland Security Acts (see October 26, 2001). Another 70 cities have such resolutions in the works. [Associated Press, 1/12/2003] Many of the resolutions provide some legal justification for local authorities to resist cooperating in the federal war on terrorism when they deem civil liberties and Constitutional rights are being compromised. [New York Times, 12/23/2002]
Entity Tags: USA Patriot Act, Homeland Security Act
Charles Lewis.
[Source: Center for Public Integrity]Charles Lewis of the Center for Public Integrity reveals the leaked text of a new anti-terrorism bill. Called the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003, it becomes popularly known as the Patriot Act II. The text of the bill is dated January 9, 2003. [Congress, 1/9/2003; NOW with Bill Moyers, 2/7/2003; Center for Public Integrity, 2/7/2003] Before it was leaked, the bill was being prepared in complete secrecy from the public and Congress. Only House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Vice President Cheney were sent copies on January 10. [San Francisco Chronicle, 2/11/2003] A week earlier, Attorney General Ashcroft said the Justice Department was not working on any bill of this type, and when the text is released, they say it is just a rough draft. But the text "has all the appearance of a document that has been worked over and over." [Village Voice, 2/28/2003; ABC News, 3/12/2003] Some, including a number of congresspeople, speculate that the government is waiting until a new terrorist act or war fever before formally introducing this bill. [NOW with Bill Moyers, 2/7/2003; Associated Press, 2/10/2003; United Press International, 3/10/2003; Village Voice, 3/26/2003] Here are some of its provisions: 1) The attorney general is given the power to deport any foreign national, even people who are legal permanent residents. No crime need be asserted, no proof offered, and the deportation can occur in complete secrecy. [St. Petersburg Times, 2/16/2003] 2) It would authorize secret arrests in terrorism investigations, which would overturn a court order requiring the release of names of their detainees. [St. Petersburg Times, 2/16/2003] Not even an attorney or family need be informed until the person is formally charged, if that ever happens. [ABC News, 3/12/2003] 3) The citizenship of any US citizen can be revoked if they are members of or have supported any group the attorney general designates as terrorist. [St. Petersburg Times, 2/16/2003] A person who gives money to a charity that only later turns out to have some terrorist connection could then lose his or her citizenship. [CNN, 3/6/2003] 4) "Whole sections… are devoted to removing judicial oversight." Federal agents investigating terrorism could have access to credit reports, without judicial permission. [St. Petersburg Times, 2/16/2003] 5) Federal investigators can conduct wiretaps without a court order for 15 days whenever Congress authorizes force or in response to an attack on the United States. [United Press International, 3/10/2003] 6) It creates a DNA database of anyone the Justice Department determines to be a "suspect," without court order. [Mercury News (San Jose), 2/20/2003] 7) It would be a crime for someone subpoenaed in connection with an investigation being carried out under the Patriot Act to alert Congress to any possible abuses committed by federal agents. [ABC News, 3/12/2003] 8) Businesses and their personnel who provide information to anti-terrorism investigators are granted immunity even if the information is fraudulent. [ABC News, 3/12/2003] 9) The government would be allowed to carry out electronic searches of virtually all information available about an individual without having to show probable cause and without informing the individual that the investigation was being carried out. Critics say this provision "would fundamentally change American society" because everyone would be under suspicion at all times. [ABC News, 3/12/2003] 10) Federal agents would be immune from prosecution when they engage in illegal surveillance acts. [United Press International, 3/10/2003] 11) Restrictions are eased on the use of secret evidence in the prosecution of terror cases. [United Press International, 3/10/2003] 12) Existing judicial consent decrees preventing local police departments from spying on civil rights groups and other organizations are canceled. [Salon, 3/24/2003] Initially the story generates little press coverage, but there is a slow stream of stories over the next weeks, all expressing criticism. Of all the major newspapers, only the Washington Post puts the story on the front page, and no television network has the story in prime time. [Associated Press, 2/8/2003; CBS News, 2/8/2003; Los Angeles Times, 2/8/2003; New York Times, 2/8/2003; Washington Post, 2/8/2003; Associated Press, 2/10/2003; San Francisco Chronicle, 2/11/2003; Los Angeles Times, 2/13/2003; St. Petersburg Times, 2/16/2003; Denver Post, 2/20/2003; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2/20/2003; Mercury News (San Jose), 2/20/2003; Baltimore Sun, 2/21/2003; Star-Tribune (Minneapolis), 2/21/2003; Village Voice, 2/28/2003; Houston Chronicle, 3/1/2003; CNN, 3/6/2003; United Press International, 3/10/2003; ABC News, 3/12/2003; Herald Tribune (Sarasota), 3/19/2003; Salon, 3/24/2003; Village Voice, 3/26/2003; Tampa Tribune, 4/6/2003] Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) says the bill amounts to "little more than the institution of a police state." [San Francisco Chronicle, 2/11/2003]
Entity Tags: Center for Public Integrity, Dennis Hastert, Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003, Jerrold Nadler, John Ashcroft, Richard ("Dick") Cheney
At a speech in Hershey, Pennsylvania, supporting the USA Patriot Act (see October 26, 2001), President Bush tells listeners that all US surveillance efforts are done with warrants from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court: "For years, law enforcement used so-called roving wire taps to investigate organized crime. You see, what that meant is if you got a wire tap by court order—and, by the way, everything you hear about requires court order, requires there to be permission from a FISA court, for example.… See, with court approval, we have long used roving wire taps to lock up monsters—mobsters. Now [with the Patriot Act in effect] we have a chance to lock up monsters, terrorist monsters." [White House, 4/19/2004] The next day, Bush makes a similar claim during another pro-Patriot Act speech in Buffalo. He tells listeners: "[T]here are such things as roving wiretaps. Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires—a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so. It's important for our fellow citizens to understand, when you think Patriot Act, constitutional guarantees are in place when it comes to doing what is necessary to protect our homeland, because we value the Constitution. But a roving wiretap means—it was primarily used for drug lords. A guy, a pretty intelligence drug lord would have a phone, and in old days they could just get a tap on that phone. So guess what he'd do? He'd get him another phone, particularly with the advent of the cell phones. And so he'd start changing cell phones, which made it hard for our DEA types to listen, to run down these guys polluting our streets. And that changed, the law changed on—roving wiretaps were available for chasing down drug lords. They weren't available for chasing down terrorists, see? And that didn't make any sense in the post-9/11 era. If we couldn't use a tool that we're using against mobsters on terrorists, something needed to happen. The Patriot Act changed that. So with court order, law enforcement officials can now use what's called roving wiretaps, which will prevent a terrorist from switching cell phones in order to get a message out to one of his buddies." [White House, 4/20/2004] Former AT&T senior technician Mark Klein (see July 7, 2009 and May 2004), who helped install the equipment used by the National Security Agency (NSA) and his firm to intercept foreign and domestic Internet communications (see January 16, 2004), will later say that Bush's insistence that the administration gets court orders before wiretapping communications is false. AT&T, on behalf of the NSA, was monitoring "billions of messages a second," Klein will write, all without court orders. [Klein, 2009, pp. 47-48] Klein will call Bush's description of the surveillance program "disingenuous," and continue: "They present it as about phone calls. They're just watching a few bad people who make phone calls to al-Qaeda and the Middle East, and you notice they don't talk about the Internet hardly at all. That part of it hasn't been revealed, because if they did, Americans would realize it's not just a few people; it's everybody, because the data they're handing over is not selected out. When you run fiber optics through a splitter and you send all that data to a secret room, there's no selecting going on there at all.… They have no way of sifting it out unless they look through it later. Now they can claim, 'Oh, we are right as rain; we're only doing the legal thing and selecting out a few people that we're legally entitled to,' but that's only after they get all the data. The analogy I use: If the government claims: 'Well, when you do your taxes, why don't you just write me a blank check and we'll fill in the amount? Don't worry. We'll do it legal. We'll fill in the right amount,' would you do that? Nobody would trust the government by writing a blank check to them. It's the same thing with the data we're giving them.… [T]he Fourth Amendment specifically bans general warrants. It calls for specific warrants in which the things to be seized and the persons to be seized are specifically named. There's a reason for that. It's to protect against arbitrary government power. And what they've done is to trample over the Fourth Amendment by basically instituting a general warrant on the Internet." [PBS Frontline, 5/15/2007]
Entity Tags: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Mark Klein, National Security Agency, George W. Bush
Congress expands the Patriot Act (see October 26, 2001) by approving an intelligence spending bill with a provision that gives the FBI the power to subpoena business documents and transactions from a broad range of businesses and entities—including libraries, travel agencies, and even eBay—without court warrants. This reduces oversight of the FBI and shifts power away from the judiciary. The Patriot Act already allows the FBI to acquire bank records and communications records by issuing a National Security Letter (NSL) affirming that the information it seeks is relevant to an open investigation; the targeted institution is legally "gagged," unable to inform anyone, especially the subject of the investigation, of the subpoena. The new law expands the use of NSLs by redefining "financial institution" to include insurance companies, real estate agents, the US Postal Service, travel agencies, casinos, pawn shops, car dealers and any other business whose "cash transactions have a high degree of usefulness in criminal, tax or regulatory matters." The provision is one of the most controversial parts of the so-called "Patriot II" act (see February 7, 2003) that was withdrawn after the public learned of its elements. Like most intelligence spending bills, this one was drafted in secret and passed with little debate or public comment. Law professor Chris Schroeder, a former Justice Department assistant attorney general, says the insertion of the provision shows that "people who want to expand the powers of the FBI didn't want to stop after Patriot II was leaked. They are going to insert these provisions on a stealth basis. It's insidious." James Dempsey of the Center for Democracy and Technology agrees: "On its face, it's a cryptic and seemingly innocuous amendment. It wasn't until after it passed both houses that we saw it. The FBI and CIA like to try to graft things like this into intelligence bills." CIA Director Porter Goss, when he was chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, defended the provision, saying it is necessary to keep pace with terrorists and the changing economy. "This provision brings the definition of 'financial institution' up to date with the reality of the financial industry," Goss told House members. "This provision will allow those tracking terrorists and spies to 'follow the money' more effectively and thereby protect the people of the United States more effectively." Timothy Edgar of the American Civil Liberties Union says the bill goes too far in expanding executive branch powers. "The more that checks and balances against government abuse are eroded, the greater that abuse," Edgar says. "We're going to regret these initiatives down the road." [Wired News, 11/24/2003]
Entity Tags: Tim Edgar, US Department of Justice, USA Patriot Act, Porter J. Goss, House Intelligence Committee, Central Intelligence Agency, Center for Democracy and Technology, American Civil Liberties Union, James Dempsey, Chris Schroeder, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003
In a Columbus, Ohio, speech praising the USA Patriot Act (see October 26, 2001), President Bush claims that when US government agencies wiretap anyone's phones or email communications, they do so with a court order. Bush says: "Before the Patriot Act, agents could use wiretaps to investigate a person committing mail fraud, but not to investigate a foreign terrorist. The Patriot Act corrected all these pointless double standards—and America is safer as a result. One tool that has been especially important to law enforcement is called a roving wiretap. Roving wiretaps allow investigators to follow suspects who frequently change their means of communications. These wiretaps must be approved by a judge, and they have been used for years to catch drug dealers and other criminals. Yet, before the Patriot Act, agents investigating terrorists had to get a separate authorization for each phone they wanted to tap. That means terrorists could elude law enforcement by simply purchasing a new cell phone. The Patriot Act fixed the problem by allowing terrorism investigators to use the same wiretaps that were already being using against drug kingpins and mob bosses. The theory here is straightforward: If we have good tools to fight street crime and fraud, law enforcement should have the same tools to fight terrorism." [White House, 6/9/2005] Bush made almost identical claims a year ago (see April 19-20, 2004). The same day as Bush makes his speech, the White House issues a fact sheet making the same claims (see June 9, 2005). Former AT&T senior technician Mark Klein (see July 7, 2009 and May 2004), who helped install the equipment used by the National Security Agency (NSA) and his firm to intercept foreign and domestic Internet communications (see January 16, 2004), will later say that Bush's insistence that the administration gets court orders before wiretapping communications is false. AT&T, on behalf of the NSA, was monitoring "billions of messages a second," Klein will write, all without court orders. [Klein, 2009, pp. 47-48]
Entity Tags: Mark Klein, George W. Bush, National Security Agency, USA Patriot Act
President Bush signs the USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 into law. The bill, which extends and modifies the original USA Patriot Act (see October 26, 2001), was driven through Congress primarily by the Republican majorities in both Houses. However, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) cosponsored the Senate bill, numerous Democrats in both Houses voted with the Republicans in favor of the bill, and the final bill sailed through the Senate by an 89-10 vote on March 2. [GovTrack, 3/9/2006; Library of Congress, 3/9/2006] In the signing ceremony, Bush calls the Reauthorization Act "a really important piece of legislation… that's vital to win the war on terror and to protect the American people." He repeatedly evokes the 9/11 attacks as a reason why the new law is needed. [Government Printing Office, 3/9/2006] Provisions for Oversight Added - One of the reasons why the reauthorization bill received such support from Congressional moderates on both sides of the aisle is because Congress added numerous provisions for judicial and Congressional oversight of how government and law enforcement agencies conduct investigations, especially against US citizens. Representative Butch Otter (R-ID) said in 2004 that Congress came "a long way in two years, and we've really brought an awareness to the Patriot Act and its overreaches that we gave to law enforcement." He adds, "We've also quieted any idea of Patriot II, even though they snuck some of Patriot II in on the intelligence bill" (see February 7, 2003). [Associated Press, 1/23/2004] Opposition From Both Sides - Liberal and conservative organizations joined together in unprecedented cooperation to oppose several key provisions of the original reauthorization and expansion of the Patriot Act, including easing of restrictions on government and law enforcement agencies in obtaining financial records of individuals and businesses, "sneak-and-peek" searches without court warrants or the target's knowledge, and its "overbroad" definition of the term "terrorist." Additionally, lawmakers in Congress insisted on expiration dates for the various surveillance and wiretapping methodologies employed by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies (see Early 2002). [Associated Press, 5/23/2005] The final bill mandates that anyone subpoenaed for information regarding terrorist investigations has the right to challenge the requirement that they not reveal anything about the subpoena, those recipients will not be required to tell the FBI the name of their lawyer, and libraries that are not Internet service providers will not be subject to demands from "national security letters" for information about their patrons. Many of the bill's provisions will expire in four years. [Christian Science Monitor, 3/3/2006] Reauthorizing Original Provisions - The bill does reauthorize many expiring provisions of the original Patriot Act, including one that allows federal officials to obtain "tangible items," such as business records from libraries and bookstores, in connection with foreign intelligence and international terrorism investigations. Port security provisions are strengthened, and restrictions on the sale of over-the-counter cold and allergy medicine that can be used in the illegal manufacture of methamphetamine are imposed, forcing individuals to register their purchases of such medicines and limiting the amounts they can buy. [CBS News, 3/9/2006] Bush Signing Statement Says He Will Ignore Oversight Mandates - But when he signs the bill into law, Bush also issues a signing statement that says he has no intention of obeying mandates that enjoin the White House and the Justice Department to inform Congress about how the FBI is using its new powers under the bill. Bush writes that he is not bound to tell Congress how the new Patriot Act powers are being used, and in spite of what the law requires, he can and will withhold information if he decides that such disclosure may "impair foreign relations, national security, the deliberative process of the executive, or the performance of the executive's constitutional duties." [Statement on Signing the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act, 3/9/2006; Boston Globe, 3/24/2006] Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) says that Bush's assertion that he can ignore provisions of the law as he pleases, under the so-called "unitary executive" theory, are "nothing short of a radical effort to manipulate the constitutional separation of powers and evade accountability and responsibility for following the law." Law professor David Golove says the statement is illustrative of the Bush administration's "mind-bogglingly expansive conception" of executive power, and its low regard for legislative power. [Boston Globe, 3/24/2006] Author and legal expert Jennifer Van Bergen warns of Bush using this signing statement to avoid accountability about the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program, writing: "[I]t is becoming clearer every day that Bush has no qualms about violating either international laws and obligations or domestic laws. The recent revelations about the secret NSA domestic surveillance program revealed Bush flagrantly violating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act which was specifically enacted to prevent unchecked executive branch surveillance. … His signing statements, thus, are nothing short of an attempt to change the very face of our government and our country." [Institute for Public Accuracy, 3/27/2006] Request to Rescind Signing Statement - In late March, Democratic House members Jane Harman and John Conyers will write to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales requesting that the administration rescind the signing statement, writing: "As you know, 'signing statements' do not have the force of law. Legislation passed by both Houses and signed by the president does. As Article 1, Section 7, of the Constitution states: 'Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it.'" Bush and Gonzales will ignore the request. [US House of Representatives, 3/29/2006]
Entity Tags: US Department of Justice, Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003, David Golove, Alberto R. Gonzales, Butch Otter, Dianne Feinstein, Patrick J. Leahy, USA Patriot Act, John Conyers, Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Security Agency, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Jennifer Van Bergen, Jane Harman, George W. Bush
A report by Glenn Fine, the Justice Department's Inspector General, finds that the FBI used self-issued subpoenas known as National Security Letters (NSLs) to obtain phone, e-mail, and financial information on at least 143,074 targets between 2003 and 2005. The report's main conclusions include: More than half of those targeted are US citizens; In many cases FBI officials evaded limits on NSLs and sometimes illegally issued them; 60% of the audited NSLs do not follow the FBI's rules of issuance, and a further 22% contain unreported possible violations of the law, including improper requests and unauthorized collections of information; The number of surveillance targets is probably far higher than the audit finds, because the FBI practices poor record-keeping that allow at least 22% of surveillance to go unreported; Fine finds that agents had routinely issued the letters even when they had no open investigation, as required by law; One office made arrangements with telecommunications firms to get information instantly, even before issuing NSLs, by sending "exigent letters" claiming it needed the requested information because of an emergency, and that the letters and necessary court warrants were in preparation (see Before Mid-March, 2007). But, the audit finds, "we could not confirm one instance in which a subpoena had been submitted to any US attorney's office before the exigent letter was sent to the phone companies" and that "many were not issued in exigent circumstances." Representative Edward Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Homeland Security Committee, wants hearings. "The Inspector General's report is a scathing critique of FBI misuse of the secretive process," Markey says. Although the FBI has used NSLs for years, their usage soared after the USA Patriot Act (see October 26, 2001) eased the restrictions on them. Now, FBI agents in counterterrorism and counterintelligence investigations can issue NSLs themselves, without court warrants or even the approval of a supervisor, as long as the agent affirms that the information they seek is "relevant" to an open investigation. The information obtained by NSLs remains in a massive "data warehouse," where it can be accessed again for data-mining or subsequent investigations. [Wired News, 3/9/2007]
Entity Tags: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Edward Markey, USA Patriot Act, Glenn Fine, US Department of Justice, House Homeland Security Committee
Former Vice President Dick Cheney says that because of the Obama administration's new policies, there is what he calls a "high probability" that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years. "If it hadn't been for what we did—with respect to the terrorist surveillance program (see After September 11, 2001 and December 15, 2005), or enhanced interrogation techniques for high-value detainees (see September 16, 2001 and November 14, 2001, among others), the Patriot Act (see October 26, 2001), and so forth—then we would have been attacked again," says Cheney. "Those policies we put in place, in my opinion, were absolutely crucial to getting us through the last seven-plus years without a major-casualty attack on the US." The situation has changed, he says. "When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an al-Qaeda terrorist (see January 22, 2009) than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry," he says. Protecting the country's security is "a tough, mean, dirty, nasty business," he continues. "These are evil people. And we're not going to win this fight by turning the other cheek." He calls the Guantanamo detention camp, which President Obama has ordered shut down (see January 22, 2009), a "first-class program" and a "necessary facility" that is operated legally and provides inmates better living conditions than they would get in jails in their home countries. But the Obama administration is worried more about its "campaign rhetoric" than it is protecting the nation: "The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I'm not at all sure that that's what the Obama administration believes." Cheney says "the ultimate threat to the country" is "a 9/11-type event where the terrorists are armed with something much more dangerous than an airline ticket and a box cutter—a nuclear weapon or a biological agent of some kind" that is deployed in the middle of an American city. "That's the one that would involve the deaths of perhaps hundreds of thousands of people, and the one you have to spend a hell of a lot of time guarding against. I think there's a high probability of such an attempt. Whether or not they can pull it off depends whether or not we keep in place policies that have allowed us to defeat all further attempts, since 9/11, to launch mass-casualty attacks against the United States." [Politico, 2/4/2009] Cheney has warned of similarly dire consequences to potential Democratic political victories before, before the 2004 presidential elections (see September 7, 2004) and again before the 2006 midterm elections (see October 31, 2006).
Entity Tags: Barack Obama, Al-Qaeda, Obama administration, Richard ("Dick") Cheney
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, Domestic Propaganda, 2010 Elections
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The end of October was a bit busy for me because my daughter was celebrating Halloween for the first time with trick or treating and events at school and I took some time to spend with my family. But, Chanel news doesn't stop coming. Here are some of my favorite Chanel-related items…
Bookmark this for next Halloween – learn how to carve a Chanel pumpkin. LDN Fashion
For Halloween, Bette Midler dressed up as the ghost of Coco Chanel.
You can wear this tongue-in-cheek representation of the Chanel logo. Ssur
The Chromatics, who performed at the Chanel Spring-Summer 2013 Ready-to-Wear show, filmed their video for Looking for Love at the Chanel show and you get some great views of backstage and the show. Refinery29
Gaspard Ulliel, the face of Bleu de Chanel has been cast as the designer Yves Saint Laurent in a biopic that has started filming.
Karl Lagerfeld sketched a "no smoking" sign but it's not your typical sign. However, he was not making a statement about unhealthy habits, instead he was noting all the YSL references on many runways and he was stating that you would find a "smoking" – the french term for tuxedo – on his runway. Lagerfeld stated: "We don't have to do smoking. Hedi Slimane really does it well." WWD
Membership in the Chanel club has its benefits. Keira Knightley, the face of Coco Mademoiselle, was dressed in over £1.25 million worth of Chanel jewels for her role as Anna Karenina. InStyle UK
A few weeks ago Karl Lagerfeld shot the Chanel Spring-Summer 2013 campaign in New York City with models Stella Tennant and Ondria Hardin. Lagerfeld stated: "Stella has such a style… Stella is, for me, the perfect Chanel woman." WWD
Peter Philips gives tips on how to perfect your foundation. News.com.au
Last week Rihanna performed at the Victoria's Secret fashion show and she wore vintage Chanel sunglasses during her performance and wore a Chanel sweat suit and vintage sunglasses around NY.
A few weeks ago Keira Knightley wore Chanel cosmetics to the NYC premiere of Anna Karenina.
Last night Kristen Stewart wore Chanel cosmetics to the LA premiere of Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2.


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Wilde Schwäne
This mittens are knitted for my good friend and photographer Annika.
One of her favorite fairy tales is "The Wild Swans" ("die wilden Schwäne" in german) by Hans Christian Andersen.
In this fairy tail the princess has to help her brothers who are turned into swans. For them to become human again she has to knit shirts from nettles.
The nettles are represented on the back of the hand and in wool a much saver option then the real thing.
To work the nettle motive the pattern uses the roositud inlay method. You don't have to know who to work this, I described the method in the pattern, made a little video to help and had the pattern test knitted.
The motiv is giving as a colourwork chart.
Despite the german name the pattern is written in english.
Skill Level: Advanced Beginner
Finished Measurments: Women S, M, L (6, 7, 8 inches / 15, 18, 20 cm hand circumference)
Yarnage: app. 133 yards (120m) in fingering weight for Main Colour and 26 yards (24m) in fingering weight or sports weight in a Contrast Colour for the leaves.


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When he signed into law the Voting Rights Act of 1965, President Lyndon Johnson said:
This act flows from a clear and simple wrong. . . . Millions of Americans are denied the right to vote because of their color. This law will ensure them the right to vote. The wrong is one which no American, in his heart, can justify. The right is one which no American, true to our principles, can deny.
In the decades since, the Voting Rights Act has become the keystone in the arch of protection for people of color. Yet today some still seek to deny these Americans the right to vote. That can be seen in the many efforts at voter suppression during the 2012 presidential election. During the current term, the Supreme Court will rule on a challenge to a key provision of the Voting Rights Act itself.
Today, AFJ debuts a new page on our website devoted to why we still need the Voting Rights Act. We'll be adding more resources in the weeks ahead.


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Corrective and preventive maintenance of high-speed canning line and auxiliary equipment. Facilities maintenance, boilers, air compressors, glycol systems, lighting, plumbing, etc. Train and help develop operators and line employees Maintains safe and clean work environment by educating and directing non-maintenance personnel on the safe operation of all equipment, and resources; maintaining compliance with established policies and procedures. Help with sanitation and care of all equipment. Completes all tasks and assignments given from Operations Manager in a timely manner. Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed. This will include working weekends and off shift hours on occasion. Having a flexible schedule and ability to work long hours. Qualifications: 3-5 years industrial maintenance experience. Able to read blue prints and schematics. Good working knowledge electricity. 3-phase high and low voltage. Single phase voltage and DC control voltage. Good working knowledge of Plumbing. Pneumatics, hydraulics, water, gas and steam. Basic knowledge of PLC, VFD, and control circuitry Food manufacturing experience preferred (knowledge of canning a plus) Must have excellent troubleshooting skills Must have own tools Must be physically fit enough to preform duties of the job to include but not limited to squatting, stooping, kneeling, crawling, lifting, twisting, etc. Must be able to work in hot and cold environments. Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds. Cannot be afraid of heights.
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August 15, 2012, 9:23 am
Julia Child remix — a 100th birthday tribute from PBS
On what would have been her 100th birthday, the new media world pays tribute to Julia Child, who taught America how to enjoy eating.
In an era before vegan asceticism, when more butter was better, Julia reigned, adapting complex recipes for everyday cooks. A brilliant remix by John D. Boswell, a.k.a. melodysheep, for PBS Digital Studios reminds us of the joy, the oddness, the fat and the love that were part of the Julia Child recipe.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following comment regarding the Environmental Protection Agency's release of the final Clean Air Act standards for industrial boilers – known as the boiler MACT rule.
"The changes in the final boiler MACT rule announced today by the EPA are an improvement over the original proposal, however, I continue to be concerned about the high costs of compliance and the potential impacts on our struggling economy," Murkowski said.
Murkowski and her staff are still reviewing the full boiler MACT rule to evaluate the extent of the EPA's modifications, particularly how they will impact the 800-mile trans-Alaska oil pipeline, which uses waste oil vapor from the pipeline to generate electricity and heat at the Valdez terminal.
Under the EPA's original proposal, the Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., which runs the pipeline system, would have likely had to discontinue their innovative and environmentally friendly usage of recycled oil vapor and switch to a more expensive power source.
"Under the original proposal, Alyeska was looking at having to spend $50 million to comply – capital it could better invest in preventive maintenance to ensure the pipeline continues to operate safely in the face of declining throughput," Murkowski said.
Murkowski has repeatedly raised with the EPA and the White House the potential impacts the rules could have on Alaska, given that the pipeline and the oil fields it serves are the biggest drivers of the state's economy. In July, Murkowski wrote to President Obama (letter attached) requesting changes to the proposed rules to allow additional time and flexibility for compliance across the nation.
Murkowski said the changes made by the EPA today provide more time for compliance and some flexibility for Alyeska.
"While the final rules lessen the economic impacts on the pipeline, Alyeska's use of an innovative system of recycling waste vapors from the line to generate both the heat and electricity needed to operate the Valdez terminal may still be at risk," Murkowski said.