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Milwaukee Fest Announces Titles
Milwaukee Film has announced the titles of five films that it will be showing at the international film festival this fall, as a way to ratchet up interest and excitement.
The films are "Rashomon," a revival and restored version of Akira Kurosawa's 1950 masterpiece; "Revanache," the Oscar nominated Austrian film that was selected the audience favorite at the group's recent mini-fest; "Gigante," a comedy from Uraguay about a supermarket security guard and a cleaning woman;
The documentary "Youssou N'dour: I Bring What I Love," about the Senegalese musician, produced by Sarah Price; and "Burma VJ," a documentary about the popular uprising in Burma chronicled by 30 video journalists.
The festival has also announced that is extending the deadline for submissions until June 30.
The festival will be held Sept. 24 through Oct. 4. Go to the festival website for more information.
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By ADAM PRUIETT
Staying composed was getting to be a monumental task for Morgan Stanley on Saturday at Champions Pointe Golf Club. The Floyd Central standout admitted to failing miserably at keeping those pesky jitters in check.
Who could blame her? After all, not only was she on the verge of a career-best round that could include the unprecedented breaking of 70, she was clearly in striking distance of capturing medalist honors at the prestigious Fuzzy Zoeller Invitational.
"I was shaking for about six holes because I knew where I was," Stanley said. "I didn't want to mess it up because I knew I still had time."
She didn't mess it up. Not even close. Stanley shot a sizzling 3-under 67 to secure the individual title at Southern Indiana's premier high school girls' golfing event preceding sectional play.
"It was pretty exciting," said Stanley, who tallied four birdies. "I've always been in the 70s, but this is the first time breaking 70, so it's exciting. This is my first time breaking 70 at any course."
As a team, Floyd Central came in second place with 307. Evansville North won the 16-team tournament with a 299 after setting a school record for the second time this season. All four Huskies shot in the 70s.
"Everybody played their hearts out," said Taylor Howerton, who paced North with a 70. "Our goal was three [in the 70s], but we got four so we beat our goal. That was great. We were all so pumped. We always do well at this tournament, but we finally did our best."
Four teams from the area competed in the invitational. In addition to Floyd Central, Providence placed eighth with a 379, New Albany tied for 10th with a 390 and Silver Creek was 13th with a 398.
Stanley birdied the second-to-last hole and finished off her 67 with a par. She didn't do anything special leading into the tournament, "just my usual routine." She even had to overcome a bogey on the first hole. It turned out to be her only one of the day.
"I was OK," Stanley said. "I knew it was the first hole, and I was going to be a little rusty. I just kept it up and picked it up over the next few holes."
While Stanley boasted the area's most notable round, New Albany's Heidi Steinert claimed the most memorable shot. On the 11th hole, from 128 yards out, she sank a hole-in-one.
"Where the pin location was, there was only one club that I could hit to that pin location no matter the yardage," Steinert explained. "If it's longer or shorter, there's only one club that gets me to that spot."
Her analysis was spot-on. The club she referenced was a 7-iron. Steinert was tipped off that her shot found the hole by a rowdy celebration in the background.
"Everybody up at the green started screaming," said Steinert, who had the ball stashed in her pocket after the tournament and will have it placed in a display case. "I didn't know how to react. I just kind of stood there. They were like, 'Scream or something.' I said, 'I don't know what to do.'
"I went up there and they all started taking pictures. It still hasn't hit me that it happened. I think once I start getting text messages and stuff from people, it will start hitting me."
While it was a once-in-a-lifetime shot, Steinert refused to say she had a once-in-a-lifetime round.
"I've always thought that the day I broke 80 in a round I would be satisfied, but I know how many shots I left out there, even with the hole-in-one. I'm not satisfied," she said. "I think that's a good thing for me."
Floyd Central's runner-up finish also included a 74 by Eliza Hudson, an 80 from Scarlett Hartlage and an 86 from Jessica Ingram.
"Our team has worked extremely hard over the whole summer and even the winter, working really hard to get our scores low," Stanley said. "I have a great team and they're really supportive, and I'm really happy we did as well as we did today."
Colleen Geldermann led Providence with a 90. The Pioneers all broke 100, with Mary Ann Fitzpatrick following Geldermann at 95, Brooklin Grantz shooting a 96 and Alexa Wilson posting a 98.
"I really think things are finally starting to click," Geldermann said. "I know last year I wasn't breaking 100 either. I know this is the first time a lot of the girls on the team broke 100. It's pretty good. Hopefully if things keep going well, we'll be breaking 90."
New Albany, the two-time defending sectional champion, had Haley Roth follow Steinert at 85, while Chloe Watts shot 105 and Taylor Frame 122.
"It's early in the season, but we are kind of struggling," Steinert said. "It's not that the talent isn't there. We're struggling getting used to tournaments and starting the whole season out.
"We definitely want to get better as the season goes along. We don't have the pressure of being expected to win sectionals. We want to start getting better as a team. We want to make it to regionals and definitely get our team scores lower."
Charlotte Seaton led Silver Creek with a 90 and Lily Smith followed closely at 92. Liv Schmidt added a 97 and Emily Christman and Hannah McGrath both had 119s.
The Funny Zoeller Invitational provided an early barometer for the teams to see where they are at and where they need to be. Even Floyd Central, the sectional favorite, believes it has a lot of work to do before the postseason begins.
"We know we still have a lot of tournaments to play," Stanley said. "Doing this well early in the season, we know there's only time for improvement. We're excited to have this well of a score this early."
At Champions Pointe Golf Club, Henryville
Team scores: Evansville North 299, Floyd Central 307, Columbus North 329, Madison 339, Jasper 341, Evansville Memorial 352, Bedford North Lawrence 358, Providence 379, Franklin 389, Salem 390, New Albany 390, Jennings County 395, Silver Creek 398, Seymour 400, Corydon Central 403, Scottsburg 458.
Medalist: Morgan Stanley (FC) 67.
Floyd Central: Hudson 74, Stanley 67, Hartlage 80, Ingram 86, Dankovich 89.
Providence: Geldemann 90, Wilson 98, Kruer 118, Grantz 96, Fitzpatrick 95.
New Albany: Steinert 78, Roth 85, Watts 105, Frame 122, Long 130.
Silver Creek: Seaton 90, Smith 92, Schmidt 97, Christman 119, McGrath 119.


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A local holiday tradition continues, starting Saturday, in one of Greenville's most brightly lit and historic neighborhoods .
"Christmas on Park Street" includes the annual horse drawn Wagon Rides and Lantern Parade. The rides are scheduled Saturday and December 14-15 and offer a leisurely tour of one of the city's most elaborately lighted areas.
The rides start from the parking lot of Park Street Baptist Church. Tickets are $8 per person and a lap child can ride free.
The annual Park Street Lantern Parade is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, although participants are asked to arrive at 5 p.m. to line up, also at Park Street Baptist Church.
Those wanting to participate in the free event are encouraged, but are not required to, wear Victorian costumes during the event.
There is a full slate of holiday events in Greenville this week.
The 22nd Annual City of Greenville Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony is scheduled with activities starting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, and the countdown at 6:30 p.m. outside of the Police and Courts building at 3000 Lee Street.
The City of Greenville downtown Christmas parade, with theme of "A Storybook Christmas: starts at 7 p.m. Friday with pre-parade holiday music on the north steps of the Hunt County Courthouse starting at 6 p.m. Friday.


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[JURIST] The Council of the European Union [official website] and the US jointly released a statement [text, DOC] Monday outlining the terms of agreement for EU countries planning to accept Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees. Affirming that the US is primarily responsible for the closure of the detention facility [JURIST news archive] and finding residences for former detainees, the EU welcomed recent actions taken by the US that include setting a date for closing the facility, reviewing various policies, increasing transparency about past practices, and eliminating secret detention facilities. The framework includes a US agreement to share all available intelligence and information, including that of a confidential nature, with a country considering accepting a detainee in order to allow the country to make "an informed decision and conduct a proper security assessment." The US and EU also agreed to maintain the exchange of relevant information after a detainee is transferred. The US also agreed to consider contributing funds to offset the costs incurred by EU member states in accepting former detainees on a case-by-case basis. The statement addresses the past and present relationship between the EU and the US:
The European Union and the United States share fundamental values of freedom, democracy, and respect for international law, the rule of law and human rights. We, the leaders of the European Union and the United States of America, refer to the longstanding tradition of humanitarian assistance that is shared by the European Union and its Member States and the United States of America, our commitment to security, and our deep and abiding friendship. Efforts to combat terrorism should be conducted in a manner that comports with the rule of law, respects our common values, and complies with our respective obligations under international law, in particular international human rights law, refugee law, and humanitarian law. We consider that efforts to combat terrorism conducted in this manner make us stronger and more secure.
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday declined to review a challenge to the construction of a fence along the US-Mexico border [JURIST news archive]. The Court denied certiorari [order list, PDF] in County of El Paso, Texas v. Napolitano [docket; cert. petition, PDF], in which it was asked to consider whether the grant of authority to the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) [official website] to "waive all legal requirements" necessary to ensure rapid construction of a border fence, with no provision for judicial review to test the statutory and factual basis of the secretary's waiver orders, is an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power. The Court denied certiorari on the same issue last year. The 700-mile US-Mexico border fence, authorized [JURIST report] in 2006 by then-president George W. Bush [official profile], has faced numerous legal challenges. Last month, a judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] dismissed [opinion, PDF; JURIST report] a lawsuit against the DHS that sought to block construction of the fence. The Texas Border Coalition [advocacy website], a group of Texan officials and business owners, filed suit [JURIST report] last year challenging the condemnation of land for the construction of the fence and the compensation paid to landowners for access to conduct surveys under the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 [text], the Administrative Procedure Act [text, PDF], and the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment [text].Also Monday, the Court denied certiorari in Campa v. United States [docket; cert. petition, PDF], better known as the "Cuban Five" [advocacy website] case. The Court had been asked to consider whether the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit applied an erroneous legal standard in holding that petitioners did not establish a right to a change of venue and whether a party's failure to use all of its peremptory strikes to strike all minority members of the jury per se precludes a prima facie challenge under Batson v. Kentucky [opinion text]. The men were convicted in 2001 of spying for Cuba and sentenced to 15 years in prison. They admitted they were Cuban spies, but said they were watching the activities of exile groups opposed to former Cuban leader Fidel Castro [BBC profile], rather than the US government. In 2005, the Eleventh Circuit ruled [opinion, PDF; JURIST report] that the trial in Miami was biased due to community prejudice and extensive media coverage. The government appealed that decision, and during a rehearing [JURIST reports] before the full appeals court, the defendants argued that "the pervasive community prejudice against the Cuban government and its agents and the publicity surrounding the trial that existed in Miami prevented them from obtaining a fair and impartial trial." The full federal appeals court upheld [opinion, PDF; JURIST report] the convictions.
[JURIST] Former spokeswoman for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] Florence Hartmann [publicity interview; ICTY materials, PDF] went on trial Monday to face accusations of contempt for allegedly publishing details of tribunal proceedings. Hartmann is specifically charged [press release; JURIST report] with contempt of the tribunal in violation of procedural Rule 77(A)(ii) [text, PDF] for "knowingly and willingly disclosing information in knowing violation of an order of a Chamber" and "interfering with the administration of justice." Hartmann, who published the book Peace and Punishment: The Secret Wars of Politics and International Justice [excerpts, PDF] in 2007, allegedly disclosed classified information relating to the tribunal's proceedings against Slobodan Milosevic [JURIST news archive] in her book and in an article. The information that was disclosed concerned decisions to not publicize documents [AP report] that might have aided Bosnia's efforts to hold Serbia liable for genocide following the Balkan conflicts [BBC backgrounder] in the early 1990s. At isue are minutes from Serbia's Supreme Defense Council, which allegedly implicate Belgrade for atrocities, given to the ICTY by Serbia for the sole purpose of the Milosevic trial. Hartmann's lawyer maintains that the information was previously disclosed by others and that a conviction would be limiting free speech. A Hartmann support group [advocacy website] has expressed concern [press release, DOC] that prohibiting the material to be published will burden Bosnian victims who have a right to challenge the "controversial deal between Serbia and the ICTY" and to revisit Serbia's responsibility. At an initial appearance, Hartmann did not enter a plea [JURIST report] and a plea of not guilty was entered on her behalf in November.Hartmann formally served as the official spokesperson for chief ICTY prosecutor Carla del Ponte [BBC profile]. Before being indicted, Hartmann drew media attention by repeating allegations [JURIST report] that former US president Bill Clinton and former French president Jacques Chirac had planned a campaign [JURIST report] to capture Radovan Karadzic [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], but later backed down following a change in policy. Hartmann has also said that Russia aided in moving Karadzic to safety in Belarus, and alleged that the West helped in order to hide information about the Srebrenica massacre [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive].
[JURIST] The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) ruled [decision, PDF; press release, PDF] Monday that former Khmer Rogue [BBC backgrounder] leader Kaing Guek Eav [TrialWatch backgrounder, JURIST news archive], also known as "Duch," has been detained unlawfully for the past 10 years, but denied a defense request for his release. The defense had requested the release for the duration of his trial in light of the fact that Duch had been illegally held by a Cambodian Military Court prior to being transferred to the ECCC's custody. Considering the need to balance the rights of the accused against the rights of the community:
The Chamber [found] that although the Accused's prior detention amounted to a clear violation of his rights, absent allegations of torture or serious mistreatment by the national authorities, this would appear insufficient to debar the exercise of the ECCC's discretion to order provisional detention.
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] issued opinions in two cases Monday. The Court ruled [opinion, PDF] 7-2 in Polar Tankers v. City of Valdez [Cornell LII backgrounder; JURIST report] that a municipal tax that falls exclusively on large vessels in the citys harbor violates the Tonnage Clause (Art 1 § 10 cl 3) of the US Constitution [text]. The city of Valdez, Alaska, imposes a tax on oil tankers and other large vessels using its port to pick up and deliver crude oil. The Alaska Supreme Court upheld [opinion, PDF] the tax. Reversing the opinion below, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote:
As far as we can tell, then, Valdez applies a value-based personal property tax to ships and to no other property at all. It does so in order to obtain revenue for general city purposes. The tax, no less than a similar duty, may (depending upon rates) "ta[x] the consumption" of those in other states. It is consequently the kind of tax that the Tonnage Clause forbids Valdez to impose without the consent of Congress, consent that Valdez lacks.
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday granted certiorari [order list, PDF] in four cases. In United Student Aid Funds, Inc. v. Espinosa [docket; cert. petition, PDF], the Court will decide on the requirements for discharging student loan debt via bankruptcy proceedings. Specifically at issue is whether such a bankruptcy discharge can be obtained without proving "undue hardship" as required by 11 USC § 523 [text] and without commencing an adversarial proceeding as required by bankruptcy court rules. Petitioners appeal a decision [opinion, PDF] from the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website], which held that student loans can be discharged within a Chapter 13 plan if the creditor receives notice of the plan and fails to object. The appellate-level decision found that creditors in the business of administering student loans are unlikely to be misled by customary bankruptcy procedures and "crafty student debtors," ruling that bankruptcy courts have "no business" interfering in such procedures.In Stolt-Nielsen S.A. v. AnimalFeeds International Corp. [docket; cert. petition, PDF], the Court will decide if imposing class arbitration on parties when that issue is silent in their arbitration clauses is consistent with the Federal Arbitration Act [9 USC § 1-14 text]. The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] that construing the arbitration clause to permit class arbitration "did not manifestly disregard the law" because the parties specifically agreed that the arbitration panel would decide on the scope of the clause and, therefore, the panel did not exceed its authority.In the combined cases of Mac's Shell Service, Inc. v. Shell Oil Products Co. [docket; cert. petition, PDF] and Shell Oil Products Co. v. Mac's Shell Service, Inc. [docket; cert. petition, PDF], the Court will consider whether a service station operator can bring a constructive termination action under the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act [15 USC § 2801-2806 text] when the operator continues to run the franchise with the same trademark, fuel, and premises. Additionally, the Court will decide on the requirements for constructive non-renewal of a franchise-franchisee agreement under the Act. The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit [official website] affirmed [opinion text] a district court ruling that a franchise may recover for constructive termination even if it continues to use the same trademark, fuel, and premises. The First Circuit additionally reversed the district ruling on constructive non-renewal of an agreement, holding that a franchisee faced with an unlawful lease has to either sign the lease and forgo any potential actions under the Act or refuse to sign and bring a challenge to it after receiving a notice of non-renewal. In an amicus brief [text, PDF] requesting certiorari, the US Solicitor General [official website] contests the First Circuit's ruling on constructive termination and agrees with that court's ruling against constructive renewal.In Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection [docket; cert. petition, PDF], the Court will determine the constitutional scope of states' authority to modify property boundaries without a judicial hearing. At issue is the due process permissibility of Florida's restoration of storm-eroded beaches by modifying private property boundaries under their Beach and Shore Preservation Act [text]. The appeal follows a Supreme Court of Florida [official website] ruling [opinion, PDF] that the legislation in question does not unconstitutionally deprive upland owners of littoral rights without just compensation, confining their judgment to the context of eroded beaches only. Littoral rights concern the use and enjoyment of ocean, sea, or lake shores.
[JURIST] The government of Yemen denied Sunday that it had reached an agreement with the US to transfer nearly 100 Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainees to Saudi Arabia [JURIST news archives] for rehabilitation. According to a statement from the Yemen Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Yemeni government is still negotiating with the US to return the detainees to Yemen [Yemen Observer report]. Sunday's statement comes just days after the Wall Street Journal reported [text] Thursday that the US was close to a deal with Yemen to send the detainees to Saudi Arabia. Yemeni detainees account for nearly half of the 229 detainees remaining at Guantanamo Bay, and the US is reluctant to return them to Yemen for fear they would rejoin terrorist groups.Last week, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] announced [press release] that three Guantanamo Bay detainees had been transferred to Saudi Arabia, their country of origin, where they will undergo judicial review and rehabilitation. US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates [official profile] said last month that the US would continue efforts to reach an agreement to transfer the Yemeni detainees to Saudi Arabia for rehabilitation, despite reports [JURIST reports] that two former prisoners have rejoined al Qaeda in Yemen. The Saudi program to rehabilitate Islamic extremists was designed with input from psychiatrists, sociologists, and Muslim clerics. The Saudi Minister of Interior [official website] reports that only nine of the 218 men who have undergone rehabilitation have been rearrested.
[JURIST] Prominent Vietnamese pro-democracy lawyer Le Cong Dinh was arrested Saturday by Vietnam forces for allegedly conspiring against the government, according to state media. Dinh was charged [Nhan Dan report] with "colluding with foreign reactionaries to sabotage the Vietnamese State," in violation of Article 88 [text] of the Vietnamese penal code, for the alleged distribution of anti-government documents. The penal code provides that such a violation can be punishable by three to 12 years imprisonment. The government has accused Dinh of publishing documents [Thanh Niem report] that distorted the laws of the Communist Party and the state, calling for a change in leadership, and libeling current leaders including Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung [BBC profile]. According to state media, Dinh had become involved with the People's Action Party and the Democratic Party of Vietnam [party websites], allegedly planning to overthrow the communist government in the year 2010. Authorities additionally claim that Dinh and his cohorts wrote a new constitution for the country to replace the current one.Dinh, who became well-known after defending Vietnamese interests in a catfish trade dispute [BBC report] with the US, has represented several pro-democracy and human rights advocates in the past, including other lawyers charged with subversion. Restrictions on expression have become a recurring issue in Vietnam. Earlier this year, two Vietnamese newspaper editors were dismissed from their jobs for protesting the arrests of two journalists [JURIST reports] who reported on government corruption. The arrested reporters, who were accused of 'abusing freedom and democracy,' were sentenced to two years of prison and "re-education" for reporting on the so-called PMU 18 corruption scandal [JURIST reports].
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|Inside Athletics » News Releases
Crusaders Down Grand Valley State in Exhibition Opener
Saturday, November 04, 2006Valparaiso used stifling defense and timely 3-point shooting from freshman Kelly Peller (Chesterton, Ind./Chesterton) to defeat the defending NCAA Division II national champions from Grand Valley State, 50-45, Saturday afternoon at the ARC in the exhibition opener for the Crusaders.
The visiting Lakers were leading the Crusaders, 39-35, with 6:56 to play when Peller hit her first triple to cut the deficit to one. After a Launa Hochstetler (Berlin, Ohio/Hiland) steal, Peller found herself open again and knocked down another triple to give Valpo a 41-39 edge.
But Peller's biggest shot would come with 1:16 to play. The Crusaders had been held scoreless for over four minutes and were hanging on to a one-point lead at 43-42. Betsy Rietema (Grand Rapids, Mich./Christian) saw Peller open on the perimeter and dished the ball off to her for Peller's third 3-pointer of the game, giving Valpo its biggest lead of the game to that point at four points. The Brown and Gold would hit all four of its free-throw attempts down the stretch to close out Grand Valley State.
The game was a tight one throughout, as the final margin of victory marked the largest lead either team had all game. Neither team had more than a three-point lead throughout the first half, which ended with Valpo up 25-24. The early portions of the second half were more of the same, with Grand Valley State's greatest margin being the four points the Lakers were up before Peller started her long-range assault.
Peller led the Crusaders in scoring with her nine points, with Hochstetler close behind with eight points. Hochstetler also added team-high marks of three assists and two steals. Tamra Braun (Savage, Minn./Prior Lake) paced Valpo on the boards, pulling down seven rebounds, all on the defensive end.
Erika Ryskamp led Grand Valley State with a game-best 18 points, but hit just 5-of-15 shot attempts from the field. Ryskamp also tied for team-high honors with five rebounds and registered a game-high four steals.
Defense dominated the game, as Valpo shot just 36.7% from the field (18-of-49), while Grand Valley State shot just 35.4% (17-of-48). The Crusaders drained 6-of-14 3-point attempts to just 5-of-19 shooting from behind the arc for the Lakers. Both teams pulled down 32 rebounds.
Valparaiso returns to exhibition action at the ARC Tuesday night at 7:05 p.m., as the Crusaders host Saint Joseph's (Ind.). The regular season commences Friday night at Northwestern at 6:00 p.m. All of the Crusader action this season can be heard live on 95.1 FM, WVUR, and online at www.valpo.edu/athletics.


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WINDSOR — Margaret M. "Pudge" Malensek, age 81, of Windsor, Ohio, died Friday, Sept. 27, 2013, at Briar Hill Heath Care in Middlefield.
She was born Jan. 11, 1932, in Bristol, the daughter of Orrin M. and Hazel E. (Salway) Bailey. Margaret was married to Charles Malensek Sr. on June 21, 1952.
She retired from Johnsonite/Johnson Rubber after 45 years of service and attended Windsor United Methodist Church. She enjoyed family gatherings, loved to go out and eat, bowling, taking bus trips and the fall season.
Survivors include her daughter, Dianne (Herbert) Beech; sons, Dennis (Debbie) Malensek and Louis (Mary Jane) Malensek; sisters, Elizabeth Tryon, May (John) Biddle and Josephine (Paul) Sturgill; brothers, Charles Bailey, Joseph (Chris) Tryon and Carl (Barb) Tryon; in-laws, Ann Ferry, Margie Malensek, Elaine Malensek and Lee and Barb Malensek; five grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and many nieces, nephews and great-nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Malensek Sr.; son, Charles Malensek Jr.; brothers, Orrin and Bill Bailey; and sisters, Mary and Inez Gardner and Dorothy Brown.
A Funeral Service officiated by Pastor Laurie Evinsky will be held 10 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 2nd, at PAINE FUNERAL HOME INC., 140 E. Main St., Orwell, Ohio.
Visitation will take place from 5 to 8 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 1st, at the Funeral Home.
Obituary and condolences at starbeacon.com.


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VIDEO: President presses Syrian case in Cabinet Room
President Barack Obama says he is confident he'll be able to work with Congress to pass a resolution authorizing military intervention in Syria.
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Two decades after NASCAR started running at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the crowds have thinned considerably. It's probably no reflection on the sport's massive following, which stretches from coast to coast, but it surely doesn't NASCAR's image help when the cameras pan across all of those empty seats.
Why a see-through mouse is a big deal for scientists
A group of Caltech researchers announced in Cell Thursday their success in making an entire organism transparent. Unfortunately, this isn't any kind of "Invisible Man" scenario: The organism in question is a mouse, and the mouse in question is quite dead.
VIDEO: Five-year-old doesn't want her brother to grow up
Sadie, an adorable 5-year-old from Phoenix, wants her brother to stay young forever, so much so that her emotional reaction to the thought of him getting older has drawn more than 10 million views on YouTube.
Police department turns to Facebook for guidance on use of 'negro'
What seems to be a data entry mistake by a small town police department in western New York has turned into a social media firestorm centered around the word "negro" and whether it's acceptable to use in modern society.
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Two computational scientists set out recently to simulate the effects of lying in a virtual human population. Their results, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, show that lying is essential for the growth of a cohesive social network.
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JJs restaurant had been one of the citys most popular places since its opening in 1985, but it suffered mightily in proximity to the troubled former West Edge development looming across the street.
The brick restaurant with the tile roof at the corner of 48th Street and Belleview Avenue was founded by Jimmy Frantze in partnership with his brother, lawyer David Frantze. It was renowned for its wine list and won the coveted Grand Award from Wine Spectator magazine. In 2005, the second time it awarded the honor, it was just one of 84 around the world that had won the award.
The brothers also owned the property.
Jimmy learned of the explosion while out of town in Oklahoma and said he was concerned about his employees.
It was 28 years of a great restaurant, and then it has to end like this, he said.
Tuesday night, while still at the scene, David Frantze anticipated he and his brother would rebuild.
It would be hard for me to imagine that location not being the home of JJs, David said. Well go through the insurance process and whatever other process you go through, and youll see JJs back there.
David learned of the disaster watching television at home.
I saw the fire and we hopped in the car and went there, he said. Its pretty devastating. My brother spent 28 years of his life making it one of the top restaurants, and to go there and just seeing it gone is numbing and mind-boggling.
The fiery explosion was the catastrophic ending to a string of difficult years for JJs. Its troubles began when a massive project called the West Edge broke ground in late 2005 immediately to the south.
The office and hotel complex was developed by Bob Bernstein to be the new home of his advertising agency and other businesses. In the playful spirit that was part of JJs charm, the wood construction fence separating the restaurant from the construction site across 48th Street was decorated with a cheery mural.
Then things went sour.
A rock hurtled by blasting to excavate the West Edge underground garage struck a JJs server in 2006, and she had to be hospitalized. The project then stalled in 2008 and was left unfinished, with weeds and concrete barricades for the next couple of years.
Jimmy Frantze, who was named Restaurateur of the Year in 2007 by the Greater Kansas City chapter of the Missouri Restaurant Association, said his business dropped 40 percent.
But when the West Edge development revived a year ago under new ownership, Frantze was looking forward to the day when the lawyers from Polsinelli Shughart, the major new tenant, would begin patronizing his place. The complex, renamed the Plaza Vista, is scheduled to open this November.
Kevin Fossland, a server at JJs, usually works Tuesday nights but was off. He spent most of the early evening on the phone with manager Matt Nichols trying to account for employees who were known to be working.
Its a bizarre, surreal feeling, he said.
Tomorrow morning, I dont have a job, so that is kind of bizarre, but that is the last thing Im thinking about right now. We are trying to confirm how our co-workers are doing. They are like family.
Fossland said his phone and social media accounts started blowing up at 6:07 p.m. with people checking to see if he was safe.
The outpouring of concern has been unbelievable, he said.
Mark Ebbitts, whose business, Shelton Travel Services, is around the corner from JJs at 4800 Belleview, had been at the restaurants bar shortly before the explosion. He was one of many JJs loyalists who had sustained the place during its lean years.
Now, looking out over the smoky scene from a vantage point about a half block away, the flames licking the gutted restaurant and the smell of gas still hovering in the air, Ebbitts lamented the whole tortured history of the West Edge development and JJs.
Its like a sacred burial ground for Indians, he said. Theres something cursed about the project. I dont want it to be that way, but it is.
The storefront windows of Ebbitts business, along with its neighbors in the small retail strip along Belleview, were shattered by the explosion.
There appeared to be little harm, however, to the Plaza Vista office building directly south of JJs. In fact, the fire consuming what was left of the restaurant could be seen reflected in its intact windows.
Dave Harrison, vice president of VanTrust Real Estate, the firm thats completing the Plaza Vista development, said it was too soon to evaluate whether any damage had occurred to that project.
Right now, were just 100 percent focused on what happened at JJs, he said. Our thoughts and prayers are with the people affected by this. Our focus right now is on them.


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"Leave None to Tell the Story": Genocide in Rwanda
Human Rights Watch, 1999 - History - 789 pages
In 1994 a small elite chose genocide to keep power in Rwanda. They used state resources and authority to incite - or force - tens of thousands of Rwandans to kill the Tutsi minority. Within one hundred days, they slaughtered more than half a million people, three quarters of the Tutsi of Rwanda. The major international actors, France, the U.S., Belgium, and the U.N., failed to head the warnings of coming disaster and refused to recognize the genocide when it began. They withdraw the troops that could have saved lives and made little protest against the genocide, last condemnation lead to calls for action.
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By Michael Kinney
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NORMAN — Oklahoma already knows it's in the postseason, so that will not be on the players' minds when they face Iowa State tonight in their final game of the regular season.
However, the Sooners still have something to play for at the Cyclone Sports Complex in Ames, Iowa. They currently sit in sixth place, a half game behind Kansas, which has already wrapped up its conference schedule. A win over the Cyclones would elevate OU to the fifth seed in next week's Big 12 tournament in San Antonio.
"I think it's very important," OU senior Renae Cuellar said. "Obviously, with that mindset, and it depends on who you play, we have the potential to end in the best situation we could, which is to end in fifth place. I think it makes for a much more interesting situation."
However, the Sooners (6-8-4, 2-3-2 Big 12) are coming off a 2-0 loss to regular season conference champion West Virginia. Yet, first-year coach Matt Potter likes the attitude of his team as it heads into the regular season finale.
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Stud receiver A.J. Green of the Bengals is out today with a knee injury, highlighting the injury news heading into Week 11 of the fantasy season.
A quick spin around the league as you set your rosters for those 1 p.m. kickoffs:
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- Mike Vick is out at quarterback for the Eagles, with Vince Young taking over. Young won't have Jeremy Maclin to throw to, as the WR is out, as well.
- Browns RB Montario Hardesty is inactive for a third straight game because of a calf injury. Chris Ogbonnaya is making his third straight start with Hardesty and Peyton Hillis (hamstring) out.
- Dolphins kicker Dan Carpenter won't play against the Bills. Miami signed Shayne Graham to be his replacement.
- RB Felix Jones is active today for the Dallas Cowboys, but rookie RB DeMarco Murray has been playing well and will still get the bulk of the carries. I'd sit Jones unless you had no other choice.
- Mohamed Massaquoi is back at WR for the Browns today. Hey, somebody has to catch the ball in Cleveland.
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Ethical compromises come up no matter what type of professional you are: doctor, lawyer, office assistant or journalist. Each profession has either a written or unspoken ethical code. Some people get dangerously close to the line, while others cross it willingly.
If your boss or supervisor wants you to conduct a task that feels ethically wrong and you do it, it can chip away at your soul. If the behavior continues, it can just get worse and become tougher on your conscience.
There's a time and place to bend the rules, but if your gut is telling you there's a problem or it's quite black and white, then you have two choices: go along with it, or say no. Going along with it can be a great short or long term solution and the same goes for saying no -- it all depends on the situation.
Your job may hurt you no matter what -- there are so many ways that can happen. But you know where your line is. As long as you're not crossing your line, you're staying true to yourself.
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I definitely like Railscasts — free and very interesting Ruby on Rails screencasts. One of the things that is really awesome about them is a TextMate color theme Ryan Bates uses, so I always wanted an Emacs version. And today I finally created it for myself. Meet color-theme-railscasts!
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Thursday, May 7, 2009
Caching rarely updated data with Rails
Let's say you have an external query for some data in your Rails application, like search results from Yahoo or Google, or some feed, and it could take anywhere from 1 to 5 seconds to fetch it. Of course, it makes sense to cache it, especially if the pages that use this external data need to be accessed frequently. One obvious solution would be to fragment cache it (using memcache store), but it could be not optimal if some of the following cases apply:
- you need to cache a LOT of data, like millions of results, and it would take up too much memory;
- you only need to update this data like once per month, so it doesn't make sense to keep it hanging in memory for that long;
- you don't want this data to be displaced with something else when memcached runs out of memory or lose everything when you're restarting memcached;
- you want to be able to change the look and feel of your external data on the page without expiring all your fragment cache related to this data.
That was exactly the case in our project, so I came up with a very simple but effective solution: store everything in the filesystem cache and fetch results using Rails cache mechanism wrapped in a small class.
First, we need to be able to auto-expire file cache entries. It can be easily achieved by extending ActiveSupport::Cache::FileStore:
class FileStoreWithExpiration < ActiveSupport::Cache::FileStore def read(name, options = nil) expires_in = options.is_a?(Hash) && options.has_key?(:expires_in) ? options[:expires_in] : 0 file_path = real_file_path(name) return if expires_in > 0 && File.exists?(file_path) && (File.mtime(file_path) < (Time.now - expires_in)) super end end
Then we just plug this store into our external data fetch wrapper:
class ExternalSearch RESULTS_CACHE = FileStoreWithExpiration.new("tmp/cache/external_searches") def initialize(query) @query = query end def results RESULTS_CACHE.fetch("#{cache_key}", :expires_in => 30.days) do parse_search_results("http://example.com/fetch.xml?query=#{URI.encode(@query)}") end end def parse_search_results(source) # Here some logic to fetch the required data end end
Now we only need to build a good cache key for our @query. As always, we need to keep in mind that having too many files in a directory could be a performance killer, so one good approach would be to take any hash function of the search key and use a first few characters as a filesystem hierarchy for it:
def cache_key key = Digest::MD5.hexdigest(@query) "#{key[0..1]}/#{key[2..3]}/#{key[4..-1]}" end
Then the resulting class can be used as shown below:
data = ExternalSearch.new('some keywords').results
All subsequent queries for 'some keywords' will be served from cache within 30 days of this first call.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Installing Sphinx on OS X Leopard
Sphinx can be a pain to install on OS X if you need the bleeding edge version. At the time MacPorts has only 0.9.8 (latest stable) in repository, and 0.9.9-rc1 needs to be built from the source. Unfortunately it requires iconv in order to be built correctly and doesn't see neither system iconv nor libiconv from ports. Clinton R. Nixon from Vidget Labs offers his own solution involving source libiconv installation. It works very well but the problem can also be solved by configuring Sphinx with additional parameters.
So, if you see something like that in make output:
Undefined symbols: "_iconv_close", referenced from: xmlUnknownEncoding(void*, char const*, XML_Encoding*)in libsphinx.a(sphinx.o) "_iconv", referenced from: xmlUnknownEncoding(void*, char const*, XML_Encoding*)in libsphinx.a(sphinx.o) "_iconv_open", referenced from: xmlUnknownEncoding(void*, char const*, XML_Encoding*)in libsphinx.a(sphinx.o)
Then use the following configure parameters (you can change prefix, of course):
CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I/opt/local/include" \ LIBS="$LIBS -L/opt/local/lib" \ ./configure --with-mysql=/opt/local/lib/mysql5/ \ --prefix=/opt/sphinx-0.9.9-rc1
After that, make and make install as usual.
P.S. I didn't try it with system iconv, only with libiconv from ports, as I already had it installed.
Saturday, December 6, 2008
do { } while(0)
I was reading about hash tables organization this morning and checked how Ruby implements its internal symbol table. Investigating Ruby 1.9 source code I found st.c — general purpose hash table package by Peter Moore. The code is pretty clear, all standard hash table operations, some Ruby-specific preprocessor directives. And a couple of interesting things I didn't encounter before.
Some hash table operations in st.c, like finding and adding the entry, are defined as macros, not functions (probably to avoid function call overhead):
do {\ st_table_entry *entry, *head;\ if (table->num_entries/(table->num_bins) > ST_DEFAULT_MAX_DENSITY) {\ rehash(table);\ bin_pos = hash_val % table->num_bins;\ }\ \ entry = alloc(st_table_entry);\ \ entry->hash = hash_val;\ entry->key = key;\ entry->record = value;\ entry->next = table->bins[bin_pos];\ if ((head = table->head) != 0) {\ entry->fore = head;\ (entry->back = head->back)->fore = entry;\ head->back = entry;\ }\ else {\ table->head = entry->fore = entry->back = entry;\ }\ table->bins[bin_pos] = entry;\ table->num_entries++;\ } while (0)
So far so good, hash value modulo number of bins gives us fine distribution over bins and each bin is organized as a linked list. But what is that do { ... } while(0); thing? Looks strange from the first sight: the code will be executed only once, why not just disclose it in { .. } block or leave as is?
Fortunately I found very good explanation of this preprocessor trick in this FAQ entry. When this macro is substituted literally by preprocessor, it behaves like a code atom:
if (something) do { ... } while(0); /* Simple {...} block would conflict with the following else here */ else do_something();
do {...} while(0); construction not only creates a scope for local variables but also can be used everywhere as a single statement, without explicit { ... } around it. Nice technique!
Monday, November 17, 2008
Small surprise from Git 1.6
After installing Git 18.104.22.168 on my Leopard box I noticed that lots of git-* executables are finally gone in a favor of the single git binary. I like it, as I never liked qmail style of having a separate executable for every operation. By the way, if you're on Mac don't forget turning on bash_completion variant for git-core:
sudo port install git-core +doc +bash_completion
Also set up aliases (git st really saves your fingers), colors and personal data:
git config --global alias.st status git config --global alias.ci commit git config --global alias.co checkout git config --global alias.br branch git config --global color.ui auto git config --global user.name "Your name" git config --global user.email firstname.lastname@example.com
Finally, some .bash_profile goodness to track branch in bash prompt (and add colors):
PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\h\[\033[01;34m\] \w\[\033[31m\]$(__git_ps1 "(%s)") \[\033[01;34m\]$\[\033[00m\] '
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Rails and Amazon EC2
While we were planning the launch of CookEatShare, a question of the good Rails hosting was heavily discussed. We've been considering MediaTemple, Amazon EC2 and a couple of other solutions (hard to remember right now, potentially Slicehost). Finally we chose EC2.
So after I have a lot of experience deploying to EC2, let's try to answer the question: is Amazon EC2 good for Rails applications?
Ok, first let's see what EC2 is. The official definition is "a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers." But what does that mean to the application maintainer?
Generally, it's an AWS (Amazon Web Services) account with a couple of associated keys that allow you launch and shut down the instances. You can treat an instance as a physical box with given characteristics with one nuance: if your instance fails (or you terminate it manually) all your data is lost. That is why EC2 is positioned and used more like the platform for streamlined tasks such as video processing or distributed calculations. It may not sound appropriate for the web application, but let's turn to the bright side.
As an advantage, that non-persistence teaches the discipline. When you know that your data will be lost if (I would even say 'when', not 'if') something goes wrong, you'll definitely have backups. And you'll pay more attention to a deployment scheme, especially to ease adding instances later (We didn't scale to the second instance yet but can't wait to try!). And it's fun to have the Capistrano task that builds nginx from source and compiles fair proxy balancer in!
To guard the sensitive data (database, user-uploaded content in case you don't store it on S3), Amazon EBS service can be useful. It's just a block device that can be attached to the instance and mounted as a usual partition. It's persistent and pretty robust, but since we started to use EBS our MySQL server started to behave strangely from time to time. Whether this is Amazon problem or some bug in our configuration, I still don't know. Anyway, I keep trying to fix it.
Instances are pretty stable: previous one worked for almost a year with one hangup that was solved with rebooting) until I manually terminated it after moving to a new one (due deployment change and distribution upgrade).
Disadvantages are not very numerous so far: email rejecting problem (see below), strange EBS behavior with MySQL (again, the real source is still unknown), more effort required to organize the deployment, not all Linux distributions are officially supported, that's all I can remember right now.
So, EC2 can be decent platform for the Rails application deployment. Yet I wouldn't recommend it unless you back it up with the application restore scheme that will allow to operate quickly in case of the instance failure.
Useful facts:
- if you reboot an instance, the data won't be lost, only the termination leads to the data loss;
- keeping configuration files (like app server settings, mysql configs, mail server settings) in the application itself is a very good idea. Especially if you need to launch another instance quickly;
- sending out email from EC2 can be tricky: most servers will reject your email because of blacklisted IPs. This excellent article really helped me set up our mail infrastructure;
- it's better to start with Elastic IP to make moving from instance to instance seamless, otherwise you will be assigned a dynamic IP that cannot be transferred to another instance.
EC2 solutions:
- Ubuntu images for EC2 — probably the best Ubuntu AMIs available;
- EC2 on Rails — very good deployment solution, my own deployment plugin was heavily inspired by this work;
- Rubber, another decent alternative, it was tricky to follow and I don't need multi-instance setup at the moment, yet it's very interesting;
- Deployer — my own small solution extracted from CookEatShare. It's not general and I doubt that it works out of the box on the arbitrary instance but I am going to put some care into this product in the future, please fork it if you want to use it and make improvements.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Turning off email delivery for test users
For some reasons I happen to like a mail server configuration. Maybe it's just with Postfix, I didn't try anything else for ages. This is why the following task seemed interesting to me.
Let's say we have two sites: first a beta with latest features under testing and second is the production one. We don't want our e-mails to be sent on the beta except for some users who test the site. But we can't just remove other users because the good infrastructure is critical for the beta site (and it's fun to test with a recent copy of the production data). One good approach is to change the users' emails to point somewhere like email@example.com thus guaranteeing that those emails won't be delivered to the real person. But we can actually go further by telling Postfix to discard all messages for email@example.com without even trying to deliver them.
It's easy to do with header checks. So, here's a little snippet:
In /etc/postfix/main.cf:
header_checks = pcre:/etc/postfix/header_checks
In /etc/postfix/header_checks:
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I am greatly enthralled by each of our ability to search for and find substantial documents on the internet, which one may ascertain some insight into the reason behind why Allegany and Washington counties retain a 20 percent childhood poverty rate, roughly the same as Baltimore City.
Citation 1: Few places in Maryland are left with mass development with much involving state or federal highway funding, however, the counties and cities which do all have private and corporate economic development that matches our nation's current boom all have lower taxes to some degree, than both Allegany and Washington County.
Citation 2: We should all be familiar by now with a trip or seven up to beautiful Deep Creek Lake for a long summer swim, or the even a thrilling Wisp ski resort for a cool getaway. Well, what these booming businesses in the surrounding area don't have in common with Cumberland, isn't the lake or even necessarily the ski resort. The main difference, even though only by a small amount, is that the district taxes for utilities are almost twice as low as Cumberland's.
Most shocking to me was Washington County, along with Garrett and Allegany counties are similarly taxed to the same degree, while Frederick county remains at a 6 percent childhood poverty rate, the fact is they too have an even lower district taxation rate than Cumberland.
So long as we maintain a local tax rate at a percentage higher than most other places in Maryland, where the average income level is double that of Allegany county, and so long as we keep businesses and corporations out of having even a leveraged take off, it is my opinion that we will never see an economic boom or the population growth we need to keep up with the rest of the state or developing country.
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WTVR-TV reports that investigators have now uncovered more than 1,000 sexually explicit photos being shared on two Instagram accounts involving more than 100 teens.
So far, Albemarle, Fluvanna, Orange, Goochland, and Hanover counties are involved, but the investigation is continuing.
Investigators have seized nearly 24 cellphones in the investigation, the station reported.
"These pages weren't readily accessible to the public," Major Donald Lowe of the Louisa County Sheriff's Department told WTVR. "You had to know what page to go to, and then you had to contribute something in order to get the address to the second page that contained the images."
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James Risen and Laura Poitras, New York Times, N.S.A. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens.
FJP: The Onion evidently knew this all along. It just got the agencies wrong.
It's a fairly basic constitutional issue for the press, whether or not there is a reporter's privilege. It's something a lot of people outside the press don't really understand, don't really care about. I think the basic issue is whether you can have a democracy without aggressive investigative reporting and I don't believe you can. So that's why I'm fighting it.
James Risen, reporter, New York Times, in a talk at the National Press Club. 'Reporter's Privilege' Under Fire From Obama Administration Amid Broader War On Leaks.
Background: The Obama Justice Department continues its attempts to force Risen to testify against CIA agent Jeffrey Sterling by arguing that Reporters' Privilege does not exist when the information revealed is considered illegal.
In this case, the CIA's Sterling is charged with leaking classified information about a plot against the Iranian government that Risen then used in his book, State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration.
Via the Huffington Post:
While the Obama administration hasn't prosecuted those responsible for torture during the Bush years, it is taking a strong stand against a former official believed to have supplied information to the media about use of torture and other controversial tactics during the previous administration.
In January, the Justice Department charged former CIA officer John Kiriakou with disclosing classified information to the media; The FBI claims to have evidence linking him to a 2008 New York Times story detailing the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah.
In another notable case, the DOJ charged Thomas Drake under the Espionage Act, claiming the former National Security Agency official provided classified information of gross NSA mismanagement to a Baltimore Sun reporter. The government's case collapsed in 2011 and Drake pleaded guilty only to a misdemeanor.
The crackdown hasn't gone unnoticed among reporters, with tension recently spilling out into the White House briefing room after the administration praised Anthony Shadid and Marie Colvin, journalists who died while covering the bloody conflict in Syria.
Jake Tapper, the senior White House correspondent for ABC News, asked White House Press Secretary Jay Carney how public support of those journalists' work "square[s] with the fact that this administration has been so aggressively trying to stop aggressive journalism in the United States by using the Espionage Act to take whistleblowers to court."
"There just seems to be a disconnect here," Tapper added. "You want aggressive journalism abroad; you just don't want it in the United States."
A criminal trial subpoena is not a free pass for the government to rifle through a reporter's notebook
Leonie Brinkema, US Federal Judge. United States of America v. Jeffrey Alexander Sterling.
In a case involving an ex-CIA agent accused of revealing classified national security information, the US government tried to force New York Times reporter James Risen to reveal his sources for his 2006 book State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration (NPR review and excerpt).
Earlier this month Brinkema ruled Risen would not have to testify.
As explained by Charlie Savage in the New York Times:
The judge wrote that Mr. Risen was protected by a limited "reporter's privilege" under the First Amendment, meaning that prosecutors had to prove that there was a compelling need for the reporter's testimony and there that were no other means of obtaining the equivalent of that testimony. The government argued that such a privilege did not exist, but she recounted numerous other cases -– though none as high profile as the C.I.A. leak case -– in which other federal judges had invoked it.
This is an important victory for the First Amendment, and for the freedom of the press in the United States. Some people don't seem to understand the connection between the ability of journalists to protect their confidential sources and a free press. But if whistleblowers in government, in corporations, and elsewhere in society can be hounded and persecuted, and if the Justice Department is able to use its power to turn reporters into informants, then investigative journalism in America will surely wither and die. The First Amendment will have lost its meaning.
Email from the New York Times' James Risen to Salon's Glenn Greenwald.
On Friday, a judge ruled that Risen would not have to testify about the identity of a source during the trial of Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA official.
Sterling was arrested in January and is accused of leaking classified information to Risen.
Glenn Greenwald, Salon. Obama's whistleblower war suffers two defeats.
I take very seriously my obligations as a journalist when reporting about matters that may be classified or may implicate national security concerns. I do not always publish all information that I have, even if it is newsworthy and true. If I believe that the publication of the information would cause real harm to our national security, I will not publish a piece. I have found, however, that all too frequently, the government claims that publication of certain information will harm national security, when in reality, the government's real concern is about covering up its own wrongdoing or avoiding embarrassment…
…Any testimony I were to provide to the Government would compromise to a significant degree my ability to continue reporting as well as the ability of other journalists to do so. This is particularly true in my current line of work covering stories relating to national security, intelligence and terrorism. If I aided the Government in its effort to prosecute my confidential source(s) for providing information to me under terms of confidentiality, I would inevitably be compromising my own ability to gather news in the future. I also believe that I would be impeding all other reporters' ability to gather and report the news in the future.
James Risen, in an affidavit (PDF) asking a federal judge to dismiss the US government's attempts to get him to identify his confidential sources in the upcoming trial of Jeffrey Sterling, a CIA officer accused of leaking classified information.
Via Secrecy News.


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The White House says President Barack Obama will meet with House Speaker John Boehner later Thursday at the White House amid negotiations on the "fiscal cliff."
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ENID, Okla. —
Funeral for Zella Grizzle, 95, of Watonga, was held Monday, March 18, 2013, at Trinity Baptist Church, Watonga. Burial in I.O.O.F. Cemetery. Arrangements by Wilkinson Mortuary, Watonga.
Zella was born Feb. 22, 1918, in Hydro, Okla., to Oda Frances Tickle and Anna Alberta Farrell and died Friday, March 15, 2013.
She made Watonga her home for 65 years.
Surviving are sons, Odean Huiatt and wife Merrill of Hydro, and Arnold Huiatt and wife "Bert" of Watonga; seven grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.
Preceded by her husband, one son, and three siblings.