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In a report released Tuesday, Justice Department officials endorsed a pair of controversial bills favored by the entertainment industry that would criminalize passive sharing of copyrighted material through file-swapping programs and create tort liability for companies that induce copyright infringement by marketing products that facilitate the violations. The DOJ officials called file-sharing a "widespread" issue and have requested more agents, funding, and prosecutorial power to combat the problem. Following is an excerpt from the statement of Attorney General John Ashcroft announcing the recommendations:
Intellectual property theft is a clear danger to our economy and the health, safety, and security of the American people... The enforcement of our intellectual property laws is among the highest priorities of the Justice Department, and I created the Intellectual Property Task Force to explore ways for us to strengthen our protection of the nations valuable intellectual resources. With the recommendations put forward by the Task Force, the Department is prepared to build the strongest, most aggressive legal assault against intellectual property crime in our nations history.
With Democratic candidate John Kerry opening a recent lead in Pennsylvania according to recent polls, President Bush is making trial lawyers a target of his campaign in the battleground state. The Bush campaign is airing a series of television and radio spots beginning this weekend in the Philadelphia media that cite excessive damage awards and frivolous lawsuits as the reason for increases in medical malpractice premiums. Attorneys fired back Monday, accusing the president of using them as a scapegoat while pandering to corporate donors to his campaign in the insurance, health care and pharmaceuticals industries. The Legal Intelligencer has more. The Bush-Cheney campaign website outlines the trial lawyers ad now running in a press release. Watch a national version of the ad here.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced late Tuesday that it is seeking a $1.18 million fine against 169 Fox television stations over their alleged broadcast of indecent material during an April 2003 episode of the reality show "Married By America." The FCC voted 5-0 in favor of fining the stations $7,000 each after receiving 159 complaints about the broadcast. The agency cited depictions of vulgarity and sexual activity, including nudity, being aired at a time when many children were likely to be viewing. Fox denies that the scenes, which used pixilation to blur any nudity, were indecent. Read the FCC release [PDF] and the Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture [PDF] detailing the FCC's complaint. Reuters has more.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has filed a formal protest with the Federal Election Commission over plans by a major broadcast group to air a film next week criticizing presidential hopeful John Kerry's anti-war activism upon returning from active duty in Vietnam. Sinclair Broadcast Group has asked its 62 television stations to pre-empt regular programming next week in order to show the film, which accuses Sen. Kerry of betraying American POWs through his activism. Democrats allege that the broadcast is an improper use of the airwaves and an illegal in-kind contribution to the Bush-Cheney campaign. CNN has more. CNSNEWS.com reports on a statement by Federal Communications Commissioner Michael J. Copps Tuesday calling the Sinclair broadcast an "abuse of public trust" just days prior to the presidential election. The DNC has posted a response to the planned broadcast on its website.
In Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, a federal jury in Memphis has ordered Medtronic Inc. to pay $400 million in punitive damages to a Los Angeles surgeon for infringing patents covering spinal-implant products. Just last month, jurors awarded the same surgeon $159 million for Medtronic's violation of contracts covering the same product. Medtronic has a press release here. Bloomberg has more.In other news, a Delaware judge has delayed the trial involving a lawsuit brought by Walt Disney Co. shareholders which is seeking to recoup former company President Michael Ovitz's $140 million severance package. Disney shareholders asked for the delay to study newly discovered papers about Ovitz's tenure at Disney. AP has more.... As previously reported on JURIST's Paper Chase, Russia's Justice Ministry said Tuesday that it would sell off a subsidiary of Yukos to satisfy unmet claims for back taxes owed by the mammoth Russian oil company. The Russia Journal has continuing coverage of Yukos' court battles. AP has more.... The SEC is mulling new rules to require corporations to disclose its executives' retirement package and other compensation. CBS MarketWatch has more.... Chiron Corp. announced a federal grand jury is investigating the company relating to its failure to deliver flu vaccines because regulators did not consider it safe. Read Chiron's written testimony to a Government Reform Committee on the flu vaccine shortage here [PDF]. Reuters has more.... As previously reported on JURIST's Paper Chase, the Department of Justice has opened a probe into mortgage giant Fannie Mae to determine whether the company broke accounting rules to smooth earnings and boost executive bonuses. The investigation is in relation to a OFHEO report. Read the report here [PDF]. AP has more.... Amkor Technology Inc., a contract assembler and tester of semiconductor packages, announced the SEC is conducting an informal inquiry into insider trading in its securities. Read the Amkor press release disclosing the informal investigation here. The Philadelphia Business Journal has more.... US Airways reached an agreement with its lenders to extend financing which will allow the airline to fly through mid-January 2005. Reuters has more.
Speaking at a news conference Tuesday in Riyadh, Saudi Prince Mansour, head of his country's election committee, announced that Saudi women would not be permitted to run or vote in next year's round of nationwide municipal elections. He insisted that this was not a ban, but rather a problem of inadequate time for making requisite electoral changes for 178 councils under a new law that did not not specifically exclude women. Read the Saudi Press Agency report of the news conference here, continued here. AP has more. US Secretary of State Colin Powell, who has pressed for democratization of the Saudi political process, accepted the announcement for the time being as a choice the Saudi government itself had to make, and observed it was "novel that the Saudis are having elections in the first place", but he told Arab TV Tuesday that "These things have to come in due course and (we are) still waiting to see whether that is the final official position of the Saudi government." Review the full transcript of Powell's interview here. AFP has more.
Mortgage giant Fannie Mae announced Tuesday that the Department of Justice is investigating whether it broke accounting rules to smooth earnings and boost executive bonuses. The US Attorney for the District of Columbia has asked the company to save documents related to the accounting abuses. The SEC opened a probe into the company last month. Fannie Mae also announced eight separate lawsuits have been brought against the company in US District Court for the District of Columbia and the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. The cases will likely be consolidated into a securities class action suit. The problems at Fannie Mae began when the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) issued a report that stated the company was using faulty accounting. Read the OFHEO report on Fannie Mae here [PDF]. Reuters has more.
The US Supreme Court heard two cases Tuesday on the issue of whether the US government can send immigrants back to countries that have not agreed to accept them, a matter of considerable concern since the events of September 11. Jama v. INS (summary from Duke Law School) involved a Somali refugee who does not dispute the deportation but instead is arguing he should not be sent to a lawless country which is in no position to take him back. A federal judge has stayed all deportations of Somalis pending this decision. Read the opinion of the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit here. The Court also heard arguments in Leocal v. Ashcroft (summary from Duke Law School), the case of a Haitian man fighting deportation after pleading guilty to a felony charge of drunk driving. The issue here is whether a felony of drunk driving is a "crime of violence" which allows the government to begin deportation proceedings. Read the ACLU amicus brief here [PDF]. AP has more.
The Federal Trade Commission announced at a press conference Tuesday that it has launched its first court action against a manufacturer of spyware, software that is downloaded off the Internet to a user's computer without his or her permission and then "spys" on their surfing habits. A FTC press release issued in conjunction with the press conference says that since December 2003 Seismic Entertainment Productions, Inc., Smartbot.Net, and Sanford Wallace had operated Web sites that distributing spyware, installing it on user machines and then inducing users to but software purporting to eliminate it, an unfair practice in violation of the FTC Act. Read the full FTC complaint filed Thursday here [PDF].
Russia's Justice Ministry said Tuesday that it would sell off a subsidiary of Yukos Oil to satisfy unmet claims for back taxes owed by the mammoth Russian oil company. As previously reported on JURIST's Paper Chase, a Moscow court ruled Monday that Yukos owed the state almost $1.34 billion in fines connected to unpaid taxes from 2001 alone; its total debt is said to be over $3.7 billion. The value of the subsidiary to be sold has been set at just over $10 billion, somewhat less than previous estimates. Yukos has been under a legal cloud ever since its erstwhile CEO, pro-opposition Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was arrested last year for fraud and tax evasion. From Moscow, Mosnews.com has more in English.
The newly re-elected conservative government of Australian Prime Minister John Howard indicated Tuesday that it would use its greater control over the Australian Senate to secure passage of tougher anti-terrorism legislation that would allow surveillance of emails and text messages and would protect sensitive national security information in terror-related court cases. The Howard government had campaigned on its commitment to counter-terrorism initiatives, noting in its election platform [PDF] that
Since 11 September 2001, Australia has been at war with international terrorism. On 12 October 2002, the Bali bombing confirmed that Australians and our way of life are targets for terrorists. Al Qaida, Jemaah Islamiya and other groups retain the ability to stage further attacks. Under John Howards leadership, Australias counter-terrorism response has been swift, comprehensive and decisive.
International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohammad ElBaradei has told UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan that satellite images of Iraq show that equipment and materials that could be used in the manufacture of nuclear weapons have disappeared from that country and can no longer be monitored for compliance with international proliferation standards. In a letter dated October 1 but only released online Tuesday, ElBaradei wrote that
The IAEA continues to be concerned about the widespread and apparently systematic dismantlement that has taken place at sites previously relevant to Iraqs nuclear programme and sites previously subject to ongoing monitoring and verification. The [satellite] imagery shows in many instances the dismantlement of entire buildings that housed high precision equipment (such as flow forming, milling and turning machines; electron beam welders; coordinate measurement machines) formerly monitored and tagged with IAEA seals, as well as the removal of equipment and materials (such as highstrength aluminium) from open storage areas.
In addition to granting certiorari in two Ten Commandments cases (as reported earlier on JURIST's Paper Chase), the US Supreme Court Tuesday also agreed to hear Lingle v. Chevron, a case involving legislation in Hawaii aimed at reducing the price of gas. Chevron USA challenged the 1997 law, alleging that it was an unconstitutional taking because it limited the amounts oil companies could lease gas stations for and prevented oil companies from taking over the stations. The case was decided in April by the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled in favor of Chevron. View the 9th Circuit's opinion here [PDF]. Georgetown's Environmental Law & Policy Institute has filings in the case, as well as more on the takings clause. AP has more.Also this morning, the Court granted cert. in five other cases. The Court consolidated two cases, Exxon Corp. v. Allapattah Services, Inc. and Ortega v. Star-Kist Foods, Inc., both of which deal with federal court jurisdiction, one in federal-question cases and the other in class-action cases. AP has more. In Cutter v. Wilkinson, the Court will consider whether a federal law allowing inmates to practice religious beliefs is constitutional. AP has more. The Court denied petitions for certiorari in several high-profile cases, including three that sought to uphold federal regulations forcing regional phone carriers to allow competitors access to networks at reduced rates. The cases were brought by AT&T, MCI and a state utility group. AP has more. The Court similarly refused to hear a case over whether Internet service providers can be required to turn over names of file sharers to the recording industry. In Verizon Internet Services v. Recording Industry Association of America [PDF], the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the Digital Millenium Copyright Act must be expanded by Congress to cover file sharers before their identity can be obtained by the recording industry. AP has more. Finally, the Court also refused to hear Flynt v. Rumsfeld, in which DC Circuit had ruled that the Defense Department did not have to provide media access to battlefields during conflict. AP has more.View the complete Supreme Court Order List [PDF].
AP is reporting that the Supreme Court has taken a case on the constitutionality of Ten Commandments displays on government land and buildings.UPDATE: The justices will consider two cases, one on the constitutionality of a Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of the Texas state Capitol (Orden v. Perry, US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, November 2003; PDF), and the other on the posting of the Ten Commandments in courthouses in Kentucky (ACLU of Kentucky v. McCreary County, US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, Decemebr 2003; read a press release by Liberty Counsel, representing three Kentucky counties). AP has more.UPDATE-2: The Supreme Court's complete order list can be viewed here [PDF].
At least 11 al-Qaeda suspects have "disappeared" while in US custody, according to a report issued Tuesday by the monitoring group Human Rights Watch. The suspects, including Khalid Shaikh Muhammed, the alleged principal architect of September 11; Abu Zubayda, said to be a close aide of Osama bin Laden; and Ramzi bin al-Shibh, who might have been one of the 9/11 hijackers apart form his failure to get a US visa, are all being held incommunicado at secret locations contrary to the terms of the Geneva Conventions, which require that the Red Cross have access to all detainees and that their relatives be informed of their whereabouts. HRW also says some suspects have reportedly been tortured. "Disappearances" have historically been associated with the detentions, abuse and killings of political prisoners in Latin America. Read the HRW report The United States Disappeared: The CIAs Long-Term Ghost Detainees.
The President-designate of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, has defended his nominated team of incoming commissioners after an EU parliamentary review panel Monday took the unusual step of rejecting Justice portfolio nominee Rocco Buttiglione, a Roman Catholic who told the panel in testimony last week that he believed homosexuality was a sin (see yesterday's report in JURIST's Paper Chase). The panel's rejection of Buttiglione is not binding, but President-designate Barraso insisted on his confidence in his entire team of 25, and said he would await the views of the full EU parliament when it meets on October 21. BBC News has more.
The trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague resumed Tuesday after a month-long suspension, granted after British lawyers appointed to represent Milosevic after he was deemed too ill to properly represent himself any longer requested more time to prepare their defense. The first defense witness to take the stand after the resumption of proceedings was a German journalist, Franz-Josef Hutsch, who worked as a war correspondent in Kosovo and who claims that US Army consultants MPRRI deployed Mujahaddin Arab mercenaries in Bosnia in 1998. Radio B92 in Belgrade reports that most of the hundred potential defense witnesses contacted by the Tribunal so far have refused to give evidence. Milosevic's British defense team also has an appeal pending with the Tribunal against their appointment, on the basis that Milosevic is not co-operating with them. BBC News has more.
Reuters is reporting that a grand jury has subpoenaed flu vaccine manufacturer Chiron for information about its vaccine, production of which at a British facilty was stopped last week by UK regulators. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the production stoppage has cut US flu vaccine supplies almost in half, creating a nationwide shortage. Read Chiron's October 5 press release on the production stoppage, and the CDC statement on the US shortage here.UPDATE: USA Today has more.
Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Tuesday, October 12.The US Supreme Court will hear 10 AM ET oral arguments in Leocal v. Ashcroft (case summary from Duke Law School), where the Court will decide whether DUI with serious bodily injury is a "crime of violence" that constitutes an "aggravated felony" under the Immigration and Nationality Act. The ABA provides merit briefs filed in the case. The Court will also hear arguments this morning in Jama v. INS (case summary from Duke Law School), where it will decide whether the Attorney General can remove an alien to a designated "additional removal country" under 8 USC §1231(b)(2)(E) without obtaining the country's acceptance of the alien prior to removal. The ABA provides merit briefs filed in the case. AP has more.The Federal Trade Commission will hold an 11 AM ET press conference to announce a law enforcement action targeting "spyware." Watch a live webcast (via C-SPAN).The fall meeting of the ABA's International Law Section begins in Houston today. Read the agenda for the conference on the Future of the Americas - The Next Ten Years. Topics include trade and investment, dispute resolution, corporate mergers and finance and public international law.The trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic resumes at 9 AM local time today at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague. The trial had been adjourned to allow court-appointed defense council to prepare the defense case. Watch a webcast beginning at 9:30 AM local time (3:30 AM ET); for witness protection, the webcast is on a 30-minute tape delay. The ICTY has background on the case. Also today at the ICTY, former Bosnian Serb army commander Ljubisa Beara will make his initial appearance before the court at 3 PM local time. Watch a webcast beginning at 3:30 (9:30 AM ET); for witness protection, the webcast is on a 30-minute tape delay. Read Beara's indictment and background on the case.At the United Nations, the Security Council will meet at 10 AM ET to discuss the situation in Afghanistan. The General Assembly will meet at 3 PM ET to resume discussion on the Security Council's report on the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council.
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Thule AeroBlade Bars - 53" - Pair
Reducing noise and lowering drag, the new Thule AeroBlade 53 in. load bars work with the rest of your Thule system to haul your gear safely, securely and quietly to your destination. See details
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Reducing noise and lowering drag, the new Thule AeroBlade 53 in. load bars work with the rest of your Thule system to haul your gear safely, securely and quietly to your destination.
Reducing noise and lowering drag, the new Thule AeroBlade 53 in. load bars work with the rest of your Thule system to haul your gear safely, securely and quietly to your destination.
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Reducing noise and lowering drag, the new Thule AeroBlade 53 in. load bars work with the rest of your Thule system to haul your gear safely, securely and quietly to your destination.
- Aluminum bars feature a textured cover that diffuses airflow better than a smooth surface, greatly reducing wind noise
- Bars also feature SwingBlade™ end caps that pivot open allowing full access to the T-slot for easy accessory installation
- Another smart feature of the bars, the SmartSlide™ system is a tape-measure-free, hassle-free molded measurement system on the underbar for easy foot installation
- Using a vertical load test, the AeroBlade bars can sustain over 800 lbs. of force
- Thule AeroBlade bars work with all of the Thule Rapid Foot Packs and are just 1 component of a Thule car top rack system
- These load bars are available in 4 different sizes, so be sure to refer to Thule's Fit Guide for the minimum size recommended for a specific vehicle
Please note: Thule products cannot be shipped to Canadian addresses.
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Compared to standard Thule load bars, these are amazingly advanced - both serve a purpose, but these are the future of roof transportation. Stiff and versatile, these bars can carry all that you might want without adding much weight or noise, or losing much in aerodynamics (aka your gas mileage).
First off, installation is not as easy as it should be. If you're familiar with the instructions from that Swedish furniture company with the blue and yellow logo, it shouldn't surprise you that this other Swedish company follows a similar approach (sans the universal hex key). Because the instructions were meant for several applications at once, it is sometimes hard to decipher what you need from what is presented. My recommendation is to review the many installation videos available online, they are very helpful. Either way, with a bit of extra time, you'll eventually get there.
Once you figure out what to do, it's very apparent why these bars are so advanced. The built-in measuring guide for fitting to your vehicle, the twistable end caps for adding or removing various carriers on the fly, the aerodynamic rubber stripping on top and below the bars, and just the basic shape itself, all show a great attention to detail.
The only issue with the bars is the use of various carriers with them, because most require the use of adapters to slide onto the hidden rails. When you do this, you also have to cut the aerodynamic stripping in order to allow the adapter bolts to protrude. So, if you remove the carrier, you expose gaps in the stripping that create wind noise and just look odd. I suppose an alternative would be to just cut holes and use grommets, or buy another set of strips to use, when no carriers are present. I have opted for carriers that work with factory racks and clamp onto the AeroBlade bars without alteration, but I hope that more carriers will be created in the future that use the same approach so as to avoid altering the bars.
In the end, I believe these AeroBlade bars look far better on vehicles, and are worth the extra price. Plus, you'd have to buy the (expensive) faring to achieve similar aerodynamic properties from other square or round bars. If you take a bit of time at the start to learn how to install them properly, and pay attention to how other carriers attach to them (depending on your need to add or remove them), it will be worth it.
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These bars are quality.
As the other reviewer stated, the instructions are not the best. That barely impacts my review.
I use the bars with a 480 Traverse foot pack for bike carriers. They have worked flawlessly thusfar.
The bars do not generate much noise or drag at all. After thorougly researching the options on the market, I was expecting some noise and fuel effeciency loss. To my surprise I really haven't noticed either.
Yakima's Whispbar has a protional "wind tunnel" video where they make Thule's Aeroblade seem like a noisy load bar. Don't be fooled by the marketing. These bars, when mounted on and actual car are very quiet and well engineered.
I like the T-slot mounting option and the overall appearance and performance of these bars.
I'm not impressed with the need to cut the rubber strip in order to utilize the T-slot. I chose to cut small holes in the strip instead of cutting the strip completely. Doing so enables me to avoid exposing a gap in the strip when an accessory (mounted into the T-slot via an X-adapter) is removed.
Don't hesitate to pull the trigger on these load bars. You won't be disappointed.
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The AeroBlades are great, but the installation instructions (which actually come with the 'Fit Kit') are borderline useless. Almost no text, just pictures. They cover a variety of products making it difficult to filter out the majority of information that has no application for YOUR installation. I can't promise anything, but I'd bet the Yakima instructions are better, perhaps something gets lost in the translation from Swedish? I don't think there's much difference (quality/functionality, etc) between these and the yakima Whispbar products, if I had a do-over I'd buy yakima simply based on my installation experience.
Once on the blades are installed however they are very secure and silent, only a slight whistle (which might be the bike rack I have attached to it). Much improved over the square/circle tubes I had on a previous vehicle, no plastic windscreen needed w/these...
Just a heads up, I purchased the Thule 594XT Sidearm bike rack to mount on this. The thule website said it fit, which it did, but the metal connectors/bushings were definitely shaped for a circular/square tube, not the 'AeroBlade' style. I got them on, but I have concerns about long term use. I foresee rubbing of metal to metal which is going to cause premature wear and rust. I think Thule rushed this product to market.
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Mr. and Mrs. Paul Danko celebrated their 50th anniversary with a renewal of their wedding vows at St. Peter and Paul Byzantine Catholic Parish, officiated by the Very Rev. Andrew J. Deshevich.
A reception, hosted by the couple's children, was held at Buena Vista Cafe for family and friends.
Paul and Nancy were married Oct. 27, 1962, at Immaculate Heart of Mary in Cleveland.
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They have three children, Dr. Paul Jr. (Jenny) of Vermillion, Kelly (Mike) Bell of Howland and Patrick (Kristin) of Simpsonville, S.C. They also have 11 grandchildren.
Paul retired from Trumbull County Children's Services after 15 years of employment. Nancy retired as secretary from Mike Bell Appraisals.


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Growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Micah Fitzerman-Blue says he tended to feel "token-ish" as the only Jew in his small Episcopalian school and the son of a Conservative rabbi.
"I was the kid who would have to bring the kosher hot dog to baseball barbecues," says the 30-year-old screenwriter, wearing speckled glasses during an interview at the ROI conference in Jerusalem this summer.
When he left home for Harvard, Fitzerman-Blue says he felt like he had something to prove, worrying that his fellow students would judge him for being from a less thriving metropolis.
"I think growing up in counter distinction to the community around you galvanizes your values," he says. "It hardens your convictions and it gives you a chip on your shoulder. It gives you something to prove."
And he still has something to prove.
"It turns out maybe it wasn't my hometown," he jokes. "It was just my disposition."
Both in his professional life and Jewish life, Fitzerman- Blue is carving out a place for himself, whether it's alongside Dakota Fanning or his collective of Jews in Los Angeles' East Side.
He most recently wrote the screenplay for Willy Vlautin's 2006 novel The Motel Life, starring Emile Hirsch, Fanning and Kris Kristopherson, slated for premiere later this year.
The small production, shot in Reno, Nevada, tells the story of two brothers who leave town after being involved in a fatal accident. It's Fitzerman-Blue's first feature film since moving to Los Angeles in 2006 and scoring a creative development deal at Fox TV Studios.
"On a film of that size you're trying really hard to make your days," he says, explaining that as the director tries to get all the shots he needs, the writer steps up to shorten or lengthen a scene depending on how production is proceeding. "You're on hand to help solve those logic problems and to execute that."
When Fanning was cast, he says he and co-writer Noah Harpster fleshed out her role. He also wrote The Last Meal (2008), a dark, 13-minute short about a couple caught in a diner that serves the last meals eaten by the likes of Aileen Wournos and Timothy McVeigh.
Fitzerman-Blue runs 5432 Films, a media production company focused on online content.
"The thing I love most that is written are movies," he says. "I like people, and screenwriting is one of the ways that you can write and collaborate with people. It can be a very lonely existence... I like that when you're making [a film] you're sort of creating a little village and you're doing it all together."
But he attended the ROI conference not for his film career, rather to strengthen his blossoming side project, East Side Jews, an upstart, non-denominational collective for Jews living in Los Angeles' East Side. Drawing between 100 and 200 people per event, the group gets together for programs like Rosh Hodesh text study and facials at a Korean spa and stand-up comedy and Chinese food on Christmas at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs.
"The reality is we'd be hanging out already," says Fitzerman-Blue of the originally programmed events he and his cohort plan. "We just make a flyer for it." The eye-catching flyers are artistically punk.
The events are one part ritual, one part cool, like Sacred/Saucy, an evening of havdalah, tacos and beer for $10, or a food-themed event in which the group learned about kashrut from a shochet, and then ate dinner.
Along with his so-called "brain trust," a group of 10 or so volunteers, Fitzerman-Blue plans the events, which he says are always over-attended, as the brain trust thinks 50 will show up and ends up with an average of 100. "It's a good problem to have," he says.
East Los Angeles used to be the center of the city's Jewish community, but over time it migrated west, he says. Those neighborhoods, like Los Feliz and Silver Lake, are once again "brimming with people who are enthusiastic about building a community around them and also a community in their image that reflects their values of creativity, of irreverence, of a little subversiveness and of authenticity."
The group especially enjoys celebrating those lesser known Jewish holidays like Lag Ba'omer, the 17th of Tammuz and the sixth day of Hanukka.
"We're trying to plan events that we would want to go to that reflect Judaism we want to look like," he says.
Fitzerman-Blue lives with his wife, Liba Rubenstein, a Brooklyn native, daughter of two rabbis – one Reconstructionist and one Reform – and Tumblr's outreach director, in Silver Lake, "right in the heart of it."
Fitzerman-Blue is careful that his group's programming doesn't look too professional or marketed.
That would be a turn-off not only to him, but to the crowd he's trying to attract. And he's not trying to compete with synagogues, though 2011's Down to the River: A High Holidays Transformative Experience at the LA River, also included the tashlich ritual of casting away one's sins into running water, live music and food.
"We're doing what we want to do," he says. "And we want people who would otherwise be unavailable to come to our events."
From the workshops and networking with other Jews running their own organizations at ROI, Fitzerman- Blue says he looks forward to refining East Side Jews' programming, but not messing with the rag-tag havurah's original recipe.
"It's important to us not to change what we're doing too drastically. There's a risk in this sort of environment where people really are market based. They're going about this with a high degree of professional acumen. All I know is what we have feels authentic and I would not want to change that. I think if it feels too professional you can tell."
ROI isn't Fitzerman-Blue's first Jewish conference. As a teen, he participated in the Bronfman Youth Fellowship in Israel (where he first met his future wife), and he attended a Reboot conference, an organization founded in 2002 for Jewish culture creatives and innovators to generate projects that influence their secular and Jewish worlds.
"I feel like a junkie," he says. "I feel like I should get a badge. Or at least a free sandwich."
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MALONE — Tricia LaValley and Jane Robinson won awards at this year's New York State Conservation District Employees Association (NYSCDEA) Annual Meeting held in Auburn on March 15.
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Mahan, who won the Match Play Championship in February, is the first two-time champion on the PGA Tour this year. The victory moved Mahan up to No. 4 in the world rankings, the first time he's ever been the highest-ranked American.
Pettersson (71) finished with eight pars for his second runner-up finish this year. Third-round leader Louis Oosthuizen (75) was another shot back at 14 under.
Mahan began the day two shots behind Oosthuizen, who lost the lead with two double bogeys on his front nine.
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Native name | Orchestre symphonique de Montréal |
Former name | Les Concerts Symphoniques |
Founded | 1935 |
Location | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Concert hall | Montreal Symphony House |
Principal conductor | Kent Nagano |
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Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM; informally, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra) is a symphony orchestra based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its home is the Montreal Symphony House at Place des Arts, which opened on September 7, 2011.
There have been a number of organizations with this name, including one formed in 1897, which lasted ten years, and another formed in 1930, which lasted eleven. The current ensemble, however, traces its roots back to 1934; Wilfrid Pelletier formed an ensemble called Les Concerts Symphoniques which gave its first concert on 14 January 1935 under conductor Rosario Bourdon. The Orchestra acquired its current name in 1954. In the early 1960s, when the Orchestra was preparing to move to new facilities at Place des Arts, patron and prominent Montreal philanthropist, John Wilson McConnell, purchased the Laub-Petschnikoff Stradivarius violin of 1727 for Calvin Sieb, the Symphony's concertmaster.
Though it began touring and recording modestly in the 1960s and early 1970s under the batons of a young Zubin Mehta and Franz-Paul Decker, the OSM became a household name under the directorship of Charles Dutoit, who became music director in 1977 after the brief tenure and jolting departure of Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos. Dutoit struck up a friendship with a producer at London/Decca records named Ray Minshull, and a twenty-year collaboration was born.[1] Throughout much of the 1980s and 1990s, Dutoit and the OSM released many well-received recordings and embarked on tours of North America, Europe, Asia, and South America. Most notable among this vast discography are the recordings of the French repertoire, especially the music of Maurice Ravel.
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In recent years, the OSM has fallen on tough times. The London/Decca recordings ceased in the late 1990s as the entire recording industry was turned upside-down, and the international tours dried up soon afterward. Then, in 2002, the OSM suffered the abrupt resignation of Charles Dutoit as music director. History has a tendency to repeat itself, and Dutoit's departure, like that of his predecessor Fruhbeck a quarter of a century earlier, occurred due to a minor spat pitting the ego of the individual against the ego of the collective. Here, the resignation was ultimately the result of an inflammatory public letter written by the head of the Québec musicians' guild on behalf of the OSM's musicians. This letter, precipitated by Dutoit's decision to begin termination proceedings on two OSM musicians for artistic reasons, publicly aired years of bottled-up hostility, accusing Dutoit of being a tyrant and portraying the musicians as battered spouses.
In March 2003, the orchestra announced that Kent Nagano would be its new music director starting in 2006. He gave his first concert in Montreal as music director-designate on March 30, 2005. Later in 2005, the OSM's musicians went on strike for the second time in less than a decade. Unlike the 1998 strike, which lasted a mere three weeks and was resolved largely due to the personal relationship between Dutoit and Lucien Bouchard, then the premier of Quebec, this much more acrimonious work stoppage lasted five months, ending shortly before concerts to be conducted by Nagano.
The OSM and Charles Dutoit have received accolades for their numerous recordings, including the Grand Prix du Président de la République (France) and the Prix mondial du Disque de Montreux. The OSM won Grammy awards in 1996 for their recording of Hector Berlioz' Les Troyens and in 2000 for Sergei Prokofiev and Béla Bartók piano concerti with Martha Argerich on EMI, and additionally it has also won a number of Juno Awards and Felix Awards.
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- ^ Minshull, Ray (1999). The first OSM recordings (in brochure for Decca recording 289 458 605-2). Decca.
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SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing protocol) is a protocol that provides secure synchronous conferencing services (very much like IRC) over the Internet.[1]
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The SILC protocol can be divided in three main parts: SILC Key Exchange (SKE) protocol, SILC Authentication protocol and SILC Packet protocol. SILC protocol additionally defines SILC Commands that are used to manage the SILC session. SILC provides channels (groups), nicknames, private messages, and other common features. However, SILC nicknames, in contrast to many other protocols (e.g. IRC), are not unique; a user is able to use any nickname, even if one is already in use. The real identification in the protocol is performed by unique Client ID.[2] The SILC protocol uses this to overcome nickname collision, a problem present in many other protocols. All messages sent in a SILC network are binary, allowing them to contain any type of data, including text, video, audio, and other multimedia data. The SKE protocol is used to establish session key and other security parameters for protecting the SILC Packet protocol. The SKE itself is based on the Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm (a form of asymmetric cryptography) and the exchange is protected with digital signatures. The SILC Authentication protocol is performed after successful SKE protocol execution to authenticate a client and/or a server. The authentication may be based on passphrase or on digital signatures, and if successful gives access to the relevant SILC network. The SILC Packet protocol is intended to be a secure binary packet protocol, assuring that the content of each packet (consisting of a packet header and packet payload) is secured and authenticated. The packets are secured using algorithms based on symmetric cryptography and authenticated by using Message Authentication Code algorithm, HMAC.
SILC channels (groups) are protected by using symmetric channel keys. It is optionally possible to digitally sign all channel messages. It is also possible to protect messages with a privately generated channel key that has been previously agreed upon by channel members. Private messages between users in a SILC network are protected with session keys. It is, however, possible to execute SKE protocol between two users and use the generated key to protect private messages. Private messages may be optionally digitally signed. When messages are secured with key material generated with the SKE protocol or previously agreed upon key material (for example, passphrases) SILC provides security even when the SILC server may be compromised.
SILC was designed by Pekka Riikonen between 1996 and 1999 and first released in public in summer 2000.[3] A client and a server were written. Protocol specifications were proposed, but ultimately request for publication was denied in June 2004 by IESG[4] and no RFC has been published to date.
At present time, there are several clients, the most advanced being the official SILC client and an irssi plugin. SILC protocol is also integrated to the popular Pidgin instant messaging client. Other GUI clients are Silky and Colloquy. The Silky client was put on hold and abandoned on the 18th of July 2007, due to inactivity for several years.[5] The latest news on the Silky website was that the client was to be completely rewritten.
As of 2008, three SILC protocol implementations have been written.[6] Most SILC clients use libsilc, part of the SILC Toolkit. The SILC Toolkit is dual-licensed and distributed under both the GNU General Public License (GPL) and the revised BSD license.[7]
As described in the SILC FAQ, chats are secured through the generation of symmetric encryption keys. These keys have to be generated somewhere, and this occurs on the server. This means that chats might be compromised, if the server itself is compromised. This is just a version of the man-in-the-middle attack. The solution offered is that chat members generate their own public-private keypair for asymmetric encryption. The private key is shared only by the chat members, and this is done out of band. The public key is used to encrypt messages into the channel. This approach is still open to compromise, if one of the members of the chat should have their private key compromised, or if they should share the key with another, without agreement of the group.
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- Synchronous conferencing
- Comparison of instant messaging protocols
- Multiprotocol instant messaging application
- Public-key cryptography
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- The SILC Project
- Silky, GUI SILC client
- Silc Improved, minimalistic SILC client using FIFOs
- Kopete SILC Plugin
- Silsa, GUI SILC Client, part of Equinox Desktop Environment (EDE)


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