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Caught on tape.
Police in Cheverly, Md. are now recording every interaction they have with the public. And they're not using cameras mounted to the patrol cars.
Police Chief Buddy Robshaw purchased eight body cams that are now strapped to the officer's uniforms. They go everywhere the officers go.
The body cam has been a godsend for Traffic Enforcement Officer Francis Webb.
"I let the people I pull over know they're being recorded audibly and visibly," Webb says. "Their demeanor changes right away."
The new body cams cost about $900 each. Dash cams cost twice that much.
"The biggest reason we purchased them is that they go everywhere the officers go," says Chief Robshaw. "They're not tethered to the car like you would during traffic stops, for example. If the officer needs to get out during a stop, or go inside a home during a domestic, the camera goes too, and sees and hears everything the officer does."
Supervisors routinely go over the video captured, and so do the officers. It's made them much more aware of what they say to the public since it's all being recorded.
"The biggest complaint we get is how officers talk to people," says Chief Robshaw. "That's less likely to happen now. This has been a valuable training tool for us."
Besides the Cheverly Police Department, New Carrollton Police are also using the body cams. Video from one camera has already cleared one officer there, who was accused of making an ethnic slur while dealing with a citizen. They checked the tape and it didn't happen.
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I also tried a new Elmer's product on this project. It's not really new but it's new to me and I love it! This was a first time that I tried Elmer's Adhesive Spray. At first, I had my doubts that it would hold card stock to the tri-fold board but it is really strong. So strong in fact, that you need to work fast and try not to touch the sprayed surface. This adhesive spray would work great for paper crafts that need to be durable. I also wanted to use the Elmer's foam board because it's thick and durable and I would like this box to be more than just a gift box but also a keepsake or a storage box!
Supplies Needed:
Elmer's Tri-Fold Foam Board (choose a size for the box you want)
X-Acto knife
Ruler, pencil
Red cardstock
Elmer's Craft Bond Adhesive Spray
Elmer's Craft Bond All Purpose glue
Elmer's Designer Masking Tape
Cars Paperback Book (I got one at the Dollar store)
Silver paint
Letter and snowflake stencils
Red tissue paper and ribbon
1. Lay down the tri-fold foam board so that the folds are horizontal. Trace the cube box template and cut, where you supposed to cut, with the X-Acto knife. (PLEASE NOTE: some cuts will be all the way though but in the folds, make sure to do an outer cut only, on the opposite side of the fold, but NOT all the way though!)
2. Fold the box and glue the overlapping sides. Make sure not to glue the top cover of the box. Press each side with your hands and let dry for about 30 minutes.
3. Cut the red card stock into equal squares, the same size as the sides of the box. Using the Elmer's adhesive spray, glue on the card stock squares to the outer sides of the box. (NOTE: Adhesive spray is strong and smelly, use it in an open area and lay down a newspaper or something else under the project, to protect the table surface.)
4. Using the designer masking tape, cover all the corners and edges of the box.
5. I used my X-Acto knife to cut out Lightning McQueen and Mater from the book. Using the adhesive spray, glue the Cars cut-out to the sides of the box.
6. Using your stencils and silver paint, pain the snowflakes and letters on the box.
7. To make the tissue paper bow, cut the tissue paper in rectangles (I made them 6×3) and tie the ribbon in the center, like a bow. Gently, spread apart the tissue paper to form a poofy bow. Tie it to the top of the box.
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There are only 10 players still on the roster before this regime took over. But it didn't start here, it started with Cam Cameron. He traded our leading receiver Wes Welker to a division rival. He also traded our best receiver to K.C.,cut our starting TE Randy McMicheals. Just think what this regime could've done with some of that talent. They replaced them with Greg Camarillo,.Ted Ginn and David Martin. Who are no longer on the team. Ted Ginn got traded for a 5th round pick( there goes your speed receiver and return man). I didn't like this trade much. I thought he should've been given more time to develop. He deserved it just for beating the Jest the second game almost single handedly. Didn't mind the Camarillo trade that much,but we sure could've used him when BM got hurt. By the end of the year Sapp looked like he was a good trade for Cam. I didn't understand why they let Martin go. He could've been our second TE.
This season we cut Jason Allen our opening day starter at CB. We also put Will Allen on IR and from what I've read he won't be back.That leaves us with John Denney(pro-bowler this year),Y.Bell a pro-bowler last year.B.Feilds soon to be pro-bowler if he continues to play like he did this year,P.Cobbs a coaches favorite,P.Soliai a solid starter,V.Carey over paid under productive starter,C.Crower a often injured starter, but the defense seems to play well when he starts,Q.Moses solid backup,R.Williams and R.Brown both former pro-bowlers and both are free agents. With maybe only one of them coming back.
This year it could be more. We could lose Soliai to free agency,but I hope not. Could cut Carey and save some money,loss both Ricky and Ronnie,cut Moses for an upgrade and maybe offer Bell and Crowder in a trade package while they still have some value.That leaves Cobbs, as stated before a coaches favorite,Denney and Feilds both under contract and in the top 5 at their position.
I don't agree with every move this regime makes,but they put together a damn good defense. That should only get better with time.Using the draft V.Davis,S.Smith,K.Landford,K.Misi,C..Clemons and free agrency R.Starks,C.Wake,K.Danbys and T.McDaniels. On offense I like the B.Mashall trade and getting Bess as a free agent was priceless.. Hartline was also a good pick. he has potential. All in all a decent receiver corps.
Wasn't it B.Parcells who said if you want me to cook the meal I should at least shop for the groceries.So far like I what they're cooking. This is only they're third year and with all the changes they need a chance to get familiar with one another. We could be eating out of a bowl soon. A super one.


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I'm posting my experiences with this device, which I've recently bought for home, because at some stage we may consider one of the Synology devices as the successor to Rutabaga. Also the blog now substitutes almost entirely for my memory, so if I don't post this stuff here, I'll never remember what I did.
My drive was uninitialized, so the first thing to do was to create a volume. In this case, because I have only one drive, the only kind of volume I could create was a "Basic volume"; if you have more drives, you can create JBOD or RAID volumes of many kinds. My plan is to keep all my drives as separate volumes, and have them backing up to each other, so that I have lots of copies of data on standalone drives that I can pull out of the DS and mount elsewhere if necessary.
It takes a long time to create a volume; it formats the drive (ext3) completely, rather than using a "quick format", and presumably checks every sector. It then mounts the volume as "volume1".
While that was going on, I turned on SSH, and logged in from the terminal. Only the admin user can log in as SSH; my guess is that "users" (see below) are not real users on the BusyBox system it's running. I was able to determine that it's running BusyBox, and that the Ash shell you get is pretty limited in what it can do.
A new version of the firmware had been released since the CD I got with the device, so I downloaded it (a .pat file), and installed it through the web interface. Worked a treat. I got a couple of new features with it.
There's a web-based interface for file management called FileStation, which is handy if you need to upload a couple of files quickly, or look through the directories, but mainly I'll be mounting drives and using robocopy and rsync to back things up.
sudo apt-get install portmap nfs-common).
sudo mount 192.168.xxx.xxx/volume1/mholmes /home/mholmes/DiskStation/mholmes
\\DiskStation\volume1\whatever, in Windows explorer, and it prompts you for a login. It needed
DiskStation\[username] rather than just [username].
Lots more stuff to learn -- I have to set up the scheduled shutdown and startup (a wonderful feature), figure out which of the built-in apps I might want to use, and figure out how I can make it back up between its own drives (for which I need another drive, of course).
We have long struggled with the issue of how to provide easy access to data on the TAPoR servers for students and researchers working on projects. The ideal, especially for XML markup projects, is to have a TAPoR share mounted as a network drive; this enables oXygen to provide an easy project editing interface through "Link to external folders", and files can be opened and saved transparently on the server in this way. On Linux this is (naturally) easy. This is what I have learned from trying to do this for CC on her Mac and Windows laptops over the last two days:
All in all, very unsatisfactory. This precludes people working remotely on our project data unless they're relatively sophisticated and can use something like subversion, can be relied upon to use a client such as WinSCP or Cyberduck correctly, or are using Linux.
There are a couple of CANJAS lectures scheduled while I'm gone, and Dr. Iles will be handling the hardware. He asked me to write up a brief outline of what to do:
In the boardroom, the optimal location is at the window end of the room; the curtains are not sufficient to stop glare on the screen.
I generally need to get in to the room a bit ahead of schedule to move the table and chairs around to fit the VC equipment in to the space.
The boardroom is already sorted out, network wise, and should just work. That said, the network port is at the opposite end of the room from the best location for the VC equipment. There is a long network cable for this (the end of which is sticking out of a blue-grommeted hole in the bottom left side of the cart). I run it under the tables to keep it out of the way.
*** Networking note: If another node is dialing (cascade call from UofA or similar) in you'll need to know your IP address beforehand and give it to the dialer. If you dial out (make your own call to another node) your IP doesn't matter.
in the boardroom, you should be able to get away with a single microphone, but if you have a full house you might want to use two. I run the cable (sticking out of the same hole as the network cable) down the middle of the table (on the floor, running it up to the mic's location). Remember that the mic displays a green light when broadcasting and a red one when turned off. They can be manually turned on and off with the switch on each mic, or through the remote mute function.
*** Audio note: the mic cables plug in to the mic only one way. It's a bit like an S-Video cable in that it requires a delicate touch to attach. Take a close look at the cable end and the mic before trying to connect them.
The VC equipment is plugged in to the S-Video plug on the TV (which displays as "AV1" on the TV screen). Use the "Source" button on the TV remote to adjust the input.
The bigger VC box (on the right) has a power (toggle) switch that should already be on. When you plug in the cart and turn on the power on the VC remote (silver one) the camera should turn around a bit and settle in a forward position (away from the TV). If the TV is on the right input you should see a view of the room on the TV screen.
If the blue Sony IPELA screen is displaying on the TV, you'll notice in the lower middle section of the screen some info about the network connection. It should display an IP address here - if it doesn't, you don't have a connection. Fix this first!
To dial in to a node, use the IPELA remote and choose "Phone Book" in the top right of the main screen. When you click it, you get a new screen with about 6 big, cryptically titled, icons (Sony, Clare@UofA etc.). Look at the bottom left of the screen and you'll see the IP address that will get dialed if you choose one of the icons. (***Remember, if UofA is going to do a cascade call (dials you) you need to know your IP address and make sure the outside caller knows what it is.)
If you need a separate monitor for a Powerpoint presentation, you need to make sure that it's working ahead of time. I normally dial up UofA and ask to do a test to make sure everything is functional.
To connect things, put the small LCD monitor where you want it and connect the VGA extension cable to the one already on the monitor. The extension cable is already attached to the SONY box; you'll find the cable inside the cart.
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After hearing all this speculation about Jason Peters and the possibility of him seeking a new contract, I started to think "What is Jason Peters thinking?"
To start it off, he plays LT, and lines up right next to Derrick Dockery, who last year came in with a 7 year/$49 million dollar contract. So Peters, who went to the Pro Bowl had time to think all off-season about how he is one of the elite players at his position and he is making an average of $3 million a year which is 3-5 million a year less than what he deserves to make based on the market in today's NFL for a premier NFL LT. This is a natural human reaction. You are in a job, you do your job very well, respected by your peers, and yet a guy who does not do as well as a job, but has some more experience gets paid way more.
But to play devil's advocate, Jason Peters signed a deal that at the time for his experience was very fair. He knowingly signed a 5 year deal. Shouldn't he honor that contract? I think panic is setting in with the CBA up in the air, and Peters knowing that that ~$20-$30 million in guaranteed money is what he needs to feel financially comforted. I understand Peters position, if this is truly what he is feeling like. Again, I think it has more to do with what Dockery and to some extent Langston Walker are making, when Peters is the best OL on the team and should be compensated like he is. I would not be against the Bills standing firm for 2008. However if Peters does hold out, a deal has to be reached; because Peters is too critical to the success of the 2008 Buffalo Bills.


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does having tebow backing up buttfumble really make the jets better or worse?everything else aside,that's the question.
does having tebow backing up buttfumble really make the jets better or worse?everything else aside,that's the question.
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Tebow negatives:
- He's not nearly as old as the Jests previous backup QB, Mark Brunell.
- He's not afraid to throw deep.
- He obviously doesn't have a fragile ego.
- He's a leader who will do what it takes to win.
I love the idea of Tebow backing up buttfumble because it will guarantee a continuing soap opera in Dirty Jersey. buttfumble is a crappy starting QB who has been coddled from Day 1 and doesn't seem capable of standing up for himself. If Tebow wasn't such a lousy passer, he'd take Manhattan (well, East Rutherford) by storm, so while he's likely to oust buttfumble from the starting job after two or three games, he's not likely to get the Jests that many wins. That will undoubtedly raise the hopes and voices of the Sanchizites. Oh, the drama!
- He can't read defenses any better than buttfumble.
- His footwork, delivery, and accuracy suck.
- The Pats, Bills, and Chiefs figured him out last season, and the rest of the NFL will not be far behind.
- He comes with his own stalker congregation.
At least Woody Johnson will be happy that his Jests will have all the NYC area spotlights on them rather than on the boring, Super Bowl-winning Gnats.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. -- John F. Kennedy, January 20, 1961
Why did he pick the Jets, that's what im asking myself.............
Timmy is one the more predictable speakers out there. You have the usual tired cliches that all athletes use but then you add what I believe people are referring to as *humility and boom there you have Tebow addressing the media.Originally Posted by PhinzN703
*For those of you taking exception to my thinking Timmy is disingenuous; refer to how many times he uses 1st person pronouns after the Gators lost to Ole Miss in 2008 (Tebow's jr year).
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BOSTON (AP) - Gov. Deval Patrick said Wednesday that the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech in is a time to reflect on both the progress that has been made in bridging the country's racial divide, and also the challenges that still lie ahead.
Patrick, the state's first black governor, commemorated the anniversary by taking part in a bell-ringing ceremony at the Old South Meeting House. He also planned to participate in a concert on Boston's Charles River Esplanade celebrating the famous speech.
Patrick, who was only 7 when King delivered the speech on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., said the words delivered by the civil rights leader that day still speak to the American conscience.
"We have made extraordinary progress in the 50 years since that speech," Patrick told reporters. "And there are many, many examples and some of you and others will point to me and President Obama as a couple of those examples and that is absolutely undeniable."
But the governor cited the Trayvon Martin case in Florida and what he called "voter suppression" laws passed in some states as proof the country is still struggling with issues surrounding race.
"We have work to do, and we have work to do around issues that are expressly racial and issues that have their roots in historic discrimination," Patrick said.
Patrick does not remember whether he watched the "I Have a Dream" speech at the time, but does recall as a child seeing King speak in Chicago's south side, where the governor grew up.
"I don't remember a single word he said, but I remember what it felt like, I remember a feeling of being connected to all those people in that park, people like me of limited means but limitless hope," he said.
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Here at MHH, the end of the Joe Sacco era is a forgone conclusion. With David Quinn taking the BU job, the only promote from within candidates are Army and Chenowyth. Maybe, just maybe, the Avs might look outside for some coaching talent. Below you will find the coaching resumes of 5 experienced NHL head coaches who are not in the top job at the moment. Read them through, pick your favorite and vote in the poll. I will reveal identities tomorrow if you don't figure them out on your own.
Coach No. 1 - He spent 12 seasons in the NHL as a player, known primarily as a grinder, before turning his attention to coaching. His coaching career started in the NHL as an assistant where he spent 4 years. This stretch included an improbable trip to the Stanley Cup finals. He's had 15 seasons as a NHL head coach although only 8 ended in trips to the playoffs. His one trip to the finals as a head coach ended in a 6 game loss.
Coach No. 2 - Coach No. 2, as a player, had a long NHL career spanning 15 professional seasons and included a year in Colorado. He won a major NHL end-of-season award and scored more than 60 points 4 times. He has 7 years as an NHL assistant coach learning from 2 Stanley Cup winning head coaches and only missing the playoffs once. He's had two stints as head coach with NHL teams with multiple trips to the playoffs, including winning a division title and making it through to the second round.
Coach No. 3 - This coach was a career minor leaguer. He played a single NHL game and he failed to register on the score sheet. His coaching career was more illustrious. He started in the AHL for 3 seasons, taking his team to the playoffs twice. The NHL called and he was a head coach for 6 years with two different organizations. He led his team to the playoffs 5 of those six years, winning his division in 4 and taking his team to the Stanley Cup finals twice.
Coach No. 4 - After an 9 year professional playing career that included fewer than 80 games over 3 seasons with two NHL teams, Coach No. 4 stepped behind the bench. His coaching career started in Major Junior and progressed to the NHL first as an assistant, then as a head coach for two different teams totaling 4 seasons. He's also spent time as a head coach in the AHL and in Europe.
Coach No. 5 - Should playing professional hockey be a prerequisite for coaching in the NHL? Our final candidate never drew a paycheck as a player, but has coached at the highest levels. He has held the top job for NHL teams on three separate occasions, coaching over 1000 games, with 2 trips to the Conference finals and one trip to the Stanley Cup finals. He has also coached in Major Junior and in Europe.


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Sunday, November 6, 2011
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Some time ago, Colin Campbell had the idea of collecting the biographies of people who had worked on Peak Oil with ASPO. The result is this book which was recently published in Ireland. It contains also the biography of yours truly; Ugo Bardi. I don't know how interesting you could find it, anyway it is there. Here is the link
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"You can't dance like this in Schubert," exclaimed Roderick Williams, as he joined the small chorus line of three singers for an encore. As far as recital evenings at Wigmore Hall go, this was an occasion for letting one's hair down, even if the platform is on the small side for a Broadway song-and-dance routine.
Rather than sticking to classical masters, the Nash Ensemble's American Series is making a point of including composers who tasted popular success. Richard Rodgers, Bernard Herrmann and Franz Waxman are all on the bill in a season that ranges widely across 20th-century American music.
This "American Song" evening was a tale of two halves. The programme began with Williams singing folk songs arranged by Copland and a few songs by Ives, including his riotous "The Circus Band", all performed with tremendous gusto, including by Roger Vignoles at the piano. For contrast, Barber's Dover Beach offered reflective calm, bathed in the warmth of Williams' resonant baritone and the rich cushion of sound provided by the four Nash Ensemble string players.
From there on, though, it was Broadway almost all the way. It was hard not to enjoy favourite numbers from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess when Latonia Moore and Williams were the singers. But does this music really translate well to a Lieder-like piano accompaniment in this hall? And was not Moore's searing soprano – a thrilling sound – rather too loud?
After the interval Kim Criswell took over for a group of sharp-witted Kurt Weill numbers. There is no singer around who could trump her sassy delivery (when will we get Criswell in another London show?) but again the music did not feel at home, and Criswell's voice sounded on the shallow side in this company. The company of three, with Vignoles still working hard to match the Broadway sound, ended with a selection of Bernstein numbers, Latonia Moore outstanding in "Somewhere" from West Side Story. But none of this worked as well as Gershwin's simple Lullaby for string quartet had earlier – touching music, and one piece that might have been made for an evening at the Wigmore.
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Ranjit and Payal Saxena live in Noida, near Delhi, in a new apartment block. Ranjit is a software consultant with a multinational, while Payal, an engineer herself, is a stay-at-home mom. Apart from everything else, Payal loves Karva Chauth for the fresh feeni, the thread-like concoction that is soaked in milk and eaten early in the morning. The sweet is available in the shops just a couple of days before this festival and isn't to be seen the rest of the year. Feeni is traditionally eaten by the wife before the start of the day, presumably to ward off the hunger pangs occasioned by the fast, but the entire family loves it and joins Payal in the morning to enjoy this delicacy. Feeni is an import from Rajasthan, certainly not native to Punjab and UP, the two largest states where Karva Chauth is celebrated.
No Holi in the Marwari neighbourhood of Mumbai's Andheri is complete without the traditional thandai, a cooling drink made with exotic ingredients like almonds, black pepper, poppy seeds and crystallised rose petals (gulkand).The Deshpandes in Amravati in Maharashtra always have one dish on the platter on the day of universal fasting: Sankashti—sabudana khichdi. Sabudana, or tapioca sago, was originally an import from distant Tamil Nadu. So, how did it end up in Amravati?
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For Satyanarayan Puja, a key component is the prasad, the holy offering, which is almost always sheera, made from rava or semolina. The tradition of Satyanarayan Puja goes back to a time when the household staples were wheat flour and unrefined jaggery, certainly not semolina and white sugar. These, one would assume, were manufactured products from a distant location and offered to the gods as an exotic food, made especially for this festival. Even little Krishna's favourite food, maakhan misri, comprised homemade butter and big crystal sugar that came originally from Egypt—called Misr in Hindi!
In fact, there's a distinct pattern in the way festivals are celebrated across India. Festivals are and always have been a cultural licence to feast and indulge for the individual and the family. Every celebration is accompanied by food that was once upon a time considered exotic. In the days of cooking at home from scratch with local raw ingredients, upwas items like sabudana, rajgira (amaranth) atta, bhagar (wild rice), sweet potato and festival foods made with besan, maida, dates, sevaiyan, sherbet and exotic fruits, were actually processed in distant factories or imported from far away places. Weren't they the equivalent of today's olives and tofu to the young women our great grandmothers were, then?
Camphor, a vital part of all puja rituals, is of East Asian manufacturing origin. Such items imported from distant lands and manufactured there must have been really exotic, rare and expensive at the time of their introduction to our customs. Like silk garments, perfume (attar) and gold ornaments, even these food offerings were probably examples of the best skills and creativity known to communities then. Festivals seem to have been celebrated with the most modern food and offerings of the time. Perhaps the travelling priests of the day became channels for bringing the exotic foods from distant lands and introducing them into the lives of their follower communities. In any case, one fact is obvious—festivals and fasts promoted consumption, trade and modern food habits. All this, with the licence of tradition and offering to god!
Somewhere down the line, the custom of importing and innovating with exotic things during festivals got stultified. Now it is no longer considered extraordinary to use semolina for sheera, and sugar is a household staple. But the practice of offering sheera as prasad continues. And yet the hankering to do something new and different on a festival remains. With income growth and prosperity and confidence all around, there is a renewed eagerness to experiment with ideas and foods. Ten years ago, it was considered cutting edge to have sweets that resembled sliced watermelon. Now every sweet shop worth its salt offers cashew sweets in different shapes and colours, making the gifting of a box of sweets an exotic affair. The humble clay diyas, a part of Diwali festivities across India, now come in different shapes and colours, with pre-filled jelly wax to overcome the hassle of making wicks and immersing in oil.
Indians love two things—their festivals and their growing economic status. And they are increasingly learning to merge the two. Confident Indian customs have become even more 'inclusive' and experimental than before—as we just saw, they always have been so. Confident communities will go farther afield to bring in new ideas into the way they celebrate their loud and colourful festivals. No longer do they insist on sticking to traditional formats. The mehndi ceremony has now migrated all the way from the deserts of Rajasthan to the backwaters of Kerala. No urban wedding is complete without a party that is an amalgam of Indian technicolour rituals and Western sophistication. Ganesh Chaturthi is celebrated with even more gusto now, increasingly by non-Maharashtrians. Traditional modaks are offered alongside kaju katli and chocolate barfi as prasad.
Indians don't need to look any further than their own backyards for the variety of festivals and the myriad ways of celebrating them. And savvy marketers don't need to look any further than these festivals for finding new ways of joining in. A confectionary company is already doing this in a big way. Chocolate gift boxes have now become a mainstream festival gift, mutating the mithai box, further. Why can't ice-cream manufacturers, for instance, participate in the Kojagiri Poornima of Maharashtra, offering ice-cream 'kheer'? Can't smart retailers promote the Bengali 'Jamaai Shashthi' as the big gifting day for the son-in-law? With a little insightful marketing, given the Indian proclivity for sticking to culture while accommodating modernity, surely such an approach will be hugely successful? After all, as we discovered, our grannies, helped by their innovative gurujis, have done it for generations.
Organised markets and organised marketers are slowly entering the Indian mainstream. What better way to seal this rishta than to slide into the culture of festivals? So the next time Payal celebrates Karva Chauth, perhaps she will get to buy branded feeni and chauth snacks from brand Bikano! And Indians will increasingly say, not Happy Valentine's Day, but Happy Karva Chauth! Happy Karva Chauth, Payal!


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Parkview tight end Michael Palmer liked the direction of Clemson's offense, so he gave the Tigers' football program a commitment on Monday.Palmer chose Clemson over another ACC school, Virginia. The 6-foot-5, 238-pounder had scholarship offers from both of his top two programs, but he felt better about the Tigers. "My opportunity to play is a lot better at Clemson and I really like the coaching staff," Palmer said. "Those are two important things. They have a new offensive coordinator, he will be in his second year next year. He uses two and three tight ends all the time." Clemson assistant coach Ron West made an in-house visit with the Palmers last week and it was followed by an unofficial visit to Clemson by the Parkview senior. He still hasn't taken his official visit there, but plans to take it the Jan. 13 weekend. He took his official to Virginia, a much longer road trip, two weeks ago. "That Clemson was close (to home) was just an extra positive," Palmer said. "It wasn't the deciding factor. But it's definitely nice to be close." As a senior, Palmer caught 21 passes (second-best among Gwinnett tight ends) for 358 yards and five touchdowns for the Panthers, who reached the Class AAAAA state quarterfinals.
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A two-year agricultural project in Charlottesville's Azalea Park was brought to a close this Arbor Day.
The Charlottesville Tree Commission and Charlottesville's Parks and Recreation Department held a ceremony Friday morning to show everyone the changes.
Dozens of new trees have been planted, along with many native plants. Members of the Tree Commission say the new plants will help keep dangerous runoff out of nearby streams. Moore's Creek, which flows into the Rivanna River, runs directly around the park.
Members say Friday's ceremony is one of many projects that have taken place around the city and county for Earth Week, including tree plantings at Quarry Park and Clark Elementary.
"That's the whole goal is to have people understand all that trees do for us, and what we need to do to make sure that we keep a healthy, as we call it, 'urban forest' in Charlottesville," said Bitsy Waters, tree commission chairman.
The renovation is part of a parks master plan developed by the city two years ago.
Charlottesville Parks and Recreation members say they also plan to post a tree map in front of the park, so visitors can easily find all of the new additions.
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Along with a quality football team, Peter Tom Willis is just another casualty of the Ann Bowden clan regime now presiding over FSU. It wasn't parity Bobby it was a high school offense and everybody with a room temperature I. Q. knew Fredo would fail at the time. Why didn't you? You are being paid to know these things and paid well I might add.
FSU is at a point where this entire ridiculous sham and spectacle needs to come to and end. We need to move forward. The rest of this season Jimbo Fisher needs to be granted final say in all decisions. That should include recruiting, assistants and game plan. Those who are not on board he needs authority to terminate them immediately.
This needs to be demonstrated to all potential recruits, the ones on board and the ones we have recently lost due Shakespearian power Putsch being led by Bobby Bowden and Chucky. Nothing else will do. If you had any decency Bobby Bowden you would forego the next big payday and resign forthwith. Everybody sees what you are trying to accomplish. We are still suffering from the hiring of one of your failed offspring and we do not need another nor do we need you having any input on Chuck Amato being retained at FSU whatsoever.
Former players who love you more than Florida State University should at least be willing to alleviate the financial shortfall your failed decisions have led to. Peter Tom Willis is looking for a job who can hire him? Ticket sales are down, who will pick up the slack? Will some of you recruit for free? Recruiting is down and only half the staff is out beating the bushes. The rest are hoping Fisher, Trickett and Coley fail so they can have a clean sweep, sign Bobby and Ann long term and bring in junior from the northern boonies of Alabama.
Students being threatened for organizing a black out? Give me a break. Is this the Soviet Union or a football program we are talking about here? I will never attend another game as long as Bobby Bowden is the coach at FSU, never!
All of you concerned we will never forget the part any of you played in bringing the premiere football program in the nation to it's very knees with egotistical cronyism and greed. I salute Jim Smith and all trustees who recognized what was going on and stepped in to try and right the situation. We still have eight games to play this season and the attention should be focused there. Place Fisher in a position to have the final say on all decisions. The current coach has proven simply incompetent. Enough really is enough!
FSU is not responsible for failing real estate schemes by people who can't manage their money nor fraudulent gambling schemes in the Bahamas.
Over and above the cyber army of relatives and work at home sycophants on minimum wage let us take a look at the major Bobby Bowden advocates at this point, Urban Meyer, Steve Spurrier and the UF student body and assorted organizations. They have one thing in common, they all think Bobby should coach forever!


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One city, building a healthy neighborhood
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The city of Philadelphia has occupied a central place in American history and culture. From the arts to our world-class institutions of higher learning, to the magnificence of our medical community, this great city has contributed so much to our nation. But our work remains unfinished.
The city has made great strides in focusing efforts and resources on the renewal of our neighborhoods. Kensington, along the Frankford Avenue corridor between East Kensington and Norris Square, once experienced blight and disinvestment, but is now becoming a bustling commercial center.
Nevertheless, poverty threatens the health, prosperity and welfare of neighborhoods across the city. Progress can only be made if we are able to work together: government agencies, corporate investors, the nonprofit community and ordinary citizens.
This week in Philadelphia, Rebuilding Together will rehabilitate thirty homes, install a new playground, and perform extensive work on the Overbrook Environmental Education Center. Many residents of the Overbrook neighborhood have worked their entire lives to own a home but have struggled like so many others in recent years due to our faltering economy. With limited disposable income, many lack the means to make the necessary repairs or upgrades to their homes.
The Pew Charitable Trusts has tracked the trend in its annual report, "Philadelphia State of the City 2012," noting that "the percentage of people living in poverty in Philadelphia rose … to 26.7 percent in 2010, one of the highest among all major U.S. cities."
Rebuilding Together's Building a Healthy Neighborhood and Philadelphia's current leaders next week will hold a three-day community rebuilding event that engages the community. We recognize that now is the time for action. As new generations come to Philadelphia, Rebuilding Together will work to preserve what defines a community, while also providing upgrades to foster development and strength.
In Pew's recent report, "Philadelphia State of the City 2012," researchers noted: "One positive sign for the city's future is that the number of young adults in Philadelphia has risen substantially in recent years. The question is whether those young people will find the place attractive enough to stay."
Building a Healthy Neighborhood will help convince young Philadelphians to stay. It will not only preserve what exists but also will build promise for the future. In short, Building a Healthy Neighborhood will help the present generation work to meet the longstanding challenge of poverty that Philadelphia has faced.
Together, Rebuilding Together and the City of Philadelphia reject the notion that the problems of today are tomorrow's worries. We can make it better today, so the Philadelphians of tomorrow will enjoy the benefits.
Mayor Michael A. Nutter
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List Of Hacked Celebrities Who Had (Nude) Photos Leaked
During Summer we always try to spend our free time in a more profitable manner, for instance reading gossip chronicles.
From this point of view, July 2012 has not been a particularly lucky month for Carly Rae Jepsen. On July the 7th, her website has been the target of a DDoS attack by a member of the infamous collective @TheWikiBoat. During the second half of July, she has joined the (not so) exclusive club of celebrities who had compromising pictures and video stolen from their computers and mobile devices. This is not an isolated episode since celebrities have shown an insane predilection to make (possibly) XXX photos and store them with few or no precautions at all. With the consequence that it is not so uncommon that the private material gets stolen with the purpose to blackmail the victims or simply to sell it.
Unfortunately the experience has shown that, almost always, both ideas end up in a miserable failure and the photos get usually leaked, causing fans to run to their search engines in the hunt for the private snaps.
Honestly speaking, I do not understand how it feels to take photos of oneself in compromising positions (but I am not a celebrity, at least so far). For sure, if I were a celebrity I would be aware of my level of exposition and its consequent capability to attract the unwelcome attentions of stalkers (and addicted hackers). That level of exposition, alone, justifies the need to pay more attention for private material, most of all if it contains XXX shots. But maybe celebrities have not time for complex passwords…
To let you understand how often these events occur, I browsed the chronicles of the last years compiling the following gallery. Even if most of the leaks came from the so-called hacker ring targeting more than 50 celebrities, you will find many surprising (sometimes recurring) victims, before coming to the disappointing conclusion that "the leopard does not change his spots".
I am afraid that this chart will soon need an update.
Again On The Carrier IQ Saga
Yesterday I posted evidence about the presence of the infamous Carrier IQ Software in Italy. Today another episode (I presume will not be last) of what it si becoming an endless Saga. Following the forthcoming investigations of privacy regulators in the U.S. and Europe, and the last-minute speculations concerning the fact Carrier IQ technology has been used by FBI, Carrier IQ has just published a 19 pages document trying to explain in detail what the IQ agent does. After reading the document, it is clear that the affair will not stop here.
The documents analyzes what the software really does, tries to confute Trevor Eckhart's assertions and, most of all, admits that some SMS may have been collected (even if not in human readable form), because of a software flaw.
Interesting to mention, there are three ways in which Carrier IQ's customers (the operators, not the end users!) install the IQ Agent: pre-load, aftermarket and embedded. The pre-load and embedded versions which differ among themselves for the fact that the pre-loaded agent may not provide RF data, cannot "typically" be deleted by an end user.
In any case Network Operators and handset manufacturers determine whether and how they deploy Carrier IQ software and what metrics that software will gather and forward to the Network Operator.
Several Remarkable Points:
In typical deployments, the IQ Agent uploads diagnostic data once per day, at a time when the device is not being used. This upload, which averages about 200 kilobytes, contains a summary of network and device performance since the last upload, typically 24 hours.
The profile, written by Carrier IQ based on information requested by operators, defines which of the available metrics may to be gathered and contains the following information:
- Should information be collected in anonymous mode or with the hardware serial number and the subscriber serial number being used (e.g. IMEI & IMSI)?
- The frequency of metrics uploads and instructions on what to do if the user is roaming or not on the network
- The specific metrics from which to gather data
- Instructions for pre-processing of metrics to create summary information
Profiles may also be subsequently updated.
As far as Trevor Eckhart's video is concerned, and his findings related to the fact that the agent logs SMS and keystrokes in clear text, Carrier IQ indicates this log log essentially as a consequence of debug enabled, which is not a common (and recommended) situation in normal usage. Moreover the only captured keystroke is a specific numeric key code entered by the user to force the IQ Agent software to start an upload.
Our privacy is safe? Not at all, few lines after the above quoted statement the company declares that:
Carrier IQ has discovered that, due to [....] bug, in some unique circumstances, such as a when a user receives an SMS during a call, or during a simultaneous data session, SMS messages may have unintentionally been included in the layer 3 signaling traffic that is collected by the IQ Agent. These messages were encoded and embedded in layer 3 signaling traffic and are not human readable.
Although the company states that no encoded content of the SMS is available to anyone.
As far as phone numbers and URLs are concerned, this kind of information is collected by the agent if selected on a profile by the Network Operator. In any case, according to the company:
The metrics gathered by the IQ Agent are held in a secure temporary location on the device in a form that cannot be read without specifically designed tools and is never in human readable format.
About the gathered data, Carrier IQ has no rights to the data that collected into its Mobile Service Intelligence Platform.
Did you find the clarifications enough satisfactory? At first glance I am not able to understand how the collected data may be considered anonymous (as supposed from the first statement of Carrier IQ), if the operator may select a profile in which it can grab (and correlate) IMSI, IMEI or Phone Number together with the URLs visited by the (unaware) user. In this moment I cannot tell if, with a clause hidden between the lines of the contracts, mobile operators advise their customers that some personal information may be collected to improve the user experience. In any case the user should be at least provided with the option to choose. Some Device Manufacturers ask for user consent to perform similar operations. I am not aware of a similar approach by operators.
Mmh… The story will not finish here, indeed I guess the affair will soon spread to Mobile Carriers.
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- Breaking: First Known Detection of Carrier IQ in Italy (paulsparrows.wordpress.com)
The Missing BlackBerry Of Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Examples in which political news provide hints for Information Security are happening too often (think for instance to the UK Phone Hacking Scandal). The latest comes from the affair involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his alleged sexual encounter with a maiden during the horrible day of May, 14th 2011. The details which are being disclosed on that story show that the BlackBerry owned by DSK played a crucial role in the event, both because it had likely been hacked, and because it was used as a decoy to catch DSK at the airport.
All the traditional ingredients of Mobile Security are mixed up in this story: a device used for both personal and business purposes, which is hacked and whose stolen information is used to harm the victim.
The details were given on Friday, the 25th of November, when Financial Times published an anticipation of an investigation carried on by the journalist Edward Epstein to be published in full by the New York Reviews of Books. The investigation tells with an unprecedented level of details the two hours that sank Dominique Strauss-Kahn and wrecked his political career on May, 14th 2011 during his stay at the Sofitel New York Hotel, and the alleged sexual assault encounter with Nafissatou Diallo, the maid he had encountered in the presidential suite.
DSK was then head of International Monetary Fund and leading Socialist Contender against Nicolas Sarkozy (well ahead him in opinion polls) for the French Presidential Election in April 2012. As known the aftermaths of the scandal (although all the charges were dismissed by the prosecutor on August 23rd, 2011) destroyed his political ambitions for the rush at the French Presidential Chair.
The account of Edward Epstein reveals several shadow zones which seem to support the hypothesis according to which DSK was the victim of a plot (for instance the strange visits of Nafissatou Diallo to room 2820, a room on the same floor of the Presidential Suite borrowed by DSK, whose occupant's identity was never released by Sofitel on grounds of privacy).
You may guess at this point what this history has to deal with Information Security. Well, it has much to deal with, since one of the Shadow Zones just concerns one of DSK's Blackberry cell phones, the one he called IMF Blackberry, used to send and receive texts and e-mails for both personal and IMF business, which DSK believed had probably been hacked, and which has not been found since then. Moreover the lost BlackBerry was used as a decoy to catch him on board of Flight 23, few minutes before living for Paris.
If you think the mobile security risks are exaggerated and the promiscuous use of mobile devices for personal and professional purposes is not harmful and do not constitute a security hazard, you should better read the following lines.
The account of Mr. Epstein tells that, the morning of May, the 14th, DSK had received a text message from Paris from a woman friend temporarily working as a researcher at the Paris offices of the UMP, Sarkozy's political party. The message warned him that at least one private e-mail he had recently sent from his BlackBerry to his wife, had been read at the UMP offices in Paris. It is unclear how the UMP offices might have received this e-mail, but if it had come from his IMF BlackBerry, he had reason to suspect he might be under electronic surveillance in New York.
At 10:07 AM he called his wife in Paris on his IMF BlackBerry, telling her of his problem. He asked her to contact a friend who could arrange to have both his BlackBerry and iPad examined by an expert. An exam that would never happen for his Blackberry…
The call records show that DSK used his IMF BlackBerry for the last time at 12:13 PM to tell his Daughter Camille he would be late for lunch. This happened approximately 7 minutes after the maiden entered his room, which occurred at 12:06 PM according to Hotel key records, and most of all after the controversial encounter, likely occurred in this Time Interval, which is still a matter of dispute.
DSK realized his IMF BlackBerry was missing only nearly two hours later, at 14:15 PM while going to the Airport in taxi. At the beginning he believed he had left the cellphone to the Restaurant and immediately called his daughter (with a spare mobile phone) asking her to go back there for a check. The footage at the Restaurant shows that she effectively went there looking for the lost object. Of course she was not able to find it and at 14:28 PM she sent him a message indicating she could not find it.
At 15:01 PM, while approaching the airport, DSK was still attempting to find his missing phone, calling it from his spare with no answer. According to the records of the BlackBerry company, the IMF device had been disabled at 12:51 PM.
At 15:29 PM, he called the hotel from the taxi, indicating his room number and giving a phone number, so that he could be called back, in case his phone was found.
Thirteen minutes later he was called back from a hotel employee who was in the presence of a police detective. The hotel employee falsely told him that his phone had been found and asked where it could be delivered. DSK told him that he was at JFK Airport and that he had a problem since his flight left at 4:26 PM. He was reassured that someone could bring it to the airport in time, so he gave her the Gate and Flight number which allowed the police to call DSK off the plane and take him into custody at 4:45 PM.
DSK's BlackBerry is still missing and the records obtained from BlackBerry show that the missing phone's GPS circuitry was disabled at 12:51 PM. Probably the cell phone was "lost" inside the Sofitel, for sure this occurrence has prevented DSK to verify if he was under surveillance or not.
The reasons why DSK was so concerned about the possible interception of his messages on this BlackBerry are not clear even if Epstein suggests a couples of scenarios. The phone could contain some embarrassing information related to the scandal occurred to Carlton Hotel in Lille where high-class escort women were allegedly provided by corporation to government officials (I believed this kind of affair only happened in Italy) (DSK denies that he was connected to the prostitution ring.). Otherwise his concern could also derive from other matters, related to his IMF role, such as the sensitive negotiations he was conducting for the IMF to stave off the euro crises.
Still doubtful about Mobile Security Risks?
Mobile Antiviruses: Malware Scanners or Malware Scammers?
Few days ago Juniper Networks has released a report on the status of Android Malware. The results are not encouraging for the Android Addicted since they show a 472% increase in malware samples since July 2011 (see the infographic for details).
This does not surprising: already in May in its annual Malicious Mobile Threats Report, report, Juniper had found a 400% increase in Android malware from 2009 to the summer of 2010. This trend is destined to further grow since the Juniper Global Threat Center found that October and November registered the fastest growth in Android malware discovery in the history of the platform. The number of malware samples identified in September increased by 28%. whilst October showed a 110% increase in malware sample collection over the previous month and a noticeable 171% increase from July 2011.
As far as the nature of malware is concerned, Juniper data show that the malware is getting more and more sophisticated, with the majority of malicious applications targeting communications, location, or other personal information. Of the known Android malware samples, 55%, acts as spyware, 44%, are SMS Trojans, which send SMS messages to premium rate numbers without the user's consent.
The reason for this malware proliferation? A weak policy control on the Android market which makes easier for malicious developers to publish malware applications in disguise. From this point of view, at least according to Juniper, the model of Cupertino is much more efficient and secure.
Easily predictable Google's answer came from the mouth of Chris DiBona, open source and public sector engineering manager at Google. According to DiBona, Open Source, which is widely present in all the major mobile phone operating systems, is software, and software can be insecure. But Open Source becomes stronger if it pays attention to security, otherwise it is destined to disappear. In support of this statement he quotes the cases of Sendmail and Apache, whose modules which were not considered enough secure disappeared or came back stronger (and more secure) than ever.
But DiBona's does not stop here (probably he had read this AV-test report which demonstrates that free Android Antimalware applications are useless): "Yes, virus companies are playing on your fears to try to sell you bs protection software for Android, RIM and IOS. They are charlatans and scammers. IF you work for a company selling virus protection for android, rim or IOS you should be ashamed of yourself."
From this point of view Google hopes that Ice Cream Sandwich will lead Android Security at the next level even if some features are raising security concerns among Infosec professionals.
Looking Inside a Year of Android Malware
As you will probably know my Birthday post for Android Malware has deserved a mention from Engadget and Wired. Easily predictable but not for me, the Engadget link has been flooded by comments posted by Android supporters and adversaries, with possible trolls' infiltrations, up to the point that the editorial staff has decided to disable comments from the article. The effect has been so surprising that someone has also insinuated, among other things, that I have been paid to talk s**t on the Android.
Now let me get some rest from this August Italian Sun and let me try to explain why I decided to celebrate this strange malware birthday for the Android.
First of all I want to make a thing clear: I currently do own an Android Device, and convinced, where possible, all my relatives and friends to jump on the Android. Moreover I do consider the Google platform an inseparable companion for my professional and personal life.
So what's wrong? If you scroll the malware list you may easily notice that the malware always require an explicit consent from the user, so at first glance the real risk is the extreme trust that users put in their mobile devices which are not considered "simple" phones (even if smart), but real extensions of their personal and professional life.
You might say that this happens also for traditional devices (such as laptops), but in case of mobile devices there is a huge social and cultural difference: users are not aware to bring on their pocket dual (very soon four) cores mini-PCs and are not used to apply the same attention deserved for their old world traditional devices. Their small display size also make these devices particularly vulnerable to phishing (consider for instance the malware Android.GGTracker).
If we focus on technology instead of culture (not limiting the landscape to mobile) it easy to verify that the activity of developing malware (which nowadays is essentially a cybercrime activity) is a trade off between different factors affecting the potential target which include, at least its level of diffusion and its value for the attacker (in a mobile scenario the value corresponds to the value of the information stored on the device). The intrinsic security model of the target is, at least in my opinion, a secondary factor since the effort to overtake it, is simply commensurate with the value of the potential plunder.
What does this mean in simple words? It means that Android devices are growing exponentially in terms of market shares and are increasingly being used also for business. As a consequence there is a greater audience for the attackers, a greater value for the information stored (belonging to the owner's personal and professional sphere) and consequently the sum of these factors is inevitably attracting Cybercrooks towards this platform.
Have a look to the chart drawing Google OS Market share in the U.S. (ComScore Data) compared with the number of malware samples in this last year (Data pertaining Market Share for June and July are currently not available):
So far the impact of the threats is low, but what makes the Google Platform so prone to malware? For sure not vulnerabilities: everything with a line of code is vulnerable, and, at least for the moment, a recent study from Symantec has found only 18 vulnerabilities for Google OS against 300 found for iOS (please do no question on the different age of the two OSes I only want to show that vulnerabilities are common and in this context Android is comparable with its main competitor).
Going back to the initial question there are at least three factors which make Android different:
- The application permission model relies too heavily on the user,
- The security policy for the market has proven to be weak,
- The platform too easily allows to install applications from untrusted sources with the sideloading feature.
As far as the first point is concerned: some commenters correctly noticed that apps do not install themselves on their own, but need, at least for the first installation, the explicit user consent. Well I wonder: how many "casual users" in your opinion regularly check permissions during application installation? And, even worse, as far as business users are concerned, the likely targets of cybercrime who consider the device as a mere work tool: do you really think that business users check app permission during installation? Of course a serious organization should avoid the associated risks with a firm device management policy before considering a wide deployment of similar devices, most of all among CxOs; but unfortunately we live in an imperfect world and too much often fashion and trends are faster (and stronger) than Security Policies and also make the device to be used principally for other things than its business primary role, hugely increasing risks.
This point is a serious security concern, as a matter of fact many security vendors (in my opinion the security industry is in delay in this context) offer Device Management Solution aimed to complete the native Application Access Control model. Besides it is not a coincidence that some rumors claim that Google is going to modify (enhance) the app permission security process.
As far as the second point is concerned (Android Market security policy), after the DroidDream affair, (and the following fake security update), it is clear that the Android Market Publishing (and Security) model needs to be modified, making it more similar to the App Store. There are several proposals in this context, of course in this place is not my intention to question on them but only to stress that the issue is real.
Last but not least Sideloading is something that makes Android very different from other platforms (read Apple), Apple devices do not allow to install untrusted apps unless you do not Jailbreak the devices. Android simply needs the user to flag an option (By The Way many vendors are opening their Android devices to root or alternate ROMs, consider for instance LG which in Italy does not invalidate the Warranty for rooted devices) or HTC which, on May 27, stated they will no longer have been locking the bootloaders on their devices.
So definitively the three above factors (together with the growing market shares) make Android more appealing for malware developers and this is not due to an intrinsic weakness of the platform rather than a security platform model which is mainly driven by the user and not locked by Manufacturer as it happens in case of Cupertino.
Related articles
- Looking Back at a Year of Android Malware (engadget.com)
- One Year Of Android Malware (Full List) (paulsparrows.wordpress.com)
- One Year of Android Malware (wired.com)


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I think Rex can use spare parts and still have a defense that would be in the top Ten. How about drafting offense with our first 4 picks this year to get the talent level up and the offense out of the bottom rankings of the NFL.
Let's draft a combination of these players. I do not think that their is a franchise quarterback in this draft.
Round one Warmack G, Cooper G or Patterson WR
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Friday, October 06, 2006
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According to reports made to the ICC Commercial Crime Services as set out here, things are relatively calm on the piracy front. The report includes reports 3 attempted boardings by robbers of ships at anchor in ports in Indonesia, Brazil and India and one unsuccessful attempt to board a bulk carrier in the Arabian Sea at 15:24.82N - 066:21.62E. I have roughly plotted this postion on the map at the red burst.
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Buffalo looked very good in its opener, but ultimately couldn't beat the New England Patriots, losing 23-21. E.J. Manuel wasn't spectacular, but he certainly impressed by throwing for two touchdowns and completing 18 of 27 passes. The Bills also rushed for 136 yards to control the ball at times, with Fred Jackson's 67 yards leading the way.
Carolina also played a solid game in Week 1, especially on defense. The Panthers held down Russell Wilson and the Seattle Seahawks to 12 points, holding a lead well into the fourth quarter before giving it up.
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By Alan W. Kowalchyk and John Vaubel, Merchant & Gould
Now that the America Invents Act has been fully implemented, patent office trial proceedings to challenge the validity of issued patents have commenced. As of Sept. 16, 2012, inter partes review (IPR), which replaced the old inter partes reexamination procedure and covered business method patent review (CBMR) have been initiated in meaningful numbers.1
One aspect of these new patent challenge procedures is the provision of limited discovery regarding the publications and patents raised as grounds to invalidate a patent. As the Patent Trial and Appeal Board proceeds, decisions have begun to be issued to shape post-grant review processes including discovery in IPRs and CBMRs. In a normal federal civil trial, Fed. R. Civ. P. 26 governs discovery. However, the PTAB rules governing post-grant procedures are much more specific and designed to address the abbreviated length of post-grant proceedings and avoid the lengthy amount of time spent on discovery in a federal civil trial. Consequently, petitioners and patent holders in the new patent office proceedings require guidance to determine the scope of discovery in this administrative setting.
Focusing on IPR, the proceeding is limited in normal circumstances to a year. Thus, use of written discovery litigation tools such as document requests and interrogatories must be focused, specific, and justified. 37 C.F.R. §42.51 sets forth the limited scope of discovery in IPR proceedings. Section 42.51(b)(1) provides for "routine discovery" in IPR, which is defined as exhibits cited in a paper or testimony and "relevant information that is inconsistent with a position advanced by the party during the proceeding." If the parties disagree about discovery, Section 42.51(b)(2) also lets a party request "additional discovery" by board order if the party shows it is in the "interest of justice." A standard much higher than the "reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence" employed in judicial proceedings. Not surprisingly, the extent additional discovery can be compelled based on the standard of "interest of justice" has been a subject for clarification in early PTAB decisions.
The first case to provide guidance on what constitutes grounds for additional discovery in an IPR is Garmin v. Cuozzo.2 In Garmin, the PTAB IPR referenced that proceedings were intended to speed the process and reduce the costs in reviewing a patent, and are required to be completed in one year. To do so, the amount of discovery must be limited. The PTAB in Garmin then specified five factors that control whether additional discovery will be granted:
While providing a framework for evaluating requests for additional discovery, the circumstances to allow additional discovery will need to be developed through future case-specific circumstances.
For example, in Garmin, concerning factor 1, the PTAB stated that the requester should already have evidence or reasoning that shows such additional discovery will produce something "useful," which the PTAB stated meant "favorable in substantive value to a contention" of the requester. Although Garmin helped define what "interest of justice" meant, it raised its own issues as to what situations would meet the "useful" definition of "favorable in substantive value to a contention" of the requester and the four other factors set forth in the case.3
Several decisions subsequent to Garmin provide insight into whether additional discovery is warranted. InInnolux v. Semiconductor Energy Laboratories, the PTAB denied a request for additional discovery concerning the "real parties-in-interest" in connection with the lawsuit.4 The PTAB stated that Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. had failed to show that it would discover useful information when requesting information concerning Innolux Corp.'s lawyer, who represented co-defendants in related litigation. SEL argued that "statements and admissions" made during the proceedings indicated something "useful" would be discovered, but the PTAB found them ambiguous. It did not allow discovery based on "mere speculation" that something useful would be produced, which is all that it could glean from the ambiguous statements.
In Avaya v. Network-1, where the petitioners moved for additional discovery of documents showing inconsistency with claim interpretations and statements made by the patent owner's CEO,5 the PTAB rejected the motion because the requester did not present evidence that the opposing party had failed to disclose anything and did not identify any specific materials that it thought were not produced but should have been. The PTAB further noted that the requester did not analyze the five Garmin factors. Both the Innolux and Avayacases show that a requester must point out with particularity what pieces of evidence it wants in additional discovery and state specifically why they will be useful.
Corning v. DSM is an example of when some additional discovery was granted. There, DSM IP Assets B.V. requested laboratory notebooks and documents that contained the data relied on by an expert, samples prepared by that expert, and any inconsistent testing results the expert obtained.6 The PTAB ruled that the laboratory notebooks and documents met the interest-of-justice standard and the five factors used to weigh the standard. Specifically, the PTAB found that additional discovery would likely yield useful information because the opposing party used an expert that relied on that information to argue against patentability of DSM's claims. Therefore, the PTAB found them per se useful. This case differed from the previous cases because the requester both identified particular documents that it wanted in additional discovery and adequately showed that those particular documents met the PTAB standard for "useful."7
With respect to the samples DSM requested, the PTAB stated that DSM failed as to factor 4 because it did not state the quantity of sample it needed; failed as to factor 3 because it did not state why it could not gather the information on cross examination and inspection of documents; and failed as to factor 5 because it did not explain why it would not be overly burdensome. Finally, the PTAB rejected DSM's request for information contrary to the opposing party's expert. It noted that the opposing party stated that it had already released such information. DSM further requested a log of any information claimed to be under privilege, but the PTAB rejected this because DSM provided no argument that this information would be "useful" and not merely speculative. Although the PTAB granted the request for additional discovery concerning the laboratory notebooks and documents, it found the requester had not met the high standards for producing the other evidence.
One takeaway from these cases when asking for additional discovery is that the PTAB standards are high and require particularity. This is not surprising given that IPR discovery is abbreviated, and the PTAB requires a higher burden to justify granting time-consuming additional discovery. An IPR is normally a one year limited-focus procedure. Thus, the PTAB has made it clear that it will not allow fishing expeditions based on speculation, hunches, or even reasonable conjecture.
As demonstrated in the Corning opinion, the PTAB requires that a party point out with particularity why something will be useful. There, the PTAB found laboratory notebooks and documents relied on by an expert to make an opinion concerning the validity of the patent were useful. Consequently, when seeking additional discovery, the example in Corning is instructive: Request particular documents and articulate a specific reason for why such documents will be useful.
Alan W. Kowalchyk, a partner in Merchant & Gould's Minneapolis office, practices all aspects of intellectual property law with an emphasis on patent litigation, client counseling, and alternative dispute resolution. Co-author John Vaubel was a summer law clerk at Merchant & Gould.
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