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Today's post is related to the great news publicised by West Midlands Police that officers from the Safer Travel Partnership had successfully helped convict a woman for an assault relating to her spitting at a bus driver. The woman, from Stechford, was handed an eight week custodial sentence by Birmingham Magistrates' Court for both this offence and another theft related matter for which she was charged.
How exactly does this work though? The woman probably has not physically struck the poor bus driver but has still been found guilty of 'assault'. Isn't assault just that – actually striking a person?
English law splits assaults into various categories.
At the most serious we have an offence that goes beyond assault and strays closer towards murder – the crime of attempted murder. This is the charge we'd likely look at if an assault has been so severe that it's only just fallen short of actually killing a person.
After attempted murder, we move to grievous bodily harm with intent. This offence stems from the long standing 'Offences Against the Person Act' of 1861 and involves a person doing serious injury to a person and it being evident that they meant to do such injury. It is defined by S. 18 of the Act.
S. 20 of the same Act refers to grievous bodily harm but drops the reference to 'intent'. Serious injury has still been done but the offender's aim was not specifically to cause such an injury.
Still referring to the same Act, S. 47 gives us a further category of assault – that where actual bodily harm is caused but the associated injury is not as serious. Bruising, cuts and grazes may fall under the remit of a S. 47 assault.
The final category of assault comes from S. 39 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988. This is the level of assault for which the spitting woman will have been found guilty and does not require that physical contact even be made. The requirements are outlined in case law rather than the Act itself, the definition accepted as being where a person 'intentionally or recklessly causes another to apprehend the immediate infliction of unlawful force'.
The act of spitting at another person can be classified as an assault under this definition as can any other action that fulfills the criteria – from aggressively yelling at someone in the street to jumping out at someone from a cupboard whilst dressed as a ghost.
Whilst spitting at someone falls foul of the law in terms of an assault, spitting in general could be seen as a crime under the terms of the Public Order Act. I discussed recently in our Tweet & Greet whether spitting should be made a crime as some have called for in the media. My answer was that spitting could be considered 'threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress'. As such we could use a Public Order offence to deal with the culprit if circumstances necessitated.
Spitting at a bus driver, as at anyone else, is clearly unacceptable behaviour and the law gives us scope to deal with offenders and even send them to prison for doing it. I'd be happy to arrest someone for spitting if there was sufficient justification for making said arrest and I'm sure other officers would feel the same.
It's not something that we're prepared to tolerate and as the woman from Stechford has now found out, is an offence which could see the perpetrator detained at her majesty's pleasure for an extended period having been found guilty of assault.


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You may have noticed a new link in the Photos section on the left side of the page. We are pleased to launch our new Community Heritage and Family History Digital Collection that will include Postcards from the Past, Virtual Tours of Historic Calgary and Calgary's Heritage Homes. These links will be taken down in the near future. The new collection will include lots more Alison Jackson photographs and a new set of photographs, from Judith Umbach, which highlights some of the major construction projects in the city (this is Calgary, after all, and our official bird is the construction crane!)
This new collection focuses on the built history of Calgary. The Alison Jackson photographs will be familiar to those of you who visited our Virtual Tours of Historic Calgary and Calgary's Heritage Homes. The Community Heritage and Family History Digital Collection will contain information from both of these series but will add the rest of the Alison Jackson photographs.
The Judith Umbach collection is a relatively new addition. In 2005, Ms Umbach donated 800 photographs documenting the construction or renovation of well-known facilities in the downtown core and the Crescent Heights area. This is an important collection which will provide visual evidence of the development, architecture and construction taking place in this period our history.
Postcards from the Past includes nearly 2000 picture postcards of Calgary and Alberta. In addition to providing clues to the appearance of structures long since gone, the postcards provide an interesting insight into the history of the area and the people who settled here.
This is a very exciting time for us in the Community Heritage and Family History department. We have been preparing for the launch of this very important collection for a very long time. The new Digital Collection will allow us (and you, of course) to search across these three series and find pictures that cover different time spans. For example, you will be able to search for the Burns Mansion and find postcards from early in the 20th century when the house was built, a photograph from just prior to its demolition, pictures of the Colonel Belcher Hospital which stood nearby, and pictures of the Sheldon Chumir Centre that now stands on the site.
The link to the Community Heritage and Family History Digital Collection is on the left side of the page or follow the link below. Spend some time exploring this wonderful resource and let us know your thoughts. We'd love to hear your stories about Calgary.


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Limnologists like me spend a great deal of time assessing the condition of surface waters such lakes and rivers and how much they might need the water "cleaned up" so to speak to either improve conditions for aquatic life (fish and bugs mainly). Or, we spend time modeling the water quality dynamics to determine how much nutrients would be expected in the waterbody and what are the impacts of the nutrients in a system.
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Catch an '80s classic movie, hear legendary musical works and more in our top picks of things to do around Burr Ridge this weekend. For a complete listing of events, visit burrridge.suntimes.com/calendar.
1. 'Young Frankenstein,' 8 p.m. Friday
A rendition of Mel Brook's classic comedy about young Dr. Frankenstein's attempt to bring a corpse to life. Additional performances Thursday at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 8:30 p.m. and Sundays at 6 p.m. Drury Lane Theatre, 100 Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace. Call 708-530-8300. $38.
2. Juliette Gordon Low: 'Daisy's Girls,' 1 p.m. Saturday
Betsey Means of WomanLore portrays Juliette Gordon Low, the founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America. Thomas Ford Memorial Library, 800 Chestnut St., Western Springs. Call 708-246-0520. Free.
3. Nature Navigators: Dinosaur Detective, 1 p.m. Saturday
Study dinosaur skulls and find clues to learn more about them. Wear snow pants and boots for a nature hike and bring an extra pair of socks and shoes for indoor exploration. A snack is provided. For ages 7-10; registration requested. Lake View Nature Center, 17W063 Hodges Road, Oakbrook Terrace. Call 630-941-8747. $22-$27.
4. 3D Movie: 'Top Gun,' 2 p.m. Saturday
A daring young flyer at the Navy's elite fighter weapons school learns a few things from a civilian instructor. Stars Tom Cruise, Tim Robbins and Kelly McGillis. 110 minutes. La Grange Park Public Library, 555 N. La Grange Road, La Grange Park. Call 708-351-0100.
5. 'Piano Pasticcio,' 3 p.m. Sunday
The Sinfonietta Bel Canto Chamber Orchestra and Opera performs Haydn's Symphony No. 94, G major, "Surprise," Volkmann's Concert Overture in C major and Grieig's Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16. Free admission for children 7 and under. Immanuel Lutheran Church, 5211 Carpenter St., Downers Grove. $7-$19.
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Nigeria Needs Selfless Leaders – Utomi, Obaseki
By Abraham Oladipupo
A PROFESSOR of Political Economy and one time presidential aspirant, Prof. Pat Utomi and the Former GMD of the NNPC, Dr. Gaius J. Obaseki, have identified selflessness as key to Nigeria achieving sustainable economic growth and development.
The duo spoke, last week, at the 5th Founder's Day Annual Lecture and Awards Ceremony of the Bible Society of Nigeria (BSN) held at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Victoria Island, Lagos.
Utomi, who was the guest speaker, identified selfishness as a major obstacle to the growth and development of Nigeria and therefore called for a change of attitude on the part of the leaders and the led.
"The different between nations that have continued to witness economic growth and development and those that are not is between selflessness and being consumed by self," he said.
Utomi, who dwelt on the theme: "Selfless Service: Key to Achieving Sustainable National Economic Growth and Development," said selflessness is an important ingredient if Nigeria would ever attain sustainable economic growth and development.
According to him, anyone obsessed with what he is going to gain from leadership is not a leader and no nation makes progress without a true leader.
While describing Nigeria as the most unjust society in the world, he called on leaders to seek immortality in the head and heart of people long after their body have become dust and should therefore embrace compassion for the dignity of humanity.
He warned that very soon we (political leaders) would be asked to account for what we have done to the children of this country in the way we have plundered the legacy and the treasury that God gave to this nation.
On the merger of 10 political parties, Utomi described it as a welcome development and one that should be embraced, adding, "I think it is important for our country that we have clear alternative even for the good of the PDP. Any organisation or society that does not have an alternative suffers greatly and does not know that it is digging its own grave. When there is alternative that challenges, then you will see that there are some things that you can do differently in the interest of the common good of all; and the whole country will better from it."
Obaseki, who was the special guest of honour at the occasion, called for collaborative effort in moving the nation forward.
He declared, "The challenges of achieving sustainable national economic growth and development can be achieved through collaborative efforts. Nigeria has been in dire need of selfless leaders and followers since independence."
According to him, no nation can attain sustainable economic growth and development without selfless service from its leaders and the led. Curled from Guardian
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WASHINGTON, November 6, 2012 – The markets have a slightly positive tone this morning, indicating to at least some investing pundits that President Obama's re-election bid is viewed as secure by Wall Street. Mind, although most of Wall Street supported The One in 2008, they've come to bitterly rue their poor choice over the past four years and have supported Mitt Romney to the max. That said, at the end of the day, Wall Street is still more comfortable with the devil they know than the one they don't.
Ergo, any up move in the averages today will be viewed as a hopeful sign for the incumbent as the blow-dried TV punditocracy begins its collective bloviating after dinner this evening. Realistically, unless one side or the other is clearly perceived to have won in a landslide by mid-evening tonight, the electoral nonsense could go on for weeks, à la Bush-Gore 2000. Between delayed counting of absentee and provisional ballots in critical states like Ohio—which could continue through the middle of the month—phalanxes of lawyers on both sides could create sturm und drang for weeks indulging in frivolous attacks on thin state victory margins, slaughtering any remaining bulls that didn't already drown in last week's Hurricane Sandy debacle.
The enormous potential for delays works in the Democrats' favor, giving them plenty of time to find enough votes to win in tight contests, just as they did in the relatively recent Minnesota travesty that brought the dreadful Al Franken—illegitimately and illegally—into the U.S. Senate. But we shall see, harboring as we do a faint but growing suspicion that today's balloting action will bring a very unpleasant surprise to the institutional left.
Meanwhile, life goes on, whether it's Wall Street or Main Street. As if to emphasize the point, let's turn briefly to an interesting impending acquisition by the Sage of Omaha, Warren Buffett himself. As readers of this column know, Uncle Warren is not one of our favorite people. Investing acumen aside, he's been too comfortably in the tank with the current administration, making most of his public pronouncements suspect at the very least, particularly when it comes to his support of "tax the rich."
That said, Buffett's very, very long term investing style can often reveal the secret workings of Adam Smith's "invisible hand" of the market. For example, environmental "concerns" aside, it's interesting that the Obama Administration's slow roll on the Keystone Pipeline may not only be influenced by the machinations of Luddite-style environmental fascists. If the pipeline is delayed or simply not built, all that oil and gas will have to get transported out of the Bakken Shale and Canadian tar sands areas anyway, particularly if it's getting shipped from the West Coast to China (since we obviously don't need energy here). And who better to transport it than the main railroad conglomerate that runs these routes, Burlington Northern, acquired by Buffett in 2009? No pipeline? Just ship that product via Buffett-Rail's incredibly prescient positioning.
But, with his original background in retailing, railroad and insurance magnate Buffett is never one to overlook the little stuff either if there's money to be made. Hence, his seemingly surprising deal to purchase online seasonal junk purveyor Oriental Trading Company. And we mean that term "junk" with some respect, as Mrs. Maven frequently purchases stuff from that Omaha-based (!) catalog merchant to pass out at Halloween, to decorate Thanksgiving or Christmas tables, and for whatever else celebratory comes to mind.
Oriental Trading merchandise is generally manufactured overseas (read "China") and is cheap, cheap, cheap. But this stuff is also surprisingly festive and attractive, and is a great way to enliven your house for the holidays without spending any money at all. And that's the important point. If you've noted the success in recent years of all the various "dollar stores," you can connect the dots and see that even relatively affluent Americans are now seeking out merchants offering ridiculous bargains on a variety of daily household goods, including foods.
Since salaries and purchasing powers seem to be in a protracted swoon, saving money is of the essence today and for the foreseeable future. That's why even many shoppers, including the highly class conscious, are seeking out dollar stores, consignment shops, Salvation Army stores, and the like.
Which gets us back to Buffett and Oriental Trading. Since Buffett probably expects the fruition of his current investments to occur long after his death at this point, his acquisition of this trinket purveyor marks his long-range bet that our economy may not recover in sufficient time for even Boomers like this writer to see that happy day. For Buffett, Oriental Trading assures that Berkshire Hathaway will continue to hold significant corporate turf in the "cheapest of the cheap" retail environment indefinitely. And "indefinitely" is the period of time—if there is time—that will elapse before America can once again reduce indebtedness and return to prosperity.
Hence, Buffett's big bet on Oriental Trading. As an Obama supporter, he thinks a return to prosperity anytime soon is simply not gonna happen. That's a sobering thought to keep in mind as we head for the polls today, assuming we haven't already done so. Buffett sees a whole lot of Oriental Trading years in front of us. So do we if "Forward!" is the verdict American voters render tonight.
As for today's market: probably best to stay on the sidelines. With the latest Greek election tomorrow, and with ours very likely to drag out this week, the high degree of uncertainty significantly increases risk, so cash is everyone's best investment for now.
Disclaimer: The author of this column maintains several active trading and investment portfolios and owns residential and investment real estate.
Positions mentioned above describe this author's own investment decisions and should not be construed as either buy or sell recommendations. The current market is highly treacherous and all investors travel at their own risk, so caution should be exercised at all times.
Illustrations, charts, commentary, and analysis are only the author's view of current or historical market activity and don't constitute a recommendation to buy or sell any security or contract. Views, indications, and analysis aren't necessarily predictive of any future market or government action. Rather they indicate the author's opinion as to a range of possibilities that may occur going forward.
References to other reporters, analysts, pundits, or commentators are illustrative only and do not necessarily represent an endorsement of such individuals' points of view. If specific investment vehicles are mentioned in any article under this column heading, the author will always fully disclose any active or contemplated investments in said vehicles.
Read more of Terry's news and reviews at Curtain Up! in the Entertain Us neighborhood of the Washington Times Communities. For Terry's investing and political insights, visit his Communities columns, The Prudent Man and Morning Market Maven, in Business.
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2 'Best' Bank Stocks Downgraded to 'Underperform'
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Bank stocks have gotten so hot that some analysts are advising investors to stay away from even the strongest performing names.
Sterne Agee analyst Brett Rabatin on Tuesday downgraded Cullen/Frost Bankers (CFR) of San Antonio and First Financial Bancshares (FFIN) of Abilene, Texas to "underperform" ratings from "neutral" ratings.
Cullen Frost
Cullen/Frost had $22.6 billion in total assets as of June 30 and is included among the 24 components of the KBW Bank Index (I:BKX). Cullen Frost's shares returned 37% year-to-date through Monday's close at $73.18, following a return of 6% during 2012. The index returned 30% this year through Monday, following a return of 30% during 2012.
The shares at Monday's close traded for 18.3 times the consensus 2014 earnings estimate of $4.00 a share, among analysts polled by Thomson Reuters. That is a particularly high valuation for a bank of this size in the current environment.Based on a quarterly payout of 50 cents, the shares have a dividend yield of 2.73%. Investors place a premium on Cullen/Frost because of the bank's strong and amazingly consistent long-term earnings track record. The bank's mean 10-year return on average assets (ROA) through 2012 was 1.37%, trailing only U.S. Bancorp (USB) among components of the KBW Bank Index. Cullen/Frost's mean 10-year return on common equity (ROCE) through 2012 was 14.08%, trailing only USB, with a mean ROCE of 18.13% and Wells Fargo (WFC), which had a mean 10-year ROCE of 15.45%. But over the 10-year period, Cullen/Frost's minimum annual ROA was a solid 1.12%, with Commerce Bancshares (CBSH) of Kansas City, Mo., coming in second place among KBW Bank index components, with a minimum ROA of 0.95%. Cullen/Frost's minimum annual ROCE over the 10-year period was 9.76%, in 2009. Only U.S. Bancorp had a higher minimum annual ROCE, of 10.13%, also in 2009. Then again, at the end of 2009, Cullen/Frost had a tangible equity ratio of 8.56%, according to Thomson Reuters Bank Insight, compared to a much lower 5.91% for USB. In a note to clients on Tuesday, Rabatin called Cullen/Frost "qualitatively one of the best banks in the country," but added that "2Q13 results were generally disappointing due to underwhelming loan growth (particularly relative to TX peers) and flattish sequential revenue growth."
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As Time magazine recently reported, Republicans, frustrated by their 22-0 loss in last year's game, sought a new coach to shake things up on the field this year. Some members even appealed to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to fire the coach, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas). But Boehner said he wasn't powerful enough to control the baseball diamond, and Barton refused to walk away after spending 28 years with the game. Instead, he brought on Rep. Roger Williams (R-Texas), a former professional baseball player and coach at Texas Christian University, to coach while he stayed on as the team's manager.
In the face of Wednesday's loss, according to The Washington Post, Republicans are once again asking Boehner to remove Barton from the game. But with multiple pitchers giving up walk after walk, it seems that what the Republicans really need is a pitcher who can better match Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.), who previously pitched on Morehouse College's varsity baseball team.
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You didn't answer it there. You simply hand-waved the idea that your majority-rule position could trample minority rights and lead to some rather dire outcomes.
Right, so if the Algerians want to be nativists, you have no problem with it and even endorse it. It's only when whitey starts making such noises that you get outraged.
I'm afraid this was non-responsive, just as I had suspected it would be.
The entirely-legitimate governing authority of Algeria (*) decided, and a constituent mob violently rejected the decision.
So, no, you don't really believe that nations get to decide who their citizens are.
You don't really believe a nation gets to decide who its citizens are if you also believe a violent subset can legitimately reject that decision by violence. Those are fundamentally inconsistent.
If you actually believed what you say you believe, you would reject the mob violence that birthed the "new nation."
From 1848 until independence, France administered the whole Mediterranean region of Algeria as an integral part and département of the nation. One of France's longest-held overseas territories, Algeria became a destination for hundreds of thousands of European immigrants, who became known as colons and later, as Pied-Noirs. Between 1825 and 1847, 50,000 French people emigrated to Algeria.[49][page needed] These settlers benefited from the French government's confiscation of communal land from tribal peoples, and the application of modern agricultural techniques that increased the amount of arable land.[50]
Gradually, dissatisfaction among the Muslim population, which lacked political and economic status in the colonial system, gave rise to demands for greater political autonomy, and eventually independence, from France. Tensions between the two population groups came to a head in 1954, when the first violent events of what was later called the Algerian War began. Historians have estimated that between 30,000 and 150,000 Harkis and their dependents were killed by the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) or by lynch mobs in Algeria.[51] The FLN used terrorist attacks in Algeria and France as part of its war, and the French conducted severe reprisals and repression. The war concluded in 1962, when Algeria gained complete independence following the March 1962 Evian agreements and the July 1962 self-determination referendum.
Huh? That's ridiculous. The inability to control a separatist, bloodthirsty mob does not cause the ruling government to "lose legitimacy," anymore than the government of France "lost legitimacy" when Hitler occupied its territory.
You're still flailing.
Except the movement for American independence wasn't for racial/religious reasons, nor did it resort to the type of mob violence against innocents as did the revolt against the legitimate government of Algeria. Nor did the independence-minded Americans slaughter en masse those who stayed in America who were loyal to the British crown.
It signed a treaty with Hitler, too, yet still remained the legitimate government of France.
Which doesn't have anything to do with their legitimacy. They signed an agreement at bomb-point, after the mob killed hundreds of thousands of civilians.
Huh? I've answered it ten times now. France decided on the citizenship of France/Algeria. Technically it offered French citizenship rather than demanding it, but a separatist mob rejeted the offer and resorted to slaughtering civilians instead -- to modern liberal applause, then and now.
to modern liberal applause, then and now
Of course it's legitimate. But, notwithstanding your obsession, that's never been the topic under discussion, which has instead been the legitimacy and definition of the governing authority of pre-independence Algeria.
Of course they were. They were obsessed about the races of the various constituents within the territory of Algeria in 1962 as they are obsessed about race today.
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Rihanna smoking a blunt in Hawaii. (January 15, 2012)
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Roseval: New Wave Gourmet In Paris' Belleville Neighborhood
February 18, 2014
On a windy night this past fall, I brought my godfather to his first proper Paris dinner. Naturally, I went with a restaurant I was dying to try: Roseval. Tucked away in the 20th, north of Pere Lachaise and just off the Rue de Menilmontant, the location was sort of perfect. I've come to know this off-the-tourist-path neighborhood a bit better over the past few years and love the foodie ventures it draws.
The exterior of Roseval is unassuming — a beautiful and perfectly aged stone façade. The interior, a rustic-meets-industrial space with just a handful of wooden tables.
Upon being seated, two menus were quickly dropped off for our review. Listing several ingredients for each course, we were given a brief glimpse into what we'd be eating that evening but no sense of the form, as is becoming increasingly common with this style of new wave, low key gastronomic bistro. I love this element of surprise though it may not be best for a pickier eater (also in part because there are no options; you get what they give you). Our ingredient list included:
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Oscar Night Social Media: George Takei Wins Tweet O' the Evening
Oh my! George Takei clearly wins Twitter for the night. There will no doubt be 8,000 "Draft George Takei" Facebook pages by this time tomorrow.
Oh my! George Takei clearly wins Twitter for the night. There will no doubt be 8,000 "Draft George Takei" Facebook pages by this time tomorrow.
Earlier this year, we told you about the instant-classic jingle sent in the direction of KCRW DJ Anne Litt by singer Josh Groban. Based on today's Instagram share, it looks like the relationship is still going strong.
Groban quickly re-tweeted the above photo of Litt shared @kcrw and assured that he still stands by Litt's side:
Previously on FishbowlLA:
Josh Groban Serenades KCRW DJ Anne Litt
The most palpable moment of excitement in the Oscars press room last Sunday occurred when The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was announced on the telecast as winner for Best Editing. Then there's this bit of Larsson love, tweeted out yesterday by LA Times entertainment reporter Amy Kaufman:
Patton Oswalt has gone total fanboy over the popular British period drama Downtown Abbey. The Los Angeles-based comedian declared himself "as besotted as a vicar at a crumpet orgy" over the show, and he enthusiastically live-tweeted his viewing of the 2nd season premiere.
But he took things to a new level this weekend when he posted this dashing photo of himself on Twitter, saying:
Consider this my audition, DOWNTON ABBEY. Season 3. Philbrick, the scone-stealing valet.
C'mon, England. This just has to happen.
Photo property of Patton Oswalt, obviously.
LA Times journo Robert Faturechi tweets some choice passages from the most recent Los Angeles Sheriff's Department newsletter–reacting to the Times' and your humble Fishie's recent stories about inmate abuse and supervisory incompetence inside the Sheriff's Department.
I'm not sure whether to be offended or flattered by the whole "(esp. the Times)" part. Was the omission of my name a begrudging acknowledgment of my story? Or am I just small potatoes not worth mentioning? Either way, for those union members who enjoy the status quo (and the various Federal criminal investigations originating from that status quo), that "dreary" feeling isn't going to go away anytime soon. The LA Justice Report is launching the third part of its investigation next week.
Los Angeles Film Critics Association President Brent Simon nicely illustrates the downside of crowd-sourced film criticism in today's tweet o' the day. Nicely done, sir.
Something tells us said-UPS guy is probably a Yelper too. The one who inexplicably gave Luscious Dumplings one star. A borderline criminal offense.
Looks like the good folks at the San Gabriel Valley Tribune completely missed out on all the 11:11 11/11/11 craziness. Too bad. Not to rub it in or anything, but we here at FishbowlLA celebrated by heading to Hooters–where we took 11 shots, drank 11 beers, ate 11 chicken wings, blew 11 lines of coke in the bathroom and ogled 11 breasts. It was spectacular. We're all still high-fiving each other.
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Friday, July 27, 2012
by Thomas O'Toole
Employer-side attorneys got a bitter pill yesterday when the Fourth Circuit held, emphatically, that it is not permissible to build a federal computer fraud case against departing employees based on violations of a company computer use policy. This opinion, along with the en banc Ninth Circuit's opinion earlier this year in United States v. Nosal means that large parts of the country are off-limits for this type of litigation.
However, a faint glimmer of hope for employers lies in the uncertain status of the Nosal case. The government has twice obtained a stay of mandate from the Ninth Circuit in order to buy time to file a petition for certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court. Earlier this month, Justice Kennedy gave the government until Aug. 8 to file a petition. The Fourth Circuit's ruling yesterday marks the second time a court has rejected the government's interpretation of the CFAA. Government attorneys might be more interested in filing a cert petition now.
Idle speculation on my part, but I wonder if the government has held off on filing a cert petition in Nosal because government attorneys were holding out hope that Congress would amend the CFAA to reflect the government's interpretation of the statute. Comprehensive cybersecurity legislation, a logical location for CFAA amendments, is reportedly going to see attention next week in the Senate.
In WEC Carolina Energy Solutions LLC v. Miller, No. 11–1201 (4th Cir., July 26, 2012), the court held that a company employee did not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act's prohibitions against unauthorized access or access in excess of authorization when he downloaded confidential information from his employer's computer network and later used that information in a competing business.
Judge Henry Franklin Floyd ruled that the CFAA, 18 U.S.C. §1030, prohibits unauthorized acts of obtaining and altering information from a protected computer, not using without authority lawfully accessed information. Because the employee in this case was permitted to have access to the information at the time he downloaded it, his later use of that information for a subsequent employer did not violate the CFAA, the court said.
In so holding, the court agreed with the en banc Ninth Circuit's recent decision in United States v. Nosal, 676 F.3d 854 (2012). The court rejected the Seventh Circuit reading of the CFAA in International Airport Centers LLC v. Citrin, 440 F.3d 418 (2006), in which the court held that an employee loses lawful authority to access an employer's computer network if the access violates the employee's fiduciary duty of loyalty to the employer. The court's opinion made clear that, in the Fourth Circuit, it is not possible to build a CFAA case based on violations of a company's computer use policy.
Defendant Mike Miller resigned from the plaintiff, WEC Carolina Energy Solutions and went to work for a competitor, Arc Energy Services Inc. Before leaving WEC's employ, Miller downloaded proprietary information from WEC's network. He allegedly used that information to win a contract for business that both WEC and Arc Energy were competing for. WEC filed a civil lawsuit against Miller, alleging, among other things, that Miller violated the CFAA when he downloaded WEC's proprietary information to his personal computer. According to WEC, "[u]nder WEC's policies [employees] were not permitted to download confidential and proprietary information to a personal computer." WEC argued that Miller lost authorization to access the company's information when he breached his fiduciary duty to the company and that he exceeded authorization under the company policy.
The trial court dismissed the CFAA claim, concluding that the WEC policy regulated use of company information, not access to that information, and therefore violation of the policy would not support liability under the CFAA's authorized access provisions.
The Fourth Circuit affirmed. The CFAA is primarily criminal statute that provides a civil remedy for a subset of its provisions. The court said that it was appropriate to focus on the plain language of the statute, and to take a strict construction or "rule of lenity" approach because the CFAA is a criminal statute. The CFAA does not define "authorization." It does, however, define "exceeds authorization" as follows: "to access a computer with authorization and to use such access to obtain or alter information in the computer that the accesser is not entitled so to obtain or alter," 18 U.S.C. §1030(e)(6). With the aid of a dictionary and some common-sense parsing of the statute, the court defined access "without authorization" to mean "when [an individual] gains admission to a computer without approval." An individual "exceeds authorized access" when that individual "has approval to access a computer, but uses his access to obtain or alter information that falls outside the bounds of his approved access." The court remark that neither of these definitions reached the conduct complained of in this case, namely, the improper use of information that was validly accessed when the defendant was in the plaintiff's employ.
In support of its argument that the defendant had violated the CFAA, WEC pointed to the (subsequently vacated) three-judge panel opinion in Nosal and the Seventh Circuit's Citrin opinion. The Fourth Circuit rejected both of these courts' readings of the CFAA. In Nosal, the three-judge panel zeroed in on Congress' use of the word "so" in the CFAA's definition of "exceeds authorized access." According to the panel, "so" means "in a manner or way that is indicated or suggested." Thus, according to the Nosal panel opinion, the defendant's subsequent improper use of lawfully obtained information constituted computer access "in a manner" to which they were not entitled. United States v. Nosal, 642 F.3d 781 (9th Cir. 2011).
The en banc Nosal opinion did not embrace this reading of the statute, nor did the Fourth Circuit here. Even if the court was willing to follow the Nosal panel's semantic jiu jitsu, the effort would not lead to the result reached by the panel, the court said. If an employee uses his username and password to access information and later puts that information to an impermissible use, his "manner" of access remains valid, the court said. "In the Ninth Circuit's view, and ours, interpreting 'so' as 'in that manner' fails to mandate CFAA liability for the improper use of information that is accessed with authorization," the court declared. In any event, the court added, the rule of lenity dictates that criminal liability should be judicially found only where Congress has clearly criminalized the conduct under review. The court noted that, if it were to accept the Nosal panel's view, the law would treat as criminal behavior an employee's act of violating a computer use policy if the violation was committed for the purpose of advancing the employer's interests.
Similar considerations led the court to reject Citrin`s cessation-of-agency gloss on the CFAA. Taking the hypothetical example of an employee who accessed Facebook during work hours in contravention of the employer's computer use policy, the court said that, under Citrin, the employee's right to use the employer's network would immediately terminate. "[W]e do not think Congress intended an immediate end to the agency relationship and, moreover, the imposition of criminal penalties for such a frolic," the court said.
Along the way, the court remarked that the employer still had numerous state-law claims that it could pursue–as was in fact pursuing–against the defendant.
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Despite being just one year since it was completely redesigned, the Subaru WRX is getting some big upgrades for 2009 including a more powerful engine with a larger turbo, new exterior enhancements and more go-fast hardware from its big brother, the STI. When we heard this news, we mentioned that buyers of the 2008 model might feel slighted. No might about it anymore, as Inside Line is reporting that the 2009 WRX will be priced almost identical to the 2008 model. The '09 WRX will reportedly start below $25k while the 2008 model starts at $24,995, including a $645 delivery charge. While a delivery charge might push the '09 model over $25k, that's a small price to pay for all the extras you're getting that includes a new 265-horsepower version of Subaru's turbocharged 2.5L boxer-four.
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Women's tennis racked up its third NESCAC win of the season when it traveled to Conn. College Wed., April 18 and easily avenged a 5-4 loss last year by rolling to a 9-0 victory. Sarah Miller '12 (photo), playing #2 singles and #1 doubles, made short work of her opponents in both singles and doubles, winning 6-0, 6-2 and 8-0, coupled with Grace Smith '14. Smith, Genevieve Aniello '13, Kiley Robbins '14 and Lauren Jacobs '15 all conquered their Camels rival without surrending more than three games in any set. Madison Hartley '15, new to the team this spring after transferring from Wheaton, also won but needed a super tie-breaker in the third set to come through. Close doubles wins by the pairs of Aniello/Robbins and Hartley/Jacobs made it a clean sweep.
Miller had posted a dominating 6-2, 6-0 victory at #2 singles after teaming with Smith at #1 doubles for an 8-4 win as the Cardinals snuck past Colby, 5-4, Sat., April 7 for the team's initial NESCAC win this season. Wesleyan has defeated Colby eight times in 10 all-time meetings with three of the last four Wesleyan wins coming by a slender 5-4 count, including last year's triumph in Middletown.
While the Miller/Smith victory was the Cardinals' lone doubles win, Wesleyan took four of six singles affairs, three of them in straight sets, to decide the outcome of the match. Aniello was a 6-4, 6-3 winner at #3 while Robbins was slightly more effective with her 6-3, 6-2 conquest at #4. Hartley came through with a valuable win at #5, 7-5, 4-6, 6-3. Both Smith, at #1, and Jacobs, at #6, lost in three sets with Smith falling in a third-set tie-breaker.
Wesleyan moved out of conference for a match Tues., April 10, traveling to Babson. There the Cardinals won handily, 7-2. Again, Miller posted the most convincing singles win, taking a 6-2, 6-2 decision, while joining Smith for an 8-4 doubles win. Other straight-set winners in singles for Wesleyan included Hartley and Jacobs while Smith and Robbins came up with three-set wins, taking a super-tie-breaker each. The Cardinals' seventh team point came at #3 doubles with a win from the team of Hartley and Jacobs.
Wesleyan was back in NESCAC mode on Sun., April 15, visiting Hamilton. There the Cardinals won, 6-1, as two matches went unfinished. Still, Miller was a force, winning 6-1, 6-2 in singles and 8-0 at #1 doubles with Smith. Smith and Aniello both won their singles matches convincingly in straight sets. Aniello and Robbins joined forces at #2 doubles for an 8-5 win and the Hartley/Jacobs duo was successful at #3, 8-6.
The squad tackled Smith in a non-conference home match Sat., April 21 before wrapping up the year with two NESCAC battles against Trinity and Amherst in the final week of the campaign. Wesleyan conquered Smity by an 8-1 score. Miller moved up to the top spot in the singles lineup and produced a 6-0, 6-0 win. She and Smith were an 8-4 victor at #1 doubles. Aniello, Robbins and Jacobs were winners once again in straight sets while Nicki Softness '14 and Hannah Berkman '12 found spots at #5 and #6 and took their matches. Also winning at #2 doubles was the tandem of Hartley and Jacobs.
Wesleyan travels to Trinity Sat., April 28 for its next encounter sporting an 8-3 overall record.


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Happy 7th Gasbuddy anniversary to you, Linda Hale! Here's to a reasonable holiday season. Not too cold. Not too much snow. Maybe a little if you like. Regards.
Friday, November 21, 2014 | 6:07 a.m. RapidCity SouthDakota time| i am happy seeing posted prices; sometimes "happy" is laughter, because of the "whom" posted: it's like seeing ... a "sign" - ) yah-da! thanks all who post prices, update prices, "tell! the prices" Linda-Hale
Happy weekend, Linda Hale! Best of the Autumn season to you. It's a pretty one here, and hope it is there also. The 2130 consecutive days are looking great. Regards.
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Don't visit your area very often, but thank you for posting those prices. It helps coming into a town, and not knowing whether $X.XX/Gal. is a good deal, or keep driving to the next station. Had that happen in about 2006. It was the reason I joined Gasbuddy. Got ripped off in Williams, AZ. We were going to see the "Big Ditch", and needed gas. Got some, and no more than 5 miles down the road, the gas was about $0.60/Gal. less. I was irritated, and still remember that to this day. Thank you again, and it's good to hear from you. Are the newlyweds doing okay, or better? Regards.
Your 2040 consecutive days are looking mighty fine. Some cooler air is coming across our area today. From the 90's to the upper 70's. It's headed Southeast. Just saying. Regards.
Another year sharper! Big Happy Birthday wishes to you, Linda Hale. May you receive all that you desire today. Whatever you choose. Had a great day, and also happy 4th. The 2016 consecutive days are hot, like the Summer sun. Regards.
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 | 5:35 p.m. Rapid City South Dakota time :: @2001 consecutive days with 37 wonderful GasBuddy buddies. post prices! safe travels! Linda Hale
See you are about 30,000 ahead of me. I see you used my name in one of your conversations.
Thursday, May 22, 2014 3:31 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time - or "Rapid City South Dakota time" | thanks to all who post prices. if you find that a price has been "updated" it might be because the system that "the boys" ( my affectionate term for those that control the gas prices here in western South Dakota - none are "boys" in age: but it's polite ) reading the grades of gas: some do it: reg/mid/prem others do it mid/reg/prem : here and there it might be upside down: prem/reg/mid or prem/mid/reg--i'd guess the view-ability of the signage: what folks see first from driving angle -- but that's me thinking while driving the path that i "see the numbers" for several years.


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On Sunday 24th February and Monday 25th February Italy will hold its first general election since 2008. The results should be known after 1400 GMT on the 25th when polling stations shut and exit polls should be released. Italy does not allow polling in the week leading up to the election, which makes the outcome uncertain. There is an unusual amount of uncertainty in this election, only a few months ago few people would have thought that former PM Silvio Berlusconi would be trying to win back power, neither did many people many people think a former comedian would generate a huge amount of excitement and become a credible force in Italian politics. But when it comes to Italy and politics, take nothing at face value.
The candidates:
There are seven candidates/ parties trying to win power including Berlusconi, the centre left Bersani, former technocratic PM Monti, comedian Grillo, Maroni from the right, Vendola of the left and Ingoria from the Civil Resolution Party.
The candidates to watch: Berlusconi, Grillo and Maroni are anti-austerity and have challenged European dominance over Italian economic policy. Grillo seems more hard-core on this than Berlusconi, his Five Star Movement has campaigned on a pledge that austerity must end in favour of a referendum on Eurozone membership and debt restructuring. These are fairly radical ideas, combined with his surge in popularity, at a recent rally in Milan 100,000 were said to have attended, make Grillo the wildcard in this election.
Latest polling data:
The last polls before the election on 8th February put centre left Bersani in the lead with 35.2% of the vote, Berlusconi in second with 28.3%, Grillo third with 15.9% of the vote and Monti in fourth with 14.8%. Grillo may have seen his share of the vote increase in the last few days; the question is will voters have moved away from Bersani, Monti or Berlusconi in favour of Grillo?
As we move closer to the election there is a chance of a hung parliament, with Bersani not able to win enough support to take control of the Senate. This leaves the prospect of either 1, a new round of elections or 2, a messy coalition that could break down. Back in 2008 Berlusconi was able to win back power because the government of Romani Prodi collapsed after an unsuccessful Senate vote to change the electoral law.
What the market thinks:
Bersani believes that Italy should stick to its fiscal treaty and European commitments, but that the focus should shift from austerity to growth. He has proposed that Italy could relinquish some budget sovereignty in favour of flexibility in terms of public investment. This makes him the most market friendly candidate together in a coalition with Monti. If Bersani does become PM he is likely to come up against a lot of opposition from Germany over austerity, however, we believe this opposition would not threaten Italy's position in the currency bloc.
If Berlusconi becomes PM again or if Grillo becomes a force in Italian politics then we could see the prospect of a breakup of the Eurozone come back into focus. Both men don't want to toe the European (or German) line on austerity and are willing to let the people decide on their future membership of the euro. When Greece tried to do this last year, German Chancellor Merkel was willing to cut Greece loose. This caused huge amounts of volatility in financial markets and peripheral bond markets in particular, and EURUSD fell close to 1.20. Italy is the third largest economy in the currency bloc; it is not clear if the Euro project could exist without it. Thus, the hidden threat in this election is the potential break-up risk of the currency bloc. This is not a laughing matter, Mr Grillo...
The market impact:
The euro: The euro has been in decline ever since the last ECB meeting touted the prospect of a rate cut. It closed the European session on Friday below some key support levels, opening the way for further downside to 1.3120 - the 100-day sma, and then 1.2995. However, if the Italian election causes financial market stress the decline could be sharp and quick. We believe that Italian bond yields have miss-priced the risks of the Italian elections. The 10-year yield is currently below 4.5%. An adverse outcome could see bond yields spike in Italy, and potentially Spain as investors fear that anti-Europe/ anti-austerity fever could spread. The euro has a fairly strong inverse correlation with peripheral bond yields, so as yields rise the euro tends to drop. Any stress caused by the elections could see us sub- 1.30 and back towards 1.25 in EURUSD very quickly. This would also affect EURJPY. In the event of a problematic election result, EURJPY drop back to 119.30 - the 50-day sma and a key support zone - in the short term.
Stocks: Italy's FTSE MIB index has fallen nearly 10% since the start of this month, as election risk has been concentrated in the domestic stock market. In fairness the stock market has had to deal with a double whammy - a plethora of economic data misses - along with the election risks. Thus, we could see further downside in Italian stocks as we don't think the growth outlook will pick up any time soon. The European Commission expects Italy's GDP to contract by 1% this year and for unemployment to rise to 11.6%.
Overall, a hung parliament that leads to a re-run of elections may be the worst outcome for global risk assets, particularly European assets, as fears rise that the currency bloc could break up, yet again. This election is a keen reminder that the problems in the currency bloc are far from over, and talk of stabilisation in recent months was a delusion.
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This weekend I moved. With moving there comes cleaning, with cleaning there comes recycling.
Although Texas doesn't have anything similar to the Oregon bottle bill, I'm sure happy that Austinies go out of their way to recycle. This place is kinda downtown Austin – Ecology Action (ecology!!!!) it's basically a volunteer recycling organization. Nice. (=
That is alot of beer. (well…it was alot of beer…now it's just alot of bottles). HOWEVER…point is, could you imagine all this being thrown in the trash, i.e. into the ocean?!
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A French court ordered a magazine publisher to hand over all digital copies of topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge within 24 hours and blocked further publication of what it called a "brutal display" of William and Kate's private moments. Under the ruling Tuesday, the French gossip magazine Closer faces a daily fine of €10,000 ($13,100) if it fails to hand over the photos taken during the royals' vacation in southern France and cannot disseminate them any further, including on its website and tablet app.
The magazine published 14 photos of a partially clad Kate in its pages on Friday.
But if the royal family had hoped to block international publication, it was too late. Publications in Ireland and Italy already went ahead with the topless photos. Tuesday's ruling only affects Mondadori Magazines France, Closer's publisher. The publisher also faces a €2,000 ($2,600) fine. READ FULL STORY


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By Dmitry Golubovsky and Andrey F. Babitsky
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DECEMBER 4, 2011: Voting Station No. 1 in the center of Moscow, across the street from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building, 8:30 A.M., half an hour after voting in the most explosive parliamentary election in the history of New Russia began: An independent observer is removed by the election committee because he "took pictures and asked questions." Nobody seems to care too much about this incident: not the voters waiting in line, not the police who escort the observer from the premises, not even the other observers the very people who are supposed to ensure a fair and open election on behalf of the media and various participating political parties.
More than a thousand miles away, well before the first vote was even cast, the authorities of Levoberezhnaya District in North Ossetia had a simple plan for how the elections would turn out. United Russia, the ruling party and the political instrument by which Vladimir Putin (and, nominally, Dmitry Medvedev) has exercised total control over the state for the past twelve years, was supposed to get about 74 percent at each voting station; the Communist party, the always-second main rival of UR, was supposed to get around 20 percent. And so they do in most of the district, except where heads of several voting commissions give 74 percent to the Communists and 20 percent to UR. The only reasonable explanation: They mixed up their instructions, attributed the wrong percentages to the wrong parties, and revealed that the fix was in from the very beginning.
Weird things happen all over the country. In Chechnya, according to official results, voter attendance is 99.5 percent, and yet according to the preelection polls, more than 60 percent of the people in the republic said they never or almost never vote. In Moscow, two voting stations in the same school report vastly different findings one has 90 percent for United Russia, the other only 26 percent. Independent observers in Russia's capital who weren't removed from voting stations tell incredible stories about election officials who escape the stations with bags full of ballots never to be seen at the station again. Ilya Azar, a correspondent for the news site Lenta.ru, manages to go undercover with two other journalists to reveal a fraud scheme called the "merry-go-round": People are hired to go around to several voting stations with falsified absentee ballots, and with the help of local election commissions, they stuff the ballot boxes. This is either the sloppiest case of election rigging in history or proof that some acts of fraud are simply too massive to succeed.
By nightfall it becomes clear that United Russia will carry the day and retain control of parliament, but by a much slimmer margin than anybody expected. People start to read about allegations of fraud and abuse. On blogs. On Facebook. They watch videos on YouTube that document ballot stuffing. They question whether United Russia would have prevailed in a free and fair election. They question how far Putin and Medvedev will go to stay in power. And for the first time in a long time, some of them decide to do something about it.
DECEMBER 5: Thousands of people, perhaps as many as ten thousand, gather in the center of Moscow, on Chistoprudny Boulevard, to protest election fraud. It is the largest gathering of protesters in a decade, and among them is Alexei Navalny, a lawyer, political activist, and blogger who became famous last year when he branded United Russia "the party of crooks and thieves." Navalny gets up onstage and makes a speech, most notable for the remark: "They call us little hamsters from the social networks. Yes, I am a little network hamster! And I'll gnaw through the throats of these cads!" meaning the regime. "It was clear that we couldn't just stand there for a while and leave," says Navalny. "We needed some act of civil disobedience that said: We exist. So some people decided to go to the Central Election Commission building, which was about a mile away. The first couple of cordons were pretty easy to pass internal troops, silly little soldiers with their silly shields: You push him, and he either falls down or steps aside. But then came the OMON, special-purpose police units. Those guys are pretty big and well trained, they stand in two rows, and they know how to hit you first a real tricky one with a knee, then with their helmet. I got one right on my nose. If you want to break a cordon like that, you must have tenfold the people, which we actually had, but we were too spread out. So we didn't get to the CEC building they just squeezed us in and packed us into buses." The police arrest several hundred people, Navalny among them, who goes on to serve fifteen days in prison for "disobedience to the police." "The overall mood at the rally was aggressive," Navalny told us a few days after he was released. "Of the seventy detainees who were arrested after the rally, 80 percent were observers at the elections. They were expelled from their voting stations, they witnessed ballot stuffing and all kinds of fraud, and they came to the rally not to support any oppositional party, association, or person they came because they were filled with very personal, furious rage."
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