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Jun 25 2008
FISA Amendments Act of 2008
Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Thank you very much, Mr. President.
Mr. President, I begin my remarks by thanking the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, Senator Rockefeller, and the vice chairman of the Intelligence Committee, Senator Bond, the House Speaker, and the House leadership for their distinguished work on this piece of legislation. This has not been easy. It is certainly not without controversy. There are some major challenges to work through.
I want to begin by putting my remarks, at least, in context.
There is no more important requirement for national security than obtaining accurate, actionable intelligence. At the same time, there have to be strong safeguards in place to ensure that the Government does not infringe on Americans' constitutional rights.
Yet if Congress does not act and pass this bill, as it was passed overwhelmingly in the House, both of these goals, I believe, are in jeopardy. Here is why. If this bill does not pass, our Nation would likely be forced to either extend the Protect America Act or leave the Nation bare until a new bill can be written. Neither of these are good options.
As I will describe, the Protect America Act does not adequately protect Americans' constitutional rights. It was written to be a temporary measure for 6 months, and it expired on February 5.
What many people do not understand is that surveillance conducted under the Protect America Act will cease by the middle of August. It will be impossible to write a new bill, to get it past both Houses, to have it signed by the President in time to meet this deadline.
If that bill expires without this Congress passing new legislation, we will be unable to conduct electronic surveillance on a large number of foreign targets. In other words, our intelligence apparatus will be laid bare and the Nation will go into greater jeopardy. I truly believe that.
The FISA legislation of 1978 cannot accommodate this number of targets. It is simply inadequate for this new task due to changes in technology and the communications industry. That is precisely why FISA needs to be modernized.
So taking no action means we will be opening ourselves, in my view, to the possibility of major attack. This is unacceptable.
So as I see it, our choice is a clear one: We either pass this legislation or we extend the Protect America Act. For me, this legislation is much the better option.
This bill, in some respects, improves even on the base bill, the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. It provides clear protections for U.S. persons both at home and abroad. It ensures that the Government cannot conduct electronic surveillance on an American anywhere in the world without a warrant. No legislation has done that up to this point.
I think the improvements in this bill over the Protect America Act and the 1978 legislation are important to understand, and I wish to list a few.
First, prior court review. This bill ensures that there will be no more warrantless surveillance. Now, why do I say this? Under the Protect America Act--which is expiring, but we are still collecting surveillance under it for now--the intelligence community was authorized to conduct electronic surveillance for a period of 4 months before submitting an application for a warrant to the FISA Court. Surveillance could actually proceed for 6 months before there was a warrant.
Under this bill, the Government must submit an application and receive a warrant from the FISA Court before surveillance begins. No more warrantless surveillance. This is, in fact, a major point.
In emergency cases, there can be a short period of collection--up to 7 days--as the application is prepared. There has been a provision for emergency cases under FISA for some 30 years now. So that is prior court review for a U.S. person anywhere in the world if content is collected.
Meaningful court review. This bill strengthens court review. Under the Protect America Act, the Government submitted to the FISA Court its determination that procedures were in place to ensure that only people outside the United States would be targeted. The court could only reject an application for a warrant if it found that determination to be ``clearly erroneous.'' This bill returns to the traditional FISA standard, empowering the court to decide whether the Government's determination is ``reasonable.'' This is a higher standard of review, so the court review under this bill is meaningful.
Next, minimization. These first two improvements ensure that the Government will only be targeting people outside the country. That is good, but it is not enough. There is always the possibility of someone outside the country talking to a U.S. person inside the country. The bill addresses this with a process known as minimization.
In 1978, Congress said that the Government could do surveillance on U.S. persons under a court warrant, but required the Government to minimize the amount of information on those Americans who get included in the intelligence reporting. In practice, this actually means that the National Security Agency only includes information about a U.S. person that is strictly necessary to convey the intelligence. Most of the time, the person's name is not included in the report. That is the minimization process.
If an American's communication is incidentally caught up in electronic surveillance while the Government is targeting someone else, minimization protects that person's private information.
Now, the Protect America Act did not provide for court review over this minimization process at all. But this bill requires the court in advance to approve the Government's minimization procedures prior to commencing with any minimization program. That is good. That is the third improvement.
Fourth, reverse targeting. There is an explicit ban on reverse targeting. Now, what is reverse targeting? That is the concern that the National Security Agency could get around the warrant requirement. If the NSA wanted to get my communications but did not want to go to the FISA Court, they might try to figure out who I am talking with and collect the content of their calls to get to me. This bill says you cannot do that. You cannot reverse target. It is prohibited. This was a concern with the Protect America Act, and it is fixed in this bill.
Those are four reasons--good reasons. Here is a fifth: U.S. person privacy outside the United States. This bill does more than Congress has ever done before to protect Americans' privacy regardless of where they are, anywhere in the world. Under this bill, the executive branch will be required to obtain a warrant any time it seeks to direct surveillance at a U.S. person anywhere in the world. So any U.S. person anywhere in the world is protected by the requirement that a warrant must be received from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court before electronic surveillance can begin.
Previously, FISA only covered people inside the United States. The Protect America Act did the same thing.
Now, also under this bill, there will be reviews of surveillance authorities by the Director of National Intelligence, the Attorney General, the heads of all relevant agencies, and the inspectors general of all relevant agencies on a regular basis, and the FISA Court and the Congress will receive the results of those reviews.
So there will be regular reporting from the professionals in the arena on how this bill is being followed through on--how electronic surveillance is being carried out worldwide. The Intelligence and Judiciary Committees will receive those reports. That, too, is important.
Also, under this bill, there will be a retrospective review of the President's Terrorist Surveillance Program. That is the program that has stirred the furor. The bill requires an unclassified report on the facts of the program, including its limits, the legal justifications, and the role played by the FISA Court and any private actors involved. This will provide needed accountability.
In summary, all intelligence collection under the Terrorist Surveillance Program will be brought under court review and court orders.
Everything I have described brings this administration back under the law. There is no more Terrorist Surveillance Program. There is only court-approved, Congressionally reviewed collection.
But what is to keep this administration or any other administration from going around the law again? The answer is one word, and it is called exclusivity.
It means that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is the only, the exclusive, means for conducting electronic surveillance inside the United States for foreign intelligence purposes.
The exclusivity language in this bill is identical in substance to the amendment I offered in February, which received 57 votes in this Senate. It is section 102 of this bill.
This language reiterates what FISA said in 1978, and it goes further. Here is what this bill says:
Never again will a President be able to say that his authority--or her authority, one day, I hope--as Commander in Chief can be used to violate a law duly enacted by Congress.
Never again can an Executive say that a law passed to do one thing--such as use military force against our enemies--also overrides a ban on warrantless surveillance. The administration has said that the resolution to authorize the use of military force gave this President the right to go around FISA.
Never again can the Government go to private companies for their assistance in conducting surveillance that violates the law.
Now, this administration has a very broad view of Executive authority. Quite simply, it believes that when it comes to these matters, the President is above the law. I reject that notion in the strongest terms.
I think it is important to review the recent history with this administration to demonstrate why FISA exclusivity is so important.
At the very beginning of the Terrorist Surveillance Program, John Yoo, at the Office of Legal Counsel, wrote in a legal opinion that:
..... [u]nless Congress made a clear statement in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that it sought to restrict presidential authority to conduct warrantless searches in the national security area--which it has not--then the statute must be construed to avoid [such] a reading.
That was the argument. I believe it is wrong. Congress wrote FISA in 1978 precisely in the field of national security; there are other, separate laws that govern wiretapping in the criminal context. In fact, the Department of Justice has repudiated Yoo's notion.
But if the Department admitted that FISA did apply, it found another excuse not to take the Terrorist Surveillance Program to the FISA Court.
The Department of Justice developed a new, convoluted argument that Congress had authorized the President to go around FISA by passing the authorization to use military force against al-Qaida and the Taliban.
This is as flimsy as the last argument.
There is nothing in the AUMF that talks about electronic surveillance or FISA, and I know of not one Member who believed we were suspending FISA when we authorized the President to go to war.
But that is another argument we lay to rest with this bill. Here is how we do it. We say in the language in this bill that FISA is exclusive. Now, here is the major part: Only a specific statutory grant of authority in future legislation can provide authority to the Chief Executive to conduct surveillance without a FISA warrant.
So we go a step further in exclusivity. We cover what Yoo was trying to argue and what others might argue on behalf of a Chief Executive in the future, by closing the loophole and saying: You need specific statutory authority by the Congress of the United States to go outside the law and the Constitution.
The final argument the President has made is that even if FISA was intended to apply, and even if the AUMF didn't override FISA's procedures, he still had the authority as Commander in Chief to disregard the law.
Now, I have spoken on the floor before about how the President believes he is above the law and the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company v. Sawyer case. In that case, Justice Jackson described how the President's power is at the ``lowest ebb'' when he is acting in contravention to the will of the Congress.
This bill, again, makes it clear that the will of Congress is that there will be no electronic surveillance inside the United States without a warrant, and it makes clear that any electronic surveillance that is conducted outside of FISA or outside of another express statutory authorization for surveillance is a criminal act. It is criminalized. This is the strongest statement of exclusivity in history.
The reason I am describing all this is to build a case of legislative intent in case this is ever litigated, and I suspect it may well be.
So, finally, I wish to read into the Record the comments on exclusivity from a June 19, 2008, letter that Attorney General Mukasey and Director of National Intelligence McConnell wrote to the Congress. The letter recognizes that the exclusivity provision in this bill "goes beyond the exclusive means provision that was passed as part of FISA [in 1978]."
So they essentially admit we are taking exclusivity to a new high. Nevertheless, they acknowledge that the provision in this bill "would not restrict the authority of the government to conduct necessary surveillance for intelligence and law enforcement purposes in a way that would harm national security."
I said in February I could not support a bill without exclusivity. This is what keeps history from repeating itself and another President from going outside the law. I believe that with this language we will prevent it from ever happening again.
Now, a comment on title II of the bill, which is the telecom immunity section. This bill also creates a legal process that may--and, in fact, is likely to--result in immunity for telecommunications companies that are alleged to have provided assistance to the Government.
I have spent a great deal of time reviewing this matter. I have read the legal opinions written by the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice. I have read the written requests to telecommunications companies. I have spoken to officials inside and outside the Government, including several meetings with the companies alleged to have participated in the program.
The companies were told after 9/11 that their assistance was needed to protect against further terrorist acts. This actually happened within weeks of 9/11. I think we can all understand and remember what the situation was in the 3 weeks following 9/11.
The companies were told the surveillance program was authorized and that it was legal, and they were prevented from doing their due diligence in reviewing the Government's request. In fact, very few people in these companies--these big telecoms--are actually cleared to receive this information and discuss it. So that creates a very limited universe of people who can do their due diligence within the confines of a given telecommunications company.
For the record, let me also address what I have heard some of my colleagues say. At the beginning of the Terrorist Surveillance Program, only four Senators were briefed. The Intelligence Committee was not, other than the Chairman and Vice Chairman.
I am one who believes it is right for the public and the private sector to support the Government at a time of need. When it is a matter of national security, it is all the more important.
I think the lion's share of the fault rests with the administration, not with the companies.
It was the administration who refused to go to the FISA Court to seek warrants. They could have gone to the FISA Court to seek these warrants on a program basis, and they have done so subsequently.
It was the administration who withheld this surveillance program from the vast majority of Members of Congress, and it was the administration who developed the legal theories to explain why it could, in fact, go around the law.
So I am pleased this bill includes independent reviews of the administration's actions to be conducted by the inspectors general of the relevant departments.
All of that said, when the legislation was before the Senate in February, I stated my belief that immunity should only be provided if the defendant companies acted legally, or if they acted in good faith with a reasonable belief that their actions were legal. That is what the law calls for.
I moved an amendment to require the court to review the written requests to companies to see whether they met the terms of the law. That law requires that a specific person send a certification in writing to a telecommunications company. That certification is required to state that no court order is required for the surveillance, that all statutory requirements have been met, and that the assistance is required by the Government.
Unfortunately, my amendment was not adopted, but I continue to believe it is the appropriate standard.
Now, the pending legislation does not assess whether the request made by the Government was, in fact, legal, nor whether the companies had a good-faith and objective belief that the requests were legal. What this bill does provide is a limited measure of court review. It is not as robust as my amendment would have provided, but it does provide an opportunity for the plaintiffs to be heard in court, and it provides an opportunity for the court to review these request documents.
I believe the court should not grant immunity without looking into the legality of the companies' actions. So if there is an amendment that does support this, I would intend to vote for it.
But I believe the Record should be clear in noting that if this bill does become law, in my view, it does not mean the Congress has passed judgment on whether any companies' actions were or were not legal. Rather, it should be interpreted as Congress recognizing the circumstances under which the companies were acting and the reality that we desperately need the voluntary assistance of the private sector to keep the Nation secure in the future.
I believe this bill balances security and privacy without sacrificing either. It is certainly better than the Protect America Act in that regard, and makes improvements over the 1978 FISA law.
As I said, if a new bill is not in place by mid-August, the Nation will be laid bare and unable to collect intelligence.
This bill provides for meaningful and repeated court review of surveillance done for intelligence purposes. It ends, once and for all, the practice of warrantless surveillance, and it protects Americans' constitutional rights both at home and abroad. It provides the Government with the flexibility it needs under the law to protect our Nation. It makes it crystal clear that this is the law of the land and that this law must be obeyed.
I yield the floor.


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Got this to work with softchip r99 + updating cios 55, yay
Thanks for this guide Dave but unfortunately i could not get it to work this way on my 4.2E SOFTMOD (used Waninkoko's guide).
I tried about 11 different combinations of options but always ended with a black screen and blinking DVD light. Should probably mention that the backup DVD is an NTSC scrubbed version of MH3 and i used USB Loader GX channel version (not forwarder)
I had to use SoftChip R99 plus the Ios55 bugfix which worked without any problems, i also didn't have to force NTSC or PAL as apparently my TV supports both
Just posting this here for anyone who still cant get it running with your method.
Thanks again Dave, if it wasn't for your guide i probably wouldn't have bothered trying to get the game working, which now that i have played it would have certainly regretted it.
-Wii 4.2e
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Got this to work with softchip r99 + updating cios 55, yay
*note* This is taken from said video before but a little more elaborated i guess you could say
I am using 4.2u and did all the modding required.
I followed your guide but didn't quite work (had a black screen at load up if i used 223 or 222)
Anyways so i used the new cIOSX rev19 and works great.
Grab the new cIOSX rev19 here
I stuck it in my SD card apps folder(did not test just using my hard drive):
1. Create a new folder in your apps folder named "cIOSX_rev19-Installer"
2. Extract/Copy contents of download into folder
3. rename "cIOSX_rev19-Installer.dol" to "boot.dol"
To Install:
1. Open cIOSX_rev19-Installer with Homebrew
2. Use IOS249 during installation
3. A to agree to disclaimer
4. Select IOS37 v3869 then press A
5. If you have a network connection switch and use that, but if you want to use offline download this file and place it in the wad folder in the root of your card (sd:\wad)
This method apparently works on many different loaders so hopefully it will work with yours!!!
Settings im using for my USB Loader GX is:
Video Mode : Force NTSC
Error 002 fix : Yes
(leave everything else alone)
Here is a video with a guy using it on many loaders:
Monster Hunter 3 (Tri) works on just about every loader there is
Enjoy Gaming!
Confirmed Loaders:
- NeoGamma R8 Final
- USB Loader GX
- Wii Flow (IOS 249)
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Confirmed Burned CD backups
Maybe it would be a good idea to modify the original post to not confuse people more as Neogamma does indeed work to load this disc.
I confirm that after installing cIOSX19 using IOS37 as base the game worked perfectly loading through Neogamma (R8 beta 15 and R9 beta 6).
Thanks to the OP and all who've contributed in helping to figure this out.
I've tried Hermes v4 (merged 38 and 37) for both 222 and 223 but every time I try to boot I get the Error#001 message and it's driving me insane.
It will load on 249 but as soon as I hit 'begin game' my Wii starts to make a funny noise and freezes.
I've also tried installing ciosX rev19 but then usb loader gx doesn't work.
Anybody else having the same problem? And hopefully fixed it?


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As assistant director of the Holmes Cultural Diversity Center, Ra'Sheda Forbes focuses on the retention of first-year and transfer students.
"A lot of times, I see freshmen who come in and do well academically, but not socially. Or, it can be the other way around," she said.
Forbes oversees several programs that aid in balancing out both areas of a student's life, including the Peers Assisting with Students, or PAWS, program, which consists of 40 upperclassmen who help first-year and transfer students ease through the transition to MSU.
She also started the Intelligent, Dignified, Elegant, Ambitious, Leader, or I.D.E.A.L., Woman program to equip women with the skills needed for successful lives. The organization encourages confidence, integrity, self-respect and self-esteem, by way of providing positive role models and networking.
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"My mentor once told me to model the way. I try to do that in all ways of my life," she said.
Forbes makes sure she starts her day off right by preparing herself mentally, physically and spiritually so she can be a better role model to her students. And as her mentor advised, she really does model the way in all areas of her life, including her marriage.
Originally from Meridian, Forbes graduated from MSU with a degree in biological science in 2008. She met her husband during her freshman year at the university and they became best friends. It wasn't until after they both graduated that they started dating.
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encountered this surreal moment in western Ireland. The marine mooring
buoy, lit by the afternoon sun, seemed suspended like some planetary
orrery against the lunar limestone landscape of the Burren. The strange
intruder is watched by the daytime moon. When I returned a second time
to survey the scene the wall pier had been demolished and the celestial
imposter had moved to some unseen coordinates.Oil on aluminium composite panel, 76.8cm x 75.3cm. © Fergus A Ryan, 2012
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I replaced Tel Aviv with Vilna, Haifa with Bialystock, Degania, Nahalal, Be'er Sheva with Plonsk, Riga, and Odessa—Shimon Peres
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D'gania as Auschwitz
Everything was sanitized in Peres speech. To such an extent—as it will be shown later—that if it had been uttered in English, he would have said "Degania," instead of the proper Dgania, which means "God's Cereal." Yet, for those who grew up in the scorching valley placed under the sea level, the "cereal" part of the name ("dagan") meant endless days of work in the fields while the grownups took long naps or traveled around with the communal cars. At the end of the day, we returned to the communal sleeping quarters. This was the only type of settlement in human history that tried to destroy the institution of family for being "reactionary." The Zionists hoped in such a way to shape us into "new men," free from old ideologies. The entire settlement was closed behind barbed wire, so that we were practically children slaves in a prison. The kibbutz was my Auschwitz.
"How do you dare!" are Zionists exclaiming in horror by now. Yet, that's the truth. Moreover, Auschwitz inmates were in better situation than us. They knew they would soon die and be released from suffering, while we knew we were destined to a lifetime of misery. Sadly, due to certain unfortunate characteristics of the time-space continuum, we couldn't swap places. Yet, I thank God for the experience that, exposing me to evil, led me to choose good.
Mr. Peres, what about Al-Aqaba?
Another striking point in Peres choice of places, is that he didn't mention any Palestinian, Druze, Circassian, Bedouin, or any non-Jewish settlement. I was pondering how to properly assess the point, when one of my subscribers sent me an article published yesterday by Mondo Weiss (http://mondoweiss.net/2012/04/a-palestinian-mayor-issues-desperate-appeal-to-the-world-to-restore-his-villages-lifeline.html). Named A Palestinian mayor issues desperate appeal to the world to restore his village's lifeline, the article simply reproduces verbatim a letter issued by Haj Sami Sadiq, Mayor of Al Aqaba, which as Degania, is in the Jordan Valley. Unlike Degania, Al Aqaba is populated by Palestinians.
The letter is harsh. It described how for decades Israeli soldiers used the village as a live ammunition training area. This cost the lives of eight of the village people and injured 38, including the mayor, who is shown in the picture above. In 2003, after petitioning the Supreme Court, the military camp was evacuated from the village. In illegitimate retribution, the IDF Civil Administration issued demolition orders on the mosque, the kindergarten and the local health clinic structures among others, claiming that these structures had been built without permission. On April 18, 2012, the IDF attacked again and prompted the abovementioned desperate letter from the mayor.
Let me quote Mayor Haj Sam: "Today April 18th 2012 at 11:00 AM IDF soldiers accompanied by private contractors appeared without prior notification to demolish 2 access roads to the town, named 'Road of Peace' and 'Road of Displacement.' The roads were built with our own hands in order to exercise our right to freedom of movement. These roads are part of our lifeline, as our sole source of income relies on our ability to move our agricultural goods to the market. This is the 3rd time that the 'Road of Peace' has been demolished. On all of the previous occasions we did not take any action. This time the demolition came with a threat. An abusive officer in a jeep numbered 65539 advised our Mayor that he will return for larger scale demolitions in retribution for the observation of the road demolitions by internationals. These threats were made to a man who is in a wheel chair urging away the small group of less than 10 curious individuals."
This is Israel's official treatment of someone who also says: "Despite those acts of aggression, we have never resorted to violence, no terrorism has come from our people, no stone was ever thrown, and we continue to call for coexistence and peace."
Auschwitz as Degania?
Mr. Peres, considering all the times you made embarrassing statements I understand you will have difficulties understanding this article. Yet, I beg you to make an effort; it will make you a better man. Please read again the section about Al-Aqaba. Instead of Al-Aqaba, pronounce Plonsk (Degania's European parallel in your recent speech). Instead of the Palestinian name Sami Sadiq, utter the Jewish Samuel Tzadik, and instead of the IDF, please say Nazi Germany SS. Do you get the picture? In this new picture, who are you?
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Border Patrol Accused of Ongoing Abuses in Arizona
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The ACLU has filed an administrative complaint with the Department of Homeland Security expressing "serious concerns" about abuses committed by Border Patrol agents during what are known as "roving patrol" stops in southern Arizona.
Border Patrol agents have pulled over Arizona residents, often U.S. citizens, and unlawfully searched their vehicles, used excessive force and engaged in other misconduct, including at least one reported incident of sexual abuse, according to incidents documented by the ACLU.
The allegations come just weeks after the Border Patrol settled a lawsuit in Washington state with human rights groups over the practice of roving patrols. The ACLU and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project claimed in the suit that agents were stopping drivers and interrogating them for no apparent basis other than their skin color.
In settling the suit, the Border Patrol agreed to train agents on the Fourth Amendment's provisions against unreasonable search and seizure, adhere to the Homeland Security department's guidelines on considering race or ethnicity on the job, and report all stops made in the area for the next 18 months.
The new complaint in Tuscon covers only a few of a series of complaints that the local ACLU office has received since it opened four months earlier, said James Lyall, the office's staff attorney. Among them: A U.S. citizen who was stopped by agents as she drove her children home from school. When she asked the reason for the stop, she said the agent threatened to shock her with a Taser, searched her car and then left her with a flat tire on the side of the road. Another citizen alleged that agents pulled her from her car without explanation, and handcuffed and groped her.
"Unlawful roving patrol stops by Border Patrol are a longstanding problem," Lyall said. "The picture that emerges from these incidents and years of litigation is of pervasive abuse and a systemic failure of oversight and accountability at all levels of CBP."
Because of the shutdown, a spokeswoman for the Border Patrol didn't respond to a request for comment, and a phone call and email to the Department of Homeland Security went unanswered.
In response to a previous query from FRONTLINE about the Border Patrol's use of force, a spokeswoman for Customs and Border Protection said the agency is "committed to ensuring that the use of force by our agents and officers, who put their lives on the line every day, is appropriate and consistent with applicable laws, agency standards and procedures."
In recent years, the Border Patrol's staff has increased significantly, nearly doubling since 2006 to more than 21,000 agents, making it the nation's largest law enforcement agency. Human-rights groups and members of Congress have expressed concern that these new agents may not have received sufficient training or experience, which they say may be leading to abuse.
The Border Patrol has acknowledged shortcomings in its training, and said recently that it would update its use-of-force policy and improve its basic-training curriculum. But it's been relatively silent on the question of accountability for agents who are found to have abused their power.
The ACLU said it submitted the complaint to the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general, as well as its Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, asking that the department investigate individual allegations, and the broader policy of roving patrol to ensure the policy is constitutional and avoids racial profiling.
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Frank Gerdeman is the Assistant Director of the Integrated Support for Learning – Secondary & Adult Division at the Vermont Agency of Education (AOE). In this role, he serves as the State Director of Adult Education and is involved with a number of projects, including Smarter Balanced implementation. Prior to joining the AOE he spent a number years as a teacher and coordinator of adult education services in Chittenden County.
One of the aspects of the new Smarter Balanced Assessment that has excited me is the role it will play in a robust, balanced and integrated education system designed to better serve all Vermont students. Part of this is the move from a strictly summative assessment tool used for accountability purposes (like NECAP – the former state assessment in math and reading/writing) to an assessment system. A system that not only measures student progress/growth against the new Common Core State Standards (CCSS) but also provides educators valuable information on a student's strengths and gaps related to those standards.
One of the ways this will be accomplished is by taking advantage of the technological innovations to create a better assessment product. Paper-pencil tests relied on a fixed form where students saw the same questions (or slight variations of the same questions) based on grade level. That is, every student in grade seven had the same set of grade seven questions regardless of their actual ability. In the Smarter Balanced system, the summative tests utilize computer adaptive testing (CAT) which means that the relative difficulty of a question is determined by a student's previous responses. You can think of this as a non-standardized, standards-based assessment. In addition, CAT allows the assessment to focus on creating a much more precise "snapshot" of a student's skills.
There is a tremendous amount of discussion about and around this new system and how adults will use the results for everything from teacher evaluation to school funding. For me, that would be a grave misuse of what is, in fact, the incredible opportunity this system offers us to provide teachers, students and parents the information they need to ensure every student is able to realize her/his full potential.


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* Because I don't want to completely neglect my other muscles (which I am not currently, but just being precautionary), I am trying to figure out the shortest workout that still leaves my triceps massively pumped. Today was pretty effective for just 10 sets, they looked pretty swole.
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Comparing bonus and non-bonus fixed indexed annuities: Which one is better for the long-term?
By Roccy Defrancesco
The Wealth Preservation Institute
Is a big bonus FIA with a lower cap better than a higher cap product with no bonus?
Both agents and clients seem to love FIAs with bonuses. What is a bonus? It's simply when an insurance company takes the premium paid and bonuses that value for accumulation purposes. For example, if a client paid a $100,000 premium to a product with a 5 percent bonus, the account value for accumulation purposes would start at $105,000.
The client sees it as a freebie and a way to increase the amount of money they have growing in the annuity. Of course, the annuity buyer must hold the annuity for so many years in order to have the bonus vest and be available for withdrawal purposes.
Nothing is free
In order to provide an up-front bonus, insurance companies must adjust the product so it remains profitable. This is typically done in one of two ways:
1. Extend and/or increase the surrender charges of the product
2. Lower the caps.
Let's find out by looking at what's in the market and back-testing it 24 years (just a random time frame). As you know, caps are fairly low on FIAs right now. We've seen an increase lately that will hopefully continue, but only time will tell.
I'm going to compare a 5 percent and 10 percent bonus FIA with annual point-to-point caps of 5.5 percent, 6.5 percent and 7.5 percent to a 9.35 percent annual cap non-bonus/high-cap FIA that is currently out there.
As you may know, caps on most products today range anywhere from 4 percent to 6.5 percent annually on point-to-point products that typically have some kind of bonus.
The numbers below are the accumulated values assuming the product was purchased 24 years ago. While it's not real world that the caps will stay the same, the numbers will still illustrate the point I'm trying to make — bonus products with lower caps may not be better than non-bonus products with higher caps.
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10% bonus
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10% bonus
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|Average rate of return
I know it's cool to show clients how their $100,000 account value can start at $105,000 or $110,000; but again, there is no free lunch. If your clients are going to keep their FIA for the long term, I would submit to you that most of them would be better off with a non-bonus product that consistently has a higher cap.
When using bonus FIAs make the most sense
Notwithstanding what I've shown you in this article, if your clients are buying the FIA so they can receive a guaranteed income benefit (GIB) for life, then using a bonus product makes much more sense.
Think about it: With a GIB rider, the client is not overly concerned about maximizing the walk-away account value. What they are interested in is the maximum GIB-for-life payment they can receive.
In this case, a big bonus product might be the product of choice. The bonus is used when calculating the "accumulated" account value that will be used to determine the GIB-for-life benefit.
There is nothing free in this world, and even though there is a 25 percent up-front bonus FIA with a GIB rider, it is the "best" product for a client a very small minority of the time, because the other product features are not very good by comparison to other lower bonus products.
To date, I've not seen a GIB-rider product with no bonus that was designed to provide a higher GIB-for-life payment than ones with a bonus. Therefore, if you are selling GIB-rider products, the chances are great you are selling one with a bonus (which is fine, notwithstanding the first part of this article that makes bonus products sound evil).


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Belarus c.bank halts cash forex sales
MINSK, March 22 (Reuters) – Belarus's central bank has
halted foreign currency sales to local banks in a bid to save
dwindling reserves, the bank said on Tuesday.
The former Soviet republic is running out of foreign
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Belarus election protester sentenced to four years
MINSK (Reuters) – Belarus, in a speedy one-day trial, Thursday sentenced an opposition activist to four years in a top-security jail for his part in a rally against the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko last December.
Vasily Parfenkov, 27, was the first to be tried of about 30 people being held after a police crackdown on the December 19 protest in the ex-Soviet republic that has triggered Western sanctions against Lukashenko.
Belarus jails election protester for four years
MINSK (Reuters) – A Belarus court Thursday sentenced an opposition activist to four years in a top-security jail for taking part in mass unrest during a rally last December against the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko.
Vasily Parfenkov, 27, was the first to be tried of about 30 people held after a police crackdown on a December 19 protest rally in Minsk and who include four opposition presidential candidates.
Belarus releases detainees as EU readies sanctions
MINSK (Reuters) – Belarus on Saturday released seven detainees, including a former candidate for the presidency, who were arrested in December during mass street protests over the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko.
The move came on the eve of an expected announcement by the European Union that it will reinstate a visa ban on Lukashenko and other Belarussian officials in response to his crackdown on protests following his disputed re-election in December.
Belarus president sworn in after disputed election
MINSK (Reuters) – Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko was sworn in on Friday in a ceremony boycotted by Western ambassadors after his re-election last month in what the opposition and international monitors said was a rigged vote.
The former Soviet republic has brushed off all criticism of the elections, which were followed by huge street protests when hundreds of people were arrested.
Belarus readies quick inauguration for Lukashenko
MINSK, Jan 17 (Reuters) – Belarussian President Alexander
Lukashenko, re-elected last month in what the opposition and
international monitors said was a rigged vote, may be
inaugurated as early as Friday, an election official said.
"January 21 is being considered as a working date. It is a
tentative date. The date will be set finally by the presidential
administration," Nikolai Lazovik, secretary of the central
electoral commission, told Reuters.
Belarus accuses Poland, Germany of plotting "coup"
MINSK (Reuters) – State-controlled media in Belarus accused the intelligence services of Germany and Poland on Friday of trying to organize a coup during last month's presidential election in the former Soviet republic.
A Polish official dismissed the charge as "absurd." A spokesman for Germany's BND foreign intelligence service declined comment on the matter.
Calm in Moscow, Minsk over Belarus oil halt, tariffs
MOSCOW/MINSK, Jan 11 (Reuters) – A halt in Russian oil sales
to Belarus and a rise in the tariff charged by Minsk on Russian
oil transit to Europe cast a new pall on their often tense
relationship, but both sides hastened to say the problems were
Russian oil flows across Belarus via the Druzhba pipeline to
European customers in Germany and Poland were unaffected, trade
sources said.
Belarus' Lukashenko reshuffles govt, names new PM
MINSK (Reuters) – Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko replaced his prime minister of seven years on Tuesday with another long-time ally in a reshuffle that comes less than two weeks after the presidential election.
The country's opposition and international observers have complained of mistreatment of Lukashenko's opponents and lack of transparency in the vote count. Some former presidential candidates and nearly 700 protesters and journalists were arrested in post-voting demonstrations dispersed by riot police.
Five detained Belarus candidates may face charges
MINSK (Reuters) – Authorities in Belarus may charge five former presidential candidates being held on suspicion of organizing protests over the disputed vote in the former Soviet republic last weekend, police told Reuters on Thursday.
The five candidates and 14 other opposition activists detained in a crackdown on protests over the vote on Sunday will not be released and may face charges of "organizing mass disorder," Minsk police spokesman Alexander Lastovsky said.


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I took many pictures of the boat over the last few months with my new fish eye lens. I had wanted to do a FAQ manual on the boat for the longest time with pictures and it seemed like the perfect opportunity to actually get it done. When I was home in the spring I did the bulk of the work and bought a couple copies of the book from Apple to see what it look like.
It was actually pretty good, but I needed a few more pictures for it that I took this summer and now I have just had copies for all the rooms delivered to the house.
I really enjoyed making it and I think it turned out halfway between a "manual" and a "picture book"
There are always so many quirks and information about the yacht and "how things work on it" to give to guests when they get on board that I can find myself rattling on for an hour with details when really, the guests just want to get out sailing and don't remember 10% of what was said. Then I spend days repeating the information over and over again to each person that asks, or waking up worrying in the middle of the night that they won't know where to get something they want.
I figured if I did a book, and put it in the rooms, at least some people would read it in the bathrooms and I would feel better. Seriously, after this many years, I was sick of hearing myself say the same old jokes on it...
Secondly, with us switching more to a "share the sail" format and expecting a lot more help from our guests, they NEEDED to know more.
These are some pictures that I had taken with the new lens for the manual...
All these pictures fit in with my "truth in advertising" kick that i have been on as well, and show parts of the boat that normally are not shown as much. I will try and post a few occasionally while I am off the boat over the next couple months.
First up, who ever displays the pantry? Well this is my pantry. The fish curtains go up to where Baz and I sleep. Most people think we have a "captains suite". Believe me, it is a small V berth.
I do however, have great shelves in here, and lots of storage. This is the area that usually everything gets thrown that we cannot figure out what to do with about 2 minutes before guests arrive!
The galley. It is pretty good for a boat. I have a full size oven on the counter. I don't know how boats live with the tiny little ones they have. I would die. We also have a 5 burner cooktop, and, as you can see, everything that can hang, does hang.
The other side of the galley. We have great large sinks, with a garbage disposal and our fridges are behind the sink. I have shown pictures of them before on the blog. I can fit a weeks worth of food for 16 people in our sinks and freezer.
I am a bit of a kitchen gadget nut. I buy them all. Then I use most of them faithfully for a few weeks, then don't use it for awhile, then decide it is just taking up space and off it goes to the workshop. I have many gadgets in the workshop that I have not even used yet. And probably never will, if you are looking for something! This view is from the saloon.
So, there you go, todays pictures of my pantry and galley....
Wednesday, August 24. 2011
Picture tour of the pantry and galley on Yacht Promenade
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Monday, August 1. 2011
Cleaning boats...
Bazza and Felix busily scrubbing the deck trying to see if there is actually white paint underneath all the grime that has collected on it over the last week...
Watching Potential weather system "emily" has delayed our dive trip through the Spanish Virgins with friends, but that is ok as I can always find lots of places to dive in the BVI too!
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Rosehill Racecourse can be found around 23 kilometres to the west of Sydney's city centre
Rosehill Racecourse is operated by the Australian Turf Club.
The Racecourse is located west of Sydney in the suburb of Rosehill. It is approximately 23 kilometres from Sydney's CBD.
In 1943 the Sydney Turf Club was founded and is the youngest of Australia's Main Racing Clubs. The Turf Club was created following the New South Wales parliament passing the Sydney Turf Club Act. This Act took over 40 years to come into force and gave the Turf Club the right to conduct 62 race meets annually at the Rosehill Racecourse and Canterbury Park Racecourse combined.
The Sydney Turf Club and the Australian Jockey Club officially merged
in February 2011 to form a new Sydney racing club, the Australian Turf
Club and commenced racing on Monday 7th February 2011 in NSW. The NSW Government in 2011 pledged $24 Million for new facilities and improvements to Rosehill Racecourse.
Racecourse Details
Rosehill Racecourse is fully grassed. The track width at the winning post is 20 metres and the circumference is 2,048 metres. It has a good long home straight being 408 metres long and all races run in a clockwise direction.
There are numerous training tracks at the course including these 4 main
The racecourse is known as a specialist track. Rosehill
Racecourse is a box like shape with even sweeping corners. Runners from
the rear can win due to the long straight.
Rosehill Racecourse offers quality viewing for punters having modern three tiered stands with bars, restaurants and betting facilities as well as corporate boxes and a fully-covered betting ring.
Facilities At The Racecourse
The Rosehill Racecourse is the home of Sydney's biggest horse race, the Golden Slipper Stakes. The Slipper is the richest two-year-old race in the world. The Golden Slipper in 2010 was given a set date -
the first Saturday in April, for a trial period only.
Rosehill Racecourse hosts two major carnivals in autumn and spring that provide top class racing including the prestigious Golden Slipper Stakes Festival and Spring Racing Carnival.
Autumn Racing Carnival at Rosehill Racecourse In April
Spring Racing Carnival at Rosehill Racecourse In September
Transport To Rosehill Racecourse
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PO Box 21,
Ph. (02) 9930 4000
Fax (02) 9930 4098
Australian Turf Club hosts the following feature races run at Rosehill Racecourse, Ajax Stakes | Concorde Stakes | Golden Rose Stakes | Kingston Town Stakes | Run To The Rose | Pago Pago Stakes | The BMW | Rosehill Guineas and more.
Find below all the Group Races run at the Rosehill Racecourse during the season.
Rosehill Racecourse Barrier Guide


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By Petty Officer 1st Class Michael Wimbish, USNSpecial to American Forces Press Service
MIAMI, Jan. 15, 2008 The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff visited U.S. Southern Command headquarters here yesterday, where he thanked servicemembers and staff for their work and stressed the importance of the security cooperation efforts the command oversees in Latin America and the Caribbean. (Video)
Navy Adm. Michael G. Mullen told more than 1,000 command members during an outdoor "all hands" address that their efforts to build partnerships in the region will pay future dividends, especially in an ever-changing security environment.
"My long-term vision is to be in a position where we have relationships that we can depend on, if needed -- and that's so much about what goes on in this command," Mullen said. SOUTHCOM annually sponsors dozens of large and small-scale operations, exercises and engagements that focus on security issues in the region, including a slate of humanitarian assistance missions.
"It's an incredibly important command at an incredibly important time in our history," the nation's highest-ranking military officer said.
The visit was Mullen's first to SOUTHCOM since becoming chairman in October. In addition to his address, Mullen was briefed on the command's latest missions in preparation for his trip to Colombia and El Salvador later this week. He will meet with military leaders of both nations to discuss ongoing U.S. military cooperation efforts there, which include SOUTHCOM support to regional counterdrug missions.
Mullen's visit to the headquarters was part of a five-day tour of SOUTHCOM's area of operations.
Earlier yesterday, he visited the Joint Interagency Task Force South in Key West, Fla., the SOUTHCOM component that oversees air and maritime counterdrug missions in the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and the eastern Pacific. The task force, praised as a model of interagency success, helped interdict more than 200 metric tons of cocaine last year. On Jan. 13, Mullen stopped at U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, touring detention facilities and addressing troops there.
During the "all hands" session at SOUTHCOM headquarters, Mullen reiterated his view in support of closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities, but stressed that there are no plans in the works to do so.
"It not for me to make that decision," he said. "It's a very, very complex set of circumstances. So it is not in any way, shape or form as simple as saying, 'Let's just close it.'" The facility carries connotations that affect how people around the world view the United States, he noted.
"It's my judgment that Guantanamo Bay has hurt the United States of America from an image standpoint, having nothing to do with the justice side of this that I think needs to be carried out in a just, fair way," he explained.
Mullen commended the work of the U.S. troops conducting the mission there, saying they are carrying out their mission in way that "makes us all proud."
Also during his visit to SOUTHCOM, Mullen praised the command's recent humanitarian efforts in the region, including last summer's deployment of the hospital ship, USNS Comfort, which provided medical care to 98,000 people in 12 countries.
"I really believe that if we do (these types of missions), it goes a long way to preventing any kind of conflict or outbreak," he said. "And should we get to the point, tragically, that we have an outbreak or we have that kind of conflict, we'll have relationships in advance that we can leverage, as opposed to creating them in the heat of the battle."
SOUTHCOM is one of the military's nine unified combatant commands. It's responsible for providing contingency planning, operations and security cooperation for Central and South America; the Caribbean, except U.S. commonwealths, territories and possessions; Cuba; and the Bahamas and their territorial waters. Its area of operations encompasses more than 450 million people in 32 countries and 13 territories and protectorates.
(Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Michael Wimbish serves with U.S. Southern Command Public Affairs.)
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Heels and wheels won the battle of the bridge as a divided Charleston City Council voted in favor of closing one of the car lanes on the inbound T. Allen Legare Bridge and making it exclusive to cyclists and walkers.
How they voted: Bridge bike lane
To approve the design phase going forward:
City Council members: Kathleen Wilson, Dean Riegel, Mike Seekings, William Dudley Gregorie, Robert Mitchell, James Lewis, Rodney Williams, and Mayor Joe Riley.
Voting against: Bill Moody, Aubry Alexander, Keith Waring; Marvin Wagner, Gary White.
If the timetable sticks, the lane could be open for use within the next 12- to- 18 months, giving bicyclists an accessible path from West Ashley, across the peninsula and over the Cooper River bridge into Mount Pleasant - if they wish to pedal that far.
The 8-5 City Council vote Tuesday to go forward with the idea came as dozens of area residents flooded City Council chambers advocating for the lane by citing the ease, recreational boost and commuting alternative the path will bring.
"It's not about closing off a lane; it's about opening up a bridge," said Stephanie Hunt, chairman of the board of the pro-cycling group Charleston Moves.
The vote in favor came as several council members representing districts in West Ashley tried to delay the effort, saying they feared what will happen to traffic as cars back up or end up jockeying for space while heading into the city, especially during the morning rush hour.
Councilman Bill Moody of West Ashley called the idea "shortsighted," as he predicted traffic will only get slower, more cluttered and worse as drivers merge from three highly traveled paths that include the Folly Road, Savannah Highway and Ashley River Road corridors. More than 56,000 cars travel along both directions of the two U.S. Highway 17 bridges daily that connect Charleston and West Ashley. That number is projected to surpass 59,000 by 2035.
Supporters of the route, including Mayor Joe Riley, said the benefits outweighed the concerns. Also, he said the worst of the projected traffic snarl will be alleviated by redesigning and adding a new turning lane to the Bee Street and Lockwood Boulevard intersection. The extra space at the stoplight there amounts to doubling the capacity, the city said.
"This is what the future of Charleston is going to be," added Riley in promoting the lane as extension of the city's support of alternative forms of travel.
As envisioned, the southernmost lane of the Legare Bridge heading north into the city will be blocked off by a rail-topped barrier. Inside the lane it would be designated for biking and recreation use, while the three outside lanes would remain for vehicles. Strollers, joggers and sightseers would be allowed inside the path too.
City estimates indicate that up to 1,500 people will use the lane on weekdays, with at least 1,000 of them likely to be work-bound commuters. On weekends, the usage rate would drop to about 1,000 people a day, though the rates for both categories would probably dip by about one-third during times of rain, bad weather or intense heat.
The measure that passed Tuesday was for council giving its support to a Charleston County and state Department of Transportation memorandum agreement to go forward with the next design phase of the lane. None of the more than $1.6 million cost will be absorbed by the city; Charleston County will pay for the lane with local sales tax money.
Officials, however, spoke Tuesday of the possibility the county could ask for the more than $600,000 that's been spent on the lane study so far to be reimbursed if the vote had failed, since the bike lane was something the city had initially requested.
Several members of the public who spoke in favor of the lane pointed to the need for safe bike routes by remembering at least three fatal accidents seen around Charleston in which cyclists were killed by drivers. Other selling points were that younger people from West Ashley would use the bridge path often - thus keeping cars out of downtown - if the route were safe.
Some of the constituents named as instant beneficiaries included students, food and beverage workers, and downtown professionals.
Reach Schuyler Kropf at 937-5551.
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Groupon offers a year of mid-Atlantic AAA roadside assistance for $30
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D.C. drivers, there's about 12 hours left to buy AAA Mid-Atlantic's special deal through Groupon — a year of roadside assistance for only $30, a value that Groupon says is normally about $65. Have you found yourself wishing for a AAA card while staring at a busted tire recently? Now is your chance.
The Groupon deal began over the weekend, I noticed, and seems to have been extended throughout Monday today. The membership comes with 24/7 assistance in case you need your car jumped, towed, or any number of other mechanical problems. More than 3,800 D.C. area residents have already signed up for the deal. I'm reminded of the potent local response to the LivingSocial Zipcar deal, in which nearly 4,000 new Zipsters were created. These transit discounts have real economic power, especially in a recession. Everyone's ready to save a buck on what normally is such an expensive sphere of their lives.
As the site's notoriously snappy writers phrase it:
Even the most careful drivers can be waylaid by tire trouble, an overheated engine, or deer foraging for hamburger wrappers. Prepare for on-the-road mishaps with today's Groupon: for $30, you get a one-year basic primary membership to AAA Mid-Atlantic.
Buy your AAA membership now, D.C., if you're in need. The clock is ticking.