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Politics | Privacy advocates of different political stripes want to halt or declassify the government's leaked surveillance programs
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A man who made his living keeping the truth secret was lying to his own boss. Edward Snowden, a Booz Allen Hamilton employee on contract in Hawaii for the U.S. National Security Agency, told his government supervisor he needed "a couple of weeks" off work to treat his epilepsy.
In fact, Snowden, 30, was preparing to board a flight to Hong Kong, where he planned to launch one of the biggest intelligence community leaks in U.S. history. Walking away from a six-figure career as a computer technician with security clearance, he told his girlfriend he would be gone for a few weeks, without elaborating, and caught his plane.
In Hong Kong, Snowden shut himself up in an expensive hotel for three weeks, ordering meals to his room and rarely venturing outdoors. The career spy worried about being spied upon: He lined pillows against the door and spread a red hood over his head and laptop whenever he typed passwords—precautions against eavesdroppers and hidden cameras.
Over his internet connection, he began leaking classified documents to reporters at The Washington Post and The Guardian. The files—a secret court order, a PowerPoint presentation—were like bombshells. They gave undeniable proof of massive, systematic surveillance programs the U.S. government has used for years to collect trillions of pieces of information, secretly but apparently legally.
In one of the programs, code-named MAINWAY, the National Security Agency (NSA) collects phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, dragnet style. In another, named PRISM, it collects emails and internet activity records of foreign suspects, sometimes sweeping in Americans' data as part of the investigations.
Privacy advocates had warned of the likelihood of broad government surveillance before, but the Snowden leaks brought the secretive programs into an unprecedented light. Snowden, who claimed he couldn't "in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom, and basic liberties for people around the world," got what he wanted: a public debate on surveillance and privacy in post-9/11 America.
Depending on where individual Americans land in that debate, they've tended to portray Snowden as either a hero or a traitor. Strikingly, criticism of surveillance programs—or defense of them—has cut across party lines, and the leaks are giving privacy advocates across the political spectrum opportunity to press for reforms.
Illustrating the party divisions, two of the most vocal critics of the secret surveillance programs, Democratic senators Mark Udall of Colorado and Ron Wyden of Oregon, found their viewpoint backed by some Republicans, like Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Rep. Tim Huelskamp of Kansas. Huelskamp called the indiscriminate collection of American phone data an infringement on "fundamental constitutional rights."
Most lawmakers, however, including the chairs of the House and Senate intelligence committees—a Republican and a Democrat—appeared to be banding together to defend the programs as legal and necessary terror-fighting tools. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, called Snowden a "traitor," and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said he should be "prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law" for tipping off the nation's enemies by revealing classified information.
Three former NSA employees thought otherwise. Thomas Drake, William Binney, and J. Kirk Wiebe, onetime whistle-blowers who first protested overreaching of government surveillance more than a decade ago, said they felt Snowden was justified in leaking information in the public interest. Snowden in late June was hiding in Russia, awaiting his fate and the outcome of a U.S. investigation.
Some of the political synergy sparked by the surveillance programs has been unintentional: Because of the leaks, two very different watchdog organizations have filed lawsuits against the U.S. government. One is the conservative Freedom Watch, whose founder was once labeled a "one-man tea party." The other is the American Civil Liberties Union, a civil rights organization with a solid reputation for trying to remove faith (Christian faith in particular) from the public square.
This time, though, the ACLU is concerned about genuine privacy rights—its own. The ACLU is a customer of Verizon Business Network Services, the company targeted in a secret court order Snowden made public. In the April 25 order, the government demanded call "metadata" for all the phone company's customers, including the time and duration of each call, and the numbers of both parties (but not actual conversations).
Verizon was just one of many phone companies secretly ordered to turn over phone call metadata to the MAINWAY system at the NSA. Since 2006 the government has been logging tens of millions of U.S. citizen's phone calls in order to search for suspicious patterns. Metadata, including recently dialed numbers, would allow an analyst to spot a call to Afghanistan—or theoretically, to a political organization or a love interest. (Officials insist the database is only used to ferret out terrorist connections.)
"The practice is akin to snatching every American's address book—with annotations detailing whom we spoke to, when we talked, for how long, and from where," said the ACLU in its lawsuit. "It gives the government a comprehensive record of our associations and public movements, revealing a wealth of detail about our familial, political, professional, religious, and intimate associations."
Larry Klayman, the founder and general counsel of Freedom Watch (and founder of Judicial Watch, another watchdog group), agrees with the ACLU's privacy concerns. Surveillance is something "every American should be concerned with, left, right, or center," he said. "It's really the Washington establishment against the people."
Klayman has filed two class-action lawsuits on behalf of himself and others potentially affected by the surveillance programs. One of the suits deals with the MAINWAY phone records program, and the second deals with the PRISM international email and internet data program.
PRISM was revealed in a set of classified PowerPoint slides that Snowden leaked to reporters. The slides boasted intelligence officials were able to retrieve data from nine internet companies: Facebook, Google, YouTube, Apple, Microsoft, Skype, AOL, Yahoo, and PalTalk. Under PRISM rules, officials may secretly demand international emails, chat messages, photos, videos, file downloads, and other recorded activity from the companies if relevant to investigating a foreign surveillance target.
Many people already freely reveal a trove of personal information on social media accounts. Privacy settings may block strangers, but won't stop investigators: Facebook, for example, in June reported fulfilling between 9,000 and 10,000 user-data requests in the second half of 2012, involving 18,000 to 19,000 user accounts globally. The requests included both local police investigations and federal, foreign intelligence investigations involving PRISM. (Before June, the government had forbidden companies from acknowledging secret foreign surveillance requests.)
If an American's data was incidentally swept up in the course of "foreign surveillance," he or she would probably never realize it. Klayman's legal complaint calls PRISM "illegal and unconstitutional," and asks for the program to be stopped and government databases purged.
A humorous red-and-blue graphic floating around social media portrays President Barack Obama wearing headphones on a campaign-style poster, under the words, "Yes We Scan." Yet, it was on George W. Bush's watch, not Obama's, that both surveillance programs began. (Klayman filed a lawsuit over the Bush surveillance program in 2006.)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a libertarian-leaning group, has been fighting in courts since 2006 for the government to forsake at least some of its eavesdropping ways. The organization launched a suit against the NSA in 2008 over its phone surveillance program. The case is now pending in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, blocked by government attorneys.
"The government has been up until now asserting the state secrets privilege, saying they can't even defend this lawsuit without compromising national security," said Nate Cardozo, an EFF staff attorney. Essentially, the government argues litigation would force it to admit the existence of its surveillance programs. But thanks to the leaked Verizon court order, "That cat is out of the bag," Cardozo said, which may allow the case to move forward.
By law, the government must get approval for surveillance requests from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). But almost all the court's decisions are classified—including the legal interpretations of the laws the government uses to justify surveillance in the first place.
The court is meant to act as a judicial check to executive spying powers. Some critics fear it acts as a rubber stamp. In 33 years, the secret court has approved 33,900 government surveillance requests and rejected just 11.
EFF has filed a freedom of information lawsuit asking the government to declassify an important 2011 FISC ruling on the constitutionality of NSA surveillance. Currently, the Justice Department is blocking the request. Cardozo said his organization appears to be the first entity other than the government to successfully file a case in the surveillance court: "This is the first tiny crack of sunlight into what was before an entirely secret court."
Several polls suggest a majority of Americans—up to 60 percent—disapprove of NSA phone record collecting. Are the fears over surveillance overblown?
Intelligence officials insist their surveillance activities are perfectly legal, authorized by the Patriot Act (renewed in 2011) and by the FISA Amendments Act, renewed last December for five years in a bipartisan vote (see "No need to know").
And although NSA officials collect broad telephone metadata, they destroy most records after five years, and only search the database when they have "a reasonable suspicion" their target is a person associated with a foreign terrorist organization. Intelligence officials said they had searched the phone records of less than 300 people last year.
They also say the surveillance system has allowed them to prevent terrorist attacks. In one 2009 case, officials discovered that al-Qaida operatives in Pakistan had been in contact with a Muslim extremist in Colorado, Najibullah Zazi, who was planning with fellow conspirators to bomb the New York City subway system using beauty-salon chemicals. Thanks to the secret surveillance systems, officials were able to arrest the would-be terrorists before the act. But now that the programs are publicly known, they may be less effective in catching such plotters.
In a congressional hearing on June 18, NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander told the House Intelligence Committee the surveillance programs had allowed his agency to "connect the dots" necessary to disrupt over 50 terrorist plots. "I would much rather be here today debating this point," he said, "than trying to explain how we failed to prevent another 9/11."
Too much clearance?
The national intelligence community has exploded in growth since 9/11, and so have the number of workers allowed to view classified data—nearly 5 million last year.
The June leaks involving Edward Snowden, who enjoyed top-secret clearance, raised the question of whether too many people—including janitors and crate packers—have access to sensitive information that could endanger national security if revealed.
Snowden wasn't a federal worker most recently but an employee of Booz Allen Hamilton, one of hundreds of private firms working for the U.S. intelligence community. About a quarter of Booz Allen's nearly 25,000 employees have earned clearance to work on top-secret projects, and the company depends on them to land lucrative government contracts.
National Security Agency director Gen. Keith Alexander said his agency has roughly 1,000 systems administrators with jobs similar to Snowden's. Most are contractors.


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This is one Island, in srping, summer and winter. It's part of a small adventure I'm planning for Agone, inspired by the free download-adventure "The Sanctuary of Elegius" and "The Legend of Zelda" video games. Autumn has been corrupted (and has thus become "fall") and can not be acessed.
The PCs will be trapped on this island and can visit the three different seasons through a gateway marked with a star on the map. The islands are all the same island, and not the same. Each is eternally in it's season, but they do influence each other. If you want me to elaborate on the plot, give me a shout.
The maps were made in CC3 and I fixed some details and added the smoke in GIMP.
The awesome smoke brush was provided by deviantart user LJFHutch.
I think the maps are pretty much finished, but I'd like to hear what you think.

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The Thunderbirds compiled a cumulative 3.28 grade point average for the academic year, joining 95 other institutions from all levels of the NCAA and NAIA on the NABC's list.
"We are proud of our student-athletes and their willingness to compete in the classroom," SUU Coach Nick Robinson said. "In addition, we have an excellent support network of advisors and faculty at SUU."
In order to earn the NABC Team Academic Excellence Award a squad's cumulative grade point average – including all student-athletes who competed during the season – must be 3.0 or higher.
Fellow Big Sky member Eastern Washington and the University of Utah also earned the award this season.


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June 1, 2016
Gov. Phil Bryant signed four bills into law Wednesday at Northwest Rankin High School, where he pledged last fall to seek many of the changes.
Among the new laws is one that expands the authority to create charter schools, public schools run by private groups that agree to meet certain standards in exchange for less regulation.
Bryant is also praising efforts to improve literacy instruction in early grades, coupled with a requirement to flunk any third grader who can't read at basic levels.
Other measures include a scholarship plan for high-performing students who become teachers and a pilot plan to pay teachers on merit.
Bryant signed a separate bill creating state-funded prekindergarten classes Tuesday.
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These are great stocking stuffers, they are also great for friends' birthday parties if you maybe don't know the child well- even short haired girls can rock a cute clippy!! Time to stock up!!
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May 31, 2016
Meridian, Miss.
The principal of Poplar Springs Elementary School has been named the 2013 Administrator of the Year for Mississippi's Third Congressional District.
LaVonda Germany has 22 years in education. She has been principal at Poplar Springs Elementary since 2008. She received her bachelor's degree, master's degree, and educational specialist degree from Mississippi State University.
"We are extremely proud of Mrs. Germany and all of her accomplishments at Poplar Springs Elementary School. The data shows that she not only moved the school forward in the 2012-13 school year, but she has consistently moved the school forward for the last four years," said Meridian superintendent, Dr. Alvin Taylor. "This honor is truly to be commended."
Germany said she believes it is the job of the administrator to create a support system that allows faculty and staff to perform at the highest level.
Following an interview with each finalist, a committee will select the state Administrator of the Year. In addition to the
formal recognition by the state Board of Education, the winner receives a $5,000 salary supplement from the Mississippi Department of Education.
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Woman, 18, Raped in Howard University Classroom
An 18-year-old woman was raped at Howard University after her assailant snatched her from the street and dragged her into a building and then into a classroom, authorities said.
The attack occurred about 8 a.m. on July 22. The name of the victim was not released. Authorities said the woman was at Howard participating in a non-campus program. Police have stepped up patrols on and around campus.
Students, understandably, have been devastated by the turn of events. They took to social media to express their concern and outrage.
"This is sick," said capris0n on Instagram.
"Guess I'll be needing a tazer," said lucidjadeing.
"I really feel some kind of way talking about this," Howard graduate Cresent Haynes told Fox 5 News. "I'm glad I have my glasses on because I could actually start crying. This is too much. It's just too, too much."
The sexual assault was the second violent episode on or near the campus in recent weeks. On July 4, Howard student Omar Sykes was fatally shot in a robbery just off campus. Five hundred people attended a memorial service for the senior.
Authorities said they notified students via a campus e-mail alert system. But Kelsey Tisdale, 20, a junior, said she has not set up the program to receive the alerts.
"I saw it on Instagram," said Tisdale, who is attending classes on campus this summer.
Tisdale said the incident "shocked" her, but it has not made her afraid to be on campus. She said a girl was raped last year in an all-girls dorm for underclassmen on the corner of 4th and Bryant streets, NW.
"A D.C. local made his way into the dorm, which is called the Annex, and into one of the girl's rooms," she said. "He raped her. Ironically, it was a Caucasian girl. He had a knife."
She said after the incident, the dorm limited visitors.
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Ashton Kutcher, Mariska Hargitay, Howard Stern, and Ellen DeGeneres have been crowned the kings and queens of U.S. TV in a new magazine rich list.
Father-to-be Kutcher earns $100,000-per-episode more than his "Two and a Half Men" co-star Jon Cryer to top the TV comedy earners list with $750,000-per-show, while "Law & Order: SVU" star Hargitay leads "The Mentalist's" Simon Baker in the drama department, with a $400,000-per-episode salary.
"America's Got Talent" judge Stern ties with "American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest as the top earning reality TV star with a $15 million-per-season haul, and DeGeneres remains the queen of daytime television on the annual TV Guide Who Earns What countdown with up to $20 million-a-year for her daily talk show.


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Ithaca, NY (Sports Network) - Nolan Cressler scored 20 points for the
Cornell Big Red in their 63-55 victory over the Western Michigan Broncos at
Newman Arena in the first-ever meeting between the two teams.
Coming off the bench for Cornell (1-0), Cressler shot a very impressive 6-of-8
from three-point range in his college debut. He was joined in double-figure
scoring by Errick Peck who had 10 points and Galal Cancer, also coming off the
bench, who tallied 10 on 5-of-7 shooting while adding a game-high seven
The Broncos (0-1) were unable to capitalize on the play of Shayne Whittington
who registered a double-double with 15 points and a game-high 13 rebounds.
Jared Klein was the only player for Western Michigan to join him in double-
figure scoring with 12 points.
Despite starting the game 1-of-13 shooting and converting a very poor 21.4
percent from the field, WMU went into halftime down only two points, 26-24.
The second half was more active for both teams, with Cornell controlling the
pace and outscoring the Broncos 37-31.
The Big Red bench contributed 35 points, while WMU's reserves only put up 14.
Cornell also tallied 13 blocked shots, six by Shonn Miller, in an impressive
defensive performance.
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Royals closer Joakim Soria named 2010 Bruce Rice Pitcher of the Year
The Royals have announced that right-handed pitcher Joakim Soria is the 2010 Bruce Rice Pitcher of the Year. The award was voted on by the Kansas City Chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA).
The 26-year-old Soria, who also won the award in 2008, went 1-2 with a career-high 43 saves in 46 opportunities in 2010. In 66 appearances, he compiled a 1.78 ERA, striking out 71 and walking just 16 in 65.2 innings. The two-time A.L. All-Star (2008 and 2010) finished second in the league in saves (Rafael Soriano-TB, 45) and just two back of the Royals single-season record held by Dan Quisenberry (1983) and Jeff Montgomery (1993). Soria set a pair of Royals club marks in 2010, converting 36 saves in a row and posting 23.2 consecutive scoreless innings as a reliever. Soria finished third in baseball in save percentage (93.5), behind the Padres' Heath Bell (94.0) and the Rays' Rafael Soriano (93.8). The Monclova, Mexico, resident becomes the 10th Royals pitcher to be named the Bruce Rice Pitcher of the Year at least twice since the award's inception in 1971. Dan Quisenberry and Bret Saberhagen each earned the honor a team-high four times.
Yesterday, left-handed pitcher Bruce Chen was named the 2010 Joe Burke Special Achievement Award winner. The Royals will announce the 2010 Les Milgram Player of the Year on Monday.
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Writers Group Open Meeting Feb. 13 at St. Cloud Public Library
Wanted: writers, journalists, poets, dreamers, diarists, essayists, and scribes…. For anyone interested in forming a writers group in the area, there will be a meeting at the St. Cloud Public Library, Room 259 on the upper level, on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Bring your lunch, if you like. This is a meeting for sharing ideas about ways writers can support each other. This meeting is open to anyone who likes to write.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Only at the People's Choice Awards could "The Walking Dead" compete against "Downton Abbey." They're both up for best cable TV drama, along with "Sons of Anarchy," "Pretty Little Liars" and "White Collar."
Sandra Bullock has five nominations, including two for favorite duo. She's paired with George Clooney in "Gravity" and with Melissa McCarthy in "The Heat."
"Glee" leads all TV shows with eight nominations, including favorite network TV comedy. Robin Williams will try to win his second award for favorite actor in a new TV series 35 years after he won for playing Mork in "Mork and Mindy." "Fast and Furious 6" competes against "Iron Man 3," "Despicable Me 2," "Monsters University" and "Star Trek into Darkness" for favorite movie. Winners will be announced tonight.
EXTRA: Jennifer Hudson to be honored at People's Choice Awards
The stars of "2 Broke Girls" will host tonight's People's Choice Awards and they'll be as far from Tina Fey and Amy Poehler as you can get. Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs have never hosted an awards show, or any show for that matter, and they're not out to make fun of anyone.
Dennings says her only goal is to not "throw up on stage." If she does, it would be on a full stomach. She and Behrs both say they have to eat before the show so they don't pass out.


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WASHINGTON – At least four area school systems have posted notices about security on their homepages in an effort to squash rumors swirling on social media.
"There's been a lot of chatter tied to recent events in Connecticut and the superstitions tied to the Mayan calendar," says Philip Kavits, the director of communications with Prince William County Public Schools.
The school system has put up information explaining that there has been no credible threat found, and that any and all implied threats will be fully investigated, Kavits says.
Stafford County Public Schools have posted a similar message as have Anne Arundel and Calvert County Schools in Maryland. When contacted earlier today, Frederick County Schools indicated a message would also be posted on its home page.
Kavits emphasizes that security "is priority number one 24/7." And that no concern will be dismissed. But he also adds, anyone who files a false report or incites disruption to the schools would face consequences.
"Police have made it clear that they will bring charges if appropriate," Kavits said.
In the aftermath of last week's shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, many school systems explained they'd have increased police presence near schools. These latest notifications about school safety are in addition to those measures.
WTOP's Kate Ryan contributed to this report.
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The Enchanted Forest theme park closed for good in the 1990s. But the owner of a nearby farm has moved and preserved many of its parts.


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Avian/Bird Flu
- Avian Influenza (Bird Flu)
- From the CDC. Includes information for the general public and health professionals.
- Flu in South Carolina
- From the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control/
- PandemicFlu.gov
- The official U.S. government Web site for information on pandemic flu and avian influenza.
- Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Infection in Humans
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John Harrigan: Forget the wind chill, 'cold' is just plain cold
It was too cold to snow the previous day, that being Thursday the 3rd, when at 5 a.m. the outdoor thermometer registered a flat minus 20, as in 20 below. This is one of the reasons why it doesn't snow much in the high Arctic, which is close to a desert in terms of moisture. It's too cold.
The winter's first blast of cold Canadian air had media weather commentators talking ("Bundle up," as if anyone wouldn't) and warning about wind chill. This is a formula based on (a) the temperature, and (b) the projected wind speeds, which, when combined, yield figures that would make the average person run for Mesopotamia (wait - Saddam drained the marshes in that supposed biblical birthplace of civilization, to little international or religious interest. Better opt for Florida).
When I was a kid, walking to school or working with Beetle Lawton shoveling front walks and driveways to earn money for Christmas and birthday gifts, there was no such thing as "wind chill" in the vernacular. In fact, we scarcely paid attention to the raw temperature at all. If the snow crunched under our feet, we went back for an extra layer. "Wind chill" was the province of mountaineers and the denizens at the Mount Washington Observatory.
To me, anything colder than zero is pretty much the same. The lowering of degrees, however, will have its certain little effects, involving the walk to school, precautions with truck and tractor, and going to camp.
No matter how cold it was, if it had snowed the day or night before, Ron (aka Beetle) Lawton and I would go out and clear out front walks and driveways, trundling our major kick-butt wooden scoop and assorted shovels in front of us. Then he would go to his house and I to mine for breakfast before striking off for school, a quarter-mile distant.
A quarter-mile is not much in balmy times, but it's a long walk when it's 40 below, which is the coldest morning I remember trudging to school. I held one mitten-protected hand over my nose and got as far as the bridge over the Mohawk River before I had to find succor, which was Bert Bryant's store. Bert ran a sporting goods store where the First Colebrook Bank now stands, and always had (a) a super-hot wood stove, and (b) beagles.
Bert, an old-timer from an old-time family of stump-pullers, had a way of what New Lexicon devotees call cutting to the chase. "Look at the neck on that boy," I never forgot him saying the first time I went into the store. Even at the age of 10 or so, I had a Christopher Reeves neck. Charlie Jordan has that same kind of neck, although neither he nor I can leap over tall buildings or stop a speeding locomotive. Must be something in the water.
Bert Bryant said something else that always endeared him to me, a saying I use whenever I get the chance to the consternation of kids (or their parents) thoroughly caught up in the stay-inside world of computers and attendant devices. "I never knew a kid who was fishing in a swamp who got into trouble."
On that 40-below morning, I ducked into Bert's store, my nose pretty well frozen. To Bert, the weather was not worth mentioning. "How was the fishing in the swamp?" he asked, in a nonchalant way.
The truck and tractor precautions are a lot easier than caring for a nose. When I hear a forecast of 20 below or something, or the snow just crunches when I make my late-night trek to feed the outdoor furnace, I plug in the vehicles' block heaters. Just about anywhere you go in Canada and Alaska everyone has block heaters, and there are places to plug them in at the grocery store and bank. I don't know how the charges for this are taken care of, but we should look into it, being as we are halfway between the equator and the North Pole. But the earth's warming trend might negate this for a while.
As for camp, I well remember one year when we had Rabbit Camp at Clarksville Pond and had to abandon ship. Rabbit Camp (our longtime gathering to hunt rabbits) was always held around Washington's Birthday, a time of year when you took your chances on freezing cold enough to make you flee to Mesopotamia or sunny, balmy times when you could stick beers into melting snowbanks.
At this Rabbit Camp in the early '80s, a blast of super-cooled Canadian air roared in. We could cut the butter on the stove-end of the table, while on the other side we'd need a jack-hammer. Even equipped as we were for Arctic conditions, we could not keep warm.
And so on the next morning, having expended all that energy to get into camp, we exchanged silent looks, like the Marx Brothers, which said "We're outta here," and we were.
John Harrigan's column appears weekly in the New Hampshire Sunday News. His address is Box 39, Colebrook 03576. Email him at email@example.com.


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All our 10.8.x Mac users are experiencing multiple Calendar issues. It has gotten worse in the last week, although there have been no updates on the server or Mac end that we are aware of that would cause these issues. They are syncing to our email server using CalDAV.
The mail server is Zimbra (version 8.0.2). We are not seeing anything in our server logs that would indicate a problem. All users outside of those using Mac 10.8.x are fine (over 500 other users running Outlook, webmail only, or ZD). Also, our users have used the same setup for many years and have never experienced anything like this. Most have been on 10.8.x for many months now.
Scenario 1: Organizer sends out calendar invite to users. Users never receive invite and server logs never show invite hitting the server.
Scenario 2: Organizer sends out calendar invite to users. First user accepts invite and it disappears from the organizers calendar.
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Insulin is a hormone normally produced by the pancreas. Insulin helps your body convert food into energy. Without insulin, glucose (sugar) from food cannot enter cells, and glucose builds up in the blood. Your body tissues become starved for energy.
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A challenger in the race for Mississippi secretary of state says he's unhappy with the way incumbent Delbert Hosemann is handling leases of public lands.
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After slimming down pretty easily and quickly, is Jessica Simpson hiding what could be baby bump number 3? She seems to be the poster child for having a baby, losing the weight quickly and having another one, making millions of new moms very jealous. The Buzz tries to find out if baby number 3 is on the way!
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Kim Kardashian Shares A Classic Pic With Nicole RichieJanuary 10, 2014 01:00:32 by Suzy Kerr
Throwback Thursday! Kim Kardashian must have been feeling sentimental yesterday, because instead of posting her typical "look at my hot body, y'all" shots on her Instagram account, the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star instead shared a hilarious pic of her and Nicole Richie when they were just 13 years old!
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Jessica Simpson's Sex BanJuly 18, 2013 12:29:54 by Christine McDow
Fashion Star judge Jessica Simpson wants to be sure she doesn't get pregnant again before she gets a chance to walk down the aisle with fiance Eric Johnson, going as far to put a ban on sex in their relationship until after the big day! We think this is a good idea considering the wedding has now been postponed twice due to unplanned pregnancies. Find out more in this video from The Buzz and let us know if you think this is a good idea! Would you ever ban sex in your relationship?
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Elle Macpherson Recreates Iconic Playboy CoverJuly 3, 2013 03:13:59 by Stephanie Gustafson
Elle Macpherson still looks amazing at 49 — and she knows it! The former Fashion Star host recently showed off her toned body in a topless shoot for Harper's Bazaar Australia, recreating a look first made famous in a Playboy cover that debuted nearly twenty years ago. Suffice to say, the response thus far has been incredibly enthusiastic!
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Jessica Simpson Names Baby Boy Ace KnuteJuly 1, 2013 12:23:52 by Christine McDow
Where does Jessica Simpson come up with her baby names? Speculation was that the Fashion Star judge would name her baby Ace after a much loved relative, but the middle name of Knute? That is very different. The Buzz has the full story behind the naming of Jessica Simpson's new little boy as well as information on what is next for Jessica. Watch it here!
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Is Jessica Simpson Finally Ready To Get Married?June 3, 2013 02:48:15 by Christine McDow
Fashion Star judge Jessica Simpson was planning a wedding when her plans were derailed by lovely little girl. While losing the baby weight the wedding was once again discussed until Jessica Simpson unexpectedly found herself pregnant again! Now that the birth day for her little boy is getting nearer, could the actress, singer and reality television star finally be ready to get married? The Buzz lets you know in this video below!
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Jessica Simpson Impresses With Throwback Thursday Chorus Line VideoJune 1, 2013 07:14:12 by Stephanie Gustafson
It may seem hard to believe, but there was a time before Fashion Star mentor Jessica Simpson was a household name. But even then, the singer and actress showed a penchant for the performing arts, as was made clear the other day with the upload of a fascinating Throwback Thursday video.
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Ashlee Simpson's Backless Dress A Red Carpet HitMay 15, 2013 10:40:22 by Stephanie Gustafson
Ashlee Simpson has been largely out of the limelight as of late, but it looks like that's about to change! The sister of Fashion Star mentor Jessica Simpson wowed fans while showing a little skin at a recent New York City gala. Not a bad look for one hot mama!
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Nick Lachey Doesn't Keep In Touch With Jessica SimpsonMay 8, 2013 04:50:56 by Megan Thompson
Shocker alert – Nick Lachey doesn't keep in touch with his ex-wife Jessica Simpson. It appears Nick doesn't miss the Fashion Star mentor or the entire Simpson family one bit – especially Joe Simpson. Find out what Nick had to say about Jessica when he appeared on WWHL with Andy Cohen.
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Nicole Richie Shocks With Crazy Gray HairMay 7, 2013 12:21:22 by Stephanie Gustafson
Yes we know — the words "shocks" "crazy" and "gray" almost never wind up in the same phrase. And gray hair combined with fashionista Nicole Richie seems even less likely. But the Fashion Star mentor has indeed dyed her hair gray…and we're not sure if we like it or not. What prompted Nicole's latest and greatest hairstyle switcharoo?
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7 tactile buttons and a touchpad (directions).
Dedicated hold switch
SoC: Sigmatel STMP360(B)
Screen resolution: 128 x 160 (RGB) [there are 2 LCD variants, see below in the hardware section]
RAM: 16 Mb
Radio (where present): Philips TEA5767
Nand: 1 - 2 - 4 GB splitted in various logical partitions (see under)
Hardware variants: from the bootloader I understood that there are at least something like 8 HW revisions. Of course these revisions are not very different one another, but features are missing. For example my 2 Z5 have both a microphone as well as the FM radio, while the Z5 that someone took apart below has neither FM radio nor microphone. Other variants are NAND type and LCD type.
2 firmware updates are available here: http://www.anythingbutipod.com/forum/showthread.php?t=32690. The update is performed by placing the =Z5Update.dat file in the root of the player or the System/Data folder, depending on the current version you're player is running. This player runs Linux as well as a particular Java virtual machine! Indeed, the firmware UI is made up in Java and all the class are visible (and hacker-able ). Lots of interesting scripts and executable are present in the firmware.
Update process
With the help of the Z5 updater (recovery) application we can restore the firmware through the STMP3600 recovery mode. A updater.sb as sent to the device. This ~1,8MB file is really complex since it includes some code to load a Linux kernel with a rootfs-based recovery. Then a z5-fw.dat is sent to the user memory (through UMS) and the process of decryption + flashing begins!
Z5Update?.dat is a mixture of plain and encrypted bytes.
To get the player to present itself as a STMP3600/Player Recovery Class device, hold the middle select button while connecting to USB from the off state.
Keep in mind that this device has a sleep mode and the only way to truly turn it off is by pressing in the reset button on the bottom. (applies to OF, not other modes!!!)
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Touchpad device shall be enabled via the TX/TY +/- pins. See the "Default value" in the table above.
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Due to changes in Erento's content strategy, our UK blog will go on temporary hiatus.
During the upcoming months, our content team will focus all of its energy on our German-speaking market, and the UK blog will not be updated regularly.
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In the 80's and 90's of the last millennium, Lithuanian punk bands led the peaceful revolution and today this Baltic EU member country feels more associated to the West than to Russia. As a holiday destination, this country has remained a well kept secret. Therefore, there is a lot to discover for those looking to give their travels that individual touch. The historical cities of this country are its greatest treasure not to mention the majestic Baltic Sea coastlines with their antique seaside resorts and the luscious forests with their numerous lakes.
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As a person who hires out, you probably often ask the question of how to get people to hire your items online. There is no one sure-fire way to success because every offer, and every customer for that matter, is different. There are, however, a couple of basic tips which can help you to hire out more successfully.
In light of the political events of the last few years, many enthusiasts of unique camper holidays are at a loss for where to go. The North African countries of Morocco and Tunisia, once very popular travel destinations to escape the winter without having to deal with a large time difference, are no longer considered to be safe.
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Nowadays it is almost impossible to find someone who is hiring out who does not have their own website. However, only a few really know how many people visit their site or how they can improve their online visibility. These, along with several other aspects are crucial when you want to successfully hire out. For this reason, we are presenting you with two free Google tools today which are a must for your online analysis.
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The motorhome has been hired out, the route has been planned, things have been packed and it is time to get going – or maybe not? The very first holiday with a hired motorhome is an exciting experience. It is no wonder that we rattle our brains thinking about if we have everything and how actually getting on the road should go.
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Prepare your holiday well in advance and let your customers know when you are on holiday and cannot be reached. Otherwise, they will be confused when you do not answer and will quietly become angry about the disregard.
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More and more people are putting emphasis on fresh and healthy eating; "Clean eating" is the trendy term used by Generation Y. But how can this be done with such limited space in a camper? For those of you who want to eat healthy and wholesome, you need a real kitchen. With the right tools and a good plan, it is possible to offer variety even in the close quarters of a camper without the use of instant soups and ready-made sauces. We will show you some tricks on how to conjure up some magical recipes during your journey.


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Managing air cargo costs
June 01, 2011
The global economic downturn that hit markets hard in 2009 has had an enormous impact on the international freight business. But perhaps nowhere has it been felt as much as in the air cargo segment. Here, as most logistics managers are well aware, losses were huge.
However, the uptick in the global economy, led by South America and Asia, and a slow but steady rebound across North America and Europe in 2010 has helped the sector recover some of those losses. Lower and stable fuel costs throughout last year also enabled carriers to post solid gains against 2009.
"But the carriers and airfreight forwarders, quite honestly, took a beating as shippers had no freight to move and demanded lower rates to move what they had," says Greg Andrews, EMIL managing director, Georgia Institute of Technology Supply Chain and Logistics Institute.
While shippers took advantage of the market dynamics in 2009 and 2010 and jumped on some of the cheapest rates they had seen in decades, carriers and forwarders learned who their good customers were.
"Most important, carriers and forwarders learned the value of capacity management," says Andrews. Even as freight demand began to grow again, carriers managed capacity by being slow to return parked planes into service. "And now, instead of capacity chasing rates and freight, freight and rates are chasing capacity," Andrews adds.
Brandon Fried, executive director of the Airforwarders Association (AFA), points out that while freight companies are now seeing increased volume, low margins continue to be a significant obstacle to their growth and expansion. "Consequently, rates have doubled and, in some lanes, tripled over the last year—quickly returning them to pre-recession levels," he says.
Add to this skyrocketing fuel costs that are passed along to the shipper as fuel surcharges. "The most significant driver of rate pressure today is certainly the rising cost of fuel," remarks Fried. "Airlines and forwarders face a continuing uphill battle in covering constantly changing fuel costs. Incorrect planning or erroneous assumptions could spell economic disaster for carriers trying to solve this issue."
Consequently, shippers find themselves facing an influx of changeable rates and hidden surcharges, inefficient shipping routes, missed delivery-to-transit commitments, lengthy timelines, capacity constraints along with size and weight factors, and safety and security issues.
"It's enough to keep transportation and logistics managers awake at night trying to find ways to hold off air freight increases," says Andrews.
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A recent survey conducted by Logistics Management on behalf of Management Dynamics revealed that nearly one out of four companies spends in excess of 15 percent of their overall revenues on international and domestic freight services. Most notably, the survey found, one out of four organizations spent upwards of $50 million on shipping in 2010. For 2011, all indications lean towards an increase in spending on international freight.
While the survey discovered that shippers acknowledge that they need enhanced methods for securing better rates and routes, few reported that they are now running highly developed solutions to achieve those objectives. Some 66 percent of the shippers surveyed also indicated that over the next 12 months to 18 months, rate negotiations would be the predominant action they will undertake to control their global freight costs.
Although the fluctuation of jet fuel surcharges and the supply/demand balance of air cargo capacity are elements that they can't control, shippers can take a few steps when negotiating rates.
The first, says Dr. Paul Dittman, director of the Office of Corporate Partnership at the University of Tennessee, is to come to the table with your carriers armed specifically with your air freight needs. Shippers can do this by closely examining their company's business supply chain model and understanding why they use air freight. He suggests implementing a forecasting tool or matrix to understand supply chain trends and when air freight demand changes might occur.
"This way companies can understand when air cargo offers the optimal use so they don't have to suddenly react," Ditmann says.
Another step forward, says Andrews, is to focus on your company's market strategy: Is it to be the first on the shelf or is it seasonal? Is your product high value, build-to-order, with short lead times? "Once you answer these questions, then you need to work with your carrier or forwarder to flatline your rate impact," he says. "This may be a two-tiered rate program, one where rates are lower out of season and higher in peak demand; but known for the duration of the year, budgeted, planned, and passed along in the price of your product."
Also, according to Fried, air shippers need to discuss specific needs with a freight forwarder. "For example, the forwarder may be interested in shipments destined for specific geographic areas and, therefore, may offer lower prices for those consignments," he says.
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Agreement that it is useful to record other titles of person as an element; concern that, as written, 220.127.116.11, would result in routine addition of titles such as Sir and Dame to the access point; should be added only to break a conflict.
- Robare, 8/23/11
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I assume this is restoring the AACR2 22.19B ability to distinguish identical names by using a title that appears with the name as a qualifier, currently forbidden in RDA, NOT a restoration of the old rule about including "Sir," "Dame," etc. in the heading. If so, I agree with the proposal. However, I think it needs more detail--particularly the AACR2 wording that the title "appears with the name in works by the person or in reference sources" and (for RDA 9.19) "Do not use such a term if dates are available for one person and it seems likely that dates will eventually be available for the other(s)." I'm not insisting that the AACR2 language be transferred verbatim, but I think the two caveats are good ones. I think it would also be useful to somehow clarify that this is to be applied to the access point only when needed to distinguish from another otherwise identical name. Otherwise we may be reopening the door to routine addition of things like "Sir" and "Dame" to the access point forms. (I think it's fine to *record* "Sir," "Dame," etc. as an *element* in the record for the person, but I'd rather not return to including it in the access point.)
Bob Maxwell, SACO liaison, 2 August 2011
I agree with Bob that we don't want to routinely add titles such as "Sir", "Dame", (or even "Mrs."! which is given as a FRAD example) to access points unless they are required to break a conflict. K. Randall, 8/15/11
I generally concur with Bob: I do not object to recording titles of various sorts, but do not wish to return to the routine addition of them outside of those specific cases already extant in RDA. This will however introduce some complexity into 18.104.22.168 I fear because it is currently written to require the addition of the terms covered, where the "other title" categories addressed in the proposal ought only be optional additions to break a conflict. That is, 188.8.131.52 is written "Add ... as applicable" where other rules under 9.19 are written "Add ... as necessary". 220.127.116.11 could become hopelessly muddled in trying to say "these categories of titles are to be added as applicable, where these other categories of titles are only to be added as necessary." -- MYERS, MARBI Liaison, 2011/08/17
As written, I think this proposal would make the addition of Sir and Dame routine again, because it's expanding the definition of "title of the person" to include them, and currently all titles of the person are added whether or not they are needed to break a conflict. I agree with John Myers that this would need to be modified to distinguish between titles that are added routinely (the current set) and ones that would be added only to break a conflict (the ones added by this proposal). R.Rendall, 8/17/11
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I support Mr. Danskin's proposal to add back titles to distinguish personal names, in lieu of free-text terms in parentheses. (Title of person: change to 9.4.1 and 184.108.40.206 - http://www.rda-jsc.org/docs/6JSC-BL-1.pdf) I believe that RDA's reliance on free-text qualifiers in parentheses, in place of terms like "Rev." or "Dr." or "Captain" that are usually found on a resource, will cause several problems.
By not allowing military terms, Captain John Smith, General John Smith, and Sargeant John Smith would all become undifferentiated as "Smith, John |c (Soldier)", whereas in AACR2 they could be differentiated. This does not help users identify personal names and the works they're associated with. Particularly with military terminology, specialized user groups would likely be searching for a particular rank associated with a name; by disallowing the usage of such ranks, RDA would be doing these users a disservice in locating needed resources.
By not allowing "Rev.", the Rev. Jane Smith would need to be described as "Clergyman" in a |c just like her male counterpart Rev. John Smith, unless a cataloger describes her as "Clergywoman" or "Clergyperson" (neither are listed as options in the RDA examples). This would lead to inconsistencies in terminology between catalogers with different notions of gender and language, and perhaps also open the name authority file to accusations of gender discrimination that have plagued the subject authority file in the past. Further, if Rabbi John Smith and Imam John Smith also need to be described as "Clergyman", there could be accusations of religious bias, as well.
By not allowing terms like "Dr." or "Ph.D.", but insisting on field of activity descriptors, RDA could create scenarios where a user would not recognize the correct personal name heading. For example, I cataloged a book by an professor of both Asian Studies and Musicology. The book in question was in the musicology field, so I would have had to establish him as "|c (Musicologist)". But if his next book is about Asian Studies, users would not understand why that |c exists, or how it could apply to their author; other catalogers might not recognize the author, either, to apply to later works, and they might not click on the heading to see further information. Creating him as "Dr." allows for greater ambiguity, rather than--in this case--misleading specificity. This would apply as well for a recent book by a professor of physics, who wrote about karate in his spare time. Being forced to use "|c (Physicist)" would not serve end users better than "Dr." for locating his karate books.
Finally, since many of these terms of address, like Rev. and Captain, can be found on the resources being cataloged, denying their usage seems inconsistent with RDA's generally philosophy of strict transcription/usage of what's seen in the resource, for little or (I would argue no) added benefit to users.
- Glennan (PCC) for Deborah Tomaras, NACO Coordinator, NYPL


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Oakland, CA (Sports Network) - Jarrett Jack hit two big free throws in the
closing seconds after Andrew Bogut provided the decisive block, as the Golden
State Warriors fought off the Dallas Mavericks, 100-97, at Oracle Arena.
The Mavericks never led, but had a chance to jump in front in the closing
seconds after David Lee's tip-in of a Jack miss rimmed out. Brandan Wright
grabbed the rebound with 20.9 seconds remaining, then had the ball on the left
block with time winding down.
Bogut stayed his ground, however, and as Wright went up for the shot, Bogut
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and drained both at the foul line before Vince Carter's off-balanced 3-point
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Klay Thompson paced Golden State with 27 points, while Lee added 15 points, 20
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by O.J. Mayo's 25 points. Carter netted 22 points, while Shawn Marion chipped
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Just write down the ONE NAME who you think the Celtics will pick. Time expires at 7pm tomorrow.
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|Hospital, clinic to take Medicare hit due to sequestration
|Written by Wauneta Breeze
|Wednesday, 10 April 2013 19:13
By Russ Pankonin
The Imperial Republican
Automatic federal budget cuts that kicked in earlier this year, known as sequestration, will affect Medicare payouts at the Chase County Community Hospital and Clinic.
During the regular hospital board meeting Thursday, April 4, Renea Fink, chief financial officer, said the two entities will get Medicare reimbursement reduced by 2 percent as of April 1, 2013.
As a critical access hospital, reimbursement is paid to the entities at 101 percent of cost. That will now drop to 99 percent of costs.
Fink said they are looking at some cost-cutting measures in the short term to help offset the loss.
Another step the hospital is doing, she said, is bringing their billing back in house.
She said they outsourced the billing based on a quote of 80-100 hours of billable time per month by the outside biller.
She said that estimate wasn't even close, with the hospital getting billed from 400-500 hours per month. As a result, money can be saved by bringing the process back in house.
The transition will occur over a 90-day period that has already begun. She said they are using a billing consultant to assist in the transition.
Even though billing will be brought back in house, Fink said it will not be uncommon for patients to wait 60-90 days before receiving a bill when an insurance company or Medicare is involved.
She said it takes at least 60 days before the insurance companies or Medicare pay their claims.
She said they don't send bills to patients when claims are pending. Once the claims process is completed, a patient will receive a bill showing what's still outstanding.
Speciality clinics
Specialty Clinic Coordinator Jamie Hiett briefed the board on activity in the clinic.
She said the hospital currently has 10 doctors who operate clinics here. A variety of specialities are covered from oncology, cardiac, orthopedic, ear nose & throat, and general surgery.
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When terrorist suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev set off two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in April, those immersed in the science of homeland security pondered a handful of obvious questions: What had authorities done to secure the route, and was securing all 26.2 miles of the course even possible? Had local law enforcement picked up any chatter related to a possible attack in advance of the incident? And were the brothers homegrown terrorists or connected with some foreign group?
Those are the kinds of questions that routinely get examined though an extensive intelligence infrastructure in place in the form of nationwide "fusion centers." They were set up by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks as a way to improve information gathering and intelligence surveillance among the country's various law enforcement agencies.
But fusion centers are controversial. Questions have been raised about how effective they are in securing the nation from both homegrown and outside threats, and in their approach to the delicate business of intelligence gathering.
Boston isn't new to the debate about the efficacy or the tactics of fusion centers. In March 2007, Boston police took it upon themselves to monitor an antiwar event at a local church, taking careful notes and later filing an intelligence report that described the gathering as a criminal act involving extremists. When the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) later obtained a copy of the report and published the information, the public was astonished and outraged to learn of the surveillance, which was undertaken by Boston's fusion center, known as the Boston Regional Intelligence Center, or BRIC.
The ACLU accused the Boston police of trying to suppress legitimate constitutionally protected speech in a broad-based effort at thwarting terrorism. The police responded by saying the report should have been purged from its records, but a glitch in the computer system failed to remove it. The incident hardly served to instill great confidence among citizens in either the mission or the tactics of BRIC.
But there are other cases of fusion centers performing exactly the functions they were set up to execute. Two years after the Boston church surveillance incident, law enforcement authorities in North Carolina shut down a terrorist group led by an American named Daniel Patrick Boyd, who had trained in militant camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the early 1990s. The group had provided money and transportation to help terrorists overseas while amassing a large cache of weapons before the FBI and local police arrested Boyd and seven members of his group. Boyd is now serving an 18-year sentence. The intelligence that led to the breakup of his domestic terrorist organization was produced by the North Carolina Information Sharing & Analysis Center.
The different outcomes at the fusion centers in North Carolina and Boston reflect their mixed record overall. Conceived in 2004, the centers were set up to be state-run information networks that would have guidance and support from the federal government and operate in conjunction with local law enforcement agencies in the war on terrorism. Today, they have become centers that communicate and analyze "all crimes" and "all hazards." The result is more confusion than fusion. The centers, critics charge, have grown unwieldy and wasteful. Meanwhile, the ACLU complains that the lack of oversight has led to far more serious problems, such as abuses of privacy and civil liberties.
Fusion centers are not without their supporters. They argue that in a post-9/11 world, the U.S. needs more information and intelligence sharing between federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, not less. They also point out that preventing crime and terrorism will always be a difficult outcome to measure.


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