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Lake Mitchell restoration groups to meet in February
The two groups tasked with helping guide Lake Mitchell to a higher water quality standard will meet next month.
With committee assignments determined by Mitchell Mayor Jerry Toomey, the Watershed Advisory Committee made up of a group of volunteer stakeholders and the Technical Advisory Team, which will provide technical input and recommendations on water quality improvements, are expected to meet as early as February to start working to improve the algae and water clarity issues at Lake Mitchell.
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NSA's Prism Could Cost American Businesses $180 Billion And Put Them At Competitive Disadvantage
NSA's Prism Could Cost American Businesses $180 Billion And Put Them At Competitive Disadvantage
Fears over the National Security Agency's Prism spy project could cost cloud, hosting and outsourcing providers $180 billion in lost business, according to Forrester Research Inc. Revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden that the U.S. government is collecting data from U.S. technology companies about the communications of foreign persons located abroad could lead to defections from cloud services vendors by multinational corporations. German government officials and companies have already raised questions about the security of data hosted by U.S.-based companies.
The $180 billion figure is a much higher estimate of potential losses than those published by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, a non-partisan think tank, which earlier this month suggested the U.S. cloud industry could lose between $21.5 billion and $35 billion in sales through 2016, due to concerns over Prism by non-U.S. companies. But James Staten, a Forrester analyst who follows IT services, argued in a blog post Wednesday that financial losses could prove substantially higher when other market segments are considered.
In calculating his higher estimate, Mr. Staten said that in addition to the $35 billion estimated by the ITIF, vendors of hosting and outsourcing services – which offer many of the same services as cloud companies, but use different processes and revenue models — could suffer an additional $100 billion in lost business. Moreover, non-U.S. cloud service providers could lose $35 billion worth of business from international customers, as awareness grows of the surveillance activities of other governments, such as the France government's covert spying reported by Le Monde. Mr. Staten tossed in an additional $10 billion in lost revenue as a result of U.S. customers shunning U.S. cloud providers, to reach a total of $180 billion.
Mr. Staten defines cloud as an automated and multitenant pay-per-use service, while hosting is often similar but billed on a monthly basis. He defines outsourcing as traditional infrastructure management by a third-party on a multi-year contract.
But that $180 billion number is a worst-case scenario Mr. Staten said won't come to fruition. Why? He said the benefit of IT services outstrips the potential risk that companies face due to government surveillance. "The IT services market is a part of our portfolios because it provides capabilities we value either against IT or business metrics," Mr. Staten said.
Daniel Castro, the analyst who authored the ITIF report, largely agrees with Mr. Staten's elaboration of his research, as well as the broader point that the benefits of the cloud outweigh the privacy pitfalls. But he said Mr. Staten is overlooking the potential political ramifications associated with Prism. He said global governments may make "national-level decisions" that can force corporate customers to curb their spending on cloud. "You can't resist the cloud, but you can determine where you go for it," Mr. Castro said.
Ed Anderson, an analyst who covers the cloud computing industry for Gartner Inc., said that privacy concerns about data stored in the cloud are overblown because data centers that host cloud services are often more secure than data centers owned and managed by individual companies. "The public cloud adoption juggernaut just keeps marching on," Mr. Anderson said.
CIOs who spoke to CIO Journal for this article likewise feel confident in cloud services. Joe Fuller, CIO of Dominion Enterprises, a subsidiary of classified ad provider Landmark Media Enterprises LLC, said the company will continue using cloud services from Salesforce.com Inc. and Google Inc. despite Prism. Bill Swislow, CIO of automotive information provider Cars.com, which spends over $1 million a year on cloud software from Salesforce.com Inc., told CIO Journal Prism would have no impact on his business because the "nature of our content and audience don't really play into government-focused privacy concerns."
Salesforce.com spokesperson Ashish Patel said "we are not involved in the PRISM program, and we do not provide any governments with direct access to Salesforce servers." He declined to say whether Prism had negatively impacted the company's business.
Google spokesperson Jay Nancarrow referred CIO Journal to a June blog post penned by CEO Larry Page and Chief Legal Officer David Drummond, in which they claimed the company has not joined any program that would give any government "direct access to our servers." Mr. Nancarrow said that the company's enterprise cloud business has not experienced any significant changes during the last few months.
Germany Thumbs Nose at the NSA
The global backlash against the National Security Agency's cyber spying picked up a notch as Germany's leading telecom company announced that all email flowing among three of the nation's email services will remain on German servers at all times. The move reflects powerful differences in the way that Americans and Europeans view privacy—and just happens to coincide quite nicely with the commercial interests of European Internet companies, who have yet to achieve anything close to the scale of Google Inc. or Amazon.com Inc.
Lost in the political and economic battle, which President Obama addressed are the interests of corporations and other users, who will find that their enhanced privacy—whether they want it or not—will add complexity to their business. President Obama called for an overhaul of surveillance policy that would disclose more information about a secret national security court and disclose more information about the National Security Agency. He also acknowledged that the review was prompted by NSA leaker Edward Snowden.
"It is completely political," David Horrigan, an analyst and attorney at 451 Research, said of the new policy in Germany. Announced by Deutsche Telekom AG, the new program, called "Email Made in Germany," will encrypt German email and warn Internet users when they are sending email to a service that isn't part of the program. The three participating companies are DT's T Online, GMX and web.de. A government mandate of the same policy has been discussed, but not enacted.
If national security demanded it, German and French law would allow authorities to exercise the same sort of surveillance powers that their counterparts in the U.S. wield, according to Mr. Horrigan, who specializes in e-discovery and information governance. He said that he wasn't making an assessment of the merits of the NSA program one way or the other.
But political gestures often have huge business consequences. Mr. Horrigan said U.S. Internet companies need to take the European objections to NSA spying seriously. "I think the U.S. companies really must address the issue," he said. He said that they need to explain just how narrow the differences in the U.S. and European government spying powers really are. If they don't, European rivals may well succeed in using the NSA spying issue as a competitive opening.
At the technological level, the new program adds complexity to networking and IT, but it is technologically feasible, according to Mr. Horrigan. Even in developed countries, "you can stipulate that certain kinds of information have to be on certain servers," he said. That's true even in the case of U.S. operations of German companies, he said. That does not mean, however, that it is easy to do.
"Although it's feasible technically to limit data to non-US servers, from a practical standpoint, it's a nightmare. For instance, most large German-based multinationals have U.S. operations. Keeping that data off U.S. servers presents substantial challenges," he said.
Compliance would add costs to doing business, Mr. Horrigan said. "One way to comply with the new policy would be to have silos of computer operations, which is not particularly efficient," Mr. Horrigan said. That would mean keeping U.S. computer operations on U.S. servers, German computer operations on German servers, and so forth—adding layers of infrastructure for no technological reason, at a time when most operators are reducing them.
It's also unclear just how effective a defense email encryption will be. One such service shut down this week, as the Download reported on Friday. Jon Callas, co-founder of Silent Circle Inc., said on Twitter and in a blog post that Silent Circle had ended Silent Mail. Silent Circle will continue to offer secure texting and secure phone calls, but email is harder to keep truly private, Mr. Callas wrote.
It has recently been revealed that the National Security Agency's spying tools extend deep into the domestic U.S. telecommunications infrastructure, giving the agency a surveillance structure with the ability to cover the majority of Internet traffic in the country, according to current and former U.S. officials and other people familiar with the system.
The information here is based on interviews with current and former intelligence and government officials, as well as people familiar with the companies' systems.
The NSA's surveillance network covers more Americans' Internet communications than officials have publicly disclosed, reaching roughly 75 percent of all U.S. internet traffic. Siobhan Gorman reports on the News Hub.
Although the system is focused on collecting foreign communications, it includes content of Americans' emails and other electronic communications, as well as "metadata," which involves information such as the "to" or "from" lines of emails, or the IP addresses people are using.
At key points along the U.S. Internet infrastructure, the NSA has worked with telecommunications providers to install equipment that copies, scans and filters large amounts of the traffic that passes through.
This system had its genesis before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and has expanded since then.
Updated: July 4, 2014
Germany Summons U.S. Ambassador Over Spy Allegations
Germany summoned the U.S. ambassador on Friday after allegations of American spying erupted anew, threatening to further damage one of Washington's most important alliances.
The German federal prosecutor announced that a 31-year-old German was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of working for foreign intelligence agencies. The arrested man was an employee of the German foreign-intelligence agency, known as the BND, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The worker initially raised suspicions because he apparently tried to contact Russian spies, but then told investigators he had been passing information to U.S. intelligence, one person said.
The people briefed on the investigation cautioned that the man's links to U.S. intelligence haven't been conclusively established.
But the suspicions were serious enough that Chancellor Angela Merkel was informed on Thursday and select members of parliament were briefed.
Outraged reactions in the media made clear the allegations were already dealing a new blow to the U.S.-German relationship—an alliance critical to matters as diverse as the Ukraine crisis and negotiations for a trans-Atlantic free-trade agreement.
"This is a very serious development," a spokesman for Ms. Merkel said. "The government will now await the conclusions of the federal prosecutor and federal criminal police's investigation."
Deputy Foreign Minister Stephan Steinlein urged U.S. Ambassador John B. Emerson in their Fourth of July meeting to help clear up the matter quickly, a ministry statement said.
U.S. officials in Washington and Berlin declined to comment.
Ties between the U.S. and Germany are still strained after last year's revelations of National Security Agency activities and U.S. monitoring of Ms. Merkel's cellphone. The leaks by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden struck a particular nerve in a country acutely sensitive to domestic spying because of its history with Communist and Nazi mass surveillance.
In one particularly explosive claim, several German media outlets reported that the arrested man may have sold information to the U.S. about a just-launched parliamentary inquiry of NSA surveillance programs.
"If the suspicion of a targeted attack on a German constitutional body is confirmed, just one year after the first Snowden disclosures, that would set the level of trust back to zero and result in political consequences," said Christian Flisek, a Social Democrat lawmaker and co-chairman of the NSA inquiry.
German authorities have increased their counterespionage efforts directed at friendly governments in the wake of the NSA disclosures.
But accusations of the U.S. working with double agents in Germany haven't come to light in recent memory. André Hahn, a top member of parliament for the opposition Left party, said such allegations would represent "one of the worst intelligence scandals in Germany in recent decades."
Investigators suspect he had financial motives in offering to leak documents, the two people familiar with the matter said.
Evidence suggests the man offered his services to the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, one person said. The U.S., rather than notifying the BND, may have taken him up on his offer, one person said.
The man was believed to have copied 218 BND documents on to a USB flash drive and sold them for €25,000 ($34,000), according to the newspaper Bild.
The evidence pointing to U.S. involvement was significant but not conclusive, and other intelligence agencies, particularly Russia's, could also be involved, those familiar with the case said.
Ms. Merkel's spokesman declined to say whether she brought up the matter with President Barack Obama in a phone call about the Ukraine crisis on Thursday.
The revelations spell fresh domestic political trouble for Ms. Merkel because of her pro-U.S. line.
The German chancellor has tried to quell public outrage over the NSA revelations. She has positioned Germany on the side of Washington in the Ukraine crisis, despite public skepticism, and joined Mr. Obama in threatening sanctions. And she continues to push for a trans-Atlantic free-trade agreement being negotiated this year, a deal that is important to American business but faces intense opposition in Germany.
"If the suspicion of spying on the parliamentary inquiry is confirmed, it will be a giant debacle for the BND and the federal government," said Katrin Göring-Eckardt, parliamentary leader of the opposition Greens.
What's New In This Report?
Previous reports have indicated that the NSA's surveillance of telecommunications lines in the U.S. focuses on international gateways and landing points. Other reports have indicated that surveillance of the U.S. telecom network was used to gather only metadata under a program that the NSA says ended in 2011.
This new report demonstrates that the NSA, in conjunction with telecommunications companies, has built a system that can reach deep into the U.S. Internet backbone and cover 75% of traffic in the country, including not only metadata but the content of online communications. The report also explains how the NSA relies on probabilities, algorithms and filtering techniques to sift through the data and find information related to foreign intelligence investigations.
What Is This Surveillance System?
NSA has worked with telecom companies to develop a surveillance system that covers roughly 75% of U.S. telecommunications. Armed with a court order, NSA can command that system to provide the information it asks for.
The telecoms have a system in place designed to do at least initial filtering and send streams of traffic most responsive to NSA's request to NSA machines, which then filter that stream of traffic for "selectors"—for instance, perhaps a set of IP addresses—and sift out the data that matches.
NSA can't reach in and touch the telecommunications company's, or anyone else's, unfiltered corporate system. But in general it can get what it needs from the system.
How Does This Work?
The exact technology used depends on the telecommunications carrier involved, when the equipment was installed and other factors.
In general, the system copies traffic flowing through the U.S. Internet system and then runs it through a series of filters. These filters are designed to sift out communications that involve at least one person outside the U.S. and that may be of foreign-intelligence value. The information that makes it through the filters goes to the NSA; the information that doesn't meet NSA's criteria is discarded.
More specifically, there are two common methods used, according to people familiar with the system.
In one, a fiber-optic line is split at a junction, and traffic is copied to a processing system that interacts with the NSA's systems, sifting through information based on NSA parameters.
In another, companies program their routers to do initial filtering based on metadata from Internet "packets" and send copied data along. This data flow goes to a processing system that uses NSA parameters to narrow down the data further.
What Kinds of Information Does The System Keep or Discard?
Initial filters might look at things such as the type of communication being sent. For example, videos downloaded from YouTube might not be of much interest, so they could be filtered out.
The filters also look at IP addresses in an effort to determine the geographic region involved in the transmission. This is done to focus on foreign communications.
The NSA ultimately decides what information to keep based on what it calls "strong selectors," such as specific email addresses or ranges of Internet addresses that belong to organizations. But it receives a broader stream of Internet traffic from which it picks out data that matches selectors.
Does This Mean NSA Analysts Are Reading All Your Emails And Watching You Surf The Web?
No. That would involve a tremendously large number of people and amount of time. However, the government is in some cases allowed to search Americans' information that is collected through this system.
How Much Internet Traffic Does The NSA Get?
The NSA-telecom surveillance system covers about 75% of U.S. communications, but the amount actually stored by the NSA is a small portion of that, current and former government officials say.
Why Does The NSA Have This System?
The NSA uses this system to help pursue foreign intelligence investigations.
Such investigations include those that aim to prevent attacks by international terrorist groups. Because the people involved in these groups can be within the U.S., investigators want to look at communications that involve people in America, particularly those who communicate with people outside the U.S.
In addition, a considerable amount of international traffic flows through the U.S. or to Internet services here, and national security investigators want to be able to monitor that information.
Why Can't They Just Focus On The International Undersea Cables?
The NSA began by focusing on cables that carry international traffic to and from the U.S. under the sea. But now the agency's reach covers a system that handles most domestic traffic as well.
Tapping only at cable landing points presents some logistical problems, says Jennifer Rexford, a computer science professor at Princeton University who studies Internet routing. First, those cables handle a huge amount of traffic at very high speeds, meaning that it is more likely for a tap there to drop or lose some of the data "packets" that make up Internet communications. Second, Internet routing is complicated: Not all parts of an Internet communication will flow over the same path, meaning it could be difficult to piece everything back together if taps are only on those lines.
The ability to access domestic communications networks means the system has redundancy and is better able to deliver the information the NSA needs.
In addition, many people overseas use Internet services located in the U.S., and the NSA wants to be able to access that traffic. For instance, one person overseas could log into a U.S.-based online email service and send an email to the account of another person who uses a different U.S. email. This email would actually travel from one server in the U.S. to another server in the U.S., even if the people communicating were outside it.
Is This Legal?
This system is currently conducted primarily under part of a law that was passed in 2008 amending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Sometimes this part of the law is called "Section 702."
Section 702 allows the NSA and FBI to target surveillance of people "reasonably believed" to be located outside the U.S. Rules governing how the NSA collects data under this law are approved by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or FISC, but after that, each instance of surveillance doesn't need a judge's approval.
The NSA and FBI must outline to the court the steps they take to help ensure the communications they gather are "reasonably believed" to have a foreign element, as well as the measures used to minimize Americans' communications that are collected inadvertently.
There Are Also a Few Other Legal Authorities Related To This Collection:
Before the 2008 law was passed, the system was allowed under a short-lived stopgap law that allowed largely the same thing. Before that stopgap measure, the system was part of President George W. Bush's warrantless surveillance program.
In addition, until the end of 2011, this same infrastructure allowed for a slightly different program that collected metadata from domestic U.S. communications in bulk. That program was possible under a part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that allowed tools called "pen registers," which are used to collect metadata. U.S. officials say that particular program was canceled in part because it wasn't producing valuable information.
Some parts of the system are also carried out under foreign spying authorities. The intelligence community has long been able to apply for warrants under Title 1 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Those warrants are largely like warrants used in law enforcement, except that they are approved by the FISC because of their secret nature. In some cases, taps on Internet networks could be used to fulfill these warrants.
What Limitations Are There On This Program?
The NSA must follow procedures approved by the secret FISA court to narrow its targets and to "minimize," or discard, information collected about Americans. Documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden outlined the procedures as they stood in 2009.
One paragraph in these documents is particularly relevant to domestic Internet collection. In that paragraph, marked Top Secret, the government says that it will "employ an Internet Protocol filter" "or it will target Internet links that terminate in a foreign country." This indicates that the rules allow the government either to rely on the fact that the cable runs to a foreign country or to rely on its IP filters, in order to provide reasonable assurances that the communication involves a foreigner.
The NSA also vets targets using more traditional methods, such as data it already has—and information from other agencies like human intelligence or contacts with foreign law enforcement—to decide whether they are "reasonably believed" to be outside the U.S.
In addition, people familiar with the legal process say lawyers at the telecommunications providers can serve as a check on the system.
After information is collected, the NSA has rules to minimize information about people in the U.S.
There are several exceptions to these minimization rules, though. The NSA is allowed to keep Americans' information and turn it over to the FBI if it is "reasonably believed to contain significant foreign intelligence information," "evidence of a crime" or information about communications security vulnerabilities, the documents say. Americans' communications also can be kept if they are encrypted, according to the documents.
How Does This System Fit In With Prism?
The Prism program collects stored Internet communications based on demands made to Internet companies such as Google Inc. under Section 702. Several companies have said the requests under this program don't result in bulk collection, meaning they are narrower than the filtering system on the domestic Internet backbone.
The NSA can use these Prism requests to target communications that were encrypted when they traveled across the Internet backbone, to focus on stored data that the filtering systems discarded earlier, and to get data that is easier to handle, among other things.
What Privacy Issues Does This System Raise?
One involves the reliance on algorithmic filtering to sift out domestic communications. Such algorithms can be complicated, and computer IP addresses don't always provide a good gauge of where the person is geographically.
Small changes in the algorithms can result in overcollection of Americans' data, which can then be stored by the NSA, say former U.S. officials, and current officials say it has stored some purely domestic communications within its systems.
Documents revealed by Mr. Snowden and disclosed recently indicate that the NSA has made mistakes because of technical error. Some people familiar with the systems say they are concerned that the huge amount of U.S. information accessible by these filtering systems, combined with the complicated nature of the filters, means it could be easy to sweep in domestic communications.
In 2011, the FISA court found part of the domestic NSA-telecom system unconstitutional, officials say. They say the NSA set the filters on the programs inappropriately in 2008, and the problem was discovered by the NSA in 2011 and reported.
"NSA's foreign intelligence collection activities are continually audited and overseen internally and externally," says NSA spokeswoman Vanee Vines. "When we make a mistake in carrying out our foreign intelligence mission, we report the issue internally and to federal overseers and aggressively get to the bottom of it."
Another possible concern is the ability of overseers, including the secret FISA court, to adequately police such technical systems. The court was created in the 1970s to oversee warrants on targets in national security investigations, not "to be in the business of approving very technical collection procedures," said one former government official who is familiar with the legal process.
President Obama and other supporters of the programs have said the NSA programs face careful oversight from all three branches of government. "We've got congressional oversight and judicial oversight," Mr. Obama has said. "And if people can't trust not only the executive branch but also don't trust Congress and don't trust federal judges to make sure that we're abiding by the Constitution, due process and rule of law, then we're going to have some problems here."
A person familiar with the legal process reported to us that the system relies in part on the telecom companies themselves to push back against what they see as problematic surveillance. This person said the appropriate rules aren't always clear, because of the complexities of Internet routing and surveillance.
A U.S. official said lawyers at these companies serve as an independent check on what the NSA receives.
Finally, the exceptions to minimization requirements mean information gathered on Americans could be used in ordinary criminal investigations, according to rules approved by the FISA court. NSA officials have said they are careful to use the information in accordance with the rules.
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Some would say; bohemian, some have called it rustic, others have described it as charming.... This old workhorse has been in perpetual service for An Oige for some forty plus years. Before that it served as the local post office and shop for a time, and before that was a private residence built around the turn of the century. It is by no means the most beautiful building you ever saw, but what it is; is clean, warm, friendly and set in one of the most stunning unspoiled parts of Ireland. The hostel caters for individuals, groups and family's. Dormitory rooms are six beded while private rooms can cater from two to eight beds. The rooms are not en suite, but showers and toilets are separated into male and female respectively. There is a full self-catering kitchen here at the hostel with everything you need including pot's, pans, cutlery etc. Just bring the food! The lure of Errigal mountain with it's 100% panoramic views of northwest Donegal will surely delight the novice as well as the experienced climber. The infamous Poisoned Glen with it's resident ghost 'The Green Lady' should also keep those intrepid ghost hunters on their toes! The hostel is also a prime location from which to discover the northwest Donegal area. From here you can visit the Glenveagh national park with it's castle and Italian gardens, or take a stroll along one of the many white sandy beaches of the Donegal coast. The nearest town of Bunbeg contains many a traditional pub where you can listen to an Irish music session while savouring a drop or two of the black stuff ! The maximum number of nights one can stay is 7 nights. any booking for more than 10 people needs to be made directly with the hostel or Hostelclub's group department.
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" Not only is Sean a great nutritionist, but he's an excellent strength coach. I've coached athletes with him on multiple occasions. The most impressive attributes I've seen in him is his integrity, work ethic, ability to work with athletes and desire to be the best coach possible...."
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"Not only is Sean a great nutritionist, but he's an excellent physical preparation coach. I've coached athletes with him on multiple occasions. The most impressive attributes I've seen in him is his integrity, work ethic, ability to work with athletes and desire to be the best coach possible."
- Luke Richesson. Head NFL Strength & Conditioning Coach for Denver Broncos.
"Sean Casey is one of the great up and coming minds in the human performance field. Between his diverse academic background, training experiences and thirst for knowledge, Sean elevates himself above the pack. His writings are extremely well researched yet easy to understand; a great resource for both the competitive and recreational athlete."
- Dr. Jamie Cooper, PhD, Assistant Professor and Instructor for graduate courses in Nutrition, Exercise, and Sport at Texas Tech University. Marathon and Triathlon Competitor.
"Whenever I need to bounce nutrition/supplement ideas off someone, I always turn to Sean Casey. I know that anything Sean tells me is backed by multiple scientific studies. It's a true pleasure working with him."
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The No. 1 Georgia women's swimming and diving team recorded 134 points, good enough for second place, on the first day of competition at the NCAA Championships. Stanford is currently in first place with 142.5 points.
Sophomore Allison Schmitt paced the Lady Bulldogs' efforts on the first day by defending her national title in the 500-yard freestyle, finishing in a time of 4 minutes, 34.13 seconds, breaking her own school record of 4:35.17. Teammates Wendy Trott (4:37.50) and Chelsea Nauta (4:37.82) finished third and fifth, respectively.
Morgan Scroggy finished third in the 200 individual medley (1:54.62), Anne-Marie Botek was third in the 50 freestyle (22.14), the 200 freestyle relay team (Botek, Scroggy, Megan Romano and Courtney Monsees) came in seventh and the 400 medley relay team (Romano, Michelle McKeehan, Lisa Caprioglio and Scroggy) finished eighth.
Hannah Moore finished in 14th place on the 1-meter springboard with 292.30 points.
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Retired judge challenging rule preventing him from returning to practice as barrister
A RECENTLY retired judge wants to resume practice as a barrister "due to economic necessity", the High Court heard.
Barry White, who presided over a many high-profile trials before retiring last year, says he is being prevented from doing so by an unconstitutional Bar Council rule.
Lawyers for Mr White (71) secured leave from Mr Justice Seamus Noonan Wednesday (Oct 21) to bring a judicial review challenge over the rule.
That rule is based on an 85-year-old Supreme Court decision in a 1930 case which prevents retired judges resuming private practise in a court equal to or less than the court of which they were a judge.
Mr White had told the Bar Council, in a letter, his wish to resume practise was due to "economic necessity".
He has four children, two at university and two at secondary school, "with all that entails", he wrote.
Mr White was called to the Bar in 1967 and became a senior counsel in 1992. When appointed a High Court judge in 2002, he had an extensive practise at the criminal Bar.
He had to retire as a judge at age 70 after a career in which he presided over many high profile criminal trials, including of Eamon Lillis, convicted of the manslaughter of his wife Celine, and Joe O'Reilly, serving a life sentence for the murder of his wife Rachel.
Since his retirement, Mr White has had discussions with the Bar Council and Minister for Justice on his application for a waiver of the rule so he can resume practise but to no avail, John Rogers SC, for Mr White, said.
Mr Rogers argued the rule breaches Mr White's constitutional rights, including to work and earn a livelihood.
Other grounds of challenge include that the rule is "law-making" in breach of the Constitution, anti-competitive and disproportionate. The case also raises issues concern the monopoly position of the Bar Council, Mr Rogers said.
The Bar Council also has no jurisdiction to impose conditions on judges returning to practise and the Minister has no power to enforce such restrictions, it is argued.
A solicitor may resume practise as a solicitor on retiring as a judge but a barrister judge cannot unless they operate outside the Law Library, counsel said.
The vast majority of the State's barristers are members of the Law Library and such membership requires adherence to the Bar Council Code of Conduct.
Mr Justice Noonan said Mr White had an arguable case for judicial review and was entitled to be granted leave. A hearing date will be fixed at a later stage.
It is claimed application of the disputed rule would mean Mr White would be confined to practising before the Supreme Court or the new Court of Appeal.
Mr Rogers said Mr White had taken legal advice and had meetings with the Bar Council and Department in pursuit of his application for a waiver from the rule, which can be granted in certain circumstances.
Prior to his appointment as a judge, Mr White he had a practise in the criminal trial courts that was dominated by reliance on the criminal legal aid scheme, counsel said.
A relevant regulation provided, when a barrister wants to be admitted to the panel for that scheme, they advise the Bar Council.
Mr White's case was that the regulation means, once a barrister indicates they wish to be placed on the panel, the Bar must notify the Minister who must put the barrister on the panel.
Mr White wrote to the Minister effectively asking to be placed on the panel but was told a barrister could only be placed if subject to regulation by the Bar Council.
Mr White had offered undertakings to meet the objections arising from the 1930 Supreme Court case, counsel said.
That (the O'Connor case) concerned a man who was first a solicitor, later a successful barrister and later a judge.
That man decided, in the "aftermath of revolution", he would prefer not to continue as a judge and sought readmission to the solicitor's profession.
The then Chief Justice adopted the view there was "good and powerful" reason to support a rule against re-admission on grounds including it would "shake the authority" of the courts.
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Movies: Shutter Island * * * *
In the opening scenes of Shutter Island, Martin Scorsese evokes and surpasses the portentous grandeur of the great 1930s and 40s Warner Brothers crime dramas.
A small ferry emerges from the dense fog of Boston harbour and bobs towards the forbidding cliffs of a bleak and almost absurdly sinister-looking island that looms ever larger in Scorsese's lens. And as the crescendos of a pleasingly melodramatic score gather in the wings, Leonardo DiCaprio narrows his eyes and prepares himself for battle.
This mouthwatering opening is only the entrée to a film that positively bristles with cinematic references, which range from Hitchcock and Jacques Tourneur to the sort of obscure B movies that only a devoted cinephile such as Scorsese could love. In fact, Shutter Island, which is based on a novel by Dennis Lehane, is as much about investigating the language of genre cinema as it is about its own rather slender story. Which may annoy some, but others will sit back, as I did, and enjoy the spectacle of a master filmmaker flexing his cinematic muscles.
DiCaprio is Teddy Daniels, a US marshal who's on his way to Shutter Island with his colleague, Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo), to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a violent inmate from the island's notorious mental hospital.
As Teddy and Chuck arrive, an Atlantic storm is brewing that threatens to strand them. And when they reach the hospital, the welcome they get could best be described as lukewarm.
Their presence is resented by the hospital's supercilious chief psychiatrist Dr John Cawley (Ben Kingsley) and still more so by his sinister colleague Dr Jeremiah Naehring (Max von Sydow). And as the marshals attempt to find out how a patient called Rachel Solando (Emily Mortimer) escaped from a locked cell, they are met with obfuscation and hostility at every turn. Rachel, it seems, was hospitalised for drowning her three children, but as Teddy tries to track her down, he begins to doubt that Cawley and co are telling him the truth.
In fact, as the storm bears down and his stay on the island extends into several days, he even begins to doubt his own sanity, as inmates in the hospital's nightmarish secure wing tell him stories about military drug experiments, in which patients have been used as guinea pigs. And with Teddy seemingly on the verge of cracking the case, we begin to doubt that he is the sanest chap on Shutter Island.
Scorsese's film contains a kind of plot within a plot, which makes discussing it tricky. And the ending is sufficiently ambivalent to require you to make your own mind up about what exactly is going on.
But in the end, Shutter Island is a film where style and atmosphere dominate more than the supposed themes of crime and punishment, memory and mental health. And while the dialogue creaks at times, words are often superfluous to Scorsese's bewildering array of homage-like set pieces.
At the centre of all hectic activity, DiCaprio has a tough job on his hands. For reasons I cannot go into without spoiling it, the demands of his character necessitate a very delicate balancing act, and it's one he pulls off with his usual unfussy aplomb. His progression as an actor in recent years has been extraordinary, this no doubt in part due to his collaborations (this is his fourth) with Scorsese. For whatever reason, he's now capable of a kind of discomforting screen intensity that can only be compared to Robert De Niro.
The rest of the cast plays it relatively straight. You can see Kingsley itching to go over the top, but he bravely resists the temptation; Ruffalo is as watchable as ever in a role that doesn't give him much to play with; Michelle Williams appears in flashbacks as Teddy's late wife; and Patricia Clarkson makes a wordy cameo as a refugee from the hospital. Von Sydow reads the mood best and becomes the Boris Karloff of the piece, his turn one of the many pleasures in a perplexing film that raises more questions than it ever finds time to answer.
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Galileo, the global satellite navigation system developed by the European Union, will enter the phase of "Initial Services" by the end of 2016, and the BQ Aquaris X5 Plus will be Europe's first smartphone to integrate it.
Galileo, the Galileo navigation is independent of the European global system for satellite navigation, which will provide users with an independent European satellite system and controlled by civilians. Galileo will offer interoperability with GPS and GLONASS, the two other global satellite navigation systems. After years of development, at the end of 2016, Galileo will begin offering its service thanks to 14 satellites in orbit and, in 2020, the satellite system will be complete, with 30 operational satellites.
One of the strengths of Galileo is the extreme precision of locating that improves the one obtained only with GPS or GLONASS. The integration of the Galileo satellites will provide users with a more precise positioning and faster; useful element in urban environments, where the combination of narrow streets and tall buildings can reduce their accuracy.
Aquaris X5 Plus BQ will be Europe's first smartphone compatible with this system. During the process of development and integration, BQ has worked closely with the GSA and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc, a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, for the next generation of smartphones, as announced by the Spanish technology.
Among the features of this smartphone are a battery of 3,200 mAh, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 octa-core processor with Adreno 510 GPU, a 16 MP rear camera with Sony IMX298 sensor, f / 2.0, Dual tone flash, autofocus detection phase (PDAF, phase detection autofocus), front camera with Sony IMX219 sensor 8 MP, a fingerprint reader and NFC connectivity.
Aquaris X5 Plus can be purchased from July 14 for the price of 299,90 €.
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My dear readers, today, I write about a very emotional event, and am very glad that you can't actually see me crying onto my keyboard.
If there's anything I've associated with the beautiful season of winter over the past three years (besides the usual, like snow, the Solstice, my birthday…), it's The Hobbit. Specifically, the Peter Jackson movie adaptations of The Hobbit, which have been released every mid-December since 2012, my senior year of high school. It's gotten to the point where I can hardly imagine December coming without a new Middle-Earth movie…and now, this is the last one. Battle of the Five Armies marks the end of the trilogy, and this will presumably be the last ever live-action adaptation of Tolkien's Middle-Earth universe as well (we're running out of books, after all).
This particular chapter of a fandom that I've been in for almost a third of my life has come to a close. Continue reading


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The first half of 2010 has been pretty remarkable. I've found some early contenders for album of the year, and wouldn't be surprised if they held their positions come December (but we'll see what Menomena and The Books have to say about that). If you become a fan of ("like") Total Darkness vs. Blinding Light on Facebook, you'll receive a download link for a mix of 20 songs that represent the artists who released the best music between January and June. Some of the tracks are just that, great tracks, and are one of only two or three good songs on an album (Yeasayer, Album Leaf, Blitzen Trapper). I've decided to write about my personal top five. Represented by the first five tracks on the mix, these are the best releases of 2010 so far:
Here We Go Magic - Pigeons
My favorite album of the year so far. But if you haven't yet learned musical patience, don't bother with Pigeons. But, if you have achieved this virtue, you will be deeply satisfied by Here We Go Magic's other-worldly trip-prog.
Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt
Folk albums like this keep me grounded. The Tallest Man on Earth doesn't do anything too impressive, but that's what makes his songs so impressive. There's an audible restrain in The Wild Hunt, one that proves how less can certainly be more.
Beach House - Teen Dream
I can't believe this came out in 2010. It feels like I've been listening to it for years already. And I wasn't on the Beach House bandwagon before either, this album is just too good to argue. They decided to put some meat on their bones with Teen Dream, accomplished through the miracle of melody.
Jonsi - Go
Just when I thought lo-fi was about to recapture the indie rock world, this insanely dense and crowded album storms in like it's 2004 all over again. I feel like I haven't said the word "multi-instrumental" in years, and I'm delighted that Jonsi has made it possible in 2010.
Laura Veirs - July Flame
This Portlander continues to make great records, year after year, and still hasn't received the success she deserves. Laura Veirs is a profuse songwriter. Maybe the best comparison I can make is the Beatles. Veirs just doesn't write many bad songs, July Flame is just further proof.
1. Here We Go Magic - Moon
2. Tallest Man on Earth - Burdens of Tomorrow
3. Beach House - Walk in the Park
4. Jonsi - Around Us
5. Laura Veirs - Life is Good Blues
6. The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio
7. Yeasayer - ONE
8. Four Tet - She Just Likes to Fight
9. LCD Soundsystem - Home
10. Album Leaf - Blank Pages
11. Phantogram - Mouthful of Diamonds
12. Delorean - Simple Graces
13. Rocky Votolato - Sparklers
14. Horse Feathers - Starving Robins
15. Blitzen Trapper - Man Who Would Speak True
16. Toro y Moi - Blessa
17. Broken Bells - Ghost Inside
18. Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Company
19. Dosh - Country Road X
20. Gayngs - The Last Prom
Thursday, April 29, 2010
2010 Music Midterm
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Comparison via a Third, begins by informing the viewer that the brick is the essential building block of every society, but that no two bricks are the same. Then we are transported around the world to see the myriad ways of producing bricks. In Africa, for example, large groups of villagers work together to produce a single brick, whereas in Germany one single person (looking very bored) mans the machinery that produces thousands of bricks. These Individual bricks are then laid in order to create houses. We are shown how different societies lay their bricks, and again certain ways of laying bricks require far more group participation than others. One can obviously extrapolate the metaphorical meaning from all this, but what strikes me as particularly interesting is the fact that in the countries with the most advanced methods of producing bricks, there is the most homelessness. In the developed countries, the "individuality" of each brick is minimized by mass producing them, meaning that uniformity is almost guaranteed even though no two bricks are 100% identical. Now if we look at societies where many people are needed to produce one brick, the people seem to be enjoying themselves and everyone who contributes is guaranteed a house (I wish I could say the same for "developed" countries). Each of us are an individual brick making up our respective societies, if we were not there our societies would not exist. Ironically, some of the oldest bricks that are still in existence are the ones that were produced using those most primitive methods seen in this film.
You talk of adding brick to brick and it reflected to me the opposite process; reduction, ending at the same 'homelessness' result.
aprox 2004, while I was living in NY, represented by Salander Orilly gallery, I had to go through times of poverty because Salander held the my art in the storage feeding me with false promises.
I was so desperate the I called one day, David Cohen, the Sun Critic, who helped me once submitting a painting to Bill Clinton collection and I told him: David, I cannot take this situation any longer, I will leave the art market!
I think living on a dollar a day can do that to you;
In reply david told me: " No one will notice if one tree is missing in the forest" boy that was insulting, however what David and Larry knew at that time and I didn't was the fact that Ken Price was already infringing my copyrights;
Ken Price who all of a sudden famed by dominating the NY Galleries coat his bulb objects with my very new and original painting pattern and refuse to cease, all done while I was cut off the market.
The first day I landed in NY, I went with the Art Critic and curator, Robert Edelman, to the central park; there was a homeless woman there, I practice yoga in India many years, I'm used to beggars and help them all them time, however when I looked at that woman, in the park I told Robert: I'm afraid I will end up just like her in NY; I did.
2005, upon discovering by chance the infringement at the ADAA Show in LA Louver booth opposing Salander booth, Salander kicked me out yelling and shouting. Imagine my friend had to pay my trip back home;
I think we are all just breaks in the wall, yet sometimes when you take few break the whole tower is falling and I think you know what I mean.
Because my copyright meet absolute originality and the similarity is obvious to the public even if denied by those who sell the emperor new cloths, dismissing my copyright at court will lead to a legal situation that all the artist rights be reduced, degraded and impossible to prove forever.
So, sometimes when you one tree or one break is all you need to change reality forever.
Peace among all beings;
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