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Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed path toward fiscal solvency could be quickly driven off course by forces both within and outside his control.
Brown acknowledged as much when he unveiled his 2013-2014 spending plan last week.
"We're talking about a balanced budget. We're talking about living within our means. This is new. This is a breakthrough," Brown said. "As we say that, that doesn't mean we're in the clear."
There are a number of potential threats shadowing Brown's bid to bring state revenues in line with spending. Congress and the courts will play a role. His fellow Democrats may press for more spending. And how well global and national economies hold up will affect the revenue stream.
Brown's budget now goes to the Legislature, which this spring will start the task of setting its own priorities. But the big-ticket spending and related policy decisions will be put off until after the governor submits an update in May that will be grounded in more accurate revenue projections.
"That's when the tough choices will be made," said nonpartisan Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor.
Brown insists he will not hesitate to rein in new spending.
"I want to advance the progressive agenda," Brown said, "but consistent with the amount of money people made available (by approving higher taxes in November) … I respect and embrace my role of saying 'no.'"
Assemblyman Jeff Gorell R-Thousand Oaks, who specializes in budget issues, hopes Brown sticks to his word given the $97.7 billion general fund has just a $1 billion reserve.
"His budget spends just about every dollar that comes in," Gorell said. "That's always a dangerous place to be."
The outcome will have repercussions for millions of Californians, from college students hoping tuition bills stay the same to businesses facing potential hikes in unemployment insurance premiums to the disabled needing in-home aides to stay independent.
Here is a look at a few of the budget wild cards that could reverse California's gains:
How the new Congress and president deal with the debt ceiling and potential spending cuts could have repercussions, particularly in a state so vested in the defense industry and with big bills for social services partially covered by federal dollars.
"If they ever do get religion and start balancing that budget we could be in deep trouble short-term," Brown said.
The legislative analyst warns that the debt ceiling debate and uncertainty threaten to put the housing market back into a funk.
Moreover, the analyst specifically cited San Diego in warning of a fallout.
"Segments and regions of the economy with high concentrations of federally funded activity, such as the San Diego region with significantly military and federally funded research activities, could be negatively affected," the analyst reported.
Brown is no different from his predecessors in being told by the courts how to spend tax dollars. Case-in-point: a federal court order to spend millions more on prisons.
Brown has filed court papers contending the state has complied with costly court orders to ease overcrowding and improve medical care for prisoners.
That money, Brown said, could be put to better use by improving job training, drug counseling and education programs that would help "return inmates to society and stay there."
He does not attach a figure to the savings.
Another example involves In-Home Supportive Services, or IHSS. Brown is once again trying to trim the hours, thus the cost, of IHSS aides for the elderly and disabled to avoid moving into more costly care homes. Advocates have thus far succeeded in challenging previous cuts in court. Brown maintains previous attempts to rollback hours by 20 percent starting Nov. 1, giving recipients the required 90-day notice from budget adoption. In doing so he appears confident of winning a case before the federal appellate court in the spring. His budget assumes $113 million in savings this year and $272 million thereafter.
Brown's budget seeks to start paying off old bills, proposing to gradually lower what he calls the "wall of debt" to $4.3 billion in 2017-18. The state currently owes about $27.8 billion borrowed from schools and other special funds.
But Brown has drawn rebukes for not aggressively tackling the bigger — and growing — issue of how to cover retiree pensions and health care benefits. That "unfunded liability" is $181 billion projected over the next three decades when sweeping in all state workers, teachers and judges.
The legislative analyst reports that even well into 2016-17 the governor's budget projections "would not have begun the process of addressing huge unfunded liabilities … As such, the state faces daunting budget choices even in a much-improved fiscal environment."
Brown's budget is balanced thanks to voters who approved Proposition 30, the temporary hikes in the state sales tax and income taxes on the wealthy making $250,000 ($500,000 per couple).
Those taxes will raise about $6 billion initially, much of which will go to K-12 schools.
But the quarter-cent state sales tax increase will expire in four years, and the higher income tax rates will disappear in seven years.
"That's a mini-fiscal cliff of our own," said Gorell, the Republican assemblyman. "There is very little insight into how to prepare for the end of Propositon 30. That worries me."
Ana Matosantos, Brown's budget chief, has said that the state will be in a position to absorb the loss of higher tax revenues. That's because by then most, if not all, of the debt to schools, special funds and other programs will have been paid off.
The state is on the hook for about $10 billion in loans from the federal government to cover unemployment insurance costs that escalated during the Great Recession. The state is borrowing from another account to pay the interest, which further adds to the debt.
Brown defends extending benefits to the long-term unemployed. For one, that money is returned to the economy. "It keeps things from getting worse," he said.
Brown's labor chief, Marty Morgenstern, is expected to gather representatives from business and labor to address the shortfall.
The choices are distasteful, according to Allan Zaremberg, president of the California Chamber of Commerce.
To cut costs, the state can raise employer premiums, reduce benefits for workers or a combination of both. Once some progress is made in reducing debt to the federal government, then the state may be able to bond against the rest of the balance at low interest rates, Zaremberg said.
Health: Brown is committed to President Barack Obama's health care initiative, saying "it was historic, it was heroic." But he neglected to add that it could be a budget buster as well, especially if the state does add thousands of newly eligible lower-income Californian's to subsidized rolls. Costs are estimated as high as $1 billion by some analyses.
More bond debt: There will be mounting pressure to assume even more debt long-term. A push is underway for a new transportation bond, and a water bond remains on the 2014 ballot. Both would pile on interest payments.
Increased volatility: By counting on higher personal income taxes the state has exposed itself to even more budget volatility because those revenues tend to swing, especially capital gains. That could increase the chances of "boom and bust" cycles at a time stability is the watchword.
Hospital fees: Brown will attempt to renew a couple of ongoing hospital-related fees through the Legislature that, combined, reach $664 million. Failing that, the state would have a hole to fill for health care-related services.
Global economy: Various factors could put the brakes on a slow, but steady California recovery. Prices at the pump and the new payroll tax increase could depress consumer spending, thus tax revenues. Upheaval in Europe has been partially blamed for fueling the Great Recession in the U.S. so a repeat would have ramifications here.


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The UCR Campus Store is your official store for UCR merchandise and textbooks. It's the only place where you'll find the complete booklist for all your classes, as well as the largest selection of UCR apparel, school spirit items and gifts. Check out CompUCR section to shop for electronics, computers, software, and supplies. Stop in or visit us online!
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Gentak Side Effects
Generic Name: gentamicin ophthalmic
Note: This page contains information about the side effects of gentamicin ophthalmic. Some of the dosage forms included on this document may not apply to the brand name Gentak.
For the Consumer
Applies to gentamicin ophthalmic: ophthalmic ointment, ophthalmic solution
In addition to its needed effects, some unwanted effects may be caused by gentamicin ophthalmic (the active ingredient contained in Gentak). In the event that any of these side effects do occur, they may require medical attention.
Major Side Effects
You should check with your doctor immediately if any of these side effects occur when taking gentamicin ophthalmic:Less common:
- Itching, redness, swelling, or other sign of irritation not present before use of this medicine
- redness of eye, eyelid, or inner lining of eyelid
- Black, tarry stools; blood in urine or stools; or unusual bleeding or swelling
- blurred vision, eye pain, sensitivity to light, and/or tearing
- seeing, hearing, or feeling things that are not there
- hallucinations
Minor Side Effects
Some of the side effects that can occur with gentamicin ophthalmic may not need medical attention. As your body adjusts to the medicine during treatment these side effects may go away. Your health care professional may also be able to tell you about ways to reduce or prevent some of these side effects. If any of the following side effects continue, are bothersome or if you have any questions about them, check with your health care professional:Less common:
- Burning or stinging
After application, eye ointments usually cause your vision to blur for a few minutes.
For Healthcare Professionals
Applies to gentamicin ophthalmic: ophthalmic ointment, ophthalmic solution
Ocular side effects have included burning and irritation upon administration, nonspecific conjunctivitis, conjunctival hyperemia, and conjunctival epithelial defects.[Ref]
Hematologic side effects have rarely included thrombocytopenic purpura.[Ref]
Psychiatric side effects have rarely included hallucinations.[Ref]
Hypersensitivity reactions have been reported.[Ref]
Other side effects have included the development of fungal and bacterial corneal ulcers during therapy.[Ref]
1. "Product Information. Garamycin (gentamicin ophthalmic)." Schering Corporation, Kenilworth, NJ.
Not all side effects for Gentak may be reported. You should always consult a doctor or healthcare professional for medical advice. Side effects can be reported to the FDA here.
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Does "faken" have a place in this bacon-crazy world?
Published Nov. 19, 2012
In recent years, bacon found its way into everything from cupcakes to lip gloss and now has an almost cult-like following. Is veggie bacon - otherwise known as "faken" or "facon" - experiencing a rise in popularity, too?


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I found this article on the Adobe Security Matters website, What is a Certified Document and when should you use it? For those who need to certify documents, you may find it interesting.
As a quick summary, it states that here are two frequent use cases for Certified Documents:
- Publishing files and want the recipients to know that the files really did originate from you and they have not been accidentally or maliciously modified since you published them.
- Distribution of electronic forms with pre-populated information, and want to make sure recipients are not accidentally or maliciously modifying your form data when returning them to you.
Entrust issues Adobe CDS Signing certificates which will help you meet the Adobe recommendations:
- Make sure your signing certificate is trusted by your recipient community.
- When certifying a document, make sure that all certificates from the trust chain are available on the signing system (desktop or server).
- When publishing a certified document with a digital signature, make sure you are online and able to reach the revocation information published by the certificate authorities.
- Utilize an RFC3161 based timestamp authority as part of the digital signature process.


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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 18/4/2014 (1221 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
What with Easter sneaking up on us once again, the Weather Column would like to kick off your weekend forecast with an emotional rendition of one of our favourite holiday classics from way back in 1950.
Get ready to feel uplifted, because it goes a little something like this: "Here comes Peter Cottontail, Hoppin' down the bunny trail, Hippity Hoppity ... WHAMMO! OH NO! PETER COTTONTAIL HAS FALLEN INTO A POTHOLE! YIKES! THAT IS ONE VERY ANGRY-LOOKING BUNNY!"
OK, while Peter Cottontail climbs out of that giant seasonal crater, let's take a few minutes to talk about the weather, which is starting to look a lot like spring, depending on where you happen to live in this province.
In Winnipeg, the folks at Environment Canada say we're looking at a pleasant high of 8 C today -- compared with the normal high of 12 C at this festive time of year -- with a lot of clouds, rain ending in the morning, then followed by more clouds with a 40 per cent chance of showers and southeast winds gusting up to 50 km/h.
It should be spot-on normal Easter Sunday, with a high of 12 C and sunny skies. On Easter Monday, we're talking a high of 10 C and cloudy with a (Yikes!) 70 per cent chance of showers.
But my buddy Dale Marciski from Environment Canada warns a storm system tracking across southern Saskatchewan could bring some (sit down before you read this next bit) spring snow to areas in west central Manitoba overnight and early today, with between 15 and 20 centimetres around Riding Mountain National Park, Dauphin, and the Parkland areas. It's possible as much as 25 centimetres could cover the parklands.
"Since many people will be travelling this weekend, those going to the west or north should check the latest weather and highway conditions," is what Dale wisely advised.
On the upside, there are baskets brimming with fun Easter activities hopping down the pothole-laden trail in your area. First, let's talk Easter-egg hunts. There's one going on at Oak Hammock Marsh Interpretive Centre, along with spring crafts and (prepare to be bowled over) Bunny Bingo.
The Western Canada Aviation Museum is also holding egg hunts today and Sunday and admission is just $5. And there's another egg hunt set for Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m. at FortWhyte Alive.
If you'd rather collect autographs than chocolate eggs, try visiting the Park Theatre today starting at 11 a.m. for an up-close and personal session with notorious baseball legend Pete Rose. Tickets are $40 at www.theparktheatervideo.com or at Music Trader.
In our view, however, if you really want to capture the spirit of the season, we suggest you head down to centre court at The Forks today and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and release your inner outer-space geek, if you catch our drift.
We're talking about the Star Wars vs. Star Trek shindig, featuring costume contests, scavenger hunts, totally nerdy debates -- "Resolved: Capt. Kirk would have made mincemeat out of Han Solo!" -- trivia contests, videos and (this is a direct quote) "FREE Jedi classes from River City Jedi and more."
So, let the Force be with you this weekend, and if you don't mind, maybe you could use some of your Jedi mind-control powers to help the Montreal Canadiens lay another beating on the Tampa Bay Lightning in the NHL playoffs. It's what Obi-Wan Kenobi would have wanted.
Also, do not forget to check out our deeply moving Easter weather video starring Creepy Santa, my three-foot-tall stuffed Santa doll. Just scan the Blippar symbol in this column or visit www.winnipegfreepress.com.
Whatever you and your loved ones decide to do this weekend, keep an eye out for good old Peter Cottontail, because when we last saw him he was talking to a lawyer about a wrongful-injury lawsuit. An Easter Bunny suffering from whiplash is not a pretty sight.
Have a safe and happy Easter weekend. Now go wash the chocolate goop off your face before the kids figure out you've been raiding their (bad word) baskets.


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Two fishermen found dead in a boat moored in a North Yorkshire harbour have been named.
Mark Arries, 26, from Blyth, Northumberland, and Edward Ide, 21, from Amble, Northumberland, were found on a boat in Whitby harbour.
The police were called at 9.55am on Wednesday after concern was raised for their safety.
On arrival they discovered the bodies of the fishermen, who were pronounced dead at the scene.
At the time the police said the deaths were unexplained but that there did not appear to be any suspicious circumstances.
A date for the opening of the inquest has not yet been arranged and the Health and Safety Executive and the Marine Accident Investigation Branch have been notified of the deaths.


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Accrington v Bacup
Matt Wilson and David Ormerod replace Jake Clarke and Sam Tattersall in the Accrington side as they play their second game of the weekend. But they are without Graham Lloyd.
Bacup batsman Tim Farragher made back-to-back half-centuries last weekend and will look to maintain that run as David Warren's men go in search of a second win of the league season.
Key Man: Tim Farragher
Donlan says: Accrington
Burnley v Enfield
Michael Kelly is missing for Steve Brunt's otherwise full strength Burnley as they look for their second win of the season when Enfield arrive at Turf Moor.
Adam Bracewell's men boast the league's in-form professional in the shape of Werner Coetsee and look to follow up last weekend's demolition of Haslingden with a fourth win of the campaign.
Key Man: Bharat Tripathi
Donlan says: Enfield
Church v Nelson
Levi Wolfenden is playing despite suffering from shin splints as Church look to cement their second place in the table. Craig Fergusson's side also features veteran batsman Phil Sykes.
Nelson's double-winning weekend last week lifted spirits around Seedhill and Neil Thompson has strike bowler Richard Meade fit agai, while Chris Willan comes into the side for the West End
Key Man: Andrew Bentley
Donlan says: Church
Haslingden v Lowerhouse
Haslingden stunned Todmorden in the Worsley Cup last Sunday - but that win followed on from a league hammering at the hands of Enfield.
Reigning champions Lowerhouse go to Bentgate looking to make it six league wins from six but without all-rounder Jonathan Finch.
Key Man: Joe Hawke
Donlan says: Lowerhouse
Ramsbottom v East Lancashire
Bowler Andy Hakin is still out with injury as Jonathan Fielding's Ramsbottom look to get their season back on track against East Lancashire a week after the sides met in the Worsley Cup.
East Lancs won that cup tie and professional Ockert Erasmus is hoping his men can kick on and find a run of form to lift them up the table. They name a squad including Alex Redhead, Mark Lomas,
David Turner and Mark Bolton.
Key Man: Jonathan Fielding
Donlan says: Ramsbottom
Rawtenstall v Colne
Rawtenstall hand a debut to professional Jandre Coetsee after the South African's delayed arrival in the UK but there is no Andrew Payne Colne travel to Bacup Road at full strength but struggling
in the table in 13th spot, just one place above their hosts who have yet to win a game this season.
Key Man: Matt Wilson
Donlan says: Rawtenstall
Rishton v Todmorden
Ali Sartaj, Scott Greaves and Shaun Wyse return in place of Irfan Muhammed, Ben Bridson and Mark Leathert as Rishton aim to maintain an impressive start to the season with professional Daniel Salpietro really catching the eye.
Todmorden suffered a nightmare weekend last time round as they lost in both league and Worsley Cup. They are without James Morgan for the trip to Blackburn Road but there is a place for veteran
Stuart Priestley as they look to bounce back.
Key Man: Simon Newbitt
Donlan says: Todmorden


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Imagine, for a moment, that it's a chilly December night, and a pretty young brunette has come to your apartment. Your courtship of her began when you were picking up a paycheck and told her you had all that money but nobody to spend it on. She accepted when you asked her out for dinner. After that, the two of you spent time together—hiking, cooking, talking. On this particular night, you share a joint. When she leaves your apartment around midnight, you give her some pot for the road. A similar handoff occurs a month later.
What you don't know is that this woman is working undercover for the Los Alamos Police Department. She landed the job a few months earlier, by chance and a lucky T-shirt. And she's been gathering the evidence that will be used to indict you.
In the late 1980s, Alice Psota applied for a job at the Los Alamos County jail. Before taking the physical exam, she peeled off her sweatshirt to reveal a T-shirt that read, "All this and brains too."
Psota passed the test—and caught the attention of Alan Kirk, who worked for the Los Alamos Police Department.
During her interview, Psota wore business attire, she says, but Kirk asked about the T-shirt.
"Is it true?" he inquired, according to Psota's recollection.
"And I said, 'Damn right!'" she recalls.
Kirk asked her to meet him at a restaurant in Santa Fe, and her life as an undercover narcotics agent began. He told her about a drug problem in the ranks of Los Alamos' public works department, she says, and assigned her to bust the narcotics ring.
In the course of her assignment, Psota, then in her 20s, got to know 33-year-old Robert Welsh, a custodian at the county library.
"I found he was in the drug world, so I befriended him, I guess," Psota tells SFR.
She remembers him as a lonely man with a sense of self-grandeur. He eventually mistook her attention for genuine attraction.
"Was I romantic to him? No," Psota says now. "Did he take me to dinner? Yes. Did he sell me marijuana? Yes."
According to court documents, Welsh gave Psota marijuana twice—once in December 1988, and again in January 1989, during another nighttime rendezvous at his apartment.
An investigation began, and on May 24, 1989, a Los Alamos grand jury indicted Welsh on two felony counts for distribution of a controlled substance.
An indictment isn't a guilty verdict—it's just a formal accusation that clears the way for an actual trial. But when faced with serious charges, many people choose to strike plea bargains with prosecutors. Court documents show that, later that year, Welsh pled guilty to one count of marijuana distribution, a fourth-degree felony punishable by 18 months in prison and a $5,000 fine.
He received a more lenient sentence than some of those snared by Psota's undercover operation: a conditional discharge in which he had to pay $15 a month for one year to cover the cost of meeting with a probation officer.
Welsh's indictment nonetheless set a course for the rest of his life. County officials sent him out of view, painting basements of county buildings and, Welsh recalls, he was later asked to leave what would be his last full-time job. County records show that he resigned in January 1992.
Welsh's story illustrates the impact a mere indictment can have on a person's career and future. The judge in Welsh's case, Patricio Serna, went on to become a justice in New Mexico's Supreme Court, and would note as much in a 2009 opinion. In it, Serna argued that grand jury indictments can cause "lasting injury."
"For a wrongful indictment is no laughing matter," Serna wrote, quoting a previous case. "[It] often works a grievous, irreparable injury to the person indicted. The stigma cannot be easily erased. In the public mind, the blot on a man's escutcheon, resulting from such a public accusation of wrongdoing, is seldom wiped out by a subsequent judgment of not guilty."
Grand juries—charged with determining whether there's enough evidence to hold a trial—have the power to indict people accused of felonies. But grand jury hearings are held in secret, with low standards of evidence and prosecutors running the show. SFR's investigation reveals that few targeted by New Mexico grand juries are cleared of charges. Most defense attorneys—and even a few prosecutors—agree that the grand jury system is inherently unfair to the same people it was established to protect: the accused like Robert Welsh.
But New Mexico's grand jury system mirrors that of many states. It was, after all, a New York judge who coined the famous phrase expressing how easy it is for prosecutors to obtain indictments through grand juries:
"The old adage is that…any prosecutor worth his salt can indict a ham sandwich," says Michael Stout, the former president of the New Mexico Criminal Defense Lawyers Association.
Grand juries work like this: a prosecutor presents evidence—typically oral testimony—to a panel of citizens. The panel must decide whether the evidence against the grand jury's "target" is strong enough to establish probable cause that he or she knowingly committed a felony. It's a lower standard of proof than "beyond a reasonable doubt," the test employed in regular trials. In New Mexico, if eight of the 12 grand jurors find probable cause, they return an indictment—a formal accusation that allows the prosecutor to take the case to trial. If jurors refuse to indict the grand jury target, the target is temporarily in the clear.
The system dates back to the Middle Ages. In 1215, when British subjects penned the Magna Carta, they turned the grand jury into a buffer between the king's prosecutors and those accused of crimes—a jury of peers that would determine whether the charges had any merit.
"[The grand jury] was supposed to be not just an arm of the king, but it was supposed to be an independent body…a check and balance on the power of the state," John Day, a defense lawyer based in Santa Fe, explains. The Magna Carta would eventually become a basis for the United States' Bill of Rights, in which the Fifth Amendment allows citizens charged with felonies the right to a grand jury hearing.
But according to SFR's analysis, local grand juries rarely refuse to indict. The First Judicial District, which encompasses Rio Arriba, Los Alamos and Santa Fe counties, is a case in point. As of Sept. 12, grand juries in the district have handed down 774 indictments and just 37 "no bills" (the term for a grand jury's refusal to indict). That means only 4.5 percent of the 811 people targeted by grand jury investigations were cleared of charges.
Some other districts use grand juries sparingly, relying more heavily on preliminary hearings—public proceedings in which a judge decides whether there's enough evidence for probable cause. Defense lawyers interviewed overwhelmingly prefer preliminary hearings, which are similar to regular trials in that the defense is allowed to cross-examine witnesses in a public venue.
"Personal appearance and cross-examination is the greatest engine of truth ever created by the American justice system," says Mark Donatelli, a longtime criminal defense lawyer in Santa Fe. So far this year, however, just 43 preliminary hearings held in the First Judicial District have produced findings of probable cause.
In contrast to the active role defense lawyers play in preliminary hearings, at grand jury hearings, a defense attorney may only appear if his client chooses to testify, and is limited to whispering advice in the client's ear. In short, defense lawyers can be relegated to sitting there "like a bump on a log," says Daniel Marlowe, a local defense lawyer. "You can't object" to questions asked by prosecutors, he adds, calling it a "one-sided presentation of the facts" meant to secure indictments.
"I personally think grand juries are draconian," Marlowe tells SFR. "[Prosecutors] can base it on hearsay testimony. [Then] they can throw you in district court and make you defend yourself."
A prosecutor's official role in a grand jury room is that of an "aide" who examines witnesses and assists jurors. State law requires prosecutors to be "fair and impartial" assistants to the grand jury, but many see their grand jury role as a naked conflict of interest.
"Obviously, they try to present their case in the most favorable light to them," says local criminal defense lawyer Andras Szantho. "That's just kind of the way the system is set up."
Angela "Spence" Pacheco was elected First Judicial District Attorney in 2008. In this year's primary election, she handily beat Lloyd Drager, who positioned himself as the tough-on-crime candidate by criticizing Pacheco's conviction rate, particularly as it related to drunk driving cases.
Drager was an assistant district attorney at the time of Welsh's case—when, past news articles show, police officers were pressuring the district attorney to pursue drug cases like Welsh's with more fervor. Pacheco, who will run unopposed in the November general election, is petite and energetic. On a recent September day, SFR interviewed her as she escorted three recent hires—all new attorneys—to the state Supreme Court to obtain their law licenses. She later told SFR that the second step in training new prosecutors is to teach them to preside over grand juries.
Although her office's frequent use of grand juries produces frequent indictments, Pacheco says that's simply because they bring strong cases.
"Our office is not about getting convictions," she says, "because you can't get a conviction at the cost of someone's constitutional rights."
But some defense lawyers argue that the secrecy and structure of grand jury hearings can make them seem inherently unfair.
In 2003, amendments to the state law governing grand juries ushered in a significant change, limiting the evidence allowed during grand jury hearings to "lawful, competent and relevant" evidence. But Pacheco says not "all hearsay is bad."
"Hearsay is not problematic in grand jury," she says. "You may use hearsay in grand jury—and the only reason we would want to use hearsay in grand jury is because, if we called every witness that witnessed an event, it could be very lengthy. And it becomes a problem in that we would never get anything accomplished."
Jason Flores-Williams, a criminal defense lawyer from Santa Fe, is a vocal critic of Pacheco's office's conduct in grand juries. A tall, brooding man with a shaved head and booming voice, Flores-Williams represented death row defendants in New Orleans before returning to his hometown.
For over a year, he has defended Jody Deere, an Oklahoma man accused of raping an acquaintance, Angela Damron, in 2009. Damron had been drinking heavily, and a report by a sexual assault nurse later noted that she had traces of cocaine and anti-depressants in her system. She met up with Deere at The Underground at Evangelo's. The charges state that he drove her to his ex-wife's home and raped her on a couch, where she awoke the next morning naked from the waist down. Flores-Williams maintains that Damron, who had had sex with Deere before that night, consented to the sex.
The original indictment against Deere was dismissed after the state failed to properly notify Deere that he was the target of a grand jury investigation. But the state, floating the argument that Deere had date-raped Damron, brought the case to another grand jury and called Santa Fe Police Det. Charlie-Ann Martin to testify. In a recent hearing before First Judicial District Court Judge Michael Vigil, Flores-Williams questioned Martin's testimony.
"My main concern is the testimony of Charlie-Ann Martin, the officer," Flores-Williams told Vigil. "During grand jury testimony, she talked a lot about—in an almost expert-like capacity—about, 'Well, these are the date-rape drugs; this could be here; this could be there.'" (The nurse's report found no traces of date-rape drugs.)
"And there was no evidence?" Vigil asked.
"There was no evidence whatsoever," Flores-Williams replied. Even Cynthia Hill, the deputy district attorney prosecuting the case, admitted that "Officer Martin is definitely not an expert on that issue."
The jury couldn't agree on a verdict, and Vigil called a mistrial. The state plans to retry the case—but Flores-Williams is still upset about the evidence allowed in the grand jury.
"The cop is just kicking it back, spewing about…the dissolution rate of drugs in the system!" he tells SFR. "'Oh, I've been doing this for 20 years and, of course, I'm a chemist!'"
"That the district attorney uses this sort of testimony would be semi-funny, if it didn't rip apart families, destroy lives and condemn human beings to the darkness of prison," he later emailed SFR. "The lack of integrity here is appalling."
Flores-Williams and Pacheco would agree on one thing, though: a preference for preliminary hearings. But Pacheco says preliminary hearings can cost more and often take longer, so using them more would happen only in a "perfect world."
Under the current system, she says, "If we were to take the majority of cases to prelims, the court would come to a standstill."
Neither the First Judicial District Jury Management Division nor the state Administrative Office of the Courts was able to provide a cost comparison for grand jury versus preliminary hearings, except to say that all jurors are paid the same—$6.25 an hour to spend one day a week hearing felony cases. Currently, the district employs two sitting grand juries in Santa Fe County and one in Rio Arriba County, each with 12 members, plus alternates.
Donatelli, however, points out that preliminary hearings might lead to more efficient plea bargaining because both sides will know the strength of their cases after testing the evidence.
"Those systems that have had experiences of preliminary hearings swear by them…," he says. "I think, if they tried it out, they'd find it would result in lower cost of prosecution."
Plea bargaining is already common practice, though, and Pacheco says Santa Fe grand jurors don't allow her prosecutors to strong-arm them.
"They are very independent," she says, adding that she's seen grand jurors—carefully looking over statutes—drop charges requested by her office and add ones they think are more applicable.
"They would hang me!" if they thought her office was abusing the process, she jokes.
Day—like many defense lawyers interviewed for this story—believes that, under Pacheco's watch, "not many cases get in the system that shouldn't." But as a former prosecutor in the Eighth Judicial District, he knew all the "tricks" for getting indictments—like sending tough cases to a grand jury right before lunchtime—and recognizes the potential for abuse.
"The system is just inherently geared toward these young, relatively inexperienced prosecutors [who] have tremendous amounts of power over the system," he says. "And if they don't have good supervision or if their supervision is twisted or warped, then you get these abuses."
But in the end, he notes, it's up to grand jurors to act as a check on the state.
He should know: a grand jury in Taos recently cleared his client of child abuse charges for allegedly shaking his infant son to death—a case that would normally take "split seconds to indict." But thanks to changes in 2003 requiring prosecutors to present "exculpatory evidence"—evidence that suggests that the accused may be innocent—Day was able to get the prosecutor to present testimony by a medical expert who explained that the science behind "shaken-baby" syndrome is unreliable.
"Grand jurors have more power than they realize," Day concludes. "They tend to be treated like sheep by a lot of prosecutors. If the system's working properly, the grand jurors should be able to exercise independent, skeptical judgment."
Serna's 2009 Supreme Court opinion further clarified the use of exculpatory evidence in grand juries. Donatelli, for one, saw firsthand the need for the ruling. He recalls a client's experience of "horrific abuses by a grand jury" called by the state attorney general's office in 2007. His client, Penny Granich, allegedly drove her husband's truck off the cliff at Overlook Park in White Rock. Her husband died. Granich survived, but was badly injured.
Donatelli, before the grand jury hearing, requested that the state introduce exculpatory evidence: the testimony of the bartender who served Granich that night, and that of Granich's sister, who buckled her into the passenger seat when the couple left the bar in the "early morning hours of December 4, 2005." Donatelli also requested that the state tell grand jurors that two separate district attorneys' offices had passed on prosecuting the case, and that the grand jury be told about the wrongful death civil suit pressed by Granich's deceased husband's family "to show the family had aggressively pursued prosecution."
But the prosecutor didn't call those witnesses or present that evidence, according to Donatelli's motion. Instead, the prosecutor had presented testimony of two police officers, one of whom "engaged several times in improper, irrelevant and deeply prejudicial speculation, including speculation about Ms. Granich's mental health." Donatelli claimed that testimony on Granich's medical condition violated federal law because it was obtained without a waiver from her physician.
"The prosecutor permitted him to engage in this gross speculation in front of the grand jury with virtually no correction or admonition," Donatelli's motion states, noting that the prosecutors had also allowed two grand jurors to reveal that they had signed a community petition, circulated by the Granich family, demanding that Penny Granich be prosecuted for the death of her husband. Those jurors were excused, but not before the assistant attorney discussed the petition—making the other jurors aware that it existed.
The grand jury indicted Granich, and the motion to dismiss that indictment was denied. Her case went to trial, where she was found innocent, but that didn't change that she had gone through "hell," Donatelli says. "A mere indictment," he adds, "can be damaging to the reputation and livelihood of the defendant."
During his grand jury hearing, Welsh could have testified, but he says his public defender advised him not to appear. That's typical advice because, "if they say something stupid at a grand jury, you're kind of stuck with that," Szantho says. After the grand jury indicted Welsh, his public defender, Kathryn Hormby, filed motions demanding information about Psota's qualifications. She wasn't a police officer—information about which Hormby could have pressed Psota, who testified at the grand jury, during a preliminary hearing.
"The requested information goes directly to the credibility of the state's primary witness," says Hormby's demand for information—which a judge denied.
Twenty-three years later, one of the people who served on Welsh's grand jury strains to remember specific details about his experience. But he vividly recalls one particular conversation with a prosecutor.
"The chilling thing was…I asked the prosecutor why they went the grand jury route," he says, "and his reply was [that] it [was] easy to get an indictment."
The grand juror, whose name SFR is protecting due to grand jury secrecy rules, voted against the indictment and recalls being angry about it because he felt Psota might have set Welsh up.
"I think he was a very lonely person…" he says of Welsh. "She paid some attention to him, and that really hooked him, you know?"
Psota, however, doesn't recall a skeptical grand jury. She says that once she established her "credibility," they would ask her questions like, "How do you fake smoking weed?"
She has no regrets about the sting conducted against Welsh. He was breaking the law, she says—"Would you want someone plowing the streets stoned?"
Psota recalls receiving death threats as a result of her sting operation. The librarians who worked with him were angry; they felt she should have led him on the "path of the straight and narrow." She left town; now, she lives in another state, a married woman no longer in law enforcement. She says that Welsh was one of her smaller stings, and she was behind uncovering drug use at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Welsh is still struggling, though. Now a gangly and affable 57-year-old, he lives in a Motel 6 in Bernalillo and spends his time dutifully washing car windows in a Starbucks parking lot for spare change. The employees like him, and he calls in if he's not going to show up—even though he's not officially employed there. Dragging on a cigarette in his hotel room, Welsh says he didn't want to wash windows on a recent morning because, when he woke up, his legs were "dancing" even though there was no music. The pain in his limbs had flared up again. He walks with a cane and occasionally talks about a computer chip implanted inside him.
His main concern now is "the elements." He's worried the winter will cut down on the money he makes washing windows. Someday soon, he wants to get a "roof over my head."
Welsh admits that he did smoke weed back in the '80s, but says he wasn't a dealer.
He recalls that, at the time of his resignation, he was on his fifth year working for Los Alamos County, and he was set for a Christmas bonus.
"Guess what I got?" he says. "No bonus and a pink slip."
He says he hasn't had a full-time job since.
"It's been pretty much downhill from there," he says.
But he doesn't hold "any malice towards Alice." He asks how she's doing, noting that he once "left flowers in front of her apartment every night."


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Collinson FX market Commentary: May 2, 2013
The Fed recognised 'downside risks' and pledged to continue the extreme QE policies it has maintained to stimulate the flagging economy. The Fed promised to increase and decrease as circumstances demanded but this failed to inspire equity markets. The DOW tumbled triple digits entering the month of May. The important ADP private sector jobs report fell well short of expectations, adding 110,000 Jobs, well below the 150,000.
This is a guide to the Non-Farm Payrolls on Friday which has high hopes of growth but economic fundamentals have been weak despite the surge in risk appetite. Construction Spending contracted 1.7%, pouring cold water on the Housing recovery which has been the ray of hope. The EUR has been a beneficiary of the bad news from America, rising to 1.3180 and the GBP continuing to book gains trading 1.5565.
Chinese Manufacturing data disappointed, falling to 50.6 from 50.9, which does not mean a great deal but does reveal directional worries. The bad news from China has killed demand for commodities which fell across the board. This did not help the higher yielding stellar currencies that have been the darlings of the markets.
The AUD dipped back to 1.0270 and the KIWI slipped below 0.8500. Warnings bells are sounding across the risk markets despite the $3.3 Trillion Balance Sheet the Fed has accumulated, with promises of further largese.
Reckless Monetary policy to counter Fiscal ineptitude has forced Reserve Banks to extreme expansion causing bubbles and begging an explosion of deformations in Bonds and Equities. Inflationary pressures have been forgotten through measurement techniques and lapsed memories but it is there and will rise reminding economists of their worst nightmare scenario.
Collinson FX market Commentary: May 1, 2013
Markets were again flat on equity markets with mixed economic data and some weaker than expected earnings results in the US.
In Europe, EU CPI contracted to 1.2% reflecting negative growth in the zone and the continuance of extended recession/depression. Employment has reached 12.1% across the single market and it is hard to move ahead with so many idle resources directly impacting the consumer. German Consumer Confidence rose to 6.2 but retail sales contracted 2.8%, so domestic demand is no saviour.
The EUR remained firm, trading 1.3150 and the GBP 1.5525, ignoring the expected cut in interest rates by the ECB.
In the US, the Case Shiller Home Price Index rose to a 7 year high of 9.3% boosting hopes of a recovery in this leading sector. Consumer Confidence was also higher, to 68.1, but this good news was dented by the Chicago Manufacturing report which plunged below 50 to 49.
Economic fundamentals continue to disappoint and technicals are now pointing to peaks in the equity markets which coincides with the month of the Bear!
Commodities remain bid and the AUD holds 1.0350 and the KIWI 0.8550. These yield driven, risk currencies will be heavily impacted by any correction in equities and commodities as safety flows to the 'Big Dollar'!
Collinson FX market Commentary: April 30, 2013
Equity markets continued the rally in Equities, despite the slew of weak economic data, emanating from a positive European rally. Expectations are that the ECB will cut rates to 0.5% and in addition launch in to a round of QE and an aggressive debt monitisation program. The 'currency wars' have resulted in a recovery in US and Japanese equities and the ECB are considering throwing caution to the wind.
Debt monitisation was a pre-GFC no-no for all Central Banks, as the purchase of your own Government debt to fund ever increasing deficits and debt was seen as economically corrupt. Central Bankers crossed the line and have now abandoned many of the principles of Monetary Policy previously sacrosanct.
The news from Europe should have resulted in further erosion of the value of the single currency but had the opposite effect. The EUR rallied to 1.3100, reacting to the rise in risk appetite and boosted by an increase in commodity demand. The GBP held steady at 1.5480 and all looks positive across Europe with a Government in Italy and the new pro-growth anti-austerity sentiment prevailing.
Forget the critical deficits driving debt to unserviceable levels as interest rates flooded with liquidity should allow this gross delusion to continue. US Equity markets rallied on the back of EU prospects with the S&P hitting new highs as the rally continues. Pending Home Sales rose 1.5% and this was a further sign from the market Gods to pile in!
The Dallas Fed Activity Index plunged 15.6% but this was largely ignored as Bernanke drives investment decisions in search of yield building bubbles. Economic fundamentals have all pointed in the opposite direction and May could be the reality check the market finally needs.
The AUD bounced on further rises in demand for commodities and traded 1.0330 with the KIWI continuing to outperform at 0.8540. Scary times with frenzied yield investment and unprecedented technical levels.
Collinson FX market Commentary: April 29, 2013
US GDP data frightened many equity investors as markets fell flat. First quarter growth in the US was 0.4% and an annualised rate of 2.5% below the expected 3%. The news was not surprising as economic fundamentals have been weak all year despite the much vaunted 'housing recovery!'
Data will be out this coming week placing some doubt on market forecasts in the leading indicator that is housing.
This coming week will look closely at this and pay close attention to the Fed's rate decision and the ECB, who are expected to cut rates as Europe continues to battle recession. The EUR held above 1.3000 and the GBP looks set to test 1.5500! Risk appetite has fallen recently despite the continuing flood of liquidity being pumped into the US, Japan and the EC.
The major employment reports will also be released in the US which will probably confirm the stagnation in the worlds largest economy. Commodities remain bid supporting the AUD at 1.0275 but this will be vulnerable to any major equity correction in May!.
The KIWI continues to gain support and has become a market darling trading up around the 0.8500 but this too will suffer uncertainty in Equities and risk markets!
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A 29-year-old man was arrested on charges of aggravated child abuse after a 1-year-old Mayport boy was hospitalized in critical condition on Wednesday, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.
The child was found unresponsive and not breathing Wednesday at Ribault Bay Village Navy Family Housing in the 1000 block of Bunker Hill Court in Mayport.
Police said they questioned the boy's babysitter, Rickey Valentine, and later arrested him. They said Valentine was the only adult home at the time. He has no relation to the child, but was his regular sitter.
Police said the boy had bruising and swelling on the back of his head from ear to ear. He was taken to Shands Jacksonville Medical Center with life-threatening injuries. Police later said the boy was recovering and is expected to survive. His condition was upgraded to serious.
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Medical personnel at the hospital told police the injuries were due to "very severe, non-accidental trauma to the back of head," police said. The baby had "two occipital fractures and a right parietal subdural hematoma caused by violent shaking," police said.
Police said Valentine was babysitting the boy and three other children no older than 3 when he called 911 about 11:30 a.m. because the boy was unresponsive. The other children were unharmed.
Valentine was being held in the Duval County jail with bail set at $75,000.
Police said the baby's mother is in the Navy and was at work at the time her son was hurt. She later went to the hospital to see her child, police said.
The Department of Children and Families is also investigating.
"In situations like these, depending on what the other children may have seen, it's possible that they might have been shocked or disturbed by all the commotion that took place, especially when that child had to be taken to the hospital," DCF spokesman John Harrell said. "So we're going to see whatever services that we can provide."
Channel 4 crime analyst Ken Jefferson said this is a difficult case because Valentine was the only adult at the home, and the other children are likely too young to tell what really happened. But police are confident this was not an accident.
"At this point, police do not think that another child inflicted these injuries on this baby," Jefferson said. "It had to be at the hands of another adult. Otherwise, it would still have to be an ongoing investigation before they could make that determination."
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The department unveiled the new color scheme and design for their future vehicles Monday morning. The new vehicles will have a traditional black-and-white color scheme used by many departments in California.
Houston Police Chief Charles McClelland said Ford isn't making the Crown Victoria model anymore, which is the one the department uses for its patrol cars, so he thought it was a good time to change the overall look.
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Forfeiture money from drug dealers will be used to foot the bill for the new paint jobs, HPD officials said.
The entire HPD fleet of more than 1,500 patrol cars will have the new look within the next couple of years.
The police departments of Sugar Land and Missouri City recently changed their patrol cars to black and white.
Houston police are also considering changing to black uniforms to match the car, but officials are working to decide if that would be the right color because it's so hot and humid in Houston.
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A man bet a store owner $500 that he could balance a [the store owner's] vase on his head and walk 200 meters. The store owner agreed because it was so completely obvious he could not. He grinned and walked only 1 foot before the vase fell. The store owner smiled and laughed as he accepted the money from the man. But, the man was grinning the biggest smile a person would ever see. Why?
AnswerThe guy had bet his friends $2000 that he could break the store owner's vase and not only would the store owner not mind, but he would be happy about it.
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Police released a sketch of a man they hope to identify in connection with a Clermont County shooting death.
Paul Leiter, 65, was found shot to death inside his residence on Pinebluff Drive in Miami Township.
Miami Township Police say Leiter was shot around 8 p.m. on Monday evening. Officers responded to the home just after 6 a.m. on Tuesday when the victim's wife, Ann Abele, told dispatchers that she had found her husband dead in a chair.
Abele told police it looked like shots had come from outside the home and through a window. Investigators confirmed that several bullets had come through the window.
On Friday, authorities released the sketch of an unknown man see walking in the neighborhood the night of the murder.
"This man was not recognized by the people who saw him. It's not clear if he may be a visitor to the neighborhood, a witness to the crime, or somehow involved with the murder," said R. Steven Bailey, Miami Township Chief of Police. "We would like to know who he is and to speak with him."
Extra patrols were also ordered for the area.
"We are doing this to reassure the residents that live there, but also to provide them an opportunity to talk with use if they have something to share," said Bailey.
No one is currently in custody. Investigators say they are examining several possibilities in the incident.
Anyone with information about the identity of sketch, or may heard anything unusual in the neighborhood, is asked to contact the Miami Township Police Department at (513) 248-3721.
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Both the Saint Leo men's and women's cross country teams concluded the University of Florida Mountain Dew Invitational, Friday evening from the University of Florida Golf Course. The women finished 18th out of 23 teams that posted scores in their 5K trek, while the men's team had individual finishers in their 8K course.
Freshman Jillian Browne was once again impressive for the Lions, concluding the race with the top women's time of 21:09.35 and a 97th place finish. Tanja Redmond placed 125th out of 251 runners with a time of 21:53.76. Redmond's freshman teammate, Emily Egan, also ran a solid race finishing just 10 seconds later at 22:03.31. Allison Cary finished just out of the top-150, with a 161st place showing and a time of 23:05.60.
Matt Attal claimed the best individual performance on the men's side, posting a 140th-place finish with a time of 30:12.30. Freshman Eric Dirth was the next Lions' finisher, placing 150th out of 190 runners with a time 30.34.50. Carson Holton was the third SLU runner to cross the finish line, compiling a time of 34:29.90.
Charlotte Browning of the University of Florida took home the individual title, concluding the event with a time of 17:25.08; 16 seconds in front of her nearest competitor. UF also took home the team crown with a team score of 18.
Embry-Riddle's Evans Kirwa was the best overall finisher for the men, posting an 8K-best 24:21.10; four seconds ahead of Florida's Anthony Morales. The individual effort on Kirwa's part was not enough as Florida retained the men's team title, as well with a score of 20.
Both teams take a week off before hitting the track again on October 2nd at the flarunners.com Invitational in Titusville, Fla. The women's team will get underway at 6:25 EST with the men to follow shortly after.
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Glenn F. Tilton has been named chairman of JPMorgan Chase's Midwest business, succeeding William M. Daley, who left the bank to become White House chief of staff.
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United Merger Execs Cite Foreign, Low-Cost Threats
United Airlines and Continental Airlines need to merge to be profitable in competing with low-cost and foreign carriers, executives of the two U.S. major airlines said on Thursday, Reuters reported.
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United and Continental Face Questions in Congress
Top executives of United Airlines and Continental Airlines sparred with irritated lawmakers on Wednesday over their merger plan, drawing a threat for closer industry regulation if the deal is approved.
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UAL's Tilton Will Trade Cash Severance for Shares
United Airlines Chairman and C.E.O. Glenn Tilton has agreed to give up cash severance of $4.6 million in exchange for restricted shares worth the same amount if his airline combines with Continental, The Associated Press reported.
May 5, 2010, Wednesday
US Airways' C.E.O.: We're Not the 'Ugly Girl'
In a letter to employees, US Airways' chief executive defended his airline against a slip-of-the-tongue put-down from Continental Airlines' chief.
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United and Continental Said to Approve Merger
The airlines are expected to announce on Monday that they agreed to merge in a deal valued at nearly $3.2 billion.
May 2, 2010, Sunday
The Pulse: United's Chief Executive Has Earned Some Admirers
Glenn F. Tilton is not popular with United's rank-and-file workers. But in the Chicago business community, he has built an admiring following.
May 2, 2010, Sunday
United and Continental Reported Closer to Merger
The airlines could announce a deal as soon as Monday, people briefed on the matter said, though they cautioned that the talks could still fall apart.
April 29, 2010, Thursday
Millions for Top Execs Depend on Airline Merger
Should a merger of UAL's United Airlines with Continental Airlines go forth, the top five executives at UAL are in line for millions in cash and stock, The Financial Times reported, citing a blog entry on Footnoted.org.
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PHERSY AND FELDY SHOW: Welcome back!
PHERSY: Well, it's been what, like two years since we've done one of these things ... so Feldy and I got off our rear-ends and decided to tape a show tonight.
We plan to make this a far more regular feature here at Faceoff. Now, with a few of the changes at the P-B, it sounds like we'll have more time for "fun" stuff like this.
So, our lone reader ... enjoy!
This week, we wrap up the Vikings season, we talk about the Wild and the upcoming NHL season, and then Feldy talks high school hockey, and I talk about the Rochester Ice Hawks.


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On the train home last night, I read the paper by Ohigashi and Morii that made the news yesterday, and resulted in a good number of electrons being spilled yesterday afternoon.
Before I get started, the key point here is:
If you have concerns about wireless security, JUST USE CCMP.
(CCMP is often referred to as WPA2, but that's a nomenclature point that I'd rather not get into here.)
I enjoyed reading the paper because the attack is clever, and nicely builds on some work from a year ago by Eric Tews and Martin Beck. Both the Ohigashi/Morii paper and the Tews/Beck paper describe attacks against the TKIP integrity check. Notably, neither attack is able to recover the keys used by TKIP to encrypt frames.
The most important thing to understand about TKIP is that it was intended to be an interim measure. When design work on TKIP started in 2001, there was a two-pronged approach to developing wireless security protocols. The first prong was updating the much-maligned WEP to improve security, but that effort was circumscribed because the design that emerged was constrained by the need to be hardware-compatible with the millions of devices which had already been sold with WEP support. (In technical terms, that restricted TKIP to be based on the RC4 cipher, and prevented development of a message integrity check with significant computational requirements.)
In essence, TKIP is a set of "seat belts" that keep the most vulnerable parts of WEP from being thrown through the windshield or impaled on the steering column. (One of my favorite papers about the weaknesses in WEP is IEEE 802.11 document 11-00/0362, titled Unsafe at Any Key Length, which is where the metaphor comes from.)
I'm not terribly surprised by the increasing number of papers written about flaws in TKIP. Given the severe design constraints, TKIP was a stopgap solution intended to buy time to give wireless LAN users the breathing space to move to the eventual AES-based protocol in development. TKIP had a "design lifetime" of five years, meaning that the intent was to resist cryptanalytic attacks for that length of time. The TKIP specification had matured by 2003, so it is not a surprise that flaws began to be identified last year.
Last year, the Tews/Beck paper exposed a subtle flaw in TKIP's integrity checking. The attack described in last year's paper required that a network have quality of service extensions enabled. Ohigashi and Morii did away with that constraint by showing that an attacker clever enough to insinuate himself into the conversation between the network and a client device can perform a similar attack.
The technical impact of this attack is small. Tews and Beck showed that a network with WMM could be subject to attacks against the TKIP integrity check. Ohigashi and Morii have generalized that work to networks in which the attacker does not need WMM to be enabled, but the trade is that the attacker must have a situation in which the victim is outside the range of the AP without relaying. Many vendors developed workarounds a year ago which continue to provide protection against this attack.
What this perceptive paper should do is heighten the disquiet regarding continued use of TKIP. Initial papers on WEP showed flaws that were not fatal, but the accretion of cryptanalytic expertise over time resulted in a complete break of the protocol which enables attackers to swiftly recover encryption keys. TKIP has not suffered this fate yet, but it is difficult to know how far off that day is. The best advice is to start using CCMP today, and make plans to move away from TKIP.
TKIP was intended for use as a stopgap, and it was optimized for use with the existing protocol features at the time of its design. It has not been extended to protect the extended headers defined by 802.11n, which is why the Wi-Fi Alliance has defined tests to prevent the use of TKIP with its 11n certification. It will never provide protection for 802.11 management frames. (To learn more about management frame protection, see the summary video for a talk I've submitted to the RSA conference next year.)
The future of wireless LAN security is CCMP. Let's bury TKIP, and move away from it before it becomes absolutely necessary.


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"Shall the City of Springfield impose a sales tax at a rate of three-quarter of one percent (3/4 cent) solely for the purpose of providing revenues for the Springfield Police Officers' and Firefighters' Pension System, with said tax to sunset upon the Pension System fund reaching a fully-funded (100%) status as determined by an independent actuarial study conducted for the Pension System Board of Trustees?"
This is the question Springfield voters will see on the ballot November 3. (View the sample ballot [pdf].) Although not mentioned in the ballot language, a state statute requires the city to give voters the option to repeal or continue the tax every five years.
You can read the full text of Council Resolution 2009-207 which calls for the election and Council Bill 2009-235 which outlines the City's other commitments to the Pension Fund if the tax passes. More election information including video of the City Council debate can be found at the City's website.
The proposed sales tax was recommended by the Police-Fire Pension Fund Citizen's Task Force which was created after voters rejected a 1 cent sales tax for the same purpose last February. The Task Force's Final Report to Council recommended several actions with options. Some of the recommendations were:
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Beekeeper Andrew Cote lights a hive smoker before inspecting the Waldorf Astoria hotel's beehives in New York on Tuesday. The hotel harvests its own honey from six hives kept on the 20th floor to use at its three restaurants.
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HOUSTON – (March 17, 2010) – One hundred forty characters is the new defining standard for communication and the new Twit Pitch Competition will add a fun element and challenge the social media savvy of the 42 teams competing at the 2010 Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC).
"Social media and networking is the hot button in business today and you need to know how to use it effectively," said Gene McCubbin, President of the TwitPitch sponsor, PopLabs. "The TwitPitch is an exciting way to demonstrate this trend. Teams will be asked to demonstrate their ability to be succinct and persuasive by submitting a 140-character text message (a "Tweet") targeted to potential investors."
Playing off the Tweet 140-character limit, cash prizes will be awarded to the top three teams in the following manner:
First Place: $1,400
Second Place: $140
Third Place: $14
First Place: $1,400
Second Place: $140
Third Place: $14
Teams will be asked to submit, one, 140-character Tweet (text message) to the designated, private RBPC Twitter account the weekend before the competition starts.
"The purpose of this "Tweet" is to garner interest of a perspective investor and should be written as such," said Brad Burke, managing director of the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship the hosts of the RBPC. "Winners will be selected on the ability of the message to describe the business and the persuasiveness of the message to interest an investor. This is a challenging task when given in 15 minutes, let alone 140 characters."
A panel of judges will evaluate each pitch on the merits of understandability, completeness, creativity and salability. At the submission deadline, the Twitter account will be closed and posted Tweets will be displayed on the RBPC Web site.
The three top tweeters will be announced at the RBPC Awards Banquet on Saturday, April 17, 2010.
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The Rice University Business Plan Competition is the world's largest and richest graduate-level business plan competition. It is hosted and organized by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship which is Rice University's flagship initiative devoted to the support of entrepreneurship.
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Tu B'Shvat in the Redwoods 2013
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Celebrate the New Year of the Trees – in the East Bay Redwoods!
Sunday, January 27th, 2013 from 10am to 3pm
As the days lengthen and spring approaches, we pause during Tu B'Shvat to celebrate the unseen awakening of Creation. Deep within the trees, the sap begins to flow, as the trees start their cycle anew.
In the tradition of the Tsfat mystics, we gather in a sacred grove to create an experiential Tu B'Shvat seder that connects us to the forest and the elements. We delight in the fruit of the trees, p'ri ha-etz, and celebrate the season together through the five senses, song, meditation, and Tu B'Shvat teachings.
While the adults engage in the morning seder, kids ages 4-12, are taken off into the forest for an adventure with the Wilderness Torah Nature Mentors!
We'll eat lunch together near the grove after the morning seder, and have more Tu B'Shvat activities after lunch!
Afternoon Activities:
- A Tu B'Shvat Musical Journey: Enjoy an interactive Jewish, folk, fun music show for the whole family brought to us by our musical friends from the band Octopretzel. Co-sponsored by the PJ Library
- Guided Nature Walk in Redwood Park: Connect deeper to the themes of the day and learn about our local wild places through the plants, trees, nuts, fruits, and their uses with local ethnobotanist Jolie Egert.
- Text Study: "A Person is Like a Tree in the Field." The Torah teaches that we are like trees and shows us that by connecting to the natural world we can evoke our highest self. Join Zelig Golden for text study that will illuminate the deeper meanings of Tu B'shvat and nature connection activities that will bring these teachings alive within us.
- Movement offering: Our creation story teaches that the human (Adam) rises from the earth (Adamah). Come and experience the elements in your body through embodied prayer, improvisational movement, and dance.
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If you are like me you can quite easily find yourself side-tracked when doing your research. For example you start looking for Army Records for an ancestor, you go onto Ancestry.co.uk and then find a likely entry, start looking at those record only to find it isn't your chap. BUT you see that this soldier served in India, you begin to wonder how he coped with all that heat after coming from the low lying Fens and before you know it you have done searches on the British Army in India, the history of the Fens, Malaria and it's effects on the Victorian Soldier and become what my friend Val calls a "5 minute expert" on the the Raj and it's consequences down to the present day!!
A 5 minute expert is someone who becomes knowledgeable about a subject after intensive research, but ask them a question about it a few weeks later and they can't tell you a thing!! According to Val genealogists are very prone to this malady!!
Anyway I came across this link which might help you keep on track.
Having said all of the above I must say I rather like getting side-tracked sometimes 🙂


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I'm sure some of you have been waiting for this after my tease. but we made up 6 lbs of Texas Hot Links this weekend (and 10 lbs of Hot Italian Sausage, but that's another post) I used a recipe from Kevin Taylor, the BBQ Guru, which can be found online if you goggle it.
Started with this
Ground it up and turned some of it into this
Then threw it onto the Egg at 130 F. Yep 130! Used my Auber Instruments Pit Controller to keep it going. and after one hour we had this.
Then 140 for another hour and then for the next hour and 40 minutes slowly bumped it up to 250 in increments until we hit 160F internal temp and we were left with this.
Let me just say, this was some HOT SAUSAGE!! Not like an overwhelming burn where you couldn't taste anything else. And more of a back of the throat burn then lighting your tongue on fire. I could definitely taste the garlic as well as the notes the herbs gave it. WE like spicy food, but Mrs. G thought we needed to tone it down on the heat. Maybe all the black pepper, red pepper and cayenne pepper was just a bit too much. Mr. and Mrs. A, also agreed that is was good, but the heat could be toned down a tad. So next time, and there will be a next time, we'll bring the heat level down a bit, but for a second attempt at sausage, not too bad. And we have plenty left over, vacuum sealed and frozen for later use.
It took me a long time to get the write up done and there are tons of pictures there including the recipe. Please click HERE if you would like to see more info on how we did it. Thanks for checking it out.