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PER: Potchefstroomse Elektroniese Regsblad
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PER vol.16 no.2 Potchefstroom Jan. 2013
PER 2013(16)2 Editorial Special Edition
On Sunday 3 July 2011 the Research Committee of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, the IUCN Environmental Law Centre, Bonn and the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law organised a pre-conference workshop entitled "Towards the legal recognition and governance of ecosystem services" at Mpekweni, Eastern Cape, South Africa. At this workshop, papers were delivered on various aspects of ecosystem services. These included an introduction to ecosystem services from a legal perspective by Alejandro Iza of the IUCN Environmental Law Centre, and an introduction from a scientific perspective, by Christo Marais of the South African Department of Water Affairs. Justice Antonio Benjamin from the High Court of Brazil gave a presentation on Jurisprudential experiences in Brasilia and the importance of the legal recognition of ecosystem services; Alistair Rieu Clarke(University of Dundee) spoke on "The 1997 UN Watercourses Convention and Ecosystem Services: Can a Combined Reading Ensure that International Watercourses are Utilised in an Equitable and Reasonable Manner?"; Jamie Benidickson (University of Ottawa) presented the new IUCN "Guidelines for Protected Areas Legislation" and David Hodas (Widener University) gave a presentation entitled "Seeing into Law's Blindspot: Ecosystem Energy Services". The discussions during the workshop enabled participants to realise that there were numerous angles to the topic of ecosystem services and that the discussion had not been fully explored, in particular concerning the human livelihoods aspect and the intricate relationship between ecosystem services and rights. It was therefore decided that there would be an open call for papers for publication on these issues, which would contribute to furthering this important discussion in the light of the major world conferences that would have taken place from 2012 onwards.
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Ecosystems are vital for human well-being as they provide valuable goods and highly important services. While ecosystem goods such as food or water are palpable and their value for human well-being is well known, ecosystem services (e.g. water purification, preventing soil erosion, etc) are less obvious and humans are often not aware of them at all. There is, however, a strong relationship between human well-being and ecosystems services, since healthy ecosystems and the continuing provision of ecosystem services can be perceived as key for realising internationally and domestically guaranteed rights, for the fulfilment of the Millennium Development Goals, and as part of any poverty alleviation strategy. In turn, failure to respect, ensure, and fulfil internationally and domestically guaranteed rights can be a trigger for environmental destruction and a threat to the continuous provision of ecosystem services, since people might be forced into unsustainable practices for lack of better options. Indeed, despite their importance for human well-being, ecosystem services are more and more under pressure and increasingly threatened by human activities. Growing populations and rising standards of living, pollution and natural disasters have led to the overexploitation or destruction of such services. Therefore ways have to be sought to address this problem in a comprehensive manner, with effective governance including strong accountability mechanisms being a central component.
Law plays an important part in the governance of ecosystem services by directly affecting human behaviour. It formally defines the framework for the recognition and governance of ecosystem services by granting certain rights to different people and determining their obligations, establishing processes for decision-making, implementation and enforcement, as well as providing mechanisms for avoiding and coping with conflicts between different actors. It thus has not only the objective but also the potential to give stability and certainty to the system in which the management of ecosystem services takes place. International law is increasingly providing fora for private citizens and NGOs to challenge unsustainable development across the world, but private citizens and NGOs are rarely aware of the opportunities they have within these fora to do so.
This publication focuses on the legal recognition and governance of ecosystem services, and in particular on analysing how ecosystem services are taken into account in accountability processes. In this contribution the oratio of Justice Benjamin of Brazil focuses on the payment of ecosystem services, while Alejandro Iza of the IUCN Environmental Law Centre in Bonn, provides a brief introduction to a legal perspective on ecosystem services. Alistair Rieu-Clark and Christopher Spray discuss the new focus that has emerged around the identification and assessment of ecosystem services, and the potential to somehow use the valuation of these services as a basis for more effective management of transboundary watercourses. David R Hodas proposes a new "least-social-cost" decision-making legal structure that includes ecosystem energy services. Simon Norfolk and Michaela Cosijn examine the state of forest ecosystem services within the Mozambican context, and ask if an adaptive governance regime is being created which will ensure the resilience of the forest ecosystem services. Lastly Reece
Alberts and Jurie Moolman explore in a note how ecosystems can be protected by way of biological control and the legal framework that currently exists in South Africa to enable such protection.
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E. Alegría
Cultural anthropologist and archeologist
Born: San Juan, Puerto Rico
world-renowned authority on the culture, language, and history
of the native peoples of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Alegría
founded the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña and
the Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe.
was greatly motivated by my father, the writer Jose Alegría,
who taught me to dearly love Puerto Rico and to be proud of
our history and culture."
of institutions of culture and learning, exhibition curator,
and author of more than 20 books, Alegría has
dedicated his life to preserving Puerto Rican history and culture.
He was selected by Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rico's
first elected governor, to head the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña,
where he created an awareness of the commonwealth's cultural
history, from its pre-Columbian inhabitants to the present day.
"When I started the restoration
of Old San Juan, people said everything should be torn down and
that we should make it a 'little
New York.' But that was because of their ignorance about
the historic importance of the city to both Puerto Rico and
the U.S."
E. Alegria, cultural
anthropologist and archeologist. Photograph by Héctor
taken at the Alegría residence, San Juan,
Puerto Rico
was a pioneer scholar in the study of the culture of the Tainos,
the native peoples who existed in Puerto Rico before Columbus' arrival.
He has also transcribed many Puerto Rican folktales, which
are an important link to the island's African, Native
American, and Hispanic past.
"If we know ourselves better, then we will be prouder
of who we are, what we have, and what we want to preserve."

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The Giraffe Chapter's continuous goal is to develop and improve honeypot technology and related tools and to conduct in-depth analysis of new attack techniques and malware specimens. This report lists our main activities and contributions from the last two and a half years.
Much to our regret, two of the founding members of our chapter have decided to terminate their Honeynet Project membership and are thus officially moved to alumni status. We respect this step and are grateful for an adventurous journey and their numerous contributions over the years. We will continue to work closely together with our friends, and want them to know that they can rejoin the team whenever they wish to.
The Giraffe Chapter consists of the following people:
We have a few dionaea, nepenthes, mwcollectd and honeytrap sensors deployed (all low-interaction server honeypots we develop), although our focus has shifted a bit towards developing data analysis tools, plus we lack the infrastructure for large-scale deployments, hence we do not capture very much these days.
Georg runs the mwcollect Alliance, a distributed network of honeypot sensors with central data aggregation. The organization has currently about 30 contributing members. Access to the collected information is granted to parties that link their own sensors into the network. People interested in joining should contact Georg directly.
All tools we develop for the Honeynet Project are publicly available from http://code.mwcollect.org/ and http://src.carnivore.it/. We also host some third-party projects there, please check them out. Below is a list of the major things we developed in the last two years:
As announced in our last status report, we released a new addition to our collection of carnivorous plants, called dionaea. It was partly developed as a Honeynet Project Summer of Code (HPSoC) project. If you wonder where the name comes from, check out this Wikipedia page. Dionaea is basically a very efficient networking core that maintains connections and dispatches events to modules. Its purpose is to collect attack data and malware binaries. It embeds Python as a scripting language which makes writing new extensions simpler and faster. A libemu module detects and emulates shellcode. Collected malware samples can be processed further, e.g., by submitting them to central storage sites. Protocols and services supported by dinoaea include HTTP, FTP, TFTP, MSSQL, SIP (VoiP) and more. See also the following chronologically ordered blog posts from the HPSoC phase:
mwcollectd4 is another new low-interaction server honeypot. It combines the best of nepenthes and honeytrap, our other approaches to collecting malware samples and attacks traces. The overall design is similar to dionaea's, but mwcollectd is written in C++ and relies on libnetworkd. There are plugins for shellcode emulation and protocol handling, logging to different channels, and storing data.
We have developed a Server Message Block (SMB) protocol stack for use in low-interaction honeypots. Of all services attacked the Windows SMB services are by far the most frequented ones (mostly due to the still aggressively spreading Conficker worm). A special attention to and a careful implementation of the underlying protocol can result in a much bigger number of collected samples. Our SMB implementation is used in both of our new honeypots, dionaea and mwcollectd and is part of their code branches.
RE-Google is our first reverse engineering helper tool. Its functionality is explained best by quoting the project web page: RE-Google is a plugin for the Interactive DisAssembler (IDA) Pro that queries Google Codesearch for information about the functions contained in a disassembled binary. The top results are then displayed as comments to the function and can be opened by just clicking on it. We also blogged about RE-Google:
libxmatch is a C library for matching plain patterns against XOR-encoded data. If the XOR key is no longer than half the pattern length, we can take advantage of the symmetry of the XOR operation and convert the pattern and the input into new strings in such a way that the key is eliminated. Afterwards, classical pattern matching algorithms can be applied. This approach can be used for processing shellcode without emulating it. Modules for dionaea and honeytrapexist.
Network traffic recording is a vital and fundamental task in many honeynet setups. However, standard tools like wireshark, tcpdump or daemonlogger are not necessarily best suited for this job. An ideal traffic recorder needs the capabilities of dispatching packets of certain types to separate dump files while performing nicely even on high speed and for high volumes of traffic. We have written our own packet capture daemon, called multicap, which takes advantage of some Linux kernel features to reach a good packet drop rate. It is highly configurable, can run on multiple devices at the same time, has extensive dump file rotation capabilites - in short, everything you need if you want to capture network traffic in a honeynet.
streams is an interactive tool for browsing, mining and processing TCP streams in pcap files. It provides a command line prompt for filtering, selecting and dumping reassembled session data. It can further invoke external tools to pipe stream data through.
nebula, our intrusion signature generator, was extended during another HPSoC effort. A client library was developed that can be used in honeypot software to submit attack data to a nebula daemon. Further, the signature generation strategie was improved to create more accurate signatures. The following blog post contains the details:
One more project currently considered as work-in-progress is hpfeeds, a simple publish-subscribe based protocol that features authentication and binary message payload support. It is still under development and active testing but promises to become an easy-to-use alternative for live data feed sharing within the Honeynet Project and also with external parties. The code of the protocol's broker and command-line client implementation in Python is available at Github. The repository also contains an experimental management webinterface. There is a deployment maintained by Mark on a test server to experiment with the project. Every HP member is invited to help testing and take a look at the already running data feeds.
We mostly worked on the analysis of interesting malware specimens and blogged our findings on the official Honeynet Project blog. In early 2009 we had a lot of fun dissecting the Waledac botnet together with Greg Sinclair which resulted in a post with the title Speaking Waledac. Another blog entry provides A view on Conficker's inside which was later followed by Conficker.A going down?. One highlight was an afternoon at our 2010 annual workshop in Mexico that we spent reversing a successor of the infamous Storm Worm. We published our results here: A Breeze of Storm. Another post deals with native language spam and how it can go wrong.
As far as an overall rating of current honeypot technology is concerned, we repeat our assessment from our 2008 status report: evaluating recorded data remains the main challenge in honeypot research. For the immense amount of data, automating analysis is crucial but only few tools are available to date.
Our most important publication is probably the paper Know Your Enemy: Containing Conficker in which we describe the inner workings of the Conficker worm and present several methods to detect and remove it.
The following presentations were given by us:
Our goal for the next year is to continue active development of our tools as well as to publish analysis reports for malicious programs that stand out from the crowd for some reason.
We would also like to improve on data sharing and collaboration within the Honeynet Project by spreading the word about XMPP malware sharing and the hpfeeds project.
In 2010 we revived the legendary Honeynet Project Scan of the Month challenges. The Giraffe Chapter kicked the new series off with a pcap attack trace. We received and evaluated 91 submissions. The first 5 questions are discussed in our blog post Dissecting the SotM Attack Trace Pcap.
Georg provided The Shadowserver Foundation with a free copy of the botnet monitoring software botsnoopd and is always happy to give a hand with setup and configuration.


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CRANSTON � Tom Needham, a unit manager at the Thomas C. Slater Training School, supervises 24 teenagers in F-Mod, a wing of the juvenile detention center where many are jailed on gun charges and other violent crimes.
A couple of times each month, mothers call and thank him for taking care of their troubled sons.
Needham is surprised that the women are grateful to have their children locked up for months or years in a high-security facility near the Garden City shopping plaza. But he knows the reason why: the boys are removed from gangs, street violence and gunfire that could end their lives before they turn 18.
�It�s safer in here,� Needham said.
Three teenagers who have spent considerable time in the training school on gun charges recently sat down with a Journal reporter and talked about their lives on the street and how easily they can get guns. The Providence Journal has a policy of not naming juveniles charged with or convicted of crimes.
About a dozen of the 74 boys in the training school are serving time on weapons charges � for murder, robbery, shooting rivals or possession of guns. They all wear training school-issued navy slacks and royal blue T-shirts or sweatshirts.
Franco, 17, has spent most of his high school years in the training school. His most serious charge was the armed robbery of a drug dealer in Warwick. He said he bought the gun used in the robbery � a .40-caliber handgun � for $500 in an alley on the South Side of Providence. The gun dealer, he said, was someone he knew.
He was making $500 to $800 a week selling cocaine, he said, and used some of the money to buy the gun. He bought the weapon about six months before the robbery, he said, to protect himself.
If he were on the street and had $500, he could buy a gun � .38, .40 or 9mm � within 30 minutes, he said.
�It�s pretty easy. But if you hear that a gun is for sale, you have to buy it right there and then or somebody else is going to get it.�
Pablo and Joseph, both 18, have been locked up for months on gun charges.
Joseph, who is from Pawtucket, said he was caught robbing people in Providence with a BB gun that was a replica of a Glock 9mm handgun.
Pablo said he used the real thing. He and three men were captured after they participated in a home invasion in Providence. He was armed, he said, with two handguns � a .357 Magnum and a .40-caliber Glock.
He had bought each weapon for $500. �I know people, so it�s pretty easy. I know the right people.�
How did he get the money?
�Crime. Drugs, weed, coke,� he said.
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The key to buying guns is the almighty dollar.
�If you have money, you can get anything you want,� he said.
Needham and Joseph Cardin, the training school�s acting director, said the world inside the juvenile lockup has changed. In the past, the cellblocks were filled with strong teens who challenged the staff and each other. The boys now are so reliant on guns that they no longer use muscle to settle scores.
The boys used to talk about girls, cars and sports, they said. The main topic now is guns, and those with the most powerful weapons command the most respect.


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"What time do we have to be there?" Debbie Wasserman Schultz, arguably the busiest person at the Democratic convention, asked her aides as their car struggled through throngs of delegates and supporters on the street. Finally she decided to ditch the car and continue on foot, although it was clear that the convention would not begin without her. Moments later, Wasserman Schultz, as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, gaveled the convention to order from her podium at the center of the stage.
Growing up, she told the Forward, "we talked around our kitchen table at dinner — that a little girl can grow up in America and be anything she wanted to be, even president of the United States, or, I guess, chair of the Democratic National Committee. But no, in my wildest dreams I would not have anticipated this, not in a trillion years."
At 45, the fiery Jewish congresswoman from Florida is at the epicenter of Democratic politics, managing a "triple booked" schedule, as her aides put it, to ensure that all constituencies are on board with President Obama, and fighting in the trenches of Sunday talk shows in the sound-bite wars against Republican rivals.
The road to becoming the most powerful woman in the Democratic Party heirarchy has won Wasserman Schultz many admirers in the Jewish community and in party circles, but also some detractors. Critics find her style combative and at times abrasive, and feel that her effectiveness in motivating the Democratic base comes at the expense of welcoming swing voters.
"She's dynamite," Florida convention delegate Patricia King said. "I hear people say she is not relating to the rest of the public, but for me, it's like, 'What are you talking about?'" Wasserman Schultz's central task as party chair is bringing together the Democratic effort to re-elect Obama, "to watch his back and bring him across the finish line," as she describes it. This portfolio includes making sure that her own personal constituency of Jewish voters in Florida maintains its level of support for Obama in November. Polls show this to be a formidable undertaking, as Jewish support for the president could drop 5 to 10 percentage points from the 74% support he received in 2008. Campaign calculations presented at the Democratic convention show that a dip of 10 percentage points in Florida Jewish support could cost the Democrats 85,000 votes. That could be crucial in a state that is now practically tied.
Wasserman Schultz does not see Obama as having a "Jewish problem," not even in her home state. When talking to Jewish voters and activists, as she frequently does, Wasserman Schultz forges an immediate bond, throwing in stories about her mishpacha (family), her Jewish upbringing and being a Jewish mother.
She also forcefully makes the case against what many Jewish political observers refer to as the "kishkes factor," the gut feeling that still makes Jewish voters suspicious about Obama. "I looked into the president's kishkes, so to speak, and know how strongly he feels about it," Wasserman Schultz said in an interview that began in her hotel, continued in the elevator and ended in her car as she rushed to the convention. She sees Republicans "sowing seeds of doubt" among Jewish voters on the issue of Obama and Israel because they "can't get anywhere with Jewish voters on domestic issues."
Wasserman Schultz is the first woman to be nominated by the full party as chair of the DNC and one of a handful of Jews to hold the position. It's a choice, she said, that reflects the "recognition by the president of the United States that Jewish voters were important and that women voters were important."
A native of Queens who grew up on Long Island, Wasserman Schultz first showed an interest in politics when she ran for and was elected president of the University of Florida student body. By age 26 she was already a Florida state legislator, the youngest in the state's history.
Wasserman Schultz's introduction to Jewish politics came in 1992, when, while still serving as a state lawmaker, she joined the National Jewish Democratic Council as its director of Florida operations. Steve Gutow, who headed the organization at the time, recalls hiring an energetic field organizer with "a wonderful presence" who threw a successful Matzo Ball singles party for activists, featuring top Democratic speakers.
Wasserman Schultz was elected to the House of Representatives in 2004 and quickly became a prominent voice on women's rights and on health care. She often told audiences the personal story of her struggle with breast cancer, which made her understand that she was "one job loss away from losing my health insurance." At the same time, she kept a Jewish agenda prominently among her priorities. Together with former Pennsylvania senator Arlen Specter, Wasserman Schultz initiated Jewish American Heritage Month, which is now noted each May with a White House reception and various events. She has been named to the Forward 50 list of influential American Jews multiple times.
As she climbed through the ranks of the Democratic Party, Wasserman Schultz's partisan tone drew increasing attention and criticism from rival Republicans, even within the Jewish community. Last May, a synagogue in Miami disinvited Wasserman Schultz following objections from one of the synagogue's main donors. On the national level, her harsh rebuke of the Republican Party's policy, specifically on women's issues, made her a target of pundit criticism. Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee drew laughs at the Republican convention when he complained of an "awful noise" in his hotel, which he said turned out to be "just Debbie Wasserman Schultz, practicing her speech for the Democratic National Convention." To which the DNC chair responded by saying that Huckabee "has a problem with strong women."
Ari Fleischer, who was a White House spokesman for President George W. Bush and a leading Republican Jewish speaker, said that while Wasserman Schultz is successful in firing up the base, she "comes across [as] [terribly ineffective" because she does not meet the requirement of being "reasonable and focused."
But Wasserman Schultz's style has reportedly irked some within her party, as well. An e-book published by Politico in August claimed](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/79867_Page3.html#ixzz25Jg021hU) that officials in the Obama campaign headquarters in Chicago feel that Wasserman Schultz "struck too harsh a partisan tone." It also stated that in an internal focus group examining the effectiveness of Obama surrogates, she was ranked last.
Following this report, the White House said Obama has "absolutely" full confidence in Wasserman Schultz.
In her interview with the Forward, Wasserman Schultz strongly rejected suggestions that she adopt a softer tone and show more willingness to compromise. "I'm the chair of the Democratic Party. That is not in the job description of someone who chairs a political party," she said.
Fellow Floridian Robert Wexler agreed. The former congressman, who serves as a surrogate for Obama among Jewish voters, said that criticism of Wasserman Schultz is simply a sign of her success. "When you're very effective, you also get very stern criticism," he said, "I think it is a badge of honor."
Back in Charlotte there were no signs at all that the campaign is trying to sideline Wasserman Schultz. The DNC chair hopped from one reception to another panel discussion, from strategy meetings to one-on-ones with donors. Her three children followed her to the convention, watching from the front row as their mother chaired the event.
Four years ago, Wasserman Schultz was given the honor of seconding Obama's nomination at the 2008 convention. "I thought, wow, this is really the pinnacle, and here I am, four years later," she said. She will not speculate on where she'll be four years from now. "I am not thinking beyond the next 63 days," she said. "We have to get him elected, and I'm running for re-election, and we'll see what happens."
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Nathan Guttman, staff writer, was the Forward's Washington bureau chief. He joined the staff in 2006 after serving for five years as Washington correspondent for the Israeli dailies Haaretz and The Jerusalem Post. In Israel, he was the features editor for Ha'aretz and chief editor of Channel 1 TV evening news. He was born in Canada and grew up in Israel. He is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.


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Students are escorted to a waiting bus as they leave Miramonte Elementary school after classes Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012 in Los Angeles. Veteran Miramonte Elementary school teacher Mark Berndt, 61, was arrested Monday, Jan. 30, on charges of lewd conduct with 23 children after a film processor gave police photos showing blindfolded children with their mouths taped and cockroaches on their faces. Berndt remained jailed Tuesday on $2.3 million bail. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
They call it "teacher jail" - the administrative offices where nearly 300 Los Angeles Unified educators accused of misconduct spend months on end reading, blogging or texting.The cost is enormous: $1.4 million a month in salaries while district and law-enforcement investigations proceed, and $865,000 to hire substitutes to fulfill their classroom duties.Los Angeles Unified officials insist the cost is worth it - the price the district has to pay for years of downplaying or ignoring suspected abuse. That practice exploded into a major scandal in February with revelations of longtime patterns of misconduct by teachers at Telfair Elementary in Pacoima and Miramonte Elementary in South L.A.Now, under a new zero-tolerance policy, scores of educators accused of misconduct have been pulled from classrooms and are facing dismissal. The number of housed teachers has more than doubled in the last 18 months.Even grabbing a student's arm or looking down a girl's blouse triggers a full-scale investigation, with the district moving aggressively to fire those found to have endangered the well-being of students."You touch a child inappropriately, expect to lose your job," said David Holmquist, the district's general counsel. "We have zero tolerance for inappropriate touching and that probably hasn't always been the case, to this degree."That total of 300 includes 50 teachers who have been placed on unpaid status as the district moves to fire them. Officials say there also are "a handful" of teachers who have successfully appealed their dismissals and are collecting their salary, but who officials do not want back in the classroom.The district's handling of misconduct complaints is the subject of a report set for release Thursday by the California State Auditor's office. Requested by Assemblyman Ricardo Lara, D-South Gate, it is expected to look at the policies and procedures at the district and a sampling of cases at six schools.The audit is likely to address LAUSD's more aggressive approach to pulling educators from the classroom - so many, in fact, that housed teachers are split into morning and afternoon shifts, with the balance of their "workday" spent at home.Teachers union leaders say they certainly want to rid their ranks of abusers, but they believe the district is overreacting to the scandal and wasting precious resources by failing to differentiate between an inadvertent touch and predatory behavior."The district is diverting important resources away from investigating credible allegations of potential real misconduct and instead is abusing the system to smear the reputations of teachers," said Warren
Fletcher, president of United Teachers Los Angeles.
"LAUSD is using the process to get rid of teachers they don't like or don't want by launching misconduct investigations against them when there's no reasonable belief on anyone's part that any real misconduct occurred."Superintendent John Deasy disputes that contention, as well as claims by some housed teachers that he is conducting a "witch hunt" to thin the ranks of high-paid employees nearing retirement, when they'd become eligible for lifetime health benefits."That is completely inaccurate," he said. "What we want is for students to be safe. A witch hunt would be if we were going after teachers. But the complaints come to us, and we're responding by ensuring that policies are enforced."LAUSD Human Resources chief Vivian Ekchian said it's not only the district that has changed its outlook in the wake of the sex-abuse scandal."Students have been educated and empowered, and they recognize harassment when they see it and they know they can tell someone," said Ekchian, a former teacher and principal. "Parents have expectations for high-performing teachers who are fit to teach with moral conduct that can be defended."Under the updated guidelines for housing a teacher, employees can be pulled from the classroom and reassigned if officials receive a "credible allegation" of misconduct that warrants an investigation.But some educators reassigned to administrative
offices - which they've dubbed "teacher jail" or "rubber rooms" - say they've been ensnared in a system that denies them due process and is weighted heavily against them.
Employees complain that they have to sign in and out, even to use the restroom, and that they're not allowed to visit with their fellow teachers in adjoining cubicles.While the district policy says teachers should be required to perform "duties within their job classification," housed teachers say there's no real work for them to do, so they spend their time reading, blogging or talking.What's most upsetting, they say, is that they're not told of the specific allegations against them until the investigation is completed, to prevent them from contacting students or parents. That leaves the teachers in emotional limbo, compounded by the fear that they'll eventually be fired."I'm in tears every day that I'm here," said one arts teacher, adding that she's suffered from headaches, vomiting and hives in the three months that she's been housed.The district tries to wrap up its probe in 120 working days - that's six months - although complaints involving physical or sexual abuse may take longer because police must first determine whether to pursue criminal charges."The number of calls skyrocketed in the weeks and months after Miramonte," said Juan Perez, one of three detectives assigned to the Los Angeles Police Department's Sexually Exploited Child Unit."We're again experiencing a significant increase in the number of calls, especially those like, `The teacher made me feel uncomfortable,' or `The teacher brushed my hair or touched my leg.'"Some we can solve in a day or two, the others may take us months. It depends on the availability of the victims and the complexity of the allegations," Perez said.Once police complete their investigation, administrators can interview students, parents and co-workers to determine whether the employee may have violated professional guidelines, such as the state Education Code or the district's Code of Conduct with Students.According to the policy, the housed employee is interviewed last.Some housed teachers say, however, that officials had completed their report and decided to take disciplinary action by the time they were finally asked for their version of events.Randy Traweek is a sixth-grade teacher at the Westside Global Awareness Magnet, and a John Hopkins Teaching Fellow whose classroom was once featured on "Good Morning America."He's been housed since April, when his principal heard rumors circulating around campus that Traweek had touched the buttocks of a female student in October 2011. The LAPD investigated and found no criminal wrongdoing.The district, however, asked Traweek's students whether anyone had ever made them feel uncomfortable. Officials are pursuing a case against the 28-year LAUSD veteran for touching the girl, as well as one boy who said Traweek had hugged him and another who said the teacher had smacked him twice on the rear end.Traweek is fighting the allegations, saying the boy he reportedly hugged wasn't yet assigned to his class at the time of the alleged incident, and the incident with the other boy wasn't corroborated by any witnesses."Oh, my God, I would never hurt these kids - never, never, never," Traweek said. "I just love teaching kids. It's my passion in life."Despite the district's hard-line stance against misconduct, officials say they will return a teacher to the classroom if evidence shows that no wrongdoing occurred.That's what happened Tuesday, when a veteran teacher was told she can return on Wednesday to her San Fernando Valley elementary school after being housed for 10 weeks."I am so beyond excited," said the teacher, who asked not to be identified.According to the teacher, she'd accidentally "tapped" a student's stomach while trying to get him to stop squirming as he stood next to her desk. The boy began crying, so the teacher took him to the office, alerted the principal and contacted the boy's mother, who thanked her for the call."It made me really nervous," the teacher said. "Post-Miramonte, it's a new game."Three days later, the boy's father filed a complaint and the teacher was pulled from the classroom. Parents at the school rallied around her, posting an online petition, and printing T-shirts with her name."I know the teacher and know she wouldn't hurt a kid," said mom Julia Bricklin."I don't begrudge another parent looking out for their own child, but we need a better process. We need to be able to put in a system that will punish them immediately or return them to the classroom if they're found to be innocent."If we conservatively say that many teachers deserve to be removed, then there's a number who don't," Bricklin said. "The process isn't fair and it's cruel and it's not fair to the children."Officials say the process may be time-consuming and frustrating, but it's the best they can do as they try to balance student safety and teachers' rights.Despite the pending audit and the continued outrage over the sex-abuse scandal, Ekchian said LAUSD's teaching corps is one to be proud of."The majority of our employees do an outstanding job," she said. 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Relative Strength Strategies for Investing
22 Pages Posted: 6 Apr 2010 Last revised: 20 Apr 2010
Date Written: April 1, 2010
The purpose of this paper is to present simple quantitative methods that improve risk-adjusted returns for investing in US equity sectors and global asset class portfolios. A relative strength model is tested on the French-Fama US equity sector data back to the 1920s that results in increased absolute returns with equity-like risk. The relative strength portfolios outperform the buy and hold benchmark in approximately 70% of all years and returns are persistent across time. The addition of a trend-following parameter to dynamically hedge the portfolio decreases both volatility and drawdown. The relative strength model is then tested across a portfolio of global asset classes with supporting results.
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Pancakes & French Fries: Before & After
Jules was one of the very first blogs I stumbled upon before I even had a blog. Since one click lead to another and another, by the end of the week I had completely forgotten the URL for her blog. Once I had my own blog set up and went through clicking on one blog after another I found Jules again. Yay! I hope you enjoy her writing style as much as I do.
Hello! My name is Jules and I author the blog Pancakes and French Fries, a blog about life (sweet and savory) as an ex-attorney turned suburban stay at home mom. In other words, you probably don't know me from Adam. I don't write about design except to point out how hard I think design bloggers work, which is something I realized after spending two days trying to cobble together a simple mood board. Never again.
Of course, I'm not all thumbs when it comes to design. Thanks to a Google reader full of creative and inspiring design blogs, I have been able to pull off a room or two (literally. two.) in my home that don't look atrocious. The room Camila asked me to talk to you about today is my kitchen.
Don't be alarmed. That's the before.
My husband and I have always dreamed of buying a fixer-upper and making it ours. We love everything about older homes, down to the bizarre things you find inside the walls. When we bought the house we are in now (a 1958 red brick ranch in southern California) I was practicing as an attorney. Financially, things were good.
So we bought this house and set our eyes on the kitchen. We picked out nice finishes (that we could afford) and set to work. We had one small hiccup. In the middle of the remodel I quit my job to become a stay at home mom. (I talk more about that here, if you are curious.) It's a decision I have never regretted, but it did put a crimp in the budget. We still had the cabinets, flooring, windows, appliances, and back splash to do (an entire kitchen!) and the items we picked before wouldn't work with our new budget. And, since everything was already demoed, there was no turning back, either.
I spent over a week researching cabinets and found a vendor online for cabinets that cost 1/4 of what we were going to spend before. I'd share the vendor but they went out of business last year. It was about the cost of IKEA cabinets. Installation was as much as the cabinets, so if you can DIY this part you will save a considerable amount and open your budget to things like, oh, flooring.
My flooring? VCT tile, the same floors you walk on at Target, Walmart, and the supermarket. The kitchen and laundry room cost about $100, installed. (I decided to forgo the shiny finish that makes clean up easier. We just don't get as much foot traffic as Walmart.)
The back splash we held off on for almost four years. It had to be very inexpensive, but something I would enjoy. If I have learned anything in the last four years, it's that buying (or DIYing) something just because it's inexpensive and fills up space costs more in the long run. It's better to just wait until inspiration (or money) hits you.
For me, inspiration hit while my husband was on a business trip. I have boxes and boxes of old family pictures collecting dust. One day I was thumbing through them when I realized that I was, potentially, looking at my future back splash. I went to Home Depot, bought a quart of my favorite Ralph Lauren paint in Polo Green, 10 IKEA Ribba frames, and got to work.
In one day I had what I think is a beautiful back splash that celebrates family and history, all for less than $50.
There is still much to do. The windows, trim, window treatments, baseboards...the list is endless. But, I have learned that we have time. I have also learned a valuable lesson in all this.
When we bought the house and started the renovation, we wanted the best of everything. I pored over design magazines (I had no idea blogs existed back then) and took note of what was the latest and greatest. This was going to be the best! kitchen! ever! Our biggest ticket item, purchased before I quit, was our soapstone counters. We probably spent more on that than the rest of the kitchen! And you know what everyone notices first? You know what everyone cites as their favorite part of our kitchen?
The $100 floor and the $50 back splash.
And that's what I love about High Heeled Foot in the Door. Camila proves day in and day out that you don't need bags of money to create a room worth living in.
Have a wonderful trip with your family, Camila! ¡Que te vaya bien!
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So Much for Hoarding Incandescent Light Bulbs
Have you laid in a nice stockpile of incandescent light bulbs, now that they're forbidden? How's that going? Around sundown one day last week, I stepped on the foot-switch for the nearest floor lamp. The bulb buzzed and lit up a dull pink. Off and on again: dead. Another 100-watt incandescent in the trash.
This has been happening a lot lately—at least twice, with that lamp, in the two and a half months since I bought it. It's hard to keep count because the other lamps and fixtures are blowing through bulbs too.
Compact fluorescents are hideous and they
and LEDs are going to gradually gaslight you, and anyone who steps up and starts talking about how grim blue novelty light is actually much closer to God's natural sunlight is an ahuman charlatan. But I was too lazy to actually start hoarding incandescent bulbs, beyond buying the quantity a less lazy person would keep around for spares. The housewares store put up signs urging people to get them while they could. Last time I was there, as it hunted up inventory from ever further afield, its 100-watt inventory had given way to an array of 90-watt bulbs.
Now, though, it seems just as well I didn't bother. Buying incandescent bulbs in the last year or two has been like buying General Motors cars at the end of the '70s: Nobody had any reason to make sure they weren't garbage. So they are garbage. I asked the guy in the lighting department about it and he said, well, the factories were cranking out a lot of bulbs by the end. Thus ends the incandescent era. What now?
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This London Tube map by Harry Beck used form 1933 is considered a great 'hit' of modern infographics. It meant a big step for visual abstraction and diagrams as part of everyday life.
Form then and each day more often, the tube map has become a metaphor to explain any serie of connections.
One of the last examples is this one published by Richard Watson which shows a map of trends and predictions for 2010-2050. (Click on it to get the PDF form nowandnext)
Is such a common place in infographics that the 17th Malofiej Awards decorated the University of Navarra (home of these awards) with a tube map of the main characters and subjects of infographics.
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But everybody could remember the grear Metro do Rock infographic publisehd by the brazilian magazine Super Interessante
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The idea worked so well, that years afetr that their sister magazine Mundo Estranho, made a similar graphic with science as starring.
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Kristin Cavallari is putting her acting career on hold so she can spend more time with her son Camden and fiancé Jay Cutler.
And right about now, it's totally appropriate to be thinking: What acting career?
"I've passed on a couple of things that would have kept me here in L.A. because my fiancé Jay has to be in Chicago, so if I was here, we would never see each other," she told L.A.'s Coco Eco magazine. "The sacrifices we make for love…"
The "Laguna Beach" and "The Hills" resident villain has had a handful of appearances on shows including "The Middle" and "CSI: NY" but has become well known for her relationship with Cutler, a Chicago Bears quarterback.
Aside from family, the 26-year-old said she's focusing on her entrepreneurial endeavors, including her newly launched jewelry line and a shoe line with Chinese Laundry.
"It's easy to get wrapped up in your career and have that be your only focus, and I want my marriage to work and last — and family comes first," she said. "The design work is great because I can do most of it from Chicago and I have so much fun with it. I love it and it all works out."
Cavallari and Cutler got engaged in Cabo in 2011 and welcomed their little boy in August 2012. As for when they're planning to tie the knot, the TV personality remained coy.
"The old marriage question!" she said. "All I'll say is we're planning a big summer wedding, but I'm keeping it a secret."
The mag made a point to say that Cavallari is nothing like the villainous caricature she portrayed on the MTV reality series; instead Anna Griffin, the mag's editor in chief and writer, mused at "how genuinely nice and down to earth she is," adding that she was "sweet and "grounded" and doing her best to live and organic and nontoxic lifestyle.
The Kristin we knew and hated from "Laguna Beach" was pretty toxic. But that's not the kind of pollutant she's referring to.
It was her pregnancy that put things in much clearer perspective, because it had her opting for chemical-free products and a much healthier lifestyle. And that's how she kept off excessive baby weight.
"I've always been a pretty healthy eater. My dad is a big health nut, so I've always tried to be as organic as possible, but when I became pregnant I took it to a whole new level, and was even more conscious of what I was putting in my body," Cavallari said.
"I cut back on meat, not only because it was bad for the environment but also because it felt healthier for me. I think that's why I didn't gain much baby weight. I gained 25 pounds, which is what I was supposed to gain, and since then I have been choosing more of a plant-based diet. I work out four times a week and just try to live healthy."
She echoed the sentiments in a recent interview with DISfunkshion magazine where she also admitted that Cutler will tell her when she's underweight.
"I'm lucky to have my fiancé Jay, who'd rather have a couple of pounds on me," she said. "He tells me when I'm too skinny and that helps."
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Parents should be the first to take responsibility for stopping their children looking at internet pornography, the new Culture Secretary has said.
Maria Miller said calls demanding internet companies block access to hardcore online porn as a default setting would be considered by the Government.
But she emphasised that ''first and foremost'' parents must ensure their children and using the internet safely.
''I think responsibility is very strongly with parents to make sure that they really understand how their children are using the internet...to make sure they are safe,'' the MP said.
In an interview with The Sunday Times, Mrs Miller said there could be a role for the government in giving advice to parents on devices such as parental blocks on their home computers and similar software.
She added: ''I think probably the awareness of those sorts of pieces of software you can buy or indeed what you can do is not as high as it needs to be.''
A petition signed by more than 110,000 people calling for internet service providers be made to compulsorily block access to pornography on computers, mobile phones and tablets was handed to 10 Downing Street last week.
In June the Government launched a 10-week consultation asking parents and businesses for their views on the best way to shield children from internet pornography.
The study is also looking at measures to protect children from other potentially harmful sites such as those which promote suicide, anorexia, gambling, self-harm and violence.
Parents are being asked for their views on three possible systems, including one where users have to ''opt in'' to see adult sites, and one in which customers are presented with an unavoidable choice about whether they want filters and blocks installed.
The third option would combine the two systems, enabling customers to block some content automatically and be given a choice to unblock them as they wish.
It comes after David Cameron said earlier this year that the Government needed to look at whether internet services or devices might come with a filter on as their default setting or have a combination of a filter and an ''active choice'' by the customer.


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Carlisle crashed to another heavy home defeat, going down 4-1 to Leyton Orient with all the goals coming in the first period.
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Carlisle crashed to another heavy home defeat, going down 4-1 to Leyton Orient with all the goals coming in the first period.
A double from David Mooney and further goals by Lee Cook and Ben Chorley exposed major failings in Carlisle's defence although Peter Murphy did briefly bring the home side level.
Three half-time substitutions brought about an improved showing from Carlisle, but the Londoners, with just 13 goals in the league prior to this game, never looked likely to be caught.
Carlisle, who have the worst defensive record in the division, found themselves a goal down in the 18th minute when Mooney headed Dean Cox's right-wing cross against the post and sidefooted home the rebound before Murphy levelled for Carlisle in the 25th minute with a header from eight yards after Jon-Paul McGovern's free-kick had been only partially cleared.
But Orient were back in front within a minute, Chorley supplying the final touch from close in after Lee Cook's corner from the right and in the 38th minute Kevin Lisbie got the better of Mike Edwards and raced through to square the ball across the six-yard box for Cook to tap home unchallenged.
A fourth was to follow in the 44th minute when again shocking defensive play by Carlisle let in Mooney, who raced clear to thump home a shot from just inside the area.


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A federal judge said the District of Columbia's rules about putting political signs on lampposts are unconstitutional.
U.S. District Chief Judge Royce Lamberth released the ruling on Thursday.
Lamberth commended the District's Department of Transportation for repeatedly amending the sign regulations to bring them closer to constitutionality. But the judge wrote that once the District opens up public property to political speech it has a responsibility to be fair, even and precise in its regulations.
Two anti-war and anti-racism groups sued the District several years ago over the poster regulations. The groups argued that city law unfairly allows posters promoting candidates to be affixed to city lampposts longer than posters with general messages like "Stop War."
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Creating a Day of the Dead Inspired Portrait
In today's tutorial, I'm going to show you how I created a Day of the Dead inspired portrait with Adobe Illustrator CS5. Along the way I'll be using a variety of different sources to obtain color palettes, using a selection of brushes and many other quick tips you can use in future projects.
I'm going to be using a stock image as a base which is from the talented Claire Jones, a stock artist I've used a lot in my previous illustrations and a pleasure to collaborate with for today's tutorial.
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Ill. Governor Pardons Cruz, Two Others
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Gov. George Ryan on Thursday pardoned three men wrongfully convicted of murder, including Rolando Cruz, whose case has served as a symbol of flaws in the death penalty system.
Ryan made the announcement as he spoke before the University of Illinois College of Law on the state's death penalty system. Ryan has been considering commuting the death sentences of about 140 men currently on death row. The men he pardoned Thursday already had been released.
The pardons, which had been widely expected, came a day after federal prosecutors released papers alleging that Ryan had personal knowledge of wrongdoing by aides in the secretary of state's office he ran before being elected governor in 1998.
The governor issued a statement Wednesday saying he had a "clear conscience." He made no statement to reporters Thursday morning.
Ryan has the power to grant clemency to all 160 inmates facing execution in Illinois, but he has said recently that a blanket clemency is unlikely.
The Republican governor, who did not seek re-election, leaves office Jan. 13.
His latest actions follow months of emotional pleas from lawyers and others who are convinced that Illinois' death penalty system is hopelessly flawed, and counter-pleas from the families of victims of some of the most terrible crimes in the state's history.
Ryan gained national prominence when he halted executions nearly three years ago, calling the state's death penalty system "fraught with error" after the courts found that 13 men on death row had been wrongly convicted since the state resumed capital punishment in 1977.
He pushed for a sweeping overhaul of the way capital cases are handled. Ryan later raised the possibility that he would commute the sentences of everyone facing execution. That led most of the death row inmates to file formal petitions for clemency.
Cruz served 11 years in prison, including seven on death row, for the 1983 rape and murder of 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico. At a third trial, he was acquitted after a police officer changed his story about an incriminating statement Cruz supposedly made. DNA evidence later pointed to someone else as the rapist.
Also pardoned was Gary Gauger, who said he wants to clear his name and seek compensation after being wrongly convicted of killing his parents. Prosecutors opposed his pardon, though they did not dispute that 74-year-old Morris Gauger and 70-year-old Ruth Gauger were killed by members of the Outlaws motorcycle gang.
The third pardon went to Steven Linscott, who was convicted of murdering a young woman in suburban Chicago. Then a college Bible student managing a Christian halfway house with his wife, he told police about a strange dream he had, which in some ways was similar to the attack.
The police considered it a confession. He ended up going to prison for more than three years before his conviction was overturned by an appellate court and subsequent DNA testing exonerated him.


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EtherNet/IP network added to motor control centers
Rockwell Automation added EtherNet/IP to its Centerline motor control centers (MCCs). With the features of an integrated EtherNet/IP network, manufacturers now have access to production information throughout the enterprise and can take advantage of simplified device programming with Premier Integration.
Leveraging one, standard network simplifies communication for the enterprise and provides users with the flexibility to control, configure and collect data from any point in the system, Rockwell Automation said. In addition, by taking advantage of Premier Integration, users can configure and commission their MCC faster with RSLogix 5000 software, helping to eliminate errors associated with redundant programming.
Furthermore, the Ethernet connection allows Centerline MCC users to access information remotely. This allows personnel to safely monitor, troubleshoot and diagnose the MCC without exposing them to potentially dangerous conditions and power equipment. Knowing how a motor control center is performing from anywhere also saves time by minimizing the need for maintenance personnel to enter the motor control center. This reportedly saves time associated with suiting up with personal protective equipment and helps protect personnel from exposure to hazardous conditions.
Designed to meet global standards, Centerline low-voltage MCCs offer a rugged, high-performance packaging solution to meet all of a manufacturer's motor control needs. With embedded IntelliCenter technology, Centerline MCCs use a pre-configured and pre-tested network with integrated hardware and software. This level of integration helps reduce installation time with its plug-and-play set-up, and can help minimize facility downtime by quickly providing intelligent diagnostic and predictive failure information.
Rockwell Automation Inc.
– Edited by Amanda McLeman, Control Engineering, www.controleng.com