Did FBI First Request James Risen's Phone Records Using the CAU Program?
In Josh Gerstein's report on DOJ's collection of James Risen's phone and business records, he quotes University of Minnesota law professor Jane Kirtley saying that the government doesn't give reporters notice when it collects telephone or business records on them.
That may be the case in practice. But DOJ policy actually requires that journalists receive notice if their phone records are subpoenaed.
(g) In requesting the Attorney General's authorization for a subpoena for the telephone toll records of members of the news media, the following principles will apply: (1) There should be reasonable ground to believe that a crime has been committed and that the information sought is essential to the successful investigation of that crime. The subpoena should be as narrowly drawn as possible; it should be directed at relevant information regarding a limited subject matter and should cover a reasonably limited time period. In addition, prior to seeking the Attorney General's authorization, the government should have pursued all reasonable alternative investigation steps as required by paragraph (b) of this section.
(2) When there have been negotiations with a member of the news media whose telephone toll records are to be subpoenaed, the member shall be given reasonable and timely notice of the determination of the Attorney General to authorize the subpoena and that the government intends to issue it.
(3) When the telephone toll records of a member of the news media have been subpoenaed without the notice provided for in paragraph (e)(2) of this section, notification of the subpoena shall be given the member of the news media as soon thereafter as it is determined that such notification will no longer pose a clear and substantial threat to the integrity of the investigation. In any event, such notification shall occur within 45 days of any return made pursuant to the subpoena, except that the responsible Assistant Attorney General may authorize delay of notification for no more than an additional 45 days.
(4) Any information obtained as a result of a subpoena issued for telephone toll records shall be closely held so as to prevent disclosure of the information to unauthorized persons or for improper purposes.
From that we should assume that DOJ got the phone records by subpoenaing Sterling's records, not Risen's. But if that's the case, you'd think the government would have just told Risen that when his lawyer asked whether his records had been subpoenaed back in 2008.
In other words, there may be no cause for suspicion, except for the suspicious funkiness on the government's part.
Now, there is one case we know of where DOJ collected information on a reporter's phone records and did not inform him or her. The DOJ Inspector General Report on Exigent Letters describes three cases in which reporters' phone records were collected through the telecom's onsite Communications Analysis Unit. Two of these were collected using exigent letters; in both, the editors (for stories published in both the NYT and WaPo) and the journalist (for an Ellen Nakashima story) were informed the reporters' records had been collected.
The investigative team included two federal prosecutors who appear to belong to a counterintelligence group at DOJ, an AUSA from the jurisdiction in which the grand jury was seated who was rubberstamping records for the investigation, the FBI case agent, and intelligence analysts.
The FBI case agent asked the CAU agent about how to do a phone records subpoena for the leak investigation, and the CAU agent referred the case agent to the telecom analysts at CAU for help with the subpoena. Following a meeting with (I think) an AT&T analyst, the case agent asked that analyst for boilerplate language to make sure the subpoena was "as encompassing as possible." It appears from the report (though this information is highly redacted) that the resultant subpoena may have asked for the community of interest of the suspected leaker's numbers. That is, it appears the subpoena asked for a network analysis of all the people who had directly contacted the target.
One of the two prosecutors used that boilerplate language to write up attachments to the subpoena; the rubberstamp AUSA never saw the attachments. This was the first subpoena the rubberstamp AUSA signed in the case.
The prosecutor that generated the subpoena claims–with an undated document to back up that claim–that the case agent told him the subpoena would not collect phone records for the reporter that–they both knew at the time–had been in phone contact with the suspected leaker. The case agent, however, did not recall such a discussion and claims it was "very unlikely" such a conversation occurred. The implication of this seems to be that the case agent knew full well he'd be getting the reporter's call data.
In talking to a counterintelligence Special Agent, the prosecutor who generated the subpoena learned that such a subpoena could produce the records of reporters; he also learned there was a way to write the subpoena to avoid that from happening. Once he realized that, he had conversations with other DOJ lawyers and supervisors about what to do; they all agreed to seal the records. Though they sealed the records of the case agent and deleted them from his computer, they didn't ask what CAU had done with the records, much less ask the CAU analyst to delete the records.
When the IG learned about all this, they finally checked whether this information got loaded into the investigative database. The target's records were entered into the FBI database; the IG did not find any reporters' information uploaded, though much of the report's discussion on this topic is redacted.
DOJ's Criminal Division informed the Court overseeing the grand jury of the subpoenas and the "corrective actions" taken.
based on the totality of the circumstances, a reasonable Department of Justice official responsible for reviewing and approving such subpoenas would understand the language of the subpoenas to call for the production of the reporters' telephone toll numbers, the subpoenas would be subject to the notification requirement of subsection (g)(3), regardless of the subjective intent of the individuals who prepared them.
The OLC opinion also concluded that the notification requirement would be triggered even if a reporter's toll records were not in fact collected in response to such a subpoena.
Based on the OLC opinion, the Criminal Division concluded that it was not required to notify the reporters because it believed that neither the [the prosecutor who generated the subpoena] nor the case agent understood at the time the subpoenas were issued that the subpoenas called for reporters' records.
Explained they had to use what appears to be a community of interest request to get local calls.
May have told the prosecutor it would not include the known journalist contact of the target.
Denied having told the prosecutor the subpoena wouldn't collect reporter information.
Also note, the IG appears not to have asked the telecom analyst about this at all. And the IG only discovered this issue because the prosecutor was involved in the exigent letters targeted at Ellen Nakashima.
In short, it all stinks.
It all looks like the FBI used their kid-in-a-candy-store-system to collect information they knew to include a reporter's calls, and found a way to deny they did it deliberately that helped them avoid telling the journalist(s) involved. As part of that, they got a last minute OLC opinion while Stephen Bradbury still ran the office (though frankly, I think the OLC opinion would suggest they should have informed the journalists).
Now, there's nothing that affirmatively suggests there's any connection between this reporter subpoena and the Sterling case. But a number of the details suggest it is possible.
The subpoena would have had to have been issued between early 2002, when DOJ first contracted to have the telecom involved onsite, and January 2008, when the telecoms moved out of CAU. If it were indeed a community of interest subpoena, then it would have had to have been issued before early 2007, when the FBI discontinued the program. While we don't know whether the Sterling investigation began after Risen first tried to report the story in April 2003 or after he published his book in January 2006, both would fall in the time frame during which CAU was active.
The investigative team was clearly focused on one target, which would be the case in the Sterling investigation but not–for example–in the warrantless wiretap investigation. In addition, the investigative team knew of at least one reporter who had had contact with the target; given both a 2000 article Risen had written about Sterling and the unsuccessful attempt to publish in 2003 would have alerted the CIA that Risen was in contact with Sterling.
This case is being prosecuted by Senior Litigation Counsel William M. Welch II of the Criminal Division, Trial Attorney Timothy J. Kelly of the Criminal Division's Public Integrity Section and Senior Litigation Counsel James L. Trump of the Eastern District of Virginia. The case was investigated by the FBI's Washington Field Office, with assistance in the arrest from the FBI's St. Louis Field Office.
But we know that wasn't the original team, because Welch and Kelly were investigating PIN matters until that division was disgraced during the Ted Stevens trial.
In other words, while the Sterling investigation would fit, there's utterly no proof that Risen is the journalist in question.
But I am struck by one more detail. As I mentioned, this subpoena had to have been issued no later than January 2008, when the telecoms left CAU. Footnote 129, which refers to a "leak under investigation" seems to suggest the investigation was ongoing in January 2010 when this report was written. And there was an OLC opinion about whether or not to alert the journalist issued on January 15, 2009, in one of those last minutes of cleanup DOJ did before Obama assumed the Presidency.
Now, again, we have no proof, but if it were true, the timing would explain certain details about the investigation, not least why DOJ didn't indict Sterling after their early 2008 subpoena of Risen, but did after their April 2010 subpoena of Risen. After all, until DOJ got that OLC opinion, they would be at risk of having their telecom and (possibly) email evidence challenged. Particularly if Risen had asked, but gotten no answer, about how the government got his phone records. But then after 2009, after new prosecutors took over and any taint was resolved, then the government could go ahead and indict away!
The tie to Risen is, again, all a Wildarsed Guess. But think of the irony if it were true. After all it was Risen's partner Eric Lichtblau who first reported substantively about the community of interest program.
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One more detail that I didn't include bc it would take me another 2 Milbank Units to write up and this is already a week's worth of MUs.
One of the OTHER low-key things revealed in the exigent letters IG report is taht no one can ascertain whether they've eliminated all the tainted fruit in the investigative database from it. That's one fo the reasons why, I think, they needed the OLC opinion before this came out–to make that poisoned fruit retroactively sweet.
So when IG says that none of the reporter data is in the investigative database in 2008, during this investigation, I just don't trust that that means it was never in there.
I'm pretty sure the reason Risen and his attorneys didn't get a response back was because the DOJ had to keep the fiction going that they didn't have his phone number.
On a more serious note, I wonder just how many "informal" OLC opinions the DOJ has squirreled away.
EW, you amaze me more everyday. Just when I think you have covered it, you go back and get the fine dust particles that explain it all.
Like I said earlier this morning on the first posting, I felt all this had to do with DOJ and FBI messing up with their FISA court supoena stuff and really screwed themselves.
Scoop! ZOOM! You did again. I'm telling ya, you need a pulitzer!
the u.s. dept of "justice" is completely out of control.
holder appears incompetent to manage, or a willing accomplice, to many questionable prosecutions.
the reasonable conclusion is that the doj is dancin' to the tune of the whitehouse.
consider the doj's gross prosecutorial overeach in indicting a 78 yr old chemistry professor for " jury tampering" (nytimes?).
this is just vindictive abuse of power by federal prosecutors. the issue "jury nullification" is, naturally, anathema to prosecutors.
i seem to recall it also has a very solid base in the constitution or in common law.
the general idea is that jurors do not have to follow the law or the instructions of the judge if they have some moral qualm about either.
sounds reasonable – to any fair-minded person.
but not to a career-above-all federal prosecutor.
one eric holder lost control of a long time ago.
I thought of one more interesting detail about this.
Risen was told by multiple people that the govt had his call data in 2008 when they were forced to testify before the GJ. Granted, if that were just Sterling and Bill Harlow, that would not be all that concerning. It would be easy for the govt to get both Sterling's and CIA OPA's call records showing a Risen call.
But if it gets much beyond that, then it would be easier to find the stuff via a community of interest including Risen. I wonder if they took OUT any conversations with people who testified?
I had not thought of that. You are remarkable. I'm going to look at this going forward with that in mind.
So, the 'cops' are certain that OJ Sterling handed-off the Flawed-Blueprints Story to Risen – based on the matching bloody glove from Risen's 2000 story and/or the original attempt to publish in 2003 – and then they jump the fence, abusing CAU, to find the bloody sock in Risen's supposedly protected phone records.
I'd say that Sterling and Risen were treated more like 'enemy combatants' than US citizens entitled to the protections of the rule of law.


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FNE at Cannes 2018: Review: The Wild Pear Tree
By Anna Franklin
The Wild Pear Tree, dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
CANNES: Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan is back in competition in Cannes with The Wild Pear Tree four years after winning the Palme d'Or with his Winter Sleep. The film is a coproduction between Turkey, Germany, Bulgaria, Bosnia Herzegovina, Macedonia, Sweden and Qatar although this is no pudding with Ceylan's unmistakable style undiluted by the complexities of a seven country coproduction.
At three hours running time the film has to be visually and verbally meaty to hold the viewer's attention which it manages to do. Ceylan manages to combine layers of meaning with his characters' dialogues that are part of his visual landscape. Ceylan wrote the script together with his collaborator and wife Ebru Ceylan and Akın Aksu who also acts in the film. What makes the film so masterful is that Ceylan combines a serious look at religion, politics and family relationships with a touch that is both light and profund.
The story is shot on Ceylan's home turf as the director hails from the city of Çanakkale and the surrounding region. The core of the story is the relationship between encapsulated by a line Sinan played by Aydin Doğu Demirkol and his father Idris played by Murat Cemcir. Ceylan has made a bold choice both in the casting and the drawing of Sinan because the character is not really very sympathetic. Kudos to Demirkol for having the courage to play this without trying to make himself attractive.
Sinan comes from a modest background and has just returned to his village after finishing his studies at the college in the city of Çanakkale. His father Idris is a teacher in the village who insisted on his son going on the further education despite this clearly not being the norm in the village. Sinan who is obviously a young man of modest talents dreams of being a writer although he has studied to be a teacher and will soon sit his exam to qualify as a teacher.
His mother Asuman played by Bennu Yıldırımlar and sister Yasemin palyed by Asena Keskinci greet his return to the family home casually and ask what good all his books ever did him. They are clearly more interested in watching television soaps than engaging with Sinan who takes up a lazy lifestyle lounging on his bed in his room and reading rather than making any attempt to help out around the house.
His father Idris while warm and kind is a gambling addict who has impoverished his family with this addiction and dreams of a life in the countryside after his retirement. He has a rocky and unproductive patch of farmland that he dreams can be turned into a garden if only the well his has been digging for years will strike water and irrigate the land. He recruits Sinan to come along and help him dig but Sinan is lazy and contributes little to his father's work.
Meanwhile Sinan continues to try to find a way to publish his writing. No publisher is interested unless Sinan can pay for the cost of the publishing himself and without even digging into this project we already know that Sinan is talentless but not ready to accept this. One of the most telling scenes in the film is an extended dialogue between Sinan meets up with an established local author Süleyman played by Serkan Keskin and proceeds to insult the author while at the same time somehow seeking his approval. Süleyman listens patiently for a while then tries to escape but Sinan follows him down the street continuing to undercut his own cause.
Sinan does not respect his father and is angry about the gambling debts Idris has run up but in a moving scene his mother says that she still loves Idris and stands up for him telling Sinan that if it were not for his father he would never had the chance to go on to study to be a teacher. Sinan continues as unsympathetic as ever making off with money from his desperately hard up family to publish his useless writing which nobody wants to read.
In the end it is the love of his father and his father's acceptance of Sinan that is the most moving point in the film.
Ceylan has an enormous visual sense and he shot his early film's himself with his camerawork part of what earned him his international reputation. A Wild Pear Tree was shot by cinematographer Gökhan Tiryaki who delivers the stunning long shots and visuals that Ceylan's fans have come to expect. This is a film destined for festivals and art-house distribution all over the world with Ceylan already having an established following of fans.
Ahlat Agaci / The Wild Pear Tree (Turkey, Germany, Bulgaria, Bosnia Herzegovina, Macedonia, Sweden, Qatar)
Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Coproduction: Zeyno Film (Turkey), Detail (Germany), RFF International (Bulgaria), 2006 D.O.O. (BiH) Sisters & Brother Mitevski (Macedonia), The Chimney Pot (Sweden) Qatar
Supported by Bulgarian National Film Centre www.nfc.bg the Macedonian Film Agency and the Sarajevo Film Fund as well as Eurimages. Produced in partnership with Nu Boyana Film Studios
Cast: Aydin Doğu Demirkol, Murat Cemcir, Bennu Yıldırımlar, Hazar Ergüçlü, Serkan Keskin, Tamer Levent, Akin Aksu, Öner Erkan, Ahmet Rıfat Şungar, Kubilay Tunçer, Kadir Çermik, Özay Fecht, Ercüment Balakoğlu, Asena Keskinci.
Published in Bulgaria
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So just for those of you who missed it, Steam had a holiday sale over the Christmas holidays where they sold the majority of their games catalog at price discounts of up to 75% off.
So while I was settling down to playing my new games, I started to actually ponder the concept of digital distribution a little bit. I was feeling a lot happier and excited about getting and playing these games that I had downloaded, rather than bought from a store and was trying to figure out why.
I guess in its simplest form, it's merely just buying digital content online and downloading it to your hard drive, as opposed to going to a shop and buying the exact same data on a physical form of media. On it's own, this seems pretty uninspiring, so I started to think more about why I was feeling more satisfied about it. Here are some of the reasons I came up with.
Valve's "Meet the Spy" Intentionally Leaked??
I found this yesterday, during the second time I was watching it (pausing every few seconds to 'ooh' and 'aah' at the eye candy of course. 😉 ).
During the opening seconds of the video, when the array of alert panels is revealed to the camera, when viewed in HD, it's possible to clearly make out each one legibly.


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I think the balloon will move forwards. The heavier molecules of air will tend to remain backwards due to inertia of rest. So it will occupy the place of the lighter helium balloon, making the helium balloon go forwards.

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SBU News > Newsroom > Featured Press Story > Ancient Saharan Seaway Illustrates How Earth's Climate and Creatures Can Undergo Extreme Change
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Ancient Saharan Seaway Illustrates How Earth's Climate and Creatures Can Undergo Extreme Change
New AMNH paper provides first reconstructions of some extinct species and a computer-aided map of the seaway
STONY BROOK, NY, July 8, 2019 – A new paper to be published in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History integrates 20 years of research by a diverse scientific team and describes the ancient Trans-Saharan Seaway of Africa that existed 50 to 100 million years ago in the region of the current Sahara Desert. Led by Maureen O'Leary, Professor of Anatomical Sciences at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, the paper is a comprehensive synthesis and contains the first reconstructions of extinct aquatic species in their habitats along the seaway and places in context massive climate and sea level changes that can occur on Earth.
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The region now holding the Sahara Desert was once underwater, in striking contrast to the present-day arid environment. This dramatic difference in climate over time is recorded in the rock and fossil record of West Africa during a time range that extends through the Cretaceous-Paleogene (KPg) boundary. West Africa was bisected by a shallow saltwater body that poured onto continental crust during a time of high global sea level. The Bulletin paper involves an assessment and continued analysis of three expeditions led by Professor O'Leary (1999, 2003, and 2008) within rock exposures in the Sahara Desert in Mali, and subsequently, the laboratory work of the fossil finds in the region.
Illustration of the ancient Saharan Seaway and its animals
Credit: Carl Buell
"Fossils found on the expeditions indicate that the sea supported some of the largest sea snakes and catfish that ever lived, extinct fishes that were giants compared to their modern-day relatives, mollusk-crushing fishes, tropical invertebrates, long-snouted crocodilians, early mammals and mangrove forests," explained Professor O'Leary, who is also a Research Associate in the Division of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History. "Because the seaway changed in size and geography frequently, we propose that it may have resulted in 'islands of water' that stimulated species gigantism."
The paper contains the first reconstructions of ancient relatives of elephants and large apex predators such as sharks, crocodilians and sea snakes.
"With our analysis and new technologies, such as a computer-aided map of the seaway, our work is an important step toward increasing our understanding of the KPg boundary event, the time of non-avian dinosaur extinction," said Professor O'Leary.
She and colleagues point out that the paper places in context climate and sea level changes that can occur on Earth.
For example, scientists currently predict that global warming will result in the sea rising two meters by the end of the 21st century. The study in the Bulletin describes how, in the Late Cretaceous, the time under study, sea level rise far exceeded that which is predicted by human-induced climate change. In the Late Cretaceous sea level was 300m higher than present – 40 percent of current land was underwater, which is very different from today. This information underscores the dynamic nature of Earth.
Stony Brook, NY; Stony Brook University Health Science Center: Dr. Maureen O'Leary, Professor, Department of Anatomical Sciences, Renaissance School of Medicine with a skull of a 65 million-year-old crocodylomorph she found in the Sahara Desert in Mali.
Professor O'Leary explained that scientists do not have detailed stratigraphic terrestrial/nearshore sections with fossils on every continent to examine exactly how the KPg boundary unfolded globally. There is only one good nearshore or terrestrial section with vertebrate fossils in the western United States. The expeditions in Mali, she added, created a new section, which is imperfect, missing some of the earliest Paleogene yet contributes to a better understanding of global events 50 to 100 million years ago.
The expeditions spanning 20 years involved Professor O'Leary and numerous colleagues internationally to excavate the fossils and conduct the research. The collaborative research team consists of paleontologists and geologists from the United States, Australia and Mali.
"Few paleontologists had worked the region, given its remoteness and scorching 125 degree F temperatures. The shifting sand dunes made it difficult to find rocky outcrops, and worse still, a flash rain storm flooded the roadways making navigation nearly impossible," said Leif Tapanila, PhD, Professor Geosciences at Idaho State University and a co-author of the paper. "These expeditions could not have succeeded without the experience of local Malian drivers and guides, and I was amazed by the quality and diversity of marine fossils we found in the Sahara Desert."
The research was funded by the National Science Foundation (SGER Award: 0827993), the National Geographic Society, the LSB Leakey Foundation, the American Museum of Natural History, and Idaho State University.
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Athletics beat Red Sox 5-4 in 10 innings
Josh Dubow, The Associated Press
OAKLAND – After an early flurry of runs, the Oakland Athletics and Boston Red Sox struggled to generate any offense until Kevin Kouzmanoff finally came through.
Kouzmanoff's two-out RBI single capped a wild 10th inning and the Oakland Athletics rallied to beat the Boston Red Sox 5-4 on Tuesday night.
The 10th inning featured a slick double play by Oakland, three Boston pitchers in the bottom half and a pair of ejections before Kouzmanoff drove in the first run since the third.
"It wasn't the best offensive performance," Oakland manager Bob Geren said. "But obviously when the game ended, we had enough to win."
After Coco Crisp was ejected by plate umpire Bob Davidson following a strikeout to lead off the 10th, Daric Barton singled off Ramon Ramirez (0-3). Barton advanced to second when Davidson called a balk on Ramirez.
"I didn't see it," Boston manager Terry Francona said. "He saw something that nobody else in our dugout saw."
The Red Sox then intentionally walked Kurt Suzuki before Dustin Richardson came in and struck out Adam Rosales. Boston pitching coach John Farrell was ejected by Davidson during that at-bat for arguing a checked swing call.
Kouzmanoff then lined a single to right field off Michael Bowden and Barton slid in safely ahead of J.D. Drew's throw home.
"It was up in the zone," Bowden said. "He did what he should have done to it."
Andrew Bailey (1-3) pitched two innings for the win. He was helped by a double play in the 10th when shortstop Cliff Pennington ranged up the middle, flipped the ball to second baseman Mark Ellis, who barehanded it and threw to first to get Bill Hall.
"Two very unflashy players making a play like that. It was a lot of fun," Ellis said. "It was a key moment of the game too."
A's relievers combined for 5 1-3 scoreless innings.
Oakland left-hander Dallas Braden struggled in his first start back from the disabled list and was unable to make it out of the fifth.
That kept him winless in nine starts since throwing a perfect game against Tampa Bay on May 9 – the longest such streak ever after a perfect game, according to research by the Elias Sports Bureau. The previous long was eight winless starts by Mark Buehrle last season.
Braden was replaced after hitting J.D. Drew with a pitch to put runners on first and second with two outs in the fifth. Ross Wolf came on and walked Mike Cameron to load the bases before getting Hall on a groundout.
Braden allowed four runs – one earned – and 10 hits.
"We won," Braden said. "The elbow is not out on the mound. The elbow is on the arm. All signs are positive."
The Red Sox loaded the bases again in the sixth when Wolf intentionally walked David Ortiz with one out. Michael Wuertz made the move pay off when he came in and struck out Kevin Youkilis and got Adrian Beltre on a groundout.
"We didn't get a big hit with two outs," Francona said. "The game started off real well. We didn't tack on. If we tacked on at one point, it would have probably been too much."
With Clay Buchholz set to come off the disabled list Wednesday and Josh Beckett ready to return two days later, Tim Wakefield's spot in Boston's rotation could be in jeopardy. He was unable to hold onto a 4-0 lead, allowing a two-run double to Jack Cust during Oakland's four-run third inning.
Wakefield lasted six innings, allowing three earned runs, three hits and three walks.
The Red Sox took a 4-0 lead after two innings despite having one runner thrown out at the plate and nearly a second caught on the bases. Ortiz was caught at home on a sharp relay from left fielder Rajai Davis to shortstop Cliff Pennington to Suzuki on Youkilis' RBI double in the first inning.
Then with a runner on second and one out in the second, Hall singled to right field. Gabe Gross made a strong throw home, forcing Cameron to stop at third. Suzuki then tried to catch Hall rounding too far past first, but his throw went into right field. Cameron scored and Hall advanced to second on the error.
Two-out RBI doubles by Marco Scutaro and Darnell McDonald increased the damage as Boston got three unearned runs in the second.
NOTES: Crisp snapped an 0-for-18 slump when he doubled in the third inning. … Red Sox INF Jed Lowrie (mononucleosis) joined the team in the Bay Area and could be activated from the DL soon. … Boston C Victor Martinez (left thumb) did some catching drills and took swings from both sides before the game.


Here's my winning entry for the "Josef" category of the Moonlight Gala Video Contest.
"Big Time Operator" was recorded by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, and, I think, suits him so very well.
I love this video. One of my favorite clips is when we first see Josef coming out of the limo. I always loved how he shaded himself from the sun as opposed to Mick who always seemed to cover over his head than at it.
You could not have pick a better subject to work with Lilly (you know that Josef is IT for me)!
Your talent with video never ceases to amaze me, and I certainly hope that you post the links to your other ML vids as well.
Thanks, Carol and Trixie! I think I would give one of my arms for more Josef footage to work with.
As for the rest of the vids -- at least the ones YouTube hasn't pulled down -- I'll get those up as soon as I have an office. I don't want to make too much work for the mods with having to move them.
YT removed some of your videos?!? Heathens!!
You have a point -- legs might be better. I need my hands to make vids!
And, yes, I lost a few vids due to "copyright" issues with the music. Can't really blame the artists, though.
I'm glad you brought this one over here! I love this vid Of course, it is Josef, so what's not to love??
Just thought I'd bump this for its 2 year anniversary.
Oh Lilly this was fabulous, you captures all those great Josef moments what a perfect song for him too. I never did see this first time around but loved it, it was fun to watch. One thing though, I tried to watch it in 720pHD and it was breaking up digitally so I had watch it in the lower quality video mode.
This one and your "You've Got A Friend in Me" are two of my all time favorite Moonlight Vids! I just watched both of them and was grinning ear to ear. Lovely to see them again.
Thank you, moonlightlover60. I find that YouTube can be temperamental with the HD playback. Sometimes I need to pause the video and let it fully buffer before playing. That usually takes care of the glitches.
MLC - thank you so much for your kind words about both videos. I think "You've Got a Friend in Me" was my second video, but it still holds a special place in my heart -- or next to my funny bone. Fielder's choice.
Oh, Lilly--what a pleasure to see this video in Active Topics! I adore it.
Wow! Two years have flown. I love this video and it was great to see it again. This and Who's Your Daddy? are two of my favorites of yours. I'll have to peek in your office again for reviewing.
This is a great vid, and one of the most toe-tapping songs I've ever heard. So perfect for Josef, vamp dynamo.


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The Hawkins - "Silence is a Bomb" Review by David Kiss )
I feel happy, writing these lines, it is the little that makes me feel good, with which it is falling all over the world with the Covid-19, these moments make me feel good, write about music, comfort me and know that with my writings may discover bands that can reach something in the history of music, better than better.
This "Silence Is A Bomb" comes to me The Hawkins, a cover inspired by the first Led Zeppelin album, although different color, but if an air, at least it already looks better than other daily proposals that reach us by email, I put the first theme, turning out to be an intro, the intros are not holy of my devotion, they have not been, nor do I think that at my age they never will be, I move on to the second theme, "Roomer" is a cool theme, punk pop type, they are Note that they are young, but I do not dislike them at all, "Hilow", "Stones" with more groove, rhythms, dark lyrics, crazy choruses that will make you feel very good, but if your age is between 15 and 25 years, those Catchy choruses with perfect vocal harmonies that you will easily remember !!
With a splendid mix of swing, energy and punk'n'roll, The Hawkins offers rock music at its best!
Facts about the band that may interest you, the group has signed The Sign Records and will release their second album "Silence is a Bomb" on September 4, 2020., the four members born in Sweden have shared their musical trips together since they played its first chords. But the band was officially formed in 2013.
For the first four years, The Hawkins stayed on track by releasing EPs and singles while they were playing, from small concerts to some of Scandinavia's biggest festivals, including Sweden Rock Festival, Metallsvenskan, and Peace & Love. They ended 2016 flying to Russia to support the pop / punk act "4 Aprils" on a 10-day tour.
Hawkins' debut album "Ain't Rock N Roll" (released through GAIN / Sony Music) entered the world with a terrific bang in October 2017. The album featured the single "Fuck You All I'm Outta Here" , a powerful song with a strong anti-fascist message that quickly gained momentum on the Swedish rock scene, securing the band's role as one of the country's most promising bands.
To follow the band's successful launch of their debut, The Hawkins started 2018 by taking a 22-day tour of Europe with the Swedish band Corroded. They shook the stage in Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, and Denmark. Since then, The Hawkins has continued to release singles, touring in summer in Eastern Europe, playing countless concerts and touring in and out of their home country, and even brewing their own beer with the catchphrase, "Fuck you all, I'm drinking beer."
If you can find his official video clip "Give It Up", that for me is a great song, enjoy it because it is cool rock and roll! .Enjoy !!!
Review by David Kiss


As Adore Me seeks to gain market share in the lingerie market, the eCommerce retailer plans to open brick-and-mortar stores in the U.S. The company wants to open 200 to 300 locations over the next five years to compete with Victoria's Secret's 1,200 brick-and-mortar stores, The Wall Street Journal reported.
"We don't believe 1,200 is an appropriate number of stores, but there is room for 200 to 300 stores in the U.S.," Adore Me Founder and CEO Morgan Hermand-Waiche told the WSJ.
This year, the Adore Me brand plans to build between seven and 10 stores. New York City will be home to the company's first brick-and-mortar location, which is scheduled to open in the next couple of months. Beyond New York City, the company plans to introduce another 20 stores next year to experiment with foot traffic and then move faster with future store openings. Some of the new locations will be in malls where Victoria's Secret already has locations.
The news comes as another eCommerce retailer, Warby Parker, is expanding its own brick-and-mortar portfolio. The eyeglass retailer is aiming to have approximately 100 stores in the U.S. by the end of 2018, CNBC has reported. Warby Parker currently has 64 stores in markets the retailer carefully chose. The company has also experimented with pop-up stores, mobile stores and other mediums.
After Warby Parker was founded online in 2010, the brand pioneered the strategy of eCommerce retailers opening brick-and-mortar stores. In 2013, it opened the doors of its first store in New York to meet customer demand for a place to try on their glasses.
In the future, Blumenthal said Warby Parker could have 800 to 1,000 physical stores, while another eCommerce retailer, Bonobos, plans to have 100 stores by 2020.


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Q: any tutorials/blogs regarding uploading more than one db images I have exhausting goggle looking for a way to upload more than one db images.
I had a look at
http://www.mikesdotnetting.com/Article/125/ASP.NET-MVC-Uploading-and-Downloading-Files or http://mattias-jakobsson.net/post/2009/11/19/Handling-image-uploads-with-AspNet-Mvc.aspx or http://www.johnpscott.co.uk/devnotes/picpick/default.aspx or http://rusanu.com/2010/12/28/download-and-upload-images-from-sql-server-with-asp-net-mvc/ and so on. I no luck.
Does anyone has a tutorial or recommend a book that demostrate how to upload more than one db images. I am using vs 2010, asp.net mvc3 in C# with SQL Server 2008R2. All I am trying to do is to have couple db images for each product.
Thanks

A: The first link you provided is a good start for what you need.

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*Store all images for a product change....

It shows how to upload multiple files. From this you could modify the table where the images are inserted to add a key for the record relation back to your product.

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*Retrieve all images for a product change...

To pull them back from the database you would call the code in the same article (GetFile), modifying the select statement to include your product key INSTEAD of the ID of the individual image.

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*Display all images for a product change...

This is where it changes quite a bit.  The author of the first article still returns one file as a FileContentResult.  Obviously, this won't work for your situation.
Have a look at this article.  It uses an XML file to load up multiple images BUT you would replace this code with the code in GetFiles to create the Image List.  It shows how to create a controller, model and view for this.  You could create a partial view to have the images on the same page as the product view.
This sample shows how to get an image list out of the DB into a view. (To help with modifying GetFiles to better work for this...)


To ensure effective and continuous use of legume technologies that have been introduced to enhance smallholder farmers' productivity, partners in the N2Africa-Borno phase II project came together in Kano State, Nigeria on 24– 25 May.
Ismail Abass, 47, is a farmer at Baga village in Bumbuli District as well as being the father of seven. He is one of the beneficiaries of the N2Africa project.


For more than 19 years, attorney George Oliver has assisted business and individual clients in cases involving Chapter 11 bankruptcies, workouts and alternatives to bankruptcy, state court receiverships, and litigation. He received an AV Preeminent (4.7/5.0) rating from Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating. He is the winner of Legal Elite's "Young Guns Award" (Best under 40) in NC for 2013, and he is a Specialist in Business Bankruptcy Law.
Mr. Oliver is a frequent presenter for continuing legal education on a wide array of bankruptcy-related topics. He graduated with his law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he graduated with honors. He is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association, the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees, the Eastern NC Inn of Court and the American Bankruptcy Institute.
Prior to opening the firm Oliver & Cheek, PLLC, Mr. Oliver was an associate with the New Bern office of Stubbs & Perdue, P.A., and an associate with the Asheville firm of Elmore, Elmore & Williams. His practice area is primarily eastern North Carolina. His firm is primarily located in New Bern, North Carolina, and also has offices in Raleigh, Wilson, Greenville and Wilmington.


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TOP 5 Kendrick Lamar Features in Songs
By Nick Faber '18
5. 'Fragile' by Tech N9ne, featuring ¡MAYDAY!, Kendall Morgan, & Kendrick Lamar – Two heavy lyrical hitters combine their talents to create a cohesive and powerful banger. Lamar lends his rapid fire style to Tech N9ne.
4. '1Train' by A$AP Rocky, featuring Joey Bada$$, Yelawolf, Danny Brown, Action Bronson, Big K.R.I.T., & Kendrick Lamar – Possibly one of the best songs with multiple lyrical artists, Kendrick provides a gritty contrast to the smooth flows of the rest of the artists featured on this song.
3. 'Goosebumps' by Travis Scott, featuring Kendrick Lamar – Seemingly coming from nowhere as he isn't listed as a feature on the song, Kendrick gracefully morphs Travis Scott's beat into his own as each syllable perfectly flows with the next.
2. 'Forbidden Fruit' by J Cole, featuring Kendrick Lamar – Two of the most important artists of this generation colab to make one of J Cole's best songs on his second album Born Sinner.
1. 'No More Parties in LA' by Kanye West, featuring Kendrick Lamar – Kendrick Lamar collaborated with legend Kanye West on his most recent album The Life of Pablo. Acting as a bridge between 2 generations, Kendrick gave it his all almost as if to impress his counterpart and peer. This clearly shows in his lyrical criss-crossing on West's song.
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The SoundCloud Revolution
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22 countries signed an 'unprecedented' letter condemning China's oppression of Muslims. But none of them come from the Islamic world.
Home | Politics | 22 countries signed an 'unprecedented' letter condemning China's oppression of Muslims. But none of them come from the Islamic world.
22 countries wrote a joint letter on Wednesday condemning Beijing's oppression of the Uighurs, a Muslim minority living in western China.
China has installed an unparalleled 21st century police state in the Xinjiang region, where Uighurs are heavily surveilled and detained en masse.
None of the countries that signed the condemnation were from the Islamic world.
Islamic countries have increasingly shied away from criticizing China over Xinjiang, for reasons including the fear of China's economic vengeance.
22 countries have banded together to condemn China's oppression of its Muslim minority, in what activists called an "unprecedented move." But Muslim countries were conspicuously absent from the statement as the Islamic world continues to turn a blind eye.
In the Wednesday letter, written by UN Human Rights Council member states, the signatories called on China to "refrain from the arbitrary detention and restrictions on freedom of movement of Uighurs, and other Muslim and minority communities in Xinjiang."
Those 22 signatories are: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK.
The US did not sign the letter, having quit the Human Rights Council last …read more
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35 people were injured when an Air Canada flight hit 'severe' turbulence An Air Canada flight from Vancouver to Sydney hit unexpected severe turbulence early Thursday morning, leaving 35 people on board injured. The flight, AC33, diverted to Honolulu, Hawaii. A representative for the airline described the injuries as "minor." Visit Business…
Pop star Denise Ho called for China's removal from the UN Human Rights Council over… Denise Ho, a singer and activist from Hong Kong, spoke before the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday, expressing concerns about China's "tightening grip" on Hong Kong. Hong Kong residents have been protesting a bill that would see people…
"Gehirnwäsche": Schockierender Bericht zeigt, wie China mit Muslimen umgeht Es ist der nächste schockierende Bericht aus der chinesischen Provinz Xinjiang. Die dort lebende muslimische Minderheit der Uiguren wird schon länger unterdrückt. Doch eine neue Untersuchung enthüllt nun: Offenbar nimmt die chinesische Regierung verstärkt Kinder aus ihren Familien. Das tut…
Trump reportedly used Hong Kong as a trade-war bargaining chip with Beijing President Trump hasn't said much about the pro-Democracy protests in Hong Kong. That's because he told Chinese president Xi Jinping that the U.S. would tone down its criticism of Beijing's approach to the demonstrations while the two were in Osaka…
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Rastan Saga features an opening sequence, when the player starts the game, which explains the purpose of Rastan's journey.
Rastan Saga, released as Rastan outside of Japan, is a fantasy-themed hack and slash side-scrolling action game originally released for the arcades in 1987 by Taito and later ported to various platforms. Play Rastan online!
Rastan features five levels of hacking and slashing gameplay with a boss at the end of each level. Numerous enemies assault you on your journey such as flying demons, chimeras, valkyries, piranhas, skeleton undead and more. Fight through to the end and save the land of Lograth from certain doom.
The game features different weapons such as axes, maces and fire swords, each with its own attributes like extended range or attack power. Armour can also be picked up in the forms shields, cloaks and armour, reducing the damage from enemy attacks. Other items include rings (increase the speed of your weapon) and jewelery for bonus points.
You can play Rastan online here, in web browser for free!


Directed by Joel Crawford. With Ryan Reynolds, Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Peter Dinklage. The prehistoric family the Croods are challenged by a rival family the Bettermans, who claim to be better and more evolved.


"Can we go to the haunted house this Hallowe'en", begged Calvin. Dad laughed, "Is there something wrong with this one?"
The best Drabblecast I've heard all year.
I have the strangest feeling I've heard this story before, and it was read by Norm.
Wesley was certain no one was around before whispering to the replicator. "Me, with some fava beans and a nice chianti."
From out of the blue, a swarm of saucers blotted out the sun. Beachgoers would catch some rays today. Martian death rays.
Candles of human fat guttered above the bloody altar. Kylie sighed, "Don't be racist. Use Shub-Africanamericurath."
Concerned about the dearth of genetic diversity in utahraptors, John Hammond issued an amber alert for Jurassic Park.
Will the Drabblecast be updating anytime soon?
Are there problems with not enough subscribers?
The Homo erectus shivered at the shores of Lake Titicaca under the dim light of Uranus. Somewhere, a titmouse tittered.
I enjoyed The Screaming Door and it certainly harkened back to the Drabblecast's olden days when Norm didn't sound like the proper Norm we know and love in 2013.
BTW, not complaining about the policy.
Howdy, I'm surprised that user profile pics are 80x80 and can't be bigger than 6kb.
Would someone recommend how to get a picture to meet these stringent specifications? I've messed with a picture in gimp, resizing and switching file types and it just gets worse and worse and worse.


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Q: After removing selected item from list view, binding doesn't change I'm writing xamarin forms app and I have problem with binding SelectedItem from ListView. Everything is fine until SelectedItem is removing from ObservableCollection. After this operation SelectedItem still contains previous value, but it should be equal null.
Why doesn't it work and how to repair it.
    <ListView ItemsSource="{Binding Clients}" SelectionMode="Single" SelectedItem="{Binding SelectedSocket}">
        <ListView.ItemTemplate>
            <DataTemplate>
                <TextCell Text="{Binding HostEntry.HostName}" />
            </DataTemplate>
        </ListView.ItemTemplate>
    </ListView>

public ObservableCollection<TcpSocket> Clients { get; set; } = new ObservableCollection<TcpSocket>();
private TcpSocket _SelectedSocket { get; set; }
public TcpSocket SelectedSocket
{
    get => _SelectedSocket;
    set
    {
        _SelectedSocket = value;
        PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(nameof(SelectedSocket)));
    }
}

And after click button something like that:
Clients.Remove(SelectedSocket);

A: Manually set the desired property to null after removing it from the collection so the property changed even can be raised.
//...

public void OnClick(object sender, EventArgs e) {
    Clients.Remove(SelectedSocket); //raises collection changed
    SelectedSocket = null; //raises property changed
}

//...


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Human Rights = Public Health With Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Tuesday, October 6, 2020, 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Speaker: Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Moderated by: Guillermo Arduino, Anchor and Correspondent, CNN en Español
The coronavirus pandemic has made clear the disproportionate impact among women, minority groups and impoverished people around the world. Protecting human rights IS a matter of public health. Please join a conversation with Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of Chile, to discuss human rights and public health as fundamental importance to us all during this time and beyond.
Ms. Bachelet will answer questions from Harvard Chan faculty and others. You, too, can send questions in advance to theforum@hsph.harvard.edu or post them to Facebook.
On September 1, 2018 Michelle Bachelet assumed her functions as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights was established in 1993 and Ms. Bachelet is the seventh Commissioner.
Ms. Bachelet was elected President of Chile on two occasions (2006 – 2010 and 2014 – 2018). She was the first female president of Chile. She served as Health Minister (2000-2002) as well as Chile's and Latin America's first female Defense Minister (2002 – 2004).
During her presidential tenures, she promoted the rights of all but particularly those of the most vulnerable. Among her many achievements, education and tax reforms, as well as the creation of the National Institute for Human Rights and the Museum of Memory and Human Rights stand out, as do the establishment of the Ministry of Women and Gender Equality, the adoption of quotas to increase women's political participation, and the approval of Civil Union Act legislation, granting rights to same sex couples and thus, advancing LGBT rights. Since the early 1990s, Ms. Bachelet has worked closely with many international organizations. In 2010 she chaired the Social Protection Floor Advisory Group, a joint International Labor Organization (ILO) and World Health Organization (WHO) initiative, which sought to promote social policies to stimulate economic growth and social cohesion. In 2011, she was named the first Director of UN Women, an organization dedicated to fighting for the rights of women and girls internationally. Economic empowerment and ending violence against women were two of her priorities during her tenure. She has recently pledged to be a Gender Champion, committing to advance gender equality in OHCHR and in international fora. After finishing her second term in March 2018, she was named Chair of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, an alliance of more than 1000 organizations in 192 countries from the sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health communities. As Co-Chair of the High-Level Steering Group for Every Woman Every Child, Ms. Bachelet launched Every Woman Every Child Latin America and the Caribbean, the first platform for tailored, regional implementation of the EWEC Global Strategy. Michelle Bachelet has a Medical Degree in Surgery, with a specialization in Pediatrics and Public Health. She also studied military strategy at Chile's National Academy of Strategy and Policy and at the Inter-American Defense College in the United States.
Guillermo Arduino is a CNN anchor and correspondent. Currently he is the host of Mirador Mundial on CNN en Español and Clix, a tech show on CNN en Español and CNN Latino.
Hosted by The Forum at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University
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Louis XIV, the French ruler who once modestly requested that his subjects call him the Sun King, reputedly liked his food seasoned with soy sauce. Thus the monarch who built Versailles may also deserve to be credited with establishing a Franco-Japanese culinary dialogue that continues to this day.
When the nouvelle cuisine epidemic spread worldwide a few years ago, a few Paris-trained Japanese chefs were counted among its carriers. These men roamed from metropolis to metropolis, revising and lightening classic French sauces and teaching a new, more graceful style of presentation that obviously drew on the artistic themes of the East. But because San Diego has never been in the international gastronomic mainstream, none of these migratory chefs ever sojourned here and the style of cooking they continue to promote has had little impact on this city.
Fortune has smiled more brightly on La Mesa, however, which recently awoke to find itself annexed to the global village by the opening of Kappo, a Franco-Japanese restaurant that ladles some intriguing concoctions from its Occidental-Oriental melting pot.
It is somewhat startling to walk down La Mesa Boulevard and see signs reading "sushi bar" and "French cuisine" posted in adjoining windows of the same establishment. Taken together, these signs seem rather too contradictory to be taken seriously. But this contradiction is resolved in the person of chef-owner Kiyonobu Tanaka, whose fluency in the culinary idioms of both France and Japan is remarkable. Tanaka's interpretations of both cuisines tend more towards the traditional than the nouvelle, an unsurprising fact given that during his 15 years in Paris, he cooked at such temples of the classic haute cuisine as Le Tour d'Argent and Le Grand Vefour.
Some of Tanaka's cooking is stylish indeed. He is not afraid, for example, to prepare dishes at the table, even though most of the practitioners of the nouvelle style (and their followers) have dismissed such cooking as old-fashioned and insincere. To watch him make an order of steak tartare (billed by the menu as both la viande cru and sashimi of beef) can be a joy. With fork and spoon flashing merrily, Tanaka deftly blends lean, freshly ground beef with egg yolk, capers, chopped onion, parsley, Tabasco sauce, olive oil and fine Cognac; the mixture, smoothly textured and suavely flavored, is exquisite when spread on the fresh, hot toast fingers that arrive from the kitchen the moment the tartare is ready.
Raw salmon salad--called, unsurprising, salmon tartare at some nouvelle outposts--also is prepared tableside, but for those who like their raw fish cloaked in more typical Japanese garb, the menu offers a lengthy selection of sushi. The various seafood-and-seasoned-rice tidbits sampled seemed competently made, and all the fish tasted perfectly fresh. Since Tanaka evidently considers the ethnic status of some dishes inviolable, the sushi are arranged on traditional Japanese plates and chopsticks are available to those who dislike using their fingers. In the same mood, French preparations arrive on Western crockery.
The dinners include a semi-Western salad that benefits from the Japanese penchant for decoration but could use some help in terms of flavor; the dressing is entirely too bland. The menu does not offer the day's soup as an alternative but the kitchen seems willing enough to make the substitution, a fortunate circumstance given a recent cream of carrot that had more depth of flavor than so simple a soup could be expected to possess.
It is in the entree department that the marriage of French and Japanese influences most fully asserts itself. Although some dishes remain entirely faithful to their origins, others have been interestingly hybridized by cross-cultural breeding.
La Bouillabaisse Japonais, for example, combines attributes of the classic French fish soup with those of typical Japanese seafood soups; the fact that the finished product arrives in a Japanese-style metal pot, however, is a giveaway that the Oriental influence triumphs in this case. The broth, packed with shrimp and chunks of fish, is quite good, but its seasoning is too timid and restrained for it to be considered a true bouillabaisse.
The filet de bouef cutlet, on the other hand, dresses a Japanese classic with a French sauce, a pairing that works fairly well as long as the diner (like Louis XIV) enjoys brown gravy spiked with soy sauce. The cutlet, a nicely trimmed slice of steak breaded and deep fried in the Japanese kushi method, has a good if mild flavor nicely complemented by the crisp, golden crust. A sauce, as such, does not seem requisite (lemon would do just as well), but Tanaka adds a dark French brown sauce that might taste better were it less infused with soy.
The same sauce, minus the soy, did wonders for one evening's special entree, a serving of beef Stroganoff that Tanaka prepared according to the classic Western recipe. It was the simplest of dishes, really; Tanaka merely grilled a filet mignon and carved it into rare, juicy chunks, which he then arranged around the perimeter of a plate and doused with sauce (this time enriched with mushrooms and onions.) The artfully arranged garnish included a central mound of fragile green noodles, crisp potato balls, little bundles of excellent green beans, and cutouts of wonderfully flaky puff pastry.
The preparation of the whitefish dressed with three kinds of mushrooms also is very French, except that the mushroom garnish happens to include the extremely succulent type grown in Japan. The mushrooms are incorporated into a creamy sauce that seems based on reduced fish stock; this fine sauce gives a pleasant edge to the moist, oven-baked fish.
The dessert list offers ice cream or Tanaka's version of crepes suzette, a once-popular but now passe sweet. Tanaka prepares this dessert tableside, and the results justify the time he spends laboring over the steaming chafing dish. Sugar, butter and Grand Marnier all go into the sauce, which is thickened at the last moment with the addition of egg yolks and milk, so that it deliciously resembles a creme anglaise, or thin custard. A choice of fruit (peaches are quite good with this) and well-made pancakes are the foundation over which this sauce is poured.
The cart preparation and French-inspired dishes may make Kappo sound rather grand and pretentious, but it actually is most informal, quite on the lines of a good neighborhood eatery. Prices also are more in the neighborhood line, and the decidedly brief wine list offers a couple of drinkable and very inexpensive bottles.
8384 La Mesa Blvd., La Mesa.
Dinner served 5 to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday; until 11 p.m. weekends.
Dinner for two, including a modest bottle of wine, tax and tip, $30 to $50.


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Happy birthday to… Karen Evans
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A very happy birthday to… none other then Karen Evans, administrator of the Office of Electronic Government and Information Technology (IT) at the Office of Management and Budget.
Evans has been enormously influential over the years — particularly in this role, which services as the de factor government CIO. And, agree or disagree with her — and I have done both — and while even she acknowledges that she can be a difficult boss sometimes. All of that aside, there is no doubt that she is passionate and dedicated to government service and agency missions. And, as I have grown to know her better personally, she is a very honest and honorable person.
Unfortunately, the biggest event on this date in history… well, this event strikes just a bit too close to home these days — it is the stock market crash of 1929. Any idea the percentage that the market dropped on that day? I'll give you part of the answer — it dropped some 38 points.
Here is the write-up from the public radio's Writer's Almanac…
It's the anniversary of Black Tuesday, which happened in 1929 — the worst stock market crash in the history of the United States. The economy had been so good during the 1920s that people kept speculating in the markets, so stock prices were too high, much higher than the stocks themselves were worth. When they suddenly fell, it was a snowball effect. People had borrowed money to buy stocks, thinking that they could turn around and sell the stocks at a profit, and now they went bankrupt. On Black Tuesday, stock prices fell so fast that by the end of the day many companies couldn't sell their shares at any price.
Black Tuesday was the beginning of the Great Depression. By 1932, more than 100,000 businesses had failed and 13 million people had lost their jobs.
This from Wikipedia:
On Black Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 38 points to 260, a drop of 12.8%. The deluge of selling overwhelmed the ticker tape system that normally gave investors the current prices of their shares. Telephone lines and telegraphs were clogged and were unable to cope. This information vacuum only led to more fear and panic. The technology of the New Era, much celebrated by investors previously, now served to deepen their suffering.
Black Tuesday was a day of chaos. Forced to liquidate their stocks because of margin calls, overextended investors flooded the exchange with sell orders. The glamour stocks of the age saw their values plummet. Across the two days, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 23%.
By the end of the week of November 11, the index stood at 228, a cumulative drop of 40 percent from the September high. The markets rallied in succeeding months but it would be a false recovery that led unsuspecting investors into the worst economic crisis of modern times. The Dow Jones Industrial Average would lose 89% of its value before finally bottoming out in July 1932.
Want to find out more — which Simpsons star was born today… which senator was born today… and earlier we told you about the birthday of one of Charlie's Angels — another "Angel" shares Evans' birthday today… Find out more after the break…
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Happy birthday to… Phil Bond and George Stone
ITAA's Phil Bond
A very happy birthday to ITAA President and CEO Phil Bond. It is also the birthday of my good friend George Stone, who is the features editor at DC Magazine.
We've talked about change a lot in recent months. Bond has overseen a lot of change at ITAA — the merger with GEIA… and a possible merger with EIA… So he has been a very busy person.
So… on this date…
From public radio's Writer's Almanac:
It's the birthday of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, (books by this author) born in Röcken, a village in Prussia (1844). His most famous book is called Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883). Nietzsche is famous for claiming that "God is dead," but what he actually said is, "God is dead … and we have killed him!"
It's the birthday of the poet Virgil, (books by this author) born Publius Vergilius Maro near Mantua, Italy, 70 B.C.E. The government asked Virgil to write a poem persuading Romans who had left the countryside to return home and become farmers again. He wrote The Georgics, a kind of poetic farming manual about grain production, trees, animal husbandry, and beekeeping. The emperor was so impressed that he gave Virgil a generous stipend, and the poet spent the rest of his life working on his epic poem, The Aeneid.
From the Library of Congress's report on this day in history:
World Series Commemoration
On October 15, 1972, Jackie Robinson threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the second game of the World Series commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of his becoming the first African-American to play in modern Major League Baseball. His Major League career began in earnest on April 15, 1947, when played in his first game for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Following his retirement from baseball, Robinson worked as vice president for personnel at Chock Full O' Nuts from 1957 to 1964. He was also active with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In December 1956, the NAACP had recognized Robinson with the Spingarn Medal, which it awards annually for the highest achievement by an African American. Robinson chaired the NAACP's million-dollar Freedom Fund Drive in 1957 and was a member of the board of directors until 1967.
Many other groups also honored Robinson. In July 1962, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference held a testimonial dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. Although SCLC president Martin Luther King was not able to attend, King's speech recognized the positive impact of Robinson's achievements beyond baseball.
Read more — and see photos — here.
In 1951 The situation comedy "I Love Lucy" premiered on CBS.
In 1964, it was announced that Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev had been removed from office. He was succeeded as premier by Alexei N. Kosygin and as Communist Party secretary by Leonid I. Brezhnev
In 1989 Wayne Gretzky of the Los Angeles Kings surpassed Gordie Howe's NHL career scoring record of 1,850 points.
In 1990 Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev was named the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
In 1990 South Africa's Separate Amenities Act, which had barred blacks from public facilities for decades, was scrapped.
In 1991 The Senate narrowly confirmed the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, 52-48.
In 1993 Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to end apartheid in South Africa.
Other birthdays:
84 Lee Iacocca
Former Chrysler chairman
73 Barry McGuire
71 Linda Lavin
Actress ("Alice")
66 Penny Marshall
Actress, director
63 Jim Palmer
Baseball Hall of Famer
62 Richard Carpenter
Singer, musician (The Carpenters)
55 Tito Jackson
Singer (The Jackson Five)
53 Tanya Roberts
49 Sarah Ferguson
Duchess of York
49 Emeril Lagasse
TV chef
39 Dominic West
Actor ("The Wire")
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Happy birthday to… Helen Mosher
Happy birthday to Helen Mosher, who is the New Media Editor for AFCEA's SIGNAL Magazine. She is one of the hardest working "virtual" people I know — and absolutely passionate about innovative ways to use technology… in publishing… in government… She Twitters… she has built AFCEA's Second Life island… she blogs — in fact, she work blogs and she off-work blogs. And she just got married, so… it has been an exciting year for her.
I should note that Signal magazine and I are in talks about me writing a column for their monthly magazine… so there you go — transparency.
Anyway, happy birthday to Mosher.
On this date in history:
* in 1964, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
* 1890, Dwight David Eisenhower, the 34th United States president and highly respected American general, was born.
* in 1968, the first live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7.
* in 1979 Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers scored the first of his National Hockey League record 894 goals in a home game against the Vancouver Cancucks.
It's the birthday of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, born in London in 1644. He was the son of an admiral, and even after he became a Quaker, he continued to wear splendid clothes and to carry his sword to Friends meetings. Read more about Penn on the Library of Congress's 'on this day in history' page.
Also celebrating today:
98 John Wooden
Hall of Fame basketball coach
92 C. Everett Koop
Former surgeon general
81 Roger Moore
70 John Dean
Former White House counsel
69 Ralph Lauren
50 Thomas Dolby
Rock singer, musician
34 Natalie Maines
Country singer (Dixie Chicks)
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Happy birthday to… rising star Steve Ressler
Steve Ressler (photo by Matthew Borkoski)
On this Oct. 13, a big DorobekInsider slice of birthday cake to Steve Ressler.
I mentioned Ressler earlier this year — he was part of the freshman class of FCW's Rising Star award winners. In the years since then, Ressler has become a friend. He is one of those people who just can look at problems in new and innovative ways. (I hate those people! Actually, I LOVE them!) He was one of the co-founders of the Young Government Leaders, and now is the pervayor of the social networking site GovLoop, which is a social networking site for feds. Federal News Radio had Ressler on our mid-day program, InDepth with Francis Rose. You can hear that interview here. [.mp3]
So… happy birthday Ressler.
As public radio's Writer's Almanac reports, it is also the birthday of Margaret Thatcher and Paul Simon.
It's the birthday of the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, born in Grantham, England, in 1925. She said, "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."…
It's the birthday of singer and songwriter Paul Simon, born in Newark, New Jersey, (1941). In 1964, he and his friend Art Garfunkel recorded a folk album, Wednesday Morning, 3 AM. It was a flop, and Paul Simon moved back in with his parents. But without telling Simon and Garfunkel, a producer added electric guitar, bass, and drums to the song "The Sound of Silence" and released it as a single. It went to No. 1 on the pop charts.
It is also the birthday on controversial comedian Lenny Bruce (10/13/1925 – 8/3/1966), who was actually tried on obscenity charges. You can read the NYT's obit of Bruce here.
Other big events on this date in history:
1775 The Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval fleet. (Happy birthday to the Navy!)
1792 The cornerstone of the White House was laid during a ceremony in the District of Columbia.
1960 Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy participated in the third televised debate of the presidential campaign, with Nixon in Hollywood, Calif., and Kennedy in New York.
1974 TV host Ed Sullivan died at age 72.
And, from the government IT world, from the archives of Federal Computer Week, this week back in 1996, nine companies won SEWP II contracts, the Defense Science Board report said the Defense Department need to "move aggressively to outsource most DOD support activities" — and one of the attractive early candidates were data centers. And this week in 1996, VA rolled out its then new Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VISTA) system. VistA is now used across VA hospitals… and, I believe, is even used by some commercial hospitals.
And… happy birthday to Steve!
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DorobekInsider: Happy birthday Steve Krauss
Steve Krauss (photo by Matthew Borkoski)
A very happy birthday to Steve Krauss — one of the government community's rising stars… literally. Krauss was in FCW's inaugural year of the Rising Star awards and he was one of the people who helped me get the Rising Star awards going. He is works with AFCEA's Bethesda, MD chapter and is a past president of Bethesda's Young AFCEANs. Like Steve Ressler, who I mentioned previously, he's a doer.
UPDATE: I got a note that Krauss is the president-elect of the Bethesda AFCEA chapter.
Important events on this date:
* 1950 The comic strip "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schulz was first published.
* 1869 Political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India. (10/2/1869 – 1/30/1948). (Read the NYT obit of Gandhi from 1948 here.)
* 1890 Comedian Groucho Marx (10/2/1890 – 8/19/1977) was born in New York.
So Kruass shares his birthday with:
* Sting (57)
* Singer/songwriter Don McLean (63) — "American Pie";
* Mike Rutherford (58), from Genesis
* Annie Leibovitz (59), the celeberity photographer. (Her most recent book can be found here.)
* Kelly Ripa (38), the actress and talk show host ("Live with Regis and Kelly")
* And, for those American Idol fans… Mandisa (32) (Here American Idol page is here… When does Idol start again?)
Other historical figures born on this date:
* Bud Abbott (10/2/1897 – 4/24/1974), one half of the Abbott and Costello comedy team. ("Whose on first" is still hystically funny!)
* England's King Richard III (10/2/1452 – 8/22/1485)
* and… Nat Turner (10/2/1800 – 11/11/1831), American slave hanged for leading violent slave uprising
Happy birthday Steve.
And… Who is on first?
DorobekInsider: Happy birthday to Washington Technology's Nick Wakeman
A happy birthday to Nick Wakeman, the editor in chief of Washington Technology.
Nick has had a very exciting year — welcoming the newest Wakeman into the world.
It was this week in 1066 that William the Conqueror of Normandy first arrived on British soil. (Read more here.)
In 1896, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the famed American novelist of the Jazz Age, was born.
1755… John Marshall, (9/24/1755 – 7/6/1835), the fourth chief justice of the United States, was born in Germantown, Virginia. Marshall also served as a congressman and as Secretary of State.
1789… Congress passed the First Judiciary Act, which provided for an attorney general and a Supreme Court.
1869… Financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk tried to corner the gold market, sending Wall Street into a panic and leaving thousands of investors in financial ruin.
1960… The USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched at Newport News, Va.
1968… "60 Minutes" premiered on CBS.
Other people born on this date:
* Joseph Kennedy II, former U.S. representative, D-Mass., turns 56
And some people born on this date in history:
* Jim Henson (Sept. 24, 1936 – May, 16, 1990), the American puppeteer; creator of the Muppets
* Stephen Bechtel (9/24/1900 – 3/14/1989), the American construction engineer; founded Bechtel Corp.
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Happy birthday to OMB's Tim Young
It is Tim Young's birthday today.
Until recently, Young was deputy administrator for e-government and information technology. That job has since been made a career appointment being filled by Mike Howell, who came to the post from the Interior Department, where he had been serving as the CIO. Young is still at OMB — although we hear he is looking for a private sector job.
So on this date in history:
* In 1792, The French National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy.
* In 1937, "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien was published.
* In 1970, "NFL Monday Night Football" debuted on ABC.
Young shares this birthday with:
* JR Ewing actor Larry Hagman (77-years-old)
* Former CIA director James Woolsey (67)
* Author Stephen King (61)
* Actor Bill Murray (58)
* and singer Faith Hill (41)
Historical figures born on this date:
* American statesman Henry Stimson (9/21/1867 – 10/20/1950… You can actually read the NYT obit of Stimson.)
* Science fiction writer H.G. Welles (9/21/1866 – 8/13/1946… read more about Welles on PRI's Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keilor.)
Happy birthday to Tim!
DorobekInsider.com: A happy birthday to… Charlie Church
Church most recently was the CIO for the Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection (IAIP) Directorate of the Homeland Security Department. In March, he joined Affiliated Computer Services Inc. as VP of homeland security and defense.
Happy birthday Charlie.
DorobekInsider.com: Happy birthday to them this weekend…
Celebrating birthdays this weekend…
Barry West, the former Commerce Department CIO who is now an executive vice president at Strategic Enterprise Solutions Inc. (SE Solutions) celebrates on Friday.
Carlton Jones, who most recently was lead Multimax before it was acquired by Harris last year, has joined the integrator Indus, parties on Sunday.
Sally Turner of CGI-AMS, parties on Sunday.
Happy birthday to them all.
If you know of birthdays that deserve recognition, let us know at cdorobek at gmail.com.


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