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Notes from the 6th Internet, Law and Politics Conference: Cloud Computing: Law and Politics in the Cloud, organized by the Open University of Catalonia, School of Law and Political Science, and held in Barcelona, Spain, on July 7th and 8th, 2010. More notes on this event: idp2010.
Cyber-crime prosecution
Chairs: Blanca Torrubia
Police investigation in the field of cloud computing
Rubèn Mora, head of Technologies of Information Security Department, Mossos d'Esquadra [Catalan national police].
One of the problems of cybercrime in cloud computing might be that the actual regulation does not take into account especific illegal uses of the Internet. Thus, the police has always to catch up with both technology and the law.
On the other hand, in real life we are used to sue (or to complain after) someone whose actions hurt us, but when it happens online we just go and call the police: this is overwhelming for cybercrime prosecutors, as many times it is not their duty or it is not that clear that it is.
Nevertheless, it is understandable that the citizen goes to the police, as many times it is not that clear who is liable for you having been harmed. This ends up with the citizen, in general terms, being less secure in matters of who is liable. In the same way, the police is tied to geographical jurisdictions that are not always the same ones as the ones that affect the one that created the harm.
If that was already a problem in the first year of the Internet, with cloud computing it has been multiplied by orders of magnitude, as cloud computing works in three different layers (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) that make reality much more complex. The creation of Certs has lightened bureaucracies, but their interaction is still slower than crime.
Some cloud computing cyber-crimes: password cracking (PaaS), anonymous transactions (SaaS), phishing hosting (PaaS), botnet renting (IaaS), CAPTCHA resolving (PaaS), credential credit card steal (SaaS), etc.
Francisco Hernández Guerrero, Prosecutor, Granada Prosecutor's Office.
Law has to be practical, efficient. We have very nice laws and guarantees of rights that we never apply. There usually is a trade-off between efficiency and guaranteeing the citizens' rights: the problem is finding the desired balance.
Against cloud computing, nowadays, there is no way to be efficient: prosecutors (police, courts) have no means of being efficient. Thus, should we give up to some guarantees? Cloud computing is about dematerializing everything: and, with dematerialization, the difficulty to trace and monitor. Cloud computing shifts the claim for ownership to availability (e.g. instead of downloading music, having it available through streaming). Cloud computing is also about delocalization: hardware and software are usually not where the user is.
The division of two concepts: the difference between being connected and being communicating. Your mobile phone might be on and connected and exchanging information with other devices, but you might not be communicating — strictly speaking — with anyone. And being so easy becoming a criminal — in full consciousness or unconsciously — the solution is to monitor and put surveillance on anyone.
Main characteristics of cloud computing:
- Economic: money aimed;
- Highly pro;
- Botnet: the infrastructure as system;
- Absolutely unbalanced: the bad guys are much more than the good ones, as the good ones' computers are corrupted by the bad ones, thus becoming part of the crime network.
We definitely have to re-define the law.
- We need a set of measures to enable surveillance of the citizen but distinguishing connection and communication. e.g. RFID-based crime should fall onto the category of data protection, not onto the right of communications.
- Measures (legal and technical) have to be progressive: we have to distinguish an individual uploading photos of their ex-couple in a social networking site, from a terrorist network copying credit cards.
- We need a catalogue of cyber-crimes, especially those characterized as serious.
- And we need independence of the support or the holder of data: we need access to all data from a person wherever they are stored.
The model should, thus, split technicalities from guarantees: the police should lead the investigations, as they have the knowledge and the means; while prosecutors and courts should follow the processes to guarantee their righteousness.
Jordi Vilanova: what is the liability of the owner of an infected device? Hernández Guerrero: Yes, in the same way that you are liable to a certain extent to do the maintenance of your car so that you don't run over anyone, some knowledge of the power of a specific device and its maintenance (e.g. a PC and an anti-virus) should be a requisite and the owner liable for not acting according to that requisite.
Marcel Mateu: Right, we have to change the law. But how many policemen and prosecutors are able to work in the digital age? Mora: the resources of the police often depend on how the citizenry pushes their governments to fight this or that type of crime. If the priority is e.g. gender violence, then cyber-crime is less funded. Hernández: in general terms, agreed that cyber-crimes are not in the political agenda. Surely much of the "cyber-" is just crime done by electronic means, but maybe the politician needs an "e-Pearl Harbor" to realize that the world has changed.
Blanca Torrubia: what is the profile of the cyber-criminal? and what should be required to fight cyber-crime? Mora: the cyber-criminal is increasingly younger as years go by, astonishingly young. And the best way to fight cyber-crime is information and training. There is evidence that cyber-crime over minors drastically decreases if they are being informed and trained on the hazards of specific behaviours on the net.
See also
- Detectar a los 'malos' es más difícil en la nube, by Karma Peiró.
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If you need to cite this article in a formal way (i.e. for bibliographical purposes) I dare suggest:
Peña-López, I. (2010) "6th Internet, Law and Politics Conference (VII). Cyber-crime prosecution" In ICTlogy,
#82, July 2010. Barcelona: ICTlogy.
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Charlize Theron and Sean Penn. They've seen each other every day this year. Last night they went to the movies. Not sure what they saw. But God I'd love to sit behind those two, both Oscar winners (and I think in the same year too) looking up at Leonardo DiCaprio on the screen. Wouldn't you want to hear their thoughts?
Anyway, a trip to Hawaii, NYE, sleepovers at home, then a movie date -- has this changed your assessment as to whether or not it's a casual hookup or a relationship?
Wait. At some point Sean ended up going out for dinner, no sign of Charlize. Not sure that detail matters though. It matters where he ends the night. And if he's been ending the night at hers, with her son asleep in the next room, maybe it's totally bonafides. Maybe Sean Penn is her boyfriend now. That is not a word I associate with him. Ever.

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Quantity queries and Flexbox part 2 | Charlotte Jackson, Front-end developer
This is so great! Charlotte takes two previous ideas she's been writing about (quantity queries and flexbox) and puts them together in a new way.
It took me a while to get around what the nth-child selectors are doing here, but Charlotte does such great job of explaining the CSS that even I could understand it.


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Sarah Jessica Parker is always up for a dramatic gown - you don't land a spot in our Most Glam Hall of Fame for nothing, after all. That said, I think she may have topped herself with the Giambattista Valli haute couture look she wore to the premiere of I Don't Know How She Does It. Yep, ladies, we're looking at a dress with a bright red fashion cape (And potentially an assistant with a wind machine? Unclear.)...
Am I the only fashion dork who thinks this look is a Do? Yes, it's a lotta dress, but I do like the old Hollywood vibe going on here. And it takes a lot of guts to wear a bright red cape to a party so, for that, I just can't hate on this look. But will I be debuting a floor-sweeping cape anytime soon? Not likely. There are some Dos that don't have a place in a regular, non-red carpeted life, ya know?
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In February, I will be accompanied by two New Media Arts students, Joseph "Seph" Turnipseed and Fernando Charley will present as part of the New Media Caucus events being held during the College Arts Association conference in Los Angeles, California. The presentation will include examples of student and artist-in-resident work produced for the Digital Dome @ IAIA. This event will take place on Thursday, February 23 at 8pm at the Glendale Community College Planetarium.
Historically geodesic theaters have been used for exploring the stars in the planetarium. It is not until recent years that these theaters have become capable of presenting digital media. This innovation brings new life to the medium providing artists an endless amount of opportunities for creation. Still the fulldome medium has yet to define itself within the field of fine arts. With over 600 digital domes around the world, the content being produced and shown is primarily science based and primarily intended for a fourth-grade audience. There is now more than every a great opportunity for the new media artist to creative interactive immersive experiences in the dome environment. The Institute of American Indian Arts has quickly become a leader in opening up the spherical theater for artistic exploration.
About New Media Caucus
The New Media Caucus is a non-profit, international membership organization that advances the conceptual and artistic use of digital media. The NMC represents artists whose media are expanding with developments in digital technology, artists working in emerging media such as robotics, virtual reality, interactive and installation environments as well as artists working in established digital areas of video, sound and graphics. By providing forum for the critical review of new media practice, the caucus increases the visibility and presence of new media practitioners.
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Mission Statement
The College Art Association (CAA) promotes the visual arts and their understanding through committed practice and intellectual engagement.
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To realize this vision College Art Association will:
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UAE Job Meltdown
Uncertainty among Indian expats in the UAE is reaching maddening heights as jobs vanish by the day. An average of 1,500 to 2,000 visas are cancelled in the white collar sector every day, according to an analyst with a leading Dubai firm.
Schools are flooded with applications for transfer certificate as families get ready to return home. There would be an exodus to India by March.
Though there are only a total of 3,200 declared job losses by seven companies in Dubai, estimates from market sources put this at 20,000.
Unofficial figures hint at 30,000 white collar jobs lost in the past three months. This is in addition to the tens of thousands of labourers rendered jobless every week.
Sudhir Kumar Azhakath, Partner & Head of Corporate Communications and Public Relations, Morison Menon Chartered Accountants, a leading audit firm in the West Asia, told Express that companies were re-evaluating strategies and restructuring resources to cope up with the global and local challenges.
Most of the companies have stopped giving pink slip figures as it might land them in trouble with the Ministry of Labour.
Emirates NBD (merged entity of Emirates Bank International and National Bank of Dubai) had fired 1,800 employees.
Another 1,700 pink slips are in the pipeline.
This means 32 percent of a total workforce of 11,000 would be jobless in what the company terms 'shedding of extra fat.' Standard Chartered had cut 500, HSBC 250 and ADCB 750.
One major Indian school has a got transfer certificate applications for 900 students till last week, which is 10 percent of the school's student population.
There are more than 10 major Indian schools in Dubai alone.
This is due to various reasons including job loss, high cost of living and tuition fees and high rentals.
The proposal to raise the minimum salary to 10,000 Dirhams for family visa status would make it impossible for a large chunk of expatriates to retain their families in the UAE. A recommendation to this effect has already gone from the Federal National Council to the Federal Government.
Sudhir Kumar warned that by March/April there will be a huge flow of Indian expatriates. "Out of this 70 percent will be Keralites going back for good or deciding to stay alone and send their families for good.
And there are a lot of other expatriates who will also be moving out – Pakistani, Egyptian, Sri Lankan, UK, Germany etc. Recently 70 UK expatriates left their luxury cars in the airport and left the country. And more than 100 expatriates from India and other countries left similarly.
It is officially estimated that Dubai's 2008 population of 1.3 million will come down by 8 percent this year. But according to me it will go down by more than 25 percent."


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Scott Steindorff and Gene Simmons are partnering on a sci-fi version of the ancient tale "Icarus" based on a concept created by Simmons.
Steindorff is producing through his Scott Pictures banner. Logline is under wraps other than it is centered on two characters, one the hunter and the other hunted. Scott Pictures is out to writers.
In Greek mythology, Icarus is the son of the craftsman Daedalus, who creates wings of wax and feathers to escape from Crete. Icarus ignored instructions not to fly too close to the sun, causing him to fall into the sea and drown.
Steindorff is in pre-production on "Jane Got a Gun," starring Natalie Portman and Michael Fassbender, and "The Master and Margarita," slated for production in the fall.
Under Stone Village Pictures, Steindorff's producing credits include "The Lincoln Lawyer," "The Human Stain" and "Love in the Time of Cholera."


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Weekly review: Week ending Nov 29, 2009 (and website redesign!)| weekly
If you're reading this in your feed reader, check out my new site design at https://sachachua.com! =)
It's amazing what you can do with focused time. I created my own website theme, tweaked a number of things that had been bugging me, and tried some optimizations. I'd love to hear what you think about the new theme, and what could make the site even better for you. =) Looking forward to your comments!
Plans from last week:
Catch up on deferred work Interview Jason Wild Present "Remote Presentations That Rock" at IBM women's leadership program Double-check calendar (including speaking engagements)
- Also: Organized training activity
- Documented processes
- Set up community for women's leadership program
- Filed expenses from Boston trip
- Nudged manager
- Take more pictures
Tidy up around house
- Also: Enjoyed watching W- play Quake 4
Work on writing backlog Review editors' feedback
- Bake another pie
- Cut pieces for a coat
- Also: Sent permanent residency paperwork
- Created new website theme that involves more sketches and a grid layout, yay!
- Started learning animation
- Ordered Anime Studio 6 Debut
- Learned more about drawing
- Picked up tons of books from the library
- Looked up paperwork needs
Plans for next week:
- Support training sessions, community
- Interview speaker for podcast
- Talk to various people in the organization about similar initiatives
- Spend more time cooking
- Buy/make gifts
- Tweak blog some more
- Learn more about animation
- Post sketches
- Recover from cold
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The payroll tax cut that boosted paychecks for millions of working Americans over the past two years may be on the brink of extinction.
As Republicans and Democrats search for a plan to avert a fiscal cliff, it's looking more likely that the payroll tax holiday introduced under President Obama in 2010 won't be extended. Should this benefit expire, 125 million households would see their paychecks shrink, the Tax Policy Center estimates.
That's a far bigger slice of the population than the group of Americans who would be affected by proposed income tax hikes. If taxes are raised on incomes exceeding $250,000, roughly 2.8 million households would be impacted. Meanwhile, a mere 368,000 Americans would feel a tax hit if rates rise on incomes above $1 million.
Letting the payroll tax break expire shouldn't come as a big surprise: Obama introduced the payroll tax cut as a temporary measure to stimulate the economy. But nothing is set in stone, and a revival of the tax break -- or some form of it -- isn't out of the question.
Related: Parents await fate of four key tax breaks
If it does expire, the payroll tax rate would revert from 4.2% to 6.2% on the first $113,700 in earnings.
"It would pull money out of peoples' wallets, and for a lot of folks, that really matters," said Roberton Williams, a senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center.
Someone making $100,000 would receive about $167 less in their monthly paycheck -- or $2,000 per year. A $50,000 income earner would see their paycheck drop by $83 a month -- or nearly $1,000 a year if the payroll tax cut expires. And it continues to get smaller, with someone earning $30,000 losing $50 from their monthly paycheck.
While losing $50 a month may seem negligible to some people, it still adds up to $600 a year -- a sum many low-income families can hardly afford to lose.
Related: Tax bite on the rich if rates go up
"The people who are going to feel it the most are people making minimum wage to about $15 an hour, because they're the ones who are just getting by," said John Lieberman, a CPA at Perelson Weiner LLP. "Two percent of someone's income is a lot of money when you're only making $400 a week."
Expecting a raise? If the payroll tax cut isn't extended, a big chunk of your salary hike will likely get wiped out. Since the average raise for 2013 is expected to be 2.9%, roughly two thirds of that increase would be eaten up by the 2% reduction in paychecks due to the expiration of the payroll tax. That means the worker earning $50,000 would be left only $450 better off after receiving a $1,450 raise. Meanwhile, a raise of $2,900 for the $100,000 earner would result in a net benefit of $900.
Businesses are also worried about what this reduction in pay will mean for consumer spending -- and their bottom lines.
"People will spend less, and it will affect the economy," said Lieberman.


text: Announcement of ECL v9.8.1 ========================== ECL stands for Embeddable Common-Lisp. The ECL project aims to produce an implementation of the Common-Lisp language which complies to the ANSI X3J13 definition of the language. The term embeddable refers to the fact that ECL includes a lisp to C compiler, which produces libraries (static or dynamic) that can be called from C programs. Furthermore, ECL can produce standalone executables from your lisp code and can itself be linked to your programs as a shared library. ECL supports the operating systems Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris (at least v. 9), Microsoft Windows and OSX, running on top of the Intel, Sparc, Alpha and PowerPC processors. Porting to other architectures should be rather easy. ECL is currently hosted at Common-Lisp.net and SourceForge. The home page of the project is http://ecls.sourceforge.net, and in it you will find source code releases, a CVS tree and some useful documentation. ECL 9.8.1: ========== * Important notes: - The GMP library had to be patched to build with latest versions of GCC. Since our patch only covers the main header and there might be some corners left, it is recommended to build ECL against a better maintained version of the library, such as MPIR or the versions supplied by your operating system. - ECL now builds properly on a large number of platforms, including Windows with and without Microsoft compilers. However, not always are all the configuration options available or well supported. The fault is not always ECL's, but also the libraries it depends on. Some of these problems are detailed below, some are to be found. As a guide, the minimally supported flags for each platform are those use for the automated testing process http://ecls.sourceforge.net/logs.html * Ports: - The Windows/MSVC port now boots also when built without support for Unicode. - The Windows/mingw32 port builds without threads. For multithreading, the user will have to build version 7.2-alpha2 of the garbage collector manually and build ECL with it. - The NetBSD port builds with default values using the garbage collector in the pkgsrc distribution. - The Solaris port (Intel and Sparc) now builds with the given libraries (GMP and Boehm). * Compiler: - The compiler now understands FFI types :[u]int{8,16,32,64}-t. - The FFI code emitted to convert from a lisp type to :uint or :unsigned-int rejected bignum inputs, even if they were in the range from 0 to UINT_MAX. Similar problem with :int * Visible changes: - New functions ecl_make_[u]int(), ecl_make_[u]long(), ecl_to_[u]int(), ecl_to_[u]long(), ecl_to_bool(), ecl_make_bool(), convert between C types and cl_object. - The C structures ecl_array, ecl_vector, ecl_base_string and ecl_string have changed. Instead of using bitfields for hasfillp and adjustable we now use a single integer field, and handle the bits manually. See the new macros ECL_ADJUSTABLE_ARRAY_P and ECL_ARRAY_HAS_FILL_POINTER_P. - Four new command-line arguments, --encoding, --input-encoding, --output-encoding and --error-encoding, allow the user to change the external formats of the default streams. - For places defined with the simple form of DEFSETF, SETF now produces a simpler expansion, without a surrounding LET* form. - The dynamic FFI is now implemented using libffi. This extends the portability and removes the previous, error prone implementation. - A new function, (SI:SAFE-EVAL form env &optional error-value), can be used to evaluate lisp forms in a safe way. If supplied three values, when an error happens, it returns ERROR-VALUE; otherwise it will invoke a debugger. - Two new functions, ecl_read_from_cstring(s) and ecl_read_from_cstring_safe(s,v) read an object from a C string (char *). The first one is unsafe and will enter a debugger when there is a syntax error. The second one will return V when an error happens. - Modules which are loaded with REQUIRE, but which belong to ECL, are now registered with ASDF and can be used in dependencies. * Bugs fixed: - SI:GET-LIBRARY-PATHNAME did not work properly in Windows. - STEP did not work properly because the bytecompiler introduced an extra opcode after STEPCALL. - --enable-slow-config works again. - EXT:CHDIR was broken when using Unicode. -- Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC c/ Serrano, 113b, Madrid 28006 (Spain) http://juanjose.garciaripoll.googlepages.com


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Democratic super PAC eyes Pennsylvania state races
- Super PAC is suing to overturn Pennsylvania%27s ban on corporate donations to PACs
- The Democratic super PAC is focused on state legislative races
- Republicans control both legislative chambers in Pennsylvania
WASHINGTON — A federal super PAC aligned with Democrats is suing to overturn Pennsylvania's law banning corporate and union contributions to political action committees — the latest sign that deep-pocketed super PACs are gearing up to shape state contests.
In its lawsuit, the General Majority PAC said it plans to get involved in legislative contests in the Keystone State this year and said the state's law is inconsistent with the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision allowing corporate and union spending in elections. That decision helped pave the way for super PACs to raise and spend unlimited amounts to help elect or defeat politicians as long as they operate independently of the candidates they support.
General Majority, previously known as the Fund for Jobs, Growth and Security, last year pumped more than $8 million into New Jersey contests to help Democrats retain control of the state legislature — even as Republican Gov. Chris Christie cruised to re-election.
In Pennsylvania, Republicans control both chambers of the state Legislature, with just a four-seat majority in the Senate. Half of the state Senate's 50 seats are up in November and all 203 seats in the General Assembly.
Organized labor has made Pennsylvania a key target after lawmakers began pushing a measure to end automatic payroll deductions of union dues from public employees' checks.
In all, more than 6,000 legislative seats in 46 states are in play this year, according to the tally by the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Jonathan Levy, super PAC's executive director, said the lawsuit's goal is to clarify how independent expenditures will work in Pennsylvania in the post-Citizens United era. (Many legal experts say states will be forced to allow some form of super PACs as a result of the high court's ruling, and lawsuits such as these are viewed as a step to nudge states to comply with Citizens United.)
In an e-mail, Levy said the group still is looking at states around the country to determine where it will play a role in elections.
General Majority is working "to counteract the bottomless pockets of people like the Koch brothers," Levy said, referring to the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, who have helped finance Republican groups. "Led by our partners from labor, we beat them in New Jersey, and we expect to keep taking the fight to them wherever it's needed."
Republicans also are working to dismantle remaining obstacles to super PACs at the state level.
Last month, a super PAC aligned with Republican Sen. David Vitter, filed a lawsuit challenging Louisiana's cap on contributions to PACs. The super PAC has been established by Vitter's allies to spend unlimited amounts on his 2015 bid for governor.
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Oracle Magazine–Winter 1993
The lead articles in the first Oracle Magazine of 1993 (winter) were about how the Oracle database was being used in the Toronto Stock Exchange and in the Municipio de Panama of Panama City.
Other articles of interest included
- Cary Millsap on the Optimal Flexible Architecture. Was this Cary's first article in Oracle Magazine ? OFA provided a set of guidelines on how to install Oracle so that performance is not affected as your database environment grows. Cary gives 3 basic rules for creating and ODA compliant Oracle database (the full set is in the article).
- Establish and orderly operating system directory structure in which any database file can be stored on any disk resources (applicable to operating systems with hierarchical directory structures only).
- Separate groups of segments with different behavior into different tablespaces.
- Maximize database reliability and performance by separating database components across disk resources
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The Nokia Lumia 928 has made its official debut, bringing Windows Phone 8 and souped-up camera capabilities to Verizon.
It comes as literally no surprise to anyone after Nokia's own adverts pipped the announcement to the post.
The Nokia Lumia 928 pushes Nokia's PureView camera tech, offering image stabilisation that Nokia promises makes the handset top of the low-light shooting pops.
There's a Carl Zeiss lens and xenon flash on board too, which Nokia thinks means "you can leave your digital SLR at home" - we'll reserve judgement til we take a few of our own snaps on it though.
Other nifty features on the Lumia 928 include a 4.5-inch OLED display replete with Gorilla Glass right to the edges of the handset, built-in wireless charging (which requires a peripheral), Nokia Here for mapping and Nokia Music.
The Lumia 928 is running Windows Phone 8 and will run on Verizon's 4G LTE network - it's also rocking a tri-microphone set-up for high quality audio recording up to 140db.
If all that sounds good to you, you can pick the handset up direct from Verizon from May 16 - if you buy it soon as, you'll also get a $25 credit to use in the Windows Phone Marketplace.
No word on the Lumia 928 coming to other countries as yet, nor any inkling on price.


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7th tropical storm of season forms in Atlantic; Gaston follows on heels of powerful EarlBy Mike Baker, AP
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Tropical Storm Gaston forms in the Atlantic
MIAMI — Forecasters say the seventh tropical storm of the season has formed far out in the Atlantic on the heels of Hurricane Earl that's steaming toward the Eastern Seaboard.
Gaston is the fourth tropical storm to form in the last 11 days for a season that has suddenly become busy.
So far Wednesday, the National Hurricane Center has not issued any watches or warnings for Gaston. The storm has sustained winds of 40 mph with higher gusts and is expected to get stronger over the next two days.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
NAGS HEAD, N.C. (AP) — Hurricane Earl steamed toward the Atlantic Seaboard on Wednesday as communities from North Carolina to New England kept a close eye on the forecast, worried that even a slight shift in the storm's predicted offshore track could put millions of people in the most densely populated part of the country in harm's way.
Vacationers along North Carolina's dangerously exposed Outer Banks took advantage of the typical picture-perfect day just before a hurricane arrives to pack their cars and flee inland, cutting short their summer just before Labor Day weekend.
The governors of North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland declared a state of emergency, sea turtle nests on one beach were scooped up and moved to safety, and the crew of the Navy's USS Cole rushed to get home to Norfolk, Va., on Wednesday ahead of the bad weather. The destroyer was supposed to return from a seven-month assignment later this week.
Farther up the East Coast, emergency officials urged people to have disaster plans and supplies ready and weighed whether to order evacuations as they watched the latest maps from the National Hurricane Center — namely, the "cone of uncertainty" showing the broad path the storm could take.
Earl was expected to reach the North Carolina coast late Thursday and wheel to the northeast, staying offshore while making its way up the Eastern Seaboard. But forecasters said it could move in closer, perhaps coming ashore in North Carolina, crossing New York's Long Island and passing over the Boston metropolitan area and Cape Cod.
That could make the difference between modestly wet and blustery weather on the one hand, and dangerous storm surge, heavy rain and hurricane-force winds on the other.
"Everyone is poised and ready to pull the trigger if Earl turns west, but our hope is that this thing goes out to sea and we're all golfing this weekend," said Peter Judge, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency.
As of Wednesday afternoon, Earl was a Category 3 hurricane centered more than 680 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, with winds of 125 mph. Forecasters said it was strengthening and could become a Category 4 later in the day with winds of 131 mph or more.
The only evacuations ordered were on Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands, part of the Outer Banks. Just a light breeze was stirring and there wasn't a cloud in the sky along the Outer Banks — a ribbon of barrier islands a dozen miles or more off the mainland, connected to the rest of the world by a couple of bridges and a ferry. Along the lone highway, hundreds of cars backed up at one of the bridges.
Brittany Grippaldi and her family took advantage of the good weather to pack up their Ford Explorer in Hatteras and head home to New Jersey.
"It's sad because reality hasn't really set in because it is so beautiful out. It's like, 'Oh, I don't want to leave this,' but it's like the calm before the storm," said Grippaldi, who hoped to beat the traffic.
Chuck Costas also wasn't taking any chances, interrupting his two-week vacation to move inland from the cottage he rented on Nags Head. Large waves already crashing ashore uncomfortably close to the home.
"It is what it is," he said. "We have no control over it. If we lose a couple days, it's not a huge loss."
Hurricane warnings were posted for most of the North Carolina coast, with a hurricane watch extending to Delaware.
In Virginia, Gov. Bob McDonnell activated the National Guard and sent 200 troops to the Hampton Roads area on Chesapeake Bay. The area was not expected to get the brunt of Earl, but many remember the surprise fury of Hurricane Isabel, which killed 33 people and did $1.6 billion in damage in September 2003.
"I'd rather be safe and get our troops and state police in place by Thursday night," the governor said.
Emergency officials on Cape Cod braced for their first major storm since Hurricane Bob brought winds of up to 100 mph to coastal New England in August 1991. Marinas encouraged people to take their boats out of the water now instead of waiting for Labor Day.
Associated Press Writers Martha Waggoner and Emery Dalesio in Raleigh; Tom Breen in Morehead City, N.C.; Bruce Smith in Wilmington, N.C.; Jack Jones in Columbia, S.C.; Suzette Laboy in Miami; Bob Lewis in Bristol, Va.; Mark Pratt in Boston; and Bruce Shipkowski in Trenton, N.J., contributed to this report.
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Pale and Proud: High School Senior Organizes 'No Tanning' Pledge [VIDEO]
It's not uncommon for some teens to sign abstinence pledges or pledges vowing not to drink and drive. But at one high school school in Massachusetts, students are promising to abstain from something else entirely: tanning beds.
A recent CDC survey showed that despite the risk of skin cancer, young women are still visiting tanning salons twice a month — and that's something the upperclassmen at Maynard High School in Maynard, Mass. want to change.
Back in February, Allison Bosse, a senior, organized a pledge in which students vowed not to use tanning beds or sunbathe before this year's prom — and it was no easy sell.
"Our school is known for a lot of people tanning," she said. "Kids start in March because they want to be tan in their dresses for prom."
Bosse set up tables in the school cafeteria and began asking her fellow students to take the no-tanning pledge. And she must have been pretty persuasive, because 209 of Maynard's 283 seniors signed on. (Maybe the others just haven't seen the infamous tanning mom yet.)
Dr. Jennifer Stein, an assistant professor of dermatology at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York, applauds the effort, saying, "There's a lot of pressure for teenagers to look tan. It's really important to try to change the way teenagers think about tanning beds."
Watch a news story about the Maynard pledge below.
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LOS ANGELES — Bus and train fares could more than double over the next eight years, under a Metro proposal aimed at plugging a $36 million annual gap that was released late Friday.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority staff released two alternative fare structure proposals, both of which aimed at increasing overall fares in three phases over the next eight years, possibly increasing those fares by as much as 117 percent overall.
One option would boost the base fare from the current $1.50 to $1.75 this year, eventually hiking it to $2.25. Fares for students and the disabled would double, from 55 cents to $1.10.
Day passes would jump from $5 to $9, and a weekly pass would climb from $20 to $32.
The second option would raise the fares to $2.25 during peak hours, but keep the $1.50 base fare during non-peak hours. The peak hour fee would after four years jump to $3.25.
But the current policy of forcing bus riders to pay a separate fee every time they transfer would be eliminated. Metro Chief Executive officer Art Leahy said encouraging free transfers would be a more efficient use of the system, because riders would be able to use transfers to make their trips faster.
More than half of Metro's passengers transfer from one train or bus to another on each one-way trip, Leahy said, meaning savings for many.
The proposed fare system would also allow free round trips if made within 90 minutes, allowing someone to take a bus for a brief visit to a store, and back, for one fare. Passengers would have to employ a reusable TAP card, which costs $1, for such trips because it can keep track of the 90-minute window.
Bus and light rail fares were last raised in 2010 for most passengers.
Members of the Transit Riders' Union assailed the proposals. One, Eric Romann, told the Los Angeles Times the fare increases are "an ongoing civil rights issue."
"The majority of MTA riders are poor and transit-dependent," said union co-chairperson Barbara Lott-Holland in an interview with The Times. "You're asking the poorest of the poor to pay more."
MTA operates 2,228 buses, with about 1.45 million boardings per weekday reported last month. Its rail network includes four light rail lines and two subway lines, with 87 stations.


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Rummy says he takes "full responsibility" for the torture at Abu Ghraib but, bizarrely, isn't resigning. Obviously , therefore, he isn't interested in taking responsibility for stopping it, or the torture at Guantanamo.
Some people will become gradually accustomed to each new outrage, but hopefully most U.S. voters can begin to see that something has gone terribly wrong. And this time, it's the voters' responsibility.
Near the end of series 3 now, having caught up with the episodes as they are shown. Since Season 2 the good guys have often resorted to torture as a last resort in desperate circumstances. But in the real world torture happens out of habit, not purpose.
I wonder whether Palmer will still be president in Season 4. At some point they have to acknowledge that the president is not a virtuous black man and that they are at war in Iraq.


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What a relief. It is, after all, possible to discuss the operations of modern intelligence agencies without having to prove one's patriotism, be turned over by the police, summoned by politicians or visited by state-employed technicians with instructions to smash up one's computers.
The 300-page report into the Guardian's revelations about the US National Security Agency commissioned by President Obama and published this week is wide-ranging, informed and thoughtful. It leaps beyond the timid privacy-versus-national security platitudes which have stifled so much of the debate in the UK. It doesn't blame journalism for dragging the subject into the open: it celebrates it.
The five authors of the report are not hand-wringing liberals. They number one former CIA deputy director; a counter-terrorism adviser to George W Bush and his father; two former White House advisers; and a former dean of the Chicago law school. Not what the British prime minister would call "airy-fairy lah-di-dah" types.
Six months ago the British cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, was in the Guardian's London office telling us there had been "enough" debate on the matter of what intelligence agencies got up to. But here are Obama's experts revelling in the debate; exploring the tensions between privacy and national security, yes – but going much further, discussing cryptology; civil liberties; the right of citizens and governments to be informed; relationships with other countries; and the potential damage that unconstrained espionage can cause to trade, commerce and the digital economy.
Only 10 weeks ago British spy chiefs were doing their best to ventilate their "cease and desist" rhetoric on journalists – implying they had no right to venture into their territory. A distinguished former editor wrote a rather shameful article wholeheartedly agreeing: "If MI5 warns that this is not in the public interest," ran the headline, "who am I to disbelieve them?"
Obama's panel of experts profoundly disagree: "It will not do for the press to be fearful, intimidated or cowed by government officials," they write. "If they are, it is 'We the People' who will suffer. Part of the responsibility of our free press is to ferret out and expose information that government officials would prefer to keep secret when such secrecy is unwarranted."
And so – informed initially by journalism, not by anything that congressional oversight or the courts have brought into the open – Obama's panel set down to write a report which calls for more than 40 changes in the way the NSA collects, stores and analyses information; how it deals more openly with Congress, the courts and the public; and how it relates to tech companies, foreign governments and the internet itself.
The report followed on from two other notable consequences – this week alone – from the reporting of the Guardian and others of material leaked by Edward Snowden.
On Monday, a federal judge ruled that the NSA's intrusions into private lives using "almost-Orwellian technology" were almost certainly unconstitutional. Judge Richard Leon said: "I cannot imagine a more 'indiscriminate' and 'arbitrary invasion' than this systematic and hi-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every single citizen." On Tuesday, Obama met the chief executives of some of the biggest tech companies in the world, alarmed at the potential damage to their companies by the revelations of the extent to which the NSA was exploiting – and even weakening – their platforms and software.
To this litany of intelligence matters brought into the light by dogged journalists (and lawyers – and a tiny number of MPs, including Andrew Tyrie) one could add yesterday's Gibson report, which confirmed there are many troubling questions – much reported on by the Guardian's Ian Cobain – about the rendition and torture of terrorism suspects.
The cabinet secretary could not, in other words, have been more wrong. Far from there having been "enough" debate, the debate has just begun. It has been raging around Europe and much of the rest of the world – in parliaments, the press and among the people.
It is certain that Leon will not be the only judge to be weighing up these matters: there are numerous lawsuits coming down the slipway in the US, Britain and Europe. In Congress there are no fewer than three bills aimed at reforming the scope and behaviour of the NSA, one of them drafted by three members of the senate committee which oversees the intelligence agencies. The author of the Patriot Act, Jim Sensenbrenner, is among those appalled to see the uses to which the agencies put the legislation he designed.
In the UK the picture has been rather different. Westminster, the BBC and much of the press have shown little appetite in examining or discussing the Snowden revelations, a state of affairs that has certainly suited a nervous Whitehall and Downing Street.
But just as the Snowden documents have shown the umbilical links between the US and UK intelligence agencies, so it will be impossible for Congress and Obama to discuss and reform the NSA without it impacting on the workings of GCHQ, MI5 and MI6.
At present everything is being loaded on the plate of the modestly resourced intelligence and security committee, chaired by Sir Malcolm Rifkind. To Rifkind it now falls to complete the investigation into rendition and torture. His committee must, single-handedly, annually audit the £2bn workings of the three UK agencies. And he must also head up his own mini-version of what the Obama review panel has just published. The ISC will, in the course of this, mark its own homework by considering the effectiveness of … the ISC.
In contrast with their American counterparts on the senate oversight committee, not a single member of the ISC has yet murmured any significant disquiet about the existing arrangements for oversight, nor the workings, legal framework or behaviour of the UK agencies. It will be interesting to see if they come up with anything as imaginative as Obama's panel – a special presidential adviser on privacy, for example, or the establishment of a civil liberties and privacy protection board.
This muted debate about our liberties – and the rather obvious attempts to inhibit, if not actually intimidate, newspapers – have puzzled Americans, Europeans and others who were brought up to regard the UK as being the cradle of free speech and an unfettered press. In a 1935 essay, Liberty in England, EM Forster wrote: "The fact that our rulers pretend to like freedom is an advantage." But he also wrote about the "psychological censorship [rather than the exercise of the law] which impairs the human heritage".
It remains to be seen whether Obama endorses his panel's (not especially radical) recommendations. But it is, as I say, a relief to see these things openly discussed.


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