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Blair Witch – 10th Anniversary Screening with Cast & Crew
August 20, 2009 Steve Biodrowski
As part of their annual Festival of Fantasy, Horror & Science Fiction, the American Cinematheque presents a 10th anniversary screening of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT on Thursday, August 20. Co-director Daniel Myrick, actress Heather Donahue, actor Josh Leonard, production designer Ben Rock, producer Robin Cowie and co-producer Mike Monello will be in attendance. Arrivals start at 7:00pm at the Egyptian Theatre courtyard in Hollywood; the screening starts at 7:30pm. Discussion with follow the screening.
Directors Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick struck gold with this low-budget, hand-held tale of some documentarians who come to a bad end while out shooting footage on location for a movie about the legendary Blair Witch. Not a bad film, exactly, but wildly over-rated.
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As we noted last night, in the debate leading up to the President's announcement of administrative immigration relief, most commentators acknowledged that his prosecutorial discretion was not unlimited—that somewhere a line would be crossed from permissible effectuation of enforcement priorities and to an unconstitutional failure to enforce the law. Yet most commentators—especially proponents of the President using his discretion to provide relief to broad categories of unauthorized immigrants—have been reluctant to specify where that line might be. We think this is because the line cannot be drawn with precision using conventional legal analysis. Last night the debate changed with the OLC opinion's decision to draw a sharp line.
The OLC opinion is a fascinating and important legal document, and in our view it reflects a novel conception of the President's enforcement authority. The memo ties the President's use of his prosecutorial discretion directly to "congressional priorities." Again and again, the memo emphasizes the importance of whether a discretionary decision is "consistent with . . . the priorities established by Congress" in the Immigration and Nationality Act. Where the decision to grant relief tracks priorities reflected in the statute, such as keeping intact the families of citizens and lawful permanent residents, it falls within the zone of discretion. But where the relief cannot be linked to statutory provisions, the executive is constrained. This is the reason OLC concluded that providing relief to the parents of DACA recipients would not be lawful.
This approach has considerable appeal in some respects. By tying the exercise of discretion to an inference about congressional intent drawn directly from the INA, the President advances a cooperative conception of the separation of powers and answers critics who claim that he is making policy unmoored from the elaborate statutory scheme that occupies the field of immigration law. While the approach doesn't quite insist that the President's actions be the product of express delegations of authority—the gold standard for a properly constrained executive doing its best to effectuate the law in a world of limited resources—it gets as close to that idea as possible given the statute that exists. In any case, the position departs from an alternative default position that also has some plausibility: arguing that the President's actions have not been expressly prohibited by Congress.
The appeal of this approach is that Congress, not the President, appears to make the tough value judgments. The President simply extracts those underlying value judgments out of the statute through sophisticated legal analysis. The trouble, however, is that we are not sure how true to the actual practice of separation of powers and executive decision-making this congressionally driven approach is. Outside the immigration context, it would be strange to argue that the myriad discretionary decisions made by federal prosecutors and other law enforcement officials are motivated or constrained by a sense of the value judgments Congress has made when enacting the criminal law; to the contrary, prosecutors talk often of the fact that their job is to do justice, not scrutinize the criminal code for answers.
Over the long history of immigration law as formulated by Congress and the Executive together, our sense is that the same pattern has obtained. Numerous past Presidents' exercise of discretionary immigration authority is difficult to describe as consistent with the priorities of the INA as it then existed. In some cases—as with Truman's extension of the Bracero guest worker program in the absence of congressional authorization or Eisenhower's early refugee policies—the executive actions seem closer to the opposite.
Today, this approach confronts a practical, interpretive difficulty. The INA amounts to a massive code that incorporates an accretion of myriad amendments over six decades. Its very structure leaves us skeptical that congressional priorities can be cleanly or coherently identified through a careful, lawyerly exercise of inter-textual fidelity. And the effort to do so moves the argument over executive discretion onto a plane that we think is unlikely to be very fruitful. Does the fact that the INA leaves out a number of ways to preserve family unity mean that additional efforts to protect families are inconsistent with the statute? Or that Congress did not contemplate those additional strategies? This level-of-generality problem is a standard one that arises in all statutory interpretation, and we hasten to say that the existence of the problem is not a reason to reject this approach to discretionary decision-making. But in the specific context of our modern INA, it is a reason that there may be little payoff from such an approach.
Of course, we do think it permissible for the Executive to take the principle of family unity into account when deciding how to allocate its enforcement resources. But not because (and not only if) the decision mirrors what the President determines to be congressional priorities. Instead, we think that the legitimacy of such a decision is the product of two factors: one a feature of our legal system generally, and one a distinctive feature of immigration law.
For the system as a whole, as we indicated above, our belief is that prosecutorial discretion has long entailed the legal authority (and perhaps even the responsibility) of executive branch officials to make difficult value judgments about the exercise of the state's coercive authority. For immigration law in particular, our view is that the structure and history of immigration policy bolster this authority. We will have more to say in future posts about why this is so. But for now we'll just emphasize that the history of the inter-branch interaction in immigration law consists not of the Executive attempting to mold its discretion to fit Congress's objectives, but rather of the Executive testing the limits of legislation in ways that have prompted Congress to react, either to validate the Executive's actions or to create a framework to channel executive action through a set of legislatively defined standards and structures of adjudication. This is the story of the rise of our asylum system and many other aspects of modern immigration law that we have told in other work.
Adam Cox is Professor of Law at NYU School of Law and can be reached at adambcox@nyu.edu. Cristina Rodriguez is Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law at Yale Law School and can be reached at cristina.rodriguez@yale.edu.


Hollywood star Javier Bardem is set star in and produce Sanctuary.
The project is part of a campaign to create the largest protected area on Earth, an Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary.
Award-winning documentary filmmaker, Alvaro Longoria, will direct the film. Javier will provide a voice-over commentary for the film, which also features actor Carlos Bardem. Sanctuary is set up at the Bardem brothers' Pinguin Films and Alvaro Longoria's Morena, one of Spain's most active production houses.
Javier and Carlos Bardem, and Longoria will produce the movie.
Last month, Javier dived 900 feet in a two-man submarine from a Greenpeace boat to the Antarctic Ocean seafloor of the Antarctic Peninsula to discover the colorful Antarctic ocean-bed world of corral and sponges. The documentary will capture the dive, and Greenpeace reels of Antarctic seascapes and marine life.
Sanctuary is however, "not about the messenger, it's about the message, and what we need to do to get that message heard by people who really know how to create change," Bardem said.


If we were to rank words that describe Canada's strategy to tackle opioid abuse and addiction, "ineffective" would serve nicely as No. 1.
How else to characterize our handling of a problem that killed nearly 6,000 Ontarians between 1991-2010, a total researchers from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and St. Michael's Hospital arrived at after sifting through death records from the provincial coroner's office?
So yes, "ineffective" would do just fine. There should probably be a "woefully" in front of it, but that's two words.
After flipping through some internal government briefings, I hereby nominate "disjointed" and "confused" for the silver and bronze medals.
A 2012 briefing note prepared for then-Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq and obtained recently under the Access to Information Act lays bare some of the obstacles we're facing here. Among them: lack of consistent standards for training those who prescribe the drugs, lousy data collection and insufficient resources, and poor monitoring of prescribers and distributors.
Sounds like a good idea. Then you run into the "risks" section.
This isn't the only area where a lack of resources hamstrings the government's ability to monitor how highly addictive drugs move about the country. According to the document, Health Canada receives monthly sales reports of most narcotics and controlled drugs from all licensed dealers in Canada.
It would seem, given all these risks and uncertainties, that some kind of meeting or summit involving all stakeholders is in order in this country. This goes beyond government: addiction doctors and counsellors, who see the effects, dentists, who write a large share of the prescriptions, researchers, who have useable data, and others all have a role to play in crafting a coherent strategy. Only when we have a clear picture of both the problem and the most effective ways of approaching it will we be able to make some headway. The current mishmash simply isn't working.
In fairness to all involved, prescription drug abuse is an extremely complex issue with about a zillion moving parts. In some cases, opioid analgesics are almost certainly the best option for treatment, so they do have an important role to play in medical care.


Workplace Law AssignmentIssue:The legal issue is if XYZ Pty Ltd Can be held responsible for the injuries suffered by Lewis. Lewis a truck driver who drives XYZ truck has been injured at the depot where he attends every day, Monday to Friday, to pick goods for delivery since 2001 after the advertisement they had placed for drivers. The question arises as to if it can be established that XYZ Ltd is liable under the law of Fair Work for the injuries suffered by Lewis. For this reason, it requires being seen if XYZ Ltd had entered into the contract with Lewis either as an employee or as an independent contractor.
This case relates to the benefits and privileges that pertain to an employee that an independent contractor cannot enjoy. Rule:To come to the decision of the liability of XYZ Ltd towards Lewis, first it requires establishing if the company has an obligation towards the safety of Lewis and if it exists it requires establishing if that the company has breached such duty (Winter, 2015). In this regard, the Fair Work Act requires the injuries suffered by the plaintiff in the due course of the business to be compensated by the defendant. Actions in favor of the 'sham contracts' provisions under the Fair Work Act involves all knowing or reckless behaviors that result in denial of workers employment benefits and protection (Champ, 2015).
These provisions are contained in the General protections provision of the Fair Work Act as applied to proceedings against such behaviors, for instance the Fair Work Ombudsman v Quest South Perth Holdings Pty Ltd, the high court made it ruling (Barnes & Lafferty, 2010) in accordance to: Section 357- Relates to misrepresenting employment as independent contracting arrangement:1) A person (the employer) that employs, or proposes to employ, an individual must not represent to the individual that the contract of employment under which the individual is, or would be, employed by the employer is a contract for services under which the individual performs, or would perform, work as an independent contractor.
2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the employer proves that, when the representation was made, the employer:a) Did not know and) Was not reckless as to weather The contract was a contract of employment rather than a contract for services.Section 358- relates to dismissing to engage as the independent contractor.


block) was covered with missing posters. Thousands of posters, spread out up to eight feet above the ground, each featuring a different, smiling, face. I made my way into the huge central room and found my Juilliard buddies.
For two hours we sight-read quartets (with only three people!), and I don't think I will soon forget the grief counselor from the Connecticut State Police who listened the entire time, or the woman who listened only to "Memory" from Cats, crying the whole time. At 7, the other two players had to leave; they had been playing at the Armory since 1 and simply couldn't play any more. I volunteered to stay and play solo, since I had just gotten there.
I soon realized that the evening had just begun for me: a man in fatigues who introduced himself as Sergeant Major asked me if I'd mind playing for his soldiers as they came back from digging through the rubble at Ground Zero. Masseuses had volunteered to give his men massages, he said, and he didn't think anything would be more soothing than getting a massage and listening to violin music at the same time. So at 9:00 p.m., I headed up to the second floor as the first men were arriving. From then until 11:30, I played everything I could do from memory: Bach B Minor Partita, Tchaik. Concerto, Dvorak Concerto, Paganini Caprices 1 and 17, Vivaldi Winter and Spring, Theme from Schindler's List, Tchaik. Melodie, Meditation from Thais, Amazing Grace, My Country 'Tis of Thee, Turkey in the Straw, Bile Them Cabbages Down.
Never have I played for a more grateful audience. Somehow it didn't matter that by the end, my intonation was shot and I had no bow control. I would have lost any competition I was playing in, but it didn't matter. The men would come up the stairs in full gear, remove their helmets, look at me, and smile. At 11:20, I was introduced to Col. Slack, head of the division. After thanking me, he said to his friends, "Boy, today was the toughest day yet. I made the mistake of going back into the pit, and I'll never do that again."
Eager to hear a first-hand account, I asked, "What did you see?" He stopped, swallowed hard, and said, "What you'd expect to see." The Colonel stood there as I played a lengthy rendition of Amazing Grace which he claimed was the best he'd ever heard. By this time it was 11:30, and I didn't think I could play anymore. I asked Sergeant Major if it would be appropriate if I played the National Anthem. He shouted above the chaos of the milling soldiers to call them to attention, and I played the National Anthem as the 300 men of the 69th Division saluted an invisible flag. After shaking a few hands and packing up, I was prepared to leave when one of the privates accosted me and told me the Colonel wanted to see me again.
He took me down to the War Room, but we couldn't find the Colonel, so he gave me a tour of the War Room. It turns out that the division I played for is the Famous Fighting Sixty-Ninth, the most decorated division in the U.S. Army. He pointed out a letter from Abraham Lincoln offering his condolences after the Battle of Antietam...the 69th suffered the most casualties of any division at that historic battle.
Finally, we located the Colonel. After thanking me again, he presented me with the coin of the regiment. "We only give these to someone who's done something special for the 69th," he informed me. He called over the division's historian to tell me the significance of all the symbols on the coin.
As I rode the taxi back to Juilliard...free, of course, since taxi service is free in New York right now...I was numb. Not only was this evening the proudest I've ever felt to be an American, it was my most meaningful as a musician and a person as well. At Juilliard, kids can be critical of each other and competitive. Teachers expect, and in many cases get, technical perfection.
But this wasn't about that. The soldiers didn't care that I had many memory slips I lost count. They didn't care that when I forgot how the second movement of the Tchaik. went, I had to come up with my own insipid improvisation until I somehow (and I still don't know how) got to a cadence. I've never seen a more appreciative audience, and I've never understood so fully what it means to communicate music to other people.
And how did it change me as a person? Let's just say that, next time I want to get into a petty argument about whether Richter or Horowitz was better, I'll remember that when I asked the Colonel to describe the pit formed by the tumbling of the Towers, he couldn't.
Words only go so far, and even music can only go a little further from there.
Am the God of Israel."


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Clara score story rumbles on in Kilkenny
The question surrounding the outcome of the first round senior hurling league match between Clara and Danesfort could be close to a conclusion.
Clara questioned the score recorded by the referee at the finish, which had Danesfort victors by 1-21 to 2-16.
Clara sent a letter to the County Board seeking clarification of the score. They argued the match official got it wrong and the game ended level.
The 'Board sought clarification on the issue from match referee, Owen Kenny (Tullogher-Rosbercon), who confirmed the score as 1-21 to 2-16.
This was conveyed via a letter to Clara. There has been no official response from the club yet.


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At Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business where he teaches challenging courses such as Capital Markets and Futures & Options Markets, Ing-Haw Cheng is known among students for his positivity and ability to artfully explain complex ideas. Even to those without a financial industry background or experience, his patience and pure desire to see students learn stands out among MBAs. Professor Cheng's research contributions to the finance field are varied, ranging from investors' use of financial derivatives to hedge their portfolios to causes of the 2008 financial crisis. He was recently recognized as "Best Discussant" by the Financial Research Association and in 2016, Cheng received the Distinguished Referee Award from The Review of Financial Studies in recognition of his excellence in reviewing research papers within his field. His own research has been highlighted in business and financial industry press including The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times.
"I knew I wanted to be a business school professor when…" I realized that it was a unique opportunity to both push the frontiers of knowledge and help students learn how to use the best of this knowledge in practice.
What are you currently researching and what is the most significant discovery you've made from it? I'm currently researching how investors can use financial derivatives to hedge their portfolios against stock market volatility. My research is quite varied within finance – I'm also researching how consumers who are late on their credit card balances fare when they negotiate with debt collectors. Some of the work I'm most proud of is in researching the causes of the 2008 Great Financial Crisis. There's growing evidence that over optimistic expectations of home prices by homebuyers were a serious contributor to the boom and subsequent bust.
"If I weren't a business school professor…" I'm not even sure!
What do you think makes you stand out as a professor? To be honest, I'm not sure. If I had to guess, I think it's because I genuinely believe that finance has something to offer for everyone. The details can be tricky, but the central concepts in finance are simple and important for people in all walks of life. I try to span this range for my students.
"Eye of the Tiger," for sure. It's cliché, but it pumps me up every time.
Trying to match the energy of both the Tuck students and the professors. The enthusiasm the students bring each year to campus is palpable and inspiring—it keeps you on your toes. Talking every day with my colleagues helps me identify weaknesses in research ideas and improve them. It's a reminder that there is always more to learn.
How exhausted I would be at the end of each day. By the time I hit the hay at night, I am a total zombie.
So many professors have served as great mentors for me over the years. It's hard to pick out one, but I have to say my thesis advisor Wei Xiong at Princeton University. He has an uncanny ability to cut through details and identify the central concept on any topic.
Business school students have great sensibilities. They have experience in the workplace and can sift through what's important and what's not. They remind me of my wonderful former colleagues in management consulting. Hard-working, bright, great at structuring difficult problems and finding creative solutions.
Hitting the limits of my own physical and mental energy. The three C's help: Coffee, Coke, Cookies.
I had a student last year score 100 on my take-home final for my class on financial derivatives. No one had ever scored above 91 before that. The exam is open-notes, open-book, open-anything-short-of-help-from-someone-else; they have a week to complete it. I ask the students to really apply some of the work we've done in class projects to new problems and data. It's hard, but rewarding in its own way.
I'd be hard pressed to think of anything specific. The thing is, a lot of things that might fall under this heading happen because, well, life happens. MBA students are under incredible pressure these days, not only to do well in the classroom, but also to participate in recruiting activities and to extend their professional network. They are constrained with their time and energy, and often need to make rational trade-offs. Part of this job is understanding that.
Demonstrate mastery of the material. A certain fearlessness in asking questions during class when things don't make sense helps too. I respect that a lot. Maybe the material is tricky and the rest of the class is also confused, or maybe I botched the explanation. I try to detect when either of these things have happened, but it certainly helps when a student is willing to raise their hand and say so.
"When it comes to grading, I think students would describe me as …" Fair.
"But I would describe myself as …" Fair. See what I did there?
Fun fact about yourself: I once ate through the Las Vegas 24-hour "Buffet of Buffets." I love a good buffet.
What are your hobbies? I would say cycling, but I've had to put that on the shelf for a while since I have two small children, two and four years old. Now my hobby is to hang out with them and my wonderful wife. I managed to make some time to learn how to ski this past winter so that I can teach my kids later. The Dartmouth Skiway is so convenient and a wonderful place to learn. (In case anyone mistakes me for fit and athletic, note that I am definitely not. Ask my wife.) I enjoy games—board, card, video—and have been thinking about ways to introduce my kids to them later.
How will you spend your summer? My wife and I travel each summer for about a week or so to visit our parents, who love seeing their grandkids. Other than that, we hang out in the Hanover area. We enjoy taking the kids hiking, swimming, and outside a lot. We barbeque on our deck quite a bit.
Favorite place to vacation: I've only done it once, but backpacking for a week through Glacier National Park was probably the best vacation I've ever taken.
Star Trek: The Next Generation. It's a show that explores what it means to be human and several of the moral dilemmas that come with it. In my view, Picard is the GOAT of Star Trek captains.
REM and Radiohead were formative for me. I have a soft spot for Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, and Mariah Carey. Jazz piano, Beethoven symphonies, Bach.
Bucket list item #1: Cycle through the French Alps. Spend some time in Svalbard. Visit the South Pole.
I'm proud of my research. Each project takes years for me (and my co-authors, who are invaluable) to develop and refine through tough, critical feedback. The final product is a project that is intellectually rigorous and helps us understand something important about the real world.
My favorite moments are those when I think I've made a breakthrough in getting across a difficult concept. It's the "aha!" moments that every instructor lives for—they really give you a boost.
Bringing students, professors, and practitioners together in an environment that encourages risk-taking with creative ideas informed by research and data. I'm glad that Tuck has several initiatives to achieve this.
I think we're getting close to a point where many factors are leading business school students everywhere to feel overextended. I'd like to think that in the future, students will have more time to reflect and absorb their experiences during the year.
In many ways, the challenges facing today's business leaders are the timeless challenges that leaders have faced in years past. How do you define a vision that people—employees, customers, investors, other stakeholders—will buy into and deliver on? Many organizational units struggle with answering the simple question: What are we trying to do here? Answering that clearly and rallying people around the resulting vision has always been incredibly difficult. A key difference from the past is that in today's environment technology has amplified both the benefits of being able to achieve this as well as the costs of messing it up.
If I can continue to influence the world through my research and benefit my students through my teaching, I'll call that a win.


No one should face a choice between going to work sick or losing pay.
Treasury Board has proposed a "Go to work sick" plan that would encourage people to come to work sick, passing the germs onto their co-workers or the public they serve.
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Q: is there a spring property to set transaction mode to aspectJ I need transactions for private methods and self referenced method (in a spring boot 2.7.5 application).  for this documentation suggest "mode=aspectj"
Consider the use of AspectJ (see below) if you need to annotate non-public methods.
My problem all documentation about it seems to rely on xml files.
Is there a property to set this mode?
Are there other things besides needed to get @Transactional working on private methods?

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A sting operation in the Democratic Republic of Congo nabs poachers who were trying to sell a young gorilla for $40,000, the fourth such incident this year.
October 12, 2011, 1:09 p.m.
Wild baby gorillas may be increasingly at risk from poachers, say authorities at Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where undercover rangers saved an infant from the black market just last week. It was the fourth rescue of a poached baby gorilla since April, the highest number in a single year on record.
"If four have been caught since April, the question is how many have been missed?" park spokeswoman LuAnne Cadd says in an email to MNN. "How many more are being captured and sold? Are we just getting better at catching them, or has the trafficking increased? We don't have answers for this, but four in seven months is far too many."
The latest rescue introduced the world to Shamavu, a year-old lowland gorilla whose family was likely killed so poachers could take him. Posing as buyers, the Virunga rangers drove eight hours in a hired vehicle to meet the poachers, who demanded $40,000 for Shamavu. Instead, they may get up to 10 years in prison.
That's little solace for Shamavu and his remaining wild relatives, though. According to a statement issued Tuesday by park warden Emmaneul de Merode, recent evidence suggests the gorilla trade is growing. "We are very concerned about a growing market for baby gorillas that is feeding a dangerous trafficking activity in rebel-controlled areas of eastern DRC," he says.
Two other baby lowland gorillas were rescued in April and June of this year, one of which later died. A young mountain gorilla was also confiscated in August, followed by Shamavu last week. Gorillas are in the top category of protected species in the DRC, Cadd says, and the punishment ranges from one to 10 years, depending whether any gorillas were killed. But while such killings are common, they're not easy to prove in court, explains the ranger who led last week's sting operation.
"It's very likely that the mother and other gorillas were killed, because it's very difficult to take a baby gorilla from its family," says Christian Shamavu, the rescuer and namesake of Shamavu the gorilla, in Tuesday's press release. "The poachers will never admit to this, though," he adds, since that would bring stiffer penalties.
"Shamavu" the gorilla poses with Virunga park ranger Christian Shamavu after his rescue.
While tips often lead authorities to poachers, the buyers are much more elusive, Cadd says. It's unclear who they are, although experts suspect "disreputable zoos, or wealthy people who have personal menageries of exotic animals."
Shamavu the gorilla may be safe from poachers and unscrupulous zookeepers, but his troubles are far from over. "Like all the infant gorillas we see immediately after confiscation, he was extremely tense and stressed, holding his legs and arms tight up against his body, and turning his head away when he got too frightened," Jan Ramer of the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project says in the press release. Rescued baby gorillas are often injured from the ropes poachers tie around their hands, feet and waists, and many are also ill, but Shamavu "appears to be quite healthy," Ramer adds.
The MGVP keeps rescued baby gorillas in quarantine for 30 days to conduct health checks, and then typically sends them to nearby gorilla sanctuaries. But Shamavu is also getting 24-hour care because he's "too young and vulnerable to be left alone," according to the VNP's blog. "If you can imagine a human one-and-a-half year old, this baby is in a similar stage of life, and he needs some consistency in care in order to bond and feel safe. He's lost his entire gorilla family and the world that he knew in the forest. It will take some time to adjust."
Virunga National Park "is almost entirely reliant on outside donors, both large and small," Cadd says, and Shamavu has added an extra burden on its limited finances. "We rescued him, but now we need to care for him, something that wasn't in any budget," she says. The park is taking donations to help pay for Shamavu's food, medicine, quarantine and other costs, as well as for broader projects, such as a fund to support widows of fallen rangers and a program to hunt poachers with bloodhounds.
Eastern lowland gorillas, also known as Grauer's gorillas, are listed on the IUCN Red List of endangered species, with fewer than 4,000 individuals left in the wild, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society. That's down from an estimated 17,000 in 1995, largely due to poaching, habitat loss and fragmentation, and years of violent civil war throughout the region.


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Carriera

Giocatore

Club
Viene aggregato alla prima squadra del  nel 1939, all'età di soli 16 anni, anche se di fatto per via della sospensione dei campionati dovuta agli eventi bellici della seconda guerra mondiale, pur giocando in vari tornei sostitutivi dei campionati (nei quali trascorre anche degli estemporanei periodi in prestito a ,  e , tutti della durata di poche partite), fa il suo esordio formale nelle normali competizioni della Football League solamente all'età di 23 anni, nel 1946: la sua prima stagione integrale tra i professionisti, ovvero la 1946-1947, termina con 24 presenze e 8 gol nella prima divisione inglese con la maglia dei Red Devils, con cui l'anno seguente realizza invece 18 reti in 38 partite, vincendo peraltro la FA Cup 1947-1948, competizione in cui gioca anche da titolare nella finale. Infine, nella stagione 1948-1949, nella quale scende tra l'altro in campo nel Charity Shield perso per 3-2 contro l', segna 6 reti in 21 partite (arrivando così ad un bilancio totale di 93 presenze e 35 reti fra tutte le competizioni ufficiali con il Manchester United) per poi nel marzo del 1949 venire ceduto per la cifra all'epoca molto significativa di 24000 sterline al , con cui conclude la stagione 1948-1949 segnando 13 reti in altrettante partite, grazie alle quali i bianconeri arrivano terzi in classifica (con lo stesso numero di punti del Manchester United secondo), all'epoca il loro miglior piazzamento di sempre. Rimane poi ai Rams per ulteriori tre stagioni, terminate con altrettanti piazzamenti a metà classifica, nelle quali segna 10 gol in ogni campionato giocando sempre da titolare (nell'ordine 34, 37 e 41 presenze).

Infine, gioca al Derby County anche nelle prime settimane della stagione 1952-1953, ma dopo una rete in 5 presenze passa al , club di seconda divisione, con cui nella stagione 1953-1954 vince il campionato: per le Foxes è l'inizio di un quadriennio ricco di cambi di categoria, visto che dopo una sola stagione (nella quale Morris va a segno per 8 volte in 37 presenze) arriva una retrocessione in seconda divisione, seguita da un quinto posto in classifica in questa categoria nella stagione 1955-1956 e da un nuovo campionato vinto nella stagione 1956-1957. Morris gioca poi con il club anche nella stagione 1957-1958, nella quale disputa 29 partite e segna un'ultima rete (la numero 85 in 279 presenze nella categoria) in prima divisione.

Termina definitivamente la carriera nel 1962, dopo aver giocato per quattro anni a livello semiprofessionistico prima al  (dove rimane per tre stagioni, ricoprendo anche il ruolo di allenatore del club) e poi al , per una stagione.

In carriera ha totalizzato complessivamente 419 presenze e 109 reti nei campionati della Football League (tutte nelle prime due divisioni).

Nazionale
Ha esordito in nazionale il 18 maggio 1949 in una partita amichevole vinta per 4-1 sul campo della Norvegia, nella quale realizza anche una rete. Scende poi in campo anche nell'amichevole del successivo 22 maggio vinta per 3-1 sul campo della Francia, nella quale realizza una doppietta ed in seguito anche in una terza amichevole, il 21 settembre 1949 a Goodison Park, in cui la sua nazionale perde per 2-0 contro l'Irlanda.

Allenatore
Dopo il già citato triennio al Corby Town ed un'ultima stagione da giocatore (al Kettering Town), riprende ad allenare all'inizio della stagione 1962-1963, alla guida del ; in seguito allena anche Great Harwood ed , lasciando il mondo del calcio al termine della stagione 1968-1969.

Palmarès

Giocatore

Competizioni nazionali

Manchester United: 1947-1948

Leicester City: 1953-1954, 1956-1957

Note

Collegamenti esterni

Calciatori inglesi

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If you take the time portal inside Lavos's shell after you defeat the outer portion in the Black Omen, you'll wind up back at the End of Time, where Gaspar will congratulate you on freeing Zeal. Also, all the villagers who previously commented on the Black Omen will now just talk about the weather instead. Depending upon which period you destroyed the Black Omen in, you may be able to go back and face it again, but all the bosses will be gone except for Zeal herself, and Lavos's outer shell will already be destroyed.
There's not much left at this point aside from fighting Lavos, although you can collect clones and Poyozo dolls for everyone if you want, as mentioned in the last chapter. Keep in mind however, that if this is your first time playing through the game after you beat Lavos, since you went through the Black Omen you'll be able to start a New Game+ carrying over all the old data from your game. A few special items don't carry over, and none of your money carries over, so if you want to save your cash you should probably spend it all on items you can sell. Medina after you defeat Ozzie offers the best rates on items compared to their resale value. When you're ready, fly the Epoch into Lavos, take the bucket at the end of time, or go through another version of the Black Omen to confront Lavos again. The outer shell will be gone, but he has two forms to go.
Laser Beams/Doors of doom open.: Damages your party for about 400 physical damage.
Crystal Explosion: Damages your party for about 100-300 fire damage.
Obstacle: Damages your party for about 100-200 lightning damage, chance to inflict Chaos status no matter what.
Shadow Slay: Damages your party for about 50-100 damage, chance to inflict Poison status no matter what.
Flame Battle: Damages one ally for about 50-100 fire damage.
Shadow Doom Blaze: Damages your party for about 100-400 fire damage.
Evil Emanation/Lavos's Attack Pwr up!: Increases the damage Lavos deals.
Span Death/Arm revives main body...: Heals the body for about 1500 HP.
Protective Seal/Disables Def Status: Reduces an ally's defense and deals about 100 shadow damage as well as voiding status immunity.
Freeze/Stop: Deals about 10 damage to one ally and attempts to inflict the Stop status.
Cutters: Damages an ally for 50-100 damage.
Again with three parts (hands/head), he'll begin the fight with the Laser Beams attack. Take out the arms (right or left) first, then the head. Always heal and remove the chaos affects caused by Obstacle. Not much different than what you've experienced so far.
You'll have the same party for this and the next form, so here's what you need to keep in mind: you'll probably want a strong healer, I prefer someone like Frog or Robo who can heal the whole party although Marle does have Life 2, Cure 2, and Haste. You'll need a strong physical attacker since one of Lavos's forms can only be damaged by physical strikes, Ayla's Triple Kick, Crono's Confuse, and Robo's Uzzi Punch are all decent choices. However, the best way to deal damage by far is powerful triple techs or single techs such as Dark Matter, Luminaire, or Flare. Choose your party however you like, if you're going for all the endings you'll probably end up doing this with every conceivable combination anyway, just make sure you equip the best equipment and have status protection. One last comment is that since a New Game+ is based upon the contents of your save file when you save, there's absolutely no reason not to use all the Megalixers and Elixirs that you want, since this is the point of no return.
This form has three parts, Lavos' left arm, right arm, and body. The body will have too high defense to damage at first, so just use your most powerful magic attacks to damage the left and right arms. The left arm will probably die first, then the right arm, and the body will remove its defense when it casts obstacle. Heal as necessary, its attacks may do in the 500 range in the best case, and keep wearing it down, it'll break apart eventually.
Another cutscene takes place with some dialogue between characters. You'll now do battle with Lavos's final form, surrounded by two bits.
Interestingly, trigger abilities such as Lavos core shuts off defense, Lavos core defense restored! and Time warp... can all be counterattacked by Rage Band or Frenzy Band's effect despite dealing no damage to anything.
Attack: damages one ally for about 100 damage.
Heal: heals Lavos for 1000HP.
Drain MP: steals about 10 MP from one ally and gives it to itself.
Protective Seal: Voids status immunity.
Attack / Will attack with no center bit: a counter attack if you've destroyed the center bit.
Punch: damages one ally for 200-999 damage.
Crying Heavens/Hidden blow: damages one ally for about 200-1600 lightning damage depending on resistance modifiers, magic defense and which character it is. If the person wears a White Vest/Mail, it heals instead!
Time warp...: changes the time period, which changes the background of the fight and is used to determine the super attack used (see below). If you have either the Rage Band or Frenzy Band equipped, you can counter this pseudo-attack.
Spell/Random Status (Leene Square 1000 AD): attacks one ally for 150-300 damage and attempts to inflict a random status ailment.
Evil Star/Reduces HP by 1/2 (Magus's Castle 600 AD): reduces each ally's HP by 1/2.
Dreamless/Ultimate Magic attack (Lab Ruins 2300 AD): deals 100-500 magic damage to your party.
Invading Light/Slow (Mammon Machine 12000 BC): damages the party for 100-200 damage and attempts to inflict Slow.
Grand Stone/Ultimate phys. attack (Hunting Range 65,000,000 BC): damages the party for about 200-900 physical damage.
Prisma Drain: damages one ally for about 100 damage.
Lavos Core shuts of def: removes physical and magical defense. If you have either the Rage Band or Frenzy Band equipped, you can counter this pseudo-attack.
Active Life / Revives the Lavos Bit!/Resurrect: Revives Lavos Pods: brings both the Left Bit and Lavos back to life if dead. Decreases the defense power of the Right Bit.
The Lavos Core's Def pwr restored!: the Right Bit's physical and magic defense increases dramatically. If you have either the Rage Band or Frenzy Band equipped, you can counter this pseudo-attack.
A suggested minimum level for this fight is 45. With a lot of practice, it's not hard to solo Lavos with any character at level 55+.
This battle can be confusing, so you need to understand your enemy before attempting to kill it. It works like this: there are three bits, but the middle bit looks like a humanoid. This is supposed to make you believe that the middle is the main target, but it isn't! In fact, it's the right bit that you need to focus on destroying. Once you kill the right bit, you defeat Lavos. The only problem here is that the right bit's physical and magic defense is maxed at the start of the fight so you will only do 1 damage if you attack it. Also, the left bit constantly heals, while absorbing magic attacks (however it cannot withstand more than a few physical attacks). The center form, Lavos, will use the most powerful magic and physical attacks in the game, which can kill your entire full-HP party in one hit if you're unlucky. The attack used depends on the background, indicating the time period and theme of the attack (see attacks, above, for details).
When one bit goes down, the right bit will shortly lower its defense to charge up "Active Life". This move revives all destroyed bits, but does not heal a surviving bit. After using Active Life, the right bit will use The Lavos Core's Def pwr restored! and its defense will return to maximum, so you have to repeat the process.
In spite of that, this can be an easy battle if you know what to do. Start with the bit on the left. Crono's Confuse, Frog's Leap Slash, Robo's Uzzi Punch, or Ayla's Triple Kick will take it out (or a combination of two). Don't use any magic on it or it will heal. Also, don't worry about the Middle Bit unless you know it's about to unleash an "Ultimate" attack (in which case you'll want to prepare healing). The bit on the right is what you need to destroy. Use all of your most powerful attack once it lowers its defense. One thing to notice is that techniques that are amplified by low HP, such as Frog Squash and Dino Tail, will hit all bits for a lot of damage. Just after reviving a character, such as when he/she has 50 HP, you can deal out about 2000 physical damage.
Lavos can cough up some brutal attacks (both magic and physical), so make sure you have someone who can heal well, or have plenty of MegaElixirs handy in your inventory. Eventually the destroyed bits will be restored. The left bit can heal the middle bit, so destroy it and go back to attacking the right bit.
Once you've destroyed the bit, Lavos will die, the time portal around him will collapse, and you'll see a silhouette of the left bit appear just as you fade away (suggesting it may have survived). Now sit back and enjoy the ending!
After the credits, you have two options to wrap up the game. Check out the endings if you want to see other end results, or get ready to start a New Game + (which may be necessary to reach those endings).
If you challenge Lavos during this chapter, you should get The Main Ending, although you may be able to reach this chapter without Crono as well, in which case you would get The Reunion Ending. There are several variations depending on whether or not you crashed the Epoch into Lavos, spared Magus, and a few minor ones depending on how you completed Fiona's sidequest and how many cats you have. The basic theme of the ending is that Crono and company get honored for their work in saving the past, and have a farewell party. You should also have activated the New Game+ by finishing the game in this chapter, so you can now restart your game with ridiculously powerful characters and try for some of the other endings.
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The Secularization of Martin Luther King Jr.
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 26, 2012 on The Daily Caller website.
At the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington earlier this month, the faithful met to worship the Almighty and discuss the latest battles for religious liberty in an increasingly secular culture.
When the Knights of Columbus' Supreme Knight Carl Anderson spoke, he made a startling observation about the capital's new Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. monument: Even though Dr. King was a Baptist minister and his history-altering speeches about civil liberties are saturated with references to natural rights and profound theological constructs, none of the 14 quotes carefully etched into his stone monument contain references to God.
Mr. Anderson mocked those in authority who were given the difficult task of carefully combing through Rev. King's archives to find a few secular quotations.
In Dr. King's famous "Letter from Birmingham Jail," which is full of religious references, he relied on the Catholic natural law tradition by citing Saint Augustine of Hippo, who said in On Free Choice of the Will that "an unjust law is no law at all." King went on to proclaim he and his peaceful supporters were "in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judeo-Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence."
There is no question about Rev. King's adherence to scripture, and it was his fidelity to religious principles which lead him to a higher calling on this earth. Instead of excusing injustice, King fought oppression and inequality. And while he is no longer with us, his ability to look evil in the face and defend the inherent rights of all men is a model which all true Christians must follow.
So, since Rev. King and religion are inseparable, why are some people so quick to hide Dr. King's religiosity? We would expect this type of careful ideological manipulation of history in the tyrannical states of the former Soviet Union or North Korea, but how does this happen in America?
Sadly, I believe this is another example of how the secular left is winning the culture war. By driving religion out of the public square and re-writing the history books, they are erasing the invaluable role religion has played in our country's history.
As G.K. Chesterton wrote, "Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God." And ironically, by eliminating religion, the secular left is using the force of law to build its own type of warped, unholy church which is highly dogmatic and mandates participation under the threat of force.
Two generations have passed since the Great Society programs of the 1960s chipped away at the traditional family, setting government dependency where social ties and the empowerment of the market once stood. And now, with the Obama administration's openly hostile approach to religion, we have a government forcing members of religious institutions to participate in acts that violate their consciences, such as providing contraception and abortion services. All churches in Obama's America are subservient to the whims of government bureaucrats, who are exercising power far outside the limits of our Constitution.
It was his Christian religion that animated and informed Dr. King. If he were alive today, he would not approve of efforts to change the core of his moral message, nor would he accept the secular forces which have reshaped his image for political reasons.


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UNITED STATES v. Privacy International; Electronic Frontier Foundation; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Amici Supporting Appellant.
UNITED STATES v. Privacy International; Electronic Frontier Foundation; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Amici Supporting Appellant. (2018)
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff–Appellee, v. Robert MCLAMB, Defendant–Appellant, Privacy International; Electronic Frontier Foundation; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Amici Supporting Appellant.
No. 17-4299
Before DUNCAN and THACKER, Circuit Judges, and Max O. COGBURN, United States District Judge for the Western District of North Carolina, sitting by designation. ARGUED: Andrew William Grindrod, OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL PUBLIC DEFENDER, Norfolk, Virginia, for Appellant. Richard Daniel Cooke, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Geremy C. Kamens, Federal Public Defender, OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL PUBLIC DEFENDER, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellant. Dana J. Boente, United States Attorney, Alexandria, Virginia, Elizabeth M. Yusi, Assistant United States Attorney, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Norfolk, Virginia, for Appellee. Scarlet Kim, PRIVACY INTERNATIONAL, London, United Kingdom, James R. Theuer, JAMES R. THEUER, PLLC, Norfolk, Virginia, for Amicus Privacy International. Cindy Cohn, Mark Rumold, Andrew Crocker, ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION, San Francisco, California, for Amicus Electronic Frontier Foundation. Elizabeth Franklin–Best, BLUME FRANKLIN–BEST & YOUNG, LLC, Columbia, South Carolina, for Amicus National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Robert McLamb ("Appellant") challenges the district court's order denying his motion to suppress evidence of child pornography contained on a hard drive recovered at his home. The Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") obtained the evidence in the course of its investigation of a child pornography website called "Playpen," a hidden services message board located on the "dark web." The dark web is a collection of encrypted networks providing strong privacy protections to its users.
After locating and seizing the Playpen servers in February 2015, the FBI sought a warrant to deploy the Network Investigative Technique ("NIT") to locate users accessing the website. The NIT is a computer script designed to overcome the anonymity protections of the dark web and collect identifying information from computers accessing the Playpen website. A federal magistrate judge in the Eastern District of Virginia issued the warrant, authorizing use of the NIT on Playpen visitors for 30 days. The NIT identified thousands of computers across the world that accessed Playpen during the 30–day period. After the NIT identified Appellant as one such visitor, the FBI seized Appellant's hard drive and charged him with receipt and possession of child pornography.
Appellant moved to suppress the evidence on the hard drive as the fruit of an invalid warrant. Appellant challenged the warrant's particularity and its execution, as well as the jurisdiction of the magistrate judge to authorize such a search. The district court denied the motion, and we affirm. Even if the warrant is unconstitutional, the district court properly denied Appellant's motion to suppress because the Leon good faith exception applies.
The Onion Router ("Tor") is an encrypted online network, one of several networks that make up the dark web. Tor uses a series of relay computers to mask the identity of online users. As a result, Tor obscures how, when, and where users access the internet. With such powerful anonymity protections, some use Tor for drug dealing, child pornography, and other nefarious purposes.
Playpen was a message board on the dark web where users could upload or download child pornography. At one time, Playpen had over 158,000 total members and nearly 100,000 posts. In order to access a hidden services website like Playpen, a user must download Tor and enter the site's domain name, a 16–character URL consisting of random letters and numbers. Playpen was not discoverable on the open web, nor could a search engine like Google route users to it. Playpen's welcome page required a visitor to enter a username and password in order to proceed to the message board. On this welcome page, a banner depicted two partially clothed, prepubescent girls with their legs spread apart. The banner was suggestive enough that Playpen's content would be apparent to any visitor of the welcome page.
After receiving a tip, the FBI seized the Playpen server and arrested the administrator of the site. Despite having possession of the server, however, the FBI was unable to locate Playpen users, because by virtue of their use of Tor, the users uploading and downloading child pornography remained anonymous. Therefore, the FBI sought to deploy the NIT to defeat the anonymity protections of the dark web. The NIT works by corrupting the target server, thereby surreptitiously supplementing child pornography data with the NIT script:
[NIT] is installed on the server [of a particular Tor website.] After a user of the [Tor website] takes certain actions, including downloading information from the [NIT infected] server ․ that information is supplemented with the NIT instructions. So the user downloads the NIT to their computer and takes it to their computer, wherever it may be located.
J.A. 137.*
Once delivered and installed to a user's computer, the NIT deploys a "payload" software that searches the user's computer for identifying information: (1) the user's IP address; (2) a unique signature generated by the NIT so that user's activities on the Tor network might be identified; (3) the user's operating system; (4) whether the NIT is already installed on a user's computer; (5) a host name used to identify the device in other kinds of electronic communication; (6) the user's active operating system username; and (7) the user's Media Access Control address, which identifies the location where the user's computer connects to the internet. The NIT then transmits all of that data to the FBI.
Concerned with the legality of the NIT and similar remote access investigative programs, the FBI sought to amend the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure in 2014 to enlarge the scope of magistrate judges' jurisdiction in issuing warrants. However, the rule was not amended until 2016, after the events of this case. At the time of the Playpen investigation, lower courts differed on the permissibility of remote access investigative techniques. Compare United States v. Laurita, No. 8:13-cv-107, 2016 WL 4179365, at *6 (D. Neb. Aug. 5, 2016) ("[Rule 41] authorizes the use of a tracking device and the NIT is analogous to a tracking device."), with In re Warrant to Search a Target Computer at Premises Unknown, 958 F.Supp.2d 753, 757 (S.D. Tex. 2013) (concluding an NIT warrant exceeded the magistrate judge's Rule 41 jurisdiction). No appellate court had addressed the issue. Before applying for the NIT warrant in this case, the FBI consulted with attorneys at the Department of Justice's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section as well as the FBI's Remote Operations Unit.
FBI Agent Douglas Macfarlane ("Agent Macfarlane") authored the affidavit in support of the Playpen NIT warrant. The affidavit outlines Tor, details the content of Playpen, and devotes several pages to describing the mechanics of the NIT. The magistrate judge in the Eastern District of Virginia issued the warrant. The warrant authorized the use of the NIT for 30 days on any user entering a username and password into the Playpen welcome page.
Just over a week after the NIT went into effect, Appellant entered a username and password into the Playpen welcome page and entered the website, thereby triggering the NIT. The FBI obtained a second warrant to physically search Appellant's home and to seize his computer and two hard drives. Appellant was apprehended and found with over 2,700 images and videos of child pornography in his possession. Appellant was charged with four counts of receipt of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(2) and one count of possession of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B). Appellant moved to suppress evidence of the child pornography found on his hard drive as fruit of an invalid warrant. The district court denied the motion. Appellant then entered a conditional guilty plea, reserving his right to appeal the suppression ruling. This timely appeal followed.
In the context of a suppression ruling, we review legal questions de novo. United States v. Castellanos, 716 F.3d 828, 832 (4th Cir. 2013). Appellant challenges the NIT warrant's particularity and execution, as well as the magistrate judge's jurisdiction to issue it. Even if any of these alleged shortcomings amount to a constitutional violation, suppression is not an appropriate remedy if the good faith exception applies under United States v. Leon, 368 U.S. 897 (1984).
Three of our sister circuits have analyzed the same NIT warrant at issue in this case. Each has concluded that even if the NIT warrant violates the Fourth Amendment, the Leon good faith exception precludes suppression of the evidence. See United States v. Horton, 863 F.3d 1041 (8th Cir. 2017); United States v. Levin, 874 F.3d 316 (1st Cir. 2017); United States v. Workman, 863 F.3d 1313 (10th Cir. 2017). We agree.
Suppression is "a judicially created remedy designed to safeguard Fourth Amendment rights generally through its deterrent effect, rather than a personal constitutional right of the party aggrieved." United States v. Leon, 486 U.S. 897, 909 (1984) (quoting United States v. Calandra, 414 U.S. 338, 348, 94 S.Ct. 613, 38 L.Ed.2d 561 (1974)). "[T]he exclusionary rule serves to deter deliberate, reckless, or grossly negligent conduct, or in some circumstances recurring or systemic negligence." Herring v. United States, 555 U.S. 135, 144, 129 S.Ct. 695, 172 L.Ed.2d 496 (2009). Central to the question of suppression is "the culpability of the law enforcement conduct." Id. at 143, 129 S.Ct. 695. "[E]vidence should be suppressed 'only if it can be said that the law enforcement officer had knowledge, or may properly be charged with knowledge, that the search was unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment.' " Illinois v. Krull, 480 U.S. 340, 348–49, 107 S.Ct. 1160, 94 L.Ed.2d 364 (1987) (quoting United States v. Peltier, 422 U.S. 531, 542, 95 S.Ct. 2313, 45 L.Ed.2d 374 (1975)). Suppression "applies only where it 'result[s] in appreciable deterrence.' " Herring, 555 U.S. at 141, 129 S.Ct. 695 (quoting Leon, 468 U.S. at 909).
In Leon, the Supreme Court explained the limits of the good faith exception:
Suppression ․ remains an appropriate remedy if the magistrate or judge in issuing a warrant was misled by information in an affidavit that the affiant knew was false or would have known was false except for his reckless disregard of the truth. The [good faith] exception ․ will also not apply in cases where the issuing magistrate wholly abandoned his judicial role ․ Nor would an officer manifest objective good faith in relying on a warrant based on an affidavit so lacking in indicia of probable cause as to render official belief in its existence entirely unreasonable. Finally, depending on the circumstances of the particular case, a warrant may be so facially deficient ․ that the executing officers cannot reasonably presume it to be valid.
468 U.S. at 923 (citations omitted).
None of these conditions apply here. There is no indication that the magistrate judge "wholly abandoned" its judicial role, or that the affidavit lacked an "indicia of probable cause." Leon, 468 U.S. at 923. Nor did Agent Macfarlane mislead the magistrate judge with falsehoods or reckless disregard of truth. In his affidavit in support of the warrant application, Agent Macfarlane detailed the investigatory difficulties posed by the dark web and devoted several pages to explaining the NIT's mechanism. Although he does not specifically use the term "tracking device" in his affidavit, Agent Macfarlane's detailed description of the NIT was sufficient to inform the magistrate judge of the scope of the warrant sought.
Appellant notes that Agent Macfarlane identified the Eastern District of Virginia as the location of the search, but the NIT actually searched computers all over the world. Agent Macfarlane did so in the warrant application, a preprinted form inviting the affiant to fill in the blanks as to the magisterial district of the search. The location of the Playpen server, the Eastern District of Virginia, was the most sensible single district to identify as the "locat[ion]" of the contraband. J.A. 51. To the extent the form is misleading, Agent Macfarlane cured any ambiguity by informing the magistrate judge that the NIT would cause activating computers "wherever located" to transmit data to the FBI. Id. at 80.
Nor was the warrant so "facially deficient ․ that the executing officers [could not] reasonably presume it to be valid." Leon, 468 U.S. at 923. The boundaries of a magistrate judge's jurisdiction in the context of remote access warrants were unclear at the time of the warrant application. Without judicial precedent for reference, the FBI consulted with attorneys from the Department of Justice Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section. Appellant casts the consultation in a cynical light, arguing that it evidences a guilty conscience. But in light of rapidly developing technology, there will not always be definitive precedent upon which law enforcement can rely when utilizing cutting edge investigative techniques. In such cases, consultation with government attorneys is precisely what Leon's "good faith" expects of law enforcement. We are disinclined to conclude that a warrant is "facially deficient" where the legality of an investigative technique is unclear and law enforcement seeks advice from counsel before applying for the warrant.
Appellant also claims that the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule is categorically inapplicable for warrants exceeding a magistrate judge's jurisdiction. Because such warrants are void from inception, Appellant contends, their execution is the equivalent of a warrantless search. However, as noted, the Supreme Court has held that "the exclusionary rule is designed to deter police misconduct rather than to punish the errors of judges and magistrates." Leon, 468 U.S. at 916. Suppressing evidence merely because it was obtained pursuant to a warrant that reached beyond the boundaries of a magistrate judge's jurisdiction would not, under the facts of this case, produce an "appreciable deterrence" on law enforcement. Id. at 909.
Accordingly, suppression is not appropriate.
For the foregoing reasons, the judgment of the district court is
FOOTNOTE. Citations to the "J.A." refer to the Joint Appendix filed by the parties in this appeal.
THACKER, Circuit Judge:
Affirmed by published opinion. Judge Thacker wrote the opinion, in which Judge Duncan and Judge Cogburn joined.


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The pet passport scheme which is allowing cats and dogs into Britain without having to spend six months in quarantine is to be extended to a further 15 rabies-free islands. The destinations being added to the Passport for Pets scheme includes Australia, New Zealand and Japan.The pet passport scheme which is allowing cats and dogs into Britain without having to spend six months in quarantine is to be extended to a further 15 rabies-free islands. The destinations being added to the Passport for Pets scheme includes Australia, New Zealand and Japan. The United States is not yet included but could be next on the list. Agriculture minister Baroness Hayman said the pilot passport scheme, which was launched on February 28, and covered 22 Western European countries, had been a huge success, with 5,000 pets entering Britain from Europe since that date. The extension to the scheme would not come into force until the end of January next year, but the ministry was giving pet-owners six months' notice because of the extensive preparations required, he said. Pets which are going to travel under the passport scheme have to be given an identity microchip, be vaccinated against rabies, and undergo a blood test by a MAFF-recognised laboratory before being issued with a travelling certificate. The certificate stays valid for six months only, until a rabies booster vaccination is due. Owners also need to arrange for their pets to have a veterinary check-up and tests while away, before they return to Britain. A Ministry of Agriculture spokesman said: "We are announcing the extension early to give pet owners who want to travel further afield time to get ready.
The United States is not yet included but could be next on the list. Agriculture minister Baroness Hayman said the pilot passport scheme, which was launched on February 28, and covered 22 Western European countries, had been a huge success, with 5,000 pets entering Britain from Europe since that date.
The extension to the scheme would not come into force until the end of January next year, but the ministry was giving pet-owners six months' notice because of the extensive preparations required, he said. Pets which are going to travel under the passport scheme have to be given an identity microchip, be vaccinated against rabies, and undergo a blood test by a MAFF-recognised laboratory before being issued with a travelling certificate.
The certificate stays valid for six months only, until a rabies booster vaccination is due. Owners also need to arrange for their pets to have a veterinary check-up and tests while away, before they return to Britain. A Ministry of Agriculture spokesman said: "We are announcing the extension early to give pet owners who want to travel further afield time to get ready.
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — After Pope Benedict XVI officially became pope emeritus, he ate dinner, watched the television news and strolled through the lake-view rooms of the papal villa at Castel Gandolfo.
Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, said he spoke March 1 with Archbishop Georg Ganswein, the retired pope's secretary, who said the mood in the villa after the pontificate ended was "relaxed" and his boss slept well.
After watching two news programs, Pope Benedict expressed his gratitude to the media, because he said the coverage of his last day as pope helped people participate in the event, Father Lombardi said.
The papal secretary said Pope Benedict celebrated Mass at 7 a.m. March 1 as normal, read his breviary, had breakfast and then began reading more of the messages he had received in the last days of his pontificate. He expected to stroll through the villa gardens, praying his rosary, in the afternoon.
Meanwhile, back at the Vatican, officials from the College of Cardinals had a series of tasks to perform at the beginning of the "sede vacante," the period when there is no pope.
The most symbolic tasks were carried out by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the camerlengo or chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church, and his assistants. During the sede vacante, the chamberlain is charged with administering and safeguarding the temporal goods of the church.
Carrying the ferula, he and his aides went into the private papal apartments. They made sure the door to the small private elevator was locked, then stretched tape across the elevator door and stamped it with seals.
Withdrawing from the apartment, they dead-bolted the main door with a large key, then strung a red ribbon through the handles. An aide, using a glue gun, sealed the ribbon's knot.
The next day, Archbishop Pier Luigi Celata, vice chamberlain, went to the seldom-used papal apartments at the Basilica of St. John Lateran, the pope's cathedral, and sealed those as well, Father Lombardi said.
Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals, wrote almost immediately after 8 p.m. to Vatican nuncios and other diplomatic representatives around the world, officially informing them of the sede vacante.
He also asked them to come to the Vatican to begin the pre-conclave meetings, known as general congregations, March 4 at 9:30 a.m.
The general congregations will continue until all the cardinal-electors, including those under 80, are present in Rome, "and then the College of Cardinals will decide the date to enter into conclave" to elect a pope, he said.
Asked whether Cardinal Sodano was saying that a conclave date would not be set until all the cardinal-electors were present or accounted for, Father Lombardi said the letter "does not have the weight of law," but he expected the cardinals would not vote on a conclave date until most of them were present and had time to talk and meet formally.