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Records and testimony show police officials in Memphis more recently watched Black Lives Matter, a social movement formed in response to police shootings of African-Americans.
On Aug. 6, 2016, a high-level police official expressed concern that agitators might hijack a panel discussion at a church called New Life In Christ, "and turn it into, let's say a (Black Lives Matter) event," according to emails introduced in the court case.
The official also suggested sending officers to the church panel discussion to gather intelligence.
The official who wrote those emails is Eddie Bass, who is African-American and was a major at the time.
Some of the other high-level police officials who testified at the trial are also African-Americans, including Ross and Rallings. It's a testament to the social changes in recent decades -- though black people in Memphis still lag dramatically behind whites in wealth, many have risen to high levels in politics and gove...
7. The case might take a long time to resolve.
Both sides in the case will submit briefs and the judge is expected to rule sometime in the fall. Appeals are quite possible, which could push a final resolution of the case well into the future.
8. The Memphis police may be "stroppy".
As people were leaving the courtroom following the close of the trial, activist Fergus Nolan taunted a group of police officials. They'd had to check their guns outside the courtroom and at the moment had empty holsters.
"You guys aren't so stroppy without your sidearms," said Nolan.
Nolan is originally from Ireland. "Stroppy" is British slang meaning "hard to deal with or control, angry, unruly, impudent."
One of the police officials played along, saying, "I still consider myself pretty stroppy without my sidearm."
In conjunction with its 100th annual Flower Show and Garden Tour, Redlands Horticultural and Improvement Society will hold its Uncommon Plant Sale 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. April 21 and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m . April 22 at the RHIS plant yard in Prospect Park.
This spring you can choose from a wide selection of unique plants, well suited for either sun or shade. Lush ferns – maidenhair, Boston, leather leaf and staghorn – as well as many begonias and more await your shade gardens. Beautiful blooming roses, gorgeous geraniums, traditional tall bearded iris and new reblooming ...
Water-wise succulents and cactus, perky perennials, tasty herbs and strawberries, vines, shrubs, trees, artful planters, dish gardens and much more all have been grown here and are ready for you to take home. Come early for the best selections. As always, all your gardening questions are welcome.
The RHIS Plant Yard is at 1352 Prospect Drive next to the carriage house in Prospect Park. Follow the signs from where Cajon Street meets Garden Street to the RHIS Uncommon Plant Sale.
Redlands Horticultural and Improvement Society members meet throughout the year and use a variety of propagation techniques to grow these special plants. The society holds its Uncommon Plant Sales twice a year – in the spring with the annual Flower Show and Garden Tour and again in the fall. Proceeds are used to furthe...
CEO Ron Johnson has big IT plans and touts state-of-the-art Oracle systems on deck. The problem: The fundamentals are so bad at JCPenney that Johnson and his big IT plans could run out of time.
Retailer JCPenney's fourth quarter results were a disaster as same store sales tanked, the company had to start issuing coupons and the balance sheet showed cracks. But CEO Ron Johnson, best known for running Apple's retail business, has a lot of faith in using technology and Oracle's systems as part of a turnaround pl...
We are so excited about our Oracle strategy. Over the next three years, we will completely overhaul our information systems and be 100% at state-of-the-art Oracle systems and with systems from a handful of other partners that will augment that. And so we will have state-of-the-art systems.
But the most important part of the change is that nearly $100 million a year as we go forward will be invested in the next new thing. And so we're going to stay current for years to come because of this transformation we're going through. So we will see benefits each and every year as we roll out systems. This year we ...
What's unclear is whether Johnson and JCPenney will have enough time to see these Oracle plans completed. Johnson has an in-store strategy that emulates Apple in many ways with mobile checkout systems and a layout that emulates an app model in some respects.
Johnson added that systems improvements are already helping the retailer "understand the business and serve our customers." One big example is that JCPenney now has mobile point of sale systems so employees can check out customers with an iPad at any time in about a month.
Same store sales fell 31.7 percent in the quarter.
Gross margin in the fourth quarter was 23.8 percent, well off the 30 percent expected by Piper Jaffray.
Cash on the balance sheet was $930 million, below the $1 billion projected by management after the third quarter.
The fourth quarter net loss for JCPenney was $552 million and the 2012 loss was $985 million.
Sales were dreadful throughout 2012.
We believe JCP will likely burn cash throughout the remaining three years of its four year turnaround strategy unless sales rebound sharply in 2H13 or 2014. We believe JCP has adequate liquidity to fund its capital expenditures in 2013, although it will likely need to draw on its credit facility as soon as Q1. Looking ...
In other words, JCPenney's Oracle rollout may be derailed if the retailer can't deliver better sales.
Editor's note: This article originally published 12-22-13, but was updated 12-23-13 with RSA's comments.
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) paid $10 million to vendor RSA in a “secret” deal to incorporate a deliberately flawed encryption algorithm into widely used security software, according to a Reuters report that is reigniting controversy about the government’s involvement in setting security standards.
The contract was part of an NSA campaign to weaken encryption standards in order to aid the agency’s surveillance programs, Reuters reported on Friday.
The report, based on two sources that Reuters said were familiar with the contract, has sparked a series of headlines that are stoking the ongoing debate about NSA surveillance tactics. The NSA declined immediate comment.
RSA, which initially declined to comment, late Sunday denied that it had entered into a secret contract with the NSA.
"We have worked with the NSA, both as a vendor and an active member of the security community. We have never kept this relationship a secret and in fact have openly publicized it. Our explicit goal has always been to strengthen commercial and government security," RSA said in a statement.
"We have never entered into any contract or engaged in any project with the intention of weakening RSA's products, or introducing potential 'backdoors' into our products for anyone's use," the RSA said.
In September, articles in ProPublica, The Guardian and The New York Times disclosed that the NSA had been working for years to weaken security standards to help the U.S. government’s massive surveillance programs. The articles were based ondocuments leaked by former government contractor Edward Snowden.
The articles indicated that a crypto random-bit generator known called “Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator,” was deliberately subverted by NSA cryptographers working to develop and promulgate standards that would allow the creation of “back doors” in security products.
The RSA took money “secretly” from the NSA to embed the Dual EC DRBG technology into its widely used BSafe toolkit, according to the Reuters report Friday.
At least some commercial dealings between the NSA and RSA are a matter of public record, however. In March 2006, RSA announced that the NSA had selected BSafe encryption software for use in “a classified communications project.” The value of the deal was not revealed.
The central question raised by the Reuters report and earlier articles, however, remains: Did RSA use what it knew was deliberately weakened crypto software in BSafe, or at best did it look the other way in the face of expert criticism of Dual EC, in order to make money from U.S. government deals?
In its statement Sunday, RSA said, "We made the decision to use Dual EC DRBG as the default in BSAFE toolkits in 2004, in the context of an industry-wide effort to develop newer, stronger methods of encryption. At that time, the NSA had a trusted role in the community-wide effort to strengthen, not weaken, encryption."
RSA also acknowledged it used Dual EC also because of its "value in FIPS compliance." FIPS, or Federal Information Processing Standards, are computer standards required in government systems.
The inclusion of Dual EC in RSA technology software also helped the NSA convince the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) to approve the software as a method for generating random numbers used by encryption software, the Reuters story noted.
But questions about the efficacy of Dual EC were being raised even as RSA publicly announced its Bsafe deal with the NSA in 2006, and continued for years.
Finally, after articles about the NSA’s alleged efforts weaken security standards were published this September, NIST issued an advisory recommending that Dual EC not be used, and RSA followed suit.
”Following NIST’s decision to strongly recommend against the use of the community developed encryption algorithm standard (known as Dual EC DRBG), RSA determined it appropriate to issue an advisory to all our RSA BSAFE and RSA Data Protection Manager customers recommending they choose one of the different cryptographic...
RSA CTO Sam Curry publicly defended and explained why RSA originally chose Dual EC in an email published by Ars Technica.
But Curry’s statement was dissected and ridiculed by cryptography experts.
However, “every bit of public scrutiny said the same thing: this thing is broken! Grab your children and run away!” noted Matt Green, a cryptographer and research professor at Johns Hopkins University, in a careful analysis of Curry’s defense.
The Reuters report came at the end of a week of mounting criticism of the government’s surveillance programs.
A Buncombe County man has been arrested and charged in his wife's shooting death.
ASHEVILLE � A Buncombe County man has been arrested and charged in his wife's shooting death.
Deputies said Friday that 36-year-old Mack Glisson had been arrested on a charge of first-degree murder.
Authorities had been looking for Glisson since Wednesday morning, when his wife was found dead by the couple's children inside the family's Alexander home. Thirty-four-year-old Crystal Glisson had been shot to death.
It wasn't known when Mack Glisson would appear in court or if he had an attorney.
Pacquiao is the only eight-division world champion in the history of boxing, having won 11 major world titles.
Pacman could not stand the prospect of seeing his son, Emmanuel Jr, getting hurt.
Pacquiao himself is not keen on hanging up his gloves soon.
LONDON: Boxing icon Manny Pacquiao said he has reluctantly allowed his eldest son to follow in his footsteps after the younger Pacquiao chastised his parents for “killing” his dream of ring glory.
The Filipino legend, who has eight world titles from different weight divisions, said he could not stand the prospect of seeing his son, Emmanuel Jr, getting hurt.
“I said to him that boxing is tough, that training is tough, everything is tough. But he said, ‘daddy, boxing is my passion’,” Pacquiao, 40, told the Rappler online news site.
“I said, ‘son that’s my line, you are copying my line’,” he added, saying the teenager’s words softened his stance.
Known for his rags-to-riches climb from the street, Pacquiao said his wife Jinkee was adamant their 19-year-old son, nicknamed Jimuel, must not box.
“Then Jimuel told her,’Mummy, you’re killing my dream’. So what can we do? We just let him,” he added.
“He is training every day. I see him in his room watching my fights in TV almost every day,” Pacquiao said.
“If I feel something wrong with my body or if I feel slightly weaker, then I might think about retirement,” he said.
“But for now, I’m fine. I feel like I’m 27 or 28 years old,” Pacquiao said.
He outpointed US challenger Adrien Broner in Las Vegas in January to easily defend his World Boxing Association regular welterweight title, improving his record to 61-7 with two draws and 39 knockouts in a career that began in 1995.
This is a brutal test, and smaller capacity drives are impacted much more than larger capacity SSDs. This is because smaller capacity SSDs are written over more times than large capacity SSDs in the same one hour time period.
This is part of the reason the 250GB 960 EVO gets hammered into the last place. The other reason why the 250GB 960 EVO is bringing up the rear is because its native write performance (write performance outside of the TurboWrite layer) is so much lower than the 1TB model. In this case, the 1TB 960 EVO easily outperforms...
PERMANENT TSB has welcomed the government and Troika’s approval for its restructuring plan which will see its loan portfolio split and the creation of a separate Asset Management Unit.
Under the plan, which PTSB says it will submit to the European Commission by the end of June, the bank’s loan book will be divided into performing and non-performing loans.
The group’s UK operation will continue as a stand-along unit within the overall group with a loan book of around €7.1 billion. PTSB’s loan book will be around €14.2 billion, and the new asset management wing AMU will have a book of around €12.5 billion.
Speaking about the latest Troika review of Ireland’s bailout agreement today, Finance Minister Michael Noonan said that PTSB has the makings of a sound, profitable, retail bank and it would be a tragedy if it is not made profitable again.
“The objective of this plan is to create a viable retail bank focused on lending into the Irish economy,” he said.
Fianna Fáil’s finance spokesperson Micheal McGrath TD said that the bank’s restructuring provides an opportunity to introduce a reduction in the interest rate the bank is charging on its standard variable rate mortgages.
“The penal interest rate being charged is crippling thousands of ordinary Permanent TSB customers around the country, who are effectively trapped because they can’t transfer their mortgage to other banks,” he said today.
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The brothers were thrilled when musical powerhouse Beyoncé started wearing their clothing and sharing pictures of it on her website.
Neither brother lives in the Fresno area anymore, though the fulfillment and distribution center is based in Fresno.
The pair launched their brand in Fresno years ago. They once owned The Laundry Room, a store at Palm and Nees avenues, and Libertine at Champlain Drive and Perrin Avenue.
They left the area, but still are connected to it.
“Jonah & I promised one another that we’d never forget the city that built our brand and when the time was right that we’d open a beautiful store that Fresno could be proud to call their own,” Joey Pauline said via email.
After its 6 a.m. opening on Black Friday, The Laundry Room will generally be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Actor Tracy Morgan is out of a rehabilitation facility, more than a month after he was critically injured in a fatal crash on the New Jersey Turnpike.
Spokesman Lewis Kay said that Morgan is in an "aggressive outpatient program" after being released from the rehabilitation facility.
"He asked me to pass along his sincerest gratitude to everyone who has helped him get to this point," Kay said in an email. "He would also appreciate some privacy during this crucial point in his recovery."
The June 7 crash killed fellow comedian James McNair and badly injured Morgan, Jersey City comic Ardie Fuqua, comic Harris Stanton, and Morgan's assistant Jeffrey Millea.
Morgan, best known for his roles on "30 Rock" and "Saturday Night Live," had spent about two weeks at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital before being released to the rehab facility on June 20.
He underwent leg surgery at Robert Wood Johnson after the crash. Morgan suffered a broken leg, a broken nose and several broken ribs.
Kay also confirmed that Morgan and the other victims in the crash filed suit against Wal-Mart. Truck driver Kevin Roper of Georgia was allegedly driving a Wal-Mart truck when it rear-ended Morgan's limo van on the Turnpike in Cranbury early in the morning on June 7. Roper allegedly hadn't slept in 24 hours before the c...
Kay referred further comment about the lawsuit to the plaintiffs' attorney.
Wal-Mart previously said that it would take "full responsibility" if its truck caused the crash.
A group of Harvard scientists plans to tackle climate change through geoengineering by blocking out the sun. The concept of artificially reflecting sunlight has been around for decades, yet this will be the first real attempt at controlling Earth's temperature through solar engineering.
The project, called Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx), will spend $3 million to test their models by launching a steerable balloon in the southwest US 20 kilometers into the stratosphere. Once the balloon is in place, it will release small particles of calcium carbonate. Plans are in place to be...
The basis around this experiment is from studying the effects of large volcanic eruptions on the planet's temperature. In 1991, Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted spectacularly, releasing 20 million tonnes of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere. The sulfur dioxide created a blanket around Earth's stratosphere, ...
As scientists, governmental agencies around the world, and environmental groups grow increasingly worried of our collective ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and curb climate change, the idea of geoengineering a solution has become more accepted. The ultimate goal is to reduce the warming on Earth. This can be...

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