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WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
Alkan Grup Turizm Isşlemelǐ A.Ş., JSC, Obshchestvo S Orgranichennoy Otvetstvennostyu "Tez Tour" (a. k. a. "000 Tez Tur"), Lexcord Capital Limited, Tez Tour v. BUDA AG,
Case No. D2012-2000
1. The Parties
The Complainants are Alkan Grup Turizm Isşlemelǐ A.Ş., JSC. of Antalia, Turkey; Obshchestvo S Orgranichennoy Otvetstvennostyu "Tez Tour" (a. k. a. "000 Tez Tur") of Moscow, Russian Federation; Lexcord Capital Limited of London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; and Tez Tour of Sofia, Bulgaria, Turkey, represented by DLA Piper UK LLP, France.
The Respondent is BUDA AG of Frankfurt Germany.
2. The Domain Names and Registrar
The disputed domain names <tezagency.com>, <tezcenter.com>, <tezhotels.com> and <teztour.com> are registered with GoDaddy.com, LLC.
3. Procedural History
The Complaint was filed with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the "Center") on October 10, 2012. On October 11, 2012, the Center transmitted by email to the Registrar a request for registrar verification in connection with the disputed domain names. On October 12, 2012, the Registrar transmitted by email to the Center its verification response confirming that the Respondent is listed as the registrant and providing the contact details.
The Center verified that the Complaint satisfied the formal requirements of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Policy" or "UDRP"), the Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Rules"), and the WIPO Supplemental Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Supplemental Rules").
In accordance with the Rules, paragraphs 2(a) and 4(a), the Center formally notified the Respondent of the Complaint, and the proceedings commenced on October 17, 2012. In accordance with the Rules, paragraph 5(a), the due date for Response was November 6, 2012. The Respondent did not submit any response. Accordingly, the Center notified the Respondent's default on November 9, 2012.
The Center appointed Thomas M. Legler as the sole panelist in this matter on November 22, 2012. The Panel finds that it was properly constituted. The Panel has submitted the Statement of Acceptance and Declaration of Impartiality and Independence, as required by the Center to ensure compliance with the Rules, paragraph 7.
On November 29, 2012, the Panel notified an Administrative Panel Procedural Order No. 1 ("Procedural Order No. 1") in which it noted that Complainants' Complaint filed on October 11, 2012 was incomplete.
The Panel invited the Complainants to produce until December 6, 2012 the following exhibits:
- power of attorney from all the Complainants in favour of their Counsel;
- certificates of extension of the validity of all relevant trademarks, if any;
- licence or other existing agreements between the Russian limited liability company "OOO Tez Tour" and its "affiliates" and/or shareholder participation scheme;
- other elements of proof corroborating the Complainants' approach to bring a single consolidated complaint against the Respondent.
The Panel further ordered that after receipt of any new exhibits produced by the Complainants following its Order No. 1, the Respondent was invited to submit counter-evidence, if any, related to the above mentioned issues on or before December 13, 2012.
On December 5, 2012, the Complainants filed additional evidence following the Panel's Procedural Order No. 1.
By December 13, 2012, the Respondent had not filed any counter-evidence. The Panel therefore decided to proceed notwithstanding the Respondent's default.
4. Factual Background
The four Complainants are part of a "group" of entities active in several jurisdictions and offering travel agency and similar services. Some of the Complainants are thereby using the brand "Tez Tour" which is registered as a trademark and design as follows:
- International trademark and design TEZ TOUR No. 820302, registered by the Russian company "OOO Tez Tour", in classes 39, 41 and 43, valid until December 22, 2013;
- Russian trademark and design TEZ TOUR No. 229538, originally registered by the above mentioned Russian company and transferred on July 13, 2012 to Lexcord Capital Limited. (UK), in classes 39, 41 and 42, valid until August 17, 2021.
- Turkish trademark and design TEZ TOUR No. 2001 03208, registered by the Turkish company Alkan Grup Turizm Isşlemelǐ A.Ş. JSCin classes 39, 41, 42 and 43, valid until February 19, 2021.
Furthermore, the Russian Complainant "OOO Tez Tour" is also owner of the following domain names: <teztour.biz> (registration date: April 15, 2004), <tez-tour.com> (registration date: May 6, 2005), <teztour.ru> (registration date: September 8, 1997) and <tэstyp.pΦ> (registration date: July 5, 2010).
5. Parties' Contentions
A. Complainant
The four Complainants form together the "Tez Tour group" a Russian based travel agency acting from 1994 with international scope of operations. According to the Complainants, the name "Tez Tour" has been used as a brand, a commercial name and as domain names as early as 1994. It is registered as a trademark and corporate name in several jurisdictions. Through its affiliates around the world such as Alkan Grup, Tez Tour also plays an important role in hotel management, construction, and real estate sectors. Each of the Complainants has interest in the TEZ TOUR trademark, which they use in their respective market in relation to the above referred services. The domain name <teztour.com> currently redirects to a web site offering that domain name for sale as well as the other domain names <tezhotels.com>, <tezagency.com> and <tezcenter.com>.
The disputed domain name <tezhotels.com> redirects to a web site accessible to Internet users from the domain name <hotels.tez-tour.com> which is the Complainants' web site.
The disputed domain name <tezagency.com> redirects to a web site accessible to Internet users from the domain name <agency.tez-tour.com> which is the Complainants' web site.
The disputed domain name <tezcenter.com> redirects to a web site accessible to Internet users from the domain name <center.tez-tour.com> which is the Complainants' web site.
The disputed domain name <teztour.com>, <tezhotels.com>, <tezagency.com> and <tezcenter.com> were owned by the Complainants but have been fraudulently transferred to the Respondent further to malevolent acts carried out by a former employee of Alkan Grup named Gunay Arslan who was the administrative and technical contacts of the disputed domain names. Gunay Arslan was head of the IT department of Alkan Grup until March 2, 2012 where he resigned and refused to hand over the password necessary for the administration of the domain name <teztour.com> but instead handed them over to Buda AG for misappropriation of the disputed domain names. Alkan Grup was made aware of the situation when the access to the domain name by Alkan Grup was blocked by Mr. Gunay Arslan acting as the administrator of the domain name.
Alkan Grup also discovered that <teztour.com> redirects to a web site where the domain name is offered for sale by Buda AG along with the other three disputed domain names: <tezhotels.com>, <tezagency.com> and <tezcenter.com>. As a member of the Tez Tour group, Alkan Grup informed OOO TEZ-TOUR, Lexcord Capital Ltd. and Tez Tour who all have interests in the trademark TEZ TOUR about the situation and they all decided to jointly file the present Complaint.
The disputed domain name <teztour.com> is identical to the Complainants' word marks TEZ TOUR and OOO Tez Tur's corporate name. It is also confusingly similar with the Complainants' domain names <teztour.com>, <tezhotels.com>, <teztour.biz> and <tez-tour.ru>, the customers being led to believe that the disputed domain name is owned and operated by the Complainants or an affiliated company. The other disputed domain names, i.e. <tezhotels.com>, <tezagency.com> and <tezcenter.com> are also confusingly similar to the Complainants' trademarks TEZ TOUR and the domain names <teztour.com>, <tezhotels.com>, <teztour.biz> and <tez-tour.ru>, as they are all composed of the common distinctive element "Tez" which will lead the customers to believe that they are all owned and operated by the same companies.
The likelihood of confusion is all the more important that the Complainants' trademarks are famous for travel booking services in Russian speaking countries and that customers were used to connect to the domain name <teztour.com> (which was formally owned by the Complainants) for accessing the Complainants' web site before the administrative and technical contacts malevolently handed over the password necessary for the administration of the domain name <teztour.com> to the actual owner of the disputed domain name, Buda AG. The same is true for the domain <tezhotels.com>, <tezagency.com> and <tezcenter.com> where the customers are directed to the Complainants' web site.
Considering all the above elements, the Complainants conclude that the disputed domain names are confusingly similar to their prior trademark rights. Furthermore, the Complainants consider that the Respondent does not have any rights or legitimate interests to the disputed domain names, in particular because of the following reasons: (i.) the domain names <teztour.com>, <tezhotels.com>, <tezagency.com> and <tezcenter.com> are on sale on the website "www.teztour.com"; (ii.) the domain name <teztour.com> only directs to a web site offering that domain name for sale which shows therefore that the Respondent has no bona fide intention to use the domain name; (iii) the disputed domain names <tezhotels.com>, <tezagency.com> and <tezcenter.com> redirect to the Complainants' web site which show therefore that the Respondent's intention is to mislead the consumers into believing that its activities are related to the Complainants and causing damages to the Complainants' business.
Finally, Complainants believe that the disputed domain names were registered and are being used in bad faith in particular for the following reasons: The Respondent was aware of the existence of the Complainants' trademark at the time of acquiring the disputed domain names and therefore acquired the domain names in bad faith; indeed the disputed domain name <teztour.com> was stolen from the Complainants by the former employee Arslan Gunay who was the administrative and technical contacts of the disputed domain names and passed over the password to these domain names to the Respondent. Furthermore, the disputed domain name <teztour.com> is now for sale to any interested party on the web site accessible from the domain name <teztour.com> and the other three domain names all redirect to websites that are hosted by the Complainants which mislead the consumers into believing that the Respondent is somehow related to the Complainants. It has also to be considered that TEZ TOUR is a well-known mark in the Russian Federation and neighbouring countries and its famous cannot be ignored. The Complainants believe that the action of the Respondent in acquiring the disputed domain names amounts to bad faith registration. It is not possible to conceive a plausible circumstance in which the Respondent could legitimately use the disputed domain names.
For all these reasons, the Complainants request the Panel to order the disputed domain names be transferred to the Complainants' Lexcord Capital Limited.
B. Respondent
The Respondent did not reply to the Complainant's contentions nor did it file any evidence following Procedural Order No. 1.
6. Discussion and Findings
Following Procedural Order No. 1, the Complainants submitted some more information on the corporate structure of the "group". However, many aspects remain unclear and some allegations are not corroborated by sufficient evidence.
Generally speaking, it is not clear who is claiming what, in which capacity and on what basis.
It has to be recalled in this context and with regard to the first element of the Policy that paragraph 3(b)(ix)(1) of the Rules requires that the complainant describes, "in accordance with the Policy, the grounds on which the complaint is made including, in particular, (i) the manner in which the domain name(s) is/are identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the Complainant has rights."
The Complainants are invoking that they "all have interests in the trademark TEZ TOUR". However, the connections between the Complainants' various entities and their specific rights with regard to the invoked trademarks are not clear. Whereas the Complainants may indeed have an "interest" in the trademark(s) mentioned in the Complaint, they do however not clearly establish to what extent they each have a legal right for their claim with regard to the Respondent's domain names.
In addition, in their Complaint, the Complainants do not only refer to one TEZ TOUR trademark but collectively refer to three different trademarks, i.e. one international, one Russian and one Turkish mark owned by two different entities whose links are not clearly established.
Furthermore, the Complaint does not contain a request for consolidation in accordance with Article 10 lit. e of the Rules nor does it establish with sufficient clarity why the filing of a single complaint brought by multiple complainants should be accepted in the present case. The onus of establishing this falls on the filing parties. Neither the Policy nor the Rules expressly contemplate multiple complainants, and some panels have rejected complaints filed in the name of more than one complainant on the ground that they have not sufficiently identified their respective ownership rights and requested remedies. See, e.g., Ken Done, Ken Done & Associates Pty Limited, and Ken Done Down Under Pty Limited v. Ted Gibson, eResolution Case No. AF-0638. In other cases, panels have accepted complaints by multiple complainants based on agency, licensing, or affiliate relationships. See, e.g., Staples, Inc., Staples The Office Superstore, Inc., and Staples Contract and Commercial, Inc. v. SkyLabs Corporation and DL Enterprises, WIPO Case No. D2004-0220.
It is however evident that such consolidation in order to be accepted by the Panel has at least to be pleaded and established, e.g. by demonstrating the legal links (ownership, affiliate relationships, agency or licensing) between the various complainants as requested by Procedural Order No. 1.
Indeed, in its Procedural Order No. 1, the Panel asked for further exhibits demonstrating the links between the Russian limited liability company "OOO Tez Tour" and its so-called "affiliates" and/or a shareholder participation scheme. It was unclear from the Complaint what "affiliation" exists between the various Complainants and to what extent they formed a "group" as mentioned in the Complaint.
The participation scheme submitted by the Complainants following Procedural Order No. 1 reveals that the various Complainants appear to be linked by a common "Tez Tour Holding SA" in Luxemburg. However, that pivotal entity is not one of the Complainants. It results from this preliminary assessment that two out of four Complainants may have rights individually but not jointly with the other Complainants and that the overarching legal entity who could have legal control over the Complainants and/or the enforcement of the individual rights relied on, is absent from these administrative proceedings (see consideration IV, (i) (c) in: National Dial A Word Registry Pty Ltd and others v. 1300 Directory Pty Ltd, WIPO Case No. DAU2008-0021).
A closer look into the submitted supplemental evidence shows further important inconsistencies.
- The Complainants heavily rely on the Russian Complainant "OOO Tez Tour", i.e. on its corporate name rights, its holding of three domain names (<teztour.biz>, <tez-tour.com> and <teztour.ru>) and its international trademark and design No. 820302 for classes 39, 41 and 43. However, the evidence submitted does not clearly establish the link of that entity with Tez Tour Holding SA and Lexcord Capital Limited who should be the only beneficiary of the Complainants' claim for transfer of the disputed domain names in question. The newly filed table indicates that this company is owned by Mr. Burtin who indirectly owns Tez Tour Holding SA. The evidence filed does however not establish this link. An untranslated document in Russian seems to refer to Mr. Burtin's stake in the Russian company "OOO Tez Tour". A handwritten note on that document indicates that the first shareholder is "Mr. Burtin Alexander Ivanovich", whereas there is a second shareholder "Mrs. Sinigibskaya Larisa Petrovna". There is no explanation to which extent they are shareholder of that company. The Complainants seem to assert that this Russian Company is hold (only) by Mr. Burtin who in turn is the owner of the company Baliv Enterprise SPF S.A. Luxemburg who in turn participates, among other entities, to the umbrella company Tez Tour Holding SA. However, and even assuming that Mr. Burtin would be the (only) owner of "OOO Tez Tour", the filed exhibit from the Commercial Register of Luxemburg merely shows that Mr. Burtin is administrator (member of the board of directors) of Balive Enterprise SPF S.A. but not that he is (also) a shareholder of that entity.
- Similar considerations apply to the case of the Turkish Complainant Alkan Grup Turizm Isşlemelǐ A.Ş. JSC. That entity is the owner of the Turkish trademark and design TEZ TOUR No. 2001 03268 for classes 39, 41, 42 and 43. The Complainants file an untranslated document in Turkish where the name of Alkan Grup Turizsm Isşlemelǐ A.Ş. JSC, appears and in the same context the company Eridan Finance Sàrl Luxembourg who, according to the Complainants' table, is a sister company of Tez Tour Holding SA. No further explanation is given for that document in Turkish so that it remains unclear in what relation these two companies are actually staying.
- Complainants indicate that the Russian trademark and design TEZ TOUR No. 229538 for classes 39, 41 and 42 has been transferred on July 13, 2012 to Lexcord Capital Limited who is, as already mentioned, the only beneficiary of the Complainant's claim for transfer of the disputed domain names. This is reflected in a "translation" from a "Supplement to Certificate" for that mark. However, the Complainants did not file the original of that document.
- TheComplainants also refer to the Bulgarian company Tez Tour allegedly previous owner of three of the four disputed domain names and which, according to the produced table and overview, would be held by Crystal Star SA Luxembourg (itself participating in Tez Tour Holding SA). The excerpt from the Bulgarian Commercial Register shows however that Tez Tour Bulgaria has a second shareholder, Alfatour SSC, which is not mentioned in the Complaint and whose role and link to Crystal Star SA is unclear.
- The disputed domain names <teztour.com>, <tezagency.com>, <tezhotels.com> and <tezcenter.com> have been transferred in September 2012 to the Respondent Buda AG as the various domain name history and WhoIs excerpts submitted by the Complainants show. The Complainants indicate that Gunnay Arslan, former head of the IT department of Alkan Grup Turizm Isşlemelǐ A.Ş. JSC, has misappropriated of the disputed domain names after his dismissal in March 2012 and transferred them to Buda AG, the Respondent in the present proceedings. Although various circumstances support this allegation, it remains unclear why and how Gunnay Arslan transferred the domain names <tezagency.com>, <tezhotels.com> and <tezcenter.com> who belonged, in 2007, to the entity LizgeSoft (for which the Complainants give no explanation) after his dismissal, i.e. around July/August 2012, to Tez Tour Sofia (Bulgaria), one of the Complainant, and in September 2012 directly to Buda AG.
In view of the foregoing, the Panel considers that the Complaint is incomplete and contains so many open issues that it is impossible to take a reasoned decision.
The Panel's possible decisions are limited to the cancellation of the domain name(s), the transfer of the domain name registration(s) to the complainant(s) in accordance with paragraph 4 i. of the Policy or to deny the complaint. Consequently, the Panel has no other possibility than to deny or dismiss the Complaint.
Although the Panel is of the opinion that this Complaint should not have been filed by multiple Complainants, for the reasons discussed above, such determination is entirely without prejudice to any finding that may be made by a subsequent panel in the event that one or more of the Complainants should choose to file a separate complaint (or complaints) on appropriate conditions under the Policy.
Finally, the Panel considers that this dismissal is made subject to the right of (any or all of) the Complainants to file, in their individual capacity, should they wish to do so, a complaint against the Respondent in relation to any of the domain names (in respect of which such individual Complainant asserts applicable rights under the Policy) that are the subject of this Complaint
7. Decision
For the foregoing reasons, the Complaint is dismissed, subject to the above-mentioned right.
Thomas Legler
Sole Panelist
Date: December 13, 2012


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Reuse and Recycling Centre
If you're a Southwark resident you can dispose of a wide range of unwanted household and garden items at the Reuse and Recycling Centre (RRC) for free.
Please note the RRC can only be used for waste from your own household and can't be used by trades or businesses. If you're a landlord, you won't be able to use the RRC for waste from your tenants or former tenants. It's considered commercial waste and you'll have to pay a charge for its disposal.
You'll need to show proof of residence when you arrive at the RRC, even if you come by foot, motorbike or bicycle. We'll accept a current UK photo-card driving licence or two of the following:
- current Council Tax bill
- recent utility bill
- recent bank statement
For residents arriving by van, a current UK photo-card driving licence will be required as well as two of the following:
- current Council Tax bill
- recent utility bill
- recent bank statement
New van restrictions and pre-booking requirement
From 2 January 2017 householders using vans to bring waste to the centre will be required to book in advance and will be restricted to four tips per calendar year.
Opening hours
The RRC is open from 8:30am to 4:30pm every day, all year round, except Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day when the centre will be closed.
The Reuse and Recycling Centre (RRC) is located at the following address:
Reuse and Recycling Centre
43 Devon Street (off Old Kent Road)
London SE15 1AL
If you're using satellite navigation(sat nav) to find the RRC, use postcode SE15 1JR.
Please note that entry and exits to the site are one way. Please take the second left off the roundabout to enter the RRC. When leaving the RRC take the first left off the roundabout to the separate exit road.
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The Town of Grimsby hosts a Civic Recognition Program every 2 years. The program is generally hosted in the Spring of even calendar years, and nominations become available a few months prior to the date.
Community members can nominate outstanding citizens of the Town of Grimsby for the following achievements and then the nominations are approved by the Parks, Recreation and Culture Committee. The awards are presented by the Mayor and Members of Council.
Civic Recognition Categories:
Special Achievement Award
- Citizens who have achieved Provincial, National or International Recognition and, in doing so, have brought honour to the Town of Grimsby.
- Citizens who have completed special projects, voluntary in nature, that have brought favourable publicity to the community or that have contributed positively to the Grimsby community.
- Citizens who have achieved a special milestone through community service efforts. (eg. 50th anniversary of a volunteer organization serving local purposes).
Outstanding Volunteer Award
- Those who in the view of the Recreation Services Committee, have contributed significantly to the quality of life in the community through their volunteer efforts.
Advertisements for the program will be posted in the newspaper, on social media, and in community buildings.
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A top investigative journalist is claiming to have uncovered Welfare and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith's most audacious scheme to cut unemployment figures and welfare payments yet. "It's brilliant, yet cruel and insane all at once – just like Duncan Smith himself," Billy Gripestone told The Sleaze. "It's also far more cost-effective than those work fare schemes for the long-term unemployed, which ended up with taxpayers subsidising huge companies making millions in profits to allow benefits claimants to stack shelves for them!" According to Gripestone, the new solution to long-term unemployment is brutally efficient: anyone claiming job seeker's allowance for more than twelve months is now being cryogenically frozen and stored in huge refrigerated underground vaults. "Believe me, all those falls in unemployment aren't the result of more jobs being created – even the shysters who constitute our business classes can't create that many 'zero hours' positions – but rather the fact that large numbers of people are no longer making claims because they are in a state of suspended animation!" The journalist alleges that the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) believe that their new policy can bring huge economic benefits for Britain in a number of areas. "Not only does it reduce the welfare bill, but it also reduces the strain on other public services," he explained. "A source in the DWP told me that the Health Department expect to save billions from the NHS budget, as all these people won't be taxing its resources whilst they are frozen! It's the same with policing – with all these potential criminals in the cooler, so to speak, they confidently expect crime rates to plummet!"
Gripestone claims that the Treasury are especially enthusiastic about the DWP's plans to freeze the unemployed. "Apparently Chancellor George Osborne thinks that it is a brilliant idea – so brilliant that it almost makes up for Duncan Smith's complete failure to introduce the universal benefits system on time or budget," he confides. "By freezing workers when they are not needed, they can at last make the supply of labour match the country's economic requirements. This way, as soon as the economy starts expanding again and demand for labour increases, the government can just thaw out as many workers as industry requires and vice versa. It's the 'reserve army' of the unemployed rendered cheap and manageable." The freelance reporter also believes that the Treasury plans to take advantage of the cryogenics programme to create a better trained work force for the UK. "My source in the DWP has told me that whilst these surplus workers are frozen, they plan to 're-train' them by electronically piping subliminal messages and information into their brains, equipping them with whatever skills the contemporary job market requires," he says. "They will, quite literally, become frozen assets to the economy."
Perhaps surprisingly, Gripestone has so far been unable to interest any news outlets in his story. "I think that it has got to the stage that Iain Duncan Smith and the Tories have done so many unbelievable things with regard to welfare and benefits that even bizarre stuff like this just doesn't seem sensational any more," he told The Sleaze. "Besides with the way they've demonised the poor and unemployed over the past five years, nobody cares what happens to benefits claimants any more. Not even their reduction to being mere commodities." However, others believe that his failure to sell the story comes down to the fact that it is utterly ludicrous. Indeed, not only have several cryogenics experts stated that the science still isn't advanced enough to allow for the freezing of tens of thousands of human beings, but several leading economists have questioned whether a policy of freezing the unemployed would even be cost effective. "The expense of constructing and maintaining cryogenic facilities capable of housing tens of thousands of unemployed people would surely outweigh any savings made through not paying job seekers allowance and other benefits they might have claimed," opined Professor Linwood Fluff, of the Clacton-on-Sea School of Economics. "It isn't as if they'd save anything from being able to reduce DWP staffing levels, due to the reduction in benefits claimants, as the cryogenic facilities would require constant monitoring by technically skilled, and therefore expensive, staff."
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The reporter is keen to point out that the freezing process isn't without its perils. "Obviously, when they actually started trials, they didn't just shut someone in a freezer until they were stiff with frost," Gripestone says. "They carefully lowered their body temperatures until their vital functions were barely perceptible, then vacuum sealed them in plastic for storage. The real problems came when they tried to revive the first subjects." According to Gripestone's DWP source, the first experimental subject was revived – using a cocktail of drugs and a transfusion of warm blood, rather than a three bar electric fire – with the Secretary of State himself present. "The poor bugger opened his eyes to see Iain Duncan Smith looming at him – his reaction was to try and throttle the minister," Gripestone reveals. "Mind you that might have had less to do with brain damage caused by the freezing process, than being a natural reaction to finding yourself in close proximity with Iain Duncan Smith." Not that the possibility of the process causing brain damage is a concern for the DWP, according to the reporter. "Their opinion is that it could be beneficial – making the subjects more docile and pliable," he says. "Not only would that reduce the likelihood of industrial action, but it might also ensure that they voted Tory."


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- National Institute of Mental Health. Accessed online on 8/16/17 at http://www.nimh.nih.gov/.
- Montazeri A, Milroy R, Hole D, McEwen J, Gillis CR. Anxiety and depression in patients with lung cancer before and after diagnosis: findings from a population in Glasgow, Scotland. J Epidemiol Community Health. 1998:52:203-204.
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Crap happens. It has always happened. It always will. So why aren't our education systems giving to people some of the best means of dealing with that crap? Tools that never age, are easily available, cheap, and nobody has ever really criticized in the last couple of millenia?
Even fixing up the biased Christianity in our schools, replacing it merely with comparative religion and ethics classes: good, but not good enough. We need to provide kids with the tools for consolation and strength, the classical personal philosophies of the likes of Marcus Aurelius.
It's deprivation, deprivation bordering on abuse.
Over the last couple of years, contact with a few of old uni friends has been re-established – and a couple of them have been having a hard time. Intelligent folk, decent, crap from the fates, from spouses, from family courts … and there is one bit of advice that seems to have done the most good – and started doing good almost straight away:
Seriously, check out wikipedia on "Meditations" and Marcus Aurelius, the Roman Emperor who wrote it, check out his wikiquotes, and remember this guy had the weight of the known world on his shoulders, and despite later (unprovable) diagnoses as suffering from depression, ruled pretty damn well, and his notes on how to view the world and the crap happening allowed him to rule well. Have a browse, and if some of it rings true, get yourself the Penguin translation and open it at random – each paragraph stands on it's own, so even if depression is hitting your cognition as you say, it's in easy to digest bite-sized pieces. Then come back to me if you want more of the Stoics and the Epicureans.
Well, usually within a day I'm getting emails that are "Wow! Never knew this stuff – I mean, I've seen him as, you know, the good emperor in 'Gladiator', but …"


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Hello and welcome! It's lovely to see you here at All Things Spliced, but the Lighty Family have gone on their travels! We can now be found at http://allthingsspliced.co.uk. Hope to see you over there soon! Mrs Lighty xxx
All Blogged Off
Over the past 14 months of writing All Things Spliced, it has been a labour of love. It's my second little baby, something I've nurtured and fed and pushed forward with despite it being tough at times, despite my confidence wavering every now and again, despite sometimes wondering why I'm even bothering. But through it… Continue reading All Blogged Off
Happy Little Buttons – September 2016
Hello and welcome to the first of the Happy Little Button's roundups! And what a first month it has been! We've had over 400 posts tagged with #HappyLittleButtons over on Instagram, and Annette from 3 Little Buttons, Dawn from Rhyming with Wine and I have absolutely loved seeing all of your happys flood in! With… Continue reading Happy Little Buttons – September 2016
The Fakeiversary
Anniversaries are a funny thing in the Lighty household. I would say that, on the whole, Mr and Mrs Lighty are both fairly nostalgic creatures, yet we have differing opinions when it comes to a certain anniversary. I'm not talking about our wedding anniversary. No, definitely not talking about our wedding anniversary, as we've been… Continue reading The Fakeiversary
September Sunshine
They say a change is as good as a rest. So when we had a week booked as annual leave in September, and decided that we couldn't afford to go away for all or part of it, Mr and Mrs Lighty were determined to make the most of these rare family days off together and… Continue reading September Sunshine
Bilingual Baby Brain
It's no secret that Mrs Lighty's brain ain't what it used to be. I've written previously about the fact that as mothers, our brains are so completely overcrowded with thoughts of our offspring that there's not much room for anything else. This is why, all too often, when it comes to the likes of holidays,… Continue reading Bilingual Baby Brain
Introducing #HappyLittleButtons!
One of the delights of blogging, something which I didn't foresee when I started up All Things Spliced just over a year ago, are all of the virtual friendships that Mrs Lighty has struck up with other bloggers along the way. Some of you I've met in 'real life' and others I only 'know' through… Continue reading Introducing #HappyLittleButtons!


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I just applied for an Apple Credit Account through Juniper Bank. I accepted their terms and clicked on "Make Purchase," which was supposed to take me back to the Apple Store, but I got some sort of error. Now I can't figure out how to use the account. So I don't think I can use that account now until I get a credit card in the mail. Is there a way to make my purchase or do I have to wait?
If I have to wait, maybe a new MBP will come out.
If I have to wait, maybe a new MBP will come out.


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|Oracle FAQ
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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> Re: demo accounts & auditing
kill 'em all and let God sort them out ;)
there is a note in metalink regarding changing the dbsnmp account password. "How to change the password of the 10g database user dbsnmp" Note:259387.1. (wow - its no longer a clear text string). one could just disable the agent and not use it.
locking an account is easily reversed by unlocking the account, so the amount of potential harm in a non-critical environment is small. if you are paranoid or conservative, enable auditing and use "audit session" to see what accounts are in fact being used.
in general, no default passwords should be allowed.
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:09:37 -0500, Sami Seerangan <dba.orcl_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> All:
> Auditors wanted to change all the default password for demo and few
> other accounts.
> Is it okay to change the password of dbsnmp? Do I have to make changes
> anywhere else where dbsnmp accounts are used?
> We are not using outline and workflow manager. So is it okay to change
> the password & lock teh account for outln, wmsys and system?
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Angel River is towering over the surrounding area. See the photos.
The Angel River investment project in the Oława River Suburb is beginning to tower over the surrounding area. The construction of the 11th floor has just started and intensive bricklaying work is also being carried out in connection with the building of walls and the execution of connections for the buildings. More than 75% of the apartments have already been sold.
At 15-19 Walońska Streetintensive work is under way on the construction of Angel River – a real property development project of the Angel Poland Group. After less than a year the apartment building is beginning to tower over the surrounding area.
"We've just overtaken the 9-floor Wings apartment building located right next to ours. Angel River is ultimately going to reach the height of 17 floors," says Sebastian Bieńkowski, the Technical Director of Angel River. "Bricklaying work is moving fast. On three underground and five overground storeys the walls have already been made – both the exterior walls and the partition walls that separate individual apartments. Work has also started on the execution of the heating and power connections for the buildings. Within the next three weeks we'll proceed with the installation of woodwork," he adds.
180 employees, 341 apartments
The work is proceeding according to plan. The overground structure of Angel River has been completed in nearly 70%, while the installation work in the underground part – in 99% and in the overground part – in 20%. Approximately 180 employees are currently working on the site. According to the investor's plans the reinforced concrete structure is to be completed by the end of this year and the whole investment project is scheduled to be finished in the 3rd quarter of 2018.
The two buildings will ultimately have nine and seventeen floors, respectively, with a total of 341 apartments, more than 75% of which have already found their owners. The common parts will feature a number of amenities for the residents, including a fitness zone with an area of over 200 m2 with saunas and jaccuzis, an elegant lobby with a meeting area for the residents, a children's playroom, a parking area with several dozen places for guests in the underground garage or a charging station for electric vehicles.
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The Angel River project under construction is not the only change taking place in the Walońska Street area. Recently the marina located along the Oława River has also undergone a major renovation.
"We've partly replaced the boards on the walkways at Walońska Street. In addition, we've refreshed the metal structure and performed maintenance work on 300 m2 of wooden floating elements. The renovation has cost a total of several tens of thousands of zlotys," says Sebastian Bieńkowski.
The completion of the renovation work means that all the Wroclaw residents will be able to take advantage of the marina, which is already happening. Stretching classes have recently been held here, as well as boat trips that have attracted many local residents.
"The local people need such places, so it seems natural to think about a return to the Oława River and to make use of its potential. We are happy to be actively participating in this process, but we still haven't said our last word," says Natalia Sawicka, the Sales and Marketing Director of Angel River.
As part of the investment project a public boulevard will also be created, which will be an integral part of the scenic walking and leisure route along the river. The investor will also redevelop and modernise the intersection of Traugutta and Miernicza Streets.


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Issue 92 of Star Trek Monthly was the Spring 2002 issue – a 100-page ships special.
- Captain's Log
- Toby Weidmann on the bumper contents of the issue.
- The Best of All Worlds
- First promotional image from Star Trek Nemesis released.
- Romulans to appear in Enterprise?
- Scott Bakula praises "Detained" for its social relevance.
- Connor Trinneer enjoying playing Trip.
- ENT: "Shuttlepod One", "Fusion", "Rogue Planet", "Acquisition", "Oasis", "Detained"; profile of Scott Bakula.
- Alice Krige signs at London's HMV store.
- James Horan on the mystery of his character.
- Dan Curry interviewed by StarTrek.com
- Velton Ray Bunch on composing for Enterprise.
- Treknology: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Pioneer 10 reestablishes contact with Earth, quantum entanglement, machines reading emotions.
- In Brief: William Shatner, Lawrence Tierney and Jerome Stanley remembered, TNG Season 2 DVD.
- Interview – Rick Berman – "Spring Break"
- by Ian Spelling.
- Crew Review
- Abbie Bernstein talks to Anthony Montgomery, Dominic Keating, and John Billingsley at the TCA press junket.
- Continues next issue.
- Communicator
- A Piece of the Action
- Random Thoughts
- Bill Blair.
- Welcome to the Bridge
- Pictorial special, showing the major bridge sets from the various Star Trek series.
- Interview – Connor Trinneer – "Trip the Flight Fantastic"
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- Andy Lane charts the development of the Federation starship.
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- Interview – Robert Duncan McNeill – "We'll always have Paris"
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- Star Trek Monthly staff and Star Trek experts pit starships against each other, and debate which would come out on top. Winner: USS Enterprise-E.
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- Star Trek Monthly launches the online Star Trek challenge.
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What can I say about my time with Nelson Castillo. Well, I'll start off by saying I spent more time with him than most of my models…seeing as we had to shoot this session TWICE. Unfortunately, Nelson was the model I had shot on that fateful day back in September when my car was broken into and all of my camera equipment was stolen. I was devastated. Not only for the loss of the equipment, but for the loss of the photos. Nelson lives in Chicago…and I wasn't like we could just photograph the session again…or could we. Well…the day my last replacement piece of equipment arrived, I received a message from Nelson telling me that he would be in San Francisco that coming weekend…and asked me if I'd like to shoot with him. Without going into too much detail..I had a perfect moment of full circle. I was calling it "my story of agreeable symmetry." Any way…we got together, played with outfits, had a blast…and now we have some great works to show for it. In fact…I think we got better stuff that we had gotten on the previous go around (if I'm being honest). I was definitely inspired on a whole new level during the make-up session. Any way…thank you, Nelson, for being so understanding, wonderful…and, let's face it, hot!
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Enjoy your weekend!! Wear sunscreen!!
Debbie Nichols Poulos '63, poses with hubbie John in front of some of the 18 quilts she has on display at University Retirement Community, where they live in Davis, California. The show continues through July 31st. Debbie would love to have you stop by. Call her at 530-747-6326 or email her at firstname.lastname@example.com
David Keller '68 shares a TED talk given by his classmate Louie Schwartsberg last March in Vancouver BC. Click HERE to watch this spectacular display of nature photography. That's not really what it is, but it's as close as I can get.
I'm pretty sure Kris Pruski Wood '70 is the person who sent me a copy of the June 12, 1969 Pacer. The package was sealed so well I nearly needed a jackhammer to open it. There are still pieces of the envelope in the corners of my office, but not the return address label. Anyhow, it's the 10-page Graduation Issue and you can read all of it HERE.
The Jameson twins — Marilyn Schupp and Carolyn Alford '61 — have forwarded news of the death, on February 22nd, of "Cowboy Bob" Urbach '62. In his retirement, Bob opened "Hats by Bob" in Ramona. Click HERE to sign the guest book.


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Santiago: Castillo Rojo Boutique Hotel - Bellavista
Our recommendation in Santiago.
Hotel Boutique Castillo Rojo—"The Red Castle Hotel"—is located prominently at the center of Plaza Mori in the heart of Bellavista, a neighborhood famous for live music, theater, fine restaurants and exciting nightlife. The hotel is located one block from the Pablo Neruda House, Patio Bellavista and the Funicular to the summit of San Cristobal Hill. The iconic Red Castle was originally built in 1923 and was long known as a meeting place for locals and visitors. In 2013, it was lovingly re-imagined as a boutique hotel, with original furniture from the home, restored fireplaces and woodwork, and light fixtures and design elements true to the style of the 1920s. Castillo Rojo also offers modern comforts and luxuries, including 19 individually climate-controlled guest rooms, a wine bar, and two exciting restaurants: La Petanque an award winning french brasserie, and Cabildo which will open in October.
Take a walk back in time and experience the elegant style of 1920s Santiago. Have a glass of wine on our romantic terrace overlooking Plaza Mori, enjoy breakfast in our sunny garden or relax with a coffee on the plaza and watch the exciting world of Bellavista go by.
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Posh's sideboob for kids' day
She was in full costume today in London with Tana Ramsey (wife of Gordon) and all their children at a children's play centre, rock climbing inside, pony rides outside. Victoria Beckham is obviously more comfortable this way. And the outfit must be worn with a few buttons left open, even during play time.
Victoria and the boys are in England while David of course is with the English team in South Africa watching them disappointingly draw even with the Americans. And a nation wept. A friend of mine sent over this link – click here – highlighting Becks's handsomeness throughout the match, starting hot and happy and ending hot and miserable. The miserable is way hotter. Just me?
It's been a long-ish separation for the Beckhams which is only getting longer. You can hate on her for many things, but she does dote on her boys. And a lot of the time on her own. Following the World Cup, the family is reportedly expected to spend the rest of the summer dividing their time between their castles in England and France.
Brooklyn is growing so fast it's freaking me out. Like, that's an almost-adult.
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This guide presents themes collated from the analysis of interviews with 13 principals and teachers, and focus groups with 28 Māori and Pasifika primary and secondary school students in Greater Christchurch. These findings were combined with secondary research obtained from relevant studies in this area. It provides recommendations and considerations for creating more culturally responsive learning environments.
This short summary outlines the purpose of the Cultural Narrative document gifted by Mātauraka Mahaanui to educational institutions and how this documentation can be used and shared.
Ka Hikitia is a strategy to guide action to make a significant difference for Māori students in
education for the next five years and beyond.
Te Rautaki Mātauranga
Mō tātou, ā, mō kā uri ā muri ake nei - For us, and our children after us.
A collection of videos about culturally responsive practice in the New Zealand setting.
A excellent repository of stories and resources about secondary schools giving life to Ka Hikitia and addressing the aspirations of Māori communities by supporting Māori students to pursue their potential.
An educational resource for NZQA staff to learn about basic Tikanga and te reo Māori to support their day to day work.
This blog post explores the kaupapa of te reo Māori in our society and asks the question – He taonga rānei te reo Māori? Is te reo Māori indeed a treasure?
This Grow Waitaha article describes how the senior leadership team from Chisnallwood Intermediate School created a succinct and culturally responsive strategic plan that can be understood and articulated by students and teachers.
This Grow Waitaha article describes how St Marks School worked closely with Mātauraka Mahaanui to develop culturally sustainable practices and bring their cultural narrative to life.
Simon Moriarty, principal of South Hornby School – Te Manu Tukutuku, shares his school's experiences as they relocated to a newly built school on a new site.
Stuart Cameron, principal of Sumner School, shares his school's experiences through the master planning and design phases of their property development.


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There are many colours of Hollyhock which will grow in a wide variety of soil from poor to rich. Given rich soil this variety reached over ten feet with numerous branches and a long flowering time. At he moment it seems to be surviving the frost very well and I am hoping for a similar display this year. I cut it down low after the heavy frost season so that the new shoots, which are produced from ground level, can catch the sun and has a chance to regrow. Leaving the old growth until most of the frost has gone helps to protect the stump from which it regrows. Last year I had a white and this pink growing in the same spot next to each other. This year only the pink has flourished and the white has died.
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Waikiki Surfari in May – Good waves, great company
Night out at Hee Hing's with original Waikiki beach boy, Donald Goo and family: Donald's in red shirt center back of front table, Karen Cochran on his left and Debbie Walker, right. Around front table to Karen's left are Brennan and Diane Duncan, Nora and Mike, Judy 2 and Bill, Cody (Ivan's son) and Ivan of "Ivan's Reef" in green. Starting with Greg Cochran in back, Carolyn behind Donald. Elton (Donald's son) and wife Myava from Tahiti seated back of back table. GJ (Elton's daughter's boyfriend) and friend from Tahiti behind Elton. Rick Loeper and wife, Jannae, front of back table. Jeanine, Lisa Ryner's friend, Lisa, and Adrian, Debbie's work friend. Dave Duncan's taking the photo.
Earlier in the week some of the group tried out Jimmy Buffet's at the Beachcomber. From bottom right: Debbie Walker, Lisa Ryner, Brennan and Dave Duncan, Karen and Greg Cochran, Mike Snyder, Rich Dymer, son Derrick and girlfriend Shelby, Diane Duncan, old high school friend of Dave Duncan's, Bob DaCosta, Adrian and Jeanine.
This is the perfect trip to shed those wind-chop-no-swell-50-degree-water- overcast-onshore-blues. About 12 club members with family and friends made the trip to Waikiki this May.
We found waves from waist to head high and 75 degree water. Surfing without a wetsuit in warm, clear water is something every surfer should experience – incredibly freeing. What's great about Waikiki is you don't need a car to get around – so many things to do and see within walking distance. Koa Surf Shop, only a block from the beach that is in front of "Canoes" and "Queens", rents boards (long and short) and provides lockable racks for them when you're not surfing. At less than $100/wk it's half the price to rent and way more convenient than schlepping a board from the mainland. Groceries, pharmacies, restaurants, buses, the zoo, aquarium and shopping are all within a short walk.
Greg and Karen Cochran have been playing host to PPSCers for several years now on these Waikiki surfaris, which makes it fun for us mainlanders to visit and surf with ex-patriot PPSC Hawaii friends.


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Beautifully maintained lawns are an attraction at least to many of us. Think of a healthy-looking lawn, neat and glowing with a greenness only seen in rain forests. An entertaining thought, right? But here's the catch. Growing such a lawn and maintaining it is a task not many of us are ready for.
Obviously, it takes plenty of time, effort, and other resources to do that. Well, an artificial lawn is quite the opposite. Meaning it has plenty of benefits and more importantly, it requires low maintenance, effort and time to keep it looking terrific.
But to get the most out of an artificial lawn, first you need proper installation. Should you fail to have it installed properly, you will probably end up disliking it. And it's for this reason you need a professional artificial grass installer in……
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You can definitely install the artificial lawn on your own and that is laudable. You might also want to look at the flip side of this i.e. having it installed by a professional.
Space is usually a huge factor in the installation of artificial grass. If it's huge, chances are you will not do it correctly on your own because of the sophisticated processes involved. Leaving it to a professional is a sure way to have it installed correctly and to your satisfaction.
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Seaming is a perfect example of the many sophisticated processes involved. Joining one or more pieces of the fake grass requires seaming. Usually, it's aprocess that needs more skill and experience to do it right.
Also important to mention is ground preparation. Soil comes in different types and if yours is the difficult type, it's going to call for plenty of work. Remember there could be underground roots or objects like cables, irrigation lines, boulders and this too calls for extra care.
A professional understands the nature of such jobs and knows exactly how to carry them out.
Time constraints
A good number of us also have other commitments mostly work-related. Maybe you work a full-time job and setting some time aside to pursue such a task seems like too much for you. Besides, such work takes plenty of hours to carry out.
But imagine having a professional come over and having everything ready to your satisfaction in a matter of few days. Well, that's what a competent artificial grass installer in…..will do for you.
Important things to note Before Installing Artificial grass
Taste and Preference
Synthetic turfs come in different shades and often feature some additional accents. Blades also differ in length from turf to turf. So always identify that which suits you best.
Intended purpose
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It caught my attention when Clinton said we needed to repair the opportunities for those at the bottom, of which women and children make up over two-thirds of those in the poverty and near poverty range. I felt my heart lurch to think of starting there, with the women and the children, of all races and genders. In the nearly forty years I've been a voter, no one has prioritized preschool over bombs, eldercare over prisons, or maternity leave over corporate dividends.
It's clearly Primary season in this 2016 race for the office of the president of the United States. The commentary flies. Passions soar. Surrogates for both candidates, official and unofficial, proclaim loudly all the reasons they don't like the other candidate. I'm riveted by the rhetoric, barely tearing my eyes from the media, the blogosphere, and Facebook. But it was when one woman commented on Facebook, "I'm not for Hillary for policy reasons" that my eyes stopped scanning and might have even crossed and then uncrossed.
Did I read that right? Did she mean the policy that women are humans? Was she referring to the policy that all humans, including women and children, should have a voice? Did she mean the policy that the elderly should not be living in poverty? That no one should have to live in poverty?
Was she talking about the same woman, the one who spoke out in China that, "Women's rights are human rights?" Was that the Hillary she wasn't for, for policy reasons?
During the Democratic debate in New Hampshire on February 4, just one candidate on the lectern placed the women and children of this country, women and children of all races, genders, and economic security, at the forefront of her vision for the future. Hillary Clinton's introduction and closing remarks succinctly framed her dedication to improving the safety and well-being of women and children. Plenty of other woman agree, see this from Madeleine May Kunin, former governor of Vermont.
These social issues are most often prioritized at the bottom of the list for other candidates in this 2016 race to the White House. Even now, after decades of increasing wealth loss for those at the bottom, the strategies for repair of the economy are the same, they start at the top. The thinking seems to be that improving the economy will level the playing field for those who struggle. But, wealth isn't finding it's way down to the lower levels of the socioeconomic stratosphere, nor did it even when the economy was better. In the past, those outside the mainstream, white, middle-class world have been the ones who suffered.
Thus, it caught my attention when Clinton said we needed to repair the opportunities for those at the bottom, of which women and children make up over two-thirds of those in the poverty and near poverty range. I felt my heart lurch to think of starting there, with the women and the children, of all races and genders. In the nearly forty years I've been a voter, no one has prioritized preschool over bombs, eldercare over prisons, or maternity leave over corporate dividends.
Can you imagine the opportunity that opens if we elect someone so well-versed in what women and children need? What if we elected and followed this woman's policy instincts?
What if we supported her platform and subjected every policy issue to the test of what would be best for women and children? What kind of child care and maternity/paternity leave would benefit children the most? What kind of housing would benefit women and children?
Would the most beneficial housing be clean, sound, and environmentally safe? How would resources be funneled to create healthy settings for children to play? What conditions would be beneficial for aging women? For their caregivers?
We could guide ourselves by asking one simple question: What will improve the health and well-being of women and children? We already know, that when women and children thrive, so do men.
We could be really radical, and not just promise, we could give every child clean air, clean water, clean food, and a good education, improving the environment in the process? We could insist on high levels of safety and nourishment for our youngest citizens. Insisting on those standards would drive better business practices, including checks and balances in adhering to regulations.
We could quit attacking Clinton for her connections with Wall Street and charge those CEOs with carrying out plans to improve conditions for women and children. Corporations would benefit from economic forecasts for social programs, knowing what to build and the level of need to be filled. We could work our way to a win-win-win. Collaboration and communication with corporations could guide development that benefits women and children rather than development guiding women and children into unnecessary, unwise, or unrealistic consumption.
I'm voting for Clinton because I believe her to be the only candidate who shares my belief that a world safe for women and children can serve as the guide for the domestic and foreign policy of our country. I realize that's ironic, given this climate of assaulting her for her Iraq vote. But one vote isn't enough to convince me she has a penchant for war, any more than any other liberal and considerably less than her conservative rivals. In fact she's smarter than to make that mistake twice, in the same way she's smart enough to scrap any vestiges of her husband's welfare policies of the '90s and develop a new plan to restore health, education, and opportunity for those pushed out by the system.
Clinton has a long list of positive policy to her credit and she continues to advocate and place women and children in the forefront of her agenda whether or not those issues are dismissed by her opponents as not important enough. But, in case you still need to grapple with her history, please enjoy all the terrible things Hillary has done – in one big list.
I stand quietly letting the depth and breadth of her experience deepen my understanding of her. I reflect on her evolution as a person and as a politician. I applaud her persistence and commitment in the sticky, tangled, and dangerous world of improving women's conditions throughout the world.
I see in a Clinton presidency my dreams for the future.
Kim Cottrell is an author, educator, and speaker. She blogs at ahealthystepmother.com and is hard at work on a book of tales for stepmothers. Kim writes regularly about self-image, change, and living inside one's skin. She wants our society to grow a new self-image.
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Mississippi's two senators are ready to change the state flag, but they still honor and defend Jefferson Davis, the man who served as the president of the Confederacy and whose statue stands prominently in the U.S. Capitol's National Statuary Hall.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell tossed Jefferson Davis under the proverbial bus Tuesday — calling for the Davis statue in Kentucky's Capitol to be moved to a museum — part of a wave of efforts across the nation to roll back Confederate symbols after images emerged of Dylann Roof, accused of killing nine in a racially motivated massacre in Charleston, S.C., posing with the Confederate battle flag. But Republicans Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker of Mississippi stood by Davis Wednesday in separate hallway interviews at the Capitol with CQ Roll Call.
"I want to suggest that you read a book called Freedom's Cap, which outlines the pivotal role Congressman Jefferson Davis, Senator Jefferson Davis, and Secretary of War Jefferson Davis had in the building of this building, which points out he was an opponent of secession, and only left the Senate after Mississippi had voted to secede," said Wicker, who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
"In short, his contribution to this building, and to this nation, was profound. … Along with Montgomery Meigs, Jefferson Davis was as responsible as any American for the current House and Senate wings being as beautiful and having the high quality that they have today. And they were done so without graft. So Jefferson Davis is a historical figure to be studied and to be honored.
"Was he perfect? No. Was anybody? No. But I would … to take a logical leap from changing a flag, that is seen by so many to be hurtful, to every historical figure that may have sided with the Confederacy or may have owned slaves or may have mistreated Native Americans, is I don't think a leap that we want to take."
Cochran, the chairman of the Appropriations Committee, didn't sound any more eager to remove Davis when asked about reconsidering the Davis statue.
"I don't know. I don't want them taking my desk away either. That's Jefferson Davis's desk over there where I'm sitting. ...I'm very proud to have that. The senior senator from Mississippi always is given the opportunity to sit at the Davis desk."
Asked repeatedly about the statue, Cochran kept referring a reporter to his three-sentence statement he issued Wednesday morning about the flag.
(Both Cochran and Wicker came out for changing the state flag after earlier remaining agnostic on the issue .)
Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., also said Wednesday he supports the Davis statue.
Lott told CQ Roll Call he didn't think Congress should get involved in the decisions about statues in the Statuary Hall collection, including Davis.
Related: NRSC Chairman Evolves on Mississippi State Flag Confederate Flag Aside, Other Symbols are Everywhere McConnell Wants Kentucky Jefferson Davis Statue Moved to Museum Calls to Remove Confederate Flag Resonate in Capitol See photos, follies, HOH Hits and Misses and more at Roll Call's new video site. Get breaking news alerts and more from Roll Call in your inbox or on your iPhone.


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12/06/2011 Stage AE – Pittsburgh, PA
Set 1: Drums > San Jose, Close Your Eyes, Pirates, Solution, Don't Say > Looking Glass, Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms
Set 2: Happy Birthday Jason, Shine, Pretty Polly, Up The Canyon, Rivertrance, Best Feeling > Black Clouds
Encore: Ramble On
This show fell on Jason Hann's birthday and although I was not present, I know this show was special. They kicked off the show with a drums jam into San Jose, and then did the very rare Pirates. Second set featured a happy birthday to Jason, then Shine, Pretty Polly, and Up the Canyon! Ahhh! Can't believe they did Pretty Polly. Looks like an amazing show. See you in Chicago!


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Joining security information management systems with identity management systems boosts security
Integrating security information management systems with identity management systems ties policy violations and vulnerabilities to user activity
Traditionally within companies the IT security organization has mitigated risk through its set of policies, procedures and technologies, while user access and authorization has been controlled through the use of identity management processes and technologies managed by the IT organization. By bringing these two functions together, organizations increase their effectiveness to a level that is greater than the sum of the parts.
IT security departments have begun deploying security information and event management systems (SIM) within their organizations to monitor and report on information asset vulnerabilities. SIMs focus on remediating risk through scanners placed throughout the organization to gather information on information policy violations and then reporting on overall vulnerability to defined risks using management scorecards. While becoming more and more effective, these technologies act only as an early-warning radar system by recognizing when a large policy violation activity has occurred--which is then followed by a triage process to verify and remediate the problem.
Also today most SIMs have been configured only to concentrate on identifying incidences where sensitive information is attempting to leave the company's domain from authorized channels. While this reporting is important in any organization, ultimately managers are looking to SIMs to provide more proactive management of asset vulnerabilities and controls, rather than just reporting on incidents, to reduce fraudulent activities. But this functionality will go unrealized until the human component of security can be combined with the information views offered by today's SIM tools.
As security managers look inside their organizations to find where useful user authorization and role information can be found and married with their SIMs' data, they're finding that the most complete information doesn't come from the traditional human resources (HR) systems, whose data is more functional in nature, but from IT's identity and access management (IAM) systems. These systems, unlike the HR tools, are geared toward identifying the role or responsibility a person plays within the organization in order to grant them proper access to the systems and information they need in order to perform their duties.
In the past this access was granted through managing a series of entitlements, coarse-grained access rights. But the current trend is to consolidate multiple entitlements under a single role-based access and control (RBAC) definition for consistency and manageability. For example, if all Web-development engineers need the same 20 entitlements to the same 10 systems to do their job, it is easier to consolidate all these entitlements under a single RBAC object, such as "Web engineer" and assign or remove their accounts using this single value in the account request used by their provisioning process than managing 200 entitlements (20 entitlements x 10 systems). By basing user identity and access on an RBAC model, IT processes for on-boarding, changes and off-boarding user accounts become more timely, greatly simplified, and more effective.
So how can these two disparate technologies work together to reduce risk to the organization? SIM technologies are the central tool used by security managers to recognize when a policy violation activity has occurred. However, in order to fix an identified vulnerability, a triage process must be followed to verify and remediate the problem. This typically requires an IT security person to delve deeper into the information provided and determine the downstream effects of the activity (see Triage, below).
While this is process is usually effective, SIM tools deal with information and systems, not people. Many times the IT security person assigned the remediation activity doesn't have access to the knowledge of whether a person was involved, when they were involved, and which person initiated or caused the violation to occur. If a person is involved then they have to ask a series of questions. Was it a fraudulent activity perpetrated by a disgruntled insider? Did an unauthorized person from outside the company gain access to an internal system? Was this a case of an authorized person doing an activity that the general user population isn't authorized to do, for example, an HR person sending tax identification numbers to an outside benefits partner? Did a developer have an error in their programming that caused sensitive information to be sent to another application as part of the data feed from one system to the next? Because this information isn't in the native SIM solution, the IT security person must take the time to track down this information causing undue delays in determining if this incident does indeed pose a serious risk to the organization.
One Bank, 3 SIMs, 100,000 Nodes, 40 Million Events
Scale is a more pressing need than new functionality for one financial services firm
You'd be hard pressed to find a better proving ground for new functionality in a security information and event management system such as identity management than the Bank of New York Mellon.
The global financial services company's uses three SIM products, including one from ArcSight that monitors more than 100,000 nodes, including endpoints, server infrastructure, NAC, DLP, antimalware and more. VP of global security architecture Daniel Conroy says integration with IAM and other technologies such as fraud monitoring are the way SIMs have to go. But those technologies, identity management in particular, have to get their act together before it can happen.
IAM's challenges aren't limited to integration, implementation issues because of the diversity of roles in any large organization, and the fluid nature of user permissions and access control.
"Merging with identity management is the way it has to go down," Conroy says. "I'd like to see SIMs ultimately be more interactive with these [other] tools, be more self-aware and for example, go to asset management systems and pull data from there versus manually doing it. More plug and play out of the box."
BONY Mellon is certainly a SIMs power user given its massive global infrastructure. Conroy says his company's SIM handles upwards of 40 million daily events, a number he expects to triple soon as they begin monitoring outbound connections as well.For now, Conroy wants to see his SIM chug along; scale and quality correlation, analysis and reporting taking precedence over new capabilities.
"You need it to scale to a certain number of events per second. With some products if it comes above a certain number of events per second, it can crush the box and become a problem," Conroy says. "Events per second is what SIM comes down to. If you have analysts looking at data from 16 different products in one console, there's your ROI right there."
Take, for example, when a data loss prevention (DLP) tool identifies to the SIM system that credit card information was found in an information packet destined for a system that is outside the domain of the organization and was blocked. While the SIM system will identify the date, time, type of violation, destination IP address, source IP address, username and severity of violation, it doesn't tell who the person was that initiated the transaction or whether the person was authorized to send out this type of information. By having access to the organization's IAM information, the SIM system has access to not only which user maps to the IP address/username in the incident report, but it can also determine from their role(s) whether this was an authorized activity or not.
This means that IAM technologies take on a role as a feed to the SIM system. They enhance and provide the information needed for the SIM system to provide more complete information so incidents can be remediated quicker with higher confidence factors. SIM technologies can also benefit IAM technologies by identifying issues which may not be inherently obvious such as separation of duties (SoD) violations--for example users who have access to information which they also administer--or flagging activities of a system administrator who manually bypasses authorization controls on the system they manage.
What's more, through their information channel monitoring capabilities, SIM technologies can help organizations monitor what employees are doing, even when applications move into the cloud. They can also give special attention to information and activities being conducted by certain outsiders within the boundary of the organization through these persons' roles established by the IAM systems.
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But in order to achieve the benefits explained above, a certain minimum level of functionality must be deployed. As IT security personnel look at using RBAC and IAM technologies to help in providing better controls over user compliance for authorized access to information, they're finding their current IAM deployments aren't configured properly to help address the threats and unauthorized exposure of information that the SIM technologies are looking for. This means there are some basic limiting factors that must be addressed before any work can be done in integrating these two technologies to meet their needs.
- UNIQUENESS: One problem is the fact that no two companies are the same. That means defining a set of user activities to watch, or information assets that must be protected, monitored, reported on and controlled, will vary greatly; even within like industries. Details around the size of the organization, the corporate culture and management style, physical location of facilities, number/type of applications and services, types of clients and customers, regulatory compliance and reporting requirements, third party partnerships, etc. can greatly influence how IT security personnel mange asset vulnerability reporting.
- AUTHORIZED ACCESS: While IAM prevents unauthorized users from accessing unauthorized systems, they generally have difficulties managing authorized users using data in an unauthorized way. For instance, an account executive needs full access to a company's customer relationship management (CRM) application to perform their duties. But detecting that this person has decided to leave the company and is copying their client list to an outside source so they can take the list with them when they leave is almost impossible to detect within the IAM tools.
- RBAC IS AN ART: RBAC projects are significant activities and companies are still learning how to classify user responsibilities and roles. In many cases, RBAC projects are working to extend this control mechanism across the enterprise. This means there may still be large populations of users within an organization that are not being managed by roles. In addition, knowledge workers, program managers and executives are especially difficult to pigeonhole due to their ever-changing job responsibilities. If a SIM tool wishes to use RBAC objects in understanding user functions and responsibilities, the variability of a person's role must be understood to prevent false positives.
- REDUCED FUNCTIONALITY WHILE INTEGRATING: It has taken years to deploy, configure and tune IAM and SIM tools to perform the complex functions they do today. This means that in order to integrate these two technologies, great care must be taken to ensure that any activities to integrate these two technologies don't cause them to lose some of their current capabilities while trying to enhance the security of the organization.
- SCOPE OF COVERAGE: While IAM and SIM technologies are becoming an integral part of any organization's security and IT infrastructures, in most organizations they are not deployed across the entire enterprise. Certain lines of business, geographic locations, agencies, third-party partners and others may not have one, or both, of these technologies deployed, or they may be deployed unequally, limiting their use for these domains.
- ROLE VS. ACTIVITY: Just because the SIM technology detects an activity and uses a RBAC role to determine if the user involved in this incident is authorized to perform the activity detected, in the case of an unauthorized activity, the SIM system will not know how broad the user's access is in determining the degree of the vulnerability and the exposure of risk to the organization. This causes IT personnel doing remediation tasks to ask: Does the remediation need to include impeding the user from performing additional activities that caused the incident by shutting off their access? Or was this activity a single occurrence caused by not educating the user on proper usage procedures?
While the list above outlines some of the main limiting factors in integrating SIM and IAM technologies, the reality is as security and IT personnel meet to discuss the merger of their respective domains, many other organization-specific issues are sure to surface. Having good communications between these two groups is essential in order to move forward in integrating these two technologies. Understanding and fully documenting these limiting factors is also crucial as organizations move forward integrating their SIM and IAM technologies.
Combining SIM and IAM provides the link needed to tie user access to data use and exposure. While understanding any limiting factors is critical to the success of any deployment, it's not just a case of doing an integration project between the two but understanding the role each plays in securing the organization and which functions each provides as they begin to work together. This process starts by understanding the level of risk IT security management is willing to take and understanding any potential asset vulnerabilities. No technology can fully eliminate vulnerabilities and attacks. This means management (commonly referred to as Policy Management Authorities -- PMAs) must establish the controls and frameworks around how the technology tools will be used. The two most common standards that are followed are COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations) and COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies) standards for controls and frameworks. It's imperative these controls be defined before any addition work is done.
Once the controls are in place, IT security management and personnel must establish areas of control around any identified risks or asset vulnerabilities (also known as Policy Decision Points -- PDPs). This activity directs any tools to be used to the areas of the organization that are most vulnerable, or which must be monitored due to regulatory and other business requirements. As an organization's monitoring capabilities mature, the scope of monitoring can then be systematically expanded to include other areas of the organization including subsidiaries, partners, suppliers and software as a service (SaaS) cloud environments.
With the definition of the control mechanisms completed, an organization can now execute their enforcement through policies and tools (also known as Policy Enforcement Points -- PEPs). SIM and IAM technologies fall within this realm. By providing an integrated enforcement front, the organization can now monitor, detect, and remediate incidents efficiently and have a more complete view of vulnerabilities and attacks. In addition to integrating IAM information into the SIM systems to combine human interactions with the information being monitored, scorecards and dashboards can be established to indentify incidents as they occur as well as let IT security management know how well the organization is protecting its most guarded information. In addition, by bringing these two technologies together, security managers can now take on a proactive stance to IT security by identifying that not only is information safely flowing through the right communications channels, but also that users are being properly authorized to access only the information they're entitled to see.
While SIM and IAM integration can provide an organization with a more complete view into their IT security effectiveness, there are many other security mechanisms that will help complete the picture. A few of these include: good policies and procedures, physical security services, HR employee background checks, application rights management, and of course the diligence of the IT security personnel. But just as the U.S. Government is striving to bring together the information collected from their various intelligence organizations to identify risks to the United States, integrating an organization's various control technologies, such as SIM and IAM, will increase the security effectiveness of the organization against inside/outside attacks and shore up previously unknown vulnerabilities.
About the author:
Randall Gamby is an enterprise security architect for a Fortune 500 insurance and finance company who has worked in the security industry for more than 20 years. He specializes in security/identity management strategies, methodologies and architectures. Send comments on this article to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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