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Newcomers Instil Software and Catalyst2 joined the elite list in 2013 to give Northern Ireland its biggest representation on the all island list in the 14 year history of the awards.
Those from Northern Ireland making the 2013 shortlist are; Acksen Ltd, Aetopia Ltd, Core Systms, Etain Ltd, Export Technologies, Farmwizard, First Derivatives plc, Leaf Consultancy, Learning Pool, Novosco, PathXL, Rehabstudio Ltd, Seopia Ltd, Sixteen South, 8over8limited and Texthelp Systems Ltd.
David Crawford (pictured), partner in Deloitte's Belfast office, said: "The Northern Ireland technology sector is thriving and the diversity within it is recognised in the list of those making it to the gala event in Titanic Belfast early next month.
"It's no mean feat to be there and those businesses that have done so represent the creativity, innovation and entrepreneurial flair which characterises the local tech sector. The inspiration and energy these businesses exude is something we at Deloitte appreciate as we seek to help them continue to grow."
"Some of the names above will be familiar to the Northern Ireland business scene and some won't while others are better known in their export markets. All have shown consistently high levels of growth and that takes dedication from a committed team throughout a company."
Commenting on the upcoming Fast 50 event, Mr Crawford added: "The companies don't have long to wait to discover their final ranking in Ireland's Fast 50 and it's great that the event will be held this year in Belfast, on November 8.
"The final ranking features tech businesses that have demonstrated innovative strategies, sound management practices and marketplace vision, enabling them to achieve high revenue growth."
For more information on the Deloitte Fast 50 Technology Programme go to www.fast50.ie
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Tony Canzoneri is a partner in the Los Angeles office of McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP. He has advised public and private sector clients on public/private partnerships and real estate projects, including mixed use, master-planned communities, and infrastructure. He also was city attorney and redevelopment agency counsel for the cities of Cerritos and Monterey Park, California. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.

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In-depth breakout sessions at the Physicians and Hospitals Law Institute will focus on legal challenges faced by physicians and their counsel, the legal challenges faced by hospitals and health systems and their counsel, and the legal issues of interest to both segments of the health care delivery system. Topic areas covered at this program include compliance, fair market value, fraud, transactions, and payment. Again this year, we will offer a track of eleven sessions on February 7 that will focus on health information and technology, such as big data, EHR, cybersecurity, integrated health information records.
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In recent years, physician practices have increasingly engaged in various forms of consolidation. Physicians have become employed by hospitals, merged groups, or leased themselves to health systems. Join the Physician Organizations Practice Group for a luncheon during which attendees will discuss the Challenges Posed by Consolidation. The luncheon will consist of brief introductory remarks by Daniel Shay, Vice Chair for Educational Programs, on the impact of such consolidation for attorneys who represent physician organizations. Attendees will then have the opportunity to engage in small group discussions on how they have responded to this trend. Finally, the groups will briefly report on their discussions.
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I still remember my first electric guitar. I'd plug that shiny black Strat knockoff into my little red single-channel amp, crank that sucker to eleven, and let her rip. Jamming along with songs on the radio or my favorite tapes and CDs was fun, but it wasn't long before I was disappointed with the sounds I got out of that amp.
For the next decade, I battled an affliction that plagues many hobbyists known as G.A.S. — Gear Acquisition Syndrome — a compulsive pursuit of the shiny brand new. Amps, guitars, pedals, effects boards, speaker cabinets. I wanted anything that I thought might help me find that perfect tone to let me rip like Slash or groove like Stone. I don't even dare to think about how much time and money I must have spent buying all that stuff, lugging it around and storing it over all those years.
Thankfully, most of that stuff is gone now. When I record at home, I use Apple's Logic Studio which does a reasonable job of replacing all of that equipment I bought, sold, and lost over the years. It's a pro software bundle at an amateur price, though there's definitely a learning curve. Logic Studio may be for the advanced user, but Apple hasn't forgotten about the beginners.
By now, most Mac users know about GarageBand. Apple has included it as standard software on every new Mac since 2004, and each year it gets better. The new iLife '09 suite updates GarageBand with several exciting new features that will help beginner, and even advanced, guitarists keep their hobby clutter-free.
Apple added more guitar sounds and effects, and an intuitive new interface that lets you visually tweak your "rig" without the cost and clutter of buying tons of equipment. Add pedals or switch out entire amps with a click of the mouse.
"Basic Lessons" help you learn new songs at your own pace, complete with a backing band, while "Artist Lessons" let you learn your favorites from the original artist. Pretty cool.


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Marriage/Couples Counseling
Marriage/Couples Counseling is an investment in your current and future happiness. Your romantic relationship started out as amazing, wonderful and exciting all in one. Somehow along the way it may have become a source of stress and pain, rather than the fulfilling partnership that it is meant to be. Marriage/Couples Counseling involves couples meeting with a highly skilled HMS Therapist to diagnose the core issues in the relationship and treat from the root of the problem. In addition, the couples will learn to communicate in a healthy manner while healing from disappointments and hurtful exchanges that may have occurred during the lifespan of the relationship. The Therapist will work with the couple to identify each partner's specific needs in the relationship and work to help the couple learn how to meet each other's needs.
HMS Therapists have worked with couples to resolve issues such as financial problems, infidelity, distrust and dishonesty in the relationship, difficulty trusting, military stresses, domestic abuse, emotional disconnectedness, spiritual conflict, apathy in the relationship, parenting concerns, previous trauma and sexual abuse and its effect on the relationship, and many more.
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Much has been said recently about Facebook being used in divorce proceedings. Well, Simon Owens of the Bloggasm blog has drawn my attention to a possible antidote for those who are fed up reading what their ex is getting up to on Facebook (or anywhere else on the net, come to that), but can't resist looking. 'Ex-Blocker' is a plugin for Firefox and Chrome browsers (not yet available for Internet Explorer, but who uses that nowadays?) that not only removes the user's ability to look at their ex's Facebook profiles and Twitter accounts, but removes their name from the internet entirely, including from Google search results and blogs. You can even add up to five ex-partners, for those unfortunate enough to have that many. To quote the blurb:
"His cute hair and perfect smile, along with his smelly feet, inability to hold down a job, and embarrassing table manners can now not only be barred from your memory but from every aspect of your activity online."
I suspect that the Ex-Blocker may get quite a few downloads...
(Note that I haven't tried Ex-Blocker, so I make no warranties about it - try it at your own risk.)
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East London Dance is recruiting: Interim General Manager.
Salary £32,000 – £36,000 per annum
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Where: London, UK
Deadline for applications: Wednesday 12 September 2018, 11am
East London Dance is seeking an Interim General Manager to provide adoption leave cover on a six-month fixed term contract. The General Manager is a key role in the Executive team and is responsible for effective financial management and smooth operational management across the organisation.
You will be a highly organised and numerate individual with at least four years experience of working within an arts organisation or charity. You will have proven financial management experience, with a track record of preparing management accounts and annual budgets. You will thrive in a fast paced environment, able to work autonomously as well as with a team. You will have strong communication skills and an ability to establish good rapport with a wide variety of individuals and organisations.
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With three decades of experience at the heart of the UK's fastest-changing community, we bring dance to people and people to dance, producing ambitious performances that attract wide audiences alongside projects to get all ages dancing. Uncovering diverse talent, we train young professionals, develop their careers and watch them fly. We collaborate widely and attract world-class choreographers and artists to come and work with us. Across the dance world, and among our audiences and participants, we make friendships, partnerships and inspired connections.
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This has been a journey (to say the least). Those that have been reading have seen the funny, the awkward, the real, the scary, and everything in between. However, I have been holding out on you a little. It's time for me to name some of my favorite, untold moments: "The Couch" Due to not … Continue reading AMWHP: "BLOOPERS"
Day #20 AMWHP: "RETURN OF THE PHONE"
Well, folks, it's time. After a weirdly fun and complicated 20-day run, it's time to break the news to all of you (or my 3 or so readers) that I have purchased a new phone. I mentioned in my first post, "A millennial without her phone," that I would buy a new phone when my credit … Continue reading Day #20 AMWHP: "RETURN OF THE PHONE"
Day #17 AMWHP: "WRITING"
Writing is so inorganic. At least, it is the way I do it. I have taken to the habit of writing in the same manner in which I speak. If you creepily stalked me, showed up in the coffee shop that I am invariably sitting at, confidently walked up to my table and began speaking … Continue reading Day #17 AMWHP: "WRITING"
Day #16 AMWHP: "THAT MAKES ME NERVOUS"
"What's the point of my writing?" I'm glad you asked. Well, certainly, I do not write because I'm some kind of courageous and ambitious millennial that wants to share her story with the world and make a change. Of course not. *eye roll* As great as that sounds; I'll be honest, the "courageous," "ambitious," and … Continue reading Day #16 AMWHP: "THAT MAKES ME NERVOUS"
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Apparently, I've developed a new hobby. (See? If I can do it, so can you.) As many of you know, "A millennial without her phone" all started when I accidentally threw my perfectly good iphone in the toilet right after I had used it. The toilet, that is. I went through the motions: gasping, denial, … Continue reading Day #15 AMWHP: "Porcelain Murder Chamber"
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Cabela's Open Season Pecan Honey Seasoning Mix is the third of the three seasoning mixes I was given for Christmas. I generously rubbed it into two pork chops and grilled them over medium high heat to an internal temperature of 160 F. You can cook pork to as low as 145 F but She Who Must Be Obeyed doesn't like even a touch of pink in her pork.
This seasoning mix is quite unusual and took me back on the first bite. The sweet of the honey is added to by the richness of the pecan and is very different from most meat rubs I have tried. Not much heat and a different sweet than brown sugar rubs. However, as I got over the surprise, I quite like it. It gives a different yet pleasant taste to pork. I think it would really shine as a seasoning on a ham.
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[JURIST] Members of the US House and Senate on Tuesday introduced bipartisan legislation [press release] to renew the Voting Rights Act of 1965 [text, US DOJ backgrounder], which prohibits voter discrimination based on race or color. Although most of the act is permanent, three sections, including a requirement that states or counties with a history of discrimination secure Justice Department or court approval before changing voting procedures, are set to expire in 2007. A group of congressmen, led by House Judiciary Chairman Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) [official website], introduced the Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006, HR 9, which will extend the Voting Rights Act for another 25 years. The House Judiciary Committee will hold hearings on the proposed legislation later this week. An identical version of the bill was also introduced in the Senate on Tuesday.
The Justice Department has previously announced its support for the renewal of the Voting Rights Act [JURIST report] and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [advocacy website] strongly endorsed the proposal [press release] Tuesday. Representatives from the NAACP and ACLU testified before the House Judiciary Committee [official website] last year on the existence of voting barriers to minorities [JURIST report] and a recent study completed by the National Commission on the Voting Rights Act [official website] found that minorities still faced disenfranchisement at the polls. The commission urged Congress to renew the Voting Rights Act [JURIST report]. Reuters has more.


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Vendasta was formed in January of 2008 and quickly drummed up $3 million in venture capital funding later that summer. After acquiring another $8.25 million of funding in 2013, we grew from a handful of developers to a 200+ strong team working at a landmark location in downtown Saskatoon. This success has come under the leadership of Vendasta's executives.
Brendan King
Chief Executive Officer
Intense, boisterous, imaginative. Brendan King, co-founder and CEO of Vendasta Technologies, is the innovative force of the company. Responsible for providing the vision, thought leadership and business strategy, it is Brendan's ability to focus on the big picture while maintaining quality on the finest details that facilitates Vendasta's success. Prior to co-founding Vendasta, Brendan proved his worth through many business ventures, including founding two other successful companies, one of which was nationally franchised. He also provided the entrepreneurial force behind Point2 Agent, a real estate software, where he grew its membership to over 165,000 agents and brokers in 85 countries. Brendan and Vendasta are almost synonymous. Both are governed by four core values: drive, innovation, respect and agility. Brendan is extremely passionate about upholding these core values while leading Vendasta down a path of innovation to become the number one provider of essential brand management products.
Jeff Tomlin
Chief Marketing Officer
Jeff Tomlin is a visionary in all things marketing, SEO, business strategy and digital. As a co-founder of Vendasta, Jeff's passion and innovative nature drives the success of the business. While conducting market research and business analysis, Jeff is always measuring and analyzing the effectiveness of the marketing efforts. He is constantly developing and iterating marketing and PR plans, seeking out the most effective paths. In working with channel partners to help their business clients to grow revenue with digital media solutions, strengthen traditional media assets and develop digital sales strategies, Jeff is known to many of America's top media companies. Prior to co-founding Vendasta, Jeff was the VP of strategy and business development at Point2, where he helped grow a real estate platform from the ground to power over 185,000 agents in 84 countries.
George Leith
Chief Revenue Officer
George is responsible for business development with Vendasta's large media partners, as well as managing our in-house sales team. A digital interpreter, George has preached the gospel of online reputation management directly to the local businesses of hundreds of cities across North America. He translates his knowledge of the digital landscape into accessible information for those still stuck in the rut of traditional media. With nearly three decades of experience in marketing, sales and promotion, George is a highly compelling speaker, always in demand across North America — vital content and emphatic delivery are combined for an enlightening presentation. George's expertise in sales, training, networking, management and marketing comes from the numerous executive and ownership positions he has held across multiple media and service related businesses. His track record of success is continued here at Vendasta.
Dale Hopkins
Chief Technology Officer
Dale is a technical visionary with a passion for the big picture. A constant forger of new ideas, his deep understanding of system-level programming equips him with the right skills to strengthen Vendasta's reputation as a world leader in distributed applications using cloud-based infrastructure. He also brings an entrepreneurial background to the table—having co-founded LucidHelix Solutions in 2008, a company that specialized in diagnostic software for digital television networks—along with an Engineering Physics degree and over twelve years experience as a developer and architect. He revels in large-scale thinking and hands-on prototyping, and spends most of his time identifying new technologies that push our limits, lower our costs and continue to ensure Vendasta is the number one workplace for Canadian software developers.
Jacqueline Cook
Chief Strategy Officer
Jacqueline is responsible for driving a growth mindset throughout Vendasta. She encourages alignment, focus and execution cross-functionally with Engineering, Design, Product Management, Operations, Marketing, Sales, Support and Success. She leads Vendasta's internationalization strategy and analyzes key customer insights and trends in order to feed back throughout the rest of the organization. Jacqueline is an alumnus of The Next 36 Entrepreneurial Institute, Canada's premier entrepreneurial leadership initiative. During the program, she co-founded and was CEO of Triumf Mobile Rewards: a tablet and Smartphone-based platform for small and medium-sized businesses to customize their own loyalty rewards programs. She has been a speaker at events such as TEDx UofS and WE DAY 2015, and has represented Canada at the 2010 G8 and G20 Summits, the 2010 APEC Summit in Japan, and at the 2011 G20 Young Entrepreneur Summit in France.
Ed O'Keefe
EVP, Marketplace
Heading up Vendasta's Marketplace, Ed powers mass sales channels of thousands of reps with a breadth of innovative products. Anticipating innovations for forthcoming problems, he has successfully owned and built organizations in both large media and start up environments. Having lived and operated some of these ventures internationally, Ed is a lead strategist in Vendasta's internationalization blueprint, forging essential relationships in North America, Europe and further. An ambitious visionary who's passion is rivalled only by his keen sense of business acumen, Ed has long been a pioneer in the digital advertising ecosystem. Aligning pertinent vendors, a rapidly growing salesforce and Vendasta's vision is not only Ed's job, but what he is resoundingly passionate about.
Jeff Folckemer
Executive Vice President
Jeff was Vendasta's very first customer and joined the team after a decade of working with the platform. He is the steward of Vendasta's high-value business partnerships, working daily to make its enterprise partnerships stronger. He has more than 20 years experience in sales, marketing, and operations in U.S. media, helping newspapers, tv stations, radio groups, and yellow page companies transition to new digital revenue streams. He has spent his career helping to build and scale digital solutions that solve real world issues.
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Published in Science today, 11.02.2011 (yey! palidromic date!) is a report on the find of a Complete Fourth Metatarsal and Arches in the Foot of Australopithecus afarensis.
New fossil evidence from Hadar, Ethiopia suggests that our ancestors from 3.2 million years ago (Australopithecus afarensis (better known as Lucy)) had arches in their feet.
Arched feet are an essential part of the bipedal way that modern humans walk.
Although the skeleton of Lucy was found in 1974, until now important foot bones in all of the specimens uncovered to date have made it difficult for researchers to understand precisely how well adapted for bipedalism a. afarensis were.
Why should people interested in Language Evolution care about bipedalism? Well, here's some food for thought:
1) Bipedalism likely had an impact on our cognitive abilities. As climbing as a form of locomotion became less common, different ways to cognitively represent space and distance probably had to be found. These new systems could have involved imitation (mirror neuron alarm bells start ringing). By adding imitative abilities to already existing spacial awareness that are seen in modern, non-human primates, this may have created mechanisms which allowed hominins to visualise themselves walking across plains (McWhinney 2005). This may have been the original selective pressure for imitative ability and therefore could have some implications for the imitative abilities which exist within language.
2) Upright posture would free up forelimbs which may have had communicative advantages as it would free the hands up for gesture. This theory has been somewhat rubished in that the first apes to adapt a bipedal posture were probably cognitively not much different from today's apes (assumed from evidence of skull size). However even if this was not the selective pressure FOR bipedalism it doesn't stop it being relevant to the discussion.
3) Free hand movement would also lead to making tools. Stone tools getting more complex and language developing as evolution took place may show a close relationship between enhanced motor movement and language. Deficits in motor control are also often linked to aphasia so there is a strong connection between manual activity and speech communication.
4) When Chimpanzees and Gorillas are socializing in groups they go from a 'knuckle walk' to sitting in circles, this allows apes to keep eye contact with each other in social situations, bipedalism would also allow one to keep eye contact at all times, even when in motion, and so the this may have been a selective pressure. Stanford (2003)
5) Evolution of the cortico-striatal neural circuits (basal ganglia) that regulate human language may have been shaped by the demands of upright bipedal locomotion. (Lieberman, 2001)
A lot of this debate is quite controversial but I thought I'd put some thoughts/theories out there in celebration of exciting new finds!
Lieberman, P. (2001) On the subcortical bases of the evolution of language. In Jurgan Trabant and Sean Ward, editors, New Essays on the Origins of Language, pages 21–40. Berlin-New York:Mouton de Gruyter.
McWhinney, B. (2005) Language Evolution and Human Development. In Bjorklund, D. and Pellegrini, A. (Eds.). Origins of the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Child Development (pp 383-410). New York: Guilford Press.
Stanford, C. B. (2003). Upright: The evolutionary key to becoming human. New York: Houghton Mifflin
Ward, C. V., W. H. Kimbel & D. C. Johanson (2011) Complete Fourth Metatarsal and Arches in the Foot of Australopithecus afarensis. Science: 331 (6018), 750-753.


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November. Nine months. Long enough to gestate a human. That's how long we have to wait for the US release of Ralph Fiennes' Coriolanus.
On the one hand, I believe that the wait indicates a desire to position the film for awards contention. On the other, I would hate to see it lose the positive buzz from its premiere at the Berlinale that surrounds it right now. (I'm on tenterhooks awaiting Saturday's results of the competition for the Golden Bear.) I hope the rumor that Fiennes is taking it to Cannes is true. (Somehow, I think the involvement of The Weinstein Company improves the odds. Harvey likes a good party.) I think this would be a good fit for the Venice Film Festival (31 Aug – 10 Sep) as well but, Cannes is the biggest and most prestigious film festival in the world (11-22 May), so keep your digits crossed.
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Stress is taking its toll on police officers throughout the nation, though it is a problem that many departments are loath to talk about publicly. And that includes Philadelphia's.
"It's difficult to put your arms around the problem, when so few people are willing to talk about it," said Councilman Michael Nutter. "Everyone knows it's a serious problem, but not many will discuss it."
New York City has a different attitude. Last week, police brass became so alarmed at the number of suicides among officers that it set in motion a new program to recruit and train cops as peer counselors.
In a police force of more than 30,000, suicides among officers have been on the rise. Fourteen uniformed men killed themselves last year. Others atempted suicide but were thwarted by alert officers who intervened in time.
A recent study revealed that New York City officers kill themselves at a rate of 29 per 100,000 a year. The rate of suicide in the general population is 12 per 100,000. Most of the victims are young males with no record of misconduct who shoot themselves while off duty.
Nationally, twice as many cops - about 300 annually - commit suicide as are killed in the line of duty, according to a study by the National Association of Police Chiefs.
In Philadelphia, officers with probIems sometimes receive help from the Employee Assistance Program within the department. Their concerns range from stress on the job to personal dilemmas that sometimes become overwhelming.
Michael Broader, a clinical psychologist, has been working with the EAP since July of this year. He says that "the dynamics of the job" sometimes lead officers to take their own lives. The fact that officers have a weapon strapped at their waist at all times also plays a role.
Alcohol is sometimes a factor, along with troubled marriages or relationships. Many policemen live with added pressure from families who complain that they "never have a day off."
It's difficult in Philadelphia to determine just why cops take their own lives, or how many, due to the state's confidentiality law. In addition, the police deny they keep such statistics.
Capt. Gus Carre, the commanding officer at EAP, did say stress among police officers is not unusual. "It's a difficult job made more difficult by the individuals that officers must deal with on a daily basis."
Many police officers see a steady diet of the grim underside of life that most people rarely see.
They are usually first at the scene when babies are killed, when wives are battered, when addicts die of an overdose or when accidents kill or maim citizens. It all takes its toll on even the most hard-nosed officers.
A few years ago in Northeast Philadelphia, an officer sat with his gun pressed to his, head for four hours. Finally, he was talked into putting his weapon down.
Unfortunately, not every situation is as easily resolved. Several times last year, Philadelphia officers killed themselves before help arrived.
Many officers here and throughout the nation refuse to seek needed assistance because they fear it will result in their being labeled "weak."
Police officers are almost always high on the list of suicide groups," says Mort Feldman, vice president of the chiefs' group. Feldman was a policeman in Florida for 30 years. "This is a national concern," he said in an interview. "What is needed is to separate Employee Assistance Programs from the police department. A liaison should be established between cops and mental health associations.
"Policemen are often reluctant to tell people in the chain of command they're having problems because they fear their careers will be destroyed. So they make the mistake of trying to solve their problems quietly and that often leads to alcohol or substance abuse or suicide."
Many suicides by police go unreported to avoid stigmatizing families and to allow them to collect insurance claims and other compensation.
Another officer admitted he's seen reports that list suicides under a broad classification of "accidental discharge of a weapon" that was anything but accidental.
Feldman says some police officers trade their wives and kids for the job: "If they're even questioned during an investigation, some officers who are completely clean feel betrayed by the job.... Occasionally, such an individual, feeling betrayed by his fellow officers, will kill himself because he feels he's been abandoned."
Feldman said his organization didn't keep statistics on police suicides by city "because I know we wouldn't be given the right numbers."
Although Philadelphia police refused to share their numbers, they are well aware how many officers kill themselves every year. They must think that hiding the problem will make it go away, but all that does is suggest that police suicides may be even more widespread than most people think.
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Inspired by a nation's headlines, "My Name is Myeisha" is the story of an all-too-common American tragedy told through uncommon cinematic language, with the profound intimacy experienced in sudden loss. In this instance, the loss of a young black woman named Myeisha Jackson.
"My Name is Myeisha takes you on an extraordinary journey," says filmmaker Gus Krieger. "A nonlinear trip through Myeisha's mind powered by her love of beatboxing and hip-hop dance. On this journey, harsh realities crash against the metaphysical as we witness Myeisha's innermost self, her life. This material blew me away from moment one, and I couldn't be more excited to be involved."
"This film is reflective of so many stories in our communities, stories of black lives cut short, black lives unfulfilled; stories that deserve to be told." says Rickerby Hinds, producer and writer of the stageplay "Dreamscape", upon which the film is based. "If history has taught anything, it has taught us that if we want our stories told with accuracy and compassion: it is up to us to tell them, to write them, to produce them, to support them. It is up to us."
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Sunday, October 28, 2012
Oreo Caramel Apple
Dang, I'm kind of on a roll. Posting four times in two weeks. Gettin all crazy.
I hope that I haven't just jinxed myself.
I know lots of you are saying the same thing. Where did October go? How can Halloween be a few days away? It never ceases to amaze me how fast it all goes. Even though I'm not quite sure how October snuck up on me, I'm happy for the change of weather. Though again, it's in the 80's much of this week here in my corner of So Cal. But at least our nights get cool enough to snuggle under our down comforter.
I was browsing through my food photos and realized I had a perfect October treat to post. I actually made this caramel apple several months ago and then of course forgot all about it. If you're looking for a fun goodie to make for Halloween or just to enjoy any day of the week, you can get very creative with caramel apples.
Have you ever been to Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory? They are famous for their vast selection of dressed up caramel apples. They have creations such as apple pie caramel apples, to Oreo caramel apples and peanut butter cup caramel apples, to name a few. I haven't met an apple from Rocky Mountain I didn't like.
Making your own caramel apple at home is easy to do. Because you have to melt a fair amount of caramel and candy coating, I recommend making several apples at one time. I only made two, which meant some of my ingredients went to waste.
You can also give a fancy-fied caramel apple as a gift. Place a fully set apple in a clear treat bag (from Michaels) and tie off with a festive ribbon. But save one for yourself. Because they are delcious! And look at it this way. Indulging in a cookie coated, caramel apple is better than eating a plain old cookie or candy bar. The apple part makes this totally okay to eat...practically a healthy dessert.
No, really.
Maybe. :)
Oreo Caramel Apple
This is more of an ingredient list than an exact recipe.
Granny Smith apples
Caramel candies (or make your own caramel)
Vanilla candy coating (or melted white chocolate)
Crushed Oreo cookies
Lollilop sticks
Crush Oreos in a sealed zip top bag using a mallet or rolling pin and place crushed cookies in a pie plate and set aside. Line a baking sheet with foil or parchment paper. Remove stem from apple and insert lollipop stick 1/3 of way into apple. Melt caramel candies (or make your own). Dip apple in caramel and twirl around until evenly coated, leaving some green apple showing. Allow excess to drip off and then place on prepared baking sheet and allow to set about 20-30 minutes.
Make sure your crushed Oreos are handy. Then melt vanilla candy coating (or white chocolate) and dip apple while still allowing caramel layer to show. Place apple in the cookie filled pie plate and using your hands pat a generous amount crushed Oreos into the vanilla layer while still allowing vanilla layer to still show. Some of the cookies will fall off but just keep packing them back on and patting them into the coating. Return to parchment paper and allow to set. You can place in the refrigerator for 10 minutes to set quicker. Don't refrigerate for too long or the apple will sweat.
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- AnonymousOctober 30, 2012 at 5:01 PM
Yes, time sure flies. I can't believe it's almost November! These apples look to die for! Oh my! Lucky you still having decent weather. It's been 40-50's during the day and freezing at night here in MI.ReplyDelete
Oh my word, I literally started salivating upon seeing the first pic in this post!! I need this apple in my life like yesterday :) We stopped into Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory for the first time when we were in Canada this summer and I'm pretty sure I gained 5 lbs just being in there, it all looked so good!ReplyDelete
I do love Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. It was there that I was introduced to my favorite, Caramel Apple Pie. It is dipped in caramel, then white chocolate then rolled in a mixture of cinnamon and brown sugar--be still my heart! What a treat.ReplyDelete
But the Oreo one looks pretty good too. If you gift such an apple to someone you just may have a friend for life!
Surrrreee these are healthy ;) Yours look way better than Rocky Mountain!ReplyDelete
Thanks for checking in :)
oh your apple looks very good! what kind of melt vanilla candy do you use? thank you!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 23, 2014 at 8:45 PM
Just a tip- RMCF uses melted white chocolate, so if you want them to turn out like theirs I'd recommend using that instead of the vanilla coating.ReplyDelete


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Hokushin Itto Ryu Soke, Chiba Shusaku Narimasa's portrait
The Founder of Hokushin Itto Ryu Kenjutsu was the famous master swordsman Chiba Shusaku Narimasa (1794 ~ 1855). He was born in Mito, Chiba prefecture, the second son of Chiba Ko-uemon a descendent of the Chiba family. The Chiba Uchi clan (Gozoku) once served as retainers to the Shogun Minamoto Yoritomo.
Hand print of founder of Hokushin Itto Ryu Soke
Chiba Ko-uemon, a veternarian, wanted his son to continue in the samurai tradition of the Chiba family so he sent young Chiba Shusaku Narimasa to learn the art of swordsmanship from his grandfather Chibanosuke Tsunetane, founder of Hokushin Muso Ryu Kenjutsu. At age sixteen, Chiba Shusaku was then sent to study Nakanishiha Itto Ryu Kenjutsu under Ken-shi Asari Matashichiro, who had previously studied Onoha Itto Ryu Kenjutsu before he became a student of Nakanishi Tadaheii Tanemasa.
Chiba Shusaku owned sword by Yamaura Saneo( Sword smith Kiyomaro's brother)
Chiba Shusaku stayed with Ken-shi Asari Matashichiro receiving Menjo-Kaiden at the age of 23, (normally it takes 14-15 years to attain) and was then promoted to the Nakanishiha Itto Ryu Honbu Dojo where he trained for a further three years under the Soke of Nakanishiha Itto Ryu, Nakanishi Tadaheiemon, who granted him Menjo-Kaiden.
Chiba Shusaku grave stone (Tokyo)
Chiba Shusaku Narimasa was appointed as martial instructor for Jyaku Province in 1818 by Daimyo Sakai. A few years later he founded his own school (1821), and gave it the name Hokushin Itto Ryu. Chiba Shusaku Narimasa began Musha Shugyo, a journey consisting of numerous challenges against swordsmen from highly recognised schools of swordsmanship. It was during this time that Chiba Shusaku Narimasa earned his reputation as a formidable swordsman.
Hoshino Miya Jinja, where Shusaku and Kimura(Shindo Munen Ryu) duel took place in 1820(Sano)
Challenges were normally conducted with both swordsmen using Bokken (wooden sword) or Shinai (bamboo sword) and is a formal way for Japanese swordsmen to duel and not get killed as a direct consequence. The dojo owner would decide what weapon was to be used and quite often would let one of his students meet the challenger first so that he would be able to study his opponent's technique. There was always a referee present and the duel would be the best of three contests with the winner being declared with two wins. The unfortunate side-effect of a total loss to a challenger would be the subsequent desertion of students from the owner's dojo. Chiba Shusaku Narimasa was renowned for his tactic of allowing an opponent to win one contest and thereby saving face in front of his students. Chiba Shusaku Narimasa never lost a challenge. In 1835, he was appointed martial instructor and taught swordsmanship to members of the Tokugawa family in Mito, Chiba prefecture. In 1852 and as a tribute to this great master swordsman, a plaque with Chiba Shusaku Narimasa's name and a list of his students enscribed upon it was offered to the Asakusa Temple in Edo. The number of students listed was 3,600.
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Chorlton replied to TheEnforcer's topic in General Fire Alarm Queriesjust drill some holes in the bottom of the panel, extend the leads and cable tie or velcro a 18ah on, lol
Roy your banging your lone drum against a wave of experience & opinion. Ref the underlined - Ask them if their inspectorate & insurance company are happy for them to share engineering codes and engineering of panels with customers for DIY use & why they think it acceptable to leave a faulty system down for 72hrs+. These are HUGE issues you seem to have no grasp of yet feel it acceptable to question our questioning of the same. Your finding no favour with your replies so best call an end IMO. Good luck with your new unworking system your installer has left you with and your own effort to fix it whilst awaiting their return. C.
don't think it's unfair at all. you understand the liability for fit for purpose and the insurance restrictions in place? you may be a NASA scientist but your not insured, qualified or 1st hand responsible. the clues in the code name as to who should have it, who should use it and you've invalidated al liability for the system and it's components. TBH the fact you've paid for a system and are posting for help over a bank holiday weekend speaks volumes. So much for industry standards such as dedicated 24/7 4hr response enforced by tha NSI & SSAIB when your left to google fix it on a DIY basis. Think I've said enough on the whole matter TBH.
Chorlton replied to magpye's topic in Members Lounge (Public)Most summer varieties have been developed to be milder in taste to suit the majority of modern bland palat. Try Scarlet Glode it's a 100year old variety so more likely to have retained the taste your after. Also try Black Spanish Round which is a winter variety (sow june-august) and certainly has the "bite" your after. You can get the above from www.organiccatalogue.com Make sure you pick your current crop as soon as ripe. Waiting for them to get too big will result in them drawing more water and dilution of the "bite" you want. Chorlton Tichmarsh
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Chorlton replied to a topic in Members Lounge (Public)no tbh. i use bt paperless billing but you can log in and download a pdf of your bill including itemisation FOC. you sure you ain't downloaded the summary bill (everything but itemisation's on it) ?
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Chorlton replied to btpooh's topic in Control Panels (Public)hello & welcome just to clarify are you asking us to tell you how to disable your alarm? if so see here - http://www.thesecurityinstaller.co.uk/comm...p;f=11&id=8 C.
Chorlton replied to Adi's topic in CCTV & Access Controlthat's just wrong. I assume McD's was closed or he forgot to pack pork pies. Calls himself a survival specialist and forgets pork pies, sausage rolls and scotch eggs, muppet! C.
order , order ! duck house building, moat cleaning or 2nd home faux mortgages anyone? lol
no i don't know the who owns every single brute registered i assume i know the ones with usernames similar to the forum names i know that a better reply ma lud?
most folks user their user name or a verison of if not available hence chorlton1
posted this on a few forums and getting completely whipped, lol
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being a national of a country has nothing to do with anyones race. the clue is in the name N stands for national - it's based on nationallity - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationality race is something different IMHO - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(classif...f_human_beings) i do agree that they are similar and in many peoples mind the meanings and differences may be a grey area One a slightly different note I feel this topic (although not in anyway related to the security trade) is perfectrly healthy discussion thus far and happy for it to remain ongoing so long as it doesn't cross the line into hate speech etc C.
look here subby boy What does the B in BNP stand for? this ain't england lol
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Who is the Kingpin of the City of Angels? Daken and Moon Knight are both asking themselves that exact question, so it's only a matter of time before they run into each other...but will it be as friend or foe? People get crazy under a full moon. Part one of two.
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Rebuilding Sandy Hook
How architect Barry Svigals took on an extraordinary task
An extended audio version of this story can be heard on Episode 4 of Work in Progress, Slack's new podcast about the meaning and identity we find in work.
O n December 14, 2012, a disturbed young man with a high-powered rifle forced his way into a local elementary school, and began shooting. Sandy Hook was left to deal with the seismic shock of senseless violence and its aftermath.
It's difficult to rebuild in the wake of such a horrific event, but life had to go on in the town of Newtown, Connecticut. Plans were made to demolish the old school and solicit bids from area firms for a new school's construction.
"We knew something was needed, but it was important for us to recognize that we did not know what," says Svigals. "That not knowing was an essential companion throughout the entire process."
Architect Barry Svigals and his firm won the bid. But when town officials asked him in initial meetings about his vision for the new design, he confessed he had no idea.
"We knew something was needed, but it was important for us to recognize that we did not know what," says Svigals. "That not knowing was an essential companion throughout the entire process."
Svigals formed a committee with representatives from both the school and the town. In lengthy discussions, they began to come up with the school's design together.
A typical question was, for example, "What do you love about your home?" Seemingly indirect questions like these ended up being essential to forming the direction of the design. Svigals stresses how important the committee's answers were to help "have a place for one's children to learn and to grow and to thrive and to be nourished. It must come from love, frankly."
Now the school's construction is complete and one of its most striking features is its warm color. It's sided with cedar, giving it a natural, inviting feeling, very much unlike schools most children grew up in.
It's natural to wonder how building security was addressed in the design, and Svigals' firm treated it carefully.
His goal was to make "a learning environment to include the necessities of security, but remember that paramount is a learning environment where the children feel alive and safe and nourished by the environment that they're in." The design included security measures in ways that also served other purposes.
"For example, in the front of the school, there's a bioswale that collects the rainwater off the roof," says Svigals. "It also creates a barrier in front of the school."
The design of the entrance hallway came from advisory committee discussions about the wish for a welcoming school. The arch of the hallway mimics the gesture of arms extending out to embrace the kids as they come in.
"They enter on the far side of the site and come around in a circle in front of the school," explains Svigals. "They get to see it and experience it as they come in on the arch of the school and then come in this main entrance, which is really the heart of the school."
To a certain extent, Svigals' firm needed to forget they were designing a new school in the context of the trauma.
"We needed to include it," he says. "It wasn't denied. Yet within our effort, we needed to keep our attention as much as we possibly could on our charge, which was to make a wonderful new school for the children of Newtown that would endure for many, many years." That return to their core mission was an essential aspect and a mantra throughout their process.
For a project like this, in the end it's not just the building site that's transformed. Svigals sensed it in his own firm and the community as well.
"There's no question that we all went through a transformation," he says. "We were chastened by the enormity of the task. We were transformed by the extraordinary resiliency of the community. We were transformed by the courage of the leadership of the town. We needed to bring our best selves to what the task was at each turn and feel that there's no work alone."
He added, "It's mysterious when a community comes together with a collective wish that it calls all of us, calls something in all of us that is larger than anyone of us. I think we felt that."
Work in Progress story produced by Jim Metzner.
Matt Haughey has always lived in awe of architects who can solve problems both great and small.


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I may have been a bit quiet recently, but it's not because I'm not working on stuff. There's a few issues with the way that the Wootracer works which are causing me significant annoyance at the moment. And they're becoming bigger issues the more complex the scenes are getting. The main bugbears at the moment:
– Once I kick off the render I have to sit and wait until the render is finished with no visual feedback on progress.
– There's no way to add additional samples to reduce noise after the initial render is complete.
The upshot of this is that I've had to get into the guts of the threading mechanism and rewrite the whole way that render management is done by the Wootracer.
Lets start with the nitty gritty of how the system currently works. There are two types of workpackage within the raytracer. These are pixels and rows. Within a pixel there may be many samples, within a row there will be a number of pixels equal to the width of the image. Each of these requires a different type of treatment for an optimal raytracer.
First off lets talk about the multisampling within a single pixel. Typically this might require 500+ samples for some pixels to reduce the level of noise they're showing. For each pixel that's multisampled I use a class called "PatchRenderer" to jitter the samples over a grid that covers each pixel.
These calculations tend to be closely correlated because they're hitting a similar area of the scene, but there are edges of shadow, bright areas of indirect illumination, etc. where the contrast within a patch can be very high. Ideally these areas would be oversampled, and that's currently handled using a minSamples, maxSamples approach. Where variance is very low, minSamples are sent through the pixel. Where variance is still high, samples are increased up to maxSamples.
Each of these patches are calculated on a single processor, but to make the most out of modern day CPUs you need to split the work up so that each CPU can calculate a segment of the work. For my current system I'm running on 2 physical cores, each with hyperthreading for a total of 4 logical, so I need to divide the work up into four different sections.
A naive way would give a quarter of the output image to each CPU, but scene complexity can vary dramatically across an image, so one thread may finish well ahead of the others. The most even distribution of samples is to give the 1st, 5th, 9th pixels to CPU1, 2nd, 6th, 10th pixels to CPU2, etc.. but this has a problem in that the buffer we're writing the pixel colours to is a single block of memory. If each CPU is hitting the same small bit of the buffer, then performance can be crippled due to the interaction of the L2 and L3 caches on the CPU.
So neither of those approaches are particularly good. Ideally we'd split the screen into squares of pixels, perhaps 16×16, and then render each of these on a different CPU. The problem is that I didn't decide to do this initially. Instead I split the screen into 5 row slices and gave each of those to a CPU. When one 5-row slice is completely rendered, I end that thread and kick off a new one to render the next slice. This kept my threading code super easy, but has lead to a lot of the problems I have at the moment.
for (i=0; i<4; i++) { CreateThread(NULL, 0, RenderRows, args[i], 0, &threadId[i]); row += 5; } while (row<height) { WaitForMultipleObjects(4, threadhandles, true, INFINITE) { CreateThread(RenderRows, row); row +=5; } }
The problem with this naive solution is that pixels can vary dramatically in colour across a single row, i.e. the middle of the scene bears no correlation to the edges, so it's tough to rank rows based on complexity if you only want to resample busy areas of the image.
You're also creating height/5 number of threads, which on a modern OS isn't the end of the world, but it's not super good practice either.
The modern way to do this stuff is to use a worker thread pool to process a continuing list of workitems unless an image is fully rendered. To do this I've introduced a new WorkManager class which keeps track of "RenderFragments" which need raytracing. Each RenderFragment is a 16x16 block on the screen, and they accumulate additional samples when they get worked on again.
This time there is no while loop and the threads just run until there's no work left to do. To run the raytracer forever you simply put the renderfragments back on the queue after each one is rendered so that the worker threads cycle round and round the buffer busily resampling the whole screen. By managing where the fragments are inserted back into the queue it's easy to add additional samples to fragments with high variability on the samples. It's also easy to pause the rendering, and then resume again later.
This sounds super complicated but the basic worker queue came out fairly simply.
DWorkQueue::DWorkQueue() : mStop(false) { InitializeCriticalSection(&mWQCS); } void DWorkQueue::Add(DRenderFragment* fragment) { // lock shouldn't be necessary here, but WTF EnterCriticalSection(&mWQCS); mFragments.push_back(fragment); LeaveCriticalSection(&mWQCS); } void DWorkQueue::Update(DRenderFragment* fragment) { EnterCriticalSection(&mWQCS); mFragments.push_back(fragment); LeaveCriticalSection(&mWQCS); } DRenderFragment* DWorkQueue::GetHead() { if (mStop) return 0; EnterCriticalSection(&mWQCS); DRenderFragment* ret = mFragments.front(); mFragments.remove(ret); LeaveCriticalSection(&mWQCS); return ret; } void DWorkQueue::SetStop() { mStop = true; }
Now I need to rebuild the C# app which is calling the WooTracer so I can continue work on WooScript. In the meantime I've been doing a little bit of profiling. Here's a grab of a simple scene being rendered with some typical statistics alongside.
The statistics are worth a mention. This scene has been rendering for 90 seconds on my laptop. In that time the system rendered 20 million samples, using 63 million ray intersection tests and 2.7 billion KD tree intersection tests (it wrapped). This worked out at 700 thousand ray intersections per second and 150 samples per pixel.
For someone that used to write graphics demos on a 386 these numbers are pretty damn mental. Lovely. I'll leave it here for now, but shortly I'll be building the new WooScript interface with this system in place. Expect slow updates but something pretty cool in about a months time!


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New design and look for your worlds of Minecraft.
Invictus 1.10 and 1.9 is a texture pack that is the evolution of another well known pack which is Soartex Fanver. The inspiration was taken from this famous pack, because of the simplicity of its designs and the strenght of its colors. This high resolution texture pack has a 64x resolution.
Their designs and textures are bright and created with smooth colors but striking. As it happened with its predessesor, this pack of textures is based in the simplicity of the details with a minimal design and great visuals, avoiding overburdened textures.
¿Cómo instalar Invictus Texture Pack para Minecraft 1.10 and 1.9?
- Download Optifine 1.10 and 1.9
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- Open .minecraft/resourcepacks.
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Heart is giving all you can for a cause. That cause could be a goal or a program, a group, a team, an event, or even another person. If you believe in something, and you have heart, you give more than others give; you give more than others can even imagine giving.
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For a long time, Christine Sharpless found it hard to sleep and almost impossible to relax. An ex-boyfriend, in jail for abusing her, had assaulted her after being sent out on work release with no notice to her. Every strange creak in the night frightened her. Then she won some relief. At least once a week, she would log onto her computer to make sure her abusive partner was still in jail. And she knew that should he be released or even escape, she'd get an automatic phone call within minutes, alerting her that he was out on the street.
Sharpless, 40, a homemaker from Centre County, Pennsylvania, was using what's known as SAVIN the Statewide Automated Victim Information Network an increasingly widespread system designed to alert crime victims when an inmate hits the streets or is transferred to another facility. "You don't have to wonder all the time if you're going to run into him in the grocery store," says Sharpless. "You don't have to lie awake at night wondering if your doors and windows are locked."
Some version of SAVIN is in use in 34 states. Philadelphia became the latest big city to come on line this month, when it linked into Pennsylvania's still-developing network, which started with a local system in Centre County in 2004. "I think it makes victims feel and witnesses feel that they have some knowledge and don't have to go through a third party or wait for someone to call them up" to get information on inmates, says Philadelphia District Attorney Lynn Abraham. "It's like a failsafe," says Bob Eskind, spokesman for the Philadelphia Prison System, which houses 9,200 inmates and processes 100 or more in and out every day. "It's certainly going to be faster. It's totally anonymous and free. It will give people information they need when they need it."
Under the SAVIN system, a jail or prison connects its inmate database with a central operation center of a Kentucky-based company called Appriss Inc., which developed and maintains the system. Crime victims register confidentially online or by phone to track a particular inmate and Appriss notifies them whenever the prisoner is released, transfers to a new facility, or manages to escape.
The system grew out of the 1993 murder of Mary Byron, who was gunned down in Louisville on her 21st birthday by an abusive boyfriend. He had been released from jail, but somehow the authorities had failed to warn Byron. The resulting public outcry led local officials to develop the first automated victim notification system, which has spread nationwide. Appriss now gets notification of up to 400,000 prisoner releases or transfers a month, spokesman Rick Jones said, and sends out up to 800,000 notifications by phone and another 100,000 by email.
Backers of SAVIN, including the federal Department of Justice, have ambitious plans for the system. The same technology could eventually be used to deliver nationwide updates about protective orders and court hearings. It could even allow victims of domestic violence to learn if their abusers have illegally attempted to buy firearms while under protective orders. The system is the latest in a series of technology-based systems to keep closer tabs on criminal behavior, from home monitoring bracelets and sex offender registries to cameras on street corners, says Washington State University Criminology Professor Travis Pratt, who conducted a review of his own state's program two years ago.
As with any new law enforcement technology, there are unintended consequences for the system. For example, Pratt said, during his research he turned up hints that law enforcement officers are using the system not to protect victims but to keep track of non-violent repeat criminals. He also heard stories that gang members were registering with the system in order to watch the movements of rivals. "I don't want to downplay the benefits of it, because certainly good things come from it," he says, "But we have this weird perception in this country that if it is a new technology and it must be great and no problems can come from it."
Officials say they are not worried about SAVIN being used for nefarious purposes. It is possible, Appriss's Jones said, to manually block or delay notifications if there is some reason why an inmate might be in danger if news of his release were to spread.
Right now, the problem for Christine Sharpless is that the system isn't universal. While she once depended on SAVIN's grace for her peace of mind, she has recently had to learn to live without it. Late last year, her abuser was sent to a state prison that won't connect to the SAVIN system until at least 2009. "At least I know he's there, everybody's doing their best to keep him in custody," she said, but "If they had the [SAVIN] system... that would be even better."