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The Rock Opens Up About Vin Diesel 'Candy Ass-gate' and If He'll Be Back for 'Fast and Furious 9'
Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson are far from the family they appear to be in the Fast and Furious movies. Johnson got so fed up with his co-star a year and a half ago that he referred to him, anonymously, as a "candy ass," and everyone trying desperately all at once to figure out who he was referring to almost destroyed the internet. He confirmed it was Diesel, the two had some very serious sit-down conversations. The Rock is not over it, exactly, but he's not talking smack anymore either.
In his new Rolling Stone profile, Johnson naturally discussed what went down with Diesel on the set of The Fate of the Furious. He revealed that the two of them shot none of their scenes together, and the film was instead edited in such a way that it looked like they could have been in the same room, a theory that eagle-eyed Fast fans have had for some time.
Vin and I had a few discussions, including an important face-to-face in my trailer. And what I came to realize is that we have a fundamental difference in philosophies on how we approach moviemaking and collaborating. It took me some time, but I'm grateful for that clarity. Whether we work together again or not.
Does that mean he's not planning on coming back for any future Fast installments?
"I'm not quite sure," he says. "Right now I'm concentrating on making the spinoff as good as it can be" – Hobbs and Shaw, co-starring Jason Statham, due next year. "But I wish him all the best, and I harbor no ill will there, just because of the clarity we have." He considers this, then lets out a big, sly laugh. "Actually, you can erase that last part about 'no ill will.' We'll just keep it with the clarity."
No one will ever know what exactly Diesel did to piss the Rock off so much, but at least they're not out for blood like they were before. Now, I wonder what Tyrese Gibson will have to say…
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January 17: Delhi-based, 27-year old multi-talented entertainer, Naved Khan, is soon going to leave his mark on the audience's mind through his remarkable dance performance at the famous television reality show, The Dance Icon. The show is going to air live on TV very soon.
The passionate and enthusiastic dancer, Naved Khan, is a self-learned dancer. His great dancing skills along with acting skills, will certainly make him a complete package for the entertainment industry and the show, The Dance Icon.
"I have never learned dancing from any certified dance academy. Watching my favourite movies and television shows inspired me to self-learn dancing. While my family members and best friend Mukul supported me a lot, my father has been my biggest pillar of strength always."
Naved shares that he takes immense dance inspiration from a celebrity, Sapna Chaudhary. He has met her two to three times until now. He finds her to be the gem of a person. She motivated him a lot to keep his passion for dancing alive.
Apart from the dancing industry, the acting industry also interests Naved Khan a lot. He has always aspired to be an actor and a dancer. He is also a singer and a writer by hobby. He felt that he was only meant for the acting career from his childhood days. He always felt like the camera surrounded him.
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BINGHAMTON, NY – The SUNY Business and Education Cooperative of the Southern Tier (SUNY BEST) will host a presentation by Brian Hutzley, titled "SUNY, the Regional Economic Development Councils and NYS Economic Revitalization," at 10 a.m. Thursday, May 3 in room 1324C of the Continuing Education and Outreach Office in Library North on the Binghamton University campus. This presentation is free and open to the public.
Hutzley, vice chancellor for financial services and chief financial officer for SUNY, is responsible for SUNY's $10 billion annual all-funds budget, as well as strategic infrastructure management and operations of the University. He is also co-chair of SUNY's Entrepreneurial Century, comprised of SUNY leaders who are committed to the cultivation of entrepreneurial thinking. Their mission is to guide innovation and growth in new and existing businesses.
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Nebula, Cosmos, And Private Cloud's Future
Chris Kemp, Nebula founder and former NASA CTO, talks OpenStack, private cloud, and why he's not worried about VMware's inroads into Nebula's territory.
Translated, the Latin word "nebula" means "cloud," appropriate for a company founded by former NASA CTO Chris C. Kemp. Last week I sat down with Kemp, founder and current chief strategy officer of Nebula and one of the inventors of OpenStack.
Now, let me state upfront that I've never been a fan of companies packaging and selling open source projects. So when I first heard about Nebula, I had a presupposed opinion that I would not like it. I was wrong -- Nebula has definitely impressed me. Maybe the gas and dust that make up the actual nebula cloud are having an effect?
Nebula sells hardware and software meant to help companies set up secure, OpenStack-based private clouds, without needing OpenStack experts.
With all the buzz around OpenStack, people sometimes forget how difficult it is to install, maintain, and most importantly secure. Nebula's Cloud Controller hardware appliance runs the company's Cosmos distributed cloud operating system. Cosmos can quickly assemble standard x86 servers from different manufacturers into nodes in a large, distributed private cloud.
Nebula recognizes that one downside of OpenStack is the difficulty in maintaining it, especially from a version and features perspective. So it ships its Nebula One system with a managed service that abstracts the update and upgrade process. With an entry price of less than $100,000, it's enticing for enterprises that want to stand up private clouds quickly but lack OpenStack expertise. I recently spoke with Chris Kemp, founder and current chief strategy officer of Nebula and one of the inventors of OpenStack
Elias Khasner: How do you summarize Nebula?
Chris Kemp: Nebula is a turnkey private cloud appliance. We take OpenStack, the leading open source cloud platform, with significant backing and contribution from anyone who is anyone in the technology world, and package it into a simple plug-and-play deployment that enables organizations to build on-premises private clouds that are very similar to Amazon Web Services.
EK: There's a lot of buzz about OpenStack, but I am not seeing enough enterprise adoption. Would you attribute that to the rapid development cycle?
CK: On the contrary, I think the fast development cycle that the OpenStack project is displaying is a healthy sign. I would even venture to say that there is no such thing as a development cycle [that's] too fast in cloud. We welcome the active development and progress of OpenStack. As fast as OpenStack is going, it's still hard to keep up with public cloud "pure-plays" like Amazon, Azure, and Google.
Enterprises are adopting products powered by OpenStack, like Nebula, today. I don't expect most enterprises to adopt OpenStack directly. People that perceive OpenStack's rapid development as a challenge are those trying to implement it in their products and services. This is the big misconception -- OpenStack should be viewed as a toolkit, not a finished product. OpenStack will never be finished, nor will it ever be optimized for enterprise deployment, integration, or operation. The way enterprises will adopt OpenStack is by turning to companies like Nebula that have built OpenStack powered products that are designed to be deployed into, integrated with, and supported by enterprise IT organizations.
EK: Are you saying that enterprises cannot implement OpenStack?
CK: Not exactly; the project is available for anyone to use. But for organizations to properly deploy it, they will need an army of developers and consultants that will cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars (or more) and will not be completed in any reasonable amount of time. I can say without reservation that most organizations that have tried to harness OpenStack to build an internal private cloud service have arrived at this conclusion. Securing OpenStack alone is a serious undertaking.
EK: How does Nebula address the security concerns in OpenStack?
CK: Nebula has invested heavily in ensuring that our product is secure by design. Securing OpenStack is definitely the hardest and most complicated task of all. This is one of the beauties of adopting a technology like Nebula.
EK: What do you think about the rumored VMware "Project Mystic"? I can't help but see similarities between Nebula and what VMware will announce.
CK: If the rumors are true, then this validates our approach, and if VMware (or Microsoft) can't build a more simplified "private cloud" deployment of their platforms after spending billions of dollars on a proprietary, vertically integrated software stack, then who can?
EK: Is Nebula a replacement for VMware?
CK: Not at all, and that is a wide misconception. VMware's purpose is to virtualize existing workloads that rely on the infrastructure to be highly available and perform[ing]. VMware is optimal for the majority of software that is not infrastructure-aware at all. Public and private cloud are optimal when applications can be made more reliable or perform[ing] [because] they can control the infrastructure directly through APIs. Nebula, Amazon, and IaaS in general assume a service-oriented architecture, where the application is aware of the infrastructure and can self-manage its own availability. [These apps] are the perfect candidate for Nebula and the cloud.
One of the advantages of Nebula is accelerating the pace of private cloud build-out, but more importantly, they force the enterprise to focus on what is important -- which is to provision workloads as fast and easy as you can provision in an Amazon cloud. This levels the playing field with these massive public cloud providers because it empowers IT to offer a similar service with a similar user experience.
Nebula-like technologies also abstract the complexity and cost of standing up these private clouds especially from a security perspective and a maintenance perspective, leaving enterprise IT focused on providing timely services to the business. VMware's entry into this with Project Marvin will only serve to further Nebula-like companies' use case of a modular approach to building on-premises private clouds.
Hybrid angle
Based on my conversation with Kemp, I have a couple of thoughts. First, no conversation about cloud would be complete without touching on hybrid, which has become the new Holy Grail for enterprises. Nebula should help IT teams extend their private clouds to many leading public cloud providers, including Rackspace and other OpenStack supporters.
Now, it's a stretch to call any cloud project "turnkey," but Nebula, from a private cloud perspective, is as close as it gets. Lock-in is certainly a consideration, but realistically, all software locks you in to some extent. Using VMware locks us in, yet it has vast enterprise market share. You can always escape if you're willing to invest the time and money. Same for the cloud.
Last, while technologies like Nebula will accelerate the pace of private cloud build-out, more importantly they force the enterprise to focus on what's important -- making sure the business can provision workloads as quickly and easily in-house as in an Amazon's cloud. This will go a long way to level the playing field between enterprise IT and massive public cloud providers because it empowers IT to offer a similar service with a similar user experience.
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apologies for not getting anything posted for a few weeks...i have writers block. still cooking up a storm with tons of recipes and photos, but i just can't seem to get a post out. so pardon me if the next few post are a bit short on words...sometimes i like those posts best. who needs to here all the blah blah blah.
the original recipe can be found at Cooking Light. great reviews, but i knew i could make it even lighter by what i had gathered from the other bakers. i substituted the sour cream with non fat greek yogurt and sub'd the white sugar with Splenda.
one thing i would say is don't weigh out your flour...measure it out in a cup.
2 friends already asked for the recipe and i have made them a second time using figs, cardamom, toasted pistachios and lemon zest (might be posting about it). this second batch i weighed out the flour and they came out a little too moist for my liking, but it DID lend itself to the fig bars. they turned out like a glorified middle eastern flavored fig newton...DELICIOUS !
try different filling and spices...check the original at Cooking Light and read the reviews. my friend made the original recipe and said they were great...i just lightened them up a little. oh, and i added more lemon zest. enjoy.
for the crust...
1 cup white while wheat flour
1 cup oats...i used old fashioned
1/2 cup packed brown sugar (do not substitute)
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
6 Tbsp butter, melted
3 Tbsp fresh orange juice
cooking spray
for the filling...
1 1/3 cup dried cranberries (6oz.)
3/4 cup non fat greek yogurt
1st time i used 1/4 sugar and 1/4 splenda, but you might try 1/2 cup all splenda
2 Tbsp white whole wheat flour
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 Tbsp grated orange rind
1 large egg white, lightly beaten
preheat oven to 325 F degrees
to prepare the crust, combine flour and the next five ingredients, through cinnamon, into medium bowl. stir well with whisk until combined. drizzle melted butter and orange juice over flour mixture, stirring until moistened...mixture should be crumbly. RESERVE 3/4 CUP OF CRUST MIXTURE. press remaining mixture into the bottom of an 11 x 7 inch baking dish coated with cooking spray.
to prepare filling...combine cranberries, yogurt, splenda and remaining ingredients in a medium bowl, stirring well to combine. spread cranberry mixture over prepared crust and sprinkle remaining oat crust mixture evenly over filling. i made sure it was crumbly looking by pressing some of it between my fingers and then gave it a little over all pat down to secure the crumble...
i hate it when you take a bite of a good crumble and it all ends up in your lap !
bake at 325 for 40 minutes or until the edged are golden. cool completely in the pan on a wire rack.
when cut into 16 squares the nutrients are approx...
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It had been a couple months since she had opened her doors to Allium Restaurant so seemed like a good time to hit the San Jauns and see what's cooking. What I did expect was good food, what I did not expect was to have my heart so touched by such gorgeous food and gracious hospitality that it would fundamentally change the way I want to write about Chefs, their food and their restaurants forever. Continue reading
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PostgreSQL manages database access permissions using the concept of roles. A role can be thought of as either a database user, or a group of database users, depending on how the role is set up. Roles can own database objects (for example, tables) and can assign privileges on those objects to other roles to control who has access to which objects. Furthermore, it is possible to grant membership in a role to another role, thus allowing the member role use of privileges assigned to the role it is a member of.
The concept of roles subsumes the concepts of "users" and "groups". In PostgreSQL versions before 8.1, users and groups were distinct kinds of entities, but now there are only roles. Any role can act as a user, a group, or both.
This chapter describes how to create and manage roles and introduces the privilege system. More information about the various types of database objects and the effects of privileges can be found in Chapter 5.
Database roles are conceptually completely separate from operating system users. In practice it might be convenient to maintain a correspondence, but this is not required. Database roles are global across a database cluster installation (and not per individual database). To create a role use the CREATE ROLE SQL command:
CREATE ROLE name;
name follows the rules for SQL identifiers: either unadorned without special characters, or double-quoted. (In practice, you will usually want to add additional options, such as LOGIN, to the command. More details appear below.) To remove an existing role, use the analogous DROP ROLE command:
DROP ROLE name;
For convenience, the programs createuser and dropuser are provided as wrappers around these SQL commands that can be called from the shell command line:
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The psql program's \du meta-command is also useful for listing the existing roles.
In order to bootstrap the database system, a freshly initialized system always contains one predefined role. This role is always a "superuser", and by default (unless altered when running initdb) it will have the same name as the operating system user that initialized the database cluster. Customarily, this role will be named postgres. In order to create more roles you first have to connect as this initial role.
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Henderson, Pleasant
9 Jan. 1756–November 1840
Pleasant Henderson, pioneer, soldier, and merchant, was born in Granville County, possibly the youngest son of Samuel and Elizabeth Williams Henderson. In his late teens he became associated with his elder brother Richard, who had formed the Transylvania Company, in the opening of Kentucky to settlement. In 1775 he joined Daniel Boone and his party in cutting the Wilderness Road; he was described as a "fellow pioneer with Boone at Booneborough," the fort-settlement on the Kentucky River. Here on 23 May 1775 the first elected government of Transylvania met under the leadership of Richard Henderson. Nevertheless, the proposed fourteenth American colony failed to gain recognition by the Second Continental Congress chiefly because of the opposition of the Virginia delegation.
Pleasant Henderson returned to his parents' home in Granville and early in 1776 volunteered for duty in a county militia unit, which was sent to Cross Creek to meet the Highland Tory units gathered in support of the Crown. Henderson's unit arrived after the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge and participated only in the rounding up of Tory supporters in the area. After several months' service, the unit was released. In late 1778 Henderson again volunteered for a militia company being formed at Charlotte to aid the states of South Carolina and Georgia, threatened by a new British invasion. He served as a lieutenant until April or May 1779 but was not involved in any major battle. During this campaign he briefly met his older brother William, who was a resident of South Carolina. Later in the war William became a general.
In 1779, North Carolina and Virginia agreed to extend the dividing line between their respective states and Richard Henderson was chosen a North Carolina commissioner. In November and December of that year, when the line was extended to the Tennessee River, Judge Henderson and his brothers Pleasant, Nathaniel, and Samuel were parties to the survey. The Henderson brothers continued on to Boonesborough and during the first half of 1780 were involved in efforts to form a government for Kentucky, bringing together the various Cumberland settlements and the remainder of the Transylvania Company. The result was the famous Cumberland Compact, prepared chiefly by Richard Henderson.
In 1781, following the Battle of Cowpens and the invasion of North Carolina by Cornwallis, Pleasant Henderson was called into service for the last time. Appointed major under the command of Colonel Malmedy, a Frenchman, he and his regiment joined General Nathanael Greene's army at Troublesome Iron Works two days after the Battle of Guilford Court House. They were later involved in a skirmish at Ramsey's Mill.
As clerk of the Council of State from 1782 to 1784, Henderson served as the private secretary of Governor Alexander Martin. The governor's sister, Anne Jane Martin, had married Henderson's brother, Thomas, in 1778 and from that time the two families were very close. In 1783 Pleasant was assigned a grant of 640 acres, which came to be known as Mt. Pleasant, adjoining Alexander Martin's Danbury estate.
When Judge Richard Henderson died in 1785, Pleasant acted as the executor of his estate. In January of the following year he married, in Surry (now Stokes) County, Sarah Martin, the daughter of Colonel James and Ruth Rogers Martin and a niece of Governor Alexander Martin. It appears that the couple resided primarily in Granville County until at least 1790, when they were listed in the census as living in Henderson District of that county. Soon afterwards they took up residence at Mt. Pleasant in Rockingham County.
In 1797 Henderson moved from Mt. Pleasant to Chapel Hill, where on 9 December he was chosen steward of The University of North Carolina. He built a large home on Franklin Street for his growing family and student boarders. In 1802 he gave up the job of steward and, though elected a trustee of the university, declined the office. At this time he opened a store called Henderson and Searcy. In 1807 he was elected clerk of the House of Commons, succeeding John Hunt who had held the office since 1778. Henderson served until 1830, continuing his residence in Chapel Hill. In 1816 he sold his Mt. Pleasant home to his nephew, Alexander Henderson of New Bern.
On 21 May 1830 the Hendersons left Chapel Hill and on 7 July arrived in Carroll County, Tenn., where they established a new home. They were the parents of seven children: James Martin, William, Tippoo Saib, Mark Mitchell, Eliza Jane (Mrs. Hamilton C. Jones), Pleasant, and Alexander Martin. Henderson died in Tennessee.
John L. Cheney, Jr., ed., North Carolina Government, 1585–1974 (1975).
Early Families of the North Carolina Counties of Rockingham and Stokes with Revolutionary Service (1977).
Archibald Henderson, The Campus of the First State University (1949) and "Richard Henderson: The Authorship of the Cumberland Compact and the Founding of Nashville," North Carolina Booklet, vol. 21, July-October 1921, January-April 1922.
Pension Application: 12 Sept. 1832—Pleasant Henderson S1912 (National Archives, Washington, D.C.).
Worth S. Ray, ed., Colonial Granville and Its People (1973 reprint).
Rockingham County Deeds.
U.S. Census of 1790.
John H. Wheeler, Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians (1966 reprint).
Additional Resources:
"Pension application of Pleasant Henderson S1912." Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters. http://revwarapps.org/s1912.pdf (accessed January 7, 2013).
"Letter from Pleasant Henderson to Walter Alves, July 14, 1799." The First Century of the First State University. Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. https://docsouth.unc.edu/unc/unc06-125/unc06-125.html (accessed January 7, 2013).
Horton, Lucy Henderson, compiler. "Archibald Henderson (1768-1822)." Family History Compiled by Lucy Henderson Horton. Franklin, Tenn.: Press of the News. 1922. 211-212. http://books.google.com/books?id=hWtVAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA211#v=onepage&q&f=false (accessed January 7, 2013).
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Cox, B.F. "Photograph, Accession #: H.1946.14.62." 1900-1920. North Carolina Museum of History.
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Publication this week of "Ready or Not: An Evaluation of State Climate and Water Preparedness Planning" by the Natural Resources Defense Council offers a good example of what happens when lobbyists are charged with assessing the very policy that they had a hand in developing. Las Vegas water manager Pat Mulroy becomes a climate hero and California becomes a nationwide leader in climate-ready water policy, a ranking prominently reported today in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Lest anyone mistake skepticism about the NRDC report as an endorsement of climate change denial, let it be said up front: Climate change is fact. What prompts this post isn't any difference of opinion with the NRDC about the utter urgency of climate change preparedness, or even any over-arching disagreements about the need for high-level water planning to actually trickle down into active policy. It's incredulity at the rankings. If a state that turned Owens Lake into a salt bed, that led the West in destroying the Colorado River estuary and is well on its way to finishing off the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay Delta gets a top ranking for water management in the face of climate change, it must be asked: What merits a fail?
The NRDC's enthusiasm for California water security policy amounts in many ways to a pat on its own back. It lobbied hard for the legislation that the new report congratulates for, among other things, mandating reduction of urban water use by 20% by 2020. What the report doesn't mention is that lobbying by urban water authorities ensured that the reduction could be set against such a high use point that it's not really 20% from the date of the bill.
Moreover, since the goal was set, conservation programs in cities such as Los Angeles have lost both publicity and cash while the bonds supporting the most progressive elements of the bills are stalled, possibly doomed. Anyone who attended the January public meeting in Pasadena laying out the goals of the Delta Stewardship Council's draft environmental impact report would have witnessed a succession of Southern California water agency reps reading speeches into the record as to why they should not have to adhere to the Delta Plan's most progressive prescriptions. It's an autonomy thing.
Meanwhile, when it comes to our neighbor Nevada, while the new NRDC report is damning of state policy, it has this to say about Las Vegas's Southern Nevada Water Authority:
In contrast with the lack of climate change planning at the state level, the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) has conducted substantial planning for water supply challenges due to population growth and drought conditions related to climate change. The agency is a member of the Water Utility Climate Alliance (WUCA), a group of large water utilities focused on addressing climate change implications for water resources management. Formed by seven water and wastewater utilities in southern Nevada in 1991 to cooperatively manage water resources in the Las Vegas Valley, SNWA since its inception has placed a high priority on water conservation and has adopted aggressive conservation policies, such as prohibiting turf installation in new residential front yards, limiting days and times for landscape watering, and mandating water budgets for golf courses. These measures in conjunction with incentive programs like the Water Smart Landscapes Rebate Program, which pays property owners to replace grass lawns with water-efficient landscaping, have helped to reduce consumptive use by 21 billion gallons a year from 2002 to 2008 in spite of a population increase of 400,000. In preparation for declining water levels in Lake Mead, SNWA has begun construction of a third intake shaft. The nearly $800 million project, scheduled for completion in 2014, will establish an intake at an elevation of 860 feet, ensuring that SNWA maintains the capability to withdraw from Lake Mead as its level drops. To diversify water supplies, SNWA has also banked water locally through aquifer recharge and in agreements with California and Arizona and is pursuing in-state groundwater rights acquisitions.
6 Responses to "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose"
MIchael Campana
April 6th, 2012 @ 8:06 pmFabulous post, Emily!
I guess someone forgot to tell NRDC that California still does not regulate or oversee groundwater pumping on a statewide basis.
I should send NRDC links to the NRC Bay-Delta reports.
Thanks for doing this.
Steve Fleischli
April 10th, 2012 @ 2:15 pmEmily,
We're glad you saw our Ready or Not report, and you're right: California has a long list of unsustainable water policies, including impacts to Owens Lake, the Bay-Delta and the Colorado River Delta. In fact, we'd add several more items to your list, including chronic groundwater overdraft, the contamination of groundwater drinking water supplies, the degradation of coastal waters from urban runoff, and the impacts of water projects on the state's salmon fishery. These problems have been brewing for decades – long before the climate and water connection was widely understood – and we've never been shy about noting these shortfalls to state officials. Unfortunately, we now know that climate change will increase the challenges our natural resources and our water systems face. Significant adaptation challenges face California – and every state in the nation. That's why we wrote this report.
The goal of the Ready or Not analysis is to focus attention on planning efforts to address the water-related threats of climate change by taking a close look at what each state is doing to address its vulnerabilities. From a national perspective, California is making significant progress on climate change planning. But could the state be doing more to protect water resources? Certainly. For example, the state's new policy to reduce reliance on Delta water supplies will not implement itself. Efforts like the Bay-Delta Conservation Plan process must include this requirement in their plans. Likewise, the efforts of the Bay Conservation and Development Commission to plan for the impacts of sea level rise around the Bay must be translated into a regional strategy that takes tangible steps to reduce the vulnerability of Bay Area residents and the Bay Area economy to rising seas.
State-level efforts to understand and plan for vulnerabilities to climate change-related impacts to our water systems is just the first step. It is, however, an essential step. States that do not adequately acknowledge these looming impacts – and there were many such states identified in our report (including Nevada) – are unlikely to meet the challenges these impacts present. Our climate and water team is examining adaptation planning efforts across the country, as well as numerous proposed projects – including the pipeline you mention being pursued by the Southern Nevada Water Authority. You'll be reading more from us about these projects in the near future.
Our national Ready or Not report does not represent an endorsement of the past water policies of California, or any other state, as sustainable. Quite the opposite. By encouraging adaptation planning, NRDC is encouraging states to evaluate current policies in light of the likely effects of climate change – and then to take action that will inevitably mean new and innovative thinking. We welcome your efforts to encourage the State of California and water agencies across the country to translate adaptation planning into tangible action and appreciate your thoughts in that respect.
Steve Fleischli and Ben Chou (NRDC)
April 11th, 2012 @ 8:50 amThe key to understanding NRDC is the saying "He whose bread I eat, is the song I sing".
Of course, they will write a laudatory report about the state level policies that they promoted.
Many large environmental NGOs fall prey to magical thinking about state level policy actually translating into a desirable result.
The view from on the ground is the only result will be increasing regulatory complexity for their crony consulting firms to exploit and exacerbating the energy-complexity spiral we are currently experiencing.
Thanks, NRDC.
Launce Rake
April 11th, 2012 @ 12:10 pmIt's extraordinary that the NRDC would once again laud the "sustainability" of the Southern Nevada Water Authority policies. This is the same agency that last year told consumers to go ahead and replace desert landscaping with water-hungry turf? That has limited funding for water conservation programs – despite the desire for residents to conserve more water? And that is explicitly attacking water conservation as "too expensive" to justify a $15 billion groundwater export plan that will do huge damage to Great Basin National Park and a Vermont-sized area of the Intermountain West? Unbelievable.
Launce Rake
April 11th, 2012 @ 12:14 pmBTW, a broken water main near downtown Las Vegas has sent a river running down my street for the last hour, with nary a sign of Mrs. Mulroy's staff. Perhaps they are busy back at their swanky new marble offices, hanging out with their $500/hour lobbyists and toasting their sustainability.
MIchael Campana
April 12th, 2012 @ 7:41 amSteve and Ben of NRDC miss a major point about California's (in)ability to deal with the groundwater-climate change nexus: as surface water supplies diminish because of CC, more pumping of groundwater may occur to supplement the diminished surface water. This has already occurred to some degree in the San Joaquin Valley. It's true that some local GW districts can regulate GW pumping, but unfortunately groundwater flow does not follow political boundaries. California's lack of statewide groundwater pumping regulation or even monitoring makes it ill-prepared to deal with this situation.
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The drug overdose epidemic currently gripping the nation is so tenacious in part because it's being driven by fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that comes in many forms. Each form has a slightly different chemical structure, and clandestine chemists are constantly cooking up new ones. From a law-enforcement perspective, this makes fentanyl a moving target and very difficult to control.
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We want to shorten the time lag between discovery of a new drug and the distribution of the data needed to identify it," Urbas said.
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Harmony NJ Wildlife Removal ~ (973) 381-2422
Xceptional Wildlife Removal experts provide services to get rid of nuisance wildlife and pests. Harmony Wildlife Removal and Pest Control services are available in Harmony and all other cities of Warren County New Jersey. We are experts at removing all types of nuisance animals such as birds, bats, snakes, raccoons, squirrels, skunks, opossums, groundhogs, beavers, muskrats, chipmunks, flying squirrels, rats, mice and other nuisance animals of Harmony New Jersey. We are a local company that has been providing Harmony Wildlife Removal services since 1993.
We are a complete wildlife removal company that specializes in removal and control of all types of New Jersey's wild animals. In addition to animal removal, we provide complete animal damage repair services. These services include Fascia Board Replacement or repair, Insulation Removal, Insulation Replacement and animal fecal matter clean-up are just a few of our services provided.
We have been providing New Jersey with complete reliable services to handle wildlife conflicts for over 20 years! We are a one stop shop, we DO NOT subcontract out any of our work, all wildlife removal and damage repairs are performed by our expert wildlife repair team. Our work is 100% guaranteed. Most wildlife removal companies will subcontract out services such as insulation removal and replacement because they do not have the proper equipment. This subcontracting leads to ineffective and/or inferior work done by an inexperienced person that doesn't have proper Wildlife training or a license by the State of New Jersey to perform nuisance wildlife control services. Don't trust an insulation company to properly disinfect your attic that has been contaminated with bat guano or animal feces.
Call Xceptional Wildlife Removal today to have your animal problem solved EFFECTIVELY & SAFELY DONE RIGHT!
Harmony Wildlife Removal Services
Bat Removal
Bats often become a nuisance animal within Harmony, NJ. Bats often congregate within homes attics, buildings and other man-made structures. Bats are known to colonize in large colonies upwards of 1,000 bats. If you suspect that you have bats in your attic, contact Xceptional Wildlife Removal for bat removal, guano removal and bat reentry solutions. We offer no obligation in home bat inspections.
There are several types of bats within Harmony that will colonize in buildings and homes attics. These common house bats are the big brown bat and the little brown bat which are both found in this area of Harmony. The photo here is representative of the damage that a bat colony can do if not properly taken care of. The result is usually a very large amount of bat guano buildup below the areas the bats are roosting near. In this example to the left, the bats were roosting in the soffit of a single family home. These bats had been in the attic for an extended period of time causing a large build of bat guano.
New Jersey is home to 9 bat species. These following species can be found year round in New Jersey. Little brown bat, Big brown bat, Northern-long eared bat, Indiana bat, Eastern small-footed bat, Eastern pipistrelle. The Hoary bat, Red bat and Silver haired bat migrate south during the winter months.
New Jersey Snake Removal
Snake removal within the Harmony New Jersey area is another common call received by our office on a daily basis. Snakes often times find their ways into businesses, homes, garages, basements and even attics. Once they are in an attic they are often seen then burrowing holes with the attic insulation. This type of snake problem commonly occurs most often during winter months.
These snakes are searching for a food source, which in many instances will be rats, mice or any other type of rodent commonly found within homes and buildings. This type of snake found in structures is most commonly identified as a Black Snake, or a black rat snake.
Types of Snakes of New Jersey
The New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife have identified 22-23 snake species that may be found within the state. New Jersey Herpetologist believe the 23rd species the Queen Snake is now locally extinct. Among the venomous snake species include the Northern Copperhead and Timber Rattlesnake. The nonvenomous water snake is often times confused with the cottonmouth (water moccasin) but this snake does not occur in New Jersey. All snakes of New Jersey are protected under the NJ Endangered and and Nongame Species Conservation Act, which makes it illegal for anyone to kill, collect, or harass native snake species.
Wildlife Removal experts receive many calls about a copperhead. During a copperhead's life there are several periods of growth with the first being the juvenile state and the other being a full-grown copperhead. These are two very distinct looking creatures. The juvenile copperhead will have very distinct color pattern and a lime green tip on its tail. As the juvenile copperhead grows the lime green tip on its tail will fade away then becoming a very distinctive looking copper colored snake with black hourglass shapes that spans the length of its entire body. New Jersey copperheads mostly inhabit northern regions of the state.
This common type of snake we deal with in this area are black rat snakes, garden variety snakes, and copperheads. Copperheads are commonly found in Harmony NJ. These are very dangerous snakes and you should never be attempted to handle without the proper safety equipment. Give us a call today if you feel you have a copperhead snake in your home or property we will safely remove all types of New Jersey's snakes!
Harmony Commercial & Residential Bird Removal
Bird removal within Harmony NJ is also very common call received by our office. Birds often become a nuisance during the spring and early summer months and become a nuisance to businesses and commercial properties by roosting on store fronts such as grocery stores, signs, parking light fixtures and other buildings where people gather such as shopping malls and restaurants.
There are also occasions when birds will get into a grocery store, or mall causing the business a major health hazard from the possible contamination of food with bird droppings. These birds will need to be captured and removed from inside the store or mall. This is a common service we provide for businesses throughout New Jersey. We have several contracts with large big box stores to control bird problems and we are sure we can assist you you're your bird problem.
Residential bird removal is also very common service that we provide. We have many calls from homeowners where birds have gotten into vents such as microwave vents, bathroom vents, and even gotten into attics and built huge nests. A bird nest in a home's vent or attic is not an ideal situation and not a desired situation for homeowners. We can help you will all of these bird problems and more!
Harmony Squirrel Removal
Squirrels are one of the most common animals seen with Harmony New Jersey areas. They run about power lines, across fence tops, in roadways and are very cute to watch until they chew a hole in the side of your house and run rampant in your attic! Squirrels are one of the most dangerous rodent animals to having in your homes attic because of the constant chewing. They can cause major damage to your homes wires, roof supports, attic fans and gable vents from this constant chewing.
Squirrels have front teeth that continue to grow, therefore their desire to chew is always present. While in an attic squirrels will chew on wires, cable TV outlets and possibly roof supports. Squirrels are the number one cause of unexplained fires within the United States causing damage totaling more than 40 million dollars a year. Don't let these cute uninvited, destructive guest stay in your attic get them out today!
Raccoon Removal
Raccoons are also a common pest animal found in Harmony New Jersey. These cute animals will invade homes, attics, business, and any other man-made structure. Don't be fooled by their cute, furry appearance. Raccoons are one of the most destructive and aggressive animals that may invade your Harmony, NJ home. Their aggression increases when it comes to protecting their young. Once a raccoon has gotten into an attic they may destroy wiring, duct work, insulation, attic vent fans and contaminate your attic with animal feces and urine. If you suspect that you have a raccoon living in your attic call today for a no obligation inspection. We have the knowledge and experience to get rid of these pest before than have the opportunity to create serious damage to your home.
Xceptional Wildlife Removal has been providing New Jersey with Wildlife Control services since 1993, we are the Experts in providing Safe, Effective Solutions to Harmony's Wildlife Problems. We provide Harmony Wildlife Removal services throughout the Warren County New Jersey.


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ER Visits And Hospitalizations For Asthma On The Rise
Ava Passley covered her nose and giggled as Dr. Jacob Hen walked into an examination room at his pediatric pulmonology office in Trumbull recently. Ava, 3, of Bridgeport, knows what to expect from a visit with Hen, having dealt with asthma since she was 1. She also spent several nights in the hospital after an attack in 2012. "I had always heard about wheezing, but had never really heard it before that," her mother, Beverly Passley said. Ava is part of growing number of people in Connecticut who have used the emergency room for asthma symptoms, according to the most recent figures from the state Department of Public Health.


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In Observance of the National Day of Mourning for President George H.W. Bush, Verint Reschedules its Third Quarter Earnings Call to Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 8:30 a.m.
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Verint® Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: VRNT) today announced that, in observance of the December 5, 2018 National Day of Mourning to honor former President George H.W. Bush, Verint is rescheduling its third quarter earnings call to Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 8:30 a.m. ET. An earnings press release will be issued before the call on December 6th.
Conference Call
A real-time webcast of the conference call will be available on our website at www.verint.com. The conference call can also be accessed live via telephone at 1-844-309-0615 (United States and Canada) and 1-661-378-9462 (International). The passcode is 7880725. Please dial in 5-10 minutes prior to the scheduled start time.
About Verint Systems Inc.
Verint® (Nasdaq: VRNT) is a global leader in Actionable Intelligence® solutions with a focus on customer engagement optimization, security intelligence, and fraud, risk and compliance. Today, over 10,000 organizations in more than 180 countries—including over 85 percent of the Fortune 100—count on intelligence from Verint solutions to make more informed, effective and timely decisions. Learn more about how we're creating A Smarter World with Actionable Intelligence® at www.verint.com.
This press release contains "forward-looking statements," including statements regarding expectations, predictions, views, opportunities, plans, strategies, beliefs, and statements of similar effect relating to Verint Systems Inc. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and they are based on management's expectations that involve a number of risks, uncertainties, and assumptions, any of which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in or implied by the forward-looking statements. For a detailed discussion of these risk factors, see our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2018 and other filings we make with the SEC. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release and, except as required by law, Verint assumes no obligation to update or revise them or to provide reasons why actual results may differ.
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With Egypt in chaos, a new WikiLeaks cable threatens to stir unrest in Libya. The Daily Beast's Philip Shenon reports on the bad behavior and lavish parties fueling Muammar Gaddafi's new PR problem. Plus, full coverage of the Egypt uprising. Plus, full coverage of the Egypt uprising.
Libya's neighbors are in turmoil. To the west is Tunisia. To the east is Egypt.
And with Libya's immediate neighbors convulsed by public protests over the brutality and kleptocracy of their ruling familes, a newly leaked cable from the U.S. Embassy in Libya suggests that strongman Muammar Gaddafi has created a decadent, money-hungry family dynasty that could find itself the target of the next Arab revolution in the streets.
The latest batch of American diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks includes a secret message to Washington last February from U.S. Ambassador Gene A. Cretz, who wrote that Gaddafi's family—notably, two of his especially wayward sons—had "provided enough dirt for a Libyan soap opera" and could endanger the country's stability.
The dirt, he said, included a series of alcohol-fueled New Year's Eve parties sponsored by one Gaddafi son in St. Barts—Beyoncé reportedly earned more than $1 million to perform at the party to welcome in 2010—and domestic-abuse charges against another Gaddafi son in London; he was accused of beating his wife in a London hotel suite, reportedly sending her to the hospital with a broken nose.
There are no reports of recent unrest in Libya to suggest Gaddafi might finish up like his counterparts in Tunisia—President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and his family fled into exile this month—or in Egypt, where street protests have seized in part on allegations that President Hosni Mubarak is attempting to orchestrate an undemocratic handover of power to one of his sons.
"The widening contrast between the respectable, cultured image that Saif has taken on and the spoiled, boorish image his siblings project has local audiences rallying behind Saif as the next heir to the Gaddafi throne," Cretz wrote.
But the allegations of corrupt dynastic politics in Libya are not much different than those of Tunisia and Egypt. And diplomats and scholars suggest Libyans may be just as angry as their Arab brethren across their border about bad behavior by their first families. Gaddafi himself seems perplexed about the chaos in the region, saying last week that President Ben Ali in Tunisia was the "victim of lies" told on the Internet and that the Tunisian should have remained in power for life.
In his February 2010 cable, Cretz wrote he had been told by a well-informed source that the Gaddafi family "has been in a tailspin lately, trying to put a stop to one rumor or another in the name of defending the family's honor." The cable's title: "Qadhafi Children Scandals Spilling Over Into Politics."
The ambassador seemed to suggest that of Gaddafi's seven biological sons, only one—38-year-old Saif, an urbane, British-educated architect who has spoken publicly of the need for democracy in his homeland—offered any hope of a smooth, dynastic transition in Libya, which Gaddafi has ruled with dictatorial powers since 1968.
"The widening contrast between the respectable, cultured image that Saif has taken on and the spoiled, boorish image his siblings project has local audiences rallying behind Saif as the next heir to the Gaddafi throne," Cretz wrote. He said that while Saif was "no stranger to the playboy lifestyle," he had "wisely distanced himself from the local drama."
The leaking of the February 2010 cable is one more reason that Cretz is unlikely to return to his post in Tripoli, the Libyan capital. He was recalled to Washington weeks ago after WikiLeaks released another of his tartly written classified cables—that one dated September 2008—that described Gaddafi's erratic behavior and detailed his foreign travels with a "voluptuous blond" Ukrainian nurse.
The State Department had no comment today for The Daily Beast on questions about the latest batch of cables released by WikiLeaks or on Ambassador Cretz's predicament. "We cannot confirm the authenticity of these documents and we cannot comment on supposedly leaked classified information," said Leslie Phillips, a department spokeswoman.
After defusing Gaddafi's efforts to obtain a nuclear weapon and convincing Libya to accept responsibility for the 1998 bombing of Pan Am 103, the United States and its allies have courted Libya aggressively in recent years, if only to secure continuing access to the country's vast oil fields. Cretz was sent to Libya in 2008, the first American ambassador to that country since diplomatic relations with Washington were cut off in the 1970s.
Photos: Egypt Protests
The 68-year-old Gaddafi, the world's longest-serving head of state who is not a member of a royal family, has never disclosed his succession plans, leading to the assumption among foreign governments—and many Libyans—that he will attempt to place one of his seven biological sons in power. (His only biological daughter, a lawyer who was part of the defense team for Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, has demonstrated no interest in succeeding her father.)
Given the uprisings in neighboring Tunisia and Egypt against the brutal, corrupt family dynasties in those countries, diplomats and scholars with an expertise in North Africa say that Gaddafi has reason to fear for his family's future.
Charles O. Cecil, a retired American diplomat who led the American embassy in Libya as charge d'affaires in 2007, before Cretz's arrival, said in an interview that Gaddafi might have reason to be worried that Libyans might be inspired by what they were seeing go on in the streets of Tunis and Cairo.
"I suppose that anybody who has been in power for 40 years, without benefit of an election, might be concerned about what his people are thinking," said Cecil.
Before leaving Tripoli four years ago, Cecil said, "I never heard anyone allege that Gaddafi himself was corrupt or profiting financially from his role, but there are certainly a lot of people around him who benefit from being part of the regime."
No one has benefited—or misbehaved—more, it appears, than Gaddafi's offspring, notably his fourth child, son Mutassim, an army veteran who is Libya's national-security adviser, and his fifth-eldest son, Hannibal, a businessman who has been tied to a series of violent criminal acts across Europe.
Mutassim was the host of the infamous New Year's parties in the Caribbean. According to Cretz's cable, Mutassim "kicked off 2010 in the same way he spent 2009—with a New Year's Eve trip to St. Barts—reportedly featuring copious amounts of alcohol and a million-dollar personal concert courtesy of Beyoncé, Usher, and other musicians."
News accounts of the parties reached Libya, to the disgust of many Libyans.
"Mutassim seemed to be surprised by the fact that his party was photographed and the focus of international media attention," Cretz wrote. "His carousing and extravagance angered some locals, who viewed his activities as impious and embarrassing to the nation. Others took the events and rumors surrounding it as further argument that Mutassim—often considered to be a rival of brother Saif al-Islam to succeed his father—is not fit to be the next leader of the country."
Just a few days ahead of Mutassim's 2010 party, newspapers in London reported that brother Hannibal had beaten his wife, Aline, during a visit to London for the Christmas holidays. According to some of the reports, Hannibal broke her nose and caused other facial injuries during the couple's struggle in their $7,000-a-night suite at Claridges.
According to the cable, Aline initially fled to the U.K. after confronting Hannibal and threatening to leave the marriage. Cretz wrote he was told that, "Hannibal had pursued Aline in London and the encounter ended in assault." The cable reported that family members "advised Aline to report to the police that she had been hurt in an 'accident' and not to mention anything about abuse."
The cable noted press reports in Europe that Hannibal, who does not appear to have responded formally in court to the allegations of abuse, had been allowed "to leave the U.K. discreetly, on diplomatic immunity."
Hannibal Gadaffi is a notorious hellraiser. In France, he was accused in 2004 of barreling down the Champs-Elysees in his black Porsche—in the wrong direction—at 90 miles an hour, apparently while drunk. In July 2009, he and Aline were arrested in Switzerland on charges of beating up their servants in a Geneva hotel. The allegations were dropped after a financial settlement was reached with the servants.
Philip Shenon is a bestselling author, based in Washington D.C. He was a reporter at The New York Times from 1981 until 2008. His first book, The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation , hit the bestsellers lists of both the Times and The Washington Post. He has reported from several warzones and was one of two reporters from the Times embedded with American ground troops during the invasion of Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War.


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April 26, 2006
Day 210
With thoughts of Brazil way behind me, I began to focus my efforts on Paraguay today. The consulate had a huge line again just like yesterday. This time, I went to the front where a police officer was directing people who were trying to enter. Eventually, I was able to push my way past everyone else and tell the cop that I was there to get a visa. He directed me inside to a much shorter line.
I had to fill out a form stating that I wasn't going to look for work in Paraguay, but no return ticket was required. I'll have to pay $65, which seems like a lot of money just to enter a country where I'll be spending my tourist dollars anyway, but at least it's cheaper and easier than Brazil. I had to leave my passport at the consulate until tomorrow, though. At least it's looking like I'll be able to go to a new country soon.