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Monday, March 28, 2011
Teal time Pt. 2
I purchased this 1950s day dress from the very fabulous Fab Gabs just around a year back, when I fell for its rich teal color, the collar detail and the hip pockets. However, it look me a little while to be able to wear it comfortably because it was a tad on the snug side for me back in the day. Well, last time I went back home I tried it on again and - tada - it is now the perfect fit! So I brought it with me to London and, paired with a light cardi, heels and red lippy, it has become one of my favorite uniforms of this spring.
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love it! perfect colour with your hair, eyes, skin tone!ReplyDelete
I love it--the color is stunning on you!ReplyDelete
Beautiful, love the colour!ReplyDelete
I do love Teal, it really suits you, glad you're back in it comfortably!ReplyDelete
Olet ihana! p.s. Hei koht voisin varata lennot, jos tulisin moikkailee sua ja sit se päiväretki pariisiin! :)ReplyDelete
Teal is lovely, looks great on you. Now I want a teal dress...ReplyDelete
Ah, that colour suites you like a punch in the eye!...ReplyDelete
Can u tell that I'm a fellow Finn? ; )
Please visit my blog. I have done some serious reserch, about how to keep those red tresses vibrant and a litlle bit about us redheads and favorable colour choices! You just can't go wrong with greens!!! Teal is lovely!!!
you look amazing! i love the dress with those shoes!ReplyDelete
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Bill Closing Email Privacy Loophole Clears Committee
Dec 3, 2012 7:00 AM PT
A bill to protect email privacy cleared a key U.S. Senate committee last week, buoying the spirits of privacy advocates.
The proposed law would close a loophole in the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which allows the government to peep on email more than 180 days old without a warrant.
"We're very happy about it. It's a very good first step," Chris Calabrese, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, told TechNewsWorld. "It does exactly what we wanted it to do: have full warrant protection for all private electronic content."
The changes mean that "Congress is sending a strong message to the Department of Justice that our digital Fourth Amendment rights don't expire after six months," said Lee Tien, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Outdated privacy laws are not only bad for citizens but for high-tech businesses as well, according to Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. "Companies and foreign governments are understandably reluctant to rely on US-based cloud service providers."
The action by the Senate Judiciary committee may have been nudged by the swirling publicity around the resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus, after a warrantless search of his emails exposed an affair he was having with his biographer.
"It showed a spotlight on the issue at a welcome time," Calabrese said. "We were pushing for this before the scandal broke, but it put a face on it. It showed that lots of innocent people can suffer if the government can expose your private communications."
Spear Phishing Popular in Targeted Attacks
Government agencies and corporations are the most popular targets of Black Hats bent on stealing information from their victims over an extended period of time, according to a survey released last week by Trend Micro.
More than three-quarters of those attacks, known in the industry as Advanced Persistent Threats, are aimed at corporations or government agencies.
The most popular vehicle for advancing such attacks is a specially crafted message designed to gain the trust of its target. "Spear phishing continues to be a favorite means by APT attackers to infiltrate target networks," Trend Micro said.
More than one-third -- 38 percent -- of infected attachments in spear phishing messages are RTF files, the report noted, with XLS files coming in a distant second at 15 percent.
One reason that spear phishing attachments can evade many organizations' defenses is that they use file formats popularly exchanged in the workplace, according to Jon Clay, a threat marketing senior manager at Trend Micro. "You're not going to see an executable file or a zip file because many companies will automatically strip those files from messages," he told TechNewsWorld.
"In a targeted attack against an organization, the use of spear phishing is very successful at getting through traditional defenses," he added. "So organizations need to alert their users to be on the lookout for this kind of attack."
Cloud Security
A popular notion in some security circles is that data is safer in the cloud than it may be on local servers. Maybe, maybe not, contends Derek Tumulak, vice president for product management at Vormetric, a data encryption company.
"You can have a small cloud-service provider who may not be applying the same security measures as you would for yourself," he told TechNewsWorld. "In that case, they wouldn't be as secure."
On the other hand, a large cloud provider, such as Amazon, could, with a caveat, secure an organization's data as well as the organization could itself, Tumulak noted. That caveat requires an organization to supplement the security measures taken by the cloud provider.
"If you implement proper security measures," he observed, "and you protect your data with authentication, encryption and proper key management, you can be as secure in the cloud as in your own existing infrastructure."
Breach Diary
- Nov. 26: Pinnacle Foods Group reports that personal information on 1,818 people may have been compromised when a laptop was stolen from an employee's home. It was password-protected and the information on it encrypted, the company said. That data included names, Social Security numbers driver's license numbers, credit card numbers and other personal information.
- Nov. 27: Threat Post reports that the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has begun notifying some 1,500 patients whose medical information was exposed after a physician terminated by the school removed the data from the institution on her laptop without permission. The university learned that the physician shared the information on the laptop with her attorney at a wrongful termination hearing.
- Nov. 28: A South Carolina legislative committee is told a $25,000 password upgrade at the state's Revenue Department could have averted a data breach that could cost the government $14 million. Earlier this year, the department's computers were breached and 3.8 million taxpayers' Social Security numbers, 3.3 million bank account numbers and data on 700,000 businesses were compromised.
- Nov. 28: Employees at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory called on Congress to investigate a data breach at NASA that compromised background information gathered by the Department of Homeland Security on an unspecified number of workers. The unencrypted information was on a laptop stolen from a parked car in Washington, D.C. on Halloween.
- Nov. 28: Australian Federal Police, in conjunction with the Romanian National Police, arrest seven individuals who were allegedly the ringleaders of a syndicate dealing in stolen credit card numbers. The police estimate that the group compromised 500,000 Austrian credit cards and performed illegal transactions worth AU$30 million.
- Nov. 29: Western Connecticut State University reveals that data breach of a server with 13 years of data stored on it compromised personal information of 235,000 people. The server was vulnerable from April 2009 to September 2012 and exposed information included names, addresses, social security numbers and financial account information.
- Nov. 30: Voice of Russia reports data breach at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Spyware was discovered on a personal computer at the agency and that information on the country's first Epsilon solid-fueled rocket was compromised, including rocket parameters, engine maintenance specifics and protocols for agency meetings.
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Nepal "The Country Of Mount Everest", this should be enough to represent the country to anyone. Most of the travelers visit Nepal to see this highest monument in the earth. Some want to reach to its basecamp and see the nature's glory. Not only Everest Base Camp, Annapurna Base Camp the other best trekking trails in the world offer rather more panoramic views to the travelers. Those Himalayas must be a lure, but what supplements to the beauty is the dazzling sunrise view over the Himalaya.
As the sun rises over the horizon and touches the peaks of these highest monuments of the earth for a moment it seems like the sun rays painting, canvas over the Himalayas, The Himalayas color changes with the position of the sun. This is what makes the Himalayas more enchanting to the travelers.
For those who are not able to trek for days to reach the basecamp, there are places such as a Nagarkot hill village. Just 35 km from the Kathmandu is a stunning place for magnificent sunrise views and the closer views of the Himalayas. Travelers stay overnight in Nagarkot to glimpse the early morning sunrise. When you wake up early in the morning, open the curtains and see the Himalayas changing colors, wow this is a sight to behold. In a clear weather, you will see the whole Himalayan range including Mount Everest in the east. The Himalayas may be far, but the spectacular sunrises and the landscape views make it one of the best destinations for the Himalayas lovers.
Drive 205 kms from Kathmandu, through a scenic mountainous highway you will reach a pristine town of Pokhara. Pokhara is often referred as " The City of Lakes and mountains " due to its pristine lakes and a close proximity to the mountains. From Pokhara, it seems Mount Fishtail rises from the valley floor towards the heavens. This very attraction has made Pokhara a famous tourist destination for travelers who come to visit Nepal. Do not miss the early morning sunrise excursion to Sarangkot for a closer view of mountains and yes, the theme is the sunrise view (however weather permitting). Pokhara valley which is a bowl-shaped carved between the mountains has plenty of spots for vies if the Himalayas. Hike to World Peace Stupa and rest for a while, your eyes glance far north toward the Himalayas and the pristine Fewa Lake below. Anywhere you are in Pokhara you will never miss the view of the mighty Himalayas (unless the weather is very bad). Pokhara is a paradise for nature and Himalaya enthusiasts.
Located approx 80 kms southwest of Kathmandu is another charming Town of Daman. For those who are seeking the ultimate panoramic view of the Himalaya range, Daman is the place to visit. From here, travelers will have an unimpeded view of the Himalayan range. The sunrise view from this place is just unimaginable.
The northern section of Nepal is still a Shangri- La, due to its inaccessibility, there are ways to reach into these places, these are the places where nature talks to themselves, totally virgin and yet not explored till now these are the places you should look forward to visiting if you wish to have a dramatic view of the Himalayas and dazzling sunrise views.
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) assigns frequencies and issues licenses to non-federal radio spectrum users.
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration's Office of Spectrum Management manages the federal government's use of the radio frequency spectrum.
The Interdepartment Radio Advisory Committee (IRAC) assigns frequencies to federal government users and maintains the Government Master File (GMF) database of federal frequencies and users.
The Federal Aviation Administration's Spectrum Engineering Services secures, manages, and protects all civil aviation radio frequency spectrum resources.
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"K.C. Lovin'," Little Willie Littlefield (1952)
One of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller's best-known hits, the song has been covered by the likes of Little Richard, the Beatles, Muddy Waters, the Everly Brothers, Dion and Sammy Davis Jr., among many others. Most cover versions refer to the song as "Kansas City," but Little Willie Littlefield's is a slick little number, with guitar screeches and near spoken-word verses, all leading to a dancey release in the chorus. Key lyric: "The old folks boogie, and the children, too, but nobody boogie like me and you."
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Greenbauer tacks on another late touchdown as Clark pulls through 33-14.
Clark caps off a 14-play drive that eats up more than eight minutes with a 1-yard TD run from Hayden Greenbauer to extend its lead over Brandeis to 26-14. The 2-point try was no good.
There is 3:30 left in the game.
Brandeis kicker Donald Boelhauf's 49-yard field goal attempt falls about a yard short. Clark still leads 20-14 early in the fourth.
Brandeis' Quincy Adams breaks on a Greenbauer pass and picks it off near midfield. After the return, Brandeis takes over at the Clark 35 late in the third quarter.
It's been nothing but punts since Clark's last field goal. Clark has the ball again at its own 38 with 1:45 left in the third.
Clark kicker Webb Williams' reliable foot comes through again, as he nails a 41-yarder with 5:51 left in the third quarter to extend Clark's lead to 20-14.
Wow, what a costly turnover that proves to be. On the very next play, Kyle Sewell finds John Jackson on a beautifully thrown pass for a 48-yard touchdown strike with 9:03 remaining. The PAT is good, cutting Clark's lead to 17-14.
Jackson was covered on the play, but the defender attempted to make a diving breakup near the 12-yard line as Jackson was about to haul in the pass. He couldn't get his fingers on it, however, resulting in Jackson catching it in stride and strolling into the end zone.
Clark forces a punt in six plays, but muffs the return, giving Brandeis possession near midfield.
The second half is under way. Brandeis starts at its own 20 after kicker Webb Williams' kickoff sails through the back of the end zone.
Clark kicker Webb Williams hits from 44 yards as time in the first half expires, pushing the Cougars' lead to 17-7 at halftime.
The field goal was made possible by a fourth-down scramble from quarterback Hayden Greenbauer, who picked up 18 yards and got out of bounds at the Brandeis 27-yard line with five ticks remaining.
Clark has scored 17 unanswered points since Brandeis jumped to a quick 7-0 lead.
Clark gets sneaky near the Brandeis goal line, as running back Ryan Jones throws a 7-yard touchdown toss to Joe Vasquez to take a 14-0 lead with 1:54 left in the half.
It was Vasquez's second TD grab of the day.
With a defender closing in on blocking the punt, Brandeis gets off a 4-yard punt that seemingly was not blocked. Clark takes over at the Brandeis 44 again.
A third-down toss that bounces off the Clark running back's knee results in a 12-yard loss, ruining what was a promising drive for Clark. The Cougars tried a 53-yard field goal, but Webb Williams' attempt was quite short.
The game remains tied 7-7 with 6:44 remaining in the first half.
A special shout out to commenter Sue Bearden, who is depending on this here blog to stay updated. Our deepest thanks for reading.
Sue wil like this update: Clark's defense forces Brandeis into a 3-and-out, as John Paul Robinson and Ethan Price converge to sack Brandeis quarterback Kyle Sewell inside the Broncos' 5-yard line.
Hayden Greenbauer and Co. will take things over inside Brandeis territory at the 44-yard line.
Brandeis' defense stiffens with Clark inside the Broncos' red zone. Rodolfo Reyna and David Bourassa converge to stop Cougars tailback Ryan Jones on a fourth-and-2, forcing a turnover on downs from their own 17-yard line.
Game still tied at 7-7 entering the second quarter.
The Clark Cougars must have heard our assertion that an upset could be brewing, as they needed just one play from scrimmage to even things up at 7-7.
Hayden Greenbauer fired deep to Joe Vasquez, who caught the ball near midfield and evaded an attempted tackle around his heels at the Brandeis 35-yard line to score from 80 yards.
The touchdown came 13 seconds after Brandeis' go-ahead touchdown moments ago.
Is there an upset brewing here at Farris Stadium? It sure looks that way after a pair of early possessions, as after the Brandeis Broncos forced Clark into a 3-and-out on the game's opening drive, they marched 53 yards in eight plays to take a 7-0 lead.
Punching in the score was running back Noah Copeland, who ran in a touchdown from 1 yard with 7:05 remaining in the opening quarter.
And we're under way at Farris Stadium in tonight's District 28-5A opener between No. 3 Clark and Brandeis.


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Last weekend's eruption of violence in Judea and Samaria was riddled with the usual accusations of Israeli brutality toward the Palestinians. But one story being touted in the Hebrew press demonstrates that Israel has no such lust for violence, and in general adheres rather well to Yeshua's admonition to "love thy enemy."
According to the story, at the height of the weekend violence, an Israeli doctor quietly entered the Palestinian-ruled biblical city of Shechem (today known as Nablus) without an army escort in order to save the life of a young Palestinian man who had been badly injured in a clash with Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers.
It mattered not that the young man had sought out violence with the Israelis, and any trepidation over entering Shechem without escort was suppressed. All Dr. Micah Shamir knew was that this Palestinian man would die without the kind of treatment Israel can provide.
Dr. Shamir, a senior physician at Jerusalem's Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, told the Ma'ariv daily newspaper about the harrowing experience: "It was clear we needed to save this young man. But entering Shechem was not pleasant, and there were moments of real fear."
Dr. Shamir and his colleagues were made aware of the young man's condition when Palestinian doctors at a Shechem hospital unequipped to save his life reached out for help. "I didn't think twice," said Dr. Shamir.
While the rescue operation was sanctioned by the Palestinian mayor of Shechem, had any of the local terror groups decided to attack or abduct the Israeli doctor, they could have easily done so. "It was extremely dangerous," Dr. Shamir recalled.
Ultimately, the mission was a success, and the young Palestinian man was secreted out of Shechem and transfered to a hospital in Jerusalem where he is recovering in stable condition.
Many Israelis were angered by the story, not because of what Dr. Shamir did for this Palestinian man, but because Israel typically shies away from taking such action on behalf of its own.
Shechem was the setting for a similar situation in October of 2000, when a Palestinian mob stormed the Jewish holy site of Joseph's Tomb and violently assaulted the Israeli soldiers stationed there.
As the Israelis pulled back, Cpl. Madhat Yusuf, 19, sustained serious gunshot wounds. Fearing that an incursion back into Shechem to rescue Yusuf would result in a major and bloody gun battle and subsequent international condemnation, the young Druze soldier was left to bleed to death.
Of course, the comparison speaks less of Israel's desire to preserve life on both sides than it does of the international community's double standards when it comes to the Jewish state.
Israel is simply expected to hold Palestinian life in the highest regard. In fact, Dr. Shamir's heroic effort to save a wounded Palestinian assailant was not mentioned by any foreign media outlets. At the same time, Israel's actions in defense of its own people are so vociferously condemned that the Jewish state is often afraid to do what is necessary to save Israeli lives.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is praising Pakistanis for upholding what he calls their commitment to democratic rule by successfully completing parliamentary elections.
With the weekend vote, the parliament was able to complete its term and transfer power in democratic elections for the first time since Pakistan's founding in 1947.
Obama hails "this historic peaceful and transparent transfer of civilian power."
The president says Pakistanis ran competitive campaigns and persevered despite "intimidation by violent extremists."
Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif seems ready to return to power for a third term.
He's expected to be more nationalistic and protective of state sovereignty than the outgoing government.
But U.S.-Pakistan relations aren't expected to change radically. Pakistan's army plays a dominant role in foreign policy and isn't eager to lose millions in U.S. military aid.


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"I Was Pissed Off After Blind Faith"
Rolling Stone, May 28, 1970
"I knew it was hype as soon as it was called Blind Faith," Stevie
Winwood remarked
about what is now No
"It was just a rush," said Stevie, "and as soon as Robert Stigwood got a hold of it, we
sort of played where he put us. I didn't
have control over it. And what was worse was that everyone in the group felt different
about it. I didn't want to play
coliseums. What's that building in L.A. that look's like a chocolate cream cake? I was
really fed up with playing in those places
and to those audiences. It was very false. We could play terrible one night and get
exactly the same reaction as if we really
played fucking good. I was pissed off after Blind Faith. And when I got back, I started
working on a solo
album and Jim backed me up and then
Chris came back from Air Force. . . . Have you heard Air Force? Things have to be under
control, and Ginger knows how to
get people under control. But it's what you do with those people."
Eighteen months ago Traffic broke up. Stevie went off to Blind Faith; Chris Wood played with Dr. John and Air Force; and Jim Capaldi worked with ex-Traffic member Dave Mason (whose just released his song "World in Changes" on Harvest records) and, for a short time, with Heavy Jelly, a group composed of some ex-Ansley Dunbar Retaliation musicians.
"We needed to play to play in different situations," Chris said.
"We all tried to do things," Stevie said, "Really tried. And all of us found out how important it is to work with people who are more in sympathy than, say, certain people in Blind Faith."
"Does it seem like a long time to you?" How did that gap strike you?" Jim asked about eighteen months fertile void. And three days before their first public appearance at the Roundhouse in April, Traffic gave a dress rehearsal in the Island Records Studio, having brought themselves and their music back together.
"It's good to have an audience," Stevie says to his enthusiastic admirers - an assistant who was taping the proceedings, Stevie's brother Muff ("just listening") and myself. "It's amazing how people sitting here make the songs speed up. It affects your playing. We rush into things and record something immediately after writing it, and it's great. But we forget how it sounds to the perspective of the relaxed listener."
Traffic's new music has been pared down to the most basic structure. Rhythm, bass, and melody functions are meted out among the three. In a new song suite "Freedom Rider," for example, Jim starts out with an orgy of drums, accompanied by Chris on bongos. Chris then begins a bass riff on sax, Stevie entering on organ with melodic patterns spinning out and back into bass riffs while Chris solos. Stevie takes over with a lonesome, crafty, wrong-note blues and floating suspensions backed by Chris on bass organ. Then Stevie sings "like a hurricane around your heart," as Chris goes from flute to sax and back again, Jim rhythms binding everything.
"The basics are all there," Stevie says, as he comes over to talk. "It's just a matter of getting it all off."
Muff, smoking a pipe, smiling, big-brotherly pride: "You seem to have lost your cliches."
Stevie: "Well, you've got to keep moving."
Me: "Do you miss not being four musicians?" (In fact, they often sound like six.)
Stevie: "We're looking for fourth person because there are some things we can't do, like 'Heaven is in Your Mind.'"
I mention that Steve Stills is in London. "When you get to the reality of the thing," Stevie says, "I don't think Steve Stills wants to play with us. We'd like playing with him and George Harrison, too. We want to play with other people. On an album or a tour, with time to get it together. But we'd better get the three of us off the ground. We've got to get ourselves first and finsh our album off in May and then we'll look out."
Stevie talks of his new house "up on the other side of Oxford" as if he were really talking about the reformed Traffic. "We're going through the bit of find-out which is our land and which isn't. We're getting the surveyor's report. Yeh, I've been getting myself together. I even went off to the dentist."
I notice his right thumb is bandaged. "Some people blame the guy who slammed the door, but what was my hand doing there? I don't remember. It's no good having your hands insured without your head."
Jim is striking maracas against a mike to test it. Chris and Steve adjust their sound equipment. "We want people to listen to us," Chris says, "which is why we're going to perform with only 100 watts for each of us."
Never before has Traffic sounded so much like a chamber music ensemble with its small intensities. Chris plays organ and Stevie begins singing a beautiful new Traffic song: "Once again I'm northward bound . . . We traveled on searching for the end." And the words and that special poppyfield-widening-to-infinity sound that defines Traffic gather the room into the music. They fall happily into older songs like "No Time To Live," "Medicated Goo," and "Pearly Queen." And they do "John Barleycorn," a 14th century folk song "about corn and the earth and what it goes through." Then Richie Haven's "Parable of Ramone," performed almost as a folk ballad ("One day we did it with acoustic guitar, flute, and triangle; another day with two guitars") and Neil Young's "I've Been Waiting On You."
Jim went out to pick up some refreshments, and came back quickly. "I smashed the car up," Jim says. "Coming out of the alleyway where I was parked."
Stevie: "What did you hit?"
Jim: "Some chick came screaming down the street as we came out and pushed me into Glyn John's Rolls - [crashing sound]. The chick's screaming at me. Everyone's giving me motoring lectures, man. It was one of those things. Wherever the chick was today, she and I were going to meet on that fucking corner. She didn't have much time to see me. She was really close. She'd just picked up her car from the garage, it had just been mended. And she hit mine. My immediate reaction is like . . . nothing! Everybody's like flipping and I can't flip. Let's do a number now. [Announcer's voice]: This is a new record called 'Body Damage'!"
Chris play bass riff on sax: Stevie plays long sustained organ chords under a melodic line of what sounds like hundreds of repeating car horns, Jim lays the rhythms down: crash, crash.
Time is getting late and just about stops. Jim in his red number 64 football shirt, introduces himself and you to the "Cavalcade," deep lacquered American accent: "And here is a young lady who comes all the way from Portobello Road to sing you a song."
Jim in drag with a scarf around his head, looking like the wolf in granny's bonnet and singing like Florence Foster Jenkins: "I'm the wanderer, I get around."
Stevie's on drums. Fanfare snares. Jim on tambourine, dancing: "Bootch-y-outch-ah-bouth-y-outch . . . She wanted a medley of oldies," Jim croons, imitating Steam's "Na Na Hey Hey- Kiss Him Goodbye":
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Thank you, thank you, thank you. Because of all of you and your work in your communities, we have achieved a monumental victory. Because of your outreach, California voters demonstrated their willingness to invest in our public schools and colleges. Because of your collective voice, voters rejected by the largest margin ever a well-funded "paycheck deception" measure aimed at silencing educators, other workers and their unions.
You know how hard you worked. You made phone calls, you rang doorbells, you talked to your friends and relatives. You carried signs and attended rallies. You wore buttons and attached window clings to your car. You posted on Facebook and tweeted. You showed up at the polls, and you got your friends there, too.
Words can't express how proud I am of you, of our staff, of all those who partnered with us. You talked the talk and walked the walk. You were awesome!
To me, this victory feels a little more gratifying than some past elections. Back in 2005, we were definitely on the defensive. School funding was under attack. The teaching profession was under attack. And we were under attack as a union. And while there were attacks this year as well, we also took the opportunity to be proactive in this election. With Prop. 30, we took a step toward tax fairness, and at the same time helped put our schools and California back on track. With Prop. 30, we worked for our students and for our profession. We won this election for our children, for better teaching and learning conditions, and for the future of California.
So now what? After celebrating what we've accomplished, we take a deep breath. And we reflect. Oh, to have time to stop and reflect on our good work. It makes for better instruction, doesn't it? It gives us a chance to consider whether what we're doing is working and, if needed, change for the better.
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For a new documentary, the Discovery Channel took a Boeing 727 to a remote part of the Mexican desert and had it crash to examine what exactly happens in an emergency situation.
It didn't go well for the plane.
According to The Daily Mail, the fuselage of the 727 actually broke in two. The cockpit and front seats actually folded under the back half.
The plane, which was thankfully full of crash dummies, was being controlled remotely to make for a fairly realistic crash. The pilot that flew it from take-off had ejected just moments before.
This is the first full crash test of an airplane in these conditions since 1984 in California's Mojave Desert.
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This article was written by Steve Cooper, and published in Forbes on July 30, 2012.
I assume all businesses want happy employees. More important to most businesses, unfortunately, is they would rather have larger profits. What if happy employees quantifiably translated into larger profits? Well, a new book by Dr. Noelle Nelson, "Make More Money by Making Your Employees Happy," explains how they do!
"When employees feel that the company takes their interest to heart, then the employees will take company interests to heart," says Dr. Nelson, a clinical psychologist, best selling author and business trial consultant.
In her book, Dr. Nelson cites a study from the Jackson Organization, a survey research consultancy, since acquired by Healthstream, Inc., which shows, "companies that effectively appreciate employee value enjoy a return on equity & assets more than triple that experienced by firms that don't. When looking at Fortune's '100 Best Companies to Work For' stock prices rose an average of 14% per year from 1998-2005, compared to 6% for the overall market."
Of course, many business owners might think that employees need more money to be happy. With 66% of employees expecting raises in 2012, according to a survey by 24 Seven, a recruitment and talent management agency, that would make sense—although perhaps not necessary. What business owners need to do, says Dr. Nelson, is keep their promises and show compassion for their employees. So if you promised your employees a pay raise, give it to them. If you promised resources to help them be more efficient at their job, give it to them. Find what's important to your employees and give it to them.
In "Make More Money by Making Your Employees Happy," Dr. Nelson shares the example of when Paul O'Neil took the reigns of Alcoa in 1987, the world's leading producer of aluminum; O'Neil announced that his sole priority was to increase worker safety! A shock to his board room. O'Neil understood, however, that safety was a major concern for his workers. Over the next 13 years employee productivity soared as accident rates decreased from roughly one per week per plant to some plants going years without an accident. When O'Neil stepped away just over a decade later, Alcoa's annual income had grown 500%!
In another example, in 2011 after wrapping up a record-setting year, new Apple, Inc. CEO Tim Cook rewarded employees by giving them paid vacation through the week of Thanksgiving. In a memo to employees Cook wrote, "In recognition of the hard work you've put in this year, we're going to take some extra time off for Thanksgiving. We will shut down with pay on November 21, 22 and 23 so our teams can spend the entire week with their families and friends."
In her book, Dr. Nelson uses a similar example of Procter & Gamble also paying back company success to employees through extra paid days off. "It ate a little bit of their bottom line, a little bit from the stockholders, but oh my God what it bought them in employee loyalty and productivity," says Dr. Nelson. "If you're doing well, share. And for God sake, don't let your executives walk out with a bonus if the company is not doing well. People don't mind that execs make money, they mind if it's exorbitant if the company is not doing well."
If your company is not doing well (and even if it is), Dr. Nelson stresses the importance of sharing information. This will prevent in-the-dark expectations from bubbling into resentment. The last thing you want is employees feeling like they're being taken advantage of. Which leads to showing your employees compassion.
"By compassion it's really appreciation," says Dr. Nelson, "because people confuse compassion with being all milk toast. It has nothing to do with milk toast. Some of the people who drive this are really hard-nosed business people."
A study released last month by Bright Horizons, a provider of employer-sponsored child care, education, and work/life solutions, found that 89% of employees with high levels of well-being reported high job satisfaction and nearly two thirds of those employees reported consistently putting in extra effort at work. Again, happy employees are more productive employees, which positively effects the bottom line.
"People haven't yet connected the dots," says Dr. Nelson. "Frankly, that's why I wrote the book."
It's not too late, but business owners need to heed the warning, especially when 90% of employees are willing to consider changing jobs and unsatisfied employees are 11 times more likely to move to a new organization in the next year, according to 24 Seven.
It doesn't take much to make employees happy. In her book, Dr. Nelson shares the story of how Starbucks executives visited their coffee shops and noticed that good employees were losing it when faced with agitated customers. Instead of coming down on the individual employees, they developed new training material that eliminated the stress of these situations. The executives at Starbucks found what was making their employees unhappy and empowered them with the tools they needed to put a smile back on their faces.
"If you behave like Starbucks," says Dr. Nelson, "you put the compassion first and the profits will follow."
"Make More Money by Making Your Employees Happy" is available now exclusively as an e-book through Amazon.com.
This article was written by Steve Cooper, and published in Forbes on July 30, 2012.


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Hey all,
If you wanna see what we're doing in Baltimore, check out the newish site: http://www.bmoredog.org
We haven't got our actual programs up and running yet . . . coming soon though. I have a few things in the works, as do other board members. Hopefully we'll be posting progress soon!
In the meantime, visit the site and make our web counter thingy go up!


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By Lynda Jensen
WRIGHT COUNTY, MN Eight businesses in Delano were tested, and passed with flying colors, during the most recent alcohol compliance checks completed by the Wright County Sheriff's Department and Wright County Public Health. For a breakdown of the businesses checked, click here.
The following businesses in Delano were checked and passed: Applebee's, Coborn's Inc., Dave's Town Club, Delano Legion Post #377, Delano Wine and Spirits, El Cazador Mexican Restaurant, Holiday Station Store 214, and Three Crows on River Street.
This is better than the last round, done December of 2008, when two out of 10 businesses failed in Delano.
In recent checks made countywide, three businesses failed: Clark's Station of Montrose, Cowboyz Bar & Grill of Rockford and Riverwood National Golf Course Otsego.
This is the second offense for Clark's, which also failed in December of 2008, according to results made public at that time.
The three businesses were checked last September, according to Jill Hylla of public health.
In the case of Clark's, which was checked Sept. 28, 2009, no ID was requested, therefore none was shown. The underage buyer was 19 years of age, Hylla reported.
On the same day, Cowboyz Bar & Grill of Rockford was checked, and although servers asked for IDs, which were shown, buyers were 19 and 20 years of age, and the server failed to notice buyers were under the age of 21.
Similarly, Riverwood National Golf Course of Otsego was checked a few days before, Sept. 23, 2009.
"No ID was requested, therefore no ID was shown," Hylla noted. The underage buyer was 18.
In the past, Hylla has estimated that the failure rate is about 10 percent. This round of checks is an improvement to the past, since checks done at the end of 2008 featured a failure rate of 29 percent, with four out of five businesses in Montrose failing at that time.
When a business fails the check, not only does the business face a civil penalty, but the server also faces a criminal gross misdemeanor charge.
Fines are set by each city unless the establishment is located in a township. If so, the business receives a fine from the county.
In Montrose, the fine schedule is as follows: first offense over a three-year period is a fine of $200 plus proof of training, which is required, second is $500 plus training, third is $1,000 fine plus training, and a fourth offense is revocation of the license.
Under Minnesota statute, cities can fine up to $2,000 for each violation, up to a 60-day license suspension, and/or revocation, depending on the city's ordinance, according to Hylla.
For example, the City of Hanover charges a $100 fine, which is the lowest in the county. Otsego, on the other hand, charges $2,000 for first-time offenders.
Wright County Public Health has been offering alcohol sales training classes for a number of years. The training is a program developed by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety.
The training consists of criminal and civil penalties, what forms of ID are acceptable, how to check an ID, problems with overserving customers, and other such subjects.
From 2009 through March 2010, WCPH staff have done 15 alcohol sales trainings that have trained 465 participants. Two more trainings are scheduled for May and June. For more information contact Terri Burkhart at 763-682-7516.
Cities such as Howard Lake, Buffalo, and Annandale are not involved with county compliance checks because they have their own police departments, according to Hylla.


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Due to the early sell-out of the conference, I don't think I'm alone in this. In fact, I think there are probably a lot of people in exactly the same situation. What can we do to keep the GHC spirit alive from wherever we are? Here's a few ideas:
Are you unable to attend GHC this year in person? Which of these ideas would you use to participate from afar? Do you have other ideas on how to connect?
p.s.: I'm in Seattle and would love to meet others who are missing out on GHC this year and learn about what you're working on! If you're interested in meeting up in Seattle or elsewhere, leave a comment below. I'd love to help people connect no matter where they are.


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Nam Duong International Food Co., Ltd will implement the project with a total investment capital of 577.2 billion VND (equivalent to 25.6 million USD) to build a new factory in Hiep Phuoc Industrial Zone (Nha Be, Ho Chi Minh City).
Accordingly, Nam Duong International Food Co., Ltd is a joint venture between Saigon Co-op (a large retailer in Vietnam) and Wilmar International Limited (Singapore) with the capital contribution ratio is 49% and 51% respectively.
After the joint venture was established, the preparing procedures for the new factory will be conducted expeditiously. The factory will specialize in manufacturing sauces and spices to serve the domestic and export market.
The brand "Nam Duong" owned by Saigon Co.op, which was founded in 1951, is one of the brands in the sauces and spices industry in Vietnam, with products: soy sauce, sauce, chili and tomato sauce. These products are preferred by domestic and abroad consumers. These products are now being exported to markets such as the US, Canada and Europe.
As the leading retailer in Vietnam, Saigon Co.op understands the trend, tastes and appetites of consumers. On the other hand, Wilmar Group which has extensive experience in manufacturing and distribution of food worldwide. Through this joint venture, the Nam Duong's sauces and spices products will meet the international production standards and safety and will be sold in a global distribution network but still preserve the traditional flavors in each product.
The main objective in the development strategy of Wilmar is aimed at building and developing closed business models with diverse agricultural commodities, proactive from input raw materials to produce and distribute finished products. Currently, the Group has more than 500 factories in China, India, Indonesia, Indonesia, Vietnam and 50 other countries worldwide. The Group develops based on multinational human resources base with 92,000 employees.
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After 60 years in the same downtown Evergreen location, Evergreen Crafters has moved across the street, where it is sharing the space with V's Casuals.
After closing for four days, Crafters is open for business six days a week in the former Lauren Brooks building. The owner of the other building has decided to renovate it.
Proprietor Susan Fariss, who has owned the business for four years and worked there for 27, said business on Saturday, Feb. 9, the first day in the new location, was "very good."
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text: This is a very interesting discussion to me. I have started to purchase components for an 8 core microWulf based on the Calvin College microWulf constructed by Prof. Joel Adams and his student except I will use slightly faster cores with an AMD X2 5400+ in the Master node (dual core) and three AMD X2 4000+ dual core processors enclosed in inexpensive boxes. The Master node has an MSI K9N SLI Platinum motherboard which has two Gigabit ports so perhaps the initial configuration with three satellite dual core CPU can be extended to a second set of boxes later. All these AM2-socket CPU are dual core and apparently Prof. Adams was able to address them in the microWulf as individual cores but there is, I believe, some hyperthreading between the dual cores so what is the story about how the dual cores can be addressed individually but still have hyperthreading between the dual cores? I am an experienced programmer for Von Neuman architecture and a total novice on parallel systems but as I build the microWulf I wonder if MPI will decouple the hyperthreading or is it not there? From what little I have learned so far the microWulf switch depends on the relatively slow Gigabit Ethernet so there is probably time within each dual core CPU for hyperthreading to occur if indeed provision is provided for hyperthreading in the AMD X2 dual cores. Sorry to ask such a dumb question but I am trying to learn. Don Shillady Emeritus PRofessor of Chemistry, VCU Ashland Va (working at home) From: richard.walsh at comcast.netTo: toon.knapen at gmail.com; beowulf at beowulf.orgSubject: Re: [Beowulf] multi-threading vs. MPIDate: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 22:15:25 +0000CC: -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Toon Knapen" <toon.knapen at gmail.com> How come there is almost unanimous agreement in the beowulf-community while the rest is almost unanimous convinced of the opposite ? Are we just tapping ourselves on the back or is MP not sufficiently dissiminated or ... ? Mmm ... I think the answer to this is that the rest of world (non-HPC world) is in a time warp. HPC went through its SMP-threads phase in the early-mid 1990s with OpenMP, and then we needed more a more scalable approach (MPI). Now that multi-core and multi-socket has brought parallelism to the rest of the Universe, SMP-based parallelism has had a resurgence ... this has also naturally caused some in HPC to revisit the question as nodes have fattened. The allure of a programming model that is intuitive, expressive, symbolically light-weight, and provides a way to manage the latency variance across memory partitions is irresistable. I kind of like the CAF extension to Fortran and the concept of co-arrays. The co-array is and array of identical normal arrays, but one per active image/process. They are defined as such: real, dimension (N) [*] :: X, Y If the program is run on 8 cores/processors/images the * becomes 8. 8, 1D arrays of size N are created on each processor. In any references to the locale component of the co-array (the image on the processor referencing it), you can drop the []s ... all other references (remote) must include it. This is symbolically light, but reminds the programmer of every costly non- local reference with the presence of the []s in the assignment or operation. There is much more to it than that of course, but as the performance gap between carefully constructed MPI applications and CAF compiled code shrinks I can see the later gaining some traction for purely programming elegance related reasons. If you accept that notion that most MPI programs are written at a B- level in terms of efficiency then the idea of gap closing may not be so far fetched. CAF is supposed to be include in the Fortran 2008 standard. rbw -- "Making predictions is hard, especially about the future." Niels Bohr -- Richard Walsh Thrashing River Consulting-- 5605 Alameda St. Shoreview, MN 55126 --Forwarded Message Attachment--From: toon.knapen at gmail.comTo: beowulf at beowulf.orgSubject: [Beowulf] multi-threading vs. MPIDate: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 20:07:32 +0000_______________________________________________Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.orgTo change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/attachments/20071207/a2fa0340/attachment.html>


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Balloon Company needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 71 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
Looking for a funky, fun and fresh design for the side of our gift boxes.
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We are a Balloon in a Box Gift company (delivery-balloon.co.uk) in the UK looking for a funky, fun and fresh design for the side of our gift boxes. The design should be suitable for viewing in A5 size, be balloon themed and of a single colour without any gradients. It is possible to use two or three shades of the same colour though, as long as it is not too complex. The chosen design will be printed on each side of various sized boxes and therefore the design must be scalable and look good with white space around it as it will not completely cover the surface of the box.
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Texarkana Arrests May Clear Up Multiple Burglaries
Texarkana, Texas Police say several arrests may have cleared up numerous burglaries on both sides of the state line.Authorities located possible suspects in a vehicle in the 100 block of Melton Street in Texarkana, Texas. Property from an alleged burglary on the Arkansas side was recovered from the vehicle.
Arrested and charged with with theft were 26 year old Ashton Jones and 21 year old Jocoby Stewart both of Texarkana, Texas.
Investigators say they are sorting through information obtained during the arrests to determine if these suspects have been responsible for other similar crimes in the area. Both have been booked into the Bi-State Justice Center Jail and are awaiting bond.


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Scott Plaster of the college's physical plant staff has been named recipient of the college's 13th annual "Vanderbush-Weller Award" for strong, positive impact on students.
The award recognizes and supports the efforts of Hope faculty and staff who make extraordinary contributions to the lives of students. Plaster, who is employed in custodial services in the Lubbers Hall academic building, was honored during a luncheon on Thursday, May 3.
Those nominating Plaster for the award praised him for epitomizing inspirational dedication to the well-being of students. One statement noted, "His hard-charging, can-do spirit is infectious, and he takes the mission of Hope College and the care of his facilities as personal missions to be fulfilled with the highest expectations of excellence. Scott's consistently upbeat attitude is communicated to professors, staff, and students alike."
Plaster joined the Hope staff in 1998, and worked in the Durfee Hall men's residence hall for his first few years on staff before moving one building east to Lubbers.
"My job is so much more than keeping the building clean," he said. "It is also about taking the opportunity to inspire a young mind or simply sharing a smile to brighten their day. Those truly are the times I treasure the most. After all, they are MY customers."
Plaster lives in Zeeland with his wife of 17-and-a-half years, Holly, and their three children, Kyle, Adam and Kelli. As a family they enjoy going on bike rides, spending time at the beach, hanging out in the backyard pool or just watching a movie. The family also enjoys music--he and Kelli will be taking bass guitar lessons together this summer, and he and Adam play drums together. They are members of Community Reformed Church.
He also enjoys golf, also an activity that involves the family, and he will be a volunteer with the Senior PGA tour in Benton Harbor in May. "I am super excited about this opportunity because I will be walking with the NBC camera and audio techs calling the shot plays inside the ropes with the players," he noted.
Plaster's hobby activities also include working on the family home. In addition, professionally he is a certified Journeyman Textile Cleaner in multiple specialties through the Institute of Inspection Cleaning and Restoration (IICRC), engaging in continuing education to maintain and enhance his certification mentored by Paul Lucas, a leader in the industry.
The "Vanderbush-Weller Development Fund" was established in honor of longtime Hope professor and football coach Alvin Vanderbush, who retired in 1972 and died on Feb. 20, 2005. It was created by Ken and Shirely Weller of Pella, Iowa. Ken Weller is one of Vanderbush's former players and also a former Hope faculty colleague.


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ast summer, Ed Christopher of the Chicago Area Transportation Study - a metropolitan planning organization for northeastern Illinois-was about to embark on a major examination of travel times between specific points in his region. The data collected would help transportation authorities determine what road improvements were needed in the area.
Rejecting global positioning systems or radar guns to conduct such analyses, Christopher's office decided to use a "floating car" technique in which authorized drivers cruise designated roads at average speeds of other vehicles. In an effort to find out more about this methodology, Christopher did what any computer-savvy researcher does these days: He surfed the Internet. Within minutes, he had tapped into a World Wide Web site at the Transportation Department's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) and retrieved a recent floating-car study conducted by the Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development.
"I quickly had my hands on data that would have taken days to obtain by plowing through library shelves-something I don't have time to do," says Christopher, director of information services for the Chicago Study. "The Web site has become a tremendous resource."
Christopher is one of scores of the federal government's "customers" who are singing the praises of the Internet-an infrastructure of 50,000 interconnected networks linking 20 million computers worldwide. During the last three years, more than 800 federal sites have been set up on the World Wide Web-a user-friendly part of the Internet in which arcane codes are replaced by colorful graphics and "hypertext" links that enable users to click on highlighted words and jump directly to files related to those subjects.
The Web has helped agencies overhaul the way they do business. They are now making text, graphics, audio and video information available to the public 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They are using the Internet to conduct procurements, issue permits, process grant applications, offer employment and training services and automatically collect and disseminate information. Net surfers can electronically file their taxes, check on the status of their Social Security benefits, order coins from the U.S. Mint, retrieve Supreme Court decisions and search Postal Service databases for ZIP codes. And the Web's reference libraries contain information on every subject imaginable.
"Federal agencies are way ahead of the private sector in making a large amount of information available at a minimal cost to an unprecedented number of people," says David Lytel, who manages the White House Web site. "The Freedom of Information Act used to be the standard way to get certain kinds of information. Now, the Web has become the de facto way; it's the first place many people look."
The Web also has played an important role in revitalizing citizen participation in politics. Agencies regularly use the Internet as a means of polling people for their opinions on various issues. And elected representatives use it to hold electronic town meetings with their constituents. The day citizens will be able to cast their votes over the Internet may not be far off.
But the road to cybergovernment is not without its potholes. Internet technology is still immature, with many incompatibility problems affecting the interoperability and reliability of systems. Experts continue to debate the best methods for safeguarding data and protecting intellectual property rights on the Web.
Agencies, meanwhile, are fighting in-house battles over who should control what information goes out on the Net. Some are clashing with private-sector firms that have laid claim to certain types of government-generated data. And then there is the problem of providing universal access to Web sites, so that poor or rural citizens don't become part of an information underclass.
"There's certainly no shortage of obstacles, but the important thing is that we're on our way," says James Flyzik, director of the Treasury Department's Office of Telecommunications Management and chairman of the Government Information Technology Services Working Group-part of the Clinton Administration's Information Infrastructure Task Force. "We've taken the first steps with Web projects and are making progress."
Second-Generation Sites
Nowhere is progress more evident than in the content of federal Web sites. First-generation sites that began appearing three years ago contained little more than mission statements, photos of key officials and telephone numbers. Today's Web sites, by contrast, provide vast amounts of data, with high levels of interactivity.
Some agencies' sites include search engines to help users quickly comb through thousands of documents without having to memorize particular file structures of sites, while hypertext links provide easy access to related data.
"Hypertext is the best thing to happen to government since the payroll deduction of taxes," says Lytel. "In the same way that the deduction made paying taxes invisible, hypertext makes the delivery of government information transparent."
One of the best examples of cybergovernment is the Bureau of Transportation Statistics Web site (http://www.bts.gov), which Ed Christopher at the Chicago Study used to research travel-time methodologies. The year-old site, which recently won a Hammer Award from Vice President Gore's National Performance Review, contains a repository library of more than 1,500 transportation documents from federal, state and local agencies.
The library is divided into 24 categories ranging from traffic patterns, accidents and safety to transportation regulations and congestion management. Within those categories are hard-to-find-and sometimes out of print-documents on esoteric subjects such as "Energy Intensiveness of Trucks, 1960-1992" or "Time Leaving Home to Go to Work, 1990." One of the most popular data sets are the on-time statistics for major airlines, which are searchable by city.
Data reside either on the bureau's computer server or on other agency servers that are linked via hypertext to the BTS home page. (A home page is the opening screen of a Web site.) The thematic presentation of information leaves users unaware that some documents might be retrieved from thousands of miles away.
"Researchers don't care where the data originates; the important thing is that they get it," says Bob Zarnetske, acting assistant director for information technology at BTS. "So instead of taking 20th century technology and laying 19th century bureaucracy over it, we've cut out layers of organization and presented the material in a user-friendly format. By doing so, we've been able to make a lot of hay with a little budget."
Zarnetske estimates that startup costs for the Web site ran about $100,000 for personnel, computer-graphics software and two servers. (Sites are posted on servers, which can be anything from 486 PCs to supercomputers.) Maintenance costs run about $25,000 annually, mainly to cover the salary of a computer programmer-known as a Webmaster-and various researchers. Part of that expense includes downloading Web documents to CD-ROMs. Much of the clerical work-such as scanning hard copy onto the Net-is handled by college students.
Organizing Cybergovernment
Zarnetske's costs are well within the average spent by federal agencies on Web sites. Small agencies can expect to pay a minimum of $5,000 in start-up costs for a server, software and technical staff, with maintenance expenses running anywhere from $1,000 to $50,000 a year. Costs could be brought down by renting space on another organization's server, which runs $50 to $250 per month. Larger agencies with elaborate sites capable of handling sophisticated transactions such as order entry can run up $100,000 to $500,000 in startup costs, with annual maintenance expenses totaling $50,000 to $250,000.
"It really depends on the size of the site, how many hits you're getting a day, and what you're trying to do," says Michael Bartell, chief information officer of the Securities and Exchange Commission, which recently launched a Web site in less than four weeks for about $200,000. "The costs usually don't seem that high once you compare them to the price of postage and the expense of maintaining phones and administrative staff."
At the SEC, eight staffers were assigned to spend part of their time setting up the agency's site, and three staffers now spend part of their time maintaining the site. More than 2 million files are accessed from the site every month. All but the biggest Web sites are using part-time maintenance personnel, usually supplied and funded by agency information resource management (IRM) departments.
"Once you get up and running, it's really not a full-time job to maintain a site unless you're conducting major customer-service applications," says Bartell. He stresses that Web projects must involve representatives from a cross-section of an agency. "If the project sits exclusively with the IRM or communications shop, you run the risk of having it being driven by technology instead of content." In preparing to launch its Web site last year, the SEC formed a Web advisory team comprising people from several different offices and led by SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt Jr.
The next generation of Web sites will feature large amounts of artificial intelligence and offer fully interactive applications. These will cost substantially more than today's sites and probably will require dedicated program personnel-and even specialized departments. If agencies can't get congressional appropriations for such efforts, they'll have to try public-private partnerships or fee-for-service initiatives.
Thus far, however, federal Internet projects have received bipartisan support. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., championed the development of Thomas, the Library of Congress Web site containing the full text of all legislation introduced in the House and Senate. In his fiscal 1996 budget request, President Clinton asked for more than $100 million in funding for various Internet projects in support of the administration's National Information Infrastructure program.
Some of the more creative Web sites have received funding from the Innovation Fund, operated by the Government Information Technology Services Working Group and the General Services Administration's Interagency Management Council. The fund, created two years ago as an outgrowth of the National Performance Review, seeks to finance multi-agency Web initiatives. This year it will contribute $11 million to Internet projects.
"The idea is to take savings from programs such as FTS 2000 [the government-wide telecommunications contract] and reinvest that money in pilot tests for innovative Web sites," says James Flyzik. "The main criterion is that the projects must cut across government."
One-Stop Shopping
One of the goals of the Clinton Administration's Government Information Infrastructure project-a subset of the National Information Infrastructure initiative-is to provide categories of government services to computer users via single access points. One of the best examples of this is the Postal Service's Web Interactive Network of Government Services (WINGS) program, which integrates Web service delivery across all levels of government.
By linking to the WINGS site, computer users can conduct transactions with federal, state and local government from one port-instead of relying on hypertext links to other sites. A person preparing to move cross-country, for instance, can click on an icon entitled "Moving" and arrange to have mail forwarded to another post office, register to vote in the new district, apply for a new driver's license and notify the Department of Veterans Affairs of the address change.
"We provide one-stop shopping for those tired of the complexity of dealing with government," says Susan Smoter, WINGS program manager. "In the same way that a single stamp can take a letter anywhere it wants to go, our Web site aims to take users anywhere they want to go in government."
WINGS integrates services from 30 agencies that pay transaction fees to the Postal Service, which hopes to make the 2-year-old Web site available via public kiosks across the country. A trial kiosk will be launched in Baltimore next month.
Another innovative Web site providing one-stop shopping is the U.S. Business Advisor, developed last June by the Small Business Administration, the Commerce Department and the National Performance Review in conjunction with other agencies. The site is designed to provide regulatory, legal, environmental, financial and labor information to companies in an interactive format.
A small business owner wanting to know how to deal with an asbestos problem, for instance, simply answers a series of questions about the size of the building, the year it was built and how many people work there. Then the system churns out a list of rules-culled from thousands of pages of regulations-pertaining to the specific problem.
The site also enables companies to conduct on-line transactions, such as filing permits, submitting wage reports, applying for loans, registering patents and downloading business forms.
"Small businesses repeatedly complain about how difficult it is to deal with the government," says Greg Woods, a member of the National Performance Review team responsible for information technology and customer service. "Our goal with the U.S. Business Advisor was to change the way government interacts with its customers."
The site, which is accessed about 1,000 times daily, is maintained at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Funding is provided by the National Performance Review and the Innovation Fund.
The granddaddy of government information-locator sites is FedWorld, run by the Commerce Department's National Technical Information Service. The 3-year-old site provides everything from White House and agency press releases to tax forms, weather satellite images and copies of trade agreements. It enables users to communicate on topics of shared interest or to post public comments on proposed government rules. Links are provided to 140 federal bulletin board systems and more than 250 government Web sites. The service, which receives about 10,000 hits a day, is maintained by a staff of six full-time workers.
Individual agencies are stepping up their efforts to provide information over the Internet. In response to a Commission on Federal Paperwork report charging the government with not knowing "what information it collects, with what frequency, from whom, and for what uses," the Office of Management and Budget put out a bulletin last year requiring each agency to establish a Government Information Locator Service (GILS) on the Web. Each GILS locator will serve as an electronic inventory of agency information in both paper and electronic formats. On-line bibliographies will describe documents and databases, and explain how the public can access them.
Although some agencies implementing GILS have installed impressive search engines on their Web sites that quickly link users to data access points, others are offering little more than electronic versions of library index cards.
Challenges Ahead
Incompatibility across agencies and systems is just one of the difficulties in creating cybergovernment. Many federal computer systems and staffs still are not up to the demands of Web-site maintenance. The Internet network protocol, TCP/IP, requires sophisticated skills that are not yet available at some federal organizations.
Then there are problems with the technology itself. Different types of browser-support mechanisms and user-authentication schemes sport massive inconsistencies. Three versions exist of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)-the language used to display hypertext on the Web-and all are incompatible.
Performance of Internet access technologies, such as PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) and SLIP (Serial Line Internet Protocol) connections, can be unpredictable and too slow for certain tasks-leading to system crashes in some cases. And network overload problems are responsible for the all-too-frequent "access denied by host" messages received by Web surfers.
In addition to technical problems, security is a major concern to Web-site operators. Last September, a couple of graduate students decrypted credit-card numbers and messages that were supposed to be protected by a Web-browser program from Netscape Communications Corp., the leading maker of Internet software. The break-in, which was the second reported by Netscape in a year, led to a new version of the software and prompted the company to offer rewards to anyone finding other holes in the program's security.
The federal government is battling hackers and spies with a number of weapons. Smart cards, which contain microchips, generate passwords and confirm identities of those entering some Web sites. NASA and certain Defense Department agencies use "firewall" software to authenticate passwords and control who sees what and under what terms.
Perhaps the most important defense mechanisms against security breaches are digital signatures-a series of complex algorithmic codes that enable recipients of computer messages to authenticate the identification of senders. Both the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Defense Department have been working recently on prototypes of digital signatures.
The National Performance Review recently issued a mandate for establishing public digital-signature programs based on NIST's Digital Signature Algorithm. GSA's Security Infrastructure Program Management Office is coordinating efforts to get all agencies to use the same standad for digital signatures. In a pilot study beginning this month, the Internal Revenue Service will incorporate the standard in a Web site designed to receive completed tax forms from home computer users.
Data Access
When not defending their Web sites against cyberbandits, agencies have been busy battling private-sector organizations over ownership of government data. The reason is some agencies have gone into the business of selling information over the Internet. The Patent and Trademark Office, for example, peddles patent data from its Web site. This has drawn strong criticism from citizens groups and companies claiming the government should not be playing the role of value-added reseller.
Agencies are even catching flack for giving away information on the Net. Two years ago, the Securities and Exchange Commission began distributing company financial reports on a Web site 24 hours after they had been filed. Trade associations and market-research firms claim the SEC's service violates the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, which states that agencies should be as economical as possible in the amount of information they disseminate to the public.
The Information Technology Association of America-a trade group representing 325 high-tech firms-argues that the SEC should not be spending taxpayers' money to put 12 million documents a year up on its Web site when a myriad of vendor services exist for such a purpose. The SEC maintains, however, that the money spent on its site is significantly less than what citizens would have to pay to obtain the data from private-sector firms.
"Our feeling is that we have to collect the information anyway, so why not make it available for free to the investing public?" says SEC Chief Information Officer Michael Bartell. "The Paperwork Reduction Act can be interpreted in various ways. The important thing is that we're not adding too much value to the data, so companies still can manipulate it and repackage it for sale to those interested in special analyses."
Another war is being waged by those objecting to federal money being spent on Web sites that are not accessible to everyone. Only about 20 percent of American households, for instance, have home computers. Many rural residents don't have Internet service providers in their areas.
In an effort to broaden access to federal Web sites, the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications Information Administration is issuing grants to help provide Internet access to schools, libraries and hospitals. Other organizations, such as the Postal Service, are setting up public kiosks that can be accessed by the public 24 hours a day. Some agencies are even considering setting up special 800 phone numbers, which would provide free dial-up service.
The Clinton Administration has voiced strong support for all efforts to broaden access to the Internet. Some federal officials, in fact, have a downright utopian view of the Web's future. "As more people obtain access to federal Web sites," argues Flyzik, "the easier it will be for agencies to provide round-the-clock services to the public-thus ushering in a new era of government and ultimately leading to economic and intellectual prosperity for all."
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