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Suffolk announces plan to close sex-offender trailers
Suffolk County police Thursday unveiled a proposal that would intensify monitoring of the county's 1,016 registered sex offenders and close trailers for homeless offenders on the East End by dispersing them to shelters throughout the county.
Chief of Department James Burke told a county legislative committee that police will work with the Social Services department to move the 38 homeless sex offenders now housed in trailers in Riverside and Westhampton into the county shelter system. He said offenders would be transferred to county homeless shelters, with no more than one per facility. The offenders would be housed away from homeless families.
Burke said the plan, which could come before the full legislature by Tuesday, goes beyond relocation of homeless sex offenders.
"Instead of spending our taxpayer dollars on building and staffing facilities for homeless sex offenders, the Suffolk County Police Department recommends we devote resources toward implementing the toughest monitoring and enforcement program in the nation," Burke told legislators.
Police officers would be required to make regular checks on all sex offenders to ensure they haven't registered with false or outdated addresses. Parents for Megan's Law, a nonprofit that works to prevent and treat child sexual abuse, would help with address verification. The group also would provide smartphone applications for residents to report offenders suspected of violating registration rules.
"I've not seen anything like this is in any other jurisdiction across the country," said Parents for Megan's Law executive director Laura Ahearn, noting that most municipalities only make random spot checks to verify sex offender addresses. "This is more proactive."
Public Safety Committee members generally expressed support for the proposal.
Legis. Tom Muratore (R-Ronkonkoma), a former Suffolk police officer, said: "We're going to drive them [sex offenders] out of our neighborhood, out of our community and out of our county."
But Legis. DuWayne Gregory (D-Amityville) noted that many of the roughly 55 shelters where homeless sex offenders could be moved are in low-income communities. "You're going from clustering to potentially having communities bursting . . . at the seams with these sex offenders," he said.
Amol Sinha of the New York Civil Liberties Union's Suffolk chapter warned that police could improperly contact sex offenders who are in compliance with the law.
"It raises questions of whether the county is going to punish people twice, imposing more burdens upon people, beyond the core of the law and beyond the sentence they've already served," Sinha said.
Aides to Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone had no estimate of the cost. However, they said it would cost less than a $4 million proposal to build six "mini-shelters" for homeless offenders in industrial parks. Suffolk spends $1.3 million annually on the East End trailers, including transportation for offenders.
"The plan put forward represents the best use of taxpayer dollars to protect communities," said Deputy County Executive Jon Schneider.


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In rural western Colorado, dogs face a variety of foes: cactus spines in their paws, grass seeds in their ears, and the occasional parasite for good measure. So my Australian shepherd mutt and I often visit our local veterinarian. My dog, no surprise, hates this. I, on the other hand, almost look forward to it.
Dr. Norman Vincent works out of a low-slung, weatherbeaten house. Instead of a private exam room, he has a single room for his table, his reception desk, and his waiting area. So as his patients and their owners wait their turns, we get to witness both the comedy and the tragedy of his work. One moment, he's vaccinating a pickup truck full of puppies, passed in bucket-brigade style by a posse of kids. Next, he's shaking his head over a declining golden retriever and its weeping owner.
Doc Vincent has big hands and a no-nonsense manner, which he leavens with exaggerated country etiquette. He addresses each of us humans as "young lady," or "young man," no matter how advanced our age. "And how are we today?" he asks, as he hustles the next tabby or corgi or black Lab onto his table. As the animals and their owners leave, various ailments in tow, the waiting bipeds cluck with sympathy and advice.
I could say something sentimental here about small-town life, something reassuring about the persistence of neighborliness. And it would be true in many ways. But I've lived in a small town long enough to know that loneliness often lurks at the ends of dirt roads and on the quiet lots at the edge of town. Despite the cheerful potlucks, our differences still divide us: Disagreements over the brand of our politics, the form of our religion and the make of our car are as deep, or deeper, than the rest of the country's. Personal resentments can endure for years, and stereotypes can carry the weight of the Gospels.
Maybe that's why I like my time at the vet. In Doc Vincent's office, politics and prejudices are temporarily forgotten. A fifth-generation rancher gets the same gruff treatment as a couple of young women with pierced lips and a California license plate. And no matter where we come from or who we are, we're all vulnerable as we stand at the examining table, trying to do right by the animals we care for. We're all in it, if not quite together, then at least at the same time.
Not long ago, Doc Vincent led an elderly collie out of surgery, and we humans goggled at the dog's bloodied neck and bandaged legs. When the owner, an unkempt middle-aged man, saw his dog, his face crumpled. Doc Vincent turned to his ever-present audience. "This dog got attacked by a couple of pit bulls," he said, "and I'm afraid this young man is just as bad off." He fetched a folding chair, and without a word, set it up next to his table. The man sat down, buried his head in the dog's ruff, and cried. Doc Vincent, unfazed, turned again to his waiting patients. "Young lady?" he asked. "How are we today?"


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A grass-roots campaign critical of the state's efforts on air pollution called, "Gov. Herbert, We Cannot Breathe," is mounting an online campaign and now a Capitol Hill rally set for noon Wednesday.
"I just decided it was time to take action," said Marjorie McCloy, a writer and retired administrator who has amassed more than 6,600 names on her clean-air petition.
McCloy is set to deliver her petition to the Governor's Office after the rally, which will take place on the Capitol's south lawn, overlooking the latest winter smog episode that has settled on the Salt Lake Valley.
Joining her will be University of Utah student Carl Ingwell, who created a Facebook event called "Let Governor Herbert Know That We Cannot Breathe" urging people to inundate Herbert's office with phone calls and emails all day Wednesday. More than 1,100 already have RSVP'd.
Herbert was in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, and he is not expected to return to Utah in time to accept the petitions on Wednesday. But, in a meeting last month with environmental leaders, Utah Department of Environmental Quality Director Amanda Smith said the governor had directed her to put air quality at the top of her agency's priority list. Meanwhile, his office tweeted inversion links on Tuesday.
Ingwell said the idea for the campaign arose a week ago when just about everyone he talked to joked about or groused about the poor air quality.
"Then I got to thinking, 'why is there such a disparity between public opinion and public policy?' " he said.
He said Herbert's recent statements about driving less only address part of the problem and still more solutions are needed.
"That's where leadership comes in," he said.
McCloy said the issue became personal for her when, a lifelong outdoors enthusiast and nonsmoker, she learned last fall that she had irreversible lung damage.
"Obviously, this is a complicated problem that won't go away overnight," she said, adding that some simple changes could mean lots of improvement in Utah's air quality.
McCloy also would like an executive task force created to brainstorm solutions, saying there are "all kinds of creative ideas out there."
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Winter smog has settled into many of northern Utah's valleys at levels considered unhealthy under the Clean Air Act. That could change if snow arrives late Friday, as forecast. But the Utah Division of Air Quality anticipates the smog will persist at least through Friday and has issued red "no-burn" advisories for those days. Said Bo Call, who oversees the state's pollution forecasts: "Right now, it's not looking like a very good chance" of clearing up soon.


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Pundits and commentators are forecasting that this fall's general election will see an avalanche of negative advertising. But as voters gird for the onslaught, political scientists are asking a different question: Will it matter?
When the Supreme Court lifted restrictions on private advertising in elections, superPACs supporting President Obama and the most likely Republican nominee, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, promised to unleash negative attacks on the other side.
But a growing body of political science research suggests that although negative advertisements are widely seen to be decisive campaign weapons, those ads are much less effective than most people believe.
One comprehensive analysis by researchers at Rutgers and George Washington University concluded: "All told, the research literature does not bear out the idea that negative campaigning is an effective means of winning votes, even though it tends to be more memorable and stimulate knowledge about the campaign. Nor is there any reliable evidence that negative campaigning depresses voter turnout."
Most people, of course, can recall nasty ad campaigns that shaped an election's outcome. Campaigns such as the Willie Horton ad in 1988, the swift boat ads in 2004 or the intense negativity in the early GOP primaries this year all suggest that negative ads are powerful.
But empirical studies, which seek to measure the effectiveness of ads across campaigns, suggest that these campaigns may be most effective when voters are unfamiliar with a candidate — which won't happen this fall. When voters know a candidate fairly well, the ads don't usually do much.
"When voters are confronted with inconvenient facts, it is oftentimes difficult to persuade them that those facts are, in fact, facts," said George Washington political scientist John Sides. "When supporters of President Obama see negative information about Obama, they don't think it is true. To the extent it is true, they find ways to explain it or rationalize it — they discount it."
The same, of course, will be true for the GOP nominee come fall.
Sides argues that candidates stick with negative ads in part because they're locked in an arms race and are unwilling to unilaterally disarm. Candidates who think they'll be attacked by negative ads believe they need to return fire.
But Sides also argues that there could be a potential conflict of interest among people who advise candidates.
"A concern that I have," he said, "is that a lot of our accounts and understanding about the effectiveness of advertising comes from people who have a professional interest in selling advertising to candidates, and who don't have the need or the time or the inclination to do a lot of rigorous research into the decisions they're making."
As in all the previous Republican primaries and caucuses this campaign season, negative ads have played a very prominent role in Wisconsin. But what is the real impact of ads like these?
GREENE: Experts say these ads often do what they set out to do. Last week on this program, Joe Heim, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, put it this way.
JOE HEIM: I think they're effective. When people are undecided or they're not real strongly committed towards one candidate or the other, they can be very effective.
GREENE: Well, given the prominent role we know negative ads will be playing throughout the fall, we wanted to dig into this issue a little further.
NPR's Shankar Vedantam tracks the latest social science research, and he's back with us this morning. Hi, Shankar.
SHANKAR VEDANTAM, BYLINE: Hi, David.
GREENE: So are negative ads effective, based on the research you've seen?
VEDANTAM: You know, if you'd asked me this question a couple of weeks ago, David, I would have said absolutely yes. You know, I thought that negative ads were the atomic bombs of political campaigns, that they were highly decisive and highly effective.
But then I went and looked at the scientific studies on negative advertising and I found something actually quite different, which is that if you look at a large number of races and the role of negative advertising in them, it turns out that negative advertising is nowhere as effective as most people think, that at best you can say it's effectiveness is highly inconsistent.
GREENE: Well, Professor Heim, this political scientist in Wisconsin who we just heard from, he seemed to be making a distinction, saying that these negative ads can be effective earlier in a campaign. Tell us why that might be.
VEDANTAM: So I think that's exactly right. So negative ads might be very effective at shaping how voters think of candidates very early in a race. But once voters have a clear sense of what candidate they support, negative ads are not very good at reshaping those views.
And if you look at the current GOP race, I think you can show that Romney and his supporters have a much lower return on investment from negative ads being run now in states like Illinois or even Wisconsin today than they did back in Iowa and Florida, when the race was much more widely open.
And I spoke with this political scientist called John Sides, who works at George Washington University. He pointed out that when voters develop loyalties to a candidate, it is very, very difficult to dislodge them from those loyalties with facts, including negative facts. Here he is.
JOHN SIDES: When voters are confronted with inconvenient facts, it's oftentimes difficult to persuade them that those facts are in fact facts. When supporters of President Obama see negative information about Obama, they don't think that it's true; to the extent that it seems true, they find ways to explain it or rationalize it. They discount it.
GREENE: And I suppose that that might true for President Obama going into the fall, and if Romney is the Republican nominee, people will surely know him. He might be a lot less vulnerable to negative ads as well.
VEDANTAM: I think that's exactly right. So most of the country probably by September is going to know whom they're going to vote for and $500 million of negative ads, you know, probably is not going to dislodge them.
GREENE: OK. Well, if negative ads don't really pay off in the end, especially when we get towards the fall, why do politicians - why do their supporters always seem to go down that road? Why do they bother?
VEDANTAM: You know, I've heard a couple of theories, and the first is that this is an arms race and that candidates are unwilling to unilaterally disarm.
GREENE: The cold war of American politics, it sounds like.
VEDANTAM: Exactly. And so even if you believe that negative ads are not very effective, if you know that your opponent is going to be using them a lot, you're very hesitant to hang up your guns. But I heard a second explanation, and that comes from John Sides again at George Washington University. Here he is again.
SIDES: A concern than I have is that a lot of our accounts and understanding about the effectiveness of advertising comes from people who have a professional interest in selling advertising to candidates and who don't necessarily have the need or the time or the inclination to do a lot of rigorous research into the decisions that they're making.
GREENE: That almost makes it sounds like campaigns could be hood-winked by advertising firms who convince them the negative ads are a good idea and want to sell those ads.
VEDANTAM: Yeah, I mean hood-winked might be too strong a term. It may be these advertising executives genuinely believe that negative advertising works. But I think what's fair to say is that contention is really contradicted by the scientific literature.
GREENE: All right. Always interesting to talk to you, Shankar. Thanks for being here.
VEDANTAM: Thanks, David.
GREENE: That's NPR's science correspondent Shankar Vedantam. He joins us regularly to talk about the trends in social science research. And you can give him ideas and feedback if you'd like on Twitter @HiddenBrain. And while you're at it, follow this program @MorningEdition. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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"All I can tell you is, I wish I had a dime for every dime I had."
To commemorate my hopeful demise of the mighty money juggernaut that is the Boston Red Sox, I have decided to use one of the greatest films ever conceived to explain my feelings for this occasion.
I'm also here to remind the world of the hurt and pain that Russell Brand caused me by pissing on my childhood by remaking this classic. BASTARDDOOOO.
"Thank you for a memorable afternoon, usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of your stature."
The Red Sox are falling apart. The Tampa Bay Rays are in pursuit of the wild card and I couldn't be happier. At the beginning of the season, I, like the rest of the baseball universe, had the Sox winning it all. That being said, I love this Rays team. I've loved the last three or four Rays teams. LOVE Joe Maddon. He almost makes me like Florida. Don't get me wrong. I don't hate tha SAWKSSS. I'm just a bit tired of everything Boston. NO MORE BOSTON!! No more Red Sox! The Town, Conviction, Gone Baby Gone, the Patriots, The Departed, Ben Affleck doing Madden ads. I NEED A FAWWWWWWWWKIINNNNN BREAK!!!
"If you and your undershirt will walk two paces backwards, I could enter this dwelling."
Oh yea. Forgot about Edge of Darkness, The Fighter, and Danny fawwwwwwkkkinnnn Woodhead!!!! I feel like I have had a Fenway Frank shoved up my giggy for the last ten years.
"I race cars, play tennis, and fondle women, BUT! I have weekends off, and I am my own boss."
Theo Epstein's bright idea was to punch in Erik Betard. BRILLIANT? No. Can Jon Lester be everywhere at once? Josh Beckett is hurty. The BLOWN RANGER! John Lackey is awful. This staff is not quite in dire straits but…
"Ladies and gentlemen… I'm sorry… As you probably have surmised by now… there will be no wedding. The bride… has had second thoughts… and has decided not to marry me… Most of you know me… Can you blame her?"
Carl Crawford has been my personal joy killer. One of my favorite players of the last seven years, he hasn't quite been worth the money. Hitting third in this lineup has been a problem. He's a leadoff hitter!
"Isn't this fun? Isn't fun the best thing to have? Don't you wish you were me? I know I do."
The rise of Jacoby Ellsbury has been nothing short of TRANSCENDENT — an absolute bright spot. And I couldn't be happier for the kid who has struggled through injuries. He or Curtis Granderson would be fine choices for MVP. (I'm sorry, Verlander.)
And now, one last fleeting thought for my beloved Cubs. Both Sox teams have won championships and so have the current champ Giants. My thoughts on this?
Gloria: My mother died when I was six.
Arthur: [bangs his fist on the table] Son of a bitch! Don't they know what they do to kids?
Gloria: My father raped me when I was twelve.
Arthur: So, you had six relatively good years? I'm sorry. Listen, my father screwed me, too.
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Last year, I applied to join the JET Program, which would have sent me to Japan to help teach English in a public school for a year or two. The organizers give the participants a little mantra: Every Situation Is Different. What works well in one school, or one town, or one apartment search, may not carry over to another. If people are giving you advice that seems bad, they say, there's probably a good reason for that -- something unique about your situation.
I wasn't accepted for the JET Program, but that's okay, because now I'm FSF's new compliance engineer, which is even better. Even though I've been in this job for less than two months, people are already asking me how the compliance process works. This is a hard question to answer, because like the JET people say, every situation is different.
Every compliance case starts with some kind of report about a violation. Even these come from all over: some people follow our reporting instructions and mail us, others post to mailing lists or forums, sometimes we hear about a problem through the press. Then we have to confirm the violation. How do we do that? It depends on what kind of violation it is. If the violator is distributing GPLed software on a web page without a copy of the license, we can simply download it and take a look for ourselves. If a router manufacturer includes GPLed software in their hardware without providing the source or an appropriate written offer, we have to use various tools to figure out exactly what code they're shipping.
After the violation has been confirmed, we contact the violator to start bringing them into compliance. Our approach to these negotiations varies a lot depending on whether the violator is a small team of hackers or a corporation, what kind of violation it is, how friendly they are to free software, any cases we've had with them in the past -- I could go on and on. Things don't always go the way I expect, either. I've dealt with corporations who were very friendly and fixed problems promptly, and individuals who dragged their feet and made a huge stink about the process. It all depends.
I know we don't talk much about FSF's compliance work; this is just one of many reasons why. But it's important work: the many developers who have assigned their contributions to us expect it, and there aren't a lot of other organizations enforcing free software licenses. So expect to start hearing more about the Compliance Lab, here and elsewhere. And in the meantime, if you have any questions about what we do, please feel free to send us an e-mail.


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Russell Fuller
Professor, Theology and Religious Studies
- Ph.D., Harvard University, Hebrew Bible
- M.A., Columbia University, Middle Eastern Languages and Literature
- B.A., State University of New York at Albany, Judaic Studies
- Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem and Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich.
Russell Fuller, PhD, joined the faculty of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies in 1992. He is a professor of biblical studies with a specialty in the area of Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the religion of ancient Israel.
Scholarly Work
Fuller is a specialist in the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls. His research focus is in the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible especially using the biblical and non-biblical Dead Sea Scrolls. He was recently a consultant to the San Diego Natural History Museum for a major exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls. He has published a critical edition of the manuscripts of the Twelve Minor Prophets in the series Discoveries in the Judean Desert.
Areas of Interest
Fuller has regularly taught the introductory course in biblical studies which he enjoys very much. He also teaches upper division courses in the area of Hebrew Bible including the Five Books of Moses and the Prophets of the Hebrew Bible. He has also enjoyed teaching in the honors program both courses in his own field as well as team taught courses with colleagues from different academic disciplines.


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No doubt many of you have seen this clip, which I believe is recognized as a fitting homage for many thousands of discharged Marines. I've been out for about 5 years now, but when this character sings, ". . . and last of all we got one more left it's the most important one, it's the EAS . . ." I think of the relief I felt while driving out the front gate with my DD-214. It was almost euphoric. The lyrics are so simple, the song a concise encapsulation of his time in the Corps. There is bullshit everywhere and acronyms for everything. And hiding beneath the veneer of this highly lofted institution are the symptoms of confusion and mediocrity: on-duty Marines sleeping, favoritism, politics, avoiding responsibility, etc. Keep in mind, this young man is not singing about your local mechanic in coveralls finishing a beer when he should be repairing your car- he's talking about the United States Marine Corps. As always, I am excluding those combat-tested Marines and the ones who have paid the ultimate price. The rest of you (including me) deserve no special recognition for just doing our jobs.
Motivators love to say, "Well there's always a share of both love and hate for the Corps." Just what part of, "Fuck USMC you can suck my cock" in that song conveys love for the Marine Corps? I personally reserve those sentiments for organizations (and the people in them) for which I harbor no affection. You can even tell your girlfriend, "Fuck you" in an argument, as well as "You can suck my cock" in a different setting when both of you are feeling decadent. But you cannot tell your girlfriend, "Fuck you, you can suck my cock." She just won't do it. It's your way of saying, "I think we're done" in the most undiplomatic way. But I don't hate the Marine Corps. I won't waste my time and energy hating it. My relationship with the USMC is a lot like the estrangement you have for that ex-lover who just isn't right in the head. You pity and sometimes humor her, you know she (or he, for you ladies) is insane, and you can't help her. And no matter how many times you explain that her negative traits far outweigh her good ones, she's still going to believe that she made your life richer and more worthwhile. That's the fallacy many motivators believe, that somewhere in one of the chambers of our hearts we still love and miss the Corps. So you just have to laugh, shake your head, and stay away. Hate is not healthy. I personally prefer expressing my awe and amazement toward these delusions of grandeur, followed by amusement.
When you compare the happiness level of your graduation from boot camp to your EAS, you will find that the former is grounded upon a belief system that had no or little substance in the first place. And little by little, you learn that the EGAs woven into your uniforms and pinned to your collars take on a different meaning than when you first coveted them. In the beginning, they were symbolic of being the ultimate badass and the consummate professional. But over time, the environment and the resources at your disposal began to reflect the inadequacy of the training protocol and superficial aesthetic of the Corps. Shall I quote Tyler Durden? "Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken." Likewise strutting, yelling and marching in formation does not make you formidable, tougher, or organized. It only makes you more obedient and susceptible to further indoctrination. Ultimately, your graduation from basic training pales in comparison to your EAS celebration. This is the case 9 times out of 10.
Perhaps a Marine and/or poolee (those naive, sorry bastards) will argue that if the USMC mentality failed to take hold, we just "didn't do it right." Something went awry. We weren't Marine material. But being Marine material isn't prestigious at all. The necessary components for being one are really reduced to two main factors: 1. a healthy body (which isn't at all reflective of your character), and 2. the willingness to obey (like a child). Anything beyond that is derived from the individual. So this whole misconception that Marines somehow acquire admirable abilities and traits that are otherwise inherent is one of the biggest crocks perpetuating the Marine Corps myth.
If you're one of those people who knows that had it not been for the Corps, you would've been incarcerated, committing felonies and/or just been an overall ineffectual human being, you're among that alarmingly growing percentage who truly needs such draconian levels of discipline just to function. The Corps has attempted unsuccessfully to correlate the word "discipline" with the words "practical, useful, and efficient." In other words, a Marine's ability to do the right thing, to just be DECENT, requires drug tests, structured exercise sessions, and accountability formations to keep him that way. The definition for excellence in the Marine Corps is synonymous with maintaining the status quo in the private sector. Talk about lowering the bar. Those civilians and [few] Marines that have reached or transcended the standards of excellence do so individually, simply because USMC policy is designed as a blueprint for ordinariness. So without equivocation, there are far more excellent people in the civilian world than there ever were in the Corps. Hands down. No question about it. Aside from them being able to run for long periods of time, Marines work very hard in order to become very average.
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I want to like LDAP. Every so often I do interesting things with it, and I start to think I like it, then some software that claims to support LDAP fails to do so properly and I remember I hate it again.
I guess the problem with LDAP is that most people are scared by it, unless you reach a certain level of scale you don't need it. That makes installing it out of the blue a scary prospect, and that means that lots of toy-software applications don't even consider using it until they're mature and large.
When you bolt-on support for LDAP to an existing project you have to make compromises; do you create local entries in your system for these scary-remote-LDAP-users? Do you map group members from LDAP into your own group system? ANd so on.
To be fair to the application developers if the requirements for installation were "Install LDAP" they'd probably have a damn smaller userbase, and so we cannot blame OpenLDAP, or the other servers.
All the same it is a shame.
The very next piece of software I ever write that needs to handle logins will use LDAP and only LDAP. How hard can it be?
In happier news I re-deployed http://www.debian-administration.org/ over the weekend. It now uses the Bytemark BigV platform which rocks.
The migration was supposed to be a "Christmas Project", but took longer than expected due to the number of changes I need to make to the software, and my deployment plan. Still I'm very happy with the way things are running now, and don't expect I'll need to move or make significant changes for the next nine years. I just hope there is still interest in such things then.
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OTTAWA – The Harper government has a new finance minister, but not necessarily new clarity on fulfilling its 2011 campaign promise on income splitting.
Since taking over the finance portfolio last Wednesday, Joe Oliver hasn't repeated his predecessor's concerns about an expensive tax cut that critics say will benefit only a minority of families, and favour those at the top of the income scale.
But he hasn't been unequivocal either, as Prime Minister Stephen Harper appeared to be last month when he said "income splitting has been a good policy for seniors in Canada, and it will also be a good policy for Canadian families."
Asked about it on his first day at his new post last week, Oliver appeared closer to Harper's apparent position than he was to Jim Flaherty's, although he did give a nod to his predecessor's call for a closer examination by stating that he was "going to be looking at the details."
Asked Tuesday whether he shares Flaherty's concerns that the pledge to allow families with dependent children to transfer up to $50,000 from the highest income earner to the lowest for tax purposes, Oliver was less than crystal clear.
"How the benefit will be distributed is obviously one of the issues that we look at, we look at the issue of fairness," he said.
"The point is we intend to lower taxes for families and when the next budget is announced we'll have the specific provisions. That's a decision for the next budget but the prime minister was very clear that income splitting can be a good policy for families."
Income splitting is a popular policy for the Conservative base because it is most helpful for traditional one-income families, where one spouse, usually the mother, stays home to take care of the children.
Employment Minister Jason Kenney is a strong proponent of keeping the promise and enacting a policy that he says "supports families who are investing in their kids."
He has also said that income splitting "doesn't benefit any particular family model; what it does is eliminate a form of unfairness."
But economists who have analyzed the Conservative plan says it will give the most benefit to families who need it the least, and no benefit at all to 85 per cent of Canadian households. And the program is costly at $2.7 billion a year.
An often-quoted C.D. Howe Institute analysis concluded that 40 per cent of the benefits will go to households with income of over $125,000. Meanwhile, single-parent families who tend to need it the most will be shut out. The program also does nothing for dual-income families where the couple have similar earnings.
Experts have said there are better ways of delivering tax relief to families, including increasing benefits under the Universal Child Care Benefit.
However, some have also noted that there are ways to tweak the income splitting proposal so that the benefits are more broadly distributed.
That would allow the Conservatives to say they have indeed brought in income splitting, just not the one they unveiled in the 2011 election campaign.


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While I understand that the Hook is not rated "G," I made the decision to advertise in the Hook because it was not rated "R" or "X." This concerns me because I believe this will reduce the number of readers of the Hook; people who have their standards of morality, may avoid reading it in the future.
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Corporate security lapses are once again sweeping the news hour, but these days the culprit is just as likely to be an inside source -- a paid employee at a reputable company -- as a hacker doing evil somewhere in a Moscow basement.
Pity poor Boeing, which made headlines in December after personal information including salaries, Social Security numbers, and home addresses of approximately 382,000 retired and current employees, was stolen. According to news reports, a thief made off with an employee's laptop. Unfortunately, the laptop's owner violated Boeing's policy by failing to encrypt the data after it had been downloaded from a server. In an e-mail sent to Boeing employees, Jim McNerney, chairman, president, and CEO wrote, "This latest incident resulted from a clear violation of our data-protection policy."
That wouldn't surprise Brian Contos, CSO of security vendor ArcSight and author of Enemy at the Water Cooler: Real-Life Stories of Insider Threats and Enterprise Security Management Countermeasures. In the book, he notes, "Too often policies and procedures are outdated, forgotten, not well-communicated through awareness programs, or not even written."
Financial liability aside, information leaks can disrupt corporate strategy and leave an embarrassing bruise. In January, full details about Cingular Wireless's latest Palm Treo 750 were leaked to the Web a week before the announcement date. A sales presentation that was supposed to be embargoed until the big day instead made its premature debut on Engadget Mobile.
Such events are leading to a surge of interest in ILP (information leak prevention), which targets policy-compliance monitoring and enforcement pertaining to information on the desktop and all data that moves along the internal network and across the corporate boundary. "Maybe we were naïve, but until we installed PortAuthority at the beginning of 2006 we had no system for auditing [outbound] e-mail," says Ron Uno, an IT manager at Kuakini Health System and a key player in an ongoing effort to be HIPAA-compliant. "It flags everything [suspicious]."
A Fortune 1000 CSO who asked that his name be withheld describes both the frustration and urgency bound with ILP. "If an employee goes against company policy and takes data home to be more productive, how would I know? Not a single person in any company knows where all the data is. And if you don't know where the data is, how can you even begin to protect it?"
Here's the plan
Protecting information assets will always be a challenge of the highest order, but there are specific tasks you can perform to decrease your risk.
The first step in the ILP process is to develop a data protection policy. Corporate security officers should evaluate their ILP threats and institute risk-appropriate solutions.
Company officials must first decide what information is important to keep confidential. How can the data be accessed? Who can access it? When? And for how long? Information must be assigned a value, using implicit and explicit costs. The relative threats and risks to it must be evaluated, and a cost-of-defense threshold developed. A determination must be made as to how much the company is willing to spend to protect its confidential information.
Defining the confidential and critical information, the risks to each type of information, and the value to the organization allows ILP planners to focus on mission-critical assets first. In short, a data-protection plan follows the same steps that an organization would take when developing a business continuity plan -- only the focus is different. In a business continuity or disaster recovery plan, the focus is on the infrastructure and processes, and what it takes to make a company's mission-critical tasks operational again. A data protection policy is by contrast information-centric.
After the data-protection policy is developed, educating employees is the next order of business. Understanding and adhering to the policy should be part of the hiring package, and employees should know the consequences, for example, for taking home data without permission. Further, there are numerous policies to prevent information loss that leave users out of the loop, regardless of whether or not their intentions are malicious. One is to ensure that backup media is encrypted by default; another is to disable USB to prevent loss by way of flash memory drives. Whatever the policies are, they should be clearly communicated to staff and contractors in writing.
Information is power
Next, information stores and communication channels must be defined. IT must know where all the critical data is stored and how it's communicated between hosts. Consider client computers, file servers, e-mail servers, print servers, and database servers. Information is often transmitted using HTTP and e-mail, but don't forget instant-messaging channels or removable media such as DVDs, CD-ROMs, and USB flash drives.
Also consider third-parties if they store or have access to your data. Negotiating the right to inspect and audit their controls on a periodic basis can go a long way toward reducing risk. It's wise to include a clause in your contract that they forfeit the job the minute they fail to ensure adequate controls.
After you've hypothesized where the information is, find it and monitor it. Several vendors make tools that look for confidential information. Some scan server and workstation hard drives looking for tell-tell signs of protected data. The use of predefined data formats such as XXX-XX-XXXX would be recognized as a Social Security number and send out the proper alerts, while others do the same listening on network connections.
PortAuthority, which was recently acquired by Websense, sells software called Precise ID. The software uses multiple detection methods to identify and classify structured or unstructured data, including rules, dictionaries, keywords, threshold counts, categories, lexicons, statistical analysis, and content-matching. It recognizes more than 370 file formats, including popular archival types such as .zip. Searches can be made on storage media (what PortAuthority calls "data at rest") or while the data is in use.
Evaluate your options
Preventing data leaks requires a multipronged approach. Although no single product can do it all, many companies are buying ILP-specific technologies, such as those found in PortAuthority Technologies' product line.
Securent CEO Rajiv Gupta, puts it best: "Companies are tasked with making their applications more broadly available to a wider range of customers, end-users, and partners, while at the same time making sure unauthorized access isn't granted. If everyone is sharing the same data, it often takes a 'Chinese Wall' type of product to help keep users and data appropriately segregated to ensure compliance."
Securent's Entitlement Management Solutions attempt to keep internal and external parties away from data sources by focusing on authorization. Other vendor systems handle identity and authentication, but then administrators define user authorization policies to enforce who can see what. Securent's products work by wrapping end-point applications in an application-level shim. Securent's policy engine and enforcement points can provide additional granularity that the application or operating system itself cannot deliver.
PortAuthority Protector Appliances passively monitor network communications, looking for confidential data in e-mail, IM, file transfers, and Web postings. If protected content is detected, the information is dropped, the device or its port may be disconnected, and management is notified.
Tablus offers similar protection with its Content series of products. Tablus even comes with several built-in policies that understand what types of information fall under different compliance categories.
Other vendors are providing solutions that lock out inappropriate uses of the data. Microsoft's RMS (Rights Management System) software encrypts protected data. The data owner or originator can decide what users and uses are valid. For example, data can be sent out to a select group -- some people on the mailing list can edit, print, and forward the data; others may be able only to view the data. Every time a protected data file is accessed, it must "phone home" to an RMS authentication server before the encryption is removed. An employee could be terminated, and even though the former worker has a copy of the document at home in an e-mail inbox, he or she may be unable to open it any longer.
Thin clients manufacturers say they're seeing a rise in interest in sales as the stripped down machines (no CD-ROM, no USB ports, and so forth) are increasingly viewed as useful in improving overall security while working toward desktop consistency.
Several vendors offer delete-after-it-is-stolen solutions. Suppose a covered laptop containing confidential data is stolen. An administrator can tell a centralized control program that the laptop has been stolen. When the stolen laptop is plugged in and hooked to the Internet for the first time, a hidden client-side app dials home and gets the self-destruct order to format itself. The client-side software program is often configured to self-destruct if it hasn't reached its server program in X number of days.
The call for ILP is being heard far and wide. Many CSOs are focusing on easy-to-see, high-risk data areas such as lost or stolen laptops. Most are buying encryption products for mobile computing devices and media as a matter of course. Most USB flash memory drives come with built-in encryption. Tape backup software is making its encryption option easy to find and enable. Encryption providers are seeing huge sales growth. OS vendors, such as Microsoft, are providing built-in disk or volume encryption products.
ILP is more than just another acronym; it should be high on your to-do list this year. Otherwise you might be hearing about your oversight on the evening news.


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An extension is a piece of software that can be added to an Adobe application to enhance its capabilities. You can add extensions to Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, Photoshop, InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, Prelude, and Captivate. Bridge and Fireworks is not supported in CS6 or later.
Extension Manager CC 7.0.x and 7.1.x can be used with Dreamweaver CC, Flash Professional CC, Photoshop CC, InDesign CC, InCopy CC, Illustrator CC, Adobe Premiere Pro CC, Prelude CC, and Captivate CC.
Extension Manager CC 7.2 and later can be used with Dreamweaver CC and 2014, Flash CC and 2014, Photoshop CC and 2014, InDesign CC and 2014, InCopy CC and 2014, Illustrator CC and 2014, Adobe Premiere Pro CC and 2014, Prelude CC and 2014, and Captivate CC.
MXP extensions are no longer supported by Extension Manager CC. To install MXP extensions for Adobe applications, you have to convert them to ZXP extensions first. You can use Extension Manager CS6 to convert MXP extensions to ZXP extensions. Extension Manager CS6 can be downloaded from http://www.adobe.com/exchange/em_download/.
The Extension Manager provides an easy and convenient way to install and delete extensions in Adobe applications, and to find information about extensions you installed. It also provides a convenient way to navigate to the Adobe Exchange site. You can find more extensions, get information about extensions, and rate extensions that you used.
If you haven't already installed Extension Manager CC, click Help > Manage Extensions in your application to download and install Extension Manager automatically.
The Extension Manager only displays extensions that were installed with the Extension Manager application or with Extension Manager commands from the command line. Extensions that are installed using a third-party installer or local changes made to your configuration files do not appear in the Extension Manager.
The Adobe Exchange website at www.adobe.com/go/exchange is a repository for many types of extensions. If you find a non-commercial extension you're interested in, you can download and install it in an application using Creative Cloud desktop client.
You can get more information about an extension, rate an extension you've used, or find more extensions on the Adobe Exchange.
Go to the Adobe Exchange by selecting File > Get More Extensions in Extension Manager, or by entering www.adobe.com/go/exchange in your web browser.
When installing extensions, make sure your version of Extension Manager matches the version of the products you are extending. For example, use Extension Manager CC to install extensions in Dreamweaver CC. To manage extensions in earlier versions of the products, use the version of Extension Manager installed with those products.
If the extension installs successfully, a description of the extension appears in the lower portion of the Extension Manager workspace.
Note the following:
For some types of extensions, the changes only take effect after you close and restart the application.
If an extension modifies a configuration file, such as menus.xml, Extension Manager creates a backup of the file (menus.xbk) before installing the extension. In the unlikely event that the extension damages the configuration file, you can restore it with the backup file.
Adobe recommends that you do not modify configuration files by hand. Incorrectly modifying them can cause significant portions of the product to fail and prevent the installation of other extensions. Modify configuration files only by using the Extension Manager.
A digital signature identifies the publisher of the extension, and contains encrypted information that is unique to the signer and easily verified. The digital signature assures the user that the extension came from the publisher.
Digital signatures are verified with a digital certificate, which electronically establishes the publisher's credentials. A digital certificate issued by a certificate authority certifies that a publisher and a particular extension are connected. This connection is similar to the way your driver's license photo connects your identity with your personal details. Extensions signed by Adobe use a certificate issued by VeriSign. Extensions created by non-Adobe developers can use a different trusted certificate to sign their extensions.
For information on how to sign an extension, see www.adobe.com/go/learn_em_signextension_en.


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Obama Administration Releases Final Application for 2013 Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge
Obama Administration Releases Final Application for 2013 Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge
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Today the Obama Administration released the final application for the second Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) competition, which will provide approximately $280 million in state-level competitive grants to improve the quality of early learning and development programs and close educational gaps for children with high needs. The program also supports states' efforts to design and implement an integrated system of high-quality early learning and development programs and services.
The U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Departments) conducted the first RTT–ELC competition under the Race to the Top program in FY 2011 and awarded grants to nine states: California, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island and Washington. In FY 2012, the next five highest-rated states from the FY 2011 competition received funding: Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico, Oregon and Wisconsin. As a result of this investment these states are building a more unified approach to supporting young children and their families. They are improving access to high-quality early learning and development programs and helping to ensure that children enter kindergarten with the skills, knowledge and outlook toward learning they need to be successful in school and in life. The Departments continue to work closely together on new initiatives to improve and expand services for children from birth through age 5. The President's 2014 budget request includes a historic new investment in early learning that will build upon RTT-ELC to ensure that all children have the opportunity for a strong start in life.
By investing in high-quality early childhood education we are able to close achievement gaps, provide life-transforming opportunities for children, and strengthen and build a thriving middle class," said U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan. "Creating an environment for children to begin school on a level playing field allows us to reap the benefits of increased graduation rates, increased employment, better jobs at higher salaries, greater tax revenue, lower crime and decreased reliance on public assistance."
"Our goal is to expand high-quality early learning opportunities so every child in America can enter school ready to learn and succeed," said Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius. "In addition to higher test scores and graduation rates, the long-term results will be stronger families, safer communities and a more competitive economy."
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To view the application and learn more about the RTT-ELC program, visit http://www2.ed.gov/programs/racetothetop-earlylearningchallenge.


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Three and easy for Grecians
Exeter made it three wins in a row with a comfortable 3-0 victory over Burton at St James' Park.
The Grecians went in front after 18 minutes when Arron Davies' cross was headed into the penalty area by Alan Gow and Jamie Cureton lashed a volley into the net from six yards.
Cureton turned provider for Exeter's second goal five minutes before half-time. The experienced striker did superbly to reach Liam Sercombe's cross and head the ball into the path of Davies, whose shot was too powerful for Ross Atkins in the Burton goal.
Exeter had barely got out of second gear and Burton certainly had their chances. Billy Kee's curler from the corner of the penalty area was parried wide by Artur Krysiak before the Pole made a smart stop to keep out Lee Bell's powerful drive.
Krysiak then made a brilliant instinctive stop to push Justin Richards' shot on to a post, before John O'Flynn wrapped up the points for Exeter with a fantastic third late on.
He fed the ball wide in the middle of the park before continuing his run and tapping home at the back post from Guillem Bauza's perfect cross.
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Source: PA


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Where did the Summer (and my entries) go? Well, ok fine, I haven't actually written anything so they didn't really disappear into cyberspace or anything.
Well, let's just say we were a bit pre-occupied house hunting and house-buying and moving and entertaining our guests that came out to visit us! Reminder – all of our family are on the East Coast or in Texas. So, in June, my in-laws came…10 of us in a 2bedroom townhouse and we survived. In July, our BFFs drove out from NJ and we hit up Chicago too. In August, my sister and her family came and in September, me and the lil 2 actually headed to NJ.
Tons of unpacking still left to do and decorating and furniture buying!
Bigger than all that – we've already had 2 birthdays. Razz turned 5 on 9/15 and Shrimpie is now Terrible 2 as of the 19th…of course, she's been "terrible" since she started walking at 10.5 months, but who's keeping track?
Happy Birthday my (2 out of 3) beauties!


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Harriet Sherwood's latest report, 'Israeli elections set to amplify religious voice in Knesset', Jan. 21, highlights commentators predicting that Knesset representation for religiously observant Jews will likely increase following the Jan. 22 election.
While Sherwood's report represents the latest in a string of Guardian news stories and commentaries suggesting a 'rightward' electoral shift in the Jewish state, one passage in particular stood out:
"Binyamin Netanyahu's ruling Likud party, currently in an electoral alliance with the former foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu, is also expected to be more hardline rightwing in the next parliament. Among those expecting to become new members of the Knesset is Moshe Feiglin, who this month proposed that the Israeli government pay Palestinians in the West Bank $500,000 a family to leave. "This is the perfect solution for us," he said.
Feiglin, a hardline settler from Karnei Shomron in the West Bank, was recently arrested for praying near the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosque. Israeli law forbids Jews from praying at the compound."
Yes, why indeed would a religious Israeli Jew be provocatively praying "near the the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosque" in Jerusalem?
Could there be a place of Jewish religious significance near these sacred Islamic sites?
Indeed, yes there is.
A little place known as 'The Temple Mount', or Har Habayit, is identified in Jewish (and Islamic) tradition as the area of Mount Moriah where Abraham offered up his son in sacrifice, and it is where the Second Temple stood between roughly 515 BCE until 70 CE.
It is universally recognized as the holiest site in Judaism.
Though Israel does not allow non-Muslim prayer on the Temple Mount to avoid offending Muslims (which is indeed why Feiglin was arrested), it strains credulity to imagine that Sherwood, who's been the Guardian's Jerusalem correspondent since 2010, just innocently forgot to mention the Jewish significance of the site where the Israeli MK was praying.
While we have credited Sherwood for her few recent minimal steps towards more balanced reporting, this glaring omission again demonstrates the degree to which her view from Jerusalem is still egregiously skewed by a knee-jerk anti-Israel bias.


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Warner Bros Studio Tour - The Making of Harry Potter - Tue 11th Sept 2018
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Surely a must for any 'Potter' fan! The wonderful special effects and amazing creatures have made this iconic series beloved to both young and old – and now, for the first time, the doors are open for everyone at the studio where it first began. You'll have the chance to go behind-the-scenes and see many things the camera never showed. From breathtakingly detailed sets to stunning costumes, props and animatronics, Warner Bros. Studio Tour London provides a unique showcase of the extraordinary British artistry, technology and talent that went into making the most successful film series of all time. Now includes the Hogwart Express and Platform 9 3/4.
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Arrival time – 11.45pm
Departure time - 4.00pm. ( TBC by driver on day).
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — While Washington state voters won't weigh in on two competing gun-related ballot measures for months, money is already pouring into the campaigns in advance of the November election.
Initiative 594, which is proposing universal background checks for gun sales and transfers, has a significant fundraising advantage over its rival. Initiative 591 would prevent Washington state from adopting background-check laws that go beyond the national standard, which requires the checks for sales by licensed dealers but not for purchases from private sellers. Both campaigns are expected to draw national money in the coming months as the campaign heats up.
"I would imagine this will be the one of the most expensive initiative campaigns in the country because of what it symbolically stands for," University of Washington political science professor Matt Barreto said.
Initiative 594 would require background checks for all gun sales and transfers in Washington state, including at gun shows and private sales. Under the measure, some exemptions would exist, including gifts within a family and antiques. Supporters have raised more than $3.4 million, of which $580,000 came from former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and his wife, Connie. That amount includes a $250,000 donation in the past few weeks.
Bill and Melinda Gates have given $50,000 to I-594, and venture capitalist Nick Hanauer, and his mother Lenore, have given a combined $490,000, and Hanauer has pledged an additional $530,000.
"It's important for the campaign to have such prominent members of our community stand together and be willing to invest in making this important policy change," said Zach Silk, I-594's campaign manager. "We want to run a very competitive campaign."
The other proposal, Initiative 591, in addition to preventing the state from expanding checks beyond the federal standard, would also prohibit confiscation of firearms without due process. The initiative has raised more than $1 million, of which $850,000 has been donated by Washington Arms Collectors, based in Renton.
The National Rifle Association has created a separate political committee, called the National Rifle Association of America Washingtonians Opposed to I-594. The committee has spent just over $17,500 and has reported raising $25,000. Chris Cox, executive director of the National Rifle Association's lobbying arm, is listed as campaign manager for the group. He did not return a call seeking comment.
Both campaigns, having spent a good portion of their funds to qualify for the ballot — I-594 spent $ 2.2 million thus far, and I-591 has spent more than $770,000 — are likely to see an increase in fundraising after Labor Day, when voters generally start paying more attention to campaigns.
"These folks will be on TV nonstop," Barreto said. "It's going to be harder for the voters to keep them straight. It's hard enough when there's one initiative on one issue. When there's more than one initiative on an issue, it can lead to a lot of misinformation."
Alan Gottlieb, chairman for Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, who is leading the campaign for I-591, said that without knowing for certain if the NRA will come in with big money to lobby against I-594, his campaign has an uphill battle.
"Whoever gets to frame the issue usually wins," he said, noting that right now "the other side has the money to frame the issue."
Lawmakers had considered a measure similar to I-594 during the 2013 legislative session, but it didn't pass either chamber. Both I-594 and I-591 started as initiatives to the Legislature. Lawmakers held hearings on the measures earlier this year, but didn't take action, sending the measures to voters.
The latest poll showed strong support among voters for I-594. The July survey of 506 registered voters by independent pollster Stuart Elway found that 70 percent were inclined to support I-594, and that 22 percent were opposed. When asked about I-591, 46 percent were inclined to vote for that measure, while 42 were opposed. Thirty-two percent of respondents said they were inclined to vote for both initiatives.
If both pass, they would likely go to the courts for resolution, but the Legislature also could take them up, said David Ammons, a spokesman for the Secretary of State's office.
Initiative 594: http://wagunresponsibility.org
Initiative 591: http://wagunrights.org/tag/initiative-591


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The Garmin GTU 10 is a relatively small GPS tracking device that features positional data delivery via quad-band GSM/GPRS technology. This gives it the capability of not only reporting where the device is located, but also where it's been.
Our sister company, UBM TechInsights, performed this teardown. (As a special bonus to readers of Design News, UBM TechInsights is offering a special discount of 30% off the Garmin GTU-10 Full Product Teardown Report. Just enter the Promotional Code of DNNOV2011. Offer good until Dec. 31, 2011.)
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Taking a look at the full packaging of the Garmin GTU 10.
Taking a look at the full packaging of the Garmin GTU 10.
The GTU 10 has several alert scenarios that the user can set up online from any computer or mobile handset with Internet access. In terms of power consumption, the GTU 10 can operate up to seven days in normal mode or up to four weeks, depending on the alert setting. With a retail price of approximately $199, which includes a one-year subscription, the GTU 10 finds itself at a similar price point with other Garmin GPS products, but it is marketed toward consumers wanting to keep track of pets, children, teenagers with the family car, and elderly parents.
Taking a look at the design of the Garmin GTU 10, the first thing you notice is the compact design made possible by the ever-shrinking component set associated with both cellular data and GPS receivers. The GTU 10 also takes advantage of a modestly sized battery pack (a 3.7V Lithium-ion/Li-polymer battery) to provide a potentially long battery life.
For the GTU 10, Garmin chose to use a predesigned quad-band/GPRS module from Telit to relay positional data to the network. The module, with part number GE865-QUAD, utilizes Intel's single-chip quad-band GSM/GPRS baseband processor (the XGold-102/PMB7890) along with an RF Micro Devices' RF7115 quad-band GSM power amplifier. All front-end Tx-Rx switching is incorporated within the module.
Memory support comes from a Micron multi-chip package (MCP) believed to be the Micron M36W0R6040U6 containing 8MB of NOR Flash and 2MB of p-SRAM. The GE865-QUAD module is a BGA format and is placed directly on the GTU 10's main PCB. Also found on the main board is an Infineon BGM781N11 GPS front-end module that interfaces with a MediaTek M3329T package. This MCP from the Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer contains both a monolithic GPS receiver/baseband and a standalone NOR Flash memory chip.
Monitoring and charging of the battery are handled by Maxim's DS2782 standalone fuel gauge IC and STMicroelectronic's L6924D battery charger system with integrated power switch for Li-ion/Li-polymer solution. STMicroelectronics also provides the STMPE801 (an eight-bit expander) and the M41T66 (a serial real-time clock).
Form factor-wise, the GTU 10 is a very compact module, measuring about half the size of a small chocolate bar -- approximately 3 inches by 1.3 inches with a depth of 0.8 inches -- making it easily portable for tracking anywhere from inside your gym bag to the collar of your dog. A software application for Android or iOS-based smartphones makes tracking easier. However, the standard tracking service involves a yearly renewal fee.
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An unmanned spaceship funded by Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos failed during a test flight last week, in a mishap described by the Wall Street Journal as an illustration of "the dramatic risks of private space ventures."
Bezos wrote about the misfire Friday on the website of Blue Origin, the Kent-based company he founded to build a new kind of rocket ship. He also posted some pictures of the doomed spacecraft:
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"Three months ago, we successfully flew our second test vehicle in a short hop mission," Bezos posted in a letter titled "Successful short hop, set back, and next vehicle."
"(And) then last week we lost the vehicle during a developmental test at Mach 1.2 and an altitude of 45,000 feet."
The ship had misfired during a flight from Blue Origin's spacesport in an isolated pocket of West Texas.
"A flight instability drove an angle of attack that triggered our range safety system to terminate thrust on the vehicle," Bezos wrote.
"Not the outcome any of us wanted, but we're signed up for this to be hard, and the Blue Origin team is doing an outstanding job. We're already working on our next development vehicle."
WSJ reported that the mishap "dealt a potentially major blow to the ambitions of Mr. Bezos, the founder and chief executive of Amazon.com Inc., to develop a reliable system for blasting tourists and astronauts out of the atmosphere." It said:
The serious malfunctions, which haven't been disclosed by the company or reported previously, also could set back White House plans to promote a range of commercially developed spacecraft to transport crews to the International Space Station by the second half of this decade.
Bezos founded Blue Origin in 2000 to develop a new type of vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing rocket ship that can take passengers to the edge of space, MSNBC reported a few years ago.
Here's a video uploaded by USAspaceProgram about Bezo's space venture in 2007:
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