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Issue Statement. To formulate a policy on an issue, managers first must define the issue with any relevant terms, distinctions, and conditions included. It is also often useful to specify the goal or justification for the policy--which can be helpful in gaining compliance with the policy. For Internet security policy, an organization may need to be clear whether the policy covers all Internet-working connections or only Internet ones. The policy may also state whether other Internet non-security issues are addressed, such as personal use of Internet connections.
Statement of the Organization's Position. Once the issue is stated and related terms and conditions are discussed, this section is used to clearly state the organization's position (i.e., management's decision) on the issue. This would state whether Internet connectivity is allowed or not and under what conditions.
Applicability. Issue-specific policies also need to include statements of applicability. This means clarifying where, how, when, to whom, and to what a particular policy applies. Does this apply to all components of the organization? A public affairs type of office may be exempted from a restrictive policy.
Roles and Responsibilities. The assignment of roles and responsibilities is also needed. For a complex issue such as Internet security, technical roles to analyze the security of various architectures or management roles granting approvals may need to be defines. If a monitoring role may also be needed.
Compliance. For some types of Internet policies, it may be appropriate to describe, in some detail, the infractions that are unacceptable, and the consequences of such behavior. Penalties may be explicitly stated and should be consistent with organizational personnel policies and practices. When used, they should be coordinated with appropriate officials and offices and, perhaps, employee bargaining units. It may also be desirable to task a specific office within the organization to monitor compliance.
Points of Contact and Supplementary Information. For any issue-specific policy, the appropriate individuals in the organization to contact for further information, guidance, and compliance should be indicated. Since positions tend to change less often than the people occupying them, specific positions may be preferable as the point of contact. For example, for some issues the point of contact might be a line manager; for other issues it might be a facility manager, technical support person, system administrator, or security program representative. Internet rules or system specific policies should be cited. (These are described in the next section of this book.)
Ties to Other Policy Areas. The Internet is one of many ways in which a typical organization interacts with external sources. Internet policy should be consistent with other policy mediating access with the outside. For example:
Physical access to the organization's building(s) or campus. In one sense the Internet is an electronic doorway to the organization. Both good and bad things use the same doorway. An organization which has an open physical campus has, presumably, already made a risk-based decision that the openness is either essential for the organization's mission or that the threat is low or too expensive to mitigate. A similar logic may hold for an electronic door. However, there are important differences. Physical threats are more directly linked to physical location. Linking to the Internet is linking to the entire world. An organization whose physical plant is in a remote and friendly place, say Montana, might have an open physical campus, but still require a restrictive Internet policy.
Public/Media Interaction. The Internet can be a form of public dialogue. Many organizations instruct employees how to work with the public or the media. These policies will probably need to be ported to electronic interactions. Many employees may not be aware of the public nature of the Internet.
Electronic access. The Internet is not the only means of Internet-working. Organizations use the telephone system (public switched network) and other public and private networks to connect external users and computer systems to internal systems. Connecting to the Internet and the telephone system share some threats and vulnerabilities.
To be effective, policy requires visibility. Visibility aids implementation of policy by helping to ensure policy is fully communicated throughout the organization. Management presentations, videos, panel discussions, guest speakers, question/answer forums, and newsletters increase visibility. The organization's computer security training and awareness program can effectively notify users of new policies. It also can be used to familiarize new employees with the organization's policies.
Computer security policies should be introduced in a manner that ensures that management's unqualified support is clear, especially in environments where employees feel inundated with policies, directives, guidelines, and procedures. The organization's policy is the vehicle for emphasizing management's commitment to computer security and making clear their expectations for employee performance, behavior, and accountability.
To be effective, policy should be consistent with other existing directives, laws, organizational culture, guidelines, procedures, and the organization's overall mission. It should also be integrated into and consistent with other organizational policies (e.g., personnel policies). One way to help ensure this is to coordinate policies during development with other organizational offices. Since, unfortunately, a study of informal policy is beyond the scope of this book, this very important piece of the process will not be well described. However, most policy is set by what the big boss really wants. For an organization's Internet security policy (or any policy) to be effective, the big boss has to understand the choice to be made and make it freely. Generally if the big boss believes the policy it will filter through the informal mechanisms.
The first is for an organization which chooses not to restrict Internet access in any way. While this course is fraught with many security perils, it may be the best choice for an organization which requires openness or requires a lack of control by management on the working level. In general these organizations are best advised to separate at least some data and processing from the main organization processing. For example, some universities and colleges need this kind of environment for student and faculty systems. (But not for administrative systems.)
The second example is more a middle-of-the-road policy. Internal and public systems are separated by a firewall. However, most Internet-based services are still made available to the internal users. Generally a dual-homed gateway or a bastion host would serve as the firewall. However, this approach can also be implemented through the use of cryptography to create virtual private networks or tunnels on the Internet.
The third example is for an organization that requires security more than Internet services. The only Internet service for which the organization sees a business case is email. It is interesting to note that one factor in the business case is to provide email as a perk for employees. The company still provides a public access server for the Internet, but it is not connected to internal systems.

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Open House this Sunday (7/13)!
I know it's last-minute, but we're hosting an open house this Sunday afternoon. Anyone who wishes to make the trip to Sonoma County is welcome to come. Bring a guest, your entire family — anyone you think may enjoy seeing a first-hand example of the tiny house lifestyle.
All the event details (time, place, carpooling, etc) can be found here:View Event Details
Here's a quick summary
Date: Sunday 7/13
Time: 1:30pm
Location: Hardcore Espresso, 1798 Gravenstein Hwy S, Sebastopol, CA
Due to very limited parking, we will all meet at Hardcore, then carpool to our house in as few cars as possible.
Anyone in the area who's interested in tiny houses, please also join our Tiny House Meetup Group to be included in future tiny house events in the area.
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WHAT: It is time to surround yourself with family and friends. The Palms Hotel & Spa invites South Floridians to come together for Essensia's Thanksgiving Day Dinner for $39.00++ per person. Featuring an inventive twist on the season's traditional favorites, Essensia is offering a 3-course pre-fix Thanksgiving Day Dinner Menu made with the highest quality seasonal and organic ingredients.
Begin with a choice of Calabaza Squash & Caramelized Fennel Soup served with cumin spiced Greek yogurt and spiced pepitas or Grilled Cranberry Pomegranate Caesar featuring grilled heart of romaine, rosemary croutons, shaved pecorino, and tangerine oil. Entrée selections include a choice of Apple Cider Brined & Roasted Turkey served with herb gravy and spicy pomegranate glaze, butternut squash, sage and hazelnut stuffing, haricot verts with Meyer lemon vinaigrette, and a zucchini muffin; Spiral Cut Honey Baked Ham served with a honey and whole grain mustard glaze, creamy rutabaga and potato gratin with gruyere, shaved brussels sprouts with shitake mushrooms and shallots in brown sage butter, and a bacon corn bread muffin; or Stuffed Roasted Butternut Squash served with a sage and hazelnut filling, shaved brussels sprouts with shitake mushrooms and shallots in brown sage butter, creamy rutabaga and potato gratin with gruyere, and a zucchini muffin (vegetarian option). Dessert features a traditional Pumpkin Pie served with ginger cream and pomegranate coulis.
Thanksgiving Day Dinner at Essensia is $39.00++ per person and $19.00++ for kids 10 and under (not including tax and gratuity). Exceptional indoor and outdoor seating is available. For reservations, please call 305.908.5458 or visit www.essensiarestaurant.com.
WHEN: Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 2011, from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Essensia Restaurant & Lounge
The Palms Hotel & Spa
3025 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, FL 33140
WHO: Essensia awakens the senses with natural gourmet cuisine and indulgent cocktails in a sensuous and relaxing ambiance. The menu offers patrons a tasteful and wholesome variety of fresh and light worldly fare with a genuine focus on utilizing local, organic, and seasonal ingredients. Essensia also offers a variety of spa selections. Essensia's exclusive wine list is committed to being sustainable, organic or biodynamic and has been selected for sharing Essensia's mission to be good for you and the environment. Essensia is open 7 days per week for breakfast, lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch. The Palms offers complimentary valet parking with dinner, up to 3 hours. For restaurant reservations, please call 305.908.5458 or visit www.essensiarestaurant.com.


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By Peter Lokale Nakimangole
TORIT, 8th February 2012 [Gurtong] – The Lopit Community residing in Torit County, one of the multiethnic groups in Eastern Equatoria State celebrated the launch of their 5 repaired and decorated traditional drums, this year's crop harvests and held the annual wrestling competition among other sports.
Lopit community representatives explained that celebrating this years' crop harvests served as a thanksgiving expression to God for the little given to them.
Launching of their old repaired traditional drums basically meant to accompany the Lopit community traditional dances is also a sign of conserving the community's cultural heritage.
The three day event which started at the dawn of Friday 27 January 2012 at Iliangi residential area concluded late 29th Sunday evening symbolizes the revival of cultural diversities of South Sudanese as a real pictogram of African cultures.
The Lopit Community Chairperson, Mr. Louis Abalu explained that the 5 launched drums were originally used by the Lopit traditional dancers currently residing in Torit, one of the then Government controlled areas in the former Sudan.
"These drums were abandoned and kept in a small hut where community members have been taking care until their repair. These drums are good for performance; they provide charming bits of melody," Abalu said.
Gurtong interviewed an elderly person from the community who expressed that, "just like other South Sudanese ethnic clusters, we felt that it was necessary to thank God for better harvests we got this year and for what he has done to us in comparison to the past unfortunate years."
"This is at least the best news, perhaps a surprise that has never happened before and after the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005. All those years, our community together with all other South Sudanese communities witnessed great deal of suffering of prolonged hunger. This is a year full of blessings," he continued.
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In lovemaking, the important thing to impress women is foreplay. Without properly following the techniques for foreplay, we can hardly satisfy voracious women. We should share some of our fantasies to increase pleasure and this article provides some necessary tips to help improve our sexual experience by sharing the fantasy with women during foreplay. When we start loving women, we can begin with a superb massage.
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April 23, 2014 (VPPR) - Palatine, Il. Palatine Salon Lorrene Owner Lorrene Conino, in partnership with non-profit C.A.T.I.F. is in the running to win the Wella Hairdressers at Heart Charity Challenge. The yearly contest is sponsored by Wella Hair Care, which awards cash prizes to individuals within the salon and spa industry for their volunteer work - and to help further their charitable causes.
Conino is no stranger to giving back. In addition to running her salon for more than 15 years on Palatine's west end, she has been vice president of C.A.T.I.F. since its beginnings in 2007. To date, the Palatine-based non-profit has raised more than $80,000 in funds, which have been donated to a variety of non-profits in the Chicagoland area who serve women and children experiencing crisis.
Most recently, C.A.T.I.F. donated $15,000 in seed money for a dedicated fund at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center in Chicago. Monies channeled into this fund will be earmarked for female veterans who are re-assimilating, after returning back home from serving our country, Conino said.
Homelessness and scarce resources for everyday needs are becoming more and more prevalent within the female veteran population.
"If we are fortunate to win the charity challenge this year, 100-percent of the funds will be given to the new Jesse Brown VA Medical Center fund for female veterans, to continue to help fund their needs," Conino said.
Conino and C.A.T.I.F. board members Dina Wasmund and Lori Drelicharz - Hunt attended an appreciation ceremony at the Jesse Brown VA medical center in Chicago on April 14 where they were publicly thanked for efforts on behalf of the center.
The public is encouraged to visit www.hairdressersatheart.com and click 'Charity Challenge' -where you can search for the story/video behind Lorrene C., and C.A.T.I.F.'s recent efforts to support the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center and women veterans. Votes can be cast each day through May 15. Winners will be announced in June.
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A new energy drink for kids, KickStart Spark was treated as a gateway drug and as bad as steroids on the September 26 ABC "World News Tonight.".
ABC's problem with the beverage was the amount of caffeine it contained – less than a cup of coffee. While the report mentioned that children already consume a lot of caffeine from soft drinks and chocolate, it exaggerated the danger and downplayed the benefits of KickStart Spark.
Reporter Dan Harris began the story by linking the drink to a major drug controversy. "There's been growing concern about the use of performance-enhancing substances by young people since baseball's steroids scandals."
ABC then interviewed Einstein Medical College dietician and nutritionist Keith Ayoob on the drink and heard his fears it will lead to more hazardous behavior. He explained, "It worries me that first it starts out with caffeine, and then it goes on to other things that could be even more dangerous." The report didn't explain what would be worse.
If caffeine were a gateway drug, then this nation would be in peril. The average American consumes 1.64 cups of coffee per day. Fifteen percent of the average beverage consumption per person was coffee and tea in 2004. Worldwide, more than 400 billion cups of coffee are consumed every year.
No one who liked the drink or anyone from the company, Advocare, was shown in the report. The company's Web site was displayed on the screen, and quoted twice. The first time was a simple statement of what the product does – "provides focused and long-lasting energy that's just right for children." The second time the company's statement was quickly refuted.
Advocare stated that KickStart Spark "contains vitamins and minerals essential for children's balanced nutrition." Harris quickly responded that "nutritionists say children can get those vitamins without the caffeine, just by eating healthy foods." While a true statement, no mention if getting vitamins and minerals with caffeine is worse than no vitamins at all. According to Advocare's Web site, only 8% of children are getting all of the daily recommended nutrients.
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A new energy drink for kids, KickStart Spark was treated as a gateway drug and as bad as steroids on the September 26 ABC "World News Tonight.".


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You can see here, we've fitted some orange wheel rim protectors to our own VW Transporter T5 on the black 20″ rims.
Not only do the protect against minor scuffing and curbing damage, but we really like the look of them too, and they seem to make the alloys look bigger.
Of course you may prefer a more discrete look, in which case, they are available in silver of black. With silver actually making the alloy wheel look a little larger, and giving the appearance of a split rim in some instances, and black being hardly noticeable against the tyres.
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An easier to understand version is "re-enactment actors", or those kids who go to renaissance fairs. Although it's not simply limited to medieval themes. Take any role playing game and do it live action...and there you go.
At first I was seeing some weapons mainly, then some random props and costumes. I looked into it, out of curiosity, and eventually realized there's a lot of great props out there for LARPing. Which, in turn, become great props for movie making. Great, but not cheap.
I had no real use for LARP weapons, they're usually silly cartoony looking things you use to beat on fat guys dressed like minotaurs, or part-time shoe salesmen from Minnesota. These are sometimes called "Boffers" depending on how they're made - from what I understand, it's the more homemade looking ones.
These are some very homemade looking weapons.
Usually PVC pipe, or even bamboo, and padded with
foam and duct tape to hopefully resemble a weapon.
Usually PVC pipe, or even bamboo, and padded with
foam and duct tape to hopefully resemble a weapon.
These ladies here have some bow and arrow Boffers.After a fashion I began to see some pretty decent looking ones, so good that without any direct comparison, you'd never know the difference.
Not terribly believable, but they work for what
they're intended I reckon.
Not terribly believable, but they work for what
they're intended I reckon.
I decided this would be a good way to go for the new opening. It was one of many minor things that brought the idea together, it couldn't be done without many strange little things I stumbled upon over the course of the entire movie.
There are different types of the high end LARP latex weapons (yes, they're made of latex). Some are pretty simple, some are rather insane looking. You can even get latex shields as well...although it's not as weird as it sounds.
The ones I eventually settled one were a little more expensive then the ones I first had my eye on. And they're made in Canada, in Quebec to be exact. Take a look at http://www.calimacil.com. They have some pretty good stuff, some are pretty simple and some are pretty nice looking.
One thing that attracted me was this thing they called a hybrid core, normally these weapons are supposedly made with a fiber glass core, the hybrid cores are also reinforced with carbon fiber. Makes them more durable and they react more like a real metal sword when swung - although they're incredibly lightweight.
So after hunting and debating cost, I settled on the Calimacil swords. The ones I went with are replicas of swords from Lord of the Rings. And then I stumbled upon another site that had a cheap real version of the same swords. I only needed a real version of one of them though. So we'll use the real one up until the actual fight - then swap it out for the latex one. Hopefully it won't be too obvious.
The real sword.
Side by side the differences are incredibly obvious. I'm hoping those differences won't show up while it's being swung around like crazy. One thing I didn't bother pointing out here, and I never realized from all the pictures I saw, but the blades are really thick. They're thickness is tapered too at that. They start out about about half and inch and widen to a full inch, if not more, at the tip - which apparently makes it good for stabbing, otherwise they're just good for whacking...That didn't sound quite right.
That's about it for now. This has been a public service announcement for the use of latex weapons. If you simply must smack someone safely, do it with latex...or not. Man, you just can't use latex in a sentence without conjuring up some major inappropriateness.


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Germany. International Yacht forum : sail faster 21 international experts will support you
Tuesday, 08 February 2011
On February 12th, 21 worldwide famous top specialists will share their knowledge on five basic themes for successful race sailing: Measurement/rules, keel/rudder, mast/riggs, sails and security. Take the chance to address your questions to race experts from all over the world. At 19:00 the boot offshore party will start. The International Yacht forum is patronized by the German Sailing Association (DSV):
The program:
10:00 One World, One Rule, Is it possible?
Moderator - Mike Castania (AUS)
10:00 Volker Andreae (GER) Welcoming Address
10:10 Bruno Finzi (ITA) - Our Vision: One Rule
10:20 Kay-Enno Brinck (GER) Explaining ORC-Rule in short words
10:30 James Dadd (GBR) Explaining IRC-Rule
10:40 Kasper Wedersøe (DEN) Explaining Dansk Handicap-Rule
10:50 Mike Castania (AUS) - introduces and has some questions to the designers about their actual thinking and developments
11:30 hanseboot-break with refreshments
12:00 Christian Schaumlöffel (USA/GER) - Explaining PHRF Handicap via Skype
12:10 Pelle Lindell (SWE) explaining SRS via Skype
12:20 moderated discussion, conducted by Mike Castania (AUS)
12:50 BALTIC CIRCUIT Presentation - Friedrich Hausmann (GER)
13:00 lunch, sponsored by Katadyn
14:00 Torsten Conradi, Judel/Vrolijk & Co (GER) Appendages – "Do I really need a bigger rudder?"
14:30 Andreas Huebner/Arne Guelzow, Carbo-Link (SUI) carbon rigging - the light alternative to wire
15:00 Tim Hall, Hall Spars (USA) carbon masts - bending without breaking
15:30 hanseboot-break with refreshments
16:00 Philippe Oulhen, North (FRA/CAN) Asymmetric or Symmetrical Spinnakers
16:30 Holger Vogt, MUSTO/Martin Baum, Pantaenius (GER) security & solutions
17:30 Panel discussion re-boot
18:00 End of Forum
18:00 hanseboot - "Meet the Owners"
19:00 Prize Giving Hanseboot Baltic IRC Series >>
19:30 boot offshore party with spectacular sailing movies and live music, Börsensaal, chamber of commerce
The entire program with all details for download:
The International Yacht Forum Hamburg is an event of the German offshore owners association.
There are still a few tickets available for your order! Direct link to ticket order form: http://iyfh.org/html/index.php?navi=83
Hans Genthe.
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Cachetown is a mobile app technology that uses your smartphone's camera to turn the world into a video game via augmented reality — with lots of advertising potential for brands.
"Think Google Adwords, Super Mario Brothers meets Foursquare and augment that into the real world by location," is how the company behind the service, Candy Lab, describes it.
The idea is that if you can create a game or some sort of incentive, you can use the world as a backdrop for advertising and promotional marketing. Sort of like putting up billboards and "coin boxes" whereever you point your camera. The service, the startup says, is perfect for events or location-based activities because it provides a level of interactive marketing that isn't currently available through traditional advertising.
"When I first saw it, I thought 'Wow, this is a great application for Google Glass,'" said Googler and startup guy emeritus Don Dodge in his onstage review of the startup at DEMO."But I don't see people walking around and holding their phones up."
Andreessen Horowitz partner Frank Chen chimed in, saying, "I was at Disneyland and I saw a woman walking down Main Street holding up an iPad. She ran straight into a telephone pole."
Those issues of form factor aside, Dodge concluded, "I think the first use of it will be location-based games. But eventually, location-based ads and prmotions will work very well."
Founded in 2010, the San Diego, Calif.-based company has raised private funding from family members. Candy Labs is seeking to raise a $1.5 million funding round to help build out its Cachetown service. Check out the demo video below for a closer look at the service.
Cachetown is one of over 75 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Fall 2012 event taking place this week in Silicon Valley. After we make our selections, the chosen companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains objective.


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Director: Stephen Sommers
Producer: Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, Brian Goldner,Bob Ducsay,Stephen Sommers
Writers: Skip Woods,David Elliot, Stuart Beattie, Paul Lovett
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Channing Tatum, Sienna Miller, Ray Park, Rachel Nichols, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Director Stephen Sommers, best known for The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, is back with another extraordinary action film "G.I. Joe: The rise of cobra.
"On this occasion a real American hero comes to life to battle the evil forces of cobra."
It will premier on August 7.
Will it be another action film to recruit soldiers?
I have to admit watching the trailer brought me some exciting child memories.
Cobra vs. That white ninja!!
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This supersized suitcase could be made for a giant, but it is instead the façade of a store in London, UK Goyard will be opening soon this summer for fashionable folk.
The French boutique is expanding as London marks the company's first European flagship store after the successful original store in Paris.
Check out the Goyard London flagship store for a better look at the gigantic trunk.
Implications - With an abundance of stores and vendors in urban areas, it's essential for business owners to have an inviting store facade. A unique storefront which stands out from the rest in design will beckon customers in and attract attention. Corporations should consider creating atypical storefronts when designing their chain locations.
Goyard Storefront in London is Consumed by Giant Luggage
Tisah Tucknott — July 27, 2009 — Fashion
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text: Cool! Good news from the New York Times – Two Large Solar Plants Planned in California – NYTimes.com. These plants, covering 12.5 square miles of land aim to produce up to 800 MegaWatts of electricity or about the same as a large coal-fired plant. All with no raw materials being ferried in, no waste materials going out and no worries about filtering pollution and carbon. This makes me really happy to see this sort of power plant being introduced.


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Can't. Get. Enough. AVOCADO! Like so many people (go the avocado-led food and health revolution!) I just love them so so much, they're such a fantastic food! You can just feel how good for you they are when you eat them. I think I'm going to say that about a lot, but it's so true, and so important, for me, avocados are up there in those stakes
they're powerful good!
Avocado dips are a beautiful food to eat, smooth, creamy, tasty, zingy, alkaline-forming, and so nurturing and anti-inflammatory. Children love avocado's, and what better food to feed them? They are packed with vitamins, potassium, good fats and fatty acids, fiber, and proven to lower cholesterol. And they're called alligator pears.
This avocado dip is super simple and easy, just avocado, lemon juice, garlic and salt, I'm mad on it. I never get bored of eating it. You can eat it with root vegetable chips, as a sandwich spread, with refried beans in a wrap, or with flatbread, olives and crudités as a mini meze-esque light meal. I like it best with carrot sticks.
When I was first looking to eat a highly alkaline diet and lowering my carbs (I do this because the more carbs I eat the worse my pain is), avocado dip and crudities were an especially important snack, as something I could turn to to nurture myself and, well, have something to eat, and still are. I eat this nearly everyday, apart from simply eating avocados with raw cider vinegar and salt, which I like a lot too, it's my favourite way of eating them, in fact I think I like it best. It's so fresh, so packed with goodness and taste and makes you feel so good. And you can eat as much as you want, there's no reason not to, it's so good for you. So what if avocado's are calorific, it's all good(ness) ♥
- 1 ripe medium/large avocado pear
- 1 medium garlic clove
- 1 tsp sea salt, to taste
- 4 tbsp lemon juice
- dash of carton coconut milk/ dairy free milk of choice
Scoop out the avocado fruit, making sure to get the dark green parts by the skin as these are the most nutritious. Blend all the ingredients. Taste and adjust seasoning if needed, I love it super strong and zingy!
I like this dip quite salty but do make it to your taste and needs.
You could add black pepper, fresh coriander, basil or lime juice instead of the lemon, swap garlic for spring onion or chives, go for it! But right now, I just love this simple dip, it hits the spot every time ♥


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Industry and government could work better together to develop policies that give greater certainty and confidence to industry and encourage investment, innovation and growth, according to a report from the Construction Products Association.
A Study of the Factors Underpinning Investment in the Construction Products Industry seeks to understand the economic, political and regulatory risks that may be influencing investment, showcases examples of policies with positive and negative effects, and advises on a best-practice approach to regulation and policy.
The key findings of the report included:
- Effective regulations are clearly defined, target-driven and not prescriptive.
- Industry needs policy and regulation that is simple, with minimal administrative burden.
- Policy works best when government consults industry early and regularly to identify problems, review measures, provide solutions and evaluate results.
- Government can create greater certainty for industry by providing a road map with a long-term plan – not just over five-year parliamentary cycles – and clear goals that allow time for industry to prepare.
- Once the road map is implemented, unplanned changes should be avoided – delivery according to the original plan is key as consistency of policy helps industry invest.
- Cross-party consensus should be sought in advance for policies that are key drivers in major markets – for example, infrastructure and housing – to prevent changes occurring because of party politics.
John Sinfield, managing director of Knauf Insulation and chair of the Construction Products Association, said: "In the construction products industry, many companies trade on a multinational scale and, as a result, have a choice of where they base their manufacturing. One of the major challenges faced today by both the UK government and UK business leaders is ensuring this country is viewed as a favourable location to invest.
"There is such a thing as 'good regulation' and policy. It supports the market, sets high standards and provides industry with a clear view of the way forward. It motivates business to develop innovative products and solutions and invest in future opportunities."
He added: "Ultimately, however, the regulatory framework must be seen by business as stable, concise and predictable over the long term. And, always, industry must be consulted fully."
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text: Srinagar: The Amarnath yatra begins on Monday after a week's delay. Authorities are on alert, given last year's violence and clashes in the Valley and the Jammu region over the shrine board controversy. The snow-bound tracks leading to the shrine have been cleared. Chants of "Bham Bham Bhole" in honour of Lord Shiva can be heard in parts of Srinagar where the pilgrims are housed. Authorities are clearing one vehicle after another for the arduous journey to the cave shrine of Amarnath. An eight-member group from Pune hopes to be the first to have darshan at the Amarnath cave. Their dream may finally come true. The Shri Amarnath Shrine Board has cleared the snowed in Baltal route in time for Monday's inauguration, after it was sharply criticised for deliberately delaying the pilgrimage by a whole week. But the traditional Pahalgam route which is still covered in snow will be opened up later One happy pilgrim, Vinay Gokale said, "The Pahalgam route seems to have some problems but there is another route from Baltal which we shall try to access to reach the Amarnath cave. We shall go pay obeisance at the shrine." Unlike last year when the Amarnath land row overshadowed the yatra (pilgrimage), this time the devotees and Kashmiris say there's no communal tension. A resident of Srinagar, Bashir Ahmad said, "Allah willing, we have all hopes that the Yatra will go on well. We are eager to extend hospitality to the tourists as well as to the devotees. I see no communal tensions or worries ahead." The pilgrims were unafraid and upbeat too. A devotee, Yogesh Pardesi, "The atmosphere here is of camaraderie, people are co-operative. One route has opened up. With the blessings of Lord Shiva, the other route will open up too. We are hopeful of a wonderful pilgrimage." Heavy snowfall and bad weather had prompted the Shrine Board to postpone the annual pilgrimage by a week. But now the 14 foot lingam formation in the Amarnath cave more than makes up for the delay for pilgrims. So far, more than two lakh pilgrims have registered for the holy journey.


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I've had a difficult time coming to terms with the fact that I'm not as fast as I used to be. Part of it is me, and part the deluge from our hyper-connected society. The bottom line is that I will be writing less often. Once a week will be the norm, occasionally twice, especially if the news demands it.
My day job at the Seattle Times requires four or five columns per week. Then there's the "constituent service" of responding to readers and dealing with the stunningly large number of "pitches" from flacks. I'm a regular on Seattle's NPR station, KUOW. Staying informed requires an enormous amount of research.
Then there are the novels. I have started a new Mapstone Mystery — and I can't make serious progress on it with the current workload. All of these are paying gigs and I was very careless in choosing my parents. So I have to bring money in the door.
Arizona's Continuing Crisis will be updated every Wednesday and I will do the other In-Depth Reports as I can. And the site has plenty to read, especially if your jones is Phoenix history. Also, the Front Page is freshly posted with some of the best journalism every day. But the columns will likely come only weekly. Thanks for your understanding and for continuing to read Rogue. And spread the word — plenty of former fans of my Republic columns don't realize I still write on Arizona.


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Two World Premieres in Grant Park Music Festival Season
February 11, 2014
by Andrew Patner, Chicago Sun-Times
The 80th anniversary season of the popular Grant Park Music Festival promises to build on its many strengths this summer (remember summer?) with two world premieres from American composers among its 30 free classical orchestral and choral concerts over 10 weeks at its Millennium Park Pritzker Pavilion home.
Pulitzer Prize winner William Bolcom is writing a season-closing Concerto for Orchestra (Aug. 15-16) and will also serve as a special composer in residence. Christopher Theofanidis offers a new work accompanied in conjunction with astronomer and projection artist Jose Francisco Salgado and the Adler Planetarium,"The Legend of the Northern Lights" (Aug. 8-9).
Principal conductor and artistic director Carlos Kalmar — who will lead both premieres — has invited two former musical leaders of the festival for a podium weekend each: Leonard Slatkin, music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, who presided over two summers in the 1970s, will conduct July 25-26 and Hugh Wolff, principal conductor here for four seasons in the 1990s, is on tap for July 18-19.
Singers from Lyric Opera of Chicago's Ryan Center will join the Grant Park Orchestra for Bolcom's "Cabaret Songs" (Aug. 13). The schedule also includes top international soloists, including pianist Stephen Hough (July 18-19) and violinist Stefan Jackiw (June 18), whose opening-night appearance was canceled last year for a storm that never came. Rising cellist (and Chicago native) Gabriel Cabezas appears July 2.
The festival opens June 11 with Kalmar and young Russian-born American pianist Natasha Paremski playing the less-heard Tchaikovsky Second Concerto. Other Kalmar highlights include the Berlioz "Romeo and Juliet" with Christopher Bell's superb Grant Park Chorus, mezzo Julie Boulianne and tenor Paul Appleby (June 13 and 14); unusual symphony selections of Dvorak (June 18) and Elgar (June 20-21), and a Viva Mexico! evening with Grammy winners Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano (June 25). Janacek's powerful Glagolitic Mass will feature Christine Goerke and Jill Grove, stars of Lyric Opera's "Elektra" last season (June 27-28), and Kurt Weill's "The Seven Deadly Sins" showcases Pink Martini vocalist Storm Large (Aug. 6). Bell will lead the Independence Day concert July 4 at 6:30 p.m. There will be no full-scale Broadway show or composers program this year but an Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong tribute concert is set for July 9.
Two prominent touring youth orchestras will visit Grant Park: Carnegie Hall's National Youth Symphony conducted by St. Louis Symphony Orchestra music director David Robertson with soloist Gil Shaham in the Britten Violin Concerto (July 28) and the Portland Youth Philharmonic, the oldest such U.S. ensemble (July 5).
Planetary visuals are the plan July 16 with BBC/Discovery Channel composer-conductor George Fenton's underwater "Blue Planet."
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The Widgets page is one of the most visited on PatternFly.org. What do visitors expect to find in the Widgets page? Do they get what they need there? And what is a Widget, anyway? I spoke with five PatternFly users to get their thoughts on this topic, and also ran a survey (we got 12 responses). Thanks to everyone who participated in this effort!
The Data
Visitor opinions varied quite a bit on a number of topics. As a key example, exactly half the respondents believed that Widgets were the same thing as Components, whereas the other half did not agree. But why, exactly?
When I broke down the responses by discipline, I was able to see some patterns emerge. The following chart shows the same data, further broken down by discipline.
The way a person responded to the statement "Widgets are the same thing as Components" roughly corresponds with what they do in their job. The terms "Widget" and "Component" are clearly distinct concepts to a developer, but not so much to a designer.
Defining "Widget"
Let's dig in a bit more to how people define Widgets. First, here is what interviewees said about widgets:
- "I think of widgets as small things you can interact with. For example a dropdown [menu] is a widget that can be put into something larger, like a table pattern."
- "[A widget is] an independent bit of code that can be used anywhere in the UI in different sorts of layouts, in different sorts of patterns."
- "I see widgets as low-level, with no guidance as far as when you should use one widget versus another."
This matches up pretty well to the survey results. Respondents tended to agree with the statement that "Widgets are the basic building blocks I can arrange on a screen."
But, unless you're a Visual Designer, you likely wouldn't classify CSS elements as Widgets:
According to interaction Designers surveyed, Widgets are always small. However, developers mostly disagreed with this statement:
Developers tend to be more concerned with functionality over form. Technically speaking, the overall size is not integral to the Widget; it's actually an easily changed parameter. You could even say it's arbitrary. However, when it comes to visual design, every pixel matters. Changing the size of an element completely changes the visual balance. Thus, classifying elements by size would make more sense in the field of Visual Design, and I believe that Widgets are a used here as a convenient term to indicate small elements. And Widgets do tend to be small, in reality.
And finally, Interaction Designers fall in the middle between form and function. They see both sides, and need to consider both of these perspectives at different times.
How do Widgets relate to Patterns?
Now that we have a better picture of how people define Widgets, let's look at how those same folks relate to Patterns. Here is a statement that really resonated with respondents: "Patterns are multiple widgets, used together."
Interestingly, Components seem to have almost exactly the relationship to Patterns as Widgets do, according to respondents:
As only half of visitors agreed that Widgets and Components were the same thing, how does this result make sense? Widgets and Components do have a few key things in common: both are seen as tangible elements and both can be used as pieces of larger elements. So, regardless of what exactly Widgets and Components are, they do seem to relate to Patterns in the same way.
Defining "Pattern"
Let's take a look at how people define the term "Pattern".
Respondents said that patterns are:
- "Industry-tested, customer-tested, UX-Designer-tested ways of doing things; kind of best-practices for using widgets."
- "How you should build applications that [work] towards [a] goal."
- "UX; How things look and how they should operate."
These statements emphasize the guidance that patterns provide. So then the question becomes: are patterns purely guidance or are they also tangible elements that you can use directly in an application?
Designers mostly agreed that patterns could be used directly in an app, whereas developers were a bit more split on this (3 of the 5 developers disagreed with the statement). This is an interesting result, as Patterns in PatternFly do, in fact, provide example code. Where is this discrepancy coming from? I believe that these developers generally see Patterns with code as "Components." In the following categorization exercise, you'll see that developers do tend to categorize items as "Components" that designers tend to categorize as "Patterns". What's interesting here is that this implies that developers navigate the Pattern Library in PatternFly.org to find the things they know as "Components."
Categorization Exercise
As a final task in the survey, I had respondents categorize a selection of elements into the categories of Pattern, Widget, Component, or Layout. Here's how they categorized these items, broken down by respondents' primary discipline.
As you can see in the charts, people generally tended to gravitate towards the term "Component" more than "Widget" — developers did this more so than designers. Developers also tended to use the term "Pattern" less than designers, as can be most clearly seen when looking at the categorization of "Dashboard Card" and "Table."
Analysis: On Accommodating Developers and Designers
Design frameworks such as PatternFly exist at the intersection between the design and development disciplines. The terms and concepts we use in PatternFly are a mashup of terms and concepts from both disciplines. Occasionally, the subtle differences in the meaning of terms between these disciplines can cause confusion. The site design ultimately has to accommodate both perspectives and approaches, directing both designers and developers to the content they are looking for.
Developers tend to define the tangible elements used to build applications as "Components." In other words, if an element is not abstract, there's a better chance a developer will classify it as as a Component, rather than a Widget or Pattern. Components can be large or small, complex or relatively simple (anything above the level of basic HTML tags). To developers, the term "Widget" is more narrowly defined than "Component," and is a less accurate term for the elements that we provide. Finally, developers understand UI Design Patterns at the level of guidance or best practices in UI design.
Designers, on the other hand, have no preference whether something is a Widget or a Component. Widgets are generally understood by designers to be the basic building blocks. To designers, the line between Patterns and Widgets is a matter of scope; Patterns tend to be composite elements, built out of multiple smaller elements. If you look at the sorting exercise, the elements that designers categorized as Patterns were Dashboard Cards, Tables, and Master-Detail, which are all composite elements.
In PatternFly, Patterns tend to get a greater focus than Widgets. To designers, the solutions provided in Patterns are of greater value than individual Widgets, because the choice of Widgets are already built in to the larger solution. Being able to simply choose a proven solution to a problem is a big win for a designer. Patterns are a tool to help make large design decisions quickly and with confidence.
Design Recommendations
We need to take another look at how we classify elements in PatternFly. As you may recall from the survey results, respondents overwhelmingly viewed "Bar Chart" and "Datepicker" as either Widgets or Components instead of Patterns. Currently, we mix basic and composite elements in the Pattern Library, which is causing some confusion. We need to be more consistent about how we classify elements as Widgets or Patterns. It's clear from the survey results that these categorization issues affects both designers and developers. As a general rule, the more basic (non-composite) elements should probably be in the Widgets section.
Why would "Datepicker" and other Widget-like elements be in the Pattern section? What makes them different from the other non-composite elements that we classify as Widgets? The answer is that these elements all provide design guidance.
In PatternFly.org, we have no solution or page template to deal with Widgets that have design guidance (like "Datepicker"), so they end up in the Pattern section. Instead, we should use the same template for the content that we have in the Pattern section for Widgets. Overall, this will help everyone. Developers will be able to find and get code in the same way for any element. We can handle Widgets that have design guidance in a prescribed and consistent way. And finally, a universal template makes it easier to move elements around, without needing to modify the content format. If we decide that something should be re-categorized, it becomes trivial to do.
Thoughts or feedback? Let us know in the comments!


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Fan Denied Seat at EU Debate
Swedish SF fan Andrea Andersdotter, who was elected to represent Sweden in the EU Parliament for the Pirate Party in 2009, was nominated by her party for the EU Presidency. Andersdotter has been informed that she will not be able to participate in the EU Presidential debates. The EU explanation appears to be that Andersdotter missed the initial filing deadline and that the Party Group the Pirate party belongs to is already sending a candidate to the debate.
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Lawmakers Back Broader Use of Full-Body Scanning Equipment
By Sudeep Reddy
Several lawmakers on Sunday called for a broader deployment of full-body scanning equipment at airport security checkpoints, after a Nigerian national allegedly tried to blow up a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day.
"I think we have to head in that direction," New York Rep. Peter King, the top Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee, said on CBS's "Face the Nation" program. "Yes, there is some brief violation of privacy with a full-body scan. But on the other hand, if we can save thousands of lives, to me, we have to make that decision and we have to come down on the side of saving thousands of lives."
The suspect, 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, apparently set off a device strapped to his body as the plane was approaching the Detroit airport, according to passengers. The device appeared to have been designed to set off an explosive material, PETN, which the suspect had allegedly carried on board the plane, but it only caused a small fire that was quickly put out by passengers and crew.
Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania said on "Fox News Sunday" that "the full body-examining device is with us and it should have been used. There could be a simple pat-down and this fellow could have been detected."
Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I., Conn.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, said on "Fox News Sunday" that "we've got to constantly be thinking like the terrorists here."
He also noted that there have been "privacy concerns expressed" about the use of whole-body imaging devices, "But I think those privacy concerns, which are, frankly, mild, have to fall in the face of the ability of these machines to detect material like this explosive on this individual," he said.