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PRESS RELEASE: Board of Governors' Tuition Appeals Committee votes 'no' on changing Florida Gulf Coast University's tuition differential
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—June 29, 2012
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—The Tuition Appeals Committee of the Florida Board of Governors today voted 6-0 to deny Florida Gulf Coast University's appeal for reconsideration on the "tuition differential" decision last week. FGCU pursued its option to appeal – provided in state law – and sought to change the Board of Governors' vote last week for a 12 percent increase, instead of the 14 percent increase recommended and brought forward by FGCU's Board of Trustees.
FGCU was the only university to appeal of the 11 universities whose "tuition differential" increases were approved.
There was not a "base tuition increase" set this year by the Legislature for undergraduate-level tuition, leaving universities to seek the full 15 percent cap allowed in state law by bringing "tuition differential" proposals to the Board of Governors of the State University System. The Legislature's FY 2012-13 budget, signed into law by Gov. Rick Scott, included an assumption for a 15 percent undergraduate tuition increase across the System.
"I appreciate the efforts and commitment of the FGCU Board of Trustees, but the package of information submitted for the appeal did not bring forward new information that was not already discussed during our three-day meeting last week," said Board Chair Dean Colson, who sits on the Tuition Appeals Committee along with the six chairs of the Board's standing committees.
"The 'tuition differential' discussions at the Board meeting took place following two days of dialogue regarding the universities' work plans, performance metrics, fiscal information, student financial aid and strategic priorities," he said.
Colson said he was pleased with his fellow Board members' engagement over three total days. For the first two days, the members were probing and candid in their questions and comments with all universities during presentations and a vote on each university's work plan. On the third and final day, he said votes were taken from individual perspectives in order to reach majority consensus regarding tuition differential for each university. He also noted that specific issues in the FGCU appeal package were featured in the PowerPoint presentation slides during the Budget & Finance Committee for each university. There was an institution-by-institution presentation of each "tuition differential" request on the morning of June 21, before the afternoon votes of the full Board.
Chair Colson also noted the April meeting of the Strategic Planning Committee, where the work plan template was finalized after months of consultation with the universities in its development.
Chair Dick Beard (Facilities Committee) moved a motion to deny the appeal.
Chair Norm Tripp (Academic & Student Affairs Committee) seconded the motion.
Vice Chair Mori Hosseini (Chair, Trustee Nominating & Development Committee) – yes.
Chair Ava Parker (Audit & Compliance Committee) – yes.
Chair Tico Perez (Budget & Finance Committee) – yes.
Board Chair and Tuition Appeals Committee Chair Colson – yes.
Chair John Rood (Strategic Planning Committee) joined the meeting after some of the discussion and elected not to vote.
Additional reference information is below. The right to appeal "tuition differential" is in state law, and the timeline process is outlined in Board of Governors Regulation 7.001.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—June 25, 2012
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Florida Gulf Coast University is utilizing its option and right to ask the Florida Board of Governors to reconsider its decision last week on "tuition differential" for FGCU. The Board voted to approve a 12 percent increase, instead of the 14 percent increase recommended and brought forward by FGCU's Board of Trustees this year.
The tuition differential appeals process is detailed at the end of the Tuition and Fees fact sheet located here.
In fulfilling its constitutional and statutory obligations, the Florida Board of Governors last week evaluated all 11 requests and recommendations brought from each state university's Board of Trustees for tuition differential increases, which affect undergraduate students.
The "Actions Taken" recap – with the votes from Thursday's meeting – is posted at www.flbog.edu/pressroom.
Once a Tuition Appeals Committee meeting is scheduled, it will be noticed as usual on the home page in the meetings box of public notices.
Facts about the State University System of Florida and the Florida Board of Governors
The State University System of Florida is governed by a 17-member Board of Governors, a constitutional body and led by appointed public servants. The System has 12 universities and a total enrollment of nearly 330,000 students, making it the second-largest public university system in the nation in terms of enrollment (some states have more than one university system). The Florida Constitution (Article IX, Section 7) was amended by the state's voters in 2002 to establish a statewide system of governance for all Florida public universities. As a result, the Florida Board of Governors was created in 2003 to oversee the State University System of Florida. Responsibilities include defining the distinctive mission of each institution and ensuring the well-planned coordination and operation of the System. The Board's 17 members include 14 appointed by the Governor, with three serving by virtue of their designations (a faculty member, a Florida Student Association student representative, and the Florida Commissioner of Education). The Board of Governors appoints a Chancellor who serves as the chief executive and administrative officer of the State University System. For more, including the Board's Annual Accountability Report that reflects important measurements for the System, see www.flbog.edu. The Board of Governors also released its 2025 Strategic Plan for the System in November 2011, also available from the home page of the web site.
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EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (Blugolds.com) – Playing in its final regular season home match, the UW-Eau Claire women's volleyball team recorded a 3-0 victory over UW-Oshkosh in the McPhee Physical Education Center today.
Eau Claire had little trouble with the Titans in the first and third sets, though the second set was closely contested.
In the first set, Eau Claire quickly jumped out to a 9-2 lead and built a 20-9 advantage before winning 25-11.
The second set started out close but the Blugolds eventually found their way to a 17-10 lead. However, the Titans turned up the pressure and outscored the Blugolds 12-4 over the next few minutes to take a 22-21 lead. But the Blugolds were able to come back and outscored the Titans the rest of the way 4-1 to take the 25-23 victory.
In the final set, Eau Claire again started strong and built a 15-6 advantage. The Blugolds then worked their way to a 25-13 set win and a 3-0 match victory.
In a match where the Blugolds outhit the Titans .320-.105, Kelly Schuh (Jr.-Appleton, Wis./Hortonville) finished with a match-high 15 kills and a .481 attack percentage. Anne Satterlee (Sr.-Green Bay, Wis./Ashwaubenon) also reached double figures in kills with 10 while the team totaled 45.
Lauren Sutherland (Jr.-Dayton, Minn./Meadow Creek Christian) led the match with 18 digs and Emily Neave (Sr.-Salem, Wis./Westosha Central) recorded a match-high 37 set assists.
Eau Claire improves to 16-9 overall and 2-2 in conference play. Oshkosh is 13-11 on the season and 1-3 in the WIAC.
Wednesday, the Blugolds will be at UW-Superior for a conference matchup beginning at 7 p.m.

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Show the Money is a mission in Grand Theft Auto Advance, given to protagonist Mike by bar tender Jonnie from the bar he works at in the Red Light District on Portland, Liberty City.
Jonnie is debt to King Courtney, leader of the Uptown Yardies, and needs money quickly to stop Courtney sending his men to hound him for the money. An associate, Freddy has been playing him for a fool and has some money, which Mike can take. Mike drives to Freddy's location, with the player given two options. The first is to play it safe and take some money, or the second option is wait for more Freddy to get more money. The first option allows Mike to return to the bar quickly and the second leads to Mike killing Freddy and some associates. After Mike collects the money he returns to the bar and finds Jonnie dead, with blood all over the bar. A car speeds off with Mike giving chase, following the car on to Staunton Island.
Jonnie: This is it, Mike. I got a lot of heat on me from people I'm in debt to. I need to drum up some money fast. This guy Freddy has been playing me for a fool with marked cards. Make an example of him and bring back his loot.
Mike: Tell me more about who's on to you and what this is about.
Jonnie: Let's just say I owe King Courtney over on Staunton several grand for party favors. His Yardies have been hounding me recently.
(Mike drives to meet Freddy)
Mike: I heard you made a lot of dough with marked cards. I'll take it easy on you if you give me ten thousand.
Freddy: So that sweaty mess of a bartender sent you, huh? Figure I owe him some back from the winnings I've taken. I can give you a thousand now or ten thousand if you give me a minute. If you take that pile of loot, I'll figure you're satisfied and won't come back.
Mike: Hmm, should I play it safe or wait this out?
(If Mike plays it safe)
Mike: I'd better take the money and head back to the bar. I smell an ambush.
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Freddy: Well, I decided I want to keep the cash after all. Get him guys!
Mike: That's the last mistake you'll make. Hmm... I'm in trouble.
(Mike kills Freddy's associates, if he waited)
Mike: The bastard only brought five thousand with him. Better head back to the bartender with the loot.
(Mike returns to the bar)
Mike: What the hell? It looks like a massacre, the bartender is lying in a pool of blood. I thought he was being paranoid about the danger he was in. Damn! That's the sound of a car peeling out in a hurry. The bastards are trying to get away.
The reward for completing the mission is $1,000. The mission Race to Run is unlocked by completing the mission.
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The victim in last night's fatal pedestrian accident has been identified by state police as Jeremy Paige, 24, of Webster.
The crash occurred at 11:10 last night on the ramp from Cudworth Road to Interstate 395 north in Webster. State police said a tractor-trailer struck Mr. Paige as Mr. Paige walked in the roadway, police said. Police have not said if they know why he was in the road.
The tractor-trailer did not stop, according to state police.
Troopers at the accident scene quickly traced the rig to the nearby LKQ Corp., an automobile and truck parts company in town.
The truck was later located on Interstate 93 in Woburn, after the driver was notified that authorities wanted to talk to him.
The truck's driver, a 44-year-old Dracut man, was interviewed this morning by state police detectives assigned to the Worcester District Attorney's office. His identity was not released by state police.
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Three more delicious festivals to mark down on your calendar:
Pebble Beach Food & Wine, April 12-15
East Coast and West Coast seafood masters unite when New York's Dave Pasternack and Las Vegas' Paul Bartolotta team up for an Italian dinner. French icon Jacques Pepin takes you through six decades of his "culinary magic." Terrific Texas chefs including Dean Fearing and Tim Love offer their rarefied takes on comfort food. An ultra-decadent "Farewell to Foie Gras" lunch where chefs including San Francisco offal master Chris Cosentino stuff you with the fatty liver that's become taboo in some areas. An "Iron Chef" dinner with Masaharu Morimoto, Michael Symon and the newly crowned Geoffrey Zakarian. That's just a handful of the many reasons to hit the fifth edition of this West Coast extravaganza. (pebblebeachfoodandwine.com)
Atlanta Food & Wine Festival, May 10-13
Alabama's Chris Lilly hosts what promises to be a raucous barbecue bash with nearly 70 chefs and four mixologists. John Besh joins four other chefs for a dinner celebrating New Orleans' international influences. And, of course, what's a Southern-region food festival without South Carolina's Sean Brock (creating a dish from his hometown) and Georgia's Hugh Acheson (participating in a lamb dinner with "Top Chef" finalist Bryan Voltaggio and more)? (atlfoodandwinefestival.com)
Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, June 15-17
It's the 30th year of this original gangster food festival. And the lineup is, not surprisingly, stacked. Gail Simmons (author of the new "Talking With My Mouth Full") and fellow "Top Chef" judge Tom Colicchio host a "'Top Chef': Salty & Sweet" seminar. PDT's Jim Meehan and lovably indefatigable Food & Wine magazine restaurant editor Kate Krader shake it up at seminars about cocktail classics. Best Cellars founder Josh Wesson, who now has his own retail and restaurant incubator, is around if you care less about mixology and more about wine. And, oh yeah, Bobby Flay, Giada De Laurentiis, Emeril Lagasse, Mario Batali, Andrew Zimmern, Rick Bayless, Grant Achatz, Thomas Keller, Spike Mendelsohn, Danny Meyer, Marcus Samuelsson, Ming Tsai, Jacques Pepin, Stephanie Izard, Johnny Iuzzini, Andrea Robinson and Paul Grieco are here too to keep things savory, spicy, sweet, red, white and bubbly. (foodandwine.com/classic)


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For those folks who like to watch Patrick's Point from the overlook at Agate Beach, be aware that erosion has caused about three acres of the bluff to have "slumped down," making the edge acutely unstable. The overlook at Agate Beach has once again been fenced off. Anyone behind the fence will receive a citation, according to State Park Ranger Javier Morales – without receiving a warning first.
So be careful. As in, don't put yourself in danger.
Don't say we didn't warn you.
Thanks to Bill L. for the tip.
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First let me take this opportunity to express my great thanks to Pat Murphy, Faith Morgan, and Megan Quinn of Community Service, who have organized this conference so thoughtfully and successfully.
We have already heard a lot of talk this weekend, and I don't want to tax us further with yet more information. I see in the program that I am supposed to speak on "Hope and Vision: Solutions for Planet Earth." It seems to me that several other presenters have already given us plenty of hope and vision; I am not sure I have much to add in that regard. But perhaps I could take these few minutes to share with you some philosophical thoughts on the big picture—on our plight and our opportunity from a historical perspective.
We are, it seems to me, seeing the beginning of the end of industrial civilization.
That word civilization is a tricky one. We are trained to think of it as connoting everything refined, cultured, and secure. The alternative is barbarism, is it not?
Well, not necessarily—not, at least, from a historical or anthropological perspective.
For several years in the 1990s I was a member of an academic organization called the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations, which, like most such outfits, holds yearly meetings at which professors entertain one another with their latest iterations of sometimes indecipherably subtle theories. The members of ISCSC, or "ISSY" as it is affectionately called, could never quite settle on a definition of the word civilization, but there was general agreement that civilizations are good and very worthy of comparative study. Thus the paper I read one year, "A Primitivist Critique of Civilization," didn't go over particularly well.
But while the word civilization may be hard even for experts to define, its derivation is clear enough; it comes from the Latin civis, meaning "city." Civilized people are city builders. But this is hardly a complete or even useful definition; there are surely other factors involved, including writing, numeracy, trade, and a system of social classes. According even to these few criteria, there have been about 24 distinct civilizations in human history.
Now, I think we all have a clear sense that our particular civilization is qualitatively different from any other in history—from the Chacoan, for example, or the Mayan, or the Mesopotamian, or the classical Roman or Greek. Ours is the first, and will be the only, fossil-fueled civilization. It is civilization on steroids, civilization on multiple carafes of espresso, civilization on rocket fuel. We supersize it, and want it done yesterday. Consequently we have chewed up and spit out more of the Earth's other resources more quickly than any group of humans have ever done.
Of course, civilizations produce wonderful cultural artifacts: pyramids, temples, literature, music, and so on. Perhaps because the American oil empire has grown up so quickly and rootlessly, its cultural products—though admittedly impressive in some ways (consider the modern Hollywood blockbuster movie with its multi-million-dollar special effects)—often have an ephemeral quality, a superficiality, and an emotionally manipulative commercial utilitarianism, that makes many of us less than proud.
Our buildings, clothes, utensils, containers, and tools—all aspects of our designed environment—have come to be shaped by fuel-fed machines rather than by human hands. If we can make them faster, or if we can make more of them more cheaply with machines, economics requires that we do so. As a result, we have become starved for beauty—the beauty of nature, and the beauty of careful, skilled, individual hand production rooted in slowly and painstakingly evolved culture that is itself rooted in a particular landscape. Perhaps we suffer unknowingly from an unrecognized mass disease—chronic, pernicious beauty deficiency.
One interesting thing to note about civilizations is that they have a nasty habit of collapsing. Many of them have come to their ends for similar reasons, and often the process of collapse has begun within only years of their reaching their maxima of geographical extent, military power, and accumulated wealth. Clive Ponting, in his marvelous book A Green History of the World, offers a familiar explanation: ancient societies typically drew down their resource base and destroyed their habitat. They cut too many trees, exhausted their topsoil, emptied their wells.
Joseph Tainter, in The Collapse of Complex Societies, provides a more subtle account. He attributes collapse to declining returns on investments in complexity. And he defines collapse itself as a reduction in social complexity. A flattening of the pyramidal class structure, a withdrawal of the imperial overreach, a rupturing of trade relations—all are symptoms of the involuntary simplification of a society.
Parenthetically, I should note that Tainter, who certainly respects indigenous cultures, is not saying that non-civilized societies aren't complex in terms of their rituals and myths, or in their ecological understandings. He defines complexity in terms of quantifiable social elements like the number of distinctive tools and tool systems, or the number of social classes and occupations present.
Societies become complex in order to solve their problems. We adopted agriculture to make up for the caloric deficit consequent upon our overhunting of megafauna during the late Pleistocene. We irrigated so that we could practice agriculture in seasonally arid places. We built social hierarchies to allocate irrigation allowances from a single river to hundreds or thousands of individual farmers, or to store and distribute grain from seasonally abundant harvests.
At first, such investments in social and technological complexity may yield dizzying returns, and societies that make them often grow quickly and tend to overpower their neighbors. An empire may develop, and may persist for centuries or even millennia.
But the strategy of social complexification imposes hidden costs that gradually build up. The support population eventually tires under the burden.
Once the point of declining returns is reached, almost anything can push a society into decline. Climate change and other environmental disasters sometimes play a role. Typically, civilizations that are near their point of collapse become involved in wars over resources, and they are often plagued by poor leadership that is unable to understand the nature of the challenge or to propose effective responses.
Does any of this sound familiar?
Surely a civilization whose entire basis rests upon the extraction and use—and thus the depletion—of a few nonrenewable resources is the most vulnerable sort of civilization that has ever existed.
Most scientists I know who study these things have come to the conclusion that we are living at the end of the current empire, the first truly global empire in the history of our species. By "end" I don't mean that the whole thing will come crashing down tomorrow or next year. Historically, collapses have usually occurred over a period of decades or centuries. In our case the signs of diminishing returns, and of overextension, are already unmistakable. And, perverse as the comment may seem, I don't think collapse, in this instance, would necessarily be such a bad thing.
As Tainter points out, collapse really just means a return to the normal pattern of human life—life, that is, in tribes or villages; small communities, if you will. Collapse is an economizing process in which a society reverts to a level of complexity that is capable of being sustained.
This is all so easy to understand from an academically detached perspective. But of course we are not Martian anthropologists observing the events through a telescope; we are talking about the circumstances of our lives.
So what do you do if you are living at the end of an empire? I suppose one rational response would be to eat, drink, and be merry. Why not? It sure beats worrying oneself to death over events one can't control, and thus squandering whatever moments of normalcy and chances for happiness may remain before the end comes.
Somehow, I think that you here have other ideas about what to do. I suspect that if you had been passengers on the Titanic, you would not have been drinking yourselves into a stupor at the bar; you'd have been strapping deck chairs together, finding a way to increase the signal strength of the ship's radio, or invent waterproof buoyant suits that could be remanufactured from hemp ropes using equipment commandeered from the ship's machine shop.
I probably can't tell you anything you should be doing that you are not already doing about as well as you can under the circumstances. We all know the drill—grow more of your own food, conserve energy, become active in your local community, learn useful arts and skills, stock up on handtools. In essence: we must plant the seeds for what can and will survive; for a way of life as different from industrialism as the latter is from the medieval period; a way of life whose full flowering we ourselves may never see in our brief lifetimes.
Many of you have been teaching this stuff for decades; you don't need a "how-to" lecture from me.
However it can be helpful to know that there are others thinking the same thoughts, grappling with the same challenges, and finding different but complementary strategies; and it seems to me that this conference has helped immeasurably in this regard. We know each other now, and we know that we are in this together. We know also that we have passed a few recent signal events and are approaching another very important one. It's helpful to compare notes.
Somewhere this weekend I heard the inevitable comment that we are preaching to the choir. That's not the way I look at it. To bend that metaphor, I feel as though in this moment I am addressing a council of preachers.
We have only a dwindling amount of time to build lifeboats—that is, the needed alternative infrastructure. It has been clear for at least 30 years what characteristics this should have—organic, small-scale, local, convivial, cooperative, slower paced, human-oriented rather than machine-oriented, agrarian, diverse, democratic, culturally rich, and ecologically sustainable. We have known for a long time that the status quo—a society that is machine-oriented, competitive, inequitable, fast-paced, globalized, monocultural, corporate-dominated—is deadening to the human spirit and ecologically unsustainable.
Sustainable. Unsustainable. What do these words really mean?
Perhaps peak oil at last provides the word sustainability with teeth. People now speak of "sustainable development," "sustainable growth," and "sustainable returns on investment." That, my friends, is sustainability lite. The word has been diluted and denatured almost beyond recognition.
An understanding of peak oil provides us with a minimum definition of the word: can we do this, whatever it is we're talking about, without fossil fuels? If we can, then it just might be a sustainable activity or process. There's no guarantee: there are a lot of human activities that don't involve fossil fuels and that are not sustainable—like large-scale whaling with sailing ships, or intensive irrigation agriculture in soil that isn't properly drained.
But if you can't do it without fossil fuels, by definition, it ain't sustainable.
And that includes most of what we do in North America these days.
What we here are saying is that a transition to a lower level of social-technological complexity need not be violent, need not be chaotic, and need not entail the loss of the values and cultural achievements of which we are most proud as a society. And the end result could be far more humane, enjoyable, and satisfying than life currently is for citizens of this grandest of empires.
Even though this conference is spectacularly well attended from the standpoint of the expectations of the organizers, we are comparatively few. And the message we are communicating is not being heard by the great majority of our fellow citizens. It is probably optimistic to think that it will be understood by more than one or two or three percent of the population. However, if that seed nucleus of the total citizenry really gets it, we may have a chance. We all know what seeds are capable of.
I'm reminded of the Populist rural movement of the late 19th century, which altered America's political landscape and very nearly diverted the US away from its imperial, corporatist destiny back toward the agrarian ideal of Jefferson. The Populists spread their word, starting in rural Texas, to nearly every county in the South, East, West, and Midwest. Their method? They trained 40,000 public speakers. Then, at grange halls, county fairs, and Chautauquas, they painstakingly educated their fellow citizens about the banking cartels, the trusts, and the currency system, and about how local communities could take charge of their own economies once again.
The 1898 presidential election proved to be the undoing of the movement: the Populists had decided to bet the farm on electoral politics and ran William Jennings Bryan, who was beaten by the arch-imperialist William McKinley, himself soon to die at the hand of an anarchist assassin.
We've just had an election too. And, unless it is contested, it may well mark the unequivocal end of the Republic, and of national electoral democracy in this country.
But just as it is becoming altogether clear that we are living in an empire, we are seeing clear signs that the empire is itself nearing its fate.
My friends, it is a time to be hopeful. It is a good time to cherish one another and embrace the young and fortify them with our experiences and vision, and to trust in their ability to find their own appropriate response to the events ahead.
There will be sustainable human cultures on this planet a century from now. In fact, that's the only kind of cultures there will be. And I think we can reasonably hope that at least some of those cultures will be able to trace their lineage to the seemingly marginalized hippies, activists, energy geeks, permaculturists, communitarians, organic farmers, eco-city planners, and plain citizens who started educating their neighbors about peak oil early in the century.
We have done some good work already, but we have a lot more to accomplish. Perhaps we now have a better grasp of the context in which our work must continue, and of its crucial importance for the survival of our species.
May we apply ourselves with renewed confidence, commitment, and good humor. We can create beauty and live in beauty. We can live in joy, knowing that our efforts will sprout roots, trunks, branches, leaves, flowers, and fruit. We can dwell in community, as we share each other's lives and visions, talents and resources, concerns and needs, and learn to support one another and work together.
It is a scary time to be alive, but it is a wonderful time to be alive. It is good to know that there is so much accumulated intelligence and compassion among us. This has been a fabulous conference with extraordinary presenters and presentations, and even more amazing participants. We leave here with gifts of knowledge, encouragement, perspective, and passion. Thank you.


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Will Businesses Be Forced to Say If They've Been Hacked?
The proposed rule on data breaches appears as part of a larger draft bill being circulated in the House Judiciary Committee.
The idea is still a long way from reality, but Congress has taken the first step toward requiring companies to admit when their networks have been hacked.
The proposed rule on data breaches appears as part of a larger draft bill being circulated in the House Judiciary Committee. On top of raising the maximum penalty for computer crimes, the unnamed legislation gives businesses 14 days to disclose a security breach after they find out about it. In the case of a "major" breach, that window shrinks to a mere 72 hours, and involves the FBI or the Secret Service.
Any firm that handles personal information will be subject to the rule, except those that work under HIPAA--the federal health privacy law--and some financial institutions.
With cyberintrusions on the rise globally, lawmakers were bound to take up hacking disclosure eventually. Part of the problem facing Congress is that there's no single law governing data-breach notification. Industries are regulated differently according to which state they operate in and what kind of business they do. In fact, most state hacking-disclosure laws were passed in the last 10 years, after California became the first to do so.
A similar situation exists in Europe, where E.U. officials have introduced their own draft regulation on data breaches, saying the mostly voluntary system it has now is "too fragmented" and leaves the region more vulnerable. Opponents have argued the proposal is burdensome because of its requirement that notifications take place within 24 hours of a data breach.
If the European plan gets approved, it could boost the chances that Congress will pass something like it, although this isn't the first time Washington has tried dealing with data-breach notifications. In 2011, Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-Calif., circulated a draft data-breach bill that would also have forced companies to scrub their drives of user data once they no longer needed it. Under that legislation, companies would have had 48 hours to admit they had been compromised--more than the 24 hours that the E.U.'s suggesting, but less than the 72 hours given to firms by the House draft.
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'A Place at the Table' aims to end hunger
Documentary aims to inspire nation to end food scarcity — again
Tom Colicchio — "Master Chef" star and James Beard award-winning celebrity chef, whose acclaimed New York restaurant Craft spawned an empire — got his first lessons in cooking as a child in Elizabeth, N.J., from his Italian mother and grandmother. It was then that he first learned another important lesson about food and family.
"Every Sunday, we called it spaghetti — macaroni actually — and gravy. Growing up in New Jersey, red sauce and meatballs, it was gravy," he remembers during a chat at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, where "A Place at the Table, " the documentary that he executive-produced and appears in, made its world premiere.
"That was every Sunday. And we had to be home every night. We had dinner on the table every night. My mother was a decent cook, but I think looking back on it, she was a typical mother who didn't sit down until everyone else was served and taken care of. ... I think that's what I saw, food was that — it was love. It was her way of showing how much she loved you."
Colicchio, 50, long ago came to realize that his experience of growing up with plenty of food on the table and a full belly is not universal. In the United States, the current statistic is 50 million Americans — 1 in 6 overall; 1 in 4 children — face food insecurity, also known as hunger. For the past 25 years, he's been involved with charities such as Children of Bellevue, City Harvest, the Food Bank for New York City and Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation. "A Place at the Table" is the brainchild of his wife, filmmaker Lori Silverbush, who partnered with Kristi Jacobson to make the film.
"My wife was mentoring a young girl and she realized that she was often hungry," Colicchio says. "In fact, we got her into a school that we thought would better suit her, but it didn't have a breakfast program — breakfast and lunch were the only two meals she was having all day. One day she got a call from the principal, who said, 'She's always looking for food. She's always hungry.' We didn't realize how bad it was at home, and so that got Lori thinking, 'Is there a film here? Is there something we can do?'"
Silverbush and Jacobson's research led them to "Hunger in America," a 1968 CBS television documentary hosted by Charles Kuralt. Back then, the statistic was that 10 million Americans experienced hunger, a revelation to TV viewers at the time.
"Public pressure was outrageous after watching this show, after literally watching a young child die in a hospital from starvation," Colicchio says.
"The incoming Nixon administration made it a top priority to fix the problem and very quickly they did," he adds. "Sen. (Robert) Dole and Sen. (George) McGovern reached across the aisle and created the modern food safety network, because of demand. Pretty much hunger was wiped out. Ideology changed in the '80s and it came back, and it came back in a very strong way."
Colicchio has seen up close the lack of will in the current government to do anything to fix the problem. He testified before the House of Representatives in 2010 during the Child Nutrition Reauthorization debate.
"I know how sausage is made. Now I saw how law is made, too," Colicchio says. "What was frustrating was that in the original bill, President Obama asked for $10 billion over 10 years, a billion dollars a year. Rep. (George) Miller from California brought it down to 8 billion. It got to the Senate, Blanche Lincoln brought it down to 4 1/2. It had to settle for 4 1/2, but I think it was 2 billion or 2.5 billion that came out of food stamps. Essentially, you're stealing from dinner to pay for lunch.
"That was really upsetting, and they all patted themselves on the back and thought they did a great job. Yeah, they managed to get another 6 cents (per meal) for school lunches. That's what it amounted to. I think they punted, I really do."
Colicchio's hope is that "A Place at the Table" will serve as a call to action in much the same way "Hunger in America" did 45 years ago. In addition to Colicchio, the documentary includes contributions from experts such as nutrition policy advocate Marion Nestle, writer Raj Patel and sociologist Janet Poppendieck; activists such as actor Jeff Bridges and Witnesses to Hunger's Mariana Chilton; and ordinary people, including teachers and clergy members.
But the real stars of the film are three people struggling with food issues: Barbie, a Philadelphia mother of two whose new job doesn't pay enough for her to adequately feed her family; Rosie, a fifth-grader in Colorado whose constant hunger makes concentrating in class difficult; and Tremonica, a second-grader in Mississippi whose poor diet worsens her asthma and other health problems.
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Note: The documentary screens 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Spectrum 8 Theatres in Albany, followed by a discussion with Deb Catozzi, administrative director of the Hunger Action Network; Christine Nealon, of Unity House; and Rana Morris, of Youth Organics
Info: 449-8995; http://www.spectrum8.com
"Doing the film, we wanted to change the face of hunger and wanted to show the working poor," Colicchio says. "It's not someone looking for a handout; these are people who want a better life, they want to feed their children. They can't. It's tough. Food has become so expensive, nutritious food.
"We want people to understand what the issue is. Hopefully, enough people will get involved and start demanding of their representatives and there's change, because all the work in the world on the charity side is only going to hold off the problem a little bit. It's not going to fix it. To fix the problem, government needs to take a role here.
"This shouldn't be a political issue," he adds. "We shouldn't use hunger as a political football. This was fixed by Nixon and a Democratic congress. It shouldn't be a political problem. This should be a human issue. Jeff Bridges puts it beautifully in the movie: This is about patriotism. What kind of country do you want to live in?"
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Communication is a major challenge that faces design engineers around the world and the impact of a poorly designed machine can reverberate well past a single production line, but into the entire supply chain. The good news for design engineers at machine builders is that with their GT16 Series HMIs, Mitsubishi Electric Automation has infused the standard HMI display with much more than just basic visualization and simple blinking lights for communication.
The GT16 Series offers superior hardware quality, benchmark performance and a multitude of advanced features including an ultra-high speed RISC processor combined with Mitsubishi Electric's own HMI Graphics Accelerator. Phenomenal in clarity and display refresh, terminals provide an extensive range of advanced capabilities, including advance alarm management, flexible recipe management, data logging, multi-language support (Unicode 2.0), Microsoft Windows Fonts and a wide range of drivers support connection to most common automation vendors.
Machinery is becoming more sophisticated than some operators can understand and grasp. Guiding and instructing both skilled and unskilled technicians is difficult. Alarm conditions and the recovery process have moved well beyond the simplified icon on the screen. Today's engineers want access to help videos, multimedia tools and interactive instructions that can easily guide just about anyone to a resolution. Mitsubishi Electric Automation has taken its HMI manufacturing expertise and developed the GT16 HMI to satisfy all these requirements and more.
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