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The Truth About Rand Paul
Yesterday I published an article at the Daily Paul to remove any doubt that Rand Paul is in his U.S. Senate race for all the right reasons.
I've read both here at this blog and elsewhere, the comments of a few skeptics who worry that Rand is an opportunist. I can tell you with certainty and conviction (from first-hand experience) that this is untrue.
Read the article and find out why.
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Nevertheless, Wes, it still appears that Rand doesn't have Gitmo figured out yet. Sincerity aside, as far as I can tell he's dead wrong on some very critical points regarding the war on terror if this position from his website is accurate (and I have no reason to believe it isn't):ReplyDelete
It seems like he needs to re-read The Revolution Manifesto and watch some vids of his dad:
Did you catch my article at Daily Paul with his spokesman's remarks?ReplyDelete
So we disagree with him on one issue. The same issue that every other Republican and Democrat in the US Senate disagrees with us on -- only they disagree with us worse.ReplyDelete
We have a chance to elect a true Constitutionalist who'll stand up and filibuster bad legislation and try to prevent their passage. Even if he only fillibusters and stonewalls 95% of the bad legislation instead of 100% because of his misguided views on GitMo, that still makes him a net good.
And not just on the margin. it makes him a net benefit to the protection of liberty by Miles.
Let's not throw away the one shot we have of electing the only viable candidate we have for the US Senate because of a disagreement on a single issue.
I invite you to read this
Divide and conquer: It's What The Establishment Wants
No, I'm not saying throw away the "one shot we have..." but rather persuade him to be less neo-con. Honestly, we have a better chance with him than any other Republican on the ballot, period, because of the serious clout we can garner because of his dad. He should know better, and we should tell him so. Heck, his DAD should tell him so. Don't get me wrong, I like Rand Paul, and Wes's clarification (which I have read) has definitely made things *better*, but I'm not going to just say "well that makes Rand a consistent libertarian now..."ReplyDelete
Let him make known he is unabashedly, unapologetically *just as libertarian as his father through consistently libertarian viewpoints* and he will do well. He needs to do as well or better than Wes in clarifying his own views. He owes it to the libertarians who, for the sake of his father, have supported him since day 1.


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Information Ventures, Inc.
B-407478.4: Jul 17, 2013
Additional Materials:
- Full Report:
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Information Ventures, Inc., of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, protests the award of a contract to AlphaTRAC Inc., of Westminster, Colorado, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. NIHLM2012396, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Institutes for Health, National Library of Medicine, for services supporting the agency's chemical hazards emergency medical management (CHEMM) website. The protester challenges the evaluation of its quotation.
We deny the protest.
Matter of: Information Ventures, Inc.
File: B-407478.4
Date: July 17, 2013
Bruce H. Kleinstein, Esq., for the protester.
Jason A. Blindauer, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency.
Gary R. Allen, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
1. Protest challenging an agencys evaluation of quotations is denied where the source selection official did not rely upon point scores but considered the quotations underlying technical merits in reaching a source selection decision. Protester mistakenly assumed that a quotation with no identified weaknesses for a particular factor automatically warranted a perfect point score for that factor.
2. Protester was not competitively prejudiced where the source selection official expressly acknowledged the superiority of protesters proposal for the past performance factor, even though the agency committed an error by misplacing a highly favorable questionnaire that might have resulted in a higher point score for protester under that factor.
Information Ventures, Inc., of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, protests the award of a contract to AlphaTRAC Inc., of Westminster, Colorado, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. NIHLM2012396, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Institutes for Health, National Library of Medicine, for services supporting the agencys chemical hazards emergency medical management (CHEMM) website. The protester challenges the evaluation of its quotation.
We deny the protest.
The RFQ, issued as a combined synopsis/solicitation set aside for small businesses under the streamlined commercial acquisition procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 12.6, provided for award of a fixed-price labor-hour contract for services supporting the agencys CHEMM website for a base year and two option years. RFQ at 2. The CHEMM website is intended to provide a comprehensive, user-friendly, web-based resource that allows first responders, first receivers, and other health care providers and planners to plan for, recover from, and mitigate the effects of mass-casualty incidents involving exposure to chemicals. RFQ, Statement of Work, at 9. Among other things, the successful vendor would create new content for the CHEMM website; enhance, update and revise existing content; and support content-building activities such as facilitating peer consultations and review meetings. Id. at 9-10.
Vendors were informed that award would be made on a best-value basis, considering price and the following evaluation factors, listed with each factors maximum available point score, under a 100-point scale: understanding of the requirements and technical approach (40 points), personnel (35 points), past performance (15 points), and proposed facilities and equipment (10 points). Id. at 4-5. As relevant here, under the first factor, quotations were to demonstrate in a detailed manner the vendors approach and ability to perform all tasks and deliverables in the statement of work. Under the personnel factor, vendors were to demonstrate that the proposed staff was competent and experienced in the skills required in the statement of work, and provide resumes reflecting academic qualifications as well as demonstrating relevant training, experience, and expertise. For the past performance factor, vendors were to show prior experience with similar activities, demonstrating a commitment to customer satisfaction and timely, quality delivery; and for the facilities and equipment factor, quotations were to include detailed information describing the facilities and resources with which the vendor would perform the work. RFQ at 5.
The RFQ provided that the technical factors were the paramount consideration for award, although price was also important. Id. at 4. With regard to price, the RFQ stated that all quotations might be subjected to a price analysis, as determined appropriate. Id. at 5. The RFQ established a 10-page limit for quotations, and specified certain pages that would not be counted against the limit, such as the cover letter, table of contents, resumes and past performance information. Id.
HHS received quotations from four firms, including Information Ventures and AlphaTRAC. Award was initially made to another firm, and Information Ventures protested to our Office. Prior to submitting its agency report, HHS indicated that the agency would take corrective action by re-evaluating quotations and making a new selection decision. We dismissed the protest as academic. Information Ventures, Inc., B-407478, Oct. 25, 2012. HHS re-evaluated the quotations and again selected the other firm for award. Information Ventures again protested to our Office, and the agency again proposed the corrective action of re-evaluating quotations and making another source selection decision. We dismissed the protest as academic. Information Ventures, Inc., B-407478.2, Jan. 10, 2013. This protest concerns the results of the second re-evaluation.
During this re-evaluation, the agency found, as a preliminary matter, that all four quotations exceeded the page limit, and excluded from its evaluation of each quotation any information that appeared outside the defined 10-page limit. Only AlphaTRACs and Information Ventures quotations were found to contain enough information within the page limit to demonstrate that they were technically acceptable. Agency Report (AR), Tab 14, Technical Re-Evaluation Report, at 8, 17. Information Ventures and AlphaTRACs quotations were assigned the following scores:
Information Ventures
Technical Approach
Past Performance
Facilities & Equipment
Id. at 3-6; 12-15. AlphaTRAC submitted the lowest total price of $112,447, while the protesters price was $122,116. AR, Tab 15, Source Selection Decision (SSD), at 4.
The TEBs evaluation report included narrative comments to explain the basis for its point scores. For example, with respect to the technical approach factor, the TEB stated that Information Ventures quotation showed an adequate, but not strong, understanding of the information to be compiled and delivered, and that it showed limited hazard expertise and limited understanding of chemical emergency medical management. The TEB acknowledged that the protesters quotation showed an extensive organizational understanding of biology and the biomedical sciences, but conveyed a limited understanding of website information to be compiled in the areas of chemical emergency medical management and hazard response. AR, Tab 14, Technical Re-Evaluation Report, at 12-13.
Similarly, under the personnel factor, the evaluators found Information Ventures proposed staff sufficiently competent, with strong academic backgrounds, but found their experience with chemical emergency medical management to be more limited. Id. at 14.
The contracting officer (CO) compared the advantages and disadvantages offered by Information Ventures and AlphaTRACs quotations under each evaluation factor, and prepared a detailed source selection decision. The CO found that the two quotations were virtually equally advantageous to the Government for other-than-price factors. AR, Tab 15, SSD, at 4.
Underlying this conclusion that the quotations were essentially equal, the CO recognized several areas where each of these quotations offered more benefits than the other. For example, the CO noted that Information Ventures technical approach was slightly superior to AlphaTRACs, while AlphaTRACs personnel were better suited to performing the work here. Id. In addition, the CO noted that both quotations were virtually equal with respect to facilities and equipment, while Information Ventures quotation was superior under past performance because of Information Ventures experience with [the National Library of Medicine] and other parts of NIH. Id. In balancing these differences, the CO noted that since the quotations were so close to equal under the other-than-price factors, there was no significant justification to pay Information Ventures higher price. Id.
Of relevance here is the final paragraph of the tradeoff decision:
Given that the proposals of [Information Ventures] and AlphaTRAC are virtually equal for other-than-price factors, there is not sufficient justification to pay [Information Ventures] price premium of an additional 8.6%. If [Information Ventures] was significantly superior for all other-than-price factors, it would warrant paying the price premium. However, that is not the case. In view of the foregoing, given that the proposals of [Information Ventures] and AlphaTRAC are virtually equal for other-than-price factors, and given that AlphaTRACs price is lower than that of [Information Ventures] by $9,669, AlphaTRACs proposal furnishes the best value to the Government.
Id. at 4-5. This protest followed.
The protester challenges the agencys evaluation of its quotation and selection decision, arguing that its quotation should have received higher ratings and been selected for award. We have considered all of the protesters arguments, although we only discuss the primary ones, and find that none provide a basis to sustain the protest.[1]
Understanding the Requirements and Technical Approach
The protester contends that the agency improperly deducted nine points under the most important evaluation factor, understanding the requirements and technical approach, because the evaluators believed that the protesters quotation demonstrated a limited understanding and experience with chemical emergency medical management.[2] Protest at 9. The protester argues that the RFQ did not require vendors to show this type of experience. Id.
In considering protests challenging an agencys evaluation of quotations, we will not re-evaluate quotations; rather, we will examine the record to determine whether the agencys evaluation conclusions were reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation and applicable procurement laws and regulations. Gonzales-Stoller Remediation Servs., LLC, B-406183.2, et al., Mar. 2, 2012, 2012 CPD ¶ 134 at 5. A protesters disagreement with a procuring agencys judgment is insufficient to establish that the agency acted unreasonably. Sig Sauer, Inc., B-402339.3, July 23, 2010, 2010 CPD ¶ 184 at 6. Moreover, agencies may properly evaluate a proposal or quotation based on considerations not expressly stated in the solicitation where those considerations are reasonably and logically encompassed within the stated evaluation factor and where there is a clear nexus between the stated and unstated criteria. Exelis Sys. Corp., B-407111 et al., Nov. 13, 2012, 2012 CPD ¶ 340 at 18.
As a threshold matter, we find Information Ventures challenge to each of the evaluation scores it received is based upon a faulty assumption--that its quotation was downgraded based on assessed weaknesses, and that, absent those deductions, its quotation would have been entitled to a perfect score. The RFQ, however, provided an evaluation scheme under which quotations would be given higher scores for demonstrating such things as, for example, an understanding of the requirements, clear awareness of the contract purpose and objectives, or providing a detailed explanation of how resources would be allocated. RFQ at 5.
The re-evaluation report quotes a significant portion of the protesters quotation, acknowledging that the quotation shows extensive organizational understanding of biology and biomedical sciences, generally, but noting that it conveys limited understanding of chemical emergency management and hazard response. AR, Tab 14, Technical Re-Evaluation Report, at 13. The agency asserts that, while the RFQ does not expressly call for chemical emergency medical management experience, the very purpose of the procurement clearly encompasses this. The requirement, as explained above, is for the contractor to create, enhance and provide support for content-building activities for the CHEMM website, which is designed to enable first responders, first receivers, other health care providers and planners to plan for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of mass casualty incidents involving chemicals. Memorandum of Law at 4. Since the websites purpose is primarily to provide instructions and guidance for response personnel reacting to mass casualty incidents, the agency asserts that it was entirely reasonable to evaluate CHEMM experience--that is, experience specific to chemical hazards emergency medical management--as the kind most closely related to the performance of the work required here. Id.
We agree; we regard the agencys assignment of higher scores to quotations showing more familiarity with hazard response and greater understanding of chemical emergency management as consistent with the terms of the RFQ, since the RFQs requirements encompass providing guidance for response personnel reacting to mass-casualty incidents.
Information Ventures complains that its quotation was misevaluated under the personnel factor in a similar way. As stated above, although the agency recognized that the protesters proposed staff showed experience in diverse subject matter areas and offered strong academic backgrounds in biology, chemistry, environmental health, and software tools development, it found that they did not demonstrate experience with chemical emergency medical management, particularly management of situations involving potential mass casualty chemicals, and emergency response and protective action planning. AR, Tab 14, Technical Re-Evaluation Report, at 14. Information Ventures argues that the RFQ did not explicitly request that proposed staff demonstrate this experience, and that its quotation therefore should not have been downgraded on that basis. Protest at 9.
We do not find the agencys evaluation of this factor to be unreasonable or inconsistent with the terms of the RFQ. Given the purpose of the procurement, and the RFQs emphasis on personnel with resumes that not only reflect academic qualifications, but also clearly demonstrate relevant training, experience, and expertise, we think experience in actual chemical emergency medical management is encompassed within the RFQs requirements and is relevant.[3]
The protesters claims concerning both of these evaluation factors amount to no more than disagreement with the agencys judgment. General Dynamics Info. Tech., Inc., B-407057, Oct. 12, 2012, 2012 CPD ¶ 293 at 4. Such disagreement does not establish that the agency acted unreasonably. Sig Sauer, Inc., supra.
Past Performance
The protester also complains that its quotation should have received a higher rating under the past performance factor. In the evaluation report, Information Ventures past performance was given 12 out of 15 possible points, and the narrative evaluation commented very favorably about several specific aspects of the protesters performance record. However, the evaluation report also mentions that the protesters cost control or forecasting was rated as only acceptable, rather than strong or excellent, in one of its past performance questionnaires.[4] AR, Tab 14, Technical Re-Evaluation Report, at 15-16. The protester argues that its past performance was unreasonably downgraded on this basis. Protest at 11.
As an initial matter, and as stated above, there is no evidence in this record that the protester was downgraded in this evaluation for an acceptable rating under one of nine parameters addressed on a single past performance questionnaire. There is, however, evidence of an error in the agencys evaluation. Nonetheless, after reviewing the nature and magnitude of the error--as well as where it occurred in the evaluationwe conclude that Information Ventures was not prejudiced by the agencys actions. Our rationale is set forth below.
During the course of this protest, the agency acknowledged that it misplaced one of the protesters past performance questionnaires and therefore did not consider it in its evaluation. Memorandum of Law at 10. The misplaced questionnaire gave the protester the highest rating for forecasting and controlling costs which, as set forth above, was the same area Information Ventures received an acceptable rating on one of the questionnaires the agency did consider. Id. The agency argues, however, that Information Ventures was not prejudiced by the agencys failure to consider this reference.
Our review of the record shows that the COs selection decision properly did not rely upon the point scores assigned during this evaluation, but instead considered the underlying technical merits in the firms respective quotations.[5] As set forth above, the CO noted that Information Ventures quotation was slightly superior to AlphaTRACs quotation under the most important evaluation factor, technical approach, and was superior to AlphaTRACs quotation under the third most important factor, past performance, given its specific experience at the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health. Id. The CO found, on the other hand, that AlphaTRACs quotation was superior under the personnel factor, where AlphaTRAC proposed personnel with more directly relevant work experience that were better suited to performing the CHEMM website work. Id.
Even assuming that the agencys error of misplacing a highly favorable questionnaire might have resulted in an even higher point score for the protester under the past performance factor, we note that the selection official expressly acknowledged the superiority of the protesters quotation under that factor. In addition, in the contemporaneously-prepared selection document, the CO also noted that if Information Ventures had been significantly superior for all the other-than-price factors, it would warrant paying the price premium. AR, Tab 15, SSD, at 4.
Thus, the correction of this error--at best--would increase the superiority of the protesters quotation in an area where it was already deemed superior. In addition, any increased superiority in past performance would not change the results in any of the other non-price factors. On balance, we will not conclude Information Ventures was prejudiced here.
Competitive prejudice is an essential element of a viable protest; where the protester fails to demonstrate that, but for the agencys actions, it would have had a substantial chance of receiving the award, there is no basis for finding prejudice, and our Office will not sustain the protest, even if deficiencies in the agencys evaluation of quotations are found. See, e.g., Special Servs., B-402613.2, B-402613.3, July 21, 2010, 2010 CPD ¶ 169 at 4.
Challenge to the Evaluation of AlphaTRAC
Finally, the protester contends that the evaluations of AlphaTRACs technical and cost/price quotations were unreasonable. Protest at 11; Comments at 17, 20. Information Ventures does not support this assertion with specific facts, other than to claim, for example, that it believes there was no reasonable or objective basis to support the high ratings AlphaTRACs quotation was given, and that the awardees proposed level of effort was not commensurate with the government estimate. The crux of Information Ventures argument is that a review by our Office would furnish facts to support Information Ventures belief that the evaluation was improper. Protest at 12-13; Comments at 20.
Our Office does not conduct investigations as part of our bid protest function. Our Bid Protest Regulations require that a protest include a detailed statement of the legal and factual grounds for the protest, and that the grounds stated be legally sufficient. 4 C.F.R. § 21.1(c)(4), (f) (2013). These requirements contemplate that protesters will provide, at a minimum, either allegations or evidence sufficient, if uncontradicted, to establish the likelihood that the protester will prevail in its claim of improper agency action. Pacific Photocopy and Research Servs., B-278698, B-278698.3, Mar. 4, 1998, 98-1 CPD ¶ 69 at 4. We dismiss the protesters challenge to the agencys evaluation of the non-price factors of AlphaTRACs quotation.
Information Ventures also argues that the agency failed to conduct a proper price reasonableness analysis with respect to AlphaTRACs price. Comments at 21. This argument reflects a lack of understanding as to the distinction between price reasonableness and realism. The purpose of a price reasonableness review is to determine whether the prices offered are too high, as opposed to too low. Sterling Servs., Inc., B-291625, B-291626, Jan. 14, 2003, 2003 CPD ¶ 26 at 3; WorldTravelService, B-284155.3, Mar. 26, 2001, 2001 CPD ¶ 68 at 4 n.2. Since AlphaTRACs price was lower than the protesters, a challenge on the basis of price reasonableness has no merit.
Arguments that an agency did not perform an appropriate analysis to determine whether prices are too low, such that there may be a risk of poor performance, concern price realism, not price reasonableness. C.L. Price & Assocs., Inc., B-403476.2, Jan. 7, 2011, 2011 CPD ¶ 16 at 3; SDV Solutions, Inc., B-402309, Feb. 1, 2010, 2010 CPD ¶ 48 at 4. To the extent Information Venturess protest was meant to challenge the agencys failure to recognize the awardees price as too low, it also has no merit, since the RFQ did not provide for a price realism analysis. In this regard, the solicitation contemplated the award of a fixed-price (labor hour) contract and did not request the submission of cost or pricing data. RFQ at 2. As such, the performance of a price realism analysis here would have been inconsistent with the terms of the solicitation and thus improper.
The protest is denied.
Susan A. Poling
General Counsel
[1] For example, we do not fully address the protesters arguments concerning the facilities and equipment factor. The essence of these arguments is that it was unreasonable for the agency to give Information Ventures quotation a less than perfect point score based on its providing only general information, without mention of such details as software type/versions, capacity for data transfer, or redundant systems; and that it was unreasonable to expect more details, given the page limits for quotations. Comments at 19. Given that the RFQ stated quotations would be evaluated under this factor for provid[ing] detailed information describing the facilities and resources the organization has to carry out the tasks of the project, RFQ at 5, we find no basis to conclude the evaluation was inconsistent with the RFQ or that the evaluation was unreasonable.
[2] Information Ventures also contends that the agency did not consider certain information in an appendix to its quotation because it exceeded the RFQs stated page limitation. Protest at 9. Our review of the record, however, indicates that the protester is mistaken. The evaluation specifically references information presented in this appendix, recognizing it as a positive aspect to the protesters quotation. AR, Tab 14, Technical Re-Evaluation Report, at 12. We find that the agency reasonably considered this information, and that the protesters contention lacks any basis.
[3] The protester also contends that the agency unreasonably and doubly penalized it by deducting points for lack of experience under both criteria. Protest at 12. We find no merit in this argument.
[4] The past performance questionnaire that was used to assess a vendors past performance included nine questions, one of which was, How effective was the contractor in forecasting and controlling costs[?] AR, Tab 17, Past Performance Questionnaires, at 1.
[5] Point scores and adjectival ratings are merely guides for intelligent decisionmaking. See One Largo Metro LLC; Metroview Dev. Holdings, LLC; King Farm Assocs., LLC, B-404896 et al., June 20, 2011, 2011 CPD ¶ 128 at 14. Selection officials should reasonably consider the underlying bases for ratings, including the advantages and disadvantages associated with the specific content of competing proposals and quotations, in a manner that is fair and equitable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. See MD Helicopters, Inc.; AgustaWestland, Inc., B-298502 et al., Oct. 23, 2006, 2006 CPD ¶ 164 at 15.
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Gold Standard
LAS VEGAS, November 9, 2010--After five days, I took off my Zenyatta ball cap and put it in my suitcase. But the Zenyatta fanatics, all 200 million of you, needn't fret. The cap will go back on soon. I just thought it might be disrespectful, or even bad luck, to be writing about Goldikova in a Zenyatta cap.
On this side of the Atlantic, Zenyatta earned more wordage in defeat than Goldikova did in victory, and I think it's time to right the scale. Goldikova did what Zenyatta or no other horse has been able to do, win three Breeders' Cup races, when she flashed by Sidney's Candy in the Mile at Churchill Downs. At the top of the stretch, much like the feeling you got in many of Zenyatta's races, you sensed that this wasn't going to be Goldikova's day, but what mere mortals we all are, to doubt the incomparable Goldikova. Sidney's Candy didn't appear catchable, and Gio Ponti, the best grass horse in the U.S., was also putting in a late run. Goldikova disposed of them like so many flies on her backside, with a swish or two of her tail.
Christophe Clement, the trainer of Gio Ponti, who finished second, went into the last two Breeders' Cups with a Morton's Fork. He could either run on dirt, against Zenyatta in the Classic, or downsize to the Mile, where Goldikova loomed. In other words, choose your poison. Gio Ponti's resume now reads, second to Zenyatta in 2009 and second to Goldikova in 2010. If horses, like people, are known by the company they keep, Gio Ponti belongs on page one of the Social Register. "I just wish Goldikova wasn't in the race," Clement said after the Churchill Mile. "That (mare) is a freak. She's the best miler we've seen for a long, long time."
Soon to turn six, and soon to be bred to some lucky stallion, Goldikova has been around four seasons. There were murmurs in France that her 5-year-old campaign wasn't as starchy as some of the others, but I look at her record and say to myself, what do those Frenchmen expect? For her to put on a smock and show up with an easel? She went to the gate six times and won five, and the only loss, a second-place finish in August, came over a Deauville course that was really a bog.
More than Blame, Goldikova has Horse of the Year credentials, and I'm talking North American Horse of the Year, but that will never happen, of course, because too many of our Eclipse Awards voters are persnickety about giving the title to a horse who's only run once on our shores in any given year. Goldikova will get a few scattered votes, but the ballot box will largely be filled by Zenyatta and Blame supporters.
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Try as I might from early this morning until about 4 pm I was unable to gain access to any Michigan census records that I was hoping to find. I had planned to search first for my mother in this census as she was 14 at the time the census was taken. I have her on the 1930 census as a 4 year old child and that showed her family living in the "country" on the family farm on Cleveland Avenue in St. Joseph, Michigan which is where my mother was born. Between 1925 and 1939 when my mother began high school, however, the family had moved 5 times into various rental homes in the city proper of St. Joseph and she could not recall exactly WHICH home they lived at in 1940. They also traditionally had an open door policy for relatives that were in need of a home from time to time and I was interested in seeing if her grandfather was listed as living with the family in 1940. Despite my best efforts today, nothing was working on NARA.
Other sites were offering the 1940 census but the pickings were limited to a few states that did not involve my ancestors. But when I saw on Ancestry that they did have the 1940 Indiana census records I had a thought. My mother's aunt and family had lived in South Bend, IN so I decided to go in search of their record.
First to the 1930 census I went in search of the family of Joseph and Rose (Kijak) Baker. I found them easily (indexed naturally) along with their young daughter Rose M. An interesting find was the neighbors on each side of them who were Rose's half sister and family on one side - Joseph and Mary Emma (Banner) Linehan and Rose's half brother and family on the other side - Frank and Bernice Banner along with two more half brother's Anthony and James Banner. Here are these three families in the 1930 Indiana US Census:
The source for this image from Ancestry.com is as follows:
Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls.
From this census I was able to ascertain the Enumeration District which was 71-3 in Clay Township, South Bend, Indiana and that took me back to Ancestry to look for these families in the 1940 Census. Of course with no index yet this would be a bit more challenging. The census for ED 71-3 consisted of 62 pages and I began scrolling and scrolling. I will say that the quality of the film was excellent and I continued to scroll, scroll, and scroll. My mother was standing over my shoulder watching me as she was caught up in the excitement of this event. As the scrolling continued I began to despair thinking that these 3 families probably moved in the previous 10 years. Finally my mother gave up at about page 50 and went back to her TV watching.
Not one to quit I continued. Perhaps I should have started at the end and went backwards OR remember the phrase "and the last shall be first" because it was on page 62, the very last page of this ED, that I found Joseph and Rose (Kijak) Baker along with daughter Rose M as can be seen here:
The source for this image from Ancestry.com is as follows:
Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls.
This was an interesting census for me in that it showed Rose having had 7 years of education and I will be curious to see if her older brother, my grandfather, Joseph Kijak, had a similar amount of education. As an added bonus, the supplementary census questions that were selected for some to answer were asked of my great aunt Rose and these correctly showed that her parents were both born in Poland, that Polish was the language spoken in her home when she was growing up and that she had given birth to ZERO children - the above daughter, Rose M, was adopted as my mother had always told me.
I did not find in this ED the other two families of Rose's half siblings but I am sure they are somewhere else in the South Bend area as they remained there their entire lives. In any event I am pleased and can say that this family is the FIRST for me for the 1940 US census.
Copyright (c) 2012, Cheryl J. Schulte


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Godmack Singer Sully Erna Tweets Photos of Surgically Repaired Knee
Godsmack singer Sully Erna has found a way to pass the time while rehabbing his knee, on which he recently had surgery. He has been busy Tweeting photos of his recovering joint and of his physical therapists. Erna had been quiet on Twitter for the past few months, but he's back in action, killing time while healing.
He shared a photo of his bruised, battered and Band-Aid covered knee, posting: "Finally found some time to repair my knee that has been injured for some time now. It's not pretty, But I'll be back!"
It's definitely not pretty, but at least it's healing so he can get back out on the road again.
He also tweeted a photo of his knee wrapped in a contraption, writing: "Ok. This one feels wierd(sic).... Ice water circulating and squeezing my leg, while electricity makes my muscles jump." We see Sully has great taste in athletic trainers, too!
He mused about water and an electric current being used in concert, writing: "Isn't water and electricity normally a bad idea?? : (" Yes, it usually is, but he's in good medical hands.
Erna then joked: "And people say we don't do enough for our fans. I've given you my leg damn it!! But I want it back now."
This type of therapy is foreign turf for Erna, who up until now, was somewhat of a surgery virgin! He revealed: "Up until now, never had a stitch, never broke a bone. Plus I had the team specialist for Boston Celtics Dr. Brian McKeon do the surgery."
Despite dealing with strengthening and conditioning his knee, he is positive he will be same old Sully soon enough, thanks to his team of specialists. He posted: "He's the best! Now I'm in sports rehab. And this is the guy that's gonna make me strong like bull again! Haha I'm Avatar baby! Watch me go.
As previously reported, Godsmack are gearing up for a tour with Staind, although no official announcement has been made as of yet.
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Be careful: You may not have the overload protection you think you have. Two new requirements for overload and stall time that were added to the NEMA MG-1 Standard may be in conflict with actual performance requirements for overload relays as specified in the NEMA ICS 2 Standard.
What it's about
In 1993, NEMA published the current edition of its MG1 standard governing the operating limits of motors. It is the established standard governing the design, performance, rating, and testing of motors used in North America.
Covering motor designs A, B, C, D, and newly added Design E for extremely energy-efficient motors, the new requirements in the Test and Performance Section II, Part 12 of MG 1 specify the minimum withstand level of motors during overload conditions, and when restarting them. In both cases, the motors are at rated operating temperatures. Prior to the revision, MG 1 only specified the major operating conditions such as starting current, starting torque, power factor, and minimum efficiency. It also specified the mounting dimensions, expressed in frame sizes, facilitating motor replacements. The revisions now address the behavior of a motor at overload conditions when excess current is drawn.
Excess current
Regarding motor overload, the following paragraph was added to MG1:
Polyphase motors having outputs not exceeding 500 hp and rated voltages not exceeding 1kV shall be capable of withstanding a current equal to 1.5 times the full rated current for not less than 2 min when the motor is initially at normal operating temperature.
This would indicate that if a motor is running at full load and rated operating temperature, an overload condition of 150% could cause deterioration of the electrical insulation after 2 min. Therefore, the motor overload protective device should be of a design to trip and disconnect the motor from its power source within 2 min.
The graph below shows typical overload tripping curves for NEMA Class 10 and Class 20 overload relays. NEMA-rated overload relays are classified by how quickly they must trip at 600% of rated tripping current. Since the ultimate tripping current is generally 125% of motor full-load current per NEC Sec. 43032(a)(1), this means that a Class 20 overload relay must trip within 20 sec at 750% of full-load current, from a cold start (overload relay at ambient temperature). Similarly, a NEMA Class 10 overload relay must trip in 10 sec, and Curves 1 and 2 show this will happen.
Curves 3 and 4 represent the tripping characteristics while the motor is overloaded at operating temperature. At this point, the tripping time is approximately 25 % compared to that of a cold overload relay. Curve 3 shows that a NEMA Class 20 overload relay, even at warm condition, may not trip within 2 min of a 150% overload.
Note that none of the curves shows a tripping time under 2 min from a cold start. This is permitted because a sustained overload on a motor that is starting cold inherently can be tolerated by the motor for a longer period than after the motor windings are already at operating temperature. In contrast, Curve 4 shows an IEC Class 10A overload relay.
Testing of overload relays is based on tripping times from cold (room ambient) conditions - so are the time/current curves issued by control manufacturers. Preliminary tests conducted by the writer show that commonly available Class 20 overload relays of the bimetallic and solder pot types do not meet the criteria in the relevant paragraph (12.48) of MG 1. Thus, it's questionable whether Class 20 overload relays do in fact protect NEMA motors. Word has it that NEMA has opened a project to review this requirement.
IEC relay vs NEMA relay performance
The need to provide this protection has [TABULAR DATA OMITTED] been recognized in the IEC Standard 947, Part 4 for contactors and motor starters. Paragraph 188.8.131.52.1a of that standard specifies that an overload of the Class 10A must meet this requirement. Neither NEMA nor UL 508 have addressed this situation.
Note that a Class 10A IEC overload is different from a Class 10 IEC overload relay, which can trip in 4 min at 150% of motor current. This, in turn, is less than IEC Class 20 or Class 30 overloads, which can trip at 8 min or 12 min, respectively.
An additional point of confusion is that NEMA and IEC overload class characteristics are inconsistent. The graph (on page 54) shows a NEMA 20 overload tripping very close to the IEC 10A overload, but NEMA overloads are not routinely tested at the 150% current loading. In point of fact, a standard NEMA 20 overload might trip like an IEC Class 20; that is, 8 min, or four times as long as the motor standard would want, or somewhere in between.
The somewhat-equivalent long-time current test in UL 508 requires a trip within 8 min while carrying 200% of the rated trip current (which would normally be 250% of the motor full-load current as noted previously). A line from the 20 sec/750% mark and extended through this point (8 min/250 %) would cross the 150 % line only after an extended amount of time, as shown.
There is another variable as well. The UL tests must occur with two poles current carrying. In other words, the UL tests are based on protecting against a single-phase condition, and don't directly correlate with IEC tests, which use all three poles.
Class 10A is in accordance with IEC 34-1, 18.2, a designation for overload relays, stating that "when energized at 'C' times the current setting, tripping shall occur in less than 2 min starting from thermal equilibrium at the current setting. 'C' is a multiple of current on IEC Table III (see table on page 56).
Stall time
Paragraph 12.49 in MG 1 for NEMA design motors covers "Stall Time" as follows:
Polyphase motors having outputs not exceeding 500 hp and rated to not exceed 1 kV shall be capable of withstanding locked-rotor currents for not less than 12 seconds when the motor is initially at normal operating temperature.
As stated, this requirement appears to be an appropriate protection since overload relays would trip well within that time when they are at operating temperature. However, motors - particularly larger ones - have a much longer thermal time constant than overload relays, which can be reset within minutes after tripping. If motor restart is attempted immediately after the overload relay is reset, the motor is still near operating temperature, and the Class 20 and Class 30 overload relay would permit stall time or acceleration time that can be as high as 20 or 30 sec respectively.
This is clearly not the intent of the new requirement and needs to be evaluated. Until that happens, users may want to consider NEMA Class 10-rated overload relays, as they may provide adequate protection. And once again, the overload relays of the IEC standard Class 10A do meet the requirements at all conditions of the motor standard, during cold start and at operating temperature.
With the addition of these two requirements into MG 1, the respective standards specifying the characteristics and performance of motor protection devices need to be reviewed and revised where appropriate. The performance requirements for overload relays are covered in NEMA ICS 2, Standard for Industrial Control and Systems, Part 4, and in UL 508, Industrial Control Equipment. NEMA is presently in the midst of rewriting its standard for overload relays. A standard for tripping at 2 min, in accordance with current industry motor specifications, should be adopted.
Robert Schindler is Manager, Products Application, Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc., Canton, Ga.


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A couple of posts ago I asked whether leading researchers in fields besides physics actively debate on blogs. Well the answer is a resounding "YES," and one example I recently came across is an active debate between world-class economists on causes of the Great Depression. Even recent Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman gets involved! What I find so surprising about this is they were debating the core concepts of one of the most important events in 20th century economics based on what seemed to be philosophical grounds: whether they were "Keynesians" or "Monetarists." This also somewhat corresponds to the political parties of Democrats and Republicans respectively.
The basic debate is whether it is better for wealth to be controlled by public (Keynesians) or private (Monetarists) entities. On these blogs the disagreement is whether Keynesian policies caused the depression or brought the country out of it. The fact that there is still no consensus by experts on the causes of the Great Depression is especially troubling at the present time since we appear to be entering a serious recession.
I believe the main problem is that it is difficult to experimentally test macro-economic theories, so economists are left to follow their philosophies. We can only hope that in the future there will be ways to actually test theories, because otherwise is it really a science?
UPDATE: In one week, Greg Mankiw defends Keynsian policies during this recession, and he takes Krugman to task for using philophy instead of a metric! He appears to be the good exception to the rule, by not letting his polical views interfere with his analysis.
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Inkjet has managed to thaw even this old squeegee-holic's heart.
My editor told me this issue's theme was going to be inkjet, but quickly added I could write about another topic. Somehow, he got the idea I was not enamored with inkjet printing. I wonder why? (Editor's note: Because I've read your columns before.)
Here's the thing: I'm old enough to have come up through shops where they cut stencils by hand. I've operated large litho cameras and midsize stat cameras to size art and make film positives. I used hot wax, and not to remove body hair. I've printed short-run 4 x 8-ft process-color jobs and made enough one-off display and exhibition prints to equip a medium-sized museum—all on screen presses.
So I appreciate the inkjet printer and all it does for today's screen shops. Thinking back on all those old-school "silk-screening" applications, I honestly have to say that in the 19 years since I first saw wide-format digital printers (an SGIA show in St. Louis, if my dim lacquer-soaked brain is still functioning), I seem to have developed, if not a flat-out heart-pounding love for these ink-spitting monsters, at least a friends-with-benefits relationship. I still get a thrill from the squeegee and the screen, but the fact of the matter is that inkjet is pretty good looking. Weirder still—and this may explain the growing attraction—the older inkjet gets, the better it looks and the cheaper it gets (at least on the initial date).
One thing I have noticed: Inkjet printers don't care who you used to go out with (screen printers, offset printers, quick printers, photographers, sign shops, etc.). They'll share your affections and your jobs. They're always eager to please and don't mind taking over chores that you used to do with your old production equipment (which, let's be frank, wasn't showing you much love anyway). Like an old flame from high school, things changed and you moved on.
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ABC News' Pierre Thomas caught an exclusive interview with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, and a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of her day.
The 52-year-old former Arizona attorney, attorney general and governor begins her day at 7:30 a.m. with a daily threat briefing, and after that, it's non-stop conference calls, meetings, ceremonies and more briefings, all in the name of preventing the next big disaster, or mitigating its damage.
On Al Qaeda
THOMAS: How do you describe their capabilities now and what are the trends regarding them that you are concerned about at the moment?
NAPOLITANO: Well, I think in some respects, we've been very successful at either confining or eliminating their leadership. But they still have leadership. And there are al Qaeda or al Qaeda-related groups in -- in several places.
And, unfortunately, one of the things we've seen over the last year is the phenomenon of U.S. citizens traveling to the [federally administered tribal areas], traveling to Yemen, to learn the tactics used by al Qaeda and then coming back. And I'm talking about the whole of government. This is not DHS per se, while the whole of government has made progress against al Qaeda, they remain and they remain an ever present threat.
One thing we know they are constantly focused on is the threat to aviation, which is why we've been working so hard to accelerate some of the security measures that we had put in motion, but we have now accelerated.
But there are other things, as well. Surface transportation. Subsurface, meaning subways, but also surface transportation, the movement of things across the border. That could be used by them. So they are ever present. And we just assume them to be now part of a -- an ever present or ever changing threat environment within the United States.
THOMAS: You know, I've covered the department since its beginning. And really since 9/11, we've had a number of sophisticated plots develop. But what struck me in the latter part of 2009 is between September and December you had two fairly sophisticated plots that were sort of in their final stages. You had the Zazi plot. We just had a guilty plea today.
NAPOLITANO: And Headley.
THOMAS: And Headley. I mean you had the Christmas Day plot, where al Qaeda had executed or tried to execute fairly sophisticated plans in their latter stages. That sort of struck me. Did it strike you, as well, that their capabilities were still that, I guess, robust and also that they were still trying that hard?
NAPOLITANO: Yes, both of those things. And, obviously, with Zazi and Headley, it goes right to what I was talking about, which are plots that are designed take place within the United States. They're very different than 9/11 style plots. I mean 9/11 involved a very elaborate conspiracy with lots of people in it and very sophisticated methodology to get to the point where you could fly a commercial airliner into the World Trade Center, where you could fly one into the Pentagon, where you could try to fly one into the Capitol. And we know what happened. It was Flight 93...
THOMAS: Right.
NAPOLITANO: -- into a field in Pennsylvania. Now, what we're seeing are more, you know, send out an individual here, an individual there, maybe not the most sophisticated tradecraft, but in an effort to disrupt to kill, to maim, to disrupt maybe people who want to go shopping or go travel on a bus or a subway or, indeed, still get on an airliner.
And I think the important part to remember there is we are doing everything possible to minimize the risk they will succeed. And it's not just us. It's the FBI. It's other agencies of the federal government.
I mean there is a number of other entities involved. But the part that we should never forget is how strong and resilient we are as a people, as a nation, and that we are not powerless and we are not terrorized by this. We know it's a threat environment. You know, you deal with that, you minimize the risk and you're prepared to come back.
THOMAS: One official I spoke to described al Qaeda as, at 9/11, they were going for these massive sort of scale plots, where you could kill hundreds, if not thousands, of people. But he said the feeling now in the intelligence community is that they want to get on the scoreboard. They want to do something, particularly in the U.S. homeland. Do you share that belief that they are much more willing to do a mid-scale to smaller scale attack just to get on the scoreboard?
NAPOLITANO: Well, I think recent events, as demonstrated by Zazi and Headley would illustrate that again, you know, more smaller scale, individual using perhaps less sophisticated tactics but still the tactics designed to kill innocent people, women -- men, women and children, to interrupt the way of life that we have in the United States.
And that's why it's so important to say, look, we will, throughout the federal government, with state and local law enforcement, you cannot underestimate their activities here, and their importance –to do everything possible that we can to minimize the risk that one of these things is successful.
We'll never lose sight of the fact that we are a strong and resilient country and we will still prevail. I mean our way of life will not be changed.
Abdulmutallab – the "Underwear Bomber"
THOMAS: And the darkest or scariest moment?
NAPOLITANO: We've had several of those, as well. And the more we learn about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on Christmas Day, that was a very serious moment.
We have used that as a catalyst to really accelerate the strengthening of airport security in the United States and aviation around the world. But as you know, you peel like an onion and you peel away the facts of what somebody was trying to do, that was a moment.
There have been moments where, you know, we thought we were on the cusp of a major natural disaster and that did not actually happen, but, you know, something we were all leaning forward on.
In this job, you're always leaning forward. You never can kind of sit back in this one.
THOMAS: Going back to Christmas, the one moment where you received a fair amount of criticism was about the comment that "the system works as it should". Any lessons learned from that or was that just a moment where, you know, words were flying and you didn't think it all the way through? Was there any moment learned from that particular incident?
NAPOLITANO: Well, it was a situation where there were three interviews and in two of them it was very clear I was talking about after the fact. The third one I wasn't clear. And a lesson learned was in this job, one must always be clear. And that's just the way it is.
But you also can't sit and cry about it. There was work to be done -- work to be done to identify what happened here.
How did this man get on a plane with PETN and the capacity to possibly detonate it?
What do we need to do to prevent a successful attack of that sort?
How do we now raise the level of global aviation security and security awareness as a result of his failed attempt?
So, yes, it was definitely a lesson learned, but it also was a catalyst for one of the major initiatives now of this department, which is to participate in and help, perhaps, lead an entire global initiative to increase aviation security.
THOMAS: And what's been the response so far?
NAPOLITANO: Very good. Very strong. You know, I remind people that there were passengers from 17 nations, in addition to the United States, on Flight 253. This was an attack against the world. And remember, the aviation system is a world system. It's a global system. It has been an engine for economic progress for the last 50 years. It's an opportunity for families to get together, tourism and all sorts of other activities.
So if the global aviation system can't work, that impacts lots of lives. The global aviation system works, we can make it stronger and more secure. We need to work in a global fashion to do that.
Homegrown Terrorism
THOMAS: This week, you started the week in Oklahoma City. The homegrown threat -- how real does that remain and how concerned are you about that?
NAPOLITANO: It remains real. It remains something that seems to cycle in and cycle out or pendulum in and pendulum back over time. But we saw the militia taken down in Michigan just recently. And I remember, as the former U.S. Attorney for Arizona and then the attorney general of Arizona, we had quite a bit of militia activity there in the early '90s.
And so going to Oklahoma City was a key reminder and, yes, we do have concerns now.
THOMAS: How about the situation where, just starting with the health care debate for a moment, the rhetoric that we saw in terms of people talking about this being a socialist country, that freedoms were being sucked away. You saw pictures of the president with the Hitler mustache, dressed as The Joker. We saw people showing up at health care rallies with guns on their side. In terms of similarities to pre-Oklahoma City and now, do you have some concerns? And you oversee the Secret Service, for example.
NAPOLITANO: Right.
THOMAS: That people should be careful about their rhetoric these days, because it can wash over to people who are unstable?
NAPOLITANO: Look, with live in a country that has had overheated rhetoric or a rhetoric of vociferous disagreement. It's part of our past, it's part of our history. It is protected First Amendment activity. So while I may not like it and I may not think it contributes to public knowledge about what the issues are, it is part and parcel of the tapestry that is the United States. And where I believe our department should be concerned is when rhetoric starts to spill over into actual planning of violence or violent acts.
We're about protecting the security of the country. We're obviously not the police for the country. There's 800,000 police officers out there in cities and towns and sheriffs' deputies in counties throughout the United States. So -- making sure that they're kept apprised of actual threats or tactics that we're seeing is where I think we are value-added.
Violence on the Southern Border
THOMAS: The southern border -- guns flowing there, lots of violence there. Is the U.S. doing enough to help Mexico deal with this problem?
NAPOLITANO: I think that this is a key issue for the United States and that we should do all we can to assist President Calderon in his effort to break up the cartels that inhabit Mexico. Those cartels have fingers that reach well into the United States, into hundreds of our communities, distributing drugs, and, of course, as your question says, they're fueled by bulk cash and arms coming south of the border.
So what we have done over the last year is really increased our efforts looking at southbound vehicles for cash, for guns and also inspecting southbound rail, which had never been done before. Those operations continue even as we work in an unprecedented way with the federal government of Mexico on joint law enforcement initiatives that cross the border.
THOMAS: Any need for the National Guard at this moment or is that something being considered? I think I saw Senator McCain asking for that as something that's needed for the state that you were the governor of.NAPOLITANO: Well, when I was the governor of Arizona, we did have the National Guard at the border. And that is something that is under consideration at the White House. But obviously, your first choice is to make sure that you have adequate civilian law enforcement right at the border and that you have interior law enforcement at the work site level, because, of course, the big draw is illegal immigration.
So we have now really record numbers of Border Patrol agents at the border. We have moved a lot of technology down to the border and provided monies to local sheriffs departments along the border.
A lot of those counties are fairly sparsely populated and so they don't have the tax base to support the overtime and equipment and other expenses that they incur because they are at the border. So we're trying to do everything we can and -- and have been able to -- to get some more money to them.
THOMAS: Going back to the violence on the other side, is there any real prospect that that could spill over to this side of the country?
NAPOLITANO: Oh, there's always a prospect, so we're watching it very carefully. And there are occasional horrendous crimes. There was a recent just horrendous murder of a rancher near Douglas, Arizona. We have been putting resources to participate in that investigation, including offering a reward. We're working that with the government of Mexico. We would love nothing more than to identify the shooter.
But is it a wave of spillover violence? We have not yet seen that. We never want to see that. And so that's why moving the kinds of resources we moved down to the border makes sense.
THOMAS: OK. Let's talk about the good and the bad for a second. I know that on the virtual fence, there have been some overruns and some delays. And I understand you're not particularly happy about that.
NAPOLITANO: I am unhappy. We'll complete the phase that's already underway.
THOMAS: Do you want it fixed?
NAPOLITANO: I either want it fixed or I want those technology dollars going elsewhere. And I think one of my responsibilities is to be a good steward for the taxpayers' dollars. And on this one, I do not believe that the promises made to us have been kept. So we're going to keep at it.
THOMAS: You were talking to me earlier about the perception of illegal immigration and the facts. Why don't you put it in -- put that in perspective. What are the facts? The perception is it's exploding, but what are the facts?
NAPOLITANO: Well, you know, first of all, I'd put it in context, you know, as someone who has worked on border and border-related issues directly as a U.S. attorney, attorney general, governor, now in this office. So going back to '93, I have walked that border. I've walked it. I've written it on horseback. I have flown it. I've driven it. I really know that area of the country quite well. And based on that experience -- and then you look at the actual numbers, the actual numbers show that illegal immigration is at its lowest ebb, really, in recent time. Seizures of narcotics have increased. Manpower at the border is at a record high level. Technology at the border is at a record high level. So those are the facts.
Is illegal immigration or illegal drug trafficking at a zero level? Unfortunately, no. You know, you have to ask a question, what more should we be doing? What more makes sense?
Well, let's get this SBI Net thing worked out. In the meantime, we're doing a lot by way of different kinds of technology, more mobile, less expensive, more usable by our actual agents on the ground. You know, those sorts of things -- those kinds of tactical things.
The real thing that needs to happen, I have to say, is for the Congress, in a bipartisan way now, to take up the subject of immigration. You know, the president has said that he will work with them. He has been speaking with and calling Republican senators and holding out, again, opening the door, saying this is something that we need to do. We need to improve this immigration system for the 21st century.
THOMAS: But given the hyper partisan nature of Washington right now, is it possible?
NAPOLITANO: You know, I always think anything is possible. And this affects everybody. This doesn't just affect Democrats or Republicans or Independents or whatever. This affects everybody. And I actually view it now as a security issue. We need to know who's in the country. And we need to know, for those who are in the country illegally, there needs to be a period under which they are given the opportunity to register so we get their biometrics, we get their criminal history and we know who they are. They pay a fine. They learn English. They get right with the law.
And so our law enforcement efforts, at that point, can be concentrated on violent felons and on gang members andon others. And so there's a security issue here that I think people have not fully appreciated yet.
THOMAS: And you said earlier that the system right now really can't sustain it.
NAPOLITANO: Well, the system is decades old. And talk about how much has occurred in the last few decades. It's time to be updated. It's time to be reformed. It's time -- for example, some of the things we would like to do on the enforcement side, we don't have the ability to do because we don't have the statutory authority to do it.
So there are enforcement things that need to be done. The issue about those already illegally in the country needs to be addressed. The issue about young people who have grown up in the United States, who were brought here by their parents who are illegal. And the president is asking the Congress to take that up in a bipartisan way. And we are here to provide whatever support to the president and to the Congress that they need.
Arizona Immigration Bill
THOMAS: The governor of Arizona did sign this immigration measure. Good policy? Good legislation?
NAPOLITANO: Well, you know, I think the Justice Department will look at some of the civil rights and other aspects of that law. I think it's a great illustration of what I just said. You get pressure on the criminal justice system. And when it gets to a certain point, states will be compelled to adopt laws, some of which are very misguided, as the president said.
THOMAS: You agree with that assessment?
NAPOLITANO: I do. That one is a misguided law. It's not a good law enforcement law. It's not a good law in any number of reasons. But beyond that, what it illustrates is that other states now will feel compelled to do things. And you will have this patchwork of laws where we need a federal immigration system that meets our security needs, that recognizes where we need to go in this 21st century and gives us a better framework on which to stand.
Supreme Court Nominee?
THOMAS: If [the president] asked you to sit on the Supreme court, would you do it?
NAPOLITANO: Oh, you know, obviously I'm not going to answer that question, but it's flattered, I'm flattered to have it asked. We'll just leave it at that.
THOMAS: I can tell you from our reporting that our sources say you are on the list of people he's considering so – as a lawyer, you obviously, like you said, it's flattering. I know you have a lot on your plate now. You seem to be enjoying the job that you're doing. That is a very important job that makes a huge impact on the country as well.
NAPOLITANO: Yes, you know, like I said, it's flattering to be considered. You know, I began my career as a lawyer. I'm someone who has been a private lawyer and public lawyer, both – as a commercial lawyer and a prosecutor. So it is flattering as a member of the profession to be on that list with some people who have amazing credentials.
Pressures of the Job
THOMAS: I just want to ask one final question about the homeland security. Twenty-two agencies, a huge department. Can it be managed properly? Are you getting the things you need to do your job the way you think you need to do it? I've seen you today deal with everything from hurricanes to the oil rig explosion. It's a lot on the plate. Your assessment?
NAPOLITANO: It's a big plate. But it make sense. I mean when you actually boil it down, we have five major missions. One is to work on counter-terrorism and to minimize the risk of a successful terrorist attack on the United States. The second is to secure the borders -- land borders, but also air and sea.
The third is effective, smart immigration enforcement, strong immigration enforcement, even as we work with the president and with the Congress to reform the immigration law.
The fourth is the protection of cyberspace. We're beginning to do a lot of work in that area.
THOMAS: Is that a real threat? How big a threat?
NAPOLITANO: I think there's a real and significant threat. And it's something that we'll be quickly and is quickly evolving, even as we -- as we speak.
And then lastly is the preparation for and the ability to respond and to support local communities in responding to natural disasters.
So when you take it all -- and I know it's 22 agencies. And there are other missions and things in it. But when you look at it, those are the five major missions. Almost everything we do fits within those. Then you can see how you begin to create organization out of this, mission space out of this and -- and how the department as a whole moves forward.
We call it moving forward as one DHS, one out of many, but great progress has been made. We know there's progress yet to come.
THOMAS: I'm thinking, the Secretary has to worry about hurricanes, she's got to worry about potential earthquakes, she's got to worry about this, she's got to worry about that – it's just a hell of a job, there's no way to describe it other than it's just a hell of a job.
NAPOLITANO: Yeah, it has many aspects to it and you just got to deal with it as a person. You've got to then organize and lead and make sure that everybody in this huge vast department which is the third largest department of the United States and it covers almost everything as you're seeing is leaning forward taking every action that they can and really thinking thoughtfully about what needs to be done.THOMAS: Madam Secretary, thank you.
NAPOLITANO: Thank you a lot.


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|System: Xbox 360*, PS3
|Dev: EA Tiburon
|Pub: EA Sports
|Release: July 9, 2013
|Players: 1-4
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
The new addition to gameplay this year is Ultimate Team. This popular mode from the Madden franchise lets you create an Ultimate Team using cards you collect from packs that you earn from completing in-game challenges. Basically, you pick your favorite college team and you are given their playbook and jerseys, along with a starter pack to populate your roster. These players typically have a player rating in the 60s, so they aren't quite "ultimate" right out of the gate. Using your random and newly minted team, you complete games and challenges in different conferences to earn more packs and coins to buy more packs. This mode took advantage of my childhood obsession with card collecting–or more accurately, my obsession with opening packs. Damn you EA.
Visually, you can expect the level of polish and detail that have become the staples of current-generation sports gaming. Character models, animations, and hit physics are more realistic than ever and make for a graphically impressive on-field package. Off-field, however, is a different story. The sidelines and the stands of this game suffer from the blocky fans and choppy sideline visuals that have been indicative of this generation. Also, during on-field, post-play cutscenes, there are occasionally some visible hiccups.
The graphics of NCAA Football 14 do their job and their presentation is spot-on. But if I have a real issue with this game, it is definitely with the audio.
Don't get me wrong, the audio isn't low quality. Quite the opposite. It's just that college fight songs annoy me to no foreseeable end, but that's not a fault in the game, it's just a personal issue of mine. But why, oh why, do we have to suffer the endless, repetitive comments of announcers? It is possible to turn them off, and they are better than they have been in the past, but it still aggravates me to no end. Can we get a little more variety? Please? Is that too much to ask?
In short, I didn't expect to enjoy NCAA Football 14 nearly as much as I did. Sure, it has flaws, but it is easily one of the most enjoyable sports games on the market. You may not see too much of a change from last year's title if you're a faithful, yearly customer, but if you have been away from the football scene for a while and are thinking of jumping back into it, this may be the perfect time to do it.
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Video Director
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Early Childhood Staff To Strike In March
Early childhood educators across the country say "enough is enough" to a "measly" $21 per hour and will walk off the job next month in a fight for better pay.
Parents were being asked to keep their children at home on Tuesday, March 27, so educators can send a message to the Turnbull government about how serious they were about the equal pay issue.
The action came after the federal government failed to meet a February 1 deadline set by their union to deliver funding for equal pay.
"Malcolm Turnbull has driven educators to take this extreme step as he continues to ignore their demand for equal pay," Helen Gibbons, assistant national secretary of United Voice, the early childhood union told reporters in Sydney on Sunday.
Childcare workers were being paid half the average weekly wage, which can no longer be tolerated, she said.
"Everybody knows this except Malcolm Turnbull," she said.
The industry, made up mostly of women, is pushing for a 30 per cent pay rise for workers.
"After years of fighting for pay equity, early childhood educators have had enough," said early childhood educator Gwendolyn Alcock on Sunday.
Being paid a "measly" $21 an hour was "unacceptable" said Ms Alcock, who has worked in the industry for seven years.
"This is not satisfactory. It's why we're embarking on our biggest action yet," she said.
On Sunday, a national TV, radio and newspaper campaign was launched asking Australians to back their fight.
"We can't continue to have a world-class system with people being paid appalling wages to deliver it," Ms Gibbons said.
"We are asking the community to stand with us to fight," she said.
It was "outrageous that in 2018 female-dominated industries in Australia are still fighting to receive equal pay," she said.
Parents, she said, can't afford to pay any more for education - the federal government needed to step in and fund the sector properly.
"Parents across Australia know very clearly where the blame for this lies," Ms Gibbons said.
Ms Gibbons said the situation has been an escalating crisis. It's the third nationwide walk-off in the past 12 months in the sector.
More than 3000 childcare workers last walked out of centres nationwide on September 7.
On March 27, some childcare centres will close for the whole day, others will close at lunchtime and yet others will close certain rooms.


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