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The U.S. has identified five men who might be responsible for the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year, and has enough evidence to justify seizing them by military force as suspected terrorists, officials say. But there isn't enough proof to try them in a U.S. civilian court as the Obama administration prefers.
The men remain at large while the FBI gathers evidence. But the investigation has been slowed by the reduced U.S. intelligence presence in the region since the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks, and by the limited ability to assist by Libya's post-revolutionary law enforcement and intelligence agencies, which are still in their infancy since the overthrow of dictator Col. Moammar Gadhafi.
The decision not to seize the men militarily underscores the White House aim to move away from hunting terrorists as enemy combatants and holding them at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The preference is toward a process in which most are apprehended and tried by the countries where they are living or arrested by the U.S. with the host country's cooperation and tried in the U.S. criminal justice system. Using military force to detain the men might also harm fledgling relations with Libya and other post-Arab-Spring governments with whom the U.S. is trying to build partnerships to hunt al-Qaida as the organization expands throughout the region.
A senior administration official said the FBI has identified a number of individuals that it believes have information or may have been involved, and is considering options to bring those responsible to justice. But taking action in remote eastern Libya would be difficult. America's relationship with Libya would be weighed as part of those options, the official said, speaking only on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss the effort publicly.
The Libyan Embassy did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Waiting to prosecute suspects instead of grabbing them now could add to the political weight the Benghazi case already carries. The attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans weeks before President Barack Obama's re-election. Since then, Republicans in Congress have condemned the administration's handling of the situation, criticizing the level of embassy security, questioning the talking points provided to U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice for her public appearances to explain the attack and suggesting the White House tried to play down the incident to minimize its effect on the president's campaign.
The FBI released photos of three of the five suspects earlier this month, asking the public to provide more information on the men pictured. The images were captured by security cameras at the U.S. diplomatic post during the attack, but it took weeks for the FBI to see and study them. It took the agency three weeks to get to Libya because of security problems, so Libyan officials had to get the cameras and send them to U.S. officials in Tripoli, the capital.
The FBI and other U.S. intelligence agencies identified the men through contacts in Libya and by monitoring their communications. They are thought to be members of Ansar al-Shariah, the Libyan militia group whose fighters were seen near the U.S. diplomatic facility prior to the violence.
Republican lawmakers continue to call for the Obama administration to provide more information about the attack. The White House released 99 pages of emails about the talking points drafted by the intelligence community that Rice used to describe the attack, initially suggesting they were part of a series of regional protests about an anti-Islamic film. In those emails, administration officials agreed to remove from the talking points all mentions of terror groups such as Ansar al-Shariah or al-Qaida, because the intelligence pointing to those groups' involvement was still unclear and because some officials didn't want to give Congress ammunition to criticize the administration.
U.S. officials say the FBI has proof that the five men were either at the scene of the first attack or somehow involved because of intercepts of at least one of them bragging about taking part. Some of the men have also been in contact with a network of well-known regional Jihadists, including al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb.
The U.S. has decided that the evidence it has now would be enough for a military operation to seize the men for questioning, but not enough for a civilian arrest or a drone strike against them, the officials said. The U.S. has kept them under surveillance, mostly by electronic means. There was a worry that the men could get spooked and hide, but so far, not even the FBI's release of surveillance video stills has done that.
FBI investigators are hoping for more evidence, such as other video of the attack that might show the suspects in the act of setting the fires that ultimately killed the ambassador and his communications specialist, or firing the mortars hours later at the CIA base where the surviving diplomats took shelter — or a Libyan witness willing to testify against the suspects in a U.S. courtroom.
But Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon, the Republican chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said he is concerned the Obama administration is treating terrorism as criminal actions instead of acts of war that would elicit a much harsher response from the United States.
"The war on terror, I think, is a war and at times I get the feeling that the administration wants to treat it as a crime," McKeon said Tuesday.
Administration officials have indicated recently that the FBI is zeroing in.
"Regardless of what happened previously, we have made very, very, very substantial progress in that investigation," Attorney General Eric Holder told lawmakers last week.
That echoed comments made by Secretary of State John Kerry to lawmakers last month.
"They do have people ID'd," Kerry said of the FBI-led investigation. "They have made some progress. They have a number of suspects who are persons of interest that they are pursuing in this and building cases on."
But options for dealing with the men are few and difficult, U.S. officials said, describing high level strategy debates among White House, FBI and other counterterror officials. Those confidential discussions were described on condition of anonymity by four senior U.S. officials briefed on the investigation into the attack.
The U.S. could ask Libya to arrest the suspects, hoping that Americans would be given access to question them and that the Libyans gather enough evidence to hold the men under their own justice system. Another option is to ask the Libyans to extradite the men to the U.S., but that would require the U.S. to gather enough solid evidence linking the suspects to the crime to ask for such an action.
Asking other countries to detain suspects hasn't produced much thus far. In this case, the Egyptian government detained Egyptian Islamic Jihad member Muhammad Jamal Abu Ahmad for possible links to the attack, but it remains unclear if U.S. intelligence officers were ever allowed to question him.
Tunisia allowed the U.S. to question Tunisian suspect Ali Harzi, 28, who was arrested in Turkey last October because of suspected links to the Sept. 11 Benghazi attack, but a judge released him in January for lack of evidence.
Finally, the U.S. could send a military team to grab the men, and take them to an offsite location such as a U.S. naval ship — the same way al-Qaida suspect Ahmed Warsame was seized by special operations personnel in 2011 in Somalia. He was then held and questioned for two months on a U.S. ship before being read his Miranda rights, transferred to the custody of the FBI and taken for trial in a New York court. Warsame pleaded guilty earlier this year and agreed to tell the FBI what he knew about terror threats and, if necessary, testify for the government.
The U.S. has made preparations for raids to grab the Benghazi suspects for interrogation in case the administration decides that's the best option, officials said. Such raids could be legally justified under the U.S. law passed just after the 9/11 terror attacks that authorizes the use of military force against al-Qaida, officials said. The reach of the law has been expanded to include groups working with al-Qaida.
The option most likely off the table would be taking suspects seized by the military to Guantanamo Bay, the facility in Cuba that Obama has said he wants to close.
"Just as the administration is trying to find the exit ramp for Guantanamo is not the time to be adding to it," said Morris Davis, the former chief prosecutor for Guantánamo.
Beyond being politically uncomfortable, it's less effective, he said. "There've been a total of seven cases completed since 2001," with six of them landing in appeals court over issues with the legitimacy of the charges.


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Edward S. Lampert is frequently described as being reclusive, but the multimillionaire investor was front and center Wednesday as Kmart and Sears announced their $11 billion merger.
The 42-year-old Lampert, who is set to become chairman of the combined companies, was clearly the driving force behind the deal.
As Kmart's chairman, he owns nearly 53 percent of its stock through his ESL Investments hedge fund. He is also the largest shareholder in Sears. ESL holds a 15 percent stake in the retailer.
Lampert started his fund in 1988 after earning an economics degree at Yale University and then cutting his teeth under Robert Rubin at the risk arbitrage department at Goldman Sachs.
With his savvy bets on distressed or underperforming assets, he has built a reputation as a one of Wall Street's most successful and renowned hedge fund managers.
ESL Investments has returned an average of 29 percent a year since its inception, according to a BusinessWeek report, generally by building substantial positions in a few highly researched holdings.
Besides stakes in Kmart and Sears, Lampert's fund also owns large positions in car dealer AutoNation and auto-parts retailer AutoZone.
That concentrated approach has paid off handsomely for Lampert, who last year took home a $420 million pay package, the fourth-biggest in the hedge fund industry, according to Reuters.
And though he's known to be media shy, Lampert is no stranger to headlines.
Early last year he was kidnapped at gunpoint from a parking garage at ESL's Greenwich, Conn., offices. Four captors held him for ransom, keeping him bound and blindfolded for some 30 hours before he negotiated his own release.
The kidnappers were caught after Lampert's credit card was used to order pizza. The mastermind of the plot was sentenced to 15 years in prison earlier this year.
He's gotten plenty of coverage for more positive reasons as well. Lampert made himself available to BusinessWeek for a flattering cover story currently on newsstands. That's Lampert flashing a Livestrong wristband on the cover -- the popular yellow bands are sold by a Lance Armstrong foundation to support cancer research -- next to the headline: "The Next Warren Buffett?"
Those comparisons to the Oracle of Omaha have been tossed around over the years, but it is Lampert's Kmart turnaround that has particularly impressed investors.
"I think he's a genius," said veteran value manager Marty Whitman of Third Avenue Management, which helped fund Kmart's bankruptcy reorganization and now holds some 5 percent of outstanding shares in the retailer.
"Had he not been the leader who got this thing out of (Chapter) 11 in May 2003, there would have been nothing left for us pre-petition creditors," Whitman added. "I'm firmly convinced that's the case."
Lampert built his position in Kmart by buying up the discount retailer's debt during its bankruptcy. He helped steer Kmart through bankruptcy reorganization and became chairman when the company emerged from Chapter 11.
Since then, Lampert has held down costs and inventories, and generated cash by selling off some real estate. Kmart earlier this year sold 50 stores to Sears for $576 million and sold another 18 stores to Home Depot for $271 million.
Those deals left many on Wall Street wondering if Lampert was positioning Kmart to stay in the retail business long-term or simply using it as a vehicle to generate cash for investments.
"The retail performance has not been stellar up to this point," said Gary Giumetti, president of consulting firm McTevia & Associates in Eastpointe, Mich., which specializes in restructurings.
Still, under Lampert's guidance, Kmart has recently posted four consecutive quarterly profits and generated heaps of cash, even as sales have continued to slide. Kmart on Wednesday announced a 13.7 percent drop in third-quarter sales.
Since it emerged from bankruptcy in May 2003, Kmart stock has climbed from $15 to $109. Of course, as the share price has soared, the value of Lampert's stake has as well.
Lampert has rung up similar gains with another big investment, AutoZone. He bought into the Memphis-based auto-parts retailer in the late 1990s, and eventually took a seat on the board.
With a growing piece of the company, Lampert pushed for changes. In the end, he brought in a new chief executive who cut costs and poured more money into buying back shares, helping boost per-share earnings. AutoZone stock shot up from the mid $20s and peaked above $100 late last year. It closed Wednesday at $87.21.

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Building it in America, Selling it EverywhereDecember 21, 2011
Peter Perez is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing in the Manufacturing and Services division of the International Trade Administration
I had the pleasure of attending the Secretary of Commerce John Bryson's speech at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce this past Thursday. Bryson laid out his plan for the Department, showing a strong focus on manufacturing exports as he begins his tenure as Secretary.
The phrase of the day, which in many ways embodies the goals of the Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration (ITA), was, "build it here and sell it everywhere". After more than 43 years of real-world manufacturing experience at C.G. Conn and Steinway & Sons, I am excited to see the manufacturing industry receive the attention it deserves.
As the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing within ITA, enhancing America's ability to "build it here and sell it everywhere" is something my colleagues and I work towards every day and I am excited about Commerce and the Administration's renewed attention.
Secretary Bryson discussed three areas in particular – supporting advanced manufacturing, increasing U.S. exports and attracting more investment to American from all around the world – that will help the U.S. create jobs, rebuild the middle class, and ultimately build a foundation on which the economy can recover. ITA has the opportunity to be a key contributor to the success of Bryson's three-part vision.
As the Secretary said, manufacturing is no longer about old assembly lines, but conceiving and creating innovative and advanced products. The manufacturing industry isn't just responsible for building cutting-edge products, but the research and development that leads to the final form. In fact, manufacturing companies are responsible for 67 percent of all business research and development in America. The manufacturing sector not only provides more than 11 million Americans with jobs, but for every job inside a factory, at least two more are created outside of it. Our own Manufacturing Council considers the issues facing the success and growth of modern American manufacturing and has made recommendations regarding energy policy, workforce development and trade promotion policies.
Possibly most encouraging, was Bryson's concentration on efforts to expand American manufacturing businesses' access and use of foreign markets. As Secretary Bryson mentioned, 95 percent of the world's consumers live outside of the U.S., yet only one percent of our businesses export. ITA works hard to assist businesses interested in exporting by simplifying the process. We provide services for exporting businesses including helping them find reliable export financing, connect them with opportune foreign markets and deal with often complicated foreign rules and regulations. The power of exports is evidenced by the success of President Obama's National Export Initiative (NEI) which has already helped U.S. businesses increase exports 17 percent in 2010 and 16 percent so far in 2011.
Bryson also highlighted ITA's continued effort to find creative ways to grow U.S. manufacturing businesses through international trade. The Global Buyers Initiative partners ITA's Commercial Service unit, their foreign counterparts, and FedEx to match the shipping company's foreign customers with U.S. suppliers. We eagerly await the results of our pilot programs currently being implemented in France, Canada, and South Korea and will hopefully expand the program worldwide in 2012.
The Secretary announced that not only will ITA and Commerce be looking to increase the number of countries we export our products to, but also intensify efforts on strong export growth markets such as China, Brazil, and India. As we hone in on these particular markets, we are reminded of the need to update our export control laws as well as be mindful of unfair overseas trade barriers. I agree with Secretary Bryson that it is imperative businesses are competing internationally on a level playing field and will flourish or flounder "based on the quality and cost of their goods and services."
Foreign Investment
Bryson's final area for growth is direct foreign investment. While direct foreign investment may mean bringing companies into America from outside our borders, it also means more American manufacturing jobs and exports. I applaud Secretary Bryson for recognizing the importance of attracting investments by using our already well-positioned foreign commercial service officers and better showcasing what we have to offer. Initiatives such as SelectUSA are already working to disseminate information and services to potential foreign investors. Through SelectUSA and other programs, ITA is continuing to work to ensure the world knows the United States is "open for business".
You can read the full text of Secretary Bryson's speech here.


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Bratenahl Place Sunset Celebration Concert 2012
This inaugural concert on August 11, 2012 at Bratenahl Place featured Austin "Walkin" Cane, Winslow, and Lost State of Franklin. Nearly 500 people attended the concert. Hopefully this is the first of many such concerts at Bratenahl Place in the future.Read More
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Orlando, Florida – July 8, 2014 – (INTUITION by Perspective Group) – DAE South Africa, the regional office of worldwide vacation exchange provider, DAE, is extending the company's award-winning customer service to a growing number of South African members.
Offering the world's only free exchange membership, DAE South Africa's membership growth has increased by 82% in the first six months of 2014 compared to the same period in the previous year.
The number of weeks deposited into DAE South Africa's exchange inventory from timeshare resort owners and club members has also increased by 136% year on year.
"DAE South Africa has continued to experience phenomenal growth since opening our doors to the South African timeshare market in 2007," said Paul Edkins, Head of DAE South Africa.
"Membership growth has been driven by our Resort Registration Program, where members can learn about DAE's award-winning products and services, and join DAE's free exchange program at their own timeshare resort.
"Resale agents and sales offices across South Africa are increasingly partnering with us as a flexible, service-oriented exchange provider, with DAE's simple and affordable exchange platform adding great value to their sales offering.
"And it's the members who are happiest of all with the benefits of joining the world's leading exchange provider – not least of which being our unbeatable customer service. Some of our members' comments say if for themselves:
"…remarkable service."
"I really appreciate your world-class customer service!"
"Thanks to DAE, if I had not joined, my husband and I would go year after year to the same destination where we own a timeshare. We have had the most superb holidays and I have recommended to all my friends with timeshare to join DAE!"
"The more we grow, the more choice and variety we offer our members to exchange their weeks or points for a fantastic holiday anywhere in the world," said Mr Edkins.
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DAE has grown significantly since it first opened its doors in 1997. A strong focus on quality customer service has led to their continued growth as over 50% of their new memberships have been the result of personal referrals. Today, the company services over 1 million timeshare owners (including 500,000 direct members) at resorts and clubs through 12 offices worldwide, and is a truly viable option for all timeshare, points and fractional owners to exchange their weeks and points or credits products. DAE's robust set of membership benefits makes it easy for owners to truly enjoy their vacation ownership experience. Their simple, flexible and innovative direct to consumer approach has evolved into a range of business development and support tools for their business partners such as resorts, management companies and Home Owners Associations who are looking for a competitive edge to support their rapid growth.
DAE offers a value added Gold Advantage benefits program along with low exchange fees, a 3-year credit for every banked week, 24/7 live access to exchange weeks, personalized customer service, worldwide vacation availability, discounted rental weeks in prime locations and informative monthly e-Newsletters providing travel tips, destination ideas and money saving promotions and offers. At DAE, the timeshare owners' needs come first and foremost and quality of service is never compromised. For more information, please visit www.daelive.com


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This telephone and direct-wired circuit-based system signals the Communication Center Dispatchers when city buildings are entered, when special secure rooms are entered, or when other alarm conditions result. A number of locations are monitored and tests are made on a periodic basis of both circuits and signaling equipment.
Dispatchers are trained to handle line trouble and system fault conditions, to contact appropriate building personnel and to immediately dispatch police personnel when alarm signals are received.
The City maintains special Emergency Fire Boxes in public places as an aid to citizens who need to signal for assistance. Dispatchers are trained to receive signals from these devices as well as check on their status and report operational problems.
The City alerts its fire companies to respond to fire and EMS events through a "Zetron" and back-up "Bell Circuit" signaling system. This computer-controlled, direct-current, directly wired system operates through a master panel, primary circuit panels, backup circuit panels, 3 station receivers, and a master console unit. This equipment is critical to the immediate dispatch of fire apparatus in the event of a fire or medical emergency.
The City's Computer Aided Dispatch System (CAD) is at the heart of dispatcher activity. This large-scale system has interfaces to the Digitize Fire Alarm Signaling and E911 systems such that transmissions from these systems are automatically received by CAD and call-record information pre-entered into CAD screens.
Enhanced 911 technologies enable Watertown residents to have their exact street address, telephone billing name, calling telephone number, and other facts displayed on a special computer screen within 1 to 3 seconds of their 911 call being answered at Emergency Communications.
This system allows persons who cannot speak because of a handicap or medical condition, who do not speak English, or who are very young children to signal Emergency Communications of their need for assistance without having to utter a word. Operators are trained in the use of this complex equipment by special state trainers who test and certify their abilities.
Additional state-provided TDD equipment was installed in 1995 to allow hearing impaired city residents to use TDD/TYY devices to communicate with the Emergency Communications Center over both 911 and 7-digit lines. Operators are trained in the use of this TDD equipment by special state trainers who will test and certify their abilities.
The CJIS computer system is located in and operated by Emergency Communications personnel. This system has various police signaling and "telegraph" capabilities as it is the primary means that the City notifies surrounding towns, the regional area, or the entire country of a fleeing felon, a major emergency, a stolen vehicle, or other primary alert conditions that should immediately be sent to other jurisdictions.
Operators receive training in this extremely complex system and are required to pass an examination before operating a terminal.
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Tour the Former Communications Center
The combined Police/Fire dispatch center features 4 consoles for dispatchers to work from, a wall projection screen of unit/incident status and monitoring of the building security cameras.
This is the former communications center at our original station, 34 John "Sonny" Whooley Way.
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The "fiscal cliff" is a metaphor for a government that no longer responds to the biggest challenges we face because it's paralyzed by intransigent Republicans, obsessed by the federal budget deficit, and overwhelmed by big money from corporations, Wall Street, and billionaires.
If we had a functional government America would address three "cliffs" posing far larger dangers to us than the fiscal one:
The child poverty cliff.
Between 2007 and 2011, the percentage of American school-age children living in poor households grew from 17 to 21%. Last year, according to the Agriculture Department, nearly 1 in 4 young children lived in a family that had difficulty affording sufficient food at some point in the year.
Yet federal programs to help children and lower-income families-food stamps, aid for poor school districts, Pell grants, child health care, child nutrition, pre- and post-natal care, and Medicaid – are being targeted by the Republican right. Over 60 percent of the cuts in the GOP's most recent budget came out of these programs.
Even if these programs are preserved, they don't go nearly far enough. But the Obama Administration doesn't talk about reducing poverty in America. It talks only about preserving the middle class.
Yet unless we focus on better schools, better health, and improved conditions for these poor kids and their families, in a few years America will have a significant population of under-educated and desperate adults.
The baby-boomer health-care cliff.
Healthcare costs are already 18 percent of GDP. Between now and 2030, when 76 million boomers join the ranks of the elderly, those costs will soar. This is the principal reason why the federal budget deficit is projected to grow.
The Affordable Care Act offers a start but it isn't nearly adequate to limit these rising costs. The President and the Democrats have to lead the way in using Medicare and Medicaid's bargaining power over providers to get lower costs and to move from a fee-for-service system to a fee-for-healthy outcomes system of healthcare.
But we can't avoid the fact we have the most expensive and least effective system of health care in the world that's spending 30 percent more on paperwork and administration than on keeping people healthy. The real healthcare cliff can only be avoided if we adopt a single-payer healthcare system.
The environmental cliff.
Global emissions of carbon dioxide jumped 3 percent in 2011 and are expected to jump another 2.6 percent this year according to scientists, putting the human race perilously close to the tipping point when ice caps irretrievably melt, sea-levels rise, and amount of available cropland in the world becomes dangerously small.
Yet Republicans (and their patrons, such as Charles and David Koch) continue to deny climate change. And the Administration is no longer pushing for a cap-and-trade system or a carbon tax.
Yet unless we act to reduce carbon emissions, other major emitters won't do so. The only binding pact so far is the Kyoto Protocol, which the U.S. never joined. And we're taking no leadership at the international climate talks now taking place in Qatar.
Yes, America does face a cliff-not a fiscal cliff but a set of precipices we'll tumble over because the GOP's obsession over government's size and spending has obscured them. And Democrats so far haven't been able or willing to sound the real alarms.


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Cranial Sacral Therapy
by James Clair Lewis
Cranial Sacral Therapy works by activating all of the body's natural healing mechanisms. This occurs, because it stimulates the circulation of the cerebral-spinal fluids around the brain, the spinal column, and by extension, the sheaf around all of the nerve fibers. It is the most intuitive of techniques.
To learn Cranial Sacral, one should go to the Upledger Institute, or learn it from a Chiropractor at a Massage College. However, the primary technique is easy enough to describe.
Have the patient lie on their back, and cup your hands beneath their head, raising it a bit for possible movement. Then, wait until you feel movement coming from the patient's body. Do not anticipate what this movement will be. Simply wait for it, and when it comes, follow that movement, without adding anything to it.
This movement might be side to side, around & around, a curving up & back, or some combination of these. The movement might be slow, gentle, and rythymic, or it might be rapid and irregular. It is never the same.
What is happening, is that the patient's body is unwinding itself, and thereby removing the blockages to the flow of the cerebral-spinal fluid. When this happens, then the nerves throughout the entire body are fully nourished, and will initiate any healing processes that are needed.
Now while the patient will always feel better right after the treatment, it will be on the day after, that the begin to feel the full effects. This is because, it takes some time for the glands, and other healing mechanisms to come into full play, after the nervous system has informed them, as to what they have to do.
The body has an intelligence independent of the Mind. In Cranial Sacral Therapy one listens to the intelligence of the body, and follows its movements, so that the body can heal itself. In this way, one does nothing, yet leaves nothing undone.
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With great pride and pleasure, I welcome you to our site. We are pioneers in organizing Indian pageants and fashion shows in the USA and other parts of the world, of which the Miss India Worldwide has been acclaimed as the "most glamorous Indian function in the world." And of course, the Miss India Worldwide is the only international Indian pageant.
We plan to include many more channels, especially of interest to the youth, and believe that this will become the one-stop for Indian youths around the world. Read More
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I always thought that a beauty pageant title opens the door to stardom. I never realized that the title can be used for raising funds for charities. Congratulations to the India Festival Committee for motivating their winners to take up a charitable cause.
India Festival Committee is to be commended for its efforts to bring people together in the spirit of cultural harmony & awareness.
India Festival Committee is to be commended for its efforts to bring people together in the spirit of cultural harmony & awareness.
The objective of the pageant is to underline this move away from an exhibition of a vacuous good looks to a showcasing of talent.
It is a novel idea to bring international Indian community on one platform and the organizers should be congratulated for this concept.
An International Indian pageant idea is excellent. I am privileged to be a witness of this grand affair.
India Festival Committee should be applauded for their commitment to advancing intercultural relations.
I have attended many pageants and fashion shows but I am greatly impressed by the professionalism displayed by the India Festival Committee.
The organizers and sponsors of this event are to be congratulated for their continued hard work and devotion to young people.
India Festival Committee has performed a salutary role by promoting an understanding of India's people and her hallowed culture through the medium of pageantry.
I never knew that a pageant like this existed. I am thrilled to be a part of this unique event and compliment the organizers for this novel concept.


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Eich discussed JavaScript and the ECMAscript standard behind it during a presentation and in a subsequent interview with InfoWorld at the World Wide Web Consortium Technical/Plenary Advisory Committee meeting in Santa Clara, Calif. (Read InfoWorld's in-depth interview with Brendan Eich.)
JavaScript has moved well beyond an original perception of being a "kid brother to Java," with Java having been viewed as the real programming language, Eich said. "People will disagree, but I think Java is almost dead on the client side of the Web, and JavaScript is everywhere," Eich said.
Flash also faces a real threat from HTML 5.
ECMAscript is to be upgraded with the upcoming approval of ECMAscript 5 slated for next month, Eich said. The standard is in deliberations at ECMA. Formerly called ECMAscript 3.1, Version 5 will feature capabilities such as meta-programming and hardening of objects. "You can make objects that can't be tampered with," Eich said. "You can control modifications to your objects."Deliberations on an upgrade to ECMAscript hit a roadblock in past years due to technical and political disagreements, resulting in continued work on ECMAscript 3.1 and development of a battle plan of sorts for improvements to the standard, known as Harmony.
Another edition of ECMAscript based on Harmony is expected in two-and-a-half years, Eich said. At some point, JavaScript could reach a stage where it will not need much improvement, he said. "If we do our job right, we end up in a situation where JavaScript doesn't need to change much," said Eich.


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The year's best hardware, software, and cloud services
InfoWorld's Test Center unveils the 2012 Technology of the Year Awards
Was it the philosopher George Santayana who said, "Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it?" Did he offer any hints for those of us who want to repeat the past, especially the successes? We're beyond the teary elegies of 2011 and deep into making resolutions for 2012. If we're going to stand half a chance of creating something great this year, it only makes sense to pause and celebrate what went right in 2011.
Here is our list of 2012 Technology of the Year Award winners, given to the hardware and software we reviewed over the past year that make life better for the people who toil in service of the enterprises and, it only follows, for the customers who are served by them. We spent several weeks arguing over the list and, in the end, produced our annual collection of tools we want to celebrate. Not all of the choices were unanimous, but all of them made us look two or three times because there was something amazing.
[ Read about the winning hardware, software, development tools, and cloud services in our slideshow, "InfoWorld's 2012 Technology of the Year Award winners." ]
Many of the winners -- but far from all -- are new to the list, but that doesn't mean they're new to us. One of the list's most distinctive features is how much it repeats the past, illustrating how much technology builds on what came before. Even the new entries are several years in the making. They didn't appear out of nowhere, but captured the strengths of trends that have been building for numerous years.
Yesterday and today
The most obvious example is Microsoft Office 2010, condemned to repeat its success here even though you're probably searching for the commenting button already to make the perfectly good claim that the digits "2010" don't belong on a list for 2011. Fair enough, but we decided the Web apps from Google and others just weren't ready to lead the parade. One editor said he wanted to assume that Office's "days were numbered," but then he took one look at Office's record sales figures (which bear out the results of Serdar Yegulalp's office suite comparison) and changed his mind. While the Web apps are undeniably cool and easy to administer, all of us had to admit there was just something zippier and truly empowering about a native app you install on your computer. We're not arguing for becoming grid-free survivalists, just realists about the limits of the cloud.
Microsoft has also been enhancing other tools with a grip on the enterprise. Lync turns the PC into a communications center, usurping some of the responsibilities of that increasingly idle phone that sits next to it on your desk. The smooth videoconferencing, now more flexible and easier to install in your office, is only a minor piece of the promise. The Windows Small Business Server stack is also a winner here for all of the little enhancements that make it easier for small offices to start a full-service network and provide remote access through a Web interface. Microsoft shops can continue to sail into the future with a feature-rich environment that's as current as can be found.
Our list includes a number of other unstoppable juggernauts that are similarly condemned to repeat the past. The iPad 2 follows the first iPad into the winner's circle. The MacBook Air is also faster and better, like the iPad the model for a forthcoming wave of competing products. Apple continues to delight us with a walled paradise built on iOS and the App Store while delivering surprises like Siri, a tool that for some odd reason makes us smile instead of poke fun as we did with the Newton. The reality distortion field lives on. All of these tools are better connected to the cloud, which in this case means the Apple-only iCloud.
The bulk of the new products in this list all live in the cloud and are thoroughly part of the cloud ecology, delivering on cloud promises. We're afraid that we'll be condemned to repeating this "cloud" word for a long time.
Triumphs of the cloud
The cloud of 2011, though, is a far cry from the cloud of just a few years ago. The tools are more sophisticated, and there are more places to turn. The customers are more sophisticated too. We're better equipped to know what we want from the so-called cloud, and that means the vendors are better prepared to deliver it. We want flexibility, simplicity, and the freedom to click our mouse three times, say "there's no place like /home," and find ourselves taken there immediately on a freshly started machine with the distro of our choice.
There's certainly no place like Amazon Web Services, a turnkey supercomputer available to anyone with a credit card. Hadoop, too, appears here in all of its glory (making the leap from Bossies fame), although it's rapidly becoming a collection of programs and distributions. Not only is there a wide range of open source tools that make it easier to run your Hadoop cluster, but there's also a growing collection of commercial tools and services to help. Clouds -- public or private -- for distributed data processing are rapidly turning into an important part of the infrastructure.
Other winning tools bring more power and convenience to Web application developers. CakePHP and Web2py have been adding features that make it simpler to build and deploy PHP and Python applications to the cloud or, for that matter, to any machine. We also took notice of application platforms Heroku and CloudBees, which have integrated versioning tools into the cloud and made it simpler to build and deploy your applications there.
It's worth noting that two of the development tools we chose this year are exclusively for the mobile platforms, one of the cloud's natural partners. There may be BSD and Linux buried under the surface of our smartphones, but no one is supposed to spend much time on that layer. The explosion of handheld power is tightly linked to cloud-based services. We gave awards to both PhoneGap and Rhomobile Rhodes for simplifying the creation of mobile applications that run smoothly on iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and even a few more.
Wait until next year
The explosion of mobile devices means that the migration away from the desktop is accelerating a bit -- despite what we said above about Office 2010. Just a few years ago, the word "mobile" was just a niche for selling to customers on the go while helping the traveling sales force check in with HQ. Now the proliferation of tablets means that more and more people in the enterprise will do more and more of their work on thin, light, battery-powered, wireless devices running mobile OSes, not desktop OSes. We expect we'll be repeating the word "mobile" as often as "cloud" in the years to come.
Our list is far from complete, of course. We left off NoSQL databases but not because they were a tired backwater with no innovation. No -- we didn't know where to begin to choose. Not only is the number of tools proliferating, but there's also a growing understanding of the striking amount of variety in our needs. Some folks need logging for data that's rarely used. Others want a certain amount of redundancy but not too much. Still others want to track personal information across a highly sharded cloud. In the end, we couldn't begin to pick one or two that were clearly ahead of the pack because the pack (Oracle included) was doing so well and heading off in so many directions.
There are probably a number of other products that belong on this list, but we had to draw a line somewhere. The good news is that we're condemned to repeat this exercise next year when we can remember the very best tools once again. As the cloud stacks and the mobile ecosystems continue to build up the momentum, we have a pretty good idea where to look for them.
This story, "The year's best hardware, software, and cloud services," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the latest developments in applications, cloud computing, software development, hardware, mobile computing, security, storage, virtualization, and Windows at InfoWorld.com. For the latest business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.
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A few weeks ago, I flew from the wide open spaces of Grand Junction, Colo., to New York, the city I now call home. Air traffic at LaGuardia airport had delayed my flight two hours and still the pilot had to circle several times before we received clearance to land. I was late, I was crabby, and I just wanted to be home. So you can imagine my frustration when I stepped out of the airport and into the muggy night to behold the scene below.
Yes, folks, that's the taxi line. It snaked down the sidewalk and then doubled back on itself. The queue was so long I couldn't see the turnaround point. I snapped a photo and posted it to Facebook. "Welcome back to the big apple, Cassie! Here's your taxi line," I wrote. Five [expletive] minutes in New York and already I was cursing and scowling.
LaGuardia is notorious for delays and lines, but there's a deeper, more basic problem — New York has too many people in too small a space.* It's super dense. Fun fact: If you could convince the entire world to live like New Yorkers, you could pack all 7 billion of us into the state of Texas. That might be good for the environment, but what about our mental health?
New York is a 24/7 stress fest. Try muscling your way through the tourists packing Times Square or cramming yourself into an overstuffed train. I dare you to walk down Canal Street (home of knock-off Fendi, Prada, and Gucci) without wanting to knife someone. I've tried, and I can't do it. And then there is the constant ear-splitting noise — horns, sirens, animated cell phone conversations. The city is relentless.
Maybe I don't have the right attitude — the right constitution — for New York. I'm impatient and short-tempered, and New York exacerbates those tendencies. But other New Yorkers seem impatient and short-tempered too. Is it us, or is it the city? Could urban living be harming our brains?
Jonah Lehrer says yes. Here he is in a 2009 story for the Boston Globe:
Scientists have begun to examine how the city affects the brain, and the results are chastening. Just being in an urban environment, they have found, impairs our basic mental processes. After spending a few minutes on a crowded city street, the brain is less able to hold things in memory, and suffers from reduced self-control. While it's long been recognized that city life is exhausting … this new research suggests that cities actually dull our thinking, sometimes dramatically so.
Not all of the research points that way, of course. (What? You were expecting an unequivocal "yes" from science? Fat chance!) But a surprising amount of it does.
Several studies seem to suggest a link between city living and mental illnesses. A 2001 study found that schizophrenia was twice as common among people born and raised in large cities compared to people from rural areas. And it makes some sense that growing up in a city could impact how your brain develops. But I was born in North Dakota. I didn't grow up urban. I want to know how city living impacts my hamlet-grown brain. A PubMed search uncovered several articles. The most intriguing was only available in Portuguese. But the translated title gives you the gist: "Urban health: The city is a strange lady, smiling today, devouring you tomorrow."
Finally I stumbled across a relatively recent study that promised to provide some answers. The researchers recruited 32 German students from rural areas, small towns, and cities, and put them in an FMRI machine to scan their brains. They asked the students to solve timed math problems that grew increasingly difficult. When the students got the wrong answer, as they often did, the researchers criticized them. (My worst nightmare looks a lot like this scenario.) The task was designed to stress the participants out. And, not surprisingly, it did.
This "social stress" made many regions of the brain light up, but only people currently living in cities showed increased activity in the amygdala, an almond-shaped structure involved in fear and anxiety. Allison Abbott writes, "The initial experiment showed such clear associations that [Andreas] Meyer-Lindenberg didn't think anyone would believe them. So he did a similar experiment on another 23 subjects, this time adding visual feedback that allowed participants to see the investigators' frowns. He found the same sturdy associations."
What that finding means isn't yet clear. Blogger Scicurious points out:
We don't know what the change in activity is doing, what effects it's having. There were no differences in behavior, blood pressure, etc, etc. Without a behavior to go with it, it's just a brain scan showing increased activity, and very little can be concluded from it.
There's another problem: The authors define a city as having more than 100,000 inhabitants. But living in a city of 110,000 is nothing like living in a city of 8 million. The stressful situations I encounter on a daily basis in New York are almost unheard of in Fargo, N.D. (pop. 107,000).
And what about individual variability? As Daniel Kennedy and Ralph Adolphs, who wrote about the study in Nature, point out, "There are wide variations in individuals' preferences for, and ability to cope with, city life: some thrive in New York City; others would happily swap it for a desert island."
Perhaps I'm just in the wrong habitat. But how do I find the right one? Moving back to North Dakota would surely precipitate a mental health crisis (not to mention raise questions about my sanity).
Of course, I'm not blaming all of my angst on New York. If I've learned anything in the past three decades, it's that I have a boundless capacity for unhappiness, no matter where I live. Perhaps the best course of action is to do as my fellow New Yorkers do: Seek therapy.
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Comedian Bill Hicks once said, "Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a jet ski, and you never see an unhappy person riding a jet ski." Mr. Hicks, and most of those who have copied his quote since, never saw someone ride Kawasaki's new 310-horsepower jet ski, the Ultra 310. The rider of this brutish machine may be having fun, but that person, particularly if he or she is a rookie personal water craft pilot, will also be terrified.
(Full disclosure: Kawasaki wanted me to try their jet ski so bad, they flew me down to the Florida Keys, wined and dined me, and tried not to laugh too hard as I flew by on an Ultra 310R, grim-faced and hanging on for dear life with a white-knuckled death grip, at nearly 70 miles per hour.)
Kawasaki had two different types of jet skis on hand in Duck Key, Fla. last week – the Ultra 310LX and the Ultra 310R. The LX had cool things like adjustable handlebars, a stereo system with a waterproof memory stick tube in the console and a seat made from special material that doesn't get insanely hot when the ski is sitting out in the sun on a blazing summer day. The R model is set up for racing, and has dirt bike handlebars that Kawasaki says provide tighter steering control. It doesn't have a stereo, but when you're going faster than about 40 mph, it's impossible to hear the speakers anyway.
Before last week, I had never driven or even ridden on a jet ski. Sure, I used to pilot small boats for a living, but the most robust among them was 21 feet long and had a pair of 110-horsepower Mercury outboards to propel the boat, two or three people, and a bunch of depth-sounding equipment. Kawasaki's 310 series jet skis are the maritime equivalent of wearing a rocket pack on a pair of roller skates; also similar to buying a 750 cc Honda as your first motorcycle (which I foolishly did).
As a surfer, veteran ocean lifeguard and all-around beach guy, I'm pretty well acquainted with the ocean and its characteristics. But before hopping on the back of a 310, my experience had thus far been limited to the speed my arms could make me travel. Add a liquid-cooled 310-horsepower supercharged 1.5-liter DOHC 4-cylinder engine into the mix – which is good for a motorcycle, but would also serve most mid-size cars just fine – and the amount of time required to respond to those conditions compresses into an interval much more brief than most peoples' brains are equipped to process, mine included.
Luckily, Kawasaki thought ahead and figured that someone with $16,000 to spend, but little in the way of either sense or experience, might want to pick up one of its 310 series models. So the company's engineers came up with an ingenious way to protect those people from the awesome power of these machines, and from themselves. Much like that creepy Super Bowl commercial starring Lawrence Fishburne, where he offered Kia shoppers a pair of keys – one sorta blah one and one supposed mind-blower – Kawasaki offers two keys for its most powerful jet ski.
The green one is the nasty one; the one that will have you clinging to the handgrips as if your life depends upon it (because it does). The yellow one initiates what they call SLO mode, and it tells the engine's management computer to reduce the power by about 30 percent. The thing will still get up and go, but it's not life threatening like the full power mode.
Being a jet ski newbie, I took some time to get acquainted with the 310 on the yellow key before reaching for the green one. I thought I had the thing down pat, but when I popped that verdant computerized plastic tab into the appropriate slot and went for the throttle control, I knew immediately that it was going to be a different kind of ride. Under full power, it takes off like, well, like an actual jet. Except you aren't harnessed into your seat like in a jet airplane, you're just sitting out there like a hapless moron about to be swept away as if slapped by a giant fly swatter. If you're going 30 miles per hour and jack the throttle wide open all of a sudden, you will fall off the back of this thing. Somehow, I managed not to. I had enough respect for the machine not to tempt it to destroy me, apparently.
The 310 series jet skis also have a 22.5-degree deep-V hull that cuts through choppy water better than you would ever think a 10-foot-long jet ski could. Although heavy rain and a 10- to 15-knot northeast wind had roiled the ocean's surface into what surfers call "victory at sea" conditions, the skis were still able to do 50 miles per hour without any problem. That V-shaped hull also means you can lay the 310 into some pretty deep turns at speeds that would have seemed ludicrous on something with a flatter bottom. The hull slows the ski down pretty quickly when you back off the throttle, so at lower speeds, you can turn the handlebars really hard, give it some throttle, and watch the nose dig in as the tail whips around. Want to get out of that and go straight in a hurry? No problem. The supercharger and jet pump do all the work as the thing explodes out of the water in a straight line.
At higher speeds – closer to 70, by the reckoning of a digital speedometer I could scarcely see because of the wind and stinging raindrops buffeting my face and causing my lips to ripple and my sunglasses to make a rattling sound – the 310 still cut straight through the slop, feeling a lot less sketchy than I thought it should have. The catch at that speed is to make all of your inputs gradual ones, no matter what happens. Just as jamming the throttle open will throw you off the back of a 310, letting it snap shut at 65 mph will make you slow down awfully fast. As I bounded across whitecaps and little swells, I kept wondering what my teeth would look like scattered across the bow in front of the handlebars. It seemed a feasible scenario.
Being a truly modern conveyance, the 310 series skis also have electronic fuel injection, cruise control and an eco mode you can flip on for long cruises. I'm not sure how it works, because myself and the other throttle jockeys around me were more intent upon open throttle death rides than thrifty eco-cruising, and all of us had drained the skis' 20.6-gallon tanks in about 50 miles. But the Kawasaki folks told me that if you cruised at a reasonable speed in eco mode, you could probably go a lot further than 50 miles.
We were only about 100 miles from Cuba in that part of the Keys, so I thought that perhaps the 310 could make it there and I could go check out some awesome Soviet tractor engine-powered '50s Chevys and suck down a couple of rum cocktails. But since I can't think of many worse places to be than stranded than on an out-of-fuel jet ski in the middle of open ocean, particularly in the nearshore waters of a mildly hostile Communist country, I decided I'd keep close to land, just in case.
Kawasaki has been building jet skis since 1973, so a supercharged 310-hp version that weighs nearly 1,000 pounds seems a natural point to have reached after four decades of development and evolution. You may wonder what the hell you would ever do with so powerful a machine, but Kawasaki tells me that not only is the 310 good for racing – they even had a real, live jet ski racing champion, Minoru Kanamori, on hand to show us a few things – but it can also be outfitted with towers and tanks for catching big fish offshore, or it can carry three passengers.
I have a sneaking suspicion that these would be great as the aquatic version of fighter jets. The Coast Guard could mount M249 machine guns on the noses of a handful of 310s and deploy them from cutters in pursuit of fleeing cocaine barons.
But if those uses don't seem fetching to you, what can I tell you other than that goes in the water and it's really, really fast. What could ever make anyone happier than that?
As the great Kanamori, who is shown in these pictures, told me: "I will say key word is Adrenaline rush."
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Bathing suit season is at our doorstep...I don't know about eating this much decadence. Oh, alright...no need to twist ;o)ReplyDelete
Lately, I too have been on a butterscotch kick. I just finished making a great sauce topping blended with melasse...it was surprisingly very tasty. Soon, I'll be posting and ice-cream with what else ... Butterscotch. I guess all that's missing is your great brownie recipe;o)
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- Jackie6/02/2010 07:22:00 AM
These brownies look delicious! I bet Jeff's co-workers are really glad he has started working there!ReplyDelete
I love your photos. They pop off the page and have beautiful edges. How do you do that.ReplyDelete
I never pass up butterscotch. I'll have a brownie.
Oooh, I'm bookmarking this one for family gatherings this summer- I always need to bring something new and exciting- and these look perfect!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6/02/2010 06:13:00 PM
Wow--4 sticks of butter in the recipe?!? Those do sound rich and decadent! I hope they were well received at Jeff's new workplace!ReplyDelete
Foodessa - These were worth the extra minutes on the elliptical!ReplyDelete
Jackie - I hope so!
Christina - Thanks! It's a basic option in the photo software we use.
Erika - It's one I'll be keeping handy for big gatherings!
Courtney - Yes... but, it is made in a super large pan and they can be cut smaller (not like I did though). Hee hee!
Goodness, those look great. Love how perfectly cut they are.ReplyDelete
Very nice picture!ReplyDelete
Holy moly.ReplyDelete
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Crystal - I agree... they were crazy good, but I don't think I could eat them every day!
My mom used to make a similar recipe when I was a kid, although she called them Penuche Butterscotch Brownies.ReplyDelete
Just looking at the photo makes my mouth water! Man, were those things *sweet*!
My mom loves penuche -- these sound just about perfect for us to make on our mother-daughter beach vacation in Maine! Thanks again for another wonderful recipe. (DH and I are going to try the pasta broccoli casserole, too.)ReplyDelete
Bistro - Sweet, yes, but so good!ReplyDelete
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This looks divine! Can just imagine that butterscotch-y goodness...ReplyDelete
These look soo good. Love the uniformity you've achieved. I'll make these once I'm off my diet!ReplyDelete
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