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Following the advice of a friend of mine, I have just discovered the value of " 'Free' Enterprise and Competitive Order", the speech Friedrich Hayek had delivered in occasion of 1947's Mont Pellerin Society meeting. I found it as a sort of piece of philosophy of public policy, very appropriate for the present years.
In that paper, Hayek states that the "continued movement toward more government control" is mostly due to the lack of "a consistent philosophy of the groups which wish to oppose it", groups that advocate free enterprise but not a competitive order.
Hayek qualifies "the impression that abandonment of all harmful of unnecessary activity" is "the consummation of all political wisdom" as a "fatal tactical mistake". In this sense, he calls for assuming that "demands for greater security and greater equality" will "determine action for a long time to come and carefully to consider how far a place can be found for them in a free society".
Hayek presents the concept of competitive order as the political programme of making competition work, not by mere absence of intervention on free enterprise, but by an active prevention of monopolies. He also points out that the "preconditions of a competitive order" require a monetary and financial policy and some sort of provision to "be made for the unemployed and the unemployable poor".
To summarize, Hayek claims to "pay deliberate attention to the moral temper of the contemporary man", trying to canalize his "energies from the harmful policies to which they are now devoted to a new effort on behalf of individual freedom".


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About Miranda Girard
Miranda Girard is an exhibiting and commissioned Connecticut artist. Her often figurative, representational paintings and drawings are motivated by expression, emotion and environment. She graduated summa cum laude from Maryland Institute College of Art with a Bachelor's Degree in General Fine Arts and a minor in Creative Writing, and received an MFA in Visual Arts, with high honors, from Western Connecticut State University.
Miranda also attended workshops at Studio Escalier, a contemporary classical art center in Argenton-Chateau, France; Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts; Silvermine Art Center; Sacred Heart University; The Art Students League; and Zoll School of Fine Art. She has studied with Sangram Majumdar, Carl Plansky, Palden Hamilton, David Kassan, Barry Nemett, Timothy Stotz, N. Michelle Tully and others.
Select awards include the W. B. Connor Trust, the Connecticut University Grant, Studio Escalier Waterway Fellowship, Maryland Institute College of Art Trustee Scholarship and Trumbull, Connecticut's Artist of the Year.
Her works are in private collections in the United States and Europe.

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Rees experimented with etching as a young man, but did not turn seriously to printmaking until much later in his life. 'The Caloola Suite' was his first series of lithographs, the final published group of six selected from seventeen made at the time. The subjects were inspired by landscapes of special personal significance, including those around his holiday home 'Caloola' at Werri Beach on the south coast of New South Wales and in Hobart, from the top of Mount Wellington and looking towards the River Derwent from his son's house at Sandy Bay.
For Rees, prints were an extension of drawing. 'The Caloola Suite' underscores the energy and monumental scale of his later works, paintings as well as drawings. Although reluctant to make lithographs at first, he was astonished at how well they turned out:
"... it's a funny thing with human nature. If I had been agreeable to do them in the first case, you know - responded, I think that they might have been less interesting. The fact that I was in a state of rebellion had something to do with it ... I remember I was a bit resistant sitting back with a big board and saying 'Well, what is it' ... and without any inhibitions I went at it, you see ... I thought they'd be no good. They were simply grey impressions [on the aluminium plates] ... when we made the lithographs with Fred Genis, he came in and put them out on the floor; I was staggered."
- Lloyd Rees 1983
Australian Art Department, AGNSW, 2000
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Signed and dated lower c., black fibre-tipped pen "Lloyd Rees 80".
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Quazi Sadruzzaman is the greatest men's tennis singles player in UMass Boston history. Period. He is the only player in history to win the Little East Conference Flight One Singles Championship all four times and also captured the Flight One Doubles crown with partner Dat Nguyen in 2004 to give him five overall LEC titles. A four-time LEC Player of the Week, Sadruzzaman played all 56 of his singles matches from the number one spot in the lineup and won 50 of them for an astounding winning percentage of .893 for the highest mark of any player at UMB with over 20 matches played. His win total is also the most in school annals. The netter didn't just win matches, he dominated them. From April 27, 2002 to May 8, 2004, he won 28 straight singles contests to go undefeated for the final two and a half seasons of his career and won 25 of those matches in straight sets, including a string of 17 straight outings, where he dropped no more than four games in a set.
Sadruzzaman made it his trademark to play short matches, having won 44 of his matches in straight sets and proved to be tough even in defeat, taking his opponent to three sets in half of his six losses. His success wasn't limited to singles play as evidenced by a 36-17 record in doubles action for a .679 career winning percentage to rank eighth among players with two or more seasons at UMB. A 2004 UMass Boston graduate, his victory total in doubles play stands as the second most in school history and contributes to an overall combined record of 86-23 for a .789 winning mark to rank first in combined wins and fourth in combined winning percentage for players with two or more seasons for the Beacons. He finished his career in style, posting a 24-3 combined record as a senior for an impressive .889 winning percentage and won 12 consecutive matches to close out his career, including six in doubles play.
In 2013, Sadruzzaman became the second Beacon to earn a place in the prestigious Little East Conference Hall of Fame. The tennis great was the first student-athlete in UMass Boston history to be enshrined by the conference.


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The zip code 94915 belongs to the Central Marin town of San Rafael, CA.
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The wall-crawling adventures in the Assassin's Creed games are not directly inspired by Spider-Man comics, but the thematic connections are there. Because of that, this mock-up of Todd McFarlane's iconic Spider-Man #1 (1990) done up as an AC comic is pitch-perfect.
It's one of several classic comic book covers redone to feature the video games they officially or unofficially inspired, by the creative folks at 1up.com. Go look at all of them. There are some wonderful pieces.


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Performance Portability of a GPU Enabled Factorization with the DAGuE Framework," IEEE Cluster: workshop on Parallel Programming on Accelerator Clusters (PPAC), June 2011. (290.98 KB)"
A Unified HPC Environment for Hybrid Manycore/GPU Distributed Systems," IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (submitted), Anchorage, AK, May 2011."
DAGuE: A generic distributed DAG engine for high performance computing," Innovative Computing Laboratory Technical Report, no. ICL-UT-10-01, April 2010. (830.85 KB)"
Distributed Dense Numerical Linear Algebra Algorithms on Massively Parallel Architectures: DPLASMA," University of Tennessee Computer Science Technical Report, UT-CS-10-660, September 2010. (366.26 KB)"
Distributed-Memory Task Execution and Dependence Tracking within DAGuE and the DPLASMA Project," Innovative Computing Laboratory Technical Report, no. ICL-UT-10-02, 00 2010. (400.75 KB)"
Dodging the Cost of Unavoidable Memory Copies in Message Logging Protocols," Proceedings of EuroMPI 2010, Stuttgart, Germany, Springer, September 2010. (202.87 KB)"
Kernel Assisted Collective Intra-node Communication Among Multicore and Manycore CPUs," University of Tennessee Computer Science Technical Report, UT-CS-10-663, November 2010. (384.75 KB)"
Locality and Topology aware Intra-node Communication Among Multicore CPUs," Proceedings of the 17th EuroMPI conference, Stuttgart, Germany, LNCS, September 2010. (327.01 KB)"
Redesigning the Message Logging Model for High Performance," Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (online version), June 2010. (438.42 KB)"
Reasons for a Pessimistic or Optimistic Message Logging Protocol in MPI Uncoordinated Failure Recovery," CLUSTER '09, New Orleans, IEEE, August 2009. DOI: 10.1109/CLUSTR.2009.5289157 (191.36 KB)"
Fault Tolerance Management for a Hierarchical GridRPC Middleware," 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2008), Lyon, France, January 2008. (319.79 KB)"
Redesigning the Message Logging Model for High Performance," International Supercomputer Conference (ISC 2008), Dresden, Germany, January 2008. (622.1 KB)"
Retrospect: Deterministic Relay of MPI Applications for Interactive Distributed Debugging," Accepted for Euro PVM/MPI 2007: Springer, September 2007."


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THE PARTY This May, the River North Design District hosted "Progressive Products" for the ASID Illinois chapter. Guests went on a walking tour of Casa Spazio, Studio 41, Organic Looms, Jagoli, The Tile Gallery, Chicago Luxury Beds and Oscar Isberian Rugs. THE PERKS Those who attended all six showrooms were entered for a chance to win a $500 gift certificate to the Peninsula Spa. THE HIGHLIGHTS Guests enjoyed a selection of hors d'oeuvres and wine pairings from J&L Catering, including American caviar and smoked salmon on brioche paired with Champagne. Photography by Ami Kahalekulu


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Manager Gets Fired After Stopping Gun Theft At Academy Sports
A manager at an Academy Sports store in Tallahassee, Florida who stopped a man from stealing a .40 caliber pistol and a backpack filled with ammunition has been fired because his actions violated the company's policy. Dean Crouch was working when Jason White walked in an asked to see a handgun. An employee behind the counter handed White the gun and he bolted for the door.
Crouch heard the commotion, tackled White before he could get outside and detained him until police arrived. White admitted to trying to steal the gun and a backpack, which contained five boxes of ammunition and two magazines.
Police announced White's arrest in a Facebook post and said they were also able to connect him to a robbery at a pawn shop earlier in the day. White told police he stole the gun because his family was being threatened and promised that he "will steal again" when he is released from prison.
Crouch was suspended by Academy Sports following the incident and after a month-long investigation, he was terminated for violating a company policy that prohibits employees from making contact with customers.
Crouch hired attorney Ryan Hobbs and is considering a lawsuit for wrongful termination.
"Academy has decided to, instead of treating him like a hero he is, they terminated his employment effective immediately because he put his hands on Mr. White," Hobbs told the Tallahassee Democrat.
Academy Sports spokeswoman Elise Hasbrook confirmed that Crouch was fired because his actions were "inconsistent with corporate policies" and that the company "addressed the matter with the local store and individuals involved."
Hobbs explained that he believes the company's policy is meant to protect it against lawsuits.
"My instincts tell me they are concerned more about people like Mr. White suing them for being stopped in the course of a theft than they are about rewarding or acknowledging in a positive manner that Mr. Crouch may have saved lives."


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The top prosecutors in San Francisco and New York are bringing in state and federal security experts to test the newest anti-theft features designed to thwart the surge of stolen smartphones.
San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced Thursday that security experts will be in San Francisco to test Apple's iPhone 5 with its activation lock and Samsung's Galaxy S4 with Lojack for Android.
Gascon says the experts will treat the phones as if they were stolen and try circumventing its anti-theft features to draw their own conclusions on its effectiveness.
Gascon and Schneiderman met in New York City last month with representatives from Apple, Samsung, Google and Microsoft, urging them to create a "kill switch" to render stolen smartphones inoperable.


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¨Traditional¨ cyber-crime activities such as phishing typically require an attacker to compromise one or more victim computer systems (either individually or via mass auto-rooters) and establish a fake or fraudulent web site. Content would then be advertised to victims either by mass emailing or more targeted marketing (spear phishing), often through other compromised computer systems and botnets. The computer systems hosting the malicious content would be identified either by public DNS name or directly by IP address embedded within the email lure messages. These types of scams are identified relatively quickly by security professionals and can be quickly shut down. As the average time of survival was reduced for these phishing websites, criminals began to add additional layers of protection, such as server address obfuscation or utilize groups of proxy servers to redirect network. Such systems are limited in scale and can still be tracked down fairly quickly with international co-operation. We are now seeing the next evolutionary step, the fast-flux network. In the end, it's all about Return on Investment (ROI) for the criminals, and fast-flux service networks provide a reliable way to maximize the returns on their criminal activities for relatively low effort. Fast-flux service networks offer three major advantages to operators of Internet based criminal activity.
The first advantage is found in both legitimate and criminal operations: simplicity. Only one suitably powerful backend server (or mothership) host is needed to serve the master content and DNS information. The published URLs (such as via phishing lures) point to front end proxy redirectors, which then transparently redirect client connection requests to the actual malicious back end server or servers. This makes the content delivery infrastructure much simpler for criminals to manage. Instead of having to build (or compromise) and maintain many servers to host their phishing or malicious websites, they now require only a small number of well managed core systems to host their scam sites and malware, whilst other attackers can specialize in building and operating reliable fast-flux service networks to deliver their malicious content.
The second advantage is that front-end nodes are disposable criminal assets that can offer a layer of protection from ongoing investigative response or legal action. When a security professional is responding to an incident and attempts to track down a malicious website hosted via a fast-flux service network, they typically recover only a handful of IP addresses corresponding to disposable front-end nodes which may be spread across multiple jurisdictions, continents, regional languages and time zones, which further complicates the investigation. Because of the proxy redirection layer, an electronic crimes investigator or incident responder will often find no local evidence of the hosting of malicious content on compromised front end systems, and traffic logging is usually disabled so audit trails are also limited.
Thirdly, fast-flux service networks extend the operational lifespan of the critical backend core servers that are hidden by the front-end nodes. It can take much longer to identify and shut down these core backend servers due to the multiple layers of redirection – particularly if these nodes are hosted in territories with lax laws and criminal-friendly 'bullet-proof' hosting services. Very few operational changes have been observed in live backend servers during the extensive monitoring of fast-flux service network cores, which is a testament to the success of this operational model.


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Mitigating Shore Erosion along Sheltered Coasts (October 2006)Report in Brief
Sheltered coastal areas, such as those along bays and estuaries, experience land loss from erosion and sea level rise much like ocean beaches. Owners of property along sheltered coasts often reinforce their shoreline with bulkheads and other structures to prevent erosion; however, this construction alters the coastal ecosystem, causing changes that threaten landscapes, public access, recreational opportunities, natural habitats, and fish populations. At the request of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology, this report examines the impacts of shoreline management on sheltered coasts and calls for a regional management approach that considers the environmental impacts that could accumulate if hard structures are permitted on a site by site basis. In addition, this report recommends changing the current permitting system to remove the default preference for bulkheads and similar structures and to allow more flexibility to encourage use of more ecologically beneficial erosion-control methods, such as planting of marshes.


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"i like what you're doing there, george. i like it alot." — john
Great picture, hes definitely caught in a moment, as if Pauls thinking "my god Im in a band with this amazing guy and the world is ours"!
There are so many great photos where John is gazing at Paul and others where Paul is gazing at John. What a connection they had. A mutual admiration society (until of course …). But it sure was lovely while it lasted.
If a picture says a thousand words, then this one describes the feelings Paul sang of many years later in "Here Today".
Lovely photo & sentiment.
They were such good friends and so much like brothers. I've read interviews with George Martin that as annoying as John could be to Paul, so could Paul be to John. But at the end of the day, they were inseparable and incredibly protective of one another.


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I understand that Steve Jobs tried to minimize the number of physical buttons on iOS devices, and I am sympathetic with that idea. It is understandable that the power button, which has to be accessible before the OS is running, has to be physical, and it also makes sense that the volume or mute/rotation lock buttons, which require rapid access, are physical. But I cannot think of a reason why the home button is physical. It is also known as one of the most fragile parts in iOS devices.
Is there anyone who can suggest a possibility of why the home button was designed to be physical rather than a touch icon or some gesture?
Why is the home button located on the front surface whereas all the other physical buttons are located on the sides? I think this is the ugliest part of the design of iOS devices.


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I'm going to be giving some talks based on my new book, 'Portsmouth's World War One Heroes', courtest of Portsmouth Library Service:
Portsmouth's World War One Heroes
- Saturday 8 February – 1.30pm, Carnegie Library (Fratton)
- Saturday 8 March – 1.30pm, Southsea Library
Researching your World War One Ancestors
- Saturday 29 March – 11am, Central Library
A special talk for the 'Lost Hour' event, this talk will show you how you can research your ancestors who took part in the First World War, using examples of men from Portsmouth who fought and died, and shwoing you the sources available to help with your research.
All talks are fully illustrated, and copies of my book will be available for purchase. Hope to see you there, come and say hi!
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Tennessee Candidates Arguing Over Who Is More of an Awful Bigot
Candidates in a Tennessee Republican congressional primary are engaged in an epic battle to determine who's more of a wretched bigot. Lou Ann Zelenik, who lost to current congresswoman Diane Black two years ago, promises to be super racist and awful towards Muslims like the ones who wanted to build a mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennessee a couple of years ago.
"I will work to stop the Islamization of our society, and do everything possible to prevent Sharia law from circumventing our laws and our Constitution," Zelenik said.
Black, for her part, also insists she's a lowest-common-denominator-pandering fear mongerer, but just one who has a more nuanced grasp of the constitution (nuanced in the sense that she probably skimmed it once or twice in the background of ad she read while buying gold).
"No one is more opposed to Sharia law, radical Islam and terrorism than Diane Black, but unlike her opponent, Diane Black respects our Constitution," her campaign spokeswoman Jennifer Coxe-Baker said.
But Tenneesee residents aren't buying Black's tough talk. A "health care investor" and certainly awful person named Andrew Miller recently donated $105,000 to a group called (and I swear this is not a typo) Citizens 4 Ethics in Government. The group has already spent almost $188,000 on autocalls and commercials to unseat Black.
Natrually, Muslims aren't too thrilled.
Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington-based Muslim Civil Rights and advocacy group, says people like Zelenik "live in their own bubble of anti-Islam hate."
"All you can do is rely on the goodwill and the tolerance of the members of the rest of society who don't hold these extremist, bizarre views and trust in the common sense of the American people and the people of Tennessee," he said.
That's a nice sentiment and all, Hooper, but my roommate is from Tennessee, and there's simply no reasoning with those people.
Anyway, what makes the whole thing even dumber, if that's possible, is that this "I'm more intolerant than you" pissing contest isn't even about Murfreesboro anymore; a 2010 redrawing of election maps put the community center and mosque in another district.
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When you add clients with the add_install_client -d script on the install server, the script reports DHCP configuration information to standard output. You can use this information when you create the options and macros that are needed to pass network installation information to clients.
To install DHCP clients with a DHCP server over the network, you must create DHCP options. This information is needed to install the Oracle Solaris OS.
When a client sends a DHCP request, the server must have the following client information:
Client's ID, which is typically the Ethernet address
Class of the client request
Subnet on which the client resides
The DHCP server forms a response. This response is based on the following macros, which matches the client request:
The class macro is based on a class string that is contained in the DHCP request. On x86 based systems, the BIOS already makes a DHCP request with the class PXEClient:Arch:00000:UNDI:002001. If a macro by this name is defined in the DHCP server configuration, then the macro content is sent to the x86 based clients.
The network macro is named by the IP address of the subnet that the client resides on. If the macro 22.214.171.124 is defined on the DHPC server, the macro content is sent to all clients on that subnet. The macro content is sent, regardless of the class of the request. If an option is defined in both the class macro and the network macro, the network macro takes precedence.
The IP macro is named by an IP address. This macro is rarely used.
The client macro is named by the client type (01 for Ethernet) and the MAC address of the client, in uppercase letters. For a client with the Ethernet address 0:0:39:fc:f2:ef, the corresponding macro name is 01000039FCEF. Note the absence of colons in the client macro.
For example, for a client on the subnet 192.168.100.0, with the Ethernet address 0:0:39:fc:f2:ef, making a DHCP request of class PXEClient, the DHCP server has the following matching macro:
PXEClient BootSrvA: 192.168.100.0 BootFile: pxegrub 184.108.40.206 Router: 18.104.22.168 NISdmain: sunsoft.eng.sun.com 01000039FCEF BootFile: 01000039FCEF The actual DHCP response will be BootSrvA: 192.168.100.0 BootFile: 01000039FCEF Router: 220.127.116.11 NISdmain: sunsoft.eng.sun.com
Note that the BootFile in the client macro overrides the BootFile in the class macro.
For more detailed information, see Preconfiguring System Configuration Information With the DHCP Service (Tasks) in Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 Installation Guide: Network-Based Installations.


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Saks Fifth Avenue celebrated two of The Atlantan's featured Men of Style, DeMarco Morgan and Jamail Larkins, with a private viewing of Versace's men's spring/summer 2014 collection. Guests were treated to Italian-style delicacies and peach bellinis catered by Sun in My Belly, and Atlanta-based R&B hitmaker Usher even made an appearance. The evening benefited Take Steps for Crohn's and Colitis, a community walk dedicated to raising funds and awareness of the diseases. -Photos by Dylan York


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Officials Continue Aggressive Testing; Seafood on the Market Safe
The Louisiana departments of Health and Hospitals (DHH), and Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) announced today the closure of recreational and commercial fishing activities, and oyster harvesting near Marsh Island and in harvesting bed Area 28 due to confirmed reports of oil associated with the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
LDWF Secretary Robert Barham announced the following closure to recreational and commercial fishing activities effective sunset today, May 18, 2010, due to confirmed reports of oil. LDWF staff documented oil on the Marsh Island beach, east of Southwest Pass.
Territorial Sea Closure
All state outside waters extending seaward of the inside/outside shrimp line from South Point of Marsh Island at 91 degrees 45 minutes 48 seconds west longitude westward to the eastern shore of Freshwater Bayou at 92 degrees 18 minutes 27 seconds west longitude.
All other closures remain in place. For a map detailing these closures click here. http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/pdfs/news/fishing-closure.jpg
Oyster Harvesting Closure
DHH Secretary Alan Levine and State Health Officer Dr. Jimmy Guidry signed the closure order for Area 28, which will take effect at sunset today, Tuesday, May 18. Area 28, which is south of Vermillion Bay, is west of the Mississippi River in Iberia Parish.
Areas 2 through 4, 8, 14, 15 and 17 also are closed. Areas 5, 6, 7, 9 and 13 were recently reopened.
Closures will remain in effect until officials have determined that environmental conditions are within the requirements specified by the National Shellfish Sanitation Program.
Additional Testing
LDWF and DHH continue to work together to assess closures in order to maintain the safety of Louisiana seafood.
DHH officials have also been working closely with other local, state and federal agencies to monitor the oil plume that continues to grow off of the Louisiana coastline for its potential impacts on oyster harvesting areas. Meanwhile, employees with DHH's Office of Public Health Molluscan Shellfish Program have continued regular testing of 8 million acres of coastal waters along the Louisiana shoreline.
In addition, DHH scientists and engineers are conducting enhanced testing of oyster meat taken from the closed beds to monitor the presence of oil, called hydrocarbon testing. Additional testing is also being conducted in unaffected oyster beds. These tests will create a baseline, which will be used to ensure the safety of oysters once the incident clears in order to reopen beds. Oysters being harvested in open areas are considered safe.
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By Claire Heininger, U.S. ArmyAugust 15, 2012
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Aug. 15, 2012) -- The Army is refining its buying methods and reaching out to small businesses in order to smooth the path for industry to participate in the Network Integration Evaluations.
Industry support is crucial to the success of the Network Integration Evaluations, known as NIEs, and Agile Process, which solicit mature technologies from both large and small businesses and put them to the test in an operational environment to determine whether they fill the Army's hardware and software needs. With three NIEs now completed, the Army is leveraging that experience and applying industry feedback in order to improve the process and its outcomes.
"We're bringing in technologies that would normally take six or seven years for us to get in the hands of Soldiers, and now are taking months," said Brig. Gen. Daniel Hughes, director of Army System of Systems Integration. "The Agile Process allows us to evaluate technologies more quickly; now we are streamlining the procurement process so we can reward those systems that are successful and field them as part of the Army network."
The service is now finalizing a plan to incorporate successful industry systems into Army materiel portfolios by aligning them with existing Programs of Record. The Army is also building a Request for Proposal, or RFP, solicitation to establish a formal mechanism to procure systems that show promise out of the NIE.
The initial RFP, in addition to continued sources sought notices, targeted for release this fall, will result in an NIE support contract award for NIE 14.1 with an option for production quantities. This will allow the Army to execute a contract option to procure production material to quickly field to Soldiers.
"While the Army has already bought certain technologies out of the NIE process, we are now taking a more systemic approach that will provide industry more visibility on how to achieve a tangible return on investment," Hughes said.
For small businesses in particular, participating in a massive Army field exercise and multi-phase process leading up to it can be a daunting proposition. The Army can assist small businesses by providing funding to offset labor and Field Service Representative costs and to produce additional system quantities needed for evaluation beyond what they can afford to bring themselves.
"From an Army point of view, small business brings a wealth of knowledge and technology," said Lt. Col. Carlos Wiley, who leads pre-NIE Lab Based Risk Reduction efforts that integrate government and industry systems prior to their field tryout with Soldiers. "They can be very agile in responding to and fixing any issues with their systems. So it's critical that we keep fostering small business to get out and look at our capability gaps to try and find a solution."
For example, during lab preparation for the October NIE 13.1 a small company was very responsive when engineers discovered integration problems between its technology and existing Army radios, Wiley said.
"Initially when we had them come in, we did not believe that they would be mature enough to be able to support and go through NIE 13.1," he said. "But every time there was an issue, they were there, and now they're ready to go in NIE."
The Army is also encouraging small businesses to bring forward their technologies in earlier stages of development so they are better prepared to participate in the Agile Process. Through avenues such as Cooperative Research and Development Agreements, known as CRADAs, or Test Service Agreements, or TSAs, small businesses can obtain detailed information on existing Army systems and better understand how they might modify their systems in order to integrate into the Army network, said Scott Newman, program director for Systems Engineering and Integration for the Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center.
"Once they get this information and can integrate with the network baseline, they provide great technology that can benefit Army programs," he said.
Launched in June 2011, the NIEs are semi-annual evaluations designed to quickly integrate and mature the Army's tactical communications network -- the service's top modernization priority. The events assess new network capabilities from government and industry with an operational brigade combat team to determine whether they perform as needed, conform to the network architecture and are interoperable with existing systems.
Industry interest has increased significantly since the NIEs began. In response to Sources Sought notices issued by the Army, 43 industry candidates responded for NIE 12.1, 105 responded for NIE 12.2 and 146 responded for NIE 13.1. Small businesses have been represented each time, with a peak of eight small business solutions among the 24 industry candidate systems selected to participate in NIE 12.2.
In addition to Army-hosted Industry Day outreach seminars, small businesses have actively approached the Army at forums such as conferences and other industry events seeking information on how to participate in NIEs. One such company submitted a successful candidate during NIE 12.2 and is now participating as a carryover system in NIE 13.1.
One small company that participated in NIE 12.2 was Ringtail Design, a 15-person business that contributed software known as Common Tactical Vision. The touch screen-based tool, used for mission command planning at various echelons across the brigade combat team, received positive feedback from Soldiers during the five-week evaluation.
Ringtail CEO Jeff Carpenter called the user feedback "extremely valuable" and said that with a small staff, Ringtail engineers could interact directly with Soldiers to implement changes within as little as a week. However, he has been disappointed that the Army has not moved more quickly to act on those positive results from NIE and adopt the system for fielding.
"I was hopeful that there would've been more traction," Carpenter said. "It is a lot of time, it is a lot of commitment and it costs a lot of money to participate."
Army leaders acknowledge such concerns and said they will continue to work aggressively to ensure the NIEs achieve their potential as a way to rapidly bring industry innovation into the Army portfolio.
"The NIE is an evolving and adaptive process -- the first event occurred just over one year ago," Hughes said. "The Army considers NIE participation to be an opportunity for industry to obtain first-hand feedback from its Soldier-customers in an environment not available elsewhere. Industry has provided numerous examples of how it was able to make improvements to its products based on this feedback, which comes at notable cost to the Army as well. NIE participation is a partnership to which the Army and industry both contribute."


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Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Says He Gave False Information to End Torture
Well, here's a little story that might impact the debate over the effectiveness of torture—Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the guy who organized the 9/11 attacks, says that he lied and provided false information to interrogators to escape being tortured.
Accused Sept. 11 organizer Khalid Shaikh Mohammed told U.S. military officials that he gave false information to the CIA even after undergoing punishing bouts of interrogation, according to documents made public Monday.
Mohammed made the assertion during hearings held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the militant leader was transferred in 2006 after being held at secret CIA sites since his capture in 2003.
"I make up stories," Mohammed said, describing in broken English an interrogation probably administered by the CIA that concerned the location of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
"Where is he? I don't know. Then he torture me," Mohammed said. "Then I said, 'Yes, he is in this area.' "
We anxiously await Dick Cheney's comments on this as soon as he finishes sipping that glass of puppy's blood.
Detainee Says He Lied to CIA in Harsh Interrogations [LA Times]


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Banning High School seniors Jonathan Gutierrez and Karen Duarte sleepily boarded a bus at 6 a.m. Thursday for what they expected to be an introduction to their future.
They were more than halfway to Humboldt State University, where they had already been admitted, for several days of a Preview Plus college tour for low-income and first-generation students, when a FedEx truck crossed a median and collided head-on with their bus about 100 miles north of Sacramento at 5:41 p.m.
Shocked and injured, Gutierrez and Duarte escaped as the vehicle burned, according to Gutierrez's account of the collision on Twitter.
A Carson High School student also was on the bus and may have been injured but survived, according to Carson city officials. A total of 48 people were aboard, including 19 Los Angeles Unified High School students. Five students and five adults died.
"can't believe this just happened … I was asleep and next thing you know I was jumping out for my life," Gutierrez wrote on Twitter.
He said he suffered a bruised leg, cut eyebrow and numerous scratches before he escaped through a window but was "beyond thankful i'm still here."
From his hospital bed, Gutierrez told ABC News: "I heard people yelling. When I woke up, I heard the crash. That's when I flew out of my seat. The entire bus was covered in smoke from the fire. … A couple kids broke windows so everyone could get out because we saw the fire was spreading. … I jumped out. It was hard to breathe in there. … The smoke was everywhere. You could not see where you were going. … It was so traumatizing. People were panicking and just throwing themselves out the window."
Duarte, he said, "was in shock, but she's OK."
Los Angeles Councilman Joe Buscaino said his office worked to help get Duarte's mother, Maria, who lives in Wilmington and doesn't speak English, on a flight to Sacramento and car trip to Orland to meet her daughter, according to a spokesman for his office. Buscaino accompanied the mother and a relative to Los Angeles International Airport on Friday evening. They are expected to return Sunday with Duarte.
American Airlines sponsored Maria Duarte's flight to see her daughter, who suffered injuries to her face. She was sleeping and sitting only four seats behind the driver when the accident occurred. Her cousin, Susana Cervantes, said Karen told her there was fire everywhere and that students were breaking windows to get out of the bus.
Not wanting to worry her mother, Karen, a Banning senior, called Thursday night to say she'd been in a "minor accident," according to KNBC Channel 4 news. It was only when her mother later saw the news coverage that she realized how serious the accident had been.
On Friday morning, Banning High School students came and went to classes as usual. Travis Collier, an instructional director, said crisis counselors were available.
Frank Whitlatch, a spokesman for Humboldt State University, said the students were "coming to learn what it was all about and see what college life is like."
Two other busloads of potential students arrived without incident, and the university offered counseling services while they worked Friday morning to connect with families of those who had been injured and killed, he said.
Long Beach Unified School District officials said two of their students received "non-life-threatening injuries" aboard the bus, including one who attended California Academy of Mathematics and Science on the Cal State Dominguez Hills campus in Carson and one from Polytechnic High School.
City News Service and staff writers Donna Littlejohn and Carley Dryden contributed to this report.


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CISPA's Sponsor Can't Even Keep His Story Straight About NSA Having Access To Your Data
from the also,-wtf-politico? deptCISPA's sponsors are doing the same thing they did last year when confronted with serious opposition to a terrible bill: they start lying about it. First, they released a "fact vs. myth" sheet about the bill that was so ridiculously misleading that the EFF had to pick apart nearly every dubious claim. A big part of this is trying to hide the fact that the bill has very broad definitions that will make it much easier for the NSA to get access to private data. No one has claimed that this automatically allows the NSA to do full "surveillance" via CISPA, but that's what CISPA's supporters pretend critics have said, so they can fight back against the strawman.
What's incredible is that the statements from CISPA's supporters are, themselves, quite contradictory. Take, for example, the hilarious statements from CISPA sponsor Mike Rogers to Politico, in which he seeks to "fire back" at critics who worry about CISPA being used by the NSA. Read his comments carefully, and you'll see that he goes from saying that the NSA won't have anything to do with it, to saying that the definitions are broad (so that maybe the NSA will have something to do with it) to then saying that the NSA is the best at this, so it should be able to use CISPA to get access to private information. All within a matter of a few sentences.
Here's the full bit from Rogers: "I don't know where they get that. It doesn't say that in the bill. NSA is not authorized to monitor; this is not a surveillance bill. If you read the bill — I encourage those privacy groups to actually read the bill — you won't find that in the bill. ... We're agnostic on how the government would form [an info-sharing regime]; some want DHS, some want others. We thought, let's be agnostic on that portion so you get the right regime. But if you don't have the capability of the NSA, taking that information from the Iranians and the North Koreans and others, and allowing that to get back into the system, it's worthless. And if you want the gold-standard protection from cyberattacks, the NSA has to be at least somewhere. They don't have to get it, they don't have to be the lead in it, but they're the ones that have the capability for overseas collection."So, basically, it's all an overstatement that the NSA might get access to your data... er... I mean, we don't actually specify, so we'll let the federal government make its own decisions later when its outside of public scrutiny and... oh yeah, of course we want the NSA to have access to the data, because they're "the gold-standard."
That's not going to put the privacy concerns to rest, now, is it? Rogers' problem is that he's pretending that privacy critics are saying this is an ongoing "surveillance" bill, rather than one where the NSA can get access to private data. As far as I know, none of the privacy groups protesting CISPA have made that claim of it being a surveillance bill. They're just worried about how CISPA destroys (literally, wipes out) any privacy protections for companies handing private info over to the government. Basically, the end of his statement exactly confirms the concerns raised by privacy advocates, even as he pretends that it disproves them. Incredible.
Meanwhile, aren't reporters supposed to push back on bogus claims from politicians, rather than just restating them as fact? *Sigh*
Separately, Rogers' own statements contradict that "fact vs. myth" statement that his staff put out. In that statement, the House Intelligence Committee argue that there aren't any problems with "broad" definitions in the bill. And yet, here he clearly talks about how they're "agnostic" on how the program plays out. That's exactly the kind of "broad" issues that people are concerned about.
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Google Tuesday set its sights on IBM, unveiling a tool to migrate Lotus Notes users to Google Apps and releasing a whitepaper laying out how to migrate Notes applications to Google's online infrastructure.
Google Apps Migration for Lotus Notes lets users migrate mail, calendar and contacts from Lotus Notes to Google Apps. The tool is a native Notes application and is free with the Google Apps Premier Edition (GAPE) and the education and nonprofit versions of the Google Apps suite. Google is offering the migration tool as part of the trial version of GAPE so users can try it out.
"By targeting the Domino base with a server-side migration utility, Google has clearly identified domino as vulnerable to seat share poaching," says Matt Cain, an analyst with Gartner.
IBM was quick to hit back with a response.
"The fact that they've got a migration tool is not materially significant. Migration tools are a very basic part of being in the e-mail/collaboration business," says Sean Poulley, vice president of IBM cloud collaboration. "IBM is very confident in the position and long-term competitiveness of the IBM Lotus portfolio. We have a long-standing reputation for security and reliability and are trusted by the majority of major businesses around the world. We are innovating in cloud computing as well. In fact, LotusLive beat Google Apps in a side-by-side comparison and won the Enterprise 2.0 Conference Editor's Choice Award for Cloud Computing June 22 in Boston."
The Google tool performs the migration completely from the server side so Notes users can continue to work while the migration is in progress. Once migrated, Gmail will open Notes links with the Notes client. The tool also includes monitor, management and logging tools to control the migration.
While the migration tool is fairly straightforward, Google is providing no more than a whitepaper to guide users through the migration of Notes applications.
Vendors such as Casahl offer a range of software tools for converting Notes applications to other platforms. The conversion, especially of a sophisticated Notes application, can be a painstaking process that includes major rewriting.
"Application conversion will always be problematic," Cain says. "After any Domino shop migrates to another e-mail vendor, the applications live on for at least three more years. For complex Domino applications, there is no such thing as "conversion." Complex Domino applications require a complete rewrite to move to an alternative platform. It is indeed a stretch to think that Domino applications will be converted to Google App applications anytime soon."
Google says former Notes users JohnsonDiversey used Google Apps Migration for Lotus Notes to migrate 10,000 employees. Systems integrator CapGemini used it to migrate 30,000 employees at Valeo, a move that included a number of custom Web applications. The project also included OpenSSO to support single sign-on.
Google has had a long fight with Microsoft in the collaboration space and now the search giant is branching out. Last week, Google stripped the beta tag off its Google Apps platform, signaling that it's serious about meeting the needs of corporate customers.
This week, Google is adding the other major player in the market, attacking the Lotus Notes install base that numbers 145 million. Many of those customers still face migrations to Notes 8, which shipped nearly two years ago.
"We hope this is a continuation of making our product more attractive to the enterprise space and making it easier to adopt Google Apps," says Michael Lock, director of enterprise sales and operations for the Americas at Google.
Lock says CIOs are concerned about three things with online applications: functionality, security/privacy and how do I get there.
"This announcement today is a how-do-I-get-there announcement," he says. "The applications are a bit more of a challenge; it is not a one-size-fits-all strategy. I don't know if there will ever be a set of tools that take a set of applications and put them over in another area."
Google's Chris Vander Mey, senior product manager for Google Apps, says Google has tools such as App Engine "that are highly scalable and highly flexible and give a lot of the function of writing baseline Lotus script, and you can get it today."
Vander Mey says many Notes applications are used as document repositories and that Google has tools that are similar to creating those types of applications.
He said many of the Notes application functions could be rewritten as Web-based applications and supported on the Google platform.
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This story, "Google Opens Attack on Lotus Notes Installed Base" was originally published by Network World.


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SAN BRUNO — PG&E must strengthen its gas pipeline safety regimen as part of a lawsuit settlement with a family that lost a mother and daughter in the deadly 2010 explosion, an attorney said Tuesday.
The agreement with the Greig family forces the utility to keep a closer eye on the life span of its pipelines, which will help prevent another San Bruno-type disaster, said family attorney Steve Campora. Pacific Gas & Electric also made a payment to the family as part of the September settlement, but the exact amount is confidential.
Jacqueline, 44, and Janessa Greig, 13, were among the eight people killed in the fiery rupture of a PG&E pipe that destroyed 38 homes. The mother and daughter were in their house wrapping up some school work when the pipe blew open about 200 feet from their door. Father and husband James Greig was at his older daughter Gabriela's tennis match.
"(The family) wanted to make sure something came out of this tragedy," said Campora. "I think they want to make sure what happened to their wife and daughter won't be in vain."
James Greig declined through Campora to comment.
The settlement requires the utility to calculate a minimum safe life span for pipes in populated areas, which will enable PG&E to identify weakened lines and replace them before they become dangerous. Under the agreement, the utility will give the Greigs reports on their progress.
The Greigs will also be able to demand an audit of the company's progress on the work. The family can prompt mediation talks if they conclude the utility is not keeping up its end of the bargain, said Robert Buccola, another attorney for the family.
Campora said the deadline for the work is Dec. 31, 2015 or whatever date is set by the California Public Utilities Commission.
PG&E says it has already started using the new requirement, though the process will be ongoing.
"We believe that the best way to honor the victims of the accident is to fulfill our goal of operating the safest gas pipeline system in the country," utility spokeswoman Brittany Chord said.
Federal investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board said PG&E committed a series of mistakes that caused the explosion. Authorities said the company maintained such bad records it didn't know certain key features of the ill-fated pipe that ran beneath the San Bruno neighborhood.
Over 110 people who sued the utility over the blast have reached confidential settlements with PG&E, according to the company. But more than 330 plaintiffs' complaints are still awaiting trial, which has creaked to a start in the courtroom of San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Steven Dylina. He is currently dealing with motions on evidence and opening arguments are slated for March 11.
Campora said James Greig has become involved in a charity work connected to the San Bruno blast since the tragedy. His daughter is attending college.
"They are moving on and doing the best they can," he said. "Both he and his daughter are extraordinary people."
Contact Joshua Melvin at 650-348-4335. Follow him at Twitter.com/melvinreport.


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Both the Kings and the New York Rangers appear poised to change their mix on defense for Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final, to be played Saturday at Staples Center.
The Kings won the opener, 3-2, on Wednesday on Justin Williams' goal four minutes and 36 seconds into overtime. Puck drop for Game 2 is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Pacific time.
Kings Coach Darryl Sutter said Friday that defenseman Robyn Regehr "will probably play" in Game 2, but Sutter did not specify whose spot Regehr might take. Best guess is Matt Greene, who was a healthy scratch for five of seven first-round games against San Jose and for Game 1 of the Western Conference final against Chicago. Greene is averaging 13 minutes and 51 seconds of ice time per game during the playoffs and played the fewest minutes of the Kings' defensemen in Game 1 of the Final, 16:48.
Regehr hasn't played since May 3, when he sustained a knee injury during the opener of the Kings' second-round series against the Ducks. Neither he nor Greene is exactly a speedster, but Greene often has struggled to keep up with swift opponents. However, he was outstanding in the Kings' Western Conference clincher against Chicago, contributing six hits, one block and two assists while compiling a +3 defensive rating.
For the Rangers, John Moore is expected to rejoin the lineup Saturday after serving a two-game, league-imposed suspension for delivering a hit to the head of Montreal's Dale Weise in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference final, which the Rangers won in six games.
Raphael Diaz, whose 10:15 in Game 1 was the least ice time among the Rangers' defensemen, is likely to sit in order to make way for Moore.
The Kings practiced at their El Segundo facility on Friday, while the Rangers skated at Staples Center. The Kings' lines were the same as in Game 1: Marian Gaborik-Anze Kopitar-Dustin Brown; Tanner Pearson-Jeff Carter-Tyler Toffoli; Dwight King-Jarret Stoll-Justin Williams; Kyle Clifford-Mike Richards-Trevor Lewis. The defense pairs were Jake Muzzin-Drew Doughty; Willie Mitchell-Slava Voynov, and Alec Martinez-Greene. Regehr practiced in tandem with Jeff Schultz.
We'll have more later from both teams.


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Digital artist RoboChandler has done an incredible thing. He's transformed the serious, well-seasoned Metal Gear Solid characters into innocent, joyful cartoon characters.
Here's The End, one of the most memorable bosses of the Metal Gear series, with his parrot:
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Morgan Stanley Tries to 'Claw Back' Millions After Violent Taxi-Fare Dispute
In the eyes of the law, William Bryan Jennings 's confrontation with a taxicab driver on the way home from a Morgan Stanley MS -0.91% holiday party last December never happened.
Despite a whirlwind of tabloid headlines unleashed after the 46-year-old investment banker pulled a pen knife out of his briefcase over a disputed fare, prosecutors dropped assault and hate-crime charges against him.
Mr. Jennings was a free man. But Morgan Stanley has declined to forgive and forget.
He was fired in early October, two weeks before the criminal case died. A brief letter to him didn't go into much detail, but Morgan Stanley officials have said Mr. Jennings breached the securities firm's 22-page code of conduct, according to people familiar with the matter.
Now the banker, who goes by "Bryan," and his former bosses are in a tug of war over millions of dollars in deferred compensation that Mr. Jennings accumulated during his 19-year career at the New York company.
Officials at the firm believe it owes him nothing, citing "clawback" provisions that allow the company to withhold or seize pay from employees who hurt Morgan Stanley.
Since the financial crisis, Morgan Stanley and other firms have expanded such policies to cover behavior that contributed to outsize losses or reputational harm, rather than just outright fraud or financial misstatements.
A Morgan Stanley spokeswoman said the firm doesn't comment on specific instances or individuals but that "the clawback provisions in our compensation model allow us to take action where appropriate."
People close to Mr. Jennings say Morgan Stanley refused to give him a deferred-compensation payment in June and has frozen as much as $5 million or more, depending on how the payout is calculated.
"The issue is not Mr. Jennings' conduct," said a spokesman for the former Morgan Stanley banker. "The issue is Morgan Stanley's conduct. Morgan Stanley knew Mr. Jennings was victimized and still fired him and still kept his money."
The position taken by Morgan Stanley goes all the way to the top, including Chairman and Chief Executive James Gorman and Chief Legal Officer Eric Grossman, according to people familiar with the matter.
Mr. Jennings could file an arbitration claim against the firm, but he hasn't reached a decision and the two sides have held discussions about resolving the dispute in recent weeks, according to people involved in the talks.
Morgan Stanley executives are troubled by even undisputed details about Mr. Jennings's behavior last Dec. 21, people at the firm said.
Mr. Jennings is mad that Morgan Stanley left all his personal belongings from the office piled up in boxes in his driveway, people close to him say. Morgan Stanley was the only place Mr. Jennings ever worked since getting his business degree, regulatory records show.
Mr. Jennings's firing was a reminder that embarrassing the company can cost employees as much as poor job performance. "How would my action appear as a headline in tomorrow's newspaper?" is one of five questions Morgan Stanley employees are told in its code of conduct to "consider…before you act."
In his best years, Mr. Jennings earned $3 million or more, people familiar with the matter said. He oversaw at least 50 of the firm's top corporate-bond bankers, sometimes arriving at 6 a.m., and was in regular contact with officials at Morgan Stanley's blue-chip corporate clients.
The banker's clash with the cabdriver was described in police and court documents and in interviews with people involved in the case.
That day, at an afternoon charity auction he hosted, Mr. Jennings raised about $50,000 from the sale of memorabilia and neckties that previously belonged to former Chairman and CEO John Mack and other company officials. Mr. Jennings enjoyed several beers at the auction and a Morgan Stanley holiday party afterward at a swanky hotel bar, according to his statement to police.
When his town-car service didn't show up for the 40-mile ride home to Darien, Conn., Mr. Jennings climbed into a cab and dozed off, he said in the statement.
What happened next is in dispute. Mr. Jennings has said cabdriver Mohamed Ammar asked for $294. The investment banker wanted to negotiate a lower price. Mr. Ammar told police he sought $204.
Mr. Ammar locked the doors and says he was looking for police to help settle the spat. Mr. Jennings claimed he thought he was being abducted, especially since the driver ran stop signs and said they were going back to New York. Mr. Jennings pulled out his pen knife, usually used to open Christmas presents, and threatened Mr. Ammar, a police report says.
The two men scuffled inside the cab about a mile from Mr. Jennings's house, according to police reports. The driver's right hand was cut, requiring six stitches. Mr. Jennings got out of the cab and ran home. Mr. Ammar reported the incident to police, but didn't know the passenger's name or how to find his house on the unfamiliar street.
Mr. Jennings came forward after a local-news website published an article about the incident. On Feb. 29, Darien police arrested Mr. Jennings, and charged him with second-degree assault and "intimidation by bias."
He went to work the next day, but Morgan Stanley officials suggested a leave of absence until the mess blew over, according to people familiar with the situation. Feeling besieged by television trucks and headlines, Mr. Jennings left with his wife and two children to a vacation home in Vermont.
The case against Mr. Jennings began to unravel after prosecutors discovered the driver had Mr. Jennings's pen knife for months before giving it to police. The driver's lawyer, Hassan Ahmad, says the delay happened because Mr. Ammar didn't find the knife in his taxi until afterward. Prosecutors dropped the charges in October, but Mr. Ammar's lawyer says his firm has been retained to pursue a civil lawsuit against Mr. Jennings.
Meantime, Mr. Jennings has stayed in touch with some former clients and colleagues and is thinking about his next job.
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It also suggests a government-led program of business education about cloud computing, which it could be argued is superfluous since the report also cites research stating that 71 percent of businesses already use some variety of cloud service.
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A crowd of 60 gathered in Schlegel Hall today for a conversation about 'good guesting' at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Led by Dr. Gerald Liu, visiting professor of Worship, a panel of faculty and staff shared their thoughts about how becoming a hospitable guest is a key to establishing and celebrating diversity in worship. The lunch was first in a year-long series of community conversations presented by the Seminary's Doors to Dialogue program.
Regarding attending worship services that may be different from our own faith traditions, Liu said, "Good guests always seek to show appreciation and display kindness. As a Christian, to me that means trying to bring the peace of God with me, every time. Hospitable guests make it a point to show the mercy of God. They ask: what is God doing here, and how?"
"How do you become a hospitable guest when you're uncomfortable, when the service causes you pain that's deeply personal, when you're fearful?" asked Elana Levy, a third-year MDiv student.
Dr. Debra Mumford, professor of Homiletics and associate dean for Student Academic Affairs answered by saying, "It's okay to have expectations as to how you can plan to be treated during a worship service. You should feel free to leave if you're uncomfortable. You can make the choice to worship somewhere else."
Liu followed up by saying, "Being a hospitable guest should not be framed as having to accept what makes you uncomfortable. It's more about coming to a place where you're creating mercy in those situations. When things are insulting, offensive, evil, ignorant… they're typically unintentional. Being a hospitable guest doesn't mean becoming a doormat. And it's not refraining from saying no, but it's learning how to say no."
Lauren Mayfield, chapel coordinator and director of the Seminary's Women's Center, shared thoughts on what it means to be comfortable in worship. "When we go to church where we've always gone to church, there's spiritual, emotional, relational and geographical familiarity. When we branch out and go somewhere new, we get uncomfortable, we analyze things, we wonder if we're even worshiping the same God. It's hard to engage in the service and in worship when you're uncomfortable. Giving yourself permission to be uncomfortable and keeping an open mind will help you leave those new spaces realizing that maybe you did, in fact, encounter God there."
Mumford invited the audience to consider being both a hospitable guest and a hospitable host by "putting our actions where we claim our theology is. Being hospitable goes beyond welcoming people. Hospitable hosts include all of the people of God which builds the faith of even the people who may have been members of a certain congregation or church for a long time; it nourishes their faith and answers the questions of who God is and what God is doing in the world" she said.
Professor of Theology, Shannon Craigo-Snell, and Associate Professor of New Testament and Director of Black Church Studies, Lewis Brogdon, shared stories about the evolution of their personal worship.
Because Craigo-Snell's theological education forced her to scrutinize worship, it became difficult to attend the same services she'd attended since childhood. "I became analytical. I felt so sorry for the pastors because I was a horrible person to have in worship," she said jokingly. A much-admired colleague of Craigo-Snell's at Yale, where she taught before coming to Louisville Seminary, saved her from her 'inability to worship' by teaching her to love all forms of worship. Likening worship to Thai food, Craigo-Snell said that "there are some things in life of which you grow to be a connoisseur. Thai food wasn't one of these for my colleague… she liked it all. This is how I've grown to feel about worship." Craigo-Snell has become a hospitable guest when it comes to worship and welcomes all opportunities to worship God.
Brogdon echoed Craigo-Snell. Growing up, Brogdon was shaped by the Pentecostal Holiness tradition. Throughout his adult life he's participated in, and led congregations from, the Church of Christ, United Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian traditions. He has seen first-hand how narrow-minded people can be when it comes to experiencing difference in worship. "We have discredited God by the ways in which we allow the process of socialization to determine where we worship, who we worship with and how we worship," he said. "What it means to be a hospitable guest is to be a student of history. Understand that every time you step into a worship space, you're stepping into history. Have some context on who you're worshiping with, their approach to the sacred and the holy… authentically engage."
Brogdon advised that the first step is to believe that there's more than one legitimate way to worship. "Ultimately, the way we worship is our theology. We need to cater to one another and have mutual dialogue, mutual respect. We may not always agree with those who worship differently, but we can always respect one another."
Professors Cliff Kirkpatrick and Kathryn Johnson contributed by re-framing the guest vs. host relationship. "What I struggle with are these images of what it means to be a 'hospitable guest' and a 'welcoming host.' I struggle because Jesus Chris is the host, always. We are not guests, but the body of Christ."
Of 'welcoming hosts' Johnson said, "No one is the host in church, Jesus is the host. We are all guests together."
This luncheon was first in a series of luncheons Doors to Dialogue will host this academic year. Watch www.lpts.edu for information.


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TODAY IN HISTORY: Aug. 24
Today is Friday, Aug. 24, the 237th day of 2012. There are 129 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Aug. 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew smashed into Florida, causing $30 billion in damage; 43 U.S. deaths were blamed on the storm.
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In A.D. 79, long-dormant Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in volcanic ash; an estimated 20,000 people died.
In 1572, the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of French Protestants at the hands of Catholics began in Paris.
In 1814, during the War of 1812, British forces invaded Washington, D.C., setting fire to the Capitol and the White House, as well as other buildings.
In 1821, the Treaty of Cordoba was signed, granting independence to Mexico from Spanish rule.
In 1912, Congress passed a measure creating the Alaska Territory. Congress approved legislation establishing Parcel Post delivery by the U.S. Post Office Department, slated to begin on Jan. 1, 1913.
In 1932, Amelia Earhart embarked on a 19-hour flight from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., making her the first woman to fly solo, non-stop, from coast to coast.
In 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty came into force.
In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Communist Control Act, outlawing the Communist Party in the United States.
In 1968, France became the world's fifth thermonuclear power as it exploded a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific.
In 1970, an explosives-laden van left by anti-war extremists blew up outside the University of Wisconsin's Sterling Hall in Madison, killing 33-year-old researcher Robert Fassnacht.
In 1981, Mark David Chapman was sentenced in New York to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.
In 2006, the International Astronomical Union declared that Pluto was no longer a planet, demoting it to the status of a "dwarf planet."
Ten years ago: The FBI uncovered human remains in an outbuilding behind the Oregon City, Ore., house of Ward Weaver III, a suspect in the case of 2 missing girls who lived across the street. (Authorities recovered the remains of 12-year-old Ashley Pond and 13-year-old Miranda Gaddis; Weaver later pleaded guilty to aggravated murder and was sentenced to 2 consecutive life terms in prison.)
Five years ago: A judge in Inverness, Fla., sentenced John Evander Couey to death for kidnapping 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, raping her and burying her alive. (Couey died in 2009.) James Ford Seale, a reputed Ku Klux Klansman, was sentenced to three life terms for his role in the 1964 abduction and murder of two black teenagers in southwestern Mississippi. (Seale died in 2011.) Major wildfires broke out in Greece, burning half a million acres and claiming 65 lives in 11 days.
One year ago: A defiant Moammar Gadhafi vowed in a broadcast to fight on "until victory or martyrdom" and called on residents of the Libyan capital and loyal tribesmen across his North African nation to free Tripoli from the "devils and traitors" who had overrun it. Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple Inc.; he was succeeded by Tim Cook. Mike Flanagan, a Cy Young winner and part of the Baltimore Orioles' 1983 World Series championship team, was found dead outside his home in Monkton, Md.; he was 59.
Today's Birthdays: Former Education Secretary Shirley Hufstedler is 87. Actor Kenny Baker ("Star Wars") is 78. Composer-musician Mason Williams is 74. Rhythm-and-blues singer Marshall Thompson (The Chi-Lites) is 70. Rock musician Ken Hensley is 67. Actress Anne Archer is 65. Actor Joe Regalbuto is 63. Actor Kevin Dunn is 57. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is 57. Actor-writer Stephen Fry is 55. Actor Steve Guttenberg is 54. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Cal Ripken Jr. is 52. Actor Jared Harris is 51. Talk show host Craig Kilborn is 50. Rock singer John Bush is 49. Actress Marlee Matlin is 47. Retired NBA All-Star Reggie Miller is 47. Broadcast journalist David Gregory ("Meet the Press") is 42. Country singer Kristyn Osborn (SheDaisy) is 42. Actor-comedian Dave Chappelle is 39. Actor Carmine Giovinazzo is 39. Actress Beth Riesgraf is 34. Actor Chad Michael Murray is 31. Christian rock musician Jeffrey Gilbert (Kutless) is 29. Singer Mika is 29. Actor Rupert Grint ("Harry Potter" films) is 24.
Thought for Today: "Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things." -- Lawrence D. Bell, American aircraft manufacturer (1894-1956).
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