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There are 2 types of the disease. They are named for the areas of Africa where they are found. West African sleeping sickness is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma brucei gambiense. This long-term (chronic) infection can last for years. East African sleeping sickness is caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense. It's a short-term (acute) illness that may last several weeks to months.
People from the U.S. who travel to Africa are rarely infected. On average, 1 U.S. citizen is infected every year. The person is typically infected in East African game parks.
The only people at risk for African sleeping sickness are those to travel to Africa. That's where the tsetse fly is found. The parasites that cause the disease are passed on only by the tsetse fly.
The tsetse flies live only in rural areas. They live in woodland thickets of the savanna and dense vegetation along streams. Visitors to cities and other urban areas are usually not at risk. The disease is found mainly in tropical Africa. The greatest risk of getting it is in:
Tsetse fly bites can be quite painful. Travelers often recall being bitten. A painful sore often shows up at the site of the bite within a week or so. It's called a chancre.
Each person may have slightly different symptoms. But symptoms tend to happen within 1 to 4 weeks of infection. At first, they may include fever, skin lesions, rash, swelling, or swollen lymph nodes on the back of the neck. After many weeks, the infection may become meningoencephalitis. This is an infection of the brain and the fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord. As the illness gets worse, symptoms may include:
If left untreated, death will occur within several weeks to months. The symptoms of African sleeping sickness may look like other health problems. Always see your healthcare provider for a diagnosis.
Your healthcare provider will figure out the best treatment for you based on:
Medicine is available to treat the disease. You will need to stay in the hospital. After you go home, you will need follow-up exams for about 2 years. These will include a spinal tap. Because this infection is so rare, your healthcare provider may talk with an infectious disease or tropical medicine specialist.
No vaccine or medicine can prevent African sleeping sickness. But you can avoid being bitten by tsetse flies. Experts recommend the following:
Tips to help you get the most from a visit to your healthcare provider:


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Placer County includes over 550,000 acres of heavily forested landscapes in the central Sierra Nevada foothills and mountains. This area stretches from Auburn to Lake Tahoe, and includes portions of three national forests, numerous state parks, and 60% of Lake Tahoe's west shore. The forested land is at significant risk for catastrophic wildfire due to the buildup of unnaturally dense vegetation following decades of successful fire suppression and exclusion. The County has experienced six major wildfires since 2001 burning more than 100,000 acres, including critically important upland watersheds and wildlife habitat.
The condition of Placer County's forests and how they are managed has a very strong effect on air quality. Wildfires are a significant source of air pollution, including fine particulate matter, ozone forming precursors, and air toxics, which are extremely detrimental to regional air quality and public health. Prescribed burning and open pile burning, important tools for reducing forest fuel loads, are also a significant source of air pollution.
To address the risk of catastrophic wildfire and improve air quality, the District has teamed with other public and private stakeholders to implement environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable forest management activities to restore these forested landscapes to a fire-resilient condition. The District sponsored, in partnership with the U.C. Berkeley Center for Forestry, a biomass waste for energy demonstration at the Center's Blodgett Forest Research Station. The project served as a showcase for forestry management issues. The project was linked with numerous workshops held at Blodgett in 2012 and 2013 that provided a forum for educational and information exchange with a wide range of policy makers, environmental groups, and forest land managers. The District produced a video documenting the biomass project and workshop issues, observations, and policy recommendations related to California forest management and utilization of forest residue for energy production. The video captures the views of a unique and diverse set of resource professionals, researchers, state/federal agency representatives, utility representatives, and elected officials.
Blodgett Biomass to Energy Demonstration Project Video, October 2013
If you cannot see the video, you may need to update your version of Adobe Flash Player. Click on the flash icon next to the video to download the latest version of Flash.
Additional Information is also found here: "Sierra Nevada Forest Health, Wildfire Risk Reduction and Biomass Utilization for Energy".
District projects have a wide range of social, environmental, and economic benefits including:
The District's program activities, which you can learn more about in a presentation, brochure, and video (you may need to install an application called "Mediasite" to view this video). More information on the program activities are in the expandable links below.
The District is sponsoring projects to cost effectively collect, process, transport, and utilize woody forest biomass wastes for renewable energy as an alternative to disposal by open pile burning or mastication (shred and scatter).
The District was honored with a 2011 U.S. EPA Clean Air Excellence Award from the significant reductions in air pollutant emissions achieved through numerous forest waste energy projects.
On December 17, 2014, the Placer County Air Pollution Control District issued 2,156 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent greenhouse gas offset credits for sale through the CAPCOA Greenhouse Gas Exchange. The credits were generated from a District-funded project conducted during the Summer of 2008 under which 6,714 bone dry tons of woody forest biomass wastes from the USFS Tahoe National Forest American River Ranger District near Foresthill were used to produce 7,485 MWh of electricity at the Sierra Pacific Industries co-generation boiler in Lincoln as an alternative to the business as usual open pile burning. The credits were independently verified by a third-party project evaluation. Funds that are anticipated to be received from sale of the District-owned credits will be reinvested into future biomass related projects. The sale price for all or a portion of these credits is negotiable. Additional information regarding these credits can be found at the following link. http://xappprod.aqmd.gov/ghgrx/.
The District has developed a protocol (protocol / summary) that provides a rigorous accounting framework for quantifying greenhouse gas emission offset credits for biomass waste for energy projects. The protocol has been peer reviewed and endorsed by numerous agencies (support letters). The protocol supports the use of biomass wastes for energy through the innovative monetary valuation of the greenhouse gas benefits. Greenhouse gas offset credits will be issued for compliance with California Environmental Quality Act mitigation obligations through a greenhouse gas exchange registry coordinated by the California Air Pollution Control Officers Association.
The District has sponsored the development of a biochar GHG offset accounting protocol with the support of Prasino Group, International Biochar Initiative, and The Climate Trust. The protocol was formally adopted into the CAPCOA GHG Rx on September 28, 2015. The final protocol here provides a detailed accounting procedure for quantifying the GHG benefits of biochar. Biochar projects sequester carbon from biomass waste in a highly stable biochar, and produce renewable energy from the energy-rich byproduct syngas. The protocol uses the biochar's hydrogen to organic carbon content ratio as an indicator of its long term stability, in conjunction with its applied use as a legitimate soil amendment to agricultural field or road crop operations.
The protocol development process involved a webinar presentation conducted on September 9, 2014, which can be viewed here (Youtube). A copy of the presentation is here (.pdf). The draft protocol is here. The CAPCOA Protocol Primer on the protocol requirements and review process is available here.
We hope to quantify in the future additional GHG benefits that are associated with biochar including fossil fuel based fertilizer displacement, water production and transport, and enhanced plant growth.
The District is supporting on-going research work that is quantifying the air emissions reduction benefits that are provided by hazardous forest fuel reduction treatments (draft report). Fuels treatments involve the selective thinning and removal of trees and brush to return forest ecosystems to more natural fuel stocking levels resulting in more fire-resilient and healthy forests. Fuels treatments reduce air pollution by mitigating wildfire behavior, size and intensity, stimulating forest growth and vigor, and reducing tree mortality. Forest thinning also produces wood products that continue the sequestration of carbon. When fuels treatment projects include removal of excess biomass in the forms of limbs, tops, smaller trees and brush, the resulting biomass can be utilized for energy production and thus reduce the need for fossil fuels.
The District is supporting the assessment of the air pollutant emissions benefits and economics of energy conversion technology suitable for small-scale distributed systems in Placer County, utilizing woody biomass wastes from forest fuel thinning treatments, timber harvest residues, and defensible space clearings.
We are also an advocate for a regulatory structure that recognizes the full environmental benefits of the use of forest biomass wastes for energy:
Developing a fair power purchase agreement template
Making sure that the Investor Owned Utilities implement fair and equitable interconnection requirements.
Defining the term "strategic location" in content of communities at risk to catastrophic wildfire.
Prescribed burning is a vital ecological tool for forest management. We strongly support the use of prescribed burning in the appropriate situation and work with land managers to avert smoke impacts on the public. The District Smoke Management Program was adopted by the Board in December of 2001 in order to allow for the continuation of agricultural and prescribed burning as a resource management tool and provide increased opportunities for agricultural and prescribed burning while at the same time minimizing smoke impacts to the public. This program is intended to help minimize smoke impacts on air quality and the public through planning, use of automated weather stations to provide meteorological data to predict smoke transport and dispersion, and the use of fuel load reduction prior to burning.
Sierra Nevada forest fuel thinning projects protect watershed, improve water supply (quantity and timing):
Improving the Resiliency of California's Headwaters, Association of California Water Agencies, February 2015
Estimating the Water Supply Benefits from Forest Restoration in the Northern Sierra Nevada, The Nature Conservancy, March 2015
Forest Biomass Removal - Fuels Treatment
Placer County Biomass Program
United States Forest Service
Cal Fire
Sierra Nevada Conservancy
U.C. Berkeley Center for Forestry
Video: "What is Happening in Our Forest," Produced by the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies

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As a relatively new Association, CAFA is continuing to venture into new territory to be an effective advocate for the alfalfa and forage industry. The latest effort is encouraging the USDA Agricultural Research Service to bring its resources and expertise to California to work on dairy-forage systems in western states.
The effort received a boost in July when members of Congress signed a letter sent to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Mike Johanns, asking the ARS to establish new positions in California. The letter was circulated to other members of the California Delegation by Congressmen Devin Nunes (21st District) and Robert Filner (51st District) before being forwarded to Secretary Johanns.
Other California members of Congress who signed the letter include, Wally Herger (2nd District)' Richard Pombo (11th District), Sam Farr (17th District), Ellen Tauscher (10th District), Dennis Cardoza (18th District), George Radanovich (19th District) and Jim Costa (20th District).
CAFA's effort to encourage the ARS to address the needs of western agriculture started about two years ago and was intensified this year. In mid-March, CAFA asked California congressmen to take up the cause and allocate funds for ARS positions that would benefit the alfalfa and forage industry and the dairy industry.
The California Farm Bureau and Western United Dairymen also contacted members of Congress. A number of CAFA members contacted their congressmen and the newly formed National Alfalfa & Forage Alliance lent support to the project.
The first response last spring was from congressman Filner who took up the issue and began working with several colleagues including congressman Nunes. Filner's district includes Imperial County, the second largest alfalfa-producing county in California. Nunes' district includes parts of Tulare and Fresno counties.
When CAFA began contacting members of Congress in mid-March, however, the appropriations process had closed. Initially, several congressional offices weighed the possibility of amending the 2007 funding bill for the Department of Agriculture.
That idea was shelved for several reasons. Congressman Herger recently sent letters to two CAFA Board members citing the difficulties of introducing an amendment. One factor was an "offset" requirement, meaning that funding would have to be reduced in another portion of the bill. The decision was made to regroup and urge USDA to include a "California research allocation" in next year's ARS budget.
While the effort was set back, CAFA took another step in learning the process of dealing with legislative issues. The support and advice received from Farm Bureau and Western United Dairymen was extremely helpful. The project is an opportunity to work more closely with the dairy industry, something CAFA has been striving to accomplish.
An ARS presence will give the alfalfa and forage industry and dairy industry more help with regulatory issues, including water quality and other challenges, such as water conservation. For the dairy industry, waste management and air quality are key issues.
As noted in a "white paper" sent to California congressmen, dairy forage systems research is primarily centered at ARS facilities in the Midwest and eastern states. The lack of research for irrigated agriculture in western states needs to be addressed and by this time next year CAFA will hopefully receive a positive response.


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Thirteen Former West Texas Prison Employees Indicted For Accepting Bribes In Exchange For Smuggling Contraband Into Federal Detention Facility
Federal authorities arrested 12 former Ector County Correctional Center (ECCC) guards and one former ECCC employee this morning for allegedly accepting bribes in exchange for smuggling contraband to inmates inside the federal detention facility announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Mark Morgan, El Paso Division.
The defendants are individually named in 13 federal grand jury indictments returned on January 23, 2013, and unsealed today. The indictments allege that during 2011 and 2012, the correctional officers, as well as Barbara Garrett, a food service worker, smuggled in contraband to inmates, including cell phones and chargers as well as tobacco and marijuana, in exchange for cash in knowing violation of their official duties. Those indicted and arrested include:
Jovanna Marie Olivarez, age 21, of Odessa;
Matthew Ryan Williams, age 20, of Odessa;
Dennis Earl Newsome, age 63, of Austin, TX;
Charlette Smith, age 46, of Odessa;
Nancy Torres Morales, age 36, of Odessa;
Valerie Ann Arenivas, age 22, of Odessa;
Gabriel Angel Navarette, age 23, of Odessa;
Jennifer Armida Lopez, age 25, of Odessa;
Jessica Lucia Smith, age 33, of Monahans, TX;
Jazmine Desiree Cruz, age 19, of Odessa;
Jonathon Wayne Meza, age 29, of Odessa;
Barbara Jean Garrett, age 52, of Andrews, TX; and,
Ashley Dawn Clark, age 29, of Crane, TX.
Each defendant is charged with one count of accepting a bribe. Upon conviction, each defendant faces up to 15 years in federal prison and a maximum $250,000 fine.
This case was investigated by agents with Federal Bureau of Investigation together with investigators from the Odessa Police Department and the Ector County Sheriff's Office along with cooperation from the United States Marshals Service and ECCC. Assistant United States Attorney John Klassen is prosecuting this case on behalf of the Government.
An indictment is merely a charge and should not be considered as evidence of guilt. The defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.


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Paso Robles High School
Averaged 19.1 points (team leader) and 4.3 rebounds per game during his senior season ... Scored in double figures in all but one game ... Scored a season-high 34 points against Nipomo HS, and 30 against Chavez HS ... A two-time all-county and all-league selection ... A CIF Section 3A second team selection ... Team captain ... Made the Cal-Hi Sports All-State Division-3 selection ... Team MVP duing his senior and junior campaigns ... Received the school's Most Outstanding Single Sports Athlete award during his senior season ... An outstanding student ... A Senior Excellence Award winner in 2010 ... A CIF Academic Award winner during his senior and junior years ... Also President of the United States Volunteer Services Award in 2009 and 2010 ... An Honor Roll student in three of his four years at Paso Robles ... A CSF member ... Who's Who Among National High School students ... National Honor Roll ... A National Society of High School Scholar ... Also participated in track & field (high jump) ... Helped lead the track & field team to the Pac-7 championship.
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Born August 24, 1992 in San Luis Obispo, Ca. ... Parents are Janice and Lonnie Watson, Sr. ... Has one sister, Jannelle, who is 20-years-old and attends UC Irvine ... Has a cousin (Chris Booker) who played basketball at Purdue University and now plays professionally in Slovenia ... Has another cousin (William Moore), who has played for the Atlanta Falcons the past two years (2009, 2010) ... Lists Kobe Bryant and the Lakers as his favorite NBA player and pro team ... Favorite actor is Denzel Washington while Meagan Goode is his favorite actress ... Boondocks is his favorite tv show while He Got Game is his favorite movie ... Loves to eat king crab legs but stays away from pretzels ... Team E is his favorite band while J. Cole is his favorite solo artist ... Favorite website is youtube.com ... Came to Cal State Northridge because of the coaching staff and the academic opportunities at Cal State Northridge ... Listed his greatest sports moment as scoring 41 points in three quarters against a rival in middle school ... The best thing about being a student-athlete, according to Lonnie, is all the attention ... The toughest part, according to Lonnie, is the busy schedule ... Picked his uniform number (#14) because of Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson ... His pre-game ritual is to pray ... Listens to music when he has time to relax ... The best athlete he has played against is Josh Selby ... The most famous person he has met is Serena Williams .... The person in history he would most like to meet is Harriet Tubman ... Would like to be stranded on a desert island with his family ... Would love to have dinner with Michael Jordan and President Obama ... If Lonnie was forced to listen to one CD for the rest of his life, it would be The Warm Up by J. Cole ... If Lonnie had a million dollars, he would buy his parents whatever they wanted ... The best advice he ever received - "Trust in God and you'll make it through anything" ... The best advice he gives to young people - "keeping working hard. Your life can change instantly." ... No one knows how much Lonnie loves hip hop ... Few people know that Lonnie is a Top 100 NBA 2k player ... If a movie was made about Lonnie Watson, Shad Moss (Bow Wow) would play the lead role ... He can't imagine going with a week without playing basketball ... One possession Lonnie can't live without is his cell phone ... Years from now, Lonnie says he will still laugh about all the time he spent with his friends growing up ... If Lonnie could change the world, he would bring world peace ... The biggest obstacle he has faced was recovering from knee surgery ... His family always makes him smile ... His greatest hero is God because without God, according to Lonnie, nothing would be possible ... Political Science major.


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Bono Warns Fiscal Cliff Will Hurt World's Poor
U2 singer Bono says spending cuts that hit in January would devastate programs to help the world's poor, leading to more than 60,000 deaths. "There's real jeopardy," Bono said Wednesday at the World Bank with bank President Jim Yong Kim. Photo: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
everyone seemingly weighing in on the fiscal cliff ... now Youtube frontman slash philanthropist block now is making the rounds in Washington morning senators and congressmen about automatic cuts antipoverty programs ... Sudeep Reddy is been falling into deep mourning ... good morning rough so ... he knows can be a lot of horse trading when the two parties to down them ... the the sweetest thing for bottle would be no cuts to a poverty programs ... I think yes and our Washington as violent as does move in mysterious ways and so he is trying ... to really make the case as he's been making for decades ... that harbor deeper and somehow I need to be protected what he's doing is going around ... our Washington has met with the vice president lots of senior staff in the White House ... leadership on both sides of Congress ... to make the case ... to somehow protect ... these antipoverty programs around the world ... they United States is one important player in providing funding for these projects for of for HIV AIDS treatment for malaria for nutrition guide to deal with and ends around the world ... and that these with all of these would be cut substantially if we were to go over the fiscal cliff ... and that lead to a callous that says one figure that out just losing some of the funding for HIV AIDS treatment with the sixty five thousand Datsun so ... he's an important voice in in leading God leading the charge to try to check these ... out but he's really ... the latest to just ... urged lawmakers not to go over the fiscal cliff at all ok he actually had some some things to say let's take a listen ... the sequestration should happen ... you know ... it costs ... a nice eight point two percent just loves although top of the things that surprise ... two billion dollars for programs that we care less ... only you know ... two hundred and seventy five cousins kind of a quarter ... of people whose programs because maybe sixty five thousand deaths ... I'm still terrified ... but you know ... you know people wrestling the feel of this ... you know mad ... some ... glory that good writing off the cliff ... well you know I'd Sudeep who was a beautiful baby in Washington I did ... real good Bonno the bottle find who is looking for ... the aises certainly has not yet these cuts of course to hit on New Year's day and so it what he said is there is a desire on Washington to find ... some way around it ... these cuts in cities he said some ... of my bipartisan interest but of course anybody can say that anybody can come to Washington and see that and working as he lawmakers hurtling toward that effort whats interesting is to see somebody ... like Bonno make the case and in dry enough attention to ... these programs because as I was sitting just a few feet away from in ... hearing Bonno talk about development assistance ... he was saying a lot of the same things that that use your development experts say about making the business case for ... a dinner and party for granted that poverty programs ... and that the in important cases that ... if you can somehow pull these countries out of poverty is we seen with Brazil and China and South Korea and India that you're really creating a middle-class they can ... ultimately by exports and ... service market for our products and he's made the case ... when he makes the case it is ... quite a bit more compelling aam ... to to hear from somebody like him who has the kind of ... gesture even though it's the same development ... argument you've heard from a lot of people say obviously takes a lot of pride in this work and pushing it for an end but I mean he's been able to energize lot of people ... but whatever happens ... whatever the Senators do IBD it'll continue his work with or without them ... that that that's rare off its early well um and he will be up pushing hard out very hard ... and it's it's that they had ... very AG difficult week for him in Washington to actually ... make the case for every door has opened for him when he strikes me that it's ... CD pay so much for joining us this morning


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Mk2.5 With Mk3 Mist Washers Help
mitch84 replied to mitch84's topic in Ford Focus Clubyeah thanks, since found out. I found another thread and it seems a spot of glue might help at the bottom.
Mk2.5 With Mk3 Mist Washers Help
mitch84 posted a topic in Ford Focus ClubHi I fitted the mk3 mist washers to my focus about 3 years ago and although they work fine, I would like the spray to be a little higher on my windscreen. I seem to get a lot of the fluid spraying onto my bonnet as well which is a bit of a pain. Are these adjustable like the old ones with a pin or does anyone else have the same issue and has found fix? Many thanks
mitch84 started following Chips/scuffs On Bumper Help, Mk2.5 With Mk3 Mist Washers Help, Break Disc And Pads Replacement and and 1 other
thanks for the help everyone, think I will just go with the dealer unless I find it cheaper elsewhere in the meantime.
I don't mind doing some things but breaks is something I really don't want to attempt even if it is easy. :)
me again I just checked on eurocarparts and break discs are around £30-40 so I'm looking at £80 roughly and then £20-£30 for pads. So Im looking at £120-£130 on parts. So I would of thought £177 is quite good? By the way that price is at a main dealer.
Hi Sorry not sure I understand, are you saying the price quoted is a ripoff? :)
Break Disc And Pads Replacement
mitch84 posted a topic in Ford Focus ClubHi My front pads and discs will need replacing soon, I have been quoted £177. I have never had to have this done before but I have had my focus the longest so Im unsure what kind of price is good for such a job. Can anyone advise on if this is a good price? many thanks
Led Sidelights On Mk2.5
mitch84 posted a topic in Ford Focus ClubHi I just got some Osram led lights for my mk2.5 sidelights, I had these nasty looking blue tinted bulbs before which hardly gave out any light, and as you guys know the sidelights on the focus are situated on the top corner of the focus and depending on bulbs can be quite poor for light output. I got the following which are an excellent match for my dipped beam (Osram nightbreakers plus) but the leds below are stated for interior only, I read around and its such a grey area on weather led lights (exterior use) are road legal? http://www.powerbulbs.com/product/w5w-led-driving-4000k-warm-white-twin Has anyone else got these and have fitted them or similar to their sidelights, just want to be sure I'm driving road legal even though the lights I got are exterior use only, Im guessing its just Osram manufacturer advice and that led lights (sidelights) are ok for road use due to many new cars using led now. thanks
Windscreen Replacement
mitch84 replied to Russ's topic in Ford Focus ClubHad my windscreen replaced twice at autoglass, great service. I guess I've been unlucky with my focus and its windscreen though as its the only car I've so far had to replace the windscreen, bottle thrown at it while driving and a stone chip turning into a large crack across the screen. Both occasions costed me the £75 excess. I always drive to the repair centre as the online booking system is pants and you normally have to wait ages if you want a call out, by that time your chip turns into a crack, so its best to go to a rapid response autoglass repair centre if you have one local as you can get booked in much much quicker.
Chips/scuffs On Bumper Help
mitch84 replied to mitch84's topic in Ford Focus ClubHi Thanks, I will try to get some pics up over the weekend, I was thinking about ebay for the headlight assembly but I will probably buy the wrong headlight knowing me.
Chips/scuffs On Bumper Help
mitch84 posted a topic in Ford Focus ClubHi I have decided to keep my car for a bit longer so want to fix a little damage to front bumper driver side. I have damage to the plastic area under the headlight, scuffs and small chips, would chips away be a good bet? I've never used them so don't know what there like. Also I would like to replace the drivers side headlight unit as inside the unit is a burn smudge as if a bulb has got very hot, it's where the sidelight is so it's not a big deal but if I could get a headlight unit cheap, just not sure where to look? So can anyone recommend chips away and a place to get a headlight unit for a mk2.5. Many thanks
hi Well customising a New focus Titanium with a few options such as sync2 navigation I think I could get one for around £14000 currently, that's with ford privilege and p/x my focus which was valued at £5000 the other week at Fords. I might leave it for now anyway, I really want the new focus 1litre but Im not sure Its worth it as my current focus has all the gizmo's and has only got 35'000 on the clock. Think I should get some more out of it.
yeah thanks, looking I think it makes sense to go for a titanium as the zetec is missing the features I like such as climate control/ reverse sensors. Having Ford privilege will help as well. I think you get metallic paint free with that scheme as well as a good saving of about £1700???
Do you think titanium would be better as If Im getting the sync2 system I think that can control climate unless of course it can still do that with the manual climate.


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Total time: 1½ hours
Servings: 4 to 6
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1/4 pound applewood smoked bacon, cut crosswise into thin strips
1 large onion, diced ¾ inch
2 packed cups leftover turkey meat, diced ¾ inch
1 pound (about 2 medium) baked garnet yams, diced ¾ inch (candied leftover yams can be substituted)
2 cups cooked Brussels sprouts, cut into quarters
1 1/2 tablespoons minced fresh sage leaves
Salt and pepper to taste
6 ounces (about 1½ cups) grated Gruyère cheese
20 saltine crackers
1/2 cup pecan halves
2 tablespoons softened butter
2 tablespoons flour
1. Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Generously butter the sides of a 9-by-9-by-2½-inch baking dish and set aside.
2. Heat a large, heavy-bottomed skillet over medium-high heat. Add the vegetable oil and bacon strips and cook, stirring frequently, until the bacon is almost crisp. Add the diced onion, and continue cooking until the onion is golden brown, 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from heat.
3. Add the turkey, yams, Brussels sprouts and sage, and gently fold together to distribute the ingredients evenly. Season with one-fourth teaspoon each salt and pepper, or to taste, then transfer to the buttered baking dish and gently press to create a level surface.
4. To make the Gruyère cheese crust, combine the grated cheese, saltine crackers, pecans, butter and flour in a food processor. Briefly pulse until the mixture is coarsely chopped (about one-fourth-inch pieces) and mixed together. Distribute this mixture evenly over the top of the casserole.
5. Place the casserole in the center of the oven and bake until the crust is golden brown, about 1 hour.
Each of 6 servings: 543 calories; 29 grams protein; 33 grams carbohydrates; 5 grams fiber; 33 grams fat; 12 grams saturated fat; 90 mg cholesterol; 8 grams sugar; 534 mg sodium.


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Momentum is building for Congress to pass the first major civil rights act protecting gays and transsexuals, supporters say, and one of the stars in the debate is a barrier-breaking transgender staffer on Capitol Hill.
Momentum is building for Congress to pass the first major civil rights act protecting gays and transsexuals, supporters say, and one of the stars in the debate is a barrier-breaking transgender staffer on Capitol Hill.
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, would prohibit workplace discrimination — including decisions about hiring, firing and wages — based on sexual orientation or gender identity. It would exempt religious organizations, the military and businesses with less than 15 workers.
The driving force behind the bill has been Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., the longest-serving of the three openly gay members of Congress. He expects hearings on the measure to be held this fall.
Frank pushed ENDA in 2007, but it foundered because of insufficient backing in the Senate and a split within the gay and transgender communities. Many activists were irate because Frank — seeking support from wavering colleagues — was open to covering sexual orientation but not gender identity, excluding transgender people from protection.
This time around, several factors have changed:
—Barack Obama is now president, and is on record supporting ENDA. A veto was considered possible if the 2007 bill had reached then-President George W. Bush.
—ENDA's core supporters, including Frank, have agreed they will push only for a bill that includes gender identity.
—The bill has picked up key support in the Senate, where it was introduced earlier this month by Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley and Maine Republicans Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe. Even without other GOP senators, Merkley believes it has a good chance of obtaining the 60 votes that likely will be needed to pass the Senate.
The main Senate champion of ENDA in the past had been Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, who died Tuesday. That role was passed on to Merkley earlier this year.
There is another difference from 2007. Frank now has a policy adviser who is a female-to-male transsexual. Diego Sanchez is the first transgender person hired for a senior congressional staff position on Capitol Hill.
Sanchez has done extensive face-to-face lobbying for ENDA, and Frank says that's enabled some members of Congress to get to know a transsexual for the first time.
"He interacts with a lot of people," Frank said. "Prejudice is literally ignorance."
Frank says he now doubts votes will be cast against ENDA solely because it extends to transgender people.
Sanchez is a longtime activist who worked for the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts and was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention last year before joining Frank's staff. Back in 2007, he was among a minority of transgender activists who accepted Frank's tactical decision to drop gender identity from that version of ENDA.
"He's called on the entire community since then to lobby, work — and the community has said, 'OK, we've got one game plan, and it's Barney,'" Sanchez said. "There's broader support this time."
Opponents of ENDA — led by several national conservative groups — concede that the bill has enough support to clear the House, and expect a closely fought battle in the Senate.
Ashley Horne, federal issues analyst for Focus on the Family, promised that her conservative Christian ministry would encourage tough opposition.
"It's definitely a bill we will put a lot of resources toward fighting," she said. "Our primary concern is the chipping away of religious liberties."
Twenty-one states already have laws prohibiting workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, and 12 extend those laws to gender identity — California, Colorado, Iowa, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington. Several other states protect public employees who are gay or transgender.
The experience of these states shows that passage a federal law is unlikely to unleash a flood of litigation and conflict, Frank and Merkley say.
Minnesota, for example, has had a non-discrimination law covering transgender people since 1993 that rarely triggers controversies. Oregon passed a comparable bill in 2007.
"There were concerns there'd be a huge number of lawsuits — it simply didn't materialize," Merkley said.
However, attorney Jim Campbell of the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal group, said ENDA would impose its provisions on more conservative states with more business owners who have religious objections to hiring gays and transsexuals.
Campbell also worries that ENDA will serve gay-rights activists' long-term strategic interests.
"One of the really big problems with enacting ENDA is in the future litigation battles dealing with same-sex marriage," Campbell said. "It will provide ammunition for homosexual activists in the future to push their agenda in the court system throughout the country."
Some conservatives say ENDA is unnecessary.
"There is no epidemic of homosexuals being fired; in fact, they are increasingly being courted by major corporations," contends Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality. "It's religiously devout employees ... who face reprisals for opposing homosexuality."
The National Center for Transgender Equality disagrees. It recently released a survey of 6,500 transgender Americans that said 91 percent had faced bias at work.
Among those claiming harassment was Toni Maviki, a former corrections officer in New Hampshire who said she was pummeled by a fellow guard who learned she was transitioning from being a man to being a woman.
"I carried a badge and I protected all you people and there was no law to protect me from harm," Maviki testified earlier this year.
Maviki said she filed complaints that led to further harassment, and finally quit her job. Her testimony failed to sway a state Senate committee, which voted against extending anti-bias provisions to transgender people.
National gay-rights groups will be watching ENDA closely this year.
"We're further than we've ever been, but there is certainly still work to be done," said Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign. "It is frustrating sometimes, having to explain to the community that there are so many procedural hurdles in our way."


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New Kopp letter appears in Facebook case
The role of convicted killer James Kopp in the Facebook ownership case, true or untrue, is taking on yet another strange twist.
A new letter, this one from an individual also claiming to be Kopp, who is serving a life sentence for the assassination of Dr. Barnett A. Slepian in 1998, now claims the initial letter to the court was a fake.
"It has come to my attention someone is impersonating me," the writer said in a letter to U.S. Magistrate Judge Leslie G. Foschio.
The original letter, which is believed to have come from the Canaan Federal Penitentiary in Pennsylvania, where Kopp is imprisoned, claims that Kopp and Ceglia, the Allegany County man who claims to own part of Facebook, have been pen pals for the past four years.
The letter also outlines a series of claims and allegations about Ceglia.
The new letter, which was filed with the court by a lawyer for Facebook, also is signed by an individual claiming to be Kopp.
"I have sent no motion to the court," the new writer states. "Anyone claiming same is impersonating me."
While no one in the court or federal prison systems can verify the authenticity of either letter, lawyers in the Facebook case have been forced to treat them in a serious fashion.
Orin Snyder, the lead attorney for Facebook and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, filed court papers Monday opposing the initial letter writer's request to intervene in the case.
"It is unclear in light of the Kopp's sworn statement that the motion was actually filed by Kopp," Snyder said in his statement to the court.
Kopp, the anti-abortion activist known as "Atomic Dog," was convicted in 2007 in Slepian's assassination nearly nine years earlier. He was convicted of murder in Erie County Court and sentenced to 25 years to life.
Ceglia's civil suit against Facebook, in which he seeks at least 50 percent of the social networking giant, is based on his contention that he and Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg signed a contract in 2003.
Facebook acknowledges that Zuckerberg signed a contract with Ceglia while Zuckerberg was a student at Harvard University but contends that it had nothing to do with Facebook.
Ceglia's case against Facebook took a new turn two weeks ago when he was charged in Manhattan federal court with orchestrating a "multibillion-dollar scheme" to defraud the company,
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Posted: Sat 15 Sep 2012, 06:30
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Ms Win are at it again. Security vulnerability. Nasty one!
Microsoft admits millions of computers could be infected with malware before they're even out of the box
I've not read the whole text but that is a nasty thing. I mean
you do have to be a geek/nerd to know how to deal with such?
Do they tell how to get rid of it? One would need DVDs
that is warranted to be free of malware and to start all over
wiping the HD clean and make a fresh install can take a day?
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I've not read the whole text but that is a nasty thing.
The gist of the story is to deter people from buying (cheap) pirated versions of windows ...
The software is loaded with counterfeit copies of Microsoft Windows, the company said.
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I can't help commenting here.
It seems obvious to me that if it has Windows on it, then of course it has malware on it.
Windows=Malware, no?
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Windows=Malware, no?
These days, it would be more appropriate to say "Flash=Malware" or "Java=Malware" or "Adobe Reader=Malware".
I just updated Firefox on a Windows machine. As part of the install, Firefox provided a list of OTHER apps that it recommended you update for security reasons.
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Now the embarrassing thing is that I have not read the text.
Have any of you really read it? As I get it it has more to do
with criminals being able to place their nasty code in places
that gets used by those that work on the testing of the computers?
or to contaminate the OEM DVDs that gets packed or the transfer
of the OEM software to the computer before shipping.
I feel very unsure of if it is as you guys paint the picture here.
But I only wild guess. Am I really wrong? If I am way off base
then I will tell Flash to delete the thread. I trusted that Independent UK
know what they write.
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Posted: Sat 15 Sep 2012, 18:25
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A thought has just occurred to me.
If you were a huge corporation, like say Microsoft, that had just posted its first huge loss ever, what would you do?
Would you just say 'Oh well, we had a good run, and got away with it for so long, we'll just have to accept that customers have woken up to us'.
Or would you do something that was consistent with your nature, and proven track record, and put out some more FUD, for example?
If the consumer could be made to think that they had some evil 'counterfeit' system on their machine, they would go and buy a copy of the 'genuine' one, which would somehow be better.
Problem solved.
Profits restored.
How easy is that?
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Compare with what BBC writes
Viruses 'installed in PC factory'
Cybercriminals are exploiting insecure supply chains to infect computers before they leave the factory, says Microsoft.
The viruses were discovered when Microsoft digital crime investigators bought 20 PCs, 10 desktops and 10 laptops from different cities in China.
Four of the computers were infected with malicious programs even though they were fresh from the factory.
Microsoft set up and ran Operation b70 to investigate and found that the four viruses were included in counterfeit software some Chinese PC makers were installing on computers.
I don't know if these ever reach Europe but why would BBC lie about it?
BBC try their best to be as accurate as possible. Are you implying
that Ms in some way payed the BBC to publish this?
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... I don't know if these ever reach Europe but why would BBC lie about it?
The story seems plausible: somewhere in the illegal supply chain malware has been deliberately or accidentally been added to pirated copies of Windows sold in China.
So the story is not necessarily lies, but the purpose of Micro$oft publicising it's investigation into counterfeit software is to increase sales of genuine Micro$oft products: essentially a
scare story
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If you read the quote, it says MS bought 10 PCs.
Those would have had MS installed already.
So in fact, they would have been shipped for sale to the PC buyer with viruses and malware preinstalled on the new computers.
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The article was based on what
Microsoft said
Microsoft has a track record of credibility in its statements?
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Would not BBC love to expose such Ms lies then?
Reporters love to make scoops so?
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According to Microsoft
the move to FOSS is risky and bound to make Government systems more vulnerable to hackers
Government lacks competent expertise to handle the challenges that comes with the free and Open Source Software
FOSS means less accountability, the Sate might find it hard to hold anyone accountable should its systems be hacked. (Bruce wonders: Has Microsoft ever been easy to hold accountable, wonder of wonders)
FOSS is not copyrighted, so says MS. Just like other players in the copyrighted software, MS is accountable when their software is hacked, the case is different with the non-copyrighted software,"
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Bruce says
Experience with ethically challenged companies has taught us to be slow at taking things at face value from proprietors. For example, just because Microsoft says so, doesn't mean it's the truth.
For people who want to think FOSS is free, non-copyrighted, read the GPL, unlike many proprietor's license, the GPL is easy to read and understand. Read it
sticking yer foot in yer mouth.
Presently, Red Hat is counter-suing Twin Peaks over its claim that Red Hat is using a patent of theirs.
Red Hat replied with a counter claim that Twin Peaks took its FOSS mount utility, didn't comply with Red Hat's GPL and packaged mount as Twin Peaks' very own software and boxed as its proprietary software.
I think Red Hat will come out the winner. And Twin Peaks should have looked first, to see, if they had clean hands, before suing Red Hat for being dirty.
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nooby wrote:
Cybercriminals are exploiting insecure supply chains to infect computers before they leave the factory, says Microsoft.
In order to beat the financial crisis I expect that corporates will try to "lock down" supply so that the end consumer has less choice. How long before only "Microsoft Approved" or "Apple Approved" PCs are legal in the USA I wonder?? (at least in schools etc)
It's not just cybercriminals that infect PCs. It is government agencies too. (Read about Stuxnet as an example).
It is sad that anyone would buy any MS powered computer and think it might be clean. No computer is ever free from risk (even if running Linux)
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These days, it would be more appropriate to say "Flash=Malware" or "Java=Malware" or "Adobe Reader=Malware".
Yes, I am particularly fearful of how pervasive Java is becoming. Even in word processing software. The risks are everywhere now, and I really don't think trusting an antivirus programme covers all bases. The threats are everywhere.
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Queen Elizabeth II, herself, bestowed Knighthood, one of the highest honours an individual in the United Kingdom can achieve, on Sir William Henry Gates III.
If anyone didn't know, William Henry Gates III, is an English Knight, now you do. Fortunately, we don't have to address him as Sir.
If any of you are peasants, working the lands of William Henry Gates III's King, and you are attacked by Knights of a competing Kingdom, I wouldn't bank on finding him on a White Horse coming to your rescue.
I would however, bank on him
coming to your rescue.
Considering how much the Queen has been angered recently, I'd be careful about how I spoke of any of Her's.
Also, if you catch William Henry Gates III with his top off, don't take a picture of him, for goodness sakes.
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I almost feel sorry for telemarketers. Almost.
Last week, I solicited advice from readers about the best ways to get telemarketers to stop bugging you, especially robocallers like "Rachel from cardholder services," which the former head of the Federal Trade Commission branded "public enemy No. 1."
Judging from the avalanche of responses I received, I can say with confidence that many of you are not only fed up with these pests, you're more than happy to exact a little revenge in the form of pranks and time-wasting tactics.
Dave Chakraborty of Porter Ranch, for example, likes to sprinkle his responses with phrases in his native language, Bengali.
"The poor telemarketer thinks I speak English with a bad accent and tries hard to understand," he said. "I have also pretended that the telemarketer is a long-lost friend and have tried to engage him or her in a totally off-track conversation."
These are variations on the technique I wrote about last week. Call it the Levitt method.
Texas resident Mark Levitt said in the column that he routinely tries to tie up Rachel telemarketers for as long as possible by repeatedly feeding them bogus credit card numbers. The goal, he said, is to be such a pain in the neck that the marketing firm will remove him from its call list.
"I'm tired of being a victim," Levitt told me. "So I'll do my part to protect myself and also keep the telemarketer busy so he's not calling someone else."
Of the hundreds of emails, tweets and online comments I received in response to Levitt's call to arms, the most common ploy is to see how long a telemarketer can be kept waiting for you to return to the phone.
Hugh Brown of Glendale said he tells the caller he needs to get a pen and paper, and he disappears for a bit. Then he says he needs to get his wallet from the other room and disappears again. Then he says it must be in the car, and so on.
"Never got to the 30-minute mark," Brown said, "but often broke 20."
Ralph Schack of Rancho Palos Verdes tells telemarketers to hold on while he gets his wife. Then he goes about his business. Every so often, he returns to the line and says, "Didn't she pick up?" Then he goes about his business again.
"Eventually they catch on, but some don't," Schack said. "I have even had some call back for a second or even a third time."
Some people use telemarketers as an audience for some nifty improv. Robert Rosenthal of Studio City waits for the caller to ask how he's doing. "My medical problems are endless," he said.
Carol Levin of Woodland Hills also tees off when asked how she's doing.
"Well, actually, not too well," she replies. "You see, my husband ran off with another woman this week, but not before cleaning out all of our bank accounts. My 30-year-old daughter just phoned collect to beg me to bail her out of jail — again. My son has just gotten his 30th tattoo and he lives with me and has not worked for the last five years...."
Rod Reynolds of Los Angeles likes to ask telemarketers a series of questions: Are you alone? Do you have a hairy chest? Can you touch yourself with no one seeing you?
If the caller stays on the line, Reynolds will say that his wife is at her sister's place for the week. "You sound really nice," he'll say. "Would you like to come over after work?"
More often than not, Reynolds said, the telemarketer will hang up around this point.
B.R. Lister said he worked as a police detective in Orange County for 25 years. He advises people to visit a sporting-goods store or boat dealership and pick up an air-horn canister.
When a telemarketer comes on the line, hold the air horn up to the phone and let it rip.
"Ninety-nine percent of the time this will result in them never calling you again," Lister said. "I've not had one person whom I've suggested this idea to tell me that it did not work for them after it was tried."
A number of readers pointed me toward the work of comedian Tom Mabe, who has elevated the torture of telemarketers to an art form. You can find his stuff on YouTube.
If all else fails, you might consider trying a free online service called Nomorobo (as in "no more robo"). It operates like a spam filter for your phone.
If you sign up, all of your calls will go through Nomorobo before reaching your home. If the company's computers tag one as a robocall, it won't get through. But legal robocalls, such as for school closures or doctor's appointments, won't be blocked.
Aaron Foss, the inventor of Nomorobo, won a $25,000 prize from the FTC for coming up with technology that fights robocalls.
"We can't endorse a product," said Mitch Katz, an FTC spokesman, "but this evidently works."
Not nearly as much fun as some of the other suggestions, though.
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In the first set, the Beavers built a 7-4 edge which was erased by an 11-2 run from the visitors that was capped on a block from junior Tatiana Berger (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and freshman Ada Taylor (Durham, N.C.). Babson picked up the next three points which cut their deficit in half (15-12) and forced MIT to call a timeout. Following the break, the Engineers mounted a 10-4 run that closed out the set.
The second stanza was a back-and-forth affair as it featured 10 ties and five lead changes. With the score knotted at 13, the Beavers put together a 5-1 spurt which resulted in a timeout by the Engineers. Babson maintained its slight edge until the Cardinal and Gray generated its own 5-1 run that evened the score at 22. The hosts countered by scoring the final three points of the frame to even the match at one set apiece.
The tight play continued in the third set until Babson put together a 9-3 run that created a 16-12 lead and caused MIT to call a timeout. The Engineers slowly chipped away at the deficit following the break, eventually tying the score at 21 on an ace by freshman Lindsey Wang (Cupertino, Calif.). The Beavers used a timeout but it did not stop the Engineers' momentum as they recorded the next three points. Taylor and junior Rachel Hunt (Arlington Heights, Ill.) collaborated on a block before they both earned kills that resulted in set point. Babson scored the next three points; however, they were unable to sustain the late rally as a hitting error and a strike by Hunt secured the set for MIT.
In the final frame, the early stages were closely played as there were six ties before a kill from senior Trinity Leonard (Mill Valley, Calif.) sparked a 10-2 run that put the Engineers ahead, 19-12. Despite the deficit, the Beavers continued to attack as they narrowed the gap to four (21-17). This was as close as they would get as MIT registered four of the next five points to clinch the match.
Leonard finished the night with 14 kills, nine digs, and two aces as Taylor posted 12 kills and three blocks. Berger notched nine kills while junior Kristine Bunker (Falmouth, Mass.) recorded six kills and three blocks. Senior Katie Spielbauer (Lakeview, Mich.) totaled 29 digs and two aces as Wang contributed 11 digs. Senior Alyssa Rothman (Plainview, N.Y.) tallied 43 assists and six digs while junior Sharon Hao (San Jose, Calif.) bolstered the defense with seven digs.
MIT will close out non-conference play this weekend at the Hall of Fame Tournament. On Friday, Oct. 19, the Engineers will travel to Mount Holyoke College where they will face Williams College. The next day, they will play Bowdoin College at Smith College and then travel back to Mount Holyoke for a match up with Amherst College.


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John Jurgensen joins Lunch Break with a look at how high-quality, serial TV shows like "Mad Men," "Homeland," "House of Cards" and "Game of Thrones" are becoming too dominant in the cultural conversation. Photo: AMC.
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Microsoft Exchange calendaring allows an end user to correlate their calendar status in Microsoft Outlook with their presence status in Cisco Unified Presence. The table below shows how Cisco Unified Presence updates presence status based on the status of a user, as shown in the Microsoft Outlook calendar.
Table: Table 1 Aggregated Presence State Based on Calendar State
Cisco Unified Presence State Microsoft Outlook State
Out of Office
This module provides administrators with the instructions for integrating Cisco Unified Presence with Microsoft Exchange Calendar 2003 or 2007:
Note: To enable calendar integration on client applications, configure the calendar states in the Cisco Unified Presence User Options window.
Overview of Components
Figure: Microsoft Exchange Integration with Cisco Unified Presence Architecture shows how the Microsoft Exchange server (2003 or 2007 versions) integrates in the presence network provided by Cisco Unified Presence via a calendar module interface.
Cisco Unified Presence communicates with the Exchange server using Outlook Web Access (OWA), a WebDAV interface exposed by the Exchange server. The integration with Microsoft Exchange requires a Presence Gateway configuration on Cisco Unified Presence for calendar applications. Once you configure a Presence Gateway for Outlook, Cisco Unified Presence can retrieve the calendar state of a user (Free, Busy, Out of Office) and translate it into a presence status for the user (Available, Busy, Away).
Figure: Figure 1 Microsoft Exchange Integration with Cisco Unified Presence Architecture
Prerequisites for this Integration
Before you proceed with this integration, ensure that:
- You are running one of the following Windows environments:
- Active Directory 2003 and Windows Server 2003
- Active Directory 2008 and Windows Server 2008
- Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Release 6.x) is installed and configured.
- Cisco Unified Presence (Release 6.0(x) or 7.0) is installed and correctly deployed with a Cisco Unified Communications Manager server.
- One of the following Microsoft Exchange platforms is installed together with the latest updates:
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. Servers should be running the latest Service Packs for both Windows Server 2003 or 2008 (currently SP2) and Microsoft Exchange 2003 (currently SP2).
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Servers should be running the latest Service Packs for both Windows Server 2003 or 2008 (currently SP2) and Microsoft Exchange 2007 (currently SP1).
- You have a third-party certificate or certificate server to generate a certificate.
Troubleshooting Tip
If the characters ~, #, %, +, &, |, *, and / are part of a user's email address, then Exchange calendar integration will not work for that user.
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First of three parts
Down in the hulking steel tubes that form the new Third Harbor Tunnel, a broad beam of light shines through a shaft opening 40 feet overhead.
There is light at the end of this three-quarter mile tunnel.
But there is still a long way to go. Breaking through to the other side will require removing massive, steel bulkheads that seal the ends of the 12 football field-length sections of immersed tube, from the sweeping concrete approaches in South Boston to Logan Airport, across the harbor in East Boston.
Roughly halfway through the 20-year endeavor known as The Big Dig, there are still miles -- expensive miles -- to go.
It is the largest public works project in America, a 7.5-mile corridor of construction in three parts: building the new four-lane tunnel; tearing down the Central Artery while putting a new one under the city; and constructing the Charles River crossing. The current official cost estimate: $7.7 billion, or more than $1 billion a mile -- the most expensive stretch of road in the world. But that price is on its way even higher. Some federal and state officials directly involved in the project are privately conceding that the final cost will be more than $10 billion by the scheduled completion date of 2004. Some state legislators -- less intimate with the project but more blunt in their assessments -- believe the price tag will reach $12 billion.
Ten years after the start of a furious political fight that clinched funding for the project, and 10 years before any ribbon-cutting ceremony for completion is scheduled to take place, the Big Dig's midpoint arrives unceremoniously -- amid a growing sense by the project's many supporters and its fewer detractors that it is at a critical juncture. As the costs continue to climb dramatically, a sobering question persists: Who is going to pay for it all?
The funding formula -- that the federal government would cover roughly 85 percent of the expenditures and the state the other 15 percent -- is in question as costs escalate. Federal funding secured and earmarked by the state for the artery-tunnel project through 1996 amounts to $3.8 billion. That will leave a shortfall of at least $2.5 billion and perhaps close to $5 billion.
With the expected awarding later this month of a $400 million contract for construction under Atlantic Avenue, the so-far almost invisible project will become a daily reality for commuters. According to those involved, this is where the Big Dig will pass the point of no return. Beginning excavation downtown in earnest, with all the disruption and detour that entails, will be both an act of faith that the remaining federal and state funding will follow and a recognition that hundreds of millions of dollars will have been wasted if it does not.
As the stakes get higher, public scrutiny has become more intense. This year, the federal Department of Transportation's Inspector General Office issued a scathing report on the project, portraying it as out of control, and recommending a cap on federal funding. The FBI is investigating the project to see if there is fraud; the state auditor and the House Committee on Post Audit and Oversight have called for more supervision.
And this election year, Massachusetts Democrats -- even though it was their project at conception -- are trying to place the Big Dig at the center of a political wrangle. The chief concern of the critics: who is watching the till? They claim that the management of the project under Republican Gov. William F. Weld's watch has countenanced a $2.5 billion escalation in costs and six years in delays.
Project officials defend themselves, saying the soaring costs are the result of a process beyond their control -- driven as much by politics as it is by engineering -- that has increased the scope and therefore the cost. They also note that under the previous Democratic administration of Michael S. Dukakis the project was lagging behind and costs went up $2.6 billion.
The most dramatic example of shared blame for both delay and cost increases, project officials from both administrations say, is the long battle over the design of the Charles River Crossing. That alone added $1.3 billion and three years to the project. But there are increased costs and delays that are harder to explain, such as the newly disclosed engineering mistakes in the Fort Point Channel that under the most recent solution proposed would add $200 million to the cost of excavation, and could delay the link between the tunnel and the Massachusetts Turnpike Extension for a year.
No matter how the delays are created, the engine that drives costs up is inflation. Officials estimate inflation alone since 1985 at a staggering $2.5 billion -- an amount equal to the projected cost of the entire undertaking at that time. Factoring in future inflation, officials acknowledge, the current projected cost of $7.7 billion will grow to $8.8 billion by 2004.
For all the project's problems, those who know it well -- both Democrats and Republicans -- are hesitant, perhaps fearful, to point fingers. They know the Big Dig was born of a hard-fought political consensus that took some 20 years to build, and that it rests on a fragile, bipartisan foundation.
"It would have been awfully easy and politically inviting for us to take a walk," said Secretary of Transportation James Kerasiotes. "We didn't because building this project was the right thing to do and the benefits, short and long term, to the economy and quality of life far outweigh the costs."
Frederick P. Salvucci, transportation secretary under Dukakis, agreed, saying, "We're all in the same bipartisan traffic jam."
Salvucci -- the visionary and political facilitator of the project -- recently stood on a bridge in South Boston. Looking north there was a sweeping view of the city's skyline and the traffic backing up on the Central Artery. To the south was a construction site and the dozens of towering cranes that swing and dip at the entrance to the tunnel.
Over the sound of the machinery, Salvucci noted not just the need to alleviate traffic and bring Boston and New England into the next century, but also the other benefits of the project: some 15,000 jobs and their ripple effect on the local economy as well as creating new development in South Boston, which will eventually be more accessible by car and subway.
"We got it rolling, but they are doing the work," said Salvucci, who has been both supportive and critical of the Weld administration's stewardship of the project. "Everybody wants to see this thing get done. And it is getting done. We have to be vigilant, but we also have to be patient."
The Big Dig -- a massive public works undertaking that surpasses the Hoover Dam and the Brooklyn Bridge in terms of cost and magnitude -- was forged in the fires of three decades of Massachusetts politics. It was galvanized through consensus in both Boston and Washington.
The history of the Big Dig is in some ways the point where the history of city politics intersects with the power of suburban wealth. It is a unifier in a highly political state, a bridge over a fault line caused by bitter battles over the need for highway projects versus public transportation.
The existing Central Artery -- the unsightly spine of downtown that will be dismantled and rebuilt underground -- is the physical embodiment of that political fault line.
It took all of the 1950s to complete. Its cost shot up dramatically, from a $30 million estimate in January 1951 to $110 million when proud public officials snipped a ribbon at the Dewey Square Tunnel in 1959.
A front-page article in the Globe on June 25 that year read: "Casting aside of the wooden barricades will enable motorists by the tens of thousands to reach the central city in scant, trouble-free minutes; or speed through it, non-stop, on a six-lane ribbon of concrete."
Needless to say, the highway never lived up to its promises. Originally designed to carry 75,000 cars a day, it is now clogged with some 190,000 daily. In the 1960s, Boston politics would be strongly influenced by such intrusive highway projects.
In the broadest of terms, the two sides involved in this history were pro- highway and anti-highway. The pro-highway faction was made up of contractors, unions, and those who sought to open up access to the suburbs. The anti-highway faction was a grass-roots movement in working-class, inner- city neighborhoods that had seen homes bulldozed to make room for highways.
Two central characters in the tale of the Big Dig grew out of this latter group: Dukakis, then an up-and-coming state representative from Brookline, and Salvucci, a young MIT graduate who had grown up in East Boston.
By the late 1960s, the people opposing highways had become more sophisticated. They developed a power base in the inner city which came together in a dramatic battle to block the construction of the Inner Belt, a highway plan that called for extending Interstate 95 by cutting a swath through Brookline, Cambridge and Roxbury.
They won when Republican Gov. Francis W. Sargent joined their side in 1971. Out of that fight, Dukakis and Salvucci emerged as key players in city and state transportation battles, pushing for more mass transit. In the process, Massachusetts opted to sacrifice hundreds of millions of dollars in matching federal highway funds. But much of the money would be reclaimed for the artery-tunnel project that is the last and perhaps largest single piece of the Interstate Highway Act, the 40-year-old legislation that has built 42,000 miles of highway across the United States.
Sargent had a grand plan, though at the time it was politically untenable. He wanted to build both a new, two-lane third harbor tunnel to Logan Airport, for buses and other high-occupancy vehicles, and put the Central Artery underground.
The Federal Highway Administration estimated the cost of depressing the Central Artery at $300 million in 1971 and dismissed it as nothing but a ''highway beautification project." And the anti-highway coalition opposed the tunnel because it would have ripped through city neighborhoods.
Depressing the artery seemed like a great idea to beautify the city, but an impossible task to complete without crippling the city's economy.
Salvucci's key contribution would be in finding a way to align the tunnel so it would not disrupt the neighborhoods, and exploring engineering that would allow for depressing the artery while the elevated structure stayed in place.
But that would take a long time.
Although Dukakis, who was elected governor in 1974, opposed the tunnel, he appointed Salvucci as transportation secretary. Salvucci would eventually bring Dukakis to realize the benefits of the tunnel, but only after a way had been devised to avoid destroying people's homes.
In 1976, the project cleared a hurdle by winning preliminary approval of the Federal Highway Administration to pursue the notion of depressing the artery and building a third harbor tunnel. By itself it was not a big step. More significant was that it happened only after the intervention of then- House Majority Leader, and soon to become Speaker Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill Jr. O'Neill, who once opposed the tunnel portion, had been turned around and would become one of the project's strongest, most influential allies.
O'Neill would work his muscle and his charm in Congress, especially a 25- year-friendship with then-Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, who stepped down in 1984 but helped pave the way for authorization before he left. Later, O'Neill would end up in a highly visible fight with President Ronald Reagan over the project.
Salvucci recalls how the vision of a feasible third harbor tunnel materialized. He was sitting in his office when an engineer called him from a pay phone in South Boston. It was Bill Reynolds -- a contractor, engineer and old friend -- who began describing how he had just figured out the solution: run the tunnel through underdeveloped South Boston to the airport. That way, no neighborhoods would be impacted, especially not Salvucci's hometown of East Boston, as was the case with earlier plans.
After Salvucci had assembled a road show to sell his grand project to the public, momentum was halted when conservative Democrat Edward J. King was elected governor in 1978. King, who named Kerasiotes as one of his top transportation officials, opposed the artery, while supporting the tunnel.
But King ran into a coalition of liberal Democrats -- led by O'Neill and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy -- that fought hard to insist that depressing the artery had to be done first.
In 1983, after Dukakis had regained the corner office, Salvucci knew it was time to move. He began putting together a package that was the basis of today's tunnel and artery project, though in far simpler -- and less expensive -- form.
Salvucci supported tying a third harbor tunnel to the depression of the Central Artery as long as the tunnel emerged on airport land, away from the neighborhoods. And that same year, following a crucial call to Reagan's
appointees at the Federal Highway Administration from the state's lone Republican congressman, Rep. Silvio Conte, the agency grudgingly agreed to
allow Massachusetts to revise the King administration's tunnel environmental impact statement to include putting the Central Artery underground.
In 1985, the state's new plan was given preliminary approval by the highway administration with an official cost estimate of $2.5 billion.
The project was on a roll through 1986, a heady time for Massachusetts, then in the flush of an economic boom. The state had the promise of a governor poised to make a bid for the presidency, the power of Kennedy, and the personality and perseverance of Speaker O'Neill. This political constellation -- never again to be arrayed so brightly -- was shining down on the process.
But on Capitol Hill in 1987, Reagan blasted the Massachusetts project as an example of wasteful, pork barrel spending and vetoed the transportation bill containing its funding. The stage was set for a battle royale to override the veto.
The Democrat-dominated House easily overrode Reagan's veto on March 31, 1987. The fight then shifted to the Senate, where one of the most dramatic turnarounds of the Reagan era would occur.
The next day, the Senate voted -- with Democrat after Democrat going for the override. Thirteen Republicans -- whose motivations varied from wanting projects for their home state to pressure from the construction industry -- also voted to override. Leading this coalition was Sen. Steven Symms (R- Idaho). His payback came in the form of heavy campaign contributions from a long list of Boston business leaders such as real estate developer Norman Leventhal and Boston lawyer Harold Hestnes, according to a political history of the project by David Luberoff, a researcher at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
Last to vote was newly elected Terry Sanford, Democrat of North Carolina. He waffled, and the pressure grew. Finally, since the bill was unpopular back home, Sanford voted with Reagan, against the override.
But Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd called for a reconsideration, giving the Democrats a few short hours to launch an intense campaign to turn Sanford around. Kennedy called the young senator into his office, wrapping him in the mantle of Camelot, reminding him that they had family ties that went back to the 1960s.
Sanford was cajoled and finally bullied into reversing his position. He announced that he intended to vote to override. Republicans then delayed the vote a day, to bring Reagan himself to Capitol Hill to lobby.
When the Senate came back into session, Kennedy and Byrd literally ushered Sanford in, keeping Reagan supporters at bay. Sanford voted as he said he would and clinched the override, in what would go down as one of the president's most bitter legislative losses. The Globe quoted one pundit suggesting that the tunnel be named for Sanford because "it would go in both directions."
Since the Weld administration took the reins of the project, it has completed the excruciating permitting process, dug the first spade of earth, and stuck to a promise to open the new tunnel by the end of next year. But there have also been cost escalations and delays. Moreover, in this election year, officials have chosen to skip their annual cost and schedule revision of the project, delaying it until 1995.
How do these soaring costs happen?
Project Director Peter M. Zuk says they result from multiple changes and additions that have created six years of delay in the project, now set for completion in 2004.
Most delays, project officials say, result from the political process: neighborhoods, interest groups, government agencies requesting or demanding changes that they believed would improve the overall project.
In addition to the $1.3 billion redesign of the Charles River crossing segment, other examples of costly additions to the project include: high- occupancy vehicle lanes for the link between the Massachusetts Turnpike and the Third Harbor Tunnel for $262 million and tunnnel covers in both South Boston and East Boston for $180 million.
The delays, Zuk concedes, were also created by highly unrealistic projections of construction schedules.
"There was not the level of diligence in reviewing the schedule that there should have been before 1992," he said, diplomatically criticizing both the previous administration and the experts of the joint venture led by Bechtel Corp. that was hired to guide the project. "1994 and 1998 were dates that were doggedly maintained as opening dates. Clearly, they needed to be reassessed once we got into physical construction."
Another factor in delay and cost increases is the high potential for engineering problems and miscalculations in a complex project. The most glaring and recent problem is a series of engineering errors made in the Fort Point Channel crossing. Critics, including Salvucci, say any increased cost or delay in Fort Point may be a direct result of the state's failure to adequately oversee the joint venture that manages the process.
The state has vowed to thoroughly investigate the mistake and go after cost recovery from whoever is deemed accountable.
As costs climb, the question of where future funding will come from looms larger. In 1991, the project secured roughly $3.8 billion in federal funding through 1996, with the state planning to pay something less than a billion
dollars that was expected to be the project's remaining cost.
But funding for any amount over the 1991 estimate of $5.2 billion is
uncertain, and some say it will be a hot political issue as Congress gears up next year to deal with the new federal formula for large-scale public works set to take effect in 1997.
Lester Lamm, a lobbyist on Capitol Hill for the Highway Users Federation, said that Massachusetts is in a precarious position.
"If the project ends up costing $10 or $12 billion, it is a big question as to whether there will be enough interstate construction money to complete that project," said Lamm. If the costs do go as high as predicted, he added, ''I don't see it. I don't see how they could pay for that."
The present stewards of the project believe worries over funding are exaggerated. Kerasiotes says the Federal Highway Administration signaled an answer to the funding question last month, in a letter that authorized the project to pass the point of no return and proceed to bid on one of the largest downtown construction contracts. "That's a pretty serious commitment to see the project through," he said.
As to the details of funding after 1996, when money will have to come from other federal accounts because 1991's was the last from Interstate coffers, Kerasiotes says: "It's a congressional decision. It always has been."
And that will be a political brawl.
Donald Hammer, Federal Highway Administration regional administrator, notes there are many uncertainties: "If they cut back programs or change the apportionment, it will create problems. . . . We are going to have to work hard on cost containment or we could be in trouble."
The war for future funding will be fought in Congress, but there will also be battles at home over how -- and how much -- the state will pay. In addition, there will be tussling over how much of the federal funding for road projects will end up in Boston and the Big Dig, rather than other parts of the state.
Hammer said the state has become accustomed to taking federal funds earmarked for other areas and pouring them into the project, and that such a strategy has been essential. "If that gets political, it could cause problems," he added.
One way it could get political is if other parts of the state get fed up with a highway project in Boston sucking in federal dollars they believe should be for their communities. The seeds of that revolt are planted in the historic, simmering animosity between the western part of the state and Boston. In Western Massachusetts, legislators already call it "the Big Hole," not the Big Dig.
So far, Kerasiotes has worked out a funding formula for this year providing $400 million for the project and $400 million for statewide activities, and says he'll keep that balance for 10 years.
But Hammer is less confident: "He has so far been able to keep peace in the family. I don't know how long that can last."
There are also serious questions as to how the state will manage to afford its share of the project's escalating costs.
"We're at a crossroads," said Rep. Stephen J. Karol (D-Attleboro), who for 10 years has been cochairman of the Legislature's Joint Transportation Committee. "It's time to ask the tough questions, like, 'Can we afford this?' ''
Karol, about to step down after 16 years in the Legislature, has tried to convince project officials that they are kidding themselves with current cost and schedule estimates.
"It could take as long as 2010 to finish, and I would not be surprised if the final cost is about $12 billion," says Karol. "The point is that things happen; costs go up. It's inevitable in a project of this size."
Karol has vowed to lead the push for a bill that would authorize the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority to collect the tolls and manage the tunnel in exchange for paying the state's portion of it. James Aloisi, chief counsel for the Turnpike Authority, said he supports the legislation, but is wary of the effect it could have on the authority's bond rating.
"The numbers on Wall Street put this project at about $10 billion," Aloisi said. "But I don't think Wall Street is as concerned with the total cost as much as they are with the plan, or lack of a plan, to deal with these costs. . . . That's what has to come together. That is the crossroads we're headed for."
For Kerasiotes, this crossroads is a perilous intersection between politics and public works. "Do I think there's a danger to the project?" he asked. ''Yes, in creating a political snowball at just a time when a lot of elements in the project can be undone."


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