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A series of violent clashes marked the past two days in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem following Israeli settlers' arson attack on a family home in the Nablus village of Duma, early Friday morning.
According to local eye witnesses, Israeli settlers smashed a home's windows and threw flammable liquids and Molotov cocktails inside, setting the building on fire. An 18-month-old toddler, Ali Dawabsha, died trapped in the burning house.
Ali's older brother Ahmed and both of his parents survived the arson, yet remain in a critical condition in Israeli medical centres, where they are being treated for third-degree burns which cover 75 to 90 percent of their bodies.
Shortly after the attack, Hamas' political bureau chief Khaled Mashal announced a "day of rage" and encouraged Palestinian resistance to, "face the occupation and their crimes with all their force and by all means necessary," an official statement reads.
The Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas pledged to take the case to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and add it to the file of complaints documenting Israeli war crimes in the 2014 Gaza War.
The PA holds the Israeli government fully responsible for the arson, for as long as, "the Israeli government encourages settlements everywhere, they're also encouraging these thugs to carry out these attacks. This is a war crime and a tragedy for all of us," Palestinian President Abbas said in statement.
Minutes after the news leaked, cities across the West Bank in protest.
Clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces were reported in the southern West Bank city of Hebron where hundreds of locals marched in the streets holding signs condemning the attack and calling for an immediate retaliation.
Unrest also marked the funeral march for Ali Dawabsha in Duma near Nablus where Palestinians clashed with Israeli forces.
Israeli authorities announced increased military presence in the occupied territories effective immediately; security guards at the Al-Aqsa compound in east Jerusalem have been on high alert since early Friday morning.
Hundreds of worshippers from the West Bank were found praying in the streets of Jerusalem's Old City on Friday after the Israeli forces imposed security restrictions on entry to Al-Aqsa and barred all men under 50 from entering the compound, Ma'an News Agency reported.
Several Palestinians sustained injuries in clashes that broke out in al-Swana, Beit Hanina, Al-Issawiyah and other parts of East Jerusalem.
In the West Bank, violent protests erupted near in Qalandiya leaving four Palestinian youths injured after the Israeli security forces intervened to attempt to pacify protests, throwing stun grenades and firing rubber-coated bullets.
Saturday morning saw the first victim of the recent wave of violence. 17-year-old Palestinian teenager, Laith al-Khadi, succumbed to his wounds in the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah where he was transported yesterday evening.
Leith al-Khadi was shot in his chest by an Israeli soldier with live ammunition at the Atara checkpoint near Ramallah during clashes with Israeli military in late Friday afternoon.
In an attempt to appease tensions, the Israeli authorities strongly condemned the attack as "an act of terrorism" and vowed to prosecute the perpetrators.
"There is zero tolerance for terrorism whatever side of the fence it comes from. We have to fight it and fight it together to give ourselves a better future - a future free of violence, free of terror, a future of peace," said the Israeli Prime Minister on Friday.
Similarly, the Israeli president Reuven Rivlin expressed his commitment to punish the criminals saying, "We [Israelis] awoke this morning to a day of sorrow. I feel a sense of shame, and a sense of pain. We stand before them [Palestinians], and must explain that such terror is not the path of the State of Israel, or of the Jewish people. Words alone will not suffice."
According to B'Tselem, an Israeli-based human rights NGO, "official condemnations of this attack are empty rhetoric as long as politicians continue their policy of avoiding enforcement of the law on Israelis who harm Palestinians, and do not deal with the public climate and the incitement which serve as backdrop to these acts," an official statement published yesterday reads.
The UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon also stressed that the, "continued failure to effectively address impunity for repeated acts of settler violence have led to another horrific incident involving the death of an innocent life. This must end," he said in a press statement.
The attack is believed to be a "price tag" revenge action in response to Israeli court order to raze two illegal buildings in the Beit El settlement near the village of Duma and is considered the worst act of Israeli violence against Palestinians since last July, when a group of Jewish extremist kidnapped a 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khadeir and burnt him alive.
"This heinous murder was carried out for a political objective. We must not permit such acts to allow hate and violence to bring more personal tragedies and to bury any prospect of peace. This reinforces the need for an immediate resolution of the conflict and an end to the occupation," said UN Envoy to the Middle East, Nickolay Mladenov, a statement on Friday.
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NEW YORK From elaborately decorated trees to drive-through lighting displays to boat parades and train shows, a variety of holiday spectacles are being staged through the end of December and into early January around the country. Here are a few of them:
Rockefeller Center is sparkling with 30,000 lights on an 80-foot Norway spruce that survived Superstorm Sandy. The tree comes from the Mount Olive, N.J., home of Joe Balku, who lost power and other trees during the storm. It remains on view until Jan. 7. While youre at Rock Center, watch the ice skaters, take in Radio Citys Christmas Spectacular or visit St. Patricks Cathedral on Fifth Avenue.
Elsewhere in Manhattan, on opposite sides of Central Park near 81st Street, youll find themed trees and displays through Jan. 6 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, home to a Christmas tree and Neapolitan Baroque creche, and at the American Museum of Natural History, which hosts its annual origami holiday tree. And at the Plaza Hotel, near the 59th Street entrance to Central Park, a tree decorated with 100 pounds of glass, gold and silver ornaments pays tribute to The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgeralds famous novel of the 1920s. A new film version of Gatsby is due out next summer starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
Youll have to look up, way up, if you want to see the top of the Christmas tree at Outlets at Anthem, the Phoenix-area mall in the Phoenix. The white fir from northern California is 110 feet tall and is one of the tallest cut trees in the country. It weighs 12 tons and is located in a specially designed well in the Outlets center court.
In many Florida towns, the holiday spirit arrives by boat. Seventy-five holiday boat parades are scheduled from Pensacola to Key West. Some parades offer cash prizes for best decorations, others include charity drives for toys or food banks, or have special guests, like Santa Clam in Cedar Key. A directory of events can be found at www.floridabywater.com/component/content/article/1647-boat-parades.
Elsewhere in Florida, Key West puts a local spin on The Nutcracker with performances today, and Dec.19-22 of The Nutcracker Key West, which turns the story of a girls visit to the land of the sugar plum fairy into an island and underwater fantasy with dancing snowy egrets, tumbling shrimp and colorful fish.
A number of botanic gardens around the country host holiday train shows. At the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, trains on view in the Enid A. Haupt Conservancy wind past 140 buildings depicting New York City, including landmarks such as the original Yankee Stadium, St. Patricks Cathedral and the Brooklyn Bridge. At the Chicago Botanic Garden, Wonderland Express trains make their way through a village of tiny Chicago landmarks made from natural materials. Krohn Conservatory in Cincinnati hosts Trains, Trestles and Traditions, with poinsettias, cyclamens, evergreens, trains and replicas of buildings and bridges.
At Universal Orlando in Florida, guests can meet the Grinch, watch the live Grinchmas Wholiday Spectacular, and experience a nightly parade of giant balloons from Macys New York City holiday parade. The group Mannheim Steamroller will perform holiday music on select nights. Grinchmas celebrations also are taking place at Universal Studios Hollywood in California, including a chance to tour the original Whoville film sets from the movie adaptation of How the Grinch Stole Christmas aboard the theme parks studio tour.
At Walt Disney World near Orlando, Cinderella Castle is lit up for the holidays, Mickeys Very Merry Christmas Party takes place on select nights and Epcot hosts a Holidays Around the World candlelight processional nightly through Dec. 30. At Disneys Hollywood Studios theme park, the Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights, which started at a private home in Arkansas, drapes entire buildings on Disneys Streets of America in sheets of multicolored lights.
At Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., Disney California Adventure Park offers vintage decor on Buena Vista Street with an old-fashioned department store Santa Claus at Elias & Co. Just after the new year, Disneyland also will be hosting a Three Kings Day celebration, Jan. 4-6, with special decor, food and entertainment showcasing this holiday that is especially popular in Latin America.
In Riverside, Calif., the Mission Inn Hotel & Spa will host its 20th annual Festival of Lights. More than 3.6 million lights will be on display through Jan. 5. The hotel also offers a decorated tree, carolers, horse-drawn carriages, visits from Santa, an outdoor skating rink and actors dressed in 17th-century costumes.
In Salt Lake City, the Grand America Hotel offers window displays honoring celebrations from around the world, a different one in each of 14 windows facing the hotels courtyard, where visitors also will find a holiday tree. Guests receive a passport, to be stamped at each window, each stamp bearing a holiday greeting in another language. Complimentary treats are available at the end of the stroll in the hotels patisserie, La Bonne Vie. The event runs through Dec. 31.
In North Carolina, Christmas at the Biltmore estate also features a special tree on its front lawn. The Norway spruce, 55 feet tall, was bought by Joseph Gray for his wife back in 1972 and planted at the end of their driveway on Roan Mountain in Tennessee. Gray, now in his early 80s, lost his wife in 2010. The aging tree was struggling to survive, so The Biltmore trucked it to Asheville, decorated it with 45,000 lights and is displaying it for the holidays. Other Biltmore holiday activities include tours, candlelight Christmas evenings, and weekend Santa visits.
In Minneapolis, the annual Target Holidazzle parade takes place Thursdays through Sundays through Dec. 23, kicking off at 6:30 p.m. Parade-goers have been braving the cold Twin Cities weather to watch the event every holiday season since 1992. It includes illuminated floats, music, celebrity grand marshals and Santa in a sleigh.
In Virginia, Busch Gardens Williamsburg hosts Christmas Town for a fourth season, with nearly every building covered in a total of 6 million lights. The display includes 1,500 trees, 700 wreaths and 20,000 ornaments, plus shows, Santas workshop and a 50-foot-tall animated tree dancing to synchronized music.
In West Virginia, the Oglebay Resort & Conference Center hosts the Winter Festival of Lights through Jan. 6. Its one of the largest in the country, with 78 displays along a six-mile drive throughout the resort, including a massive star, wreath and candles, a Ferris wheel, carousel and Cinderella.


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English Title: A Night In The MountainsIwayama No Ichiya (A Night In The Mountains) (1981) Season 1 Episode 103- Meiken Jorî Cartoon Episode Guide
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- Traditional Animation
- Toho Productions.
Co-Produced By: Visual 80 Productions, MK Company
- Cartoon Characters: Sebastian, Jolly, Poochie, Garcia, Old Seasal.
English Characters: Sebastian, Belle, Poochie, Grandfather Cecil, Anne-Marie, Isabel, Sarah.
- Directed By Keiji Hayakawa, Shinji Okada, Kazuyoshi Yokota, Fumio Ikeno, Seiji Endo; more Directors ...
- Produced By Katoo Yoshio, Hosoda Nobuaki.
- Animated By Kazuo Iida, Yoshiyuki Momose, Yuuichi Kondoo, Yoshishige Kosoko, Takashi Saijoo, Nobuyuki Kitajima, Shigesuke Takahashi, Tooru Tanaka, Nobuo Hirayama, Tsunenaka Nozaki, Shin'ichi Tsuji; more Animators ...
- Written By Toshiyuki Kashiwakura, Soji Yoshikawa, Kunio Nakatani, Cécile Aubry.
- Music: Akihiro Komori.
- First Aired on April 21, 1981. (more air dates ...)
- Originally Aired on NHK (Japan), Nickelodeon (1984), CBBC (1989) (UK).
- Running Time: 30 minutes.
- Episode Number: 103
- Season: 1
- Color
- Japan / France
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Sebastian prevents Belle's capture.
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"A Night In The Mountains."
Cecile Aubrey's popular children's book series first spawned a live-action program in France, split into 3 series, each with 13 episodes: Belle et Sébastian, Sébastien et la Mary-Morgane, and Sébastien Parmis les Hommes. The animated show was made... (more)
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Debating Statewide Authorizer for PA
"Is Pa. ready for statewide charter authorizer?"
by Kathy Matheson, Associated Press
Lebanon Daily News
March 24, 2013
With the cost and quality of charter schools dominating the public education debate in Pennsylvania, lawmakers face at least a dozen major bills seeking better accountability and governance of such schools, which are publicly financed but independently run.
Much of the legislation focuses on funding formulas and audits. Yet some charter backers say what's missing is a provision for independent, statewide authorizers—entities that can arguably weed out bad apples and ensure the operation of only high-quality charters.
"Great authorizing makes for great schools, both in terms of achievement and financial and operational accountability," said Jeanne Allen, president of the Washington-based Center for Education Reform.
Allen is among those advocating for Pennsylvania to join states like New York, Michigan and Indiana, which use independent agencies to evaluate applications by would-be charter operators and monitor the schools' progress before granting renewals.
Currently, charter operators in Pennsylvania apply to local districts for approval. It's a process that some say has created a patchwork of standards and oversight because volunteer school boards don't have dedicated experts or uniform guidelines for assessing proposals.
"It was sort of a Wild West situation, where some districts have done a very good job, and others have not," said Robert Fayfich, executive director of the Pennsylvania Coalition of Public Charter Schools.
The quality of Pennsylvania's 175 charters is a hot issue. Eight cyber charter applications were recently rejected due to academic and fiscal deficiencies; the auditor general this month alleged several improper charter school leasing arrangements; and state Rep. James Roebuck highlighted 44 troubled charters in introducing sweeping reform legislation last week.
Critics say charters drain resources from their district-operated counterparts without offering a better education. But supporters contend the alternative schools—which enroll about 5 percent of students statewide—offer innovative and sometimes safer alternatives to traditional schools.
The Pennsylvania School Boards Association opposes statewide authorizers because they give power to officials far removed from the ground-level effect of their rulings.
"They would be making decisions, funding decisions, for a local community and there would be no accountability back to those people," said spokesman Steve Robinson.
About half of U.S. states have some kind of independent commission to sanction charters, according to the Chicago-based National Association of Charter School Authorizers. That includes autonomous boards, university institutes, nonprofit agencies and non-educational municipal entities.
Association president Greg Richmond conceded statewide authorizers can be "a hard sell" to legislatures because lawmakers don't want to create more bureaucracy or ask districts to give up local control. But he said the trend is growing as more people realize this is "specialized work that needs to be done well."
"It should be about making smart decisions, about who can run a good school," Richmond said. "It shouldn't be a power issue. It should be about only approving good school proposals."
Some states allow districts to continue granting charters even with the presence of a statewide authorizer. That can lead to problems too, he noted, because operators turned down by one agency might simply apply to another.
"When there are too many authorizers in the state, it's a race to the bottom," Richmond said.
In New York, the only charter school authorizers are the state Board of Regents and trustees of the State University of New York.
SUNY trustees, through their Albany-based Charter School Institute, have been granting charters since 1999. Their approval rate is 36 percent, according to institute executive director Susan Miller Barker.
Each application is vetted by the institute's education, financial and legal experts, who also solicit input from the affected district. The staff subsequently makes a recommendation to the trustees, who have a reputation for being "rigorous" authorizers, Barker said.
About 36,000 students attend 117 SUNY-approved charter schools, many of which outperform their district counterparts, Barker said. Institute staff members also monitor school progress, she said, noting trustees have revoked about 10 percent of charters for poor academic performance.
Fayfich said Pennsylvania is "behind the curve" in its lack of a statewide authorizer, noting the failure of two recent charter reform bills that included the provision. He predicted authorizing legislation will be introduced again this session.
The Corbett administration supports the concept of a statewide, independent authorizer but would have to review the specifics of any proposal, said Education Department spokesman Tim Eller.
David Hardy, founder of Boys' Latin Charter School in west Philadelphia, welcomes the idea of university-based authorizers. Mismanaged charters that never should have been approved in the first place have unfairly tainted those that are doing good work, he said.
"Colleges know education, they know finance, they know operations. Because their name is going to be associated with the charter, they don't tolerate poor performance," Hardy said. "The college has a reputation to maintain."


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- Don't go too far down the road of alliances. All it takes is one staffing change to shift the balance of power, so having allies across the board (rather than in one faction) is most effective.
- Keep a watchful eye of overly competitive coworkers who might delight in your own demise. If power struggles become too much to take, it might be time to look for a new job.
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Some people steer clear of office politics, but playing the game may be crucial to career success because it offers a way to learn how power and influence are managed in your company.
To get a handle on office politics, observe how things get done in your organization. Ask some key questions: What are the core values and how are they enacted? Are short- or long-term results more valued? How are decisions made? How much risk is tolerated? The answers to these questions should give you a good sense of the culture of your organization.
And don't be afraid to toot your own horn. If no one knows of your good work, you may lose at the game of office politics when you really deserve to win. Let others know what you've accomplished whenever you get the opportunity. Just be careful to avoid coming across as a braggart by exaggerating your successes or taking too much credit for teamwork you participated in.
Learn to communicate persuasively. Develop an assertive style, backed with solid facts and examples, to focus attention on your ideas and proposals. Good politicians adjust their messages for different audiences but do not align themselves too strongly with any one group. While an alliance may be powerful for the moment, new leadership can oust existing coalitions and surround itself with new supporters.
Meanwhile, keep an eye out for any office turmoil that might be directed at you. If a boss or colleague works to sabotage your career – or you perceive you're being sabotaged – no matter the reason, it can be tough to cope. Complain, and you're no longer considered a team player or may be accused of imagining the situation. Sit back and do nothing, and your career advancement could be in jeopardy.
If a colleague attempts to denigrate your character, blame you for something you didn't do or steal credit for your work, make sure to keep your cool. Don't confront the saboteur. First, carefully weigh the unpleasant possibility that your assumptions about the person are false. Make sure it's not you that's the problem. If you're unsure, consult with a trusted colleague or mentor. Should you then feel certain that you're in the right, talk to your boss in private about the issue.
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Woman found dead in sister's minivan
A Marshall County deputy on patrol found 55-year-old Rebecca Hall dead early Sunday morning.
The deputy found Hall in a blue Chrysler Town and Country minivan in the 2900 mile of E. Main Street Road, just east of Marshalltown.
Authorities were investigating the incident as suspicious.
Hall's family members said she was a family-oriented, artistic woman who had a 15-year-old son.
Her sister last saw Hall Saturday afternoon, and said she has no idea what could have happened.
Hall's sister said police have not given her any information.
Drivers who traveled in the area on July 13 and saw the vehicle or any suspicious activity can contact the communications center at the Marshall County Sheriff's Office. Authorities said anyone who had contact with Hall on July 13 should also contact authorities.
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Othello, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and David Ives's adaptation of The Liar to run in repertory June – August 2014
The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (HVSF) announces the three plays that will run in repertory during the Company's 28thseason: Othello, directed by Associate Artistic Director Christopher V. Edwards, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, directed by HVSF newcomer Eric Tucker, and David Ives' hilarious adaptation of Pierre Corneille's comedy, The Liar, directed by HVSF veteran Russell Treyz.
Founding Artistic Director Terrence O'Brien will be stepping down after a 27-year tenure but will stay on to the end of 2013 to direct his adaptation of A Christmas Carol at the Church of St. Mary-in-the-Highlands in Cold Spring on December 6, 7, 13, and 14. Performed by four members of the HVSF acting company, Stephen Paul Johnson, Eleanor Handley, Katie Hartke, and Ryan Quinn, the adaptation provides a fresh view of the holiday classic that highlights the warmth and wit of the original text. Performances are followed by a reception with the actors and a holiday feast.
Tickets for A Christmas Carol may be purchased online only. For more information, show times, and to purchase tickets, visit www.hvshakespeare.org.
Tickets for the 2014 season, which will run from June 10 to August 31, will go on sale online early in 2014. The box office will open in May.
Gift certificates are available online throughout the year.
For more information call the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival office at 845-809-5750, or visit www.hvshakespeare.org
Additional information about HVSF can be found on Facebook and Twitter.
About the Directors
Christopher V. Edwards, Associate Artistic Director, is also the Director of the HVSF Education Program. His directing credits at HVSF include The Three Musketeers, Romeo and Juliet, and The Bomb-itty of Errors. Other directing credits include: I Have Before Me A Remarkable Document Given To Me By A Young Lady From Rwanda with Vermont Stage Co.; Shakespeare The Remix with Capital Repertory Theater; Master Harold…and the boys with St. Michael's Playhouse; Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, and Love's Obsession with Lincoln Center's "Meet the Artists" program.
Russell Treyz returns to HVSF for his third season. He directed The 39 Steps in 2012 and All's Well That Ends Well in 2013. Other directing credits include Twelfth Night and Hamlet at the Orlando Shakespeare Festival, King John at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, Tartuffe and School for Scandal at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, The Importance of Being Earnest at the McCarter Theater, and The Front Page at the Merrimack Repertory Theater.
Eric Tucker will be joining this season. Off Broadway he has directed and performed in Saint Joan and, Hamlet for Bedlam, his theater company, which are shortly to be seen in New York. Other credits include Romeo and Juliet, and Twelfth Night at Trinity Rep, and Theresa Rebeck's Bad Dates, Pinter's Mirror, and Women of Will: The Complete Journey by Tina Packer at Shakespeare & Co.
About the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival
For 27 years, HVSF has been the only resident Shakespeare company in the Hudson Valley region. HVSF's productions and education programs reach 75,000 people of all ages each year, and its performances are consistently acclaimed for their spontaneous, spare, freewheeling, and distinctive playing style. HVSF makes its home under a specially designed, open-air theater tent, perched high on the banks of the Hudson River on the grounds of historic Boscobel House and Gardens in Garrison, New York. Using the dramatic views of the Hudson Highlands as near-perfect stage scenery, HVSF presents unparalleled productions in a perfect marriage of theater and nature


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It's time to talk more about video games and to wonder where all the TAYpics have gone.
With a week of October to go, the #TAYpics supply is running low. Reader MrMrScott gets us out of a jam today, but Kotaku needs you, dear readers, to submit your best images for Talk Amongst Yourselves to fill out the week. We change art after the weekend, so you only have a few final tries with the skeletons here. Go to #TAYpics to get the job done.


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Might be time to kick off another quiver thread.Drailed wrote:Get fcucked cnut. I have 7 boards and they all have a place.
Eight boards, all have a place in the wild and wonderfully varied mix of conditions and locations down this-a-way (cenny coast to down south)
1) 8'0 pintail gun, thruster
2) 7'6 hi-perf mini mal
3) 7'0 rounded pin, outer islands gun
4) 6'11 pintail single, seventies
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Another dose of reality…
We just got back from a hospital visit with J.D. Drew and Nomar Garciaparra, as they spent time with some kids in the pediatric ward at White Memorial Medical Center. J.D. had actually visited the same hospital last year when he first signed with the team and while he couldn't return to the Dodgers' Pediatric Playroom because it's being retro-fitted, it was nice to see that a few of the people working at the hospital remembered him from his last visit.
On this, the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, visits like this certainly give us all a reason to think about the lives of others less fortunate, though we shouldn't really need these sorts of reminders to do so. Still, I think everyone that took part in the hospital visit – players, front office and media – got a healthy dose of reality again today and the kids got a few famous visitors to brighten their day.
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i'm from around the erea so it's nice to know players do these things.
last time they did this it ended the 13 game winning streak. lets hope they can keep it going tonight.
i was wondering if you would be able to send me picture of my daughter Dalia Moreno with J.D. Drew and Nomar Garciaparra please if so could u send them at my e-mail email@example.com Thanks alot


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Scoil Éigse is the official summer school organised by Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann where Irish people and international students of all ages register for the various instrumental music, singing, dancing and Irish language classes.
The Scoil Éigse recital series is usually among the hottest tickets in town. These exciting events are free and are considered an important part of the learning experience for the students. This year the recitals take place at 3.30pm in Dánlann an Chláir on the Coláiste Mhuire campus.


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Authorities are investigating after a man was accidentally trapped inside Cook County Jail for more than 30 hours while attempting to visit his son over the weekend.
The man was visiting his son, who is awaiting trial on a drug case, early Saturday evening and was taken to a part of the Chicago jail he'd never been after his son was moved.
After being directed to "go down the hallway and turn to the right," he entered a door that had been propped open and shut it behind him, according to Cook County Jail spokesperson Cara Smith.
The man thought he was entering the visiting area to see his son, but the room is reportedly where people visit the "highest classification" super-maximum security prisoners and is not used on the weekends, according to the Chicago Tribune.
The door was propped open because contractors were installing cameras, Smith said.
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Smith called the incident "the perfect storm" and said "a set of bizarre circumstances" allowed it to take place.
The man was stuck in the room for roughly 30 hours. He was rescued after he broke a sprinkler head and was found by firefighters with the Chicago Fire Department around 1 a.m. Monday.
The man needed stitches on one of his thumbs from breaking the sprinkler and was treated at Rush University Medical Center.
"I met him at the hospital and he was exceptionally gracious and grateful to be out of the room," Smith said. "We expressed how sorry we were and gave him a ride back to his vehicle [at the jail]."
Smith said an incident like that has never happened before and hopes it never happens again.
The Cook County Department of Corrections says its facility is one of the largest of its kind in the country. It covers eight city blocks and houses about 9,000 inmates.


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Syrian rebels kill 28 soldiers
Anti-government rebels killed 28 soldiers in attacks on three army checkpoints around Saraqeb.
BEIRUT - Anti-government rebels killed 28 soldiers on Thursday in attacks on three army checkpoints around Saraqeb, a town on Syria's main north-south highway, a monitoring group said.
Some of the dead were shot after they had surrendered, according to video footage. Rebels berated them, calling them "Assad's Dogs", before firing round after round into their bodies as they lay on the ground.
The highway linking the capital Damascus to the contested city of Aleppo, Syria's commercial centre, has been the scene of heavy fighting since rebels cut the road last month. Saraqeb lies about 40 km south of Aleppo.
In other developments, China put forward a new initiative to resolve the 19-month-old conflict, including a phased, region-by-region ceasefire and the setting up of a transitional governing body.
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said Beijing had made the proposal to international peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi - whose own call for a truce over the Muslim holiday of Eid was largely ignored by both sides.
The United States meanwhile has called for an overhaul of Syria's opposition leadership, signalling a break with the largely foreign-based Syrian National Council to bring in more credible figures.
A meeting in Qatar next week of foreign powers backing the rebels will be an opportunity to broaden the coalition against President Bashar al-Assad, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in Zagreb on Wednesday.
The United States and its allies have struggled for months to craft a credible opposition coalition, while Assad has counted on the support of Russia, Iran and, to a lesser extent, China. International efforts to end the violence have all foundered.
More than 32,000 people have been killed since protests against Assad, an Alawite who succeeded his late father Hafez in ruling the mostly Sunni Muslim country, first broke out on city streets. The revolt has since degenerated into full-scale civil war, with the government forces relying heavily on artillery and air strikes to thwart the rebels.
The army has lost swathes of land in Idlib and Aleppo provinces but is fighting to control towns along supply routes to Aleppo city, where its forces are fighting in many districts.
The head of the pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdelrahman, said two of the attacked checkpoints at Saraqeb were on the Damascus-Aleppo highway. The third was near a road linking Aleppo with Latakia, a port city still mostly controlled Assad's forces.
"The rebels will not stay at the checkpoints for long as Syrian warplanes normally bomb positions after rebels move in," Abdelrahman said.
Five rebels died in the fighting and at least 20 soldiers were killed at the third site, including those shot after surrendering, he said.
The video footage showed a group of petrified men, some bleeding, lying on the ground as rebels walked around, kicking and stamping on their captives.
One of the captured men says: "I swear I didn't shoot anyone" to which a rebel responds: "Shut up you animal ... Gather them for me." Then the men are shot dead.
Reuters could not independently verify the footage.
The Observatory said the al Qaeda-inspired Jabhat al-Nusra rebel group was responsible for the executions.
Islamist rebel units are growing in prominence in the war - a cause for concern for international powers as they weigh up what kind of support to give the opposition.
U.S. President Barack Obama's administration has said it is not providing arms to internal opponents of Assad and is limiting its aid to non-lethal humanitarian assistance. It concedes, however, that some of its allies are providing lethal assistance.
Russia and China have blocked three U.N. Security Council resolutions aimed at increasing pressure on the Assad government, leading the United States and its allies to say they could move beyond U.N. structures for their next steps.
China has been strongly criticised by some Arab countries for failing to take a stronger stance on the conflict. Beijing has urged the Assad government to talk to the opposition and take steps to meet demands for political change.
"More and more countries have come to realise that a military option offers no way out, and a political settlement has become an increasingly shared aspiration," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said in Beijing.
He said China's new proposal was aimed at building international consensus and supporting peace envoy Brahimi's mediation efforts.


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SXSW: A 'Leap' in PC control, more weekend highlights
This weekend, Austin, Texas, transformed into a hotbed of activity in the tech world. The South by Southwest festival is in full swing, merging the worlds of music, movies and technology (and if you're lucky, BBQ).
Here's a look back at some of the highlights of SXSW's opening weekend.
PC controls 'Leap' forward. A future without a keyboard and mouse ruling our personal computers seems a lot closer than we realize.
One of the first companies to push the movement is Leap Motion, which USA TODAY's Ed Baig got his hands on during SXSW.
What is Leap Motion? It's a small sensor that sits in front of a PC and Mac, and lets you control a computer with simple hand gestures. Demos of the sensor included sculpting virtual clay models, playing harps and slicing up watermelons and bananas in Fruit Ninja. Whether it's practical for, say, navigating a Web browser or performing other basic tasks remains to be seen.
The device launches this May for $79.99.
Tesla chief soaks up Texas. Elon Musk is a busy man. When he's not running Tesla Motors, creator of sleek electric vehicles, he serves as CEO of SpaceX and chairman of energy company SolarCity. Told you he was busy.
USA TODAY's Jon Swartz caught up with Musk at SXSW to discuss his multiple endeavors. Here are the three biggest things we learned:
-- Texas might be the next site for a SpaceX rocket launch. Musk says it could happen within two years.
-- On that controversial New York Times review of the Tesla S, which questioned the vehicle's durability: "It was a low-grade ethics violation that was not in good faith."
-- He might slow down, but only a little. "I want to have more fun this year."
Marvel expands its empire. They're at the top of the comics scene, and have successfully branched out to toys, apparel, television and movies. Now, Marvel adds to its repertoire with original video programming.
USA TODAY's Mike Snider has the latest on Marvel's fresh offerings, including Earth's Mightiest Show, a weekly program focused on all things related to the house of Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men and more.
The comics publisher also plans to create reality-TV style videos and a documentary, as well as beef up its digital comics library. As Stan Lee would say, "Excelsior!"
More from SXSW:
Banjo strumming a new tune in social media
SXSW taking on more characteristics of CES


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Installing VNCViewer
NOTE: Your device needs to be rooted before you can continue.
- Open up a shell on the cr-48, and
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mkdir /mnt/stateful_partition/opt (if you haven't already)
cd /mnt/stateful_partition/opt
wget http://www.calliesfarm.com/chromeos/java.tar.gz
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Early barrage carries Orioles past Rangers
Urrutia collects first knock, RBI in 17-hit attack to back solid Gonzalez
ARLINGTON -- Orioles manager Buck Showalter was winding down from Friday's night game, getting ready to leave the clubhouse, when he saw one player still remaining: Henry Urrutia. Showalter went over to the 26-year-old outfielder, who officially had his contract purchased from Triple-A Norfolk prior to the game but did not play, and said coyly: "What do you think, three or four days you might be ready?"
Urrutia -- who smiled as he told his new manager no -- had waited long enough. The Cuban native made his much-anticipated Major League debut as expected Saturday night, and while it remains to be seen if Urrutia's second-half arrival will spark the Orioles -- much like Manny Machado's did last August -- No. 51 had no problem fitting in for a 17-hit offensive onslaught.
Baltimore piled on Texas starter Ross Wolf, with Urrutia going 1-for-4 with an RBI single in the 7-4 series-clinching victory in front of 41,660 at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington.
"I told him before the game during [batting practice], 'Hey, if you are going to play with us, you are in group two, you are in my group, me and [Nick] Markakis swing the bat. We go up there hacking," Orioles center fielder Adam Jones, who went 2-for-5 with a homer and two RBIs, said of his early exchange with Urrutia.
"Obviously, we try to have a little bit of control, but we go up there hacking. And I'm happy he got the monkey off his back. I know his friends, family are proud. Now hopefully, he can just fit in on this team and drive in runs when we need him."
Backed by another great effort from the steady Miguel Gonzalez, who went 6 2/3 innings for his eighth consecutive quality start, the O's picked up their sixth win in seven games and improved to a season-high 12 games over .500. The third-place Orioles remain two games back of Tampa Bay and are now 3 1/2 games behind the American League East-leading Boston Red Sox, who lost to the Yankees.
"We were fortunate tonight to get out ahead and hold on," Showalter said of his team's first series win in Arlington since 2010. "Pitching has been the difference with one exception. You look at teams like them, they're so talented and so deep that you just better take care of your own business, because it's a given where they are [at the end of the year]."
The Orioles scored seven runs on 11 hits before the first out of the third inning was recorded and worked Wolf for a 29-pitch first, jumping out to a 2-0 lead courtesy of RBI singles from Jones and Chris Davis. Machado's right-field single drove in the team's third run in the next frame, scoring Nate McLouth, who tripled and extended his career high to 25 stolen bases with a first-inning swipe.
Baltimore, which had every starter reach base safely by the third inning, chased Wolf after two-plus frames, with J.J. Hardy's bases-loading single his final batter. Urrutia, who struck out with the bases loaded in his first at-bat, came through this time and laced a ball into right field off lefty reliever Joseph Ortiz for his first career hit and RBI.
"I was really anxious in the first at-bat, but in the second at-bat I just tried to put the ball in play and make good contact," said Urrutia, who spoke with Minor League coach Ramon Sambo translating. "It was really emotional for me and I'm happy to be here. It's a dream come true."
Brian Roberts followed with a long single to right field to drive in a pair of runs -- charged to Wolf -- but got caught at second base, and Urrutia was tagged out trying to score on McLouth's fly ball for a double play to end the inning with the Orioles leading 7-0.
"This is not his first rodeo," Showalter said of the left-handed-hitting Urrutia, who lined out sharply to shortstop and also grounded out, holding his own in each at-bat. "I don't know, do they have rodeos in Cuba? He played in front of big venues. Playing for your country is a lot of pressure, especially in the Olympics. He's been in a lot of [important games]. I was really happy with the process we went through with him to this point. And he's always handled himself well against left-handed pitching in the lower levels. So, we'll see."
The offense, which also included three hits from catcher Matt Wieters and Jones' solo homer, was more than enough for Gonzalez, who took a shutout into the seventh inning. The Orioles' most consistent starter this season, the right-handed Gonzalez scattered eight hits and struck out three in an impressive 104-pitch outing that ended after Ian Kinsler's sacrifice fly.
"I started off a little slow and I've been building up during the whole year and that's what counts," Gonzalez said, "and hopefully, I can keep it going to keep our team in ballgames and win some more."
Gonzalez, who last pitched July 11 against Texas, got some help behind him in the field as the Orioles continued to put on a defensive clinic. One of the game's best plays came in the second inning, when Jones ran in on Elvis Andrus' shallow fly ball to center field and deked an attempt at catching it, fooling A.J. Pierzynski enough to stop halfway between first and second base. When the ball dropped a few feet in front of Jones, he fired to Hardy to nab Pierzynski at second.
"That play works about 1 in 200,000 attempts," Jones said. "It's more of a reaction, having some fun with it. You rarely get people. But once I seen him take that step back ... I saw him take a giant step back and I caught it and got rid of it quick. My shortstop days, you know what I mean?"
Jones opened the next inning with his 20th home run, ambushing Wolf's pitch and sending it an estimated 421 feet to mark his third consecutive 20-homer season.
Right-hander Tommy Hunter replaced Gonzalez and, after recording the final out in the seventh, was charged with three eighth-inning runs, and closer Jim Johnson -- who brought the tying run to the plate -- recorded his 35th save.
Davis, who grimaced while stretching to receive a throw on the first out of the top of the ninth, also fouled a ball off his right ankle bone in the third inning. In that frame, head athletic trainer Richie Bancells and Showalter came out to check on Davis after he rounded second base and the first baseman stayed in the game with no issue.
"It's sore, it tightened up a little bit," Davis said of the injury, which he didn't expect to be anything that would keep him out of the lineup. "I obviously iced it, will wrap it up for tonight. It's something where every guy -- I've seen Adam Jones foul about 800 balls off his foot this year, so just one of those things."


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AT&T uses LTE bands 2 (1900), 4 (1700), 5 (850), 12/17 (700 a, b) 29 (700 d) and 30 (2300).
Bands 2, 4 and 12 are AT&T's primary LTE bands. Band 17 is the subset of band 12 that AT&T uses. AT&T originally identified its 700 Mhz spectrum as band 17 but now identifies it as both 12 and 17 which allows phones that support either band 12 or band 17 to use it.
Bands 5, 29 and 30 are used in areas where AT&T doesn't own any band 2, 4 or 12 spectrum and to increase capacity and speeds.
AT&T's 3G and non-LTE 4G (UMTS, HSPA and HSPA+) services operate on the 850 and 1900 Mhz bands. AT&T shut down its 2G (GSM, GPRS) service at the begining of 2017.
T-Mobile uses the 1900 Mhz band for GSM (voice) and EDGE (2G) and UMTS (3G) data. It uses the 1700 (AWS) band for UMTS (3G) data rather than 1900 Mhz in some markets.
For LTE, T-Mobile uses bands 2 (1900), 4 (1700), 12 (700 a,b,c), 66 (1700 Mhz) and 71. T-Mobile's primary LTE band is band 4. Band 2 is deployed in former 2G only non-urban areas where T-Mobile doesn't have any band 4 spectrum. In some, maybe all, of these band 2 only LTE markets, 3G is not offered, only 2G and LTE.
In some areas Band 12 is T-Mobiles only band of any kind. To make calls in these areas a phone with VoLTE support is required. There's a map of T-Mobile's band 12 spectrum here. Band 12 is a lower frequency band that provides extended range and improved building penetration compared with bands 4 and 2.
Band 71 (600 Mhz) is T-Mobile's newest band. Band 71 deployment started in the third quarter of 2017. T-Mobile says it will deploy band 71 nationwide, including areas where T-Mobile currently has no coverage. It will take several years to complete band 71 deployment. As of September, 2017, the T-Mobile branded version of the LG V30 is the only phone that supports band 71.
As for Sprint and Verizon, you can pretty much forget about using phones from other operators on either of their networks. With a few exceptions (some Motorola phones, iPhones from the Apple Store and the Nexus and Pixel phones from the Play Store), both operators will only activate phones that they have sold. It's still useful to know which bands Sprint and Verizon use when shopping for phones as older phones nay not support all of the bands currently used by either operator.
Verizon uses 850 Mhz and 1900 Mhz for voice, 1xRTT (2G) and EVDO (3G) data
For LTE, Verizon uses bands 4 (1700c), 5 (850) and 13 (700). Band 13 is Verizon's primary LTE band. Band 4, which Verizon markets as XLTE and band 5, are used to provide increased speed and capacity in urban areas.
Sprint uses the 800 Mhz and 1900 Mhz bands for voice, 1xRTT (2G) and EVDO (3G) data
For LTE Sprint uses bands 25 (1900), 26 (800) and 41 (2500). Band 25 is Sprint's primary LTE band. Bands 26 is used to improve building penetration.
To be sure that a phone will work to its fullest or at all with a given carrier you need to know which bands it supports.
For phones made for the US market PhoneScoop.com is my favorite resource for checking specs. It provides a full page of detailed specifications for virtually every US phone model. Supported bands are listed in the Modes section of the specs. Click the + more detail link to see which LTE band numbers are supported. With LTE It's not enough to refer to bands by their approximate frequency (850, 1700, 1900), as multiple incompatible LTE bands can exist in the same frequency ranges. LTE bands can only be positively identified by their LTE band number.
For checking band support for non-US market phones I like PDAdb.net and frequencycheck.com Be sure you are looking at specs for the phone's exact model number rather than its marketing name (Samsung Galaxy i9500 rather than Samsung Galaxy S4), as most phones come in multiple versions supporting different bands.
"Universal" Unlocked phones:
When comparing phones you will quickly discover there are relatively few truly universal unlocked phones that are sold unlocked and work across all operators. Work is a relative term as none of these support all the bands used by all the carriers. Here are the ones I'm aware of that are whitelisted by Sprint and Verizon and support at least the major bands used by all four national carriers:
- Apple iPhone 6s (A1633) and 6s Plus (A1634) lacks T-Mobile bands 66 and 71
- Apple iPhone SE (A1622) lacks Sprint band 41, AT&T band 30 and T-Mobile bands 66 and 71
- Apple iPhone 7 (A1660), 7 Plus (A1661) lack T-Mobile bands 66 and 71
- Apple iPhone 8 (A1863), 8 Plus (A1864) and X (A1865) lack T-Mobile band 71
- Alcatel Idol 5s (6060S) lacks AT&T lacks bands 29 and 30 and T-Mobile band 71
- BlackBerry KeyOne (BBB100-3) lacks EVDO (Sprint, Verizon 3G) and T-Mobile bands 66 and 71
- Google Pixel (G-2PW4100) and Pixel XL (G-2PW2100) lack T-Mobile bands 66 and 71
- Google Pixel 2 (G1011A) and Pixel 2 XL (G1011C) lack T-Mobile band 71
- Google Nexus 5X (H790), lacks AT&T band 30 and T-Mobile bands 66 and 71
- Google Nexus 6 (XT1103) lacks AT&T band 30 and T-Mobile bands 66 and 71
- Google Nexus 6P (H1511), lacks T-Mobile bands 66 and 71
- Motorola Moto X Pure Edition (2105) (XT1575), Moto G4 (XT1625) Moto G4 Plus (XT1644) and Moto G4 Play (XT1607), lack AT&T bands 29 and 30 and T-Mobile bands 66 and 71
- Motorola Moto E4 (XT1767), Moto E4 Plus (XT1775), Moto G5 Plus (XT1687), Motorola G5S Plus (XT1806) and Moto X4 (XT1900-1) lack AT&T bands 29 and 30 and T-Mobile band 71
- Motorola Z2 Play (XT1710-2) lacks T-Mobile band 71
- Orbic Wonder (RC555L) lacks AT&T bands 29 and 30 and T-Mobile LTE bands 66 and 71
- Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Unlocked SM-N950U lacks T-Mobile band 71
- Samsung Galaxy S7 Special Edition (SM-G930U) and S7 Edge Special Edition (SM-G935U) lacks T-Mobile bands 66 and 71
- Samsung Galaxy S8 Special Edition (SM-G950U) and S8 Edge Special Edition (SM-G955U) lacks T-Mobile bands 71
- Essential Phone PH-1 lacks T-Mobile band 71
Sources: Cellular Binder, TmoNews, Apple, Wikipedia, FrequencyCheck, Howard Forums
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ATLANTA -- The Braves placed right-handed reliever Luis Ayala on the disabled list with anxiety disorder and recalled right-handed reliever David Carpenter from Triple-A Gwinnett before Tuesday night's game against the Nationals.
Braves general manager Frank Wren said Ayala began experiencing high blood pressure last week and made two trips to the emergency room while the team was in Denver. Though he pitched in the series finale against the Rockies, the left-handed reliever did not travel with the Braves to Detroit for this past weekend's series.
Ayala has spent the past few days being evaluated by Braves doctors in Atlanta. Wren said the current belief is that the anxiety is a product of finding out that he had high blood pressure.
"He's been put on blood-pressure medication to hopefully ease the anxiety," Wren said. "But right now, it's just a function of him getting used to the medication and getting back to feeling well. It's a bit of a process to get those meds regulated."
Ayala has compiled a 3.86 ERA in the five appearances he has made for the Braves since being acquired in a trade with the Orioles on April 9. He allowed two hits and one run while recording just one out in the one appearance he made in Denver last week.
Carpenter has compiled a 3.52 ERA in six appearances with Gwinnett this year. The 27-year-old converted catcher has been utilized in multi-inning appearances to provide him a chance to get a better feel for his offspeed pitches.


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Gemstar-TV Guide International hired Ed Sullivan to direct Business Continuity Services in 2003, soon after an audit found that TV Guide's infrastructure was essentially unrecoverable in the event of a sustained crisis. There was a time when Sullivan's first stop for addressing the issue would have been IT and the datacenter. But times have changed -- Sullivan first conducted several weeks of meetings with senior executives and various business unit executives to talk about the company's business processes. "The fact that I work for the CIO is almost irrelevant," Sullivan says. "I'm there to provide recovery for the business units."
Assessing potential impact to the business before crafting a business continuity plan is not new, but the trend is picking up steam as technology becomes more tightly bound up with ongoing operations and overall success. "Take just-in-time inventory," says Jim Grogan, vice president of consulting product development at SunGard Availability Services. "It would not be possible without the technology to enable it. But it's a business decision to manage operations differently, and its success means literally billions reinvested in the business."
Another reason to start with a business-impact analysis is that technology underpinnings are not as clear-cut as they once were. "We used to think that if we brought up the datacenter after a disaster, we'd be OK," says Fred Dillman, CTO of Unisys. "But with servers all over the world and laptops, desktops, and other devices playing such an important role, bringing up a datacenter is no longer enough, and it's simply not feasible to bring up everything. You have to know which business processes and their underlying technologies are critical to your goals."
Hidden dependencies are becoming more common. "Often, the application that was deployed two years ago with 'Yeah, let's give this a try,' is now silently driving 15 percent of revenue," SunGard's Grogan says.
Recent regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, as well as natural and man-made hazards now firmly rooted in reality, have made analyzing the business risks of technology failures and disasters critical. "Before Katrina, few companies had given much thought to what would happen if an entire city was out of commission," says Michael Porier, director of Protiviti's technology risk practice.
The risks to revenue and market capitalization are higher than ever. "Today you need to prevent an outage because if you get a customer service black eye, you'll pay a price on Wall Street," Grogan says.
Modeling the Business
Modeling the business is the first big step toward falling in line with risk management aspects of best- practices frameworks, such as COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission), COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and related Technology), ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library), and ISO/IEC (International Organization for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission) 17799:2005, all of which can help with the nuts and bolts of business continuity planning.
"COBIT is a framework for IT control that can be used to mitigate risks once you've modeled the process," Walch says. "COSO is in many respects the counterpart to that on the business side, leaning to business control and governance as opposed to IT controls.
ITIL looks at business continuity, change management, and problem and incident management from a service perspective. All of these frameworks are very complementary to the business modeling process." ISO/IEC guidelines contain a wealth of best practices specific to information security management.
Increasingly then, an effective strategy for business continuity planning lies first with carefully modeling the business itself. This means gaining an in-depth understanding of business goals, priorities, functions, underlying processes, and the people and expertise involved with those processes. "It's too easy to get down to the guts of networks, systems, servers, and patches without understanding that the real mission here is to wholesale leather shoes," says Trent Henry, senior analyst at the Burton Group. "IT has to understand fundamentally the business they're in the middle of. Then they need to understand the dependencies of the business processes on the infrastructure that they're running." This business-impact analysis is generally followed by a technology profile and is a staple of many enterprise business continuity teams. "That begins to pull in risks to the business," Henry says, "and what aspects need to be prioritized, including people."
Getting started in modeling a business generally involves extensive interviews, typically in a workshop setting, with senior executives and representatives of the business units. Where you start depends on whether you have gone through part of this process before. "Most companies we see doing this today are in the mature or world-class category," says Damian Walch, national practice executive of business resilience consulting at IBM Global Services. He adds that the financial services and energy sectors tend to be the ones that come to them for this purpose. "They've gone through at least one business-impact analysis before and know which processes are critical." What they sometimes don't have a handle on, according to Walch, is the dependences among various business functions and between the business functions and IT.
"You start with the lines of business the company defines as where their core products and core revenue are coming from," SunGard's Grogan says. "Then you dive under the covers. What are your salespeople doing to generate the sales cycle? What are your accounting people doing to get the bills out? What are your distribution or production people doing to create the product and get it shipped?" Some of these pieces may be internal and some external. "Many companies outsource their shipping and distribution to UPS or FedEx, but that process is key to their customer satisfaction."
Who should be involved? "Usually it's not the line-of-business executive, it's more like someone at the manager or director level," IBM's Walch says. "Someone who inherently understands the process and can help you walk through claims processing, drilling, or exploration."
But Unisys' Dillman disagrees. "We like to start with the executives because ultimately it comes down to what goals you're trying to achieve in a degrading situation and how much you're willing to spend."
Mapping interdependencies among processes, departments, employees, and external players is the overarching goal of the business continuity planning process. This is where diagramming software, such as Microsoft Visio, can help. SunGard has a software product called Paragon that provides tools to guide companies along the entire business continuity planning process, and it includes diagramming software that can map interdependencies. "People may not understand initially a dependency between customer service and product development or how much order entry does or doesn't depend on finance," says Jacques Murphy, SunGard's Paragon product manager.
Finding these dependencies requires a lot of discussion, collaboration among people with different functions, and input from an IT expert who understands the underlying systems. "An oil exec may say that it's really critical that we have this data warehouse up because we can't analyze exploration areas without it," Walch says. "Someone from IT can then say, 'Well, it's the systems that feed the data warehouse and the process control mechanisms that are really critical here.' "
It's also important to clarify business process goals. If the help desk's goal is to ensure that no client is on hold for more than 30 seconds, then it's important to look very closely at the phone system and redundant routing to various switch stations, says Tim Leech, principal consultant and chief methodology officer at Paisley Consulting.
Often it's best to prepare business unit reps by distributing a survey or questionnaire before the workshop to get the thinking going. "We gave the business unit people information and questionnaires to answer in advance and then got together in a workshop approach with a team from SunGard to do the workshops and data collection," TV Guide's Sullivan says.
The Business Model Challenge
The hard part, particularly from a technology standpoint, is identifying all the layers of dependency. Business units may know about the payroll system, but it takes a lot of IT participation to get down the stack, layer after layer. Applications such as payroll run on operating systems and adhere to system configurations, which in turn integrate with an application infrastructure of back-end systems, identity management systems, and protocols. All of this sits on a physical infrastructure of server platforms, networking, and routing infrastructure, which in turn depends on an underlying critical infrastructure of cooling, power, communications, local and regional government services, and, perhaps most important, people. And, as obvious as it may seem, people depend on food and shelter and, perhaps less obvious, a perception of a certain amount of safety. "You may have a disaster situation in which the people didn't die but the families panicked and forced them to quit," Burton's Henry says.
The other challenge is identifying dependencies that come from BPO and supply-chain arrangements. "If you're outsourcing HR, you probably want to keep backups of everything you send to that company," says Fred Cohen, CEO of Fred Cohen & Associates, information security specialists.
Mobility is another potential stumbling block. "Many people are surprised at how much data is on peoples' PCs and laptops," Unisys' Dillman says. "If they can't use them, which occurred after Katrina, the business may not be able to operate." And finally, it's important not to overlook information lifecycle issues tied to regulations such as HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley.
Several vendors -- including Fred Cohen & Associates, IBM, Paisley Consulting, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Protiviti, SAIC, SunGard, and Unisys -- provide services to help companies through this process.
What should this modeling exercise produce? In some cases it's simply a spreadsheet or database that lists different processes and their dependencies. In other cases it may be a large diagram or several diagrams that map out these dependencies through the various layers using icons and colored arrows or process flows. In other cases, the diagram may be linked to a database. "We find that Excel spreadsheets are a major tool for this purpose," Burton's Henry says. Tools are also available from Paisley Consulting, Proforma, SunGard, Strohl Systems, and Triaster to help with parts of this process, as well as the final result. Protiviti and Unisys have their own tools that they use with customers.
"Our deliverable is usually a diagram with some type of text or database behind it," Walch says. "The process model usually shows different entities such as people, business units, business partners, applications, infrastructure, and databases and describes the relationships between them and information flow. You'll see integration with Tivoli, Remedy, Paragon, or something similar." IT can use these diagrams and databases to understand the consequences and scope of various types of outages, as well as for subsequent forensic analysis.
Assessing the Risks
This model is then used in the other part of this workshop process, which is to rank the importance of processes and to assess risks. Disaster recovery specialists are more concerned about specific risks, such as hurricanes, but business continuity planners tend to talk more in systems and processes. "I need a plan to tell me what to do when the power goes out," Protiviti's Porier says. "It doesn't matter what caused it."
In assessing risks, it's also important to understand the importance of manual work-arounds. "Right-sizing is really important. Payroll may say that if the payroll system fails on Tuesday, they can't pay anyone on Thursday," Cohen says. "But actually they could make copies of last week's pay stubs and use those until the system is up and running. That stretches their recovery time to a week or more."
Some of these processes may already be in place. "An executive may tell you that sales can't be without their systems for more than a half hour," Cohen says. "Then you talk with the salespeople, and they say, 'Oh, we have outages longer than that all the time. We know what to do.'" The lesson: You have to talk to a lot of people.
Be aware of the tendency of many departments to label their functions mission-critical. That's why, after mapping out processes and risks with each business unit, it's essential to go back to senior management for a reality check on what really is a Tier 1 process and what is more likely Tier 2 or 3. "We call it the management filter," Protiviti's Porier says.
Staging the Alternatives
A thorough understanding of the business and all its dependencies leads to cost-effective business continuity strategies. "You can replicate in real time, electronically vault to another site, or use the old standby: recovery from magnetic tape. The more redundant and available a system is, the more expensive it is," Porier says. The practice is usually to price options that meet the risk profile and then price solutions a little ahead and a little behind to assess cost/benefit implications. "Everything is critical when recovery costs a penny," Unisys' Dillman says. "When it costs $10 million, certain things suddenly become less critical."
It's also important to model alternative processes, such as telecommuting, that might occur during an incident. A perfect example is having sufficient remote access capacity in place for situations in which a large portion of your staff will be working at home. And consider staff dispersion and cross training to ensure that alternate staff can do what has to be done to keep the business running.
Finally, the business model is never static, so it's important to keep the model current to prevent any devastating surprises when an outage actually occurs.


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Sage Age Advice
(I'm head cashier in a craft store, and do all the returns. I have a couple come in with several bags and are rummaging through receipts. I start working through their transactions and find items that aren't from my company and items without receipts.)
Me: "I am sorry, ma'am, but I cannot process a return for these items."
Wife: "You should give me the money for these items anyway, because I have had a hard life! I have to take care of my mother and my four siblings!"
Me: "I can understand that, but—"
Wife: "What do you know about taking care of the elderly?"
Me: "Since I was 12 I cared for my father with cancer, who died when I was 18. Then my uncle was diagnosed also with cancer. He passed away two days ago. Between that I have another uncle diagnosed and living with me. Previously, my grandmother who had Alzheimer's also lived with me and passed last summer. I'm also taking care of my mother who has severe arthritis. I have 5 siblings and 20 cousins, but everyone is dropped on me with no care or help."
Wife: "I'm so sorry; I guess you do know what it's like. Does it get better?"
Me: "No, but bubble wrap helps."