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We've long been aware of the disparities in access to paid sick days in this country. This week, the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) released a new analysis that provides a clear and up-to-date picture of just how stark the differences are – across ethnicity, occupation, wages and hours worked. The findings confirm that a national paid sick days standard is badly needed.
Some of the disparities are depressingly familiar. As we've written before, Latino workers have significantly lower rates of access to paid sick days than the workforce as a whole, and IWPR's new analysis finds that little has changed: Only 47 percent of Latinos have paid sick days, compared to 61 percent of the total workforce.
Similarly, we've known that disparities in workers' access to paid sick days vary by occupation, with significant implications for public health. IWPR's analysis shows that access remains alarmingly low in occupations that require frequent contact with the public: Only 24 percent of food preparation and service workers, 31 percent of personal care and service workers (such as child care workers), and 48 percent of workers in sales and related occupations have paid sick days.
IWPR's analysis also affirms fundamental inequities in paid sick days access by income, demonstrating that the workers who are least likely to have paid sick days are also those who can least afford to take an unpaid day off when they catch a cold or a child gets sick. According to IWPR, 83 percent of workers who are paid $65,000 or more annually have paid sick days, but just 28 percent of workers who are paid less than $20,000 per year can earn them.
The analysis also reveals new details about the gap in access between part-time and full-time workers. Seventy percent of full-time workers (those who work 35 or more hours per week) earn paid sick days, compared to less than 11 percent of those who work fewer than 20 hours per week. This means that people who have to piece together multiple part-time jobs to make ends meet are highly unlikely to earn paid sick days at any of their jobs – adding unnecessary pressure and financial strain.
The disparities highlighted by IWPR this week make even clearer the need for public policy standards that guarantee all workers can earn the time they need to care for their health and their families without sacrificing their jobs or economic security. States and cities continue to make progress, but a federal standard is what America's working families truly need.
]]>At the municipal level, a paid sick days law in Portland, Ore., took effect on January 1. Soon after, we celebrated the expansion of the District of Columbia's paid sick days law to cover an additional 20,000 tipped restaurant and bar workers. On January 24, a paid sick days law in Jersey City, N.J., took effect. And only a few days later, Newark adopted its own paid sick days legislation.
There's also a growing recognition that paid sick days is both good policy and good politics. Newly elected New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio fulfilled a promise to expand New York City's paid sick days law, which was passed in 2013 and is set to take effect on April 1. The proposal, which the City Council passed today, guarantees more workers the right to earn paid sick time by expanding the law to cover businesses with five or more employees.
At the state level, a bill in Washington passed the House on January 29, and Vermont's bill passed out of a House committee on February 11. In Illinois, Governor Quinn highlighted paid sick days in his State of the State address, and his proposal was introduced soon after in the legislature. Paid sick days bills have been introduced for the first time ever in Nebraska and South Carolina. New bills have also been introduced in Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii and Maryland. Voters in Massachusetts will likely have the chance to vote on earned sick days at the ballot box this November.
For the latest on the more than 20 active paid sick days campaigns and proposals in states and cities across the country, check out our paid sick days tracking document.
At the federal level, President Obama made a historic call for paid sick days in the State of the Union. "A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship… And you know what, a father does too," he said. "It is time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode." Some members of Congress have heeded that call. The Healthy Families Act now has 20 co-sponsors in the Senate and 123 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, with several new co-sponsors joining in the last few weeks. With continued progress at the state and local levels, support for the common sense proposal should grow.
It is already an active – and exciting – year when it comes to paid sick days. With even more proposals and victories on the horizon, and growing attention to the family friendly policies America's working families want and need, 2014 is shaping up to be a year of great progress.
]]>Today, the Newark City Council built on the strong momentum we have seen around paid sick days already in 2014 by passing a paid sick days standard for New Jersey's largest city. This is great news, and we urge Mayor Quintana to sign the ordinance right away.
Since January 1, a paid sick days law in Portland, Ore., has taken effect and a bill to expand D.C.'s paid sick days law to cover more workers was signed into law. Last week, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced plans to expand that city's paid sick days law, which is set to take effect in April. And on Friday, a paid sick days law took effect in Jersey City, New Jersey. This is shaping up to be another year of progress on paid sick days.
Despite recent victories, approximately two in five workers in the United States still cannot earn paid sick days. Among them are some 38,000 people in Newark who cannot earn a single paid sick day. They are forced to choose between their own or their families' health and their economic security when illness strikes or caregiving needs arise. And the health and well-being of the public, local businesses and the local economy suffer as a result.
The comprehensive ordinance passed today would change that by ensuring that all workers can earn the paid sick time they need. People who work in small businesses with 10 or more employees and those who work in food service, child care and direct care would be able to earn up to five paid sick days a year. People who work in smaller businesses would be able to earn up to three paid sick days a year.
This progress in Newark adds to the great momentum around paid sick days that workers and advocates have generated across the country and in New Jersey. But even with the advance in Jersey City and progress in Newark, one million people in that state still cannot earn paid sick days. New Jersey needs a statewide standard.
If Mayor Quintana signs this ordinance, Newark will become the eighth jurisdiction in the nation to guarantee workers this basic right. And we will have even more momentum for the federal standard the country urgently needs.
]]>New Jersey became a little more family friendly last week. On Tuesday, the governor signed into law a bill that protects pregnant women from discrimination in the workplace. And on Friday, the state's first sick days law took effect. Together, with continued progress on paid sick days and the state's successful paid family leave program, these laws will help build a healthier, more economically secure New Jersey.
When the new anti-discrimination law takes effect, it will guarantee pregnant workers the same reasonable workplace accommodations available to all workers with temporary physical limitations, such as being able to carry a water bottle or sit while providing customer service. Despite federal protections provided by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, pregnant workers across the country are often denied these accommodations today.
But combating discrimination and advancing equality are just part of the solution when it comes to enabling people to meet their responsibilities at home and on the job. That is why Jersey City's new paid sick days law is so important. Ensuring people can earn basic sick days keeps them from having to choose between their jobs and their own health or the health of their families or communities when illness strikes.
As of today, Jersey City's law guarantees that workers in the city at businesses with 10 or more employees have the right to earn paid sick days, and workers in smaller businesses have the right to earn unpaid sick days. It is the nation's seventh paid sick days law, and it will make a tremendous difference for workers, their families, businesses and Jersey City communities. It also helps pave the way for a much-needed statewide paid sick days standard.
These developments in New Jersey show that progress is possible. We commend the workers, advocates and lawmakers who championed these laws, and we look forward to more progress for working families in New Jersey, in other states and cities, and at the federal level. State and local lawmakers are increasingly recognizing the importance of keeping people in their jobs and contributing to local businesses and the economy. It is time for Congress to do the same.
]]>On Monday, Eileen Appelbaum, senior economist at the Center for Economic Policy Research, and Ruth Milkman, professor at the City University of New York, released preliminary findings from their survey of 251 Connecticut employers that included 15 on-site interviews. The findings should put to rest opponents' tired arguments that paid sick days harm businesses.
The key takeaway from these preliminary results is that Connecticut's paid sick days law, which took effect in January 2012 and covers about 400,000 workers in the state, has resulted in numerous benefits for Connecticut's businesses with minimal or no noticeable effect on their operations or costs. In fact, more than three in four Connecticut employers now say they support the law. And the specific findings clearly demonstrate why.
Nearly 30 percent of the employers surveyed say that providing paid sick days has increased employee morale, and nearly 19 percent say it reduced the number of employees who come to work sick. Other benefits include increasing productivity and motivation and reducing the spread of illness and turnover. Few employers report reducing employee wages or increasing prices as a result of the law, and half report that employees use three or fewer paid sick days annually – despite earning closer to eight, on average.
Appelbaum and Milkman also found that Connecticut's law has successfully increased the number of employers that provide paid sick days, particularly in the hospitality, retail, health, education and social service sectors. This is especially important for public health given that those who work in these industries interact with the public frequently. (Note: Connecticut's law does not cover businesses with fewer than 50 employees, excluding many service sector establishments.)
The full report and further details will be available next month. In the meantime, these new findings offer powerful evidence of the benefits to establishing paid sick days standards at the local, state and federal levels. We look forward to the report's contribution to the substantial and growing body of evidence that shows that paid sick days are good for workers, their families, public health, businesses and the economy.
]]>D.C. added to the momentum around paid sick days that began last year and will continue in 2014 when Mayor Gray signed a measure to expand the District's paid sick days law to cover an additional 20,000 tipped restaurant and bar workers. This is a major victory for D.C. workers and their families that will improve public health and support the local economy.
The Earned Sick and Safe Leave Amendment Act ensures that a segment of the workforce that is critical to the District's economy and overall health – those who work in bars and restaurants – will finally have the protection of the District's 2008 paid sick days law. It will also allow all workers in the District to accrue paid sick days immediately and begin using them after 90 days on the job, eliminating the requirement that they be at a job for one year and 1,000 hours. This is the first time that existing paid sick days legislation has been strengthened to ensure all workers have the protection they need.
This victory was made possible by the dedicated Paid Sick Days for All coalition and the D.C. City Council. We commend Mayor Gray for signing this bill into law. With the deadline for him to sign a minimum wage increase fast approaching, we hope he will continue to show his commitment to the well-being of the District and its families by ensuring that it becomes law as well. All workers need and deserve a living wage and family friendly workplaces.
]]>2013 was a year of great progress for America's working families. Laws guaranteeing people the right to earn paid sick days were passed in Portland, Oregon, New York City and Jersey City, New Jersey. Rhode Island passed the nation's third paid family leave program. We saw new attention and support for work and family policies around the Family and Medical Leave Act's 20th anniversary, which led to a new federal paid family and medical leave proposal, the Family And Medical Insurance Leave (FAMILY) Act. And much more.
Building off of the victories of last year, 2014 is off to an equally strong and promising start. In fact, America is already more family-friendly. That's because Rhode Island's family leave insurance program took effect January 1, ensuring the state's residents can take up to four weeks away from their jobs with some pay to care for a seriously ill family member or to bond with a new child. And in Portland, Oregon, more than 120,000 workers now have the right to earn job-protected sick days as the city's sick days law also took effect at the start of the year.
And the minimum wage increased in 13 states and four cities on January 1. This is great news for working families and the country: "Ensuring women and all workers are paid fairly and well enough to keep food on the table and their families out of poverty is essential to the well-being of our nation," as noted in our press release.
But that's not all. There is even more progress toward a family-friendly America on the horizon as more laws take effect and state and local campaigns continue. In the coming weeks, we anticipate the expansion of D.C.'s paid sick days law to cover tipped restaurant and bar workers. Later this month, Jersey City's sick days law will take effect. And in April, more than one millionNew York City residents will gain the right to earn sick days as that city's law takes effect. These advances will make a tremendous difference for families and communities.
They also help pave the way for the national family-friendly workplace standards the country needs, such as the Healthy Families Act and the FAMILY Act. The Healthy Families Act would establish a national paid sick days standard, and the FAMILY Act would establish a national paid family and medical leave insurance program modeled on programs already in place in California, New Jersey and, as of January 1, Rhode Island. Both laws are urgently needed.
As Congress prepares for the New Year, it should recognize the momentum around and demand for family-friendly workplace policies we saw throughout 2013 and prioritize passage of the Healthy Families Act and the FAMILY Act. When it does, working people across the country will no longer have to worry that one case of the flu, the birth of child or a serious illness will mean the loss of critical income or their families' economic security. And America's residents, businesses and economy will be better off.
]]>It's a good day for D.C. Today, the City Council voted unanimously to strengthen the District's paid sick days law to cover more workers – a move that will help D.C. workers and their families, support local businesses and strengthen the economy. Mayor Gray should sign the bill into law right away.
The Earned Sick and Safe Leave Amendment Act would amend the District's existing paid sick days law to enable tipped restaurant and bar workers to earn up to five paid sick days per year. These workers had been excluded from the law, despite obvious harmful consequences for public health. According to a 2011 survey of more than 500 D.C. restaurant workers, 59 percent say they have gone to work sick.
The bill will also allow all workers to accrue paid sick days immediately, and begin using them after 90 days on the job, eliminating the requirement that they be at a job for one year and 1,000 hours.
We learned this summer that D.C.'s paid sick days law has been a big success in increasing the number of people with paid sick days in the District, but it still leaves too many workers behind, unable to earn the paid sick time they need. The bill the Council advanced today would fix that, allowing an additional 20,000 workers to earn the paid sick days they need.
It is also great news for the District that the Council passed an overdue increase in the minimum wage. This is a major victory for low-wage workers in one of the country's most expensive places to live. We urge the Council to prioritize an increase in the tipped minimum wage, which is urgently needed as well.
We commend the dedicated Paid Sick Days for All coalition and all Council members who are committed to realizing the full promise of the District's paid sick days law. Today's action adds to the momentum for paid sick days and other family friendly policies we have seen throughout the country this year. We look forward to adding this victory for D.C.'s working families to the list.
]]>Across the country, support for paid sick days continues to grow. In 2013 alone, Portland, Ore., New York City and Jersey City, N.J., established common sense standards that will collectively benefit millions. Meanwhile, opponents continue trying to thwart paid sick days efforts through "preemption" – state-level legislation designed to prevent cities and counties from passing paid sick days standards and other workplace protections.
At the National Partnership, we have been closely following this dangerous trend. We recently released a comprehensive mapthat tracks paid sick days preemption efforts across the country. It is a disturbing look at the reach and power of a few well-organized and well-funded big business interests that are determined to block paid sick days and other standards that would help working people. Nowhere is this more apparent right now than in Pennsylvania.
Since 2011, there has been overwhelming support for establishing a paid sick days standard in Philadelphia. In fact, as a result of the tremendous work of a broad-based coalition of workers, advocates, businesses and lawmakers, the City Council has twice passed a proposal that would do just that. Unfortunately, the mayor vetoed it – despite 90 percent of the city's voters saying they support the measure.
Now, Pennsylvania Representative Seth Grove is pushing House Bill 1807, which passed the state's House Labor and Industry Committee on Monday. H.B. 1807 would ban residents and lawmakers in Philadelphia and other jurisdictions in the state from establishing paid sick days standards. In Philadelphia, this effectively ties the hands of the coalition and the City Council. As Councilmember Bill Greenlee said: H.B. 1807 is "unfair… not just to the city of Philadelphia, but to any municipality that thinks the issue is important to its locale."
As I've written before, preemption is not a new or aboveboard tactic. It is becoming increasingly clear that efforts to pass them are part of a well-orchestrated power play by corporate interests that are out to stymie momentum for common sense public health and economic justice policies. On the paid sick days front, they have succeeded in nine states and, as our new map shows, have their sights set on several more.
The good news is that these preemption efforts have not – and will not – deter paid sick days campaigns. Instead, they strengthen workers' and advocates' commitment to expanding access to paid sick days – and they make the need for national standards, like the Healthy Families Act, that much stronger. Paid sick days proposals will continue to advance and preemption will continue to be exposed as underhanded and harmful.
In the meantime, you can help in Pennsylvania. If you live in the Keystone State, urge your state House member to vote against H.B. 1807 today. Tell her/him that city residents and lawmakers should decide if paid sick days standards are right for them. If you don't live in Pennsylvania, share this post with someone who does.
]]>Just last week, Jersey City became the first city in the Garden State with a paid sick days law. Now, the Newark City Council has taken a critical step toward doing the same in the state's largest city. This exciting news adds to the paid sick days momentum in New Jersey and across the country. Newark would be the seventh city and eighth jurisdiction in the nation to have such a law.
The Newark ordinance, which was introduced last night, will ensure that nearly all workers in the city can earn the paid sick days they need. People who work in small businesses with 10 or more employees and those who work in food service, child care and direct care would be able to earn up to five paid sick days a year. People who work in smaller businesses would be able to earn up to three paid sick days a year.
There are currently 38,000 people in Newark who cannot earn paid sick days, which means they are forced to choose between their health or their families and their economic security when illness strikes or caregiving needs arise. More than one million people in New Jersey are faced with the same impossible choice because they, too, cannot earn a single paid sick day.
That is why the victory in Jersey City last week and progress in Newark last night are so important – they help pave the way for the state standard New Jerseyites need. And, eventually, they will lead to a federal standard that ensures all workers have this fundamental right. The Newark City Council should recognize the tremendous and widespread benefits of paid sick days and prioritize approval of this common sense measure right away.


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If you were alive and had access to coins at any time between the 1970s and the mid-1990s, chances are you'll have spent a bit of time in a video arcade, hammering buttons, frantically waggling a sweaty joystick and pumping a week's worth of pocket money into Wonder Boy. The arcades have all but died out now, their venerable cabinets put out to pasture in vintage hipster bars, seaside towns and B-road service stations, but here are the ones to look out for...
10. After Burner (1987)
Back in the late '80s, no-one thought it weird that a child would want to be Tom Cruise, and this slice of Sega genius was as close as most of us could get. It had an exciting cockpit cabinet but it was a simple flyer/shooter at heart, with that must-survive-a-bit-longer-next-time level of compulsive difficulty that made so many Sega games so bewitching.
More after the break...
9. Gauntlet (1985)
The dungeons and simple top-down views of this dungeon-crawling RPG may not have been revolutionary, but Gauntlet became hugely popular thanks to its narrator and its co-op play. It taught kids valuable lessons in life, such as the value of working together and not firing arrows at your food.
8. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
There was a period when Sega ruled the arcades and could do anything. It could, for example, buy the Jurassic Park license, build a fake jeep for players to sit in, then make this completely bonkers dinosaur-based shooting game to wrestle change from children. Mad. But good.

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Data Security Should Come Before Compliance
Many IT managers have to adhere to a growing amount of federal regulations regarding data security. Most IT managers likely spend a great deal of their time making certain that their company is in compliance with these federal mandated regulations. Unfortunately, a lot of organizations and IT departments focus on the compliance portion and begin to lose sight of the main goal which is to protect against data breaches.
Many experts agree that it is very possible that an IT department can meet the basic compliance requirements without actually having their data secure. But fortunately there are tools in the marketplace that can provide security and also achieve the necessary compliance mandated by law.
A recent article provided an overview of the federal regulations that can affect any American business. The authors recommended three steps to help achieve regulatory compliance as well as securing critical data. These steps are:
1. Develop a set of well-defined security and compliance policies for the organization. 2. Deploy the right tools to protect the company's system and all the platforms and apps within the system and finally 3. Develop a systematic backup strategy for the company's data.
The alphabet soup of compliance is a jumble of acronyms like SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley), GLBA (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act), HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards), and FOIA (Freedom of Information Act). Fortune 500 corporations and organizations with dedicated IT staff have a much easier time understanding and addressing the compliance mandates. But for small and medium businesses, it can be overwhelming to even figure out where to begin.
Unless your business is a publicly traded entity governed by the SEC, SOX should not have any impact on you; unless you work for a government agency, it is unlikely that you need to concern yourself with FOIA. However, PCI DSS affects virtually every business, and many small and medium businesses fall under the guidelines of HIPAA, GLBA, or both.
Each of the individual regulatory or industry compliance mandates was developed to address specific concerns. Achieving and maintaining compliance is no easy feat for organizations of any size, and it can seem overwhelming for small and medium businesses. But if using the steps above and staying focused on security first, then the compliance portion should be met.
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Oliver David writes for Lok-it.neet and other publications on topics like data security and usb encryption.
Mobile System to Wipe and Erase Computer Hard Drives and Memories
The business, Secure Data Sanitization (SDS) has turn out to be the 1st information security business within the United States to create their "Secure Erase" program mobile. In late November, the business took this program literally on the road to Idaho to demonstrate its capabilities. The very first mobile processing units had been tested at no price towards the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. The program is able to wipe clean an outdated pc system. The test demonstrated that it might be 100% efficient in permanently erasing hard drives for these older computers. It was also able to reset the computers towards the original manufacturers' settings.
These new mobile units are accessible to travel to any location to be able to assist businesses effectively eliminate information from old pc hard drives. The program will sanitize the drive in order for the gear to be effectively destroyed with out danger of private information becoming taken at some point in the future.
The mobile program initiates the "secure erase" aspect or "electronic data shredding" activity. This procedure then permanently erases difficult drives, resets them and offers proof in a report format. This new mobile system has attracted an excellent deal of attention, particularly amongst businesses that shop big amounts of information. The business has already secured contracts to make use of the mobile program at businesses all over the world.
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare was anxious to make use of the program stated Michael Farley, the IT administrator for the department. "In order to meet federal guidelines and regulations concerning HIPAA, IRS and SSA information, it's crucial that we've a secure and sound procedure for eliminating information from our pc systems before donation or destruction," stated Farley. "Being in a position to have hard drives securely erased or destroyed on website is essential since it provides us 1 much more layer of protection."
The business is poised to be extremely active within the coming years with new federal and state laws that need businesses to securely erase private information. If not carried out properly, businesses in violation could face millions of dollars in fines, lawsuits and cleanup expenses. SDS provides Certificates of Sanitization and Destruction, printed on-site, which guarantee compliance with state and federal laws. These certificates are backed by a $2 million insurance policy. Usb protection is one way to ensure that data is safe.
As part of the service that SDS offers, they also give their customers the choice after erasing the information to either remarket the old system or donate them to the non-profit organization Computers for Kids.
Oliver David writes and contributes articles for Lok-it.net and other blogs on subject matter like usb encryption
Data Security Only Part of Total Security for a Business Executive
Often times, information security and actual physical security are extremely separate and distinct problems. As such, every of these is much more most likely to be handled by various components of a business. Most frequently, information security is under the management with the CIO or perhaps the CFO, however the physical security of individuals and issues is left towards the facilities individuals who manage the cleaning and upkeep with the physical plant. Much more disparate is the fact that some businesses outsource this physical security to third party vendors.
An Info Assurance Engineer, Darren Wigfield recently stated "There's no point in getting thorough lock down and difficult passwords and encryption on your servers if individuals can just walk in and take people's laptops." He works using the Department of Defense to make sure that the department meets security needs for each information and physical security.
Wigfield analyzes an organization's security from a holistic approach. He looks at each the network and also the buildings to figure out how protected the business or organization is from either on-line or physical intrusion or theft. Other specialists have noted that the concentrate of be concerned and protection is on the web, but that most businesses miss the overall security picture - that a thief is just as most likely to come through a actual door or window to steal property and private info.
"All everybody worries about now will be the Web," explained Shane MacDougall, partner at Tactical Intelligence, an info security firm that tests vulnerability and penetration. MacDougall stated that in reality, that is missing the greatest component with the security image. "They're just as most likely to obtain your information via the back door." The actual back door, not the virtual 1. He went on to note that he'd frequently encounter poor physical security that may be the catalyst for information security breaches. "When I've carried out penetration tests, I've discovered network jacks active within the lobby. Frequently they're not set to a guest VLAN. Or there's unprotected wireless," he stated.
The important to security would be to keep in mind that information security is at danger any time that an individual can acquire access to it, whether or not it's more than the web or via an unsecured door or window. Hacking is only 1 problem, but if somebody can plug into a company's internal network whilst waiting in a reception region or conference space, then it is just as simple to steal the information. An encrypted flash drive is one method to secure data.
Oliver David contributes articles for Lok-it.net and other blogs on subjects such as usb protection.
White House Urges Passage of Legislation to Protect and Defend Against Cyber Hacking
The White House is urging Congress to create and complete legislation that would defend the country's energy grids, economic networks and transportation systems from cyber hacker attacks.
Harold Schmidt, the White House Cyber Security Coordinator recently wrote that considering that a legislative proposal was sent to Congress in May of 2011, there happen to be many information breaches and hacks cited. He mentioned, "The time is ripe to create proposal into law, and give the government and private sector the added tools necessary to fight people who would harm us."
The President's proposal outlined specifications for firms and state and neighborhood governments to report information breaches based on a brand new national common. Furthermore, the proposed law would enhance penalties for cyber crimes. It also would direct the Homeland Security Department to perform with banks, utilities and transportation operators to generate and implement plans to handle data/cyber security.
The U.S. Congress hasn't acted on the proposed legislation but is in search of other approaches to bring corporations as well as other agencies about to getting far more diligent in protecting sensitive data and supplies. There happen to be advised infrastructure protections against hack attacks by utilizing market standards, delivering incentives and to limit the quantity of government oversight and regulation.
The White House is concerned that with no a federal requirement to alert government officials when a serious intrusion takes place, there is certainly a genuine possibility that each national and financial security is going to be at threat. The White House believes that the Federal government need to and ought to know what exactly is happening when a firm or government agency is hacked as a way to take measures to bring the criminals to justice and to defend Americans.
Government officials in each the Congress along with the White House see the urgency of safeguarding sensitive and secure information, but disagree on the quantity of government monitoring and regulation which is necessary to help keep the country's economic, utilities and transportation systems and infrastructure protected from external cyber hackers.
Oliver David is a writer who has a background in data security with emphasis on encrypted flash drives and usb protection.
Security of Digitally Kept Healthcare Data is Tricky
Health related data of people that are kept by using a digital platform are really prone to fraud if they may be not safely placed. One particular unpleasant incident of fraud has emerged just lately. SAIC (Science Applications International Corp.) had been liable for lost data of around 4.9 million recipients. They are told to pay for the expense of informing all those folks of fraud. The data had been kept on data tapes, not encrypted flash drives.
Thievery of health related data and various other personal data is a really vital concern and could lead to plenty of trouble for a person. Those details include quite personal data including SSN details, home address as well as contact number. These records could be utilized for identity fraud and various other similar criminal activities.
The data tapes had been ripped off from the automobile of the Science Applications International Corp. personnel. Science Applications International Corp. is lawfully responsible to safeguard health and fitness data and bear the expenses if there is any kind of disclosure of sensitive data. The expected expense that this company must deal with is around seven dollars for every individual. This might imply around thirty five million for 4.9 million recipients of TRICARE health care program.
In an effort to secure the health related data of people, the govt . has approved the '09 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Law. This law is introduced as a portion of '09 U.S. Recovery as well as Reinvestment Law. As per this specific law, a firm could be expected to pay a fee up to one and a half million if they're not able to guard health and fitness data.
In case there is a fraud of files, The Department of Health and Human Services has the 100 % authority to do an intensive examination of situation. if found accountable, the accountable business will need to bear the charges. A right group of professionals will look at the parties involved and subsequently present the verdict for the charges that needs to be compensated.
Health and fitness information is a person's private belonging and thus must be kept safely and securely. In case any kind of disparity is identified, the liable person or body must be penalized and must be expected to bear the costs of actions necessary for damage control whenever possible. This secure USB flash drive review provides more info about data security.
USB flash drive in healthcare
Healthcare institutions are so careful in storing, processing and transferring their data. This is due to the several incidents reported on some companies involving data lost and theft. As you can see, dealing with patients' information in a healthcare company is very critical since they will be liable in case data leak occurs. That is why they are now so strict in allowing the use of USB flash drives (UFDs) in their facilities.
In case data leak happens and the company is responsible for it then they can surely lose millions for compensation. But that is not all because the welfare of their patients is also at stake especially if confidential information are included in that stolen set of data. Embarrassment can occur to both patient and hospital, and this is something that no one wants to happen.
Considering the circumstances given above, using a UFD in healthcare institutions is not so advisable nowadays. In fact, some hospitals prefer to network their computers to avoid using such storage device. But we should admit it, that UFD still brings lots of benefits for medical staff especially if they are working in a computer unit which is not part of the network. It can also be used to bring a copy of patients' records to a remote place authorized by the institutions. But again behind the benefits are the threats on data security.
If the only concern of a healthcare company is the security of their data when they reside in a UFD then this is not much a problem anymore. Remember that technology keeps on evolving and different advance security mechanisms are being implemented on UFDs nowadays. Examples of these technologies are hardware authentication and encryption.
Hardware authentication and USB encryption guarantees better security features on UFDs. The technology is not new at all but its implementation on storage devices such as UFDs is one of the greatest developments on its applicability and usability. If you have this technology on your flash drives then you can be confident that all confidential patient information inside it are non-exploitable. Hackers will surely have a hard time bypassing the security walls and most of the time, they will only fail.
If you want to experience the benefits in using UFDs in your healthcare profession then you can do so freely. Just make sure that your UFD implements hardware authentication and encryption because this is so far the best that you can get in the market.


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The 3k Hotel Barcelona is a cosmopolitan hotel located in the heart of the city very close to El Corte Ingles Shopping Center, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum and Campo Pequeno Bullring.
The 3K Hotel Barcelona offers 125 air conditioned and modern rooms with ensuite bathroom, TV, WI-FI, safety deposit box and telephone. Each room has been carefully thought to bring you a pleasant stay.
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The Queue: That's a lot of J names
Last time on The Queue, I answered a question about potential hero classes. Zoidberg asked about Archdruids, but there wasn't a whole lot to say. It's a rumor, and a rumor without much weight behind it, just an interview comment taken out of context as the WoW community (yes, even WoW Insider sometimes) likes to do. Since answering that question, I've been thinking about it a little myself.
Do I, personally, think Archdruids will be the next hero class? Nah, I don't think so. Just the name is the big issue for me. Archdruid suggest Druid+ or Druid 2.0 and that's just not cool. You can differentiate them from Druids as much as you want, Archdruid still suggests that it's a better Druid. That's pretty awful. Even if the new hero class (if there is a new hero class) has all of the features we'd expect from an Archdruid, it'll probably be called something else. Maybe a Keeper or something like that.
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Bulldogs Celebrate Thanksgiving; Play Charlotte Friday
Nov. 27, 2008 Bulldogs Celebrate Thanksgiving Photogallery Day 1 Photo Gallery, Bulldogs Arrive in Dallas Day 2 Blog, Bulldogs Celebrate Thanksgiving Dallas, Tx.- The Fresno State women's basketball team is in Dallas, Tx., for the SMU Hoops For The Cure Tournament. The Bulldogs open the tournament at 3 p.m. Pacific time when they play Charlotte of the Atlantic 10. Charlotte is 3-2 and they played in last year's WNIT tournament. The Bulldogs enter Friday's game with a 3-0 record. Fresno State will play SMU or Sam Houston State on Saturday evening. Bulldogs Play at SMU Hoops For The Cure Tournament Scouting the 49ers Bulldogs vs. Charlotte The Week That Was
And the Award Goes Too... Bailey Amundsen became the first Bulldog to earn WAC Player of the Week honors for her performances against UCSB and Sacramento State where she averaged 19 points and 10 rebounds. Amundsen had a career high 26 points against UCSB as the Bulldogs hit a school and WAC record of 16 3-pointers in the game. She had 12 points and nine rebounds against Sacramento State. Seeing Double 26 and Counting ... Bulldogs Scorch Nets for School and WAC Record 16 3-pointers "Join the State - Fresno State"- Follow the Bulldog women's basketball teams trip to Dallas by logging onto gobulldogs.com. |


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After changing owners a number of times, including separate stints in the hands of a Confederate Civil War general and a retired sea captain, the 152-acre plot of Mayfair Country Club was bought by the city of Sanford in 1922. The city quickly built four holes around the beautiful citrus trees and double row of oak trees, opening for business that same year under the title Sanford Country Club. By 1924, an 18-hole course opened and began to attract big-name golfers, including Gene Sarazen and Walter Hagen.
Unfortunately, the course?s upkeep was neglected during the nation's Great Golf-Ball Shortage. After the Depression passed, a small group of investors renovated the course and reopened it in 1945 under the name Seminole Country Club. The course wouldn?t be called the Mayfair Country Club until the late 1940s, when it was acquired by the NFL's New York Giants, a development that led to the course's hosting of PGA tour events from 1955 to 1957 and regular visits from legends such as Sam Snead and Arnold Palmer.
Today, players can walk the same fairways as the game's greats while grappling with the course?s difficult layout, named a Best Course to Play by Golf Digest. Opportunities for high-risk, high-reward shots abound, as two of the four par 5s measure less than 450 yards and the fairways remain as wide and inviting as they were in 1922, having managed to avoid growing thin and feeble with old age.
Course at a Glance: * 18-hole, par 72 course * Total length of 6,403 yards from the back tees * Course rating of 70.3 from the back tees * Course slope of 123 from the back tees * Four sets of tees per hole
Each day, golf carts trundle over wooden bridges, their wheels thwacking against each plank as they cross the myriad waterways that dot Alaqua Country Club's 18-hole layout. Designed by golf legend Gary Player, the 6,662-yard course is sculpted through tunnels of 55-foot trees and incorporates water hazards that come into play on 16 holes. One shining example is the par 3 hole 13 with an island green that tests golfers' iron play and ability to use those same clubs to fight off feral caddies that use flagsticks as swords. Surrounded by the Lower Wekiva Preserve State Park, the course enchants golfers with palms draped in billowing spanish moss and occasional sightings of deer and wild turkeys.
Alaqua Country Club's new, adobe-accented clubhouse offers weekly dining specials served to tables draped in white linens, where guests can unwind after rounds or fold chocolate brown napkins into festive new club head covers.
High-tech golf learning center utilizing high speed video and motion sensing technology to analyze all aspects of the golfers swing. This, coupled with, the ability to review lessons via Internet access and compare your swing to over 200 PGA, Champions and LPGA tour professionals.
The Links at 434 snakes a par 3 course over open fields dotted with sand traps and towering lights that provide an illuminated course as late as 10 p.m. Before taking the course, golfers can warm up by chipping onto a practice green and rifling off range balls from natural-grass tees or one of 10 covered hitting bays that shield players from the pressure-inducing gaze of the moon. From the first tee, golfers' short- to midrange games are tested by narrow fairways and difficult approach shots onto greens reminiscent of Mother Earth's curiously shaped amoebas. The longest hole stretches to 185 yards, putting added pressure on short-iron play, and three sets of tees help to make the course playable for golfers of all abilities.
Renowned golf-course architect Bobby Weed aims to fill his courses with the kind of rich details typically produced only by Mother Nature herself. His 2008 overhaul of The Deltona Club completely transformed the course: today, blowout-style native-sand bunkers bear roughly scalloped edges that call to mind a raw desert landscape, and the elevation rises in craggy steps as the course progresses, giving players a sense of conquering the land itself. The course's resulting beauty, sense of challenge, and secret bonus level snagged the club a spot on Golfweek's list of best Florida courses in 2012.
Winter Park Country Club's fairways have expanded from 9 to 27 and shrink back to 9 again throughout its history. Now celebrating its 100th season in the fall of 2014, perhaps the course's greatest claim to fame has been the legendary figures who have graced its narrow, tree-hampered fairways, including players with surnames such as Hogan, Snead, and Sarazen.
Players of all stripes, from greenhorns to green-jacket holders, must deal with difficult design and terrain, as showcased on the course?s signature fourth hole, whose dogleg left and tight out-of-bounds areas lead a troubling path to a green situated behind two large bunkers and a massive oak tree. The biggest challenge, however, may reside on the par 3 seventh hole, whose deceptively simple 165-yard length leads into a hard-to-read green with a shape-shifting flagstick.
Course at a Glance:
Nine-hole, par 35 course
Length of 2,470 yards
Course rating of 31.8
Slope rating of 102 on bermuda grass
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Katniss Everdeen Actually Belongs With Johanna Mason
Team Peeta vs. Team Gale? Get over yourselves.
1. The ongoing Gale vs. Peeta debate in The Hunger Games needs to stop.
7. *Not to be confused with the late and great team Jonas*
8. Their obvious chemistry was first noticed by fans in the pages of the original books.
9. The. Tension. Is. Palpable.
"My mouth drops open in shock. No one, ever, says anything like this in the Games. Absolutely, they've cut away from Johanna, are editing her out. But I have heard her and can never think about her again in the same way. She'll never win any awards for kindness, but she certainly is gutsy. Or crazy. She picks up some shells and heads toward the jungle."
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Several years back my neighbors planted Oldhammi too close to a shared fence. It has been invading my side and for awhile I would just break off the stalks as they rose. But now it has done some damage to my part of the fence, and damaged my drip system hoses. My landscaper says I should tell the neighbors they need to create a space and/or barrier between the fence and bamboo on their side. Also, that I should cut away all the roots (with a circulating saw). But if the neighbor won't take responsibility and act to prevent future damage and invasion, what are my choices for acting unilaterally to keep this from happening in the future? One possibility I've thought about is paving over the area, which is essentially a pathway between the front and. back of the house. Is there a way to dissolve the stumps? Other ideas? I'd like to know all my options before I make a decision. Thanks! |
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- Posted by kentuck_8b z8b TX (My Page) on Sun, Oct 11, 09 at 11:43
You could sever all of the rhizomes along the fenceline, then as new shoots emerge on your side, simply break them off and the rhizomes detached from the mother plant will eventually die, or you could then dig them out. A trench or rhizome barrier along the fenceline would help prevent future encrouchment into your property. Kt |
Thanks Kt. I can certainly do the severing you mention, though having neglected it because of being away a good deal that will now involve a lot of work. As far as a trench, it is relatively narrow area between the front and back yards, plus I have tenants, so I don't think that would work for both space and safety reasons. I have the same kind of bamboo on the opposite side of the house which has barriers in place, but they haven't prevented the spread of the bamboo. That's why I was thinking of paving over the whole area, which is now a combination of a concrete pathway and narrow strips of dirt on either side between house and fence, to make it all concrete where nothing could grow. BUT I want to be sure the bamboo won't crack or push up the concrete before taking that fairly drastic and expensive step. |
- Posted by kentuck_8b z8b TX (My Page) on Sun, Oct 11, 09 at 15:59
My olhamii has culms just over 4 inches in diameter and it can push 16" X 16" X 4" cement blocks up as if they were paper. If you have a solid concrete pathway that is reinforced and thick enough, it will stop it from coming up, but it still may grow past or beyond the path and put up culms. Most asphalt drives that I have seen will NOT stop emerging culms, especially of that size. A barrier would also have to be made specifically for the prevention of rhizome spreading, or also a seamless concrete barrier. Many people will use inferior products in an attempt to stop rhizome spreading, which turns out to be a waste of time. Good Luck Kt |
OK, thanks again. Are you saying that after cutting away and removing the stumps I might want to put a vertical concrete barrier next to the fence line, as well as or instead of a solid concrete path over the dirt? The flexible barrier I used on the other side of the house was high quality, but that was several years back and my landscaper says the new version may be better and more effective. But reading other forums it seems like some people say any barrier can and will be breached. |
- Posted by kentuck_8b z8b TX (My Page) on Sun, Oct 11, 09 at 20:55
If you put in a solid barrier such as concrete, then you will stop the bamboo, especially a clumper such as Oldhamii. If installed correctly, you will not need to put in a pathway also. Runners cause more problems with barriers than clumpers do. The barrier needs to be installed correctly though, no matter what kind it is. If a concrete barrier is not reinforced and it cracks, then the rhizomes can eventually squeeze through the cracks. For runners, the barrier needs to be leaning outward at the top, from the plant, so that the rhizomes will turn upward making them easy to trim. With clumpers it's not that necessary, but I would still recommend leaning it if possible, particularly if it is a flexible barrier. Kt |
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Easter Visayas' market share to increase in 2013
-A A +AWednesday, August 29, 2012
THE Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) share for local government units (LGUs) of the region will increase from P12.65 billion this year to P14.68 billion in 2013, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) reported.
DBM Regional Director Imelda Laceras said the rate increase for LGUs in the region ranges from 1 to 14 percent depending on the population size recorded in 2010 population survey, but the average increase is pegged at 10.6 percent.
Of the P14.68 billion IRA, P7.04 billion is allocated for 136 municipalities, P4.47 billion for six provinces, and P3.16 billion for seven cities.
Among the six provinces, the Leyte provincial, city, and municipal governments will get a big chunk of the regional allocation at P5.02 billion, followed with Samar with P3.2 billion, Eastern Samar with P2.18 billion, Northern Samar with P2.01 billion, Southern Leyte with P1.57 billion, and Biliran with P668.93 million.
Of all the municipalities, Limasawa in Southern Leyte has the lowest 2013 IRA share at P23.27 million. The island town has a population of 5,835 spreading out its 6.98 square kilometers.
The town of Abuyog in Leyte with a population of 57,146 and a land area of 688.25 square kilometers has the highest IRA among municipalities next year at P128.31 million.
A quarter of the IRA is equally shared among LGUs. Another quarter is distributed based on the land area of the LGU, while the other half is allocated based on population.
Laceras added that in spending the 2013 IRA, LGUs have to look at the national development agenda and make sure their activities are in line with five priority areas of the Aquino administration: good governance, poverty reduction; sustained economic growth; lasting peace and the rule of law; and environment and climate change adaptation and mitigation.
"The LGU should work double time. This is not anymore business unusual. There is some sense of urgency. We have to go out of the box in manner of thinking and approaching problems," Laceras pointed out. (Leyte Samar Daily Express)
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GeorgeannGood, But Not Worth The $$Honestly, the straightener was good, but I really don't think it was worth the high-end price tag. I think I actually paid $130 for mine. It worked okay and I think I convinced myself it worked better than my last one (an $80 straightener from a mall kiosk) to justify spending more. It's been less than 18 months and it already broke. I don't think I should have to re-buy a $130 straightener every year. I got a $99 Chi Air this time and and am much happier with it than I was with the Sedu, plus it has a 2 year warranty so I know it'll last longer as well.posted May 5, 2010Link to this post
BrandonWorks Great But Breaks EasilyThis hair straightener is probably the best straightener I have ever used but the cord got cut a little bit and now it does not even work.posted May 3, 2010Link to this post
AllisaHairDry HairIt Works Wondersss :)I always felt like I had the worst hair. People have bad hair days..I had bad hair months!! I got my hair permanently straightened twice, so I kind of deserved it. I straightened it with my old straightener, and by the time I reached school, my hair always got back to its ridiculous,frizzy,wavy state. It sucked all my confidence :( I always thought the problem was my hair, not the straightener! Then,I read the reviews of sedu at folica, I was amazed to hear its results. But I was too scared to spend so much. I took almost a month to make my mind, and finally I ordered it. Trust me, it works wonders!!! It makes my hair look super straight,super soft and really healthy. My hair stays the same even in most humid weather. I am so happy I gave it a try. It changed my life for good! I wonder how I survived before it :) If you are planning on buying a straightener,Go for sedu..you will never regret it!! This will be your best hair investment :)posted May 1, 2010Link to this post
LonSedu Flat Iron Is OkI've been having my solia flat iron for five years now. I like it a lot; it really worked.I thought it was loosing some performance, so I decided it was time to purchase a new one, so I bought the sedu flat iron, 1 1/2", just for a change. It's OK. It didn't do anything different than a regular flat iron would do. I like my solia one better.posted Apr 30, 2010Link to this post
LonHairGreyCurly HairShort HairWorks Well-easy To UseBought for myself-Am 53 years old with short curly grey hair and an 11 year old girl with shoulder length straight blond hair. Works great for both of us. She uses it to add a little body and shape to her hair and I use it to style some straight bangs. Very quick and effective!posted Apr 30, 2010Link to this post
DebMilan, INOh Dear, What Is Going On At The Sedu Factory?I've used and loved my Sedu flat iron for years. I love it so much, that in November 2009, I purchased a backup. Unfortunately, it appears they have taken the Sedu that we have all known, loved and raved about and CHANGED IT. My old Sedu has 72 watts of power, the new one only 45 watts. The safety plug replaced with a common 2-prong plug. If there are other changes, they are less obvious. But, the result is disappointing hair. With my old Sedu, I can achieve smooth, shiny hair in only one or two passes. I cannot achieve the same result with the new iron no matter how many passes I take. Ladies, you better hope your old Sedu flat iron lasts a good long time, because the new ones just don't measure up. I can no longer recommend it.posted Apr 29, 2010Link to this post
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MarcHairCurly HairNot For Every Hair TypeI think my hair is fairly healthy. It's very curly, and frizzy. I noticed when i straightened my hair (on the highest setting) everything would come out great except for my ends. My ends would stay straight for maybe 2 minutes then they'd begin to frizz, and my hair would end up gaining more volume throughout the day. When i used my old straightener, i didn't have the problem anymore with my ends. I'm not sure what it is, but the Sedu doesn't leave my hair feeling dry and damaged, however it doesn't keep my hair as straight as i'd like. I was very disappointed to find out that with such great reviews that it did this with my hair, plus with how much i spent on it, i can't afford to replace it right now. It's great quality but doesn't work well with my hair.posted Apr 29, 2010Link to this post
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Tale Of The Tape: Dreamville President Ibrahim "IB" Hamad Breaks Down J. Cole's 'Born Sinner'
Crooked Smile: The original version of this song was three verses he had over a Tupac beat he looped up and just rapped over. It was at a private show for 200 or so winners in L.A. that this whole song started coming to life. During sound check we decided to add a little jam session to give the fans something special and let Cole spit a few verses he had laying around. Our keyboard player played the keys to this beat Cole had made with a Jennifer Hudson sample. It instantly fit with Cole's first verse on "Crooked Smile" and Cole knew what the song was going to be right away. I've never been a part of a song that was worked on for as long as this one. it was incredible to see the transformation. Elite came in and co-produced the record with him and they really took their time on this record. I remember everybody watching a lot of Quincy Jones interviews and documentaries around that time. We all knew this record was special and it was treated that way by everyone involved. Once the hook was added, Cole already had in his mind he wanted to work with TLC. It had a very "Unpretty" feel to it. The vibe of the record and the message was perfect for them.


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Acquiring new information requires particularly focused attention, which includes the ability to ignore distractions. In order to absorb the information contained in a CNN newscast, for example, we must not only direct our attention to the person talking, but also filter out the running headlines, news updates, and financial ticker on the lower part of the screen. Torkel Klingberg, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at Karolinska Institute in Sweden and author of The Overflowing Brain, puts it simply: "If we do not focus our attention on something, we will not remember it." In other words, attention is a critical component of learning.
Michael Posner, a researcher who has dedicated his career to studying attention and a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Oregon, explains attention as a system of three networks—alerting, orienting, and executive. Alerting refers to the state of wakefulness necessary to attend to information, while orienting is the process by which we respond to stimuli, such as movement, sound, or noise. Executive attention is the highest-order network, the one that we have conscious control over. If we are trying to study for a test or read a novel, we use it to direct and maintain our focus, as well as to suppress our reaction to competing stimuli like the din of a nearby conversation or television.
The information-saturated environment that we live in is, unsurprisingly, extremely demanding of our attention. Modern life—both at work and at home—has become so information-rich that Edward Hallowell, a Boston-area psychiatrist, believes many of us suffer from what he calls an attention-deficit trait, a culturally induced form of attention-deficit disorder. As he pointed out in a 2005 interview with CNET News, "We've been able to overload manual labor. But never before have we so routinely been able to overload brain labor." According to Hallowell and other psychiatrists, all these competing inputs prevent us from assimilating information. "What your brain is best equipped to do is to think, to analyze, to dissect, and create," he explains. "And if you're simply responding to bits of stimulation, you won't ever go deep." Journalist John Lorinc noted as much in an elegant article on distraction in the April 2007 issue of The Walrus:
It often seems as though the sheer glut of data itself has supplanted the kind of focused, reflective attention that might make this information useful in the first place. The dysfunction of our information environment is an outgrowth of its extraordinary fecundity. Digital communications technology has demonstrated a striking capacity to subdivide our attention into smaller and smaller increments; increasingly, it seems as if the day's work has become a matter of interrupting the interruptions.
In a recent report, Information Overload: We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us, the research firm Basex concluded that interruptions take up nearly 30 percent of a knowledge worker's day and end up costing American businesses $650 billion annually. Other studies show that interruptions cause significant impairments in performance on IQ tests.
In many ways, the modern age—and the Internet, in particular—is a veritable minefield of distractions. This poses a central challenge to news organizations whose mandate is to inform the public. Research by Pablo Boczkowski, who teaches communication studies at Northwestern University, has revealed that when we consume news online we do so for significantly less time than in print and that we do it while we're working. Further complicating matters is the disruptive nature of online advertising. Intrusive Web advertisements—washingtonpost.com recently featured one in which a Boeing helicopter flies right across the text of a news story—exploit our orienting network, which evolved to respond quickly to novel stimuli. Could we train ourselves to suppress our tendency to be distracted by such advertising? "You can get somewhat better, but it's hard to resist because it'll produce orienting," Posner explains. "The way you resist it is you bring your attention back as quickly as you can." Yet even if we were somehow able to eliminate ads, the sheer number of articles, headlines, and video and audio feeds on news Web sites makes focused attention difficult. Having to decide where to direct our attention and then maintain it makes reading and retaining news online a formidable task.
The Attention Economy
One of the most useful frameworks for understanding journalism's challenges and behavior in the information age is the notion of the attention economy. Economics is the study of the allocation of resources and the basic principles of supply and demand, after all, and about a decade ago a handful of economists and scholars came up with the concept of the attention economy as a way of wrestling with the problem of having too much information—an oversupply, if you will—and not enough time or people to absorb it all.


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Government 'gone'
The British Government has completely disappeared, according to reports from Westminster. Downing Street is said to be deserted and Whitehall offices abandoned. For some months, political commentators had been questioning the reasons behind the coalition's lack of action over rising poverty, floods, education chaos and debt-ridden NHS trusts, but this morning the answer was clear. David Cameron's government have fled the country leaving the United Kingdom to its fate.
'It all makes sense now…' said a protestor in London's famous Trafalgar Square. 'None of us could understand why the government was doing nothing about the terrible problems facing the country. There is only one answer that makes any sense. There is no government.'
Rumours suggest that the Prime Minister has tried to flee the country before, but last time accidentally left his daughter in a pub, so had to come back again. David Cameron was last spotted wading around the West Country up to his knees in effluent, saying that money would be no object in tackling the nation's problems, and then hastily adding that 'there would be no blank cheques.' There were suspicions at this point that he may have completely lost control, but the abandoned offices in Whitehall seem to have confirmed this. This morning an ordinary member of the public (N. Clegg) was seen running up and down the corridors of Downing Street, proclaiming 'He's gone! They've all gone! We can do whatever we want!' before getting lost in the building and asking someone the way out again.
The power vacuum has led to utter chaos in Britain, with schools being set up by anybody who fancies it, bankers crippling the nation's finances and then paying themselves massive bonuses and newspapers lying and spying and then getting off scott free.
However a press spokesman for David Cameron denied that his government had fled the country never to return. 'Er, no, it's just half-term and we've all gone skiing. Next week, it's back to the office and doing nothing as usual.'
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SPLINTERED is a stunning debut that captures the fantastical madness of a mystical under-land as well as a girl's pangs of first love and independence. Alyssa Gardner, the fictional great-great-great-granddaughter of the real Alice Liddell, the woman who inspired Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, finds that the real Wonderland is full of strange beings and dark agendas. She must right the wrongs of Alice to break a maddening family curse. This month we celebrate the release of Splintered by debut author A. G. Howard. Learn more about the author after the break!


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Says Santosh Desai: "Earlier, you knew your landscape and how far you could go. But now the old maps have gone. Identity, which was earlier fixed, is now much more floating. So the small-town story of coming to make your fortune in the city has changed. You are suddenly in this new world and you have no clue of how far you can go. You can push the limits of legitimacy. The notion of collective morality has been replaced by an individual negotiable sense of right and wrong. The freedom is much more. Most people are not equipped to handle this. It's only when they cross the line that they realize what has happened."
The alleged life, loves and victims of Vijay Palande, and his femme fatale friend Simran Sood, have turned strait-laced newspapers into screaming tabloids. The 41-year-old status symbol junkie had been convicted on one count in a double murder case in 2002 and awarded a life sentence. Not only did he escape while out on parole, he got himself a face job in Bangkok. Like some filmi villain, he also changed his identity, turning into a Karan Sood, brandishing a fake passport. Then in 2006 he was arrested by the D N Nagar police, but once again was released on bail because the police failed to inform the judges about his notorious record. Now he stands accused of kidnapping and murdering an aspiring film producer and estate agent, Karankumar Kakkar, and the wealthy Delhi businessman Arunkumar Tikku visiting his son Anuj.
Based on sporadic bits of information that the police have been releasing, Palande was apparently trying to break out of his destiny and fast-forward into some fantasy world. For him, the object of desire was not so much the victim's BMW itself as what the BMW symbolized-and where it could place him in the social pecking order in a city where even a cop will salute a thug sitting in a set of fancy wheels and be surly with the honest man on a scooter. It's almost as if the ominous story of the Booker-winning White Tiger has come to haunt our housing colonies: The frustrated chauffer is eventually driven to an extreme act.
What do you blame for the brutalization? A society that is based on a new consumerist zamindari system? People are being bombarded with images of untramelled wealth while they must suffer the indignities of even something as basic as the daily commute on a local train. The media is a willing accessory, if not an abettor. As the screenplay writer says, "All the TV channels are getting flashier and flashier and the background scores are getting louder and louder. Enhanced to the point of being distorted. It's happening to your colours, to your costumes, to your popular culture, so the same thing is going to happen to your value system." The scary part is that society is not just unable to halt the march of greed, but is unwilling to do so.
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Betabeat Takes Its First Trip to New York ComicCon
"What is… going on here?" asked Betabeat's confused cab driver, as we bore left onto W. 37th street and the entire block began to fill up with people in costumes.
Since we had never been to ComicCon before, we found ourselves at a loss to explain to him the scene that was unfolding before us. Halal carts and hotdog stands swathed Lolita cosplayers and superheroes in heavy meat smoke. Girls in thigh-high boots stumbled out of an event hall decorated with Pokemon characters. Homestuck fans, cosplaying as trolls with orange horns protruding from their heads, scurried across 10th Avenue towards the Javits Center.
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Just wondering if there's anyone out there besides me that enjoys the collection of Disney Park exclusive kits put out by Stoney Creek.
I have "Past, Present, Forever", "Mickey & Minnie Wedding" and the "Mistletoe Kiss" kits. And I'm hoping to get the "Self-Portrait" this November.
Unfortunately two items on my wishlist (Mickey Salutes America and The Barbershop Quartet) have been discontinued. They've been going for quite a lot on ebay. I just lost an auction for a Barbershop kit and the final bid was $102.
Also...Thomas Kinkade has been working on a line of Disney film-inspired paintings and four of them are available in cross stitch form.
Candamar Designs - Fine Art Needlework
There's a 5th Bambi painting released not too long ago. Hopefully that will be made into a kit too.
They're not park exclusive but they are some of the nicest Disney patterns I've seen out there for this particular hobby.


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Archive for April, 2002
Tornadoes and MovableBlog
I hadn't noticed before, but the <edit>Orientally-oriented JustAGwaiLo has an extremely useful blog devoted to MovableType Tips and Tricks. Quite informative. Maryland webloggers Moire and Lynda had front-row seats to the damage wrought by Sunday's deadly tornado. Go read.
Alternate Style Sheets
Alternate Style Sheets are a method worth knowing, for the convenience of your users who prefer larger, more scaleable fonts rather than the usual 10px/11px Verdana. All it involves is a .JS file, two lines of code, and an extra stylesheet. I'm also interested in getting the hang of using mod_rewrite to make better URL's. […]
Opera and overflow CSS
Darn it, darn it, darn it. Opera does not support the overflow: scroll property, and Mozilla executes it only with much bugginess. So much for the kewl "iframe" look.
Accepted into MICA
I completely forgot to blog this. I got my letter two weeks ago: the Lord be praised, I've been accepted into MICA! Pending housing and financial aid, this Fall I hope to move to Baltimore for my MA in Digital Art.
Tornadoes in MD
We had some pretty serious tornadoes in the area yesterday. Lots of homes destroyed.
Apache, PHP, MySQL installed
I've installed Apache and MySQL for Win32, along with PHP 4.2.0. Yes, yes, on a Win98 machine. Fine, you Linux snobs can sniff and thumb your noses at me, but I'll decide when to make the shift, and I'll do it when I'm good and rea- FATAL ERROR: INVALID PAGE FAULT. Rundll32 caused an Invalid […]
Bad Astronomy on Armaggedon
"Here's the short version: 'Armageddon' got some astronomy right. For example, there is an asteroid in the movie, and asteroids do indeed exist. And then there was… um… well, you know… um. Okay, so that was about all they got right." – Phil Plait, BadAstronomy.com More Bad Astronomy from the movie Armageddon, which is showing […]
Seventeen Magazine
I sat down to dinner a while ago and, finding nothing of interest on TV, turned instead to the nearest form of printed entertainment within reach — an issue of Seventeen Magazine. Yugh. I don't know about you people, but if I were bombarded with that kind of vapid, fleshly drivel on a regular basis, […]
Fox Kids Saturday Morning
Saturday morning cartoons just aren't what they used to be. Since when did Transformers become an anime-esque war fest? And what's up with this Power Rangers Wild Force? If I were making a campy Japanese-style Bioman ripoff, I would most definitely NOT tag it with the slogan "Wild Force: ANSWERING NATURE'S CALL!"
Aglionby on the Phil. situation
US Cavalry Fails to Bring Peace to the Philippines. Aglionby does a good job of describing an "average day" of political violence and social instability in the country, but I think he is a bit far off base in assuming that Filipinos looked to the arrival of the American military as the portent of a […]