text:
Security Industry Market Trends, Predictions and Forecasts
Market trends and predictions
Security Industry Market Trends, Predictions and Forecasts News
February 27, 2015
Data breach consequences: Get breached, make money?
News roundup: Data breaches aren't associated with soaring stock prices, but recent examples show breaches may boost stocks. Plus: Gemalto confirms possibility of GHCQ/NSA hack; Target breach costs company $162 million; Superfish swims on.
February 06, 2015
Report: Most enterprise security operations centers ineffective
A new report by HP shows most enterprise security operations centers fail to meet recommended maturity levels needed to detect and manage cybersecurity threats.
January 21, 2015
Wasted spending on security shelfware affects small businesses more
Osterman Research and Trustwave report that organizations waste money on underutilized security software because IT often doesn't have enough time or resources to use it.
January 20, 2015
ISACA: Majority of enterprises report cybersecurity workforce shortage
In its new 2015 Global Cybersecurity Status Report, ISACA finds that most organizations are aware of cyberattack risk, but few believe they have the capability to thwart a sophisticated attack.
Security Industry Market Trends, Predictions and Forecasts Get Started
Bring yourself up to speed with our introductory content
Exploring the potential of attribute-based access control
Radiant Logic's Dieter Schuller says companies trying to master attribute-based access control should start with a hybrid mode. Continue Reading
2014 Information Security Readers' Choice Winners
The votes are tallied. The readers have spoken. Information Security is honoring readers' picks for the best security hardware, appliances and services in our ninth-annual Readers' Choice Awards. Continue Reading
Using the 2014 Verizon DBIR to review information security controls
The Verizon DBIR has a wealth of information on enterprise threats, but how can the average organization put it to good use? Nick Lewis explains. Continue Reading
Evaluate Security Industry Market Trends, Predictions and Forecasts Vendors & Products
Weigh the pros and cons of technologies, products and projects you are considering.
Closer look at 'good enough' security after recent data breaches
What is 'good enough' security and when you need something better. Continue Reading
What's driving executive turnover for CISOs?
A number of experienced CISOs have left their positions recently. Expert Joe Granneman looks at where they are going, and what's behind the trend. Continue Reading
Information Security 2014: Shifts ahead after a watershed year
Editorial Director Robert Richardson looks at the year in review and offers his take on the security blunders and breakthroughs and some lessons learned. Continue Reading
Product Reviews
Powered by IT Central Station-
The FortiGate security appliances. UTM security in a single device, good administrative interface and performances.
Powered by IT Central StationFirst things first Talking about FortiGate from Fortinet we are talking about a family of UTM (Unified Threat Management) appliances. This...Continue Reading
For price criteria, Fortinet wins over competitors. That being said, certain areas of the product need improvement
Powered by IT Central StationValuable Features:

Performances

VDOM

UTM

Consolidated...Continue Reading
Using Cisco ASA CX Firewall To Protect Your Network
Powered by IT Central StationCisco ASA has better application granularity, a more flexible means of policy creation, and easier to use controls and more powerful reports ...Continue Reading
Manage Security Industry Market Trends, Predictions and Forecasts
Learn to apply best practices and optimize your operations.
Information security services under siege
Security professionals are disillusioned and desperate for some progress in the uphill battle against attackers. Is the security industry up for the task? Continue Reading
What do we need to make IoT security a reality?
As standards and security models emerge, security professionals can take steps today to improve Internet of Things security. Continue Reading
Operational challenges as cybersecurity gets sensored
As networking technologies move onto the factory floor, security executives bridge the gap between IT and industrial network security. Continue Reading
Problem Solve Security Industry Market Trends, Predictions and Forecasts Issues
We've gathered up expert advice and tips from professionals like you so that the answers you need are always available.
Key takeaways from the 2013 Verizon DBIR: What can be learned for 2014
Expert Joseph Granneman looks back at the 2013 Verizon DBIR and provides key takeaways for companies looking to avoid being part of the 2014 edition. Continue Reading
Why the NSA monitoring scandal matters to enterprise security
Video: Securosis CEO Rich Mogull explains how the NSA monitoring scandal has weakened enterprise security and what infosec pros should do about it. Continue Reading
Average cost of cybercrime grows again due to sophisticated attacks
Ponemon Institute's annual study shows the associated cost of cybercrime for enterprises has risen again in 2013, thanks to sophisticated attacks. Continue Reading


text:
Circle in deal to run Hinchingbrooke NHS hospital
A groundbreaking £1bn, 10-year deal for a private firm to run a struggling NHS hospital has been confirmed.
Circle is to take over Cambridgeshire's Hinchingbrooke Hospital in February - although it will stay in the NHS.
The deal will see Circle assume the financial risks of making the hospital more efficient and paying off its £40m of debts.
But fears have been raised it could pave the way for "wholesale transfers" of hospitals to the private sector.
There are a group of about 20 hospitals which have run into financial difficulties and Labour accused the government of wanting to see more of these deals under its shake-up of the health service.
The accusation was denied by ministers.
Nonetheless, the Circle deal is being seen as a significant step in the evolution of the health service.
Although private sector firms already operate units that treat NHS patients - such as hip replacement centres - the firm will become the first non-state provider to manage a full range of NHS district general hospital services.
The franchise deal with Circle was developed after concerns that the hospital had become unviable, and a local campaign to maintain services.
The company has to maintain services, including A&E and maternity, if they are wanted, although it is free to reduce staff numbers.
But any significant changes in services at the hospital will have to be agreed with the local NHS and the public will have to be consulted.
John Lewis modelDr Stephen Dunn, from the NHS in the East of England, said the hospital will continue to be paid at NHS rates for its work while it is being run by Circle.
"It's a hugely original deal - we've managed to avoid the possibility of closing the hospital. We've got a solution to the debt - and have plans that allow us to meet the efficiency challenges the NHS faces."
For the moment this deal is a one-off, but other hospitals are struggling financially. About 20 in England have been named by ministers as being unviable in their current form.
It follows a review which all NHS organisations in England have had to undertake of whether they can meet the financial standards required to be given the status of a foundation trust.
Some may try to merge with more successful nearby NHS hospital trusts. Others will watch what happens in Hinchingbrooke with interest.
If Circle manages to maintain the range and standards of care at Hinchingbrooke, but cut costs, that in itself could put pressure on NHS managers at other hospitals to do the same.
And, as this deal has been subjected to very detailed scrutiny by the Treasury, it could also mean that other similar contracts could be agreed more quickly.
Circle chief executive Ali Parsa accepted the company was taking on a challenge. He said the strength of its approach was in increasing the involvement of doctors and nurses.
"We want to create a John Lewis-style model with everyone who works there in charge of the hospital, letting them own the problems and solve them. We will try everything we can to make this small hospital viable - if we can how fantastic would that be?"
The deal has taken almost a year from the plans being sent to the government for approval, to the contract being given the go ahead. The approval for the tendering process began under the last Labour government.
Circle, like other independent health providers, has experience of providing planned care but not of running a full range of services including emergency and maternity care.
The deal is controversial and not all are convinced this is the only solution to keeping Hinchingbrooke open.
Public sector union Unison's head of health, Christina McAnea, said a new management team could have been found without putting a contract out to tender.
"We just don't accept there is no expertise within an organisation the size of the NHS, and to turn to the private sector which has a very patchy record in delivering these kind of services is an accident waiting to happen."
Shadow health minister Liz Kendall added: "Patients and the public will be deeply worried that they have seen this government's true vision for the future of our NHS with the wholesale transfer of entire hospitals to the private sector."
She added that the government's health bill "actively encourages" such moves.
But health minister Simon Burns said the move did not provide a "blueprint" and denied it represented a privatisation, pointing out that the staff would remain in the NHS as would the buildings.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Driver charged in crash that injured biker
UPDATED 7:39 AM CDT Mar 31, 2014A motorcyclist is still in critical condition after being hit by a suspected drunk driver.
Video TranscriptA motorcyclist is still in critical condition this morning ... after being hit by a suspected drunk driver! 51-year-old Michael John Harden has a fractured skull and brain swelling. Police say he was hit on East 30th Street just after 6-30 Saturday night. 21-year-old Jacob Phipps faces several charges this morning ... including serious injury by vehicle, O- W-I and driving with
The views expressed are not those of this site, this station or its affiliated companies. By posting your comments you agree to accept our terms of use.blog comments powered by Disqus


text:
Here's my new EP, available for free download from ABAGA Records: Relocate EP by TactusDownload here: http://music.abagarecords.com/album/relocate-ep Scottish producer/DJ Tactus – head of ABAGA Records – is back with a 4 track EP out on August 4th,
Tactus – 300 Seconds To Mix on BBC Radio 1
I was asked to record a 300 second mix for Radio 1's BBC Introducing show with Jen & Ally. I put together this mix that includes one track from every ABAGA Records release, and
Tactus – Detached EP – Free EP on ABAGA Records
I've just released my latest EP on ABAGA Records: Tactus – Detached EP. It features 4 tracks, two of which I made with MAKO. It's had a great reception so far, with plays on SUB
The Mighty Boosh – Captain Cabinets (Tactus Remix)
I made this remix of a song from the series 'The Mighty Boosh' for a laugh quite a while back, but thought I'd make a wee video for it. You can download the track for
Guest Mix on Sub FM
I made a guest mix for Ashtech's show on Sub FM last week. It was great to play on my favourite radio station. Managed to fit in some house, dubstep, juke and drum'n'bass amongst others,
New Tactus EP out on Gradient Audio
I have a new EP coming out on Gradient Audio called Dangerous Venoms (GRD048) on August 30th 2013. Here's a preview of the tracks. You can buy the EP at all good online retailers including: Juno: http://bit.ly/GRD048-Juno iTunes: http://bit.ly/GRD048-iTunes Big thanks
Free Downloads: Witness Workout EP and Mix
My track "Act" was just released for free on the Witness Workout EP. Witness is an Edinburgh-based club night at Sneaky Pete's every Wednesday, and I've had the pleasure of playing it a few times.
Free Release: Change EP on Black Lantern
The folks at Black Lantern Music have just released a collection of my songs from 2009, and it's free to download at http://blacklanternmusic.com/oneep.php?subid=78. Big thanks to the label and to Rebecca Mason for her vocal talent! Here's
Free Track: Stanley Odd – By Way Of Explanation (Tactus Remix)
Released as part of Stanley Odd's Oddvent Calendar and "The Remix XI" compilation album. Check the band out
Free Track On Compilation
Download as part of the free compilation >HERE< This album features a whole range of artists and bands, many of whom have featured on Mark Whitby's Dandelion Radio and others who will no doubt do
Tactus & Morphamish Mixes
I've been playing live back-to-back sets with Morphamish, and we've decided to record two of them. They are improvised mixes using 2 laptops running Ableton Live with 2 MIDI controllers, in a combination of
Free Track: Profisee – Take My Hand (Tactus Remix)
Profisee just put up my remix of his track "Take My Hand" (original produced by Sharkz). Had fun makin the track, I hope you like it. Profisee's latest album "From All Angles" includes the original
New Interviews and Mixes
I was recently interviewed for San Diego based radio show Solipsistic Nation and Stirling based Air3 Radio. The first interview covers my approach to music and running ABAGA Records, and the accompanying hour long mix
MOBO Tour
I'll be speaking at the Glasgow leg of the MOBO tour this weekend. The workshop will be about how important label backing is these days and if the DIY approach is a better option
Profisee Remix and Promo Mix
ABAGA Records will be releasing Profisee's 'Hold Up EP' on February 20th with the original produced by Starkey, and contains a remix by myself, MAKO and The Setup. To celebrate, we will be having
Save BBC Introducing Campaign
I have organized part of a campaign to help save the BBC Introducing In Scotland show on Radio 1. The BBC are restructuring and are cutting a weekly 2 hour show that showcases Scottish
Interviews with Electrikal & Dubstepforum.gr
Edinburgh soundsystem, collective and blog Electrikal has interviewed me for their blog. Have a read at www.electrikal.net/11/abaga-recordsmix-inside. I was asked for a background on the label I run and myself, and there's a mix in
Free track: Jammin J – Perfect Score (Tactus Remix)
I just uploaded my remix of Jammin J's "Perfect Score", and its available for free: CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD One of my tracks was on Get Darker TV, big ups to D-Rail. You can download the
Live Session on BBC Radio 1
I played a live session last night on Ally McCrae's BBC Introducing in Scotland on Radio 1. Had a little chat with him as well, was a real fun session. DOWNLOAD A big thanks to Ally,


text:
A.R.E. Weapons Head to 'Times Square'
It's a Deathly Game for Bang Lime
The Lists The Top 100 Alternative Albums of the 1960s
Best of SPIN SPIN's Complete Covers Gallery: The 1990s
The Lists 40 Movie Soundtracks That Changed Alternative Music
The Lists Blame Nirvana: The 40 Weirdest Post-'Nevermind' Major-Label Albums
All Time SPIN's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time
All Time The 30 Greatest Dubstep Songs of All Time
SPIN Era 125 Best Albums of the Past 25 Years
The Lists Hated in the Nation: The 30 Biggest Punching Bags in Pop History
Sign up for the SPIN newsletter and stay in the know.
SPIN is a member of SPIN Music Group, a division of BUZZMEDIA


text:
The Blood Type Diet Archives Volume 1
Posted By: Karen WatlandDate: March 11, 1997 at 15:40:32
In Response To: Re: Type A trying to Zone protocol (Peter D'Adamo)
Hi Dr. D'Adamo,I'm BAAACCKK!So are you saying in essence Type A should have less protein than Type O? Even if it is coming from plant matter (soy,etc)? Well, then help me here to reestablish, just how much protein a Type A should have daily? I am not kidding you when I say I have terrible ups & downs when I overeat carbs at a meal (It has happened to me on carrot juice even). I am not talkiing ding dongs here! I have proven it to myself that this Zone balance works for me. The weight loss, the way my mind feels right on and the strength I now have! Maybe you & Barry need to put your two heads together and write a final saga for us poor confused obsessive health nuts who need just one leader to show us THEE WAY! Call it the "Blood Zone"?


text:
MT. KENYA TREKKINGMount Kenya. Are you looking for adventure travel activities in Kenya and discover Kenya's heritage, great locations to adventure in Kenya while on your short breaks we are offering the best price guarantee on Mount Kenya Adventure tours. YHA Travel Kenya prides itself the best tour operator offering personalised travel service that caters specifically independent travellers, small groups, families and specialises in a wide variety of exciting adventure tour activities throughout the various regions of Kenya and within East Africa. Places like Mount Kenya, Mount Longonot, Hells Gate, Mount Kilimanjaro and others. Tours include walking, trekking, mountain expedition, peak climbing, rafting, jungle safari and family based adventure holiday trips. At Mountain Kenya we will do our very best to make sure that we are able to structure an adventure tour packages for mountaineers both as beginners and experts alike. Our company's vision is to provide you with quality travel service with experienced guides and porters to enable you to have a truly remarkable and memorable vacation. We want you to truly experience what we have come to love. A word of warning – most of our visitors want to come back time and time again – we look forward to meeting and assisting you on your first adventure trip and look forward to welcoming you back on your return visits. Happy Trials. Travelling to Kenya? Looking for affordable Mount Kenya Climbing, Hiking and Trekking tours? YHA Travel has the best bargains for families, groups or independent travelers who are in search for safari adventures in Mount Kenya and Mount Kilimanjaro. Kenya youth hostels travel section is ready to and make your mountaineering expedition fun, fulfilling and enjoyable. YHA-Kenya Travel partners with one of the best tour operator and activity provider the African Home Adventure Safaris which is a full member and recognised by the Kenya Association of Tour Operator (KATO) We will always get you the best adventure climbing safari tour for your time of travel in Kenya! travelling in and around Mount Kenya with your yha Hostelling membership to enable you enjoy and save on great deals as provided for on any trekking tour of Mount Kenya that you select. Responsible travel initiative is Responsible Tourism for Mount Kenya Climbers, Kenya Youth Hostels Mountaineering programs make you to become a responsible traveller.
Mt.Kenya is Africa's second highest mountain after Kilimanjaro. This extinct volcano is estimated to be 2.5 million years old. Time has taken its toll on the former, reducing the peak from 6500m to 5199 m today, while nature's untiring eroding agents long ago eroded the crater.
Mt. Kenya is located 180km north of Nairobi within the Mount Kenya National park. The park protected area 3200m above sea level and was established in 1949 and covers an area of 715 sq km. The mountain comprised of three main zones: - the rocky peak zone, the afro-alpine moorland with it's scattering of giant vegetation and the extensive tower slope covered with mountain forest and a bamboo there are over 81plant species. Any fit and prepared person can reach point Lenana, the so-called trekker's peak; the summit has the twin peaks of 5199m Batian and Nelion and is considered more technically challenging than the higher Mt Kilimanjaro at 5894m.
Choose between Sirimon-Chogoria and Naro Moru Routes.
Mt. Kenya National Park.
Mount Kenya, at an altitude of 5199 [17058ft] the country's highest mountain, has its higher slope permanently covered in snow and ice, even though it sits astride the equator.
The National park comprises the mountain above the 320m [10,500ft] contour plus two salient astride the Naro moru and the Sirimon routes.
The mountain consists of three peaks the Batian [the highest] Nelion and Lenana. Of these peaks, the original hard center core is all that remains; the bulk of the volcano has been eroded away with time.
Do you have any enquiries on Kenya Youth Hostels Association? Fill in this form here
African Home Adventure Safaris Kenya and Tanzania recognize that everyone has a different travel preferences and Budget, and we have a unique style of travel for everyone who wants to add value to their holidays. You choose the style that best suits you. More... | ||||||||||


text:
Language: English
Publisher:New Leaf Press
Mardel Price $9.99
Ship To:
There never seems to be enough time to do all the things we want to do, and often that includes taking the time to study and pray upon God's Word every day like we know that we should. Now it only takes five minutes a day to grow in your faith as you enjoy this classic collection of devotions which have been updated for modern readers!
This collection is written to be easily understood and to reveal scriptural insights that can be quickly studied. Do one a day for a full two-year study or do two a day, one in the morning and one in the evening, as Spurgeon originally had designed them for a year's worth of devotions.


text:
I asked for a Harry Potter themed postcard, since I know how hard and expensive it is to send a gift overseas. When it was marked shipped on Feb 5, I was expecting a postcard. When I saw it has a tracker, I wondered it must have been a special one.
This morning (Feb 21), I woke me up earlier than usual. My husband looked at me and lazily he said "There's a package for you. Must have been from that redditgifts".
I thought he was kidding because according to the tracker, it is still stuck at the customs. He showed the box, I half-screamed, and read the package description (2 baby clothes) and started to open the package.
"The package is big. Well...That's must have been a hell lot of postcards in there," he said.
There was a letter, neatly folded, on top of the bubble wrap. To my surprise, beneath it, a nicely ribbon wrapped packages. I read the letter and got quite teary eyed. I unwrapped the packages and found two cute onesies for my daughter.
Then I found a beautiful frame with the words "Keep Calm and Harry on" in it.
I had a rough 2013, as I told my Santa and she shared a beautiful story of how she learned to love the books. The poster and the wording are always out there, but this is the first of such I ever own or get and it is surely a meaningful gift to me.
++++++ To my Santa, Jamie (not sure she used her husband's Reddit account, or they shared together), the gifts are thoughtful and lifted up my spirit.
I'm sure my daughter will love the onesies and I will keep them and show it again to her when she is older that a nice lady gave her a Harry Potter onesies.
Again, thank you from the bottom of my heart, for exceeding my expectation.
Sincerely, A Slytherin.


text:
Hey, on the bright side these reports keep the stock price nice and low. So I can buy more.
- Article | 8 hours ago QNX-equipped Solar Impulse 2 readies for round-the-world solar-powered flight
- Article | 9 hours ago BlackBerry App Roundup for March 6, 2015
- Article | 13 hours ago This BlackBerry Passport belt clip holster is on sale today for only $18.95
- Article | 15 hours ago 1000 free copies of Stickers++ available for download
- Article | 20 hours ago Canadian man faces fines and jail time for refusal to unlock BlackBerry at airport


text:
Toronto, ON M3J 3C6
Our customer satisfaction is a class apart!
At Downsview Chrysler, we carry a wide stock of new and certified pre-owned Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, RAM and Jeep. All our used vehicles are certified and e-tested by the company trained mechanics before they are delivered.
We carryJeep Wrangler, Jeep Wrangler Unlimited , Jeep Grand Cherokee, Jeep Compass , Jeep Patriot , Dodge Charger, Dodge Challenger, Dodge Grand Caravan , Dodge Journey, Dodge Dart , Dodge Durango, Chrysler Town & Chrysler Country , Chrysler 200 , Chrysler 300. We carry a great selection of Ram Trucks , including the Ram 1500 Regular Cab , Ram 1500 Quad Cab and the Ram 1500 Crew Cab. We also carry Fiat 500 , Fiat 500C , Fiat Abarth, and FIAT 500L and more ready for immediate delivery.
Our new and used car dealerships also provide Financing and Leasing solutions for your vehicle.
Our state of the art body shop, service center and parts shop are equipped with the latest car service technology, and our trained mechanics will help maintain your vehicle with great care.
We are proud to serve the all the GTA including: Toronto, Downtown, Mississauga, Richmond Hill, Thorn Hill, Maple, Weston, Forest Hill, Markham, North York, Scarborough, Caledon, Brampton, Brantford, Burlington, Barrie, Whitby, Aurora, Oakville, Milton, Stoufville, Ajax, Newmarket, Midland, Concord, Pickering, King City, York, Oshawa, Kitcherner, Waterloo, St. Catherines, Niagra Falls, Hamilton, Peterborough, Coburg, Bracebridge, Perry Sound, Huntsville, Vaughn, Owen Sound, North Bay, Sudbury, Sault St. Marie, Kingston, Chatham, Stratford, and much more.
Our Sales Representatives are prepared to speak your language for your convenience including: English, French, Portuguese, Italian, Indian, Korean, Vietnamese, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi, Mandarin, Spanish, Russian, Polish, German, and more.


text:
A cold front will bring rain, snow and wind to the area through tonight that will be heavy at times. Snow levels will drop to 4,000 feet late tonight and travel will be impacted above this especially along highways 66, 140, 62 and 138 above 4,000 feet. A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect above 5,000 feet for snow accumulation of 6 to 10 inches above 5,000 feet and potentially as high as a foot above 6,000 feet. Be sure to check the Tripcheck website before heading out which you can find on the weather homepage under weather links, or dial 511 for road conditions while traveling.
Rain, wind and snow will ease up through the day Saturday with most activity at the coast and Cascades. Saturday afternoon and evening there is a chance for isolated thunderstorms, mainly at the coast with a slight chance for all inland areas. Thunderstorms can produce heavy rain, gusty winds and small hail. Sunday will be the more quite day of the weekend with only isolated showers, mainly at the coast and Cascades. Rain and wind return on Monday with an active storm pattern persisting for much of next week.
For more weather updates and storm reports you can follow me on Facebook and Twitter! Thanks for logging on and have a great evening!
Meteorologist Megan Parry


text:
Internships at McGladrey
A meaningful internship can be the first step in a rewarding career. If you're ready to gain hands-on experience and make a difference with clients, you've come to the right place. Intern candidates should be approximately 12-18 months away from completing their bachelor's degree or master's degree, preferably in accounting or a business or technology related field. Winter Internships typically run from January through March/April and Summer Internships from June through August.
See why choosing McGladrey could be your best decision yet.
Our Careers blog offers past intern perspectives and recruiter job search advice.


text:
Fiber - LUS Powered Network (linked)
Lafayette Utilities System Already Has Proven Fiber Value
Despite all of the positive benefits of building a fiber community, residents of Lafayette still need reassurance that Lafayette Utilities System can be trusted to provide reliable high-speed bandwidth and quality customer service. What the public eye doesn't see is that LUS has already done just that.
For the past three years, LUS has supplied a fiber optic infrastructure with high-speed capability to wholesalers and local government on its SONET (Synchronous Optical Network) ring. LUS has built a high degree of trust and offers competitive prices to its wholesalers everyday. Plus through these wholesalers - providing services such as data storage, networking, hosting, monitoring and security - the public can openly see today the advantages that are possible through the value-added technology by using the services themselves.
WOW Technologies, a current wholesaler, uses the LUS high-speed fiber optic Internet access to position itself as a single point of contact for voice, data and Internet solutions for local and nationwide customers. Without this fiber ring, owner Ashton Langlinais says his company would be severely limited when it comes to his clientele. Through LUS, however, there is no limit to what his company can do. WOW Technologies now airs live webcasts at the Cajundome for conventions and event goers. Oil and gas companies have high-speed surveillance for their properties due to the huge amounts of bandwidth, and when it comes to education, St. Thomas More High School's fiber optic connection from the wholesale marriage between WOW and LUS has saved the school a significant amount of money. Hockey fans can even see the IceGators live from their computers through WOW Technologies - all thanks to the LUS fiber optic ring, Langlinais says.
According to Chuck Vincent, president of Global Data Systems, a business technology solution provider and wholesaler of LUS, the fiber optic network currently saves his business a substantial amount of time and money and he has come to rely heavily on the utility company's fiber optic expertise. He says it is also vital for Lafayette to adapt to the growing reliance on high-speed technology nationwide so businesses such as his and the community can continue to reap the benefits together. "To absorb and use the technology on the market today, we need fiber optics and fast connectivity, and we need this high-speed connection for both business and personal use," Vincent says. "I truly believe that if we don't implement fiber optics into the community, we will be behind the fiber optic power curve."
LUS Powered Network
Last Updated: Friday, June 1, 2012© Copyright 2003-2012 Lafayette Utilities SystemLafayette Utilities System | LUS Fiber | Lafayette Consolidated GovernmentPrivacy Policy | Terms & Conditions Powered by the Firefly Digital Website Gadget®


text:
South Africa are on course to complete a 3-0 Test series whitewash after dominating day two at Centurion.
Debutant Kyle Abbott picked up seven for 29 to destroy the Pakistan middle order as they were bowled out for 156 and were asked to follow on, finishing the day 14 for one, still 239 runs behind Graeme Smith's side.
Beginning the day 334 for six, the home side finished on 409 all out, with AB De Villiers (127) and Hashim Amla (92) leading the way, with the former's 129-run stand with Vernon Philander (74) putting them in control.
Rahat Ali took six wickets for 127 runs for the visitors, but Pakistan's batsman failed to replicate his impressive performance.
De Villiers got the two needed for his 16th Test century in just the second over of the day, before Philander registered his 50 two overs later.
Rahat strayed onto Philander's pads in the 89th over, with the fast bowler flicking the delivery through mid-wicket for a boundary which brought up the 100 partnership.
Philander's stand was to end in the 95th over, edging to Mohammad Hafeez off Younis Khan for 74 to leave the home side 375 for six.
De Villiers
became Rahat's fourth victim with Asad Shafiq jogging backwards at fine leg to take an impressive catch.
His dismissal boosted Pakistan and Rahat in particular, who had Rory Kleinveldt caught at mid-on by Saeed Ajmal for a duck in the 102nd over before wrapping up the innings in his next over, bowling Abbott.
Pakistan made a strong start against the new ball, doing well to repel the onslaught of an impressive South Africa bowling attack.
The visitors looked to have lost their first wicket at 35 in the 13th over. Imran Farhat was given out lbw by Billy Bowden off the bowling of Philander when on 27, but after review, the ball pitched outside leg stump.
However three overs later the home side made the breakthrough when Philander had Farhat (30) trapped in front, and although the opener again appealed, replays showed the ball would have clipped off stump.
Azhar Ali took a more aggressive approach, hitting his first delivery to the boundary off Abbott, who, with his last delivery of the 15th over took his first Test wicket.
Mohammad Hafeez had battled to 18 from 43 balls and was just starting to break the shackles before a poorly judged back foot punch went to Dean Elgar at gully to leave Pakistan 56 for two.
Two became three the first ball of the next over. Ali played back when he should have gone forward, as the subsequent inside edge flew into the stumps to give Philander his second wicket. Pakistan's early good work against the new ball was seemingly going to waste.
Misbah-ul-Haq (10) was next to depart in the 26th over, edging to Alviro Petersen, who made a good catch low to his left off Abbott.
South Africa picked up where they left off after tea, with Dale Steyn picking up his first wicket of the innings just four balls into the final session.
Asad Shafiq had no answer for an inswinging Steyn special and he was given out lbw for six. Pakistan brought up their hundred in the 32nd over.
Wickets continued to tumble as Sarfraz Ahmed edged behind to Smith off Abbott for 17, while the same duo combined again the next ball to remove Saeed Ajmal.
And Abbott took his fifth wicket as Ehsan Adil edged behind to Faf Du Plessis for nine. Number 10 Mohammad Irfan replicated Ehsan's prod to the slips as Elgar clung on for Abbott's sixth, before he picked up his seventh when Khan was lbw for 33.
Following on the visitors made the worst possible start when Hafeez chopped on off Steyn in the first ball of the innings and will have plenty to do on Sunday to avoid a humiliating defeat.


text:
COLUSA COUNTY, Calif. -- When a casino-bound bus rolled over on an isolated Colusa County road in October, rescue workers, ambulances and helicopters from throughout Northern California streamed in to aid dozens of badly injured gamblers.
Some helicopters leaving the scene had troubled transits, including one that hovered over UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, low on fuel. The copter was unable to land because the helipad was full.
The crunch in the skies over Sacramento has raised fears about the potential for midair crashes above a densely populated neighborhood.
It is just one of the loose strands in a frayed safety net being studied by emergency officials quietly looking to fix what went wrong during the response to the bus crash that killed 10 people.
Documents, emergency officials and people involved in the casino crash response indicate that areas they are targeting include:
* Why three helicopters that were closer to the crash site stayed on the ground while ones farther away were summoned, apparently because of a computer error.
* Why a system designed to let coordinators know quickly which hospitals could handle more patients didn't work as expected.
* Why some helicopters may have left the crash scene with no specified destination for their patients, potentially leading to overuse of some trauma centers while others were unburdened.
* And, why a helicopter carrying an ailing patient hovered over the UC Davis Medical Center until it could stay no longer, then flew to McClellan airfield to refuel with the patient still on board before returning to the hospital. The fate of that patient remains unclear, shrouded by medical confidentiality laws.
The review comes during a year plagued by so many fatal air medical crashes that the National Transportation Safety Board has scheduled a three-day hearing into medical flight safety, starting Feb. 3. In announcing the hearing, the NTSB said there had been an "alarming" rise in air ambulance accidents, with 35 people killed over 11 months.
One of those crashes occurred in June when two helicopters approaching the same Arizona hospital collided in midair. That collision weighed heavily on the minds of those discussing the helicopter crunch over UC Davis Medical Center.
"All had concerns for safety at the UCDMC helipad," said Steve Russell, a longtime emergency nurse who attended a meeting in November to examine the casino bus crash response.
That meeting was convened by Northern California Emergency Medical Services, known as NorCal EMS, which coordinates and regulates emergency response in 11 counties, including many involved in the Oct. 5 casino bus crash.
The crash killed seven people at the scene and injured 36. Three of the injured died later at hospitals, including two at the medical center.
Publicly, NorCal EMS has stressed the effectiveness of some parts of the medical response to the disastrous bus rollover.
"The people on the ground and in the air really performed admirably," said Dr. Eric Rudnick, medical officer for NorCal EMS. The nearest small hospital, Colusa Regional Medical Center, "had a great turnout," mobilizing most of its staff.
Yet, NorCal EMS has refused to release critical details discussed at the November meeting, and declined to supply flight times for the helicopter that refueled with a patient on board.
The Bee has asked NorCal EMS what time that copter reached UC Davis Medical Center and found the helipad already full, what time it left to refuel, and what time it returned and delivered the patient.
"The whole point of helicopter response is speed and quality of care," said Dr. Bryan Bledsoe, a physician and former flight paramedic who researches medical helicopter safety. "If you're not using the closest helicopter, you're losing speed," he said, and stopping to refuel costs speed, too.
PHI Air Medical, the company whose helicopter refueled, said such a stop could take as little as 10 minutes, but declined to supply its flight times, saying that would violate the patient's right to medical confidentiality.
"That's nonsense," said Bledsoe, who teaches emergency medicine at the University of Nevada medical school. Confidentiality laws are meant to keep a patient's medical condition private, not something like ambulance transit times, he said.
It was unclear whether the patient on that flight survived, or was one of the two who later died at the medical center.
Refueling with a patient aboard does not violate federal regulations. But it's done infrequently, said Marty Marshall, director of emergency service at Enloe Medical Center in Chico, which treated 13 of the injured bus passengers. Marshall, who heads Enloe's flight program, said he has refueled while carrying a patient only once in 23 years.
After the crash, four victims were taken by helicopter to UC Davis Medical Center. Ambulances brought another two.
How closely the air arrivals were spaced wasn't clear, but other helicopters were arriving with unrelated injuries, and two were on the helipad when the PHI copter arrived.
By contrast, one person was delivered to Sutter Roseville and one to Mercy San Juan -- nearby level II trauma centers equipped to handle nearly everything that would confront a level III trauma facility like UC Davis Medical Center.
"They were definitely underutilized," said nurse Russell. "Each are level II trauma facilities with helipads."
Russell recalls people at the fact-finding meeting discussing that some helicopters departing the crash scene with injured patients were given no destination, or were simply told "go where you normally go."
A NorCal EMS memo written before the meeting said "several" helicopters were "transported to UC Davis without heads up to ED (Emergency Department) staff."
UC Davis spokesmen said the hospital had been told of all arrivals, but declined to answer more detailed questions about incoming flights, saying the holidays made it too difficult to reach people involved.
"We do not coordinate arrivals of air transports. We don't have a dispatch office anymore," said medical center spokesman David Ong. "What happens is the air transport agencies coordinate amongst themselves who is going to be arriving here and at what time."
Helicopters are supposed to notify a registered nurse, someone designated as a "mobile intensive care nurse," that they are arriving, Ong said.
Medical center representatives could not clarify whether the helicopter that refueled was told en route that both of the hospital's helipad landing sites were already full, or whether anyone suggested an alternate trauma center the pilot might have been able to reach without refueling.
Nationally, relatively few hospital helipads are actively controlled, Bledsoe said, and the potential flaws of pilot-to-pilot coordination are beginning to concern more communities surrounding hospitals.
"Multiple helicopters trying to land at the same hospital, that needs to be avoided," he said. "That was the issue in Flagstaff (Arizona) where two ran into each other and killed seven."
Meanwhile, getting helicopters to the site of the casino bus crash also hit snags, according to REACH Air Medical Services in Santa Rosa, which was asked by Enloe to take charge of that part of the response.
REACH used a computer program designed to include the exact latitude and longitude of every helicopter in the region, so the closest copters could be dispatched quickly, said Brian Bricker, the company's communications center manager.
The trouble, he said, was that three helicopters hadn't been programmed into the computer.
"It was a computer oversight on our part," he said. Bricker declined to say which helicopters were omitted.
Crash response was further complicated because the site was rural, and because so many people were injured. Resources had to be pulled in from across traditional EMS boundaries.
Primary responsibility for coordinating where patients should be sent fell to Enloe in Chico, which needed to know availability of doctors, beds and emergency rooms in at least eight hospitals, from Sacramento to Chico.
Patients went to Oroville, Marysville, Woodland and beyond, and in theory just two people, a nurse at Enloe and a designated paramedic at the scene, were responsible for telling each ambulance or helicopter where to take its patient.
The nurse and paramedic relied on phone calls and an automated system that wasn't kept fully updated that evening, said Bob Kiuttu, Enloe's head of emergency management systems.
The paramedic on the scene, Chris Aicega, said each helicopter should have been given a specific destination, but he couldn't be certain they were, because someone else relayed those orders to pilots. Aicega said he hadn't known on that night that Sutter Roseville and Mercy San Juan even had helipads.
Several longtime emergency and air officials said they couldn't remember another crash or other disaster involving this many serious injuries and deaths in such an isolated part of the north state.
"Thirty-plus patients were transported to eight different hospitals in under three hours," Kiuttu said. "In rural America on a small county road, that's really pretty impressive."
The crash itself, which injured a busload of Hmong and lu Mien immigrants who spoke little English, was a paramedic's nightmare, said Graham Pierce, California director of PHI Air Medical.
"There's not a paramedic out there that hasn't dreaded this call -- a bus rollover loaded with critical patients, non-English-speaking," Pierce said. "You can imagine how chaotic a scene like that would be."
Learning from episodes like this can help victims of future disasters, said Rudnick, the top physician at NorCal EMS.
"Whatever you can glean from just what happened can help you potentially save people's lives and have better outcomes next time," Rudnick said.
Among changes his agency is planning is a regional air dispatch system that would take over directing helicopters during emergencies.
There is no money for that now, however. At the earliest, he said, setting up regional air dispatch could take a year.
Call The Bee's Carrie Peyton Dahlberg, (916) 321-1086.


text:
Genshiken follows Sasahara Kanji, a shy otaku that is afraid to express his love of modern visual culture. He is starting as a freshman in his college, and he is looking around the clubs. He spots the anime club and manga club, but decides against it. He then sees the Genshiken (short for Gendai Shikaku Bunka Kenkyuu Kai, literally The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture), and he decides to check it out.
Sasahara sits in and observes. He sees how the atmosphere is, and the people of the Genshiken notice how he stares at the nuerous otaku things in the room. The people leave the room, *insert spoiler here* happens, and when they come back, he is ready to join. This leads Sasahara along the arduous path of otakudom.
I love this anime. Again it is one of my favourites (when am I going to stop using my favourites so much!?). This anime really allowed me to see the path I walk, and I am sure it would be an eye-opener for all these people these days say things like "I'm an otaku, but I refuse to watch anything other than mecha anime since 2005″ or "I'm an otaku, what is Touhou/Comiket".
These guys will know what being an otaku truly is, and…! I almost ranted in this review, I should make a rant post on this subject, but anyway, about the anime. It is truly spectacular. It is definitely a watch for anyone and everyone who wants to see otaku life, or even who just wants a slice-of-life anime with comedy and a little romance. This anime is so great that, while looking for images for this post, I accidently watch the entire first episode and part of the second with my good friend Kurisu Hanto. No matter what, you must watch! Also, there is a second season, so watch that too.


text:
John Beck Paper & Steel
My interior decorating style leans more on the feminine side but there is still this love of industrial furniture that lurks beneath… these beauties are from John Beck Paper & Steel. I was so pleased when an email from John arrived today and I found his work for the first time, all of these childhood memories came rushing in that I had long forgotten. When I was a kid my father would drag me to commercial kitchen warehouses where I'd spend hours by his side as he'd select counters for the kitchens of his restaurants (his evening 'hobby' was owning a business or two on the side). I remembered rooms with what looked to hold hundreds of industrial steel tables and cabinetry. I also recall how proud of his purchases he was and how often, after school, I would sit on a stool in the kitchen watching him lay everything out on the shiny metal surface to prepare for the nightly special. To this day I think about owning a chef's kitchen with industrial counters like these. Obviously I'm not the only one.
My first love is an all-white kitchen or white with bits of teak throughout, I can imagine integrating steel into the mix. It gives the look of a professional kitchen which is a popular look right now. Steel is a great surface to work on, heavy-duty tough and nearly impossible to stain. An open kitchen is one many enjoy as today?s kitchens are social areas, more and more are knocking down walls to open up space to include a center prep area to accommodate either additional helpers or guests who enjoy socializing while the chef is at work. I also love what John has done to the storefront cashier's table shown below, it's brilliant. You also have to see the desk on wheels below, another great find.
Please take a moment to look at John's website, his bio reads so down-to-earth — I especially loved this line, "I got a rock star wife, a couple of rugrats (18 and 7), a truck, and a house in the 'burbs."
(images from john beck paper & steel)
Your comments...
Strumpfkunst.de commented
June 24th, 2008 at 5:14amOur fathers are alike. My dad used to design and plan commercial kitchens, so I spent each year at the huge fairs, sitting on stainless steel counters.
He still loves his stainless steel, and has had an old table redone in it – and of course the kitchen has loads of features like that. Will take a picture on Friday – just ignore the bright blue doors in the background, that was an error in judgment, in my opinion.


text:
Remember that Walden's Title IV Code is 025042.
Six new students are recognized for making a positive difference in the lives of their patients, their organizations, and the future of nursing.
November 2012—In September, Walden University awarded six incoming graduate students Nurse of the Year Scholarships. This scholarship recognizes nurses who are making a positive difference in the lives of their patients, their organizations, and the future of nursing.
Recipient: Michele Williams Hometown: Trappe, Md. Title: Pain/palliative care specialist and clinical coordinator at Shore Health System in Easton, Md. Program: Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)
Professional Achievement: Williams worked with oncology nurses, their nurse manager, and the administration to develop a model of palliative care that complements the community hospice program by providing a homelike environment, around-the-clock registered nurse coverage, and privacy for families.
Professional Goal: "To initiate, shape, and develop a program that can remove regret, guilt, and/or unresolved conflicts from family members' final days together."
Recipient: Roma Allen '10 Hometown: Carol Stream, Ill. Title: Director of women's and children's service at Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare First Program: Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) Current Program: Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)
Professional Achievement: Allen built a partnership between her hospital and a teaching facility to educate and mentor nursing staff to meet qualifications to care for premature newborns. As a result, all of the nurses were able to complete a clinical practicum to achieve a higher standard of nursing practice. Eighteen months later, Allen presented these outcomes to the state, which designated her organization as a Level IIE.
Professional Goal: "My mission this year is to collaborate with a midwifery program for patients desiring an alternative birth plan at my hospital; establish new partnerships through a community-based program, Positive Parenting; and advocate for standards and excellence in nursing practice to position my organization for achieving magnet status."
Recipient: Maureen O'Brien Hometown: Toms River, N.J. Title: Critical care clinical specialist at Southern Ocean Medical Center in Manahawkin, N.J., and adjunct faculty member at Georgian Court University in Lakewood and Ocean County College in Toms River Program: Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)
Professional Achievement: O'Brien's students frequently tell her that they had an "aha moment" in one of her classes and now understand something that was previously unclear to them. "Teaching is my calling and what I'm meant to do," she says.
Professional Goal: "To study how new nurses and students can develop their clinical competence by expanding their basic skills and critical thinking. I will explore styles of learning that best promote student interest and proficiency."
Recipient: Linda Sifuentes Hometown: Pflugerville, Texas Title: Trauma nurse at Seton Medical Center Hays in Kyle, Texas, and sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) for the Austin/Travis County SANE Team and at St. David's Round Rock Medical Center Program: Master of Science in Nursing (MSN)
Professional Achievement: As a sexual assault nurse examiner, Sifuentes provides comprehensive care to patients with interpersonal violence issues such as sexual assault and domestic violence; demonstrates the competency in conducting a medical/forensic exam; and testifies in court as an expert witness. "I chose to become trained and certified as a sexual assault nurse examiner because it is a unique specialty that blends nursing with the judicial system," she explains.
Professional Goal: "I plan to continue working as a sexual assault nurse examiner and advance my training to become an emergency family nurse practitioner so that every victim of sexual assault who enters my emergency room will be seen by a trained sexual assault nurse examiner. My goal is to educate hospitals on the importance of having SANE programs and to recognize the importance of providing quality medical care and forensic evaluations to every sexual assault victim, no matter the place, time, or circumstances."
Recipient: Lisa Chambers Hometown: Lake Forest, Calif. Title: Former nursing education consultant at the International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh and full-time student Program: Master of Science in Nursing (MSN)
Professional Achievement: Chambers helped institute a framework for a rapid-response team, wrote policies and protocols for the nursing department, and developed and taught training workshops to support the policies.
Professional Goal: "To work with my colleagues in the Bangladesh Nursing Council to start a master's in nursing education. Teachers there need to be taught so that the gaps in nurses' knowledge can be filled with evidence-based practice."
Recipient: Melissa Wren Hometown: Peculiar, Mo. Title: PRN infusion nurse at Biomed Pharmaceuticals and RN at Saint Luke's Home Health and Hospice Program: Master of Science in Nursing (MSN)
Professional Achievement: A native of Peru, Wren has worked as a nurse and an interpreter in hospitals since the start of her career. She offers patients an outlet for their concerns and helps pair them with the resources and services they need to be healthy.
Professional Goal: "By becoming a healthcare provider, I will be better equipped to make an impact in the Latino community that I know so well. Ultimately, I hope to open a clinic in which underprivileged and underserved Latinos of Kansas City are able to receive the healthcare services that they need."


text:
State Representative
Doug Neeley
Occupation:Statistical Consultant, IntSTATS, Oregon
City (O.C.)
Occupational Background:Statistical consultant
supporting agricultural, forestry, and fisheries research; university statistics
instructor and adjunct and associate professor; Peace Corps Volunteer
Educational Background:Grant High School, Portland;
B.A., Biology, Portland State University; Ph.D., Statistics and Genetics Co-major,
North Carolina State University
Prior Governmental Experience:Current O.C. Commissioner
and O.C. representative to METRO, various committees, and boards; O.C. Library
Board member/chair; O.C. Carnegie Center Reuse Committee; O.C. Cleanup Committee,
METRO Green Ribbon Committee and Green Spaces Advisory Committee
Member of Clackamas County Historical Society, Oregon Trail Foundation, O.C.
Chamber of Commerce, O.C. Optimist Club, SOLV, Oregon League of Conservation
Voters, Audubon Society, 1000 Friends of Oregon
Doug Neeleys Priorities
Top Funding Priorities:- K-12 Education and Higher Education
- Health Services
- Childrens Services
Land Use:
- Maintain tight urban growth boundaries
- Restrict METRO expansion to protect rural communities
- Restrict METRO expansion in Wilsonville area to north of the Willamette River
- Protect natural resources--Agricultural and timber lands and fish and wildlife habitat
- Enable counties to require unincorporated urban areas to incorporate
Economic Development:
- Attract new and keep existing industries
- Give priority to natural-resource-based, high-tech, and knowledge-based industries
- Improve distribution system for goods and services
- Increase tourism
Create stable funding
- Assure budgetary accountability
- Establish a capped rainy-day fund
Endorsement: Norm Andreen, Former Co-Chair Beavercreek Citizen Planning Org. and METRO Committee for Citizen Involvement
(This information furnished by Doug Neeley.)


text:
Turn autoplay off
Turn autoplay on
Please activate cookies in order to turn autoplay off
While it can be lonely, you aren't always in danger and a lot of the work is mundane – former intelligence officer, Harry Ferguson, on a career in the secret service
Ask our experts about getting a job in the politics industry on Wednesday 22 October from 12pm to 2pm (BST)
Ask our experts how to start your career in the public sector on Thursday 4 September from 2pm to 4pm (BST)• Advice on how to get into the public sector
Nursing is a crucial part of the medical profession. We hear from workers on the ground about what their day job is really like
It's fast-paced and challenging. Ashley Jane Strawbridge talks about her career in emergency care, and gives her advice to anyone considering this path
We've rounded up the best advice from our recent live chat on careers in the world of social care
Sponsored Q&A: Whether you're a school leaver, graduate or career changer wanting to get into social care, get help and advice from our experts on Thursday 6 March from 1pm to 3pm
A senior manager in local government describes the challenges facing the sector and compares his own situation with that of a care worker on a zero-hours contract
A new recruitment toolkit aims to help employers select the right candidates, explains Debbie Sorkin
Support scheme should help restore public confidence in the profession, says newly qualified social worker
Public sector workers cope on less sleep, while finance professionals snooze for hours more, according to a new survey
1-15 of 389 for Public sector
Show five more……
Could I get a job for MI5?
Patrick Kingsley takes the MI5 online recruitment test
Government cuts aren't terminal for public sector jobseekers
Public sector jobs may be easier to find than cuts suggest, according to recruiters, although skillsets may have to change
What else can a community development officer do?
Liv, 27, a community development officer for a council, wants experience outside the statutory sector. She earns £26,276
What else can a care assistant do?
Sharon, 32, a care assistant in a residential home for older people, earns £12,735. She has an NVQ level 3 in health and social care and four years' experience
What else can a school leaver with A-levels do?
Dom, 18, hopes to pass three A-levels this summer. To avoid student debt, his parents are pushing him towards an NHS career


text:
I used to support capital punishment. I believed that it should be left on the statute book, however it should only be used in exceptional cases and should be rarely used at all. In past few weeks I have been reading about a mother submit a personal appeal to HM The Queen as the monarch of Australia and the Head of Commomwealth asking her to secure a clemency for her son, who is soon to be executed in the City State of Singapore on charge of drug trafficking.
When I looked into various records of abuse perpetrated by this government, I was greatly saddened by how frequently it is perscribed and rarity of clemencies. This exact government has frequently been accused of nanying its citizens and residence, in the names of public orders and decency. It has also supressed and denied the right of its LGBTQ population and many other sections of population. In conclusion Singapore Government is currently denying the most fundamental right to many individuals, which is the right to one's life.
Earlier today its chief executioner has come out to say that coporal punishment is a form of rehabitation. He further elaborated his personal believe of reincarnations and used to justify his profession and crimes. In my opion his mind is crippled and his expression is inflamatory and obscene. He is lack of repects to fellow humanbeing, especially the mother of his would-be victim.
Well I don't know whether I believe in reincarnations and after life, but I do know I believe in God, one who advocated through his prophet that we human-being will not kill and one who advocated through his incarnation and his that "Let those who is blameless, cast their first stone."
I completely relinquish my past believe in capital punishment and I believe that I should be take off any penal codes, statute and constitutions of any civilized society. This is to disallowed any government an opportunity to abuse his power. The ultimate clemency that can be dispensed by use human being is to against such form of abuse.
This event has also stregnthened my believe for which ever reasons and for whatever causes a right of an individual should not be denied.
I always greatly beleieved in the story of Albert Pierrepoint. He was Britain's last executioner, and killed more than 400 people in his life. After hisretirement he campaigned for abolition, saying that none of the people he killed achieved anything but revenge
"Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suf-fer-ing"
I do believe in capital punishment when the case requires such measures.I am sure that poor being is being denied his right to life,oh poor soul,cruel executioners,relentless murederers!Wait, perhaps I forgot that he denied other people their right to their life.I find unreasonable philanthropism sickening at best,let's not forget,it is a prison,not some adult version of childcare,criminals go there for punishment,and I don't believe my taxes should be used to feed a killer who was quite aware of the consequences his acts would incur.
That's a very nice collection of outdated and narrow-minded thoughts you've got there.
Whose thoughts are narrow mine? or one of the comments
Capital punishment is avenue waiting to be exploited and abused, therefore I do not believe in it. I was disgusted by how frequent they are percribed. Britain technically still has death penalty for high treason, but how often is it a person is accused for high treason? Although I may believe it should be taken out of the penal code I don't believe it is major concern at the moment. I may start complaining, if the government is going start using that power on a daily basis.
Gee,I wonder how one prescribes thoughts as to being outdated when it's simply just a matter of perspective.Anyways,why try when it's clearly your cerebral cortex that's probably outdated.As to narrow-minded,hmmmm let's see what it means......oh! A person who rejects the validity of other arguments,hmmmmm,sounds familiar,where have I heard a tartuffe discuss narrow-mindedness and outdated though processes....um,you.Anyhow, if you are willing to make inflammatory comments,please present a reasonable argument to support your point,while it seems stupidity is an important facet of your life,it can be irritating to the rest of us who have been exposed unfortunately to your baseless idiocies.


text:
Top infoTECH News
Software News
Hardware News
Security News
Networking News
infoTECH Editor's Pick
infoTECH Awards
What's Hot in Information Technology?
infoTECH Services
infoTECH Media Kit
Application Deployment
Cloud Contact Center
Data Management
Power Protection
Software Licensing
Software Monetization
infoTECH News
[February 26, 2013]
Feb 26, 2013 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- FLASH: EGYPT'S OPPOSITION BLOC BOYCOTTS PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS, PRESIDENT'S DIALOGUE
InfoTech Spotlight's Homepage
comments powered by Disqus.
blog comments powered by
infoTECH Headlines
How to Manage Your Workloads in the Cloud
The Top Cloud Technology Concerns Can Be Addressed Through Education
The Expansion of Process into Workflow: What it Means for Your Business
Improving Control of Virtual Machines
Allot Buys Cloud-Based Security Firm Optenet
Putting 2014, 'The Year of the Breach' into Context
Ipanema Technologies Appoints Ben Heisler as Senior Vice-President of Sales in the Americas
Hyperconverged and Hyperscale: A New Day in Storage Dawns
Microsoft Moves Quickly to Remove Potentially Dangerous Adware From Lenovo Computers
Wheelings & Dealings: NS-Technologies Acquired by Dialogic
Subscribe to InfoTECH Spotlight eNews
InfoTECH Spotlight eNews delivers the latest news impacting technology in the IT industry each week. Sign up to receive FREE breaking news today!
FREE eNewsletter
A Candid Talk with Ford about Connected Cars and the Future
Rich Tehrani
Acision Fights Creative Destruction with Innovation at #MWC15
Rich Tehrani
cVidya Helps CSPs Provide Mass Customization to Boost Profit
Rich Tehrani
Logitech ConferenceCam CC3000e Video Conferencing for SMB Review
Tom Keating
TransCertain CertainSafe Review - 2014
Tom Keating
Jumper Card - The Swiss Army Knife of Portable Chargers
Tom Keating
Meet Your Big Data Storage Needs: Coraid
As businesses collect more and more data, they will require storage capabilities that are easily and secure, accessible, and quickly scalable for pure storage as well as data analytics.
What are the Security and Compliance Requirements of Cloud Computing: Coalfire
As the adopotion of cloud computing continues to increase, businesses are finding, while they understand the potential benefits, they need help understanding the security and compliance ramifications of moving data into cloud data centers.
Managing Your Data and Apps in Multi-Cloud Environments: Right Scale
Businesses have reached beyond education and are starting to make signifcant cloud computing deployments, which means they need an awareness of public and private resources, which to deploy in what instances, and how to manage and maintain applications across both domains.
How Cloud Providers Can Drive Revenues for Tenants and Themselves: Interxion
In order to enable customers to create new revenue streams from their content and applications, cloud providers can provide test environments to allow businesses to more efficiently develop and test new applications.
Enabling Cross-border Data Center Connectivity: Interxion
One of the challenges for multinational enterprises is establishing connectivity between infrastructure located on different continents. The Transatlantic Data Center Alliance helps overcome many of these challenges, including regulatory and compliance needs.
infoTECH Whitepapers
SAP Enterprise Mobility: Bringing a Cohesive Approach to a Complex Market
What is Your Mobile Content Policy? A Checklist for Content Risk Mitigation
SANS Whitepaper: Mobile Content and Document Management Best Practices and Decision Checklist
IBM SmartCloud Social Collaboration for Government
IBM SmartCloud Solutions: Software as a Service
IBM SmartCloud for Social Business Mobility
IBM SmartCloud Engage Security
The Forrester Wave: Cloud Strategies Of Online Collaboration Software Vendors, Q3 2012
Social Business in the Cloud
The Social Business: Advent of a new age
What is Information Tehnology
What is Information Technology?
The History of Information Technology
Today's Most Desired Information Technology Skills
Information Technology Careers
Ten Information Technology Companies of 2011


text:
Political Animal
I mentioned in the Lunch Buffet post that the Romney campaign is running an ad suggesting that the attacks on Mitt for extremism on abortion are untrue and unfair because there are extremist positions he has not embraced. He's not, after all, demanding a ban on every single abortion, and he's not advocating a ban on contraceptives, either.
Nor, I might add, has Romney come out for jailing OB/GYNs who have performed abortions—or pharmacists who have dispensed contraceptives. And if they were being jailed, Mitt Romney's not on record saying they should be tortured.
Who cares?
The reality is that after his big flip-flop on abortion back in 2006, Mitt Romney has never for a moment wavered in supporting steps to reverse Roe v. Wade and after that find ways to ban the 99.9% of abortions that do not involve rape, incest, or the live of the mother. On contraception, he has made a big deal this year out of categorical opposition to an Obama administration insurance mandate requiring coverage for contraceptive services without copays, and has supported the Blunt Amendment that would give any employer an exemption from the mandate on any stated grounds of religion or morality. So in Romney's perfect world, you might have a right to buy contraceptives—but no right to have it covered under a standard employer-based health insurance policies. And that's separate from the murkier question whether Mitt buys the argument his conservative-Catholic and conservative-evangelical allies present that many if not most forms of contraception are actually "abortifacients" that should be excluded from an insurance mandate and eventually banned entirely.
Compared to some wingnuttier folk, Romney may seem "moderate" on these issues. But compared to the status quo, he's quite the radical, and the landscape for reproductive rights in a Romney administration—which would, by the way, be virtually certain to make the Supreme Court appointment that would tilt the Court into a reversal of Roe—would be very different.
This "not as crazy as I could be" posture for Romney is not limited to reproductive rights. Last night he defended his "self-deportation" position on undocumented workers by reminding voters that, after all, he's not in favor of putting these folks in cattle cars and sending them south of the border. How moderate of him!
Did you notice in that ad that the woman says that Mitt doesn't oppose contraception, why he's even OK on abortion under certain circumstances? The problem here is that no one considers abortion a form of contraception. The word itself means to *prevent* a conception. This kind of a screw-up can only come from someone who's never actually given the subject more that a cursory thought.
If you preface the title of every post on the Romney campaign this: Another Romney Fib: the rest of the title, that will be very helpful, and will have the added benefit of being completely correct.
If you are a personhood supporter you necessarily oppose the pill and the IUD because of the way they work. They cause "abortions" in the first hours after conception.
Todd Akin and Paul Ryan are the go to Republicans on this issue. They have the courage of their convictions, and if they had a chance they would convict every woman who uses the pill of at least attempted murder.
It doesn't make Romney a moderate on the issue just because he has never explicitly embraced the teapublican extremist stance on family planning. But it does make him a PUSSY*, considering that during the GOP primaries he never took a firm policy stance in opposition to the GOTea. Instead he opted to graciously genuflect before the likes of Limbaugh during the Sandra Fluke tirade. When he was asked to comment, what did he say? "It's not the language I would have used." No, he may not be as extreme as the teapublicans (so he says), but he was too busy trying to court their votes with his "severly conservative" schtick to note his moderation.
*I hate to confer upon Romney a name that I generally associate with womanly wonderfulness. But in GOP-speak, it's all that is unclean, unholy (irony?), and unmanly. So I use it in the strongest of GOP terms. Just sayin'...
Mitt tried to sound like a "Moderate" on immigration - complaining that Obama said he would 'reform our immigration system' but failed to deliver. But, in 2010, when the house passed the dream act with the support of only 8 Republicans, but was not able to overcome a filibuster in the senate because only 3 Republican Senators supported it. So, 'Moderate Mitt' clutches his pearls and bemoans that Obama couldn't fix a problem when all but 11 Republicans fought tooth and nail to stop him passing the least contraversial portion of it.
All women have access to contraception--it's called abstinence. Works in all cases but rape and incest, which is also rape. In addition, as long as there are men and STDs, condoms will be available. So there. That these all require the cooperation of the male partner is not coincidental.
What women need and want is easy access to safe and effective means of contraception that are und their control, with no need to ask for permission or financial aid. That's what Planned Parenthood provides and why severe conservatives hate it. It's why the ACA provisions are so important. Romney is being duplicitous and weasely as usual.
I'm all for contraception coverage in the AHCA but what's this "without copays" stuff. Why shouldn't they pay a standard copay.
It is because contraceptives are considered "preventive care," per the HHS Department. ACA eliminates copays for all preventive care, not just contraception.
Of course contraception is preventive care, and preventing childbirth is one way to reduce medical costs, reduce education costs and reduce population pressure on resources in the future. It is something conservatives ought to favor, except that emancipating women through control of their own sex lives is just too upsetting and frightening.
A woman has the absolute requisite right to control her reproductive future as one of her most private and intimate rights~~~ and it is so uncomfortable that Republicans such as Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan *even speak* of that right- which is so very subjective, personal, confidential and precious-- in a country where there is to be separation of church and state.


text:
Talk:Unnamed humanoids
this wiki
Back to page
[show]Muiltiple appearancesEdit
Well, this is just a beginning, because I have a question concerning those aliens: They appeared in a number of DS9 episodes. But I remember reading ages ago, in a Star trek magazine, that Michael Westmore actually created the make-up for this species for a Star Trek computer game, and that those aliens had a name in the game. Does anybody know these aliens? I'd really like to know, if they really appared in a game and what they were called. --Jörg 14:24, 22 Sep 2005 (UTC)
- I can't help with your question, but Durg's species could also be mentioned here. Tough Little Ship 14:27, 22 Sep 2005 (UTC)
Durg's species is known, he's a Markalian, just like Asoth and the little criminal friend of Nog's from the DS9 pilot. I have to go now, but I should be back later tonight, then I'll elaborate on the whole Tarkalean/Markalian business. --Jörg 14:41, 22 Sep 2005 (UTC)
- At this stage, "unknown aliens" seems to be used to represent both unknown alien individuals and unknown alien species -- should we disambiguate into two articles or just set up that hierarchy here -- after all, many individuals of an unnamed species that are also unnamed individuals are usually the only member of their species seen. -- Captain Mike K. Barteltalk 15:25, 22 Sep 2005 (UTC)
- In a way, they have to be one in the same. Pages for 'known species, unknown individuals' gives us things like Unnamed Bolians and pages for 'known individuals, unknown species' get their own place, ie Redjac. This seems to be a place where we lack both.... i think. Maybe we should use tables to make better use of space? Jaf 16:42, 22 Sep 2005 (UTC)Jaf
- If we only meet one member of an unknown species, it is alright if that species doesn't get a special page, but what about cases, where we've met more than one meber of a race, we don't know the name of, like Zar, Dala and Mobar, or Emis's race, (a member of the same race was bidding at Quark's auction in "In the Cards" and another one was seen on the holodeck together with a Bolian female in "Someone to Watch Over Me" or Pardshays/Rotcivs race.
And then there's also the problem of naming the entries. When I watched DS9, I made Screenshots of all the promenade background aliens. There are some, that appear in 10-20 episodes and their species never gets a name, we never meet a member of their race and they are generally just seen in the background of a scene. Some of them got semi-official names by Michael Westmore, like tailheads, or Rotciv, but most of them remain unnamed. In order to classify them and be able to find out, which alien appeared in which episode, I gave them long names that describe their appearance, like "Alien with blue skin, no hair, bushy eyebrows and a horizontal crevice on the forehead, In the cards.jpg or whatever. I guess, that wouldn't really be a suitable name for memory alpha... ;-) --Jörg 17:50, 22 Sep 2005 (UTC)
Well, I finally wrote the article about Durg's and Regana Tosh's species, you can find them at Markalian. --Jörg 12:56, 25 Sep 2005 (UTC)
This page, is going to be very long, and I hope does not get disorganized. Should it be moved to "Unnamed Aliens", as that's how most of our other pages have it; ie: "Unnamed Bolians, Unnamed Vulcans, Unnamed Klingons" Capital letter and Unnamed. - AJHalliwell 13:21, 25 Sep 2005 (UTC)
- Also, who are they alien to -- maybe this choice of words is too human-centric, the way the page is linked from People is "unnamed nonhumans" -- Captain Mike K. Barteltalk 13:24, 25 Sep 2005 (UTC)
- Well are humans reading this afterall, and it seems to go well with the parent list: Individuals, just like Vulcans is to Unnamed Vulcans. It also is the simpliest way to go about listing it rather than coming up with some complicated tongue twister like whats written below. --Alan del Beccio 03:46, 26 Sep 2005 (UTC)
- Unnamed humanoid species? Jaf 14:22, 25 Sep 2005 (UTC)Jaf
Unnamed humanoids with production nicknamesEdit
I wonder, to help alleviate a potentially long list, if we should create a separate page to list those aliens that have specific nicknames given to them by the makeup artists/production staff, to separate them from the "made up" names we are giving them here? I have 10 listed on my computer that were specifically named by the makeup/production staff by a nickname, but never given an offical name, or even an offical background name (Efrosians). The aliens in question are those from Nimbus III, shown in makeup screen tests from STV SE, and a few from DS9 Season 1 background info. It might be worth exploring as an intermediary between..."official", "background offical", "backgound nickname", and then the names we've given them on this page. --Alan del Beccio 19:26, 27 Sep 2005 (UTC)
- That would be best, otherwise this list is going to be huge. You could also make special pages for "Star Trek V-Background Aliens", Deep Space Nine-Promenade-Background Aliens, Non-speaking background-Aliens in General and then we need pages for the aliens that have important roles, but never got a racial name, like the ALiens from "Time and Again", "The Communicator" etc.
Sorry if I'm asking, but are the FASA-derived Star Trek IV Federation Council Aliens names considered canon here? Otherwise, they'd also have to get their own list. --Jörg 19:42, 27 Sep 2005 (UTC)
- Well, I wonder how much that was influenced by the makeup artists, because I have all those alien images and articles ready to go on my hard drive, I just haven't had an opportunity, like this to bring it up -- and again, it really really really would help cut down on our overall population of "unnamed humanoids", something I'm going to continue to emphasize. I think, like we might be able to, if we clearly NOTE the source, as we did with those TMP aliens of similar circumstance, such as the Zaranites. In fact, I nearly forgot, but we already have an article, Bzzit Khaht, and I couldn't be happier! :) --Alan del Beccio 21:56, 27 Sep 2005 (UTC)
- I think we can make an exception for these particular FASA names. It's so much easier to be able to give a name to these species, and the FASA names are widely known among fans, and not contradicted by any other source, as far as I know. -- Harry 10:50, 3 Nov 2005 (UTC)
As warned, this page is going to be very long Edit
...perhaps it would be ideal to separate it (if not now, eventually) into "Alpha/Beta Quadrant" and "Delta Quadrant". Also, I think this page (or one page) should specifically focus on aliens with more then one appearance (ie: ST6 "Rura Penthe" inhabitants) and another page for aliens with only one, or something.
On another note, so this doesn't become a pic gallery, maybe for aliens with more then one appearance, we don't have to have a pic of every appearance, just one or two. - AJHalliwell 22:53, 29 Sep 2005 (UTC)
PERSON's speciesEdit
I think, similar to the PERSON's ship pages (like Harrad-Sar's ship), that info on an unnamed species which has at least one person who has been given a name on-screen should have a separate article, at PERSON's species or PERSON's people, where PERSON is the name of the lead or only member of the species seen. This would create articles at Dax's species/people, Kago-Darr's species/people, Sargon's species/people and the like. The heirarchy would be like this:
- If the species name is known than that is where the page is regardless of any other info, obviously
- If the species name is unknown, but the planet is known, then species info goes at [[PLANET native]]
- If the species and planet name is unknown, but a person's name is known, then species info goes at [[PERSON's species]] or [[PERSON's people]]
- If species, planet, and individual people's names are unknown, then the info goes on the Unnamed humanoids page.
Anyways, that is just my opinion and I'm just seeing if that should be implemented or not (I can think of reasons for it and against it, and it seems everything I come up with is a bad idea).--Tim Thomason 12:14, 2 Nov 2005 (UTC)
- I think this is a very good idea. The list at this page can get very long very quickly, so any chance to move paragraphs to their own page is a good idea. It also allows these particular species easier to find in the Species category. -- Harry Talk 11:48, 3 Nov 2005 (UTC)
Who's this?Edit
I'm not sure what to look up for, to find this person, or which species he is. Anyone have any idea? Zsingaya Talk 22:48, 6 Nov 2005 (UTC)
- I'm pretty sure the actor is Michael Berryman (he played the "Starfleet display officer"), I'm not sure if the FASA sourcebook has any info on the species though.--Tim Thomason 23:09, 6 Nov 2005 (UTC)
- This is what the FASA STIV sourcebook calls an Arkenite, from Arken II. -- Harry t 10:04, 7 Nov 2005 (UTC)
Worene Edit
- moved to Talk:Worene
Aliens with gold face-plates...Edit
...are called Xelatians (from Xelata), according to the FASA book. -- Harry t 11:50, 7 Nov 2005 (UTC)
- Is there much other information about this species? I know there was enough for the Worene page, but is there enough information for this species to have its own page? Zsingaya Talk 22:03, 7 Nov 2005 (UTC)
How to break this up? Edit
This is really turning out to be a HUGE article. How can we split this up into sizable parts? I think the only way we can really split them up is by series. However, the article titles would break with our POV. But I can't really think of any other way to separate these. Grouping by quadrant does not solve the problem, since only VOY showed us aliens from the DQ, and all the other ones will still end up in Alpha and Beta Quadrants. Another solution would be an arbitrary split-up in numbered articles, but this would make searching less than obvious. -- Harry t 17:13, 10 Nov 2005 (UTC)
- Perhaps if we split them up by when they were first encountered. There are 25 "entries" currently, 2 "first" encountered in the 22nd century (ENT), 13 encountered in the 23rd century (TOS, TOS movies), and 10 encountered in the 24th century (TNG, DS9, TNG movies, VOY). That's better than the 23 encountered solely in the Alpha/Beta Quadrant and 1 encountered solely in the Delta Quadrant.--Tim Thomason 18:05, 10 Nov 2005 (UTC)
unnamed species articles with one known member Edit
Recently, several "X's species" articles have been created, where X is the only known individual of said species (only one example of many: Fraddock's species), and looking at the list here, many more are supposed to follow.
Do these articles make any sense? They follow a circumstantial naming scheme (because we don't know proper names) and are necessarily stubs (because we don't know anything about the species, really - just that some member of it exists and has a name). With only one member existing, they can only be linked from that member's page and this "unnamed species by individual" listing.
That would better be handled by just having whatever information we have about the "species" (which, basically, is the appearance of the member, of which we can't even be sure it's the average appearance of the whole species) described on the member article itself. No link necessary, and with that, no species page, either. -- Cid Highwind 16:38, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
- I agree. If there are two or more members of an unnamed species, then it makes sense to have a page for the species. Otherwise, it's really pointless. Like you say, all the information can go on the one named individual's page - why split it up? -- Renegade54 17:42, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
- Suits me. --Alan del Beccio 17:43, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
- I also agree. 31dot 18:13, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
- Agreed. -- Connor Cabal 21:23, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
- How do we handle the articles of that nature that exist? Submit each of them for deletion/merging? Can we discuss a blanket deletion/merging of them? 31dot 21:46, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
- I'm not sure I agree. The XXX's species articles were originally created to shorten these pages. Of course, the suggestion doesn't change that any, as I'm sure you can list them as "Worene's species" or "Worene's species" or something.
- I disagree with the fact that they are "necessarily stubs" due to supposed lack of information. The species article should be differentiated from the individual article in much the same way as ship types are from individual ships (not a good example though). The individual articles should have all biographical info, and other info unique to the individual on it. The species article should have all biological traits not believed to be unique to the individual. A good example of a non-stub 1-member species article is Lansor's species. A bad example would be Larell's species (which could possibly be expanded mentioning their appearance, connection to Luria, a criminal element, etc.).
- 31dot, as for blanket deletion: They should be handled one at a time possibly. Some like Fantome's species, Krit's species, Pomet's species are a little tricky if you stick to the 1-member rule. Sometimes, an individual mentions his/her species. We should cover it in those cases, IMO.--Tim Thomason 22:11, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
- I also agree. 31dot 18:13, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
- Suits me. --Alan del Beccio 17:43, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
Key phrase here would be "believed to be". If we don't know whether what we see is "unique" (individual only) or "generic" (species), why spread out that information to two pages? Especially if, even if we assumed that some trait is generic, only one individual exists to link to the species page? And even more so, if even the assumptions don't give us more than one or two sentences of text.
Please note, I'm not advocating the removal of all such articles - but if there's neither content nor at least some amount of incoming links, why keep it separate instead of making the short description part of the individual's page? I don't see the real necessity of that. -- Cid Highwind 07:36, 19 November 2007 (UTC)


text:
We stayed in a 2 BR, 3 BA condo for 6 nights while skiing at Beaver Creek. The condo exceeded our expectations--we felt like it was nicer than our house. There was so much room for all of us to spread out and the kids were thrilled to each have their own bed. The in-room washer/dryer was a nice perk... More
- Reservation Options:
- TripAdvisor is proud to partner with Expedia, Booking.com, Hotels.com, Priceline, Odigeo and Tingo so you can book your Creekside at Beaver Creek reservations with confidence. We help millions of travelers each month to find the perfect hotel for both vacation and business trips, always with the best discounts and special offers.
- Also Known As:
- Creekside At Beaver Creek Hotel Beaver Creek


text:
I bought two huge pots of Agapanthus lat year. Had them out all summer and brought them in before frost. I left them in their pots and put them in a place with no sun and didn't water until a tad near Spring. One had put up white foliage which turned green when I put them out again. One of them isn't sending up any foliage and the roots just have turned to much? I have terrible luck with them. Any suggestions?
About the mushy one: it sounds that you've tipped it from its pot.
Is there anything left? Preferably with at least one root and a bud point.
If yes - think about planting it into cactus mix and keeping it averagely moist over the summer - with shade protection for the hottest part of the day. Expect it to take up to three years before it bulks up enough to flower again. Be sure to use a close-fitting pot. It is fatal to over-pot.
About over-wintering: I notice when I bring things in for winter it takes MONTHS for the potting mix to actually dry out. Like from May to August-September. Your Agapanthi may be sitting in cold damp conditions for too long. Can you snuggle them a little closer to a source of warmth? Somewhere that stays mostly around 50F (air temperature).
And seriously ease back on the watering over late autumn. Give it time to go into 'drought' mode.
When you get to the end of winter - LIGHTLY water to start to 'break the drought.' It takes time for the roots to get back to work - or even to grow new ones for the coming season. (Look at a bearded Iris rhizone at the end of summer to see what I'm on about.) When you see top growth - water again, but leave the drenching until it's really obvious that there are enough active leaves to cope with the amount of water you're adding.
My dwarf Agapanthus lives in an 14" high and wide container fully outdoors. The clump has nearly filled the top of the container. It now flowers reliably after being a rescued scraplet of plant. I usually topdress with some fresh mix in early spring (August) and sneak it some slow release pellets. I don't remember watering it over summer... and it's been around for about five years now. Just rain. (If you don't get some summer rain you probably need to give it a drink from time to time.)
The big evergreen Agapanthus grown by the neighbour lives in appallingly cramped and sunblasted conditions in tiny (9"x24") 'beds'. Never watered. Never fed. Just gets falling leaves. Flowers for months, and spits its papery seeds into every crack along the gutters - where they come up like grass. A true Monster!
Hope there are some clues there. If they weren't such thugs - they'd be great!
Thank you so much for your help. I think that bringing the pots in for winter is where I went wrong. I bet they weren't dry enough. I have 6 pots with various sizes and nothing ever flowers except when I bought them in full flower! I have taken the pieces of growth with good roots left and potted them up in small containers. Will put them out in the garden. Until they all get pot bound again, I don't expect flowers. Maybe there will be a surprise? What would you use for a fertilizer?


text:
Hot Topic: Clean Eating
by Toby Amidor in Food News, July 20, 2011Clean Eating is a term that's been thrown around a lot lately, only it's not necessarily understood. We'll explain what it is and if it's advisable to eat this way.
What Is It?
Although you'll find Clean Eating "diets"- it's more of a way of living than a temporary weight loss solution. The term Clean Eating is relatively new, but it dates back to the 1960s when the natural health food movement looked down on diets filled with processed foods.
Author Terry Walters helped fuel the Clean Eating movement into mainstream America. According to the author of Clean Food and Clean Start, it's all about consuming natural, unprocessed foods. Her philosophy is:
- Eat a varied diet
- Eat a rainbow of colors
- Enjoy food and mealtime
- Eat locally grown and seasonal food
- Eat all 5 tastes (sweet, salty, bitter, sour, umami)
This means eating whole grains, fruits and vegetables and lean proteins (a.k.a. real food) instead of fast food or highly processed, packaged foods, and giving new foods a try that you may not recognize at the farmers market— a lot like Dana's Market Watch series.
Is It Recommended?
Eating whole, unprocessed foods is something many people don't do enough of. Choosing highly processed foods which have a laundry list of ingredients that you don't recognize is not the healthiest choice. This doesn't mean you need to eat clean 100% of the time or even 80% of the time. Do what's right for you. Here are some ways to eat cleaner:
- Find a local farmers market and pay them a visit.
- Instead of buying jarred salad dressing or tomato sauce, make your own.
- Add more fruits and vegetables to your meals.
- Choose whole grains over processed ones (such as brown rice over white).
- Instead of sugar-laden sodas and calorie-filled specialty coffee, opt for water, freshly made lemonade or iced tea.
- Pay attention to where the produce you choose is imported from. Regulations vary from country to country on how they grow food– choose locally grown or organic food that hasn't traveled across half the world and hasn't been treated with a variety of chemicals.
Bottom Line: Clean Eating is a way of living, not a diet plan. Eating less processed foods is always a positive thing, but you need to decide what's right for you and how far you want to take it.
TELL US: How clean is your diet?
Toby Amidor, MS, RD, CDN, is a registered dietitian and consultant who specializes in food safety and culinary nutrition. See Toby's full bio »
You Might Also Like:
Similar Posts
Dietary Guidelines Update: What Does It Mean for Our Diet?
The entire nutrition community was anxiously awaiting the release of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Report (yes, it's what we do!). The r...Comments (
166 )-
WOW just what I was looking for. Came here by searching for %meta_keyword%
This web site is known as a walk-by for all the information you wished about this and didn't know who to ask. Glimpse here, and you抣l positively uncover it.
Generally I don't learn post on blogs, but I wish to say that this write-up very compelled me to try and do so! Your writing taste has been amazed me. Thank you, quite nice post.
Wow, amazing blog layout! How long have you been blogging for? you made blogging look easy. The overall look of your website is great, let alone the content!. Thanks For Your article about Hot Topic: Clean Eating | Healthy Eats – Food Network Healthy Living Blog .
[…] to save money, eat clean, and do something good for the environment? You can do it all by just getting your hands dirty – […]
[…] to save money, eat clean, and do something good for the environment? You can do it all by just getting your hands dirty […]
[…] to save money, eat clean, and do something good for the environment? You can do it all by just getting your hands dirty […]
[…] to save money, eat clean, and do something good for the environment? You can do it all by just getting your hands dirty […]
[…]just beneath, are numerous totally not related sites to ours, however, they are surely worth going over[…]……
Hello. And Bye.
i'm isglasses.com