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£229 inc VAT
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£449 inc VAT
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£967 inc VAT
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£532 inc VAT
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£480 inc VAT
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£179 inc VAT
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£120 inc VAT
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£140 inc VAT
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£900 inc VAT
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- Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet: slim, light, powerful Android tablet is best iPad Air alternative
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Marines Hook Up With High School In Atlanta – Some Upset With That
That's sort of the gist of my latest Examiner column. I point out that education isn't a one-size-fits-all proposition and experimentation is a good thing.
Antarctic Ice Shelf Split – Global Warming Or Volcanic Activity?
Another day, another breathless "Antarctica is melting" report:
An ice bridge linking a shelf of ice the size of Jamaica to two islands in Antarctica has snapped.
Scientists say the collapse could mean the Wilkins Ice Shelf is on the brink of breaking away, and provides further evidence of rapid change in the region.
Sited on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula, the Wilkins shelf has been retreating since the 1990s.
The BBC report seems to consciously avoid blaming it on global warming, but does imply the change is recent (and leaves it to you to decide what that means):
"The fact that it's retreating and now has lost connection with one of its islands is really a strong indication that the warming on the Antarctic is having an effect on yet another ice shelf."
Since this is a floating ice shelf, its breakaway will have zero effect on sea levels.
The NYT, of course, is not so careful with its coverage:
An ice bridge holding a vast Antarctic ice shelf in place has shattered and may herald a wider collapse caused by global warming, a scientist said Saturday.
While citing both articles, Think Progress naturally choses the more dire pronouncement as its lede.
Of course we've been through this before. You may remember the discussion when it first came up almost a year ago to the day, we did some research and discovered, low and behold, that the area where the Wilkins Ice Sheet is located also happens to be the location of some active undersea volcanoes.
Notice the ice shelf is on the western side of the peninsula and south of its tip. Now, look at this:
Well I'll be – an active volcano very near the shelf which also vents further up the peninsula. I wonder – could that cause a bit of warming in the area?
Last year, the Ice Cap provided a little sanity to the discussion. Then it was an MSNBC report. It is essentially no different than thes reports. In fact it is more of what they don't say than what they do say the make the news reports suspect. Here's what Ice Cap said last year:
The [MSNBC] account may be misinterpreted by some as the ice cap or a significant (vast) portion is collapsing. In reality it and all the former shelves that collapsed are small and most near the Antarctic peninsula which sticks well out from Antarctica into the currents and winds of the South Atlantic and lies in a tectonically active region with surface and subsurface active volcanic activity. The vast continent has actually cooled since 1979.
The full Wilkins 6,000 square mile ice shelf is just 0.39% of the current ice sheet (just 0.1% of the extent last September). Only a small portion of it between 1/10th-1/20th of Wilkins has separated so far, like an icicle falling off a snow and ice covered house. And this winter is coming on quickly. In fact the ice is returning so fast, it is running an amazing 60% ahead (4.0 vs 2.5 million square km extent) of last year when it set a new record. The ice extent is already approaching the second highest level for extent since the measurements began by satellite in 1979 and just a few days into the Southern Hemisphere winter and 6 months ahead of the peak. Wilkins like all the others that temporarily broke up will refreeze soon. We are very likely going to exceed last year's record. Yet the world is left with the false impression Antarctica's ice sheet is also starting to disappear.
In other words, it is tiny portion of Antarctica which is located in a part of the continent which is most exposed to South Pacific currents and also has "surface and subsurface volcanic activity" to add to any warming. Graphically it looks like this:
So, other than it finally looks like Wilkins may split away, the situation isn't any more dire than it was last year at this time and seems, instead, to be the work of natural forces that certainly would have a warming effect without the assistance of any sort of "global warming".
North Korea: "Herro, UN?"
North Korea, ignoring the world as usual, launched it's long-range missile:
North Korea fired a long-range rocket on Sunday, provoking international outrage and prompting the U.N. Security Council to call an emergency meeting.
The world as usual hopped up and down and told North Korea how angry it is:
"North Korea has ignored its international obligations, rejected unequivocal calls for restraint and further isolated itself from the community of nations," President Obama said in Prague, urging Pyongyang to honor the U.N. resolutions and to refrain from further "provocative" actions.
It's "obligations" obviously, pertain to obeying a unanimous UN Security Council resolution barring North Korea from firing ballistic missiles resolution passed in 2006. Of course North Korea never agreed to or had any say in the resolution. Just as obviously then, they feel no compunction whatsoever to abide by it.
And now, with the UN Security Council emergency meeting looming, what can we expect?
The 15-nation Security Council was due to hold an emergency closed-door meeting from 3 p.m. EDT but China and Russia have made clear they will use their veto power to block any resolution imposing new sanctions on Pyongyang .
For some reason, all of this reminded me of this from Team America: World Police –
Kim Jong Il: Hans Brix? Oh no! Oh, herro. Great to see you again, Hans!
Hans Blix: Mr. Il, I was supposed to be allowed to inspect your palace today, but your guards won't let me enter certain areas.
Kim Jong Il: Hans, Hans, Hans! We've been frew this a dozen times. I don't have any weapons of mass destwuction, OK Hans?
Hans Blix: Then let me look around, so I can ease the UN's collective mind. I'm sorry, but the UN must be firm with you. Let me in, or else.
Kim Jong Il: Or else what?
Hans Blix: Or else we will be very angry with you… and we will write you a letter, telling you how angry we are.
Podcast for 05 Apr 09
In this podcast, Bruce, Michael and Dale discuss the G-20 Summit, Pres. Obama's foreign policy, and the Geithner Plan.
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Is Atlas Shrugged finally going to the silver screen?
This my latest article for the Atlanta Examiner.
Talk of putting Ayn Rand's classic, Atlas Shrugged, on the silver screen has made its way back into the news:
After decades in development hell, Ayn Rand's capitalism-minded "Atlas Shrugged" is taking new steps toward the big screen — with one of the film world's most prominent money men potentially at its center.
Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media is circling the Baldwin Entertainment project and could come aboard to finance with Lionsgate, which got involved several years ago.
Rand's popular but polarizing book — it's derided by many literary critics but has a huge public following — tells the story of Dagny Taggart, a railroad executive trying to keep her corporation competitive in the face of what she perceives as a lack of innovation and individual responsibility.
A number of stars have expressed serious interest in playing the lead role of Taggart. Angelina Jolie previously had been reported as a candidate to play the strong female character, but the list is growing and now includes Charlize Theron, Julia Roberts and Anne Hathaway.
This isn't the first time there has been talk of making Atlas Shrugged into a motion picture, as the article notes. In fact, Rand was working on a screenplay when she died in 1982. Needless to say, the project has a history of not getting off the ground.
Atlas Shrugged, published in 1957, is a work of fiction, however, it contains key concepts of Rand's personal philosophy, Objectivism, which teaches rational self-interest, personal sovereignty and free-market capitalism. Many also consider it to be somewhat prophetic, especially during this current economic downturn.
The producers of society, represented by Dagny Taggart, Hank Rearden, Francisco d'Anconia and John Galt, are derided by antagonists in the book and government action, supported by "looters" and "moochers," begin leading its citizens down the path of socialism. Sound familiar?
In Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, Rand called business, "America's persecuted minority." Though, as Rand once pointed out, businessmen are often enemies of capitalism because they seek government favor, much like companies seeking bailouts today.
With the rise of the group mentality and class warfare, the producers in our world today are castigated and blamed for the current economic downfall. Rand once said, "One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary." That is exactly what we are seeing in today societal and political rhetoric, just look at recent comments by President Barack Obama for affirmation of the misguided and cancerous populism consuming America. That the market has failed and it must be regulated to the point of expanding government power to take over businesses.
Keep your fingers crossed that a film adaption of Atlas Shrugged gets done. with a message as powerful as the novel. Rand's message needs to be heard.
If you'd like to learn more about Ayn Rand, please visit the Ayn Rand Institute and the Atlas Society.
More Extensive Executive Power Proposed By Congress
Al Gore may have 'invented' it, but the Congress may give Obama control of it. The report is from Mother Jones:
Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency?
Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) think so. On Wednesday they introduced a bill to establish the Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor—an arm of the executive branch that would have vast power to monitor and control Internet traffic to protect against threats to critical cyber infrastructure. That broad power is rattling some civil libertarians.
The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 (PDF) gives the president the ability to "declare a cybersecurity emergency" and shut down or limit Internet traffic in any "critical" information network "in the interest of national security." The bill does not define a critical information network or a cybersecurity emergency. That definition would be left to the president.
The bill does not only add to the power of the president. It also grants the Secretary of Commerce "access to all relevant data concerning [critical] networks without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule, or policy restricting such access." This means he or she can monitor or access any data on private or public networks without regard to privacy laws.
So you have an unelected Secretary of Commerce able to access all of the data on the private or public networks without regard to privacy laws – yeah, no possibility of abuse there, huh?
The bill could undermine the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), says CDT senior counsel Greg Nojeim. That law, enacted in the mid '80s, requires law enforcement seek a warrant before tapping in to data transmissions between computers.
"It's an incredibly broad authority," Nojeim says, pointing out that existing privacy laws "could fall to this authority."
It will be interesting to see if we hear the same sort of outcry from the left pertaining to warrants as we heard about FISA if this passes.
"We must protect our critical infrastructure at all costs—from our water to our electricity, to banking, traffic lights and electronic health records—the list goes on," Rockefeller said in a statement. Snowe echoed her colleague, saying, "if we fail to take swift action, we, regrettably, risk a cyber-Katrina."
And apparently the possibility of a "cyber-Katrina" means that any Constitutional right you may have to privacy can be waived.
Comforting, no?
If Nothing Else, You Have To Love The Irony
The New York Times engaged in union busting:
The New York Times Company has threatened to close The Boston Globe unless labor unions agree to concessions like pay cuts and the cessation of pension contributions, according to a person briefed on the talks.
What a strange and different world we find ourselves in today. Of course I guess that's really no different than Rosie O'Donnell railing against guns while her armed body guards stood next to her.
Cap-And-Trade And Health Care
Some relatively good news and some bad news. The good news has to do with "cap-and-tax" as the WSJ article cited refers to "cap-and-trade":
Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander called it "the biggest vote of the year" so far, and he's right. This means Majority Leader Harry Reid can't jam cap and tax through as part of this year's budget resolution with a bare majority of 50 Senators. More broadly, it's a signal that California and East Coast Democrats won't be able to sock it to coal and manufacturing-heavy Midwestern states without a fight. Senators voting in favor of the 60-vote rule included liberals from Wisconsin, Michigan and West Virginia. Now look for Team Obama to attempt to impose cap and tax the non-democratic way, via regulation that hits business and local governments with such heavy costs that they beg Congress for a less-harmful version.
I say relatively good news because the author is right – if the Obama administration can't get it through Congress, there's little doubt they'll look for an administrative way to impose cap-and-trade through the executive branch. One route may be through the EPA.
Of course, there is always the distinct possibility that one of the Democratic Senators who is presently against limiting the filibuster will be pressured into changing his mind. And then there are always the RINOs.
But the possibliity remains that the cap-and-trade economy killer may be defeated in Congress, or at least delayed for a while. If passed, you could rest assured we'd not be seeing an economic recovery anytime soon.
However, cap-and-trade isn't the only problem on the horizon. The health care push will be coming up soon as well, now that Congress has passed the Obama budget blueprint with no Republican support.
The most important remaining fight this year is over health care. Democrats seem intent on trying to plow that monumental change through with only 50 votes, even as they negotiate to bring along some Republicans. We hope these Republicans understand that a new health-care "public option" — a form of Medicare for all Americans — guarantees that the 17% of GDP represented by the health-care industry will be entirely government-run within a few years. This is precisely Mr. Obama's long-term goal, though he doesn't want to say it publicly.
It is a back-door means of claiming the reforms are "market" oriented while setting up the system to be quietly shifted to government control. And this at a time when more and more doctors are leaving the Medicare system because of low payment.
In the case of health care, the use of "reconciliation" appears to be a possiblity. That means, as an exception to the rule which now requires 60 votes for cloture on all measures of law, the Senate could require a mere majority (51 votes) to pass this monstrosity and see the government devour another 17% of GDP.
The game plan is fairly evident. Grace-Marie Turner, president of the Galen Institute, said in an interview:
"We really have a pretty good idea of the outline of the plan they are going to be proposing," she said. They'll want to "require everyone to have health insurance and require all employers to pay."
Since some companies and individuals may not be able to afford that, the taxpayers will be told they are making up the difference, she warned.
The real danger, she suggested, is that with a government-run program, private insurance soon will start disappearing.
"If you expand access to government programs, more and more will drop private coverage," she said. "A lot of this is going to be, I fear, replacing the private coverage with taxpayer supported coverage."
That will just raise the costs even higher, and be the first step to what she expects eventually will be "a monopoly player."
Routed through the government bureaucracy, the same inefficiencies that every government run health care service will emerge. And as with any system in which unlimited demand meets finite supply, some sort of rationing will take place. Since government will be the monopoly player, as Turner calls it, that rationing won't be by price, as it now works, but instead by denial of service:
Already, she said, $1.1 billion is being allocated for "comparative effectiveness studies."
That will be "what treatments are good and bad, what's going to be available to us or not. That's the first step toward rationing," she said.
That $600 billion dollar "downpayment", as Obama calls it, will eventually morph into a deficit of trillions. Why? Because the promise is low-cost universal health care. And there is no such animal that is worth a tinker's dam.
NATO Says No To Obama's Afgan Plea
Reality intruded on President Obama's magical mystery tour in Europe today as NATO ministers turned a deaf ear to his plea for more troops in Afghanistan:
Gordon Brown was the only one to offer substantial help. He offered to send several hundred extra British soldiers to provide security during the August election, but even that fell short of the thousands of combat troops that the US was hoping to prise from the Prime Minister.
Just two other allies made firm offers of troops. Belgium offered to send 35 military trainers and Spain offered 12. Mr Obama's host, Nicolas Sarkozy, refused his request.
Of course this had all been predicted by those who've been watching NATO and Europe for years (which would include us here at QandO). Western Europe, which forms the bulk of NATO, for the most part has no stomach for the war in Afghanistan, heck, they barely have a stomach for their own defense. Instead of the thousands troops, Obama was sure he'd be able to charm from them he'll see 547 to 747 more troops, most from the UK, while the US sends 21,000.
While the school girls and press may be enamored with the charm and glamor of Obama, one of the major reasons for his trip turns out to be an unsurprising failure.

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Best Baseball Autobiography Since Bouton?
Dirk Hayhurst's description of himself for the author's ID in his upcoming book The Bullpen Gospels reads in part, "Dirk is a former member of the San Diego Padres, and after this book gets printed, a former member of the Toronto Blue Jays."
I'm not sure he's correct. In fact, I'm not sure that in these times when so many fans feel like they're constantly having the wool pulled over their eyes by athletes ill-equipped for the attempt, if Hayhurst's constant honesty, his remarkable candor, his drumbeat of unadorned confessed self-doubt, and his seamless writing, won't resonate through the sport like the first true wonderful day of spring when the game and the weather finally reassure you that winter has been beaten back, at least for a season.
In fact, I'm not sure that he hasn't written the best baseball autobiography since Jim Bouton's Ball Four. For Hayhurst, who bombed as a starter for the Padres in 2008 and then showed promise out of the Jays' bullpen the season past, has written what Bouton wrote, and what a decade before Bouton, what Jim Brosnan wrote - a book that is seemingly about baseball but which, as you read further and further into it, is obviously much bigger than that. These are books about life: struggle, confusion, purpose, purposelessness, and the startling realization that achievement and failure are nearly-identical twins, one which gnaws and deadens, the other which just as often produces not elation but a tinny, empty sound.
Brosnan's achievement, in The Long Season and Pennant Race, was to introduce to a world which previously had no information of any kind on the subject, the concept of athlete as human being. What did he have to do when demoted, or traded? What happened when management changed? Was there a Mrs. Athlete, and could they share a martini now and again? (answer: You bet).
Bouton's breakthrough was to show the concept of athlete as flawed human being. Too many martinis, some of them shared with women other than Mrs. Athlete. Athletes who might not have been geniuses on the field or off, but who seemed invariably managed and coached by men even less intelligent. The struggle to self-start as one's team sank from optimism, to contention, to inconsistency, to irrelevance, to embarrassment. And yet, were they enjoying themselves, did their lives change for the better, was being an athlete fun? (answer: You bet).
And now here is Hayhurst, who may single-handedly steer baseball away from the two decades-long vise grip of Sport-As-Skill-Development. Since my own childhood, we have ever-increasingly devalued every major leaguer but the superstar. Late in the last century we began to devalue every minor leaguer but the top draft choice. If you don't make it into somebody's Top Prospects list, you might as well not exist. Dirk Hayhurst is writing of his days, his months, his years, as far away from the Top Prospects lists as imaginable. He is, in The Bullpen Gospels, often the last man on an A-ball pitching staff, and trying to answer a series of successively worsening questions cascading from the simplest of them: Why?
This, of course, is why the book transcends the game. It's not just Dirk Hayhurst's existential doubt about whether he'll reach the majors or why he's still trying or if he shouldn't be helping the homeless instead of worrying about getting the last out of a seven-run inning. He is experiencing the crisis of reality through which we all pass, often daily: when our dreams about life crash head first into its realities, what the hell are we supposed to do then?
Thus The Bullpen Gospels is a baseball book the way "Is That All There Is?" is a Leiber-Stoller pop song by Peggy Lee from 1969. It is the primordial battle of hope and faith and inspiration versus disillusionment and rust and inertia.
Sounds pretty grim, doesn't it? But of course therein lies the delightful twist: like Brosnan and Bouton before him, Hayhurst repeatedly rediscovers the absurd hilarity of it all, and the book is consistently laugh-out-loud funny. And like all great artists, he pulls back curtains we never thought to investigate: from how assiduously minor leaguers debate which "Come-out songs" they will choose or which numbers they will wear, to the pecking order of seat locations on the ever-infamous bush league bus trip.
My favorite is probably the mechanics of something the average reader will have never heard of before, let alone have contemplated. It's "the host family" - the living arrangements by which the non-first-rounders survive their seasons in the minors. Hayhurst hilariously defines such temporary homes as ranging from Wackford Squeers' Dotheboys Hall, to the visitations from In Cold Blood.
It doesn't hurt that Hayhurst is a fluid and gifted writer, whose prose can take off like a jet and compel you to read for half an hour more than you have. He populates the pages of The Bullpen Gospels with teammates, some identified, some amalgamated, some under aliases - and if the book takes off, ripping the Hayhurstian masks off the more colorful ones may become a low-key hobby after the book is published on March 30th.
The reaction will be fascinating to see. In 1970, my father endured my clamoring and bought Ball Four and read it himself before handing it to me: "I know you know all these words. Just don't use them around the house. Read this carefully, there's a lot of truth in here." But ever since, we fans have been bombarded for decades by altered versions of truth, all of them writ large and desperately trying to impress us with their essential-ness. Baseball books have tended to focus only on the big, and to try to make it bigger still. We've gone from the unlikely accuracy of Jose Canseco's slimy indictment of the steroid era, through the analyze-all-the-damn-fun-out-of-the-game-why-don't-you tone of Moneyball and its imitators, through what may in retrospect be seen as a Hayhurst-precursor in Matt McCarthy's fraudulent Odd Man Out, through dozens of historical works insisting everything that has ever happened in baseball has re-shaped the nation - Jackie Robinson (yes), the 1951 N.L. pennant race (very possibly), the 1912 World Series (no way).
Here, instead, will be a modest book by a modest relief pitcher who has appeared in the modest total of 25 major league games presenting what the modest author thinks (incorrectly) is only modest truth. He has yet to get his own major league baseball card and as I write this there are exactly two of his souvenirs available on eBay and one of them is a photo for $6.99 ("Or Best Offer"). His preface warns you if you seek scandal or steroids, look elsewhere, and the only bold face name in the whole 340 pages, Trevor Hoffman, comes across as a low-key gentleman.
And yet there in the prologue Hayhurst offers a key to what he has written and why, self-guidance to which he sticks pretty neatly: "I also believe there is more to the game than just baseball. For all the great things baseball is, there are some things it is absolutely not. And that is what this story is all about."
Of course, just as Bouton's exposure of the real flaws of the real men who played baseball in 1969 made them even more appealing than the phony deities into which they'd been transformed, the great things are made somehow greater by how well Hayhurst contextualizes them, how honestly he tells his story, and how vividly he takes us inside his world.
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Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the ranking member on the House Government Reform Committee, criticized the Bush administration for its "pingpong approach" in addressing the problem. The lack of a centralized watch list allowed several of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists to enter the United States even though their names were on a CIA list.
Responsibility for the lists has been passed from the White House to the FBI, back to the White House and then to DHS, Waxman said. "This is not a recipe for success."
Watch lists are maintained by a number of agencies including the departments of State, Justice, Defense, Transportation and Treasury. They are designed to provide information about known or suspected terrorists. When an individual applies for a visa or enters the United States, for example, government officials check the name against the lists to determine if the person should be denied entry or apprehended while in the country.
A primary goal for DHS is to consolidate the lists so that every agency has access to all the names. Testifying before the panel at the tense hearing, Steve Cooper, DHS' chief information officer, said a coalition of intelligence officers are working under the guidance of the newly formed Terrorist Threat Integration Center to figure out how to merge the lists.
"They are at work to define the process to which your question can be answered," Cooper told Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass.), who asked him who was in charge of merging the lists. "Shortly, we will have answers," Cooper said.
"You're kidding me.... I'm just stunned," Tierney shot back. "To find out now we're almost two years [after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks] and this is still not done is just staggering. This is an abject failure of leadership."
Waxman condemned White House officials for disregarding the General Accounting Office's efforts to contact them during an investigation on the issue. GAO's report, released last month, concluded that the Bush administration has yet to fix the problem of agencies' maintaining and hoarding separate lists.
Last week, Cooper told Federal Computer Week that a consolidated watch list would be ready in the next few weeks, but he declined to elaborate.
Information sharing is a major focus for the department, Cooper told the lawmakers, and it is making slow, but steady progress toward merging the systems and cultures of the 22 components that are now part of DHS. Officials are working on a departmentwide enterprise architecture and expect a workable plan by September.
Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) also criticized DHS, focusing on officials' efforts to overcome resistance to sharing information. "I appreciate all your work in information technology, but there is a human fault," he said. "What are we doing to work for a change in that culture of secrecy and obsessive control of information in those agencies?"
Cooper said the department has begun to tackle the cultural barriers among the components by creating integrated teams to agree on a shared vision of DHS and tactics for sharing information. He said the teams are creating memoranda of agreement that outline specific requirements for information sharing, but the agreements do not include incentives for sharing or penalties for not sharing.
"We've had some good dialogue. We've actually been able to reach some agreements," Cooper said. "We are actually spelling out the mechanisms that will get us to the integration we are talking about."
Committee Chairman Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) noted that DHS inherited the information problems, including the disparate watch lists, and that watch lists had already existed in many of the agencies. He also commended DHS officials' deliberate focus on developing an enterprise architecture, rather than spending money without a solid plan.
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Situated by the ocean, this villa is 1.6 mi (2.5 km) from Copra Shed Marina and 1.7 mi (2.7 km) from Savusavu Farmers' Market. Waisali Rainforest Reserve is 20.4 mi (32.8 km) away.
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Korovesi Sunshine Villas features an outdoor pool and a children's pool. Wired high-speed Internet access is complimentary. This Savusavu villa also offers a terrace, tour/ticket assistance, and multilingual staff. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
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New Mexico Bond Question A (2010)
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|Bond Question A (Senior Citizen Bonds)
Results via New Mexico Secretary of State (timed out) as of 4:46 a.m. MST.
Text of measure
Ballot language
The ballot language that New Mexico voters saw on the ballot read as follows:[2]
The 2010 Capital Projects General Obligation Bond Act authorizes the issuance and sale of senior citizen facility improvement, construction and equipment acquisition bonds. Shall the state be authorized to issue general obligation bonds in an amount not to exceed seven million seven hundred ninety thousand three hundred twenty dollars ($7,790,320) to make capital expenditures for certain senior citizen facility improvements, construction and equipment acquisition projects and provide for a general property tax imposition and levy for the payment of principal of, interest on and expenses incurred in connection with the issuance of the bonds and the collection of the tax as permitted by law?
For________________ Against___________________
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The measure was sent to the ballot when the New Mexico House of Representatives voted in favor of the proposal's ballot access on March 3, 2010.[1]
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Announcing the New Formation of the Informatica Data Security Group
The Ponemon Institute stated that the biggest concern for security professionals is that they do not know where sensitive data resides. Informatica's Intelligent Data Platform provides data security professionals with the technology required to discover, profile, classify and assess the risk of confidential and sensitive data.
Last year, we began significant investments in data security R&D support the initiative. This year, we continue the commitment by organizing around the vision. I am thrilled to be leading the Informatica Data Security Group, a newly-formed business unit comprised of a team dedicated to data security innovation. The business unit includes the former Application ILM business unit which consists of data masking, test data management and data archive technologies from previous acquisitions, including Applimation, ActiveBase, and TierData.
By having a dedicated business unit and engineering resources applying Informatica's Intelligent Data Platform technology to a security problem, we believe we can make a significant difference addressing a serious challenge for enterprises across the globe. The newly formed Data Security Group will focus on new innovations in the data security intelligence market, while continuing to invest and enhance our existing data-centric security solutions such as data masking, data archiving and information lifecycle management solutions.
The world of data is transforming around us and we are committed to transforming the data security industry to keep our customer's data clean, safe and connected.
For more details regarding how these changes will be reflected in our products, message and support, please refer to the FAQs listed below:
Q: What is the Data Security Group (DSG)?
A: Informatica has created a newly formed business unit, the Informatica Data Security Group, as a dedicated team focusing on data security innovation to meet the needs of our customers while leveraging the Informatica Intelligent Data Platform
Q: Why did Informatica create a dedicated Data Security Group business unit?
A: Reducing Risk is among the top 3 business initiatives for our customers in 2015. Data Security is a top IT and business initiative for just about every industry and organization that store sensitive, private, regulated or confidential data. Data Security is a Board room topic. By building upon our success with the Application ILM product portfolio and the Intelligent Data Platform, we can address more pressing issues while solving mission-critical challenges that matter to most of our customers.
Q: Is this the same as the Application ILM Business Unit?
A: The Informatica Data Security Group is a business unit that includes the former Application ILM business unit products comprised of data masking, data archive and test data management products from previous acquisitions, including Applimation, ActiveBase, and TierData, and additional resources developing and supporting Informatica's data security products GTM, such as Secure@Source.
Q: How big is the Data Security market opportunity?
A: Data Security software market is estimated to be a $3B market in 2015 according to Gartner. Total information security spending will grow a further 8.2 percent in 2015 to reach $76.9 billion.[1]
Q: Who would be most interested in this announcement and why?
A: All leaders are impacted when a data breach occurs. Understanding the risk of sensitive data is a board room topic. Informatica is investing and committing to securing and safeguarding sensitive, private and confidential data. If you are an existing customer, you will be able to leverage your existing skills on the Informatica platform to address a challenge facing every team who manages or handles sensitive or confidential data.
Q: How does this announcement impact the Application ILM products – Data Masking, Data Archive and Test Data Management?
A: The existing Application ILM products are foundational to the Data Security Group product portfolio. These products will continue to be invested in, supported and updated. We are building upon our success with the Data Masking, Data Archive and Test Data Management products.
Q: How will this change impact my customer experience?
A: The Informatica product website will reflect this new organization by listing the Data Masking, Data Archive, and Test Data Management products under the Data Security product category. The customer support portal will reference Data Security as the top level product category. Older versions of the product and corresponding documentation will not be updated and will continue to reflect Application ILM nomenclature and messaging.
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(March 10, 2011: Fair Oaks, CA 95628) Woodland Christian Cardinals (Woodland, CA) supporters were in high spirits Thursday as they witnessed their soccer team get by the host Sacramento Waldorf Waves (Fair Oaks, CA), 2-1 in a league challenge.
Next, the Cardinals battle the Forest Lake Christian Falcons (Auburn, CA) in a Central Valley Christian challenge, on Tuesday, March 15. Woodland Christian will attempt to better on its 3-1 season record. The Falcons go into the challenge with a 2-3 record after their 2-2 league Delta (Clarksburg, CA).
The Waves now possess a 0-3 record. They play next when they travel to Foresthill for a Central Valley Christian challenge on Tuesday, March 15. Sacramento Waldorf will battle a Wildfires team coming off a 3-0 league win over Cristo Rey (Sacramento, CA). The Wildfires record now stands at 1-2.
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In 20 years we have transformed from a local lock maker to a global leader in total door opening solutions.
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Low Watt Kitchen lighting in California. Avoiding recessed lights
We're planning to remodel our SF kitchen which already has 2 socket incandescent ceiling lights. I always felt it was not enough lighting near the sink and stove area with my own shadow blocking what I'm seeing.
With Title 24 I would need to replace the existing lights to 2 fluorescent ceiling lights (each 32W) and maybe add a 22W fluorescent light over the sink and another 22W on the left of the stove using these "puff cloud" lights. I don't really want to go over 150W total.
I have 32W fluorescent pendants from WAC lighting, hanging 40" above the countertop, and spaced 45" on center. They provide bright shadowless lighting for the workspace. I have one of the pendants centered over the kitchen sink. You can get fixtures that support 26W, 32W, and 42W, so you can adjust the amount of light you get. Also adjusting the height of the pendant will adjust the light intensity. If you do not want to block your windows, recessed are they way to go. If you cannot install recessed, perhaps a line of linear fluorescent fixtures over the countertops.
In another room, I have 2 ceiling fixtures that use circline bulbs (40W + 22W). They are ~10' apart on a 10' ceiling. I have been a little disappointed by the amount of light these bulbs produce. The room is not dim, just not bright. For ambient light, they are fine. On an 8' ceiling they would give more light. I think a light fixture over your table would also be nice. Don't worry so much about the light over the cooktop. I have 3 20W halogens in my ventilation hood that produce more than enough light. Also the lights in the hood do not count for Title 24. One more thing is to look at fixtures from Besa Lighting for some glass fixtures instead of the plastic clouds. I find glass gives better lighting.
Very nice kitchen rendering by the way.
Thanks it was really easy and fun to make the rendering using Lowes online designer.
I do have 8' ceilings. I prefer not to have any hanging pendents. I was thinking of using a 6" recessed can over the sink and another on the left of the range. I read it gives a 4' spot of light which I think would be enough, but I'm worried it would look to much of a spotlight and I prefer more spread out lighting.
I don't think I need a light over the table as sometimes we sit 4 people and move the table so a light that was there won't be lined up. Maybe we can use some kind of low watt track lighting on the wall.
Thanks for the recommendation for the Besa lights as I didn't realize the ones I was looking at was plastic which I guess would yellow over time.
Here is a link that might be useful: lowes designer