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Everyone under me can kiss my arse.
Especially if they say first, second, or anything like that.
Ok kids?
Yea lol i'm first xD second and third lol… but yea either way you can kiss ur own ass xD n bite me nuts xD
1st, nbd
Damn one more week
im 1st because i jus release my 2nd hollowfication bitches!
the vasto lorde of ichigo is his 3rd form because his second was in his fight with muramasa and the vizards
i'm 999999999999th! can't wait for the ep to come out! ichigo is like getting thrashed the last ep >.<
muhaha 10th! ill say it, muramasa im pretty sure was a filler so it dont really count
The battle in this episode is gone be the greatest so far..when i read on the manga I was pumped up for real!!!Can't wait for this episode to come out :D:D:D
same IT WILL BE AWESOME
and shinjis sword release tooo !!!!
IM 1337th YAY no one can take my 1337 position
finally kisuke is in da mix fightin aisen…and the next ep in anime and manga gunna be beast…
well if you are going to count all releases as forms it is actually his 5th form if you count it like this:
0.regular human
5.full hollowfication
Also if this isn't enough you can also count all the different versions of the mask I believe I have heard he is at 4 in the manga? If you count all those you have 8 forms. I also hope he will one day reach a level beyond bankai as his physical form changes far more than his zanpaktou at this rate he might soon be better of fighting bare handed.
@Bored guy
geeze… wtf is wrong with these bleachtards…
fck you all.. so noisy damn all…ill kck ur ass 1 by 1.. kids
Everyone above me can kiss my arse!
It is time for full hollowfication :O, he will just erase him
Just wondering what is wrong with you I don't remember saying anything to you so why don't you just be nice and stay silent, I really don't think anyone anywhere not even your own mother is interested in what you have to say and I don't say this to insult you its just the cold hard truth. I'm sorry i have to be so blunt but I don't think you would get it if I said in any other words.
Just 1 more question:
how are you planning to kiss your own ass? Good luck with that.
@Bored guy
Bah, dont worry bout mentally retarded kids who hav nothing to do than diss other people. I actually found the idea of Ichigo fighting bare handed (if Ichigo's the "he" ur meaning ) but it would kinda lose the essence, wouldnt u think? Bleach is more of a superhuman blade fighting anime. If we wanted fist fighting, there would b a lot where to choose from. I think a anime that changes too much of style isnt gud. Unless we're talking about Yakitate Japan, which does it ridiculously but on purpose, which made it awsomly funny xDDD
finallyl points of view instead of the 1st 2nd ….. of every single time ,i wonder why they like to do that
Yo i was suprised that bleach just now came out with this episode cause i dont watch the anime i read the manga but trust me this and the next episodes will be AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! (i will not spoil like other jerks)
LOL EVERYONE HERE MADE MY DAY… Thank u all… thank u all for the amusement… fuk u biches ^_^ lol *suckers*
lol what kaname said ^
im tired w8 for this episode
i want to see so badly >.<
me too >.<
I wanna see Ichigo Vasto Lorde!!!
man… ichigo waaaasted ulquiora!!
why is it chinese subbed?
Okay…. Now i thought this episode was supposed to be one of the best episodes in the entire anime history but seriously that episode that sooooo hard. The SHOWDOWN was more exciting than the FIGHT.
If that is the definition of the super episode then the bleach creators just succeed their aim(s).
The 3 Month filler action was hard to endure but this is the King of all Kings. There 20 mins, which just crushed my facination, were horrible.
Ah just by the way the fight was already seeable @ Youtube 2 months ago.
That teaser just equals the excitement of the episode.A 2-4 min teaser has the same excitement as a full episode…. Just WOW.
I cannt complain enough about this episode….
… sad.. the .. that guy.. mother name him "Name? The one my mom gave me… obviously"……. never thought this world have this long name
what the fuck going on here? half of the video is missing? why do you load up a video its so messed up you boge?
Ichigo fucking owned Ulquirra =3
Vasto Lorde Ichigo for life!
raw sux
loool at least ulquiorra had some blood when ichigo cut off his arm…. ichigo didnt even drop a single blood drop when ulquiorra made the hole in his chest xD
That's sum serious stuf a black cero through the chest.
lame! they censored ishida's arm! that was suppose to be ripped off!
Now I want to see how they explain Ichigo going back to his human soul form again.
For for that matter, Ichigo and Inoue should get a room already!
ichigo will wake up and he will get completed hollowifaction and will kill Ulquiorra easily not sure is it this ep or next ep ^^
and the subs come at wednessday it has always been like that
Ichigo in wtf uber hax mode ftw!! Lol
simply the most awesome episode in bleach so far ……………………………..
wow he turned into a hallow rather quickly, also we didnt get to see or hear from hichigo remember he said last time dont die ill be back or something like that
@ Bored guy…
Ok… I'm sorry if my english is not good enough for you to understand, since it's my third language… but I'll try anyways.
1. I'm sorry for being rude and flaming your comment, I just felt childish at that moment and couldn't think of anything better to do…
2. The guy who posted that last comment (Everyone above me can kiss my arse!) wasn't me… it seems like someone stole my name :S.
Sorry for the confusion that may have caused.
Have a good day ^^
hey guys, has anyone else noticed in the opening credits that when we see the captain commander, the vizard and Aisen taking turns to look at the camera that there's someone in the background when it's aisens turn? could that be the actual aisen and its a play on his illusional shikai?
i dont want to wait for next week, and this episode was sick, only problem i only got to see it in japanese… does anyone know a good site where i can see it in english on tuesday nights?
so annoying you can't see it on dailymotion anymore…
anyways the graphics were sick, ichigo changed too fast into hollow form, hopefully orihime will have the balls to say i love you ichigo, and lets finally get to starkkkk and korutsuchiiiii thats going to be a fight!!!
In the Manga ishida lost his left arm in the fight with Ulquiorra why did the anime makers censored this oO?
Except this mistake it was a good Ep, it would has been a better Ep if they showed this without make 1 Year of filler…but a good ep.
Aizen for President
What the HELL is up with the katakana subs?!?! where the FUCK is the english subs?!? Are you guys RETARDED or something?!?!?
when does english sub come out????
please help!!
what's 271 title ??
Dattebayo just released English sub~
subs came out 2 hours ago and this site's still with raw?
wow. its late and there are still no english subs :'(
Dattebayo released Bleach a few hours ago, but it is missing the subs as far as I can tell.
watched it 1st with english subs
wow, this is the best anime fight of all time, good enough to be in the record book
holy fuck what an episode i wish all animes had this kind of excitement
OMFG. So Fucking epic. Vasto lord Ichigo is such a bad ass. This is what I've been waiting for ever since I saw it in the manga!
Yeh cant w8 4 next ep =P
N y r u ppl fightn n all the anime comment boxes whts tha point ._.
This episode was already good raw but after watching it subbed i have to say its the best bleach episode out so far.
After this battle ichigo will turn back to human and his next opponet is espada 10 who acttually is espada 0 [so the ten espada go fro 0 to 9 in power] but the captains will come so ichigo will leave espada 0 to them in order to go to the real world,captain unohana will accompany she will also get surprised by ichigo's powers ;D..I ll stop the spoiler here.
hope you got pumped up for the next episodes ;D ;D
Zomg So Fcking epic!
Best episode in bleach! This is what I been waiting for this whole time!!! ^_^
Epic episode, looking forward to the next episode!
Noooooo, this is so unfair to Ulquiorra… I feel like I wanna cry.. T_T
i think it's time for a good filler as the last one, I'm quite interested in the story behind!
and unohana realized that ichigo is the only one who can kill aizen of judging it from his reijatsu and so and he tells him to not to looks aizens shikai or he will fall in hypnosis then unohana realized that ichigo is only at half of his reiatsu
it kinda reminded me to supersayin numer 3000000000000000000000000….
inoue is fucking annoying.
Hmm.. Ishida's hand was supposed to be chopped off by Ulquiorra, splirting lots of blood..
I like blood.. Y no blood? ):
sick ep wish they would stop fukin around and just fight the whole time jesus!!!
saya ingin loading@ lebih cepat
i wanna see starrk fite instead… although its gonna be sad that he died too…
idkoum kamline fzebi
dima raja a wlad l9hab
now we're about to see hyper hollow form of kurosaki ichigo!!!!!!!!
Vasto Loooord muahahah
Bye bye ulquiorra
w0w OVERPOWER ichigo!!!
there is no word epic enugh 2 describe this episode its juat 2 EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@rain it's gin you see his face after aizen showed up
Don't blink during the second half or you mis the fight also if you haven't seen this yet you might want to consider wearing a diaper because I almost shit myself due to epic overload!
Gin finally open his eyes !
o…yeah. let's roll !!!!!!
ishida hand was supposed to be cut off
y wasn't cut off ?
… super saiyan hollow Ichigo FTFW!!!
i didnt like this form from Ichigo, he couldnt even speak …..
Anyone else think Inoue looks like a running orangutan at 6:01?
i believe that this is not ichigo's full hollowification, but his resurrection.
@geass: the hand was cut off, but maybe it was censored.
the hell i thought gin's eyes were red not baby blue? …………….TITE KUDO MAKE UP YOUR MIND!!!!!!!!!!
he went super hollow on his grandma's behind
gins eyes shocked me to i though he couldnt open them lol.
ichigo is so overpower compared to everyone else currently other then gin and azien so far its sad. i wish some of the friends could at least catch up to one of ichigo's forms. i mean kon in ichigo human body is stronger then the captians lol… hope when the cut back to the real word the fighting is as good.
eh y dun orihime just die everything is bcause of her…what is she best in crying n calling kurosaki…this anime will b better without her…
even words cant describe how epic this will ever be..
maybe if ppl cud really holy shit…
this is so sick ichigos cero is so cool and makes a cooler sound then the other cero's, omg i cant wait for aizen to put his suigetsu into his chest and turn into a monster too
Epic? I'd say cheap. Ichigo barely transformed and he beats Ulquiorra just like that? Stupid Inoue, she revived him twice now. No enemy has a chance against such odds. When will Kenpachi save the day with his bankai? :-/
"and unohana realized that ichigo is the only one who can kill aizen of judging it from his reijatsu and so and he tells him to not to looks aizens shikai or he will fall in hypnosis then unohana realized that ichigo is only at half of his reiatsu"
Too premature for Unohana to say something like this. She never ever did measure Aizen's power. Even more so now that Aizen and the Hogyokou has become one…and Aizen has already emerged from his "chrysalis".
WTH lor tt bitch she should juz die lor. ulquiorra should have won the battle. He shouldn't like POW he died -.- but then ichigo is the main. F*** that >:(
this is a total copy of Yu Yu Hakusho!
it does not seem so jack of all trades
fantastic episode will be watchin the next on for sure
So… what do you do when the love of your life gets a giant hole in his chest? Oh, well you take your sparkly barrettes and heal him, of course! But then, you call for him anyway, even though he's clearly dead and helpless, because you're a woman. I love you Bleach, if I didn't I wouldn't watch 300 episodes of this, but you can be pretty silly sometimes.
FKING DOG. don't always shows us inoue ley. whenever shes in the show she'll keep calling, korousaki kun. kun her mother c'b
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Last year, ABC Family introduced three new dramas — Twisted, Ravenswood, and The Fosters. Ravenswood (a Pretty Little Liars spin-off) has been cancelled while The Fosters has been renewed. What will become of Twisted?
Airing on Tuesday nights, Twisted is a mystery/thriller series that revolves around 17 year old Danny Desai (Avan Jogia). Six years ago, he was charged with killing his aunt and he ended up spending five years in juvenile detention. Now, he's been released and has returned to his small hometown in New York. As he tries to resume his life, a classmate is killed and Danny becomes a key suspect. The cast also includes Madelaine Hasson, Kylie Bunbury, Ashton Moio, Kimberly Quinn, Denise Richards, and Sam Robards.
The pilot episode aired as a special preview in March 2013 and drew 1.19 million viewers. It wasn't a great start but the ratings picked up when the regular season started in June. They quickly fell again but ABC Family ordered 10 additional episodes of Twisted anyway. That decision may have been influenced by the fact that they had recently cancelled Bunheads and The Lying Game.
When the second half of the season kicked off in February and viewership nearly hit a new low, despite the fact that it had popular Pretty Little Liars as a lead-in. Last week, when Twisted no longer had that strong lead-in, viewership hit an all-time low with just 726,000 viewers.
The second half of the season averaged 1.11 million viewers. Ravenswood was cancelled with higher viewership. Based on these numbers, it's looking unlikely that ABC Family will order a second season of Twisted.
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I was once told if you ever get a chance to work at OMB, take it. It's filled with incredibly dedicated, hardworking career staff who are the best of the best.
Too bad the Obama White House doesn't seem to understand that.
I was going to write about OMB's budget request and how their staff is down by 11 percent since 2010, yet their workload has increased — 40 mentions of OMB in the Government Performance and Results Modernization Act as compared to 18 mentions of OMB in the original GPRA in 1993.
But the budget request doesn't really matter if the White House can't keep consistent leadership at the helm.
The nomination of Director Sylvia Burwell as the next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services makes sense, but it's not a good decision by White House leaders.
It's not that Burwell isn't qualified to be HHS secretary. She's shown in the 12 months as OMB director that she plans on doing some good things. She is cool under pressure before Congress and seems to understand the need to rebuild OMB, requesting a $4.2 million increase in its budget for 2015.
But the decision also shows the lack of understanding by the White House of the importance of OMB — the same thing can be said about GSA and the Office of Personnel Management, for that matter.
Not having consistent leadership is hurting OMB's standing in the federal community. I've heard this from several current government executives and former OMB staff members. OMB doesn't carry the influence it once did, and that has a ripple effect across how well the government is managed.
None of the OMB directors during the Obama administration has stayed on the job for more than 18 months — Peter Orzag, 18 months; Jack Lew, 14 months; Burwell, 12 months. And Jeff Zients has been acting twice and, possibly, is in line for a third go around considering OMB deputy director for management Beth Cobert has been in government for a very short amount of time and has no previous federal experience, and Brian Deese, the deputy director for budget, is more of a numbers guy than the type of political insider needed to deal with Congress.
Compare the Obama administration's record with OMB directors with the previous two administrations:
President George W. Bush: Mitch Daniels, 29 months; Josh Bolten, 34 months, Rob Portman, 13 months, Jim Nussle, 16 months- end of administration;
President Bill Clinton: Leon Panetta, 21 months; Alice Rivlin, 18 months; Franklin Raines, 20 months; Jacob Lew, 32 months-end of administration.
This means most of the previous OMB directors had time to create relationships with Congress, go through at least two budget cycles and influence management concepts across government. Additionally, almost all of the former OMB directors came to lead OMB with connections to Congress already. That is not necessarily true for the Obama leadership, and that has hurt its effectiveness.
Moving OMB directors in and out quickly also causes others to be thrust into acting roles and that has a snowball effect. Again, it's not about the effectiveness of the people in acting roles — Danny Werfel was acting deputy director for management and became the acting IRS commissioner — but there is an importance that is attached to being permanent versus acting and how management issues are focused upon across the government.
Burwell will be a successful HHS secretary, but it's a shame it's at the expense of governmentwide management.
GSA pumps up new approach to buying
S trategic sourcing on steroids. That may be the best way to describe the General Services Administration's new category management concept rolled out by Tom Sharpe, Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner, Wednesday in a blog post.
A year ago when he was about a month on the job, Sharpe told me one of his main goal was to grow the federal market share of FAS, including the schedules. In fiscal 2012, FAS brought in about $55 billion in sales, about 13.5 percent of all acquisition spending. Sharpe said he'd like to see FAS' share increase to about 17 percent.
Through category management, Sharpe said GSA can provide a more coordinated, strategic approach to governmentwide purchasing and more cost savings.
"Category management essentially looks at product or services categories the way a business might look at its own strategic business units, and then works on customizing purchase channels to better meet customer needs and market demands. Category management also provides deep-dive market analysis and addresses supply chain management; it can even help with changing behaviors, and reducing demand," Sharpe wrote in the blog. "For FAS, this means we are identifying core categories of business around which we will develop a higher level of expertise, and then leveraging this expertise to direct and guide buyers to the best solutions for them, and ultimately those in the best interest of the taxpayers, regardless of where that solution comes from. Sometimes that solution will be a GSA contract vehicle and other times, it might be another agency's contract vehicle."
Think of category management as a highway with an assortment of stops along the way. Contracting officers or program managers eventually will access a series of tools and resources through a new Common Acquisition Platform (CAP).
"CAP will provide access and insights into transactional (purchasing/pricing) data from across government and reduce the need for maintaining redundant and duplicative acquisition vehicles, systems and tools," Sharpe wrote. "GSA has a unique position in the government marketplace as a repository of purchasing information and expertise related to best practices, buying behaviors, and prices paid. Through the CAP, GSA will make this information and expertise easily accessible online for all government buyers. We will help buyers navigate the process and the universe of purchasing options, thereby helping them to drive down prices, reduce price variability and make smarter purchases."
The tools or resources that FAS will make available on CAP include:
- Procurement Optimizer: A comprehensive contract-comparison search engine
that enhances competition for government acquisition.
- Market Intelligence Center: Category-centric market research materials that
guide purchase decisions based on a category manager's governmentwide expertise.
- Clear View: Real-time data on pricing and purchasing, as well as assessment
tools that help provide a big-picture view of government and individual agency
spending behavior.
- Collaborative Contracting Library: Provides a resource to jump-start
procurements with a central repository of exemplary contract work for complex buys
compiled by community experts.
- eMarketplace: An eCommerce transaction platform for simple purchases.
"Initially, we are focusing on a concept we call 'Category Hallways.' Here is how the hallways will eventually work. Before any federal buyer goes out to the marketplace with a procurement, they will enter CAP through a digital gateway and choose a category, or search for the product or service they need," Sharpe wrote. "From there they will virtually 'walk' down a hallway which houses everything from subject expertise and data, to tools and on-demand procurement assistance. All of which is specific to exactly what they are looking to purchase. The hallways will house both advice and acquisition sources that governmentwide category managers have determined would help professionals make better buying decisions."
One last point, the blog post seems to be the final piece to a year-long discussion with vendors, associations and agencies to put a finer point on the concept of category management. Now the hard work begins — implementation and education.
Reaction to category management has been cautiously optimistic.
Larry Allen, the president of Allen Federal Business Partners and a long-time GSA expert, said if the goal is to replace GSA Advantage then category management is a good thing.
"Advantage was great for what it was, but we need a 21st Century marketplace in the federal arena. A flexible emarketplace could be that," he said. "I also like the idea of a collaborative library being available to share best practices. The key will be to drive people to use it. It has the potential to be a good tool, but only if potential users know about it. How will GSA do this? The market intelligence and clear view initiatives, I think, have a real risk of driving unintended consequences."
Allen said the first concern is around how a database of "like buys" could work because pricing decisions have multiple variables and it would be difficult for any automated system to capture all of those inputs.
He said another concern is if contractors know their discounts will be made available to all agencies, then there may be less spot discounting and, therefore, the government may end up paying more than previously.
"GSA needs to be reminded of the old adage 'If you lie down with dogs, you're gonna get fleas.' The agency will always be able to find people who will sell to you cheaply," he said. "The question is whether GSA--or its customers--will be comfortable with the new company they keep."
FAA, GSA kick off security, telecom acquisitions
Two interesting procurement actions came out over the last two weeks that you should know about.
The first is GSA's request for information for the Network Services 2020 (NS2020) Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) acquisition initiative — one of six program areas under the umbrella program to replace the Networx telecommunications contract.
The second is a draft statement of work from the Federal Aviation Administration to run its security operations centers (SOC) under the Security Line of Business effort.
Wait, that still exists? This is one of the few mentions of the security LOB in the past five years around SOC shared services.
In fact, OMB's own report to Congress on E-Government benefits doesn't mention the security operations center as part of the LOB.
The FAA is one of eight agencies under the security LOB to provide shared services.
The Office of Management and Budget named four agencies — the Treasury Department's Bureau of Public Debt; the Interior Department's National Business Center; the Transportation Department's Federal Aviation Administration Enterprise Service Center; and the Justice Department — in 2009 as shared service providers for certification and accreditation services.
It also named four agencies — the departments of Defense and State, the Agency for International Development and the Office of Personnel Management — in 2007 to provide Federal Information Security Management Act training.
Agencies have taken advantage of the Justice Department's shared service for certification and accreditation, called Cyber Security Assessment and Management (CSAM), but there's been less discussion about shared security operations centers. Additionally, a lot of the efforts around the Security LOB have been to set up blanket purchase agreements for different levels of security awareness training.
FAA is looking for operations and maintenance support for hardware and software platforms, tools to perform event correlation, data reduction and anomalous event detection, and situational awareness and an up-to-date snapshot of cyber events that are on-going within the world of cybersecurity
In reading the draft statement of work, it seems the FAA is looking to create a continuous monitoring shared service center, which would make a lot more sense given the requirement by OMB and the Homeland Security Department to move a more dynamic approach to cybersecurity.
Now why they just didn't say that is unclear.
Comments to the draft SOW are due April 22.
One former DHS official says FAA may be making a play at servicing small and micro agencies under the CDM program. FAA recently lost one of its largest customers, the Education Department, which decided to bring a SOC in house. The former DHS official says they were surprised to see FAA come out with the draft RFP.
As for the NS2020 RFI, this is among the first specifics GSA has released about its new strategy.
GSA expects to issue a solicitation for EIS in spring of fiscal 2015 with a contract length of up to 15 years.
The RFI details eight categories of products and services under EIS, including voice and video, network security and equipment, data center and managed services.
"This scope is intended to allow agencies to acquire comprehensive solutions through the EIS ordering process without having to compete and integrate multiple procurement actions across multiple GSA or other vehicles," GSA stated in the RFI.
Reponses to the RFI are due May 8.
GSA has said it's using lessons from the arduous and delayed transition to Networx in the planning for NS2020. Agencies took about 33 months more than expected and the government ended up spending almost $400 million more than it should have for telecommunications services because of these delays, according to the Government Accountability Office.
It will be interesting to see industry reaction to this RFI. Telecommunications firms were frustrated with the Networx process, but pleased that agencies continued to pay them well as they transitioned mostly to like services instead of taking more advantage of new technologies and new approaches to telecommunications.
IT Job of the Week
This week's winner is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and its search for a new chief information officer. Rus Pittman held that role since May 2010. FDIC promoted Pittman to a new position as director of the Division of Information Technology. Martin Henning is the acting CIO and chief privacy officer.
In case you are interested in knowing what you may be getting into, Pittman outlined his priorities in April 2013, including a more specific focus on mission area IT improvements.
- The Professional Services Council is hosting OMB's
Cobert on Tuesday to discuss security clearances in Arlington, Va.
- On Thursday, AFFIRM has a good discussion on the future and evolving roles
of the CIO featuring Kevin Cooke, HUD's CIO; Simon Szykman, the
outgoing Commerce CIO; David Bray, the FCC CIO; Paul Brubaker,
DoD's director of planning and performance management in the Office of the Deputy
Chief Management Office; and former federal CIO Karen Evans.
- The AFCEA Northern Virginia chapter is hosting Maj. Gen. Wendy Masiello, the Air Force's outgoing deputy assistant security for contracting and nominee to be the next head of the Defense Contract Management Agency, on Friday.
March 28 -- Inside the Reporter's Notebook: DoD taking own path with cloud security, Treasury's Reger joins OMB
March 14 -- Inside the Reporter's Notebook: USPS cloud credential exchange almost ready, flood of GSA contract protests
Feb. 28 -- Inside the Reporter's Notebook: CIO switching DHS components, HUD stuck in 2005


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For the second year in a row, the Buckeye Valley school board on Tuesday night voted to opt out of a state program that would require the district to track how fat its students are.
Superintendent Jamie Grube recommended the district exercise its ability to opt out of the program, called the Healthy Choices for Healthy Children Act, passed by the Ohio legislature in June 2010 with bipartisan support.
Besides tracking students' aggregate body max indices over time, the program includes increased nutrition standards for public school meals and requires schools to provide healthy beverage options for students as well as 30 minutes of physical education a day.
"It's not that we're against having healthy students or wellness or anything like that. This is just another unfunded mandate," Grube said. The district would have to hire another staff member to track the data, which Grube said is of questionable value anyway.
Grube gave a similar rationale when he made the same recommendation last year.
School board member Rod Boester asked if the district could ask the Delaware General Health District to assume any responsibilities for the program — school administrators said no.
In other business, the school board approved about $119,000 worth of change orders for the ongoing renovations at Buckeye Valley High School. Including the school board's decision last summer to spend $520,000 in technology upgrades to the high school, the change orders bring the project's total to date cost to $13.9 million, with $600,000 remaining in the project's contingency fund.
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The project is still under the $16 million voters in November 2008 approved to allow the school district to borrow to pay for renovations at the high school. School board members have just less than $1.5 million in leftover money to spend as they see fit after construction bids came in significantly under budget. The money must be spent on permanent improvements for the district — construction, school buses, etc.— as opposed to operating costs like salaries.
The school board on Tuesday also approved a $21.1 million general fund budget for the 2011/2012 school year. That's slightly lower than the $21.3 million budget for last school year.
The 2011/2012 budget includes $350,000 in cuts in staffing achieved through layoffs and attrition — employees who retired but were not replaced. However, the savings were partially offset by the loss of federal stimulus money that paid school administrator salaries, costs which are now covered by the general fund, said district treasurer Sandra Griscom.


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It seems to me that most consulting firms do little more than match resumes to positions, typically with insightful criteria such as "X years experience in technologies Y and Z."
But there are also some consulting firms that attempt to find talented developers and invest in them. And rather than simply providing staff augmentation, they either partner with a client to accomplish a project, or supply the entire team.
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DHS hones dynamic approach to securing agency computer networks
Thursday - 6/28/2012, 5:20am EDT
For more than a decade, the biggest criticism of the Federal Information Security Management Act is the static nature of how agencies reviewed their systems — on average every three years.
Congress has attempted to update FISMA for more than three years with requirements for agencies to take a new, dynamic approach to securing their systems, but its efforts have stalled. So the Obama administration slowly has been using policy and regulations to make the change to continuous monitoring.
The Homeland Security Department took the biggest step yet Monday by releasing policy, detailing requirements on what continuous monitoring looks like and giving agencies and vendors a clearer idea of how they will be expected to implement it.
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"For the last several years, we've been talking about getting away from the elements of process and compliance of an earlier time and heading out to continuous monitoring," said John Streufert, the director of the National Cyber Security Division at DHS, in an interview with Federal News Radio. "So with our discussions with colleagues in the continuous monitoring working group [of the CIO Council] we are settling in on five core capabilities of continuous monitoring."
The five areas are:
- Hardware asset management
- Software white listing and asset management
- Vulnerability management
- Configuration settings
- Anti-virus
These are five of the 20 most common system vulnerabilities as determined by a government-private sector group of experts. The group, which included the FBI, DHS and several others, published the Consensus Audit Guidelines in February 2009.
DHS would spend more than $200 million in fiscal 2013 to install a common set of tools, including a diagnostic dashboard, and implement a security data warehouse on each agency's network. Agencies then would provide DHS with summary data through the CyberScope tool, giving them a more complete view of the vulnerabilities and threats across government. In the fiscal 2011 FISMA report to Congress, the Office of Management and Budget found 78 percent of agencies submitted data automatically to CyberScope.
Congress still must approve President Obama's request for DHS.
Lawmakers have responded positively to the $202 million budget request. The House approved the White House request in full, saying in the report on the DHS spending bill, "Specifically, the funds shall be used to provide adequate, risk-based, and cost-effective cybersecurity to address escalating and rapidly evolving threats to information security, to include the acquisition of an automated and continuous monitoring program."
The full House passed the DHS appropriations bill June 7.
The Senate would allocate $183.6 million for these efforts. In its report, the committee stated continuous monitoring "will provide for robust implementation but also a disciplined approach to ensure lessons are learned before deployment to all federal agencies."
Both bills require DHS to submit an expenditure plan with details on timeline and process for implementation before they can spend a majority of the funds.
"If it should be passed, we anticipate discussions with department and agencies for implementations beginning in 2013," Streufert said. "An important aspect of this is the fact that some of these continuous monitoring standards will widely across the methods of implementations for technology."
Agencies should begin planning now
Until Congress approves DHS' spending bill, the agency is preparing both agencies and vendors to implement the five security controls.
Earlier this week, DHS held a series of meetings outlining the requirements and expectations, including a concept of operations and how continuous monitoring fits in with the cloud-first and share-first policies, which OMB is emphasizing.
"We would really like to have industry to comment on them and get their best ideas so we can incorporate it in the future planning of the government around continuous monitoring," Streufert said.
Alan Paller, director of research, Sans Institute
DHS also released two memos to agencies: one offers guidance on implementing continuous monitoring and another details the requirements for cloud boundary defense.
DHS officials say the memos have not been made public or provided to industry yet.
One official, who requested anonymity, said 49 criteria are in the cloud boundary defense. The requirements grew out of the Trusted Internet Connections initiative. DHS expects to issue the requirements for TIC 2.0 in September.
Alan Paller, director of research at the Sans Institute, said the policy and requirements are a game changer for federal cybersecurity.
"This is the single highest leverage project in cyber security," Paller said. "By ensuring only software and services that meet these specs can be deployed in federal agencies, they will immediately enable the kind of continuous risk reduction and high-speed response to new threats that have long eluded most federal agencies. This also seeds the commercial world with technology that enterprises all over country can but to get the same benefits."
Sans was one of the main private sector supporters of the development of the Consensus Audit Guidelines.
Few agencies have all tools in place
Streufert said nearly every agency has one or two of the tools, but few have all five. He said the State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Veterans Affairs Department and the Justice Department are out in front in both using the tools and taking advantage of continuous monitoring.
In their presentation to industry and agencies, DHS said 80 percent of all attacks take advantage of known vulnerabilities and configuration management weaknesses. These five tools would help close up those unprotected areas, and give agencies a more immediate approach to finding and fixing new weak spots in their network defenses.
"The goal of this proposed DHS program in 2013 is to infuse a little bit of money and try to get some standard approaches to these five areas and get them as evenly as we can across all of dot-gov," Streufert said.
The concept of operations for continuous monitoring includes three implementation approaches:
- Internally operated services, where DHS installs and agencies run their own
sensors and dashboard.
- Continuous monitoring-as-a-service (CMaaS). DHS plans on issuing a request for
proposals in 6-to-9 months for public or private sector organizations to provide
these services to other agencies.
- Cloud provider security services. This approach is considered "turn-key," where vendors provide all aspects of the cyber services, including hardware, software and security. It's an entirely outsourced operation, DHS officials say.
Each agency will have to decide which approach works best for them based on the application they are putting in the cloud. If the software needs to be protected as the moderate or high level, then running the services internally or using a federal CMaaS provider may make the most sense.
Vendors wanting to provide cloud services and/or cloud security services to the government will have to meet the continuous monitoring requirements detailed in the documents. They also have to get their systems approved by the third- party assessment organizations under the FedRAMP program.
DHS said agencies who are just cloud security providers would self-certify they meet the federal standards, and then have one of the third-party companies review their self-assessment.
Homeland Security officials would not comment on their acquisition strategy or how many vendors would provide these cloud security services.
"We are looking for industry help in three particular areas: continuous monitoring, which includes the five areas, the display and action of the data all hinges on the dashboard and the third area we are beginning to study in greater detail and will come back to industry on is getting continuous monitoring as service," Streufert said. "We want to get the right sensors, the right dashboard and get industry involved in the question of how those tools are put to work in departments and agencies."
Streufert said agencies need to start planning how those sensors will be put to use on their networks and how continuous monitoring will substitute for the current static approach to FISMA reviews of systems.
The DHS official said there will be multiple opportunities for agency and vendor participation in the coming months, including the ability to comment on a Federal Register notice to change procurement regulations to include continuous monitoring requirements.
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After annnouncing the 2013 Tony nominees, Sutton Foster and Jesse Tyler Ferguson chat about what makes the Tonys special, who they're rooting for on Broadway's big night and what nominees should do to stay sane.
Clinton the Musical star Kerry Butler on her favorite part about playing a Disney princess, thoughts on Hillary and the scent of Aaron Tveit.May 1, 2015
On this week's jam-packed episode of The Broadway.com Show, we've got news galore about the 2015 Tony nominations, two legends returning to the Great White Way, Younger's second season and tons more.April 29, 2015
Check out the beauty and detail of Gregg Barnes' Tony-nominated take on a booty-shakin' Shakespeare with his Something Rotten! costumes.April 29, 2015
It's Sierra's last vlog, and her friends at It Shoulda Been You are busy celebrating Barbra Streisand's birthday.April 28, 2015
Max von Essen's first vlog backstage at An American in Paris is full of goodies, including a trip to a few TV shows.April 28, 2015
Bruce Willis, who is making his Broadway debut in Misery in the fall, joined forces with Tony winner Mary-Louise Parker to announce this year's Tony noms.April 28, 2015
The Visit, the final musical by John Kander and the late Fred Ebb (and the final show of the Broadway season!), opens at the Lyceum Theatre.April 27, 2015
It's a long day at Finding Neverland as Laura Michelle Kelly and the cast get up super early to be on Good Morning America.April 25, 2015
Playing lesbian cartoonist and novelist Alison Bechdel has been life-altering for Broadway vet Beth Malone. Find out why in this special video feature.April 25, 2015
The stars of Lisa D'Amour's Airline Highway celebrate opening night with a brass band, a parade and a lot of laughter.April 24, 2015
Something Rotten! star Brian d'Arcy James on career timing, being inspired by Lawrence Welk (!) and how tap lessons paid off.April 24, 2015
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There's no getting around the fact that integrating immigrants costs money. That explains why recession-battered European countries, as well as a number of U.S. states, made cuts to programs affecting immigrants in 2009 and again in 2010.
Europe's largest minority group has long faced discrimination, but France's deportation of Roma as part of its security policies has sparked criticism from the European Union and human rights groups. Kristi Severance explains how the situation has evolved in recent months, the relevant EU laws, and how Europe is likely to move forward.
Since joining the European Union in 2004, Poland has experienced one of the largest emigration flows in its postwar history. But the country has also received thousands of immigrants and refugees, mainly from its eastern neighbors, and is just beginning to invest in immigrant integration. Krystyna Iglicka and Magdalena Ziolek-Skrzypczak look at all aspects of migration in Poland in this updated profile.
In its newest five-year "roadmap" for justice and home affairs policy, the European Union has made migration a priority area. But while the Stockholm program offers plenty of detail on issues like illegal migration and asylum, it offers few specifics as to the final goal. MPI's Elizabeth Collett analyzes the program's action points and looks at challenges facing its implementation.
The global recession has caused countries that once welcomed foreign workers by the tens and hundreds of thousands — particularly Spain — to rethink generous immigration policies as unemployment rates have risen.
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This policy brief, which concludes a nine-brief series examining what is known about the linkages between migration and development, suggests that the policy framework on migration and development remains relatively weak, and few development agencies have made it a priority to promote the positive impact of international migration.
The Chair of the Global Forum on Migration and Development, along with the Special Advisor to the UN Special Representative for International Migration discuss what is expected from The UN High-Level Dialogue on Migration and Development in October 2013 and what impact it may have on the Global Forum on Migration and Development.
Circular migration has typically been viewed with skepticism by migrant-rights advocates and wary publics alike. But many experts and policymakers in the migration field — and some in development — have come to recognize that well-managed circulation that is respectful of migrants' human and labor rights can bring benefits to countries of origin and destination, as well as to migrants themselves. For countries of origin, circular migration can relieve labor surpluses; for destination countries, it can provide the flexibility to quickly overcome skills shortages while adapting to long-term labor market shifts. For migrants, circular migration offers the opportunity to earn higher wages and gain international experience.
Private recruitment agencies orchestrate much of the migration process, from predeparture to return. They provide information, assistance, and even financial support to migrants; facilitate transit to and from the destination; and in some cases employ migrants directly. While recruitment agencies protect migrants, sometimes removing them from abusive workplaces or even organizing repatriation, migrants' dependence on them for so many services also creates many opportunities for exploitation and abuse. This brief assesses the forms of regulation that are being proposed and enacted to oversee recruitment agencies and identifies several areas for further improvement.
Diasporas can play an important role in the economic development of their countries of origin or ancestry. Beyond their well-known role as senders of remittances, diasporas also can promote trade and foreign direct investment, create businesses, spur entrepreneurship, and transfer new knowledge and skills. Policymakers increasingly recognize that an engaged diaspora can be an asset — or even a counterweight to the emigration of skilled and talented migrants.
Skilled migration is often thought to have overwhelmingly negative effects on countries of migrant origin. Yet recent research and policy experience challenge this assumption and offer a more nuanced picture, as this brief explains. Countries of origin and destination can in fact benefit from skilled migration when it is correctly structured, and efforts to restrict skilled nationals' ability to leave their countries of origin may have unintended costs, in addition to being ethically problematic.
This edited volume develops a pragmatic approach to the engagement of highly skilled members of the diaspora for the benefit of their countries of origin. The book, edited by a World Bank senior economist, is based on empirical work in middle-income and high-income economies.
Immigrant-receiving countries have introduced a range of policies to improve the recognition of foreign qualifications. This report explores strategies for ensuring that qualified immigrants can contribute their training and talent to the labor force.


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The stage and screen icon on childhood in New York City, her Broadway and Hollywood career and writing her new book Rita Moreno: A Memoir.
The Tony nominee and Olivier Award winner on settling down in New York City, projectile sweating and wearing his grandma's wig.February 13, 2015
Paul Wontorek sits down with a true theater legend, nine-time Tony Award winner Tommy Tune, currently back on the boards in the Encores! staging of Lady, Be Good!February 5, 2015
Looking star Jonathan Groff sits down with Paul Wontorek to chat about being Hollywood's special sauce and reveal a whole lot of Spring Awakening secrets.January 30, 2015
Tony nominee Ramin Karimloo returns to Show People to discuss his onstage life, backstage life, workout life and more.November 21, 2014
Paul Wontorek talks to On the Town star Tony Yazbeck during the best week of his life.November 6, 2014
If/Then leading man James Snyder talks about his popular Broadway.com video blog, his comeback career and his dreams of passing on his Star Wars obsession to his son.October 24, 2014
Tony winner Alan Cumming talks about his new memoir, his dream projects and what it's like to return to Cabaret.October 17, 2014
Tony winner Laura Benanti returns to talk about her new gig on TV's Nashville, her fantasy reality TV show about Broadway and her amazing Twitter talentOctober 9, 2014
Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner Andy Mientus discusses his work in the new hit revival of Les Miserables, his TV start on Smash and how he popped the question to Michael Arden.October 3, 2014
The "gender-flex" star of Hedwig and the Angry Inch talks about her hard-rock image, her uncool other side and her long Broadway journey to Tony glory.September 26, 2014
The Book of Mormon Tony Award nominee Andrew Rannells talks about his latest adventure in drag as the star of Hedwig and the Angry Inch.September 12, 2014
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Romance is a funny thing: you hear about it, read about, and dream about it, but it always seems to elude you... until it actually happens, in a way you never imagined it, and knocks you off your feet! At least, that's how it seems to feel to young Ayumi and her friends, all just entering the eighth grade. One by one, they discover that love is infectious and you can catch it from anyone! Now Ayumi's torn between two brothers, Koyoi has an altogether different kind of brother issue, and budding theatrical impresario Sumire seems ready to do anything to land her leading man.
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Baseball Drops 10-2 Decision to #6 Catawba Wrapping Up Asheboro Weekend at McCrary Park
February 10, 2013
ASHEBORO, N.C. - A six-run fourth inning opened up a 2-0 ballgame as #6 Catawba College scored a 10-2 victory over Pfeiffer University in non-conference baseball action on Sunday afternoon. The Indians improve to 8-0 on the season while the Falcons drop to 0-7.
A Paul Kronenfeld RBI-single and Garrett Furr groundball that resulted in a Pfeiffer error led to a pair of runs in the bottom of the first for Catawba. The six-run fourth saw Keaton Hawks belt a three-run homer while Furr struck again with a two-run double. Pfeiffer's pair of runs came in the sixth as a Matt Wade walk would allow for Cole McGraw to belt a two-run homer to right-center. Catawba would add two more in their sixth for insurance.
Kronenfeld for lead the Indians at the plate going 3-for-4 with a RBI and two runs scored. Wade would collect two of the Falcons hits in the loss. Cameron Cockman would toss seven innings to get the win allowing the two runs on six hits to move to 2-0 on the year.
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In order to make your visit easier, buses from the Shoah Memorial in Paris to the Memorial in Drancy are available every Sunday. Departure at 2 pm.
The Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation (CDJC) continuously gathers documents, photographs, books and magazines related to the fate of European Jews during the Second World War and to the history of the Jewish community before and after the Shoah.
For the benefit of a growing number of English-speaking visitors, the Shoah Memorial is organizing on the second Sunday of every month, a guided tour in English, free of charge. Start of the tour at 3.00 pm in the lobby. Prior reservation is not required.
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The word "Holocaust" is commonly used in english speaking countries, whereas the Hebrew word "Shoah" which means "catastrophe" is used in France.