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The emergence of mobile/cloud computing has been breathtaking in its speed of adoption and growth. The wake these technologies are creating is capsizing business models and practices while generating new waves of innovation and creation. At the same time, the cybersecurity strategies that organizations rely on to help them safely navigate these new challenges and opportunities are also undergoing a sea of change.
Mobile and cloud technologies have eroded the digital perimeter that organizations have traditionally used as the foundation of their security practices. Many of our tried-and-true security practices -- such as firewalls, antivirus tools and intrusion-detection systems -- are increasingly insufficient against the deluge of our digital adversaries. The landscape is changing, and we need a new map.
Fortunately, the public and private sectors have begun to draft one. In early 2013, President Barack Obama issued Executive Order 13636, which calls for the development of a voluntary framework that would help manage the cybersecurity risk for our most critical infrastructure. In early 2014, following an industry-led period of discussion and collaboration, the National Institute of Standards and Technology issued Version 1.0 of the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity. The goal is to create an open, business-centric framework for managing digital risk that provides guidance to organizations of any size, risk profile or cybersecurity sophistication.
The framework consists of three parts: the Core, Implementation Tiers and Profile. In overly simplistic terms, those elements provide a structure for thinking about managing cybersecurity risk (Core), benchmarking an organization's risk management practices and needs (Implementation Tiers), and creating a road map for achieving an organization's desired risk management maturity (Profile).
The Core delineates five key functions of an effective cybersecurity risk management program: identify, protect, detect, respond and recover.
Those functions are further broken down into categories and subcategories of cybersecurity outcomes at the programmatic, management and technical levels.
The Implementation Tiers describe four levels of cybersecurity risk management sophistication:
The Implementation Tiers must not be seen as a hierarchy through which organizations should progress over time. They describe different levels of sophistication based on the business context and needs of an organization. Some businesses might quite satisfactorily remain at Tier 1 because they do not require any greater degree of risk management sophistication. Each organization must review its own business context and decide which tier is right for its business needs.
The Profile consists of a snapshot of an organization's business needs, digital resources and risk assessment against the backdrop of the Core's functions, categories and subcategories. The profile can be a snapshot of the current state of the organization or its desired state -- or one of each. Those two profiles provide a road map for improving an organization's cybersecurity stance. Organizations can develop multiple profiles to match different geographies, markets or other needs.
Many organizations might already be pursuing a cybersecurity road map as a stand-alone project or as part of larger initiatives -- such as the ISO 27000 series of standards, COBIT 5 and even NIST's SP 800 series -- and many elements of the various standards overlap. Two common questions are: What's different about the framework, and what makes it preferable to other standards and specifications?
The answer depends on your particular context. The framework's primary benefit is that its support by industry and the federal government gives it the best chance of being both guided by current industry best practices and aligned with government experience and regulatory intent. For those already working toward compliance with a different standard, the good news is that the framework is intended to complement other standards. As mentioned above, there is overlap between the standards, so compliance with one can mean compliance with the other.
The challenge for many organizations is translating the framework and other standards into an action plan that results in a stronger cybersecurity stance in the real world. The framework provides a structure and process for understanding an organization's cybersecurity risk and guidance for how to reduce that risk, but it does not specify the actions to be taken along that path. There are, of course, many paths to that ultimate goal.
As a first step, an organization could use organic resources to assess itself against the framework, or officials might bring in an outside expert to review their capabilities. After that, organizations should be able to determine their risk levels and -- based on variables such as regulations, reputation, competition and liability -- develop a road map to achieve the Implementation Tier that makes the most sense for their business.
Regardless of how you adopt the framework (or any other standard), the important thing is to begin now. The threat landscape has evolved and grown significantly more dangerous, and the only thing more dangerous is continuing to delay adoption of a more effective cybersecurity risk management strategy.
You should begin with a frank assessment of your business needs, the digital assets supporting those needs and the risk posed by a compromise of those assets. Then use the framework to determine your desired cybersecurity profile and chart the course to achieve it. You probably won't arrive at your desired destination tomorrow, but you will be moving in the right direction, and every day will bring you closer to your desired end state and, ultimately, make your organization more secure.
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Interesting take on cloud security, cloud computing is efficient and cost-effective for any organizations to move reap the benefits of ubiquity and scalability. Organizations need to utilize firewalls and private networks to secure sensitive information. I work for McGladrey and there's a whitepaper on our site that discusses a few points here that may interest readers, it offers very good information on common security concerns for business and ways to mitigate them. @ "Two common Web application attacks illustrate security concerns" http://bit.ly/1c0f35M
Woefully naive. 1) Risk Management copes only with perceived risks, not all risks. Goldratt's Constraint Theory is much better. 2) Is 'perimeter-focused' while ignoring that the majority of cyberlosses occur from within. Better to rid software of all faults then no attacks could actually execute. Modern technology enables fault-free software and should be vigorously pursued.
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Another really lazy, half finished doodle from my blog, I didn't even finish the poor girls hand!
Around 2 hours I think. PS
Some actual finished work on the way soon!
Around 2 hours I think. PS
Some actual finished work on the way soon!
I fancy this
shy beautiful calm silance
great work
great work
beautiful pic, makes a great atmosphere
I love your doodles !
So pretty in a serene sort of way
Love the purple
i love it, it looks like her hand is emerging into the darkness which makes since since we cannot see every detail in the dark, so its great like that ~ <3
This light is what we are looking for.
i love your work and all, but why is she naked in a cave?
Awesome! so beautiful.
love it...amazing piece.
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Amazing colors and style! So tenderly.
Gorgeous color!
she wooks wike a fawie~ =3
Beautiful and puzzling. I love just the way it is.
You have a great portfolio! Bravo!!!
For an unfinished doodle, this is pretty awesome. Love the soft colors and the facial expression. And the hair is lovely.
Her hair is so real. The use of colors is fantastic!
this one is snice...
i love it
i love it
Love this!
this thing is adorable
Awesome work..\m/
I like this.
I like it! Good perspective!
So gorgeous! The lighting is fantastic and invokes great emotion, it doesn't seem unfinished at all.
Love the lighting from below.
It may be unfinished, but the lighting and look on her face are priceless. Great work.
I adore the lighting in this one, holy wow.
beautiful yet somewhat creeps me out...
i love this something about it is so sweet
Oh wow. I absolutely love the lighting in this....so beautiful!
Can I ask how you got that great texture on the piece?
Can I ask how you got that great texture on the piece?
I love how the light seems to eminate from her heart. Lovely.
Awesome Lighting! Very nice piece even if it isn't finished.
love her features
I like unfinisched work, it gives us an idea of how the artist works. Great use of light as always.
this is a bit different I really really like it!
Interesting and soft work
The highlight on her lip is what really draws me in.
I love this work.
Despite the hand.
I love this work.
Despite the hand.
so beautiful
Really beautiful. I love how the glow looks like it's coming from her heart.
the girl could be an alien princess o_o from a distant planet -errry music plays- >_>..... <_< D: -run
omg i lob it!!!! so cutteeee and and woooow jajajaj 8D
so great ~~<3 ^^
where is the lightsource? is it her heart?
Geez, I love the lighting here. Unfinished hand or no, your "doodles" are not distinguishable from my most polished pieces. Brilliant, as ever!


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I thought I'd stick this is cycling health because it's related to diet. For me porridge is a huge cornerstone of my nutritional intake
So I eat a lot of porridge. At least 1 serve a day, where a serve is about 200g of dry stuff, on the weekends it can be 2, and even 3 in the extreme. That much dry stuff is a lot, especially for smaller people and people on relatively low calorie diets. 200g of dry stuff boils up to 1kg or more final product...
Anyway, I use mostly oats, but also semolina, rice, spelt grain and those "5 grain" type mixes that you can find. And I tend to boil it mostly in water, but do use some milk as well. Anyone have as good suggestions on what to make porridge from guidance for good ways of making it?
I'll kick things off with one of my favourites, oat/semolina in water/milk.
Bring 100g rolled oats to boil in 500ml of water. Simmer gently for 5 or 10 mins before adding 500 milk (I mostly use half fat stuff) and 100g of semolina. Simmer for 5 or 10 mins while stirring as it thickens. I also a add bit of salt. Let it cool for a good 15 minutes before eating straight from the pot. Gives it time to get a new think skin.
Can be served with any combination of butter, cold milk, sugar, cinnamon or just plain. I like it plain, especially with think skin
So I'm looking for new ideas, so please feel free to add ideas of what to make into porridge or how to make it. Like I've tried potato and pasta, neither are as good as oats, rice and semolina
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If you soak the oats overnight in the cooking pot you only have to heat rather than boil them in the morning.
This supposedly reduces the amount of nutrient loss (vitamin E?) due to boiling.
I had elevated blood cholesterol levels a few years ago but no weight issues at 62kg's.
Oats and oat bran in particular were recommended. Nowadays I combine about 0.25 cup of oats and about 0.75 cup of oat bran.
Cholesterol levels are back to normal thanks to this, an overall improvement in diet and regular exercise.
The Scotts eat porridge with salt (yuck), I like mine with dates and honey.
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I put a pinch of salt in mine otherwise I find them really bland, those being plain quick oats and water.
A guy at work saw me adding salt the other day and asked if I was Scottish
As I explained it's like making a basic cake or biscuits, the salt doesn't make it taste "salty" just knocks the blandness out.
I do sweeten it after with either honey/sugar and a cut banana too.
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Oats, Honey and Salt in water, and we buy home brand which is wayyyyyyy cheaper than named brands.
We also prefer full rolled oats for the texture, "quick oats" is just oats chopped up and turns to mush.
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Really good this one
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I was on a non dairy kick a while back and found out by accident that oats cooked in oat milk were totally kickin'. Like porridge squared, I suppose. Bit of honey, grate sone nutmeg over, slivered almonds or sunflower seeds ir whatever = chipper!
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Samuel Johnson's 18th Century dictionary defined oats as 'a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.".
I quite like it, and will add different things to it at different times, including rhubarb, crushed nuts, banana, sultanas, shredded coconut and cooking chocolate buttons.
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We love porridge in winter. Our favourite is 1/2 cup of quick oats, 6 chopped dates, ground cinnamon, pinch of salt, 1/2 teaspoon brown sugar in a bowl. Fill bowl with milk (probably about a cup of milk). Microwave for 2 mins, stir, 2 lots of 30secs + stir, may need another 10 - 20 secs to get the consistency I like. Then eat and enjoy.
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I don't feel like eating in the morning but I got sick of being hungry until lunch time. So I started making overnight oats at work before I went home and eating them when I get to work on the morning because I'm hungry after a ride. I have been eating overnight oats for 3 weeks now. I don't measure the amount of oats, I just pour some into a jar (roughly the same each day), pour in enough milk to cover and leave overnight. 1 kg made me 15 serves, so it's a pretty cheap breakfast for me. I have had them plain, good, with honey flavoured greek yoghurt, really good, and with plain greek yoghurt, ok.
However, they have played havoc with my digestion. If you eat overnight oats, be prepared to drink a significant amount of extra water. I didn't and it caused problems
I'm thinking of switching to full fat greek yoghurt and coconut milk instead, mainly because I'm missing heaps of training due to the weather, I just ran out of oats and I have a tub of yoghurt and a can of coconut milk to use up. I will go back to overnight oats when my training picks up. It's a cheap breakfast and a good source of carbs for me.
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I chuck in a handful of sultanas before cooking, a teaspoon of butter and a tablespoon of honey after cooking and stir it all up. I coom mine in soy milk.
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I also do an overnight oat type thing - also using the Yummy Life originally as inspiration.
I use:
- 1/4 cup rolled oats
- 1/4 cup plain greek yogurt
- 1/3 cup milk
- 2 tablespoons chia
- 1/3 mashed banana
- a splash of maple syrup
- cinnamon
I generally make 6 at a time and refrigerate.
The oats and the chia do a great job of sopping up the liquid and making a great, firm porridge.
I love this and I find it interesting particularly because I can't stand normal porridge.
I've also tried it with stewed apple instead of banana. It's OK, but I prefer the banana.
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Whatever you do, don't use kiwi fruit as an addition to your porridge. I tried it once using a whole cut up kiwi fruit and I swear it curdled the milk and made the porridge inedible because whatever happened to the kiwi fruit in the hot oats ruined both the kiwi and the oats.
Otherwise I use oats and milk (no water), microwave for one minute, stir, microwave for another, then add sultanas, honey, banana, apple slices or whatever else I have on hand (that isn't kiwi fruit). I've even used Milo, although that makes it even more sticky (but it does taste chocolatey).
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@Summernight I imagine any acidic type food to curdle the milk. I would have thought apple would as well.
I have rolled oats every morning. I like it like mash.
I put quick oats it in a bowl and add hot water, then leave it over night with a plate covering the bowl
In the morning I heat it up in the microwave till it starts to over flow (about 3min 30 on my microwave). So i got to stick around for this bit.
Then I microwave for 5min on power level 2 (obviously specific to my microwave) where i can go do other stuff.
Then I add honey and fold in 2 egg whites.
oats in oats milk sounds funny, think I might try it.
For those who use other grains, do they go soft or stay crunchy/hard. Also be nice to know which are the ones that go soft/hard.
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I like to make a savoury version of porridge with curry paste and tuna.
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Rolled oats, triticale, rye and barley cooked up in the microwave until tender. Splash of cinnamon, chopped fruit (banana or berries) and spoonful of rapadura sugar (unprocessed sugar- awesome stuff) is my current hot breakfast at work
Super duper yum
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This might seem like a silly question, but why does the oats in Porridge require cooking prior to eating? The Muesli that I eat every morning contains rolled oats, and no cooking is required.
What is the difference between the rolled oats in Porridge and the rolled oats in Muesli that necessitates cooking?
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It doesn't. As a kid we regulalry had rolled oats with milk straight up like breakfast cereal. I often throw the odd handfull in my mouth (same with museli or other cereals) as a snack
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The oats in Porridge do not require cooking prior to eating. Porridge is typically made from rolled oats and they are the same as in raw muesli. Toasted muesli is the same, but cooked. Of course, to make porridge, you have to cook the oats because porridge is cooked oats, just like toasted muesli is cooked muesli.
I don't cook my rolled oats. I soak them in milk overnight to make overnight oats. I like them better than porridge.
To summarise:
Overnight oats are like raw muesli
Porridge is like toasted muesli.
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According to the wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolled_oats, "Rolled oats are traditionally oat groats that have been de-husked, steamed and then rolled into flat flakes under heavy rollers before being stabilized by being lightly toasted."
So rolled oats have already been steamed and toasted, ie, partially/totally cooked, and so can be eaten as-is from the box (if you like). I've seen some smoothie recipes that add oats straight from the box to the blender, but it never sounded very appetising to me.
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The cooking bursts the grains so that the starch can make that slurry consistency.
Think cornflour in your gravy.
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I have been having porridge for breakfast every day for a couple of years. Keeps me going until lunch.
I have this one which I cook with skim milk at work after my ride in.
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Here is a poem I wrote about porridge :
I like porridge an awful lot.
Mostly 'cause its all I got.
(The money you save by eating porridge enables you to buy better bicycles)
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I have been a porridge fan forever;
Rolled oats (only traditional, not chopped up)
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Oats for me is my favourite, ratio of 1 to 3 of oats to water, I add golden syrup or apple puree, then a little soy milk.
Some of the other porridges are 1 to 5 like semilina and meile meal.
Salt exactly sweetens oats, try it sometime
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Appreciate the feedback re my question on oats in porridge, and whether or not they require cooking prior to eating.
Thanks very much indeed
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Are the stars aligning over Ohio toward legalizing same-sex marriages in the Buckeye State?
Advocates of gay marriage here have good reasons to believe so. A series of recent judicial rulings as well as public-attitude adjustments have energized the movement toward a potentially rapid and revolutionary revision in state law.
2013 ended this week as a watershed year for the advancement of marriage equality in the United States. Eight states — Rhode Island, Delaware, Minnesota, New Jersey, Hawaii, Illinois, New Mexico and Utah — joined 10 others and the District of Columbia in legalizing same-sex marriage. That is the fastest track of growth since Massachusetts became the first state to do so 10 years ago.
In Ohio, where gay marriage has been officially illegal since voters — by a 62 percent margin — outlawed the practice in 2004, recent judicial decisions have buoyed supporters. Foremost among those rulings is one from federal Judge Timothy Black who on Dec. 23 ordered Ohio to recognize same-sex marriages from other states on death certificates, calling Ohio's ban on same-gender marriage unconstitutional.
That ruling came on the heels of last year's landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling invalidating key portions of the Defense of Marriage Act. In his dissenting opinion in that case, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia offered a thoughtful and probable glimpse into the future.
"The real rationale of today's opinion ... is that DOMA is motivated by a bare desire to harm couples in same-sex marriages. ... How easy is it, indeed how inevitable, to reach the same conclusion with regard to state laws denying same-sex couples marital status."
Scalia's case for the inevitability of marriage equality gained more ground last week when Judge Robert J. Shelby of the U.S. District Court for Utah ruled that ultra-conservative state's ban on gay marriage unconstitutional. Like Ohio, Utah's ban resulted from a citizens' ballot initiative. Its adjudication in the U.S. Supreme Court likely will have strong and direct repercussions for Ohio.
As judicial rulings have pivoted toward support for gay marriage in recent years, so, too, has public opinion. A March 2013 Saperstein poll for the Columbus Dispatch revealed that 54 percent of Ohio residents surveyed supported a proposed amendment that would overturn the state's ban on same-sex marriage. In addition, a 2013 Public Policy Polling survey found that 69 percent of Ohioans support either marriage or civil unions for gay couples, including a majority of Republican voters. Only 27 percent in that poll said no legal recognition of a gay couple's relationship should be given by the state.
And unlike in 2004, today prominent and respected Ohio Republicans, including U.S. Sen. Rob Portman and former Attorney General and Auditor Jim Petro, publicly advocate enactment of same-sex marriage.
All of these developments are galvanizing Freedom Ohio to continue its campaign to get a statewide issue on the ballot this year to repeal the 2004 amendment. Its work is gaining steam as language for the measure has been approved by the Ohio attorney general and the state ballot board, plus it withstood a challenge in the Ohio Supreme Court.
But in the face of such optimism, some mainstream gay-rights groups believe 2014 is not quite the right time for Ohio. They fear a strong Republican and conservative turnout at the polls could re-validate the ban and quash momentum.
Despite questions of timing, however, most analysts and indicators suggest that it no longer is a question of whether Ohio will legalize gay marriage. Most likely, it now merely is a question of when it will do so.
I am sure there will opposition by the religious but think about this: The "damage" gained by accepting homosexuality is not comparable to the amount of damage accepting religious dogma has had on our planet.
The article should also mention that the proposed measure that will be on the 2014 ballot will remove the current wording of the 2004 constitutional amendment will not only allow marriage equality in the state of Ohio, but will also give religious institutions protection if they wish not to perform ceremonies.
The additional stress and complications incurred by people such as my husband and myself, (legally married in Washington DC) need to be removed. Our marriage last year along with 24 other couples that traveled out of state, resulted in a loss of close to a half million dollars in business that could have gone to local companies.
Let's get it together Ohio, let's not be the last state with equality!
this makes nearly as much sense as a referendum on changing the speed of light. If you wish to refer to the shameful association of two (or more, perhaps) sexual deviants as a marriage, then you've made yourself look foolish in public, but that's about it. It's no more a marriage than it is a cactus farm. Give it a name if you wish, but that does not make it so.
Throwing around terms like "equality" is simply a rather transparent effort to camouflage bad behavior and shameful delusions. Deserving of pity, perhaps. But not celebration nor acceptance.
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Well, not that anything could spoil this movie.
So what do we know?
Emma Frost line was removed from the rated commercials
(vs this film not yet rated).
Apparently, her commercial appearance is her entire appearance for the film. Oops.
Logan gets another name.
The speculation of Logan as a first or last name (or both) is over (again).
Marvel has always waffled on Wolverine. His stats go from 5'2" to 5'9" (most male superheroes are 6+) and 175lbs to nearly 700lbs. There have been several first names, mostly James and John, but Mr. Logan has been a very common reference. Mr. Logan could be a (chielfy southern) polite form of address for someone with a first name of Logan.
The first-look teasers and imdb have revealed: James Howlett
Unfortunately, Sabertooth is his real brother in this movie and still named Victor Creed.So we have John Howlett, Thomas Logan, Victor "Dog" Creed, and more confusion.
Sabertooth is different.
Different actor. Different look. Different powers. He's no longer the mute sidekick.
Bone claws.
Wolverine's claws were bionic implants. They were often utilized when the X-men lost their powers, say on visits to the Savage Land. Since they've made adamantium magnetic, and Magneto a master of all metals, ferrous or not, in one timeline, Magneto remove all the adamantium from Wolverine's skeleton revealing bone claws. There is still no explanation how the knobby bone claws become precision knife blades.
Wolverine in not canadien.
He says he is, but he isn't. There is no Alpha Flight.
There is no Omega Red
Even after the practice with Doc Ock in Spiderman 2, Omega Red was written out of the movie. He's not PC anymore, anyway.
Gambit has telekinesis and a magic staff
Gambit's power is to charge items. These items tend to go boom. While he has been seen to charge his staff occasionally, it shouldn't survive the process.
He throws cards (which can be done), they do not levitate and spiral around.
Cyclops can be defeated by normal sunglasses.
So, when Jubilee swapped his ruby-lensed special glasses with a pair of Foster Grants and he destroyed half the mansion, they didn't work. Oh, well.
Storm isn't African.
She's still black, but she's not longer the weather witch for a small tribe.
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After the Serve IT all team meeting where we had two previous Serve IT members speak to us about how Serve IT has affected their career path, some team members stayed after to participate in board game night to relieve some midterm stress!
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Creating new websites for non-profits that will improve their organization is an integral part of the Serve IT experience. This week the experience continued with the Spence Pride website going live!
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Johannesburg - Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) has arranged a US$100m syndicated loan facility for the trading arm of Mohammed Enterprises Tanzania Limited (MeTL)' one of Tanzania's largest diversified conglomerates.
The loan will facilitate MeTL's trade in commodities into and out of East Africa' many of which are used by the group to manufacture a range of retail-related products.
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A Florida father refereed a backyard brawl between his son and another youth, then pummeled the 16-year-old who fought his child, according to police.
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Investigators believe Johnson lied to officers by claiming the teen was the aggressor -- despite video showing him striking the teen while he was on the ground.
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"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience." - Albert Camus
Recently, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) raided the homes of at least eight anti-war/social justice activists here in the US.
I happen to be a prominent anti-war activist myself, and have joked that I am a "little hurt" that I was not raided and perhaps I should try harder. Even though, we have the urge to try and be light-hearted in this time of an increasing police state, with civil liberties on the retreat, it really isn't funny considering that the activists could face some serious charges stemming from these raids.
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I have felt this harassment on a smaller scale myself and I know that defending oneself against a police state that has unlimited resources, time and cruelty, can be quite expensive, time consuming and annoying.
There is nothing noble about an agency that has reduced itself to being jackbooted enforcers of a neo-fascist police state, no matter how much the FBI has been romanticised in movies, television and books. For example, in one instance, early in the morning of September 24, at the home of Mick Kelly of Minneapolis, the door was battered in and flung across the room when his partner audaciously asked to see the FBI's warrant through the door's peephole. At Jessica Sundin's home, she walked downstairs to find seven agents ransacking her home while her partner and child looked on in shock. These raids have terrifying implications for dissent here in the US.
First of all, these US citizens have been long-time and devoted anti-war activists who organised an anti-war rally that was violently suppressed by the US police state in Minneapolis-St. Paul, during the 2008 Republican National Convention. Because the Minneapolis activists have integrity, they had already announced that they would do the same if the Democrats hold their convention there in 2012. I have observed that it was one thing to be anti-Bush, but to be anti-war in the age of Obama is not to be tolerated by many people. If you will also notice, the only people who seem to know about the raids are those of us already in the movement. There has been no huge outcry over this fresh outrage, either by the so-called movement or the corporate media.
I submit that if George Bush were still president, or if this happened under a McCain/Palin regime, there would be tens of thousands of people in the streets to protest. This is one of the reasons an escalation in police state oppression is so much more dangerous under Obama - even now, he gets a free pass from the very same people who should be adamantly opposed to such policies. Secondly, I believe because the raids happened to basically 'unsung' and unknown, but very active workers in the movement, that the coordinated, early morning home invasions were designed to intimidate and frighten those of us who are still doing the work. The Obama regime would like nothing better than for us to shut up or go underground and to quit embarrassing it by pointing out its abject failures and highlighting its obvious crimes.
Just look at how the Democrats are demonising activists who are trying to point out the inconvenient truth that the country (under a near Democratic tyranny) is sliding further into economic collapse, environmental decay and perpetual war for enormous profit. Barack and Joe, the commandantes of this police state, say that those who have the temerity to be critical are "asleep" and just need to "buck up". White House spokesperson, Robert Gibbs, recently stated that we on the "professional left" need to be "drug tested" if we are not addicted to the regimes' own drug: the Hopium of the Obama propaganda response team. It seems like, even though some of those that have been nailed to the cross of national security do activism around South America, most of the activism is anti-war and pro-Palestinian rights. Being supportive of any Arab or Muslim, no matter how benign or courageous is a very dangerous activity here in post-9/11 America. The Supreme Court just decided (Wilner v. National Security Agency) that the National Security Agency (NSA) did not have to disclose if it was using warrantless wiretapping to spy on attorneys representing the extra-legal detention of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Obtaining warrants, with cause, and attorney-client privilege were important principles of the US justice system, but even the neo-fascist Supreme Court is undermining the law - talk about "activist" judges! Not only have activists been targeted here in the States, but Obama has ominously declared himself judge, jury and executioner of anyone that he deems a national security "threat". These are the actions of a tyrant and another assault against our rights and against the rule of law from a person who promised "complete transparency" from his administration. We have learned that Obama's first victim under his presidential execution programme is Anwar al-Awlaki, a US-born Muslim who is now in Yemen. Without showing proof of al-Awlaki's so-called executionable offenses and without a trial in a court of law, Obama has unloosed his hit squads on Awlaki. Is there anyone out there reading this who does not believe, or fear, that this programme could quickly descend into summary executions within the borders of the US?
Al-Awlaki's father has filed a motion in federal court to stay the execution of his son until he gets his constitutionally guaranteed rights to due process, but Obama's justice department has refused to cooperate stating that to do so would 'undermine' that fabled, exploited and ephemeral 'national security'.
When Obama behaves like Bush, only on steroids, he amply demonstrates why other people hate our country so much. Persons in other countries are not nearly as blind as Americans. They know that even though Obama went to Cairo to blather about building understanding between the US and the Muslim world, actions speak louder than words and Obama's actions drip with carnage and pain.
Obviously, the suppression of dissent here in the US, while outrageous and inexcusable, has not reached the level of the McCarthy witch hunts of the 1950's - yet.
The longer we Americans remain silent in the face of these injustices, the more they will continue to occur and escalate.
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Cindy Sheehan is the mother of Specialist Casey A. Sheehan who was killed in Iraq on April 4, 2004. Since then, she has been a tireless activist for peace and human rights; has published five books, has her own Internet radio show: Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox, and has been nominated in the past for the Nobel Peace Prize. Cindy lives in Oakland, Ca and loves to spend time with her three grandbabies in her spare time.
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