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Liberal government meddling doomed the Oakville gas plant negotiations leaving taxpayers on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars, auditor general Bonnie Lysyk says.
Lysyk was speaking Thursday to a legislative committee probing the government's decision to halt and relocate power plants in Oakville and Mississauga costing taxpayers up to $1.1. billion as reported this week in Lysyk's special 24-page report on the Oakville power facility.
The auditor told the committee a combination of the Liberal government promising in writing to TransCanada Energy that it would be wholly compensated — even though there wasn't a plant — and the decision to relocate the power facility to Napanee left taxpayers $675 million out of pocket.
Lysyk said by trumping the Ontario Power Authority's role in the negotiations, the government put the "OPA in a weaker negotiating position" and from then on "it was all in favour of TransCanada Energy."
"And then in terms of where they (the OPA) thought a plant should be located . . . the choice was made for them (by the government)," she said.
Her report released Tuesday concluded that the tab for cancelling Oakville and moving it to eastern Ontario could reach $815 million — $675 million plus another estimated $140 million for the increased cost of delivering the natural gas to Napanee.
"We think the costs associated with the Napanee plant are in excess of what the costs would have been if the Oakville plant had been built," Lysyk said, adding it was an "unnecessary expense."
Premier Kathleen Wynne, who was a cabinet minister in then Dalton McGuinty's government, has apologized for unacceptable cost saying it was a "big . . . bad mistake."
As she did in her report, Lysyk emphasized for the committee that if the Liberals had only waited TransCanada out — which she insists could not make construction deadline — the cost and or financial penalties to the province would have been minimal.
"We know the plant would never be able to be ready by the in-service date" of February 2014, she testified, adding the potential profits would have had to been paid.
Lysyk said if it was her money she would have "made sure the contract protected me."
"Obviously this didn't work that way" for the government, she said.
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I was pondering what to do after the current story I'm working on (not that it will be complete soon). Scifi or Horror. The stories I want to tell tend to be a blend of both so it's hard to distinguish at times. But I think I'll just go ahead and do "Above the Waves" next (Suicidal 14 year old girl makes her way through a few tough decisions), as it has a similar dark theme, then "For I Am Alone and The Universe Vast" (the story of a boy and his fish), then lighten up a bit with "Pastoral Scenes in PolyCarbon" (about a man and his house), then maybe "The Red Rains of London" (scifi/war) … then back to the novel.
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"Love is within the eyes, hatred within the silences."
Sep 07
Slow Start
Well, it's been a rough, slow restart but am beginning to get traction writing again. (On "Alone in the House of Marionettes".) Aside from what she was wearing, the main female character got completely tossed out. Her replacement is no where near as passive. And her reworked backstory fits in better with the over all theme. This actually ended up changing a few key points in the story, but for the better I think. Still not sure about the main male — some of his actions are wanting to wander off in an area that has a Clockwork Orange vibe, which is bothering me.
Anyway, it's progress.
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When I was a kid I would sometimes invite the newly dead to come live in me because I was sorry for them.
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This may come as a surprise to some but… I … I um, … I'm a manic depressive. That means that sometimes I'm square (normal). Other times I'm high as a fucking kite. ROBIN WILLIAMS HIGH. well not quite that high. The rest of the time I'm a mildly depressed porcupine. I just want someone to hug me but no one will.
Sep 05
Dreams of other worlds…
Something that frustrates me is from time to time when I wake abruptly and thus can remember my dreams…
there are songs, playing in them, fully formed, vocals and lyrics.
Like today, the chorus was:
"we were brothers inside out
we were brothers inside in"
Sung by either two women, or one in a small room with acoustic echoes, with an Irish or Scottish twang, almost spoken word.
The pesky part is this had a subtle but full orchestral backing. It's almost always like that — can record a lot of the words, but the music is too complex for me to record anything but a minimal description of it. It's frustrating not having the technical skills to be able to capture it before it fades. I can hold it in memory a while through the day but at some point… it's lost.
This happens often enough I've started a journal.
Anytime I look up the lyrics, they can't be found. So my brain is creating fully formed musical scores while I doze. Or.. my personal alternative theory is in an alternative quantum universe one of my doubles is a musician I'm catching glimpses of their work. Or they just watch a lot of of alt-verse music videos.
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Among the living…
Sometimes I think there are probably only a few thousand living people in the world, and the rest are tantamount to automatons that fill in as background dressing.
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Seems the latest version of the theme I've been using has corrupted several parts of the site. Annoying. I specifically chose to use stock WordPress because I didn't want to have to do any custom coding for it — I do enough of that for work, so when I write I want to just write, not be distracted by technical stuff constantly.
I guess I do need to just break down, learn karate, er WordPress, and code my own custom theme. Only way to be somewhat sure nothing breaks, or if it does I can fix it pronto.
While I'm at it, intrafoundation.com could use a clean port over to laravel 4. ;-)
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weary i watch the sky fall
and peak then faint above the cold horizon
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to changing weather
and the flow of days passing
tired of waiting
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Posts and lost little mes*
Well, I have several partially completed posts sitting there ever so patiently waiting for me to finish them. I'll have to see about getting to one or two this week. First up, one about "thread heat" (that is, in story fiction, not the bolts that keep the tires on your car at 120kph). Then a sort of introspection on my wife's first horror series and how it came about. (Note: She's working on the 3rd one in tandem with #nanowrimo. It wasn't exactly planned that way, but there was a 1 out of 12 chance the months would coincide. ;))
In the meantime, I'm kind of hanging out on twitter these days if you want to say hi.
*Yes, I had to double check the plural of me is in fact, mes. I suppose that's something you don't even think about unless you're a fiction writer. ;)
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The ghost of a future blog redesign stares at me….
I think this weekend I aught to neo-up "advanced wordpress" into my brain and get around to making my blog as nice as my wife's–but, you know, with aliens, androids, nukes and endless firefights. Maybe some loud deathmetal playing when you first visit the site. Well, ok, skip the death metal. But it needs some work. :)
Aug 14
Am going through and working out the details of the plot for the last 3rd of my WIP (writing that and all the changes out in a pseudo rambling narration) … and am noticing the book seems like one long firefight if you tilt your head and look at it just so. Hrmm.
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Updates to Out into the Void and Balance as well as Novel Status
The short scifi/military story Out into the Void has been revised. The update corrects minor issues with spelling, grammar and formatting. Additionally, a few scenes were rewritten or expanded upon. As to that, I had been experimenting with writing the story in a somewhat terse manner — but that confused more than a few people, so now some of the conversation and dialog are more … explicit.
While I was at it, I made a few minor corrections on Balance.
Updates are now making their way slowly through the publishing/distribution systems at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc and should be available within a few days at most.
As far as the upcoming novel goes, have about another hundred pages to work through atm. The wife and I are now in a sort of race to see who gets done first — she's trying to complete the entire series of Gorgon Star Books before Halloween, while I'm only aiming at getting one book done. Mine is longer though. :-)
BTW, < begin hawking wares >
did I mention her first book, Skein, is now available exclusively on Amazon?
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Aug 06
In case…
Random trivia about me: I carry a moleskin and a pen in my back pocket wherever I go. Just in case. :)
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Skein, the new horror novel by C.J.Sellers — coming very soon to a tablet near you
Spending the morning working on setting up the formatting for the master copy of my wife's first novel Skein. And doing a bit of final line editing/proofreading as I go along. Should be live on Amazon as early as monday or tuesday. :)
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Yo, what'cha doing?
#anwriting #amproofing ssh.
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It is 4am…
Hmm. It is 4am… and I find myself up, working on the novel and glancing through writing forums. Hmm. Wearing the #amauthor tag is tiring at times. :)
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Out into the Void – final revision
There is a final revision of "Out into the Void" making it's way across the internet. This addresses some grammar issues that arose from last minute editing of the short story. Also a few parts were slightly rewritten to — hopefully — have clearer characterization and/or description.
In any event, unless someone points out some issues with it, this is probably the last revision for a very long time.
Jun 27
Out into the Void – now on Amazon Kindle
Damn typos. Well, that aside (which will be fixed by weekend) my second short story is making its way across the internet today. And has just made an appearance on Amazon for Kindle. :)
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So I'm pretty excited to have Ashwin on the call today and have Ashwin share with us his experiences in deploying HP Fortify solutions and these practices within Heartland. Ashwin, give us a little bit of background, a little bit about yourself, and then describe the software security landscape at Heartland.
Ashwin Altekar: I've been working in information security for over a decade and have spent a large portion of my time performing application penetration tests and managing software-assurance efforts.
At Heartland, we take software security very seriously. We strive to be the trusted transaction provider, the trusted partner of the large number of merchants who depend on our payments and payroll services. With application security being such a large vector for attack, we're very aware of the multiple controls necessary to keep our customers' data secure.
We lean quite heavily on HP Fortify, first to understand, and then improve, our level of software assurance.
Previous scenario
Hartman: Let's take people back a little bit. Please describe what the software-security scenario was like at Heartland before institutionalizing some of these practices and before implementing and rolling out Fortify. What did things looked like before? Then, talk to us about why you went in a new direction.
Altekar: Prior to Fortify, or any automated tools, we relied mostly on manual inspection by developers using common security guidelines like the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) or assessments done by third parties.
As our enterprise grew, it became harder and harder to be confident in our application-security posture with just manual inspection by development teams. Software assurance is very important to us, not just finding vulnerabilities, but understanding what percentage still remains. With manual efforts, there was just too much to do and not enough time.
We liked the breadth of programming languages supported by Fortify and we really liked the direct integration to the integrated development environment (IDE) for common IDEs like Visual Studio and Eclipse. So Fortify was just a natural fit for the need at the time.
Hartman: I would imagine that with the space that Heartland plays in, obviously these issues are quite sensitive. And if you look at the marketplace, you're seeing this explosion of mobile devices and mechanisms by which consumers are transacting. It makes this issue even more front and center.
Altekar: Absolutely. Our primary product or service of facilitating transactions is provided through software. So Fortify is definitely a key product that helps us position ourselves as a secure company. And to do so, we need to understand what security issues we have in our software.
Hartman: What are some of the benefits that you've been able to deliver to the organization and to its customers through institutionalizing these practices and tools?
Altekar: At Heartland, we risk-rank our numerous applications and have various requirements on what each development team has to do to meet internal requirements.
One of our basic requirements is that all software applications be scanned using Fortify. From the information-security perspective, that has allowed us to understand what it is that we're up against when we talk about software-security assurance. So, a large challenge is trying to figure out what it is we don't know. Fortify allows us to quantify our level of effort and get the attention software security requires.
Also, we've been able to show the successes of many teams that embrace Fortify. They've been able to do more and learn more about software security in much less time.
Similar results
Hartman: In the research that we did, we found similar results. We found quite a number of organizations that were able to reduce the amount of time the developers were spending identifying and remediating. Because of the automated mechanism, they focused their attention on developing new value-add applications.
It's reallocating their time. It's not that this stuff isn't important. Obviously it's essential, but if we've got a way to do this faster and then focus the developers' attention on different areas that are more value add, that was a big win. I don't know if that's something similar what you're finding as well, as developers are making it part of their DNA.
Altekar: We absolutely do find that. There's an old expression for spell check that if you see the correct spelling seven times, you would finally get it right on the eighth.
Our developers are bit quicker in learning about security best practices, but Fortify allows us to do a very similar type of reinforcement when it comes to specific software-security issues. They're able to see the right way to do secure development through Fortify and then learn from that.
They're able to see the right way to do secure development through Fortify and then learn from that.
Hartman: Some of the things we noticed were a little bit unexpected. When we went into the study trying to figure out how companies are benefiting from effective software security practices, we were going in with certain assumptions.
One of the assumptions was that some of these automated tools and practices are going to obviously save time and save money on the developer side. Certainly, if I can address and remediate things early in the development cycle, that's going to save me a tremendous amount of resources and money, versus down the road in post production.
But there were a couple of areas that we found in terms of benefits that companies were experiencing that were a little bit unexpected, and there were some innovative uses.
Can you share with us a little bit from your perspective, and from Heartland's experience, some of the more innovative uses of these practices and Fortify related to software assurance?
Altekar: We provide broad warnings about software security issues in general at the enterprise level, and Fortify allows us to really target our training efforts on the issues we see at the project level.
We can discuss those specific topics with the development teams when we interact with them and we can even point out the specific remediation tips within Fortify. That's very helpful.
Secure development
Something else we're looking to roll out right now is how we can visualize the different development teams and how they compare to each other in terms of software security. So we're looking to see if we can incentivize secure development even before a line of code has been written.
Through some minor gamification, leveraging Fortify statistics between the various development teams here at Heartland, we hope to better train developers and, in turn, improve the overall development productivity.
There's another interesting use that we have. At Heartland, from time to time, we acquire various companies or seek to be partners with them. During the evaluation phase, often we'll use HP Fortify to determine the amount of work that we may need to do to get the acquired software into a production-ready state.
That has been helpful sometimes in negotiating the acquisition price or making sure that we factor that in and do and appropriate level of due diligence ahead of time.
When you start articulating and dictating to developers things that they should do, the reaction isn't always positive.
Another common scenario for us is that we're able to understand the quality of any third-party developers that we contract with and we can force strict standards on what secure development means.
Traditionally we enforce security through a legal contract that says the third party has to follow secure coding guidelines based on best practices, but with the implementation of Fortify we can say that they have to have a clean Fortify scan prior to finalizing a certain amount of work.
Lastly, our secure software development lifecycle (SDLC) process, which includes HP Fortify, signals to our partners -- especially our partners that value security -- that we're very serious about software security and that we take a lot of the right steps, if not all the right steps, doing whatever we can to understand our vulnerabilities in software and to eliminate them.
Hartman: How this has differentiated, or been used to differentiate, Heartland? Obviously, in the space that you play in, security is at a premium, as is being able to ensure your customers that you've got a terrific approach. Can you talk to us about that in terms of whether this capability helps you differentiate in the marketplace?
Altekar: As I'm sure you know, security is more important than ever in our customers' minds. When it comes to transactional security, we've heard of a few high-profile reports about payment security and breaches lately. That has really raised awareness and that's great, especially since many of Heartland's products and services focus on security.
Confidence in the quality and security of our software product is absolutely a differentiator. It allows our customers to focus on their business without having to worry about technical security issues in their day-to-day operations.
Having trust in a brand, having trust in a company and its products and services, is very important for our customers.
Having trust in a brand, having trust in a company and its products and services, is very important for our customers, and our secure SDLC allows us to articulate why it is they should have that confidence in us.
We can tell them that we have secure development training, we have a static source code analyzer, we use dynamic tools, we have manual inspection, we have third-party assessments. These are all things that especially our larger customers appreciate. They understand that this is what you need to do in today's day and age to have secured products.
We're able to elaborate on the multitude of things that we do, and many of our partners are very thrilled to partner with us because of that.
Hartman: Can you help us understand what were some of those key factors throughout this journey, and it is a journey? It's not just one quick little implementation and then you are off and running. It's definitely a journey from the customers we've talked to. What are some of those key success factors in institutionalizing such tools and practices across an organization?
Changing variables
Altekar: Journey is a great word for it. There have been so many times when I thought that we were finally at a place where we need to be, and then, one of the variables changed.
The first thing that you can do is be very clear about what development teams need to do for internal compliance when it comes to software assurance. That could mean setting specific metrics or making sure that they have well defined processes. But whatever is right for your organization, you have to repeat that message often.
I used to think that I was just constantly talking about security, and everyone was tired of it, but one of the key lessons I learned was that it's impossible for you to repeat that message too often. So be very clear about what it is you want them to do and say it often to anyone who will listen.
The second is to make it easy. Make it very simple for various development teams that integrate into your software assurance processes. So understand the challenges that individual teams face in implementing security during the development life cycle. One team's problem, if they are doing an agile development process versus waterfall, could be very different depending on those scenarios.
The key success factors are just to be clear about the message, make it easy for people to integrate, and then measure how well everyone is doing.
Make sure you understand their challenges, whether it's process, time, or the right tools, and make sure that you're able to solve for those. Thankfully, for us, Fortify has been very easy to integrate into the IDE. We've been able to automate with it, so it's been flexible in a number of different scenarios for us.
Finally, quantifying, measuring progress over time. It's very easy to sit back and say, "These guys implement Fortify" or "We have manual tests for them" or "They take all the required training," but it's great to quantify each, so that you provide feedback to senior management and talk about many of the success stories.
If you can provide quantitative information and share those success stories everywhere throughout the organization, you're able to reward everyone's efforts. In summary, the key success factors are just to be clear about the message, make it easy for people to integrate, and then measure how well everyone is doing.
Hartman: That's a great summary, and last one, especially to your point, sounds easy. It's not that trivial of an activity. It's being able to communicate to leadership as well as to the troops.
Leadership, especially in a set of measures or metrics that resonate with them, is not an easy task. There are a lot of activities that get done as far as software security and software assurance practices go, but translating that into a language that a senior business leader is going to understand is not an easy task. That's a very good point.
A couple of last questions for you. If you could take a look back for us with this journey and when it started and the success you've had, is there anything you would do a little differently?
Be repetitive
Altekar: One of the things I already mentioned was to be repetitive about the importance of software security and what needs to be done. There is always someone who hasn't heard that message, and it's important for them to hear it as well.
The other thing is that it's okay to be a bit more realistic in what an organization can do. Just because there's lots of security work ahead of you, it doesn't mean that the organization is able to get it all done immediately.
So it's important to create realistic goals and time frames that the organization can meet, versus trying to get everything done all at once. It changes from organization to organization on what that means, but I've learned to have realistic goals, rather than ideal goals.
Hartman: Going forward then, what's next for Heartland and specifically in this space? Can you paint us a picture for what's next in the horizon from an SSA standpoint, let's say, the next 12 months or so?
My next goal is to combine all our different tools and get even more value out of them running in sync with each other.
Altekar: I'm really excited for the next year at Heartland. We're at a place where we have many of the right tools. We have many of the right controls at the right time during the software development lifecycle.
My next goal is to combine all our different tools and get even more value out of them running in sync with each other - trying to add one and one to get three, versus just the two that we have today.
Going forward, I'd really like to continue to automate and leverage the individual tools and get them working together so that we get, one, richer information about our security posture, but two, to get more actionable and precise information on what various development teams need to do, or what the security team needs to do to better support software assurance efforts.
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Cyclone Nargis claimed 85,000 lives in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, when it struck in the first few days of May. Another 50,000 are still missing. Barely two weeks later, an earthquake in China's Sichuan Province killed 70,000 people and left another 18,000 missing.
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Chile Daily Newspaper 'K-Pop Phenomenon'
By Staff Writer | March 09, 2012 12:06 AM EST
Local Chilean media also expressed joy in JYJ's first South America concert.
Chile's daily newspaper 'La Hora' covered JYJ with an article 'JYJ Arrives in Chile, The Korean Pop Phenomenon!' on March 7. "The debut of Korean group JYJ in Chile confirms the great media frenzy that this genre of music has achieved in distant countries as US, Japan, Chile and Peru, their last stop on their tour in Latin America."
"They reached a new peak last year when the trio decided to partner with U.S. producers Kanye West and Rodney Jerkins, to record their debut album 'The Beginning.' The group is accompanied by six dancers and five stylists that will be in charge of their looks," continuing on.
"Another interesting note is that they have asked for a Chilean chef to cook traditional dishes from the country for their meals, as well as a Korean chef to make them feel at home," added on.
The newspaper added defining about K-Pop phenomenon. "Without even having an arrival of artist from Korea, the music alone has caused a stir in Chile previously in 2008, Korean musician Seo Taiji came to record a video clip. Several national radio stations have included Korean artists in their programming, several of which have reached the top charts. Quick phenomenon."
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January 11, 2014
This what I've tried so far.
First I formatted a usb drive (Fat32) so it would mount on a windows device and be readable by a Mac.
Downloaded the clip from my NVR. Put the usb drive in my Mac where I discovered the dav file that was 18.5mb .
Used Handbrake to convert to an Mp4.
When I tried to play the file there was nothing on it. Black.
Tried this numerous times with other converters. Same story.
What do you do to convert these .dav files to a readable Mac file?
Those two links have converters that work native on Mac. I'm not running a mac any more, so I can't test to verify it works.
January 11, 2014
Daniel Ross said
Those two links have converters that work native on Mac. I'm not running a mac any more, so I can't test to verify it works.
Hi Dan,
They didn't work for me. I used an app called Handbrake to convert the files to mp4, but neither app could handle the file. Interestingly enough You Tube could.
Could you ask if any Mac users at Techpro have successfully converted the .dav files to something the Mac can handle?
Tomof jpegs of the prompt I got . I was able to upload the file to YouTube.
Could you query if anyone there successful in converting these files to Mac?
January 11, 2014
I don't know how many converters I've downloaded and tried.
None of them work.
Is there an option to save the files as avi on the NVR?
I've read that some have it.
Might to a great feature to upgrade the NVR's firmware.
It would make it easier on Windows people too.
There must be a way besides YouTube!
February 1, 2014
Give AppGeeker video converter a try
I always use it to convert all of my videos.
Try and tell me how you go with it.
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Tulsa schools superintendent: Common Core provides common vision and standards
School is more than learning your ABCs and how to solve equations. We know that learning how to think critically, work cooperatively and solve problems creatively are among the most important skills children need to be productive in a competitive global economy.
Oklahoma's PASS standards are tougher than those in many other states, yet we are still falling short. Too many of our children leave school unprepared for college or career.
In 2010, Oklahoma was among 45 states that chose to adopt the Common Core State Standards for education. These new, higher standards are the result of a state-led initiative by governors, state superintendents and teachers — many from Oklahoma. They will prepare all students for life beyond our doors, whether that's college, career training or the workplace.
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The Common Core standards are tough. They were developed through extensive research by educators in our state working with experts and teachers from across the country. Common Core will push our students to read at higher levels earlier in their school careers. It will also require that 70 percent of all texts read in 12th grade be nonfiction.
I especially like the fact that successful implementation of Common Core will move students beyond the memorization and regurgitation of facts and figures. They will be challenged to develop a deeper understanding of subject matter.
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Common Core complements our district's groundbreaking work in teacher and leader effectiveness. Tulsa Public Schools recently developed a teacher evaluation system that has been adopted by 500 school districts across Oklahoma. We are committed to having effective teachers and leaders in every school. Common Core provides us with a valuable tool to provide consistency and a measure of accountability for performance.
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