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Pleasanton Election Debate
Original post made by Stacey, Amberwood/Wood Meadows, on Nov 1, 2008
(This is sort of my response to you from the thread on "Letters: Council majority hasn't listened to people" Web Link)
You wrote in the other thread that you thought Brozosky "kicked butt" in the mayoral debate. I saw the City Council candidate debate first, then the mayoral debate, and lastly the PP/QQ debate. Here's my take on all three of them.
It is my opinion that all the candidates are in need of some more formal debating practice, which is not to say that they didn't try. The City Council candidate debate was mostly people just answering questions. Maybe this is a result of having three at once or maybe it is just the nature of local politics that there aren't real big issues to divide upon (so people have to make some up). The mayor debate was more like a real formal debate, but not by much. There were some rebuttals, but also some stuff was allowed to slip through unchallenged. The only one who seemed really capable of formal debate was Cook-Kallio in the PP/QQ debate, but she's not running this time around.
Body language. Sullivan's excessive eye blinking was distracting. Hosterman looked unnecessarily giddy rebutting Brozosky's statements about her attendance to that regional traffic congestion group. Ayala kept either shaking or nodding her head and then smiling. It reminded me of Biden in the VP debate.
Brozosky appears to be of the school of "repeat it enough times and people will believe it". He's actually pretty good at misrepresenting facts to his benefit. In the PP/QQ debate he referenced the "23,000" square foot home approved by Council on Vineyard and no one took him to task on that. This "fact" has been repeated on this PW site before (Web Link). There is no 23,000 sq ft home. The house is 9900 sq ft. I suppose that one could add to that the square footage of all the other structures that aren't yet "entitled"/approved for that property and it could equal 23,000 sq ft, but one could also do the same for Brozosky's property, with the two barns, gazebo, and decking and also come up with something similar to 23,000 sq ft. But hey, if we repeat this idea that Council approved a 23,000 sq ft home and call them pro-development, people will believe it!
The other thing Brozosky did which was kind of funny was to quote from "three" newspaper endorsements for PP in the closing. As he read them, it became clear he was reading only two endorsements. The one from the Independent and the other from the Valley Times/Contra Costa Times. He actually counted the Valley Times/Contra Costa Times endorsement as two different endorsements. Those papers are owned by the same company. They print the same thing!
The best quote from all three debates was from Brozosky, "If you don't vote, you can't complain." It sounds confrontational. If you didn't vote, will Brozosky listen to you if he's mayor?
Ayala put on a poor show with her personal attack on Cook-Kallio, the only personal attack in all three debates. I suppose I'm in the wrong job as a voter if I cast a vote for Cook-Kallio because I want someone who I feel is more concerned with the public trust, making sure there are proper mitigations in place, and what benefits the larger public than kowtowing to small nimby factions. If some small group of citizens go before Council every two weeks asking for the establishment of Sharia law in Pleasanton and the Council doesn't do it, does that mean the Council isn't listening to them?
More later I guess. This post is getting long.
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a resident of Pleasanton Heights
on Nov 1, 2008 at 12:54 pm
If I recall correctly that personal attack was Ayala saying to Cook-Kallio something to the effect that if you are concerned about possible litigation in Pleasanton, then you don't belong on city counsel.
This was in response to Cook-Kallio explaining how a goal of QQ is to avoid litigation because of how PP was written. Clearly, since Ayala and her cohorts behind closed doors wrote the language of PP, Ayala inappropriately took Cook-Kallio's words personally and lashed out. It was clearly an inappropriate response. Cook-Kallio was simply explaining QQ and what it does.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Nov 1, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Both McGovern and Brozosky had the same basic stance on so-called affordable housing. They both advocated for "small homes/townhomes", the thinking being that smaller homes, being cheaper than larger homes, will be "affordable". Pentin pointed out that that kind of housing may not work out well to achieve the goal of providing affordable housing considering that that kind of housing in Pleasanton is not affordable for many _now_. Pentin, Sullivan, and Hosterman all seemed to lean towards TOD in order to achieve affordability.
McGovern and Sullivan's stance on funding priorities was also somewhat the same, spend money building things that will bring consumers downtown and form, as Sullivan called it, a "critical mass" of people. The expectation is that those people will spend money downtown. Sullivan also focused on the TOD idea to boost the "Hacienda economies". Pentin wants to focus on being business friendly in order to help generate revenue. Sullivan mentioned TOD around an ACE train station downtown. I think that's excellent. People complain about the lack of business downtown. Let's get some businesses there that could cater to TOD, like a small grocery in the old Domus location (which is what that building used to house). Let's also build a better ACE train station. Too bad there's no Tri-Valley light rail system that brings shoppers easily to downtown. If the housing cap goes away, we might want to rethink using the rail corridor for parking.
a resident of Oak Hill
on Nov 2, 2008 at 2:48 am
As to the Mayoral debate - I'll stand by the comments I made on the "Letters: Council majority hasn't listened to the people" thread.
One can, when critiquing political debates, "nitpick" a couple of answers that candidates give that may, or may not, be "entirely factual". Those answers are not the entire debate.
Hosterman weighed heavily on "her accomplishments" as Mayor, which, in fact, she couldn't have "accomplished" with out the consent/support of a majority of the council/city staff...
Overall, Brozosky was more professional and straight forward during the entire debate. No "Uh, blah, blah, Uh" or "And ya no, blah,blah". He was more relaxed, carried himself in a professional manner, his answers were concise, to the point and without hesitation...
That's the debate I saw...
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Nov 2, 2008 at 6:40 am
Hypocritical, untrue comments delivered professionally are still untrue and hypocritical. Brozosky is not a consensus maker among people with whom he serves/served. He often takes credit for things that also required a majority of a particular body.
I agree that professional delivery is important but having that and lacking the other part is not my idea of a leader.
I am voting for Hosterman.
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PHYSICS ON THE FRINGE: Smoke Rings, Circlons, and Alternative Theories of Everything. Margaret Wertheim. x + 323 pp. Walker and Company, 2011. $27.
Many people enjoy doing physics, and the vast majority of them work as professional scientists. Margaret Wertheim's Physics on the Fringe, however, is about the minority, those who devote a significant portion of their lives to investigating the structure of the universe at their kitchen tables while their families sleep. These individuals (those she discusses are, with one exception, all men) did not train as scientists and then fail to find employment in their chosen field. And they are not amateurs who study physics textbooks and read scholarly journals. They are at the fringe, a place most of us ignore completely.
That is because the fringe is, well, fringy. Among Wertheim's protagonists are those who deny quantum mechanics, postulate new structures for atoms, revive the ether or reject special relativity, and just about all of them despise general relativity. They self-publish their theories—sometimes they just photocopy handwritten manuscripts—and circulate them among scientists worldwide, who usually end up tossing them in the wastebasket. Wertheim, an accomplished science writer, has collected such texts for years now and sympathetically narrates many of them for us. Such ephemera are very hard to come by, given their frequent encounters with the trash heap, and her archival efforts are to be lauded (as is the renewed attention she brings to mathematician Augustus De Morgan's delightful 1872 book, A Budget of Paradoxes, which catalogs the rejectamenta of the science of his day). She wants us to take these "outsider physicists" seriously, not as a kooky cultural phenomenon, but as people actually doing science in a way that demands as much attention from mainstream science as folk art now claims from the elite art community.
The analogy with art is a touchstone for Wertheim. Her attraction to these theories is at root deeply aesthetic. She is fondest of those fringe physicists who have an eye for the catching illustration or the beautiful color scheme, and she has curated the work of one of them, Jim Carter, for an art gallery and also made a documentary film about him. (Sadly, there are not enough images in the book.) Much of her narrative is devoted to the story of Carter, who has not just a breathtakingly broad theory of life, the universe and everything—from the Big Bang (or, as he puts it, the Grandfire) to a four-sex theory of human relationships—but also a deft artistic sense.
Wertheim really likes Carter. And, reading this at times beautifully written book, we like him too, and we like her for liking him. The most vividly crafted and strongest parts of the book are devoted to Carter's curious path to physics, and also the explications of his theories. One wishes for even more of the latter, especially the mind-blowing nongravity theory. Carter lives in his own trailer park in rural Washington state and loves to do what he considers theoretical physics, without the ornate mathematics of cutting-edge string phenomenology or inflationary cosmology. Since he makes quite a good living (a great story in itself, having to do with a brainstorm he had while abalone diving), he can afford to pursue his physics for the joy of it. And unlike many of his peers in the half-invisible world of fringe physics—many of them members of the Natural Philosophy Association—Carter bears silence from the establishment "stoically," convinced that he is right and will win out in the end.
Wertheim thinks it is wrong that men like Carter are frozen out of mainstream science. Wouldn't the world be better if, in the evocative phrase of Mao Zedong, we let "a hundred flowers blossom" and granted these men some recognition? She stakes her claim using a historical case study and a contemporary one. In order to show that Carter's theory of "circlons"—toroidal coiled springs of various sizes that he believes undergird all matter and energy—is worth scientists' regard, she narrates the theory of vortex atoms proposed by Peter Guthrie Tait and William Thomson (later known as Lord Kelvin). In 1867, Tait and Thomson experimented with smoke rings to explore a hypothesis that had been mathematically elaborated by Hermann von Helmholtz in 1858, and in Wertheim's account their childlike joy at discovery is a wonder to behold. Well over a century later, Carter built his own smoke-ring generator and rediscovered the same phenomena. He likes to figure things out for himself and does no library research, or he would not have had to reinvent this particular wheel. This neglect of past accomplishments, which Wertheim considers exemplary Baconian empiricism, is important, and I will come back to it.
Carter "insists on a universe he can comprehend" and has no patience for mathematical virtuosity like that of Helmholtz. This stance—which he shares with just about all fringe physicists, who find the symbolic infrastructure of field theory alienating—has sparked consternation within the halls of the establishment. But so has string theory, with its multiple dimensions and its "landscape" of 10500 possible ground states, each equally mathematically consistent and equally inaccessible to experiment. Wertheim argues that if string theorists can spin theories of "sheer bizarreness" and still call themselves scientists, why not Carter?
Why not, indeed? There are several centuries of philosophy and at least 50 years of research in the history of science that articulate some detailed answers to this question, and Wertheim engages with none of it. The crux is what I call the "Central Dilemma": The established scientific community can set the bar for candidate scientific theories relatively high, in which case what gets discussed is likely to be reasonable, although such a course risks stifling innovation. Or scientists can lower that bar and let in more radical theories (theories like special relativity in 1905 or quantum mechanics in 1925), at the risk of also admitting a host of fringe theories that will consume time and energy to debunk. This is why the border of the fringe is policed so assiduously with wastebaskets.
For Wertheim, physics, like art, should be open to all, not the exclusive domain of experts (a status she grants to brain surgery). She recognizes that this could allow the entertainment of creationism as a candidate for a scientific theory. Yet Wertheim considers the risk marginal, noting that whereas creationists "reject much of academic science, fringe physicists love science and are thrilled by its power." Some creationists might hate science, but if you spend 30 minutes with the writings of George McCready Price, the architect of flood geology, or those of his latter-day disciple Henry Morris, you will find discussions of sedimentary columns and hydrodynamics, and indeed all the hallmarks of sincerity and passion for inquiry you could wish for. Should AIDS-HIV denialism and Immanuel Velikovsky's cosmic catastrophism also have their day in court? These theories likewise ignore the large edifice built by science (just as Carter ignores the history of vortex atoms) and attempt to erect new structures. This neglect of all the potential constraints on a theory make scientists' hostility more than blatant prejudice. Fringe physicists can do their physics, but they cannot demand that they be heard. Neither can establishment scientists, many of whom also toil in obscurity.
Wertheim shows us just how muddy the waters are on the border between what is classed as "legitimate" and what as "fringe." However, a murky boundary does not imply that one might just as well drink from any part of the river.
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OSCP exam in 1 week - Advice?
I am challenging the OSCP certification next Saturday (August 21st). I think I am ready now. I have done all exercices and practice all techniques in the lab. I did many "extra mile" exercices. I have hacked into several servers in the lab and I now have many scripts to help me automate tasks. I should be done organizing my notes this afternoon.
So, with only one week left, I was thinking of, in priority order:
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3) Relax and rest properly Thursday and Friday.
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As you read these words, have you considered the possibility that Big Brother government is leaning over your shoulder to read what you read and make note of what you read or send?Millions of people in the United Kingdom who use social networking sites such as Facebook or MySpace might soon have their every visit recorded in the big book of the government in order to continue the search for terrorists, or at least the search for subversives who for some reason do not agree with the government. British Ministers have aroused a storm or protest over their plan to store information about every phone call, email land internet visit. Vernon Coaker, the Home Office minister disclosed that social networking sites could be forced to retain information about the users' web-browsing habits.
After all if we are really serious about dealing with terrorists and bad people and God knows who else who does not fit our definition of being a "nice person" isn't it about time we really got serious about searching. I hear there are also plans to have the Home Office monitor when and for how long people go to the toilet in order to develop a "Shit Index" which would provide precise data on how long people are on the toilet shitting instead of checking their homes and streets for terrorists.
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Leake is going to need some quick innings here shortly. Pitches are piling up on him.
might reach 100 pitches this at bat. good thing Lecure is back.
Houston's drought is officially (at least for one day) over. First good rain in about 3 months. Nice.
Cowboy just said first and second for the Yankees but Gameday shows first and third.
Cowboy sounds like he has a hangover. Must not be an early bird.
Leake is nearing 60 pitches with one out in the third.
Ground ball to Votto. I guess he touched first and then fired home. Gardner beats the throw home. 1-0 NY.
I can see why Yankee games take all night to play. They step out a lot and take a ton of time in the batters box.
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text: I guess it makes total sense for Joe to wait till Saturday, when the buy-out deadline passes. They only reason why he wouldn't do this would be if he was afraid DD would sign with another team. That doesn't seem to be in the cards right now. Just a technical question, and I don't think that it is happening here. But under the CBA rules and all that, would Joe be allowed to pay DD right now to sit and wait? What if he said, "Dale, we'll probably hire you, but we want to see if someone better comes along. We're going to pay you $100,000 to just wait in the wings."


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BINGHAMTON, NY – History teachers will soon get a boost in the classroom thanks to a nearly $1 million grant that supports a professional development program offered at Binghamton University, State University of New York.
The Broome-Tioga Board of Cooperative Educational Services recently received a $961,290 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to strengthen the teaching of American history. BOCES will work with the University's Center for the Teaching of American History during the next three years to provide teachers with workshops, conferences, book groups and special events. It's the third time the center has been a partner in such a grant since 2001.
"This will make history classrooms in the area much more exciting and intellectually interesting places," said Thomas Dublin, professor of history and director of the Center for the Teaching of American History.
Plans call for workshops during which 15-20 teachers will develop lesson plans, peer-review conferences at which the best lessons will be shared, book "circles" that will challenge teachers to read the latest American history scholarship and special events such as workshops and presentations.
Tim Cooper, curriculum specialist for the Center for the Teaching of American History and a retired teacher, said the new grant will add a literacy component to the program. That's of special value to older social studies teachers who might not have had that emphasis earlier in their careers, he said.
"We're really looking at what makes teachers better and what makes it easier to be a teacher," Cooper said. "We've made a real impact on all of the districts in the Southern Tier."
The program will use the New York State standardized tests to evaluate how students of teachers in the workshops are doing compared to students of teachers who don't attend and compared to students of those teachers before they attended. Doug Titus, director of communications and development at Broome-Tioga BOCES, said the test data will help program leaders target trouble areas for teachers and then give them special attention.
"I think the program has been configured to be a win-win for everybody involved," Titus said. "It's a great opportunity for teachers to network with their peers. This has definitely been a rich and rewarding experience for people who have gone through it."
Teachers of students in grades four to 11 may participate in the workshops, and special consideration is given to those in fifth-, seventh-, eighth-, 10th and 11th grades. Those are the years in which U.S. history is taught in New York, and program organizers feel the teachers benefit from interacting with colleagues at other grade levels.
"We have a lot of wonderful and very committed teachers," Dublin said, "but the kind of pressures on them in their day-to-day teaching life make it hard for them to continue to grow and to learn and follow the way the American history field is evolving."
For example, the Civil War was taught quite differently 40 years ago than it is today, he said. The roles of women and African-Americans in the war are now understood in greater depth, and the war itself is considered a transformative event in American history.
"Really none of that was a part of the way history was taught to our area teachers," Dublin said. "By introducing them to that literature and to primary documents that address those issues, they're ready to teach the Civil War very differently."


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Nisswa-Jenkins Highway 371 four-lane expansion still planned for 2018
The four-lane expansion of Highway 371 from Nisswa to Jenkins is still planned for 2018, but money is tight.
"Funding is an issue of concern, but at this point we're still pushing for 2018," said Jim Hallgren, Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) project engineer for the Highway 371 expansion. "But here again, things happen. We might get redirected. But at this point, we're still pursuing the project as if it will happen in 2018."
Area mayors recently raised questions about the project after hearing that two other state highway projects supported by vocal groups possibly would jump ahead of the Highway 371 project.
"Pequot Lakes has been very quiet because we knew two projects were ahead in the pecking order, and then we were next," Pequot Lakes Mayor Nancy Adams recently told state legislators at a town hall meeting in Pequot Lakes. She called it disturbing if projects leaped ahead because of vocal groups.
"There are other projects statewide where the political end of things come into play," Hallgren said. "I have heard of other projects where they have an organized effort and are pursuing funding through the political process. Whether they are successful on this project is anyone's guess.
"Is there a risk out there? Yeah, probably. But at this point I don't know how big of a risk that would be," he said.
Six area mayors who meet regularly all signed a letter sent to area legislators, urging legislators to support MnDOT to keep the highway project on track for 2018 because the issue has dragged on for so many years and so many people are in limbo until it happens. The six mayors are from Nisswa, Pequot Lakes, Jenkins, Pine River, Breezy Point and Crosslake.
Hallgren said MnDOT currently is initiating right-of-away acquisition for the highway expansion. In 2015, MnDOT will start acquiring those properties.
"In case money starts opening up, that will put us in good position to be in line to get stuff done sooner," he said.
"Money is so tight right now it's getting to be real competitive. And that's unfortunate that money is so tight that people are starting to pick apart other people's projects for their own," he said.
Continuing the highway expansion to four lanes from Jenkins to Pine River isn't scheduled until 2029 or beyond.


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Coming up in the CU-Boulder's ATLAS Black Box Theater is square product theatre's production of "SLAB," an adaptation of Denver writer Selah Saterstrom's forthcoming novel. The story is about a woman's life in the American South told through her memories and from the slab of her post-Katrina home.
Performances will be held Thursdays through Saturdays, from July 31-Aug. 16. Emily K. Harrison, a CU-Boulder alumna and instructor at both CU-Boulder and Naropa University, is the founder and producing artistic director of square product theatre. She will also play the lead role, known only as "Tiger," who shares her story from the remains of her home in Waveland, Mississippi. In collaboration with Los Angeles director Gleason Bauer, the two women have created what will be the world premiere of Saterstrom's story, one that was energized by the natural disaster yet more concerned with human experience through memory. As Harrison described, ATLAS is the ideal place for "SLAB," because it will enhance the projection of a dynamic story, supported by sound, video and performance.
"Truly, ATLAS is the only place in town that can do this show," Harrison said, pointing to the theatre's technical capacities to incorporate the narrative. "You can't possibly put an entire novel on stage."
In order to adapt the novel, the crew cut pages into video, specifically from footage they caught in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. Emotion will be enhanced by sound, and only five actors will play the roles of dozens, represented by subtle changes in costume and background imagery. Video design was created by Christina Battle, and the sound score was composed by Janet Feder and Paul Fowler.
The idea to perform "SLAB" as a world premiere came about when Harrison heard the novelist read an excerpt at Naropa's Summer Writing Program a few years ago. Saterstrom mentioned that she'd like to see the novel performed in some way, and at the time, Harrison was working on the creation of her own play, Tornado Season. Noting the similarities between each piece of writing, Harrison eagerly got in touch.
"The great thing about the novel and her work in general is that it's got a lot of rich imagery," said Harrison, adding how Saterstrom "tells really funny stories and really horrible stories." A Mississippi native, Saterstrom uses much of her work to explore human suffering that's influenced by social institutions, yet with an approach that's more humorous than tragic. Other books written by Saterstrom include The Meat and Spirit Plan and The Pink Institution.
While the play mainly takes place on the hurricane-demolished slab of Tiger's home, her memories dance across the greater American South. Characters from Tiger's memory are impoverished, and as Harrison described, the characters live in a system that aims to keep them impoverished. Harrison also received a doctorate in theater from CU-Boulder, and her scholarship reflects an emphasis on American theater.
"I think the social messages in it are huge," said Harrison. "What we think is really important about it is, when you don't have anything left, what you do have are your stories. That's what can sustain you and carry you through."
Harrison urges students, friends and the greater public to attend, not just because ticket prices are low, but it will be a show that fuses media with performance, and audiences will "see things they can relate to."
Tickets will be $20 for general admission, $17 for seniors and $15 for students. On Thursdays, general admission tickets will be two for the price of one.


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Unfortunately I'm going to be out of the country and not able to make this month's regular NEBytes event, but it's a good one, so I don't want you to miss it if you can be in Newcastle.
For developers, we've got Gergely Orosz talking about Windows Phone 7 development. Gergely is one of the guys behind the gorgeous Cocktail Flow app, which is the first app that I show people when they ask for a demo of Windows Phone 7.
For IT pros, NEBytes' very own Ben Lee will be covering Lync 2010. Ben does a great job of covering topics like this one and I'm sure that he won't be able to stop himself speculating how Microsoft's requisition of Skype will fit in to Lync going forward.
Full details and the sign-up link are on the NEBytes site.
North East based developers may also want to check out this month's Super Mondays event on Application Development for the Enterprise. Don't let the fact that it's on a Tuesday (31st May) fool you because they've got a great international line-up of speakers.


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Food Bank For New York City is founded (as Food for Survival) to serve people in need throughout New York City. Our operations and our 35,000-square-foot warehouse (now 90,000 square feet) are based in the Hunts Point Cooperative Market in the Bronx — the world's largest wholesale distribution center.
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Information Assurance Services (IAS) oversees the Department's information technology security program and ensures the confidentiality/privacy, integrity, and availability of the Department's information and information resources. IAS ensures that the Department is fully compliant with the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA), and all related statutes and directives. The organization provides standardized security services and solutions in areas such as Risk Management; Access Controls; Identity and Access Management, Authentication; Encryption Solutions; Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Technology; and, Certification and Accreditation (C&A).
IAS also directs the agency's Managed Security Services Program (MSSP) ensuring contractor compliance with MSSP requirements governing the management of the agency's enterprise-wide security operations center; the mitigation of security vulnerabilities and improvement of the Department's IT security posture; portal security; and sound configuration management of EDUCATE and its tenant systems.
The Director, IAS reports to the CIO and provides overall leadership and coordination to the Immediate Office staff of IAS and to the following components:
Policy and Planning Team
In performing its responsibilities, the Team:
- Develops policies and guidance to prevent and defend against unauthorized access to networks, system, and data directly or indirectly related to the Department's activities;
- Coordinates Department-wide policies regarding network and system security management, operational, and technical controls;
- Directs and manages annual FISMA reporting, and coordinates Program Reviews with the OIG and Senior Action Officer for Privacy (SAOP), in accordance with OMB guidance;
- Conducts annual Department-wide security reviews mandated by the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) and periodically assists the agency's OIG with the conduct and resolution of Department IT security program and system audits;
- Develops, maintains, and tracks performance of the IA Strategic Plan. Also, ensures that the goals and objectives within the IA Strategic Plan, support and are in coordination with the Secretary's Strategic Plan and the CIO's IT Strategic Plan;
- Develops, updates, and maintains IA metrics to measure effectiveness of the IA and Cyber Security Program;
- Defines IT security curricula and provides specialized security training for the Department's technical staff and general security awareness/orientation training required of all Departmental employees; sets policy and standards for security training for contract personnel;
- Maintains and serves as the Department's official repository for plans of action and milestones (POA&M) to address weaknesses disclosed by FISMA reviews, IG audits, C&A and Federal Managers Financial Management Integrity Act (FMFIA) annual certifications related to IT security matters.
- Monitors acquisition and budget execution to ensure fiscally responsible usage of funds in accordance with the IAS and OCIO Strategic Plans.
Cyber Defense Team
In performing its responsibilities, the Team:
- Manages and coordinates agency-wide IT security incident reporting and response activities, and serves as the Department liaison with the Office of General Counsel, US Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT), the FBI, OIG and other external law enforcement agencies concerning IT security incident reporting and follow-up activities;
- Establishes and operates the agency's Education Computer Incident Response Capability (EDCIRC) to maintain and provide situational awareness of the Department's IT infrastructure;
- Enforces Federal IT security standards, including review and evaluation activities prescribed by OMB Circulars A-123 and A-130;
- Provide cyber threat and intelligence analysis;
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- Oversee and execute the Department's TICAP Program and certification through DHS.
- Monitors acquisition and budget execution for operational cyber security programs and projects to ensure fiscally responsible usage of funds.
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In performing its responsibilities, the Team:
- Provides agency-wide leadership in maintaining and improving the availability, confidentiality and integrity of data maintained in the Department's information systems, including ongoing support of the agency's Data Integrity Board and data matching/exchange agreements with other agencies;
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Pulling a sen is a temporary lapse in attention that normally results in an embarrassing incident. This can happen anywhere at any time. Normally occurring in internet chat rooms or multiplayer games. It can also happen while driving or other various physical activities.
A driver veers off the normal path while waving to get the attention of another driver and almost crashes. The driver of that car was just "pulling a sen".
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A frequent contributor to The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Hudson Review, critic Susan Balée is the author of Flannery O'Connor: Literary Prophet of the South (1994), as well as biographical essays on figures ranging from Romantic poet John Clare to contemporary novelist Jim Crace for Scribner's British Writers series.
Yvon Chouinard is founder and owner of Patagonia Clothing Company. He began his career by designing, manufacturing, and distributing rock-climbing equipment, and is known for revolutionizing both rock-climbing and ice-climbing equipment. A tireless adventurer, philanthropist, and supporter of environmental causes, Chouinard is the author of five books, including the memoir Let My People Go Surfing (2005).
Dana Gioia, former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, is an acclaimed poet, critic, and literary anthologist. His third collection of poetry, Interrogations at Noon (2001), won the American Book Award. He has also written collections of essays, including Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture (1992; 2002) and Disappearing Ink: Poetry at the End of Print Culture (2004).
As Curator of Literary Manuscripts at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, Sara S. Hodson oversees the Jack London collection. Hodson co-edited Jack London: One Hundred Years a Writer (2002) and is the President of the Jack London Society.
Dog behaviorist Cheri Lucas is the founder of the Second Chance at Love Humane Society, a non-profit, no-kill organization dedicated to caring for and finding homes for abused and abandoned dogs.
Actor-director Robert Redford is best known for roles in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), The Sting (1973), The Great Gatsby (1974), Out of Africa (1985), Lions for Lambs (2007), and All is Lost (2013). He won an Academy Award for directing Ordinary People (1980). With grant support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Redford in 1980 created the Sundance Institute, whose film festival and workshops earned him an honorary Oscar in 2002. In 2010, he was inducted into the French Legion of Honor.
Richard Rodriguez may be best known for his memoirs, a trilogy on U.S. public life: Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1982), Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father (1992), and Brown: The Last Discovery of America (2002). For more than ten years, Rodriguez appeared as an essayist on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Recent books include Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography (2013).
One of California's leading historians, Kevin Starr teaches history at the University of Southern California. He served as the State Librarian of California from 1994 to 2004. He is best known for his multi-volume history series collectively called Americans and the California Dream. Also the author of California: A History (2005).


text: I have bought S&W guns all my life and never had a problem with them. So I see no reason to change that habit. I would buy a Taurus at any given time if I find one that strikes my fancy. I use to do a lot of trading around with guns and I have had more than a few Taurus and there was nothing wrong with them. It's just I could make more with the Smiths,Colts and Rugers.


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Decision division: Mirror Pond's fate still murky as silt
Survey finds respondents split on whether dam should go
BEND, Ore. - A full house of more than 60 people greeted Bend Parks and Rec and city councilors as they met to discuss the results of the Latest mirror pond survey on Tuesday.
"Regardless of the solution that's picked, we're going to make a lot of people upset," City Councilor Mark Capell in an interview Tuesday with NewsChannel 21.
Project leaders found from more than 1,200 people surveyed that 47 percent want the more than century-old hydroelectric dam gone and a more naturally flowing river -- but 43 percent say they want to keep it and thus keep the pond that to many is the very symbol of Bend.
Responders were asked questions about four different options: leave the pond as is, fully or partially dredge the silt buildup, or take out the dam.
Project Manager Jim Figurski said most of survey respondents have lived in Bend for more than ten years. Most also live on the west side of the city.
Parks and Rec board member Dan Fishkin said the future of the pond is caught in the paradox of the future of the dam. Many community members don't want to pick an option until they know what will happen the dam -- and Pacific Power officials say they don't want to decide anything until the know what the community wants.
Capell agrees with Fishkin and others who say the ball is in the utility's court, as it has said it really doesn't need the dam any more.
"We need to know what their plan is," Capell said.
Figurski says now is the opportunity to deepen discussions with Pacific Power.
"Now we can talk to Pacific Power about the incremental costs of either keeping the dam in place, if that's the direction we've chosen, or the costs of removing the dam and returning it into a river," Figurski said. "We've focused it down now to at least two options."
Another big issue is who will pay for the costs, as any major changes to the river will cost millions. And that likely means a measure of some sort on a future election ballot.
"The future of Mirror Pond will go to the voters," said City Councilor Victor Chudowsky.
"They (the voters) are going to be where the money comes from," Capell said.
Bend city councilors say tough decisions lie ahead. A preferred solution is expected in September.


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1" at 5 yards translates to 4" at 20 so whats the problem. Neither IDPA or USPSA require you to hit quarters. Both games use approx 18" x 24" silhouette targets with 20 yards being a long shot. If you miss the occasional head shot, so what. Head shots are usually at closer ranges.
I at 68 yrs. have 20x200+ uncorrected vision and have to work with blurry gun or blurry target but still manage to stay out of bottom place in our local USPSA shoots. My accuracy is suprisingly pretty good but speed suffers from excess weight, athritis and focusing time. It doesn't stop me from having fun and learning how to handle the guns a bit better. Last time out I ended up mid pack within all combined classes using a stock M&P40 with IWB holster.
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New guardrail going in at crash scene
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. - One week after a car crashed into a Johnson City house, the city is putting in a guardrail.
Last Wednesday a car crashed into a house on Hamilton Street, narrowly missing an 8-month-old baby inside. Click here to read more.
Johnson City is now planning to install a guardrail at that curved section of road. "This job does have some curved rail because it is on the corner and sometimes that can take a little time. They have to actually bend that to match that specific radius on that corner," says Mike Arsenault, Assistant Public Works Director for Johnson City.
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Stargazey Pie (using Mackerel fillets instead of Pilchards/Sardines), Saffron Mash, steamed veg (h/grown)
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Wanted to make my best freind's prawn and chorizo rice pot, but I'm missing the two basic ingredients, prawns and chorizo, so it's going to be chicken burritos.
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Coco, interested that you only use chicken livers for "special occasions". Where I live, they are (if you can find them) $2.00/kg and sold as dog food.
Before I became gluten sensitive I used to make pasta Veronique with chicken livers and grapes.
Before the very sad and sudden loss (I was only "rabitting on with her re our love of decorated shoes-pref red two/three w/e ago) of MsK, I requested a couple of times to do a Southern US tbeme on another thread. I've been to New Orleans several times (a six week stint with US Red Cross after Katrina included).
Southern food has always mystified me. Po Boy remains a major question mark. But I'm all for learning. A lot of the ingredients are difficult to find here. My chances of finding andouille sausage is like finding a needle in a haystack. But I'm "game".
But May is for honouring MsK- apple pie (see L/O thread "wouldn't it be cool".
May 4 would have been GeoffP's 66th birthday. Maybe we can fit in a curry month sometime for him. Almost three years since he left us.
Deb, long time no see. A pleasant surprise. Welcome back (if you've been away).
Minnie, admit I was only down your way in Summer/early Autumn but Stargazey Pie was *not* on the menu at the B&Bs or pubs (or it went by another name not to frighten the tourists . Sounds interesting.
Must get to bed Orthodox Easter approaches (with its cooking) all
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So quiet here. My dinner tonight was leftover Indian from a couple of nights ago.
Today's energy has gone into preparations for Greek Easter tomorrow.
The eggs have been dyed; the dips made; the calamari has been cleaned for the calamari salad; the lamb has been prepared and is in the fridge ready for me to take out in the morning; the dough for the traditional plaited bread is done and is inthe fridge for me to take out in the morning, have another rise when it comes out of the fridge and then plaited and the three eggs added atop prior baking. The tradtional rice pudding has been made.
The table's set. A bowl of red eggs is centre piece for the traditional "egg smashing" contest. Think I'll be having lots of meals with hard boiled eggs for the next few days.
That just leaves me the veg and salad to prep n cook, the calamari, the lamb and the bread to cook tomorrow and, of course, the Greek salad to make. The dressings for it and the calamari salad are made and in jars in the fridge.
Phew! Ironically, I'm neither Greek nor Orthodox but no one has "done" Greek Easter since my FIL passed away two years ago and I like to maintain tradition(s).
Night all
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Last night, we had homemade pizza. Tonight, we're having pulled pork, and for dessert, strawberry ice box pie. I made the pie yesterday, and it's been really hard not to eat it.
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Mommyof2nc, please excuse my ignorance but what is "strawberry ice box pie"?
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Mommyof2nc, please excuse my ignorance but what is "strawberry ice box pie"?
It's a strawberry pie that isn't baked. The crust (obviously) is baked, but the filling has gelatin in it, so it sets up in the refrigerator. I think it's a classic American diner-type pie, but don't quote me on that.
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Thank you
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I'm going to cook ribs over onion, carrot, apple and potato slices in the slow cooker, coated in bbq sauce, fennel salad with cara-cara orange/sesame oil dressing and caramelized pineapple/coconut macaroons for dessert (the cookies are a David Lebovitz recipe).
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We went out for lunch today at a local Italian restaurant, it was wonderful. The waiter spoke italian/English, lots of ciao Bella!! Anyway supper tonight was lovely cheese and bread as we felt like we had already had our supper!


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I first stumbled across FAT KID RULES THE WORLD when I was hired to record the audio version of KL Going's award winning novel. The book blew me away. It was funny and true, and it told the story of a lost kid – Troy Billings, alienated and alone – who finds his purpose in life through the magic of punk rock music. The book rocked my world. It was crazy! It spoke to me, in a deep way because I had been my own version of Troy Billings in high school. I was lost and an outcast and didn't really fit in anywhere… that is until I found acting, which pretty much changed my life forever. After I read the book I knew I had to tell THIS story. I made this movie for everyone who has ever felt like they just didn't belong… the misfits, the outcasts. The kids that are lost… this movie is for you!
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PS: If you don't want to use Aluminum Foil, you don't have to. You can even leave the corn in the husks if you'd like (but I think those little stringy things are weird ...)
Anyway, if you're not into the foil you can simply plop the washed and clean corn in the pot. If you are fancy you can add a bit of butter and herbs and some Parmesan cheese -- or you can just let them steam in their own juice.
There is truly no need to add water if you have a good sealing crockpot.
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3TFO: Cowboys - Eagles Week 10
Excerpt: "This game will feature two of the most talked about and most hyped 3-5 teams ever. The Cowboys and Eagles enter Week 10 coming off losses and both are now 1-4 in their last five games, making this a virtual elimination game.
Dallas lost at home to the undefeated Falcons and now has to head back on the road in an NFC East battle. The Cowboys have been competitive in recent losses against some of the best teams in the league, losing to the Ravens, Giants, and Falcons all by less than a touchdown, but if they dont start turning those near wins into actual wins they will be watching the playoffs from home.
Philadelphia has been an absolute mess lately and the pressure hoisted on them in the preseason combined with major injuries appears to be too much for them to handle. Michael Vick spends the entire game running for his life and the defense has been laughable since firing Juan Castillo. There is not better week to turn things around than this week and Eagles fans will be very forgiving of recent struggles if they can defeat the hated Cowboys.
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Whats up with this kid? You guys think he will be any good? Or just another Blane Gabbert type QB, all the measurables that boost his stock, then he flops. I just dont know why he is ranked so high now. Saw him as the #1 overall pick in some mocks, and the #1 QB in others.
I just dont get the hype on him, like I didnt on Ponder or Gabbert.


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Ok we have 5 months left...
Until the end of the year. This is a very exciting time for gaming. New consoles, new games, new features. So I figured why not start a "oh wow I did not realize how the year has flown by and I have so much gaming to do, games and systems to get...etc..." So lets have some fun. No bashing as each has different tastes in games and what not. Feel free to put in your psn name, age and what not. Best way to play on the playground is to know who or if anything say you heard of them.
Me..I have to beat The Last of Us this weekend. Next month is Disney Infinity and The Walking Dead PS Vita bundle, September is Kingdom Hearts Remix HD and Lego Marvel..Really need to get Infamous collection so I can play Second Son and also the Killzone Trilogy. So far I have AC4 pre ordered for PS4 and I will probably add Battlefield as something about bringing buildings down on people and crashing helis into people that is wrong, but just funny. And probably add Watchdogs as well.
My psn name is The_CROW_74.
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Here's my "End of the Generation" wrap-up list of games that I must play:
- God of War: Ascension
- The Last of Us
- Rayman Legends
- Beyond: Two Souls
Aside from that, I'll just keep my PS+ Subscription running and play the free games to tide me over to the end of this generation while spending as little money as possible.
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I actually have 3 games that are brand new, still sealed in their plastic rap and have yet to play.
-Jak and Daxter collection
-Dead Space 2
-Hitman: Absolution
Game's I still want, either already out or yet to be released
-Metro: last light
-Hitman Trilogy HD
-Sly Cooper: thieves in time
-Ratchet and Clank collection
-Splinter cell trilogy HD collection
-Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2
-Dead Space 3
-Bioshock Infinite
-Beyond: Two Souls
-Dark Souls 2
-Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5
-Alien: Colonial Marines ( I know, still want to get it when its like $10 or lower)
-Playstation Allstars
-Ninja Gaiden 3
"I'm not a failure because I didn't win, I'm a failure because I didn't try." - Kev
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Before this generation ends I need to
1. Play Rayman Origins
2. Get the last two trophies and the Platinum of Jak3 Vita
Not a big to-do list but what can I say, I game like the best of 'em.
So after that I guess imma be chillin until the PS4 releases then i will be all over Destiny and Knack. If anyone wants to multiplayer with a pro on Destiny just add me.
Yes I know i seem stuck up at times but hey I cant help it. Im feelin pretty **bleep** good today. (cursing used for emphasis, beg pardon).
So ya just hit me up if you ever want to multiplayer or co-op it out with a big star like me. Or you can hit up that Glacius guy or FiveFourteen as they seem more pro than me.
Yes i know what you think of me. no comments are needed to pass the message.
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This year has gone by but to be even better fitting this generation has went by dast. I know it so far has lasted the longest but it seemed to go by the fastest.
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- finish The Last of Us
- finish Star Ocean: The Last Hope International
- finish Skyrim
- finish Oblivion
- finish Killzone and Killzone 2
- play through inFamous and inFamous 2
- finish Genji: Days of the Blade
- play through any decent games I get from the IGC
- pay off the rest of the balance on my PS4 and Destiny before they release so that I can just go and pick them up
- pre-order Killzone: Shadowfall and pay that off
- pre-order and pay off Knack


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Lead singer/guitarist Alan Hague left his former outfit, Prayers for Atheists, late last year. He provided the riffs and vocal shrapnel alongside acclaimed spoken word poet/activist Jared Paul. PFA released two albums and caught the attention of Sage Francis and his Strange Famous Records, which picked up distribution for their self-titled EP and 2011 follow-up, New Hymns For an Old War.
"It was a difficult decision, but at some point I just kind of realized that I wanted to go in a different direction that wasn't along the same lines of where PFA was or was headed," Hague told me earlier this week.
"I'm a musician much more than an activist."
Then again, when asked about the origin of the band name, Hague revealed it comes from an Ernest Hemingway quote: "War is a crime. Ask the infantry. Ask the dead."
"So much for not being political!" cracked Hague. "But I love the starkness and directness of the name, plus it can be interpreted in a number of ways."
More contemporary ATD reference points could include Against Me! and the Gaslight Anthem. Hague's raspy vocals ride the dual-guitar riffs and beastly bashing from Guedes throughout Signal to Noise. "So It Goes" and "Get Through" open the EP with vigor; on the vintage-punk number "Vampire Hours," Hague comes out firing with "Well, being here just bleeds the life right out of me," and his socio-economic side comes up for air while playing the role of tyrant boss on the two-minute gem "Human Resources": "What's the hold-up? Time is wasting/I don't pay you for complaining/Got a million precious snowflakes like you itching to take your place."
The last song on the EP, "Song for Jesse," is an uptempo, alt-radio ready jam Hague dedicated to friend Jesse Cook, who died unexpectedly last year.
"I looked up to Jesse more than I ever expressed to him — he inspired me to get serous about songwriting," he said. "I am still deeply saddened by his passing."
I dropped a line to my pal Roz Raskin, who recently shared a bill with Ask the Dead.
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Sports Injuries Operation Game – Using an oversized OPERATION game—fun for kids and nostalgic for Boomers—remove and repair body parts linked to the ten most common sports injuries.
Drugs in Sports – Three interlocking gears are labeled with various illegal sports drugs, their intended 'benefit', the dangers and side effects. Rotate the gears to see how each matches up!
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Breathe Easy – Exhale a lung-full of air into a sensor, check out your lung capacity, then compare the results.
Footwork – Put your foot on a sheet of heat-sensitive crystals, and discover which type of foot arch you have and how it affects your gait.
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You'll see that Karl doesn't limit himself and you shouldn't, either! Not many fashion designers are also photographers, but Karl is. Don't be afraid to try new things—you never know where it will take you.
Say what you will about Elle Woods, but one thing's for sure, she doesn't blend into the crowd. In Legally Blonde 2, Elle isn't afraid to stay true to herself, even if it might make her an easy target and other people may judge her. Not bad advice!
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text: Eleonorad and I are publishing the interviews we made at the European Championships in Zagreb. The first are Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte, with whom we talked after the gala practice on Sunday morning. Anna and Luca told us about their experience in Zagreb, their brand new bronze medal and their goals for the World Championships next month. The Azzurri's point of view on the European Championships: Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte Any comment, critic, suggestion is very appreciated The next interview is going to be about Stefania Berton and Ondrej Hotarek.