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KCATA pleads case for emergency funding
The KCATA and St. Louis Metro transit systems asked a Missouri House committee yesterday for emergency funding to prevent impending service cuts.
KCATA is asking for $14 million to cover shortfalls from reduced sales tax revenues and diversion of transit funds to other uses — all in the face of increased ridership and a recently-enacted fare increase.
The article references a "Ken Kohler", but we're pretty sure that it was KCATA's Mark Huffer doing the legwork at the Capitol, according to information we received from Jeff City.
UPDATE: The article has been corrected and a commenter has confirmed that Bob Kohler was representing KCATA this week in Jefferson City. Also, the request is double the amount of this year's shortfall, so we're assuming the $14 million will cover two years of operating assistance, which is in line with most stimulus timelines.2 comments
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Bridget April 9th, 2009 11:47 am
Actually, The Metro was represented by Bob Kohler, Director of Transportation. The St. Louis paper has corrected his name in the story. Mark Huffer was at the capital last week meeting with senators and representatives.
Dave April 9th, 2009 11:50 am
Thanks, Bridget!


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In the year 1960, my then brother Dave had a bout of severe flu. He had a very high fever with convulsions. When taken to his doctor, James F. Denaut, MD. In Knox, he was tested and it was determined that he had "sugar diabetes," as it was known then.
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The dialysis was a wear and tear on my brother's arteries, and on March 31st. 1980 he suffered a fatal heart attack at the age of 25.
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The deal on the table blocks the tax hike for middle class Americans, raises taxes (to 39.6 percent) for households making more than $450,000 a year, raises the capital gains taxes for the wealthy from 15 percent to 20 percent — but fails to address the automatic spending cuts.
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Rebekah Brooks' could not be shown to have authorised a single payment to Glenn Mulcaire during her editorship of the News of the World, it was claimed at the Old Bailey.
The name of the private investigator, who was paid £1,769 a week – £92,000-a-year – did not appear on a list of her authorised payments draw from payment records, the phone-hacking trial was told.
The list had been drawn up by Michael Gill, group financial controller at News UK, formerly News International, the court was told.
Jonathan Laidlaw, QC, counsel for Brooks asked Gill: "I think what we asked you to do was search for any payments authorised by Mrs Brooks during her editorship, and this is the extent of those payments, is it?"
Gill replied: "That's correct."
Among them were the expenses claims of staff reporting directly to her, including her then deputy Andy Coulson, and managing editor Stuart Kuttner, the jury heard.
Referring to the contributors payments, Laidlaw said: "She never authorised a payment to Glenn Mulcaire."
"That's correct," replied Gill.
"Either in his name or any of the names of the companies by which he was paid. Not a single one authorised by Mrs Brooks," continued Laidlaw.
The jury was shown a detailed list of payment requests made at the News of the World for April 2002, which, said Laidlaw, was "illustrative" and "not an unusual month".
"We have a hundred pages, each page containing about 20 to 30 separate requests for payment?" said Laidlaw.
"Slightly more," replied Gill.
They ranged from tiny sums to thousands of pounds, added Laidlaw. "Within which we can see the four payments for this month to Glenn Mulcaire's company."
"Four payments out of, I don't want to exaggerate, but many hundreds of payments for that month," asked Laidlaw,
"That's correct," said Gill.
The document was "illustrative" of the number of payment requests processed each month, said Laidlaw.
The weekly £1,769 payment to Mulcaire was logged underneath the name of his company Nine Consultancy News & PR.
Andrew Edis, prosecuting, queried why the "actual payments" were made to Nine Consultancy when Mulcaire's contract with the News of the World, which was shown to the jury, was made out to Euro Research and Information Limited
Brooks, editor of the News of the World from May 2000 until January 2003, Coulson, who replaced her as editor, and Kuttner were "Category three" approvers – allowed to authorise payments of up to £50,000, the court heard.
Gill agreed that desk editors were not on the approvers list from 2002 until 2005 when Ian Edmondson and James Weatherup were added to approve payments of up to £2,000. Edis asked: "Before that, were the desk editors allowed to authorise?"
Gill replied: "They weren't on the approvers list then, no."
The total annual amount of a contract was taken into account when deciding who should be the approver .
Judge Justice Saunders asked if Mulcaire was "getting 100,000, authorisation would need to come from somebody who had authority up to and beyond that figure?"
"It should do," replied Gill.
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Parge coat will help level it out and smooth it somewhat, but it's concrete and hitting it hard will hurt. Maybe laminate drywall to it??
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Why Access Control Is Ready to Ascend
In the security industry, there is often an ebb and flow where one technology may dominate while another seems to generate less excitement. But while we may praise video, another sometimes overlooked but valuable technology — access control — is just as important.
Sandra Jones June 3, 2013
For years Wiegand protocol, panels and proximity technology have been the way things are done. But our industry veterans point to several game-changers, some of which might be considered bleeding edge today, but will become the leading edge standards of tomorrow.
Most new access control systems today are looking toward smartcards; but going "cardless" may not be too far into the future, between increasingly cost-effective and workable biometric choices and the burgeoning NFC-enabled smartphones. Edge readers and low power options are also technologies to watch carefully.
"Low power is what I am watching more than anything else," says an end-user operations engineer for a multinational corporation with more than 40,000 employees. "It is definitely heralding innovations that will help everyone in the long run. Doing more with less power is really critical for us because we generally keep our systems up all the time."
He also loves the idea of biometrics. "I am a firm believer that biometrics via smartcards will get there," he says. "We have used the technology as an extended pilot for years and have found it to be very reliable with a much greater level of security. Now that costs are coming down and compatibility questions have been answered, I will probably be upgrading some of our readers to biometrics."
Matthew Ladd, president and COO, The Protection Bureau, looks forward to "panel-less" systems. "As networks continue to grow we will find more IT level access control card readers that just connect in through the software and everything will be done at the edge," he says.
This will lead to the average integrator doing many more doors, Ladd adds. "Instead of only doing 10% of doors, it will be more in the 70% range as the ability to install quickly at the edge increases."
This is really an exciting time for access control, Boxerbaum adds. "This marketplace goes well beyond the reader at the door, the panel or the head-end software. It really includes everything from the credential and identity management to the technologies to the locking systems, software, hardware, panels, GUIs, data interfaces, and other hardware and software components. Soon, using NFC, the card will not even be necessary. Access control technologies will continue on an evolutionary path for the foreseeable future — with perhaps a few revolutionary jumps along the way."
In other words, expect just about everything to change! And whether you agree with these industry experts or not, their insights are a good example of best practices when developing or investing in new products. Obtaining hands-on voice-of-the-channel and customer input is crucial to a successful enterprise. I know it is invaluable to me and my clients, and hopefully to you, too.
Sandra Jones is principal of Sandra Jones and Co. (sjandco.com), a leading security industry resource and consulting firm located in Chardon, Ohio.
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Holiday shopping will kick off this week with Black Friday after Thanksgiving and will continue until Cyber Monday. After that, you can expect more great deals as Christmas nears and until the early weeks of January. Though a lot of people would endure falling in line for hours just to get the best deals, some people prefer the more laidback approach and just shop online.
In a recent survey conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of McAfee, Inc., 70 percent of people plan on shopping online and about 24 percent or 1 in 4 Americans will use their mobile device, a tablet or smartphone, to research or purchase holiday gifts. And even if they know how risky it is to shop online, about 87 percent are aware of the risk, 9 in 10 people or 88 percent are willing to give out personal information just so they could get a discounted deal.
Risks online have been around for ages but the difference now is that there are more ways to trick people and there more devices that can be used as a vehicle to get personal information such as bank accounts to scam consumers out of thousands or even millions of dollars.
"Using multiple devices provides the bad guys with more ways to access your valuable "Digital Assets," such as personal information and files, especially if the devices are under-protected," said Paula Greve, director at McAfee Labs. "One of the best ways for consumers to protect themselves is to learn about the criminals' tricks, so they can avoid them. Beyond that they should have the latest updates of the applications on their devices in order to enjoy a safe online buying or other experience. We don't want consumers to be haunted by the scams of holidays past, present and future – they can't afford to leave the door open to cyber-grinches during the busy holiday season."
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4) Holiday Spam/Phishing—I know it's quite difficult to find the perfect Christmas gift for your loved one but that doesn't mean that you have to fall for scams on e-mail claiming to be the "perfect gift" such as Rolex watches at very affordable price. Pharmaceutical ads will also be disguising as themselves with holiday themes to fool you into visiting their sites, so be very careful.
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6) Skype Message Scare—Skype may be the most used communication during the holidays and Skype users should be aware that there are scammers who will infect their computers via malicious links and some can even hold files for ransom.
7) Bogus gift cards—If you think gift cards are the perfect gifts, I advise you to buy them from the company itself, not from third party sites as they could be bogus gift cards which means though they offer a $100 gift card for only $50 or even for free, there's a huge chance that the receiver won't be able to use them as they are fake.
8) Holiday SMiShing—SMiShing is phishing via text wherein unknown people pretend to be from a legitimate company or organization who will lure you into divulging important information or performing actions that you don't normally do.
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10) Fake charities—Some people give to charity during the holidays as a form of giving back to share all their blessings. Unfortunately, some people take advantage of the goodness in other people and they use that to lure them into "donating" to "charities." If you receive e-mails regarding a certain foundation asking for a donation, and you really want to donate, better check if that's a legit organization before doing so.
11) Dangerous e-cards— E-Cards have replaced traditional greeting cards as they are cheaper, some are free, and they get to the person on time. But some e-cards contain spyware or viruses that are downloaded when the receiver gets it.
12) Phony classifieds— Online classified sites may be a great place to look for holiday gifts and part-time jobs, but there are a lot of phony offers that ask for too much personal information or ask you to wire funds via Western Union. If you encounter these, do not continue and leave the site immediately.
The holidays should be the season of fun, love and laughter and we here at SiliconANGLE want to keep it that way. So we remind all you guys to be very careful when doing your holiday shopping online. Buy from legitimate online shops and if they ask for far too much information, leave the site immediately. If you think your system has been compromised, run an antivirus scan if you have an antivirus already installed, if not download one – from a legit site, and ran a complete scan.


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CHESTER – The Zoning Board of Adjustment (ZBA) approved several variance requests from Chester College of New England for its property in the center of town. Over several meetings the board has been working with representation from the former college to come to an agreement to subdivide a small piece of the larger property. That piece, which contains the Lane and Powers Buildings, is comprised of one acre, but according to college officials was hindering the sale of the remaining 70 acres.
The college hopes to subdivide the 1.1 acre parcel from a larger acreage sale that is nearly finalized with resident Peter Smith. He is looking to use a portion of the remaining 69 acres of the property for elderly housing. That 1.1 acre piece required variances to have a lot under two acres and with less than 290 feet of frontage, a higher percentage (54 percent) of impervious surface than is allowed (15 percent), and the need to have a 200-foot-diameter circle within the parcel.
ZBA membership, notably Cass Buckley, had some concern that the variances sought were only necessary to help the college sell the property, not something the ZBA should get involved in.
Representation from the college's engineering firm, TF Moran, argued that the only thing the variances would change were lines on paper. The goal of the variances, said Jason Hill of TF Moran, is to change as little as possible on the physical property to keep the downtown aesthetic status quo, as sought by residents. The variances allow for that, he said.
The plan for the property keeps a single shared driveway and keeps intact the large green that fronts on Chester Street. ZBA member Kevin Scott said that while he was initially hesitant to grant the variances, following a site walk he saw the wisdom of them. He added throughout the discussion that it would be a boon to the town to see the property in use again.
The ZBA conditioned the variances that should the use of the 1.1 acre parcel change, the owner would come again before the board. In other business at the ZBA's Tuesday, Aug. 20 meeting:
• Membership again continued hearings for a special exception and three variances on a small, triangle-shaped property at the intersection of Birch and Candia roads. Owner Roger C. Garrett has hired legal counsel and engineer Eric Mitchell to push the property through, despite concerns about the appropriateness of buildout by the ZBA. The ZBA had previously denied the special exception but granted a rehearing. The original hearing and rehearing have been continued numerous times.
A former state Department of Environmental Services (DES) employee was brought in by Garrett's counsel to argue that building on the wet lot was possible.
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I always thought of the Internal Revenue Service as a nonpolitical group, primarily accountants whose main purpose was to collect taxes and see that everyone abided by the laws. Only those who stretched the loopholes or made a mathematical error would be audited. Obviously I was wrong. And on top of that the IRS spent over $50 million for conferences, I guess to thank those who targeted the right people.
It's too bad the tax laws are so involved that some computer companies were able to shield $74 billion in profits through shell subsidiaries overseas without having any employees or offices over there. I think it is time that the present complicated system be scrapped and replaced by a flat tax on all money (profits, dividends, capital gains or whatever) that a person or corporation makes worldwide.
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Before dawn in Nickel Mines today, bulldozers demolished the schoolhouse where a madman's murder and mayhem brought unfathomable sorrow to the Amish community last week. Earlier this week, schools in Montgomery County, Culpeper County and Arlington endured various alerts as a result of threats to student safety. Meanwhile, President Bush and education officials gathered in a special summit to talk about the problem of violence in schools. No amount of talk will stop the madmen with guns and grudges. The schools are not violent, the culture is violent.
Universities are places where smart people supposedly think about solutions to social problems. Higher education generally has been remarkably silent on the issue of violence in society and in schools. Instead, higher education today seems beseiged in a very different way, consumed with its own internal problems and disputes, dissipating its considerable resources in defense of misconduct by presidents or athletes, lost in the arcane quagmire of regulatory excess and competitive angst. We academics seem to have lost our voices at a time when this society could use some clear public expressions of new directions to that Good Society the sociologists love to describe.
I'm thinking about the seige of our schools this morning as I read about the protesters shutting down a great University, Gallaudet. I have no doubt that there are legitimate issues fueling this protest, and those must be addressed. But, somehow, it strikes me as perverse that a university community cannot find a way to manage its disagreements without shutting down the teaching and learning environment. Free expression is the essential fuel of a university, yes, but expressions of freedom that repress the rights of others to learn is as authoritarian as any administrative directive.
I hope the Gallaudet community finds its way back to a rational solution to its dispute soon. Gallaudet is a remarkable institution, and the world needs Gallaudet University and all universities to be places that model healthy debate and effective solutions, not more dysfunction. All of us in higher education need to think more deeply about our responsibility to contribute to an end to the seige of our schools, so that the real work of education in forming a better society can proceed more quickly.
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When optimizing - don't forget the Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
Recently, I was working on a project that was coming to a close. It was related to optimizing a database using a Java based in-memory cache to reduce the load. The application had to process up to a million objects per day and was characterized by its heavy use of memory and the high number of read, write and update operations. These operations were found to be the most costly, which meant that optimization efforts were concentrated here.
The project had already achieved impressive performance increases, but one question remained unanswered - would changing the JVM increase performance?
As the code was written in Java, the first idea which came to mind was to optimize the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Many optimization configuration settings are available for each vendors JVM offering. e.g. Sun Microsystems. Some examples of optimization parameters include: memory allocation, garbage collector configuration, thread configuration and a lot more. Andrig T. Miller presents his experiences here and stackoverflow has useful tips.
In this post I don't want to concentrate on the individual tweaking of JVM configuration settings as I wanted to test how the application performs on other vendors JVMs, rather than the default one from Sun Microsystems. It is often better to replace the engine than to tweak an existing one (In the software world it is usually not true).
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First I had to define the list of JVMs which I wanted to test. They had to be available for free as I didn't have time to ask any company to send me their version of JVM for evaluation. I tested the following JVMs:
- Sun Java 1.6 Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_14-b08)
- IBM Java 1.6 IBM J9 VM (build 2.4, J2RE 1.6.0 IBM J9 2.4 Linux amd64-64)
- Oracle JRockIt Java 1.6 x64 BEA JRockit(R) (build R27.6.3-40_o-112056-1.6.0_11-20090318)
- OpenJDK 1.6 OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.5) (fedora-22.b16.fc11-x86_64)
Sun Java was the obvious choice, it is commonly used in industry, so there is no need for explanation. IBM's JVM was chosen as IBM has a proud heritage and has been developing its own JVMs for years. Oracle JVM is pushing hard into the market, so I had to check it. Why OpenJDK? I like open source, I'm using Fedora Linux and it was in the repository.
Now it was time to test these toys. But how to test them? I had two choices: write my own testing suite or use existing tools which are proven to be reliable in testing of Java performance. I decided to do both.
Simple application
As for my own testing framework, I wrote a very simple Java application which was performing many add/delete/modify operations on a HashMap object. Additionally this application was executing the garbage collector every X iterations, why? To replicate the operations that were limiting performance in the in-memory cache software, especially the frequent execution of the garbage collector.
Testing tools
Regarding some existing tools, I quickly researched and found two suitable solutions. The first one was Phoronix Test Suite (PTS), which is a very nice framework for performance testing using:
- Sunflow Rendering System - tests rendering time of sample scene
- Bork File Encrypter - tests file encryption performance
- SciMark - Java benchmark for scientific and numerical computing.
Application to speedup
As for the final testing tool, I decided to use the in-memory cache application which required speeding up. The results from this test would determine if the application should be migrated to another JVM.
So what about the results?
Using the Phoronix Test Suite SunJDK6, OpenJDK were almost equally fast. Oracle RockIt was much slower than these two, but IBM JDK6 was the slowest performing JVM. So don't use these two with PTS, you will not see any speedup.
My own simple testing application surprised me in terms of performance. IBM JDK6 was the fastest JVM in this test and by fastest I mean really fast. Average time of an iteration in my app was 13 seconds (Sun JDK6, OpenJDK, JrockIt). IBM JVM averaged 4 seconds.
And now for the most important results for the in-memory cache application to be sped up. The results can be seen in the graph below:
What we can see there? A big surprise, our application was performing almost the same on each JVM. The presented results are average, I ran the application 10 times on each JVM. No real improvement, so it did not make sense to migrate to another JVM and invest time in proving its stability.
The main finding was that no speedup was observed for the in-memory cache application that I was working on. This resulted in no JVM migration and subsequent testing. The project was closed faster and there were no lingering doubts about whether a change in JVM would increase performance.
Interestingly, the simple application that I developed executed 3X faster on IBM JDK. This indicates that application characteristics can result in significant differences in their performance on JVMs.
The main point is to test the application that you want to tune on different JVMs. It is simple and quick to do and you may be surprised by the performance increases that you see.
This is my experience – please share yours?


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Discussion in 'Fan Zone' started by Cbz40, Nov 12, 2006.
11 yard run...see what happens when you RUN the ball?
1st and 10:
Romo 3 WR set:
HO Jones maybe 1 or 2.
Best way to settle things down - give JJ the rock.
if we keep running this well, ROmo is going to have a big day
jujo trips over the hotel
There we go...Run the ball!.
Good play, hold onto the ball
2nd and 8:
empty backfield:
Romo no pressure fires it to Crayton hit tackled fumbled, Jones recovered for a 1st down.
For some reason, I don't remember TO having hands of stone at SF.
I know he used to (does) "alligator" catch passes (i.e., Roy Williams), but I thought his hands were consistent for the most part.
thank god for jones
Can't be doing that, Crayton.
Quick thinking and moving JJ!~
A big break.
1st and 10:
2 TE set:
Pitch right to JOnes 1 or 2 yards.
I don't remember him ever being this shaky before either
Damn, TO was wide open
2nd and 8:
Romo play fake, no pressure Owens opened way over thrown.
owens got scared
Nope, he's always had a history of the "dropsies".
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49erspride, my local doesn't either. You probably know this already, but sometimes I take the team & total for 1/2 units each unit. As long as GF is close, I split at worst. If GF nails it, like last night, I win them both.
He took me down at 'Pop-A-Shot" on #Easter & broke the high score I had of (62)...... lil' man got (72).
He had no shot at beating me at Bowling however #boatrace :)
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Associate Professor Jacinta Elston is a descendent of both the Kalkadoon people of north-west Queensland, and the South Sea Islander people who were bought to Australia as part of the practice of Black Birding. She is a master's graduate with Public Health and Tropical Medicine qualifications from the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Molecular Sciences at James Cook University.
Associate Professor Elston chairs the James Cook University Medical School's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Student Selection Committee, and is a current member of the Research Committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Australia, having previously served on the NHMRC's Research Agenda Working Group for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Jacinta is also an independent ministerial appointee to the National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre, and has served on the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Council.
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The Role of Pricing Strategy in Market Defense
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The price variable is among the most powerful instruments in the arsenal of the executives to achieve entry deterrence objectives. There are two main pricing strategies that firms may use to defend against a competitive market entry. The first of these options, limit pricing (or entry deterring price), may be utilized prior to competitive entry. The second option, aggressive (predatory) pricing, may be executed post-entry. The effectiveness of both of these options is still controversial. For example, the Chicago School proponents argue that these strategies are anecdotal in nature. On the other hand, the rationality of such conduct has been reliably simulated by Post-Chicagoans in game theoretic settings. The potential contributions of the marketing discipline have been recognized and called upon to help resolve the conflict. With this dissertation, I attempt to shed light on the role that price plays in preemptive and post-entry market defense of firms. As such, the questions tackled include but are not limited to: how effective is price as an entry-deterrence tool; in conjunction with firm and market specific barriers to entry; and as a post-entry retaliation mechanism? What are the facilitating conditions for limit, aggressive (predatory), competitive and supra-competitive pricing? What are the (long-term) consequences of these strategies? Following a multi-disciplinary literature review, I present a dynamic process model and test my hypotheses in a key network industry the airline industry. Building upon the advantages of multiple methods a la triangulation, I find that both limit pricing and predatory pricing can serve as effective strategies for the incumbents market defense. Predatory use of pricing in network industries may diminish consumer welfare. Results also suggest that firm specific barriers have a more significant role in market defense than market specific barriers. Insights and frameworks based on the marketing philosophy are also presented with the hope of advancing the ongoing debate between the Chicago and Post-Chicago Schools of thought.


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e-infrastructure and Higher Education
The main theme running through last week's activities was probably the interface between e-infrastructure and Higher Education. E-infrastructure is a term that can encompass anything involving digital technology, digital resources (including data), and the folk who produce and consume them, and as such is a critical part of the research landscape. I am closely involved in this area both for BBSRC and – as so-called Champion for the Research and Development Group (RDG) – for the Research Councils more generally. Together with AHRC's Shearer West, Chair of RDG, I therefore participated in an interesting meeting to discuss how we could better align our interests, knowledge and ambitions with those of research-intensive HEIs, and this will help feed into an ongoing review of e-infrastructure for research, in which I am also involved.
One leitmotif of our times, as we move towards knowledge of our funding settlement following the CSR, is that we all (including both 'sides' of the dual-support system) will have to become much more closely organised, with joint strategies for sharing limited resources, and of which e-infrastructure is certainly one part. To this end we also had a meeting with Vice Chancellors of the Russell and 1994 mission groups.
With the background of the impending Parliamentary debate on the funding of Higher Education and especially its teaching element, I also listened to Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts speaking at a discussion of The Future of Higher Education.
As part of my engagement with Institutions of Higher Education, I visited the University of Leicester, where as usual with these visits I had a very interesting series of meetings and was able to give a talk on our Strategic Plan and related funding aims, and to engage in several Question-and-Answer sessions. Leicester houses a new, 'green' high performance computer called ALICE, with considerably less comparative energy usage than its predecessor. Working out how best to share the many such resources will become increasingly important.
Sharing is at the heart of social networking, and following (see a previous blog) the discovery that the spread of human influenza could be detected much more easily via search engine queries than by more traditional returns, a new paper shows a similar result for data ('tweets') about H1N1 swine flu from Twitter. An excellent little review of Metabolic Engineering from Jay Keasling shows how great is the scope of industrial biotechnology starting with cellulosic or other carbohydrate biomass.
This week has also seen the publication of a number of more local papers. The first was a follow-up to a review of the perils of dysregulated iron metabolism (that has already had >21,000 online accesses), and was accompanied by an editorial and tagging in the Faculty of 1000 system. Another article involving the integration of experimental data and computational models in systems biology programs was also accompanied by an editorial, while a further article was on developing computational methods for text mining the literature for metabolites occurring in a particular organism (baker's yeast). Coupling of this to the Chemspider database allowed the system to return chemical structures as well. None of these outputs would have been possible without the considerable investment that has been made in e-infrastructure to date, and that must continue.
- Bolt, H. M. & Marchan, R. (2010). Iron dysregulation: an important aspect in toxicology. Arch Toxicol 577, 834-824
- Chew C, Eysenbach G. (2010) Pandemics in the Age of Twitter: content analysis of tweets during the 2009 H1N1 outbreak. PLoS One 5, e14118. Full free text
- Ginsberg, J., Mohebbi, M. H., Patel, R. S., Brammer, L., Smolinski, M. S. & Brilliant, L. (2009). Detecting influenza epidemics using search engine query data. Nature 457, 1012-1014
- Hucka, M. & Le Novère, N. (2010) Software that goes with the flow in systems biology. BMC Biol 8, 140. Full free text
- Keasling, J.D. (2010) Manufacturing molecules through metabolic engineering. Science 330, 1355-1358
- Kell, D. B. (2009). Iron behaving badly: inappropriate iron chelation as a major contributor to the aetiology of vascular and other progressive inflammatory and degenerative diseases. BMC Medical Genomics 2, 2 Free full text
- Kell, D. B. (2010). Towards a unifying, systems biology understanding of large-scale cellular death and destruction caused by poorly liganded iron: Parkinson's, Huntington's, Alzheimer's, prions, bactericides, chemical toxicology and others as examples. Arch Toxicol 577, 825-889. Free full text and pdf
- Li, P., Dada, J. O., Jameson, D., Spasic, I., Swainston, N., Carroll, K., Dunn, W., Khan, F., Messiha, H. L., Simeonidis, E., Weichart, D., Winder, C., Broomhead, D. S., Goble, C. A., Gaskell, S. J., Kell, D. B., Westerhoff, H. V., Mendes, P. & Paton, N. W. (2010). Systematic integration of experimental data and models in systems biology. BMC Bioinformatics,. Free full text
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A 17-year-old Hayden girl was critically injured Thursday morning when the car she was driving hit a tractor-trailer on Routt County Road 27.
Danielle Joy Laird reportedly was driving a 1989 Jeep Cherokee southbound on C.R. 27 when her car skidded on a patch of ice and slid into the path of a westbound tractor-trailer driven by 55-year-old Samuel Earl Arnold of Grand Junction.
Laird is a Hayden High School student and a longtime member of the Hayden Girl Scouts troop.
West Routt Fire and Ambulance crews worked for about an hour to free Laird from the vehicle. She was taken to Yampa Valley Medical Center where she was in critical condition before being transferred to another hospital. It is unclear which hospital is caring for her injuries, or her current condition.
Arnold, who had just completed a delivery to the Twentymile coal mine, was not injured.
Laird reportedly had just entered a sweeping curve in the road when her car hit the ice. Arnold reportedly tried to avoid the Jeep. Evidence at the scene indicated the tractor-trailer veered partially off the roadway before the collision.
The Jeep came to rest about 70 feet from the collision spot. The tractor-trailer ended up jackknifed on the edge of the road, more than 100 feet from where the crash happened.
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Congressional Town Hall Meetings, Public Forums, Dramatic Recreations, House Parties, Rallies, and Study Circles on July 23, 2005
On July 23, 2005, events around the United States will mark the three-year anniversary of the meeting at #10 Downing Street in London, England, that was recorded in the now infamous minutes known as the "Downing Street Memo."
At least eight events will be hosted by or participated in by Members of Congress, including John Conyers in Detroit, Jim McDermott in Seattle, Barbara Lee in Oakland, Maxine Waters in Los Angeles, and Maurice Hinchey in New York. Congressman Charles Rangel will host an electronic town-hall meeting, answering questions from his New York constituents on the internet, from noon to 1 p.m., July 22. Congressman Xavier Becerra will host an event in Los Angeles on July 30, and Congressman Barney Frank in Boston on July 31.
Co-Founder of the After Downing Street Coalition, constitutional attorney John Bonifaz will speak at a town hall meeting on July 23rd in Northampton, Mass.
On July 23rd, in over 150 towns and cities, prominent speakers and ordinary citizens will hold public forums, perform dramatic recreations of the Downing Street meeting, and host house parties and study circles. Sixty-six events and counting are listed online at AfterDowningStreet.org. For details on events in any part of the country, see this map: http://heh.pl/&tm . Another 16 events on surrounding days are also listed on the site.
In addition, Congressman Conyers' office has organized 105 house parties through their website. See http://johnconyers.com/.
Conference Call for House Parties:
Congressman Conyers and former Ambassador Joseph Wilson will participate in a national conference call with house party attendees from 4 to 4:30 p.m. ET. For details, contact Jonathan Godfrey at 202-744-7441 or email@example.com .
Blogging All Day:
Bloggers will report on events from around the country during the day at www.afterdowningstreet.org
Action Across the Atlantic:
On July 23rd, at 2 p.m. GMT just outside the gates to Downing Street in London, England, a group of actors and activists will perform a dramatic recreation of the Downing Street Memo as a Mad Hatter's Tea Party. The event is being organized by members of Bedford Stop the War, a member of the Stop the War Coaltion, and of After Downing Street. For more information, contact Linda Jack at (44) 7793556099, or firstname.lastname@example.com.
E-Town Hall on the 22nd:
Congressman Charles Rangel's E-town hall meeting will begin at 1 p.m. ET on July 22nd. For more information, go to: http://www.house.gov/rangel
Agenda for National Day of Events:
The agenda at various of these events will include speeches, panel discussions, viewing of DVDs, dramatic recreations of the Downing Street Minutes, debates, writing postcards and letters to congress members and senators not present, writing letters to the editor, training participants in effective lobbying, honoring local fallen soldiers, and planning local marches and flyering campaigns – with such actions in some cases immediately following the event. Resources for these events have been made available by the After Downing Street Coalition at www.afterdowningstreet.org.
Participants around the country will be encouraged to
• promote coverage of the Downing Street Minutes by their local media,
• gather signatures on Congressman Conyers' letter to the President asking for explanations of the Downing Street Minutes (there are now 131 signatures by congress members and over 576,984 by U.S. citizens),
• promote support for a Resolution of Inquiry expected to be introduced in the House of Representatives,
• promote support for a Resolution expected to be introduced in the House of Representatives, which would create a select committee to investigate reports of a pre-war deal between the United Kingdom and the United States and evidence that pre-war intelligence was intentionally manipulated.
• lobby the Senate Intelligence Committee to conduct the investigation of pre-war intelligence that it has failed to follow through on.
Details for Each Event:
For details on events in any part of the country, see this map: http://heh.pl/&tm Here are a few:
Congressman John Conyers, Jr.
Wayne State University Law School Auditorium
Meeting Local Start Time: 2:00pm
471 W. Palmer Street
Detroit, Michigan 48202
Congresswoman Barbara Lee
Grand Lake Theatre
Meeting Local Start Time: 11:00am
3200 Grand Avenue
Oakland, California 94610
Congressmen Jim McDermott
Seattle Labor Temple
Meeting Local Start Time: 1:00pm
2800 First Avenue
Seattle, Washington 98121
Congresswoman Maxine Waters
Covenant Worship Center at Legacy Hall
Meeting Local Start Time: 12:00pm
425 South La Brea Avenue
Inglewood, California 90301
New York City Town Hall Meeting
Sponsored by The Nation and Democrats.com and Progressive Democrats of America
Speakers: Congressman Maurice Hinchey, former Congresswoman Liz Holtzman, Air America Radio host Randi Rhodes, and as moderator President of Democrats.com Bob Fertik.
New York Society for Ethical Culture
2 W. 64th St.
New York, NY
AfterDowningStreet.org is a rapidly growing coalition of veterans' groups, peace groups, and political activist groups, which launched on May 26, 2005, a campaign to urge the U.S. Congress to begin a formal investigation into whether President Bush has committed impeachable offenses in connection with the Iraq war.
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It should not even be private organizations pushing for an investigation of Bush lies about justifying going to war in Iraq. The upright thing to do is for Congress to push for an investigation because this is the credibility of the United States which is being questioned. How could we even face our international neighbors with such corruption. Acts like what Bush did can be expected of Third World corrupt nations but not of the bastion of democracy, The United States of America. It's time for Republicans to put aside their ideology and start being human beings.
Do you belive in Santa Claus also. Where are the facts to support this anfantile statement?
Many are fooled by rhetoric or an inherant belief that their leader would not wage a war of aggression. Like you, they are in denial.
Wake up brother!
why are you hanging around this web site?
YOU are a fool! - one of the true deaf - dumb and blind!
Do you feel safer knowing he lied to you?
If you believe that then you are truely brain washed. George W. Bush is more harmful to the american people than the terrorists are. At least the terrorists dont try to take away our constitutional rights. At least the terrorists don't lie to our nation. At least the terrorists don't send there own people to fight in an unjust war just to get money to their friends.
one of the most vocal opponents of U.S. intervention in World War II: Democrat Joseph P. Kennedy, who was one of Roosevelt's top fundraisers, the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain and father of John F. Kennedy, who would later become America's 35th president.
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., the eldest of the ambassador's sons, wrote his father with his own observations of the global conflict. Hitler's "dislike of the Jews ... was well-founded," the younger Kennedy explained in his letter.
"In every revolution, you have to expect some bloodshed. Hitler is building a spirit in his men that could be envied in this country," wrote Kennedy, Jr., expressing an opinion his father shared.
Isn't that what you really think about Saddam?
the credibility of the United States already is questioned. It is up to Amrican people to decide before get late. It is compensatable. Ask God's forgivenes first. And pray give us wisdom to leaders and change every thing to His way not bush way. International neighbors will be helpful when we act with them as jesus act in the world. And told us to be. If we humble our selves The sicuation in God's will be change for good. Corruption will change to prosper. And it is very important Bush repent and humble himsel before God. Not only the Third World need democracy, we as nation of The United States of America. nee democracy too. I believe also It's time for Republicans to put aside their ideology and start being human beings.
The USA has become a rogue state. If we tolerate it in the USA it means that we have given up our rights to a tyrant or we just don't care. If we are in the latter category, we are complicit.
Anyone that has read the Downing Street Memo (Minutes), and the associated minutes prior and after the Downing Street Memeo? Would know that "stonewalling" the American Public ISN'T going to make Mr. Bush's crime(s) go away.
If these politicians think that we are going to ignore this outright crime?...They ARE living in Disneyland!
I'll be attending my Representatives meeting.
Don't rest.
Shock and Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance (1996)
by Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade of The National Defense University
"In assessing the future utility and applicability of Rapid Dominance, it is crucial to consider the political context in which force is likely to be employed. As we enter the next century, the probability is low that an over-riding, massive, direct threat posed by a peer-competitor to the US will emerge in the near term.
Without compelling reasons, public tolerance toward American sacrifice abroad will remain low and may even decrease. This reluctance on the part of Americans to tolerate pain is directly correlated to perceptions of threat to US interests. Without a clear and present danger, the definition of national interest may remain narrow."
"Many challenges or crises in the future are likely to be marginal to US interests and therefore may not be resolvable before American political staying power is exhausted. In
this period, political micro-management and fine tuning are likely to be even more prevalent as administrations respond to public sentiments for minimizing casualties and, without a threat or compelling reason, US involvement."
"Americans prefer not to intervene, especially when the direct threat to the US is ambiguous, tenuous, or difficult to define."
"Second, it is relatively clear that current US military capability will shrink. Despite the pledges of the two major American political parties to maintain or expand the current level of defense capability, both the force structure and defense infrastructure are too large to be maintained at even the present levels and within the defense budgets that are likely to be approved. Unless a new menace materializes, defense is headed for less of the same. Such reductions may have no strategic consequences. However, that is an outcome that we believe should not be left to chance."
"In both relative and absolute terms, since the end of World War II, the military strength and capability of the United States have never been greater. Yet this condition of virtual military superiority has created a paradox. Absent a massive threat or massive security challenge, it is not clear that this military advantage can always be translated into concrete political terms that advance American interests."
"Beyond prudence, however, it is clear that without a major threat to generate consensus and to rally the country around defense and defense spending, the military posture of the United States will erode as the defense budget is cut."
"The absence of a direct and daunting external security threat is, of course a most obvious aspect of the difficulty in defining the future defense posture of the nation. The United States has long resisted maintaining a large standing military and the Cold War years could prove an aberration to that history. Extending this historical observation of small standing forces, it is clear that there is no adversary on the horizon even remotely approaching the military power of the former USSR. While we might conjure up nominal regional contingencies against Korea or Iraq as sensible planning scenarios for establishing the building blocks for force structure, it will prove difficult to sustain the current defense program over the long term without a real threat materializing to rally and coalesce public support."
"Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski publishes a book in which he portrays the Eurasian landmass as the key to world power, and Central Asia with its vast oil reserves as the key to domination of Eurasia. The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. "The public supported America's engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor", he says. Because of popular resistance to US military expansionism, his Central Asian strategy can not be implemented except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat."
From "The Terror Timeline" by Paul Thompson
"History is replete with instances in which warnings signs were ignored and change resisted until an external improbable event forced resistant bureaucracies to take action. The question is whether the US will be wise enough to act responsibly and soon enough to reduce US space vulnerability. Or whether, as in the past, a disabling attack against the country and its people - a space Pearl Harbor - will be the only event able to galvanize the nation and cause the US government to act."
-The Rumsfeld Commission (assigned to assess US National Security Space Management and Organization) January 11, 2001
"You and other Democrats in Congress have voiced fear that you simply don't have enough money for the large increase in defense that the Pentagon is seeking, especially for missile defense, and you fear that you'll have to dip into the Social Security funds to pay for it.
Does this sort of thing convince you that an emergency exists in this country to increase defense spending, to dip into Social Security, if necessary to pay for defense spending- increase defense spending?"
-Donald Rumsfeld (speaking to Senator Carl Levin) September 11, 2001
"To be truthful about it, there was no way we could have got the public consent to have suddenly launched a campaign on Afghanistan, but for what happened on September 11."
Tony Blair (July 2002)
From "The Terror Timeline" by Paul Thompson
"You show me one reporter, one commentator, one member of Congress who thought we should invade Afghanistan before September 11, and I'll buy you dinner in the best restaurant in New York City."
Sandy Berger (former National Security Advisor)
- "The Cell" by John Miller, Michael Stone, and Chris Mitchell, 8/02, P.219
"A question has been asked whether or not there is evidence that other hijackings and attacks were prevented by the actions that were taken that day. There are classified reports, media reports and investigative documents that indicate that other attacks may have been planned. But the evidence on this question is speculative at best, and I do not believe anyone can assert that other attacks were thwarted on that day unless he or she is the one who either planned the attack or planned to carry it out."
Norman Mineta (public hearing before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States,; May 23, 2003)
Mokai has performed his song "Criminal Behavior (You Can't Fool Me)" to thousands at dozens of events, including major festivals, venues, peace rallies, and the celebration of Marla Ruzika's life hosted by Medea Benjamin. The song is a powerful indictment of war profiteering, and an expose of the war, the lies, abuse of taxpayers' money, and the unravelling of the constitution. Karl Rove has prominent placement in the cover art, that also includes many of the other members of the Bush Crime Family team.
Mokai is known in the SF Bay Area for his rapid-fire rhymes, acerbic commentary and smokin' fingerstyle guitar. Hear the song, along with Mokai's 2003 peace hit "World Without War" at http://www.myspace.com/mokaimusic , now through the end of July, when the CD becomes available for sale at http://www.cdbaby.com/mokai
"Criminal Behavior" is a perfect theme song for RoveGate and the house parties or other events where folks are working to expose the lies and take back our country from these criminals.
Contact Mokai at MokaiMusic.com to request discount copies of the disc for your political house party or to set up a live house concert in your neighborhood.
The war in Iraq was started due to the President's and the Vice President's desire to further fill the pockets of their cronies with more and more cash. That war was fought to win oil infrustructure contracts -- not oil, but oil related contracts. These are contracts for the establishement and maintenance of oil pipelines, pumping of oil, transportation of oil. Billions of US dollars per year in revenue. The French had the largest share of these contract and the Germans had a lesser part. Who yelled the loudest when we went in" You guessed it -- the French and the Germans. This war is about MONEY... as they always have been. Money and power.


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OK, I beeped my alarm (Sigma) earlier, and the car made a noise that seemed to lock (as usual) and then immediately unlock and now the beeper isn't activating the lock or alarm any more! I have had a cursory check of the fusebox and there doesn't appear to be any blown fuses. Now, co-incident with this, the rear window wiper has stopped working, but bizarrely, it appears to be returning to its 'off' position at an incredibly slow rate, like I mean it could take an hour or more of the car being on before it is going to get to resting position.
Does anyone have any idea where to start with this?


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I believe that Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao would not get olympic gold in Turino even if they successfully had finished the quad. That means percision and technique are not the decisive factors in figure skating.
Now, for Liu Yan and other Chinese figure skaters, the main problem is not skill or percision, is understanding the music, expressing the music. They need more dance training, ballet training, and music training. I don't think figure skating in China will be as good as gymnastics and diving, even in several years later.
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/// True Blood Is Ending, Y'all
That's a wrap for HBO's True Blood , Alan Ball's Southern-fried follow-up to Six Feet Under. The show, less an adaptation of than a riff on the series of novels by Charlaine Harris, will end in 2014, the network said, after seven seasons of bloodsucking, sex, and bloodsucking during sex . The show has been one of the flagship properties for HBO's linear TV service as well as its streaming app HBO GO, which allows subscribers to watch recent episodes, movies, and library content on multiple platforms. "True Blood has been nothing short of a defining show for HBO," said Michael Lombardo, the network's head of programming, by way of announcing the final run. "Alan Ball took the books by Charlaine Harris, assembled a brilliant cast led by the magnificent Anna Paquin in the role of Sookie Stackhouse, and crafted a show that has taken its many devoted fans on an unforgettable journey." The final 10-episode season will air in summer 2014. A show that embraced its own sizable camp factor from the creator of one of the most lauded highbrow dramas of the aughts , True Blood garnered initial positve reviews, at least once the shock wore off. Critics praised the series for having politics on its mind, and for the authenticity of its Southern setting (True Blood is also a poison-pen letter to the Atlanta-born Ball's roots). In less intellectual terms, the tabloid swirl around the relationship between the two leads—Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer—intensified as the onscreen couple became an offscreen item and then married in 2010, and the show's round-robin sex scenes (graphic even by HBO's standards) kept viewers of all genders and preferences…interested. True Blood wasn't a hit out of the gate—only 1.44 million viewers watched the premiere—but big buzz begat higher ratings. Toward the end of Season 4, True Blood had reached a high-water mark of 5.53 million viewers. (Ball left the show at the end of the fifth season; the showrunner is now Brian Buckner.) As the storylines and supernatural characters became increasingly outlandish, the audience began to wither like a vampire exposed to sunlight.
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