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Its been over a week since we have had decent internet access to update blog and so much has happened so I hope my memory is up to this much recall.
We left Rome and headed to Saturnia to experience thier natural spa waterfall which is free to swim in but a good hour out of the way. The area is gorgeous and smells a little like Rotorua, the water was warm but not too warm. Briana and Kenzie made their way around the whole area while Michael and I lazed in the upper pools. Really worth the detour.
We then continued on to Pisa, where we had arranged our visit to coincide with a festival , The San Ranreiri light festival, where the river and buildings are lit with over 100,000 candles. Hiccup number 1 we arrived at our hotel only to discover that Michael had not actually booked it just made an enquiry. after offering us the same room for twice the price we decided to look else where. After 2 hours we found a great apartment/hotel for $100NZ less than the other so that paid for dinner. Things happen for a reason I reckon. We drove to town for the festival with what seemed like most of Italy, parked the car and walked about 2km to town. It was the most amazing sight as we approached the river bank and saw all the buildings lit up. We stayed until about 11pm just taking in all the atmosphere. We all agreed it was worth the stree of the hotel.
The next morning we decided to go climb the leaning tower of Pisa. (well Micheal and the girls). we got to the field of miracles and Michael went to get the tickets only to find out that only a ertain amount of people can go at one time and we couldnt get in til lunch time. We needed to get going so we took some photos and left a little disappointed.
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As Jake Sterino holds a stack of hand-written letters from customers pleading with him to re-open the much-beloved produce stand, it is clear the community has missed his locally grown, farm fresh produce. But fortunately, the fourth generation family-run farm is listening to its loyal customers. On May 1, Sterino Farms opened a brand new produce stand featuring fresh, local produce sold at a fair price.
"We have a commitment to stay ahead of the curve and grow some of the best produce we can," - Jake Sterino
This month, the stand will feature rhubarb, leeks, lettuce and more seasonal items, along with gourmet pastas, olive oils, hanging baskets of flowers – just in time for Mother's Day – and much more.
All produce will be in-season, and the products available at the produce stand will more often than not have been harvested that same day. Much of the produce found in the typical grocery store was harvested an average of 16 days prior due to the time it takes to cool, package, ship and distribute each item, Sterino said. "We harvest and sell our produce the same day, which just tastes better," he said.
As one of the few local farmers left in a region once known for its agriculture, Sterino simply attributes his farm's success and longevity to a commitment to quality. "We have a commitment to stay ahead of the curve and grow some of the best produce we can," Sterino said.
Quality is something Sterino knows firsthand after watching his grandfather and father build the business. Over the decades, customers have become increasingly interested not only in quality, but also in where their produce is coming from. And each Sterino Farms product sold at the produce stand or at the local grocery stores will be as fresh as can be. Sterino farms nearly 700 acres from Fife to Orting, and remains dedicated to keeping the business going as one of the few family-run farms with longstanding roots in the region.
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Pollard's effort to spy for Australia sheds a different light on a campaign by Israel and many Jews to free Pollard from jail.
The rationale has been that Pollard was only trying to help Israel by giving that country intelligence on its Arab neighbors. The fact that he previously tried the same thing with Australia suggests otherwise.
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Would you retire now in Costa Rica if you could do it for under $3k a month?
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Yikes my Visa is about to expire!
When you enter Costa Rica, if you are from another country they will stamp your passport and this gives you a tourist visa. Now in the past they would usually give you 90 days. This is not so true any more my friends. One time last year we were coming back from a trip the the United States and the gentleman behind the desk stamped us. He had noticed that we had been here a couple times and gone in and out. So I don't know if he was just upset that day about something or just being a smart ass, but when we looked at our passports he only gave us 30 days. Oh and did I mention he smirked at me when he gave them back? Yes he did.
You may ask why does this really matter? There are a couple of reasons it does, but only if you are living here. Myself like many expats have decided to live here in Costa Rica. You hopefully get a 90 day visa and at the time your visa expires you must leave the country. So every 90 days you have to make a trip out of the country. It can be a hard and long day and sometimes very expensive to keep doing this. I personally do not understand why anyone would not submit their paperwork to become a temp residence. If you do this you no longer have to leave the country every 90 days.
Well that is if you don't want to drive in Costa Rica. See here they right hand doesn't always know what the left hand is doing. So they changed a law and now you can't get a Costa Rica license until you have your cedula (Residence card). In the past before the law changed you could go and show your passport, a valid drivers license from some other country and a medical exam and there you have it a Costa Rica license. Now in addition to all that you need your cedual. Here is the kicker, if your visa expires than you can no longer drive on your out of country license. If you have insurance on your vehicle it is no longer valid either. Everything you do is tied to that visa. Just my luck the law changed just before we moved here. So as soon as we could we submitted our paperwork and now we wait and continue to leave every 90 days and hope we get 90 when we come back in.
They have also begun to impose very strict rules on going back and forth across the local borders to try and get people to stop being what has been coined as, "Perpetual Tourists" I totally get that, but if they really want to stop it then they have to approve people quicker. Their own law says they have to have it done within 90 days. That never happens, unless you have a big corporation you work for that is bringing in a lot of dollars and is hiring a lot of local people. You can then have it pushed though in a matter of weeks. We submitted our paperwork in June of 2013. We arrived here in Feb. of 2013 and the only reason it took that long is we have to go back to the states to get more paperwork that was needed, because again they changed the law just before we got here.
So why am I telling you all this? Just to give you some background so I can do a review of a border run. Now we have done a few of them since we moved here. We went to the Nico border and we have gone to the Panama border. Our very 1st border run was terrible! We went to the Nico border with a company that said they could get us though. The drive from Atenas was long and some of the roads lets just say were typical Costa Rica roads and you really need to make sure you go pee before you hit any of those roads. 🙂 It was a very long day as they all are when you drive from Atenas. You leave very early in the morning about 5am and you won't get home until about 8pm maybe a little earlier if the traffic Gods have decided to smile upon you. Nicaragua and Panama are very hot compared to what we are use to in Atenas, so be prepared for that. There are also rules now that were not in place when we 1st got here. You have to have a plane ticket to your home country. You have to have proof that you have $500 per person in a bank account. You have to stay out of the Costa Rica for 3hrs min. and upto 3 days. Depends on what you do while you are out and what the boarder patrol says you have to do. It gets very complicated and if you do that long drive and have not check on the current rules and are missing something you are in trouble now. There is no, "but I didn't know" in these countries. You just won't get your visa. So you will have paid all that money to drive here and not get your stamp and have to do it again. Not a good deal at all.
So now you have the Why of this review and its time to get to the review. We recently went on a trip for a border run and it was the best trip we have done to date. We still had to get up early but we were home by 1 pm. There were a few things I didn't like, but they are my issues not the company that hosted the trip for us. I don't like to fly, but do it because I know I have to in order to get to certain places. Part of this trip you have to fly. Now part of this trip you also have to take a boat. Yes I am one of those people who get seasick if I even look at the water! Its terrible. I did find a really good medication that helps. Its called Zofran. I love it! I can take a cruise and do just about anything on the water when I have this in my system. Check with your doctor to see if you can take it before trying it.
So the trip is done by a resort called The Rio Indio Lodge Just click on the name and you can see their website. It is a wonderful lodge with some really good food. They fly you into an area called Greytown. Then you take a boat to the lodge. They usually give you a little boat tour of the local area and tell you about the history of the town. It is very interesting and I will let them tell you all about it when you go visit. 🙂 So as they say a picture is worth a thousand words. So here are some pictures of the trip to the lodge.
Now I am told this is bigger than the one they usually fly in. YIKES! I may not have been able to do a smaller plane this one was small enough for me. We just had to fly out on a day where the winds were really bad. I pretty much kept my eyes closed and kept thinking good thoughts the entire flight which was actually very short.
The boat ride was not bad at all. Since I took my medication it wasn't a problem. The little tour through the town was nice and giving us the history of the area. Not sure if they do that all the time, as we were running early and I think they needed time to get supplies back to the resort for lunch. If they don't do the tour all the time make sure you request it before you get on the plane. Here are some random pictures from the water tour.
Oh and did I happen to mention that no one owns a car here. That is because in this town there are no roads! Nope none. You must travel by boat to get to any place in this town.
So this was just a short trip for us so we didn't stay at the lodge overnight. We did have a wonderful buffet lunch of fresh fish and lobster along with rice and veggies and an assortment of other items. It was all good and I am a bad foodie as I can't find my picture I took of the buffet bar. 😦 So you will just have to trust me on this one the food was excellent.
So here are some photo's I took of the Lodge. It is so beautiful. This place was put together by some people with really good and expansive taste. You will love these pictures.
I did not take any pictures of rooms. We had to rush and get back as the winds were picking up and they didn't want to have a major issue and I am so glad they thought of us in that regard. You will need to go to their website to see pictures of the rooms.
The cost of this trip was about $250 a person. There were some border fees and such that is not included and you need to take cash in US for these fees. They will go over all that with you when you book the trip. Now both our trips to the Nico and Panama border with hiring a vehicle and then all the border fees and "TIPS" to get you there we would spend about $600 a trip. That did not include food so that was extra. So all in all this trip saved us money and it wasn't a hard trip at all. Our 1st trip to the Nico boarder was painful. We had to stand in lines and it was hot and a lot of walking. It was not fun at all. This one was fun! Denise my wife and I plan on going back for a long weekend. It was a really great place.
Lets wrap this up. Great trip, friendly people, less expensive than our other boarder run, good food, great lodge, fast. I would say that if you have to do a boarder run this is the way to go without a doubt! So I give them 5 out of 5!
Pura Vida!
Outback Steak house why you made me so sad
If you have not yet figured it out I am a big foodie. I love food. I love going out to eat and taking pictures of everything I eat. I have to say that I did not take any pictures of the food from this restaurant. None of the food was picture worthy. So sorry to disappoint on this blog, there will be no actual food pictures. I will however post pictures from their facebook page and explain the difference between what they advertise and what we actually got. I am not going to show all the items we had but the top 3 worst items.
So lets start off with one of the most popular items on their menu in my opinion. The Blooming Onion on their facebook page looks like this.
Wow this looks really tasty doesn't it. Well what we got was nothing like this. It was much smaller than this looks and it was so over done we didn't finish it and there were 4 adults and one teen who will eat anything and eat more then any human should ever eat. He is a teenager so its ok. That should tell you how bad this really was.
This looks like one amazing steak. Now back in the USA it would be. Here at this restaurant it was not. This picture makes it look so pretty and juicy. It was anything but. It was dry and over done. We asked for medium rare as any good steak should be cooked. It came out almost burnt. Now I could say, Ok over cooked this one, but my wife got a steak as well and asked for it medium rare and it came out almost burnt as well. Needless to say it was dry and not tasty at all. We couldn't even eat either of our steaks because they were so tough.
These look really tasty. Don't be fooled they were not. Now get this the steaks were over cooked and the wings were under cooked. one was even raw near the gone. They had no real flavor or heat to them at all. We asked for blue cheese and they gave us ranch. Ranch just doesn't work for me when you are talking buffalo wings.
Lets talk about prices. It was one expensive meal. The prices do not reflect the quality or quantity of food that we got. Than factor into it that we couldn't eat most of it because it was so bad. So not worth the price of admission that is for sure. Service was so slow and they were not attentive at all. We had to keep flagging down the staff to get refills and they were not busy. When the restaurant is swamped and full I totally understand having to wait sometimes, but this was not.
So lets wrap this up. Bad food, slow service, over priced food and drinks gives this place 0 out of 5. I will never go back there again.
Pura Vida!
Kay's Gringo Postres
There is a place in Costa Rica where everybody knows your name. No it isn't named Cheer's although there is a Cheers bar in Heredia, but I'm not here to talk about that just yet. 🙂 Kay's Gringo Postres is a nice little restaurant here in Atenas. The owner Kay Costello is one of the best people you can find in Costa Rica. She greets you with a smile and remembers your name when you come back months later. We came in November of 2012 and than when we returned in February of 2013 she remembered our names and even what we liked to drink and our special diet! She is one amazing person.
These are the wonderful staff that will take care of almost all your needs. Katia mainly works in the Kitchen and cooks, Mercedes helps out and does most of the baking and let me tell you her cakes are to die for! Kay of course is the owner and she hangs out and helps people where she needs to. This is a great combination for some good food and a good place to hang.
Kay is an expat originally from Belle Fourche, South Dakota. Kay moved her over 10 years ago with her husband Tom. She started out very small and simple by selling dessert. She now has a full restaurant that sells very good american comfort food. She also has some Tico dishes as well. Here are just some examples of the food we got when we were here in Nov. of 2012. They have a really good Chef salad that I love!
Atenas has a Chili cook off each year which was started by Kay. It was a great success this year. They raised more then $30K for a local orphanage. The great part is that Katia and Mercedes won 1st place this year! The chili is served at Kay's so if you go you really need to try the chili.
Kay's menu has a good number of items on it and at reasonable prices. She has specials every day of the week which range from local fresh fish to meat loaf. You can get a a really good lunch for under $7 usually. She is closed on Mondays, but open the rest of the week from 9:00 am until 5:00 pm, but the cooks go home at about 2 pm so the kitchen is closed. You can still get some wonderful Costa Rica Coffee and Desserts.
So to wrap it up this is a great place to eat! Friendly people, good food, and reasonable prices. This gets 5 out of 5 from me. If you are ever in Atenas you must stop in and say Hi to everyone and have a bite to eat. You won't regret it.
You can find them on facebook: Kay's Gringo Postres
Pura Vida!
Remax Real estate in Atenas Costa Rica
Here is the link to their website and you must give it a look: Remax
They not only sell real estate, but also do rentals as well. So if you are looking to move to Costa Rica or just spend a little time here you should really check out their website. If you don't see what you are looking shoot them off an email or give them a call. They may have something that isn't listed or they can hunt around to find what you are looking for. They will try to make your experience here as pleasant as they possible can. They are great!
We used their services to buy our house here in Costa Rica. We came down in Nov. of 2012 not having a clue what it would be like and what we had in store for us. they made it simple and easy and painless. They found us a rental in our budget. They took us out on our schedule to show us houses, not only in Atenas, but worked it out for an area call Grecia as well. We did finally settle on a house here in Atenas.
They held our hand though every step of the process and even help us to find a good lawyer for the closing.
So to wrap it up great team, Trustworthy, honest, friendly, informative and just really good people all the way around. You should use them if you are looking to buy or rent in this area. I give them 5 out of 5.
Pura Vida!
Riu Palace Guanacaste Costa Rica
Let me start off by saying this is one of the best Lobbies I have ever seen. I have seen many. This hotel is just that a Palace. It is huge and so beautiful. It is a must see. It is also an all inclusive resort and you can't beat that. Staying here is like going on a cruise ship and not being on the water. You will want for nothing at all hours of the day and night. There is food and drink everywhere.
Here take a look at the mini bar:
Not that is what I am talking about. Full bottles with single shot spouts. When you are empty they just replace them and you start all over again. Its going to be hard not to find a hard drink when you have a mini bar like this in your room.
So now that I have your interest. 🙂 Room rates vary from $320 to upwards of $800 a nigh. Keep in mind once there all your food, drink, and entertainment is included in the price. Really those are not bad prices.
So here are some pictures of the room we stayed in. It was an amazing room.
It was a most comfortable room. Now the water in the room is not drinkable. So don't drink it. They always make sure you have bottled water in your room. There is also free Wifi something every hotel should have in the room! So you can upload those pictures to your friends at all hours of the day and night. The shower was amazing. It had good water pressure and it just made you feel so good when you were done.
Now onto the most important aspect of the trip, THE FOOD!!!!! It was amazing. Now we were only there for a short trip and most of the restaurants require you to make a reservation. So we didn't eat in those. There were a number of them. You have to make the reservation by 2 pm the day before your dinner. Now we did eat at the one restaurant you didn't need a reservation. Again the food was amazing. It was a buffet style and each night they had a different theme to the foods. Remember what I said about a cruise ship? Yes it is just like that. Here are some samples of the food that was presented one night.
Shame on you if you leave this place hungry! This was all in just one night and I think I may have missed a few stations. There was a waitress who brought us our drinks and they were very attentive to our needs.
So the beach and the pool were very nice no doubt. We did not get in the water only because the pool area was so amazing and we were only there for 2 nights. They have 6 pools and there are pool bars in and outside of the pool itself. They have chairs and other items for the beach as well if you decide to be a beach bum instead of a pool bum like me. So here are pictures of the pool and beach area.
So, my review wrap up is a great place to stay with amazing food, comfortable room, great pool and beach, and friendly attentive staff. So I give this place 4 1/2 seashells out of 5.
Just in cast you want to stay there, here is a link to their website:
Riu Hotels for Families with speacial activities
Pura Vida!
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On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Vincent FLEURANCEAU wrote:
> > If you will be using PPPoE then you will normally also be using DHCP.
> > That doesn't require that your IP address will change, but it isn't a
> > true static IP. Most providers here at least actually issue a DHCP
> > reservation so that you always get the same IP rather than provide a
> > truly static IP address.
On a PPP link you would ordinarily *not* be using DHCP, but instead using
PPP IPCP parameters to provide the same sort of information.
> I see: a sort of DHCP reservation based on username, instead of MAC
> address...
Sort of, but it's not really a reservation. The whole "DHCP lease" kludge
only came about because Ethernet was never really intended to have dynamic
addressing. With PPP, addresses are assigned as part of a session when
you log in, and deassigned when you log out. Of course the provider is
free to assign a static IP based on your userid rather than picking one
from a pool.
> So, this means it wouldn't be possible to use PPPoE with assigned block
> of *real* static IPs (including IPs for default gateway, subnet address
> and broadcast address) which have to be hard coded in most ISP offers?
PPP's IPCP can provide *your* IP (just one), the gateway IP, and up to two
DNS IPs. It doesn't provide a subnet mask, but that's a pretty useless
concept on a point-to-point link.
Note that whether addresses are *configured* dynamically and whether
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R HARVEY'S letter of December 5 gives me, on behalf of Foxwood Residents' Association, the opportunity to say a big thank-you to the young men from Community Payback who helped local residents plant 5,000 crocus bulbs in the Foxwood area.
The team were willing and speedy workers and made the day an enjoyable one for all concerned.
They are keen to do more work in the area and as part of our efforts towards York In Bloom we will be using them again.
Mrs S Galloway, Foxwood Residents' Association, Bellhouse Way, York.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- An Ohio electric company may have figured out what's been causing some of its customers to lose power -- black buzzards roosting on transmission lines and transformers.
American Electric Power Ohio spokeswoman Fay White says the wings of the large birds coming into contact with energized equipment can cause faults on the line, knocking out power and killing the birds.
WBNS-TV (http://bit.ly/P8zX3X ) said the buzzards have caused a number of temporary power outages in Fairfield County in central Ohio.
White said that after complaints, crews installed 6-inch plastic spikes that are meant to keep the birds from landing on the lines and transformers.
She said osprey, eagles and other large birds also have been known to roost on the lines and cause problems.
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Suitors for the remainder of Safeway's Dominick's stores in Chicago, which are now shuttering their doors, are beginning to come forward, according to a report published Saturday in the Chicago Sun-Times.
Over the next three years, Walgreens plans to create 500 new jobs in the Chicago area and invest $75 million to expand and renovate its Deerfield, Ill., offices in a deal that will cede Walgreens $47 million in state tax credits for retaining 1,500 existing jobs, according to an early morning report published by the Chicago Sun-Times on Friday.
Walgreens may be on the verge of revolutionizing the role of the pharmacist — the pharmacy operator is placing iPads in the hands of "health guides" across 20 pilot stores in Chicago, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Thursday.


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Boy who suffered shoulder injury awarded €400,000 damages in High Court
A BOY who suffered a shoulder injury due to alleged negligence during his birth has been awarded €400,000 in High Court damages.
Sean Carolan (10) has Erb's Palsy which limits left shoulder and arm movement.
Through his mother Sharon Carolan, Luttrellstown Way, Castleknock, Dublin, he sued the HSE arising out of the circumstances of his birth in the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, on June 11, 2002.
The case was settled today before Mr Justice Sean Ryan who was told by Liam Reidy SC, for the Carolans, that liability had not been admitted.
Mr Reidy said Sean was a big baby at ten and a half pounds and despite complications was delivered in the normal way when he suffered the shoulder injury.
However, it was their contention he should have been delivered by Cesarean section because his mother had similar complications in a previous pregnancy and that child was born by Cesarean.
The defendant had claimed the mother was advised of the risk involved in a normal delivery but she denied this, counsel said.
Sean underwent procedures in 2005 and 2006 to help restore good function to his arm but he still has impaired shoulder and arm movement.
Despite his difficulties, he had been assessed as having good global cognitive function, counsel said.
The parents were happy to accept the offer of €400,000, he added.
Mr Justice Ryan said it was a very good settlement and he had no hesitation in approving it.


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Games started Thursday and continued through Saturday as programs faced off against Week 1 opponents.
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.1259 Wednesday, 21 June 2000.
Date: Tuesday, 20 Jun 2000 19:25:35 EDT
Subject: 11.1246 Re: Parallel Texts
Comment: Re: SHK 11.1246 Re: Parallel Texts
I'm not sure what "Obvious interpolations" Sean Lawrence refers to,
however if one is interested in how a text attains print and the
'origins' of that text - namely - Shakespeare, Greene, The Queens Men,
Tilney, Creede, Pavier etc then it is most important that the text is
not mauled by yet further hands (however well intended). As Pollard
pointed out, if two experienced students of writing Sir Walter Greg or
E. M Thompson when thinking only of the correct transliteration of a
text could produce different textual variants it makes a considerable
addition to the argument for the use of unammended and unedited texts (
here I would of course not disapprove of end note explanations of
textual or interpretative problems). Since the account given by other
influential critics such as Gary Taylor and Stanley Wells of the
chronology and authorial division/ stylistics and general vocabulary of
Shakespeare's works is also resting on largely unexamined historical
generalisation, textual interpretation and editorial theory (here I
point to you to the Textual Companion and the Oxford Works wholly
adopted textually and without comment by the Norton editors) I think it
is extremely important to the objective nature of critical exegesis that
there are texts available which represent as wholly as is possible (i.e.
facsimile or similar) the actual renaissance texts the critics purport
to discuss. I also refer you to what I perceive is a chronological
vagary in Stephen Miller's chronological account of A Shrew - namely it
was printed in 1594 so any apparent allusion to a DuBartas printed after
that date must be anachronistic (unless Shakespeare or whoever wrote A
Shrew read the poem in the untranslated original). I would also add that
many famous parallel texts (e.g. Rene Weis's King Lear or the Oxford
Works - 'History of King Lear / Tragedy of King Lear' ) which one might
read for a comparison between two purportedly 'original' texts are in
fact edited and as such of no use to any critical arguments concerning
authorship priority, revision etc . Issues of chronology are themselves
often high jacked by critics with an apriori agenda - e.g Bloom, Bate et
al. who without any research into the actual historical facts concerning
a text go on to make large scale attributions of 'genius' or 'failure'
etc without a hint of empirical doubt. This in my mind amounts to -at
best - critical laziness and -at worst- dishonesty. The 'obviousness' of
areas of textual interpretation and ambiguity seems to me precisely a
contradiction in terms.


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President Obama saluted "more good news about our economy" today and made an election-year argument that "we can't go back to the policies that led to the recession."
Obama spoke at an Arlington, Va., firehouse just hours after the Labor Department reported that the economy added 243,000 new jobs in January and the unemployment rate dropped to 8.3%.
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Although "these numbers will go up and down" in the coming months, Obama told the firefighters, "the economy is growing stronger -- the recovery is speeding up."
To that end, Obama urged Congress to extend the payroll tax cut that expires at the end of February and not let the issue get bogged down in politics.
'So I want to send a clear message to Congress: Do not slow down the recovery that we're on. Don't muck it up. Keep it moving in the right direction," he said.
The dictum brought this response on Twitter from Brendan Buck, spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner: "With the president having 'mucked up' the economy pretty well over the last three years, we appreciate his perspective."
Obama also promoted new jobs programs for veterans, including a "Veterans Job Corps"to help troops as they return from war zones.
As part of the program, states and local government would move up the priority list for federal grants if they hire more veterans as police officers or firefighters, Obama said.
The federal parks system also will put a priority on hiring veterans to help rebuild roads, bridges and other aging infrastructure in the nation's parks, Obama said.
"Of course, Congress needs to fund these projects," he said. "Congress should take the money that we're no longer spending on war, use half of it to pay down our debt, and use the rest to do some nation-building here at home, to improve the quality of life right here in the United States of America and put our veterans to work.
"So let's get more cops on the beat. Let's gets more rangers in the parks. Let's get more firefighters on call. And, in the process, we're going to put more veterans back to work. It's good for our communities, it's good for our economy, and it's good for our country."
Boehner said there is "welcome news" in the new jobs report, but too many Americans remain out of work.
"We can't be satisfied with an unemployment rate mired above 8% for years on end," Boehner said. "We must do better."
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text: No problem, MB. I appreciate your digging into your archives to "let it all hang out", so to speak. But, just as my blue jacket represents my sartorial errors, you should not be judged on past learning curves. "You're only as good as your last game" is the theme here. But, when it comes to the official vote, I think we should pick 2 pictures each, and go with it. Your old pictures have been previously rated by SF, and introduce bias into the final showdown. All the more reason to go with your new, unseen fits. I am confident. If you think your yellow jacket looks good, that is all I need to know. At the very least, I will beat that monstrosity. all you ever do is talk around a topic endlessly without ever doing shit about it. stop creating a fragile hypothetical logical structure around which you can claim 10 years down the line that you argued your way out of getting your ass handed to you and POST PICS


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Don't see two wins in the meat-grinder that is the playoffs coming anywhere close to being a fluke. There may have been some that said game 1 was a fluke but that myth was disspelled by the game 3 win, in part, because over 82 games in the regular season ORL had the second best road record in the league.
We have definitely out-foxed SVG in more ways than one. The collective input from our head coach and assistants is one way - compared to SVG and his non-humble emperor-like ways. Another would be, with our pressure out to the three point line and on their shooters, he hasn't really had an adjustment besides dumping it down to the big man which he really doesn't go to enough. Not to mention, he doesn't have a dearth of options to go to on the bench.
Whereas we have a so-called 'x' factor to go to in Donyell. Or the depth we use with our bigs to pound on Howard. But especially where we subtly switch up our defenses and go against the supposed gameplan and double hard down on Howard at the least expected time, like he did late in the 4th quarter last night that resulted in a timely stop.
Their bench is much worse than I thought it was. SVG is basically down to a 7-man rotation and it seems like he's only using Pietrus and Johnson to buy time when someone needs a blow.
I would be interested in a similar analysis for Orlando - I'm assuming that the season 'opp' stats are how opponents did against us all season, not Orlando's regular season numbers. As for our offense, clearly Orlando struggles to guard Iguodala and Miller, but there is some hot shooting in there. Iguodala in particular has been unusually good shooting mid-range to long twos.
I ran Orlando's numbers through the formulas real quick, here are their four factors numbers for the season, you can use the chart above to see how they compare to their numbers in each game of the series:
eFG: .502
eFG: .465
Basically, they shot their season average in game 1, and have dropped off significantly ever since. They've allowed the Sixers anywhere from 9% to 4% better eFG in each game.
Dwight Howard: "In 82 games, we weren't outworked. We're being outworked in this series."
Is he seriously surprised that another team really wants to win in the playoffs?
Dwight, you're in Philadelphia. What do you expect?
Damn, I'm so psyched and it's more than 9 hours to tip off.
I need to calm down myself. lol
Fri. night was pretty exhilarating to say the least. Can that possibly be topped? These playoff games wear me out having to bring out the microscope with each possession so magnified. Be nice to be at the Wach. Sammy wouldn't have to incite the crowd in the 4th quarter, that's for sure.
Can we please give Thad the ball up top or somewhere on the perimeter in space tonight? Rashard doesn't have the lateral quickness to stay with him off the dribble. It seems like the team has forgotten the 6 or 7 games he had before the ankle injury.
Counting on Willie to get around 10 pts tonight or Sam and Reg to get a few is asking too much. Thad needs to get his points and he can't get them without a certain amount of looks, which he didn't get nearly enough of in game 3. Give him the damn ball already!


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The U.S. Department of Energy's emphasis on legacy facilities and waste remediation is widely known in the nuclear community. However, this focus has reduced the visibility of several new facilities that are currently being designed for tritium production or plutonium disposition. This paper provides an overview of several new facilities that will require robotics and remote systems to reduce radiation exposure, provide consistent product quality, and increase facility security. Key missions, general descriptions, remote equipment features, design approaches, and status of the following facilities are discussed: Accelerator Production of Tritium, Plutonium Immobilization Facility, Actinide Packaging and Storage Facility, and the Tritium Extraction Facility.
Since the end of the cold war and related weapons treaties, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) focus on environmental cleanup and facility decommissioning have caught the attention of the American and International Nuclear community. Recent activities in the efforts to manage the nuclear materials stockpile and the facilities needed to accomplish the DOE missions into the next century have received relatively little publicity. As these facilities start to emerge from the early conceptual stages toward authorization and construction, a key factor in their respective designs is the use of remote technologies. The driving force of worker protection is still the main justification for the use of remote equipment. However, other factors such as security, product consistency, and work cell flexibility are making in-roads in the justification of remote system usage in these latest facility designs.
This paper has been organized in to six major sections. The first section briefly describes the current and future missions being pursued by the Savannah River Site. The next four sections deal with each new major facility in its entirety, and the final major section discusses commonalties observed in the approaches and uses of remote systems across these projects.
Until the end of the cold war era, the Savannah River Site (SRS) produced nuclear materials for use in the nation's nuclear weapon stockpile. Operations included five nuclear reactors, two chemical separation areas, reactor fuel and target materials fabrication facilities, and various support facilities such as the Savannah River Technology Center and infrastructure support. Today SRS is pursuing new missions to utilize existing facility capability and technical expertise to stabilize and store legacy nuclear materials, as well as continue to support the nation's enduring weapons stockpile. The facilities described in this paper encompass the SRS pursuit of a new tritium production source through either the Accelerator or Commercial Light Water Reactor option, and the support for stabilization and disposition of Plutonium from SRS inventories and other DOE sites. Additional future missions such as the recently announced Pit Disassembly and Conversion Facility and Mixed Oxide Fuel Facility are also being planned at SRS, but are not included in this paper due to the early stages of these programs.
The Plutonium Immobilization Plant (PIP) will process various forms of plutonium (Pu) bearing materials from many different DOE facilities and convert the plutonium in to an immobilized form suitable for geologic disposal. These materials will be remotely processed in an automated glovebox environment to immobilize the plutonium in a ceramic form called a puck. These ceramic pucks will be remotely sealed inside welded cans. Remote equipment will place these cans in magazines and the magazines will be inserted into a 10 ft. (3 m) tall 24 in. (0.6 m) diameter canister that will be filled with molten, radioactive waste bearing glass from the Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF). This process will effectively immobilize the plutonium in a form that has been deemed equivalent to the spent fuel form in terms of attractiveness and self-protection.
The Pu immobilization plant is currently in the conceptual stages of design and process development. The DOE Office of Material Disposition is the Program Manager. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is the lead lab with the Savannah River Site being the selected plant location. LLNL and Westinghouse Savannah River Company (WSRC) teams are the key contractors involved in the program to date.
The conceptual design calls for a facility of approximately 75,000 sq. feet (6,970 sq. meters). This facility space would contain the main processing lines as described below. Administrative and support utilities are located in separate outside facilities.
Process areas are generally defined in the following various stages:
Key remote equipment features include the automated handling system for the pucks inside of the glovebox which consist of pick and place units, and a variety of robotic material handling stations. Freshly pressed pucks are somewhat fragile before sintering and must be carefully handled to prevent damage and glovebox contamination.
Transporting of the pucks and other materials throughout the process is a magnetically coupled transfer system, which is designed to minimize the number of active moving components with in containment.
Contamination free canning of the sintered pucks is accomplished through the
integration of a Cartesian robot with an automated can removal system. This
provides an automated, clean removal of the Pu pucks from the glovebox line.
Loading the cans into the tubular magazines is accomplished via hard automation. Loading the full magazines into the empty DWPF canister will be accomplished via a special tele-manipulator mounted on a bridge crane/rail system in a shielded cell.
Development of the ceramic form and process parameters is in progress. Key automation equipment for the development effort has been ordered and is being received in FY99. Preliminary designs for the cans, magazines, and DWPF canister internal racks will be tested with simulated pours of molten non-radioactive glass in the spring of CY99. Current schedules and program funding call for the facility to enter Title I design in FY00 and Title II design to begin FY01.
The Actinide Packaging and Storage Facility (APSF) is currently being constructed at the Savannah River Site. The purpose of the facility is the long-term storage of plutonium and plutonium bearing materials in accordance with the DOE-STD-3013-96 Criteria for long-term safe storage. The facility also falls under the US -- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Voluntary Agreement meaning it is subject to IAEA verification. Remote operations are planned for receipt operations, vault storage, retrieval and surveillance, as well as material accountability and verification operations.
The design of the APSF is being led by the Westinghouse Savannah River Company (WSRC) team with a fixed price Architectural/Engineering subcontract with Stone and Webster Engineering. Construction is being accomplished primarily by fixed price subcontracts. This is also one of the first US DOE facilities to be subject to IAEA verification and is consequently incorporating IAEA safeguards considerations into the design and demonstration phases of the program.
APSF provides a cost effective central storage facility to consolidate current Special Nuclear Material (SNM) inventory which meets DOE standards for storage of Pu metals and oxides on a time table recommended by the Defense Nuclear Facility Safety Board. The facility is designed to provide a safe and secure interim (50-year) storage facility until final material disposition options are implemented. The overall storage facility will contain approximately 47,000 sq. ft. (4,360 sq. meters). This will result in a storage capacity of 5,000 positions and a processing capacity of 2,400 containers per year. A separate area will house truck-unloading facilities. Support and auxiliary equipment areas are not included in this estimate.
APSF also provides a thermal stabilization and repackaging glovebox line to handle out-of-specification materials or packages. This equipment is being provided by British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL) as a separate system, and is similar to other systems provided to the US DOE by BNFL. The nuclear material accountability measurement area and vault materials storage areas are automated and linked to IAEA systems for verification and monitoring.
APSF uses automation to achieve exposure reduction to design basis of less than 500 mrem / employee / year, while aiding in the assurance of material accountability and international safeguards. Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) equipped with real time accountability and material monitoring equipment will remotely service the actual vault storage area. The AGVs will transport materials from the accountability section to the vault storage racks upon command of the facility control computer. The AGVs will be fitted with container handling devices that will place and retrieve the storage containers onto fixtures or racks mounted on the vault wall. No routine human access is planned for the vault area. Predictable equipment failures are being designed to be remotely recoverable. As an example, AGV failure recovery could be performed by another AGV specifically designed to act as a "tow truck" to remotely remove a failed AGV from the vault.
A key feature of the APSF is the Automated Accountability Measurements area. The capability to remotely monitor and verify the accountability process along with the integrity of the accountability measurements is a key design feature of this area. Remote material handling is utilized to ensure material safeguards and data integrity. An overhead gantry system is used to move material containers between accountability measurement instruments. All accountability instruments are being designed or modified to allow access from the overhead gantry. This area is also designed to operate remotely with appropriate surveillance cameras and equipment interfaces to allow IAEA monitoring of all material movements and verification of measurement integrity.
The material receipt area of the APSF includes a remotely controlled overhead bridge crane in the shipping package storage area to enable exposure limits to be met. The BNFL glovebox line incorporates automation for material handling, stabilization, and container loading operations including welding and inspection of the Interim Term Storage Container.
The APSF is currently under construction. Excavations have taken place and site preparation has been completed. Project completion is currently targeted for 2001. Another key feature of the design is the expandability of the facility by planning for the building of new processing and storage modules adjacent to the central material receipt and accountability area. This expandability will allow APSF to be flexible enough to handle future needs.
The Tritium Extraction Facility (TEF) is a new facility at the Savannah River Site that will remove Tritium from elements that are irradiated in a light water reactor. The Commercial Light Water Reactor (CLWR) option for production of tritium has been recently chosen by the Secretary of Energy as the preferred method of tritium production over the Accelerator production option.
Reactors of the Tennessee Valley Authority will be used to irradiate Tritium Producing Burnable Absorber Rods (TPBARS) to produce tritium from lithium. These irradiated TPBARS will be shipped to the new TEF facility. Due to the high radiation fields from the stainless steel clad elements, TEF will process the TPBARS in a remote facility. Processing steps will include storage, preparation, extraction, and waste package preparation.
Preliminary design for the TEF facility is complete. Key technical development items such as the large remote handling area and tritium pumping equipment are being funded for demonstration and advanced development to provide design basis information. Project construction is currently scheduled to begin FY00 with the facility ready for operation in FY06.
TEF will consist of a Remote Handling Building, a Tritium Processing Building and other support structures. The Remote Handling Building is approximately 160 ft. by 40 ft. by 60 ft. high (49m by 12m by 19m) and will contain all remote processing equipment for the TPBARS including tritium extraction furnaces. The building vertical height is necessary to accommodate lifting the long TPBARs.
The tritium process building will process the tritium gas by purifying it and readying it for use in the weapons stockpile. This building will utilize mostly existing tritium technology and is not anticipated to require any remote handling equipment.
The TPBARS will be processed in the remote handling building by utilizing an overhead crane and robot system. This system will transfer the TPBARS between processing modules, which are located through out the facility at the process floor level. A unique requirement of TPBAR processing is the need for maintaining an inert atmosphere during the process steps. This will be accomplished by the use of a specially designed transporter. This device is used to transport the TPBARS in a nitrogen blanket from processing module to processing module. The transporter is manipulated by the overhead crane and utilizes double door seal technology to mate the transporter to each processing unit.
The crane and gantry system is utilized for remote equipment maintenance as well as performing routine operational tasks. The system includes various tooling to provide operational support of processing modules such as inerting operations, as well as tooling to support routine module maintenance such as installation and removal of limited life components and service jumpers.
The contractor team has completed conceptual and preliminary designs. Development and demonstration activities are now under way. At the time of writing the Secretary of Energy has just announced the decision to pursue the Commercial Light Water Reactor option as the preferred tritium production source. Programmatic funding for TEF will increase as the project moves from preliminary design towards construction. A multiyear development program is currently underway to develop and demonstrate key remote handling technologies such as the transporter and a full height robotic crane system.
The Accelerator Production of Tritium (APT) project is the backup option in a DOE dual track strategy to supply tritium to the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile. Tritium is a radioactive gas with a half-life of 12.5 years and must be periodically replaced to maintain today's modern weapons arsenal. No tritium has been produced in the United States since the late 1980s when production reactors at SRS were shut down. Due to recycle of tritium from weapons removed from the stockpile, new tritium is not needed until around 2007.
The APT project uses a linear accelerator to produce a proton beam which interacts with target/blanket (T/B) assemblies containing tungsten and a blanket gas of 3He. Through the process of nuclear spallation, neutrons are released from the tungsten and then interact with 3He gas through neutron capture to produce Tritium. 3He and Tritium gas is then extracted through a gas separation and purification system.
A team of contractors, coordinated through the National Project Office in Los Alamos, has been established to design, build, and operate the APT. Burns and Roe Enterprises, Inc. in cooperation with General Atomics, is the prime contractor. Westinghouse Savannah River Company is the Operating and Maintenance contractor. Los Alamos National Laboratory is providing expertise in accelerator design and testing. Together this team is jointly incorporating operational, technical, construction, and maintenance requirements into an integrated facility design. The specific contract with Burns and Roe requires them to turn over to the operations contractor a fully operational and tested facility.
The target/blanket (T/B) assemblies will require periodic replacement as the components in them reach the end of their irradiation life. This fact, along with needs for remote inspection and maintenance in the target/blanket building are the primary drivers for the use of remote handling equipment. Other areas of the APT project are also expected to require remote handling capability but this overview will only consider the target/blanket portion of the facility.
The T/B system is housed in a building located at the end of the approximately 0.8 mile (1.3 km) long linear accelerator. The T/B building is approximately 330 ft. long, 115 ft. wide and 100 ft. high (100 m, 35 m, by 30 m). Figure 5 shows an elevation section view of the T/B building with typical remote handling equipment required for a re-targeting operation. During operation the proton beam is expanded from a small diameter to a uniform rectangular pattern of approximately 6 inches by 63 inches (0.16 m by 1.60 m). The beam then enters the Cavity Vessel, which operates at a rough vacuum of 1 Torr.
The stainless steel Cavity Vessel contains the T/B modules, neutron reflector modules, and shield modules, and is approximately 32 ft. (9.75 m) in diameter and 52 ft. (15.75 m) high. Remote equipment will be used to service and replace the modules located in the cavity vessel.
Each of the modules inside the vessel is designed to be replaceable; therefore, removable jumpers make all cooling water, helium, and instrumentation connections to the modules. Remote equipment will be required to reliably make, break, and drain these jumpers.
Remote servicing of the T/B modules will be performed by a remotely operated bridge crane and manipulator system. These components provide the flexibility and range of tooling needed to perform a variety of mechanical tasks required to change out a T/B module. A brief listing of these tasks is as follows:
Through this sequence, inspections and refurbishment are performed on limited life components such as seals and material test coupons.
The key challenges in this remote environment is the limited space for remote connections on the top of each module, the large number and variation of complex remote tasks to be performed down in the open vessel. The remote bridge cane and manipulator systems provide the needed flexibility to meet these and any foreseeable future challenges.
The contractor team has completed conceptual designs. Preliminary design, along with development and demonstration activities is now under way. At the time of writing the DOE Secretary has just announced the decision to pursue the APT as a backup to the preferred Commercial Light Water Reactor option. R&D funding for the APT option is expected to continue but out-year funding levels for remote handing development are uncertain.
Radiation protection of personnel continues to be the primary driver for remote handling and automation technologies in the DOE Facilities discussed in this paper. Lethal radiation doses associated with the TPBARs, or the cramped and congested and potentially hazardous environment of the APT Target /Blanket Cavity Vessel are traditional demands for remote systems. Demands such as the maximum limit of 500mrem/person/year radiation exposure goals require planners to consider the high personnel costs of handling materials in the Pu Immobilization facility and APSF. Safeguards needs still provide a good basis for remote or automated equipment however; production throughput and quality issues also serve as technology drivers for the PIP and APSF facilities.
Capabilities of commercial robotics and automation subsystems continue to improve and therefore form the beginning point of any equipment adaptation or remote application. The current approach to specific facility equipment development is heavily dependent upon integration of commercial products into fully functioning systems. However there remains a technology gap for operating in an unstructured or unpredictable environment, or an application requiring high reliability and fail safe recovery from anticipated equipment failures. Many vendors exist to support the high production volume needs of factories. However not many of these vendors contain the breadth of expertise needed to fully integrate one-of-a-kind equipment systems to meet the needs of these remote facilities. This integration task still remains the domain of relatively few vendors or specialty system houses.
A common feature of all four facilities discussed in this paper is that of an overhead robot and crane system. These highly flexible systems feature several advantages that have made them the choice of remote facility designs in the DOE complex since the Manhattan Project. Heavy lift capacity, the ability to be easily relocated from the process area for maintenance, as well as open and unencumbered floor space are but a few of the primary reasons these flexible systems have been included in future facility planning. At SRS, remote or teleoperated cranes have been used in the canyons and each of the five retired reactors since the 1950s. With today's modern computer controls and operator feed back systems, these reliable tools are the planned workhorses of these modern DOE facilities.
Use of small individual robots is primarily limited to the automated glovebox processing line of the PIP facility. As currently envisioned, APSF will be the primary user of AGV technology although limited use of AGVs is being considered for portions of the PIP and APT service tunnel. Flexible manufacturing concepts have found limited application in these facilities as they are primarily designed and funded as single or limited mission facilities.
Finally, the importance of full-scale mockups for process development, demonstration and testing, along with future operator training cannot be overemphasized. The large investments in heavily shielded, Class I structures of remote handling facilities must be backed up by proven process equipment designs that are remotely serviceable and maintainable via the robotics and tele-operators. Mockups provide the necessary physical check to verify designs and recommend alternate solutions. After the facility commissioning, mock-ups are well suited to train operators and maintenance personnel, ensure replacement equipment fit-up and functionality, as well as enable understanding of facility equipment capabilities to outside reviewers and regulators. Too often the values of mockups in the early planning stages are underestimated and much justification is needed to provide adequate mockups to ensure the facility success.
Not all of the DOE's effort in remote systems is focused on the challenge of clean up and restoration of cold war era facilities. Future DOE facilities are in the current planning and construction stages that will utilize remote equipment and tooling to enhance worker safety, reduce personnel exposure, as well as increase throughput and product quality. These facilities are being designed and implemented to provide long term service in an environment that will remove the workers from hazards while safely and securely ensuring our nation's defense and environmental stewardship.
Funding for the work described in this paper was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract No. DE-AC09-96SR18500.
The authors would like to acknowledge the dedication of the many people of the Savannah River Site, and the various program and project offices and their contractors. Careful planning, consideration of design alternatives, and cost effective implementation of facility designs have led to an exciting future of new DOE facilities to handle the cold war material legacy and provide for the nation's defense needs.


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Nestled on the beach, this Pina hotel is within a 10-minute walk of Pina Beach and Barreto Junior Theater. Recife Harbor and Shopping Rio Mar are also within 2 mi (3 km).
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In addition to an outdoor pool, Transamérica Prestige Beach Class International provides a health club and a sauna. The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A complimentary breakfast is offered each morning. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access.
Business-related amenities at this 3.5-star property consist of a 24-hour business center and meeting rooms. 7 meeting rooms are available. This beach hotel also offers multilingual staff, laundry facilities, and dry cleaning/laundry services. Limited complimentary onsite parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Additional Required Components
Product Bulletin No. 1525
Cisco Subscriber Edge Services Manager Release 3.1(1) and Cisco Subscriber Policy Engine Release 1.0
This product bulletin describes new features introduced in Release 3.1(1) of the Cisco Subscriber Edge Services Manager and Release 1.0 of the Cisco Subscriber Policy Engine.
The Cisco Subscriber Edge Services Manager (SESM) is an extensible set of applications for providing on-demand services and service management. Service providers use Cisco SESM to offer and advertise value-added services and to associate these services with their brand identities. Together with the Cisco Service Selection Gateway (SSG), the Cisco SESM offers a customized, personal subscriber experience that lets service providers move up the value chain and create a services-based business model.
The Cisco Subscriber Policy Engine (SPE) combines role-based access control (RBAC) functionality with an open policy server to allow service providers to create differentiated subscriber groups. Through SPE, subscribers can perform account maintenance and self-care activities, and administrators can set subscriber and service policies.
Key Features and Benefits
•Web-based service model—Web-based service removes the need for client software. Web-based service selection improves flexibility and convenience for subscribers, and enables service providers to bill subscribers based on connect time and services used, rather than charging a flat rate. The Cisco SESM Web portal provides subscriber authentication, service authorization, and service connection capabilities.
•Service subscription—The Cisco SESM and SPE allow subscribers to subscribe to new services through the Cisco SESM Web portal, and gain immediate access to those services.
•Account self-care—The Cisco SESM and SPE let subscribers change account details, such as address information and passwords. This capability relieves the service provider from time-consuming and costly maintenance tasks.
•Subaccounts—The Cisco SESM and SPE enable subscribers to establish multiple subaccounts, with unique service profiles and permissions for each account. For example, a parent can create subaccounts for each family member, with a different set of authorized services and management permissions within each account.
•Targeted service advertisement—The Cisco SESM with SPE allows providers to dynamically manage services, and the policies defining their visibility, to specific subscriber populations. In a brokered or wholesale business model, service providers can delegate this task to one or more content partners.
•Walled gardens and open gardens—This branded service or content environment is available only to authenticated or paid subscribers. Walled gardens allow a service provider to differentiate its offering and keep subscribers within its network. An opening in a walled garden, called an open garden, is used as an inducement to service subscription.
•Retail pages—Service providers can offer Web pages with a customized look and feel for each Internet service provider (ISP). Retail pages give each ISP the ability to create a branded portal, while allowing the access provider to participate in the additional revenue that differentiated services can provide.
•Service advertisement—The Cisco SESM Web portal provides a superior advertising mechanism to traditional postal mail or e-mail messages. Service providers can use the Cisco SESM Web portal to reach subscribers with targeted messages and increase the take rate on new services.
•Captive portal—With the ability to redirect a subscriber to a captive portal, service providers can capture a subscriber's attention with account or service messages, such as blocked access to a service or to payment requests. The captive portal feature can also direct a subscriber to services based on his or her interests or location.
•Device and locale awareness—Cisco SESM recognizes the subscriber's device, connection type, language, and region, allowing service providers to offer a Web portal that serves multiple locales and devices. Service providers can use Cisco SESM to customize the subscriber experience and make the subscriber as comfortable as possible.
•Open architecture—As a standards-based, Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE)-compliant architecture, Cisco SESM can be integrated with a service provider's existing Web infrastructure. Cisco SESM is bundled with a suitable 1.2.2 Java Runtime Environment (JRE), and the Jetty Web server is included with Cisco SESM to provide a complete turnkey solution.
System Requirements
Table 1 lists the system requirements for Cisco SESM.
Table 1 Cisco SESM System Requirements
Additional Required Components
Table 2 lists additional components that are required in a Cisco SESM deployment.
Table 2 Additional Required Components
Ordering Information
Table 3 lists part numbers for the Cisco SESM.
Table 3 Cisco SESM Part Numbers
Release 3.1(1) of the Cisco SESM software is available now from Cisco.com.


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No-bid contract criticism spreads
Gov. Ed Rendell has awarded more than $1 billion in contracts without seeking competitive bids, state records show.
State lawmakers say Rendell's heavy use of no-bid contracts, often in secret and some to his former law firm, must be investigated. The governor's practice has some lawmakers proposing tighter requirements under a more public approval system.
"The dollar figures have almost been eye-popping," state Rep. Doug Reichley, R-Allentown, Lehigh County, said.
Reichley is among an increasing number of lawmakers upset with Rendell's use of no-bid contracts, especially those tied to the governor's proposed lease of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Republicans and Democrats chastised Rendell for keeping details involved with the leasing proposal secret, including the hiring of the governor's former law firm, Ballard Spahr Anderson & Ingersoll, last March. Key lawmakers learned only last week that the Rendell administration hired the firm, which also has strong ties to the governor through departed staffers.
The billion dollars spent by Rendell between 2003 and 2008 cannot be compared to spending of previous governors because state officials say they can't find the records. The Department of General Services claims the records were lost during a change in a computer system -- or past administrations never maintained them.
Most state contracts must be competitively bid. There are exceptions, including one that allows state officials to award contracts without competition when it's "in the best interest of the commonwealth," according to state law. Other exemptions from requiring bids include when federal or state law specifically exempts the contract or when only a single supplier is capable of providing the product or service.
What makes Rendell's practice different is the large dollar amount of no-bid contracts, his unwillingness to disclose certain details and the May 2007 contract to Ballard Spahr for $1.8 million.
A $400 million, five-year, no-bid contract was approved earlier this month for Unisys of Blue Bell in Montgomery County for managing the state's Data Center in Harrisburg.
The amount of no-bid contracts -- $246.3 million approved by the Department of General Services so far in 2008 -- is higher than any other year since Rendell took office, agency records show.
"What is beyond the pale is the level at which the Rendell administration has engaged in this," said Reichley, who is the Republican Caucus' point man on contract issues.
More control under Rendell?
Curt Topper, a deputy secretary in the department, said no-bid contracts are a small portion of overall contacts, less than 1 percent of the Department of General Services' annual total.
Even though records of other governors can't be found, Topper said, the Rendell administration provides tighter control and review of no-bid contracts than provided in the past. As a result, the administration is driving down the number of no-bid contracts, he said.
State government can benefit when a public official has a personal connection to private companies, said Craig Shuey, executive director for the Senate Transportation Committee and spokesman for Sen. Roger Madigan, R-Bradford.
"However, when the sums of public funds grow into the millions and beyond, one has to question who is the greater beneficiary of the relationship," he said. "Sometimes it's the public, sometimes it's the public official, and that's where the concern lies because it is difficult to completely eliminate the appearance of special treatment."
The Ballard Spahr hiring has become a lightning rod in the past week with an increasing number of lawmakers questioning the contract not only because of Rendell's relationship to Ballard Spahr, but also because two former Rendell aides now are Ballard Spahr partners -- Adrian King and John Estey.
"We have barely scratched the surface of that contractual situation," Reichley said.
Estey was Rendell's chief of staff and a senior adviser until last month and King was deputy chief of staff until 2005. Estey, as chief of staff, recommended hiring Ballard Spahr, according to Rendell's General Counsel Barbara Adams. King now is working on the turnpike lease for the law firm.
Estey and King are brothers-in-law. Estey declined to comment, and attempts to reach King were not successful.
Stricter guidelines
House Minority Leader Sam Smith, R-Jefferson County, last week said the Ballard Spahr contract has the "appearance of a conflict." Smith said he was bothered by the lack of concern of Rendell officials.
Rendell has defended the hiring, saying the firm is uniquely qualified because the company has experience in tax-related issues. Adams said she selected the firm because it is a Pennsylvania firm and because of its reputation. She said she was not told by the governor to hire Ballard Spahr.
House Minority Policy Chairman Mike Turzai, R-Bradford Woods, Allegheny County, said legislation is being written that would prevent Rendell, and future governors, from doling out high-priced contracts -- greater than $100,000 -- without greater scrutiny.
"We are in the process of researching and drafting a bill that would subject such contracts to an open bidding process," he said. "We intend to hold a policy committee hearing."
State Senate Majority Whip Jane Orie, R-McCandless, Allegheny County, wants to use legislation she co-sponsored last fall to establish stricter guidelines. The bill is modeled after a law Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter pushed through in 2005 as a councilman. The law makes businesses ineligible for no-bid city contracts if they contribute more than $10,000 a year to a city official's campaign.
Even Democratic leaders are upset with Rendell's spending and hiring of Ballard Spahr, including state Rep. Joe Markosek, D-Monroeville, Allegheny County, chairman of the House Transportation Committee, and state Sen. Barry Stout, D-Bentleyville, Washington County, minority chairman of the Senate's transportation committee.
"I didn't know Ballard Spahr had been retained by the administration," Stout said.
"We know the need for funds to help maintain our roads and bridges, and money that's unnecessarily spent for other things will impact the money we have available to us," he said.
What happens next depends on whether lawmakers follow through with cries to hold hearings and push reform legislation.
Rendell meanwhile continues to craft the lease proposal, which he says is a necessary move to generate billions of dollars to pay for critical road and bridge improvements statewide and establish steady subsidy streams for mass-transit agencies such as Port Authority of Allegheny County.
A turnpike lease would have to be approved by the Legislature. A similar proposal failed last year due to a lack of legislative support. Lawmakers passed Act 44, which called for leveraging new tolls on Interstate 80 to borrow larger amounts of money to pay for transportation projects.
Some say Act 44 would not generate enough money to meet the state's needs. Others are skeptical federal officials will approve the I-80 tolling plan. As a result, Rendell revived his lease proposal.
Records missing
The Department of General Services' records on no-bid contracts prior to Gov. Ed Rendell taking office in January 2003 are virtually nonexistent, an agency official said.
The department recently claimed that Rendell has "reformed" no-bid contracts -- reducing the frequency. But there are no records available from other governors, the agency now says, to provide a historic comparison.
Curt Topper, a deputy secretary, said the department could not locate the vast majority of records from the administrations of Republican governors Tom Ridge and Mark Schweiker.
"We do not have records prior to 2003," he said. "Those records simply don't exist anywhere in the department."
Topper said he discovered there was data missing only during the past three weeks while trying to fill the Tribune-Review's request for information. When Rendell took office in 2003, there were "summary records" showing 800 no-bid contracts had been approved in 2001 and in 2002 -- with no corresponding dollar amounts.
Topper said the historical records might have been lost in a switch to a new computer system before Rendell took office.
"Detailed central records of sole source approvals either were not maintained by the previous administration or they were lost when the Commonwealth made the transition" to a new computer system, the department said in a statement. "As a result, we are unable to produce a listing of sole source contracts, the suppliers, or the contract amounts prior to fiscal year 2003."
"It's a curious explanation to say the least," said David La Torre, Schweiker's former press secretary. "The Schweiker administration was a firm believer in the competitive bidding process as a means to ensure taxpayers' dollars were used in the manner that Pennsylvanians would expect from their government."
No-bid contracts
More than $1 billion dollars in state contracts have been awarded without competitive bidding under Gov. Ed Rendell from 2003 through 2008. The state Department of General Services approved $873 million worth of contracts without competition for various state agencies. Also, the Office of General Counsel awarded $213 million in contracts to outside law firms.
Source: State records


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Rock the New Year: celebrate-search-renew
When Sunday January 12, 2014 @ 9:00 PM (1286 days ago)
Where University Commons, Mainstage Theater
Duration 1 hour
How will your faith be renewed in this new year? What's at your core?
Come for worship led by a Celebration praise team and hear/join how God is working through ministries on campus. This service will be in Mainstage Theater (University Commons).
Those participating include Celebration, Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA), Life Transformation Groups, Alpha Omega Dancers for Christ, YPCA (Y-Serve), Ministry Assistants.
Intended Audience General Public
Contact Information
Name Brian Burkholder
Phone # 540.432.4115