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The Internet has been abuzz all week over "The Walking Dead" season 7 premiere, which aired Sunday night with monstrous ratings.
While the plot picked up at the largest cliffhanger in the show's history — the death of an unidentified major character — there was another tactical plot line that some viewers may have missed.
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Midway through the episode, the show's new antagonist, Negan — played by actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan — fires off a lot of rounds into a group of "walkers." The rounds were fired from a Colt M4A1 fitted with a Trijicon ACOG riflescope. The above photo shows the gear in action.
The show has a history of featuring serious tactical weaponry throughout its seasons of fighting off the undead.
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Just ten days after 9/11 the Pentagon was given orders by the Bush/Cheney White House to make plans to attack Iraq and 6 other countries. Ten years ago, in September of 2001, the US government had their military sights set on Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran. The United States government had already made plans to launch armed attacks against the above mentioned countries – without provocation. An interview with a 4 star United States general revealed the United States government's plan for 7 wars of aggression. Three of those 7 unprovoked wars of aggression were to steal the oil and natural gas reserves of the attacked countries. Iraq, Libya and Iran, all rich oil producing nations, are and will be victims of US and US lead wars of aggression.
There were no weapons of mass destruction or links to the CIA created al Qaeda in Iraq and there is neither in Libya and Iran so the US government has decided to use CIA recruited and paid foreign mercenaries to start up armed rebellions against the governments of the targeted countries.
The Libya rebels are and have always been CIA paid and controlled foreign mercenaries. The people being killed in Libya and Syria are not civilians they are CIA foreign mercenaries. The job of the CIA foreign mercenaries is to create the illusion that Libyan and Syrian civilians are revolting and are being unjustly killed by Libyan and Syrian forces. The CIA foreign mercenaries are sent to Libya and Syria to create a pretext for a US armed attack. The goal is to steal the oil reserves of Libya and Iran. I know you were expecting me to say Libya and Syria but Syria is being targeted not because of oil – they have none, Syria is being attacked and will be occupied because the US military strategy is to surround Iran before the US and its axis of evil can launch an attack.
Iran is the crown jewel of the US government's wars of aggression. Iran is the second largest producer in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) after Saudi Arabia (which has all but depleted its oil reserves). Iran also has gas reserves estimated to be 33.1 trillion cubic meters. Iran has the second biggest natural gas reserves after Russia. The United States is using foreign mercenaries to create a pretext for a war of aggression against Iran. These wars of aggression are to steal the oil and natural gas reserves of the Middle East.
General Wesley Clark. Retired 4-star U.S. Army general, Supreme Allied Commander of NATO during the 1999 War on Yugoslavia . … I had been through the Pentagon right after 9/11. About ten days after 9/11, I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz. I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff who used to work for me, and one of the generals called me in. He said, "Sir, you've got to come in and talk to me a second." I said, "Well, you're too busy." He said, "No, no." He says, "We've made the decision we're going to war with Iraq." This was on or about the 20th of September. I said, "We're going to war with Iraq? Why?" He said, "I don't know." He said, "I guess they don't know what else to do." So I said, "Well, did they find some information connecting Saddam to al-Qaeda?" He said, "No, no." He says, "There's nothing new that way. They just made the decision to go to war with Iraq." He said, "I guess it's like we don't know what to do about terrorists, but we've got a good military and we can take down governments." And he said, "I guess if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem has to look like a nail."
So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, "Are we still going to war with Iraq?" And he said, "Oh, it's worse than that." He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, "I just got this down from upstairs" — meaning the Secretary of Defense's office — "today." And he said, "This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran." I said, "Is it classified?" He said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Well, don't show it to me." And I saw him a year or so ago, and I said, "You remember that?" He said, "Sir, I didn't show you that memo! I didn't show it to you!"
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Report: Bridgepoint and Arizona colluded for GI Bill funds
"How can we help?" wrote an education-policy adviser of the governor
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The city's backlog of deferred infrastructure projects is piling up. According to the city's five-year financial outlook and 2010 budget, the backlog of repairs to city streets, sidewalks, and storm drains, and upkeep for libraries, and fire department and park facilities falls somewhere between $800 and $900 million.
Last month the mayor announced the financing of $102 million in bonds for capital improvements. In addition, $11.8 million was set aside from land-sale proceeds for deferred maintenance projects in the 2010 budget.
While the mayor and his financial team are chipping away at the backlog, some council members and representatives from the San Diego Taxpayers Association say the figures the mayor's office is using are outdated and conservative.
At the April 15 Budget Committee meeting, Lani Lutar, president of the San Diego Taxpayers Association, was the first to mention deferred maintenance projects during a ten-minute presentation on ways the city can return to financial solvency. Lutar said the Taxpayers Association has lobbied the city for over a decade to be more aggressive in saving for deferred maintenance projects.
"This $900 million -- those figures are three years old. Based on that, you can assume that the backlog could be closer to $1 billion, and that's a pretty conservative figure. This table is outdated and it really emphasizes the point that deferred maintenance should continually be addressed," said Lutar while referring to the project estimates provided by the city.
Councilmember Todd Gloria said that deferred maintenance for the older neighborhoods in District Three and Balboa Park alone would account for much of the $900 million estimate. Gloria says a recent study of Balboa Park identified nearly $234 million in necessary capital improvement projects.
"We know this $900 million figure is far short," said Gloria during the meeting. "I know that it is substantially more than this, and we need to stay focused on that."
In response, the city's chief financial officer, Mary Lewis, said the city has received current assessments for the cost of street, sidewalk, and storm-drain repairs but awaits submittal of the facilities assessment. "Also, the $900 million -- while it's been our working assumption -- does not take into account some of the work that has happened over the past three years, so we're making progress on that number even though we don't know what that is at this point."
Andrea Tevlin, the city's independent budget analyst, said she believes the numbers for deferred maintenance projects to be "way north of $900 million" and is concerned that updated figures are not available.
Moments after Tevlin's comments, Lewis delivered a presentation outlining the mayor's proposed $3 billion budget for fiscal year 2010.
On the handouts issued to the committee, the deferred maintenance estimate was at $500 to $700 million.
"That number is a typo, I apologize," said Lewis. "That should the $800 to $900 million estimate. That's our working estimate."


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Rain slashes my slumber.
Desolate, quiet melancholy
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After-taste of last night.
Today is Monday.
A Monday. The Monday. Any Monday.
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The 'brella fails to spring
At my click,
Ever ready to defy.
Twice, I look up at an empty cloud –
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To wave goodbye.
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Of centuries past
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If a three-way discussion among Republican pundits on "The Early Show Saturday Edition" is any indication, more of the same -- she'll remain as controversial and passion-provoking rod as ever.
Author and right-wing firebrand Ann Coulter, GOP strategist Bay Buchanan, and NewMajority.com founder and former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum had at it over the question of whether Palin could be a viable presidential candidate at some point.
It got so heated the three were talking over each other, prompting co-anchor Erica Hill, who moderated, to interrupt them herself several times.
Palin, who was John McCain's running mate, formally steps down as Alaska's governor Sunday, with her poll numbers steadily dropping, facing numerous ethics investigations, openly admitting she had trouble getting her agenda through the state legislature, and contending she can do a better job for the people of Alaska from outside its statehouse.
Buchanan said Palin's quitting will tarnish her severely, Coulter claimed Palin is still so big she's even a bigger story than President Obama, and Frum cited the very discussion they were having as proof of how divisive Palin is, even in her own party.
"She's hurt herself badly if indeed she wants to run for president of the United States, America," Buchanan said. "As much as I'm crazy about her and think she's enormously talented, she's done two things ... I think has damaged her opportunity. That is she hasn't really gotten herself an expertise on the issues. She comes down to the lower 48 (states) unprepared for the media, in my personal opinion, with kind of trite responses to their questions. And secondly, she's quit. Quitting is not a good thing. It will hurt her badly in the long run, makes her less electable."
Coulter countered, saying Palin can overcome any "quitter" label anyone associates with her. "I don't know that Sarah Palin wants to run for president," Coulter said, "but she's already a bigger story than the president of the United States. There were two stories yesterday. For the first time, this 'Mr. Popularity,' President Obama's popularity, public approval ratings fell below 50 percent, for the first time. Editor's note: Coulter was referring to the daily presidential tracking poll of likely voters done by RasmussenReports, in which Mr. Obama's approval rating slipped to 49 percent Friday, and stayed there Saturday; Rasmussen is generally viewed as a conservative-leaning organization) And a former vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin's public approval ratings fell to 40 percent (in the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll). What was the big story? She's already bigger than Obama. She attracts a crowd."
Coulter added, "She's up there, she's had 17, 18 ethics complaints filed against her. Everybody wants her to speak for them, everybody wants to attack her, and she has her hands tied behind her back because she has to be governor, not only in terms of fund-raising (for other GOP candidates and herself). ... She's too big to be stuck in a governor's office up in Alaska."
Frum was having none of it. "Michael Jackson is also a bigger story than the president of the United States, but the American people aren't going to vote for him," Frum remarked. "Look, she's 45 years old, she's been the governor of a state; if she hasn't got the expertise, she's never going to get it.
"Basically, quitting for the stated reason that you can't get anything done in your job and because you can't endure the criticism you're receiving and then cashing in in order to make a lot of money is not a good resume with which to run for president of the United States. She was a calamitous candidate in October of 2008. We've never seen poll numbers for ... any national candidate decline as fast as they did for Sarah Palin. The more the American people know her, the more unacceptable she became and that trend's going to continue."
"The Michael Jackson comparison is silly, David," Coulter said. "Sarah Palin is not a singer. These are both (Palin and Obama) politicians."
"Apparently," Coulter continued, "she's getting ratings, or everybody wouldn't be constantly talking about her. She has a quality -- people are attracted to her and she's a quick study, she can learn if she wants to, and I totally disagree this is bad for her to quit. She's already done everything she needs to do. She turned over the governorship to the lieutenant governor, who's a fantastic right winger."
"There's a commitment you make when you for elected office," Buchanan insisted. "And that is -- to the voters -- that you're going to be there in office fighting for them for that period of time. She broke that trust. That is extremely harmful."
"That's absolutely false," Coulter said. "The voters of Alaska are delighted with what she did, because they're sick of these investigations."
"And I've run campaigns," Buchanan came back at Coulter, "and I'll tell you, you have somebody who quits and what you do is tell the people, you can't trust that person to stay in there for them."
Frum happened to get the last word: "I think this exchange shows what a wonderful uniter Sarah Palin is. If this is the effect she has on Republicans, this is not what you need. This is -- the Republican Party right now faces a couple of burdens. We know from the Bush years that we were seen - and I'm speaking as a Republican, as not competent, not effective. So we'd better find somebody who is seen as competent and effective. And a governor who quit because she said, 'I can't et my agenda through the state legislature,' it's harder to get things through Congress. She's not going to be much of a president."


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This blog chronicles my weekly experiences in and out of the studio. I like to make things, travel around, and connect with communities. During the fall and spring semesters, I am an artist and art education practitioner living in Florida. Furthermore, I have a curious cat named Rigby who hails from Qatar. Go. Make. Fun.
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EXHAUSTED: Bonnaroo 2011.
So here it is. I would have more to say if it hadn't been such an exhausting project (emotionally and physically). But, it's finished and it turned out fabulous! Andee Rudloff built the structure with the help of Troy and Brandon Bradshaw, and Shelby White. I finished off the inside and the outside with the help of some wonderful volunteers, namely: Sarah Sanfino, Megan Kelley, and Rachel McClain. GO TEAM!!
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Tiffany's Fabulous Show at BLEND.
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Visit to Bmore.
In mid-May I went up to Baltimore to celebrate the first MFACA graduating class' thesis opening reception. It was lovely, but an added benefit was being able to tour the graduate studios and see the undergraduate senior thesis show. The campus was filled with work--I have 4 albums on FB to prove it. It was an amazing time to visit Baltimore. But, oh how I miss it!
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Finished: Kerry's gift.
Remember how these started out? I finally finished them last week and she loved the end result! Hooray!!
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The KIPP Academy: De-co/Re-co Stuffed Animals . . .
A great project idea from my friend and mentor, Margaret Meehan! Enjoy!!
1. Show them a PPT of artists using hard/soft materials, or literally stuffed animals: Mike Kelly, Kathryn Spence, Annette Messanger.
2. Bring stuffed animals to the class and pile them in the center of the room.
3. Make drawings based on the pile of stuffed animals. Make sure to have at least 2 stuffed animals per student. Draw 1 stuffed animal in 1 color, then rotate the paper 90 degrees and draw the same stuffed animal exactly in another color, then rotate it again and draw again in a 3rd color. "Lovely line drawings that start to talk about abstraction!"
4. The students build their sculptures off of their drawings.
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Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years
University of California Press, Aug 9, 2006 - Biography & Autobiography - 342 pages
The last phase of Mark Twain's life is sadly familiar: Crippled by losses and tragedies, America's greatest humorist sank into a deep and bitter depression. It is also wrong. This book recovers Twain's final years as they really were—lived in the shadow of deception and prejudice, but also in the light of the author's unflagging energy and enthusiasm.
Dangerous Intimacy relates the story of how, shortly after his wife's death in 1904, Twain basked in the attentions of Isabel Lyon, his flirtatious—and calculating—secretary. Lyon desperately wanted to marry her boss, who was almost thirty years her senior. She managed to exile Twain's youngest daughter, Jean, who had epilepsy. With the help of Twain's assistant, Ralph Ashcroft, who fraudulently acquired power of attorney over the author's finances, Lyon nearly succeeded in assuming complete control over Twain's life and estate. Fortunately, Twain recognized the plot being woven around him just in time. So rife with twists and turns as to defy belief, the story nonetheless comes to undeniable, vibrant life in the letters and diaries of those who witnessed it firsthand: Katy the housekeeper, Jean, Lyon, and others whose own distinctive, perceptive, often amusing voices take us straight into the heart of the Clemens household.
Just as Twain extricated himself from the lies, prejudice, and self-delusion that almost turned him into an American Lear, so Karen Lystra liberates the author's last decade from a century of popular misunderstanding. In this gripping book we at last see how, late in life, this American icon discovered a deep kinship with his youngest child and continued to explore the precarious balance of love and pain that is one of the trademarks of his work.
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I am still trying to get my head around the Times's and Sunday Times's experiments with paywalls.
In its last valid ABCe figures, Times Online had about 1.2 million unique users a day.
If, as the Guardian and FT have suggested, about 10 per cent of users convert to paying £2 a week:
120,000 users x £2 x52 = £12,480,ooo a year.
Wired magazine quotes an Enders report which suggests Times Online made £15 million-£18 million in annual ad revenue before the paywall. Because the audience will drop so drastically, Wired guesses that the advertising take will fall to about a third of that after the paywall (I have no idea what they base this guess on, but keeping a third of your revenues with a tenth of the audience may also be optimistic).
So at the upper end of that scale, let's say £6 million in advertising revenue on top of the £12.5 million in subscriptions. That makes £18.5 million – an increase of £500,000 in online revenues post-paywall.
That doesn't seem like much of a gain and offsets a little more than two days' reported losses at both titles (£240,000 per day).
Nor can it be too cheering for journalists at both Times titles waiting to hear about the take-up of 80 voluntary redundancies, which closes today.
It gets worse — Paid Content quotes research by Enders Analysis saying the take-up could be as low as 2 per cent — making about £1 million a year. Even if the advertising revenues stayed the same as above, that would be an £11million loss.
It gets worse still — as I said yesterday, even the optimistic-looking 10 per cent will dwindle because stories are only discoverable from inside the paywall. There will be no Google search engine indexing. Surely this means that ad rates will also fall over time as the clicks to deep links fall off and are not replaced?
I pointed out yesterday how well-designed and enticing the new websites for both titles look — was it really beyond their capability to increase the uniques to the 30 million mark?
The Guardian's website, which had 29.8 million uniques in February [2010] generated £25m in revenues last year [2009] (PaidContent)
The Timeses are trying to cut their combined £100 million editorial budget by 10 per cent, or £10 million. If they are really trying to protect the newspapers and their dwindling revenues with a paywall that limits the growth of online revenues, they could miss out on twice that in online revenue.
Can anyone explain the logic of that to me? Have I messed up the maths somehow?
So did twitter really suffer a denial-of-service attack last night or was it just overwhelmed by massive interest from Newsnight viewer newbies?
Evan Williams, the Twitter chief executive, was interviewed by Kirsty Wark on Newsnight on Wednesday night. This post was delayed because my addled brain could not dredge up a Will Rogers quote and google was slow in forthcoming, but here it is at last:
"An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
You would think I could have remembered that, given how many ignorant people I know. Trust a vaudevillain to put humourous wisdom in such simple words. Plus, fulfilling the most important criterion for any post-2008 pith, it amounts to fewer than 140 characters.
In a "but how will it make money?" crusade led by the Guardian, Charles Arthur, the paper's technology editor, prefaced the headline of the interview's transcript with "Read it and weep". And from that objective standpoint, things went downhill: "Newsnight got the 'first British TV interview' with Twitter co-founder and chief executive Evan Williams. What did they ask him about? Demi Moore. Then it went downhill," guardian/co.uk/technology wrote.
Lest I be accused of imbalance, my colleague Shane Richmond wrote 'Is Newsnight a form of journalism?'
The truth is, I read both pieces and many tweets on the subject and did indeed almost weep. The gist seems to be that those few who are already aware of this service and care about its business model deserve priority over the unwashed masses who still get most of their news from the television and for whom all of this is still a discovery.
If James Dyson were on the show, would the host ask about the business plan for his new design of vacuum cleaner, or would she ask how it worked, what makes it different, does it suck more than previous models?
Which served the viewer better – the assumption of no previous knowledge or asking how Twitter will pay (probably a secret), a knowing wink to existing users (a bit naff) and the navel-gazing that only tech journos can muster (a bit off-putting to anyone but tech journos)?
Let he whose paper has not run rubbish Twitter celeb stories cast the first stone. Or perhaps not.
My own critique of Evan Williams? If anything, Mr Williams looked underprepared for basic questions that most of us have already heard answered online. That is not much of an excuse for not having his quips polished for his first British TV interview.
Maybe Mr Williams missed the wood for the trees – keep it simple is great advice, never more so than when explaining technology to the over-40s. The twitter fans, myself included, are not going to ditch it based on a deer-caught-in-the-headlines interview such as Wednesday's. But the lacklustre defence of admittedly obvious attack questions is not going to encourage many over-40 newbies to try it out.
Maybe he was lulled into a false sense of security by the twitter faithful? Maybe he (like many of the twitter-obsessed) was expecting Miss Wark to have read the TechCrunch-leaked documents and grill him on Twitter's business plan and the service's scalability?
Scalability? What in the name of god is that, I can hear my mother ask. But if Demi Moore is on it … i might give it a look.
Can we chalk the @ev #newsnight debacle down to another MSM misunderstanding? Well, no. Expectations are too high if they demand that Miss Wark ask Mr Williams in-depth questions that assume an intimate knowledge of his product. She does not run a tech blog – she hosts a general news show. Cue basic questions assuming no previous knowledge – on behalf of the viewer, not necessarily of Miss Wark.
Do I know what YouTube is? Yes, but every time it crops up in copy, I will try to add "the video-sharing website" because I cannot smugly assume that everyone shares my earth-shattering knowledge of the internets.
Quintillian wrote: "We should not write so that it is possible for [the reader] to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us".
That I have repeated the quote as by Harold Evans shows what I know, but those of us with the benefit of hyperlinks, near-instant feedback and, let's face it, a much younger audience, would do well to remember those words.
After all, gents, the questions were nowhere near as offensive as a BBC presenter showing too much leg.
I came across this web-only series on the wonderful Innovative Interactivity. The music and treatment is a little Hallmark-y for my tastes but I really like the execution — it's got video, audio slideshows, data and some slick transitions to show all elements on the screen at once.
Viewers can comment on the whole package and, in a very clever move, each individual interview has its own release date so it has become almost like an old-fashioned three-day newspaper special.
While the Telegraph is offering lots of interesting video, and the Guardian has podcasts and map mashups , I don't know of any UK media outlet that has used embedded multimedia this effectively to tell and show a multi-layered story with accompanying data.
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If fire risk is the primary concern, hand falling non-commercial tree species creates more fire risk than creating snags. The increase in fire risk is one of the main reasons this method is not used.
Unfortunately, the focus on increasing fire risk of snags, has potentially sensitized people to fire risk in dealing with non-commercial species as if differences in relative fire risk in forestry did not already exist. Pre-commercial thinning, a standard and necessary practice, also creates a temporary increase in fire risk; so does pruning; so does the creation of young forests. Like the creation of snags, these high fire risk conditions are temporary.
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Robert Hight raced to his fourth Funny Car victory of the season Sunday and in the process set the national speed record at the Ford NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals presented by Tri-Cities Area Ford Dealers.
Larry Dixon (Top Fuel) and Mike Edwards (Pro Stock) also were winners at Bristol Dragway in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series.
Hight gained momentum with a consistent string of powerful runs throughout the rain-delayed day of racing and finished off final-round opponent Jack Beckman with another strong run in his Auto Club Ford Mustang. Hight powered to a 4.092-second run at 314.90 mph while Beckman trailed with a 5.615 at 152.66 in his Aaron's/Valvoline Dodge Charger. Hight's final-round speed certified his earlier performance of 316.45 as the national record.
Hight defeated Ron Capps, teammate and series leader Mike Neff and Jeff Arend en route to the final round.
"We finally got Bristol, how about that?" said Hight of his 22nd victory. "I've had trouble with all the races that start with 'B' like Bristol or Brainerd, but we got this one. There's nothing better than to win this race since it's now Ford-sponsored. We made eight great runs, and when we needed it the most, Jimmy [Prock, crew chief] pulled it off. I've never set any kind of a record before, so that's pretty cool, too. I know there are no points for a speed record, but it's still cool to have."
Despite his second-round exit, Neff maintained his series lead, with runner-up Beckman moving to second and Hight remaining in third.
In Top Fuel, Dixon claimed his first win of the season and his sixth Father's Day victory by outrunning Antron Brown in the final round. Dixon took his 61st victory and second at Bristol Dragway with a 3.836 at 318.09 in his Al-Anabi Racing dragster to finish just in front of the hard-charging Brown, who posted a 3.851 at 306.19 in his Matco Tools dragster.
"Great job by the team, for one," said Dixon, who beat Rod Fuller, Morgan Lucas and Spencer Massey in the first three rounds. "Since the beginning of the year, even last year, I think we've had a great car, but for one reason or another, we haven't been able to get to the winner's circle and last [race], that was all on me. This weekend, it's Father's Day. It's unbelievable from that standpoint. It's been so long I don't even think this tower was built the last time I won at Bristol. I'm very elated. I'm really, really happy."
With the win, defending world champ Dixon moved into second place in the standings, 31 points behind series leader Del Worsham, Dixon's teammate who lost in the quarterfinals to Massey.
Edwards claimed his third consecutive Bristol Dragway win and 30th of his career and in the process denied Erica Enders a milestone victory as she tried to become the first woman to win in the history of the 41-year-old factory hot rod category. Enders left the starting line first in her ZaZa Energy Chevy Cobalt, but the car lost power near midtrack while Edwards sped down the track to finish in 6.685 at 205.79 in his Penhall/Interstate Batteries Pontiac GXP.
"We made some ugly runs, and somehow we were able to turn the win light on," said Edwards of his second win of the season. "Some days, no matter how bad you do, you still win. That's the kind of day we had today. Congrats to my team. They fought hard. This car has given us so many headaches. I hope we can build on this. We have the K&N Horsepower Challenge next week, so hopefully we can build off of this and something good will happen."
Edwards moved to second in the series standings with the victory and trails Jason Line by 24 points.
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First a few intro words for the experts. The Sun's 'birth' chart for 15 September 1964, five years before Murdoch bought it, suitably has its Sun in the 3rd house of media and communication - useful! I wonder whether an astrologer was consulted for its launch date. Its status point (or Midheaven) is in Pisces, emphasising the paper's surfing of (public) mood as raison d'etre. Mercury, the planet of media and communication, is linked to its essential nature (Sun) via a stellium that includes Uranus and Pluto - a rule-breaking rebel of a newspaper, in other words. And with Mercury opposite Saturn, the paper was always going to be 'hobbled' by self-censorship - like any paper, really: but this feature is pronounced here.
So what of the SOS? It is due to be launched on 26 February 2012 - and because it won't in essence be a separate entity, the Sun's birth chart can be used to look ahead. At present, the Sun's horoscope suggests confusion (tr Neptune conjunct Saturn), at its worst up to early 2013. And tr Pluto in Capricorn, moving backwards and forwards over the Descendant till early 2014, suggests a radical painful change or transformation is ongoing in its relationship with the world through interaction with 'enemies' - a kill or cure time in effect. But while the 'weather' at the Sun is troubled and threatening, closure seems unlikely.
The SOS launch (if it goes ahead) before the next Mercury retrograde on March 12 (which can slow up or disrupt communication or any media activity) is an unwittingly smart move. Tr Mercury in Pisces in the 9th house of expansion is also favourable - though the planet's opposition to the Sun's birth Sun indicates internal tensions over the new paper from the start. But on the whole, the signs are good for the SOS.
The happiest aspect is tr Sun conjunct Midheaven (status point) - this normally denotes publicity and attention through huge effort. Tr Jupiter sextile Midheaven also favours expansion on this day - I would expect good sales and growth despite pessimistic warnings to the contrary.
I could go into less pleasant indications of Murdoch's financial situation this year and beyond, the problems James M faces and other grave difficulties: the much bigger picture for News Corp and Rupert M is still highly fraught. But I shall not rain on his SOS.


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Winograd-updates: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has no intention of setting a date for early elections together with Labor Chairman and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, the prime minister's associates said Monday. They were responding to predictions by Labor politicians that Barak would respond to the Winograd Committee's full report on the Second Lebanon War, due out Wednesday, by working to advance the elections to early 2009. The premier's associates said Olmert has no intention of turning himself into a lame duck by advancing the elections. Moreover, they argued, early elections would paralyze the country, damage the economy and destroy the peace process, which Labor supports. "How would it be possible to advance the diplomatic process when everyone would be wanting to sharpen his positions?" demanded one of Olmert's associates. "Our negotiating partner would also understand that it is impossible to reach an agreement with a prime minister whose days are numbered." This message by Olmert's associates was part of the premier's preparations for the political battle that will erupt, he expects, after the Winograd report is published. His main fear is that Barak will yield to public pressure and keep the promise he made during his primary campaign last year - that after the full Winograd report is released, he will work to either replace Olmert or advance the elections. Without Labor, Olmert has no Knesset majority. ... Some senior Israel Defense Forces officers have expressed concern that the final Winograd Report, to be released Wednesday, will damage the IDF's image in the eyes of the public with its expected harsh criticism of the military's conduct during the Second Lebanon War. ... For Dr. Udi Label, lecturer on political psychology at Sapir and Ariel colleges who put that focus group together as part of his research on the subject, [the man's question is an example of] public distrust of the establishment. Since the war ended a year and a half ago, Label argues, the public has lost a considerable amount of the confidence it used to have in its leadership. This rift developed because of the war and appears as a critical component in other focus groups that researchers from all over Israel have convened and studied.
Englische Übersetzung eines Artikels über George Habash aus der LeMonde vom 26., Teil I von Nur-al-Cubicle: Portrait of George Habash
George Habash, the founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) passed away on Saturday, January 26th, in Amman, Jordan where resided since 1992. He was 81 years old. George Habash resigned as Secretary General of the PFLP, a radical nationalist movement in July 2000 after having led the organization for more than thirty years.
A charismatic individual, he was always the most popular of the historical leaders of the Palestinian national liberation movement. His popularity cascaded across the entire movement despite its terrorist drift during the 1970's. A Christian Palestinian physician trained at the American University in Beirut, he abandoned his profession to devote himself to a tireless struggle against the State of Israel and its Western supporters, notably marked by aircraft hijackings. Suffering a cerebral hemorrhage in 1992, he was hospitalized in France, which caused a major scandal at the time. Convinced of the necessity of pursuing the struggle to recover lost land until the bitter end, George Habash always personified the "front of refusal" within the Palestinian movement. All his political acts were characterized by rejection of compromise. From time to time, however, he did make concessions, but most of these were mere formalities. Embittered by the Arab defeat of June 1957, he became an advocate of Marxism, the "popular struggle" against Israel and revolution throughout the Arab world, attributing his former anti-communism to his bourgeois upbringing and his immersion in Anglo-Saxon culture. George Habash was born in Lydda in 1926 to a family of Greek Orthodox Christian merchants. When he was 22 years old when the State of Israel was created. He watched as Lydda was emptied of its Arab residents, including members of his own family. Profoundly scarred by the event, he began to militate at the American University of Beirut, where he was a medical student. Participating in demonstrations in which several of his comrades were killed, he showed himself to be leader of men. But this did not prevent him from graduating first in his class in Medicine in 1951. Together with other students, Hani al-Hindi (Syrian), Ahmed el-Khatib (Kuwaiti) and Wadih Haddad (Palestinian), he founded the Arab Nationalist Movement (AMN). The founding members of the movement dispersed to found branches in Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Kuwait and Aden. Habash went to Amman. There he created a school for refugees and a "people's dispensary" where he worked as a pediatrician until 1957. When martial law was proclaimed in Jordan in April 1957, he was forced underground. Several bombings were blamed on the ANM and Habash was sentenced in absentia to 30 years in prison. The unification of Syria and Egypt in February 1958 provided him with refuge and he resided in Damascus for five years where he espoused Nasserism, as every good Arab nationalist of the time. But relations deteriorated between the Nasserites and the Baathists, who in the interim had taken power in Damascus, and Habash went Beirut. In December 1967, he began to devote himself entirely to the Palestinian cause. Returning to Damascus, he founded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, formed from the merger of three groups: The Heros of the Return, Youth for Vengeance and Ahmed Jibril's Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The PFLP will undergo a series of split-offs, the most significant of which were those led by Ahmed Jabril and Nayef Hawatmeh.
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"Here come the grandparents. There go the rules." 25 December 2012 Comedy 104 mins
Artie and Diane agree to look after their three grandkids when their type-A helicopter parents need to leave town for work. Problems arise when the kids' 21st-century behavior collides with Artie and Diane's old-school methods.
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Though Google+ still seems like it's relatively new to the world of social media, the platform has been active since 2011 and has over 500 million users. Those numbers seem relatively miniscule in comparison to it's big brother brethren like Twitter, Facebook, or even Instagram for that matter, but Google+ seems to be not only increasing its number of users, but is becoming a hub for small business owners to connect and interact with the market around them.
Yes, Google+ Matters
By being woven into the fabric of all of the other Google products, Google+ is proving to be more than just a social media network. A Google+ account allows a user to simply be just a click away from Youtube, Google Images, Drive, etc.
This also means that with a Google+ account, your small business has a top priority on Google searches. So bottom line: becoming an active Google+ member can only help a business rank higher in search results.
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As simple as it is to start an account with other social media networks, it's even easier with Google+.
Start a personal account, and then claim a Google+ Business page, allowing Google Search to relate a personalized Google+ account to that users' business page. Add a logo and any images, write a very detailed "about" section leaving no questions for other users.
Obtaining a Google Places account is also important, so that a business and its address can be easily identified by searchers.
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Google+ organizes groups in what's called "circles," which can define circles by groups of interest and making it easier to send targeted messages to customers and clients. The ability to segment and select what content is seen by whom can be a complete advantage to a small business.
"Hangouts," which is Google's video chat option, provides an audio-visual channel for a business to interact with customers. These are even available for live streaming through a company website, another potentially valuable asset provided by a Google+ account.
Jennifer Goodwin of Internet Girl Friday says "One of the perks is that a copy of the recorded live stream is duplicated on your YouTube channel." There's even an editing feature available, making for complete control over the content a Google+ account holder creates. Hosting a hangout will not only help a business connect with its customers in a more unique and personal way, but the information that is cultivated at a "hangout" can be used to a company's advantage at a later date.
Businesses that use Google+ also have access to share special dates with their customers through Google Calendar and share photos, allowing for an unlimited amount of potential information to be shared.
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Google+ includes a feature that is more powerful than any like or share: the +1. This is a way for users to like the online content, which is then attached to their profile; available to share in any circle.
By adding this feature to a small business' web content, it allows for customers or clients to share content and brand with anyone on any platform.
By being a Google product, Google+ is here to stay. A small business should at least create a Google+ account and remain active on it to optimize their results in the top search engine. It also allows businesses to interact with customers and own content in a way that is more liberating than Facebook or Twitter. It may not be the most buzzed about social media service, but when it comes down to it, Google+ has both immediate and long-term benefits for promoting a business.
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Bellator XLV was a mixed martial arts event held by Bellator Fighting Championships. The event took place on May 21, 2011 at the L'Auberge du Lac Resort in Lake Charles, Louisiana.[1] The card featured final round fights in the Bellator Season Four Featherweight and Light Heavyweight Tournaments. The event was distributed live in prime time by MTV2.
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Houston Rockets vs. Sacramento Kings - 12/5/15 NBA Pick, Odds, and Prediction
Sacramento Kings (7-13) at Houston Rockets (8-11)
NBA Basketball: Saturday, December 5, 2015 at 8:00 pm (Toyota Center)
The Line: Houston Rockets -3 -- Over/Under: See the Latest Odds
The Houston Rockets play host to the Sacramento Kings tonight at the Toyota Center.
The Kings have lost three of their last four games and are coming off an ugly 114-97 loss to the Celtics. Rudy Gay had a decent game of 18 points but had next to no support as DeMarcus Cousins chipped in with 16 points but shot just four of 17 from the field while Rajon Rondo added just five points and eight assists. The problem was a lack of focus as the Kings allowed the Celtics to run rampant right from the tipoff which meant they were down 32-17 going into the second quarter, leaving them too much distance to make up. What made matters worse was that Rondo was sent off in the third quarter after a double technical foul for basically staring at the referee.
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Meanwhile, the Rockets have won four of their last five overall and looked pretty good in last night's 100-96 win over the Mavericks. James Harden led the offense with 25 points and nine assists, Trevor Ariza added 18 points while Terrence Jones had 17 as the Rockets came out victorious in what was a tight contest from start to finish. The Rockets have been inconsistent all season, but they've looked good over the week and they're inching closer to .500 with a record of 9-11 on the season and 4-4 on the road.
In ATS trends, the Kings are 2-6 ATS in their last eight against the Western Conference and 4-9 ATS in their last 13 road games against a team with a losing record, while the Rockets are 2-10 ATS in their last 12 games overall and 1-8 ATS in their last nine home games.
Head to head, the Kings are 1-5 ATS in the last six meetings overall and 2-5 ATS in the last seven meetings in Houston.
The Kings are more than capable of causing the minor upset in this game, but the Rockets have been in a bit of a groove lately and I really liked how they closed out last night's narrow win over the Mavs.


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Fan Controls in Bathrooms
The placement of a fan switch in the bathroom is a tricky question.
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We are in the process of building a house. My husband and I are arguing as to where the switch for the fan should be located in our bathrooms. I say it should be located by the door and he wants it by the toilet.
How do I answer this question tastefully? Oh, the heck with it; let's take a cue from the popular book "Everybody Poops 410 Pounds a Year." Usually, when you're going into the bathroom to make a "number two," you're not really considering in that moment the amount of gases you will be emitting … or the length of your stay. People do not automatically think about flipping on the fan switch as they come into a bathroom. They are much more focused on the immediate task at hand. It is usually about halfway through the process that you think, "OMG this is gonna be smelly." You can't exactly get up with your pants around your ankles and shuffle over to the switch, so you have to wait until you are leaving the bathroom. If somebody else is there waiting to use the facilities, there hasn't been enough time for the smells to be extracted from the space. Talk about room with a "whew!" But if the switch is located near your sitting position, you can flick it on the moment you realize that this could be an embarrassing situation. If you are still arguing, consider putting the fan on a three-way switch. Then everybody wins — by a nose.
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28 January 2015 Factual 85 mins
n a remote area of Siberia, the world's largest sect lives under the teachings of Vissarion, a man who claims to be the reincarnation of Jesus. Sveta has moved from away from St Petersburg and her ex-husband Magomed, and now lives in the community with her children, Danial, Mariam and Zaur, and her new husband, the Vissarionite bell ringer Dmitiri. Christ Lives in Siberia (Jeesus elab Siberis), by Estonian duo Jaak Kilmi and Arbo Tammiksaar, follows the daily lives of the children as they go to school and help out with community chores. As we go along, we discover more about them and what brought their mother to the community. Their lives are juxtaposed with that of Magomed, who writes letters to the Russian government in an attempt to get his children back.
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Say it isn't so, Twitter, say it isn't so.
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Earlier tonight I attended a screening of the cult classic 1987 creature feature Monster Squad at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica featuring a live commentary with director Fred Dekker and screenwriter Shane Black. It was a great experience, one of the best I've had being in LA, and of course it ended with a Q&A. When Dekker was asked about what he's currently working on, the first thing he said was "I'm currently writing Cliffhanger 2." At first I thought he was joking, but the tone of his voice didn't make it sound like a joke and he didn't pause for a laugh, he just continued on about the Night of the Creeps DVD release.
When I got back home, I read through all the details again on that Cliffhanger reboot that StudioCanal announced back in May. The press release talks a lot about producer Neal Moritz and his early plans for the new Cliffhanger, but nothing about any writers except that they're "looking to attach a screenwriter." So maybe Dekker is their guy? Or he's at least one of the writers they've got putting together an early draft? It's quite interesting that he referred to it as "Cliffhanger 2" and not a reboot or remake. I hope he didn't just say that he was doing "a cliffhanger, too" and I heard him wrong, although I really doubt that's the case.
Dekker hasn't written anything for the since RoboCop 3 in 1993. Of course, he also wrote House, Night of the Creeps, and Monster Squad before that. Either he's one of those screenwriters who works on first drafts for producers or he's trying to get back into writing again with a Cliffhanger sequel. Or it was all just joke. One thing I do know is that he really did say that, so I can assure you that quote is accurate, believe it or not. If you've heard elsewhere, let us know. But from here, we'll let you speculate on what this might mean?
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Periscope: You can broadcast using this service by downloading the Periscope app and also from the Twitter app. The app is compatible with Android and iOS. The list of the usernames of the viewers appears on the screen of the broadcaster. When you go live your followers are notified. You can stream the broadcast on Twitter as well so that your Twitter followers can also watch it (Periscope and Twitter maintain separate follower list). There is no option to do the split-screen broadcast. There are no third party apps as well for this purpose.
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Aviation Security:
Risk, Experience, and Customer Concerns Drive Changes to Airline Passenger Screening Procedures, but Evaluation and Documentation of Proposed Changes Could Be Improved
GAO-07-634: Published: Apr 16, 2007. Publicly Released: May 7, 2007.
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The Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) most visible layer of commercial aviation security is the screening of airline passengers at airport checkpoints, where travelers and their carry-on items are screened for explosives and other dangerous items by transportation security officers (TSO). Several revisions made to checkpoint screening procedures have been scrutinized and questioned by the traveling public and Congress in recent years. For this review, GAO evaluated (1) TSA's decisions to modify passenger screening procedures between April 2005 and December 2005 and in response to the alleged August 2006 liquid explosives terrorist plot, and (2) how TSA monitored TSO compliance with passenger screening procedures. To conduct this work, GAO reviewed TSA documents, interviewed TSA officials and aviation security experts, and visited 25 airports of varying sizes and locations.
Between April 2005 and December 2005, proposed modifications to passenger checkpoint screening standard operating procedures (SOP) were made for a variety of reasons, and while a majority of the proposed modifications--48 of 92--were ultimately implemented at airports, TSA's methods for evaluating and documenting them could be improved. SOP modifications were proposed based on the professional judgment of TSA senior-level officials and program-level staff. TSA considered the daily experiences of airport staff, complaints and concerns raised by the traveling public, and analysis of risks to the aviation system when proposing SOP modifications. TSA also made efforts to balance the impact on security, efficiency, and customer service when deciding which proposed modifications to implement, as in the case of the SOP changes made in response to the alleged August 2006 liquid explosives terrorist plot. In some cases, TSA tested proposed modifications at selected airports to help determine whether the changes would achieve their intended purpose. However, TSA's data collection and analyses could be improved to help TSA determine whether proposed procedures that are operationally tested would achieve their intended purpose. For example, TSA officials decided to allow passengers to carry small scissors and tools onto aircraft based on their review of threat information, which indicated that these items do not pose a high risk to the aviation system. However, TSA did not conduct the necessary analysis of data it collected to assess whether this screening change would free up TSOs to focus on screening for high-risk threats, as intended. TSA officials acknowledged the importance of evaluating whether proposed screening procedures would achieve their intended purpose, but cited difficulties in doing so, including time pressures to implement needed security measures quickly. Finally, TSA's documentation on proposed modifications to screening procedures was not complete. TSA documented the basis--that is, the information, experience, or event that encouraged TSA officials to propose the modifications--for 72 of the 92 proposed modifications. In addition, TSA documented the reasoning behind its decisions for half (26 of 44) of the proposed modifications that were not implemented. Without more complete documentation, TSA may not be able to justify key modifications to passenger screening procedures to Congress and the traveling public. TSA monitors TSO compliance with passenger checkpoint screening procedures through its performance accountability and standards system and through covert testing. Compliance assessments include quarterly observations of TSOs' ability to perform particular screening functions in the operating environment, quarterly quizzes to assess TSOs' knowledge of procedures, and an annual knowledge and skills assessment. TSA uses covert tests to evaluate, in part, the extent to which TSOs' noncompliance with procedures affects their ability to detect simulated threat items hidden in accessible property or concealed on a person. TSA airport officials have experienced resource challenges in implementing these compliance monitoring methods. TSA headquarters officials stated that they are taking steps to address these challenges.
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Status: Closed - Not Implemented
Comments: Following the release of GAO's report, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) reported that it planned to continue to perform operational testing of proposed Standard Operating Procedure modifications, when practicable, as a method for determining impact on passenger checkpoint security effectiveness and efficiency. TSA stated that it was committed to using sound methodological techniques when conducting these operational tests. As of April 2011, TSA had provided us with documentation associated with two operational tests conducted since our report was issued in April 2007 - one of proposed X-ray procedures and another of proposed explosives trace detection (ETD) procedures. For the first operational test, TSA sought to determine whether the three proposed x-ray screening procedures would improve passenger throughput and increase the number of images Transportation Security Officers could view in an hour, and TSA collected and analyzed the necessary data to answer this question. For the second operational test, TSA described the specific ETD procedure that would be tested, identified at which airports the test would take place, and the duration of the test. However, TSA was not able to provide documentation that explains the intended purpose of the proposed ETD procedure or the type of data TSA plans to collect or how the data will be used to decide whether to implement the procedure. Considering that TSA was not able to provide such documentation, there is no evidence that TSA designed this operational test in a way that is consistent with our recommendation. Given that TSA used a sound evaluation methodology for one of its operational tests, but not the other, we are closing this recommendation as not implemented.
Recommendation: To help strengthen TSA's evaluation of proposed modifications to passenger checkpoint screening SOPs and TSA's ability to justify its decisions to implement or not implement proposed SOP modifications, in the March 2007 report that contained sensitive security information, GAO stated that the Secretary of Homeland Security should direct the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for TSA to develop sound evaluation methods, when possible, that can be used to assist TSA in determining whether proposed procedures would achieve their intended result, such as enhancing TSA's ability to detect prohibited items and suspicious persons and freeing up existing TSO resources that could be used to implement proposed procedures when operationally testing proposed SOP modifications.
Agency Affected: Department of Homeland Security: Directorate of Border and Transportation Security: Transportation Security Administration
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: According to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), a number of substantive changes to passenger screening procedures have been considered since GAO issued its final report. TSA reported that the Office of Security Operations initiated a process to track information on all substantive proposed changes to passenger screening procedures. TSA provided matrices from October 2007 and November 2008 that were used to track the status of proposed checkpoint screening procedures. The matrices include a source column, which, consistent with our recommendation, identifies who recommended the proposed change; an issue column, which explains the potential need for and purpose of the proposed change; and a "notes" or "disposition" column, which includes TSA's rationale for implementing or not implementing the proposed procedure. By tracking this type of information for proposed checkpoint screening procedures, TSA has implemented our recommendation.
Recommendation: To help strengthen TSA's evaluation of proposed modifications to passenger checkpoint screening SOPs and TSA's ability to justify its decisions to implement or not implement proposed SOP modifications, in the March 2007 report that contained sensitive security information, GAO stated that the Secretary of Homeland Security should direct the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for TSA to generate and maintain documentation to include, at minimum, the source, intended purpose, and reasoning behind decisions to implement or not implement proposed modifications for future proposed SOP modifications that TSA senior leadership determines are significant.
Agency Affected: Department of Homeland Security: Directorate of Border and Transportation Security: Transportation Security Administration
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