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He's been a Minister for a few years now. The excitement is long gone now and so has the frequency of trips to Delhi. "Elections can be as early as November, I need to focus on my constituency now," the Minister had remarked when I met him last. From spending 15 days every month in Delhi, during the early part of his tenure as a Minister, Delhi is a bimonthly trip now. Yet he holds a critical Ministry that affects all of us. It's not surprising that the administration at the Center seems toothless.
As scandals emerge from the central government, there is a strong need for the legislature to establish it's presence through strong legislations and policies. Yet, PRS has recently reported that this Lok Sabha has had the poorest performance in history. This made me wonder if a distinct separation between the state/constituencies responsibilities and center's responsibility could help bring efficiency to our national level policies? Maybe there is something inherently flawed in our political structure that makes an elected Minister a wrong choice to be a Union Minister?
How about if we let Lok Sabha Members focus on their community development and bring in only Rajya Sabha members for national level policy? What if all Union Ministers are from the Rajya Sabha? Could this help improve the political landscape in India? The idea seems a bit off but bear with me for a few minutes. Here is my reasoning for proposing a seemingly unusual recommendation:
a. Conflict of interest: I was a proud Bengali when Mamata-didi was brought in as the Railway Minister. Part of my pride was rooted in knowing that, holding one of the most powerful Cabinet portfolios also meant bringing in a lot of Railway jobs in to Bengal. Yet, there is something wrong in that assumption and even more wrong in execution. The Railway Ministry is a national cabinet position and therefore the Administration has an obligation to develop the potential of the Ministry on a national level. However, the Minister did bring a lot of jobs to Bengal (in fact most of them), adversely affecting the efficiency of railway services. This is true of almost every union minister who is a Lok Sabha member and holds an influential portfolio: conflict of interest.
You see the issue is that an elected official will always prioritize his constituency/community. Therefore when they see the prospect of government benefiting Indians, they will inevitably measure impact from the perspective of their constituents. Similarly if legislation is being passed that would adversely affect their voter base, it is likely to be vetoed by them. On the other hand, party selects Rajya Sabha members. They do not have an allegiance to a specific community and consequently can take a much more objective view toward national level policy. Removing a fundamental conflict of interest of us (the constituency) versus them (the national interest policy) will tremendously help the decision-making capacity of a Union Minister.
b. Qualifications to become a Policy Leader: Not surprisingly, the percentage of people with doctorates is twice as many in the Rajya Sabha than the Lok Sabha. While those with graduate and post-graduate degrees is more or less the same in both houses, the percentage number of people with high school degree or less is eight times as many in the Lok Sabha than the Rajya Sabha. Inevitably, the reflections of ones professional and educational qualification are reflected through party posts as well. Party spokespersons are more often Rajya Sabha MPs. Mani Shankar Aiyyar, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Jayanti Natarajan are few of the many qualified individuals we see on television, making statements about party policy decisions.
It is necessary for Union Minister's to have the capacity to understand complex policy legislation and be deeply involved in the ethos of the party so that they can develop and comment on important national policy matters. Having a strong educational and professional background as well as a deep insight in to a party's working is critical to such a position and a Rajya Sabha MP, for the most part, has both.
c. Pure and simple… Logistics: A Lok Sabha MP has multiple demands on his/her time. He/she has to prioritize the constituency, party leadership, grassroots workers and local administration among other stakeholders. Adding a portfolio position to the Lok Sabha MPs own portfolio often means that it will make it to the bottom of their 'to-do-list'. Most often this is the case. On the other hand, a Rajya Sabha MP is more likely to be deeply immersed in his/her own party work and therefore more available to invest time in the macro issues around policy and development (which they already do as spokesperson of the party).
The other day, I was talking to a water company who wanted to invest in India. It was the "political climate" that was deterring them from making an investment in the country, despite their promising technology having been a huge success in Africa. We need to reform governance on multiple fronts in order to improve India. Maybe we need to look at it structurally as well? And maybe recognizing roles and responsibilities is a place to start?


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Yesterday I finally decided I'd had enough of Windows 8 dominating my laptop, restored my Windows 7 image and got my laptop back to its (and my) familiar and soothing Windows 7 habits.
Next step, install Windows 8 for dual boot on my desktop. I've been dual booting Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Ultimate for nearly two years, now. I booted from my Windows 8 DVD partition (works much more quickly than using the actual DVD) and proceeded to perform a clean install of Windows 8 in the partition soon to be formerly occupied by Windows 7 Home Premium.
I chose Keep Nothing, pointed the installer to the Windows 7 Home Premium partition and selected Format. The Windows 7 Home Premium partition was a 60GB partition, second on that particular hard drive, and immediately following it is a 100GB partition for Program Files. Now is when the fun started happening.
The Windows 8 format utility somehow split the Home Premium and Program Files partitions. When all was said and done, I had 40GB of free space in front of the 60GB Windows 8 partition, and 60GB of free space after. My 100GB Program Files partition was gone, split asunder and lying fallow as unallocated space. Windows 8 booted and ran just fine, but all my Program Files for my Windows Ultimate dual boot were missing in action.
Of course, I have a recent TeraByte Image For Windows drive image of that Program Files partition, but it isn't in two pieces. So I used Image For Windows to make a fresh image of the Windows 8 partition, then deleted it using BootIt Bare Metal, leaving me with a bit over 160GB of unallocated space. From there I created the original partitioning scheme with BootIt BM, restored Windows 8 where I intended for it to be in the first place, and am finishing up the restoration of my Program Files partition using Image For DOS as I type this on my laptop.
Now for the most interesting tidbit. I have BootIt Bare Metal installed on an 8MB partition on one of my hard drives, and I use it as a boot manager. When installing Windows, Windows takes over the boot process. Once Windows is installed, I just slip the BootIt BM CD in the drive, boot to the CD and reactivate BootIt BM. It takes over the boot process once more. Occaisionally, a bit of tweaking is involved, but it's never complicated.
I had recently downloaded the latest update (free for licensed users) for BIBM, v1.13. V1.12 works with Windows 8, but v1.13 mentions Windows 8 specifically - and there is a warning for all dual booters. If "Fastboot" is left enabled in Windows 8, it will likely interfere with one's partitions, and can even make a system unbootable. I'm thinking that may well be what happened to me.
The exact wording specific for BootIt Bare Metal is as follows:
"Warning to Windows 8 Users
You must disable the Fast startup option or you risk corruption of your partitions and data. This option can be disabled by viewing the Windows 8 partition's properties in Partition Work and clicking the Disable Fast Start button. For more details see the View partition properties section of the BootIt User Manual."
This may or may not apply to other partitioning tools, but I think it's definitely worth looking into for those who dual boot or intend to.
Before I made an image of Windows 8, I made sure to disable "Fastboot". I'll see how things work out, and post any applicable updates.

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Lil Wayne Breaks Record for Highest Grossing Hip-Hop Tour
Lil Wayne has had a phenomenal year. After going triple platinum with 2008's 'Tha Carter III,' everything the New Orleans native touches turns to gold — just take a look at his protege Drake. All things considered, it is no surprise that Weezy might be the first hip-hop artist to earn a spot on Billboard magazine's top 25 grossing tours for the year.
Lil Wayne's 2008-2009 'I Am Music' and 'America's Most Wanted' tours raked in about $42 million combined, putting them in line to be the highest grossing hip-hop tours that Billboard has on record, and pushing the 28-date Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige outing, which grossed $34.6 million in 2008, into second place.
"It's definitely one of the biggest [tours] in the last couple of years," Lil Wayne's tour producer Shawn Gee told Billboard. "Our plan was to prove that Wayne was a viable headlining arena artist." The two tours, a combined total of 78-dates, ran from Dec. 14, 2008 to Sept. 6, 2009 and pulled in almost 804, 000 fans. A diverse line up of artists and guest appearances by Drake, Soulja Boy, T-Pain, Keri Hilson, Gym Class Heroes and Young Jeezy helped draw the large numbers.
Gee predicts only higher numbers in the future, especially with the upcoming release of the much-delayed 'Rebirth' album. "We definitely want to capitalize on the success we've had and want to continue building Wayne as a touring artist and not just an artist that tours," Gee said. "We established him as a headline artist and I think it grows from there." Weezy will wrap up the national dates of his current "America's Most Wanted' tour on Sept. 10 in Mansfield, Mass., then head overseas for additional shows.


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Rochester, NY, United States, 2013/04/30 - Carriers Reap New Revenue Opportunities and Reduce Network and Administration Costs (NASDAQ: PTIX) - PT.com. NASDAQ: PTIX
PT, a leading global supplier of advanced network communications, today introduced its Diameter Routing Segmentation capability for the SEGway Universal Diameter Router (UDR). Routing segmentation provides network operators the ability to create multiple instances of Diameter routing on a single platform, as opposed to other solutions in which the addition of further Diameter routing capabilities requires additional hardware resources and network architecture.
The recent upsurge in deployment of LTE/EPC/Diameter networks has presented service providers with a wide variety of hurdles that impact performance and operating expense.
Examples are:
Vast increases in volume of Diameter traffic;
Multitudes of interconnected network elements;
Countless inter-network connections;
Redundant architecture resulting in more CAPEX and OPEX costs;
Increased multi-vendor interoperability issues;
Managing consolidated routing rules for both intra- and inter-network.
PTs SEGway UDR with Diameter Routing Segmentation enables the virtualization of Diameter routing within a network or between interconnected networks. Each of these virtual Diameter Routing Agents or Diameter Edge Agents has its own separate set of routing and screening rules to shape traffic on a per-peer basis. This shaping includes traffic flow control, throttling, and congestion avoidance, and is quite simple to implement. SEGways unparalleled flexible routing concept provides greater and more precise controls, thus allowing service providers to quickly deploy more advanced revenue-generating features.
Diameter Routing Agents and Diameter Edge Agents that include routing segmentation capabilities enable LTE/EPC/Diameter network service providers to design, implement, and maintain the most efficient and cost effective architectures to meet their individual business requirements.
PT worked extensively with service providers to identify and resolve critical architectural and traffic issues presented by evolution to the Evolved Packet Core, said John Slusser, President and CEO of PT. As the signaling experts, we continue to deliver innovations in technology to make our customers more successful and raise the industry standard for excellence.
PTs SEGway Signaling solutions are deployed in over one thousand locations, providing the Signaling backbone for many of the worlds premier wireless networks. With its small footprint and high throughput capacity, SEGway is widely recognized as the industrys leading signaling architecture, with the ability to scale from small to very large networks.
About PT
PT (pt.com) is a global supplier of advanced, high availability network communications solutions. Its SEGway Diameter and SS7 Signaling Systems provide tightly integrated signaling and advanced routing capabilities and applications that uniquely span the mission critical demands of both existing and next-generation 4G LTE and IMS telecommunications networks. The Companys IPnexus® Multi-Protocol Gateways and Servers enable a broad range of IP-interworking in data acquisition, sensor, radar, and control applications for aviation, weather and other infrastructure networks. Established in 1981, PT is headquartered in Rochester, NY and markets and sells its products worldwide through its direct sales organization as well as through channel partners that include major telecommunications equipment vendors, government prime contractors and value-added resellers.
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Bryn Mawr College
Department of Geology
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Office Location: 190 Park Science Building
Phone: (610)526-5114
Fax: (610)526-5086
email: wsaunder(at)brynmawr.edu
Cephalopod biology and paleobiology, marine biology and Carboniferous biostratigraphy
My research interests focus primarily on cephalopod biology and paleobiology, with emphasis on functional morphology of fossil cephalopods, marine biology (focusing primarily on Nautilus) and Carboniferous biostratigraphy. Specific projects include the following:
Saunders, W.B., L.C. Hastie, and T. Paulis. Deep-water shrimp survey and feasibility study, Republic of Palau, Western Caroline Islands. Pacific Fisheries Development Foundation, Honolulu, Hawaii, 120 pp.
Saunders, W.B. and N.H. Landman, eds. Nautilus: The Biology and Paleobiology of a Living Fossil. Plenum Press, New York. 632 + xxviii pp, 270 figs.
Saunders, W.B., D.M. Work and S.V. Nikolaeva. Evolution of complexity in Paleozoic ammonoids. Science 286:760-763, 1999
Saunders, W.B., and D.M. Work. Evolution of shell and suture in Paleozoic Prolecanitida, the root-stock of Mesozoic ammonoids. Paleobiol. 23:301-325, 1997.
Saunders, W.B. and W.H.C. Ramsbottom. The mid-Carboniferous eustatic event. Geology. 14:208-212, 1985.


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Super soft and slouchy semi-sheer hacci in an effortless, oversized silhouette. Features tie detailing on the open placket. Stretchy linen-blend body with side vents and ribbed detailing along the neckline, hem and sleeve cuffs.
Don't like the cut
The colour is lovely, the cut is large and shapeless. I'm having trouble with fp designs at the moment. They have always been my favourite styles and I'm know for always wearing their stuff....but lately I'm frustrated by inconsistent sizing (I have to purchase online) and odd styling which doesn't quite work....this top is yet another piece in that category.
Beautiful top for layering!
I bought this in two colours, the indigo and the white, and absolutely love it! It's extremely comfortable; it is sheer, so I usually wear it with a pretty brami or a camisole, but the fabric has lasted well through washes so the quality is excellent.
I bought two of these; one in blue and one in moonshadow. I'm 5'10", 165 lbs. and a medium fit me perfectly. This is the ultimate top...perfect for all seasons. Wear a cami under and it hangs beautifully...feels like cottony/silk. It can be worn with jeans or dress pants. Great quality..fabric is a perfect weight.


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Movies, Movies, Movies!
Friday, 16 November 2007
It's Friday, and Michael Doherty, our movie mogul, is spilling the popcorn on what's the tops and what's the flops in the cinema's now!
Courtesy: Universal Pictures
Starring: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe
Director: Ridley Scott
The third pairing of Scott and Crowe (and the second outing for Crowe and Washington), American Gangster is one of the few major movies of the year to actually live up to the hype. Washington is terrific in the real-life role of Harlem crime lord Frank Lucas, while Crowe excels as the hard-boiled (but scrupulously honest) detective determined to bring his criminal empire to its knees. Beautifully shot in a 1970s/sepia style by Harris Savides, the movie is a triumph for Scott and his two leads, but there are strong supporting performances, too, from the likes of Josh Brolin, Chiwetel Ezifor and the great Ruby Dee. I smell Oscars.
The real Richie Roberts and Frank Lucas were major consultants to director Ridley Scott on the New York set of this film. (Source imdb)
Courtesy: Warner Brothers
Starring: Ray Winstone, Brendan Gleeson
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Zemeckis applies his bag of digital tricks (first seen in Polar Express) to the ancient epic tale of the hero Beowulf who slayed the demon Grendel and liberated a nation. Though the 3-D glasses and the digital jiggery-pokery might keep the teenagers amused, and the strong cast (Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich also appear) will make a few headlines, it's hard to see this one attracting too many bums on seats.
Angelina Jolie admitted in an interview that when she saw how her character looked, she was shocked to see how nude she really was; to the point that she said she was reluctant to allow Brad Pitt and her children to see the movie. (Source imdb)
Courtesy: Sony Pictures
Starring: Maria Bello, Emily Blunt
Director: Robin Swicord
File this one under Girlie Movie of the Week as a group of Jane Austen enthusiasts find their relationships mirroring those of their literary idol. It's all a tad contrived (six novels, six couples) but the cast, also including Kathy Baker, Lynn Redgrave, Jimmy Smits and Hugh Dancy, is first rate.


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State Trooper in critical condition following accident on I-90
Tue, 17 Dec 2013 08:44:14 GMT —
A State Trooper is in critical condition after his patrol car was hit by a tractor trailer on I-90 in the City of Amsterdam in Montgomery County, forcing a road closure.
The eastbound left lane at Exit 27 has been opened. The right lane remains closed at this time.
According to State Police, around 8:20 p.m. Monday night, the driver of the tractor trailer, Gary Blakley, 65, of Ridgeway, Ontario, was driving east on I-90 when he hit the patrol car.
The trooper was transported to Albany Medical Center. Blakley was not injured.
Police say a third car was also involved in the accident. The driver, Eric Heller, 57, of Stoney Creek was taken to Albany Medical Center for his injuries. His condition is not known.
The cause of the accident is under investigation.


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For Online Computer Support, Ask a Computer Technician
Hi Greg,
If you are using the blue VGA port then try shutting down the machine, Ower on the projector and set it to VGA input and boot the laptop.
Then see if you get a response as the machine boots.
Once you are all the way into windows then go to your display settings under ctrl anel and se if the projector shows in advaned.
Let me know what happens.
First click the FN+F2 3 or 4 pausing for 3-5 seconds between presses, I am not sure which one it is on your Dell, Just look forthe key with a picture of two monitors with a / in between.
Then go to the advanced settings under display and see if both monitors show if they do then decide if you wish to extend your desktop so you have dual monitor setup or leave alone and set it to duplicate so you get the same view on both monitors.
Let me know what happens and also your model number so I can get you the correct kwy combination.
Give me the model of projector.
Did you get the dual display to work with the FN+ F3 key?
Let me know
So let me get this straight, You can use one display or the other not both at the same time.
Does everything else work on the laptop when you use the external projector?
Well I made a mistake it is meant to be FN+F8 (I called one of my techs who has a Dell)
Try that and I will let you know about the control keys on the Projector.
When you installed the projector and its drivers did you also connect the USB cable?
Did windows recognise it as an input device?
There should have been a usb connector from the projector to the Laptop so that it can control the page up/down keys.
What is the precise model number of the projector, Is it the LP240? http://www.infocus.com/Support/Products/Projectors/LP240.aspx
What operating system and service pack do you have?
So you have to purchase the cable for your keys to work?
So cycling with the FN+F8 does nothing?
Disconnect the projector and reboot your laptop then connect the projector.
Go to displays then advanced and see if two monitors show in the advanced tab, If they do then select clone.
If not thell me what version of graphics driver you are using.


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Maintaining a Hardwood Floor
You take pride in the natural beauty and luster of your hardwood floor and want to keep it looking great. To maintain the beauty of your hardwood flooring, follow an easy, regular cleaning routine to remove dirt and abrasive debris that can scratch the finish. A vacuum cleaner can help get the job done quickly and effectively.
How To Clean Hardwood Floors
There are many choices in vacuum models, yet none designed specifically for cleaning hardwood floors. When vacuum shopping, you need to look for a tool that has enough power and flexibility to deal with dust, dirt, and pet hair without damaging the floor.
If you already have a vacuum, use it like you do for cleaning carpets - with a few adjustments outlined below to accommodate hard surface floors. If you're in the market for a new vacuum cleaner, this article will help you narrow the choices to find the best vacuum for hardwood flooring.
Upright Models and Canisters
First, decide between a self-contained upright model and a canister with its power head attached to a long hose. Uprights typically cost less than canisters but weighing 20 lbs. or more, they can give you a workout. Canister vacuums are lightweight, and since you're mostly moving just the hose and power head, easier to maneuver. Canisters clearly have the edge when it comes to cleaning stairs or under furniture.
You might also consider the less powerful stick vacuums. These inexpensive, versatile vacuums have a low profile that easily fits under cabinets and furniture. While no substitute for a full-sized vacuum, a stick vacuum is a convenient way to clean up dirt, sand and other debris brought in from outdoors.
Bagless Vacuums
In reviewing the best vacuums for hardwood flooring, you'll need to consider dirt collection options. Bagless vacuums collect dirt in a built-in bin instead of a throw-away bag. Be aware though, with these vacuums, emptying the dirt bin can expose you to a cloud of dust, and pet hair tends to cling to bagless bins, so emptying them can be a frustrating and dusty chore.
If you choose a bagless option, check that the bin is well sealed to prevent dust from leaking back into the air where it can redeposit on hardwood floors. Bag vacuums generally hold more dirt and may be preferable if you have allergies.
Vacuum Features
Once you know the type of vacuum you want, look for the features that indicate whether you can use it for hardwood floors.
- Roller brush on/off switch: stops the roller brush from spinning. On a hard surface, a spinning brush will scatter dirt and debris, and it's also prone to snagging small rugs.
- Suction control switch: reduces airflow when light suction is all that's needed.
- Manual height adjustment (or bare floor setting): lets you lower the power head when vacuuming hardwood flooring. Some vacuums adjust automatically.
- Edge cleaner: models with this feature can pick up dirt under the entire power head, meaning the vacuum can clean right up to where the floor meets the wall. You can also clean this area with any of the standard attachment tools, like a crevice tool or soft bristle brush, that come with most vacuums
Hardwood Floor Cleaning and Care
Your hardwood floor is a prized asset in your home, and vacuuming is an effective way to protect your investment. When it comes to choosing the best vacuum for hardwood flooring, keep in mind that the best one effectively removes dust, dirt, and other particles without scratching the finish.


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Hi all,
I have a drop down list, which pulls data from a MySQL table. This table currently has only two rows, but could certainly have more with eventual data entry.
The purpose of the drop down is the specify a variable that will then be used on the next page to retrieve only certainly rows from a different table.
Here's the drop down code I plucked from the Internet (all comments are from the original sample script):
What my intention would be is to pass the variable for the selected feed title on when I click the Feed hypertext link. I'm not necessarily married to this we of doing it if there's a more efficient way of doing it.PHP Code:
// modified from sample script at http://www.plus2net.com/php_tutorial/list-table.php - 03/26/12 rjm
$query="SELECT feed_title,feed_id FROM feeds";
/* You can add order by clause to the sql statement if the names are to be displayed in alphabetical order */
$result = mysql_query ($query);
echo "<select name=feed_title value=''>Feed Name</option>";
// printing the list box select command
while($nt=mysql_fetch_array($result)){//Array or records stored in $nt
echo "<option value=$nt[feed_id]>$nt[feed_title]</option>";
/* Option values are added by looping through the array */
echo "</select>";// Closing of list box
echo " Feed
";
echo "
";
echo "test";
echo $nt[feed_id];
Thanks for looking,


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'M' is for mad as hell
Gather a group of McCommas and Monticello Avenue homeowners together, and traffic horror stories flow as steadily as the cars streaming through their neighborhood at rush hour. For decades, commuters heading east and west between Central Expressway and Greenville Avenue have used the M Streets, particularly McCommas and Monticello, as a convenient cut-through.
Mary Essler, a mother of three young children who lives on McCommas, once watched a speeding car jump the curb and plow into her neighbor's bungalow, shearing off several bricks.
Speed bumps the city built several years ago slow some people down, says Joy Bell, who watches 5-o'clock traffic blow past her house on McCommas. But other drivers, having escaped the grueling traffic ofCentral Expressway, hit the bumps with bat-out-of-hell fury. "You can see them just fuming," says Bell, a grandmother who moved to the East Dallas neighborhood 5 1/2 years ago.
The neighborhood enjoyed a three-year respite when construction choked off the exits from Central Expressway, but that hiatus ended earlier this month when the McCommas Avenue bridge reopened to two-lane traffic. The cars are back, and so is another round in the tight-knit neighborhood's seemingly endless battle to ease the flow of speeding commuters on its streets.
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Many in the neighborhood thought a solution was finally at hand last month when 70 percent of M Streets and other East Dallas residents--represented by the Greenland Hills, Glencoe Park, and Vickery Place neighborhood associations--voted in favor of a consultant's proposal that would cut daily traffic on the area's most congested streets by more than half.
But the latest plan has once again bogged down in neighborhood bickering and petty politics. Three city-council members--after heavy, last-minute lobbying from people who mostly live outside of the area--are stalling the proposal. And in a personal snit, Councilman Craig McDaniel went so far as to send a snippy letter to the boss of one neighborhood activist, ultimately prompting her to resign from the board of her neighborhood association.
The latest traffic plan would close McCommas, Martel, and Mercedes at Central, except to local traffic. All east-west streets south of Monticello and north of Richard Avenue would also be closed at Central.
Drawn up after a lengthy traffic study by Dallas engineering firm Kimley Horn and Associates, the "Neighborhood Protection Plan" also calls for traffic circles and diverters throughout the neighborhood and an "arbor street" along heavily trafficked McMillan Avenue. The greenery and diverters would, in consulting jargon, "calm" traffic flow, forcing drivers to slow down or to take other routes, says Bill Waddill, project manager for Kimley Horn.
Not surprisingly, most people on McCommas and Monticello loved the proposal. "Our sense of community has been disrupted for years with all this traffic," Essler says. "I supported the plan because it's the best way to have a real neighborhood. It really was the best compromise for everyone."
But in the days leading up to a scheduled April vote on the plan by the city council, a block of opposition developed. People in nearby Lakewood and Swiss Avenue neighborhoods--whose residents can save time by driving though the M streets--were especially riled.
"Part of my opposition is based on what I call the neighborliness problem," says Bill Weatherford, an architectural designer from Lakewood Heights. "The people in Greenland Hills and Vickery Place feel they have the right to create a walled community and shut off the rest of the neighborhood."
In response, East Dallas-area council members Mary Poss, Craig McDaniel, and Chris Luna prodded the council into tabling the plan. The three council members criticized the engineering firm that conducted the study, and said they objected to the way neighborhood meetings on the proposal were held.
The city's contract with Kimley Horn required a series of public meetings with residents and East Dallas "stakeholders," the diehard neighborhood activists and business owners who would be most affected by traffic restrictions. In all, 14 meetings were held, says Kimley Horn's Waddill. Residents were notified of the meetings by direct mail, door-to-door literature drops, and through 10 separate neighborhood newsletters. The process moved at breakneck pace by most standards for such projects; the meetings and subsequent study were completed in 90 days.
Council member Poss says that pace was, in fact, too fast.
"I said from the beginning that 90 days was a very unrealistic timetable for this study," says Poss, whose 9th district encompasses most of the M streets and some of neighboring Lakewood. Poss believes that many residents were misled into thinking their vote for a plan would set the changes in stone. "There were a couple of people in the community who talked about one of the plans as though it were a done deal. But it was always subject to final council approval."
(Council members McDaniel and Luna also represent portions of the study area and its neighbors--Lakewood, Lower Greenville, and Swiss Avenue. Luna did not return calls from the Observer. An aide for McDaniel responded to a request for an interview by saying, "Councilman McDaniel asked me to relay that he isn't interested in talking to the Observer because in the past you haven't been very friendly to him.")
Poss says the ambitious schedule led to mass confusion in the neighborhood, with rumors flying about street closures and projected costs. (The council earmarked $75,000 for the study last year; when asked if she expects the delay to drive up its cost, Poss is emphatic: "No.") When residents approved the plan in April, a groundswell of opposition suddenly surfaced, she says. "Once people heard about the vote on street closures, we actually had our phone lines and fax lines jammed around here for two straight days. It became clear to me that we were only on first base. No one was even close to a home run."
Russell Ramsland, who actually lives in the study area--the 5300 block of Morningside--calls the traffic plan a "flawed process." From the start, he says, "there was an assumption [among the supporters] that we have to close a bunch of streets, and we'll do whatever we can to accommodate that."
Such discord has long marked the neighborhood's efforts to grapple with its traffic problems, perhaps because many of the residents suffer from split personalities: The post-40, consensus-building-Woodstock-generation side of their brains is battling the upwardly mobile, taxpaying, property-owner side of their brains.
Back in the '80s, Ramsland was part of the "let's all agree" group that brought speed bumps and extra stop signs to the M streets. He liked it that way.
"I object to any traffic approach that pits neighbor against neighbor," Ramsland says. "If we start closing streets for our own personal convenience, that's not what neighborhoods are about."
Ramsland says he wants to leave neighborhood streets as they are for now, at least until Central Expressway construction ends and the city gets a true feel for what neighborhood traffic levels will be.
But others are tired of waiting, and say the Kimley Horn proposal may be the best possible compromise. "Nothing is going to be traffic-free," says Joy Bell. "But we thought this plan gave everybody a little bit of something."
Bell is particularly riled that the council members now stalling the plan didn't attend neighborhood meetings when it was being formulated.
"I asked Mary Poss recently if she found everything so objectionable, why wasn't someone in authority at our meetings to tell these people they weren't satisfied?" Bell says.
Poss says she stayed away from early neighborhood meetings on City Manager John Ware's advice. "When a council member voices an opinion, people get the idea that it's official, that that's the way it's going to be," Poss says. "Even if you try, you just can't shake your council-member persona." Poss did, however, attend later meetings in the neighborhood.
McDaniel, Greenland Hills residents say, never attended any official public meetings on the issue. But he did find time to lash out at one neighborhood activist who publically questioned the councilman's absence.
According to the minutes of one key January 25 meeting during which stakeholders discussed concerns about the absence of McDaniel's District 14 from the traffic study area, M Streets activist Bobbi Bilnoski noted McDaniel's lack of attendance.
"...We are quite far down the road and I am worried that [McDaniel's] absence could jeopardize this process. We have not had any verbal or written statement directly from him regarding his support of this process," Bilnoski said.
Four days later, McDaniel wrote a letter chastising Bilnoski, and sent copies to Luna, Poss, former assistant city manager Ted Benavides, and Catherine Horsey, executive director of Preservation Dallas--and Bilnoski's boss.
"My city-council colleagues and our staff told me that you took issue with my absence from the East Dallas Traffic Management Study meeting on January 25," McDaniel wrote. "In fact, they have said that you had rather strident comments about me personally that they considered inappropriate and offensive. I regret that you chose a public forum to lambaste me."
McDaniel explained that he had attended a Dallas Plan meeting instead, which had been scheduled before the traffic meeting. "My time, I believe, was well-spent encouraging the real-estate community to invest in the inner city and meeting with District 14 constituents concerning the long-term future of our neighborhoods.
"It seems to me that Preservation Dallas, and specifically the marketing function which employs you, would support my efforts in this regard."
Bilnoski declined to be interviewed for this story, citing concerns for her job as neighborhood development specialist at the nonprofit Preservation Dallas. But Greenland Hills Neighborhood Association members say Bilnoski resigned from the association's board in mid-May under pressure from her boss, Horsey. Bilnoski has lived on Monticello Avenue for 20 years and has been active in the neighborhood group for almost as long.
"I'm just incredulous that Bobbi would be asked to resign, or to be silenced on an issue she's worked on for years," says McCommas homeowner Essler. "She's always been very clear that she is representing Greenland Hills, and not Preservation Dallas at the meetings. Doesn't she have any First Amendment rights?"
Horsey says Bilnoski stepped down from the Greenland Hills board voluntarily, after a "discussion" about the different roles of Preservation Dallas and neighborhood associations.
"Preservation Dallas isn't involved in the traffic-management plan," Horsey says.
Still, Bilnoski's involvement apparently only became a problem after Horsey received McDaniel's curt letter. Horsey says she knew of Bilnoski's involvement in the traffic plan all along, but "when he sent the letter we became concerned because we didn't want him confused about what was a Preservation Dallas issue and what was a neighborhood issue."
It also so happens that Bilnoski supported McDaniel's opponent, Sharon Boyd, in his last two runs for city council.
As for the traffic plan, it now languishes at City Hall, awaiting further study and at least two more public hearings, Poss says. "I can't make a firm commitment," she says, when asked when the plan might be resurrected. "I am not the engineer. But I'm hopeful it will be within 90 days."
Back on and around the M streets, the buzz is that the traffic plan is barely alive.
"It's dead," Ramsland says. "People are realizing it doesn't make sense to spend taxpayers' money on this right now."
Joy Bell isn't about to give up. She's joined in a couple of neighborhood pickets to help keep the issue out front, and more guerrilla tactics are in the works as well.
"The city wants to just flush this down the drain and we're not going to let that happen," she says. "We've got plans to keep this alive. We're asking our neighbors to start parking on the street. If the city can't support us on something the majority supports, we'll have to slow the traffic down some other way.
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The mice who exercised and received green tea extract experienced a 27 percent reduction in body mass and a 36 percent reduction in abdominal fat while the two other groups experienced significantly less significant changes in weight and health measurements.
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CONGRATS ON THE WINTER NATSTuesday, February 28th, 2012
The fifteenth annual indoor winter national championships of the International Defensive Pistol Association (www.idpa.com) wrapped up last weekend, and I was pleased to see some friends in the winners' circle, including my teammate Bob Vogel from Team Panteao, the overall winner and also high police officer.
Randi Rogers turned in her usual stellar performance, capturing the women's championship. Her mid-teen protégé, Tori Nonaka, won the junior championship. Tori bested both genders in her age group to claim her title, and Randi kicked a lot of male boo-tay on her way up the scoreboard, too.
This pleases me, as a father of daughters. Randi and Tori both come from shooting families. Randi rose to prominence in the firearms world when she was about Tori's age now, shooting three-gun cowboy competition (single action revolvers, and Old West style rifle and shotgun) under the auspices of the Single Action Shooting Society (www.sassnet.com). There, the young Randi didn't just beat the other women and the other kids…she beat EVERYBODY, including prime of life males.
It is the almost universal observation of shooting instructors that females more quickly learn to shoot than males. Some part of it is probably their inherently better fine motor coordination. When a male like football player Roosevelt Grier learns to knit, it's national news; women are more or less expected by our culture to take to knitting. Trigger pulling, like knitting, is a fine motor skill.
Most schoolteachers will tell you that girls focus better than boys. Shooting is a discipline that DEMANDS mental focus. Women are more flexible than men, supposedly by a factor of 30 degrees in the pelvic axis. In position rifle shooting, where some downright contortion-like postures are demanded in, for example, the sitting stage, the overall national champion is often a female.
Congrats to Randi and Tori, and indeed, to all who competed at the Indoor Winter Nationals hosted by Smith & Wesson at their facility in Springfield, Massachusetts. It's always a well run match, and a challenging one.


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MCCALLUM, ARTHUR NEWELL, SR. (1865–1943). Arthur Newell McCallum, Sr., teacher and school administrator, was born near Alfordsville, North Carolina, on September 10, 1865, the son of Brown and Catherine (McLean) McCallum. He attended high school at Laurinburg, North Carolina, and in 1887 received a B.A. degree from Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina. Later he did graduate work at the University of Chicago. McCallum moved to Texas in 1895 and became school superintendent at La Vernia. Later he went to Kenedy and Seguin. He married Jane Yelvington (see MCCALLUM, JANE LEGETTE YELVINGTON) on October 29, 1896; they had five children. In 1903 McCallum was elected superintendent of the Austin public schools, a position he held for thirty-nine years. During his tenure, the size of the Austin district increased from twelve schools and 4,459 students in 1903 to thirty-two schools and 16,128 students in 1942. McCallum built the Austin schools into a quality system, hiring teachers on the basis of merit and keeping politics out of school administration. He believed that all children, regardless of race, should have an equal opportunity for education. In the 1920s he hired Consuelo Mendez, the district's first Hispanic teacher. McCallum established a night school for adults and also later taught in the summer school of the University of Texas. He held many positions in the field of education, including life memberships in the Texas State Teachers Association and the National Educational Association. He was also a Mason, a Presbyterian, and a member of Kappa Alpha fraternity. He was superintendent emeritus of the Austin public schools at the time of his death. He died at his home in Austin on November 20, 1943, and was buried at Oakwood Cemetery. A. N. McCallum High School in Austin was named in his memory in 1953.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:Austin American-Statesman, November 21, 1943. McCallum Family Papers, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. Texas Parade, November 1939. Vertical Files, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.
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BSD vs GPL is a sweeping epic, focused on the dichotomy between good and evil. It peers inside the hearts and minds of the creators of these movements and dissects their battle for world domination. No common documentary will dare to follow the path that BSD vs GPL blazes.
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The Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) is celebrating its 15th anniversary, but the 747-8 Intercontinental VIP, Boeing's executive-configured jumbo jet, stole the show at the BBJ press conference at EBACE yesterday. Company president Steve Taylor provided attendees with a thumbnail history and current state of the BBJ program, and an update on the 747-8 and 787 VIP delivery schedules.
Thus far a total of 207 BBJs have been sold, Taylor said, adding, "I think the most significant thing is our backlog of 37 airplanes," which represents $5.4 billion (U.S.) in orders.
The company has eight firm orders for the 747-8, which first flew in March of this year, and "about a dozen" orders for VIP versions of the 787-8 and 787-9. Deliveries of the VIP 747-8s will begin in the fourth quarter of this year, with VIP 787s deliveries commencing in 2013. Taylor also announced the GE Pusher Program, which will ensure customers of VIP 747-8s have brand-new GEnx-2B engines installed following the completion of their interiors.
Recapping the BBJ program, Taylor noted it served as "a crucible where we're able to experiment beyond what the commercial [aircraft development] guys could," citing as an example the winglets found on almost all 737s that were developed for the BBJ. The auxiliary fuel system finding its way aboard some commercial 737s was also developed for the BBJ, as was the enhanced-vision system (EVS) that has been purchased by some U.S. National Guard units for military variants of the 737. Moreover, the BBJ itself has led to the development of notable derivatives: the P8 Poseidon, set to replace the P3 Orion patrol aircraft; and the AEW&C, a high- intensity radar platform.
BBJ values took a hit in the aftermarket as did all aircraft in the downturn that began in 2008, but, "Over the last year and a half, the asking price has recovered," Taylor said. "I think that does good things for us selling new airplanes, as well."
Taylor sited Asia and singled out China as an area of "strong opportunity," reporting that unlike other areas of the world, where customers move up from smaller to larger aircraft, "Chinese buyers are coming in and buying what they want–first-time buyers are coming into BBJs." To bolster its marketing efforts in the region, the company recently hired Li Bing, who has significant experience in the commercial aviation market in China.
The company believes the interior design options set BBJs apart. "Each one is a reflection of the taste of that individual buyer," Taylor said. Two pre-owned BBJs on display in the static area at EBACE "represent the extremes of what's possible." One of the BBJs on display is being offered for sale by Freestream Aircraft, and the other by TAG Aviation.
All Boeing's VIP aircraft are delivered green, and with 747-8 Intercontinentals set to begin rolling off the assembly line, that has put pressure on completion facilities.
"We're having to redesign our business model to support completion centers," Taylor said. "That's the focus of our work, preparing for delivery of those big airplanes."
Completions of the twin-aisle models require about two years. To meet the demand, the company has expanded its completion center network, and now has 15 licensed facilities. Among the new additions is China's TAECO, partly owned by Boeing, the first completion center in that country.
Deliveries of VIP 747-8s will begin in the fourth quarter of this year, and the last of the initial eight orders will be delivered by the end of 2013. The company is not disclosing identities of the customers, but Taylor said the orders are for heads of state, primarily in the Middle East. Deliveries of VIP- configured 787s will begin in 2013, and the last of the initial orders is slated for delivery in 2019.
List price for the 747-8 is $300 million in 2012 fourth- quarter U.S. dollars. The 787-8 is priced at $178 million in July 2010 U.S. dollars subject to escalation, and the 787-9 is $207 million with the same escalation.
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To start off this new week I thought I'd give a quick sock stripe tutorial, since one of the most common execution errors I see is sock stripes being placed too high. Let's begin by taking a look at socks in game action.
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Templates page). Hopefully this clears the sock stripe height issue up a bit, I know I've mentioned it fairly often in the past when reviewing concepts, but I've never explained in any detail before.
The voting for COTW May 1-7 and COTW April has already ended (the deadline changed along with the new HJC week).
COTW-April vote (has ended @ NOON Eastern)
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unified Women's National Hockey League series with this Les Canadiennes concept. The red jersey is based off of the NHL's Canadiens jersey, just without the chest stripe, and I think that's a good decision. For the white jersey Fernando does my favourite thing, he creates a matching jersey which isn't simply colour swapped. The only thing I dislike is the cut-off pant stripe, but that's a very minor complaint.
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first concept on HJC (from way back in 2011). I like how this concept features more yellow than the original jersey. The addition of a hem stripe and the slightly different yoke shape also look good to me. However, I'd prefer the blank pants from the original uniform over these.
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Reese and her husband Jim Toth attended a party in Malibu with her children Deacon and Ava. The family took a stroll along the beach while chatting with friends.
Later in the day, the family did a little swimming. Reese Witherspoon and son Deacon along with a friend walked along the beach with her dogs. The mother and son looked happy and care-free as they collected shells, while Reese's shorts rode up as she ran revealing a tattoo on her waist.
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2A. Is there "conflict" between science and religion?
A Brief History of Warfare-History
Flat Earth and Galileo
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Five Reasons to see Conflict
2B. Can we compare the Bible with science?
Realities and Interpretations
On the top level is God,
the ultimate source of everything.
* theology and science are "based mainly [but not totally]" on interpretations of scripture and nature, respectively. Two horizontal arrows on the lower level symbolize the interactions between theology and science. In theology, the main goal is to understand spiritual reality. In science, the main goal is to understand physical reality. But the main goals aren't the only goals, and our theories about spiritual and physical realities are mutually interactive; theology affects science and our views of physical reality, while science affects theology and our views of spiritual reality. {the 3-level diagram is adapted from Deborah Haarsma}
What does theology say
about physical reality?
What does science say
about spiritual reality?
What does scientism say
about spiritual reality?
What does natural theology say
about spiritual reality?
What was the change? By
1700, our theological interpretation of some Bible passages
had been influenced by our scientific interpretation of nature. The
influence was beneficial, since it helped us recognize that in these
passages the Bible was not making a scientific statement to teach us "how
the heavens go." In this reinterpretation of scripture,
we do not compare the Bible (which says the sun "rises")
with science (which claims "the earth rotates") and decide
which is more important, because the Bible and science cannot be compared. Instead,
we compare different interpretations (of the Bible, and of nature) and
wisely use all available information in our search for truth.
Does this historical
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2C. How can we wisely use information
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Here are useful principles for learning from nature and scripture, and combining what we learn from each:
Science (mainly
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The next two FAQs look at theology (What does Bible-information say about age?) and science (What does nature-information say about age?).
note: Sections 2B & 2C are a revised-and-condensed version of The Two Books of God and are condensed even more in my Overview-FAQ.
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A Missouri man has pleaded guilty to charges that he took a 17-year-old girl with learning disabilities from Massachusetts to Rhode Island, where he sold her for sex.
Stephen Ardrey, 30, of Springfield, Mo., on Wednesday acknowledged he met the girl in an online chat room in December 2012.
The girl suffers from reactive attachment disorder that affects her ability to act appropriately in social situations.
They continued to communicate via email and a program called Text Now, which was available to the victim on library computers.
In September, Ardrey met her at a library in Medfield, Mass., and they made their way to a motel in West Greenwich.
Police said Ardrey took nude pictures of the girl and posted them on Backpage.com and Craigslist along with an ad soliciting money for sex. The ads said she was 19 years old.
Investigators learned that on two occasions, a man responded to the ads and offered $40 and two packs of cigarettes to have sex with the teenager.
The girl was found in neighboring Coventry after someone saw them walking together.
Ardrey has been in federal custody since.
He pleaded guilty to trafficking a minor and transporting a minor to engage in sex.
NBC 10 tried to talk with the victim's mother, but she didn't have anything to say as she was leaving court.
The charges carry a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison and up to life in prison. Sentencing is scheduled for May 15.The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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While this finger-sized lipstick has little staying power, it lives up to its name by instantly smoothing and softening chapped lips. Despite consumer complaints that the scent is too musky and some shades are deceptively frosty, many of the 32 available colors are sheer and day-wearable -- even fit for the gym. SPF 15 also makes it worth bringing along on outdoor hikes and beach trips. For conditioning and protecting, it's a keeper.
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Hydrating and moisturizingThis lipstick states "over 100 times more water than regular lipsticks" so I was a bit skeptical. A moisturizing lipstick tends to wear off easily, but the staying power of this Almay is decent. Yeah, it is clearly not meant for all day wear, but since this is very affordable, I don't mind re-apply a few times a day. The true to the title, it hydrates my lips without any yucky stickiness...read more. It has a nice color selection, and it took some time for me to decide which color. Ultimately, I chose Garnet. The color is pretty, and considering the sticker price, this lipstick can be really great if there was no perfumey scent. — 7 years, 10 months agoluckybetty | 895 reviews
I like itThis lipstick feels so nicely moisturizing, in a completely non-greasy way. The color is light and I've found many, many of the shades to be really flattering. It doesn't last that long on, but I use this more for moisture, anyway. I have to add that I haven't noticed the chemical/floral smell noted by some reviewers at ALL, and I have this in 7 shades. Perhaps they've changed it? — 8 years, 8 months agoamygab1126 | 242 reviews
Color IssuesI've always had issues picking the right lipstick colors, and sure enough, this lipstick fell short. I was hopeing for a sheer lip balmish consistency. Rather, I ended up with a highly pigmented lip stick. It goes on smoothly, and is super nourishing, but just be aware...the colors are NOT sheer, in the least. — 8 years, 4 months agoAmberDB | 189 reviews
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Trustwave, a leading provider of information security and compliance solutions, has unveiled a major upgrade to its WebDefend Web Application Firewall.
A Web application firewall (WAF) is a technology that provides protection for Web applications (such as an e-commerce site) against cyber attacks. Trustwave WebDefend provides Web applications with real-time, continuous security against attacks and data loss, ensures Websites operate as intended and help businesses comply with industry regulations such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. WebDefend is in use today at businesses around the globe, protecting Web applications from attacks that could disrupt business and compromise sensitive data.
WebDefend's new internationalization capabilities can protect Web applications in any language, including double byte languages such as Japanese, Korean and Chinese. The recent upgrade to WebDefend also includes enhanced virtual patching and custom rule capabilities, including Web application scanner integration with multiple global providers. WebDefend now integrates with IBM AppScanTM and Cenzic HailstormTM with an easy workflow to build virtual patches based on scan results. Virtual patching protects vulnerable applications from attack, without having to wait for the next application release.
The upgrade also includes multi-tenancy features that enable multiple customers to be defined in a single appliance with secure separation that ensures customers cannot view each other's data. This new feature enables hosting providers and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) to offer managed WAF services based on WebDefend.
"We are excited by the enhancements delivered with WebDefend 5.0. Trustwave has delivered a tool that reflects the maturing role of security within the enterprise by making collaboration among security, network operations, architecture, and Web development teams easier while keeping management apprised of the progress of security initiatives with robust, scheduled report development and delivery," said Brian Moore, security architect, Application and Data Security Honeywell Global Security, Honeywell International. "With WebDefend 5.0, Trustwave has acknowledged security's entry into real IT service management and by doing so, raises the level of security within the enterprise."
"These enhancements to WebDefend will help our global customers seamlessly secure their Web applications," said Robert J. McCullen, chairman and CEO of Trustwave. "WebDefend's new multi-tenant and multi-language capabilities will allow Trustwave to expand its adoption through our global network of channel partners and end users."
WebDefend can be purchased as a stand-alone product, or as a component of Trustwave's 360 Application Security program, which combines Secure Code Training, Application Penetration Testing, Code Review and Trustwave WebDefend with Virtual Patching into a holistic application security program. This solution is delivered by SpiderLabs, the advanced security team within Trustwave, bridging the gap between expert manual testing and automated protection found within many organizations. The PCI DSS has always required Web application security, either using a WAF or through application penetration testing. Trustwave's 360 Application Security program adheres to security best practices by bringing together both solutions to further secure the business.
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You've found the blog of the UK SharePoint Dedicated Supportability Engineers (DSE) team which is part of Premier Field Engineering at Microsoft Services.
Bit of a mouthful isn't it? When friends ask me, I normally say I'm a consultant, which is almost true. SharePoint DSE's actually specialise in supporting SharePoint environments. We help our customers design, build and support SharePoint according to Microsoft best practise.
Some DSE's spend two or three days a week, for six months to a year at a time, at Premier customer sites. Others fly all over the world, at a moments notice, and drop in like ninjas to fix Critical Situations (critsits).
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LSE is one of the most reputable schools in the world and I decided to study a master's programme here because I wanted to learn from the best of the best. After more than 7 years outside the classroom, the experience of being at LSE has reignited my interest in academia.
At the beginning I was afraid of studying Latin America outside the region, but the MSc Comparative Politics has demonstrated that coming here was the right choice. The freedom I had in choosing my courses has shown me that I can learn more about my home region and learn new tools to understand it without being there.
The two most important things I value about LSE are the academic staff and the multicultural student body.
The lecturers supply us with in-depth information on our topics and are always available to provide help should we need it. I once read that 80 per cent of the School's graduate students come from overseas, and this says a lot about LSE's reputation all over the world as a leading institution.
I have had the opportunity to participate in the Mexican Society, and have attended public lectures given by Bolivian vice-president Alvaro Garcia Linera, as well as the former president of Bolivia, Carlos Mesa. I have also attended presentations by LSE Ideas, a centre for the study of international affairs, diplomacy and grand strategy. These talks have provided me with further information about current academic debates.
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"Yayoi Kusama: Eternity of Eternal Eternity" at the National Museum of Art, Osaka, presents the "late" style of the internationally renowned artist.
The works are nearly all new — the product of a surge of activity from 2004 that resulted in two series: "Love Forever" and "My Eternal Soul." They are far tamer than her early works from the late 1950s, when she covered furniture in protruding soft phalluses and staged nude happenings, such as that of 1969 at the Rockefeller Garden at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Back then, as the artist explained, "I did body painting while my models f-cked a bronze sculpture by Maillol."
"Late" style is an awkward term, but it conjures up something of the supposed serenity the artist is finding in her work as the years accrue and death draws ever closer. Beset by obsessive neurosis since childhood and with an uncomprehending mother who beat and locked her in a storehouse as she struggled to bring her, often suicidal, hallucinations under control, Kusama found drawing and painting a way to mediate her internal turbulences. It did not help, however, that her family opposed her urge to create and often confiscated her materials so that she had to hide and work by candle light.
Though she was ostracized in Japan for her mental illness, she still held several exhibitions praised by critics in the early '50s. In 1957, she fled to New York, where her "Infinity Net" paintings of the late '50s and early '60s fitted perfectly with then-international trends of abstract expressionism and monochrome painting. Given her own work was the externalization of inner tumult, however, the artist herself has been resistant to characterizing her art under the readily available labels that have so often been conveniently recruited. These include Pop, Surrealism and Feminism.
Returning to Japan in the '70s, Kusama continued to pursue her international career through the repetition of what had become instantly recognizable as her artistic trademark: applying polka spots to everything from clothing, installations and pumpkins — the latter two forming part of the five new "happy sculptures" on show.
"With all my love for the tulips, I pray forever" (2011), for example, is an all-white room with three huge sculptures of white potted flowers — everything of which is covered in red polka dots. Unusual for a show of such a renowned artist, spectators can pose with the sculptural works for photographs.
The two new series are part of the continuum of the artist's former work, though they have important differences. The "Love Forever" series comprises 50 works of black marker pen on white backgrounds and large gray, soft-cushion sculptures that hover over the gallery floor space. The pictures, such as "After the Party" (2005), are largely biomorphic, filled with undulating repetitive lines, occasional fragments of figuration as in flowers and faces (said to be self-portraits), and patterns suggestive of what one might find looking through a microscope into a petri dish. It is significant that for this series, Kusama reduces her palette to monochrome and reintroduces figurative work, unlike in the past when she largely dealt with abstract dots and netting in bright colors.
The second series, "My Eternal Soul," began in 2009 and shares much of the graphic quality of the earlier monochrome series. Similar motifs are also employed, but here Kusama abandons the marker pen for a brush and paints in exuberant colors.
The technically competent, assured older artist proceeds without the aid of preliminary studies. She "listens to her hand," as she says, and spontaneously puts brush to canvas. It is only after a work is completed that Kusama decides which way up the painting should hang. The series now runs to more than 140 works, 47 of which are on display.
An intriguing phenomenon, as curator Masahiro Yasugi points out, is that the new work in many ways harks back to Kusama's work before she went to America — that of her teens and 20s. It enlists the semi-concrete imagery that later gave way to the abstraction that formed the bulk of the artist's later career. But the dots have not entirely disappeared — works such as her "Obliteration of stars (gold)" (2010) is one of the best paintings in the show.
Kusama's late style, then, in many ways retraces the dominant elements of her 70-year career, evoking a pendulum swing back to her early works and artistic concerns of her fledgling years. The spotty monochrome painting "My self-portrait in the presence of adolescence" (2011) seems most representative of this psychological retrieval of youth in old age.
There is indeed a happy serenity to the exhibition, and Kusama's poetry that accompanies the show impresses this point: "I will keep sleeping in comfort," she writes. "And I will say farewell to the Earth."
"Yayoi Kusama: Eternity of Eternal Eternity" at The National Museum of Art, Osaka, runs till April 8; open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (Fri. till 7 p.m.). ¥1,400. Closed Mon. www.asahi.com/kusama. The exhibition moves to The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, in April, the Matsumoto City Museum of Art in July, and ends at the Matsumoto City Museum of Art in November.


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Legally Blonde actress Selma Blair showed off her growing baby bump after having breakfast at Urth Cafe in West Hollywood, Calif. on Tuesday (March 15).
The mom-to-be is getting prepared for her baby on the way. She was seen pushing an empty stroller as she headed back to her car.
Selma is expecting her first child with boyfriend, fashion designer Jason Bleick.


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Winner's Bag: Max Homa
May 18, 2014
By John Schwarb, PGATOUR.COM
- What was in Max Homa's bag as he won the BMW Charity Pro-Am? (Cohen/Getty Images)
With a final-round 63, Max Homa joined the ranks of the rookie winners this year on the Web.com Tour, claiming the BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by SYNNEX Corporation.
Homa, 23, won by one shot over Jonathan Randolph at Thornblade Club in Greer, S.C., in his sixth career Web.com Tour start. He moved from 64th to ninth in THE 25.
Homa won last year's NCAA championship for the University of California. He's been a Titleist loyalist since his sophomore year in high school, and here's what was in his bag at the BMW Charity Pro-Am:
Driver: Titleist 913 D2, 9.5 degrees, Mitsubishi Diamana shaft X-stiff
3-wood: Titleist 913 Fd3
Hybrid: Titleist 913H, 19 degrees
Irons: Titleist CB (4-5), Titleist MB (6-PW)
Wedges: Titleist Vokey SM5, 52, 56, 60 degrees
Putter: Scotty Cameron Tour Rat
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Associate Professor of Neurology, Western University and Associate Scientist, Molecular Brain Research Group, Robarts Research Institute
Dr. Pasternak received his S. B. Degrees in Chemical Engineering and in Life Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He completed the MD/PhD program at McGill University, Montreal, earning his PhD in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery in 1994 and his M.D. C.M. in 1995. Dr. Pasternak then completed his Neurology residency at the University of Toronto Fin 2000, followed by Post-Doctoral training in Cell Biology at the Hospital of Sick Children in Toronto and Fellowship training in Cognitive Neurology at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Stephen Pasternak is a Neurologist specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative disease and a basic scientist at the Robarts Research Institute at Western University. At his clinic in Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Research Unit at St. Joseph's Hospital he sees patients with neurodegenerative disease and participates in academic and industry sponsored clinical trials focused on diagnosing and treating neurodegenerative disease.
The Pasternak laboratory at the Robarts Research Institute at the University of Western Ontario is focused on understanding the basic cell biological changes in Alzheimer's disease, and detecting these changes using MRI imaging. Alzheimer's disease is caused by a toxic protein called beta-amyloid which builds up in the brain. We have attached fluorescent protein tags to a number of proteins responsible for the production of beta-amyloid. This allows us to directly visualize these proteins in the microscope, studying their movement and interactions proteins in live cells using laser-scanning confocal microscopy. We are also working with Dr. Robert Bartha, an Imaging Scientist at the Robarts Research Institute, to design MRI techniques to detect the changes of Alzheimer's disease in the brain using very high field MRI. We hope that our work will lead to a better understanding of Alzheimer's disease which will lead to diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease.
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Senator Foley, Mayor Pate Announce Funding for Bellport Village
Senator Brian X. Foley (D – Blue Point) and Bellport Village Mayor David Pate announced today that Bellport Village will receive $450,000 in capital money from the State of New York.
The funding, secured by Senator Foley, will be used to fund projects in Bellport Village. A total of $300,000 in multi-modal funding will go towards re-vamping the sidewalks in the village and $125,000 in funding from the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York will go towards restoring the Bellport Village Community Center.
"Bellport Village is one of the gems of Long Island's south shore and I am glad to be able to provide state funding to help make needed improvements," said Senator Foley. "In particular, it brings great joy to be able to provide assistance for the renovation of the community center. This building has been a mainstay in Bellport Village for a number of decades and the work that will be done there will help to ensure it remains a central part of village life for decades to come."
"We are thrilled to be receiving these funds from the State of New York" stated Mayor David Pate. "The restoration of the Community Center will ensure that it remains the focal point of community activities. The monies to upgrade our sidewalks will benefit the walking community for which Bellport Village is known. We are very grateful for the support that Senator Foley has given us."
The Community Center, located on Bell Street, next to Village Hall, was donated to the Village in 1933 by Lucy Mott. It has long been a meeting place for residents of the village, as well as the surrounding community. It currently provides meeting space and, once restored, a place for recreational activities, including billiards, bowling and board games. The building is open daily for residents and visitors in need of public restrooms.


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Back in 1995 Sholom Ber Goldstein contacted the Department of Transportation [DOT] and asked them if it was possible to upgrade the street lamps on Kingston Avenue with brighter light bulbs, at first they didn't want to hear anything about it but after some work and persistent phone calls the DOT finally agreed but at a cost of the added electric bill of $32 per light pole per year and the maintenance fee.
The standard light fixtures installed by the DOT are built to maintain a 150 watt bulb which is normally installed as well was now upgraded thanks to efforts on R. Sholom Ber's behalf to fixtures that can contain the new 400 watt bulbs.
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After getting the DOT to install the stronger fixtures and bulbs in 95 the DOT fell back into the use of the 150 watt bulbs after the contract had expired. Recently Sholom Ber asked the DOT if he could renew the contract and revert back to using the stronger bulbs to which the DOT agreed, it was at this point when he asked if we can do the same for Albany Ave. which the DOT decided to include as well, all that was needed was the payment of the $1000 a year bill for the upgrade.
Sholom Ber approached R. Moshe Rubashkin, Chairman of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council and asked him if the CHJCC can fund this project to which he responded with writing out a check on the spot.
The upgrades have been completed in the beginning of this past week. A CrownHeights.info reporter asked people walking on Albany and Kingston if they noticed any difference recently on the two Avenues which most weren't able to pinpoint what exactly it was other then say that something was definitely different, a few of those asked immediately said that the streets were much brighter, the others who weren't sure what it was that was different when told that the lights have been upgraded had simply said, 'You're right! You're right!'
These upgrades come at a crucial time when car break-ins are out of control and people fear walking down the streets at night, this is definitely a step in the right direction. Hopefully we can look forward to this upgrade take place on all the streets in Crown Heights.