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Source: http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=25928
By Rauf Klasra
ISLAMABAD: If you thought that only civilian and politicians got billions of rupees worth of loans written off from state-owned banks, you thought wrong.
Records now show that many top military officers got their loans written off. This lucky lot included five lieutenant generals, two major generals and a battalion of other senior uniformed beneficiaries, with some Army (mis)managed institutions to boot.
The Army controlled institutions also got their share from the national plunder with the Army Welfare Trust (AWT) got a massive loan written off worth Rs 14.49 million from a state-owned financial entity, which is now defunct (hardly a surprising fate).
Some of the cases were, however, genuine as their loans were written off in accordance with rules.
According to the official list of loan write-off beneficiaries tabled in the National Assembly, Lt General (retd) Ali Kuli Khan and his father Lt General Habibullah Khan had their loans written off. General Kuli had shot to prominence when he was ignored by the then prime minister Nawaz Sharif in favour of Gen Musharraf in a bid to succeed General Jehangir Karamat as the next COAS.
The list shows that General Kuli Khan got two loans written off from the Allied Bank of Pakistan while he was still serving in the Army in the mid 90s. The first loan was of Rs1.8 million and second was Rs1.6 million outstanding against Janana De Malucho Textile Mills Limited, Kohat owned by his father General (retd) Habibullah Khan. General Kuli was then one of the directors of the textile mills. After the death of General Habib, he became the chief executive of this textile unit. General Habib, too, was a beneficiary of this loan write off.
It's a little known fact that Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani had once served as the staff officer to General Ali Kuli Khan during his stint as Chairman Joint Chiefs of staff in 1998 when Jahangir Karamat was the Chief of Army Staff (COAS). General Kuli shot to prominence within the ruling political circles when he was heard opposing the forced resignation of General Kamarat and had indicated to make Nawaz Sharif 'fall in line' if he became the next COAS. Later, Gen Kuli Khan had denied this charge in an interview with this correspondent. But, Ch Nisar Ali Khan had also confirmed to this correspondent in an interview that Ali Kuli was not elevated to the post of the Army chief precisely for this reason after some of his quotes were conveyed to Nawaz Sharif.
Talking to The News from Peshawar, General (retd) Ali Kuli Khan said that he "did not remember" getting any loan written off by him during his military service. General Kuli said, "There might be some rescheduling of the loans by the banks outstanding against the mills." He said only the politicians get loans written off by using their clout. Of course, general can dare anyone argue with that logic.
Lt General (retd) K M Azhar, who later became active in politics, of Rex Breen Batteries got Rs16 million written off by the Agriculture Development Bank. His business partners were Misbah Azhar, Sward Azhar, Ahmed Jamal Siddiqui, Syed Ijaz Ahmed Hashmi, Mauro Dr Bashir Ahmed.
Lt General (retd) SA Burkey and Lt General (retd) Safdar Butt also figure amongst the happy generals benefiting from the state institutions generosity.
Another prominent name on the list is that of Air Marshal (retd) A Rahim Khan.
Air Marshal (retd) Viqar Azeem also got Rs15 million written off from Pakistani Kuwait Investment Co. Lt General (retd) SA Burkey, Major General Zahid Ali Akbar, Brig MM Mahmood, Begum Omar Mahmood, Saeed Ahmed also got loans written off.
Gohar Ayub Khan, brother of General Kuli Khan—Raza Kuli Khan also got a loan of Rs7.2 million written off against Rehana Woolen Mills. Tariq Ayub Khan, Zahid Ahsan, Ahsan Khan were the directors of the mills whose loan was written off by the financial institution SAPICO.
Major General (retd) M Mumtaz from Abbottabad, Lt Colonel (retd) Shaukat and Major (retd) Tajuddin Rs1.2 million, Major General (retd) Ghaziuddn are also in the list. Major General (retd) G Umar also got Rs8.5 million written off from the Agriculture Development Bank.
Lt General (retd) Safdar Butt, Major General (retd) Abdullah Malik, Brig (retd) M M Mahmood, Col (retd) M Zafar Khan, Mohammad Afzal Khan, Mrs Hamida Farhat also got benefits from the UBL. General (retd) Abdullah had resigned after the military coup of General Zia and had opposed the military take over of July 1977.
Talking to The News, Brig (retd) Mahmood denied that his industrial unit EFF, EFF Industries had got the loan written off. He clarified that he had entered into an agreement with the bank but this package was never implemented until recently.
The list also names Brig (retd) M A Baig and Qamar Ahmad, BA Siddiqi, Zubair Rashid, Mohammad Sadiq Baig, Riazur Rehman, Mrs Mamomnna Khatoon, Mrs Mehr Riaz, Mr Taufiq Ahmed Rs 1.09 million (UBL). Lt-Col (retd) Ch M Anis Ahmed, Col Atta ullah, Shahid Atta, Mst Qamar un Nisa Rs 2.6 million, Irfan Rice Mills of Col (retd) Nazar Hussain Rs 1.6 million, Mehr Textile Mills, Chakwal, Col Mohammad Ayub Khan, Ch Nisar Ali Khan, Ch Asad Ali Khan, Mrs Sultana Zakia, Mohammad Nawaz, Ch Ghulam Ali Khan. Major General (retd) Khadim H Raja, Air Marshal (retd) A Rahim Khan, Mrs Sattar Azim Khan also got loan written off.
Mohammad Textile Mills Limited of Air Commodore (retd) Amanullah got a loan of Rs95 million written off from the UBL. His other business partners were Khurshid Alam, Mohamamd Rafiq, Mrs Bilquis Begum, Tanveer Ahmed, Naseer Ahmed, Begum Sultana Fammay Khan, Sobia Fammy Khan.
Air Vice Marshal (retd) Ata Elahi Sheikh of the National Fructose Limited also got Rs43 million written off. His business partners were Shakirullah Durrani, Mohammad Aslam, Qamaruzaman, Syed Safiullah, Dr Mohammad Yousuf, Khan Akbar Majeed and TR Sariq.
Sairani Cotton Ginning Factory owners Capt (retd) Shahraz Latif and his business partners Shahnaz Latif, Ch Mohammad Ashraf also got loan written off. Air Marshal (retd) A Rashid Sheikh, Air Vice Marshal (retd) S Moinur Rab, Group Captain (retd) Mohammad Ismal Khan, Salman Rashid of Sky Rooms Limited got Rs 8.4 million loan written off. Brig (retd) SM Bakar Naqvi, Mian Ahmed Rabbani, Pervez Iftikar Khan, Abdul Aziz, NM Khanzada and Major (retd) Afzalul Haq also among the beneficiaries.
Col (retd) M Yaqoob of Aswan Tentage and Canvas got a huge loan of Rs276 million written off from Bankers Equity. His other business partners were Col (retd) M Yaqoob, Mohamamd Afzal Chugtai, Mohammad Siddiqi, Haji Ghulam Sabir and Idris Ahmed Butt. Farook Pulp of Mjaor Nasim A Farooqi, Naeem A Farooqi, Pervez Farooqi, Munir Ahmed Khan and Saleem Farooqi got 2.1 million loan written off.
Captain (retd) Shaukat of Locus Enterprises got Rs8.8 million written off. His business partners were Wiqar Abbas, Khalid Khan, Col (retd) M Sadiq Khan, Nabil Hasan, Masoud Abbasi and Abdul Razak. Raja Iftikar Kiani of Ms Alliance Textile Mills, Jhelum got a wavier of Rs16 million from the MCB.
A Lt-Col, who owned the Meditex Intl got Rs6.322 million written off from the HBL. His business partner was Col (retd) Bashir Ahmed. Commander Abdul Latif also got Rs 10 million written off. Shangrila Macropole Inn, Lahore got Rs4.3 million loan written off. Brig (retd) Mohammad Aslam Khan and Co got Rs4.3 million written off. Feroz Sons Textile Mills Mirpur owners Col (retd) Munir Hussain, Nasim Farms's and Major General (retd) Qazi Nasim Majeed are also among the beneficiaries.
Col (retd) Saleem of Special Iron and Steel Mills Limited, Lt General (retd) Habibullah Khan, Brig (retd) M Jan Hahang M Khandawala, Raza Kuli Khan, Col (retd) M Sharif Khan, Begum Tehmina Habibullah, M I Khurram, M Nazir Khan and IA Khurram are also among the beneficiaries.
Major (retd) Mohamamd Anwar, S Aijaz Ali Shah, S Amjad Ali Shah, S Ghulam Qadir, S Aftab Ali Shah, S Ali Gohar Shah, S Amin Shah also on the list. Lt-Col (retd) M Jaffar, JH Dinshaw Rs 7.2 million, Chemphar Pakistan Limited of Brig (retd) Shareef Rahat, Captain (retd) AM Murad and Major (retd) Tariq Baig are also among the beneficiaries.


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2011 has made me ponder my relationship with K-drama. Why do I spend so much time watching? Why do I expend so much energy writing about it?
I'm in a contemplative mood at the end of 2011. Not because it has been a great year in k-drama for me, but because it's been the worst year since I started watching in 2008. This is probably due to my taste shifting and my becoming somewhat more demanding of my k-dramas, but perhaps it's also the case that 2011 really hasn't been a vintage year. It was not altogether hopeless; there were enough wins to keep me from abandoning k-drama altogether. But it seems beyond doubt that for me the flush of k-drama first love, when anything might be forgiven, is long over.

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Throwing the Elephant: Zen and the Art of Managing Up
Sit down. Breathe deep. This is the last business book you will ever need. For in these pages, Stanley Bing solves the ultimate problem of your working life: How to manage the boss.
The technique is simple . . . as simple as throwing an elephant. All it takes is the proper state of mind, a step-by-step plan, and a great leap of faith. This humble guide provides all these and more. It is Zen that enables one to take an object of enormous weight and size and mold it in one's grasp like a ball of Silly Putty. For senior management, in truth, is the silliest putty of them all.
This comprehensive course walks budding business bodhisattvas through basic skills needed to provide the simple elephant handling that makes everyday life possible, including but not limited to the primary task of following along after the elephant with a little broom and dustpan. Serious students will then move to intermediate steps, from Polishing the Elephant's Tusks to Hiding from the Elephant When It Has Been Drinking and Feels Quite Nasty. Beyond this level lies the land of the practiced Zen masters, culminating in the ability to leverage and then throw the now-weightless elephant–and even play catch with it at corporate retreats.
If What Would Machiavelli Would Do? was the meanest business book since the Renaissance, Throwing the Elephant provides the yang to that yin. Because sometimes you've got to be selfless, compassionate, and completely empty to get the job done.
Stanley Bing is a columnist for Fortune magazine and the author of What Would Machiavelli Do? and Lloyd: What Happened, a novel. By day, he works for a gigantic multinational conglomerate whose identity is one of the worst-kept secrets in business.


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Standing around in an awkward set of motion tracking video goggles while tethered a computer makes virtual reality feel anything but real. You need to be able to move around to really get the virtual experience, which this bizarre sliding platform lets you do—kind of.
Calling the Wizdisk a treadmill is a bit of misnomer since it's completely lacking a moving tread—but the experience is similar. Users instead stand on a slick concave disk which minimizes friction under foot so you can shuffle along in place, pretending to walk around.
It sounds awkward, and all the videos demonstrating its use make it look awkward too. But it's one of those 'better than nothing' things because it allows someone in a virtual world to easily pivot and move about more freely. It still requires a heck of a lot of imagination and suspension of disbelief, but if you still think virtual reality has a chance of catching on, you're probably already used to relying on your imagination. [Wizdish via DamnGeeky]


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Fast Food, Slow Digestion
How come the majority of people at the International House of Pancakes look like they're from West Virginia?
When I walk into IHOP, I don't see a table full of Japanese people or an Italian family waiting to be seated. I see a heavy-set white guy wearing a red-checkered flannel over a "God Bless America" t-shirt with an American flag bandana around his upper arm and a mesh hat that says "Git 'R Done."
Incidentally, "Git R Done" is the most annoying phrase a comedian could hear. For those of you with taste, you might not know that's comedian Larry the Cable Guy's catch phrase. Translated to English, it means "get her done," and people have adopted this phrase to replace any semblance of original thought. If you use this phrase, you might as well be saying, "I tried having my own opinion, but I give up. I'm sorry, I just don't have a thought process." But that can't fit on a mesh hat.
There is nothing International about the House of Pancakes. Calling it that is like Major League Baseball claiming to host the World Series. Sure, Canada shows up every now and then, but the event is really based in America.
I wonder if IHOP's clientele is proud of their diversity when they eat there.
"Come on kids, we're expanding our horizons. Let's go eat at that International place. I hear some of their maple syrup is from the far off land of Vermont."
I eat a lot of fast food, so I have time to contemplate things like this at length. During a recent trip to Denny's, I began wondering who Denny was, and if he'd had his cholesterol checked out lately. When the healthiest thing on the menu comes with eggs, sausage, and pancakes, regulars ought to get a check up once in a while.
"I don't understand why I'm so unhealthy, Doc. I mean, I eat three square meals per meal!"
McDonald's has a cool feature where when you order, you see the average wait on the register. I think it would be more interesting to see the average weight instead.
"The average wait is 90 seconds. The average weight is 315 pounds."
"Great. Can I have a double-quarterpounder with cheese? Make that a large meal."
"316 pounds."
I love fried chicken, and my favorite chain is Kentucky Fried Chicken. Which is the only thing I know that's made better by the use of the word "Kentucky" in front of it. I've never sought out a Kentucky Public Library. For those Kentuckians offended by that joke, take a look at the motto on your state signs. "Welcome to Kentucky - Where Education Pays." Is that because if you have your GED, you make more than anyone without it? Maybe I'm still bitter because Kentucky is where I totaled my car. Though I still allege that accident was caused by a cop parked on the interstate, I also admit I was driving erratically from laughing so hard at the "Education Pays" sign.
I haven't eaten at a Jack In The Box yet, but that's because I'm afraid of anywhere that sells Burgers, tacos, and egg rolls on a value menu. Maybe it would be better to have jack in that particular box.
It's gotten hard to find local restaurants, outside of big cities. Country cafes aren't nearly as common as they used to be. America's landscape is now littered with Chick-Fil-As and Waffle Houses. Most of the country looks like a poor man's Las Vegas, where the Bellagio and Venetian are replaced by True Value and Dick's Sporting Goods. And those lit signs need to be fixed. More often than not, you'll end up eating at the FLE HOSE.
I don't think A&W should serve more than Root Beer, I hardly go to Hardee's, and Papa John sounds like the creepy guy who gives you pennies on Halloween, But since it's increasingly difficult to find a privately owned business and it's not worth an extra $4 per meal to see crazy stuff nailed to the wall during dinner, I end up eating fast food more than I'd like to. I can't really resist. The tastes are familiar, so when I see a sign I begin craving what I know. And while I love the convenience, it's a tough world to be healthy in. Most religions have a version of the messiah who went on a hunger strike. That'd be almost impossible now. Instead of fasting for 40-days, it'd be fast food for 40 days. And by the end of it, you'd have Jesus Christ Super Size. I wonder if he could still walk on water if he polished off a few orders of Moons Over My Hammy.
Though Jesus came from the Middle East, so maybe he would be more at home at the International House of Pancakes. Or the Internal Hose of Pances.
"Git R Done!"


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New 2017 Mercedes-Benz B-Class in Oshkosh, WI
Starting at $39,900
Mercedes-Benz has never shied away from breaking the mold. A brief perusing of its vehicles will tell you that. Perhaps no vehicle in the Mercedes-Benz lineup better portrays that sentiment than the Mercedes-Benz B 250e. The purely electric hatchback takes Mercedes-Benz design and engineering and brings it to the world of EVs in a luxurious, progressive package. As the demand for electric cars continues to rise, the Mercedes-Benz B 250e takes the segment to new heights. An 85-mile electric range stems from a combination of of a 132-kilowatt electric motor connected to a 28 kWh lithium ion battery pack, which is built in the U.S by partnering automaker, Tesla. Although the B 250e breaks the mold, it is unmistakingly Mercedes-Benz, with abundant safety, cutting-edge design and a full-slate of advanced features. Make no mistake, the high-end electric vehicle of this generation has arrived.
Zero Emissions
More than a century ago, Mercedes-Benz built its first electric vehicles. Now, the Mercedes-Benz B 250e has entered the fold to bring a touch of luxury to the EV segment. The zero emissions, pure EV driving experience is more than just a fuel alternative, but a way of life for owners.
85-Mile Electric Range
Range anxiety is among the chief concerns for prospective EV owners, but with an 85-mile electric range on full charge, the Mercedes-Benz B 250e turns concern into confidence. With an optional radar-based regenerative braking system, the B 250e will return even more miles from each charge.
3.5-Hours to Full Charge
Recharging the Mercedes-Benz B 250e from empty can be accomplished in as little as 3.5 hours when plugged into a 240-volt outlet. Transform your garage into a B 250e charging station and you can be sure you're entering a fully charged Mercedes-Benz every morning.


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Jeff Lunsford flew fighter jets as a Navy pilot. So the analogy he used made sense when he was asked why he would leave the chief executive post at Limelight Networks — a publicly traded, $200 million software firm — to run Tealium, a small San Diego startup.
"I love the hyper-growth phase, when markets are being defined, when you're in that land-grab mode with superfast product development," said Lunsford. "It's like flying an F-18 or flying a C-17 transport. I like the F-18."
Founded in 2008, Tealium makes website tag management software, which helps in gathering reams of data that digital marketers want. The company employs about 90 workers and raised $10.5 million in venture capital last year from Battery Ventures.
Lunsford, 47, resigned from Limelight in November and joined Tealium last month. He didn't come to the startup out of nowhere. He was an early investor in Tealium, having worked with its founders — Ali Behnam and Mike Anderson — at San Diego's WebSideStory.
In fact, many of Tealium's managers trace their roots back to WebSideStory, which went public in 2004 with Lunsford at the helm. The company was later sold to Omniture, which in turn was acquired by Adobe.
Lunsford left WebSideStory in 2006 to become CEO of Limelight Networks in Tempe, Ariz. He took that company public in 2007.
Tag management is a relatively new field. These days, websites are crowded with tags. Lunsford estimates there are 15 to 20 tags, on average. Sites heavy with tags sometimes load slowly — pushing away impatient users. In addition, managing tags is a hassle for a company's information technology staff.
Tealium's software, which is sold as a service subscription, lets marketing departments manage tags without involving their information technology colleagues. Tealium also speeds up website performance.
Tealium's platform includes cloud-based products that gather all the information from various tags in one spot, allowing customers to more easily analyze the data. The company also has a mobile product, which gives app developers a window into how their apps are being used.
Tealium's customers include the National Hockey League, News International, Fox Networks, Lenovo, A&E Networks, Urban Outfitters, Mattel, Nokia and Sony Online Entertainment.
Lunsford recently spoke with U-T San Diego about the tag-management field and its prospects. Here are some excerpts.
Q: What is tag management?
A: A tag is a small piece of software that is inside a Web page's software code. When invoked, it sends data back to some vendor.
That vendor could be an ad network, a Web analytics vendor, an affiliate network. It could be an email marketer. It could be a testing and targeting firm. Every website in this day and age has 15 to 20 tags on average.
Q: How are tags used?
A: Any company that is trying to draw people to their website is investing effort in email campaigns, ad campaigns, content marketing — so they need to understand the efficacy of those campaigns. The way they find that out is the ad network will tell them, 'I sent you 30 people today.' The email marketer will tell them, 'You had 100 replies out of the 10,000 emails you sent yesterday.' The way all these vendors know that is by tracking the tags in the website.
Q: Where does Tealium fit in?
A: We have a universal tag platform. So you put our one tag on your website, and then you can go into our console and you can select any of these digital media, digital marketing vendors you want to use.
We support today about 450 digital marketing vendors and we are adding about 30 a month.
We are adding capabilities to store our customers' online data — the data that gets generated by all these tags — in the cloud as one combined data source for them to use. Today it's fragmented in a bunch of different databases. We bring it all together.
Q: How competitive is the tag management field?
A: There are four tag management vendors out there. We are the market leader. The tag management problem was created by the Web analytics guys. What happened was the tags worked so well for web analytics that all the other vendors said, 'Hey, that is a good way to do it.' As the number of tags pile up, the need for platform to manage tags becomes obvious.
Q: Do you specialize in any particular industry?
A: There aren't any specific verticals where we specialize. But the bigger the company — the more sites they have and the more fragmented their tags are — the move value we bring to the table.
Q: What's the return on investment for customers?
A: Our No. 1 value proposition is adding marketing agility. That doesn't drop to the bottom line. What drops to the bottom line is you have faster website performance. You have reduced information technology costs because you don't have to pay IT people to manage all these tags. On the data side, there is a big return on investment because you're buying data feeds back from those guys now, and paying to throw all that in a common database and process it and try to correlate it. It's a very expensive endeavor, where we can just create a database for you in real time and give you access to it.
Q: Are you going to raise more venture capital?
A: We don't need to raise any more. It is a very capital-efficient business. If you do see us raise more capital, it would be because we just want to grow faster.
Q: How fast to you expect to grow this year?
A: We want to triple our revenue in 2013. In 2012, we more than tripled revenue over 2011. Our goal is to build this into San Diego's largest software as a service company.


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Okay, I know a lot of you have been jonesin' for your daily security-blog dope and we've been disappointing you for the past week. Sorry about that. It's a long story, involving Russians, IT guys working late nights, and lots of desk-pounding and cursing (also a fair amount of irony, but I won't get into that). Suffice it to say, we're back, and plenty of stuff has been happening in the meantime. You'll see fleshed out versions of many of these stories on the newswire later today, but here's a quick recap: Aronson Security Group bought Selectron, establishing a real northwest powerhouse of an integrator. At the same time, they established a convergence division that a lot of your are going to want to take a look at for the purpose of stealing ideas. These guys seem to get that companies want one security guy who handles everything (you know, like making sure the Russians don't get you). Assa Abloy bought Simons Voss. When I first heard this, I thought it was a little bigger deal than it actually is. Simons Voss makes some really cool wireless locking systems, don't get me wrong. I just thought they were a bigger company due to the enormous booth they had at the Essen show in 2006. Turns out they only do about $60 million a year. Still big, I guess, but not huge (especially in the scope of Assa Abloy). Also, Assa's going to let Simons do their own thing, so don't expect much to change, which is a good thing. March Networks bought Cieffe, a company from Italy you may not have heard of, but which makes some great IP video technology. They've only recently come to North America - Kolossal Technologies might be their only North American dealer. It's hard to say. But the combination of March's IP stuff for retail and banking and Cieffe's stuff for commercial/industrial applications makes for a very interesting manufacturing partner for progressive integrators. Plus, they've really got a nice global reach at this point. GE Security bought most of CoVi's assets, signaling a commitment to IP video solutions. Apparently it was quicker to just buy assets instead of CoVi proper, which means GE Security doesn't get the brand (but, as one GE official said as an aside, "I think we've got plenty of brand already"), and the executive staff doesn't come with the deal. They'll be busy honoring warranties and answering questions, most likely. What does come with the deal are all of the engineering and product support types-the brain power behind the technology. If there's one thing I've learned about GE, it's that they love to collect PhDs. More later, but that's probably enough for now.
We're back!
This blog, by Paul Ragusa, the editor of Security Systems News, offers thoughts, news, and a forum for discussion for those who work in and around the physical security industry, integrating and installing security systems in North America.


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What happens behind these closed (and opened) doors?
For those readers who are unfamiliar with the Meet-the-People Sessions (MPS), maybe I can help to shed some light on this political pillar of the PAP. For every constituency in Singapore, the Member of Parliament (MP) for that area will "meet the people" on a particular day every week at the void deck or at the PAP centres. For example, people staying in Teck Ghee (Ang Mo Kio) may have some problems and wishes to meet their MP (which is PM Lee), can meet him on every Thursday night at Block 322 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3, PAP centre. Thereafter, the MP will write a petition letter to whichever Ministry, Statutory Board or any concerned parties to appeal on behalf of the resident. A list of MPS and MPs is available here.
PAP places great importance in their MPS sessions and mandated that all MPs (less the PM, SM and MM) are required to attend the MPS sessions as long as their schedule permits and when they are not on overseas assignments. So why are the PAP leaders so concerned over these sessions and who are the people that goes there and what happens behind these sessions?
Who Goes There?
Majority of the residents attending these sessions are residents with problems in paying their utilities bills, HDB apartments, S&C charges by the Town Council, reduction of traffic fines and finance-related problems. Another substantial portion of residents come to apply for permanent residence or immigration-related applications for their foreign spouses or friends. Depending on "season", some times they may have quite a lot of residents coming for financial assistance, unemployment welfare and job-matching. That is usually during the bad-economic periods. Once in a while, there will be ad-hoc and unusual cases such as neighbour disputes, harassed by loan sharks, abusive husbands or people coming to complain about cheating incidents by insurance agents.
What is the Process in the MPS?
The process of meeting the MP or Ministers varies from constituency to constituency. But the most standard procedure is as follows:
1) Registration and take queue number
2) Constituent meets the petition writer who pens the letter (either hand-written or via PC) on behalf of the MP
3) Wait and queue to meet the MP
4) Meet the MP in a separate room, constituent informs the MP of his/her problems one-to-one.
5) MP assures the constituent that they will look into the case and send the letter. For urgent cases, the letter will be typed out, sign by the MP and hands it to the constituent immediately. For normal cases, the letter will be vetted through by the MP's or Minister's Personal Secretary and sent out within three working days.
However, as I said, some MPS sessions differ from others. For Minister of Education, Tharman's MPS, several writers sits around in the cubicles and Tharman will move from station to station to listen and attend to the cases rather than being in the office. For PM Lee's MPS, the registration from queue number is situated outside the PAP centre at Blk 322 Ang Mo Kio Ave 3. Inside, there are roles of seats for the expected large crowd and computer stations for the typing of letters. In the petition writer's room, all the petition writers are in the same room but separated by desk-partitions. Thus it can be quite noisy at times. Not all the constituent will get to see the Prime Minister, only the serious and selected cases.
For important key appointment holders such as the Prime Minister, Senior Minister, Minister Mentor and Deputy Prime Ministers, they usually appoint a "Second Adviser", who are MPs within the same constituency that covers them in their MPS session whenever they cannot make it. I was told that Dr Tan Boon Wan, MP for Ang Mo Kio GRC covers the PM's constituency for two out of the 4 or 5 MPS sessions every month. He will then feedback the cases to the PM and signs all the letters on his behalf. Thus, the letters that were sent out from the PM's constituency will not have added advantages to the resident or pressure to receiver. This is to prevent any government statutory boards, civil servants or even private companies to act contrary to usual practice or legal ways just because they receive the letter by the Prime Minister.
How Many Residents Attends the MPS Sessions and who is the Most Popular?
The number of residents attending the MPS sessions depends on many factors. The profile of the MP, whether if he is a Minister or just a MP, popularity of the MP, the constituency area itself (eg: Redhill and Kolam Ayer usual have more elderly problems), effectiveness of the MP and many other factors. Usually, every week per session, there is an average of 20 to 30 residents coming to seek help from the MP. If the MP is a Minister, usually there will be around 40 to 50 residents.
The two most popular MP or Ministers was the Prime Minister's and Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean's constituency. I think the PM's constituency is naturally crowded and popular for obvious reasons. But for Teo Chee Hean, I heard he is very popular with the residents and sometimes his MPS sessions can stretch past midnight until 1 am in the morning. Both of them serves at around 70 residents every session.
I've heard that there was a former MP that was quite unpopular with the residents because he refused to write the cases which have slim or no chance of success. He was a former civil servant and was too straightforward in telling off the residents that they have little chance of success and thus, he will not write the letter. No surprisingly, the unhappy residents left angry and scolded vulgarities outside the PAP centre. It fell to the ears of the then-PM and by next elections, he was replaced. Not sure on the validity of this rumour but do take this with a pinch of salt.
What is the Success Rate?
Success rate depends on the "weight" of the MP and the cases involved. For most poverty and financial assistance letters, if it is a genuine case the chances of the family receiving good financial help is up to 95%. But I would like to stress on the word "genuine". It is difficult to assess if a case and resident is genuinely poor and needs help. Thus, the MP will usually send the letter to the Community Development Council (CDC) to send their staff to assess their conditions. If they are found to be in trouble, financial assistance can range up to more than $800 per household every month, with free healthcare from government clinics.
For deferment of any charges or bills to the SP Services (utilities bills), Town Council (S&C charges) or HDB loans, the MPS letters have a good success rate of 85% at least.
For immigration cases, permanent residences and applying for entry passes for the foreign spouses, the success rates can be quite low but it does help tremendously compared to applying it personally. Compared to open application, the MPS letters can improve your chances by up to 20%.
For reduction in traffic fines, MPS letters are surprisingly effective with a 60% chance of reduction in traffic fines if you are a financially poor or that your livelihood depends on it (eg: lorry drivers, taxi drivers, etc). However, for any court cases concerning traffic or any other criminal offence, any political party including PAP, has no rights to write to the Attorney General or Judge. Thus, MPS session will not accept any court cases but will recommend legal advice or help to the residents.
You might wonder, why are all the cases cited all concerns the Ministries and Statutory boards. Obviously, PAP is the ruling party and thus runs the government. Sending letters and making them successful is necessary to show that they are doing their job in representing the voters. Another thing is that, as long as it is a MPS letter regardless whether it is from the opposition party or PAP, all government and stat boards must respond to it with priority. For certain ministries, either the permanent secretaries or the Junior Ministers will get to see all the MPS letters addressed to their ministries.
Why is Meet-the-People Session Important for PAP?
The MPS session are the most direct and obvious form of serving their voters. More importantly, the PAP MPs are reaching out to the bottom 20% of the residents where they are most likely to switch camps if their needs are not looked after. To the MPs, these sessions will also allow them to see how popular they are and whether when GE comes, will they be in trouble. Singaporeans are more likely to vote based on bread and butter issues, as such; the MPS session deals with this head on. Thus, even when there is an economic downturn, PAP still manages to gain the votes of the bottom 20%.
For the new Ministers and Cabinet Ministers, it provides a good reality check on the policies they made and impact on the ground. And for those newly appointed Ministers (such as the "Super-Seven"), these MPS sessions allows them to understand the people and their problems, not the high paying job as a Minister living in a perfect world. This, I believe is one of the directives of MM Lee Kuan Yew. He wanted all the MPs and Ministers to experience first-hand the poverty and problems of the residents rather than sitting in the office making decisions that affecting people they don't know.
However, not all the Ministers are able to handle the "shock" in seeing the MPS residents' problems nor can they endure staying at the session until 12 mid-night (average MPS ending time for most Ministers is around 11pm) every week just to resolve the residents' problems. It is both a physical and mental challenge for people who came from well-to-do backgrounds. In recent years, there are a couple of Ministers who left the job partly due to this. I guess they are not the kind of "People's Minister" or natural at helping to solve the real problems on the ground.
Meet-the-People Session DIY
I was thinking maybe it will be useful to let you all know where some of the common letters are send to for the various problems and to whom they address it to.
General Manager of HDB branch or HDB Hub
- HDB apartment problems, rental of 3-room flats (average queue is around 1 year), resale, loans,
General Manager of Community Development Council (CDC)
- Financial Assistance, Job matching, poverty related, free healthcare for poor
Commissioner of Immigration & Checkpoint Authorities (ICA)
- Permanent Residence, social visit pass, long-term visit pass, citizenship
Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Manpower
- Work permit, Employment Pass, S-Pass, Contract Marriage, work place discrimination
General Manager of Workforce Development Agency
- Job Matching
General Manager of (depends on constituency) Town Council
- S&C Charges, trimming of trees, cleanliness around blocks
Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Health
- Special use of Medisave, Medishield, hospital-related
Registrar of Registry of Marriage
- Marriage of under-18, marriage issues, recognition of foreign marriages
Manager of Legal Aid Bureau
- Legal advice for poor or needy constituent on any legal issues
Commissioner of Traffic Police
- Reduction of traffic fines or punishments
CEO of Land Transport Authorities
- Appeal for covered overhead bridges, roads, carparking (sometimes it is HDB)


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A pest control officer says he responded to a call of a wasp infestation in a home that was "like the horror film 'Birds' but [with] wasps."
ABC News reported that a monstrous colony of wasps invaded a home in the Worchester, Hampshire, U.K. John Birkett, an employee at Longwood Services Pest Control, said he got a call to respond to a nest that had taken over a bed in a spare bedroom in family's home, and the colony was devouring the bed.
When Birkett arrived at the house, he said told ABC News he "couldn't believe my eyes," referring to the nest of an estimated 5,000 wasps. In more than 40 years of working in the pest control business, Birkett said this was the largest nest he had ever seen.
The nest had grown so large because the family rarely uses the room on the second floor of their five-bedroom home, he said.
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August 13, 2010
I got an email the other day from someone asking me if, by any chance, I was ALSO the author of a different blog. Like, a blog beyond any of the other four frillion sites I contribute to, maintained under someone else's name and life story, all sneaky-seekrit-identity-like.
I cannot even imagine having the copious amounts of free time one would need to pull off something like that, and also the organizational skills. Like, is this the blog where I'm a boring suburban mother-of-two with a penchant for sucker-punching my readers in the vaginas at the end of every post, like "funny funny Star Wars run-on-sentence funny BAM! EMOTIONAL KAPOW! WHO'S CRYING AT WORK NOW, SUCKAH?" Or is this the blog where I'm a fabulously carefree 20-something in Los Angeles who blogs about all the interesting people she sleeps with and spells everything The British Way, because she thinks it makes her sound fancy? Or is this the blog where I'm a 40-something dude who posts a lot of Stargate fanfic and bitches about all the major dramazzz at this year's ComicCon? I AM SO CONFUSED. I DON'T KNOW HOW SUPERMAN DOES IT.
Anyway. So I get this email and click through to the other blog in question -- you know, just to make sure I WASN'T maintaining a second secret blog identity (maybe I had a stroke? or am taking too much melatonin and sleep-driving to all-night Internet cafes?) -- and it was Hyperbole and a Half. Which. You know, MAJOR COMPLIMENT THERE, for anyone to possibly think Allie and I are the same person, even though we have both been repeatedly harassed by vicious geese, because she is so, so much funnier than me. And probably you. I'm sorry, but it's the truth.
ANYWAY. OH MY GOD. THE POINT! IS! That thanks to that email I got all sucked up into an Archives Vortex, that thing you do when you just start clicking "previous entry" over and over again and then next thing you know it's two in the morning and you're reading stuff from two years ago that you maybe even actually READ two years ago, but it's like when you turn on the TV and there's that one rerun of Cheers or Seinfeld or the Star Trek One With Tribbles and you've seen it before but it's one of your FAVORITES and you have to watch it anyway. Because it's AWESOME, and maybe only reruns once every couple years! This is your chance! Until TV Land reruns it again next Sunday, or whatever.
Wait. Shit. That wasn't actually my point after all.
No, my point REALLY is that I read this entry about Allie giving her dog an IQ test, and it made me laugh a ridiculously snarffily amount, and then, because it was -- again -- two in the morning, I started eyeing my own dog, who was sleeping on a piece of paper next to her dog bed, probably because that paper was something important and her underside gets all oily in the summer.
I totally should give her an IQ test, I thought. And then post the results on my blog, which wouldn't be copycat-like at ALL, because one single solitary person thought our writing styles were possibly kind of similar already! We might even be the same person! YOU CAN'T PLAGIARIZE FROM YOURSELF. FACT. THAT'S HOW WORMHOLES GET STARTED.
At this point I wisely decided to go to bed.
Only to wake up a few hours later thinking: DOGGY IQ TEST TIME, BITCHES.
Test One: Problem-Solving Ability
This involves hiding a treat under a can, and seeing how long it takes your dog to knock the can over.
I thought a full-sized can would be unfair for Ceiba, since that would be like me expecting you to knock over one of those orange road-work barrels with only your nose, but using something like a tomato paste can seemed maybe too easy, so I went with a small plastic cup. I hope this does not invalidate my very scientific results.
To her credit, Ceiba definitely seemed to know the treat was under that cup, though she was at a complete loss as to what to DO about this confounding conundrum, other than 1) sniff the cup, and 2) stare at me.
After a few minutes, it appeared that Ceiba forgot that the treat was even under the cup in the first place, and kept looking for it elsewhere. Over here? Over here? Now back over there again! Wait, over here! Still nothing over here, let's try back over there again!
I thought, perhaps, that my dog is simply a visual learner, and this test was unfairly skewered against her skills, so I switched to a clear glass. Maybe if she could SEE the treat, she'd be a bit more motivated?
Score: 1 point.
Test Two: Escape Skills
This one involves tossing a towel or blanket over your dog and seeing how long it takes them to escape.
She actually did pretty well on this one! It took her about 20 seconds to get free, although she did run directly into the TV cabinet first, but the testing criteria doesn't mention any point deductions for headbutting large obstacles, therefore I am awarding her the full 3 points.
Test Three: Social Learning
Stare at your dog. After three seconds, smile at your dog. They're supposed to see this and come over in search of love and validation and who'sagooddog who'sagooddog and etc. At the very least, there should be some tail-wagging.
Results: Inconclusive, because Ceiba never made it through the initial three seconds of eye contact before she charged over to me, all FOOD? YOU HAVE SOME FOOD? ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME BECAUSE YOU WANT TO GIVE ME SOME FOOD? I WOULD BE HAPPY TO ACCEPT SOME FOOD OH MY GOD WHY ARE YOU SMILING AT ME INSTEAD OF GIVING ME SOME FOOD?
I skipped scoring this one, mostly MY DOG DOESN'T HAVE A TAIL, YOU ASSHOLES. Way to make her feel self-conscious about it.
Test Four: Advanced Problem-Solving
A god-awful hybrid of past failures. Hide the treat under the blanket or towel. See how long it takes dog to find it.
Results: Ceiba immediately deployed her patented make your beddy digging technique that she uses to, well, make her beddy, before collapsing in an exhausted I've done nothing all day heap. She has also destroyed our couch cushions and multiple decorative throw pillows with it, but BOO-YAH, if it didn't help her find that treat in just over 30 seconds.
If you would ever like her assistance in recovering buried dead bodies in the woods, email me. Just make sure they smell like compressed turkey jerky first.
Score: 3 points
Test Five: Manipulation Skills
This test requires that you build a low table that your dog cannot get her head under. Then you hide a treat underneath it to see if it occurs to her to retrieve it with her paw. This presented a challenge, because 1) my dog's muzzle is the size of a roll of pennies, and 2) my dog has a somewhat long history of getting her head stubbornly stuck in places, so I didn't want to use anything that could possibly crush her puny head like the overripe plum that it is.
I went with a heavy package of Ikea curtains I've been meaning to hang up since, oh, 2006, propped up by couple Sookie Stackhouse novels.
Since I wasn't sure if that was Ceiba's preferred vampire franchise, I added a magazine with Taylor Lautner on top.
The results were astounding. It took Ceiba less than three seconds to retrieve the treat. Unfortunately, she went with violent brute force instead of dexterity...
Score: Obvious test proctor error. Student should not be penalized. 3 points.
Test Six: Language Recognition
An easy one: Shout random words at your dog in the same tone you usually use to call her name and see if she knows the difference. If she stays put, call her name. If she comes only to her name, congratulations! Your dog is not a complete moron.
Words Ceiba responded to in a super-excited, running-over-and-jumping and OMGOMGOMG fashion: Refrigerator, movies, tangerine, Sookeh, dumbass.
Words Ceiba ignored completely: HER ACTUAL NAME.Score: 1 point for enthusiasm; sticking the landing.
Ceiba's final score was a measly 11 points, which puts her in the Your dog is not too bright, but is most likely very cute range, and thankfully the testing website did not include a caveat or asterisk that added "provided you find seizing hummingbird-eared hamsters on stilts to be 'very cute'" or something.
Basically, I just spent an entire morning scientifically proving (and documenting!) something that I (and the Internet!) already really knew: My dog is pretty damn dumb.
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TALLAHASSEE | Florida Democrats will elect a new chairman Saturday as former Sen. Rod Smith steps down from the position after the party's most successful election cycles in years.
Alan Clendenin, a Tampa-area activist, and Allison Tant, a long-time Democratic fundraiser from Tallahassee, are seeking the seat Smith is leaving after two years.
Smith took over the party after a disastrous 2010 election cycle. Democrats lost the governor's race and all three Cabinet races, while their candidate for Senate, then-U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, came in third to Republican Marco Rubio and then-Gov. Charlie Crist, who ran as an independent. Four incumbent Democratic congressmen also lost seats and Republicans made gains in the Legislature.
Now Democrats are hoping their successes last November weren't just based on the strength of President Barack Obama's campaign machine. In addition to Obama's Florida victory, Democrats elected four new congressmen and Sen. Bill Nelson easily won re-election against Republican Rep. Connie Mack. Democrats also made gains in the Legislature, defeating enough Republican incumbents to take away the GOP's supermajority.
The top priority for Democrats regardless of who's elected chairman will be defeating Gov. Rick Scott, whose approval ratings have been low.
"We need to be using all this energy that's within the Democratic Party right now," said Tant. "I want to make sure that we have very regular voter contact and voter engagement going on. I want to make sure going into 2014 our messaging is on point and of course we need to take back the governor's mansion and we need to look very strongly and some more House and Senate seats as well as the Cabinet positions."
Tant is endorsed by, among others, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who also serves as the Democratic National Committee chairwoman, and Nelson, who is Florida's highest Democratic elected official. Clendenin is endorsed by, among others, former Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, who was the party's nominee for governor against Scott in 2010.
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Clendenin said the party has changed little in years and that it needs to redesign its structure to be successful outside a presidential year.
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Correcting Mr. Crittenden
Dear, oh dear. As the great Yogi Berra said, "It's déjà vu all over again." Frum the bum, that is. As some of you may remember, the Uriah-Heep-like Frum recently painted all those conservatives that opposed the war against Iraq—we believed Saddam no longer possessed WMDs and was not involved with al-Qaeda—with the broad brush of unpatriotism. In his mephitic and intellectually dishonest mind, all neocons are patriotic, all traditional conservatives, traitorous and anti-Semitic. So far, so bad. But it gets worse, for the bum has now pulled a Jayson Blair. (I feel sorry for this troubled young man, and I think the Times is being self-serving in raking him over the coals; these things happen.) No, Frum has done a Stephen Glass. (I certainly don't feel sorry for Glass; he has used his lies and deception as a very convenient career move.)
Before I go on about Frum's inventions, a brief flashback. I do not surf or read the Internet because I do not know how. I can send and receive e-mail by following written instructions, but that's about it. It amazes me how well I get along without access, and now I have even learned a new word: blog. It seems that David Frum has a blog, whatever that is, and two friends of mine read his diary of May 7. It involved yours truly, and they printed it out and faxed it to me. Talk about Stephen Glass. This guy fabricates like Baron Munchausen but safeguards himself by creating a he-said/she-said situation. He wrote, Taki, as you may recall, appeared in my recent piece for the print NR about conservatives who oppose the war on terror. He wasn't pleased with my assessment of him, and wrote an indignant piece in his magazine, The American Conservative, about our single meeting at a large dinner party in the late 90s. Taki remembers being displeased with the meeting, but he neglects to explain why, perhaps because he was too drunk to remember. I'll provide the details he omitted.
After dinner broke up, Taki cornered Danielle. From across the room, I caught her marital distress signal and came over to intercede. Taki retreated immediately and in a slurred voice offered what was I suppose intended as an apology. "This is why I am an anti-semite—the Jews take all the most beautiful women." Whatever else you think of those words, they're certainly a more plausible explanation of Taki's political views than anything he's been willing to put into print. Now for my version. During the late '90s, I received a letter from a lady by the name of Danielle Crittenden asking me to write for her Women's Quarterly a piece on why Clinton was not JFK where women were concerned. She could not pay, but offered a drink "the next time you are in Washington." I accepted, wrote about what a slob Clinton was where the fairer sex was concerned, and forgot about it. During a Conrad Black party at the Metropolitan Club in New York, a lady approached me, identified herself as Danielle Crittenden, and thanked me for writing pro bono. If memory serves—and it does—I said something to the effect that had I known she was attractive, I would have written better, and left it at that. She then introduced me to "my husband." I shook hands and exchanged pleasantries.
Here is where the big lie comes in. The idea that I would say what he claims I said to a perfect stranger is preposterous. I have been brought up to act like a gentleman of the old school, and although I am a heavy drinker and an incorrigible womanizer, I would no more dream of "hitting" on a woman I just met than I would betray my country for profit. (Drunk or sober, my manners do not vary. I am of the aristocratic school of thought about women. One never makes a lady feel anything but one, and by lady I mean anyone female.) Then comes the Frum specialty, the cheap shot lie. At the time I had never heard of Frum and took him for Mr. Crittenden. Is it credible that I would say I was anti-Semitic to a man I did not know and had no idea what religion he was? Was he wearing a yarmulke? Does he take me for a Nazi in Berlin circa 1938? First and foremost, I am not anti-Semitic. Second, we Christians get our share of beautiful women, so why would I embarrass myself with such an asinine remark? Frum has written this to himself for reasons unknown. I suspect he hopes someone picks it up and then he can quote from that someone and make it a fact. Well, it won't wash. I do not know whether he and his wife work in tandem, but if he has ensnared her in his farrago of lies, it is a pity. She gave me the impression of a good person.
What is interesting is that Frum has used his wife before. I read that it was she who e-mailed people that Frum had invented the phrase "Axis of Evil" that his then boss, President Bush, had used in his State of the Union address. As it happens, the White House denies it, just as Frum denies the fact that he was canned soon after. And it all fits.Frum accuses anyone who opposes his views of being anti-Semitic. As I wrote in The American Conservative's April 21st issue, he tries to shut down debate by charging anti-Semitism, the oldest and cheapest trick in the book. He has now impugned both my honor and my manners. Mud sticks, and he's hoping that by smearing me he can shut me up. But I will put my trust in the American system, where fabrication and concoction may work for awhile, but sooner or later the calumny is exposed.
And another thing. When new boundaries in the war of ideas are crossed, when someone will write anything, however false, it is bound to move the goalposts for the worse. Let me give you an example: imagine that I answered Frum's lies by saying that he had asked me to join him in a threesome with his wife, which of course there is no question he did not. The press would pick it up, it would become a he-said/she-said controversy, and for the rest of his life there would be a doubt about him. The public would think, where there's smoke, there's fire. (Roger Stone, the lobbyist, knows all about that. He was falsely accused, and despite no proof ever surfacing, the first thing I heard when his name came up was that horror.) Even Frum does not deserve such a fate.
But see what I mean about inventing things? A civil society is based on certain rules. One can insult all one wants —I certainly do—but one cannot invent. With his latest slander Frum proves that he will do anything to win a point. He is the controversialist who goes over the top every time merely in the cause of getting one over on those who disagree with him. He has taken one swipe too many this time. The ball, as they say, is in my court.
Sooner or later Frum is bound to embarrass his employers. Like Blair and Glass, he is bound to be caught. They tell me that he is a talented writer who knows policy inside out. Good for him. He should stick to it. Making up a story about a man like me—thoroughly disliked for speaking my mind, a onetime heavy drinker and skirt chaser—will not gain him kudos. I was alone when all he claims took place happened, but the idea that I would deny having acted badly, or that I was too drunk to remember, only shows how little he knows about me. Perhaps he thinks people like me act this way, but that is because he has not had my upbringing. I even gave myself away in customs once because I was too scared to be caught in a lie. Frum is a liar and a cheap-shot artist, and I nominate him as the perennial winner of the Stephen Glass prize for journalism.


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King Library was built with dual plumbing to deliver recycled water to toilets and urinals.
King Library's plumbing supply system was installed with separate supply lines for toilets and urinals, in addition to the supply lines for potable (drinking quality) water so that the building could take advantage of South Bay Recycled Water when it became available.
Four years after the library opened, recycled water mains were installed in San Fernando Street making recycled water available.
After a lengthy design and permitting process to ensure that recycled water is kept separate from potable water, construction began in March 2010 to connect the recycled water supply in the street to the pumps in the mechanical room so recycled water can finally be used.
Use of recycled water for flushing not only displaces the use of potable water, it provides the local water treatment plant with a use for its treated water.
This means that less fresh water is discharged from the treatment plant into the San Francisco Bay, helping to maintain the bay water's natural salinity and preserving the local ecosystem.
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King Library site landscaping includes the Mondo grass next to Hugh Gillis Hall
The landscape design for the building included plants that need less water.
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SJSU is working on its irrigation system to isolate it from the potable water system. When this is complete, recycled water will be used to water much of the campus landscape, including the King Library site.
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King Library was designed with low flow faucets at all sinks and low flow toilets.
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Established in 1868 in the small commune of Auxey-Duresses, the Leroy House owes its success to Henry Leroy, who started working in the family business in 1919. In 1942 he purchased 50% of the Romanée-Conti vineyards, which the family still owns with the Villaine family. Since 1955, his daughter Marcelle - who is nicknamed Lalou - is at the head of the domain. She relates that her father poured a drop of Musigny wine on her lips at her birth. Between 1985 and 1989, in order to produce the best wines, she bought the vines from the Noëllat and Philippe Rémy domains with the help of her Japanese importer to found the Domaine Leroy. Today Lalou Bize-Leroy is at the head of an extraordinary wine property of 22.4 hectares covering 24 appellations. No compromise for Leroy wines: biodynamics and extremly small yields. If the wines of the trading house are very popular, the wines of the domain are cult since they embody, with the DRC, what's best from Burgundy. The reputation of the domain has gone way beyond the French boundaries and it is now extremely difficult to get hold of one of these prestigious bottles.
Domaine Leroy owns just 0.27 hectares of this famous Musigny vineyard. Even so, this grand cru has always held a special place in the heart of the Leroy family. On the day she was born, Lalou Bize-Leroy was given a drop of Musigny 1929 on her lips by her father. Domaine Leroy's Musigny is now one of Burgundy's finest wines. It is a wine that is impossible to ignore.
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Our entire staff would like to happily welcome you to the Galytska Korona.There are 40 double rooms in our homey hotel. Guests of this hotel can use the fast wireless internet (WLan) throught the quaint hotel . If you are on company travel, we can offer you our business floor, where you will have no problem getting all your personal work done while you are staying in the hotel. You can leave your valuable items at our safety deposit box at our hotel's reception. We can provide you with wholesome meals from our room service or gentle wake-up calls while you are staying in the hotel. Parking is not a problem. We have numerous parking spaces as well as a lift for your convenience. Every room in our hotel is equipped with air conditioning, a hairdryer and some with a convenient minibar. Our guests can use the desk, telephone, and internet access in their homey room at all times. Before or after a long day of sightseeing or business meetings, make sure you give your skin the treatment it deserves. Relax and unwind at our hotel's relaxing sauna facilities. Bathrobes provided. Many of the hotel's guests enjoy getting together in the hotel's pleasant pub at the end of the day. Enjoy a sociable refreshing drink at our pleasant bar. Try our wholesome snacks, drinks and tidbits in our delightful café or visit our gourmet hotel restaurant for a wholesome dish instead. Our helpful staff can't wait to greet you and begin your time with us! Business hours of reception:
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Immigration policy has long been a divisive issue in politics, but no state has more pointedly confronted the problem of illegals in this country than Arizona.
Arizona's passing of a sweeping anti-illegal immigration law has stirred passions on both sides of the debate and a new NBC/MSNBC/Telemundo poll shows that the nation is sharply divided on the legislation, particularly among white and Latino citizens.
Across NBC's network of city websites, the conversation on immigration policy was active with users weighing in with their thoughts via Facebook and Twitter. While there is no clear answer on how to approach the issue of immigration, there is no doubt that America remains "A Nation Divided."
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In New York, viewers agreed that immigration was the foundation of this country, but insisted it was done legally.
"There are legal ways to do things [and] there are illegal ways to do things," Jim Hershey wrote via Facebook. "One has to wonder why the streets are not filled with protesting bank robbers, all holding up American flags and marching against oppression by the government."
That sentiment was echoed in Connecticut where the audience fixated on the notion that undocumented immigrants were taking jobs away from citizens.
"Everyone can come here if they want to as long as they do it legally," Connor Raymond wrote on Facebook. "They're taking our jobs."
"Arrest and deport anyone here illegally, but provide a proper channel for immigration to happen so we can collect some taxes on these workers," Brian Cummiskey wrote.
Miami, with its Latino rich population, saw a less polite back-and-forth on the topic.
"America's racist roots are showing again!" Lee Glick wrote.
Gary Wood, posting in all caps, applauded Arizona and urged "THE REST OF THE STATES [TO] PASS THE SAME LAWS ARIZONA HAS. IF THEY ARE NOT CITIZENS OF THE US SEND THEM HOME WHEREVER IT MAY BE!!!"
Andres responded: "Instead of ridiculing us Hispanics these anti-Latin jerks should post on the highway a sign thanking Hispanics for building and helping to create this great nation we all live in."
Locals in Chicago, which has seen its share of immigration protests recently, expressed concern over any racial profiling that might occur under Arizona's law.
"Police can act as immigration officers and stop people on the street because they suspect that they look 'illegal' and what does that mean... that they look Hispanic!! Its called racial profiling," Liz Sanchez wrote on Facebook.
In Dallas, Jeanine M. Hawkins wrote that the Arizona law is an improper response to the problems associated with immigration in the U.S.
"We need to force the Federal government to fix the process to come here legally - it needs to be timely, efficient and effective," she wrote. "To pass laws at other levels to make up for the Federal failings is putting the burden in the wrong place and letting the Federal government continue to avoid its responsibilities without consequence."
A user in Washington DC agreed with some law enforcement officials who feared the new law will hamper police work. "If this policy is implemented those who are already reluctant to speak to the police will absolutely shut down. And they will become even bigger victims of crime," the anonymous user wrote.
Twitter user @JoeKlemmer summed up the debate thusly: "Legal immigration: GOOD. Illegal immigration: BAD."
On the West Coast, one local resident's opinion was as varied as California's biggest cities are themselves.
In the Bay Area, one user offered: "Wouldn't it be nice to stop all the posturing and have a real discussion? I don't see long lines to take the jobs in our nation's produce fields. I don't hear the outcry about illegals that overstay their visas. This not a simple issue and won't be solved with fences, guns, or BS."
Christina Low, of Los Angeles, said "everyone can come here if they want to as long as they do it legally."
San Diego, a city that shares a border with Mexico, saw a heated debate among locals that revolved around identity.
"I did not cross the border the border crossed me," wrote Vinnie Lopez. "3rd generation san diegan."
John Keasler asked if something more than immigration was in play. "Is this about immigration or the economy? It seems that we are blaming an ethic group for all the economic problems of our country rather than taking responsibility for them ourselves."
As is expected with all sensitive subjects, audience members' opinions ranged from thoughtful to outrageous and intolerant. Though there was no consensus, a large group of NBC viewers seemed to gravitate away from supporting or rejecting Arizona's new law.
Instead, they rallied around an idea rooted in the middle-ground and expressed by San Diego reader Scott Quinnan.
"I have no problem with immigration," he wrote. "As long as it is done legally."


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Parking citations issued in the City of Glendora are processed by a third-party citation processing company.
To pay parking citations you can do one of the following:
- Pay your parking citation online at Citation Processing Center.
- Pay your citation over the phone by calling DataTicket at 1 (800) 989 - 2058
- Insert the fine into the parking citation envelope and send it by mail to the address listed on the back of the envelope.
If you would like to contest a parking ticket you must complete the Request for Administrative Review form, print and sign it, and bring it to the police station lobby during business hours. This form is also available upon request in the station lobby.
Please note that once a citation has been sent to the third-party processing company, the police department can no longer void citations. You must contact the processing company directly at the contact info listed on the back of the citation.


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Paul's Internet Security Blog will be publishing only guest articles for a while. I'm going to otherwise hit the "pause" button to take a much-needed break and to give some thought to the future plans of this blog. Continue reading
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Kids' Safe Use of the Internet
This guest article is written by Ken Myers, the founder of http://www.longhornleads.com/.
Unlike many adults prior to the Generation X movement of technology, children are subjected to computers and electronics at an earlier age than we were. While many of us grew up with Commodore 64s, Nintendo, and Atari, our children are bee-bopping around the Internet as early as kindergarten. There wasn't a single computer in the elementary school I attended. With this ever persistent technology, how do we keep our kids safe while they browse the Internet? Continue reading
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Why do SQL injections persist?
This post was provided by Samantha Strauss on behalf of Drexel University Online. She has written freelance tech articles for a number of educational institutions, including Drexel University. A self-taught programmer, she has spent over a decade working in the tech industry.
Though it's been plaguing us for quite a while, SQL injection is still one of the most common forms of web site security breaches, as evidenced by recent hacking attacks on such web giants as Sony, Yahoo and LinkedIn, among others. SQL, which stands for Structured Query Language, is just what it sounds like: a language–almost, in fact, THE language that databases use to store, manage, and retrieve information. Continue reading
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Scareware: Beware New Approach
Scareware, aka fake antivirus, as you may know, is a form of malware usually obtained from a malicious Internet website, that displays ominous warning messages on your PC that states you have been infected with malware. It usually runs a fake malware scan and warns that it has found a very dangerous malware that it will remove for a price. In many cases, the computer is locked up during this process and Continue reading
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Google:Weak Passwords Are Weak Link
A recent CNet.com article reports that "At its I/O conference, two of Google's top-level security experts, the director of security for Google Apps, and the head of Chrome security; say the company is intensely focused on the issue, but passwords remain a thorny problem." The "company", Google, being intensely focused on security; in my opinion, remains to be seen. However, they stated "Unfortunately the human is often the weakest link in security."
What a smoke screen! Instead of owning up to royally missing the boat on Google apps for the Android available through Google Play store, they talk about Continue reading
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Protecting Your Money Online
Here's a great article I found on the Kaspersky Lab Security site. This is good stuff you should be doing to remain safe as you and your computer use the Internet.
With online banking and shopping offering greater convenience, more and more people are using the Internet to conduct financial transactions and make purchases. However, cybercriminals are capitalizing on opportunities to steal consumers' passwords, identities, and money. Continue reading
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Android Phone Malware On The Rise
A Net-Security.org article states that Android malware continues to rise. F-Secure Labs reports that a new method of distribution of malware to Google Android smartphones has surfaced in the first quarter of 2013—email spam. There appears to be movement from app-based malware to email spam as the method of infecting Android phones. Continue reading
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